"Remember when I said the Ace had two friends who knew of the secret he kept? Yeah, well, he was kind of in training with those friends under Hestia and Mars. At that time, there was no pack. Although, what they did became one of the traditions in the pack. You see, they were having a problem with one of the Ace's...condition" Colt says
"Condition?" Annabeth asked.
"Er, well, you guys know that every demigod has godly energy in them, right?" L said. They nodded.
"Let's just say that the Ace has too much energy in him, and at that time, he had a very huge wound around his body and back that the excess energy didn't allow it to stop bleeding" L says.
Artemis eyes widened. The moon shaped scar on his front!
"Anyway, whenever he tries to use some of his...inherited powers, the energy is at war with the healing process of the wound. So Lady Hestia suppressed the Ace's powers and lock them away. But that wouldn't do any good, because sooner or later, the Ace will need his powers back. So Lord Mars had convinced Lady Hestia to teach them something that Zeus forbade since the birth of the first half blood"
Artemis gasps. "You don't mean..." she says and L only nodded to that. "But that's impossible! It is one of the very few laws of Zeus never to be broken!"
"Well, our companions are living proof that it's not..." L trailed off and Artemis's eyes widened. "You mean they are..."
Colt continued reading before Artemis would burst.
"This is one of the secrets about demigods that the gods have kept. To understand this secret, we will have to a question and to the meaning of what a 'god' is.
The question: how do gods or goddesses get their domains?
How did Lord Zeus get the sky? How did Dionysius have power over wine?
Sometimes we forget that the gods are not humans.
They are not flesh and bone, blood and sweat like us.
They are of no brain of no heart—"
"Excuse me!" Artemis says.
"Oops. I did not mean it that way, Lady Artemis.
We forget that they are in fact a big mass of energy that has consciousness.
They get their domains via having their energy be compatible to them.
And so, if we are demigods, we shall inherit the slightest—if not none—of their powers, and be half human, and half gods. Or in other words, half pure energy, are we not?" Colt asks.
Annabeth seems to be taken in. "If you say it that way..."
"That would explain how to make a demigod a god: by making the pure energy in us lose, and burning out our mortality. And that would explain how Dionysius was not made a minor god of the sky or lightning. His energy was more inclined and found wine more compatible to convert to.
And that is how Lady Hestia explained it to us. That's the simplest way to explain an inkling of it because only the gods actually understand it wholly.
And so, this the training that the gods prohibited. Making it known to demigods how to use the pure energy side of their heritage.
There were two main reasons: one, it is not wise to grant people with too much power. Two, they did not want their children to die trying to learn how to do this.
Now, this is the goal of the training: to make the three of them control that pure energy and to lock it away securely.
This is the danger of learning how to use the pure energy: if you do not will the energy to be inclined to something, then, it could become anything—in short, the power of creation"
The hunters gasps.
"But!"
"That's!"
Artemis was fuming in the inside. Why the hell did her step brother be foolish enough to tell them this.
"Now, all of you must understand that once you let yourself be known to the pure energy within us that is dormant against our mortality, you only have two fates: master it or be incinerated by it.
There are only three demigods in all of the history of demigods who were able to control all of their pure energy. Yup, you guessed it right. It was the three of them.
They had control of every drop of energy that is them. Now, once they did that, there was only one problem: what to do with the energy. The energy must be inclined to something or it will lash out.
And so, the three of them let it be inclined to one thing for each of them
To the first one" Colt says looking discreetly at Thalia "The energy was made to be induced into a virtue, and then out of that energy came a little tigress—a tigress to represent dignity. The dignity that whoever else it is that rules the jungle, the tiger always knows and is sure of the power and capability it holds.
To the second one, the energy was made to be induced with duty, and out of the energy was formed into a small lion cub. After all, the lion has always prided himself to be the king and as such makes sure that he always knew what his duty was.
And to our Ace, the energy was filled with respect." Colt says thinking that among Mars's three values, he was inclined to respect. Percy always did respect people who deserved it. He respected nature when he whole heartedly believed his friend, the Lord of the Wild, when he did not force that river naiad to use her water to clean the stables of horses that wanted to eat him, when he respected the decisions of some of the gods like Hermes and said sorry about questioning them, and when he respected power that he was always humble enough because of it. Colt continued, "Out of the energy formed his wolf cub, Aku. He was named from the one of the gods of the moon. The wolf, after all, is in its own league. And it was always respected and it had also always respected others
So technically, the Ace was momentarily safe, because his pure energy was used in creating Aku. Our companions always helped a lot when it comes to controlling power.
BUT, after that, all three of them where induced to a forty day comma because of the amount of energy they had taken away from themselves. It took forty days to get their energy back" Colt barked a laughter and so did the other members of the Pack.
"This became the tradition of the Pack. But like I said, only the three of them were able to master all of the energy they had. Most of the Pack can barely take hold of more than 15 percent of all their inherited godly energy." Colt says.
"It makes the coma shorter too!" someone barked out laughing
"Yeah, it only took us like, ten days?" J says.
"But that's not the hardest part about having to create our companions," Q groaned.
The hunters raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"Well, that's because once they were...uhm...born, the problem was that, it's not like they were attach to us. It's just that we had energy that we needed to use or else we'll explode, and it just so happens that they used that energy. But that doesn't mean they are attached to us in anyways!"
"In fact, they wanted nothing to do with us!"
"We let them join their own prides, packs, dens, or whatever. The only reason their following us is that we convinced them that we are worthy"
"How?"
All of the Pack flinched—including Thalia—and their eyes were automatically filled with fear.
"by some...uncomfortable...way"
"So, are you like connected with your companion by any way?" Annabeth asked.
"Sure. We can speak to them...er, well it's kind of different for them. We speak to them, and we feel what they feel, so we know their reply. They are animals after all, so all they can give us is to know what they are feeling or...images. I don't really know how to explain the feeling of them ...'showing' us other than 'images'"
Meanwhile, Annabeth's head was turning gears. Talking to the pack, she had confirmed a lot of suspicions, but to her annoyance, talking to them brought her new ones twice as much.
A/N: SOME SHOUTOUTS TO SOME OF THE REVIEWERS!
Before everything else, it's been a long time since I've thanked you guys! Not just the reviewers, but also the viewers! I really appreciate you reading my story, let alone reviewing it, and don't worry! I read all reviews too! Thanks again!
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