The sea prince

Chapter 3

Percy POV

The session with the Athena kids wasn't going any different than normal, just the usual whipping, stabbing and burning. That's when all of a sudden, a beam of light shot from somewhere killing one of my torturers. I tried to look behind me to see who it was but I was in to much pain to do so, but by the look on the Athena spawns faces it was someone powerful. The presence felt familiar but I was to dazed to figure out who it was. A guy at the front of the pack went flying into the attackers arm and the figure, still clouded in darkness, snapped his neck. Throwing his body aside the figure advanced on the rest of the group.

 "No" I croaked almost inaudibly, I don't even know why I'm not throughly enjoying witnessing their deaths but something about just sitting and watching feels wrong. 

"Percy" the figure whispered worriedly just loud enough for me to hear him.

Thats when I knew who it was. Even in my dazed and beaten state I could recognise the voice of my own father. He ran towards me and bent down picking me up bridal style, saying one last thing to the Athena kids I couldn't make out, he flashed us away.

Poseidon POV

I flashed Percy to my medical room on Atlantis and immediately got my best doctors to attend to him. I paced around the room to nervous for words and found myself...crying. 

"What! A god doesn't cry pull yourself together Poseidon" I mentally scold myself. 

But for the first time in thousands of years I can't control my emotion. This is all my fault, I should have checked up on him far before now, he's my son for gods sake! But no, i instead left my son to weeks of abuse and torture. It's my responsibility to protect him, which I wasn't doing a very good job of already, but allowing this to happen on my watch. how could I have been so stupid! My sons at deaths door because of my complete and utter failure as a father. I don't know how long had passed before Triton came in and I realised I was still crying. I tried to pull myself together as crying in front of one of my military officers wouldn't do much to show my strength but to no avail. I know Triton is my son but regrettably I've never really had any sort of proper connection with him beyond employee and boss. There another one of my failures as a father, I've had thousands of years to get it right and still somehow have managed to screw it up. To my surprise, Triton shows no sign of smugness and doesn't get that power hungry gleam in his eyes I see so often in my advisors. Instead he just sits down next to me eyes transfixed on Percy in horror.

 "That's odd" I thought "Triton hates all of my demigod children with a passion, he's tried to kill many of them. Why does he seem to care?" 

Putting that thought aside for now I returned my gaze to Percy to find the doctors taking off their gloves and moving away. 

"We've done all we can" a doctor said to me "and by the looks of it he'll be fine, all he needs now is so rest and maybe not to move around much for a while."

 "Okay" I tell the doctor who promptly goes to the other side of the room to work on someone else. 

Happy with the knowledge my son was going to be fine I pick him up and carry him out of the hospital. Carrying him to my room I lay him down on my king sized bed about 5x bigger than him. Deciding i ought to get some rest to I climbed into bed, put an arm protectively around my son and fell asleep.