Reading Confused By Time

Chapter 32: Reading Secrets

Chapter 32 Reading Secrets

As soon as Kronos let go of Percy once they had landed, he had to shrink himself down and duck to avoid the fist swung at him. Percy swung at him again, his eyes flashing dangerously. Kronos grabbed his fist and twisted it back behind Percy's back, moving it up his spine.

"That was fast, where is your speed Jackson?" Ares demanded and glared at Percy who was staring firmly ahead, not wanting to talk to his least favourite god.

"You lied to me," Percy growled.

"You look hot angry," Kronos murmured and saw his lover blush. "You look like an angry kitten, all claws but to afraid to bite half the time," Kronos grinned as Percy turned away and ignored him.

"Withheld the truth," Kronos corrected. "Perseus, suspecting and knowing are not the same."

Chiron looked up from his place when he heard the words he often said and suppressed a smile, sometimes you couldn't change your heritage at all.

Percy decided to not mention to Kronos that Chiron had said exactly the same thing to Percy once – he knew that the King hated any mention of being similar to his kids. "You could have told me that you were planning to sacrifice me," Percy growled angrily.

Kronos sighed, still stopping Percy from moving. "My Mother's a master of manipulation, Perseus," he murmured. "You'd really take her word over mine?"

"Says the master of manipulation himself?" Iapetus snorts. "the crooked one indeed."

Percy faltered. Why was he so trusting of Gaea? He knew what she could do. "Wha – why? Please, just tell me what you are going to do. I'm tired of not knowing what's going to happen."

"I've already told you, Jackson." Kronos scowled, and Percy realised that Kronos had not called him that in almost a week. "You're going to become a Titan. Then you'll join us against Olympus."

Loud protests, and even though they couldn't change a single thing, the gods and demigods still didn't want Percy to become a Titan.

"And I've told you I won't attack," Percy retorted. "You can't make me."

"Those words only want me to make it more possible to make you," Kronos said to Percy. "Makes it amusing to see your face when I make you do something you don't want to do, when I win."

Percy frowned at Kronos and shook his head; he was fairly sure he wouldn't be able to understand the Titan king, or maybe in the next millennia he might.

Kronos snorted. "Perseus," he said, and Percy frowned. Now he was Perseus instead of 'Jackson' again. "You swore to do what I wanted – I can very easily make you do anything." He held Percy there for several moments to let that sink in before letting go.

Percy spun to face him, flexing his shoulder. "Then why don't you?" he demanded. "Why don't you order me to go and destroy Camp Jupiter?"

Jason stared at Percy imagining a battle against the most powerful demigod in history, who defied the gods at every chance and proved himself innocent for not stealing the master bolt, who denied godhood several times... he felt like he was going to die if that happened. Percy was scary once he was in a battle, all harsh...godlike... powerful. He was sure if Kronos ever commanded Percy to destroy them, that Percy would and they would die.

"For the same reason I don't march on Olympus now. It makes it more interesting to wait. Well, that... and you'd die if you did at the moment," Kronos smirked.