'Sure they do,' Percy rolled his eyes. Percy could tell Thalia felt uncomfortable under the gaze of so many Gods, he needed to draw the attention away from his….his girlfriend. Gods it felt so weird to say that.
"Okay, you guys called us, what do you want?" Percy asked stepping forward distracting the Gods.
"Ah yes, Jackson, disrespectful as always" Zeus narrowed his eyes, "well let's begin then. We called you both for a reason. We have decided on a quest for the both of you. A very important quest."
Percy and Thalia shared a look as Percy spoke, "will it involve monsters and assassins?"
Zeus looked confused, "assassins? No, I hope not. Sigh, this so complicated," he turned to Hera, "are you sure we need to even do this?"
Hera nodded, "yes husband, we do." Thalia glared at Goddess, Percy could see the hate in her eyes as he squeezed Thalia's hand. The daughter of Zeus nodded her head in thanks and quickly reigned in her anger.
"We agreed brother," Poseidon spoke up in a strim voice, "we all voted for it. This has to be done. You know this."
Zeus sighed, "where do I even begin? Well… alright," Zeus looked at Thalia and Percy, "what do you know about the Roman gods?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "they are a cheap knock off of the Greek Gods."
The Gods all chuckled while Hera sighed.
Zeus nodded, "well essentially yes. But the thing is, they are us."
"What do you mean father?" Thalia asked,
"Thalia….do you remember the second time I visited your mother?" Zeus asked. Hera looked furious but said nothing.
Thalia nodded, "yeah, this was before….before Jason." Thalia glared at Hera, who promptly ignore her.
Zeus nodded, "right. And do you remember what I looked like back then Thalia?"
Thalia nodded, "well, you looked more...respectable? More in control, fatherly. You gave this aura of foreboding."
Zeus nodded, "right, and so I seem like that now?"
Thalia shook her head, "no. Before you seemed more stoic, now you seem more...dramatic?"
Zeus smiled, "very true. You see Thalia what you saw then was not Zeus, it was Jupiter."
"So then... you guys have two forms?" Percy asked.
The Gods nodded. Poseidon then spoke up, "think of them as split personality son. You see the Greeks envisioned us one way while the Romans another. So in the form of Poseidon I am more relaxed, laid back. But as Neptune I'm more war like…..like Triton in some ways."
Percy groaned, "that's so sad. But wait, that brings up the question, which came first? The Greek or the Roman? Which is your real form?"
Athena smiled, "for a son of Poseidon you sure do have an excellent brain." Poseidon grumbled shooting Athena a glare.
"The Greeks came first," Zeus stated bringing the attention back to him, "we started off as Greek, and then turned Roman. But when the Roman empire feel we discovered we can changed between the forms. Like so," Zeus then slowly changed in front of their eyes.
Before Zeus was more proud, more arrogant. But now he looked far more mature, like a king. Percy would never admit it, but he kind of liked this form of Zeus.
Zeus then shifted back and continued, "so you see we Gods have two forms, two worlds that we govern over. As such it-"
"-Wait!" Percy suddenly shouted in surprise, "if there are Roman Gods, does that mean there are Roman demigods as well?!"
Thalia's eyes popped open in surprise as well, "Jason! Jason wasn't a son of Zeus! He was a son of Jupiter!"
Zeus grumbled, "you two stole my punch line." The other god's laughed as Zeus quickly gathered his composure, "right. Jason is a son of Jupiter, not Zeus. And yes, there is a camp for Roman demigods, it is called camp Jupiter."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? Camp Jupiter? You named it after yourself?"
Zeus shrugged, "I didn't pick the name. They Romans did."
Thalia sighed, "wait this doesn't make any scenes. Is there was another camp then we should know about it. Why doesn't anyone know? Like there should at least be rumors, and why hasn't anyone ever seen roman demigod?"
"It is because we were forced to separate the world's" Hera spoke up, "before the Greeks and Romans did in fact know of the other's existence. But during the American Civil war a war broke out between the two sides. The Greeks and the Romans fought each other….many lost their lives. Since then we have kept the two sides separate. Using the Mist we made sure that one never saw signs of the other, wiping the other camp from it's memory."
"So you decided to separate us," Thalia released as suddenly a look of realisation came to her eyes, "i-is that why you took Jason away from me? Because I was Greek and he was Roman?"
Zeus groaned, "well, that is part of the reason. You see, ah, well-"
"-I asked him to do it," Hera spoke up, "I told Zeus that a single mortal should not bare two children of Zeus. I made your mother give Jason up."
"You bitch!" Thalia roared out.
"Thalia relax," Percy said holding her back.
"She took away the only person I can ever call family Percy!" Thalia's eyes sparkled with electricity as the scent of Ozone grew stronger and stronger.
"Thalia I demand you stop this at once!" Zeus roared out, "you will not disrespect the Queen of Olympus!"
"Screw you!" Thalia roared at her father, "this is all your fault! Jason is dead because of you! If you had never returned then things would be better! If you hadn't-"
"-When did I ever say he was dead?" Hera asked suddenly.
Thalia paused, "w-what?"
"Jason is alive and well," Hera continued, "he is in camp Jupiter."
"Where is camp Jupiter?"
"Why do you wish to know?" Hera asked amused.
"Because I'm going to get my brother back!" Thalia yelled as she turned to Percy, "I know it's a lot to ask Percy but can you-"
"-No problem," Percy said as he opened his inventory pulling out his goggles, "he is family after all."
"Thalia-" Zeus began.
"-what? Going to tell me not to go?"
"Actually it's the exact opposite," Hera spoke up again, "before we were comfortable separating the two camps, there was no need to join them. But now that Kronos has a mortal body again we have realised that we need both camps working together to help fight the Titans."
Percy narrowed his eyes, "so what? You need us to recruit these guys?"
Zeus roared, "hardly. The demigods in camp Jupiter are far more loyal and obedient than the ones in camp Half-Blood."
That comment pissed Percy off, "maybe it's because they have better Gods to serve as their role models."
Zeus's eyes glowed, "what was that?"
Percy shrugged, "I didn't say anything."
"Are you saying I'm deaf?"
"No, I'm saying you are imagining things."
"WHY YOU LITTLE-"
"Enough!" Poseidon roared, "I will not let you harm my son Zeus!"
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