AN: Chapter 12 is out! I appreciate those of you that have stuck around so far, so I hope you enjoy and know that the next chapter is in the works!

Four months until the war

Origin

Percy was out of armor and was in the command room, nursing a cup of coffee while looking at the reports sent by the teams that were already on Earth and looking for any discrepancies when he heard the doors to the room open, but paid it no mind until a voice he knew all too well spoke up.

"So this is where you've been all day. Thought you were starting to become a hermit with all the time you've been spending here lately and not with us." Artemis said when she left the door-frame and walked to where Percy was hunched over a large desk in the middle of the room and leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Sorry, but the reports came in and I wanted to read them over first. So how was your hunt?" Percy asked and planted a kiss on the top of her head making her yawn.

"Tiring and exhausting. Thalia is sleeping it off now and I'm about to doze off." She replied and her head was drooping down slightly and let out another yawn which Percy chuckled to slightly.

"That bad huh? Told you that waking up at midnight for a record-breaking hunt would be a bad idea for you two. Alright, come on I'll take you back to bed and start date-night a little later then." Percy said and lifted Artemis bridal-style where she started dozing off once she was in his arms and snuggled into his chest with her arms around his neck "Sorry if you had plans for us tonight," She mumbled quietly making Percy speak "As long as I can spend my immortal life with you and Thalia then I'm happy no matter what moonbeam," And kissed her on the forehead.

"You're very sappy, but I love you for it, Percy," She said with a smile and fell into the realm of Morpheus in his arms.

Percy simply smiled at the goddess and shadow-traveled to their room. Percy appeared in their bedroom to find Thalia sprawled out on the bed with her hair covering most of the pillow and her leg dangling off of the bed making him stifle a laugh at the sight in front of him. Percy put Artemis on the bed and was about to pull the blanket over her when she yanked on his arm and flipped him on the bed in between her and Thalia. Percy let out a strangled yelp at the sudden movement and had to check if he woke them up but was relieved when they didn't move. Percy tried to remove himself from the bed but Artemis started to tighten her hold on his arm and planted her head firmly on his shoulder and Thalia somehow managed enough consciousness to slap an arm around his chest and intertwine her legs with his effectively locking him in place.

Percy was thinking about the pros and cons of trying to remove himself from the bed while his two girlfriends were sleeping and decided that he simply valued his life way too much for him to disturb their sleep in any way and took a small nap with them before he had to start date-night preparations.

Artemis and Thalia both woke up a few hours later and well into dinnertime only to find Percy missing from his somewhat cold spot between them and indicating that he's been up for some-time now. Both of them heard noises coming from downstairs and went to go check it out but not before she flashed out of her hunter's outfit and simply grabbed one of Percy's shirts which hung off her shoulder due to his larger frame and flashed a pair of shorts on her while Thalia just kept to her tank-top and sweatpants. The two were in the middle of the staircase when they started to smell something emanating from the kitchen and moved to check it out. They were very pleasantly surprised to see Percy moving around in the kitchen and only in sweatpants which only made them blush even though they've been together for two years now, while also taking a rack with steaks out and sitting it on top of the stove. Percy was leaning on the island with his back turned so he didn't see them slowly approach him with grins on their face

Artemis put her hands over his eyes and leaned into his ear and whispered rather huskily "Guess who?" And nipped at his ear making him shiver at the feeling. "Well the fact that you smell of nature and the forest narrows it down to two people I love, but since I can feel that Thalia is currently in front of me," And reached his arms out and grabbed hold of said-female who playfully struggled in his arms "That would only leave my moonbeam," And smirked when Artemis removed her hands from his face and turned around to kiss her softly leaving her quite flustered and doing the same to Thalia who was rather comfortable in his arms.

"How exactly did you sense me in front of you?" Thalia asked him in amusement.

"Ah, that's because of Gaia's blessing. Her blessing gives me the ability to sense vibrations in the ground acting like a sonar and the fact that my senses are about as refined as ever, but I'm not as alert as I usually am when I'm with either of you in here." Percy explained making her nod her head and smirk at being told that Percy gets distracted around them whenever they're in private.

"So is this for tonight?" Artemis asked him from her spot behind him and waved a hand towards the food.

"Yep. Figured that I might as well keep date-night simple for the three of us since you two were tired from your hunt and probably didn't feel like going out." He explained and released Thalia while grabbing three plates and set them next to where the food was resting and started plating the food to set it on the table.

Thalia eagerly took a bite and let out a moan at the taste and stood up to kiss Percy possessively "Oh we are so keeping you for ourselves," She said with a sly grin. "Oh, now you decide to keep me. After two years it seems that I got the wrong message until now," Percy said with a roll of his eyes and led her back to her seat.

"Yep and that means you have to cook for us forever and no-one else," Thalia said and stuck her tongue out playfully before resuming her task of eating. Percy just looked at the two of them fondly "You two can relax since I only have my eyes for you and not anyone else." and started eating his own plate.

It was an hour after dinner and the three were just cuddling up on the couch in front of the fireplace when Artemis scrunched up her nose in thought which grabbed Percy's attention "You ok Artemis?" He asked in slight amusement at her cute expression. Artemis looked him in his eyes and started speaking slowly "Thalia and I have been talking...and we want to break our oaths for you." She said quietly and Percy's neck almost snapped from the number of times he looked between Artemis and Thalia at the goddess's proclamation while the former lieutenant remained quiet but detached herself from him and Percy had to hold his hands in the air at the metaphorical bomb that was just dropped on him "Ok, let's back up for a minute and call a time-out. Look we had this talk already in the beginning and I told you two that you won't have to do that if you didn't want to. I was serious when I said that and I remember you two being quite happy about it and not to mention that you breaking your oaths means that even the slightest chance of you getting your hunters back is zero and I know how much the hunt means to the both of you and I cannot in good conscious let you lose that if it means you have to pick me over them." Percy said while rubbing his temples and stood up to pace back and forth.

"What brought this on? Why the sudden change in heart? What about you swearing your oaths?" He asked in confusion and turned to face them.

"We might have been out when we heard a few of the other females talk about you and their lust for you and Chaos helped us with removing our binding oaths," Thalia admitted making Percy stunned "So it's about unfounded jealousy? You just said it yourself that they want me for lust and not love! You're telling me that you told Chaos first and not your boyfriend!?" He yelled out in sudden frustration though the two didn't back down and Artemis got mad at his reaction.

"It's not about us being jealous! It's about us trying to show our commitment to you! Something you're trying to stop us from doing!"

"I'm stopping you because you're letting their fantasies about me get to your head! I don't want either of you to do something you'll regret because you weren't in the right state of mind! You don't need to sleep with me to show me that you're in love with me! This isn't something you just throw at me out of nowhere. You yourself told me that you were reluctant to pursue your feelings for me until you realized that I wouldn't force you to do anything you wouldn't want to do!"

"You think this is easy for us to say as well?! You're the first boyfriend either of us had! If you cared about us then you would do the same! And yes I was reluctant but this is my choice!"

"If I cared about you? What do you think I've been doing for you two?! I care about you too much for you to actually go through with this!"

"You're being stubborn!"

"I'm being stubborn? You're the ones worrying about me leaving you for someone else and guess what? It's not happening because I ONLY LOVE YOU TWO!" He roared out "YOU AND THALIA SHOULD KNOW WHAT LOYALTY MEANS TO ME!"

"Do you not want us?" Thalia asked him with a tilt of his head.

"It's not about me not wanting you. You told me what you wanted out of this relationship and I am abiding by your wishes." He reasoned with her.

Percy looked to Thalia for support but found none and turned to look back at Artemis only to feel himself get slapped across the face and saw Artemis seething with her open hand slightly red at the sudden contact. Percy was stunned that she would actually hit him just because he didn't want her and Thalia to break their oath.

"I'm leaving," Percy said while trying to keep his composure.

"GOOD! LEAVE THEN! BE LIKE THE REST OF THE MALES!" Artemis yelled out.

Percy had to fight back tears that were threatening to release and left the room before they could fall, while Thalia ran up upstairs with tears about to fall leaving Artemis on the main floor before she fell back onto the couch and put her head in her hands and curled into herself where she let out a choked sob.

All three of them didn't sleep that night as they were too busy with their emotions running.

Two weeks later

The weeks that followed the fight were tense. It didn't take an expert to point that something was wrong with the trio of lovers and Chaos being the all-knowing told the rest of the family as well, but advised them to not do anything until it was completely necessary as this was something Percy needed to figure out. Artemis looked sadder as the week progressed and was caught throwing glances at Percy's empty seat at the hall and would be seen by Thalia looking at a picture of the three of them on their first date that was taken from their memory and converted into a picture with help from Chaos whenever she was in the safety of their room, while Thalia was quieter instead of the usual rambunctious teenager that she was. Hemera offered to talk to them but her offer was declined.

Percy was barely seen throughout the two weeks and slipped back into Omega even if he wasn't working and was in armor for almost everything and was only seen within the command room and the transporter room where he would be seen leaving to hit a target even if he just finished another one moments ago. It was nearing the end of the week and still no sign of Percy when the doors to the dining hall opened and Omega walked in and his knuckles covered in dried blood though something told the onlookers that the blood wasn't his with the way he was moving.

Percy approached the nearest Ops-Chief and walked to him before he stood right behind him and tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.

The Ops-Chief turned around to face the blacked-out visor of Omega's mask looking down on him with no-light seeming to break through the hood of his armor and let out a quick scream which would have been funny to the troops around them if Omega's posture didn't indicate that he wasn't in a fun mood at all and all the news that was circulating him didn't help.

"C-co-commander Omega. Can I help you with anything, sir?" The guy asked nervously and was trying very hard not to shake in front of him.

Omega raised a hand between them which the Ops-Chief quickly complied with and stood up straighter.

Omega reached into one of his cargo pockets and held in his hand multiple identity scanners that are used by the troops to identify any high-value targets they encounter and gave them to the Ops-Chief.

"Targets 11 to 34 have been eliminated. Do what you need to do with that information and I want you to select 2 regiments to take-off of the war deployment and put them on patrol for the more volatile sectors with an extra battalion as a back-up," Omega said in his deep modulated voice and proceeded to walk out of the hall but didn't see the blur of silver that crashed into him at the last moment and flashed him away.

Omega fell into a roll and extended his hidden blades out ready to strike at whoever just grabbed him but stopped when he saw Artemis and Thalia in front of him and that they were in their room.

"What?" He said rather emotionlessly and sheathed his blades when he didn't sense a threat from them.

"Can we talk? Please." Thalia asked quietly to Omega who tensed up for a moment before he relented and nodded his head though he kept his armor on and his mask and hood up. Artemis and Thalia both sat on the couch where they had their fight while Omega stood like a statue in front of them. Artemis took a quick look at him before she spoke "Percy…I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done what I did or said what I said and I know you hate us, but don't leave. I'm happy when I'm with you and I don't want that feeling to go away," Artemis said with her head down and wiping the tears away. Thalia simply put her head down and had tears falling down her face and the occasional sniffle.

Omega stood still for a few seconds before he flipped his hood down and willed his mask and armor away before he crouched down in front of them and grabbed their hands in each of his and Percy rubbed the back of their hands with his thumbs and made them look up at the gesture making Artemis and Thalia look up and into his own tear-filled green eyes. "I'm sorry, but I could never hate you. I already told you once that I won't leave you two for anything. I'm keeping my word and you wouldn't be you if you didn't hit me once in a while," He said with a small smile. "Trust me when I say that I would love nothing more than to completely be with both of you but I don't want you to regret it and break the one thing you cherish the most." He said with his own tears slowly falling making Thalia reach her hand out to wipe them away while Artemis put her own hand on his.

"What if we cherish and love you more than our oaths?" Thalia asked him quietly.

"The hunt has been with me for millennia and I am grateful for that, but I have accepted that there is the possibility that the hunt no longer belongs to me despite me being the goddess of the hunt still. I want to have a future with you.," Artemis said with tears in her eyes. Percy just sighed and held her face gently in his hands "I will only permanently love two people romantically in my life. You are the first-" And kissed Artemis passionately leaving both of them flushed and slightly out of breath and turned to Thalia "And you are the second," and kissed Thalia the same way he did with Artemis leaving her out of breath once they broke apart.

"Why don't you two get some sleep?" Percy asked the two when he noticed slight bags under their eyes "I'll be here in the morning I promise, but I think it's best if I stay down here tonight." Percy said tiredly and rubbed his face with his hands.

Artemis just nodded her head and walked up the stairs but not before she took one last look at Percy.

Thalia stood up and walked over to hug him before she released herself from the hug and walked up the stairs.

Percy grabbed a spare blanket and pillow from a storage cushion and set them up on the futon in his office and tried to sleep not knowing that sleep is the last thing he'll be getting tonight.

Percy woke up on the ground near Zeus's fist and immediately assessed the area before he heard the sound of someone clapping and turned around to face a man somewhere in his early 50's with a grey beard and hair that reached the back of his neck though the thing that had him suspicious were his orange and red eyes that seemed to drag you into a game of mental torture.

"I have been waiting for this. After so long we finally meet again." The mysterious figure said with a voice that sounded like the roar of Typhon but oozed pain and suffering.

"Tartarus," Percy growled out and grabbed his knives from his belt and held them in a reverse-grip.

The newly revealed personification of the Pit let out an ominous chuckle and slowly clapped "Well done Jackson a bit slow on the uptake for my liking but you got the spirit. I can sense the blessing of my brothers and sisters within you though I don't see a point since I will kill you anyway, I could never tell them what to do so it doesn't matter either way. A shame that you saved the goddess and her lieutenant from their fate but it won't matter. Maybe once they're in the pit I might let the titans have some fun with both of them before I take them for myself," Tartarus let out an evil grin at that last part making Percy growl in anger "Not going to happen if I kill you first you shitbag," and Tartarus just laughed.

"What language! Certainly quite colorful but I'm sure that your mother wouldn't approve of such language," He said mockingly "The satisfaction I was given when I manipulated Poseidon into killing your mother and step-father and baby-sister will forever be unmatched though you also getting banished by those you fought and sacrificed for would also be a close second. To think that the Olympians couldn't even sense an underpowered Primordial right under the noses is quite insulting," He finished with a sneer on his face.

"You did what?"

"Ah I guess you would have been told soon but your dear mother was pregnant when your former father killed her or if you want to get into specifics then you could say that I killed her."

"You sick piece of shit,"

"I prefer Pit myself but to each their own,"

"I'm going to kill you! For what you did to me!"

"Maybe so, but will you be able to live with yourself knowing that you failed the two people you love the most? Would they even still love you knowing that you're a failure and will only bring pain to whoever sides with you?"

"You are not touching or taking Artemis and Thalia while I'm still alive!" Percy yelled out.

Tartarus just grinned and raised his hand to summon Artemis and Thalia who were both chained to a rock with their clothes in tatters with Titans and monsters alike surrounding them with lecherous grins on their faces and looks of fear and despair on their faces.

Percy tried to move to help them but was pinned down by an invisible force and temporarily restrained and he tried to call their names out but the laughs of the Titans and monsters drowned his voice out. The screams and cries of Artemis and Thalia made Percy snap in anger and his aura broke free from him and released him from the force holding him down. Tartarus's eyes widened momentarily in fear at the amount of sheer power in Chaos's champion but broke from his stupor and summoned monsters to attack Percy.

Percy was killing anything that came in his way from saving them and their screams did nothing to calm the situation. Percy slaughtered every monster and Titan but his heart broke once he reached the rock.

Both Artemis and Thalia were violated in unimaginable ways and the life behind Artemis's sparkling silver eyes and Thalia's vibrant blue were no longer there. Suddenly their lifeless bodies moved as one, looked him in the eyes, and started speaking.

"You could have saved us,"

"You did this to us,"

"Failure,"

"You brought us pain and suffering,"

"Why didn't you love us?"

"We weren't enough for you?"

"This is because of you,"

"You're the reason we're dead!"

"No, no, no!," Percy covered his ears and tried to block off the voices "You're not real, you're not real and this isn't happening because it's all fake. This isn't real," He tried to reason with himself but their voices simply got louder and louder until it sounded in his head.

Tartarus merely tilted his head "But it could be made real," And continued to watch him suffer with a smile on his face.

Artemis and Thalia were woken up by the sounds of thrashing coming from downstairs and only took them a moment to realize where it was coming from before the two bolted from the room and barged into Percy's office only to find him thrashing around and mumbling their names while the shadows in the room behaved erratically.

"No, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO!" Percy screamed out loud making Tartarus revel in his suffering, but Percy's aura snapped once more and broke the nightmare sending Tartarus flying and making the world around them explode.

Percy quickly woke up covered in sweat and had to take deep breaths when he noticed that he wasn't alone in the room. Percy looked to see Artemis and Thalia looking at him in concern and tried to compose himself to get words out but his voice refused to cooperate with him. Percy's eyes seemed to convey the words he was attempting to say to them and the two females wrapped him in a tight hug while whispering sweet reassurances in his ear while he cried.

Percy eventually lifted his head up and went to speak but was cut off when they kissed him softly and lovingly and unspoken words were exchanged between them. The three sat in his office and fell back into their routine of cuddling each other well into the morning. The events of their past argument were forgotten and the only things running through their minds were how much they loved each other and how Tartarus will not stop them from getting the peace and happiness they rightly deserved.

You better be prepared for you can only fight us but you will not survive the end or hide from us and you can be damn sure that you're not ruining this for us.