Chapter 3

Percy's POV

Ten years later

I crept over the hill. I looked down and saw the man I wanted. He was fighting a huge group of monsters. He was an amazing fighter. There were unfortunately for him almost unlimited amounts of monsters. I did the sensible thing and charged. As I hit the side of the monsters I sent out a huge earthquake that flattened the monsters. About half of them collapsed and disintegrated.

After having beaten the monsters I approached the man. "Perses requires your assistance." I said.

The man looked at me. He grunted. "I suppose it would be rude to refuse the summons of a brother." He followed me back to where Perses was waiting for us.

When we arrived Perses said, "Ah well done Perseus. I see you have brought my brother here."

"What do you want me to do brother?" he asked.

"I have been having problems with my duties in Tartarus. I have been running out of time to train Perseus. I have therefor decided that you shall help me. As Pallas the titan of war you are the strongest titan in one on one combat. You have beaten Atlas and me before. I would like you to train Perseus when I am not available."

"Why should I?" Pallas asked.

"I believe that it would do you good, plus I need to get Perseus ready for the tournament in ten years. You are what he needs to become a truly formidable fighter. It will also give you something to do." Perses said.

Pallas thought for a minute and then nodded. "Very well."

"Okay, well Perseus currently trains by himself from two in the morning to seven. At seven he helps in the mines. At nine he trains with me. We do this until about eight at night and then he trains alone again. I want you to train him from eight to two. If he does this I believe that he will be able to have a chance in the tournament."

Pallas nodded in agreement. "Follow me." he said. I got up and followed him out of the room. I expected to head to the arena but instead we veered off out towards the desert. To let you understand this, an above world desert gets to about 45 degrees Celsius. This desert gets up to around seventy degrees on a regular basis. This means that if you are not immortal it is impossible to do anything here. When we had walked across it for about an hour we got to a place that Pallas deemed satisfactory. I was coated in sweat and there was a faint wisp of steam coming from my sweat. He attacked me without warning. I had not even realised that he had drawn his spear until it was sailing for my head. I managed to dodge the blow but only just. He kept his onslaught coming, I could tell that this was going to be a long training session.

Poseidon's POV

I hate to admit it but life for the gods has got significantly better. Our power has increased exponentially and we each had a country to patron. However I had still not forgiven my brother for putting Percy in Tartarus. I was sure to not have any demigods in the near future as I A: did not want him to have a life anyway like Percy's and, B: have to join my brother's personal army. He said that it was for Olympus but only he and Ares had any control over it. And since Ares is a complete suck up to his father there is no way anyone else can have a say in it.

They are treated no better than soldiers. That is I suppose what they had been turned into. I am currently giving sanction to a few of them. I believe that they are named, Katie Conner and Travis. I have offered to let them stay but I believe that they will leave soon to join their friends. The hunters have become a hugely powerful force once again. They have lost barely any members and have had hundreds of people signing up. Artemis has had to make a permanent base for them. The only demigod of note who left was Thalia. She left to also join her friends in one of the wilderness countries.

The new territory for the gods has led to armies being built for each god and therefor inevitably fights and wars have started. There has been a huge battle between Ares and Athena. They had some petty argument that then ensued into a full on war. There were hundreds of casualties on either side. The war had been so bad and nothing had been achieved by either side. If more like those broke out I was not sure if the populations could take it. It would be even worse if it was between two of the big three. That would drag in the other gods as well. Someone needed to put down some rules for the gods. Unfortunately the only one who had the power to do it was Zeus. He would not do it because he had the most power already. He could therefore win almost any battle anyway.

This is why it was better before. There was someone to reel in the gods. They were too powerful now and no-one could stop them. That is what Percy had managed to do. He had scared the gods. They had realised how he had managed to influence them. I knew that there should be someone like that to keep us in check. Now he was gone and the gods had just gained more power.

I still had this faint hope that he was in Tartarus. The powers that had been given to Perseus were not rejected. Therefore there was a chance that he was just down there, probably being tortured by some monsters. He had made enough enemies in his life to have someone willing to volunteer.

I just hoped that one day he would get out. There was no way I could manage to convince either of my brothers to get him out. Hades might agree if I asked nicely. He would still need Zeus' permission though. And he never admits he is wrong so he would never get it.