Poseidon's point of view

We were summoned to a council meeting, we would be discussing Percy. I couldn't believe that Percy would do those things, I didn't really want him to be killed for them but I was outvoted. Once everyone had arrived we began discussing ways to locate him since he had left camp half blood and gone into hiding. Suddenly the meeting was interrupted by the fates appearing in the throne room with rather angry expressions on their faces.

We asked why they had come. one of them, I believe it was Lachesis said, "You are discussing the fate of Percy Jackson are you not?" "Of course." Zeus answered, "He deserves to be punished." "No he does not." Atropos said. That one statement silenced us all until Zeus said "We have Proof!" "No you have lies told by demigods who were charmspoken into believing them." Clotho corrected.

"We have come to Prove Perseus Jackson's innocence and tell you to leave him alone." The fates said in sync. I felt a spark of hope that if he is innocent we would be able to find him and I would apologize, but would he forgive me? The last time we had spoken I accused him of things terrible things. He was my favourite son and then he was accused of so many things, I had blamed him, just like everyone else, I had accepted the evidence we had against him, and hadn't looked for further information.

The fates made a sort of screen appear in the air and said "These are Percy Jackson's memories of the last month, they will prove to you his innocence." The memories showed Percy defeating the monsters that were chasing the son of Aphrodite, while he stood off to the side completely terrified. They showed the son of Aphrodite committing all the crimes that everyone had been fooled into believing Percy had committed, setting part of the camp woods on fire, beating one of the younger campers, and various other things to convince the demigods to turn on Percy. The worst thing though was when Percy went to sally's apartment and found it on fire, and that Sally and her husband were dead.

It was then that the fates ended the memories, and we were all silent still absorbing everything. I glanced over at Aphrodite, she looked to be furious. And then breaking the silence she said "He dared to break up my favourite couple!" for all of my years of experience, I still failed to see that my son would never have done those things, He is loyal kind, I was a fool for even thinking that he could have done those things. I should have known that he was being framed, but I had accepted the evidence against him instead of finding the truth.

After seeing that the son of Aphrodite was responsible for everything, there was a question hanging in the back of my mind, I couldn't help but wonder if the son of Aphrodite was responsible for the fire in sally's apartment as well. As if the fates had read my mind Clotho said, "The fire in Sally, and Paul Blofis's apartment was deliberately set by Collin white son of Aphrodite." I was angry before she said that, but after I heard that I was furious.

The fates said "You now know the truth, however you must leave Perseus alone until he is ready to forgive you. No matter how much you wish for his forgiveness, he is not yet ready to forgive you. In time you will need him again and he will forgive he just needs time. For now you can inform Chiron and camp half-blood of the truth, and punish the son of Aphrodite."

I agreed with the fates on that point Chiron and the demigods need to know the truth, and the son of Aphrodite deserves to be punished, he ruined Percy's life at camp and made most of his friends hate him. We had even fallen for his lies, since everyone had agreed with him except for one, Piper Mclean. Due to her having charmspeak herself, she had remained unaffected by her half brother's lies.

While these thoughts were going through my head the fates left. After they were gone I said "We must find him." to my shock it was Hestia who spoke next and she was far from her normal always calm self. She said "Were you listening to anything the fates said brother! Because they said to leave him alone! I answered "Of course I heard them, I now know that my son was innocent and I wish to apologize."

In response she said "You of all people should have known he was innocent, His fatal flaw is loyalty he would never have done those things!" "Someone has to tell him that we know the truth, and that we no longer wish to punish him!" She responded "I will tell him brother, but he is not yet ready to forgive you. He is hurt from his friends betraying him, and even more so by you not believing him, on top of that his mother and stepfather just died, he will forgive you when he is ready, for now leave him in peace!"

I was shocked that my normally quiet and peaceful sister was now in a full blown argument with me over Percy, but then I realized something, I asked her "How will you tell him sister, do you know where he is?" She replied "Yes I do brother, but I will not tell you because he is not ready to see you yet." After that I remained silent, both Hestia and the fates had said that he wasn't ready to see me but I want to find him to apologize, if Hestia won't tell me I will have to find him myself.

Everyone else was still shocked into silence by Hestia's outburst. When I looked at the others I realized that there were two of them that weren't surprised at all, there was a chance that they had just gotten over it faster than the rest of us but I was thinking that they must have known of Percy's innocence as well and might know where he is, but then again they probably wouldn't tell me either. Especially since one of them was Athena.

I honestly had no idea why she would care about Percy she had never liked him. Besides the point that he is my son he was also dating her daughter, until she betrayed him. Hermes also seemed to be in on the secret but I doubted he would tell me either.

After everyone got over their shock we went to camp half-blood to inform them of the truth. Chiron gathered all the campers and then Zeus spoke he said "We have come with news regarding Perseus Jackson." before Zeus could continue the son of Aphrodite, asked "Have you found him yet?" This question caused most of us to scowl. Zeus continued, he said "We were recently informed that he is in fact innocent."

Shouts of protest were heard, however the loudest was the son of Aphrodite. He said "Who told you such nonsense, of course it was him." Zeus glared at the demigod, and he shrunk back. Zeus continued he said "It was the fates themselves that informed us of the truth, we are here to show you, and to punish the person responsible for the various crimes committed, and the betrayal of Percy Jackson."

Apparently the demigods knew better than to argue any further. Either that or they didn't want to go against the fates' wishes, either way they remained silent as we called up a one way iris message that showed them everything that the fates had just shown us. As they watched more and more guilt appeared on their faces, especially those who were closest to him, the only one that lacked any remorse was Collin White, the one who had been responsible for it all.

By the end the demigods' faces were a mixture of guilt and anger. Guilt at the fact that they had believed Collin's lies and anger at Collin for manipulating them in the first place. I glanced over at Aphrodite, even she was scowling at her son. Suddenly I noticed that Annabeth Chase was furious, she punched the son of Aphrodite in the face she said "I can't believe I believed you!" and then she stormed off heading toward the cabins.

After this we decided that Collin would be banished from camp half-blood, you might ask why we didn't kill him for everything he did, well we wanted him to feel what he had caused Percy, also he would probably be taken out by a monster not long after he re-entered the mortal world.

With that settled we left, I knew that there was no way that I wasn't going to look for my son, I knew that both the fates and Hestia had said to leave him alone, but I couldn't just sit back and do nothing, I had to find him. It seems that Camp half-blood were of the same opinion, since they were already planning on sending out search parties. Not only that but since he was the only man Artemis Approves of she was going to keep her eyes open for him. Even if I don't search everywhere I am going to search my own domain for him at least. Although I probably won't find him there since he is trying to avoid us and by entering my domain he immediately alert me to his presence.