Hello again and thank you all for staying with us so far and a thanks to Gold Testament for the helpful review and thank you everyone else that reviewed. So here is chapter 4! Enjoy!

Chapter 4

Thalia POV

When Percy and Artemis finally came back I was ready to stab Percy in very uncomfortable places for not contacting me all these years. As he saw me walk up to him his face paled a bit. I smirked at that, which made Percy even paler. "So, care to tell me the details Kelp-Head?" I said with an evil smile on my face. "U-umm yeah" said Percy as he stumbled while smiling nervously. Artemis laughed at that, "Well I'll leave you to your happy reunion" she said as she walked off to the hunters. "Wait, don't leave me" Percy said as his voice cracked. "Oh, but I can't intrude on your reunion, plus I'm sure you have a lot to catch up on" said Artemis with an evil smirk on her face as she walked away leaving me and Percy.

The first thing I did was slug him in the face hard, then as he got up I hugged him tight enough to crush an average man's ribs. "So, care to tell me where you were all this time Kelp Head?" I said as I looked at him and showed him to my tent. "Well, where do you want me to start?" Percy rubbed his head as he looked into my eyes. "Lets see… how about you start from the day my father threw you into Tartarus" I said as I made the word father sound as it was the worst thing in this world.

"When I fell into Tartarus that day it felt like I was going to have a heart attack just from being in there. The memories of that place" he shivered still disliking the remembering of the place. "However I knew that I couldn't die yet since I needed to find a way out and show Zeus his place." I smirked at that thought. "Yeah, my father's head is shoved way to far up his ass." Percy laughed at that as he continued. "I walked tirelessly throughout the pit while killing monsters and polishing my powers and skills with weapons. Then you see one day or maybe it was night, I don't know what time it was here, I found what I did not expect to see ever again. It was Kronos's scythe." I gasped at that, "but I thought it was destroyed after the war." Percy shook his head and pulled out Kronos's scythe out of thin air. "How do you have it, and where the heck did you take it out from?" Percy grinned, "well, when I found it as I was wondering, I wanted to know what would happen if I touched it, and when I grabbed it… well I kind of took the titan of time's remaining power. " I shook my head in disbelief. "You never fail to surprise me Kelp Head." Percy looked at me before saying, "Isn't that what I do best though?" I punched him in the shoulder as I laughed, "so, where did you take it out from?"

"Well by taking Kronos' power I can now store items in my personal dimensional space" said Percy as he put the scythe back who knows where. "So, anything else I should know?" He smiled "there's quite a lot of things that happened over the years and I'm not even on the good part yet." As Percy continued to tell me about what happened over the years I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Percy had killed Perses the titan of destruction and gained his powers as well. He showed me a symbol on his hand as he explained to me that by getting the powers his appearance changed a bit. The symbol was black with three connected swirls in a shape of circles. He explained that when he used the power the swirls spread across his body and the greater the power he used the farther the symbols would spread but then would disappear the next day after the battle. "So, what happens with Kronos's powers than?" I asked wanting to know what else changed. "My eyes turn golden when I use my power over time."

"You sure have gotten stronger over the years but I can still kick your ass." I said while grinning. "You're on" said Percy as we both laughed. "Well, is there anything else that I should know?"

"Yup, I was saving the best for last." I looked at him, "What can possibly be better than being titan of time and destruction?" He looked at me with a eyes that said "should I tell her or should I not?" I frowned "you know I will find out eventually" He smiled "I know I just wanted to tease you Pinecone face." I smiled at the old nickname, "so what's this best part you were saving?"

"Well during my first year there Tartarus the primordial was amazed that I was able to survive by myself for so long. And instead of punishing me for getting in his way before, he gave me his blessing and made me the prince of the pit which gives me pretty much the control of the pit." I looked at him like I had seen a ghost, "you're the prince of the pit? Is that how you were also able to summon those hellhounds?"

"Yeah thanks to the blessing I can summon monsters that are in Tartarus, and that will be quite useful in this war. Don't you think?" He laughed at my face expression "I swear Thalia you make the best expressions." I punched him in the stomach as he continued laughing and holding his stomach from the pain. "Whatever" I said as I laughed along with him. "So do the gods know of your powers?"

"No, they only know that I received Tartarus's blessing and that I am the prince of the pit." I couldn't control my laughter as I thought of the expressions on the gods faces when they find out about the powers Percy has now. "Well, that was an interesting story and what the hell were those monsters that attacked as? You were quite used to fighting them." I said. "The monsters were a part of Chaos's army and that huge dragon was one of the four elemental beasts of Chaos. The one that I defeated was the weakest one of them all. I looked at him in shock, "that dragon wiped out hundreds of monsters with one shot of magma and he was the weakest?!" Percy smiled "Yes, yes he was." Then me and Percy got up and walked out of the tent.

Percy POV

As we walked out of the tent Thalia turned around and looked at me with worry in her eyes. "You won't leave me again right?" I smiled as I hugged my cousin, "of course not." We broke apart after a few seconds. "Well I'm going to go see my mom and stepdad, so tell Artemis or whoever is looking for me that I went to visit my parents" as I said that I saw Thalia's eyes fill up with sadness as tears started falling from her eyes. "Percy.. I'm sorry but your mom and stepdad were killed a year ago by some monsters." I fell to the ground "What?" I said in shock. "Why dammit, why them? They didn't do anything to deserve this." Thalia hugged me as I cried. When I calmed down I thanked Thalia for being there for me. "I'm going to go visit Nico since I haven't seen him yet and ask him about my parents." Thalia nodded, "I'll tell them where you went if they ask." I thanked her as I dissolved into the mist.

I appeared in front of DOA Recording Studios, LA which brought back all the memories of when I was here on the quest. When I entered I saw the dead wandering around and Charon, who was sitting in a chair and reading a newspaper which said Olympus Times. I laughed at how original the name was. Charon heard me and looked at up at me as his face expression changed to shocked. "Percy Jackson, how are you here, I thought Zeus threw you into Tartarus?" I smiled as I walked up to him, "he did but I got out." He looked at me with worry in his eyes, looking suspiciously up. "Zeus will throw you back in there if he finds out you're out." I laughed "Zeus knows already that I'm out and he won't lay a finger on me for at least a while." Charon looked confused, "what do you mean?" I smirked, "It's a long story I'll tell you some other time."

"So I see you still didn't drown in a bathtub" said Charon while grinning as I laughed at the excuse I made last time i was here. "As you see I am quite alive." Charon smirked at my comment, "so what can I do for you today Percy? I'll do it for free since you helped me out last time, Hades pays me way more now so thank you." I smiled "glad I was of help and I need a ride to the underworld, I want to see Nico." Charon nodded "no problem I can do that easily, let's go." When Charon dropped me off I walked a for a while until I saw Cerberus who was wagging his tail and looking happily to see me. "Hey there boy, how are you doing? Wanna play?" I asked while pulling out a big red rubber ball from my subspace. At the sight of the rubber ball Cerberus started to jump shaking the ground and squashing not so few spirits. I laughed as I threw the ball at him. After a few minutes of playing with Cerberus I entered the underworld. I went towards Hades palace as I walked past the fields of punishment from which you could hear screams of pain. When I reached the palace I looked around as I wondered on how I could of forgotten such beauty. The columns were made out of obsidian while the floor was made out of marble. Instead of torches were rubies that glowed giving the place a red beautiful light. As I continued to walk and admire the place I reached the palace. The guards let me threw surprisingly without saying a single word. I wondered why they let me through so easily. When I finally reached the door to the throne room I stopped before walking in and thought on how Hades will react, then I pushed the door open.

When I walked into the throne room I saw Hades and Persephone sitting on their thrones discussing something about flowers on graves. Then they noticed me as I walked up and bowed. "What brings you here Nephew?" said Hades. "Sorry, for intruding uncle but I wish to see Nico."

"Oh thats the least I can do for you for returning my throne to me" Hades said as he waved his hand and Nico appeared from the shadows. He looked a lot different now most likely because he was now 17 or was he 18? Time in Tartarus is hard to keep track of exactly. He was tall maybe 5'7 wearing a black aviator jacket and a dark t-shirt under it, his hair had grown to his shoulders and looked much less pale than when he was younger sporting a light tan. His favored sword in its ring form on his hand. "Why have you called me here father?" Nico said with confusion in his voice not looking toward me. "There is someone here to see you" Nico turned around and saw me. "Percy.. but how? I thought you were in Tartarus." Nico said as he crushed me into a hug. "You're killing me Nico" I said as I felt like my bones were about to break. "Sorry" he said as he let go. "So care to explain how you are here?" I smirked at him. "No I just came to say bye" I said sarcastically." Nico laughed. "You're still the same as I ever aren't you."

As we left the throne room and walked around the underworld telling each other about the things that happened over the years. "Man, you never fail to surprise me Percy." Nico said after hearing about my achievements in Tartarus. "I think you are the first and last demigod to accomplish this." I laughed at that, "you might be right about that." Then I remembered the other reason why I came here. "Hey Nico? About my parents, did they make it to Elysium?" Nico's eyes saddened for a second then he smiled. "Even better Percy, their in Isles of the Blessed. They must of been some great people in their past lives." I couldn't believe what Nico said for a second. "Do you know who they were?" Nico shook his head, "yes but I cannot tell you because of the ancient laws, sorry" I sighed. "Can I atleast see them?" Nico frowned, "sorry no matter how much I want to let you I can't bring you there not until you die three times at least." I looked sadly at the isle in the distance. "It's alright I guess, at least they're happy." I said fondly before my expression grew even sadder. "Nico, can you tell me what happened to Annabeth at least." Nico nodded his expression dropping. "Perce, she… she chose rebirth, I'm sorry." I paused for a sec "I see, that's just like her to do that she wasn't the type to just wait for you" I said with a smile even while tears ran down my face. Turning away from Nico and walking toward a familiar pit, the entrance of Tartarus within the Underworld. "Guess I'll be leaving now" I said waving behind me. "Come visit again sometime you're always welcome since my dad is forever in your debt for returning him his throne." I smiled "it was the least I could do" Then as we said the last of our good byes I jumped.

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When I appeared back at the hunteress camp after calming down, I searched for Thalia and Artemis. Then I saw Artemis walking towards the woods so I followed her. I followed her through the woods when after a turn behind a tree she disappeared. I looked around confused as I looked around. "Do you really think I didn't know that you were following me Aquaboy?" I heard Artemis say behind me as I turned around to see her leaning against a tree with a smirk on her face. "Is that really the best you could do Moonbeam?" Artemis gasped at my nickname for her as she got angry. "Don't you dare call me that?" I laughed "call you what? Moonbeam?" I laughed as she got angry which made her look kind of cute. "Wait, did I just think that she was cute? Well, I got to admit she is cute when she is mad but come on she is a maiden goddess nothing can ever happen down that train of thought." As I snapped back to reality Artemis was looking at me with a smirk on her face. I looked at her confused. "Is there something on my face?" She laughed "no it's just your face was funny when you were thinking. "Ha ha very funny" I said sarcastically as I smiled. "Here follow me I want to show you something" she said as she went farther into the woods. After a few minutes of walking we ended up on a cliff that had an ocean below. It was beautiful, the moon was reflecting of the ocean making it shine in a silverish light as the waves crashed into the rocks below and the scent of the pinecone trees mixing with the ocean made it relaxing and calmed you down. Then I looked at Artemis who was standing in the moonlight facing the ocean. She was beautiful. Her auburn hair was swaying in the wing as the moon gave her skin a silverish glow. She was gorgeous, not like Aphrodite who used tons of makeup to look good. Artemis had natural beauty that surpassed Aphrodite's in my mind. Then she turned around and looked at me with her silver eyes that made you feel like your soul is being pulled out of your body if you looked for to long. "This is my favorite spot in the state" she said as she looked at me. I looked at the ocean, "It's a really nice spot I like it. It has everything I like in one spot and it helps me relax." I turned around to see Artemis looking at me which made me slightly blush.

"I knew you were different from other men Percy, but you're almost the total opposite of my definition of men. You always stay loyal to your friends, you're not selfish, you're not greedy, and you respect women. Why? Why are you so different?" Artemis searched me as she was trying to find the answer. "Well you see before I found out that I was a demigod my mom married Gabe who was the exact replica of the man that you hate. He constantly would beat my mother, scream at her and take it out on me when she wasn't home. I really hated him, however later I found out that my mom only married him to protect me from the monsters because he smelled so bad that he was able to cover up my scent. I called him Smelly Gabe because of that." Artemis smiled at the nickname. "Then when I found out I became a demigod my mom didn't need him anymore so she got rid of him. Since I hated him and how he treated woman I didn't want to be like him so I swore that I would always be nice to women." Artemis smiled as I finished my mini story. "You really are one of a kind Perseus." I looked at her as she called me by my full name. "Come on don't call me Perseus, Arty" She glared at me. "Don't you dare call me that either." I laughed, "only if you don't call me Perseus." She grinned at that "we'll see about that." After talking for another few minutes we decided to go back. On the way back Artemis stopped. "Percy, you're the only male friend I ever had that I could open up to and probably the last. So can I trust you?" I looked at her as I processed what she just said. "I'll never betray you Artemis I swear on the river Styx." Thunder boomed in the sky. Artemis smiled as she hugged me which surprised me and made me really happy for some reason. "Thank you Percy, you're a great friend." After we separated the hug I was a bit disappointed. "We should be going back or it'll be morning soon. We headed back to the camp in silence as the sound of the night engulfed us. When we reached the camp I said goodnight to Artemis as she walked to her tent. I looked around as I found a spot on a hill by a river and took out a cube from my dimensional storage and threw it on the ground. It spread into a black tent which was a present from Tartarus. When I walked in it was as big as a two story house inside with a flat screen tv and all the newest gaming consoles. It had a nice kitchen that had a fridge with unlimited amount of food and that had anything you wanted. On the side was a large microwave and a toaster. I headed upstairs into my room. My room had sea green walls with a black bed and a blue blanket. In the other corner was my desk with a computer and a comfy bean bag chair. I took my shirt off and fell on my bed falling asleep almost instantly.

So that was chapter 4, sorry that it was kind of plain but I had to do all the reunions. Also I have nothing against Percy's I just wanted some drama so yeah.

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