A/N: I own nothing. Rick owns it all. 'Pouts in corner' I have read many 'Percy is the guardian of the hunt' stories before, and wanted to write my own. Also, this is the first story I have ever written, so please review and tell me how I'm doing.
Chapter I
Percy POV
I'm sure you are wondering what I am doing here in the middle of the woods, all by myself, huh?
It was an ordinary Monday in my life. I woke up went to breakfast, and then went to train with Annabeth in the Arena.
I was showing some of the younger campers the disarming technique that Luke once showed me, when the horn sounded. Either we had been here longer than I thought, and it was already lunch, or the camp was under attack. Based on where everyone was running, it was unfortunately the second option.
Was it possible for me to catch a break? It's only been a month since the giant war ended, and things were only now going back to normal. Leo had just come back, on a Dragon with Calypso on it's back.
I had just gotten permission from Athena to marry Annabeth, and was going to on our date an Friday.
Damn ADHD! Back to the attack.
I ran to where everyone was, and saw them just standing there, watching a blond haired kid running away from the Minotaur!
I ran to where the kid was, and took his hand, and said, "Run."
He listened, and ran about 10 ft.(3 meters), before tripping over a rock, and getting knocked out.
I groaned, before ducking the Minotaurs axe. Seriously, couldn't he just stay in Tartarus?
"Hey ground beef, how've you been?" He snorted, before charging me, yelling as he did so. I jumped over him, and sliced his leg. He stumbled, before swinging his axe suddenly. I was caught by surprise, and was flung 20 ft. (6 meters), landing next to a puddle, luckily. Riptide landed halfway between me and the Minotaur, right next to the kid.
He woke up, saw Riptide, and picked it up. I would have warned him about the Minotaur approaching from behind him, but I hurt my chest, and could not talk while it was healing with the water.
He turned at the last second, and swung Riptide wildly, managing to decapitate the Minotaur. Of course, this was made less impressive by the fact that he dropped Riptide on his foot as he did so.
By this point, I had finished healing myself, and walked over to him. Everyone was surrounding him, listening to him talk.
"I'm Jordan Blake, and I am so awesome, that I was able to kill that piece of bull-shit all by myself!"
Everyone was oohing and aweing over him, except for my close friends, Travis/Conner Stoll, Will Solace, Katie Gardener, Leo Valdez, Clarisse La Rue( yes we are close, surprise!), Chris Rodriguez, Nico Di Angelo, Grover, and Chiron.(I have more friends, but they are at camp Jupiter).
I saw Annabeth holding him, while saying, "You are so brave! You must be super strong." I glared at her, but she paid no attention to me.
All of a sudden a blinding light appeared above Jordan. By squinting, you could tell that it was a lyre.
"All hail Jordan Blake, son of Apollo, god of Archery, Truth, Healing, Music, Oracles, and the Sun." Said Chiron, looking displeased.
"Sweet, my dad's awesome!" Jordan said,while looking at Annabeth. "C'mon babe, let's go for a walk. We can talk about all that I can do without the help of this loser here." He pointed a thumb at me, and everyone who was not mentioned above glared at me before leaving.
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Time skip(4 days)
I had finally made it to Friday! It was one hell of a week. Somehow, Jordan made everyone hate me. He made it clear at the very beginning that he hated my guts, which I tried to ignore, but he was getting to me. It started a few hours after he arrived. He told the Stolls that I had snitched on a prank that they were planning, and because he had just arrived, they believed him. But I knew what he had done.
This repeated itself, over, and over, and over again, with various reasons, until the only people that liked me still at camp Half-blood were Chiron, Chris, Clarisse, and Annabeth. He was always in the background, smirking when people stopped believing in me. He kept trying to approach Chris, and Clarisse, but they beat him up anytime that he went near them.
Annabeth was spending a lot of time with him, but at least she did not hate me like everyone else, who shunned me.
I was going to the beach, where I was going to meet Annabeth for our date, holding the ring that I was going to give to Annabeth. I had convinced Hephaestus to make it. It was made of Celestial Bronze, and Imperial Gold intertwining each other, with the words: Something to last an eternity: WG and SB.
I heard giggling from behind the Apollo cabin, as I was passing by it. I was going closer to the cabin to investigate, when I saw a flash of gold. I sneaked up on who it was, and saw Jordan with a girl who looked like Annabeth, but that was impossible, right?
I was turning to go to the beach again when I heard something that stopped me where I stood.
It was Annabeth's voice, coming from where Jordan was. "Dan, this is wrong. We should wait until after I break up with Percy to continue."
"I know babe, but when are you going to?"
"I'm going to tonight, during our date. He was never a thing for me, I was just with him because of appearances."
I broke in here.
"There is no need to break up me Annabeth!" I said with a snarl. "We are over!" I said with as much venom as is demi-godly possible, not caring about the hurricane that I was spawning.
"I loved you Annabeth. I was going to propose tonight." She seemed shocked by this revelation. "I was willing to give up godliness for you Twice!"(I made Zeus give Hades and Hestia thrones on Olympus, creating 13 Olympians).
"As for You!" Here I glared at Jordan, who was smirking. "What did I EVER do to you?!"
He looked at me, before he started to laugh. "What did you do? Nothing, except you were more popular than me!"
That stopped me cold. "All of this, taking away my friends, my home, was over Popularity!?"
"You got it," he replied.
I screamed, and caused a, what I found out later, 9.5 earthquake, tying for the strongest ever. Jordan's face as I did so made him look like he was pissing his pants.
The camp was getting destroyed, both by the earthquake, and the hurricane, while the campers were running around like headless chickens.
As I saw what was happening, I stopped the hurricane, and the earthquake and ran into the forest. I ran all the way back to New York, to find mom.
I ran to her apartment, where she was living with Paul, when I saw blood on the stairs.
I ran up, skipping two or three steps at a time, until I got to mom's door. To my horror, it was open. I rushed through the apartment, until I found them. They were in the bedroom, with a dracaena, and an empusa, standing over their bodies. I yelled, and water burst out of the pipes in the bathroom, killing the empusa immediatly, but only wounding the dracaena, who said "For Gaia!" before stabbing mom.
I saw red, and sliced the dracaena.
I rushed to mom while crying, noticing Paul already dead next to her.
"M-mom?" I sobbed. She weakly took my hand, and said "I love you" before she died.
I screamed even louder than when I was at camp, and caused a 12.0 earthquake.
There was a bright flash behind me, and, turning, I saw Hestia standing there sadly.
"I didn't get here in time" she said. I collapsed, crying, and she held me, saying, "shhhhh, it's okay, let it out." I don't know how long I was there, and I don't really care.
She held me for a while, until I cried myself to sleep, and when I woke up, I was in a forest. Tending a fire was Hestia.
She looked at me, and I looked at her, and she came over, and hugged me.
She said to me, "I know that this is so soon, but I thought it might help you if you had someone to help you. I would like to be that someone, and I would like you to be my champion."
I must have made a funny face, because she burst out laughing.
"I am honored Hestia, but why me?"
"Because you are a good person, and you must not fall into depression and-" here she blushed, "this way I can always keep an eye on my favorite hero."
"Alright, what do I need to do?"
"You don't have to do anything. I, on the other hand, have to give to my blessing, and declare you my champion. Are you ready?"
I nodded, still a little unsure.
"Relax, this won't hurt at all. Perseus Orion Jackson, I give you my blessing," she said, holding her hand on my head.
I started to wince at once. Hestia noticed, and sped up.
"I now declare you: the champion of Hestia," like we were not in the middle of nowhere.
Immediately something happened. I turned into a flaming...donkey?
Hestia's flaming eyes bulged before she started laughing hysterically.
"H-Ha-Hades g-get up here!" She said, trying to get herself under control.
Keyword trying.
Hades appeared, looking not very pleased. "What is it sister? I have a lot of paperwork that has to get done."
Hestia merely pointed at me, still laughing.
"What, you wanted to shown me a don- JACKSON? Why are you a Donkey?"
I tried to shrug, but my attempt merely made Hestia laugh even harder. Annoyed, I tried to change back. My ADHD mind kept jumping around different ideas, and eventually I changed back to normal, more or less, by imagining myself as a human. I say more or less because now my eyes were on fire.
Hestia finally stopped laughing, and, walking over to Hades, said, in a hushed tone, "I think he's the one." Hades looked at Hestia, and then at me.
Hestia.
Me.
Hestia.
Me.
Finally he said "I think you may be right but there is only one way to find out, isn't there?"
"Only one way to find out What?"
Hades did not respond, but he did touch my forehead, and said ""Perseus Orion Jackson, I give you my blessing."
I got that tingling sensation again, and after a few seconds, turned into an owl, that was covered in shadow. I tried imagining myself as human again, and promptly changed back. "Will someone tell me what is going on?' I demanded.
Hades sighed, and turned to Hestia, saying "I think you are right sister."
She smirked, before turning to me.
"Long ago, right after we overthrew the Titans for the first time, the Fates showed up, and issued a prophesy. In order to understand it you have to realize one fact: if a goddess swears to be a virgin forever, the fates take that quite literally. They hold you to that oath Forever. There was only one time that a goddess broke her oath." Hestia stopped here, and shuddered, before continuing. "It wasn't pretty. Anyway, that is why there are only three virgins. Me, Athena, and Artemis. The prophesy that the Fates issued went like this:
One day shall a shifter be released
Into his form of many beasts
With all of the godly blessings
Of his love he will be confessing
And with his love requited
Shall the virgins oath be completed
The only sense we can make of this is that there will be a man, who can turn into many animals with godly blessings, and when he has requited love with a virgin goddess, she can break her oath. I believe that you are that man, Perseus."
Her use of my real name snapped me out of shock. "You think that I will be able to break a virgin goddess' oath?" I said in disbelief.
"Yes" said Hades. "But the Fates warned us that the goddess in question would have to be unable to know who the shifter was, otherwise she would be throwing herself at him. Also, no love potions or magic. It has to be natural.
"Okayyyyyy" I said. "Why was I a flaming donkey, and a shadowy owl?"
Hestia answered me. "With a blessing you can use a little bit of a god's power. With mine to can control fire, flame-travel, and summon homecooked food, no fast food." Damn, there goes my plan of eating burgers 24/7.
Hades chimed in. "With me, you can shadow-travel, control shadows, hold Stygian iron weapons, and talk to creatures of the underworld.
"Do you have anything else that you want to tell me?" I demanded.
Hestia said "No, just stay away from the camps, and the hunt, while training your powers for now."
With that, she flame traveled away, while Hades looked at me sadly. "I saw your mom and step-dad." Hades said simply. I found it hard to breath for a minute, until Hades said "They made it to Elysium."
"Thank you" I said gratefully.
"Don't thank me," he said, chuckling. "They made it in by themselves."
With that, he shadow traveled away.
And now here I am, left alone in the woods, pondering all that has happened.
A/N: Please review. I will try to update at least once a week. I do need 8 hunters, and their godly parents.
