Percy

Coming to the house at a very quick rate, I could feel my father arriving. Now I knew my father would stand by me no matter what I was doing, but even the ruler of the sea's had to follow the council's orders or he would either get in trouble, or start a war amongst the gods, so I didn't want him to put him in the place to choose.

I didn't have enough time to escape before he could have arrived so I hid in the shadows masking my presence, hoping that he would think I just gotten away. The bad part was he wasn't alone. He arrived with Mrs. O Leary.

"Okay girl seek him out. If I don't find him before the others… My brother has ordered a warrant for his capture. That son of mine, I don't know why he just doesn't come in for a few questions! They just want to know what he saw in Tartarus."

The house wasn't big enough to have a garbage truck sized hellhound much room to sniff around. Either she would have found me through the shadows, or her paw would have bumped into me.

A thought came to me, and I didn't know if it would work but I had to give it a shot. While in the shadows, I made an exact clone of me appear made out of water. But this wasn't like the regular water clones that could blow up in a shower of steaming hot water. This clone was like 1 of the clones in Tartarus, when the stranger saved me. This clone had a large portion of my original water powers, along with a small portion of a few of my other powers. The clone knew what I wanted him to do so just as soon as he was created he shadow traveled 30 miles away to a parking lot next to my old school Goode High.

The desired effect happened almost immediately. Mrs. O Leary's head shot up, and she started to sniff around in the air, and ran towards the wall, but before she could collide she shadow traveled away. My father followed after her giving me just enough time to water travel away.

I didn't know how my father managed to find me, but if I had to guess, I would have to think that they were searching any locations that meant a lot to me to see if I was there. I couldn't go to Camp Half-Blood, because even if I could pass beyond the borders, with my new monster blood, Athena would know I was there.

Ogygia was also a hotspot for me because even though the island was a part of me now, its magic could only do so much, and I shared the islands power with Hestia which gave her a small degree of its power as to be able to protect its inhabitants.

That being said, she could herself allow every Olympian into the island to search for me. Thankfully there was 1 upside to it all. The Olympian's couldn't use the centurions to hunt me down because Ashley, Beckendorf, and Nico had all sworn not to take any sides on Olympian matters.

Their sole mission was to guard the control to make sure it didn't get in the wrong hands. Also since Ashley was a hunter of Artemis, as was I, she and I shared a bond and she would know, if I wanted to stay hidden, then it was for something.

"Trust your gut on whatever you decide Percy. If you feel the hunters trust in you is that strong then believe in it, but know this. If for some reason they get a few of your centurions to come and find you, then you can always go to your island and call off the order.

"Your commands outweigh any of the other 3 demigods. Until you die you can veto their orders. But like you know, the demigods made an oath to only use their backup power of the control to protect the demigods. They were able to get the centurions because the hunter thought it was in your best interest to not be in any more danger than necessary."

"And if any of the Olympians tell her I am only wanted for questioning on Olympus she will know that I am no longer in any physical danger!"

"There you have it. Now you must find shelter for the night. It is past 6, and the other 2 businesses have closed for the day. The daughter of Hemera will most likely not be there any longer, and you do not want to waste your energy when you know you won't be able to find her."

Now that just left me to decide on where to stay. Even though I could stay hidden in the shadows, I didn't want to stay out in the open. If I had to stay hidden for 2 weeks sooner or later Zeus would lose his nerves and send a full man hunt for me.

As much as I think I made the Olympian's better, they were still gods who had ego's. Not all of them, like my father, Aphrodite, and maybe Hermes and Apollo. But on the other side of coin there was Zeus, Athena, Ares, and Hera. I didn't know how Hephaestus, Mr. D, and Demeter would fit in. But the 1 thing I was sure of was that Artemis knew what I was doing, and if she felt like I was in any danger of getting stopped, she would find a way to help me.

My other obvious choice was taken out of question because my father would look for me at the cabin in Montauk. He knew that it was a key piece of my child hood, and it was the place he and my mother met.

Not to mention I could sense that a lot of monsters were nearby. The monsters in question were not a staggering amount. That seemed out of the ordinary. If I had to guess how many there were, I would say about 15.

There were monsters that liked to stay in packs like hellhounds, and harpies, and I didn't smell any demigods nearby that would give me tell me that they were in danger, and if I did smell any demigods, I would have taken out those monsters immediately to protect the demigods even if they didn't know it was nearby, just in case they did find out later.

But I had to get back to finding a place to sleep tonight so I began to think of any places that came to mind. The first place was not a place a demigod would go to relax, but I didn't think the Olympian's would look for me there.

I water traveled there after only having to remember its name. The place I water traveled to was Polyphemus's island in the Sea Of Monsters. The last time I saw this island was when Annabeth, Tyson, and myself went to the Sea Of Monsters to find this island in search of the Golden Fleece, and to save Grover's life from the Cyclops Polyphemus.

The island at that time was an oasis of vibrant trees, lush green hills, and giant sheep which turned out to be meat eaters who would eat a person if they got the chance.

The island now was a barren, rocky island that no visible life in sight. Even the sheep that used to roam the grounds as the cyclops's guards were no longer here, until I got over the hill. I saw that they were still here, just not alive.

Their skeletons scattered the island, and I saw that they were picked clean. I had to guess that after we left with the Golden Fleece, and left Polyphemus almost completely blind, that he must have had to eat all of his pets to stay fed since they were the only other living things on the island.

Then, when his pets were all gone, he must have tried to leave the island in order to find a new home. After 10 minutes of walking I reached the cave that he used to call home, but I saw its entrance blocked by the giant boulder that I remembered from my last visit here.

The difference between the last time I was here was that I wasn't any longer a scrawny kid. I destroyed the boulder with a single punch that crushed the boulder into a hundred different pieces.

I made my way into the cave and nearly gagged from the smell. The sheep pelts that were here the last time now had friends from what I assumed where the last remaining sheep that Polyphemus ate. However nothing was done to them to make them suitable to be used as blankets.

The sheep pelts had attracted insects to them when they were skinned, and after time, the new pelts gave the cave the smell of rotting flesh. Combined with the boulder that blocked the entrance, the cave never had a chance to air out.

If I was going to sleep here for the night, or if had to stay the entire time it took to brew the potion, I had to make it slightly livable.

With my nose still plugged, I filled the cave with searing fire, and when everything that could catch fire did, I moved on to the other parts of the cave and did the same, moving among the fire with no harm to myself.

When the entire cave had been on fire for 10 minutes, I vanquished the fires. Then I filled the cave with hundreds of gallons of water and made the water move along the nooks and crannies like someone would wash dishes.

I wanted to make sure that every ounce of stink was gone, so after a couple of minutes of the water cleaning the rocks I flushed the water out of the cave and dried the water from the rest of the cave.

While the cave was covered in scorch marks from the fire I had succeed in airing out the cave, and destroying any decorations the cyclops placed inside the cave including the sheep skin recliner. By the time I was done cleaning it was 10 minutes after 7 pm.

But I wasn't alone anymore. Coming into the cave was the water clone I had made earlier, and he wasn't empty handed. Hovering in the air beside him in a bubble of water was items from my island home.

"After leading your father on a wild goose chase, I went back to your home to retrieve your potion ingredients. Nobody spotted me. Your island let me open your safe. I must warn you not go back to your island. The majority of the Olympian's are at your island searching for you.

"I must also let you know that your friend Clarisse has informed the Olympian council that you ran away after she specifically told you that you were needed on Olympus for questioning about what happened in Tartarus.

"Your father is doing damage control along with Artemis, but I fear that some of the minor gods are pleading with Zeus to place you under arrest and be punished for disobeying the Olympian council. Zeus seems to agree with them from what I heard Hestia speak."

"How do you know about all of this?"

"As I was about to leave, a group of Olympian's came into your home to see if you were hiding. Your home protected my whereabouts, but let me listen in on their conversation. Amongst the Olympians were Hestia, Demeter, Hermes, Clarisse, and another minor goddess named Khione.

"Khione, from her tone, is the leader of the group of minor gods who are seeking your arrest. Demeter seems to be Zeus's envoy to give him a report on what she has found on your island that might lead to your whereabouts, and Clarisse was there to give a report on what happened earlier today.

"Also, while I was listening in on the conversation I witnessed Demeter on orders from Olympus to get some of your centurions to try and find you. The huntress Ashley was called in to give the orders but she politely declined the goddess.

"Ashley said that her orders were to not to give out centurions every time something came up, and if she did loan out any it would take away protection from the demigods. Demeter didn't get mad. I think she expected the answer, but she was on orders."

"Is there anything else I should know about while you were out there?" My clone nodded his head.

"Yes. When Demeter found out that she couldn't get any centurions she told Hestia that the next step was to have Iris the goddess of the rainbows track you. Normally Iris has it so her powers will not be used to track people, but if the Olympians call a vote and a majority of the Olympian's agree then she will do so. If that happens you must find a way to make yourself untraceable."

My clone did a bow of respect to me, which I didn't know why he did, and when he was done he carefully set the potion ingredients on the ground, and walked into me, disappearing, his body turning back into water.

The water absorbed into my body, giving me back the powers I shared with him. I couldn't contact any of the Olympians to find out a way to make myself untraceable, but then I remembered 1 god was not on orders to turn me in.

After creating a circle of ice around me I sat in the ring, and calmed myself down. After 10 minutes of staying calm and clearing my mind, I slowly drifted off to sleep. I found myself in a blank room.

Hundreds of picture frames flew by, and then I was standing in what looked like a hallway crowded with moving pictures. I decided to try to say something, so I called out Phantasos's name. Nothing happened immediately, but then almost all of the pictures vanished leaving only 3 behind.

In the pictures were 3 people I had just recently come to know. The first person was Emma. In her dream she was playing a game of pool with Matt. The second person was Juliet, who was sunbathing. The final person in their dream was Nyx herself.

In her dream she was torturing Uzaton in a very painful way which would make any guy cross their legs. However I couldn't see anything more because the picture in her dream shook like an earthquake was going on.

Then the picture changed to just Nyx standing there looking directly at me. "Percy you know it is not nice to spy on someone's dreams."

"I am sorry Lady Nyx, I did not mean to spy. I was just trying to find Phantasos, and your dream popped up."

"Yes well Phantasos is currently having a date with Heidi. If you wish to speak with him, I can tell him to meet with you."

"Wait Lady Nyx, I have a question for you. Do you know a way that would keep me hidden from using an Iris message to track me?"

"Not on hand Percy, unless you wish to come back, and stay with me. I could suggest hiding yourself in shadows, but the Iris message could find your location, they wouldn't be able to see you but the Iris message would zero in on your location."

"Okay then could you speak with Phantasos? He may know the answer, because there is a good chance the Olympian's will put a warrant out for me."

"Tell me Percy, why would they do that? Did they think you did something wrong?"

"Well, when I got out, I found out they wanted me to answer some questions on what happened in Tartarus. I didn't want to take the chance that the process would interfere in what I have to do. A minor Olympian goddess confronted me in my home, and after she told me that I would need to go in with her. I left.

"Which is what's going on to lead them into trying to find me by Iris message."

"Well I cannot say what I would have done, because I am not you and not in your position, but if you feel what you did was right, then so be it. Just stay where you are and Phantasos will meet with you soon."

The picture left the others, and I decided to send the others away because I didn't want to intrude on their dreams. It was only after 10 minutes did I see another portrait appear. This portrait was of Phantasos sitting at a table. I knew I had to meet him, because I was in a circle, and he could not enter my dream.

I slipped through the window, and he immediately stared at me. "Hello Percy. Nyx said you needed to speak with me?"

"Yes, I need a way to stay hidden from ways of being searched. The goddess Iris is trying to find me by Iris messaging, and Hermes is trying to find me."

"You're asking for something very strange, but if you need it I can help you. As gods of sleep we pick up a few things when we enter another's dreams. We can never pull anything like radiation of a god's powers that might let us have a small control of their powers for even a few minutes, but we can get other things.

"For instance, if you enter a regular mortal's dreams and you linger in there for a length of time, you can have your physical body mimic theirs. Not only will it change your looks but also their essence. Now like I said, it's only mimicking, but it does help us if we are being chased by enemies like rogue dream gods who want our power."

"If you do this right, you can get the looks and essence of a mortal for around 13 hours, and when you get better at it, and use the power a lot in a few years, you can even hold that power for weeks on end. However there is a warning. If you try this you can keep it for an allotted time like I said earlier, but if you use your powers it will thin away the power."

"If you try to use your powers in excess, it will make your own essence seep through the mask. Now if you use this power on someone so normal that an Olympian wouldn't possibly know who they are, they wouldn't even know that your hidden in a copy of another person's essence."

"How much power can I use if need be to stay hidden in the mortal's essence?"

"I can't stress enough to be careful with your powers. It is easy for us dream gods to stay hidden, because a dream god's powers are limited while in their physical bodies. For you I would limit your powers to only your original powers given to you.

"Your powers given to you when you are born will not show as much, it can show if you use it a lot for instance summoning a hurricane, or a 9.0 earthquake. It will make your mask melt away instantly. But if you just water travel, and maybe in your case summon food, it should not give you away.

"The reason why you should be able to summon food is because it is not a physical power. Another power you can use is your powers over strength. The power of strength is an innate power you cannot really turn off."

"Do not use your thunderbolt because it screams godly strength. And if you must use a weapon, then use your hunting knives because they do not have any powers."

"What will I have to do to get their essence?"

"All you have to do is spend time in their dreams. While you are in someone's dreams your body will sleep. You do not even have to affect their dreams because their essence will soak into you. However I do have 1 last final warning and this is most important thing."

"Do not stay in the same persons dream more than 1 day. If the Olympian's are really searching for you like then you say, then even Morpheus will be on the search for you along with Hypnos. They will search for you in your dreams, and then alert Zeus.

"You do have some upsides to the power. Firstly if you stay in a circle when you are in a dream world then the Olympian's will not be able to find you, because your essence is in your mind. Another upside is nobody on Olympus knows that you have power over dreams, and as long as you stay low key, no one will.

"By the way Percy, do you still want me to go to your island even though you are not there? I can leave at any time."

"No not at the moment. I am not in the best place with the Olympian's at the moment If you suddenly appeared to monitor my island's resident's dreams, the Olympian's might become suspicious on how I came to know a dream god and convinced him to monitor dreams.

"If they come to know about you, they could order you to give up any details you know about my whereabouts, and while I can hold my own against the Olympian's, you would have no choice but to obey.

"If you want, just stay in Tartarus and hang out with Heidi. I will understand and if the time comes when I am back in their good graces, you can come to my island. If you are able to travel to and from the mortal world to Tartarus, then if you are really into Heidi you can spend time with her, as long as you take care of my islanders dreams."

Normally it wouldn't be a good thing to tell a god if he could do something or not, but he must have been fine with it because I could have stolen his powers for trying to kill me with the other rogue dream gods, or left him to the other rogues. But he smiled anyway.

"If you want 1 last piece of advice before I go Percy I will tell you can specify whose dreams you want to see. You can search demigods, mortals, or even gods just say who you want to see. But be wary if you try to watch or interact with a divine being's dreams because even if they are asleep their unconscious minds are still active, and can find you.

"No. I would suggest that you find a mortal's dream, who you would feel comfortable mimicking their essence. Remember, do as little as possible. If in their dream there are others, then interact, but follow the flow of their dreams."

"For example if someone is playing a game, look through their memories for someone they know, take that form, and play, but let them win. Anything to not alert Morpheus of your presence."

Phantasos waved goodbye and faded out from the dream. I felt myself return to the empty room. I should have taken his advice and go straight into a mortal's dream but I wanted to see if I could find out what my enemies were up to.

I called out 4 names and could see images start to show up, but there were only 2 of them. The four names I called were Atlas, Hyperion, Echidna, and Iapetus. The last time I had seen Iapetus, he had tried to kill me in the underworld, took a bath in the river Lethe, and turned into Bob.

I had not known Iapetus escaped, but from the last time I snuck a peek at my enemies dreams, I found out they were sending an attack Party on Prometheus, and that they had almost completed something that would restore Iapetus's memories.

However the only 2 dreams to pop up were Echidna, and Hyperion. The first dream I went into was Echidna's, because if I wanted to learn something I would go for the non-divine being first, for less chance of being caught. But the moment I entered her dreams I enveloped myself in shadows to make sure she wouldn't sense me.

Now at first, all her dreams were of her petting her Chimera, and then they shifted to her ripping out Prometheus's organs while the Chimera slurped them like spaghetti. 1 thing that did let me learn something, was to her knowledge, the titans believed the Olympian's to be nearly, completely oblivious to what was about to happen.

She knew I had managed to rescue a group of demigods from Atlas, but they just thought I stumbled upon them. Another thing was they got no warning from Oceanus about my knowledge of their plans, so they thought I was just going after Prometheus because they thought I blamed him for Annabeth's death.

The bad news is that 3 weeks ago, they had so far managed to amass an army of monsters that went over 300,000 ranging from regular hellhounds to monsters I fought in Tartarus, who the Olympian's never saw, and that was 3 weeks ago, the last time she saw her Chimera, who gave her the report, and she was being kept out of the loop by Atlas on their current numbers.

After about 15 minutes in her dreams I left deciding not to test my luck with her. Next I entered the dreams of Hyperion whose current dreams were ripping out every tree from the ground as soon as he took power.

But I could feel the attitude change in the dream slightly as soon as I entered, but as soon as I hid myself deeper in the shadows the attitude in the dream returned to normal. I decided to try and investigate in his mind a little bit to see what I could find.

I gave his unconscious mind the suggestion to go over the battle plans of what they have worked out so far, and I felt like I nearly hit the jackpot. From his mind I could see that Atlas was the general of the monster army.

Hyperion was in charge of the hypnotized demigod army, which scaled over 4300 demigods. Most of who were from the Lotus hotel, which I also learned that the Lotus eaters had managed to join the titans group.

I had also found out that Iapetus was in charge of gathering the items needed to build a prison for the gods that would contain them while their powers were being drained. However, the bad news was that they had scouts following multiple gods, not to capture them, but to be on watch in case the Olympian's found out their plan so they could start early.

The gods that were currently under watch were Artemis, and that goddess was the easiest to have followed because her and her hunters were always in the mortal world, and monsters would only be drawn to them, because while the older hunters had their demigod scents removed, there was 13 demigod hunters who had no received the same blessing.

Another god who was on watch was Hades. I had no way of knowing who was watching Hades, but it wouldn't be hard to place a monster in the underworld, and if that monster could stay hidden, then they could learn a lot.

I was going to try for more information when I felt his subconscious mind waking up, and if I didn't escape before he woke up he would almost certainly find me in his mind.

I quickly escaped his dreams and wiped the dream windows away out of slight paranoia that Hyperion could spy on me like I did him through the dream window. When I knew I was safe, I decided it was best to now follow Phantasos's suggestion. That way my disguise wouldn't fall through halfway through the day.

I called out for mortals but I was quickly bombarded by millions of tiny windows rushing around me so quickly I couldn't make out a single images. "Mortal men under the age of 30 in Tennesse, with no godly or demigod relatives."

I was still bombarded by a couple thousand of windows, but they slowed down enough for me to find a reasonable candidate whose dream did not involve a naked celebrity, or dreams that involved people taking the role of video game characters.

The person I chose in his dream was in a surf competition, so I at least could relax in the dream. The only downside to the dream was the mortal man was without problems surfing on a 300 foot tall wave, and then going under it without falling.

Now my father and my other relatives in the sea could do that, but I doubted a mortal man with no divine blood in his ancestry could so the dream was farfetched, but it wasn't hard to hide in the dream. In the dream I stood amongst a couple dozen people cheering on the surfers.

About 9 hours later when the dream faded. I had successfully gone through the guy's surfing dream, another dream that involved beating up an annoying old schoolmate, and himself winning the superbowl.

When the dreams ended I pulled myself out of the dreams, and started to wake up. I could see immediate change in my physical looks when I stepped out of the circle of still frozen ice. Instead of my hulking 6 foot plus body, I had now shrunk to 5 foot 9 inches tall.

Not only my height had changed but I also looked to be about 3 years older, and my unruly black hair had been replaced with dirty blonde hair that could be put into a small pony tail. It was still a few hours before any of the 2 final business's would open, so I decided to buy my time by summoning myself breakfast.

As to not test my luck I only summoned myself a breakfast burrito, and a glass of iced water with lemon. I ate as slowly as I could to waste time considering the cave didn't have anything to pass the time.

I couldn't go to the ocean surrounding the island out of worry that 1 of the fish would excitedly pass around that they saw the son of Poseidon near their home, because then that might pass around to my father, and then I would have to find a new hiding place.

I also had to think of how hard it was going to be to fight my enemies if I succeeded in making the potion. If Echidna's latest number was right I would be facing a monster army well over 300,000 monsters which had to be the biggest gathering ever.

Then I also found out they managed to either kidnap, or trick demigods, into forming a demigod army of over 4300 demigods.

So I not only had to defeat my divine enemies like Atlas, Hyperion, and whoever was setting all this up. Then I had to get past all the monsters, and save the demigods, because if even a single demigod was kidnapped to be used as a tool then it was my duty to free them.

I then remembered I had someone I could tell about this. I just had to find a way to contact him. The dangerous part about trying to contact him was that he was the head of security at Camp Half-Blood. I couldn't Iris message him, but I could meet with someone to contact him.

I hoped she would not fry my being for just showing up, but I had a feeling she would help me out anyway she could to get her prey. I water traveled to Rhea's domain, but I immediately rebounded off her invisible barrier.

The good news was I was able to arrive near her domain before she denied my entrance. The bad news was that I couldn't move. Golden chains shot out of the ground and wrapped around my legs. 2 minutes later Rhea came strolling towards me in a sun dress.

She was followed by 2 nemean lion's, but because I was mimicking the essence of a mortal the nemean lion's image kept shifting from giant monster lions, to overgrown tabbies. She gave me a look of eager look in her eyes most likely trying to find out how a mortal could try to magically enter her domain.

I didn't give her much time to think. "Lady Rhea, I am Percy Jackson. I am here in disguise of a mortal to keep the Olympian's off my scent. If you wish me to capture Atlas for you, then I request you release me immediately, and give me shelter in your domain so we may speak.

To make sure she believed me fully, and so she didn't think that I was just someone Percy told about my visit with her. With my left hand I reached into my pocket, and pulled out the tattered old whistle she gave me.

She raised an eyebrow, and snapped her fingers. The chains seeped back into the ground and she stepped aside. "Okay Percy, I admit I was fooled by your scent. I was almost toying with the idea of letting my lions use you as a chew toy. However you proved to me you are you."

I walked past her walking between her pets, and she followed after me. When we got inside her home she summoned plush chairs for the both of us, and offered me a cup of coffee. After I took my first sip, I began to tell her the story on why I was on the run from the Olympian's, but leaving out small details that she didn't exactly need to know.

"Well I see you have gotten yourself into a pickle. But I am slightly offended that you didn't come here first for shelter, I have a barrier around my domain to prevent all unwelcomed Olympian intrusion, and that includes Iris message.

"Now tell me what do you need, and I'll see it done."

"I need you to contact Argus, and have him meet with you here. Tell him you have need of him again, but make sure he keeps the visit a secret. I know he will help you because he is deeply devoted to Hera, and you helped him save her.

"I know he will also help me, because he knows if I fail Hera will fall."

"Okay I will send 1 of my pets to Camp Half-Blood. That is my way of communicating with him. He knows which Nemean lions work for me, and he has allowed my pets to enter the woods surrounding the camp.

"It will take a few hours for my lion to get to the woods, because he will have to get there unnoticed. If you wish you may come back here at noon, and he should be here by then, and then after you may stay here for as long as you want, as long as you want."

"I thank you for the offer, and I may come back after the meeting to take you up on the offer, but I have my own place at the moment. I do not want to stay here longer than necessary so that way there won't be a chance for the Olympians to find out about your location, because I know how secretive about that you are."

"As long as you know the offer is open, but this meeting here is a double edged sword because I am still keeping my threat about what I told you last time if she comes back to life."

"I am working on it I promise you, I am just trying to bolster my chance at success for when after the potion is made, but if you want to help me 1 step further it will require you to come out of hiding."

Rhea crossed her legs, and told me to go on. "When the time comes, the Olympian's will be kidnapped. When that time comes I want you to go to Olympus with any allies you have and your pets and I want you to protect Olympus, in case my enemies try to destroy it."

"Well Percy, currently my only ally outside of here is you, and Argus. However I do have a power over all lions, and I can send my most powerful pet, to bring others to my cause. I promise you this, if you want my help to protect Olympus you have it.

"How long do you think it will be till all this happens?

"It will be in less than a month, and you will not be alone. I have some mechanical allies on Olympus to protect the thrones. What I need you to do is protect the entrance to Olympus like me, and my allies did last year."

"I can also give you the help of some of my fellow hunters when time comes. Artemis knows a lot about what is happening, and while they will want to rescue Artemis themselves, they will help you protect Olympus if it means that her throne is not destroyed."

"If you wish this to happen, tell Argus to go to my island, and meet with the hunter Penny. Tell him to tell her to meet with you today, and she will stay here with you to act as your liaison with the hunters. She has been told by Artemis to help me in any way she can, and if she knows this is what I need she will help you and bring the hunters who are not on my island to aid you."

"Very well, I may not be used to teaming up with demigods, and nymphs but do not forget that your father along with Other Olympian's are my children, and I have not stopped wanting their safety. But what about Camp Half-Blood will you wish for me to help them to?"

"No when the time comes Artemis will know what to do to have them protected, I only need you to protect Olympus. I must warn you to think about this before you accept, because if you agree, my enemies will know about you too."

"Percy, I am a titaness. I may no longer have a throne, but my power is still a match to any Olympian, and if anyone wants to make me an enemy they will feel my wrath. As long as my children are in danger and Atlas is free I mean to aid you."

"Before you go, take this." She whistled, and a rather ferocious nemean lioness came walking out of her temple, and walked up to me. It wasn't nearly as big as her 3 story tall pet, but I saw a deadly look in its eyes.

"This here is 1 of the few female nemean lioness's to exist. I have 3 here with me, and a few are spread out through Tartarus, and on other countries, but she is yours now.

"You will find that nemean lioness's are more powerful than their male counterparts. If it came down to a fight between her, and 10 enemy nemean lions she would win with 2 of her claws tied behind her back.

"If you accept, her spirit will reside within you, and she is immortal by my doing so she can never die. She will never do me harm, but anybody else you wish to her to hunt she will. Percy Jackson. Do you accept Nemeria as your pet?"

I nodded my head, and then Nemeria walked up to me, and nuzzled her head, against my palm, and then her body began to glow, then change. Her body transformed into a necklace. It was a solid gold link chain with a gold lion's head charm in the center.

"The necklace will act like your sword. When you wish to release Nemeria to hunt, just rip off the chain and throw it into the air. Her spirit will leave your body and gain a physical body again, and she will protect you like she would me. When you wish for her to return, just call her name and hold out your hand. She will return to your body.

"Enjoy this Percy, she is now a part of you. You will find her presence warming, and she will be a faithful companion."

"If I were to die, what would happen to her?"

"Like I said Percy, she is immortal. If you are dying you may wish for her to stay with you in the afterlife and she will keep you company for all eternity. Or you can release her back to me, or even have her live on your island to protect your demigod friends.

"It is up to you, she will do as you wish. She will kill whoever you want her to besides me, she will protect anyone you wish, or you can have her just lay around all day in the sun. She likes that. However some tips to care for her.

"You must let her out at least 1 time a month for her to hunt. I have trained her to eat like a regular lion, so she will not be like other monsters who feed on demigods, or creatures of the wild like Satyr's. You can tell her to hunt anytime she wishes, and as long as you are not in any immediate danger she will hunt till she is fed, and return to you.

"However, if she senses you are in danger she will reappear like she is now in necklace form, and it will be up to you when to release her. That is the only requirement to take care of her, but like I said before she is fond of laying in the sun so if you're not busy, you can let her sunbathe."

"Well then Lady Rhea, I must go to my other matters, and let you send a scout for Argus. I will return by noon, so just don't attack any mortals who try to water travel inside your domain." Her lip twitched up in a smile as she nodded her head."

I then put on my new necklace, and the necklace had a soothing warm glow around it. I then water traveled away to the second business. The business I water traveled to was the factory that made the solar energy panels.

I decided it was best to do this business next because it was the largest, and the most time consuming to search. Since I was now in disguise, and I couldn't sense any gods nearby, I decided to just stay like I was. Better to hid in plain sight, rather than take the chance of destroying my disguise to hid in the shadows.

When I walked into the building I had to stop at the front desk, and sign in. After I signed in the receptionist asked me what my business here was, and I told her I was here for an interview but I forgot the interviewer's name.

The woman answered with a smugness, like her only joy in life was talking down to people. "Go down the hallway, and enter the fourth door on your right." I gave her a fake smile, and when I was walking down the hallway she pointed to, a small bit of anger poured out from me from 1 of my extra eyes that held the power I got from Menoetius.

The water cooler next to her desk started to bubble, and then it exploded, and showered the woman in cool water. The woman jumped up from her desk, and patted her back like someone dropped ice cubes down her back.

I looked down at my body to see if there was any change but I didn't see any. I quickly went down the hall, not in fear of being accused by the mortals of making the water cooler magically blow up on the snotty woman, but to explore the business.

I kept the paper in view to see if any of the people I walked near would make the paper react. By the time I got to the room no one appeared to be Jane the 1 I was looking for. When I entered the room I saw that I was not the only person there.

The room's waiting chair was crowded by over a dozen people leaving no seats left. I went up to the receptionist to ask if there was any Jane's working in this part of the factory. The woman shook her head.

"No but if you are looking for Jane Eaton, you will find her in the internet sales department. She is the only Jane I know personally here. You will find her 2 doors back the way you came on the same side of the hallway."

At least this woman didn't have the same arrogant smile as the last receptionist did so I gave her a genuine smile back. After I walked back out the hallway I was about to head the way the woman told me but the paper in my hand started to warm up.

I didn't know why the paper didn't warm up the first time I walked by the door but when I started walking that way the paper started to cool down. I turned back around to test the paper, and it got hotter.

"So you are the other way Jane. Okay, well let's see where you are." I started to walk deeper into the factory completely ignoring the nice secretary's advice. The hallway I was currently in started to feel never ending, because there was 9 different doors before the first turn.

I didn't bother with any of the doors because the paper didn't react any when I walked past them, nor did it get cold when I walked past them. When I turned down the hallway I came across 3 different pathways.

The first path was a set of stairs that would lead to the second floor. The second path was a hallway that continued the way I was going beyond the stairs. The final pathway was a janitor's closet. To cut out the easiest of the 3 options I opened the janitor's closet.

The paper didn't explode in flames, nor was there anyone in the closet. So I knew I was now down to 2 choices. So Jane was either a regular factory worker who was working on 1 of the heavy machines I could hear down the hall, or she was in the offices in the upper floors, working as a manager, or a manager's secretary.

I headed up the stairs but stopped as soon as the paper grew cold. I was slightly annoyed because the factory floor was going to be the hardest area to search. The factory floor was the largest part of the business, and had the most amount of people who worked for the business there.

So I had to both find her amongst the crowed of mortals, and get her to talk to me without her running away, or drawing the mortals attention. Because if she did not want to talk she could scream saying I tried to attack her then run away.

I didn't stand around sulking instead I just walked through the door, and was assaulted by the size of the factory floor. The machines in the factory would have a child of Hephaestus drooling. The machines were more advanced then I would have thought.

I could have spent an hour looking at the machines trying to wonder if these machines might have been supplied by a divine being, or the fact that mortal people were getting more advanced. The bad part was I counted over a 100 people in total busy at work.

There were people who barely looked old enough to vote, and people old enough that they could have been born in the age of the titan's based on how frail they looked. I quickly used 1 water power that I knew wouldn't affect my mask, and that was searching if there was any oddities in the amount of water that should be in a regular person's body.

But every person seemed normal. My next obstacle was how to mingle amongst the crowd in search of Jane without standing out, because anyone just walking around the entire bustling factory floor while doing no work was suspicious.

Some people might think I was a floor manager, but some might think, who is this complete stranger, but I would just draw more attention to myself if I just stood in the doorway wondering what would draw attention to myself.

I started to walk down the first isle of machines, and I found my way to blend in. On 1 of the stools was an employee's over shirt. When no one was clearly looking I slipped on my shoulders and buttoned it up.

I couldn't say that I was attacked by a monster in the 50 feet I walked before the paper started to get hotter, but walking through the groups of people took me a few minutes. When the paper grew warmer it was like I was holding a hot cup of coffee.

I could only see 15 people in front of me, and only 4 of them were women so if the paper was correct I was less than 20 feet away from talking to the person who could help me save the world. The first of the women appeared to be in her early 20's with raven black hair.

The second woman looked to be in her late 50's, and her hair was mostly salt rather than pepper. The third was as ordinary looking as could be, there was nothing at all that would make her stand out, except for her extremely un-tanned skin, and she was the person who made the paper in my hand feel like I was sticking my hand in an open flame without the anti-fire powers.

She looked down at her hand, when she saw her skin getting a great tan, compared to her near vampire white her skin was earlier. She then looked up to me, and the glowing paper in my hand. I didn't need to read her mind to know that she knew there was something off about me.

"Helen I am going on break."

Jane ran off before the woman with the clipboard, named Helen could tell her she just went on break. It was uncomfortable running after her without knocking anyone over, and I didn't know if she could magically leave someway given to her from her mother so I yelled at her.

"I need to speak with your mother Jane! I know your grandmother Nyx."

The woman Jane stumbled so bad after my comment that she nearly ran into a pallet of heavy boxes but she caught herself at the last second, and turned to look at me with a glare. "I don't know who you are, but you got the wrong woman."

"I know I got the right woman Jane. Your mother is Hemera the primordial goddess of the day. My name is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. I recently just rescued your uncle Aether, at request by your grandmother Nyx. If you do not believe me speak with your mother, and she can contact Nyx."

I thought she was going to do something encouraging that would something that would give me encouragment, but she shot out her hand at me. Even though she was over 20 yards away from me, something slammed into my chest.

I couldn't see what hit me but a major scent of unpolluted air wafted into my face. She walked up to me as I was trying to stand but the attack in my hindered state knocked the air out of my lungs.

She was walking up to me, and in her hand I could see a spinning orb of light. She was about to try to hit me again but I took the risk of using my water powers, and with a flick of my wrist she slammed into the closest wall.

I had used the water in her body to do that, and when she fell on the spinning orb it blew up on contact. I was afraid she would have been seriously hurt, but she stood up without the slightest hint of pain. "Leave now Percy Jackson you are out of your league here

"You may be powerful compared to the lesser demigod children but you have never fought a child of a primordial goddess. You will not speak with my mother, and I do not care for what you may have done for my uncle. You have never done anything for my mother that would grant her favor.

"Leave now and I may let you keep your pitiful life."

"Trust me Jane, you know nothing of how powerful I am. If I was not hidden in this form, you wouldn't be so confident."

I saw her twitch her eyebrows slightly, and I knew I had her. "I tell you what Jane if you are so powerful, I challenge you to a duel, if I win you take me to your mother, and you must convince her to help me in my goal. If you win I will not bother you again."

"Fine demigod, but since you need me I get to set the rules. If you accept them, and manage to beat me I will let you have a meeting with my mother, and I will help convince her to help you if it is in her power but if I win I get something else. If I win you have to serve me for as long as you live."

I didn't have much time to go over my choices, but I nodded. "I agree on the sole condition that I get to choose the fighting place, so that I can be unhindered. I cannot let the Olympian's know where I am."

"I tell you what Percy, we can fight in 1 of my mother's mini domains. Her mini domains are completely hidden from all Titan's, and Olympian's views."

"The stipulations to the fight are we both can only use 2 powers either born to us, or given to us. We can use any weapons we want, but no outside interference by any other living beings, like your necklace. I am not a full god, but I know that is only a vessel to something alive.

"I choose my powers over air, and electricity. What do you choose Percy?"

"I choose my powers of control of water. I have them from multiple sources does that count as 1 or 2?" Jane gave me a cocky smile and held up a single finger. "Fine then the second power I choose the powers gifted to me from your grandmother Nyx."

"Fine the terms are set. If you are good enough I may even make you my new archery target. The last stupid demigod to challenge me 400 years ago is looking too much like Swiss cheese."

"Don't move. I am taking you to my home." She snapped her fingers and I felt my body began to spin faster and faster. It got so fast that I couldn't see, but when I could see again, I was in a place that a minor god would kill for.

The entire place looked like a smaller, but grander version of Olympus. The only building in sight was a massive 7 story tall mansion built out of marble, and decorated with pictures of intricate celestial gold murals.

Covering the rest of the area was a giant obstacle course. The course had a mock jungle for archery. I could see targets slight bigger than what Artemis used in the brush snapping up every couple seconds, like an insane version of whack a-mole.

Across the lawn was an impressive looking arena, surrounded by tents. I could hear heartbeats in there I didn't know who they were but I didn't really care. The only thing that really got my attention was in the sky above me I couldn't see a single cloud, not even a hint of a cloud.

"If you don't know by now we are in the sky much to far away from any major sources of water for you. Not even your father could summon more than a gallon of water from where we are at." She started walking to the arena, continuing to laugh to herself like she just already won the duel.

People started to run out of the tents and immediately bowed to Jane, and afterwards, they finally looked at me. From their faces I didn't think I would get even a smile from any of them.

Jane gave them grudging acknowledge. "You will all leave my home now. You will go about your daily activities, and after today you will have a new cabin mate.

"Percy, everyone you see here all thought they could topple the daughter of a primordial goddess. Each and every man and woman you see have fallen to my blade. As you should know I am my mother's first child, and her strongest."

"You can consider these people my trophies. My oldest trophy is a son to the primordial being Aether, and he is 150 years older than I. My newest trophy is a son to the Roman god Mercury. He is a fast demigod but not much in the strength department."

Jane gave a jerk of her head, and all the people rushed out. When we walked into the Arena, a swirling mass of air spread out from the walls, and into the air. When the air stopped it grew bright, and turned solid.

I heard a heartbeat arrive, and when I looked up I saw a stunning woman sitting in the best seat in the area. Like what Jane looked like now she had the look of pure elegant grace without the arrogant confidence.

The woman had glowing blonde hair, and clear sky blue eyes. Something about the woman made you not want to disappoint her because if you did, she might blast you into a smoking pile of soot, but she also had a look that might mean she would offer you a hot cup of hot chocolate on a cold day if you were on her good side.

I took a step towards her, but quickly stopped in my tracks at the look she gave me. "You have agreed to my daughter's terms. If you wish to speak with me, you must beat her. If you try to speak to me before the fight ends I will not hear what you have to say."

I turned back to look at Jane who was now holding a sword that was flowing with electricity. "Jane let me ask you, if you are so much into fighting, why were you working at a mortal factory, and what was with you tripping over yourself, and telling me to go away?"

"I do that with anyone who tries to find me. I have never had anyone search for me to find my mother, but I use that act to weed out the weaklings. If either they die from my first attack or leave, I know they are to weak to fight me.

"I don't take in weaklings. Even that son of Mercury was able to knock me into a wall. I have informed my mother of your wish, she wishes to see what the demigod who beat Kronos was like."

"The fight is simple. If you submit you lose. If you run out of weapons, or use any of other powers that are not a weapon like this, then you automatically forfeit." She nodded to her sword, but I put my hand to my chest and pulled out Thunder Terror.

Thunder Terror took the form of a spear, then a sword, and finally a bow. I had the pleasure of seeing mild surprise on her face. "So based on your rules, my lightning bolt in these forms will work however, in a straight up lightning bolt form that would be breaking the rules?"

She gave a silent nod of the head, and then with concentration I made the shadows that were in the arena grow, until the entire floor up to our ankles were covered in thick shadows. The special armor the crown gave me appeared on my body like a second skin, on 1 side blue, and the other pitch black.

To make things stronger for me I summoned my armor given to me by my father. That armor didn't really physically show, but the water gauntlets appeared on Nyx's armor. I then proceeded to strap on all my armor.

Crossed in an x formation was riptide, and Thunder Terror in a sword form. On my legs were my dual hunting knives, on my chest was my war whip, and hidden until needed was my bow. The pit scorpion's tail exploded out from my body in striking position.

The last thing to happen was the giant great sword appearing in my hands. Any ideas from the 2 women about me doing what I did for Nyx, and Aether were gone from their faces, because Hemera lurched out of her seat.

"Well it looks like Percy Jackson will actually be able to give me a challenge. I gotta say, with all the great stuff you have I might say you will be placed higher up than an archery target. I might place you in the role of my new scout to find me more enemies."

"You may make the first move Jane. But you should know this, if you stop me from completing my goal, I have a weapon that can drain you of all your powers. If you refuse me of my prize you will be powerless because I am not here to toy around."

Hemera jumped down from her spot and stood next to her daughter. "Did you just threaten my daughter outside the scope of a duel?"

"All I told her was if she hindered me after I win, I will punish her. Or you could just help me now for the safety of your daughter in the long run."

Hemera let out a yell of anger and shot out a bolt of pressurized at me. While extremely powerful I managed to deflect the attack with my great sword. The weight scale on my chest glowed brightly, and the 2 goddess's fell to their knees."

Hemera looked up at me with anger showing on her face. "What have you done to us demigod? What sort of power is this?!"

"I did nothing to you Lady Hemera. You did this to yourself. Your daughter made a bet with me, in our duel no one living could interfere on either side. While neither of us threw the first blow, the duel had started.

"When you came down here and tried to attack me for getting defensive you broke the rules. When you broke the rule it started a defensive power in me. Had you not attacked it wouldn't have happened, doing it also allowed that power to enact first because you broke the rules.

"Also, by doing what you did you effectively made your daughter lose the bet, which means I get a meeting with you."

The women looked dumbfounded, but I continued to speak. "The only way this duel can continue to go on is if I get a partner to join in. Because of my power I cannot completely just let it end like this. I have to give you both the chance to make even on the bet. But to make it even I will have the right to bring someone equally strong as Hemera to join me.

"Jane. as you are the maker of the bet you have 2 choices. You can either accept my terms to continue the bet, or you can forfeit, and let me have the meeting. And you must help me get her to help me with something that I know is in her power."

Hemera looked at me with still anger in her eyes. "What is it you want from me?"

"I need you to make a special potion for me in the best forge that you use to make potions."

"Why would you want my help? Everyone goes to Hecate for potions. Jane, accept the bet to let him bring someone to team up with him. I don't want to help the child of an Olympian."

"You heard my mother. I accept the bet. Tell her who you want to lose with you, and she will get them."

"I will bring back my teammate. You just have Hemera give off some of her essence so we can find this place again. But when we beat you must help me Hemera."

I water traveled away, and when I arrived I saw a surprised looking Rhea sipping a cup of tea. "Percy what are you doing here. Argus is not set to be here for another hour?"

"Lady Rhea may I ask you how skilled are you in combat?"

"I can hold my own why do you ask?"

"I am in a duel against the daughter of a primordial goddess, and her own daughter for the rights to get the daughter of the primordial's help."

"And this duel is the only way to help me, help you? Tell me then, who will be our opponents if I accept?"

"We will be facing the primordial goddess of the day, and her daughter. I would have asked for Hemera's brother's help but he is currently in Tartarus with his mother resting from a tyrant, and she is not likely to leave him in his fragile state."

I would have thought Rhea would have been surprised to hear that primordials walked the earth, but she didn't bat an eye. Instead she just stood, and whistled. Another nemean lioness strolled out of the temple, and rubbed against Rhea.

But the lioness quickly transformed into a fur coat. Rhea threw the nemean lion skin on, and it transformed into a golden lion themed armor. However her power tripled in under a minute. Her power matched the strength of 2 of the big 3 combined, along with a few of the other Olympian's.

"I could tell you that I am offended that I am your 3rd choice, but I could use some exercise. Are there any stipulations to the fight?"

"Yes at first it was a 1 on 1 fight between her daughter and myself, but she broke that stipulation when she tried to attack me. Now it is 2 on 2 because she does not want to help the child of an Olympian. Other than that rule, the rules of the fight are as such.

"Firstly you can only use 2 powers that you're either born with, or have been gifted to you. If you use any more than those 2 that cannot take the form of a weapon, like a sword, then we lose. You can use any amount of weapons you want but the main thing is you can only use 2 regular powers. Like me.

"I chose all the powers of water I have, and powers gifted to me by the primordial goddess Nyx. I can also use my lightning bolt Thunder Terror because it can change shapes."

"Well I am good with my main weapon." In her hands appeared a celestial bronze staff with on 1 end was a deadly sharp lion's claw for slashing.

"If you hold onto me, I will take us to the duel." She walked the 10 steps over to me, and placed a hand on my armored shoulder, and then looked at all her lions that had gathered at the foot of her throne. "My ally Argus will be here in a short time. You all will allow him safe passage into my domain. None of you will try to attack him, and you will keep watch over my domain until I return.

"Okay Percy I am ready." I started to water travel away and searched for Hemera's scent. I found it miles above the sky where the air was thinner. Rhea, and myself were allowed entrance into the domain.

THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN EDITED BY SIST3M.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

I thank all my great readers for sticking with my story. I know my story has never been perfect but I have a favor to ask all of you. I welcome all comments but I must ask when you comment please don't only ask when my next update is going to be I would like to know what you all liked about the chapter, or even if I forgot something in my story.

I am not trying to discourage anyone from sending in comments but I am working my hardest to write full length chapters that you all can look forward to.

Lastly I would like to let all of you know that before New Years Eve I will be uploading a special chapter that I advertised over 2 months ago. As soon as I get the chapter fixed I will release it to everyone when before only 3 people got it. What you should know about the chapter is that it takes place before Percy battled with Oceanus.