Hey again! Sorry if this one is a bit later made than normal, I had no time on the weekend to write this down, and I wanna get back into this as fast as possible. Before that, I wanna ask if any of you knows what the story name means? I should have asked sooner, but I never remembered to. Anyways, enjoy this chapter of the story!

(Annabeth POV)

He was lying to me. We may not be on the best of terms with one another right now, but I could still tell that he was eating himself from the inside out. I had to help him, but how? It was obvious he didn't want to be with me, and just wanted to be left alone. I guess..that was all I could do for the moment. Just hope to Hades that he'll be okay, and that someone could help him get through this. I couldn't, but I would try again when he would let me near.

After breakfast was finished and everyone started to go along their way, Chiron wheeled up to me in his wheelchair.

"Annabeth, could we have a little chat for a moment please? And if possible, could you quickly get Percy?" He asked politely, and I flinched at the mention of the son of the sea. Quickly, I shook my head and tried to think of an excuse before sighing and just telling a half-truth.

"Could you have someone else do it? I uh...we aren't seeing eye-to-eye right now." I mumbled out to the Centaur. My surrogate father smiled and nodded sympathetically. He knew our arguments usually got us angry enough to not talk for days, and I silently thanked the gods that he didn't ask any other questions.

Eventually Chiron led me into the living room of the Big House and sat me down and told me to wait for a little bit. Eventually, Chiron came back in with a bleary-eyed Rachel and a tired-looking Percy.

"Wait, how is Rachel here? She's a mortal!" I yipped out as I saw the redheaded girl. I wasn't angry or jealous anymore of her, but I was still confused. Then Percy yawned and asked

"Yeah, Wise Girl's right. No offence to you Rach, but how are you even here? In a camp for half-bloods?"

Secretly I was happy that my friend agreed with me, and wasn't being annoying or anything like it. But he looked tired. Did he go to sleep after our talk?

"Well, here's the problem with that...I may or may not have become the new Oracl-'' before she was even finished, Percy choked on a bit of water from a cup he had gotten out of nowhere and jumped up before grabbing Rachel by the shoulders and looking her over. Not pervertedly, but more of a concerned parent scanning their child for any injuries.

"What?! Are you okay? Are you cursed now? Are you gonna start turning into a mummy?!" He spouted out in his worry.

"P-Percy! I'm fine! Stop shaking me!" She shakily(literally) said, as Percy had started to shake her in his attempt to hold her shoulders. Percy blinked, chuckled awkwardly, and let her go, backing up into his seat and sitting down.

(Percy POV)

Was everyone trying to give me a heart attack?! First, Artemis out of all Olympians had come to me in a dream and talked to me normally, then I was woken up only a couple minutes ago to find out that Rachel, a mortal by the way, was in a camp for Demigods. Didn't get any answer to that for a couple minutes until Rachel herself told us that she took the job as the new Oracle.

I freaked out for a moment there. Sorry, but can you blame me? Here I am, remembering May Castellan who had literally gone insane from trying to take this job, and there she was, my friend who actually could go insane from taking this job from the previous, mummified Oracle of Delphi. So sorry if I was a bit worried about her health. Physically and mentally.

"Sorry...uh, please. Go on." I got out, looking slightly embarrassed as Rachel shakily continued her story.

"O-okay. Uh, well...I am the new Oracle of Delphi, and when I accepted and got the job, Apollo appeared and I may have told the next Great Prophecy." My breath caught in those last few words and I shouted out angrily,

"Are you fucking kidding me!? We just get finished with one Great Prophecy, and we get another one!? When is this goin' to end?!" Chiron grunted at my profanity but didn't say anything about it, which I was grateful for. But he did say something else.

"Please Percy, calm down. It is possible that it will not even happen in this lifetime. But it is better to be ready than not. And for now, Ms. Dare will be staying in the Big House until we find an appropriate place for her to live. I doubt that she would like staying in that dusty attic, am I correct ?" He asked my friend, she smiled and nodded.

"Good. Now that we have that settled, I wish to ask when you are planning to go to Olympus to finish your wish. And to have your idea made into a reality, as you have gotten permission from Lord Zeus, correct?" Chiron asked me, and I nodded and smiled slightly, though the smile faded somewhat when I saw Annabeth peeking at me curiously.

"Yeah, I got permission from Lord Zeus, though I guess I owe Lady Artemis a favor then. She was the one who asked him in the first place. And, since I'm not really doing much today...I guess I'll go up today. I don't have any sword practice to teach, and I want to give the campers as long as possible to recover from the war. Plus, the ex-defected are going to need as much time to relax as they need. I think their redemption time is definitely going to wear them out a lot." I said in one go. I almost completely forgot that Annabeth and Rachel were still there, and I was forcefully reminded when Annabeth spoke up,

"What do you mean redemption?" I sighed. She always asked a lot of questions and one day it's going to annoy me too much.

"Okay, so I had an idea this morning. The campers obviously aren't comfortable around the ex-defected, so I had an idea so that both groups could be comfortable and happy around one another. I would have them take on a quest. Either with three people or just by themselves, chosen by either their godly parent, or if their parents were one of ex-defected, they would be taken on by Lady Artemis if they are female, or Lord Hermes if they are male. I suppose that would be good enough for the campers to get along with them again."

Annabeth was shocked slightly at the amount of thought I had obviously put into this. I smirked slightly and turned my tired eyes over to her.

"What? I'm not entirely useless at thinking something out y'know?" I chuckled softly. Annabeth snorted and shook her head

"Seaweed Brain…" She grumbled quietly. Hey, if I can't date her, we can be friends right? I'll move on. I hope.

I yawned again and hopped up from my seat, stretching slightly as I walked over and near the door.

"Anyways, to Olympus I go. Don't worry about getting arrangements, I'll just walk Chiron." I said to my mentor with a slight smile. Then I walked out the door, leaving my companions shocked back inside the door, all of them noticing how I didn't even ask about the new Great Prophecy.

I yawned once again as I walked into the doors of the Empire State Building and made my way to the front desk. In the desk was the same guy from when I was twelve and had to bring the Master Bolt back to Zeus. Ah, good times. But seriously, who is this guy? And why doesn't he look like he hasn't aged a day? Monster or God? Ah, whatever.

"Don't care about the gods are not real shtick. Gimme the card or that coffee is going into you the wrong way in." I casually threatened the guy. He paled and stammered out a sorry before giving me the card and I walked away.

"Thaaannk you!" I happily chirped out at the scared guard, and with no guilt whatsoever, I walked straight into the Elevator, inserted the card, and started waiting for the elevator to reach Olympus. I was trapped inside my thoughts for a little while before I snapped out of it and growled slightly at the horrible music playing inside the elevator while I rode inside of it. Apollo really needed to change this. Why did he even let these songs in here in the first place?

I would never get my answer as I stepped out onto the clouds of Olympus. I forgot how beautiful it looked in the sun, and even with the destroyed temples and buildings, it still managed to look amazing, more than any mortal city could ever hope to compare it to. I smiled slightly when I remembered that I and many, many others had defended and saved this place. So many lives were taken in the defendant of this place, and I hope it was worth it. We had campers being claimed left and right, more kids trickling into camp and being claimed. It was amazing. Just in a single day we had gotten more than five kids into camp. And after Nico and...Bianca, I don't remember seeing any more people being welcomed into camp.

I sighed again as I got lost in memories and eventually found myself at the doors of the Throne Room. So, me being me, I pushed open the doors and walked into the room...with all of the Olympians(aside from Artemis. She was probably with the Hunters at Camp) now staring at me.

"Uh...Hi. Sorry for interrupting or...yeah." I lamely sputtered out, now knowing that I had probably interrupted something big.

"Oh uhm...hello Perseus, we weren't expecting you to come to Olympus for at least a few days. Err...what seems to be the problem?" Zeus said, strangely cordial.

I stared at the King of Gods in confusion before blinking and nodding and saying,

"Oh yeah. I'm here to make good on the oath on the Styx that you guys made. I want to get all of the peaceful titans out of their prisons." I say, and then I suddenly fight the urge to yawn again. Seriously, what was up with me and yawning today?

Zeus glared at me for a small moment before sighed and nodding at Hermes. Said God hopped down from his throne and walked over to me and gripped my shoulder lightly. The God of Travelers was wearing a happy smile, and it was directed towards me, so I was going to guess that he knew of the plans of mine. He nodded at me and I nodded back, and then he flashed us both away, to my first stop. Rhea, the mother of the original Six Gods.

Phrygia was a beautiful place. A beautiful place yes, but a prison nonetheless. I don't know why Zeus had imprisoned his own mother. Maybe he did it for her to be safe, or maybe he just didn't trust her. I don't know. But again, the beautiful island was slightly marred with a castle sitting right in front of both me and my godly Cousin. Then a woman stepped out of said castle.

To say the island around her paled in comparison to this woman would be an understatement to the highest degree. She had the same kind of raven-black hair that both me and my father had, the same shockingly sky blue eyes that Zeus had. Though, there was one keen difference in appearance between her and her children. There were specks of sea-green, black, brown, forest green, and finally red. I remembered that those were the colors that people usually showed with each original god. Zeus, Poseidon(Dad), Hades, Hestia, Hera, and Demeter.

"Hey Grandma Rhea. I've come to release you from your prison, though you are welcome to stay here if you want." I stated simply, smiling at my immortal grandmother. Said grandmother smiled back before stepping forward and wrapping me into a hug and saying

"Oh little Perseus. I am very proud of you. You beat my ex-husband younger than even Zeus did. I am glad I was able to witness it all. You see, some of the gods decided to visit me and give me a way to watch the mortal world, a Tv. But instead of your little mortal shows, it showed me the adventures of you demigods. And my my, you are the most heroic one I've seen." She rambled and I frowned before saying,

"Grandma...I didn't do it alone at all. If I had tried to, I would have been dead by the age of twelve-" but I was cut off.

"Perce, sorry, but I gotta get back to the meeting soon. Can we hurry this up please?" I blink and chuckle slightly, now sort of embarrassed.

"Yeah, sorry Hermes. Okay Grandma, I'll uh...talk to you later then?" I half-stated half-asked my grandmother.

"Of course Percy. Wouldn't want to waste anymore of both my grandson's time." She stated pretty genuinely. I could not get a read on her. She had the qualities of all the original six gods, and that included my father's unreadable ness, and the chaos of the sea.

We nodded and set out to the next place, for Leto on Delos. I didn't have much to talk with her about, but after letting her out of her imprisonment, and letting her know that Hera would no longer be chasing her around, Leto was almost bouncing off the walls. I sent a prayer to Apollo and Artemis to let them know what had occurred and then went off to one of the most challenging things I would have to do, and talk to the one person who I didn't want to.

Calypso.

She was waiting on the beach for us as we flashed onto the island of Ogygia. I remembered being here just like it was yesterday, and waking up to see Calypso hovering over me. She looked exactly as I remembered. Soft looking cinnamon colored hair, dark hazel colored eyes, like the ones of royalty.

"Hey. I kept my promise." I sighed out to her, giving her a small smile and extending my arms out for a hug. I dreaded the conversation I was going to have to have with her now. But I have to have faith in her.

"Percy…" she breathed, her eyes filling with tears before she ran up to me and started crushing my ribs with a hug. I don't even get how she could do that! Curse of Achilles. Damn this woman is strong.

"You did it...you actually came back for me…" I smiled sadly, and she took note of it, staring at my face confusedly.

"Yeah I did...but there is something I need to talk to you about before anything. I...as much as I want to be with you I jus-" I was stopped as Calypso put a finger to my lips and stopped my talking.

"I know. You look like you've been through a lot. I...I do want to be with you as well, but I do not want it to be painful for you. You look kardiás allá akóma erotevménos. I know that feeling very well, and I do not envy you." She says gently. I think about her words and nod slightly

"I'm sorry...I hope you can find someone else to love in the world." I mumbled into her ear before smiling and looking to Hermes to bring us away.

And then we flashed away, back to the throne room of the gods.

A life to live.

Translation(s):

kardiás allá akóma erotevménos: Heartbroken but still in love

Hey everyone! Sorry for the VERY late update! I've been getting distracted a lot with school, and whenever I wasn't in school I was just tired. So thanks for sticking with this and I hope you all have enjoyed this chapter. As normal, I'll be responding to the reviews down a bit.

NiHar OP: Hmm...I don't think it will be Pertemis, but I'll think about it. I'll have to make a poll to get some ideas.

MKDemiGodzilla-Warrior: It is odd isn't it. But as I explained, Percy has proven himself different from the rest of the gender, who are mainly shown to be just either normal guys, or are horrible people who do horrible things for fun. In my opinion, Artemis herself doesn't judge on gender, just that she has a lean towards girls, who usually act better. But she does know that some of the girls can be just as horrible at the guys. But, you have seen the Rachel stuff, and the prophecy was left out on purpose, don't worry.