Percy Jackson Fanfic: The Strongest God

Chapter 3: The Titan's Curse

Annabeth POV

I was packing my bags for my quest. I was finally given my own quest to lead after so many years! I was going to search for Thalia as Lord Ares put it. The only hint they had for me was that she was somewhere in the west. Chiron had asked her to choose four companions. I chose two campers and two hunters. I chose Grover and Silena from the hunters side and Zoe Nightshade and Bianca Di Angelo (she had now become a hunter. I finished packing my bags and then met up with my quest companions in front of the pine trees surrounding the camp. Argus drove us till Manhattan. From there Zoe drove a van the whole way.

After some hours or so we came to park in a museum that a gas station in the front. Then while we were waiting for the gas to be filled I saw a weird shape enter the museum. I entered the museum and hid behind an exhibit in the room in which the telkhine which I later recognized went inside. I saw a really big guy with a burning armor and blazing eyes and some monsters. In the end of the aisle I saw….Luke. I wanted to call him but I knew if I did that I would die immediately so is at there in silence and listened to what they had to say.

"Hmph! So that brat Perseus is after Olympus is he now?" The big guy asked.

"Yes. He has already declared war on Olympus and our side." Luke answered

"But does he have allies to back him up?"

"From my sources he has already got Hades, Hestia, All the minor gods and 5 Titans as his allies Lord Hyperion."

I gasped inaudibly as I heard the great Titan's name. This was the third cruelest Titan in history. When Hyperion heard Titans he panicked and asked "Who? Who are the betrayers?"

Luke shuffled a little bit before answering. "Well Oceanus, Rhea, Pallas, Leto and…Iapetus have aligned themselves to Perseus."

Hyperion gritted his teeth when he heard Iapetus's name. "That brat of a brother of mine! That betrayer! But then again he is quite strong…He was not named the Piercer for nothing…."

Luke shrugged it off and then said "Let him go for now. Perseus seems to be heading for along with Thalia."

I gasped again, but this time audibly. Their heads snapped at me. I did what a sensible person would do. I ran.

I ran outside and thankfully everyone was inside the van waiting for me. I shouted at Zoe to get the van prepped up. Zoe nodded as she raced us through the country.

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After some time we reached the Hoover Dam. I couldn't pass up a chance to see the famous dam. So I 'convinced' my friends to come over here. Over there we were eating some food in the cafeteria with me hysterically spouting random facts about the dam. I couldn't help it! This dam was an architectural masterpiece! Then I noticed the skeletons. About some seconds later all of my friends did as well. Zoe cursed as she nocked an arrow and let it fly at the Skeleton warriors. Some of them cut the arrows with their swords while some of them got struck by the arrows. Then the 'dead' skeleton warriors bones reassembled themselves and they attacked the group again. Grover gulped and said "This is futile. Only a child of the underworld can defeat the skeleton warriors."

When Grover said that I saw a glint appear on Bianca's face. I was surprised. Was I right with what I had been thinking for the past few days? Then Bianca ran forward and took out her knife and then slashed it in a wide arc. Then she chanted saying "I Bianca Di Angelo the daughter of Hades, the God of the Underworld hereby banish you to the depths of Tartarus. May you all face the worst of punishments down there."

The earth below the skeletons gave away and sucked the skeletons whole. Bianca then fell to one knee panting. She then looked at us and said "Not one word on my godly father, alright?"

Zoe nodded before asking "How did you know your heritage?"

"Hades told me in a dream." Bianca answered still disgruntled.

We all nodded before we heard a voice that made us all freeze in shock. "What. The. Hell. Was. All. That?"

We whirled around and saw a mortal with red-orange hair wearing a pink jacket saying "ART IS THE BEST! DOWN WITH THE REST!"

I then said "Um, what did you see? We did nothing right guys?"

My friends nodded a little too quickly in my opinion.

The girl then said "Are you freaking messing up with me? I either need to visit the eye doctors or you all are fibbing with me."

I sighed. This was going to be a long explaination.

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After explaining everything and making the girl whose name was apparently 'Rachel Elizabeth Dare' swear on river Styx to not tell any mortal about our side of the life we quickly left the area. After some time we parked in a small town and decided to drink coffee before we left again. Then suddenly Grover fell down unconscious muttering "He's here!" "The Wild God!"

Silena picked him up and asked "what in the world is he blabbering about?"

Then suddenly an ancient voice spoke behind us. "I think the Satyr meant me."

We whipped our heads and saw another Satyr. But this Satyr radiated the power of a god and not an ordinary nature spirit. Wait. God? Satyr? I gasped and clapped my hands over my mouth. The Satyr looked at me before smirking and saying "So I see you have realized who I am haven't you? Daughter of Athena?"

"you're….you're Pan! The God of the Wild!" I choked out.

Zoe scrutinized the god before asking "Is that really you Lord Pan?"

The God chuckled before turning to Zoe. "Ah Zoe Nightshade this is the second time I have seen you. I think I rescued you from your hespriride sisters after you let that Hero take the golden apples. I must say those girls were as strong as gods wb\hen they are angry."

Bianca then asked Pan "Lord Pan why are you here and where have you been for the past two millennia?"

"Questions will be answered later but about two hundred monsters are invading town to gobble you five up. I think we'd better get to safer place don't you think?"

Zoe slowly nodded and we then followed Pan to an alley as Pan watched to see if there were any mortals present. Then he told us to touch him. We did and he teleported us.

With none of us seeing the wide eyed expression of one Rachel Elizabeth Dare.

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After we teleported we found ourselves to be in a restaurant in San Francisco. Pan then ordered some food for us and then started to explain. "So for the question of where I was I for the last two millennia. I was with you're the first King of Olympus."

Bianca and Silena looked confused. I knew about me and Grover knowing about the three and a half millennia secret but Zoe? I looked at her questioningly. She glared at me and was about to make a remark when Pan cut in. "I think you've held that secret for long enough Zoe. You should share it. Do not bear the pain alone."

Zoe sighed and nodded. "As you all know I am the daughter of Atlas. Perseus was my favorite cousin. Rhea had folled Kronos by twisting her words saying that Perseus was not the child of the prophecy therefore allowing him to live. Kronos was proud of his son. Perseus was taught under Iapetus in the art of spear. But he was a master in every weapon despite his favorite being the spear. After all he did teach Apollo and Lady Artemis archery. Kronos was so proud of his son that he made Perseus the general of the Titan army. But when Perseus found out that Kronos had five of his six siblings inside his gut he broke down. It took Lady Rhea about a week to calm him down. After all Kronos was his role model back then. Then Rhea led him to Zeus. There Perseus taught Zeus the art of combat. In the first Titanomachy Perseus had fight Iapetus who only fought him because he did nt want to betray his siblings like Perseus. When Perseus came back after defeating Iapetus he was wreck for days. He then led the assault against and defeated my father Atlas and threw him under the chains of the sky. After all four of the boy siblings of the elder gods pinned Kronos down Perseus was going to deliver the final blow. Kronos in that moment broke out of his craziness and looked at his youngest with pride. He told Perseus that even though they now stood as enemies he was proud of his son for defeating him, Kronos the Titan who killed a primordial. After Perseus reluctantly chopped Kronos into pieces the fates appeared and made him the King of the Gods. But when Zeus, Poseidon, Hera and Demeter voted for Rhea to be thrown into Tartarus he flew into rage. But back then martial law was not there. He was outvoted 4-3 and his beloved mother was thrown to the depths of hell. Some time later he found peace by marrying lady Hestia. Then the Gigantomachy occurred. There is one Giant whose name is connected to Perseus like any other god. The bane of Perseus was the king of the Giants known as Ulycinthius. That is where the gods made a fatal mistake. If Ulycinthius were to ever rise again there would be no bane of Ulycinthius to take him down. Then came Hercules. I helped that hero because I thought I loved him. I helped him gain entry to the garden of the Hespirides. But Hercules betrayed me and left me to the dust. But not before trying to rape me! When Perseus saw someone trying to rape his favorite cousin he snapped.

He came down to earth and then beat the hell out of Hercules. Needless to say Hercules went back to Mycenae a whole lot bruised and beat up. Perseus along with Lord Pan here helped me escape out of my sisters wrath. Perseus then asked his favorite niece Artemis to give me a place in her hunt. She allowed it and life was good. But sometime later the gods betrayed Perseus. He disapeare off the map after their betrayal. And I worried that my favorite cousin had faded." Taking a deep breath she continued "So you see there are two things that made me stay in the hunt. The betrayal from a man I thought I loved and the thought that I could do nothing to save my dear cousin."

We all stared at her in awe. She deeply cared for her cousin indeed. That's when Pan spoke up again "Zoe I think we need to tell our little friends about the Romans or you all will die."

Zoe looked panicked as she frantically said "NO! I swore on lady Diana's name I would not say anything!"

My mind was racing. Diana? Romans? I looked at Pan meaningfully before it clicked. Pan chuckled before looking at me. "You really are a daughter of Athena. Yes the Roman demigods still do exist and so do the roman personalities of the gods."

To prove his point Pan's body flickered before he turned into a mature looking Satyr wearing a toga. I gasped. This was Pan's Roman Personality, Faunus. Faunus looked at us critically. He then said "So these are the children Tempest seeks to help."

"Who is Tempest?" I blurted out.

"Tempest is Perseus's Roman personality. Though the romans did not worship him for more than 20 years because of Zeus's coup against Perseus." Zoe replied before continuing "There is more lord Faunus. Should you say it or shall I?"

Before anyone could answer another voice cut in "I shall do the honors cousin."

We turned around to see a figure who looked a lot like the person who took Thalia. But he looked more war-like and he wore a light golden toga. He sat down and then said "I am Tempest. Former king of the Gods."

We all looked at him in shock before my shock turned into unbridled rage. I grabbed him and growled out "Where. Is. Thalia?"

He looked at me with amusement dancing in his eyes. While Perseus might have been patient he too could blow a fuse when angered. But as Tempest it would take a lot to make Tempest lose his cool.

"Your friend is alright daughter of Athena." Tempest replied.

Zoe then surged forward and slapped Tempest. Then she broke down in tears and hugged him. "All these years you were alive and you didn't visit me even once!"

Tempest's gaze softened as he reverted to his Greek form. Perseus then said "If I did reveal myself to you the gods would detect my presence and essentially put you into danger Zoe. You know I hate putting anyone in danger because of me cousin sister."

"Damn your loyalty!" Zoe mumbled. Perseus smiled before reverting to his roman personality again. Tempest then set Zoe down before turning serious. "Faunus this is a serious matter. Go to Venus and tell her to gather some demigods in Camp Jupiter. Tell her to tell the demigods to march to mount Tam."

Faunus nodded before Flashing out. Tempest then looked at us and said "Well you all come from the Greek camp Camp Half-blood taught by Chiron there is another camp for roman demigods. It is Camp Jupiter where the demigods are taught by Lupa."

We were all floored with shock. Well except Zoe. She nodded and I guessed she already knew of this. "Then why keep us apart. We could have helped each other in tough times!" Silena exclaimed.

"Daughter of Venus consider the fact that Greeks and Romans are bitter enemies. They have fought numerous wars in the past and one occasion when Juno (looking at our confused faces he corrected) Hera tried to unite the camps in the past it caused the American Civil war to take place." Tempest explained.

"Then why would they help us now?" I inquired.

"What better way to make allies out of enemies when facing common enemies. Against my father Saturn both camps must play their roles or else Saturn has already risen and defeated us." Tempest said in his calm tone.

Grover unable to keep it in asked "Lord Tempest….I was meaning to ask you since I found about you….How did you deal with your family's betrayal?"

Tempest frowned before reverting back to Perseus. "I was distraught. After I disappeared I roamed the world as a mortal. Once in a while some gods would detect my presence but I would simply erase the memories. I had constant dreams of my Family's betrayal against me. It took some time. After all time is the best way to heal a heart. Being the god of Time I would know."

Grover nodded as Perseus reverted to Tempest. Then Tempest suddenly clutched his head and screamed. Then after some while he turned normal again. He panted before explaining to us what had happened "Chiron has revealed my story to the Greeks and Venus has revealed me to the romans. They are constantly calling my names causing my personalities to disorient. I am sorry."

Bianca nodded before asking "Well then what do we do now?"

"Go to mount Tam. There you will find Atlas and Hyperion ready to fight you. Fight them. Free the Artemis from the burden of the Sky and make Atlas take the burden again." Tempest replied as Zoe exploded "What do you mean Artemis?"

"Well you see after my introduction to the gods Artemis became distraught. About sometime earlier she was taken hostage by the Titans in her distraught state and then she was made to take the burden of the sky freeing Atlas in the process. Thalia is on her way as well."

I stood up and then asked "When do we go?"

Tempest smiled before answering "Right now."

Immediately outside a car came out with drivers made of light. I looked at Tempest who shrugged and said "Yes I have that ability."

Then we boarded the car and off we went.

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It was on the foothills of the mountain that the light beings left us a we trudged forward. Then suddenly I was tackled into the ground in a hug by someone. I looked up to see Thalia hugging me. I laughed and hugged her back. She let me stand up while she hugged Grover as well. She then asked "So you met my uncle didn't you?"

We nodded as I asked "What did he do to you?"

"Nothing he answered my question and made me live a life of luxury for some days before telling me to come here." Thalia answered.

Just then we heard a cracking voice "Tha..Thalia?"

We looked around and saw a blonde guy with electric blue eyes looking at Thalia with his three companions. Thalia seemed to recognize him as her lower lip trembled as she said "J…Ja…Jason? Is that you?"

He looked so happy when Thalia said her name as he rushed forward and hugged Thalia. Thalia happily hugged Jason back. I cleared my throat and asked "Thalia who is this Jason?"

Thalia sighed as she said "You see once I had a brother who was one year younger than me. He was my light. Then he got lost in a park. And that is what caused me to run away from my old home and mother. That brother was Jason here. (She then whipped around to Jason) So you reached Camp Jupiter huh?"

"Yup! Now let me formally introduce myself. I am Jason Grace. Centurion of the fifth Cohort and son of Jupiter."

A Roman girl who was about 11 then said "I am Hazel Levesque daughter of Pluto. I am the member of the fifth cohort."

The other burly dud then said "I am Frank Zhang. Son of Mars. I am the member of the fifth cohort."

Another girl who always seemed to have a blush while looking at Jason. She interlocked her hands with Jason who smiled at her. She then introduced herself. "My name is Reyna. I am the daughter of Bellona and I am the centurion of the second cohort."

"So you are all the people that the romans sent to help us eh?" I asked.

They nodded at me. So soon we all walked up the mountain and faced the mighty dragon Ladon. It snarled at us but stopped momentarily at seeing Zoe. Then they both became resigned at what was going to happen and leapt at each other. Jason called upon lightning and blasted it at Ladon. Ladon lost about 8 of his 100 heads and that was seriously pissing him off. He threw venom at us and tried to blowtorch us with his fire breath. We dodged them all as Thalia destroyed 15 of Ladons heads. Then Ladon grew in size and then started to trample us. Then Frank was it? Transformed into a Dragon itself and ripped out 20 of Ladons heads. Then Silena did some charmspeak to it saying it to freeze. Ladon did so and Grover cut of 7 of his heads. I sighed. 50 heads down 50 to go. Ladon then blew fire at me as I started to slash my way through the heads viciously cutting them down with Reyna and Hazel as only 15 heads of Ladon remained. Then all of us demigods converged at one point and then attacked the dragon. The dragon died in a shower of golden dust. As we crossed into the mountain the hespirides snarled and growled at us but left us be. When I asked why Zo smiled and said look around us. I did and saw a barrier of Light surrounding us.

"The blessing of Perseus." Zoe said wistfully.

We then marched up the peak and then we saw the air churning and falling down like a vortex to the earth. We saw a female figure holding albeit halfheartedly. Artemis looked men tally distraught and hurt more than physically. We rushed forward and tried to help Artemis. She looked at us and then said in a panicky tone "Get of here while you can! They will come here soon and they will kill you all!"

Zoe was about to say something when a crude voice behind us said "Well well I never thought I would see the day Greeks and Romans working together."

We looked behind us and saw Hyperion. There was another person. We immediately recognized who it was. The Titan of Strength and Endurance. Atlas.

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Normal POV

Zoe snarled at seeing her father and spat "What do you want?"

Atlas smirked and then said "Why if it isn't my betraying daughter. You will receive a proper punishment after me and Hyperion kill all the demigods."

Thalia then brought out her spear and leveled her gaze at Atlas and said "You wont kill any of us or punish Zoe."

"Well then what are we waiting for? Let the blood bash begin." Hyperion declared as the two Titans attacked the Demigods. While Hyperion engaged the others in combat Thalia was going to fight Atlas with Jason. Atlas was about swing his sword at Thalia's spear when another spear stopped it. "Why don't you fight someone your size Atlas?"

The people looked around to see Perseus with his Omega Spear stopping Atlas's sword. Perseus then looked at the group of Demigods and then said "You all cannot hope to defeat Hyperion. You all must bear the Titan's curse and free the chained goddess."

The demigods all stopped as the Former King of the Gods took on the two Titans. We all looked at each other and then we marched to the place where Artemis was chained. She looked pained at the sight of her uncle appearing. Then all the demigods crouched down with her and took the weight of the sky. Artemis looked genuinely shocked to see the demigods taking the sky. She looked at the half-bloods gratefully before she slipped ouside and then snarled "Uncle Perseus how about we fight some Titans?"

Perseus jumped back and then said "Lets go Artemis!"

The two gods clashed with the two titans. Artemis took on Atlas while Perseus took on Hyperion. Hyperion continuously shot beams of light at Perseus who smirked and then just deflected them with his own. "You may be the Titan of Light but I am the God of Light. I can deflect you."

Artemis was viciously using her silver hunting knifes and stabbing Atlas who blocked with his sword. Hyperion then slashed with his sword as Perseus jumped out of the way and then said "O Perséas O Theós tis Enérgeias pipilízei me aftó ton trópo tin Enérgeia aftoú tou Titána kai to katanalónei os dikó mou. (Ο Περσέας Ο Θεός της Ενέργειας πιπιλίζει με αυτό τον τρόπο την Ενέργεια αυτού του Τιτάνα και το καταναλώνει ως δικό μου. Translate-I Perseus God of Energy hereby suck in the Energy of this Titan and consume it as my own.)" Perseus then sucked in all of the energy of Hyperion who stumbled and at feeling his energy sucked in. Then Perseus came forward and stabbed him in the gut making Hyperion return to the Pit. Artemis made a feint as she pretended to fall down. Atlas laughed as Artemis spoke in the minds of the demigods saying "I will push him into the sky. Then let go." Artemis then suddenly pushed Atlas to the sky and hit the Demigods who let go of the sky making Atlas bear his old burden again. He shouted "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Then Perseus looked at Artemis and then hugged her and ruffled her hair "That's my favorite niece." Then Artemis took a long breath before saying "Uncle I am sorry for betraying you. Please can I come to your side in this war. I swear it on lady Chaos." Perseus looked at her and then smiled and nodded at her. Artemis smiled back and hugged her uncle who was more of a father than Zeus ever was. Then Perseus looked at the demigods and said "You all have done well. Greeks and Romans both." And then suddenly we heard a conch and then an army of legionnaires of Rome entered the place. The Praetors Michael Varus and Gwendolyn Johnson surveyed the field before bowing down to Perseus saying "Lord Tempest. Lady Diana." Perseus shrugged and said "Its more like Perseus and Artemis right now." Another roman came out and then said "See Michael! We need to destroy the Graecus now! And then we can liberate the gods!" Then suddenly in a flash Apollo appeared in his roman personality and then said "Octavian. Mind your tongue. This war with the Titans and after that with the Giants cannot be won without the collaboration between the romans and greeks. So bite your tongue descendant of mine." Octavian paled before nodding. Perseus flickered to Tempest as did Artemis to Diana and then said "To all of you that want to support me in this war can step forward." The Romans cheered and then took a step forward well except Octavian. Then slowly Reyna, Jason, Hazel and Frank to stepped forward and then fell to one knee. Bianca and Zoe too did the same. Thalia rushed to her uncle and then hugged him saying "Of course I will!" Annabeth and Grover looked at each other and then smiled. We bowed down as well. In one voice all of the demigods including the romans chanted "We all swear our loyalty to Lord Perseus/Tempest on river Styx." Thunder boomed sealing the deal. END OF CHAPTER I want goddamn reviews goddamn it! Reviews! See ya!