Meeting the Moon at war

Chapter 11

Morning came too early for Percy, but Hestia is a very persistent goddess, and that was how he found himself in the middle of the throne room, surrounded by powerful immortals, while he was an extremely powerful demigod, even though he wouldn't admit it. Athena's curious gaze, after a full hour, made him snap. "Are you going to ask me or not?" he said, quite annoyed. Athena snapped out of her gaze and nodded, starting her much slower rate of questions come out of her mouth. "How do you know the six elder gods?" she asked, purely out of curiosity and not laced with hatred, though she didn't know that he was the son of Poseidon and also the start of their rivalry haven't really started so Percy was going to form a strong bond with her, like he did with Hera, so he was going to answer as politely as he could, but his father spoke, Percy playfully glared but he didn't see it. "Do you remember the stories that I told you about a mysterious man that fell from the sky and helped us take on the armies of Kronos and the Lord himself?" he asked her, which earned a nod in response, then realization crossed her face, looking at Percy in a mixture of wonder, amazement, and respect, the last one much more present.

"Awwww, you told stories about me." Percy said, wiping an imaginary tear. The elder gods, instead of denying it, all nodded. "Of course, you were great, coming up with the plan, teaching the demigods, which all had happy lives those who survived, sword fighting techniques that we didn't even think of teaching them and weren't an arrogant, selfish brat that thought that you were better than everyone, but were completely the opposite, an honest, patient, caring man, and friend to everyone, even if they annoy you to no end." Zeus said, ending with a chuckle, remembering his two half-brothers. Percy blushed bright red from the compliments that Zeus, who hated him just a few months ago, is throwing in his direction. "Thanks, Zeus. So, everyone knows who I am?" Percy asked and every god nodded, except Artemis, who thought that Percy was just impersonating the heroic male that had earned her respect, even though she only knew of him from stories her mother told her.

Apollo saw her look of disbelieve and reassured her "Don't worry sis, he's telling the truth." Artemis didn't know if Apollo was being his childish self, always telling her that she's wrong, or if he was really telling the truth. Before she could scold her brother for being childish, as she assumed he was, he interrupted her "And I swear on the river Styx that I'm telling the truth." He continued, seeing that his sister wasn't going to believe him if he didn't swear on something/someone.

Artemis huffed, but stayed quiet, knowing that what the man in front of her and Apollo said was true. "Very well then." And after that short sentence she stayed quiet, glaring at the floor, or glancing at Percy, wondering what makes him special. "Kronos told me that there is a war going on?" Percy blurted out, and the room's atmosphere changed from happy and warm, to dreadful and cold and Percy really wished that he kept his mouth shut. "Yes, there is another war going on against Gaia and Tartarus's children, the giants, each born to oppose each of us. Have the same power level, skill and strength." Hades said, his tone from caring went to anger in a millisecond, making Percy realize that this was much more serious that he thought. He remembered Annabeth, gods he missed his best friend, telling him the full story, about the Giant War, and how it went on for nearly two decades, due to the gods not figuring out how to kill a giant and when they did discover, thousands had been already killed, and hundreds of demigods were massacred in the battlefield.

He immediately went into full war mode "How long has this battle been going on?" he asked, dreading the answer but was reified when the answer came "Three months." Athena responded, looking at Percy curiously, trying to figure out why he was so relived. Percy catching her stare answered truthfully "In the future the war has been recorded to go on for nearly two decades and loosing thousands of lives in the process." The gods leaned back in their chair, astonished by the news, and surly, who wouldn't.

"Have you considered asking the demigods for help." Percy asked, looking at the gods with a raised brow, knowing that they didn't and by their looks, they definitely didn't. "Well, it's time to invite them to a nice and comfy war." Percy sarcastically said.