Chapter 35-

"Where'd you go?" Apollo asked as she walked into his palace. She dried herself off the instant she was inside and glared at him.

"I decided to have a nice chat with Pegasus about sea politics." She declared. He rolled his eyes and stood up.

'Pleasant." He motioned for her to follow him as he walked down the hallway to her normal room. "You're father wants to bring you to his underwater palace tonight. I doubt I'll be seeing you for a while so we're going to have a little discussion." His eyes darkened as he leaned against the doorframe.

` "About?" she raised an eyebrow and tilted her head to look at him.

"I know you're a demigod and you've been in a lot of battles and yada yada," he paused as she snickered "But if anything feels wrong I need you to tell someone immediately." He growled, his eyes flashing gold with power.

"Okay." She crossed her arms and stared back at him, unblinking. After a moment, Apollo broke the gaze and cleared his throat while Persephone stood up. "I'll Iris message if anything goes wrong." She states, stepping around him and out the doorway. Leaving him to his own thoughts. Standing in the living room was her father. He greeted her with a smile when she walked in, but his gaze was son the god that stood behind her. Apollo stepped around her and sat down in one of the big, comfy chairs that faced the door.

"Let's go." Poseidon took hold of her arm. His face was a blank slate as he flashed them away from Olympus and into the sea. They arrived in front of the great gates of the castle. The guards bowed to the king as he passed and smiled respectively to Persephone as she followed behind. The palace was made of white marble. Its walls where engraved with fierce battles and beautiful sea creatures.

"I thought I'd do something new." Poseidon stated as he came to walk beside her. There were no longer sculptures of him everywhere. Instead there was moving images. Scenes of recent battles and old family memories.

"It's cool." She glanced around her at the amazing images. The castle was built differently, with tall walls that sloped inward slowly to create rounded ceiling, the ceiling was made to look like crashing waves and Persephone let her eyes rest on it momentarily.

"More family friendly?" Poseidon asked, his eyes glinting. Percy laughed, nodding her head.

"Yes." She exaggerated her head movement as they rounded the corner. Huge oak doors stood in front of them, glass windows letting them see blurry images of what lay beyond.

"This is the new throne room." A guard shoved the doors open as he bowed to the king and Persephone inwardly rolled her eyes.

"Percy!" the cry was from one corner of the room and before Persephone could turn, a pair of arms wrapped around her. She caught a glimpse of Triton's scruffy hair and hugged him back.

"Hey." She replied as he stepped back to look her up and down. He glared softly at her and Percy knew another speech about how reckless she was coming.

"You shouldn't have left." He started just as she rolled her eyes at him. "Really, what if something happened?"

"Nothing would have happened. I was with Blackjack." Sometimes the gods didn't realize how much she trusted him and that bothered her.

"You can give her the speech later." A kind, gentle voice spoke from behind them. Amphitrite walked through the doors with open arms and Percy stepped into them. Although she and her step mother had been off to a rocky start, it was being fixed. "Welcome her home first."

'Welcome home." Triton's grin spread quickly over his face, the smile reached his eyes and was contagious.

"Thank you." She tilted her head in acknowledgment while Poseidon chuckled. Triton turned to his mother with pleading eyes.

'Now can I give the speech." He begged, he even bowed a little with his hands in front of him.

"No." she said before turning to Percy "He would love to be an overprotective older brother for once." She smiled and Percy grinned back.

"He'll get plenty of chances." She replied, Poseidon frowned as she said this, but it was Amphitrite who questioned it.

"What do you mean?" All three gods watched her, but she shrugged it off and looked up at the ceiling.

"I'm a demigod. We're called to be the warriors of the gods." She wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying, her powers where going crazy down here, longing to stretch and grow. On top of that, she could sense a being lurking just behind her and she ached to know who it was. Sending out a small string of aura, she let it search the area until she was sure of who it was. When she did, she grinned. "Hello Theseus." She closed her eyes and drew Riptide. Its sadistic glow unearthly in the castle. She slashed it at him, forcing the hat that had been on his head to fall off and Theseus to appear. He battled her for a moment, but he obviously hadn't been ready and she quickly overpowered him, knocking him out cold.

"Why'd you do that?" Poseidon asked, a punishing look about his eyes.

"If you want to sneak up on a demigod, you best do it quickly and quietly. Theseus was quiet, but he wasn't quick. He also wasn't prepared." She replied, kneeling down and giving her brother a shove, causing him to awaken with a long groan. "Also, if you're trying to sneak up on someone," she didn't look at them as she said it, instead focusing on a corner of the room "You shouldn't be so sadistic about following someone for an entire day." She raised her eyebrows as someone chuckled behind her. "Luke." She growled, spinning around. He really could be sadistic at times.

"Apologies." He declared, flipping off his hat and leaning against the doorway behind Theseus. Amphitrite gave a small shriek.

"Not accepted." She declares stepping towards her best friend. "What do you want?" Luke had a way of shutting down all emotions and when he did this, it was crazy and he became very cold.

"I'm being babysat by this." He nudged Theseus with his foot. Theseus sat up and glared at Persephone.

"Interesting. Aren't you a little old to be babysat?" she questioned him, but didn't really care for an answer. She knew the true reason he was here.

"I thought so too, but our good buddy," he paused widened his eyes dramatically "Achilles doesn't."

"I wonder why?" she sent a questioning look towards him and in an instant, Luke with feelings was back. He sent an 'I'll tell you later' look back at her and she turned back to her father who was watching the entire nitration with passive eyes.

"If I may mention something," Theseus groaned as he stood up "I'd like to say that Persephone is just as sadistic as Luke." He patted Luke on the shoulder and rolled his eyes as his sister snorted in reply. "Now, if you'll excuse my student and I," he paused again, pulling on Luke's arm "I don't want to hang out with my sadistic sister." They walked out of the throne room and Percy watched them go before the doors shut and The three gods turned to look at her.

"What was that?" Poseidon growled, Percy winced and shrugged her shoulders.

"I think Theseus wanted to prove that I needed more training and it backfired on him." They nodded as if agreeing with her statement.