Just Percy Chapter 7: Book 3 Part 3 and Alternate ending, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

Percy sat wake and healed by water from his backpack, in the back of a pick-up truck, it was left by the side of the road were they fought Talos. The truck had Thalia laid out across the back seats, with Percy. The hunters at in the front sans the missing Bianca, Phoebe was resting into stabbing Percy was hard, work and gods know how she manages it Zoe driving competently while being distracted in her own head, there was nothing around for miles so it didn't much matter if they when off-road, but the lake for a consequence's for failure didn't take from the impressiveness of the success.

Percy gently stroke Thalia hair, it was soft and he found a good way to ground himself as he examined Thalia's mystical presence. He was looking for reassurance of her healthiness, this did require him having to remove the amulet from Herms that gave him control over his own presence. It was a very interesting experience have his mystical presence so close to her without the pendent went he could see how they were entangled.

For example Phoebe's presences was a compact layer around her with her extrusions being thin and short but there was a lot of them, Percy had less by number instead of thousand of needle looking extrusions Percy would say that is where very slimier to Thalia's he had less than a hundred longer and thicker extrusions they are highly remanent of octopus arms, and whenever one of these failing appendages come in to contact with Thalia's they wrap around each other before disintegrating and being reabsorbed into the individual's presence.

The link Percy shared with Thalia was permanent appearing it was a tree trunk sized, going from Thalia to Percy with Percy's presence appendages raping around it as though they are vines, it looked cool if nothing else. Personally, Percy was wondering if is this because of their relationship, just long-term proximity or something else, he doubts idea there was no connection between Zoe and Thalia.

As Percy sat there trying not too agonising over the nothingness he was able to do for Thalia, time and desert scenery passed in a bluer, Percy taking relief from the slowly refilling energy and the physical pulse he could feel on Thalia's wrist, Thalia was alive and ok, even if she was not currently concise.

The truck stopped, it had run out of gas and they were in the middle of nowhere next to some valley, Percy could feel the trickle of water that was down there and found that not much could be done, it was a stream that didn't even come up to the ankle. Some water was better then nothing Percy used the water to carry the still unconcise Thalia, while Zoe lead at the front she chose to take them downstream, and Phoebe brought up the rear she was extra vigilant.

Phoebe did stop her endless comments on Percy's gender, and Percy to the silence as an apology more genuine than "sorry". The beside silence could not last forever and it was broke by phoebe, "so, where does this canyon lead?"

"I don't know, where this Valley is going to lead, Phoebe. I do know that civilization lives along the water so we follow this and we will find people sooner or later." Zoe put an unnecessarily high amount of emphasis on the world 'Valley'.

"No Zoe I would not have asked the question if I knew there this canyon is leading as," again with a large emphasis this time on the word canyon. "I do know if you had not got a car without enough fuel we would find civilization a lot sooner." That could be a reasonable idea Percy was going to add some gas to his bag an air-tight canister to keep those petrol fumes contained it could also work as a fire propellent. This ridicules argument turned it to a "no, this is a canyon", "no, it is a valley". "Look as the sedimentary layering, it is clearly a canyon."

Phoebe turned out to be correct after a sizable distance they came across an abandoned(closed) canon rental shop called 'the Great Canyon cannon's'. A little breaking entering and larceny to the tune of 278 for a four-person cannon, they were out and at an area of the canyon where he river deepened. Percy

It was not long till they were at the dam hoover dam, Thalia was not yet recovered so it was a whispered questing Percy asked to the other boat, using his powers to bring it closer. "So where to now, getting another car, what's the plan."

"west, yes and Mount Tamalpais." She was obviously in the mood for talking now it was time to figure out where he had heard mount Tamalpais before, probably Mr D but that does not narrow it down much.

Percy felt how the water changed long before he was the dam when he recognised this landmark it was hoover dam and making him nostalgic for the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas, there was the time chicanery the fount of knowledge that managed the place. The year between his first and second quest, he had vested this place then, it was before he had met Thalia and it was exactly the same as he remembered it.

Percy was getting fed up with this loneliness Thalia still recovering, the currently unhappy Zoe and the ever-argumentative Phoebe, were pulled away by the current. Percy concludes that he would have to try to heal Thalia with the water how he heals himself, the mystical connection they share should make it possible but it is an unknown and he didn't have Thalia's approval to experiment on her. Percy found it rather easy to push way the usually all-consuming need for an answer when in a situation such as this like 'could it work, how effective is it, what are the side effects.' Thalia would tell him not right now and that would be that, but she was not able to tell him and it was not just a need for answers.

There is the general concern of entering a population centre after being in the wilderness, Percy could see a pattern and this one has a dangerous encounter happening at the dam. Not having a conscious and awake Thaila would be less dangerous for her than any side effects of healing her. Percy used the currents to the beach the other cannon, Zoe and Phoebe could get to the dam by walking the last mile and leave Percy to concentrate on this new task.

Thalia awoke to the sounds of fighting, ok that might be a bit misleading it was the sounds of a fight between Percy and this sea cow, and she was not joking it was literally an underwater cow. She could tell Percy was unhappy with this distraction as most of his focus was on the water he had surrounded her in and was doing something with it.

She was feeling better with each second that passed and by the time the sea cow left she was feeling brilliant, and with the cow departure like she had taken a step backwards somehow, Percy explained that he had used a modified healing technique, the one she had told him not to use on himself, that could possibly explain the backwards sensation. He also told her about how they had lost Bianca and apparently, that she had turned the big old robot to slag, something that should have taken at least ten minutes if it was normal lighting that she was calling down, so her lightning was supercharged godly lighting.

Now she was awake and up Percy brought the Cannon to the river back where there is a path up to the dam, there took some time to find the hunter but when Thalia spotted then on the terraced area the girls were ok. From the argument, Percy described Thalia expected to find a pubic scene or bleeding faces, not the same as before she was knocked out.

Thaila joined the placid pare and Percy went to go get them some food, "so what's the plan? still going west?".

"West is are direction, there is a dam helicopter that will get back within the hour, Phoebe will fly us the rest of the way." Phoebes posture screamed unwillingly but overruled by a high authority, in this case, Zoe. At the best of times Thaila was not going to fly with an unwilling pilot, that was a straight-up, "No, we can't fly isn't there another way could we just continue down this river till we get to the ocean?"

"I don't know do you have a map dose the Colorado river even connect to the sea, Phoebe get a map." A map and silent phoebe returned after a little perusing the problem was clear the river wet in the wrong direction, Thalia needed a good reason to get out of here before the helicopter came back.

Percy appeared not a second later and without the food, he should have, "we've got a problem, so do you understand the complicated internal mechanics of a dam?" Thaila shook her head with Zoe. "So, simply water makes a wheel spin and the spinning wheel make electricity. So there is a main blockage in the main wheel an for some reason there is no evacuation."

"Why didn't the nets stop whatever the blockage is?" Phoebe asked apparently benign versed in the way dam power plants work. "the thing is." Percy explained, "there is a good chance that it is are canons because a took them past the nets without even considering this."

Thaila still didn't understand, "so what is the big deal if they haven't begun to evacuate then it's not that bad?"

"No, it is very bad, the turbine doesn't spin water doesn't get past, best case the water overflows the countryside and dam flood, worst case the dam cant hold the pressure and I will have destroyed a national landmark." Thaila wanted to comment on how that didn't quite sound accurate, but it was no her area of expertise and if they had to leave the dam now then there would be no helicopter.

"Ok, so what are we going to do to get their people to leave if the dam people aren't? telling mortals of danger usually doesn't work out well but we can't leave their people to fend for themselves." Zoe started strategizing.

"We could always just force the people to move, Percy could get out his blade and stab it through the chest of the lady with the kids, then scream like a crazy person, that will get this crowd moving. Or we could tell them that there is a vermin infestation and they mush leave for health reasons." Thalia didn't like the first but she could get behind the second but before she could verbalize her thoughts Percy clicked his fingers for the mist tick she could not see the mortals react and then Percy said "fire!" it seems that he used the must carry the sound because people well out of hearing range joined in on the mad stampede towards the car lot.

It was less than a minute by Thalia's estimation before the area was clear and the group stated there own journey towards the car lot. It was as they stepped in the parking lot that Thalia heard an odd clicking sound. Then everything happened in a rush the main thing was the steel Pole with the parking lot light on the end tipped over Thalia tried to jump out of the way, but it still caught her leg.

It was the way that the guards walked when they got out of the car that had clued her in on the fact that they were the grey zombies, of course, it was the same car that smashed into the pole. The goddam zombies were back, Thalia thought that the split them up tactic had worked well but it seems not, she was really beginning to hate the persistent buggers, always getting in her way. No, she had trapped by this light pole, she tried slipping her leg from underneath but there was so much pain when she made the slightest of moments, she tried to lift the column but could not get the leverage to lift the hunk of metal either.

She was stuck and useless, but it seemed there was a teamwork montage when she was unconscious, the three were brilliant, Percy started the split them into pieces and mix them up tactic but was stopped by Zoe. Apparently getting inspiration from Thaila's position Zoe had Percy arrange the Grey zombie with hands around the pole, before skewering the Zombie to the Pole while Phoebe distracted given the rest a run-around one by one the Number of free Zombies lessoned and the number of captured increased.

What Zoe was doing was gruesome work, the blood and viscera rather unusual from monsters was getting everywhere. She didn't particularly like improvising but the light poles and arrows were working quite well, she even got it to a bit of a rhythm, grab arrow shove thought hands, grab arrow shove thought right foot, grab arrow shove thought left food. Sometimes she needed to use her knife to hammer the arrows into the pole and there was the point where she needed to use some arrows from Phoebe to finish off catching the last few.

By the time she was finished Zoe felt like it was one of those mornings when you had to sleep in an animal and now couldn't get the feeling of disgustingness off you even after your third shower, but she hadn't even had one. "everyone ok?", she asked the group at large to the backdrop of having all the grey zombies clicking stuck to the poles.

"Yes," Phoebe answered before muttering, "I'm glad I didn't have your job." She gave Phoebe a bear hug in return and got a face of disgust. Braking that moment of levity was Thaila, "I'm not, there's a light on my leg." Percy interjected, "Correcting there is a light in your leg." There was a horrifying plop as Percy used his water to lift up the light and a crossbeam through the pole had made a hole in her tibia. The grime Zoe felt so discussed over was now a minor concern, how were they going to get to the mountain with such an injured party member, and was she going to be ok if they had to leave her behind.

To Zoe's confusion, Thalia ordered: "Percy heal this." That was ridiculous one Percy was no child of Apollo and even they would take weeks to heal such an injury, and then she was proven wrong as the water that had been used to move the lamp post coalesced around Thaila's leg wound and reach to Percy's had. Was the flesh knitted together and Percy had his eye unfocused with deep concentration. Thaila tried to explain probably due to hers and Phoebes shocked faces, "Percy is just modifying a self-healing technique, he was a child of the sea so the sea can heal him or some such."

It sounded like a half-remembered answer to the same question, but it was not the main point where did a demigod get such a deep understating of human philology to be able to heal, theoretically with the correct circumstances Percy with his amounts of power could heal himself but those circumstances should include years of medical training. This being river water was a minor complaint compared to the fact a self-healing technique for a son of the sea was able to work on a daughter of the sky. That is as ridicules as saying that there is a sunk city of Atlantis, Plato makes it up and then Poseidon built it because he thought it was a cool idea. Percy should not be able to heal and Atlantis's sinking is a story about the hubris of thinking you're better than the gods. Maybe Apollo was playing a trick or something by the time she was done repressing her shock Thalia was up and already breaking into a car, this one was a big truck thing.

They make a quick pace towards the San Francisco and after what was a four-hour car trip they ended up at the now poplar pier, Zoe was glad she spent the ride fletching her self new arrows she could see the mortal security guards were that the blasted manticore's.

Percy was ready for a prober smackdown he had correctly predicted the appearance of the zombies even if it was not superficially that monster, and they still got the drop on him while he was too focused with keeping the mist illusion of the fire happening, people where smelling smoke felling the temperature rise and seeing flickers of orange from around corners. Thaila got maimed and he exhausted himself using the water to fight, hold Zombies in place and heal Thalia, holding Zombies by far the worst for some reason without he being cut up it was a lot more difficult to use them.

And now a proper car nap later Percy was being dragged out to catch a hobo, he might have still been a little tired but it was little effort to garb him with a spout of water and slam him it to the beach like a ragdoll. Nereus looked unimpressed, "you think this count's as a capture?" he asked mockingly and snickered right up until Zoe shot an arrow through his shoulder, that was steel she was going no hold bars.

"what the fuck? Your demigod weapons should be useless against me, oh I get it." The last bit was said like an inside joke Percy was going to assume that having all the knowledge ever was probably messing with this guy's perspective. "I need to know about the monster that my mistress was hunting. Mr I know all I assume you could tell where the next arrow is going if you don't answer now." The old man's eyes went wide before he smiled.

"that's so easy an Ophiotaurus. Well, I'm off one capture one deal." Then he turned in to a tiny crab and started to scuttle away but Percy was having none of that here was all the answers to his endless supplies of mystical questions he didn't care it felt like he was cheating not using reason and logic to puzzle out the answers. Answers, where answers and that's what he needed, treating the crab-like he was still the size of the old man, meant the crab was slamming towards the ground from more than a thousand times its own height the old man was back and he was mad.

"I fucking told you this doesn't count as a capture." Nereus seemed actual getting some of the attention of the beachgoers, Percy just picked up the arrow left behind after the last transformation stabbing it through the hole still in the shoulder blade. "now how does the mist specify relate to mystical power potential." Instead of answering the old man the sea gave the same giggle as before.

"Percy group up." Thalia's request was clear over the giggling Percy turn around to see they were facing Thorn and some cronies, Percy stepped to Thaila's flank and the quickly checked Nereus was gone, shit. But he could come back after the quest he might even be able to get Nereus to cheer up if he asked about 'the speed of a swallow.' Mortals involved mystical shenanigans usually loved Monty python references, even immortal one he had an entire casino of people that proved his point.

"This is just pairrr-fect," the manticore gloated. Percy had obviously missed something why was the sea cow with the snake tail here, and Thorn looked like he was not having a good time wearing a ratty black trench coat over his school uniform, which was torn and stained. His hair had grown spiky and greasy, with stubble, he didn't look much better than the homeless.

"Long ago, the gods banished me to Persia," the manticore Started, "I was forced to scrounge for food on the edges blad blad blad." Percy's head might have added that last bit he didn't much care for backstories so he began to saturate the beach with more water than what was already there.

"We beat you before," Zoe declared, o god the sit talking Percy had the ground saturated and now he was just planning the theatrics, this manticore was truly an idiot facing a child of the sea next to the sea. Last time he had a two-hundred-meter-high cliff.

"Ha! You could barely fight me with a goddess on your side. And, alas… that goddess is preoccupied at the moment. There will be no help for you now." That was acutely a rather good burn.

Zoe notched an arrow and aimed it straight at the manticore's head. The guards on either side of us raised their guns.

Thorn smiled. "Zoe Nightshade. Put away your bow. It would be a shame to kill you before you witnessed Thalia's great victory." Percy was always up for Thalia to have a great victory.

"What are you talking about?" Thalia growled. She had her shield and spear ready. That was probably a good idea he activated his own close-quarters fight stuff. Sword and shield up even though it was just a toking gesture with the water-saturated through the battlefield.

"Surely it is clear?" the manticore asked before then explaining himself anyway. "This is your moment. This is why Lord Kronos brought you back to life. You will sacrifice the Ophiotaurus. You will bring its entrails to the sacred fire on the mountain. You will gain unlimited power. And for your sixteenth birthday, you will overthrow Olympus." Killing the cow would give you unlimited power that was some bull shit Zeus would have sacrificed it himself. No one spoke, it made terrible sense.

On the other had Thalia was only two days away from turning sixteen. She was a child of the Big Three. And here was a choice, a choice that could mean the end of the gods. It was just like the prophecy said. Percy was sure that he would follow her anywhere but he would want some sleep if doomsday was happening right now.

"You know it is the right choice," the manticore told her. "Your friend Luke recognized it. You shall be reunited with him. You shall rule this world together under the auspices of the Titans. Your father abandoned you, Thalia. He cares nothing for you. And now you shall gain power over him. Crush the Olympians underfoot, as they deserve. Call the beast! It will come to you. Use your spear." Ah, Percy knew better than that if Thalia chose this path there would be no titans to rule under the Auspice of, but here it was what Luke would do did make it a somewhat distaste option the shit had made so much extra work for him.

She looked at Percy the same way she had the morning she woke up on Half-Blood Hill, dazed and uncertain. So he just smiled as reassuring of a smile I could she would make the right decision. Percy knew that he would prefer, there was one option that would leave him not having to fight monsters but there was the possibility that Thalia could not hand the death and destruction of that path. And fighting a few monsters now and aging is a small price for her mental health.

"Your father helped you," Phoebe chipped it. "He turned you into a tree, a tree that kept your friends safe, a tree that the titans poisoned on the off chance that it would be healed in such a way to bring you back."

Her hand tightened on the shaft of her spear, knuckle going white. Then there was a twang and click. Thorn fell backwards arrow through his head and the mortal guards became dazed, the two hunters did some excellent teamwork there. This time Zoe clicked taking mist control from Phoebe and the Guards shot each, half were dead and the others were bleeding out. There was also chaos on the beach, people shooting each other was something to freak out about and the people of San Francisco were doing good job of it.

"So now that is done that where to next?" Percy asked Zoe pointed across the bay, past the Golden Gate. In the distance, a single mountain rose up above the cloud layer. "The garden of my sisters," she said. "I must go home." So this was mount Tamalpais.

"We will never make it," Zoe said. "We cannot leave the Ophiotaurus." That was a pain lie we had become rather proficient with car theft during this quest, Percy was wondering what had Zoe stalling.

"Mooo," The cow dew attention to its self, or was it just a hunk of meat waiting to make someone all-powerful, Zoe did have a point it couldn't stay. So with a deft flick, Percy has the cow a prick with the point of his sword it disappeared.

"One down, one to go," Percy said to three relived faces, what did they think he was going to kill it or something. He did agree with Thorn that if Thaila chose to take it would be Thaila's great victory, and he would keep that option open until she had made a decision. "so what is the rush anyway don't we have all day?"

"No, the Hesperides are the nymphs of the sunset," Zoe answered. "We can only enter their garden as day changes tonight." 'Why Nereus you could tell me what sort of mystical tricky is going on here, no wait you can't because you're not here' Percy decided to keep this comment internal as Thalia suggested some plan for getting a car without stealing it.

Frederick was a reasonably relaxed guy, he liked is historical analyses but other than that he was his own calm when his life picked up in to a storm, the lovely lady you have been dating terns out to be a goddess and is leaving you with a child, sure he panicked but he also kept himself together. Ever since she ran way Annabeth always brought back that panic.

This time it was justified as four teens told his greave news Annabeth's life was in danger once again and this time it was not being told to him as an afterthought. He would help these kids any way he could if it would help to keep his daughter safe. They need a ride he could give them a ride and he would get back and pull out his special bullets.

Then he got a bit discarded if the German lines were a bit back like the girl with the tiara said it would mean that anything else could be wrong as well there was only one account for this battle if it was wrong about the position of the germen lines what else was it wrong about. It seemed that he didn't need to drive the kids himself that would give him time to get his special bullets into a very special weapon a Sopwith Camel.

Phoebe was not having a good time, Eucalyptus was a shit tree that should have stayed on that island in the mild nowhere.

"What's up with all the Eucalyptus?" Percy asked.

"Monsters they love chewing the leaves. Especially dragons." Zoe explained

"Dragons chew eucalyptus leaves?"

"Believe me," Zoe said, "if you had dragon breath, you would chew eucalyptus too."

That might explain Phoebe highly biased opinion Eucalyptus was synonymous with monsters.

There was silence all the way to Mount Tamalpais. The grey clouds swirled even thicker over the mountain, and we kept driving straight toward them. They were out of the forest now, into wide open spaces of cliffs and grass and rocks and fog. Then Percy noted "Princess Andromeda, I was down by the sea." As though it didn't represent a monster army

"We will have company, then," Zoe said grimly. "Kronos's army."

Zoe must've sensed something was wrong because she slammed at the same time Thalia shouted, "Stop the car. NOW!" The yellow VW spun twice before coming to a stop at the edge of the cliff. "Out!" Phoebe jumped out following Thalia's suggestion. The next second: BOOOM!

Lightning flashed, and Father's Chase's Volkswagen erupted like canary-yellow grenade shrapnel flying everywhere she heard a sound like metal ram, and when she opened her eyes, they were surrounded by wreckage. Part of the VW's fender had impaled itself in the street. The smoking hood was spinning in circles.

The taste of smoke was in the air and looked Thalia murderous. "One shall perish by a parent's hand" she muttered. "Curse him. He would destroy me? Me?" this was not good she had stopped the demigod with a fatal flaw of 'desiring power' by distracting and then killing the enemy offering the power this time the demigod would not hesitate if given the option right now. And trying to explain it is a trick would make it worse, not better she needed to the boy to do the arguing it the same situation came up.

Zoe lead the rest through the fog, and when the fog cleared, they were still on the side of the mountain, but the road was dirt, the grass was thicker, the sunset made a bloodred slash across the sea. The summit of the mountain was closer now, just like swirling with storm clouds and raw power. There was only one path to the top, directly in front of them. And it led through a lush meadow of shadows and flowers: the garden of twilight, just like Zoe had reminisced centuries ago.

If it hadn't been for the enormous dragon, the garden would've been the most beautiful place ever. The grass shimmered with silvery evening light, and the flowers were such brilliant colours they almost glowed in the dark. Stepping stones of polished black marble led around either side of a five-story-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples, enclosed by the dragon. The monster's body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales. He had more heads than I could count as if a hundred deadly pythons had been fused together. He appeared to be asleep. The heads lay curled in a big spaghetti-like mound on the grass, all the eyes closed.

Four figures shimmered into existence, four young women who looked very much like Zoe. They all wore white Greek chitons. Their skin was like caramel. Silky black hair tumbled loose around their shoulders. Zoe's siblings, the Hesperides. They looked just like Zoe, but Phoebe was ready to put them in their place for what they had done.

"Sisters," Zoe said. "We do not see any sister," one of the girls said coldly. "We see two half-bloods and two Hunter. All of whom shall soon die." she would be the first to take a fist to the face.

"You've got it wrong." Phoebe stepped forward. "we're not the ones going to die." The girls ignored her probably knowing that it would get under his skin, studied the two campers.

"Perseus Jackson," one of them said. "Yes," mused another. "I do not see why he is a threat."

"Are you going to let us through? And isn't it always going from day time towards night time, that is the nature of linear time Afterall?" it seemed there wherein no answering mood, and even if the question was semantically correct only during sunset is when the day changes tonight.

The first Hesperid glanced behind her, toward the top of the mountain. "They fear thee. They are unhappy that this one has not yet killed thee." She pointed at Thalia.

"Tempting sometimes," Thalia admitted. "But no, thanks. He's mine." And then did something the reminded her of why she loathed travelling with non-hunters, she kissed him.

"There are no friends here, daughter of Zeus," the girl said. "Only enemies. Go back."

"Not without Annabeth," Thalia said. "And Artemis," Phoebe added. She was an important one.

Zoe said. "We must approach the mountain."

"You know semantically will kill thee," the girl said. "You are no match for him."

"Artemis must be freed," Zoe insisted. "Let us pass."

The girl shook her head. "You have no rights here anymore. We have only to raise our voices and Ladon will wake." Phoebe was getting sick of this posturing she took a stride forward and decked the first Hesperid. The other three opened there mouths to yell but just stuttered and coughed as Percy filled each of there mouths with water.

Phoebe lined up her next hit for the second Hesperid, but the first yelled, "Ladon! Wake!" and all four yelped and scattered. The dragon stirred, glittering like a mountain of pennies. The dragon Ladon was writhing now, a hundred heads whipping around, tongues flickering and tasting the air. Zoe took a step forward, her arms raised.

"Zoe, don't," Thalia said. "You're not a Hesperid anymore. He'll kill you."

"Ladon is trained to protect the tree," Zoe said. "Skirt around the edges of the garden. Go up the mountain. As long as I am a bigger threat, he should ignore thee."

"Should," Phoebe said.

"It is the only way," she said. "Even the four of us together cannot fight him."

"Really?" Percy asked as he repeated what he did with the Hesperides but hundredfold, every head was surrounded by its own independent bobble of water, "I have found everything needs to breathe and if he can't leave the tree what is he going to do?"

Then every head breathed fire turning all the water to steam, Percy gave a nod of acknowledgement before taking control of the steam and making a vision barrier around Ladon. They looked to trust Zoe's judgment weather the screen would work she gestured for to go ahead. Thalia and Percy went left. Phoebe followed Zoe right. Ladon shifted forward, then back. Some of the mouths began hissing and Phoebe's nose was filled with putrid dragon breath. The Hesperides shimmered and turned into shadows, they might have gotten the way this even but one day phoebe would come back and kick some Hesperid ass.

We'd almost made it out of the meadow when something went wrong. The dragon's struck through the steam. Two thousand years of training kept her and her leader alive. She dodged one set of slashing fangs and tumbled under another, weaving through the dragon's heads as she ran up the mountain, just behind Percy and Thalia and just before Zoe.

The dragon didn't try to pursue. He hissed and stomped the ground, but he was well trained to guard that tree. He wasn't going to be lured off even by the tasty prospect of eating some heroes. Together they ran up the mountain as the Hesperides resumed their song in the shadows behind.

Atlas was not quite prepared when he heard his daughters voice just below the peak, hun they had made it now the question was could he get one of them to fight him. Quickly he suited up literally into a nice silk suit and by the time he was done, he could hear his daughter and a friend fussing over the captured goddess.

So he boomed, "Ah, how touching." That got their attention all turning to look at him and the useless demigod Cronus had sent him, the boy was freaking out about the potential of Altus failing after the new world was built he would have to punish the child for his lack of faith.

"Luke," the Zeus Spawn snarled. "Let her go." What the fuck there is a titan the right hand of Cronus and she just ignored him, given the useless demigod on his side did have a sword to the girl's throat, but still titan here.

Luke the little shit didn't even give a proper pot down your weapons, just passing the buck. "That is the General's decision, Thalia. But it's good to see you again."

Thalia, that's the name of the Zeus span well she spat at him. The General chuckled. "So much for old friends." Luke was more hated by her then he was how would that piss stain convince her of anything. Changing his focus "And you, Zoe. It's been a long time. How is my little traitor? I will enjoy killing you."

"Do not respond," Artemis groaned. "Do not challenge him."

"You're not going to hurt Zoe," the other hunter said. "I won't let you."

The General sneered. "You have no right to interfere, this is a family matter." The second hunter was volatility he could get her to attack and the rest of these demigods would come to her aid and he could dispatch them all leaving them alive so he would have enough leverage to force Thaila to kill the Ophiotaurus.

"Let Artemis go," Zoe demanded. To think that she was once his daughter now giving him more ammunition to bait an attack how good.

Atlas walked closer to the chained goddess. "Perhaps you'd like to take the sky for her, then? Be my guest."

Zoe opened her mouth to speak, but Artemis said, "No! Do not offer, Zoe! I forbid you." Can't attack him can't take the sky, Atlas smirked. He knelt next to Artemis and tried to touch her face, but the goddess bit at him, almost taking off his fingers. "Get away from her." Still not enough to get the second hunter to attack

"Hoo-hoo," Atlas chuckled. "You see, daughter? Lady Artemis likes her new job. I think I will have all the Olympians take turns carrying my burden, once Lord Kronos rules again, and this is the centre of our palace. It will teach those weaklings some humility." Would ignoring the second girl be more effective.

Following this tack Atlas noticed Thalia Annabeth's blond hair was now streaked with grey. "From holding the sky," Thalia muttered, "The weight should've killed her."

"I don't understand," The son of the sea asked. "Why can't Artemis just let go of the sky?"

What a stupid demigod Atlas laughed. "How little you understand, young one. This is the point where the sky and the earth first met, where Ouranos and Gaia first brought forth their mighty children, the Titans. The sky still yearns to embrace the earth. Someone must hold it at bay, or else it would crash down upon this place, instantly flattening the mountain and everything within a hundred leagues. Once you have taken the burden, there is no escape." Atlas smiled. "Unless someone else takes it from you."

"No, I understand but a hundred leagues that's got going to reach past California what 10 million, just drop it smack the coffin and the base of power for the titans, she immortal she will respawn. I'm just saying you have a lot of eggs here and something that can easily mash the basket." there was a moment of silence as all digested that "and look," Percy pointed to the cruise ship on the beach disgorging their monster army. "more eggs."

Atlas gulped the kid was right and looking at Artemis she knew it as well, then she faked a slip and instantly atlas reached for his burden, and pulled back just as quick, First thing he needed to do was get that coffin out of here century of work down the drain if it gets crushed.

And then Artemis must have gained the confidence because there was a horrid shrieking sound Atlas felt the weight of the sky crashing him before he slowly began the reformation in Tartarus.

A.N.

Thanks to everyone for your patience below you will find an Alternate ending this was the original one I planed and the one above came to me when I was wrighting, I could not decide for months I prefer the one above but the one below explains some longterm plot points. So do enjoy and get hyper for the new Harry Potter SI I have been working on.

And here we go.

Looking at his daughter and the other hunter this would be a bit more difficult he could not harm these mortals before Cronos and the army had got to safely because Artemis would drop the sky if they were out of danger, and being dead is about as out of danger as you can get.

"Percy deals with the monsters and gets Annabeth, I will take care of Luke." It was the Daughter of Zeus that gave this instruction to the son of Poseidon for what atlas remembered of those gods the boy should have ignored the request and done his own thing. But the old law forbids him from interrupting. This was an impressive bit of coordination, even without the element of surprise the Daughter of Zeus was able to jab downwards and left so Luke was forced to block with his sword taking me from the leveraged position at the girl's neck.

The son of Poseidon stepped close and yanked her free before heading down to face the monstrous army that was now in retreat because the Coffing bearers had broken with the attack on Luke and where retreating.

This was the time that the other hunter and his daughter thought would be a good time to attack, him. He easily swatted aside there pitiful arrows and knives, not just pounding the two hunters into the goop was the hard part. Pulling his attacks was against his nature, so he decided to focus back on the fight between the Daughter of Zeus and the useless demigods Atlas discovered that he might be forced to cover the useless demigod's retreat, he had got implied through the leg, Cronus would not be happy if Atlas let him die.

Whist taking an arrow here and there while blocking the majority of them atlas thought that he could give convincing her to witch sides a person go. "Daughter of Zeus," block, block, take an arrow. "you still can join us." Block, take an arrow, block. "Call the Ophiotaurus. It will come to you." Block, block, block. He waved his hand, and a pool of water appeared: a pond ringed in black marble, big enough for the Ophiotaurus. He should have taken three arrows to his hand but it seems he had overplayed his hand, the hunters had figured out that he was biding his time and not really fighting them.

Together they switched with Artemis to semi mortal taking the burden together, but now he could fight for real, making a Goddess have to reform what an accomplishment. And it's not like she was going to get any back up the daughter of Zeus was, she was entranced by the pond now with an Ophiotaurus in it.

Percy was having great fighting this army. Dracaenae and Laestrygonians, monsters and half-bloods, hell hounds, harpies, and other things he couldn't even name they all fell to his sword or more-likely the hardened water flying around the battlefield he could not quite take out the coffin it repelled all his attacks and whenever he took out the monsters carrying it more would take their place to continue the retreat. The whole ship must've been emptied, before the retreat because there were hundreds, all struggling to get back on board if they all turned to fight he would be overwhelmed but he was not even struggling whilst supporting Annabeth.

And then everything became more panicked as, Annabeth's dad began to shoot blindly into the retreating monsters, three within sword reach. "Dad?" Annabeth asked hopefully saying the last thing she would ever say.

The Sopwith Camel swooped down again. A few giants threw javelins, and one flew straight between the wings of the plane, but the machine guns blazed. Percy realized with amazement that somehow Dr Chase must've gotten hold of celestial bronze to fashion his bullets. Right before one of them hit his Daughter.

Percy focused on the liquid of her body but it was little use, there was blood going everywhere he could pull the blood from inside the lung and stop more getting in, he could stop all the blood entirely but that would cause major problems no blood flow is essentially stopping someone's heart.

He needed to get out of this mad mans firing range before he got hit as well, Percy stopped the blood from leaving the body or going it to the lungs which meant she didn't start coughing up blood so musty looked fine but he could not actually stop her from internally bleeding out and by the time he was back up the summit, Annabeth had lost her life. He had failed Thalia, what was he meant to do, he should have retreated the second a bi-plane came in.

The top of the summit there was an immortal fight between Atlas and Artemis, Zoe and Phoebe where holding up the sky and Thalia was staring at the Ophiotaurus, which must have magically appeared in a magically appearing pool. It was with a heavy tone that Percy approached Thalia, "I have failed." He lay Annabeth body down now he was at the summit. Thalia brock from her eye way staring match with the Ophiotaurus and her eyes hardened.

"Percy set a fire." Percy gathered the few scrap pieces of wood and Thaila leveller her spear at the cow in the pond.

Zeus could remember the last time he had felt disappointed 1087 years ago a son of his that had great deads to his name discarded him by trying to help the Titaness Leto escape, today here and now looking upon his daughter in chains dead Ophiotaurus burning in Hestia's flames so no one could receive its power, disappointment is what he felt. Disappointment that she had fallen to the Titans.

Disappointment that he kept her alive all those years ago. Disappointment that he was the one to break the pack and his spawn was going to be the downfall of this Pantheon. After seeing her act of bravery outside the borders of the camp he invested too many exceptions in her and now he was disappointed.

" You have heard the evidence from my hunters, I have shared my memories of the incident." Artemis leads this session since she popped in with two of the most promising heroes, ex-heroes. "I call for harsh judgment."

"As distasteful as I find this the only option is death, all agreed?" looking around the chamber all but Dionysus. "do you have something to say?"

"No, I just am not white convinced that Percy would go alone with this." Again the boy tried to speak Zeus was glad he had been gaged.

Pulling his lighting bolt to him Zeus began to charge it, examine the auras of the prisoners he could tell the one that use to be this daughter was preparing for and electric shock running it through none vital parts of her body, an impressive amount of control but ultimately useless, the boy's strength of will was impressive taking the punishment like a man, no cheap tricks very good.

Zeus let the bolt fly smashing into a wall of water, what was Poseidon playing at, water was conductive any way. But as the water dropped the Prisoners were still alive. Turning to his brother "WHAT DID YOU DO?" Zeus began to shout before seeing that Poseidon didn't have his trident out. "I don't know how my brother but it seems that my child has found a way to make waster lighting proof."

Turning to the rest of the Council his family, one of them should have an explanation, "So how can tell me why this traitors scums Aura was hidden from me?" there was silence but out of the corner of his eye Zeus saw Herms twitch. "do you have some answers." Rather an actually answer herms floated an object from the male prisoner, and there was the aura to rival the most powerful demigods to ever live.

Herms was going to get it to alter for knowing about forbidden items making their way into the hands of demigods but now was not the time. Soon enough the partially distort over the death of another daughter Athena gasped, "look at the way the auras are combined, I have never seen anything like it." Zeus looked and understood why was there so much power towards his Daughter, this made no sense and now he would not hear the end of it if he didn't give a token effort to figure it out. "Apollo can you do something".

The sun god got to work he was the god of healing physically but also spritely this might to be an injury but if someone could figure it out in a timely manner it was Apollo. Some tapping joke about saying "AHH" he Guested Zeus to a 1 on 1 explanation.

"so, you know the thing where you take control of someone, by manipulating the lighting in their body." Zeus knew what he was talking about but that took absolute concentration, "well your kid has made a bastard version of it, where instead of taking direct control she just influenced, but after a few weeks she would have become dominate after however long they have spent together." Apollo to a moment to find the right comparison, "she is chaos to his demigod hood. I can see how the control ebbs and flows but most of the time he is a fish and she the current."

Zeus had chosen not to exploit his controlling ability's and not deal with the suspicion it would cause it this was explained, that lack of exploitation would have been for nothing. "ok thank you for this information son, but I'm still going to need to keep this in-between us."

Zeus returned to his chair finally they could continue, Zeus raised his bolt once again and the boy went for another trick. Grabbing the other prisoner and ran right at him, but Poseidon was holding back any water from the prisoners and then they leapt at his foot, Zeus was going to kick them back it to the centre of the room but there were gone.

Percy could not believe that his escape had worked, shadow trave was a severely understated skill, but unfortunately for Percy, there was a minor goddess of magic nominally on the side of the gods and willing to just teleport Percy into a cage that would just stop him from using his powers.

The third time was the charm of Zeus, Percy became Incorporeal with Thalia by his side, they made their way to Charon, he remembered Percy and let them skip all of the unpaid lines. Getting to the table of judgment Percy was able to convince the Judges that two to the elysian fields was the same as one to the island of the blessed. And so even if Percy could never get answers to all of the questions that plagued him he found Peace with a mystically forced sole mate. And Thalia was happy to spend the rest of eternity was the guy that stopped her from going to the fields of punishment.