Thanks for all the reviews guys I truly appreciate them all and I get so happy when you review. I would have updated earlier but I have my half yearlies and being in year 12 they are kind of important so sorry I had to study, I just finished my first one today (English and I failed so so badly) and I have a few days off until my next exam which is maths GAH!
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His breathing became heavy, in the night, his body contorted under the shinning moonlight as he tried to fight the urges.
But eventually it became too much, his mind unravelled as he dreamed in the night again, he tried not. Every time he dreamt, he knew they were one step closer to finding him.
But on the odd occasion it did happen.
It was the same dream as the one he usually had.
He was still running in the forest, being chased, everything was moving so fast, he felt as if he were running at light speed, until finally he stopped, his footsteps moving slower no matter how much he wanted to protest.
Looking down at riptide he froze, although it's usual copper colour know a silver, the sides and tips stained with blood, he had this dream a lot, but the amount of blood on his sword always made him feel queasy, like he would give anything to burn his beloved sword.
Then it shifted this he was not use to. Instead he was kneeling on the floor, his clothes clean, the same ones he wore when he left all those years ago, and in front of him, they lay, unmoving.
"You killed them." A voice whispered.
Percy continued to stare tears threatening to spill over the top of his eyes. He shook his head trying to dry the tears. The voice continued.
"You did this."
"No, I didn't, I would never." He whispered, inching closer to the woman lying on the floor, she was easily the most beautiful woman in his eyes her hand outstretched reaching for her husband's.
He stared longingly at his mother's face, her blue eyes staring off into the distance, he couldn't help it any longer, the tears poured out, as he tried to keep his sobs as silent as he could.
"It's all your fault." The voice hissed menacingly.
"Why?" he sobbed clutching his mother's head, her hair clinging to his arm. He knew why his mother and Paul were killed, in a way it was because of him, he had to go back to their apartment, he had to, he wanted to see them one last time, and in a way he did see them one last time.
"I will find you and kill you." He whispered menacingly looking around the room.
Then once again the scene shifted, this time he was again kneeling but at the foot of a throne.
His hands shackled and his clothing burnt.
"You will kneel before me one day." The voice sounded old, and sadly for Percy familiar. He looked up at Gaea and frowned.
"Didn't we kill you?" he asked his eyebrows raised and a smirk on his lips, the scene before almost completely forgotten.
Gaea simply smiled at the young man, her eye shifting to someone in the corner, and with a simple nod of her head, the man nodded an evil smile spreading across his ugly face as he stepped closer to the son of Poseidon his green hair hanging in his face. He lifted his heavy trident and aimed for the back of his head.
"You thought wrong, son of Poseidon." He growled at the young man. Percy blood froze as the trident connected with his head, waking him up from his dream.
Panting heavily Percy kicked the few blankets he had found in the back of the van, sitting abruptly from his makeshift bed.
"That's the last time I eat chocolate before bed." Percy panted running his long fingers through his messy hair.
Artemis sat in the meeting, boredom clear on her face. Athena had gone off on a tangent about how important it was that they find Percy, but by the looks on everyone's faces we already knew it was important that they find him. Although like half the other goddesses and gods she wanted to find him for her own gain.
She turned in her seat to face Poseidon who still looked a little depressed and sad even though they all knew he had something to do with his escape, just like Hermes, except with Hermes it was all speculation, there was no sound proof he had anything to do with his disappearance.
She just wished that she hadn't been the only reason for his disappearance.
When the meeting finished she hastily tried to leave the room, unfortunately she was stopped by her brother.
"Hey lil' sis'." He greeted lazily throwing his arm around her shoulder. She groaned inwardly and looked up at her brother, and if the term looks could kill could work well than Apollo would have died a million times over.
"For the last time, I am OLDER!" she grunted at her YOUNGER brother.
Apollo simply smiled and chuckled to himself, raising his hands in surrender. "Sorry sis' but it is true, just ask dad." he smiled mischievously at his sister before disappearing in a flash of light.
Artemis growled in frustration. "Yeah you better run before I kick you were the sun don't shine." She smiled evilly before going back to camp; a new hunting trip was in order.
Percy was once again on the road deciding to dump the van and backtrack a little on foot, try to trip them out a little bit. Hopefully it would work; in fact he was hoping for it.
He was about three minutes into the walk when the eerie night started to freak him out, just a little more. He slowly stepped closer into the forest reaching out his senses until he was doing a full scope of the area.
He felt everything, and it felt weird like it always did. It started a few weeks ago, he was able to sense things but they weren't clear images more like a few blurs, and he couldn't always call on it, there were times well when it just wouldn't work, that being said there were also times it could work and that was now.
He felt the trees that lay near a clearing not that far from here, he also felt the few blurs of what he thought were campsites located in the clearing. He frowned at the large number of tents. And then suddenly his senses failed him, and he was stuck with a blinding headache.
Gripping his head in pain he walked slowly over to a tree sliding into a sitting position, he waited for a few minutes until his headache went away before scaling the tree to find a branch big enough for him to sleep on, he didn't trust the earth floor, he figured a tree was safer, not by much but safer.
After a few minutes Percy's eyes started to close, as sleep deprivation overcame him, he feared his dreams, if demigod's dreams where warning imagine what a more, godlier demigod's dreams were like.
Then he heard it, the sounds he hated for many reasons, the sound of the string of an arrow being drawn, at first he though the arrows were being aimed at him until he heard the triumphant squeals, he looked down to find the carcass of a deer the butt of the arrow sticking out from its underbelly.
He sat up high against the trunk of the tree, trying his hardest to stay silent and still. But then he saw her, and his mind went blank with thoughts his heart skipped a beat or a few.
She stood there her auburn hair shinning in the moonlight, making her seem all the more beautiful, he realised he must have had a dopey look on his face when he noticed the drool land on his hand. Embarrassed he looked straight ahead refusing to do what he wanted, instead doing what he must.
He waited until he heard them leave before making his decision to do the same, carefully he jumped down from branch to branch, before reaching the last branch he waited a few more seconds checking to see if the coast was clear before finally leaping down of the branch with one swift movement.
He looked at the tree and smiled kindly at the tree nymph who peered out around the side. She looked torn between calling Artemis back and letting Percy go. Percy looked at her and winked; she blushed a deep green and giggled.
"Don't tell anyone, and I'll owe you one." He said trying to layer the charm on thickly, he smiled in response when she nodded her head enthusiastically before disappearing back into the tree.
Quickly he ran out of the forest, his eyes never straying on a tree for too long, he would seem suspicious now, but if the nymphs saw his eyes he was sure that is what would give him away the most. And he couldn't afford owing things to every nymph in this forest, but he was sure one of them would recognize him, they would know who he was, and he was sure their news would travel back to Artemis and from there she would either decide to kill him, or tell her father, ending up with the Olympians out at once looking for him again.
There was no way he could escape that especially not wit Gaea still looking for him. He figured she wanted him for his skills, and he was probably right.
He decided he would walk back a little further, there was no way a giant would think that he would have doubled back, they could be smart but that was rare, and even if they weren't he was pretty sure they still thought of him as the sea weed brain he use to be.
He ran back past all the houses in the small town trying to ignore his hunger pains that were starting to make him throw up. Until finally he decided to give in, taking out a small sealed plastic bag, which had few notes in it, it was his last pay check, he really needed some kind of new job, one he could skip out on easier, but at the moment he was thinking about dinner.
He picked out a busy diner, it seemed he learnt his lesson, he still never trusted Demeter with his meals, he remembered waking up one morning in the hospital, where a small plate of bread sat, he was tempted to take it until he realised who it was from, he left it there for weeks.
He sat in a corner ignoring the strange looks he was getting, in a way he was use to it, he was a drifter and in a way everyone knew that, sadly that also meant that unfaithful wives found him all the more attractive. Even worse when he stayed in a small town for a few days, they all seemed to seek him out.
And Percy saw it, the way they looked him up and down while linking their arms in their husbands, it hurt him, he was partly the god of loyalty and when people weren't loyal and he saw it, it really felt as if he were being kicked in the face. Besides when you have most of the goddess if not all after you for that kind of 'fun' you really wouldn't be interested in them.
Sitting at the corner he waited for the waiter to come over, he was a tall gangly boy with copper hair; he would have been considered attractive, if it weren't for the scar above his eye.
He noticed Percy staring at the scar and he smiled slightly.
"I got it from a motor bike accident, the chicks really dig It." he smiled at Percy before walking over to deliver his order.
A few moments later when the waiter returned Percy offered him a chip; the boy smiled taking a chip and popping it in his mouth.
"Thanks man, haven't eaten all day." He smiled and walked back off around the corner, Percy wasn't going to admit it but he gave him some food to see if it were poisoned or drugged. Once again it was a long story.
Finishing his meal he left the diner, checking to see if the coast was clear, then he saw something he didn't expect, standing under a street lamp, wearing a long coat and a hat, like something from one of those old gangster movies. His instincts clicked in as soon as he saw her, he had to stop himself from running to her and hold her, and she smiled back at him and beckoned him over. Percy thought about running but his feet were all ready moving towards the goddess until he was standing in front of her.
"Hey handsome." She greeted her eyes drinking in his sight.
"Lady Aphrodite." He greeted bowing his head a little, he didn't know why he did it but by the time he realised what he was doing he was already back to normal.
He looked around the street as if expecting the whole Olympian council to jump out of nowhere and grab him.
She must have noticed his unease as she smiled kindly at him, yet Percy recognized that glance as something a cat would do, while looking at a bird.
"Relax, it's just me." she motioned to an empty bench and sat down, purposely moving the trench coat up a little revealing a bit too much of her leg. Cautiously Percy followed.
The love goddess draped her arm around him, moving one of her hands into his messy hair, one leg draped into his lap. Percy stiffened at this contact, his eyes looking down at the leg as if it were a bomb ready to blow.
"Can I help you?" he asked slowly still looking down at the leg.
She giggled and slapped his chest, her hand lingered there for a few seconds. "No, I just wanted to see you that's all." She giggled.
Percy frowned unsure if it was safe for him to remove himself from her grip. "Well you've seen me, so can I go?"
He was slowly inching himself away, until her hands pulled him back. "Sadly, you have to come with Me." she stated.
"Where? To a cheap motel?" Percy asked pulling her hands off him.
"That's not very nice." She said her lips pouting.
"I'm not always nice." Percy retorted finally removing himself from her.
She giggled and a dreamy look covered her face. "Oh I now that." she said seductively, before winking and disappearing in a blinding light.
Percy frowned scanning the area. "That was a little too easy." He shrugged before continuing on his way, continuously checking to see if the coast was clear.
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