Chapter 2- "But, young Perseus, why would you want to die?"

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Percy's POV

Everyone was snapped out of their daze then.

"Wha-why?!" Athena exclaimed, "And why did you cheat on my daughter after you went on a quest to get her hand in marriage?!"

I narrowed my eyes as my hands curled into fists. "What are you talking about." I said through gritted teeth.

"Annabeth said that you cheated on her with some child of Aphrodite." Demeter said, then after I think she mumbled something like "it would have been fine if you ate more cereal"

"Oh so that's what she said is it?" I said raising my voice with every word. "THATS THE STUPID LIE SHE MADE UP THEN!!!!"

"ARE YOU CALLING MY INNOCENT DAUGHTER A LIAR!" Athena retorted.

"YES!!" I roared, the ground started to tremble-an earthquake. The tugging feeling in my gut was really hurting right about now."I CAUGHT HER CHEATING ON ME!"

"NONSENSE!" Athena bellowed, although her usual calm,steely look, was a bit unsure now.

"That's it." I muttered. Water currents cut through some of the windows as they lifted me off my feet to reach the height of twenty meter high Athena.

"MY FATAL FREAKIN FLAW IS LOYALTY, WHY WOULD I CHEAT?!"

"Because-um-you...er-"

"Exactly." I say, frowning at her. "There's no reason, because I didn't cheat."

I willed the water to lower me back down, even though I could fly I didn't want them knowing about Rhea or Hestia. Not yet. As I reached the floor, I looked around at the rest of the council- there were definitely some mixed expressions. Zeus was glaring at me, Poseidon looked dazed(like he did when he basically disowned me), Hera seemed to be looking around like I was doing, Hades looked shocked but seemed pretty chilled, Artemis was looking at me with worry, Apollo the same, Dionysus seemed quite bored, Hermes was sending me a small smile, Demeter was still muttering about cereal, Aphrodite seemed to be saying things to Ares who wasn't listening but she was also occasionally batting her eyelashes at me, Ares was sending me daggers while glancing at Aphrodite, Hephaestus was fiddling with something but kept glancing in between me and Athena as if we were about to battle to the death, Hestia was tending to the hearth but kept winking at me when nobody was looking and Athena looked shocked, scared and guilty all while obviously in deep thought.

Hestia cleared her throat and walked over to me, shrinking into a 12 year old girl with long brown hair and sparkling, gold eyes. She placed her hand on my forearm while glaring scarily at Zeus, before Zeus broke the glaring competion and suddenly became interested in his lap. She smiled with warmth yet worry at me before saying:

"But, young Perseus, why would you want to die?"

"I-I.." I sighed, before looking at my so called father with hate. I stayed like that for a few more seconds, then turned back to Hestia. "Can you show them my memories please. Oh, and I need to speak to Hecate." I then whispered to her "I think Poseidon is under a spell"

She grinned at me, then clicked her fingers- a huge flat-screen TV appeared with the words 

"Hephaestus TV" etched on the side.

She then proceeded to tell me to sit down (which I did), told all the Olympians to ask questions after the memory session and to also be quiet.

It showed them everything: the day Blake came to camp, him turning everyone against me, my quest for Athena, Annabeth cheating on me (Athena gasped when she saw this) and then me packing my bags and running away. I'll admit, my eyes were a bit misty after watching it- those people used to be my family. Then, just as easily as she made it appear, Hestia clicked her fingers and the TV poofed away. 

"That's why I ran away." I said, before studying their reactions. They were all the same- pure shock. Well apart from my idiot dads, his eyes were still trained on the floor, all covered in fog.

"Oh, and also because of my terrible father." Everyone's eyes snapped who Poseidon, who still hadn't moved.

"Uncle." Artemis said to try and get his attention- it didn't work. "Uncle." She said louder, it once again failed. "That's it" she muttered. She stood up from her throne, walked over to Poseidon, put her mouth next to his ear and screamed:

"UUUUNNNNCCCLLLLEEEE"

He bolted upright, whacking Artemis in the face as he did it. He looked around, confused as Artemis went back to her throne, mumbling about stupid men.

"Huh" His face was smothered in pure confusion, "Why am I here? how did I get here?" 

His eyes were flicking from God to God before his eyes landed on me.

"Oh Percy!" He exclaimed, smiling broadly."My dear son, can you explain how I got here?"

He shrank down to mortal size, before walking over to me. I noticed how his eyes were no longer foggy- they were back to bright sea green, they went every brighter once they saw me.

"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME DEAR SON AFTER ALL YOU DID!" I bellowed at him, he visibly flinched which made Apollo smirk.

"Huh- what did I do?" Poseidon looked utterly confused.

"YOU CLAIMED YOUR SON BLAKE, DUBBED HIM YOUR FAVOURITE CHILD AND BASICALLY DISOWNED ME!" My voice echoed around the throne room, sending vibrations through the crystal clean floor.

His jaw dropped. "Who's Blake- and you're my favorite child..I-"

"HOW CAN YOU PRETEND TO NOT KNOW!!" I was basically screaming by now. "That's it." I muttered.

"That's IT!" I said loud enough for everyone to hear, "I'm done serving you Olympians! All you do is use me as a play thing when you need me, then throw me away! I've done so much for you and now you're accusing me of things and making my life not worth living! I won't make a war against you- but I'm not serving you anymore! I'm. Finished." 

I walked to the thrones of Hermes, Apollo, Hades, Artemis and Hestia- saying thank you for actually being 'okay'. Although, when I got to Hestia I hugged her tightly and whispered "Thankyou so much for being a mother to me Hestia, I will really miss you"

Then I glared once more at the rest of the council, before disappearing out of their lives.

AN: Sorry about it being short. It took me aaaages to write this! I hope you enjoyed and the next chapter will be set in like a few hundred years after that confrontation, and Percy will be reliving what has happened for you guys :D I'll see you in the next chapter, byeee!

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