Percy POV
"So you said you were an immortal. What did you mean by that? Like some kind of demon?" I looked at the woman in my chest, we had very eventful morning and I was starting to think maybe I could change her, make her a better person so we could raise children together. With my help she might be redeemable.
"Yes, I am immortal. I cannot die and I am not a demon, I am a Greek demigod." I left the part about me losing my immortality if I fell by combat because she does not need to know that.
"So you're telling me all those myths about Greek gods are true? I always wanted to be part of the Greek fami- "
"What's going on with you? You emptied a clip of bullets on me a couple of hours ago and now you are acting like we are like the best couples." I wasn't conceited enough to think sex with me was so good it could instantly make an evil chick nice.
"Well, we are going to be parents. Can't a woman try to fix her relationship with her man for the sake of their children?" She wanted a real family as well? Was she thinking the same thing as me? Maybe we can work out, although her sudden personality change makes me uneasy. Martha came closer to my neck and started to breathe on me and gave me small kisses which I started to enjoy.
"I could also help you in your job. I mean I've killed people, you've killed people. We are soul mates, that's why we crossed each other's path. Now because of last night we are bound to each other, our future together is full of very pleasurable killings and freaky good sex." Martha started to slide her hand down my waist and I stood up the bed. I was not going to get aroused again, it is humiliating to be controlled so easily.
"This is just my divine obligation. I do not like killing and torturing people like you do." Martha stood up from her bed and wrapped a sheet around her. She came closer and looked at me with an evil glow in her eyes.
"Oh please, people like us live on that, it makes feel stronger. I killed some people before and with every person I kill I feel more powerful. Don't you?" This really got to me, if only she knew. I do get more powerful with each person I kill and I do enjoy their screams of agony as I reap their essence but that is because they deserve it.
"That is because those people deserve it, you've killed innocent people. I only kill the most vile humans, people like you." I felt angry she was saying we were the same. We were not, I do this because people like her harm good people and I avenge them. She does it because she enjoys money, torturing and killing.
"Oh come on, can't you just forget about all that morality nonsense and just think about us and our future family?" Martha hugged me from behind and started to kiss me and I immediately went hard again.
"Please stop, I … I don't want to..." I did not want it but my body clearly did and Martha noticed. She knew I was under her control as long as she kept using sex as a weapon and I hated her for it. Suddenly a flash filled the room and that shook me out of my trance.
In a fraction of second I heard the lifeless body of Martha feel to the floor. I turned around to see my patron Nemesis holding the whip that had snapped her neck.
"Why did you do that for! She was goi-"
"Oh shut up Percy! Aphrodite told me she was not pregnant, she has been keeping tabs on you and was relieved to find out the woman could not have children." I was relieved and disappointed, I was really looking forwards to taking care of children. Oh gods, the children! I left Emily and Viktor in the hotel alone. Hopefully they've managed without me for a few hours.
Nemesis looked in my direction and gave me a weird smile that confused me. She then glanced downwards and I realized I was still rock hard from what Martha did.
"I can't believe you, that is very unprofessional my champion. You should be able to restrain your sexual urges like everyone else. Anyway, I came to tell you that about Martha and that we will have to get to Olympus in a few minutes as they are calling both of our presences to discuss important matters." I wanted to tell Nemesis about my curse but figured it might put a wedge between us if she knew about my sudden urges. Also I should have known the gods will still be involved in my life. Then again I was thankful Nemesis stuck her nose here, without her I would have been kept prisoner by that woman.
"In the meantime why don't we do something about that?" Nemesis glanced at my member, came closer and got on her knees. I was surprised as she mentioned how she did not like me that way when I kissed her.
"Lady Nemesis, I thought you said this was extremely inappropriate and unprofessional." She looked at me in confusion but then gave me a death grip.
"I'll help you get rid of it this time as you can't go into the throne room with an erection. However you'll have to do what I tell you later. We have a deal?" She grabbed my cock and started to stroke it up and down with her small hand.
"Oh … yes, Lady Nemesis we have a deal..." I grabbed her head full of curly hair and shoved part of my member in her mouth. The way she used her tongue was simply godly. She twisted it around my member and licked the entire circumference of my shaft in a very slow and gentle way. She kept eye contact with me the whole time and for the first time I realized how beautiful she was. I wanted this moment to last forever.
"Lady Nemesis, I think I'm in lov-" Nemesis bit down on my member extremely hard to force me stop talking. She took her mouth away from it and looked at me angrily.
"Stop Percy, you don't. You are just enjoying the moment plus you barely know me, you aren't in love with me. Now you want to keep talking or you want me to finish?" I nodded and she kept sucking. After a few minutes I released my load into her and she gagged a bit before swallowing the majority and cleaning me up. The sight of a woman cleaning me up never got old. I tried getting on my knees to help her up but she held a hand up signaling me to stop.
"I'm fine but you owe me a favor whenever I want it, no questions asked." I raised an eyebrow at this but nodded nonetheless. I realized I was still naked and looked like 25 so I aged myself back to 17 and willed some casual clothes on before turning back to look at Nemesis.
"Thank you Lady Nemesis, don't hesitate to ask me for anything in the future." She just nodded and grabbed my hand. I could not help but to blush and we flashed into the throne room.
"Nemesis, is there anything you need to tell us?" Zeus asked her. Nemesis turned to look at me and noticed me blushing. She immediately let go of my hand and blushed as well.
"No Lord Zeus, there is nothing going on between me and Perseus." I heard a chuckle one of the gods and immediately knew it was Apollo who knew Nemesis was lying.
"Regardless we are here to discuss what you will do now Perseus. We know you left the camp and accepted to become Nemesis's champion but as you can understand we need to know your future intentions and all Olympians must be aware of them as you are a very powerful demigod." I thought Zeus was going to be angrier with my actions and decisions but apparently the times of peace have truly made him more easy going.
I started to speak but was interrupted by my father. "Brother I can assure you Percy will always stand by his family and as far as I am concerned the gods and demigods are our family." Father looked at me and I nodded back. Father was right, the gods are my family and I have a good relationship with most of them and the only one who hated me was Ares and last time we met he promised Clarisse he will try to get along with me.
I turned to look around the throne room and saw Demeter who looked at me with saddened eyes. She probably thought I had a relationship with Nemesis now and felt replaced. I then saw a smiling Hestia, I could not help but to smile back at her as she was a beacon of warmth. The rest of the gods including my father and Apollo had neutral expressions. Obviously Ares was not there as he was still suffering from breaking the ancient laws, I genuinely hope he gets better, he must have truly cared for her if he broke the laws in a fit of rage for her death. He did know this was going to happen when he broke the laws and still went along with it, he simply did not care in the moment.
"We also want to discuss your new abilities and the gift my son gave you Perseus." I figured the council will eventually hear about Ethereal Reftate and my new powers and essence manipulation.
"When I was comforting my daughter Karen from your fit of rage that destroyed the camp's arena, my son Malcolm told me about your interest in essence Perseus. My daughter Annabeth is also pretty disappointed by your actions and predicts the construction of New Athens will be delayed by a few more months." I turned to look at Athena and tried to explain but was interrupted again.
"My daughter Allie mentioned how you also asked for lessons of healing. I thought we were cool Perce, seriously getting it on with one of my daughters? She was only 14 and wanted to join the hunters, in retrospect not cool bro. I kind of hate you a bit now." I tried to apologize to Apollo too and explain it was consensual and i was the victim but was interrupted once again.
"How dare you defile such a young girl that wanted to join my ranks. I thought you were different Perseus, a man I could respect but with the cursed mark you are just like the other male scum. Just another boy who could not keep it in his pants." Artemis talked about me in extreme disgust and it truly hurt, Allie came onto me and the curse of Himeros made it impossible for me to resist. I tried to apologize to her too but was interrupted again.
"Enough! This meeting is not about your personal matters with Perseus! This is a meeting to discuss the future of the young and powerful demigod." Zeus was right, I would have to talk to all of them privately to fix our problems.
"Perseus, if you would not mind tell us everything you been doing since you left the camp. Don't leave out any details, we need to know everything." Oh shit, this is not good. I cleared my throat and told them most of what I been doing, I excluded the sex stuff as much as I could but for some things it was necessary.
"If we understand correctly, you absorbed the power of the Golden Fleece and endangered Camp Half-Blood. You scammed many mortals with fake items and currency for your personal benefit. You absorbed the life force of many mortals in the most painful way possible in the name of justice. You left the male escort you knocked out trapped with Ethereal Reftate to die while you were having sex with a notorious killer and torturer for an organized crime organization. In addition, you also happened to have unprotected sex with her and if it weren't for the fact she could not not have children, you would have stayed to raise the child with her. Not only that, but you also forgot about the children you were taking care of in a mortal hotel?" Zeus asked.
"I mean when you put it that way, it does sound like I have not been approaching everything that has been going on in the best way possible. However all of this has been happening so fast and it got pretty overwhelming for me with having to take care of two children, having to save my sister from a horrible disease with no prior experience and accidentally impregnating a evil mortal that took advantage of my situation."
"Father If I may offer a solution, I don't think Perseus should spend more time with mortals. He should just hunt down monsters since his condition... Percy why are you not lustful like last time you were here? From what I understand you haven't had sex with any deity since a few days ago?" I realized that Athena was right. I was not influenced by godly lust in the room full of hot goddesses. Was it because I had sex this morning or was it because of the favor Nemesis did for me. I genuinely did not know so I shrugged my shoulders. Nemesis was just confused as she knew nothing about the mark of Himeros.
"This is very strange, you should stay away from females until you can control your condition. Himeros is already looking for a way to negate the mark and you should too." I had to agree with Athena a bit but was not totally convinced. Who would have known that the mark of Himeros was going to be this destructive to my personal life?
"Anyone else have other suggestions for Perseus?" Apollo stood up from his throne and looked at me.
"Perseus, I agree with my sister Athena. You should just hunt down monsters for now with as little human interaction as possible as I know from experience how hard it is to resist mortal women." OK, now maybe they were correct, when the god of prophecy and goddess of wisdom suggest something it is probably for the best, plus nobody else has suggested anything different so I nodded in full agreement.
"As for your mortal companions, I will make sure to find them a new home. I do ask for your permission as you are partly responsible for them and one always needs to ask for permission first." Apollo took a shot at me but he was right, I should have told him about Allie. Maybe in like four years we can meet again to be together and make things right. Then again, asking for permission of a father to have sex with his daughter didn't seem like the right choice either.
"Wait, since the mortal girl already knows about the Greek world, she can join me in my ranks. She can find a new family within my hunters." I thought about what Artemis said but remembered the kids did not want to be taken apart.
"That would not be a good idea. The siblings are very close and told me they did not want to be separated. If Apollo can really find them a new home together I will support him one hundred percent."
"So it's decided, Percy will stay away from the mortal world until he can find a way to control himself around women and in the meantime he will help Nemesis regain some of her lost power for now." Nemesis gave Zeus a small bow in gratitude but gave me a look of confusion again.
"As for you Nemesis, I will ask you to stay away from Perseus as much as possible. You were not here when Himeros explained his mark but because of it Perseus has outbursts of godly lust that he cannot overpower, last time he lusted after Demeter but was stopped by Poseidon. If his urges return you do not want to be near him since in your weakened state you might not be able to stop him." Nemesis looked at me shocked, narrowed her eyes at me but then looked back at Zeus.
"Of course Lord Zeus, I did not know about his condition but now I will not contact him anymore than necessary." Nemesis looked back at me and continued. "If I do contact him it will be for professional matters only." There go my chances with Nemesis if I had any. Frankly, I do not know how to feel about her after our earlier activity, do I like or love her? She is not a very nice person, she is perfectly neutral and I owe her a favor no questions asked... In the name of Justice, Revenge or Retribution she will kill all demigods and cause the fall of Olympus. After all she did help Kronos in the titan war and because of her so many demigods died, including one of her own…
"Perseus please tell Apollo, where the mortals are staying at so he can find them a safe home. There is no need to worry, if you remember my son is incapable of lying and if he told you he will find them a home he is most definitely saying the truth." Zeus was right, Apollo could not lie and I had no idea what to do with the kids so I told Apollo where the kids were staying at and he flashed away.
"As for you Perseus, you will continue to be Nemesis' champion as she needs to regain some of her lost power, but you will minimize your contact with mortals and females of age. Also you might want to keep track of your gift, the mortal you restrained yesterday is still bound by the material and if not let loose will die." Zeus was really sharp when he wanted to, after all he is the king of gods and he is the father of Athena.
I sensed Allie was still wearing my vest over her camp half blood shirt and Jim was training with his weighted clothing under his camp clothes as well. Jeremy wore his blue diamond in a ring and sure enough the man named Paul was still chained and gagged to the tree. I made the reftate binding the man disappear and made my super thin layer of protection 50 pounds heavier as I had forgotten to use it after my training a few days ago. Thanks for reminding me Jim.
"Now, are there any more issues we need to discuss?" The gods looked at each other and shook their heads at Zeus. "Very well, council dismissed!" Zeus flashed away in a lightning bolt and some gods followed. Father gave me a nod before mist traveling away and so did Nemesis. At the end only Demeter, Athena, Artemis, Hestia and Hephaestus remained.
"Perseus, you must know I do not blame you for getting angry at my daughter but I would have never forgiven you if you had killed her. As for Annabeth, you must apologize to her as soon as possible so figure out a way to control the mark of Himeros. She has worked so hard on the construction of New Athens and you just set her back a few months with the destruction of part of the camp."
"Thanks for understanding Lady Athena. I truly regret my actions and promise think things through better next time. I won't let your blessing go to waste." Athena nodded at me and flashed away.
"Percy," I looked at Demeter who was still on her throne. I wondered why she did not come close to me like the rest of the gods but remembered she could not walk after our sex marathon. I had abandoned her last time I was here and got with Allie the very next day…
"As you can see, I still cannot move anything below my waist. You promised you will take care of me and the very same day left to the camp and hooked up with some demigod." Athena's blessing must be working overtime as I completely understood where she was coming from and realized my actions were not that great; however she was not free of fault.
"You lied to me. You said you loved me. When I got Athena's blessing I realized you just told me what I wanted to hear but never wanted a commitment with me." Demeter looked surprised but then looked down in shame.
"We can still spend time together. I enjoyed our time together and I believe you did too, it does not have to end like this…" Demeter made some sense, we did not have to end our relationship on such bad terms.
"You're right about that Demeter, it does not have to end like this. Hopefully we can figure something out given some time." I gave her a half smile and she smiled back and proceeded to flash away.
"Perseus, I don't know what to think of you now. You are not the same person that," Artemis chocked a bit, "erm rescued me from Atlas, you are very troubled now. It is clear you have the best of intentions but that does not change what you've done. Work hard to get rid of or overpower that infernal mark and then maybe you'll have a chance to regain my respect." I nodded as I knew I had let her down with my recent treatment to women and lost the respect she felt for me.
"If you keep getting controlled by the cursed mark I will eventually come to detest you completely and trust me, you do not want that." Artemis flashed away and did not let me respond at all. She made very good points though, I was very different that I was a few years ago and I was not sure if it was for the better. She was also right about the mark of Himeros, it is kind of taking control of me since I cannot overpower it, at least not yet...
"Perseus, I trusted you with a very powerful tool." I turned to look at the god of the forge. "You and I are responsible for what you do with it so do not be careless with it. I would also like to give you some advice if you would take it. Do not depend entirely on Ethereal Reftate, at the end of the day it is nothing but a tool." What? Ethereal Reftate is the best material in the world! Nothing can compare to it and it is much more than a simple tool, it is a major part of my life now.
"I can see what you are thinking Perseus but let me ask you something. Do you want to turn into one of those people that are nothing without their weapon?" Hephaestus smiled at me before flashing away as well. If Hephaestus was not god of the forge and fire he would have made a very good god of wisdom himself as my Athena enhanced brain could not help but to agree with him. Lately I have been depending on it for everything and that is not fit for a warrior. I will try to use it like any other weapon from now on and take his advice
I turned to look at the last Olympian and saw the worried expression on her face. Hestia signaled me to join her near the hearth. We sat down in the chairs and just stared at the warm fire for a few minutes before I spoke.
"Lady Hestia, why are we here?" She kept looking at the warm fire for a few more seconds before she answered my question.
"Hestia is just fine Percy but I do want to ask you, do you have high hopes for your future? Or do you intend to fight and kill monsters for the rest of your life?" That question took me by surprise, do I have high hopes for my future? I guess so, I want to get married and have a happy family. I hope that I find the right woman and that she will love me as much as I'll love her. I really don't want to fight monsters for the rest of my life but what else am I supposed to do while I find her? The monsters will always keep coming and will never cease killing demigods.
"You don't have to answer Percy. I just want you to think about it. Have you thought of how you're going to fight the mark of Himeros?" Another good question, I had no idea of the best way to combat godly lust. Fighting it was next to impossible and embracing it made me feel like a puppet. The only chance I had to overcome it was if I became a god but that will bind me by the ancient laws.
"Honestly I do not know Hestia. I am at the peak of my age and the mark of Himeros just makes it more difficult to control myself…" Hestia looked at me and smiled.
"Obviously you can't control one of those things but you can easily control the other…" Hestia gave me a half smile and I knew what she meant. I had not thought of this, the idea of turning myself younger never crossed my mind. However if I did make myself eight again my body will help me fight the mark as it's not ready for that kind of stuff yet.
I focused on turning myself and my clothes into smaller versions until I was the same age as Hestia with proportionate clothes. I looked at my small hands and body and grinned at the goddess of the hearth.
"This is so weird, I feel so energetic and nimble. I like it though, I can see why you like being this age Lady Hestia." She just looked at me and smiled.
"I'm glad you like it but I'm not sure if it will work which is why I did not bring it up at the meeting."
"It's fine Lady Hestia." She made a face and I remembered she wanted me to to just call her Hestia. "I truly had no idea what I was going to do about it and this is a game changer if it works. I don't like godly lust, It feels like it controls me now. I did not say this in the meeting but the woman Martha had me completely at her mercy because of it. It was like my will did not matter and I did everything that she said, it was humiliating…"
"That is very serious Percy, why did you not tell the council?"
"If they knew they could try to take advantage of it or try to eliminate me. Not like they could, my whole body is covered by a thin layer of Ethereal Reftate so I'm pretty much invincible." I smiled at my revelation.
"Why did you reveal all this to me." Hestia was genuinely curious as she had a puzzled look on her face.
"Because I trust you. You are one of the few people I know really cares for me. You are a fair person and value family more than anything, just like me." Hestia seemed surprised but gave me a warm smile.
"Percy do you know why we were able to defeat our father the first time?" I knew what she was going to say because I thought the same thing, they won because they all fought together to overthrow their father.
"Because you all fought your father and the other titans together?" Hestia nodded and took a deep breath.
"Father only fought for himself but we fought for each other, that's why we won. When you fight for your loved ones, that's when you reveal your true strength. That true strength can overcome any obstacle, it does not matter how impossible it seems. If you fight for your loved ones you will always win."
"Can I really overcome any obstacle? Including the mark of Himeros?" Hestia looked at me and nodded.
"Fight for your loved ones and you can accomplish anything."