Camp
Chris Pov
After Percy died the camp morale decreased heavily. But Clarisse pushed the campers to train saying that "Prissy's death shouldn't end everything we worked on for months". She has a mutual respect for Percy for killing Gaea. She knows he would rather have the camp training than sitting around doing nothing.
I see the campers are trying to keep up the pace to Clarisse as she bombards them with tons of new moves and blocks. Including dodging so that they have the sword at the enemies throat and parrying a fast slash.
"Come on wimps your not going to be able to fight anything when you fight like that" Clarisse yells loud enough to be heard at New York
The gods haven't been the same. With Hades blocking off connection to the underworld for some reason and Poseidon angry that he can't see his son the sea's grew mad. But today was different instead of being mad at Hades it seemed like he was hopeful because the sea was calm but jittery at the same time
For whatever reason it doesn't matter I had to call Clarisse to end the class it was time for their archery.
"Clarisse it's archery time for them" I yell over the clashing of the swords
"Okay," I hear her yell back
When I head back to my cabin I walk by the Hades cabin. I suddenly feel time stop and my soul being torn out of my body. I look around and notice my weapons were gone. I see a pitch black hallway. My soul/body felt the urge to walk to the giant double doors and see what is over there. But before I can I feel my body change places again this time it showed an orb in the middle of the room. It showed Percy.
"Impossible they are dead," I say to no one in particular
I suddenly look around the room and see the sign saying nothing. Just looking at the sign it sent me to some gates. Beyond the gates I saw everything I ever wanted. I saw and understood everything inside those gates but before I can explore them I hear a voice saying "You will once enter those gates but at what cost"
"The future holds what you make it" He adds on making me feel like I would die right now listening to the voice which sounded like a chorus of millions of people in perfect sync.
I feel the world slip from under me and my surrounding returned to camp and time as continues I think about what he seemed more powerful than anything I ever felt. I then feel a tingling sensation in my arm and I feel something change. I feel like my world changed but everything is the same. I shake these thoughts out of my head as Clarisse walks by
"Does Miss Butkicker need something," I say with a smirk
She just rolls her eyes at me
"Have you noticed the sea doesn't seem to want to kill us?" She says while looking at the lake
"Yeah, I found it odd unless something happened with Poseidon" I say back to her with my head going back to the room with the orb
"You think it has something to do with Percy," She says with some hope
"Could be, want to go spar with each other" I say trying to take the topic off Percy
We start the match as usual two swords and no blessings of Ares allowed.
I duck as her blade comes at my face. With new armor the camp made it covers all of your body and has a special mix of celestial bronze and imperial gold. This makes it almost twice as strong but also lighter. I quickly slash at her legs while I am ducking. She sidesteps me and sends a kick to my face. I barely dodge in time as I feel the ends of my hair pushed by her boot. Before she brings her foot back I stomp on it and hit her with the flat of my blade sending her on the floor.
"Losing your touch milady," I say smirking
That sends her mad and she rolls over gets up and gets ready to attack. As the blade comes at me with a diagonal arch I move at the last second but she gets a dagger out and holds it to my neck using her other blade behind my neck.
"Excuse me my good sir you seem to have lost," she says with an english accent to match my earlier comment.
"Come on Clarisse you can "flirt" with him later we have a match planned remember," I hear Piper say
Clarisse immediately backs of looking for other Aphrodite girls who might have camera's in the area.
"Bring it on," I hear Clarisse say toughly
Piper and Clarisse became somewhat friends after the war because she matched Clarisse in a swordfight.
They started almost like I did but Piper was on the offensive using quick strikes against Clarisse's powerful ones. The dagger allowed for quick small cuts while the sword made the ones that actually hurt. Every time one of the girls seemed like they were getting a lead the other came back and hit them back.
After the fight continued for 30 minutes with both participants sweating and obviously tired Piper just ends it by using her charmspeak. They looked like they just took a swim as Piper couldn't even stand anymore from the cuts and sweat. Both the girls ate some ambrosia and nectar
"Hey come on thats not fair" Clarisse says after being defeated when she surrendered
"All's fair in "love" and war." Piper says back while pointing at the two of us at the word love
Me and Clarisse were blushing and turned to the Aphrodite girl who added on
"I could teach you to resist charmspeak if you teach me to use swords" she says after sheathing her dagger
Clarisse thought about for a second and agreed
"Come by my cabin around 5 o'clock tomorrow," with Piper saying that Piper left
"I have to teach the campers stealth so I will see you around," I say groaning a bit
"See ya at dinner," Clarisse says while walking towards her cabin.
I head back to the campers and teach them not to make too much noise when they walk and stuff like that. I got so many questions being the first time I taught this class including.
"How will stealth help us or why be silent etc," I hear from everyone.
"Stealth can help you sneak up on your opponents and not attract attention to yourself when you move through the forest," I yell booming my voice over the two hundred campers
"Stealth is about the safety of quests. If you went and fought every monster head on then you would eventually lose. If you use stealth you have surprise on your side. Everything at camp is here to help you and stealth is a core fundamental you have to know. No one has managed to fight on all the monsters without some preparation and stealth,"
"But what about Percy," I hear one camper say
"He was an improviser," I say and with that go back to teaching the class trying to get Percy out of my head
But I find the campers with less joyfulness than usual with Percy's training. There it is again since his death no one hasn't not thought about Percy's effect on camp. If only he were here he brought great speeches and was a great leader. I see even the most stubborn of campers agree to his speeches. His plans though always end with his life on the line. I shake these thoughts out of my head and continue to teach new stealth moves. "Percy you need to come home"
On Olympus
Zeus Pov
This could not be happening. Percy Jackson couldn't of died. I can't believe this. But thats what I heard when my servant returned. I told her I had no idea what she was talking about. Thats when I remembered it
Flashback 3rd Person
Zeus had just almost beat Dionysus at a drinking contest.
"Damn... you... God of wi..ne" Zeus says with heavy speech slurs
"I wi..n Zeus" Dionysus says stumbling while trying to stand
Zeus mad he lost goes back to his temple on Olympus
"Is something wrong sir," his servant says
"I have to claim another one of my kids," Zeus says gaining his speech back
"If only I could kill that bastard Percy," Zeus adds on
"It will be done master," the servant says then walks away
With that Zeus passes out on his throne because of being drunk
Flashback over
Hades enters the throne room
"Why is it you called us brother," I ask worried Percy learned of how he died
"Percy isn't dead," He says solemnly
Impossible I thought my servant lied to me.
"What do you mean not dead," I reply
"What else do you think it means," He says giving me a glare
"Impossible I felt his presence disappear," Poseidon says not believing his ears
"He never came to my underworld that is for sure" Hades adds
"So that means he could be alive," Poseidon says with an excited tone
"But that would mean he is somewhere where the gods couldn't find him" Hades says grimmer than usual
"Where could he be I mean unless he lives in Alaska we could search forever," Athena says quizzingly
"No mere demigods can live in Alaska' we barely can stay there for more than a few hours without consequences" I say feeling weak because a demigod did what a god couldn't do
"Remember Percy and the other seven managed to defeat a giant over there they might as easily live there" Hestia says calming all of us down
"But he is beyond all of us" Athena says crushing hopes
"But not Artemis" Apollo says
"What why would she have power in Alaska" I say questioningly
"There are some Indian tribes who hunt there" Artemis says
"But you can't search there, even there your power is weak" Apollo adds
"There is no use to endanger other demigods to search for him, who says he will even come back" Athena says still sad over the loss of her daughter
"Annabeth's soul has not reached the underworld either Athena just as Percy's hasn't" Hades says trying to cheer her up
Athena's eyes flickered and she looked dead serious "Why would she leave her life behind to be with one of his spawn"
"I think there is more to this story then we can see" Hestia says trying to calm Athena down
"Like what she left her life and duty as an architect, to a place beyond the gods to be with his child what else is there" Athena replies angrily pointing at Poseidon
"Calm down Athena their relationship is not ours to mess with" Poseidon says trying to defuse the situation
Athena looked truly terrifying in that moment and looked ready to kill Poseidon
Her face was almost pure tomato red and it looked like she was about to start a war with Poseidon
"Enough, it is obvious Percy is not dead and that Annabeth isn't dead either. Arguing here won't find them while looking in Alaska means suicide. So unless anyone is daring enough to enter Alaska I say no quests be sent to find him. He chose to leave and we won't get demigods killed because of a search. Unless anyone wants to add anything to this meeting the meeting is adjourned." I say trying to be a peacekeeper and a bomb defusing specialist at the same time
Immediately all the gods left with flashes of different lights leaving me alone in the throne room.
What have I done
AN.:Sorry about the late update I hurt my finger in basketball and couldn't type