Chapter 90

Aspect Abusing and Perusing

(Diana)

'Well then which of you would like to start talking first?' I asked looking between the identical idiots who were now eyeing me and the sword I held nervously.

'Oh thank the gods it is the hot one.' Perseus said with a sigh of relief.

'They are identical, just like we are dumbass.' Percy replied with a weary sigh, making me question if having to deal with Perseus in the flesh was good for anyone's sanity.

'No Artemis has that annoying superiority complex sometimes which makes her act like a bitch, just like you are an idiot. A somewhat lovable idiot but nevertheless, still an idiot regardless. Besides we both know which one you spent more time ogling at Christmas.'

'Hold on something here is wrong, you just heard all that and have a free pass to kick the crap out of him and you have not done so. Where is Artemis?' Percy asked his look of embarrassed annoyance at his counterpart's blunt wording changing to intrigue as he regarded me. I was personally enjoying the one-upmanship I had over Artemis to notice immediately.

'She is making sure Reyna is fine, then she will be here.' I lied covering up her real intensions. Hopefully she would not take her time with the fool so Percy would not question the story.

'Really, I would have thought she would make you do that with you being the Roman aspect. Besides I thought she could not wait to hit him.' Percy asked cocking his head in Perseus's direction.

'What did I do wrong?'

'Everything!' We both replied in annoyance. Though from one look on Percy's face I knew he was not just referring to his slicing and dicing the Praetor a while ago. The rather luminescent tint in his cheeks suggesting he was remembering something a bit more intimate the fool had interrupted.

'You got engaged cause of me.' Perseus defended hurtfully.

'We almost got split up too remember?' Percy reminded sarcastically.

'Semantics.'

'Can we not just gag him, chain him up and throw him in the basement?' I asked with a groan.

'Do I look like Ares? I don't go for that shit.'

'Nor does he anymore now the whore can't cheat.' Percy said with amusement.

'You could always just let me do what I want.' He asked innocently causing me to look back at him with a raised eyebrow only for it to fall in fear as I saw what he was now waving around playfully.

'Perseus.' I said hesitantly looking at the sword he was now holding. I had forgotten the moron could summon it back to himself if he wanted.

'And you forget it is my sword.' Percy said in annoyance clicking his fingers as the sword returned to him before returning to watch form.

'Buzzkill. Do you seriously not trust me?' Perseus asked with a pout, which just made me want to slap him.

'I just threatened to kill you; of course I don't trust you. The only reason I did not is because some people might be annoyed with the fact I killed myself to kill you.'

'It would have made Tania happy though.'

'Dear gods do you ever shut up. Just because you have your own mouth does not mean you have to keep talking all the time.' I groaned holding my hand against my face.

'Well I could always be doing that thing you always do with lover boy if you want. Maybe I can teach him a few new tricks while I am at it?'

'Not here, not now, not ever.'

'You know you want to, all that pent up sexual frustration thanks to the hormonal angry prud-... She is behind me isn't she?' He said arrogantly only for my counterpart to appear behind him midsentence. With both me and Percy cracking a smile at her appearance giving her arrival away.

'Hey babe we were ju-.' He began turning around only for his words to be cut off along with his grin as Artemis removed her knee from a sensitive area allowing him to slowly sink forward onto his knees before toppling sideways in the foetal position while occasionally twitching. A quick glance at Percy and the expression on his face made it look like he had metaphorically shared his counterpart's pain.

'Don't worry I have a long list of things I want to talk to you about too. By the end of it you may be legible to join the hunters for real. Did you miss me?' She asked innocently looking at Percy with a smile, he still had the look of horror on his face that rivalled the squirming figures.

'Oh come on that was only a loving tap. I have not even begun to punish him yet. Now this is the part where you say it is nice to see you... unless you want the same of course?' She said her tone changing to that of a thinly veiled threat, one which thankfully Seaweed brain hurriedly registered practically launching himself forward and kissing her on the cheek.

'Good boy, now what did I miss?'

'We were only apart a few minutes what was there to miss?' I replied shaking my head at the redundancy of the question. If anything she was the only one who had done something in the time we had been apart.

'So idiot there hasn't tried or said anything, I find that hard to believe.' She replied sceptically pointing at the curled up figure who was no longer twitching.

'Actually...No, He didn't really do anything.' Percy answered semi-truthfully. Sure he had summoned Maelstrom from me but he had made no effort to do anything with it other than show he could and that was swiftly shut down.

'See... Bitch.' Perseus stuttered out weakly.

'I can do it again if you want?'

'Fuck...You.'

'I would defend you but you deserve this just a little.' Percy added as his counterpart slowly uncurled his body and sat up still holding his manhood and looked at him in betrayal before turning to me.

'Don't look at me for sympathy you have been a pain in the ass for all of us.'

'Not you too.' He whined finally able to put a word after another coherently. Albeit in a ridiculously high pitched voice.

'Well the question is what do we do now? We can't have him running around and causing merry hell and he is just like me, and everyone knows how well keeping me in one place works.' Percy asked.

'We can always just chain him up, gag him and throw him into an ocean trench.' Artemis suggested unhelpfully.

'Except we can just use time to make any chain corrode or return to its original ore form. Pretty sure that is part of the reason our father's chopped up Kronos and threw him in Tartarus.' Percy explained with a sigh.

'You could always just let me go.' Perseus suggested.

'Why not just chuck him in the pit. Solved all the other problem cases.' Artemis asked completely ignoring him.

'Name one example where being thrown into Tartarus has made them come out a better person. Besides he will just break out in all fairness or end up recruiting the legions of hell as his personal army. At the moment he is just an arrogant asshole with sadistic qualities. Do we really need to give him a valid reason to want to kill everyone?' Percy countered.

'I am right here you know.'

'How could we not notice, now shut up and let the adults talk!' Artemis snapped back her eyes narrowed as the two glared at one another. With her seemingly winning as he looked away focusing elsewhere for a second before frowning as if thinking before a cruel smile appeared on his face as recognition crossed his eyes. Causing me to hurriedly follow his gaze and see what he had.

'Can I speak freely or do I have to put my hand up?' He asked sarcastically.

'WHAT?' Artemis shouted in annoyance.

'How did you get blood on your skirt? You were not physically there in the Senate house while I was deposing the idiot and besides that is fresher than it should be.' He said trying and failing to appear smug because of his tone of voice that sounded closer to a little girl than normal. Sure enough there was a small splattering of blood on the garment.

'I...I... I don't have to explain anything to you.' She argued back weakly.

'True but I think you need to tell someone else. And you say I have questionable morals, I have never killed anyone at least I guess we will just add one more for the list for you. Though I guess at least you knew this one's name.'

'Artemis... Is he telling the truth?' Percy asked quietly with no emotion.

'Of course I did, the fool insulted my hunter's, insulted me and you and on top of that tried to kill you and Reyna. He ignored the warnings so he paid the price. Simple as that.' She defended stubbornly while I focused on the Titan and noticed his eyes slowly changing to pure gold. Which was a telltale sign that he was not liking what he was hearing from her.

'He tried and failed and was punished enough, he made sure of that.' Percy said with a tone of anger as he pointed at Perseus. 'You are better than this, not every idiot that happens to offend an immortal has to be killed because of his own ignorance. That kid was done for no matter what, he had lost everything. But even so he still probably had a family or at least someone who gave a shit about him. So why did you need to do it?' He snapped coldly at her causing her to step back in intimidation of his gaze.

After all it was easy to forget that Percy was the basis from which Perseus began and that all off menacing and overall aura of power came from the original. He just did a good job of hiding it behind the idiot persona he had normally. If you actually succeeded in pissing him off it was generally regarded by just about any sane individual as a good time to start running.

'You cannot tell me what I can and cannot do!' She hissed back and I had to forcefully keep myself from slapping some sense into her, literally.

'And if you actually listened for once, you would realise I am not telling you what you can and can't do. But rather what you should and shouldn't do. Something all the gods apparently never bothered to learn. Then again with your dad in charge they did not exactly have a good role model. I get it you liked the whole big bad huntress thing and I am not changing that, but you need to not take massive offense at every insult and slight. Times have changed in case you haven't noticed. You are not alone, you have me, Diana and even him in his own little way, we are all also affected by what you do now. Let alone the hunters and our children. So how about rather than thinking and acting rashly you actually think about the consequences of your actions.' He explained calmly before turning away and walking over to a small boulder and leaning against it not looking at her. Meanwhile she remained motionless as she digested his words and watched him walk away.

The thing was I agreed with him, she was shallow and petty when it came to some things. It would be hypocritical of me to say I did not suffer the same problem upon occasion. I did the same thing and dragged her into this relationship in the first place but even so I at least acknowledged what was likely to happen with everything we did. She was still struggling to get out of the past and was adamant in making everything bend around to her way of thinking.

'I have to give it to you, I never thought it would be you that fucked this relationship up further. But here you are proving me wrong. Good job.' Perseus mocked with a cruel smile as my counterpart seemingly twitched in rage.

'Shut up before I cut that obnoxious tongue out of your stupid head!' Artemis hissed her fingers flexing.

'I dare you to try. Even unarmed you stand no chance of touching me.' Perseus derided his golden eyes narrowing as he stared into her silver ones. I turned to Percy expecting him to do something but he was still ignoring all of us.

It was inevitable with the constant bombardment of her pride that she was going to take the bait as hunting knives appeared in her hands and she launched herself forward at the idiot.

Only to find herself jerked backwards as Percy reappeared behind her and twisted her right arm behind her whilst grabbing the left in a vice hold.

'Enough!' Percy said coldly completely ignoring the blade she still managed to hold in her left hand. The other having been disarmed.

'LET...ME...GO!' Artemis growled straining against his grip unsuccessfully.

'Artemis shut up and calm down. All you are doing is proving his point and making yourself look like an idiot. Out of the four of us you are the only one who won't compromise and you are frankly pissing everyone off. So how about you get off your high horse and see it as well now put the weapons down before someone gets hurt.' I explained with a sigh of exasperation as she twisted her head and glared at me before allowing the blades to disappear.

'That's why you're my favourite.'

'Perseus shut up.' Percy told him giving him a withering look.

'Percy let her go and let's talk. At this rate we are just going to kill each other if we don't do something.' I explained sadly followed by Percy slowly releasing her arms before she snatched herself away from him.

'Fine then let's talk.' Artemis said bitterly walking over to the boulder Percy had been using earlier and leaping on top of it before turning/glaring between the three of us as she sat down.

'This should be fun.'

'Remember when this relationship was simple, where did we go wrong?' I said letting my head fall for a minute before turning towards the source of the problem as did the others.

'Whoa, Whoa hold the fuck up, this relationship was never simple. You got into enough crap before I came along. And just to reiterate I am screwed up because of your inability to not become a psycho bitch. Besides even golden boy has his problem days.'

'The worst bit is he is technically correct. But even so we cannot change what has happened, all we can do is try and move forwards.' Percy said wiping his hand through his hair.

'First things first we need to lay down some ground rules then.' Artemis said focusing on Perseus who simply grinned as she narrowed her eyes in infuriation.

(Reyna)

'Who did I offend in a previous life to get stuck with this crap again?' I groaned as I looked through all the documents detailing the city and legion's state of affairs. Both of which I could not put into polite words for how bad Steven had run them into the ground.

I swore if I found that fat little sod, I was going to something far worse than Perseus did to him.

Then again I had expected him to try something on the way out of the city. But according to Terminus he had left the city and hadn't been seen since. Which was a pleasant relief because by the time the senate meeting had finally finished I wanted to strangle more than half the room. Most of whom for asking constant questions about Percy/Perseus. Someone who ironically had for the second time stirred up the entire city and immediately skipped town. Leaving yours truly to pick up the pieces, again.

Though the bloodbath before he had gone had at least discouraged any Octavian wannabes, perhaps they were starting to think the job was cursed and bad for your health.

Of course I did have a little help from the five gods of heroes... and the little whore. Who it seemed had also taken Percy's proverbial kick up the ass with gusto and had finally shepherded the last of the senators out the door. Before they could ask me how the hunters fit in with the whole 'not quite a virgin goddess' pact. Well that and I threatened to unleash Aurum and Argentum on them if they did not get the hell out and let me sort this mess out.

The two metal hounds themselves were a little worse for wear after their treatment. But Valdez had assured me could fix them better than new. Which while I had relented and allowed him to take the two of them for the time being. I was slightly worried about the eagerness he had been muttering to himself about 'upgrades' before her disappeared with them. That was the same sort of worrying thing that the hunters had whenever Percy managed to make the already nigh invulnerable Nemea even more fearsome. The last thing I needed was a pair of metal dogs with laser eyes or something like that.

Flicking open the next folder labelled 'Treasury' and taking a look inside. I immediately closed it again and placed I back on the desk and gently banged my head off the desk with a dull thud. Who in their right mind let's Arion into the coffers as a joke. The fact the horse had got full before he finished was the only reason there was anything left at all. If they want to start helping to fix this city the six can start helping towards filling them back up. Besides it was Levesque's horse so she could restock what he ate.

'Sounds like you are still having fun.' A familiar voice said teasingly from outside the ajar doorway.

'Everything is freaking fannntastic, like I never left.' I said as sarcastically as possible as the black haired girl poked her head around the corner.

'Sarcasm doesn't suit you; you should leave it to someone who is good at it. You are supposed to be the stoic serious one out of the two of us. Besides if you had never left in the first place here would be no us.' Thalia said after closing the door and making sure no one was nearby.

'Very funny and you are right I would probably be stuck sharing power with an idiot whilst pining for your brother. Fate has a funny way of screwing with all of us.'

'I got turned into a tree for a few years, I am going to say I got the crap end of the deal, you got to spend time at a spa. I think I win the my fate's worse than your fate competition.'

'Do I look like someone who enjoys Spa's? I was only there because Hylla helped run the place besides everyone who has ever lived loses to Percy in that contest.' I told her causing her to let out a sigh before taking the seat opposite me on the other side of the desk and putting her feet on it causing me to narrow my eyes while she simply smirked.

'What would she think about me and you anyway?' She asked curiously.

'Oh she will probably be saddened by my not wanting to put a leash on you and keeping you as on demand sex toy, but then she probably start doing a dance whilst proclaiming she called it.' I explained in a deadpan tone remembering our call before.

'Seriously?'

'She was a very special child growing up. She used to terrorise half the town where we originally lived.'

'And they gave her a girdle that improves her physical abilities and made her queen. Because that makes perfect sense now I think about it, like making an idiot Lord of everything important. Seriously who makes this stuff up? All I got was to be Lieutenant of the Hunt for a few years and I am perfectly normal.' She complained and I resisted the urge to cough at the word normal. Maybe she was forgetting her lightning throwing sadistic tendencies.

'You forget you quit that.' I reminded.

'You quit being Praetor and look how well that turned out.'

'Touché'

'You never did explain how the whole Percy and Perseus separately situation resolved itself.'

'Percy kicked him in the face. After threatening to kill them both to protect everyone from Perseus.'

'Good to know, so all anyone has to do to defeat an overpowered idiot is toe punt him in the jaw, easy enough.'

'Or not and besides that means there are now two of them running around. The whole Diana/Artemis situation is bad enough but they act generally the same for the most part, Perseus is nothing like Percy and yet looks almost identical. This is going to go badly somewhere along the line, he can't help himself. I don't suppose you know what they are up to do you?'

'Not a clue, though stabbing a guess I would probably say she was gelding him with a pair of bricks in the hope it will calm him down.'

(Perseus)

'If you so much as look at a woman I swear I will stomp your groin into the floor.' The obnoxious one threatened which whilst a painful if hollow threat, it was also not on my agenda. It was not as if I could ever hide something like that even if I did do it. Should I ever rejoin with my counterpart our memories would become one and well I would be screwed, not in the good way.

'And when you stop being a irrational, hormonal, angry bitch. You just give me a call.' I replied mockingly causing her knuckles to whiten as she gripped the rock tightly.

'Perseus stop being an ass.' Diana commented dryly as I reluctantly nodded.

As much fun as it was to annoy Artemis, it was still as if I had subliminal messaging in my head telling me to do as she and Diana said otherwise it would cause pain. Also I really did not want to be a eunuch. So as it was the only real choice of women I had was one and/or the other. Best not to burn all bridges so soon. Although that train of thought was also really distracting, especially the AND bit.

'Hello knockoff dumbass, we were speaking to you.' Artemis said in a volume loud enough for me to snap out of the fantasy.

'WHAT?' I said unhappily things were just starting to get interesting. I wonder if we could convince them to make out with each other. After all Diana had kissed us when we were in a girl's body, which was based on her and Artemis's. So it was not too far to push the boat out maybe.

'When you get your head out of the gutter, We said you can go idiot.' Artemis said simply.

'Whoa, whoa you are being serious. I can just go and do what I want?' I asked blinking looking between the three of them.

'Within reason, you cannot go around murdering people and stealing but other than that yeah have fun.' My counterpart confirmed.

I wanted to say I had been joking with that suggestion earlier, but here they were telling me to get lost and do what I want.

'You will not have access to our... no MY weapons however. The last thing we need is you depopulating Olympus whilst no one is looking. In addition you are to contact us every few days and check in... Also you have to take my place at council meetings.' Percy added quickly under his breath barely loud enough for me to hear.

'That is inhumane!' I protested loudly, how come he was making me do something he never did. And which was so boooorrreeeeiiiinnng.

'Deal with it or we go with my suggestion and tie you up, stick you in a cell and lose the key.' Artemis retorted glaring at me.

'So in other words get lost, what a great choice you are giving me. Anything else I should know?'

'Yeah if you run into Pallas you have permission to kick his shiny head in, off the record of course.' Percy said grinning making me do the same. I wanted that armour and this way it would really be mine, not 'borrowed' from my counterpart. The domain would be fun though as well.

'Will do. So what are you doing now, or are you just going to forget about a certain someone beginning with an A murdering someone?'

'Bite me.'

'If you insist.' I said showing my teeth and performing a chomping motion.

'Both of you enough! You can't help yourselves can you? And for the record no I haven't forgotten. That is why we are going to spend the next month acting mortal.' He explained and I couldn't help but laugh at the faces of the two girls as they suddenly turned on him as blank faces turned to outrage as they closed in on him. Like a pair of well... hunters.

'Oh this is gonna be priceless, so who do I call in the event you are dead. You know what never mind I will work it out. Enjoy dying.' I said cheerfully as the two goddesses pounced on him and began attacking before quickly getting off the now groaning figure and looking at me with four narrowed silver eyes.

'Time to make a move.' I told myself and flashed out of there.

After all if I was essentially living on my own now there were a number of things I needed to take care of. Sure I had a place to stay at Orthrys but well a house was only half the package. Besides the day was still young and I had long had time to prepare for this scenario as I reappeared in a office in the middle of a mansion to the surprise of the glasses wearing man in front of me.

'Bill Gates right? Son of Athena? Good because I have an investment opportunity for you. I need ten million dollars. I can give it back with interest tomorrow.' I told him causing him to raise an eyebrow.

'And you must be Percy Jackson... Mother warned all of us about you. However she also said Facebook would flop. So she can be wrong, now then let's talk.' He said leaning back into his chair and arching his fingers in front of him and nodding towards the vacant chair in front of him.

'Alright then Bill if you could turn back time, what would you change?'

(Thalia)

'I now have the uncomfortable image of Lady Diana using building materials as male contraceptives.' Reyna said shuddering.

'Oh no Diana would never do that, it would totally be Artemis doing the spading. Diana is too much of a lovey dovey goody two shoes. Diana wears the dress and Artemis is the trousers in that relationship.' I explained.

'Where does that leave Percy then?'

'Tied to a tree in his underwear probably. Not to say he would look bad like that, he has the figure after all.' I added unintentionally aloud before realising and blushing at the thought.

'Well that was awkward, but you are right he would like OK.' She confirmed also gaining a rosy tint to her cheeks.

'Wow we are like the worst lesbians ever.' I said with a sigh.

'Perhaps we should work on fixing that.' She said rising from behind the desk and walking it towards the door and wedging it closed with a spear tip under the base of the frame. I meanwhile had taken her meaning and hurriedly rose to my feet and stood in front of her.

The truth was neither of us had any experience with this sort of thing. Even yesterday after we narrowly avoided detection we had tried again that night but it accounted for little more than a gentle peck on the lips followed by a lot of blushing and hurriedly going to bed.

Nevertheless practise makes perfect and well we had all of immortality to practise if things went to plan. I thought to myself as we slowly closed in as before with our lips barely grazing along one another.

However after half a minute of well tip toeing around the subject Reyna finally took the plunge and engaged completely mashing her lips against my own and putting her arms at my side holding me in close whilst I initially stood there like a piece of wet cardboard unsure of what to do. Before deciding to do a Percy and just wing it in the hope I didn't mess it up to badly. As I lifted my arms so my hands were behind her shoulder blades essentially locking us together and making me thankful that she had at least taken her armour off since coming back from the meeting. Though as it was I was distinctly aware of her breasts pushing up against my own. Even through the multiple layers of clothing we both wore, it was enough to make me blush again as I stared into her black eyes.

Before long though she pulled her lips away from mine leaving me confused as she did not release her grasp before suddenly reapplying them and slowly moving along my jaw line and sinking towards my neck. Causing me to shudder in ecstasy much to both of our surprise as she pulled away and looked at me.

'Are you Ok?' She asked panting a little.

'Yeah I am great, Don't stop now.' I pleaded desperately unsure of where this desire was coming from.

'Good because I was just getting the hang of this.' She said with a confident smile before embracing me again and moving her caresses to the other side of my neck. While I tried running my right hand through her hair and savoured the feel and smell of it.

'CLICK'

'Bingo.' A male voice said cheerfully as we both quietly shrieked and looked around desperately before locking eyes with the figure that had appeared in the corner of the room.

'You two make such a cute couple; maybe I should upload this to the internet.' The golden eyed figure said holding the phone out screen first so we could see the incriminating image on it.

'Perseus.' I said slowly taking deep breaths and trying to calm down. A couple of things were sticking out to me and not just Iphone he was happily holding despite never owning a phone. It was like he had changed his entire wardrobe, where before it was mostly functional/comfortable. Now he was dressed in a Armani suit with a pair of Ray Bans resting on his head. I was almost tempted to ask if he was due in court or something. But this was Perseus I was talking to he would just blow up the courtroom.

'Delete it.' I told him firmly only for him to smile and turn the phone back around.

'I have a better idea, Screensaver options...Where the hell are they? There we go.' He said arrogantly closing the image and sure enough he had stuck the two of us making out as the front page image.

'Perseus.' Reyna said commandingly glaring at him causing him to focus on her while I made a desperate grab for the phone. Which to my surprise I easily obtained and began desperately searching for and deleting the image whilst he made no effort to stop me.

'Ha got it.' I said triumphantly only for the screen to stutter briefly and the image to restore. Causing me to look up at him with narrowed eyes whilst he stood there smugly. Off course I was dealing with someone who could manipulate time as if it would be that easy.

'Why are you here anyway and more importantly alone?' I said in annoyance throwing the phone at him. There was no point in trying further, Seaweed Brain could fix a three thousand year old temple with little to know problem, and it was no hard stretch to say he could keep fixing a five inch by two inch phone.

'I was politely told to get lost by the others so here I am taking care of a few things and confirming that the Theyna ship has set sail. It looked like the anchor was dragging a bit at the start but you soon started making headway.'

'You are so depraved, You got thrown out by Artemis and Diana so you come to annoy us instead. Don't you have better things to be doing?' I asked him.

'I was not thrown out I was told to leave and I willingly agreed. Besides yes I do but the Casino is not open yet so I have some time to kill before I turn a few million into a few billion.' He said arrogantly and reached inside the suit jacket and pulled out a stack of £100 bills.

'Who, What, When, Where and How did you get that?'

'Friends in high places, and soon to be some very broke enemies in equally high places. Give me a while and name a company and I will buy stakes in it for you. Now if you will excuse me I have to legally rob some people, bye.' He said cheerfully before fading into the shadows as I sat back on the edge of the desk and sighed as Reyna sat next to me and shook her head.

'What monster have we unleashed on the world?' Reyna muttered.

'Look at the bright side, He could of become a banker at least he is being honest about robbing people legally.' I said trying to be upbeat about it.

'A few hours ago I watched him hack someone apart, now he is richer than Midas and playing in casinos. Are we sure he got the worst card from the fates, because I have a whole city and Army and I cannot rub two drachmas together.'

'This is why I hate being in charge of things, it sucks.' I said agreeing with the sentiment.

'We can always try again?' She suggested trying to act seductively whilst looking at me.

'GIRLS!' A familiar voice shouted from downstairs. The goddess sounded more irate than usual whether that was due to Perseus was something I am sure we were likely to find out.

'Or not.' I said with shake of my head as I pushed off the desk and began walking towards the door and yanking it open. The impromptu doorstop doing nothing to stop the motion.

Well that was lucky then. Seriously though a whole city and not one shop sold door locks. Since when did they become exclusive to mortals?

(Perseus)

Once again I found myself back in Senate house which had little changed since we had left. Well other than the blood had dried into a brown colour. Obviously cleaning up fat kid was not high on Reyna's priorities. Either that or she was keeping it as a do not fuck with me warning. I personally preferred the second option and I was the one who created them.

But of course I was not here to reminisce; I was here for a purpose. When my counterpart had knocked me out and when I had secretly awakened I had noticed something strange about the building. Particularly the floor was only thin and there was a void underneath it.

Now normally a basement is not a call for investigation by one such as myself, but the aura coming from within that void was of interest to me. It was similar to how I could detect other beings but was different to anything I had ever detected. Different is one of two things good or it needs to die. Either way I was happy as I held a hand to the floor and it shattered into dust as a hole four foot square appeared in front of me.

Jumping the dozen or so feet to the concealed floor I found myself in a dark room, forcing me reveal my wings as a temporary source light. Ripping long gashes out of my suit to my displeasure. If I couldn't fix it in a heartbeat I might have been pissed about wrecking a seven thousand dollar suit.

But clothing casualties aside it served the purpose and dimly lit the room which was revealed to be a storage room akin to the Big House attic, minus the creepy Oracle.

However the biggest difference was the layer of dust that coated everything, from the look of things the place had not been entered in a very long time. The thought did strike me that if the camps moved with Olympus this may not have even been entered the whole time the gods had been stateside.

Like the Big House though most of what was on display was mere Curios and trinkets. Which whilst interesting as a former hero were not worth my attention any more. No I was more interested in what was at the far end of the room on a series of raised platforms. However like a good antique expert I made sure to look at everything before rushing towards the good stuff.

After finally reaching the platforms I started perusing what I guessed was the good 'stuff'. By the way it was ceremoniously placed on now tattered silk sheets.

Turin Shroud

Nail of Helena

Helm of Achilles

Shield of Hector

The last two of which got my attention because of their origin, but the helm was clearly Achilles original and not that forged by Hephaestus at his mother's request and the shield was just a standard crescent shield with no special properties. And therefore not worth taking except as bragging rights.

No I was more interested in the last two items. Those that seemed to positively hum with power.

The first was fastened to the wall by a series of clips along its six foot length before it separated into two foot long tapered points after helixing around each other a few times at the point of separation. In essence creating a Bident.

The Lance of Longinus

'Who the hell named it that? It is not even a lance.' I asked myself shaking my head at some ancient idiots attempt to make the otherwise exceptional weapon sound cool.

The last item though was definitely the cream of the crop, though what it was doing here was beyond me.

One glance at the inscription on the blade told me what it was as I barely concealed my excitement.

. CALIBURNES

'The Calibian sword of Gaius Julius Caesar'

What was most important with the inscription was that most of the letters had faded to be barely legible but several stuck out.

ES. CALIBUR

With a barely concealed squeal of joy I yanked the sword out of its pedestal marvelling at the lightness of the blade as I struck it against the nearest marble column the blade passing through the stone like a hot knife through butter. Only the slight crack indicating where the blade had cloven the column with any problem. The blades cutting potential only rivalled and beaten by Maelstrom's. What was most outstanding was that the sword did not appear to be any of the normal Divine metals. The closest it was Orthrytic Silver but it felt differently to how Hurricane was.

'Finder's keepers.' I called out and upon hearing no reply I decided to stick it through my belt until I could get a sheath for it. Besides if my idiot other half decided to revoke my weapon rights I would just have to get my own. And having such a unique weapon just there for the taking how could I resist as I grabbed the 'Lance' and pried it off the wall the retaining bolts snapping.

However in doing so I appeared to trigger some long dormant trap that collapsed half the floor around me opening into a great chasm below. I was thankful I had my wings out otherwise I would have splattered a few hundred feet below.

Despite my feelings towards just taking my findings and leaving I could sense something else down there and curiosity took over as I swooped down to the floor and stood before it.

'Will someone please tell Roman's to stop hiding super powered statues in their basements!' I shouted to no one in particular as the fifty foot high figure slowly climbed out of its gilded throne. The air beginning to thrum with Ozone. Holding the lance in one hand and drawing Escalibur with the other I looked at the lost Statue of Zeus at Olympia and grinned.

'Hey big guy!' I shouted getting its attention as it looked at me quizzically, after all I was no higher than it's ankle.

'I fucked Artemis!' Sure it may have just been an Automaton but apparently it understood the sentiment as it went on the attack.

AN. And so end my month long hiatus from writing, hope you all enjoyed the new year and the miserable month that is January in the northern hemisphere. though from the way people were reviewing they needed this chapter more than heating. I get it you want to know what happens next but several things. One I am under no obligation to write this other than personal satisfaction and sharing my creativity with you. demanding the next chapter in a review or message that just says 'hurry up and update' is a sure fire way of pissing of an author. that is not to say I don't want to hear from you, I do I want to hear you comments on the chapter and not within 24 hours of posting 'where's the next update?'. Something willAnt understands so thank you to him.

I get it that in the Pertemis section of the three looong stories this, everlasting promises and Queen's champion. there is not a lot of activity, QC is finished sadly, Starblade176 has once again vanished off the face of the earth apart from his depressing twitter account which leaves just this to take the flak. not that I mean to ignore anyone else stories but as far as I am aware we are still the longest stories (I stopped reading Pertemis about a year ago) but as a reminder I don't get paid for this, I have a full time job that takes up most my day and when I get home I just want to relax, not always bust my ass writing this. I write this non stop and I risk the chance of fucking it up which is something I really do not want to. I have invested thousands of hours into this, I am not going to just cut and run with it un-ended. so please have patience.

Anyway away from the rant. this was a pain in the ass to write with the separating of Percy and Perseus. the problem is that Perseus is to chaotic to have at all times. he is fun to write but every other character suffers having to put up with him. the usually relaxed Percy is going into meltdown and Artemis is back to being a bitch. besides I get to write exploits which do not affect the hunt. though I can now have fun forcing the girls to act 'normal' as punishment and having a 'normal' relationship.

As for Perseus he now has an infinity-1 sword and the spear that impaled Christ. the inscription from Escalibur is from the Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and the description for the lance of Longinus is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Also you can provide suggestions for the metal Escalibur is made from, not the usual suspects please. this is not a Roman or Greek made sword but one made by there more savage northern neighbours. As for the Lance you won't see that's full potential for a while.

Hope you all enjoyed the chapter and please leave your comments below. hopefully it wont be so long before the next one.