The Son of Night

Chapter 6

Percy POV

When I found out this guy was my brother, on the outside I was calm and I gave him a strained smile but the guy is a pompous, prideful brat. So instead I frowned. On the inside...well it went something like this...

Why? Why do I have to have an arrogant blithering idiot for a brother? And Poseidon's favourite son? Really? Maybe I should introduce myself...

"Hello brother, my name is Percy Jackson I'm a son of Poseidon too. I've been here for years and I just left for a while because I was under the sea living with Dad, Dad's son Triton, Dad's wife Amphirite and Evadne our sister."

"Whatever I'm still his favourite and I own this Camp and table punk so shoo" he made a 'go away' gesture with his hand. I rolled my eyes and replied,

"You don't own Camp because Chiron does since it's his camp and Mr. D, who is a god, also runs camp and as for the table every child of Poseidon is allowed to sit here which includes you and me." Many campers snickered and his face turned red, I think he was going to offer a retort until Chiron stepped in.

"James! Enough! You do not own Camp like Percy said and please will you sit down, unless you want cold food." James turned and glared at Chiron.

"Shut up I'm Poseidon's Son! What are you? Just a horsey thingy? Pffft you don't tell me what to do" That sent my anger soaring. Ok he can insult me all he wants but Chiron is like my father and no one insults him. I was about to retort when Chiron suprised us all at how cold he could be.

"And for your information I'm Poseidon's brother seeing as my father is Kronos, A Titan. He was the king and he was the Titan of Time and not many people know but also harvest." Chiron replied smoothly with a cold voice that made us all flinch.

"Boasting about your parents isn't much good is it now James?" Chiron said calmly looking James dead in the eye.

"Ooooohhh! TEACHER BURN!" Said the Stolls who high-fived and laughed whilst everyone, even Chiron, laughed. James was opening and closing his mouth like a fish as no words came out. Oh how ironic.

"What? I'm thousands of years old and normally I try to be nice but with a really ignorant student I know how to 'burn' them." I grinned as Chiron smiled and turned back to his food and the campers were all laughing. Suddenly a bright light filled the room and we all turned away. Standing there was my father,

Poseidon, god of the sea, earthquakes and horses. We all bowed to him as his gaze landed on me and James.

"Hello my Sons" he said walking up to me and James.

James stared whilst I gave him a hug.

"Hey Dad"

"Father?! Tell him to go away and the campers to stop laughing at me." James said pointing at me. Poseidon quieted the campers who went back to their own conversations and food then turned to me with a questioning gaze.

"You have a pompous, arrogant, stuck-up Son. No offence Dad." I whispered in his ear as he chuckled and then winked at me and pretended to scold me.

"Percy be nice to your little brother" Dad smirked and so did I.

"Ok. Sure Dad. I'll be nice to my Ickle, little bwother."

I saw the Stolls, Lou-Ellen, Will, Katie, Clarisse, Chris and Butch snicker. Even Chiron was smiling with a mischievous glint in his eye. I watched as The Stolls got up and whispered something to Chiron while glancing at me and James. Dad realised where I was looking and turned a questioning, long, hard gaze at The Stolls. Chiron then whispered to my Dad and my Dad smiled and chuckled even more.

"Well my Sons I must go. I promised I'd have a 'Daddy Daughter Day' with Evadne." Me and James both said bye as my Dad disappeared in a sea-smelling breeze.

As soon as Dad left James glared at me then ate his food and so did I except I kept my head down whilst he kept glaring. Eventually dinner was over and we some campers went to the camp fire for the sing along whilst my freinds and some of the minor gods' children and the entire Ares Cabin came with me we all went to the beach. Clarrise was the first to speak up.

"I'm glad your back Prissy. Your brother came here a week ago being chased by a hellhound, one dracaenae and some other monsters but non of them were hard like Drakons or Bassilisks or The Minotaur. Anyway me and Chris saw them and we killed the monsters until he shoved Chris and pulled out a sword pretending he killed the monsters. He's so rude. It's taking me everything not to beat him to a pulp. Anyway I still took him through the little 'initiation' and unlike you I actually got his head in the toilet and The Stolls took a picture." I looked at The Stolls who grinned and handed me three pictures. One of James with his head in the toilet. Another of his shocked face with water all over it. And another where he's stood straight with clenched fists glaring but he looked like a 2 year old. I laughed and handed the pictures back. That's when Katie spoke up.

"Hey Percy I'm sorry about...her, we all are, we thought you two were perfect...but it looks like you weren't. Just know that we'll stick beside you and not her." I smiled gratefully at her and my smile grew as I saw everyone nod in agreement even the Ares Cabin.

I was touched to know they would stick with me and that I wasn't going to lose anymore freinds. We all sat and talked until the camp fire was over and everyone went back to their Cabins before curfew. I flopped on my bed as I already saw James fast asleep and drifted into Morpheus' realm.

I was in some place with broken glass everywhere and blood red clouds above. Tartarus. I heard voices and dashed into a nearby cave and hid behind a large rock near the entrance to listen. Something was coming.

But it wasn't a monster. It was more powerful. The power radiating off whatever it was that hadn't come into view yet was immense. More than how much Gaea radiated. That's probably bad...

Two figures came into view. A man who hard dark hair darker than a black hole, eyes that were like Aphrodites kind of with different colours except every time he blinked his eyes exploded like a super nova and then changed to another colour which also exploded and you get the point. He had olive skin and was dressed in all black with a black cloak. But the weird thing was he seemed to be hovering. A woman walked along side him and thankfully, for the sake of Percy's sanity, she wasn't hovering. She too had really dark hair like the man but her eyes were as black as night and her pupils twinkled and shone as bright as stars in the night sky. She had slightly paler skin that the other man and her hair was slightly wavy and went half way down her back. She was slightly taller than average and she looked like a goddess, with the power radiating off of her, the looks, the fact that she was skinny yet athletic made me think she was a goddess. All in all she was beautiful. She seemed dark, dangerous, powerful and beautiful, she gave Aphrodite a run for her money. And the man also made all the male gods look like Gabe. The man was 6'5 and he was well muscled yet not overly muscled.

The woman was wearing a midnight black dress and flat shoes she also had a black two figures were talking and Percy tried to listen in but only caught snippets.

"Is he here somewhere?" The woman asked

"I can sense him nearby, stop walking" said the man. He turned then looked at the cave and his face split into a smile.

"Do not be afraid Perseus Jackson we will not harm you" He said. I was stunned. How did he find me?

"Who are you?" I asked coming out of the cave.

"That Perseus you will know soon, but it is not time yet" replied the man. I gave a quizzical look but before I could ask another question I heard someone calling my name.

"Percy!"

"Huh?"

"Percy! Wake up!"

I woke up and sat up straight away to see Clarisse, Chris, The Stolls and Katie in my cabin.

"Wha?-"

"Perce you slept in" I said something smart like,

"Oh" That was one weird dream...