PERCY JACKSON: The Hero Returns

Just Trying to Help

"We take Poseidon's cabin." Percy said.

"WHAAAAT!" Daniel screamed in such a vexed manner. He almost wanted to grab a fistful of this god-man's cloak and shove it down a goat's throat. "That cabin, is a shrine for children of Poseidon. Make your own cabin!" He told them, clutching his sword hard.

"This land that you are standing on, is created by Chaos. Our lord, and so, we do have every right to claim everything and anything that we wanted." Percy said. Then he looked around the crowd. "Go on then, back to business, strumpets and men's trumpets, you know the usual human things." He said, pushig through the crowd towards Poseidon's cabin.

It din't take long before a strong quake shook the grounds of CHB. The heaven clouds, turned into a dangerous red, and the once lush land with a nice shade of green turned barren.

"What's going on?" Zoë asked, holding her ground as the earth rumbled.

Percy thought at first, that this was the work of non other, than Daniel himself (courtesy of their Poseidon abilities.) But then shook that notion away, no son of Poseidon can make the sky colour change.

"This happens often," Chiron said, suddenly joining in. The quake stopping a little bit after. "I don't know what has been going on, but after the past few days, things have been changing... then it would turn back to normal."

"You're experiencing a seismic shift. Literally and figuratively." Beckendondorf said, fiddling with a metal figurine.

"Yes. We have been. Even gods and demigods are affected. Naiads, satyr, all creatures alike. Even monsters from the depths of tartarus are affected." Chiron added, staring at the angry skies.

"May you, tell us this changes?" Zoë asked
While Percy nodded his, ready to take down mental notes (or rather, sending electrical pulses to the brain, which is a foreign Mars Code... not only can his mind remember the things he needs to remember, but can also keep this information confidential.)

"Gods, have been switching abilities. Once, Zeus was removed of his powers, while Poseidon was able to control the skies. Hermes had lost his too, rendering half of the global business to shit down in under 2 hours. Apollo, well, Apollo went mad. He turned corrupt, and left. Light, which is used for transporting data, is no longer available. No phones, no computers... our people considered this a worldwide crisis. And even then, this was only the beginning, after Apollo left, his domain was unkept. A huge domino effect." Chiron stopped for a minute, shaking his head miserably. "Trees died, Grover, go of nature, is close to fading. Naiads, nearly extinct. Major decrease of vegetation, lead to erosion, which made the rivers more unkept, especially now that Poseidon is at his weakest point."

Percy nodded his head, his mind working hard on various solutions for such a wild phenomenon. "Do you have any clue, why it led to this?" Percy asked. "And when did this outbreak start exactly?"

"This started about a month ago, two days after Apollo's corruption. I have no idea what caused this. Perhaps it's connected to new attacks, attacks coming from what's called the..." he checked his notepad. "Alesis? Adeli? I can't even understand my own penmanship." Chiron huffed, ripping the paper in peices.

Zoë raised her eyebrows, while the armada shuffled in uncomfortable circumstances.
Even with the cloak blocking her face, Percy could clearly see her confusion. "Our intel states that the Ascesis will be here by a few weeks."

Chiron shook his head, his hoof digging on the dusty ground. "I find it hard to believe, but, your source is wrong. We've been raided by those bastards for three weeks now."

Percy stood quite, his sudden anger brewing up. He hated it when intel committee had its fact wrong. Whoever told them about this wrong information should be thrown into the brig.