It was a fine day at Mount Olympus. Or at least it was as fine as it could be with a month to the famous Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday. All the twelve main gods, except Lord Poseidon, were already seated in their respective thrones in the humongous throne room.

Suddenly a puff of smoke appeared and voila, Poseidon was standing there in his usual attire with his trident in his right hand.

Everyone turned to face him with surprise clearly written. Even Poseidon looked as if he had not expected to be there. Zeus angrily stood up and glared at his brother.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" his voice thundered across the entire room. Ares looking for a fight between the brothers, as usual, rubbed his hands gleefully but was soon disappointed when Poseidon raised his hands in a 'peace motion'.

"Relax brother. I myself do not know what I am doing here. One minute I was in my palace and the next, I was standing here." The lord of the sea replied with genuine sincerity.

Poseidon and barely finished his sentence when Lord Hades and goddess Hestia appeared in the same fashion as Poseidon. "Now let me guess," Zeus murmured thoughtfully, "the both of you were also in your respective palaces before you were teleported here?"

The duo looked at each other in surprise and nodded. Athena stood up and said, "Father, this must mean that someone wants all of us to be present here for something very important."

Everyone nodded in agreement to the wise Athena's statement but were unsure of what was going to happen.

After a few minutes, the gods were clearly getting impatient. Just then, another much awaited puff and smoke appeared and this time, it was not another god who appeared but it was Percy Jackson and Annabeth!

"Son, what are you doing here?" Poseidon asked with worry lacing his tone. "Shouldn't you be at home?"

Percy and Annabeth bowed to all the gods including Hades who seemed surprised. Percy then gestured to the book in his hands and said, "I would like to inform all of you that you are present here because Annabeth and I have received a rather interesting book that has to be read. We are from the future and this book is about all your futures too. Right now it is the year 2009 but we are from 2010."

Everyone gasped at Percy's revealation. Even Athena hadn't seen this coming. "The boy is right," Zeus grudgingly admitted, "we have to read this book. All in favour?"

All the gods raised their hands in one swift motion. Percy cleared his throat and asked, "Can all of you please shrink to your human sizes and I do recommend that we should get more comfortable as it is going to be a long day."

The god shrank and a couch appeared for Percy and Annabeth. Both of them sat down and Percy wrapped his arms around Annabeth's waist. She snuggled closer to her boyfriend and Athena narrowed her eyes at the scene playing out in front of her but chose not to comment on it.

"So, who shall begin reading first?" Poseidon asked.

"I will." Athena said and took the book from Percy's hands and settled into her chair.