My blood ran cold.
If I were drinking water I would have done a spit take.
I look over to Apollo and start panicking.
"But what if I can't control my forms. Then I'd end up killing all the demi gods. I haven't even thought about that. What if my friends don't even recognise me, I don't! And-"I was cut off but Apollo chuckling and putting a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry Percy, you`ll be fine, Me and the other gods will accompany you too, just focus on the form you are in now, ok?" He said in a comforting way.
"You sure" I mumbled like a little kid about to go on their first rollercoaster.
"Positive" I followed Apollo inside his temple. Randomly seeing everything ever happening in time.
"Ok" Apollo stated, leaning against a pillar, "Let's call in the big guns: Aphrodite"
I shivered, oh god. This was going to be fun…
"APHRODITE!" He shouted, making the whole temple shudder.
There was a pause, then a sweet, beautiful voice called out.
"Yes Apollo" Aphrodite appeared, beautiful as ever. Strangely though, I wasn't drawling, weird…
"Uh.. Aphrodite, if it isn't too much trouble-" He started by was cut off by her.
"Make Percy look hot!" She squealed and looked over to me, "Not that he needs much help"
She bit her lip and smiled.
"Ok, let's do this thing. Percy Hun please sit"
She waved her hand and a chair materialised behind me. I sat obediently on it and she grinned at me, not even looking at him she waved Apollo off.
"You can go Apollo, I`ll transport him to camp when you call, now go" Her light-hearted voice held a ring in it. Charm speaking.
"Uh… I don't think that's a good idea" He said hesitantly after shaking off the charm speak, he uneasily glanced at me like a father not sure to leave his child on their first day of school.
Aphrodite's voice came into my head, Come on Percy, help me out here Hun, charm speak, I glanced at her and she nodded at me in an encouraging way. I took a deep breath and…
"It's ok Apollo, we`ll be fine, just dandy" I was surprised to hear the same ring which was in Aphrodite's voice in mine. But I plastered on what I hoped was a charming smile and hoped it was realistic.
"But-"He said, glancing from me and Aphrodite like we were on fire or something.
"No ifs, no buts" Aphrodite said and walked up to him and placed a finger on his lips.
"Yeah, we`ll be fine" I said, becoming more confident by the second.
Apollo frowned but nodded and said.
"Ok then, don't mess up my temple" Then left.
Aphrodite grinned at me and I grinned back.
Then we got to business. Not as in- oh don't be rude you sick minded person!
To tell the short story she showed me how to use the powers she gave me, made me look just as good as her (Wow…) and is now taking me to my mums apartment to see her and Paul.
So now we are standing outside of the apartment. Me, in a red button up t-shirt with a few buttons undone, Black trousers and leather shoes. Her, in a blue dress and heels.
"Ok, here goes nothing…" I drew a huge breath and rang the bell.
There was shuffling on the other side of the door and then it flipped open.
Paul stood there, eyes a bit blood-stained and ruffled up, but apart from that fine.
"Hello" He said warily watching me and Aphrodite.
"Hi Paul" I said with a smile.
"Uh… who are you" He asked, his frown becoming more apparent. A jolt of pain worse than that of becoming a god shot through me.
"Paul, I'm Percy" I motioned to myself .
His eyes widened.
"Percy, Is that you?" He asked.
"Well yeah, it is" I said dopily.
"Percy!" he shouted and wrapped me in a hug which would give Tyson a run for his money.
"Hi" I muttered and glanced back at Aphrodite who was smiling at us.
"Hey Sally! There's someone here to see you" He shouted into the apartment.
My mum appeared at his side soon after he said that.
She looked at me calculatingly, her eyes, like Pauls were red and blood-shot.
"Mum" I said in a small voice.
She looked at me , eyes widening and threw herself at me. Muttering how much she loves her baby boy. Aphrodite cooed at the cuteness of us.
She pulled away and held me at arm's length.
"Percy… your eyes, your face, you, what happened?" She asked.
"Mum, didn't Annabeth and Grover tell you"
She nodded and pulled me, gobsmacked into another bone crushing hug and started crying into my shoulder.
Aphrodite tapped her on the shoulder delicately. Mum turned to look at her.
"Hi miss, I'm Aphrodite. Don't you worry about Percy, me and the Olympians will look after him. He will even be able to sneak out to see you"
She smiled widely at mum like this was the best news ever. Mum smiled sadly at her and looked at both of us.
"So" Paul said, tucking my mum under his arm "What-"
He was interrupted by Apollo's voice.
"PERCY, APHRODITE COME ON! YOU WERE JUST SUPPOSED TO GET READY THEN COME! WHERE ARE YOU! DADS FREAKING OUT AND SO ARE THE CAMPERS. COME NOW"
We cringed at each other.
"Mum, I'm so sorry. We have to go now or… uh I have a fear we will be blasted out the sky and sun burnt badly. Ill be back soon. Ok?"
They nodded, Paul pulled mum closer as she started to tear up. I took her face in both my hands.
"Hey, Mum. Don't cry, ok. I'm going to be fine. Trust me"
She nodded weakly and I kissed her on the forehead. "Be safe, mum"
I then turned to Paul said; "You take care of her Paul" Then I turned and whistled, attempting to call some sort of demon to take us there.
In seconds a huge black demon appeared in front of me.
It had glowing green eyes, bat like wings, sharp perfect teeth and it looked a bit like a dragon but instead of scales it had some sort of leather skin and I had the feeling It breathed water instead of fire.
I hopped up onto its back as it shouted a greeting to me, then held out a hand for Aphrodite, she took it and sat behind me on its back. I silently preyed she wouldn't hold onto me. Luckily she didn't.
"Bye guys, see you soon. Love you" I shouted as its huge wings started lifting us off the ground.
The air whipped my hair around and I had the strange instinct to fix it. Oh god…
Soon camp half-blood came into view. I grinned, home at last.
I looked back to her.
"You ready"
"I should be asking you the same question" She said breathlessly.
Just as she said that we swooped down to camp half-blood at top speed.
I told the demon telepathically to land by the dining pavilion.
It did… uh… kind of.
We actually crash landed in the volleyball court. We both did ninja rolls to stop us spilling some godly guts.
Sand was everywhere. I saw people pouring out of the dining pavilion in a rush to see what just happened.
"My hair!" Aphrodite screamed, looking ready to kill me.
"I can fix that" I said and clapped.
Suddenly her hair was all nicely done up again.
"See, good as new"
"GOOD AS NEW. GOOD AS NEW? Ill give you good as new Jackson" She screamed.
So I did the natural thing: I ran.
I ran as fast as I could to the crowd.
They just stared.
The gods burst into laughter.
"What did you do this time Perseus" Zeus boomed.
I continued to run up the hill and hid behind Chiron who watched smiling slightly.
"Hey Chiron" I breathlessly said.
Hi guys!
Whatcha think?
Good enough?
How do you want the camp to react? tell me please