Previously
"Your not wrong, but the others are even worse. Who is your Lord? Kronos? Gaia? They are even worse than them. The age of the gods is far better than any of the previous ones. So no I won't surrender now let's continue the fight." I answer and jump at him with my spear thrust forward, he sidesteps and strikes me which I block with my shield. We fight with even more intensity then before. We are always at each others throats. My opponent would duck and dive with such agility it would make Artemis proud and his speed Hermes. His skill with the swords matched that of mine. His blood red eyes had commas in it and it felt like they bore right into my soul. This guy was insane, he was as good as the immortal campers put together. I got a lucky hit and his hood was pulled down. The sight in front of me paralysed me "but... But... your suppose to be dead... Percy."
Now
"Well... is it really that surprising? On my fourth quest I had crashed my own funeral. I also keep doing the impossible look at me, I can fight you to standstill, the most skilled Olympian goddess, far more skilled then anyone else. Is it really surprising that I'm alive." Percy replies back
"Well I am the most skilled Olympian because I'm the goddess of Warcraft and being skilled is my job. What I don't get is why you are going against Olympus when you had told Hestia that you wouldn't do that?" I replied back
"WHY? WHY YOU ASK ME. Everything I had said to Hestia about not taking revenge went to hell when Olympus decided to kill my children in hopes of crippling me. I am going to tear down Olympus brick by brick all the gods will be our slaves. My master has promised me that the gods who ordered the attack will be mine to do whatever I want." He growls
"Percy your mistaken no one even knew you were alive. Olympus didn't kill your children, at least not that I'm aware off." I reply trying to calm him down, I can feel the powers radiating from him as he gets angry, the killing intent is just insane the pressure is like nothing I have face against a mortal "We don't kill children Percy. Only the older gods use to back during ancient Greece, the gods don't do that now. Please trust me."
"The only reason I haven't gone full on is because I'm trying go incapacitate you not kill you. The offer still stands, since you had been on my side that day, I'm trying to repay you and I know you wouldn't have killed my children. So once again, please just surrender."
Damm I need to do something. I have to try and bring him in his right mind I was thinking when it suddenly hit me. "I will make you a counter offer." He nods for me to go ahead "Give me two days to look into it. I will investigate and get behind this whole thing. I will find the god who had your children killed. If it's minor god I will hand him or her to you if it's a major god I won't be able to just hand him to you so I will give you the name and you can proceed how ever you like with it. If Olympus has nothing to do with it or if it's aminor god who I handed to you, you will fight for our side once again. Has your rightful place as Hestia champion. What do you say."
"It seems reasonable. You will swear on the Styx to meet me here in 48 hours and not tell anyone the Piper is a spy. Then I will take you up on your offer." He replies
"I swear on the Styx to abide by your conditions. I will do my best to being the person to justice Percy, I am the goddess of justice after all." I smile "You know I think Artemis feels a little guilty now about banishing you. Maybe she is seeing her mistake, i hope she and the others do."
"You should get going Athena, you have only 48 hours to investigate. I will let you know that an empousa named Kellie. We had tortured her to get information and she said it was the gods. We didn't detect any lies and she had been tortured so I still do believe her. I hope you prove her wrong. My kids names are Ashlee and David" With that he powers his hood again and opens a portal. The landscape beyond it looks like... Tartarus.
"Percy I have another question. How many people were you on good terms with. As in on my side." I ask him
"Well there was you, my father, lady Hestia, lady Aphrodite, Chiron and Thalia. Why?"
"I'll tell you when I meet you next. If I'm right then it should be helpful to find out who do it." I reply back. My mind racing with ideas is it truly possible.
"Oh and Athena call me Grafam." He tells me and I nod.
Aphrodite's pov
I was sitting in my palace doing my make up when I here my daughter Piper's prayers. They seem so desperate and heart broken. She has almost never prayed to me like this. So I do the only logical thing, I flash to her location. I look around and see that it's a hotel room, a trashed hotel room. It looked like a hurricane had passed here. I turn around to see Piper sitting on the bed sobbing. I walk towards her and hug her trying to comfort her. "Shhh calm down baby. What happened? Can you tell me?"
"I... I... cheated." Came a muffled voice
"What do you mean honey? What did you cheat in and why is it so bad?" I ask what can be so bad about cheating unless...
"Percy... I cheated on Percy." She choked out. Damm it girl, she cheated on her husband and now she is the one crying. Is she a idiot?
"Why the hell did you cheat on him and why are you crying if you did it." I screech "He was perfect and you cheated on him and then you cry. What's wrong with you."
"I know you must think I'm an idiot but listen to the whole thing" she says in a shockingly calm voice. She then goes on to say how she was drugged with an Aphrodisiac and was taken advantage of it.
"Piper calm down. This wasn't your fault, you were the victim here. He took advantage of your weakened state which he put you in. 90% of the thing was him forcing you to do it, 10% was you being desperate. Don't cry dear, I'm sure Percy will understand." I sooth her "Who was the guy though?"
"That's the main problem. ItwasJasonGrace.Hedidthis." she mumbles out
"Who?" I ask again cautiously
"Jason Grace. He did it" she says and starts sobbing again
"God Piper! You had to do it with him of all people." I scream at her "and that piece of shit is going to die. I am going to rip him apart and feed him to Hephaestus' machines. They are worse then Tartarus I tell you."
"I was so horny and he seemed the best source near by to who could satisfy me. I regret it, my hormone filled brain made a crazy big mistake, but I can't take it back. I would do anything to take it back, but I can't." She starts sobbing again
"Damm this complicates things. But I still think you should come clean to him. It would be better if he found this out from you instead of someone else." I answer her honestly "I know it sounds idiotic but trust me when I say you can't keep this a secret, it will come out some time or the other and he will be even more pissed then."
"I can't do it mom. I can't face him, I can't tell it to him. I'd rather just breakup with him and give him some idiotic excuse, he deserves better than me. All this time the most he has done is look at another girl. That too is just once in a while. 500 years and I don't even think he has even though of cheating on me, not even a spark of the thought. I never felt jealous because I knew he would always be with me. Yet I allowed that piece of shit to have his way with me. I feel awful and guilty, I can't face him and tell him that I did all that awful stuff. What should I do mom." She looks up at me "You have a lot of experience in this area so any advice."
That bitch "Hey I am helping you here. You don't go around making fun of me!" I scream
"Owww. Sorry mom, I didn't mean it that way. Still any advice?" She asks me with so much desperation in her eyes.
"Well tell him the whole story, most importantly you being drugged. He wont breakup with you or anything sure things won't be the same anymore but it's for the best" I explain it to her and she seems to take it quite well.
"Mom can I ask you something?" She asked me and I nodded "Did Olympus give the order to kill 2 children recently names being Ashlee and David?"
Huh why would she ask things like that "No not that I know of but why do you ask?"
She narrows her eyes at me "Your sure? You weren't like sitting and doing your makeup?"
"Well I was doing that too but I do pay attention to everything that going on in there. There was nothing concerning anybody named David or Ashlee. Why do you ask?"
"They were my kids." She starts sobbing again "They were so little "10 and 8 year olds. I don't know where we went wrong. We kept a low profile for 200 years! No hunting any monsters or quest from gods. Nothing! Yet someone had them killed to try and cripple us apparently."
"So that's why you were spying? You believed Olympus did it? I guess you have your sources who told you the gods did. So you want me to check if it's true or not cause your not so sure now?" She nods "I guess I can do that. Take care sweetie, I'll be going now and don't worry I'm sure Percy will give you another chance and no I won't go after him, I'm over him now. See ya" I flash away to Olympus.
Athena's pov
Damm this is proving to be tougher than I though. I was lost in my thoughts when I suddenly bumped into Aphrodite. "Oh hey Athena! Do you know anything about two kids named Ashlee and David?"
I narrow my eyes at her. What the hell how does she know about them? Did she kill them? No not possible she wouldn't have asked me about them then? Is she investigating it like me? "Why are you asking about them? Do you know who they are?" What the hell no problem in asking it? She most probably knows already "Who killed them?"
Her eyes widen comically and she asks "Who told you about that? I'm sure piper didn't? "
So Piper came clean to her. I guess both of us are in the same boat. I can tell her about it cause I swore not to reveal about Piper, she already knows so "Not here meet me at the nearest Starbucks." And flash away to there.
I sit at the nearest table available and wait for Aphrodite. She shows herself in a minute with a completely different outfit, she hadn't put much work into it but she still looked beautiful as always. "Well now do you want to tell me how you know about it?" She asks me as she sits down opposite me.
"Well Percy told me." I answer
"Whoa hold on a minute. You met Percy? Why? When? How?"
"I just meet him not an hours ago. Well details are not important. Long story short I have 2 days to find out if a god did it or not? If a god did do it lets hope it was a minor god, so that I can hand him over to Percy." I say "So what do you know about them?"
"Nothing much. Piper asked me if Olympus had condemned them to death. I told her no so she asked me try and investigate." She answers "On another topic, Jason Grace drugged Piper with a Aphrodisiac and took advantage of her. Do you think Piper being horny because of it and a little extra cause she is my daughter and then being fucked by Jason when her resistance started falling apart will have adverse effects on Perciper?"
"Jason did what?" I scream at her. How dare he do that to her, he had no right to it's wrong "It will have adverse effects but they should pull through. It's not like she cheated on him purposely. I am sure she still loves Percy, their relationship will last. But Percy might not take it well as him being betrayed in the past and now he might start thinking wrong."
"I thought the same thing. But if he finds out via someone other than Piper it will be worse. So I told her to tell him herself." She replies back "Well now to who would have done it? We will have to put all our other selves to this task too. It's a good thing gods can be a many places at once. Even if it's mostly at place in our influence we can have them go to other place to help us. So we will be asking around now I guess."
"Yup you take the water gods, the ones in your domain, and the West side of Olympus. While I take the Olympians except Poseidon, the ones in my domain and the East side of Olympus. Let's meet here in 45 hours."
LINE BREAK~ 2 days later
It has been two days and now I'm waiting for Percy in the same alleyway we had fought. Its a good thing I had help from Aphrodite, she was incredibly helpful, she acted like a whore but she got things done without even having to even kiss a single god. A portal opens and outsteps Percy, this time though he has worn a different cloak, it's black in colour and has golden coloured armour, two swords on his waist and a quiver and bow on his back (the from the photo on the cover except he has two swords on his waist along with 5 throwing daggers and quiver and bow on his back.) "What news do you have?" He asks
"Well like I said they weren't killed by gods, no god has even tried to kill anyone recently. Aphrodite helped me too, otherwise this wouldn't have happened this fast. Took a lot out of me. I am also assuming that the person you were working for was the one who did this. We had got a prophecy that said 'They shall have their revenge, six have the power to give it to them.'" I say " You said you had six people on our side who you were in good terms with and you want revenge. It fits perfectly."
"I see. But didn't you break your promise by telling Aphrodite about it." He asks with a frown I'm assuming, since he has his face covered
"No Piper had asked her to investigate, so we combined forces and finished the job." I answer with a small smile.
"I see. So that's how she knew that we were being tricked. So I guess I have to fight on your side now. So do we go to Olympus, camp or what?" He asks
"Well I will be taking you to Olympus since you are a big player. I will introduce you to them and maybe they will make you fight to test your skill, even if it's awesome." He nods and I continue "I am assuming you will take Piper's death or something like that so that she will be beside you as your partner?"
Just as soon as I complete my sentence Piper comes out of the portal and it closes "Sorry I'm late. I'm gone missing to the campers, soon they will come across my dead body." She says cheerily
"How do you'll do that? Show people your own dead body?" I ask curious
"Well mine was just a mutilated body from the morgue that we broke into. Piper's will be the same except made changes to the face a little bit using magic." Percy answers "Oh and refer to us as Grafam and Zarine in front of the council or anywhere else. Walls have ears."
"What can you tell us about the enemy? Who is s/he?" I ask trying to pry out information
"I can't tell you who it is we are fighting but I can tell you there are 8 units in the Greek division of his monsters and a few extra to waste." He answers
I narrow my eyes at them "You were working for someone you don't know?"
Piper shake her head no "We do know who we were working for before. We just can't tell you. It's impossible for us too." She says and put her tongue out, I though she was teasing me or something but then I noticed a symbol in it. Weird very weird, I don't know what symbol it is, this is very old magic. I nod "How do you know he isn't spying or anything?"
"The symbol was put on us when we entered his army. We checked it again and again to see if it does anything else other then restrict us from saying his name or giving any hints. Took a long time to do it but it's verified that that's all it does. Helps when you know spells." He explained.
I flick my fingers and we flash to Olympus. I quickly call a meeting and there were flashes of light as the Olympians took their places. In the middle stood Percy and Piper. "Why have you called this meeting Athena? And who are the two people?" Zeus' voice booms
"Well father these two are the main reason of the meeting. I have convinced these two warriors to fight on our side. They are exceptionally skilled and will be very helpful in the war. Their services require a cost though and it is 50000 drachma." I see Percy raising an eye
"That's a lot of money. We don't know if they are worth it or not. Even if you claim they are highly skilled we still need to know for ourselves. We shall have a test like for the daughter of Aphrodite had given." Zeus turns to the others "Does anyone else have anything to say?"
"Father I don't like them. We must not hire them, they don't seem good." Artemis speaks with malice in her tone
"Good what are you a kid? They are clearly mercenaries that can be hired they fight for any side with money?" Hermes chimes in
"That's not true Lord Hermes. We aren't mercenaries. We have always fought on the side we believe is good or the better option. We have helped quite a few of your demigods here and there."
"And pray tell why is having people, I try immensely by the way, hired a good idea sister?" I narrow my eyes at her and see Apollo do the same
She was going to answer the question when Percy cuts in "Well that's because my predecessor beat her in Archery, combat and hide and seek."
I frown while people start laughing at Artemis who is red with embarrassment "Heeeheeehee look at that. The goddess of Archery lost to a mortal in a archery contest. We need new a new god of Archery to replace her." Hermes cries out
"Grafam what do you mean by Hide and seek?" I ask him and suddenly everyone shuts up and looks curiously at the two.
"Well Lady Athena he means that our two predecessor were given 20 minutes to hide anywhere they wanted after which Artemis and her hunt would search for them for an hour. They couldn't find them. So she lost." Piper answers
Everyone starts laughing again "Wow little sis you got burnt!" Apollo teases Artemis who is red with anger and embarrassment.
"How dare you embarrass me in front of everyone. You will be punished for this!" Artemis screams and gets her bow out and shoots two arrows at the two of them. Everyone freezes when they see this. The arrows whizz towards their targets who are still calm as ever. I see a flash of red in Piper's eyes like Percy's was and both of them move their bodies a little bit and dogs the arrows. Almost all have their jaws dropped except Aphrodite who is smiling proudly Apollo who is snickering and me who knew this would happen. "Wow Artemis I think you really need to give up your domain of Archery if you miss from this close." Hephaestus states calmly "and don't even try to blame the bow. I checked it just yesterday remember."
Artemis is stomping her foot on the ground like a child and was going to fire again when Zeus stops her "That's enough Artemis. We will test your skills before hiring you is that Okay?"
"Of course Lord Zeus. Testing before purchasing is fine with us." Piper answers
"Athena since you brought them here I'll let you decide who they should fight." Zeus lets me know and I smirk. This is going to be fun "Father I nominate all the partial immortal of camp half blood along with Thalia to fight them."
There is pin drop silence as everyone is contemplating what I just said. To fight all of them would be idiotic but he did fight me to a draw, granted I was holding back my godly powers but the skill level was on par with my godly skills. That is saying a lot i am sure they can go against all of them.
"Are you sure Athena. This is no easy task, impossible for most except you and Apollo. Apollo cause he can predict the opponents moves being the god of foresight." Poseidon asks me
"Yes I'm sure Poseidon. The two of them should be able to do it, you all will see it. Powers will be allowed in this match." I state
Zeus looks at the two of them " Your Opponents will be 14 extremely skilled and experienced warriors. They are almost 500 years old, do you think you can fight them?"
It looked like both of them just smirked but can't know for sure "We accept. Where and when will this fight be?" Piper asks
"Well we can do it now. But you never told us your names." Poseidon asks
"Oh our apologies Lords and ladies. My name is Grafam and this is my partner Zarine." Grafam answers "So where do we fight now?"
"There is a arena on Olympus we will be doing it there. Your Opponents will be here in half an hour. Good luck I guess." Poseidon answers with that everyone flashes out.
Percy's pov
"Percy I need to talk to you about something. Can we talk somewhere private?" Piper asks me
I frown "What is it?" She shakes her head signifying not here "Okay let's go outside."
Once we are out she makes me sit on a near by bench. "Okay Percy now I'm going to tell you something but please don't interrupt me before I finish. Take your final decision after I finish alright." She sounded really nervous and so I smiled reassuringly
"Well you see I... I kind of slept with someone else." My eyes widen like saucers. She did WHAT? I scream at her "You CHEATED on me?"
"Yes and no." Now I'm confused what does she mean yes and no. It better be no! "Please you said you would listen to the whole thing first." A tear slides down her face
I take deep breaths to calm my self. This is going to be tough to listen to "Okay sleigh go on."
"Well you see when I was in camp Jason was being a complete dick towards me. So 3days ago he offered to join me in my late night jogging. I though he was saying sorry for being a dick and so I accepted it. He offered me water during a small rest stop. The water was laced with an Aphrodisiac and... and" she broke down crying. I get what happened next. That BASTARD! He drugged MY WIFE and took advantage of her. I am going to make him regret it. But still I can't help but feel bitter. I understand she was drugged with an Aphrodisiac but that doesn't help much. She could have ran away and relieved herself "Pipes I'm not going to breakup with you or anything. I love you very much and looking at how your a wreck I know you do too. But" her eyes widen when I say but and she starts sobbing again "things will not be the same again."
She nods and says "I understand, I swear I love you and that time I was just so horny and he was right in front of me. My defences were at a all time low when he started kissing my neck. My defences fell but even then I was thinking of you and how wrong it was. I swear I love you and only you" I hug her tightly and she keeps mumbling something in my chest and I try to comfort her. I don't know what to feel right now, my wife tells me she slept with someone else but when I look at her in the sorry state she is I can only feel pity.
"Pipes can we take some time away from us? NOT a breakup just some time to think you know? It was your ex boyfriend I need some time to think, sort things out you know."
She nods in understanding as I wipe away a few tears "Your still my husband right?" She whimpers
I kiss her passionately. Her lips are so soft on mine, it feels like being in Elysium. I just can't get enough of it. "Does that answer your question?" She smiles and kiss me again and hugs me.
"I'll let you know when I want to unpause us. We are still a couple just on pause, it doesn't give us the right to sleep with anyone or anything" she looks at me hurt and I realise what just happened "I don't mean you would. I'm talking about what happened with Ross and Rachel in the F.R.I.E.N.D.S tv show. Don't feel bad, take this time sort out your stuff too."
She nods and smiles at me "You know I have awakened my sharingan." My eyes widen with surprise "When I was trying to heel... heel our kids that's when it happened I think. I haven't used it till now but I guess today I will have to."
I smirk at her "No I will beat them all on my own you just provide support and cover my blind areas when I'm in need of it. I want this challenge to see what I can do, after that I will help you master your sharingan."