A/N:
Ok guys, so this is my first pjo fic so don't hate me too badly if it sucks. Its an after BOO fic but it doesn't end like it does in the book in this story, and to all percabeth fans I'm sorry but this isn't one of those stories. Infact I'm pretty sure annabeth is only going to come up once or twice in this only. But please don't not read just cuz I want percy to be a single pringle for now. Anyway I hope you enjoy. READ ON!
Prologue : (Percy's POV)
It was a regular day at camp half-blood, kids running around laughing, the Ares cabin dunking the new kids heads in the toilet, older campers training the younger kids in different aspects of survival, you know just the regular day for a regular demi-god .But something different about this summer? This time there are a lot more campers. There's of course us Greeks and our newly befriended Roman's and finally the Hunters of Artemis. You see usually the Hunters stay as far away as possible from camp since we don't usually get along seeing as they're a group of man-hating girls of all ages and a lot of us are guys. But this year their lieutenant , my cousin and the daughter of Zeus Thalia, is trying to reconnect with her long lost brother Jason , who is a former praetor of the roman legion and the son of Jupiter, and the girls wouldn't let their dear leader go alone to a camp full of "disgustingly horrible" men. Their words not mine.
As I thought about all of this- I know, Percy Jackson thinking? What has the world become- on the front porch of my cabin, I heard a female voice call from my left-or is that my right? Oh who cares "Percy!" I turned my head to see my youngest-but technically oldest- two cousins, Hazel and her half-brother Nico running towards me. Or more like Hazel dragging Nico with her and running as fast as she can while pulling the half-Italian too. I couldn't help but smile, because after the war Nico has become a lot more open and happy which I figure is the result of spending time with the ball of sunshine also known as Hazel. He even told me about his little crush on me, which I assured him wouldn't change the way I look at him after he told me about the way he thought I would be disgusted by him if he told me, and now we're best buds.
"hey guys" I replied back when they reached me. " hey perce" Nico said giving me a small smile " we-well Hazel wanted to ask if you were gonna do the whole Blast to the Past thing tomorrow." Blast to the Past is this event the Apollo cabin came up with a few weeks ago. Everyone who wants to participate-which is just about everyone- has to wear the traditional toga with their parent's respective color at the hem, and all day there will be events ranging from gladiator fights in the coliseum in camp Jupiter to Pegasus races through the Forrest. Every single event they hosted in ancient times was going to be repeated in either camp half-blood or Jupiter depending on the sport. And thanks to the Hecate campers we now have a portal behind their cabin that takes us to the other camp so it will be easy to switch places.
"of course I'm going! Why would you ask? Were you thinking of not going?" I asked. "I want to go- of course I do! But Nico is being a party pooper and says it would be best to stay in our cabin." she shot her brother an accusing look as if he had kicked her puppy. "oh come on Neeks! It'll be fun" I promised. He glared at me and then sighed "fine" he snapped "we'll go to the stupid games" just as he said that a feminine voice behind me said, "good to hear Death Breath" we all turned our heads to see Thalia and Jason "cuz I heard almost all the gods are coming and the three old hags we all know and hate have a special event planned just for us" I replied wryly "and I'm guessing by three old hags you mean the fates?" she smirked "ding ding ding" Hazel looking confused asked "but what could the fates want with us?" her eyes widened and a horrified look came across her face "do you think we did something to offend them and now they're coming here to get back at us?" I smiled "don't worry little metal detector, we did nothing to offend them" I said that then turned to Thalia and Jason "did you hear anything specific about what they're planning?" "no" this time it was Jason who spoke "just that all the children of the big three had to participate in this. Roman and Greek."
"I guess we'll just have to wait 'till tomorrow then. Now, you can either go or stay but only if you don't ruin my cabin even more than it already is, but I have to go. Leo got the new 3D version of The Little Mermaid two and we're gonna watch it together." I said exited at the last part. You see after the war, Annabeth's and mine's relationship had started going downhill. We each got reminded of Tartarus when we saw each other so we decided to call it off. It wasn't really a heart breaking event or anything since we decided it was on mutual grounds and agreed that maybe after a few years if we still weren't with anyone, we would try to get back together. And since then I've been spending a lot of time with the son of Hephaestus since Grover wasn't really around much being the lord of the wild and all and Leo was really easy to get along with.
Thalia, Jason and Nico looked at me weirdly while Hazel just smiled nodding her head and said "ok have fun!" waving goodbye so rapidly I was afraid her hand would fall off. As I took off towards the Hephaestus cabin to pick Leo up, my mind couldn't help but wander to what the children of Zeus/Jupiter had just said. What could the fates have planned for them? And whatever it is, it couldn't be that bad, right?
(switch to 3rd POV)
But what Percy didn't know was that as he thought of this, up in their cave on Olympus the fates were knitting the threads of five very special demi-gods into the loom of fate.
"Oh Perseus Jackson" said Clotho,
"You have no idea just how bad" continued Lachesis,
"We could be" ended Atropos.
And indeed he did not, but in the next few weeks, Percy would definitely find out.
