Chapter 4 Old Friends

Percy ran through the woods a breakneck pace, he didn't want to give those wolves another opportunity, especially since they nearly killed him the last time they had one, he knew that his best option was getting out of the forest, or at least the best he could think of at the moment. He was thinking that if he just kept running he would eventually run out of woods or at least maybe the wolves would give up the chase. After a few hours of the sprinting the now very tired young Percy Jackson sat down nearby to a small stream, which made Percy feel safe, and started to think over what had just happened in the last few hours.

"I am a young kid again, the fates have abandoned me, I have no idea of where I am, and most importantly a pack of wolves attacked me," thought Percy out loud, "What I would give for Riptide!" Then it hit Percy Riptide couldn't help him, the blade wouldn't hurt the wolves, but might scare them off. "I wish Annabeth was here she would know what do-" said Percy cut off by a figure starting to appear in the stream in front of him, Percy went for Riptide, but a quick pat down reminded him that he no longer had his beloved pen sword combo. As the figure formed more, Percy started to recognize him, "Po- Poseidon?"

"You can call me dad," replied the figure, who was almost the complete form of Poseidon. "You obviously know who I am, I know you are my son based of healing from the pond, before you ask I just stumbled across your use of powers, but I only have one son Percy Jackson, and you aren't him. So who are you and how do you know I am Poseidon?"

Percy gulped and was seriously panicked internally for a second, he didn't know if the not telling anybody applied to his own father, but Percy for once was not going to take a risk and decided he was going to lie. "Well-" Percy started to respond, but was cut off by the God of the Seas.

"Before you lie know that I am a god and I will smite you off the face of earth, for any lies." interrupted the God.

Percy was caught between a rock and a hard place. Percy was about to raise his voice to speak a lie and looked at his father and decided to tell the whole truth. "You might want to sit down, this is going to take a while." said Percy who proceed to tell Poseidon the whole truth, not leaving out a detail. Telling him about the rise of the Titans, how he fought Luke, how he got sent back in time, all the way up to getting attacked by wolves and that he wasn't supposed to tell anyone who really was.

After he finished telling the story, Poseidon got up and started to walk around and after a few minutes turned to Percy and said "Well that was certainly something, I am proud of you son, and all that you have done for us, you deserve to live in Atlantis beside me, but Zeus would find out and have you killed, or my wife you kill you first. Either way staying there wouldn't be good in the long run. There is a place, where there is very little risk of you getting killed by the gods while being there, but you are too young to go there right now."

Percy looked at his father and said deadly serious, "You must not act or talk to anyone about what I have told you, you know what happens when someone tries to change the past, it fights back." staring dead in the eyes of his father unwavering till he heard a response he would like.

"You must know that I value loyalty above all else, and if what you told me is true, which I believe it to be, you have been more loyal to Olympus than some of the Gods. I would never betray you, even if that was untrue you are my son and one must never betray blood no matter how much they want to. No one will hear a word, and I won't act differently from what you told me. Though it would be funny to tell Zeus that his own son, Ares had the bolt." replied Poseidon, his words full of truth, making his son believe him, and even making him laugh at the end.

Poseidon started to walk back to the stream, and Percy cleared his throat to get his attention. "Can you get me out of this forest, please. It feels like I have been wandering around for a few hours and it feels like I have made no progress towards my goal of leaving these woods. A little help would go along way." said the demigod begging for a quick way out of the forest. The god turned around smiled, looked Percy in the eye and snapped, suddenly the demigod started to dissolve into a mist and disappeared. Poseidon continued to walk towards the stream whistling a sea shanty as he went. He almost made it back to the stream when his way was blocked by the wolves.

"Neptune, where's the kid?" asked the head wolf.

"I have no idea of who you are referring too, Lupa."

"You most certainly do know, your son, the one who shouldn't exist, let alone walking around by himself in these woods, at his young age."

"I still don't know who you are talking about, I didn't see any young kid around here."

"Stop lying we all know you took him somewhere, tell us where!"

"Remember who you are talking to, wolf! You are talking to one of the Big Three, and you are accusing me of lying."

"Well if you are telling the truth you wouldn't mind us going straight to Jupiter with this. I would bet he would love to know about him."

"Fine, I know who you are looking for, and NO before you ask I will not help you find him, I promised to keep him out of the action for a while. I don't care what you want me to do in return, just don't tell either one of my brothers, they won't stop hunting him till he is dead."

AN So that's all for today, but before I leave you, I would like to hear your opinion on a few things. What should Percy's new name be, should Percy go straight Lupa and grow up there or on the streets, and lastly where should Percy end up on the other side of vapor? Please review I would like to hear your opinion and thoughts on those issues. Have a nice weekend! -Kate