I'm over the moon about how many views this story has already gotten! Thank you so much! Last chapter I was still kinda figuring things out so everything when I first published it was squished together. In this chapter we take a break from the problem that is the Fleece missing and just do his funeral. I hope you don't mind. Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is just a normal day, I told myself. It's just a normal day with a slightly unusual event.

Today is Percy's funeral- the demigod version. I have to go through the funeral of my boyfriend twice. It didn't seem fair. I know that going to the funeral will be hard but I also knew that it was important I go. So, I sucked it up and left for the funeral.

When I arrived I saw Grover for the first time in a while, and I was so happy to see him. I gave him a hug and smiled a sad smile because I remembered why he was here.

"I can't believe it happened," he said.

"Me neither," I agreed.

We didn't say much beyond that. We both sat in the front row and later Piper and Jason joined us. So far the funeral wasn't that bad. Yet. I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. We still had a few minutes before the funeral started and I just stared at the trident shrine burning. Piper looked at me.

"Hey, don't beat yourself up. It's not your fault," Piper said soothingly.

"Isn't it though?" I asked.

"No, it's not your fault that Percy died. It was his choice to save you and if you had died Percy probably would be doing the same thing. What would you want him to do if he was in your shoes?" Piper asked firmly.

"Move on."

"Exactly."

"It's just so hard because he and I have been through so much together and it seems so unfair that I am alive, and he's not when he saved the world. Not once, but twice." I said all in one breath.

"I know, but he would have wanted you to move on. His last words told you that he wanted you to hang in there for him. So don't get so caught up in grief that you stop living," Piper advised.

"When did you get so smart? I thought I was supposed to be the daughter of Athena."

"I had a really smart friend to teach me."

The ceremony had finally started and almost all of both camps were there. Frank and Hazel sat in the seats next to all of us so the remaining six were all together and I had a sneaking suspicion Nico would join us after he was done speaking.

Nico went up to the front and began speaking. "We are all here today to celebrate the life of the hero Percy Jackson. If you have not heard of him you must have been living under a rock since you found out that you're a demigod, let's be honest here. I also know that while Percy was my friend he would want somebody in particular to say a few words…"

Nico didn't have to finish before all the eyes turned to me. Piper gave me an encouraging smile and Jason gave me the thumbs up. So, I walked up to the front.

"As Nico said, many of you guys have heard of Percy or known him but regardless I'm going to tell his story today." I began. "Percy was born the son of Poseidon but didn't know it until a sixth grade field trip where somebody was bullying Grover and it caused him to retaliate. The fountain next to the bully drenched her and Mrs. Dodds who ended up to be a fury saw. He then killed her at the age of twelve. Now, I could tell you about all of his adventures, but we don't have hours, so we'll just skim through the rest. Luke betrayed camp, Golden Fleece, I got kidnapped, Daedalus, Labyrinth. And now we're at an important part. Percy was a great leader and always made the tough choice even if it risked his life. He fought Kronos but also believed that Luke was still inside of him. Big thanks to Rachel by the way," I found her in the crowd, and she smiled, "for hitting the Big Boss Guy of the Titans in the eye with a plastic blue hairbrush. Anyway, when we finally got Luke for a few minutes Percy helped Luke do the right thing. Unfortunately that got Luke killed. Fast forward a few months and now he goes missing for a long time. He managed to become praetor of Camp Jupiter while having no memories. He then set on a quest with six other and eventually seven other amazing demigods and one tough satyr to save the world for a second time in which he succeeded in, but not before he had a nosebleed and woke Gaea.

"Percy wasn't perfect, but he did a lot of great things and didn't deserve to die. Oh, and I forgot. I made the mistake of falling into Tartarus. Oops. But Percy wouldn't let me do that by myself. He jumped in with me making Nico promise that he would close the Doors of Death on the other side." I felt tears come to my eyes because of the thought of not seeing him until death. "In the end Percy died to save me. It was the true sacrifice, one that he would have made for any of his friends because he cared so much. I think that about sums it up. Thank you."

As I went to go sit back down I was crying but that was okay, most people would at their boyfriends funeral. But the thought of losing Percy weighed so heavily on my heart that I felt like falling to the ground and sobbing for an eternity. Or until my death.

Nico asked Jason to come up and say a few words too. So, Jason walked up to the front and cleared his throat.

"We all know that while Percy did a lot of good he definitely made some mistakes. One time Percy got himself in so much trouble that I had to promise his evil half-sister that I would give her action figures and I don't regret that decision." A few people laughed sadly, myself included. "While I may have saved Percy's life then, he might have returned the favor once or twice. He has definitely saved me several times. One time Percy and I were under the control of Gaea and Piper saved us. Piper saved us again at one point. You know, now that I think about it almost every time I was on the Argo II with Percy we almost died. But I guess that's life of the normal demigod. One day your life might be over from fighting… But I'm sure that won't happen with most of you. Percy was an amazing hero. Thank you!" Jason concluded.

Piper was crying hard but not as hard as I was crying. I missed him so much. This morning was tough because I woke up and thought about going to Percy's cabin to walk to breakfast with him when I remembered. There was also the thought of the other 20 that died. I knew most of them. A few of them were new but for the most part I knew the vast majority. There was going to be more funerals and I had to get past that.

When the funeral was over I started to walk back to my cabin with Piper but instead we found ourselves walking to the third cabin.

Piper and I walked in and everything was exactly the same as it had been on our last visit to camp. His bed was messy, there was candy wrappers all over the place, he even had a half-filled water bottle on his nightstand.

"Wow, I don't think that I've ever been in this cabin before," Piper said.

I don't know why but I just fell to the ground doing exactly what I had wanted to do at the funeral. I just cried and cried and cried. It seemed like forever but gradually I didn't have anything left to cry, so I had to stop. The entire time Piper just let me do it and when I was done she gave me a hug.

"You know it's not your fault, right?" She asked me.

"No. Because it is my fault, Piper!" I said. "I was stupid and collapsed leaving Percy to try to fend off monsters himself! If I had more endurance he would still be alive right now!"

"You can't say that because you don't know that for sure. Many things could have happened. Like, Percy could have passed out right before he jumped in front of you and you could have died. Or you both could have died. There are infinite possibilities." She said.

"I know." I couldn't think of anything else to say besides that.

"Percy would want you to be happy. He had a great life before he died. Sure, there were some bumps in the road, but that's just life. He loved you and sacrificed himself for you. I think you should use this second chance to honor him and remember the good times than to be sad for the rest of your life."

"Yeah," I barely whispered.

"I think it's time to go."
"Me too."

I started to cry softly again but this time they weren't tears of pain, sorrow, and grief. They were tears of hope that one day demigods would stop dying at such a young age and tears of joy that Percy had been happy with his life before he died.

Sorry that this chapter was kind of short but it is hard to write this because it is so sad and I didn't want the funeral to go on forever. I also will probably skip over the other funeral because this one was hard enough to write. I forgot to add some characters so oops. I wasn't sure if the normal demigod with their one parent had two funerals but I figured I'd do it anyway.