Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson
Thanks to the guest who reviewed about how Percy seemed unaffected by his torture, I like constructive criticism and the fact that Percy seemed to be unaffected by his time as a captive (well that being pointed out to me) made me realise how I can start getting Percy and Artemis on more friendly terms, thanks to everyone else who reviewed of course, sadly that chapter will have to wait maybe a few days, i (surprisingly) had this chapter and the next already planned, to the guest who asked about the hunters reaction, that will be answered in the same chapter as Percy's reaction to the torture, also sorry for the massive AN
Percy came back to consciousness feeling drowsy, his chest ached and he could barely feel his powers, Percy could feel Mrs O'Leary's head pressing into his hand, in the corner of his eye he could see Hydrakon, he smiled slightly his whole body hurt, Percy realised he hadn't been to camp half-blood since before he was captured, Percy hoped Chiron was still there, he had always liked the wise old centaur,
Percy could feel the after effects of the curse, it was supposed to destroy the persons soul, luckily for Percy the curse couldn't harm his should and was slowly being purged from his system, what knocked him unconscious was the release of energy when the curse hit him, a gods body was meant to release a lot of energy not intake it unless they were eating ambrosia or nectar.
The next day Percy ate as much ambrosia and nectar as he could, although it proved no danger to Percy, the food of the gods always tasted like his mum's blue chocolate chip cookies which made him remember that she was dead, Percy realised how tired he was, he decided that he would spend a few days on bed rest and then go visit camp, maybe even get Ladon to take over Peleus's job protecting the golden fleece every now and then so that Peleus could train with the others.
Percy woke up and stepped out of bed, his guardians had an ability similar to flashing, they just appear in a flash of white and black, although if Percy slept they would stand guard in the hallway outside of his room at the door, the walls on each side around Percy's bedroom were roughly a metre thick so no guard was needed inside the room and nobody could teleport in without Percy's consent.
Percy stood up and got dressed, he choose to wear a long black hooded trench coat, a black long sleeve T-shirt, black denim jeans and black boots, generally Percy wouldn't wear so much black but he didn't want people to know who he was, Percy hoped this way they would consider him an enemy and he could see how trained they were.
After flashing just inside the forest were the camp used to be, Percy walked to the edge of the forest and he could see a wall going through the trees, the camp so far looked even more strange to Percy, who builds a city with part of the wall going through a forest? Percy could see a few Apollo campers, maybe three or four, patrolling the top of the wall that guarded the city/camp, the walls were eight feet tall and made mainly of stones but with celestial bronze 'statues' built at intervals, Percy knew they were automatons, he could sense them, inanimate object didn't appear on his mental tracking senses.
Percy walked parallel to the wall until the wall curved so that it wasn't in the forest, Percy stayed just inside the forest edge and walked until he came upon a large trial, he knew that the trial was used to enter the forest from the city by the amount of foot prints in the dirt.
Percy turned around and started walking towards the cities main entrance, he flicked up his hood so that his face couldn't be seen and dampened his powers slightly, his two guards as usual were on either side of him, Percy had been informed by Malcolm when approaching a walled city you stop just outside of bow range, to show you weren't hostile, Percy didn't stop, he continued walking, he could see the four children of Apollo running along the walls, when he was roughly sixty metres from the gate the four demigods fired their bows, Percy drew his godly weapon made by Briaries, that Percy just realised he hadn't named.
Drakon's Fang, that is what Percy would name his new weapon, the metal was so dark it seemed to absorb the light around it, his sea green life thread embedded into the blade edge and the flat of the blade was covered in black Drakon scales, the lines where the scales joined was filled with threads of celestial bronze and a few of the larger scales had sea green emeralds embedded in them, the fact the sword bent ever so slightly into a curve as it neared the tip helped Percy name it.
In the thirty seconds it took Percy to name his sword eight arrows had been shot at him, Percy simply cut each arrow in half, Percy stopped twenty metres from the gates that he would have to use to the entrance of the city/camp, Percy saw the gates slowly open and out stepped a bright blonde haired boy, around five foot eleven inches in height and he was stocky built, Percy knew he was going to be a child of Zeus, Percy whistled loud once, a clear tune, not wavering in sound at the beginning or the end.
The child of Zeus looked around him, expecting an attack from the forest edges Percy presumed, Percy could hear the campers going crazy inside the city, he could also hear the very loud wing beats of the guardian of the golden fleece, a minute after Percy whistled Peleus dropped out of the sky and landed in in front of Percy, the shock-wave and the trembling making the child of Zeus fall over, it simply made Percy's trench coat to trial behind him and his guards step forward,
Percy raised his right hand and his guards stepped back behind him, he walked toward Peleus, when he was within arm reach he stopped and started petting the dragons head, Percy had seen very few other dragons and the only reason he had that privilege is because he was their god, once a month he teleported to wherever they were currently residing and helped them train, he also measured a few of them so he could have the Cyclops make them armour.
Percy was brought of his thought when Peleus head butted his hand, Percy laughed and started scratching the dragons belly as it fell over, Percy had realised quite quickly with dragons that they acted astoundingly similar to dogs when you petted them, Percy's white winged guard who he had named life flashed teleported away, he reappeared a moment later with a Hermes camper in his grasp, "He tried stealing the fleece Mi-lord" Percy nodded once, "you teleport me and Hermes daughter to the tree, Death you teleport Peleus" his guardians nodded in synch once then followed his orders, when they appeared Percy looked around so see a large amount of weapons aimed at them, Peleus released a flame into the air and curled around the pine tree once more,
"This is why I do not visit this camp, I mean, I see no more then four different weapons, a sword, a dagger, a spear or a bow, in the monster camp the amount of different weapons gives me a headache" his guardians both once more nodded in synch, he heard them laughing over the mental connection the three of them shared, "You are a member of the monster camp lead by Lord Perseus?" Percy Laughed "the legendary Chiron, but we both know 'Lord Perseus' would probably order you to call him Percy"
Percy used a high pitched snobby sounding voice when saying Lord Perseus, Chiron laughed, "Indeed he would, but may I ask the reason you are here? Oh children sheath your weapons," "But Chiron they said they are from a camp of monsters, we can't trust them." an child of Ares on the front row said, this was quickly followed by agreement from the rest of the campers, Percy pretended to be affronted, "They don't know about Lord Perseus, wow, no wonder we get all the difficult quests, and the Olympians beg Perseus to do things or they beg him not to declare war on them." "what are you doing?" Percy heard his fathers voice in his head "Hopefully with all these demigods praying to Olympus for answers Zeus will call of the wedding or be too busy to try and arrange a time"
Chiron paled slightly. "Can we go talk inside the main building?" Percy shook his head "Chiron you obviously haven't learn in all you thousands of years as activities director what information the campers need to know and what they don't" Percy removed the hood of his trench coat, Percy turned to the same Ares camper that spoke before "I presume you have heard of the hunters of Artemis?" there were grumbles from the crowd, same as always he guessed, "The hunter named Phoebe killed my sacred Animal, when they knew I had declared war they chose sides, the Olympian council was six to eight with Artemis having the eight, so it would have been hard but I would have won, I went to Tartarus and rescued my hell hound, the war was averted..."
"...Roughly eight months ago the hunters attacked my camp while I was scouting out human villages, I wanted to set up a resources trade, I once again declared war on Artemis but this time Ares switched sides, He hoping that by siding with me Clarisse his immortal child who lived in camp could join my forces, no offence Chiron but from what I have heard the immortal campers were being wasted here, and they all send their regards" Percy summoned a ball of water, formed it into the shape of a cup and froze the very edge but kept the rest of the water as water, he drank it quickly.
"Almost a week ago the hunters of Artemis were kidnapped by Hyperion, the Olympian council refused to let Artemis even ask the campers to help because they thought you couldn't handle the quest, Artemis begged my second in command to convince me to do the quest and I did, I made the swear an oath to never harm my followers again and hopefully now Zeus will not try to marry me with Artemis" Percy mumbled the end but he saw that Chiron had heard him, Chiron shook his head meaning that Zeus hadn't told everybody the wedding was off, because most of the gods on Olympus were preparing for war Zeus had told all the immortals that served Olympus that Artemis was to be married, since it was the marriage of an Olympian anybody could go and so if Zeus was to announce that it was off everyone would be told it was off, Percy was glad a date hadn't been set, he was never visiting Olympus again.
"Well you campers should go back to your training" Percy heard the demigods muttering campers questioningly to each other as they left, he really didn't know what to call them now, "It is a pleasure to see you again Percy, how about we go to the main building, its basically the same as the old Big House, except it looks different, more like a cabin, but at least now it has more room for me" Percy could tell Chiron was sad with how the camp had changed, the amount of certain demigods, like Athena, had dropped whereas Ares, Hermes and Apollo had increased a lot, even Demeter had more children but Percy thought that was due to there being more cereal farmers, and since they had to do it by hand they were quite muscled,
Percy walked to the Big House alongside Chiron, he saw how the camp had changed, all the buildings were so much closer together, and no more access to the beach, the camp had even been moved so that
the lake was not inside the walls, they didn't want such a long city wall, "I'm guessing Zeus has quite a few children around now?" Chiron chuckled, "Yes, there are less children from Athena, Hephaestus and surprisingly Aphrodite, Demeter has more and so do most of the other male Olympians, Hades has three, in the years you were absent Poseidon had four children, two in a hundred year gap after you were taken, one when his marriage started falling apart and another after he was divorced by Hera, apparently Amphirite cheated on him a lot, mainly with prominent people in Oceanus's army, Poseidon impaled her with his trident, since her marriage was over Oceanus is in pieces and the only semi-powerful people she knew simply wanted her for her body she faded, Triton attempted to lead a coup but the people who sided with him simply did it so that Poseidon knew his plans, when he attacked your fathers palace the two forces joined together and captured Triton, they fed him to the Kraken.
Percy winced, he spoke to the Kraken regularly and the teeth the beast had was very scary, and Percy knew it would be painful, "well don't be expecting me to claim any demigod children, not only would they be targeted due to me being their father but I am so busy I have visited two villages and one city since my return, this is the one city" Chiron laughed, "And also the fact your fatal flaw is loyalty Percy, we both know that even if you hate the idea of marrying Artemis until the wedding is called off you wouldn't even kiss another woman" Percy glared at Chiron, he knew what the old centaur had said was true however,
Just then Annabeth flashed in "Oh! I didn't know you were hear Percy, do you want me to leave?" there was an awkward silence for almost a minute as Percy thought if he did want her to go "no its okay Annabeth, you are most likely here on official business, plus I haven't spoken to Mr D yet and it would be rude if I didn't" that was what had surprised Percy the most when he was catching up on what he had missed while he was gone, Mr D stayed at camp, his wife moved in to camp, a portion of the strawberry fields were converted to grow grapes and a building was made so Mr D could make his wine, his ban on drinking was lifted but he could only get drunk two days a week, Poseidon told Percy that Dionysus would spend those two days getting drunk and then spend the five days after sobering up, well sober for Mr D was tipsy for everybody else so he still drank every day,
Percy walked into what he considered the lounge, although since it had no T.V it looked just like a waiting room, Mr D sat on a couch talking to a Dryad about the grapes, Percy could see that Dionysus was probably going to make a move on the poor nymph, "Excuse me, but I need to speak to Dionysus, it's urgent" the Dryad nodded her head quickly and fled the room, seems she realised the look Dionysus had in his eyes, "Perseus what do you think you are doing? Coming into my camp without my permission and interrupting me just as I was about to have some fun with that lovely nymph" Percy sighed "Dionysus if you had seduced that nymph, who didn't want to be seduced I might add' Zeus would punish you and I believe your wife may as well, since this was your original punishment before and the only other two groups you could join would be either me or Artemis you would be joining the hunters, Dionysus paled slightly, "why couldn't I go to your camp?"
"Because not only do I not want anybody loyal to Olympus in my camp for more then a day there are nymphs that visit my camp, there are also loads of monsters who you would probably annoy and be eaten by, Zeus wouldn't even contemplate sending you to me because war has only just recently been averted, the Olympian council doesn't want me declaring war on Olympus for something stupid you have done" Dionysus grumbled before looking back at Percy "well why are you even here?" "I came to see how Chiron was and also because Peleus needs training, once every month for two days Peleus will come to my camp, I will send Ladon to guard the tree that holds the golden fleece simply because he is used to guardian a tree, Peleus let people come near the tree, Ladon will not let anybody within ten metres of the tree or he will attack them, he can spit venom now because I blessed a few of the monsters in my army, it affected each differently but improved them all" Percy stood up and walked out of the room into the main entrance,
Just as Percy closed the door to the lounge Annabeth walked out of the room she had been talking to Chiron in, "Look Percy can we talk?" Percy simply nodded his head, he flashed to the beach, his guards flashed to just inside the tree line of the forest nearest the beach nearby, understanding that their master wanted to talk with the goddess alone, "I miss you Percy, I miss us, we always had so much fun and we loved each other so much, and then we slowly drifted apart and you became immortal and was kidnapped" Percy laughed, Annabeth looked at him confused " no Annabeth, what happened is this, we were in love, you stopped loving me, you led me on for three months, started cheating on me for another three months then I caught you, I left and became immortal, was captured and only now when I'm back and I'm more powerful than Zeus do you want to go back out with me, hubris is a terrible flaw Annabeth..." Annabeth looked stunned "But your flaw is loyalty, you have to start going back out with me. You need to!" Percy shook his head, "no Annabeth, you need me to go out with you, I'm happy as I am"
There was a bright flash and before the two stood an old man, he had a slight crick in his back and was hunched over his cane, at the top of the cane stood a sand counter, his eyes looked like molten gold, Percy's guardians flashed to his side an bowed their heads slightly "Perseus I am Chronos and it is time for me to train you in my domain" he held out his hand, Percy nodded once, grabbed his hand as was gone in a flash of golden light, the guardians each teleported right after their master did.
I think its best if from now on I say that I will upload one chapter a day on monday-friday and two on saturday/sunday. I may upload more but that depends on time and how much work I have to do, thanks for all the reviews and the helpful ideas, i hadn't planned to have Annabeth in this chapter (or story) but you guys were curious about what happened with her, so now I think that shows she won't really be in the story,
thanks for all the reviews, got any ideas or questions ask in a review or PM me :)
T.B