Chapter 9

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Percy POV

This was absolutely not good, at all. During the battle with Atlas and Hyperion they were stronger than I assumed they will be but it didn`t feel right, it was like something, someone was helping them and because of that they managed to land a few blows to my ribs, not good.

They were faster, stronger and their wounds will close a second after being inflicted. It took me half an hour of fighting the both of them and testing different approaches to finally wrap my mind about this. OF COURSE! How could I be so stupid! I thought I mean come on! You are fighting your lovely little sister (note the sarcasm) Primordial Goddess of EARTH! It was kind of obvious that they had her blessing, as long as they were touching solid ground, they will be stronger, faster and nearly impossible to kill!

When I realized this, a plan worked its way to my mind. It was crazy and it will take a toll on my strength but I couldn`t let them reach the camp and the others. I took a deep breath and began to circle them as fast as I could with my swords spreading to my sides.

I noticed that this confused them as they were looking and turning around, trying and failing to pinpoint my position. I began to use fire and wind to aid to my speed until it was impossible to see me, if you looked you will only be able to see a shadow, fire and wind.

I continue to spin until a sort of tornado was created, lifting both Titans from the ground and severing their connection to Gaea. I trapped Atlas in the fire tornado and Hyperion into the wind one.

I ran to a tree and jumped with both of my swords in a stabbing position and used them to rip Hyperion`s heart from his chest. He dissolved into a mini explosion of golden dust.

I turned slowly to se Atlas cowering under my gaze, still trapped in my fire tornado, slowly being burned.

"Who-Who are Yo-you?" he asked in a pained voice.

I gave him my deluxe evil smile; add my red eyes and my expression and the result is a very much frightened Titan peeing his pants.

I laughed "Who am I? Who am I? Well isn`t that an interesting question?" I said letting loose another crazed laugh "If you want to know I will answer you then. I am the one called Peacekeeper and all those who seek to break that peace in the world knows me as Justice, Swift Blades and Black Death. I will not kill you now, as you will be needed to hold the sky once more and you may have some information that I can use but, hear me and hear me very well, as I hate to repeat myself; if you give me useless information or you try to trick me I will kill you in a way that you will beg to fade. Am I understood?" I said in my most menacing voice.

To say that he was frightened now will be an understatement. He nodded slowly, too terrified to talk. I crossed the tornado, grabbed his shoulder and teleported him under the sky again but this time I made a pond under him, to break my sisters blessing and redo his bonds with chains made by Hephaestus himself.

"I will leave you here for a little while and I will come back later to interrogate you about my sister's whereabouts and you better give me the information I want or else… well let`s just say that the sky will weight a lot more than what it does right now" I said, looking at him in the eyes.

"Y-Yes My Lord" he answered.

I nodded and teleported back to the battle field. Once there I began to feel my strength diminish and black dots appeared in my vision. I stumbled my way towards the presence of the Olympians. I approached and removed my hood, letting them see that it was me.

The next thing I was aware of were a pair of arms encircling my neck and someone with a silver aura embracing me Artemis.

"I was so worried, where were you?!" She asked as she broke our hug and looking at me. I assumed that I looked a mess and the relief in her eyes was immediately replaced with concern.

"We need to talk, all of us. But first we need to take all the hunters, campers, and nature spirits all of them to Olympus for they are no longer safe in the here" I said looking at Zeus, daring him to contradict me but the King of the Gods only nodded and after sending Artemis and me a suspicious glare and he and the others flashed to the big house to tell everyone else the news.

Artemis and I stayed behind for some more time. She turned towards me and kissed me for a few moments. After we broke apart she asked me.

"Percy, what`s wrong? What happened during the battle?"

I felt my smile vanishing, my face and gaze hardened as I answered her.

"Gaea is awakening and she is helping the Titans and Giants to gain strength"

Still Percy POV

When we arrived to Olympus Throne Room it was a mess. The Olympians where screaming at each other with the exception oh Hestia, Hades and Athena. The campers, huntresses and nature spirits plus the satyrs were just standing in the center, looking at the gods with one thought reflected on their faces "Are you serious?"

I sighed at the Gods and Goddesses in front of me, where all the times that I had told them to act as a family for nothing? Then I felt anger and irritation. I was tired and certainly did NOT have time for silly pride right now.

"SILENCE" I roared, getting the attention of everyone in the room.

Immediately everyone stopped talking and turned their heads towards Artemis and me. I glared at them and watched as everyone flinched.

"We do not have time for silly arguments right now! I want every hunter, camper, nature spirit and satyr to go to the infirmary and treat their wounds. As for Chiron, you can stay. I want every God and Goddess, minor or Olympian in here NOW!" I ordered.

Everyone followed my orders as if their lives depended on them and they were. What you certainly Don`t what to do is to meet me when I am angry, I will be no good for you. In a matter of five minutes all the Demigods, Nature Spirits and Satyrs where out of the room and all the Gods and Goddesses where in the room looking expectantly at me.

"Okay, I summoned all of you here because we have a big problem: Gaea is awakening faster than we anticipated and she has blessed some Titans" I informed them.

As expected, disbelieving faces were shown in the crowd. Athena was the first one who recovered from the shock and asked.

"Is that why it took you long to kill them?"

I nodded and began to explain "Atlas and Hyperion were blessed by my sister, as long as they had solid ground under their feet, their speed, strength and healing ability is increased to the point where they were almost impossible to kill. I managed to kill Hyperion and defeat Atlas though"

"Defeat Atlas? Why didn`t you kill him? It would be one enemy less to worry about?" Asked Zeus.

I almost face palmed, almost. But my expression apparently showed what I was thinking as Zeus suddenly looked at the floor.

"Because we need him to hold the Sky! And he may have information that we can use against them, it should be pretty easy to get him to talk" I answered.

"Pretty easy to get him to talk? Are you nuts? He is a Titan, we would never co-operate with us, much less help us defeat his brethren and mother" a minor healing god said.

I laughed, surprising everyone in the room "Let`s just say that I can be really scary when I want to be" I said "But before we go to interrogate him we need to solve another matter: The Prophecy"

"Yes we still don't have the last two verses but didn`t you said that we would only know when the time is right?" Asked Hades.

"Yes I remember what I said Hades, but the time has come and we must be ready to face anything and everything that may come to us" I said "Apollo what verses do we have to solve?

Apollo cleared his throat and said "The two faces of the coin must unite to stand a chance against the Old Ones and Old grudges and prejudice shall die to save ourselves"

I nodded "Very well, anyone has any ideas?" I asked. Don't get me wrong, I already knew the answers but I had been forbidden to tell unless absolutely necessary.

About five minutes passed in silence and just when I was beginning to wonder if I would have to tell them Athena sharply lifted her head and looked at me. Her face was a mask of disbelief.

"You can`t possibly mean that…?" she started but was unable to finish, too shocked to talk.

Now everyone was looking at her and Poseidon flashed to her side, trying somehow to make her talk to him but getting the same result.

I decided to talk to her in her thoughts as she couldn`t talk. "What did you discovered?" I asked her.

She locked eyes with me "We have to unite Greeks and Romans, Don't we?" She asked.

I nodded "Yes, we have too if this is going to end in our favor" I said.

Her eyes widened, shock, anger and finally realization dawned upon her "If we don`t do this we are all going to die, aren't we?" I nodded "But Greeks and Romans won't be able to coexist, they never were!" She exclaimed.

"I will take care of that, I promise" I said, smiling reassuringly at her.

She nodded. "Now, tell the others please. I can tell they are quite curious to know what we are talking about" I said smirking.

She looked around to see that all the Gods and Goddesses were looking at her with curiosity and questions written in their eyes. She noticed that Poseidon was still by her side. She smiled at him and then turned to her father.

"Father I believe I know what the verses say" she said.

Zeus, that was expecting this already, only nodded for her to continue speaking.

I saw her hesitate slightly and then she said "The two faces of the coin must unite to stand a chance against the Old Ones and Old grudges and prejudice shall die to save ourselves. The last part says that we shall not judge not fight with each other over meaningless things, that we will need to be together to survive this"

Noticing her hesitation, Zeus again prompted her to speak.

She took a deep breath "The first part says that we will need to unite Greek and Roman Demigods if we want to win and survive this" she said.

And all hell broke loose, everywhere all Gods and Goddesses started screaming in protest; saying that it was impossible or that they will end up killing each other till none stands.

I was still irritable and tired so I snapped at them "SILENCE!"

The shouting stopped and they turned to look at me again. I must have looked scary since most of them adverted their gazes while the others flinched and looked at the floor.

"It can and must be done if we wish to win, hell if we want to survive! Today we were lucky there were no causalities! We can`t afford to lose many Demigods or we are all going to lose. We must unite the camps" I said.

"With all due respect Perseus, how are we supposed to do this? They don`t know of the others existence but we all know they HATE each other" Hades said.

I opened my mouth to respond when I was interrupted by Hestia.

"Isn`t it obvious? We need someone to gain both camps trust before we can put them together" she said.

I smiled at Hestia and then said "Exactly. Since today in the fight and over the week I have gained the Greek campers´ trust I volunteer to go to the Roman camp and do the same we did here. It shouldn`t be too difficult once they understand what is at stake here and I have a backup plan is this doesn`t work" I finished with my evil smile.

"What is your backup plan?" asked Artemis.

My smile grew "Let`s just say that my Mother and I will take care of it" I said.

All the present people understood and nodded. I turned to Chiron and said.

"Chiron, you need to prepare the Greek campers for the Romans arrival. That they don`t kill each other at first sight will be enough"

He nodded and then went to find the campers.

"Please, all of you must claim all the children you have and bring them safely to their respective camp or here, whichever you choose but you have to do it. Remember, the ancient laws forbid you to directly interfere with your children but no with each other's children, help each other and everything will go well" I said.

All the minor Gods and Goddesses flashed out of the room, leaving me with the Olympians.

Zeus cleared his throat to gain everyone`s attention and then said "Artemis, Perseus? Do you have anything more to add to this meeting before we go to interrogate Atlas?"

Artemis locked eyes with me, she looked terrified of what her father may say so I spoke to her in her mind "Don't worry Arty, he can`t do anything against us. You have nothing to be afraid of besides, didn`t Aphrodite and Athena knew already?" I said smiling.

A small smile appeared in her face as my words sunk and she walked from her throne towards me. I took her hand and saw many Gods and Goddesses with their jaws on the floor.

I laughed "Actually yes, Artemis and I are dating" I said.

I was expecting a very angry Zeus and a overprotective Apollo to do something but none of that happened, instead Zeus and Apollo looked at each other and Zeus handed Apollo a bag full of Drachmas.

Apollo snatched the bag from his father`s hand and yelled "HA! I knew it! I knew it! I told you that she loved him!" he said to his father.

"Yes, yes you did. You win this one Apollo" Zeus said, trying to sound annoying but failing when he looked at Artemis´ face.

"You knew?" she asked "And you made a bet over us?"

Zeus and Apollo, along with the rest of the Olympians laughed "Of course we knew!" they chorused.

"And you are okay with this?" She asked her father.

"Yes, I know that Perseus here will never break your heart and I give you permission to break your oath if you so desire. I approve of him" He finished.

I gave him a nod of thanks and Artemis let loose a sigh of relief. She then turned to me and hugged the living daylights out of me.

"Ow! Artemis, I am happy too but I have just fought two Titans blessed by my Sister and you are breaking my already maimed ribs" I said.

She immediately let go of me and asked "Are you okay?"

I laughed "Yes, as long as you don`t hug me with too much strength for maybe two hours and I`ll be good as new" I said.

She looked relieved but she then slapped me across the face.

"OW! What has that for!?" I asked.

She glared at me "You said that you will come back unscratched" She said.

I just laughed "It`s nothing serious, really"

"Fine, now let`s go to Atlas" She said.

Artemis POV

After we "revealed" to everyone that Percy and I were together we flashed to Mount Tam to interrogate Atlas, who Percy had left under the Sky again. In the way here Percy, although all of us could see that he wanted nothing more than sleep, explained what happened during the fight and changed his eyes to the menacing red to remind Atlas of who he was.

When we reached the spot were Atlas was holding the sky we noticed that he was standing over a pond. Poseidon questioned Percy about this but he shook it off saying that it breaks Gaea´s blessing.

Atlas spotted Percy and immediately tried to break free from his bonds and make for an escape Wow I wonder what Percy did to get a Titan to act like that I thought.

"I told you I will come back for information, I want to know if you had made your choice" Percy said in a tone that made us all shiver and back away from him a little.

Atlas looked at him in the eyes but said nothing. Percy sighed.

"I am going to get the information with or without your co-operation Atlas; I am only offering this because I am compassionate" He said. Voice a little more gentle.

Atlas stared at him still saying nothing and Percy stared back. This went on for like three minutes before Percy lost it. He was still irritable after all.

"You want to do this the hard way? Fine then, I don`t have time for this nonsense" he then turned to us "Step back" he said.

Without hesitation all of us gave his space. He looked over her shoulder one time to see how far we have gone and then nodded his head. He reached towards Atlas and touched his forehead with the palm of his hand.

Suddenly a bright green light forced us to advert our gaze. It was so strong that we actually had to close our eyes so as to not become blind. The light dissipated after five minutes and when I opened my eyes I saw Percy standing a few feet away from Atlas, shaking from exhaustion from using his powers so much in so a short amount of time, I ran to his side and caught him before he hits the floor.

"Percy? Percy? Are you Okay? Percy?" I asked, shaking his shoulders.

He blinked a couple of times before he caught my arm, motioning for me to stop shaking him. I stopped and then helped him stand.

"I managed to get him to talk and stole all the information about Gaea and the Alliance from his mind. They are planning to attack but not here, they want to attack your roots: The Original Mount Olympus" he said.

Shock was the main emotion that I felt but also dread, if they managed to get there and destroy Mount Olympus… Well to put it simple, we will all fade as without roots there it`s no tree.

Uncle Poseidon was the first one to recover from the shock.

"When?" He asked.

"Three months, in three months time their main army will attack on Greece. But do not despair Olympians, for we still stand a chance" He said with a smile at the end.

When Percy noticed our confused expressions his smile grew and he said "We have three months so we can get the camps to unite, we can send trained teams to assassinate some of the titans so as to minimize the powerful enemies in the final battles, we have time to train all the new claimed children and our biggest advantage: They still don`t know that I am here" he finished.

At that relief coursed through me, we still had time to prepare; a surprise and we still stood a chance.

"Now if you will excuse me, I am a Zombie now and this Zombie wants his bed please" He said adding the puppy dogs eyes like his mother.

We all laughed and teleported back to Olympus. Just when we were about to go out to relax a few days Percy called us back.

"Don`t even think about that! Tomorrow the training still stands and I will have Chiron bring everyone to watch so all of you get to bed right now too" he said.

We all send him glares that he ignored and then he flashed out, presumably to his palace.

"Well you heard the Spoilsport, off to bed" My dad said.

And all of us teleported to get a much-needed rest.

AN: AAAnd cut! Okay guys this is today`s chapter, I hope that you liked it and I will work on the cover art so maybe I can have it finished soon.

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