Eight months later

Since the troops were training harder than before, Chaos and Percy decided to let the troops have the day-off and let them spend time with their own family to ease the tension. The family decided to do the same and went down to their beach that was rarely used since they didn't have the right occasion to use it for until now.

Percy was knee-deep in the water when he felt a presence jump onto his back and turned his head to meet Thalia whose legs were wrapped tightly around his waist.

"Care to explain?" Percy asked her with a smirk on his face as he shifted to adjust for her weight.

"Yeah, the chair just wasn't doing it, and besides I think I like this more." She said and kissed Percy's neck making him blush.

Artemis chose that moment to walk up to the both of them and jumped onto Percy's front latching herself onto him and kissed him firmly leaving him a bit dazed when they broke apart.

"Not that I'm disliking it but why am I suddenly the climbing tree for the both of you?" He asked but not exactly making a move to remove the both of them from him.

"Are you complaining?" Artemis asked with an eyebrow raised daring him to say otherwise.

"N-n-no," And gulped when he felt Thalia run her feet up to his body with Artemis slowly running her hand up and down as well.

"Good or otherwise I would have thought you were back to being a dumb male," Artemis said teasingly and grabbed hold of his face and kissed him until they were red in the face with Thalia turning his head to the side to do the same to him leaving her red in the face like Artemis and Percy speechless at their semi-public actions.

Chaos let out a chuckle at the sight, while Erebus, Ouranos, and Aether just cheering their son/nephew/brother on and Nyx quietly laughing at her son's reaction with Gaia and Hemera high-fiving each other.

The three lovers quickly went red-faced when they realized that the rest of the family was watching them and cheering them on rather enthusiastically.

The laughing was interrupted with a rumble from Thalia's stomach making everyone laugh harder.

"So, lightning bug you hungry?" Percy asked her when Thalia went red again and received a nod in response.

"Ooh, those crepes sound good right about now," Artemis said.

"I feel like I got you guys hooked on it or something," Percy said sarcastically with a roll of his eyes as the girls walked in on him making it once, and got attracted to the smell instantly.

"Nah that's crazy talk. Now go Shadow-Boy make us our crepes," Thalia said while she was still perched on his back.

"I'm Shadow-Boy?" Percy asked curiously.

"Yeah cause you shadows. Now please make us our food," Thalia said, widening her eyes at him.

"Fine but you two are going to have to let me go if you want food," Percy told them.

"Fine." And his two girlfriends jumped off of him and let him walk to where the kitchen was set up and Percy willed a crepe machine to appear and started to work on them as it appeared before him.

"Hey, Percy." At the call of his name, he looked up to see Aether look at him

"Yeah what?" He responded.

"Why do you cook anyway? You can just get someone to summon food." Aether asked him and Percy had to try to keep the memory of him being told that his mom was killed without being able to say goodbye away from his head but failed when a few tears came loose causing most of the primordials, goddess, demigod to look at him in concern with Chaos looking sympathetically at Percy.

"Just...just something to keep me connected to my mom," Percy answered with tears starting to show.

"Huh? Do you have two moms? Isn't our mother your mother?" That made Hemera slap her idiotic brother on the back of his head while Erebus, Ouranos, and Gaia just glared at the Primordial god of the upper sky and Nyx just sadly looked at her son and remembering that he never got to say goodbye to his other mom.

"Nice job you moron. You made him sad with your dumb question." Hemera told Aether and slapped him again making the god wince from the pain and the now glares he received from his pseudo brother's lovers.

Percy leaned towards the countertop furiously wiping away his tears with his trembling hands while trying not to remember that moment back in the throne room but stopped when he felt two pairs of arms wrap around him from behind in comfort.

"It's ok Percy," Thalia whispered in his ear and held his hand.

"Just let it out if you have to," Artemis said while rubbing circles on his back to soothe him and holding his other hand.

Percy turned around and quietly cried on their shoulders mumbling about how he failed his mom but was assured by the two of them that he wasn't and let it all out with the rest of them sadly looking on with Aether receiving another slap from his sister but wisely keeping quiet.

Percy gave one last sniffle before slowly lifting his head to see Artemis and Thalia gently kiss him on the cheek and smiling sadly at him before he wiped the tears from his eyes.

Percy released himself from their embrace and gave them a kiss in return before resuming his original task of cooking food for them not seeing the glances that Artemis and Thalia aimed at him with his back turned.

"Do you want help?" Artemis asked.

"If you want to then sure. Just don't try to eat anything before it's done like last time," Percy said smirking at the last time they helped him with cooking and ended up with him chasing Thalia around the room trying to get her to stop eating all the cookie dough.

"Hey! It's not my fault you didn't stop me!" Thalia said with her arms at her waist acting mad.

"If I recall correctly you grabbed the bowl of dough when I told you not to touch it and proceeded to run off with it and made me go through like 3 different spatulas," Percy said and threw his arms up.

"You mean you didn't want Artemis and I to lick the spatula nice and slow? What about licking anything else?" Thalia said and fluttered her eyelashes at Percy making him go red-faced and spluttered out his words at the memory.

Artemis slowly walked up to Percy and put both of her hands on his shoulders and looked him in the eyes before speaking "Maybe if you cook something then Thalia and I could reward you?" She said smirking at Percy's reaction.

Percy tried to compose himself before he lost it and Artemis just laughed and walked to the countertop with a slight sway in her step and took a seat to watch him with Thalia following in laughter. Percy quickly resumed his task with his two girlfriends watching.

While this was all happening the Primordials and Chaos were having a conversation a few feet away from the three.

"What were you thinking! Do you think before you speak!?" Ouranos said to Aether.

"I forgot! It's just that I forgot he wasn't really related to us and that our mother adopted him after!" Aether defended himself.

Erebus and Chaos just looked at the proceedings happening in the small kitchen and Nyx noticed it and pointed it out, making the argument stop for a brief moment.

"I just find it fascinating. We saw him cry just now but it seems that Artemis and Thalia are his anchors and keep him grounded. I mean Percy is open with us because we're family but those two are something else with him. It's also like Percy reveals a side of the two that others don't see unless you're him. Those two can be who they are around Percy because he loves them either way. We have all seen what he can do when his power is unrestrained as demonstrated when he rescued them in the first place but he has good intentions." Chaos pointed out.

"After everything my son has been through, he deserves to be happy with them," Erebus said happily. He was proud of the man his son has become and walked towards the kitchen with his wife in tow.

The rest of the group soon followed and with perfect timing as Percy was just about done with the food and started plating it out. Aether apologized to Percy but Percy waved it off and thanked him instead saying that he needed to get it all out after keeping it in for so long.

Everyone started digging into the food with vigor making Percy feel good and filling his ego up just a bit. Percy took a seat between Thalia and Artemis and ate his plate. Percy shifted in his seat since Thalia was rubbing her feet up to his legs and Artemis kept making small moaning sounds next to him every time she took a bite and smirked whenever he reacted.

"I've been meaning to ask since you guys are doing it right now but I thought that gods and goddesses like you don't need to eat?" Thalia asked the primordials.

"Well we don't have to eat as we're maintained by our domains but it's similar to how Percy can't get drunk but still drinks for the feeling and taste of it," Ouranos said.

"And because Percy's food is too good to pass up either way," Gaia said, making Percy grin at the compliment.

"Are you sure you weren't a professional chef of some kind in a past life?" Artemis asked.

"No, I'm pretty sure that I'm not a god or have gone for rebirth at any point," Percy told her.

The group talked about anything besides the upcoming war with a few jokes thrown about and some aimed at Percy and his relationship with most of them being marriage jokes making the three in question blush heavily.

After the group ate and had a thoroughly relaxing day they decided to head back to resume normal activities. Artemis and Thalia started making out with Percy as soon as they entered his room and weren't seen for a few hours.

Camp Half-Blood

The lack of any real leader for the camp to rally behind put the camp into disarray. Annabeth tried to get the camp to rally behind her but would fail every time. Most of the campers still felt guilty over what happened to the son of Poseidon. The camp was split and training was fragmented because of the division. The hunters were no better as they haven't left the camp in years with some of them just accepting their fate and some outright denying it. This would cause a rift between the hunters and Athena herself as they saw it as an attack on their identity. The males learned to stay away from them after some were castrated after a few unwanted approaches. Chiron tried to push forward but failed every time he looked at cabin #3 and the memories that came with it.

One year later

"COME ON MOVE IT!" Omega shouted from the observation platform above the training simulator.

"YES SIR"

"YES SIR"

"UNDERSTOOD COMMANDER!"

The troops in the arena pushed themselves harder under the watchful gaze of Omega until the drill ended.

"This war will count on every single one of you. We will win this war so we can go home! First and Fifth battalion switch off with second and third. The rest of you will run through the crucible course again but that's for tomorrow. Dismissed." Omega said before turning and walking away from the platform.

Percy walked into the dining hall almost fidgeting in anticipation for tomorrow. He took his usual seat and couldn't stop fidgeting when Artemis and Thalia returned from their one-on-one training which was noticed right away by the two females.

"What's wrong with you?" Artemis asked once she noticed him fidgeting around.

"What do you mean? Nothing is wrong right?" Percy asked nervously and turned to glare down the rest of the table when he heard them chuckling at his discomfort.

"Where were you yesterday? You were gone for half the day," Thalia stated and a bit suspicious.

"You guys aren't going to tell us, are you? Artemis asked down the table and received multiple shakes of their head though Aether was suppressing a laugh and Ouranos was chuckling into his hand while Nyx and Erebus enjoyed the obvious predicament their son was in.

"Does this weird behavior have something to do with tomorrow? Isn't our first anniversary tomorrow?" Artemis asked and Percy choked on his drink when he heard the question resulting in him getting whacked on the back by Artemis.

"Can I not tell you?" Percy asked weakly and tried to school his emotions but failed.

"Fine," Thalia said and Percy blew out a breath of relief but was shocked by Thalia.

"You better have something planned, Shadow-Boy. It's our first anniversary after all." Thalia told Percy with a finger sparking with electricity right in front of his face.

Percy would barely be seen throughout the rest of the day with his training and the other preparations taking most of his time. It wouldn't be until an hour from dinner when Percy entered his room and promptly collapsed on the L-shaped couch from exhaustion and put himself face down. Artemis and Thalia chose this time to walk in and saw him lying on the couch with his head on a pillow.

"You look tired," Thalia stated.

"Because I am…" He groaned out

"Is it because of tomorrow? If it is then you don't have to do anything you know?" Artemis said rather worried about his well-being.

"No, it's fine. It's your first anniversary with me and I want to make it special for you two and I'm too stubborn to stop," Percy said and pulled himself up from the couch and rubbed his face to get the weariness out.

"Just take better care of yourself please?" Artemis said before wrapping her arms around him and sat next to him before putting her head on his shoulder with Thalia taking his other side.

"Anything for you. Did I miss dinner?" Percy asked.

"No but we just came up to see if you were here and wanted to pull you down with us," Thalia admitted and burrowed herself underneath his arm and into his side.

"Sounds fun," Percy said and rested his head on top of Artemis's while rubbing his hand on Thalia's back.

"So what do you two want to do in the meanwhile? He asked and leaned back into the couch.

"Let's just stay here and cuddle with you," Artemis said and copied Thalia by burrowing herself into Percy's side.

Percy gave a hum in agreement and started running his hand through their hair rather calmly and at peace during the moment. It was a few minutes after when he noticed the two ladies were slowly falling asleep on him and summoned a blanket to cover the three of them before dimming the lights slowly to make sure that the light didn't bother them.

It was this scene that Nyx and Erebus quietly walked in on when the three of them didn't show up for dinner but left with a smile on their face at the sight and told the rest of the family what happened to them and gave orders for them not to be disturbed.

The next day

Percy was the first to wake up and noticed the position he was in. Artemis's legs were intertwined with his and her head was in the crook of his neck with a hand on his chest while Thalia was curled into his body with her head on his chest and her arms wrapped around his abdomen. Percy relaxed even more and savored the moment. Percy looked at the clock and was surprised when it showed that it was almost noon before Percy remembered that he had three hours before the anniversary present for them was ready and another five hours until his plans were in motion. The thought of his anniversary with his two loves put a smile on his face and he gave a gentle kiss on each of their foreheads.

Artemis woke up at the slight motion from her improvised pillow and opened her eyes to see Percy staring lovingly at her making her smile in return.

"Happy anniversary Artemis," Percy said quietly and gave another kiss to Artemis whose smile brightened.

"Happy anniversary Percy," And cuddled him tighter.

Thalia woke up a few minutes after to feel Percy gently stroking her hair.

"Happy anniversary Thalia," Percy murmured into her hair.

"Hmmm happy anniversary Shadow-Boy," She replied happily.

"We should probably get up soon. I still have something to do before tonight," Percy said and shifted his position on the couch.

"Fine," Artemis said and got off of him and stretched.

"I'm too comfy," Thalia said in return but reluctantly got off of Percy.

"Right so I got to go pick up something and finish training the troops so I'll be jumping around the place. I'll pick you guys up in eight hours in this room if that's ok with you?" He asked.

"Yes, that's fine Percy," Artemis said and got a kiss on the cheek in return and turned her head to see Thalia get the same treatment.

"Love you!" And Percy left the room almost sprinting out in urgency.

Back in the room Thalia and Artemis just looked at each other once he left. "Sometimes he's like an idiot in child-form," Thalia said with a smile on her face at her boyfriend's almost enthusiastic behavior whenever he was with them.

"True but he's our idiot," Artemis replied with another smile on her face.

Both ladies left the room in laughter and went off to start another hunt in the woods though they would get interrupted by Hemera and Gaia in the middle of it with the excuse of preparing them for their first anniversary.

Eight hours later

Percy finished up training the troops and ran to the showers to clean himself up from sparring in preparation for tonight with a grin on his face. Percy willed his armor off and changed his attire to a more semi-formal look with a black dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, gray slacks, and his combat boots swapped out with a pair of dress shoes.

Percy was in the corridor leading to his quarters when he ran into Aether and Ouranos.

"Damn little bro," Aether said when he caught sight of Percy and Ouranos just gave him a thumbs up.

Percy just grinned widely and kept walking to his room when he noticed Hemera and Gaia walk out of his room making him stop and raise an eyebrow at the scene.

"Uhmm why were you guys in my room?" Percy asked the two primordial goddesses who were grinning back at him making him feel unease at the uncharacteristic behavior of the two.

"You can thank us later Perce," and the pair just walked off laughing.

"Thank you for what?" But received no reply other than more laughter.

Percy just shook his head in confusion and opened the door only to get surprised and went wide-eyed at the sight. Artemis was shifting around nervously while looking at him but what caught him by surprise was that she wasn't wearing her hunter clothes but was instead wearing a silver dress that went just below her knees with her hair in soft curls around her shoulders and was looking nervously at him, while Thalia was also shuffling around on the carpet in a similar dress but in black and the sight rendered Percy speechless.

"Is it too much?" Artemis asked nervously while holding an arm around herself.

"Hemera and Gaia dragged us up here," Thalia told him but still couldn't find the words to describe them.

"N-no I mean...you two look really beautiful right now," Percy said after a few minutes of him struggling to find the right words though his words did cause a blush to form on their faces.

Artemis slowly walked up to him and put an arm around his shoulders "So what exactly do you have planned for us three?" She asked him with Thalia coming up behind him and resting her head on his unoccupied shoulder.

"Now that would be spoiling the surprise now wouldn't it?" He replied with a big grin on his face.

Percy offered both of his arms to them and shadow-traveled away once they took hold of it.

The three appeared on the patio of the first place he brought them with a table already set and a dark sphere surrounding the area.

"It's a privacy sphere and it'll help with your second present later," Percy stated and pulled out their chairs for them earning a comment from Thalia "You're pulling out all the stops huh?" and got a grin from Percy in return "It's your first anniversary with me so all the effort is worth it for you two," And Artemis leaned over to his side to kiss him for that.

The three ordered their food and stories were thrown around with Percy mainly telling them what he did as the assassin and commander of Chaos's forces. There were times when Percy would look at Artemis and Thalia fondly and would earn a remark "It's like you're lovestruck with us," Though Thalia did appreciate that Percy was loyal to Artemis and her even after all that happened.

Eventually, the dinner came to an end and Percy gently pulled them to the grass.

"Ok, so first off here is your first present," And pulled two small cases from behind his back and handed them over.

"I know you both are more into practical things, so I made you two these with some help," At that the girls opened the cases and were stunned at the intricate bracelets and silver necklaces for the both of them.

"The bracelets are celestial bronze hunting knives bonded with stygian iron for extra lethality, but inconspicuous enough where the bracelets don't stand out. The necklace is a custom bow I had made for you two that doesn't require a normal quiver to operate but will work with one," Percy told them and received a hug and kiss from the both of them and smiled at the fact that they liked their gifts.

"Thank you, Percy," Artemis said, still hugging him tightly.

"Anything for my loves," And released himself from the embrace with a smile.

"Now your last present took some strings to be pulled, but I think it's worth it," And Percy made the motion for them to turn around and the two were shocked at what they saw. Zoe stood in front of them smiling and waving at them and looking very much alive.

"Hello milady and Thalia," Zoe said with happy tears falling from her eyes and got crushed in an embrace from Artemis and Thalia with tears falling from their eyes as well at being reunited with the former lieutenant.

"Unfortunately Zoe still resides in the sky but the good news is that she can be summoned by you to talk to anytime you want," Percy said and happy that he could do this for the three of them. Artemis and Thalia quickly pulled him into the embrace they had going on and cried on him.

"Damn it, Percy you're making me feel bad for not getting you anything," Thalia said with tears still falling.

"It's fine cause you two are all I need with me," Percy happily said and Thalia and Artemis were too happy at the moment to joke about him being corny and sappy.

"Thank you, Percy," Artemis hiccuped out.

"Anything for my loves," And he hugged them back tighter.

The rest of the wonderful night was filled with more laughter and more crying from the normally stoic huntresses. Once the night was over the former lieutenant of the hunt said her goodbyes and promised to visit and talk to them more often since she wasn't as restricted as before with the help of Chaos and Ouranos.

The trio returned to their room and Percy was once again kissed and hugged for their anniversary and soon fell asleep with all three of them happier than before the day's events happened.

AN: My utmost apologies for failing to get a chapter up this week. The workload for school was unexpected for this year, but rest assured that chapter 11 is in the works!

(Also the HP one-shot should be up soon)

Peace and until next time!