Prologue

Sally Jackson took one last look at the weapons and other items before her before turning and exiting the storage locker, once she was back outside she shut the door and locked it sealing its contents inside. She knew she wouldn't be coming back for a long time if ever, since the items within the locker were from her old life and now she had decided to start over.

She wanted to put her difficult past behind her and concentrate on finding a job, so she could support herself and raise her baby. Technically she was still pregnant, but she wanted to leave her old life behind and her baby was the perfect excuse to do so. She really didn't know how she would manage to raise a child on her own, especially knowing what might be in store for her child when it got older.

Not only would her child eventually have to face the monsters from Greek mythology, but it may also be faced with some of Sally's own enemies. Sally was trying to put her old life behind her, she wanted her child to stay safe, not grow up the way she had. Her parents had been hunters, and so had her uncle. After her uncle took her in she would be dragged along when he went to investigate a case.

They weren't hunters in the usual sense, they didn't hunt deer or moose, or geese, or any other game animal. If they ever told anyone what they hunted the person would probably try to have them locked up in a mental ward, but Sally and her family had seen a side of the world that most people didn't have to witness.

For most of her childhood she didn't know what her uncle was doing during these trips but once she started nearing her teens he trained her, and she began to help him. She hadn't really been given a choice in the matter and honestly, she wished he hadn't told her anything at all about all the monsters that were out there, but that couldn't be changed now so she didn't really have any other choice.

Now she knew she was going to leave that life behind for her child, so it would stay as safe as possible. Sally's biggest fear was that eventually that life would come back to haunt her, or kill her or her child. She knew that lifestyle was an easy ticket to heaven or hell depending on what you do in your life. Her uncle hadn't been taken down by a monster, but his lifestyle had still been the main cause for his eventual cancer diagnosis.

He'd always drank a lot, not necessarily to the point that he was an alcoholic, but he certainly loved to drink. On top of that he'd smoked like a chimney for as long as Sally could remember. Due to the fact that he had no-one else Sally had to put aside College in order to care for him as his health gradually deteriorated. After he died Sally hadn't really been sure what she was going to do, after all She certainly wasn't rich and with no college education it would be harder to get a job.

Her only option to support herself was to look for work but she did take on a case every now and then. She eventually met Poseidon, and since he didn't reveal his real identity to her right away she thought he might just be the first bit of good luck she'd had in a while. That luck hadn't been as good as she thought though since although they loved each other he eventually had to leave after they learned that she was pregnant.

The thought of aborting the child so it wouldn't have to go through the difficult life that it would most likely have, Occurred to Sally but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Despite everything she knew she'd wanted to have the baby. Now she knew she would have to do everything she could to support Herself and her baby once it was born even if it meant having to work more than one job, and hunting was out of the question, she was done with that life and she didn't plan to return to it.

Little did she know she would eventually be drawn back to the lifestyle that she had tried to leave in her past. What made her return to hunting? Well she learned that a hunter she had known back in the day needed help and she felt she should be the one to do it just in case no-one else did. When Sally learned of that case quite a few years had gone by since she had last taken on a case.

Over 18 years later

Percy was Pretty sure that his mom had never told his stepdad, Paul about her past, he supposed that after they told him the truth about Percy's parentage she was giving him time to get used to that information first before dumping anymore shocking information on him. Percy guessed that his mom would probably try and tell him eventually she was just giving him some time.

Percy kind of felt bad that he never told Annabeth or his closest friends but despite how close they all were he doubted they would believe him. Percy thought he might finally have some peace after everything they'd done, but it seemed like it just wasn't meant to be.

He'd hoped to go to university in New Rome with his girlfriend Annabeth Chase, and for one year they did but during summer break they returned to camp half blood to visit their friends and Percy planned on visiting his mom and Paul, He'd spoken to them a few days earlier through an Iris message but while he and Annabeth were on their way back to New York Something Happened that would most likely change Percy forever.

Once they arrived back in New York they decided to visit Sally and Paul first before returning to camp. Once they got there though they certainly didn't find what they expected. Instead of finding Sally and Paul home they found a crime scene. There were cops outside and inside the apartment building. As Percy saw this worry filled him, he couldn't help but wonder what was going on, were his mom and stepdad okay?

Percy and Annabeth approached a cop who was standing outside the building, steeling himself Percy asked, "What happened here?"

The cop replied, "Double homicide, Sally and Paul Blofis…

Percy interrupted him midsentence blurting, "They're my mom and stepdad!"

The cop apologized even though that didn't help the grief that was now hitting Percy full force, his mom and stepdad were dead, he didn't want to believe it, but he knew it must be true The police officer wouldn't mess with him like that because that would be an awfully cruel trick to play on someone, not to mention that there was too much evidence suggesting that the cop was telling the truth.

Once the cops learned that he was Sally Jackson's son they wanted to ask him a few questions, and once they found out Annabeth was his girlfriend they also questioned her, if nothing else the questioning told him a little more about what happened the night that the murder occurred, and Percy was starting to form his own suspicions about who, or more accurately, what had killed his mom and stepdad.

Percy was sure that the murderer was not human, and he was also sure that it wasn't one of his enemies but his mom's. Sally had told him the truth about her past a few months after his quest in the sea of monsters and while he certainly wasn't thrilled to learn that he could have even more enemies he understood why she had waited to tell him, he understood that she had just been trying to protect him but now she'd decided that he needed to know.

Percy knew that he wanted to find out for sure if his theory was right, so he knew that even though it would be hard for him he would have to look further into what happened and find what killed his mom and stepdad and kill it. He hoped he would be able to leave Annabeth out of it though, he didn't want her to get dragged into the crazy life of a hunter.

He hoped he wouldn't be dragged into it either, it was something that he and his mother had been trying to stay out of although his mom did take on a case once in a while and Percy had gone with her a couple of times, so he would know what he could be up against if something decided to come after him and also to protect his mom. Sure, he'd learned a while ago that she could take care of herself, but he still couldn't help but want to protect her.

Now it seemed like Percy had failed at that since he'd left only for two of the people who were most important to him to be murdered when he wasn't there to help them. Percy considered what to do, he knew where all his mom's hunting supplies were, and he doubted the cops had found out about them since his mom was pretty good at hiding things like that.

What Percy didn't know was that he wasn't the only person interested in looking into the deaths of Sally and Paul Blofis, and Percy would soon meet the others who noticed the potential case. Percy and Annabeth went to camp Half Blood after the Police let them go, not only did they go to see their friends, and in Annabeth's case half siblings, but they also knew that some of their friends had met Sally and Paul, so they would want to know about what had happened. Annabeth also hoped that Percy wouldn't dwell on Sally and Paul's deaths too much, sure he'd never forget them, but he would also need to keep going on with his life, after all that's what Sally and Paul would have wanted for him. Annabeth knew she wanted to help Percy, but she also knew that he could be quite stubborn, so he might not listen to her or accept her help with something personal like that.