Percy put on a poker face as Neptune flashed him to his palace, his nerves were all over the place but on the outside he kept a cool and collected look as he casually followed the sea god. Neither spoke a word and Percy prepared himself to fight for his life, he knew why Neptune wanted to see him and he was pretty sure it wasn't for dinner and a movie. The god walked stiffly in front of him with slumped shoulders, Percy looked around his palace in awe at the decor and the lively merman and mermaids that lived there. Neptune abruptly stopped and Percy slammed into his back, he quickly stood away from Neptune who acted as though he wasn't there or hadn't touched him. The sea god had opened the door and they were in a room, there was a king sized bed and Percy began to wonder if it was a water bed.
Neptune abruptly turned to him with a passive face,"I know you did it." He said simply in a monotone voice, Percy itched his hand towards his pocket so it was near his pen/sword Anaklumos. He kept on his poker face that he wore when he wanted out of a situation, and right now he would really like to get out of this situation.
"Look I don't know what your talking about, why did you bring me here anyway?" He asked in a slightly annoyed tone, he was having fun with his family and friends and Neptune just popped in and took him away from all of that. He didn't want to discus what he knew the sea god wanted to talk about, he shoved his hand in his pocket and griped the pen tightly, his fingers grazed the cap of the pen and prepared himself for when Neptune got angry.
"I know that you killed Jacob, I'm not okay with such behavior. He was my son, your brother." Neptune's voice cracked and Percy felt angered, Neptune spoke to him as though he was still his son, he felt no remorse for what he had done. He hated traitors more then anything and that's what his so called brother was, nothing but a filthy traitor like Atlanta. Neptune had tears in his eyes and he let out a sigh, Percy winced and looked away from the sea god, he softened once he thought of what his mother would do. Being angry wasn't the best emotion, peace flooded through him and he took his hand out of his pocket.
"Neptune, that traitor was no brother of mine. He's in punishment now, Neptune you shouldn't dwell on such a thing. He wasn't thankful for what he had, he had a father who loved him and a great home at camp Halfblood. He took it all for granted for power, he was so fortunate but he threw it away for power, wealth, fame." Percy said in a firm voice as he looked at the broken god, Neptune glared at Percy.
"He was your brother, you don't understand!" He growled and Percy narrowed his eyes, clearly the calm and gentle approach wasn't working. He shoved his hand into his pocket again and clutched his pen. Neptune was to blinded by anger and grief to realize how horrible he sounded to the son of Pluto, Percy wasn't going to sit there and let the god pity himself.
"Get this through your thick skull seaweed brain! I'm a son of Pluto, you lost your chance. Jacob was a traitor that wanted to destroy you. I do understand, my sister Atlanta betrayed us for Kronos! Your so full of yourself as though no one understands the poor sea god, I know two children of titans who are persecuted for being his kids. Your a fool, stay here and mourn for your son. I've tried to be understanding but you won't listen!" Percy snarled but froze once he saw the sea god start crying. Neptune had an emotionless mask but the tears leaking out of his eyes showed the sorrow he was truly in, he stood tall and looked Percy dead in the eye.
"Your right, I'm sorry. I've treated you like a thing when your a person, Jacob may have been a traitor but he was my son. You were my son but I never came to you I'm so sorry Percy. All of this is my fault, maybe if I was there for you you'd still be my son. If I was a better father for Jacob then he wouldn't of betrayed us. I'm sorry, I can't tell you how sorry I am." He whispered hoarsely and Percy felt torn, a part of him was still a bit mad at Neptune but a larger part of him felt compassion for the sea god. Neptune flopped on his bed and sat there staring at his hands, Percy could understand where he was coming from, he blamed himself for Bianca's death.
He hesitantly sat next to Neptune,"I'll admit I was hurt when you never visited me but that's the past. I'm willing to forgive, and you did a fine job with Jacob he just took you for granted." The sea god looked at Percy in surprise that he had stayed and listened as the son of Vesta continued to speak,"I've blamed myself for the death of Bianca, I tried to save her but I couldn't. I felt so broken, kind of like what your feeling, I kept myself up at night wondering what I could of done to save her. Maybe I could of refused to let her come...I don't know. She's dead and I felt like I could of prevented it, but in reality fate had ran its course, can't really mess with fate." He said but didn't mention the fact that he had screwed up fate when he saved Zoe. Neptune looked at him with a look of appreciation.
"Thank you Percy, your right. I can't blame myself for something that was out of my control, I did try to raise him properly with his mother-" He stopped once Percy got up and walked away, Neptune realized what he had said and felt like repeatedly stabbing himself with his trident. He had talked about raising Jacob with his mother while he left Percy in an orphanage with an abusive care taker and never talked to him afterwards, never visited him like Vesta and Pluto.
Percy walked out of the room with both hands jammed in his pockets, did he love his father Pluto? Of course he did but it didn't stop him from occasionally feeling bitter about Neptune never caring about him. He hadn't stuck around with the sea god to hear him reminisce about his treacherous son, to hear how he had actually given him the time of day. He sighed as he shadow out of the palace with his head down, he had so many what if's in his life that it was frustrating and Neptune was one of them.
-Camp Jupiter-
Percy reappeared in the coliseum, it was empty and he stood in the center of it, he was all alone and needed to be. It made him angry that his deadbeat dad spoke of raising Jacob and didn't seem to think of him when he started talking about it. He actually thought he had clicked with him but he should of known that it wouldn't work out. He was so close but it was like trying to retrieve a golden apple, nearly impossible. He grabbed his hair in frustration and needed something to take his mind off of it, he tried to connect to him but he was only let down again, why should he be surprised? He felt like throwing something, screaming, destroying something. He had shared his personal problems with Neptune for the god to thank him and go straight back to the topic of Jacob, he opened up to him and he was brushed off as though he was nothing but a pesky fly. He pulled on his hair harder and let out a loud scream of anger and pain, pain for bringing up his sister to the worthless god, anger for said god to blow him off after he spilled his guts to him, pain for even trying to trust him. It was loud and full of hatred, anger, and the all to familiar pain of being let down. He made skeletons appear from the ground and savagely punched them, his knuckles bled as the hard bone roughly clashed with his fist. He destroyed every last one of them and found himself on fire, he took deep breaths and extinguished his flames, he cleared his mind and sat down with his chin on his fist. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, he was going to pretend it never happened. He began to think about the hunt, they were mad at him for defending innocents, mad at him for yelling at them and not trusting him.
He heard footsteps and he didn't bother to look up from his train of thoughts,"Yo Perce! How's it going?" He frowned at the familiar voice and saw Hailie sit down in front of him. She looked sad, the glint in her eyes wasn't there and she wore a smile with no mirth whatsoever.
He perked when he saw her, he had feared the worst that she and Shade would fight with their father,"Hailie! Whats wrong?" He asked as he looked into her dull gold eyes, they were usually bright and happy but the persecution and the death of her father seemed to have taken a lot out of her.
She furrowed her eyebrows and looked up at him sadly,"Listen Perce, Shade is furious with the campers and the gods. The gods have this price on our head and...it's not good. You won't be seeing us for a while, we'll be back though. We'll be back to fight with you, redeem ourselves. I'll miss you, and tell Zoe I was there...with Hercules." She grinned at the last part before she vanished leaving a confused and wide eyed Percy Jackson.
-Line Break-
Zoe was worried for Percy, an angry sea god had taken him away from everyone, what if he tried to kill Percy? The thought nerved her but she steeled herself, she heard a loud scream and the crash of several things. Her eyes widened and she ran to the noise along with those who had been waiting for Percy's return, she felt it took longer to get to the source of the noise then it should have. She shook it off and walked inside the coliseum with the hunt and the Romans, Vesta and Pluto were right behind them and saw Percy pulling at his hair and muttering to himself. If he saw them he didn't acknowledge them as he paced around looking angry and confused, Zoe hesitantly approached him with Diana and Apollo in tow behind her. He didn't look up as his green eyes glared at the ground before they turned into a look of confusion.
He muttered,"Hailie." Quietly, only the five that dared to approach him heard it. Pluto and Vesta pushed through the Romans and the hunters to get to Percy.
"Percy?" Zoe asked tentatively and slowly touched his shoulder, he stopped and looked at her with a mixture of anger and confusion.
He softened before looking at Diana,"Why do the gods have a price on the twins of Kronos? Hailie and Shade." He asked and Diana's mouth fell open before she looked furious.
Apollo's eyes widened,"Those two...ya they got in a lot of trouble with the gods, especially the big three." Percy and Zoe looked at each other in alarm before Percy turned to his father who looked angry at the mention of the two twins.
Vesta furrowed her eyebrows,"In their defense we did cut up their father." She said softly and she looked guilty.
Pluto laughed mirthlessly,"He ate us, something had to be done." Suddenly five campers dragged in a girl who was kicking and flailing, she was screaming at them in Latin. One held her by the arms and she stomped on his foot, he helped and loosened his grip on her. She used the free arm to slam her fist into the the guy who held her other arm's face, he flew back with a crack and landed on the ground roughly. Suddenly a boy appeared and he started punching and kicking to get to the girl, Percy realized it was the twins. Shade twisted one of the guy's arm behind his back and pulled making him scream, he then swept his legs out from under him making him face plant into the ground. They had easily tore through the five Romans who were now lying on the floor unconscious.
Hailie didn't seem to notice where they were there at all,"Ya! Twin power!" She cheered and they high fived.
"Sorry bro, but thanks for coming back for me. Though I could of escaped myself..." She trailed off and Shade chuckled.
"I know but I needed to blow off steam and crackin a few skull feels nice." He shrugged and Hailie laughed at her brother, they both froze and looked at who was in the coliseum with them.
Hailie's eyes landed on Diana and she grinned cheekily at her,"Sup Diana long time no see." Diana looked at her murderously and took a threatening step forward but Hailie laughed and Apollo's eyes widened.
He smirked and leaned down towards Percy's ear,"Perce watch the flirting master at work." He whispered cockily and strode towards the daughter of Kronos, she raised an eyebrow and Shade determined whether or not to jump in, he decided he would if Apollo was anything like he heard he was.
"Sup babe, I'm Apollo. I know I know your surprised that such a hot guy is talking to you, but it's okay. Your hot, I'm hot we're all good. What are you fifteen? I can be that age." He snapped his fingers and the twenty year old Apollo turned into a fifteen year old.
Hailie smirked and ran a hand across his chest,"Dear Apollo don't flatter yourself, your not hot and your not bright." She whispered really close to his ear and he shivered.
Her smirk broadened she grabbed his hand,"You are simply another god, another playboy." She was in his face now and they were nose to nose, his breath hitched and she smiled.
"You may not know this about me but I can't stand playboys, and I'm not interested." She smirked at his baffled expression and pulled away, Zoe and Percy were laughing at Apollo's flustered look. Diana cracked a smile though she hated the daughter of Kronos.
The sun god then smiled brilliantly at her,"No one can beat me at flirting...besides Aphrodite. You know you want me." He winked and she raised a single eyebrow, wow he didn't take a hint.
Quick as a flash she had a knife pointed at his throat,"We are NOT playing cat and mouse! I'm no ones prey, you wanna chase something go chase a car. I'm sure they offer that same amount of adrenaline as chasing after Daphne." She hissed and Apollo looked angry.
"Don't talk about her." He hissed and Hailie flashed him a smile.
"Don't try to chase something you have little to no hope of catching, face it pretty boy. You've lost." She wore her familiar smirk and his eyes widened.
"Hot." He breathed and Shade stepped forward and shoved Apollo back away from his sister. Hailie laughed and Shade glared murderously at Apollo who glared back.
Shade froze once he saw Pluto and he bristled,"Pluto, long time no see." He growled and the death god clenched his jaw in anger, Percy's eyes widened. So his father and Shade hated each other? Go figure he thought sarcastically.
"Shade, I knew I should of killed you and your no good sister-"
"To good for Apollo." She grumbled and Zoe laughed despite the situation, Shade and Pluto started arguing and Hailie perked once she saw Vesta.
"Vesta? You've gotten so old!" She cried, the last time she had seen the hearth goddess the goddess was eight now she looked to be in her twenties. Vesta chuckled and Hailie embraced her tightly, Shade stopped arguing with the death god and his eyes widened before he sprinted towards the hearth goddess and hugged her with Hailie. Everyone stared at them gawking, Hailie pulled away and beamed at her before turning back to everyone while Shade continued smiling at his half sister.
"Well I see we've ticked off quite a few of you gods, but we're here to redeem ourselves. You'll need us, goodbye Percy and Zoe. Oh and Zoe, you gave Percy the sword, he's a worthy hero. That Hercules was a real class jerk." Zoe gaped at her and Shade grabbed her hand and they vanished, Vesta was smiling at where they had been and Percy looked at her questioningly. Vesta and Pluto's eyes widened before they vanished along with Diana and Apollo, Percy frowned, something was going on here and he was sure it was bad.
"How-" He broke off when there was a loud roar, he paled and they all ran out to see Camp Jupiter had been overrun with monsters. He groaned and pulled out Anaklumos making Zoe smile before she drew her hunting knives, the hunt sprung into action. Percy and Zoe ran beside each other as they began to fight the monsters, they were back to back and mowed through them as if they were nothing. Percy wondered how this happened, how did so may monsters get into camp unless...more traitors. He stabbed a hellhound in the eye making it yelp and vanish into golden dust, he set his sword on fire and threw it at an empousa about to kill Reyna. She turned to him and nodded her thanks and continued to fight through the swarm of monsters, he was sick of traitors, maybe there was some other explanation, he sure hoped so.
A gorgon slithered up him holding a trey,"Would you like some free samples! Crispy cheese n' wieners!" She exclaimed and Percy looked at her in disbelief.
"Erm no thanks I just ate some popcorn with my girlfriend at a movie and I'm pretty stuffed." He admitted and the gorgon raised her eyebrows.
"How sweet but are you sure? Their really good! I need to fatten you up before I eat you so it'd be nice if you'd at least tried one." She shrugged nonchalantly before a knife was shoved through her head, the trey of food went flying through the air and Percy caught one of them before popping it in his mouth. He had to admit, they were pretty dang good.
"Percy!" Yelled an exasperated voice and he saw Zoe glaring at him.
He grabbed Anaklumos out of his pocket and smiled sheepishly at her,"Right, sorry." He muttered before he sprung back into action, he charged at a empousa and she thrust her sword out at him trying to impale him. With a flick of his wrist he sliced off her hand and she screamed in pain before he stabbed her her in the chest. A hellhound launched itself at Percy but was tackled in midair by a black wolf who bit it's neck making it blow up into gold dust, the wolf grinned at Percy who returned the grin.
"Yo boss! Guess who's back? Me! Haha Alpha and Percy kicking butt side by side! Let's show these these ugly freaks what happens when you mess with beautiful beings like us." Alpha howled and Percy laughed at his wolf before they both leaped forward and tore through the army.
-Line Break-
"HOW DID THEY GET IN!" Reyna screamed in rage as she paced the room. Percy winced as it echoed in the senate house.
"They could of been summoned." One senator suggested and murmurs were heard throughout the room.
Percy stepped forward and everyone quieted as he cleared his voice,"I know how to tell who the traitor is." After an hour of searching the wrist and ankles of legionaries and senators they had come to find the traitor.
"Octavian." Percy hissed as he noticed the augur trying to hide something in his pocket, shadows wrapped around the scarecrow who yelped once they put his hands behind his back. Percy drew Anaklumos and slowly walked to him, he searched his pocket to find the scythe charm.
"Why." He snarled and the romans turned their attention on the two.
Octavian glared at him,"I'm sick of this camp denying me power! I deserve to be praetor and I-" He was abruptly cut off when Percy rammed his sword into his stomach, the shadows disappeared and Octavian fell to his knees as blood flowed from his wound.
Percy glared at him,"Just like everyone else, your pathetic. Can we get a medic over here? Patch him up." Percy ordered as two Apollo kids began to heal the augur. Percy wasn't surprised that Octavian was a servant to Saturn, luckily the son of Vesta didn't have any emotional ties to the augur who he despised. Reyna looked at Percy impressed before nodding and two children of Mars took the traitor away while the Apollo kids followed them so they could heal the augur.
Percy turned to his fellow romans,"Our augur is a traitor! He is working for Saturn! Of course he won't die now, unless Reyna deems this as best. I thought it would be wise to take him into questioning." He looked at the praetor expectantly.
She nodded slowly,"Percy is correct, interrogate him then kill him. Get as much information as we can if he'll give it." She mused and the senators spoke in agreement. Percy cracked a grin as he slowly walked to the hunt, Zoe was at his side and the hunt instantly perked when they saw he two. Percy wanted this whole hatred thing to be over with, he wanted to be with his sisters again.
He was about to speak when Alpha casually trotted into the room,"Boss, no chick flick moments. Just hug them and screw the sappy, drama junk." The wolf said seriously and Percy chuckled, leave it to Alpha to kill the mood. He instantly threw his arms around Phoebe, his first big sister, she immediately hugged him back and they stood there just letting all the drama and anger seep out of their systems. He pulled away before scooping up Gracie in a huge hug, she giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck. Zoe embraced Phoebe, her best friend, the two had huge smiles on their faces and were glad the tension was over. Pretty soon the whole hunt was embracing the two outcast and they were laughing and joking around as usual.
Alpha glared at Percy,"You think your leaving me out of this hug fest? I'm the life of the party!" He cried before tackling his master, Percy fell to the ground with an oomph and laughed as his wolf licked his face excitedly.
He shoved him off of him,"No chick flick moments!" Percy mocked and Alpha nodded.
"I have taught you well boss." The black wolf said as though he was wise making Percy chuckle. Percy was feeling great, all events with Neptune had been forgotten as the son of Vesta hung with the hunt and his girlfriend.
Man its been forever, I won't be elaborating more on the twins much anymore. If you want to know why theres a price on their head theres a two shot I started which explains their life story. Read if you want, you honestly don't have to but I won't say why the gods are after the twins in this story. Two-shot is called The Twins of Kronos incase your interested, now I'm in school and in case you didn't read my profile I won't be updating 24/7. Weekends and holidays, still thats pretty regular. And to all the Pertemis fans I have a new fic out, That Color Silver. Don't give me grief about doing three stories at once because its highly possible I won't care. And thank you to all of my fans, I love you guys! Thanks for the support and sticking with me even through some bad chapters. I really appreciate you guys and I don't really thank you all for even caring about my stories so thank you so much. And one more thing, if you haven't checked out Anaklumos14(I don't know who hasn't) well you should. He's fantastic, he's also working on a new fic The Seal of the Betrayed. WARNING its dark, don't rant about it to him seriously, he's a great author. Supernatural fans that fic is defiantly for you, but seriously don't bash on his story, its unnecessary and rude. I think we forget that this is FANFICTION! We all review others work and bash on them constantly, this is a site for all authors who wish to become better and share their stories. Theres a difference between friendly criticism and full out hating on someones story, thats bullying if you leave some rude review that will hurt feelings or make others mad that you've disrespected them. We should build each other up not tear them down, again criticism never killed anyone but if you don't like his story don't read it, don't leave him some pointless review about how you don't like it cuz he won't tolerate it and its really not okay. Anyway, sorry about the rant but I really needed to say that, so comment and tell me what you think.