NO POV

"Any news from the attack on camp half blood?" Zeus asked the Olympian council a few hours after the attack.

"Yes father, it appears there was only one casualty and only few of the campers were injured in the surprise attack." said Athena as she glanced around the council daring anyone to say otherwise.

The Olympian council saddened at the new of a dead camper and figured it was one of the young ones that had been caught off guard.

"Yes, it is quite unfortunate when a new camper dies at the hands of a monster before they are properly trained," mumbled Zeus. He looked around the uneasy gods and noticed Ares was missing. "By the way Athena, why is Ares not here after I called this meeting about the attack on the camp? He should be thrilled there was some action in this few weeks of peace."

Athena did not want to be the one to break the news to Zeus but she figured nobody else would be willing to correct her father and also knew about the fallen warrior. "Actually father, the camper that died was Clarisse La Rue, the head counselor of the Ares cabin and she was a veteran and commander of both recent wars," said Athena in rapid manner to get it over with.

Most of the Olympians were shocked that such skilled warrior was killed on the attack to the camp. Aphrodite looked terrified at the recent news as she knew that Clarisse was pregnant with a child of Percy and both of them were very happy about it. Percy would be devastated she figured, it would hit him worse than when he broke up with Annabeth. She felt the necessity to tell the council but she did not know if she should address the matter at the moment.

"Ares was there when the attack happened," everyone looked over at Hestia who was sadly looking at the hearth. "When he saw Clarisse die before his eyes in a fit of rage he unleashed his true form obliterating all the monsters on the spot, he lost most of his power by breaking the ancient law." Hestia said. Being the goddess of family, Hestia knew Ares had suffered a heavy loss and was grieving his daughter to the point he had cried over her death.

The Olympians nodded and looked at Zeus who cleared his throat. "That explains why he is not in here at the moment. The only question I have was why was Ares on the camp at the time of the attack?" Zeus looked at Athena who he figured was probably the most well informed.

"I rather not say..." Athena said softly. Everyone was confused as to why Athena did not want to disclose information. Truth is Athena was scared of the reactions of the gods, specially the one of Poseidon if he heard the words "kill" and "Percy" coming from her mouth, luckily she was saved by the voice of the love goddess.

"He was there to kill Perseus," said Aphrodite. Almost everyone in the room was shocked. Why would Ares want to kill Percy they wondered, everyone except Poseidon, he was just incredibly enraged at the intent of his nephew.

"What do you mean he wanted to kill my son!?" Screamed the earth shaker. Poseidon wanted to flash over to Ares and kill him on the spot but he remembered Clarisse had just died before his very eyes and decided to calm down a bit."Why would Ares want such a thing?" He asked much calmer to the now frightened goddess of love.

Aphrodite wanted to disappear as everyone was looking at her wondering how she knew of this and never told anyone until right now. "He found out Clarisse making out with Percy a few weeks ago." Athena raised an eyebrow at this, just a few weeks ago he was heartbroken about my daughter but easily replaced her with the daughter of Ares, this is very strange.

"He fought with Perseus and knocked him down and was about to kill him but Clarisse intervened and he went away. Just three weeks ago he learned that Clarisse was pregnant with Percy's child". The entire council besides Aphrodite, Hestia and Hera had their mouths open at this. Only they had known Percy had started a family with Clarisse and were happily together.

"Why were we not informed of this!?" Shouted Zeus. "This could have started a war between the gods if it had gotten through!" Zeus was enraged that something this important was not brought up to his attention. Soon the rest of the gods started to realize that Percy had lost Clarisse and his child.

"They loved each other greatly and their love was pure, they were going to have a happy family…" said Aphrodite. The gods did not know what to think of this. Just a little over a month ago Percy had gone through a heartbreak, now he lost Clarisse and his child.

"My children tell me that Ares confronted Percy in the middle of the attack on the camp," Athena broke the silence. "Ares defeated Percy, told him how he took everything he valued the most away from him, from his pride to his daughter. Clarisse turned around to confront her father as well but was killed by hell-hounds on the spot before anyone could react." Athena finished off sadly.

Everyone in the council was now worried about Perseus. What my son must be going through, thought Poseidon. Aphrodite felt guilty that she knew about this and it could all been avoided but she was so engrossed in pissing off Ares for abandoning her. Hestia just felt sorry for Percy as she had barely convinced him to move on, to hope for the best and then this happened to him. Apollo was amazed that so much misfortune could follow the hero of Olympus.

"The boy must be grieving the death of Clarisse and his unborn child," said Demeter. She never payed attention to the meeting but this time she did and everyone seemed surprised, almost everyone. Athena was deep in thought wondering about Percy herself thinking that something was not right about him.

"Interestingly enough Percy did not seem shaken up." Everyone was confused at this, Percy was always emotion driven and he should have caused a hurricane by now. "A day after he broke up with my daughter he was up and running like nothing had happened, my children tell me he was ogling all the girls on the camp with predatory eyes." Athena knew Percy was not the kind of man to go around trying to seduce as many women as possible so maybe it was some sort of outside or godly influence.

"When Clarisse died, Ares was in tears and he had never cried. However Percy was stoic through her final words and the shroud burning ceremony. It was like his heart had shut down to not let him face through the pain…" Athena was really confused about this. Percy had displayed this amazing ability to not suffer anymore, if she had not known any better she would have believed Percy never loved Clarisse at all. Aphrodite said their love was pure, but he did not shed a single tear, he was just angry at it all.

To Aphrodite it seemed like the work of Himeros, only he would create something to make person never suffer again by love again. As the god of unrequited love, he hated that he gained power from one sided love and wanted nothing more but to prevent people from suffering and started experimenting. It was all starting to make sense to her, why he smelled like the sea, how he had appeared after all this time, why Percy was a sex machine with Clarisse and lastly why Percy was not grieving in the slightest.

"Percy is not grieving because he can't," said Aphrodite. All of the Olympians looked at her questioningly, however nobody was more curious than Athena. It seemed that Aphrodite had information that could help her piece everything together.

"My son Himeros appeared a few weeks ago after I thought he was long gone and faded," she said.

"One of your disgusting lust filled sons?" Said Artemis with the usual amount of venom in her voice. Everyone was interested in what Aphrodite was getting at and how Himeros was related to what was going on.

"He is also the god of unrequited love and I thought he faded as I could not feel his presence for a few centuries." The gods were starting to see the connection between him and Percy now, Percy had suffered from unrequited love a few weeks ago when Annabeth fell for Clayton just when, according to Aphrodite, Himeros came back.

"As the god of unrequited love he always hated to see people with broken hearts due to one sided love and started working on ways to fix it. I think that he offered Percy a way to deal with the pain by wielding one of his special powers." The Olympians urged the love goddess to continue.

"He came to my palace with a faint smell of the sea. I thought nothing much of it at the time as he said he was in the beach that morning and he is my only son with Poseidon's blessing to enter his domain so I did not suspect a thing." Poseidon nodded at the love goddess.

"I think my son was about to fade but then offered Percy to never suffer from love again in exchange for a vessel." The council was surprised at this, a vessel like some parasite to Percy's body? That is most disturbing, thought Artemis.

"So my son is possessed by your son who is a god of lust? Is that why he was ogling the girls?" asked Poseidon. He was not liking this at all, but was relieved when Aphrodite shock her head.

"No but his power is infused within the seal and influences Percy, it will anchor my son to the mortal world and allow him to have a physical body by borrowing power from Percy. That will explain his strange lustful eyes, it will explain why he quickly got over Annabeth, why he was not crying over her death, he could not grieve Clarisse or his son because my son's seal prevented him from being hurt by love ever again." Everyone was shocked at Aphrodite's conclusion.

"So what do we do now?" asked Zeus. He was not happy that nobody knew about this and thought of requesting the presence of Percy and Himeros to Olympus. Aphrodite said that she did not know and Zeus told Hermes and Apollo to fetch Percy and Himeros.

Soon two flashes filled the room and two new figures were standing in the throne room. One of them was a young daydreaming, twenty year old guy with blond hair, wings and striking green eyes. The other one figure was a shirtless eighteen year old with jet black hair and bright green eyes.

"Lord Zeus you have requested my presence?" Asked the raven haired boy nonchalantly. Suddenly his lust filled eyes landed on Demeter and started checking her out. "Why hello there Lady Demeter, you look absolutely gorgeous and sexy as ever. Maybe after the meeting is over you can come to my cabin to talk about cereal and do other pleasurable activities," Percy said in a seductive tone and winked at the goddess and she flushed instantly. The rest of the gods were speechless, Perseus was indeed different and did not seem troubled at all by the deaths of his loved ones.

Zeus cleared his throat to speak, "Perseus, why aren't you grieving the death of your loved ones?" Percy's face suddenly darkened and a scowl formed on his face. He looked over at an absent minded Himeros and pulled out his broken blade.

"It is because of his cursed mark," Percy told the Olympian council as he raised his hand to show the Olympian Council the flower on his wrist.

Himeros came back to reality and gulped. He looked around the Olympian council and cleared his throat once more.

"Olympian council and Perseus, I call it the Mark of Himeros."