"Triton! Where did you find this?!" Poseidon asked as he transformed into his roman form. His beard looked more haggard, more unruly and violent. He touched the staff and smiled, "still so beautiful."
"Percy found it father," Triton informed him.
"Of course he did," Ares grumbled in the back.
"He intended on using it in the dreamworld, but when Hypnos betrayed us I needed something to defend ourselves, so I had to take it from his grasp."
"That boy, never stops surprising me," Poseidon chuckled. He took the staff, it's green light exploded brightly dyeing the entire throne room in sea green, he turned to Hecate, "can I send him this?"
"Yes lord Poseidon," the goddess of magic nodded.
"Good, then prepare your spell quickly. It's best we don't waste time."
"Poseidon what are you doing?!" Zeus cried out, "as your king I order you stop this at once!"
"And as you subject brother I respectfully decline," Poseidon spat, "this is our children we are talking about Zeus! Not just Percy! Thalia...Jason, they are stuck there as well. And you hesitate to help?!"
"Poseidon-"
"Enough!" Poseidon snapped, "I will hear no more, I have made up my mind."
"As have I," Athena spoke as she got up and summoned a large text book into her hands, "Hecate, I will send this as my gift. Can you insure it ends up in the hands of Annabeth and no one else?"
"Yes Lady Athena," Hecate bowed.
"This is out right rebellion!" Zeus cried out.
"I'm sorry father, but they are right," Apollo said as he summoned a single arrow, "we aren't going to sit back and just watch. Our children need our help."
Slowly one by one the Olympians stepped down from their chairs and brought forth a gift for their children. Ares has a box while Aphrodite seemed to have something similar. They didn't mention what it was, only that it was important.
Zeus' face grew redder and redder as more Olympians got down, until it was only he and Hera sitting on their thrones. "Is that how this is?! Fine! Damn you all to Hades then!" he summoned his master bolt with one hand and raised it high. The other Olympians got ready to defend themselves when Hera cried out.
"Stop!" she said standing before her husband.
"Move aside woman! I'll end this rebellion before it begins!" Zeus growled, his eyes red with rage.
"No Zeus, I will no," Hera stood firm, "you are being unreasonable Zeus. Listen to yourself. You would rather have your children die than swallow your pride and accept the help from the minor Gods?"
"Do you not see what they have done Hera?! Their stupid council is the reason we are in this mess in the first place! They did this!"
"And they are trying to fix it! Are we so free of sin we can hold such a high ground over them? Are we so perfect? No, we are not. We aren't what the mortal see us, perfect in every way. We are flawed Zeus, you are flawed, as am I. If we were mortal we would be punished in the fields of torture when we died. But, out of everything we have ever accomplished, out of everything we have ever done, these demigods...they just might be the one good thing in this world that we have to be proud off. Not our strength or our wealth. It's out children Zeus...remember that."
Zeus started into Hera's eyes, into the eyes of a goddess that had no demigod children to call her own, and yet stood up in defence of them. She was the goddess of family, and so she fought for her family.
Zeus' anger settled down, he dismissed his master bolt and got off his chair. He snapped his fingers and summoned the Roman Eagle. It shined in a golden light before the gods, mixing with the green from Neptune's own staff.
Zeus shifted into Jupiter, looking more proper, more brave. He turned to Hecate, "what do I have to do?"
Dreamworld:
After Percy made another set of shields and spears for the demigod army he set about healing everyone that got injured. Luckily no one had died, the titan army had their plates full with Percy and their servants to do any real damage to the demigods. And even when a demigod got hit another would just come up and take their place, protecting them from further harm.
Percy walked up to Morpheus and gave him the signal to wake up all the demigods he had trapped inside his realm. Suddenly pods among pods over them started to burst open spitting people out.
Percy had to run all over this world gathering the people by hand. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd, but he didn't really have time to stop and chat. Percy picked up a couple of college aged kids, a few full grown adults and even old grandpas.
But the weird part was the children. Some Percy realised was Roman, but the other...well they didn't look or feel roman to him. Why? Because they had a greek godly parent listed over their title. And what's more Percy didn't recognize them at all. They weren't from camp, so who were they?
Percy however didn't comment on this, focused on just bringing them all to the ever growing army of demigods, intent on letting Julia and her people work on sorting the demigod's out.
But while Percy ran and did his job he couldn't help thinking, Morpheus said he brought every single demigod in the world into this place, so did that mean these kids were from other parts of the world?
Percy knew now that other religions were real, but none of the kids belong to another patheon, they were all Greek, so did that mean they were all unclaimed? If so they this was a great opportunity, he needed to know where these kids lived in real life and bring them to camp asap!
As Percy dropped off his 200th or so demigod Morpheus called for him, "Percy, you can stop now."
"What? Why?" Percy asked, "there's still a lot of people to go."
"Yes, I know, let me help you."
"What? How?"
"Before I was using my mana to force all the demigods into a slumber, but now that they are free. There is less stress on my and I regained a significant portion of my powers. Let me help."
Percy agreed, and with a simple snap of his fingers Morpheus brought every single demigod out there right before them. Percy smiled first, he didn't have to do work, but the groaned realising just how many demigods there were.
"The Gods seriously have to learn how to use a condom," Percy groaned as he walked up to Julia's team that were slowly processing people, "we just got a huge shipment of demigods. You guys are going to need help."
"What are you talking about?" Julia asked, Percy pointed behind her causing the daughter of Venus to turn and pause. She sighed, "fucking greek."
"Hey don't blame me, Morpheus was the one who did this!"
Julia growled, everyone looked confused and everything was just a disorganized mess. And she did not like that, not one bit. "These are too many people. We address them all one by one. We won't be ready for Kronos by this rate, even with three hours time to prepare."
"Do you have any ideas?" Percy asked.
"You still good at giving loud speeches?" Julia suggested.
Percy grinned, "got it." He walked up to the gathered demigods, still confused as to what was going on, and took off into the sky. He cleared his throat, "may I have your attention please." Everyone were murmuring, looking around confused and dazed. Percy rolled his eyes, "OYE! LOOK HERE!"
Everyone stopped muttering and looked up. A few gasped seeing a person floating in the middle of the air, and even fewer looked like they recognized him.
"Alright, I'm going to make this real simple, anyone who knows what a demigod is please raise your hand!"
The people looked surprised, while a few confused. A majority of them raised their hand making Percy sigh in relief.
"Good, that's good. Now listen, to those who know what a demigod is, we are currently stuck in the realm of Morpheus! That's the god of dreams!"
"You mean Somnus?!" a roman demigod from the crowd asked.
"Ah," he looked down at Julia who shrugged, "I think so? Look that's not important! The fact is we are trapped here! Do you understand?!"
"I'm sorry what?" a young girl near the front asked, "what are you talking about."
"Did you raise your hand first?" Percy asked.
"Ah, no."
"Right, well just wait, we'll explain it to you later, but for now, everyone who does know everything about gods and Olympus listen up! We are trapped in this world and right now Kronos, or Saturn if you prefer is coming for us! We need to fighting him off here and now! "
They all exploded into whispers and hushed tones, fear clouding their minds as panic began to set in.
"What?!"
"We need to get out of here!" People began panicking. They started looking around hurriedly for ways to leave, finding none.
"Listen!" Percy's voice rang out, "I know you're scared, I know you just want to run away and hide. But we don't have that luxury! We are demigods, children of the gods themselves and if we run now we will suffer for it in the long run! Kronos will come after us, if we fal here then he obtains the land of dreams and we won't be safe, even in our sleep! We have no choice! We must stay and fight!"
"Who the hell are you to tell us what to do?!" a blonde demigod yelled out, "you're not even Roman!" The others, who were looking calmed down before, now started agreeing with the blonde idiot, crying out in protest.
Percy looked down with narrowed eyes, he activated his 8.0 eyesight perk and focused on the haggler. Percy would have said he was surprised when he found out the haggler was none other than Octavian, but that would be a lie.
"Octavian, I may not be Roman," Percy growled, "but I'm your only chance at leaving this place alive. You are a Roman, and yet you act like a coward. Making excuses to run away rather than fight. If you are such a fool than no matter, we will send you away with the old and young!"
Octavian blushed, as the people that supported him looked down in shame. Percy turned to the people at large, "we have two hours to prepare for the biggest battle of out lives. Romans report to Praetor Rob for your assignment! Greek demigods meet Thalia Grace the daughter of Zeus! Retired legionaries and children meet Julia! And those who have no freaking clue what's going on stay right where you are!"
Slowly everyone started to move, as the people filtered away. Percy landed before the remaining people and scanned all their faces memorising them. Soon the others left, leaving only those who had no idea what they were. Percy sighed, it was going to be a long day.
"Alright listen up, I'll make this simple, I'm assuming all of you can't fit in, you don't have the best listening skills and when you read it's like words try and mess with you, always changing. You're probably also ADHD, probably called a troublemaker in school, and you probably feel alone in the world."
The group's eyes grew wider and wider as Percy listed down all the characteristics of demigods. They were speechless as Percy continued.
"There is a reason for this, you're special, more special than you can ever know," Percy turned to the army of demigods gathered, "everyone single person here is like you, special in their own way. We were all called troublemakers, we were all called disobedient. And the reason for this, is because we are all the children of Gods."
"Wait what?!" a boy called out from inside the crowd, "what do you mean children of god?!"
"I mean one of your parents was a god," Percy looked through the crowd of faces and spotted the boy who spoke up;
Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus
Lv— 9
"Your name is Leo right?" Percy asked, a small picture of his own dog popped up in the back of his head, but he quickly dismissed it.
"Ah...yeah, how did you know that?" Leo asked shocked.
"It's one of my powers," Percy replied, "I know the names and parents of demigods, your name is Leo Valdez, and you're the son of Hephaestus. The god of fire and smithery."
"Say what now?!" the guy asked looking partly scared at the answer.
"Are you good with machines?"
"Ah, yeah."
"Do you often invent new things on the fly?"
"Yes but-"
"Are you horrible at interacting with people?"
Leo blinked, "have you been reading my diary?"
Percy chuckled, "no, believe me Leo but I haven't. You're a son of Hephaestus, you are similar to your brothers and sisters"
"This is the worst dream ever," muttered a girl to Percy left. She had brown skin and black hair with a feather for a ear ring on one ear. She and Leo were the only older kids there, the rest all being younger than ten or so. Percy looked up at her name;
Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite
Lv— 7
"I assure you Piper, this isn't a dream," Percy smiled.
The girl looked up, her jaw open, "how-how did you know my name?!"
"I told you, I know all the names of demigod's as well as their parents," Percy sighed, "your mother is the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite."
"What?!" Piper asked looking even more shocked.
"It's true, every one of you here has a father or mother that was a god," Percy looked around the people before him, "each and every one of you has the power to change the world as we know it, and you are not alone."
"Mr.? Do you know who's my mommy?" a small child around the age of seven looked up at Percy. She had blonde locks and was holding a teddy bear closely like it was her lifeline.
Diana Prince, daughter of Athena
Lv— 2
Percy smiled as he kneeled before the girl, "your name's Diana right?" The girl nodded meekly. "Well Diana, your mother's name is Athena, she's the goddess of wisdom. I'm sure people say you're very smart all the time right?"
"Yes," she said softly.
"Well that's because your mommy was a very smart lady!" Percy said with a grin.
"What about you?" a ten year old boy asked, son of Ares, "are you one of us too?"
Percy nodded as he stood up and took out Waverider. He turned it into a trident and planted it into the ground, "I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."
"Woah," Leo's eyes sparkled at Percy's weapon, "so cool!"
Percy grinned, "yeah, I know. Now, I just have a few more things before we send you all back home."
"Wait what?!" Leo squeaked, "you can't do that! I just got here!"
"I wish we could talk longer Leo, but we don't have time. Kronos is coming, and you all are not ready to face him."
"I'm sorry, but whose Kronos?" Piper asked.
"He's the greek version of the devil," Percy grumbled, "and technically our grandfather."
"Woah," the Ares kid said, perfectly summing up everything perfectly.
"But before you all go you must remember one thing, this is not a dream, understand?" Percy looked at all the kids particularly, "this is real. We are all real. And we are waiting for you. When you wake up don't do anything, to say anything, we'll come for you. Understand?"
