Chapter 1: Percy I

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Percy I

My life was perfect...

I had amazing friends…

A loving girlfriend…

And anything that I ever wanted…

But... that all changed when he arrived…

It was 6 years ago…

I was on a mission to retrieve the missing Golden Fleece that was stolen from the tree on half blood hill. It was a solo mission since many of our campers had to stay behind to protect the camp until I got back.

I wished Annabeth to at least come with me though, but she was already on a mission that I had forgotten about… She was out looking for a soon to be new camper…

So I decided to jump straight into the mission since I was the leader of camp half blood and I had to take care of such an important task…

I was out for around two weeks tracking down the monsters that had stolen our fleece. Eventually I had come across a camp filled with monsters.… There weren't that many so I disposed of them quickly… I tore through the camp in order to find the fleece and when I found it I came face to face with an old enemy of mine… The Minotaur…

"Hey ugly," I yelled at him as he grunted and touched the spot where his horn should have been

I screamed, charging in with riptide at my hand, striking with the most powerful swing I could produce. The Minotaur seemed phased at first, but snapped out of it and grunted as he blocked my strike with his axe.

When he blocked my strike I was a bit surprised, but then I came back as I slashed, stabbed rolled over and over again without mercy. I went into auto pilot, and it was like I was watching myself fight in a movie. I was merciless when it came to killing the Minotaur as it was attempting to escape.

Eventually it was over as I finished it off with a final stab. I grabbed the fleece and started to make my way back to camp. I didn't even have a scratch on me… it was too easy.

Being me, I was not the best with direction, so returning back to camp was no easy feat. It feels as if I had spent more time trying to get back than it did while I was in search of the fleece.

Throughout all the time of me returning to camp, all I could think about was Annabeth. I missed her so much, before I went on the mission, she was still out after one week, still looking for that one camper. I was starting to worry a lot… we tried send IM's out to her, but Iris couldn't put us through to her.

As I finally reached the camp, I saw Annabeth standing on top the hill… I cried with joy as I ran towards her with the fleece in my hand. She looked at me, smiled and ran to me. I ran into her and hugged for her who knows how long. We, then, broke apart and made our way down to the amphitheater.

I, as we made our way in, dropped the fleece off at the tree where our new extra camper guard was placed to make double insurance that the fleece won't be stolen again. I still didn't believe how Peleus couldn't protect it, he protected all those times, but somehow the monsters got it...? Well it didn't matter since my Wise girl was with me again and I had just completed another mission…

I was about to go see Chiron to report that I had completed the mission when Annabeth started to say something that got my attention.

"Percy, did you meet the new camper yet? His name is Mark. You know that since you are our leader of our camp, you have to lead the orientations. I'll go tell Chiron your back; you go on ahead and meet him. He seems like a nice guy." Annabeth said

I was about to open my mouth to say something when she ran off. I groaned and walked over to the area where the new guys are usually put. To clarify we put this new area into camp half blood where new comers are placed for orientation. They just have to wait in a room with a TV, snacks and a bunch of books with information on camp, gods and everything there is there. There was also an area for IMing and an area that explains that things that are happening to the new comer, these are all located in the same building.

As I walked into the room I noticed that there was one lone guy sitting there staring into blank space doing nothing. The television in the corner was on with Annabeth talking on the screen explaining everything the camp offered and explained how they could stay for the summer or for the rest of their lives and all the rest of the basic information informing them that basically their life is now completely different.

I took a deep breath and put a smile on my face, walking up to him all casually.

"Hello, there new guy… I am Percy Jackson. I am the leader of the camp and I am here to give you an orientation about the camp. What is your name?" Of course I already knew this fact, but I had to ask instead of looking like some creepy mind reaper."

He simply looked at me with a face of boredom, and then responded in the same tone as his facial displays. "I am Markus, Mark for short." He proceeded to stand and shook my hand firmly.

Though he looked like he did not care one way or another, just by looking into his eyes, it seemed that this kid was a strong and hard worker.

Examining the rest of his character he was around my height and had light brown hair with blue eyes. He wore simple clothing, nothing to fancy, broad shoulders and stood as if he was some sort of hero.

A couple moments passed, and he must have realized I was looking at him for he stated "aren't you suppose to be showing me around or something Jackson?"

I simply looked at him kind of annoyed of his way of speaking to me like I was a bad person. I sighed, nodded and started the tour. I took him through everything at camp. He didn't hesitate at anything or get scared of everything that I explained to him. He didn't ask questions or anything. I was surprised for, usually new campers tend to be more frightened or show a slight bit of surprise or shock to the things we do.

We walked around a bit longer and I was just about to be fine with the new guy, since at first I thought he might have been a bit different until he suddenly asked "Hey, do you know where Annabeth is?"

I didn't like what might have been going on, so I pretended to not here and ask him what he said, but he simply repeated what I didn't want him to ask. I don't know why, but the thought of him asking for Annabeth made me think that he had got along with her during the time she was looking for him. I was just about to tell him that she was busy, but of course, Annabeth showed up.

I walked over to her and planted a kiss on her lips, which she quickly pecked back at me. She, then, went over to Mark and said hello, then came back.

Mark looked at me and probably realized that I was her boyfriend and said "So your Annabeth's boyfriend," with a slight unpleasant tone. I nodded and felt slightly relieved.

After a few odd moment,the dinner horn sounded. I told Mark to file in to go eat dinner as I jogged off to my seat with Annabeth, but she turned to her own table.

I turned around slightly to see if he was following, but he was just slowing pacing towards the new comer table. He was staring at me the whole time, which was a little creepy.

Dinner began as all of our food was laid out. I sacrificed my best piece of meat into the flame and watched as Mark did as well. He seemed to look at me with more anger this time. I walked over to Annabeth, gave her a kiss and walked back to my table. I was about to dig in when Chiron stomped on the ground getting everyone's attention. He called Mark up and announced him being a new comer. I didn't really pay that much attention as this happens so much over the years as Grover was sending out so many satyrs that we had double, no triple the amount of demigods then we have ever had.

Then out nowhere, a trident appeared over Marks head. I rubbed my eyes in complete shock as Chiron announced the heritage. Everyone just stared at him as he continued smirked in my direction.

I quickly finished my dinner and walked over to Mark who was still standing there all mighty. It turns out the new comer is my new half brother.

I told him to follow me to his new cabin, but he acted almighty as if he had just saved the day, though I had to remind him that he was just claimed by Poseidon. He didn't' seem to listen to me and then he just entered the cabin without a word. I didn't really care, but I walked into the cabin and went to sleep.

Then it happened…

Over the next few days after Mark arrived, things started to go terribly wrong for me.

First, Mark became friends with Travis and Connor. He had so many laughs with them and pulled an equal amount of pranks with them. Their friendship bloomed, as my connection with the Stolls was slowly dissipating. All the things I did with them, they were now doing with Mark, and Mark was even showing them new jokes and tricks. At first this was nothing to me, until Mark framed me.

One day, as I was strolling through the camp on my free time the Stoll's appeared in front of me with angered faces. They looked at me and asked me why I had not only soaked them last night, but had also stolen their things.

I was bewildered, confused beyond belief for I had done nothing, which is what I tried to explain to them, but they had none of it. We argued for a while and a few campers gathered. Murmuring surrounded us, but I did not care, I had to prove my innocence. We continued to argue, and I even thought one of the campers yelled at us to fight at one point when they finally yelled how Mark told them everything.

"Mark is lying," I roared at them, as my frustration of the situation was reaching peaks that have never been reached, but they didn't care since they thought their new friend was too precious to be the bad guy. So with that argument, there went my friendship with the Stoll brothers.

Being pretty miserable after that friendship disappearing in a poof, I did not think things could get worse, but it was just the start.

Next was Grover… I didn't expect this since Grover was my best friend, but one day as I went to see Grover the other satyrs told me that he didn't want to see me anymore. I didn't understand why and forced my way to him. I saw him and asked him what was going on and he looked at me with disgust. He looked at me and started to get angry. As he attempted to grab onto me he started to cry and yell at me on why I had burned down some of the naiad trees in the forest. I didn't understand what he was talking about but he started to push me away yelling how Mark told him of how he saw me putting oil over the trees then lighting it. I tried to tell him I didn't do it, but Grover didn't listen to me and he pushed me away and the other satyrs stopped me from trying to get to him again. So there went my friendship with Grover.

It got even worse after both Katie and Clarisse got mad at me. Katie started to yell at me for burning her flowers. I tried explaining, but with no luck and there went my friendship with Katie. Clarisse started to get angry at me for snapping another one of her maimers, but again trying to explain was pointless. Needless to say another friendship was lost.

I was really depressed that all my friendships were going up in flames, but then it happened when Nico also got mad at me. He came to camp more often those days, but then got chummy with Mark and they became good friends. Then, again… Nico started to ignore me as if I was a bad person. I went to ask him if something was wrong but he started to get angry for no reason at all. He started ranting on how I failed to protect her sister and etc. I realized that Mark had been feeding Nico with those old memories at that moment, I tried to tell Nico that the incident was long ago and we had settled it already, but he wouldn't listen to me. He insisted that I never talk to him again and I did, but it hurt me so much. There went my friendship with Nico.

I was then after that extremely hurt, but then the Hunters came for a visits and things went totally ballistic. I was actually happy to see Thalia again. She also met Mark after as well. I started to catch up with her throughout the day and then I went back to doing what I always did. Then a day later Thalia started to yell at me for breaking her bow. I told her that I didn't do anything, but being the way she was, was too stubborn to listen and we argued the whole day. Then down went my friendship with Thalia.

More small friendships went down with every other cabin. The Apollo cabin was mad at me for destroying their special arrows from their dad. I was cursed for a week with rhymes. Then the Aphrodite cabin was mad at me for wrecking their clothing, so I was cursed with down sized clothing for a month. The Hephaestus cabin was mad at me for breaking their brand new invention that was supposed to help the camp. The list continues on and on.

I didn't know what else could have happened, but I knew that I still had Annabeth with me and Chiron. I thought wrong as Chiron started to treat me different as well, he started to praise more work of Mark and made him the leader of teaching the swords training course without even looking at me. Chiron then started to praise him for his hard work and made a spot for him in the meeting room.

I didn't have anyone else, but Annabeth left. I had to be extra careful to make sure that nothing happened between me and her, but of course something has to happen. A quest was assigned to Mark to go and defeat the hydra. Mark took along Annabeth and me. I couldn't figure out why he took me, but maybe it was to get at me. Throughout the quest he spent a lot of time with Annabeth and I didn't like it. It seemed he was acting as if he enjoyed everything that she did. Annabeth didn't seem to notice or care, but she seemed happy and whenever I got close she never responded the way she used to. When we reached our destination Mark was hit and flew into a building leaving me and Annabeth to fight the Hydra. We quickly disposed of it and I expected a hug and a kiss from Annabeth for the great teamwork, but she rushed over to Mark all worried and didn't even glance at me. I knew she would do that but I expected to even say something. Well maybe that was just for that day. I went to help mark and we returned to camp.

After we returned I expected that we would be awarded like usually which we were. Since Mark led the quest he talked to all the other campers. He started to rant on how he was the best and how he beat down the hydra with one hand and killed it with the other. He also said how Annabeth was a great help and did a lot of work. I let him take some credit even though he didn't do anything; until he started to say how I was so lazy do nothing to help them fight the hydra. I started to speak up but no one listened. Mark then smirked at me and started to say more until I got so angry that I ran over and punched him and yelled "don't lie Mark." I thought that I did the right thing, but then he yelled out "see Percy is trying to take the attention. He is jealous that I beat the hydra and not him so he punched me. Do you want him as a leader? He is a coward and hides behind all of you." The campers than looked at me angry and started to push at me yelling, "Why would you do something like that." I ran to my cabin to get away while Mark went to the infirmary to get treated for his nose and face.

Then things started to change even more. After the incident at dinner Poseidon dropped by announcing that Mark was his favourite son. Everyone cheered at the thought and I was so depressed. I thought I was his favourite son. Then after Poseidon teleported away, Chiron stepped up to the platform and announced that Mark is the camps new leader. I was so angry, but I just went back to the cabin and went to bed to calm my nerves.

At morning I walked over to the beach to my favourite spot to meet Annabeth as I did every morning. I wanted to talk to her about my feelings and what was been happening. Today was the day I proposed to her. I got my rings both having an owl with a trident together. The one with the owl as the main said my wise girl on it and the other with the trident main said sea weed brain. I walked over thinking on how I was going to propose when I saw Annabeth. I rushed towards here until I saw another person…

It was Mark. I started to creep towards them to hear what they were saying.

"Annabeth, you know that I love you right." Purred Mark

"Mark I love you, but Percy is still in the way from our love." She replied

"You have to dump him sooner or later, remember I will always be with you when you need someone." Mark said.

"I will break up with him when I see him," she replied

At this point I was raging angry and about to march in when the most evil thing happened

Annabeth leaned into Mark and kissed him full of passion. She kissed him deeply and came out for a deep breath. He kissed back as well. I hated the scene. Annabeth was also kissing the way she did when she used to be with me. Before the scene could go any farther I marched in and yelled at Mark.

Annabeth turned in shock, but calmly got up and tried to calm me down. I yelled at her to shut up. She yelled back that she was breaking up with me even though I already knew, neither did I care anymore. I ran up to Mark and punched in the face with all my might. He flew backwards into the water. Campers started to run towards us and Annabeth went to tend to Mark. I started towards Mark again yelling all my anger from the past days, but before I could reach him the campers restrained me. Mark got up and looked at me, with much blood on his face, but smirking at me as if he knew this was going to happen.

Chiron came down to us and ordered the paramedics to take Mark to the infirmary. He ordered Annabeth to go along with them. As for me he looked at me with disgust and told the campers to take me to the big house. There he told me that I was being kicked out of camp and can never return. At dinner I was thrown outside of the camp and the entrance then disappeared. I could no longer see it. Everything was gone. I tried to walk towards the blank field, which is what it now looks like but I couldn't get past this invisible wall. Every time I touched it a burning feeling came along. I never knew that I could get hurt, but some reason I started to feel pain again as I tried to enter, then I realized. Annabeth was gone and she was no longer my anchor so the curse was gone and I was just a regular demi-god again.

I also realized that I had none of my things. Riptide was not returning to me and my shield was gone as well. They probably took it from me when I was being transported out and put something on it so I can't have it back. I didn't need them though. They would just bring back unpleasant memories. I also didn't have my camp clothing or beads or anything that was from camp. They just turned into regular day clothing and the necklace turned into a chain. Then I started to stroll down the street all alone leaving my old home behind.

Now I am on the run… I have been living like this for the past 6 years. I am now 31 years old.

At first I was very bitter towards camp never wanting to go back. It was hard to live like this though. I tried to go home to Paul and mom, but then it got even worse when they suddenly died with my non born sister. I eventually settled down in one of the out of the way safe houses that Annabeth, Thalia and Luke used to use when they were on the run. It brought back painful memories, but I had to in order to survive. It was filled with extra food and some weapons. I even lost my Achilles heel which meant I lost my invincibility. At first I didn't understand why, but I understood why because Annabeth was no longer my anchor.

After that one year I spent 2 years training my skills near some of the lakes and bays. The Gods there did get frustrated at first, but I evened things out when I helped them after some humans tried to pollute more, so they let me use the water to train. I also forced them to agree to not tell any Olympians or anybody at all that I was there. After the five years I created so many new things with my powers and enhanced some old ones. I also now carried a new sword I call λεπίδα του νερού, which means The Blade of Water in Greek. It is frozen into the shape of a straight blade with a hilt that carves out my name and its name with all of these fancy designs. It has a grip made of ice and the whole thing is not breakable until I will it too. It is also very hard for me to break as well as I forged it with great difficulty almost killing myself many times during the process. It can cut through even the strongest monsters there ever was, as if they were butter. It also has water swirling around it constantly even when I don't will it. It stays in its solid form even when I don't use my powers to keep it in place. For those who are curious, no it won't even melt if it even was right inside of the sun. As I said I developed and forged this word and almost killing myself many times.

After working for so long for the past 2 years I have calmed down and forgotten the past and decided to help the campers that haven't made it to camp. I now wear a cloak that is completely black with a hood that covers everything but my mouth. I started to escort these newer demi-gods back to the camp even though I still couldn't see it. I just stood there as they were in wow as they looked at the invisible camp that I couldn't see. They would thank me so much and I would watch as they run through the invisible wall that swallowed them a whole.

I did this for 3 years meeting at least over 100 new campers that I never saw again. I wonder how the camp is doing still. I am still hurt but I got over it, and now I am just concentrated on helping them as a whole. I still do hate Mark for what he did, but that hasn't haunted me for a while. I even some times met the hunters a few times. I saw them running about, but I had to have fun so I would kill their prey monster before they got there and all I would leave is a pool of water next to it. Hopefully that would draw their attention and will report it to camp. The way I see things the hunters may see me as some sort of rogue demi-god cleaning the world of monsters and at camp they should have started to realize that someone was out there helping these demi-gods reach the camp without a satyr. Of course the new demi-gods might have known, but they won't know I'm Percy Jackson. I never said my name to them; they only knew me by the name of the Man shrouded in a cloak. Well a few of them called me that as they thanked me when I brought them to camp.

Present day I am currently in my fifth hideout that I built up high in some trees of a forest. I used some camouflage material to blend extremely well with the trees, I ravaged from the other sites that Annabeth, Luke and Thalia used. It worked since the hunters once went by without noticing. Even Lady Artemis didn't know since I learned how to hide my presence.

It is a huge place stores with all the things I gathered and all weapons food and etc. I even found away to stop monsters from sensing me so I never get attacked.

As I head out to get some more supplies for my hideout I came across yet another demigod, she was being chased by a monster. I jumped down from my fortress and attacked with my sword, killing it with one swipe.

She stared at me, but I got her up and told her to follow me. She didn't hesitate, but she started to ask me some questions. I didn't answer any of them until she asked "who are you?" I simply said I am a person here to help.

I guided her across town to camp. When we arrived there she was in awe. She looked at the invisible camp and thanked me. Unlike the others she suddenly ran to me and hugged me. I was startled and I looked at her then opened my eyes wide realizing that she had seen my eyes. I pushed her away. She looked like she was a few years younger than me which was weird since she should have been found a while back. I looked at her and analyzed her for a moment, but she just laughed and ran at the invisible camp while yelling out "Thanks miste…" that's all I heard before she disappeared.

As I walked back to my hideout I started to think of so many things. Things are starting to get interesting again.

Now the camp is going have some questions.

Even though I knew things were going to change again, I can't help it but to think of that girl. What I observed of girl is that she had beautiful dark long hair. She had a nice figure and was petite. She was kind of cute though I had just met here. She has a weird feeling like an unknown powerful aura. She seems so mysterious and mysterious, and I have to say is cuter than Annabeth.

I know that is not the last time I see her again. Now I have so many problems ahead of me. 6 years of craziness and now this… a mysteriously old for a newbie, but cute girl and a camp that hated me and is probably going to be talking of me, what can get worse?

As I reached the hideout I started to climb up the cool way, at least what I thought was pretty cool. The entrance to my secret hideout is not with a simple door or does it have a ladder leading to a secret door. The way to get into my hideout is pretty crazy and takes roughly 3 minutes to pull off if you're a regular human or demigod if they can get past the defenses as well. For me it takes roughly 1 minute. Okay, the way to enter my hideout is from the roof. This is covered by a tarp that makes it blend as if it is a bunch of leaves on a tree. The difficult part is to get up there. The entrance is roughly 100m above ground. Oh the trees I am near are the tallest trees in the world. There is a probability that a regular person can just climb the tree, but it is highly unlikely and I set traps so that if anyone tried climbing up they will slip off due to some slippery gripping on the trees. So to get up I have to use water. This is highly unlikely for anyone to use since I am the only son of Poseidon that can use this technique. I discovered it when I was training. Mark is highly unlikely to figure it out.

Using the water in the air, I can travel through the vapour and boost myself all the way to the top in the matter of seconds. The way to get in may seem easy but it is armed with some blades of celestial bronze that will activate if the thing is forced open. There is a door that needs to be lifted. In order to open it some sticks are needed, which i carry, but to others they won't know. I jam one stick into a slot deactivating the trap and allowing me to let the door. I have roughly one minute to get in before the pressure of the stick snaps and breaks than the door trap may activate after it snaps and the door is still open.

As I started to walk around my hideout, I started to ponder about everything that has been happening, when a noise of a tree branch snapped. It alarmed me at first since the twig I put in place had already snapped, so I quickly went into surveillance mode by going into a place where I can best hide my presence. There was also a spot for me to see what was happening outside. I peaked outside and found nothing there.

"It is probably a rabbit or animal," I thought to myself as I walked back into my hideouts main room, but as a started to roam around like usual I started to feel a strange presence. It was a powerful and dark feeling like in the Underworld, but not at the same time. It had a more almighty power and it felt as if it had a bit of every persons, gods and titans power within it. I didn't understand, like usual and began to look around.

As I grabbed my sword from the air, if you don't know I willed it to melt now I got it back by using the water vapour, and started to cautiously moving around the room. It would be a real problem if I have to move again. It took forever to design this place. The washroom alone took like a minute, and me having ADHD it felt like forever.

After like, 10 minutes of roaming around I somehow made my way to the washroom door, it felt as if the power came from in there. As I slightly opened the door, I peaked inside, but it was too dark so naturally I yell and smash in. I screamed…

Surprisingly it was just me in the mirror… I was sort of relieved that I wasn't going crazy. Then, I realized that the mysterious power feeling was gone. I just stared at the mirror for hours, repeating to myself, it is okay…

As I stood there I never kept track of the time, so it kind of surprised me when I heard the sound of the local birds chirping in a morning cheer. I was dead tired, but I had work to do. Like usual I would head down to the nearest mall and take some food. I paid obviously, just without anyone seeing me. Then, like always I would go around looking for half bloods. I have had some close calls when it came to campers though. I have seen a lot of new campers coming out on quests. It seems that camp has become easier going for quests.

Today was an off day. I didn't feel right, since my mind kept straying to the mysterious power and the cute girl that I rescued. I wanted to ponder some more and I was too exhausted to search for half bloods today. I vapour travelled back to the tree house and went inside. I lie down on my head and shut my eyes as tight as I could get them. Since again I didn't have my Achilles Heel to bother me, so I never actually got to sleep as fast anymore. I started to pick up some sounds on the outside. I groaned and just pushed it off as an animal. Little did I know that, that was a fatal mistake? Eventually as I tried to shrug off the noise, I began to hear some whispers outside. At first I thought it was mortals, but then it couldn't be because the camouflaged I used cannot be seen by mortals. Again, I got careless and shrugged it off, I don't know why I did this, but I did.

The whispers then started to get louder and most of it was cursing in ancient Greek. At that point I was finally convinced and groaned as I jumped out of bed and hid in my special room to do some surveillance, but as I approached my hidden room I began to hear the conversations more clearly.

"I'm telling you, there is no tree house up there Annabeth," said an unknown voice.

"No there is, it is using a camouflaged, but I can feel that there is something there. It is the same camouflaged that Luke, Thalia and I used when we were on the run," said a person that sounded like the woman that ripped my heart out.

"That's it, I am gonna prove it…" She said

I peered out without letting them see me and saw who it was.

It was Annabeth and a few new campers. Surprisingly the horrid Mark wasn't there. I began to watch and see what they did next, when suddenly Annabeth whispered to her buddies.

"Guys, there is someone here, I can sense it."

The other demi-gods also apparently sensed it too and pulled out there weapons.

I tried to stay hidden, so I pulled back, when out of the blue an arrow came flying at my position. I was shocked when I heard…

"Hey, there, over there, there is someone there!" yelled one of the new guys.

The next thing I heard was…

"Come out here, who are you, if you don't come out we will attack," yelled Annabeth

"Geez, when did Annabeth get so ruff, "I thought as I planned to escape

Then, suddenly the tree started to turn and whacks against the tree started to sound louder and louder. The tree started to lower ever so slowly to the ground where I saw Annabeth and the other demi-gods waiting.

I tried to vapour travel away, but my powers were drained due to my fatigue. "This is it," I thought, as the tree came crashing down. There was a scream and running footsteps, and then everything went black.

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- Slyign