Chapter 9

POV: Hephaestus.

Percy loved the present I gave him, he loved Festus, Percy is an extraordinary boy, no doubt about it, I feel a feeling for him that I haven't felt for a long time, even with my own descendants, a mixture of trust and affection. Well, it's me, Cassia and Rebeca on my island, they won't be leaving until tomorrow. Since Cassia is a history teacher and her favorite part was Greek mythology, I told her about me being a god, at first she didn't quite believe it, but after a few demonstrations of power, she could no longer doubt what I was saying. Well, I don't know if we're in a three-way relationship, I just know that it's very good, they're extremely beautiful, intelligent and very naughty, a combination that in my opinion is perfect. We were watching TV here in the living room, each lying on one side, and me in the middle, until Cassia turned off the TV and said:

"What do you say we play a bit?" She asked, running her hand over my abdomen under my tank top, and looking at Beca in a naughty way - I love her naughty little smile.

"I'm very supportive, Cassia." Says Rebeca, running her hand over my member on top of my clothes, man I love these two naughty girls, but I wanted to play a bit, so I said:

"I don't know, I'm tired today, you know, it's been a busy day." They looked at me incredulously and I laughed. "Joking, let's go to the bedroom upstairs." I climbed the stairs and gently placed Rebeca on the bed, taking off her white shorts that went halfway down her thighs, and what thighs, thick and muscular, a delight, and the naughty girl was already without panties and that pink, hairless intimacy was showing. " So you were ready, right?"

"Always." She said, smiling. I started sucking, biting, sucking and licking her, she moaned as I gave her oral, Cassia went on top of her, ripping off her blouse, she was also without a bra, and she fell into my mouth, biting and sucking Rebeca's breasts, they were big and round, a little less than Cassia's, I put two fingers in her intimate area, she squirmed with pleasure, and kept moaning, then she came and I swallowed it all, the same salty, hot taste. I pulled down my shorts and underpants, and took off my shirt. I looked at the two of them, they were kissing, but I wanted to taste Cassia. She was only wearing her panties, so I reached behind her and ripped off her panties:

"I should have taken them off before, you tear my panties every time, that way there won't be any left, Hephaestus" I laughed and started licking her anus and massaging her clitoris, she squirmed and moaned my name, I lay on the bed on my stomach and put Cassia's intimacy on my face and started sucking, biting and sucking her clitoris, that's when I felt Rebeca masturbating me, and then she started sucking and biting, and squeezing my testicles, it was too good, before I even thought about putting a finger in Cassia she had already cum, the same sweet and warm taste, very good, I started biting and sucking and squeezing those huge, hard breasts, that little pink nipple was very beautiful, as she was white she already had both breasts red and almost purple but she didn't complain just moaned, soon I came in Rebeca's mouth, Cassia pulled her and they kissed for a long time and full of lust.

"Wow, when you guys do that it drives me crazy."

"What about kissing while tasting you?" Rebeca asked. I didn't even answer her, I picked her up and threw her on the bed on all fours. " OOOHHH how delicious, go all the way in." I obeyed and started thrusting very hard, while Cassia went behind me and kept biting and sucking my neck, scratching and squeezing my back and ass. I started thrusting and massaging Rebeca's clitoris, she couldn't even breathe, she just moaned and screamed with pleasure, she soon came on my fingers, I took it and offered it to Cassia, who started sucking my finger, and Rebeca fell on the bed, she could hardly breathe, I turned to Cassia and took her on my lap, got up from the bed and penetrated her intimately, and with my hand on her waist, I made her go up and down on my member, she moaned and squeezed my shoulders and bit my shoulder, and I bit and squeezed those giant, red breasts from biting and sucking so much, they were perfect, soon she came, I didn't even wait for her to recover, I put her on the bed and penetrated her intimately, she moaned and called my name, this only made me want her more, after a few thrusts she came and went soft and said:

"Fo.. for m....me enough, can't ke...keep go...going.... " I laughed and nodded, smiling, I turned to Rebeca who was already asleep too, I laughed some more and got in between the two of them, and brought Rebeca closer, who was a bit far away, and hugged her from behind, and Cassia hugged me from behind, I felt a shiver when those huge, warm breasts brushed against my back, she noticed and laughed, I laughed too. "You like my breasts, don't you?"

"Sure, they're huge and hard, delicious." She laughed and bit my neck, I turned around and gave her a long kiss full of lust and silly hands, she broke away panting and said:

"Why don't you get tired, and not get marked by the bites we both give you?"

"Well Gods don't get tired having sex, we can go on for hours or days without stopping or losing rhythm and we heal quickly from injuries, especially those not caused by divine weapons."

"WOW, it must be amazing not to get tired and heal quickly."

"And yes, very good indeed, but let's get some sleep, tomorrow I'll take you both home." I said kissing the top of Rebeca's head, she had a smile on her face, they were beautiful.

"Right, my Greek god." She said, scratching my abdomen. "Since I'm not a goddess, I'll be all bruised and rocky tomorrow, but it was worth it, you're amazing, good night, Hephaestus."

"Good night, Cassia." We kissed some more and she fell asleep on my chest.

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POV: Perseus Heitor Jackson

Festus was incredibly fast, he told me that if I had to go over 100km/h, it would be difficult to stay up there, so it would be better to go inside, there was a cabin inside, it was magical, it could fit about 200 people inside, I asked him to do it, and he took me inside, I did a quick tour inside, it was too incredible, some kind of magic made the place dozens of times bigger than it should have been, Hephaestus was much more than just a genius, it was like a mansion in here, there was a TV room, bathrooms, a kitchen, bedrooms with suites, it was really incredible, and he could make any kind of movement outside that didn't even make a sound in here. That's when a miniature Festus appeared next to me.

"Percy, we can go to Olympus now, Queen Hera is going to punish you."

"By Poseidon, you're right, let's go now, she'll want to kill me for being late, let's go as fast as we can." I said seriously, turning pale, paler than ever. Festus nodded and disappeared like smoke. Hera was extremely systematic about schedules, especially times to return to her palace, so if I was even a few minutes late, I would certainly be grounded, and her endless scoldings were punishment enough for anyone. About five minutes later, Festus reappeared in his miniature form.

"We've arrived Percy, we're in front of her palace, and the news isn't encouraging for you. " Hearing that didn't make me feel any better, I went even paler and gestured for him to continue. "Well, there's Hera and Poseidon." Wait a second, did she call my father? By all the gods, I'm in a lot of trouble, she'll never call my father, if he's here things will be worse than I thought.

"Ow,ow,ow, I'm in so much trouble. " I said coming out of the compartment, I got on Festus' back. "I'm so screwed." I exclaimed dejectedly. Of course, dejected wasn't exactly how I felt, it was more like almost panicked, because what I saw frightened me and almost made me want to mount Festus again and send him running away as fast as I could. Downstairs, there was Hera, wearing her usual dress, only in black, which made her look even more evil and frightening than usual and with her angry look and ready to punish me, made my legs wobble. My father was at her side, in his usual clothes, jeans and a green polo shirt, at least he didn't seem angry, in fact, he was trying hard not to laugh, although he was laughing softly at her side, great father that I have, he seemed happy to see me getting into trouble, I understand that my father was a joker and all, but I was seriously at risk of my life here, Mr. Poseidon, aka father of the century. I got off Festus, who had shrunk down to his "pocket size", landed on my shoulder and said in my mind.

"Ahh, you're toast, man."

"I know I am, now be quiet." I mentally answered him and continued walking closer to them, with every step I felt as if my own legs wanted me to run away. Gathering up all my remaining courage, I said. "Hello." I lowered my head trying to look as sorry as possible, to show all the guilt and fear I was feeling at that very moment.

"Hello?" Hera asked in a somewhat irritated manner. "Really? Is that all you have to say for yourself? Like you, my dear, Perseus Heitor Jackson." I hate it when people say my whole name, it's always a bad sign. "You stand there, flying around with a giant war dragon, and you don't even warn anyone." She put her hands on her waist and gave me an extremely disapproving look. "Look, young man, it's been more than two hours since Hephaestus informed me that you were coming, and that it wouldn't take you even 10 minutes to arrive, and now that you've shown up here, I was about to send Iris after you." She said very annoyed, I'm screwed, she was about to send the goddess Iris after me, one of her most loyal servants.

"Calm down, Hera, you're exaggerating a bit, my son was just..."

"Shut up, Poseidon." Said Hera seriously, her eyes glowed brown for a second, I felt the power of the goddess flowing through the air, she was blasting my father with her eyes, Poseidon wisely decided it was better to obey her and kept quiet on the spot. If even with my father she doesn't let up, I'm really screwed, really screwed. "He doesn't have to be like you in everything, especially in this sloppy way of yours, and as long as he's living here with me, he has to obey my rules, I'm bringing him up, and I've agreed the rules with him, so he knows very well that he's wrong and I'm not being unfair to him, the rules were simple." She said now looking at my father, she was very angry, my father just lowered his head in defeat. Taking advantage of this moment, I tried to sneak past her and let my father take the rap for me, but she noticed and said. "Where do you think you're going, young man?" I stopped where I was and slowly turned to look at Hera, who was looking even worse. "Now answer me, you remember the rules, don't you?"

"Yes, I do." I said with my head down.

"And what's the rule you just disobeyed?"

"The rule about respecting the agreed time." I said, restating one of the rules. "I should have told you I was going to be late." I said, trying to apologize.

"Yes, you should have, but you didn't and you had me worried." She said seriously. "You should be grounded for a century." God, what an exaggeration, I can't even live a whole century, imagine being grounded for that long. "And I'm not going to punish you by keeping you in your room for the rest of your life, because your father is here to take you to his kingdom." I smiled and inwardly rejoiced at knowing this, for two reasons, firstly, I was very eager to go to Atlantis, to see my father's kingdom, but I was especially happy not to be punished by Hera for my tardiness, I had never broken her rules before, even just once, and from what Zeus and Apollo told me, when you break the queen's rules, the punishments are severe, even for them, man, they are gods and they fear Hera's punishments, imagine me? A simple demigod. But Hera, looking like she was reading my mind, understood what I was thinking and came forward to say. "But don't go thinking that I'm going to forget what happened today, young man, when you come back, you'll suffer the consequences, you bet you will, and if when your father sends you back, you're late, even by seconds, you'll lose your precious possession without even knowing what it's for, do we understand each other?" I didn't go pale this time, I went transparent, and she smiled at that.

"Yes ma'am, I swear I won't be late ever again." I said quickly, still with my head down.

"That's good young man, now go take a shower, you're going out with your father after dinner, and it's already nine o'clock, so let's go." I nodded and ran off to my room to take a shower, looked at Festus and said.

"I thought it would be worse." I said relieved.

"It's true, you're lucky your father came to pick you up."

"Of course." I said, getting into the bath. After about 10 minutes I got out and put on some clothes, white sweatpants and a green tank top, and a NIKE sweatshirt and ran downstairs. I got to the kitchen and Hera and my father were talking about random things. I sat down and Hera gave me a plate of macaroni and cheese, I love this food, it's one of my favorites, even though she's mad at me, she cares about me and treats me well.

"Eat up, Percy." She said seriously, she still seemed a little angry, but only on the outside, her eyes were showing happiness and affection, as always.

"Yes, it's delicious." I said seriously, and I wasn't lying, I really was, but I tried to get through to her, she loves to cook.

"There's no point in complimenting her, you're still in trouble, Perseus." Said Hera seriously, shit I'm still in trouble.

"Son, I'm going to teach you something about women." Said my father seriously, from the edge of the table, I paid attention to what he was going to say. "The easiest way to thaw a girl's heart is to flatter her, so keep going and you'll break Hera's hard little heart easily..."

"Shut up, Poseidon." Said Hera interrupting him with a slap on the head, but my father just laughed, Hera gave a brief smile. "Now eat, come on." She said to me, I didn't say anything, I just continued eating in silence, listening to the random conversation of the two gods, watching my father teasing Hera, mocking her for being soft-hearted, which made me think, that she with a soft heart is already an extremely stern and bossy woman, I imagine what she would have been like in the past, just thinking about it makes me feel a chill in my stomach. I finished eating and Poseidon said:

"Come on Percy, we've got to go." He said, holding out his hand to me, but before he went. I ran over to Hera and gave her a long kiss on the cheek, she sighed defeatedly, and smiled at me, well she doesn't want to take my precious anymore, at least that makes me feel better.

"How can I be angry with you, my little one?" She smiled and kissed me on the cheek. "But don't be late again, I won't be so nice next time."

"Yes ma'am, see you later, Hera."

"See you, Percy." She said goodbye, well she have already called me Percy, that's a good sign. "Well, your dragon will have to stay, I'll send him to pick you up in three days." She said, running her hand through my messy hair and turned to my father and said. "Take care of him, brother."

"You don't have to ask Hera, after all, he's my son." Said my father rolling his eyes, he put his hand on my shoulder. "See you later, he'll be back soon, Hera." She replied with a nod and we teleported to the bottom of the sea. When I arrived I already felt much stronger, stronger than ever, it was really incredible the difference I was feeling, it was the first time I was really underwater, at the bottom of the sea, Athena explained to me that being the son of who I am, the sea would bring me powers, extra energy, I hadn't really understood, at least until now, until I felt the wave of energy that was invading my body at that very moment. We arrived specifically at my father's castle, it was incredible, very beautiful, its furniture was gray and green, we were in the TV room, the room we were in had two sofas and a coffee table and a TV, my father said:

"Well this is one of the TV Rooms in the Castle, come on, I'll show you your room here in my Palace." We started walking through the castle, it was incredibly different from anything I had seen so far, every step I took I was amazed by what I saw, the buildings, the nymphs, it was all so surreal, even for me, who was a demigod living on Mount Olympus, the kingdom of the sea was extremely beautiful, the kingdom below my father's castle, everything was so beautiful and colorful. Now I understood why my father stayed here in Atlantis, it really was beautiful, in my opinion, more beautiful than Olympus itself. We continued to walk through the corridors of the castle, there were many windows in the greenish wall, where I could have a wide image of the whole kingdom around me, finally we arrived at the door to my room, it was a large wooden door with a drawing and a trident on the door, the trident was golden and the door had a greenish wood. "I hope you like it, although I don't know much about it, I decorated your room myself, after all, we're similar and I really liked the result, I hope you think so too." He opened the door and my jaw dropped, it was incredible, the walls were blue-green with drawings of horses, the room was well furnished with a giant bed with a green mattress, a black armchair facing a giant TV with a brand new video game. "Well, from what I've heard, video games are in fashion among modern young people, so I decided to buy one and make some improvements, improvements from Hephaestus himself, there are all the possible games on there, a mixture of what he called PS4 and Xbox, or something like that, he's going to send one to your room in the Palace of Hera as well." I nodded and admired how incredible the room was and the view of the sea from the window was really beautiful. "So did you like it, son?"

Did I like it? "I loved it, Dad." I hugged him and he picked me up in return. I grimaced and he laughed. "I can hold you too, I'm quite strong." I said seriously, I didn't like people picking me up. In response, Poseidon just laughed, his laugh was nice, it calmed me down, it was something familiar, stored in my memory.

"I know you can Percy, but come on, let's go see my kingdom." He said, setting me down and walking out the door. He showed me the gardens, they were beautiful, and he went on to show me the city, several beings who called me prince and bowed to my father and then to me, it was a bit strange and it bothered me.

"Father, why do they keep calling me Prince? I feel a bit uncomfortable about it."

"Well, you're my only heir, Percy, so it's normal for my subjects to revere their next king." He said seriously. That took me by surprise, I wasn't an expert on Greek mythology, or even on the sea itself, but I'm sure that my father has other children, gods like Triton and Rhoda, who are infinitely more my father's children than I am, after all, being a demigod, I understand that I was born from my father's "affair" with my mother Sally, which made me kind of his bastard child, who generally has no right to the kingdom, even though my father is no longer married these days.

"But what about Triton and Rhoda?" I asked seriously.

"Well Triton is a complicated case, I disowned him some time ago, he tried to kill me at night, while I was sleeping, I was forced to arrest him." Said Poseidon sadly. I'm not very attached to my father, in fact, I've only seen him a few times in my life, I can't say that I know him, but my grandmother Athena knows him, and she's told me that my father is what you'd call a true patriarch, which means that he loves his family more than anything, knowing that, I don't think that Triton betraying him makes him happy, on the contrary, it must make him extremely sad. Without letting that image of sadness spoil our day, my father went on to say. "And Rhoda doesn't want anything to do with my kingdom, so if anything happens to me, you're my first heir, by the way, speaking of Rhoda, she wants to meet you, she's coming tomorrow to talk to you, she's a sweetheart, I wish Triton was a bit like you and her." Said Poseidon sullenly.

"Sorry to ask, Dad."

"Relax, Percy." He said quickly. "Come with me, I'll show you a few things, let's go to the stables, you'll love the Hippocampi."

"The horse that's a hybrid of a fish?" I asked excitedly.

"That's right." My father grimaced. "Hybrid? I don't know what that word means, I think the few days with your grandmother are already turning you into a little genius."

"So, Grandma teaches me a lot of things, I like to learn. " I shrugged.

"As a descendant of hers, I bet you like it." He laughed. We went swimming, among dozens of aquatic creatures, many of whom I couldn't even name, but all of whom treated me as if I were the most important being in the whole sea. Finally we approached a building a little away from the castle, inside there were fantastic animals, they were so beautiful, with shiny fish tails in thousands of different colors and shades, similar to the rainbow of infinite colors, they all had different colors and were not the same, the front of their bodies are white steed, light brown, brown and several other colors, all were beautiful, but one in the background, drew more attention, he was bigger than the others, his coat was shiny black and his tail was not so colorful, it was blue and black. As I got closer to him, I could hear the thoughts of all the animals in my head, they were all ecstatic to be in the presence of Poseidon and his heir, at least, that's what I could decipher from their disconnected phrases and thoughts, in my head, it hurt a little with the amount of voices. But one of them caught my attention the most, he wasn't so excited about us, he was actually ignoring us. "Careful Percy, this one's a bit risky." I nodded and went over to him. He looked at me and became agitated, his thoughts weren't evil, but they weren't exactly affectionate, I didn't show any fear.

"What's your name?" I asked, standing in front of him. The steed stared at me with his black eyes and I could hear his voice in my mind.

"My name is Midnight"

"Please Midnight, my name is Perseus, but just Percy is fine, you're beautiful." I marveled at his color. You see, horses are my favorite animals, now a half-fish horse is even more incredible.

"Thank you, sir, you're very kind."

"Not really." I answered him, remembered that horses love sugar lumps, concentrated on the power of Hestia and made some sugar lumps appear in my hand. "Do you want a lump of sugar?"

"Yes, please." " He exclaimed happily, I gave him some, he was already very close, I stroked his mane, he was very muscular, he was a splendid animal. I spent some time talking to him, giving him a few nips and stroking him, and I confess I felt a little like riding him.

"Percy, we have to go." My father said. "It's time to start your training."

"It was nice to make friends and meet you Midnight, it was a pleasure, but I have to go soon, my training is starting, here's one, maybe I'll come by tomorrow."

"I like you Percy, come back if you can." I waved my hand and said "Bye" to the other Hippocampi, and left with my father, we were going to start our training, it would be nice, I was very eager to learn more about my power.

"What should we start with, Dad?"

"Well, you've already shown great influence with equines and other marine animals, so that's a start." He said smiling, we had just arrived at a fighting arena, he was going to teach me his skills and powers with the sea. "Well my son, you have a very wide range of powers and abilities to explore, from aquatic healing, that is, you are healed when you come into contact with water, to healing your allies, just remember that until the wound is fully healed, it has to stay in contact with water, and that's where we'll start."

"Incredible." I said fascinated, and that was just the first skill.

"There's also the Supreme Trident, you can conjure the perfect replica of my Trident, throwing it directly at the target, when it touches any solid surface, it will explode in a ray of heat and pure energy, it's very useful and deadly and uses a lot of energy. It also has the power to freeze or evaporate water, freezing it until the water is as hard as Bronze or it can even create a rain of very sharp ice that attacks the enemy in all directions, giving terrible damage to the opponent, your limit on water control is limited to your imagination." He said staring at me, I didn't quite understand what he meant, the limit of the limit is the imagination? I'll have to think about it. "You can also make tsunamis to drown and sweep away opponents, project seismic tremors, earthquakes, everything will start to vibrate, you have the power to devastate an entire city, making it a real ruin, so be careful with these abilities, and also hurricanes. Marine location When you're in the sea, or in any means of transportation linked to it, you'll know exactly where you are. This involves the entire ocean, any corner of the sea, no matter which, but you'll be able to get around with the right choices. And you can create water out of thin air, but it's very tiring, as well as various other skills that would take me hours to explain, so let's just do a few to get you started."

"WOW, that's incredible." I said fascinated, which made my father smile. "Father, you're very powerful, now I understand why Zeus is afraid of you."

"Your uncle is a bit paranoid about your sovereignty over the other gods, over Olympus and the whole world." My father said, making a tired face. "I prefer the Sea, and I don't care much for power, and my loyalty to Olympus and the other gods is great, so I'm no danger, I'm a great ally of Zeus and Hades, if you ask me, in the old days we were inseparable, we fought the toughest battles together, we won together, I still want to believe that we're united, deep down, I'm sure, that if either of us is in trouble the other will come to the rescue, without even thinking twice. I'm sure of that."

"I see, well, Dad, let's start with the cure, shall we?"

"Yes with herself, come with me Percy." He said, walking over to a chair and encouraging me to sit down. "Well, I could give you a long and complicated explanation of how water is part of us, how we're connected to the sea, or even how our bodies are made, or how the ability works, but let's face it, that's not my style, practice is much more fun than theory. " He smiled and I followed him. "So let's start with you learning how to heal yourself first, I don't think that will be too difficult." He created an ice knife, it was incredible, I was a bit dazed looking at the ice knife, so I didn't realize what he was about to do, he took my left arm and made a cut, very small and superficial, it barely hurt, but it bled. "Think of the water around you, think of the life of the sea, imagine your wound closing, your skin being rebuilt with water. "I tried to do as he asked, to imagine the healing, to imagine the wound closing. Suddenly I felt a tightening in my stomach and the wound began to close, before my eyes, the small cut turned into a scratch and suddenly my skin was totally normal, as if nothing had ever happened.

"Great, I did it." I said euphorically, staring at my old man and he smiled with satisfaction.

"Great, Percy, very good indeed, I remember that Rhoda did it first time, but Triton wasn't so good at it." He smiled, then shook his head to clear his thoughts of my brother. "Now let's try and see if you can heal someone else, even Rhoda couldn't do it first time. "He called out to a woman passing by. "Excuse me dear, what's your name young lady?" She was very beautiful, her skin was a little bluish, quite different from mortal women, and of course she had fins instead of human legs, she wasn't a nymph, I think she was a mermaid.

"Amatia, my lord." She said reverently to my father.

"Amatia, would you mind helping us?" My father asked without hesitation, but the mermaid nodded. "I'm going to make a small cut on your arm, nothing major, to see how advanced Percy's healing ability is, there's no danger, if he can't heal you, I'll do it myself."

"It would be a great honor to help train the young prince." Said the Siren seriously, which seemed extremely strange to me, my father didn't even say much, she simply accepted his request. Poseidon brought her closer.

"It's going to be a little more difficult, but I know you can do it, so we can make Rhoda very jealous." He said jokingly, I tried to smile, but I was a bit nervous about failing, my father was personally training me, I can't let him down, I have to succeed. Poseidon made the cut, it wasn't a serious wound, but it was a bit bigger than the one he made on me, which was a bit more of a challenge. the Mermaid grimaced, but didn't say anything. I took a few deep breaths, calming my racing heart, concentrated on the power of the sea, the power of life around me, imagined that the wound on the Mermaid's arm would start to close, suddenly I noticed that the water around her arm felt different, I felt I was controlling it, a slight pressure in the pit of my stomach, then the wound healed, closed before my eyes, and I was completely sure that it was me who had done it. "Well done, Percy, on the first try, as skillful as Rhoda." My father smiled. "And you Amatia, thank you very much, you'll be rewarded for your efforts later."

"Not at all, the greatest reward is serving my lord." She bowed briefly to my father, then turned to me. "It was an honor to help you with your training, and congratulations on your success, Prince Percy." I nodded and smiled, a little embarrassed to be treated like this. Then the Siren swam off to her daily life.

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It had already been 15 days that I had been in the Sea, and I was only supposed to stay for 3 days, but I wanted to learn all my powers from the Sea, I was so excited that Hera had no choice but to let me stay here for a few more days. I continued training my other powers, they were very easy to do on a small scale, but I couldn't do big waves, earthquakes and strong hurricanes like my father, but he said I was very good and strong and in time I would be as good as him, but the rain of ice, creating water out of nothing, we went to the desert for this test, and controlling other liquids were easy, the days went by and now it will be another 2 days for fencing would be great, I would test my sword that I made with Hephaestus, but it doesn't line up properly in my hand, none at all, he told me he had a present for me, I'm looking forward to it, and then we'd have a day to have fun without training, well my dad and I play a lot of video games and we do a lot of fencing together, and we make Rhoda's hair stand on end, so my sister is very nice, she treats me very well, as if I've been part of her family for years, I felt very good here, I was really at home, I felt at home with Rhoda and my dad around. And now I'm here for the fencing test with Poseidon, he's a great swordsman, according to my grandmother, he was the best of all the gods, better than Ares, although Ares is really good with his spear. My father arrived, he was wearing his usual training clothes, a white tank top and blue ball shorts and black Nike sneakers.

"Percy, today we're going to train with swords, I've been thinking, so you'll have to wear armor, to get used to the weight of it and how it will limit your movements a bit."

"No problem, Dad." He snapped his fingers and a suit of armor, black with green trident designs, appeared on my body, it was heavy. Since I was going to be his opponent, Poseidon went to fight without armor.

"Well, let's start with a simple duel, between the two of us, shall we?"

"Sure dad, I'm ready." I said turning my dragon ring and soon my Celestial Bronze sword was in my hand, a sword of ice formed in my father's hand it was a little over 150cm long it was a long reach, mine was 90cm because of my height.

"Ready?" I nodded and my father came at me, with an attack from the side, I raised my sword so as not to hurt myself, the two swords clashed, my arm trembled with the force of the blow, I tried to respond with a straight punch, but he easily deflected it and came closer to me, I know that if he wanted to he would have killed me right there. But he just satisfied himself by elbowing me in the face, I flew away and fell a few meters from him, he came at me again. I was already on my feet, my senses racing, I saw every random thing around us, the small crowd of people who had gathered to watch father and son fight and I also knew what to do, it was automatic, he came at me with a blow from below, I dodged and tried to hit his back, but he put his sword in front of him, without even turning around, he was very fast, we fought for a few minutes, I was beginning to think the fight was even, but my sword didn't fit me in the right way, it didn't balance in my hand, he used a very fast movement and got his body into my guard again and elbowed my fist, causing my sword to come out of my hand, but I surprised him with a punch to the stomach, he momentarily bent over in pain and I ran after the sword, when I caught it, I felt a pain behind my head and darkness overwhelmed me.

POV: Poseidon

I attacked and hit Percy, trying to stimulate his senses and reflexes to blossom, demigods naturally have reflexes geared towards battle, naturally they have reflexes that mortal warriors would take hundreds of years to achieve, Percy was great, even for an ordinary demigod, he predicted most attacks, I wanted to see if he could do that in combat, he was incredible in his other powers, he made very strong earthquakes, I was scared by his strength, and a Tsunami of about 20 meters high was really incredible, and a very strong hurricane of about 10 meters high and his rain of ice was very big, but it looked like an ice hurricane, and he's still only 4 years old, he's extraordinary even for a descendant of mine, I think the fault of his great performance, is because of the genetics of that goddess who is a know-it-all, with those gray eyes, well he inherited more than her beauty, so to speak. I made a move to get inside his guard and disarm him with the hilt of my ice sword, it flew away, but he punched me hard in the stomach, surprising me, he had a really heavy hand, I bent over in pain, it was automatic, and he ran for his sword, but I went, faster and landed a blow on his neck just to knock him out.

"You did very well, Percy." I said, picking up my son's unconscious body from the floor of the arena. I never would have imagined that he would use his fists in a sword fight. I think Ares has been focusing his training on hand-to-hand combat, which proved to be Percy's real strength. "In fact, it was quite incredible, surreal." And I took him to his bed, the palace was nearby, it didn't take me long to get to his room and I laid him down and waited for him to wake up, in an armchair next to the bed, I would give him the special gift, even more so with his strength, he would find it incredible, although if he found out the truth behind its former owner, he would never accept it. But I think it will be one of the few swords that will fit him so well, especially as it adapts to the size of its user, being 30cm shorter than his height. He'll love it. And it will be better than the sword he made.

POV: Perseus Heitor Jackson

I woke up, feeling the glare of the light hurt my eyes a little, my head hurt and so did my body, especially my neck, I looked around and realized I was in my bed in my room, then I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked at my father. He was wearing other clothes, a blue shirt, and blue jeans, and black sneakers, he had a proud smile on his face, it made me happy.

"How are you feeling, Percy?"

"My head is killing me, but I'm fine!"

"Good, well Percy come with me, I've got a present for you." I nodded and got up, and followed him out of the room, we walked to my father's room and entered, he was amazing, the walls were green, and the room was luxurious with a giant TV and everything, he walked to the bedside table and took out a simple ballpoint pen, he sat down on the bed and tapped next to him suggesting that I sit down, so I did, he looked at the pen and he removed the cap from it, it glowed and turned into a sword of 1. 55 celestial bronze sword, a two-handed sword with a double cut. "Percy this sword belonged to Heracles, but he gave it to me as a tribute many years ago, its history is dark, but it will adapt to you, it's an incredible sword, it's like water, it adapts to any container, in other words, it will adapt to your needs." He took the cap out of his pocket and put it against the blade, it became a pen again, he handed it to me. "It's my gift to you. Percy."

"Thanks, Dad." I uncapped it and it turned into the same sword that was with my father, only now it was smaller, only 80cm, and I'm still only 110cm tall and about 50 kg. The sword felt perfect in my hand, balanced and very light.

"This is Counter-Current, it will grow and adjust to you over time, no matter where you lose it, it will always return to your pocket, this is my parting gift, at least for this visit, you'll have to leave early." He said sadly, I thought it was strange, we still had tomorrow to enjoy together, there had to be a special reason for him to send me away. "Hestia has just contacted me, Hera needs you, she's discovered a new betrayal by Zeus, and she's very ill from what I've heard, she didn't even want to kill the mortal or the demigods who were born from this betrayal, she's just isolated herself in her Palace and doesn't want to see anyone, not even Hestia." He said seriously, I was very angry with Zeus, when I saw him I was going to slap that airhead of an uncle of mine. "I think you're the only one who's going to be able to talk to her right now."

"Sure, Dad, let's go, take me to Olympus." I said getting out of bed and looking desperately at my father, I had to go and help Hera, she had helped me so much. He nodded and put his hand on my shoulder, I felt a vertigo overwhelm me, and in the same instant I was no longer at sea, I was in front of Hera's Palace, but everything seemed different, the gates, windows and doors were locked, I walked to the gate, it was locked too, it was a giant golden gate with peacocks drawn on it, I flew over them, using the blessing of Zeus, the one who will see me soon, soon, and ran to the door which was a big wooden one with peacock drawings on it too, it was locked, I knocked a few times on the door and nothing, there was no servant of Hera in the palace. I urgently needed to see her, so I kicked the door, breaking it off its hinges, Hera was going to kill me, but I needed to see how she was, I ran to her room and what I saw cut my heart out.