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Annabeth Chase, daughters of Athena:

25 meters from the throne room stand the personal library of the mighty goddess, Athena. The library was over 20 feet tall, indicating it had a lot of floors and was about 35 meters wide. The outside looked like it was made of white marble. It was outlined with a nice shade of gray. It had numerous 14-feet tall windows and had double oak doors with bronze handles. Four pillars stood tall with an eagle atop each pillar. Vines entwined around the pillar artistically with roses growing.

Inside, was even more breathtaking that words cannot describe it. In fact it was indescribable that the author of this fanfic cannot even form a word for it.

Inside this magnificent library, Athena sat on her comfy, cozy chair in front of her fireplace in her personal library while mini-Annabeth in front of a table a few steps away. Annabeth, the older version was with the Percy. This irritated Athena to no end.

What could my daughter, the smartest of them all, like in that good-for-nothing son of Poseidon? Sure the boy has some appeal but other than that, what? I don't get it!

"Mother?"

Athena was cut off from her mental ranting. Mini-Annabeth looked at her sadly. "Would you rather that I leave, Mother?" mini-Annabeth asked, closing her book and standing up to leave. Annabeth shook her head and motioned for her young Annabeth to sit down. The young demigod did. "Think nothing of it, daughter. I'm just getting agitated at what your older self is doing."

"What my older self is doing? You mean hanging out with Percy?" At the name of the hero, Athena's jaw clenched and she pursed her lips. "Yes. That son of Poseidon… he is indeed strange." Mini-Annabeth cocked her head to the side. "How so, mother?"

Athena shifted in her chair and thought. "For one, he's friends with one of my daughters, a child of his father's enemy. Second, he seems so obtuse but is rather smart when you think about it. Third, he seems to be stronger than most. Stronger than any child of Poseidon. I do not like what my insight and instincts tell me."

Mini-Annabeth crossed her arms, leaned back on her chair and thought as well. She asked a question that was bothering her ever since the second chapter of their reading.

"Isn't this dangerous?" Athena peered at her 7-year-old daughter. "Is what dangerous, dear?"

"What we're doing, this reading about the future. Doesn't it cause a ripple in what mortals call the space time continuum?"

Athena chuckled. "Well, normally, it would. However, as the fates themselves have approved of this, it means that they are controlling all of this, even in the past. My guess is that when we finish with the books, we would all, somehow, forget everything that happened yet at the same time, subconsciously remember them." Mini-Annabeth nodded, hanging on to every word. Athena continued.

"Whilst it is true that we gods cannot change the future, it doesn't mean that we can't know what will happen. In a way, it's a loophole." Athena finished. She watched as her Annabeth was deep in thought again. She chuckled at how very much like her Annabeth looked when in deep thought. The silence inside the library was comfortable.

"So, I hear you're the best at camp with a knife." Athena started. Annabeth suddenly brightened up considerably. "I am! Chiron was so surprised! I even managed to beat many campers who are 5 or 6 years older than me." Athena smiled at her daughter wholeheartedly. "That's my girl." The wisdom goddess made 2 cups of tea appear. Annabeth took one gratefully. The two settled once again and began reading books of their preference.

The warm fire, blessed fire from Hestia, cackled quietly, giving the library a home-like feel. The only sounds that could be heard were the cackling of the fire, the flipping of pages and the occasional scrape of a chair and sip of tea. Mini-Annabeth flipped to the page of her Mythology book and saw a picture or rather, a painting of Poseidon made years ago. An idea popped into her head and she smirked slightly.

"My older self would get a kick out of this! Chase, you're so stupid! Why didn't you think about this earlier?"

Athena noticed that her daughter had stopped reading.

"Annabeth? Is something wrong?" mini-Annabeth looked up, surprised. "Huh? Oh, it's nothing, mother. Don't mind me." Athena smiled to herself and shook her head in amusement. "Just like her father."

Athena stood up from in front of the fireplace and took a seat across from Annabeth. "Come on now. You can always tell me." Annabeth looked into her mom's eyes and relented.

"Well, I was just wondering why it is that you hate Lord Poseidon." Athena raised an eyebrow at this. "I already know the basics. Athens, Medusa. But other than those why do you hate him?"

Athena sighed and looked down. "To be honest, Annabeth, even I don't know anymore."

"But then why…" Annabeth trailed off at seeing the conflicted expression on Athena's face.

"Listen carefully, Annabeth. Everyone has their own fatal flaw. Gods and goddesses are no exception. Mine happens to be hubris or deadly pride. It is something I inherited from my father." Athena paused for a moment before continuing. "I had no reason to hate Poseidon for the Athens. In fact, to be truly honest, I fully expected him to win." At this, Annabeth's eyes widened and her jaw dropped.

"WHAT?" Athena smiled bitterly. "Yes. Olives are made only for food however; salt water on the other hand can be used for many things. If you filter the water, you can drink it. Then the salt which remained can be used to spice up any food." Athena abruptly stopped. Then she looked outside the window behind Annabeth. She saw a figure running towards the window.

"Annabeth, get away from the window." Mini-Annabeth's eyes widened and she drew her dagger and stood beside her mother looking at the window. Using her godly powers, Athena tried to locate where the person running was and who said person was. What she got however, was a lot of buzzing and the faint smell of honey.

"What the-" Just then, Hermes crashed from the roof, followed by a dozen Olympian bees. Olympian bees are normal bees bred on Olympus because of all the flowers there. Athena acted quickly and sent a wave blast at the bees which killed them immediately. At the same time, Hermes collapsed from exhaustion on the library floor. Then he stood and hugged Athena to the bone.

"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" He all but shouted. Annabeth stood off to the side to avoid the killer hug. Athena seemed very uncomfortable.

"You can let go now, Hermes." And let go, he did. Hermes fixed his clothes and cleared his throat. He snapped his fingers and the roof fixed itself. "Thanks again, Athena! Sorry for the trouble and you wouldn't happen to have seen Connor and Travis around here have you?" The two females shook their heads.

"Oh well. Thanks again, sister! Now… gotta go." Then he flashed out of there to avoid the goddess' wrath. Mother and daughter watched the spot he was standing in before he vanished.

"Umm…"

"I don't know, daughter. This is why I don't hang around with them. You lose brain cells." Annabeth and Athena shared a look before bursting into laughter and giggles which were heard all the way to the clearing on Olympus which was 2 buildings away from the throne room. It was there that the Big Three and their kids were wreaking havoc.

Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus; Nico di Angelo, son of Hades; Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon: (Percy's POV)

Three hours and thirty minutes after Apollo started his journey with Will, dad appeared in my room at the exact same time that I came out of the bathroom wearing my Nemo-themed PJs. All he did was smile or grin while I was blushing none stop. Dad waited until I was finally decent. When I was decent, Dad grabbed my arm, told me to close my eyes (which I did) and teleported the both of us to what seemed like a big clearing. I couldn't see properly since I was bent down on my knees and emptying my stomach of all its contents.

Me + godly travel = No no

Dad rubbed my back while I emptied the contest of my tummy. I heard some footsteps. "Come on Percy. Don't be a seaweed brain now. It's just godly travel."

I looked up to see Thalia standing over me, looking a bit green herself. Nico stood or rather leaned on a tree beside me. I smirked at Thalia. "Speak for yourself Thalia. You're looking a bit green there, cousin."

"Shut up." I heard her murmur. Dad stopped rubbing my back and stood up. I finally did the same and observed my surroundings.

We were in a BIG clearing full of grass, trees and flowers. Under the shade of an especially big tree were Hades and Zeus looking like they wanted to be anywhere except here. Both were wearing normal clothes; pants and button shirts. I looked at dad and saw that he wore the same things as he does in the meetings, khaki shorts, sandals and a beach shirt. Nico went to stand beside his father, looking uncomfortable.

Me, Thalia and Dad walked over to the others. Zeus conjured up chairs and a table. Then he, dad, and Hades sat down like they did it every day. Nico looked at us and sat down. Thalia did the same after shrugging leaving me the only one standing. I looked at the chair beside dad and he nodded at me encouragingly. So I sat.

The chair, although made of metal, was actually very comfortable. Odd.

"So" I began. "Mind telling me why we're here and having a tea party?" Nico spat out the coke he was drinking from his glass while Thalia shot me her look. You know, the look that says Are you crazy? You idiot, be more respectful! Yeah. That look. I could see Dad and Hades trying to keep in their laughter while Zeus' eye was twitching.

"We're not having a tea party, Percy." Dad said, still trying to keep in his laughter.

"So why are we here?" Thalia asked, fixing her the circlet (or tiara as me and Nico call it) on her head, the symbol of the lieutenant of the hunt. Hades shot Zeus a look while Dad shrugged. What the heck is going on? "Apparently, Zeus wants you three to enhance your big three powers since you're here with us. It's not something we usually do." Hades said.

"Usually? We've never done this!" Dad said. I was getting confused by the second. So their sort of day off will be spent on training us? That sucks. It's something Ares would do.

I could tell Thalia and Nico had the same thoughts as me. "We're going to train?" Thalia asked incredulously. Nico just groaned. Zeus got a confused look.

"Don't you want to know how to make a storm or call down more than one arc of lightning?" I could tell that got to Thalia. It's her fatal flaw after all; power. I knew by the glint in her eyes that she was hooked. Nico looked at me and shrugged again. "You know we don't have anything to do, so why not?" Hades seemed to cheer up at what he said. Then everyone was looking at me.

I weighed my choices. Stay and train; stay and watch; leave and have nothing to do... well that's pretty obvious.

"Fine." I said.

The Big three grinned and was about to snap their finger when I interrupted them. "Could we train with Annabeth though? Well, she doesn't need to train but could we have her here?" I gave Dad my best shot at the puppy dog pout I saw on TV. I guess it was good enough because he caved in the next moment. "Alright. But I don't think she'll be of any help though." I grinned. "She'll mostly just watch and give comments. That's how she is when training with godly powers; she just waits till we get the hang of it."

The Big Three rolled their eyes but gave in to my request. Not a minute later, Annabeth was standing beside me with a confused look. "What the? How'd I get here?"

Me and Thalia immediately hugged her. Well mostly me. Thalia did more of a tackle hug. Annabeth laughed and hugged us back then bowed to the gods present.

"So, why am I here?" She asked fearlessly. That's my Wise girl. Dad explained everything to her. She nodded then frowned but it was gone as fast as it came. I heard the bushes behind us rustle.

In a heartbeat, I had Riptide out while Thalia had her spear. We got into position while the others just sat there. We looked at them in confusion.

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "You do now it's just Artemis, right?" we turned again and true enough, the goddess of the hunt stood there, an eyebrow raised. She stepped out of the bushes and bowed to Zeus. "Sorry I'm late father. I had to visit my hunters first." Zeus waved it off like it was a bug.

The next few minutes were a blur to me. For some reason, in a span of twenty minutes, there were arrows flying at Nico who dodged them, thunder everywhere, birds chasing after Dad and some even landed on the armrest of my chair but left me alone. Annabeth sat across from me, making designs for Olympus with the pen and papers conjured for her.

"Enough!" Zeus yelled. He snapped his fingers and me, Nico and Thalia were transported to the middle of the clearing. It suddenly became dark as if a shadow was passing over us, which in this case, it might have been.

"Hey, they're not actually serious, right?" Nico asked a bit fearfully. We didn't know what to expect so we drew our weapons. Riptide for me, Aegis and a spear for Thalia and a stygian iron sword for Nico. I felt a bit put out since other than Aegis, my weapon was the only one with a name.

"Hey Nico, why don't you give your sword a name?" This, of course, earned me weird looks. "Why would I name a sword?" He asked incredulously. I rolled my eyes.

"Well, I have Riptide; Thalia has Aegis while all you have a stygian iron sword. See? We only call it stygian Iron sword! No name whatsoever." The both of them looked at me exasperatedly.

"My sword doesn't need a name."

"Oh come on! Just give it one, Nico. Besides, saying Stygian iron sword is a mouthful." Nico still looked doubtful while Thalia just didn't care. Nico was about to retort when an earthquake shook and a dozen skeletons rose from the cracks which appeared on the ground.

We all got into position, back to back to back. I wonder how they actually call since we can't actually go back to back to back. Ah! ADHD again. I focused but not before having a final word for the moment.

"We'll settle this later, Nico." I got a groan as a response. I sent him a grin before he, Thalia and I started hacking the skeletons. Well, me and Thalia were hacking while Nico just pointed his swords at them, then he would whisper a few words and the skeletons would go down another crack in the ground. Sadly, he could only do that to eight skeletons. It's still a lot though, I'll give him that. We (Thalia and I) covered for him and finished off the remaining skeletons.

It didn't end there of course. From the dark sky came a small rumble and lightning raced towards me. I watched it race through the sky and strike down to earth, where I currently stood. My ADHD saved me in the end. I back flipped and landed 3 meters from where I stood. Not long later, the lightning struck the exact spot I was in before. Tendrils of lightning shot down towards Earth, making the clearing we were in into a killer lightning storm. Literally. One hit from those lightning bolts and you'd be dead. If lucky, you'd be knocked unconscious and would receive high-degree burns and would most likely be in a coma but alive.

More skeletons rose from the ground. Simultaneously, me and Thalia cursed. She made her spear and Aegis turn back into their dormant state and made her bow and arrows appear. She drew an arrow, charged it with a bit of lightning and fired. She hit two skeletons which then started to turn into ashes as electricity flowed into the bones. More skeletons appeared and Nico did the process he did again, pushing himself to the limit. I hacked away but they didn't seem to end.

One skeleton grabbed hold of Thalia's ankle but was immediately greeted with a stygian iron sword, courtesy of Nico. Every now and then, he would raise a skeleton himself and make it attack others of the undead.

I saw Thalia alternate from shooting electric arrows at the skeletons to deflecting arcs of lightning from its path. She would occasionally redirect a couple of lightning shots and make it hit the skeletons who would then burst into a pile of ashes. Nico alternated from using his sword to using his son of Hades powers. He would point to some skeletons and mutter "serve me" and then the cool part comes. The skeletons turn and attack the others with their bones. It was cool and gross at the same time!

Finally, Thalia had had enough. She closed her eyes and raised her right arm, hand outstretched. She concentrated and I could gradually feel the air around as move. I could tell Nico did too because he was looking around him. I saw the air around us move even more, knocking skeletons of their feet and deflecting in-coming lightning arcs. It was pretty awesome.

The air moved faster and formed a dome-like shape above us.

An air dome! That's so cool!

I couldn't bask in awe any longer because Thalia collapsed to her knees, her breathing turned hard but her hand still outstretched. Me and Nico were at her side in an instant. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the arcs of lightning stop.

"It's ok now, Thals. Lightning's gone, you can stop." Beads of sweat dropped down her face as she let her arm drop to her side. She was still breathing pretty hard. Nico was the same only with les sweat and he looked paler than usual. I laid Thalia on her back, with her protesting of course.

"I'm ok, Percy. I can fight. Don't treat me like some invalid person. I'm a hunter for Olympus' sake." I rolled my eyes.

"I think you've done enough Thals. You too Nico." Nico looked like he was about to protest when he sighed and sat on the grass. A few minutes later, he collapsed completely and was out like a light. Me and Thalia chuckled at our cousin. I suddenly felt something drip on my head.

I looked up and a few more drops of water fell on me. The same happened all around the clearing. Soon, a downpour came, making it hard to see even with my son of Poseidon powers. I could faintly hear Thalia cursing. The rain continued, giving me more strength and sharpening my vision a bit. I kept my senses open because even with the energy boost, now it means it's my dad's turn to test me. The skeletons were Hades testing Nico and the lighting was for Thalia. I guess it's my turn now.

My eyes darted left to right as I held Riptide in front of me, ready to protect Nico and Thalia from harm's way.

Out of nowhere, a tendril made out of water shot at me. I raised Riptide to defend myself but then the water completely evaded me and aimed itself at Nico who was still unconscious. The water hardened and turned into an ice tendril, aimed directly at my cousin's undefended chest. Even Thalia couldn't help because she could barely see in this rain.

"NO!"

I don't know what happened next. All I thought about was getting in front of Nico and lo and behold, I found myself there. I didn't take a step forward but I found myself in front of Nico and an incoming ice tendril. Instincts kicked in and I thrust my hand out, hand open. The tendril suddenly stopped in its onslaught a mere foot away from me. I closed my hand into a fist and the ice broke. Well, it cracked first here and there before breaking into a million pieces.

The rain slowed into a drizzle. I looked at the sky dazedly and instinct told me to raise my hand. I did and willed the clouds to part. To my utter astonishment (and Thalia's too) the clouds parted, showing a clear blue sky behind them. The rain stopped and the darkness that was surrounding us disappeared, leaving us (mainly Thalia and Nico) wet, weakened and tired (again, mostly Nico). Me and Thalia looked at each other briefly before we heard clapping.

A couple of meter to our right, Hades, Zeus, Dad, Artemis, Annabeth and surprisingly, Hera were clapping, completely awed. Despite of our slight fatigue, me and Thalia grinned. We took Nico and slung each of his arms across our shoulders. Slowly and carefully, we walked towards the gods and Annabeth. I also noticed that the table now contained three glasses of Nectar and a small plate of Ambrosia.

Hades took Nico from us and set him on a wooden bench big enough to fit four people in it. Then we collapsed into opposite chairs, wanting nothing more than to eat and sleep.

"That was a great display of power." Hera suddenly said. I saw Annabeth shot her a look of disbelief but thankfully, the Queen of the gods didn't see it.

"Yes. A great display of power, will power, endurance and friendship. I can also see why Thalia became my lieutenant." Artemis added. Zeus seemed pleased that his demigod daughter was being praised. A hand fell on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Dad grinning down at me.

"Good job, son." He said, clapping my shoulder twice and offering me some well deserved and needed water.

"Thanks." I felt a hand on my knee and looked to see Annabeth who had taken a seat beside me on the fluffy couch. "Nice going, seaweed Brain." I grinned. Getting a complement from Annabeth was a rare thing.

"What am I, chopped liver?" We all turned to see a pale but otherwise fine Nico who was now sitting upright. "Nice skeleton bone-kicking cousin."

Nico just grunted and shrugged like it was nothing. Annabeth patted by knee again.

"So, mind telling me how you got from 5 feet away to right in front of Nico?" she asked. I tilted my head to the side in confusion before shrugging. "I don't know." I plucked a small Ambrosia square form the table and chewed on it. It still tasted like cookies to me, this time with a hint of that chocolate cake I got from Chiron as a birthday gift. Man, that was one good chocolate. Eh, I'm getting side-tracked again.

I could almost see the gears running in Annabeth's head as she tried to think of how I manage to "teleport". Dad chuckled not so softly.

"Let me explain that, Ms. Chase." Annabeth blushed. "Annabeth is fine, Lord Poseidon." This made dad smile.

"Alright then, Annabeth. You see, what Percy did is what I like to call vapor travel. In a way, it's like my brother's famous shadow travel only we use water instead of shadows." Annabeth, Thalia's and Nico's dropped to the floor while all I was thinking about was the feeling when I did it.

"But I've done shadow travelling before and I had that umm, cold feeling. This time, if what I did was equivalent-" Thalia cut me off. "Big word usage there, Jackson." I stuck my tongue out at her and continued as if I was never interrupted. "-to shadow travelling, shouldn't I have felt something? Like a prick of a needle or like plunging my hand into warm water or something?"

Dad frowned. "Well, as a half-blood, you should have felt something like someone patted your guts lightly. Does that even make sense because I don't think you can pat someone's guts. It sounds gross too." The mindless comment made everyone chuckle or smile at least. "For you not to feel that, Percy, it would only mean you have either done it before or your powers have enable you to do it with nothing but a thought; not distracting you with any extra motions or pains whatsoever."

I could tell the last option didn't fit well with Zeus and Hades. After Dad's explanation they both looked at me like I was an experiment.

"So you're telling us, Uncle, that this boy is powerful?" Artemis asked. Poseidon looked like he thought about it jokingly before grinning.

"Pretty much." Zeus narrowed his eyes at me while Hades, Artemis and Hera looked like they didn't really care but were still somewhat curious. Annabeth, Nico and Thalia looked like they all agreed to dad's statement. Apparently, Hera saw the eye-narrowing as not long later, she was chastising Zeus.

"Now, Zeus, let the matter go. We all know Poseidon's children are stronger than most." The King of the gods looked baffled while Dad just smirked at him. Then Zeus turned to Artemis and Thalia.

"Aren't you going to say something?" His two daughters shrugged. "I would disagree normally, but Percy is stronger than me, so I really can't." Thalia said. Zeus looked desperately at Artemis who shook her head. "Sorry, father. But sons or rather, children of Uncle Poseidon are usually stronger than most." Zeus pouted and sulked in his chair. This caused all the gods minus Artemis to sigh.

"I knew we should have made you the god of theatre. You would fit the role perfectly!" Hera muttered. Zeus looked horrified while Dad and Hades were laughing their butts off. Artemis managed a small smile.

"I give up." Zeus muttered. Poseidon and Hades shared a look. "What did you say, brother?" Hades goaded, pretending to be innocent. "I don't think we heard the last bit." Zeus just grumbled. This caused all of us to laugh.

I'll be honest, maybe I misjudged the gods a bit. I mean, Hades is taking care of Nico; Hera's being nice to us demigods; Artemis is standing here, around men; and Zeus wasn't being arrogant. In the distance, I heard a soft ringing of laughter, some slight banging from the forges and the talking of gods and other immortals in the nearby market.

I stood and stretched. Then I took Riptide from my pocket and turned to Annabeth who was munching on some cake.

" Ok. One, where'd you get the cake? And two, you up for some daily sparring?" Wise Girl smirked, put down her cake on the table and took her dagger from her belt. Thalia smirked at me too.

"Prepare to lose, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth said, walking away from the others, me following her. "Yeah right, Wise Girl."

I could feel the eyes of the others on my back as me and Annabeth got into our positions. Without waiting for any signal, we rushed at each other as if we rehearsed it all along. We were evenly matched and I could tell that the gods were thoroughly impressed. I hand't realize we'd been sparring for a few hours until Dad stopped us.

"Alright, you two. Don't you think it's time to stop? Apollo's nearly finished with his duties."

Annabeth and I were panting hard but relented to each other. I heard Artemis flash out, probably to get ready for her nightly journey across the sky. Thalia handed the both is some towels.

"You guys did great."

"Thanks."

After a piece of ambrosia, the big three stood and told us to hold on as we were going to the nightly concert. Nico, Thalia and I groaned again but did so without further complaining. Annabeth held my hand and we flashed out of the clearing and into what seemed to be a huge pavilion. There, I saw Will and Apollo on stage, tuning guitars and lyres along with the Muses. Not long later, people started arriving and the place became full of immortals and the few demigods that were on Olympus for our reading session.

Apollo smiled brightly, pun intended. He flashed a grin at the demigods especially, then a wink to Will before taking the mic.

"This performance tonight, which my son Will-" he gestured to Will who waved to the crowd. "as well as myself are joining, will be dedicated to the demigods who are with us today. Have a nice night." Apollo started to move away before he seemed to remember something. He instantly grabbed the mic again and looked at the moon (which was really Artemis on her chariot). "Hey sis! You might wanna be here tonight. Please?" Most of the immortals grinned at the sun god while some rolled their eyes. I was one of those who grinned and rolled their eyes.

An arrow made it's way to the floor, in front of Apollo with a note attached to it. Apollo picked it up, read the note, grinned and went down the stage. Will and the Muses started strumming their instruments as Apollo got back on the stage after a few moments.

The songs began and I can definitely say, I had the time of my life…. For now at least.

A/N: and there we go, Chapter 9. Was it good, bad, ok? I honestly think the last part (the concert bit thingy) was lacking a lot of info but I couldn't add songs because according to the book, everyone heard a song of their preference and I'm really lazy to think of songs right now -.- Anyway, I'll be able to update in a couple days time, hopefully. Maybe in a week? Eh, if I'm lucky enough.

Review if you want to. ~Demi (Demi is much shorter than magic or magicdemi-god so let's go with that! XD)