Percy POV

"PERCY JACKSON!" Poseidon announced. My name echoed around the chamber.

All the talking died down. The room was silent except for the crackle of the hearth. Everyone's eyes were on me—all the gods, the demigids, the cyclops, the spirits. I waked through Hestia's smile the only thing keeping me going. I knelt before the gods.

"Rise—Hero of Olympus," Zeus said. I rose and Zeus looked down at me. "For your bravery you shall be granted one gift from the gods."

"Any gift?" I asked

"So long it is within our power," Zeus replied.

I looked back at Annabeth and she had an expressionless face. "May I get some privacy with my friend for 5 minutes?" I asked. Athena glared at me like she knew what I was going to ask Annabeth. Though Zeus nodded, and I walked out with Annabeth.

Since we didn't have much time I asked her "Do you love me?"

"What?" she asked.

"Do you love me?" I quesioned with tears coming to my eyes.

She looked me in the eye and said "I'm sorry, I don't,"

"Then why?" I asked not trying to keep the tears away anymore "why did I ever love you?"

She had tears in her eyes now also " I"m sorry," she said running away.

When I got the tears to calm down I went back to the throne room and said "I have reached a decision, I will become a god,"

"Good, and we have decided to give you another smaller gift since all of us just saw what happened," Zeus said.

"I want every god including Hades, Hestia, and every minor god to have a throne and cabin at camp," I said taking a big breath, "I also want every demigod claimed by the time they are 13," I finidhed. The gods debated for about 2 minutes. Then they came to a conclusion.

"Both your wishes shall be granted," Zeus said "and now, since we are the only ones in here, you shal be made a god now," he finished. I nodded and all the gods sttod up.

They started glowing with power, and took a statue of their symbol of power and placed it on the ground, the statues started glowing and each statue shot me with a beam of light. Then the gods all revealed their true form and I wondered why I could look at them, probaly the staues. Then without warning the gods shot me with a beam of light and I saw black. I could stil feel and hear, but I couldn't see. I heard a ringing noise and I blacked out for good.

I woke up on a bed that I didn't recognize. I looked around and saw Apollo looking in the mirror. He notice me sit up and came to my side.

"Hey Percy, you are finally up, it took forever," he said exhaderating, "No, it just took you about 1 week, and normaly it takes about 3 days."

"Why did it take me so long?" I asked confused.

"The more powerful you are, the more your body has to adjust," he said.

"Wait, so your saying that I was in bed so long, beause I am really powerful?" I asked clearifing.

"Yuppppp," he said extending and popping the 'p', "Come on, the council is going to announce what your the god of."

"Ok, but why am I so powerful?' I asked

"I honestly don't know Percy," he said seriously "but I do know this, you probably have enough power to be the king of the gods," he ended.

"Wow, this is a lot to take in," I said.

"I know, but you will get used to it," he said "Now come on, the gods are waiting.

So we left and walked into the throne room. Apollo sat on his throne while I stood in the center of the throne roon. All of the gods were staring at me. It wasn't out of hate though,it was of awe. I didn't know why though.

"Hello Percy, I see your finnaly awake," my father said to me breaking the silence.

"Yes I am and I really want to know what I am the god of," I said not wanting to wait.

"Perseus, the fates have told us your powers and domains, we have all decided that you are much too powerful to be a minor god, so we are making you an Olympian," Zeus said.

"Ok, but what are my powers and domains?" I asked wanting to know really bad.

"You Perseus, is the God of Time, Elements, Warfare, and Heroes," Zeus said. As soon as he said thaat a new throne appeared by my father's. I went and sat down and felt all my domains and power. I felt like I could I could take on Kronos in his true form after fighting Typoon any day.

"Wait, there is already a god of war, howcome he gets warfare?" Ares Asked stubbornly.

"Because Ares," I said about to answer this question, "War fare means all types and things in war," I said matter-of-factly. "A I right?" I asked Zeus. He smiled and nodded. "Do you know know what that means?" I asked Ares

"What punk, because I would love to know?" he said with his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"It means that I am the god of battle, soliers, weapons, swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat, war itself, and many more," I said with a smirk on my face "It means that warfare, is just the short way of putting it. If you add that to my time, elements, and the powers I get from being the god of heroes as well, I am stronger than you by far more than you could imagine." I finshed with malice in my voice.

He laughrd and said " You want to find out how strong I am," he said with confidence, "I will tear you apart, and since your a gad now, when you heal, I'll do it again.

"Ok, straight up, right now," I said with just as much confidence as him, "and since I'm going to win, I'll let you pick the spot of battle," I ended. I knew this was going to end well for him, I needed to get my mind off of Annabeth, and beating Ares was the perfect way.

He smiled and said "Anywhere on earth?"

"As long as mortals don't get involved or hurt," I said. During this time, I didn't realize until now that all of the gods were staring intently at us ranting on.

" I pick the arena we have here," he said. I had a confused look on my face, and he smirked.

"Ok, I will meet you there in five minutes," I said. He nodded and flashed off. All the gods flashed off to the arena to watch the fight except my dad and Zeus who were smiling at me.

"Nice job son, you stood up to Are," my father said with a smile.

"Thanks dad, but can you tell me why he chose here?" I asked.

"Your going to be on hephaestus TV. He wants all of Olympus to see the new fod and the Hero of Olympus lose his first fight as a god." my dad said with a look of seriousness on his face.

"It's ok, I am going to win, but can I ask you a another question?" I asked and he nodded, "Will my powers come natural,"

"Yes, every single one of them will come naturaly to you, even normal powers for a god like teleporting," Zeus said instead of my father even though I didn't ask him.

"Thanks, we better go, it's time for me to kick Ares but," I said. With that they flashed out. I wondered how to teleport and the answer came into my mind. It did come naturaly, sweet.

When I got their I saw all the major gads in more special and grander chairs and everyone else on olympus was their and the stands were filled. The arena place is like the Roman Colliseum, but I was knocked out of thoughts when Ares spoke.

"About time you showed up punk," he said "for being The God of Time your slower then a snail,"

"Let's just fight and see who wins," I said wanting to get this over with.

I took out riptide and sent it back to the Poseidon cabin cutting the connection for the next child of Poseidon, and I just cereated a regular sword. While I was doing this, Ares was looking at Aphrodite and was googling at her. I rolled my eyes, typical idiot.

"Ok, get ready," Zeus said "GO!" he thundered using the acual thunder fror dramatic effect. He reall does need to be the god of drama. Ares took out his sword and charged.

As we battled I wasn't breaking a swet and asked "Do you want me to use my time powers and end this, or do you want me to show you I am better at being the god of war than you are by showing you my warfare powers?" I asked faking sympathy.

"I am better the warrior and god of war than you will ever be," he said like he was struggling. Which he probably was.

"OK, let me prove you wrong," I said while jumping back. I created a cross bow that had an one arrow already notched. I pulled back on the string, and made a really powerful bomb that attached to the aroow head. I let go of the string and it flew. I wasn't ever good at archery, but now that I am the god of warfare and archery is part of the weapons category, I was hoping I was better. I was. The arrow hit him and as soon as it touched him it exploded sending him back. He lost his weapon and I charged throwing my sword away so we could go into hand to hand combat, which is another god of warfare category. As sooon as he got up he charged me without a weapon also.

We fought, but I easily had the upper hand. I would dodge and then counter.i would attack then spin around him and get his side and he would lose his balance. I would let him regain his balance, then do it all over again. The more I was winning, the madder he would get. Then the madder he would get, he would get more reckless and wild and I still easily was beating him.

I then decided to end it I side stepped and kicked him in the gut. When he was flying back I used my time powers to slow down time. Then I ran behind him picking up my sword on the way and made time go again. He landed on my sword and it impaled itself in his thigh. I punched his face and he was knocked out.

I called Apollo over and he took Ares away. During all of this, even though I had never used those powers before, it was all natural and just felt right, I hadn't even used my element powers. Evreryone left except me and the major gods. They came down and stood before me. They were all looking at me in awe on how I defeated the war god, the guy they put on the front lines to fight, in under 15 minutes.

"Well Percy, it looks like you deserve to be an Olympian with us, good job," said my father.

"Thank you father, it was rather fun beating Ares for the second time," I said.

"Yes, yes, but it is time you go explore your palace and domains so good day," Zeus said. With that they all flashed out and went away.

I walked around Olypus just wondering around and thinking about Annabeth. Even though I hadn't showed it much, I was still heart broken over her. I wasn't crying, but I wanted to. That was what being a leader taught me to do. It taught me to not show bad feelings and things like that. I kept on walking when I got to a bench in between the temples of Artemis and Athena. I was just sitting in my thoughts when Athena came up to me.

"Hello Peseus, can we talk for a minute?" she said sitting down.

"Only if you don't call me Perseus again," I said trying to cheer up so it didn't look like I was sad.

"Alright I will call you Percy from now on, ok," she said with a smile.

"Thank you, now what did you want to talk to me about?" I said.

"I just wanted to apologize for being so harsh to you fro the past couple of years, and I am sorry my daughter rejected you." she said with a sad face.

"It's ok, I understand," I said "I don't blame you for what Annabeth did, and I know you were mean to me because I was the son of your rival, and I didn't look like I could save the world at that time." I said.

"You certainly look like you can save the world now," she mumbled, but I could still hear it.

"What was that," I said mocking her "did you just compliment me?" I asked win a surprised voice.

"No," she said defansive " I was j-j-just saying that-," she started.

"It's ok, i'm kidding," I said.

"Oh, well don't do that, it wasn't very nice now was it,"

"And telling the gods a thirteen year old boy is a threat to Olympus when he just saved Artemis and delayed the titans is?" I asked with a smile on my face. Aparently she didn,t know I was kidding because her looked saddened.

"I told you I was sorry," she said looking like she was about to cry.

"It's ok, I was just joking," I said. I really didn't want her to cry. I didn't know why, but hurting her or making her cry was something I really didn't want to do.

"Oh, ok good, but have you seen your palace yet?" she asked and I shook my head no. She frowned and said " Oh, well I designed it myself and you should see it. I think I made the perfect blend of modern society and classical soiciety. I think you will like it." she finished with a smile

"Cool, I was just about to go see it after I rested on the bench, Do you want to come and see it with me?" I asked.

Then like she realized she hates me again she frowned and said "No, why would I want to tdo that?" Then she stormed off.

What the heck just happened.