Goats, Cyclops, and an Angry Sea God

Annabeth was sitting at the Athena table as ordered but I sat where I could look at her. I had already offered my food to Poseidon when Grover and Tyson sat down with me. Having worked the entire year in the forges, Tyson was allowed back at camp to help defend the boundaries.

Grover was followed by his girlfriend Juniper, the two had been together for almost a year now. Grover was a satyr and Juniper was a naiad so they got along pretty well being in love with nature and all. He was chewing on a metal can and Tyson was chewing on a piece of meat.

My half-brother, Tyson, is a Cyclops so he just has one eye in the center of his forehead but you look past that after awhile. Especially because he saved my life so many times and Poseidon is our dad.

"Percy, I see you and Annabeth aren't fighting anymore." Juniper leaned forward on the table to look past Grover's curly red hair and horns to see me. A blush came to my face. Leave it to someone who was part plants to bring up something I didn't want to exactly talk about out loud to anyone.

"Annabeth kiss Percy," Tyson nodded his head as if to reply to Juniper for me. I focused on the blue root beer in front of me. Great thing about Camp Half-Blood is you get any kind of food you want.

Grover chocked a bit on his tin can so I had to whack him in the back a few times. A large piece of metal came out of his mouth and hit Tyson shoulder. My brother just shrugged and kept eating while Grover wheezed. "Are you okay?" I asked politely.

My best friend began wheezing, normally Grover was pretty chill and collected but since the battle last year at Camp Half-Blood I knew he wasn't all right. He had somehow managed to use some power that only the Great God Pan (who is dead) was known for. I was worried what that meant.

"Percy, Annabeth's mother is Athena." Grover pointed out while Juniper rubbed his arm to calm him down. He let out a nervous goat yelp and shook his head.

"Yeah," I said with a laugh staring at everyone else who had somehow picked up on what Grover was trying to say. "So what?" I knew Athena didn't like me much, in fact she had voted to have me killed two years ago but that's because she was making the wiser choice.

"Daddy no like Athena," Tyson mumbled before taking a large bite of his meal. That's what I had forgotten. Poseidon and Athena were enemies but they had never objected to Annabeth and me being friends. Why would this be any different? In fact, why not bring them together.

"Never go against two raging Olympian Gods Percy, everyone knows that." I shrugged to Grover's statement. I had angered a lot of Gods including Ares, the God of War. In fact, he wanted to kill me too. I also had sent the Medusa's head to Olympus to show that I was a fighter and sort of as a bragging note.

"They could look past it," Juniper said hopefully. "I mean, if it's love they really can't go against that can they?" I smiled at Juniper for trying to help but this was a situation that apparently, in Grover's mind, could not easily be fixed.

Should've known to go with the goat kid on this one.

At night we all get our own cabins based on our heritage. For example, Annabeth went to Athena's cabin with the rest of her children and I went to Poseidon's with Tyson. That night, Tyson went to bed but I stayed up, a little afraid of any nightmares that might come along. That's when Poseidon showed up.

My father, when he wasn't twelve feet tall like the rest of the Gods, was about six foot five inches. He had the same black hair and green eyes as me. Anyone could easily see our relations and also that he was mad.

"Perseus Jackson, how dare you mingle with an Athena daughter?" His voice rumbled and echoed but fortunately for Tyson, he was a deep sleeper. I jumped up from my bed and stared at him. "I barely accepted your friendship with the girl but I will not have you involved with her. I will not allow it!" He was dressed in a blue Hawaii shirt and Bermuda shorts so it sort of decreased how much his anger scared me.

I was shaking though because I had never seen him so mad at me before. "Her name is Annabeth, father and I'm not asking you to end your disputes with Athena for us. Just leave us be. You're not supposed to take much interest in your children anyways." Should I have spoke to another God like that I would've been dead in a second but because some blood was shared between us, Poseidon had no choice but to listen to me.

"Athena and I are enemies son, should I have your relationship to her daughter used against me, you will regret it." I crossed my arms and stared at my father. I made sure my face was set in stone and couldn't give away any emotions.

"Annabeth and I would like to stay out of your feud with her mother. Believe me, we would only like it if you allowed us our freedom in the matters of this relationship." I knew Poseidon wouldn't like the idea but I knew he couldn't really do anything about it except kill me or Annabeth, which would not help the current war.

"Just know they'll use her against you or to persuade you. Nothing good will come out of this bond between you too." I narrowed my eyes and chose not to believe him. I had serious doubts about that. Nothing but good would come between Annabeth and I as long as I had something to say about it.

"Father, don't talk to me about relationships. As I recall, you aren't even permitted to have one." Poseidon shook his head and gave a weak smile for a God.

He patted my shoulder, "As long as you are true, the waters will protect you two and tie you together if you haven't felt it already. That's how I meet your mother." That explained how I could feel Annabeth's presence in the water and separate it from everyone else's. "Goodbye son, you are right after all. Even though you are clearly my son, maybe this Annabeth is not her mother. As long as you're happy…fight hard Percy. We have a long and terrible future upon us."

Then, my father was gone.