Chapter 29

Percy's POV

When I opened my eyes I was glad to see that I was still alive, my spear was still standing there but it was cracking with electricity as I touched it, it burned my hand. I looked around me to see that I was in the middle of a crater. "Waouh, good Chaos, Zeus didn't really care about the others eh?".

"Of course I'm good, if it wasn't the case you would be pudding Perseus or cheesh kebab or-" I cut him before he would be lousy.

"No way, ok I understand you're good, great and bla bla bla, but tell me how come I'm not badly wounded when my clothes are all torn apart?"

"Well, what remained of your curse worked perfectly for your sake"

"But I thought that you removed it, how come I'm still invulnerable?"

"This new body of yours was made with some cells of your original body like a clone. But when you bathed in the Styx, its waters infiltrated the pores of your skin till it reached your blood. To cut it short, the waters of the Styx reach the blood thus your inner organs to make them invulnerable through your blood circulation. That's why your whole body even your eyes and nail were invulnerable except for the little part in your back because that place contained a lot of "not immune blood" if can say making it sensitive"

"So you're telling me that I'm still invulnerable, why you didn't tell me that sooner"

"Because you're not, and if I told you about it you wouldn't have trained so hard which not only did sharpen your skills but also increased your compatibility with your body. You and I both know that sometimes you quickly end fights not because you want to but because you have to" which I thought was true but I still didn't like being told about all of it sooner.

"Your soul must be fused with your body because its original vessel isn't even thought there is no difference in the DNA, the soul still knows that it's not its original container/partner. And if the fusion is not complete your soul will part from your body"

"So why didn't you just resurrect me with my original body if you knew about all these complications" I angrily asked him, this super powerful could have made the things right when he brought me back but nooooo and I bet it's only because of a selfish or stupid reason, or both.

"Well first, your gods would have known that you're no longer dead when now they only think that your soul never reached the underworld or was intercepted on the way there as your friends was there at your funerals. He smirked before adding "and more importantly it would have been boring if there was no deadline for you and that you were invulnerable, let's just say that it adds more salt in the meal as now you will be able to fell blows if heavy and internal bleeding or broke a leg if you fall pretty high and hard. It's more entertaining now" See that's what I was saying, just because I'm his entertainment he made things so that I could die fast, so much for an entertainment. I scowled but not for log as something else took my mind.

I smirked, and then I heard voices as if people were in the middle of an argument, when the smoke cleared itself before me, I found out that I was in a hole, well in the of a building size crater and up there was someone, no three or four people I can't tell who they are by the sound of their voices because my ears were ringing inside of my head and there was damnable Chaos who was blabbing non-stop about respect and elders. Two short people jumped?(no doubt that the flash disrupted my vision) into the crater and raced to me they were...

"YOUR GIRLFRIEND PIPER AND YOUR SISTER ARYA" the voice screamed in my head startling me as I yelped "couldn't you just speak like normal people would do? I thought that I would die from an attack" I thought for the voice which I knew would change nothing.

"Do you think that I'm 'normal'" he said which made me smile.

"True, you're not normal as you're a godly stalker" I laughed but quickly stopped when I felt the massive headache it gives me.

Then I saw Piper running to me with tears falling from her eyes, seeing her brought vigor in my nearly roasted body, but her tears were like a sharp slap directly in my heart. I thought about a painful way to make who ever made her cry pays but I all stopped thank to the amazing help of that accursed and blasted godly stalker's voice.

"Oh don't look to far as you're the one who made her cry, and I heard about the 'accursed and blasted godly stalker's voice'-"

"Well I said it loud enough for you to hear me...what? Who made her-" but he too cut me as he smacked the top of my headrepeatedly "woul" *bang* "w-would" *bang* "you" *bang* "sto" *bang*

"What?" he innocently asked me with a perfect British accent of an aristocrat like those in old movies.

*bang* "stot-" *bang* "Heeeeeiiiiiiiiinnnnn" he now said in perfect French but with a childish accent.

"STOP IT" I roared in my head which made him chuckle before Piper crushed into me and gave me a tight bear hug. The way she took the air out of my lungs reminded me of my only little brother Tyson but for once I wasn't since I know that he's back and looking for me along with Mrs. O'Leary. Without even thinking about it my arms tighten around her waist and back, with her face buried between my neck and chest and mine in her hairs. I inhale their smell to convince that I was still alive and she smelt something sweet with flowers but I couldn't tell which, she was sobbing quietly but I could still hear her and feel her tears on what remained of my shirt and I held her tighter muttering sooth words in her ear. She stops sobbing few moments later and put her forehead on mine smiling at me with her arms around my neck. I could see reassurance, happiness, relief, joy and love in her eyes.

"You scared me to death, I…I...I thought that you died and that I would..." her voice cracked, in the end and I did the first thing that came into my mind, I engulfed her in my arm with my chin on the top on her head.

"Ush don't cry Dove girl, I'm not gonna leave you soon" I said as I kissed the top of her head. At my words she looked up to me with hope in her eyes.

"Promise?" she asked, I couldn't bring myself to tell her not just temporary so looking in those mesmerizing eyes I just said:

"Yes, I promise" I didn't know if I would regret my promise later but it didn't matter as I looked into her eyes leaning to her.

In the back of my head I could hear Chaos singing "Who Wants To Live Forever" from the English rock band Queen. Just as I looked at her voluptuous and tasty lips (I remember them because I tasted them once)

"Touch my world, with your lips..." the damn voice sang but for the first time I was grateful for his actions... "Oh you're welcome dear" well after thinking about it, no I'm not grateful. Then we hear Aer cough, and it was the first time that I registered the goddess in her 8 years old form. We turned around to look at her, well Piper actually glared at her which was amusing for me and she didn't seem to see the murderous glare Piper was giving her.

"Oh don't mind me, after all I'm just a little girl" she said before running to me and hugging me tight and I think Piper is an adept of the famous eye for an eye because she too hugged me just to budge Aer, in the end it was a race of who would hug the biggest part of me and in the same time who would be closer to me, Piper won the first but Aer did the last.

"It's too much, it hurts girls" I managed to say before they broke the super glue hug to see the few burns marks on his body.

"You smell barbecue" Aer said with a smile. Which Piper didn't appreciate neither denied, and I took it as a clue that it was true.

"Well more like a cheese burger or pizza with a lot of bacon" I heard inside my head but choose to ignore it which made it shut up. Then I saw the others coming, the incredible look they had plus the face they made as if it was a bad joke that I was still alive especially Thalia who was outraged about it though it could only be seen in her eyes. But decide to do as if I didn't see them

"How did you survived" Thalia said from behind Clarisse which startled her a little bit even if she masked it. Something must have happen between them, that's why they didn't walked together I thought to myself but as I saw that she was avoiding any eye contact with Piper or just looking at her I included Piper in the beef. She was slowly walking but pushed over all those who were in her way to stand before me and examine me as if I was some kind of freak from a circus and she doubted its existence.

"It takes more than a little flash to kill me" smile "thought Zeus did poop a big one this time" and I broke down, I laughed as if there was no tomorrow my laughs weren't help by the looks they were all giving me as if I was crazy.

"It's official I don't doubt that you're crazy BECAUSE YOU'RE FAR BEYOND CRAZY" he shouted in my head but it didn't bother. The girls took a step back from me and were nervously glance up in the sky as if they were expecting another lightning bolt splitting the sky to fall on me but there was nothing. At the end we all laugh of it even if they were nervous laughs I managed to change my clothes and we ate our food. Two days later we were close to the wolf house as Thalia was told to take us there by Artemis if Piper really still wanted to go to the Roman camp. The day they were supposed to leave us, I took Clarisse, Nico and Thalia aside and said:

"Percy told me everything there was to say, I was probably the last to see him alive so I know what you did for him and what you didn't" I said the last part glaring at Thalia who for once since I knew her looked, the others looked at her then at me as if trying to understand something they didn't but as Aer told me what happened between Piper and Thalia and judging from their look, I understood that she didn't explain herself about what they heard as the last three days the two of them had been together with me talking or doing whatever we did. Well good luck explaining yourself I thought but not as bitterly as I expected myself to do. "So as you know he isn't in the underworld, there is only one thing I can tell you: he'll be back soon to his friends so don't lose faith but don't say it anyone" I kept on.

"But why doesn't he come back now that we need him" Clarisse asked me, angry that I didn't go back to them. Weird I thought.

"So that they could use him like they first did?" I angrily asked her and it seemed to shut her.

"So what he's just going to run free in the wild" Thalia spat. I glare at her trying to calm myself, I inhale a big mass of her before saying in the coldest tone I never knew.

"You shouldn't be the one complaining about after all you choose to sit and shut your mouth when I all started. So do me a favor, shut your mouth and let the adults do the talking" she opened her mouth to say something but no sound came out of it, for a moment I felt bad to be so harsh with my cousin the guilt disappeared as fast as it came.

"No he's binding his time to get back the whole control of his body, and he is hiding from the Earth as she's the Crooked One's mother. When he's ready he will be back for your friends not to the traitors and wanna be but you guys. That's the whole and only message he gave me, and don't even bother to IM him because it won't work for him as I already tried" I added before leaving them to their business.