(Third Person POV)

Thalia glared at Percy half-heartedly, "You leave, and this camp goes to the ground. Look at what happened. You let my dear brother control these idiots. You didn't bother to check up on this pathetic camp, Percy. I dedicated. No, we dedicated our life to this camp. All the demigods that died in the last two wars dedicated their lives to this camp. So that demigods like them would have a safe haven from monsters and the cruelty of the outside world. I trusted you to make sure that vision came true and kept living. But instead, this happens."

Percy shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose as he sat down on the bench. He looked at Thalia as the others watched them. Percy opened his palms in front of him and asked, "What did you want me to do, Thals? Stay here and be miserable? Stay with the people who didn't care about me? Did you want me to come back here when I was trying to make a life for myself? Did you want me to come back here when I was trying to raise my daughter? What?"

Percy stood up and walked to Thalia, "I know what this camp means to you. It means a lot to me too despite everything that happened. I still remember everyone. I still remember everything that happened despite that fact that I tried so hard to forget."

Percy looked at Stella, who was describing vividly the horse that she wanted to Poseidon. Percy said, "But her. She deserves the best the world can offer. She gave me the life I thought I could never have. She gave me normality. Happiness. Am I so horrible that I can't have that?"

Thalia hugged Percy and mumbled, "You're so dramatic."

Percy chuckled and the others laughed, Percy said, "Being related to you, how can I not?"

They separated, and Poseidon walked up to them, "Son, I have to go take care of business in Atlantis. I'll be back soon."

He handed Stella to Percy, winked and said, "And maybe with a new pony."

Stella smiled, and Percy nodded, "Alright. Also, can you tell Tyson to come over. It's been awhile since he last saw Stella."

"I'll tell him."

With that, Poseidon turned into mist and disappeared. Percy sat down and placed Stella on his lap, "So, tell me what's up with you guys."

Everyone made a chair or two pop up so that they were sitting in a circle formation, Jason said, "Nothing much, actually. Since the giant war, everything's kinda been quiet. Most of us just try to master our domains, get used to godhood, and explore the world."

Leo cut in, "I mean, it's not that bad. Calypso helps around the forge as much as she can."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "Sounds fun. How is Calypso by the way? I'm sorry I haven't visited her by the way."

Leo waved it off, "It's alright, she understands. Actually, she's more mad at me for not visiting you than she is mad at you for not visiting."

Percy raised an eyebrow, amused, "Oh yeah? How come? I mean, I'm not mad. With my friends being immortal gods, going around the world for the last 10 years, but couldn't even visit an old, aging, friend right outside their doorstep. I mean, who wouldn't be mad? Or offended?"

Everyone chuckled uneasily, Leo asked, "Well, why don't you visit?"

Percy chuckled, "The first few years, I was finishing school and getting a doctorate in education so that I can teach in a college. After that, I started teaching at NYU. And not long after that, I had Stella. Your turn lover boy."

"Umm, godhood training?"

"Uh huh. Good response Leo."

Jason cut in, "Percy, not to bring down the mood. But what do you know about what's coming?"

Percy shrugged, "Nothing much, really. Only that our opponent is supposed to be a male. And like always, people are going to die, Olympus' fate is in jeopardy, it's up to heroes as to what happens, blah blah blah. Basically everything that's been happening for the last couple years."

"Do you have any strategies as to what Olympus' forces should do?"

Piper shook her head, but gave a look as if she's used to it already, "Jason, sweety, Percy just got here."

Percy chuckled and said, "It's alright Piper. But Jason, to answer your question, we train. For now that is all that we can do. We don't know who exactly we're going against, who's in their army, or what they want. And from the looks of it, this camp is far from prepared for a war."

Everyone nodded, seeing the logic in that, and Percy said, "I just have to ask one question, why did you guys stop coming to camp? I mean I left for obvious reasons. And no offense to what I'm about to say, but it doesn't even seem you guys cared at all."

Nico, who's been quiet, spoke up, "Percy, you have to understand, while camp seemed pretty bad when you were here, it turned worse when you left. Yes, the older campers and the Romans who followed Reyna still co-operated with us, but the younger ones needed someone to follow. They needed an idol, and with all the boasting ANthony does, and with him turning immortal from the golden apples even though he didn't deserve it, he provided that. And Octavian's followers saw the same type of characteristics from Octavian in Anthony. It was useless for us to come here at all. The older campers taught who they could, but Anthony took over the camp. This camp is divided."

Percy pinched the bridge of his nose, "Cause the camp being divided is exactly what we need for an upcoming war. A civil war, before a world war. Fantastic."

Hazel said, "And as much as we want to interfere, our hands are tired, Percy. Ancient laws still bind us."

Percy let out a humourless laugh, "Ancient laws. It doesn't stop immortals from eating their children, but from actually helping them, it is forbidden."

Piper stood up, "Know what, enough of this for today. Let's walk around camp. Talk about good things, not bad."

Everyone agreed, and they set off. Percy set Stella down, but held her hand, and began swinging it happily.

They began chatting about random topics, when they reached the sword training area, if you can call it that. The training sword, and any training equipment for that matter, was pushed off to an abandoned corner and was all dusted up. Instead, the arena was loaded with weight-lifting equipment, yoga mats, punching bags, and a boxing ring. It looked like a modern day gym, and the demigods looked like the too. The guys wore basketball shorts and bodybuilding tanks. And the girls wore short spandex and workout tanks. Percy whispered under his breath, "What the bloody hell is this?"

Thalia said, "Yup, from a camp that trained heroes, to a freakshow that exhibited morons, with the ring leader as Anthony."

The others nodded in agreement, but Nico had a confused look on him, "Bloody hell? When did you become British Perce?"

Percy turned pink for a moment before mumbling, "Coworker."

Stella then said happily, "Auntie Mione is British. Auntie Mione is pretty and nice."

Percy suddenly covered Stella's mouth and said, "Look at the time, it's time to move on."

Piper gave Percy a knowing look, but was disrupted when someone said, "Well, well, well. Look who wandered to the wrong side of camp."

Percy retaliated, "Well, well, well. Look who knows what the word wandered means."

Anthony crossed his arms across his chest as he tried to nonchalantly flex his arms, he also tried to stand taller, trying to intimidate and outdo Percy. But it was a pathetic sight. Percy was 6'6 and well proportioned, Anthony was 5'9 and looked like a croissant. Anthony's cronies stood behind him and were trying to look vicious, like a pack of rabid dogs. But to a group who've seen so much, they looked more like a bunch of runts. Percy said with the biggest hint of sarcasm, "Love what you've done with the place, are you going to intimidate the monsters by benching 200 pounds?"

Anthony scoffed, "What are you? A girl? I benched 200 pounds five years ago."

Percy looked at his friends, like he couldn't believe what he just heard, "That wasn't the point of that sentence."

Anthony rolled his eyes, "Whatever."

Anthony turned back to continue his workout, "Feel free to stay and watch."

Percy looked so confused, "Watch what?"

He turned to his friends, "Watch what? There's no sparring anymore. There's no sword play, there's nothing to watch."

Now his friends looked at him with their eyebrows raised, Thalia said, "You can't be so dense that you don't get what he's implying. Why do you think that beef headed doofus placed an area for women in his sanctuary?"

Percy was still confused, but before he could say anything, a girl, about 19 years old, walked by, "I know something you can watch."

She winked at him, walked over to the yoga mats, and began doing some questionable poses, Percy had a look of realization, "Oh. And now I'm leaving"

Percy began dragging Stella out of there as his friends snickered behind and followed him. Percy was muttering to himself, "Mindless twats. Libido controlled fools. Going to die. Should have prepared my own casket. Should have hid in Alaska. Should have punched Dad."

(Next Day)

Percy and Stella sat on the Poseidon table as they ate breakfast. The sun just rose, and as expected, most of the campers were still asleep, well, that is except the ones under Percy's friends' leadership. Once they've heard that a war was coming, they intensified their laid off training, and Percy was glad that he had something to work with. The people around him talked animatedly and easily. Since Anthony and his league of minions were still asleep, there was no tension in the air.

Percy was grading his students' essays as he drank coffee, when a little girl came up to their table. Percy looked at her as she shyly walked towards them. She was a cute little thing, maybe 4 years old, blonde hair, blue eyes. She said shyly to STella, "The hunters and I were wondering if you would like to come to our camp and visit."

Stella looked at Percy expectantly, and Percy turned to the little girl, "Are you a huntress, little miss?"

She nodded and Percy asked, "What's your name, little miss?"

"Angela."

"Alright, Angela. Will you keep Stella safe?"

SHe nodded and Percy asked, "Give her food? Make her comfortable? Call for me in case anything happens?"

She nodded once again and Percy smiled kindly at her, "Alright, have fun. Have her back by sundown."

Stella kissed Percy on the cheek, "Bye Daddy."

They both ran off to the direction of the hunters' camp, and when they were far enough, Percy whistled. Not a minute passed, and Blackjack came, "Make sure Stella and the little girl she's with are okay. Come find me if there's any trouble."

Percy gave Blackjack the rest of his breakfast, and a few sugar cubes, and Blackjack said, "You the boss, Boss."

Blackjack flew away and Reyna asked, "Overprotective much, Percy?"

Percy drank some coffee before saying, "Just cautious and not stupid Reyna."

Percy stood up and took his belongings, "I'm going to go ahead. Have your warriors start training soon. It seems that they're the only hope that's left for this world."

Reyna nodded, and Percy left. He first went to his cabin to drop off his stuff, then he went to the used to be sword arena to pick up one of the dusty training swords, and finally, he went to the lake.

The wooden sword was balanced enough in Percy's hand, not as comfortable as Riptide, but Percy needed to practice first. Percy tried it out first. Slash. Jab. Swing. Roll. Spin. Jab. Everything felt natural. It felt right.

Percy stepped into the lake, but adjusted the surface tension so that he could walk on it. Then he conjured up a mirror image of himself and nodded at it, and it nodded back. They both got into position, and attacked. And it was beautiful. The water image almost had a mind of its own, except it didn't. The water copy did everything Percy would have done in an actual fight, except it didn't copy real Percy's action at the moment. Percy was fighting his own self, and it exhilarated him. The image knew his moves, and he knew its. Whenever he would jab, the image would parry. When he would slash, the image would come meet his sword. And it didn't help the it was as fast as him, and had the same footwork. Finally, Percy was getting tired and decided to end it. Percy swung a quick and powerful slash across image's body, and as expected, it moved to parry it. But then, Percy pulled back his sword, avoided image's parry by a millimeter, and stabbed its thigh. Its leg collapsed, but tried to regenerate quickly, but before it could form, Percy cut of the image's head and the whole thing collapsed, returning back to the lake.

Percy re-adjusted the surface tension, and he sunk into the lake. Once he was re-energized, he got out of the water and willed himself to dry. It was a well enough practice, but he needed to practice more if he only had a little less than half of the demigods in camp to work with.

Percy returned to camp, and past noon by then. Nothing changed, the demigods acted like yesterday didn't happen. There was no rush to train, no rush to learn, no rush to save their worthless lives. They all just chatted merrily with each other and lazed about. People stared at him as he passed by. He heard them whispering about him, apparently, rumours has it that he ran away from camp because he couldn't take the pressure of being a demigod. Other rumours claim that he was prophesied to go on a task where his life will be sacrificed for the good of many, but he valued his life too much so he ran away, leading to the death of hundreds of humans and demigods alike. His favorite rumour was that he cheated on Annabeth with some mortal and gotten her pregnant, and that that's where Stella came from. It was all very funny, and if Percy actually cared about any of their opinions, he might have given a damn about them, so just just grinned and walked on with his head held high.

He reached Reyna's area and was actually impressed. The campers that listened to Reyna were armored up with various types of weapons, ranging from swords, daggers, and battle axes, to bows, crossbows, spears, and a flail. Some sparred with just another person, and others worked in teams that ranged from 2 to 4 people, and it was wonderful for the most part, it was just that Percy noticed that those who were partnered off with people were sometimes unsure of how their partner would move, or where they even were. They were great warriors though, all were confident with the weapon they wielded. They used their strengths, either speed or strength, to their benefit, and analyzed their opponent's moves carefully.

Percy walked next to Reyna and said, "Good job Reyna, we might actually have a chance."

"Did you expect anything less Percy? How offensive."

Percy chuckled and shook his head, "No. It's just quite refreshing to watch demigods do something other than gossip, workout, and judge people."

Reyna smirked, "Imagine, from slaying monsters like Gorgons, dragons, giants, and serpents, to lifting weights and doing yoga. Imagine what the old heroes would do."

Percy smiled, "I'm pretty sure they would ride along the monsters to help get rid of us."

They both chuckled contently, and Reyna asked, "When are you going to start to intervene, Percy? I only have about 110, maybe 120 demigods at most. With the hunters, maybe 50 or 80. It's not enough. I have this gut feeling in me, and it's not good."

Percy looked off to the distance, "You feel it too, huh? Like something's bad is going to happen, but you don't know what or when."

"Praeparari."(Be prepared)

"Salvus erit."(Be safe)

Just then, the alarm horns went off. Percy and Reyna looked at each other, then Percy sighed, "Not even a week passed and I'm already getting a welcoming party. Let's welcome the welcoming party, dear praertor."

Reyna yelled out, "Soldiers, prepare for battle!"

The demigods fell into lines, and they began marching out. When they arrived at the camp entrance, everything was in chaos. The other campers weren't properly armored, some had missing helmets, some were missing their weapons, and all of them were confused. The only thing that was keeping them from dying were the relentless hunters of Artemis. It was a terrible sight, there was only one type of monster out there, but there was so much of them, and it left the children of Athena and Minerva paralyzed with fear. The spiders ranged from the size of a german shepherd to the size of a volkswagen infested the camp. Dread filled Percy, "STELLA!"

Reason abandoned, Percy charged into battle, no armor, no weapon. He looked around frantically for Stella, the he heard the flapping of wings and a neigh, "Yo boss, I got your kid, don't worry bout it."

Relief washed over Percy as he saw Stella and the little girl that took her riding Blackjack. They were shooting arrows on top of him to make matters better. The only thing that made matters worse, was that Anthony was somehow missing, so everyone who followed him, was just kinda there, out in the open, like a fly trapped in a web.

Percy rolled his eyes and took out riptide. He uncapped it, for the first time in ten years, and it just felt right, and powerful, invincible. Percy began hacking away at the spiders, slicing through them like they were butter, and it was easy. The arachnids were oddly slow compared their smaller counterparts, and another thing Percy realized as he sliced the legs off of one before cutting off its head was that, he's never seen these type of monsters before. He knows of Arachne and her size, but, he's never seen her children this big.

Percy jumped over the back of one particularly big one, stabbed his sword in it and then yelled out, "Get the children of Athena to safety! Push them away from the entrance! Form groups and take on the spiders together! Cut off their legs if you can't get close, otherwise cut off its head or stab its heart!"

Percy dragged riptide down the spider's back, and it tried to shake him off until he drove his sword deep in its body, and willed all the fluid to leave the spider's body. Percy ducked down as a stream of white substance shot above his head. His head followed to where the substance ended up, and he saw that it hit one demigod, and they were now stuck to the floor. They were using their web to trap the demigods.

An arrow sailed right past Percy's head, and he saw the it embedded itself to a spider that was behind him. He looked towards where the arrow came from, and he found Thalia looking at him with a smug smirk, "Thank you!"

"Kelp for Brains!"

"Pine for Hair!"

"Hey!"

Percy laughed as he slashed through another spider, but then he frowned. This wasn't working, they just kept coming, and soon the 200 demigods they had will be overwhelmed. Then at the corner of his eye, he saw Thalia using lightning to kill spiders, and he got an idea, "TAKE COVER! BEHIND THE BARRIER! THALIA!"

Percy started summoning the storm clouds, and when Thalia looked up, she instantly knew what he was trying to do. The demigods were slow to move, others not hearing him, while others were trying to fend of the oversized spiders. It was chaotic, Demigods were trying to help fellow demigods out of webs, some got bitten and were becoming delusional or weak from the effects of the poison. Suddenly, he heard a piercing scream that broke his eardrum. He looked for the source, and saw that a small blonde girl, the one Stella was playing with, was being overpowered by a giant ass spider. Percy bolted, "Hey! You oversized pest, I killed your Mama!"

The spider momentarily looked at him and snapped its mouth, but then turned its attention back to the little girl. Percy pumped his legs harder, then slid across the giant spider and grabbed the little girl. Percy felt rocks scrape against his skin, and for a moment, he wished that he just threw his sword at the damn thing. He got up, and set the girl down, "Run behind the barrier, go!"

The girl had tears streaming down her face as she nodded her little head and ran off. Percy watched her, and the next second, he felt a sharp pain on his back and felt a cool gush of air blow on his back as his back felt like it was on fire. He quickly spun around and stabbed the spider that bit him, "Percy!"

Percy felt the poison spreading through his body. His vision was doubling, and his body started feeling like led. With one last effort, he reached towards the sky, then brought his hand down. He felt the pull on his gut as he brought his hand down, then he collapsed on the floor, hoping that the demigods got back inside the camp, and that the rainwater would help heal him.

Percy was knocked out cold on the ground, and Thalia rushed to him. Thalia tried to drag him out of there, but imagine a 15 year old 5'3 girl trying to drag a 28 year old man who was 6'4. Thalia used the winds to push them up, then scanned the fields to make sure that no demigods would be hit with what they were going to do. Thalia was pretty sure only monsters were going to die, it was pretty hard to see with the rain falling down. She summoned the lightning, and aimed it straight at the center of the field. And just liked that, the spiders were electrocuted to death.

Thalia set herself and Percy down on the ground. She saw that the water stopped the bleeding, but the spider bit off a huge chunk of Percy's back, and while water healed him, she imagines that it just speeds up his ability to grow his muscle and skin. Thalia was sure that the water cured the poison in his system, but she was really unsure, and the rain had not stopped yet. Thalia pushed the thunder cloud away, but it was still raining. She didn't really care, "Will! Someone! Help! Apollo!"

There was a bright flash, and Thalia had to look away, but suddenly, she felt Percy's body disappear. She opened her eyes, and saw Apollo standing next to her, "Come on, little sister, Dad wants his nephew/investment to live."

(To Percy )

Percy was turning uneasily on an infirmary bed. He was sweating bullet and had a troubled look on his face.

(Dream)

Percy was in a very dark, very cold place, he would say it's Tartarus, but this place just felt different, more evil. He felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up, "Today was just a warning."

Percy spun around, trying to look for the source of the voice, "Who's there?"

"The gods will lose."

"Show yourself!"

"The gods will die."

"Face me!"

"The gods' allies will die."

Suddenly, Percy was sinking, he was frantically trying to get out of there, but the substance was thick, and the more he struggled, the quicker he sank, "You will die. Your daughter will die."

"Touch her and I will kill you, even if I have to destroy the world!"

"Betray the gods, and she will live. There is no escape. Turn on them, and you will live. Your daughter will live. That precious British girl of yours will live. Fail to comply, and everyone you love will die. Starting with her."

(Dream End)

Percy shot up, breathing heavily, and felt a sharp pain at his back, "Ughh-argh"

"Daddy"

"Percy"

"Water."

Thalia handed Percy a glass of water and a piece of ambrosia as Stella climbed Percy's bed. They hugged each other, and Percy soothed Stella's back as he laid against the pillows. He winced in pain as his back touched the pillows, "I'm okay."

He looked at Thalia, "What happened?

Thalia sat on the bed next to him, "Well, after you passed out, I summoned the lightning, killed all the spiders, then Apollo came and extracted the remaining poison in you. I was odd, he claimed that the poison travelled too quickly near your heart, and that the only thing that prevented it from killing you was the water. He said that you should fully heal by the day after tomorrow, just don't do a lot of extraneous activities"

Percy nodded, "Casualties?"

"18 dead. 40 wounded. More than half that died were below the age of 11."

Percy closed his eyes. Still not good enough. Thalia said, "You slept through the whole day, the camp should be eating dinner now."

Percy began moving to stand up, Stella hopped off of him, and he said, "Help me up Thalia."

Thalia pushed him down gently, "Apollo said you should rest."

"I've rested, now help me up."

Thalia groaned in annoyance, but she knew her cousin. She helped him up, and stood a little behind him as he began walking towards the mess hall. When they got there, Percy was breathing hard and blood was seeping through his shirt. The mess hall turned quiet, and everyone stared at him. Yet, he only glared intently at Anthony. Anthony said, "Well, well, it looks like sleeping beauty woke up from his sleep."

"Well it looks like Snow White came out of the forest, you know, needing the dwarves to protect her and all."

Anthony stood up from his seat, intending to confront Percy, but then Percy raised hand towards him, and he began writhing in pain. Percy looked at him, unfazed by his pain, "Did you know that 60% of your body is made out of water? That even immortals, though their blood is ichor, is still composed of water?"

Percy closed his fist, and Anthony began yelling in pain, "Children died because of you. You're immortal, but you weren't even out there to defend them. You should have been training them for years, but all you care about is yourself."

Percy dropped his hand and turned around, "Starting tomorrow, I'm taking over the camp. I thought you would at least have the decency to kill some monsters and show off all those skills you were bragging about. I was wrong."

He was almost out of there, then an annoying voice stopped him, "Well it's not the first time you've been wrong, huh? I mean, if you were always right, then you wouldn't have been stupid enough to think that Annabeth loved you. Then you wouldn't have thought that you could have saved all those worthless demigods' lives."

Percy turned back, fire in his eyes, he raised his arm at Anthony, and Anthony began choking on his blood. Ichor dripped down his eyes, and he began to claw at his throat, trying to stop the sensation of drowning. He was clawing so hard, that he began tearing at it. Percy looked down at Stella, who was watching the scene with an odd interest, and Percy said, "Stella, let's go."

Stella quickly held onto Percy's hand, and they began walking out, Percy said as he was walking, "Be up by 6, be ready by 7 tomorrow morning."

Thalia looked at Anthony with disdain, then walked after Percy. She helped him walk towards his cabin, "Get someone to clear up that bloody arena. If I wake up, and anything but swords or other weapons are there, I will drown this camp to the bottom of the sea."

"Percy."

They got into Percy's cabin, and Stella went off to change her clothes, "Thalia, I'm serious. I am risking Stella's for this. For a bunch of people that I don't even know. If they're not going to make the effort to try, then it's better that they die without seeing the ones that they care about mauled to death by some monster."

"Percy! What the Hades is wrong with you?"

Percy pinched the bridge of his nose, "Please, Thalia, I really need your help in this one. I know you and the hunters rather be anywhere than here, but I need help training those bloody fools."

Thalia sighed, "I'll see what I can do, Percy, but you have to ask Lady Artemis for permission."

Percy nodded, "I'll talk to her tomorrow morning, will she be at your camp?"

Thalia nodded, "I'll tell her that you're coming. She might not be so receptive if you just appear out of the blue."

"I appreciate it Thalia."

"No problem Kelp Head, we both know you won't survive long without me."

Percy jokingly scoffed, "As if you could save the world without me, Pinecone Face."

Thalia grinned, "I'm pretty sure I could do it better."

Percy smiled smugly, "In your dreams," he chuckled, "since you know, you can sleep for years."

Thalia charged her fist, and punched Percy, "Owwww! Thalia!"

Thalia smiled and said, "See you tomorrow Percy."

Thalia closed the door behind her, and Percy's smile dropped, and his face changed into one of weariness. His back was killing him, and so was his head. Stella came in, showered and dressed, and Percy smiled at her. He picked her up and carried her to the bed, he began tucking her in, "Go to sleep Little Star, we have a long day tomorrow."

Stella sleepily agreed, and her eyes drooped as Percy tucked her in. Percy grabbed some clothes and his phone, then headed to the bathroom. Percy laid his clothes on top of the sink, then began typing numbers on his phone, "Hello, Mione?"

"Percy? Why are you ringing me at this time? Is everything alright? Is Stella alright"

"Yeah, I was just making sure you're alright."

"Why? What's going on Percy?"

Percy sighed defeatedly, "Bad things are coming Mione. War is coming. I want-, I need you to be safe."

"I'll be okay Percy. I'll ring you if anything comes up. Be careful."

"I still care about you Mione."

"I still care about you too Percy."

The line went dead, and Percy sighed dejectedly. He tossed his phone on top of his clothes, the shedded the ones he was wearing and hopped into the shower. He allowed the water to soothe his wound, but his heart still felt heavy thinking about Mione. He finished showering, then stepped out with a towel wrapped around his waist. He stood in front of the mirror, and placed on his boxers and sweats, the picked up a gauze he brought in. He was contemplating on how to put it on, when a soft, small hand took it from his, and began dressing his wound. He looked at the mirror, and saw Aphrodite helping him, "Lady Aphrodite?"

She smiled prettily at him, but kept dressing his wound, "You saved my youngest child today, Percy, thank you."

"It was no problem, Lady Aphrodite."

"You'll be good for this camp Percy," then she asked, "So why'd you let her go, Percy?"

Percy knew who Aphrodite was talking about, after all, he just called her, "Because if I made her stay, she'll just be in bigger danger than she is right now. And I couldn't do that to her. We're part of two different words, and it can't happen."

Aphrodite finished dressing his wound, and he placed on his shirt. He saw Aphrodite looking at him with an amused look, and he asked, "What?"

"You'll be the greatest love story ever written, Percy."

Percy chuckled humorlessly, "The greatest love stories always end in tragedy."

Aphrodite chuckled, "Maybe you'll be the one to change that."

"Or be the one to be the most tragic of them all. I'm already at a great start."

Aphrodite smiled slightly, then pulled his head down to hers and kissed him. They separated before Percy can process anything, and Aphrodite said, "Maybe I should keep you for myself. Thank you again for saving Angela"

Before Percy could respond, she was gone, leaving the scent of perfume in the air. It was all quiet now. No one made a sound, nothing made a sound, and Percy was alone again. He couldn't feel the presence of another soul or spirit, and Percy realized, at that moment, that in the end, he will always end up alone.

A/N:

A lot happened, in the story I mean. And I haven't been updating, I apologize. I don't really know what to say, except thank you. Thank you for not leaving. I don't know what will happen, but I'll do my best to keep everyone happy. Ask questions, comment, I don't know, do what you want