The Shocking News-Chapter Two
Zeus's POV
I was sitting on my throne polishing my precious master bolt in my palace when there was a flash in front of me. I raised my bolt and shouting "WHO DARES TO ENTER MY PALACE? SPEAK NOW OR TASTE MY MASTER BOLT!" I yelled to the person, not even remembering that only a flash could be a god.
"Father lower your weapon." My daughter Athena said, I slowly did, feeling and probably looking embarrassed.
"Athena why have you come?" I asked worriedly, she only come in emergency, last time it was Gaea.
What could it be this time? I thought. I notice she was biting her lower lip, a nervous habit she had.
"Um..I noticed that there's ten hurricanes, five tsunamis, seven ship sunk, twenty ships got lost at sea in the last twenty four hours." Athena said.
"What's does Poseidon say?" I asked nervously. She bit her lip again, and looked down at the ground.
"I tried but I couldn't get a hold of him."
We both were silent. What could this mean? I wondered.
"I think we should call an emergency meeting," Athena said looked up a me.
I don't know, should we? If we don't how we find out what all this means? I thought questionably. I slowly nodded my head, I grabbed my lighting bolt, and threw it into the sky. It exploded into smaller lighting bolts. Athen and I flashed to the throne room and waited for the rest to arrive. The first to show was my wife, Hera. After fifteen minutes, everyone had showed even Hestia and my brother Hades.
Hades cleared his throat, "Brother why have you summoned us?" Hades asked, I shared a glance with Athena.
"Hades, if you would allow, I would like to explain." Athena said looking at Hades, he nodded his head letting her know she could continue.
"I believe that's something is happening, on earth, more importantly. Something with the oceans and seas," Athena said quickly glancing at Poseidon before looking away.
"Like what?" Poseidon asked looking shocked.
"Well so far in this week there's been ten hurricanes, five tsunamis, seven ship sink, twenty threeships got lost at sea." Athena said staring at Poseidon. Again he looked shocked and confused.
"I'm guessing from how you look at this news that you're not causing this. So the real and more important question is who has this much power?" Athena asked looking up from Poseidon and to the rest of us, like one of us could have done this. At times like this I could almost see the gears turning in Athena's brain.
"Well Polybotes, then Oceanus titian of the seas, then there's me and..." Poseidon said, suddenly he looked up in surprise.
"And?" Ares asked, one of my least bright children asked.
"Percy," Athena and Poseidon at the same time then turned and glared at each other.
"But why?" Hera asked.
"What could have happened?" Hera asked, in worry. I think after the war she secretly became fond of the child of the sea.
"Let's bring Percy here for questioning," I finally decide.
"Perseus Jackson you're here by summoned to Olympus." I said summoning him, less than a minute later there was a flash and Percy was standing on Olympus, Percy looked up at all the gods, and looked surprised to see Hades and Hestia there.
"May I ask why I am here?" Percy asked not looking at any one god.
"Percy your power is out of control, and if you don't get control of your power we'll be force to take action," Poseidon said looking at his young son.
"What do you mean?" Percy asked his father, sounding confused.
"You are making 20 feet waves around the world, Tsunamis, you're crashing and sinking ships," Poseidon said, I notice that every word made him a little more pale into he started to have the same skin tone as Hades. Poseidon made it sound a little threatening, but he didn't tell him we all thought it was a giant or Titans power at first. "And worse you have 34 feet waves above Camp Half Blood, control your power or you destroy your home." Poseidon said warning Percy. To mine and everyone's else surprise Percy did the last thing anyone would have suspected, he laughed wickedly.
"That place is not my home." He snarled, "It shouldn't be called Camp Half Blood it should be called Camp Half Hell Famous for betrayals. Next time there's an enemy you need help on, don't bother looking for me because you wont find me," he said before vaper traveling out of Olympus, leaving all the gods stunned.
"You got to admit he can make a very dramatic exit," I muttered, getting a lot of eye rolls at my comment.
"What now?" Athena asked. All heads turned to her. "What?" She asked.
"You're the one with all the answers." I said, she looked down at the ground and that's when it hit me. The goddesses of wisdom didn't know what to do, we're doomed, we don't stand a chance without Percy, it seemed all the rest of gods realized this too, because the room suddenly exploded into chaos and panic.
"I think I might have a idea," Hades spoke up, making all heads turn towards him, he cleared his throat.
"What is it brother?" I asked.
"Well-I was thinking maybe we could try to understand why Percy was so..." Hades trailed of fumbling for words.
"Bitter, mad, scared..I can go on if you like." Apollo suggested.
Hades nodded his head. "Yeah, bitter, any of those would work. He wasn't himself. Maybe we could go get some of his friends and see what happened." Hades suggested.
Athena stared open mouthed.
"What?" Hades asked when he notice.
Athena shock her head. "It's just that would be smart, I didn't think you had it in you," Athena teased.
Hades started to nodded his before he stopped mid nod, "Hey!"he cried indignantly.
"Hermes go grab some of Percy's close friends." I commanded, Hermes disappeared in a flash. A second later, reappearing with the Seven, along with Nico, Thalia, Will, and Clarisse.
Thalia stepped forward, "Father why have you brought us to Olympus?" My amazing daughter asked.
"We wanted to ask you about your friend, Perseus Jackson." I said. I suddenly got thrown a lot of questions about Percy and if he was okay. All his friends asked- all except Annabeth. This caught my attention, my eyes slowly studied her.
"Chase!" I called out, making her head snap out and look at me.
"Yes lord Zeus?" She asked, saying the lord with a little too much sweetness.
"Do you know anything about Percy?" I asked her, this was one of the only times I called him Percy not Perseus or Perseus Jackson followed by we have decided to kill you. All eyes were now on her.
"Wh-what? Of course I don't know why he left camp!" She exclaimed, the was a couple gasps from Thalia and Nico. She must have realized what she had said because recognition showed on her face. No one had said he left camp. But she knew.
"What did you do to Percy?" Poseidon growled out before yelling, "what did you do to my son?" Annabeth just rolled her eyes and cut her act.
"Please, no one wanted him there anyway, I was doing him a favor," She retorted.
Thalia slowly walked up to Annabeth, disgust and hatred written all over her face. "What did you do to Percy?" Thalia asked before she could not control her anger any longer so she punched Annabeth in the face, knocking her down to the ground. Annabeth pushed herself to her feet, he noticed blood dripping from her face.
"ANNABETH LEE CHASE, TELL ME RIGHT NOW WHAT YOU DID TO PERCY!" Athena screamed at her daughter.
Annabeth just lazily looked up at her mother. "Fine mother, I made Percy watch me make out with my boyfriend," she said, sighing.
"Wait," Leo said looking puzzled, "Isn't Percy your bofriend?" Leo asked the question everyone one was thinking.
Annabeth laughed evilly "No I just used him for fame, he meant nothing to me," Annabeth said, smirking, every one looked at her in disgust.
"No wonder he hates camp, so much and his powers aren't on his mind right now, the girlfriend he was about to proposed to cheated on him," Athena muttered to herself, everyone was in shock. The great Percy Jackson was missing and we needed him.
"Artemis get your hunters, everyone needs to search for Percy. We won't stop until we find him," I yelled in panic, if there was to have another war to brake out we would surely lose. Then I dramatically flashed out with lightning and thunder.
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I woke up to a scream, I looked around frantically trying to find who the scream came from, it took me a moment to realize I was the one who had screamed.
Opps...
I quickly closed my mouth. I used my senses to see if anyone was near, no one was. That was good. I clenched onto to my enchanted neckless. I was once again glad for the gift, it kept me hidden not invisible but it hid my tracks, no monsters or even the best hunters could find me thanks to the gift from my adopted mother. If your wondering who that is its Hestia and if your wondering what happened to my real mother it's a long long story.
After my surprising meeting with the gods and strange turn of events. I did the stupidest thing. I went to see my mom, don't yell and scream at me and tell me I should of run-I know. But I wanted to see my mother one last time before I ran. I appeared right in front of her apartment, I walked up and was about to knock when I notice something very strange.
The front door was cracked open just a little bit, that's not the weird thing, the weird thing was that mom alway locked the door, if they were home or not it never mattered, "Better to be safe than sorry." Mom alway said.
That and the door looked completely busted.
I quietly pushed the door open, and looked inside, all the lights were off. I drew Riptide and crept down the hallway, Riptide in my left hand raised in preparation for any attack that might come. I walked into the kitchen and slowly looked around, the lamp had cobwebs on it and the big red chair had dust in it. I looked around the room seeing dust everywhere. Something is wrong here, my gut told me. I walked down the hall to the bedrooms. Mom's room was slit open, I pushed it open with my foot, flinching at the loud creaking sound. When I saw what was laying on the bed, I gasped and fell to my knees. There lay Mom and Paul, laying on the bed, bodies limp their blood from their slit throats staining the white covers red. I could tell it had been a while because the blood was no longer dripping and wet.
I slowly pushed myself to my feet and stumbled to my mother and started to cry in her chest. I grabbed her hand, "Everything will be okay I promise," I said crying, not caring if I got blood on me, that's when I notice that something was poking my hand, I looked down noticing for the first time that there was something white and small in my mother's dead fist. I looked down and slowly took it out of my mom's hand and looked at it. It then that I notice what it was, it was a paper balled up, it had a couple drops of blood on it but I ignored it as I gently uncrumpled the paper, eagerly reading for my mother's wisdom one last time.
Dear Percy, If your not Percy please give this to him please.
My dear son, you made me proud, I was proud of you before you went to Greece, before you fought in the Second Titan war and before you found out you were a demigod, I was proud of you when you first walked when you first spoke and I was even proud when you came home with a D on you report card. Every time you did something great, my proudness grew, I'm so happy you have great friends and an awesome girlfriend. I'm proud of you my son, I'm right now dying but the only thing I can think about is leaving you at such a young age. And I'm sorry for that. And before you yell at me to fight I'll be okay, I want to tell you that Paul has already died, I'm using the rest of my strength to write this to you. I wanted to at least say the closest thing that can come to be saying good bye. I love you Percy alway remember that, never turn no matter what the other side promises. Promise me that you will move on and not seek revenge. It will do more harm than good. Be good be brave, be the hero I know you can be.
And just like that the last words my mother would ever write wrapped around me like a blanket, then it started to soak into me. "Mom--I promise" I say before ragged sobs, I grab two drachmas and put one in mom's pocket and the other and Paul's. I started crying, when I felt a present behind me I stiffened, it was powerful.
Must be a god, I thought before I turned around with Riptide out, fully formed. I had my sword under the intruders chin, I looked up and was surprised to see Hestia's warm fire eyes staring at me, she glanced over at the bed, I couldn't stop my eyes following her gaze my eyes landed on my former parents. I couldn't help a sob escape from my mouth. This caught Hestia's attention, she looked at me once before pulling me into a motherly hug. After a moment of hesitation, I gratefully hugged her back.
"Percy I'm sorry," Hestia said pulling away to look at me.
I once again looked at the bodies of my parents, with a deep sigh I took a drachma out and tossed it at my dead parents, "Uncle please take them to Elysium," I said sadly. Just before the drachma was about to hit there bodies, there was a glow and the bodies vanished to the underworld.
I felt an arm around my shoulder, I looked up to the kind face of Hestia. "Please don't take me back," I whispered as I looked at the ground. "I don't think I could handle that just now."
I heard a sigh, "That wasn't what I wanted to ask you," She said softly, I looked up at her uncertainly. "Percy I know you just lost your Mother and Paul, but would you like to become my adopted son and champion?" Hestia asked me.
I looked at her in shock and tried to close my mouth which had fallen open when she had asked me to be her son. It took me a moment but I finally managed to close my mouth. I couldn't speak, still shocked so I just nodded my head.
She smiled at my answer, "Close your eyes," Hestia whispered and I did as I was told. She touched both of my shoulders, a soft, warm, buzzing feeling spread over me like I was being given a caring hug, or was by the fire in the winter. The feeling slowly faded, I opened my eyes to hear Hestia gasp.
"What?" I ask start to panic. My eyes darted around, looking for any threat that would have caused her to gasp.
"Your eyes," she breathed out leaving me puzzled. I slowly got up from where I was sitting and walked over to the mirror at the end and started at the face that looked back. I still had my black messy hair, but my eyes were almost unrecognizable I still had my green eyes but in the center of my black irises was a orange flame, in both eye. I turned back to see my new adopted mother smiling at me, I smiled back.
"Do I have new powers I need to know about?" I asked worried.
She laughed. "Of course my son, you have control over fire, but you can also give people hope or take it away, as well as summon food, that also includes Ambrosia and Nectar, but remember you're still a half-blood so they can still heal but also hurt you," Hestia said.
I smiled. "Yes mom," I said, she smiled at her knew name.
"I want you to hide from the rest of the gods and help their children. Either get them to camp or to the hunt, understand?"
I nodded my head, "Mom I have a question." She nodded her head in a go on gesture.
"What would be the name I tell people?" I asked.
She looked deep in thought. "What about Fire Lord, that will be hard for them to guess who you are," She asked me,
I thought about it the campers would probably think I would be a child of Hephaestus, not the opposite and l am a child of Poseidon. After considering I nodded my head in agreement. "That will do." I said, she smiled.
"One more thing," she said, she reached down and handed me a necklace that was made out of a black cloth and had the North Star, I took it confused. Mom laughed "It's something Media made, if the owner is wearing it, it's impossible to be tracked followed, or hunted." She said, I gratefully took it and tied it around my neck. "Only because I gave it to you will I know how to find you." She said before flashing out, I smiled this will be a whole knew beginning I thought happily.
I quickly snapped back to reality when I heard a branch being stepped on, I jumped into a tree and sat waiting to see who was coming.
Ok, guys. This is where S-StarNix left off and the next chapter is going to be where I start my chapters.
Enjoy.
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