children of the gods ( percy jackson)

[Dark Huntress]

Pheonix wiped the tear away when he figured most eyes would be on Penelope and swallowed the lump in his throat. Like she didn't do the same exact thing. They all did. Even Ares him. He rolled his massive shoulders, the muscles knotting then examined the halls nervously as Angel closed her eyes an leaned against the wall.

"Well...perhaps it once was a plac of the gods, or he was trying to get rid of Kerebros and you were magically there, or...," her eyes snapped open, revealing the yellow shooting out. She finished quietly, "Or this is your dads place and he's trying to trap is for whatever reasons."

"Don't be ridiculous," Pheonix snapped.

She glared at him. "I'm being logical, I'm sorry if it hurts. He wasn't too worried about his two favorite children going into a massive battle, even when he should've been. Now...let's get out of here. It's obviously not Kerebros's lair, he would've showed up by now." She jumped as a large figure moved towards them down the hall. She pulled the hunting knife Pheoix had given her on the battlefield out of her high heeled combat boots and moved beside Pheonix. "Penelope and I aren't children," she hissed as Pheonix and Jason blocked them off.

"Dad?" She barely recognized Pheonix's voice, the way it cracked. Sure enough, however, Ares was standing in front of them.

"You don't think I would let four kids, two of my own, face Kerebros alone, did you?" He grinned and beckoned for ten to follow, "I've been scouting. He seems to be further in here." The others moved ahead, only Angel lingering, but quickly catching up. She was beside the others as they walked into a fairly large, round chamber, moving ahead of Ares. "In here," he said quietly.

"This is...wow!" Angel laughed, spinning. Her eyes flitted back to Ares and she moved forward as he pressed a button, a huge stone slab sliding over and locking them in by themselves.

"No!" Pheonix bellowed as he rammed his shoulder into the blockage. Then again. And again. He was about to start from further back when Angel grabbed his arm.

"Save your muscle," she warned quietly, before giving him a look which he misinterpretated.

"Don't. Say. It," he said gruffly.

"What?"

"'I told you so'."

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Penelope clutched her knife even tighter as she halted. Ares became surprised and turned around fixing his gaze at her with a malevolent expression, that was once hers.

"I'm not following you,"Penelope stubbornly said crossing her arms.

Ares had on a look of amusement as he had to bend down to look at her from his gigantic figure and smiled lightly tossing a hand at her shoulder which she shook away arrogantly. His expression began to tighten.

"And why exactly is that?"Ares asked through a small grin.

"Cause your a jerk,"Penelope immediately replied feeling satisfied about her reply.

She could see Phoenix glaring his eyes at her and shaking his head. He admiringly looked up at Ares and pleaded with his sister. She ignored the look and stared with deep hate into her father. Phoenix began to stop it before Ares shot him a look. Ares lightly grabbed Penelope's sleeve which she shook away and felt the metallic taste in her mouth. They stepped farther out from everyone, but they could still hear traces of their voices. Ares shot her a simple smile and looked at her as if it didn't sting him at all, but it stung her, Penelope. Shouting that to her father, stung her heart even though she meaned it.

"You know, that what all children say,"Ares replied as he began playing with his light fingers.

"Well, Phoenix seems to worship you,"Penelope said, enjoying the mix of expressions in Ares' face.

"And that's why I am so sure your my daughter,"Ares replied with a kind smile.

"Why?"Penelope replied through a small shout, although she could feel a small dance in her heart.

"You have everything of mine you know. The arrogance, the stubborness,"Ares said. "The bravery, the skill, the thirst for power,"Ares continued.

Penelope stopped him well aware a few of the people could hear her,"Your wrong about the last one."

Ares seemed taken aback, but expected this,"I'm sure im not."

Penelope shook her head,"So if you had to destroy half the population of humans to get to be the ruler of olympus, you would do that?"she finished with a light disgust.

She could feel Ares' tone harden,"You'll have to understand Penelope, you know, both you and I, we can rise to power, humans are nothing but a block in everyone's way."

"I don't want your damn power,"Penelope shouted.

Ares began quiet for a quick second before smiling again,"That's my girl."

"What?"Penelope replied,bewildered.

"I was testing you,"Ares said with a slow grin, just to see if you guys are worthy enough for me to help.

Phoenix looked taken aback and Angel stared.

im sure you werent,Penelope thought.

"Well, your going to have to help anyways, his goal is to kill you, kill you all,"Penelope said.

"My time is quite valuable Penny,"Ares said with a light chuckle.

Penelope could feel the boiling rage that would erupt any minute.

"My name, is Penelope,"she said through gritted teeth.

"I don't see what's wrong with that, Phoenix made up a pretty nickname,"Ares said looking over at Phoenix who smiled sheepishly.

"Let's just get on with this, our time is also valuable,"Penelope answered as she began to get out her dagger.

Jason and Angel began to nod and follow.

"Easy go, calm down, no need to get violent,"Ares said with another dose of amusement.

"Says you,"Penelope quietly muttered.

He left and smiled as they were left alone in a big room.

"I don't trust him, we are getting out,"Penelope immediately said.

She harshly replied to Phoenix' protests about seeing dad and Jason's protest of "checking the place out". Penelope shoved both of them and grabbed Angel.

"Your the only sensible one, you agree that we can't trust him right?"Penelope said eagerly.

Phoenix smirked and let out a few words about loyalty.

"Loyalty, to him ? I know Ares okay? He wouldn't get off his stupid "catch a chick and dump her to break her heart and start over" game to help us. If all he wants, he would love the destruction of Olympus.

Phoenix gave her an annoying look which Penelope returned. Jason and Phoenix ignored the two and began checking the place out with Angel and Penelope looking after them annoyingly.

"We really have to get out of here, we can manage just fine on our own,"Penelope whispered to Angel.

[Dark Huntress]

[I was thinking: they have a heartfelt talk when they discover there isn't much they can do, then they wake up and get out of there (I was hoping to put Angel's brain to use, okay with you?)]

"Yeah," she replied then looke around. Her head swung around as a loud, flesh thud sounded. The boys were trying to break the door open with their shoulders again. "Pheonix, Jason, please! All you are going to do is break your shoulders!" She shared an exasperated look with Penelope. "All we need to do is stay calm and sit down and discuss ideas to help us get out. We'll get out of here!"

Pheonix gave her a dark look as she sat down on her knees and patted the floor. Jason knelt hesitantly by he and Pheonix dropped on the ground. "I fail to see how 'talking about it' is going to help our situation. Action is always better," he stated defiantly.

Angel rolled her eyes. "Yes, but it depends on if you want to pulverize those broad, muscled shoulders of yours or get out of this place. Now," she pushed her blonde hair out of her eyes, "ideas?"

"Orpheus?" Jason suggested.

"Jason, we lack the talent to harp the door open. What I would give for Zeus's lightning bolts." She drew her knees up to her chest. "Pheonix? You okay?" He'd laid back on his back and was staring at the drab ceiling.

"I hate him," he croaked. "I hate how he always pretends to care, I hate how he's selfish, I hate how he's an arrogant ass, I hate that he's my father, and I hate that I'm inclined in the least to love him."

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(I was hoping to share some of Angel's glory with Penelope XD. But to get out of here,they need both brains and actions right?)

Penelope raised her eyebrow,"Just a while ago,you seemed to worship him,"she finished with a mixture of hatred and sympathy in her throat. "I remember that day when we first met him on the quest...he is still your dad, thats what you said."

She forcefully smiled,but it came out easier than she meant it to. She sat next to him and looked from him to the ceiling.

"Your looking at the ceiling as if your prom date didn't show up,"she said with a laugh. "You know, I hate him too. Just if your thinking we all disagree with you."

She expected a reply, but she recieved a smile back from Phoenix and another laugh. She looked over to Jason and Angel who were staring.

"You guys might as well join us if your interested in talk about your stupid relationships with your stupid parents,"Penelope said.

[Dark Huntress]

[sure x) maybe one more touchy feels post each before it switches to morning?]

Jason shrugged then laid down by Pheonix, only Angel remaining upright, watching them. "I feel like the only way to get Hermes' attention is to do something terribly wrong. Like try to screw over the world. And then it's only a 'don't take it out on the universe'," Jason snorted, "it's like my mom: 'Jason, don't take it out on the door!'" A half-smiled tipped up the edge of Angel's lips.

Pheonix shrugged. "Hermes doesn't notice you until you're about to screw over us all and Ares wants us too," he sighed, "We just can't win." He sat up a little and looked at Angel, "What about you?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. It's not wise to complain, and I don't even know her. I'm just glad to find out she had a reason to leave me and Matt-er, Dad," she looked away. "I doubt she cares that she screwed up our lives." With a dejected scowl, she snuggled up next to Jason. "I bet it's late-ish. We should go to bed, you know, when we are done complaining about our lives." She grinned, "This is kinda fun."

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Penelope snorted,"Last one? My dad was with me to watch me grow up to 6. He faked his death to my mom,who despised me like I was the reason he left and left me. He left me a ring before I left,that was all. And then I found the camp,"Penelope said trying not to crack her voice as she talked.

There was a long silence as everybody stared from one another,"lets go to sleep."

They all nodded but stared at the ceiling waiting to close their eyes, but couldn't.

"You know guys, After we figured out that my da-Ares was working for Ares,we shouldn't try to test Ares' weakness' but Kerebros',"Penelope said wide awake."All Kerebros wants is Percy..."

[Dark Huntress]

"All Kerebros wants is power," Angel replied, "he thinks Percy is the key to that, maybe he is..." Her voice grew thoughtful, "Maybe, just maybe we could trap him by making him think something is more important, more powerful. Anyway, good night." She turned over on her side and fell asleep with her hand clasping Jason's.

Pheonix risked a jealous glance at Jason. Little lightening quick thief...damn Hermes and his children. Though, deep inside, he knew he didn't mean that. He loved Jason like a brother. Jason was his brother, Prnelope his sister, Percy was a friend, in a loose sense of the word, more like ally, Annabeth shared his willingness to do anything to protect the people he loved, and Angel? There was more to his feelings for Angel than even he would admit. Grunting softly, he flipped onto his hard stomach and fell asleep after mentally cussing his father out and taking his anger on him in a physical way.

He awoke to Angel and Jason's soft voices. It took him a moment to realize they were rattling off Greek mythology heroes and stories. "Well, I wish Pheonix was strong enough to hold the world on his shoulders, but he's not," Angel sighed. Try me, he mentally growled before standing. She continued, looking around. "What we need is..." A small look forme on her face, showing she had an idea.

"Energy?" Jason asked as she hurried across the room and extricated the small glowing ball from her jacket.

"Exactly."

"Why the ?"

"Because it heats up when used which means, because heat is just energy being transferring-"

"That it's filled with energy and if properly manipulated-"

"And with enough force, which Pheonix and you can give-"

"We can break the stone." They stared at eachother, each starting to grimace.

"We're too alike," Angel said slowly. Jason nodded, as if he were dazed. She continued, "We can still be friends, right?"

"Totally!"

"What the Hades just happened?" Pheonix asked groggily, confused to the utmost degree.

"We just broke up," Angel replied, examined the Grecian energy key. A large grin spread across Pheonix's face. Yessssssss, he gloated inwardly. Angel frowned. "We need a key to access the energy itself."

"I thought it was a key," Jason asked.

"Yeah, the energy forms both keys and maps, but you need a key to unlock the energy."

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Penelope stood up noticing all the talk,"Are we over with all the rattling you lovebirds?"

Angel and Jason began to slowly nod avoiding the looks at each others' faces.

"Good,"she replied back.

She stuffed her face into her soft pillow and began to moan.

"Forget it,you guys just ruined me out of a peaceful sleep,"she grunted.

She stood up with her hair standing up before she quickly brushed it with her fingers and sat one kneed eyeing everyone's awkward expressions towards one another.

"Did I just miss something?"she said.

Angel continued talking about Percy as a key to power and muttering a few plans. Penelope shook her head in between cutting her through.

"If Kerebros wanted power he could have gotten it by now. He just wants revenge after Kronos and since Percy was the defeater of him, he wants to find him and kill him. His next plan would be to take Olympus over and all that drama,but his first step into his little plan is to get Percy and so far he isn't successful. I know this might be crazy, but I think when Percy defeated Kronos, he got a bit more powerful almost making him impossible to kill because to add on top of that, he is a child of the Big Three. When there was the attack on the camp, little mists started protecting him, I never--even heard of that before,"she said.

They stared at her in awe and attempted a weak smile.

"Yeah, I know stuff,"Penelope said in a humor like way.

[Dark Huntress]

"Still," Angel continued, "after revenge, he won't relinquish anything and will want more power. He may even try to continue on Kronos's path and try to destroy the Olympians. But, more important than any of that in the future, we need to find the key to this little Fræ." She inspected it once more, frowning the whole while in concentration. "Oh," she laughed suddenly, "I get it. The key is hidden inside."

A few twists and the frustrated frown reappeared. "You guys don't have to stand around, this could take awhile." She blew her hair out of her eyes then grinne as it clicked. "Nevermind. I got it." She grinned as a small, coin like gem hovered above the Fræ. "Okay, when Pheonix busts is out of here-" she gave him a questioning look and he shrugged "-we're going to need to run like a fat kid after an ice cream truck. Okay with you, Penelope?"

Jason and Pheonix laughed. "Nice analogy," Pheonix teased and she shrugged.

"I try."

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"I think I already explained that he wants more power but he can just get it like that. He doesn't need any stupid object or secret to get that. The Olympians don't need to get attacked by him, they'll just crawl to safety, Kronos is something, Kerebros is another thing. I don't want to get us out of here, I mean, we still have to defeat Ares right?He won't go chasing after us to stop Kerebros' plans, he just wants his own glory. If we just stay and pretend to cooperate we can probably get more info and then kick his butt and force escape,"Penelope argued.