Chapter twelve- Epilogue.

The furies landed in front of me, but instead of attacking me and ripping me to shreds they said.

"Thank you"

"For what?" I asked.

"For retrieving Lord Hades's Helmet and for knocking out Ares-we saw it all and we are sorry for trying to kill you" The one in the middle wearing purple clothing said.

"Uh… nothing" I said. They grabbed the Helmet and vanished.

"Now, there's only one day left before summer starts, and we can't get to New York by bus in one day." Percy said. "So there's only one choice, we catch a plane." He said.

"But Percy! Zeus would blow you up!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"Percy's right, Annie. Besides, Zeus wouldn't have the balls to blow up a Satyr, his ultimate weapon, an excellent granddaughter and the last Namikaze" I said. She blushed at being called 'excellent'

"Okay" She said, a blush still on her cheeks.

"But how do we pay the passages?" Grover asked.

"Well, I've got the feeling" I said, showing the Lotus Hotel card "that we may have enough money" I finished.

When we arrived at the airport the woman selling the passages almost fainted when seeing how much money we had (Infinite). She handed us the passages and muttered something about geniuses getting younger and younger. Both me and Annabeth got delighted at being called genius.

We boarded the plane. The flight was relatively calm (Except for Percy flinching when he heard a single lightning).

When we arrived at New York we separated in two groups: Annabeth and Grover would go to Camp to tell Chiron that the mission was successful and Percy and I would go to Olympus to retrieve the lightning bolt to Zeus. I gave Annabeth a quick kiss and told her goodbye, then shook Grover's hand. Percy just shook their hands and gave'em small pats on their backs.

We caught a cab to the Empire State Building and paid with the Lotus card. When we arrived at the Empire State Building we got out of the cab and walked into the hall. It was a big, all marble-decorated hall with a regular desk with a chair where the security guy sat in. We walked towards him.

"Look, old man, like we don't wanna waste time I'll tell you what we came here for" I said. I grabbed the backpack (now it was with me) and showed the lightning bolt.

"That can't be-" He started to say.

"Oh, yes it is" Percy said.

"Okay, here's the key to Olympus, after you come back, give it to me" He instructed and handed us an elevator key. We entered the elevator, put the key in it's respective place and a button saying 600 appeared. We pressed it and while we were going up we started to talk.

"Hey, Percy, who do you like?" I asked.

"Well, when I met her I had a little crush in Annabeth, but then I found that Demeter girl, Jane and, in my opinion, she is more beautiful than Annabeth" Percy answered, blushing slightly. I gave him a death glare. How could any girl be possibly more beautiful than Annabeth? We talked about several more things before arriving at Olympus.

It was a beautiful place, with endless roads and ancient architecture, much like Athens three thousand years ago. While we passed by the road that led to a beautiful white palace, the nymphs, satyrs and minor gods that were on the road kneeled for us. It was weird. Not that I protested, though.

Crazy world.

Once we entered the palace, we saw twelve giant thrones in U form (much like CHB's cabins) and two giant people sat in the two main thrones. Zeus at the left and Poseidon at the right. Zeus had black hair, electrifying blue eyes (like mine) and wore a tuxedo. Poseidon wore the typical fisherman outfit, had sea-green eyes (like Percy's), wore an undone beard and had, as Percy, jet-black hair.

"Come here" Zeus ordered. We obeyed. Percy then kneeled, but I didn't.

"It's better for you to kneel" Percy hissed to me, but I simply ignored him, what seemed to bother Zeus.

"Now, I see you have my Master Lightning bolt. Give it to me." Zeus said. Percy (still kneeled) opened his backpack and pushed out the 'Spark'. He then put it at Zeus's feet, who extended his hand and the lightning bolt went straight into it. When it touched Zeus's hand it transformed into a real lightning bolt. Percy explained that Ares had stolen the 'spark' and I told them about Tartarus and Chronos.

"I'll go now to clean the human touch out of it" He said. "Oh, and Percy Jackson. If you fly once again I'll not hesitate in killing you" He finished, then vanished in a blinding light.

"My brother was always one for dramatic outputs. He could have done well like god of the theater of something" Poseidon said, going into human size. "Percy, son," He started. "You don't know how glad I am of you. You defeated the medusa, a fury, the minotaur, caught Ares's shield… even if I don't like it- Oh, yes Vicent Johnson. Thanks for saving my son's life and fighting off Ares- I just don't like him." Poseidon finished.

"I'm the one who should thank Percy, he saved my life several times on this mission- you too Poseidon, you gave us the pearls and saved our lives. Thank you." I said.

"That was nothing, kid." He said. "Now you two should go, Jane and Annabeth must be waiting for you." Poseidon said. We both blushed and walked towards the palace's gate. I stopped and turned around.

"Hey, Poseidon, can you tell your brother that the little cut on his left cheek was me? Thanks." I said. Not waiting for an answer, I grabbed Percy's right arm and hiraishined towards the reception of the Empire States Building.

We gave the key back to the receptionist and I hiraishined with Percy towards Thalia's pine. We crossed the camp borders with everyone we knew waiting for us. Chiron, Grover, Annabeth, Jane (I thought, as Percy was staring at her), Luke and the some other guys, including Clarisse (who was giving me death glares) were there as well.

That night we made a feast for the successful mission with REALLY unhealthy food and I was able to drink some Sake (which I spitted up instantly). Me and Annabeth kept making out for a whole hour (drunk) and then I don't remember anything.

The next day I woke up with Annie cuddled at my side. I sighed at noticing neither me nor her were naked. I decided to train in the arena in order not to wake her up. When I arrived I saw Percy and Luke walking towards the forest.

"Hey, guys! Wait a bit!" I shouted. They turned around.

"Oh! Vice! Come to join us! We're gonna drink some Coke!" Luke said, showing me coke tins he was holding. I thought it was strange at first, as we're not able to buy coke, but knowing that Luke was son of the god of thieves explained it all.

We arrived at the forest and sat on a rock near the stram. We begun drinking the cokes (that I considered better than Sake) and Luke threw a Coke on the stream, which I thought was strange, as it's forbidden to throw trash on the floor here.

"Hey, Luke, isn't it forbidden to throw those things on the nature?" Percy asked.

"I don't care, since I'm not coming here anymore" He said with an evil smirk. Wait, he couldn't mean…

"If you're wondering, yes, it was me who stole the 'spark' from the throne room. Those arrogant gods don't think someone could possibly steal something from them and leave it without security. It was just too easy. Of course, after finding out Zeus sent several gods to look for it, and Ares eventually found me. He said that he would bring me to Zeus, but then a voice came to me. My Lord's voice, and I made an offer Ares couldn't refuse. The offer of an all-out war." Luke finished.

"But why, Luke?" I exclaimed.

"Because, little hero, the gods are arrogant and do nothing more than sit around the whole day." Luke said. "A new golden era will begin" He said, standing up. He clapped his fingers and a black scorpion jumped out of a hole that had opened. The scorpion landed on my leg and soon another one landed on Percy's. I summoned my sword.

"That's no use, Johnson. This scorpion's tail is faster than the light" He said and disappeared in black smoke. The scorpion bitted me and jumped, but I cut him in the middle, same for Percy. I grabbed his arm. I could already feel my energies being drained and a terrible pain took over my body. I hiraishined to the big house, where Chiron and Mr. D were playing Poker.

"Help… someone" I managed to say, and then everything went blank.

I woke up in the big house and saw Percy on the other bed. What seemed strange was that Annie wasn't there.

"Hey, Percy, where's Annabeth?" I asked.

"She is going towards her family-there" He said, pointing at the window. I looked through it and sure enough there was a blond girl aka Annie going up Half-Blood Hill.

"Damn" I muttered. I stood up and a shooting pain took over me. Shit. But I just couldn't let Annie go without kissing her good bye. I ran to where she was (Already up the hill).

"Annie!" I shouted. She turned around so quickly I didn't believe she didn't broke her back in the process.

"Vice?! What are you doing? You should be in bed resting!" She exclaimed.

"You're right. There's a shooting pain going through my leg, but I just couldn't let you go without kissing you goodbye" I said. She smiled and came towards me. We kissed.

"I love you" I whispered in her ear after we broke apart.

"I love you too" She whispered back.

"Annabeth, is this gentleman the Vice you wrote us about?" A man I thought must be Annie's dad said.

"Yeah" She answered, blushing slightly.

"Well, if you're not going to hurt my daughter, I give you my blessing" He said.

"Even if I tried, what would never happen, to hurt Annie in some way, I wouldn't be able to." I said, blushing so much so that my whisker marks were now red.

"Hey, Vice, what're you going to do now? Are you going to go to your parents and explain everything to them?" She asked. My blush vanished.

"No… my parents died in a car accident when I was eight." I said with a sad voice. "So I'll stay at camp since the boarding school I went to must've expelled me after the 'I'm a terrorist' incident." I said. At the side of my eye I caught a glimpse of Mr. and Mrs. Chase smiling. Were they happy because my life was a disgrace?

"Well, Vice" Mrs. Chase, an oriental woman with two little kids holding her hands, started. "Me and my husband were thinking… since you are orphan and love my step-daughter so much, we think we could adopt you- one more person in the family is always welcome." She finished. I couldn't believe my ears. Was I really going to have a family? A family that loved me? Would I really live with people that loved me?

"Are you serious?" I asked.

"Of course we are" Said Mr. Chase. I looked over to Annabeth and she nodded. I looked over the kids who were shouting things like 'we are gonna have a big bro!' or 'Mummy! Can he sleep in our bathroom?'. I knew I had the Chase's approval.

"So, do you agree?" Asked Mr. Chase with a smile.

"Of course" I said, trying to fight back tears, but failing miserably. Me and Annabeth went to my cabin (my leg had stopped hurting as the Namikaze healing speed had taken control of the bite, but I was still pale) to Prepare my things to go to the Chase residence. After we packed my things I went towards the Chases, hugged my new father, mother and brothers. On the way to the Chase residence Annabeth insisted on sitting on my lap. I couldn't be happier. I had a new family, a new home, a new life.