Chapter 7

Author's Note: This is word emphasis, quoting someone, or titles

St. Louis:

The Winchester siblings, Percy, and Grover looks around the home of the Cardinals while taking a brief break from the quest, though they had dealt with a few problem ghosts along the way, a shifter, a memorable incident with a ghoul, and a horde of Hellhounds, though it wa debatable as to whether they were associated with Pit Demon kind, or Hades' realm. Dean had refueled Baby, Sam was charging his laptop in Baby, which Dean had locked up tight, and that was the signal for the Mist to hide Baby. They swing by the Cardinals gift shop to see if there was anything of interest, before heading off to the St. Louis Arch. Thanks to the fact that all of their bags looked like messenger bags, and were spelled to be invisible to mundanes, and those with Clear Sight as well. They would not be separated from their weapons, dammit! Two of them were demi-deities, two of them were Hunters of the Supernatural, and Grover needed his food.

Canon Percy would be pissed about how this Percy's life was going, though even he would admit he would be better off without Annabeth in his life. She had taken over before he had even realized it. The only time he had ever really stood up to her was when she dissed Tyson, his Cyclops baby brother. No one dissed his family, not even the girl he'd had a crush on. Too bad Rachel had become the Oracle, canon Percy would have actually preferred her. Instead he ended up with Annabeth, and stupidly followed her into Tartarus. What the Hades had he been thinking, oh, right, his second head had been doing the thinking by that time. Serena straightens when several low grade arguments start up all around them, and she groans, " Big sis, would you cut it out, have a very, critically important quest to finish. "

Neikea, Goddess of Arguments, looks at her demi-deity half-sister, " Thank you for freeing Horkos, little sister. Be warned the Mother of All Monsters is lurking. By the way great-grandpa loved the high grade pork ribs you sacrificed to him for breaking the curse on all of Medusa's victims. "

Serena groans, " Thanks for the heads up, sis. I better catch up to the testosterone laden idiots before they get into too much trouble. "

Neikea watches her little sister go, she had taken a form remarkably similar to that of Jessica Rabbit, she loved stirring up minor chaos with arguments. Serena Winchester may just be what was needed to settle things without too much BAD chaos. Oh, there were different kinds of Chaos, but the Crooked One coming back? That was BAD chaos, hence why her mother had decided to interfere, not to mention that stupid fight between Michael, and Lucifer! Eris had warned her children that the Judeo-Christian shit would start up at the same time as the Greco-Roman shit. None of them wanted the Crooked One back, the gods may be petulant little children, but they did happen to be the lesser of two evils.

Dean looks at Serena as she returns to them, just as they board an elevator with someone that sets her hackles up immediately. " Home boy, get ready ta rumble. " Serena says.

Percy nods slightly to show he understood her message. He grabs the pen that is Riptide casually, while tapping Dean six times in quick succession on his left shoulder. Dean gets the message, and does the same with Sam. Tapping the left shoulder six times quickly indicated they needed to get ready for a fight, six times on the right meant they needed to get the Hades out of Dodge, and regroup. Echidna found herself isolated even as Grover pulls the Fire Alarm. Dean and Percy handle Echidna while Sam and Serena deal with the Chimaera. Silent prayers to Nike, Tyche, Hysminai(Goddess of Battles), Hermes, Hera, Eris, Chaos, Nyx, Erebus, Rhea, and Poseidon are all sent out. Sam and Dean would be long range support while Percy, and Serena had to get up close, and personal with their chosen opponents.

The demi-deities keep the attention of their opponents with taunts while dodging everything, especially Serena since she got the Chimaera, again, dammit. She reaches out with the shadows to try, and bind that damned tail down, she did not want to get stabbed again, thank you! Percy, once he mentioned the species of anteater known as Echidna capitalizes on the anger the Mother of All Monsters felt towards Australia for that. Then he brings up the Knuckles ™ made for a much better echidna than she did, even if he was a tad naive. She howls at him for this, and Dean puts a bullet right between her eyes, ending her just before Chimaera is taken out as well. They grab the spoils, and head back down. They'd camp out that night so they could make their offerings. First though, Percy is lured to the river by members of his father's Kingdom in order for him to get certain magical pearls. Serena knew she'd be able to get her brothers back as well, because Nyx might be able to strike a deal with Hades. There was also the option of just Serena, Percy, and Grover going into the Underworld.

Once they're back on the road they look for a campsite they could rent for the night, having bought everything they needed in St. Louis. Sam and Percy would go hunting for food while Dean, Serena, and Grover set up their campsite. Dean dug the fire pit, Serena set up the tents, and Grover got the kindling. Grover may be a vegetarian, but he wouldn't force his views on others, and he did pick some wild herbs, and other natural foods to supplement whatever small game Sam and Percy ended up catching. He did find some wild potatoes however that Dean, and Serena immediately, upon getting the fire started, wrapped up in aluminum foil, and buried off to the side. Grover would soon find himself giving them all lessons on what foods that grew naturally were safe for human consumption.

Camp Halfblood:

Invisible lines were being drawn in the camp as Kronos slowly started gaining allies while those that weren't naive enough to fall for his lies were subtly concocting plans to counteract the loss of some of their forces. Aphrodite had claimed all of her children in camp, just in time. They made their way to Cabin Ten, and Silena Beauregard looks at her siblings, " I know our mother may not be the best, and many may refer to her as a loose legged whore, but another part of battle is seduction. Our fellow demi-deities will need us to seduce, and beguile our enemies. "

The rest of Aphrodite's children straighten, their sister was calling them to arms in the safety of their own Cabin, " It is suspected that Annabeth Chase, Head Counselor for Cabin Six, is in League with Kronos. One of our own siblings with the gift of empathy got a full blast of her emotions which is what precipitated the orders of protection. I know we don't like fighting, but subterfuge, seduction, those things we can do. Hell, we could start concocting poisonous lip balms, perfumes, smoke bombs, because we do know chemistry of all kinds. "

This sparks an all out planning session, because Silena was right, they did know those areas. It was time to remind their fellow demi-deities exactly why no one pissed off Aphrodite, or her children.

Slumbering in her tree Thalia Grace frowns, she knew what was happening because of demo-deity dreams, knew the girl she, and Luke had raised had allowed herself to be fooled by her damned paternal grandfather. If only she could get out of this damned tree! Yes, she knew about that stupid prophecy, but stopping her grandfather was far more important! At least Luke had the sense enough to not do something so damned stupid! She also knew that her damned sister Artemis was working with Kronos as well, and that little Annabeth had been her lover for almost two years now. It flat out pissed her off, but there was nothing she could do about it as long as she was a Gods be damned Pine Tree!

Tartarus:

Kronos shudders even as he starts coming together again. Something absolutely horrible had happened, though he had no idea of what, and wouldn't until he starts sharing a body with Annabeth, and once he did that he would be able to impregnate his granddaughter through Zeus. It would be nice to have a child that he actually raised. He could see nwo that since he had given that damned prophecy credence it came true. The new one could go for or against him. The feeling in the air though, it made him pause, and frankly it reminded him of that one granddaughter he had through Hades back when life still existed on the Moon, the Crown Princess, Serenity V. She was one being he'd been leery of pissing off, because she could end up ruling over the whole damned Universe! She had the potential to be the next Cosmos in the Lunar line.

His eyes widen in horror, or would have if he'd been left in one piece. She could have reincarnated, and if that was so, she'd been one helluva a damned deterrent to his plans. She'd made no bones about taking all of her fully immortal relatives to task several times over her first life. This could end up being very bad for him.

Cabin Eight:

Annabeth sighs blissfully as her goddess rewards her for good behavior. She could not wait until she could take her vow as a Hunter of Artemis. She has no idea of the plans being made well out of her notice, though you'd think as the daughter of the Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare, and Weaving she'd realize that battles are fought on several different fronts at the same time. She would never have thought to gain the alliance of Cabin Ten, nor Dionysis' kids. Them, along with Demeter's children would be very good at fouling food supplies, and infiltrating enemy camps as well. She may be damned good at chess, but this was real life, and she would get her ass kicked, along with Artemis as well.

Time Gates:

Sailor Pluto is still searching fruitlessly for Princess Serenity V, not once taking into consideration the fact that she had been best friends with Eris, Primordial Goddess of Chaos, before the fall. A fall that would not have happened had they not gotten pissed about the fact that she had outmaneuvered them politically, and hooked Beryl up with Endymion. None of the senshi dared to go near the now hidden Kingdom of Atlantis as the royal family was absolutely disgusted with them for betraying their princess in such a manner. Kronos would be in for a surprise as Atlantis would stand with Olympus, in particular Poseidon as he had hidden Atlantis for Endymion as a favor to his favorite niece through Hades. While Beryl and Endymion were no longer alive their successors remembered, and if given even half an opportunity to kill one of them, they would.

Eris was blocking Pluto from finding her daughter until after Percy became enough of a threat that he could kick the asses of anyone that tried to take her from him. Oh, she was so shipping her daughter with Percy. Percy accepted her as is, and she did the same for him, no questions asked. Percy would need someone like Serena in his corner through the next four years, and when she started this, she knew damned well Sam, and Dean would need her as well. When she remembered she would be pissed, tell Yahweh off for not getting married, and having his wife bring his unruly, imbecilic children to heel. Crowley, when told of this, would laugh himself to hiccups at the thought of Yahweh getting told off by the demi-deity child of Eris, Primordial Goddess of Chaos.