Percy felt numb as he stared at where Atlanta had vanished, she betrayed the hunt and stabbed Artemis in the stomach. Artemis was wounded and there was nothing he could do about it, he slowly walked to the dead demigods and examined them. He felt sick when he realized they were part of the titan army and were betrayed by Atlanta, Atlanta had used them as a decoy so it looked like she was fighting alongside Artemis. When they killed the demigods Atlanta must of stabbed Artemis, it was the perfect plan to get one of Artemis' best hunters to take her off guard and take her out when she least expected it. Tears blurred his vision at the thought of Artemis with a sword through her stomach, he let out a shuttered breath and looked at the remainder of the hunt. The girls he thought he could always trust, he didn't know who he could trust anymore, he wasn't sure if he could handle anymore betrayal.
The girls had tears in their eyes and were holding each other close as Percy eyed all of them warily,"Anyone else working for Kronos? Might as well speak up." He spat bitterly and could feel anger roll off him, he didn't wait for them to speak as he turned back towards the dead demigods. He noticed a flash of black on one of their wrist, he frowned and bent over and yanked off the black thing. It was a black scythe charm bracelet, he felt anger flood through him at the very thought of Kronos turning his family against him. He clutched the charm with his fist and ignored the metal that bit into his skin, he squeezed his eyes shut and clenched his jaw, he hated how Kronos was destroying everyone's life for a crown. He turned back to the hunt to see Zoe walking towards him with a saddened expression, she slowly wrapped him in a hug and buried her face in his neck. He held her as he struggled to keep the tears from falling, Thalia and Phoebe walked to the two and joined in on the hug. Soon the whole hunt was comforting each other and mourning over their mistress, there were sniffles and tears that made Percy's heartbreak. He pulled away from Zoe who was fighting the urge to cry as well, tears leaked from the corner of her eyes and he gently wiped them off with his thumbs. She looked up at him sadly and he kissed her forehead, he knew Zoe would never betray them.
He pulled away from her and began to address the hunt,"I need to see all of your wrist to ensure your not working with Kronos." He said as calmly as possible.
Phoebe looked at him with her big brown eyes filled with hurt and anger,"What, you don't trust any of us? We all are family Percy and now your treating us like suspects." She growled and her voice cracked.
Percy clenched his jaw and ran a hand through his hair,"You want honesty? Well here it is, I don't trust you guys. I did but one of our "family" members betrayed us, as far as I'm concerned everyone as of now is a suspect. First Malcolm now Atlanta, who else will hurt us before we realize we can't trust anyone! I won't allow anyone else to get hurt like Artemis because of traitors!" He snarled and his eyes burst into flames, Phoebe glared at him before turning away from him. He felt a bit guilty with the words he said but knew this was necessary. He checked everyone's wrist, even Zoe's which made her feel hurt that he didn't trust her.
To his relief no one else had a bracelet,"Now I will need you all to ensure your allegiance to Artemis and the gods. Swear to the styx you aren't working with Kronos." He ordered though it killed him to do so, here he was forcing his family to take a pledge which showed them he didn't trust them as he said earlier
Thalia glared at him,"I swear on the styx I'm not working for Kronos." She grumbled and the other hunters followed in suit. He nodded and turned away from them as he felt a jumble of emotions from the range of relief, pain, anger, betrayal, sadness, and disbelief swirl through him. He heard a scream which awoke him from his thoughts, he looked across the battle field to see Hailie trying to get to her dead father. His eyes widened when he remembered the death of Daedalus.
"Dad!" She screamed as she tried to get to him. A demigod blocked her path and she gave him a powerful punch to the face making him fly back and hit the dirt. Shade was right behind her and fighting his way to get to his father, another camper got in his way only to get kicked where it hurt. The camper bent over in pain only for his face to be slammed into the son of Kronos's knee, he fell and the twins raced to their father's dead body. Percy felt sick and ran to them, Hailie's usual mirth filled eyes held nothing but grief and tears. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she cried over her father's body, she slowly touched her dad's face and her brown and gold hair covered her face. She brushed her hair away and looked at her father with wide gold eyes, Shade too had tears running down his face as he looked down at the dead inventor. He kneeled beside Hailie and wrapped an arm around his sister as he stared down at Daedalus, she buried her head in his shoulder and sobbed loudly.
Percy slowly approached the mourning twins and it killed him to see the serious Shade so depressed, the mischievous Hailie so broken. He sighed,"He wanted me to tell you he loves you both very much. He had to do this." Percy whispered hoarsely as he looked down at the dead inventor.
Shade's eyes snapped to him,"He didn't have to do anything! This stupid camp wasn't his concern and-who did this!" He roared and his golden eyes glared angrily at Percy. Hailie looked up at him sadly and he realized she was sifting through his mind into his past, he didn't try to look away for they deserved to know the truth.
Her eyes widened in surprise before they looked down sadly at her dad,"The person who murdered him is unimportant, what is important is that we avenge him. To do so we must destroy the Titan army." She whispered and looked back up at Percy who flashed her a grateful smile before he looked solemnly at Daedalus.
Shade's eyes narrowed at his sister,"Of course his murderer is important!" He then looked up at Percy,"Make sure he gets into Elysium, he deserves it." He demanded and armed campers soon surrounded the twins and Percy.
Percy lit himself on fire and stood protectively in front of the twins,"Leave them alone!" he snarled and the campers looked at him in shock that he was defending the twins who had taken out some of their campers.
Horse hooves were heard,"What the Hades is going on here!" Chiron bellowed and shot Percy an apologetic look. The campers backed away from the flaming son of Hades and began to whisper in confusion as to why he was on fire.
"Call off your stupid campers!" Percy roared, Hailie and Shade were instantly on their feet and had scythes drawn. Hailie looked murderous while Shade had his serious expression mixed with anger. A gold hologram of a scythe and clock appeared over both of their heads and the campers gasped. Hailie's eyes widened in surprise as she looked at her brother in horror, Percy paled as the hunt appeared as well.
"He found us." Shade gulped, Hailie put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
There was utter silence and Hailie gave Chiron a small smile,"Sup bro." The centaur looked at her in confusion and disbelief and Shade rolled his eyes at her.
One of the hunters spoke up,"This if for lady Artemis you Kronos spawn!" She yelled and the campers roared in approval and ran at the children of Kronos. Percy stomped on the ground making a large tremble in the earth, everyone except himself and the twins fell on their butts.
"What is wrong with you! Their children of Kronos and must be killed!" One of the campers screamed and Shade griped his scythe tightly. Zoe, Luke, and Annabeth had joined Percy's side and had their weapons drawn for they knew the children of Kronos's innocence.
Shade glared at said camper,"Then why isn't Zeus dead? Why isn't Poseidon being persecuted? Why isn't Demeter in tartarus? You would kill your mentor for being a child of Kronos?" He snarled and his eyes glowed a bright gold.
"That's different!" Another camper protested. Percy looked at the two siblings helplessly and felt his hatred grow for the foolish campers, Hailie and Shade couldn't believe the persecution the campers delivered.
Hailie took a step forward,"How is that any different? Blind fools! Your arrogance will cost you, you will rue the day you hypocrites treated us like trash!" Hailie bellowed before she began to snicker.
Shade looked at his sister incredulously and she grinned wryly at him,"Sorry I said rue, I mean that's what dad would always say." At the mention of their adoptive father her face fell and Shade wrapped an arm around his sister comfortingly before they vanished.
Annabeth paled,"You idiots! Look what you've done." She hissed.
"And you said the titans were bad, look at yourselves chasing off innocent people." Luke snarled and Zoe could only glare at the hunt in disappointment and disbelief.
Percy whirled on the campers,"You insolent fools! They were going to help us! You judged them by their parentage while a son of Athena named Malcolm and a daughter of Hermes named Atlanta betrayed us to Kronos. And you," He spat as he glared at the hunters with the exception of Zoe,"should all be ashamed. We have a daughter of a titan in the hunt yet you treated those twins of Kronos as evil spawn. Had you of listened they would of explained themselves, well campers and hunters since you hate the children of titans so much go kill the big three, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Artemis, Apollo, Chiron, and Zoe. Go kill all those whose loyalties shouldn't be questioned as Hailie's and Shade's shouldn't. They would of been great allies but you chased them away, I'm tired of you foolish demigods judging everyone. Bet you didn't even realize we were also betrayed by a son of Poseidon, you should be ashamed of yourselves." He growled and stomped off. Zoe glared at the sullen looking demigods before running after Percy, when she found him she saw him sitting beside Zeus's fist, his eyes were on fire and he was glaring angrily at the ground. He griped his hair which he only did if he was on the verge of exploding, his jaw was clenched and he was breathing in and out heavily as he tried to calm himself. She slowly sat beside him causing him to look up at her and his eyes reverted back to his beautiful sea green eyes, he released his hair and looked at his girlfriend expectedly, he didn't feel like talking to anyone but Zoe was the exception. She wrapped an arm around him making him relax and she gave him a small smile which he returned, he had wanted to talk to her about her trust in him. He could see a lot of things were on her mind as well and she looked as though she was trying to find the right thing to say, her eyebrows scrunched in confusion making Percy grin.
He always thought she looked adorable when she did that,"Zoe, your really beautiful you know that?" He whispered and grinned once he saw a light tinge of pink decorate her cheeks.
"And your a real cheese ball, you know that?" She replied mockingly making him laugh, he kissed her temple making her blush redden.
He knew if he was going to speak his mind it would be now,"Zoe, I want you to trust me. And when you get jealous when I'm with other girls it shows your lack of faith in me." He confessed and she looked at him in surprise, by the seriousness and hurt in his eyes she could tell he meant it. She felt bad for doubting him all the time, he grew up with the hunt which should make him the most reliable boyfriend in the world.
"Your right, I'm sorry Percy. I should trust you, it's just that-"
"Your possessive." He interjected and she frowned but nodded slowly, that explained it. She had been in the hunt so long being preached to about how men were bad and always broke women's hearts. She knew Percy would never do such a thing and felt guilty for not believing in him, though she felt guilty about doubting Percy she didn't plan on sharing him.
He just grinned at her,"It's fine Zoe, just wanted to get that off my chest. That and uh...incase I don't get the chance I...love you." He muttered the last part and was afraid of her response, sure they had said it to each other a few times jokingly but he was dead serious. People were dying all around him what felt like everyday and he knew he needed to tell her incase something happened so that he could never tell her, he wasn't going to miss his chance to speak his feelings even if it made him sound like an Aphrodite child. Her eyes widened and she looked at him in surprise, he had actually said it to her, he truly did love her. Her heartbeat sped up as she leaned in and kissed him, Percy smiled into the kiss and realized he needed to tell her he loved her more often if the response wasn't a hit or punch. He wrapped his arms around her and she dug her fingers in his hair, Percy swore he was seeing stars as she kissed him harder. It was probably the best kiss ever, she pulled him closer and he leaned into her as he felt as though his heart would explode. Zoe's heart felt like it was going a million miles per hour as she continued to kiss her boyfriend, they pulled away for air and all of their worries melted away. Percy's heart was still beating rapidly while Zoe's entire face was red, she smiled at him and smoothed down his now crazy hair.
"Love you too." She whispered and kissed his cheek, he was grinning like an idiot and they continued to hold each other. He knew his mom and dad would be proud of him for picking such an amazing girlfriend.
"Oh and by the way, after all the crap we've been through you so owe me a date." Zoe told him as she leaned against his chest, she felt his chest rumble as he laughed.
He had begun to play with her fingers and kissed the palm of her hand,"Deal. Anywhere specific?" He questioned and Zoe began to think of a good place for them to have a date, she didn't want to have it at some cliché place like the beach.
She wanted to have their first date somewhere original and decided to let Percy pick their first date,"You pick." She said shrugging and felt him kiss her hair before mumbling okay.
-Line Break-
"Percy where have you been! You've been gone for four weeks!" Jason exclaimed and Percy shot him an apologetic look. Percy stood before the senate as he had to give a good explanation as to why he was gone for so long. He saw Reyna look at him in disappointment and he gave her a pleading look that said,"Hear me out." It seemed to work as her hazel eyes looked at him curiously yet skeptically.
He was about to speak when Lupa burst,"Perseus was with the goddess Diana and the hunt. He is very close to the hunt." The wolf said smoothly and Reyna frowned when suddenly Diana strode into the room, Percy perked and ran to his sister despite being judged by the senate. He engulfed her into a hug, he was happy she was okay and that she was safe. She hugged him back tightly making the senate gasp and murmur amongst themselves in shock that Percy was hugging the man hating goddess.
He pulled away with tears of joy in his eyes,"Sis!" He exclaimed enthusiastically as he looked down at her, there was another gasp in surprise causing the two to laugh. He slung an arm around his sister and she rolled his eyes but a smiled tugged on her lips.
"Huh, since he was with a goddess I say he's fine to stay Praetor, he is clearly loyal to us as well as the gods." One of the senate members spoke up.
Another one asked a question,"How is it that a son of Pluto is a brother of lady Diana?" Percy grinned down at Diana and he told his entire story, this led countless of questions and speechless senators.
Diana looked at the romans,"Now, if you treat Percy any different you will personally have the hunt to deal with." She snarled making the senators pale and Percy grimaced. He was still a bit angry at the hunt, they clearly hadn't told Diana the story of their distrust of children of titans. He was sure they were angry with him as well, none of them but Zoe had spoken to him in the last two days.
Reyna cleared her throat and spoke for the first time the whole meeting,"Senate meeting adjourned, Percy your free to go and your able to still be Praetor." All members of the senate left the room and Percy left his sister's side.
He slowly walked up to Reyna,"Reyna, I have something to tell you. The only way I got this job was because Hecate drugged everyone with her potions. I want to win this position fair and square, I want to win this position with honor not crooked ways." He knew he would have to have to talk to his mother and have a small chat with the goddess that wanted him dead, Hecate.
And it's not as long as my usual chapt but it's over 3k so it should be fine. Not trying to be annoying but I think you guys should give my new story a try, the soul reaper's son. Pretty different, but anywho comment.