United States, Earth (3rd POV)

Smack! The sound echoed through the silent apartment followed by a cry of pain.

"How dare you speak that way to me you little tramp!" the grotesque figure of Gabe Ugliano shouted, his ugly face twisted in fury while the bulging vein in his forehead threatened to burst.

He glared down at the cowering figure of Sally Jackson, "After all I've done for you and the little brat, you have the damn nerve to tell me to get out!" he screamed in fury, the scent of alcohol and B.O. coming off of him overwhelming the terrified woman.

"After all you have done for us!?" she yelled back finding the courage to stand up to the much larger ape of a man, "You've constantly beat me for five years!" she growled while glaring up at the pot-bellied bully.

"And the only reason I haven't had you arrested yet is that I thought it was worth it for Percy!" she continued as tears streamed down her face, "But now I come home to see my five six year old son bleeding and unconscious with you standing above him, knife in hand you bastard!" she screamed launching herself at him and raking her nails down his face.

He hissed in pain before throwing her off him, sending her flying into the kitchen wall, "Your gonna pay for that you filthy whore," he grinned maniacally picking up a blood stained knife on the way to where her cowering figure laid crumpled on the tile floor. As the arguing and fighting continue, the six year old child began to stir from his unconscious state a few rooms away.

He sat up in the pitch black room where he vaguely remembered his mother placing him upon her arrival from the grocery store, he rose from the small mattress shakily, almost falling as pain shot through his body, letting out a whimper of pain. He stumbled, through the darkness of the room grunting in pain at every step until he reached the light switch. Upon flipping the switch the dim lights of the room flickered on, casting sickly yellow light on Percy. He squinted and blinked a few times before noticing a problem. He couldn't see out of his left eye. He gently touched the area around his eye before reeling in pain as what felt like fire rocketed through him. He hissed in pain and looked at his and with his good eye.

His body went numb upon seeing his scarlet stained hand that had just touched his left eye. He felt blood pouring down his cheek and upon further inspection of the rest of his body he saw that there were long jagged cuts placed haphazardly all over his body, each dripping with red blood. Percy searched his hazy memory, trying to recall what had happened to him as he leaned against the peeling beige painted wall.

"What happened to me, how did I get hur- GABE!" his right sea green eye widened in shock as some of the memories began pouring into his mind. Visions of knives, the smells of alcohol, pain racking his body, and worst of all blood. The color red filled his right eye as his left eye went dark and the last thing he heard was a scream that sounded like his mother before unconsciousness overtook him.

He blinked his one eye in shock as he tried to comprehend all of this information but was interrupted mid thought as a blood curdling scream echoed throughout the apartment building making Percy's blood run cold.

"Mom!" he thought terror and adrenaline fueling his body as he identified the voice as his mothers. He stumbled towards the kitchen, ignoring the shooting pains while trying not to slip on his own blood that flowed out of his open wounds. When he finally reached the kitchen his blood ran cold and what he saw would be burned into his memory forever. The smelly beast that was Gabe stood over his mother's lifeless bleeding body with a twisted grin displayed proudly on his face holding a bloodstained kitchen knife.

"Well, well if it isn't the little brat," he ginned insanely lumbering over to Percy's cowering tear stained form.

Upon reaching the boy Gabe placed his grubby and around the child's neck and began dragging him towards the lifeless body of his mother, "Why don't we go say hello mommy?" he cackled holding Percy over the barely breathing form of his mother.

As Percy looked at his mother's slowly dying form with tears streaming down his face all he could think was, "Why? Why her, my mommy's the nicest person in the entire world, why would this happen to her?"

"P-Percy…" a faint voice said rousing him from his utter devastation as his head snapped up to see where the sound came from only to see his mother with tears in her eyes. Her eyes held such pain, such sadness, yet… she was still smiling. She still looked at Percy with all of the love and pride she could muster and, while looking directly into her sons tearful sea green eyes, she said, "P-Percy I love you s-so much and I-I'm so proud of you. Those were the last words, on the last breath, of Sally Jackson before the light left her eyes and her heart stopped, the beautiful smile that could make god's fall for her still on her face. At this point Gabe was in physical pain from laughing so hard and couldn't even keep his hold on Percy's throat, dropping the boy who landed on his knees next to his dead mother's body as Gabe doubled over in laughter.

Only when Gabe recovered from his laughing fit of insanity did he notice the shaking form of Percy who was kneeling next to the body of his mother.

"Aw is wittle Pewcy cwying cause mommy's gone," he chuckled madly.

He was only just about to fall into another fit of laughter when he felt a shooting pain erupt from his rib cage making him scream in pain. He looked down in shock to see a bloody six year old boy driving a knife into his side, the same knife he had just used moments ago.

"I'm not gonna let you get away with this," Percy whispered rage overcoming his sadness as he put the fear of the gods into Gabe. Percy slid the knife out of the obese man's side before plunging the knife into his chest causing blood to fill the man's lungs. However this wasn't what truly scared the cold blooded killer that was Gabe, no it was the fact that all the blood that had previously covered the ground began to rise and form scarlet needles in the air. The pudgy man released a silent scream as he choked on his own blood while the needle sharp liquid frozen turning into scarlet ice needles. An instant after the blood needles had fully frozen Percy, as if on instinct, pulled the knife out of Gabe's chest and flicked his hands towards the monster of a man, sending the needles hurtling towards Gabe faster than he could react. The last thing the murder felt before the breath left his body was the feeling of dozens of needles piercing his body, causing unbearable pains.

Percy just stared at the dead killer with an expressionless face and cold eyes before turning back towards his mother's lifeless body. His grief overtook him as he fell to his knees and cradled her head in his lap while tears flowed down the right side of his face. Little did he know the raven winged god of death was watching him with a mixture of rage at the terrified spirit he held in his hand and sympathy for what he sensed was a son of Poseidon. Without thinking Thanatos stepped out of the shadows and placed a pale hand on the boy's shoulder and whispered, "Do not fear demigod, she accepted her fate in the end," making the boy jump, kitchen knife in hand, right eye wide with fear. Thanatos held his hands up in surrender as his own charcoal black eyes bored into the sea greens of the boy in a solemn gaze.

"W-who are you?" Percy asked, brandishing his knife, "A-are you here to take me away?" he questioned knowing even at his age that he had just killed a man, no matter the reason.

Thanatos seemed to think on this, "An interesting question," he thought, "If I left him here he would surely be found by monsters, or worse, Zeus."

However, I'm not very good with the living either, and it's not like I'm going to take him to Hades. He's already been through enough," the gears in his head spun and he did his best to think of a solution until a metaphorical lightbulb lit up and the death god gave one of his rare kind smiles to the demigod.

"I will not force you to come with me anywhere child, however if you do come with me I will take you to a safe place, a place where you will never have to return here and we can give your mother a proper funeral," Thanatos told him sincerely.

Percy's mind spun at the perceived kindness this strange man was showing him as Percy studied the black wings which he thought were part of the strange man's costume. His mind whirled with all the times his mother told him to never talk to strangers but times had changed, he didn't have many options as his mother's last words rang through his mind. So when the this pale winged man held out his hand to take him away to what he said was a safe place, Percy accepted, and in a flash of darkness the two disappeared along with the body of Sally Jackson. But this was only the beginning for Perseus Jackson, this is the story of a boy who would be the greatest thing this universe has ever seen.