Sorry this has taken so long I have been beta-ing others and I have been a bit side tracked with some activities fortnight. Anyway here is the new chapter. R&R

Shout outs: Savannah Silverstone, A-LovesHP, Bookworm, goldenbug, codman728 and leah992

Piper

I turned up at Percy's apartment at about 1:00 and went to lunch figuring they would probably be out. As I headed to a place where I knew a Frankie &Bennie's was I noticed how much things had changed since the fates had decided to lift The Mist. Now people and demi-gods walk the street with swords, knives and axes. I passed by a weapon shop and I saw a few assassins creed wannabes trying to get the weapons smith to make a hidden blade. Some people are such weirdos; she thought and then carried on. The world has run a lot more smoothly now that the gods are in charge. She remembered the day clearly.

6 years ago

Leo, Percy, Jason, Nico, Annabeth, Hazel, Frank and I were summoned to Olympus to see the gods in council. They wanted our opinion! "This is Huge" Frank said, as he was trying to sort his clothes out.

"Father said that even he was told he had to come up to Olympus to decide this matter" Nico told Percy.

"What! Your father is coming; I knew I should have brought my sword" Percy said looking frantically for a weapon and brought a pen out.

"Don't worry Seaweed Brain I got like, 30 knives in my bag" Annabeth said strolling over.

Such overkill I thought and moved on over to Thalia who seemed to be staring at someone with a look that I knew all too well. She was looking at someone with lust. "Soooo… who is he" I said trying to follow her gaze.

"Who is who" Thalia said quickly dropping her gaze.

"Thalia, I am the champion of Aphrodite, I know that look when I see it" I said, in a matter of fact tone "Now either you're hungry and their some hidden burger bar, or you want someone"

Thalia looked a bit sheepish "I… he… I do…." She stammered, "This is disastrous for me, I am supposed to lead the hunters of Artemis not fall for some boy, who was just a kid when I last saw him"

"Yeah…" I said, "I'm not sure what to tell you, if I told you to follow your heart it would end badly yet if I told you to stick to your duties I would not only go against everything my mother but you would be left with yearning in your heart"

"I think I know what I must do" She stated.

"What it's not as if you can talk to Art….." I trailed off as it suddenly hit me.

"I shall talk to Aphrodite and Father if they will see me about this seeing as Lady Artemis will take some convincing" She said got up and walked away.

"I can't believe she is doing this" I said as the elevator hit the 600th floor of the Empire state building. We stepped into Olympus in a small group to find the ever glorious Mount Olympus looking solemn.

"Why is everything like this?" I said as I walked the stone steps to where we were told the council was being held.

"Because, Sister, the issue we face is one that will change the face of the planet" said a man with a deep booming voice. I turned around to face a man with curly brown hair and colour shifting eyes. His skin was tanned and he wore a golden battle kilt and had a bow and arrow strapped to his back.

"Who are you" asked Frank

"I am the minor god Eros, god of love but most people know me as Cupid" He said "Come and I will show you into the council"

We walked into the council as a small group and saw that everyone had a concerned look on their face. In the corner stood Hades, looking like he couldn't care less about the outcome of this council. Stood next stood a god that I had never seen before but knew instantly who it was. Anyone could have known if they saw the floating runes around her, it was the Lady Hecate. "Welcome Half-Bloods" boomed Zeus "We face a matter today that could change the mortal's perspective of everything"

"What has happened Father" Jason asks.

"The Fates have given us a choice to lift the mist" Hermes stated.

"We tried taking a vote to solve the issue but it was an equal vote, 6 want to lift it and 6 say it is necessary" explained Zeus.

"What about you Father" Nico asked, "With you here it makes 13 gods so why are there only 12 votes"

"Son, it does not affect me since as soon as people die and come to the underworld they realise that the Greek legends are real so I couldn't care less" Hades stated and grinned at his family's trouble so glad that it didn't affect him. I really do hate that guy.

"So why is Lady Hecate here then" asked Percy "Do the minor gods get a say in this as well?"

"No" Zeus said blatantly "but Hecate here came in and raged on about how important it is to lift the mist"

"A man died protecting my son because he wasn't sure about what was happening. This is because of your Mist he couldn't see the severity of the situation so he couldn't protect himself" Hecate said, rage flaring in her voice. She obviously felt strongly about this, "The Mist is killing more mortals than its helping"

"Hecate we are all aware of doctor claymore but we need to look at the bigger picture" Hephaestus said, standing up slowly "As soon as mortals find out about us it could go one of two way either they take it well and listen to our ruling or there is mass pandemonium and they try to outsmart us, now I don't know about you but I don't fancy a nuke flying at us in every direction, our magic is good but not that good"

"So as you can see the gods are at crossroads" Zeus concluded "Which is why you are here, we need a perspective from a mortals view and we thought you would be best"

We huddled together and tried to think of a solution, I spoke up "I think it should be a yes, we all know how well Greece was run back in ancient times, if we can replicate that it would be brilliant we could convince crowds by using charm speak me and… drew".

"It's a good idea" Annabeth said "I think that's what our verdict should be" a murmur of agreement passed through everyone

Percy turned around. He walked to the centre of the council and spoke out "We have given this much thought and have come up with a plan and we have decide yes" and then he started explaining the plan.

A.N sorry this has taken so long thanks to A-LovesHP I managed to get some ideas so because of this great victory everyone gets cookies (Throwscookiestodevotedfollowers) I will try and update but summer is coming up so who knows.