I'm baaack. Thanks for all the reviews and the answer to all your questions on whether Percy fainted from happiness or something is to READ THE CHAPTER.
I woke up to four pairs of eyes looking down on me but I couldn't clearly see their faces as my vision was blurred. I tried to get up but felt woozy and ended lying back down on my bed. I felt a warm hand on my chest and felt my spirits began to lift up.
"How long was I asleep?" I asked with my eyes closed.
"Around twenty minutes." I heard a voice say on my right. From the tone I guessed it was Hestia. I tried to remember what happened and ended up coming to an awkward conclusion to me fainting.
"Did your kiss make me faint?" I asked directing it to Hestia and felt a sudden burning sensation on my chest. "Jeez! I'm kidding. Don't you goddesses ever take a joke?" I said opening my eyes which were no longer bleary. I could see that Apollo and Hestia were on the sides of my bed while Hermes and Artemis at the end of it.
"Tell me about it cousin. I guess girls just can't understand humor." Apollo said and was immediately slapped by Artemis.
"What was that for?" Apollo pouted holding his cheek.
"I happen to be a girl and so does your aunt." Artemis said smiling at her success in slapping her brother.
"Hermes, you're with me on this, aren't you?" Apollo asked his brother for he had run out of comebacks.
"No cousin, you're on your own as I know that if I were to join you, I would surely get my ass handed to me." Hermes said throwing his hands in to the air.
"Why you little-" Apollo began to say before being cut off by Hestia.
"Not in front of the child." She said loudly.
"What child?" I asked looking around in search of it.
"She meant you, Perce." Hermes said laughing.
"WHAT! I am not a child. I am seventy-one years old." I said glaring at Hermes.
"You may be old in mortal terms, but to us gods you're still a child." Artemis said smirking.
"I AM NOT A CHILD." I yelled.
"Says the person throwing a tantrum." Hestia said almost bursting from laughter. I cursed loudly at my aggressiveness, which made everyone silent.
"Where did you learn that kind of language young man?" Hestia asked surprised.
"Really Hestia, I spent nine years in a camp filled with teenage demigods and another fifty years training with a bunch of old legends. Did you really expect them to not curse out loud?" I said smirking at Hestia's facial expression.
"Thanks for caring though, MOTHER." I said dragging the last word as I knew she hated to be called that.
"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I-"she began to yell before I cut her off with a kiss and thankfully I didn't faint this time.
"Oh get a room." Hermes said covering his eyes.
"We're already in one, which brings me to ask you a question. Why in the name of Hades did I faint and does anyone else know that I'm here?" I asked loudly.
Now, before you all think that I've gone crazy, let me remind you all that I have a craze for looking AWESOME and fainting from a kiss would surely put a damper on my plan.
"The answer to the second question would be no one else," Hestia said," But the answer to the second question will have to be answered by-"
"THE ALL AMAZING APOLLO." Apollo interrupted loudly.
"More like annoying." Artemis muttered under her breath but I guess Apollo chose to ignore it.
"Even with all our powers and the curse of Achilles, your body still needs to have its rest. So once your adrenalin levels were taped out, you fainted." Apollo said in a doctor-ish method. "The only thing I can recommend is that you take a nap once in a while or stay in water or fire when in a huge battle." He said proudly, which made me guess that this was the only time he could talk smartly.
"Great, just great. How in the world am I to defeat The Titans and Giants when I faint only after defeating Zeus." I said exasperated.
"Oh calm down you big baby. You forget that Zeus had years of practice and had used the full blunt of his powers whereas the Titans and Giants will still be rusty from years of imprisonment. And because of your huge ego, you couldn't resist having at least one major fight a day since you arrived, which I think is a factor for you fainting." Hestia said in a bookish tone. She looked quite happy at the explanation and completely enthralled when Apollo agreed to her statements.
"Athena, will you please get out of my fiancé's body." I said getting a blush from Hestia.
"Just because I'm your fiancé, you can't expect me to as dumb as you." Hestia retaliated.
"Okay, calm down you two. We have to go to the war council." Artemis said whereas Hermes and Apollo were still standing in shock.
"Hey guys, you awake?" I said and waved my hands in front of their eyes which seemed to wake them out of their stupor.
"Even though we knew what you were going to ask Hestia it just seems weird that you two are going to get married." Hermes said.
"Why? What's wrong with that?" I asked.
"Dude, you'll be both our cousin and our uncle." Apollo answered, apparently still trying to wrap his head around the concept of it.
"We're in the middle of war preparations and you two worry about on how Percy will be perceived." Artemis said shaking her head at their antics. They both shrugged their shoulders and we all transported back into the throne room.
We had arrived just in time as the Gods and campers were already in their seats. Apollo, Artemis and Hermes returned to their thrones while Hestia and I returned to our places near the Hearth. I looked up and noticed that Zeus still had some scratched on his face and a bandage on his left arm. I avoided looking at Poseidon and the other gods, but I still could feel their eyes on me.
Everyone had become silent and I pretty much guessed that they were still in awe at my powers. I lounged in my throne and looked directly right at Zeus and asked my obviously famous question.
"Okay, I know that every time I ask this question, an argument or fight is brought up. Nevertheless, I'll ask it again: Where in the name of you all are the Giants and Titans located?" I asked making it clear to everyone that I meant business. I noticed that Zeus was glaring at me but he answered nonetheless.
"They were last seen somewhere in the east of Canada." Zeus said reluctantly but I didn't care because my mind was running a mile a minute.
"Why in Canada? What happened to Alaska?" I asked going through all the information I had about Canada and how it could be useful to the enemy.
"Isn't it obvious you stupid son of Posei-" Athena began to say before I fiercely interrupted her.
"I am no son of Poseidon." I yelled which surprised her quite a bit. "I have abandoned that status a long time ago."
"How dare you interrupt me, you foolish demigod." Athena said angrily. I guess her ego was still the same, but I had to reduce it.
"Foolish? Hmm, I don't think you have any right to call me foolish considering I defeated your father." I said standing up. I noticed that Zeus and a few other gods were trying to shrink into their thrones.
"You merely stopped him from continuing and you had the support of a few gods, you couldn't defeat us all at once." Athena said obviously mad that I had disrespected her. I held out my hands and an orb of water appeared on the right while a large fire appeared on my left.
"For a goddess of wisdom, you're pretty dumb. Didn't you even consider the fact that you might need my help for the Giants?" I said referring to the rule that a demi-god and God were both needed to take down a Giant. Athena was about to counter but I interrupted yet again
"Oh, you know what. I'll join Gaea; at least she respects me enough to know I mean business. I'm sure she'll find something useful for me to do" I threatened as I heard a collective gasp from the campers behind me. Athena and the others began to get worried at my threat. Hestia, on the other hand, was smirking to the side of me at my ploy.
"Hestia, please convince Percy not to do so." Hera begged her sister. "He is right, we do need his help." I guess she learned what I could do to her husband.
"Yes Percy, we really do." Athena said realizing that if I were to join the opposing side, they would be finished. Who knew she could change her views so quickly.
"Really, after all I've done and said, you still want little old me's help." I said mockingly.
"Please son, we really need your help." This was surprisingly said by Poseidon.
"Why should I give it to you? You were my father yet you replaced me with an inferior, and you didn't think twice about what that backstabbing daughter of Athena said about my disappearance. Everyone did the same except for Apollo, Artemis and Hermes who all looked for me, tried to find me, never gave hope. While the rest of you sat there and believed the hoax." I ranted absolutely pissed at my father for even asking my help. The nerve of the guy, first he disowns me and now he wants me.
I felt a warm hand on my shoulder which suddenly made me calm. I knew that feeling, it was Hestia and she was calming me down. My rage began to simmer till I was back on my makeshift throne back to the normal me. I was still pissed but I no longer felt the need to punch anyone in the face. Everyone around me had gone silent still trying to take in my obvious hatred for them all.
"You know something else" I said breaking the silence, "None of you even apologized for your actions, unlike Marcus who at first being a jerk, vouched for me and even helped in the battle when Ares had jumped in to screw me over."
"I'm sorry." Annabeth said but put a hand on her mouth after I turned in my seat to glare at her.
"You're sorry? Ha! That doesn't cut it." I spat. "What you did first was bad but what you told others about it was even worse. At least Marcus had the decency to stand up for me, while you stayed still and kept quiet."
I knew that my emotional level was pretty high but can you blame me, this girl is the embodiment of betrayal. Even with years of training, both mentally and physically, I still had a little bit of pent up anger left behind. Remembering Theseus's and Orion's advice, I took deep breaths and tried to remember a happier, more calming time which pretty much involved Hestia.
While doing so, my brain clicked on the reason as to why the enemy was in the eastern side of Canada. They must have known that the Gods would take a few precautions against their previous location, Alaska, and found that east Canada had a few similar traits.
To simmer your obvious confusion as to how the Gods could have set up precautions, let me remind you that even if the Gods have no control in Alaska, the demi-gods of both camps can still go up there and set up small protection camps. Gosh, I can almost hear Orion commenting that I have gone over to the dark (nerdy) side.
"Now back to business" I said, breaking the second long silence for the day. "I'm sure that most of you have already set up defenses against the enemy, but what questions me is as to why you have even let them band together?"
"They all appeared at the same time making it hard to stop them all. All of them have already formed except for Kronos and Gaea who haven't appeared because you destroyed them beyond repair." Athena said crestfallen at her obvious low position in the war.
"Then who's leading the war?" I asked formulating a plan in my head.
"Porphyrion for the giants and Prometheus for the titans." Poseidon said. I guess he wants to get back on my good side. Ha! I'm so not going to make it easier for him.
"I still can't believe that those two are working together." Athena said angrily.
"Leave that factor out for now as they can never be together for long" I hypothesized "They both are equally vain and obviously will have issues. With this in mind, I have already thought of a plan that would probably reduce the amount of casualties on our side."
Before you all think that I've become a boring nerd (or a son of Athena) let me again remind you, that Theseus practically rammed battle strategy into my head and that I was basically repeating what Hestia said to me after I had woken up for my short fainting spell.
"You have a plan? Oh me, where is the dumb Perseus we all knew? How can you have already thought of a plan where as I have thought of several, all of which include a large amount of bloodshed?" Athena said, shocked that I was actually smart.
"Why, cousin, do you view me as stupid? I learnt everything I have from a person you betrayed." I said recalling that she told Theseus to abandon his love, Ariadne, on an island. I guess she remembered who I was talking about and immediately shut up.
"I can basically guess that they're coming after the campers this time as we were the main reasons as to why they lost the last two battles." I said and got a few nods from the Gods.
"And from personal experience it may take them two or more weeks to reach camp Half-blood as they would have to move a large force to attack us." Again a few nods.
"My plan is to wait for them to attack." I said and noticed that Athena had her head up in shock at my proposal of attack. "BUT, we ask the roman campers to aid the Greeks in the battle. I'll train all of them in the ways I have learned."
"Not bad Perseus, I see Theseus has thought you well." Chiron said obviously happy that my plan involved no one to go out of camp boundaries to attack the enemy. I looked at him for the first time since I arrived at Olympus and noticed that he was genuinely happy at me, but I was still mad at him and chose to ignore his statement.
"All those in favor of the plan?" Zeus asked which was followed by raised hands from all the Gods, including Athena.
"Good, meeting dismissed." I said ignoring the glares from Zeus.
I turned to the campers and took in all their faces for the first time since I arrived. I noticed that they were all scared of what I was going to do and got even more frightened when I raised my hands higher. I summoned some fire to my right and an orb of water to my left.
"Campers, training will begin tomorrow. And now I say good-bye and hope to get a peaceful, uninterrupted rest." I said directing the last statement at Hestia who was smirking. She got up and walked beside me knowing what I was going to do with the contents in my hands.
I brought them together, causing the same effect that happened in the battle with Zeus, a billowing steam cloud, and ran out the door, with Hestia, and laughing maniacally. Hey, I've got to keep my status as the AWESOME guy of entrances and exits and if doing that makes me immature then I'm immature. Deal with it.
Me and Hestia reached the doorway to the Olympian grounds where she teleported the both of us to my small make-shift camp, where I fell into a deep sleep with Hestia in my arms.
I hope this chapter makes up for not updating in awhile but I had exams. Anyway, if any of you thought this was boring wait till the next one as it's going to have a lot of action.
Thanks you all my readers and REVIEW what you thought of the story.
I have a question to ask all you readers: Is it okay for a guy to like and write romance stories? Please review the answer cause it's been slightly bugging my conscious.