Well as the poll goes on, I decided to give you a chapter. As of right now me getting a beta is up there with continuing as is. FGCU just lost to Florida so I'm pretty sad, but oh well. Though I know this chapter is gonna be a pain in the ass to write because of last chapter, I'll try to make it at least decent. Poll ends April 1st.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own PJO, Rick Riordan does


Chapter 8

Our attacker was standing there with a red face and glazed over eyes, and he seemed to have an overall air of craziness around him. "What the hades dad?" I yelled, dazed from the attack. My father didn't even bother to answer instead he made a high pitched screaming sound and charged at me. I looked to my left to see if Artemis had any idea as to what was going on, only to find that she had been knocked unconscious.

I took a quick survey of my surroundings to see that no one else was on half-blood hill with us. Well, at least I won't have to bust my ass trying to keep them safe as well. I noticed that my dad had started charging towards Artemis, so I chucked a rock at him.

Fortunately, it took his attention away from Artemis. Unfortunately, it nailed him in the forehead, resulting with me have to deal with a pissed off and most likely possessed Poseidon. "Dad, why are you attacking me?" I yelled trying to get some answers, and maybe snap him out of it. All I got in response was him thrusting his trident (which I hadn't even noticed he had out) towards my abdomen leaving me with three small, but deep scars, which ichor then gushed out of.

I took out my sword (that I had yet to name) and was about to engage my father again, before I decided to change it to its original form of a scythe, not only did having it in the form of a scythe give me better reach, but having my weapon, which I had now name Mortifer (bringer of death), in its original form gave me an immense power boost.

"SNAP OUT OF IT DAD" I yelled as he charged once again, this time thrusting towards my right shoulder, which I dodged and countered by rolling to the left and slashing at his knees. As he was falling towards the ground, he used his trident to throw himself into the air, and he came down on top of me, and brought me into a headlock and started to suffocate me.

I struggled against him, but the more I struggled, the tighter his grip seemed to get, and eventually I couldn't breathe at all. I tried to flash behind him, but I couldn't concentrate enough to use my powers. I started to feel my form start to flicker. No, I had to get out of this I thought, but I wasn't able to. Just as I thought I was about to fade, all the pressure around my neck disappeared, and I could feel my father slowly slide off of me.

I turned to see what had happened, and standing there relief evident on her now smirking face was my beautiful soon-to-be wife Artemis, with my father wrapped in Celestial Bronze chains and a hunting knife in his back on the ground in front of her.

"Well, as always, I have to save you yet again" Artemis said, smirking. "Whatever, do you know why my father attacked us?" I asked her. The smirk instantly vanished from her face, "I'm not sure, I was hoping you would have an answer" She replied. "The only time I've seen my dad that angry was when Demeter sent a messenger to him about eating more cereal when we were watching the Little Mermaid, and even then he only sent the guy back to Demeter with a box of Cheerios up his ass " I said, almost laughing before remembering what had just happened.

"As much as I hate to say this, we should bring him back to the council" she said, clearly disappointed that we had to go back to them. "Fine" I said while pouting. "But can't we wait a bit?" "No, we need to get Poseidon to the council, now" Artemis said. And with that, I grabbed my dad and we flashed into the throne room.

The council meeting was still in session apparently because everyone was still there and was arguing. Athena was the first to notice us and gasped when she saw my father in chains. Everyone turned to see what made Athena gasp and they all had similar reactions.

"What is the meaning of this?" Zeus thundered, though he looked quite pleased to see his brother in chains in front of him. "Father, Percy and I were attacked by Poseidon while at Camp Half-Blood, and have reason to believe that he was not in control of his actions at the time. He is currently unconscious, and we brought him here seeing as he might still be possessed." Artemis said in a business-like no bullshit tone.

"I think we should send him to Tartarus for his actions" Zeus said quickly and nervously. Surprisingly Athena was the first to object to that plan "No, father, that would not be smart, seeing as the oceans could easily be taken over with him out of commission. I propose we bring Hecate in so we can find out what happened and take further action depending on what we are able to find out."

"Fine, meeting dismissed" Zeus sighed dejectedly, while Athena, who was then appointed in charge of finding out what happened, haughtily dragged my dad out of the room. "Well that went better than expected" I said, and got elbowed in the stomach by Artemis almost immediately after the words left my mouth. "Ow, what was that for?" I pouted.

"For jinxing it seaweed brain, now come on, the girls are probably waiting for us." Artemis replied smirking cheekily. We then flashed back to our camp. Well, we tried anyways. We ended up about a mile away from our camp. I turned to Artemis to ask what happened when I noticed a terrified look on her face, and I turned to see what she was looking at.

There, in the sky, right above where our camp would be there were massive amounts of smoke. Without second wasted, Artemis and I sprinted towards our camp.


Well this is the shortest chapter yet. I hoped you all enjoyed it. The poll will be ending on April 1st, so make sure you vote. I will post an author's note with the results of it around noon before my track meet. Tell me how you think I did. See ya