Random Q/A OF THE CHAPTER:

TO THE BLUE COOKIES & THE SEVEN: WHAT IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING THING YOU'VE CAUGHT PERCY DOING?

Annabeth: Wait... How can blue cookies speak?

Piper: The gods...

Annabeth: What is the point in making... You know what? Nevermind. I don't care anymore. I'm out!

Leo: Nope. No, you don't. You're staying here to hear out... Drumroll, please?

Jason and Frank: No. Just no.

Leo: Fine! You're staying here to listen to... Percy's most embarrassing moment.

Jason: Let's just get this over with... Come on... Cookies?

Blue Cookies: Please. We are blue. We are blue for a reason. Anyway. Percy's most embarrassing moment was when he picked his nose-

Percy: Wa-wait a moment-

Blue Cookies: He put it in his-

Percy: Le-let's stop the-

Blue Cookies: MOUTH! HE PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH!

The rest of the seven: All run away except Annabeth who rolls her eyes

Annabeth: Wow... Just wow... There goes your social life...

Percy: my day can't get worse...

Blue Cookies: then he kissed Annabeth!

Annabeth: Looking horrified Wh-WHA-WHAT! YOU! YOU LITTLE-

Percy: Running I'll get you blue cookies!

Blue Cookies: Nah. We're betting on you being in the infirmary for the next few weeks.

About half an hour later, Annabeth reported that she 'accidentally' beat up Percy. He was reported to have over twelve (12) broken bones and double as many fractures; had to spend about two (2) weeks in the infirmary before he was even in any condition to stand up. Percy learnt his lesson from then. Percy has been missing for over two weeks. He was last reported to be on Olympus, recovering from an unknown event that traumatised him.

Percy POV

I gazed down at an Auburn haired godling who pulsed with the power of one of the big three.

I groaned. Seriously? How many children do the Olympians need to have? Do you know how hard it is to keep count of all of my relatives?

I was exasperated. To be frank. I didn't even wait for her answer to my previous question and inquired," Which one?"

She blinked, obviously confused. Well. Couldn't help to try.

"Godly parent," I elaborated," or more exactly. Which one of the big three?"

She blinked again and then jumped out of my arms in a rush. Huh... I wonder what's got her chiton in a twist.

"How did you of all people know?" She shot back," You're what? Like fourteen (14)!"

Now it was my turn to blink. Looks like we wouldn't be eligible for any staring contests. She blinked twelve (12) times in the span of at least four (4) seconds.

She seriously didn't figure it out by now? Why else would I have been leading those Delphians, some of which looked WAY older than me?

Her obviously related giant brother definitely knew what was up. He opened his mouth to speak but I gave him a look that clearly said:' I'm going to guess she thinks she's better than you. Let's give her a taste of her own medicine', effectively shutting him up.

She looked at me expectantly. I flung my hands in the air in complete and utter exasperation. That caused her to fling her hands in the air, mimicking me. Probably cause she didn't understand what I was doing.

I sighed. She obviously wasn't going to figure it out. Maybe I could taunt her into it though...

"Even your brother figured it out." I taunted. She flinched and growled in her throat. I grinned inwardly, satisfied. I had hit a mark. Looks like someone has an overinflated ego. "Ok... I'll give you a hint. There's a reason why I have such a powerful aura and why these people are following me."

With such obvious hints, she definitely would've got it. And she did.

"Wait..." She started, stepping back a bit before backing onto her giant sibling and stepping on his nose. The female godling didn't seem to notice. Even when her brother cringed in pain. He was going look relatively bad later on. How heartless of her.

Based on what I had seen from the boy so far, he didn't look like he had the brain cells to spare.

I snapped my fingers in front of her face a few times to get her attention since she seemed lost in thought. When she finally came back to the real world, I spoke," You do know your standing on his face... Right? He needs those precious brain cells of his. What if something like... I don't know! A zombie apocalypse suddenly started. Then, he would die because he couldn't think of a way to escape!"

She scoffed like it was a normal occurrence that was obvious (I mean it WAS obvious but why did she think it was normal?).

"Zombies eat brains... So I think he'll be safe."

I swiftly spun around and shot a quick glare at one of the townsfolk who was trying to stifle again.

I sighed. That wasn't the response I was hoping for but she did provide cruel yet disturbingly valid points.

Studying her facial expression, It was obvious that she had completely forgotten about the events that occurred about thirty (30) seconds ago.

Her look said it all. Realisation dawned on her face. She had finally pieced the clues together. "You're a godling too?"

I nodded vigorously. She finally understood. I let out all of my pent up stress in one short speech.

"Finally! How didn't you realise sooner? I literally look like a fourteen (14) year old who is leading an army of angry civilians, some of which are adults!" I stressed the last part, hoping that the message would get through.

However, (and luckily) before she could pull a wise guy (wise girl?) a pained groan was heard from her sibling, who was now curled up into a ball.

His sister finally noticed and stepped off of him in a rush.

His form glowed and shrunk until he was around the size of his sibling, but he was slightly smaller than his sister.

I gave them an expectant look. When that didn't work then I asked them," Are you guys going to introduce yourselves? Like I already said, I'm Perseus. Percy for short."

The blonde one grinned and stepped forward, introducing himself first," I'm Apollo. Son of Zeus. She's-"

"Apollo!" Apollo's sister hissed, interrupting him mid-speech," Remember what mother said?"

He waved her off, speaking quickly so she couldn't cut him off," She's Artemis. My sister."

Artemis opened to mouth. Probably to tell off Apollo, but decided against it and settled on giving him a death-defying death glare.

I still had nightmares for the next few weeks. It was like an angel was staring lasers into my soul. Wait. Did I say an angel? I meant a demon. Yeah... Angels can't really give death glares.

Then, I remembered why we were here in the first place. We were supposed to meet a group of rebels. I looked up at the sky, hoping to see the sun and figure out the time of day; recalled that Apollo had swallowed it whole.

"Hey, Apollo..." I began, carefully," Can you, I don't know, regurgitate Helios? We have somewhere to be."

He turned to me, abashed and at least a tad bit embarrassed, and responded with a quick," How?"

Artemis, grinning, came to my rescue," This is how."

She then proceeded to give him what became known as the Heimlich Maneuver.

His face contorted into one of pain and suffering.

I stifled a laugh. However, the same could not be said for the townsfolk. They were grinning from ear to ear and some were rolling around on the ground like hooligans.

Sadly, as their leader, it would be a bad example for me to join them.

GROSS ALERT! PLEASE SKIP IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR LUNCH! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED (Actually. Please don't skip this. It still took a few minutes to write)!

Spit flew everywhere. Luckily everyone was either out of the way or out of Apollo's firing range.

A fair amount of the Delphians puked, groaning and running to the nearest bushes. I felt bad for them but I was occupied with trying to keep my lunch from escaping my stomach.

Finally, after about what felt like ten minutes of the Heimlich Maneuver, a golden blob flew a good few metres away before blowing up to its original size.

Helios stretched before shooting glares at Apollo," Did you have to swallow me and WHAT in the world do you eat? Why is there sand in your mouth?"

Artemis snorted at that and nudged him. Something that didn't go unnoticed by me. I was pretty sure that she had something to do with Apollo swallowing truckloads of sand.

Helios continued," Oh no... I'm off schedule. The sun is supposed to be about four (4) hours from midday."

And with that, he commanded his group of flaming steeds and they flew off into the sky.

(GROSS ALERT (Not Really) HAS ENDED)

Everyone had mustered a collective silence while they processed everything that happened.

Apollo broke the silence," So where are you guys going?"

"Where do you think we're going? To the marketplace?" I spoke, sarcasm evidently dripping from my voice," We're going to raid Sparta. Now. I'm going to ask again. Would you like to join?"

The two siblings looked at each other. I groaned loudly, getting weird looks from everyone. I hate it when twins or siblings do that thing where they communicate by just giving looks.

After what felt like ages, Artemis nodded to Apollo and turned my way," We'll help if you tell us who you are, give us a bow each since we are pretty good, me a pair of knives just in case, and also escort us to Olympus afterwards no matter the outcome of the upcoming battle."

I considered my options. On one hand, they might be assets and could help against Ares since he was definitely going to join the battle to protect his city as their patron. On the other, they could be bluffing and just freeloading for weapons. They also might betray the citizens and spell our defeat.

It was like a group of tiny debaters exploding bombs inside my cranium whenever a new point or valid reason arose.

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to collect my thoughts.

Maybe... No... What if... No. That wouldn't work. Neither would that.

After contradicting myself in every way known to god-kind, I agreed to their terms," Deal... However. Under this one simple and additional term. Should we lose due to one of you or should you sabotage our mission, the deal is off."

Apollo tilted his head like he didn't get what I just said, which was ridiculous since the basic concept would technically be easy to wrap your head around.

He was about to reply (probably to ask what I meant) when Artemis whacked him across the head and answered for him," Do you doubt our loyalties and skill Perseus? We are children of-"

Apollo cut her off and added his not-so-effective argument," Yeah! I can eat titans!"

Of all things, that was one of the reasons why I didn't necessarily want them to join us in case they slow us down with incidents such as those.

By the way, just as a side note. Are you wondering when I started acting so mature? Oh. In case you didn't know, I forcefully aged my mentality to match one of a grown man.

Back to reality. Yay...

Artemis glared menacingly at Apollo before turning to face me and continuing," We, as I was saying, are children of Zeus, god of the sky. Therefore, we have more powerful auras than others even though we are still godlings. Do not underestimate us. Now, as I was about to say before I was rudely interrupted." She sent another meaningful glare at Apollo before resuming her speech," We accept."

Apollo piped up," Yeah!"

He then proceeded to turn around and strolled right into a tree, banging his abnormally long nose in the process. He spun around a bit before crashing to the ground with a loud THUD!

"Ooh..." I winced slightly," That must've hurt."

Linebreak

We trekked across the final stretch of land that separated us from the official Spartan territory declared by Pallas Athena. Then, we would officially be declaring war and therefore, summoning Ares.

Apollo had successfully recovered from his concussion and was clutching his bandaged nose like it would fall off.

It had been difficult to convince and persuade my fellow comrades (The Delphians) since they thought that someone who waltzed right into a tree would only burden them instead of proving to be an asset, but I knew better.

It was obvious that since I was going against Ares, a child of Zeus, then I would need at least one (1) child of Zeus to avoid angering the king of the gods.

Anyway. Back to the marathon of pain and boredom.

Apollo kept on complaining, bugging not only me but everyone else too.

Thankfully, Artemis was a master at the arts of anti-sibling everything.

"Apollo..." She threatened, startling the Delphians. They had initially thought that the auburn-haired godling was harmless and was just a 'princess' in disguise. Well...

I'd like to say that they were right... But that is considered lying.

She was a ruthless merciless killing machine.

One particular guy, who obviously didn't apprehend what had occurred just a few minutes ago, asked her if he could carry her bow since it seemed relatively heavy (he found it heavy but still, he asked very politely, I must say. He didn't even seem like he was flirting). However, Artemis just turned around, expressionless, and struck him in the face, along with the sound effect of him groaning and a loud ping (courtesy of Apollo) as he got socked with a sickening CRACK!

After scolding Artemis and bandaging the poor man's face, Apollo somehow diagnosed him with a broken jaw and probably internal bleeding. Luckily, he was a demigod.

I was the one who figured it out. As I was dressing his wound, I observed a faint aura being emitted from his body. It was a stormy grey. It reminded me of Athena's eyes.

After I reported my findings to Artemis and Apollo, who's ego deflated like a balloon, they instantaneously lit up and described to me how their mother had once informed them about the fact that certain gods could sense who the godly parent of a demigod was.

After those unfortunate turn of events, the monsters arrived.

A group of Laistrygonians trudged towards us, looking like they were craving something Or more precisely... A godling.

"Hey!" The biggest one growled in a low voice," Come over here! Joe Bob wants something to eat, and godlings are babycakes' favourite snack! Maybe I can even get a few doggy bags for babycakes!"

Apollo, being the dim-witted one, answered quite quickly," Is babycakes a dog? Because if so, then why does he or she like eating-"

Joe Bob, the leader, interrupted Apollo, a low growl coming from the back of his throat," Joe Bob does not like you!" He pointed to the now cowering archer and sneered," You are going down first."

I caught the eye of a former soldier. He had decided to join us along with all of the other guards who were told to escort us and their families. I pointed a single finger at his spear. A sign that said to get the others ready. He nodded barely. Unless you were paying attention, you wouldn't have seen the exchange and even then you'd still have a hard time identifying our plans.

At an unseen signal, all of his cronies, himself included, pulled out rocks the size of their heads, which were shockingly big but probably contained a pea-sized brain and empty air, and threw them at rapid succession.

The good news was that Artemis was on the case, and instantly whipped out two (2) of her knives and cut five (5) boulders in one by one.

The bad news? Oh. It's nothing. There were only four (8) boulders left. Half of which was flying towards us while the other half was flying towards the citizens of Delphi.

Artemis POV

As I finished slicing through the boulders, I turned around to analyse the situation.

Currently, the Giants were throwing an endless supply of giant boulders at three different targets.

Five giants were targeting me; four were aiming at Apollo and Percy, and the last four were focused solely on the Delphians. Joe Bob, their 'leader', watched from a distance, betting with another Laistrygonians about which squadron would take out their intended targets first.

I felt something moving through the air behind me and flipped, doing an aerial three-sixty degree (360ยบ) turn in mid-air. I quickly sheathed my knives and in one fluent motion, I pulled out my bow, notched an arrow, and shot it. I landed on solid ground and turned. The arrow darted through the air, spinning like a top.

The projectile that was heading towards me was a boulder. My arrow pierced through the hard stone exterior and exited out the back, full speed before it lodged itself in one (1) of the Giants' forehead. he roared before melting into dust.

That one act seemed to strengthen the resolve of the Delphians because it caused an uproar and two (2) of the Giants dissolved into golden dust.

I pulled out another arrow and dashed towards my next victim.

A Laistrygonian was preparing a cannonball when I ran full speed up his body vertically, running the tip of my arrow tail-deep across his body. When I reached his head, I kicked off of his head, sending him flying.

When he reached solid ground again, all that was left was sparkling golden dust.

I caught glimpses of the others fighting. Percy seemed to be using water as a sort of speed booster to speed him up. He wielded a sword with greater efficiency than most of our allies but it was obvious that he was only toying with them.

I didn't even bother to waste one of my arrows to finish off the last Giant. I took out both of my daggers and in a quick flash, the Laistrygonian's head surgery was complete.

Everyone was silent. It felt wrong and strange.

I scanned the area to assess our current condition.

All in all, none of us were fatally injured. A few of the citizens of Delphi had minor grazed their arms and legs.

Apollo, however, had a bleeding temple, but it would only take a little nectar to heal that sort of wound.

I called out to Percy, informing him of our current condition," Everyone is fine! All I need is some nectar for Apollo! Can you take inventory too?"

He nodded, passed me some nectar and jogged off, congratulating everyone on the way to the back, where our supplies were being carried, safe from any frontal harms.

Meanwhile, I marched towards Apollo and flung him the flask of Nectar Percy gave me. He caught it with almost no problems.

Notice I said 'almost'.

He had relatively good hand-eye coordination but still fumbled a bit before he caught it and drank some, pouring the rest into his wound.

As I strolled up to him, he started a conversation, which usually led to an argument," Did you see how many I killed? Like, thirty (30)!"

I groaned in annoyance. Literally? Apollo's ego was probably as big as dad's.

I pulled out my knife and pretended to examine it," Do you see this knife?"

He nodded, stiffening up. I guess he was smart enough to foresee a threat beforehand.

I continued, even though he knew. It would likely strengthen the feeling of fear he was about to get. "It's made of silver. Sharp enough to cut through even the toughest of hides."

He visibly gulped and I grinned, rather sadistically actually.

I wrapped my threat in a nice, pretty bow. "Well, if you don't stop overinflating your already large ego, it'll be the last thing you see."

He shuddered and nodded slowly, not losing eye contact in fear that I would take it as a sign of disrespect or something. I don't know how boys, let alone this dim child, work.

Before things could get any more tense or awkward between us, Percy came back, grinning like a maniac," The Laistrygonians were carrying some supplies and guess what? They had a bunch of weapons that they took from travellers. I found a couple celestial bronze weapons as well as a hundred (100) more arrows. By the way, I was meaning to ask. How did you destroy those Laistrygonians with weapons made of mortal metals? I enchanted mine but what did you do?"

I smirked slyly as I twirled my knives in my hands," Your not the only one knows that knows that trick."

He chuckled jovially and waved me off. He continued," So we still have enough food to last us about three days, which is more than enough, as well as some extra weapons, about two-hundred (200) grams of salve and nine (9) flasks of nectar."

I, satisfied, asked," So where are we going now?"

He wheeled around and pointed at a wall that had temples towering over it," The rebels told me to bring everyone over there by noon. We should find them there.

"Got it, boss!" I saluted mockingly. One (1)second later, we were rolling around on the ground after we cracked up.

Linebreak

After organising the Delphians, we sent home some of our fighters in case we failed the raid so that they could get the children to safety.

We marched forward in the formation of two rectangles. The front consisted of the melee fighters (e.g. swordsmen, spearmen, and knife-wielders) and Percy while the back was made up of the archers, including Apollo and I, and the elderly, who insisted on supporting us but settled with carrying our supplies.

We stopped about seventy-five (75) metres from the city just so that the guards wouldn't get suspicious and alert the king.

Obviously, Percy scouted out the area and made sure that the guards loyal to the king were... Out of commission. The guards who were currently taking the following shift were in league with the rebels.

However, it didn't hurt to take extra precautions. In the event that we did get caught, we were to tell them that we were bringing the women and elderly as a sacrifice for the Olympians and that we were heading to Olympus.

As we drew near to the outskirts, I saw something that nearly made my heart stop. By the gate of the city, the king's personal guards were marching towards us, three (3) catapults being pulled behind them. Up ahead, the army up front stopped abruptly.

"What's going on?" Apollo inquired obliviously. Looks like his mind was wandering.

"Seriously?" I asked rhetorically.

Obviously, it seemed Apollo didn't notice his mistakes. "What?"

I groaned in frustration. However, I forgot the question and moved to a completely different matter. His cluelessness. I would have lost my mind if it hadn't been trapped in its torture room while this kind of thing went on.

"You know, If I wasn't a decent person, your head would be in the number two (2) pile," I mentioned aggressively.

"Cool! Thanks." He interrupted, taking the fact (Yes. Fact) as a sign of me accepting him but I wasn't finished with him yet. My lecture/rant wasn't even half-way (50%) done yet.

"I wasn't finished yet," I growled, losing my temper despite the current situation we were in," I was about to say: If I wasn't a decent person, your head would be in the number two (2) pile... BUT!"

I roared the connective, maybe putting too much force into my voice. "I would feel sorry for the pile."

He flinched, a few visible tears leaking out of his wide, blue eyes, but quickly wiped them away. I caught them though. Miniscule droplets of H2O (water) riding down the mountain that was his face.

I sighed.

Maybe I was being a bit too harsh. OK... A lot too harsh.

I knew what it was like to be shunned and insulted. I never fit in with all the other inhabitants of Delos. The nymphs would just fade into the trees or their source whenever I was near.

The opposite could be said about Apollo. He was very popular with them because he knew what they liked to talk about that joked around with them.

I knew I had a very strained brother-sister relationship with him, but I never thought it would get to the point where I would openly and recurringly insult him to his face.

I was a bad person. A very bad person. I don't deserve to be his sister. I felt tears prick my vision but I held them back.

I needed to be strong. For Apollo... And I... I needed to stay strong for both of us. I couldn't break down during the war. He was the one who needs someone to lean on.

"I... I'm... So... Sor... Sorry. I'm sorry. OK?" I was having a hard time backing down at this point, but I persevered. However, if it was anyone else other than my brother or my mother, I would have crushed them like a bug at the time through verbal abuse.

I know. I know. I was kind of a bully, but I had a short temper. Very short.

I swallowed my pride and continued," I shouldn't have done that. It was wrong and rude and-"

He cut me off, softly this time, like I was a small child. Which I kind of was. "I know... It's OK. Now let's go see what's going on up front."

Turning around to face the commotion, he scrambled past the other archers and made his way to the front, me trailing slightly behind him.

I could only hope that Percy was holding the fort with the guards...

That's a wrap! Now, onto the important stuff.

I've put up a poll on my account but you guys can also just vote in the form of a review.

I would appreciate it if you guys could read through these and vote.

The Curse of Eros - Before everything - After accidentally and unknowingly offending Eros, Percy is cursed with the best looks in existence. Now he must avoid crazed centaurs, obsessive gods, and all the campers within camp half-blood, all while trying to save the world and while resisting the urge to act vain.

When You look Deeper - Set after HOO - Percy, Leo and Nico had just come back from a holiday when they are attacked by the Maniea (greek embodiments of insanity and madness). Percy is cursed and in a rush, Nico and Leo bring him to the gods, who say the only way to partially save him is to give him split personalities. This backfired and caused Percy to get sent back to the winter of which the Titan's Curse occurred.

It's About Time - Set straight after TLO - Percy had just witnessed all his friends die. Kronos won. Grover. Dead. Thalia. Dead. Annabeth. Dead. All of them. He, in his state of depression, used every ounce of his power to go back in time and attempt to rewrite history. He needed to save his friends. No matter what the consequences were. However, by doing so, he is playing with forces so strong that one wrong move could change Percy's life. Join Percy as he tries to change the past, present, and future. He doesn't know what he's doing but after Hermione Granger's super OP stunt with the time turner. I think it's about time.

Kronos, Fate, and Percy - Around the time of TLO and sent back to before The Lightning Thief - After overthrowing the gods, the son of Kronos, Percy, was supposed to join the Titans and finally receive his domains. However, Ananke appears along with the fates, explaining the situation. He was supposed to be a son of Poseidon and the gods were supposed to win, but something went wrong and now Percy has to leave his old life behind and embrace the future.

Thanks in advance. Remember to vote in the form of a review or on the poll located on my account page.

Signing off,
~MasterGravity