Chapter Five: Curse Removed

Percy Jackson had woken up. It was a nice day and the day after the meeting. He saw Scarlet laying down by his bed. Her wanting to be his daughter he did not see coming at all. However he was not going to complain. He would have to take Scarlet to visit his mom and introduce her to her granddaughter. Scarlet got up when she smelted meat. She happily ate it. Percy smiled at the antics of his daughter.

"So Scarlet can you fight?" Scarlet finished her meat. It was really good and she had not eaten in a few days so she was hungry. She looked at her daddy.

"Yes daddy I can fight I am a pretty good fighter. I am fast and combined with my speed I can do a lot of damage quickly. I do not have a lot of power but I know where to aim to hurt." Percy smirked.

"That is good that is very good. Once you are done I wish to test your power in battle." So Scarlet went with her daddy to the training field and a mock battle was set up. Over all Scarlet was good. She could not land a hit on her father at all. He was too fast for her. However if she was fighting a mortal she would kill or at least injury badly enough that it did not matter. She also would do very well against a demigod.

The two then started to train and train very hard. By the end they were a little tired. Suddenly Scarlet started to growl and got into an attack stance. Looking up Percy sees Athena who was scared at the growling wolf. Percy started to pet Scarlet. "Don't worry she is a friend. I trust her." This caused Scarlet to relax. She then bowed.

"I am sorry for my rude actions. I had to make sure you were not a threat to daddy." She said to Athena. Athena was able to figure out pretty quickly what had occurred. Percy smiled at that glad he did not have to explain to her.

"So my friend what can I do for you?" Athena sighed since she was getting nervous. Something that worried Percy for Athena was never nervous.

"I need your permission to remove a curse that I placed on someone." Percy started to smile.

"So going to remove the curse form Medusa now?" Athena was shocked actually she was beyond shocked that she had been found out. Percy smiled once more. Athena's reaction only proved he was right.

"When I was young and before I discovered I was a demigod I read the story and it made no sense to me. To me you were always the one that was fair and right and cared about the ones that were apart of you. Medusa was loyal to you and you knew the truth it confused me." He had to take a pause.

"After I found out I was a demigod and I meet Annabeth and your other children I saw something. I saw that everything they did was done with purpose. So it got me thinking you must have cursed her to help her." Athena was still shocked she really had to tell him how she felt. Each day she was falling for him more and more.

"You are correct. I did curse her but I did it to protect her from your father. He would have just kept on going after her. My father never allowed me to remove the curse when I got you father to back off. Now that your father is gone I can free her. I plan on allowing her to keep her powers but she will be to turn them off. I will remove the snakes." Percy wrote out a scroll and handed it to Athena.

"When you are done give this to her to read. If you need help I advise taking females only. If you need help then call me." Scarlet the whole time was quite.

"Daddy how about I go with her it might help." Percy shrugged his shoulders. Athena gladly accepted the help form the wolf. She suspected that the wolf was powerful. So with a flash the two were on their way to the lair of Medusa. Athena protected Scarlet with her power. She figured it would be bad if she came back to Percy and told him his daughter was turned to stone. She was right.

They made a stop at Artemis's camp before going to Medusa's lair. Athena was not going to ask for help at first. However she knew it would be helpful. Artemis smiled seeing her sister.

"So sis are you going to remove the cruse and do you need some back up? In case she fights." Artemis asked. Athena smiled for you see she shared her reason's with Artemis and Artemis agreed.

"Yes I am going but I cannot ask you to send you daughters." Thalia smiled at this.

"It looks like I owe Percy five buck. He told me his thought. I thought he was wrong. By the way I am going with you. It should be fun." Artemis was concerned.

"Thalia it is not normal to think that fighting Medusa is fun." Thalia shrugged her shoulders.

"My best friend slash brother is the King of the Gods after beating the most power god and titian there was. This same best friend has two of the virgin goddess's in love with him. My other good friend is now the King of the Underworld. This is normal to me. Plus we fight monsters."

Scarlet looked at Thalia and started to sniff her. "It is nice to meet you aunty." Thalia laughed and started to pet her niece. Artemis was shocked.

"Ok Thalia you may go but come back." With a flash the three were off to battle Medusa. Medusa had reformed both actual and not. She was apart but became whole again and she changed. Since she reformed she had not turned anyone to stone. She had been feeling down. She was getting tired of it. All the hero's that have come to kill her and the reforming it was annoying.

After she was cursed she stayed away from the world. She did not want to turn anyone to stone. She wanted to be left alone. However word got around that an evil monster lived in the hills. A few people went to see what was going on. By mistake she turned them to stone.

She tried turning them back. She tried everything even praying to the gods begging them to turn the people back. Once word got out that the ones never came back heroes were sent. It was a large battle. She tried to reason with them but they would not listen to reason.

They trapped her against a wall and in a fit of rage she turned them into stone when they looked her in the eyes. Something changed she enjoyed it after that. After the heroes fell she started to turn more people to stone. After ten years she was killed for the first time. Once her body reformed she did it again.

Facing Percy Jackson and his friends something in her changed. She started to remember who she was and what she stood for. She looked at all the statues of her victims and the guilt was eating her causing her depression.

Just when she was getting lower and felt she could not get any lower in walks the one that cursed her. Also a red wolf and a young demigoddess that has the marking of Artemis's Lt Medusa knew these were not ones to mess with. She noticed the girl had her bow armed and ready to fire. She respected that. The girl had guts. The wolf was claim but watching very closely in case of an attack. Scarlet somehow had gotten a lot of knowledge. She did not know that Athena blessed her with her knowledge.

"So how can I help you? I got nothing left to lose. You already took everything from me." Athena was not expecting this. She was expecting an enraged woman not a depressed defeated person.

"I have come to remove the curse." She said.

"Ok that is nice but why wait for so long? Why curse me in the first place? " Medusa asked not really caring what the answer was. She was going through the motions of it all. Not thing mattered anymore.

Athena sighed. "I know it does not look like this. However I did it to protect you from Poseidon. I could have easily taken you to a safe place but he would have kept going after you. Until he got you or you took your life."

Medusa was starting to feel emotion once more. It was annoyance mixed with a little rage.

"Once more why wait this long?"

Athena was clam but she was hurting. "Poseidon promised the second I removed the curse he would go after you. He taunted me with it. Poseidon is no longer a threat." She then explained what had happened. She then started to chant and after a good few minutes the curse was removed.

The snakes in Medusa's hair were gone replaced with long curly blonde hair. Her eyes were a deep green. In other words she was beautiful in so many ways. It was understandable why many desired her. Athena smiled she handed her the scroll Percy asked her to hand over.

"You have immortally and your powers. You can turn them on and off as you wish. You can also target which parts you wish to turn to stone. So you can only turn the feet if you wish. The scroll is form Percy." Medusa opened it and read it. She smiled and requested that Athena call Percy. In flash Percy was there.

Medusa bowed. "I accept the offer my King. It will give my purpose." Percy smiled at that.

"Good I am glad now first thing do not call me king. Second I am sorry of my father's actions. On that note your first task is to make sure my father and Zeus die. Turn them to stone and smash them to pieces if you must. Zeus will be closer to death. These are there locations. Anyone else that does not have my sign with them you may turn to stone. Once confirmed contact me if failed contact me."

He then showed her his sign. It was a wolf's print with a sword in the middle. The wolf print was blue. Medusa smiled and went off to do just that. Athena and Thalia were in shock. Scarlet was looking for her daddy to pet her. This he gladly did. Athena was about to ask a question. Percy however sensed this.

"I did it to help her bury the ghost of her past. This way she can be freed from it and she can be a better friend. As to what I offered her it is simple. I offered her to lead a special force that seeks to avenge wrong doings. It is crazy I will not deny that but I think it will work. I also am allowing her within reason to pick who ever she wants on her team. It will be like the Fury's only they will only target certain wrong doers. " Athena smiled at this. It was a good idea so very good and so very simple.

"Percy myself and Artemis wish to speak to you about a topic. Can we come in an hour?" Percy smiled.

"Sure I am going to grab a bite to eat. I did not feel like eating this morning now I wish I had eaten. Actual why not join me. I am going to make some blue pancakes." Athena agreed to that. Percy placed his hand on Scarlet and popped away. Athena was a little confused by the blue pancakes. Thalia smiled.

"It was something his mom did. Her ex husband told her blue food did not exist so she set out to find a lot. She made everything blue. I had the pancakes they were very good. It felt nice to get them from her. Nico is lucky that he has her as a cook. The pancakes have a magic all their own. It is hard to describe unless you taste them. "

Athena placed her hand on Thalia's shoulder before popping away. Artemis was very happy to hear that it went well and that her daughter was unharmed. The two go to see Percy and confess to him. They had no idea what would happen and were scared about it.

They arrive at his home to hear him singing to himself. Both thought since he was so good at it. Just how many talents does he have? Percy looked up form cooking and smiled at his friends being there. He served them the food. When they saw the blue pancakes they were a little freaked out.

Scarlet was a little confused to. She had asked her daddy why the food was blue. She was a more powerful wolf so unlike most canines she was not color blind. Percy explained the story to her. Scarlet remembered it and the food smelt good so she started to eat.

She was blown away by how good it was. She loved it every single bite of it. Artemis and Athena figured why not it could not be bad and if it was bad they would deal with it later. Both took their first bite slowly and with a lot of caution. However once both took the bite their eyes lit up. They then started to dig in and eat at a pace that was not befitting a goddess.

Percy was laughing at this. This reaction was the same every time someone had tired the blue food. The two goddess look embarrassed but Percy waved it off. He made more seeing as the two were happy and wanted more. After they had each eaten 5 large stacks they four went to the living room.

"So what can I do for you two?" Percy asked his two friends. He noticed they were nervous and that worried him. He never knew these two to be nervous expect the whole Medusa thing. So to put them at ease he placed a hand on their shoulders to relax them.

Artemis felt her nervousness and fear go down. She called up all the courage she had before looking Percy in the eyes.

"Percy I know you are not going to believe me. I need to say it and I ask that you do not stop me. Athena has something to say after me so please listen." Percy nodded that he would. He promised that he would and the two knew he never went back on a promise he made. Not now not ever. Artemis took a deep breath.

"Percy I have fallen in love with you. It started when you first helped me against Atlas. You were kind and brave. You knew the only way to get everyone out alive was by putting yourself in danger. You took the world form me which put you within striking range. Yet you did it anyway. I love you."

Percy needless to say but the author will say it anyway because it is fun was stunned he did not see that coming. Now to be fair to Percy no one would have seen it coming minus the few that have been mentioned in the story that saw it coming plus the loyal reader to this tale. However nothing prepared Percy for what happened next.

"Percy at first I hated you as you already know. However once I got to know you and watch you. I started to fall in love with you as well. You are loyal and powerful. You give your all in everything that you do. I love you. We both want to be your wives and share you." Once more it is not needed to be said but the author shall say it anyone. Percy was stunned.

It took a good few minutes before his brain registered what was said. The two most powerful of the virgin goddess were in love with him. Both wanted to marry him. He knew that both were being honest and that was very important. He was able to think after a few moments.

"I never saw that coming. The truth is I like both of you and may even love you. I don't know what to do. I really need to speak to my mother and sister. I just done know what to do I am confused. " Both were happy he did not outright reject them. That was a plus in their book.

"Go speak to your mom and my daughter." Artemis said as she smiled. Athena agreed with that statement only adding that the two would wait. Both left after a hug form Percy. All three admitted the hug felt nice. He kissed both on the cheek letting them know he was not going to outright reject them or their feelings. Athena and Artemis went to report to the Hunters what had occurred. Thalia was happy by it.

"Good that means it might occur. His mom will help him see the truth. I will then help him see the truth." Both Artemis and Athena smiled at this knowing they had confessed and where happy to hear Percy felt something akin to love towards them.

End of chapter. Next chapter Sally meets her granddaughter or grand wolf and gives advice only a mother can. Thalia gives advice only a big sister or little sister since Percy is older before he stopped aging.

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