First off I deleted all my other stories because honestly, they sucked, they were terrible, I'm aware. I am going to try to do a new story, but with school and everything uploads are going to be spotty, and if this one sucks I'll delete it as well. I do not appreciate flames, or threats, so if you want to flame send me a PM, if you want to threaten me know that I will intentionally delay the update a day for every new threat I get, not that I'm expecting any, I just know there are people who will do that shit. In my Fanfics I curse, the character might not, but I will probably include a great deal of profanity in the author's notes, so be warned.
I don't own PJO! and i'll probably forget to do a disclaimer again so here it is!
The story begins with Percy wandering around, his mother has just been killed while they were in California.
A small boy trudged through a field covered in snow, the scent of alcohol reached his nose and he recoiled, it reminded him to much of his step-father, two children came running toward him and the boy started running. Suddenly there was a flash of light and the children all fell into the snow in fear, the man who had appeared in the flash eyed the children critically before heading in the direction they came from. After a while of just sitting there, exhausted, the man returned, "my children, I am sorry but I must separate you, I hope that one day you will be able to see each other again, but until then, I am sorry" the two children disappeared, leaving the boy sitting there awkwardly, "you are my nephew Perseus, and I have a task for you, I want you to accompany my son Jason and protect him, I will bless you and send you to the same place as him, I hope you will have a good life" the man said, then the boy's vision went dark.
Percy woke up in a crumbling house, there were large wolves surrounding him, growling menacingly, he stood slowly and met the eyes of the largest one, even though he was four years old his piercing gaze showed no fear. The wolf decided to test his courage and snarled, Percy remained unflinching, the wolf realized then that nothing he could do would affect this boy, short of actually attacking him, the wolves as one slunk away. Percy slowly relaxed and spotted the boy he had been assigned to protect surrounded by wolves, trying to stare them down, but it was obvious he saw terrified. Percy approached, about to help Jason when a large wolf stopped him, the wolf glowed for a second before being replaced by a woman, "he must do this himself child, it is his test" Percy nodded and sat down, watching Jason interact with the wolves. When Jason had finished wrestling with the wolves he glared angrily at Percy, "why didn't you help me?" he whined, "it was a test, I don't cheat" Jason kept glaring at him but Percy ignored it, Percy stood and bowed suddenly as the wolf goddess approached from behind Jason, the other boy thought he was bowing to him and smiled smugly, "Lady Lupa" Percy said, shocking Jason.
It had been Three years since Percy and Jason arrived to train with Lupa, she had taken them in for extra training due to their stronger scents as children of the big three. Percy fought with a plethora of weapons, all gifts from one god or another, he had a golden javelin which was a gift from Jupiter, a sword which had been a gift from his father, Neptune, and even a crossbow, which had been a gift from Diana, though why she saw fit to give him a weapon nobody could understand. He was not the usual six year old, he wore almost all black, and the upper part of his face was always hidden by a hood, he could almost never be found without his knee length black duster, which was usually worn over a black and green hoodie and secured in the front with dark blue chains. Jason however, was a bundle of energy and joy, he was arrogant, though he made an attempt to keep his arrogance in check, his only weapon was a golden coin which transformed into either a javelin or gladius, his blonde hair was nearly always cropped short and his blue eyes seemed to contain lightning as they swirled. Percy appeared to be the definition of the word depressed, though that was simply a facade he kept up to prevent showing weakness, a few select members of Lupa's pack and Lupa herself were the only ones who saw him without his hood, or a scowl plastered across his face, his sea-green eyes swirled with power, and his aura was stronger than any other demigod alive at the time, certainly not an outcome Jupiter had expected, though Percy's humility and dislike of power prevent Jupiter from declaring him dangerous. Percy had long ago secured the blessings of numerous gods, including Jupiter himself, Pluto, Lupa, and Artemis, though he was unaware of the last, as she had blessed him secretly and even she was unsure why.
Percy watched his charge train, he had long ago mastered his own weapons, but he still had to ensure that Jason was safe, his mission that he had not even been given a chance to accept, he didn't need the power, but he couldn't think of anything better to do with his time, and so he didn't complain about the unfairness. Jason was a natural with both javelin and sword, and his control over the winds was powerful for his age, but while Jason could control the winds, and some weak lightning, Percy could control both, his blessing from Jupiter was stronger with control over lightning, but Percy could also use the water vapor in the air to magnify his control over it, and the blessing of Pluto allowed him to shadow-travel, and wield stygian iron weapons, but that was it, with his blessing from Lupa he could turn into a pitch black wolf, and he didn't even know he had Diana's blessing, so how could he harness it. Jason finished dismantling the dummy with a gust of wind and Percy felt Lupa speak into his mind, "you and your charge may leave whenever you feel he is ready, we both know you are" the goddess said, she always seemed resentful that Percy was forced to guard the young son of Jupiter when he was only a few months older than the boy himself, "we shall leave immediately, I will return in a few months my Lady" Percy replied. Jumping out of the tree he was perched in Percy surprised Jason, his hood was up, as always, "we are leaving son of Jupiter, pack as much food and water as you can carry, we leave as soon as possible" the boy was about to complain when he realized just how outmatched he was, the few times Percy had even accepted his challenges to a duel the son of Neptune had shown exactly why he was guarding Jason and not the other way around, Percy had toyed with him for a few minutes before brutally obliterating Jason's defenses and dealing what would have been nearly ten fatal blows before Jason had even noticed what had happened, they were friends, but Percy's duty came before even friendship, and so they were not very close.
20 minutes after Percy had commanded Jason to pack they were ready to leave, "pack faster next time, or I'll start attacking you while you do to speed you up" Percy said, "Percy, I think 20 minutes is fast enough" Jason said, "not if we were under attack" Percy replied before walking into the treeline, "if you wanted me to pack like we were being attacked you should have said so, I'm pretty sure I could have packed faster" Jason said, "whatever Jason, next time just assume I mean as if we're under attack" Percy said, Jason grumbled something about tough older brothers and pushing to hard, Percy pretended not to hear him, "we need to get to camp Jupiter, Lupa will do her best to keep the monsters off us, but the pack can only do so much, we need to hurry" Percy said, "wait, I thought Lupa wouldn't help us with this, it's supposed to be a test" Jason said, "do you really think Lupa would allow the two of us to lead an army of monsters to camp? Our scents can probably be smelled up in Oregon, it wouldn't be possible to reach camp Jupiter alive without drawing an army of monsters, they won't stop all the monsters, just keep most off our trail" Percy said.
Percy and Jason stumbled out of the treeline a few meters from the entrance to Camp Jupiter, "go Jason, I'll hold them off" Percy said, "no, we do this together" Jason said, "Jason, it's my duty to protect you, if you stay to help me then I'm not doing my job, now GO!" Percy shouted, drawing the attention of the legionarres at the gate, trees shook as a pack of werewolves broke through the trees, Percy was surrounded and outnumbered more than five to one, he finally let himself become his wolf form as the legionares blew a horn for reinforcements, Lycaon, the werewolf king stepped forward, "surrender now and we will be merciful" he growled, Percy smirked and called down a blast of lightning, the wolves jumped back in fear, and Percy lunged, using the winds to propel himself into the enemy wolves, which were smaller than him anyway. Percy ripped through half the wolves surrounding him before the Romans even appeared with reinforcements, but none of them had silver weapons, so he kept shredding the enemy wolves, until finally he stood before Lycaon himself, he shifted back into his human form and looked the gaunt man in his yellow eyes, "run Lycaon, just run, you will lose if you do not come to your senses now, you are alone, before the entire 12 th legion, I know enough Imperial gold will hurt you, even if it takes every sword the legion has I'm sure we can find a way to at least wound you enough so you wish yourself dead" the werewolf king smirked smugly, "you are but a child!" he exclaimed, and Percy raised a hand, the trees behind Lycaon shrunk inward and then imploded, leaving behind a mist of water droplets, Percy launched them at Lycaon before the werewolf could think and bound his arms and legs, then made a single tendril into a point and impaled Lycaon with it, the water froze and Percy drew a tiny silver folding knife, he drove it into Lycaon's head and released the water, before promptly passing out.
Percy awoke in a startlingly white room, he could feel the necklace which held the charms of all his weapons on his neck. There was a girl watching him, and he could see Jason in the bed next to him, "is he ok?" Percy asked, concerned for the boy he had to protect, the girl nodded and left. Jason sleepily yawned and sat up in his hospital bed, completely unharmed, Percy felt a pang of anger at the boys lack of injury but quickly squashed it down, he could not afford to feel anger towards the boy he had been assigned to protect. Suddenly a flash of light blinded both boys, and Jupiter stood there, in all his imagined glory. Percy hurriedly got out of the bed and bowed, but Jason froze in shock, "Perseus Jackson, I have come to relieve you of your mission, I wish you luck within the legion" then the god was gone without so much as a glance toward his son.
It had been a few months since Percy had arrived at Camp, but he already wanted to leave, the Legion restricted him to much, he had been raised by wolves and needed the wide open spaces of the forest to feel secure, in anything. Percy's training was incredibly easy, Jason also found it easy but bragged about how much better he was than the other trainees, and he was becoming something of a bully. Percy saw Jason pushing another kid around, he had stopped trying to hold his arrogance in check and knew he was one of the best in his class, and he made that fact known to everyone, he'd even stopped respecting Percy and bragged to him about beating other children up. Jason easily disarmed and shoved the boy he had been bullying and Percy finally had enough, he rose from his crouched position and walked toward the group that surrounded the boy, laughing at him. Percy approached from behind Jason and ripped the boys sword from his hand, then pushed past the crowd and knelt before the other boy, who was sitting on the ground with tears streaming down his face, "here" Percy said,offering the boy his sword back, the boy took it hesitantly, Percy was attuned to other peoples emotions, part of his blessing from Lupa, and he could feel the terror rolling of the boy in waves, he slowly stood up and felt the unbearable fire of rage flowing throughout his body, so much so that he knew the other kids could feel it rolling off him. Jason involuntarily took a step back, he had tried to show his power, Romans respect power, and now he knew he'd gone to far, the one person he was afraid of, the one person he knew he would never beat, had come for him, and Percy didn't have mercy in his dictionary. Percy watched the other boys flee, and he drew his javelin, "Jason Grace, you have chosen to attack another member of the Legion, and since that member was to young to be a legionarie, a member of Lupa's pack, what have you to say in your defense?" Percy growled, Jason squeaked something incoherent before Percy attacked with his javelin, forcing Jason to dodge and draw his own. They dueled evenly for a few moments, long enough for the teachers and other students to arrive, before Percy decided he was bored and disarmed Jason before stabbing him through the thigh, "you should know better son of Jupiter, I know Lupa taught you better" Percy said before shadow-traveling behind him and smacking him on the back of his head with his javelin, knocking him out. Percy left the Legion that day, he hated how confining it was, hated the routine he had to follow. He went and found Lupa, offering to help her train the demigods by conveying the lessons she was trying to teach and comforting them when they needed it, she did not accept his offer.
Time Skip 2 years
Percy wandered the country, killing monsters and avoiding the Legion, until he came across a group of silver clad girls sitting around a campfire, he approached them cautiously, hoping for a spot by the fire in the cold, he could somehow tell that it was -23 degrees and he was wearing his usual hoodie and duster combination, but the duster didn't help at all and the hoodie was very thin. As soon as one of them noticed him she yelled and raised a bow, the others all drew weapons and pointed them at him, "sorry" he said, "I will take my leave, it is obvious you wish to be left alone" he started walking backwards out of the camp, wishing to avoid conflict. He didn't get his wish as an arrow came flying toward him, he managed to smack it out of the air with his numb hands and muttered, "it's to cold, usually I can catch arrows shot at me" he was worried now, the girls had the warmth of the fire, he had nothing and his joints weren't working properly in the cold, his movements were sluggish. There was a flash of light and Percy tried to fumble for a weapon but his fingers wouldn't grip the charm, finally he managed to draw his sword, only to find Diana standing in front of him. Percy immediately dropped into a bow, "I apologize Lady Diana, I was unaware you even had hunters anymore" he said, hoping for some mercy from the goddess, "rise Perseus, why are you not at Camp Jupiter?" the goddess asked, Percy rose, only to find the girls were all gone, "the routine was to much for me my Lady, the sea in me couldn't stand it, which was only reinforced by the wolf in me, the regulations went against my nature" she nodded, and her image seemed to shimmer before she became a 12 year-old girl with auburn hair, "there is a great secret we gods possess, capable of destroying all our children if it is ever discovered again" she said, Percy's mind was racing until he finally realized what she must be telling him, "the Greeks" Percy whispered.
Percy arrived at the Greek camp on his 13th birthday, he stood atop the large hill and gazed at the camp unfazed, even the mud walls of Camp Jupiter were prettier than this place. He walked about halfway down the hill and realized the pack of hell hounds were still chasing him, he walked back up the hill and drew his sword, Riptide, he'd only recently actually read the inscription on the blade, but it was still an amazing weapon. Percy took a calm and relaxed stance on top of the hill, next to the massive tree, he thrust his sword into the ground and drew his crossbow, he watched impassively as three large hell hounds stalked up the hill toward him. The first hell hound was bigger than a dump truck, and it could jump at least 20 feet, a fact that Percy found out when it used that incredible jumping distance to attack him, he fired a bolt from his crossbow into it's eye and reloaded while it's remains showered down on him, his black duster was covered in golden dust as he let his crossbow return to it's charm form and drew his javelin, only to throw it at the second monster, it dissolved into golden dust with a pain filled howl. The third hell hound was the size of a small German Shepherd, and seemed reluctant to attack, Percy put his weapons away and calmly walked up to it, he let it crawl into his arms while ignoring the shouts coming from the Greek campers, he carried the beast into camp and walked straight into the Poseidon cabin, he noticed a glowing green circle floating above his head as the door slammed shut behind him.
Percy woke up with the hell hound pup on his chest and the scent of sea air in his nose, he was still wearing his black duster and hoodie, but they were both clean now, he saw a man in Bermuda shorts standing by the door to the cabin. Right away Percy knew the man was a god, the way he carried himself, the way the scent of sea water seemed to pour off of him, Percy could even feel the power rolling off the god in waves. He sat up in the bed and started rubbing the pup's head, "I assume you are Poseidon my Lord?" Percy asked, the god turned and looked at him, "yes and you are my son, the son of my Roman and Greek aspects, I am sorry my boy" he said, "I am well aware of my heritage my Lord" Percy did not like his father, but somehow when he was Neptune the god abandoning him made it easier to accept, "Romans do not ask for help, I will always be a Roman at heart Lord Poseidon" the god turned away but Percy saw a tear on his face for a moment before the god disappeared in a sea breeze. Percy looked at the pup and said, "well then, I think I'll call you buddy" the pup's tale wagged happily at the name.
Percy and Buddy stepped outside of the Poseidon cabin when they heard the clopping of hooves approaching them, Percy was surprised to see a centaur galloping toward him, "hello there" the centaur said, Percy didn't see anyone else around so he decided he wouldn't need to be discrete, "Hello Chiron, I was sent by Lady Lupa" the centaur froze, "apparently Neptune, or Poseidon, whichever you prefer, managed to combine his aspects into one when I was conceived" the centaur seemed slightly relieved, "I will have a camper show you around camp, you'll need to attend dinner tonight so that I can properly introduce you to the other campers" Percy nodded, "by the way how did you get that hell hound into camp? We have magical borders that stop monsters entering" the centaur asked, Percy smiled and said, "you'll find out eventually" the centaur scowled but left. Percy sat at the Poseidon table at camp, he brushed a piece of hair out of his face and realized just how long it was, almost to his shoulders and dirty "I need to get some shampoo" he mumbled, then Chiron slammed his foot on the floor of the pavilion "Attention!" he yelled, "we have a new camper with us tonight" he looked at Percy expectantly, "oh, right, I'm Percy" Percy said, he noticed people staring at him, he winked at a few and went back to eating. Percy had just finished his slice of pizza when a hunting horn sounded, the males in site visibly cringed and Percy laughed at them, the hunters were actually somewhat fond of him, or as fond as the hunters of Artemis could be toward a male. Percy easily scaled the tree that sat at the entrance to the camp and watched the hunters approach, he knew they could see him but the campers couldn't, Buddy was sitting next to the guardian dragon and watching the girls approach stoically, Percy jumped down, surprising the campers standing by the tree and making the hunters laugh. Later that day Percy sat by the edge of the forest rubbing Buddy's head, "we're gonna be all right Buddy, yes we are" the hell hound whined in agreement and Percy smiled.