NO POV

Ares was not thinking clearly and had succumbed to his rage. He was determined to kill Percy and nobody was going to stop him. Ares was not stupid and knew that Percy will put up a fight, last time he lost because he was enraged and slipped a bit. Ares fumed at the thought of Percy, even after years of training he could still match him blow for blow.

"The stupid kid is going to pay for that," Ares murmured to himself. He put on his weighted wristbands and put on his heaviest battle armor. Ares needed to train more before he could go and challenge Percy again and his heavy armor was going to make him faster, stronger and at last he will end him.

Ares felt cake offerings from his children at camp and felt greatly empowered. That must be some real good cake, curiosity got the best of him and he decided to check on his children. He saw a few of his kids and the entire camp celebrating and the cake made sense. Ares flashed to the Olympus Arena where he saw Athena practicing with a replicas of her godly spear and aegis.

"Care you spar Athena? I need to blow off some steam and you could use some practice by the way you handle that spear." Athena glared at Ares and launched her attack. Ares smiled and matched her blow for blow with his own spear. Athena was a skilled warrior but she lacked strength and speed. Ares figured it was because she was a female and her anatomy prevented her from being truly a match. Maybe before she could have stood a chance but after my years of training and fighting the giants in the war I could defeat any Olympian short of the big three.

Athena was growing frustrated that she could not hit Ares. She was trying to think of the best way to beat ares but his strength and speed were vastly above hers. Ares is arrogant and thinks himself superior and could easily slip. However from the looks of it he's been practicing for a few years and most of his movements were pure muscle memory. That's it! Athena did an extremely reckless move that Ares would have never expected. She dove the butt of her spear on the floor, placed her shield on her face, rammed it towards Ares and kicked him on the shin of his right foot. Ares was surprised by this as it let Athena without vision of her opponent and Ares had to resort to changing his footing and losing his balance. Athena quickly grabbed her spear and in a fraction of a second dove it into Ares' thigh.

"Arggg!" Screamed Ares, it had not been Athena's godly weapon but it still hurt like shit and it punctured a major artery. Ares fell to the floor when he looked up he saw Athena's smug smile on her face.

"This was a worthy battle brother. You are strong and fast, a true warrior indeed Ares. However you are repetitive and can't handle surprises. Your lack of thinking outside the box and reliance on muscle memory shall be your undoing one day." Athena gave her brother a sad smile and flashed out of the Arena.

Ares felt humiliated, all his strength, speed and practice and yet Athena still managed to defeat him. Ares was outraged and hated his sister for being right and proving it on his face. Forget it he told himself, your real enemy is Jackson. End him and be done with the troubling mortal. Athena is a woman and insulted your pride once again but she has not deflowered your daughter, she has not made you the joke of other war gods, she has not put your own daughter against you.

Ares nodded to himself and smiled when he remembered her still had his weighted wristbands and heavy armor on. He remembered he had his heavy wristbands when he fought the sea spawn. After he killed Percy he was going to fight Athena at his best with light armor and no handicaps. Ares smiled and tried to stand up only to remember he had a ruined leg and cursed himself. He flashed to Apollo's temple and knocked on his door still on the floor.

The door opened and a happy Apollo stood before him until he realized the condition Ares was in. "Whoa Ares, what did Athena do to you this time?" Apollo snapped his finger and Ares was soon in his reserved bed in Apollo's palace.

"You know, the same that she did a few years ago when we still trained together. Only today she dug her entire spear into my thigh and now I'm bleeding gallons of ichor from a severed artery," Ares told his brother, Apollo winced and brought some godly food.

"Take this brother", he handed it to Ares who immediately consumed the huge piece of ambrosia. "This injury is not something to be taken lightly Ares, you will probably have to remain in bed for the next three weeks". Ares was seriously pissed off now. Three weeks without training, three weeks of Percy getting stronger nailing his daughter while he's in a bed doing nothing? Apparently his revenge was put on hold by the fates but to Ares it did not matter. Mark my words Percy, you will never be happy with my daughter. I don't care what it costs, but your happiness with my daughter will be short lived. I swear it on the Styx.

Clarisse POV

This is the second day I woke up in someone's arms and I loved it. I turned around to see a drooling Percy and could not help to smile. I tried to stand up and luckily my legs responded. I stretched and walked out of the Poseidon Cabin. It was a beautiful day, the campers were getting ready for training or were socializing. It was at that moment that I realized I did not have friends besides Percy and my siblings but they are kind of forced too. I wanted to share my happiness, I want to have as many friends as Percy. He is liked by everyone and I'm disliked. We were not the same at all, I don't even know what he saw in me. There are so many hotter, nicer and smarter girls he could have chosen from but he chose me for some reason.

Are the campers even my friends? I have knocked them down again and again. I have bullied them and never treated them with respect as their skills placed them beneath me. Yet yesterday, they cheered for Percy and I, they said they were happy for us as if I have been their friend for all of their lives. Sure, I have saved the lives of many in the past few years but that was because it was expected of me as a hero.

Percy is the one they like, maybe if I tried being nicer to people they will like me too. I looked around to see If I found anyone that could possibly be my friend. I saw Annabeth chatting with a few other girls and giggling like mad men. I went towards their direction to try to see what they were talking about.

"-then he picked up the sword and was glued to it for the next week." Said Jamie Collins bursting into laughter with the rest of the girls. She was a petite girl with bright blue eyes and curly dirty blond hair. She was obviously a daughter of Hermes as she had a mischievous smile. She was about fifteen so had only been in the battle against the Romans.

"Hi," I interrupted shyly. The five girls looked at me shocked that I would be with them and looked at Annabeth who just smiled back at me.

"Hi Clarisse, how are you today? I see you can move your legs again." Annabeth said with a huge grin and the rest of the girls were struggling not to burst out into laughter at my situation from yesterday. I did not know how to reply, Annabeth was teasing me and I was about to burst out but I reminded myself that Annabeth has no ill will towards me, she just playful and sometimes sounds meaner than intended without realizing it.

I gave Annabeth a playful glare but stepped closer to the group. Annabeth seemed a bit scared but when I gave her a small smile she seemed relieved.

"It was worth it, no regrets there." I said and directed a smug smile to the group of girls who then looked extremely embarrassed. I recognized most of the girls in the group by now. One of them was Allie Clark, a daughter of Apollo of about fourteen. She was pretty, tall, slim, blond and had a bright smile like her father. She was really good at the range and would make an excellent hunter, I figured. Besides her was Katie Gardner, she was the head of Demeter cabin and had been in the past wars although she never actually fought, more like supported from the back-lines as much as she could. She was average in size but had a beautiful smile and a nice developed body although she never had a boyfriend because of her bossy attitude. She had green eyes almost as bright as Percy's and short brown hair, what caught my attention was she was completely flushed and did not look me in the eye.

The third girl was called Miranda Flowers and was probably the prettiest of us all. She looked about sixteen and I remember her fighting in the giant war defending the camp. She had brown hair, matching eyes, was tall and almost as developed as Katie. She was also blushing furiously which made me realize these two girls liked Percy. I narrowed my eyes at the daughter of Iris and she looked away clearly embarrassed she was having such a strong reaction.

The last girl was Olive Lennon, not as pretty as the rest but was not ugly. She had a moderate and toned body like mine, warm brown eyes with matching brown hair. She looked about sixteen and had a tanned body. She was a daughter of Hephaestus who helped put traps and build automatons on the last war and was now helping with the construction of New Athens. She and Annabeth were not blushing as hard as the others but I could tell they were all imagining what a very naked Percy could do to them and that was irksome.

I coughed to get all their attention and they all looked at me embarrassed some not catching my eyes. "I would like to thank all of you for what happened yesterday, it was really nice of all the campers to support our future especially since I felt like I did not deserve to be treated that way." I said. It was true, I felt like the campers only did it for Percy and I was just part of the package. It was time for a new me, one that would be just like Percy and loyal to her friends.

The girls looked at me and Olive spoke. "You are one of us Clarisse, you lead the camp to battle and train the campers. You have saved the lives of us plenty of times and are a hero. You deserve to be happy too." I smiled at Olive and gave her a nod of appreciation.

"Yeah and Percy makes you very happy, at least from what we heard from the day before yesterday," said Jaime with mirth in her eyes. I immediately flushed and heard the rest of the girls start cracking up. We spent the entire day together and time seemed to fly as we learned about each other's lives. When we were eating, I noticed Percy eating with the Stolls and Clayton. He glanced over at me and gave me a warm smile that told me everything I needed to hear. I was happy and talked to my new friends until the end of the day.

"You are doing this for Percy, right?" asked Annabeth as we exited the pavilion. The other girls looked at us curiously trying to figure out what Annabeth meant as she seemingly popped the question out of nowhere. Annabeth was really smart in that regard and picked up on things, truly worthy of a daughter of Athena.

"You could say that I am in a way, but I really liked all of you. I realized that besides Percy I had nobody that I could really call a friend." Annabeth nodded and seemed to understand what I meant. We were kind of friends but there was always that distance we kept as we had very little in common. The other girls looked a bit sad as they knew I was always training and was a loner for the most part.

"Well no need for that now Clarisse. I think I speak for the rest of us when I say you can consider any of us a friend." Allie said. For some reason I got teary eyed and we all leaned in for a big hug. If I had known having good friends felt like this I would have done been nicer a long time ago. We stopped hugging and parted ways after saying our goodbyes. I was about to go to Ares cabin when I remembered I was staying with Percy now.

Percy was waiting for me in the bed and smiled when I came into view and hopped into the bed. "How was your day with your new friends Clarisse?" He asked. Honestly it felt great. I loved Percy with all my heart but I definitely wanted to spend more time with them.

"It was great, they were nice and we bonded throughout the day. It felt good to just talk about our lives and not worry about anything." Percy nodded at me and gave me small kiss in the lips.

"You seemed pretty happy when I glanced over at you throughout the day." Percy said as he extended his arm over my waist.

"They are great. I would die for them" I said with sincerity. Percy froze for a second but just hugged me tighter and we drifted to sleep.