Name: Richard Michael James McCarthy

Series: Sixteen

Book 1: The Tournament

The Tournament

Prologue:

In the beginning there was nothing. There was no universe. No people. No animals or plants. Just a barren span of nothingness. Then he appeared. No one knows how, why or when but it just happened. The creator, he who made the universe, and all its planets. He who made the people who inhabited these worlds and the animals and plants that thrived along with them. The creator's most important two creations were his two sons, Exodus and Genesis. Genesis who was just like the creator, he helped start things. Exodus who was his polar opposite, he helped end things.

These three deities were worshiped, envied and loved by all in the first age. But slowly they began disappear with the coming of the second age and the creation of the Egyptian gods. Soon, all traces of the original three deities began to disappear. They were no longer worshipped or believed in. Soon they began to fade away; they're powers diminishing till they were mere mortals.

Until he spoke Exodus's name. Until him, an evil hearted one resurrected Exodus's power, the end, the destroyer and the evil one was back. Death tolls increased. Mortals and the supernatural were killed at extreme rates in gruesome ways. The resurrecter and the evil hearted one began to spread his name. Fear was soon coursing through the veins of all, causing them to pray to their different gods.

Exodus became bored with the mortals and super naturals though. It was boring without Genesis creating more people for him to destroy, or his father, the creator breaking up their fights. So slowly he stopped his carnage and the population of earth rose. And three of these population "spikes" were Percy Jackson, Carter Kane and Jason Grace. When he felt their powers ripple through the galaxy, a slow smiled appeared on Exodus's face. He had found his new "playthings".