~•3rd POV•~
It has been a week since Percy left New York, and he has had a pretty peaceful trip. When he left his mom's
house he got on a train that would take him to Canada. On his train ride he saw a few monsters such as. Drakons, dracaena, laestrygonians, etc.. but none of them attacked him.

When the train reached Canada he got off and went to get some food. He walked through Quebec looking for some fast food. He stopped when he saw a McDonald's he practically ran to it. He hadn't eaten anything except for crappy train food for a full week, and he longed for some real food, fast food or otherwise.

After his finished eating he decided to explore a bit. He walked around the city until he found an ad for the Alberta Glacier National Park. It was winter so the glaciers would be fully frozen. After debating it for a few minutes he decided to go and visit there to try and find some peace.

He went to the train station and bought tickets to the city Calgary, then he would get to the National Park by taxi. Thankfully before he left New York he grabbed $5000 for the trip, so money wasn't a problem, yet.

It took a few days to get to the National Park. The trip was long and uneventful. When Percy got out of the taxi at the parking area for the National Park he was restless, itching for a fight. He decided to start hiking towards the glaciers.

He started on a path that led to a valley with a crystal blue lake. Percy was in awe at the sight. Sure he had seen many beautiful nature spots on quests, but he was always to rushed to properly look at them. Now, though, he had all the time in the world.

He walked over to a cliff edge and sat down meditation style and took in the sight. It was extremely relaxing just sitting there with the cold breeze blowing threw his hair, and to sweet scent of the lake below him. After half an hour he was getting fidgety, because of his ADHD. He decided to try and meditate for the first time. He closed his eyes and started taking deep breaths.

Due to the cold air he was shivering. He wasn't wearing proper winter cloths, but instead a t-shirt and jeans. He tried to focus on stopping his shivering. After a minute or two of concentrating he stopped shivering. After he stopped shivering it seamed to get colder, making it harder to keep himself from shivering.

He continued concentrating on not shivering, when he realized if he increases his body heat he will stop shivering. He remembered when he was on Olympus after Annabeth accepted immortality, when she came over to him in Hera's Garden. He was so mad he was literally heating up. He started thinking on everything that made him angry. All of the times people threaten his family, all of the times he watched his family and friends get killed, all of the monsters who kill innocent people, when Annabeth left him. As he was thinking about these things he began to warm up. He got to the point where he was getting hot when he decided to stop.

When he cooled down he decided he was going to start meditating daily to get control of his emotions. When he could control them, he would be able to control his body on a new level.

~•~•~•~•~•~•Time Skip•~•~•~•~•~•~
It had been a month since Percy started meditating to control his emotions. It seemed this counted as a battle technique because he was able to pick it up quickly, thanks to Ares blessing.

One day while Percy was meditating on his cliff he heard a scream for help. He immediately shot up looking for the origin of the scream. He looked around till he noticed some trees rustling. He new that nothing other than monsters could be big enough to move trees like that. He started running top speed towards the monster.

When he caught up he saw a group of 5 laestrygonians chasing a little girl around the age of 8. He pulled out riptide and flicked off it's cap. His three foot long bronze sword sprung to life. He instantly shot into battle in an attempt to protect the little girl.

He launched at the closest monster to the girl. He slashes its calves and jumped in front of the girl. The creature looked at Percy with hate, then grew wide eyed. "Perseus Jackson." The Giant boomed. Percy looked closer at it in an attempt to identify it. His eyes widened when he saw the words Skull Crusher tattooed on his left arm. He cracked a grin and said "SkullCrusher, long time no see, how was your trip to Tartarus?" The giant growled "I have still yet to kill you for that, my brothers are still reforming." Percy grin grew, "Ahh, that's good to hear, so how've you been?" He asked like he was talking to a long time friend. The monster smirked, "I just got a lot better now that I'll get to kill you." Then the giant charged with a large spear.

Skull Crusher was big, but not as big as a gigante. He stool about 10 feet tall, he had a 7 foot spear and a pouch of bronze cannon balls. The monster thruster his spear at Percy, only to have it deflected by the flat of Percy's blade. While SkullCrusher was off balance from his deflected thrust, Percy rushed towards him and slashed both of his knee caps, causing the giant's knees to buckle and fall face first into the ground. Percy then rushed up to the giants head and said, "Say hi to your brother for me." before slicing his head off, causing it to turn to golden dust.

Percy turned to the other four laestrygonians before charging the closest one. He ran under its legs and slashed at its Achilles' tendon, then stabbing riptide into its calve. He used his blade as a springboard and launched himself at the giants head. He grabbed the monsters neck and twisted with all his strength. He jumped down and grabbed Riptide from its calve after hearing a loud snap.

With the monster behind him turning to dust, he sprinted to the last three laestrygonians. These ones were smarter than the last and pulled out weapons. The one closest to him pulled out a spear identical to Skull Crusher's, while the other two started firing flaming bronze balls that explode on contact.

Percy dashed at the one with a spear, while skillfully dodging the flaming cannon balls. He thought back to the last time he was in this situation, playing dodgeball with laestrygonians, while Tyson was with him. He smiled at the thought of his brother.

As the Giant with the spear swung his spear like a bat, Percy did a baseball slide under the spear, missing it by a few centimeters, so close that he felt the air ripple as it flew by. He shot up from his slide with extreme speed that could only be achieved after years of constant training. He shot into the air and grabbed the spear and spun on it like a gymnast and shot straight at the monsters head. He hit its head with a crack, probably its nose breaking, and the giant was knocked over. As Percy fell towards the ground he forced himself into a roll to break the fall. When he hit the ground, he rushed towards the giants chest and plunged Riptide into its heart.

He turned to the last two monsters. Both had drawn spears, ready to engage in close combat. The first laestrygonian thrust his spear at Percy, while the second one tried to sneak behind Percy. Key word is 'tried', it was about as stealthy as a pregnant Water Buffalo. Percy dodged the first's thrust and redirected the second's. He turned around to re-engage the first giant. He charged at the monster and crouched below its attempt to smack Percy, using its spear like a bat, Percy used his crouch and sprung up and kicked the spear out of its hands. While the Giant was recovering from losing its spear, Percy stabbed Riptide through its leg, causing the monster to stumble back. Percy used this as his opening and jumped and plunged Riptide through its heart.

Percy was so consumed in his battle, he didn't notice the last monster going towards the little girl, who was hiding behind a nearby tree. When Percy turned around to attack the last Giant, he looked and saw nothing. He did a 360 looking for the Giant. When he saw it was heading for the little girl he ran as fast as he could, ignoring the complaints of his muscles. He arrived just when the monster was thrusting this spear as the little girl. "No!" Percy yelled as he jumped in front of the little girl, in an attempt to take the blow of the spear.

Percy felt a horrible pain in his stomach. He looks down to see the massive spear through his stomach. It didn't look fatal, but it still hurt like Hades. He quickly threw his sword like a javelin strait into the monsters stomach and spins around to the girl. "Are you ok?" He gasped out. She nodded slowly.

He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out Riptide, after it returned to him, and cut the shaft of the spear off at his stomach and pulled it out his back. He melted some water nearby and used it to cover his wound. As he watched he saw his muscles regrow and attach to each other, then his skin grow back, till the wound is almost nonexistent. He grabbed the only ambrosia he has on him at the time and eats it, not worried about burning up.

He looks back at the girl and is finally able to take on her appearance. She is pale with pure black hair, she is about 4"8 and is somewhat thin. He smiled at her and said, "Hi, I'm Percy." She smiled back then glowed, when the light died down he is looking at a beautiful young lady, maybe 18.

He recognized her from the stories Jason, Piper, and Leo told him. He dropped down to a kneel and said, "Lady Khione, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you." She surprised him by smiling and saying, "Rise my hero, you have no need to bow, and I was in my younger form, you weren't supposed to recognize me." Percy looked cautiously at her, "If I may ask, why did you run from the monsters, you are more than capable to deal with them." She smiled at him, "I simply wanted to know if the stories of your heroism were exaggerated. It seems they were not, you are a true hero." Percy blushed at her comment and replied, "I was simply helping someone I thought was in need, there is nothing heroic about that." She said, "Ahh, and you are as humble as they say. Now, may I ask you what you are doing here in Canada?" Percy's face dropped and he started explaining everything from the awards ceremony to now. She listens intently, not interrupting him once.

When he finished she pulled him into a hug. Percy was surprised by this, but hugged her back nonetheless. She pulled back from the hug smiling sadly at him. "I'm truly sorry about what happened, such a great hero deserves better than that." Percy smiled depressingly back and said "You know, you aren't as cold hearted as they say. You are actually quite nice." She frowned at that, "I am nice to those who deserve it, your friends Piper, and Jason were too demanding, and Leo wouldn't stop goggling and trying to flirt with me. You on the other hand took a spear for me, before you even knew me." He smiled at her, she had a point, Leo was really flirty, and Piper and Jason were really demanding, even if they didn't mean to be.

"Anyways, I would like to reward you for your heroic deeds." She said with a smile. To say he was surprised would be an understatement. Not only was she nice to him, she wanted to reward him. "There is really no need to reward me, I was just helping someone in need." He said. She smiled with pride at him, "Yes, while there is no need, I would like to reward you. You are a rare type of hero, and I want to help you on your journey to find peace. So I wish to give you my full blessing. No one has ever received it, and it will enhance your ice powers 100 fold."

He stood there mouth agape at what she just offered him. He soon broke out of his shock and replied smiling, "I would be honored." Khione smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder and her hand started to glow a snowy white color.

When the glow died down Khione gasped. Percy looked at her confused. She simply created an ice mirror. Percy was stunned at what he saw. Instead of his usual tan skin, black hair, and sea green eyes, was pale skin, pure white hair, and icy blue eyes. He thought he looked really good.

He smiled at the still wide eyed goddess. He pulled her into a hug, which she returned still in shock. He whispered, "Thanks I really like the new look, and the cold is more bearable now." She shook out of her shock when he whispered to her. She pulled back smirking and said, "Well my hero, you had best get some rest, you will need it for your training tomorrow."