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By the way, I have quite a few people talking about Calypso. Wow, you're going to make this difficult for me aren't you. Okay, I've been looking for a way to get her in the story and thanks to a certain reader I now know how to stick her in there. However, from what I can gather, she is a demi-titan with caramel colored hair that is braided right? I'm going to guess normal height and everything. So please if I'm incorrect please correct me.

Chapter 9

I looked at the daughter of Ares and glared at her. What the Hades did I do? She stood there staring at her brother's back for a time until she finally turned. She had such anger in her eyes that were I not severely ticked off about getting hit I'd probably be scared.

I was about to end the awkward silence when she growled, "Everyone else, leave now." With a groan the campers walked away but Rachel and Chiron stayed by my side. I know they were trying to help but if she wanted to 'talk' well then we'd 'talk' without any witnesses.

"Go ahead; she can't do anything that hasn't already been done." I told Chiron and Rachel. Rachel had a worried look but smiled softly and walked off. Chiron however knew that I was a god and that Clarisse really stood no chance against me and that in her weakened state may just get killed. I looked at Chiron but just nodded to which he slowly walked the direction Rachel had left.

Without even looking at her I said calmly but firmly, "What do you want to say Clarisse?"

When I did look at her I had to duck. Another fist came at me from the left but this one I caught in my hand. She may be 'weakened' but the girl still was a child of Ares. They just had natural strength and so 'catching' said punch? Well, it hurt a lot more than I showed. She kicked me off of her and drew her spear 'Maimer' from her back and stabbed at me.

I dodged it and pulled at Riptide.

"PERCY! I said no fighting! It's making it harder for us to control your godly instinct" Said an annoyed voice. "Leave me alone Lady Hestia, I'll end it quickly." I said before trying to 'cloud' my mind again. She pushed through before I could though. "Poseidon says to use Riptide's new power. Please hurry."

I then pushed Hestia out of my head and used the water inside Riptide. When my gut clenched I drew upon its strength. It was unlike anything I'd ever felt. Immediately I felt the power of the ocean all around me, before Clarisse could take a step I had raised the blade to her throat.

"Put it down Clarisse, now." I said as she tried to bring Maimer up to challenge me. She tried again and this time I felt the tip of the electric spear come at me. I could hear the hum of it flow through metal as it whizzed by my ear.

I grabbed the shaft of her spear and pulled it from her hands and released it into the air where it landed twenty feet away. Again, I raised Riptide to her throat again. This time pressing it into her neck just enough to break the skin. I then added, "It's over. I don't want to fight, just tell me what I've done wrong Clarisse."

She looked at me with a look I'd never seen before at least from her. She looked completely broken and utterly exposed. She pushed Riptide aside but sat down. She wouldn't look at me as I sat next to her keeping riptide in sword form on my left as she was on my right.

"I see you've changed Riptide, Prissy." She said with a forced smile.

"It was a birthday present from my dad," I told her which technically was true because my mortal birthday was today.

She laughed, "My dad told me I needed to act my age and stop moping for mine."

I looked at the girl in front of me and relaxed slightly. We were sitting in the strawberry field and she was looking anywhere but at me. I had something I needed to know however, so I placed my hand on her shoulder. As she winced at my touch but I still asked her, "Why are you still mourning Clarisse? I know Chris was a great guy, but there are other guys who think you're amazing."

She chuckled darkly, "There are only a few people that actually respect me as a person, and not Clarisse the warrior, Percy. You were one of them. Annabeth, Selina, and Chris were some of the few I called friends and not fellow soldiers."

She turned her face completely away from me. Now her mouse brown hair was facing me and I couldn't help but notice that it was longer than when she was dating Chris.

"Where were you Percy?" It was a question but it came out more like an order.

"I've been busy Clarisse, I wish I could tell you but I can't. I've been sworn to keep where I've been safe. But I'll enlighten you if you tell me why you hit me?" I had a smile on my face as her voice sounded like she grinned.

"I always liked hitting you Jackson." Enough said apparently.

"But why are you mad at me?" I wanted to get upset but I knew it wouldn't help the situation.

She then turned to me this time and a death glare was on her face.

"Because of you 'disappearing' Nico had to go in your spot as a child of Hades. Chris sacrificed his life for Nico and Jason. If you had been here you might have been the child that Hera took the memories from instead of Nico; Chris would still be here. You're a better warrior than he is and you wouldn't have needed Chris' aid. He would be at my side today."

She wasn't crying, but she was gasping for air as if her lungs were about to give. I wanted to hug her but Clarisse wasn't that kind of person. I put a hand on her shoulder to get her attention.

"Clarisse, I really am sorry about Chris but if I'd gone it wouldn't have changed anything. His fate was to die that day and there was nothing anyone could've done to change that."

Her glare turned to one of pain. I knew I was hurting her by talking about Chris but she looked fragile and I needed to have the Clarisse I remember back.

"So where have you been, you said if I talked you'd fill me in on what you could." She tried to smile.

I had a small debate in my head with a tiny Percy devil and angel on my shoulders. I've wanted to tell someone for so long. So obviously the devil won.

"I've been on Olympus training Clarisse." To say she was shocked? Yeah, as if.

"You've….bbe been… where?" she said in her shocked expression.

"You need to know the truth." So I filled Clarisse on everything. From the Kronos fight, to the gods' gift, to Annabeth disappearance, to this morning with Artemis giving me Luna.

Clarisse just laughed, "You're a god now? The god of Heroes?" and she laughed again. It stopped when I joined her, to which she punched me in the mouth again. She watched as nothing came from my mouth.

"Why didn't you protect Chris!" She said hitting me over and over again.

I caught her arms because even though I was invulnerable I didn't want her hurting herself.

"I can't protect or help anyone at the moment Clarisse, I'm just in training. The only reason I'm here is that Hestia, Dionysus, and my dad are protecting my godly presence from you. It takes years of training to be able to do what a god or goddess does. Well for a mortal turned god. If you're born a god it's easy."

She looked like she wanted to hit me again. "So you're really a god?"

I nodded but said nothing, "And you're visiting me?"

I laughed and said, "Well camp, but right now yes you. I also have an idea of how to help you through this funk Clarisse. I am willing to come down from Olympus once a week and help you in any way. May it be working out, training, hanging out, whatever you want?"

She looked at me with confusion, "Why would you do this Jackson? I've been nothing but mean to you."

I smiled, "Remember when we your dad's chariot back from your brothers?" She nodded, "Well, you're still my friend Clarisse and I don't like to see you this way."

She tried to smile again but failed, "What if Hestia won't let you?" A relatively good question.

"Well, I get Saturdays off if I train hard and I'd be willing to spend that with you to help you get back to where you were."

She truly smiled this time. "Why are you doing this, 'god of heroes'" she said while laughing. I punched her lightly, "Hey don't tell anyone okay? People aren't supposed to know." She laughed but stood up and held out her hand to help me up. I took it with a shrug. The conch shell blew signaling lunch was ready.

She smiled as we brushed off our butts from sitting in the dirt. "Whatever Jackson, now does that mean I'm the first 'hero' of Percy Jackson's heroes?"

I grinned, "I guess it does." With that she walked off toward her cabin and campers who were looking at her funny, but she looked over her shoulder and smiled.

My first Hero…not a bad start. I said as I walked toward the dinning pavilion.

Okay, so yeah there was chapter 9. Even some Clarisse moments. Let me know if I was out of character. Clarisse might become OCC but I'll try not to. Also, she's the first mortal to know Percy's secret! Are you all appalled? Laughing? What? Let me know and review!

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