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(3rd POV)
Things were getting very interesting on Earth and tensions were rising in the Olympian council. Someone stole Zeus' symbol of power during the winter solstice. Zeus' had already sent his children out in search of the thief. Zeus suspected that it was the work of his brother Poseidon, even though it was against the Ancient Laws to steal another gods symbol of power. The fact the Poseidon had a twelve year old son also increased his suspicions of Poseidon. Just because you can't directly steal another symbol of power doesn't mean you can't have someone else steal it for you and then give it to you.
As the council meetings were getting heated between the two brothers things were not going on throughout the rest of the world. Perseus was watching the whole thing with disdain, they were making storms all across the world in their rage. Perseus already knew the thief to be the son of Hermes, Luke Castellan, and was curious as to how the whole thing would play out. Especially since the son of Poseidon didn't even know who he was yet; however, that was soon to begin changing in the coming months. As the arguments between the brothers grew so did the threats against one another. They were truly blowing things out of proportion and doing very little to actually find Zeus' Masterbolt. They didn't even know about the theft of another symbol of power that happened at the same time and place, although Hades was a little cunning in his ways of finding things. He to suspected the son of Poseidon of stealing his Helm of Darkness although he decided to actually act instead of making boisterous threats against his brothers.
The funny thing about the whole situation to Perseus was that the Masterbolt and Helm of Darkness had already been found by one of Zeus children. It was just the wrong child to have found the symbols and thief. Ares was always looking for different ways to start wars and this was probably going to be the biggest one between the "Big Three" as of yet. It didn't take much for Luke to convince Ares to go along with his plan, and Ares was to stupid to realize he was being used and manipulated by Luke and another even greater threat. Perseus could see the work of Kronos messing with the mind of Ares and it was clearly working, how he was an Olympian god was one of the true mysteries of the Universe.
Perseus began to watch over the son of Poseidon, waiting to see what Hades would do when he finally found him. Already the trainer Chiron and a satyr named Grover suspected a very strong demigod at the school Yancy Academy. With Grover and Chiron watching over the boy Perseus turned his attentions elsewhere. That turned out to be the a good thing as Hades just found what he was looking for. Perseus watched as he sent one of the three Furies to Yancy Academy in search of the son of Poseidon, she found him fairly quickly and reported back to her master.
The son of Poseidon, Achilles "Alex" Jackson, arrived home after the weirdest school trip of his life. He evidently killed one of his teachers, Mrs Dobbs, with a pen turned sword. All in all the day was just getting weirder and weirder, his mother told him that they were going on a trip to Montauk for the weekend. During the trip Grover arrives and tells Sally Jackson that it's time for Alex to go to camp. On the way to camp Perseus and his mother were attacked by the Minotaur that was sent by Hades to kidnap Sally. It was successful in kidnapping her but later died in the battle by Alex stabbing it with its own horn.
Perseus watched all this happening and was amazed at the fight in this Alex kid, and thought maybe the Olympians weren't doomed to fall from power. Although Perseus silent'y knew that Kronos would never come back to power. He simply wouldn't let it happen, if Kronos defeated the Olympians and the rest of the Titans rose back to power than Perseus would simply kill them. The Titans were horrible rulers and Perseus was not about to let them rise back to power, he would let the Olympians fight to keep ruling over the Earth. If they lost however than Perseus would take over himself and guide Earth just like the other planets and lifeforms in the Universe. If the Olympians won than they could continue ruling until the next threat decided they wanted a chance.
A week went by with Poseidon not yet claiming Alex as his child. Although when the hellhound attacked Alex and the water healed him there was little doubt left. Actually none was left as Poseidon chose the next moment to claim him and officially begin the quest of finding the missing symbols of power. The next day after that tiring night Alex was taken to the attic to receive a prophecy on how to find Zeus' Masterbolt. The quest went about as okay as any other quest that would essentially decide if war was to happen or not. With that said it went terrible, battles were had all over the place and with monsters that were slayed by the best of heroes in Ancient Greece. The quest members were Alex Jackson, Annabeth Chase a daughter of Athena, and Grover Underwood a satyr. They finally found the Masterbolt after having it pointed out to them by Hades and making a quick escape. Only for Ares himself to come and fight Alex for the Helm of Darkness, when the battle was over between the two and Hades' Helm retrieved by the Furies the three made there way back to the Olympian Council meeting.
Alex told the Olympians of his quest and who actually stole the Masterbolt. Hermes had a look of shame upon his face, Ares although just flashed out upon his part in the story. Most likely in fear of the "Big Three's" wrath upon him for keeping their symbols of power. Zeus was forced to let the son of Poseidon live after successfully retrieving his Masterbolt much to his chagrin. When the quest members arrived back at Camp Half-Blood they were hailed as heroes, little did they know that it was only the beginning of something much bigger to happen.
AN: Another chapter down and we are in to the books now. Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. A reminder that the poll is up on my profile on what the next story will be and it will be up for a little while, so please vote on that. Hope everyone has a great day and I'll see about starting another chapter.