Perseus: Patron of the Betrayed
Chapter 2: Olympus
Location: Camp Half Blood
Chiron's Point Of View
Chiron looked at the bustling tables filled with demigods bustling around enjoying their lunch. The Ares cabin were having an arm wrestling competition. The hunters who were here for the week were discussing hunting tactics and monsters they killed. Hecate's children were practicing magic. Athena's kids were designing a new cabin for Thanatos despite him being a chaste god. Countless types of food were spread across the plates. Nico who usually wasn't here was polishing his sword while glaring at Annabeth.
Chiron looked around and noticed that many demigods were starting to leave so he had gotten up to speak.
"Immortal campers." Fifteen pairs of eyes turned to face him. "The Olympians had Hermes send a message to tell you all that they request a meeting with you." The immortal campers were visibly confused until they all realised what the date was today. 08/23/25 (USA). Ten years since Percy Jackson had been accused of murder of two demigods; a son of Athena and a daughter of Ares. His punishment was to serve 25 years in the depths of Tartarus and to be banned from the Greek and roman camps for life.
They all stared at Chiron before Jason spoke out in a respective tone. "When are they expecting us Chiron?"
"Within the hour so you should be getting going soon if you all wish to arrive in time." Chiron answered and the demigods nodded. They finished up their lunch and headed out of the valley to go to the Empire State Building.
Olympus
Third Person
The demigods stared in awe at the white granite pathway that lead to the throne room. To their left was a bustling community of stalls where minor gods, goddesses, nymphs and satyrs were shopping for goods such as ambrosia on a stick. Just passed the many colourful stalls were beautiful greek buildings and temples that stretched for miles. A massive colosseum was on their right and it was clear something was going on as roars and cheers could be heard from the enormous architectural feat. As they continued walking they had reached the gardens of Demeter and Persephone which had perfectly trimmed hedges, countless flowers, statues of the Olympians and many other minor gods and goddesses. Massive fountains were at the sides of the paths giving them a tranquility that was unique to there. Once they had exited the gardens they could see the gods private temples which were dotted all around the throne room.
As they were about to enter they throne room through the giant golden doors that were studded with countless gems and stones that showed many famous heroes greatest accomplishments. One was where the first Perseus killed Medusa the gorgan. Another showed Achilles being bathed in the river Styx as a child. The group of demigods eventually pushed the door open and their breathe hitched at the sight in front of them. White marble colours created an outside ring which was a large pathway around the thrones. In the inner Circe were fourteen unique thrones for the fourteen Olympians. In the centre of the thrones was the hearth which was burning with a faint blue. After gaping at the sight around them the noticed the fourteen gods, a minor god, and a minor goddess state at them and remembering they were in the presence of gods bowed down.
Location: Throne Room.
Hestia's Point Of View
Hestia stared at the demigods before checking in her head to make sure they were all there.
Jason. Check.
Katie. Check.
Clarisse. Check.
Annabeth. Check.
Will. Check.
Thalia. Check.
Leo. Check.
Piper. Check.
Pollux. Check.
Nico. Check.
Hazel. Check.
Frank. Check.
Reyna. Check.
Travis. Check.
Connor. Check.
Good they were all there. Hestia thought to herself.
"Demigods you may rise." Zeus' voice spoke out. Booming like thunder.
The demigods rose up and stared at the gods. They looked around and saw Thanatos standing behind Hades' throne, leaning against a pillar and playing with an obsidian scythe. The demigods who thought in the battle of Manhattan stared a little longer at the scythe as it was eerily similar to the one of Kronos. The only differences being the size of it being much smaller with the handle part being about five foot long and jet black with the blade being the same colour and three feet long. Behind Artemis' throne stood a quiet iris who was eating a muffin whilst looking at the hearth. The gods who sided with Percy ten years ago had a small grin on their face and those who didn't looked puzzled at the expressions on their face.
"As you all may have guessed we are going to be talking about security measures for when Perseus is allowed to leave Tartarus." Zeus spoke out loudly. "We already made sure that he was unable to go back to the the camps but other than that we are unsure what to do."
Athena stood up and started to speak. "Father. We should have it so Perseus is unable to speak to any demigods and is only allowed to a carry a celestial bronze knife as defence against monsters. Even though a murderer shouldn't be allowed to carry a weapon." Athena finished muttering out the last part.
Artemis started to grin more and more as the gods tried to figure out punishments for Perseus despite the fact she may now have proof of his innocence. She stood up which silenced everyone and started to speak.
"Father may I?" Zeus nodded. "Good, anyway Hades, Iris and I have reason to believe that we found sufficient evidence that Percy is innocent." The gods all looked shocked with disbelieving looks on their face. Those who stood by Perseus that day rhad massive smiles growing on their face. "You see originally we planned on asking the two demigods but they had went to rebirth. So after words we tried to find if we could get Iris to make an Iris message that shows the past. Unfortunately it was out of reach for her powers. For the last nine years we have searched manuscript after manuscript for a potion that can show the past for a short moment and Iris's powers amplified that. We made two which finished brewing last night. We checked it out and we would like it for all of you to see it as well."
"Lady Artemis before we start may I ask a question?" Nico asked.
"You may Nico." Artemis answered.
"Okay why is Thanatos here. I understand why Iris is here but why would the god of death need to be here." Nico asked confused.
Before Artemis could speak Thanatos got up and interrupted her. "I shall answer this one Lady Artemis. You see Nico, I have a large amount of gratitude and respect for Perseus and I agree with the fact that he is innocent. But I am specifically here since I have an offer for Perseus as a bit of a, how would you say it, thank you gift."
Nico and the other demigods were even more confused but Nico nodded and went back to sitting on the ground next to the others.
"You may show us this 'Evidence' Artemis." Zeus spoke with a tone of finality.
"Iris if you may?" Artemis asked and iris nodded smiling at the small amount if respect Artemis gave her.
Once that was spoken everyone turned round to face iris as she conjured a rainbow to project what happened that night. Before it had started it was obvious that the immortal campers were worried at what they might see and were oblivious to how loud they were projecting their thoughts to each other.
"Would you all be kind enough too quiet down so we can see this?" Apollo spoke shocking the demigods into silence.
On the rainbow the image started to appear and everyone focused their eyes onto the screen.
"How long do we have to go from here Percy?" A whiny voice spoke out.
"If we continue walking with minimal breaks we can get their in the morning." Percy replied.
"Can't we rest for the night? My legs are killing me and I'm going to collapse any minute now. A feminine voice spoke out.
Percy sighed exasperatedly. "Okay. Alice. Get the matches from my bag and set up a campfire. David you pit up the tents and Alice will help when she finishes the campfire. I'm going to do a Perimeter search to see of any monsters have followed."
The two young demigods nodded their head before getting on with the jobs Percy had asked them to do. Percy pulled out his pen and capped it turning it into his beautiful bronze sword Anaklusmos. He started walking around the dense forest around their campsite looking everywhere for any monsters. To the north of their camp was miles upon miles of buffalo farmland. To the west was a large creek that flowed down to the south and to their east was more acres of farmland that most likely connected to the north.
When Percy let his focus break for a few seconds a deer walked in front of him waking him up from his stupor. Reacting quickly slit the throat of the animal, dyeing the ground in a scarlet red. Once the light from the animals eyed faded he prayed a thank you to Artemis and Pan for the meal before lifting it up and heading back to their camp. Halfway back a bloodcurdling scream broke through the woods causing multiple species of birds to flock to the skies. Dropping the deer Percy ran to the camp to notice what happened. Two telekhines brandished a sword each that was made exactly like his sword. Moving swiftly percy ripped the monsters quickly before looking around for Alice and David, it barely took him time to notice the two foot wide blood trail that lead him straight into one of the remaining tents that was now baked in deep hue of red. In the tent laid David and Alice's remains that both had slit throats.
"No no no no no no no, come guys wake up please, guys please." Percy spoke rapidly.
Percy tried to resuscitate them with CPR and tried nectar and ambrosia but unfortunately they were dead.
"APOLLO!" Percy shouted into the sky.
Within moments a red Maserati spyder landed in front of Percy. From the car a man with blonde hair walked out and smiled at Percy.
"Hey dude what's wrong?" Apollo asked.
"Telekhines, they killed Alice and David. We need to take them to Olympus for a burial."
Apollo nodded his head and the image disappeared.
Everyone knew what happened after that. Ares and Athena believed that Percy killed their children and got him banished to Tartarus. And with the new information presented to night they realised that he had been innocent.
