Percy Jackson, the New Olympian

The Betrayal

No more. I have lived too long and through too much. I am tired, tired of being a warrior, a pawn, and alive. All of my actual friends are dead, and it's time I joined them. I burst into the Olympus throne room, interrupting the gods' usual arguments.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS JACKSON?!" Zeus roared at me.

I kneeled before the gods and spoke softly, "It's time you repay a debt."

"And what debt is that?" Hera asked, seemingly intrigued.

"The debt you owe me for not letting Calypso off her island after I asked," I responded, still quiet. "The debt that almost killed me in Tartarus."

Some of the gods looked down in shame, but only two or three. Namely Hestia, who I thought was one of the best goddesses there were; Hades, which surprised me; and Artemis, which surprised me even more. Of those three, it was Hades who spoke up.

"He's right brother. While Calypso eventually made it off the island, it was not by our doing, and the other titans and titanesses have not been freed," the god of the dead spoke up.

"Very well. What is your wish this time?" Zeus said, obviously annoyed.

For the first time I looked up straight into his eyes. "I want you to kill me."

It took a few seconds for that sentence to sink in. Finally it was Apollo who asked the question on everyone's mind.

"What?"

"I want you to kill me," I repeated.

"That's not funny Jackson, not funny at all," Athena said, getting a little angry.

"It wasn't supposed to be. I am being deadly serious. I want you to send me to the Underworld." I said, letting her look into my eyes to see the sincerity in that statement. She flinched as she saw the pain in them, the pain I had only recently gained since I came back from her quest.

"But what about my daughter? I gave you permission to propose to her. Are you telling me that you would leave her?!" she recovered, getting angry once again. I couldn't take it anymore. I snapped, and a wave of force slammed into her, knocking her backwards several feet to hit the wall and fall to the floor, dazed.

"YOUR DAUGHTER LEFT ME! SHE CHEATED ON ME! EVER SINCE THAT BITCH," at this I pointed at Hera, who moved away from my rage, "TOOK MY MEMORY AND SENT ME TO THAT DAMN CAMP!!!"

"YOU WOULD TALK OF MY WIFE LIKE THAT, SEA SPAWN?!! I SHOULD BLOW YOU UP WHERE YOU STAND!" Zeus roared, rising to his feet with his masterbolt in hand.

"THEN DO IT! YOU'D BE DOING BOTH OF US A FAVOR!" I roared back, pulling out Riptide, ready for a fight.

"What about your friends? Your father? How do you think they'd feel about your death?" Hera said to me as she tried to calm down her husband.

"Pretty FUCKING HAPPY, considering the fact that my so called friends knew my girlfriend has been cheating on me and didn't tell me! And what father?! Poseidon?! He disowned me a week ago!" At this, the other gods' heads whipped in his direction in surprise and anger. He shrank under the combined glares of the other Olympians.

"You did what?!" Aphrodite exclaimed, her tone dripping with venom, before she launched herself at him, screaming with rage. It took the combined strength of both Hephaestus and Ares to pull her off of the god of the sea, and they could still barely hold her. Poseidon was a broken mess, with golden ichor seeming to cover every inch of his body. Apollo moved to heal him, then seemed to think better of it and sat back down.

"We need to see exactly what happened. maybe then we'll understand everything." Athena said, finally shaking off her daze and moving to sit back upon her throne.

She waved her hand and an image appeared in midair showing me from the night after I had completed Annabeth's quest.

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