Percy's POV

I woke up on the shore of the river just before the mouth of a bay. I had never felt so stiff in my life. This was worse than the time I bathed in the Styx. I noticed something that was out of place though I was not alone. The people around me were a bunch of nymphs. I ran as soon as I could never glancing back at the nymphs behind me. I felt the cursed blade hanging from my neck in a pendent that pulsed with the power of time, my power now. I felt it there and knew that my life would never end now and I would be forced to go back to them if they found me for ichor flowed through my veins. I still felt weak from the transformation into being an immortal I hated it so much. I never wanted to be immortal it was painful thinking about how much I would have enjoyed an honorable death. Now all that awaited me was unending pain and fear.

I knew that I would be stuck with this power for this age and it would drive me either crazy as my predecessor before me or I would let it flow around me and be an observer to everything as the original bearer of this ultimate power. I ran for the entire day never once slowing down and not even breathing hard by the time Apollo descended to yield the heavens to his sister. It felt strange and I was not going where my gut told me to go to which was strangely towards New Rome. I went north and west to get into the Alaskan wilderness but the moment I went to cross the border into the land beyond the gods I hit an invisible wall that I could not break through. The land beyond the gods was out of my reach I could not cross into it anymore. There was no where I could hide from the reach of the immortals of Greece anymore. I had no choice but to run or turn myself in to one of the groups hunting me. I was not thrilled about the prospect. I knew the Olympians were close to finding me but I did not know about the others. They may be miles away or as close as behind the next tree. I was still going to be living a life of fear of being captured.

My life would no longer be my own no matter what happened from this point on. Giants, Titans, and Olympians all wanted to use me for one reason or another. I hated that I had the strongest power in the universe I never asked for power all I ever wanted was a normal life even if that was only as normal as a demigod can have by living in camp for the rest of my life, but that will never happen now. I would be forced to work for at least one of the major groups. I knew that my old friend Bob wanted me to come and seek him out and seeing as he asked me to come to him I thought I would better late than never at all.

As I traveled south, I felt myself growing stronger and time slowing down at my whim to hasten my journey to the shattered palace. My instincts seemed to know exactly how to use my new powers. That was not surprising since I had the memories of those that came before me in the line of the divine controllers of Chrono energy. Time manipulation was clearly addicting for Kronos but Chronos found a way to deal with the power in a way. He never used it to begin with he simply forced himself to maintain the flow and in truth that is not really dealing with it, it was simply running away. As a side effect of knowing everything that my predecessors knew I now knew all the ancient laws and I knew what the creator had looked like before fading from this realm. The old man actually divided his power into each primordial and made the laws after forming the universe ending his existence and now a portion of that power flowed through me. Considering that, I am the only being in the Greek pantheon, or any pantheon that those who came before me knew of, with domain over time I must have all of the power from Chaos over the domain or I will once I travel everywhere Kronos went and collect his scattered essence. Since that is how Kronos gained true power over the domain, I inherited from him as he inherited it from Chronos before him.

I saw the foggy valley that was San Francisco as I moved south along the coast. It was an interesting sight that I was going to have to get to know. Since it would be what I would be seeing from the palace of the Titans. I would have to wait for the evening to enter the Garden of the Hesperides. I decided to bite a bullet and go see Dr. Chase. I remember him living in the area right by Stanford properly dubbed Professorville. I decided to take the slightly scenic route to get there. Once I came down Arrowhead Mountain after enjoying the view of both Napa and Sonoma, I stayed inland of San Pablo Bay. I kept myself out of the urban areas passing east of the city until I had to cut west around the south side of the bay I went as close to the wetlands as I could while keeping my feet on dry land which meant the north side of San Jose along highway 237. It was near noon by the time I reached the home of the Chase family. I knocked on the door politely as one would when visiting estranged friends.

I barely remembered to remove my disguise so that I looked like I used to. Matthew Chase answered the door or was it Bobby I could not tell. Even she had trouble telling them apart some of the time. The twins have grown since I last saw them I noted to myself as the other one came running up the hallway towards his brother. "Well, who is it?" the new arrival asked.

"I am an old acquaintance of your father. My name is Perseus. I have come to see him and talk for a little while before I continue on my journey." I explained to the twin brothers of the unfaithful cow.

They shrugged to each other then turned and motioned me in. "Dad someone is here to see you." The twin who answered the door called down into the basement. Shortly after that a soft crash came from the lower level of the house where I knew the history professor kept his notes and dioramas. As Dr. Chase came from the basement with dust all over his jacket and an easily spotted five o'clock shadow.

He was clearly sleep deprived and had been working on something when I arrived. "Good day Professor Chase how are you?" I asked politely to the man who had clearly aged over the eight years since I had last seen him.

"I am fine Percy my boy it has been too long. What brings you here? Are you finally going to ask my permission to marry Annabeth and why did you not bring here with you?" I could not help but cringe at his words and the memory of his daughter.

I rubbed the back of my neck nervously. "I don't suppose you have heard from her in a long time. She and I are no longer together after we defeated the Titans we did not have much in the way of peace. There was another war right after we defeated the former lord of time. It was with the giants. Hera kidnapped me and sent me to a camp for Roman demigods. That caused your daughter to become extremely worried and go off in search of me, but it also set us on a divide that we would never recover. I literally followed her into hell and walked across its black broken glass sands with her but surviving that place is not a blessing. It is the worst curse someone can place upon you. It is so horrifying that no one may emerge from there without being changed into something. I still dreamt of that place until I was pierced by a cursed blade and now no longer sleep or have a connection to my father's domain. After the war we were each offered godhood that I turned down to help the gods reunite as a family and follow through with their promises to be better but afterwards your daughter choose to accept and become the goddess of strategy and pride. You may take pride you are now the former lover of a goddess and the father to another. I have not seen her since that day, as it is not allowed for new gods to interact with their former family or friends. This is the first time I have had the opportunity to come and tell you what has happened. I am sorry if my news is not what you hoped to hear but the day is drawing short and now I must go." I said as I noticed the time and the look of confusion on the man's face. "Please excuse me Professor." I bowed and then stepped out the door heading north towards the golden gate bridge at a brisk pace.

As I crossed the bridge I made sure to readjust my appearance and I was secretly glad that I did, as some of the people walking along the street were some demigods in purple shirts with SPQR tattoos on their inner forearms. Unfortunately for me one of them was a boy I rescued and brought to Camp Jupiter. Danny saw me and broke away from his quest mates. He came at me not giving me a chance to run away from him as his companions followed him and surrounded me. "Blaze, what are you doing here? Why are your eyes gold?" Danny asked me.

"I am just wondering around that is all." I lied as I made to continue moving on my way towards the formerly shattered palace. Before I could take more than one-step my path was bared by a spear held by one of Danny's companions.

He had a centurion badge on his shirt and cleared his throat to try to draw my attention to him. "I cannot simply allow you to wonder off away from us. You are the second most wanted person by the senate of New Rome. Only person that has more to answer for is the traitor Percy Jackson who ran away from the final battle of the giant war and sided with Terra herself." He said boldly trying to intimidate me. I could not be very surprised by his attempted intimidation seeing as he bore the mark of Mars on his forearm.

"I am sorry but I am in a hurry and cannot afford to waste my time playing with you so I suggest you cover your eyes." I said in a deadly calm tone that only roman gods spoke before I froze time for them and walked on towards the mountain with a smirk on my face.