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Chapter 1

Half god half human

AN: This is the revised version of chapter 1. Also in this Luke is childish because he is 9. I remembered a couple encounters they talk about with Halcyon and the Cyclops. These will be slightly different because my story my rules. I have literally gotten 0 reviews so I'm a perfect writer or viewers can't right. Also I know that hellhounds can only be raised from the underworld. Also Also, Once you get to the bolded text or where it says "At Camp Half-blood, we burn food to please the gods" It is repeating everything before. Hope you enjoy this remastered edition and I added the new sword, a big change from a knife. So what is the cursed blade?

I woke up on my bed and heard screaming. Not all that odd in the wonderful life of Luke Castellan. Actually waking up to it isn't common, but screaming was. It was one of my mom's "moments" where she spouted random words in a loud voice, and sounded oddly like chanting. I tried to hide in my room, waiting for it to pass. I waited and waited, hearing each heartbeat. BU-dum, BU-dum, BU-dum. Mom was still chanting, coming closer though.

"He will fall to the titan of time show become one with him!" She chanted in a raspy voice. I've heard her say that part many times before, but can't catch anything after or before. Her words start to sound like a jumbled mess that was similar to eat the donut and fly? Maybe? I doubt it, but whatever. She was standing in front of me, this isn't supposed to happen. It never has! Why now the day I leave. Why did she act odd too, did she know somehow. I need to get out! Her "moment" ended and I ran out the door to the living room so she wouldn't ask why I was so close. I heard her fall as normal. THUMP. She must have had like 9 thousand concussions by now. Then, I heard her walk up humming a song like a maniac. She probably has those odd moments because the number of concussions.

"Hey Mom can I go ride my bike, I'll be back before lunch!" I said, hoping the answer was yes

"Yes honey make sure your back before lunch, I have a peanut-butter jelly sandwich and kool-aid for you." She said that every time and I had to eat it every time. I walked out the door and steeled my mind, I was never going back. I ran around a corner and saw a beast. I looked silently searched for a weapon. There wasn't one. I tried to slip away on my tiptoes like those guys in the cartoons. I tripped and fell and the beast woke up. Obviously it noticed me. Now I was Spiderman, without weapons, afraid, and without weapons. I ran around the city screaming and finally some police showed up and shot it. The gun was quieter than video games are even. It's eyelids fought to stay up, then it collapsed eyes closed. They put it in their van and drove away. The other police came to me

"Where is your mom? Or Pa?" He asked in a weird accent. Pa does he mean dad?

"My mom is just over there," I said pointing the wrong way "And my dad died in a car accident before I was born." The guy shot me a pitying glance.

"Want me to escort you there kiddo," Police guy asked. That sounded cool, but if I did it he would learn that I was lying.

"No, but thank you," I said with my best manners. I started walking off in the direction I pointed

"Just call if you need it!" he said with his voice fading in the distance, very short distance, but still a distance. I walked around the corner in front of a girl my age with black hair and blue eyes that looked like they glowed. Except for the fact she had a spear and a terrifying shield with the head of a lady that has snakes for hair, she could pass as a school kid.

"Don't try to fool me monster, I know who you are," she growled. I have never seen monsters that look human. I also backed away from her spear (forgot to mention) because I like my head

"Please, I don't have a weapon and I was chased by a huge dog that was black!" I said hoping I could keep all my limbs intact today and not end up like Luke Skywalker.

"Well no getting weapons until you have proven yourself innocent. Hurry I have a camp 'round the corner," she said. Camp? I won't dare ask because this girl literally will poke my eye out with a spear. Overkill right. I went to bed in a little cardboard box with a tarp over it… Not ideal for sleeping, but it was warm. Thalia actually found a thrown away mattress and slept on it, that is really lucky. I woke up to the sound of screaming again, this time it was not Thalia's it was definetely a girl scream, but not one of fear. I pushed the tarp of and looked out to see a withered lady in a net. I looked around for Thalia before I realized she was stabbing the lady with her spear. I just now realized the spear was 6 or 7 feet long. The lady finally dissolved into dust.

"We need to leave" Thalia said

I woke up, grabbed my phone and left the little sleeping bag. I checked the date. My 14th birthday. If I had gone through school I would have started high school this year.

"Luke come on. We have to get to Camp," she said then quieter so Grover couldn't hear "Do we have to or do we kill him and move on. I have seen many monsters that act friendly then, they kill you." I don't know. He said we are going to a real place with others like us. If it was a trap he would kill us in an easier way.

"I don't think it is one. Why travel half the U.S. to kill us. He could just kill us in our sleep."

I said.

"No I trap our sleeping areas, so if he did he would be in a net." Thalia said. That explains the monsters in nets every week, I used to think she caught them and ate them, before I was old enough to realize you can't eat monster sand.

"Just stick with him now, we could probably beat him in a fight. Even if he has a slight advantage somehow," I said, "Just be careful around him, if he is good he is for sure an amateur." We started on a silent trek and then, I checked my phone battery. 200%? That can't be possible. At least it shouldn't be, but just then I noticed the electricity sparking through it to the battery. Thalia was probably nervous and when she is you have to be careful where you step. The sun started to go down. I told Grover "Dude, we need to get to a place to sleep, how much food you got?" I realized the whole day we didn't eat anything

"I ate all the food, 32 tacos, 5 burritos, 17 cups of coffee." Man this goat could eat.

"Isn't that much caffeine gonna kill you?" Thalia asked.

"It won't for some reason that I do not no so don't ask me," he finished up quickly probably so we wouldn't ask why.

"There is a mansion up ahead, abandoned from what I could tell." Grover said looking and sniffing. We went to the mansion and we walked right into a guy tied to a chair.

"Come on I thought this place was abandoned!" I yelled at Grover.

"Your satyr friend should be right, but there is a mask on this place to invite people looking for shelter." The guy on the chair said, startling me. "We usually get many satyrs and even a cyclops now and then, but the monsters come at sunset, about 6:30 during this time of year." He said, "Hi I'm Halcyon Green, you are…" Thalia answered for me, "Luke and Thalia." He reached out to shake our hands, but only succeeded in teetering forward. He looked at Thalia and relaxed a little. When he looked at me he shivered ever so slightly. I would recommend an escape plan, Thalia may I speak with you privately. I tried to think of a way out, but just couldn't. When Thalia was done she walked over.

"Luke let's leave now. We can walk out the front entrance, but be ready to fight." Thalia said.

"With What?" I asked because I was weaponless. Instead of responding she gave me a sword. One with a white edge that seemed to gleam in the dark, and a backside that I couldn't see. "I call this sword Ternepu, a perfect balance of light and dark." He said it like turnip with a u on the end, "Go to camp, show this to Chiron and said Halcyon Green sent this with me. Now go." We walked out the door to several monsters and my sword started to slowly become dark. I slashed and whirled, I destroyed so many there were none left, Thalia was so stunned she just stood there.

"Luke, that was awesome and scary. If you do that again don't do it in my face." Grover was worse. He just looked at me like nothing happened, too much coffee? Did he forget what he was doing

"Who are you? You won't hurt me right?" A little voice called out afraid, "We won't, you can come out." It was a girl. Even younger than me. "Are you doing okay, did you see those big scary things." Thalia said in the kindest voice I've ever heard from her. I had a random urge to slash my blade out, but I resisted it. The darkness started to fade and light took over. Over the months we made it to half blood hill. The amount of hellhounds there… Oh god. It was so many. They stayed away from Thalia's shield, for a little bit then, they came by the tens. She stabbed one and rolled mid roll impaled another.

"Thalia! Come back!" I yelled. Annabeth didn't seem to understand or comprehend it all.

"No! Make sure Annabeth makes it." And with that she killed several more before I turned and ran dragging Annabeth. Grover had died to a cyclops, we knew our way from their, but we got ambushed. I dragged Annabeth in. I heard vicious lightning behind, as I dragged her soaked body through the mud to a cabin. I knocked on it. Someone opened it.

"What do you want." A tired voice answered. I just noticed all the gold that decorated it.

"Please help Annabeth and Thalia just past the hill." I said. His eyes widened a 100 times.

"Wake up everybody! Send someone to tell Chiron we have visitors, grab your bows and medicine because we have to heal and shoot! Hurry go!" suddenly the entire cabin was full of bustling kids. I woke up in a hospital. They were nice here. Then, I got settled in Hermes cabin.

"Well time for breakfast, Luke we gotta go now."

At Camp-Half Blood, we burn food to please the gods. I believed that the gods were real as soon as Chiron, the centaur said it. Chiron had said I needed to find my specialty. I tried archery, I was decent, but definitely worse than the Apollo kids. I did really well at racing though. I kept up with the instructors for about 3 seconds. I was faster than most the Hermes kids. Though a few were faster. I didn't like running though because that is all Thalia, Annabeth, and I did. I went to try the rock wall. That was a total disaster. I only made it up halfway. Burnt my arm on lava, and barely managed to dodge the auto crusher. The Aphrodite kids beat me (Good thing I'm not) and there mother was the god of love. Their cabin counselor, Silena, said it was OK most kids failed their first try, but the other Aphrodite kids were not so nice. We finally went to the sword arena. The sun was setting and I was tired. I thought great time to get destroyed by some kid from the Ares cabin. Clarisse was the head of there cabin and was to instruct me but her problem was she didn't want to train a newbie.

So obviously I took out my sword and lunged at. She had an electric spear so when she smacked my sword away I felt really well… shocked. I lost my focus and let my guard down. She thrust her spear at me and I dodged it barely I ran by the table full of armour, shields, swords, all the other things you need in close combat. I grabbed a shield and tossed it at her like a frisbee. She tried to deflect it with her spear but it just smashed into her spear and knocked it away from her. I grabbed my sword and charged her, but she was good. I swung my sword as she rolled it went over her head and she kicked my legs. Clarisse jumped right up grabbed her spear and swung it towards me. I dodged to the side and smashed the hilt of my sword into her right hand making the spear fall towards the ground. Clarisse struggled to get the spear out of the dirt so she backed up so it was easier to pick up. I thrusted my sword towards her and her armour blocked the attacked. It knocked her away, but she let go of her spear. It was laying on the ground. If I touched it I would get shocked. There was a crowd that all held their breath. I saw Clarisse was wearing rubber gloves. She wouldn't get shocked if she held her spear, but I would. I tried to smash the hilt of my sword into her head but she dodged. The tip of my blade caught her hand. I let her go. I hadn't hit her, but I had destroyed the rubber on her glove. If she picked up the electric spear she would zap herself. She walked over to her spear.

"Haven't got the guts to fight me ehh," she said, "I'm just getting started." I guess she would lose before she was finished.

"Go ahead pick up the spear, you lose either way." I said. She obviously didn't noticed the tear in her glove. She picked it up. Ares cabin ain't too bright.

"OWWWW!" She screamed. "What is this trickery!"

"Well you should now know that I won." I said. She glared at me, but said nothing. The crowd cheered so loudly I couldn't hear myself. They instantly saw me as a hero. Later that night everyone was whispering about me. The Apollo cabin lead the sing along. They sang Hercules the hero, Zeus our king, and several others that celebrated gods and heroes. This annoyed me. What have the gods ever done for us? After the sing along. Kids were whispering about me again.

"Is he a child of Enyo?" whispered one.

"No his mother is mortal, I think Ares," another whispered. As they were whispering about it the firelight, which is enchanted, started getting larger and turning a yellow almost white color. The color showed the mood, but the size depended on the noise so it was quite small. Then silence. I saw everyone was staring at me, not at me above me. I looked up and saw a staff with two snakes slithering on it.

Chiron announced "Luke Castellan, son of Hermes!" everyone gasped, some looked astonished, some angry, some sad. The firelight turned a yellow color. Then, everyone started talking, screaming, some carried me back to the Hermes cabin. The put me on the bottom of a bunk bed, hey at least I had a bed. I also wondered who Annabeth's mom was. That made me think of Thalia. Who was her father? I knew who it was now. It made complete sense.

AN:we know Luke is 14 when he gets into camp, so he is 14 and is in camp half blood for 5 years as he is 19 in The Lightning Thief, so most of this is before The Lightning Thief. It says he left his house at 8 or 9 (3rd grade) meaning he lived on the streets fighting monsters for 5 or 6 years? Not to mention with Thalia.

That something was a crazy mummy who decided to take a walk. It was the thing that lived in the attic, it was called the something of something. I didn't remember. This thing scared me because there was a quest about 2 weeks ago. It was to save a group of people from a group of monsters that had trapped several people in a pizza place. There was a large storm, and what the survivor had said 10 arai, several dracaena and a hydra. The enemies were quite strong. The group of 3 only won by surprise, but one died of his wounds on the way back the other was burnt by the hydra after 3 curses. The survivor was from the Apollo cabin, that was why it scared me, people died after speaking to this thing. I ran to the pavilion and screamed "The oracle is right outside here!" some laughed others curled into a ball and cried, and of course the Ares cabin laughed as they charged it. Then, Chiron shot a popcorn arrow at them so it exploded popcorn. The Ares cabin always accepts that challenge.

"Did the oracle say anything!" Chiron demanded from across the pavilion.

"No it just stood behind the stairs up!" I yelled. Then I realized something. The oracle didn't want me, it wanted someone else. Someone with a question that would lead to a quest. Someone from the Hephastus cabin stepped forward. I think it was Carson. He was 17 years old, and was gonna head to the big world next year he said a week or two ago. He stepped forward and said "This is my quest. I have been having dreams for several nights now, all pointing to killing the hydra, the one that killed Claire on the last quest." He and Claire had been dating and he sounded really angry. Claire was from the Ares cabin. He walked away to talk to the oracle.

He choose Alex from the Apollo cabin, who was the survivor, and his satyr protector, satyrs are man from the waist up and have goat legs. They walked out. He said the oracle said

"One shall walk towards it as a leader,

With only the reader

Will they find the beast

And none will ever be released."

He left in a hurry, knowing that one may never coming back, Carson was a nice kid, I hoped he would stay here longer if he came back. Alex was annoying thinking he was awesome,until he came back from the last quest. As they left I started walking towards Chiron then stopped. I was going to tell him about my dream. Then stopped myself. The voice in the pit was my ally, he didn't want me to go on a quest and die. As I got better and better at rock climbing, sword play, and archery, there was nothing more I could do. No one could best me at swordplay, I was fast climbing the rock wall, and archery was ehhh. I started to train against several people at once. I was the best at camp now.

I was turning 16 tomorrow I realized. I could get my drivers license. There had been several quests and no one has come back. Carson, Alex, Andrew, Tyler. They all died on quests, but I wanted one badly now. I was turning 16, that is when the ancient greeks declared "manhood" I was walking to Chiron when Annabeth, who was 9 almost 10 now, stopped me. She had lost the cabin leader and become it herself with 2 years nearly 3, she had the 2nd most years in her cabin, the other person didn't want to lead, so she took over. Now I had to talk to her and her temper just flared up without warning lately.

"Hi Luke!" she said, "I want to go on a quest so badly now." That was what I was going to ask Chiron about that.

"Annabeth I think you need more training to be on a quest." I said. I thought this was true since she complained a lot on the obstacle courses.

"No I don't!" she screamed, "I'm the really good at a lot of skills, just like you are!" She saw me as her idol, I don't know why. I mean we survived together, but why not someone who was from her cabin, or someone better than me at something she does?

"Annabeth, quests are very dangerous, even more dangerous than living on the streets." I said "Remember Carson went on a quest and he may not come back." She just looked at me and stormed off. I turned towards Chiron, but he was gone.

AN: Well, the remastered version is REALLY long so sorry?