Olympus' Biggest Mistake

Chapter 2

Two months have passed since peace came to camp and the camps were receiving more new demigods. Some of the campers became warry of Percy, while Annabeth spent a lot of her time with her mother on Olympus, though they do still have dates or just do whatever they feel. Jason, Frank, Piper, and Hazel returned to the Roman camp. Leo rescued Calypso from the Island and shut himself in the bunker with her tinkering and inventing. Nico worked alone and is almost always away from the camps, and Thalia was with the hunt. Percy would have felt lonely had it not been for the cabin councilors being his friends, including Clarisse.

Percy was given the task of training campers in sword combat, but when not busy he just trained. Apparently, the gods took Percy seriously and started to show up at camp every once in a while. A few new cabins went up designed by Athena and Annabeth, and Leo made some crafty useful items. He even went as far as to make that dangerous rock wall even more deadly.

When it wasn't godly parent visits, Leo's new toys, training, or dates with Annabeth, Percy was alone at the beach or sometimes at the bottom of the ocean. He found that the intense pressure in the deep ocean was great training for natural strength. But mostly, he loved being in his home turf, the fish, the sea, the currents, just everything. It was the one quite place he could go to think and truly relax, just don't tell Annabeth.

Weeks have passed and all the campers have been whispering behinds Percy's back. All of them won't even attend his sword teaching classes and some rumors have gone around. One was about him coming close to killing Clarisse in capture the flag, which didn't happen at all. Another about flirting with both Hazel and Piper behind people's backs. Some about him trying to spread stupid baseless rumors. But the craziest was that he rejected godhood so that he could over throw Zeus and become king. Annabeth was the only one to never believe any of them when the cabin councilors turned their backs on him. Annabeth was shocked, to say the least, when she heard the rumors from her siblings herself. She knew better, she knew her loyal and innocent boyfriend Percy, it was all lies with no proof.

Soon enough Percy went into depression, unable to either leave the cabin or leave the ocean. Worried for his health, Annabeth made sure to come to Percy to make sure he ate and brought him food. She asked him why he didn't just go to the gods or something, resolve the issue. Percy was against it as he was too loyal to speak out against them. But she didn't like it all and seemed bothered by it all so he tried something different.

One day, Percy went to the Big House to talk to Chiron about the campers behavior. In doing so he felt a strong pain in his chest, as if his fatal flaw was attacking him. Who knew speaking out against those you are loyal to hurts so much. To make matters worse, Chiron was angry to hear his complaints. He told Percy how the campers said his classes were too dangerous and his teaching style could have killed them. It almost broke Percy's heart to see the distrust in his eyes and hear the hate in his voice.

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Percy left his cabin for dinner and made his way to the beach where he knew his hope waited for him. He reached the beach and found Annabeth at their spot on a picnic blanket looking out into the ocean.

"Calms you down just by looking at it right?"

Annabeth snapped her head up to look at Percy watching the waves. She smiled looking at him and nodded. "Yeah. It really is something."

Percy sat down and the two of them ate while also talking about Annabeth's time on Olympus today. They shared some laughs as they ate and watched to moon rise over the ocean.

"Percy? Can I ask you something meaningless?"

"What is it?" He replied not taking his eyes off the water.