Olympus
Grady's POV
After Aurora and I were claimed things were, still the same, but with all the attention on the two of us, and felt like for me especially. It actually makes more sense now seeing as how I've been caught by vines multiple times while falling out of the sky. Afterwards I got up and walked over and sat next to my newly discovered mother while aurora's eyes are basically shining as she was overjoyed with her parentage, I looked over to see Percy dealing with the small dragon trying to stuff food in his mouth as well as dealing with a harpy trying to pull a sea cow out of the water surrounding the palace, I came up with the conclusion from all that happened so far that Percy is in for the time of his life, and the party is now a bit more calm. I could see Athena clearly a little agitated as she just got done with the little report of my group. (just for comedy)
My attention turned towards one particular demigod turned god, Hercules, as he was just hanging around and kind of looking a bit. Hopefully he doesn't try anything.
"So how you feeling Grady?" Demeter asked, catching me off guard.
"Hm? Oh, yes I'm doing well having a good time."
"Well that's good. How's your time at half-blood been?"
"It's been eventful. But people mostly left me be which I'm fine with. So what did attract your to dad? As far as I could remember he was never a person who had a green thumb to me."
"Well he was a person who loved both the forest and things that were quite beautiful such as rainbows and other forms of nature, I just got to him first."
"So was Iris jealous of me then?"
"No not at all, not that I could tell at least but she seemed very fine with it."
"Okay good to know that, last question, why am I so different to the rest of your children? Why do I stick out like a sore thumb to the rest of them?" I ask her wishing that she would truly give me an answer.
"If I were to believe it, it might be for the reason that you sought to make sure that nothing keeps you from being you, no labels to bind you down, which is why I hesitated to claim you until now, but I don't know how Iris feels about her choice though. Which may be why Iris was fine with you first as that allowed for Aurora to have a goal, to be as strong as you are. Now I have a question about Aurora."
"Ask away"
"Does she have any interest in anybody?"
"Yea, Jackson of all people, I hope she'll get to be with him but I won't intervene, though she does have competition with the other girls it seems."
"Yes it will be truly difficult, but with her personality I believe she'll succeed in her attempts."
"Yea well I hope so. It been fun chatting with you but I think Percy might need help with the harpy." I said getting up, shaking my mom's hand then heading over to Percy.
I head over to Percy and over him some help which he gradually wanted as he was dealing with the little dragon pushing food towards his mouth again, I took Bessie's front fins and tried to pull it away from the young harpy which proved harder than originally intended, but after a while with Percy pulling harpy I learned who's name was Kai away but she would not give up the sea creature as if her life intended on it, but she finally let go but after seeing Aurora's bright eyes then went to inspect them like a moth to a flame. I decided that now was a perfect time to talk to Percy about Aurora and his harem, and he seemed to be a bit less cluttered
"Huh? Oh, yea, it's Grady right? How's that silver to the side doing?"
"Oh it healed up after the other pierces got pulled out, but what I wanted to ask was about my sister Aurora"
"Yea what about her?"
"She wants to be with you, if you couldn't tell she has really strong feelings and really wants to be with you, even if has to be with other girls. You can take your time with the answer but when you figure it out go up to her and ask her yourself about it, and trust me she can definitely hold her own, even if she isn't a kid of an Olympian."
And with that I left Percy to go and just walk around a bit, but I stopped for a moment as I began to discover something, the little dragon around him was obvious his daughter but her mother was the one girl of Percy's harem that seemed the craziest, Khel, was also a dragon. But what struck me was when her wings were out they seemed to be a certain shade of red, well the scales of them at least, they were the same shade of red as Aurora's dagger. This does confirm of what happened to the dragon attack, I may bring this up with Percy later.
Pulling myself away from this new discovery I was pulled to the side by Apollo, who seemed really intent on wanting a little conversation.
"May I help you?" I asked very confused
"Yes you can, how is my daughter and your relationship going?"
"It's going fine. Is this what you wanted to talk about?" I asked very confused
"Well not entirely, I wanted to tell you that there was a little bet between you and Percy."
"Oh, okay, well then why has this happened?"
"I truly don't know but it happened so be ready for something to happen sometime in the near future. I'm not making any bets nor are some of the other gods, the smarter ones at least, Poseidon does think highly of his son winning but decided not to for his own reasons. I'm going to tell Percy the same thing. Also tell your sister that I said hi and to keep her skills sharp, alright bye."
I waved him bye and just sat down at one end of the big table contemplating what Apollo just told me, in which case I'm not to happy with. But it is the way it is. I look down the other end to see Artemis sitting there with her and Percy's daughter she looked over and gave a confused and disgusted (it's her I wouldn't expect much different) look while the little girl waved furiously at me in which I just gave a slow wave in response, Percy's life is not getting any easier with these events happening nor do I think mine is going to either. I decide to just sit there in the more quiet place for a while, when Alexia decided to join me with Aurora as well, then Percy walked up and sat down on the end closer to us, clearly exhausted and not happy as Apollo just told him what he told me. I feel a lot of pity for the poor guy.