Hehehe! Told you Percy would regret laughing at his Royal creepiness. Also, I have realised that Percy is truly her mothers daughter and no I am not explaining what I mean by that, you shall all see. Also- gotta love badass bitches protecting family. Percy is a bit of simp for her girlfriend. And to the one reviewer who said it- yes, yes Will will do that if necessary and yes Percy finds that hilarious as if she is not just as whipped as her baby brother.

Sorta poll for Sally's parentage/who she's a legacy of. I won't be including the vote for Vesta because she's a maiden.
Terra: 9
Nox: 6
Venus: 5
Saturn: 4
Ceres: 2
Baccus: 1
Jupiter: 1
Pluto: 1
Neptune: 1
Apollo: 1
Mars: 1
Caelus: 1
Tartarus: 1
Daughter of Venus: 6
Daughter of Ceres: 1

Percy didn't even really remember returning to the infirmary- though she knew that part way through the walk back Annabeth had paused and kissed her cheek before taking off her camp necklace to remove her fathers college ring, which she'd slipped onto Percy's necklace, an early birthday present apparently before they'd headed the rest of the way to the infirmary. She did vaguely know that Annabeth and Will had a quiet short talk, but as soon as Percy sat down on one of the cots she was out like a light- and she didn't even wake up when Annabeth slid into it behind her and rested her chin on Percy's shoulder as she hugged her.

And, because the fates clearly hated Percy, as soon as she was fully under she found herself outside of the UN building, on the roof.

It wasn't too far away, clearly Kronos had moved his base to be closer- and she saw Kronos pacing- he looked furious as he did, Nakamura and Prometheus were stood facing him as he did, "She laughed- the girl had the nerve to laugh! I would have had them, I would have crushed them beneath my feet had my dratted son not shown up- with those idiotic centaurs." he was filled with fury, "I would have taken her and Olympus in one fell swoop. Once I had those fools seats of power I could force them to watch my great victory but no- no they got away again."

"Lord Kronos we have time yet-" Prometheus started, "The girl will give in- I'm sure of-"

"We will make her give in." Kronos growled- "She will pay for defying me-" suddenly his anger was fading and there was vicious gleam in his eyes, "And I know just how to make her pay." his gaze swung to Ethan, "They're focusing on the area closest to Olympus. I want you to go somewhere else- it's far enough out that they can't afford to stretch themselves and defend the area. You will take a group of demigods- there will be a mortal there, a woman, and possibly a man. I believe she recently married. I'm sure even my stubborn little future queen will hand herself over to me if I have her beloved mother."

"No!" Percy's eyes widened in horror and she let out a panicked noise, shaking her head, "No-" but there was nothing she could do as Kronos told Ethan the address- she couldn't stop him- there was no way to, she was dreaming, she wasn't really there.

And her mom, Paul and Rachel were probably defenceless, fast asleep at home, Percy cursed loudly as Ethan bowed low.

"Of course my Lord. I'll do so immediately-"

"Bring them here. You shouldn't have any trouble, they'll be asleep I have no doubt. I'm sure with them as our captives we will be able to draw in my beautiful bride and use her to force our enemies to let us into Olympus."

And Percy snarled as Ethan headed out quickly and Prometheus spoke up. "My Lord." he bowed his head, "Your plan in a genius one.
If there's anything that can get the girl to give up hope it's the sight of her family held hostage- and there needn't be nearly so much bloodshed this way but-"

"But what?" Kronos glared, "Do you dare question me?"

"Even if she comes willingly the other demigods may not give up the fight." Prometheus pointed out, "You almost seemed more obsessed with getting the daughter of Poseidon than you are winning the war. Are you sure that the boy-" and Kronos backhanded Prometheus, sending the Titan flying backwards and crashing into the wall.

"Alabaster Torrington is buried deep inside, he has no control or influence over me. And once I have taken the daughter of Poseidon as my own and had him watch I wish crush him completely and reclaim my true form and all of us shall be more powerful." Kronos' voice was loud and dark, filled with anger. "Once we have the girl the others will fall. She is their leader- and many of them will stop once she's gone. The son of Hermes, the daughter of Athena, Hades brat, they all care too deeply about the girl. Once we have her they won't dare attack us, it will destroy their spirit and we shall win this war. I should have thought of this much earlier."

"Yes my lord." Prometheus dragged himself to his feet, pressing his hand to his cheek, "You are right of course. I'm sorry I
questioned you."

"The girl is the key. She always has been. She is the child of prophecy. We need her Prometheus, willing or not she will be mine, and they will all fall at our feet." Kronos' smile was nasty. "She will make a much better bride than Rhea ever did. Once I have crushed her spirit and she learns the price of defiance." and Percy felt sick, stumbling backwards to try and get away even if it was a dream and Kronos couldn't harm her here.

"Yes my Lord." Prometheus nodded, "Of course, I won't question your reasoning again. And I have no doubts that Nakamura will perform admirably, he'll bring us the girls mother."

"If he doesn't he will die." Kronos stated simply, "Now leave me. I must rest and prepare for the next stage of battle- my Queens birthday approaches. I think for a gift I shall see if I can give her the daughter of Athena's head on a spike-" and Percy woke with a
scream and a wave of stomach twisting terror, pulling herself away from Annabeth's gentle warmth even as several people jerked awake.

"Percy-" Will's voice was worried, his eyes wide as he stared at her, "What's wrong?"

"Oh god-" and Percy was moving, ignoring his questions and Annabeth's tired confused protests as she sprinted out of the infirmary, feet pounding on the flooring as she rushed through the building, she didn't stop, not even when Clarisse tried to grab her arm and demand to know what was going on.

She just wrenched herself free, shaking violently.

It didn't take her long to make it outside, and when she did she was started to see someone already there waiting."

"Clarisse texted Silena that you were freaked out and rushing out here Princess." Drew was waiting. "I was seeing to Lady." she had Blackjack and Lady with her- she was clad in her armor, her whip strapped to her thigh, "Not sure what's going on, but if you're going somewhere I'm coming with you."

"My place- Blackjack-"

"On it boss lady." and Percy vaulted onto Blackjack's back as Drew followed her lead, and together they flew into the sky, Percy laying low over the Pegasi's neck as she tried to calm her pounding heart and shaking hands.

"Now that we're on our way." Drew was flying as close to Percy as she could get, "Care to tell me what the fuck is up with you princess?"

"Kronos wants to break my spirit and force me to hand myself over." Percy's voice was tight, "He's sent Ethan Nakamura out to get to my family-"

"Shit." And Drew's voice was tight, panicked, "That definitely explains why you weren't willing to stop and explain to anyone. We'll get there in time princess I know we will."

"We don't have a choice." Percy's voice was grim, "If we don't then I lose my mom, my girlfriend and my step dad. And I'm not willing to do that. No way."

"Of course you're not." Drew shook her head, "Gods that's screwed up. Seems Kronos is about the same level of creepy obsessive as Alabaster."

"Yeah, I get that vibe too." Percy gritted her teeth, "He was pissed off that I laughed at him because he got squashed by a giants butt-"

"I mean-" Drew's lips twitched, "That was pretty funny I'm not gonna lie Princess."

"Yeah." Percy's lips twitched, "Shame it pissed him off so much that he decided that he should kidnap my mom as a response. And right now she's going to be defenceless, fast asleep-"

"They'll be fine we'll get there." Drew reassured her, "Come on Princess don't let the fear control you okay? You know we can do this- and even if Kronos did get there first he wouldn't kill her, he'd want her to use as a hostage which means they'd need her alive, we can save them-"

"And what about Paul and Rachel- oh gods- if he knew Rachel was my girlfriend like Annabeth-"

"But he doesn't okay-"

"Doesn't he?" Percy turned her head to look at Drew, "We have no idea when he was listening on you and you knew about us from the get go- he's probably heard something about it at the very least."

".. Let's go faster." and together they sped through the skies- over Kronos' army- hopefully they wouldn't be spotted- and soon they were approaching the house- and Percy felt her blood run cold- she could see that the door had been kicked open- she leaned forward as Blackjack shifted and sped downwards, and she was leaping off her Pegasus' back before he'd even landed and Drew was doing the same- and she ran into the house.

She didn't see what she expected though.

She expected to see Ethan with a bunch of demigods, maybe a few monsters, grabbing her unconscious mother and carrying her away, along with Paul and Rachel too- if not killing the other two mortals.

Instead she saw Rachel first, hair glinting life fire, flying about her face, bronze knives glinting in her hands as she slashed at Ethan- and of course their weapons wouldn't work against the mortals- they were Celestial bronze, but Rachel's weapons definitely worked against Ethan- he already had a gash on his face and his arm was bleeding heavily.

Percy felt her mouth dropping open in awe as she watched- and Ethan was definitely on the defensive- and then her gaze was drawn by a crashing sound and another demigod stumbled backwards into the hall from the kitchen clutching his bleeding head- and Paul emerged holding a pan by the handle, a determined look on his face- and as three more came up behind him one of them was taken out by a flying plate and when the other two turned to look Sally came barrelling out with the big carving knife she used for meats- they both bolted either way and Paul swung and got the one on his right and Sally slashed wildly at the one who tried to go to the left.

"You're not taking my wife!" Paul yelled the words, "No way in Hades!" and Percy let a grin split across her face as she turned her head to look at Drew- who looked just as stunned as she was.

"I don't actually think we're needed."

"You don't say- oooh- I'll give you one thing, your girlfriend is hot when she's pissed-" because Rachel had just kicked Ethan back into the wall and she was snarling as she advanced.

"You think you can just march in here and take my girlfriends mom away to blackmail her you little shit? Oh you are gonna pay!"

"Yeah. Yeah she's hot."

"Percy! Honey!" That came from Sally and was ridiculously cheerful under the circumstances, "Thank the gods you're okay-"

"Oh fuck!" that came from one of the enemy demigods, who scrambled to his feet with a little scream, dragging one of the others up with him, "It's her! Run!" and they were making a break for it, clearly terrified.

"Oh! Hey my beautiful sea storm." Rachel greeted brightly, giving a little wave, turning away from Ethan- who took the chance to bolt for the door- and Percy didn't bother trying to stop him and she grabbed Drew's arm when the daughter of Aphrodite went to follow him.

"Are we just letting that little worm go? He tried to kidnap your mom-"

"Yeah. And now he has to go back to Kronos and explain that the team he took with him got their asses handed to them by three mortals-"

"Oh you really are evil Princess." Drew laughed loudly, tossing her arm over Percy's shoulder before they both focused on the three mortals.

"Hey girls." Sally was panting slightly, "It's really good to see you- I was worried. Are your brothers okay too?"

"We're all alive. Nico's kinda weak right now but he's okay." and then Percy was pulling away from Drew and throwing herself at her mom, wrapping her arms around her tightly and pressing her face into her moms shoulder. "I was so worried."

"We're fine. Rachel was here-"

"How are you guys awake."

"That would be me." Rachel raised a hand, "I don't know why but the spell didn't work on me and I managed to wake them up. She hesitated, "It's gonna sound crazy but on my way back here I got stopped by this lady- she gave me a bottle of something, said it would wake the deepest sleepers-"

"What did she look like?" Percy's eyes were wide.

"She- I don't know, normal I guess-" Bianca paused, "I don't know why I trusted her. I guess it was the eyes- they made me think of you."

"You did the right thing." Percy felt the tension easily from her shoulders as pulled away from her mom and surged towards Rachel, hugging her tightly and kissing her cheek, "Thank you so much Rache. I think you met Grandma Rhea."

"Oh wow... seriously? Well... No need to thank me Percy." Rachel's hug in return was tight and desperate. "We've been shut in here worrying ourselves sick."

"Not anymore." Drew spoke up. "You guys are going to have to come back to the base with us."

"Why?" Paul's voice was concerned, "Isn't that more dangerous?"

"Not now. Kronos is going to try and use you guys against me to force me to hand myself over. We can't risk him getting to you."

"Well." Sally let out a breath, "How are we getting there honey?"

"We'll have to ride Blackjack and Lady back." Percy pressed her lips together into a thin line, "It'll be a bit much but the other Pegasi are probably busy so-"

"I'll ride with you Percy." Rachel said quickly, "What about-"

"Sally, Paul, you two can ride with me. Lady's the bigger between her and Blackjack. She can handle it, it's not too long of a flight."

"Right." Percy took a deep breath, looking around, eyeing the demigods who had been knocked out wearily. "Let me just grab something from my room and then let's get the fuck out of here."