Hey my peeps! Here's the second chapter of The Unexpected Wedding. Hope ya like it!
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The Failed Escapes And The Plans
Percy POV
I wake up and I look around and see that I'm in an infirmary. It's not the Big House infirmary so I must still be on Olympus. For a second I can't remember why I was on Olympus until I remember what Zeus had said about me marrying Thalia. I mean, it's not that I don't like her or anything but I just can't imagine marrying her; especially after the breakup I've just had with Annabeth. I look over towards to my left and see Thalia lying there on her own cot unconscious.
I get up and run out of the room and towards my current goal, the elevator that brings demigods and gods to and from Olympus. Once I pick up enough speed, I turn myself into mist and travel there twice as fast.
You see, right after the war, I found out that if I picked up enough speed I could change myself into mist and travel to places twice as fast. I'm traveling with all my might towards the elevator. Before I could enter the elevator, I felt myself get caught. I'm confused because nobody can stop mist, not even a god, well except for my dad. I look behind myself and find my dad holding onto the end of my mist form. I keep struggling and for a second I think I can get away before I feel myself being turned back into my physical form. Even though I know it's useless, I keep struggling until I pass out from exhaustion.
Thalia POV
I wake up and find myself in the Olympus infirmary. I shake my head trying to remember how I ended up here when I remember my dad announcing that I have to marry Percy. I mean, I don't hate him but I can't imagine myself married to him. I find Percy to my right unconscious on his own cot.
I get up and run out of the infirmary and towards my only salvation, the elevator that is a passageway from the mortal world to Olympus. I pick up speed and I turn into pure lightning traveling at the speed of light.
After the war, I found out that I could turn myself into lightning and travel anywhere at the speed of light. In less then a second, I'm almost to the elevator before I feel something hold me back. I look back and see my dad holding me back. I keep struggling hoping that I can get free. But the longer I'm in lightning form, the more tired I become. Eventually I feel myself going back to physical form and I pass out from exhaustion.
3rd Person POV
Percy and Thalia wake up to see that they're back in the infirmary but are handcuffed to their cots that are enchanted so that it prevents them from breaking and using their powers.
"So what do you think about it?" Percy questions Thalia as they both try to break the handcuffs
"Think about what?" Thalia says looking for a heavy, sharp object to break the handcuffs but they wouldn't break.
"About us being forced into marriage" he replies giving up on trying to get free
"I really don't want to think about it right now" Thalia exhales and lies down on her cot.
"I know, I don't want to either but I can't help but think why they would want us to get married.," he says
"What do you mean by that?" Thalia questions sitting up on her cot.
"I mean why did they choose you and me? Why not me and Annabeth or you and someone else?"
Before she could answer his question, the infirmary doors open up and Apollo and Artemis enter the room and escort them to the Council room making sure Percy and Thalia still had their handcuffs on. When they reach the Council room, Percy and Thalia's handcuffs are taken off and they both start to run towards the doors before they are stopped by a couple of Cyclops. They were roughly ushered back to the center of the room and strapped into some chairs.
Percy POV
"Okay, now that everybody is here, I think we can continue with the discussion at hand." Zeus says.
"Yes, of course, now back to the decision of making them gods or not." Athena says
"I think we should not only make them gods but Olympian gods as well" my dad says.
"All who agree?" All the gods raise their hands to my disappointment. I mean I don't want to be a god, i just want to be a regular demigod
"It is settled. Percy and Thalia shall become Olympian gods a week after their marriage" Zeus says. To say I'm surprised is an understatement. I am speechless. Apparently Thalia is too seeing she has the same expression as I do. I finally find my voice,
"Hold on, don't we have a say in the matter?" I question
"Yeah, don't you think we should have the final say in whether we want to be gods or not?" Thalia questions.
"No you don't." Zeus says firmly and with finality.
So the gods talk about Thalia and me. They decide that we'll be wed the day after my birthday, August 19th. That's only 3 months from now. Apparently they want us to get married as soon as possible but not too soon so we can adjust being a couple.
Oh, did I mention that they're forcing us to be next each for the entire 3 months. That means we have to share the same cabin (thank gods not the same bed), eating table, and activities. Basically, wherever I go, she goes and vice versa. Thankfully we don't have to share the same shower time.
Thalia and I made Aphrodite and her kids swear that they wouldn't interfere during the 3 months besides helping us with the wedding. They reluctantly swore and we left satisfied. The gods told us we were going to stay in Hera's cabin since we're about to be married and you know she's the goddess of marriage and all.
Before we left Olympus, Thalia was given her wedding ring. It was an electric blue 10-karat diamond and the edges were tinted sea green. It glowed in the sunlight and would illuminate when in water. We were to announce about the marriage the day after we arrive back to camp. We left Olympus and I was constantly thinking about a variety of things like, "Why us?" and "Why now?"
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