Chapter 23:
Artemis's POV:
MY HUSBAND IS AN IDIOT AND HE SPREAD IT TO OUR CHILDREN...well not Sally, Silena, little me, and our younger adopted daughters. Anyways he's grounded now so you have me for the foreseeable future.
After making sure Tethys was ready to leave I gather the children and Tethys and teleported us all to our palace, where low and behold, my mother is waiting and immediately dragged Tethys off to her Palace.
"I swear mother, I worry about my children when I leave them with you" I mumbled to myself, only to hear Percy chuckle shortly after.
"What about me" he said after he stopped chuckling
"Percy I love you, but I barely trust you with yourself, taking the boys barrel riding down Niagara falls was stupid" I replied
"I made sure we wouldn't die, or get hurt. Did you see the barrels" He asked, and I let out a sigh knowing he was telling the truth. Percy may be many things, especially stupid when he lets his ADHD take hold, but he would never intentionally allow his family to get hurt, especially the kids.
"fine. It's just..." I started, but Percy interrupted
"The kids are incredibly important to you and you wouldn't be able to live with yourself if they got hurt and there was something you could have done about it" he question, and correctly guessed what I was going to say
"Yeah" I said
"I'll try to be more responsible, if that makes you happy" he replied. I know he was being genuine, but I also know that he's probably still not going to be meeting my expectations I have for him being responsible for a while. Change takes time, especially when immortals are involved. Which makes me question if my father changed from his old ways and reverted or if he was putting up an act, since an alliance with Percy was the smart thing to do, especially with how godly politics were going post second giant war. Maybe he was genuine with his change, but the whole me marrying Percy thing was an unexpected twist in his plans.
"Thank you, just knowing you're trying is enough for me" I stated, "but we should really go check on Tethys and my mother" I added, and he agreed as we left our palace.
When we arrived at my mother's palace, we walked in on mother claiming how Percy and I were her favorite kids, and Apollo pouting at the news. However the surprising thing was that Theia was there, as was Lelantos.
"Well I wasn't expecting you to be that quick Lelantos" Percy said
"I found her in Vegas in between casinos, after that bribery was easy" He responded, and well Uncle is probably going to be grounded for life.
"YOU DID WHAT" grandmother yelled at him
"nothing" Lelantos said quickly, which got the kids laughing as they walked in.
"seriously great uncle lelantos that excuse never works" Lucas said as he was the first to stop laughing.
"mom I'm sorry" Lelantos amended quickly
"sorry for what lying to me or bribing your aunt" Phoebe asked, in a scolding manner
"is both an option" Lelantos said
"finally he proves he has at least a brain cell" The kids say, which cause all of us to laugh at my uncles expense, even Apollo.
"yes it's an option" grandmother said through her laughter.
"then I guess for lying to you" Lelantos said, which just doubled the laughter amongst the kids, and caused grandmother to look at her son like she was going to kill him.
"You are grounded for an eternity or until Mnemosyne finds out what's wrong with your brain. Breaking the sacred laws of pranking, scaring myself and your aunt Mnemosyne, and then bribing your aunt Theia. What is wrong with you I raised you better than this" she yelled at uncle
Uncle Lelantos opened his mouth to possibly answer, but grandmother quickly shut him up saying the question was rhetorical, and to go to his room, which Leto lead him to as he didn't have one yet, to my knowledge.
"Your mother is really proud of you Artemis" Tethys said
"I second that" Theia said
"Thank you, but do any of you know where grandma Rhea is" I asked
"Oh yes we just need to summon her here to us it shouldn't be that hard" Mnemosyne replied
"wait a minute you're telling me any of you could summon her" Percy asked
"No. The thing is we ourselves don't know exactly where she is she gave each of us clues as to her location. However, each of the clues are different and pieced together will allow us to find where she is and summon her, as that was the agreed to thing when she disappeared. So in basic terms for the children it requires all six of us to do so"Phoebe answered
"do you think sister will be mad at us" Theia asked
"do you remember how hard it is to make her mad? The only time I can recall is when our bastard brother swallowed Hestia, and after yelling at him for 3 days 7 hours and 46 minutes, she was just depressed" Mnemosyne responded
"Yeah but now, well we're in one of her fallen son's kingdoms, that's now ruled by her grandson" Theia countered
"She never had much love for her sons seeing how similar each of them were to their father, Hades the dark personality, Poseidon the ruthlessness, and Zeus the terrible leadership and being a manwhore" Tethys replied
"so by my guess Hestia is her favorite" Percy asked as to settle the age old question my father and his brothers argued over.
"By a long shot, none of her siblings are even on the same playing field, though Demeter is in the stands of where Hestia is" the original titaness responded
"Should we call for Hestia or no" Percy asked
The titanesses' present seemed to think for a moment before deciding, "She would enjoy seeing at least one of her children I suppose." Phoebe said
"Ok" Percy and I said, and left to see if Hestia was at her palace her, but she wasn't. So we summoned everyone to the throne, minus lelantos, because I don't want to get in trouble with grandmother, and neither does Percy.
Surprisingly our lieutenants, Chris, and Kym arrived, along with 6 or so titans. I believe they were Eos, Auntie Asteria, Auntie Periboea, Aura, Hecate, and Calypso, who brought the epitome of ADHD, Leo.
"So uh Caly why did you drag me along for this" Leo asked
"Because the drama queen upstairs might be planning something against the remain titans" Percy answered
Leo seemed to take a moment before realizing who spoke, "AQUAMAN" leo shouted, "anyways what does that have to do with me"
I don't know about you, but I could tell most in the room were ready to kill him, myself included.
"flame boy" Percy responded casually
"It deals with you because you are forgetting who my parents are and are engaged to me" Calypso exasperated, I'm honestly surprised she is still with him, honestly.
"Oh right, but why would Zeus go back on his promises after six years" Leo asked, and the original titaness sighed out at his lack of observance skills.
"Look around you and tell me what you see" Mnemosyne said
"the original titaness not including Rhea, a bunch of angry girls looking like they want to kill me, a few people I don't know, and Percy and Artemis" Leo stated
"Ugh I meant where do you think you are" Mnemosyne said, losing some of her patience.
"Oh uhhhhh..." Leo started only to look around a little, "Yeah I don't have the slightest idea"
"You're in my palace and stop trying to piss off the original titanesses, Leo" Percy exasperated
"Oh cool place" Leo mumbled , while the original titansesses ignored him.
"Head over and sit in the guess seats while we get Hestia here and the original Titanesses work on getting there last sister to arrive." I said directing them to guess seats we always had prepared.
"Niece do you know where my husband is, he said Phoebe was forcing him to help you all" Auntie Periboea asked
"his mom grounded him for numerous offenses, the biggest of which breaking the first sacred law of pranking" I answered
"that idiot I told him not prank his mother" She replied taking a seat next to her daughter and my cousin. Technically Hecate is my cousin as well through Auntie Asteria. I would have went to talk with them, while Percy was IMing Hestia, but Auntie Asteria was preoccupied by Hecate being a five year old on her lap.
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