Percy POV

We got out of Tartarus without a single scratch, which is quite frankly the most surprising sentence I have ever uttered.

Aphrodite was safe and sound on Olympus once again.

There was a massive party on Olympus which was exclusive to immortals, so I didn't stay long as none of my friends were there.

I still slept in the Poseidon cabin, as with the Aphrodite business, the building of my palace was put on halt. I was quite happy to stay at camp and I would definitely put off leaving for as long as possible.

After the long day I had, I fell into a deep sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Dream sponsored by Morpheus

Everything was pitch black.

I could hear the faint sound of a flowing river, but when I looked around I couldn't find where the noise was coming from.

Then a speck of white appeared in front of me.

It grew larger and larger, until I understood that it was a figure walking towards me.

As the figure moved closer I could clearly see it was a woman.

She had long ebony hair and eyes to match. She wore a long, black robe that rippled as she walked.

An instinct told me that this was Lady Styx.

"Hello, Perseus." She said.

I guessed from her speaking to me that she could see me. I was smart like that.

"Lady Styx," I said respectfully knowing that even though river goddesses weren't seen as powerful, this one was.

"Your oath against the daughter of Athena has been removed." She said.

"Wait, what? How? Why?" I asked shocked.

She simply waved her hand dismissively.

"Sleep well, young hero. Perhaps we shall meet again." She said, her voice making my eyes grow heavy even though I was already asleep and was just dreaming.

"Wait!" I called out to the river goddess and she walked away into the darkness, "Why has it been removed??"

Styx turned and smiled at me before fading out of my vision completely.

As soon as my dream ended I woke in a cold sweat, with my left hand feeling like it had been dipped in fire.

I looked at my hand to see it was glistening in a weird glowing substance that felt thin, like water.

I crawled out of my bunk and sleepily stumbled to the bathroom to rinse my hand under cold water.

It instantly felt better and the glowing water was washed off to reveal my hand was raw and red.

I held my hand under the tap until the water had completely healed it.

I had no idea what had happened to me, but I wondered if it had anything to do with my dream about Lady Styx. I vaguely remembered that my body looked the same as my hand after I had bathed in the Styx and it felt the same too.

I looked at my watch that Tyson had given me, which was sitting on my nightstand and saw that it was 5.30. I couldn't see myself going to sleep again, so I pulled on some grey sweats and a hoodie and slipped out of my cabin.

It was still dark outside and I decided I would go down to the beach in case the cleaning harpies caught me. I supposed that they couldn't do anything because I was a god now, but I wasn't about to take the risk.

As I neared the beach I saw someone was already down there, sitting on a towel on the sand.

Despite the fact it was dark, the person wore a sea-green bikini that reminded me of my eye colour.

"How are you holding up, Aphrodite?" I asked the person who I had identified as the goddess of love and beauty.

She was lost thought and jumped when she realised I was standing above her.

"Oh, it's just you. Come sit," she said patted the small space on the towel beside her.

I sat down beside her and tried to ignore how our legs were pressed against each other's.

"I'm holding up fine, I guess." She said with a sigh.

"What was it like being down there with Erebos," I asked gently.

"Uh, he was such a dick, Perce. He even tried to make a move on me." She said shivering slightly.

"Are you okay?" I asked worried that he had succeeded.

She smiled faintly, "I bit him."

I nearly snorted, "You bit him?!?"

She nodded laughing along with me.

"What did he do after you bit him?" I asked once I had stopped laughing.

Aphrodite smirked, "You worried about me, Percy?"

"Well yeah, it's not nice down there, I know first hand," I said remembering me and Annabeth's time in Tartarus.

She frowned before shivering again.

I knew that if she wanted a coat or something she could easily materialise herself in anything other than a bikini, but something told me that she wanted me to react instead.

I didn't know if it was Aphrodite's love magic working on me, but I asked her if she wanted my hoodie.

She smiled sweetly before agreeing. I pulled off my hoodie remembering that it was the only thing I had on, but only after I had taken it off.

I sighed and realised I couldn't take back my offer so I gave it to her anyway. At least now her clothing was a bit less distracting even if mine wasn't.

I'm not a pervert or anything, don't get me wrong, but any normal teenaged boy who's sitting pressed against the goddess of beauty in a bikini is gonna notice whether they try to or not.

Aphrodite laughed slightly as she wiggled into the hoodie that was massive on her.

She lay back on the towel and gazed up at the stars that were dotted about the dark sky.

Aphrodite squinted as she looked closely at a constellation, "I haven't seen that one before."

I lay back, beside her to see what she was pointing at. I realised it was a constellation that looked like a girl running across the sky with a bow and arrow in hand and smiled sadly.

"That's Zoe, Artemis' old lieutenant," I said quietly.

"You knew her?"

"I was there when she died, it was the quest to save Artemis, remember?"

Aphrodite nodded and gave me an empathetic look before she turned back to face the sky.

The sound of Aphrodite breathing and the waves lulling back and forth a few feet away, eventually caused me to drift to sleep.

Leo POV

I woke up in the morning with all my tools and other stuff wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper.

"Stolls," I sighed as I unwrapped my sneakers and put them on after getting changed into a plain white t-shirt and jeans.

I had been in a continuous prank war with the Hermes cabin duo for a month now and I was ready to go big, but for my master plan to work I needed some god power. It was a good thing my friend was a god.

I headed to the Poseidon cabin to share my plan with Percy and to enlist his help. The cabin was empty so I went to the next place where Percy would be which was the training arena. Finally when he wasn't in there either I decided it was worth a shot to look down at the beach.

I found him there, but he wasn't alone.

He lay asleep on the sand with a woman beside him, also asleep.

I soon knew this was Aphrodite from the way her looks changed ever so slightly as she lay sleeping, oh and from how she was a total knock out too.

She had Percy's hoodie on over a tiny bikini and Percy was shirtless with grey sweats.

This was too good. Percy and Aphrodite were literally sleeping together. This called for a selfie.

I pulled out my iLeo phone and snapped a selfie with my thumbs up and the two lying in the background.

Then I took another photo of just them.

I decided that this would be great, friendly blackmail to make Percy help me with the prank.

So I took the two photos and selected every single demigod contact except Percy, which was over 1000, including Camp Jupiter. See I had everyone's number because I had to make basically everyone's phone. Yeah 1000 phones sounds like tons to make and, trust me, it was, but my siblings helped out a bit.

Percy began to stir so I went to click the exit button on my phone to take more pictures buuuuuuuuttttttt...

I missed the exit button.

And clicked send instead.

There was no time to undo it, Percy's eyes started to flutter open, so I ran like the wind and kept running until I got to the dining pavilion for breakfast.

As I sat down people's phones started buzzing and I knew pandemonium was about to break out.

It started with Connor Stoll who for some reason when opening the photos shouted, "AGAIN PERCY? WOW!"

Then he showed his brother who also responded enthusiastically.

In no time the entire dining pavilion was filled with noise and Chiron was having a hard time getting everyone to be quiet, "Demigods!" He shouted, "What is all this about."

The pavilion quieted slightly and someone from the Ares table shouted, "Percy slept with Aphrodite on the beach!"

Chiron's jaw dropped open slightly, for once unsure how to reply.

Percy took this as his moment to enter.

"Excuse me?" He said after hearing what the son of Ares had said.

As soon as the half-bloods saw Percy the noise began again, louder than before. They shouted a steady stream of questions at him, begging for answers.

I took this as my diversion to make a swift exit. I decided that my safest option in life was to leave camp and beg my dad to turn me into a dog or something, maybe a tiger, that would be cool.

Otherwise, Percy was going to kill me.