Chapter 38: Without Athena

Here comes the next chapter. You will find out soon enough why I name this chapter like that if you keep reading. Sorry is a little short but, like I said, if I make the chapters shorter there is a higher chance that I will update more frequently.

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Percy's POV

When I arrived to the Greek meeting hall the kings were talking about battle strategies. They didn't knew that the army leaving the city wasn't going to attack us. That meant that I had to explain the Greeks what was going on before they decide to fight a needless battle. When I get inside the hall I made loud noises with my footsteps on purpose so that they figured out that someone just entered the place. The other kings turned around and saw me.

"Percy, did you rest well?" Achilles asked me when he saw me.

I nodded. Then I realized that Achilles is the only one that calls me by my name. Sure he has called me demigod sometimes but that is what I am so I don't really mind. The others however keep calling me Hero of the sea and stuff like that. Not that I complain; I am flattered that they think I am their Hero but it becomes awkward after a while. Aside from Achilles no one really call me Percy and I miss being called by my real name like any other half-blood. With the exception of the nickname seaweed brain, of course. Annabeth always has the right to call me that way.

"Hmmm, I wonder what she is doing in our own time," I thought.

"Jackson, I hope that you are prepared for combat because we just receive news that an enemy army has left Troy a few minutes ago," Agamemnon said.

"We are not fighting that army," I sentenced.

There was a short but tense silence in the room.

"Why?" Menelaus asked me.

"Because they are not going to attack us," I informed. "They are retreating."

"Wait who…?" Ajax asked

"The Amazons gave up and decided to leave the war while they still could," I claimed.

After a few seconds of silence everyone started cheering.

"You did it!" Diomedes congratulated me. "You convinced them to give up by getting Hector out of the way and scare them with you powers."

"Hero of the sea, you made an entire army abandoned the fighting," Odysseus said deeply surprised. "If you didn't had my whole respect before, you definitely have it now," The king of Ithaca declared.

They keep congratulating me and that made me proud of myself but, soon enough, I remembered the other reason of why I came to the meeting hall.

"There are other things I need to tell, you Greek kings," I told them.

That silenced them pretty quickly. Now they are used to my plans and they pay attention to what I have to say since that has proven to be useful for their cause.

I knew that what I was about to say will change history again. Odysseus is supposed to be the one to tell this idea to the Greeks once Athena places that idea in his brain. However, it could still be weeks before that event occurred and if I was leaving soon, we needed to do it now.

"Look," I began, I am leaving in 2 days," they flinched when I said that, "and I have a plan to get the army inside of Troy but we need to do this fast," I explained.

"What plan will that be?" Nestor asked with curiosity.

"The general idea is to build a huge wooden horse but hollow in the inside so that the best warriors among us can stay inside," I started. "Then we leave the horse in the camp and leave a soldier that the Trojans don't know there to explain them that the horse is a trophy for the Trojans saying that they have won, that we are tired of the fighting, that the gods took me away from the war and that we gave up. For them to believe us, they need to make themselves sure that the army and the fleet is gone and I will make a powerful spell that will make every Greek and ship in and shore totally invisible to the Trojan eye," I claimed surprising them. "Finally, at night when the soldiers get us inside we get out of the horse and fought our way to the gate until we open it and the entire army can get inside of the city and we will win this war once and for all," I ended.

The kings were silent for a whole minute. They were meditating about my plan.

"That sounds like a great idea to me demigod," Odysseus said.

"Man I wonder why," I joked in my head.

"There is just one part of the plan that trouble's me," Agamemnon said while scratching his beard.

"What?"

"That I doubt that the Trojans will buy a story like that after how the outcomes of the war had turned in our favor recently," The chief king said.

"I have thought about that too and I came up with a solution," I informed.

They were silent again waiting for my answer.

"I will pray to my father so that he can bring me here a dozen of Cyclopes and I will use a spell to disguise them as Trojans," I began surprising everyone again. "Then, I will make an illusion of about a hundred Greeks dead in the floor to make the Trojans think that Apollo made a plague to punish us for desecrating the his temple and killing his priests. That could convince them that we left because we didn't wanted anymore dead by that plague."

After the usual silence after one of my plans, Agamemnon began talking.

"Can you really accomplish all of that?" He asked me with a little doubt in his voice.

"Yes but making so many spells like that will require a huge amount of magic," I told him. "So, I am going to have a family talk and then I will go to sleep for the rest of the day. In the mean time I need you to cut at least 150 trees to make the horse and I need all the wood here by tonight when I will wake up, so send about 10,000 men to get the job done fast. Did I made myself clear?" I asked.

The kings nodded.

"Well, I am going to talk to my father," I said while heading to the beach.

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