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Those words were enough to shut Zeus up. Zoe looked like she was going to burst into devils trap was very close to Percy and his friends. It was maybe 7 to 10 feet away. Maybe. He wondered who it was gonna be next.
"How is everyone?" Zoe asked as she stood up and dusted herself off.
"They'll be a whole lot better when you get back." Juliette answered stretching. The atmosphere for everyone else was still tense but they went on talking as if nothing had happened.
But something had happened.
Zoe was alive.
She wasn't dead.
It felt like Percy had been holding his breath and now he could finally breath.
The devils trap was almost complete. And the air had started to smell like . . . a hospital. Clean, and sanitary. Then just as quickly Percy could hear the hoot of an owl or smell of salty air.
"What's taking so long?" Said a mans voice. He had appeared beside Zeus throne. He was tall ands super ridiculously ripped. He looked like one of those gym rats. He had rugged handsome features and a deep deep tan. He was wearing jeans and a black v neck t shirt. He looked like a celebrity.
Behind him Jason and Piper gasped.
"No way." Piper muttered
Percy couldn't see what was wrong. Did they know him?
"What the hell are you doing here?" Juliette asked
Mr. Celebrity spread his arms and smiled. It wasn't a friendly smile though, he looked angry in his eyes.
"How are you?" He asked but Juliette just looked suspicious and guarded. "Okay okay, I know you all want to know what the famous Hercules is doing here?"
Woah woah Hercules.
Percy thought the day couldn't get any weirder and he kept being proven wrong. He wasn't how Percy imagined him and too be honest he had imagined him looking like Jason. They had the same blue eyes.
"Is he from our time?" Zoe asked Juliette. She shook her head no.
So they had time traveled before. Or had they been summoned before?
"I am here," Hercules said "For her."
Hercules turned and pointed at Juliette and her eyes darkened with animosity.
"You're not taking me anywhere you pig." Juliette snarled in almost a whisper. Jason and Piper had told him that Hercules was a complete jerk but what did he want with Juliette? He seemed to really hate her.
Then he remembered that he was Juliette's uncle. Or was he? Percy had just assumed that he was Jason and Piper's daughter she sure looked it.
Then it got weirder.
Percy glanced over at Jason who seemed to be having mixed emotions about what was happening at the moment. He kept staring at Hercules like he couldn't believe what was going on. Piper wasn't crying any more but she looked confused and angry.
"I'll take her off your hands, father." Hercules continued "You won't have to worry about her anymore."
"Could you do that?" Zeus asked in an almost awe.
In a second Hercules was across the room. He had grabbed Juliette by the neck and held her up. She didn't fight back and just hanged like a rag doll. Zoe's expression was calm and steady but it was also worried and irritated.
"Let me go." Juliette muttered darkly
"No." Hercules said "You know, I should take advantage of you right now just so I could see the look on your fathers face when I told him about it."
Percy's stomach dropped and he glanced at Jason who looked absolutely horrified. Then in that instant the room was filled with that mist and no one could see anything. But this time something was different.
It dissipated quickly, Percy felt like someone had sent it away. One second there one second gone and it front of them a girl was looking at them from upside down. She seemed to have been on her knees facing the gods and bent her back to look at them. She looked amused and silly.
No it wasn't a girl, it was a goddess. Percy heard several of his friends gasp. She was breathtaking, literally.
That was the only way she could be so beautiful. So divine.
Her wavy-curly raven black hair really clashed with the striking of her grey almost silver eyes. She wasn't as tan as Zoe, but she was as pale as Nico either. She had a bemused expression on her face but she didn't look scared. She almost looked amused. She reminded him of Annabeth a little a maybe his mom. She was a flawless combination of genes. Though Percy noticed a small patch of blood almost under her face by her chin.
She slowly turned until she was on her hands and knees and passed a sweet smile between all of them.
"Hello Mom," she looked at Annabeth then to Percy "Hello Daddy." Percy felt his heart felt and drip down to his toes. The throne room had gone completely silent, Hercules and stopped what he was going and stared, he looked . . . shook. Zoe's jaw had dropped and she covered it with her hands.
"What are you doing here?" The new girl asked standing up on her feet. "Is it my birthday, why is everyone here together?"
No one had an answer for her. No one said anything. Everyone just stared at her face. It was oval shaped, with long thick lashes that extenuated her eyes, her smooth skin and dark pink full but not too full lips. then the tumble of hair that framed her face. She was a privilege to look at.
"Silena." Juliette choked from behind her. Silena turned her back to us and Percy realized his mouth had been open, it was so dry now. She had two locks off hair pinned to the back of her head with a silver crescent moon outline hair barrette. Hercules yelped quietly. He was afraid of her.
"Oh hello." Silena said and looked between Hercules and Juliette. "What game is this? How do you play?" Zoe looked like she was going to cry or wail. But She took a deep breath and stayed silent but Percy could see that her arms were shaking.
"What's wrong with her?" Calypso asked. Percy caught himself before he glared at her but he had been wondering the same thing. Percy gestured for him friends to follow him and they began to walk to the left so they could see Silena and get a better view on what was happening.
Silena cocked her head to the side. She seemed to be contemplating something. Her eyes were squinted and her mouth was slightly ajar. In a way that it showed off her beautiful features.
"Silena . . . help." Juliette gasped as Hercules tightened his grip on her throat.
"Shut up!"
That's when Silena changed. Rage filled her face. Not just regular anger, a calm scary anger that made all of Percy's nerves go on edge. Absolute wrath. If looks could kill . .
It a second she was there holding Hercules's wrist staring at him with a dazed expression, like her eyes couldn't focus.
"I understand what's happening here." Silena smiled and looked at Zeus. "I'm sorry but we're not little kids you can push around now. We're big girls now. And you will not treat us this way no more." She shook her head still smiling kindly.
What was wrong with her? She turned to look at Hercules again.
"Let her go." Silena stated
Hercules shook his head but he face had paled. He was trying to look strong. The apple doesn't fall to fear from the tree. Jason excluded of course.
"You think you're stronger than me, now?" Her face turned serious. She reminded him of those creepy little girls in horror movies with no expression. "You're the prince of this playground, you spoiled brat." The front of her palm to hit him in the face and took Juliette from him. Who was turning blue and coughing.
Percy just didn't expect him to fly across the room until he hit a pillar, causing a spider web of cracks. There were gasps of disbelief all over the room. The great Hercules taken down in one hit by a teenager?
How? Hera's breast milk? That's how Hercules got his strength.
"Sunday girl, how are you?" Silena asked bubbly, snapping all eyes back to her. A few of them had already been staring at her, even after the hit.
"Oh I'm just peachy." Juliette straightened out her shirt. She observed her face and pointed at her chin and the scab. "What happened?"
"I tried peeling the skin off my face." Silena spun in a circle. "Everyone tells me I'm crazyyyy." She began to twirl away from her.
"What's wrong with her?" Zoe asked
"She was cursed with insanity." Juliette shrugged "A light insanity, not as bad as a serious one."
"What! How?" Zoe asked the question they were all thinking.
"Long, long story." Juliette looked at Zeus "She didn't want to do someone's dirty work anymore."
Percy felt himself start to shake with rage. Zeus was . . . absolutely put of his mind. Not one but two of his kids. He wanted to smash his face in.
"My kettle is boiling over, I'm crazy. I'm demented. Deranged. Mad as the hatter and as lost as Alice." Silena said in a cheery voice as she twirled around.
No one new what to say. What was there to say?
"I'm mad! It finally happened guys, I'm nuts, bonkers, bananas, crazyyyy." Silena continued and looked at Percy "And you told me so."
No. No, no, no. He would never ever. Not ever tell her that after she was cursed. Never.
"I have something for you." Juliette said
"A birthday present?" Silena asked
"Yes, of course. It's some apple juice. Don't you love apple juice?" Juliette asked holding up a small vile. Percy wonder where she could have gotten it from. She uncorked it. and held it out. The whole room was dead silent. Hercules was a distant memory.
Silena skipped over and snatched it out of her hands. She chugged it in a few seconds. After a moment. Her face changed to confusion, then to looked at Juliette.
"What's going on?" She asked
"I brought you sanity in a bottle that'll be 19.99 plus tax." Juliette said as she plucked the bottle from her hands and stuffed it back into her pocket where it disappeared.
"Okay . . . " Silena held her head in her hands, she was speaking normally now. "I don't understand . . . " Her voice broke when she saw Zoe. Her jaw dropped, her eyes bugged.
She screamed and jumped on her in a hug. She was hysterically screaming and crying.
"You're alive! She did it! She did it! You're alive, Oh my gods oh my gods!" Silena screamed.
Juliette wiped a tear from her cheek and they all laughed and hugged. Until Silena remembered where she was.
"Who are you?" Zeus asked
"She's the root of all sin." Juliette said
"Pride?" He asked
"No." Zoe said
"My name is Silena of the seven deadly sins. The bear sin of wrath." She gave Zeus a steely look. "He who sups the devil should have a long spoon."
Zeus took a sharp breath the rest of the gods were avoiding eye contact with her. No one said a word.
"Why have we been summoned?' What was the purpose?" Silena asked
"We needed to know about you." Zeus answered
"Who told you about us?"
"The fates."
"Uh huh." Silena turned back to Zoe and Juliette. "When can we leave?"
"I'm not sure." Juliette answered. "We need to take advantage of this situation and go back to when she died." She gestured to Zoe.
"What! WHY?" Zoe exclaimed
"We need to know who did it. We need to see. Because you are forbidden from telling and we need to know. They need to be brought to justice and we need to know how they could open a hole to tartarus." Juliette explained.
"But why?"
"It's necessary." They both said at the same time.
"How are you going to leave?" Zeus asked
"Pixie dust." Juliette said sarcastically and Zeus's nostrils flared.
"Jules still has one more stone and that's all we need." Silena said "It's not a powerful one so no one will be able to see us and we can't physically do anything but we just need information." She turned to the gods "Your memories will be erased. All of your memries. You won't remember us at at and time will go on as it should. It'll happen the moment we leave."
"Now wait just a minute-" Annabeth started
"You cant remember this. You can't know us. It'll effect everything after." Juliette explained "You guys ready?"
Zoe and Silena nodded. Juliette took out a small violet stone. She threw it on the ground and it didn't shatter the only thing that happened was it hit the ground and sank like it was quicksand.
They suddenly everything went black.
To Be Continued . . .
