DA : Chapter 66: To Break a God IV

"So, I decided to focus on the intent; no more demigods from them. Originally I considered having any current demigods on the way have their souls attacked by my waters and be still-born." She raised her hands to the shocked gasps she got from several of them.

"Relax, I won't since that's punishing the mortal mothers too so, instead, from now on, any time they try to bed a mortal, their genitals will feel like they're being dipped in my waters."

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That got a wince of ghost pain from Percy and a hiss of fear from Jason and Nico as both crossed their legs while Styx grinned at them maliciously before continuing, "So, no more happy times behind their wives' backs … with mortals at least."

"And you're going to preside over marriages in the city from now on?" Thalia asked with clear amusement in her eyes.

"Yep, I even have the legal certificate to do it!" Styx chirped happily, her clothes suddenly shifting into that of a minister.

"I think you just ended the possibility of affairs for those couples," Phoebe chuckled along with the others.

Some more chuckling insured for a minute or two before Percy cleared his throat again to get everyone settled.

"Next?"

"Oh!" Andromeda squeaked while raising her hand like a giant child.

Percy grinned before nodding to her. She squealed a bit as she snapped her fingers and suddenly everyone had some sort of clothing with Canadian flag on it.

"We're officially Canadian!" she cheered happily as an oversized flag suddenly appeared over the entrance to the throne room much to their amusement.

"Frank will cry when he hears this," Jason commented while looking at his new shirt.

"Okay, on that note," Nico said, desperately trying to keep a grin off his face even while wearing a white shirt with a red happy face on it. "How did it go?"

Andromeda reigned herself in with a slightly embarrassed blush before answering, "We are officially recognized by the Canadian government.

Both the Prime Minster and Governor General along with the Senate have already taken oaths on Styx to secrecy until we tell them otherwise and the first protocols to begin the re-introduction of the mortal and mythical world is underway."

"What of the Queen?" Rhea asked next.

"Meeting her in two weeks," Andromeda answered easily.

"Excellent," Percy added getting a radiant smile from Andy before calling next which was Thalia.

"Boreas is firmly with us but I haven't gotten ahold of Aelous or the other cardinal winds yet … little bastards move around too much," she muttered a bit at the end to a round of snickers in her expense. "Anyway, he should be visiting in a few days to swear to us and all that."

Percy nodded to that and looked to Jason next, who caught it and began, "Well, you all know we already have Eos and Theia here but Selene and Helios are proving tricky to find. But I've got a trail on Selene leading to Italy."

"Think you might need help tracking her down?" Percy asked. "She'll naturally have a stronger aura at night and I have wolves to spare."

Jason tapped his chin for a moment before looking back at Percy.

"That would probably do. Just one to track the scent will do and I only need to get her location, afterwards I can approach her myself."

"Okay," Percy said as he looked around for silence, knowing that those were the current 'missions' underway. So, he went and explained his capture of Ares, getting some very amused grins from his fellow protogenoi. Rhea then picked up on her part of the disposal.

"The underground facility has already been swallowed and the space replaced with solid stone and dirt native to the area. As for everything in that facility, it will be decomposed and redistributed," she explained, referencing one of her new creations.

Being gods, they could use their will and power to create life much like Poseidon forming horses from sea-foam. However, being primordial gods, the level of power and complexity for creation was several magnitudes more.

Rhea had taken her time to form little Earth elves (that's what Percy called them anyways) made of sentient minerals with a special power allowing them to break down any material and restore it to the earth.

Metals, plastic, fossil fuels, organic substances, any at all they could break down given time. Rhea had created them shortly after taking her seat when she'd felt the state of the Earth.

To Percy she'd described it as nails piercing her skull for every oil rig with the oil like hemlock slowly being spilled into her veins. And that had only been in the case of oil rigs, he didn't even want to know what other mining, especially through the use of explosives, felt like along with the current state of nature.

Damn miracle that Rhea wasn't intent on destroying mortal civilization like her mother before but instead focused on getting cleaned up.

As a matter of fact, several protogenoi were in the midst of creating new life for this very purpose to safeguard their domains. Percy already had his Wraith Wolves thanks to assimilating Lupa's pack and having them swear to him.

He'd added more local wolves and through his blessing, had formed a pack of some fifty or so wolves, each the size of rhinos with partial immortality, shifting, natural shadow traveling, and 'The Freezing Bite' as he named it thanks to the addition of Cold to his domains.

The same way venom needed to be cleansed from the blood to save a life, if bitten by his wolves you'd better fine a source of warmth or be ready to self-amputate.

Afterwards he'd separated the pack to groups of threes and fives to monitor any major area of wilderness high with wolf activity. Now he was actually in the works thinking of a way to create a new wolf capable of protecting the Artic and Antarctic yet kept running into the problem of what they would eat.

'The little penguins won't make it otherwise,' he mused before realizing everyone was waiting for him while he went off a serious tangent.

Having the decency to blush slightly he cough a bit before continuing on, "Alright, so in a month's time we'll send our official declaration of war against the Olympians."

"Are we sending it to Olympus or one of the camps?" Styx asked.

"I don't think sending it to the camps will grant us any favors," Hestia commented, getting everyone's attention, the glow of the hearth reflecting in the scarlet of her eyes. "It might be a good intimidation factor and seriously shake the moral of their heroes but in the end it will make us out to be the monsters.

They won't think we would be genuine about offers of sanctuary and neutrality if they think we'll do to them what's being done to Ares."

"What is being done to him anyways?" Thalia asked before everyone turned their attention to Nico.

"You don't want to know," he said in a dark voice, driving the message home.

"Oookay," Hestia continued on, "So no, not to the camps. However, getting Ares to die before their council will shake them up more and we could have it 'leaked' to the camps that Ares died. That will sow seeds of doubt and fear which can then be used to drive the demigods away from fighting, especially if they hear rumors of a safe place. Once here they could hear us out and then decide for themselves."

"How manipulative … I like it," Rhea commented with a wink.

"Well I do believe we all can agree with our Queen," Jason said with a smirk at Hestia's shy blush due to her title. "So while waiting anything specific we want to get done aside from tracking down more gods willing to leave the 'West'?"

"I have something in mind," a new voice said surprising the council.

They looked to the center near the hearth as a blinding flash followed. Once it died down it revealed a teenager being as large as them.

He had choppy brown hair combed back slightly, a loose white polo with an open grey sports blazer over it, dark grey slacks and black dress shoes. On his wrist was a solid gold Rolex and his fingers had numerous rings with different time dials. His equally gold eyes looked at them all with a mix of mischief and amusement.

"Uncle Cronus," Percy welcomed while standing and giving a polite bow to the elder primordial, the others not far behind him. "What can we do for you?"

"For me? Oh you're too kind but no, today is not about me," Cronus said with a dismissive wave before smirking at them. "I'm here for all of you."

"And what would that be, my lord?" asked Jason with Nico currently standing on his shoulder.

"Why, to show you all your very own House of Primordials!"

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