"Touché," Percy conceded, "Is that everything?" No answers "Perfect, the next quest starts when I was going to my new school,"
"Again?" Leo asked
"At least this time was for changing from Middle School to High School," Percy pointed out
"Are you saying that you weren't expelled from your previous school?" Annabeth double checked
"That's beside the point," Percy said dismissively, "I was going for a trial day at my new school, where Paul works, and bumped into Rachel, who told me that two cheerleaders there were actually monsters, empousia to be precise. I killed one of them, Tammi and had to escape because they blew up the band room. Rachel and I escaped where we met up with Annabeth who was waiting for me. Rachel wrote her number on my hand and told me to call her,"
"How badly?" Thalia turned to Annabeth
"What?" Annabeth asked her best friend
"How badly did you want to torture and kill Rachel?" Thalia asked, with a duh written across her face.
"Googolplex out of 10," Annabeth replied. All Athena kids' eyes widened at that.
"What the fuck is that?" Travis deadpanned to Annabeth. "Googleflex?"
"Googolplex," Annabeth sounded out, "The largest number aside from Infinity
"What about Googolplex + 1?" Leo asked
"Largest named number," Annabeth corrected "Is that better?"
"Much," Leo agreed.
"So, Annabeth took me to camp, where she had to run off to help Clarisse on one of her projects, so I went to the arena, where I saw a hellhound and a man named Quintus," Percy explained
"A hellhound?" Many of the past people asked
"The most adorable puppy in the world, who happens to be the size of a tank," Percy smiled fondly
"Hey," Nico protested "Cerberus is a pretty decent puppy, and he had three heads to scratch while Mrs O'Leary only has one, so take that!"
"What about their actual puppies?" Annabeth asked
"Oh, they are cute as well," Hazel gushed, "You should have seen Gnasher when he was born. His teeth were massive,"
"I do still think that one of them was blessed by Apollo for some reason," Percy mused "I mean, his barks are like music, and then whenever he listens to it he falls asleep. Shame we had to give him away to this weird man in Scotland,"
"Scotland?" Chiron asked
"Yeah, apparently he was needed to guard something." Percy shrugged "Admittedly I would never pick a guard dog that would fall asleep at the sound of music, but each to their own."
"Also, what's with the name Quintus?" Reyna asked, "It means fifth in Latin,"
"It does indeed mean fifth," Percy confirmed, not answering her question, "Quintus then revealed himself to being a demigod that survived into old age. I was interrupted from continuing my talk with him by Chiron taking me to Grover who was in front of the Council of Cloven Elders,"
"Bah!" A voice yelled from the background, "What is it with all of this noise?"
"Mr. D," Chiron called out "Good to see you,"
"Wish I could say the same about these brats," Dionysus muttered "But what is going on here?" he asked
"Oh, we're from the future," Percy told Dionysus
Dionysus frowned, "Have the Fates done that again? Are we reading something like then?"
"The Fates have taken us from the future, but we aren't reading anything," Annabeth told him. "But are you saying this has happened before?"
"Unfortunately, heroes like Odysseus and Achilles were taken into the past to read the Iliad and Odyssey. The Fates then wiped our memories after they had finished being read so that history could still go on," Dionysus explained, taking a sip of his Diet Coke "Rather counter-productive if I say so,"
"If your memory was wiped then how do you remember it?" Annabeth asked
Dionysus looked at Annabeth and squinted "You look like Annabelle,"
"I am Annabeth from the future," Annabeth told him, rolling her eyes, "So what is the answer?"
Dionysus huffed "We regained the memories of what happened when the events came to pass. So, what has happened so far?"
"Zeus' bolt was stolen, so Percy, Annabeth and Grover had to find it and returned it. Luke stole it and the poisoned Thalia's tree a year later. Clarisse, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson, a cyclops got the Golden Fleece and Grover and healed the tree and Thalia. Thalia, Percy, Grover, Zoe, the Lieutenant of the Hunt, and Bianca, Nico's older sister went on a quest to rescue Artemis and Annabeth, where Zoe and Bianca died." Chiron explained in as few details as possible to the lazy god, who would just ignore the details. Seriously, if each story were written, it would take up a book per quest.
"So, can I continue?" Percy asked "Perfect. The council had said that Grover would get his searchers licence taken if he couldn't find Pan in the next week, and that is also when I first met Juniper. I then made my way to my cabin, where I saw Tyson, who fixed my shield. That night, I couldn't sleep, and I saw the fountain in the cabin glowing and Iris Message that hadn't connected. I deposited the drachma, which showed Nico talking to a ghost, about a deal to bring Bianca back to life. A soul for a soul."
"Nico, you should know that as a Son of Hades that you shouldn't bring people back from the dead." Chiron calmly said, before turning to Hazel, "Err, you not included as you were obviously important for the future,"
"I know that now, but at the time I didn't care about anything," Nico explained, "All I knew was that the only person that I knew was dead, and I wanted her back. So, I thought that being the Son of Hades, that I may be able to do it,"
"The next day, Quintus organised a game where we had to fight off some scorpions, 5 in total. During the game Annabeth and I were cornered by three of them," Percy told them "I personally think that this summarises my luck, cornered in an impossible situation, then finding a Deus Ex Machina to allow us to escape. This time it was a crack in the rocks by Zeus' shit – er I mean Fist. Zeus' Fist."
Thunder rumbled across the sky, so Percy stuck his middle finger up to the sky "Everybody calls it that, don't try and kid yourself." Percy yelled up. Thunder rumbled again, slightly quieter, so Percy took it as Zeus just grumbling.
"Anyway, when we got through the crack and fell in, which was in complete darkness. Annabeth managed to guess where we were and started to look around for a Delta mark, which she found, and placed her hand on it, letting us get out. We found our way out and told everyone what we had found." Percy told them, "The Labyrinth, an invasion route right into the heart of camp past the barrier,"
"Oh Gods," Chiron said paling
"How do you know that was the plan?" Hestia asked
Clarisse and Chris exchanged glances, before Chris nodded. Clarisse sighed "Because we found one of their scouts, driven insane by the labyrinth, under the orders of Luke,"
"Who was it?" Luke asked
"Me," Chris told him, and Luke's eyes widened
"We figured that it was Annabeth that had the prophecy, as she knew most about Dedalus, so she got the prophecy, eventually she came down and told us the prophecy:
You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze,
The dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise.
You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand,
The child of Athena's final stand.
Destroy with a hero's final breath,
We all figured out that it wasn't complete, prophecy, however Annabeth refused to talk about it." Percy explained
"So, I chose my questers with me, Percy, Grover and Tyson," Annabeth revealed
"But that goes against Ancient Traditions," Chiron told her, "A hero is only supposed to have 2 companions,"
"I was however right in my choices, Percy was needed due to him figuring out how to navigate the dam thing, Tyson was needed due to his connection with the underground, and with Grover, it essentially said for him to come," Annabeth explained
"The labyrinth was the only place that I hadn't searched," Grover sighed "I had searched all other major places for strong ties of magic, like there was a weird town in both Oregon and Maine that I checked out. Storybrooke and Gravity Falls, but I couldn't find anything to do with Pan. A lot of other messed up stuff, but no Pan."
"Before we left for our quest, Quintus pulled me aside and gave me a whistle that can be used to summon Mrs. O'Leary, but only once. Also, that night I had a dream of Luke and Kronos. Luke told Kronos that they knew of the quest, and Kronos was seemingly pressuring Luke into something. Something that he didn't want to do, scared." Percy explained.
"Is this-" Thalia began, before getting cut off by Percy
"Yeah, that," Percy confirmed, while Thalia and all of those who fought in the Greek side of the Titan War shivered. "Later conversations revealed to me that Luke wasn't first choice for it, but I was,"
"If he'd done it with you, then I think that we truly would have lost," Travis said, paling at the thought.
"What was it?" Silena asked
"Something that will be revealed in this story," Percy told her, "I woke up from the dream, with the fountain glowing. I didn't need to deposit a drachma this time, and just said Nico Di Angelo. This time it showed Nico being haunted by a ghost, asking a soul about whether a soul exchange was possible. Use a living soul, to bring back a dead one. He actually asked Theseus, and I was surprised by his age," and Dionysus scowled at the mention of Theseus
"In Elysium, they go to the age that they were at their happiest, in the Fields of Asphodel, the go to the age that they were at their most contempt, while in the Fields of Punishment, they go the age at which they were experiencing their highest suffering," Nico explained
"It's the reason why I had two 13th Birthdays," Hazel told everyone, "One before I died, and then one after,"
"Anyway, Theseus confirmed what Nico was wanting to do, however he didn't seem to have the best control over it, as the spirits seemed to be breaking out, and even through the Iris Message, so I had to destroy the IM for it to stop, as even Tyson wasn't as loud as the noise it was making," Percy explained, before frowning "Though, if I hadn't seen it, I would never have believed it, why did you use Happy meals to speak to the dead?"
All of the jaws of the future people dropped, while Nico blushed in embarrassment.
"Why is that so shocking?" AC asked
"All of the Little Big 3 have a food obsession," Annabeth explained, "Thalia's is cheeseburgers, Percy's is anything made by Sally, Nico's is Happy Meals, Hazel's is Chicken Nuggets and Jason's are the brownies made by Aphros from Camp Fish-Blood."
"The only way to stop arguments between the three of them is by threat of no kisses, or literally getting that food and sticking it under their noses, and then they start to drool more than the average bulldog," Reyna continued
"So, yeah," Will began, "Nico giving up Happy Meals is a big deal. In fact, during the last Monopoly Run at McDonalds, I managed to get a complete Monopoly board, twice!"
"The reason why I chose Happy Meals is because I had never had one before, this is where my love for them started," Nico explained
Will snorted, "Love isn't a strong enough word. Addiction maybe?"
"Definitely not an addiction," Nico protested "I can go a week without having any,"
Will raised an eyebrow, "Since you came back to camp after the Giant War, you have had some form of Happy Meal every day since then, and that includes the days when you were in the infirmary when you were calling Jules-Albert to get some McDonalds from the nearest store,"
Nico blushed again,
"How do you guys seem to go on so many tangents like that?" Chiron asked, "You managed to transition from raising the dead to a McDonalds addiction,"
"Come on Chiron," Annabeth told him, "We all have major ADHD,"
"Of course, I know that" Chiron told her "This just seems a bit excessive,"
Everyone ignored him and Percy rebegan his tale.
"The next morning, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson and I all entered the labyrinth and it almost immediately started to play tricks on us. Eventually, we came across a god with two faces, Janus" Percy began
"He's a Roman God," Chiron said, alarmed, "A Roman God shouldn't be interacting with Greeks demigods,"
"That was also when Percy and I started talking about the possibility of there being Roman gods as well," Annabeth explained, "Percy came up with the idea that the Greek and Roman gods had a war which the Greeks won, and threw the Roman Gods into Tartarus, apart from a few,"
"And I believe that you jokingly said that they could have been alternate personalities of the Greek gods," Percy said, "We both burst into laughter at the idea at the time,"
"That's why you weren't overly surprised at the fact that they existed," Jason spoke to Annabeth, "You had mostly figured it out with Percy,"
Percy and Annabeth nodded, "We also figured that the Norse gods must exist as well due to the fact that the rest of my mortal extended family had a weird obsession with them," Annabeth explained
"So, what did you do with it?" Reyna asked
"Something very simple," Annabeth shrugged "We cornered Chiron and asked for him to swear on the River Styx that the Roman Gods didn't exist. When he refused, he forced us to swear on the River Styx not to tell anyone what he was about to say, unless expressively needed. We did so and Chiron explained what had occurred between the two demigod types,"
"Anyway, Hera then showed up and gave us food, and said that she could give us one wish to help with the quest. Annabeth wished for help in navigating the labyrinth, in which Hera replied by basically saying we already had it, before leaving." Percy told them
"Well, that was helpful," AC said sarcastically,
"We thought the same thing," Percy, Annabeth and Grover replied in unison
"Anyway, we continued through the Labyrinth and ended up in Alcatraz, where Briares, a hundred handed one, was captured by Kampê, I won a game of rock, paper, scissors to convince him to come with us." Percy continued before being interrupted again
"How do you win a game of rock, paper, scissors when the other person has 100 hands," Leo asked
"By using gun," Percy grinned and Leo, "We just about escape Kampê, back into the Labyrinth, where Briares splits from us. We eventually walked to Texas, where we were picked up by a monster, Geryon and his unfortunate helper, Eurytion, an immortal son of Ares. They captured the 4 of us and Nico. I made a bargain with him that I would clean the horse's stables in return we would be set free. I successfully cleaned the stables and Geryon didn't release them, so I had to kill him,"
"How would you do that?" Chiron asked, "You would have to shoot him with a bow, and I do believe you are quite possibly the worst archer that I have ever met,"
"Percy can't be that bad?" Hazel said, frowning
"I shot Chiron in the tail before when he was standing behind me just a couple of days ago," PJ replied
"Though, to be fair, you did hit the bullseye next shot," TS pointed out
"After the arrow hit, no less than, 36 different objects," PJ argued
"Precisely, that takes skill," Annabeth told him.
Percy rolled his eyes, "Anyway, I managed to shoot the arrow through Geryon's three chests, killing him. The first and last time that I have killed a monster with archery. Nico revealed that he had been trying to contact Bianca but found that he was always blocked. I told him to try one last time, and he did so. He contacted Bianca and she told him that I wasn't at fault for her death, and that she was trying to help him by sending the Iris Messages that I kept on seeing of him."
"How is that possible?" Leo asked, confused
"As a child of Hades, she is able to have limited contact with the outside world if she can pull in favours, so she must have made some favours to make the Iris Messages, but other than that, I have no idea," Nico shrugged
"Annabeth, Grover, Tyson and I needed to leave the next day, however not after hearing that we had been a week already, and Grover had officially lost his searchers licence," Percy explained
"I lost it?" GU asked, with a slight quiver in his voice, "Then how will I find Pan,"
"You'll see," Grover answered cryptically,
"Eurytion told us that he did a favour for Hephaestus a few years back – I personally believe that it was to do with the Tunnel Ride of Love fiasco, but I have no evidence for it – and was given a mechanical spider that would go to him should he ever need to see him, and Eurytion also said that he would look after Nico, while trying to keep away any ghosts that may try to manipulate him." Percy told everyone
Nico frowned, "I didn't know you told him that?"
"I just wanted to make sure that you were safe," Percy shrugged at Nico, "We followed the spider to Hephaestus' forge, where we had an encounter with the Sphinx that could have gone better,"
"Could?" Grover asked, "Annabeth just decided not to answer questions about her knowledge,"
"I will admit, I made a stupid mistake and let my hubris take over me," Annabeth admitted
"We eventually made it to Hephaestus' forge who said that he would help us get to Daedalus, if we did a favour for him, which was to check out his forge at Mount St. Helens. On the way, Grover got a really strong smell of Pan, and split up from us, taking Tyson with him. Annabeth and I made it to the forge and found that it was overtaken by Telkhines. I also saw that they were rebuilding Kronos' scythe there, so I told Annabeth to tell Hephaestus what we saw, while I destroyed the scythe. At that moment, I thought that Annabeth was going to punch me for the idea, when she did something even more surprising," Percy explained
"What?" Thalia asked
"She kissed me, and ran away to Hephaestus," Percy said, blushing a deep red colour, much like his past self, and both versions of Annabeth that were present.
"Aww," Silena and the rest of the Aphrodite cooed, "And now you start dating, and ride of into the sunset, being camps OTP,"
"Well, maybe not dating quite yet," Percy corrected, scratching the back of his neck,
"Of course, you have to be reunited back when you have finished your mission," Silena rolled her eyes,
"Erm, maybe not then either," Annabeth blushed
Silena frowned, "Why not?" She asked, with a slight glare
Percy sighed "It was as if she started hating me afterwards, so I never had a chance to tell her of my feelings,"
"I did not hate you," Annabeth protested, which Percy raised an eyebrow to, "Really, I was just mildly jealous,"
Rachel scoffed. "If that's 'mildly jealous', then I would hate to see what true jealousy on you is," Annabeth blushed in embarrassment.
"Anyway, after Annabeth left, I ran back to the Telkhines to fight them, until they got me cornered. They started to throw lava at me, which hurt like a bitch, I then remembered that the sea was within me, and pulled it towards me, and I created my first earthquake underneath the volcano, and I was shot out of the volcano when it exploded, before losing consciousness," Percy explained
A moment of silence occurred as they took in what happened, before AC asked, "How did you survive?"
"He landed in water," Calypso answered, causing many to furrow their eyebrows in wonder as to how she knew, though a couple did figure out how.
"I woke up on a cave in an island, with all new clothes on, and I managed to make my way outside to see a girl there, around 15 or 16 years old, and she told me her name was Calypso, and even doing that completely tired me out, and I was soon asleep again" Percy revealed
"So, you landed on Ogygia," Chiron assumed
"Yeah, and I was there for I'm guessing around a week, before I left because I was too weak," Percy answered
"Are we going to talk about how Percy had his clothes changed when he was unconscious," Silena pointed out, before everyone turned to Calypso, who just blushed.
"He had no clothes on, so I couldn't let him wake up wearing nothing," Calypso muttered into Leo's shoulder, who had an impassive look across his face.
"So, does that mean-" Silena began
"Yep," Calypso cut off before Silena finished. Silena then opened her mouth again, before being cut off again, "And before you ask, you can tell he's a brother of horses," Calypso finished blushing a dark scarlet colour.
After Percy finished blushing, he continued talking "Hephaestus eventually turned up and told me that I had exploded half of the mountain, and displaced half a million people, as well as weakening the chains on Typhon"
"Wow," Piper whistled "I remember seeing the explosion on the news, but didn't realise that you caused that,"
"We assumed that something Vulcan had been making blew up," Reyna shrugged from where she was holding Thalia.
"Hephaestus also told Calypso to offer the deal to me, which caused her to cry," Percy explained
"What deal?" PJ asked
"My curse was that the gods would send me a hero that I couldn't help falling in love with, but also someone who could never accept my company. One who could never become immortal and stay on the island with me, and when they eventually leave, they will never return," Calypso explained, tears threatening to fall from all of the heartbreak that she suffered. Leo pulled Calypso in closer. "Time doesn't work the same in Ogygia, so whenever I got over the heartbreak of one hero, the next one would come immediately after, and I was left in a never-ending cycle, before Percy it was Amelia Earhart, though I heard that she died before she returned. She stayed for several years but had to return. One of my regrets is that I was unable to convince her to stay, even if I have Leo now, just so that she would live. It took a long time to get over the heartbreak of her."
"It was also in that conversation that I figured out how to navigate the Labyrinth," Percy revealed, "I chose to go back home, and I maintain to this day that leaving Calypso will always be my biggest 'what if'"
"How so?" Thalia asked
"What if I had stayed." Percy shrugged "Would I have been just as happy as I was with Annabeth, would more people have died, would less people have died? What if I never had to go through as much guilt, pain and pressure, would I be the same person. There was still Nico there to fulfil the prophecy that I knew of. This was my final chance to avoid the prophecy, and I chose to take it on. Not only that, but I had to return to all of those I loved."
"But if you hadn't gone through all of the pain and suffering then you wouldn't be the same person," Hestia gently reminded
"I know, I know," Percy replied "But surely you can't honestly say that you haven't thought about what if Kronos hadn't swallowed you or your siblings. Would you have done a revolution against your father; would you have even been the same person. Hades, your main reason for not getting married was about what if the person you married ended up being like Kronos. Would you have had a family, been a mother?"
Hestia didn't answer, seemingly in deep thought.
Percy took that as a sign to continue, "When the raft that I was using made it's way to Camp Half-Blood, I found that they were giving a funeral to myself, as I had been missing for two weeks, and they assumed I was dead."
"I should have done that!" Leo yelled, only to get slapped by Piper, "Ow what was that for Beauty Queen?"
"If you did do that then we would have properly killed you as compensation for putting us through emotional damage," Piper threatened, which Leo quickly nodded to scared, very quickly crossing that idea of his mental list of things to do.
"I made my way to the Amphitheatre where they were about to burn my pyre, only for Annabeth to see me. There she got jealous I had been to Ogygia, though I did reveal how to traverse the Labyrinth." Percy explained
"How?" AC asked
"With some one who was clear sighted," Percy unveiled, "In the myths Ariadne was clear sighted, so she was able to navigate the labyrinth,"
"And also, the fact she was destined to become the goddess of labyrinths," Dionysus said, in a slightly bragging tone as he sipped his Diet Coke.
"When did she become a goddess?" Leo asked, confused
"When she married me," Dionysus told him, which caused everyone who didn't know to raise their eyebrows in shock.
"She's an amazing step-mother," Castor said,
"Always gets us amazing birthday presents," Pollux continued
"Lucky, my step-bother, err, I mean step-mother constantly wants me gone or to be covered in cow shit," Thalia grumbled
"My step-mother isn't bad at all," Percy shrugged "I have a room in Dad's palace that I sometimes crash in when I have to help underwater. Though whenever me, Dad and Amphitrite are in the same room together, it's almost as if you can cut the tension with a knife between Dad and her,"
"At least your step-mother hasn't turned you into a plant," Nico complained,
"But is she bad other than that?" Thalia asked
"Well, no, I had Thanksgiving dinner there with my half siblings and it was quite good there after we annoyed Demeter so much, she left with all of her cereal, and Will has somehow convinced us all to start a D&D campaign," Nico shrugged, "But she still turned me into a plant,"
"Anyway, I chose Rachel to lead us through the Labyrinth because she kept on popping up in my life, that she had to have an important role in the mythological world, and I was right," Percy continued
"As much as Annabeth may have hated it," Rachel teased, which the girl in question just shrugged to the playful jest.
"We made our way into the labyrinth, where the three of us, Rachel, Annabeth and I, were captured by Luke's forces to fight in his arena. I defeated a Dracnae, before having to fight a half-blood, Ethan Nakamura, son of Nemesis. I defeated him and told him to get away. The final fight was against Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia," Percy explained, grimacing at the last part
"How did that happen?" Leo asked
"From what I heard, Poseidon was passed out drunk in a cave naked when the deed occurred," Hestia explained tentatively, "Though that is only a rumour,"
"I managed to kill Antaeus and escape the arena with the help of Mrs O'Leary using the Stygian Ice whistle," Percy continued "We continued our journey and made our way to the heart of the Labyrinth, to Daedalus, who revealed himself to be Quintus."
"Then how did I not recognise Quintus was Daedalus?" Chiron asked, "I remember him when he was at camp in Greece."
"A bit of context," Percy began, "I had been getting dreams about Daedalus, about Icarus and his death, about Perdix and his death. But the key part is Perdix, who figured out how to transfer one's consciousness into an automation. Daedalus chose the name Quintus because it meant Fifth, his fifth body. That's how you didn't know Chiron because he wasn't in the same body."
Chiron nodded understanding that he hadn't known that the man that they were looking for wasn't in the Labyrinth, but actually at camp
"Things then went to shit, when some monsters and ghosts showed, as well as a wild Nico who had left Eurytion." Percy explained, "In the resultant fight, Annabeth killed one of the monsters that was being a constant pain in the ass for us, an empousia named Kelli and Nico became the Ghost King. Daedalus tells the 4 of us to escape, using re-made versions of the wings he made for himself and his son, and eventually land back down on Earth after some rather fun, but terrifying low flying."
"Wait a second," Travis called out, causing Percy to stop,
"Don't all 3 of the people there have a crush on Percy at that point," Conner pointed out, causing Rachel, Nico and Annabeth to simultaneously blush a deep red colour.
"Maybe," The three of them replied in unison, causing their blushes to deepen.
"We then made our way back into the labyrinth where we were making our way back to camp, when I noticed the entrance to the Titans palace. I convinced the other 3 to stay there, while I checked it out, though Annabeth did give me her cap. I made my way inside, to wear I saw a sarcophagus. I opened it, expecting find Kronos, only to instead to find Luke laying inside. At that moment, Ethan then pledged himself to Kronos, after we had saved him, and Luke awoke, only it wasn't Luke in control. It was Kronos," Percy explained to everyone.
Everyone who didn't know gasped in shock and looked to Luke, who even had a look of horror on his face.
"This was what Kronos wanted you to do, isn't it?" Piper guessed, which Percy nodded to
"Luke was never first choice, I was. Kronos wanted to use my body and not Luke's to host." Percy explained
"And we would have stood no chance," Clarisse told everyone
"I managed to escape the palace by Rachel throwing a blue plastic hairbrush at his face, and Nico summoning some rocks to block their path, and we re-entered the labyrinth," Percy continued, "Pretty soon after, we found something on the floor, by some rocks, a baseball cap, belonging to a goat boy,"
"I am not a goat boy," Grover protested
"Aren't you part goat, part boy?" Thalia asked
Grover didn't respond and only stuck his tongue out at the two cousins, who grinned back at him.
"We found Grover and passed out, with Tyson looking after him, where we then woke Grover up. He had passed out due to the feeling of the Wild, in the Carlsbad Caverns under New Mexico," Percy mentioned
"That's where Grover passed out in the last quest," AC called out
"And that's where the final resting place of Pan was," Grover told her, "I had found Pan."
Many of those in the past cheered for GU who accomplished his dream of finding Pan, while GU was steadily turning redder and redder out of embarrassment.
"It was the most beautiful place that I had ever seen, wild at its truest, Woolly Mammoths, Dodo birds and others lived there. Pan explained that he had to go away because he was fading, which is how gods truly die," Grover began to explain, "His domain was being too polluted due to humans, so he told Lysas to say, 'The Great God Pan is dead', however we satyrs extended his life by our continue belief in him. My quest for him was for me not to bring him back to the Cloven Elders, but to release him. Allow him to die."
"Hermes will be so heartbroken," Hestia muttered, "He's been looking for his son for millennia,"
"As well as the fact that around half of all Hermes kids joined Kronos at some point, and most of those that joined Kronos died, as well as some of the ones that stayed with the gods," Annabeth continued, "Of all of the gods, Hermes was the most hit by the Titan War,"
"Pan offered last bits of advice to us, before I allowed him to fade," Grover told everyone "He went with a smile on his face, and the Wild place around us crumbled, and it was now our job to tell everyone that the Great God Pan is dead,"
"We made our way back to New York where I got some pegasi to quickly take us back to camp, while Rachel went back home. It was there that she felt guilty about Pan and the Wild Place because her father is known for destroying lots of wild places that are left," Percy explained
"Your rich?" Leo asked Rachel
"Didn't you know that?" Rachel asked back confused, "I don't exactly hide it,"
"Anyway, when we got back to camp, everyone was preparing for battle, and we all got into position. One last order was made from Clarisse to 'lock shields', when the monsters erupted from the labyrinth, and the Battle of the Labyrinth began," Percy told ominously
"Of course, Clarisse was the one to say the order," Leo said in an obvious attempt to diffuse the tension. It didn't work
"It was crazy, the Hephaestus cabin working the catapults, the Apollo kids working as archers, while the Ares cabin was the first line of defence, and the battle seemed to be in balance, when Kampê appeared, in full battle gear. Annabeth and I were tasked with the attempt to kill her, but we didn't need to, as Briares and Daedalus appeared, with Briares wielding boulders, which he used to turn Kampê into a mound of rocks. The monsters were seemingly demoralised by this defeat, and rallied to hit us again, when Grover happened." Percy described, everyone enthralled in the battle being described, utterly horrified at what will happen, but unable to tune it out.
"Grover unleased Panic, causing all of the enemy monsters to run back into the labyrinth, with it sealing shut, behind them. We had won." Percy finished with a finality, and cheers erupted from everyone, as they celebrated winning the battle, at least until one person asked a question.
"Who died?" CLR asked, mentally preparing herself for the worst, and suddenly everyone from the past wanted to know
Everyone who was there seemed to come to a mutual understanding, and Percy began, "Lee Fletcher, Son of Apollo," Lee's eyes widened at the thought of his demise, and accepted hugs from his brothers and sisters.
"Castor Vin, Son of Dionysus," Annabeth named, and Castor's eyes copied what Lee's did, and widened. Pollux brought his brother into a deep hug, while Dionysus immediately ran over to his children so that he could spend as much time with them as he could.
One by one, each person who was there at the battle named those who had died, until they had run out of people to name them, when it circled back round to Percy to restart the naming. Fortunately, it only circled back round once, but it was still a monumental loss for Camp Half-Blood to hear all of those who died. The futures all gave the people of the past a few minutes to pull themselves together enough so that they could continue with the tale.
"The everyone that was able bodied enough helped with clean up of camp, Chiron was confined to his wheelchair because his legs were broken, while we had a chat with Daedalus. Daedalus wanted to amend his wrongs and found Briares who got lost wanting to get back to Tyson. Daedalus gave Annabeth his laptop, and I was given ownership of Mrs. O'Leary, the Nico released him, so that he could destroy the Labyrinth. Later on, I tried to convince Nico to stay, but failed and went off on his own."
"Good thing I did because that's when I on that journey I came up with the plan," Nico pointed out to Percy
"I confronted Annabeth about the final line of the prophecy which she revealed to be
And lose a love to a fate worse than death,"
"I lost Luke who I considered a brother to becoming the host of Kronos," Annabeth answered
"Dionysus healed Chris' mind," Percy continued, while Dionysus got grateful looks from Chris, Clarisse, CR and CLR, "and the Council of Cloven Elders tried to exile Grover, though it ended in a tie, with the council voting for Grover to be exiled, and Dionysus and Chiron voting for him not to be, with Dionysus' vote counting twice because he's a god,"
"There are perks," Dionysus stated simply,
"Briares went to work with Poseidon in his forges with Tyson which, from what I heard from him, was like a celebrity coming," Percy continued, "And Hera appeared, so the grudge match between Annabeth and Hera began when she pointed out to Hera that she only cared about perfect families and not the dysfunctional ones that we are all a part of."
"And that is why she is such a fucking bitch," Annabeth screamed up to the sky, which rumbled in response, "Oh shut your wife up Zeus so we don't have to keep listening to the cow shit that is spewing from her mouth," The thunder rumbled quieter. "Thank you,"
"Anyway, just after camp finished, was my birthday, and it was just a small affair. My Mum, Paul and Tyson. Paul came to me asking for permission to marry Mum, which I said yes to, and Dad showed up and explained some things to me. Basically, that Typhon was indeed stirring and gave me a birthday present of a sand dollar," Percy explained
"A sand dollar?" Hazel echoed, confused
"It's difficult to explain, but it can best be summarised as ways to make deals with sea deities, and are generally more powerful," Percy explained, "Anyway, we played some games, and Tyson proved himself to be the best person at Monopoly that I have ever seen,"
"Even Annabeth?" Leo asked, with disbelief shining through his voice
"Even Annabeth," Percy confirmed, "Anyway, I went out to think for a minute while Tyson finished beating Mum and Paul, when Nico turned up offering me a deal, which we chose to do while eating birthday cake,"
"And what was that deal?" AC asked
"Something that you'll find out later," Percy said smirking, "Any questions?"
"Yeah, how did the mortals know that Percy was near Mount St. Helen's when it erupted?" TS asked
Percy shrugged "I have no idea, though my guess is that maybe there was a drone or something that was in the mountain when I came past, but other than that I have no clue."
"So, it wasn't your fault you were seen?" CS confirmed
"No, why are you asking?" Percy asked
"Just want to see if you have any potential to being a proper prankster," TS and CS replied in unison
"Oh, he is," Travis and Conner answered in unison, causing all 4 Stolls to grin like mad men.
"What happened to Daedalus?" Chiron asked interrupted, not wanting for TS and CS to think up some pranks before they should,
"He was, as expected, sentenced to punishment," Nico began, while Chiron looked down. "His punishment was to be the permanent architect and designer of the Underworld forever, except for weekends, when he can see his son and nephew,"
"What did Annabeth get you for your birthday that year?" Piper asked, with a glint in her eyes, as if she wanted to get blackmail on her friend.
"She got me a blue hoodie," Percy answered, "I personally believe that she actually bought it for herself considering how much she wears it,"
"Guilty," Annabeth shrugged, "Though I did nearly get him a Tnetennba,"
"What the fuck is that?" Conner deadpanned to Annabeth
"How do you not know what a Tnetennba is?" Annabeth asked while she shook her head,
"I just filed that under the weird things Annabeth finds," Percy whispered to Conner, who just nodded in return
"What was Bianca's food obsession?" Silena asked Nico, "She was a Greek demigod, and you said all Little Big 3 children had a food obsession,"
Nico gave a tight smile, "I asked Dad that, and he said that it was our mothers Pasta dish. He claimed that whenever we had it, she would always demand to lick the plate clean."
Percy let the information settle for a minute, before saying "Now the next story actually happened before this quest,"