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Here is the chapter 4 as I promised. So please stop the pitchforks and torches and review, review and review.

Chapter-4

True to her word, Hestia also came to visit Percy from time to time. After a few visits, Percy started to think of Hestia as his second mother. During the next year, Percy completed his sword training as well as spear training, and was completely focused on his original powers as a demigod as well as those powers that he received from Apollo and Artemis. The Powers he received were more difficult to control than his powers over the sea. As a result, by the time Percy was 8 and ½ years old, he had almost total control over liquid water. He was able to bend it to shapes, breathe in it and create waves in it. But he had yet to try them at in the sea, as Apollo and Artemis always avoided any request for him to go the beach. Also, he was able to partially freeze the water and use it to smash monsters.

On the other hand, among the powers given by Apollo, he was developing into a very good healer and was also able to sing very well. He was also able to manipulate the sunrays, but they were very faint, as it was one of the hardest powers of Apollo. Artemis' powers were more instinctual and he was by now an accomplished hunter. He had also partially mastered the ability to speak with the wild animals. But he was still training in his abilities as a healer to perfect it.

Soon it was Percy's ninth birthday, and he convinced his patrons to take him to the beach for the first time in 3 years. They were to go there in the afternoon and Percy was very excited to check on his water powers in the sea. As the time came nearer, Percy began acting like a kid on a sugar high. Very shortly, they reached the beach, and Percy immediately raced to the sea. As soon as he reached the water, he felt as if he drank a tumbler full of Ambrosia. Percy started trying to make the waves bigger and higher, alarming the visitors. But he continued his play in the water, even managing to change the underwater ocean current near the beach subconsciously. But it not long before it was noticed in Atlantis.

Throne Room of Atlantis

Lord Poseidon was about to conclude his court for the day, when a dolphin messenger rushed into the room. He gave a report on abnormal sea activity near the New York coast. When Poseidon extended his senses towards the New York coastline, to his joy, he sensed his son Percy, who he had not been able to find for last 3 years. When he further extended his senses, he encountered two indistinct but powerful auras, and immediately assuming the worst, he disappeared from the throne room and flashed to the beach.

On the Beach

The twin gods, sensing that a powerful presence was approaching, immediately called Percy back from the sea. As Percy reached them, Poseidon also appeared before them, and seeing his son near the children of his brother, he became very apprehensive. But when he saw him talking with them freely like old friends, he was bewildered. He approached, and sensed the apprehension in his son and the nervousness in his nephew. As soon as he came near them, his son bowed, saying "Lord Poseidon" and he was even more baffled as to how his son recognized him.

Soon afterwards, his nephew and niece also bowed to him, and he asked Percy, "My son, how did you recognize me?" Percy answered nervously, "Apollo and Artemis had told me about all the gods. I recognized you from the stories Apollo told me." When he heard this, Poseidon seemed to connect the dots, and turning towards the children of his brother, he roared, "Explain why you had tell stories to my son?" Apollo was fidgeting nervously while even Artemis now looked apprehensive. Finally Artemis spoke up, "About 3 years ago, when I was hunting the forest, I sensed several monsters and saw that a woman carrying a child was being chased by some monsters. By the time I killed the monsters, the woman was grievously wounded. I called my brother to heal her, but he was unable to heal her completely. The woman seemed to recognize us and asked us to take care of his son, saying he was a son of Poseidon. Apollo convinced me to raise him ourselves as Ancient Laws did no forbid us the raise the demigod child of another god. Since the daughter of Zeus is right now trapped in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, we thought that he might be the hero of the Great Prophecy and have been training him for last 3 years. We have also made him our champion so that he remains loyal to Olympus." Poseidon instantly cooled down and said, "I thank you two for taking care of my son. But who else knows of his existence among the gods?" This time Apollo replied, "Only Aunt Hestia knows about him and she has also promised not tell anyone about him." Poseidon turned to Percy and said, "Son I am happy to hear that you are happy." He turned to the twins of Leto and said, since you mention you are training him to fulfill the prophecy, I wished to help him train his water powers. Is it possible to send him a tutor, a merman to be exact, so that he can be trained properly?"

Apollo and Artemis glanced between each other before looking at Percy, who nodded enthusiastically and replied in affirmative to Poseidon. So Poseidon faced Percy and said, "Son, I have a gift for you" and handed him a cheap ball-point pen. Percy was puzzled by this before he took of the cap and the pen suddenly grew into a meter long celestial bronze blade. Poseidon continued, "This blade is enchanted. It cannot be broken and will always return to you when lost. Use it well." Poseidon disappeared leaving behind a very faint sea breeze.

Artemis immediately hurried them to Apollo's mansion in fear of discovery by other gods. Once they reached there, Percy took out his new sword and admired it. He saw a new detail he had missed earlier, on the base of the blade, there was a Greek inscription, which read Anaklusmos, which Percy effortlessly translated due to years of lessons in Greek language, Riptide. During the course of his training, due to the severe difficulties Percy faced in reading other languages than Greek, Apollo got fed up and cured his Dyslexia, after which Percy discovered he had a gift for languages and had learned 7 different languages including Greek, Latin, English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.

The next day, at 4 'O' clock, a merman came to Apollo's mansion. Apollo went with Percy to check on the training ground and saw that it was near Atlantis. There Percy was taught how to control very large amount of water, how control ice and water vapor and how to travel by using water or water vapor present in the air. The training field was in a time compression zone, where I hour outside was equal to 1 day inside the training facility. Percy trained there for 4 hours outside time every day.

That week, when the day to visit the hunters came, Percy was excited to show Zoe, who was one of his closest friends among hunters and whom he looked upon as a sister, his new sword and new powers he was training in. That afternoon, when Artemis came, she saw that Percy was very excited to visit the hunters that day and when he asked him the reason for his excitement, he replied, "Today I am going to show Zoe and all the hunters my new sword and the new powers I am training in. That's why I am so excited." When he reached the camp, the hunters welcomed Percy, whom they viewed as a younger brother. Percy started telling them his adventures earlier in the week. When he showed them his new sword, Zoe was shocked, before he ran away into her tent in tears. Percy was surprised and followed her into her tent. There he saw that Zoe was hacking severely at a small practice dummy she kept in her tent, which was bigger in the inside than outside. He went near Percy, who calmed down after seeing it was Percy.

Percy approached her and asked, "What happened Zoe? Why did you run away when I was showing my new sword which my father gifted me? Tell me Zoe." Zoe had calmed down considerably and replied, I will tell you my story. I am not an ordinary demigod. I am a hesperide, the fifth hesperide, a daughter of the Titan Atlas. When Hercules came to take the golden apples, I helped him; I gifted him this sword which is infused my immortal power, the power of my mother, the sea goddess Pleione. He promised that he would take me away, but once he got the apples, he went away without sparing me a glance. When my family came to know of my treachery, they cast me out of the garden. My lady found me and took me in. I have been serving her since then. The sword just brought up bitter memories."

Percy was appalled and shocked by Hercules' actions. He was one of his favourite heroes, after the original Perseus and Odysseus. But after he heard the story of his actions towards Zoe, he felt an intense hatred for him. He told to Zoe, "If want you can take back the sword. I have my sword given to me by Apollo." He extended the pen towards Zoe, who immediately turned it back to Percy and said, "It's alright Percy. It will only bring back bad memories if take it back. But promise me that you would always treat the women honorably whenever possible and never break their heart." "I swear it on the River Styx" Percy replied. Zoe hugged him and immediately released him, before leading him out of the tent.

Within the next 6 months, Percy learned to use a sword on both hands, and even how to sue two swords at a time. It was not long before he had mastered it. During his training in Atlantis, he learned how to control water in all three states of matter. He also learned the skill of travelling by turning to mist and using the humidity of the atmosphere to travel, though it became useless in areas with less than 30% humidity. He was also able to manipulate the water vapour in air so that he could use them to move on air in low heights, so it seemed like he was flying.

Soon, it was last day of Percy's training, and he had to defeat his teacher only using his water powers. He saw that the stands around the arena were completely filled and even his father had come to watch. As soon as the conch sounded, the merman came towards Percy with his trident raised, but Percy turned to mist, and the water surrounding him on all sides made it easier to move. Though the merman was a creature of water, it could not mist travel as it was a skill of sons of Poseidon. Percy came of behind the merman, and solidifying the nearby water, which he turned into an extra strong sword ice, he advanced on his teacher. But the merman sensed him and turned before he could attack the merman, and suddenly felt his sword being pulled from his hand when he saw it was entangled in the net and out of his reach. The merman quickly advanced on him, and Percy in a moment of panic, just shouted mentally 'STOP!', and the merman froze mid attack.

Percy was surprised, before he heard his father's voice boom, "Bravo, bravo my son, bravo. You have displayed such a rare skill, that it is even rare among my own sons. You have the ability to control the fluids present inside the body of an organism. Only my eldest son triton has this ability. This is such a devastating ability that triton and I being gods, are forbidden from using it by the Fates themselves. But since you are a demigod, you have no such limitation. I will be happy to train you, if you wish." Seeing that Percy was nodding eagerly, Poseidon continued, "We will inform Apollo and Artemis later. Now let's visit Atlantis." Poseidon waved his hand, and the merman unfroze, before bowing to his lord and moving away.

Poseidon steered Percy towards Atlantis, while Percy was watching the underwater city in awe, with his mouth hanging open. The city was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It was lighted using torches of the greenish Greek fire, the pillars and walls were made up of shining abalone, he gardens of corals seemed to only add to the beauty of the city. Soon enough, they reached the royal palace and Poseidon led Percy inside, who was still taking in the beauty of the city. Soon they reached the throne room of the palace, where Percy two persons were already present. The first was a mermaid, who Percy noticed was extremely beautiful. She was sitting next to the throne on the left side. The second person was a merman, but he had two fish tails and was sitting on the right of the main throne. He also noticed that his father appeared a little nervous and apprehensive, and immediately made the connection. He first bowed to the Mermaid on left, saying, "Lady Amphitrite" and then to the merman on right, saying "Lord Triton." Both of them looked at him, at first curiously, and then, perhaps they noticed his resemblance to Poseidon, with a furious expression. Amphitrite turned to Poseidon and asked, "My lord, who is this demigod? Why have you brought him to Atlantis?"

Poseidon replied, "Amphitrite, he is my son, Perseus Jackson. I had brought him to show him the city, where he is going to live for the next month." At this, Triton exploded, "Why does he have stay in Atlantis? I believe if has survived for so many years in the land even after being your son born by an broken oath, he is good enough to reach he camp and live there." Poseidon looked as if he had been slapped, and his voice hardened, "He is here because I am taking over his training in his powers over water from Sophus. I believe Percy as has the ability to control body fluids, just like Triton and I and hence I wanted to teach him this power properly. Now if you have any objections, tell me."

Amphitrite and Triton were surprised by this declaration. They were jolted out of their surprise when they heard Percy's voice, "Lady Amphitrite, Lord Triton, I am sorry if you were offended by my presence. I will try to remain away from your presence during my stay here in Atlantis." Both the minor gods were surprised by Percy's humility. Amphitrite asked Percy, "How old are you demigod?" Percy answered that he was 8 years old. Amphitrite immediately felt bad about speaking crossly about such a young child for a wrong he had no part in. She said, "It's alright Perseus. You are free to move wherever you wish as long as you are Atlantis."

Both Poseidon and Triton looked positively surprised with Amphitrite's words, where as Percy face lit up with an innocent smile. Poseidon led him to the interiors of the palace and showed him his living quarters. He had a very large room with blue themed ceiling and walls. He had an attached bathroom and a study room. He noticed during his tour that the palace had a large library, and Percy just loved books, especially history. Percy was unable to sleep in anticipation for the next day. Earlier that day, he and Poseidon had contacted Apollo and Artemis through Iris Message and both of them consented after some convincing from both Percy and Poseidon. Finally, Percy drifted to sleep late at night, dreaming of heavy tomes and fighting classes in the arena.

I am sorry if it did not meet your expectations, but I had to write it in a hurry. Also, the words per chapter are slowly increasing every time, and I believe soon I will have to shorten the chapters. So guys, read, review, favorite and follow.