Chapter 24: Epilogue P2

AN: PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANYTHING IS OUT OF ORDER

Artemis's POV:

Five minutes later and Hestia finally arrived though she seemed upset. "What's wrong Auntie" I asked

"Zeus declared the titans an enemy of olympus and anyone harboring them, well I'm pretty sure you know" She responded seemingly upset

Percy and I were about to respond because it's no secret that Hestia is practically everyone's favorite aunt if they have her for an aunt, but my grandmother responded first, "Don't be so sad niece, especially when your mother is about to arrive" she said to her as comforting as she could

"But no one has seen her in millennia. We don't even know if she's still alive" Hestia said, and she was starting to cry by the end of it.

"Though you make a great point about her not being seen in millennia she has been heard from by her sisters" Phoebe said, gesturing to her sisters.

"But..." Hestia started but just started crying, which was unusual for her, "I miss my mommy" she whined turning into a four year old.

Myself and Percy wanted to go comfort her, but a flash and a woman sitting down next to Hestia holding on to her interrupted that, "Mommy missed you too, sweetie. I'm sorry I was gone for so long" she said softly to Hestia.

Hestia looked up from where she was being held and saw the woman before shouting, "MOMMY" and she proceeded to drag Rhea to her palace, to show her around, but was intercepted by my mother, in her four year old form, which caused Rhea's sisters to sigh, and Rhea to look confused.

"NO AUNTIE RHEA SEES MY PALACE FIRST" Leto said taking the other arm of Rhea

"NO MINE SHE'S MY MOMMY NOT YOURS" Hestia countered.

"NO MINE"

"NO MINE, I'M HER DAUGHTER"

This went on for over an hour while Rhea stood in between them confused as her sisters were probably trying to mentally explain the situation to her.

By the time the first hour of who's palace to goto ended, it looked like Rhea had an understanding of what was going on and allowed Mother and auntie Hestia to continue fighting for her attention for another few minutes.

"Alright that's enough children" Rhea said sternly, "I will visit both of your palace's, but I believe I have business to talk with the lord and lady first."

"Butttt Mommy my Palace is beautiful and you must see it now" Hestia whined

"No mine is more beautiful you must see it now auntie"Leto countered

"no mine is" Hestia argued

"Children stop, now. I'm sure both of your palaces are beautiful, but the concerns of my people need to be handled. Especially with the news you brought about your brother's recent declaration daughter" Rhea intervened staring down the two four year olds, which would be a normal thing to do if it wasn't for the fact that the two four year olds were actually well over 10,000 years old.

"Now my sisters have caught me up to date on most things, including the most surprising parts of the lord and lady being married and having children, and their invitation. Which I ask if the latter is true" Rhea said looking at us, and the other titans, that were brought here by our lieutenants seemed interested

"The invitation is for all peaceful titans" Percy said, fairly evenly, "though we are having trouble finding them so if you can summon the peaceful titans not present that would help" 

Rhea nodded, and summoned the peaceful titans, which I was surprised about, which grandma rhea apparently noticed, "oh dear. As queen of the titans, I can summon them all in my husband's absence, but the peaceful ones will most certainly answer my call, when I send for them" Rhea explained

"can zeus do the same" Percy asked clearly slightly worried

"he can but response is always voluntary, just be prepared to face the consequences of not answering the call" Rhea answered, "so could Hera, but zeus needs to be in absence" 

"dam" percy whispered which got a slight chuckle form Thalia and an angry glare from our daughter zoë.

"I understand now and that was in my previous life, so will you two please stop making fun of me, or well previous life me" Zoë asked, which got Rhea caught off guard and the others in the room who didn't know.

"Grandma may I present my eldest child, Zoë Knightshade Jackson, daughter of Percy and myself, Goddess of of the stars, constellations, strength, endurance, wildlife, virginity, maidenhood, and rip-currents/riptides. The reincarnation of her namesake, and my previous lieutenant, Zoë Knightshade, the disowned daughter of Atlas" I said, guestering to my daughter

"Oh interesting how did you learn about that" Rhea asked

"La...Anake told us" Percy said catching himself before he said Lady, likely remembering her threat.

"I'm surprised you know of her, my son wishes her non-existent afterall" Rhea said

"Oh she introduced herself to us, when the fates gave our adopted daughter/my sister-in-law her domains, and continued to ignore our children" I said, only for the peaceful titans to start arriving, minus the four winds and their parents and lovers, however Lelantos arrived and he started hiding from his mother.

"alright now let's start asking about the non peaceful of my kind" Rhea said, after getting her people to calm down and sit in the guess seats. "Let's start with my remaining brothers"

"On that matter I'm only willing to allow Iapetus" Percy said and turned to me.

"I'm in agreement on that matter" I said, even though I didn't necessarily approve of Iapetus, I knew arguing with Percy with this after hearing what Iapetus did for him in tartarus would prove a fruitless argument.

Rhea nodded and summoned her brother Iapetus who arrived, who saw Percy "PERCYYYYY" He bellowed, and went to bro hug my husband, "You look different now, definitely stronger" he added after the moment

"We'll talk later old friend, but now I believe I'm in negotiations with your queen" Percy said, with a small gesture towards grandma

Iapetus turned around and immediately bowed on his knee, "I'm so sorry my queen"

  "Your forgiven Iapetus. Anyways grandchildren, what of Eos and Astraeus" Rhea said

"Too Loyal to Zeus/father" Percy and I responded, with Percy and I referring to Zeus in disgust

"Ohhh ask them about my children" Iapetus asked

"Well" Rhea asked like she already knew the answer

"Atlas is a no, and if Prometheus and Epimetheus can make lasting concessions, then I suppose that's negotiable" Percy replied, and I was surprised he was willing to negotiate for Prometheus and Epimetheus.

"What concessions must they give" Iapetus asked

"An oath on the styx to remain peaceful in any potential future wars and not to interfere via third party in said potential wars, disarmament, and an oath of loyalty to Rhea, Artemis and Myself, in return they get the protection as any other resident and citizen of the my kingdom will hold" Percy answered

"I can live with that if they are willing" Iapetus said, and wrote a letter to send to his sons telling them the conditions for their stay here

"Ok that surprised me, but on with it. Klymene" Rhea asked and that peaked Iapetus interest again

"I thought she was peaceful" Percy and I responded

"Actually she sided with me in the second titan war" Iapetus said looking down a little shamefully, so he probably forced or convinced her through nefarious ways.

" She can come as well" Percy said before I could speak a word to Iapetus to see if he knew why she joined the war

"The hesperides" Rhea asked

"Nope they hate us" Percy and I replied while Rhea, mumbled stupid girls

"Well I believe that is all then" Rhea finally said after she spent a moment thinking.

We nodded in respect to the titan queen, "Thank you for giving my people a place to finally call home after years of hiding" Rhea said, "But I believe it be unwise to keep my daughter and niece from showing me around. Titans, you will go off to the temporary accommodations Lord Percy and Lady Artemis has had prepared and we will talk about more permanent accommodations shortly I'm sure of" Rhea finished only to be dragged out by two overly hyper girls who grabbed her by the arms and ran out the throne room, followed by her sisters, and a pouting Lelantos being dragged by his mother, while Asteria follows closely behind carrying Hecate, and uncle Perses.

You may think that the Titan of destruction isn't peaceful, but he and his brothers are surprisingly peaceful, even if Astraeus is too loyal to Zeus, because of his damned kids.

Anyways we led the others off while telling the children off to bed, which was met with complaints and the sighing of our lieutenants as they went to deal with it.

Time Skip 3 weeks

Five days after their arrival Prometheus and Epimetheus came, and complied with negotiations in full. 

Two weeks and a weekend after their arrival we have finalized housing plans. The original Titaness agreed to live together in their own palace, much to the dismay of Hestia and Leto, who wanted their mothers to stay with them. Iapetus and Klymene would have their own palace, and take responsibility for their sons, who will stay with him for a millennium after their palace is completed. Many of the other Titan couples applied for a more simple home and not a palace. Now why, I don't know. Immortals tend to like to be extravagant and large, but it could be because of the many years and hiding or imprisonment.

Though Leo insisted on building his and Calypso's home, which we told him he could assist in helping Tyson with all of it, which only made him disappointed, because it wouldn't be a solo project and he got himself more work to do. Calypso, however seemed thankful as I think  even she occasionally has problems with his ADHD and finding ways to distract and minimize it.

I occasionally have problems with Percy's ADHD, take the barrel riding incident for example, but I have more experience in dealing with ADHD demigods thanks to my former huntresses, now adopted daughters.

However, everything is starting to shape up for our small but now growing kingdom.

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