(Sorry for disappearing on you guys my laptop stopped working and I didn't really want to write a chapter on my phone… anyway I'm leaving what I usually put here at the end so you don't have to scroll forever if you don't read it. Enjoy!)

BETA : INPERIOSUS

[December 16th 2015]

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Haircuts and Time.

Did Percy trust Hemera enough to let her cut his hair? Yes…. Well slightly. He wasn't sure why he was allowing the person who he hadn't seen in years and liked to punch him in the stomach to cut his hair. Okay maybe he didn't trust her as much as he thought. Would you want a possibly-insane-person coming near your head with a knife to cut your hair? No? Yeah didn't think so.

Everything seemed to be going fine. Hemera had started by cutting his hair shorter before getting ready to shave most his head. She had claimed that his shoulder length hair was, 'an absolute catastrophe,' and that 'she had seen Pontus' hair on a bad day and it looked like he had just walked out of a hurricane… but his was worse.' He was feeling soo loved right now. After Hemera had gotten his hair to an even length – two to three centimetres long at least – a whale of a baby rung out and she nearly took off one of his ears. Hemera had mumbled a 'sorry' before shuffling into the room where Briares lay.

Staring back at his reflection Percy figured, what the heck, and inched his hand towards the blade that Hemera was previously using to cut his hair. As he brought it up to the side of his head he heard an all-to-familiar voice tsk at him. Sighing he played with his grip on the handle of the knife.

"What do you want Cosmos?"

'Who says I want anything?' Percy raised an eyebrow at this. Recently Cosmos hadn't spoken to him as much, preferring his conversations with Universia.

"You always want something." Percy raised the knife back to his head, shifting his hold on it in a way which made him able to hold it sideways.

'Okay you've got me there…' Lifting the knife up so it removed hair, the midnight coloured locks fell slowly to the ground. He only removed the underneath of his hair. He'd rather keep hair on the top of his head full of hair - he didn't want to get sunburn.

Percy hummed. "So what do you want?"

'Am I no longer able to have conversations with you Perce?'

"Perce… That's a new one." More hair fell to the floor. "You're stalling why are you stalling?"

Percy was beginning to see the ugly marks the word burned into his head had left behind. He winced as he felt a non-existent pain, a burning sensation which felt like needles being driven into his head. He ground his teeth together to block out the pain. The pain isn't real, he told himself, I'm imagining it. Cosmos seemingly noticed his destress.

'Percy? Are you okay?'

"Peachy." Percy was pretty sure Cosmos sent him a disapproving stare. He moved the knife to the other side of his head. More hair fell.

'Percy… was that sarcasm? Why are you using sarcasm with me? No, don't look at me like that. You're wincing again did you cut yourself? Are you bleeding? Should I get-'

"I'm fine, Cosmos. No I'm not bleeding and no you shouldn't get Hemera." More hair flittered to the floor. He ignored it.

Percy watched in morbid fascination as the scars were uncovered along his head. On one side of his head Percy could see the 'τ' and the beginning of the 'έ'. On the other side of his head he could see the 'ς'. He watched his reflection as it raised a shaky hand, its fingers brushing lightly along the curves of the letters. His reflection's eyes were wide in horror and disgust at what it was seeing. The reflection stopped mimicking his movements. Instead it smiled cruelly at him, tauntingly daring him to look away. Percy couldn't look away.

'Maybe, just maybe,' Percy's eyes were now locked with his own reflection's. He was frozen in horror as the words of his reflection reached his ear, spoken softly, like the hissing of a snake. 'No not maybe. They are right. You are a monster.' The skin on his reflection began to melt away exposing the red muscles underneath. 'An abomination. A crime against nature.' The muscles which were clinging to the bones were now melting. Falling away from the skeleton which lay underneath, an expression of true terror appeared on what was left of his reflections face. 'No!' It cried. 'No! Please it hurts! No, no more please. Why are you doing this?' Percy was still frozen in his chair, watching in undisguised horror as his reflection wailed and cried out in pain, begging for mercy. The reflection turned to look at him, it's wide sea green eyes barely staying in there sockets. They looked into Percy's, searching for answers, 'why are you doing this?' And then it screamed, it's eyes melted in its sockets, running down it's skeletal face. It's skeleton turning to dust, the dust swept away in a non- existent wind. The mirror was empty.

Percy blinked and his reflection was back. His reflection back, not that thing from before. Percy raised one of his hands, bringing it up to touch his now pale face. The mirror mimicked him. He stared at his reflection in disbelief.

Behind him in the mirror, Percy saw Hemera enter the room. And he did something which he hadn't done in a very long time.

He cried.

He didn't sob, scream or choke on his tears. He just cried. He allowed the tears to flow freely down his face. Percy felt someone embrace him but that didn't matter, the world was fading. Fast. And he welcomed the darkness with open arms.

Maybe I am a monster.

~ Ψ ~ Ψ ~ Ψ ~

Kronos was having a bad day. His mother once again sat outside in the same spot like she had for weeks on end. He'd given up trying to take her in at night, it would only end with her screaming again. He didn't like it when people screamed- it hurt his ears. But this wasn't why Kronos was having a bad day. No. His foul mood was caused by his siblings.

His siblings. Bah, more like his bullies. They were mean. Just because Kronos was the youngest they thought that it was fun to push him around and tease him. It wasn't fair.

'Life ain't fair kid, just ask your hero Perseus,' Krios would whisper into his ear after pushing him to the ground. 'After all he is the tian of life.' The older sibling would give his head one last shove into the mud and walk off to find Kronos' other brothers. Kronos hated his siblings.

Well, he lies Kronos didn't hate all of his siblings. He looked up to Percy, he didn't mind Iapetus (he spent way too much time in Erebus for Kronos to even try to get to know him) and he adored Rhea.

Rhea was the put it simply was amazing. She was one of the only siblings who were kind to him. Kronos found himself spending a lot more time with Rhea, she, after all, took over his titan power training after his mother lost the will to actually move.

Kronos was learning how to change his age – curse this useless six year old body dam it!- but it was taking longer than any of his other lessons. Rhea had told him not to worry and that he would get it eventually, he just needed to be patient. She seemed to forget that his domain was time, he could be patient.

After all, he had all the time in the world.

[January 23rd 2016]

[Edited: N/A]

Hey guys I'm finally back with a chapter! Sorry for vanishing on you all, my laptop broke, fanfic wouldn't let me do anything and to top it all off I got writers block. Yay me!

From now on my author's notes are going to be at the end of a chapter so you can skip them if you want. Onto the reviews!

KiyiyaTheHowlingWolf Oct 29, 201

All in all, I really like this story! The grammar is impeccable, the chapter length is just right, and the story line fits perfectly with past events in Greek mythology. I also enjoyed how you further developed the characters to give them more complex emotions and thoughts then I remember in the books. I just cannot wait for the next update, however long it might take you to post it. For the poll, I half forget what it is for, but I vote for Hestia if it is still going on. Have a nice day!

Why thank you! I kinda had to make the characters more complex because of when the story is set. I couldn't just go BANG Kronos is evil, BANG Ouranos is evil etc. anyway, I hope you find this update satisfactory. The poll isn't still going, Hemera won. I've had a very nice day, thank you. J

harry61000 Oct 29, 2015

Binge read it all...I guess I have to review now.
Overall it's great, Kronos is being handled perfectly in my opinion, likewise for Percy and Hemera. But I don't know where the story is going, titan war and Percy helps? Personal problems of Percy dealt with? A retelling of the titans? Sorry if you've said where it's going already and I've just missed it.
An excellent story to behold.

Well thank you for the review, the summery of the chapter sort of explains where the story is going, I am planning on retelling the story of the titans, it's taking while but I'm getting there. I should be introducing some of the gods in the next few chapters. If it helps, here's the summery: What if Perseus was born a titan? A spawn of the heavens and the earth, a son of Ouranos and Gaea. Twin to the titan of Mortality, mighty Iapetus. Where was he, in the darkest of times, the times of the leaden wars? The shadowy reigns? What was he up to, what were his intentions? Well you'll just have to find out...

Inperiosus Oct 29, 2015

Lol, thanks for all the love, I like the way the story is progressing. Best of luck with the chapters ahead, and yeah , I enjoyed proof reading and editing this chapter!

Thank you for proof reading. I hope that this chapter was okay?

Narwhal King Oct 28, 2015

AMAZING! And narwhals have been here.
NARWHALS ATTACK!

I like this comment it made me laugh.

Okay, you may or may not know that I have gotten a wattpad account, my user name is MythologyGeekGirl. Could you go check me out? (If you have wattpad). That's all for now!

Yours,

~ Jess