Chapter 4

Silver POV

I opened my eyes and stretched on the riverbed, I wasn't sure how long I had been asleep but it felt like my dad hadn't moved so I figured it wasn't that long. Giving a light push off the river bed I floated to the surface. My dreams had been unusual to say the least. They felt different than normal and strangely familiar. In them I floated weightlessly in a void as flashes of the titan war seemed to burst into my mind. The odd thing was many of these flashes involved my family morning my death. As I broke the surface I shook my head. I didn't have time for this right now.

Climbing onto the shore I noticed the 4 demigods I saved the other day talking. I was about to leave when I heard the tall blond kid say "Ok we're splitting up me and Frank will go check out mount Tam. Piper and Hazel you two keep following this guy.Remember don't make contact with him unless absolutely necessary we still don't know if he's hostile."

I moved behind a large rock that was about 12 feet wide and just as tall "I don't think he's hostile he did save our lives after all." a girl who I guessed was Piper said.

"That's true but just to be safe keep your distance for now, at least till we get back ok?" Jason replied, Piper agreed.

After Jason and Frank left Piper growled in annoyance "Ugh boys! Why do they think that we're so helpless. We've fought giants and monsters but their worried about us talking to a guy. It's like they think we're children."

"You know they don't think that Piper." Hazel said patting her shoulder.

"I know but it just feels like it from time to time." Piper sighed "Well we better start moving.". Piper pulled out a compass and started heading toward my position behind the rock. I jumped up to the top of the rock and sat down so I could see what they were doing.

They reach the side of the rock and started to circle it. I noticed that the needle always seemed to be pointing straight at me. Curious I jumped off the rock and into a rather thick leafed tree and the girls started heading towards me. I did a the same thing several more times over the next hour with the same result. 'So they've been tracking me.' I thought, I sat on my branch and waited for them to come. As they walked under me the needle started spinning "What the heck?" Piper said tapping the compass.

"Is it broken?" Hazel asked "I mean this thing has been waving all over the place."

"No your compass is working just fine as far as I ca tell." I said dropping down in front of them, scaring them both. "Now would you mind telling me why you've been following me?"

Hazel was the first to find her voice "We were sent by Olympus they wanted us to talk to you"

"About what?" I asked.

Hazel POV

"They want to know who you are?" I said deciding to go for honesty "They wanted us to make sure you weren't a new enemy and if possible bring you to Olympus."

"I'm looking for someone right now so I probably won't be going to Olympus for a while." he said "I have no quarrel with the Olympians but I would like to talk to Artemis if possible. Apollo, Hestia, Poseidon, or Triton would be fine too.".

I was a little surprised by how calm this guy was acting, we had gotten an Iris message that day from Hermes informing us that we would be going mount Tam to see if Atlas had really escaped and of the meeting between this guy and Prometheus. He had been very cold to Prometheus but to us he was ready to cooperate…to an extent.

I was about to reply when an Iris message from Jason appeared. He gave it a confused look as if he'd never seen an Iris Message before "Atlas is gone someone else is hold the sky now." Jason said somewhat rushed. "We don't know who it is because the Hesperides sent that dang dragon after us Prometheus is here too…oh crap here it comes. Frank move!" the IM disappeared.

"Sorry but we need to help our friends." Piper said as she began walking away.

"Lead the way." he said matching her pace.

"You're coming with us?" I asked

"Yes, I helped put Atlas under the sky the first time so I feel I should go to see what's happened."

An hour later we entered the Hesperides garden, Jason and Frank were fighting the dragon with little success "Ladon return to your post!" the boy shouted.

Oddly enough it listened and went back to its post by the tree "How did you do that?" Piper asked.

"Before Atlas was trapped under the sky I would come here often to visit my grandmother. Of course the garden was in Greece back then but still I was welcome here. That changed of course when the titan war broke out but Ladon still remembers me." He said walking over to Jason and Frank "Are you two ok." Jason and Frank nodded.

He started walking straight up the hill towards where the sky met the earth with a deep scowle on his face. As we got close I could hear someone talking, Prometheus came into sight standing near a very beautiful woman who was under the sky "It didn't have to be this way Leto, if only you had joined us you could've had a great life in the new world order. But no you chose to remain neutral, we couldn't risk you joining the gods so I guess it's best you ended up here." he laughed clearly enjoying seeing Leto in pain.

"You're a fool Prometheus, you always run and one of these days you'll run out of places to hide. I will get out of here and when I do I will make you pay." Leto roared.

"Say what you will but for now you're stuck here, maybe after we defeat the gods I'll bring Apollo here and have him tortured in front of you. Wouldn't that be great just a little mother/son bonding time." Prometheus said laughing at the look on Leto's face

Beside me the boy snarled "Wait here." I couldn't see his eyes because he had a pair of sunglasses on but I could feel the rage rolling off him as he walked over to Prometheus who noticed him right away.

"Ah it's good to see you again." Prometheus said completely oblivious to his rage. "Come to pledge your allegiance to Oceanus."

"Not quite." he said drawing his swords.

Prometheus glowed for just a second before getting a confused look on his face "What? forget that you can't flash out from here titan." he said with a smirk on his face "Looks like theres no where to run this time coward.". Prometheus looked panicked but drew his sword. The boy stopped just a few feet away from Prometheus. In a fraction of a second Guy closed the remaining distance moving in a blur of silver which was weird since he wasn't wearing anything silver.

Prometheus managed to block the boy's first few attacks and sent what looked like a ball of energy at him who deflected it with one of his swords. The ball exploded harmlessly over the side of the mountain.

Silver POV

I noticed something was up when I deflected that bomb thing Prometheus threw. It was way too easy, I knew my limits well and even with the sudden boost in power from getting the rest of my demigod powers I shouldn't have been able to do that. Putting that thought aside I slammed into Prometheus and pressed the attack.

He wasn't exactly a warrior to start with and with my speed he had no chance. In matter of minutes I had disarmed Prometheus and given him several deep gashes across his body, nothing fatal but still painful. I put the tip of my sword to his throat "Just kill me and get it over with." Prometheus said doing his best to keep his dignity.

"Oh no you will not be getting off that easy." I said kicking him backwards under the sky.

Leto dropped letting the sky fall on him and rolled away. Standing up Leto drew her bow "I told you I would have my revenge." Leto said firing an arrow into Prometheus' right calf and another into his groin. Together me and Leto went back to Jason and the others.

I pulled out the card Prometheus had given to me and handed it to Jason "Take this to Zeus it's the location the titan army will be meeting at in about a month, go and prepare the demigods." Jason nodded and left with his friends.

Once me and Leto were outside the garden I gave her a hug "It's good to see you grandmother." I said.

"It's good to see you to Silver." she replied before slapping upside the head "But where have been, do you know your disappearance did to you mother." Leto scolded.

"It wasn't by choice" I defended praticly praying she didn't hit me again. "I could fill you in if you want. I could also use an update on recent events I've kinda been out of commission for a while.".

We talked for a few hours before parting, when I heard that I had been gone for 3000 years my first thought was 'Mom is so going to kill me.' then I thought about what she was going to do to dad when I found him, I cringed inwardly. "Please give this my mom and let her know I'm alive." I asked Leto handing her a letter I had written she nodded and flashed out. I turned to walk away and cut my hand on a thorn bush which gave me pause, not that getting cut was unusual for me. What caught my attention was the blood, it was red like usual but it also had flecks of silver in it 'What the heck is going on with me?' I thought.

Zeus POV Back on Olympus

I had been stressing out all day, three wars all less than a year apart I never thought our luck could be this bad. I decided to go to the throne room because I always felt more at ease there. As I walked through the doors I found the council already gathered "Ah good now I don't have to come get you." Hermes said.

"Why have you called us here brother?" Athena asked as I took my seat.

"Well I met Jason and the others a mile or so away from mount Tam while doing my deliveries. Jason started to give me a report and after a few minutes I decided it would be best if the whole council heard it." Hermes said motioning for Jason to start.

"Well me and Frank went to Mount Tam like you asked while Piper and Hazel continued to follow the guy you sent us after." Jason said before motioning for Piper to start speaking.

"We found him or rather he found us, he knew we were following him but he didn't seem angry just curious as to why we were following him."

"We told him that you wanted to bring him to Olympus but he said he was looking for someone so he wouldn't be coming to Olympus for awhile." I nodded this wasn't anything new but I was glad that the reports were consistent.

"However he did ask to speak to certain members of the council." Piper added

"Which ones?" Hera asked.

"Well he asked for Artemis first but also said that Apollo, Hestia, and Poseidon would be fine if she couldn't come. Oh he also said Triton would work too." Piper said.

"Why would he ask for them in particular?" Athena asked and said gods shrugged in response.

"We were about to ask the same thing when we got an IM from Jason". Piper said.

"Me and Jason got into the Hesperides garden pretty easily and started heading up the hill to where Atlas used to be, we saw Prometheus heading the same way and tried to catch up." Frank said. "But the Hesperides sent their dragon on us before we could. That was when we sent Piper and Hazel the IM, we couldn't beat him or get back to the exit so we just did our best trying to wear him down till Piper and Hazel arrived." Frank said turning it over to Hazel.

"We arrived with the guy we were chasing, who had decided to come with us by the way. We found Jason and Frank in the middle of fighting Ladon. And he called of Ladon like we would with a dog." Hazel said.

"I thought Ladon only listened to the Hesperides" Dionysos said.

"I asked him why Ladon listened to him he said that before the first titan war he would go there often to visit his grandmother he wasn't welcome after the war started but Ladon still remembered him." Hazel said.

"Who was staying at mount Othrys at the time?" Athena asked.

"Well at the time most of the Titans chose to stay at their own palaces rather than Othrys." I said "The only titanesses who stayed there regularly was Leto, Oceanus' wife tethys, and mother Rhea".

"Well Leto's out Artemis never had kids and I think we would know, or at least Apollo would if he was one of his" Ares said.

"Mother is out too." Hades said "All our children that were born 3000 years ago are accounted for.".

"In that case I'll talk to my wife and see if she has any ideas on who this man could be." Poseidon said, I nodded and asked for Hazel to continue.

"We headed up the hill where we found Prometheus laughing at Leto who had apparently been forced to take the weight of the sky from Atlas as punishment for not joining Oceanus." Hazel said which enraged Artemis and Apollo.

"Prometheus made a comment about bringing Apollo there and torturing him in front of Leto calling it 'mother/son bonding time', that seemed to set him off. He walked up to Prometheus who thought he was coming to join Oceanus' army but instead he attacked him. Prometheus threw some kind of energy bomb at him but he knocked it aside like it was just a toy."

This troubled me because even though the 'bomb' wasn't particularly strong compared to my master bolt it still wasn't something to take lightly. "This guy attacked so fast we could barely even see the blur of his blades." Hazel said and the others nodded in agreement. "Instead of killing Prometheus he forced the titan to take the weight of the sky from Leto."

"He also gave us this." Piper said holding up a business card "He said this was where the titan army was going to be about a month from now and told us to warn you." 'good that matches what Hermes overheard' "We already checked the location its camp Jupiter. He left with Leto and I think they knew each other but I'm not sure."

"Is there anything else?" I asked.

"He also said he was part of the group that originally trapped Atlas under the sky." Piper said, I looked at Athena

"I'll look into it" she said. "In the meantime we should get the Roman camp ready, I also recommend that Artemis and her hunters be stationed there for the time being."

"Why?" Frank asked and Apollo recited the prophecy.

"Artemis is often referred to as the silver goddess, more than likely she is the one mentioned in the prophecy." Athena said.

"I will go to the Roman camp for the battle but seeing as it's not supposed to happen a month from now I think it would be best if I continued hunting down the more powerful monsters for the time being." Artemis said

"Fine by me, also find you mother maybe she knows who this mystery man is." I said and ended the meeting.