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Councils and Confusion

Previously

Hestia frowned a little bit as she saw the pain flash through his eyes. She was a really peaceful goddess but after seeing what that camp did to her son, she really wanted to go to that camp and hurt someone.

"Good. I do know you plan to go to Medea's shop to find a potion to get rid of your demigod scent so no one can find you. I will send you there. Make sure to look for a black potion with the little swirls of purple and silver. That will remove your demigod scent."

"Okay. Just give me a minute so say one last goodbye." He turned to where the ashes were spread.

"Goodbye mom, goodbye Paul. I love you guys and I will miss you. I'll never forget all you did for me. I will work on not losing myself mom. I promise. I love you"

He turned back to Hestia and said, "I'm ready."

Hestia nodded and waved her hands and Percy vanished in a column of flames.

Now

Third POV (Inside the throne room of Olympus)

The throne room of Olympus was in an uproar. Not long ago, there was a massive surge of power that swept through some of the gods domains, mainly Zeus and Poseidon, which demanded an emergency meeting on Olympus.

Poseidon and Zeus were shouting at each, demanding answers on how their domains were affected in such a massive way without them controlling it. Athena was sitting in her throne trying to think of an answer that would explain the mysterious power surge.

Hera and Demeter were sitting in their respective thrones, watching their husband and brother, respectively, yell at each other and were wondering if they should step in.

Artemis and Apollo were arguing with each other on who was older with Artemis yelling at Apollo to stay away from her hunters while shooting arrows at him. Apollo was trying to dodge all the arrows that were being shot by his 'little sis'.

Hermes, Hephaestus, and Aphrodite were all sitting in their thrones. Hermes was making calls on his caduceus about package deliveries, Hephaestus was tinkering with a few bits of metal, and Aphrodite was fixing her makeup.

Ares was sharpening his sword and was looking on in excitement at the all the fights that were escalating in the room. Dionysus was sleeping in his throne with a wine magazine open in his lap.

Hades just sat in his throne, happy that he was finally allowed on Olympus and was no longer completely shunned by his family. He looked over at Hestia in her throne by the heath and the solemn expression on her face in surprise. He was curious to know what had caused her to look so sombre.

Not being able to take it any longer, Hestia stood up from her throne and summoned a massive wall of fire from the hearth to surge into the middle of the room, shocking everyone out of their arguments and tasks.

"Now that I have your attention, why don't we speak in a civilized manner and not like a bunch of bickering kids?" Hestia asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

All the gods nodded their heads slowly all sitting down in their thrones, not wanting the normally peaceful goddess to show off her fire powers again. They were all a little shocked that Hestia looked slightly angered when she was addressing them.

"Okay then", Zeus cleared his throat, "Now, as you all know or have probably felt, most of our domains went wild down in the mortal world for a little while before we were able to settle them down. Does anyone know or have a theory as to why this incident has occurred?"

All the gods looked to Athena, all knowing that if anyone had an answer in would be her. She sat there with a look of concentration on her face as she tried to think up of some scenarios.

"From what I gathered from Zeus and Poseidon, about an hour ago, there was a huge surge of power that swept through both of their respective domains. There was a 7.5 earthquake that happened and a massive hurricane appeared out of nowhere. The focus of the power was focused somewhere in New York. The possibilities that this could be an attack are slim, due to the fact that the giants and titans are all still in Tartarus. The next likely subject would have to be someone who is quite powerful and has control of storms and earthquakes. Now who do we know that is powerful enough to be able to simultaneously cause earthquakes and a hurricane?" Athena questioned.

All the gods thought for a moment before looks of realization swept over their faces.

"Perseus." Artemis said in shock. Everyone else mirrored her shocked expression. If they weren't listening before, they were now. Percy had done so much for the gods and while he was a huge pain in their immortal asses, he has never done anything for them to doubt his loyalty to them or his friends. He has changed them for the better, having them act more as a family than they have in hundreds of years, even if they do bicker from time to time, but hey, that's what families do.

"My son. But what would cause him to exhaust his powers to that point?" Poseidon thought aloud.

"What are talking about brother?" Hera questioned. Even she was worried about the young demigod that brought her family a little closer together

"While Percy is very powerful, it would take a massive amount of energy for him to cause that big of a storm and that huge of an earthquake at the same time. He should only be able to achieve such a feat if his emotions were to the extreme. He would have had to be very angry or something to be able to do that. Something big must have happened to him for him to expel that much power. Something very emotional."

"Wow, Barnacle Beard. You actually explained something intelligently for once." Athena smirked.

"When it comes to my domains and my son, I can be quite intelligent Athena." He snapped at the Wisdom goddess. Athena looked a little taken aback at his comment and the use of her actual name. She narrowed her eyes and was about to retort when she was cut off by Zeus.

"Alright, does anyone know what could have caused Perseus to react like that?" Zeus said.

Everyone was thinking while Poseidon was worried on what could have caused his son to react the way he did. Whatever it was, it was not good.

Suddenly, Hades shot bolt right up in his throne with a look of dread on his face. He closed his eyes and concentrated on his domain until he found what he was looking for. He opened his eyes to find everyone staring at him with quizzical expressions, as he turned even paler than he already was.

"Hades, what wrong? What happened?" Zeus asked.

"I think I know what caused Percy to react the way he did and it is not good." Hades said uneasily as he looked at Poseidon. "I am so sorry brother, but two souls just entered my realm that are of great importance to Perseus and to you."

"Who could that be? The president? Tom Hanks? Scarlett Johansson?" Apollo joked, trying to relieve the tension that descended upon the throne room. Artemis reached over and smacked Apollo upside the head.

"Be serious for once!" Artemis yelled.

"Ouch! Come on sis, I'm just trying to lighten the mood." Apollo said as he rubbed his head.

"Now is not the time for that so be serious for once in your immortal life. And for the last time, don't call me SIS!" Artemis screeched.

"SILENCE YOU TWO!" Zeus bellowed while thunder boomed in the background. The twins shut up real quick after that. He turned his attention back to Hades and motioned for him to continue.

Taking a deep breath and steeling himself for the fallout he looked at Poseidon.

"The two souls that just entered my realm are Percy's parents, Sally and Paul Blofis."

There was stunned silence before the whole throne erupted into shouts of disbelief and shock. The throne room suddenly began to shake violently as the gods turned to see the god of the seas surrounded in a sea green light as he let out a massive yell.

"WHAT?!" Poseidon boomed out. He quickly crossed over to Hades and grabbed him by the shoulders before looking at him with pleading eyes.

"Please brother. Tell me it's not true. Please tell me that you made a mistake and mistook them as different people…please!" Poseidon begged as he began to tremble.

Hades just looked at his brother with saddened eyes as he shook his head. Poseidon let go of him as he stumbled backwards into his throne as he buried his head into his hands and wept. He truly loved Sally and he couldn't believe that she was dead. She was a very special woman to him, a queen among women that brought out his best qualities and gave him the gift of his son. He could only imagine what Percy was going through right now.

Hades and Hestia got off their thrones and crossed over to their sobbing brother. Hestia pulled him into a hug, whispering words of comfort to him and slowly instilling hope into him. Hades placed his hand on his shoulder.

"They have made it into Elysium brother. And even if they didn't, I would have made sure they were placed in automatically."

All the gods watched the three of them as Poseidon slowly composed himself and thanked his brother and sister before sitting back in his throne. They nodded at him, while Hades went back to his throne while Hestia remained by Poseidon, because it was clear, he still needed some support.

"Okay, so that explains what happened in New York, but why was he there in the first place? And was he also the cause of what happened at Camp Half-Blood?" Hermes asked.

Everyone snapped their heads off to the messenger god.

"What are you talking about bro? What happened at camp?" Apollo asked.

"You guys seriously don't know? I would have thought you would have at least seen or at least felt what happened at camp. About half the woods there was destroyed in some sort of explosion and many of the cabins were damaged."

Zeus narrowed his eyes at his son.

"How do you know this Hermes? Have you been visiting your children and interfering in the affairs of mortals against the Ancient Laws?" Zeus demanded.

"No, I haven't broken the Ancient Laws, but ever since Percy has asked to claim our children, I decided to keep an eye on camp and to make sure everyone remains safe. Percy has shown me that watching over our children is something that we have neglected our children for a long time and I try to take advantage of the situation. I do have a little more leeway with the Ancient Laws than others and while I attend to my duties, if the route happens to take a route through camp, then no harm done." Hermes retorted with a sly grin on his lips.

Zeus's face reddened in anger but he could find no flaw in his son's logic. He had to admit that what he was doing was quite brilliant and he was beginning to rethink some of the Ancient Laws put into place. Shaking his head of these thoughts he turned his attention back to the council.

"So, if that happened at camp, what could have caused Perseus to react like that not once but twice?"

Aphrodite shifted uneasily and it did not go unnoticed by Athena.

"Do you have something to say Aphrodite?" Athena asked in suspicion.

Aphrodite began to squirm a little as those intense grey eyes bore into her own. As her gaze continued to intensify, she couldn't help but blurt out.

"Annabeth cheated on Percy!" Aphrodite yelled out before she clapped her hands over her mouth.

Athena gasped in shock then narrowed her eyes at the love goddess.

"She did no such thing! No child of mine would ever be that stupid and make that unwise of a decision! While I didn't approve of young Perseus at first because of his father, I know now that he is a great asset to us and he is one of the few heroes that I would approve of to be with Annabeth." Athena yelled at Aphrodite.

"Oh really, Athena? Did you forget that I am the Love Goddess? I can sense all kinds of love, their strengths and how strong they are. Not to mention that I can also feel when a love breaks much as Percy's did when he saw your daughter cheating on him with that son of Zeus." Aphrodite sarcastically spat at the Wisdom Goddess.

Athena eyes widened at Aphrodite's statement. While she was angry that Aphrodite was accusing her daughter of doing something so unwise it was an insult to her very nature, she couldn't fault the logic in what she said. She was the Goddess of Love and who would know more about love than her? Shaking her head and her pride overruling logic, she glared at the love goddess.

"I'm still not completely convinced. I gave Perseus a ring to propose to my daughter not to long ago, so she wouldn't be stupid enough to cheat on him when he was about to propose." Athena replied stubbornly.

Aphrodite's eyes widened. "Oh gods. So that's why his heartbreak felt so absolute. He was about to propose and he caught them together. I said I wanted to make his love life interesting, but not even I would want that!"

"ENOUGH!" Zeus bellowed, slamming his master bolt into the floor, glaring at everyone in the throne room. "Stop this childish argument now! We have bigger things to worry about right now, like the location of Perseus and the current condition of camp."

Drama King, many of the gods thought but they didn't say it out loud because what he said was right.

Artemis POV

To say that I was surprised with what has happened during this council meeting would be a huge understatement. It started with the usual sibling argument with my immature brother, me telling him to stay away from my hunters, then he calls me 'little sis' even though I am older and it dissolving to me shooting arrows at him, which is a great stress reliever by the way. Then we find out that the mystery power surge that we were here to discuss about was from none other than Perseus. Then we find out that what caused him to lose control was the death of his parents, causing Poseidon to break down into tears and finally learning that something similar happened at camp which seems to be connected to Perseus and that the daughter of Athena seems to have cheated on the boy-no Man.

Hearing about the death of Sally Jackson was a sad to hear. A great woman like that was struck down and the world could use more of her in this world. If she was a maiden I would have immediately offered her a place in the Hunt.

But what I found completely unbelievable was that a MAN got his heart broken by a WOMAN and said woman cheated on said man. That is definitely a first. Nothing like that must have ever happened before. It's usually the men who are the vile, disgusting, no-good cheaters that cheat on women. I'm still in shock. But the biggest question on my mind was, why would anyone cheat on Perseus? He is the only acceptable male on this planet. He is so unlike his species that he defies everything I see in men. Where all men are vile, disgusting, unpleasant, horrible, mean, uncaring, and cowardly, he is loyal, kind, caring, brave, and incredibly skilled. Not to mention he is incredibly hansom-, whoa, back up a second. Why am I thinking about whether he is handsome or not? It must be because the idea of a girl cheating on a boy is so taboo that it must have disoriented me.

I was staring off into space contemplating all these events before I snapped back to attention when Apollo started waving his hand in front of my face.

"Arty? Hello? Woo-hoo, earth to Artemis? Anyone home? I'm going to go flirt with your hunters!" Apollo said, waving his hand in front of my face.

"Apollo! You will do no such thing! And stop calling me Arty!" I yelled at him, while slapping his hand away.

"Ha! Knew that would get your attention." He said with a grin.

"Yes, it did. And if you even think about flirting with my hunters you'll get an arrow where the sun don't shine!" I threatened, pulling out my bow to emphasize my threat.

Apollo paled before he held his hands up in surrender. "Chill sis, you've been staring off into space for a while and Zeus is about to speak again."

I turned my attention to father where he was retrieving his bolt from the floor.

"Now that is over with, Hermes, flash down to Camp Half-blood and gather up all the cabin councillors and bring them here. We need to know what happened down there and to know if they know the location of Perseus. Bring Chiron as well." Zeus Said.

Hermes nodded before rising from his throne and flashing out.

All the gods sat in their thrones aside from Hestia, who decided to remain by Poseidon's throne, whispering words of comfort in his ear. Everyone just looked uncomfortable. Athena and Aphrodite were glaring at each other because of what was said earlier and Zeus looked over at his usually strong brother, who looked like he was about to pass out at any moment.

After a few minutes, Hermes returned to the throne room with Chiron, Clarisse, Chris, the Stolls, Katie, Will, Grover, Annabeth, Zane, and the other cabin councilors. All the councilors looked curious as to why they were there. Clarisse and Chris looked annoyed as they stood a little ways away from the others. Annabeth looked like she had seen better days. Her hair was a mess, her clothes were wrinkled and her eyes were bloodshot. Zane stood next to her with an arm wrapped around her, which escaped none of the gods view.

"Demigods! You have been brought here today because of an event that happened at camp. A massive surge of power went through our domains earlier today and we were informed something similar happened at camp. We believed it had something to do with Perseus Jackson" Zeus said before a contemplative look crossed his face.

All the councillors aside from Clarisse, Chris, and Chiron, reacted immediately, each gaining looks of contempt and disgust at the name of their fellow demigod. Annabeth had a look of pain on her face before her eyes filled with unshed tears.

"What did that jackass do now?" Katie said in exasperation. The god's eyes widened when they heard that venomous statement come from the normally peaceful daughter of Demeter.

"Katie, what do mean? And why do you call the Saviour of Olympus and your friend that?" Asked a confused Demeter who, for once, wasn't even thinking about cereal.

"That piece of Minotaur dung is NOT our friend!" Travis yelled.

"Yeah! Not after what he did to all of us!" Connor followed up after his brother.

I narrowed my eyes at the two boys before I looked around to see all the looks of confusion and disbelief on all the god's faces. A small tremble ran through the throne room, causing the demigods to stumble. I turned to look at a furious looking Poseidon, who was gripping his trident so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

"HOW DARE YOU! How dare you say such things about my son! He saved Olympus twice and you treat him as if he is a traitor! I should vaporize you all where you now stand!" A furious Poseidon fumed as his trident burst into a greenish-blue light.

All the demigods began to cower at the look the angry God of the Seas was giving them. His bright sea-green eyes darkened till they were almost black. The colour of a raging hurricane.

Most of the gods who had children present stood up and began to yell at the enraged sea god to not even think about harming their children. They shut up real quick after Poseidon sent them a withering gaze in their direction. I would never admit it due to my pride, but my uncle can be downright terrifying when he wants to be. Hades, sometimes I think that he could overthrow my father if he wasn't so loyal to his family.

After reigning in some of his anger, he looked back at the group of assembled demigods and waited for them to speak again.

Grover recovered from his fright and timidly looked at the fuming Sea God.

"But Lord Poseidon, it's true. He is no longer our friend for what he was done to all of us." He said cautiously.

Poseidon's grip on his trident seemed to get even tighter. "And pray tell, what has he done?" He said in an icy voice. The message behind that question was clear, Choose your words carefully or else I'll feed you to the Kraken.

Grover gulped before continuing, "He was saying that satyrs and tree nymphs were useless and he intentionally burned Juniper's tree, along with a number of other nymphs!"

"He said Demeter kids were useless and he destroyed my precious garden with flowers I got from my mother and father!" Katie said.

" He ratted on us about a major prank we were gonna pull that took us months to come up with and he was dissing our cabin too!" Travis and Connor said.

"He broke my favourite bow that dad gave me for Christmas and said I was a lousy healer!" Will added.

All the councillors began complaining and listing things that they 'thought' Percy did to them before Clarisse finally couldn't take it anymore.

"What is WRONG with you all?!" Clarisse exploded, "You act as if Percy is devil spawn! I keep telling you that he never did ANY of those things! Percy would never do those things to his friends! His fatal flaw is loyalty so he is incapable of being able to do things malicious in nature to his friends!"

"Yeah! And what's wrong with all of you?" Chris said turning to the councillors of the minor gods. "He brought your parents the honour and respect they deserve. He got you cabins built for all of you and your parents. He got them to claim you and moved you out of the Hermes cabin. You act as if he never did any of that!"

All the demigods pondered their words and had looks of uncertainty on their faces.

"Hey guys! Don't listen to them. I saw with my own eyes Percy doing all those things. I heard him say all those negative thinks about you all too!" Zane said with a smug grin as they began to nod their heads.

When that boy said those words, there seemed to be a sort of yellow-whitish glow around him. It was faint, barely even there, but still enough for me to see. What was that? I was torn out of my thoughts when I heard my father yell.

"ZANE ANTHONY SKYE! What have you done?"

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