PROLOUGE: THE BEGINNING OF THE END PART I

His hands were trembling...he tried to hold them still but it was in vain. Pain, darkness,torture all closed upon him cocooning him in his own little shell, slowly leaching out his life. He was strong, yet he was weak, loyal and kind yet sadistic,sane yet insane...

Oh how he tried to resist the flood of memories that invaded his mind every night leaving him writhing with raw fear from his visions..every single night.

He was indestructible, unkillable, the ultimate hero...oh the names people gave him, it almost brought a smile on his face...almost.

What they never knew were his inner conflicts, his inner torture, his inner weakness; his insanity.

He had lived for those he had called his friends, fought for them, sacrificed everything he held dear for them..but what did he get in return?

A normal life?some time with his supposed girlfriend? No!

What happened to the young, carefree, slightly dumb loyal friend and hero you ask? Well in simple words he was betrayed.

Betrayed by them all his friends, the gods, his own dad...and it was then that his world came crashing down, then that he realised how insignificant he was to others.

Time seemed to stop as he fell back into his reminisces, the day he realised how true gaea's words had been, how much of a pawn he had been, just a means to an end, a liability...

《Flashback...flashback...》

"Perce!", leo's voice blared in the intercom," we are nearing Olympus I dont think you would want to miss it".

Percy was awake in a flash. He did not want to miss it. The gods explained to them where Olympus was and how it was heavily shrouded in mist to prevent the mortals from noticing it much like camp half-blood.

Percy put on his favourite CHB shirt, while simultaneosly brushing his teeth and trying(and failing miserably)to comb his messy hair. Within a minute he was at the top deck, where his friends had already gathered clutching the railings with wide eyes.

Rubbing the last hints of sleep from his eyes he stepped up to the railings besides annabeth making to look in the direction where his friends' gazes were fixed upon. However, what he saw made him draw his breath sharply and pinch himself, making sure this wasn't a dream.

Even the thick fog over the foliage could not dampen the grandeur of mother nature. Miles and miles of meadows stretched before them, looking so majestic and untouched by humans. It seemed like each and every grass blade managed to capture the sun's rays and throw it back at them in a colourful disarray of lights. At every few yards the meadow was encircled by flowers of so many colours and shapes that it was hard to tear his eyes away from them. And at the far end of the meadow they could see a huge structure looming up between two gigantic mountains, the famed gates of Olympus

As the argo 2 touched down a few rabbits scurried away from its landing spot. To percy they seemed livelier, brighter, much more full of life. And he knew that he just couldnt wait to see olympus.

"Guys!", leo called, but no one answered. "Guysss!", he called again in a much louder tone. "What?", piper hissed unable to tear her eyes away from the sight.

"We need to get a move on. We dont know what dangers might lurk here. It would be better if we encamped inside olympus.. the gods did promise us a temporary sanctuary".

Piper raised one eyebrow in disbelief, " that was actually a smart idea leo"

Leo huffed indignantly," yeah thank you piper for your oh-so-ever-welcome sarcasm but we should really get going", he finished, taking the lead. The remaining six exchanged a glance before following leo.

Percy was tired of the walking. He had thought the distance was small from above but they had been walking for three hours and had only covered half the distance. Apparentl everything had been made to fit godly sizes, even the few trees at the far end of the horizon looked at least three times bigger.

"Couldn't you have parked closer Leo", Percy asked, too tired to even sound angry.

"I did try", Leo said from the front," but there was a magical barrier".

Percy didnt say anything afterwards. He hoped that when the giants arrived they too would tire out from the walk and give up... wishful thinking.

Finally after another two gruelling hours of trudging along the 20 feet tall olympian gates appeared, but the way was blocked by a similar sized clay women...even percy could guess who she was.

"Gaea", he growled uncapping his sword. He could sense the others stiffen beside him, weapons already in hand.

"You really think you can kill a primordial godess who hasn't even woken up", she rasped, her voice sounding like the grinding of gravel." I cant attack you all in this state demigods. Why do you think I need the giants. I come here with another purpose"

"Well what is it", Jason barked out," you know we don't trust you Gaea so wht waste our time."

"Ah trust", Gaea said tasting the word in her mouth as she said it out loud, " trust is very relative demigods. You never know when it may change". Then her two mud hands clasped each other and she looked at them with what percy could make out to be a malicious smile." As for my purpose, that's simple. I want to make a deal"

As she finished she looked pointedly at percy with a muddy smirk which sent shivers down his spine and at that moment Percy felt like someone was walking on his grave.

TO BE CONTINUED...

So, should I continue...did you'll think the prologue was good enough. Any ideas what kind of deal it is;-)...any constructive criticism..

Pls tell me all about it. Hopefully it was good enough:)