AN: The poll is over. Hestia wins! But the poll for the rating will be deleted because I don't feel like writing M. The chapters have been late because I lost my USB, so now I have to save it to the computer. I'm making an OC in this story. Well, sort of. He'll be important in the future so watch out! Without further ado, let's get this started!
Disclaimer: PJO isn't mine
" Percy"
' Percy thoughts'
" Ice"
' Ice thoughts'
Percy POV:
When I appeared in the throne room, all the Olympians were there. ' Time for them to see their mistake.' " Perseus Jackson!" Athena thundered angrily. " Release my daughter at once!" " Silence, Daughter. She is the reason why we are hear." Zeus ordered. Athena huffed, but stayed silent ' Bitch.' I heard whispered somewhere deep in my mind. It's voice sounded like mine, but was deep and sinister. It could rival Kronos's voice, for it had and undercurrent of coldness to it without trying. ' The fuck?' I thought surprised, before mentally shaking myself. I needed to focus on the meeting.
As I tuned back in to the meeting, I found the last traces of and iris message disappear. " There is you evidence, Athena." Zeus said. " Next time before throwing an accusation around, you should look at the hard evidence." Dad smiled and said, " Gee Athena, you're losing your touch." That made her bristle with anger. " Now listen here, you Barnacle Beard, I'll have you know that-" " Quiet!" I roared, making everything go silent. " Can you do anything other than bicker? The real traitor is in front of you and all you do is argue like a bunch of children?! You do realize she is one of Gaea's generals, if not tactician. We need to get down to business."
I turned to Zeus. " What is her punishment?" Athena shot up from her seat and exclaimed, " You can't just punish her!" My eyes darkened with anger. ' Use that anger. Let me out!' I didn't hear the voice, for I was too mad. I was losing control of my emotions, making my blessings go haywire. My hands were engulfed in an inferno of black flames, and I was surrounded by a bright red aura, thanks to Ares's blessing. " Says the person who didn't say a thing when I was to be punished! She was caught on an Iris message with Zeus watching! SHE ISN'T INNOCENT!" I thundered, making her pale a bit and sit down. I started to calm down and reign in my powers, but I was still ticked. " What is her punishment?" I asked again. " That is for you to decide." Zeus said, ignoring my outburst.
A lone thought popped into my head. " What if she gets the same punishment as me, but under different conditions?" Zeus waved for me to continue. " How about instead of going to Tartarus, she goes to the Fields of Punishment? She will be left in the care of the furies, and will avoid getting reunited with her allies. It's a win-win situation." " All in favor?" Everyone voted accept for Athena. " All against?" Athena still sat there, but finally she asked Annabeth one question. " Why?"
Annabeth looked smug. " I wanted fame, to be first instead of second. Gaea would've given me that. You understand what I mean? You know what it's like to be pulled to power. I needed it." Athena looked at her daughter with disgust. " I vote for, Father." She said strongly. Annabeth had a look of horror on her face. She tied to stop the inevitable with the oldest trick in the book. Blaming the person who accused them. " I didn't do it! It was Percy! I'm innocent!" That little bitch!
Something snapped inside of me, and my body went on auto pilot. Fire started to billow out of my eyes, making me look sinister. Flame sprouted out of my arm and detailed my curse, causing the reddish words to turn black as night and to flicker slightly. My shirt was burned from the fire, showing the scythe on my chest was glowing black. The room darkened from the evil pouring off me. My consciousness was pushed to the back of my mind as dark voice that I heard in my head bellowed from my lips " Finally!"
Ice POV:
" Finally!" I bellowed. Time to show my true nature. As I turned to the poor excuse of a demigod, Poseidon stopped me by asking, " Percy?" I sighed. " Yes and No." I answered, " I'm part of Percy, but I'm not him. I'm his alter ego, Ice. It works quite like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Two consciouses in one body. I'm the darker part of him. I'm the being that sprouted from betrayal and pain. Repressed memories and grudges. Me and him are opposites. I kill without question, while he has mercy. Now if you'll excuse me, I would like to give our kind prisoner a taste of pain." They blanched at that and watched me in morbid fascination. Annabeth looked on in horror as I slowly turned towards her. I was going to use another power. Torture.
" What are you?" She asked weakly. I smiled a very, very unnerving smile. " Your worst nightmare." I activated my blessing at it's lowest power, making her get enveloped in a blood red aura. Instantly she started whimpering and moaned in pain. I started to laugh evilly. " How does it feel? The pain? The realization that you'll have an eternity of this? Both?" I laughed some more. " The pain. It's a beautiful thing. It can be caused by anything. A knife, bat, finger, and even words. You can't escape it. But you want to know what even more beautiful? Your voice, Now I wonder what it would sound like screaming."
I cranked power up to full and the effect was instantaneous. She was now enveloped in a midnight black aura, and as soon as it touched her, she screamed. It was music to my ears. It resounded around the room, and made the gods snap out of their trance, to my dismay. " Ice!" Athena hissed " Stop this at once!" I pouted, but stopped. Her beautifully painful voice was cut off by a whimper of pain, and a bunch of panting. I knelt next to her and whispered into her ear, " You will never escape the pain. It will always follow you." I backed up from her and relinquished control to Percy.
Percy POV:
As I stood, Thanatos popped in with his iPhone mumbling, " This was where the soul was dying, but now it's gone." He looked up from his phone and took in his surroundings. His eyes lit up when they saw me. "Ah, Perseus. I've been looking for you." He pulled a ring from his pocket. It was gold with a silver chain wrapping around it, resting in a groove carved into the ring. The gods gasped when he gave it to me. " This is the Ring of Gyges. I don't need to say the history behind it, but twist the silver chain to the right and presto! Invisibility. Twist it to the right and you will become visible. Call it my favor I owe you. Use it well."
And with that, he left, leaving me with a new ring and the gods looking like they were going to explode. " Hades,"he looked at me, " take her." He nodded and the bawling traitor disappeared from in between my chain. Seconds later he reappeared and sat upon his throne. I looked at Zeus. " Is that all? Because I really need to get back to camp." Zeus sighed but mumbled, " Meeting dismissed." Instantly I left to go check on Thalia.
Noticing the light breeze, I realized that still hadn't put another shirt on. Summoning up another black wife beater and looking around the camp, I walked to the Big House, seeing everyone was doing whatever they did. I opened the door and was greeted by a grave looking Chiron. " I heard what happened." I bowed my head, knowing he got every intimate detail from Mr. D. " I need to warn the campers about Annabeth, but whatever happened in that throne room stayed there, and I wont pester you about it, but at least try to keep him under control while your here." I was about to agree, but I heard a whisper in the back of my mind. ' As long as they don't piss me off.' "As long as they don't aggravate me too much I should be fine." He nodded and was about to walk off, but I stopped him with a hand to the shoulder.
" Do you know where Thalia is?" I asked, hoping I wouldn't have to look around camp for her. He smile knowingly. " She's teaching archery classes. You should pay her a visit. She's been worrying about you." I smiled and thanked him, but before I left, I checked the clock. It was 11:32. Maybe I could try out my new bow. Speaking of which, I can't even remember where I put it. I started to think about the intricate black bow.
It was and intricately carved Macassar ebony recurve bow, with ice blue glass inlays in a tribal pattern, making it twist in a beautifully deadly fashion. The grip was made of rubber, making the comfort at a maximum. I didn't worry about my hands getting raw from holding it too long, for I nearly always wore gloves. The string was also an icy blue, making it visible in close vicinity, but still hidden at a distance.
The quiver was made of black leather, a common theme about my new weapon, and was accented by glacial streaks at the sides. It was an over-the-shoulder quiver, filled with black arrows with cyan feathers and silver tips. It was enchanted to never run out of arrows. It truly was a thing of beautiful death.
Suddenly, I felt wait in my hand and on my shoulder. When I looked down I smiled. Apparently they were also enchanted to appear when I called for it. Thank you Artemis! With my new weapons, I jogged to the archery range.
When I got there, the class was trying to shoot the bulls-eye, but was only hitting the outer ring. ' At least they can hit the target. I was the only person in the entire camp to actually shoot an arrow backwards, while aiming at the target.' I thought. Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I stepped up to the archery range and prepared for the worst. I drew an arrow, nocked it, took aim, fired, and closed my eyes. THUNK. I opened my eyes and to my surprise, I hit a bulls-eye.
I heard an appreciating whistle from behind me. " Damn Perce, that's impressive for you." When I looked behind me, I saw my Thals. ' My Thals,' I mused, ' I like the sound of that' I smirked at her. " Well, thanks to Lady Artemis, I am now spared from humiliation." She pouted, truly disappointed. " Now I can't tease you about it." I smiled at her. " Well, I know something that might cheer you up." The pout was lifted to a look of curiosity. " And how would you do that?" I pulled her into a kiss, which she eagerly responded to, but after a few seconds, she pulled away saying, " Not now. I have a class to teach." Now it was my turn to pout, but I still clung to her the rest of the class while practicing my marksmanship.
When the conch shell rung at noon, we left for the pavilion, anticipating lunch. When we got there, we sat at Hestia's table with the rest of the immortal campers. After eating and giving sacrifice, we sat in a comfortable silence until Leo broke it. " Hey Perce," he asked, " what happened to you and Annabeth at breakfast? You guys just disappeared like fantasmas!" We all looked at him questioningly. " Ghosts." he explained. With clarification about the mystery word, I started my story from when we left from breakfast, to now, not leaving out any details. Including my alter ego because I trusted them..
When I finished, They were silently fuming, but were also looking at me warily, all but Thalia. " Don't worry about Ice." I told them, " He may be very scary, but like me he is also loyal." ' Damn strait.' They breathed a sigh of relief, but it was short lived when we heard the conch shell sound twice. That either meant an attack or new campers. I rushed up from my seat in an instant, and rushed out the door. When I got to the border, I saw two figures running up the hill, one male, armed with a baseball bat, and one female.
They both had black hair, but besides that, I couldn't see much. They both looked to be around 12-14, and both were running from a group of 30 of monsters led by the Minotaur. ' Gods dammit. Will he ever stay dead?' I asked my self before running to help them. " Ariel!" the boy screamed, " Go up the hill! I'll hold them off!" By his voice, I knew he didn't think he could take them on, but wanted the girl to be safe. " And leave my only family? My twin no less? Hell no, David! We fight them together!"
I admired the now dubbed Ariel for wanting to stick with her brother, so I gave her her wish. When I got there I yelled, surprising them, " How about you both go up the hill? I'll hold them off." The girl looked at me with fear. " But you'll get killed!" I shook my head. " I've fought worse. Now go!" They ran for their lives as I drew my bow that was strapped on my back, and started to fire arrows at the approaching enemies, downing about 10. When they got close enough, I willed my bow to disappear and drew Riptide. The Minotaur came charging up to me, donned in golden armor and his massive club, and was about to swing, but I cut off his horn as a baseball bat cracked him across the face, making him turn into golden dust. I looked over at David, and he nodded to me standing in a batter's stance. I was an unmovable obstacle, making the Drakons and Telekhines instantly turn into dust as they came near, while David kept hitting 'home-runs'. When they were all gone, I walked through the mountains of dust, and found the Minotaur horn. Picking it up, I handed it to David, and finally noticed his eyes, which were a deep sea green. I now had siblings.
While we walked up the hill and asked David a question. " Let me guess, you and your sister have lived with your mom, never knowing your father and going through many schools, you suffer from dyslexia and ADHD, and you have a love for water, more specifically, the ocean?" He looked at me like I told him I was a cloud. " How'd you know?" I chuckled. " The same thing happened to me, and if my guess is right, I now have new siblings. And before you ask," I said cutting him off, " all will be explained when you get on the hill." He nodded, accepting it all.
When we got to the hill, everyone was staring at David and Ariel, and when I realized what they were staring at, I started to cheer. Above their heads was a green trident. " Finally! I have some siblings!" Everyone chuckled at my antics as the twins looked at me like I was crazy. " David, Ariel come with me and I'll explain everything." They shrugged at each other and started to follow me. I gave them a full tour of the place, and soon at the end of the day, we were in the Poseidon cabin, sitting on the beds.
" Ask away because I know you have many questions." Ariel asked first. " Why do you guys have a camp named Camp Half-Blood?" I smiled, that was a good question. " Because everyone here is a greek demigod. The gods are real, believe it or not, and you two are children of Poseidon like me. That's why you love water so much. That's also why you never met your father, or your mother never talked about him, because he is a god. You see, they have a law that forbids them from interacting in the mortal world, but eventually, they come here to camp, a safe haven. All demigods are hardwired with ADHD and Dyslexia. ADHD to keep them alive in battle, and Dyslexia to translate Greek words to English. Does that answer your question?" She nodded and now it was David who asked the next question. " We kind of understand, but what about you? I want to know about you like why you have those Greek words on your arm, your eyes, and a shackle on your wrist. What happened to you?"
My face darkened and the immediately sensed the change in my demeanor. I took off my wife beater, and they gasped at what they saw. " Like there is Olympus, Tartarus also exists. The pit of eternal torture. I was betrayed by the girl I once loved, who will be mentioned at the campfire, and I was sentenced to Tartarus for eternity. Obviously, I'm here now, so my sentence was canceled on the condition I help in this war." I chuckled sadly. " My eyes were once like yours, full of mirth and a beautiful sea green. But a bottle of bleach fixed that. I really don't want to tell you any more. It's too painful, but I can tell you one thing. Never give up. Hope helps more than you know."
They looked at me and nodded, understanding my want for silence. I decided to leave my shirt off for tonight. " Enough of this sad talk!" I said cheerily, breaking away from my previous mood. " I now have siblings, and I couldn't be happier." They smiled, but it was a bit forced. Like they were still thinking about my stay in Tartarus. " Let's go to dinner." I announced, standing to go. " But I thought you said that dinner only starts when the conch-" Ariel was about to ask, but was cut off by the conch sounding throughout the camp. I just smiled and opened the door for them saying, " The schedule gets drilled into your brain."
Heading down to the pavilion with my siblings, I ran into Thals, who was talking to Nico. I introduced the twins to my friends and vise versa. On our way, I suggested we sit at the Poseidon table, in honor of my new brother and sister. They readily agreed, and with that, we sat at my dad's table and started asking questions about them. It's also when when I finally got to look at them. Really look at them.
Ariel had short black hair that came down to her jawline. She had a couple of dimples on her cheeks that gave her a beautiful smile, like me and her twin, she also had a perfect tan. She was a lean girl, with muscles that showed, but just barely. Probably from swimming. She didn't wear any makeup. ' Thank gods for that. I couldn't stand it if there was an Aphrodite in the Poseidon cabin.' Like I guessed, she swam a lot. She loved to hang out with her brother, though. She's kind of a tom boy. But that doesn't mean she doesn't like to hang out with her girlfriends. She was really loyal to her family, and rarely trusted anyone, but I guess we were an exception. But then she turned 11 and she didn't talk to many people because they avoided her. So on her 13th birthday, she ran from her house with her mother's directions and ended up here. Her best traits were patience, beauty, and she was a great listener.
David had a buzz cut with, of course, black hair. He had a strong jawline and was well muscled, like me, so training looked like it wouldn't bother him. He was a fan of baseball, and even played in little league when he was 6. His intellect and imagination was astounding to all of us, and even had an average of a B+. All demigods usually get C- averages. Except for the Anthenian children. Not only did he have muscles, but he also had brains. He would make a great warrior if he could control his temper. He was very protective of his sister, and would do anything to protect her, something I could relate to. He was the understanding person in her life, who didn't judge, only gave opinions. He was humble, protective, and loyal. Very admirable.
Their mother was a humble woman, much like my own, and supported them in everything. She was the person who pushed them forward and made them want to do her proud. Her name was Elizabeth Gallant. On their 13th birthday, some monsters broke in and decided to crash the party. They drove them off, but their mother was seriously injured, so with her dying breath, she told them where to go, and to go immediately. I felt sorry for them, but when I told them about my mom, they cheered up, hoping that they could get another mother.
The girls got along well with Ariel, so I believe they would talk often, while David got along with us boys, giving him something to do when he was free.
Just then there was a flash, and Dad appeared with a smile on his face. The twins were looking on in curiosity, while I just walked up to him and gave him a hug. When I looked back, they were staring at me like I was crazy. " What? Your not gonna say hello to Dad?" That broke them out of their trance, and they soon tackled him to the floor screaming, " DAD!" I was smiling at their reunion. They were crying tears of joy. While they caught up with each other, Chiron walked in and announced there was a camp fire tonight. He look at me and mouthed, ' Can I show it?' I frowned in thought, but decided to let them see it. They needed to see what they did to me. I nodded and he trotted off. I walked up to the now upright reunion and butt in, "I'm sorry to interrupt, but they're going to show what happened in the throne room. Ariel, David, be warned. I have gained many demons, but by far this is the worst. I'll see you later at the campfire."
I walked up to Thalia and wrapped my arms around her waist. I whispered into her ear, " They're going to show what happened today in the throne room." She instantly took my hand and pulled me away to the ampitheatre, where I awaited everyone's reactions to my inner demon.
AN: How did you like it? I'm really sorry it was late, but again I lost my USB and had to start again from scratch. Hope you like? If you did or didn't, let me know with a review. Check out my new story, Don't Lose Hope. It's depressing, but pretty well written. See you next time!