Thalia was beside herself with anger, and the rest of the hunt knew it. The head counselors of Camp-Half Blood had called for a meeting the second Percy woke, and no one had invited her, as if she wasn't entitled to hear her cousin's excuse for disappearing. They even invited the rest of the seven, and that made matters even worse, at least in the hunter's opinions.
They didn't even attempt to try and calm her as they walked up to the big house, where two campers stood guard to the doors, cautiously lowering their weapons in Thalia's direction as she got closer, not stepping down as she stepped up to them.
The rest of the hunters winced as Thalia grabbed the ends of their swords and lit up with lightning, shocking them considerably. As they fell, Thalia kicked the doors open, to the very surprised group of Greeks and Romans, who all shot up, backing up slightly as they noticed how angry she was.
"Well, now that everyone is here, the real discussion can begin." Percy muttered, his surprised features switching to a tired one as he sat down, causing Thalia to glare in his direction. He gestured to the chairs surrounding the table in the room, expecting people to sit down.
As no one moved, Percy sighed in irritation, waving his hand, causing any liquid in the room to condense into an orb, which sent tendrils out, grasping each person (besides Chiron) and pulled them into chairs, Thalia included.
"Be quiet." He muttered, as complaints rose, and the room fell silent. He quietly stared at the table, before looking at each of the counselors and Romans in the room, his eyes lingering on the Seven and Thalia. He cleared his throat quickly and started tapping the table, finally speaking.
"I have been gone for a long time, as you may realize." He murmured, scratching his neck, before continuing, "And in that time, I was able to hear a few things." Percy paused, gauging each of the spectators reactions, and then focused on Thalia.
"As of recently, the past few years to be exact, monster activity has been on the rise. At first I didn't think anything of it, and went about my business killing any and all of them as I found them." He sighed and took a drink of a glass of coke beside him, Travis Stoll opening his mouth in anger as Percy drained his cup.
"As I was saying" Percy spoke as he finished the coke, ignoring Travis, "Monster activity has increased, and after awhile I realized there is a center of activity." He paused as Thalia made to open her mouth, and Percy flicked his finger, causing a glass of diet coke to fly into her face.
"Though I couldn't get very far, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan seems to be the main spawning area, hundreds of monsters line the forests, ranging from low tier weaklings like Dracanae, to Atlantean Drakon that patrol the waters. I was unable to recon further in, as the second they sensed me they all attacked, and even I couldn't fight them all off." He said somberly, ignoring the angry sputters from the lieutenant of The Hunt
"What I want to know, is what we are going to do about it." Percy finished, looking around at all the counselors, who now looked nervously back and forth between each other at the news of the massive monster spawn.
"Well we could-" as Leo went to speak, he was cut off by a very angry Thalia, "Well what you could have done is told the rest of us a long time ago!" She snapped out, her hair drenched in coke, "Instead of you ignoring our Iris messages, hiding from our search parties, and continuously making us suffer on your behalf!" Thalia finished, the end of her speech encompassed by a yell.
Percy made to open his mouth and stand up at the same time, and Thalia cut him off. "Oh no, don't give us your excuses, I don't want to hear it. You left us behind at the worst time, right after my best friend died. I lost a person I thought of like a sister, and then i lost a person I thought of as a big brother, all in the same week." She mumbled out, her eyes tearing up. "And now you're back, after nearly four years of you evading us, making a fool of me, and then making me look like a weakling in front of my hunters. What do you really want Percy? Are you going to use these campers and Romans, and then go back into hiding, like a coward?" Thalia asked, finishing her statement, leaving the counselors in silence, and Percy glaring at the table, contemplating her words.
As he rose, The counselors backed up, pure rage in his features. "First. I don't give a damn about what you wished I had done, I am not inclined to answer any of your messages, nor am I inclined to reveal myself to you whenever you so wish." He spat, and Thalia's mouth opened, her face contorted in anger. "BE QUIET!" Percy roared out, and Thalia's mouth shut faster than a gun firing.
"You act like you are the only one that suffered! You act like you deserve my outright consolence, as if I was not dealing with my only problems! I had no one when Annabeth was killed, I was left to my own devices as the rest of you mourned! I was left alone, you had Artemis, you had the rest of The Hunt, I had NO ONE!" He roared out again, knocking the table to the side, and spilling all the drinks as Thalia dropped back into her seat, her face now nervous and scared.
"So, I don't want to hear about how I left you. About how I disappeared. I know this, I was there, and I didn't want to be found. I came back because I chose to, because I wanted to warn the defenseless campers and Romans who were completely unprepared for a swarm of this scale." Percy spat out quietly, leaning forward, an inch from Thalia's face, and then pushed past her, leaving her staring forward, completely dumbfounded.
"Remember that the next time you want to criticize my motives, Grace." Percy finished, and walked out of The Big House, the hunters parting as he walked forward.
Not very long I know, and I am sorry for not updating, got a bit of writers block, hope you enjoy the second to last part of this small short four parter.