A/N: I have a lot of time on my hands. 'Sighs' Here you go, a second chapter. I don't own any of this. Rick does. 'Cries self to sleep'
'Thinking'
"Talking"
Chapter II
3rd person POV
Percy's outbursts did not go unnoticed by the gods. Zeus called an emergency meeting as soon as the second, larger one happened. All of the gods flashed in, except for Hestia, Hades, and Aphrodite.
Seeing as they could not start the meeting without all of the Olympians, they were forced to wait. Aphrodite flashed in shortly, followed by Hestia, and then Hades.
"Now that we are all here," Zeus grumbled, "does anyone know what caused the big earthquake in manhattan? I thought that you had sworn not to intentionally cause any more massive earthquakes?" He directed this last comment to Poseidon.
"It wasn't me," Poseidon said. "It must have been Percy, but that brings up several questions. He is very strong, but he could not have created that size of earthquake without having something very emotional happen. And the fact that if Percy did cause it, why was he not at camp?"
"That was actually slightly intelligent barnacle brain." Athena said, equal parts mocking, and surprised.
"When it comes to my domain and son, I can be very intelligent, Feather head." Poseidon retorted, sharply.
"Feather Head?! Why you-"
"Enough!" Zeus thundered. "Does anyone have any information on Perseus' whereabouts?"
"Um, not sure if this is related, but does anyone know what caused the events at camp Half-blood?" Hermes said.
"What events, and how do you know of them." Zeus replied. "Well, since Percy made us promise to keep an claim our children, if it is possible to, while making deliveries I go through camp half-blood to keep an eye on them. Hermes said weakly.
Zeus pondered this for a minute, before gesturing for Hermes to continue.
"If you don't know what happened, it will be easier to just show you." Hermes said. "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me camp half-blood."
The gods all gasped, seeing the destruction of the camp. The Apollo cabin was totally destroyed, causing him to groan. It seemed to the gods that the event started near the Apollo cabin, because the damage was worst there. All of the other cabins were damaged, and large sections of the forest was flattened.
"What caused this?" Zeus said, astonished. "And how did you not know about it?" Zeus directed that question to Dionysus, who seemed to shrink in his throne.
"P-P-Pa-Party Time?" Dionysus stammered. There was a collective groan at this statement.
"This is more likely to be caused by Percy," Poseidon said, with his head in his hands. "But why is the question."
"Because Annabeth cheated on him!" Aphrodite blurted out.
"How dare you say that?" Athena said, shocked. Annabeth would never do that. I even gave Perseus permission to marry her."
Aphrodite shrugged. "My domain is love, and I can feel all of the love in the world, and when love breaks. What I felt was Percy's love for Annabeth breaking, as she was starting to love someone new."
"All of this debating is getting us nowhere," Artemis broke in. "I want to get back to the hunt, so if you really want to know what happened, let's go down and see for ourselves."
Everyone nodded, and flashed down. What they saw shocked them. They had thought that the Iris message was exaggerating the damages.
It wasn't.
The campers, with Chiron, came towards the gods, before bowing.
"Where is Percy?" Poseidon asked, troubled by what he saw.
"Why do we need that loser?" Jordan asked, a tad smugly. "After all, he caused this." Jordan gestured towards the camp. All of the campers except for Chris, and Clarisse nodded.
Clarisse exploded. "What has got into all of you. Prissy saved us many times, and you are willing to give him up for this?" She pointed at Jordan, disgusted. "Prissy trusted all of you, and now he's gone."
Poseidon froze. "What do you mean gone?"
"Gone as in ran away from camp," Chris broke in.
Apollo, who had been gazing at the campers, suddenly gasped. Everyone looked at him, but he paid no attention to them. "JORDAN TIMOTHY BLAKE, WHAT DID YOU YOU?" Apollo all but screamed.
Jordan lost his smug look, and quickly paled.
"What are you talking about?" Athena said, confused.
Apollo sighed, feeling like everything was going against him lately. First Octavian, and now Jordan. "It's a long story," Apollo said to Athena. "But the quick version is this. You all know that I am the god of, among other things, truth, right?" Everyone nodded.
"Well, one of my powers is that I can make anything I say, seem like the truth, to anyone. That would make the user a perfect spy, because he, or she, could convince the opposing side that they were not spies. There are other applications to this of course, but this is the 'quick' version. When I realized what I could do with this power, I swore never to use it. But at the beginning of the Titan war, I was so nervous that the Titans could have a spy, that it must have manifested itself in Jordan."
"Are you sure?" Zeus asked.
Apollo sighed, and then nodded. "I can prove it. Athena, you are madly in love with Poseidon, and want to make out with him." Everyone starts to laugh as Athena shrugged, before trying to make out with Poseidon. He blasted her with water before she could get to close.
Apollo snapped his fingers, and Athena got up off of the ground where she had fallen, looking embarrassed, before glaring at Apollo.
Still shaking with laughter, Zeus said, Apollo, now that you have proven your point, take it off of the campers."
Apollo snapped his fingers again, and the gods saw all of the campers, except for Chris, Clarisse, and Annabeth, light up, before falling over. "Can you call some thunder, dad?" Apollo asked. "These campers are going to be out for a while otherwise, and we need to talk to them."
Zeus nodded, before clapping his hands, causing thunder. Everyone jolted up, before glaring at Jordan. If he was pale before, now he was transparent.
Athena looked thoughtful, before whispering in Zeus' ear. Zeus nodded, and then said, "Jordan, for your crimes of manipulating all of camp Half-blood, and deceiving them, by lying to them, I give you this punishment. It was going to go to Apollo," Apollo cringed, "but it fits you more. Jordan Blake, we will take all of your powers, and make you a non-clearsighted mortal, but you shall retain all of your memories."
By this point Jordan was blubbering. The gods chanted in Greek, before Jordan vanished.
Hades looked sadly at Poseidon. "I'm sorry brother, but two mortals just entered Elysium. Sally Jackson, and Paul Blofis."
Poseidon stopped, before weeping. Everyone looked uncomfortable, until Poseidon stopped.
"I think we know what happened in manhattan," Athena said.
Zeus looked sternly at the campers. "Even though it was not your fault, all of you drove Perseus away. I am now declaring top priority to finding him. Artemis, you and your hunt must search for him as well." Artemis sighed, before nodding. With that, all of the gods flashed away.
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Time skip(three years)
Artemis POV
Three years. How has a boy evaded us for three years?! We thought that it would be easy to find him, after all, with all of the Greeks and Romans looking for him, we thought we could find him in a week or two.
A few months after he disappeared, girls started showing up at our camp, each time saying that a tall boy, who kept his face covered in shadow, would rescue them from where they lived (they were all abused), and bring them here. During the solstice meetings, I heard reports that the same thing was happening to camp half-blood. Children were being delivered by a boy who would keep them safe. There were rumors that he could control fire, and whenever we heard that, we knew it could not be Perseus. This boy did not help the Romans, so either he did not know about them, or knew better than to try and help.
Thalia is especially insistent on finding him. She cares very deeply for him, but if her 'care' goes too far, there will be consequences. I feel that when we do find him, she is going to hurt him. I would pay to see that.
"Milady?"
That jolts me out of my reverie. "What is it?" I ask Phoebe.
"Another girl is here." That gets my attention. After the Giant war, we thought that monster attacks would slow down. We were wrong. If anything they increased.
I've lost most of my hunters since the end of the Giant war. Prior to the war, I had 27 hunters. Before the man started showing girls to the hunt, I had 3. Now we have 10. Only Thalia, Phoebe, a daughter of Ares, and Jessica, a daughter of Hecate are left our of the hunt from before the war.
Phoebe leads me to a girl, who looks to be about 9 or 10. She has blonde hair, and stormy grey eyes. 'A daughter of Athena' I think to myself.
"How did you get here? I ask, not unkindly.
She seems nervous, and she says "where's Shadow?"
I look at Phoebe, who just shrugs.
"Who?" I respond, thinking that this could be the man who has led the girls to us.
"The man who controls fire, and has it in his eyes." She says. We gape at her. No one was been able to see past his shadowed face before. Her face flushes. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that."
"It's okay," I respond, still shocked. "What's your name?"
"Gabriella Ugliano." She says, wincing at her last name. I hear Thalia gasp at her name, and look at her sharply.
Thalia ignores me, and asks Gabriella, "Do you know a Gabe Ugliano?" Gabriella flinches at the name.
"Who? I ask, hoping that I will stop being confused.
"Percy's first step-father." Thalia replies, as Gabriella's eyes widen at 'Percy'. "He epitomized everything we hate in men." Thalia continues. "What happened to him?" Gabriella asks. "He was turned into a statue," Thalia says nonchalantly.
A few seconds pass as Gabriella looks at Thalia, before bursting into laughter.
"That explains why he stopped coming around. He was an asshole," Gabriella says, still chuckling.
"How did you know him," asks Thalia, looking bewildered.
"He's my uncle. Before he stopped coming around, Dad was very nice to me. He was a teacher at Yale, where he met my mom. She left before I was born though, and I have never seen her. Uncle Gabe would come around once or twice a week, complaining about his wife, and her 'brat'.
That explained how she was born, but why is she here?
Thalia's face was priceless at hearing Gabriella call Perseus a 'brat'.
Gabriella continues, "After he stopped coming, dad started drinking. He lost his job, and he- he beat me, and he said that when I got old enough, he would make lots of money on me."
My ichor boils whenever I hear something like that, but she's not finished.
"This morning, he said that he wanted to 'try out the goods'. He tried to make me suck his penis, but before he could, Shadow burst through the door, lighting up the room with his fire."
She looks at us, and says, "Is it really that surprising for a twelve year old to know about sex?"
A twelve year old? She looks far younger than that.
"When Shadow came in," she continues, "he punched my dad in his penis, before incinerating him."
My respect for him grows with everything that I hear about him.
"After that, he checked to see if I was okay, before traveling with me through a shadow, leaving me over there, after telling me what he deemed 'necessary for me to know,'" she said, pointing over her shoulder to indicate where he had left her.
I look at where she was pointing, but all I see is a screech owl, which is a symbol of uncle Hades.
"Would you like to join the hunt?" I ask, wondering if 'Shadow' left her here for a reason.
She jumps up and down, nodding while she does so.
"Alright, repeat after me. I, Gabriella Ugliano,"
"I, Gabriella Ugliano,"
"Swear off boys forever,"
"Swear off boys forever,"
"And pledge to serve Artemis for as long as I live."
"And pledge to serve Artemis for as long as I live."
As Gabriella finishes, silver light engulfs her, before fading.
Thalia hugs her. "Welcome to the hunt sister!"
"Sister," Gabriella repeats weakly, before fainting.
A/N: How was that? Please review, because that will make me happy, which will lead me to posting more, which will lead you you being happy. If you choose to review, please put the name of a hunter, and her godly parent. I need some ideas. If you choose not to review, Hades himself will come, and drag you down to Tartarus.