"The prodigal son returns," the being spoke and instantly Luke knew who it was. It was the same voice who haunted his dreams, the same one that had started all of this.
Luke walked forward and stopped next to Hyperion before kneeling down, "Lord Kronos, it is an honor seeing you reformed and well."
"I am not reformed," the being spoke out as he looked at his hands, "nearly half of this body is mine, the other is part of that wretched cyclops." He said looking at his deformed right hand and left leg.
"My Lord it is so good to see you after all these years," Hyperion looked up with a smile on his face.
Kronos narrowed his eyes, "yes, it has been so long and yet you never looked for me did you, brother?"
Hyperion stammered, "m-my lord that is not true! I was the one who found your body parts in Tartarus. I-" Hyperion stopped mid sentence as he started to choke on his own words.
Kronos glared at the titan, "you dare speak to me in this manner? Do you think I am weak because I have only just reformed?"
"No my lord I would never-"
Kronos waved his hand over Hyperion cutting the Titan off. Suddenly screams of pain erupted from the titan as he fell down to the ground in pain. Kronos huffed, "the only reason you even searched for me is because Luke told you I was alive. If he had not I doubt you would have even tried."
Luke remained silent as Hyperion whimpered in pain. Kronos turned to Luke, "you went to stop Jackson, I assume you failed."
Luke bowed his head further, "I am sorry my lord. Percy Jackson was too strong for me. The only reason he did not kill me was because he was more worried about escaping with his friends."
Kronos hummed in agreement, the titan stepped out of the chest and onto the Earth for the first time in 4000 years. A shock wave of energy went through the ground as the entire world of Greek mythology felt a shimmer of power.
He walked up Luke, "Jackson may possess amazing powers. But soon you will as well, my champion."
Luke looked up at the titan, "thank you, my lord."
With Percy,
It took them all night but eventually they made it to the port of Miami. Percy had stayed up the whole night making sure no one was following them, but it seemed they had bigger fish to fry.
Last night just as they had been sailing away Percy felt something, and so did everyone else. It felt like a dark cloud had risen over the world, something had changed, the rules had changed. Percy knew why it was and so did everyone else, Kronos had risen.
The boat quickly docked in a private port in Miami away from the city and the eyes of the public. Galen had used the Mist to confuse the owner into letting them use the port and soon all the demigods were off.
None of them looked like they had slept a wink last night, none except Percy, thanks Gamer's body.
Percy turned to the crew, "thank you guys, all of you. I mean it. You helped me a lot on this quest and I got you all into trouble on more than one occasion."
"Oh shut up you big idiot!" Marc cried out with tears in his eyes
The crew laughed as Marc hugged Percy while shouting, 'you're the best little brother anyone could ever ask for.'
Percy smiled and finally broke the hug turning to Galen, "you owe me a rematch."
Galen smirked, "any time kid. Also don't forget to eat your vegetables every single day, or else you won't grow up to be strong like me!"
Percy chucked before turning to Odysseus, "captain I need a favour."
Odysseus nodded, "name it kid."
"Luke," Percy began, "you guys know he's a spy right?" the captain and the crew all nodded, "well this goes without saying but he's risking a lot to help us. If word got out that-"
Odysseus raised a hand stopping Percy, "relax kid we know. We aren't stupid. We'll keep the kid's secret. After all being a spy for the God's against Kronos? Now that takes guts. " The hero smiled at Percy, "plus you saved my life kid, I owe you one."
Percy smiled back, "it's okay, you saved mine, I think we're even."
Odyssey nodded, "either way, I think you earned this," Odysseus took out a brown bag and gave it to Percy. The demigod quickly opened the bag and found a little necklace inside it in the shape of a Cyclops skull, the same as the one on Odysseus's flag.
Percy observed it finding out it was nothing more but a simple metal necklace. "What is it?"
"The crew and I talked and we all decided that you earned this," Odysseus and the rest reached into their shirts and pulled out a similar necklace, "it's a symbol that you are officially part of our crew!"
Percy's eyes lit up in joy. He opened up the chain and took out the skull before taking out his camp necklace and stringing it like a bead. The skull now sat next to his previous two beads and it shined brightly in the morning sun.
Percy looked at Odysseus and smiled, "thanks captain."
Odysseus grinned, "You're welcome sailor. Oh and one more thing," Odysseus took out a scroll and gave it Percy, "this scroll contains the method I used for creating Yew's Breath. So while I would never depart with my own blade," 'Gollum,' Galen coughed out, "I think you deserve your own."
Percy looked at the scroll and his smile somehow grew wider, "this is so cool!"
Odysseus grinned at Galen, "told you he would love it," the Quarter master rolled his eyes.
"Alright men time to leave!" Galen shouted at the top of his voice getting everybody back onto the ship. Odysseus stayed behind giving Percy a pat on the head before leaving as well. The sailors all waved goodbye to Percy as The Ascension slowly went back to the sea.
"So what's our next adventure captain?" Marc asked as he readied the sails.
Odysseus smiled, "what say you Galen?"
The Quartermaster smiled, "well since Percy's isn't here anymore we don't have to censor ourselves. Let's go do something fun"
Odysseus grinned, "I like the way you think. What say you lads? Want to go to France get us some of that French ass?!"
"Aye! Aye! Captain!"
Percy stood in the port as a cold wind blew across him causing him to sneeze.
"You okay?" Nina asked.
Percy nodded, "I'm fine, I just have this weird feeling like a lot of pent up lust just got released all at once."
Nina gave Percy a weird look, "that was….oddly specific."
The five demigods quickly walked out of the private port and to the main road. "Okay so how are we going to get home?" Clarisse asked.
"We fly," Percy said as he tried to hail a cab.
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