Percy's POV.
My dad clapped me on the back and turned me around. "do you like your new home son?" Well its very tropical. "Well don't worry about that son while the tree houses don't look so fancy on the inside they will change to how you like."
Can my mom and Paul live here since Hermes said I can invite people to live on the island? "Yeah they will love it here I will send them the offer as soon as I leave." Hey dad can I ask you something personal?
"Yes son ask away." What can you tell me of your mother Rhea? My dad sent out a nervous chuckle, "Well even though most titans are evil, my mother is the complete opposite she is kind and caring, although she prefers to stay out of fights she is very powerful but she uses that strength to help others as when she helped my brother Zeus overthrow our father."
Does she ever talk to anyone? "Why are you asking about my mother son?" Well considering she is technically my grandmother I just wanted to know about her. "Oh well she mostly stays to herself, every decade or so sends me and some of the other gods a message although no one knows where she is."
"Oh and Percy you should know I answered your prayer and every fish from the Lotus hotel is on the island there is a couple ponds near your home, and the dolphins the Lotus hotel had are in the ocean but they are safe from harm."
Thank you dad if it wasn't for them Medea might have gotten away with kidnapping those demigods. My dad looked up in the sky and nodded his head. "Well it would seem that Koios has agreed to the deal he is now working for Olympus."
Can the gods actually trust him after all he helped Atlas escape? My dad nodded his head, "Yes Nemesis was with Athena, and Nemesis was careful to word the deal right without any loopholes or anything right now he telling the gods what happened."
"Koios swore on the river Styx that if he betrayed the Olympians in any way he would give himself to be sentenced to the fields of punishment, and Hypnos, and Dionysus is going through his mind right now making sure he isn't lying."
"Well I must go son I have go do my duties enjoy the island whenever you need to leave you can water travel to and from here and you will always know where it is." My dad ruffled my hair and then walked into the ocean and flashed away.
I started to walk around the island and I noticed that there were already satyrs on the island though they were older, I noticed that there was also little baby satyrs running around playing while tree nymphs watched over them.
The older satyrs were tending to the gardens, and I noticed that as soon as the vegetables and fruits were picked new vegetables, and fruits grew back in their place almost immediately. I spent the rest of the night exploring the island when a buzzing went off in my pocket.
I dug in my pocket and I pulled out a cell phone which I had no idea how it got in there. I saw that I had a new text message and I saw that it was from Hermes. "Percy this cell phone is yours to use on your island do not worry about monsters because the island is completely safe from them, back to what I wanted to say you will get a message whenever a god, or someone wants to visit you."
"If you want them to able to visit you press the call button, if you don't want them press the call end button." The message deleted as soon as I read it and a new message appeared and it said Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades.
I accepted it and then Nico came out the shadows of a tree. I saw that Nico was holding the celestial bronze shoe box under his arm. Nico walked up to me and handed me the shoebox. "Here you go Percy I thought since you had a private home to yourself it would be better if you kept that here for more safety."
"I will tell you this Percy when the gods said people had to get your permission to come here it was completely true as soon as I tried to shadow travel I felt like I was being held down by an invisible chains but when I tried to shadow travel to camp half-blood I could. Then I was here the next minute." Nico turned his head and looked around the island.
"Pretty cool setup you got here Percy." I think the satyrs, and tree nymphs like it just as much as I do. "Well next time you fight a super strong immortal and you get there powers share some with me I wouldn't mind being a giant like you."
Nico and I shared a long laugh because it was true my left leg was almost as big as he was. Well Nico you wanna see something really cool? I grabbed Nico and water traveled us to the beach. I whistled and called Timmy, and the gigantic super sized octopus rose out of the water.
Nico stumbled back as the multi story high monster towered above all of us. Nico was about to draw his weapon until I stopped him. Nico your not about to try to attack my island guardian are you? "This thing is protecting your island Percy?"
Yes I want you to meet Timmy he is the son of Scylla the sea monster, and Typhon the father of all monsters. I smiled affectionately at Timmy and told him he could go back to sleep and watched as he sunk back into the water.
My dad also made those 6 lobsters from the train into my island guardians by making each of them the size of an 18 wheeler. Nico and I shadow traveled back to where we were before. We got to the middle of the island where we saw my tree house.
I knew it was mine because there was a trident symbol above the door. There was a porch that had a set of stairs leading down to the ground. Nico and I climbed the stairs and after a minute we got to the double doors and opened them.
The inside of my new house looked like a multi million dollar mansion. It was much bigger on the inside than it looked. There was a large leather couch that could seat 10 people comfortably and 2 recliners at the end of the couch.
On the wall was an 80 inch flat screen TV however it must have been an Olympian design because there was no metal or plastic in the TV but was made of wood. The island was set to be nature friendly and I enjoyed that.
The kitchen that was next to the living was just as nice. The refrigerator blended in with the cabinets and when Nico opened it the fridge was fully loaded there were fresh fruits from all over the world inside the crisper.
The drinks were labeled and I had 3 different types of tea, 2 different brands of milk, mango juice, orange juice, lemonade, and I had no idea why the gods thought it would be right but there was a drawer that had wine bottles in it.
Nico poured himself a glass of lemon tea, and while he was drinking it he saw an electronic pad near the stove. Nico pushed a button and a plate appeared on the stove top filled with meatloaf, mashed potatoes and freshly baked biscuits.
Nico took a bite of meatloaf and gave me a double thumbs up. I looked at the electronic pad and the name of it was Hestia's foods. I heard a whistling sound and we both turned around. A tree nymph came out of the front room and started to clean the already spotless kitchen. The nymph saw us looking at her and she smiled.
"Hi my name is Baylee my job is to keep your home clean, and see that anything you need is done." Oh are you 1 Artemis's new hunters? "No I live on this island and Hermes has tasked me to maintain your home, the tree nymphs who are hunters that now live on the island are tasked with cleaning the hunters homes and feeding the fish on the island.
Well you can relax this place looks perfect already. "Are you sure lord Percy I don't want to seem lazy to you." Baylee I bet if I looked through the entire house I wouldn't find a single speck of dust, if you want some work to do why don't you go play with some of those new born baby Satyrs I seen running around or see if the tree nymph hunters need any help.
But if you really want to just relax watch some TV or eat a snack. "Well if your sure that's what you want I would enjoy playing with my baby nephew." Baylee bowed and puffed away in a poof of green chlorophyll.
I wished for a wall safe and no sooner than the words left my mouth did a framed picture of dolphins playing in the water appeared on the wall in the living room. The picture pulled off the wall and an intricate celestial bronze safe was behind the picture.
I said 3 numbers in my mind and the dial on the safe turned to the exact numbers and the door opened. I placed the shoebox that held all the ingredients I currently had inside the wall safe and closed the door.
The picture went back on the wall. I walked back into the kitchen and looked on the electronic pad and summoned myself a chicken and rice burrito and me and Nico walked over to the couch and ate our dinner.
I was almost done with my burrito when my cell phone went off I looked at it and it said Travis, and Connor Stoll, sons of Hermes. I pushed the call button and there were 2 flashes of light and when the light was gone Travis, and Connor appeared in front of Nico, and me.
They both were holding identical Caduceus's that looked like their dads each had snakes wrapped around them. So did you 2 hear about my fight with Hercules today? The brothers spoke at the same time.
"Yeah we heard how you drained Hercules of almost all his power." I stood up from the couch and walked next to them flexing my muscles. So you both know what I can do if you try to play any jokes on me? I gave them an evil smile and twirled riptide in between my fingers.
They backed up but I grabbed them both in a headlock and laughed and walked away. Don't worry guys I am just joking around I wouldn't do to you what I did to Hercules neither of you tried to kill me. So did you guys need anything?
Travis reached inside a messenger bag and pulled out a scroll. "This is a message to Percy Jackson, from Sally Blofis, and Paul Blofis." Travis unrolled the scroll and began to read aloud. "Dear Percy your father just came to see us 10 minutes ago and told us about your new home and your offer to let us live on your island we have decided to accept your offer and we cant wait to see you – love your mother."
Travis put the scroll back in his pouch and nodded to me. Did my mother say when they will be here? Connor nodded his head. "Yeah Percy our father haven given us the job tomorrow to transfer your mom and step dad here with their belongings."
Okay well I give you both permission to come and visit my island while you help my parents move here. You both can come and visit me if you have any free time its been a while since we have hung out.
So let me ask you do the snakes on your Caduceus's talk like your dads does? Travis laughed, "Yeah but luckily though they don't argue all the time and ask when they get to eat rats, they tell us what our next jobs are, and if we are being requested by any gods."
"We are even getting a cabin built for us at camp." So pretty soon there are gonna be going to be a lot of new generations of pranksters at camp? Connor just wigged his index finger in the air. "Now we can't just go around and telling people of our relationships."
Travis slapped his brother on the arm. "Guys I have to go lady Demeter is requesting me to deliver a basket of fruit to her kids at camp." Travis flashed away, leaving his brother Connor behind. So Connor have you and your brother been given a domain or a palace to live in now that you are gods?
"We were given a temple on Olympus to share but we turned it down because our dad offered to let us live in his temple on Olympus but other than that we have a home in Hawaii that we relax in when we are in the mortal world."
Connor got that same look in his face and he sighed. "Well I got to cut this visit short I got to bring lord Ares his new war-hammer that he ordered from Lord Hephaestus." Connor waved goodbye and he flashed out.
Hey Baylee can you come here for a minute? Baylee arrived in a puff of chlorophyll holding a satyr in her hands that was no bigger than a watermelon. "You called for me lord Percy what would you like for me to do?"
I stood up and walked over to her and held out my finger to the baby Satyr who grabbed my finger and squeezed it. Baylee you don't need to call me lord. Just call me Percy, I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow my mother and stepfather will be coming to live on the island and I just want you to make sure my mother's house always has fresh flowers so if you would can you start a garden for my mother?
"Sure Percy and I will send an iris message to lady Persephone tomorrow asking her to send over some rare flowers. I summoned a small plate of cheese enchiladas and cut off a tiny piece and held it to the baby satyr.
The baby looked at Baylee and she nodded. The baby took the piece of enchilada and ate it, the baby smiled in delight and I handed Baylee the plate of enchiladas. Baylee fed her nephew the rest and he burped.
Sorry about that Baylee my best friend Grover loves cheese enchiladas and I thought your nephew would like to try 1. "Its fine Percy, I sneak him sweats all the time, this little guy loves gobstoppers." Well feel free to let the little guy raid my fridge if he ever wants more enchiladas. I summoned a lollipop and gave it to the satyr and Baylee puffed away.
Nico looked at his watch and he told me he had to leave. Nico shadow traveled away leaving me alone in the big house. I leaned back on the couch and when I did the spot I was sitting in on the couch turned into a recliner.
It was just after midnight but since I have worked so hard I decided to pull an all night-er. so I turned on the TV and was glad to find out that it played movies that were still in the theaters. I watched a movie about a group of super heroes that teamed up to fight a force that was stronger than them separately.
The house reacted to my thoughts and a big bowl of popcorn appeared in my lap and a super ice cold glass of soda appeared on an arm rest. Ha that's cool the house can summon food for me on its own. I was extra careful not to make a mess because I didn't want to make the nice tree nymph to have to do extra work than was needed.
As soon as the movie was over I made the popcorn disappear and I turned the TV to the Hephaestus network and saw that the muses were holding a light night concert on Olympus I watched the concert for a while but the soft classical music made me drowsy.
The couch turned into a large hammock that felt like it came from the Artemis cabin. I fell asleep instantly. I woke to the smell of bacon cooking, and when I opened my eyes the hammock returned to being a couch.
I rose from the couch and looked to the kitchen. I saw my mother cooking breakfast while Paul was sitting at a table grading papers. My mother took a piece of bacon out of the skillet and tossed it to Fang who was sitting at her feet.
I walked into the kitchen and Fang ran to me and tackled me to the ground. I rubbed his head and tried to get him off of me but it was no good. My mom whistled and tossed another piece of bacon in the air. Fang jumped off of me and caught the bacon while it was still in the air.
Hey mom when did you and Paul get here? "A little over an hour ago, your friends Travis and Connor are moving our stuff into our lovely new home, and those sweet Satyrs are setting everything up. I thought you would be hungry so we came up here and I wanted to make you breakfast."
Paul looked up from his papers and saw how much I grown. "Jeez son since when have you started to become a gym rat? I told my parents the story of what happened last night and they had a worried look on their face my mother seemed confused.
"I thought if anyone saw a gods true form that they would die Percy." So did I but apparently when I met the fates being near them must have affected me. I then told them how I came to meet the fates and they seemed to be just as confused but they dropped it.
My mother then told me something surprising that she was 4 months pregnant. I then noticed that she was right I didn't know how I didn't notice it but I listened carefully and I did hear a little heartbeat. Have you and Paul decided on a name?
My mother nodded her head. "Paul and myself have gotten into Greek Mythology so much that we decided that if its a boy his name will be Theseus, or Theo for short. And if its a girl her name will be Zoe as a tribute to Artemis."
I am sure Artemis would be honored for you to name your daughter after her former lieutenant if you have a daughter. Paul nodded his head, "Yes your mother, and I asked lady Artemis's permission before we decided."
My mother filled 3 plates each with an Omelet, bacon, and orange slices. And then put a plate of bacon on the floor for Fang. So mom where is your immortal eagle I sent you? "Oh Trixie is doing great but when you offered to let us live here I told her to go stay with the hunters for a while in case they needed any help."
I grabbed the plates of food for my mom and walked over to the table and set the plates down. Paul stacked his papers together and put them in his briefcase. Paul stood up and held the chair out for my mother and then pushed the chair in when my mother sat down.
I took a bite of my omelet and it was even better than the omelets I make myself. You know mom this is so good you could be the chef to the gods. My mother chuckled at the comment. "Yes your friend the goddess Hestia she has been giving me cooking lessons, just the other day she taught me how to make beef wellington."
Paul held my moms hand. "Yes honey and it was so good I think I gained 3 pounds from it." "Well Paul you did have 3 helpings of it I wouldn't have been surprised if your bleed gravy." "Hey when my beautiful wife makes 5 star restaurant quality food I would be a crime not to have seconds."
My mom blushed at the compliment and started to eat her breakfast. So have you seen your new house yet? My mother smiled, "Oh yes its beautiful its a little smaller than your house but its great it has ivy growing on the outside walls."
"And there is a little breakfast nook where Paul and I can read at in the morning. There is even a bedroom for me to do my writing at." Paul nodded his head, "And it has the best library I ever seen it has first edition signed books of some of the best books ever made."
Yeah I wished for the island to make a home that would be exactly to your liking. "How are you going to get to work Paul? "Oh your dad told us that anytime we needed to go to work all I had to do is to stand in the water on the beach and he would water travel us to where we needed to go, and then when we needed to get back to just put our hand in some water and we would get back."
"I don't need the money anymore but teaching is my passion. "So now I give my paycheck towards charities, food banks, and scholarship funds." Well if either of you need to go anywhere in the city, or doctors visits I give you complete access to my war chariot.
My mother waited till she finished her orange slice before she answered. "I don't need to worry about doctors visits." My mother held up a charm bracelet that had a charm of a sun, and moon. "Artemis, and Apollo gave me these charms here if I am sick and I need a doctor I press the sun charm and Apollo will visit me to check up on me and give me vitamins for the baby."
"And when its time for the baby to come all I need to do is press the moon charm and Artemis told me she will deliver my baby when it is time." Well you cant go wrong having the god of medicine as your doctor, and the goddess of childbirth as a midwife."
My mother nodded and looked thoughtfully at her charm bracelet. When we finished eating Paul took the plates and silverware and began to wash the dishes. But he was quickly shooed away by Baylee who told him that it was her job.
Baylee was like a hurricane of cleaning. She washed every dish, swept and mopped the kitchen floor, vacuumed the living room carpet dusted and then moved on to the other rooms and had the entire home cleaned in under 30 minutes.
Paul, and my mom tried to help her but as soon as they tried Baylee had my mom in a recliner with a book in her hand, and a cup of hot chocolate in the other. As for Paul she put him on the couch and somehow managed to find a baseball game on in the 2000 thousand channels my TV had, and had a miniature desk put up for him to do his grading, and then she went back to her cleaning.
Fang gave me a look of confusion and I swear I could hear the exact words he was saying. "Why is the tree lady moving around momma, and dad." However I wouldn't be surprised if what he really said was, "where can I get more bacon."
Paul said he wanted to get up and grab a cup of coffee but Baylee already had a cup in his hand before he could stand. Baylee you don't need to work so hard. "Its no problem Percy I just figured since you wouldn't want me to work all day I thought the sooner I got this done the sooner I could work on your mothers garden."
Okay Baylee if this is what you want to do then go ahead but if you need a break go ahead but I want you to stop working each day at a good hour that way you have free time for your family or to enjoy the island okay, I would rather have a dirty house than a tree nymph who works herself to hard.
Baylee smiled at my kindness but nodded her head. Besides Baylee I don't want your baby nephew to brake down my door and beat me up for not letting him have his play time with his aunt, the last thing I need is word spreading around Olympus that I got beat up by a baby.
Baylee and my mother started to laugh but I saw Baylee have a look of appreciation in her eyes. "Thank you Percy for being so nice because once a satyr reaches a certain age they began to train to work for the gods and once he reaches that age I wont be able to have fun with him as much."
I tell you what Baylee anytime you want bring him here with you that way you will be able be with him while you work I am sure I can think up a pretty good play area for him. "Thank you again Percy I am sure he would enjoy it."
My mom turned her head and asked Baylee a question. "Are there many satyrs on this island?" Baylee shook her head. "No when Percy told Lord Dionysus the other day that satyrs could live here Dionysus held a meeting with the cloven council, and Grover Underwood the lord of the wild."
"It was decided that this island would serve as a safe haven for satyrs so only satyrs who are to old to search for demigods, and satyrs who are to young to search for demigods live here. It is the job of the tree nymphs who live on the island to care for the satyrs the island now serves as a home for satyrs to live safely to retire at, or until they are old enough to go to camp half-blood." Where did satyrs go before my island to do what you just said?
"Demeter's garden on Olympus, however Dionysus felt that you would like it better if you had some company on the island, and this way satyrs will learn nature magic faster." Well I am glad they decided this I have always been fond of satyrs not only because my best friend is a satyr but if it wasn't for them a lot of demigods wouldn't be able to make it safely to camp.
Baylee smiled and returned to her work. I walked over to the couch and sat next to Paul. I took a paper and read the essay that surprisingly enough was on Greek mythology. I read the paper and saw that it was on Hercules and his 12 labors.
Paul you know that Hercules actually lied about completing his quest to get the apples of the
Hesperides? "No why do you say that? Because if it wasn't for Zoe he would have failed she told him how to get past Ladon the dragon that guarded the tree.
"Well I believe you son but I cant exactly go in my class tomorrow and start telling the class what we know is the truth, against all the myths that have been told throughout the years." Well its fine anyway all of Olympus knows the truth now.
Paul spent the next hour asking me if the myths were true about certain heroes and gods and I told him what I knew and he believed me however he couldn't change the grades but that wasn't important. So mom have you been getting any visits from other gods that I should know about, I hope you haven't had Paul working in Hephaestus's workshop or anything?
"Actually son we get daily visits from a daughter of Athena named Lindsey who is a hunter. She has been giving us lessons in how to read, and speak in ancient Greek. My mom emphasized her statement by showing me the book she was reading.
I saw that she was reading a first edition of the homers Odyssey that was written in ancient Greek, my mom read word for word the first 10 pages. You know mom I can talk Athena into creating some legal documents for you saying you majored in Greek Mythology and then you can write some books in ancient Greek.
How can you do that son? Well it turns out that she has an immortal son who runs a big college in Greece and with the classes you are getting Lindsey you will be a whiz you are practically fluent in ancient Greek, your library you will know almost everything that happened in ancient times.
Heck I am sure some of the gods will even throw you a few bones for some books, you could butter up Apollo by making a book of poems dedicated to him he would be putty in your hands. "That's a nice offer Percy but how do you know she would actually do it?"
"Well for 1 she tried to kill me and even though I got her symbol of power aegis, helping you become a better writer would gain her a few brownie points with my father still is mad at her. Secondly you have dreams of being a great author and literature is a soft spot for her and finally your the mother of the hero of Olympus, the first male hunter of Artemis, and the patron of heroes. I am not bragging mom by any means but if the gods gave me this wonderful island and tried to make me an Olympian god, I am sure they wouldn't mind helping you further your dreams.
Paul started to agree with me and told her of all the great books she could write. Not to mention mom you could even write a play with your knowledge. My mom got a twinkling in her eyes at the things she could do when I my cell phone went off.
I looked at the message and saw that it was from Hermes. I hit the call button and Hermes appeared in the room. Hermes held out an electronic pad and handed it to my mother. "Sign this please Mrs Blofis." My mother took the stylus from the pad and signed her name, and gave it back to Hermes.
Hermes took out a big cardboard box that was much bigger than his messenger bag and opened the top for her. Paul took the items out of the box and gave them to my mother. There were 10 really old books in ancient Greek, a manilla folder and an older looking pair of reading glasses.
When Hermes saw that everything was out he began to speak. "Inside the manilla folder is masters degree's from the Athens school of literature, where you majored in Greek mythology, classical studies, and language studies."
"You also have paperwork that shows you spent a year working as a museum curator, in Greece the year after you finished college. The books you have in front of you are from Athena's libraries they are copies of books long since lost that you can use as proof of any books you write they cover Greek mythology of heroes and legends."
"You can show it to news stations in the manilla envelope there is a will from your great, great, great grandfather who found them while he was exploring some catacombs in Athens Greece, Athena's son Edgar will confirm that the books are legit and you will donate them to the Olympus museum of arts, which is run by the gods so they will be returned to Athena's library."
My mother held up her hand to stop Hermes and apologized. "Lord Hermes I mean no disrespect but why are the gods doing this for me and how do you know we were discussing this?" "Percy sent a silent prayer to his father just a few minutes ago telling him what he wanted to do for you."
"Poseidon then sent the message to Athena who surprisingly had no problem helping you out she sent me everything you see before you and the Olympian council agrees that you deserve this." "Continuing on Mrs Blofis the books you see before you predate the book you have in your hands and they have been searched for hundreds of years."
"The books were written by Homer who was a child of Athena, they were written years before the Odyssey, and the Iliad." How come I never I never heard of these books if they are so good because they were almost destroyed long ago and Athena would rather have them protected and not be out in mortal hands because older books have a tendency to be changed over the years if they are old."
My mom took the pair of glasses in her hand very carefully. Hermes saw her and told her what they were for, "Those glasses will allow you to fully understand any language and to speak it as long as you wear them."
Hermes looked at his watch and moved towards my mom. "With the powers of the Olympian gods we give you this gift." Hermes put his thumb on my mothers forehead and she was covered in a gray glow. Hermes took his hand away.
"You have just received the blessing of Athena you know have the knowledge as if you actually did work in a museum and you also have permission to go to Athena's library anytime you wish to study for your books."
Hermes gave a slight bow for respect to my mother and Paul, and waved goodbye to me before he flashed away. My mom didn't speak for 2 minutes and Paul started to get worried I stopped him before he interrupted her.
"Percy whats wrong with her do we need to call Apollo?" Paul she just got the blessing of the goddess of wisdom her mind is running through all the knowledge that was just given to her with that blessing she can go on jeopardy and win everyday for a month just give my mom a few minutes to let it all sink in.
My mom finally snapped out of it a few minutes later and had a huge smile on her face. Paul made sure she was fine and my mom started to act like a child of Athena because she started to read the books Hermes dropped by and she became engrossed by them.
I decided to go for a walk because even if I also had the blessing of Athena I didn't want to spend all day inside reading. I explored the rest of my house and found out that I had multiple floors. The second floor of the house was a giant pond filled with hundreds of different types of fish.
There was sharks peacefully swimming around with tuna, there was a little beach where crabs were walking laying in the sun. The walls were made of glass letting in the sunshine. A separate part of the aquarium held saltwater fish.
When the sea creatures noticed me they gave me their respects. If you all are in this second floor house where do you get your food? The fish didn't need tell me Baylee came walking into the aquarium and stood on a platform above the water.
A blue drum appeared at her feet and Baylee began to pull dead fish out and a shark swam up and opened its mouth while Baylee dropped 4 big fish its mouth. Baylee did the same thing but when it came to smaller fish like the goldfish she began to pull worms out.
I left the aquarium so Baylee could do her job and walked up to the 3rd floor. The 3rd floor was a master bedroom. I had a king sized waterbed that was in the middle of the room however that was all I really needed.
There was a bathroom off to the side that had a steam shower with a waterproof I pod dock that was labeled the muses and as soon as I walked into the bathroom the music started and it was cliche but the music was the sounds of the ocean.
I walked out of the bathroom and back into the master bedroom and that was when I noticed a water fountain used for making iris messages and saw that it had dozens of golden drachmas in the water but when I looked carefully I noticed that my face was on some of them.
I never really looked at drachmas before but it was then that I noticed that each drachma had the face of a god on 1 side and the other side was with the empire state building. I smiled and went back down to the living room area.
I was gone not even 10 minutes and I saw that my mom was already halfway through the second book. Fang was laying down on the couch with his head in my mothers lap and he was dozing off. Paul had the Television remote in his hand and he was flipping through channels until he found the Broadway channel.
I never heard of this channel but Paul smiled when he found the play Macbeth. My mother stopped reading and watched. I remembered that my mom telling me that her and Paul went to watch the exact play on the first date.
I walked out of the tree house so they could have privacy. I started exploring the island again and after 10 minutes I found my mom's and Paul's new house. An older satyr was playing reed pipes and vines started to come out of the ground wrapping carefully around cardboard boxes and lifted them up to the front porch of the house while a couple of tree nymphs lifted the box and took it inside the house.
I would have summoned some undead warriors to the island to help with the moving but I didn't want to scare the satyrs. There wasn't any big time furniture that I could see because my mother told me the house already had furniture in it that they picked but the only things my parents brought were mementos, books, and personal items.
I summoned a glass of cold water for the satyr who was sweating slightly from using the nature magic. I wished the island to summon a chair and a wicker rocking chair appeared and I helped the satyr sit down.
Is their anything I can help you with for my parents house? The satyr shook his head, "No thank you young man we just finished." Well let me know if you or any of the other satyrs need anything on my island and I will help you while I am here.
This island is as much yours as it is mine. "That is nice of you to offer young man but this island is all we need, no ozone, no garbage. We got nice sunny skies gardens that provide us with food, and we get to watch the next generation of satyrs grow up teach them what we know, teach them of the great god Pan and his legacy this island is more than we could have asked for."
The old satyr smiled as he looked in the distance and watched as a tree nymph was playing hide and seek with a baby satyr, and when he couldn't find her she appeared behind him and tickled him. I thought the satyrs would have liked living on Olympus with the gods in Demeter's garden.
"Young man did you know that the island of Ogygia most demigods don't know this but this island was created by Pan he created it as a safe haven for nature, while living on Olympus was great this is much better we are living where Pan lived."
Hold on I thought the gods created Ogygia as a punishment for Calypso and that the island didn't run on normal time. "No Pan created created this island for himself and nature spirits, and satyrs but after the first titan war the gods turned this island into her prison, Pan gave the island to the gods and left the island but when Calypso was set free the island returned to how it was when it was first created."
"I do not have long in this world and its an honor to spend my final years here, thank you for allowing us to stay here." I am sure you will live a lot longer. "You may call me Allistor young man and while I may only look like I am in my 60's, I am actually nearly 350 years old."
Thank you for telling me the history of the island Allistor. The old satyr nodded his head and handed me the empty glass. I made the glass vanish and left Allistor alone when I saw that he was beginning to fall asleep.
The chair Allistor was sitting in turned into a bed of soft hay. I looked up at the house my mom and Paul were going to be staying at and in a windowsill was a flowerbed and the moon lace Calypso gave me was thriving, a tree nymph watered the flower and it glowed softly.
I was glad Calypso was free from the island, and I am sure she was planting gardens all over the world now. I walked by some of the island's ponds talked to the fish from the Lotus hotel I spent almost the whole afternoon exploring the island and by lunch time I water traveled back to my house.
I saw Mrs O Leary sleeping on a giant dog bed in the living room, and a note on the coffee table. "Son your mother said she was tired so went to our house so she could take a nap, from Paul." A office desk and chair replaced the couch and I sat down and summoned books on Rhea.
I found the obvious information that she was married to Kronos, was the titan queen of the heavens, she helped Zeus overthrow Kronos because she was mad that he swallowed all their children. I found out her symbol was a pair of lions.
Other than that I couldn't find anything important other than that she was generally peaceful. What my father said was true she pretty much kept to herself she has not been physically seen by anyone not even the gods.
So I decided on 4 possibilities. 1 she has faded, but I quickly ruled that out because my dad said every decade or so she sends a message to a few gods. 2 she makes sure that no one ever tells the gods they met her. 3 her power has probably weakened so much that her power is unrecognizable. And finally she is the worlds best hide and go seek player.
I knew where she was but other than that I knew almost nothing about her. Would she run up to me and hug me since she is technically her grandson, but I honestly doubt if she would even knew who I was. Or would she try to blast me to tiny bits for entering her domain.
I stood and wished the desk and books away and sat in a recliner. This was going to be the toughest ingredient to get because unlike the nightshade plant which all I had to do was dig up, and I had Artemis's trust so she could get me the water from the private river of the gods, and working for Hades was hard as I had to slowly earn his trust.
But here I was going to meet a powerful Titaness who no one has seen in centuries, what kind of power she had, would she be made that I defeated her husband, and I had no idea what I would have to do to actually meet with her.
I tried to dream of her ever since the man in my dreams who told me what I needed to do visited me but I haven't even gotten a look at what she looks like. For all I know she could look like the short old creepy lady from the poltergeist movies. (By the way she was so cool it was not a rib on her I thought she was great in those movies.)
I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was 4:30 in the afternoon Baylee came into the living room covered in dirt. She started to bow until I told her she didn't need to. "Percy I just wanted to tell you I just finished finished starting your mothers garden like you wanted me to do."
Thank you Baylee I appreciate all you have to do for me tomorrow is feed the fish on the second floor tomorrow then you can take the rest of tomorrow off. Baylee smiled and nodded her head. "Oh good I can bring my nephew Alphie here and he can help me, he loves to watch fish swimming around."
Well if he really likes fish I will send a word to my brother Triton tonight to give your nephew Alphie a tour of my fathers palace. "Oh you don't have to trouble yourself Percy there are plenty of fish on the island. Its no problem Baylee think of it as a thank you for being such a great help to me and my family.
And I will make you a deal Baylee if my brother is to busy to show your nephew a good time tomorrow I will give the tour myself, besides my dads palace have fish there that your nephew will never see anywhere else.
Baylee got a big smile on her face and nodded her head. She seemed really excited to go share the news because she gave me a bone crushing hug that Tyson would be envious off and ran out of the tree house.
I walked up to the 3rd floor and sent an iris message to Triton who was laughing in his throne with Amphritie and my father drinking a cup of nectar. They noticed me and smiled at me. My dad put his cup down.
"Hey son how are you enjoying your island?" Its good you all should stop by for dinner sometime the food here is just as good as Hestia's cooking. Hey Triton can I ask you for a favor? Triton got a smile on his face. "Sure Patron of Heroes what can I do for you?"
Triton and I enjoyed a laugh before I answered. I got this tree nymph named named Baylee who's nephew loves to look at fish can you give him a little tour of dads palace. "Brother I would love to but me and Simon have to go and stop some dolphin poachers tomorrow."
Triton did honestly look disappointed until my dad smiled. "I will do it son let Baylee know I will pick up the little satyr tomorrow at 8in the morning." Amphritie clapped her hands together. "Oh Poseidon dear I can even take satyr to show him the coral reefs in my private courtyard."
My dad laughed. "Okay I take that back Percy tell Baylee me and Amphritie will be there tomorrow morning at 8 am." I heard the automated message telling me for another drachma I would get another 5 minutes. Okay dad I will let them know I will see you both tomorrow.
Amphritie waved goodbye and ended the iris message. I made my way down to the living room and walked out of the tree house. I stood on the porch and looked for Baylee I found her sitting cross legged on the ground feeding Alphie.
I jogged down the steps and walked the dozen or so yards and walked up to her. Hey Baylee I got some bad news Triton wont be able to do it tomorrow. Baylee's face got sad and Alphie's bottom lip started to tremble.
So I hope you don't mind that my father Poseidon, and Amphritie have offered to give Alphie the tour themselves, Amphritie even said she would show you her coral reef garden. Alphie tackled Baylee in a flying goat tackle/hug.
Baylee chuckled in response. "I think that he won't mind the substitution." I knelt down and looked at Alphie. If you really want to have some fun Alphie ask my dad to show you his game room. Alphie nodded his head in response.
Baylee my dad and Amphritie says to have Alphie ready to go by 8 am. "Thank you again Percy this is more than I could ask for." You don't have to thank me Baylee, my dad likes to show off to the little ones.
I left them alone because Baylee went back to feeding Alphie. I sent a thought to the island to let my father, and Amphritie onto the island tomorrow. I walked back to the porch on my tree house and sat in a cabana chair that appeared.
A canopy appeared above my head and covered me in cool shade while a glass of lemonade appeared in my hand. I had to thank Hermes for giving me this island since it did everything it could to keep me relaxed for the short amount of time I would be able to spend here before to look for a powerful titan and do whatever I had to do to kill the first empousa and get her heart to make a potion to save the world which even then I had no idea what stood before me.
I took the golden cell phone that Apollo gave me and pressed the button. The sun chariot appeared in the air and raised their heads enjoying the feeling of the sun on their skins. I told them to fly around and enjoy the island while I was here.
The dragons did this weird sound that a horse would do when it was happy but since they were dragons it sounded different. The chariot flew above the island and started to fly around. The chariot reflected the sunlight on them to the island and the tree nymphs came out of their trees and started to sunbathe.
The added sunlight did not increase the temperature of the island but I could tell that the sun chariot still had power to it because the sunlight that reflected off of it broke through the shadows. I rested my head back on the chair and enjoyed the soft breeze.
After an hour or so the sun started set and then the sun chariot returned to my side in its golden cell phone form. I had a little over a month and a half before whoever it was attacked the gods, and probably only a couple of days before the spell was complete.
After the sun went down I walked back inside my house and made myself some 3 bean chili, and hotdogs. I made a fire pit appear in the kitchen and dumped some of the hotdogs and chili into the fire and sacrificed them to the gods.
I summoned some strawberry cheesecake and sacrificed it to the female goddesses. A puff of perfume came into the air and I assumed Aphrodite was happy at my selection of desert. My house cell phone went off and I checked it.
I had a message from Aphrodite, Hestia, and Demeter. I accepted them all and the flashes of light appeared in my kitchen. I bowed to the 3 goddesses and then motioned for them to sit down. 3 chairs appeared around a small kitchen table.
I sat the bowl of chili down and asked if the goddesses wanted any. A bowl appeared for each goddess and Demeter smiled when she took a bite. So what do I owe the great pleasure of having each of your companies?
Demeter wiped her mouth with a napkin and smiled. "Well we got your offering and decided to pay you a visit." Well thank you for this visit I smiled at Aphrodite, and took a drink of my lemonade. Hestia took a bite of her chili, and then talked to me.
"So Percy how is it living by yourself on a magical island?" I smiled, I don't live alone I got a bunch of friendly nature spirits in walking distance, and my mother, and Paul live here now. But the magical island part is true if I am thirsty I don't even have to use my powers what I am thirst for appears.
If I am outside and I am hot a canopy appears above me giving me shade this place is great. No offense to your children Aphrodite but I feel like one of your kids at a free Prada sell. Demeter placed her spoon in her bowl and it disappeared.
"Percy would you be okay with me putting some farm animals on your island?" What kind of animals are you talking about lady Demeter? "Oh just cows, chickens, goats, sheep. Satyrs like it when they have wildlife nearby to take care of."
Its fine by me you can even put more farm space on the island if its as big as I heard as long as I don't step on any cow pies I will be fine. "You don't have to worry about that the satyrs will use them as fertilizer for the gardens."
You can go ahead and start transferring all the livestock tonight, and if you need to bring anymore just inform Baylee she cares for this house. I give her permission to bring any animals you want as long as they don't harm the island.
Demeter nodded her head took out a tablet computer and started listing all the animals that she was going to bring over. And Demeter I also give you permission to let you demigod children come here to my island to do more farm work since I know how little gardening space there is a camp besides the strawberry fields.
"Thank you Percy that means a lot and I will let my kids know about your offer." There are some restrictions to the offer though. They cant come into any of the tree top houses without my consent, or the hunters consent. Also they can't have gotten into any big trouble before the can come. And finally they cant bring any electronics, and they have to take anything they brought when they leave so the island will not get littered.
"I will tell you what Percy, I will tell my children that Chiron will pick the 3 best campers from my cabin during the end of each month and they can come here and work in the gardens." That will be great Demeter I will have a small cabin built for your children so they can stay over night.
Hestia commented on how that was a great idea but she came up with another idea. "You know Percy a good idea would be for a prize the top camper of the month gets to stay the weekend here its a tropical paradise, you don't have to worry about monster attacks no chores except for keeping where they are clean."
I tell you what Hestia we can do that if you can get the Olympians to agree that whoever gets the camper of the month whosoever kids win that month they take an afternoon off and spend it alone with that kid, I can even talk my dad into letting Athena participate.
While a lot of kids from camp would jump at the chance to spend the weekend here some kids like the Athena, and Ares wouldn't really care to spend their time with the feet in the sand. The three goddesses looked at each other and seemed to have a silent conversation.
Aphrodite grabbed my hand and the next second I was standing in the throne room on Olympus with the 3 goddesses. Gods, and goddesses started flashing into the throne room some looked kinda annoyed at having to come here so suddenly while some waved to me.
Once all the gods were in their chairs leaving me standing alone in the middle of the throne room until some invisible force pulled me into the empty throne that was next to my father. My dad clapped me on my back.
Why am I sitting in this throne I though only gods can sit among all of you? Surprisingly enough Zeus just waved away my thought. Artemis spoke to me from her throne. "Percy the council tried to turn you into an Olympian this throne was built for you no one else can ever sit in that chair except for you, and as for the why you are sitting here I guess Poseidon wanted his son to sit next to him."
Zeus coughed and spoke up. "So Aphrodite do you want to tell us all why you summoned us here?" "Well Zeus, I was sitting Hestia, Demeter, and Percy in his home chatting when an interesting conversation."
"Percy told Demeter that she could let her children come to his island to work in the gardens. Then Demeter said how she would tell her kids that the top 3 kids from her cabin each month would go. The Hestia made a suggestion that each month the camper of the month would go to Percy's island for a weekend of relaxation."
Aphrodite smiled at Hestia who sat in a throne beside her before she continued. "Percy said that we should talk about having the god whose kid won that month take a day off from their work to spend a day alone with their kid."
Ares who was playing with a hunting knife spoke up. "Why would we do that we already are going to have 4 days a year alone with our kids and why would we need to take the day off anyway wouldn't the kid be happy enough spending a weekend on that island?"
Well lord Ares while spending the day on Olympus with their siblings and their parent is great. But I still think kids at camp still haven't relaxed completely from the battle of Olympus and this will give them another thing to look forward to.
As for wouldn't they be happy enough just spending time on the island while it would be great there are some cabins who wouldn't care. Take for example your children Ares I doubt they would care much about surfing. But if they got to spend the day alone with you on the island you could spar with your child.
Or Athena's children they would rather do other things but would they work harder to be the camper of the month if they got to spend the day alone with their mom? Ares scoffed, "they already spend all day with Athena."
Yes but they spend all day training, doing chores, and Athena is also busy. So they may get to walk by her and say hi they don't get to spend the day alone with her reading, or doing arts and crafts with her. Apollo raised his hand.
"I actually think Percy has come up with a good idea, our kids will start being on their best behavior, and work harder in their activities." And I will say I will have no problems with Athena being included in being able to take the day off from camp.
Athena smiled in response, not a taunting smile to my dad but a grateful smile. I also want this to be put towards the minor gods, however the same cabin cannot win twice in a row. Athena raised an eyebrow.
"So whats to stop a cabin from slacking off the month after they win?" Well 2 things lady Athena the first is Chiron will be in charge of picking who wins and if he see's what you said then he can always not pick a camper from that cabin because of it.
And secondly say for example Ares cabin wins 2 times in a row. If a child or his cabin gets the second month they can get a secondary prize. Say for example they get the first time slot for showers that month, or no chores, or even an honorary banquet for that cabin.
Hestia was the next to speak. "And whichever camper from a different cabin is next in line to win they get the weekend on the island with their parent." So this will increase camp morale, allow the gods to spend time with their child so none of the campers will feel alone.
Zeus seemed to like what he was hearing. Athena asked a question, "Okay Percy I like this idea but what are the rules?" Well its not just going to be about who is best in sword fighting or Archery. The rules are the campers have to sign up to be eligible, they cant get into any major trouble.
But what I was thinking at first it starts off with the best cabin and then whoever in that cabin was the best out of their siblings will win. Hephaestus made a statement. "So the cabin works as a team and then it goes to free for all."
Yes so the campers must rely on their siblings to be on their best behavior. Zeus called the proposition to a vote. "All in favor raise your hand." Every hand in the council rose but when my dad saw that I didn't raise my hand he nudged me and I raised my hand.
The only rules on the island is that whichever camper wins cannot go into someone's house without their permission and must clean up after themselves. Zeus nodded his head and summoned a paper and it flew into my hands.
I saw that it was a document of what we just talked about including the rules and their was a dozen or so empty boxes with the names of minor gods, and goddesses next to them. I just said I saw that I had to sign at the bottom and a ball point pen appeared in my hand. I laughed to myself at the irony of the pen in my hand because it looked exactly like how riptide used to look.
My name glowed when I finished signing it and it flew into Hermes hands and Zeus looked to his son. "Hermes go visit each minor god who has a child at camp and ask them if they want to participate when you are done post the paper on the door to the big house with a sign up sheet for the campers."
Hermes nodded his head and flashed out of the room. Zeus looked at me and nodded his head. "That was a great suggestion Percy and I am glad you thought about it." Lord Zeus I don't deserve all the credit I would never have thought about it if Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hestia didn't come to visit me, and I wouldn't have thought about it if Hestia didn't suggest the camper of the month.
Each of the goddesses smiled at me and Zeus, and my dad complimented them too. Hades stood from his throne that was on the other side of my father and told us how he had to leave and get back to work. Hades melted into the shadows. Demeter was the next Olympian to rise. "I must go inform my children of their new work assignment.
Demeter flashed out of the throne room leaving the smell of freshly dug soil in her place. I water traveled back to the middle of the throne room. I bowed to the gods and returned to my island Ogygia
I decided to bed early and I found a pair of trees that were normal and a large hammock appeared.
Mrs O Leary appeared next to me and I summoned her a large meaty bone. It was just before 10 at night and the stars were fully out. I laid down in the hammock and rested my left hand on Mrs O Leary's fur.
I fell asleep finding each constellation in the sky. I dreamed that I was in a courtyard that had a large throne in the middle of the garden. A woman was sitting in the throne the woman had long black hair with a streak of red in the middle.
Her hair was braided over her right shoulder, while two lions sat at her feet. The woman was wearing a sleeveless blue dress and she had a look of royalty to her however when she looked at me she had a soft smile on her face.
"Ah Perseus you have finally found me. I must say I am impressed you have done something that not even my husband could do you got through my barrier and found me." I had a dumb moment but when I saw the pair of lions I immediately snapped out of the hazy dream feeling and I payed close attention to Rhea.
"I know that you seek me out because I have felt your presence trying to get through my barrier but I will let you see me in person to find out what you seek of me if you complete the tasks I set out for you.
What do you want me to do? She held out her hand and began to count out what she wanted. "First I want you to find my pet nemean lion. He was stolen from me from my husband Kronos when I refused to join him in his war."
Where can I find your pet Rhea? "When my husband stole my pet from me he sold it to Geryon." I never saw a nemean lion when I visited the Triple G Ranch. "No my husband did this a month before you fought him.
Hold on how is this possible I killed Geryon he shouldn't reform for almost a hundred years. Rhea shook her head. "No when my husband felt Geryon die he stopped Geryon's essence from going into tartarus."
"Geryon quickly reformed and with my husbands helped Geryon get his ranch back from Eurytion. However by the time he got back to his ranch all the animals were gone." Okay then this will be easy then I killed him once I can kill him again.
"It wont be that easy Geryon has my nemean lion under a spell that has him believing that Geryon is actually me. I can't go get my pet back myself because if I do then it will give my position away and I prefer to be left alone."
"If you want my help you will not harm my pet or kill him. When you kill Geryon, my pet will be free of Geryon's control and he will be able to come back to me." Rhea put out another finger. "Next you must prove to me you really are the great hero everyone says you are by doing something that only 1 person before you has done, and that is you must find and tame the legendary mythical Pegasus."
Wait you mean the father of all other Pegasi the same one who no one has been able to catch for thousands of years how can I possibly find him? "Like the Olympian gods he traveled to the west he tends to stay very far away from humans."
"I want you to know though you can not ask the gods to help you find Pegasus you may get a little help from them on the other tasks but not this. Also your power as the son of Poseidon will not help you, because since Pegasus only his master can speak with him so to him he will not hear you, or you will not hear him until he accepts you."
What am I to do after I make him mine? Show him off to Olympus to prove that he is yours. After that you may sat him free, or keep him, it is for you to decide you job is to show all of Olympus and every demigod how strong you are."
"The final thing you must do is bring me Prometheus the titan of forethought." Why do you wish me to bring you Prometheus? Rhea's eyes flashed with pure hatred. "That pathetic excuse of a titan told Kronos a fake prophecy."
"Prometheus told Kronos that his fate was to be overthrown by his children however he lied. I tracked down the fates and found out that was not my husbands fate. If it wasn't for Prometheus Kronos would not have eaten my children which would not have started a war between the gods and titans."
Not to be disrespectful Rhea but I met your husband and I didn't exactly find him to be the best of fathers. "No he was not but after Prometheus told him about my children overthrowing him, Kronos became paranoid and because of that Prometheus tore my family apart, I want him tied down at my feet with my sword in his gut."
"However you can not enter my domain by magic if you do all those things you may meet me and I will see why you want to meet with me." My dream began to fade however before the dream completely faded I saw another woman walk up behind Rhea, and she had completely red hair and fangs were slightly visible from her mouth.