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Chapter 561

She slowly reached up and grabbed onto Percy's hand. She got to her

feet which groaned as they finally were being used after two days of

stasis. She stood up straight, she fell, but Percy caught her. He held

her up until she could stand on her own, they looked into each other's

eyes and Angelina spoke, "thank you."

Percy smiled but said nothing. He moved towards Mark's cage and

opened it as well. He healed the boy, mostly just sexual exhaustion and

an overdose of viagra in his bloodstream. Percy grabbed a blanket he

found lying around and wrapped Mark in it. He then carried him

upstairs while Angelina walked in front of him, this way if she feel he

could catch her.

They walked into her apartment where Carol was still knocked

unconscious on the floor with Leo standing guard over her.

The moment Angelina saw Carol she ran behind Percy holding his

jacket like her life depended on it.

"It's okay," Percy told her, "she's knocked out, she can't hurt you

anymore."

"What about the-the dog?" Angelina stuttered out as she pointed at

Leo.

"That's Leo," Percy smiled, "he's the one who helped me find you."

Angelina stared at the dog who slowly approached her. Leo rubbed his

head up against her thighs and Angelina smiled bending down to pat

the dog.

Leo barked startling the girl, but she slowly recovered from her start

smiling at the dog. Percy watched the scene and couldn't' help but feel

happy, 'stupid dog is better at picking up chicks then me, and I'm a

human!'

Percy put Mark and Angelina in her old room, which Carol hadn't

touched. He then took out his phone and looked through his

messages, sure enough a text from his mom was there and attached to

it was detective Beckett's phone number.

Ring Ring!

Ring Ring!

Ring Ring!

"Hello?" Kate's voice on the other end came through loud and clear.

"Hey detective it's me Percy!" Percy cried out in a joyful tone.

"Percy? How do you have this number?"

"I asked my mom for it, no big deal."

"So why did you call? Did Sally not pick up or something?"

"No no, I don't want to talk to my mom, I need to talk to you."

"...okay….about what?"

Percy gulped, this was going to be the hard part, "you remember that

thing we talked about that I said I wouldn't do?"

"Thing? What thing?"

"You know…..me trying to solve the case on my own?"

"Percy….tell me you didn't go ahead and try to meddle in an active

police investigation. Please, just tell me that."

"Ah….sorry, no."

"Percy….what happened? Are you in some sort of trouble? Did you get

hurt? Did-"

"I found them," Percy caught her off, "I found them both." the line

remained silent for some time before Percy spoke again, "Kate?"

"Percy…...did you just say you found the siblings? Both of them?"

"Yeah, Angelina and Mark, and I also know who kidnapped them."

"Percy stay where you are, don't try to rescue them or do anything!

Don't eve-"

"-Yeah, sorry, to late, already did that," Percy cut in with a lazy tone,

"they're both safe and sound back in Angelina's place, though they

might need an Ambulance like right now."

"Stay right where you are, I'll be there as soon as I can. And don't do

anything else!" Kate cut the call and Percy smiled switching it off. Kate

could get like that sometimes, Percy still remembered the time in that

illusionary trial world where he lived with Kate and Castle, where he

became a part of their family. She kind of felt like a cool but scary aunt

at times while Castle was the loveable, childish uncle.

Percy put his phone away and turned to Carol who was still out for the

count. There was still the matter of what to do about her mental illness.

She needed to go to a mental hospital, that was for sure. If Percy

healed her now the chances of her going there were slim, and as much

as Percy hated this woman, she, like everyone else, deserved a fair

shot in life.

It wasn't her fault for being inflicted with the mental illness, she just

was. Percy didn't like the position he was in, he shouldn't have to make

such a choice, it wasn't his job. He's just supposed to save people but

now…...now he can't just claim ignorance. He knows now that there is

a way, it was his responsibility to see it through.

So he thought, and thought, and finally he made up his mind. He

pressed his hand up against her head and watched as it glowed gold.

Carol sighed as she moved but didn't wake up, she was still knocked

out.

Percy sighed, he prayed to his father that he made the right choice,

that he didn't just make the biggest mistake in his life.

Soon the apartment door was thrown open as a squad of police officer

ran in with bulletproof vests on and guns held up. At the head of the

small squad was Kate with Castle behind them all.

"Hey detective!" Percy waved, "could you please not aim that at me?"

"Ryan, Esposito, check the rooms," Kate motioned to the two cops with

her before she turned to Percy, "what the hell were you thinking

Percy?!"

"I was thinking I could solve this case in one afternoon, and I did,"

Percy shrugged, "oh and this is the kidnapper," Percy pointed at Carol,

"she's a, kind of crazy."

"Beckett!" one of the cops called out, "the kid's are here!"

"Understood," Kate took out her walkie talkie, "get EMT's in here now."

"Roger that detective," came the confirmation.

"How did you find them?" Castle asked as Kate moved to cuff the still

unconscious Carol.

"I went to see the biker gang you told me about," Percy said with a

shrug, "it seemes Mark is dating one of their members, that's why he

was talking with them. But Mark never did drugs, nor did they ever go

near this place. It seemed the girl he was with wanted to keep their

lives separate, meaning-"

"-Everything Carol told us was a lie," Kate completed the sentence,

"smart kid, but how did you know it was her?"

"Simple," Percy smirked, "Leo told me."

Castle and Kate looked at Percy like he was an idiot. "Ah...Leo told

you?" Castle repeated in confusion.

Percy nodded, "Leo told me there was somebody downstairs, he smelt

them. I went down and found it was locked, I picked it, and found them

inside. I helped them out and they told me it was Carol who did this to

them."

Lie Successful!

"But how did you know what Leo smelt? He could have just been

looking for food, or maybe he could have smelt some chemicals in the

air," Kaet asked curiously.

"Easy detective," Percy grinned, "Leo and I have a bond, not a real

one, he justs understands me is all. I told him to smell out people who

smelt like the Rebowl's and he did. Vola!"

Lie Successful!

Castle looked to Leo who smiled at the man, "you my friend are a good

dog."

Soon the CSI came and investigated the locked basement downstairs.

What they found...well Percy didn't really like to think about it. He was

glad that his fre ball offered him only a partial view of the room.

After they got enough evidence and a written statement from Angelina

Kate took Percy downtown and made him wait at the lobby of the 12th

precinct while she put Carol into the system. Angelina and Mark were

sent to the hospital where they meet their parents, who was brought

there by Sally.

Percy now sat watching the police department work with Leo by his

side. He looked around at them all, all the people in this room with him

were good people, the kind that risk their lives to save others. They

were heroes, all of them, and compared to what they do everyday,

Percy was nothing. Sure he fought monsters, but these guys have

saved more lives than he ever will.

Ping!

Find Angelina and Mark!

Rewards,

The Rebowl family will be indebted to you!

Skill disk Lv 10

Percy smirked, 'guesse that means Carol is finally put away.' A skill disk

appeared in thin air and Percy grabbed it before any of the mortal

policemen or women saw it floating in mid air.

Just then Kate came up to him with a smile on her face, "you certain

caused a stir in the department."

"Really? Why so?" Percy grinned as Kate sat down next to him.

"You saved their lives you know," she said, "medics say that if Angelina

was there for even a day more she would have died from blood lose.

And Mark would have gotten a heart attack big enough to kill him."

"I'm just glad they are going to be fine now," Percy told her as he

scratched Leo's ear, "but Leo's the real hero of this story, he's the one

who told me where to find them."

"I know, and I'll make sure to buy him a big bone for his help," Kate

patted Leo who barked in happiness, "but you know you really do have

a flare for detective work Percy. I can honestly say that I would have

taken much longer to solve it, though that might just be because I'm a

cop and I can't just go barging in anywhere I please."

Percy smiled, "yeah well when your me, doors are more like a locked

hallway, you just need to know how to get in."

"So do you have much experience with picking locks?" Kate asked, "I

saw the door to the basement and even the one for the…..cages. They

don't even look like they have been tampered with. They look like they

have been unlocked by an expert."

Percy shrugged, "I grew up in….a difficult environment. Mom made it

better but I still had to learn to protect myself," 'especially if you're me.'

"The captain was very impressed," Kate supplied, "and believe me she

isn't one to be easily impressed."

Percy smiled, "I tend to have that effect on people."

Kate rolled her eyes, "you know sometimes I think you might be

actually related to Castle. He often goes off on his own to solve cases,

endangers an ongoing investigation, wrecks crime scenes-"

"-Okay okay, I get it," Percy grumbled.

Kate nodded, "but you know, despite all that he still get's the job done.

Like you did today. So tell me Percy, how did it feel?" Kate leaned back

on her chair and looked at the room, "how did it feel to save their lives."

"I'm going to be honest with you detective," Percy grinned, "it was

awesome."

Kate nodded, "I know the feeling…..you know, if you're interested, the

precinct has started a new program recently to encourage young

students to join the police department after they graduate. It's nothing

big, just basic temp work, get the coffee, do the paperwork, fix this, do

that. But it would give you a chance to experience the way it's really

done. You could end up helping a lot of people Percy."

"A-are you offering me a job here?" Percy asked in wonder.

Kate nodded, "yeah. You'll have to work a minimum of three days a

week, I heard you are going to a boarding school outside the city, you

can probably work every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It will be tough,

probably not going to get much appreciation, but you will get

experience. I know you don't really know what you want be in in the

future so maybe…..maybe this could help you."

Percy looked at the detective and smiled, "so….where do I sign up?"

Chapter 562:

"So I'm starting the job right after school starts," Percy chewed and

swallowed his forkful of scrambled eggs.

"Excited?" Artemis asked as she sipped from her glass of milk.

"Very, I get to work with cops to bring down bad guys, who won't be

excited?" Percy smiled, "plus you know, maybe I can help solve crimes,

cold cases, thing's like that."

"Forgive my scepticism Percy, but I find it hard to believe that you

would ever willingly put yourself in a position where you have to obey

the law and answer to a superior officer," Artemis chuckled, "if I know

you, and I like to think I do, you are probably going to break every rule

in the book within the first month. The first week, if you don't like your

commanding officer."

"Well…...you're not wrong," Percy smiled, "yeah, being a desk jockey

isn't my style, but…..I don't know. If I have to I might just bite the bullet

and become a lackey."

"And you would be okay with that?"

"Not really, but I'll try," Percy laughed, "but your probably right about

how long I'll last before I lose it and start breaking the rules again."

Artemis smiled, "yes…..why are you adamant about this job?"

"I…...I think that maybe…..maybe I can make a difference."

"What do you wish to change?"

"I'm not sure, maybe just…, bring a little hope into the world, you

know?" Percy chuckled, "I guess it might sound a little arrogant, but I

would like to believe that if I put my mind to it, I could help a lot of

people."

Artemis smiled, "it's not arrogance Percy. Arrogance is thinking you can

do things beyond your limits, this….this is well within your reach."

"Glad to hear you say that Arty," Percy leaned back as they started at

the sun rising into the sky.

"So you want to be what? A vigilante?"

"I prefer the term superhero," Percy said a simple shrug, "much more

representative of what I want to be."

"I can already imagine it, criminal of New York beware, Percy Jackson

will find you and talk you into submission," Artemis grinned.

"Hey you know I only use my super talking power as a last resort,"

Percy waved his fork at her face, "besides that's not only powers. I also

have the power of coolness and raw awesomeness!"

Artemis rolled her eyes, "I have seen Narcissist himself be more

humble than you. The only thing you're good at is making a fool of

yourself."

"Name one time."

"The first time we meet you called me sexist."

"In my defence you were shooting me with arrows," Percy pointed out,

"plus you know, you were kind of sexist."

"Was not."

"Was so, you even said that the definetion of sexisim was women

being subjucated by men!"

"Well it is!"

"It goes both ways you know."

"When has a man ever been subjugated by a woman?"

"How many men have you turned into a deer again?"

"...that doesn't count."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, sure."

Artemis smiled as she shook her head. The Goddess had suggested

meeting up in here for their breakfast routine and Percy accepted. After

all it was better here than his cabin, Thalia was after all currently

snoring into his pillow cuddled up in his bed sheets.

"So how's everything?" Artemis asked sipping from her glass of milk,

"Thalia, camp…. You know, everything."

"Good, good," Percy nodded, "Thalia and I are doing great. She also

thinks it's pretty cool that she's dating a guy who's buddies with you."

"Really? Why is that?"

"Well if you think I'm a nice guy that means I will probably never cheat

on her, at least that's her logic."

Artemis nodded, "she's not wrong. The only reason I can stand you is

because you're a decent guy. Though you do have one hell of a mouth

on you."

"Gee thanks," Percy rolled his eyes, "and if you think I have a mouth on

me you should see Michael, dude does not stop talking."

"I cannot imagine anyone more annoying then you Percy."

"Remember that guy who shoot an arrow at you the first time we

meet?" Percy asked, "you know, when you turned me into a deer and

tried to kill me?"

Artemis nodded, "yes, and?"

"The guy who shot the arrow was Micheal."

Artemis formed in confusion until it hit her, "ah, the son of Apollo, I see.

Well then I suppose I can understand why you would hate him."

"I don't hate him Artemis," Percy waved the idea, "he's my best friend,

don't tell Grover that please. I don't judge a kid on the actions of their

parent. For example Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, my dad, and I

love my dad. But I still hated that stupid cyclops, he was a horrible

creature, it didn't matter even if he was my brother, Polyphemus was a

dick. But Michael, though he's annoying, he is still my friend. It's Apollo

who I can't stand."

"Yes and the feeling is mutual," Artemis smiled, "last time I meet him he

kept going on and on about how much he wished he could turn you

into burnt toast."

Percy blinked in confusion, "wow, he's still pissed about that time we

had that little argument?"

"Little argument? You knocked him off of Olympus!"

"He was checking out my girl!"

"You over react Percy," Artemis rolled her eyes, "always so quick to

move."

"I'm sorry this is coming from the girl who's first instinct every time she

sees a man is to turn him into a deer?"

"...you may have a point," Artemis admitted. Percy started to laugh

while Artemis smiled enjoying the sound of his voice.

Soon a comfortable silence feel on them as they both sat on either side

of a table facing the rising sun. Percy broke the silence first, "so when

do you have to go?"

"I have a few minutes," Artemis replied, "besides the Hunters can

handle their own for some time, their big girls."

Percy nodded, "good to know."

"So what are you going to do today?"

"Well me and Annabeth are going to see Ed in his office. He invited us

over to look over construction ideas for the Haven project I'm building."

Artemis raised an eyebrow, "haven project? What's that?"

"Oh right, I haven't told you. You see the Haven project is kind of like a

special pet project I thought of doing a few months ago. After I visited

camp Jupiter I kind of fell in love with the idea of New Rome. A place

where demigods can grow old, live, build a life and die from old age. It

just seemed so amazing to me."

Artemis nodded, "yes, it truly is an amazing place. The Hunters love it,

well as much as they can like any place that is filled with men anyway."

Percy nodded, "right. So I asked myself, 'why don't we Greeks have

one for ourselves?' And right then and there I made up my mind, I was

going to build a place for us, all of us. So….I did."

"You built it?" Artemis asked in wonder, "you actually built a place for

the demigods?"

"No, not yet. But I've already gotten the land I need to build it on, and

so today Annabeth and I are going to Ed's place to try and see if we

can plan out how the place is going to look."

"Where is this Heaven going to be?"

"Do you know of Gardiners island?"

Artemis frowned, "isn't that the island just off the coast of Montauk?"

Percy nodded, "that's the place."

"But Percy….that's a whole island," Artemis lowered her voice, "how

can you afford something like that?"

"Let's just say that the owner owed me one," Percy sighed, "fucking

creepy looking dude."

"So he just gave it? Just like that?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. I don't understand it either. I still think he's

messing with my head, but I talked to my mom right after he told me he

was giving the island to me and sure enough the entire stretch of land

now belongs to me, when I turn 18 of course."

"Percy people don't just give land away. And they most certainly don't

just give islands away" Artemis leaned in a held Percy's hand in her's,

"he want's something Percy, something from you. You need to be

careful."

"I know," Percy nodded squeezing her hand, "I'm not stupid. But for

now he looks like he just wants to help, so I'm not going to look a gift

horse in the mouth Artemis. I need the land, I know he's up to

something, I promise I'll be careful."

Artemis nodded, "right," she looked down and saw how easily her hand

fit in with Percy's, how warm it felt next to her skin. She blushed, 'what

the hell am I doing?' Artemis quickly broke the hold and drew back her

hand, "ah hm, so, ah, I know you'll be careful. Just don't die or

anything."

Chapter 563

Percy looked at Artemis wondering why she was blushing, "ah-right,

yeah. Sure. Are you okay Arty? You look kind of…..well sick."

"I'm fine," Artemis cleared her throat, "just a little cough."

"I didn't know God's could get sick," Percy asked in wonder.

"Yeah, we can. It just takes a lot to put us down."

Lie detected!

Percy blinked, "yeah…..sure…..."

Artemis got up, "well...I have to go. Clean up would you?"

"Right I-" Percy stopped midsentence as Artemis exploded in a burst of

light teleporting herself away from him, "-I'll take care of it."

Percy sighed, he really didn't know why she was acting so weird, the

only thing he could think of was because she liked him or something

but would be...no….no way in Hades that's what's going on.

Percy frowned, 'but what if it is?' Percy then remembered a vision

Clotho showed him, a vision of the future. He remembered kissing

Artemis, him, kissing her, well more like she was kissing him. Percy

shook his head, he long since believed that vision to be false, after all

Clotho did say possible futures.

Besides he was with Thalia now, and he loved her with all his heart.

But he still couldn't help but wonder, did Artemis like him? And if so

why? He was….well, him. Annoying, goofy, possessive, talkative, very

very irritating, and those were all just the things Artemis herself has

called him from time to time.

It just didn't make any sense to Percy. He shook his head and pushed

the trail of thought to the side, 'look it's not going to happen, you're

probably overthinking this. Artemis likes you as a friend, maybe is

some world she may have liked you as something else, but that boat

has sailed.'

Percy got up and cleaned the breakfast set he had made in Artemis's

cabin and walked out making sure nothing was left behind. He walked

to the kitchens and all the way he thought about it, what if? What if

Artemis and him did get together? What is they became more than

friends? It was funny thing to think about, him, a hormonal handsy

teenager dating a virgin Goddess. Truly a match made in Hades.

Percy put the used dishes away and sat in the Mess Hall waiting for

everyone to wake up, particularly Annabeth. He took out 'A Storm of

Swords' from his inventory and began to read it. This was the third

book of the series and Percy was really invested in the charecters. He

had come to love them all, except the Lannister, fuck them all, except

Tyrion, he's cool.

But Percy especially loved the Starks, they were just so cool! Riding

direwolves in battle! Taking control of other people! They were like the

only good people alive in the book!

Percy loved Robb Stark especially, the guy was a badass! He kicked

ass and took names! He even caught Jamie fucking Lannister! How

cool is that?!

And Jon, oh, Jon. The living legend. He's only there to do two things,

fuck sexy wildings and kill white walkers, and he just ran out of all his

fucks.

Percy was determined to copy the stuff he found in the book. He was

just waiting for the time Leo becomes big enough to ride, he could

totally imagine riding the demi-wolf into battle. He also wanted to try

and hatch a dragon, he kept asking Annabeth where he could find

some dragon eggs, but she kept avoiding the answer. Something about

him burning the camp down? Well, doesn't matter.

Percy opened the book where he last left off, it seems Robb and his

army were going to a wedding or something. Percy smiled as he began

to read the chapter.

A few minutes later;

"So Percy and I called Ed the other night and shared a few ideas with

him," Annabeth told Thalia as the two walked towards the Mess Hall,

"we decided to meet up. Figured we should probably talk to the man

face to face, you know?"

Thalia nodded, "sounds good to me. So do you have a blueprint or

something?"

Annabeth patted the cylindrical map case hanging off her side,

"something. Percy helped me draw it up. He had a few ideas."

"Were they any good?"

"Some of them," Annabeth admitted, "he wanted to create a farming

area there using the Demeter kids magical farming powers. Which is

kind of cool, it would make the island self sufficient. He also however

gave complete shit ideas, like this one time he wanted to hatch baby

dragons so that he could use them as guardians for the island."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "I wonder where he got that idea."

Annabeth sighed, "I never should have introduced him to those books."

"You know I once caught him training Leo to charge into battle with him

on top?" Thalia shuddered, "poor Leo, almost broke his back."

Annabeth rubbed her temples, "that boy is unhinged."

"Well he is currently trying to build a city in the middle of an island. It

takes an unhinged mind to do that. Anyway, are you leaving right after

breakfast?"

Annabeth nodded, "yeah. Figured the sooner we get to Ed's office the

better."

"I'M GOING TO KILL THAT MOTHER FUCKER!" Percy's voice roared

out from the Mess Hall. Thalia and Annabeth shared a look and sighed

as they dashed towards the dining area wondering what happened to

him now.

"LET ME GO MICHAEL!" Percy roared as Michael, Charles, Lee,

Travis, Peter, Nico and Clarisse held Percy face down on his floor as

the son of Poseidon tried to free himself.

"Hello no!" Michael shouted, "if I do that you might actually kill him!"

"GET OFF OF ME MAN!" Percy roared as he pushed up lifting

everyone currently on top of him. He nearly managed to get free only

for Leo to jump up on the dog pile causing Percy to come crashing to

the ground again.

"What the Hades is going on?!" Annabeth cried, "why is Percy on the

floor?"

"He's threatening to kill somebody!" Nico yelled out as he summoned

shades to try and shackle Percy down only for Percy to cut them into

peace using his own shadows.

"Who?!" Thalia asked in surprise.

"GEORGE R R MARTIN!" Percy roared out as he tried to move again

only for Conner to push him down.

"Not again," Annabeth face planned.

"I'm sorry who is he talking about?" Thalia asked.

"His book series," Annabeth replied dryly, "it's that damn book series

again. Sigh, what happened this time Percy?"

"HE KILLED ROBB ANNABETH! HE KILL HIM! AND HE KILLED

GREYWIND!" Percy roared out, "HE KILLED THE FUCKING

DIREWOLF!"

Annabeth nodded, "ah, the Red Wedding, yeah that wasn't a pleasant

afternoon for me either. Cried myself to sleep that night."

"Percy this is a bit toomuch don't you think?" Thalia asked as she bent

over her boyfriend.

"NO! THIS IS TOTALLY UNFAIR!"

"Percy calm down," Annabeth sighed, "your acting like an idiot."

"ROBB! I'M SO SORRY!" Percy yelled out as he slowly stopped

resisting putting his head down crying as slowly one by one everyone

got off of him.

"There there sweetie," Thalia said as she helped him on his feet patting

his back as he snuggled next to her, "everything's going to okay."

"No"sniff, "it's not," sniff, "R-Robb's dead," Percy whimpered, "he's

dead!"

Annabeth sighed, "Percy there are other Stark's you know. Like Arya,

Bran, heck even Sansa."

"Fuck Sansa," Percy muttered, "but yeah….your right…..sigh, damn it

George R R Martin! You are a fucking serial killer man! Making me

attached to a character only to kill him off! I should find out where he

lives and make him rewrite the entire series!"

Annabeth chuckled, "Percy he took 5 years to write one book, I doubt

he has the time to rewrite them all."

Percy hanged his head, "yeah….but still….sigh, well at least I still have

Jon."

Annabeth's eyes widened, "y-yeah, you still have Jon."

Percy picked up on the hesitation in her voice and glared at her,

"Annabeth….tell me Jon's alive."

"Jon's alive."

Percy narrowed his eyes, "tell me he's alive in the last book."

Annabeth looked at her table, "sorry Percy got to run! Better finish my

breakfast fast so that we can get to Ed's place early!"

"Annabeth!" Percy cried out after her, "tell me Jon Snow's alive in the

last book! Tell me!"

"Percy sit down," Thalia grabbed him as he tried to chase after

Annabeth, "and if you're that curious about the fifth book just read the

damn thing."

Percy grumbled, "fine…..hey Thalia I was wondering-"

"-No, we are not going to name our firstborn son Robb. And no we

cannot get an albino wolf and name it Ghost."

Percy puffed his cheeks, "fine…..spoil sport."

Thalia rolled her eyes as soon they began to eat their breakfast.

Second breakfast in Percy's case, but considering he was going to be

doing a lot of running today he figured he needed the extra energy.

When they were finished Thalia and Percy kissed each other goodbye

as they went their separate ways. Thalia went to train with Mera again,

which was happening more often these days. Percy figured it was just

an excuse to beat each other up senselessly.

Percy now stood near the barrier tree as Annabeth walked up to him.

"You ready?" Percy asked her.

"Yeah," Annabeth nodded, "I called Ed ahead and asked him to be

ready for us. He said to come to his office, the place where you first

meet."

Percy nodded, "I know the place," he reached into his inventory and

pulled out his goggles, "let's go."

Annabeth nodded as Percy carried her and put her into his inventory.

He closed it and then turned towards the main road. He slipped into an

Time ID and once safely inside the empty world he took off at max

speed.

Thalia was the one who actually suggested it when he told her about

the time he trained in Tactile telekinesis. After she got over the fact that

Percy was basically a psychic now, Thalia had the brilliant idea of

traveling through ID's.

It would allow him to travel at his max speed without worrying about the

damage he would casue to his surroundings. Plus if he used his time

dilation ID he could cut down on his traveling time in the real world.

Percy tore through the streets as a sonic boom exploded outwards as

he tore through the streets of NY. He then took Highway I-90 E and ran

towards Boston, the first place he ever visited as a full fledge demigod

on a quest.

Percy's max speed was 935 miles per hour, Boston was around 200

miles away. He reached the city in 15 minutes, and since he was in a

time dilution ID that meant in the real world only 4 minutes had passed.

The moment Percy saw the city in the horizon he began to slow down.

He learnt his lesson from last time, he eventually got used to stopping

at his max speed, no more crashing into building for him!

Just then Percy tripped on a rock and fell down rolling head over heels

down the road as he crashed through the front window of an IHOP.

Percy groaned as he pulled himself out of the wreckage, maybe he

needed to work on his landing a little bit more.

Percy quickly got back on his feet and ran into the city. He soon located

Half-Blood Inc, the building hadn't changed one bit. He ran to an alley

way and slipped out of the time dilation ID. The sky turned blue again

as slowly the sound of cars and people surrounded Percy one more.

He opened his inventory and took Annabeth out placing the girl on the

floor. "How long has it been?" she asked looking at her phone to adjust

the clock.

"Four minutes, give or take," Percy replied as they walked to the

building in question.

"Four minutes? Have you been working on your speed?"

"Something like that. Unfortunately I can only use it for travel, won't be

useful at all for actual combat."

Annabeth nodded as she put away her phone looking at the building, It

was build, shiny and had Half-Blood Inc. written on top of the entrance

in bronze. They went inside and the lobby was filled with Greek

paintings and sculptures.

"Ed is really pushing it with all the Greek stuff," Annabeth commented

as she looked around.

Percy chuckled, "tell me about it. When Luke, Grover and I were first

searching for him we weren't sure if this is the guy we were looking for.

Sure Neak is a pretty unique last name but we could be mistaken. But

the moment we stepped into the lobby we knew we had the right guy."

Chapter 564

Annabeth nodded as they passed through security. Percy let them

check him freely while Annabeth used the Mist to prevent them from

opening her map case, she was very possessive of the thing.

Soon they were cleared and Percy took out his phone and called up

Ed.

"We are here," Percy said the moment Ed picked up.

"Really? That was quick."

"I've been working on a new way to travel," Percy replied, "where do

we have to go now?"

"Sit tight, I'll be down there in a sec."

The man soon arrived in the lobby wearing a lab coat over a grey shirt

and a very big pair of jeans that was being held up by a very tightly

wound belt.

"What's with the lab coat?" Percy asked the man as the gave each

other a hug.

"No reason, just like it is all," Ed replied as he took them to the elevator.

Once inside he pressed the button for the 32nd floor closing the lift

before anyone else could get in.

"So your looking nice," Percy told him.

Ed nodded, "yeah, finally got some rest and relaxation. By the way

Percy ah, did your mom mention me at all?"

Percy blinked, "ah, no, she didn't. Why?"

"Nothing!" Edward snapped, "no reason at all."

Percy frowned in confusion while Annabeth just rolled her eyes. Soon

they reached the 32nd floor and Ed lead them down a long white

corridor with white doors lining the wall.

"This place reminds me of that scene in the Matrix where they are

looking for the Architect and go down that corridor with no windows or

exits, only doors," Percy commented.

"Thank you," Edward smirked, "that was exactly what I was going for.

Kind of a Matrix/crazy scientist vibe."

Percy nodded as they walked to the end of the corridor where a single

white door was waiting for them. Edward took out his keychain and

used it to unlock the door. 'Huh, so it also functions as a real keychain.

Wonder of Riptide or Waverider can work as a real pen?'

Ed lead them into a room which was basically like a mad scientist's

panic room. There were several drawing on the floor with the work

table that was pressed up against the wall littered with gadgets and

other items that Percy couldn't identify immediately.

In the center of the room was a big white table that Ed walked towards.

He pressed a button on the side causing the table surface to light up

revealing a large screen.

"So that's your computer?" Annabeth asked as she took off her map

case and opened it up taking out the map.

"Yeah, I like it this way," Edward pressed several buttons on the screen

causing the table surface to turn into a google map image of Gardiner's

island, "so this is the island you bought."

Percy nodded, "yeah…..I still can't believe that I own this massive

thing."

Edward nodded, "agreed. It's 13 square kilometers of pure unused

land. 7 Km across and 3 Km wide. You definitely can build a lot here.

Maybe not a city, but enough for demigods."

Percy nodded as Annabeth unwrapped the map she and Percy

designed and put it on the table. Edward shrinked the google map on

his screen and compared the images side by side.

On Percy's map was the location and basic structure of where and

what they wanted the Haven to look like.

The Haven would be built in the heart of the island. The only standing

major structure on Gardiner's island was the old mansion currently

abandoned. The mansion however was located a bit towards the south

west, the rest of the island wasn't even touched.

Percy wanted the Haven to be located near a small lake called Willow

Brook that drained into the Tobacco Lot pond. The flora over there was

practically non existent, it would be easy to make a settlement there.

Plus it was a great defensive position. The Northern edge of the island

had a large and steep cliff side while West was covered with a dense

forest. If anyone was to attack the Haven they could only come from

the South or the East.

"So what do you want to put in it?" Edward asked as he marked the

location of the Haven site on his own map.

"Well we kind of have a list," Annabeth admitted as she pulled out

another map, this one featured a beautifully done sketch of a

settlement.

"This is amazing," Edward said as he took up the drawing, "did you do

this?"

Annabeth nodded, "yeah. With a few suggestions from Percy."

Edward laid out the sketch on the table as Percy leaned over. He

pointed to the center of the Haven sketch, "this is going to be out

meeting place come gathering hall. I call it 'The Hearth'. In ancient

Greece they had a place like this where the leaders of the country

would discuss about the future. This will be like that, but bigger. I want

to follow the Roman way of involving everyone possible. So we make

this a public place of sorts."

"It's going to be circular," Annabeth took over, "with a transparent dome

on top, or maybe just a giant hole to let out the fumes of the fire. It

won't have any walls, just giant white pillars. The entire building will be

raised up a few feet, and the inside will be similar to an Amphitheatre

with seats carved into the stone slowly going towards. We might have

to dig into the Earth or something, but it should work. In the center will

be the hearth, Percy insisted. Around the hearth will be a platform for

people to stand and talk on."

Edward nodded, "okay, and this?" He pointed to a building north of The

Hearth. It was a simple square shaped building standing three floors

up. The ground floor had wide open doors but the top had only a few

small windows.

"That's the war building. We'll use it as a war room/ armoury,"

Annabeth explained. "We'll have all our weapons inside, it'll be the first

place we go to when we are under attack, hence it also functions as a

war council of sorts. The building may be three floors tall, we won't

have that many floors inside. There will just be platforms and skeleton

walkways leading up to the windows, but that's just if we need to

defend the place from attackers. Kind of like a last resort escape point."

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Edward nodded, "and this is obviously a hospital," he pointed to the

building on the right of The Hearth. Percy and Annabeth nodded and

offered no additional input. Ed then looked to the empty plot of land on

the left, "and what's this for?"

Percy shrugged, "honestly we didn't know what to put there. Plus it's

kind of like insurance policy, incase we need to put something up there

in the future."

Ed nodded and turned to the last building in the center of the Haven,

"and this is what?"

Percy looked at what Ed was pointing at. It was an old style Greek

looking building. Annabeth copied its design off of the Temple of Zeus

in Olympia. It had a triangular roof and thick walls with pillars

supporting its sides.

"It's the museum," Percy responded. Ed raised an eyebrow, "well you

see I figured we needed to showcase our victories and

accomplishments. Everything a camper in camp half-blood does is put

inside the attic of the Big House and forgotten. It's like, 'wow, you

defeated a monster when you were 12? Awsome! Now give me that

spoils of war you got and let me just throw it into the attic along with all

the other junk.'"

Annabeth smiled, "honestly it never even occurred to me. I always just

thought of the stuff up there as junk, but Percy is right, they are

trophies from previous quests completed and deserve to be treated

with respect."

Ed nodded, "well I like it kid. Nice idea. Now let's move on to the

others."

Surrounding the four buildings were 12 temples, each 50 meters wide

featuring a symbol.

"These are the temples of the Gods," Percy grumbled, "figured if we

don't add them they might curse the place out of spit or something."

Ed chuckled, "good call."

"Thanks," Annabeth replied, "anyway we figured we would make each

building about 50 meters wide. Probably just go for a simplistic

approach here. Maybe just a single structure with a giant statue of the

God in the center."

Ed nodded, "yeah...that could work. Have them on a raised platform

with a circular dome over their temples. We'll have pillars around to

support the domes and maybe a wall or something in the back where

we inscribe a chant or a blessing or even a story about the God. Then

the statue and of course a platform for offerings and other items."

Annabeth nodded, "great. Then all that's left is the houses."

"Ah, no, not just yet," Edward stopped Annabeth, "what about the minor

Gods?"

Annabeth shrugged, "what about them?"

"We need to build temples for them as well you know," Ed said, "they

may be minor Gods, but they are still important."

"We can't build temples for them," Annabeth stated with a sigh.

"And why not?"

"Because the Olympians will not like them getting the same treatment

as they are," Percy supplied, "maybe we can build them shrines

instead. Put them all over the place you know, like polka dots on a

sundress."

Ed and Annabeth nodded, "sounds good. They get their shrines and

the Olympians keep their ego intact. Everyone wins."

Annabeth smiled, "now as I was saying, for the haven I was thinking

we given each person their own home. Like a real city. Being forced to

have roommates isn't something you want for the rest of your life. So

maybe we have apartments instead of cabins. We'll have one behind

each temple, and each district will be known as that God's district. Like

the apartment building and all the other buildings behind the Poseidon

temple will be known as the Poseidon district. Like that, but for every

single temple."

Ed nodded, "great. So after the apartment complexes you guys have

just given a large amount of free space, any reason for that?"

"We don't really know what to do with it all," Annabeth admitted, "we

could have made the settlement smaller, true, but it just felt like we

needed more, you know?"

Ed nodded, "yeah, I get it. Maybe we can think of something up."

"Right," Annabeth smiled, "and then after all of that we have the 5

meter thick walls surrounded this entire structure. Along with a few

more added protections here and there."

Ed nodded, "nice."

"Just like a pizza slice," Percy supplied with a smile. Annabeth and

Edward gave him a strange look, " what? Look the Haven is going to

be circular in shape, so imagine that each piece of it is going to be

divided up like a slice of pizza. So we have the temple of an Olympian

on the very tip of the pizza slice. The large slices of pepperoni will be

the apartment complexes and the small black olives sprinkled around

will be the shrines to the minor Gods. And the thick crust at the very

end is like the wall surrounding the Heaven."

Annabeth blinked, she took a few seconds to process what Percy just

said. The daughter of Athena took a deep breath and spoke,

"Percy….did you design the Haven to look like a pizza pie on

purpose?"

Percy shook his head, "no, I swear to the Gods I didn't. It totally came

out this way on it's own."

Lie Successful!

Edward chuckled, "either way it is still a great first step to building this

place," Edward rolled up their map and sketch and passed to

Annabeth, "now it's my turn to show you both something I've been

working on."

Annabeth put away her diagrams as Edward pulled up a new image on

his table screen. This one was a PDF of a TIMES article that talked

about Edward.

"This was one of the first articles ever written about me," Ed supplied,

"when I was 17 I built a website for the citizens of Boston to use."

"Yeah I know," Percy nodded, "this was the same article Grover, Luke

and I used to find out about you in the first place. Apparently you

created some kind of digital platform for the entire city to use? Like a

virtual city or something?"

Ed nodded, "exactly. The project was called 'Link', and what it would

have done is connect every single thing in the city to one central hub

that could control and monitor everything in the city."

"So….like a big brother program?"

Ed shook his head, "no, nothing like that. This program would gather

data from all over the city and would translate it into requests. So this

way no one would be able to spy on people, while at the same time all

the faults and issues the city has can be taken into account."

"So how would we do this?" Annabeth asked, "it seems like pretty

cutting edge technology."

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Ed nodded, "it is," he went to his desk and moved aside few sheets of

paper. Underneath the mess was a circular disk with an omega symbol

drawn on it's head. Ed tossed the disk to Percy who caught and

Observed it;

Monitor disk (Solid),

This disk will observe and transmit data wirelessly to the central

hub. It will scan any solid surface it is on along with sending

sonic waves to the surface underneath, assess the structural

integrity and report back it's finding.

"This disk is to be used on walls or buildings," Ed explained, "you stick

it on a wall and it will scan the surface and the inside using sonic

waves. It will then report what it finds. This way you can assess the

strength of the infrastructure without much hassle."

"This is amazing," Annabeth said as Percy passed her the disk, "why

isn't this in the open market yet? One of these could make sure no

road or bridge ever collapses ever again."

"Because it would kill the jobs of a lot of civil engineers," Ed explained

with a sigh, "most of them have to observe infrastructure and assess

the damages in person. That is how most make a living. This would

effectively rob them of their jobs."

Annabeth nodded, "okay...but we are also going to need to monitor

other things, like water pressure, voltage management, sewer

distribution and even garbage maintenance, I do not want trash

cluttered around my city."

"Your city?" Percy asked.

"Our city," Annabeth corrected herself blushing beetroot red.

Ed smiled, "well don't' worry, I have moniter disks for each occasion.

Some use 3-D visualisation technology to notice things while others

just act like a digital meter of sorts. We can use them all for the city, no

biggy."

Percy and Annabeth nodded as they put the disk on the table. "So,"

Percy began, "what else do you have for us?"

Ed grinned, "how you given any thought about what type of energy

system you want to implement on the island?"

Percy shrugged, "we figured we use windmills or something. Go green,

no Nuclear energy for us."

Edward nodded, "yeah, that sounds great and all, but you can't get

enough energy out of wind, at least not without cutting down a majority

of the forests on the island for space. I would recommend," Ed pulled

up another file, "solar energy."

Percy looked at the image of a solar panel Ed just pulled up. It was

sleek and very slim with its panel taking on a very royal blue hue.

"This is the new 3Z9 Solar Panel that Half-Blood Inc. has been working

on," Ed explained, "it can produce 350 Watts per panel. Have about 20

of these on the roof of a single house and that house will have enough

energy to sustain itself without the need of any external source of

energy."

Percy's eyes widened, "this is amazing…..so what, we just put these

on the roof of every apartment building? We might not have enough

room up there."

Ed nodded, "yeah. The 20 panel system is designed more for an

independent house than a flat. So we just have what we can on top,

while the rest of them can be outside the Haven walls."

"You're talking about a solar panel farm," Annabeth spoke up, "you

want to build an entirely self energy sufficient city."

Ed nodded, "exactly. We have what, 5 square miles of land to use?

Just use 0.1 square mile of that and build a farm of solar panels. It

would give you…. around…..5 Gigawatts a year. It has a wastage of

only 24%, so obviously you're going to get your money's worth. More

than enough to run a small town, let alone the Haven project."

"Dude, New York, the city that never turns off it's night light, uses

around 55,000 Giga watts a year. And it's a city with over 8 million

people living in it. What the hell are we going to be using 5 Gigawatts a

year for?"

Edward shrugged, "I don't know. We'll think of something. Maybe you

can find a way to convert all the extra energy into your defense

systems or something. Heck maybe if you want you could sell the extra

energy off for some extra profit or something. That would be a nice

idea, I know a few people in New York who would love that, just lay

down wires from the island to the city."

Percy smiled, "that sounds perfect. This can be our island's export,

energy for cash. Hmm, this just keeps getting better and better Ed."

"B-but what about storage?" Annabeth asked, "these solar panels are

amazing, how are we going to store all of that energy?"

"I am so glad you asked that Annabeth," Edward smiled as he reached

into his pocket and pulled out a square tic tac box sized battery, "this is

how we are going to do that."

"A battery?" Percy asked.

"No just any battery Percy, this battery is something we discovered

here on accident. You know that the best conductor in the world is gold

right? The only reason we don't use it in our wiring today is because it's

very expensive to use. So we did is use gold nanowires, which are

extremely thin, at least ten times thinner than a human hair. We coated

it with Magnesium dioxide and cocooned them in a plexiglas-like gel.

This caused the already amazing properties of the gold wires to

increase exponentially. This allowed us to charge and discharge the

battery over and over again without it losing any of its capacity."

Percy gasped while Annabeth just raised an eyebrow, she had a partial

idea of this meant, but Percy was the one who currently had a Lv 4

physics skill.

"So what you're saying is we can charge and drain this thing over and

over again without it losing any of the energy it possess?" Percy asked,

"Ed, how many times can this be done?"

"When we last checked? …...over 200,000 times."

Percy's jaw dropped, "what?"

"Okay I feel like I'm missing out on something here," Annabeth spoke

up, "what exactly does this mean?"

"It means we can store obscene amounts of energy without losing any

of it. Basically Ed is saying that if we have a big enough battery we

could store all the excess energy we collect from our solar pannel and

store it for later use," Percy explained.

Annabeth blinked, "huh...guess that's how that feels like."

"Like what feels like?"

"What it feels like to now know something and then have someone

dumb it down for you."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, now you know how the rest of us feel whenever

we hang out with you."

Ed smiled, "right. So anyway Percy's got the idea, this battery is small,

so it obviously can't store a lot of energy. And since gold is expensive

and difficult to come by I don't exactly have the basic resources to build

a giant battery for energy storage. So…."

Percy nodded, "I got it Ed. I'll get you the gold you need, you get us the

batteries."

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Ed nodded, "done. Now, on to the next thing I had in mind," Ed put

away the battery and pulled up a new image, "this was the building in

mind for the network hub of the city," the building was modernized,

unlike the drawings Annabeth and Percy had made. It was glass and

steel with a big ass satelite dish on top.

"Basically this is where you collect and store all the data from the

maintenance disks. This is the central data hub for the city, the Brain

House if you will."

"We are so not calling it that," Percy said while Annabeth nodded in

agreement.

Edward shrugged, "whatever. Anyway, this is where you collect and

process the information. Your internet will also be routed through her

using the satellite dish on top. I'm thinking we use a free wifi system

here. Maybe install a dish equally here and there in order to make sure

every spot in the Haven has a good wifi connection."

Percy nodded, "great, maybe now we can finally move on from the

dark ages. We are also going to need cell coverage along with TV,

think you can put that in here?"

Ed shook his head, "no, not on the building. The internet dish takes up

the whole roof. Me need to put a cell tower somewhere else."

"Well there's plenty of space," Percy said, "maybe we can put it on of

the districts some where."

"Wait what about monitoring the electricity obtained from the solar

panels?" Annabeth asked, "we need a place to also store the energy

gathered."

"I decided to have a separate building for it," Ed said pulling up a new

image this one of a building that basically looked like a small fortress

with high walls and only one entrance, "this is going to be a very

dangerous place. High amounts of electricity is going to be running

through it and around the city, so obviously I don't want people getting

in it easily. The walls will be concert with a rubber wall layering it's

insides."

Percy nodded, "sounds good, so maybe we'll put the Nerve center next

to the Hearth, it can be on the empty plot we set aside. And the

electrical place…..we'll put it behind Apollo's temple. After all the

energy we are collecting is from the sun, it kind of belongs there."

Annabeth raised an eyebrow, "but that would basically take up half the

space there. We could at most fit one apartment complex there, but

nothing too big."

Percy nodded, "yeah. Poor Apollo, his district is going to be the least

visited. Why many people won't want to live next to a big scary looking

place like the Generator building. Poor poor Apollo."

Ed raised an eyebrow, "what's with you and Apollo?"

"I don't know what you mean Ed."

"Apollo was checking out Thalia," Annabeth supplied, "ever since then

Percy took every chance he got to make fun of the God."

Percy shrugged, "I don't know what you mean Annabeth, you're

assuming things that aren't there."

Annabeth rolled her eyes, "sure I am."

Ed smiled, "well anyway, moving on. We also need a secondary source

of energy, maybe we can also do the wind energy thing you guys

planed. Have it next to the solar panel farm to create a secondary

energy source. Like I said it won't produce as much energy as the solar

panel, but it should be enough in case the weather is bad or

something."

Percy nodded, "good idea. We'll do that. And now on to the next thing,

farming."

Ed was confused, "you want to make a farm? On the island?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, I do. I talked to Katie Gardner, child of Demeter.

She said that it didn't matter what type of land it was, the Demeter kids

along with the Satyrs can make it fertile. So I was thinking maybe we

put the farming lands outside the city walls, maybe up near the high

cliff side in the North. Plus Willow brook runs across the land, it will be

easy to create channel from the stream to the farm."

Ed nodded, "makes sense. Okay, I don't know much about farming, but

if you guys think the Demeter kids and the Satyrs can handle it then so

be it. I'll let it in their hands. Now, we need to talk transportation."

"Do we really need it?" Percy asked, "I mean granted the Haven

settlement is at least 1 1/2, maybe 2 kilometers wide, but do we really

need a car or something? The roads won't be that big Ed, plus

pollution."

Ed nodded, "I know. But we need transportation, some kind of it

anyway. Maybe horses or something."

Percy shook his head, "no. We don't have enough horse, and if we did

get enough who the hell wants to pick up all that horse shit? I know I

won't. Maybe we can hire Hercules to do that or something, but I'm

pretty sure no one else wants to do it."

Ed sighed, "fine…..how about…...I got nothing."

"Cycles," Annabeth supplied, "we can use styles to get around."

Percy scratched his chin,"hmm, that would help out if people didn't

want to walk. Plus it gives us a lot of exercise and won't take up much

walking space. Yeah…, yeah that could work. We can use cycles as

the main form of transportation. Maybe a carriage or something if we

need to move something heavy."

Annabeth smiled, "this is coming along nicely. I can already imagine it

in my head."

Percy nodded, "yeah. I just know everyone else is going to be as

excited about it as we are."

"What about an Arena?" Edward asked.

Percy shrugged, "well the way I see it a demigod is going to train in

camp half-blood and come to the Haven to relax. I don't want this place

to be a war camp or something like that. This is a home, a place for

demigods to live their lives."

Ed smiled and nodded, "agreed. Okay, we need to decided on a few

more things. Recycling or no?"

"Yes, definitely," Annabeth nodded, "like I said, this place will not be

turning into a trash heap."

"Okay," Ed started to edit his map on screen, "then what about a

storage place? Most of the time we might trade with the main land, we

need some place to keep all the stuff to check it out before it can be

introduced into the Haven."

"A warehouse," Percy supplied, "we build it outside the walls and to the

South."

"Okay," Ed made a few more adjustments to his map, "do you guys

have any special building in mind? Like...a swimming pool or

something?"

"As much as I would like that it's kind of redundant," Percy said, "we

are surrounded by water, if anyone wants to go for a swim they can just

go to Tobaccolot pond nearby."

"We need a water purification place," Annabeth realised, "we can't just

drink lake water without purifying it first."

"Put it in the Poseidon district," Percy said, "me and Mera can take

care of water in the beginning. Maybe we can create a water passage

from Willow Brook into the water purifying place."

"Wouldn't that bypass the wall?" Ed asked, "if someone attack us and

they knew about this-"

"Then we'll make it underground," Percy said, "deep underground, and

narrow. Even if they had diving equipment the passage would be so

small only one person can go through at a time. Plus if they do manage

to get in they will be facing me and Mera, I almost pity the fools who

think to even try."

Annabeth nodded, "yeah…. this is something that has to happen. The

rewards outway the risks. Hm…..maybe we should also have a

separate place for grain storage."

"What? Why?" Ed asked, "why not just put it in the Warehouse?"

"No, if somebody is going to attack us they will come from the South,

their first target will be the Warehouse," Annabeth supplied, "we need

to make sure our food supply is well guarded. Put a grain storage

building in the Demeter district, it will help when we are under siege

and can't go out for food."

Percy nodded impressed at Annabeth's tactical mind, after all she was

the daughter of Athena. Anything less would be insulting. Just then an

idea hit Percy, "a school. We need a school/college in the Athena

district."

Annabeth bashed her head with her palm, "right, school. How could I

forget."

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Ed chuckled as he added in the school in his digital map, "it's okay, you

can't be expected to remember everything. But you know a school/

college will take up a lot of space. And we need to put a library up as

well."

"Put it in the Artemis district," Percy supplied, "she won't mind…I think."

"It's okay," Ed said adding the library, "the building won't take up much

space. We still will have enough for another building, that is including

the apartment complexes that will be built in the Artemis district."

"Are we still doing the horses?" Annabeth asked, "if we are we need to

find a place to-"

"There is enough space near the water purifying facility," Percy cut in,

"we can put the stables there. And while we will be using cycles to get

around the horses will still be useful, maybe they could serve as the

cavalry during war time or something."

Ed nodded, "okay….now how about buildings for fun? Like…..a movie

theater?"

"Hermes district," Annabeth said, "put it there and put a small post

office there as well. People can order things from the post office that

they want us to trade for from the outside world."

"Don't you think that might alliante the mortal world in the eyes of the

demigods?" Percy asked, "we don't' want them to think that we are no

longer part of that world."

"No Percy, I don't think people would think like that," Ed said,

"demigods know we are half human, we will never forget that part.

Never."

Percy nodded, "okay…..we need a coffee shop."

"Dionysis district," Annabeth said, "and maybe we should think about

building a pub or something, for when we grow up."

Ed nodded, "yeah, I'll leave some space for it as well," he adjusted the

make shift map on the screen, "what about a gym? I get that you don't'

want to train for war, but people still need to keep in shape Percy."

"Ares district," Percy told him, "and put a forge in Hephaestus district

as well. But that might cause a lot of smoke….dont' want that."

"Do you think Mera knows a few spells to purify the smoke?" Annabeth

asked, "maybe a few purifying spells can help us keep the air clean."

Percy nodded, "I'll ask her, but I think the answer will be most probably

yes. Oh, maybe we can put a few charms on the wall, add onto the

defence or something."

Annabeth nodded, "good idea…..what else?"

"We can put the cell tower in the Zeus district," Percy pointed at the

nearly empty area, "and for the Hera district…..I don't know? Maybe we

just fill it up with buildings or something. After all she is the Goddess of

family, I'm sure she won't mind."

"Maybe a mall?" Ed offered, "a small one. We'll put it in the Aphrodite

district. It would encourage trade and buying, could support a local

economy."

Percy nodded, "yeah….sure. But this brings up the matter of money

and how it's going to work in the Haven."

"Well I was thinking about that," Annabeth said, "and I came up with a

solution of sorts. Basically the way I see it this is basically a monarchy.

The land is owned by you Percy, making you the owner and king."

Percy grinned, "sweet, Percy Jackson, king of Gardiner island. Has a

nice ring to it, no?"

Annabeth rolled her eyes, "yeah, sure. Don't' expect a crown or

something though. Anyway like I was saying, Percy is basically like a

king, so let's treat this as a monarchy situation. Let each district be

taken care off by one person. Like a head counselor, expect instead of

a cabin he/she takes care of the entire district. So Percy basically

leases out the land to them under the conditions that it is maintained

and improved on."

"So you all won't be collecting taxes?" Ed asked, "because you need

some capital if you eventually plan on trading with the mortal world."

"No, no taxes," Annabeth shook her head, "and wait, I'm getting to that

part. So each district will be under one person, let's call him a manger.

Their job is to take care of their districts and for doing that they get

payed by the government, AKA Percy. Now, we need people to

maintain the place, people who will actually go and build or change.

Basically government workers. This will be the first job offers we can

give and they will again be payed by the government."

"We have to be careful," Edward told her, "we can't afford to flood the

market with money just like that. Giving people too much money which

they then refuse to spend is what causes trouble in the economy."

Annabeth nodded, "and then comes the second job offers. We use

buildings like the movie theater, coffee shop, gym to buy and sell

products. They buildings will be owned by the government, but the

workers will be played properly. And obviously some money will be

returned to the Government's pockets."

Ed nodded, "so essentially Percy will just have to supply money out his

own pockets at first. But after the trade flow picks up and the

government starts building its own coffers-"

Annabeth nodded, "it will be self sufficient. Maybe we can even have

the food on sale, if it isn't war times or something similar. The farmers

will be payed by the government and the crops produced will be sold

by the government to the people. A small portions of money is given to

the farmers as a bonus, while the government gets in the rest."

"Should we also price WIFI and electricity?" Ed asked.

"Yeah, maybe we-"

"No," Percy cut off Annabeth, "things like that which are vital to living

will not be priced. Maybe we set a limit on the date used, and if they go

beyond that they will have to pay, but I don't' want people to be

charged for WIFI or electricity or water."

"So we give out the buildings for free?" Ed asked.

"No, we rent them out," Percy told him, "we charge them based on how

much funds the Haven needs that month. If our coffers are full then we

don't' charge them anything, if we need extra cash, we increase the

rent. And as long as it is maintained properly we don't bother with what

they do with the land. They can change their apartment to whatever

they wish, it will basically be their house, only thing is we own it."

"So…..we are basically building a communist society?"

"Honestly Ed I don't' care," Percy said with a shrug, "we honestly can't

afford to be capitalists right now. I mean most demigods might not even

want to stay in the Haven in the first place. What with the scent

destroying pills you supplied us. So we can't take any chances with

money or property."

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Ed nodded, "I see…..makes sense. But you know now that you

mention it are you even sure people would want to live here? I mean

most would probably do what I did and run away from camp the first

chance they get. With no more monsters coming after them it will

basically be open season. Plus we are demigods, we can do things

better than humans ever can. Why would they want to live in a closed

off community like this?"

Percy sighed, "honestly Ed I have been thinking about that as well. And

the more I did the more I realised people would probably just leave

camp after they get old enough. Right now we are at war with Kronos,

so people might not have the guts to do so, but when it is over you are

right, they might just leave camp entirely.

"But I also realised that people would want to live a place surrounded

by those similar to them. It's like the legacies living in New Rome, their

scent is non existent, they don't have to worry about monsters eating

them. But you see they didn't leave, they stayed. Because it is where

they belong."

Ed smiled, "brilliant reasoning Percy."

Percy smiled, "thanks Ed. I have my moments."

Annabeth smiled, "you know we still haven't given it a name. We can't

just continue calling it the Haven project."

"No, not yet," Percy told her, "I want it up and running first before

anything else. When the last brick is set and the place is filled with

people, then we give it a name."

Ed and Annabeth agreed as Ed saved the edited image on his table

screen. He then displayed it fully as they admired what was a basic

sketch of their future.

"Percy…...it really does kind of look like a pizza pie," Annabeth told him

narrowing her eyes, "you sure you didn't have anything to do with

this?"

Percy blinked, "Annabeth I swear, I didn't plan this out at all."

Lie failed!

'Shit!'

"Percy Jackson I'm going to murder you!" Annabeth cried out.

"Okay okay, I may have had one or two ideas that might have involved

a pizza based structure, but I didn't think they would actually work!"

Ed chuckled as Annabeth hit Percy upside the head hard causing the

son of Poseidon to grumble under his breath about violent girls.

"So," Ed said, "I think we basically covered everything of importance

when it comes to the Haven. Now, moving on to the next thing,

supplies."

And so they spent the next two hours talking about what the building's

were going to made out of, how they were going to be transported to

the island, and what to build first.

Ed had a building company called Tekton, Greek for craftsmen, really

subtle there Ed. Tekton would supply all the materials to the island.

They would bring it in by boat, and Percy would take the supplies onto

the island. Super strength came in handy from time to time.

The first thing that was going to be laid out would be the water supply

and waste disposal pipes. Percy planned on installing them himself, he

didn't know how, but a quick trip to the DVD store and renting out a

DVD on plumbing should help with that.

Annabeth decided it would be best if all the waste was gathered

outside the city limits and stored in large containers. She wanted to

create organic fertilizers for the Demeter kids to use on the farms.

Percy found that extremely gross, but it was very green and people

had been doing it for ages before.

But he would still be making sure all the Demeter kids has proper

protection when dealing with the stuff. Plus maybe washing the

produce once or twice wouldn't hurt.

Then after the pipes would come the electricity lines, which again

Percy would put down. Then and only then would he begin construction

of the Hearth, the building in the center of the Haven.

Soon they had all the matters settled and on paper. This was a huge

deal for Tekton, in fact it was Ed's very first deal. Ed had formed this

company for the sole purpose of delivering goods to Gardiner island.

So in order to make sure this was all in the up and up, and Ed wouldn't

be sued, Percy payed the man. The first order would feature drainage

and water supply pipes, meters of electric wiring, marble by the cubic

meters and a few other miscellaneous items, like tools. The cost came

up to 1.5 million dollars, including manual labour and transportation.

The price was affordable by Percy, but considering this was just the

first shipment in many to come, Percy realised me might have to sell off

another piece of Alcyoneus platinum skeleton soon.

With their business over Annabeth and Percy quickly got ready to

return to camp. But before they left Ed stopped Percy and handed him

several steel briefcases. Inside them were several hundred scent

destroying pills. Percy had asked for them before, he wanted them to

give to the Romans.

The next day;

Percy and Thalia walked through the Labyrinth towards the camp

Jupiter side of the tunnel.

"So how do you think they are going to react?" Thalia asked walking

hand in hand with Percy.

"No clue," Percy told her, "honestly I don't expect them to believe me.

After all why should they? A pill which destroys the scent of a demigod

is kind of a farfetched idea, even for me. Some might believe us, like

Jason and Julia, but the others….well we'll just have to see."

Thalia nodded, "I just hope the Senate doesn't try to screw us over,

again."

Percy chuckled, "oh Sparky you know they are going to at least try.

After all, what decent citizen of Rome would just allow two Greeks to

walk about unharassed?"

"You really need to stop bullying the Roman's Percy," Thalia told him,

"and don't try to deny it. You're twice as hard on them then with us."

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Percy sighed, "yeah, but that's because they need that tough love

Thalia. They have been trained to think and act a certain way by very

angry and scary men. If I have any hope of getting them ready to fight

Kronos's army I need to be louder, angrier and scarier."

Thalia nodded, "yeah….I suppose you're right." Soon they reached the

exit, Percy pressed his hand on the closed wall causing it to open up

revealed the service tunnel leading to camp Jupiter.

They quickly made their way to their camp, and after a few moments of

arguing with the gate gaurd, they managed to get inside. They walked

down the military encampment, nothing had changed at all, everyone

kept going about their business, a few suspicious looks were thrown

their way, but none of them were hostile.

As they walked to the center of the camp Percy noticed that a new

addition was made. Right in the middle of crossroads was a circular

slab of black marble 4 feet high. On the sides and on the top were the

names of dead Romans along with a few words written out in Latin that

Percy' couldn't make out.

But that was not what captured his eye. In the middle of the marble

slab was the Golden Eagle embedded deep inside the marble

structure, standing tall, proud and free. Percy smiled at it, and he could

have sworn it smiled back.

"Well I didn't expect you two so soon," Julia's called out walking up to

the couple with Rob behind her, "it's not the weekend already, right?"

"No Julia," Thalia shook her head, "it isn't. But does that mean we can't

visit our favorite Romans?"

Rob huffed, "oh please, I don't believe for a second that this is a social

call. What do you want Grace, and be quick about it. I need to get back

to training my men. This time the first cohort fully intended to fight off

the whole wave of zombies and the Legion zombie that will appear."

"Yeah, good luck with that," Percy said as he continued to look at the

Eagle, "you did a great job with the Eagle Julia, it looks happy to be out

here in the open."

Julia nodded, "thank you….but I didn't do it."

Percy tore his eyes away from the Eagle and looked at the Praetor of

Rome, "you mean Rob did it? I didn't exactly pine him for the

sentimental type."

"No, not me ether," Rob groaned.

"Then who?" Thalia asked.

"We don't know," Julia sighed, "it happened a few days ago. One day

we woke up and poof, this thing appeared in the middle of the camp

with the Eagle stuck in the middle. We tried to remove it, but we

couldn't, it's basically stuck there."

Percy nodded, "I see….and you have no witnesses? Nobody heard or

saw anything? Not even the Lares?"

Julia nodded, "yes one Lares did see something. It seems this ghost

saw someone walk out of the Principia and to the crossroads. She

snapped her fingers and suddenly this structure appeared out of thin

air."

"She? As in a woman?" Thalia asked, "did he he get a good look at her

face?"

Rob shook his head, "no. She had her hood up, and we are just

assuming she is female, it is not confirmed."

"They why did the Lares think the intruder was a female?" Percy asked.

"Because when after she was done she turned away and made to

leave the camp. Her hood moved to the side and the Lares saw that

she had long blue hair with a very soft jawline," Julia told them, "we

have checked every single person in the camp and in New Rome, and

so far we got zero leeds."

Percy nodded, "I see…..did the Lares see anything else?"

"Yes, apparently our mystery women also wore some kind of glow in

the dark contacts," Julia told him, "when we asked how the Lare knew

that he….well he started to shake in fear."

"Shake? More like spas out," Rob said, "I have never seen a Lares

more scared about anything. Like their dead, what do the dead have to

fear? But apparently this woman's gaze of so powerful it scared the shit

out of our Lares. Hell it took us a day to finally convince him to tell us

about her."

"So what colour were her eyes?" Thalia asked.

"Yellow," Julia told her, "they were sulphuric yellow."

Percy nodded as he put away the information for latter. He looked out

the marble stone, "what does the latin inscription say?"

"We don't know," Julia said, "we brought our resident language expert,

a Latin teacher in New Rome college, a he couldn't make heads or tails

of this thing. He only managed to translate one words, 'protect'."

Percy nodded and then Observed the block of marble;

Block of marble;

This is a simple block of marble that is inscribed with the names

of dead Roman legionaries and # $%# $ which will #$!$ #$# !$ #.

Percy closed the box sighed, 'okay, so we have a new mystery on our

hands. A strange woman who somehow managed to transport this

thing with a snap of her fingers. And apparently she also placed some

kind of spell on it. Maybe that was what caused the Eagle to be stuck

in the stone.'

"Anyway, let's move on shall we?" Rob started, "why are you here?"

"We need to talk to the Senate," Percy told Rob, "it's a matter of

emergency."

Julia looked surprised, "we can't just summon the Senate whenever we

wish Percy. We need to be sure there is a good reason for it."

"We may have a way to permanently destroy the scent of demigods

making them untraceable by monsters," Thalia replied, "would that be a

good enough reason?"

Rob started with his mouth hanging open, "y-yeah. That'll do it."

"Y-You're serious about this?" Julia asked in guarded excitement, "like

you aren't pulling my leg or something right?"

Percy shook his head, "no Julia we aren't. It works, everyone in the

Greek camp is currently on it. For my birthday we all went to a water

park and spent the whole day there. In the end no monsters were

attracted to our location."

"None?" Rob asked, "none at all?"

Thalia nodded, "none. Well, we were attacked, by that was by a mad

man, completely unrelated to the scent destroyers."

"We need to call a Senate meeting now," Julia told Rob as she turned

around walking to her Principia, "come with me."