Banished

3

Percy PoV

Annabeth, Frank, Hazel, Jason, Leo, and I stood lined up in the middle of the Olympian council room.

The gods were all enormous, at least 10 feet tall, staring down at us with less condescending attitudes than usual.

Lord Zeus spoke first. "We, the Olympian council have made the unanimous decision to grant the seven of you godhood."

Lady Athena took over. "This
transformation will occur overnight while you sleep, and when you awake there will be a piece of paper listing your domains and duties. After you speak with your godly parent, you will be directed toward your new apartments. At some point before the end of the month, you must coordinate with Hephaestus about your godly weapon."

We broke off to greet our parents, and three of them transforming into Roman gods had no ill effect, which I found somewhat strange.

Poseidon shrunk down to human size and clapped me on the back. "Congratulations, son. You must come to visit my palace in my domain at some point."

"I have a gift for you," he continued. "An Olympian silver trident. It will strengthen your ability to control water and can pierce any material. Like Riptide, it will always return to you."

I nodded happily, taking my weapon. It shrunk into a keychain, and my father gave me what I assumed to be the key to my new apartment.

As a group, my friends and I followed a bright white orb of light to the apartment building we would be staying at.

Annabeth was holding my hand and pointing out different fixes that had been made.

We arrived at the building as she was discussing the changes she planned to make.

To our surprise, there was no elevator.

There was a tube that would shoot you up to the desired apartment if the owner allowed it.

Once we agreed to meet back down in the lobby after fifteen minutes, we took the tube up to our apartments.

I opened the door, stepped onto the platform, closed the door, and felt myself shot up by a strong gust of wind.

I appeared at the door to my apartment and used my key to get in.

Almost everything was a shade of blue, and there was a massive television with every imaginable game console set up.

While I explored, I found a master bedroom with a connected bathroom, a guest bedroom with a bathroom, a dining room, a training room, a kitchen, and a guest bathroom.

There was a strange mirror-thing with a keyboard connected to it in the living room that I hadn't figured out, but Annabeth would know what it was.

There was a wallet on the dining room table with a credit card and an ID card. When I held the credit card, it displayed the amount of drachmas in the account I didn't know I had.

I didn't know how much a drachma was worth, exactly, but apparently, I had a lot of them. Thanks, dad.

After stuffing the wallet in my back pocket, I left my apartment, locked the door, and jumped down the tube.

I landed on the platform and felt no pain.

Annabeth and Piper paused their conversation to greet me as I stepped out of the tube.

The others followed close behind, and soon we were all gathered in the lobby.

My girlfriend cleared her throat. "Do you guys have those strange mirror devices with the keyboard attached?"

We all nodded, and she explained that it was like an Iris message portal for calls within Olympus.

With that out of the way, we stepped out onto the streets of our new residence, wondering where we should go to eat.