Just days after Percy got a new mission from his cousin, Annabeth arrived and when Zoe saw her, the daughter of Artemis gave the daughter of Athena the evil eye every time she laid eyes on the heroine of Olympus and Annabeth doesn't even know why...at least not yet.

"I get why Perseus would hate me, but why do you hate me Zoe" Annabeth asked

"because you hurt my father" Zoe responded  simply

"Zoe!" Artemis called as she looked around camp for her daughter "Zoe Diana Jackson, where in hades are you"

'Niece, don't use my name as a curse" Hades sighed out.

"I'll try not to, but I don't make any promises on the matter" Arty replied to her uncle

"Sorry mom," Zoe said jumping down from a cabin, "Just practicing my free running like dad told me to. What did you need?"

"I need you to help me deal with the stupid boys at the archery range" Thals said, causing a  good number of people to chuckle, knowing that Thals was getting her lady and Perseus some alone time.

"Thalia wanted your help over at the Archery range" her mother told her as Zoe gained a bright smile and said, "Yes! I'll go help her out, love you mom!"

Artemis shook her head fondly and said, "love you too, Z"

"She gets her smile from you, you know that right?" Percy asked his girlfriend as Artemis smiled and said, "but she gets her loyalty from you along with her love of family"

"That's true but I also get my give me what I want face from dad, and a smirk though he says it needs work to be perfected" Zoe said with Percy's trademark trouble making smirk adorning her face

"Don't forget about my good looks, "Percy said with a puffed out chest as Artemis instantly said, "No I think she gets that from me, instead of you"

"ouch that hurts" Apollo said eyeing his sister carefully

"yeah, I should have never taught her how to sass" Perseus said

Percy practically deflated and said, "I hate you sometimes..."

"No you don't, You love me and it is only love" Arty said looking into Perseus's eyes

"No you don't" Artemis said kissing his cheek as Percy and her gazed lovingly into each other's eyes and the son of Poseidon said, "No i don't..."

The two kissed, but then separated when they heard a gasp before Percy activated his eagle vision and said, "come on out daughter of Athena! I know you're there!"

"I'm going to do something stupid or say something stupid here aren't I" Annabeth questioned which caused her siblings to snicker, until they saw the glare she was giving them

When no one appeared Artemis said, "That's an order, niece, now come out!"

No one appeared still,

"Well that's the something stupid" Annabeth said

"Yes, I was considering turning you into a jackalope, for ignoring me" Arty said

"So whatever else I'm doing is probably in terrible morale character" Annabeth asked, only to get a subtle head nob. 

 and Percy said, "Then I guess I'll take you to court and take custody over my son"

"Oh gods please tell me I wasn't that dumb" Annabeth asked

"I would but that would be a lie, and I think you already know that" Perseus said

"I'm disappointed in my other self" Annabeth spoke simply

"So am I" Perseus, Percy, Nicholas, Nico, Thals, Thalia, Poseidon, Sally, Hestia, and Artemis said

"Well I'm quite proud of her because she doesn't need a stupid sea spawn" Athena said earning a hard glare from the prior group and Aphrodite., "What she doesn't need him"

"Oh just like when I didn't need him in medusa's lair, the St. Louis Arch, that stupid tunnel ride in Denver, at Crusty's water bed palace, the underworld, when we were sailing near the sirens island, Polyphemus's Island, when I was under the damn sky and being held captive, so many damned time down in the labyrinth that it's not worth it to count, when I was injured in the battle of Manhattan, in Charleston, literally sailing across the Atlantic, going to Rome, being in Rome, Tartarus which is your fault, or Athens when I was about to be sacrificed to the damned earth mother" Annabeth fumed, "I'm pretty damn sure I do need him"

Annabeth appeared and said, "Don't you dare Jackson"

Percy scowled and said, "He's my son, Annie, I have every right to fight for him, since you won't allow me to see him"

"yes you do, why is other me doing this" Annabeth exasperated, much to her mother's displeasure because she doesn't need the sea spawn.

Annabeth faltered, but said, "Since when were you seeing Artemis? I thought she was a virgin goddess"

"Deflection, so you are probably at least feeling a little guilty about it" Sally said, only to get looks from everyone, "what I may have taken a few behavioral classes, and deflection is sometimes a sign of guilt, and other emotions that ones do not want to deal with"

"So you know?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow, "Took you long enough"

"Why do you hate me" Annabeth asked, before backing up at the sight of Percy's eyes and he said, "Because you left me because of a damned job at a place that holds the worst memories for the two of us! I was going to propose to you that very night! That night...The very night, you showed that you only care for yourself and not anyone , but your own interest! It was thanks to you that I got drunk that same night, that I lost my best friend, my first love!"

"Geez I would hate me too" Annabeth mumbled, which only Percy heard as he was sitting next to her, even after all of the commotion that has happened already

Percy's eyes were now almost hurricane like as they swirled with, raw, unadulterated rage towards the daughter of Athena who broke his heart and kept his son away from him.

"Which is just cruel, why would I do that" Annabeth asked, because there's no reasonable answer. She knows that her other self should have been fine with joint custody, with alternating weeks or something similar.

"Just be happy that I don't kill you on the spot, Athenian spawn," Percy snarled, his hidden blade sticking out of his sleeve, "Be happy that you aren't a damned templar!"
Annabeth ran off with tears in her eyes and Artemis put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down and Zoe ran up to him and asked, "Daddy? Are you okay"

"nope my emotions were controlling me and I didn't want to hurt anyone so your mother teleports me to some deserted place while both of us lie to you" Perseus said

"You lied to me about going hunting" Zoe asked

"Well, you went with me on my next hunting trip like I said you could so I don't see the problem here" Perseus replied, as his daughter started to mumble about how it should be a crime to lie about going hunting

"I will be, Z" Percy replied, his eyes still stormy green, but not like miniature hurricanes. "I think I'll go hunting to calm down. I'll be gone for the rest of the day, just listen to your sisters and Aunt Thalia and I'll bring you with me on my next hunting trip. Alright"

"she didn't listen, because she was pacing around worried about you because you always allow her to come hunting with you" Thals said, trying to get her niece in trouble for disappearing on her without a word as too where she was going.

Zoe nodded and Percy got his gear together back at the Poseidon cabin, then Artemis flashed him to his hunt area and he began his hunt.

A few days Later

"Have you planned out your mission?" Artemis asked her boyfriend as they lay in bed naked as the day they were born

"Did you two just" Aphrodite said and started making a finger through a hole motion with her hands

"We aren't answering that" Perseus and Artemis said at the same time

"Yes, I have, but it can only work with all of the Olympians and the rest of the seven, in the room,"

"Why do you need us there, Perce" Jason asked

"Because you all would mess up my plans because of improper training" Perseus responded for them

 Percy told her, "With them out of he way I can stalk Hercules and wait for the perfect moment and then kill him permanently"

"Are you sure that you can kill him permanently?" Artemis asked him

"After killing Gaia, I gained the power to kill immortals permanently," 

"That's not possible" Zeus shouted

"Don't ask me , our universe's could be governed by different laws, and this could be one of them" Perseus said, "Plus in my universe I defeated queen dirt face on my own with a stab from my sword and not with an artillery shot from a power hungry roman augur, like it was in this universe"

Percy told her, "I will be able to kill him, but only if he doesn't know that I'm after him. I already know hat I can't beat him in a close up match"

"bull shit Perce" most of the demigods said

"I'm getting old, I'm not as capable as I used to be you know. I'm 35 not 17" Perseus said explaining to them, "but with the skills I posses now if I were in my early 20s i would have no doubt I could beat him in a fight"

"sounds like age is a bitch" Percy said

"Language Percy" Sally scolded her son, before he started reading so it didn't turn into a lecture.

", so the only way to kill him is with a stealth kill and the only way I do that is if I can catch him off guard or if I can sneak up on him"

"So let me get this straight, you're going to sneak into Olympus, kill Hercules, without getting caught, and then leave as if you were never there in the first place?" Artemis asked Percy who nodded and said, "all in the span of the meeting"

"Well that's the plan, it could go terribly wrong but I doubt it" Perseus said, only to get slapped by Arty

"You know that sneaking around on Olympus is impossible don't you?" Artemis asked him. "There are gods watching the citizen's every move. You can't kill Hercules by stealth, nor can you do so in plain sight"

"What happened" The demigods asked, "we can sneak around Olympus pretty much when ever and no one would even know"

"Zeus became more paranoid after the second giant war, and the heroes of the war denying immortality. So, he issued surveillance of everything that happens on Olympus and a strict no weapons policy unless you are, well a god, one of their bodyguards, which was also mandated by Zeus, or my huntresses which doubled as my body guards." Arty explained, which made Zeus think if he could do the same, minus the body guard thing, that just seemed annoying and a way to get someone with weapons on Olympus who shouldn't have them.

"Have a little faith in me, will you Temis?" Percy asked the moon goddess. "I'm Percy Jackson and nothing is impossible...besides, Zoe will be with you and that will keep the gods occupied"

"No I won't" Zoe said defiantly, drawing many looks of worry from the hunt her grandparents, and aunt Hestia.

"Does she know about this," Artemis asked him as he nodded and said, "Yeah told her last night before we went to bed. She surprisingly agreed to it knowing that it's the only way for me to complete my mission"

"That doesn't sound like our daughter" Artemis stated, "you don't think..."

"That she'll follow me anyways and kill the guards around Hercules's Palace?"Percy asked with a proud grin on his face "Oh yeah she will. I'm counting on it"

"Why do you count on our daughter ignoring your orders" Artemis asked Perseus, letting slip her feelings for the girl from another universe.

"Because if it was a role reversal, I would ignore her orders to stay away and not help" Perseus said, "plus I already barely listen to orders from higher beings, I would imagine I some how managed to pass that down on to my daughter"

"So you're counting on her to disobey your orders and kill the guards around Hercules's palace? She could get seriously injured" Artemis said to her lover

"No I won't mom. I'll be fine I'm yours and Percy Jackson's daughter, only the truly dumb would dare come after me" Zoe said, making the gods wonder which of them have already tried to kill her, fight her, or just get close to her.

"She's the daughter of Artemis and Percy Jackson,"Percy deadpanned, "She's going to disobey anything I tell her to do concerning this mission and do the exact opposite, unless I tell her to join me, then she'll join me"

"I still think that it's a bad idea, Percy" Artemis told him

"That's just a mother's protective instinct" Sally said, "If I had my way Percy never would have went on any of his quest" 

"It'll work, trust me, "Percy said as Artemis looked into his eyes and said," Okay...just please keep our little girl safe"

"I will"

The two then fell asleep, waiting for the solstice so that Hercules can die for what he's done to their loved ones. 

"Why the solstice" Zeus asked

"Because most will be gathered in the throne room, and those that would interrupt my plans would be here as well, leaving my target relatively undefended" Perseus said

"Anyways, here Clarisse, I feel like there's going to be someone's death so that likely means a fight" Percy said handing the book to her, and at the mention of a possible fight she immediately dropped whatever protest to reading she was going to have.