Lightnings Twin (Male OC X Pjo/Hoo)

Love Can Make You Do Crazy Stupid Things

"How can you keep moving forward if you keep regretting the past?" – Edward Elric

Kaze P.O.V

The horrible thing was: I could see the family resemblance. Atlas had the same regal expression as Zoe, the same cold proud look in his eyes that Zoe sometimes got when she was mad, though on him it looked a thousand times more evil. He was all the things I'd originally disliked about Zoe, with none of the good I'd come to love and appreciated.

"Let Artemis go," Zoe and I demanded.

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

Zoe and I opened our mouth to speak, but Artemis said, "No! Do not offer, Zoe! I forbid you. Kaze I know you love me but dont do anything stupid!"

Atlas smirked. He knelt next to Artemis and tried to touch her face, but the goddess bit at him, almost taking off his fingers. Good for her, if she didn't do that ... atlas wouldn't be able to hold up the sky ever again.

"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 center of our palace. It will teach those weaklings some humility."

I looked at Artemis. She looked like she was trying hard to not let the sky fall onto Gea... I need to somehow hold up the sky for her. I know she said not to do anything stupid but I have to. I looked at Annabeth she had a streak of gray in her hair

"From holding the sky," Thalia muttered, as if she'd read my mind. "The weight should've killed her."

"I don't understand," Percy said. "Why can't Artemis just let go of the sky?"

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 crush 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."

He approached us, studying Thalia Percy and me. "So these are the best heroes of the age, eh? Not much of a challenge."

"Fight us," Percy said. "And let's see."

"Have the gods taught you nothing? An immortal does not fight a mere mortal directly. It is beneath our dignity. I will have Luke crush you instead."

"So you're another coward," I said.

Atlas's eyes glowed with hatred. With difficulty, he turned his attention to Thalia.

"As for you, daughter of Zeus, it seems Luke was wrong about you."

"I wasn't wrong," Luke managed. He looked terribly weak, and he spoke every word as if it were painful. If I didn't hate his guts so much, I almost would've felt sorry for him. Once he looked at me he started rubbing the claw like mark on his neck. The very mark I gave him during the fall. "Thalia, you still can join us. Call the Ophiotaurus. It will come to you. Look!"

He waved his hand, and next to us a pool of water appeared: a pond ringed in black marble, big enough for the Ophiotaurus. I could imagine Bessie in that pool. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more I was sure I could hear Bessie mooing. Then I realized she was coming so I tried to make my mind go blank. I tried to think about Artemis, Rashōmon, the different kinds of candy at Percy's mom's shop. Anything but Bessie.

"Thalia, call the Ophiotaurus," Luke persisted. "And you will be more powerful than the gods."

"Luke…" Her voice was full of pain. "What happened to you?"