Book7 PDS: The Miraculous Ghost Story

...43...Planning...43...

Poseidon stormed into the room with Hecate and Hestia right behind him. Hestia was immediately next to Percy. "Goodness, Percy..." She said. "Hestia..." He gasped.

Hecate investigated the tendrils on Percy's back. "These are definitely from Tartarus. He's trying to turn Percy from a distance. Luckily, we can still fix it. It isn't too late." Hecate said.

Underneath her robe, she had a satchel filled with small bottles that contained ingredients. "Apollo, let's get to work." She said.

Poseidon watched as they started to make an ointment like mixture first. Poseidon, however, joined Hestia. Percy gave her a small smile at least. "Hestia, once we're done, I'm going to need you to distract him. Put him in a good place in his mind." Hecate said as she started to smear the ointment on Percy's back.

"Okay." Hestia said. "So warm..." Percy mumbled. "So soft..." Apollo stood ready with a pair of tweezers. Hecate was quick to cast a spell on the jar he had under his arm along with the tweezers.

"What did you do?"

"Those tweezers aren't going to hold them." Hecate said as she hovered her hands in front of Percy's back. "Now." Hestia nodded and cupped Percy's cheeks as she placed her forehead on Percy's.

Percy closed his eyes as he smiled. "Mom..." He mumbled. Poseidon looked saddened at Percy. The things Percy did for everyone only to be treated with this. It was unfair.

Hecate started to mumble something, making the ointment to start glow a dangerous red. Apollo set to work to pluck the tendrils out, throwing them into the enchanted jar, where they couldn't escape.

A little after all of the tendrils were removed.

Apollo closed the lid on the jar and breathed in a breath of relief. Hestia slowly pulled away, slowly bringing Percy down to lay comfortably on the bed.

He was fast asleep. "When all of this is over, I'm going to give Tartarus a piece of my mind." Poseidon said angrily. "That won't be wise. Tartarus would want that so that he can challenge you." Poseidon slammed his trident into the floor. The ground beneath shook a little when he did.

"He won't get away with torturing them again." Poseidon said. He was about to say more when Ninja and Reaper stormed in. "We got it! We know how to get Clockwork back!" Reaper said.

"Well, out with it!" Apollo said." The portal Vlad's using can be split up into three pieces. Once the portal is destroyed, Clockwork will be freed from his prison." Reaper began.

"And that will bring down their numbers. Vlad won't have the power to just make a portal to get reinforcements."

"What is your plan exactly?" Poseidon asked. "While Tartarus is kept busy, the remaining of our doppelganger crew will destroy the portal and get anything that's stolen from us back."

"If Vlad's out of the picture, then we're one step closer to getting King, Nico, Dan and Danny back."

"Jason will assist you in that. I think with his abilities, you'll do it much faster."

"I'll help them too..." Percy said, groaning from behind them. "Percy, you're still wounded."

"I'll be fine by then. We have to stick together, no matter what." Percy said. Poseidon kneeled next to Percy. "Fine, but only if you feel you can fight." Poseidon said. It looked like he wanted to say more, only to refrain himself.

"Right, so Killer told me that the Justice League helped last time. Perhaps we can get in contact with them again to assist with saving the civilians?" Ninja said.

"Artemis and I will go see them. Right, now we need to get the camps back into shape. I'll send Ares and Athena to Camp Jupiter. Hades and Hephaestus can help here in the time being. The rest should go gather the rest of Olympus to prepare for this war. It's all or nothing." Poseidon said.