Hello! This is my first story on fanfiction. I've been reading lots of Pertimis fics lately, the ones that make grown men cry. And I have started an account to make one too. It will have the basic elements of the stories where Annabeth and Percy break up. SO NO PERCABETH! For now it will mainly just be a friendship story between Percy and Artemis, it will be a while before the love actually blooms between them. Anywho, enjoy and review.

Percy's POV

I had just saved the world for the umpteenth time and sighed in relief as Gaia went back into her slumber. All of us were tired from the battle, and hopefully it would be a long time before we lost any more comrades. I gave a weary smile and thumbs up to my friends, before passing out.

~Later at Camp Half Blood~

I opened my eyes and saw a women, at first I thought it was Annabeth, but then I saw that she was older. I realized it was Athena, Annabeth's mother, and nearly hit my head on the ceiling.

"Lady Athena." I said, "What brings you here?" She opend her mouth to speak and what came out made me blush.

"Mu daughter is right, you do drool in your sleep." I really hoped that my face wasn't as red as I thought it was. She laughed, probably at me, and then added, "Perseus, I have come to give you a quest." I blinked, confused.

"Uhh, that's usually Rachel's job, Lady Athena." If she was irritated at me, she didn't show it.

"It is no ordinary quest, Perseus Jackson. It is a quest for you to get my blessing to date my daughter." I blushed as I realized that Athena had never been too happy with me dating Annabeth.

"Okay, tell me what I have to do." I listened to her conditions and groaned inwardly, I always knew that dating Annabeth would be the death of me, but I never thought it would be like this. I agreed to go on the quest and packed some basic provisions. Ambrosia and nectar, Riptide, a shield, and a picture of my girlfriend. And then I left, hoping I would be back.

~3 months later~

I groaned painfully as I tried to get all the cracks and kinks out of my body. I had just finished the last part of my quest, and boy was it painful. I had to capture the Teumessian fox, which was nearly impossible to catch. But as it struggled in my grip, trying to bite off by face, I sighed in relief. A bright flash appeared in front of me and Athena stood inf ront of me, surprised, but I thought I saw happiness in her eyes.

"Lady Athena." I said and handed her the fox. She smiled and took the animal.

"Congratulations, Perseus Jackson. I give you my blessing to be with my daughter, Annabeth." I smiled as wide as the ocean as Athen finished the blessing.

"Thank you, Lady Athena." In a flash she was gone, and so was I. Within seconds I found myself standing outside the border of Camp Half Blood.

"I'm home." I whispered to myself and walked through the barrier. I found my way to cabin 3, my cabin. As I walked in, I heard movement and uncapped Riptide. As I turned a doorway I saw a boy playing one man foosball. Except, I don't remember having a foosball table. He noticed me and smiled. The smile sent shivers up my spine, it was the kind of smile that gave people goosebumps.

"Hello, you must be Percy, I've heard so much about you." Scratch my previous statement, the way he said my name was the same way that gave people goosebumps.

"Yes, and you are?"

"I'm Colin, your half-brother." I froze in place at those words. I couldn't believe it. I had a brother other than Tyson. And then, after that day, my life became a living Underworld. Over the next few weeks, as it inched ever so closer to my 18th birthday, I suddenly started to lose everyone I cared about. My brother told everyone in camp that I hadn't really destroyed Kronos, or defeated Gaia. He told them that since Luke was the one holding the blade, he had killed Kronos. He also said that since Gaia was just sleeping again, I had done nothing more than postponed the war for a couple centuries.

Unfortunately, they started to believe him. Soon all I had left were my close friends, who I started to lose one by one. I lost the Stoll brothers because I was framed to make it look like I has ruined one of their pranks on the Aphrodite cabin. I lost Piper and Jason when I found myself standing in front of Piper who had her hand outstretched and my cheek stung. She said that I had tried to flirt with her, but I had no recollection of anything. Soon all I had left was Grover and Annabeth.

One night I went to sleep and that was the night everything went wrong. It was two days before my birthday and I feared I would only be spending it with Grover and Annabeth, possibly Nico if he took a break from the underworld. After falling asleep, I awoke to screaming and crackling. I was standing in the oldest section of he forest, a bucket of gasoline in one hand, and one of the Hephaestus cabin's greek fire containers. Around me, the forest was burning with Greek fire, I instantly tried to stop it. But water was no good, I made sure that there was a perimeter around the fire that it wouldn't be able to burn. It worked, and soon the fire died, but not before a huge portion of the forest had burnt to the ground.

I went around, trying to comfort dead and dying dryads, but the living ones glared at me and sent me away. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but apparently that wasn't the Fates' plan for me. Grover walked into the forest with Chiron and several Demeter children. He stared in horror and a dryad hovered over and whispered something in his ear.

"Percy?" He said, "You burnt down the trees." I couldn't defend myself, I had been holding the gasoline and container of fire. the dryads had seen me do it, even if i had no recollection of it. Within seconds. I felt something inside my head snap my empathy link with Grover. I was left in the smoldering ashes, alone and broken. I went to my cabin and slept, crying myself to sleep.

I woke up hours later, the moon high in the sky. I looked at a sundial, and realized it was around 11:00. I walked to the lake and started to head into the water when I noticed two figures. One was my brother and the other was a blonde girl. Now I was curious about who would be stupid enough to be with him, so. I snuck into some bushes and started to eavesdrop. The girl was laughing and giggling. It sounded familiar but I couldn't place my tongue on it.

"Why won't you break up with him?" My brother asked and then as the girl turned, my already fragile heart broke into a bajillion pieces. It was Annabeth, she kissed my brother and replied,

"Soon, probably at his party tomorrow." She said, shattering the tiny little pieces even more.

"Why haven't you told him already?" They kissed again, I started to feel queasy.

"I wasn't sure how to tell him, but these past few months with you have been amazing." They kisses again and now my heart had been crushed to dust and thrown into Tartarus. I snuck back to the cabin and grabbed a few things. Riptide, which felt heavy in my hands, and my backpack. I looked at the shield that Tyson had made after my adventures in the Sea of Monsters and wanted to melt it. I then reached into my pocket and pulled out a small box, I opened it.

Inside was a ring with a diamond that I had looted as an early part of my quest, I had sent it to Hephaestus to make it into a ring for Annabeth. On the inside was engraved,

"For the love of my life." I cried and threw it into the lake, hoping no one was around. I walked to the arena and grinned as Mrs. O'Leary came over. I pet her snout and smiled.

"Sorry girl, but I gotta go. See ya later." She whined as I walked out of the arena and walked towards the edge of the camp. I looked at the golden fleece and the dragon guarding it. I knew that as soon as I set foot across the property line, every moster in the nation would be after me.

~the next day~

I had walked all the way to central park when the worst news of all hit me. I saw a guy reading a newspaper and nearly had a heart attack at the front cover.

"Young Couple Dies in Cave-in" The picture was of my mom and stepdad, Paul Blofis, laying lifeless inside a cave. I shouted to sky, frightening a flock of birds and scaring nearby people. I went to a bench and curled myself into a ball, I had nothing left to live for.

~That night~

I stood up that night when I heard strange sounds. There was no one around, which was weird. And then several monsters appeared from the bushes. Two were cyclops, the kind that I was used to stabbing with my sword. Then there was a hellhound. And finally a empusa(not sure if I spelled that right). I was about to uncap Riptide, when I stopped and waited for death to come. It never came, instead the empusa stood in front of me and I noticed something different. Instead of the usual anger and hatred I was used to seeing, I saw worry, sorrow, but also small shred of goodness. I then realized all the monsters had that same gleam in their eyes.

"You're not going to kill me?" I asked. The empusa shook her head.

"Perseus, we are here to give you comfort."

"But you're monsters." I said.

"But we are like your pet, Mrs. O'Leary. We don't wish to bring suffering and pain, we want to help demi-gods and mortals. But we are few, and we are still hunted." She looked sad, an emotion i had never seen come from an empusa.

"That is why we have come, to give you a gift." She placed her index finger on my forehead and then she was gone. I didn't feel different, and I just went right back to try to cry myself to sleep.

Artemis POV

We had called the seven halfbloods who had defeated Gaia to Olympus to offer them gifts. When we finally had got done with the first 6, my father called for Perseus Jackson. Nobody stepped forward, we looked at the group and noticed that Perseus wasn't with them.

"Where is my son?" Poseidon asked, worry evident in his tone. Leo stepped forward nervously,

"He-he has gone missing." Poseidon shouted a curse in ancient Greek and Zeus commanded that he be found. For the next few hours ever single god was looking for Perseus. I went to his home of New York to start looking. I sensed his presence in Central Park and when I found him, I was shocked. I saw a boy, with disheveled clothing, eyes puffy and red. His look was far away and distant, I had never seen him like this. I calledApollo and Hermes to help me since they were two closest ones two my position.

"What is it si-" Apollo started, but stopped when he saw Perseus. He and Hermes convinced him to come to Olympus and we went into the throne room. Everyone was shocked when we brought him in, then everyone took their seats.

"Perseus Jackson," Zeus started, clearly unnerved on what had transformed the Hero of Olympus into the person before us, "we have brought you here to offer you a seat on Olympus." It took Perseus a few moments to answer.

"I'm sorry Lord Zeus, but I have to decline." Once again we were shocked that he had declined immortality.

"But I do have two requests." He said.

"As long as they are within out power." Zeus replied. Perseus paused and then said,

"First, I wish that Hestia and Hades be given thrones on Olympus."

"Very well." Zeus grumbled, and the two thrones appeared, "what is your second wish?"

What he said next, made everyone gasp in surprise, "I wish to die."

And thats the first chapter. Please review and give me suggestions. Stay tuned for more.