Shattered

Epilogue

Uhhhhh, I forgot to click release on this chapter this yesterday. *sweat drop* This was meant to be read before 'School.' Sorry for everyone who read that first! (it's a short one to cap off Act 1)

April 21st, 2013. It had been exactly four months and nine days since he was sent back in time. Exactly four months since the death of his best friend, Annabeth Chase.

Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, head councilor of the Athena Cabin in Camp Half-blood... His first crush... His first love...

The anniversary was truly bittersweet.

On one hand, his best friend and crush had lost her very life, but on the other hand two lives were saved.

Firstly, his younger cousin and protege, Bianca di Angelo, the sister of one of his closest friends back before he was forcefully thrust into the past, Nico di Angelo.

The death of the daughter of Hades had been one of his biggest regrets. She had been so young when she had lost her life, a year younger than he was himself. About as old as he was when he found Zeus' Master-bolt. But now - now she was alive and well - still a hunter of Artemis and was now his responsibility.

For the past three months, he had been training her, making her skilled enough to survive on her own without Artemis or the hunt to guide her. He had taken the younger girl under his wings, and with the guidance of Artemis, began training her to be the most powerful daughter of Hades to have ever lived.

Bianca was a moderately quick learner, certainly no prodigy, but not a lost cause either. She learned quickly, she picked up a hunter's stance with minimal tutelage and soon adapted the style as her own. With the raven blade that Hades had given her, the lilac trails that followed her blade as she swerved and weaved around the other hunters made her truly a remarkable sight.

Percy didn't hold back on her in the slightest when they sparred to gauge her progress every week. He would spar with her as though she was though she was any other enemy demigod, the only difference being that he corrected her flaws when he spotted them, although he didn't always catch all of them, too lost in the moment to concentrate on such things.

That, was where Artemis came in, she would point out any mistake Bianca would make, but that was not all, Percy wasn't perfect either, the moon goddess made sure to grill Percy on any mistake he made or missed to point out.

In the end, both demigods would come out being better combatants by the end of their training - which would be in about a month and a half's time when Bianca would have to spend her summer. Their training would resume when she returned to the hunt at the end of summer.

And then there was the second life he had saved.

Zoe Nightshade.

The daughter of Atlas's timely demise had been his other greatest regret, and this bittersweet second chance of his blessed him to fix both losses.

But all that had come at a price. This was the anniversary of the fourth month the daughter of Athena had spent in Elysium.

It was probably five in the evening when the hunters attacked Percy. The girls surrounded him clad in silver, each having their weapons drawn, all aiming at him, Zoe, Thalia, and Bianca included.

"Girls, I really think that this is a bad idea..."

Percy missed the mischievous glints in all their eyes.

"No seriously, I have done nothing to deserve this!"

He attempted to placate them, failing miserably.

"If you throw any of those at me, I'll sic Horus on you!"

He tried bluffing his way out of his predicament, his falcon circling around him, high in the sky.

The hunters did not budge.

"You really expect those to work? I'm a son of Poseidon for crying out loud!"

"Oh, we know that Perce. That's why we asked that father of yours to help us out a little."

And with that, they pelted Percy Jackson with a multitude of water balloons, none of which he could control for whatever reason.

He prepared his counter attack, he willed the water from a nearby stream into spheres of varied sizes.

"Girls, I have a weapon and 'm not afraid of using it!"

He warned, making the spheres hover closer to the hunters.

Another balloon hit him in the back of his head, startling him out of concentration, making him drop the water he was holding up, resulting in all the spheres crashing down in a harmless cascade that missed all the hunters.

"Overwhelmed Percy?"

The son of Poseidon growled at the moon goddess's taunt, turning around he glared at the goddess.

"I'm sorry, not sorry for this."

In about ten seconds, the entirety of the hunter's camp flooded with about ten feet of stream water, with all the hunters and their matron goddess trapped under the deluge, who struggled vainly under his immense control over the water.

After fifteen seconds of holding the hunters underwater, he released his control over the water, maneuvering it back towards its original course across the woods.

The hunters lay on the floor, sopping wet and sputtering, coughing, and heaving from the sudden influx of water. Artemis, on the other hand hung from a high branch, laughing at the fate of her hunters.

"I told girls to not try ambushing him, even if you had the help of Poseidon."

Thalia rolled her eyes, coughing out some more water, she choked out, "You might have won this time kelp head, but you better watch your back the next time..."

The son of Poseidon simply laughed boisterously.

An earth rumbling roar that shook silence into the brisk Canadian air cut off his smug mirth.

The hunters were immediately on guard, their silver bows materializing in their arms. They crouched as they assumed formation.

Percy yawned, then sighed. He was not in the mood to be messing with monsters right then.

He popped his blade's cap off, the celestial bronze glittering in the evening shine.

The first thing he noticed was a single, scaly, reptilian head poking out of the undergrowth.

Its read iris scanned the girls carefully.

Another head revealed itself, its ruby orbs locking with Percy's sea green, and then another.

Percy sighed, "Alright ladies, who's in the mood to kill a hydra?"

The three heads roared loudly yet again.

Percy rolled his eyes, "Yeah yeah, whatever let's just fight already"