Chapter 6 time.

First and foremost, I am sorry about the delay with the last chapter. FanFiction got all weird and glitch or something and although my account claimed the chapter was published, there was no way to actually get to the chapter to read it. I sent the support people an email and still nothing got fixed. Finally I deleted the chapter and reposted it to see if that would work and it did. Hopefully I don't have this problem again, but if I do, I am apologizing for it now. Sorry.

As I told you all, this chapter will not be in Percy's POV, at least not the whole time. The end might be in his POV, I still haven't decided yet and I probably won't edit this author's note after I finished the chapter, so it will be a surprise to all of us.

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or the related works.

Grover POV

I felt terrible. As soon as Percy had left Central Park, I went to camp in order to wait for him to get back. He had said he was going to do something dangerous and stupid but he had also promised he would go back to camp if he survived. I wondered what he was going to do on Olympus and wondered if it had anything to do with his change in emotions.

I knew that Annabeth was going to break up with Percy and I felt bad for him. Once it had happened, his depression and sadness affected me. I could feel it through our link. I had hoped that over time it would die down and he would move on. I really wanted to be there and provide support for him and help him through it, but I had my job to do as well. Finally though, after a few weeks had passed, his depression left. Unfortunately, it was replaced with burning fury and hatred.

When the fury and hatred hit, it was so powerful even I was becoming angry. I had no clue what I was angry with or mad at, but I could feel myself beginning to get mad at everyone that tried to talk to me. As I was in the middle of an argument with a nature spirit in Central Park, Percy found me and made me break the empathy link.

I didn't really want to lose the connection to him, but he insisted. From the look in his eyes, I knew I didn't really have a choice. I finally relented and broke the link. Before he left, I made him promise to find me at camp when he finished whatever it was he was going to do and explain things to me.

With the empathy link broken, his anger was no longer affecting me. I apologized to the nature spirit and got to camp as quickly as I could. I waited for Percy, but he didn't show up at all that night. I was worried for him and so was Chiron. Chiron made me tell him what Percy had wanted to talk to me about, and when I had told him, he got even more worried. He decided to contact Percy's mother in case she had had contact with Percy. When he called though, he got no answer.

Finding that strange, he sent Argus and me to Percy's moms apartment to check on her and make sure things were all right. When I got to the apartment, Argus came with me in case there was trouble. We went and knocked on the door but got no response. I tried the knob and found it unlocked. That is when I began to get worried.

Percy and his mother had lived in New York long enough to know not to leave their door unlocked. It just wasn't safe. Carefully, I walked into the apartment and looked around. Nothing appeared to be out of place, but I couldn't help but feel dread. I walked through the house with Argus watching out for trouble until we came to the kitchen.

When I first saw the pile of bodies, I thought they were all dead and I almost passed out. Argus, however, went over and checked for signs of life. He signaled that Percy was still alive but his parents were dead. Since Percy was on top, I figured he had found his mother and stepfather dead and passed out from the emotional pain. Even without the empathy link, I could still feel some of the pain that Percy must have felt. Percy's parents were great people and deserved great lives. They didn't deserve to be dead, especially at such a young age.

Argus signaled the phone on the table and I understood what he meant. We needed to call Chiron and let him know what had happened. After explaining the situation to him, he sounded devastated as well. He promised he would send help for us.

About 45 minutes later, Chiron showed up in a wheelchair with several police officers and medics. I could tell from the looks on their faces that Chiron was heavily manipulating the mist around them. After about 30 more minutes, I left with Chiron, Argus, and Percy.

When we got back to camp, we set Percy up in the bighouse so we could all keep an eye on him and help him when he woke up. By this time, it was almost 2:00 in the morning and I was exhausted. I fell asleep at the desk in Percy's room while watching over him.

For the next several days, almost everyone in camp came to visit him. He made no signs of waking and I worried about what would happen if he never woke up. I would be devastated and so would many of the campers. I also knew it could cause trouble for the gods. From what I had heard, Poseidon seemed convinced that someone had had Sally and Paul killed. He said their deaths were too strange to be a natural thing. He had no clue who had done it, but if Percy died as a result, there was no telling what he would do.

Finally, after nearly a week had passed, Percy woke up. I'm pretty sure the whole camp heard him wake up as well. The sounds he made were terrible. Me and several of his other friends went into his room to try and comfort him, but he didn't respond to anyone or anything. After about 15 minutes, he fell back asleep and once more he showed no signs of waking.

For the most part, I had been spending most of my time with Percy. Every now and then I would have to leave for a little while to take care of some work, but whenever I did, there would be someone else who could take my place and watch him. As time passed though, my work kept piling up and Chiron insisted on me taking care of it. He put strict limits on when people could visit Percy and so Percy spent most of the time alone in his room.

That turned out to be a mistake. A few days after he first woke up, I walked into his room to find him gone. At first I thought he had woken up and was walking around, maybe going to the bathroom or something, but then I saw the note on the desk. All the letters people had written him and flowers he had been given had been pushed to the side. None of the letters were opened. In the center of the desk in their place was a letter addressed to Chiron and the rest of the camp.

I picked up the letter and ran to Chiron to show it to him. As I was leaving Percy's room though, I ran into Annabeth. She had been visiting him every day. She knew that the breakup had hurt him, but she still cared for him as a friend and wanted him to get better and be happy.

She saw my face and said, "Grover, what are you doing? Why are you in such a hurry? What's wrong?"

I looked at her, "Its Percy. He's gone."

"What? What do you mean gone? He has been out for a week and a half, he can't just be gone."

"Yes he can be," I said. I held up the letter so she could see it and said, "He left us a letter. I haven't looked at it yet because it is addressed to Chiron and the rest of the camp, but I'm sure that it isn't good. I was on my way to Chiron so he could read the letter."

She grabbed my arm and started dragging me down the hall, "Hurry up then, Grover, Chiron is just down this way."

Chiron saw our panicked faces and was about to ask us what was wrong when I handed him the letter. "Percy is gone and he left this on the desk for us," I told him.

Chiron took the letter and opened it. As he read it to himself, I could see the worry and panic grow in his eyes. When he finished reading it, he just stared blankly at the paper for several more minutes and several tears fell down his cheeks.

Finally, I broke the silence, "What did the letter say? What did Percy tell us?"

After several more seconds had passed, Chiron spoke, "Nothing good. Here, you read it, " he said, handing me the letter.

I stood and looked at the paper with Annabeth reading over my shoulder.

Dear Chiron and Camp Halfblood,

For reasons I cannot talk about, I must leave camp. Things were said and done that cannot be undone or forgotten. Thank you all for everything you have done for me, especially caring for me after the murder of my parents. For your own safety, I am now leaving camp and will probably never return. I hope you all live long and happy lives and are able to find true peace and comfort.

Sincerely, Percy

I was shocked. For several minutes, no one moved or said anything. I tried to understand what he meant by what he said, but I just couldn't comprehend it. He was leaving for our safety? What was he protecting us from? Why couldn't he be more specific about what the problem was and who or what was after him? What did he mean his parents were murdered? I know Poseidon thought that, but Percy wasn't one to make baseless accusations like that. If he said they had been murdered, then he truly believed that they had been murdered.

I turned to Annabeth to see if she had made anything out of the letter. When I looked at her, she seemed just as stunned as all of us. I was about to ask her about what she made of this when a bright flashed in and Lord Dionysus appeared in the room.

He took a look at our faces and said, "Well, aren't we all joyful today. What wonderful events have brought about this feeling of giddiness that pervades this wonderful camp?"

The sarcasm or maybe just the appearance of the director seemed to wake Chiron from his little trance. He turned to face Lord Dionysus and said, "Well, the good news is that Percy woke up. The bad news is that he disappeared and left behind a rather troubling letter."

"Well wasn't that nice of him," Dionysus droned, "to think I used to hate the boy. I think I might have to change my opinion seeing as his disappearing gives me one less brat to look after. However, I think I should take his letter and show the gods. For some reason, several of the gods actually like the little brat."

With that, he grabbed the letter from me and flashed away. I turned to Chiron and asked the question that had been on my mind since I read the letter, "So, what are going to do about this? We can't just let Percy disappear. It isn't safe for a demigod, especially a powerful one, to be on their own in the world."

Chiron sighed, "That may be true Grover, but we no longer have any way of actually tracking him. You said you broke the empathy link with him, which means we can't find him with that. Iris-messaging only works if you know the persons location, so we can't do that either. The only way we could track him down is if we sent out a group of people to actually look for him. From what I heard about his quest for Athena, he is capable of moving very fast very quickly, which means that hunting him down could be quite difficult."

Annabeth interrupted Chiron there, "Wait, if we are talking about hunting him down, can't we ask the hunters and Artemis to help look for him? I know they don't like boys normally, but Thalia considers Percy a good friend and Artemis even respects him a little. For us, we could send out a quest to find him, get a prophecy and search for him."

"No child, we cannot send a quest out for this unless the gods request it. Quests only work in godly matters. Since Percy is a demigod, in order for this issue to become a godly matter, we would need a god to assign the quest. As for Artemis and her hunters, they may search for him, but they have other duties they must accomplish as well," Chiron said.

I then got an idea, "Wait, I could ask nature spirits to tell us if they see him at all. If any of them see him and tell us, we could use that information to track him down. I could also try a tracking song to locate him."

I could tell Annabeth liked my ideas, but Chiron still appeared a little wary of sending campers out. Finally he spoke, "Well, we shall see what we can do. For not though, we can't do anything until after the gods have read and reacted to Percy's letter. They will have the final say in what is going to happen."

I sighed and wanted to speak up, but I wasn't sure what to say. I was still stunned that Percy had just left and only left us a note that troubled us to explain why. Finally Annabeth spoke up, "What about the other campers? What do we tell them? They all care about Percy and want him to be safe and happy. It won't take long for them to realize Percy is gone, and unless we have a plan ready when they find out, some of them might leave to look for him regardless of what we say."

Chiron looked deep in thought, seeming to contemplate Annabeth's question. He finally responded, "I will tell the campers about his disappearance at the campfire tonight. Hopefully by then the gods will be done discussing the matter and we will have a better understanding of what we need to do."

I really wanted to get to work searching for Percy immediately, but I knew that Chiron and Annabeth were right. We needed to wait for the gods to come to a decision on the matter before we could act. The whole situation was making depressed, so I left the bighouse and went to go spend some time with Juniper.

Zeus POV

Ever since Percy's mother and stepfather had died, Poseidon had been harassing me nonstop about finding who was responsible for it and punishing them. Today was no exception. I sat in my throne and sighed as he yelled at me and threatened me. Finally, I couldn't take it any more.

"Brother! Shut up already. Two mortals died. You standing here making random accusations against your fellow Olympians is not going to solve anything. There is no evidence that they were murdered, least of all by a god, so shut up and leave me alone."

Poseidon was about to respond when my son flashed in. I looked at him and sighed, "Dionysus, what are you doing here? You are supposed to be at camp, watching our children and keeping them safe."

He groaned before speaking, "I hate that camp. Why must you provide me with such a terrible punishment?" He sighed before continuing, "Anyways, I came here to tell you that Percy woke up. Thought you might want to know."
Poseidon perked up, "My son woke up? How is he? Is he all right? Does he need anything?"

He continued rambling on for several minutes before Dionysus cut him off, "I have no clue if he is all right or not. From what I heard, he disappeared as soon as he woke up."

"WHAT? What do you mean he disappeared?" Poseidon exclaimed.

"Exactly what I said. I went into the bighouse and saw Chiron, Grover, and Annebelle all looking rather shocked and sad about something. They told me that Percy woke up, wrote a letter, and left. I figured you would be interested in this new information so I grabbed the letter and brought it here for you to read." He then held up the letter he ad in his hand.

Poseidon immediately took the letter from him and read it to himself. As he read the letter, I began to get worried, Poseidon's face was turning colors I didn't think possible and he appeared to be angrier than I had seen him in millennia. I wasn't sure what the letter said, but I was almost scared to find out.

When he finally finished, he stormed over to me and shoved the letter in my face. "Read it," he said.

I obliged and did so. As I read it, I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. I was not fond of the boy. Everyone knew that. I respected him for his actions, but his attitude and the way he treated the gods didn't sit too well with me. I knew how powerful he was, so when his letter said he was running from whatever was causing his problems, I was a little shocked. He wasn't the kind of person that would run away unless he had no other choice. I also knew what it was that Poseidon was upset about. Percy claimed his parents had been murdered. As much as I didn't want to believe it, Percy wasn't the kind of person to lie. He told the truth whether you liked it or not. That was part of what I didn't like about him. He spoke his mind with blatant disregard for the gods.

I sighed and then looked over at Poseidon, "Well brother, what do you want me to do about this? The letter is incredibly vague. Without more information to go on, there still isn't anything we can do."
Poseidon glared at me, "First, we need to find my son. I know that this is vague and only he has the answers to some of our questions. Since he is the Hero of Olympus, the least we could do for him is help him out here. I also want you to have some form of investigation into Sally's death. And that blowfish guy as well. If I had to guess, whatever killed them scared Percy away and made him believe that in order to keep his friends alive he had to leave camp. I want to know who or what is responsible for this so I can destroy them."

I groaned. Poseidon was not going to let this go and if I didn't do something a war could easily break out. I thought for a little bit on what I should do before answering, "Fine. We will search for him. If he enters my domain I will capture him and if he enters yours you will do the same. As for the search, I will mention this to Artemis and see if she can have her hunt be on the lookout for him as well. Once we find him, we can then deal with the problem of why he ran away. Happy?"

"No I am not happy. My son is missing and his family is dead. There is some powerful being after him making his life miserable. I am incredibly unhappy right now. Why don't we have some of the demigods at camp search for him as well? We could issue a quest and get a prophecy to help us," he suggested.

"No campers need to get involved. From what Athena told me about her quest for him, he became much more powerful and better at staying hidden. The campers would probably have no chance at all of finding him, so it would only jeopardize their lives if we sent them out. If you really want to find him, send messages to the naiads in the country to keep a lookout for him. I will have Dionysus work with the other nature spirits to find him as well."

When I mentioned the naiads, Poseidon got a huge smile on his face. I guessed he hadn't thought of them yet. He grinned at me and said, "That is actually a good idea brother. For once. Now, I need to get back to my kingdom and send word to the naiads." With that, he flashed off of Olympus.

I gave a sigh of relief once he left. He had been driving me crazy. If Percy didn't show up soon to calm his father down, I was going to personally kill the boy. After a few minutes of peace, I called for Hermes.

He flashed in and looked at me, "What can I do for you father?"

"I need you to find Artemis and her hunt. When you find them, tell Artemis that I need her and Thalia on Olympus to talk with them."

"If you don't mind me asking, what do you need to talk with them about?" He asked me.

I contemplated on how much I should tell him. After a few seconds I decided to just tell him the truth, "Percy woke up and disappeared. I need to talk to them about looking for him."

Hermes frowned; I knew he was fond of Jackson, so the knowledge that he was missing was a little saddening for him. He gave me a nod, "Yes father, I will deliver the message and have them report to you immediately." With that he flashed out and left me once more to sit in peace and quiet.

Thalia POV

It was early afternoon and we had just finished lunch when Hermes flashed into the middle of the camp. I figured he had a message for Artemis so I went back to preparing my gear and talking to the other hunters. A few seconds later though, Artemis and Hermes walked up to me and pulled me aside.

Once we were out of earshot of the hunters, I turned to my mistress with a questioning look. She in turn was looking at Hermes with a questioning look. Finally, he broke the silence, "Father wants both of you on Olympus immediately. He said it had something to do with Percy. Well, that's all. Bye now."

He then flashed out, leaving me with my mistress in the forest. We walked back to the hunters and Artemis told them that we would be gone for a little bit. Urgent business on Olympus. The hunters nodded and then went back to their business. She then placed her hand on my shoulder and teleported us to the throne room.

When I opened my eyes, I saw my father relaxing on his throne. He looked rather tired and I wondered what was going on. I bowed before him and Artemis spoke up, "Father, why have you summoned us? And what does it have to do with Percy? Hermes was rather vague with the details."

My father looked at us for a few seconds before speaking, "Sorry for my appearance, Poseidon has been harassing me nonstop since Jacksons family died. Anyways, it appears that the boy finally woke up, but instead of sticking around and staying at camp, he wrote a short letter and then disappeared."

I gasped, "What! Percy is missing? What happened? Why?"

My father cut me off, "Yes he is missing. No one knows what happened, his letter is rather vague. Anyways, the reason I called you here is because Poseidon is forcing me to do something about the missing boy. I told him I would have the hunt keep an eye out for him. I know you have other duties and stuff, so I won't force you to solely look for him, but I would appreciate if you kept an eye out for him. The sooner the boy is found, the sooner Poseidon will calm down."

I nodded and was about to respond, but Artemis spoke first, "Why us? Why not just let the campers search for the missing boy. The hunt has more important things to do than search for some boy who decided to run away."

Zeus then spoke up, "Yes, well, the problem is, Percy might not have run away by choice. As I said, he left a letter. It is rather vague as to what exactly is going on, but it is rather clear that he believes his presence at camp would be putting hi friends in danger. He left no indication as to what was threatening him, but we are assuming it is the same thing that he claimed murdered his family."

I was rather shocked by this, "Wait, can you just give me the letter to read? I was friends with him, I might be able to make more of the letter than some people."

My father then handed me the letter and I read it. My father was right; it was rather vague. I did however get an idea, "He said things were said and done that couldn't be taken back. It sounds to me like he got into a fight with some immortal or other and is now suffering their wrath."

"Yes yes, I know that," my father said. "The thing is, we have no idea who it is he angered and why he angered them, we all know he isn't the kind of person to anger gods and immortals for no reason. Once we find him, we intend to find out exactly what is going on and what happened. What worries me is that if it IS one of the gods that is responsible for this, Poseidon will probably start a war over it."

"Exactly," a voice said. I looked over and saw a young girl standing by the hearth, poking at the flames with a stick. Hestia then continued, "Knowing Percy, he probably understands that a war would break out and he doesn't want that to happen. He would feel guilty and responsible for the entire war and every death the war brought. Is it not possible that he ran away not just to protect his friends at camp but to prevent a war as well?"

I looked at Lady Hestia and thought about that. It did seem like the kind of thing Percy would do. Give up everything he has to prevent a war and save his friends. I looked over at Artemis and saw her thinking about everything that had been said. Finally, she spoke, "That does indeed sound like something Perseus would do. However, the idea that one of the gods that he saved multiple times would do this to him is also rather hard to believe. I will look for the man and get answers to my questions. If the answers don't satisfy me, I will turn him into a jackalope and hunt him."

I grinned at my mistress, she had called Percy a man again. I knew she had respect for him, but it still surprised me that she called him a man. No other male got that much respect from her. She then turned to Hestia and spoke, "You sound as if you know a little about Percy's motives. Do you by any chance happen to know what is going on with him and why he left? Do you have any idea's about where he went?"

Hestia smiled sadly at her, "I know a little bit about what happened. I do not know the full story, but I can make a pretty good guess about what happened. What I know is not for me to tell though; it is Percy's life and his story. If you wish to know what happened, you must find him and ask him yourself. As for where he went, I do not know. I helped him get over his family's death and asked him what he was going to do. He told me was going to leave camp to protect his friends. That is all he told me. My guess is that he will hide from the gods as best he can. That means he will avoid the ocean and the sky. He will probably avoid people as well."

Artemis nodded, "Okay then, we will search the wilderness. Maybe the nature spirits can help us."

"I doubt that. Many of the nature spirits and minor gods and goddesses are rather fond of Percy. If he asked them to keep his passing them a secret, they would most likely listen," Hestia informed us.

I sighed; this was going to be a rather difficult hunt. I was ready to head out and begin searching for my friend. My father though, still had some questions for Hestia, "You mean you know what is going on with Jackson but you won't tell us? Why not? Who is responsible and what do you think happened?"

"I am sorry brother, I cannot tell you. If I could, I would have. As I said though, it is Percy's tale to tell." Lady Hestia then smiled at me, "Thalia, you are a good friend of Percy's, hopefully if you can find him, he will open up and tell you what happened. He is my favorite hero in a long time and it pains me to see him hurt after everything he has done for us." Her gaze then went over to Artemis, "Niece, I know you do not like boys, but if you find Percy and he tells you his story, trust him. He is not one to lie." With that, Hestia disappeared in a swirl of flames.

My father turned to look at us, "Well, that was all I needed you for. You are dismissed."

I turned to Artemis and we walked out of the throne room. She then teleported us right back to the hunter camp. At the moment, we were camping in a forest in Maine. After Artemis explained our mission and what we were hunting, we packed up and moved out.

Annabeth POV

After Grover left and went into the forest, I left in search of Kyle. I knew that he would help me out. At first, he had been worried about how Percy would take the news that I was with him now, but after Percy had shown no ill will towards us, he relaxed and came to like Percy. At least he tried to, but Percy was rather depressed and avoided us when he could. When I explained the situation to Kyle, he was worried. He knew that I was still friends with Percy and that his disappearance was hurting me.

Instead of trying to change the subject or something, we spent the afternoon discussing where Percy might have gone and why he left. We didn't come up with anything, but it was nice being with Kyle and helped me calm down a little.

That night at campfire, Chiron told the camp about Percy. As I expected, many of the campers were upset by this and tried to get permission to go and look for him.

Chiron was growing tired with the yelling and arguing, so he banged his hoof on the stone ground and got our attention. "I have been informed that Lady Artemis and her hunt are looking for Percy. The other gods are monitoring their domains in case he should enter one of them. I am under strict orders to not allow any campers to search for him. The gods believe that it would serve no purpose except to possibly endanger your lives. If they believed you could help find him, then they would allow you to search. Now, that is all for tonight. Rest on the problem and if you get any idea's that might be helpful, you can share them with me tomorrow. Off to bed with you all, curfew has passed."
With that, he left. I was rather upset by this. I really wanted to help look for Percy, but I knew there was no going against the gods. I had to hope that the hunt would find him and get him to explain why he left. Kyle sensed my discomfort and gave me a hug. He then walked me to my cabin and kissed me goodnight. I smiled at him and went to sleep.

Okay, so that is all for this chapter.

Now, I'm not sure if you were expecting to have all the Olympians discuss Percy's disappearance, but I decided against it. Mainly because the Olympians only gather together on solstices and emergencies. I didn't think this classified as an Olympian emergency, so I only had Zeus present with a few others showing up sometimes.

As for reactions to his disappearance, I wasn't quite sure how to do it. I don't think I did a great job, but I also couldn't think of how to do it better. Later on I may rewrite this chapter to make it better.

The next chapter will have the hunt hunting for Percy as well as a little more from Percy's POV.

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