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My name is Percy Jackson, I am seven years old and I think I am going crazy. My mommy and daddy don't get along and fight often. But today the fight was exceptionally bad.

POV: Percy

"Sally!" Gabe yelled "Get me a drink and hurry!"

I watched my mom hurriedly get a drink and pass it to him. I disliked Gabe; no it went further than that I absolutely despised him. He treated my mother like she was his slave. I wanted to do something every night he would hit her but I can't do anything, I am helpless like she is. I blame this all on my father you see, if he hadn't just ditched us then maybe I would have had a better life.

My mom sent me to school but it never worked because the letters kept floating around the page. But Gabe wouldn't believe me and say I was worthless and not worth his time and money.

I snorted, he actually got money because of me. He was too lazy to work so my mother was the one who was out working until eleven every night.

I always had a fascination with water and at the age of six I learnt how to control it. My mommy made me promise not to show anyone and I agreed but when she wasn't around and Gabe was here well let's just say I got some revenge for treating my mother rudely.

I smirked because I knew of the whoopee cushion under his chair and when he sat down a long great fart erupted. Or, that what my mom though at least. Gabe would glare at me and I would glare back but my mom glared at him to stop and he just shrugged and usually left me alone. My mother was the only protection I had from Gabe and without her; I would have been gone a long time ago.

Because of my love for water we lived near a lake and every day I would swim to the bottom to get away from Gabe. I always knew I was special from the day I found out about my water powers. My mom tried to explain the best she could but she refused to tell me everything until I was twelve. All I know so far is that I inherited my sea green eyes from my father. Personally I blame everything on my father, my mom says that he was the nicest man she met but I disagree. If he knew what was best then he would have stayed.

Gabe was in an unusually bad mood today and yelled at me for "getting in his way" when he clearly bumped into me.

"Who cares about you" I muttered, earning a long and hard glare from Gabe. His eyebrow twitched and I knew I was going to get it so I made a run for it but he caught me. My ankle was trapped between his two legs, while he took his belt off. Mommy ran in between and pulled me free but Gabe whipped her with his belt and she crashed into the bed. She yelled at Gabe after getting up and slapped him across the face. Then he just lost it, he lunged and took my mom by the neck and strangled her.

I screamed at him but he ignored me muttering something about finally we were getting what we deserved. My mom signaled for me to run and I did. As fast as I could I ran and ran. Not once did I look back.

The next day I read in the newspaper that our apartment was lit on fire and burned to the ground, my mother and Gabe were not found. I cried the entire day until a nice woman came up to me.

"I bet you are really lonely" she said smiling and for some reason I trusted her, I nodded. "Come with me and I will bring you to my home." She said before picking me up and holding me in her arms as she walked into the ground, how could she do that?

It was cool I saw furies, hell hounds, and Minotaurs. I only knew these because I studied Greek mythology when I was little. My mother had told me how important it would be later in my life. She held me tightly as she reached a huge palace with a moat. Funnily there was no water in the moat just bones. Wait what? Bones I was beginning to be more cautious about this place but the lady's smile kept me from screaming. The bridged lowered and a man with dark eyes and hair came out to meet us.

"Persephone" he exclaimed happily but he grin disappeared as he saw me in her arms. The lady smiled at me before placing me on the ground.

"Hades" she kissed his cheek and pulled him away. She spoke with him for a while and he scowl changed into a shocked look before he tried to smile as he made his way back. Wait a minute did she mean The Hades god of the underworld? I mean of all people he was one of my favourites, but god of the underworld? The gods are real? It seems so, I guess I understand why my mom made me read so much of those Greek mythology books now.

"Well it seems my wife has taken a liking to you can you tell me what is your name?" he said with a glance to her. I remember a story about a demi-god forgetting to bow and in the result he had his head chopped off so I quickly bowed and said

"My Lord Hades, my name is Perseus Jackson" stating my full name for him.

He looked surprised at my knowledge of gods but shrugged.

"Well Perseus would you like you stay here with me and my wife?" he asked

I could believe it me stay with the god of the underworld? Awesome! I nodded enthusiastically.

POV: Hades

Poor kid he has been through a lot I guess. But I still didn't know anything about him.

"What happened to your mother Perseus" I asked curiously it is not everyday my wife stumbled across lost kids. He looked down and looked me straight in the eye before saying

"She is gone"

"Do you know her name?" I asked egger to find out more about this child

"Sally Jackson" he responded too quickly I guess he really missed her.

"Well Perseus if you don't mind I am currently busy my wife will show you to your new room if you would like" I said as he bobbed his head up and down.

As he laid down in his new king sized bed his eyes dropped immediately and his mouth made a big O before falling asleep. Children they usually looked so peaceful it really was hard for me when a child died.

I walked back to the throne room and Persephone was there with a hellhound. I smiled and she waved her hand to dismiss the hellhound. I wrapped my arm around her in comfort and she cuddled next to my side.

"Hades, what are we going to do with the boy?" she sighed. Truthfully I didn't know.

"Well, I am going to talk with his mother and see if I can find anything about his parentage."

"Oh, that might be a good idea" she said a little down. I squeezed her shoulders and got up, then started shadow travelling to the judgement fields. The judgement fields were a huge building with tall walls and barriers preventing you from getting out.

"My Lord" everyone bowed to me as I appeared

"What can we do for you, my Lord?" asked one of the judges. James, he had red hair and glowing blue eyes.

"Well, James I need to speak with a Ms. Sally Jackson" I replied looking around for her.

"Well, she should be on the door to your left sir" he said before continuing with his job. I waved my hand in thanks and he nodded. I opened the door, to find Sally Jackson sitting in a chair with Marvin on the opposite side looking at her file. Sally has blue eyes and long brown hair that shines when she moves her head.

"Marvin, I need to speak with Sally for a while please wait outside" I told him. He looked up from the papers glaring ,with his brown devil like eyes, but it turned to look of apologies when he saw me.

"Yes my Lord" he said before hurrying out, and closing the door behind him.

"Well Sally it seems that I have your son in my palace but the there are a few things I would like to ask" I said worried because she wasn't afraid or anything of me usually people cower when I come in.

"My Lord Hades please ask away" she said before bowing to me. I hid my shock and continued with my questions.

"Who is the father of Percy Jackson, your son?" I asked first. It was the most important question at the moment if I knew that it would change a lot of things. She hesitated before saying

"Well... he is the son of your brother Poseidon"

My mouth dropped open so Poseidon broke the vow? Not good... but I recovered, I still needed to ask a few more questions.

"Do you have any objections to me raising him?" I asked actually curious I have never done this before.

"No"

"Well I will be on my way after this final question" I smirked "What happened to you?"

"Well my Lord, my husband, who I only married to protect Percy, burned me along with our apartment."

I knew I said I would leave after this questions but I needed to know who did this.

"Who?" I managed to get out

"Gabe Ugliano"

"Thank you I will be leaving now"

I stormed out and yelled at my head inspector

"I demand to see a Gabe Ugliano now" they could tell I was in a bad mood so they pointed to a room to the far right and one said

"My Lord does this mean that mean he will get thrown into Tartarus?" he bravely asked

I just glared at him. "What do you think?" I asked calmly now. I stormed off to the room where Gabe was held and I slammed the door closed. The man in front of me smelled so bad I took a step back before pointing to my nose and the smell disappeared. He was fat, balding, and short. Gabe looked at me in terror and I grabbed him out of the room and shoved him out. He whimpered and said

"Please spare me"

I didn't answer that I knew he wouldn't be spared. I left him in the care of my beloved dog Cerberus. Cerberus lunged and sank his fangs into Gabe's flesh, Cerberus looked at me for permission and I nodded but added. Gabe let out a blood curling scream.

"Don't kill him until I come back" I winked and disappeared.

I went to Poseidon's realm; maybe my dear brother would like a hand in torturing Gabe. The mermen looked at me and bowed before letting me in. Poseidon was in the throne room alone and he looked up in surprise before embracing me saying

"My dear brother, what brings you here?"

"Well, Poseidon my wife found your kid Percy and she brought him here to me and I was wondering if you would like to help me torture the fool who killed his mother" I summed up the situation.

Poseidon looked outraged "What?" he yelled "What happened to Sally?"

"Shhh" I hissed no one can know. Already the mermen where coming in to investigate. Poseidon waved his hand and they left. "To sum it up, she was burned alive and left to die in a burning apartment" the ground started to rumble and I put a hand on my brother's shoulder. "Calm" I said "Percy is with me and I plan to raise him as my son"

"Bu-t he is my son" he stammered.

"Yes, and you can visit him but for now on one can know and the safest place right now is with me in the underworld."

My brother's shoulders slumped in defeat as he realised I was right.

"I will take you up on that; I will visit my son even though it is against the law" Stated before I could say anything. "Well what are you waiting for? We have a person to torture." He crackled grinning evilly. Sometimes I don't understand my brother. Well who am I to complain? Cerberus was waiting for me loyally and Gabe was still screaming. Geez that guy had a set of pipes.

And well what happened next was let's say Gabe had a huge "accident".

Author's Notes: Any suggestions? Comments? Concerns? I finally decided that if you want to know what happened to Gabe you will need to wait because I am going to create a prequel kind of story. This new story will contain the torture scene from Gabe. It will also contain many of the deleted scenes from the story. I just wanted to let you know sorry that it is not a new chapter but I promise to get it up as soon as possible. I can tell you though the new chapter is longer than four thousand words.

If you are reading this as well please vote on the poll. I need to see if you want Percy to end up with someone or not.

Last updated on: 19/07/2013