Chapter 6
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Mount Olympus, Throne Room
3rd Person POV
All was quiet on Olympus. It was the middle of the night, everyone was asleep, at least they were before fire started flying through the sky. Those on the council teleported to the throne room where Hephaestus lay in wait. With their questioning looks he sighed and started talking.
"I have news that affects all of us, but mostly you Poseidon."
"What is it? Not another war, right?" Poseidon asked.
"Nope"
"The what is it?"
"I found Perseus."
"Where!?"
"In my junkyard."
"What? He has terrible memories of that place. Why go there?" Apollo put in.
Everyone looked at him in shock. "What?" Apollo asking defensively."I can be smart too, you know." Athena replied,"You should exercise that part of your nonexistent brain more often brother." "Very true" agreed Artemis.
"Anyway, he is the guardian of my junkyard, and he has found the 2 pendants that were hidden inside Talos. By the way, Hades'-" "You were saying," Hades said, stepping out of a shadow.
"Hades, thank you for showing up. When your daughter destroyed Talos, Her power disrupted the power of the Tartarian amulet you gave me, so Talos is permadead."
"1, Not my amulet, Tartarus gave it to me. 2, Makes sense for my daughter, 3, permadead?"
"Shut up. So he has put on the pendant of the junkyard, making him officially it's guardian."
"Wow, Percy never does anything by halves, does he?" Hermes said, putting his 2 cents in.
"How much power does he have, and what kind of potential are we talking about here?" Zeus predictably asked.
"Enough to go toe to toe with Dionysius."
"What!? He has too much power, he must be destroyed!"
"Agreed, if he turned against us, he could crush us!" Athena said.
"Let us hold a vote,"Hephaestus suggested, confident that his guardian would be safe.
"Those who wish Perseus to be destroyed, raise your hands now."
"Wait!" Poseidon called "Let's at least look at what he is doing now."
Li/ne
Junkyard of the Gods
Percy's POV
I ran out the door to my tent/house going to the edge of the junkyard. My guardian instincts as well as the pendant were telling me to get to the edge of the junkyard. Something was going to happen and I needed to be there. I raced of the hills of junk at my top speed, which was quite fast with my practice doing this and the junkyard helping me and whatnot.
When I reached the edge of the junkyard I saw something strange. I saw the normal monsters I usually see, hellhounds, laestrygonians, etc. Fighting some strange monsters I've never seen before. It was wolves, but these were far from regular wolves, if the fact that they're bleeding black blood means anything. They also look a lot more vicious than normal wolves.
I started watching the fighting. They seemed to be evenly matched but the greek monsters numbers and endless reinforcements seemed to be gaining the upper hand. I looked to see what they were fighting over and I saw a gem. I'm not even sure what gem it is. One second it was a diamond, perfectly cut, perfect color, completely clear, basically the perfect diamond. The next second it was a ruby, just a perfect as the diamond. Every second it changed to a different gemstone. Eventually it returned to diamond and started the cycle anew.
The strangest thing is the gem felt like it was calling to me. Not the normal 'I'm being stolen please help me' kind of calling stolen items give me. No it was calling to me specifically, not the guardian of the junkyard. I started sneaking around the monsters to get to the gem. Every time an enemy looked at me without noticing me I mentally thanked Thalia for her stealth lessons. Even if she had betrayed me, the skills were useful.
Eventually I reached as close to the gem as I could without getting discovered. I grinned and started using my powers to summon water from all around me. I could feel the air get more humid and I could feel the water under my feet, waiting to be used. The monsters suddenly stopped fighting as they -no doubt- could feel the increase in humidity as well. One of the wolves barked out "Is this your doing greeks, some water based ally to help you destroy us?"
"I would've asked you the same thing you stupid norse dog, but by the question you just ask, you obviously don't know." One of the laestrygonians sneer.
"Then what is it boss?" Asked a cyclops.
"I don't know but be on guard for anything." The laestrygonian replied.
I then spoke "Awww I didn't realize I was worthy enough to make monsters raise their guard! This is probably the best day of my life!" I laughed after I stopped talking, confusing the monsters even more. I took advantage of their confusion and started cutting them all down with my sword and recently frozen ice. Mortal metals may not kill monsters but natural materials sure can! Over half of the greek monsters were dead before they realized I attacked.
Wait a second. Wait. A. Second. When addressing the wolf the laestrygonian called him a norse, does that mean the gods of Asgard are real? If they are I wanna spar with Thor, that sounds fun. Wait, wait, wait Asgardian wolves?! Eeep.
I kept fighting the greek monsters while the wolves watched me with interest, it was scary, much scarier than Lupa and her pack. Although that was probably my nerves talking. I've heard the rumors around Asgardian wolf packs, and I don't want to get on their bad side, at least not yet.
After fighting the monsters away from the gem I picked it up and was filled with a sense of evil and chaos. This reminded me of Kronos and his aura, chaotic and deadly. It started to burn, and I felt anger at my betrayers rise up within me, how dare they banish me! Me, the person who saved all their asses multiple times!
I had always thought like this whenever anything related to my old friends turned up, but never this intense. I immediately dropped the gem, then remembered that there was a wolf pack, staring at me, having no idea if I was friend or foe. They looked deadly as Hades, or rather Hel, I guess, since they were Norse. They had been fighting many, many, many monsters, and none of them had died yet, though there were injuries through the pack, the worst being a wolf with two caved in legs, the front left and back left.
I walked to that one, and spoke to it like it was a stray dog that I wanted to help, which I had seen my mom do a lot. It growled and then spoke to me;
"Human, what do you think you're doing?" It growled waringly.
I leapt backwards in shock
"You can talk?!" Thinking back, I remembered that one had challenged the laestrygonian, so, yes they could.
"I am the beta of this pack, who do you think you are, human?!"
"I am Percy Jackson, and I am a demigod, not a human."
"Hmmph. My name is Nightsbane. Who is your godly parent, demigod?" Nightsbane asked.
"Ummm…-"
"Don't worry, we know you're Greek"
"Oh, Posiedon."
"Hmm, not bad. Anyway, can you heal me please? I was the son of Ymir before I became a wolf, so ice heals me." Nightsbane responded.
"Ok" I replied, encasing the wounds with ice.
"Much better, thank you. We are the sun part of the double pack of Hati and Skoll. We need that gem, as, although it is evil, it has the power to break enchantments. Our leaders are forced to chase the sun and moon to keep them on track, and we hope to free them, then free their father, Fenrir, and finally go live in the wild as a complete family."
"Why are you telling them all this Daddy?" A young cub had walked up to them and snuggled with Nightsbane. "Because I know of Perseus Jackson through Skoll. He is quite the celebrity, also he may have just saved my life." "Ok" the little one said.
"Anyway, we know that this is Hephaestus's junkyard, but is it okay if we take it?" Nightsbane asked.
"Probab-wait. Little one-"
"I'm not little!" The cub screamed. It was true. She was already bigger than a normal wolf, and her teeth weren't developed, meaning that she was quite young. Of course, the other wolves were the size of slightly large horses, with Nightsbane being biggest at the size of a fucking ox.
"Ok, then, you said 'them'?"
"Yes"
"Hi Percy" Nico shouted, right in my ear, causing me to jump.
"Hey!" All of them were cracking up, even the wolves.
"So, can we take the gem?" Nightsbane asked again.
"Oh right, sorry. Welll…"