A/N Hello anyone who so chooses to click onto this story! It's a pleasure to see you here, even if I can't actually see you, but that can be our little secret. O.K? Anyways, been a while since I last tried to write a story, you can find my last attempt on my fictionpress account with the same name as this account. Yeah, that story killed my inspiration to write for a while there, put a few hours into it and got maybe one view last time I checked, it's pretty hard to write when no one is bothering to read what you have written. Anyways, this idea just sorta popped into my head one day so lets see where this takes us, shall we?
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not making money from this. Get off my back.
Of course this had to happen to me. I guess I figured something like this would happen at some time, I don't necessarily have what one could call the, "safest" or the most, "ordinary" life. I am what one would call a demigod, or half-blood. This means we get some special abilities based on our godly parent,so we got that going for us, which is nice. It also means we get constantly chased by bloodthirsty monster that hunt us by our smell and want nothing more than to kill us all.
I, however, am a very special demigod, I was gifted, not only with the monster attracting scent, but also with the worst luck ever. Let's just say that if finding a needle in a haystack was a bad thing, I would find all of the needles. I guess you could say that life just hates me for some reason, oh, and some of the Gods don't like me either.
Those would be the ancient Greek Gods by the way, yeah, they exist. You may not want to believe that they do, oh well, you knowing the truth won't change your life anyways. Mortals see the world through the Mist, a magical veil disguising all the monsters and magic that goes on, kinda like censoring swear words on a TV show.
Yeah, well the Gods don't really like me that much anyways though. Due to no fault of my own, my godly parent, Poseidon, broke an ancient pact made by him, Zeus, and Hades. You see, their children tend to be stronger than the average demigod, and they tend to get into a lot of fights with each other. This isn't fist fights though, last time they got into a fight it was a World War, so you can understand the Gods not wanting another one of those happening again. This brought the "Big Three" as they are called, to make a pact to have no more children with mortals.
There was also the fact that there is some sort of prophesy relating to one of their children, but despite said prophecy possibly referring to me, being a child of Poseidon, everyone around me seems to think that I shouldn't know what it is. All I know is appearance it has something to do with the possible destruction of Olympus, which scares the Gods, and if there is one thing you don't want, it's an all-powerful immortal being afraid for their life, because that's when they become unpredictable.
Anyways, back to what my amazing luck just caused to happen. My friends and I were exploring the Labyrinth, trying to make it so Luke couldn't use it as a gate to camp when we ran across Hephaestus. He of course, being a God and us being demigods, asked us to do him a favor, which means he ordered us politely. Our task was to clear out one of his forges that was overrun by Kronos's minions.
Basically what happened was things went down and I blew up. Yes, I blew up. Well I guess I didn't so much as blow up as just about everything around me blew up. As of right now I'm flying through the sky, launched by the force of the explosion. At this point all I could hope for was two things. One was that Annabeth hadn't been her normal stubborn self and had left like I told her to, the other was that I would land in water, because surviving the explosion itself would mean basically nothing if I couldn't survive the landing.
All-in-all it hasn't been the worst day of my life, hasn't been the best either, but not yet the worst. Knowing my luck however I figured that before the day was over it could very easily become the worst day of my life. With this thought in my head I slowly slipped into unconsciousness.
I'll admit, it was not the best way to regain consciousness, dropping from the sky into someone's swimming pool. In fact, I'd put it in my top 100 worst ways to wake up, you may think that top 100 isn't very high, but remember, I'm a demigod who many monsters and gods want dead, they can be pretty creative when it comes to making my life hell.
Anyways, hitting the water from the height that I was at would have been almost at bad as landing on the ground for anyone other than a son of Poseidon, and even being that it still hurt like a bitch.
Slowly the water drained the pain out of my body and replaced it with a soothing feeling. I floated to the surface of the water and began to survey my surroundings. I was in the backyard of someone's house, in their pool, surrounded by a bunch of teens who were all armed to the teeth and probably wanting to kill me right now. Just my luck.
"I'm not sure what it looks like, but it probably isn't that." I call out, trying not to sound panicked. "I'm, uh, just visiting." That got a few chuckles out of them. Great, at least I entertained the people who will probably kill me.
Two of the soldiers, a man and a women both looking to be about my age, stepped forwards. They were in charge, I could sense the respect that the soldiers gave to these two. "State your name intruder." the man ordered.
"Jackson, Percy Jackson." I called back, smiling to myself. "Sorry for coming unannounced but I thought I'd just drop in for a quick swim." At this point I figured I was dead so I maneuvered myself to be floating on my back.
"You dare mock us so?" the girl called out. "Do you have any idea who you are dealing with? How cocky can one be to crack jokes when surrounded by soldiers?"
"You know, I just got blown up, so I apologize for being rude, and no, I have no clue who I'm dealing with. I couldn't really control my free fall, who do you think I am, a son of Zeus?" I figured that these people would know about the Gods and such judging by the fact that they were armed with swords and spears and not guns, and it would be pretty unlikely that anyone other than demigods would be armed with guns.
"You mean Jupiter?" The girl leader said.
"No, I said Zeus, and I meant Zeus. You know Zeus, Lord of the sky and king of the gods? Ring a bell?" I said, swimming slow laps around the pool, looking up at the faces of the soldiers that ringed the pool. These soldiers were trained, you could see it in their eyes. Not only trained but they have seen action, you could tell which ones of them have friends who had died in battle. It was a special kind of look, an unsettling one, but a very distinct look of loss.
As I swam laps, observing those around me, the two leaders were speaking quickly and quietly to each other. The girl nodded, then jogged away from the pool, probably going to prepare some sort of jail cell for me if they decided to keep me alive. The boy then walked up to me and knelt down at the edge of the water, offering me a hand.
"Name's Jason," He said to me in a friendly tone, smiling at me,"and if you try anything funny I will kill you."
"Nice to meet you Jason, and if you tried to kill me I would have to defend myself." I said, staring back at him. I wasn't going to be threatened like that and not retaliate in some way.
Jason grabbed my arm tightly and lead me through the soldiers, who then followed behind us. "Well, Percy was it? Welcome to New Rome, home for demigods and legacies, young and old. I'm sure you will find your stay here pleasant, however long you stay here." He said, his tone mocking. I guess after the way I acted back at the pool I kinda deserved that. "You intrigue me Percy, you speak of the Greek gods as if they really do exist. I've got quite the shock for you though, you know the Roman gods? They do exist, and this is where their children train."
Great, I got blown up and launched into a camp of people who may kill me who think that the Greek gods are Roman. Just my luck.
A/N And so the first chapter of this story is finished. Hopefully you enjoyed this and I would greatly appreciate reviews. I would also welcome for anyone to correct me if some of my information in this chapter or later in the story is incorrect, I haven't read the books in a while and I apologize if some information is off. Also, if anyone would want to beta future chapters feel free to PM me ecause as of right now, the only one who is reviewing my work is me.