AN: sorry it took me so long to update but I was busy and to be honest I have more ideas for the sequel than the prequel so i'm having some trouble. I would like for everyone to vote on my poll for the pairing of this story. I know that the pairing choices are unusual but whatever.

CH.3

(Two weeks after the birth of Perseus and Eos)

A certain goddess of the hearth was quietly giggling to herself. She was in her 8 year old form playing hide-and-seek with her sister and cousins. She had found the best hiding place where even if she was found no one could tag her.

She was hiding in the central fireplace of her father's palace while a huge fire was roaring in the grate. Also, her father was in his throne taking a nap and few would risk waking him unless it was an emergency. Only a fool would risk incurring her father's wrath over a simple game.

Just as Hestia had that thought the door to her father's palace quietly eased open. Hestia backed herself against the back wall of the fireplace. She saw Perseus stick his head around the door. He was obviously trying to see if he had woken her father. As he opened the door a little more to get through a creak was let out. It was a quiet creak but to the sneaking Perseus it seemed extremly loud.

Kronos stirred slightly in his sleep and Perseus froze. Once Kronos had settled back down Persues made his way into the room. He looked behind Kronos's throne and the curtains,in the closet and flower pot, before moving towards the fireplace. He stopped in front of the fireplace and looked into the flames. Hestia tried to stop herself from giggling but the sight of Perseus's face all scrunched up and squinting was too cute.

At the sudden sound Perseus jumped before trying to reach out and tag her. Not realizing what he was doing Perseus stuck his hand into the fire before jumping back and yelping as his hand was burned. Due to the sudden noise Kronos stirred and Perseus's face paled. Hestia found the whole thing hilarious and started to laugh. Kronos started to wake as Perseus attempted to run away. Kronos snapped to attention at the sudden movement and immediately froze Perseus in time.

Kronos looked over at his daughter who was rolling around in the fireplace laughing her head off. "Another game of hide-and-seek I see" Kronos said with a sigh as he realized what was going on.

"Yes Father. Now can you please unfreeze him so we can continue" Hestia replied as she tried to stifle her laughter.

"Sure whatever, just please try to keep it down" Kronos said as he turned to unfreeze Perseus. Both Hestia and Kronos were shocked when they realized that Perseus was no longer there.

"Be careful baby, if he can escape me then there is no telling what he is capable of" Kronos warned as he sat back down and tried to return to sleep's embrace.

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Perseus was walking around Othrys trying to think of a way to get to Hestia. He knew he could just find Eos or Demeter but he was tired of being shown up by Hestia. Also he kind of enjoyed their little bouts by the fireplace even if they normally ended with him injured. To tell the truth he kind of had a crush on his older cousin but knew once his training started he would have no time for a relationship. Besides what would a princess like Hestia want to do with a silly little boy like him.

He had walked some ways away from Kronos's palace before looking at his hand. It was an ugly shade of red and was already blistering badly. He looked for a bucket of water near one of the many market stalls. Once he had found a bucket to put his hand in he returned to trying to find a way to beat Hestia. He looked down at his hand and then face palmed for being so stupid.

He didn't realize he was using his burnt hand and yelped as he popped one of his blisters. He smiled evilly as he thought of a plan to get Hestia before going to drink some nectar.

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Hestia smiled as she ate a sandwhich. No one had ever thought of the idea until they went to the party for their new cousin Zoe. Perseus had gotten angry when his twin sister had kicked him after he took her strawberry. Perseus had unwittingly crushed the fruit in his hand and had accidentally invented jelly. Hestia loved the stuff and was grateful that Perseus had discovered it. Then she thought of how Perseus had found honey.

He was trying to wash some of the jelly off of his hands in a river when his sister had pushed him. Perseus had fallen backwards and rolled into a tree. A beehive had fallen on his head and he was attacked by the bees. When he had finally got the bees to leave him alone using a bit of godly power. he had tried to remove the hive from his head. When neither he nor his sister could get it off of them he was lead back to his mother by his sister. Theia had managed to pry the hive off of Perseus's face only to see his face covered in bee stings and a yellow substance while being highly swollen. Theia had gasped while Helios and Selene started to laugh along with Eos. Perseus opened his ridiculously swollen lips just a fraction some of the honey as it was termed, dripped into his mouth and he declared that it was almost as sweet as nectar. Ever since then Zoe, her sisters, Hestia, and Demeter had started to call Perseus the god of lunch time even though the fruit and honey fell into Demeter's domain. The only one not to was Calypso who felt kind of bad for Perseus being ridiculed in front of everyone.

Perseus had taken this and stride and jokingly demanded a sacrifice of a portion of everyone's lunch to him. This was put to a stop by Demeter who had thrown a sandwhich into his face as he climbed on their lunch table. Percy had peeled the sandwhich off his fac and said " Thank you loyal subjet my your day bring many kindnesses henceforth to you" before eating the sandwhich. Demeter had blushed before standing and smacking Perseus saying " Sit down and shut up before I call Auntie Theia". Perseus immediately sat down while Eos started laughing her head off.

Hestia looked up from her snack as the door opened again. She figured that it was probably Perseus back to try again. Her guess was proven correct as Perseus stuck his head around the door yet again. He entered the room and started making his way towards the fireplace. This time he was carrying a bucket of water and Hestia had to applaud him for his creativity. But she would not be bested by him. As Perseus got ready to throw the water at the fire Hestia began building up her power. When Perseus threw the water at her she used her godly power to deflect the water. Even Hestia didn't intend for it to fly where it did.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" Kronos spluttered as he was awoken by a bucket of cold water to the face. "WHAT IS GOING ON" Kronos shouted as he tried to see through the water in his face. When he saw that Perseus was holding a bucket and looking as pale a ghost. Kronos immediately turned on him seething with rage."WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU"RE DOING? IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?"

Perseus pointed at Hestia and said "She did it".

"Leave my daughter out of this. You're the one with the bucket" Kronos said trying to dry himself off. "Leave now before I put you in time out". This threat scared Perseus badly. Kronos's version of time out was leaving you frozen in an embarrasing pose for an entire day in the acropolis for everyone to see.

Perseus hung his head in shame and started to walk away. Hestia stopped laughing and realize that her their game was about to end. She couldn't let that happen yet she was having too much fun.

"Wait Father. All Perseus did was try and throw the water at me. I was the one who deflected it your way." Hestia said while looking down.

Kronos calmed down and said "Okay I will let it slide one time beu the next time you wake me from my nap both of you will be punished."

"Yes Father" Hestia answered. Kronos turned to see Perseus's response but he was gone.

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Perseus was walking around Othrys when he felt someone grab his recently healed hand. He could tell without looking who it was. He could tell by the neatly filed nails on the hand that it was none other than Othrys's least favorite member.

"What do you want Aphrodite?" Perseus asked in an exasperated tone.

" Can't I just come see the most handsome god on Othrys for a nice conversation" she said.

"Why won't you leave me alone" Perseus asked

"Why don't you ever want to talk to me Perseus?" Aphrodite wailed

"Because you never play with us you just want to flirt. Also to put my father's words nicely, you're a sorry excuse for a child of Ouranos and you're a whore" Perseus said getting angry.

"Well I didn't want to talk to you anyway because you reek of smoke" Aphrodite retorted before running away with tears in her eyes. Perseus wanted to go and apologize. He hadn't meant what he said he was just upset about not being able to catch Hestia. Then he thought about what Aphrodite had said.

SMOKE. The chimney. He could dump the water down the chimney so that Hestia wouldn't know that it was coming. Then he could tag her. He ran by Aphrodite on his way by and slowed down. He turned and said "Thanks Aphrodite you're a genius" before giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Aphrodite blushed and giggled before trying to grab Perseus's hand but Perseus had already left. He took off running through the markets heading to the pnd in the forum.

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Hestia was stil sitting in her fire place but now she was talking to Kronos. Kronos had figured that Perseus would be back soon so he decided not to go back to sleep.

Out of nowhere Kronos changed the subject and said "You like him don't you".

Hestia knew who her father was talking about and blushed. She tried to play it off by saying "Who are you talking about" but her father knew better.

"You know who I am talking about. P-" Kronos started before he was cut off by Hestia screaming. It seemed as if someone had dumped a bucket of water on her but no one was around. Then he heard a deeper scream that seemed to be getting closer. The next thing he knew Perseus had come out their chimney and landed on to his daughter. Kronos busted out laughing at the look on Hestia's face.

Perseus climbed off of Hestia before helping her get back on her feet. Then he said " You're it". Kronos started clapping and it seemed as if Perseus just now noticed him. He seemed nervous before Kronos said "Great thinking Perseus keep that up and one day you may be the general of my armies."

Perseus blushed before Hyperion walked in with Eos and said " Perseus it is time to begin you're training." Perseus nodded before changing into his 16 year old form. As he went to leave Hestia ran up to him in her 16 year old form and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Perseus blushed and put a hand to his face before Hestia hugged him getting him soaked as well.

Hestia laughed and started to walk back the fire while saying "See you tomorrow Perseus".

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Perseus sent a feint that seemed to try and slash from his opponents left shoulder to their right hip before twisting his wrist and trying a horizontal slash that would have cleaved his opponent in two. His opponent parried Perseus's slash before slashing back at him. Perseus blocked before locking their swords together. He slid his sword down to the hilt of his opponent's before twisting his wrist and disarming his opponent. Then he put his sword againgst his opponents throat.

"Do you yield" Perseus asked.

"Yes I yield" Hyperion said. " I must say you are an excellent swordsman son. few beings could defeat on of the original twelve titans without using their powers. Now let's try that again with our powers."

"Okay father" Perseus said before lowering his sword from Hyperion's throat. Perseus backed up a few steps before closing his eyes. Hyperion walked over and tried to pick up his sword. He got a confused look on his face before trying again. When he still couldn't get his sword up he pulled with all his might. Hyperion felt something give way before he fell over on his back.

Perseus walked up to his father before leveling his sword at his throat again. Hyperion looked down at the sword before saying " Good job son but you forget I have this". Hyperion swung what he thought was his sword at Perseus's. Perseus just laughed when the hilt of Hyperion's sword broke against his sword.

Hyperion seemed shocked before he looked over and saw that his sword had not truly given way. The hilt had just snapped off. Hyperion refused to give up so easily so he focused on his son's sword.

Perseus watched as all of a sudden his sword melted into a molten heap of celestial bronze. (Not sure if Titans had celestial bronze because didn't canon say it was mined from mount olympus) Hyperion leapt at his son trying to tackle him but his son had expected this and had caught him and flipped him over him. Hyperion landed behind Perseus and swept his legs out from under him. Hyperion dove at him and pinned him down. Perseus rolled over and went to punch his father before he heard something that made both of them freeze.

"Stop" Eos said putting as much power as she could in the one word. Both her father and her twin stopped and stood up. They shook hands and then hugged each other. Eos smirked and said "Looks like I win". Both of the boys glared at her before starting to laugh.

Eos went to ask what was so funny but she never got the chance. Eos was flipped upside down and was hung by her feet. Eos scowled while trying to blow her hair out of her face. Helios and Selene came out from behind Eos laughing. They walked over and high-fived Perseus before turning around and taunting Eos.

Then one of the ropes came undone and it put all the strain on one of Eos's ankles. Said ankle popped out of place which caused Eos to scream. Perseus not being able to stand the pain he could feel coming across his twin link with Eos threw a dagger and sliced the rope before catching Eos and setting her down. Helios and Selene both started blaming each other.

"That was your side you imbecile" Selene shouted at Helios

"No that was your side moon butt" Helios retorted. Both of them drew their bows on each other as they had done countless times before. They both fired an arrow at the other but this time something was different.

AN: once again I am sorry about the wait but I made upfor it with a nice long chapter. Please vote on the pairing as you can tell I am already partially biased towards a PercyxHestia. Makes you wonder what will happen will Helios and Selene be spending some quality time in Tartarus. I know nothing important happened in this chapter but I am trying to set up a back story. I am planning on something that I have never seen before in any other story. I will give a small hint It involves Demeter. Please review and let me know what you think.