Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Fading Stars
Chapter 1: I fight a celebrity
Disclaimer:I don't own PJO. If I did this would be a well reviewed book instead of a crappy, badly reviewed fanfic.
Percy's POV
It was early December, about 2 weeks before the winter solstice, but Demeter seemed to be really pissed because we had gotten like a foot of snow, and counting. It was a two hour drive from New York to New
Brunswick, New Jersey, mostly because of the sleet and snow that pounded the highway. It was a lot like when Annabeth, Thalia, Grover and I went to Maine to get Nico and Bianca, but things were different this
time. Since Thalia was with the hunters,It was just me, Grover and Annabeth. Also, instead of 2 demigods, there were 8. I know that I should be used to weird stuff happening at this point, but what's been going
on lately has definitely taken the cake. Big groups of demigods like this have been popping up all around the country, the weather has been completely random and unpredictable, monsters that haven't been seen
since the gods left Greece have been sighted, the constellations that once lit up the night sky have started becoming dimmer, I have started talking all seriously and listing the facts like they were mission specs.
No but seriously, this was getting weird, this was actually the 4th group we've had to pick up and get to camp. Though I did get a sweet deal out of stopping by camp so often. Chiron said I needed more training
so I get to go go to camp on the weekends to train and go back home on Monday for school so no one gets suspicious of anything. It was good to hang out with Grover and Annabeth like this but these long car
rides have been taking a lot out of us. That and my mom wouldn't stop telling embarrassing baby stories about me. I mean seriously, we had just forgotten the stories from last week. After what seemed like
forever, we finally got there. We jumped out of the car and were about to start looking when my mom shouted,"Percy wait!" We all ran back to the car and she said,"You forgot your backpack."and she handed me
my backpack. We were always home or back at camp before the end of the day but, moms will be moms. "Thanks mom. Come on guys lets go." We walked away and she drove off. As soon as we got off, Grover
ran down the street.. We followed him and I asked,
"What is it?"
"I smell a demigod!"
"So?"
"I've never smelt one this strong before. The last time I smelled Anything this strong was win you and Thalia were in the same room with Nico and Bianca!" I knew he'd half to be strong if he was as strong as 4
kids of the big 3. I kept running but Grover stopped at a corner and Annabeth grabbed me by the hood of my coat. I fell back because she almost choked me to death. I grabbed my throat and barely managed to
ask,
"What the hell did you do that for?"
"Look!" She said and pointed down the street from where we were. I peeked down the street from behind the corner and a Hispanic kid talking to a guy in a hooded black cloak. This kid was wearing a black windbreaker
with a blue flame pattern along with one of those black ski masks that cover the lower half of your face. He had black spiky hair with blue highlights a pair of black jeans with like a million chains and studs and
spikes with a pair of black combat boots. I just barely heard the man in the trench coat finish saying,
"-cefully, or we could take you by force like we did with your friends. This kid walked up to the man and grabbed by the collar and lifted him off the ground and threatened,
"I swear if I find any of them hurt I'll make you wish Kronos had never brought you back from the depths of Tartarus!" His accent was half hispanic and half Jersey. Then out of nowhere I saw another monster in a trench coat sneak up behind him and hold a knife to his throat. The second monster said in a heavy New Jersey accent,
"Now we're the ones in control of the negotiation here. Now you have 2 choices, either you could come with us or I could kill you, right here, right now." I saw him look over at where we were hiding and I saw his
eye was blue, not icy blue or electric blue but like the blue fire that comes out of the stove. He also had barbell piercings around his left eye shaped like a falcon. He chuckled for a second and said,
"Why take me when there's a demigod right over there?" The first monster looked at and calmly snapped his fingers and said,
"JD, get him. I'll take care of our friend here."
The Hispanic kid whipped out a lighter and was about to flick the switch on it when the monster neck chopped the him. Then he covered him with his cloak and it flattened out on the ground, so I knew they were
waved his cloak in front of them and they were gone. The second monster let go of the kid ran towards us. I used my powers and lifted snow off the road and sent him flying back. Right before he hit the
ground, he did a midair barrel roll and threw 5 1-inch knives at me. I blocked them with Riptide but that just made me lose my concentration and let go of the snow. He landed feet first and throw 10 knives at
me."Kid, you have no idea who your messing with." he said and threw another barrage of throwing knives at me. I ran out of the way he ran up to me. I slashed at him and it tore his trench coat. He was
wearing a white and gray camo military uniform unzipped over a skull T-shirt. I looked at his face and saw he was only 16 or 17, maybe 18. I was expecting him to be like , all official with a buzz cut and
stuff but he wasn't. He had a dark brown faux-hawk for one thing, and he had a look on his face that just screams,"My parents hate me." He had big nose and blood red eyes so you knew he was a monster in
disguise. I slashed at him again and he dove into the snow piled on the sidewalk. "Give it up kid! You've got no idea who you're messing with!" and threw a few more knives at me. I lifted up all the snow to
block the throwing knives and to get him out in the open. He fell down to the ground I made the snow fall to crush him. Right before it hit him, he dove out of the way."You'll never beat me kid! I've been doing this for years.
"What monster are you?" I asked
"What, you don't know? You could say I'm a local celebrity. Call me, JD."
"Who?"
He chuckled. "Maybe this will help." He started changing, probably to his true form, but 3 arrows flew by his head and he stopped. "What the- You!" he yelled and ran
in the direction the arrows came from. I knew I wouldn't get another chance like this
"Grover, Annabeth!" I yelled. Annabeth pulled out her knife and Grover pulled out a sharpened rusty can.
"Way ahead of you." said Grover.
"Don't,worry," said Annabeth."We'll cover you." We ran towards the guy and I slashed Riptide which made a wave off snow bury him. He started to dig his way out but before he could he was hit by a shock of electricity. I looked at where it came from and saw a familiar face. It was Thalia. She was wearing a silver parka, unzipped over a black T-shirt with a skull on it and a pair of black jeans. She was wearing all of her usual punk/goth makeup and chains too. She also had a barbell piercing on her upper lip.
"Thalia?" I asked.
"It's been a while. What's up?" she responded.
"Not much, searching for demigods, fighting monsters, trying to survive school, the usual. What are you doing here?"
"Well-"she started, put then her eyes got wider and she said,"Oh crap." I looked back to the snow pile and saw the monster had dug his way to the top and pulled out 4 throwing knives with green dripping points.
"2 kids of the big 3? This is perfect! Now Kronos will have 3 chances to manipulate the prophecy!"
"3?" asked Annabeth.
"What are you talking about?" asked Thalia.
"There are only 2 big 3 kids here!" shouted Grover. I was about to say something along those lines but I realized who he was talking about.
"You don't mean-" but he cut me off.
"You've all heard enough. Now take this!" and he threw his knives at us. It only left a small cut on my chest put I immediately dropped to my knees. zMy whole body started to go numb and I felt like I was about to puke. I saw everyone else was doing the same, and I had a feeling they weren't trying to be part of the group.
"That green stuff-" Annabeth managed to say.
"Hydra poison." said JD. "It's not enough to kill but it still gets the job done." He walked towards her when another arrow flew by his head. I saw Thalia had gotten up to her knees and was holding her bow.
"You won't take us down that easily." I got up to my feet, the poison working its way through my body.
"That's right." I said. "Now stay away from her!" He chuckled a little more and said,
"I guess they don't make poison like they used to. Whatever. I've got plenty more." He pulled out 2 more knives and threw rhem at us. The last thing I remember before blacking out was a sharp pain in the side of my neck followed by completely losing all feeling in my body.
Author's Note: Sorry I'm doing this again but I read some of your guys' reviews and I thought,"The readers are right. I shouldn't be throwing chapters together in the middle of the night. I should take time and make them as good as I can." So I went back and I did. I took and some of the gore and I have a better place to continue from in the next xhapter. Oh, and before anyone asks, yes Thalia is still in this version. I introduced her here because my other idea seemed to choppy. So, that's it. Enjoy!
