A/N It has been decided (by myself) that I will continue Slave to the Moon, but expect a sneak preview to the first chapter of Hard as Rock either next week or in 3 weeks time. :D
I have also changed the summary after I forgot to change it last chapter.
So we continue our story with Percy and his discovery of who his father is actually is.
Oh I didn't mention this but this took place after the Titan war and the Giant War hasn't happened yet or will it happen at all?
See you at the bottom.
Slave to the Moon
Chapter 2
Percy POV:
So here I was standing in the pitch black court room, mulling over the punishment they had given me:For eternity. But Zeus said I wouldn't come back if I died, so what if I killed myself... and face longer than eternity in Fields of Punishment, plus I am not going to give them what they want; me to die or kill myself, I'd rather make the Hunters lives much worse by being super annoying, stupid and generally getting on their nerves.
Pulling myself out my thoughts as three bright lights appeared in the corner of the court, catching my attention. Finally someone to get me out of these handcuffs, "Yeah, excuse me are you here for my handcuffs." I asked getting their attention.
"No, in fact we are here for much a more important reason," One of the figures announced. I could roughly make out the shape of the figure, it looked human or at least humanoid it was a man with a black breast-plate on and a rustic helmet on. Straining my eyes to see who the other two were I could only tell that one was a male whilst the other was a female, but apart from that I couldn't tell you much more.
"Well what is that?" I inquired, taking a look at the figure who had just spoken, but instead of him answering the women replied.
"To help you out and give you knowledge," She harshly responded as if I had insulted her, when she had spoken the light she emitted brightened, revealing that she had brown flowing hair. Her face was that of an old aged woman's with many wrinkles and a slight tone of grey to her pale skin, but from all the old in her face she had knowledge in her eyes, you could tell just from looking at them, they were a dark grey almost black colour and seemed to run you through as if they were analyzing you or planning someway to kill you. She wore a simple grey dress which absorbed most of the light, although you could make out small words on the dress, though they were indistinguishable from this far away.
"No offence Ma'am but no-one can help me now." I retorted honestly, I mean who could help me I was going to a camp full of man hating girls and I would most likely be discriminated against. Plus I was an automatic enemy of Zeus being the son of a Titan. But if they could help I would have my arms open to it. At this comment the woman glowed even brighter almost like she was going to explode, knowing my luck she would. Just then before she exploded the last Man put his hand on her shoulder, in a soothing way. You would never of guessed that he would be soothing by looking at his appearance from the light the woman emitted.
The man had a worn and beaten face like it had been through a million wars, it didn't help that he had a long scar going down his face and a smaller one along his eyebrow, his hair was a blond crew cut, you know the one they have in the army. Moving down his body he had a blood drenched gold chest plate and wore some torn jeans which were also covered in blood and burn marks.
"Guys we better be off. I don't think my son needs any help." The one who had spoken first murmured, turning his back on me and motioning for the other two to follow his lead.
"No wait. What do you mean your son?" I sputtered out before they could flash away. It obviously worked because they all turned round and then started to walk back to me but closer than last time, now I could see the first ones face it looked very much like mine except without my green eyes but rather dark orange ones, his smile which he now showed was like my lop-sided one and he also had dark messy hair like me, he couldn't be my Dad, could he be.
"What I mean by my son is that you're my son Perseus." He smirked.
"So you are Perses, what are you doing here... Dad," I gasped as the sudden realization dawned across my face but was instantly replaced by a look of confusion,"But who are the other two," I asked.
"Why don't you two introduce yourself to my Son." He said pointing to the man, who looked like he had just come from a recent war.
"Hello Percy, I am your Dads brother, Pallas the Titan God of Warcraft. Very much like Athena but a lot more physical," He laughed flexing a muscle jokingly.
The woman next to him hit his arm lightly before speaking,"Very well. If you should know boy, I am Apate deity of deceit, fraud and deception and I will become your guardian or champion if I so see that you are worth my blessing." She declared very formally.
"Oh. But Dad why are you three here in the first place? Not that I don't want to see you." I questioned.
"Son, we are to tell you of what happened today. And I mean what really happened not what you saw. Firstly one of are contacts who is not here today for safety reasons and personal, he swapped the Bang Snaps for an ancient bomb perfected in Ancient Greece which kills the soul of a mortal but leaves the Immortals alone when it blows up, so those Hunters you killed won't reappear for a very long time, it is a nasty piece of equipment but it was necessary to the cause. So after that you planted them in Artemis' cabin and waited. When they exploded it killed the Hunters and doomed your fate Son; or so you thought but we had this planned out from the beginning. So the Olympians gave you a punishment which was fair and now you are the pawn in our game plan for war." He got cut off by Pallas.
"Waaaar." Pallas shouted before realizing he had just shouted something very un-necessary and so loud the Olympians would no doubt becoming to the court room.
"Thanks," Scolded Apate, whilst giving him a menacing glare that would make anyone freeze.
Going on rather quickly Dad began to continue,"So before I got rudely interrupted we want you to get as close to the Hunters as possible this may take centuries,decades, years, months or less. But do what ever you can because it is vital if you want to join me on the throne." He finished, as you could hear footsteps getting closer to the door.
"What do you mean war, or seat on a throne," I pleaded.
"All in time boy. But first you must get the Virgins respect and see a few more of our friends. But for now bye." Apate explained before turning her back on me and walked to the corner with my Father.
"Yeah, see you in war Nephew, I'll miss you." Pallas burst out before giving me a bone crushing hug and then dropping me and followed my Father.
The three Immortals made their way to the corner of the room before flashing away in the bright light, submerging me back into the darkness. Not long after that, in fact mere seconds after that the Gods burst through the great doors allowing the light to quickly fill the room. I was squinting because of the severe overload of light that came in to the previously dark room.
Forcing my eyes open to look at the Gods who had entered the room; I noticed Zeus, Hera, Artemis, Poseidon, Athena, Luke, Demeter and Hephaestus all walk in hesitantly, they had obviously heard and felt the massive presence of the two Titans. There eyes narrowed when they looked at me as if I was the cause of all this: Well I kinda was.
"Perseus what was that," Zeus demanded bitterly. He continued to stare at me with every now and again his nostrils flared, it was a funny sight to see almost as if he had some sort of twitch that wouldn't go away. He obviously caught on to what I was staring at and he bellowed even louder,"Well... Perseus what was it."
"What was what," I said playing the stupid card, I didn't want to get killed for treason now I hadn't even pissed Artemis or the Hunters off yet.
"You know what I mean," Zeus began again with even more anger whilst his cheeks flourished a deep red. If he got any redder we would have to call in Apollo for some help.
"No I don't know what you mean Zeus." I retorted playing the game.
"So what you mean to tell us," waving his hands in the general direction of the Gods behind him,"you didn't see or feel two powerful beings in this exact room," He continued to bellow.
"Yes, and I'll say it again, I don't know what you are talking about." I lied.
"Oh really," Athena muttered rolling her grey orbs, "Of course he is lying he is a traitor and why would he give up the fact that his Dad came to see him."
Keeping my poker face on,"Yeah because I could totally see my Dad in this darkness. Come on at least use that massive brain of yours Athena." I retaliated. Now looking back at her there was a clear sense of annoyance plastered all over her face.
"Mind your words DemiTitan," Athena spat cooling down.
"Don't worry I'll look after them," I smiled back at her.
"Anyway, if you do indeed know nothing, then Hephaestus can unfasten your handcuffs and we can all make are way down to Camp Half Blood." Zeus sneered at my reaction, I was gob smacked, they couldn't take me back there with all the Hunters and Campers, they would butcher me alive or dead.
"But why do we need to go there, I kinda liked it up here." I joked halfheartedly already knowing the answer.
"Because how else are we going to pass the news of your punishment without doing a public appearance," Luke smirked at me,"And we can also unravel the resurrected dead, that you must have thought you had killed."
I smiled on the inside knowing their reaction at the time when they went to present the resurrected dead to find that Hades couldn't find them.
"What are you smiling at boy," Demeter snarled.
"Oh just the crowds reactions when they see the dead girls." I said nonchalantly: It wasn't a complete lie.
"Well we better be off, now Hephaestus free him, he needs to wear some better clothes, for the presentation." Zeus chuckled before flashing out with the others leaving me in the room with the bulky God of fire for company. He swiftly made his way over to me considering his size and unclasped the handcuffs before he too flashed out leaving me in the semi-illuminated room.
Making my way to the door of the court I could see the shadow of someone else on the other side, tapping their foot impatiently. I opened the door and was instantly struck by the brightness of the sun and the immense beauty of Aphrodite standing there. She was just, just WOW. She was better than I could have ever had imagined, with her wonderful blonde locks that flowed down her back and shoulders, her face was gorgeous with her rosy cheeks, pink lips and her kaleidoscope eyes which allured every man who ever looked in to them.
She was wearing a pink dress that hugged her curves in all the right places, I was struggling to not get a tent in my pants which would have been the pinnacle of embarrassment and failure of today.
Obviously noticing that I was staring she decided to make quick conversation,"You can pick your bottom lip up now," She mocked. My cheeks went fully crimson at this comment and looked down instantly to make sure I wasn't caught staring again,"Don't worry everyone does it the first time they see me," She went on not helping my blushing one bit.
"Erm why did you want to talk to me then," I muttered softly, I wasn't even sure she heard me.
"Well some one has to make sure you look presentable this evening, don't they." She giggled lightly before grasping my hand and flashing us some where very pink.
"Where are we then," I asked looking up to see a pink wall, floor, bed, yeah you get the idea everything was pink from bottom to top, literally.
"We are in my bedroom," She responded cheerfully, not realizing how wrong the comment sounded. I flushed an even deeper shade of crimson if that was possible. This sounds good to me, God of Destruction's son blushes to death.
"But why, I thought you were giving me a make-over or what ever," I asked completely baffled by why we were in the bedroom of the Goddess of Love.
"You didn't just think I was going to give you a make-over now did you. You do realize you are incredibly hot, like smoking hot," She whispered.
"Well I did think you were going to just give me a make-over and let me out of your hair." I responded, now I was blushing so hard my cheeks were to warm to cover.
"Well... I guess you are wrong," Aphrodite purred into my ear, this was not helping my problem downstairs.
"But the presentation must start soon," I stammered out as she leaned in to me.
"I have a few minutes to spare," She said sultry and then clamped those pink lips on to my face and kissed softly, we stayed there for a seconds before I felt the feeling of a wet tongue licking my lower lip asking for permission to enter. Now overwhelmed by lust I gladly let her in and are tongues wrestled for a few minutes in the passionate french kiss we were having, after a minute or so we pulled out panting for air from our long embrace, before her lips instantly crashed back down on to mine but with a lot more passion and force, I wrapped my arms round her waist as she began to push me on to the bed and then straddled her legs round my side and sat on me, teasing me a lot. But what she did next surprised me so much.
Just as she was leaning in to kiss me she lent backwards and threw a fist at my face, I was to infatuated with her that I did not react in time and instead got the full force of a bitches fist.
"Ow what the fuck was that for," I yelped in pain.
"That was for dis-figuring my daughter in the explosion, she'll be lucky to ever look as beautiful again let alone use a bow or hunt properly, her one true ambition," She hissed, this had completely caught me of guard, for two reasons I didn't know daughters of Aphrodite went into the Hunt and secondly I did not know she could throw such a mean punch. She then continued her viscous beating put gave up and kicked me of the side of the bed and strolled over to me.
"Now I have to sort your sorry ass out," She hissed, before she clicked her fingers and I found that I was in a nice outfit. A black blazer with a turquoise inside, I also had a tight white shirt on below and a nice pair or trousers to match. I also probably had all the bruises covered up from Aphrodite's rage.
I walked over to the mirror and checked myself out, I was good considering I was going in front of a group of angry campers.
"I think we better be going," She muttered with spite before grabbing me and we flashed out and greeted by a set of bodyguards in front of me and behind the crowd of Demigods.
A/N So what did you think, at the moment I am still plot building and don't expect anything major plot wise to happen until about chapter 4/5, but after that it is all fun and games.
So remember to Fav,Follow,Review and PM with any concerns or desires.
I plan on releasing a new chapter of Forgotten Hero tomorrow if I can and then will release a new chapter of Slave to the Moon on Tuesday.
So be there or be square.
Thanks and good day.
BYE... .
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