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A/N: Thank you for all the reviews. Here is chapter two.
Camp Half-Blood
Percy and Thalia, sat watching TV in his cabin. They were both curled up on the sofa, enjoying each others company. Thalia had decided that she was going to move in with him, as she didn't want to stay in her father cabin, not after he had treated Percy in the last time-line. Of course Percy hadn't minded, they had shared a bed for nearly a year in his father's domain. They were suddenly disturbed from a sound coming from the main door of the cabin. Percy got up and walked over to the door before opening it, only to come across Annabeth. He noticed she didn't seem very happy.
"Move Percy, I want to see Thalia."
Percy stood there for a few seconds, before shifting himself to the side allowing her to pass by him. He then closed the cabin door. He walked into the lounge and noticed the two girls were staring each other down. Percy coughed, a little to break the tension in the room. Both girls turned to him, making him feel rather uncomfortable.
"I will just go wait in the bedroom. Tell me when you two are finished."
Annabeth watched Percy walk into one of the rooms. She growled, at how good Percy had it. In her cabin she had to share with all her brother and sisters, where he got his own, not to mention the cabin looked like a small apartment, Lounge, kitchen, bathroom, she was even sure she saw gym equipment through a small crack on the other side of the wall.
"So Annabeth what do you want?"
Annabeth snapped out of her thoughts to hear her best friend speak. Her tone seemed cold and angry, this confused Annabeth as last time they had seen each other they were best friends. She was thinking that maybe Percy had brainwashed Thalia, and convinced him to join his little campaign on wiping out Olympus. She took a seat next to her, not knowing what quite to say.
"So how have you been? You know after everything we have been through, I thought I would be the first person you contacted to say you were okay."
Thalia carried on staring at Annabeth, she was in a difficult situation. This Annabeth hadn't broken Percy's heart or done anything towards him, however, Thalia still found herself filled with anger. Maybe it was the fact that she could tell Annabeth had a crush on Percy. Thalia had seen the way she looked away from Percy or brushed her hair with her hand, while she tried to get past him. Both signs of nervousness.
"I'm warning you now Annabeth. You stay away from Percy."
Annabeth eyes blinked, how the hell did that have anything to do with what they were talking about? She had asked a simple question and for her friend to reply in the manner she did then something was seriously wrong here.
"Thalia you're making no sense. I asked you how you were and you immediately go on the defensive warning me to stay away from Percy. You have never been like this and I am thinking that maybe you have been brainwashed or something."
Thalia sat there for a few seconds, just staring at Annabeth, before she started laughing. "Me, Brainwashed by Percy, you have to be joking right? No Annabeth Percy has just opened my eyes to the world around us, and how the Olympian have allowed everyone to suffer. Percy didn't brainwash me, I chose to join his side. Plus he is rather cute. especially those sea green eyes."
Annabeth blinked. "Percy sea Green eyes? I thought he had golden eyes, the only person I know of with sea green eyes is Mark, son of Poseidon."
Thalia growled, she was kicking herself on the inside. She had forgotten that Percy no longer had sea green eyes, she just hoped that her little slip wouldn't cause Annabeth to much bother, but she immediately gave up on that idea, as she watched the cogs in Annabeth's head turn. Thinking fast, Thalia quickly said.
"Yes he said that he keeps his gold eyes for looks, but his eye colour is really sea green. You see you don't know the real Percy, only what he wants to know."
Annabeth could tell that her friend was lying straightway, but decided she didn't want to get into a pointless argument over a boy. She was more interested to hear what Thalia had learnt while being away with Percy for a whole year.
"So what did you do for the whole year, while Chaos trained Percy? Couldn't have been fun, being stuck in another dimension."
Thalia smiled. "Well actually, Lord Chaos allowed me to take part in several of the training exercises, he also allowed me to be Percy's sparing partner. We had a lot of fun together, frankly I was rather upset to leave there and come back to this shit hole."
Annabeth blinked again. "Thalia language! You never use to swear. I think you have been hanging out with Percy too long. Did he tell you that he had killed two Olympians?"
Thalia grinned. She could see where this was going, Annabeth was trying to make out that Percy was nothing but a trouble maker and that he was just using her for his own sick and twisted reasons.
"Yes he did, and personally I can't blame him for killing that airhead and blonde whore. There is really no need for those two to be on Olympus. In fact think how much better this world would be without war. Again with Aphrodite gone, then we mortals can chose who we fall in love with. We're not forced into relationship, just so the blonde bitch can get her kicks out of making all our love life's hell. To answer your next question Annabeth, I too feel the Gods have reigned for far to long, and it is time for change. I promised Percy that I would be with him, every step of the way, and I intend to see through that promise."
Annabeth sighed, then stood up. "Just be careful Thalia. I have already lost one best friend, I don't want to loose another." With those Final words Annabeth walked out of the cabin.
Thalia looked to the bedroom door and noticed Percy was coming out of their room. He walked over to the sofa, before falling into it, and watched as Thalia curled further into his side.
"How did things go?
Thalia sighed. "Well the bitch thought you had brainwashed me, into joining your side. She was also tying to tell me that you were a bad influence, and that you would end up getting me killed, so it was best to cut all ties with you. She tried to make you sound like a monster when she mentioned that you had killed Ares and Aphrodite. However I told her straight, that I stand behind you 100%"
Percy leaned down and kissed Thalia. "Wonder what old zap head is thinking about now. Especially knowing that his daughter is in love with the boy who will be his executioner."
Thalia giggled. And climbed onto Percy lap, before straddling him. "Screw him. I don't need him, I have you. The most powerful being second to your father Chaos. My dads power is peanuts compared to yours."
Olympus
Zeus sat on his throne, steaming. He was absolute livid that Chaos would turn his own daughter against him. Like the rest of the Olympian council he had assumed that Thalia was still stuck in the tree. Of course seeing her holding Percy's hand on top of Half-blood hill, had really surprised him. Zeus watched as his daughter got friendly with Percy. He was tempted to fire one of his bolt down onto the camp, destroying Chaos' cabin. He looked over to the two now crumbled thrones. He wondered which one of his council would be next to die. So far all the council had kept their distance from the young demigod, but Zeus soon knew that he would be coming for them. Over the summer Zeus had been trying to find a way to kill the boy, without doing directly. So far he had come up blank. However things now were getting a lot harder, especially now his own daughter was involved.
Camp half-blood
Chiron stood at the front of the huge camp fire. "The only way to save Thalia tree, is for us to obtain the legendary Golden fleece. It's power is the only thing that can heal the tree. We can't allow the tree to die any more, the barrier around camp is already weakening, and soon there will be no defences. So I am asking for a team of demigods to go on a quest to find and bring back the Golden Fleece."
Percy and Thalia just sat there, listening. The two of them had decided that they were not going to volunteer for this quest, and just stay at camp, getting to know each other better. Percy grinned as his brother stood up. Mark had to be the centre of attention. Percy then noticed Clarisse also stood up. In the last time line Clarisse had been chosen by Tantalus, who had taken Chiron place, as camp director.
Chiron looked at both demigods. "Very well you will both go. Also due to the nature of this quest I am permitting for the first time ever that four of you may go. You may choose one person to join each of you."
Clarisse immediately turned to look at her cabin, to her not of them were worthy for this mission. She was going to need someone with brains, this immediately allowed her eyes to look over all the Athena cabin. She grinned as her eyes came to rest on one in particular.
"I choose Annabeth, daughter of Athena"
Chiron immediately silenced the rest of the camp, as arguing began to break out between the Ares cabin. Chiron himself was rather shocked by Clarisse decision, after all he knew that Annabeth and Clarisse were bitter rivals. He then turned to Mark.
"And you Mark. Who do you choose?"
Mark growled, he had hoped that Annabeth would have been invited on this quest. He wanted a chance to prove himself. He looked up before pointing to his friend.
"I choose Tyson to join me." This caused a riot to break out, many of the campers were shouting that Tyson wasn't a demigod, but a monster. Not to mention a demigod had to ha been claimed to take part in a quest. However the camp fell silent as a small trident appeared above the cyclops head.
Chiron eyes widened. He quickly bowed. "All hail Tyson. Son of Poseidon."
Mark was speechless. Not only was Tyson, his best friend but they were brothers too. Clearly his father must have been drunk to sleep with a Cyclops. He turned to Chiron. "As Tyson was just claimed by our father, then I'm I to understand that he is allowed to take part in this quest?"
Chiron lowered his head. "Very well Mark. Tyson may join you. I expect to see the four of you in the big house early tomorrow morning. Now good night everyone."
Chaos Cabin
Percy stood with Thalia and began to walk back towards his cabin. Once inside, he and Thalia again snuggled up on the sofa. Curfew may have been 10pm to the camp, but they didn't have a TV or a game console in their cabins. Percy switched on the TV, however he suddenly noticed a shadow in the corner of his cabin. His eyes widened as he noticed a figure stepped out of the shadow. Percy immediately went for his sword, Thalia spear was already out coursing with Chaos Energy.
"Who are? What do you want with us?"
Pluto wasn't surprised to see Percy reaction to his Roman form. After all the boy had only met one half of his personality. He was even more surprised to see Thalia with him.
"Forgive me Percy. I am Lord Pluto. Lord Hades Roman counterpart. I need your help on a special mission that will eventually help us both in the future. You see we Gods have many secrets and none are as big as our two forms. When Greece fell to the Romans, we Gods feared for our existence. We believed the Roman would have their own Gods. We were right. We decided that we would all take on new forms making the Romans believe that we were their Gods. Zeus became Jupiter, Poseidon became Neptune, and I became Lord Pluto."
Percy listened to everything being said. "Very well Lord Pluto, but may I ask why you are in this form and not your Greek form, when you are standing before two Greek demigods?"
Pluto nodded. "An excellent question Percy. The answer being is I only use this form if I am worried about something connected to my Roman side. You see just like the Gods have Greek demigods, we also have Roman demigods. My daughter Hazel was killed before her time, and I wish to bring her back to life. However I am forbidden from taking her soul from the fields of Asphodel. Hazel's mother was tricked by the Primordial God Gaia, who convinced her to move to a place where we Gods had no powers. Here Gaia used my daughter and her gift to reform one of her children. I don't know how much of our history you two know. But Once we defeated the Titans Gaia rose up against us. She then created her own children known as giants. There was a giant for each Olympian. The only way to defeat these beasts were if a demigod and a God worked together. My own Giant was called Alcyoneus. He like me had the power over the underworld and the earth. My son and I defeated him, while the other Gods and their own children defeated the rest of them. Now you ask, what does this have to do with Hazel? Well Gaia took over Hazel's mother and forced her to use her power to reform Alcyoneus. However when Hazel found out what Gaia was planning. she sacrificed herself to stop it. She knew her mother would be blamed and likely sent to the fields of punishment, so she decided to make a deal with the judges. She would give up her place in Elysium fields so that her mother could go there. While Her soul would then be sent to the Asphodel fields which unfortunately is looked after by death himself. Hazel has a unique gift, she can control any metal and I thought having her on your side would be a good idea. Especially when she could render all your enemies weapons and armour useless."
Percy stood there in silence. Hazel did sound like a good ally to have. Especially with her gift. In the last time line, many of the minor Gods and Goddess own demigods joined Kronos, and Percy and his friend had almost been completely over whelmed by the pure numbers. With Hazel at their side the would have to worry about the number, especially if she could destroy all their armour and weapons.
"Very well Lord Pluto. Thalia and I will rescue Hazel from the Asphodel fields. Is there anything you can tell us, that could cause us problems in this quest?"
Lord Pluto lowered his head. "There a several complications you could face. One being my own wife. She never did take kindly to me having a demigods, so she will likely try to stop you in your quest to rescue my daughter. Also your biggest threat is death himself. He will not allow my daughter's soul to leave willingly. However he always was one for a gamble. So you may be able to defeat him. As for the other complication, I can see Kronos not leaving you alone and he two might send some complications your way. Now, take this."
Percy took the gold coin from Pluto before examining it. "What is this?"
Pluto sighed. "That will allow Charon to take you across the river Styx. It is a special coin only I use, so he will know that I have sent you. I wish you luck Percy."
With those last words Pluto walked into the shadow before vanishing. Leaving Percy to flick the coin up and down in his hand.
"Looks like were going on a quest after all."
A/N: There is Chapter Two. Hope you enjoyed it. So to conclude there will be two quests. The canon quest and a private quest from Hades.
