NO POV
"My name is Percy Jackson, what are yours?" Percy looked the kids who were done eating their sweet treats.
"My name is Viktor and my sister's name is Emily. You said you were sent by a goddess, I thought there was only one god." Percy hated having to explain this to the kid.
"Well Viktor, there is a creator of the universe but there is more than one truth when it comes to religion. Other gods do exist such as the Greek and Roman ones. I am the champion of a Greek goddess, I have been entrusted to do her will and that lead me to you."
They boy processed what Percy said and nodded. "Who is your goddess? What are we going to do now? We do not want to be separated or go into an orphanage." This same question was troubling Percy. He had saved them from their abusive parent but was not sure what will happen to them. He could not leave them out to fend for themselves but he could not bring them along either.
"Nemesis, she is the goddess of revenge, balance and retribution. As for what we are going to do, I don't know. Do you have any other family?"
"No, Erik was the only relative we had. He hit us but he was everything we had..." Percy hated that they felt attached to that so called Erik.
"How about we get some real food to eat. We can try to think about what happens now after a full meal, don't you think?" The kids faces lit up with joy and nodded. Percy had to create some more money with his reftate but realized he was going to need real funds as he found it a hassle having to keep creating and disappearing indestructible money over and over again.
Percy and the kids stepped into this pizza buffet to eat at their fills but the kids just ended up eating cinnamon rolls and brownies. Percy couldn't help but to imagine what it would have felt like to have a kid of his own, taking him to eat and just being there for him like a dad should.
"Percy, where are we going now?" asked a little 9 year old girl.
"It is getting late so we should probably find somewhere to sleep." Percy walked the kids to a hotel and got them a room for themselves as he did not want to be more intrusive than he already was. The kids thanked Percy and went to sleep quickly and Percy decided to do something about his money issue.
Percy used Nemesis' blessing to track down the richest guy in the country, not necessarily a bad guy but not good either. It was very easy to find him since many other businessmen sought revenge on him and had deep grudges. His name was Jeremy Cregs, a big time business genius with rumors of being linked to organized crime but Percy knew he was clean. Percy used mist travel and found himself in the bedroom of a very fancy mansion. There was a youngish man sleeping in on the bed with two women. Percy aged himself the age of the man and created a some water because splashing someone in the face was the nicest way to wake up people.
"WHAT THE HELL!" The man shot up from his bed and the woman fell from the bed. He saw a smiling Percy and ordered the women on the floor to get get out.
"Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?"
"I'm just a vendor who can get you whatever you want. Tell me what you want and I'll sell it to you, I can guarantee you that what you want the most I already have in my possession." The man noticed that Percy was in casual wear, wielded no weapon and seemed very comfortable and relaxed so he decided to humor him.
"Very well, I always wanted a blue diamond for a ring. Perfect cut, 15 carats and of course completely flawless." Percy raised an eyebrow at the man as he was not expecting such weird desire. The man noticed and just grinned as he figured this Percy did not have what he asked for.
"Is that all you wanted? I have what you want, the question is how much are you willing to pay for it?"
"If you do really have what I want then I guess I'll be willing to pay up to 30 million for it, but if you don't and are just wasting my time I'll have my men here in seconds when I press this button." The man had pulled out his phone from bed table as he talked but Percy did not care at all for it.
"Of course I have what you want," Percy materialized a little black jewelry box with what the man had desired in his pocket next to his his pen and pulled it out of his jeans. The man eyes widened a he saw Percy pull out the box. Percy opened the box and pulled out the godly material under his control in form of a perfectly cut and completely flawless 15 carat blue diamond. He walked over to the man and placed it on his hands.
"How? That is not possible! No such thing exists in the world!" Percy looked at the man confused. Was this not what he wanted? Or was it me who was wasting his time.
"So do you want it or not? I have come here to sell you what you most desire and you will buy it for 50 million if you really want it. If you are not going to buy it then I will leave and visit the other people in my list." Jeremy nodded and pulled out his phone still shocked that this had truly happened to him. It has to be a dream....
"Where do you want the money sent?" Percy smiled with glee as this little stunt will set him up for life. Percy remembered he had set up a bank account about a year ago when he thought he was going to go with Annabeth to college. That was so long ago, things have sure changed a lot. Percy gave his account number to the man and waited until the funds were transferred. Percy was about to leave when Jeremy told him to wait.
"Who are you and why are you doing this?"
"Like you I am a businessman. We both got what we wanted, why don't we just leave it at that? If you ever need anything else, just track me down. I'm pretty sure a man with your resources will be able to do it." The man hesitated for a second then nodded. He turned to look at his new purchase and saw it glimmered in perfection, the turned back to Percy but when he looked in front of him he was gone.
Percy had solved his financial problem but now he had to worry about the kids. He could not take care of them, he had a duty to fulfill. Then again, he could not just leave them to fend for themselves as that would make him just as bad as their father. Maybe he could make their presence not a hindrance by explaining everything to them. He could bring them along but he will have to find something to do with them in the meantime. Percy realized it was time to sleep, mist traveled inside his room and fell flat on the bed to sleep.
The next morning Percy woke up and went to to pick up the kids for breakfast. The kids had showered but had the same clothes as yesterday as they had not packed anything from their home. Percy made a mental note to buy them some clothes.
"Percy why are you helping us?" The question from the little girl had taken Percy by surprise. Sure they were kids and he could not abandon them but he knew that was not the whole truth.
"What Emily means is that you work for a goddess of revenge, you don't have to take care of us…you already did your job." The kid is right, I don't have to help them but I will. They have suffered enough, it's only fair for them… It's also the only way I can redeem myself.
"She is also the goddess of Justice. You have suffered too much already, I can't just leave you to fend for yourself you know?"
"Umm Percy why do you look older?"
"Oh, I was doing something and needed to appear older. I forgot to change back." Percy changed himself back to his default age of 17. Viktor saw the transformation but said nothing as he figured it was standard powers for a worker of a god.
They had finished eating breakfast and stepped out of the building. Percy was trying to figure out what he should do now as they could not live in the hotel forever, they needed clothes backpacks and other supplies if he was going to take care of them.
"We are going to go buy you some stuff. I'm going to bring you along with me, you guys need some backpacks and new clothes, stuff like that." The kids looked delighted that they were getting new clothes and other cool stuff. Percy mist traveled them to the nearest mall and took them to most stores to wander and buy them everything they needed.
"Percy don't you have some mystical way to create this stuff like everything else? Or a way to carry all of this? It is really heavy and we won't be able to carry it when we travel with you." Percy did not think of that, for them all the stuff itself would be really heavy. There has got to be something that I can do to make all this easier to carry….of course!
Percy snapped his fingers and all the stuff they were carrying had all magically disappeared into thin air. Can't believe I forgot I had most of the god's basic abilities. Percy shook his head in shame as he had not thought of it sooner. Percy then mist traveled them both to his room to explain the Greek world to them.
"If you are going to come with me you need to know the basics of the Greek world, ever heard of the Greek gods?"
"Yeah I watched some cartoons about them when I was little, they also glanced over them at school for a bit." Percy was not sure if to feel glad he was somewhat familiar with them.
"Well, what do you know about them?" Percy was really hoping the kid was at least somewhat accurate when it came to the major gods.
"Well there is Zeus the god of lightning who is always really angry at the world." Sounds about right. "Then there is Poseidon who is just chilling in the sea, not really doing anything." Percy could not help but raise an eyebrow at this, his dad was the king of Atlantis. He was really busy ruling over his kingdom, he was not just chilling in the bottom of the sea, that was Triton. "Then there is Hades who is the god of the underworld and the dead. He is the coolest because he is secretly the most powerful as he can control death." There you go, the misconceptions have come to light.
"Well some of that is right. Zeus is a pretty grumpy god and he does control lightning. However he is also the god of the sky and is an okay ruler to Olympus. Then there is Poseidon, who is my father, he is the ruler of the seas and the king of Atlantis. He is also the god of earthquakes and he certainly does not spend most of this time chilling under the sea, that is my half brother Triton. As for Hades he is very powerful but he is the most suitable to reign over the underworld. I don't know about him being the coolest or the most powerful but even he cannot control death, he tried trust me." Percy spent the rest of the morning explaining a bit about every major god and some minor ones that were very important.
"Percy, you said Triton was your brother, and Poseidon your father, does that mean you're a god?"
"No, I'm a half god or demigod. I have a human mom which reminds me that I have not visited her in quite a while. Want to come with me to visit my mom?" The kids shrugged as they did not have anything better to do and did not want to be left alone. Meanwhile Percy was nervous since his mother knew nothing about what had happened to him and she was going to be furious he had not contacted her earlier.
Percy mist traveled with the kids to the front of his mother's new apartment and knocked on the door. He was surprised to feel three masses of essence, one was obviously a baby.
"Just a second, I'll be right there." Said a man's voice. Percy figured it must be Paul since his mom was probably looking after the baby.
"Oh hey Percy, what brings you here?" Percy noticed that Paul looked red-eyed and a bit nervous at his presence.
"I came to visit my mom, I had not talked to her for almost a year and I brought some friends along." Paul looked at the kids and looked back at Percy.
"No, they are mortals but I already explained to them the Greek world." Paul nodded and invited them inside.
"Where's my mom Paul? I was surprised she did not open the door." Paul scratched his nose and rubbed the back of his head. Percy was mentally grinning as he knew what Paul was worried about.
"She was busy taking care of something important." Percy raised an eyebrow but nodded.
"Percy, it's been so long" Percy was immediately pulled into a hug by his mother who looked a little on the thin side.
"Hey mom, I missed you too. Sorry for not talking to you before, I was just really busy." Sally kept hugging Percy for a few more seconds clearly not trying to let him go but eventually pulled away.
"Percy who are they?" Sally looked at the kids and back at her son and Percy could not help but to notice she looked like she been crying for hours.
"They are my new friends. They are with me at the moment and before you ask, no they are not demigods. However I'll look after them for a while and they have been caught up with most of the Greek stuff." Percy shrugged and sat down in the couch, the others soon followed.
"Percy we have to tell you something." said Paul. Percy could not help but to notice Paul was incredibly sad about something, he just hid it really well.
"Is it about the baby next room?" Paul looked surprised that Percy knew but nodded. Percy had hoped that that would have calmed down Paul but it did not, he just looked more sad now. I really hope there is nothing wrong with the baby…
"You have a little sister Percy, but she's really sick… I don't think she's going to last very long..." Sally immediately burst into tears and Paul's face darkened. Percy could not hope but to feel teary eyed as well. Somehow the curse of Himeros does not stop this kind of sadness or maybe it's because it has gotten weaker. No matter, I'm not going to let her die, she's my sister.
"Mom, take me to her I can fix it." Sally knew that Percy did not have healing powers but complied nonetheless as her son had proven that if anyone could do the impossible it was him.
Percy walked into the room with three months old girl and could not help but notice she was attached to some machine that looked really expensive. When Percy got closer he noticed she was absolutely gorgeous. She looks like a baby version of my mom, so beautiful... umm that was weird...it's almost like she is also a goddess.
Percy knew that he could heal whatever she had if he focused on the power he had gotten from the golden fleece. The golden fleece could heal anything and he had absorbed a bit of the fleece's power within his own. All he had to do was recreate it and apply it to his baby sister. Percy remembered that he had to will her to be healthy with all his might to make sure the healing was successful.
Percy motioned his hands over his sister and his hands started to glow a bright green. Maybe its because of the power of the sea and the golden fleece working together? Percy could feel his sister's body responding the energy being infused in her and slowly strengthening her lungs. Percy kept using his power to make sure there was nothing else wrong with his sister until he found out she was perfectly healthy.
"She will be fine mom, she won't need that anymore. You can take her to the doctor after I leave if you want to." Sally nodded and looked at her daughter who seemed to be smiling.
Percy walked into the living room and sat in his chair. A few minutes later Sally came back and stood in front of Percy. "How did you do that? I didn't know you could heal..."
"Mom, it's going to take a while before I tell you everything that has happened. Have a seat and I'll tell everyone what happened after the war." Viktor and Emily raised eyebrows at this and looked at each other in confusion. A war? What is Percy talking about?
Percy told his mom about everything that had happened. From breaking up with Annabeth to eventually leaving camp, Clarisse, his child, Demeter, Allie and lastly becoming the champion of Nemesis. He told her about being blessed by Athena, the incredibly material called Ethereal Reftate, his new and amazing control over essence, his new godly powers and then finally about the golden fleece. He didn't say all the sex stuff for obvious reasons.
"So you used the power of the golden fleece to heal Maggie?" Percy nodded a Paul but could not help but to feel like Margaret was not a very good name for his sister.
"I'm sorry about what happened with Clarisse and you son Percy, I'm sorry about everything. We thought you were doing great, we did not want to burden you with our problems." Paul said trying to comfort Percy.
"It's fine Paul. Although she is my sister too you know, you should have told me. I was not going to let her die, no more good people are going to die if I can help it." Sally did not want to tell Percy but she was not too happy about the path he had chosen being the champion of the goddess of revenge, although she could not blame him. Percy's fatal flaw was personal loyalty and the deaths of his girlfriend and child probably made him feel like he had failed in life. To him it was the only way he could redeem himself, specially if he saw himself as a reflection of his broken sword.
Percy did not know what to think, he hated the fates, they were the ones that had ruined his life. Because of the fates he had gotten the mark of Himeros, because of them he lost Clarisse and his child, because of them he had to leave camp but if none of that had happened he would have never gotten the power of the fleece and had saved his sister. His mother and Paul would have been crushed. Maybe it was fair trade, for me to suffer in exchange for my mom and Paul…
"You know mom, If I had not gone through all of that I would have never saved Viktor and Emily from their father, and I would have not been able to save Maggie." Sally did not know how to comfort her son. She had always worried about losing him but Percy had already lost one of his own, sure he was not born yet but he was killed nonetheless.
"Percy, were you really going to have a son?" Percy looked at Emily and sadly nodded.
"I'm sorry about your baby Percy. From the way you treated me and my brother I am sure you would have been a great father.". Percy got a bit teary eyed and nodded once again
"So mom, what are you and Paul going to do now? What have you been doing for the past year?" Sally looked at Paul who looked at her sadly.
"I well I had to quit my job from the candy store again when I got pregnant and they did not take me back. Paul is still working though, that and the money I got from selling the statue is keeping us up for now.
"You know mom, you could use the account I set up a year ago, I did some business with Jeremy Cregs and I thin-
"Jeremy Cregs? The richest criminal in the country? What kind of business would you have with a man like that?!" Percy was surprised his mom knew about the man and really surprised when she called him a criminal, he was just a businessman nothing more really.
"He's not a criminal mom, he's just really good at his job. With the blessing of Nemesis I can see who deserves retribution but he honestly does not. As for my involvement with him, I came across something he wanted and sold it to him for a lot of money." Sally just nodded and calmed down.
"Anyways mom, feel free to use it if you need it. I think Viktor, Emily and I should be leaving soon though. It's almost night and we still haven't unpacked all the things we bought."
"Come back soon Percy, and take care of them." Percy smiled at his mom and stood up from his chair.
"Thank you Percy, for what you did for Maggie, I can't thank you enough."
"Don't mention it Paul, she is my sister too." Percy grabbed the hands of the kids and teleported them inside his room.
"Your mother was nice," Percy looked at Viktor and smiled.
"She's the best, let's get these bags back to your room so you and Emily can unpack the stuff in peace." Percy carried a few bags to the kids room from his and let them be. When Percy returned to his room he decided it was time to get back working. He concentrated for half a second before finding the most detestable person within his vicinity.
Percy aged himself a bit and created himself his black coat, glasses, his gun and escrima sticks on a holster on his pants before flashing towards the human. Percy found himself in an office where a fat man was sleeping on his seat, his head tilted back and snoring loudly. The man leader of an embezzlement group that swindled money from many organizations, most of them charities and children's hospitals that trusted in him. Percy sat down in front of the man and created some water to splash the man in the face.
"Urgg, whats going on?" Asked a very heavy and raspy voice.
"Are you Matt Miles, the one who defrauded many good organizations and deserves to rot in hell?" Percy said as he waved his S&W in front of the man.
"No, my name is um Anthony Wickman. My asshole of a boss Matt left me in charge for a few weeks without extra pay. He left for a business trip, I was just taking a break from organizing all his files and must have accidentally fallen asleep." Percy almost believed the man, he was an incredibly good liar, too bad Percy knew he was Matt.
"Cut the crap Matt, You have caused a lot of damage to many people, many children and parents have suffered and died because of you. Sure you did not personally kill them but I am here to give some divine retribution anyways." Percy stood up and created reftate chains around the man's arms, legs and neck so that he could not move. He slowly stood up from his chair and walked towards the wide eyed man.
"Who… who are you?" The man croaked out in fear
Percy just smiled at the man, truth is Percy was looking forwards to hearing the man scream in agony. The last man he sought justice upon had to be killed prematurely as he needed some silence but this man was alone now, he will let him cry out in pain until he was gone.
"I am the champion of a goddess. I am here to do the will of Lady Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, balance and retribution. You are already destined for the fields of punishment, I am just here to make sure you get there." Percy dematerialized his S&W, grabbed an escrima stick and placed it near the man's face. After a few seconds the man's life force slowly got pulled from the man and started to be absorbed by the ethereal material.
The man screamed as he felt his soul being ripped little by little. Percy could feel the life force of the man leaving his body, he could not help but to be fascinated. The screams of agony drowned in the thoughts of Percy. Ethereal Reftate is incredibly deadly, I wonder what would have been of the world if this fell into the wrong hands…
Soon the man was giving his last breath and his final bit of essence became one with the escrima stick. Percy felt unsatisfied with the result though, the man a very weak life force and his spirit was weak. Percy only felt himself get stronger by the effect of Nemesis blessing and a tiny bit by the man. Percy looked for his next victim and mist traveled to her location.
Apollo POV (1 day earlier) (Been awhile since 1st person POV)
"Lord Apollo, We have found some new recruits for the- " A lightning bolt shook me and I knew that Father was calling another council meeting.
"Look Ray, there seems to be an emergency going on. I'll contact you later" Ray nodded and I waved the Iris Message away. I flashed onto the my throne and noticed it was Dionysus that stood in the middle of the room. I immediately knew that something went on with Percy or the camp since Dionysus never calls for meetings. The rest of the Olympians flashed into the room except for Ares.
"Dionysus called the meeting because something happened on Camp Half-blood with Percy. Mind telling us what went on at the camp Dionysus?". Darn, I wish the fates had let me see what was going to happen to Percy instead of just glimpses of the future.
"Percy went mad for a few seconds at the camp. There was some commotion at the arena so Chiron and I went to investigate, when we got there Percy was killing this daughter of Athena."
"What! Why would Perseus do that to a daughter of mine? This does not make any sense!"
"He was enraged for some reason, your daughter Karin had gotten him so worked up that he was was using some stick made of Stygian Iron to rip her apart from her essence." I was shocked and so were the rest of the Olympians.
"Impossible! Only my children and other creatures of the underworld can wield Stygian Iron!"
Suddenly my half brother spoke up to explain what was going on. I had seen Percy use Stygian Iron in my visions but assumed he could use it because my uncle had given him a blessing, clearly he had not.
"That would be my fault father," Hephaestus stood up from his throne to face a confused Zeus and an equally confused rest of the council.
"Yesterday I gave Percy this new project I was working with as a gift. I called it Ethereal Reftate, it has the benefits and none of the weaknesses of mortal and godly materials."
"Why would you give my son such a deadly weapon and why was he able to wield it?" Father looked like he was about to shout at uncle Poseidon but his curiosity won over him as well and just looked at his Hephaestus awaiting his response too.
"It was a thank you, my son Clayton is the only son that has gained happiness in his love life. He backed from Annabeth and wished them the best, If anyone could be trusted with such deadly weapon it would be him."
"Why would you give a demigod such powerful weapon! If he were to turn on Olympus we could all be in serious danger!" Zeus stood up angrily that Percy had gotten such dangerous weapon, he was probably scared and frankly so was I. I had seen that weapon make monsters scream in agony as it sucked them dry of their life. Hephaestus looked at father in shame as if he had not thought of this in advance. I felt the need to intervene for my brother and with good reason as I remembered something.
"Father, please! The fates let me see his future, as far as I could see he was not a danger to Olympus at all. Try to contain your anger please." Father seemed to have processed my words, sat down in his throne and took a deep breath. Hephaestus sighed as well and gave me a thankful look. I just nodded back at him, being on Hephaestus good side was a good idea. Plus he's my brother so seeing him explode into a billion pieces by my father's hand would have been a tragic.
"Very well, seeing as Apollo has reminded us Perseus is no danger for now. Tell us how was he able to wield Stygian Iron." Every looked at Hephaestus to hear an explanation but surprisingly it was Athena who stood up.
"Father, it is not Stygian Iron, it is something much stronger and deadlier. It is indestructible by mortal and godly means. Hephaestus created it and worked with until he could no longer. It has properties identical to that of water and absorbs the power from anything that it touches and near it. Percy bonded with the material and has complete control over it. If he so desired it, he could cover the earth in it and end it all but he clearly has no intention of doing that." Father knew that this was serious but glanced at my direction. With a small nod I reassured him everything was going to be fine.
"What is Perseus doing now Dionysus?" It was obvious what Percy did after the incident. He would have left the camp to ensure that kind of thing never happened again.
"He told me he was leaving the camp today. I think it was for the best, most of the campers including the old ones were terrified of what he was doing to the daughter of Athena."
"We must decide what to do with him. We can't have a demigod with such power wandering the country with no godly supervision. Hermes bring Pers-"
"Father, I think it would be best If we let him clear his mind first and see what he does. He might still be shaken up by what happened with my daughter Karen."
My father looked annoyed with the interference of Athena but nodded. "Very well, we will give him some time to 'clear his mind' and then we will bring him to Olympus."
"Is there anything else we need to know about Perseus?" Zeus looked around the room for any other information we might have about him. Unfortunately I knew nothing more of importance about him. Sure I saw some other stuff going on with him in the future but the council did not need to know about that.
"I gave Perseus my blessing." I did not expect those words to come out from Athena. She has cursed a lot of people and here she was saying that she gave Perseus her blessing.
"From the looks of it, Perseus was very close with a daughter of Apollo as well. Apparently they were intimate as she broke it up with him after Perseus calmed down." What? Perseus getting it on with a daughter of mine?
"I thought Perseus and I had a thing together. Why did he get it on with a demigod daughter of Apollo?" Demeter looked insulted and I frankly so was I, they could have told me something. He was my favorite cousin and he was getting it on with a daughter of mine, I did not know how to feel about this.
"Oh Demeter please! As soon as I gave him my blessing he probably realized you just wanted him as a boy toy." Wow I did not see that coming, I knew Demeter played Perseus but never thought Athena would feel so strongly about this.
"How dare you, I care for Perseus. We had something special and I am insulted that he so easily replaced me, specially with some demigod." I did not like how Demeter referred to my daughter, as if she weren't worthy enough. She will regret that later.
"Silence! Both of you, Demeter everyone in the council could see you were just manipulating the boy, the only one who could not see it was him because he was in love with you and because he's an idiot. As for you Athena why do you even care? You would not be thinking of getting with young Perseus will you?" Athena immediately went red from the suggestion but very easily dodged the question.
"Father, why would you ask something like that. We have more important matters to discuss such as what is going to happen to the camp once he leaves as he was their best trainer and he did destroy the arena. We will have to rebuild it and frankly the campers have enough financial problems as it is." Father rubbed his beard and nodded.
"We also need to discuss why my son was visited by Nemesis a few minutes ago." Nemesis? She must have sensed Percy's desire for revenge against the Athena spawn and decided to profit from him somehow…
"Nemesis? Why would she visit Perseus, Hermes bring Nemesis here immediately. We need to know what she's been up to. She is not someone I would say I trust..." Father was right and I must say I don't trust her either. She has no real loyalties but to her domain alone, not to mention she lacks any real desire to see good triumph.
My brother flashed out the room and in a few seconds the goddess of revenge appeared next to my brother who sat in his throne again. She looked real happy for some reason, and that unsettled me.
"Nemesis, are you involved with Perseus?" Nemesis immediately went red and shook her head.
"No Lord Zeus, we just shared a kiss..." A shy smile crept on her face. I raised my eyebrow at this as I never expected Nemesis to act like this. I noticed the rest of the Olympians shared similar reactions, except for Demeter who looked furious.
My father cleared his throat and resumed the interrogation. "Nemesis, that's not what I meant. I asked what business did you have to join Perseus in his cabin." Nemesis snapped out of it and seemed to think of the best way to answer to my father. She glanced at my direction as if remembering that I could tell if she was lying. That's right Nemesis, you can't lie to me so say the truth.
"I felt Perseus enter my domain so I went to pay him a visit, he wanted revenge against many things. I offered to make him my champion, he will have my blessing and carry out my will. From what I could gather he was going to use it against monsters, as they took many important people away from him, including Clarisse and his son?" Father nodded and urged her to continue.
"Every time he uses my domains he will get a bit stronger," Nemesis glanced in my direction and continued. "The same goes for me."
"We cannot have this, you must do something about this Nemesis!" Father rose from his seat and summoned his lightning bolt.
"With all due respect lord Zeus, Percy needs this as an outlet for his emotions. He has all this pent up rage inside him, who knows what will happen next time he gets angry, he might truly live up to his name…" Father visible calmed down and sat on his throne.
"So are we supposed to let him do as he pleases? He is very powerful and from what my son told us he is quite unstable. If he gets angry again he might doom the world. It might be better to just kill-"
"You will not harm my son brother! He has renounced many things for the better of others. He dedicated his life to our cause and has sacrificed his happiness many times before. He is not a threat and from what my nephew said he will forever aid the campers as much as he can. Now that he has partial immortality he will be invaluable in the wars to come when our enemies rise again, who better to lead and protect our children than an immortal demigod with unwavering loyalties towards those he considers family?"
My uncle's argument made sense and even my father could not help but to realize my uncle was right. I turned to see Hephaestus smiling as giving Percy his project might save the world some day. Hermes, Dionysus, uncle Hades and Hera displayed no emotion while Poseidon, Aphrodite, Artemis, Hestia, Demeter and Athena were smiling with glee. It would have been curious about this but frankly I was happy as well. That meant my children would be safe if led by an immortal Percy who wields a very powerful weapon.
"Like we discussed a few minutes ago, we will give Perseus some time to clear his mind but then we will bring him to Olympus to figure out what to do with him for sure. For now we will let him do whatever Apollo saw he was doing. As for you Nemesis, you will join us in that meeting as well, we will have much to discuss when that day comes." We all flashed out of the building as even I had important matters to attend to.