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Quietly endure, silently suffer, and patiently wait.
Martin Luther King Jr
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Percy POV
After Feast Fortuna I was doing just well if you don't consider how much anxious I was to meet my girlfriend Annabeth. No unnecessary dream well thinking about the dream it seemed it was a past event just relayed to me because probably it would be important to me ,well later I asked few 'Somnia' campers (equivalent to Morpheus in our camp half blood), about if their father could play a past event to anyone but they shrugged off saying that their father was capable of showing present events if it's like current going on. Then I started bonding with the fifth cohort which became the most feared cohort in the legion well we have stopped the wargames after the attack of Polybotes but it was sure we could defeat 2 or 3 cohorts alone,the whole legion's spirit has been lifted as the failed quest's equipment has been returned despite the fact that the dead legionnaires have been manipulated by the evil Earth mother Gaea.
And specially Hazel was worrying more about her brother who gave her the second chance of life. I didn't express to others specially I tried hard not to break down in front of Hazel, but the disappearance of Nico reminded me all over the battle of labyrinth when Nico was so young,naive yet he learned those things from the manipulative ghost judge 'Minos', the way he has accused me of not taking care of his dead sister Bianca the grief the hurtness in his young eyes still stung me. I knew I had not my memory and he had acted as if not knowing me but he was acting up in his dad and probably in Olympus's orders. And I prayed to every gods that if we don't fail him in our journey,I knew he had taken a risk in taking it and probably facing dangerous monsters in the ancient lands but we would go for sure.
In the meantime I decided to train archery. I know you would say oh Percy Jackson archer probably half of legion is dead right? I was aware of that so I requested first an Apollo camper to show me the proper stunts and I watched very closely I mean it was very easy compared to reading books to us demigods specially for me. Then I decided to go out to the Oakland hills it was the far I can go as the legionnaires always gather around Fields of Mars. Then I started to shoot arrows according to what the camper had said. For first two shots I completely shooted in the opposite direction I feared I had shot a legionnaire but good lord no one was there. I went on for 6 hours well first hour I spent in straightening my arrow projection but I realised somebody must have cursed me in that . I remembered the myth about the giant hunter Orion who ironically was my half brother who had probably gained the curse because according to myths he is the best archer after the twin children of Leto, well I used my mental will of my hardest to overcome the curse I knew from myths a dumb story for sure that Apollo had tricked Artemis to shoot Orion and I also heard that how he being a drunkard raped Merope and her father king Oenopion of Chios removed his eyes and once a hunter who vowed to hunt anything from earth and pursued the mother of Pleaides, grandmother of Hermes, Pleione. Well I still couldn't connect the dots after all those acts how he was welcomed to hunt well in both camps I could not find any account of information in this matter well let me tell you I am fanboy of Lady Artemis I know you would argue that she killed many good men out of suspicion and yes when we met Luke and the bear brothers the sons of Calliope a former hunter whom Zeus had raped in pursuing and finding out Artemis had cursed her to be bears I was trying to find many arguments in front of the giants to defend my heroine but sadly I could not find any I felt helpless. Well to say short I managed to at least target t
The things in two or three feet distance I know it is not a big feat but believe me I never practiced archery after I accidentally shot Chiron in tail and the demigods made fun of me. Well then I called it a day and joined in the cohort barracks. I visited many shops in the New Rome city I know I am being optimistic in thinking to live here with Annabeth when the world is coming to end with the mother earth seeking revenge and all that but I assure you you can't live without hope I know it in defending the Empire state building the base of Olympus with only forty plus demigods and the hunters in fearing who would turn to be the traitor with sickle charm against the swarming of hundred thousand monsters maybe surrounding us through whole city. Well then after a good Roman style dinner which I ate quite more compared to others not that any one minded and I went to bed.
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Things have been great I mean let me tell you I still have not succeeded in hitting bulleye but you can watch me hitting arrows without being accidentally shot I mean if you know the exact technique you can fake it in shooting badly even in an opposite direction. My young friend Frank Zhang the crazed archer who was like a far unmatched with his half-siblings back in camp half blood who were the most mean looking burly children you would meet in the camp, said I would need more practices and was supporting me when I said I never used my bow after the embrassing accident and was awed in my improvement but ya know I never used his special arrows last thing I needed to gut a guy with hydra arrows which Frank used to climb on the fort back in wargame. Well before the arrival of Argo-2 Leo a Italian looking teenage boy who looked young elfish whom I mistook for the Hermes kids informed about they would come with my girlfriend Annabeth and the legend of the twelve legion Jason Grace the brother of Pinecone face I am sure I would get hurt by bolts of electricity for not informing her sooner I mean sure she would understand my problem right. And seeing Leo my other cousin Hazel screamed like almost seeing a ghost I mean she controlled herself I don't know about her recognition as she was different timeline and from Alaska and before from New Orleans well I would probably go insane you know first Nico and then Hazel the world war 2 has costed more than anything to the Hades kids, though Hitler's ideas were very dangerous then again if didn't happen then I would have missed my two favorite well if you count Bianca whom I failed and have nightmares someday then three cousins. Then I remembered the dream and I was shocked to recall Tharros who was sure my half-brother well I could determine it in dream well he said about the accident happened courtesy of Gaea and I grimaced that he was referring to Hazel's mom who probably was tricked into raising the eldest son of Gaea Alcyneus I mean if earth mother was that powerful then which force would awaken in centuries would be too much powerful because Chaos well I solved the problem for sure Gaea bore Pontus with her father of course with her power combined with Chaos. Well I wonder what the threat could do against us in his/her subconscious. I hope I meet the Tharros guy one day in my life I would learn from him more but again I am only a son of Poseidon powerful for sure but he was blessed by the primordials.
Well onto more pressing matters well even they said names having more powers so we were readying the Romans so that they didn't shoot the ship as not in your everyday basis you would see a bronze Greek trireme which is copy of the famous Argonauts and ironically Jason is a son of Zeus instead of Poseidon well ADHD never mind. I swore on my life that no harm would befall in welcoming the Greeks I wished to Tyche that I am not wrong well I said to Hazel "Come on let me introduce to your other family."
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Well we were again doing great I mean I should thank the both ladies Annabeth and Reyna in diplomatic relations you know when you see your enemies of civil war riding in a Greek trireme and placing it in sky upon believing them then your nerve could go haywire so when Leo and the now known a battle crazy chaperone satyr Hedge probably fired Ballistae at Senate house well I hope nobody were injured in it I knew the Romans would be out for our blood. Surely I created the water protection layers around Frank and Hazel who would be going with us. And there was absolute chaos not the primordial guy you know never mind that.
My heart skipped to a beat seeing Annabeth who was running the midst of centurions in the meantime the catapults have been loaded to the Argo-2 and fired I hope it's alright to ride.
Then I saw people throwing stones and plates towards Jason and Piper but Jason shielded as he got the most of the hits. And we continued to the rope hanging distracting the mob here and there. Then I threw the annoying skinny weasel well if you guess Octavian then ding ding I got a winner.
Well the situation was far more tense than usual when Hazel rode away with Arion distracting the archers and Frank who was now posing a humongous dragon much scarier than the figurehead in our ship, grabbed Piper and now unconscious Jason on his front claws harmlessly and they both slumped on the floor, Frank changed back but the harm had been done by Leo but the ship which was his favourite was in shambles on board internet and TV blown to bits, crossbows were piles of kindling , the foresail was tattered.
Well Leo answered in the scary interrogation of Annabeth what it might be Gaea wanted to test or mostly reap our luck more than it was then Jason was treated for sure and I personally wanted to ask Leo I mean I was supposed to be glue according to queen of gods Hera as much as hate her still I promised the Romans gods no civil war 2 in this period and the Gigantes would attack us in such disassembled state.
Well the trip of Hazel and Leo were interesting you know they enjoyed the ride of Arion but luck was not on our side as Nemesis mom of the evil demigod whom of course we forgave for sacrificing himself to downfall of Kronos's, payed them a visit. Well she still resented us as she gave Leo a cookie to break open and dropped his hope by saying that he would seventh wheel or something poor boy he wants to get attention of girls. Well in the ship something about Leo surprises Hazel many times but how would she know. Well they payed visit to the i-see-my-reflection-all-day guy oh gods he also escaped the doors of death well in case . Well ironically when Narcissus rejected the nymph Echo in despair the godess Nemesis cursed Narcissus into falling in love with himself well he loved his reflection in spring and as his love was not being able to be fulfilled. So the
Son of river god ,Cephissus and nymph Leriope who used to be a hunter at times turned to a golden flower and the poor nymph who had repeated his last sentence of rejection 'feel my body' had been turned to bone and dust. Well they did manage to get a chunk of celestial bronze from the Narcissus and followers aka various types of nymphs thanks to Hazel and the 'All-da-ladiez-love-Leo' I felt aweful for scolding the guy he would be easily mixed with the Hermes kids. And of course the bald eagles the standard transportation of Romans were following us like detectives through the Salt Lake City, and gods know how much far.
Well I was being tensed when the conversation when the conversation or more like prophecy well a sybilline prophecy by Ella the harpy was being discussed. Well I am not Annabeth in the matter but I was sure that it was Annabeth's as she was only 'wisdom child' among us and she was tensed and she was not bragging about her mom all times she did 'my mom this and that' probably she was upst with her mom was it possible I mean oh never mind.
Well then I would remember the conversation with Bacchus the Roman equivalent to Dinosyius who was leaner in purple cloak holding a goblet near Topeka 32 poster, by the way he was trying hard to get away from the incapcitation which the Olympians are facing these days.
Well he had a thysarus and told us about the twins who were killed by him in first giant war. Later I came to know I mean after the quest of course that they were also the half brothers of mine as Iphimedeia the princess of Thessaly daughter of Triopas who was ironically son of Poseidon and well despite being married to Aelous she went to sea and poured sea water in her lap and my dad being the kind person he is he returned her feelings. As results the Aloadae the giants named after their stepfather were born. They were hell-bent to storm on Olympus. Ephialtes wanted Artemis while Otis wanted Hera .
They were very clever beings as I should give them credit as they had managed to capture my least favorite god Ares in a bronze jar and as their stepmother had not informed the gods previously they had captured for 13 months until Hermes came to rescue him. Well their future was not so good they were killed either by my favourite heroine Artemis or her twin brother I-am-the-awesome-guy Apollo.
Well they were tortured with snakes and the spirit of Styx in owl form.
Moving on Bacchus told us to seek out Porchys who was son of Pontus and Gaea he didn't support his mother very much and told we would able to see them in Atlanta. Well when Piper demanded his help in destroying the giants with us working on together but he of course declined saying that he needed proper tribute to do so.
Then of course Gaea the earth mother has to led us in a trap as according to Piper me and Jason were possessed by the spirits which endangered our relationships of Greek and Roman in New Rome, the Eidolons the spirits of dead from the domain of Gaea who have possessed Apollonios previously and sadly I had struck Jason in chest as he was knocked out from his mount Tempest and my buddy blackjack had knocked out me. Well the weasel had taken the control over the angry Romans as it made impossible for us to see the reasons of eidolions.
Well then I had definitely a bad dream where my recently killed Polybotes was telling the Gorgon sisters that he would seek me for himself would torture me in revenge on my father and he also had said that my blood will be sprayed on the feet of Mount Olympus and it would raise their pschyotic mother Gaea not that happening well then our luck was again rotten as thanks to Piper the eidolions that secretly have possessed us again but this time with poor Leo.
But Piper cleverly made them vow on Styx not to possess us again. Well our journey was going on if you don't mind I got the fear of drowning in muskeg just as Thalia has fear of heights this is not happening. Then I saw an assortment of things like pulley systems, sand bags, rows of dark theatre lights, piled up around chamber,wooden crates, lebeled PROPS, WEAPONS and COSTUMES, One read ASSORTED ROCKET LAUNCHERS. I heard machinery creaking in darkness,huge gears turning,water rushing through pipes. Then I saw two giants who were in my scale pretty small twelve feet and sure their hair were braid in dreadlocks and all and they were talking about working with a lady. My heart stopped when they mentioned about the bronze jar where they had imprisoned Nico as a bait for us and saying that the lady has been ready to receive the visitors she would get for centuries.
They mentioned something about a statue I wonder that people have seen the Athena Parthenon in eyes and people have seen replicas of Parthenos by different artists not the original one. I mean it would be possible the lady who obviously is a monster had been prepared for the day and by the prophecy of Ella, 'Wisdom's daughter walks alone', Annabeth would go alone not that I would leave her.
Well then I was awaken in midsleep by Annabeth herself who mentioned she first hated and was annoyed with me about my parentage and my supposed idiotic behaviour and kissed me sometimes oh good and being the seaweed brain I fell asleep with her and later was confronted by Frank and a manic satyr Hedge well when we mentioned we had to rescue Nico and it would led us to ambush by the brothers Jason being the diplomatic person suggested that as he probably not told about me previously and he should not be trusted I was seething in anger when the elf Leo also supported Jason but thanks to reasonable behaviour of Piper, love for brother of Hazel and Annabeth's leadership we finalized we would rescue him.
Then it was then we I mean Frank, Hedge and me went to the Atlanta salt water museum and in exchange for three dendrai a woman who was bouncing up and down with energy 'KATE' welcomed us to a spot where the general visitors were not allowed with our luck it is a trap well as the way they were treating the water creatures from nymph gladiators fighting to whales and many sea monsters that is bad just bad sure thing we were imprisoned by the sea god 'Porchys' whose tag mentioned 'PORKY' for business well he had told that he admired the twins dreams but again if we are find the statue then we would be insane I wonder the thousands of clicking noises during talking if it's not the sworn enemy of Athena , Arachne then I am faun but I prayed to gods it would not be true.
And again it made sense as Reyna had told us about one encounter with son of Athena who swam ashore of the Circe's island who was surely turned into a guinea pig but before he was mumbling about the mark of Athena and how he had failed quest in Rome and it would solve problems in both faction.
Well as for imprisonment first Frank the goldfish and I were imprisoned in an almost unbreakable glass chamber but coach Hedge who had perfectly knocked out the mother of all sea monsters Keto and we were out and I broke all the prisons with my unrestrained water power and we went to the ship our next course would be Charleston where Annabeth would get a head on about the matter of Athena Parthenos.
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And those hunter eagles who probably could pursue us better than the monsters in sky were trailing and probably Leo had a rivalry with Frank as to make distraction he had thrown the package of Frank's clothes as a decoy via the Buford table to convince with the smell much to Frank's dismay. And sure Annabeth went with Piper and Hazel to the Charleston .
Well I jumped in the sea to get news about sea creatures updates well I have gotten a nausea after seeing the sufferings of aquarium in Keto & Porchys's. Well they were the parents of The mother of all land monsters Echidna, the Gorgons, the Gray sisters, Ladon and Thoosä.
Well back to journey when a dagger of Annabeth fell on the sea I knew they were ambushed as for sure Octavian the weasel have caught up with us I encased them with my water restraint as Annabeth had gone with Jason and others. Well when Annabeth came she was pale and again the evil Earth mother had warned about the weaver and then she would accept us as the sacrifice and from now the bloody Romans would be in battlefield against CHB unless Annabeth solve the millenia old problem and rescue the statue from the hundred clutches of the weaver Arachne and how much unknown problems great just great. Well I received a message from the Neried that I should seek out the brothers of Chiron in sea?? . It didn't make sense nevertheless I delivered the co ordination to Leo the awesome captain so that we can reach the destination.
A/N: Hello Novastyles66 f here. I hope you are enjoying my story so far. Please keep reading and vote, comment, share then it would keep me going on. And I am late as I have got exams in my bucket I would try to update more you can expect my updates in two to three days. Any suggestions about it I would accept from you guys. As you know English is not my first language or mother tongue so I might have done many mistakes in the story but please make sure to correct me.
