When Destiny Arrives

by PradeepX21

Reading the Percy Jackson books story. The creator had seen everything. Finally, she had enough of the wrongful rule of the Olympians. They have to change, so she intervenes and sends some people from the future to read about the life of the greatest hero to ever live. The past gods are to read the adventures of Percy Jackson and his friends. Warning: Strong language, Harem.

4. Chapter 4: The Curse of Destiny

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The fates had gone still as they heard something in their head.

The people inside the throne room were all afraid as a thick layer of shadows had covered the entire sky. The day had turned into a lightless night. It was like Nyx herself was descending upon them. The wrath of night rained upon them.

The Olympians were on the edge of their seats as they gripped their symbol of power tightly. Their faces showed the fear and worry they held. The minor gods were frozen on their seats as they felt the night getting darker by the second. If it continued like that the earth would drown in an endless night.

Percy's wives and children along with everyone from the future perked up. They knew who was coming and they couldn't wait till he got here.

The middle of the throne room glowed with bright light and a strange teleportation thing happened. It was like someone was ripping the fabric of time, a scepter came out of the bright light, followed by a man.

The man was wearing what seemed like Assassin garbs, pure black uniform, his face was covered with a hood. No part of his face was visible but they could feel he was angry. The power radiating from him was something to behold, the amount of hatred and pain in his aura was overwhelming.

The big three were the first to react. They summoned their weapons and pointed it at the man threateningly. "WHO ARE YOU, SHOW YOURSELF," Poseidon demanded. He had just seen one of his kin get injured because of Zeus', he wasn't in a mood to be disturbed before he dealt punishment to his brother.

The man didn't even consider them like they weren't worth his time. His eyes landed on Artemis. Without saying something he stepped towards her. The hunters all readied their bows at him, they wouldn't blink if he tried something. He didn't stop walking; every step he took was laced with power making the ground shake.

If the man was suicidal no one knew. In the room full of immortals where he could be shot down any second, he disregarded all of them. He stood in front of Artemis and said, "Give me my son." Just one word was enough for the people in the room to sit straight up. He had their undivided attention.

He removed his hood and everyone in the room gasped. The most beautiful face they had ever seen, to whom even Adonis would pale in comparison. He had Jet black hair and facial structure that could put the Primordial Eros to shame. The most prominent thing about him was his sea-green eyes, with golden flecks. Like the bottom of the ocean littered with golden treasure.

But the look of fury on his face outweighed his beauty. His glare wasn't directed towards anyone and still they felt shivers run up their back. They finally understood why the fates were afraid. Every sane person would be afraid of a face like that.

Artemis considered the man in front of her. He was undoubtedly the most handsome man she had ever seen, but that didn't matter to her. The angry look on his face unnerved even her. His eyes were on their son, and pain and anguish was visible on them. She handed him the unconscious form of their injured son.

Percy cradled his son in his arms with the utmost care one could. He sent his own energy on his son to heal him. Tears flowed down his eyes as he looked at his son helpless and injured.

Soon Damon woke up and looked around, when he saw Zeus his eyes widened and he thrashed in his father's arms. The fear came rushing back when he saw the King of Gods.

"Calm down son, no one can hurt you now," Percy's soothing voice reached the ears of his son. It was nothing like the emotionless voice the room had heard before. His tone was filled with love and care.

Damon looked at his father and relaxed and settled back at his arm comfortingly. "I'm okay dad," He assured his father. He knew that even the entire council of Primordials could not hurt him, now that his father was here.

Percy observed his son for a few more minutes than dropped him to his feet. He looked towards the room to the rest of his children. "Well, what are you three brats waiting for?" He asked them. His daughters had smiles on their faces as they wiped the tears from their eyes.

Immediately three blurs of black hair collided to his chest. His three daughters all wrapped their arms around them. "DAD," they shouted at once.

Percy's eyes twinkled as he looked at his children. The smile on his face lit up the entire throne room, the dark night vanished and sunlight entered the room. The gods couldn't help but smile at the loving moment between the father and his children.

Percy looked around the room to where his wives were sitting, he winked at them and smiled mischievously. The five of his wives blushed and smiled back at him. Even after all these years they still felt their heart flutter by his smile.

Percy looked at his two elder children, "Dani, Sophie, why don't you take your little brother and sister outside, while daddy deals with something." He asked, smiling at the children.

All four of them nodded and went outside the throne room. They knew their dad, and he was in no way calm or happy. They knew he didn't like being angry in front of them.

As soon as the children were out of the room Percy stood up in the middle of the throne room and looked at the people present. They were looking at him in curiosity.

Annabeth came up to his side and kissed him on the cheek, "This is our husband, Lord Perseus." She introduced him to the room.

The gods nodded and looked at him for further introduction. He turned to the fates and nodded. The three fates looked at his nod and took it from there.

"Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Bearer of the sky. Bane of monsters. Bane of Kronos. Bane of Titans and Giants. Slayer of the earth mother Gaea. The Destroyer." Clotho announced.

"All hail Lord Perseus Jackson. God of Time, Tide, Liquid, Fate, Earth, Loyalty, Poison, Curses, Night, Destruction, Carnage, Wolves, Justice, Law, Heroes, Immortality, Oaths, Council, Dominance and Authority." Atropos continued.

"The Lord of fates, Lord of the five rivers of the underworld. Head of Justice. The Prince of night. King of demigods, King of New Rome. The Lord of Lords, King of Kings. The Fifteenth Olympian." Lachesis finished.

The gods and goddesses of the past nearly fainted as they heard his titles. No one had ever had this much domains and power.

The elder gods had their mouths opened as they heard his titles. Did the fates say, Bane of Kronos & Slayer of Gaea? They also couldn't imagine how this demigod turned into a god more powerful than anything they knew.

Poseidon, Amphitrite and the rest of the sea people including Theseus looked at him in pride. They couldn't believe that a demigod of the sea was this much powerful.

Perseus and Heracles looked at Percy with an open mouth. One in awe, the other in jealousy.

Athena looked at him critically observing his every move. It was clear that this man was powerful beyond belief. She couldn't help but feel her heart flutter, the sea-spawn was easily the most gorgeous man she had ever seen. His eyes drew her to him the most, how can someone have eyes so beautiful?

Artemis and her hunters observed him skeptically. Sure, he must be an honorable man if Artemis married him, but they would have to see it for themselves.

Hestia smiled seeing her future husband. She could feel the immense love for family & friends on him. She hoped that he might be the one who would fix their family. For years she had waited for her family to see sense, or for someone to come who could beat some sense into them.

The minor gods & goddesses didn't know what to say to them. They thought the elder gods were powerful, but this man was beyond them, beyond Titans even. They would make an effort to not cross him.

Percy turned to Zeus and immediately his face contorted into a scowl. He looked at him with so much hatred that the King of Gods shivered.

"You know the only reason you are alive is because I showed mercy to you?" Percy asked.

Zeus looked at him and nodded. Hera had come back to his side and was holding his hand. Both of them looked pretty afraid.

"The only reason I showed mercy to you, and not tore your limbs apart from your body was because my wife is the goddess of home and family. It would've broken her heart if she were to lose her brother and sister. And I respect and love her far too much to give her sorrows." Percy calmly said as he started walking towards the King of Gods.

Everyone remained silent as the Lord of fates descended upon Zeus like a wolf descends upon his prey. They were afraid to cross the gods from the future so they stayed silent.

Hestia smiled softly as she heard his decision to spare Zeus was because of her. The reason she didn't marry anyone was because she thought that she would be treated as an object. She saw how Zeus treated Hera and that only strengthened her resolve. But now she was happy that there would be a man who would win her affection, and treat her with respect.

"But you went too far when you hurt Nico, who I consider my little brother. Apollo, my brother-in-law whom I care for deeply. Will who has fought by my side for ages and is one of the people who I trust the most. And you hurt my child." Percy tsked at the King of Gods.

Zeus looked around to see that everyone except Hera was agreeing with him. He couldn't remember the last time he felt this much fear. He tried to not show his fear but failed miserably.

Athena, Artemis and Hestia watched in attention to what their future husband might do. The man was angry beyond belief but still he held his calm.

"You have sired many children, Zeus, but you are not a father. A father does not disregard their children's well being in his anger. To you they are nothing but pawns to secure your rule. You are just like your father Zeus, accept it or not you are like Kronos." Percy accused him openly.

The minor gods were left silenced, anyone else if they had dared to would've been sent to reform for the disrespect.

Zeus' children wanted to defend that they were not pawns but they all knew the truth. The entire reason Zeus had filled the council with his children was because he wanted to rule unopposed.

The elder gods couldn't find it in their heart to disagree with Percy. He was the toned down version of Kronos but still Kronos nonetheless. \

Zeus' nostrils flared as he defended himself. "I'm nothing like my father," he said through gritted teeth.

"No? Then tell me didn't you in your anger blasted your son too. I know that he wasn't the intended victim but still, the fact that your own son was sitting there didn't matter to you. That is an act that your father would do, don't you agree?" Percy countered leaving the King of Gods speechless.

The children of Zeus all looked down at their father's action. They knew if his rule was threatened he would kill his own children.

The room chilled instantly and the look of fury was back in Percy's face. "I care for my children a lot, Zeus. So much so as their injuries pain me too, their cries for help are like thousands of spears piercing my heart at once. Do you know how I felt when my son cried out in pain because of your stupidity?" Percy growled at him.

Before anyone could even see him move, Percy was in front of Zeus. He raised his hand and pushed it inside Zeus' chest. Tearing his chest open and gripping his heart. He gave it a squeeze and enjoyed the screams that left Zeus. "It felt like this," He said to him.

Zeus screamed and screamed in pain as the future god pushed his hand inside of his chest. He could feel himself growing weak by the second. The pain was beyond anything he had suffered in both the Titan war and the giant war.

Many in the room including, Gods, Goddesses, Hunters and Immortal demigods threw up at the sight. They couldn't stomach such a gruesome sight, even for them that was a bit far.

The throne room shook as Percy's anger grew. How dare they hurt a small child? His wives knew that if he continued Percy would destroy the entire Mt. Olympus in his rage.

Thalia was by his side in an instant. She grabbed his face forcefully and turned his head and kissed him passionately. All the while Piper kept charm speaking him to calm down from his other side. Annabeth, Rachel and Reyna also tried comforting him to calmness.

Percy's anger melted away and he withdrew his hands from Zeus' chest. He summoned some ambrosia and nectar and threw it at the King of Gods' face.

He walked to the middle of the throne room with the grace of a King, and saw that everyone was looking at him in horror. He couldn't care for their comfort at this moment. He didn't seek their acceptance.

Athena, Artemis, Hestia, Zoe, the hunters, his father & mother, every single one was looking at him in horror. They knew from hearing the future people that he was very temperamental but this was something else. This was the rage of a wolf that was defending his pack, his pups.

Percy closed his eyes for a few seconds and addressed the room. "I apologize for what you had to see just now. I sent the books back in time so that there could be peace in the family, so that no violence was needed. But Zeus here went too far when he acted rashly. No one hurts my child and walks free."

Like the hearth his words were comforting to people in the room. They relaxed and listened as he talked.

Artemis, Athena and Hestia smiled as they saw how much Percy loved his children, their children. The children would grow up loved by both their parents unlike them.

"The purpose of this reading was to show you all how your actions affect your children. To show how your stupidity and arrogance would leave the world burning. I thought you all could fix your mistakes. But now I see I was wrong, you people won't change until you experience this yourself." Percy said and their eyes widened.

What was he going to do now? Was the thought in everyone's mind?

"I Perseus, the God of Fate, Time, Justice; curse you all to feel the pain and suffering your children go through in this book. To feel every emotion your children feel through the book. The only ones who won't be affected are those who have no children mentioned in the book." Percy declared and everyone's eyes widened in disbelief.

No one spoke as everyone was frozen in their seats. The gods might not show it but they knew that a demigod's life is full of pain and suffering. Now they would feel all that.

Percy turned to where his father was sitting and addressed him, "I'm sorry father but you will be affected by this curse too. I cannot spare you because of our connection. I am the god of justice and law; I must stay impartial."

Poseidon's eyes were glowing with pride and curiosity as he looked at his son. He nodded in understanding, "I understand Perseus. I know that I do not know you, but I won't accept anything less from you."

Percy nodded and bowed his head in respect to Poseidon. He then turned toward Zeus and his serious face was back, "You have been left unchecked for far too long. I am here to decide your fate, if I see that you're changing I will let you live. If not I will end you without any thought, and I don't mean sending you to reform. No, I will personally fade you and even after that I wouldn't allow you to enter the realm of faded. I will personally throw you to the dark, unending abyss of Void."

The name Void sent shivers down everyone's back. They had heard of the endless abyss where once something goes in they never see the light of day again. It was the most horrible punishment one could receive. They looked at Percy to see he was deadly serious.

Zeus looked afraid of the fate that Percy devised. He would do everything in his power to not go there. He would try to change.

Pleased with himself Percy nodded. He turned to the fates and smiled, "Now hand her over," the smile was so wide, people thought his face was going to split.

The room turned their curious gaze at the fates to see what Percy was talking about.

The fates smiled and stepped towards Percy. It was the first time the occupants of the room had seen the fates smile. Clotho leaned forward and dropped a little child on Percy's arm carefully.

Percy smiled as he took his daughter in his arms. The little bundle of joy was so cute his heart couldn't take it. She was just over a year old but Percy felt that she had been with him forever.

"Who is she?" Artemis asked curiously. The little girl was a goddess for sure from her aura.

"Promise not to hurt me?" Percy asked her, smiling, although a little scared. When the silver goddess hears the name of the child's mother, she wasn't going to like it.

Artemis looked confused why she would need to promise something so trivial. Her hunters looked confused too. She did promise not to hurt him anyway.

Percy held her daughter straight for the room to see, "Meet my youngest child, Catarina Jackson. Daughter of Zoe Nightshade, goddess of stars, constellations and hunting skills." He closed his eyes waiting for the explosion.

"Another one of my hunters?" Artemis growled looking at the male she would marry. Her fingers itched to fire something at him.

"WHAT," Zoe screamed at the same time. Both the mistress and lieutenant were glaring at the god from the future. The hunters didn't fare far behind. The two biggest man haters had children with the same man. The world must be really different in the future.

Percy squeaked as he saw their glare, it had been a while since that menacing look was directed at him. He had forgotten how it felt.

"Everybody, except the one I'm married to or would marry, out," Percy ordered the room and they followed. They knew Artemis far too well to stay and watch how things turned out.

The five wives of Percy sat back and watched with amused expression as their husband fidgeted under the stare of the past goddesses and one hunter. It was funny as the all powerful god of Olympus whimpered under the glares of the ones he would one day marry.

Artemis was the first one to step forward. "So you were the one who took our maidenhood?" She asked him skeptically. He seemed like a decent man, and if she married him he would be one. She had trouble trusting sons of Poseidon after Orion raped one of her hunters and tried to rape her.

Percy frowned as he heard her, "I didn't take your maidenhood, you four gave it to me. I didn't force or manipulate anyone into anything, you four fell in love with me of your own accord, as I fell in love with you."

The four of them looked surprised by the sudden change in his demeanor. He didn't like the way Artemis had asked her question. She made it out to be like he had forced them.

Artemis nodded and apologized, "I apologize for the way I worded my question." Thinking about it she worded her question in a manner where she suggested that he had forced himself upon them.

Percy smiled and nodded, "I know that I'm a stranger to you, but you are not the same as my wives either."

Artemis, Athena, and Zoe frowned. "What do you mean we are not the same as us in the future?" Athena asked curiously. How could they be different? The other two also waited for his answer. Hestia stayed silent as she knew what Percy had meant.

Percy looked at Hestia and smirked, he knew she would understand his words. The usually silent goddess had one of the sharpest minds on Olympus. She understood everything and observed things silently.

Percy turned to the other three, "What I meant to say is the version of you I fell in love with is different. They have seen more and they see the world in a different light. Artemis and Zoe, you two are still prejudiced against all men, you change your thinking later, and realize that there are still good men out there. There are also women out there who have done a lot more horrific things than men." He left them to their own thoughts and turned to Athena.

"You my dear, are just blinded by your pride. You have one of the sharpest and most beautiful minds I have ever seen. But your pride is your biggest enemy, in my time you are still very prideful but you have control over it. It doesn't drive your actions." Percy softly said and Athena nodded at him.

Artemis and Zoe were in deep thought. If they had married him in the future then it meant that they trusted him a lot. Possibly more than anyone else. So was he speaking the truth? Were they really unjust and misguided? Their pride wouldn't let them accept it formally, but both of them knew it was true.

Athena looked small when she heard what Percy said. Unlike Artemis and Zoe she was feeling strong emotions for Percy. To hear him say that she was too prideful was a little disappointing.

Percy turned to Hestia and his smile widened, "You my goddess, are just the same as you have always been." He leaned down and kissed her cheek. Leaving a blushing goddess.

"So which one of us you fell for first?" Hestia asked, smiling. She motioned towards the four of them in a group.

Percy smiled looking at them. "The first one I fell for would be Zoe," he said, surprising Zoe and Artemis. "You hated me at first, it took effort for you to not shoot me at sight. I won't say more; we will read everything in the book."

The four of them nodded and followed Percy to where the rest of his wives were sitting. He sat in the middle and rested his daughter in his lap. She was asleep with a smile on her face.

"May I hold my child?" Zoe said cautiously, she had never thought that she would ever become a mother. When Heracles broke her heart and she joined the ranks of hunters, she abandoned the thought of having a child. But she had yearned for the dream she could never fulfill. To have a child, care for them and love them with all her heart.

She also wanted to love someone again, to trust someone again. But she realized that men weren't worthy of trust. They use you, abuse you and leave you alone in the end. But now looking at Percy, her future husband. Maybe she had made mistakes in her judgment of the gender.

Percy smiled and handed her the baby.

Zoe looked at the baby with tears in her eyes. Artemis, Athena and Hestia too observed and cooed at the baby. She had Percy's black hair and her mother's onyx black eyes. "She looks just like you," Artemis commented. Zoe nodded agreeing with her mistress.

"How old is she?" Hestia asked.

"Over 13 months," Percy replied.

Zoe nuzzled her daughter's little baby fingers with her own. Catarina yawned and gripped her mother's finger, she looked at Zoe and blabbered. Zoe's heart melted as her daughter played with her. "M… Mama," She spluttered. Tears spilled from Zoe's eyes, she had waited for thousands of years to hear someone call her that.

Immediately the five wives of Percy stood up and gathered around her child. "That was her first word," Rachel gushed looking at the little blob that was their daughter.

Zoe and the other three looked at them in surprise then turned their attention back to the baby. They looked away when they heard Percy groan, "Chaos, not another brat." He muttered. Though he had a playful glee in his eyes.

Zoe looked at him frowning, "What do you mean." She asked. What was wrong with her first word being mama.

Percy tried to act angry but the smile on his face betrayed him. "The other four of my children's first words were also 'Mama' and they grew up to be just like their mother. Master at manipulating me with their pouting lips. She would be just like you too, and would have me wrapped around her finger." He grumbled and slumped back at his seat. His wives kissed him on the cheek laughing.

Artemis, Athena, and Hestia smiled when they heard about their child's first word.

"Let's summon them back," Athena suggested. Percy nodded and shot a tendril of shadows at the ceiling signaling everyone to come back.

Percy stood up and walked towards where his father and family were sitting. They looked at him with smiling faces.

"Father," he bowed his head to Poseidon.

'Son," Poseidon replied, smiling.

Percy moved towards Amphitrite, "I hope you have been made aware of our relationship in the future?" He asked, smiling.

Amphitrite smiled back and nodded, "I have." She couldn't wait to get to know her adopted son more. She had always wished to have another son.

Percy smiled and kissed her cheek causing her smile to widen, "It is good to see you mother," He acknowledged his siblings and went back to his seat with his wives. He sat between Annabeth and Thalia, and pulled Thalia onto his lap.

Thalia blushed but rested comfortably against her husband's chest.

Zoe, who had gotten back with the hunters, was introducing her daughter to everyone. The hunters had a wide smile on their faces as they saw their lieutenant's daughter. Catarina was awake and playing with them. Artemis was looking at them, smiling herself.

"Can I hold her?" Phoebe asked Zoe. Zoe shrugged and handed her the baby.

As soon as Catarina was on Phoebe's hand she started crying. Phoebe looked surprised, and handed the baby back to Zoe.

"Wait, let me try something," Atlanta said and took the baby. Catarina did not cry in her arms. She handed her to Phoebe again and she started crying. They kept moving the baby around, and every time Phoebe took her she started crying.

Phoebe huffed and gave Zoe her daughter back, "Your daughter is defective," she grumbled as the entire hunt and Artemis laughed at her.

"Should we start reading again?" Apollo asked Percy.

Percy looked at Annabeth and she answered, "Yes let's start, we have taken a big enough break."

Apollo picked up the book and read, MY MOTHER TEACHES ME BULLFIGHTING

A deep rumbling growl escaped Percy. His canines popped out of his mouth as he remembered what this chapter was about. His mother wasn't here anymore and to hear about her capture or presumed death was going to be painful for him.

"Is this the one?" Annabeth asked sadly. She understood that this was the chapter where he fought the Minotaur, and that meant this chapter was the one where Sally would disappear.

"Yes it is," Percy whispered to her. He had forgotten the time his mother had vanished in front of his eyes.

We tore through the night along dark country roads. Wind slammed against the Camaro. Rain lashed the windshield. I didn't know how my mom could see anything, but she kept her foot on the gas.

Every time there was a flash of lightning, I looked at Grover sitting next to me in the backseat and I wondered if I'd gone insane, or if he was wearing some kind of shag-carpet pants.

"Shag-carpet pants, really Percy?" Grover asked. Both him and Pan looked offended by the remark, whilst everyone else in the room was laughing.

"Hey, don't blame me if that's how they looked to me," Percy defended himself, it was fun to rile Grover up.

But, no, the smell was one I remembered from kindergarten field trips to the petting zoo— lanolin, like from wool. The smell of a wet barnyard animal.

All I could think to say was, "So, you and my mom... know each other?"

"Ahhh," Annabeth groaned, "Percy you realize how wrong that sounded right?" She asked him pinching her nose.

Percy blushed down to Adam's apple. "You know I wasn't very eloquent with my words back then Wise girl," He muttered and felt Thalia laugh at his lap.

"Whoa big words honey, are you sure you are my kelp-head?" She asked him, laughing. Even if they were now married, she would never stop teasing him.

"Ha-ha, laugh it up Pinecone face," Percy said and pressed a kiss at her back, sending shivers down her spine. That made her silent.

Grover's eyes flitted to the rearview mirror, though there were no cars behind us. "Not exactly," he said. "I mean, we've never met in person. But she knew I was watching you."

"That didn't sound any better either, Grover," Annabeth told him. She had forgotten how stupid and childish they were.

"Yeah it makes you sound like stalker Grover. First you follow him to his bus, and now this. What was your intention?" Leo imitated a news reporter perfectly.

Grover bleated and tried to push down the blush on his cheeks. How much were they going to tease him?

"Watching me?"

"Keeping tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn't faking being your friend," he added hastily. "I am your friend." I couldn't deny it.

"The best friend anyone could ask for," Percy smiled gently. He remembered how terrified and nervous Grover used to be, still he always stood by his side every time. He was ready to sacrifice himself so that Hades would return his mother.

"I couldn't have asked for a better friend myself," Thalia assured Grover.

"You are my friend too, Grover," Annabeth said to him, smiling. One by one many from the future started praising the satyr.

Grover felt his eyes fill with tears as his friends all said nice things about him. He never would've believed that he could have such great friends one day.

Pan watched proudly as the immortal demigods and gods from future praised the young satyr. He genuinely smiled seeing that they treated him like family.

"Urn ... what are you, exactly?"

Damon sat up straight and got a serious look on his face. He coughed and gained everyone's attention. He spoke in an emotionless calm voice, "It's not who you are underneath that matters, it's what you do that defines you."

The past gods were going over his words. They couldn't believe a child had said something so intelligent. Artemis got a proud look on her eyes.

One, Two, Three…

Most of the people from the future started laughing loudly. Damon himself started laughing along with his father.

"Did you just quote Batman?" Reyna asked tiredly. The amount of time Percy and the kids watched those movies was unhealthy.

Percy wiped a fake tear from his eyes, "I am so proud," he sniffed. Piper and Rachel nodded along with him.

"Good one little brother," Penelope complimented her brother and patted him in the back.

"I am older than you, idiot, mom said so herself." Damon replied haughtily to his twin.

"Mom doesn't know what she is talking about. She still thinks that she is older than Uncle Apollo," Penelope shot back.

Everyone in the room looked on at horror as another set of twins started fighting about the same thing, like their mother and uncle. It was bad enough with Artemis and Apollo, now another?

Artemis and Apollo watched amusedly as the kids started acting much like them. They looked at each other and smiled.

"I must say I agree with my niece. She knows what she is talking about," Apollo praised Penelope, the latter of whom nodded back at her uncle in respect.

"Idiots," Damon and Artemis commented at the same time. Mother and son looked at each other in surprise and curtly nodded at each other. He's just like me, Artemis thought to herself smiling.

Artemis still felt saddened that her son still refused to call her mother. Is she really so misguided that her son could sense that she wasn't the mother he knew in future? Percy had said the same thing to her. She would pay attention to the stories to see for herself.

"That doesn't matter right now."

"It doesn't matter? From the waist down, my best friend is a donkey—

Grover let out a sharp, throaty "Blaa-ha-ha!"

"A DONKEY?" Pan stood up in outrage. The greatest insult to a satyr is to call them donkey.

Everyone in the room cringed, at one point or another most of them had been in the situation themselves. They too had an enraged satyr screaming his head off on them.

"Forgive my ignorance Pan, I did not know of this world back then." Percy apologizes to the god of wild.

Pan still looked angry but sat down in his seat.

I'd heard him make that sound before, but I'd always assumed it was a nervous laugh. Now I realized it was more of an irritated bleat.

"Goat!" he cried.

"What?"

"I'm a goat from the waist down."

"You just said it didn't matter."

"In Percy's defense you just said it didn't matter," Leo commented as he looked up from the tiny piece of metal he was tinkering with. Hephaestus looked at his son with pride filled eyes.

Percy nodded furiously, "Finally someone to my defense."

Annabeth looked at him amused and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Blaa-ha-ha! There are satyrs who would trample you underhoof for such an insult!"

"Like coach Hedge," Piper and Leo said at the same time.

"To be honest, Coach is very over-aggressive. His first instinct is to swing his bat at everyone." Percy grumbled. He was still muffed out for the time, coach denied him and Annabeth to spend time alone.

"That's why I love him," Clarisse gave her approval.

Annabeth rolled her eyes at their interruption and told Apollo to start reading again.

The gods looked confused but decided to stay quiet.

"Whoa. Wait. Satyrs. You mean like ... Mr. Brunner's myths?"

"Were those old ladies at the fruit stand a myth, Percy? Was Mrs. Dodds a myth?"

"So you admit there was a Mrs. Dodds!"

"You know you can be really petty about things at times, Percy." Piper commented amusedly, she had always wanted to learn of Percy's adventures. And now to hear them from Percy's Pov was too good of an opportunity.

Athena and Artemis also rolled their eyes at his childishness. They are running for their lives and he brings up such unnecessary arguments?

"You would be too if all year people kept telling you, you were insane." Percy defended himself. He remembered thinking that people were playing terrible pranks on him. Only he could remember Mrs. Dodds, and thought he had gone off the rails.

"Of course." "Then why—"

"The less you knew, the fewer monsters you'd attract," Grover said, like that should be perfectly obvious. "We put Mist over the humans' eyes. We hoped you'd think the Kindly One was a hallucination. But it was no good. You started to realize who you are."

"Who I—wait a minute, what do you mean?"

"By us seaweed brains. You two were probably driving poor Sally crazy." Annabeth muttered but even she couldn't deny that their reality was freaky. How was a child who knew nothing of their existence supposed to grasp the reality within a few hours?

She felt guilty remembering how she had treated him like an absolute buffoon when he arrived at camp. She knew that Percy wouldn't think much of it, but they were reading his thoughts and he already thought of himself as stupid. Her annoying remarks couldn't have helped him.

Percy looked at her concerned, "You alright, you were zoned out." He asked her.

Annabeth smiled at his concern, she shook her head to dismiss his worry and rested against his shoulder once again.

The weird bellowing noise rose up again somewhere behind us, closer than before. Whatever was chasing us was still on our trail.

"Percy," my mom said, "there's too much to explain and not enough time. We have to get you to safety."

"Safety from what? Who's after me?"

"Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions."

'Grover' shouted a lot of people. Even Pan himself groaned at his satyr's actions. Grover blushed and tried to give everyone an apologetic smile.

Hades felt the hair on the back of his neck tingling. He looked around to see Poseidon glaring at him furiously, his hand gripping his trident tightly.

Hades gulped and motioned for Apollo to continue reading, before his brother could lose his control. What was wrong with his future self? He kept sending monsters after the boy.

Amphitrite rolled her eyes at her husband's over protective nature. She hoped for the Lord of Dead's sake that her future son remained unharmed. Or even she wouldn't be able to hold Poseidon back from hurting Hades.

"Grover!"

"Sorry, Mrs. Jackson. Could you drive faster, please?"

I tried to wrap my mind around what was happening, but I couldn't do it. I knew this wasn't a dream. I had no imagination. I could never dream up something this weird.

"I take that back, I can dream some really weird things," Percy interrupted the reading.

Everyone from the future snorted at the statement. Percy had one of the weirdest dreams someone could have. Omens of future, mistakes of past, he dreamt everything.

The gods looked at them confused to learn what he was talking about.

"Demigods usually have dreams full of omen. The children of the big three have them worse than anyone else, and Percy here; he had the worst of them all. Every time he slept he would either have prophetic dreams or things that had happened in time before he was even born. Everything he saw in his dreams was useful in the real world." Annabeth explained with Nico and Thalia nodding along with her.

The gods looked surprised at the revelation and they watched Percy with critical eyes. Prophetic visions weren't the traits of a son of Poseidon. So how could he have seen them?

Percy saw their questioning glances and decided to answer. "It was the fates that showed me all those things. They wanted me to be ready and understand everything."

The gods nodded in understanding.

My mom made a hard left. We swerved onto a narrower road, racing past darkened farmhouses and wooded hills and PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES signs on white picket fences.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"The summer camp I told you about." My mother's voice was tight; she was trying for my sake not to be scared. "The place your father wanted to send you."

"The place you didn't want me to go."

"Please, dear," my mother begged. "This is hard enough. Try to understand. You're in danger."

"Dear Chaos," Percy groaned, clutching his head, "What was wrong with me? She was so stressed already and I just couldn't help but torture her further." He remembered the time when he would forget to call her after quests to inform that he was alright. He now realized as a father of what his mother must have been through.

Before anyone could tease him Hestia spoke up, "There was nothing wrong with you. You were just a confused and scared child. Your mother didn't think any less of you." Her words were comforting as usual and she spread the feeling of love and hope in the room.

Percy's mood immediately perked up and he looked at her smiling. "That is why I love you my dear," He told her and sent her a wink.

The eldest child of Kronos and Rhea blushed deeply and looked down to control it. She couldn't look at his eyes without feeling butterflies. His eyes looked like they held the tide in them, she could get lost in them.

Athena, Artemis and Zoe felt a ping of jealousy as Percy addressed his love for Hestia. Their feelings had gone haywire as soon as he had arrived.

"So Perce, are those love marks I see in your neck?" Hermes asked teasingly. The hickeys were visible but no one had focused on them yet. Hermes knew perfectly well that it was work of one of his wives, but he wanted to embarrass his future cousin and pranking partner.

As expected Percy blushed hard and fidgeted under everyone's stare. Everyone was looking at him smirking. He composed himself and answered, "Artemis and Zoe did that just before I was leaving," He said looking down to cover his flushed face.

Artemis and Zoe blushed so dark it was impossible to see their faces clearly. Why did this reading have to be this embarrassing for them? The hunters looked at both of them in shock. Who would've thought that the two biggest man-haters in the world were leaving love bites on their husband's neck.

"Why did we do that?" Artemis asked, controlling her blush.

"You said and I quote, 'that's for the slut Aphrodite to keep her hands away from my man. I am marking my territory over you,'" Percy replied, chuckling. He loved it when his wives went overprotective.

Aphrodite's mouth hung open as she heard that.

Artemis and Zoe nodded agreeing with their future self. Percy was the most handsome man in the room, or the universe. It was a good idea to send him marked as theirs. They blushed again as they imagined the picture of them attacking Percy's neck.

Aphrodite took that as a challenge and tried to charmspeak him. "Perseus, how about you give me a big kiss." She purred and put so much charmspeak in her words, that every male in the room got a dazed look on their eyes.

An unhealthy amount of jealousy flared in the four past wives of Percy. They looked ready to drop the love goddess dead anytime. Artemis and Zoe's hands went to their bow. Athena subconsciously summoned her spear to skewer the love goddess. They also glared at the direction of Percy to warn him to not do something stupid.

"Nice try babe, maybe save that for your boyfriend," Percy spoke without even blinking his eyes. He was immune to her charmspeak.

The entire room looked at him surprised. None more so than Aphrodite. No one could resist her charmspeak, not when she poured it so thick. So how could this future god do it? "H Ho…How?" She stuttered.

Percy smirked at her, "Charmspeak doesn't work on me sweetheart."

Aphrodite frowned and shook her head, "I saw Piper use charmspeak on you to calm you down."

Piper smiled from their seat and turned to Percy, "Give me a kiss." In a daze Percy leaned towards her and kissed her hard, he stopped and sat down with a goofy smile. "Only my charmspeak works on him," Piper told her mother.

"Why?" Aphrodite asked and all the goddess leaned forward to listen. All the men in their life were affected by Aphrodite's charmspeak, what made this god different?

"I don't know why only Piper's charmspeak works on me. I think it is because she is my wife and I love her with all my heart. I don't feel the need to be apprehensive of what she may charm me to do, so my subconscious just accepts it." Percy answered, which didn't answer much of their questions but they nodded.

Piper nodded and leaned forward to plant a kiss on his cheek. "I liked your answer, you might get something really special tonight." She whispered sultry in his ear.

Percy shivered head to toe and looked at her with a very wide and hopeful smile.

"Because some old ladies cut yarn."

"Those weren't old ladies," Grover said. "Those were the Fates. Do you know what it means—the fact they appeared in front of you? They only do that when you're about to ... when someone's about to die."

"Here they go again," Rachel sighed and leaned her head against Piper's shoulder. She had been married to Percy for more than a decade and knew he would notice Grover's slight slip-up and argue over it.

"Whoa. You said 'you.'"

"No I didn't. I said 'someone.'"

"You meant 'you.' As in me."

"I meant you, like 'someone.' Not you, you."

"What?" Many in the room asked. They looked around to see if anyone understood what was said, but much like them everyone seemed confused.

"I thought just Percy was hopeless, but you Grover, I didn't expect you to be like him." Thalia shook her head in disappointment.

Grover got a horror filled look on his face, "Comparing me to Percy, that's just plain disrespectful." He shivered like the very thought scared him.

Both of them laughed ignoring Percy's 'Hey' of indignation.

Poseidon looked amused as he saw the two teasing his son.

"Boys!" my mom said. She pulled the wheel hard to the right, and I got a glimpse of a figure she'd swerved to avoid—a dark fluttering shape now lost behind us in the storm.

"What was that?" I asked. "We're almost there," my mother said, ignoring my question. "Another mile. Please. Please. Please."

I didn't know where there was, but I found myself leaning forward in the car, anticipating, wanting us to arrive.

Poseidon too felt anticipation churn on his guts. The curse had started showing its work on him.

"Seriously what is following you, whatever it is sounds really dangerous," Zoe commented. She had hunted a lot of monsters in her time among the hunters. They had hunted monsters that some even in the godly world considered myth. She couldn't figure out what was following him.

Artemis and the hunters nodded agreeing with her. They knew it was a monster following them, and it must be a really powerful one, if the look on the future guests faces had something to say.

No one answered them.

Outside, nothing but rain and darkness—the kind of empty countryside you get way out on the tip of Long Island. I thought about Mrs. Dodds and the moment when she'd changed into the thing with pointed teeth and leathery wings. My limbs went numb from delayed shock. She really hadn't been human. She'd meant to kill me.

I didn't know how I felt about that. At times after Gabe would punish me I would wish for death. I even attempted to drown myself once, but found out I couldn't. And now that death was really catching up to me, I felt conflicted. I wanted to get out of the pain, but I also didn't want to give my mother grief.

"What the fuck," Everyone from the future shouted at once. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. All of them turned their glares towards Percy at once.

Percy had gone still; he didn't know that this would be revealed in the books. When Chaos said that only important thoughts and stuff would be revealed, he didn't think she meant this. Oh how fucked he really was. He wished the ground would swallow him, thinking about it, he was the god of earth. He could make that happen.

The past people looked like they were going to be sick at the thought of a child killing himself. No one was affected more by Artemis, Athena, Hestia and Zoe. Even if they didn't know their future husbands yet, they wanted to kill him themselves for having such dark thoughts.

Poseidon, who was being affected by the curse, felt confused but most of all he felt scared. He looked at his son through sad eyes. He wanted to comfort him but before he could say anything. Percy was thrown at the floor with a loud 'THUD.'

Everyone turned to see five furious goddesses standing menacingly over Percy. Their eyes were blazing with fury. "You tried to do what?" Annabeth asked with tears in her eyes. Thalia and the other three weren't far behind. All five of them had tears in their eyes at the thought of Percy attempting suicide.

Percy stood up and went to them and wiped their tears away. He kissed each one of them and hugged them. "I was a little child who knew nothing better back then. You know I'm not leaving any one of you," He consoled them, he took Annabeth's hand in his, "Never again."

He turned around to see that his four children had gone still and were looking at him in horror. To hear that their father tried to kill themselves, they didn't know what to do, what to feel. Even Catarina the 1-year-old baby was crying as she felt her siblings' feelings. Zoe did everything she could think of to calm her but she wouldn't.

"She's not going to calm down, give her to me," Percy told Zoe, stepping in front of where the hunters were sitting. All of them plus Artemis were trying to calm the baby goddess, but to no avail.

"How would you know that?" Zoe challenged him. She had grown very attached to the child in no time. She was her mother, if she couldn't calm her down, then how could he?

Percy raised an eyebrow at her question. "Because she is my daughter," he answered and Zoe nodded blushing. She had forgotten that little fact.

"Come on my little star, you know I don't like it when you cry," Percy talked to his daughter and much to the surprise of the room Catarina listened. He took her back to the couch where his other four children were sitting. Zoe, the hunters and Artemis watched in fascination as the baby calmed down as soon as she heard her father's voice.

As soon as he reached them they hugged him for all they were worth and started crying in their father's embrace. Percy looked at Hestia and nodded, she understood immediately and spread the calming aura of the hearth around the room.

"Listen kids, I want you to know that in these books many of my thoughts are going to be addressed, and a lot of them would be negative. But I want you to know, that was the past me. I have you five and your mothers, I would never leave you ever, not for anything. So please don't cry." He explained to his children and sat down on the couch they were sitting on.

The kids nodded and sat around their father. They were still too upset by his thoughts and weren't going to leave him anytime soon.

Every goddess and some gods smiled at the interaction between Percy and his children. Gods usually don't show much affection towards anyone, so it was a surprise to see this future god handling the kids.

Artemis, Athena, Hestia, and Zoe finally started understanding why their future selves fell for this man. He was different from anyone they had met before. They couldn't wait to fully understand the enigma that was Percy Jackson.

Then I thought about Mr. Brunner ... and the sword he had thrown me. Before I could ask Grover about that, the hair rose on the back of my neck. There was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom!, and our car exploded.

I remember feeling weightless, like I was being crushed, fried, and hosed down all at the same time. I peeled my forehead off the back of the driver's seat and said, "Ow."

Poseidon felt the curse and immediately felt like a flying chariot was thrown at him. His ears rang and he felt like being crushed, fried and hosed at the same time. He looked at Percy in surprise after feeling this much pain his words were Ow?

Amphitrite were gripping Poseidon's hand in fright. They could see that their son was fine right now, but it didn't help their situation much. It was a parent's job to worry after their child. Triton, Rhodes and Kim weren't far behind, it was surprising how fast Percy had warmed himself into their hearts.

Annabeth rolled her eyes and sighed, "There is an explosion that caused you to feel crushed and fried and all you can say is 'Ow?' What is wrong with you seaweed brain?" The amount of time Percy down casted his injury was surprising. She always hated the fact that he had no amount of self-care.

Clarisse snorted as Annabeth started scolding Percy. "Come on Princess, it's prissy what else do you expect from him. Remember the capture the flag games where his bone was visible from his chest from the injury. His words were 'I'm Okay,' I don't know how one considers themselves okay, when their guts are visible to everyone."

The gods and heroes were silent and watching their argument closely. They didn't know if the hero was brave or just plain stupid. His four wives from the past too looked ready to drop kick him to next millennia.

"GUYS," Percy shouted, "You are scaring my children and parents."

True to his words all four out of five of his children were clutching him tightly like they were afraid he was going to vanish. Even little Catarina was making whimpering noises. Poseidon and Amphitrite had gone as pale as a sheet.

"Percy!" my mom shouted. "I'm okay... ."

I tried to shake off the daze. I wasn't dead. The car hadn't really exploded. We'd swerved into a ditch. Our driver's-side doors were wedged in the mud. The roof had cracked open like an eggshell and rain was pouring in. Lightning. That was the only explanation.

Zeus went silent as the winds in the room started to form into a mini hurricane. He was still reeling from the shock that he wasn't respected in the future, and that one of his brother's sons was going to decide whether he lives or dies. He looked to Poseidon to see him enraged, but much to his fear, the sea god was deathly silent.

Poseidon looked at his brother and spoke, "Brother, I have never hurt one of your children for anything. I even let them enter my domain without the fear of getting struck down, Unlike You. But if your, stupid and paranoid actions result in one of mine getting hurt. I will unleash wrath of the seas upon you, the kind you have never seen before. I would raise the entire seas and drown Olympus if need be."

Everyone seemed shocked and afraid by Poseidon's words. He wasn't one to deliver idle threats. When he says something he fulfills it to any end.

Amphitrite, Triton and Theseus could only look at Poseidon with wide eyes. They knew him too well to know that he won't go back on his words. Still threatening to drown the home of gods was a heavy warning to give.

Zeus looked shocked at Poseidon's words, then afraid and after that angry. He made a move to speak but Poseidon cut him off, "Remember my warning Zeus," he said in finality and turned towards Apollo and motioned the awe-struck god to continue reading.

Percy smiled as he cradled his asleep daughter in his arms. While he knew he was fine and Zeus never hurt him, it still was fun to see the youngest of Kronos and Rhea afraid. He also couldn't deny it felt good to know his father cared about him.

Zeus' children looked at Percy in envy. They could only wish to have a father like Poseidon, but they were stuck with one who saw them as pawns.

We'd been blasted right off the road. Next to me in the backseat was a big motionless lump. "Grover!" He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die! Then he groaned "Food," and I knew there was hope.

"Good to see you have your priorities straight goat boy," Thalia laughed as she looked at Grover. Annabeth and everyone from camp laughed along with them.

Grover blushed and tried to glare at Thalia, but it wasn't easy to intimidate her. He sat back and tried to hide his embarrassed face from the gods who looked at him amused.

"Percy," my mother said, "we have to ..." Her voice faltered.

I looked back. In a flash of lightning, through the mud-spattered rear windshield, I saw a figure lumbering toward us on the shoulder of the road. The sight of it made my skin crawl. It was a dark silhouette of a huge guy, like a football player. He seemed to be holding a blanket over his head. His top half was bulky and fuzzy. His upraised hands made it look like he had horns.

"No," Whispered Theseus as soon as he heard the description. There was only one monster who fit that description perfectly. He knew him personally. It was one of the toughest battles he had to fight ever. How was his untrained brother going to defeat the beast?

Athena named every monster that fit the description in her mind. Only a few came to mind and the closest possibility wasn't a good one, not for an untrained demigod. Her deduction got confirmed when Theseus whispered 'No.' Theseus was the only one who had defeated the beast before, how was her future husband going to defeat it?

She looked at Percy and asked, almost pleadingly, "Please tell me, it's not who I think it is."

Percy looked at her and smiled widely. "I wish I could do that, but you know as well as I do, that you are rarely wrong." He leaned his head forward and winked at her,

Athena had always prided herself on being the most composed goddess on the council. But one wink for him sent butterflies on her stomach. She couldn't believe how much Percy's presence was affecting her.

Artemis and Zoe narrowed their eyes at Athena in jealousy. They couldn't understand why they were feeling this way. Up until this morning they hated the entire male gender, and now they were feeling jealous because Percy was getting comfortable with someone other than them. What the fuck was wrong with them?

I swallowed hard. "Who is—" "Percy," my mother said, deadly serious. "Get out of the car."

My mother threw herself against the driver's-side door. It was jammed shut in the mud. I tried mine. Stuck too. I looked up desperately at the hole in the roof. It might've been an exit, but the edges were sizzling and smoking.

"Climb out the passenger's side!" my mother told me. "Percy—you have to run. Do you see that big tree?"

"Hey look I'm mentioned," Thalia clapped her hands in enthusiasm. She looked to see Percy glaring at her.

"That isn't a matter to be happy about Thalia," He said sternly. She had forgotten how much it angered him to remember that she was once turned into a tree. He hated the fact that she had to sacrifice herself for her friends. He respected her decision, but hated it very much.

She mumbled out an apology as he looked at her with nothing but love in his eyes.

The rest of the room looked confused except the ones who knew that Thalia was turned into a pine tree. They figured they shouldn't ask about it as Percy was clearly upset over it.

"What?" Another flash of lightning, and through the smoking hole in the roof I saw the tree she meant: a huge, White House Christmas tree-sized pine at the crest of the nearest hill.

"That's the property line," my mom said. "Get over that hill and you'll see a big farmhouse down in the valley. Run and don't look back. Yell for help. Don't stop until you reach the door."

"Mom, you're coming too." Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean.

Poseidon wiped the tears off his face before anyone could see. He was feeling Percy's emotion, and they were so strong he didn't understand how Percy was able to go on.

Percy started trembling and his hands started shaking as he remembered what was coming. He couldn't save his mother, and now she was going to be taken hostage by Hades.

The goddesses, hunters and immortal demigods gave Percy a warm smile for being so loyal to his mother. A person's true character is shown by how much he loves or respects his mother.

"No!" I shouted. "You are coming with me. Help me carry Grover." "Food!" Grover moaned, a little louder.

Pan fell back against the couch and passed out. Grover shook him but he didn't wake. Hermes and Apollo rushed to check on the god of the wild.

"Don't bother, the curse is working on him. Since he is responsible for satyrs and nature magic, he would feel what Grover is feeling. He will wake up in a few minutes, I don't want him to miss much of the book." Percy told them and they both went back to their seats.

The man with the blanket on his head kept coming toward us, making his grunting, snorting noises. As he got closer, I realized he couldn't be holding a blanket over his head, because his hands—huge meaty hands—were swinging at his sides. There was no blanket. Meaning the bulky, fuzzy mass that was too big to be his head ... was his head. And the points that looked like horns ...

Artemis and her hunters sucked in their breath as they realized who the monster was. They realized that it was one of the most famous monsters of the Greek world. Even the hunters would have trouble killing it alone, how was Percy going to do it?

Artemis looked at Athena for confirmation who nodded.

"He doesn't want us," my mother told me. "He wants you. Besides, I can't cross the property line." "But..."

"We don't have time, Percy. Go. Please."

I got mad, then—mad at my mother,

"Why were you mad at your mother?" Amphitrite asked, frowning. Up until this point the book revealed that Percy loved his mother very much, so why was he mad at her?

Poseidon felt angry at everything around him. He looked around glaring at the walls of the throne room.

"She was telling me to leave her alone. She really thought I was going to leave her to die," Percy huffed and leaned back.

Amphitrite smiled hearing his response, it seemed that he had inherited his father's loyalty. She looked at him to see that he had summoned a cradle for his daughter to sleep. And the other four were all cuddling to him. He looked just like Poseidon when Triton and Rhodes were little. He would also fall asleep playing with them.

at Grover the goat, at the thing with horns that was lumbering toward us slowly and deliberately like, like a bull.

"The Minotaur," Someone from the past gasped.

Everyone started muttering about how Percy was dead, and how the bull was going to ram him.

While Percy and his wives smirked seeing their reaction. If they were shocked now, they couldn't wait for them to react to him killing the Minotaur.

"He has really bad luck," Perseus whispered to Theseus who nodded. He was still reeling in from the fact that his brother would have to fight the beast.

Poseidon turned to Hades. "You sent the Minotaur after my untrained son?" He shouted at the lord of the dead.

"Dad don't get mad angry at Uncle Hades, he had his reasons for doing what he did," Percy said trying to calm his father.

Poseidon and Hades both looked shocked but nodded.

"No way the punk kills the Minotaur, he is untrained. He must have had help from somebody." Ares shouted his Opinion. Many nodded along with him.

"I can kill it without any help," Heracles boasted. Zeus looked proud and looked at Poseidon smirking as if saying 'My son is better than your.'

Perseus and Theseus rolled their eyes at his arrogance.

Zoe, Artemis and the hunters fumed at the son of Zeus. They were about to retort when someone beat them to it.

"Really like you defeated Ladon all alone right? With no Hesperides' help. You defeated the hundred headed dragon with just your wits right?" Percy snarled and his canines popped out of his mouth. His eyes were glowing with power as he looked like he might smite the minor god any moment now.

Heracles looked shocked that he knew his secret. He sat back against the couch thinking how many people knew his secret in the future.

Artemis and her hunters looked shocked from the venom in Percy's words. They also smirked that someone put the arrogant douche in his place.

Zoe smiled softly looking at Percy. He seemed to be taking her by surprise every time he spoke. 'Thank You,' She mouthed to him. Percy smirked and blew her a kiss. Zoe blushed deep red but tried to glare at him, which only made his smirk wider.

I climbed across Grover and pushed the door open into the rain. "We're going together. Come on, Mom." "I told you—"

"Mom! I am not leaving you. Help me with Grover."

"You're very loyal to your mother," Hera commented and looked at her sons. "Why couldn't you be like him?" She asked them.

"You threw me out of a window because I was ugly," Hephaestus countered, and at the same time Ares said, "Why couldn't you be like his mother?"

Everyone in the throne room snickered at Hera's red face. She didn't have anything to say to that.

I didn't wait for her answer. I scrambled outside, dragging Grover from the car. He was surprisingly light, but I couldn't have carried him very far if my mom hadn't come to my aid. Together, we draped Grover's arms over our shoulders and started stumbling uphill through wet waist-high grass.

"Maybe you ought to try eating healthy Uncle Grover," Damon yawned against his father's chest. He was feeling sleepy; it had been a long day.

Artemis felt her heart melt with motherly affection as she saw her children falling asleep. Damon looked too cute as he yawned with half lid eyes.

Grover had his mouth open as he heard Damon. Wasn't Percy enough now his son was also chastising him? "I am a literally half goat who only eats vegetarian. How much healthier can I eat?" He whined to the 7-year-old.

"Maybe go easy on the tin cans?" Percy suggested not so helpfully.

"Hey lay off the tin cans, they are very nutritious," Grover shot back at him, offended. Tin cans were the best thing.

Percy raised his hands in surrender as the rest of the room looked at them weirdly.

Glancing back, I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine—bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear—I mean, bright white Fruit of the Looms—

"Hold up," Travis interrupted.

"Did we hear that the Minotaur was wearing Fruit of the Looms underwear?" Connor asked, completely serious.

Percy nodded laughing along with the rest of the males in the room.

Whereas the females shuddered at the thought of seeing the Minotaur in his underpants.

"What was the Minotaur doing just in his underpants brother?" Poseidon asked, laughing at Hades. "Is there something Kinky going around in the underworld?" Percy helped his father finish off.

"Do tell us," Triton butted in laughing.

The entire room exploded in laughter as the Lord of Dead and his family blushed from head to toe. They tried to glare at the father and sons but to no avail.

Amphitrite smiled as her husband and sons got along so well.

which would've looked funny, except that the top half of his body was so scary. Coarse brown hair started at about his belly button and got thicker as it reached his shoulders.

His neck was a mass of muscle and fur leading up to his enormous head, which had a snout as long as my arm, snotty nostrils with a gleaming brass ring, cruel black eyes, and horns—enormous black-and-white horns with points you just couldn't get from an electric sharpener.

"Electric sharpener, really kelp-head?" Thalia looked at him with tired eyes, "I should check your head to see if there is something wrong there."

The other four of his wives nodded along with her.

Percy smiled mischievously, and his wives immediately groaned. It was the smile that indicated that he was about to say something that would completely mortify them.

"I think you have checked every single part of my body Thalia. Thoroughly and multiple times, might I add." He told her.

Thalia blushed and looked down, as she went over the idea of electrocuting him. But seeing as he was sitting with their children she decided against it.

Nearly every woman in the room blushed at what Percy was implying. None more so than the four of his wives from Past.

I recognized the monster, all right. He had been in one of the first stories Mr. Brunner told us. But he couldn't be real. I blinked the rain out of my eyes. "That's—"

"Pasiphae's son," my mother said. "I wish I'd known how badly they want to kill you."

"She's very smart, to not name him." Athena mused happily. She must be the reason Percy was smart, because obviously he didn't get it from Poseidon.

"But he's the Min—" "Don't say his name," she warned. "Names have power."

"How does she know so much about this?" Artemis asked, she was loving this woman more and more. Such a strong willed and sharp minded woman, shouldn't have to live by the rules of the mortals.

"My mom, she was clear-sighted. She had prepared for years to keep me safe. She read all about our world in order to protect me." Percy smiled wistfully as he remembered his mother. He could never forget her, not now nor some millennia later. He remembered how she would read him stories about monsters and gods at night, and tuck him in his bed safely.

Danae sensed her father's feelings and gave him a hug. She wished she had met Sally, she sounded like a very smart and peaceful woman. She would've loved her grandmother.

The goddesses smiled as they saw the clear love for his mother in Percy's eyes.

"What does clear sighted means?" Hecate asked, she felt like it was something to do with her magic.

Hazel, being the champion of Hecate answered, "Some mortals have the power to see through the mist Milady. They can sense the godly world, see the monsters and aren't fooled by the illusion of mist."

Hecate along with every god from the past nodded. She looked at Hazel for a few seconds, there was something different about this immortal demigod. "There is something different about you, I sense magic in you." She said to Hazel.

Hazel smiled looking at her mistress. She bowed her head in respect and answered, "I am your champion Milady."

Hecate and Hades both looked surprised along with many others. Hecate doesn't just take anyone as her champion, the girl must be really important.

Hecate smiled at Hazel and patted the couch she was sitting on. "Would you like to join me? I would love to know more about you, and teach you some spells myself."

Hazel nodded excitedly. She gave Frank a kiss and hopped off to sit with her mistress.

Frank, who was now left alone with the rulers of the underworld gulped, and left to sit with Leo and Calypso.

The pine tree was still way too far—a hundred yards uphill at least.

I glanced behind me again.

The bull-man hunched over our car, looking in the windows—or not looking, exactly. More like snuffling, nuzzling. I wasn't sure why he bothered, since we were only about fifty feet away.

"He can't see very well so he relies on his other senses." Athena answered. She didn't realize she was talking to the book, and no one felt the need to tell her that.

"Food?" Grover moaned. "Shhh," I told him. "Mom, what's he doing? Doesn't he see us?"

"His sight and hearing are terrible," she said. "He goes by smell. But he'll figure out where we are soon enough."

"Your mother is smarter than half of the people in this room." Athena praised Sally. Why couldn't the gods be as smart as this one mortal.

"Hey I'm smart," Ares growled.

"No one said you were stupid boar-shit, now that you have thought of yourself as stupid. I must say I agree," Athena chuckled at the idiot.

The vein in Ares' forehead popped as everyone started laughing at him.

Percy's eyes glinted with pride as he nodded, "In the future you said that if she were a maiden. You would've given her the honor of being one of your priestesses."

Athena's eyes widened as did the rest of them. Being a priestess to the wisdom goddess was the highest honor one could receive.

Athena smiled as she agreed with her future self, "That begs the question how did she made a stupid decision to fall for Poseidon." She said with a teasing smirk towards the sea god.

Poseidon moved to make a retort when he saw his family laughing at him. Amphitrite, Theseus, Triton, Percy, his daughters, his own family were laughing at him. He slumped down back on his couch, he didn't mind the jab, he was happy to see his family happy.

"The same way you fell for a sea-spawn Thena," Percy teased her back.

Athena blushed when she heard him. Her heart fluttered at the nickname Percy gave her. Meanwhile, Artemis and Zoe looked annoyed at the flirting between Percy and Athena.

As if on cue, the bull-man bellowed in rage. He picked up Gabe's Camaro by the torn roof, the chassis creaking and groaning. He raised the car over his head and threw it down the road. It slammed into the wet asphalt and skidded in a shower of sparks for about half a mile before coming to a stop. The gas tank exploded. Not a scratch, I remembered Gabe saying.

"Oops," Commented Poseidon, Theseus, and Triton in sync. They looked at each other surprised and smiled.

Oops.

"Like father like sons," Amphitrite rolled her eyes. It was bad to suffer through Poseidon and Triton's antics now she had to suffer through two more.

"Percy," my mom said. "When he sees us, he'll charge. Wait until the last second, then jump out of the way— directly sideways. He can't change directions very well once he's charging. Do you understand?" "How do you know all this?"

"I've been worried about an attack for a long time. I should have expected this. I was selfish, keeping you near me."

"Keeping me near you? But—"

Another bellow of rage, and the bull-man started tromping uphill. He'd smelled us.

Immediately the happy mood vanished from the throne room and everyone sobered up.

The pine tree was only a few more yards, but the hill was getting steeper and slicker, and Grover wasn't getting any lighter. The bull-man closed in. Another few seconds and he'd be on top of us.

No one said a word as their breathing got heavier. They started chanting and praying to Chaos that nothing goes wrong.

My mother must've been exhausted, but she shouldered Grover. "Go, Percy! Separate! Remember what I said." I didn't want to split up

Poseidon felt conflicted. He realized that this was how Percy felt. He couldn't leave his mother alone, but knew that was the right decision.

"That is a hard choice for someone as loyal as you," Katie said sadly, she remembered how Percy wouldn't leave anyone behind. It was the one of the many reasons they respected him and followed him to battle blindly.

"Sometimes we all have to make hard choices, Percy. Choices that we wouldn't make, choices we don't want to make, and we have to live our lives no matter the result. But those choices are what defines us, Percy knows more about making hard choices better than anyone else." Leo commented as he looked down remembering his own childhood and the choices he had to make.

He remembered his mother's death. Even if he didn't mean to, he was the reason for her death. He would forever remember that moment.

Calypso took his hand in hers and squeezed it to assure him it wasn't his fault. She knew what he was thinking about, he had told her years ago.

Everyone looked shocked that Leo said something so smart. Except Percy and Hestia, they could sense the pain and sorrows the son of Hephaestus held.

They also couldn't deny any of his wise words. The choices they make are what defines them.

but I had the feeling she was right—it was our only chance. I sprinted to the left, turned, and saw the creature bearing down on me. His black eyes glowed with hate. He reeked like rotten meat.

He lowered his head and charged, those razor-sharp horns aimed straight at my chest.

The fear in my stomach made me want to bolt, but that wouldn't work. I could never outrun this thing. He was too big and fast for that. So I held my ground, and at the last moment, I jumped to the side.

Poseidon felt fear strike his heart. He hadn't felt fear like this in a long time, the fear for his life. He sighed in relief when he heard that his son jumped out of his way.

The bull-man stormed past like a freight train, then bellowed with frustration and turned, but not toward me this time, toward my mother, who was setting Grover down in the grass.

"No, please no," breathed almost everyone in the room. They didn't want anything to happen to Sally.

Percy closed his eyes knowing what was coming next. His children gripped him tightly as they were afraid for their grandmother. The grandmother they never got the chance to meet, but had heard all about.

We'd reached the crest of the hill. Down the other side I could see a valley, just as my mother had said, and the lights of a farmhouse glowing yellow through the rain. But that was half a mile away. We'd never make it.

The bull-man grunted, pawing the ground. He kept eyeing my mother, who was now retreating slowly downhill, back toward the road, trying to lead the monster away from Grover.

Tears filled everyone's eyes as they realized what was going to happen. Even the ones from the future didn't know this was what happened except Grover, Percy and Annabeth.

"Run, Percy!" she told me. "I can't go any farther. Run!"

But I just stood there, frozen in fear, as the monster charged her. She tried to sidestep, as she'd told me to do, but the monster had learned his lesson. His hand shot out and grabbed her by the neck as she tried to get away. He lifted her as she struggled, kicking and pummeling the air.

"Sally," Thalia whispered as her eyes went thundering. Reyna, Piper, Rachel weren't far behind.

"Mom!" She caught my eyes, managed to choke out one last word: "Go!"

Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my mother's neck, and she dissolved before my eyes, melting into light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection. A blinding flash, and she was simply ... gone.

"No!"

"No, No, No," Thalia started chanting. Sally was the only real mother she ever had. Hearing about her was heartbreaking to her and she couldn't take it. She knew Sally would be brought back by Percy in the end because she had met her. But she still couldn't control her tears.

Percy looked over at Thalia with sad eyes. He looked down to see that Penelope, Damon and Catarina were fast asleep. He asked Danae and Sophia if they would be alright if he left. The girls nodded so he stood up and moved towards his wife.

He opened his arms and Thalia immediately leaped on him. He hugged her closely and sat down on the couch where Piper and Annabeth leaned against him.

"She's not dead, someone has taken her. A god has taken her." Athena concluded, she looked around for possible suspects and her eyes landed on Zeus and Hades. Zeus had the means to kidnap Sally and manipulate her son to do anything he wanted. Hades, she didn't know what his reason was, but until now he had gone out of his ways to kill Percy. It was one of those two.

Poseidon stood up enraged and looked around the room. "Whoever it is, I swear on my name, if one hair on her head is harmed, there will be a price to pay." He threatened making Hades pale.

The lord of dead had already figured out that it was him who had taken the woman. No one else could make the Minotaur work for them, as the monster resided in the underworld.

Thalia calmed down from her panic and slumped against Percy's chest. She was comfortable in her husband's embrace and wasn't going to budge.

Anger replaced my fear. Newfound strength burned in my limbs—the same rush of energy I'd gotten when Mrs. Dodds grew talons. I could feel the ground rumble from my anger, but I paid no attention to it.

The gods looked wary that a child of such a young age could harness Poseidon's powers with ease. Even Theseus who was Poseidon's most powerful son till now couldn't control his powers over the earth like that.

The Earth shaker smiled as his son tapped onto his powers. No child of his was ever able to harness his earthshaking power till date. He couldn't be more proud. He also felt the same anger his son felt, but he kept his power under control.

The past four wives of Percy paid more attention to the book. They wanted to see how he would react to one of his loved ones being taken away.

The bull-man bore down on Grover, who lay helpless in the grass. The monster hunched over, snuffling my best friend, as if he were about to lift Grover up and make him dissolve too.

I couldn't allow that. The stupid goat might have been lying to me but still he was my friend. My first friend to be honest, no one wanted a freak to be their friend. Grover was the only one who ever truly wanted to be my friend. I wasn't losing him too.

Everyone in the throne room looked at Percy with sad eyes. How could such a charismatic person not have any friends until the age of 12 they didn't know. They also frowned when he degraded himself again.

Artemis, Athena, Hestia and Zoe scowled too. They would have to talk to him about his self-degrading thoughts too.

Grover smiled at his friend sadly and Percy did the same. Both of them nodded to each other. They didn't need any words to convey their friendship to one another, after sharing an empathetic link for years. They knew what the other person was thinking. Both of them knew there was nothing but love and respect for each other in their mind.

Pan who had woken up smiled softly as he looked at Percy. "I did not know what to think about you earlier. But now I can say that you have my respect. The heroes of this time don't see satyrs as equal, they treat them as jokers or such. To hear of such a friendship between a demigod and satyr. It warms my heart and fills me with hope for the future."

Percy smiled softly, he didn't want to give away that the god wasn't alive in the future. "There is no need, Lord Pan. In the future it is not just I who is friends with satyrs. Many demigods in camp treat the satyrs and nature spirits in camp with respect."

Grover nodded agreeing with Percy, making Pan's smile wider.

I stripped off my red rain jacket.

"Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!"

"Seriously Prissy? Ground beef, I can make better insults in my sleep." Clarisse taunted Percy. What kind of a stupid ass insult is Ground beef?

"At least I don't try to blow up an ancient immortal monster with cannons." Percy shouted back at her. They were on pretty decent terms with each other, but had to keep up the pretense of rivalry for the drama.

Clarisse's response was to flip him the bird. Percy gasped and gave her the birds from both hands.

Annabeth and Chris looked at each other tiredly. 'What can you do?'

I had an idea

"Please tell me it was a stupid idea," Annabeth begged to him.

"Why would you want him to have a stupid idea?" Athena and Artemis asked at the same time. They both looked at each other, nodded and turned to Annabeth for an answer.

"His good ideas never work, whereas his stupid ideas, well might seem off or straight up foolish, they always work." Annabeth answered the goddesses.

Artemis and Athena looked shocked by the answer but shrugged it off, as they could hear for themselves in the book.

"Hey my good ideas work brilliantly too," Percy defended himself.

"NO THEY DON'T," everyone from the future including his two daughters shouted.

Percy looked at them betrayed, while Thalia laughed against his chest. Her breast pressed against him, it took all of Percy's willpower to not grab her butt in front of everyone.

—a stupid idea, but better than no idea at all. I put my back to the big pine tree and waved my red jacket in front of the bull-man, thinking I'd jump out of the way at the last moment. But it didn't happen like that.

"It never goes according to your plans," Travis sighed with Connor agreeing with him.

"You two idiots have plans?" Katie questioned, she honestly thought their brain wasn't capable of forming any sort of plan.

Travis huffed at her girlfriend, "Of course do you think our Pranks aren't well thought out, Connor." He turned to his brother.

Connor nodded and pulled out a notebook from his bag-pack. He opened the notebook and showed it to the room. "Pranks for the next 2 years, all sorted out." He said, turning the pages.

The entire room looked at them like they were some sort of deranged animal. Who writes down pranking plans for years ahead?

Hermes looked like he might die from happiness, his eyes glowing with pride. He humbly asked if he could have a look at those pranks. The children agreed to do it after the current chapter ends.

The bull-man charged too fast, his arms out to grab me whichever way I tried to dodge. Time slowed down. My legs tensed. I couldn't jump sideways, so I leaped straight up, kicking off from the creature's head, using it as a springboard, turning in midair, and landing on his neck.

I had learned in school that every action has a reaction. Who said that? I don't give a flying fuck. I used his own speed against him to land on his neck. A millisecond later, the monster's head slammed into the tree and the impact nearly knocked my teeth out.

Poseidon winced from the impact and rubbed his jaw. Amphitrite hoped her husband wasn't going to be brutally injured along with her son.

Annabeth smiled widely and looked at her husband, "I knew there wasn't just seaweed in there," She pressed her lips against his happily.

Athena looked at Percy with newfound interest. So Annabeth was correct, the sea-spawn really is smart. She couldn't help but give her husband, sorry future husband a smile.

The bull-man staggered around, trying to shake me. I locked my arms around his horns to keep from being thrown. Thunder and lightning were still going strong. The rain was in my eyes. The smell of rotten meat burned my nostrils.

"Eew," Poseidon squealed disgustedly and covered his nose. It was one of the most disgusting things he had ever smelled, and that was coming for someone who stayed inside a Titan's stomach for years.

There was no sound inside the throne room. Poseidon confusedly looked to see everyone was giving him a strange look. Even his family was looking at him weirdly.

Finally, it was Percy who broke the silence. "Father, did you just squeal like an Aphrodite girl, when she sees new ornaments?"

The dam broke, and everyone in the room roared in laughter as the sea god blushed gold. No one laughed louder than Zeus and Hades, they were clutching their stomachs as they couldn't control themselves.

Even his beloved, innocent daughters were laughing at him. Poseidon, embarrassed, blasted Apollo with cold water and told him to start reading.

The monster shook himself around and bucked like a rodeo bull. He should have just backed up into the tree and smashed me flat, but I was starting to realize that this thing had only one gear: forward.

Meanwhile, Grover started groaning in the grass. I wanted to yell at him to shut up, but the way I was getting tossed around, if I opened my mouth I'd bite my own tongue off.

"Food!" Grover moaned.

"Might not be the best place for asking that, or the time." Annabeth chuckled as their friends laughed at Grover.

Grover just glared at Percy for embarrassing him in front of so many people.

The bull-man wheeled toward him, pawed the ground again, and got ready to charge. I thought about how he had squeezed the life out of my mother, made her disappear in a flash of light, and rage filled me like high-octane fuel. I got both hands around one horn and I pulled backward with all my might.

"Not going to happen punk," Ares commented. Zeus agreed with him, even one of his sons couldn't do it.

"Even I couldn't do that," Heracles said, looking over at Percy like he was an ant compared to him.

No one bothered to reply or even acknowledge the two sons of Zeus. If Zeus had a bad quality, these two inherited them with grace.

Annabeth, Grover and Percy smirked knowing they would be proven wrong in a minute. While the rest of the people from the future looked at Percy with wide-eyes. They had seen the minotaur horn in Percy's cabin when he was a demigod, this is how he got that? They thought he had severed the horn with a sword not by his bare hands.

The monster tensed, gave a surprised grunt, then—snap!

Zeus, Ares and Heracles' jaws dropped open as they heard that.

Annabeth and Grover looked at them smirking. There was no one who had accomplished as much as Percy, it would feel good rubbing it on their faces.

"How did you break the Minotaur's horn with your bare hands?" Artemis asked curiously, her hunters and everyone else in the room leaned forward to hear his answer.

Percy waved his hands and a ball of water appeared in front of him. "My father is the Lord of seas, meaning he has control over water. It was raining that day, and I used to get a boost in my power when I was in touch with water." Percy told them proudly. Another reason Poseidon was better than Zeus.

"So you broke the horn of Minotaur by hand?" Artemis asked again.

"Yes," Percy replied.

"That means the horn was left as a spoil of war?" Artemis questioned again.

"Yes," Where was she going with this?

"Can I have it?" She asked softly. Thinking he wouldn't give her something so precious, but she wanted the artifact. The Minotaur's horn after being severed becomes indestructible. It would be a great addition to her arsenal of weapons. And she really wanted it.

Her hunters looked at her shocked, their mistress wouldn't ever get caught asking a male for anything. Thinking about it, this one seemed alright, and if he marries her in the future, he really must be good.

Percy smiled widely and she smiled back. He got up from his couch and dropped Thalia where he was sitting. He walked towards the hunters and Artemis and summoned the horn. He handed her the horn and Artemis without thinking leaned up and planted a kiss on his cheek. She started examining the horn.

The entire room gasped as the biggest man-hater to ever walk the earth kissed Percy. The hunters watched open-mouthed as their mistress kissed a male.

Artemis looked around and realized what she did. She blushed but wasn't going to be embarrassed over actions. "What? I will have kids with him in the future, what's the big deal with one kiss?" She challenged the room. No one answered her so she sat down and showed the horn to her hunters.

Athena and Zoe looked at Artemis with jealous eyes. Both because she got a gift from Percy and because she kissed him.

The bull-man screamed and flung me through the air. I landed flat on my back in the grass. My head smacked against a rock. When I sat up, my vision was blurry, but I had a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife. The monster charged.

Everyone tensed up immediately. No one said anything as they wanted to hear how Percy defeated the Minotaur, and if anyone helped him or not.

I knew through personal and painful experience that his muscles were dense and going after his limbs would be useless and the best way to kill him would be going after his heart.

Athena once again smiled at the boy's sharp instincts and intellect. To keep a calm brain and think out things in the midst of the battle. He really was the best suitor for her. Though her heart was pained, he learned that through Personal experience. A feeling shared by many.

I rolled to one side and came up kneeling. As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn straight into his side, right up under his furry rib cage.

The bull-man roared in agony. He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to disintegrate—not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blown away in chunks by the wind, the same way Mrs. Dodds had burst apart.

The monster was gone.

Cheering broke out in the throne room as everyone except Zeus, Hera, Ares and Heracles, either clapped or shouted their praise to Percy.

Artemis and her hunters too clapped and thought that he might boast about his kill, but much to their surprise he blushed and tried to hide down behind Thalia.

Artemis, Zoe and her hunters were once again surprised by how different Percy was from the other males. They finally thought that he was worthy of their approval, now the future chapters would tell if he was worthy to marry their mistress and lieutenant.

The rain had stopped. The storm still rumbled, but only in the distance. I smelled like livestock and my knees were shaking. My head felt like it was splitting open. I was weak and scared and trembling with grief I'd just seen my mother vanish. I wanted to lie down and cry, but there was Grover, needing my help, so I managed to haul him up and stagger down into the valley, toward the lights of the farmhouse. I was crying, calling for my mother, but I held on to Grover—I wasn't going to let him go.

"Loyal to end eh Percy?" Grover asked, smiling. He would never forget how much Percy did for him, did for them. The moment he walked in on their lives, their lives had gotten harder, but better.

"Who else would have saved your sorry ass then?" Percy smirked at his oldest friend. Their friendship was one of legends.

The last thing I remember is collapsing on a wooden porch, looking up at a ceiling fan circling above me, moths flying around a yellow light, and the stern faces of a familiar-looking bearded man and a pretty girl, with the most beautiful and angelic face I had ever seen, her blond hair curled like a princess's.

Annabeth's heart fluttered and her face flushed as she heard his description of her. She couldn't help but feel giddy that even in his half-conscious barely awake state he thought that she was the most beautiful thing ever.

She twirled her blonde hair in her fingers, "Hair curled like a Princess, huh seaweed brain?" She asked, smirking.

Percy blushed an unhealthy shade of gold as his thoughts about Annabeth were read out loud. "I didn't say no lie, did I?" He asked her.

Annabeth shook her head and gave him a kiss.

Amphitrite leaned down to her husband and whispered, "He's got your flattering tongue too."

Poseidon just laughed and nodded agreeing with her.

They both looked down at me, and the girl said, "He's the one. He must be."

"Silence, Annabeth," the man said. "He's still conscious. Bring him inside."

"Well, what do you know, he was the one Annabeth," Nico laughed at her flushed face.

"So who's going to read next?" Apollo asked.

Percy spoke before anyone else could, "No that's all for today, let's read the next tomorrow. My children are asleep and I want them to rest. It's been a long day."