Up until today, Percy'd been having a great 'summer', which honestly should've been the first sign that something was wrong.
The Giant war ended, on his birthday. Again. He and Annabeth had broken up shortly after the meeting in New Rome, finding their relationship awkward since they were more brother and sister that lovers.
Annabeth had soon after hooked up with Reyna, the two war leaders just fit together so well, and Percy, well, he hooked up with Nico, which is not gross because after the Titan war, the truth about Nico had come out and the Fates were furious! So, after a couple of meetings with Hades, who was insistent to let his son live, since it wasn't his fault he hadn't been aging, the Fates turned Nico sixteen, the same age as Percy was back then.
Then, to top it all off, the gods had to go do some damage repairs and had frozen time outside the Camps- who were using a special passage the gods had graced them with once they saw how well the two camps got along- so Mr. D was gone! And they had a break at Camp.
He was sitting on the beach with his friends (and someone who was a little, no, a lot more than a friend ;)) when it happened.
Annabeth, Reyna, Jason, Piper, Leo and Hazel were playing Volleyball, with Frank serving as Referee.
Nico and Percy were sitting by the sea, being as 'innocent' as possible, a.k.a, kissing and groping each other.
Suddenly, the ocean by them churned. The volleyball-ians all turned to look. Percy and Nico, of course, were a little too preoccupied to take notice… =*_*=
"Hem hem," coughed Triton, glaring at the two.
Percy and Nico, who'd finally noticed him, jumped apart, embarrassed.
"Triton?" asked Percy, "What are you doing here?"
"Well, as you know, Camp Half-Blood has always had a god in charge to keep it safe, and with the Olympians busy- kind of like you were with that Hades spawn," he raised an eyebrow, a clear sign that they were going to have a conversation about that, "And since Dionysus is gone, father sent me here to supervise."
Percy fell on his knees and faced the sky, "WHY-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y!?"
His friends tried hard to stifle a laugh. Emphasis on 'tried'
"Do the gods hate me!?" he yelled again.
"Well, not hate you," said Annabeth, "but they do strongly dislike you," she pointed out, causing Percy to glare at her.
"Awww, come on Perce," said Nico, placing an arm on his shoulder, "it'll be fine," he said.
"Yes Nico," said Percy.
No one noticing the silent glare the messenger of the seas sent the 'death spawn'.
"Okay," said Percy, "I guess we ought to take you to the big house then, huh? Come on," he lead the way to the big house, triton following him.
"Chiron!" Percy called.
"in here Percy!" was the reply, as they walked to where Chiron was, organizing his CD's.
"Ahhh, Lord Triton," he smiled, "So glad you could make it," he finished, shaking his hand.
"Not a problem," he smiled back.
"Now, let's get you to your room," said the Centaur, leading the way up the steps, unable to avoid the 'clippity-clop' that came with being half horse from the waist down.
"Here you go," he said, opening the door, "Mr. D's room."
As the door swung open, Triton took a look inside.
It was a jungle to say the least. After the war, Zeus had rewarded Dionysus by letting him drink again, but he was limited to a bottle a day.
There were vines everywhere, full of succulent, big, fleshy grapes.
"Ummm," he said, not even sure if there was a bed in there.
"Yes," Chiron replied, his brow rising in confusion, "well, sorry there, but to be fair, I did remind him to clean up, oh well, guess we'll have to find some place else then…"
"What about the Poseidon Cabin?" asked Triton, wondering why they didn't just let him stay in his father's children's cabin, a place, had he been a camper, he should've been staying at.
Percy and Chiron shared a nervous glance that didn't go unnoticed by triton.
"I suppose," said Chiron, "Now, thank you for bringing Triton here Percy, I'll give him a quick catch-up, then I'll send him to the Poseidon Cabin for a tour, okay?"
"Sure," Percy nodded, "Bye," and he sprinted out.
"What was that about?" inquired Triton.
"I beg your pardon?" asked Chiron.
"That 'look' you two gave each other when I mentioned my father's cabin."
Chiron sighed, "I trust you know what happened to your brother not two months ago?"
"No, not really, we were all busy fighting our Roman counterparts and since I'm the messenger god word hadn't got in for that period, but I do remember father being sad, however, I'm not quite sure why…"
"Well," began Chiron, "It all started when Athena gave Annabeth the mark."
Triton groaned, "I thought she'd stopped doing that."
Chiron smiled sympathetically at Triton, "Anyways, Annabeth found the Parthenos, which actually helped quite a lot during the war, anyways, she defeated Arachne and retrieved it."
"Yes," Triton said, "But what does this have to do with my brother?"
Chiron's face was grim and pale, as if he hated talking about it. which he did.
"Well, turns out when Arachne had fallen she'd wrapped a bit of silk around Annabeth, your brother being, well, your brother, refused to let her fall alone once they were hanging from the ledge after he'd grabbed her and so they fell."
"Where?" asked Triton, dreading the answer he was 90% sure he was going to get.
"Tartarus," said Chiron lowly, "Only three have ever been there and lived, they were Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and of course your brother, the son of Poseidon."
"So they've got nightmares often?"
"Not quite," said Chiron, "You see, during Percy and Annabeth's quest in the Sea of Monsters, Annabeth had taunted Polyphemus about his blindness, as a result, when they were there she became blind, so she didn't have to see half of what Percy saw, and Nico, well, he was being held hostage by Gaea so he didn't really have to go through anything, just see some things and put himself in a death trance, your brother, however, went through, and saw everything Tartarus had to offer, so he's definitely got the worst memories. The dreams usually end with him screaming, I'd hate to imagine what he saw," finished Chiron.
"Oh," said Triton, suddenly feeling a bit guilty about his initial thoughts about Percy.
He'd thought Percy was some, spoilt, pampered prince, free of responsibilities who had the benefit of being from the ocean and land, giving him a choice of where he'd rather stay.
But now, hearing this, he pitied his brother, no one, no one should have had to go through this, especially not someone so young.
"I see," said Triton, feeling bad, after all, Percy had been the youngest of the three that had made it out alive and had to endure everything.
"Well," said Chiron trying to lighten the mood, "On to your responsibilities. You don't really have much to do actually, the schedule is on the fridge in the break room if you want to have a look."
Triton nodded and went to have a look, he saw a pile of schedules, not really interest in the majority he turned to the one with Poseidon cabin and took a look at Monday, a.k.a the day they were currently at, which showed itself due to the fact that the calendar was magic.
Monday:
10-11 am: Free
11 am-12 pm: Free
12-1pm: lunch
1-2pm: Canoeing
2-3pm: Sword fighting with Ares
3-4pm: Sword fighting with Apollo
4-5pm: Stable duty
5-6pm: Racing
6-7pm: Beginners Archery
7-8pm: Dinner
8-9pm: Free
9pm: Curfew
'Hmmm,' thought Triton, 'he seems to have a lot going on…..'
"Thank you Chiron," he said, "I'll go see Percy now."
And with that he left.
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Ta da! BTW, for those of you reading 'Persephone Jackson and the Olympians, I'm sorry that it's taking so long, but to be fair, if it is long. I'm on page 10 of the book, page 37 of the word document at over 11,000 words, so yeah, I think I have an excuse. I'm sorry that I changed the rating, but I thought of some things I wanted to add and the new rating fits better for them, but don't worry, if the chapter isn't just rated for language I'll put a warning at the top and where the, uh, 'stuff' happens, k?
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