The Fate Chronicles

Ch 2 - Back to the Ancient Lands

It was a cloudless, sunny day on Mount Olympus. In the throne room, Dionysus and Apollo were discussing throwing a party for the upcoming summer solstice, while Zeus and Hera were having another discussion (read fight) about his children. Hermes appeared all of a sudden in front of his half-brothers and threw a package onto Dionysus' lap.

"Why can you not handle your wine deliveries, D?" He questioned.

"And here I thought you were the gods' messenger." Came the reply.

"Messenger. Not delivery boy." Hermes said tiredly as he sat down on his throne next to Apollo.

Before either of the brothers could get into further discussion, a brief flash of light delivered three old ladies, a group of confused children dressed in absurd clothes, two satyrs, a cyclops, Chiron, and a grinning Hermes.

"Uh... what..." Zeus said looking around in confusion before settling on looking at the Hermes sitting on his throne, who shrugged in response.

Call the other Olympians, Zeus, including Hades and his wife, Amphitrite, Triton, and Ariadne. Also, the minor gods, Hercules, Theseus Perseus, and the Hunters of Artemis need to be present, instructed the Fates. They included the heroes in the hopes of bringing down their egos, for the time being, anyway. The Hunters were included so they could see that not all men are like the vile creatures they had to face before pledging to become hunters and maybe could tone down their hatred towards men to only a select few.

"Um... of course. Hermes?"

Hermes nodded and went to gather others, while the other Hermes looked around the room before taking a deep breath. The only reason the Fates had let him tag along was so that he could see his son, Pan, for one last time.

Soon the throne room was filled with the requested gods and goddesses, hunters and heroes. At last, Hermes appeared with his son Pan and his half-brother Ares, seemingly dragging them both from their respective beds. Once everyone had settled down, the Fates asked Hermes from the future to explain the situation to everyone, while they took a tall boy with raven black hair, holding a packet of sorts in his hands and occasionally eating from it to a corner to explain the situation to him. He dejectedly agreed to whatever the Fates had told him and went to stand next to a tall girl with blond hair, who was holding some papers and pencils in her hands.

The demigods had been teleported while being in between activities since most of them were holding some of the objects or in the middle of a conversation or even naps when Hermes started explaining about there being two major wars in the future and the reason why the Fates had decided to take such an action.

"So, let me get this straight." Said Athena. "We will have to read about a demigod, who was a part of these wars that you talk about. And are these wars caused somewhat due to our ignorance? But we still cannot change the outcomes of these wars?"

"Yes. That's pretty much it."

"Okay..." Zeus said, letting out a shaky breath. He couldn't believe that they would have two wars within a year and the gods would not participate much in it. The Hermes from the future had not told them against whom the wars would be, nor had he told much about the outcome other than that they managed to barely win in the end.

For the next ten minutes, everyone discussed about the wars as Percy told his friends that the books would be from his point of view. While some looked excited about hearing Percy's thoughts, others were apprehensive that his thoughts would only get him into more trouble with the gods, and these gods did not know him or tolerate such disobedience. But they all agreed that it was an invasion of privacy and decided not to speak of whatever they heard once they went back to their timeline. Hermes went to talk to Pan, who was leaning against his father's throne, while Chiron went to greet his former pupils.