Percy Jackson and the Guardians of Childhood_PJO/RotG (2nd draft)

13. The new threat

It was a battle to get up on his feet again was impossible, but Percy managed as always, even though his balance was off, and he had to lean on Agrios. He felt both weaker and stronger than ever. That just happened.

He cleared his throat, snapping the gods out of their thoughts, "Now that that's done its time for the first war council. Our enemy is Pitch Black..." "The bogeyman?" Athena broke in, "But he's not real."

Percy rolled his eyes, pretending that he wasn't just as disbelieving when he met Jack, "Most people wouldn't believe that Greek gods exist. As you should know, most tales are true. The guardians had their own battle against Pitch Black not too long ago and have been doing damage control ever since.

"The guardians?" Artemis asked. Percy couldn't help his half-smile when he answered, "Tooth, aka. the Tooth Fairy, Bunny, aka. Easter Bunny, North, aka. Santa Claus, Sandy, aka. The Sand Man, and Jack Frost."

There was a moment of silence as the gods processed what their twice hero said, until Athena exclaimed, "They don't exist!"

Percy couldn't help but laugh at their disbelief, "Gods were made to explain and accept what happened back in the days, monsters only exist in our nightmares. I think that we all know that most tales, legends, and myths have at least some root in the truth. And for your information, Sandy was a demigod son of Morpheus, but was turned into a guardian when he died on a quest."

This silenced the gods once more, and Percy could have sworn he saw Athena taking notes.

"Enough about that," Percy cut off, knowing that if he left the gods to think then this meeting would never end, "The battle I mentioned? It was against Pitch Black. It shouldn't be a surprise that Sandy spread his dreams with the use of a substance called dreamsand. Pitch found a way to change the sand into something else that became a creature known as Nightmares. They spread and fed on fear. The guardians have been hunting them down ever since the battle, and that's how I met Jack Frost and Agrios. I don't know the exact details since they weren't my domain yet, but I assume the Fates had something to do with it. What's important is that we won't have to fight the Nightmares. They'll become my sýntrofoses and fight alongside us. I won't have the rest of the campers' fight. They'll be a defense. My sýntrofoses will fight most of the monsters' while the guardians will take care of Pitch. That leaves me whoever Pitch has allied himself with from our world, which I guess is someone major. I think it may be another Primordial. Down there we met some and there is a possibility they want revenge. Tartarus, Akhlys and Nyx and her children. What we have to figure out is if they work alone or if we will be up against more than one Primordial."

The gods stared at him like he had grown a second head. "What," he deadpanned, "You know I'm not stupid, right? I just don't take everything as serious as I should. If I did I would probably have gone mad a long time ago." There was none comment at that. It wasn't a secret that there had been many demigods who had gone mad. It was a reason they sent Dionysus to Camp Half-Blood.

"Anyways, I'm exhausted. I'll bring the guardians to Camp Half-Blood, and later Camp Jupiter. I'll send an iris message if there's anything more you should know." "Meeting concluded," Zeus said.

Most gods flashed out, but Poseidon and Athena remained. Athena was the first to walk up to him. "I can't say I liked you dating my daughter, but I am sorry for how it ended." Percy nodded, "Thanks, I guess. Could you get her out of camp next week? I will be there, and ..." She gave him a half-smile, "I'll see what I can do," then she flashed out.

Poseidon hugged him the moment he reached him. "Son..." he said. "It's okay," Percy answered, "When I said no to godhood it was so I could be with An... her, but now she won't be with me anyway, so who cares." The earth shook under them and Percy took serval deep breath to calm himself. God of natural disasters.

"Can we talk about it later?" Percy mumbled, "I'm tired, and I have to talk to mom." "Of course son, you know where to find me," dad answered, flashing away.

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16.10.2019

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This is the last chapter that had already mostly corrected, so from here on it might take longer if thats are even possible. If you have read my 1st draft you have probably/hopefully noticed that my writing has changed a lot and that its now 3rd person, while it earlier was 1st. 

Anyway, I'll try to get done, mostly because I'm looking forward to the sequel... and no I won't tell you about it yet