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I'm bringing you another chapter hope you like it
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Percy POV
I was standing ready on one side of the arena while Isaac was on the other. I decided to make this last as long as I could, get as much fun out of it as I could, so I was in my defensive stance. Isaac charged me with his giant celestial bronze hammer and I just calmly stood on my side. At the last second I rolled of the way letting Isaac run into the wall. Isaac was 6'5 and super buff, he had a way of making Isaac sized craters walls. He pulled himself out of the crater and was covered in white dust that made him look like a ghost. He had a look of rage on his face that was so hilarious I had to stop myself from laughing. The red penetrated his ghost look. He charged me again but this time I blocked it. His hammer was so large that he only got a hit off every 2 seconds, but I blocked it every time. After about 5 minutes of him just trying to hit me I got tired of it, so I went on the offensive-ish. I started taking shots at him, making just little cuts and bruises. I wanted him to last as long as he could. I started getting bored so I decided to hit him with a finishing blow. I found an opening, so on his next strike I blocked it then disarmed him. He was weaponless so I got him to the ground.
"Please kill me Jackson, if I live I would live forever in shame," Isaac said pathetically.
"Hmm tempting offer, don't get me wrong it really is. It's just that you ruined my life so I think I'll ruin yours," I said as I was pulling my sword away from his neck. I heard all of the applause that I didn't hear during the battle because I was so wrapped up in it. Chiron came out to congratulate me on my victory, while the campers in the stands filed out of the arena.
"Well Percy I'm glad you won but why did you spare him?" Chiron asked me, curious of my response.
"Well I guess I just didn't want to seem so cruel to the new campers and to my old friends. I also decided to let him live in shame," I said honestly.
"Oh he already lives in shame. We made him immortal so that he could live in eternal shame. After you left we realized how stupid we were to believe him over you. Your old friends have never forgiven themselves," He said sadly.
"Well I can forgive them but I can't forgive Annabeth, what she did was wrong, and if I could forgive her it would take a long time," I said harshly. When we were leaving I went to see all of my other friends.
"Hey guys how have you been for the last, what has it been? 500 years?" I asked them.
"PERCY!" everyone except Annabeth yelled. I was showered by hugs from everyone except Annabeth again.
"Guys, guys I can't breathe," I choked out.
"Sorry Perce," Grover said.
"It's okay. Now let's talk about how are lives have been for the last 500 hundred years, now won't we?" I said in a voice that said there would be no argument, "Okay G-man first."
"Well I was put on as the head of the Council of the Cloven Elders, I got married to Juniper, I-," Juniper showed up right as Grover said her name. She gave him a peck on the cheek and then immediately started talking.
"Percy how are you? When did you get back? Where have you been? Are you staying or leaving?" man was she a fast talker.
"Juniper slow down, slow down. Okay well first I'm fine, I got back maybe a hour ago, I've been guarding a secret treasure room full of secret treasure, and I'm leaving but I'll probably come back and visit every now and then," I said slowly acting like I was talking to a toddler.
There was an uproar from all my friends except Annabeth ranging from, "But you just got back!" to, "I will make you stay here if it's the last thing I do!"
"Well it's good that you're leaving, you're not welcome here," Annabeth said harshly.
"Well I'm sorry but I don't need your approval of what I can and can't do, but fortunately for you I'm leaving, this place has too many bad memories," I yelled out at her and she flinched away knowing exactly what I had been talking about.
FLASHBACK
I was walking toward the Athena cabin while everyone was yelling some not very nice words and phrases at me, even my "friends". When I got to the Athena cabin I knocked on the door and nobody wanted to answer it for me. Finally after about 5 minutes Malcolm, Annabeth's brother, answered it for me.
"Man, what does she see in you?" he asked like I was just a piece of trash in a huge pile.
"Where's Annabeth Malcolm?" I asked ignoring his first comment.
"She's over at the Aphrodite cabin Jackson," he sneered. I walked away toward the Aphrodite cabin without responding, trying to stay calm like I do. Why is she over at the Aphrodite cabin? I thought to myself. Of course while i was walking Isaac got in my way. I went the long way to the Aphrodite cabin trying to avoid Isaac. I got to the Aphrodite cabin and knocked on the door.
"Oh hi Percy. What are you doing here?" Drew answered the door. She's had this crush on me for a while and I can't get it through her head that I'm in a relationship.
"Hi Drew, is Annabeth in there?" I asked.
"Why yes she is but um I don't think you want to come in," she said almost scared of what might happen. Without saying another word I barged in through half of the Aphrodite cabin trying to block my way. What I saw was unbelievable. I felt I was about to burst there was so much anger boiling inside of me. I saw Annabeth and Isaac making out!
I stomped out in rage, trying not to slit the other kid's throat. Annabeth had heard my loud footsteps me and came running to the door.
"Percy it's not what it looks like!" she pleaded. I just walked away ready to pack my bags and go.
END OF FLASHBACK
Artemis POV
"Thalia report," I said being serious
"Half of the monsters are dead and about another 150 monsters are left. No casualties but the hunters and I have minor cuts and bruises, My Lady." Thalia reported to me. The best kinds of fights are the ones with no casualties.
"Good, good. Thalia I want you and half of the hunters to go around the back of the monsters. Phoebe take the other half of the hunters and take the front side. Once you get to the back of the monsters Thalia, I want you to send up a whistler arrow. After you hear the arrow Phoebe, start taking the monsters out. Thalia you take them out from the back after you fire the arrow. Dismissed," I said in my army general mode
"Yes My Lady," they both said in unison.
I heard a flash from behind me after Thalia and Phoebe left. I turned around and saw Hermes standing there.
"Hello there Artemis, how are you?" Hermes asked like this was routine, which it probably was
"Oh I'm doing good just killing monsters. So what are you doing here?" I said like I killed monsters as a hobby which I pretty much do.
"Okay well good luck with that. I'm just here to deliver a message from your father," he said as he handed me an envelope.
"You do know that he's your father too right?" I asked him.
"Yes, yes you always deal in technicality now don't you?" we both laughed.
"Okay Hermes I'll see you later," I said as he disappeared in a puff of white smoke. I opened the envelope and it had an elegant letter that had a summons to Olympus for a council meeting after all of the monsters had been killed. What about? I wondered. Oh well for now I had to worry about killing 150 monsters with only 17 hunters.
Percy POV
Do you know what the worst thing that can happen at night is? Well I do and I'm about to tell you. I went to sleep at about 12 and let me tell you was I exhausted. I had stayed up talking to all of my friends about how it's been for the last 500 years. When I went to bed my head the pillow and I immediately fell asleep. At about two in the morning Hermes knocked on my door to wake me up a little then walked in. I was so freaked out I uncapped riptide and it punched a 3 foot hole right through my bed and through the wooden floor.
"Hermes, what the Hades!?" I almost slashed him in the face.
"Gods Perce, I'm just here to deliver a message, you don't have to go all crazy ninja man on me." he said handing me an envelope.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay well go away Hermes it's two in the morning," I tiredly told him
"Okay Perce I'll see you later, like tomorrow." I closed my eyes while he turned into his godly form and disappeared in a puff of smoke. I lied back down on my now ruined bed.
When I woke up in the morning I almost forgot about my note. I picked it up and read it. It said that I had a summons to an Olympian council meeting. Oh fun I thought, those are never fun. And the best part of all! It was in a half hour! Gah! I jumped in the shower and willed the water to come on. I took a quick three minute shower then I got dressed in a sea green shirt with black and blue striped shorts. I messed up my hair a little and then went to eat breakfast. When I got to the Poseidon table I had about 10 minutes left and if I know the Olympians they would be starting in 2. I downed my bacon, eggs, and cheese in 1 minute flat. I then whistled my best New York taxi cab whistle I had. Blackjack soon arrived.
"Hey boss what's up? You got any sugar cubes?" he asked excitedly. Knowing this would happen I had brought a couple sugar cubes with me. "Thanks boss," he said with his mouth full.
"No problem Blackjack. Now I need you to fly me to Olympus k?" I asked him
"Got it boss," I had given up on trying to make him stop calling me boss. Of course with my luck right after i left camp borders there were some of those flaming dodge-ball thrower guys, I just couldn't remember there names. They were in a camp about 1 mile from Camp Half-Blood.
"Blackjack change of planes, take me down to those laistrygonians." that's what they were called, laistrygonians.
"Got it boss" Blackjack said. When he was about 30 feet from the ground i jumped off of Blackjacks back and tucked and rolled to the ground. The laistrygonians quickly noticed me and started pegging flaming dodge-balls at me. I zigzagged my way around them trying to get hit by any dodge-balls and get to them at the same time. I finally was able to make it to them after about 5 minutes and that's when i realized how many there were. There were about 150 laistrygonians surrounding me i started hacking and slashing but i knew i would soon get overwhelmed. I was cutting down my 27th laistrygonian when i heard a whistler arrow in the background. All of the monsters including me turned toward the sound and i saw Thalia. Finally a friendly face. I then heard some commotion from the other side. Ah the old divide and conquer trick. Lady Artemis is smart. I didn't waste the value of the distraction. I started hacking the monsters into golden dust while the hunters were firing shiny silvery arrow's at the monsters turning them into golden dust. All of the monsters finally died after about a good 15 minutes.
"Percy what are you doing here?" Thalia almost yelled at me.
"Well i was going to Olympus when i saw this camp. I didn't see all of the laistrygonians though. So yeah thanks for the help," It was hard to say thank you since I've only lost about 10 battles in my long life.
"Okay well you almost ruined our hunting operation but thanks for the help," Thalia said while Lady Artemis was coming through to see who almost ruined their operation.
"I should have guessed, a boy almost ruined our operation," she said with hatred,"Oh well why did you come here?"
"I was on my way to Olympus when i saw this camp," I told her. Man she was beautiful with her long, lustrous, auburn hair flowing down her shoulders. Wait a sec who ever said I liked her, I don't like her, at least I don't think I do.
"Oh really i was just headed there maybe a race?" she asked
"You're on, but first i need free passage to Olympus so that those wind spirits don't interfere with our race." I told her
"Fine. I grant Percy Jackson free passage for this race to Olympus," she said officially. I looked around to see if Blackjack had stayed before I whistled and he had. I beckoned for Blackjack to come over and i got on him. Artemis got into her chariot and she yelled out, "3...2...1...GO!" and off we went. Blackjack was fast but not fast enough for 6 flying reindeer. Artemis beat me to to Olympus, "Ha I win," she bragged all the way to the council room.
"Um aren't you forgetting something?" I asked her mischievously.
"Like what?" she asked not noticing how I asked her because she was to busy basking in her glory.
"Oh nevermind."
While i was walking down the road I realized I had never really gotten to see the new designs Annabeth had added to Olympus. It was breath taking, but that didn't mean I forgave her for what she did to me. When I walked into the Olympian council room it looked like the last few gods were just arriving. The council room walls were lined in imperial gold and celestial bronze giving it a mix of roman and greek. All of the Olympian thrones were colored in the gods color, like Ares's throne had red and my dad's throne had a mix of green and blue. Each of them also had the god's sacred animal on it, and I got to admit the new thrones looked awesome. Good I'm not late I thought to myself.
"Well looks like everyone is here so let's start," he said noticing me, "well we all know why we're here, to discuss where and what Mr. Jackson will be doing. I have thought about and I would like to propose an idea. Percy should be the guardian of the Hunters of Artemis and Artemis herself."
"WHAT!" I heard Artemis yell. Was I that bad? I mean was it such a bad idea that I be a guardian I've had a lot of practice guarding that chamber and all. "I do not need a guardian, especially from a man," wait did she just call me a man? She usually calls me boy, she's never called me Percy or a man, just boy.
"So um do I have any say in what I do?" I asked Zeus. The other twelve major Olympian gods and goddesses just now noticed me.
"No, you said you wanted a purpose and I'm giving you one," Zeus rudely told me and I got the hint to stay quiet.
"Artemis Percy isn't as bad as any other man. He's modest, kind, generous etc. Just like his mother raised him," my father said proudly.
"Well yes I know that but he is still a man. What about the hunters, do they have any say in what happens?" Artemis asked her father
"No but we can still ask them,"
"I think it's a good idea," Thalia said after pondering the thought for a second. Thalia was basically my big sister, We loved each other like brother and sister.
"Well if Thalia likes it so do we," Phoebe said.
"Yeah," the other hunters agreed.
"Artemis your hunters like it so what about you?" Zeus asked her pleadingly.
"Fine," Artemis gave in, "Percy can be the guardian of the hunters and I."
