Just so you, the reader, knows this story takes place after The Last Olympian but before The Lost Hero.
Now for the ever popular disclaimer.
I DO NOT OWN THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES! But I wish I did.
Percy Jackson was sitting at the edge of the pier that overlooked a lake. Hey was just simply enjoying the view and his break from training when he heard someone walking up behind him.
"Hey seaweed brain Chiron wants us at the big house." A girl said.
"Annabeth, I wish you would stop calling me that." Percy said.
"Then stop acting like one all the time." Annabeth replied as she reached her hand out to him.
"What does he need?" Percy asked as he took her hand and stood up.
"I don't know he just said that he wants to see us." Annabeth answered.
The two walked hand in hand back to camp and up to a sky blue building that was sitting at the center of a large semi circle of cabins of different color and design. The two walked up the steps at the front of the building and were greeted by Chiron, a centaur. He had brown hair and brown eyes and his horse half was a white stallion. He didn't say "Hello" when Percy and Annabeth walked up. He instead motioned for them to follow him. He led them to the Rec room and stood at one end of a ping pong table that was set up in the middle of the room. On top of the table was a map of New York with several circles drawn in red at various spots some larger than others.
"Is something wrong?" Percy asked. "You're acting strange."
"Possibly." Chiron said. "We have been getting reports from satyrs in New York that strange monsters have been showing up. The descriptions they gave of them where of creatures that I had never heard of before."
"So, you want us to find these creatures and deal with them?" Annabeth asked.
"No need." Chiron said.
"And why is there no need?" Percy asked.
"Because the creatures have already been taken care of." Chiron answered.
"Then why did you call use in here if you already had someone take care of them?" Annabeth asked.
"Because it wasn't us that took care of them." Chiron replied. "The satyrs reports also state a group of people that follow these creatures. We don't know who they are or what they can do. Whenever the satyrs try to follow them the creatures and the people have vanished."
"Well are they unclaimed demi-gods?" Percy asked.
"Don't you remember what you had the gods agree to after the battle with Kronos?" Chiron responded. "You made the gods agree to claim all demi-gods before their thirteenth birthday. The satyrs say that they are all easily in their twenties."
"So what do you want us to do about it?" Annabeth asked.
"I want you to find out who these people are, what those creatures are, and what their up to." Chiron said. "Take this map, it's where the sightings of those creatures and the group of people were. Give you some place to start looking."
Chiron reached down and quickly picked up the map and rolled it up. He then walked around the ping pong table and handed it to Percy. Percy took the map and quickly looked around the room.
"Hey where's Mr.D?" Percy asked.
"He went to go find Artemis to see if she knows anything." Chiron asked. "Now, be safe you two and take Grover with you, he's probably in the forest with Juniper."
"Of course, would we ever do anything without him?" Annabeth said.
"I figured as much." Chiron said.
Two hours later after they had gathered up Grover and things they would need for the trip and Argus had driven them they arrived at Central Park in New York City. Many of the sightings that were marked on the map were around and inside the park.
"Well this should be as good a place as any to start looking." Percy said. "But I still wonder why everything happens in New York?"
"Maybe it's just because of Olympus being here." Annabeth replied.
"A well let's get started then." Percy said as he walked further into the park with Annabeth and Grover behind him.
After several more hours of searching the three found nothing not even a strange scent or an unknown footprint.
"It's getting dark Percy we should find somewhere to rest for the night." Grover said as he munched on a tin can.
"Your right we should continue our search tomorrow." Percy said.
They started to leave the park when a satyr suddenly jumped out of the bushes and ran up to them.
"Chiron said that you would be in here." The satyr said. "I have come to give you a message. There has been another sighting in Plattekill State Forest, a many miles away from here."
"Thank you um… ah…whats your name?" Percy asked.
"Gregory sir." Gregory said.
"Well thank you Gregory for the news." Percy said.
"No problem, oh and Grover?" Gregory said.
"Yes?" Grover said taking a slight step forward.
"Juniper says to hurry back she already misses you." Gregory said before turning around and heading back into the bush.
"Well looks like we're sleeping on a bus tonight." Annabeth said.
Several hours later Percy woke up to the bus driver shaking him awake to tell him that they arrived. After Percy woke up Annabeth and Grover they got off the bus to find that the driver actually stopped on the side of the rode that went along the edge of the forest. After they said thank you and goodbye the three took off into the forest. After several minutes of walking Grover felt comfortable enough to take off the jeans and shoes he was wearing and walk around with his own brown haired goat legs. After several more minutes they found a trail of foot prints of a creature that they didn't recognize. It resembled a human's foot print but each one was different in size and had large divots in them showing that each foot had bumps on them in different places and different sizes. After following the prints they started to hear voices. The voices were too far away to make out what they were saying, but the further they went the more distinct the voices became. The three then saw a clearing and heard the voices coming from it so they quickly hid in one of the bushes among the many that ran the edge of the clearing.
The three slowly and quietly moved back some of the bushes limbs and leaves to see what it was that was standing in the field. What they saw, no amount of training had prepared them for. They saw what looked like deformed humans, some with extra limbs some other extra body parts. For some it was even a stretch to even call them human like they were so deformed. There were at least thirty if not forty of these creatures just standing around or just slowly walking aimlessly. At the opposite end of the clearing was another creature very much different from the others. It looked like a giant satyr but with what looked like wolf legs. The top half had fire that covered the front of the chest acting almost like chest hair. The fire continued up to the creatures shoulder and down its arms to the back of its hands. The head had horns that stuck straight out of the back of its head like an antelope. The face was slightly elongated to nose looked like it had been burned off, the creature had no lips so you could see the razor sharp teeth. He carried what looked like a whip made out of flames and it wore a belt that had a scabbard and a sword hanging from it. The fire monster was sniffing the air like it was trying to find something.
"What the heck are those things?" Percy asked.
"I don't know but they're disgusting." Annabeth replied.
"I think we should be getting out of here." Grover said.
Suddenly the fire monster started to walk around the perimeter of the clearing sniffing everything. He gradually started getting closer to the bush that the three were hiding in. The fire monster was right in front of their bush and was sniffing it but the three stayed as still as they could and didn't make a sound. The demon slowly passed over their bush and started to walk away and Percy and Annabeth let out a quiet sigh of relief. Suddenly Grover let out a short but very loud goat like bleat and quickly covered his mouth with his hand, but it was too late. The monster was standing in front of their bush with a very pissed of look on his face.
"MOVE!" Percy yelled as the monster opened its mouth and a red light shown out from its throat. The three quickly rolled out of the bush and into the field as a massive vortex of flame came out of the demons mouth and engulfed the bush they were in and the bushes and trees beside and behind it. Percy reached into his pocket and pulled out a pen which he quickly uncapped and the pen transformed into a bronze colored sword. Annabeth reached to her side and unsheathed a small dagger, and Grover reached in to the backpack he was carrying and pulled out a set of reed pipes.
The monster quickly spun around and swung out its arm. Percy ducked to avoid the attack but Annabeth and Grover weren't fast enough and the arm sent them flying into the crowd of deformed creatures. Percy quickly charged the monster and drove riptide straight into its gut all the way down to the guard. The monster reached down and grabbed Percy and threw him into the crowd of monsters. The monster reached down and pulled the sword out of his gut and held it in front of its face. Suddenly the sword turned back into a pen and fell to the ground where the monster left it. The monster turned to look at where he threw Percy and let out a short, guttural grunt. The crowd of deformed monsters quickly split apart to reveal all three of them being held by a monster.
"So the puny humans want to play?" The monster said in a low guttural tone. "Well it looks like I won and I'm going to have a very nice lunch of fresh meat."
The monster then reached down to his sword and unsheathed it. The blade was covered in flames and was over five feet long, even though the scabbard was only around two feet.
"Now, who to cut up first?" The monster asked. "I know, how about the girl?"
"Over my dead body!" Percy yelled as he started to struggle.
"Oh, so this girl means something to you?" The monster said. "Then I'll do it slowly and make you watch."
The monster lowered its sword and placed the tip of the blade at her left shoulder and slowly started to push the blade forward. Annabeth screamed at the top of her lungs as the blade started to pierce her flesh.
"NO! STOP!" Percy yelled as he continued to struggle against the monster holding him. Grover was in shock and was not moving. The monster then stopped pushing the blade and pulled it swiftly to the side ripping Annabeth's arm off. Annabeth's screams intensified as the monster picked up her arm and threw it at Percy and it hit him in the chest and fell to the dirt in front of him. Percy just stared at the arm with wide eyes.
"Now for the other one." The monster said as he put the tip of the sword on her other shoulder.
Suddenly six throwing knives came flying out of the trees and imbedded themselves in the arm of the monster forcing him to drop the sword. The monster looked over to where the knives had come from. The ground then suddenly shook and a man with silver hair and wearing blue jeans and a camo shirt. came flying out from the top of the trees. The man stopped right above the clearing and started to fall from above the monster. Right before the man landed on the monster he pulled his fist back and was ready to punch the thing, but the monster quickly jumped back.
The man's fist collided with the ground and the ground shook violently as spider web cracks stretched throughout the clearing. Suddenly a very thick fog swept across the clearing. Percy couldn't see more than two feet in front of his face but he could see the glow of the fire coming from the monster. Suddenly a very loud roar came from behind him and he could hear screams of pain coming from the crowd of monsters behind him. Percy felted the hands that were holding him get ripped off of him and the fog cleared away revealing around twenty lions ripping apart the deformed monsters. Grover was lying on the ground several feet away from him still paralyzed by shock. He could also see Annabeth lying on the ground in a ball crying with her hand where her arm used to be. Thank fully there was no bleeding since the flames on the sword cauterized the wound as it cut threw her.
Percy looked up to see five men fighting the fire monster when suddenly one of them with black hair jumped up and landed on the knives that were still stuck in the monsters arm and started to use them as steps. A long blade suddenly appeared in his hand and the man swung the sword and cut the monsters head off. The head turned to ash before it hit the ground and so did the body. Suddenly the man with silver hair turned around and started to walk towards Percy. The man never actually paid any mind to him he just picked up Annabeth's arm and walked over to her.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Percy asked as he slowly got up and started to walk over towards him.
The man who killed the monster appeared in front of him and held his arms out to the side stopping Percy from walking any further. The man was wearing black jeans and a dark grey shirt with a small unzipped black vest.
"Do not interrupt him." The man said.
"But that's my girlfriend!" Percy yelled and pushed past the man. The next thing he knew he was on the ground with his arm pinned to his back.
"Just wait." The man said.
Percy could see the first man had placed Annabeth's arm on the ground and was slowly pulling Annabeth out of her ball position and was getting her to lay flat on her back. The man then lined up the arm with her shoulder and pushed the arm up against her to where the two cuts were touching. The touch cause Annabeth to wince a little.
"It's ok, you'll be alright soon the man said in a very monotone voice. The man then wrapped his hands around the wound. Suddenly the man let go and helped Annabeth to stand up and turned her towards Percy. The man who was holding Percy then let go and helped him up. Percy then ran over towards Annabeth and quickly looked her over. Amazingly her arm was reattached with no scar showing where it was cut. Percy quickly embraced her in the biggest hug he had ever given any body.
"What were you guys thinking trying to take them on, and what are you all doing hanging around with a demon?" The man with silver hair said.
"What do you mean demon?" Percy asked as he turned to look at the group of men. One of them had spiky dirty blond hair and was wearing a pair of blue jeans with an orange shirt and was holding on to a very scared Grover while another with shoulder length curly black hair held a knife to his throat. The man was wearing black cargo pants with a light grey shirt.
"Wait he's not a demon he's my friend!" Percy yelled.
"Then you mind telling me what he is?" The man with the blond hair asked.
"He's a satyr, don't you know what those are?" Percy responded.
"A creature form mythology." The man with black hair said. "But mythology isn't true. It's just something that an ancient society came up with to explain things that they couldn't."
"Oh it's real alright." Came a voice from the trees.
Out of the trees came a man with black hair and purple eyes. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a button down shirt that had a grape vine design.
"Mr. D what are you doing here?" Percy said.
"I came here to take you three and your new friends to Olympus." Mr. D said.
"Just because you walk out of the trees all mysterious like has nothing to do with mythology being real." The blond haired one said. "Well just leave here knowing that there is a person that likes to dress as a satyr and some kids that think they can take on demons. Well, see ya, and stay out of trouble."
The group of men turned around and started to walk away when suddenly hundreds of grape vines sprung from the ground and plants around the clearing and blocked their path.
"I don't think that I said that you could go did I?" Mr. D said.
"Nice trick but we have some tricks of our own." The man with black hair said as a sword appeared in his hand and started to cut up the vines. Suddenly an arrow fly by the man's ear and embedded itself into a tree.
"It would be wise to listen to him." A female voice said.
The group turned around to see that a large crowd of females all wielding bows and arrows emerged from the trees and in the lead was a tall women wearing armor with a bow in her hand.
"Ah Artemis you sure took your time." Mr. D said.
"Ok, what do you want?" The silver haired one asked.
"We want you to come with us to Olympus." Mr. D responded.
"Wait isn't that the home of the mythological gods?" The blond haired one asked.
"Yes what else would it be a mall or casino?" Mr. D asked.
"Whatever, but why should we believe you?" The silver haired one responded.
"Come with use and we will give you a reason." Mr. D said.
"Nathan what do you think?" The blonde haired man asked as he slightly turned his head toward the silver haired man.
"We'll go with you, but if you try to do anything to cause any harm to use we won't hesitate to defend ourselves." Nathan said.
"Understandable." Mr. D said.
"Just hold on a second." Nathan said when he suddenly vanished leaving a small cloud of dust where his feet used to be. After a few seconds Nathan reappeared, but he wasn't alone. With him was a women with long curling blond hair and bright blue eyes. She was wearing grass stained blue jeans and a pink t-shirt that said I love New York. Each of them were carrying back packs and duffle bags that belonged to the other people in their group. After the other men each grabbed a bag they started to follow Mr. D and the one called Artemis. Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and the female that arrived with Artemis were walking behind Nathan and the rest in his group. Annabeth was walking with the girls at the back of the group and was talking with a girl that had short spiky black hair and blue eyes. Percy suddenly picked up his pace and started to walk alongside Nathan.
"So, how did you do it?" Percy asked.
"Do what?" Nathan replied in a very monotone manner showing no emotion.
"Put her arm back on. I have never seen anything like that happen." Percy said.
"It's just something I can do. Why, are you mad about it?" Nathan asked.
"No, not at all, I actually wanted to thank you for that." Percy said.
"Your welcome." Nathan said in the same monotone voice. Percy slowed down and started to walk along the side of the black haired man.
"Whats his problem?" Percy asked.
"He's been like that for a while now, but its not really his fault." The man said. "Oh and the names Seth."
"Ok, Seth, how is it not his fault?" Percy asked.
"Well he didn't always have silver hair and powers." Seth said. "In fact none of use actually had powers at first. He was actually dead for four years before he came back to life with his powers. Unfortunately he lost all emotions except for anger and love, why we don't fully know."
Percy's eyes widened at the news and he turned his gaze to the back of Nathan's head.
"Ok, but how did you get your powers?" Percy asked.
"Well we all have powers except for her." Seth said while pointing at the girl that was walking closely behind Nathan. "We went through the same thing but we weren't dead for four years we were dead for at most ten minutes. Nathan here brings us back to life but only within ten minutes after death. When we come back we have powers and we keep our emotions thankfully."
After a few minutes of silence as Percy tried to absorb the information that was just given to him the two stepped out of the forest and onto a sidewalk that ran the length of central park which was the forest that they just walked out of.
"Wait what?" Nathan said.
"There's a perk that comes with walking with us." Mr. D said.
After a few more minutes after taking many back alleys they arrived at the entrance to the Empire State Building.
"My brain hurts." The blonde haired man said.
"Mine to Clay, mine to." Seth said.
They group walked into the lobby of the building and approached a man that was sitting behind the front desk.
"Welcome to the Empire State Building how can I help you." The man said.
"Yes a key to the 600th floor please." Mr. D said.
"I'm sorry sir but there is now 600th floor." The man said.
"Give me the key before I turn you into a grape vine." Mr. D said.
"Yes sir, very good sir." The man said as he reached underneath the table and pulled out a small gold colored key and handed it to Mr. D. "Here you are sir."
"Thank you." Mr. D said as he started to walk towards the elevators. Everyone except the women that followed Artemis stayed in the lobby except for the girl that Annabeth was talking to. The group walked to the elevators and the moment Mr. D approached one it opened to reveal an elevator waiting for them. The all were able to squeeze on the elevator with room to spare. Mr. D stuck the key into a small key hole that was located at the bottom of the panel that had the buttons and an extra button appeared at the top of the panel where Mr. D had his finger ready to push it. The elevator slightly jerked as it started to rise and after a few minutes of listening to elevator music the doors opened to reveal something that Nathan and his group never expected. A massive stairway that led to what looked like a massive Greek temple with several large fires lighting the way.
"Welcome to Olympus." Mr. D said.
Author's notes
Thank you for reading and plz leave a review.
If you wondering where I got the characters that aren't native to the Percy Jackson series just head over to Google and search for Apparition: Sanctums End. It's a story that my cousin is in the process of writing.
ShoJumpfan out.