Why? That was the one word that rang through his head.
Why did they betray him?
Why did they left him for stupid Gavin?
Why didn't they care for him?
These were the questions that echoed in his head as his shaky hands held the black gun. Perhaps the last thing he would ever see.
He didn't even ask for much, for gods sake he even denied godhood and risk his life. And for what, to be betrayed by everyone he was willing to risk his life for?
Percy clenched the gun tighter when he recalled the day everything literally turned into a living hell….
-Flash Back (One Month Ago)-
A scream cursed into the air. Everyone shot up alarmed and alerted. Percy being the hero he was ran to the source which seemed to be at the border of camp.
A baby hellhound was vigorously pounding a boy his age. No scratch that, he was licking him. Percy nearly laughed at the sight. The oh so called victim was lean with muscles, yet weak at the same time as he was screaming his head off. Then Percy noticed the green eyes.
"Dude just calm down." Percy carefully picked up the baby hellhound who in turn licked him in the face. "Guess I have another Miss O'Leary."
"What the hell is th...that beast?" the boy screeched. Oh yeah he is probably new.
"This is a friendly hellhound." Percy said as he scratch behind the hound's ears. "Anyways weclome to Camp Halfblood…"
"Blah blah blah and you are some sort of demigod. Yeah I got the intro so show me to this dumb camp."
"But how…"
"From my dad who could talk in my head." Gavin sneered and pulled a dagger very similar to Riptide. "he also gave me this dagger thing."
"Ok then lets go."
"That thing you are holding is a hellhound right?" Gavin asked a bit to politely for Percy's taste.
Percy simply nodded.
"So it is a monster?"
"Well it is suppose to be but not all of them…."
Without any warning the little hellhound yelped and fell to the ground.
Percy's eyes widened at the gold dust on the ground and Gavin's dagger next to it.
To make the situation worse the campers began to come out to the boundary.
"I killed a hellhound!" Gavin yelled out as he glared at Percy. "No thanks to him."
Percy saw some of the girls, even Annabeth, looking at Gavin dreamily and the rest looked at Percy in disbelief.
"You left him alone with a hellhound and didn't help him?" a camper questioned.
"First I took the hellhound off of him and second it did nothing to him beside lick him." Percy argued.
"Liar!"
"I am not lying! He killed a freaking innocent baby hellhound!" Percy yelled.
"Really Percy?" Annabeth smirked playfully nudging Percy. "No hellhound is innocent."
"Really? Well there is Miss O'Leary and you kind of said the same thing about Tyson ."
"What is wrong with you? Ever since the war you been acting all closed off." Annabeth growled.
"I guess that is what war does to you." Percy stormed off.
Yes admitted it he had been stressed after all seeing your friends die in front of you was pretty traumatic.
And sure he had been leaving camps for days at a time but it was only for Annabeth. During those times he would craft and continue adding to the ring that he would use to propose for her.
The demigods were all convinced that he was going crazy and psycho. So they avoided him.
It didn't help when Poseidon claimed Gavin at the bonfire. Everyone bowed when they saw the the trident glowing on top of Gavin's head. All except for Percy.
"I am the son of Poseidon. You have to bow to me!" Gavin sneered. The Aphrodite girls were swooning over him, not that Percy cared since it took them off his back.
"Percy!" Annabeth growled.
"I am the son of Poseidon too you know?" Percy gritted his teeth, but nobody listened to him. They were too busy kissing up to the new son of Poseidon. Even Poseidon joined the celebration claiming Gavin to be his favorite son, as a matter of fact, he was the "voice in his head."
Percy left, but no one gave a damn. Soon all the campers followed Gavin like lost puppies for his huge accomplishment of killing a hellhound, all except for his closest friends.
And he was fine with that. He didn't care for popularity, he didn't even wanted to be a leader.
But then he had to watch his closest friends abandon him for Gavin. Each betrayal was a knife to his heart and he could still remember why their bonds were severed:
First it was Katie. Apparently someone destroyed her rare flowers that she worked so hard on and fingers were pointed to Percy who wasn't at the campfire at the time. (He was working on Annabeth's ring)
Second was the Stolls. He could still remember seeing anger on their faces for the first time. An emotion that didn't suit them at all.
"Why did you do it Percy?" Travis yelled.
"Do what?" Percy asked. Campers gathered around them.
"You sold us out dude." Conner growled. "Not cool."
"What…."
"I can't believe you told Chiron. Now we are stuck with a year's worth of cleaning the dishes with LARVA and he took away all of our tools!"
Percy only gulped. No one ever messed with their tools. No one.
The horn for lunch rang out and they roughly pushed him out of the way. All the other campers glared at him. But Percy only had eyes on Gavin who was sneering in the background the whole time.
Then Annabeth broke up with him by a note: Percy I am breaking up with you. I thought that we could love each other till the end of our lives, but for the first time I was wrong. You have changed, you get angry easy, we argue a lot and I barely see you these last three months. And I have fell for someone else. So go ahead, live your life without me.
Ever since then Annabeth would ignore him, but that still didn't stop him from not making the ring.
Next it was Thalia and Clarisse. Someone was banging loudly on his cabin at four in the morning. He dragged himself off of his comfy bed like a zombie to the door.
So imagine his reaction when he literally felt a lightning punch to his face.
"I can't believe you broke our weapons!" Thaila screeched as she held two halves of a beautiful silver bow in front of Percy's face.
"Yeah Prissy!" Clarisse growled as she scratched him with the sharp half of her spear, another version of Maimer.
"But I didn't broke it!"
"Really Percy then why did I hear the campers saying that it was you!" Thalia jammed a finger into his chest.
"Why don't you ask Gavin and his followers." Percy growled.
"Why are you blaming everything on him?" Clarisse snarled. "Are you jealous?"
"Why are you blaming everything on me?" Percy yelled.
"Whatever Prissy." Clarisse growled and trudged away.
"You know, I am happy that Annabeth broke up with you." Thaila sneered, but then frowned a bit when Percy glared at her in anger. However, her pride got the best of her and she simply walked away. That was a low blow, lower than destroying someone's prized possession and she knew it.
However, he still tried to live his life to the fullest. A fake smile plastered his face only making everyone more madder at his 'happiness and ignorance'.
"We wish you just go and die, no one needs you anymore!" That was what their glares and words told him….
-Back to the Present-
He breathed out as he pulled back the safety. Your wish is my command.
He could was so close that he could see them again. Beckendorf, Zoe, Selena, MIchael, Luke. It was like they were beckoning him to come.
He could imagine their shocked expressions when they will see him in Elysium.
The savior of Olympus closed his eyes as he felt the cold metal pressed against his head. Finally, peace at last. With a deep breath he pulled the trigger.
BANG!
The campers woke up to the loud noise.
"It is from Percy's cabin. Probably being the stupid idiot he is." Katie growled as she rolled her eyes. "Annebeth, since he was your boyfriend why don't you check it out."
"Do I have to?" Annabeth groaned, everyone else nodded with upset faces at having to wake up so early. "Fine."
Stupid Seaweed Brain ruining everything, why did I ever fell in love with him? At least I have Gavin.
With angry and quick steps she went to her ex-boyfriend cabin.
"Hey Seaweed Brain. Are you soo desperate for attention that you are willing to make everyone suffer." Annabeth snarled. No reply.
"Really?" She poked the door only for it to open. The first thing that caught her was a familiar metallic smell lingering in the damp air. With tiny and hesitate steps she slowly opened the door. "Percy you better answer me…..this is not funny."
Her knee buckled when she saw a trail of red water splattered around the floor and making the once blue walls a crimson blend of red.
"No….NOOOOO!" She cried out a she ran into the room cradling the lifeless body of Percy Jackson. A red dot visible on both sides of his head and a gun by his hand. "Please stay with me!"
Suddenly she remembered all the good memories. The day she and him kissed underwater, the day she first met him. Her breathing stopped when she saw a piece of paper in one of his hand. With trembling hands she picked it up and it made her cry even more.
Finally your wish comes true. Isn't this what you want.
"Why did you scream?"a voice yelled.
She wiped her tears only to cover her face in blood. Annabeth sulked out of the room and everyone backed away. "He...he."
Annabeth silently pointed to the door with her head in her hands. For the first time she was unable to form words as she read the rest of the crumbled paper.
Finally your wish comes true.
Campers crowded around the opened door only to back away in fright with tears threatening to erupt from their eyes.
Isn't this what you want?
No Seaweed Brain, I want you. Annabeth thought.
"Why…" Katie mummered.
Everyone made way when Nico and Grover walked up to the room. Nico's body was trembling which each step and everyone watched as they held their breath.
"He is actually dead…" Grover paled whether in anger or in shock the camper would never know. Nico tried to comfort him the best he could before turning to the miserable crowd of demigods.
They all were shocked when instead of crying he laughed manically. "Isn't this what you guys wanted?" Nico growled."Him to die?"
Suddenly he laugh darkly at the ashamed and guilty face of the fellow campers with the exception of Grover. "Why the sad faces? You finally got your wish!"
"Hey! Why are you guy so sad? I am the greatest hero here and he is such a loser that he ended his life." Gavin bragged. He probably would have went on if it wasn't for the cold glares everyone gave him.
"You guys should have believed him you know." Nico said softly in a dangerous and venomous voice.
"What do you mean?" Katie trembled.
"Me and Grover was the only that didn't take his BULL CRAP!" Nico screamed as he directed his death glare to the whimpering form of Gavin.
"I heard rumors that Percy was talking crap about Bianca. How she died a weak, pathetic death." Nico spatted out as he went closer to Gavin, black flames giving him an aura of death. "But never once did I believe it."
"Do you guys want to see his memories? Thanks to my father I am able to show the memories of the dead." Nico smiled sarcastically and was only met by silence. "I take that as yes."
Suddenly the air around him turned colder, more darker and an image flowed around everyone. The first thing everyone saw was a beautiful ring. It shone like the blue of the ocean and there was a white pearl it the center.
Everyone gasp when they read the engraving Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl Forever. Annabeth fell to the ground on her knees as everyone gave her sympathetic glances. It explained why he left camp so much.
Then it showed his last friendly encounter with Katie, the Stolls, Thalia, Clarisse, and Annabeth. Each of them flinched, feeling guilty that they were the cause of his death. Suddenly it dispersed into the air.
However the worst reaction was when they actually saw his death, the gun in his hands. They even saw the little note he wrote. Many screamed when he pulled the trigger and the image turned pitch black.
Everyone fell to silence, their head bowed down, ashamed to face Nico and Grover.
"I actually lied." Nico smirked. "I could actually see anything within anyone soul's even the living. Too bad Hades didn't gave me this ability a day earlier. You know what that means, right Gavin?"
Gavin quickly tried to run away, note the tried, leaving everyone confused. Before he could even take a step the grass underneath him grew and bound him to the ground.
Grover went over to the struggling boy with narrowed eyes. "I hope you suffer, especially after this."
Nico slowly went over to Gavin and sneered when his face paled.
"Let's see what is in that rotten mind of yours." and with that another projection came up. They saw him destroying Katie's plant, and Thalia's and Clarisse's prized weapons. Katie fainted, Thalia suddenly had lighting covering her body, and Clarisse glared at Gavin with her spear aimed at Gavin.
Everyone was surprised when they saw Clarisse's eyes tear up, but didn't say anything. After all they were crying too.
Then the Stolls faces turned into a look of horror when they saw Gavin telling Chiron about the prank and showing the evidence.
And Annabeth, she was a wreck and Nico simply went up to her.
"I don't think you deserve this but here." He threw a small, velvet black box at her, pretty hard. Her eyes widened when she saw that it was the ring Percy made for her. "If you were wondering why he was barely here the last four month it was for this. Even after you betrayed him for that sea scum he still worked on it."
She bawled her eyes out as she clung onto the little box like it was her lifeline.
"I can't believe you guys would do that. Nico told me everything, but I didn't believe that you guys would be capable of such...betrayal." Grover mummered.
"Why do you guys care so much about him! What have he done that I haven't?" Gavin yelled out. What a foolish boy, to act as if everything revolved around him especially when he is in such a bad situation.
"What he had done?" Nico said before pulling out his Stylian sword and towering over Gavin's form.
"He defeated the Minotaur when he was twelve with no training." Slash
""Survived an attack from one of the most poisonous scorpions and Enchinda." Stab
"He held up the sky and saved Artemis." Cut
"He defeated Kronos."
By the time Nico was done Gavin was nothing but a battered corpse, but nobody cared, their guilt for Percy overwhelmed them.
Suddenly there was a flash and an angry Poseidon appeared next to his son's body.
"Who dares kill my son?"
"I do and if you want to know why, just go to your cabin." Nico said with a blank expression, not even caring about the blood pooling at his feet.
Without any warning the angry sea god flashed away. For a second everyone thought that he was going back to his home, but a gut wrenching wail quickly dismissed that thought.
No one was surprised when he flashed back with the dead body of the former Bane of Kronos. Many that didn't see the body retched their guts out into the bushes.
"Why?" Poseidon wailed as he clung on to the dead corpse.
"My Lord, let me show you his last memories." With that Nico showed him what he showed the other campers before. Poseidon glared at Gavin's battered corpse, but quickly remembered that it was also his fault.
For the first time in her life, Annabeth questioned herself.
What did she even see in the brat Gavin?
What would have happened if she didn't leave Percy?
She would never know the answers, which would haunt her for the rest of her life. The Stolls were unusually quiet with Katie, and Thalia and Clarisse sat by each other crying like the rest.
The only that wouldn't be joining them would be Percy himself, the victim of their unjust actions.
Loyalty, betrayal what a sad ending for a great hero.
This is just the Prologue so read on...