Percy Jackson The God of The Monsters

Chap 9

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Poseidon was anxious, Zeus decided he had to tell Percy that they wanted him to marry Artemis, they couldn't force Percy into it, but hopefully this would stop the opportunity for war, so reluctantly Poseidon flashed into Percy's throne room, he felt the one second where his body was pure energy, the amount of time it took for Percy to let him teleport into his palace, when he materialised he saw Percy on his throne, his two guards stood on either side, the Hydrakon (hydra / Drakon cross breed) wrapped around the base of his throne, Orthrus sat to the right of Percy's feet, Poseidon couldn't take his eyes from the scorpion that sat upon Percy's lap, the dual tails were fascinating, unlike the normal plating of a scorpion, the plating where the tales split allowed the both to move three hundred and sixty degrees, meaning the scorpion could stab two targets at the same time, on Percy's left side at his feet sat the pitch black giant wolf with hell-fire eyes, Percy saw his father watching the monsters "You know, I discovered something Tartarus forgot to tell me about flamethrower here" as soon as Percy said flamethrower the wolfs ears perked up, Percy scratched him behind the ears, "he can somehow create large flames from his mouth, hence why I've nicknamed him flamethrower" Poseidon was shocked, "so what brings you here today dad?" Percy's question made Poseidon realise that all the monsters in front of him were quite dangerous, especially that scorpion, "well, I need you to swear that you won't get angry at me, I tried my hardest to persuade the other Olympians this was a stupid idea, so did Hestia" Percy looked interested in what his father was going to say, he knew he probably wasn't going to like it,

"Zeus and Athena have decided that if you go to war with Artemis then Artemis's side will lose, since your side had more gods that were able to fight and the fact a large portion of all our armies contain monsters that would join you in a battle, they have decided the safest action would be to try and stop the war before it happens, Athena looked through her library which I believe is the whole reason that they concocted this plan, most of those books are from ancient Greece, and they had some very strange politic situations..." "dad, you're rambling, I promise I won't get angry at you, just tell me already" Poseidon took in a large breath of air "they want to offer you Artemis's hand in marriage" Percy burst out laughing, "Is that the Olympian version of assassination?" Poseidon looked puzzled "what?" "It's simple, they marry me with Artemis, she kills me in my sleep" Poseidon realised that did sound like an idea Zeus would like, "one minute, there is a council meeting at the moment, I'll go see if that was the plan, I know when Zeus is lying" Poseidon appeared on Olympus immediately, "Zeus, please tell me your plan to marry Artemis to Percy wasn't so she could slit his throat in his sleep"

Zeus looked puzzled "why couldn't you think of that Athena? that's much better than having Artemis genuinely marry Perseus" Athena shook her head negatively "that would be stupid, killing Percy would annoy a lot of powerful people, including about half the council since Percy made everybody who works for or with him swear an oath of loyalty he probably has a plan for when he dies" Artemis sat on her throne, but she didn't speak once during the council session or make eye contact with Zeus or Athena, "Percy said he still doesn't want to marry Artemis, also when the repairs are done to his camp the gods who have children are allowed to visit the camp, they will be celebrating the completion of the repairs" the fact that Percy had refused to marry her annoyed Artemis, she didn't want to marry but the fact Percy had refused her hurt her pride, almost like she wasn't good enough for him, but the fact he wouldn't accept the marriage proposal worried her, she wasn't sure if they were still going to go to war, she really hoped not, "Percy hasn't decided what he will do at the moment, the actions of the hunters was forgiven the first time, although in the past wars have broken out for less, but he has said that there will be severe repercussions, the fact that the humans under his command were the final straw, I believe the only reason he refuses to forgive this is the fact Hades daughter was almost killed..." Artemis was annoyed that Bianca was almost killed, and by the sounds of it she had fallen for Percy or vice-versa "Although Percy said that he was wondering if any of you needed a quest doing, Hermes son and Hades daughter need to go on a quest together apparently, Percy said 'Getting them to go on a quest together should give them both the push they need to reveal the feeling they have for each other' " Poseidon laughed as he finished, so Artemis was half right, Bianca had fallen for a boy, but annoyingly not Perseus, so he didn't even have an excuse for not wanting to marry her.