Frost and Void, Protectors of the Universe

by Keef1234

Everyone sees their savior as invincible, all powerful, and someone who can't be hurt. They are right about a few of those beliefs, but very wrong about being invincible. He may not take much physically, but he has been hurt enough to protect himself before it happens again, slowly encasing himself in ice until he frosts over completely.

10. Chapter 10

Esmeralda noticed that Amy was on her last lap and began preparing her stamina refill so she could join the next exercise.

"Listen up! Even if you are running! The next part will be a test of willpower, once again it has nothing to do with specific skills. On the battlefield, you may need to tactfully retreat. If you are stuck somewhere and need to hide from scouts or really anyone, you need to be able to hold still despite the conditions. Therefore, I will place you each in a box that will monitor your movements and for every movement, you will feel pain. Your body should naturally realize that you need to stop moving. The box puts you in several probable conditions and a few ones specific to what makes you uncomfortable."

With that, she created eight boxes for everyone and pointed to Annabeth, Derrick, and Amy. She gave Amy her stamina refill and the three specialists got in the box. Once it was sealed and producing oxygen on the inside, they were all taken into different scenarios mentally. Annabeth found herself in the Battle of Manhattan and she was supposed to be scouting for any extra titans considering Percy had faced three already. She wasn't careful enough and kicked a can that on the floor. As she fled, she cursed mortals for littering and not cleaning up after themselves.

She came to a stop in an alley off 92nd Street and 6th Ave and could either jump to the fire escape but make a lot of noise doing so, she could hide in the dumpster but she still has dignity and isn't sure that she would be able to take the smell, or she could hide under the truck where the sleeping cats are and hope that Morpheus' spell doesn't turn off at that very moment.

She went with the truck to use the cats' smell to distract the monsters and to hide her from their vision. She realized that this was when she had to to be as still as possible. Unfortunately, Morpheus' spell did not affect insects and they were still crawling on the ground under her. An ant got really close and made her squirm a bit and suddenly a cyclops pulled her from under the truck, smacked her with his club as hard as he could and threw her in a fire that seemingly spawned from nowhere and she burned until she woke up gasping in the box.

The box spoke in her head telling her that she failed and to try again. Her skin was still on fire and while the nerdy part of her wanted to know how the box did that, the determined part of her was ready to jump back in and not let a little ant deter her. When the box took her back into a simulation, it was a different one, but this time in one of the forests that she was looking for Percy in when he went missing. Of course, they wouldn't put her in the same simulation as before. This was gonna be harder than she thought.

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Derrick was placed in the battle for Camp Half-Blood when the Romans attacked. The difference was, they were losing. Percy and the Seven were nowhere to be found, Nico and Reyna were incapacitated and the Romans were rounding up Greeks that they found. He didn't know if it were for collection P. or for execution but he knew he couldn't get caught. The Romans may have taken most of the forest, but they didn't know the beach like the campers did, the Romans never cared for water because of their fear of Neptune.

Derrick didn't know that this was where Orion defeated Reyna so he ran there thinking no one was there, only to see the giant walking out of the water like it was a cheesy horror movie. He had to divert back into the woods but he saw purple moving towards him. He ducked into a bunch of bushes and hid. The nymphs looked at him confused, why the hell was this teenager playing hide and seek. Once they saw the Romans, they realized what happened and thickened the bushes so he wouldn't be found.

He realized that this was the moment that he needed to be quiet and not move. The nymphs were protecting him pretty well so he felt that he would pass this test, nothing could bother him. That was until he heard Clarisse's voice close to him.

"Get your fucking hands off of me you stupid Romans! We didn't attack your stupid camp!"

"Where's Octavian? Hopefully, he could put this bitch on public display like he's doing with Reyna. Once the dirty Greeks see one of their leaders humiliated and put on trial, then probably killed, their morale will drop to where we will never hear of them ever again!" The Romans laughed as Derrick could hear his sister struggle even more.

The nymphs realized what might happen.

"Don't move, you may be the camp's last hope"

"If you wait you have more a chance to save her"

"The Romans have too much honor to kill her right away, waiting is your best chance honestly"

They spoke and whispered soothingly to try to stop him but he could hear Clarisse louder and louder, the big sister who lovingly bullied him, bullied anyone who bothered him and made him feel like he could soon be the strongest kid of Ares. He couldn't let them do anything to her. Anything!

The second he started to move, the Romans pulled him out of the bushes as the nymphs cried out. They knew they didn't have the strength to save him so they had to watch as the last chance for the camp slipped away. Clarisse was on the floor, dazed and bound but realized that it was Derrick. He realized that the Romans hitting and beating him wasn't the real pain. It wasn't even them dragging Clarisse away.

It was the face she had as she screamed and told them to leave him alone. The utter despair he saw in her eyes as she couldn't do anything to stop them. Suddenly, Percy showed up and defeated them in seemingly one hit. He freed Clarisse who ran over to Derrick as fast as she could. She cradled his head as she cried and told him to hold on and stay strong. Percy was trying to use water to heal him but they all knew it would be a futile effort.

As his life slipped away, all he could see and hear was the hopelessness and shaking sobs of grief from his sister. Then he woke up in the box, his face wet with tears and his body aching from the beating he received. If this was the training the box gave, he wasn't sure he'd be able to be a specialist. The box somehow used soft invisible hands to wipe his face and rub where he got hit until he wasn't sad or aching. He was ready for a retry.

But this time he wasn't at camp. He was at his mother's house the day the monsters attacked and he was sent to camp.

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The hard truth about Amy is that she was born with a father that seemed like he didn't love her, nor want her. She had a stepmother who said she was a demon because of the dark magic that seemed to follow her. She had friends that switched on her to move up the social ladder in school or their neighborhood. She accidentally killed her dog Skittles, the only animal that she cared for.

Let's just say that the box looked for anything that hasn't happened to her already and found it hard to find something that will make her squirm. She cared about her cabin enough to squirm if they were in trouble but that was too easy. Could bring up the dog, but because it already happened, she may be desensitized to his death by now. Then it examined her love life... or lack thereof. Suddenly it knew what to do.

Amy found herself in the showers of the camp. They haven't been used as much anymore since most of the cabins had personal showers thanks to Annabeth. The Hecate cabin's bathroom's plumbing was malfunctioning so they were waiting for that to be finished. Her issue was that most of the showers were occupied by her cabin or other cabins that seem to be having issues at the same time.

She stomped back to her cabin to wait and ran into Annabeth. "Hey, Annabeth! I noticed that a lot of people are in the showers. Are there issues for them as well?"

"Yeah, I can't tell if the Hermes cabin did something, the nymph got angry, or Percy had a bad dream but everyone is having issues. I'm taking a day off from Olympus to address this issue. I also have my boyfriend working on some cabins to expedite the process, he should be at your cabin soon if he hasn't done it already! Gotta go!" Annabeth said as she ran into the Apollo cabin.

Amy realized that the box took her to a time where Percy and Annabeth were still together. She warily looked around for an attack or some reason for her to hide and not move. She headed to her cabin, thinking that she could grab some sort of weapon to outsmart the machine or conjure a magic barrier to protect her fellow campers. Once inside, she realized that no one was there. All of them went to the showers? What exactly was this box up to?

She heard something in the bathroom and crept forward, ready for whatever the box had planned for her. Once she peeked through the crack, any and all thoughts of the box, her cabin, and the camp disappeared. Percy was in the bathroom and because it was a hot day, his shirt was off and his shorts hang low around his waist. Within seconds, her nipples were hard and her pussy overlubricated itself.

She watched as he used a rag to wipe the sweat off his forehead. If it weren't for her hormones, she would have realized that as a Son of Poseidon, he shouldn't have to use a rag to wipe off the sweat. She watched as he reached his hands out to where the plumbing should be and felt the ground under her rumble as he worked to fix it.

Now I'm not saying that she's power hungry, but she basically started dripping when she saw and felt how powerful he was and how much control he had over water to be able to manipulate it like that. He stopped and turned the sink water on, the shower, and flushed the toilet all at once. Each ran fine, with enough hot water and the water did not mix up. Poor Erin found out the plumbing was messed up after almost showering in toilet water.

He sighed out of relief because he fixed it. "Phew, wish I could shower in here since I fixed it. You know what? Imma do it anyway!" Percy dropped his shorts and his underwear all at the same time. She almost fainted as she saw his seven inches come bounding out of his underwear semi-hard. When her eyes fell back into her head, she saw that he turned the water on and noticed the way the war washed over his hard, firm, sexy naked body.

Suddenly he started to grip and pull at his dick, stroking it the same way she always imagined he would. She couldn't take it anymore and slid her hand into her underwear, rubbing her lower lips to the same rhythm that he was stroking his cock to. They both began masturbating, Percy to whatever was in his head, Amy to him jerking his cock.

Suddenly, he started going really fast as he moaned out, "Oh Amy, yes!" At that moment, all her dreams came true. Any girl will feel bad, but proud to know that someone else man is thinking about you in a sexual manner. She found herself moving into the bathroom as if in a trance. Stripping her clothes off. Climbing in the shower directly in front of Percy and facing him. Getting on her knees and presenting her face as if she were waiting for a cumshot.

She giggled to herself, feeling like some sort of porn star as she kneeled before him. She really wanted him to cum on her without noticing that she was there yet. As if on cue, right after that thought, she was pleasantly surprised to hear him moan her name loudly as his spunk covered her face. String after string of cum flew out and hit her lips, her nose, cheeks, forehead, and some on her left eye.

Percy opened his eyes slowly, coming down from the high of his ejaculation and looked down to see the girl he was thinking about right in front of him, covered in his man butter. His dick was slowly wilting but became erect soon after seeing her. Her C-cup breasts sitting on her chest, perky as possible, her bare pussy being rubbed by her small, dainty hands, and her delectable ass that somehow poked out from behind despite her position.

She looked at him and sensually licked the cum from around her lips, then used the same finders she used to masturbate to wipe any other cum off of her face and licked it off her hand too. "Tastes delicious! Wanna go to my bunk and give me some more of that?" Amy asked as she resumed rubbing her pussy. Percy looked dazed and happily confused as he muttered, "Okay..." and turned the water off. With the flick of his hand, all the water on them flew off and she led him out of the bathroom.

He grabbed her before they reached it and lifted her up onto him. She wrapped her legs around his waist and looked into his eyes to see if he was mentally awake. Not only was his mind finally awake, but she could feel his dick rise directly under her pussy. With one thrust, he could slip right in, being the first real dick to enter her. Instead, he smashed his lips onto hers and a heavy make-out session ensued as they fell onto the bed.

Amy couldn't tell if it was her bunk specifically, but at the same time, she was too focused on grinding her pussy on Percy's cock, coaxing him to give her the pounding that she was aching for. Percy realized that she was as ready as he was and slowly slid his cock into her. Her tightness made him light-headed, and his natural male pride realized that he may be her first despite the lack of a hymen.

Amy always heard that the first real dick stretches you in a new way and may feel uncomfortable with its girth and warmth if it's a good one. She disregarded all those talks because what's she was feeling right now was nothing short of ecstasy! Percy looked for affirmation to continue before pulling back and thrusting harder and firmer this time. Then repeating with added strength. Then repeating with higher speed.

Once he was about 15 thrusts in, he was moving as fast as he could and they were firm and strong thrusts. For her first time, Amy had a pro making her eyes want to leave her sockets. She was thinking prior to the make-out session to use a spell to lock the door but now any and all thoughts were mush. Her pussy clenched and pulled at Percy's dick as he continued to fuck her.

Percy pulled out all the way and made his way onto the bed and positioned himself behind her. He laid down on his side and used his right arm to prop himself up. Amy caught on and moved on her side as well as she propped her ass out so he could hurry back into her wet and moist warmth. Once ready, Percy used this new angle to dig himself further into her tight pussy. Once she felt how far he went, she went off! As she came, her pussy seemed to gush pussy juice and almost pushed Percy to cum as well.

Everything she dreamed of just happened. She tasted his cum. She got fucked by him in more than one position. He made her cum and it may have been quick, but she's been ready since she first laid eyes on him. Now if she could get him in cum as far in her pussy as he could, and she can feel his cock pulse as rope after rope fills her. She started pushing her ass back to meet his thrusts and feel his cock getting harder and throbbing at this point.

She was close to another orgasm herself some way, somehow and wanted to line it up with his. Right when they both began to peak, the cabin door opens and they both freeze. She hoped it was a younger sibling that she could easily shoo and scare away but the box wasn't having that. Annabeth comes walking by to look into the bathroom, likely looking for Percy who has been gone for a while.

Once she went in the bathroom, Percy moved into the darker side of the bunk and pulled Amy with and whispered, "Do not move, she won't notice if she doesn't see any sudden movement in the darkness."

If Amy didn't have a hard dick inside her, that would have been easy. If she didn't have that in her she would have realized that Annabeth would see their clothes on the floor. If she didn't have that in her, she would have remembered that the box was doing this to her. Annabeth came back out of the bathroom confused and walking slowly as if she were thinking about where Percy could be.

Unfortunately, Amy was already on the brink of an orgasm. Percy must have been as turned on as her because his dick was still pulsing inside of her. Put those two together, and it is a recipe for disaster. Amy tried her best to stay still like Percy said, but after the tenth pulse, she had to cum.

Despite it being a strong orgasm, she only moved her leg slightly to adjust to the pleasure, but Annabeth was on them in seconds. There was no way that she should have realized what was happening so fast but she threw Amy on the floor and pulled out her dagger. After several slashes and lacerations, Amy was bleeding profusely and lid on the floor, naked and in pain.

This was when her rational brain activated and interpreted that this was the pain that Esmeralda mentioned. It isn't too bad if this was all it did to Amy. Unfortunately for her, this wasn't the full package.

Annabeth turned to Percy angrily and looked ready to unleash the rest of the fury on him, but she stopped when she saw that he was still hard and how close he was to bursting. She glanced at Amy and smirked before removing all her clothes in seemingly one fashion. She took the boner that Amy's pussy worked so hard to push to its breaking point and slowly slid her pussy on it.

Despite Percy being a wet dream, it still hurt to see that even after masturbating to her and having a good fuck, he had no problem fucking Annabeth after. She hates when plans or really anything ends up incomplete and she still wanted him to cum in her. Suddenly her eyes got really wide and still sat up, ignoring the pain of her wounds.

"No, Percy please don't cum in her. That is for me. ME! I'm the reason that you are so close. Come over here and put it in me!" Amy begged and pleaded as blood continued to drip from the incisions in her skin.

"Sorry, but you were just the closest piece of ass to me at the time. Annabeth, however, has the best pussy I ever felt and you could never match up to her. She always finds a way to milk... milk... MILK MY COCK!" Percy moaned out as Annabeth pushed him over the edge.

Amy could hear and almost see the cum spurting into Annabeth's pussy and felt ready to cry. She didn't get his cum, she didn't steal him from Annabeth, and worst of all she lost her dignity by giving her virginity to a guy who honestly did not care about her at all.

Then she woke up in the box, her face wet with tears, her pussy aching as if it had a fat cock in it, and the place where she was cut felt prickly and stung. The box doesn't just make you feel physical pain for moving during conditions that you weren't supposed to. It gave you pain that was much worse and she was not ready for this at all.

As she felt better and felt that the box was gonna put her back into a simulation, she put up all possible mental barriers to escape the terrible feeling that the previous simulation did. When her eyes next opened, she was playing with Skittles, her dog from when she was younger. She smiled at the sight but realized that she was in the box's simulation. That means that it will use her dog against her. This did not bode well for Amy at all.

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Kevin Lopez: Son of Hermes

-15 for showing sympathy to a stranger

-15 for the time taken to steal the artifact

-10 for inability to seduce

-5 for having an attitude when reprimanded

Overall Grade: F 55.

Kevin stared at the floor as he realizes how badly he is repping his cabin and his father. Why couldn't Percy take one of the Stolls? People with war experience and the will to do what needs to be done. He is clearly not cut out for this.

Percy put Kevin in a situation where a kid was in trouble, and Kevin saved the kid with no hesitation and no harm done to the kid. Next, he put a middle age man in peril, but it was not to the same degree as when it came to the kid. Kevin helped the man, only for him to turn into Perses, the Titan of Destruction and Percy jumped forward to kill the Titan. Then he yelled at Kevin, causing the latter to be pissed.

Percy placed Kevin a museum and told him what to steal. He didn't tell him that there was a time limit or if he would get style points. Kevin executed it perfectly, only to find out that the security was a fat old man sleeping behind a desk with the monitors not being watched. Kevin facepalmed because he wasted all of his time on security that didn't exist.

Kevin needed to get into the palace to save the Queen from the King that wanted to kill her and replace her with a new one that is just as terrible as he is. He executed everything perfectly and the last thing in the way of him getting to the throne room was the Princess. While she wasn't evil like her father, she would still raise attention to a random guy trying to get into the throne room. He couldn't hurt an innocent person, but he needed to get past her. The only thing that suddenly popped into his head was to seduce her to get past.

Kevin was flabbergasted that the idea came to him and realized that this was the test. He just couldn't do it though. What is she was a virgin? What if she was in a relationship? How could he just fuck a girl so he could complete his mission? He attempted but failed miserably. And with that, the test was over, leaving Kevin embarrassed and disappointed in himself.

He looked up at his score again and had a mini flashback to when he was in school and would bring home grades that looked like that. The look of sadness in his mom's eyes was worse than anything his stepfather said or did to him. She never yelled, she just got some tears in her eyes every report card and hugged him, asking him to do better for her sake. She had grey hairs growing and wrinkles forming on her face, not taking away from her natural beauty but showing the stress getting to her.

After three years of being in camp, he returned home for a summer to surprise his mom, only to find that she and his stepfather were having lunch together with a two-year-old daughter in Kevin's old seat. They all looked so happy and his mom's wrinkles were all but gone and she had no extra grey hairs than when he last saw her. Seeing them enjoy themselves without him made him go back to camp. He didn't want to risk joining them and ruining the jovial mood he examined.

All this ran through his head and because he didn't know how to block others from hearing his thoughts, Percy stood next to him, listening and internalizing what he heard.

"You done moping? That score is average for new specialists, it's actually higher than the old average. And don't tell the others but my test is way harder than the normal test so don't be too disappointed." Percy watched as Kevin's disheartened mood was lifted a bit and decided to skip all the formalities. He took the knowledge from himself about becoming a Chaotic Warrior and put it in Kevin's head as he injected him with Chaotic Serum. With that came the almost unbearable pin that eventually came to an end.

Kevin sat up straighter and literally felt way stronger. He knew that there was no turning back. He looked at his core one last time before promising himself that it will not happen again.

"You will retake that test at the end of your training. You will be placed in different situations, but more importantly, you will have to seduce Esmeralda instead of a simulation." Percy smirked as Kevin turned redder than a tomato at the end of his statement. Kevin wanted to retort but knew that it wouldn't help at all. He was dreading this training, and now he dreads its end as well.

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Percy was dying of laughter, on the inside of course. He has to be the first person in the world to see a son of Hermes tired of running. Percy went to Hermes' palace that is typically empty due to the messenger god's job and made a copy of his treadmill. He put Kevin on it and laughed as he was fine for all of five minutes, then he began straining, then he began slowing down to the point where the treadmill started running on him.

Kevin was currently on the floor, panting and wanting to rub the burn wounds that the treadmill left on him. Percy had to be a monster in disguise, but at the same time uncloaked. Children of Hermes aren't necessarily magical or powerful, but they hone in on skills and trickery far more than other demigods. As a result, Percy was putting those skills to the test and the recent one with the treadmill was just unbearable, almost as bad as the 30 mirrors and 3 Percy's.

Percy knew it was time to end the training and send him back, he tortured the young man enough for one day. He snapped and Kevin stood up with full stamina and wounds healed. Kevin looked at him curiously until he saw the door leading to the other room forming. He hoped that he wasn't too disappointing to Percy and couldn't wait to tell the others about the torture. Hopefully, Annabeth and Hazel should share their low scores and how much they secretly hated Percy.

Speaking of Annabeth...

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She knew it was an apparition. She knew! But it looked just like the one person she spent so much time looking for that she couldn't fight her yearning. The rational side of her put up a good battle, but in the end, her emotions got the best of her and she reached out to the apparition that was Percy.

Instantly she was sucked into the floor for what seemed like hours until she fell into a cavern, face to face with Gaia. She told Annabeth that thanks to her, she was able to find Percy and now both of them can die to finally raise her. Because of her feelings, Annabeth the doomed the world. The box didn't need to even continue to the torture because she was close to breaking.

She woke up in the box, not aching at all, but she was almost outright sobbing. The box opened up and she levitated up into the air. The tears made it had to see but she was moved rather far from her original location. She was settled down on a rather soft and comfortable surface that literally drained all her negative vibes away. She sat up and wiped her face, only to find that it was dry. The only thing left was the tears obstructing her natural field of view and she wiped those away.

Her sight was greeted by the stoic face of her ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend, and the only person that she ever romantically loved. She mentally flashed back to when she broke up with him and the amount of vulnerability in his eyes. She compared it to the look he was giving her now, a non-engaged poker face with frozen eyes. Annabeth would have wanted to see him angry at her, or at least disappointed. Any emotion is better than the dead, guarded look that he was giving her currently.

"We will begin with the specialist starter test. It will gauge your current ability for a person of your calibre and confirm the type of skills you need to work on. You ready to begin?" Percy spoke firmly and quickly, sounding like he meant business.

After that mini ramble, Annabeth was super relieved. She almost sighed from the good fate that befell her at that moment. To anyone else, they would have felt sorry for her, dealing with a guy that may hate her and have to be trained by him but they didn't grow up with Percy. They didn't see Percy at his lower moments. They didn't see Percy at his higher moments. And more importantly, she's not sure if anyone besides his mom can read his eyes better than she could.

His eyes were frozen to most, devoid of emotions but even the frosty commander couldn't hide from someone like Annabeth. She knew that at this moment, he was just as vulnerable as the day they broke up. In the throne room, he used anger to scare her, logic to frustrate her, anything that pushes her away, but now he can't escape. He seems to be going for an apathetic approach but she won't let him.

"Yes, I'm ready."

Annabeth was suddenly wearing an all black cat-like suit and was perched on top of a building in San Francisco. Her mission was to infiltrate the building across from her and steal a diamond that held a precious metal within, needed to complete a machine. This... wasn't difficult to assess. She knew it would be too easy to determine her stealth ability so that wasn't the only thing this test was going for. She needed to push in to find out more about her situation.

Three minutes later, after four guards, two laser grids, and a hidden alarm system, Annabeth found herself in the diamond's room. There was nothing preventing her from grabbing it so she did. She crushed it with the inhuman strength that she must've received for the purpose of this mission and found the small metal. She unzipped her suit and placed it in her bra before zipping it back up and turning to get out as soon as possible... just to see her dad staring back at her with wide eyes.

"Dad?"

"Annabeth? Why...? How...?"

"Dad, I'm not sure why you're here but you need to get out before we get caught. I'm doing this for the good of others, no matter how bad it looks. Please get out Dad, please!" Annabeth pleaded as she practically pushed him out the door. Imagine her surprise when her dad spins around with a gun in his hand and knocks her to the floor. Can't imagine that? Well, it's because she wasn't surprised. Everything was just falling into her hands.

The simulation ended and Percy looked at her with wide, surprised eyes. He couldn't believe that someone as smart as her would believe that the guy there was actually her dad. Did something change in the time that he was gone? Nonetheless, it's time for the next one.

The Chaotic Warriors do not aim to be sexist, but that is the way it looks from the way that these tests go. Chaos wants the guys to learn to seduce, and the girls to learn to control their emotion and hormones. It is likely that the girls know how to seduce naturally because seducing simple-minded creatures like males shouldn't be difficult. It is likely that guys control their emotions because they aren't in tune with them enough in the first place. Thus, specific genders have to undergo specific challenges to determine what they need to work on.

Thus, Annabeth was faced with a trial of hormones. As you can probably tell by now, Annabeth is purposefully failing the tests and is thinking on how to make this final failure obvious. Suddenly, her body is just taken over by lust. It took her by surprise so she almost failed accidentally, but realized the test was to control herself under these conditions. She then looked Percy straight in the eyes with a determined look, no traces of lust within them. While keeping eye contact, she then gave in to the lust on purpose and allowed her hands to run up and down her body.

Just as she really started getting into, caressing her tits and rubbing her pussy through the jumpsuit, Percy ended the test. He looked angry but was a little red in the face, a sign that shows he may have enjoyed it. It was bad that he was strangely attracted to Athena, but to see a blond carbon copy of her being seductive right in front of him was pushing the line.

"Annabeth, what the FUCK?! You're sabotaging yourself for what fucking reason? You knew exactly how to act on each of those tests and went out of your damn way to fail? No matter what the task is, you always have some sort of ulterior motive behind your actions and it pisses me the fuck off!" Percy was ready to go on a rant but stopped at her smiling at him.

He faltered, then sighed and shook his head. He's been on Earth for less than a day and already thawed on the inside far more than he thought he would. He will always be hurt by their breakup but she was still his best friend for years and that will never go away. Best friends can go months and years without talking to each other but will always come back to each other despite whatever it was that made them break apart.

Percy still saw a lot of Athena when looking at Annabeth but suppressed a lot of his attraction to her for the purpose of the inevitable conversation they had to have.

Annabeth was brimming with happiness, on the inside of course, and wanted to leap forward for a hug but held it in so that she didn't push him away too quickly. She looked around for somewhere to sit, then realized that she had a god in front of her. She gave him a look, ensuring that they still had non-verbal communication working between them. To her pleasant surprise, he understood and conjured two reclinable armchairs facing inwardly, but not directly at each other. They both sat down and allowed silence to take over for a few minutes.

"I want to start with sorry, but I know that isn't what you want to hear. I prepped this conversation in my head for the past two years but scrapped everything there. You have now been around for more than three thousand years, have seen way more than me, been through lifetime after lifetime, war after war, and everything I thought I'd say was meant for someone who has been through everything I have and now-"

"But I have been through everything that you have. I was there in Manhattan, in Rome, Tartarus, Greece, even back here to save the stupid camp from Romans. Don't remove from those memories just because I have a few more years of experiences under my belt."

"No no no, I didn't mean to do that! I just meant that my 19 years feels like a long time, you know? Three thousand? From planet to planet? And as the commander, I doubt you had any longer than maybe a few years of downtime before you had to get back to work. You may have had relationships that went further than you and I could, and you are powerful beyond imagination! We are on different levels now and even with this training... you'll still be on a totally different playing field."

"Are you crying?"

"It's just hard to think about. Almost every hardship, every battle, every issue in my life, I had you with me to help and take care of me when I needed it. And it was vice versa, but now you're gonna be fighting tougher battles that I can't hope to be a part of, you'll be able to watch my back but I definitely can't watch yours. I'm happy that you were able to ascend to this level, but I don't want you to rise to a point where I can't reach you anymore."

At this, Annabeth faltered and actually started crying. She had just started to feel like she could at least mend the friendship they used to share, but even then there's too big a gap between them that she won't be able to bridge.

Seeing her like this was hard for Percy. Before he died, when he was with Artemis and her hunters, he would have seen this and maybe would have felt a little bad but not enough to comfort her. However, three thousand years is a long time to forgive, reflect, and understand. And all this time, he still has loyalty as a fatal flaw so he forgave her less than a hundred years in.

Those years were tough because he had no reputation compared to most of the other soldiers and while he didn't have a huge ego, he was still used to being a big deal. He had a lot of time in the barracks to himself and a lot of time to reflect. While he still held anger towards those he was never loyal to, he honestly forgave everyone else. Artemis and her hunters is another story that the author doesn't feel like delving into yet but overall, he forgave Annabeth.

So now, seeing her cry, he surprised her and slightly himself as he put his arm around her and gave her room to cry on him. Annabeth did so cautiously but when her head came in contact with his chest, she really let loose. People blamed her for Percy leaving and joining the hunters, namely his friends who also weren't there for him when he needed them but we're not gonna dwell on that currently, and didn't talk to her as much anymore. She became independent, even after finishing most of the blueprints for Olympus.

Having Percy there as an outlet allowed to not only cry for the current situation, but also for how lonely she felt and any other issue she had bottled up within. Percy pulled her in a little tighter with his other arm was fully comforting her at this point.

What made this moment so sweet was the fact that Percy had every right to push her away and let her weep. By comforting her even after what happened between them, he is definitely showing signs of maturation and a return to the happy and emotional guy that loves to help everyone. There's also the thought that Percy is sexually attracted to Athena and although it's been a while, he still remembers his exploits with Annabeth so he may accidentally fuck her too.

Annabeth broke out of the temporary embrace to wipe her face. She felt she let out enough and was prepared to restart their prior conversation until a portal opened in the training room. Out stepped a woman with swirling blue and white eyes, a form-fitting blue sundress that hugged her DD cups with no bra, and a thick, juicy ass that added an edible aspect to her. She swayed her hips on her way towards the two on the bench and stopped in front of Percy.

"So you'll fuck her and her mom, but you won't give me some fucking dick?!"