Hi! This is the first chapter in a twenty-chapter story. I've already finished writing it. I'll try to post this on a regular basis. Feel free to call out if you want a character to be more included in this. I can still make the changes. I hope you guys enjoy this. It's a very Percy centered story. Sorry it you don't like that. This story will also have traces of yaoi in it. Sorry again, if you don't like that. I'll pre-title any chapters that might make M content. There is nothing explicit in this whole story. I want everyone to be able to enjoy this.

I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Rick Riordan does.

This chapter has T content, and some spoilers for the past books. I changed it up a little. Leo is back.

Chapter One: I Hide Behind a Scale

Seven Months After Gaea's Defeat

I knew I couldn't keep this up for long, but if there was anything that made up the majority of my core, it was stubborn determination not to loose. I sat beside a stream. I had escaped Camp Half Blood narrowly, and New York by the skin of my teeth. The only reason I had survived this long was because some of the gods were on my side, and certain magician offered his help.

I glanced up at the sky and smirked. As long as I have this thing, you're never gonna find me Uncle! My hand went to my necklace. Strung on it, right beside the clay beads, was a scale. A scale Carter Kane gave to me. He and I had been meeting up regularly to help each other clean up Egyptian, and Greek or Roman monsters in each other's 'backyards'. I had even been invited into their, Nome? Is that what they called it? I thought it was little green man. Turns out it's a multistory building with a huge magical library and a white crocodile. I enjoyed talking to Philip. However, I still didn't like that baboon, and the freaky gryphon made me nervous.

Anyway, I had been warned by my father that the gods were going to— yep, you guessed it, gonna make me a god too.

I had asked him why, and Poseidon had just shrugged, and said. "Zeus' pride. He always gets what he wants and you foiled his attempt to give you the ultimate gift. Also, you're the best fighter, even better than Ares. Imagine having power like that under your control. Plus, with the way things have been growing, we need a god for the Demigods, and a god for guiding Quests. You would be perfect for that."

I rolled my eyes. Yeah, right, like I'm gonna serve Zeus for the rest of eternity. Still, being a god that helps other demigods, that might not be too bad. I just wanted to let Zeus know that I wouldn't come to his beck and call like a fucking puppy! I was stubborn that way. Maybe stubbornness was my fatal flaw instead?

I fingered the scale again.

"It's a scale from Apophis, the Egyptian god of Chaos. If this doesn't dampen your scent, I don't know what will." Carter had said.

Well, he'd been right. So far none of the gods had cornered me and no monsters had sought me out.

I leaned against a tree and sighed. Taking a small bowl out of my pack I filled it with water and enchanted oil that Carter gave to me. "Show me Annabeth."

I had given Annabeth a similar bowl and oil too, all provided by Carter Co.

The water shimmered and her room appeared. I waited a second, for any sound. Suddenly, I saw Athena, I ducked out of the view of the bowl so Athena wouldn't see my face randomly appearing in my girlfriend's bowl of water.

"I know you're aware of his whereabouts. Zeus is furious. Poseidon isn't helping. And Artemis is at the end of her rope. Not even Apollo has seen him from his chariot!"

I wanted to cheer.

"Mother, I cannot tell you what I don't know! This is your third trip here! If I didn't know anything then, how could I possibly know anything now? Come on!"

Athena sighed. "If only Jackson would realize that this is for his own good. He would never die. He would be young and powerful forever. He would be able to see his dad without meeting at night on the beach. He would even be able to visit his mother and step-father whenever he likes."

"And me?" Annabeth demanded. "What about him seeing me? Don't play dumb mom. I know you would never allow Percy to wed me. This is all some plan of yours to break us apart!"

Athena sniffed at her. "I never trusted Jackson. I never will."

That's not exactly an answer, lady. I glared at the water.

"Percy doesn't want to be immortal! Why can't you guys get that through?!"

Athena's eyes blazed with grey fire. "Keep your tongue. You may still be my daughter, but I can punish you." With that, she glowed and was gone.

"I thought she'd never leave." I called out cheerfully.

Annabeth rushed to the bowl, almost jostling it. "Percy! How are you? Is that charm holding up?"

I laughed. "I've stayed away from all water, just in case. I'm about ten, or twenty miles, from the Alaskan border. No monsters and no monstrous gods." I informed her.

She breathed a sigh of relief. "Percy, when do you think you'll be able to come back?"

"Dad is going to try and bring it to a re-vote tomorrow. Until then, I'm lying low. He'll be telling you the outcome. Expect a call around midnight tomorrow from me." I heard something. "Heard something. Gotta go. See ya midnight." I pulled the oil out of the water and back into the bottle. Packing up quickly I snuck away, or tried to. I sensed something and ducked to the side of a tree. Looking up I saw a silver arrow, from our friendly neighborhood goddess, embedded in a dead tree.

"Fuck." I broke into a zig zag run.

"Perseus Jackson. You may have eluded me for a month, but you will not evade me now!"

Oh, what a good actor she is!

"Lady, I don't even know what those words mean! Sorry! I need to catch a train!" I jumped over a river, calling frantically out to the nymphs. I have helped them a lot during my travels. Cleaning their water with sand dollars I bought from stores. A wall of water, not controlled by me, slammed into Artemis, knocking her down.

I crowed, in an effort to protect the nymphs. "Score!" Artemis pretended to flounder around, and that bought me time to run. I heard a train whistle. Ah, good fortune, what would I do without her?! As the train zipped by, I grabbed on and held. Catching a train full blast is very similar to climbing a rope attached to a flying sow, or riding on top of a Minotaur.

It hurts, and it's dangerous.

I smirked. That phrase just summed up my entire life!

I rode the train until I was certain Artemis couldn't track my human scent or see me. I jumped off the train and kept walking north. Entering a town, I discovered that I was in Whitehorse, Canada. Sweet, that train took me out of my way. I sighed.

Olympian Council - POV Change

Athena scoffed. "Oh yes, the greatest hunter on the planet cannot bag a single boy!" She emphasized the gender to further needle Artemis.

Poseidon just started laughing. He was proud of his son. Very proud. He knew Artemis wasn't trying to bring him in, at first, but when he avoided her to make it look realistic, she realized that she needed to up her game. She still hadn't caught him, even if she would let him go anyway. The fact remains, that Percy Jackson is capable of eluding her. It was turning into a high-risk game of hid and seek. "Perhaps this is a sign from the Fates that he should be left alone. After all, we don't want to make an enemy out of him, by ripping his mortal future out of his unwilling hands."

Athena nodded. "Yes, Percy Jackson is a great ally, and would be a terrifying enemy. I agree with Poseidon. We should let the boy alone."

The Council froze. Zeus looked at Athena, betrayed. She had been his strongest supporter. Little did they know that Annabeth had contacted her mother and given her a very believable lie.

Athena was just going over some theories of where Percy Jackson was, how he was able to evade them for so long, and where he was planning on going, when her daughter called her. Being the Architect, Annabeth had full access to each and any of the gods, after all she had to ask questions of what their preferences were for temples.

"Yes, Annabeth? Why do you look so pale?" Pale was an understatement. Her daughter looked absolutely sickly.

"Mother, you've got to stop hounding Percy! He's got to come back to me! Please!"

Athena reared back in shock at her daughter's hysterical outburst. This is not like my daughter. Something has happened. "Annabeth, tell me! What's happening?"

Annabeth burst into tears. In between her gasps of breath she said something about positive, double-checked, and how could it happen with protection? Athena went cold. Percy Jackson, if her readings from Annabeth's hysterical words were correct, had caused her daughter to become pregnant.

"Annabeth, are you pregnant?" Fear had crept into her voice.

Annabeth nodded and a sudden fierceness had entered her eyes. "I don't regret it! I love him! I want him to be my husband! Give him back!"

Athena nodded, frantic to calm her child. Hysteria could harm the baby, her grandchild. "Calm down dear. I'll change my vote. Others will change it with me." She swiped her hand through the mist, completely missing her daughter's triumphant smile.

Athena blinked back to the present. "I find our conduct most disgusting. Acting like spoiled children, because someone doesn't agree with us. We should be happy that we don't have to deal with him for eternity. His child would become even more powerful than he! That's what heroes are for! To help us, not to become gods and goddesses! I vote to leave Percy Jackson a demigod."

Hephaestus nodded and seconded the vote. Zeus looked around frantically. A lot of the Olympians were nodded their heads. Even Ares.

He jumped up. "Enough! Percy Jackson has split this Council for the last time. We've all realized how important it would be for him to become a god. His insight, Hermes, isn't that what you claimed? His insight would be enormously beneficial to us. Apollo, you claimed that his fighting prowess and power would boost our own. God of Prophecy, isn't that what you claimed? You claimed that the son of the sea, if changed to a god, would greatly increase our own power again? Isn't that what you claimed?!" Zeus could see the shifting of the Council. Power, after all, is a great motivator. He smiled.

"I did say that, yes, but-." Apollo was about to add to that statement.

Zeus interrupted and boomed. "Very well then! It is decided. Perseus Jackson will be hunted down and given immortality!"

Athena tried once more. "Father! Do you realize what you just said?! 'Hunted down'! Percy Jackson is our ally, not some escapee from Tartarus on the run!"

Ares smirked. "Actually, he did escape Tartarus."

Hermes chuckled. "And he is on the run."

Athena threw up her hands. They would never see reason. Nevertheless, she tried one more time, for her daughter. "You are foolish to believe that Percy would come quietly! You are naïve to think that he will obey our wishes, and heed our rules! When has he not chaffed against our prophecies, and butted heads against us?! Turn Percy Jackson a god and you will have a stubborn, strong willed, mule headed, extremely independent boy to deal with for all eternity! Heed my words!"

Zeus slammed his hand on his armrest. "We have decided already!"

Poseidon struck home for Athena. They were working together for once in over a millennia, and they Olympians were startled at how well they worked together. "I demand a re-vote! Let us find out, if this is truly what the whole council wants!"

The chant 're-vote' came from everyone's lips. Zeus was suddenly afraid.

They voted again. Apollo, god of truth, counted them.

"For the transformation of Perseus Jackson into a god: Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Ares, Dionysus, and Hades. Six votes. For the rule of allowing Percy Jackson to remain human: Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia, and Persephone. Nine votes. The rule to allow Percy Jackson to remain mortal, wins."

The gods in victory cheered. Zeus glowered. He would not loose this fight. This would only be a minor set back. He would make Percy Jackson a god.