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cookie-monster-magic Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it there is some more family in this chapter but no Zues. Maybe he and percy will have that convocation later.

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Fight and Deify

Percy POV

The five of us ran into the house and I grabbed the TV remote to turn the news on. There was a reporter outside of Mythoworld talking.

"Earlier this afternoon some of the Olympia children: Percy, age 12, Thalia, age 12, Bianca, age ten and Nico, age just 8, were out for some fun after school. As kids often do, Nico got over excited though most of the time they don't disappear. Percy, the eldest of the group, was seen running after his cousin just moments after entering the park. He then used him family status to order every security guard in the park, which is part of the family company, to search for the lost boy..."

I didn't need to hear anymore, it was still fresh in my mind. I turned around to see my dad already dialling a number; I assumed it was Hestia's and he was finding out if the press was supposed to have the story. I saw the girls both biting their lower lips and looking worried. My eyes finally landed on Triton and if looks could kill I would have been stone dead.

"You!" my brother snarled. He glared at me for a moment I didn't realise then but he had seen our dad walking towards the living room door and was waiting for him to leave. The moment he was out of sight I was lunged at. "You idiot! You let some loon take him!" with every other word my brother's fist connected with my face and I lay on the glass coffee table (which I was pretty sure was about to break under our weight) and took it. It was what I deserved. Sure I had an instinct to fight back but Triton was just expressing what everyone knew but only he and Hades decided to say. So I lay back and closed my eyes, clenching my fists against the pain as my nose began to bleed. I opened my eyes slightly and saw that there were hands on either of his biceps. The left one was tanned; Annabeth's hand and the right pale with black nail polish; Thalia's. They were trying to restrain him, for which I was grateful. I mean, just because I knew I deserved a beating didn't mean I wanted one. After A few minutes I heard the table crack beneath me, which combined with the almost overwhelming pain, caused me to let instinct take over.

"Triton STOP! Uncle Poseidon!" I heard Thalia yell just be for I thrust my own fist into up, hoping to hit my attacker because I couldn't see well enough to actually aim.

I hit out, missing a few times (which I'm sure gave Triton great satisfaction) but it was precisely that and the blows I was receiving which helped me work out where Triton was. With one powerful punch to the chest I caused him to stager backwards a few steps but I couldn't get off of the table completely before he recovered. We both threw punches and when Thalia tried to get between us I pushed her out of the way so she didn't get hit. I could hear Annabeth shouting for my dad and begging me to stop but I didn't listen. I completely ignored anything anyone said until Triton spoke once more.

"Shut up you little weirdo!" he growled at Annabeth.

This only increased my anger so I use his momentary distraction and my re-established position, lying on the table to kick my brother with one foot on either side of his chest using so much force that he flew backwards to the other side of the room. Unfortunately, every action has a reaction; in this case, the reaction was the table top shattering, causing me to land on top of a pile of broken glass. In case you haven't guessed; it was painful, really painful!

I groaned and looked up to see Thalia and Annabeth in shock, Triton sprawled on the floor by the sofa and my Dad standing in the door way with Apollo.

"Apollo, can you help Percy, I'm pretty sure he's going to have some glass in his back," Dad asked before walking over to his elder son and roughly pulling him up. "What the Hades are you playing at?" he demanded.

"Why do you automatically blame me? Look at my lip!" he gestured to his mouth which had a tiny trickle of blood on it. "But of course love child over there has always been the favourite son so I get blamed!"

Apollo picked me up and set me on my feet facing the argument. Triton had his arms crossed and was pouting like a petulant toddler while dad stared down at him furiously.

"Stop being so childish Triton! You're seventeen years old for crying out loud. To answer your question, I'm drawing the conclusion that this was your fault because you have a split lip and a sore back where as Percy's face looks like one huge bruise. Not to mention the fact that you were on top of him!

"Don't you think your brother feels bad enough without you blaming and beating him? Get out of my sight!" dad bellowed in a tone similar to that which Hades had used with me earlier. Triton complied and skulked out of the room. Dad came over to me. "Percy, you know better to retaliate. You should have blocked him rather than fighting back," he scolded lightly.

I was about to shrug it off and apologized when Thalli decided to defend me. "Not fight back? Can you not see his face? Uncle Poseidon Percy was lying there for the first five minutes not fighting back!"

"Chill Thall; it's fine. I could have rolled off the table and left the room right at the start but I didn't," I shrugged.

"You weren't defending yourself and Triton kept hitting you?" Dad asked in astonishment. "I really don't understand that boy," he shook his head frowning, angrily.

"He's bitter because you refused to disinherit me and his whole life he's been listening to his mum curse me because you cheated on her," I muttered bluntly. Dad gave me a look but said nothing.

I winced in pain as I felt Apollo peel the back of my shirt up where it was stuck to the bloody wounds of my back. My cousin gave a low whistle which I took as a signal that my back wasn't a pretty sight.

"Thalia, go get me a fist aid kit, make sure it has tweezers in it," he ordered. "Perce I think there is more glass in your back than there is on the floor.

"Yeah well, you know me; I don't do anything by halves," I grimaced. "Particularly being irresponsible when looking after kids," I added.

"Percy, it's not yo-"

"The next person that tells me this whole situation isn't my fault will find out how sharp riptide is!" I snapped.

"Erm, it'll hurt but I need you to lift your arms so I can take your shirt off," he changed the subject as Thalia re-entered the room. I did as I was told and gritted my teeth as my back stung. "Okay, again, it's gonna hurt as I take the glass out so just think of summit else," With that he started picking out the shards of glass. Some were so tiny I'm surprised he could see them others were really long and the thought of them sticking out of my back made me shiver. "So, who's this gorgeous young lady?" the family first aider asked in his most charming voice.

I rolled my eyes at his flirting as I introduced them. "Annabeth, Apollo. Apollo, Annabeth. She just moved here," I stated simply.

"Nice to meet you Annabeth. I love the name; it's unique and sounds intelligent. I bet it fits your personality to a tee," I couldn't see my cousin, but I knew I was flashing his flirty smile and showing off his perfect teeth which were a blindingly white as the sun.

"Thanks," Annabeth answered and returned the smile.

"Do you think you could maybe stop flirting and focusing on getting the glass out of my back?" I snapped again.

"Chill baby cuz. I can multi task."

"Of course you can't," I heard from the door way and looked up. "Men can't multi task. They can't do anything but try to corrupt innocent young women and think disgusting thoughts."

"Lovely to see you too Artemis," I replied with bitter sarcasm. "Is everyone coming 'round here dad?"

"Apollo wanted to see how you were doing and Artemis wanted to get away from Aphrodite, Ares and Hermes," he answered.

"It should be Bianca people are checking on. Or I don't know, maybe trying to find Nico?"

"The police are working on it, Percy. We'll get him back," dad assured me.

"Besides," Thalia chipped in. "If Uncle Hades is anything like he was when I left then I don't think anyone would want to be in the same house as him."

"So because no one wants to deal with Hades, Bianca has to be alone with him in that state? Well aren't we just bursting with family support," I pointed out, still bitter and sarcastic but at least something was distracting me from the pain.

"You can cut the sarcasm Percy," my dad told me getting annoyed.

"He's right though," Artemis spoke up shocking me; she never agreed or showed any liking to me in company. "I'll go over there." Apollo threw her his car keys, which she easily caught. She began to walk away but turned back to surprise me even more. "You look terrible Percy. You should really put some ice on your face," offering a small smile (which I didn't return due to shock) she turned and left.

I felt a wet cloth on my back and grunted in pain as Apollo applied alcohol to clean the wounds.

"A little warning next time," I ground out causing multiple chuckles.

"All done but feminist of the century has a point about your face, dude you couldn't pull any girl looking like that!" he joked.

"Well, way to make a guy feel better," I muttered.

"What did I say about sarcasm?" dad sighed.

I sent him the best apologetic look I could with swollen eyes. "Apollo, why don't you say that when Artemis is around?" I challenged.

"Because I don't fancy becoming a silver hedgehog," well at least he's honest.

"Percy you need some rest. I'm sure Thalia wouldn't mind bringing an ice pack up to your room. You'll have you put it on your pillow and lie on your stomach though," Dad ordered. I nodded and made my way up to my room. "Oh and Percy?" I turned back. "I know you're worried and feeling guilty but don't do anything stupid," and there's my dad criticising my loyal and heroic nature; I thought they were good qualities. "You could already be in some serious danger, the last thing we need is for you to go looking for trouble," dad was deadly serious and looked stern. I couldn't promise that I was going to lay in my room and do nothing but lying to my dad wasn't something I made a habit of doing so I just turned back to the stairs and ignored the deep, exasperated sigh I heard from behind me.

Nico POV

I was cold and hungry. Every time I breathed there was an echo and when the creepy man opened the door to check on me I could see it was night time. The moon lit up his face and he looked like some sort of Demon as he laughed at me and slammed the big metal door. It was loud and hurt my ears but I couldn't cover them because of the ropes.

I wanted to cry but I refused. I would NOT cry again. The weird man would enjoy seeing my cry.

"You just wait!" I screamed the next time the door opened. "My family are the best! And my cousin is awesome! Percy can beat anyone in a fight! He'll come to get me you just wait!" I yelled wanting something to throw in his face because he took me and tied me up.

"Oh, I am waiting little boy. In fact, I'm counting on it," then he laughed and it sounded like someone sharpening a sword. I shivered and then glared as he shut the big door sending me back into darkness.

Percy POV

I had been pretending to be asleep ever since the first time dad sent Thalia to check on me, six and a half hours ago. Since then everyone in the house had put their head round the door, even Triton. I knew Thall thought, if not knew, I was faking because she sat on a chair in my room and told me that one of the Mythoworld guards had leaked the story to the press and my dad had called my mom to explain everything and tell her not to worry. She waited a few seconds for a response but left knowing it was a waste of time.

I hadn't just lay their counting sheep and waiting for the swelling on my face to go down though, I'd been racking my brain to think of everything I had ever heard about my grandfather. It wasn't much so I tried to think logically, Kronos is crazy. He thinks he is a Titan who has just broken free from the darkest part of the underworld where his kids imprisoned him. He thinks everything is real so it doesn't matter that I know next to nothing about Grandad Kronos. I just need to know about Titan Kronos! I thought triumphantly. So I racked my brain to think of every detail of every myth about Kronos. Over threw his Father: Uranus. Ate his kid because of a prophecy him mom, Gaia, told him about being over thrown by his own son. Zeus was saved and raised by a goat called Amalthea... or a nymph called Ademanthea depending on which version you hear... Gaia bore Typhon, a huge monster to take revenge for the titans being imprisoned... Typhon... Typhon... Typhon industrial estate! If I were Kronos I'd go there.

I craned my neck to look at the clock: one thirty-three in the morning. I quietly climbed off of my bed and sat at my desk. I googled the estate and it came up with the website, which told me that there were over two thousand storage containers on the estate as well as seventy offices and ten factories.

"Well that narrows it down..." I mumbled to myself. I thought that Kronos was most likely to go for and office to be comfortable, yet a factory or a storage container would be better to lock people up in. I shuddered at the thought of Nico, scared and alone in a dark metal box, not knowing what was going on or where he was.

I snapped myself out of that scenario and focused on the problem at hand. Everything on the estate was numbered... think numbers... Kronos had six godly children... two others... some say Aphrodite is classed as Kronos' child because of how she was born... so that's six, eight or nine. The titan-god war lasted ten years...

Hoping that the path to finding Nico was somewhere in that information I quietly snuck out of my room and down stairs. The house was silent, I wasn't sure whether that was good because no one was awake to catch me or bad because any sound I make would be amplified by the silence. I took my dad's long trench coat from the coat closet and put it on. Making my way to arena to stock up on weapons. I was going to get my cousin back, so I would need all the weapons I could get.

Once in the arena I retrieved Riptide from the beam which it had been in since my little outburst earlier. I turned to go to the store cupboard but just then, the lights turned on, effectively blinding me.

"You didn't think I wouldn't know what you were doing did you?" a very familiar voice asked from behind me.

"And you didn't think we'd let you go alone, did you?" a recently familiar voice inquired.

I sighed, so much for the top secret rescue. "Guys, go to bed," I tried but knew better than to think either of them would listen to me.

"You're such a seaweed brain Percy!" Annabeth exclaimed, clearly thinking I'm an idiot.

"Seaweed brain?" I asked in confusion.

"I like it," Thalia smirked, I glared at her.

"Don't think you can stop me. It's me he wants so it's me he'll get," I announced defiantly.

"Look Perce-" Thalia started with a sigh.

"No Thall," I continued to make my way to the cupboard but the girls ran in front of me and stood shoulder to shoulder with their arms crossed.

"Percy listen to us!" Annabeth ordered. "Have you ever stopped to think that maybe Kronos learned a lot about you through all those years of watching? Don't you think he might know that all those years of watching? Don't you think he might know that you're loyal and how much you care about people? Don't you-"

The ever impatient Thalia interrupted. "What little miss wise girl is taking for ever to ask is: have you thought about whether or not this is a trap?"

"Look Annabeth, I may not be as smart as you but I'm not an idiot. I'd worked that out," I answered stepping around them.

"And your still going after him?" she asked.

"Yup."

"Well, as long as you know you're walking into a trap," Thalia said with a determined smile on her face. "I say let's roll."

"And just because I'm the new girl and not family doesn't mean I'm getting left behind," Annabeth announced.

I smiled, grateful to have such great friends. "You don't have to you know; it'll be dangerous and Kronos will no doubt be waiting with a sword," I pointed out, knowing Annabeth wasn't trained to fight.

"More likely to be waiting with a scythe or a sickle, right?" Annabeth raised her eyebrows, proudly correcting me.

"Before you start worrying, we've spent most of the night here training. She's a natural," Thalia informed me.

"I love fighting with the knife!" she grinned.

I chuckled and opened the cupboard. I took out the best bronze knife we had and threw it at Annabeth. I strapped my sheath onto my belt and slipped Riptide in I took out Thalia's folding spear and tossed it to her along with a sword and one for Annabeth. I took knives out for me and Thall and slipped more weapons into the inside pockets of the coat.

"You two might want long coats; we don't want to draw attention to our selves and walking around with swords isn't exactly subtle," I pointed out. We each put on breast and back plates and I told the girls the plan as we did.

We were all set to go at about three am so we tip toed through the house and I was about to open the door when I was frightened half to death.

"Wait!" Thalia hissed out of nowhere.

"What?" I whisper shouted back.

"The front yard is full of reporters!"

"Oh gods," I groaned. "I can get us past them.

"Percy," Annabeth protested. "It'll look a bit suspicious if we go out there now!"

"So we just leave Nico there, with Kronos?" I asked clearly showing my view on that idea.

"She's right Percy," of course, Thall has to be on her side. "Look, it's not uncommon for you to go out for a walk early, so how about we all get so rest, a six we can go then."

"You can distract them while we climb the gate with the stuff we can give you a signal when we're clear and you get rid of them and meet up with us when you're sure no one's following you," Annabeth suggested.

"Girl can plan," Thalia complimented, looking impressed.

"Fine," I grumbled. "Six and no later."

I took off my coat, armour and sheath and gave it to the girls. They went upstairs and I went into the back yard to sit by the pond. I liked the pond, It was salt water and so big it was more of a lake, I sat on the stones surrounding the water and began skimming the pieces of chalk and flint which the scattered around me. I purposely gave all my attention to the useless activity, to take my mind off of Nico and the time. Thalia would come for me when it was time and if I focused on the three hour wait my eyes would be glued to my watch. So I sat and listened to the comforting plop of the stones hitting the water.

Annabeth POV

I sat with Thalia, in her room.

"Do you think he's okay?" I asked.

"You want the truth or do you want reassurance?" was her answer.

I pondered for a moment. "Truth I guess."

Thalia sighed. "He won't be okay until Nico is back and Kronos is locked up. He's as well as he'll get, I suppose. He'll be better once we get going." She looked down out of the window to where Percy was sitting at the edge of the water, throwing stones with a look of intense concentration. I glanced at Thalia's expression and saw her eyebrows were pulled together and she was biting her bottom lip.

"You're worried," I stated.

"Of course I am. My baby cousin is missing and I'm walking into the trap of a mad man that I've never even met!"

I rolled my eyes. "You're worried about Percy."

"I wish he'd gone to the pool," she whispered.

"Shouldn't you be wishing he'd gone to his room to rest?"

"I'd be more worried if he'd done that." I looked expectantly at her. "If Percy had gone to his room I would say, 'let's go early without him' because it's so unlike him. If he'd have gone to the pool I would have been fine, He'll have swum and cleared his head and I'll have been fine. I suppose the lake is the next best thing but it still isn't ideal."

"He's feeling guilty, and swimming is his favourite thing right? So maybe he thinks he shouldn't be doing something he enjoys?" I suggested.

Thalia looked at me, surprised and impressed. "Yeah, maybe. Come on; let's get some rest."

Percy POV

When the time came I heard footsteps behind me.

"Time to go?" I asked, not turning around.

"Yup," was Thalia's only answer.

"You need to be half way up the side gate and ready to jump to avoid getting seen," I pointed out as the girls started towards the gate.

"We'll be ready. Have your cell on vibrate; I'll give you a miss call when we're clear. Call me when you are," Thall ordered.

I nodded and gave a reassuring smile before heading through the house and to the front door. I grabbed a zip up hoodie from the closet and put it on. As soon as I stepped out of the door I was surrounded by cameras and microphones and bombarded with questions.

"Percy! Do you have and news on your cousin?"

"Is it true you received a letter from a kidnapper?"

"Has there been a ransom call?"

"How do you feel about Nico going missing?"

"How is the rest of your family dealing?"

"Are your privet police equipped to find Nico?"

They seemed endless but I wasn't listening to them. I listened to the soft thuds of the girls landing and watched out the corner of my eye as they ran down the drive way.

Once they were out of sight I glared the press into silence.

"You people have no right to be here! Why do you think you are allowed to but into other people's privet life? Especially when you know it is a bad time?" I growled quietly at them. " 'How do you feel about Nico going missing?' What kind of stupid question is that? As for the family, we're stressed, upset, worried and tired so don't be expecting an interview from them." I felt a vibration in my pocket and knew the girls were away. I took the phone out so the press could see it. "You want to know how 'equipped' the Olymipa privet police are? Well you'll find out when I press speed dial and say seven words to get you all arrested for trespassing and breach of the peace! If you are not off and walking away from my property in one minute that's exactly what I'll do," I threatened.

A couple of them took off, most didn't look convinced though. Exactly sixty seconds later I pressed speed dial zero and brought the phone to my ear. "It's Percy. Paparazzi have surrounded the house."

"We'll be right over," I heard as I held the phone to the closest mike. With that they started to leave and I pushed through the mob and out of the drive. I was out of there for thirty seconds and I already had three reporters following me. I walked into crowds and slipped into allies and lost two of them. The third was persistent though, he managed to stay with me for half an hour before I couldn't take it anymore.

I spun around and marched up to him. "It's not hard for me to call and tell a cop I'm being followed," I hissed. "Get the hell away from me."

"Answer one question first?" he bargained.

"That depends on what it is."

"Do you feel responsible for Nico disappearing?"

I gritted my teeth and walk right up to the short man so I looked intimidating into his face. "Yes," I truthfully answered. "Now get far away from me." The man nodded and walked quickly down the street.

I walked around for a while to make sure I was clear and then called Thalia. "Where are you?"

"We're at an abandoned garage about two miles past the Typhon estate."

"An address would be helpful Thall," I huffed.

"I don't know! Um... Annabeth where are we? ... Half way down 25th street," she informed me.

"I'll be there in ten minutes," I hung up and started running.

Well I hope that wasn't too disapionting.

Please tell me what you think.

Love Thalia x