Chapter 2: Asking for Help

You can always count on family

Percy rubbed his head with his index finger, trying to stop his headache. Not that it helped. He sighed and looked at the map on the wall. He knew that the mortals' goal was to keep Washington DC unharmed, since most of the NYC citizens moved there, which made the city one of the most cities in this area. The fact that the president still resided there, was not a small matter too.

If their knowledge was correct, the monster army would attack Washington DC first. He grabbed a red pushpin and pricked it in DC. The blue one, he pricked on NYC. He frowned for the - he didn't know how much - time that day, thinking of possible plans.

Now, he really wished he had never agreed to their plan in the first place, but he knew he had no choice. Ugh. I really hate my job.

Accepting he wouldn't get anywhere by just staring at a map, he walked toward the window. Ironically, it was misty outside, so he couldn't see the streets and lower buildings. At times like this, he didn't mind residing on one of the top floors.

He looked at his watch/shield - Tyson had repaired his old one (again) - and smiled when he saw what time it was. He left his room and went toward the elevator. He sighed when some bowed their head when he walked by, before stepping into the elevator and pushing the G button.

Percy frowned when he heard YMCA by Village People while the elevator started to go down. So not appropriate...

After what seemed like eons, the elevator stopped with the G sign above the doors. Percy walked outside when the doors opened and was met with a lot of noise. When he saw Piper midst the crowd, he walked toward her. The noise died down where he walked by, but there were still a lot of people yelling at each other. When he heard someone yelling something about an agreement, he sighed. This not going to be fun.

"Everybody, please keep calm and quiet down! Everything will be okay", Piper tried to charm-speak the crowd. Percy stopped, thinking everything will be okay, but shook his head and smiled. Piper's charm-speak had become much more powerful, since everybody suddenly stopped talking.

He ticked her shoulder and she turned. "What's going on, Pipes?", he asked, even if he already knew the answer.

She smiled at him. "Hey, Percy", she said before she frowned, "people are talking about an agreement with the mortals. Do you know anything about it?"

Percy nodded and faced the crowd. "Everybody!", faces perked up and eyes widened in recognition, "I want you to know that that agreement with the mortals is true." This was the moment Percy was glad Piper had become so powerful with her charm-speak. He could see in everyone's eyes that they deeply wanted to say something.

"They had come to us for help with fighting the monsters and I agreed", Percy started, "but that doesn't mean we'll serve under the mortals", some people smiled at that. "They've agreed that we'll take charge."

"So, what have you decided?", someone asked in the crowd, who Percy recognized as a daughter of Athena. He smiled. Children of Athena always wanted to know things.

"There will be a ceasefire between the mortals and demigods within East US", some people wanted to yell at him, but Percy held up his hand. "We will not attack them in any way", he said, "and they will not attack us. If there are attacks, the attackers will be held responsible and no good will come from that", he stopped talking so the crowd could sink in the threat behind his words.

"We'll leave at least half of our numbers here, so we'll be prepared for any unexpected attacks", people relaxed their shoulders at that.

"The main reason behind this all is that the monsters are attacking mortals and demigods alike, with great numbers. If we don't help the mortals, they'll lose. If they lose, we'll be unable to stop the monsters with the numbers we have. Together, we'll be stronger."

"When will this all happen? And where?", Piper asked next to him.

"The ceasefire is already in action. I'll contact everyone I want to take with me to the battleground tomorrow. The goal is to protect Washington DC. If anyone has objections to this, you know where to find me. If not, please go back to your rooms."

The crowd nodded and people left the lobby in small groups, still talking about the events. Percy let them be and sighed. He turned to Piper, who was still standing next to him. "So, anything happened that I don't know about?"

Piper shook her head. "Other that this, nothing. Have you heard anything from Jason?" Percy frowned and shook his head too. She sighed. "I'll be going then. Take care."

"You too", he said before she also left the lobby.

When he figured nobody wanted to talk to him about things, he went to the 'rainbow room'. The 'rainbow room' was practically something the children of Iris and Hephaestus had created inside the building. As the name implies, there was always a rainbow in that room. Percy had never understood how it exactly worked - something about the light and moisture in the air - , but that didn't matter. This way, he was able to contact Annabeth.

He opened the door of the room. When he saw nobody was IM-ing, he walked inside and closed the door. After he locked it, he went toward the rainbow in the center of the room and threw a drachma into it. "O Fleecy, do me a solid. Show me Annabeth Chase."

Luckily, the cloud nymph Fleecy took care of the Iris Messages since Iris was unable to. He had asked her once if she knew something of the absence of the gods, but even she didn't know anything. The only thing she had told Percy, was that she'd closed the shop. Since she couldn't take care of the shop and the Iris Messages. So, she had chosen the last one.

An image of a girl sitting behind a desk appeared. He smiled when he recognized the blonde curls, which were tied up in a ponytail, like always. Even if he couldn't see her face, he knew it was Annabeth. "Hey"

He snickered when he saw Annabeth almost falling out of her chair out of shock, but stopped when she glared at him. "Not funny, Seaweed Brain..."

"A hello to you too, Wise Girl"

She sighed. "So, what makes you IM me? Did something happen?"

Percy held up his hands. "How do you know I don't just want to talk to you, because we haven't spoken each other for a while?"

"We talked yesterday, remember? And I know you longer than today" Percy sighed in defeat. He had forgotten that they'd talked yesterday. Too much had happened since then. "So, what's wrong?"

"Well..."

Tyson swept the sweat of his forehead, before continuing with his work. It had always been fun to work in the forges of Atlantis, even after he got appointed as general of the Cyclops army.

Now that his dad, together with the fish goddess and grumpy two-tails, had disappeared, Atlantis was without her rulers. Surprisingly enough, nobody had attacked the city or its citizens, so Tyson had nothing to do other than to work in the forges. Not that he didn't like it, but he missed his dad and brother. He hadn't spoken to his brother in months.

When he inspected his work, Tyson figured it was good enough and let the new-made sword rest in the water.

He swam out of the forges and saw the palace of Atlantis. Tyson smiled when he remembered his father, but that smile turned into a grimace. He was worried of his father. It wasn't like him to not make contact with anybody for two years. It was as if he had just disappeared from this world, leaving everybody on his own. Tyson refused to think that way, though.

He was just about to swim toward his home, where Ella would be waiting for him with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich - Tyson was almost drooling at the thought - , when he saw a dolphin swimming toward him with a scared expression on it's face.

"General Tyson! There's an army attacking the city!"

Jason poked into the fire with a stick, just like Hestia would do - or used to do. He didn't know which one it was. He sighed. It was no use thinking about that had happened to the gods. He would just have to cope with it.

It was so cold, that Jason had the tendency to just walk into the fire. Not that he would do that, of course. Only Leo - and some others - could do that. He frowned when he thought of Leo. Jason had failed him and Leo had paid the price.

"An oath to keep with a final breath", he had already had suspicions when Leo was acting so weird when he returned from Ogygia, but never would've expected that Leo had made an oath to return to Calypso. When Ogygia was somehow destroyed after the war, it was impossible for him to return to her. An oath on the Styx kills when not followed. If Jason had just found it out earlier, Leo would've never died.

He sighed and stopped himself from thinking any further. He wasn't in the woods in the middle of the night for nothing. Jason looked up at the sky and found the moon shining in all her glory.

He'd learned from Annabeth that the moon herself wasn't Artemis, but Selene - Luna for the Romans, but he'd given up his Roman life. He liked to think it was Artemis, as if it would give him hope that the gods were still there somewhere.

Just when he figured he would get some sleep, a dagger was around his throat. He smiled, when he looked down and saw it was made of silver. Apparently, the information he got was correct. "What are you doing here, boy?", the girl behind him asked.

He said nothing and watched as more girl walked out of the woods. Each had their arrows pointed to Jason, ready to fire at any moment. Another girl walked toward him with a different aura and a silver circlet on her head. "Stand down, Lucy"

The girl behind him, Lucy, retreated, but everyone still had their weapons with them. Jason, though, smiled at the girl before him and stood up. They walked toward each other and hugged the other. "Hey, Thals. Long time no see"

He gasped for air, when Thalia punched him in his gut. She broke the hug and glared at him. He could see sparks in her electrical eyes. "Long time no see... It certainly was a long time! You haven't talked to me in 11 months and you dare to just say 'long time no see'?! Be glad I don't electrocute you for not contacting me in all those months!"

Jason sighed and smiled, already used to her way of saying things. "I've missed you too, sis."

Thalia crossed her arms and snorted. "So, why do I owe you the pleasure, my dear brother?", she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"I need your and your huntress' help"

[A/N]: And here's chapter 2! I'm so glad with all the feedback I got with the last 2 chapter! ;D I love you all and I hope you liked this chapter! ;) Please leave a review after the beep. *beep*

And yes, I killed Leo... It's not that I don't love him, but there's a 60% chance he will die in Blood of Olympus, so yeah... Sorry :$ I'm not going to spoil what happened with Ogygia, though ;P

To Di Blythe: Haha ;P Thank youu! I hope you loved this chapter ;) Love uu xx

To TheMockingjay1998: Well, here's more ;)

To awesomeness: Thank you! I think I'll keep those OC's with the Hidden Gladiator, though ;). It would be so confusing for me otherwise xD Though I'm in for other OC's you have! (Just no children of the Big Three ;) )

To Fluff-is-awesome: Thanks ;D Yeah, I killed Sally and Paul.. :$ I think it was just needed for him to have a motive against the mortals (and it made him more powerful in a way). Everything will be explained in later chapters, so yeah, you're supposed to be confused for now ;P It hope it makes you want to know more ;P

'Till next time ^^

Xx Anny