Chapter 10

-Annabeth's POV—

To say Gaea's unplanned visit surprised the camp would be an understatement. Now take that wonderful surprise and compare it to the surprise of Percy's betrayal. Suddenly, Gaea's visit didn't seem so shocking anymore.

After Gaea left with her oh-so-wonderful invitation and our fantastic death warning, the gods and Chiron called a camp meeting between the head councilors.

"I can't believe Percy would betray us like this." Sniffed Piper.

Jason put his arm around her and pulled her close. "Neither can I. Which brings us to the reason of why he would do it in the first place. What did Gaea mean when she said we should be asking' whether or not Percy was innocent in the beginning.'? What does that even mean?"

The gods looked down guiltily while I glared at them. "It means," I started, "Percy was accused by SOMEBODY" I fake coughed "The gods" and then fake coughed again, "for being on the enemies' side. Knowing him, he probably went and changed sides to prove a point."

"And what point would that be?" asked Chiron before Zeus could get mad and blast me to pieces.

"That Kronos makes better cookies?" Leo joked.

The rest of us rolled our eyes.

"This is so not the time dude." Jason said.

"The point Percy's probably trying to make is what him being against the gods really looks like."

"I guess we're about to find out." Athena said.

I glanced at my mother. She's doing pretty good job keeping a straight face about all this considering we know the truth.

"So what," Poseidon said. "We're just going to let my son destroy his life? His home? His family?"

"We can't interfere. If we could, I would've stopped Luke in the last war with Kronos." Hermes said.

"Can't we talk to him? Maybe make him see sense?" Frank asked.

"Once Percy's loyal towards someone, it isn't going to be easy to get him to turn on them." I said.

"I should write a Haiku about this tragedy." Apollo thought aloud.

"No!" everyone shouted, but Apollo didn't listen.

"Once a cool hero.

Whom fought with a scarey pen.

Now he is bad."

"That last one was only four syllables." Pointed out Artemis.

"Oh, you're right." Apollo said.

"Back to the point. If we can just talk to Percy maybe he will come back." Said Hazel.

"Even if he does, why should we trust that punk? I say we find the little squirt and kill him while we still can." Pitched in Ares.

"We will not kill my son!" yelled Poseidon.

"Brother we might have to." Zeus said.

"No!" and with that Poseidon flashed out.

Hera sighed. "I don't see what the big deal is. Kill him, don't kill him. Why does it matter? Shouldn't we be discussing the fact Kronos and Gaea have teamed up?"

"Percy could become a problem if he's on the opposing team." Said Hephaestus.

"We can't just kill him. Luke was good in the end, maybe Percy will be too." I said desperately. I couldn't let them kill the seaweed brain. It would ruin the plan.

"Why don't you just let us demi-gods go find him and talk to him?" asked Leo.

"That's boring." Said Ares.

"It's pointless." Yawned Hera.

"How about, 'He is a seaweed brain'?" said Apollo. "Oh wait, that's six syllables."

"How about Apollo's a seaweed brain?" asked Artemis.

"No that's seven!" cried Apollo.

Artemis rolled her eyes.

"Wait Leo's right. We could issue a quest to track down Percy and try to talk him out of being on Kronos' side." Said Frank.

Just then Rachel ran in panting. "No need. Percy just showed up."

"That could work!" yelled Apollo.

Every one stared at him confused.

"Once a cool hero,

Whom fought with a scarey pen.

Percy just showed up." Apollo beamed.

I groaned. "Wait for it."

Apollo's grin slowly fell as his eyes widened. "GUYS! PERCY JUST SHOWED UP!"

And with that he ran out of the big house leaving the rest of us to follow.

A/N: I am so sorry for the long wait. Like its been so long you probably don't even remember this story. Anyways, the next few chapters will be certain POV bc I accidentally wrote them that way and I'm too lazy to fix them at the moment. But yeah, Review, I take criticism.