Chapter 25

Clarisse POV

"Clarisse wake up." Davis said shaking me awake.

"What is it?" I snapped angrily.

"Mike is gone." he said.

"Where did he go?" I asked sitting up.

"I don't know, he was already gone when I woke up but his stuff is still here." Davis said.

"Well go get Chiron or Prissy so we're ready when he gets back." I said.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." someone said. I looked to the doorway to see my father Ares standing there.

"Why not?" I asked.

"This isn't the best place to discuss it." he said "Get dressed, we're leaving in ten.". After we got ready father flashed us to his palace. The room we appeared in had a map of the US covered in red, blue, and white dots. There were also several boards cover in what looked like different battle plans but I did see one specifically for Mike or Silver as the gods referred to him.

"So why can't we go tell anyone?" Jess asked.

"Because he's not supposed to exist yet." father said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.

Father sat down at a table a pick up a ring "Do you know what this is?" he asked, I shook my head.

"Hey doesn't Mike wear a ring like that." Jess said.

"He doesn't just wear a ring like this, this is the ring he wears." he said, and I gave him a questioning look.

Father sighed "I've been alive for over 3000 years and over the years I've gotten bored. With all that free time I started to do the one thing I'm best at, preparing for war. In this room I have plans for just about every possibility that could come our way. This ring was made for one of those outcomes." he said "It works like a two way radio, fairly simple technology mixed in with a little bit of magic that alters the wearer's appearance, the thing is I only made one."

"If you only made one then how does Mike have one?" Davis asked and I have to admit I was curious to know my self.

"This ring was a contingency plan in the event that Olympus fell due to unnatural means." he said.

"What do you mean unnatural means?" I asked.

"I mean as in someone changing the timeline, if someone did change history somehow the fates would almost undoubtedly give us a chance however small to fix it."

"This ring is a way for whoever we sent back to to communicate with us and three months ago I got a message." Father said leaning forward.

"Then why didn't you tell the rest of the gods!" I shouted "This is huge they need to know, heck they could help.".

"Yes they could help but they may not, in the short message I was simply informed that someone changed history and that Olympus had a leak. There was also a list, a very short list of names who Mike had cleared as people we could trust before he made the trip back." father said.

"I've been working to add names to that list but it hasn't been easy." he said.

"Okay, so who is Mike then?" Davis asked.

"I really don't know to be honest, all I do know about him is right here." He said slapping the board with Silver's picture on it.

"His exact parentage is unknown but I'm sure his godly parent has a combat based domain. He also has a massive amount of power inside him that would make most minor gods envious. With those two facts I'd guess he was Perseus's first born or maybe even Nico's. He could be an illegal born but I can't find a close enough match to his energy. Moving on, at least till I've found and plugged the leak or leaks we're not going to say a single word about this to anyone."

Percy POV (earlier that day)

"You ready?" I asked.

"Yep." Sam replied. Early this morning Sam showed up at my palace and asked for a sparring match. Apparently in his time my godly abilities plus almost 22 years of training have made it almost impossible for him to beat me in a straight up sword match. But he thinks he has a chance at beating me now since I haven't had as much time to train. The only reason I even agreed was because I wanted to see how strong he was.

"Hmmpf boy's" Luna said. Artemis, Zoe, and herself had decided to watch and from what I'd seen so far Luna may look and act like me but she can do a very good impression of her mom when she wants to. "Ok remember, no powers just a simple straight up sword fight got it." Luna said, we both nodded "Then begin.".

Artemis POV

Sam and Percy slowly circled each other both looking for on opening it went on like for five minutes and to be honest it was completely boring "Hurry up I'd like to be back in time for breakfast." I said. Percy turned and gave me a look that said 'really we have an hour', in that brief second Sam seized his opportunity.

In a split second Sam closed the short distance and made a wild slash at Percy who was able to raise his shield just in time to block Sam's sword. Sam didn't seem the least bit phased by Percy managing to stop his blade and in fact he seemed to expect it. Shifting his weight slightly Sam spun and slashed at Percy's side only to be stopped by his father's blade.

Again and again Sam and Percy clashed, separately one would think that their styles were almost identically but watching them side by side I could see that that wasn't true. Percy was a bit sturdier and tended to put more weight behind each strike. Sam was more flexible and very light footed, he also focused more on speed to get around around his opponent's defenses. In short he had found a way to take the knife skills of a hunter and apply it to his swordsmanship with impressive results.

Sam and Percy locked swords one more time and from my point of view it was an even match, then Sam did something that I would have never expected. Even though it took everything he had just to keep up the deadlock with his father, he released his grip on his swords only to grab them with the opposite hands. The new hand hold gave him better leverage and enabled him to push back breaking the deadlock and kicking Percy in the chest. Percy who had been knocked to the floor respond by throwing his shield like a Frisbee and catching Sam's left sword just above the hilt wrenching it out of his hand.

While Sam was still in shock Percy attempted land the final blow but was instead tackled by Sam who ducked past Percy's strike. The two bounced and rolled across the ground before Sam ended up pinned to the ground with Percy's sword to his neck.

"Looks like dad wins again." Luna said half gloating on her father's behalf.

"Not quite." Sam replied, curious I walked over to them and noticed that Sam had the tip of his sword to Percy's chest making it a draw.

"Can we go get breakfast now?" Zoe whined, I laughed and picked her up.

"Sure." I said before returning my attention to the boy's "You two better hurry if you want to take a shower breakfast is in ten minutes or so.".

Grover POV

I've been trying to talk to Thalia for days but the hunters keep stopping me at the door, something's up and I want to know what it is. Percy's always been an open book but now I can't even get into his palace to see him. Sure he always tries to have time but ever since he became a god it's like he's hiding something. I'm sick of waiting so now I'm going to the one person I know can help me, Thalia.

I waited for the hunters to leave Artemis' cabin then grabbed Melissa "Is Thalia still in there?" I asked, she nodded "Is she decent?" Melissa nodded again "Thanks, now go enjoy breakfast." I said.

As soon as I was sure the hunters were gone I steeled my nerves and went inside "Um Thalia, you in here". I heard a groan to my left

"Grover what are you doing here!" someone shouted, I turned to see Thalia sitting on a cot and my mouth dropped. My mouth dropped because I could see Thalia had a clear baby bump.

Naturally I said something really intelligent "What the Heck! Thalia your pregnant!".

"No duh genius now could you quiet down." she scolded.

Right about then Percy flashed in with a plate of food "Grover!" he said jumping in surprise and nearly dropping the plate "What are you doing here?".

"What am I doing here, one of my closest friends is pregnant and I find out because I trying to get answers about what my best friend is hiding from me!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.

"Wait is that Percy's?" I asked .

"No it's not" Thalia shouted "besides Percy's married to…" she started to say before slapping a hand over her mouth. I gave both of them my best pissed beyond belief look which was rather hard to do considering how surprised I was by what I had learned

"Answers. Now." I said in a deathly calm tone.