Chapter 2

btw i renamed this book. it used to be called among the angels.

Chapter 2: Step 1

Percy Jackson was walking to the dining pavilion at Camp Half-Blood.

Just a seeming to be regular day, except for the dark, almost purple storm clouds up above the camp. They would constantly let out a boom of thunder and a few violent spouts of lightning hitting around the camps border.

Percy entered the dining pavilion smiling and waving at other campers and nodding at Chiron who was standing up next to the table by Mr.D.

He headed over to the Athena table," Hey guys! What's up, got anything new going on that I can help with?"

The cabin mates looked at each other and shrugged.

Percy smiled looking around," Do you know where Annabeth is?"

Malcolm frowned. "We let her sleep in, she was having some pretty bad nightmares last night. Even though sh-"

"She tried not to show it and cry?" Percy cut in.

He had a terrible pained look on his face.

He put his hand on Malcolm shoulder looking at the rest of the table. "Thanks guys, she's lucky to have siblings like you." And he left to his table.

Percy got up quietly when it was his turn to sacrifice some of his food. He dropped three quarters of his blue pancakes that seemed to be drowning.

He barely ate any of his pancakes. Seeming to choke on every bite.

Percys frame was no longer what is used to be. He was a sick pale and he looked to be anorexic. His hair was getting its grey streak back from holding up the sky. He was seeming to be getting weaker than stronger.

He honestly was trying really hard to get better.

Annabeth was doing just fine. She had her golden princess curls and startling grey eyes. She still wasn't as strong as she used to be, but was getting their a lot quicker than he was.

It was hard for him to get out of bed sometimes. He felt as if the pressure of Tartarus was still weighing him down and that his life was about to be taken from him. Just to be cut and float away, like a balloon filled with helium.

It was hard, even for the great son of Poseidon.

Campers were slowly starting to leave for their activities, some going into the woods with the stayrs, others going to the fighting arena and some other campers saying their goodbyes to their siblings at the portal waiting for Reyna to come get them with the Romans who wanted to see Camp Half-Blood.

Percy sighed leaning back slightly while smiling. He picked up his plate that had almost all of his food still on the plate and continued to sacrifice the rest of it to the gods.

He continued towards the big house walking past the new and improved lava climbing wall.

Percy walked up the steps of the big house and rounded the corners looking for Mr.D and Chiron. Percy rounded one more corner and saw Mr.D and Chiron playing pinochle. Mr.D was wearing his regular tiger stripped shirt and purple and black jogging pants, while Chiron sat in his magic wheel chair with a blanket covering his prosthetic legs.

Percy approached them and sat at one of the empty chairs at the .D seemed to be winning for once.

Chiron smiled at one of his oldest students, then looked him over again and frowned," Percy." he said sternly. "Yes?" Percy replied innocently, his green eyes wide.

The centaur put down his pinochle cards, sighing. He looked at Percy with sad eyes. "Did you eat?"

"Yes, why?"

Mr.D decided that that was the perfect time to put in his very useful two cents. "He sacrificed more than three quarters of his meal."

Percy glared him, Mr.D rolled his eyes. "You just gotta ruin someone's day." Percy said crossing his arms over his chest.

Chiron sighed and face palmed.

The purple clouds above camps started to roar with thunder while rain poured down on the camp, with lightning flashing up the sky.

Chiron look up at the clouds startled.

"I am going to sound the conch horn."
Chiron said pushing away from the table and pulling himself out of his magic wheelchair, while being ignored by Dionysus, with Percy nodding at him.

"Ok, before you go on a Percy - you - need - to - eat - rant, can I go on a date with Annabeth tomorrow?"

Before he could even finish saying tomorrow, Mr.D stood up his eyes wide and angry. His form starting to turn into about the same age of Percys with a Greek chiton. He lost all of his fat , it turning into a muscled lithe form, growing into a height of about 6'5, towering over Percy, his hair turning a even darker purple with a golden reef of victory settling in the curls, his cheek bones sharper that they could cut somebody, while his eye seemed to be are with a purple fire.

"You will not be leaving camp at all." He snapped standing up his eyes flashing, while leaning over Percy who was kind of awestruck at the startling handsomeness, and surprising change of the god.

"I do not think that you should be leaving camp so soon. " he said trying to recover,"The war with grandmother Gaea has just ended and your aura is very powerful while your smell is starting to become over whelming."

Percy tried to interrupt, " but-"

Dionysus was on a roll."The starys say this, just think of the monsters. They will come in groups. They all want the honor of saying ' I killed the great son of Poseidon!' They will come after you in hordes, you will not be safe. Only will you be safe inside Camp half Blood or Camp Jupitor."

Percy stood up coming closer to Dioysus. His hands were balled into tight fist and his face was only a few inches away from Dionysus's.

Percy said through clenched teeth,"Sense when have you cared about my safety? The only thing I've ever seen you care for were your children and the wine that you can't drink. "

Chiron rounded the corner his hooves making clop clop clop sounds, interrupting their arguing. He went and stood next to Dionysus, looking at him in shock.

Chiron stammered, a slight smile coming into his face," Dionysus.. You are in you true form." He said softly reaching out a hand towards Mr.D looking completely lost.

Dioysus turned his head towards Chiron then looked down at his appearance. "It seems that I have changed my form, doesn't it." While feeling at his golden reef siting in his hair.

Percy took a deep breath and closed his eyes and started stretching his hands.

He started marching towards the corner.

"I am not done talking with you Perry."

"I'm done with seeing your face but I still have to see it anyway." Percy said his eyes raging.

"Perseus Achilles Jackson! You will treat me with respect! I am a God mortal!"

Percy turned around completely narrowing his eyes and smiling. He brought up his hand and made a winding motion with his other hand on the side of his fist and his middle finger starting to come up. Once it was completely up he stopped and frowned at his hand trying to make the finger go down but all it did was pop back up.

He smiled at Dionysus and spat at his feet. "Three words: Go Fuck Yourself."

Percy procceded to do a little spin turn on the balls of his feet, shake his hips and saunter away with his hands swaying at his sides.

I am called Persassy for a reason.

"I believed that the kids these days call that whooped?" Chiron said smiling.

Percy went on his way to the Athena cabin still sauntering and making a water umbrella above his head blocking him form the rain even though he would remain dry.

He was just cool like that.

He knocked on the cabin door that had a fiery owl floating above the door frame. Annabeth opened with her pajamas still on and her hair seemed to be half brushed but she still looked amazing to him.

Annabeths eyes widened and she winced looking at him.

He frowned but shook his head and smiled.

"Good morning!"

She sighed smiling slightly and leaning against the door frame. "Good morning Seaweed Brain." She avoided looking at him in the eye. She took a deep breath and closed the door behind her.

"Ok Percy. I am going to be flat out blunt. I-I think we should take a break. I love you, I really do! It's just that after what happened in Tartarus with Ahkylus and that your grey streak is coming back and it's all my fault because if I had paid attention you wouldn't have to face the pain either and maybe we could both not have memories of that place. I'm sorry. I love you. Just not as a boyfriend anymore. More as a brother who watched out for me."

She took a deep breath, leaned on her tip toes and pecked Percy one last time on the lips.

"Love you Perce. Are you going to be okay?"

He shook his head eyes wide in shock.
"Percy?"

"Y-yeah. Yeah I'll be fine." He said his voice chocking up slightly.

"Wise girl." He paused, "Fall in love. If not for yourself, fall in love for me." Annabeth eyes teared up. "I will Seaweed Brain."

He nodded smiling slightly with watery eyes. "Good."

She watched him walk away with his head lowered and his hands shoved in his pockets. The water was now touching him, pouring off of him in rivers. The rain clouds themselves looked as if they were crying for him. Percy refused any tears to leave his eyes.

Percy walked towards the camp border up to Thalia's Pine. He leaned his weight onto the tree trunk. He sniffed slightly.

I guess we weren't meant to work out.. I hope she's happy. If not for herself than be happy for me.

Little did Percy know that the Olympian gods up on Olympus were watching his every move. Influencing his every encounter. Twisting his soul so it was intertwined with theirs. Their souls, well his soul belonged to them to and did theirs to him.

This was a bottle that he didn't know he had to fight. After all he doesn't have a choice, fight unknowingly or die slowly.

The gods looked at each other in their throne room.

Hades looked straight at the king of the gods and said smiling with and well known glint in his eyes. "Step one is complete."

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