Chapter 50

Chapter 50:

"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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.