The Broken and the Hunted (Percy Jackson Fanfic)

chapter 7

Thalia P.O.V

We were all on Olympus, the gods were all yelling and talking at once. Artemis yelling at Apollo to focus, Hera telling Dionysus to wake up. Demeter was yelling something about cereal but no one was listening. Athena was trying to explain to Ares why he couldn't go and fight everyone till he found Talon. Zeus was demanding Hades bring his son, Thanatos, forward so they could question him, while Poseidon was sitting quietly in his throne.

"Man, they are a rowdy bunch aren't they?" A deep voice asked from behind me.

I turn around and stepped back in shock. Talon was there leaning against a piller around the edge of the room hidden in the shadows. I was about to call out his name to let the gods know he was there but he put his finger to his lips in a shushing motion. For some reason I didn't say anything, I guess it was because he had saved me and healed Alice, the hunter who was shot. He quietly walked over to stand behind Lady Artemis throne while keeping a respectful distance. "Why are you just back here watching them?" I asked him.

"They amuse me." he said with a soft chuckle. "Watching them scramble around like chickens with their head cut off while I am right under their noses, isn't it funny?"

I couldn't help but chuckle at that too now that I looked at it that way. I glanced back and saw that there was someone new in the middle of the thrones. The gods had quieted down. "Son we have been informed that you have a champion. How is this possible?" Hades asked.

I saw Talon walk out from behind Thanatos and smirk from under his hood. Thanatos opened his mouth to speak but Zeus interrupted him "I demand you bring him here and explain how this happened."

Wait what, I quickly looked to Talon clearly standing next to thanatos. Could Zeus not see him there then I noticed none of the gods were looking at him. What is going on I thought to myself. Then suddenly talon was in front of me "oh Hun, didn't I tell you" he said with a sad smile on his face "none of this is real" then he pushed me. "You need to wake up Thalia your scaring the other hunters."

I was falling. And screaming. Then I sat up breathing heavily. Alice was hovering over me. "Oh thank the gods you are awake. You had us worried for a minute."

I looked around and saw we were on Olympus. The gods were yelling at each other. Just like in my dream. I quickly looked over to the piller where Talon was in my dream, but no one was there I breathed a quick sigh of relief. "I demand you bring him here and explain how this happened." I heard Zeus bellow.

Thanatos nodded and closed his eyes for a minute, then furrowing in frustration. "He sends to be resisting me, he doesn't want to be here."

Zeus sat there silent with a red face. "My word have I always been this good at annoying you oh great Lord of the Skies, King of God's" said a voice I recognized as Talon's.

He walked from behind Thanatos and flung back his cloak put one for in front of the other and bent any the knee with the other leg giving the most ridiculous and mocking bows I have ever seen with exaggerated waving motions with his arm and his head nearly touching his knee. Zeus however didn't seem to see the mock awe that seemed to drip of that view as he smiled triumphantly.

"Yes well it seems we might get along after all." Zeus said smugly.

"Well it's only right for men of the same rank to show their respect but if you don't wish to show it in return I have no choice but to accept the insult." Talon said with a mock hurt voice placing his head on his chest and turning his head with a sigh.

"Who do you think you are to hold the same rank as the King of Olympus?" Zeus said angrily

"Why I am the King of Madness, and the strongest of the apple eaters of course, at your service." He said with another view, this one a simple bend at the waist.

The King of the gods just say there utterly confused. Athena took that chance to ask the mad man in the middle of them all "I've never heard of you before, where are you from dimigod, how old are you?"

"Haha you have never heard of me oh Wise one well I guess you just don't have your fingers in the right places for that information, if you know what I mean." Talon said as he placed both hands behind his back " and why in the world would you think Talon is a dimigod?"

This guy several good and goddesses confused. "If your not a dimigod what are you?" Asked Apollo.

"I never said I wasn't a dimigod."

Then Thanatos walked up to Talon. "Talon I would like to know who we are talking to, please put your mask on."

Talon looked back at the god of death and have a heavy sigh and I could feel eye roll that Talon gave under his hood. Then I saw him pull something from under his cloak and bring it up to his face. It was his mask, except that the was nothing. It looked like a solid silver place that curved around his face with no features at all just flat and silver. As he was putting it on it seemed to fade behind the shadows his hood cast but then faded away showing the blank mask.

"Well who gets to show their ugly mug first huh. Anyone pick a number between one and eight, anyone at all? I warn you though number four doesn't like to talk oh and seven might try and kill you lol, anyway pick a number." Talon said from behind his mask.

"What do you mean pick a number and why the mask you already have a hood on, I don't understand what is going on here." Aphrodite wined.

"He is referring to who you want to talk to and the mask is inchanted to show who is taking. He has eight different personalities in his head, Talon being the main, the original personality that they all split from each one is independent but they share all their knowledge and without the mask it is very hard to tell who is in control." Talon explained to the confused gods.

"If he is this... How do I put it-" Athena was cut off by Talon "I think the words you are looking for is bat shit insane but that might be putting it to lightly anyway continue."

"Well why did you choose him to be your champion if he is 'bat shit insane' as he says?" Athena continued.

"Hey that's mean to call someone that, it could hurt their feelings" Talon reprimanding the goddess.

"Don't mind him he does that a lot." Thanatos waved of the goddess who was about to yell at Talon "and I choose him to be my champion because of who he was before." He looked at Talon and nodded his head.

Talon nodded back and slipped off his hood and turned so all the gods could see him and then reached up and took of his mask.,"im baaack. Did ya miss me?"he said dramatically

All the gods flinched and seemed to freeze in their thrones. I looked at Talon and studied his face his black wind blown hair that seemed like he just rolled out of bed his bright sea green eyes and a devilishly playful grin on his face. Tears came to my eyes as I heard Poseidon wisper "Percy my boy is that you? Percy Jackson my son you have returned."

I quickly wipe away the tear in my eye before any of the other hunters could see confused as to why is would be there and I lean over and ask Phobie "who is Percy Jackson, have you heard of him before?"

Please don't kill me I am going some where with this I promise.
You will get to see what the mask can do in the next chapter and as always please love me I am trying to update faster, i sorry I so slow until next time.