Hello everyone and welcome to my first story, called the collector. It takes place in an alternate universe but will have PJO Characters and themes. As this is my first story, constructive criticism is encouraged, but if you wanna be a dick on the internet, who am I to stop you? Trust me won't bother me none. Done with the serious stuff, lets get into the action, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you The Collector.

I do not own PJO or any of it's characters.

The Collector

By: Eldavaryblodh

Deep in a forest, with sun shining through the gaps in the leaves, onto the face of a sleeping man, there was a rumble, slowly inching towards the man, as if stalking prey. The man, wearing a green form fitting shirt, black cargo pants, and barefoot, seemed to be sleeping sound. Louder and louder it grew until the mans eyes snapped open to reveal deep sea green eyes staring into dark red ones. Immediately the man jumped backwards and stumbled away from the dog like creature. The man soon gathered his wits and took off in a sprint, the creature not too far behind. Faster, harder, the man chanted in his head thoughts of survival the only thing churning in his head. Soon the duo of hunter and hunted came to a dead end at the bottom of a cliff. The man seeing no other hope, planted his heel, spun around and with all of his might, punched the red-eyed creature directly in its rib cage. The monster exploded into a gray liquid covering the man, but his body seemed to absorb the liquid, the man felt light-headed and sick as the gray liquid soaked into him, until nothing was left. The man feeling exhausted fell down on his knees, sitting on his ankles, taking in huge amounts of breath, just to try and soothe the burning pain the man felt in his lungs. Finally with a loud groan, the man got up and looked up studying the surrounding area, seemingly confused at something.

I awoke to see dark red-eyes full of malice and long sharp teeth with slobber dripping from them, directly in my face. Naturally, I jumped back to try and put as much distance between me and it, whatever "it" is. It seemed to look at me like it was enjoying this, playing with it's food, like this is a game and not a matter of life and death. Before I got myself killed though, I quickly stopped contemplating the inner complexities of a monster and ran for my life. There seemed to be a clear trail that my body instinctively followed, "Faster, Harder" The mantra kept repeating itself in my head, the only thoughts were getting away from this monster. But to my dismay I turned a sharp corner in the trail and was met with a rock wall, 20 feet high. On some instinct alone I recognized that I would not be able to dodge to the right or left, without the monster catching me, and that I wasn't able to climb that wall, so the only other option was to fight it. So I planted my heel in the mud, turned around sharply, and with all my might punched at the monsters rib cage, as its teeth were bared at me. With a sickening crunch and a whimper of pain, the monster exploded into a gray liquid that covered my body. Weirdly enough, my body seemed to be absorb it, and with that sick thought, I fell onto my knees trying to calm my heart rate and trying figure out what I just did. After spending a few moments recuperating, I stood up and asked my self a simple question out loud.

"Where the hell am I?!"

Not to my surprise, the surrounding trees didn't respond. The only thing I can remember is that this place i'm on is called Axin, and that my name is Perseus, or Percy for short. With a quick glance around I can see that trail from which I was chased, and surrounding trees, that seem to be sucking in all the light around me. Given that's kinda creepy, I decide to follow my trail and see if I can see anything from which I was found. Setting off into a jog, I feel faster, and more agile on my feet. Shaking it off as just being woken up, I set off down the trail to find where I was sleeping at.

Soon enough, I reached my awakening zone and take a good look around. It's a small clearing where the trees have missed the sun, and I can see the sky, just to see that it's...green? Why does that seem off to me? The sky's always been green right? Whatever, I continue to look around and spot another trail, this time setting off into the right side of the clearing. Thinking "Screw it" I follow the trail. After about 15 minutes of wandering, I hear a splashing coming from off the trail in a cave. Being the curious person that I am I decide to investigate, which later on I'd come to realize would save my life. What I found was a water fall, coming from about 100 feet up, and pooling in a large pond at the bottom. I don't think i've ever been so happy in my life, which not that I'm thinking about it, I don't have much to compare it to. Pushing the negative thoughts aside, I rush to the side of the pool and sink my head into the water, taking huge gulps of water. When I finally run out of breath, I yank my head out of the water. Then with a massive scream of pure delight, I jumped headfirst into the pool.

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