I want to clarify something, Percy is stronger here then in canon. In canon, at this time, he was getting rusty as he wasn't training during the school year which made him struggle massively against Luke. Aaron saw this and now he is training each weekend, really keeping his skills sharper and better.
"Keep your sword up, Drew! You don't want to be cut down by a monster!" Silena snapped out, marching to her most annoying and lazy sister, grabbing her sword and moving it to the right position. "There, keep it there. You need to work on your stamina if you can't keep this up!" She didn't mean to be mean but she was getting tired of repeating the same thing to her sister. "Lacy, tighten your stance! There is a reason your not allowed to wear heels during training. Mark, Ian, no gossiping! Right now is time to train!"
She heard Drew's growl. "Why are you so hard on us! A few months ago you wouldn't have cared if we slacked off but now your up our butts on everything? Is it for Aaron, sorry to tell your darling but he's a freak, asexual as they come. He will never go for you."
Silena didn't even bother to get angry. "I am well aware of his sexuality, but now he is not the reason for my increasing your training. Our collective laziness is, as is the suffering of our Hunter Sister, Alex. We are beautiful, we draw people in and that makes us uniquely vulnerable. We need to be able to protect ourselves and our homes from the suffering mortals and monsters cause. Now get back to training." Tired and annoyed, she was tired of being questioned mostly. when she had declared her intentions a million times over at this point, she turned towards the door and saw a very special person. The person she asked to help her with her newest goal, in her attempt to make amends for being a spy. "Hey Clarisse."
Every single one of her siblings shivered and turned to the girl, looking utterly terrified. Then, without fail, even Drew started working hard, pale faced and shaking. It took a lot for Silena not to laugh at them all.
"Hey, Girly." Clarisse stomped down to her, looking brutish and aggressive as normal. "I see their working hard, you keeping them in line?"
"Only when you are around it seems." She didn't hide her smirk, or bother to act contrite. She was enjoying this far more then she ought to. "Now, since your here, I think we should work on some sparring, really see what they have learned over the last few months training with us."
Clarisse's smirk was utterly terrifying. "That sounds like a fantastic idea."
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"You look sore." Diane's voice softly drifted along the link that Aaron had established between them, musical and demure as she always was.
Aaron nodded. "I am, very... but your power is helping, with your aid I can draw on so much more of the Earth's bounty it is insane. It is cutting my healing time in half at the least. It will only take me about a solid month get all better, as opposed to two."
Diane smiled, soft and sweet. "I am glad to be of assistance my friend, your offerings and that garden have made it so much easier to be invoked and present. I cannot remember the last time we were without our memories... you are a kind boy."
"I try. I really do."
"You succeed... Now, let us focus, we should begin your healing session now, while you can still keep our connection viable."
Nodding, Aaron focused on their joint connection to the Earth, to the power of Earth's bounty. As one they drew on it, allowing it's immense power to flood his cells. instantly easing his pain and soothing his nerves. He watched as many red marks on his body faded into nothing under the weight of the Earth's majesty. Bit by bit, he healed and what wasn't healed was soothed.
The potent magic would linger in his tissues and ensure that even when he slept and didn't practice magic, he would recover a little extra quick. It was perhaps the best perk of magic and the most unknown. Most saw witches as glass canons, but in truth their capacity to heal made him far more durable and powerful then most realized. It was the only way that he would one day manage to go toe to toe against demigods on a more serious level.
"What are you doing?" Percy's voice suddenly breaking the silence almost shattered Aaron's concentration, thankfully he was pretty good as what he did.
Turning he saw Percy, who had gained a little but of muscle over the last few weeks. His step brother looked tired and worried, his eyes focused solely on Diane with his hand reaching towards his sword.
"Meet Diane, the second Spirit I can channel. She is a half nymph so she increases my connection to the Earth, making my body recover faster."
Percy nodded, nervous and unsure towards the blushing spirit. "Hey."
"Hello, Son of Poseidon." She looked ready to faint, fluttering her beautiful lashes at Percy as if he was the most interesting thing in the known world. A side effect of being Half Nymph Aaron assumed.
"Um, thanks for helping my brother..." He turned away, facing Aaron with a warm, happy but awkward smile. "I'm glad your okay, I was worried. It was like you were never going to wake up." Percy's voice almost choked up at that last part, making Aaron sigh.
"The Fates clearly have more to do with me it seems. Though I would like to think that my own fortitude has something to do with it."
"I thought Will was going to faint when he told everyone you were awake, he looked like he ready to just drop. I think he's asleep right now, I saw Beckendorf carrying him away from the main part of Camp towards the Big House."
Aaron sighed. "Kid really overworked himself to patch me up, I am definitely appreciative. To him and his father. Without them I would be crippled at the least, dead at the worst."
Percy cringed, but nodded. "Yeah, that would be bad."
"Yes, it would... very, very bad. But it didn't occur, so let's focus on the positive and move on, less everyone is going to start crying. Come back in half and hour, when my session is over and I'll show you the shrine I will be dedicating to your father and the Sea deities."
Percy beamed. "That would be cool. I'll be back it seems. Bye Diane, uh... see you later?"
The girl blushed some more and nodded, looking very nymphy making Aaron chuckle much to the pain in his chest.
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"Your heavy." Percy whined as he pushed Aaron in his wheelchair, moving him towards the beach where he planned on putting the first shrine. "There right, opposite where the Ships are docked. Why there?"
Aaron, holding a sketchbook, scribbled something in the book before looking up. "Mainly as it would create a more elegant place to see, and it would create a place for people to go to for specific prayers and admiration. I am thinking a shed of some kind with a fountain inside that draws from the lake, on each of the walls inside and out we would see decorations and small statues to each of the various sea and fresh water gods or Goddesses. It would be a nice second dock, I would think. We can't do every single god or goddess, there are just too many, but we can the main ones and a few extras, the ones more relevant to camp I would think... The Nereids are a must as they are the patron of sailors and whatnot. Triton obviously, and your Stepmother Amphirite... Nereus and Doris are also a must... this is going to be a very large project... maybe instead of a shed we just made a large fountain decorated on the rings with each of the statues and in three main statues we have the royal family? Ugh this is going to be so hard. Of course we still need to get permission from Mr. D..."
Percy blinked, his mind not able to handle the images Aaron was invoking. "It's like listening to Annabeth... I think we should contact her, see if she has some ideas, she would love to be apart of this."
"I imagine she would... we could contact her I suppose, tonight. Get her perspective and all." Aaron smiled, looking up at Percy. "So, how's school going?"
"Fine, I mean Meriweather college prep is not a normal school... I am not exactly the most popular kid cause of Tyson." Percy stalled for a moment, realizing he never told Aaron about Tyson. "Oh, um, he's a good friend of mine. A little weird and kind of... well, childish, I know that's a weird to say since I am only twelve but it's true. He reminds me of a toddler more then anything else. He's great though, nice and friendly and way smarter then people give him credit."
"I think you and your mom mentioned him when I was over last... she said she would entertain him at your apartment while you were gone."
"Oh yeah... I usually spend the week with him, he's homeless you see but no one seems to notice or find him when we send people to find him. You think they'd notice a six foot kid sleeping in a refrigerator box."
Aaron seemed to cough. " Percy, please tell me you can look at him fully, like his whole face?"
"Um, well I have trouble look past his teeth to be... why?"
"Percy, ask your mom to look at his face, his eyes specifically cause from what I learned from Meggy you just described a baby cyclops."
Unable to hide his groan, Percy nodded. "Do you think you can spare Meggy, maybe she can check him out?"
"I'll ask her when she's back, I am sure she would love to help you. She adores you, you know."
"Why me?"
"Your just lucky, but remember if he's good to you then we can trust him. We just need him to swear and oath, maybe we can bring him here to help Meggy and Charlie, giving him more friends and just making sure he doesn't turn feral."
That filled Percy with something he was shocked to realize was joy. "That would be nice. I really like Tyson. He's... weird but good, you know?"
"I get that, trust me, I get that... now, push me to the beach. I wanna see where this shrine or fountain is going to go...Mr. D, if you can hear me, please send a fraction of yourself here. I miss your face and we have stuff to chat about."
"All you had to do was ask, Aaron." Percy actually jumped when Mr. D's voice suddenly popped up next to him, smirking at him for a moment before looking at Aaron with something akin to respect and joy. "Your alright, that is good."
Aaron nodded. "I am glad to say that for the most part, I am."
"Good, very good... now, what is it that you need?"
"Oh it's quiet simple, but first how have you been these last few weeks? I haven't seen you in a while, what have I missed?"
Percy didn't understand why Aaron cared about whatever Mr. D had gone through, but he really seemed interested as the rude god spoke to him. He would never figure it out but it seemed to work really well for his brother..
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was fun to write, a lot of fun for filler.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.