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Chapter 3 – Making more enemies and friends!

POV: Percy

We had laid there the entire night and I had been woken up again by Evelyn. Apparently she got hit so hard against her had that she couldn't remember what had happened, so when we started our journey again, I explained the entire fight to her.

"So now we're even." I smirked at her. She raised an eyebrow,

"What do you mean 'we're even'?"

"Well, you saved me from that empousa the other day and now I've saved you. So, I believe, I deserve, a thank you." I said stretching the 'I believe' part.

"Yeah right, don't get ahead of yourself. I bet that in a couple of days I've already saved your sorry butt twice." She smirked and I pouted at her.

I was about to make retort but got interrupted when we heard two people talking higher up at the mountain. We ran towards the sound and when I pushed some bushes away, I saw two people in a clearing. One seemed to be a man who looked to be very bulky, he wore an (men's) chiton (A/N: Look at the picture above) and seemed to have lion skin wrapped around his back like a cape. And the other person next to him was a girl, she had long dark hair braided down her back and she wore silk robes.

There was clearly something going on between the two.

I couldn't hear what they were saying so I decided that I should get a little closer. I turned around and faced Evelyn,

"You stay here, I'll go take a closer look." I told Evelyn and motioned to her still wrapped up ankle.

"Aawhh, why must you get all the fun?" She pouted.

'Because we don't get the fun, we are the fun.' Sophos said and I mentally smirked.

"You can get some next time." I smirked, "but seriously, stay here." She pouted and I rolled my eyes at her childishness.

I turned around, took my bow from my back, and crouched closer towards the two strangers.

"I need to go now, although I must thank you for your sword, pretty one." The man said, as he turned around and started to walk away. I could see he had a three-foot-long, shimmering bronze sword in his hand.

"Wait, Heracles! May I please join thee till at least the next village? Since I've helped thee retrieve a golden apple, my family will see me as a traitor and banish me from the gardens. I've got nowhere to go to." The girl begged the man as she grabbed his hand and forced him to turn around.

"I'm sorry pretty one, but I cannot take you on my journey seeing as you would mostly slow me down and I cannot guarantee your safety." Heracles said and he turned around and started walking again, away from the girl. The girl fell to her knees and tears streamed down her face as she saw the man, she just aided turning his back towards her. She didn't know what to do or where to go, she felt helpless.

I clenched my fist and I started to turn angry, seeing this jerk just abandoning someone who helped him, giving up her home in the process.

'Let's teach this dude some manners.' Sophos said.

'Good idea.'

I notched an arrow and made it turn silver (yes I've trained) and screamed, "Hey asshole!" before sending it flying away into Heracles' shoulder.

He turned around with a furious expression on his face.

"Who dared to shoot an arrow me?" His eyes scanned around the area before they landed on me and I smirked at him.

"You! How dare you! Do you even know how I am! I am Heracles, son of the almighty Zeus!"

"Why doesn't it surprise me that your one of his spawns?" I sighed and motioned towards the girl, "Look it's not nice to make a girl cry like that, you could've at least helped her after she helped you."

Heracles looked over at the teary-eyed girl with no regret at all and said, "As a man you should understand that taking a woman with you, brings bad luck." I raised my eyebrow at him, my face had a calm expression, but from the inside I was shaking with anger. Deciding that I had enough I said,

"I'm starting to turn angry and you don't want me angry. Now, please, get out of my face or the next arrow will be sticking out of your butt." He turned furious again and charged at me with his sword in front of him.

"You asked for it." I muttered under my breath before I started firing arrows at him. He ducked under the first one and rolled to the side of another one before getting hit in the thigh by another. He gritted his teeth and only sprinted harder at me. I fired one last arrow, which he blocked with his sword, before rolling to the side, dodging his swung at my head. As I stood up, I brought my bow up, using the same trick that I use with my arrows to make it turn silver, parrying a hit from his sword. In no time he swung again, towards my midsection and the tip of his sword hit my chest before I was able to push it to the side, leaving a bleeding wound behind (Remember I have no shirt and yes, it is very cold). He was strong I had to give him credit for that.

He was slight unbalanced for a second and I took advantage of that as I dropped my bow and swung my fist towards his head (which hurt my hand, he had a thick skull!), he staggered back again and I kicked his sword out of his hand which landed a couple of yards away.

Apparently, he didn't like that, because he surprised me by throwing his fist at my head, which I ducked under, before he kneed me in the stomach, making me fall backwards. I started to get really annoyed by this Heracles, my eyes flashed silver and I stood up and sprinted towards him putting my shoulder in front of me ramming into him, but I kept going ramming him into a tree.

I stepped away from him, seeing him slowly fall from the place I rammed him into the tree to the ground. He weakly attempted to get up, but I punched him in the face hearing a satisfying crack before seeing he was fully knockout.

A couple of seconds later, I now wore Heracles' chiton over my pants, which I had to admit looked maybe a little weird, but I didn't care. I also picked up the bronze sword which I had kicked out of his hand, and started walking back towards the girl, who was now looking in my direction with wide eyes.

"I believe this belongs to you." I said, handing her the sword, hilt first. She looked at me cautiously, before taking the sword and turning it into a hairpin before putting it in her hair.

"Thank you."

I smiled and said, "You don't need to thank me, I would've gladly done it another time. May I ask your name? Mine's Perseus Jackson or how my friend calls me, Percy."

"My name is Zoë." She reluctantly told her name. I grimaced; it would be hard to gain her trust after she got betrayed by Heracles.

"Well Zoë, I believe you don't have anywhere to go to now, do you?" I looked at her questioningly and she slowly nodded, so I continued, "And I think I can help you with your problem. You could travel with us."

She looked uncertainty, "What's the catch?"

I raised both my eyebrows in surprise, "The catch? There's no catch."

"And.. us? What do you mean by us?" She said cautiously and looked around. I nodded and pointed towards a bush were Evelyn was,

"Yes, me and my companion, Evelyn." Zoë looked a bit relieved when she saw a girl standing there.

"Eh.. Okay. I have nowhere else to go so.." She trailed off.

"Don't worry we won't hurt you." I smiled as I tried to reassure her, and we started walking towards Evelyn.

Evelyn looked at me questioningly as she saw Zoë walking beside me. "Zoë this is Evelyn, Evelyn this is Zoë, she will travel with us." Evelyn nodded at Zoë, but Zoë still looked very uncertain.

"Look there's one thing you need to know about me, my father.. he is a Titan, Atlas." Zoë said and she expected to get mad and disgusting looks or even worse that they would give her the cold shoulder and abandon her, but she was surprised to see them looking at her expectantly.

"So…?" Evelyn said.

"So that makes me a Titan as well and.. I understand that you don't trust me now and want to-" I interrupted her, "Are you like your father? Do you approve of the things he has done?"

"No, but.."

"Then you don't have to worry." I smiled reassuringly at her.

"But-" I interrupted her again. "Look Zoë, I'm also a Titan, okay? And I'm not like the others. I also don't approve of my father's actions." Zoë looked at me with wide eyes, "Who are your parents then?"

"My mother is Selene, and my father is Oceanus and just like your father, Atlas, he is one of the most hated by the gods, and a dangerous Titan. I chose not to follow the path of my father, but the path of my mother." Zoë's eyes widened further when I told her that my father was Oceanus.

'Look at her face.' Sophos commented and I mentally snorted, but kept a serious façade and continued talking,

"But it doesn't matter who your parents are. It's who you are, who you choose to be. If you choose to be like your father, then there was a reason to distrust you. But are you like your father, Zoë?" I asked again and looked her straight in the eyes. She stared straight back and said with confidence, "No. I'm not anything like him." I laid my hand on her shoulder and she flinched slightly, "Good. Then I don't have to worry about not trusting you." I smiled at her.

"Now you Evelyn." I said as I now put all my attention towards her. "I'm not letting you limp like that anymore, here let me help you." I put my arm over her shoulder, so she could lean on me and we started walking again. At first Evelyn protested, but after a couple of minutes she gave up, after she saw that I wasn't letting her walk without help.

-Time skip-

POV: 3rd Person

Zoë was now fully part of the group and they'd all become great friends. It was one time that they'd come across another big group of monsters, although this one was smaller than the first.

Evelyn was again in the midst of the battle fighting with her baseball bat, while Percy was shooting silver arrows from a distance. Zoë on the other hand, she was just standing next to Percy, not really knowing what to do, as she couldn't fight with a sword. Percy looks over his shoulder and sees Zoë standing there and decided to help her.

"Here, you can take my bow." Told Percy as he handed her his bow and a couple of his silver arrows. Zoë looked at him with wide eyes and says, "What about you then? Now you have no weapon."

Percy smirked at her and cracked his knuckles. "Guess I'll have to fight the old way then, with fists." Percy was about to run towards Evelyn and help her in close combat when Zoë stopped him,

"Wait!" She raised her hands towards her hair and took out the hairpin and offered it to Percy. "Here. You can use this." Percy's eyes widened and he said,

"Z-Zoë, I can't take that from you." Zoë just looked at him, she was even more sure now that this was the right decision. "Take it, you deserve it. I trust you. Besides, I don't like fighting with a sword." She said with a smile.

Percy slowly took it and then grinned, "I guess that I can't let you down then, thank you Zoë. Your trust won't be wasted." He sprinted away towards Evelyn. Zoë just rolled her eyes and chuckled. She knew she could trust him, and she was proud to have a friend like him.

A couple of minutes later, Zoë was almost out of arrows and Percy and Evelyn were panting and covered in sweat. Percy was happy that he finally had a sword again to fight with and showed that he was a great master with the weapon.

"Well that was fun." Evelyn said and Percy chuckled before his senses started to tingle and he looked around him alarmingly. Evelyn and Zoë seeing his change in demeanor turned both serious and scanned the area around them.

They saw a couple of times a silver flash through the woods, but just as fast as it came it was gone, almost making them believe that their eyes where betraying them. The three stood back to back with each other, all with their weapons out. Their attention was quickly focused towards a bush on their right which rustled.

Percy saw a flash of silver from behind and heard Sophos scream,

'Watch out! An arrow from behind!'

Thank you all for reading this chapter, I don't really have anything to say besides that I'm really happy that there are people who like my writing. Thank you all once again for reading this chapter and I hope to see you next chapter. Goodbye my lovely readers.

-Cashew