Chapter 8: Fates greatest enemy

A/N: Got a lot of bad reviews for the 8th chapter, so I took it down and replaced it, I also changed pairing back to Perzoe. Tell me in reviews if you want me to make another one that is Pertemis.

3rd person pov

A god lay in his palace. Forced into a sleep that was supposed to last many years, but fate had never had a good hold on his life. He was too powerful. Fate itself feared him. So even with the majority of their powers he could still see everything going on to the love of his life like it was a dream. Fate didn't know he could do this, so naturally they didn't give him a second thought when they sent her on a quest that would kill her. Their mistake.

Percy Jackson was the god lying in his palace. Watching his love fight her dad in a dream. The thing is Percy saw ten minutes into the future in his dream world, and he knew that. So as Atlas dealt the finishing blow to Zoë, Percy's love, in his dream land he started shaking. It didn't last long and as fast as it came, it went. Then his eyes snapped open, and anyone who saw the rage in them would have cowered at it. As soon as he awoke Fate knew it had happened, but by the time they got to his chambers he was gone, but if he had stayed he would have seen the paling face of fate.

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Percy had flashed himself to Zoë's location, and he got there right as Atlas was dealing the killing blow. "Atlas don't you DARE touch a hair on her head!" Even though the power in the voice made Atlas shiver he just looked over at Percy and smirked, right before shoving his spear in Zoë. When Percy saw this he let out a roar of anger so loud Atlas ripped his spear out of Zoë before flashing out of the scene. When Luke saw Atlas flash out he followed suit, but not before knocking out the demigod and satyr he was fighting. Percy turned to the now retreating monster army and gave out a yell of fury before charging them. He made quick work of the army and within less that a minute the only left was monster dust. After he was done he quickly made his way over to Zoë's side. As soon as he did he could tell she was dead.

As he was crying next to her dead body the fates flashed in with Atlas in tow. They took him over to Artemis and forced him under the sky instead of her. Then they made their way over to Percy, who still hadn't recognized their presence. "How does it feel Perseus, to lose the love of your life?" Percy turned at the sound of their voice and started to get up. Then his eyes turned from anger to sadness and he fell back down next to Zoë. "We can give her back Percy. You just have to give us something in return."

Percy's head shot up and he immediately bowed at their feet. "Ill do anything to bring her back, just tell me what to do." The fates almost laughed at how easy this was. "We want you to sacrifice all your powers to us." Percy looked conflicted about what to do until he looked down at Zoë's dead body. "I, Perseus Jackson, Give fate all of my godly powers and domains in exchange for Zoë to be brought back to life." As soon as he finished a bolt of lightning came down and struck him before going through him and making a ball of energy in the air. After a couple seconds of extreme pain for Percy the energy was still growing, and the fates were looking at it in awe. No god could posses this amount of power. Their body wouldn't be bale to handle it even as a god.

Finally about double the amount of time the fates thought it would take it finally stopped growing. Now Percy was panting and could barely stand. "Out of pity for the fate we have in store for you we allow you to keep your stone powers and water powers. Except your stone arms will look like normal and not like your symbol of power." Percy slowly turned his arms into stone and looked at them. They both had a long crack going through them, and if you looked closely you could see something shiny underneath. Percy pushed against the crack and it started growing until it looked like half his arm was about to crumble into dust. Then all he did was hit his arms together and all the loose rock fell of reveling pure silver up to his elbows on both sides.

Percy slowly formed the silver into swords while the fates paled, which they seemed to do a lot since Percy became a god. "Im… impossible. You can't evolve your godly powers when we just took the majority of them." Percy then turned his arms back to normal before bowing at the fates. "Thank you for bringing back Zoë. If it hadn't been because of you she died I may actually like you right now. Buuuttt… it was your fault so I still hate you. You can leave now." The fates glared at Percy, but when he gave them a glare even scarier they immediately flashed out leaving Percy to talk to Zoë while Artemis, albeit grudgingly, cared to the wounded satyr.

Percy POV

As soon as the fates left I turned around to face Zoë, only to be tackled into a hug. Zoë just sat there in my lap crying about how she had lost me and everyone said that Zeus had killed me. After she finally stopped crying I pulled out of the hug just enough to give her a gentle kiss on the lips. "Zoë, you never lost me. Zeus never killed me. The fates put me to sleep until I was needed, but I wasn't supposed to wake up for a long time." Zoë just gave me a tiny nod before snuggling into my tear soaked shirt. "Percy, you've been away a long time, the world has changed much since you were last here." She was looking at me waiting for a response, but all she got was a goofy smile. "You want to know something the fates didn't know? I have been watching over you this whole time. You ever notice how sometimes you'll get a burst of energy and the monster you're fighting gets a look of fear? That was me, helping you."

By the time I was done Zoë had tears in her eyes and was hugging me again. I happily wrapped my arms around her for a minute before she jumped out of my grip punching me in my gut. As I curled into a ball on the ground she growled at me from above. "You were the one helping me on my hunts?! I had everything under control you stupid male." Now it was my turn to be mad. Except I think I went a little over board. "Sorry for caring you stupid demititan, did your dad never teach you what care is? I don't doubt it. I just gave up my immortality for you and this is how you repay me? Yelling at me and calling me a stupid male for caring?" As I looked at her face I saw that the demititan blow was a low one and that it had actually hurt her. I immediately realized I had over reacted and went to fix it. "Zoë, you know I never meant to hurt you I…" She interrupted me with a punch to the face and a knee to the… tender regions. "I... I don't want to hear it you insolent boy. I knew I made the right choice joining the hunt."

I looked at her with a look of hurt, and obviously it showed because she flinched and her eyes softened up a little before they hardened again and she punched me in the face. "Don't try to trick me into giving you sympathy, I knew all boys were the same." She turned around to go to Artemis before I grabbed her shoulder. She immediately turned around and hit me in the face with the blunt side of her hunting knife. "Get your hands off me boy. Don't ever touch me again." As she turned to walk away again I grabbed her ankle making her spin around with murder written all over her face. "Please Zoë, there has to be something I can do to prove I love you and I haven't changed." She just snarled at me before grabbing me by my shirt and pulling me up to eye level with her. "Go to Tarturas," she spat in my face. Now in hindsight I probably should have noticed she was not telling me to go to Tarturas to prove myself… obviously I didn't.

She walked over to Artemis and whispered something in her ear. After she did Artemis glared at me, but I could clearly see the confusion in her face. Before I had time to ask her why she was glaring she teleported away with the demigods and satyr leaving me alone in one of the most monster invested places in the U.S….. Great. Then again, I was planning on going to Tarturas. The most monster invested place in the world.

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Luckily I knew a way to get to Tarturas so I didn't take me long to get down there. All you have to do is half kill a person, and instead of the body and soul separating the body itself will go to D.O.A. so all you have to do is follow it. The hard part is half killing them. But I did it, and now I'm in Tarturas and have no clue what to do. Well, I have an idea of what to do. There's this pull in my gut, but it's leading me into the deepest part of Tarturas. The part that had no mist. But I'm extremely dumb so I followed the pull into the darkness. As I walked further into the darkness I started to hear the screams of monsters up ahead.

Then out of the dark a Cyclops came tumbling in front of me onto the ground. Before it even hit the ground I had my silver arms out as swords. "No. Never see again... please… stop making me see it… its horrible." Then he stopped yelling and moving, but instead of dissolving into dust he just sunk into the ground making a small bubble where he sunk… already reforming. Of course this made me weary, but the pull was so hard it was almost hurting, and I had already tried turning around and the pain was almost unbearable.

Finally I made it to were it wasn't dark and I immediately threw up at the sight but besides that no insanity. "That's interesting. I knew your reaction wouldn't be death, but I though I would at least have to help you stay sane. Perhaps you are the one…" the voice quietly mumbled to himself for a minute as if he forgot I was here. "No, young hero. I did not forget you were here. I don't know if you are ready but I will reveal my real voice to you if and only if you make it to my destination. It will be a long journey and I honestly don't expect you to make it. Do you accept?" I nodded my head forgetting he couldn't see me, but before I could correct the mistake he started talking again. "Good. I was hoping you would."

How could he know I shook my head, not even the gods could tell that. "Young boy, there are beings much more powerful than the gods. Some are even older than Chaos himself." The last part he said in a deep raspy voice that sent shivers down my spine, and I somehow knew he could kill me with a glare if he wanted to. "Correct you are young child. Now enough talk, just follow the pull in your stomach and kill everything that gets in your way, because you will be punished by me if not, and nothing down here is worse than me and my sister." I had no time to think about the sister comment because the pull started and it felt like my stomach was trying to jump out of my body, so I ran with it. Into the darkness…

I expect some reviews from the peeps out there that didn't like that 8th chapter I took down. Thx ;)