Chapter 6
Time skip: One Year
Percy PoV:
I was sitting in my mother's temple watching over Orion and the camp. I watched Orion's school year flow peacefully with no monsters. The camp has been on a downhill drive. The tree protecting the camp has been poisoned and the barrier has been weakened allowing monsters to get through. I reached for the history book and searched in the topic of healing. I run through the pages but nothing that would heal the tree. But finally I saw something that stood out by size of the item and its description. The Golden Fleece.
Chrysomallus was a fabulous, flying, golden-fleeced ram. Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly, but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia (a region in southeastern Greece), took as his first wife, the cloud nymph, Nephele, by whom he had two children, the boy Phrixus and the girl Helle. Later he became enamored of and married Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, bringing drought upon his land when Nephele removed herself. Ino was jealous of her stepchildren and plotted their deaths: in some versions, she persuaded Athamas that sacrificing Phrixus was the only way to end the drought. Nephele or her spirit, appeared to the children with a winged ram whose fleece was of gold.
On the ram the children escaped over the sea, but Helle fell off and drowned in the strait, now named after her, the Hellespont. The ram spoke to Phrixus, giving him heart, and took Phrixus safely on to Colchis, on the easternmost shore of the Euxine (Black) Sea. Phrixus then sacrificed the ram to Poseidon and settled in the house of King Aeetes of Colchis and lived to a ripe old age. He hung the Golden Fleece reserved from the sacrifice on an oak in a grove sacred to Ares, where it was guarded by a dragon. There it remained until taken by Jason. The ram became the constellation Aries.
Thats what they need. The Golden Fleece have the power to heal anything, flowers, trees, animals and even humans. He needed to contact Grover to give the camp the idea. He looked at his watch and it read 10 pm. He went to his bed and drifted into the realm of Morpheus.
In the sleep he contacted Grover and told him about the fleece. The plan was simple. Get Orion on the quest and humiliate him. He was currently watching Orion's PE lesson at his school. He did not even notice the three laistrygonian giants in the class. Soon they started playing a game of dodgeball during which they revealed themselves. The fool Orion left his sword Anaklusmos in the locker. Luckily for him, his friend Tyson who was a Cyclops )was unnoticed by Orion) saves him by deflecting two fireballs aimed at Orion. They were also saved by Annabeth from the last Laistrygonian by stabbing it in the gut. They took the Gray Sisters' Taxi to the camp. In the taxi they tell Orion the location he seeks 30,31,75,12. He didn't understand what it meant but I knew what the numbers meant. They were the sailing coordinates for Sea of Monsters. When the trio arrived at the camp they saw the camp being attacked by the two Colchis Bulls.
During the year I was able to learn how to teleport in multiple ways. The different teleport types that I was able to use was lightning travel, vapour travel, shadow travel, fire travel and light travel. I liked to use light because it was very similar looking to flashing that immortals use. I teleported myself using light to a place 300 feet above the camp, I let myself fall head first. I adjusted myself about 100 feet above the ground to hit feet first. 75 feet. 50 feet. 25 feet. I fit the ground making a massive crater. I summoned my armor, sword and shield and charged at the first bull. The campers watched my in awe as if they saw a falling angel. I banged my sword at my shield to make noise and catch the bull's attention. He turned towards me and charged. I stepped aside and jumped on its back lifting a plate of its armor and cutting through its main power cable completely disabling the bull. I charged at the second bull and doing the same to him, when both bulls were disabled I grabbed them by their horns and dragged them towards Hephaestus' cabin's door and dropped them there. I turned around to see every single camper looking at me, I saw Chiron and Grover smirking. I took of my helmet causing some girls drool whilst the boys looked at me with jealousy in their eyes. Orion walked towards me, he was about to say something when I said.
"What does the 'great Son of Poseidon, Orion' wants from a lowly demigod like me? Run to me to help him kill the Minotaur again so he can scream for someone 'save his beautiful face'?" This caused everyone laugh, some were even on the floor holding their stomachs laughing. Orion looked at me murderously.
"Just drop it Orion or I might let Ares get you and this time I won't save your butt." He paled at the thought of fighting a god. "I heard you got some problems with the camp barrier, right?" They all nodded. "All I will say is: Gather your Argonauts." With that I teleported with light. The last image I had from the camp was Chiron's pale face and others confused look. When I got to mom's temple I looked back at camp. Everyone still had the confused look on their face, suddenly someone gasped. It was Annabeth. She realised what I meant.
"I-I know what h-he meant," she said . Everyone looked at her. "Argonauts went on a search for an item that would heal anything and anyone, the Golden Fleece." Everyone paled. The original journey was very dangerous and took them three years.
"As you all know the tree has been poisoned and he decided to put the blame on someone. Unfortunately he chose blame Chiron, he ordered me to fire him and find new Camp Activity Manager." Mr. D said causing everyone to shout in protest. He held up his hand making everyone stop. (AN: I decided not to make Mr. D a jerk) "I tried to stop him but it didn't work. Therefore new Camp Activity Manager is Tantalus." What I saw boiling in rage. I teleported to the middle of USA and created a rainbow.
"Oh Iris, Goddess of Rainbows. Show me Camp Half-Blood." An image showed up of the camp. Everyone looked at me.
"TANTALUS!? You chose that murderer!? Of all the dead souls you chose him!? Have you thought for a second about heroes like Achilles, Perseus or Odysseus? They are ten time better people than that murderer. I agree they killed people but at least they didn't kill their OWN CHILDREN!" I yelled at Mr. D. "You better replace him with some other soul or I'll come to you and him and drag you personally to Tartarus. Heed my warning. I never break my promises." I warned him reforming smiling softly. "Tell Hi to Grover and Chiron." I finished and swiped my hand through the message ending it. I teleported back home and looked back at everyone, they were all pleading Mr. D to hire the greatest heroes of all time to train them. I vapour traveled to Chiron's room and left him a note that I will find proof for his innocence. I teleported myself back to my room and fell asleep. In the dream I meet Grover on a field full of flowers
"Hey G-Man. Long time no see." I told him.
"Hey Perce." he replied.
"I need to tell you few things about the quest and the fleece. First the fleece is a very powerful item which heals anything. Its power radiates a strong nature scent. It is kept on Polyphemus' island as a lure for satyrs. The reason it is a lute for satyrs is because every satyr thinks that the fleece is Pan, God of the Wild. Polyphemus' island in located in the Sea of Monsters, I advise you to travel through the Charybdis and Scylla. I will help you as much as I can to get through them because that idiot Orion it too weak to do anything, he'll probably faint at their sight. After Charybdis and Scylla there is Circe's island which her followers turned into spa. They will try to turn every male into a guinea pig. If you escape her island then your next challenge will the the Sirens island. Sirens have the ability to show you your fatal flaw or your dreams just to lure you to their island. Take something to block your ears but one person must listen to their song or they will attack you. I advise chain someone to the ship and make the person chained to swear on Styx that they don't have anything that will let them free. After Sirens Island there is Polyphemus' Island. Yo your advantage, during the Odyssey, Odysseus stabbed Polyphemus in the eye slightly blinding him. He is also a shepherd of flesh-eating sheep which guard the tree fleece is hung on. So yeah, that is pretty much it." I said everything that I needed to say.
"OKay. I think I will remember everything." He replied.
"Oh, by the way. Tell Annabeth that those numbers from the cab are sailing coordinates." With that I ended our connection.
AN: The poll for pairings so far:
Artemis - 2
Thalia - 1
Hestia - 1
