Percy POV
The celebration went by great and I got my fill on food. The cake was just delicious, best I ever had in my life (don't tell mom), it had lots of fruit on top and inside and had a sweet vanilla taste. I don't know why the campers did a huge gesture like that but I'm sure grateful we have all of their support.
I never been one to notice hints of affection from girls but I noticed a few of them today. I caught like almost all of the Aphrodite girls looking at me with huge amounts of lechery, much alike Drew, but that was to be expected. What surprised me was that most of the other girls on the camp instantly blushed if I gave them direct eye contact, even Annabeth but I could tell her loyalty was with Clayton. Not that I want her to want me, just stating what I noticed. Anyway, it is not like I want to get with more girls at the camp, I love Clarisse but if I did not have her, it would be really hard to restrain myself with no loyalty and love binding me to Clarisse.
The gathering had ended and most of the cake was almost finished, I helped pass the rest of the cake. As I was handing out the rest of the cake Katie Gardner handed me her plate, I took the plate, placed a slice with a biggest strawberry on it and gave her a warm smile. Katie blushed, she smiled shyly at me and I noticed a twinkle in her eyes when she looked at me which made me blush in return. Katie had always been cute and kind but I never knew she felt that way about me and I don't know why I liked it. I guiltily glanced over at the future mom of my child but she seemed oblivious to what happened as she was clearly trying to move her legs with very little success, bummer.
I walked over to Clarisse and looked at her smiling like an idiot. After a few seconds Clarisse stopped struggling with her legs and glanced in my direction. She saw me, blushed and looked at the ground.
"How is it going my love?" Clarisse looked up and seemed caught in thought for a few seconds.
"I can move my legs a little bit but I still can't stand up. It's embarrassing, a myriad of campers have given me playful smiles and many have come over only to smirk. If I could move them I swear I would have already knocked over half of the campers to the ground," Clarisse said in a clearly irritated tone. I went up to Clarisse and sat down next to her. I put my hand on her thigh and Clarisse raised an eyebrow at my action.
"Oh Clarisse," I basically moaned her name, "if you could move I can think of better things we could be doing than knocking down a few campers. You are lucky you can't move them... yet." I wiggled my eyebrows and Clarisse eyes widened in shock of my suggestion. She tried to scowl but when I gave her my signature smile, a shade of pink covered her face in seconds and she later turned a fiercer shade of red.
I laughed and looked around, most of the campers had left and the pavilion was cleaned. I shot a quick glance over at Katie and saw her looking at me before she shyly looked away. This is really troubling thing to happen to me right now, I thought. I love Clarisse and I will never cheat on her, she is the mother of my future child for gods sake. I picked up Clarisse bridal style and looked deep into her eyes. Clarisse looked back at me but just smiled meekly. She looked so beautiful and vulnerable and for some reason it turned on. I was ashamed of my actions but at the same time my rising member was telling me to go in and it was pretty hard to ignore it (pun intended).
I carried Clarisse to my cabin and laid her on my bed. Clarisse seemed worried about my intentions but probably figured I would not do anything like that since she could not feel her legs.
"Clarisse, do you want to stay in my cabin from now on?" She had a look of surprised plastered on her face and then seemed to be thinking really hard about my proposal.
"My father does not have other children here and you are now carrying my child. My father has always been understanding and well you now have his legacy in your belly, he won't mind for sure. It would make sense you stay with me as I could not watch over you in the Ares cabin and we could have more together time." I finished my reasoning in the most seductive tone possible. I saw Clarisse squint her eyes at me and a grin crept on her face
"Together time? What exactly would that consist of?" Clarisse asked teasingly. Why Clarisse why must you do this to me? I blushed as I thought about our "together time" and looked away from Clarisse in embarrassment. She was clearly enjoying herself as she started to laugh.
I composed myself and looked at Clarisse seriously, "it's getting late Clarisse, we should go to sleep and hopefully by tomorrow you will have working legs again." Clarisse nodded and pulled out the sheets to cover herself. I took my shirt off and walked towards the bed. Clarisse eyed my body and bit her lip in the most discreet way possible but I noticed it.
"Like what you see?" If Clarisse could tease me so could I. She blushed and looked away. I laid down and covered myself as well, I turned over to hug Clarisse and held her tightly by her waist. This is the good life, going to sleep with a beautiful woman that loves you.
"Clarisse I love you," I whispered in her ear.
"I love you too Percy," she said as she grabbed my hands tightly. With a smile on my face I drifted to sleep thinking that my life could not get any better.
Ares POV
"Is that all you got punk? For a god of strength you are pretty weak." I said at the pathetic excuse for a god of strength. He unleashed a fury of full force attacks with his sword but he was slow and untrained. I may not be a great strategist in battle as Athena but for a warrior like myself it is easy to trick, fight and defeat fools like this one in battle. Relying solely on his strength and expecting to win battles by sheer force, he will never win a war like that, he is not fit to be called a god of war much less a true warrior.
"Disappointing, I thought the so called god of strength would actually prove a challenge to an old god of war. In battle you would be useless, all that strength and no speed, truly a waste of a god." So easily manipulated and dumb. Only a little bit more trash talk and he will be a mindless brute I thought. "You know, you are just like your sister Nike, when I was done with her she could barely move." Kratos was seriously looking pissed off at the moment, I could see he cared for his sister. Truth is, I never fought her as she was too busy to spar but Kratos did not know that. "I do have to say she put a better fight in bed than she did in battl-" I stopped as a sword was swung at me by an angry god of strength. He went full force and was a bit faster but he was still slow. Even that damned sea spawn put a better fight than this worthless god.
"You will regret you ever did that to my sister you Olympian piece of shit!" I easily dodged his strikes and as soon as he stopped his barrage of aimless and wild slashes, I disarmed the raging god. I put the tip of my blade at his neck, I pushed it in a bit to let it make a flesh wound and smiled when the golden ichor slid down his throat.
"Don't forget to take your sword with you before you leave Kratos," I sheathed my sword and flashed into my palace. I went to my kitchen and took out some leftover spicy chicken wings from my trip to the mortal world. I did not need to eat, being a god, but they were some good stuff. I removed my weighted wristbands to get rid of the 50 pounds weighing down each of my arms, I heated up the wings and started to eat.
I couldn't help but to think about my daughter Clarisse. She chose that punk over her own father and that was unforgivable, she needed to be on my side and help me regain my pride. Thinking about that spawn always stressed me out. I figured it was time to pay my piece of ass a visit to relieve some of my pent up stress. I have kind of been ignoring her for the past few years but she always came back like a loyal puppy. Maybe she can help me break up their relationship before the kid gets into my daughter's pants. Just thinking about that sea scum made my blood boil. I flashed into Aphrodite's palace, just being in this place made my dick rise.
"Ares, what are you doing here?" She asked. Aphrodite was in a pink bathing robe and had no makeup on. My guess is that she just stepped out of the shower.
"You know, things are getting stressful and I need some sort of ...release." I walked slowly to her and licked my lips seductively. She turned away as if not interested and sat down in the couch.
"I'm not really in the mood Ares, you ignore me for years and then expect me to come back to you? Go find yourself some mortal to do that with because I'm not interested," I was shocked, what the hell got into her? Not interested? She was always drooling over me and now she was the one saying no? Coming here was not helping me out at all. I guess I'll just come back later when she is not in her female moody time. If she's not going to help me by spreading her legs, she might as well be useful and help me with that other thing I wanted to talk to her to do.
"Clarisse fell in love with the sea brat." I finally said. "I need you to break them apart as soon as possible, before he tries anything funny with her." I looked at Aphrodite with a serious glare so she knew she could not say no. Instead she just laughed and gave me a huge grin.
"Well I'm afraid that's not possible my dear Ares." Aphrodite said with fake sympathy. "They have true love and are not breaking up anytime soon. There is nothing I can do about it." So my visit to the whore was useless after all. Now I'm really pissed off, she said there was nothing she could do about it. If I wanted them apart I would have to kill that spawn of Poseidon which was something that will come with dire consequences like losing my daughter and the wrath of the many gods that actually liked him.
"Besides," my thoughts were interrupted by Aphrodite. "They already did what you feared the most. He took her for a wild ride, they were at it for hours." Aphrodite was clearly enjoying this as that stupid whore was smiling like no tomorrow. I still can't believe that he had his way with my daughter! The piece of shit sea scum deflowered my daughter! I will not stand for this. I was beyond pissed at the moment. That scum was going to pay for what he did to my daughter.
"Also Clarisse is now pregnant with his child, after going at her for hours she was bound to get pregnant you know?" Aphrodite was grinning like an idiot and I was shocked to say the least. The sea brat is so dead I thought, I don't care if I experience the wrath of the entire Olympian council and my daughter hates me for the rest of my life. Perseus Jackson is Dead.
NO POV
Three old women, were looking at the sleeping couple with grim expressions on their faces. They were the fates and as much as they were cursed for what happened to people's lives they had carry on with what fate itself forced them to do, it was their duty, not doing what fate had in stored will bring terrible consequences for everyone.
"The boy sure looks happy," said one of the sisters.
"His fate was altered by the hand of Himeros," said the other sister.
"His happy life must soon be ended," the third sister said as she eyed a thread of life and readied her shears.
"We are sorry Perseus," the first sister said with sincerity.
"May you find peace after this," The second sister continued looking grim as her sister.
The third sister could not make herself do it. It was not fair, she always had to make difficult decisions as the fate that severs the strings of life but this one had been the most difficult yet. Percy deserved a good life but the curse of Himeros altered with fate and made him reach his destined happiness too quickly.
She looked at the string and decided to give him a bit more time with Clarisse. She could push fate itself to the limits but she could not fight it. A string will be cut without a doubt, a bit more time was all she could give him.