Apollo X Percy Novels & Stories

The fate of the elixir, and perhaps the world, rested in her hands. With a flick of her wrist, Calliope handed us the bottle, its contents swirling with a mesmerizing glow. I reached out, my trembling fingers wrapping around the cool glass, and a surge of anticipation coursed through me. "What now?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper, the weight of our mission hanging in the air. Calliope's gaze locked with mine, a fire burning behind her eyes. "Now, my friends," she said, her voice filled with determination, "we save the Alpha King."

Her voice was patient but firm, and she shot Hermes a warning glare that made him shrink back slightly. "And you - stop encouraging her predatory instincts. It's bad enough Zeus thinks you're an idiot without giving our newest member ideas." Hermes muttered something under his breath that sounded like "wasn't encouraging anything" but wisely didn't say it aloud. Apollo chuckled softly from behind them, leaning against a nearby column with crossed arms, his lyre resting beside him on a stone pedestal. The sun god's golden hair seemed to glow with its own light as he offered me a warm smile.

“Fallon, you should name her and raise her as your own. She will only know you as her mother and her birth mother will never see her again.” Fallon stared at the child of her mate and her enemy. This was a child of Apollo and Lucy’s love. This was their love child. She wouldn’t hold the child accountable, but she could never accept this child as her own. She didn’t want him. She didn't want this! “I, Alpha Princess Fallon Marie Vault reject you as my mate, Apollo Nix Ursa son of Zeus the God of War and Selene the Moon Goddess. May you never show your face in front of me again.”

Inside the helicopter were me, Hiperion, John and Perseus, in addition to the pilot, it would be a trip of a few hours until we reached the landing site and, by all indications, it will not be a pleasant trip, but an embarrassing one. I didn't say anything about the smell that I identified as soon as I entered the cabin and I knew that it came from Perseus, in the same way that happened with Achilles, Perseus had a unique smell and that it was his own and not a perfume, but now that he was awake it was stronger than before, something inside me knew that if I locked eyes with his, something similar to what had happened the day before with Achilles would happen, so it was better for me to rema