Chapter 14
Athena POV
"Percy you up?" I asked knocking on his bedroom door, still no answer, I checked my watch to confirm it was indeed 2:00 PM. This didn't make sense Percy may not be a morning person but he's never slept past noon. Quietly I cracked his door open to see his room and bed messy as ever but empty.
I could feel panic rising in my chest as I made my way down the hall. Percy couldn't have possibly come out of his room without me noticing the apartment was too small for that. And I know he made it home last night because he left all the cupboards open after he raided them for junk food. I paused as I noticed the door to my study was slightly ajar 'so help me if you're setting up a prank…" I thought. I pushed open the door to see my usually clean desk covered in books, notes, and a few maps. I started sifting through the papers but it was just too much on such a small space so I gathered them all up and took them to the kitchen table.
"Okay so what do we have here." I said to myself "A map of the U.S. and a map of Greece, a lot of random equations, and a book on Ancient greek artifacts open in the P section". Setting the book down I started sifting through the equations, most of them were pure nonsense but some were legible. One said 'U is about 5 times as far from O as it is from L' another said 'the distance between SM and O is ⅓ the distance between U and SM'.
Setting the equations down I grabbed the maps and noticed Percy had written out the location of the Underworld, Lotus hotel, Sea of monsters, and Olympus. And then if clicked "O is Olympus, U is the Underworld, L is the Lotus hotel, and SM is the Sea of monsters" I said aloud, on the bottom of the U.S. map Percy had written out two more equations, one basic and another he had solved giving him coordinates in southern montana. "He did it he really did" I said. I noticed a note from on the counter I read it quickly and flashing out.
Hermes POV
"Come on Uncle it's a really nice bar and Ares is bringing some very beautiful girls" I pleaded, I've been getting kinda worried about Uncle P. He rarely goes to bars with us any more, ever since World war 2 he's started acting like a married man. "Sorry Hermes but I have too much work right now". "You have got to be joking you were playing suduko when I came in." I said pointing at the book now floating in the water "You need to bro out man".
"Poseidon!" an oddly familiar voice screeched. I looked down the hall to see a very angry Athena storming towards us "On second thought you can stay, see you Uncle P." I said flashing out.
Poseidon POV
'so much for bro's' I thought as Athena stomped over to me. "This is all your fault." she seethed. "My fault what did I do." I asked "I know I've pulled a lot of pranks but I swear I haven't done anything in months".
"You had me talk to Percy about his crush on Artemis and now he's off trying to find the chains of Prometheus" She yelled. "Athena my love, calm down, I can't help if you leave information out now start from the beginning" I said putting my hands on her shoulders. She took a few deep breaths and nodded "Percy wasn't home when my American aspect got back from it's monthly recharge. I look all over the house and found out he had raided my study and he found a way to locate lost artifacts or place even after we moved from Greece."
"But I thought you said it was impossible." I said. "I thought it was, I spent years trying to find any sort of laws that would define where things like the fountain of youth and what not can and would go. But my thinking was all wrong, Percy however figured it out, the secret was in the ratios."
"You lost me" I said. "Okay let me put it this way if the Underworld was only a mile from the Lair of the Lotus eaters Olympus has to be about 5 miles out in any direction. Percy figured out that everything that moves with the gods is bound by these laws, using Greece as reference point you can get the ratios, then all you need is three points on the outer edge to give you the scale and size of the map; in this case Olympus, the Underworld, and the sea of monsters (AN: Let me know if you guys don't understand). The thinking is so far outside the box I would have never even tried it."
"Okay what does this have to do with Percy" I asked before she got too carried away. "I told Percy that if he wanted to stand any chance of having Artemis love him he needed to throw away his pride and do you he felt was right. So when Malcolm told him that camp was in danger he did just that and went off to find another way of saving it, he didn't even think of the consequences. I can't even go after him in disguise because he went into my sister's favorite hunting ground and she'd notice I wasn't human in an instant".
"Okay I get all that but how is this my fault" I asked. "You had me talk to him instead of manning up and doing it yourself" she said. "You're right" I said, pulling her into a hug "I should have just done it myself, but now we need to trust our son". "You know hugging me isn't going to work every time." Athena said "No matter how comfortable it is". Behind us I heard something chitter (AN: I'm using chitter as the term for fish speak). "Ah Delphine" I said, yep my old friend was in on it to. "I'm sorry to interrupt my lord but Mordoc from the forges is here going on about pay raises". I rubbed the back of my head "Sorry my love but I guess we're going to have to cut this short". "It's fine I need to work out Percy's punishment any way" She said flashing, I shivered at the thought, I love Athena to death but she can really be sadistic sometimes.
Percy POV
"Which way was it again?" I asked myself as I looked over my map, the train ride here was uneventful but I got lost after only ten minutes in the forest. "I really should've brought a compass or something. Ugh I'm such an idiot!" I said.
"That's because you're a male" a girl laughed "it's just a fact of your kind". I looked up to see three girls about my age with their bows pointed at me. "Um who are you?" I asked. "Hmph Boys these days are denser than ever, we're the hunters of Artemis" A red headed girl said. I put my hands up on the air "I swear I wasn't doing anything you'd find offensive".
"You can say that to Artemis" She said. I took a step back and felt something sharp poke my back "Not so fast boy" another hunter spat. The trek to their camp was actually really long this had to have been some kind of scouting party because it took us like an hour to get there.
In case you didn't already know the hunters camp isn't boy friendly. Seriously I felt like I was going to get shot every other step and the hunters were laughing at how jumpy I was. "What's a boy doing in my CAMP!" Artemis boomed emerging from her tent. "We found him near the camp" the redhead said. "No they didn't" a black haired girl said as she emerged from the forest hold a couple rabbits "the found him a mile in a half east, the boy would have walked right by and never known we were here".
"Zoe!" The red head whined. "Donna" Artemis said shaking her head "you can't keep bring boys here just to scare them. I don't care how funny it is now all four of you are on laundry duty for the next month." Donna and the others looked liked they were going to complain but one look from Artemis shut them down. Artemis turned to me "so what are you doing way out here by yourself. You live in New York." she asked. As nerve racking as it was that my crush was actually talking to me there was one thing I had to ask "How do you know where I live?".
"Zeus tried to place you under the surveillance of Olympus but the council shot him down. Your address came up as part of the debate." She said. "Oh" I said slowly "guess I shouldn't be surprised about that. I'm actually looking for the spot Prometheus was chained".
"Why are you looking for a Titan" Zoe asked. "I'm actually not looking him I need his chains." I said "I read in a book that they have some kind of healing power so I thought it might be able to heal Thalia's pine. And on that note I'm kinda lost so could tell me which way it is". "It's that way" Artemis said pointing to her left "and Zoe, Merina, Donna are going to take you there."
"What!" The four of us shouted. "I get why you're sending the twins but why punish me" Zoe said. "I'm sending you as insurance that the twins come back unharmed as you could kill him without trying" Artemis said, the hunt laughed when I scooted away from Zoe.
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