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Once Percy Jackson arrived on Olympus, he started to feel even more nervous then he did before.
Not only were all the gods there, but there were also in their true form. They towered over him and Percy had to try really hard not to look as scared as he felt.
Percy, the hero of Olympus. The same man who had single handedly defeated hundreds of monsters and fought giants and titans. Was scared of the Olympian Gods. Go figure.
"Perseus Jackson" Zeus' voice boomed, causing the small amount of previous chatter to die down "you are here because we all have something to say to you"
Percy was genuinely scared now. It is not a good thing to be summoned by one god, let alone all twelve of the Olympian council.
"You can stop shaking in your shoes you wussy brat." Ares said, obviously annoyed. "Your father thought that is was necessary for us all to officially thank you for all that you have done and blah blah blah"
Poseidon stood up silencing Ares. He took a step forward and as he did so he changed into his human form.
He placed a hand on Percy's shoulder.
"I couldn't of been more proud of you son. You did brilliantly"
Percy felt himself go red. He could see Apollo smirk at him and Ares roll his eyes.
"I'll go first" Hephaestus stood up "As a thank you for all your help I would like to give the gift of fire" Hephaestus walked over to Percy and placed his hand on Percy's arm. As he did so fire started to coil up Percy's arm. It slowly curled up till it reached Percy's chest and disappeared.
"I would also like to give you another gift. It is a sword I made myself" A sword appeared in front of Percy. It was magnificent. It was the same size as riptide, but the blade was marbled with gold and bronze. The hilt was a black metal and had τυφώνας (tyfó̱nas) engraved on the side.
"Hurricane" Percy translated. He looked up to Hephaestus and smiled. "Thank you lord Hephaestus"
"No problem buddy. It's enchanted so it will be connected to riptide. You simply have to imagine it coming apart from riptide to appear. No need to call me lord either" Hephaestus turned around and sat back down on his throne.
"The amazing Apollo is going to go next" Apollo jumped off his seat and walked over to Percy. "Because you were nearly as awesome as me during that battle I'm going to give you a little gift or two. I shall present it in the form of a haiku" he cleared his throat and opened his mouth to speak, but was quickly interrupted by Athena.
"Apollo, we don't have time for your nonsense. Hurry up with your presenting"
"But it was such a good one." Apollo grumbled, "None the less I will give Percy the ability to be able to shoot a bow and arrow. Without killing himself, that is"
Percy almost laughed at this, but he was to shocked. He would actually be able to operate a bow and arrow!
"Not only will I, Apollo the Great, be giving young Percy this amazing gift, but I will also present him with my Shield" a gold wrist watch appeared one Percy's arm. "Just click the little switch on the side and it will turn into a shield click it again and it will turn back. Simple."
"Thank you. I didn't even know you owned a shield."
"Well, know you do. You should be honoured that know you can share a but of my awesomeness! You lucky kid" He walked back to his throne and winked at Percy before sitting back down.
"I suppose this is were I should come in" Artemis stood up, and as she walked she shrunk down to her human form.
"Considering my brother gave you only half a gift, I should give you the other section" She said glaring at Apollo, he shrugged innocently. "I will give you the ability to shoot with accuracy that rivals even my hunters. As well as a bow and a never ending quiver of arrows" A silver wrist band appeared on his hand. "Just think about it being there and it will appear, do the same for it to disappear"
Percy smiled at her. "Thank you Lady Artemis. I don't know what to say"
She didn't return his smile. "You should be grateful that you aren't a Jackalope"
"Look, Lady Artemis" Percy rubbed the back of his neck "I'm so sorry about Thalia, I tried to stop her. I really did"
Artemis didn't even look at him "you should've tried harder"
Percy looked down at the floor. The whole throne room had gone silent.
"Oh please. C'mon Arty, you know the boy tried his hardest. I bet it was his devilishly handsome looks that made Thalia want to sacrifice herself for him" Aphrodite stood up giggling.
Artemis' face went red with fury.
"She was my best hunter! How dare you accuse her of falling in love with this, this BOY!" Artemis boomed with anger, pointing at Percy "and a boy like Perseus Jackson as well. How dare you. I outta rip you pretty little head of her pretty little shoulders"
By now Artemis was standing up, shaking in rage. She started to advance on Aphrodite only to be held back by Apollo, who was struggling under the force of his twin.
"Artemis, don't listen to her" Apollo tried to calm her down "She is just messing with you"
"Oh no sweetheart, I'm not messing with you. How could anyone resist Mr Jackson?" Aphrodite giggled.
Apollo was shocked, still holding his twin he managed to stutter, "Do, do you not feel any pain. You lost so many children, do you not feel sadness?"
Aphrodite looked to the ground, she swallowed before looking up to Apollo grief evident in her voice, ". . . Children can be replaced."
Everyone in the room looked at her. Unsure of how to feel, maybe she was managing her grief in a weird way, maybe she truly did feel that way. Either way Artemis was still mad. Her mouth was gaping he body shaking, she looked as if she might self combust.
Before Artemis could do anything, Apollo flashed out bringing his sister with him.
Percy on the other hand felt that Aphrodite held no remorse in her voice. She may have loved Piper, but apparently she was replaceable. An object that the gods could easily re-make.
A puppet.
Even if Aphrodite was managing her grief, he actions wer completely uncalled for.
Percy knew that the Gods could be quite rude to each other, but that was cruel. He was getting angry. He hated Aphrodite enough because of what she had done to his relationship with Annabeth, but this crossed the line. In fact it didn't cross the line. It was catapulted over into the completely-and-utterly-unacceptable area.
Aphrodite took in a deep breath, "Ok. Now that they're gone, let's get back to the presents"
Percy shook his head. "I'm sorry Aphrodite but I will not take any gifts from you. What you did was cruel. I don't want to accept any gifts from someone who could do something as horrible as that"
Aphrodite went red as she gasped. "Fine. There goes your chance of being a vogue model" she turned on her heel and stalked back to her throne "And don't expect me to make your life easy, you have just insulted the goddess of love. And that is never a good idea" she added as she sat back down.
"You got nerve punk. That was a direct insult to my wife, and I would not normally tolerate that" he stood up taking the sunglasses of his face as he did so. "But because Poseidon would probably drown me if I killed you I will refrain from beating you to a pulp. And because you didn't do too horribly during the war, I will promise to try not to beat you up, as well as give you the blessing of Ares. But mind you, you can only use it once. So use it carefully because I do not give out blessings all willy-nilly. That is all. What do you say?" He finished, holding his hand to his ear.
"Thank you Lord Ares, I am very grateful for your generosity" Percy said half-heartedly.
Ares grunted,"Damn right you are"
Next, it was Dionysus. Percy was not looking forward to this.
"Peter Johnson, congratulations for not dying" Dionysus stood up, clapping slowly. "I still don't understand why we should give Mr Perrie Johansen a reward. It was, after all, me who trained him into this warrior. So, your welcome" and with that he sat down.
Percy didn't know what he was expecting, but that was definitely not it. He felt inclined to roll his eyes, but before he could he was interrupted.
"Uh, stop your whining Paul. What exactly can I give you? I'm sure your father wouldn't appreciate me giving you a bottle of wine, and you certainly would not appreciate the great power of a thrysus."
Well, that part was true. He didn't really want a pine-cone on a stick.
Hera next spoke up, "I think you can probably guess what gift I will give you. Considering I am the goddess of marriage and all" Percy blushed as he watched Athena's eyes go wide.
Athena spluttered, "Although I am not going as far to agree with what Hera has just proposed, I suppose I can allow you to date her."
Percy was about to thank her, "BUT DONT YOU DARE BREAK HER HEART!"
"I would never dream of it Lady Athena" Percy said earnestly.
"Good, then on with the ceremony" she seemed satisfied with his promise, "I felt that it was necessary to gift you with the mind of an Athenian child. Because you do act as if you have seaweed in your brains."
Percy chuckled, it was one thing to be told he was a seaweed brain, but to be told by Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was plain weird. He was about to thank her, when, once again he was interrupted.
"I have got another gift for you Percy. As a thank you for keeping Annabeth safe in Tartarus, I want to present you with this dagger" she took out a dagger from the side of her dress and handed it to Percy, he took it and studied at it.
It was beautiful. It was only 8 inches long, but it held and incredible amount of detail in in it. On the hilt there was an engraving of an bronze owl with gold eyes, the blade was engraved to say ήρωας (íraos).
"It means hero, and that Perseus, is exactly what you are. We will be forever in your debt" Athena smiled at Percy, and with tears in his eyes, Percy smiled back.
Ares laughed "Would you look at that, the little brat is crying"
"Be quite Ares, Percy is simply going through a tough time. He is simply not used to such a strong compliment" this time it was Demeter who spoke up. "I would love to give you a gift as amazing as the previous ones, but there is really nothing worthy of your bravery. Though I can offer you a promise. I might not be the most powerful of the Olympian Gods, but I am definitely not a force to be reckoned with. If you ever need my help, just call and I will do the best I can"
"Thank you Demeter, that means a lot"
"I suppose it is my turn" Zeus stood, towering over Percy. "As a gift of bravery, I would not only like to grant you access into my domain. But I would also like to give you the power of flight, quite similar to what Jason could do" Zeus smiled sadly at the mention of his Roman form's son.
"Thank you Lord Zeus, I am honoured, I truly am." Percy bowed down.
Hades was the next to go, "My dear nephew, you have done brilliantly, I couldn't have been happier with your performance, and so my present may seem quite extravagant but count it as another thank you for getting me my throne back. Considering the river Styx is partially in my domain, I want to offer you a gift that is similar to a curse that you held a while ago. Though I cannot replicate the curse exactly, I can give you a touch of invincibility. It will include you being stronger, and of coarse your body will be a lot harder to damage. Not completely, just a little tougher."
Percy couldn't actually form any words to come out of his mouth. That was massive.
He tried to say thank you but it came out something like,"tack ou", which earned a laugh from Hades.
Once Hades sat down, Hestia came up to home a have him a hug. As she stepped back she said, "there isn't anything that I can give except a place to call home. If you ever need someone to talk to, you know where to find me".
Finally, Poseidon walked up to him. "My dearest son, I have never been more proud in my life. What you showed during that battle was courage that even many of us would not be able to muster. I would love to give you a gift. But I already have."
Percy looked at his father, confusion evident on his face.
"You see Percy, any demigod of any god or goddess alike is born with extreme amounts of power. The hard part is trying to unlock that power. I do not know how you can unlock it, but I imagine it will not be easy. Not one has done it before, though some people have gotten pretty close. I wish I could help you find it, but I simply so not know how. I cannot give you any more power than you already have, it's up to you to find it" Poseidon put his hand on Percy's heart, "when the time comes you will feel it in your heart"
Percy didn't know what to do. So, in a split second decision, he pulled his father into a hug.
Poseidon was shocked for a second, but he quickly hugged his son back. He whispered into his son's ear so that no one could hear them.
"I am proud of you, and I am proud to call you my son"
"Thank you, Dad"
Pulling away from the hug, Poseidon smiled. "Hermes, can you please take Perseus back"
Hermes jumped off his seat, "Sure can, but not before I give him my little present"
He jogged down to Percy, and high dived him, "you now can classify yourself as agile as a spy"
Percy smiled, "Was I not agile before?"
"No. Well, actually, you weren't not agile"
"I'm not even going to pretend that that made sense" Percy smiled.
Hermes shook his head, "Just shut up and let me take you back"
Percy knew that the sun would be going down soon, and he still had no where to sleep. So, he stretched out his arms and legs and tried to find himself a nice, comfy bench to sleep on.
Sighing, Percy plonked himself down on a bench near a few trees, and got comfortable. Well, as comfortable as one can get when your on a few few planks of wood.
Percy yawned, and was about to close his eyes when he heard the rustling of leaves behind him. He jumped out of the bench just as an arrow imbedded itself right where Percy's leg was less than a second ago. Percy put his hand in his pocket and let his fingers wrap themselves around riptide. He wasn't going to 'bring out the big guns' unless it was necessary.
Instinctively Percy started to walk backwards, but before he could start to run, and women in a black skin tight body suit jumped over the bench and glared at him.
"Perseus Jackson?" She asked cocking her head to the side innocently.
Percy tried not to react to her knowing of his name. Only monsters knew his full name.
"We just want to talk." She took a step towards him. Percy could tell she was trying to act natural, but he knew better. Her step was to slow for it to be normal, Percy could almost feel the cautiousness radiating off her.
"Yeah, and I'm the god of wine" He snorted at her. Percy silently cursed himself. Him and his big mouth was going to get him killed one day.
The women stood up straighter and sighed, "Perseus, things will be a lot easier if you just come with me".
Percy looked at her sceptically, "I highly doubt that"
With out warning the women bent down and tried to swipe at Percy's legs with her own. He easily side stepped it. With a grunt the women quickly jumped back up and moved into a fighting stance. She attempted to punch Percy but he dodged them, barely missing a few of them. Until Percy caught one of her arms mid swing and he pulled at it, causing her to loose her balance. While she was still regaining her balance Percy kicked the back of her knees causing her to fall onto the ground, Percy quickly got on top of her and held down her wrists.
He was about to punch her when another arrow came flying in the direction of his chest. He looked up and dodged it jus before it was about to make contact with his body. This distraction gave the women enough time to kick Percy off her. Percy went flying back and managed to land on his feet before he went back to fighting the mysterious women.
The women was good, really good, but as much as he didn't want to hurt her he knew he would have to bring out riptide and possible even hurricane or hero eventually.
The fight was slowly getting out of control, though neither of them had landed a blow on the other, they had managed to ruin a few park benches in the process. Finally, when Percy got distracted while trying to not uproot another bush, the women managed to punch him square in the face. It hurt, gods did it hurt, but it should have broken his nose at least. He guessed it was probably thanks to to Hades' newest gift to him.
The women seemed even more shocked than he was. She knew perfectly well that a punch that hard should've knocked someone unconscious. She took advantage of the pairs bewilderment and spoke into her earpiece. Percy didn't catch what she said, but he knew it was definitely not good.
The women must have called for reinforcements because before he could start to retreat he was attacked by a frisbee.
Once he recovered his wits from jumping out of the way, he realised that the frisbee Was in fact not a frisbee. It was a shield, and it wasn't long before he got to met the owner of said shield.
The man was interestingly dressed, to say the least, he wore a combat suit that was decorated to the pinnacle of patriotic fashion. The man was tall, strong and had dirty blond hair, but the most striking feature about him was that the only weapon he held was a shield, and Percy wasn't even sure that a shield could be classified as a weapon.
'Alright, if you can bring a shield to the field, so can I' Percy thought, and as Mr America three his shield in Percy's direction Percy activated his. He hit the top of his watch and as he ducked behind the newly formed shield the only thought going through his mind was 'holy Hades, that is one bright shield'. There was no doubt in his mind that this shield used to belong to Apollo.
Percy stood up and had a quick look at his new shield. It was gold, but not a normal gold, nor was it imperial gold. No gold could shine like that. There was an sun engraved in the middle it with the words 'Apollo, the great' written in Ancient Greek, outlining the top.
Percy had no time to admire his new toy before the women joined the attack. Mr America and Mrs mystery both worked together, quite well actually, and we're slowly tiring out Percy. He knew he would have to 'bring out the big guns' soon but he honestly didn't want to. He didn't know how they would react. They might retaliate and literally bring out their big guns, and that was something he did not want to deal with.
He didn't get enough time to think about his decision before he was plucked up into the air by a robot. After awkwardly turning his shield back into a watch he started to freak out before he remembered Zeus' promise. As they flew higher into the air, Percy got a good look at the robot it was red and gold, and just screamed 'expensive!'. It took him a while to realise that there was a man in the suit, and once he did Percy started to formulate his plan, and by plan he meant just improvise. With his free hand Percy waved at robo-dude, and before robo-dude could wave back Percy kicked his legs and twisted his body. This managed to free him of the mans grip and as he free fell he used his new ability to guide him to a pond that was nearby.
Landing into the pond with not even a splash probably should have raised an eyebrow if the fact that he had just flown to 200 metres to a pond hadn't already. So, Percy thought that controlling a little bit of water could do no damage. Boy was he wrong.
As soon as he resurfaced he noticed that a new person had decided to show up. He reminded him slightly of Heracles, but a lot more grand, and hopefully less pompous. The newbie as well as Mr America, robo-dude and Mrs mystery had gathered themselves around the pond.
Percy decided his newest target would be the wanna be Heracles so he forced the water to fire directly into the man, making him fly backwards. Apparently it also made him quite angry as well.
He got up and started to make his way towards the lake as he did so he started to spin his hammer around. As he did so the air started to smell of ozone, and Percy had enough experience with that particular smell to know what was about to follow.
As the hammer started to spin fast enough, lightning started to crackle around it. Percy hurriedly ducked under the water and swam as fast as he could to the bottom. Once he reached there he created an air bubble around himself and sat in it as he watched the lightning hit the water and cause a minor explosion that luckily didn't affect him.
He swam back up to the top of the pond and erupted out in his own little water tornado. He was starting to get annoyed now, and made an executive decision that the big guns were about to get pulled out, so to say.
Still in his own personal tornado, he brought himself down to the height of the hammer guy. They made eye contact and the man seemed to study Percy, it was like he was trying to recognise the boy. But after only a second Percy lashed out, a stream of water came out of the tornado and grabbed the mans arm, it pulled him down to the ground but the man resisted.
Percy came out of his tornado and took riptide out of his pocket, quickly turning it into sword form he attempted to hit the mans head with the hilt of the sword, but he deflected it with his hammer. Percy tried to disarm the man of his hammer but before he could he was forced to drop riptide and roll out of the way as an arrow flew past him.
As he stood up he felt something coming from behind him and before he could even comprehend what it was he caught it and threw it upwards into the direction of robo-dude, once it had met it target the man came crashing down, his suit now dented with sparks flying off it. He must have fallen unconscious as he now lay motionless with a hammer on top of his stomach.
Percy turned back to the the hammer-less man and took his shock as an advantage to attack, feeling that riptide had returned back to his pocket he took it out and pulled hurricane out of it. He swing both the swords around as he advanced towards the man. Percy attacked, not trying to injure him, just knock him out.
Though the man was defenceless he still managed to hold his own extremely well. He was defending himself by using the metal gauntlets that were around his arm, and he might have also had an advantage as he didn't also have to dodge arrows constantly.
As the two fought, Percy noticed that Mr America was next to robo-dude. No doubtedly trying to see if he was ok, though Percy found it strange that he couldn't seem to get the hammer off of his friends stomach. It was like it was stuck to him and it wasn't looking like it wanted to budge. That is, until the hammer dude outstretched his hand and the hammer came flying, straight back into the mans hand. He also noticed that Mrs mystery had vanished, probably gone to where all the arrows were coming from.
The two men fought for a long time, until eventually an arrow that Percy had just dodged had unluckily found its destination into the hammer dudes shoulder. Percy took this advantage to retracted one of his hands, that was previously holding hurricane, and bring a giant stream of water to attach itself to the mans leg. Once it had done so, it hurled the man into the air. Percy had just assumed that considering he had powers over lighting that he could probably fly, it was a wild guess, but Percy was desperate.
As he watched the man fly into the distance he prayed that he wouldn't die. That would not be a good thing, not a good thing at all. But, whether or not the man survived was no longer up to Percy, and he had other things to worry about. Like the three angry looking people advancing towards him for example. Mr America and Mrs mystery he already knew, but now they had a new member. Percy assumed that he was the guy shooting arrows at him.
What would a group of strange people be without a Robin Hood. Oh right, just a slightly smaller group of strange people.
It only took a millisecond before Percy was given a prime example of how fast Robin Hood could notch and fire an arrow. The answer, extremely fast. If Percy hadn't already been on adrenaline mode he definitely would already have an arrow in his leg. Luckily he managed to activate his Sheild before it managed to find a home in his thigh.
As he crouched behind his shield Percy made a split second decision to try and give his bow and arrow a shot. It probably wasn't the best time to give his new toy a test run, but you know what? When is it ever.
He imagined the bow in his hands and instantly it appeared. He had to admit, that was pretty cool. As fast as he activated the shield he de-activated it and shot a few blunt tipped arrows towards Robin Hood.
It looked like his new gift needed a bit of practice
The good news they did hit someone, the bad news, it wasn't Robin Hood. The first two arrows the group seemed to have no trouble dodging, but the third managed to hit Mr America in the shoulder, causing him to stumble back in pain.
This was when Percy was kindly taught a lesson for the millionth time; that if you hurt someone, they will get angry and so will their friends.
The three of them grouped together and as Mr America and Robin Hood aimed and fired their respected weapon towards Percy, while Mrs mystery ran at full capacity towards him.
It was lucky that Percy had been training for this his whole life otherwise he surely would've been dead. He let his instincts take over and instead of running away or ducking like a normal person would, he ran straight towards the shield. He leaped up onto it and used it as leverage to jump higher in the process, dodging and weaving mid air from the bombardment of arrows that were coming his way.
Once he began his descent he aimed himself so that he would land near Mrs mystery so that he could, in a way, use her as a landing mat. Not the most clever or tactically smart thing to do, but hey, it worked and that's all that matters.
Once he had tackled the lady, he rolled forward and as he was standing up he managed to punch her square in the face, leaving her on the ground and unconscious. He was actually quite impressed with himself. To be honest he didn't think that that would work, and he was quite glad that it did but all good things must end. Mr America had already picked up his shield and robin hod was reloading and aiming right towards Percy.
Percy pulled out riptide, and started to make his way towards the pair. Before Percy got close Robin Hood began firing at him again and it took all of Percy's effort to keep delecting or dodging them. At this rate Percy was moving too slow, he needed to get in a better position because he could see Mr America advancing towards him and Percy was in an extremely vulnerable position. He knew that if he didn't do something soon he would surely be dead meat.
So, in a last chance shot, he took hero out of its sheath and screamed out "SORRY!" Before he threw it directly into robin hoods stomach. He wasn't actually aiming for the stomach, apparently Artemis' and Apollo's blessing didn't also account for daggers.
Percy winced as he saw the man stumble back and collapse from the pain no doubt. Percy knew first hand that a stab wound was not a fun wound. Well, actually, no wound was a fun wound.
Now it was just Percy and Mr America. He lowered his shield slightly and raised one hand.
"Look, kid. We don't want to hurt you" Percy sceptically raised an eyebrow, "Really we don't. This was only meant to be a two person mission, but my colleague thought it was necessary to call in for back up. Just come with us,please."
"It's never a good idea to attack someone and then try and talk to them. Trust me, I know that 'kill first ask questions later' is not a good tactic" Percy was starting to get angry, well, more angry than he was.
"We just want to talk with you, ask you some questions."
"If you wanted me to come with you" Percy felt his hand catch on fire, "You should have tried a more diplomatic approach!"
Percy didn't mean to but he threw the fire that was in his hand at the man, and as an attempt to shield himself from it, he lifted his shield. But the throw was to strong and it caused him to fly back into a tree. Mr America didn't get up.
Percy didn't know what to do, so for a few minutes he stood there. It wasn't until the hooting of an owl shook him out of his thoughts that he actually moved. He felt genuinely bad. He didn't usually let his anger take control of him like that, and he certainly didn't usually hurt people. For Zeus' sake, he threw a dagger at someone.
He walked over to Robin Hood, and knelt down and pulled the dagger out of the mans stomach. There was blood everywhere and it had soaked his top.
Percy decide that he should help heal the man, it was a new trick he had learnt. Will had actually suggested the idea to him, if he could heal himself how come he couldn't heal others? He had a point, Percy couldn't believe why he hadn't tried it earlier.
Percy pulled a bit of water out of the pond and used it to clean and heal him. Once he was semi-healthy looking Percy stood up and whispered a sorry to all of them.
Percy genuinely was sorry, he really didn't want to hurt anyone, but they were threatening him and his quest.
Percy started to wallk. Where? He did not know. But after that fiasco he knew that sleep was just a wish that wasn't going to come true, so on he walked into the night.
AN-
YAY! I know it took a long time, but I really wasn't happy with my writing this month, so I spent a lot of time editing it.
Also, I know a lot of you might not be happy with an OP Percy but it is really important for the plot. He is going to be facing against some extremely powerful people soon, so he has to be as strong as possible!
Just another reminder that I have poll open on my page so please go check it out!
Any ways, I hoped you enjoyed! Please tell me what you thought.
*gives you all virtual hugs*
Bye my little pancakes.