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Chapter 8

Percy Left Aiodes house early the next morning leaving a note that read, Off to settle things in the underworld and under the sea, you know how to reach me. 3 PJ,

After leaving her house he flashed into the Lord of the dead's home. He landed in front of the palace and saw the three furies looming overhead, one of them came down to greet him. He realized that it was his old math teacher, Mrs. Dodds, also known as Alecto. As Percy walks closer to the palace doors the Fury calls out to him. "Percy Jackson…" the fury hisses out as she looks at the newfound Olympian and thinks of what she is going to say until she finally lands on the right statement, "You smell as strong as an Olympian, so it is true."

Percy turns his attention to the fury before responding to her easily with "Yes, I am an Olympian." She nodded before lifting off of the arch in Hade's palace and flying away, seeming satisfied with the answer. Once Percy got to the doors of his palace that led to his throne room he swiftly pushed the obsidian doors open to reveal Hades, Persephone, and Nico all lounging upon their thrones, awaiting his appearance.

Hades is dressed in black silk robes and has his raven black beard trimmed tightly almost mirroring Percys, Nico nods to his cousin, stoic, and Persephone also greets him with a nod.

Percy smiles at his uncle and Hades smiles back and everyone in the room loses their stoic facade once hades stand and hugs his nephew and Nico follows doing the same. Percy looks at his uncle before asking "So you have them?"

Hades smirks at his nephew before two massive beings walk forward who reveal themselves as Dasmean and Iapetus as they walk forward. Percy smiles at the titan and the giant before asking them "Do you know why you have been pulled out of Tartarus?"

Iapetus nods his head as well as Dasmean before Iapetus stepped forward and said "You know that I am not cursed to be "Bob" anymore right?"

Percy nods his head in regard to the question "yes, I understand that, but a friendship was made between us in our time in hell, was it not?"

Iapetus nodded his head and said, "If you are okay with me being myself again and not a clueless brute then yes this friendship can remain."

Percy nodded at this "And Dasmean?" we are still friends?"

Dasmean smiled at this comment before saying "Of course."

Percy smiled at the two of them before saying "Then would you two join me in taking the crown of Olympus? A change is needed and it has been felt my most Olympians and most minor gods as well."

The two of them seemed to be taken back by this question, looking at each other before slightly nodding before Iapetus said "We will join you in this feat. How can we help?"

Percy smiled at the two of them before saying "I would like more help from your respective pantheons, everyone that joins in the fight against Zeus will be forgiven for past crimes against Olympus as long as they swear an oath of fealty to me, something I will also need the both of you to do before we get started."

They nodded at this request and smiled at the thought of their people not living imprisoned any longer. Iapetus stepped forward and said, "I swear loyalty to you and will do your bidding if at all possible, Percy Jackson and your coming Olympus."

Dasmean nodded at this remark before also stepping forward and swearing his fealty saying "I also Swear loyalty to you and will do your bidding when asked if at all possible, Percy Jackson, and your coming Olympus"

Percy smiled at his friends before growing to the height of 15 feet tall to match the titan and giant and offered a hand to shake for both of them. Once the formalities were done, He turned to Hades and said: "Keep them comfortable and help them reach the other prisoners of Tartarus to help our cause."

Hades nodded at this and also shook Percy's hand before saying "Visit soon, I have a feeling these two will be busy."

Percy laughed at that and said "I will be back in a few day's time to take care of it. See you then, and take care." he said as he nodded to his friends again and then flashed out headed for Poseidon's palace.

When Percy opened his eyes he was in the depths of the ocean and was surrounded by giant sea turtles that seemed to be flying through the currents next to him. He could hear their voices as they passed as they said things like "My King." or other things of that nature, they were moving too fast to have a conversation though and Percy watched them go in amazement. Once he had gathered himself from that shock he looked around trying to spot Atlantis, after a while of looking around in bewilderment he finally looked down and realized that he was right over his fathers palace, once he noticed this he immediately started to descend ready to talk to his father again about what was to come.

As he swam down towards the city that truly never slept, mostly because the sunlight never really mattered down there anyways, Percy saw all sorts of mermen swimming frantically around getting the city ready for what looked like a siege. Upon seeing this Percy smiled to himself. His father was smart and he knew to be prepared for attack even if one wasn't expected. The gods were getting ready for war and they were effective at these preparations because of how accustomed they had become to conflict over the millennia, especially in these past few years, and the Merpeople made it obvious that they knew the drill at this point, and while that cast a sadness over Percy, it also greatly impressed him.

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Percy continued to swim down towards his father's palace and once he was close enough the guards, both were mermen wearing ancient greek chest armor and held tridents, opened the grand doors to the throne room before a stifling out a "My King." and bowing their heads low as Percy passed. Percy felt the heat rising to his face and realized that he was never going to get used to people calling him that. As he was swimming in he was taken out of his thoughts by his father who boomed to the merpeople that seemed to be in council with him "My Son! Our King!" before exaggerating a bow at the chest and putting his right hand in a fist and clanging the chest armor that he was wearing as Percy swam further into the room more and more people copied his fathers action, some even kneeling in their places. Percy rolled his shoulders and took a deep breath.

Percy looked at Poseiden before saying "That wasn't necessary, Dad." Poseiden smiled at his son before swimming up to him. Once they were close enough they wrapped each other in a tight embrace before breaking apart.

Once they are separated Poseidon beamed at his prized child before saying "The oceans subjects hold you in high regard. Zeus could never get a bow out of any of them, even if he tried."

Percy smiled slightly at this before saying to his father, "I don't want people to bow to me though, Dad. I don't want those formalities, A nod of respect is manageable but like as far as I want it to go. Do you know?"

Poseidon started laughing at his son's expense, As he boomed laughter throughout the throne room Poseidon said: " Know my son, I just wanted to laugh at you for a second."

Percy's faced seemed to heat up for the thousandth time today before he gathered himself again before saying "I came to check on things and meet the people that wish to swear Fealty to our new kingdom."

Poseidon nodded at this remark before waving a few of the more powerful beings that were talking to the Merpeople gathered around the table. An old god that Percy recognized as Nereus was the first that Percy recognized as he swam forward in a merman form and the rest of the beings were unknown to Percy.

Percy nodded to Nereus as he swam up and asked the old god "How have you been Nereus?"

The old god looked stunned at being recognized before focusing on the Olympian in front of him before remembering who he was, "Ah, my most recent captor is to be my King." he said in a serious voice before starting to laugh as loudly as Poseidon had been before and offered the young olympian his hand to shake. There was a glint of hope in the old man's eye and Percy picked up on it before smiling back at the old god before shaking his hand.

As Percy looked around the gathering beings he waited for everyone to join them before he started asking for introductions. Once everyone had gathered Percy motioned for them all to introduce themselves, there was a total of five people including Percy, Poseidon, and Nereus, so Percy was more worried about meeting the other two.

One of them swam a bit forward. He had a grey beard and had a serpentine tail, he had a good and strong build indicating that he was still good to fight despite appearing as the elder of everyone except Nereus. He had a simple golden sword strapped to his hip. Once he was the center of attention he bowed his head and said, "I am Oceanus, Titan of the sea. I am here to swear fealty to the new Olympian age."

Percy nodded at his remark before offering his hand to the Titan to shake. The titan reached out and shook his hand with a vice-like grip and a face devoid of emotion. Percy nodded once their shake was done and said: "Proceed then."

Oceanus nodded his head again before starting, "I pledge to serve under the king Percy Jackson and his new Olympus, may his will be my command, and may he guide the seas into greatness."

Percy nodded and smiled at the Titan before saying "Thank you, Oceanus. I will do my best to lead you and everyone else well." Percy turned his attention to the other god standing in the circle before nodding his head at him indicating that he was good to introduce himself.

The god in question swam forward, He stood at about 6 foot and had normal legs, the same as Percy and Poseidon, He was about middle-aged with a brown well kept curled beard and also bowed his head once he was the center of attention. Once he had all eyes on him he started "I am Pontus, the Primordial of the Sea. I would like to swear Fealty to you."

Percy sized up the primordial before nodding his head and offering his hand to the god. Much like Oceanus, he stayed stoic as he shook and once they were done he said "I swear Fealty to the Olympian Percy Jackson and plan to serve him as long as he plans to serve us. I swear loyalty to his Olympus as long as it is just, and I believe that it will be."

Percy nodded at the god once again and said: "Thank you Pontus." then he looked at Nereus before nodding his head at the questionably spastic god before saying "And you Nereus?"

Nereus nodded at Percy before moving to the center of attention and bowing his head as well before saying "I am Nereus, god and the personification of the sea. I swear fealty to you, Percy Jackson, and will let you will be my command for as long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, for as long as you rule over Olympus, for as long as you are just."

Percy nodded once more before smiling at the deities standing before him. "It is wonderful to move into this new age with your support. I thank you for it. Let me know if there is anything you all need for your domains, and as long as you are loyal to me I will be loyal to you. Thank you for your oath and I will honor my part."

They all nodded and then Percy said "Oh, Dismissed." and then they swam away after waiting around for a second.

Poseidon beamed at his son before saying 'You will be a good king, you have already brought peace to my domain, imagine what you will do with more time." Poseidon seemed to ponder it for a second and Percy did the same. Percy came up blank but when he looked at his father's distant gaze he saw hope and joy truly in his father's eyes.

As they sat in comfortable silence they felt in their heads Zeus calling for a council meeting. Poseidon looked at Percy and said, "We should go separately, as to not alert Zeus."

Percy nodded at his father's remark and looked away as his father flashed out and waited a few moments before he also flashed to his throne. He felt the same feeling he usually felt when flashing but it didn't hurt as much the more he did it. Within a minute he was sitting upon his throne and looking towards Zeus and waiting for the rest of the gods to appear. As Percy looked around he noticed all the gods in his support sitting in their thrones and having small sidebar conversations with the gods sitting either to their right or left. As Percy looked around he noticed Hermes' gaze was upon him and he decided to open a mental conversation with the god.

Percy thought to the elder god "What's up?"

Hermes responded with "I want to talk to you after the council meeting."

Percy suddenly felt uneasy and said, "You got it."

Just as Percy cut the mental connection Zeus cleared his throat getting the god's attention and he started the meeting. It felt like hours of Zeus droning on about the minor things occurring in his domain and at one point, he chastised Percy for causing a sudden blizzard in the City below them. Percy, of course, took it in stride and apologized for letting his emotions take control of him. After about an hour of listening to Zeus pointlessly talk, the meeting was dismissed and so Percy walked out of the throne room and leaned against a pillar before a presence revealed themselves by clearing their throat. Percy looked and saw that it was Hermes.

He nodded to the messenger god and said "Sup?"

Hermes seemed to be taken aback by the casual air around Percy before starting what he was going to say but then he opted to say "Not here." he offered his hand to Percy and they flashed to a mortal bar in the city below them and the both of them ordered drinks before he started talking. Hermes ordered a Gin and Percy ordered a Scotch. The silence was killing Percy as he waited a good five minutes until they finally had their drinks and then things got serious.

Hermes turned to Percy with a serious look in his eye before saying "So, King Percy…"

Percys face flushed at the remark before Hermes held up a hand signaling for the young usurper to be silent. "If you become king will I actually be able to know my kids?"

Percy smiled at the god and realized that Hermes wasn't thinking of hurting Percy but rather, joining him. Percy looked the god in the eyes and said: "All the pointless ancient laws that Zeus has put in place that separate the gods from their kids will be undone the second that I have the power."

Hermes smiled at his cousin and said: "Count me in." Percy nodded and took a sip of his drink before leaning forward to start detailing everything to the messenger god.