Well thank you very much all for reviewing. I'll be trying to update a bit more often but yeah it's kinda hard what with school and all...

Anyway here it goes.

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Percy's Pov

When I woke up Artemis was already gone. As I looked outside and realised it was well past ten in the day, I smiled imagining Artemis actually staying in bed later then dawn.

Nope that's impossible... After all thousands of years had trained her to be a perfect huntress, there was no way she would allow herself comfort during times of war.

Anyway I got up ready to do something useful of my day when my lower back erupted in pain. Fuck, I cursed. I had forgotten the wound I had received during the battle with Castellan. I bit down on my lip hard until I tasted the metallic taste of a liquid I by now knew very well: blood. I lay back down and closed my eyes, massaging my lower back. I sighed thinking the next few days were going to be a bit of a bore. I reopened my eyes trying to think of something interesting to do when I realised the room had becomes shadows... Of course I could see but anyone else that did not serve my Father would be in the incapacity of seeing the end of their fingers. I stood up the pain erupting in my back once again before dropping down to one knee, a new wave of pain shooting through the lower half of my back.

"Father", I said, my teeth clenched.

The shadows grabbed me and dropped me down onto the bed.¨

"Son, when I asked you to defend my throne and to become my son, I did not want you to become incapacitated, to put your life on the line for my honor several times.", he said a smile tugging at the corners of his pale lips.

"Do not worry Your Grace, I will make you king. Even if I have to die too see it through, I WILL MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE", tears started to form in my eyes as I stared the man that had saved me and had made my own dreams come true.

He smiled at me before leaning down and brushing his lips against my forehead.

"I know my son, I know. Now sleep and once you wake your back will be healed, and the armies of hell will be at the doorstep of this place. You will need to be ready..." He smiled one last time before closing my eyes and melting in a pool of shadows. I felt drowsy once again and fell in a deep sleep.

Artemis's Pov

Damn that man or Veelan or whatever... Why the hell did he have to be such a pain in the ass...? I mean after having the nerve to disappear willingly for more than 300 years, he spends more time in the hospital then with me. Why did he have to be so noble?

"Because you would not love him should he be selfish", said a voice in my head.

I sighed. Yeah that was most probably true but even though it had hurt her more the she had thought possible when she had witnessed him getting stabbed in the back, helpless, in the front rows, unable to do anything.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by a gentle voice I knew well:

"Milady?"

"Oh Thalia, please sit" I said as I conjured a chair for her.

We were currently in a tent outside of some random forest where there had been a large decrease in monster activity. Of course that would be very helpful, would I not be as experienced as I was... I suspected that a much stronger monster was now lurking around these woods. That or someone was taking care of them. Either way I needed to know what was causing it.

"We have found tracks, the girls suspect it's some kind of hybrid"

"A hybrid you say? What caused them to come to this conclusion?"

"Milady, the tracks are the ones of a leopard"

"A leopard? Well apart from its location what's so bizarre about it?"

"There's only one set of paws, Lady Artemis. Do you know many leopards that walk on their hind legs?"

"Ah, that is quite intriguing, but we will have to continue our investigations later. Father wants us back on Olympus. The enemy is on the move."

"Right away Milady"

And with that she walked out, leaving me alone in my tent. I turned around and grabbed my bow and all other equipments needed in a battle. I stepped outside and clapped my hands, instantly my tent folded and fell inside my pocket. Damn, I thought, how much was I going to miss this? I doubted any of this would be the same again, well if we lost anyway...

No Artemis, don't think negative Percy will wake up and he'll win this for us.

"Milady we're ready! Girls prepare for teleportation!"¨

I nodded before waving my hand and we reappeared in Olympus, thunder flashing. The call of the gods. My father was summoning all of us to the Throne Room.

I immediately went there. Upon arrival I realised the situation had worsened while I was gone. The throne room had not been prepared but rather enlarged to about five times its usual size. Nothing could have prepared me for the sight I was seeing... Tents had been strung everywhere, the Thrones were gone and had been replaced with smaller seats, on which each of the gods sat on. I advanced to what I suspected was my own seat. It was hard to miss, silver images of my most amazing hunts where etched in blinding silver. But the most amazing detail was the wolf howling at the moon. It looked beautiful. I sat delicately on it before looking up to face the other gods.

"Artemis, glad you could join us sister" Ares spat out looking angrier then I had ever seen him before.

"As, am I Ares" I answered him with a blinding smile, or rather what I hoped was a blinding smile. Anyway passing on.

"Daughter, have you found anything interesting while you were away." My father asked with a kind smile. I studied him a bit before answering. He was different, his hair had streaks of gray hair and he seemed to have more wrinkles than usual. I guess the troubles of this war have been weighing heavy on his mind.

"Artemis? Something on my face child?" he said with a curious expression on his face. I realised I had been watching him for far too long, without saying anything.

"Um... Right, I am sorry Father. Well we found tracks of something that would appear to be hybrid of some sort. Half leopard, and we do not know of his or her upper half."

"A leopard you say?" Everyone turned to the source of the voice, and I immediately scowled upon finding it. Next to Aphrodite's throne, stood Silena fiddling with her bowstring.

"No need to scowl Lady Artemis, I am merely a friend nothing more nothing less. Please believe me I do not wish to be any ill feelings between you and I, after all I already have a boyfriend. I believe the other Veelans would be very amused to find out you're jealous of me and the relationship I hold with Perce. Believe me Milady he is merely my best friend" She said with what I guessed was sincerity in her voice. Even after all this I couldn't bring myself to trust her. Wow possessive much I thought.

"Hmm if you say so. Anyway we are not here to discuss this. Yes I said a leopard. What of it?"

"Hmm so he's here. I guess this means it's time."

"Time for...?" asked Athena.

"Time for him to choose sides. See when Percy said all of the Primordials had chosen side he wasn't completely right. One of them has not picked a side." While saying all this she had a thoughtful look on her face.

"Alright I'll go for it. Who's the mighty old bloke that hasn't chosen a side yet?" Even with this whole situation Hermes made everyone smile. But as soon as he said that, the wind started to rise, with so much intensity most people were stuck to their thrones. Only Zeus managed to keep himself from falling back.

And then there was a flash and yet another strong energy signature was detected. When the light cleared away a man stood in the middle of our ring of seats. He was full of scars, his face was hardly recognizable. He had white hair, styled into what could be considered a "Father Christmas" haircut. But what stroke me the most were his eyes. They were blue, a swirling blue, then they changed to the colour the clouds had on a rainy day, and then they changed again to a cyclone colour. He truly looked fearsome.

"Well the mighty old bloke would be me", he said in a voice that made most gods shiver in their seats. Again only Zeus seemed unaffected by it. I was wondering why this man and my Father seemed to know each other.

Silena jumped down and bowed, she opened her mouth to say something but was cut short by someone else.

"Well brother I was wondering when you would mak3e your appearance."

Once again every one turned around. There standing in the shadows stood one of the contenders to the Throne: Erebus.

The man turned around and bowed down.

"Erebus I have decided. You shall be the next King and I shall lend you my forces to fight, with your own, as your own."

"Well Ouranos that surprises me yet pleases me greatly"

At that everybody gasped in shock. And all heads turned to Aphrodite.