Grover walked out and suddenly everyone stopped working and turned towards him, "ah, do I have something on my face?"
Galen stepped forward, "Grover? Didn't you leave with Percy?"
Grover blinked once, twice, 'that son of a bitch did it again!' "PERCY!"
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Yay Three for Three! A hat trick! An achiment of a life time! An average of 13+K words for three days staright!
Anyway if you guys hadn't noticed I had used the ending of the PJ and the sea of monsters movie, because frankly I like that idea a lot. I mean it made sence, after all with the ablity to bring back the dead, like Thalia, it should be able to bring back Kronos to right?
thanks again to my Beta the amazing Piyush!
Anyway I'm done. Going to bed now. Also note: I;m going to bed, probably for the next 6 hours, please leave good reviwes for me to wake up to, after all I work so hard. Dobby works so hard, all he asks for is a sock. Just one sock...anyway yeah I'm done.
Bye! Bye!
Chapter 32
Chapter 32:
Percy was panicking. Not because he was currently in a small metal tube flying through the domain of his least favorite uncle who could kill him at any moment. No, no that was an everyday problem for Percy. What really had him freaking out was the fact that he had forgotten about Grover, again.
"Clam down Percy," Michael said patting him on the back, "I'm sure it's not that bad."
"You don't understand Michael! This is the second time I did this to him!" Percy yelled out as he tried to pull out his own hair, "Grover is so going to kill me!"
"You're over reacting Percy," Nina said trying to calm him down, "besides you aren't the only one, we forgot too."
"I know, but I just feel so bad," Percy lowered his head, "oh my mom is going to kill me."
"Your mom?" Annabeth asked, "what does this have to do with you mom?"
"Last time I left him Grover went and complained to my mom. Needless to say she wasn't happy that I left him in LA without paying the bills."
"Damn," Michael said whistling, "sucks to be you."
Percy lowered his head even further, "I'm so dead."
Annabeth sighed, "relax seaweed brain I'm sure Grover will be fine. Odysseus and the others will take good care of him."
Percy looked up and turned to Annabeth, "you sure?"
The daughter of wisdom nodded, "100%"
With Grover;
Grover found himself being dragged around the sea by a dolphin.
The crew had come across a family of them and began challenging each other to try and ride one. They eventually dragged poor Grover into it going so far as to throw Grover overboard. The youngest dolphin then caught Grover between her teeth and started to swim around causing everyone else to cheer while Grover got one hell of a nasty headache.
'Percy I am so going to get you for this one,' Grover grumbled out accepting his new life as a dolphin's chew toy.
Percy;
Percy sighed again, "you're right, I'm sure he's fine."
Percy laid back and relaxed. Michael had already gone to sleep while Annabeth took out the in flight magazine and started to read up on the many amazing but useless inventions that were featured in the sky mall. Nina however was looking out the window just watching the sky as the plane flew on, Percy wanted to ask her if everything was alright but he figured she needed some space.
Percy closed his eyes and let his mind wander. This quest had been difficult, it had been filled with giant sea monsters, giant Gergosas and even a giant Titans. Hm, maybe he should call this the giant quest.
Percy recalled the event at the island. That hand that broke out of the chest and grabbed the Fleece, Percy was sure it belonged to Kronos. That meant he was back, Percy felt it heck he was sure the entire world felt it, but maybe he should go and tell the gods what he saw, give them an eyewitness account of the event.
Percy nodded to himself, 'yeah, I'll do that. When I get to camp I'll tell Mr. D, he'll tell the rest.' With that solved Percy's mind started to drift again. He thought about the Ascension and how cool it was that he was now considered an official member of the crew! Wait....does that mean he's partially immortal now?
Percy opened up his status and found that his race was still demigod without it saying he was partially immortal. Percy smiled, 'it would have been pretty cool if I was.'
Percy closed the box and looked around, after the initial excitement of flying things kind of got boring. Maybe that's why everyone was no nonchalant about it. Guess your first time will always be the best.
Percy wanted to do something, anything. He was so bored, his ADHD was acting up again. Percy turned around and looked at Annabeth reading her magazine.
'Hm, maybe I should read a book. After all I did get a huge collection from Argo's personal library. Oh wait, every time I try to read something interesting there is always a chance to fast learn it, and there is no way I'm going to read an entire book if I could just simply absurd all that knowledge with the press of a button.'
Hence laziness won that argument as Percy sighed spending the rest of the flight in deep boredom. He should have bought a gameboy or something.
The plane landed at around noon and the group of demigods quickly walked out of the airport ready to get back to camp. Percy was happy that he finally got out of that uncomfortable seat and got a chance to stretch his legs. Maybe it was the Poseidon in him, but now that he tried flying he swore he would never do it again, unless absolutely necessary.
The quickly got a cab and started the last leg of the journey back. The car driver was some indian dude that smelt like pizza, what? Did you expect him to smell like curry just because he was Indian? You fucking racist. Shame on you. Plus who doesn't like pizza?
As time went on Percy suddenly thought of something, "guys," he whispered out. Nina, Michael and Annabeth who were all stuffed into the back seat with him turned to look at Percy, "what do you think we should do about the fact that Luke is...well, you know..."
"Do you think we should tell people about Luke?" Annabeth asked.
Percy shook his head, "I'm don't, why? You think we should?"
Annabeth frowned, "no, I don't think we should"
"Why not?" Michael asked, "I mean the rest of the people know's he's on our side-"
"-we can't risk his secret getting leaked out," Percy said, "we can't tell anyone, not even the Gods. "
"Oh come on!" Michael practically groaned, "why can't we trust the Gods?! They are on our side! Heck Kronos is trying to kill them!"
Annabeth groaned, "no, no if Ares could get corrupted enough to help Luke steal the lightning bolt then there's no saying what else Kronos could do to others."
Percy nodded, "yeah, plus Kronos doesn't really want to kill all the Gods, just his 6 kids, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. He would have no problems making deals with the other Gods for immunity."
Nina raised an eyebrow, "you really think the gods would betray each other?"
"We are dealing with the Greek Gods," Percy said, "they invented the back stabbing. Look the less people who knows about this the better."
Annabeth nodded, "I agree, any objections?"
Nina shook her head, "no."
"I also agree but what about Clarisse?" Michael asked, "what if she already spilled the beans?"
"Clarisse has the mind of general, she won't do that, she knows how important of a secret this is" Percy said, "remember we still have a spy in our midsts, we don't want to tip them off."
"Didn't Like say the spy was his?" Nina asked.
"That maybe true...but let's not risk it," Percy said, "for now we stick to the plan, Luke remains our secret. Agreed?"
Everyone nodded and said together, "agreed."
Annabeth smiled and turned to Percy, "see Percy, this is called trusting others."
Percy frowned, he knew she meant the fact that he kept Luke wanting to be a spy for them a secret from them. Percy sighed, "I really don't want to talk about this right now Annabeth."
The daughter of Athena sighed and turned away as an awkward feeling settled down amongst them. No one talked, not even Michael, and soon the cab ride was over as the reached the entrance to camp.
Percy payed the man and the rest quickly walked up the hill and into to forest. Just as the entered the trees two blurs moved towards them. Michael, Nina and Annabeth reached for weapons but Percy just stood there and smiled.
Zed and Alecto appeared in front of them and bowed to Percy, "master," the said together.
"How's camp? Did you guys run into any trouble?"
Alecto shook her head, "no monsters even walked near this place since you left. I think after a few of them died at our hands trying to get in they got the message."
Percy smiled, "great, I think you two deserve a break. Good job, both you," and with that Percy pulled them back into the gem on his forehead finally giving both the servant a well deserved break.
"Ah dude I have always been meaning to ask you, why exactly is Alecto dressed up like a school teacher?" Michael asked,
Percy shrugged, "she tried to kill looking like that. Guess she liked the form and just kind of stuck with it."
Michael nodded and soon the team walked up the familiar hill and reached Thalia's tree where they saw a huge crowd of campers surrounding it.
"Hey there back!" A camper cried out as soon Percy and the rest were crowded by campers all congratulating them on a job well done while patting on the back.
Percy managed to slip out of the group and walk toward the tree where Clarisse was. "Is it working?" Percy asked looking at the tree. The Elder Snake venom was gone and so was all signs of decay from the tree, "I guess it's working."
"It started to heal itself the moment I put the Fleece on it," Clarisse said pointing at a low hanging branch where the Golden Fleece now rested, "it's back to full power. Some of the Satyrs even say that they can feel the barriers power being increased causing the defence around camp to nearly double."
Percy whistled, "damn, that' impressive. Maybe we should use the thing to try and heal all out injured from now on."
Clarisse shook her head, "no, we can't. The moment we take the Fleece off the tree goes back to normal power. True that's enough but with Kronos risen and everything that's going on I think people would feel a lot safer if our camp's defence was at max.'
Percy nodded, "sounds good. Oh and by the way," Percy lowered his voice to a whisper, "we decided not to tell anyone about Luke being a spy. The less people know-"
"-The better," Clarisse nodded, "yeah, got it."
Percy nodded, "good, glad be got that srted out."
"Oh and by the way Dionysis wanted to see you, now," Clarisse pointing to the Big House, "I told him about the quest and he wants to talk to you."
"Got it, thanks," Percy said turning away, "anything else?"
"Oh, there's this victory feat at the Mess Hall in ten minutes, don't be late hero."
Percy smiled walking away, he shouted,"you're the real hero Clarisse, you bought the Fleece back."
"Shut it seaweed brain!" Clarisse shouted back.
Percy chuckled but made his way to the Big House. He didn't need to look inside for Mr. D because the God was outside sitting on the porch. He was drinking a can of diet coke and reading a newspaper titled, 'Olympus daily.'
"Mr. D," Percy announced himself as he took a seat on the chair opposite to the God, "you wanted to see me?"
Dionysis lowered his newspaper and raised an eyebrow in confusion before it changed to recognition, "ah, Peter Johnson. I heard from Clara that you had a very interesting quest, she mentioned something very interesting and I wanted you to tell your side of the story."
Percy nodded as Mr. D went back to his newspaper, "well I suppose it begins right after he got the Fleece. We were just leaving the island when suddenly we were surrounded by the Titan army and they took us prisoners. They put us in chains and took the Fleece, but luckily the others managed to escape leaving me behind."
"And why did they leave you behind?" Mr. D asked turning the page of the paper.
"My chains were to hard to break out of, so I told them to leave me. Later that night I was brought back to island. Kronos's people were going to use the Fleece on something, on someone. I didn't know who untill I saw a big chest on the island with a sickle on the top."
Mr.D stopped reading, "continue."
"I tried to stop them, but they used the Fleece to revive Kronos," a cold wind blew through the camp grounds, "suddenly the others popped out and started attacking the army, distracting them enough for me to escape. I tried to grab the Fleece but a hand burst out of the chest and grabbed it instead. I pulled as hard as I could but the hand didn't let go. The Fleece ended up tearing in half."
"And you believe this hand to be Kronos?" Mr. D asked in a skeptical voice. Percy knew the God was just trying to piss him off, but Percy noticed that the god was not even reading the paper, his head hadn't moved an inch since the conversation began. Though he looked like he was not paying attention, he was.
"Yeah, I do. I ran out of there as soon as I could and managed to escape with the others. As I was leaving I could feel a pulse of power exploding out of the island, Kronos had risen."
"You know I would be inclined to believe your story except I find it hard to believe," the God said, "Kronos was cut up into so many pieces and scattered across the world. Most were thrown into Tartarus while some were hidden away by the god's themselves. So even if the titans took the rest of eternity they still wouldn't have found them all."
Percy nodded, "yeah that's true. I don't know who they got around that but they did. All I know is that they used Polyphemus to do it."
The god sighed, "and how did they do that?"
"They slit his throat over the chest before throwing him into it. If I was to guess they used the cyclops's body to replace all the parts that Kronos didn't have."
Silence fell over the two as the God remained silent for a long time. Percy didn't know why, but he hoped it was because Dionysus was finally taking him seriously.
"Do you have anyone to backup your story?" Dionysius finally asked.
"Well, not really no. Everyone else was busy running away when the hand popped out, but I am telling the truth. That explosion of power, that feeling, everyone felt that, I beat even you."
Dionysis finally put down his paper, and took of his reading glasses, "so you are basing this claim on a feeling?"
'Is he trying to piss me off?' Percy grumbled to himself, "yeah. I am."
"If I go to Zeus with this he will laugh at my face. You do know that we get threats about Kronos raising every other week right?"
