The Son of Neptune

Chp 1.

Annabeth and I were sitting in the center of the pavilion watching the hearth. The fire flickered eerily as they sat in silence. Annabeth rested her head on my chest. I could believe all the things I had accomplished while being at camp half-blood. I was the savior of Olympus and defeater of Kronos. The guy who held Atlas' burden. We sat for a long time, enjoying our time together without the fear of dying in an epic battle of good versus evil. I began to move, the adhd kicking him. Unable to sit still for a long period of time was an inconvenience for me, battle skills kicking in. I grew used to it; it was the god in me.

"This is the first time we've been alone all summer.

Annabeth: "its great isn't it. No wars, just us seaweed brain".

Yeah, it's been amazing. Wise girl, it's getting late.

Annabeth: ok, walk me to my cabin?

Yeah.

She and I got up and walked back to Athena's cabin. Annabeth held me by the hand as we walked. We passed the marble crack in the floor and Ares and Apollo cabins before we arrived at the cabin of Athena.

I drew Annabeth close and said: "I'll see you tomorrow". Then I kissed her. It was most amazing feeling, we were happy and enjoying our time together.

Annabeth kissed back me fiercely. I could hear Nymphs saying we looked like marble statues glistening in the moonlight.

I pulled away after hearing some nymphs snickering in the bushes. "I'll see you in the morning Wise girl."

Annabeth: "Later Seaweed brain."

I began to walk towards the cabin of Poseidon. The gray coral walls shined in the moonlight. As I approached the cabin, I heard a voice in the wind.

"Come to the sea"

"Dad?"

"We need to talk Percy."

I walked towards the beach, passing numerous cabins along the way. Along the beach, I noticed my favorite Pegasus standing on the beach.

Hey Blackjack.

Hey boss, got any donuts.

Sorry Blackjack, next time?

I'll hold that to ya boss. I got orders from the big boss. I gotta fly you somewhere over the seas.

Do you know where were going?

Blackjack neighed. Something about your dads private quarters.

I climbed aboard Blackjack's muscular back and held on as the Pegasus took off. After 20 minutes of flying, Blackjack neighed.

We're here boss.

Thanks Blackjack, I'll see ya later.

Don't get eating but fish ponies boss. Ha-ha

I dived from 20 feet above the ocean. The water was extremely calm as I entered, almost unheard of.

Percy, dive.

K Dad.

I willed the water to bring to the oceans floor. I passed several fish which acknowledged me as "lord' as I dived. At the bottom of the ocean laid the most beautiful building he had ever encountered. White marble with carvings and paintings of Greek, Roman, and American heroes. I swam towards the structure and saw pictures of men and women wielding spears and swords. As Percy swan, he saw a large portrait of himself wielding Anaklusmos.

"Whoa. This is sick."

"Like it?"

Poseidon suddenly appeared next to Percy in his Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirt, and trident in hand.

"Yeah dad, its cool".

"Come inside". Poseidon floated into the structure and I willed the currents to follow.

Poseidon sat in the center of the room in a black leather armchair with a trident holder, where the cup holder would be.

Dad, what's up?

Percy, an enemy more powerful than Kronos is rising. I can't tell you whom because I would break ancient laws. However, I can give you a couple items that will prepare all of us for this challenge.

There's someone worse than Kronos? I asked.

Afraid so Percy. I also regret this decision because the gods, one god in particular has chosen you and another half-blood for this quest. I couldn't fight the decision and for that I am sorry.

"I am too Dad. I thought I would get a break but now; I guess not."

Poseidon looked at me with his deep green eyes, like he was hiding something he wished to tell me.

He smiled. "Remember Percy, the ocean doesn't like to be restrained. Follow your own path."

Poseidon stood up and whisked something out of the air and handed me a necklace.

What is this? I asked. The necklace was a dog tag embedded with a trident.

Poseidon said, " It is a weapon, a weapon worthy of myself. I know you like Anaklusmos but, when that weapon doesn't work against your enemy, pull on the chain.

I put the chain on and pulled on dog tag. A trident appeared. Whoa Dad. What do I call it?

Poseidon replied "Bavawaos baoas". It is the unknown deep because it was especially made for you. Goodnight my son. I hope to speak with you soon.

"whaaa?"—I was cutoff as I fell unconscious.

I woke up with black cargo pants, running shoes, and an aqua green shirt in a forest. As I pushed myself up, I found I had a sword to my throat.

"Who are you?' a voice asked.

"I don't know."

CHp. 2

"Stand up half-blood."

I got to my feet and observed my captors and surrounding. The lead captor was a big guy. Lot of muscles and a tattoo etched on his right forearm, like he had been branded. The other two captors were female. One of them held a large wooded bow with gold tipped arrows aimed at my chest. The other two held swords. The shorter one held two twin blade knives while the other held a long sword.

"Where am I?" I asked my captors.

"Shut up." You're not to speak unless spoken to.

The male guard began talking to the girl with the bow. In Latin, which I somehow understood, he said "we should bring him to Luppa."

Bow and arrow girl replied "we don't know if he's even half-blood, we should search him and see if he's been trained as a spy.

The male guard then replied, "What happens if he's mortal?"

"We kill him," said the girl with the bow.

Whoa. You're going to kill me?

My captors looked surprised. The male guard then proceeded to tackle me and put me in an arm bar. Search him.

The bow and arrow girl and long sword girl searched me. They took a ballpoint pen and my necklaces.

The girls showed them to the girl with the two twin blades. She examined the pen, took off the cap, and a sword appeared.

She said" this is not imperial gold. Where did you get this weapon?"

I told you I don't know.

She proceeded to examine my leather necklace, with beads on it. She examined them closely and kept looking at me hard. She took the dog tag and examined it in her hands. She gasped.

Bobby, release him.

Bobby replied "why?"

"Because he may be connected to Jason's disappearance."

"How do you know Reyna, (the girl with the two thin blades).'

He is the son of Neptune.

My captors bound me, and dragged me to a metal structure. It was ok by me because it gave me an opportunity to observe my surroundings. I passed many structures and training areas. It would be fair to call the location a camp. Males fought with females in fighting arenas, people flew on winged horses, and archers practiced archery on human dummies 100 yard away. Once I had arrived at the metal structure, I was picked off the ground, and placed in a wooden room with only a picture of Rome to look at, and my two necklaces and ball point were placed across from me.

"Wait here" said Reyna.

It literally felt like hours with my adhd but probably ten minutes passed before anything happened. A wolf entered the room.

"Hey wolfee, please don't eat me."

Half-blood, I am Luppa. " Said the wolf.

Oh.

The wolf continued to speak. "When I was told that a child of Neptune may have been found, I was quite surprised. Not that a child of Neptune was found, but a nearly grown teenager with a weapon of distant making.

Luppa looked at the weapon and continued.

That weapon in question is a weapon of your father. But your father is not Neptune is it.

I know for a fact it is. I have a necklace of a trident. I must be a son of Neptune.

Well little half-blood, I know it isn't. Your father is Poseidon. The Greek counterpart of Neptune. While they are ideally the same person, they share different values thus making them different. And while that may be the case, you hold a necklace from the Greek camp in the east. Don't you Percy Jackson. I am well aware of what is going on and that the plan your father may have told you about is happening. It is breaking several centuries worth of secrets against our worst enemy. Do you know who that is?

No. This is a lot to taken Luppa. May I call you Luppa?

Yes.

Your saying I am from the Greek counterpart camp right?

"Yes."

So why don't you send me back there and you can tell your servants you ate me or something?

"Juno requires your help Perseus. And in order for you to help her, you must train here. In order to train here, the other campers must accept you. I know your accomplishments, but they do not. Therefore, we must test you. I have decided to give you back your weapon, and your dog tag, however, the necklace with the beads stays with me until I decide it fit to return to you."

"Who is the Olympian gods greatest enemy?"

"Mother earth herself. I will have one of my campers armor you, and feed you. Your test begins in an hour. Prepare yourself."

"Great."

I was taken by a sixteen-year-old camper to an arena where I was given a shield and a helmet. He stood guard as I put on my items and then led me to another room where I was allowed to eat. He stood with his arm on his sword.

"Relax, I'm not going anywhere."

He continued to stare me down.

After a while, he looked at his watch signaled me to follow him where we stood in a room.

"What happens next?" I asked.

"Listen."

"I will," said Reyna.

The entire camp fell silent at once.

"Bad news" said my guard. "Reyna is the second best sword fighter, actually, the best swordfighter here".

Great, now I know I'm fucked.

I stepped into the open ring while I watched Reyna come into it from the opposite side.

I heard laughter from the crowds. "Look at him, he doesn't even have a sword." "Ha-ha, he's gonna get his ass kicked."

I blocked out the sound, drew my pen, and uncapped it.

The laughter died immediately. I was in the zone; I felt like I had been in this position multiple times and this time was no different. She was my opponent and I was ready to show camp Legion what I could do.

Reyna drew her knives and I attacked with my sword. I sliced, jabbed, cut, and punched with everything I had. Reyna did the same, I think. We battled for a good eight minutes until I disarmed her of one of her blades. She continued attacking and I disarmed her again. I put a sword to her throat and said, "yield." (Yes, I did feel like a bamf at that moment).

"Not bad half-blood" said Reyna. She grabbed my sword, cut her hand, and yanked the sword from my grasp. She then sprinted off to her own knives. Out of instinct, I reached out for water. A huge snake of water hit Reyna, barricading her in the ground. I ran to my sword, picked it up from the ground, and before Reyna could get free, I kicked a sword from out her reach and put my own to her throat. "Yield or die." (I wouldn't have actually cut her; it just sounded impressive.)

The entire stadium was dead quite. Not a person moved or, for that matter, breathed. Luppa walked onto the field, and yelled out "you have passed your test half-blood. Welcome Perseus, son of Neptune." The entire stadium remained silent as I recapped my pen. As I walked back into the room from which I had originated, I heard my guard say "Damn."

My guard led me to cabin where I picked up a change of clothes, and toiletries.

I was taken to a cabin near the ocean. They said that the cabin belonged to Neptune's children. I dropped the toiletries I was given on my way from the stadium onto a bunk bed and took of my shoes. I rolled up my jeans and waded into the water. There, I asked, to no in particular: "Who am I?"

Chp 3

Several people told me that Neptune was one of the big three. Jupiter (Zeus), Neptune (Poseidon), and Pluto (Hades) weren't supposed to have children after world war two. The war was basically a war between the sons/daughters of Hades versus the sons/daughters of Poseidon and Zeus. Basically, I was a mistake. I took the message in stride because I was also told that many monsters would want to kill me.

I decided to practice my powers of Neptune 2 hours a day; Roman strategy said that if I better understood my powers, I would have a larger opportunity to win. Therefore, I practiced. I practice bending the water into shapes, going to my every whim, creating small waves, large waves, and a bit of surfing (I thought the son of Poseidon/Neptune needs to know how to surf; I mean, it's a little funny?)

The other 12-14 hours of my day was dedicated to honing my reflexes, swordsmanship, fighting with my trident, weight lifting, rock climbing, eating, and occasionally singing with the Apollo cabin.

Two days after my arrival at camp, Reyna approached me.

"Your pretty good with that sword fish face" she said.

Your pretty good with those knives Reyna" I replied. "Tell me, what cabin do you belong to?

"Mars."

You mean "Ares."

No, why do you keep saying the Greek name of the gods.

It feels like instinct." I said.

"Just like our sword match?"

"Exactly."

"Hmmmm." Said Reyna. That's interesting.

Reyna sat down by the beach as I continued to practice my powers of Neptune. I was about to create a sphere of water when I heard

"I have decided to teach you my double blade style and hope in return, you can give me a few pointers in your weird style of swordsmanship."

"Sure" I replied. "I'm down with that."

"Good. I'll see in the arena tomorrow at noon."

Reyna was being awfully nice to me and I was curious about her. I decided to look around camp and see if I could gather any information about her. I stepped out of the water; clothes being completely dry, and walked towards the center of camp. I decided that it was necessary for me to know what was going on.

From the center of camp, I saw multiple cabins with different designs. There was Poseidon, I mean, Neptune's cabin, which sat near the water with grey colored walls.

In the center of the camp was Zeus', Jupiter's cabin. It was painted a deep blue and stood higher than any other cabins. There I saw a girl crying on steps.

I walked over to her and asked "what's wrong?"

The girl, who I recognized with the bow and arrow, said "nothing son of Neptune, go away."

"Come on, you're crying. Maybe I can help you?"

"Unless you know where Jason, the son of Jupiter is, you can't help me."

"Did he suddenly walk out of camp or disappear?"

"Percy, he disappeared two days before you showed up, which means, and I think everyone is thinking this: your appearance and Jason's disappearance are related."

"What do you mean?"

Percy, you're a son of Neptune, one of the big three. Jason is a son of the big three, Jupiter. You show up with absolutely no memory, yet are able to defeat Reyna, the best fighter in camp without so much as a scratch. Do you not think that's weird at all?"

"When you put it that way… Are people are suspicious of my arrival?"

"What do you—hey Bobby!"

Bobby: "Hey Gwen. "

"That was one of my captors."

"Yeah." Said Gwen. "Bobby, son of Vulcan."

We also haven't had a formal introduction. Who are you?"

"Gwen, daughter of Apollo."

"So, what do people think of me?"

No one knows what to think son of Neptune. But, we'll see tonight."

"What's tonight?"

"Capture the flag."

Gwen walked away from me afterward. Before she left, I asked her, "What's Reyna's deal?"

"She and Jason are a couple." You showing up here is the hardest for her."

"Why?"

"Boys…" and with that she walked off.

I made my way towards the climbing wall. It was time to prove myself dangerous.

The teams were split up in two's. Apollo, Mars, Neptune, Venus on one side while everyone else was on the other.

I sat outside my cabin hold Anaklusmos in my hand waiting for the battle to start.

I didn't hear Reyna walk up to me.

"You're going to need a helmet and shield if you don't want to get killed." She took me by the hand and led me to the Vulcan armory. "Bobby!"

What" called Bobby?

"Percy needs armor."

"Hang on"

Reyna and I waited for a couple minutes before Bobby came out carrying a leather body, helmet, shield, and a dagger.

"I know you have your sword, but you might need a dagger sometime."

My mind flashed to a grey-eyed girl with blonde hair wielding a dagger. "Seaweed brain."

"Thanks Bobby." I said. "Lets go kick some ass."

"Lets" said Reyna.