I feel like many people got the wrong idea from the last chapter, Annabeth will not be a spy or enemy she is just very prideful in these earlier chapters. Also please know, that Percy will return to camp, BUT he will not be fighting Order of anyone like that.
My Beta is Twins n' Fandoms, you see anything misspelled whine to her not me. (Jk)
Yep, I'm just here to totally make sure your complaint goes to court.
(But before that happens, I'm here to correct them too.)
"I'm practicing my aim, and if you were really the daughter of Athena, I was obviously teaching my little brother how to shoot," Percy replied is a monotonous voice, like he didn't care at all for this conversation. "It's like a family tradition, if you actually know what that is-"
"It's not traditional!" She was screaming in his face now, spit flying everywhere.
"So is building one huge temple to only honor one god, who isn't even Zeus," He spoke smoothly and evenly, not backing down.
"It's for the Athena Parthenos, we can't just leave it in the elements," She retorted, her face getting more and more red.
"No, it's for your pride, we could just put the statue in a marble gazebo or something, but no, you need to build a huge temple and design it yourself!" Percy's eyes start twitching as he tried to hold in his anger.
"All the campers are suffering from the lack of funds the camp has, and you're the cause of it!" Percy finally broke and started yelling at her.
"Even worse, some of the cabins for the minor gods aren't finished, but they can't work on them due to lack of funding! Many of the children in those unfinished cabins have to sleep in the once again crowded Hermes cabin!"
"I turned down immortality for these kids, and you're disrespecting that. Maybe I should've accepted their proposal."
Then Percy walked off, carrying his bag of guns with him. Annabeth turned to Steven, who uttered a "Nope I'm leaving bye!" then sprinted in the direction of Percy.
When Annabeth finally finished the temple, most of the camp was working on what the demigods could get in the mortal world, they used the cheapest things they could find.
The unfinished cabins had crumbled into ruins because they weren't taken care of, and the other cabins were close to falling apart.
But that was nothing compared to what was happening in Olympus.
Athena's palace came crumbling down, the extravagant pillars crumbling to dust, walls painted with beautiful murals blasted to pieces by beams of power.
Riots were breaking out everywhere, the minor gods were not happy they were slighted. The source of all this? Athena, who was currently hiding away in the barricaded throne room.
The door was shaking from the combined power of the minor gods, multi-colored light streaming in through the cracks. The Olympians were arguing over what to do. Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus, Poseidon, and Hera were saying to throw her out to the minor gods.
All the others were coming up with plans to punish them. Suddenly the doors started cracking and then shattered like glass.
Tut tut tut tut (B/N: Whaaaaa?) (A/N Don't judge me. You know my pen name, not my story.)
Machine guns fired on their position, bullets whizzed above them. "Percy! Can you get a good shot?!"
"Yes sir! I'm taking the shot!" No sound was heard when the bullet raced out of the rifle, working it's way between the eyes of the man arming the gun. "The way is clear!"
The SEALs dressed in tactical suits advanced on the enemy bunker, finding cover every few feet. "Wait, I see some dust trails coming to our position, I think they're choppers."
"Let's hope that your wrong, Percy. " The soldiers all looked anxious, they were already fighting a losing battle, a lot of their comrades were already lost in the heat of the fight, but they had a priority: to save those hostages.
"Oh, shit." Percy knew it was over when he saw the canisters.
"What?"
"Tyler, they are carrying Napalm." They didn't stand a chance, the stuff burned at around three thousand degrees, and it was great for killing soldiers on foot. "It was an honor serving with you, let's take out as many as we can before we go down."
"It was an honor," All the men charged to their deaths, getting gunned down and burned alive, but taking down almost the enemy bunker with them. Nobody survived.
Ma'am, I'm sorry, your son was gunned down in Afghanistan. We could not recover the body." Steven couldn't believe it, Percy, his big brother, dead?
His (step) mother started crying.
The man looked at his mother with pity, he has probably seen this hundreds of times. "Here is his medal for his heroic and brave sacrifice. I will leave you to grieve."
As his dad went to go comfort her, Steven ran up to Percy's room and slammed the door. Then he started yelling and screaming into his pillow, until he fell asleep.
The next morning when Steven walked into the kitchen a stranger was standing there talking to his parents, he was about leave.
"Your son is still alive," he overheard the stranger say to his parents. That caught his interest, was it possible for Percy to be alive?
"He is in the Void, if you come with me, you will be able to see him." Steven started to study the man, he looked sincere enough. But, Steven could feel a strong aura coming from him like a god.
Mom looked excited and started going into a long discussion with his father. While they were conversing, the man turned his mind eyes to Steven. "Hello there, young Steven." That confirmed it this man was definitely a deity.
The man seemed amused as if he could read his thoughts. "Steven, there are higher powers than even gods, and if your parents accept, you will see your brother again.
Then his mother turned to the man, "Chaos, we accept."
Light blurred around him, he could make out the look of two people above him, they were speaking about something and he could vaguely make out a couple words like resurrected and void?
He didn't know what they meant and he didn't have the energy to ask, as his vision blurred and he fell down on his knees.
And that ends the story arc, sorry for the long wait, and I know that some of the stuff with the Navy SEALs wasn't protocol, but I didn't want to spend a couple hours researching something I'll only write 100 words on.
I know this isn't amazing, but hey I'm not some very professional writer of something, this is for fun.
This beta is also not about to research it. I'm being lazy and embracing the weekend to myself before torture comes again.
