A/N I am SOOO SORRY! I know I know it is crazy to say that I am busy on a break but I was! I had to bake half a dozen batches of cookies then make a cake. I had a party, got my L for my drivers, then tutor a eighth grader and be tutored myself. I also watched Tron Legacy, no offense to other people but I think it had a stupid plot. The visual effects was amazing but the plot was so cliche. I also spend a few hours reading the Hunger Games series. I read TOO! It was good but I still think the Percy Jackson series better.

Okay away from what I did, this chapter was hard to write. I screwed up six times, the most I had to rewrite something was three times, this one just took forever. I tried really hard to make this final CtF better and more exciting. Another reason that this one is harder is because it is a link from the young Percy to the older one. I plan all my chapters and what will happen in each one except this one mostly because it doesn't matter but it needs to show how he has grown and is viewed by the gods.

There are three reviews that states that I have grammar, spelling and punctuation errors. I am sorry, I personally suck at those areas as mentioned in my profile. I used to have a beta but she bailed on me. So, if anyone wants to be my beta feel free to pm me.

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Sorry for the long A/N and on with the story!

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Chapter 10: At Age Fifteen

Aug 19 - 5 years later - Percy 15 years old

Underwater Palace, Atlantis

Percy's POV

"Prince, Your father wants to see you," said Adrian, my personal assistant.

"Okay,"

Walking down an empty hall towards my father's throne room is quite a common thing, for me at least.

For the past five years I never got to visit camp for longer than two weeks. It is also like the gods want to make sure the royals don't have to see each other unless it is a solstice, no, they probably made sure we never bump into each other.

I train in every which way that people expected of me, the Prince me. I became one of the most knowledgeable people in the whole sea kingdom in Olympian Politics and Atlantian Politics. Troops of merman, respects me and obey my orders even if I am not of age. Citizens of Atlantis value my art work and musical talents like it is the only thing they thought ever existed. Even Apollo is jealous of me, whether it is of looks or of talent. Not to mention Ares is scared of me, which I find amusing.

All the gods think of me highly, except Zeus, Hades, and one more, which I think you can all guess. Athena, god of wisdom and battle strategy, gets meaner and meaner every time I think up of a solution to the problem at hand. I seriously don't know why, even if my dad is her arch enemy, why would she hate me so much? One day she even got the nerve to come up to me and threaten me about tearing me into pieces if I continue to be so close her daughter. I don't get it, I am not close to Annabeth, we talk, we help each other, but seriously did she think that is "being close to her daughter"?

You might think that I am so high and mighty that I can do everything, and that I am completely a happy person, maybe even the happiest person alive. Well, you are wrong. Being favored by the gods mean that you have a bunch of errands to run, which might not end well if you make a mistake. Aphrodite trying to hook you up with her daughters, Hermes wanting you to deliver messages to my dad, my dad making me his personal messenger, Apollo wanting to record my music, Ares always picking a fight, and Demeter want me to water her plants. Oh, and let me tell you, every time there is a Olympian Ball on Olympus that require my presence as well as the other royals, I am always nearly torn apart by minor gods. They would shove each other, just to dance with me. It is quite annoying.

That's not even the worst. The worst is that I constantly feel lonely, and hollow. It is like I am a robot; I do what I am told. I feel a lot better at camp, when I am surrounded by my friends, but it never last long because I never stay there long.

"Father, you asked for me?" I asked once I reached the throne room.

"Ah... yes. It is traditional that the royals of Olympus have one game of Capture the Flag at the last summer in Camp Half-Blood. That means that there will be three teams instead of two, which also means you have to collect all three flags and hang it up to win. Pick your allies well Perseus, all the gods will be watching, they will start betting on who will win the battle that will happen in a year based on this," said my father.

"Okay, Father. When will I go and come back?"

"You will go today, and come back on Aug. 31. That is two weeks. Show them what you have, but don't use all your tricks."

"Yes, Father."

~PJ~

As usual, I created a mini water display on the beach of Long Island that signals my arrival.

Being a Prince, my dad wants me to give off an air of power, and a mighty look. That being said, what better way to do that than standing on the crest of the wave, while the wave carries you to the land? The typical son of the Sea God does that don't they? I did, but today I went even further. Today I created a miniature whirlpool to stand on. It is more like standing on mist that is created by my whirlpool. I am like the handle to a spinning top.

It might sound fun, but I always wanted to mist travel to the beach directly behind Chiron just to scare the shit out of him. But that won't be nice would it?

I waved off my whirlpool and landed on the beach gracefully.

"Prince Perseus Jackson," all the campers and Chiron said and bowed. This is mandatory upon my arrival like any other god apparently. I didn't argue, but it is not something I like.

I scanned the crowd of bowing demigods and saw Nico among them.

"Prince Nico di Angelo," I said and returned the bow. Formal and polite, always. "We never got to talk to each other alone have we?"

"No, but I really would care less."

"So true. Chiron, I assume Princess Thalia will be arriving soon."

"Yes Prince, her arrival always takes place at Zeus' Fist," replied Chiron.

"That makes sense, it is like I always arrival at the beach. So Prince Nico I can't seem to think up of a place where you should appear that links to your realm."

"Of course you can't seaweed brain. I appear at the fire pit where shrouds are burned. You might be resident to fire and lava, but I can change any type of fire to fire of the underworld. It obeys me and will never harm me," said Nico.

"I see," I said. Then I felt the air charge with electricity. "I would also assume that is the signal of her arrival."

"How correct you are Prince," replied Chiron.

"What signal?" asked a very confused Prince of the Dead.

"Oh come on, don't you feel it? Oh right, you are Dead boy, of course you can't feel it. The dead doesn't spark like electricity, nor does fire conduct it. That would mean that you can't feel that the air is charged with static electricity. We better hurry to Zeus' fist."

These are what I call Prince-y conversations. You don't exactly talk like this to your friends right? I hope not.

We arrived to the fist and waited a long silent minute. Then we heard a loud clasp of thunder and saw a sharp flash of lightning.

Thalia appeared on the tip of the fist. She gently floated down.

"Princess Thalia Grace," we said and bowed.

"Prince Perseus Jackson, Prince Nico di Angelo," she said and returned both our bows.

"Well, now that all the royals are here. You all are probably wondering why. This is because it is traditional to play Capture the Flag on the last week of the last summer before the royal battle. There will be three teams, three flags. In order to win one team must have them all. You all have nearly two weeks to prepare because there won't be a Capture the Flag this week. Also because of that, this Friday is the only time you can set up your traps and what you need in the forest for next Friday. Royals and Chosens you have 10 seconds to decide your team."

I looked for the Stoll brothers and Michael. I spotted them and they nodded to me.

"I have decided," I told Chiron. "My allies will be Hermes and Apollo."

"I also have decided. My allies will be Athena, Demeter," said Thalia.

"I have decided too. My allies will be Ares, Hephaestus, and Dionysus," said Nico.

"No, arguments?" asked Chiron. We shook our heads. He relieved a sigh. "Wait, what about Aphrodite?"

"We have decided to stay out of this fight," announced Katie.

"Very well. Prince Percy would you please do the honor to rearrange the creek so it is split the forest into three?"

"I would love to," I replied. I stepped into the creek and focus on the flow of the water. As usual there was a gut in my guts that signals my control. Concentrating on the flow of power from my body, creek and crown, I willed a jet of water to propel me up. Looking over the entire lush forest I arranged the creek so that it forms a "Y" in the forest, thus making the forest split into three.

Willing the jet of water to decrease I was lowered to the ground.

"I am going to check if the forest is split up fairly," said Thalia.

"Oh, are you saying that I would take advantage, by having one part of the forest bigger than the other?" I retorted.

"Who knows, I was only taught to never trust other royals."

Then she zoomed up and disappeared through the canopy of trees. After a couple of minutes she returned to the ground.

"All is good," she reported.

"See, I told you it is fair."

"Whatever."

For the following two weeks, our team planned, organized, and practiced everything whenever we can get together without being seen or heard.

~PJ~

Third Person's POV

Today is the big day. The game starts at one and ends when one team has posted all three flags. Everyone have prepared, planned, strategize for this very moment.

"Campers! I would like to have your attention please! Mr. D and I made a decision a few minutes ago. We have decided that the royals are forbidden to use power travel, since it would end the game very quickly. Bounding your prisoners is now acceptable, but you still can't gag them. Other than that all other regular rules apply. Is that CLEAR?" said Chiron.

"Yes!" we all roared.

When the conch horn sounded a thick and massive fog rolled in from the sea. Within the fog you can see specs of shadows flashing around. The thick fog was disorienting to Princess Thalia's and Prince Nico's team. They don't know what had hit them. Without more hesitation both of them, they ordered attack.

Prince Percy was using the fog that he created as a big sensor screen, trying to figure out what his enemies where doing. In the looks his territory is completely undefended and abandoned. Because of that he anticipates that there will be a lot of campers trying to wander through his territory where he set hundreds of traps. He doesn't even bother to take command of the creeks. All his teammates are in the air on flying shoes provided by the Hermes cabin and armed with bows and different types of arrows which is provided by the Apollo cabin.

Once Thalia's and Nico's teams are on the move, Percy concentrated to sense every movement through the fog. He sensed that Thalia was heading to his territory on air while her teammates would be sneaking through the trap filled forest. On the other hand, Nico was heading to Thalia's on foot, with the added speed and senses from the shadows he is well ahead of his teammates. Percy decided to follow the circular cycle and commanded one half of his crew to disperse Thalia's team and the other Nico's team while he flies to capture Nico's flag.

He flew silently through the fog to where he sensed large amount of magical enchantment in Nico's territory. In the sky all he saw was a wall of black, but as he flew closer and closer to the ground he noticed that it was a wall of black grapes. Once he landed like a feather on the top of a tree, he sensed the presences of two demigods. He willed all the water in the grapes to come out and splashed it onto the concealed demigods. Once all the water was drawn out, the grape plant withered and shrink, leaving the flag visibly displayed. Percy quickly flew down and grabbed it. When he was about to leave he noticed that the two demigods that were splashed with the grape water were walking around wobbly and had flushed skin as if they were drunk. He willed the water to come to him without touching him. He concentrated on the water's energy and noticed that the magical enchantment came from the grape's water. He flew back to the mountain with the flag and the magical water trailing behind him.

Once he reached his own territory at the far north of the forest by the beach, the pitch black flag with Hades' helm, a boar head, wine grapes and a hammer shimmered to sea green with a trident, lyre, and a caduceus. He flew to where he had placed his original flag, a miniature mountain where it is surrounded by swift current waters. Upon reaching there he noticed that his flag was missing and saw the two guards all burnt. Thalia had no doubt successfully gotten to them. He placed his newly achieved flag on the tip of the mountain.

He once again concentrates on the fog and sensed that half of Thalia's team is stuck in his part of the forest and a quarter of Nico's team is held prisoner by Thalia's team. While other than the guards, his team is completely unscratched.

Nico was overjoyed when he stole Thalia's flag, but his emotions plummeted when he saw that his flag was gone. This time he is going for Percy's flag, for he is the only one that can suck water out of plants. Nico asked the children of Dionysus to regrow the grapes and placed his new flag where his stolen one used to be.

Thalia was thrilled that she got Percy's flag, but when she saw that her flag was gone, lightning flashed and thunderclouds raged in. She decided to go out for Nico's flag, for it is only his army of dead that can't be electrocuted and leaves a chill of death. She calmed down and consulted with Annabeth and the rest of the children of Athena that isn't stuck in Percy's forest.

Percy thought over all the possible actions he can take and decided that he wants to see Nico trying to get to the mountain. While he was waiting, he woke up the guards which was the Stoll brothers and asked them if they had extra extra mini empty water balloons. The Stoll brothers gave Percy all the balloons for Percy to fill. Once Percy had filled them all, they have about three hundred miniature water balloon filled with magical water.

"Here give one hundred for the crew that is chasing Thalia's team and one hundred that follows Nico's team. Keep one hundred here. The water is special, if it is drunk or spilled on skin, the person gets drunk. I got it from the grape plants camouflaging Nico's flag which is obviously from children of Dionysus. Be careful," Percy warned Conner who is delivering it to their crew mates.

Percy concentrated on the fog again and sensed that Nico is near the beach with his only half of his crew. He tried to warn every one of the traps that he senses by shadows but some still got trapped. The Hephaestus cabin stayed behind and is now trying to free everyone that is caught from their team. They nearly got free too but they were bombarded with water balloons that pop either by themselves or popped by sonic or fart arrows, making everyone drunk and unable to think.

Percy reached out with the fog and sensed that Thalia has gotten easy hold on Nico's flag and is flying to her territory for safe keeping. Once she hung up the flag, her part of the forest was raining with water balloons. One hit her in the face and she immediately lost control of the winds. Because of her inability to concentrate, she plummeted to the ground.

Through all this, some of Percy's teammates became drunk too because sometimes droplets of water splashed on them during their attack. Once all two hundred the water balloons were dropped, all of Thalia's team is either drunk or stuck in Percy's trap. Half of Nico's team is stuck in Percy's traps and drunk at the time. The other half is on the beach trying to figure out how to get to the water surrounded mountain.

Percy left the one hundred water balloons to Travis and his surviving teammates that are coming back to the mountain. He flew to a place where he sensed electricity and saw a great green pole with two flags on the top. He fired to plain arrows to knock down the flags off of the static filled pole, which he examines and determined it is vine grown by children of Demeter. He swooped down and caught it before they hit the floor and flew back full speed towards his mountain.

Once he made it to his territory, the two electric blue flags with a lightning bolt, an owl and a cornucopia shimmered to sea green with a trident, lyre and a caduceus. Once he placed it on the mountain the conch horn blew signaling the end of the game. Nico looked defeated and exhausted even though there wasn't much fighting for a capture the flag game. This time it was more of a strategy play than hand to hand combat.

Percy's POV

I dispersed the fog that had been slowly draining my energy. My team cheered and bounced around in the air. We released everyone from their trap and I recovered everyone from their drunken state. Princess Thalia and Prince Nico both scowled at me and stumped away.

We had a camp party tonight to celebrate my team's victory. For fun the camp wanted me to do some show some them special water tricks. They set the wine goblets into a pyramid and asked me to do the fancy hotel pouring displays. Since we couldn't use wine we used strawberry juice. There were four pitchers of it standing at the corners of the pyramid. I willed one jet of juice to rise from each pitcher and come together at the top of the pyramid which empties into the top goblet. The goblet fills and over spills so it trickles down to the four goblets below it. It continues until all the goblets are fill in the pyramid. On the table next to pyramid was a pitcher of water. I willed the water to shoot out and form many heart crystals and froze them into shape. I suspended them on top of the pyramid and let them drop creating a series of 'plop's as they hit the juice. Everyone was cheering and took their drinks.

We danced (more like all the girls trying to get their hands on me) and sing (which means everyone watch and listening to me). We also ate like no tomorrow. I didn't know what I was stuffing in my mouth half the time and the other half of the time I was being fed by children of Aphrodite (which I hate but was forced to). My dad said that players are bad, not that I am one, but if there is a gang of girls following you it means you are successful. I personally think that is quite stereotypic but who wants to openly argue with the Sea God? Not me even if he is my father.

~PJ~

A Couple Days Later, Atlantis

"Son, can you please tell me what the biggest concern right now in my kingdom is?"

"The lack of fish and sea creature reproduction, Father."

"Yes and I know just the person to find to fix this problem. You are to go find Doris, goddess of the sea's bounty and wife of the Old Man of the Sea, Nereus. See if she is having trouble or needs some help because the sea's bounty is dropping rapidly as we speak. Bring Adrian and I will order another guard to accompany you."

"How will I find her, Father?"

"She moves frequently but her husband always knows where to find her. Nereus is easy to find, always on the beaches of San Francisco. You will have no problem identifying him, but it is catching him and making him talk that is hard. Go on now if you want the sea to be full of life before the mortals notice anything."

"Alright."

The guard that was picked to follow me is one of the army commanders. I mist travelled us to the beaches of San Francisco. Adrian's and the commander's tail changed to feet once we hit the land.

"This is so cool Prince, I have never been on land! Thank you, Lord Poseidon for letting us have this rare experience," awed Adrian.

The commander was looking around and testing out his legs as if they were going to fall apart if he pushes to hard.

The mist obscures my crown into a blue baseball hat with mood jewels forming a trident encircled by a massive wave as the center picture. Right now the jewels are sea green, calm and steady. The rim of the baseball hat was lined with gold, sparkling and dazzling.

I got to admit my crown in baseball hat form is pretty neat and useful. A lot of teenage boy doesn't wear a hat now a days, much less a crown.

We walked around the beach, not feeling any presence of anything abnormal. We saw a bunch of homeless guys sun tanning and digging through the garbage cans. I didn't think a minor god would hang there but once I got near I felt the presence of a god, powerful and ancient. I walked towards it and stop short when a smell hit me hard. It smells like rotten fish, seaweed, sea shells, and anything you can name that came from the sea, on a griller. If the sea kingdom had a bad side it would be that. I waved Adrian and the commander away and slowly crept up towards the guy that smells like the stinking sea. He was bloated, slimy, and had layers of mold on his clothing. Getting hold of this guy would be hard. Once I was about a couple of feet away I walked like any by passers would, pretending to be busy or getting away from the stink. Once I reached him, I pounced on him. He jerked awake and started to buck like a wild horse. I hold on to him like he is my life line, which is really hard because it is like hugging a giant rotten fish trying to slithering away.

"Nereus, you wouldn't want to make me mad even if you are known as the Old Man of the Sea."

"Who are you? I'm poor. I don't have money. I don't know who you are talking about. Get off me! I don't know you! Help!" he yelled.

"Quite fool, you have information that I need."

"Not that again! Why do you demigods always look for me? I have nothing to share!" he continues yelling and thrashing around.

He continues to try and get me off of him but fails. Somehow he got up and I was piggyback riding him. He started running towards the beach but pauses before we reach the water.

"What are you waiting for? Aren't you stronger in water? Oh don't mind me, let me drown to death, I hate water," I rambled trying to coax him into the water instead of forcing him in.

He probably decided that he would rather risk the chance of me being Poseidon's son than not having more strength. It would have worked if I hadn't been Poseidon's son.

He tumbled into the water with me hanging on. I tightened my grip incredibly more and willed the water around us to clean his filth. He tried to make it harder by changing shape and swimming at insane speeds for a regular human. Nothing he did could get me off of him. He gave up and went to the last resort that can kill everyone and every demigod other than sea deities' offspring, by going very deep into the ocean until we touch the ocean floor. He sat there for ten minutes while I try to wash his grim off.

"Why aren't you dead? You should be drowned and dead because of the pressure. Who are you?"

"You really want to know?" I asked and he nodded reluctantly. I asked my crown to reveal its true form and he gasps.

"Prince Perseus Jackson, Prince of the Seas, what an honor it is to meet you," he said with sarcasm dripping in every world he utters, "though I still won't give you information."

"You know, I might be the Prince, but it doesn't mean I don't know your deals with demigods. My friends at camp say that you answer a question given by a demigod ever time they capture you. How am I different? After all I am still a mortal offspring of Poseidon; I am still a demigod, maybe just better trained and have a higher status."

"Fine you have one question that I will answer as long as you stop cleaning me. You know how long to get that stinky? It finally lessens the amount of demigods that come visit me and you go and start cleaning me?"

"Where is your wife, Doris, goddess of the sea's bounty?"

All of a sudden he looks sad and even start tearing up.

"She said that she... she had ... had to... go to the Sea of Monsters to do something. Then...then... she... never came... back. I had a vision that she was swallowed by Charybdis when she tried to get in. You have to get her Prince. I give you unlimited supply of answers if you bring her back to me," Nereus said desperately.

"I'll get her, our world needs her. Bye."

He turned into a dolphin and swam away. I traveled back to the surface and let the mist conceal the crown once more. Adrian and the commander were waiting for me where I fell into the water. I waved them into the water and mist travelled us to the entrance of the sea of monsters. The mist was so thick here that my baseball hat crown was fuzzy.

"Prince this is a dangerous place even for you," said the commander.

"Doris is trapped in Charybdis' mouth; we have to go in there."

"What! We have to be swallowed by that thing?" asked Adrian.

"Yes, unless you have another bright idea. I promise I will get you out of her mouth once we free Doris."

Then we swam toward the whirlpool. We got swallowed in no time. The first thing I notice is Charybdis' mouth smells even worse than Nereus. It doesn't only contain the bad rotten ocean smell but also the rusted metal, boiled sour milk, and fried rotten eggs smell. I nearly fainted and my two friends turned into abnormal shades of green.

Next I noticed that I can no longer see but was saved when Adrian spoke up.

"Prince, your watch has a flashlight function. Press the upper left button twice."

I turned on the flashlight on my watch, which was really bright for such a small thing.

"How did you know?"

"Lord Poseidon wanted me to memorize the manual so I can help you if you forget a function that is needed."

I looked around and just realized we were standing on something soft, squishy, and slimy. After a few more stomps of my foot and a couple of turns to look at our surroundings I decided that it we must be standing on Charybdis' tongue.

"Lady Doris! DORIS! LADY DORIS WHERE ARE YOU?" we all yelled.

"Hmmm?" and some moaning is what we heard.

"Lady Doris?" I asked.

"Mmmmm"

I walked towards the sound and found a heap of celestial bronze chain. A close look you can see that it is actually bounding a weak limp goddess.

"Lady Doris!"

"What? ... help... help..."

I took out Riptide and started chopping off the chains. Once I got it off her I gave her some nectar and ambrosia that I always carry around for emergency. The godly food did the trick and she started healing.

"Lady Doris, how long were you trapped in here?

"I don't know. Who are you?" she asks and opens her eyes. "Oh, Prince Perseus how did you know where to find me?"

I quickly told her about the encounter with her husband and what is happening after she was trapped. After, she said that we need to get out of here immediately. She was too weak to use her abilities so I mist travelled us to Atlantis directly to the throne room.

"Father, I bought Lady Doris here."

My father materialized in front of us and walked up to us.

"Good work Perseus. What happened?" asked my dad.

I told my dad about the encounter of Nereus and how we freed Doris.

"Ah, I see. Once she heals the seas will be fine. Spend the rest of the day off, you deserve it, go visit your mom."

A/N I personally think this chapter has the stupidest and lamest ending but I couldn't think of anything. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I probably will not be updating until the third week of January because my teachers that didn't already given out testes decided to give them out on the first two weeks back. They are evil! Why can't they give it before? I forgot at least 25% of what I learned!

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