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Chapter 11
He didn't want to do this, he didn't even want to be here and really it wasn't his job to begin with! But some how he had been saddled with the job, still being on Olympus was awe inspiring, it didn't matter how many times he had came here his reaction was still the same. He looked at the Gods and Goddess of Olympus and knew that this meeting was going to be easy, not only were the three brothers temperamental but they puzzles. They didn't tell anyone their life story, they didn't speak of anything about their past, many had tried asking Percy but he just shook his head and walked away.
"Lords and Ladies of Olympus."
They looked at him as if he was about to perform so great miracle, and Chiron wished that he somehow could perform one, however such thing were far beyond him and he wasn't afraid to admit that.
"Speak Chiron."
Chiron looked at Zeus, and inclined his head in a show of respect.
"The three brothers are settling into the camp rather well, however there have been several hiccups."
Hiccups? None of them liked the sound of that as Hades asked, more liked demanded.
"Hiccups?"
Chiron didn't want to be the ones to tell them the bad news however, no one else would do the job.
"Indeed Lord Hades, so far the brothers have caused a big rise in injuries. We have also had one person who has had their hand sliced off and one person who was nearly decapitated for making a degrading remark about Hadrian, there is also the fact that Charlus punched Dionysus in the face."
Several of them had snickered at the last remark, none of them could feel sympathy or pity for him. Dionysus loved to rile people up, he would often make a game of it and it would always land him in trouble. So it was no surprise that he had been punched, even though they didn't know what for.
"There is also the fact that Annabeth daughter of Athena, has made several degrading remarks. She accused them of being below her and often tried to find some way to belittle them, she also at one point called them stupid morons but that wasn't the wording that was used."
Hades, Zeus and Poseidon turned and glared at Athena, Annabeth was her daughter and yet she was becoming to be a spoilt brat, thinking that she was better than everyone else even though that had lived far longer than her.
"Continue."
Chiron looked at Athena who was scowling, whether it was from the fact that Annabeth was acting the way that she was or if it was because of the dark glares aimed at her because of Annabeth Chiron couldn't really say.
"She was beaten very badly in the training ring, she suffered several broken ribs, a fractured arm and both of her legs were shattered. Thankfully Will son of Apollo was there and was able to heal her, if Harry hadn't intervened Annabeth wouldn't be alive."
He didn't want to know what the Gods and Goddess were feeling, he had a thought of what could be going through their heads but it wasn't solid.
"It seems that you daughter is not making many friends Athena."
Athena scowled and refused to look at anyone whether from shame or disappointment Chiron couldn't say, Poseidon looked at Chiron.
"Is there anything else?"
Chiron didn't even hesitate when he spoke.
"We have been able to find out which of the brothers has your markings."
Zeus, Hades and Poseidon sat up straighter at that, Chiron thought that they looked slightly like peacocks when they did that but he wasn't going to say it out loud, he liked living thank you very much!
"Lord Hades is Harrison, he has the mark of a Cerberus curled around a helm. Lord Zeus is Charlus, he has a dragon with a lighting bolt etched onto it's chest. Lord Poseidons is Hadrian who has a giant serpent coiled around a trident. All three of them have these marking on their hearts, they have also confided in me that they often feel emotions that are not theirs."
There! Done! Hopefully he wouldn't have to give another report about them for some time, while he liked the brothers and found them to be interesting he didn't like the extra workload that had been placed upon him, after all he had enough to do with training new heroes and keeping Dionysus in line, which was a full time job.
"You have done well Chiron."
He inclined his head, it was very rare to get praise from the King of Gods. More often than not he was paranoid to an extreme and would jump to conclusions before anyone had any answers.
"Would it be possible for a photo? We know what the marks look like and have seen a picture of them with Perseus but we do not know what they look like now."
The Fates hate him! What had he done to them? However he had never been one to refuse a God's request no matter how boring it seemed, however it looked like someone was smiling down on him that day as smoke began to enter the room and everyone could see the three of them.
"Really was that completely necessary?"
Charlus shook his head and began removing his shirt.
Aphrodite swooned as she looked at the sheer muscle that he had, there was not one inch of fat on his body and the scars? Well they just made him look even more ravishing, if he wasn't her fathers soul mate then she would have claimed him.
Charlus threw his shirt at Harry who had dodged the shirt that had been thrown at him, he sent a smirk to Charlus who began grumbling under his breath.
"Stupid nimble brothers, never lets me get him!"
Harry snickered as he listened to Charlus grumble, due to their forms their senses were far heightened than any normal person. So he knew just what his brother was saying, Harry smirked and knocked on the bathroom door.
"Rain you finished?"
The bathroom door opened and Hadrian stepped out completely naked and uncaring, water ran down his body and his mark was in display for everyone to see.
This time it wasn't just Aphrodite that was ogling the man on the screen several other Gods and Goddess were as well, they all knew one thing. Poseidon was one lucky bastard! Poseidon looked at Hadrian's body with a hungry gaze, It had been far too long since he had seen the other like that. When they had made love it had been in the dark, and Poseidon had wondered why, but now he could see, Hadrian was covered head to toe in scars and he wasn't the only one.
"Seriously? You'll get the bed wet!"
There was a snort from the bed as Hadrian got up onto his elbows and raised a perfectly sculpted eyebrow.
"Wont bother me, however if you really want me to I will dry it."
Charlus threw his socks at him, huffing he looked at his smirking brother who was laying back down on the bed.
"Hey rain?"
Hadrian turned tired eyes to his brother.
"Yeah?"
Charlus cleared his throat as he thought about the question he was going to ask, he had never been one to beat around the bush so to speak.
"Do you think that you slept with a God?"
There was a groan as Harry came into the room with just a towel wrapped around him, he looked at Charlus and shook his head.
"Smooth move."
Harry removed the towel and used it to dry the mark on his chest, he was gentle in doing it. Gently patting the skin dry.
Hades looked at the man that was his soul mate and didn't know what to think, there was a gentle air to him as well as a fierce loyalty. He knew that there wasn't a mistake when Harry had been chosen for him, there was never any mistakes when it came to soul mates. Still it made him think when was the last time that someone had been gentle with him? When was the last time that someone looked at him with love? Hades couldn't say because he couldn't remember a time.
"Most likely, as to which one? I couldn't tell you that, however when I next see them?"
A sweet and innocent smile came onto his face as he sat up and crawled to the edge of the bed.
"I will shove my fist so far down his throat he will be shitting teeth out for the rest of his very long life."
Poseidon wasn't the only one to wince at that, he also got several pitying looks of many of the other Gods and Goddess. He wasn't a fool though, he knew that he would have a lot of explaining and a lot of making up to do. That was if Hadrian didn't go through with his threat, and knowing his storm he would go through with it.
The smoke had left the room and murmurs began to fill the room, many of them were excited to meet them, others were withholding judgement until they had met them in person. After all you could only see so much, it was better to meet them face to face to see what they were really like. Zeus was slightly disappointed that he hadn't seen much of Charlus's body, but what he had seen made him eager to get his hands on him. He would love to see a lovely or flush staining those high cheekbones and defined face, he would also love to see if he was as wild in the bedroom as he was out of it.
Chiron knew that his work was done and it was safe to leave the room without getting dismissed, however he had seen far more of the brothers than what he had ever wanted to see. However that didn't mean that he couldn't appreciate it, they were very good looking for their ages and their bodies were in top physical condition. Still it was time for him to head back to the camp and see how everyone was getting on, or in some cases just how bad the damage was.
~~~~~ Camp Half-Blood ~~~~~
"stretches now!"
Many of the teens groaned and began going through the stretches that they had been taught, many of them were wishing that Charlus would take over. At least wit the other man he was honest in why he was beating you to a bloody pulp, Hadrian didn't give you a reason as to why he was doing it, he just gave a smile then made you do more laps.
"Alright enough! Now get into positions!"
They knew better to groan or make a complaint as to what they were being put through, while their muscle mass had increased and so had their stamina, they would all fall asleep in bed every night right after dinner, some of them would even forgo a shower because they were that tired. One thing was for certain life at the camp was not boring, and it wouldn't be for however long the three brothers stayed at the camp.
"Listen up! Today we are going to have a game of capture the flag, we are trusting you to use the weapons. However if we see anyone messing around the game will be over, and you will be scrubbing the floor of ever cabin."
Percy was wandering around the camp, he knew the senior campers and counselors were watching him and were, trying to decide who my dad was, but they weren't having an easy time of it. Percy sighed as he thought over what he knew so far he wasn't as strong as the Ares kids, or as good at archery as the Apollo kids. He really didn't have Hephaestus's skill with metalwork and after one failed attempt that will never be spoken of he had been banned from all metal work and he really, really didn't have Dionysus's way with vine plants although he was jealous over the fact that they grew some of the most mouth watering devine strawberries that he had ever tasted. Luke told Percy that he might be a child of Hermes, a kind of jack-of-all trades, master of none. Percy had got the distinct feeling he was just trying to make him feel better. However he knew that Luke really didn't know what to make of him either.
"Alright now split up into two teams, but if there is any fighting between teammates you will be going in the training ring with Charlus!"
Many of them winced and grimaced at the thought of training with him, with Hadrian you were too tired to move, with Charlus? You would end up having body parts re-attached.
"We will let you pick who will be your team leaders, and who will be on your teams."
With that Hadrian walked away, leaving the demigods to talk amongst themselves. Hadrian fell into the seat next to Dionysus, who was drinking diet coke, Hadrian shook his head. He felt sympathy for the God of wine and madness, he knew that it must be killing the other only to drink diet coke and other fizzy drinks.
"Here."
Dionysus caught the bottle that was thrown at him, he looked at the bottle and wondered just what Butterbeer was. He watched as Hadrian took a sip from his own bottle and figured that it wasn't poisoned, he wouldn't put it past one of the brothers to poison a bottle and give it to him. He took a sip and felt his eyes widen, where had this been? Hadrian felt happy he had done a good deed for the day, even if Dionysus could get on his nerves something rotten. The two of them sat in the chairs and happily drank their drinks, it was peaceful or as peaceful it could get in a camp filled with demigods.
"Here, a never ending goblet."
He threw the goblet at Dionysus who caught it and looked at it, there was interest in his eyes. He looked at Hadrian who was slouching in a chair, his eyes were looking around the camp taking in who was where and what they were doing.
"Put whatever you want into the goblet once it is empty it will refill."
With that he left Dionysus and went back to the campers, one of them was crying due to Charlus who had lost his temper. Harry shook his head, sometimes he wished that his brother would try and keep a tighter leash on his temper. He had taken it upon himself to help them, most of them had deep seated resentment to their Godly parent. Others had some major issues with their mortal parent, and some like Luke had some very troubling issues. Still he was going to help the son of Hermes get through them, even if he hated and resented himself for not helping Thaila he would get there in the end.
Harry walked around the camp and wondered where Chiron was, he had said something about reporting to Olympus but that had been several hours ago. He knew that it shouldn't take that long due to the portkey that he had made for the immortal centaur, so either than man was doing some shopping or the meeting was running a lot longer than expected. Harry knew that the latter was more probable than the former, still it didn't stop the camp from going about their daily tasks and lives.
"Has everyone picked their teams and team leaders?"
They nodded their heads, Luke was going to be a team leader as well as Sophie a daughter of Apollo. While normally the two teams would team up, Luke had thought that it would be a good chance for Percy to show what he could do. The Ares cabin was smirking at Percy who just shrugged it off, he had seen far worse than just a smirk, like when Harry smiled. With the teams divided and everyone in place the race for the flag had begun, however Percy had run into trouble almost straight away and her name was Clarisse.
"Give him a haircut, grab his hair."
Percy wobbled but managed to get to his feet that seemed to feel like jelly. He raised his sword, but Clarisse slammed it aside with her spear, as sparks flew from the spear, why was it that she had a really cool weapon and he got stuck with this? Still he had bigger problems to worry about like how arms felt numb. Percy wished that the sword was the weapon for him but he knew that it wasn't, still he wanted to wiped the smirk off Clarisse's face right now, Clarisse's smirk got wider almost as if she knew what he was thinking as she mocked him.
"Oh, wow, I'm scared of this guy. Really scared."
"The flag is that way, like all the way over there."
Percy pointed in the other direction and hoped that she fell for it, sometimes he wondered if they had any brains or if they just used muscles, or maybe the muscles were their brains? Percy pushed the question to the side he would think on it later.
"Yeah, but see, we don't care about the flag. We care about a guy who made our cabin look stupid."
"You do that without my help."
Two of them came at Percy as he backed up. toward the creek, he knew that the whole exploding toilet would have some form of punishment, even if his family had found the whole thing amusing still Percy tried to raise his shield, but Clarisse was too fast. Her spear stuck Percy straight in the ribs. He saw the sparks come off the spear and felt very grateful that he was wearing an armored breastplate, if he hadn't? Well Percy didn't want to think on what would've happened. One of her cabinmates slashed his sword across my arm, leaving a good size cut. Percy looked at his own blood and didn't know what to think, he was long since used to the sight of his own blood due to the bullies who would beat him black and blue for his ADHD and dyslexia. He had thought that the camp would be somewhere, where he could be himself, where he didn't have to pretend. Percy looked up and him and snapped.
"No maiming,"
The guy just rolled his eyes as he mocked.
"Oops, guess I lost my dessert privilege."
He pushed Percy into the creek and he landed with a decent sized splash. They all laughed at him and he that they would stop finding it funny soon, but he wasn't his papa's son for no reason and he wasn't going to take this lying down, But before he had chance to do something, anything the water seemed to wake up his sense, as if he could feel what the water was feeling. Percy shook the feeling of as Luke came bursting through the tree line with the red teams flag, Clarisse looked at Percy and scowled.
"It was a trick."
Luke had two of his siblings covering his back as he kept running, Percy went to go and leave the water what a voice spoke up.
"How did you do that?"
Percy gave the air a weird look as he replied.
"Sword cut, what do you think?"
Annabeth stood in front of him, having seemingly came out of thin air. Percy gave her a startled look, how had she been able to do that? Before either of them had chance to do anything they heard the canine growl again, but much closer than before, what sort of animal was it? If it was a monster then how did it get in? A howl ripped through the forest, causing the hairs on the back of Percy's arms to stand on edge, just what the hell was it?
Since Chiron had not returned from Olympus yet, many of the campers didn't know what to do. They didn't know what the creature was or how it got in, so many of them had clutched their swords closer to their chests. While they had trained and been on quests this was different this was an attack on their home, something that they were not prepared for.
There on the rocks just above us was a black hound the size of a rhino, with lava-red eyes and fangs like daggers. It gave a blood curdling howl as it looked right at Percy, Percy stood frozen at the hellhound, he had seen one once before when he had been little and the sight of them still scared him.
"PERCY RUN!"
But he couldn't his legs felt like lead even though he was still in the water, he could still feel the fangs tearing into his flesh as he screamed. He could feel his own blood pouring from a wound that the hellhound had made, the hellhound gave a bark as it charged for Percy. However it didn't even get close to him as it came face to sword, Charlus stood in front of Percy his sword covered in the hellhounds blood, a vicious smile on his lips.
"You want to dance pup? Then lets dance!"
The two of them began circling each other, neither one was willing to give the other any ground. The hellhound lunged only to be thrown to the side by a fail hitting its ribs.
"Direct hit!"
The hellhound had hit a group of rocks and was snarling at Hadrian who gave it a one finger salute, before he pulled the flail back and got ready to attack or defend. Harry had pulled Percy near the campers and looked at them, Dionysus was looking at him with a strange gleam in his eyes. Harry didn't have time to think about it now as he looked at the archers.
"On my mark aim for the hell hound!"
They nodded and got their bows ready as Harry notched an arrow into his bow, the hell hound ran straight for Percy once again, this time it dodged the flail and managed to avoided Charlus's attack. Harry held his breath as he waited for it to come closer, he held strong and waited a few more seconds.
"FIRE!"
A rain of arrows headed directly to the hellhound who could avoid all of the arrows and was hit directly in the head by them, it landed at Percy's feet dead, however Percy had been pushed into the the creek during all the commotion. Everyone turned and looked at Percy who had a completely bewildered expression on his face, suddenly they all kneeled in front of him as someone said.
"Poseidon,Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God."
Charlus and Harry turned to Hadrian who was pale as a sheet and clenching his hands as Charlus snorted and shook his head.
"You slept with a God! Only you!"
Percy looked at his papa who looked like he was ready to kill something, well at least they now knew just who his father was. What no one was prepared for was the roar that caused water to quake and turn into a mini tidal wave.
"POSEIDON I WILL KILL YOU!"
~~~~ Under water Palace ~~~~~
Poseidon felt as if he should be grovelling right about now, he had the feeling that he should avoid going to camp for a very long time. He shivered as he thought of one person who was able to cause such feelings in him, Hadrian and wondered if he would still be alive when the other was finished with him.
~~~~~ Olympus ~~~~~
Zeus watched as his brothers soul mate roared, while he had some control of the water it was nowhere near as good as his brothers still he felt some sympathy for his brother.
"I WILL CASTRATE YOU!"
On second thought he wondered if he should make a speech for his funeral.
~~~~~ Underworld ~~~~
Hades was in stitches as he heard the threats that were being issued to his brother, he really did not want to be his brother right now.
"GET YOUR FISH ARSE HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!"
Hades wondered if all the other two were like that, and if so how would any of them live? It was clear that they had very bad tempers, tempers to rival theirs, all well he would see what would happen but for now? He was going to enjoy listening to Poseidon's soul mate issue threats, and some of them were very creative.
