Chapter Two BALANCE

Well I'm back for more I know 3 reviews wasn't my goal but it's ok I'm going to continue with it anyways.

I'd like to thank my 3 reviewers

I like pjato's thanks for the praise but I would like to know what I'm doing wrong as well so I can fix it.

Reviewer I will try to make my chapters longer and stop those little mistakes. I will also see if I can include Thaila X Nico somewhere in the story (I like fan fics with that paring as well).

Daughter of Poseidon33 you were my first reviewer with an account not altogether sorry but I had 2 anonymous reviews before you I deleted the story and fixed it heaps that's why it says you're the first.

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Well here it is chapter two.

!A LOT OF TALKING IN THIS CHAPTER!

PERCY'S POV

After our delicious Monday morning breakfast Chiron got up to make an announcement.

"This week Poseidon, Hades and Artemis cabin will help with the construction of Nemesis cabin while the cabins given that task last week will stop and as always Nemesis and Hephaestus cabin are permanent workers." Chiron said.

Thalia, her fellow Hunters, Nico and I groaned while Tyson looked like he was experiencing the happiest day of his life.

Thalia walked up to Chiron when everyone started leaving oh no I thought, she's going to do it again.

"Chiron this week I have decided to be a member of Zeus's cabin not Artemis's." She said thinking she won.

"Hmm Thalia then I ask if Zeus's cabin can help as well?" Chiron said.

Thalia came up to me looking sad.

"Ha ha the cabin swap isn't working anymore Thalia" I chuckle.

"Come on lets go" she mumbled before she struck me with a small bolt of lightning but I didn't mind I felt like I won a hundred drachmas looking at Thalias face like that and no lightning bolt would change it.

At the worksite I realize it is the first time I have been so close to the soon to be cabin it is going to have to be a big one with around twenty Nemesis kids. I was so focused on the cabin with its hand painted swords, scales and measuring rods I almost didn't notice a ghost of a familiar face it was Ethan Nakamura then it quickly faded I guess he was just checking to see if we really were making cabins for all the gods.

After five minutes of getting assigned jobs in which I got the fun role of taking out fires if any I went walking to Annabeth who was nervously watching over everything.

"What's wrong" I ask "Everything's going fine why you are so nervous?" I ask.

"Percy that's exactly why I am nervous sooner or later Nemesis will balance things out, everything is working out to well". "Do you really think her little visits are only to see how it's going?"

"Yea" I answer "Why else would she come?" I ask.

"Oh Percy you will never learn she is probably scheming about how to balance things out here if you ask me she's been slacking off when she works on balancing camp". She says.

"Annabeth there's nothing to worry about your doing fine and why would Nemesis want to do something to her own cabin?" I ask a bit nervously.

"Well Percy why would she take out her own son's eye huh don't you remember Ethan he let his mum do that to achieve B-A-L-E-N-C-E Percy she would do anything to balance things out". She explains. On a rather scary note I leave Annabeth to go see what Nico and Thalia are working on.

Nico was asleep and I asked Adam Millar the head of Hephaestus cabin why, apparently he was asked to summon as much undead workers as he could before he passed out it might be a little slack to him but at least his job is more important than mine. Oh fire patrol so fantastic, who would be so clumsy to let a fire go out in a worksite? Figuring I had nothing to do I went up to Thalia and her fellow hunters who were assigned to help paint on the symbols they were mean painters in a good way of course there paintings were amazing.

"Hey Thalia nice paintings. Is that a scale?" I ask.

"Yea. You think it's good?" she says kindly which is a bit rare for Thalia

"It looks awesome but why a scale?" I ask clumsily

"Oh I don't know Percy maybe it has something to do with Nemesis being the goddess of balance" She said sarcastically.

"Oh... well keep at it. I am getting something to eat" I say before I start walking off hearing some of the hunters giggle at my stupid question.

"Hey wait Percy aren't you supposed to be doing something?" she asked

"Yea fun fire patrol" I tried to sound interested.

"Don't take it lightly Percy if you do your job badly the cabin will be destroyed but if you do it well it won't be" she said. Does she honestly think a fire will start?

"Yea ok" I say before I picked Nico up and took him to the infirmary to sleep.

As I lay him down his eyes start to open. "Hey man how are you going?" I ask

"Well if summoning thirty undead workers before passing out needing at least two days to fully recover and doing nothing to help construction good then yea I'm good". He says in a very tired voice.

"Hey don't be like that your job is heaps more important than mine" I say to try and reassure him.

"Why aren't you doing your job Percy you better head off you never know when a fire could start and we all know Tyson, even though he is a son of Poseidon Tyson can't control water and take out flames but you can, go on Percy I don't think you realize how important your job is." And with those words Nico passed out again it must have taken all his energy to say that.

Once again I think who would be clumsy enough to let a fire start in the first place my job just wasn't as important as others and people are trying to reassure me telling me it is equally if not more important than their job.

After a couple of minutes Nemesis came, like always she stayed in her divine form I don't know why though then she was right behind me when she asked.

"Percy I have to tell you something…in private"

"Uhh ok Lady Nemesis where do you want to go?" I nervously said.

"Let's go underwater in an air bubble very deep so no one will notice… or hear". She said with urgency in her voice.

After a good two minutes we found a spot deep underwater where I formed an air bubble.

"It's going alright isn't it Percy?"

I gulped knowing not to turn around because she was still in divine form I said

"Yea your children are really creative and are doing a good job on your cabin".

"I agree with you but that's not what I am talking about" she slowly exclaimed

"What then are you talking about?" I manage to force out of my mouth

"The camp Percy, too much good is happening to it and everyone in it sooner or later I am going to have to balance things out by working my magic" she said excitingly as I hear her rubbing her hands.

"Wh- wh- what please don't, c-can't you see we all like everything t-the way it is going?" I stutter out

"Whether you all like it or not Percy things will have to change I cannot let too much good happen without any bad. It's my duty". She pointed out

What was she thinking everything is going great why would she take it away from us.

"Balance Percy balance I can't let this camp go on forever in such a good state" she goes on as if she just read my mind being a god she probably did.

"I will be leaving now Percy do not tell anyone of this conversation I would rather everyone be happy instead of worrying about what is to come" she said and with that she teleported leaving me wondering about what is to come in my little bubble.

"Wait" I told myself.

"You have a job to do Percy you are supposed to extinguish fires". I say

"I want to stay here do you honestly think a fire will start?" "Huh" I blabber on.

"What if Percy, do you want the blame if a fire does start and you are not there to take it out?"

"I AM STAYING HERE" I yell "I need to think".

I thought about heaps of things but mainly my mind kept going back to the man in my dreams I don't know why but I just can't help but think about him was he attacked by monsters that could explain the bad condition of his cloths. Or the green wheelbarrow with all that stuff did he steal those things if so he's a Hermes boy no doubt about it. That raises another question is he a demigod and from which god? He didn't look to crash hot so Hephaestus is a possibility. No offence if you are reading my mind Lord Hephaestus. He also had a lot of bows and arrows in his wheelbarrow so Apollo or "Pfft ha"I chuckle at the thought of Artemis.

ANNABETH'S POV

As I walk around looking very intelligent and formal with my clipboard and blueprints rolled up in my hand I notice Percy and Nico are nowhere to be seen.

"Hey Thalia have you seen Percy and Nico?" I ask.

"Um Percy took Nico to the infirmary to rest because he passed out when he made those workers but I haven't seen Percy since." She said.

"Ok thanks" I say

When I head to the main tent I walk around trying to figure things out.

"Hey Adam set up buckets of water … allot of them" I order out.

"Why I thought Percy had fire patrol covered?" he asked

"Well no one can find him so set them up NOW" I yell which was very mean of me.

"Yep ok Annabeth" he says Stupid Percy slacking off giving me more work to do I am missing enough training as it is. He mumbled loud enough for everyone to hear probably on purpose. I feel sorry for him if only Percy took his job more seriously he wouldn't have this extra work load.

Ten minutes later the buckets are set and I think we are prepared if a fire comes but it doesn't matter I will still yell at Percy for ditching us like this. Wait what is that little light at the back of the cabin I saw a spark slowly growing Oh no I thought I stepped on the spark because it was only little but it kept growing until it started heading towards the cabin.

"REPLACEMENT FIRE CREW GET READY" I yell before the flame started to engulf the cabin we all threw our buckets of water but it just kept growing we were out of water and the fire just didn't stop. I sat on the spot crying with my hand in my face as the cabin we were working on for a whole month was left as a pile of ashes in under an hour.

AND IT WAS ALL PERCY JACKSON'S FAULT I yell in my mind MY FIRST EVER CONSTRUCTION AS LEADING ARCHITECT WAS RUIND BY PERCY JACKSON I went on

PERCY'S POV

After an hour of thinking of the possibilities I decide to go out and get back to work however when I go back to the site I don't see the cabin in construction that was going so well I see an ashy pile of wood, pillars of smoke, small embers and a lot of very angry faces where the unfinished Nemesis cabin used to be.

And the balancing out starts I think to myself.

!Stupid Percy!

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Oh and I will try to avoid Point of view swaps from now on I just wanted to show Annabeth's POV when the cabin was burning the rest will be all Percy's POV unless I really need to swap POV.

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