Prologue
Manhattan
It was late at night and everyone with any common sense would have run inside for shelter. In a matter of few seconds the sky had darkened, rain and hail the size of footballs fell from the sky pelting the cars and anyone who dared walk the street without any type of protection
The weather men were saying that this storm had been expected since the beginning of the week and the public weren`t informed because they didn`t want to give a false alarm just in case they were wrong. They tried to reassure anyone who bothered to turn on the TV that given a few days the storm would follow it natural course and like a natural storm end. But they were wrong because there was nothing natural about this storm. A man wearing a large black cloak walked down the street accompanied by another female companion wearing a similar green cloak. The two walked briskly through the streets passing by people who had taken cover in the safety of buildings or else people who were crazy enough to try and run to their destination. As the two shadowed beings walked neither hail nor rain touched them or came close to their cloaks.
They walked for a while passing from main streets to alleys and walking in the middle of traffic filled highways. No one got in their way or tried to in any form gain their attention. After all the walking they arrived in front of a rundown house.
The house had once been a beautiful looking house but time hadn`t been kind to it. The brown paint had completely disappeared leaving the house naked to cracks and damages. The windows had nearly all been shattered by some unknown force and barred with old wood to try and prevent the rain from coming inside. There once was what looked like a chimney at the top of the house but now there was nothing but a few bricks covered in a blanket. And that was only the outside the strangers wondered what they would see when they entered the old house.
As they stepped on the green grass it immediately turned sickly brown as if from the touch of the strangers it had died. The two strangers continued to walk and as they got closer to the house the closer they got to killing the entire vegetation and living thing in the front lawn. At the touch of the stranger the door rusted and broke down in pieces. The cloaked male entered closely followed by the second figure.
Just like the outside the place was thrashed everything was broken, everything was shattered into pieces. As they looked around they noticed that the walls and ceiling had been tainted with red blood, as they looked closer they noticed that they had stepped into the red liquid. The two walked from the living room towards the dining area. In the middle of the room was another shadowed man sitting on the only couch in the room.
The tall man immediately stood up when he saw the two companions coming into the room. The female cloaked person seamed shocked at seeing the creature in the room. The creature she had thought to be a person was only half human, as from the neck down he had the appearance of a human being whilst his head said otherwise. The head was that of a brown bull with a yellow septum piercing hanging from its nostrils.
The first cloaked male man walked a few centimeters closer to the bull man upon seeing this the Minotaur fell upon its knees lowering its head in respect "Have you done the deed I have asked of you?"He said in a smooth cold tone. The furry creature stood up and started walking towards the stairs. The two cloaked people walked behind the Minotaur as he led them up on the second floor towards a room with what looked like a baby blue colored door. From what the female could tell this was the only room she could see that hadn`t suffered the wrath of the Minotaur
"Are they all in their?"asked the hooded man. The minotaur nodded his head in response to its master`s question."Good wait for me downstairs then I will reward you after this is done". With that simple order the loincloth clad monster walked downstairs with no complaints.
"Shall we enter milady?"Asked the hooded male. All he received from his partner was a nod
The male extended his hand to open the door. The moment he made contact the knob the paint started to peel of and the metal that hung with the door started to rust. The male in annoyance broke the door down to find a horrific sight before him. The tornado that had re-designed the living room had done its job in this room as well except this time it wasn`t with the furniture but with human corpses. The hooded man and woman looked around the room that was covered in blood. The floor was littered with two corpses that had been ripped apart and mashed against each other and every corner of the wall. If you looked closely and peeped your eyes close together you might have noticed that those two corpses had once been a man and a woman.
The male hooded man stepped over the mess and walked slowly towards the baby blue crib in the corner of the room .The crib was the only piece of furniture that hadn`t been destroyed or touched with the blood of the parents. Whilst the male hooded man was staring at the contents of the crib his female companion was having a hard time stomaching the sight before her eyes. As she continued to stare at the mangled and mutilated body she couldn`t hold it in anymore and she threw up her lunch right in front of the dead corpses.
"Come now Amphitrite this isn`t something that you haven`t seen in your long life or something that you will never see again "said the cold voice that was still starring at the crib. Amphitrite, the queen of the sea was one of the most respected goddesses in Olympus, she might not have been famous like Athena or Aphrodite but she was well respected. She used her cloak and wiped of the bile that had remained around her mouth. Stepping next to her male acquaintance she starred at the crib.
"Here you have it Amphitrite your sons and Olympus` greatest threat "the man said. He pointed inside the crib to a male baby covered in a baby blue blanket. The baby had a black tuft of hair starting to grow in the back of its head and he knew that if the child opened its eyes it would bear the same onyx eyes as his.
"This is the threat you mentioned to me it's just a baby boy" said Amphitrite as she watched the baby take in shallow breaths."You might see him as a weakling right now but he will grow to be a pain in the ass of many immortals after all we both saw images of this child`s future" The male man took of his hood and picked up the baby."This child has the power to destroy each and every immortal that stands in his way".
The moment that the baby felt himself hovering in someone`s arms it opened its eyes. The man that was holding him had a disfigured looking face, half of it seemed like it had been burned off while the other half had been wiped by a red hot whip. The child extended its little pudgy hands and tried to grab one of the two giant crooked horns that hanged on each side of the persons head. But when the boy met the onyx eyes he stopped as if in a trance and before the male could say Mount Olympus the little baby boy had fallen back to sleep.
"If that thing is a threat we should get rid of it lord Tartarus "said Amphitrite as she glared at the child. The primordial placed the baby back in its crib and turned to glare at his female companion of the night "His mother might have been the sex toy of your husband and you might feel betrayed but what this child`s mother has done isn`t its fault and so I won`t kill him like although you are right if we were to kill him it might solve many problems of the future". He scratched his black pointed goatee in thought "No I will give him a chance to survive "said Tartarus in a cold voice.
"A chance to survive? When Poseidon will catch a whiff of him he will immediately drop everything and make sure that he is in the safest orphanage in the mortal world and since his whore of a mother is dead I won`t be able to get any revenge" said Amphitrite snottily.
"You are right and that is why he will spend the first five years of his life in Tartarus learning how to survive on his own and then when he celebrates his fifth birthday he will be released from hell to go to your orphanage and their you can do to him what you please giving you five years of personnel vengeance."
As Amphitrite thought about the idea she could only smile at the thought of torturing the child for what he was, a son of her husband`s whores just like Phineas, Theseus and every other demigod her beloved husband had ever sired.
"Good then I guess in five years we shall be having a lot of fun won`t we little boy" she said as she looked over the baby with a devilish smirk on her well carved face. With that she backed away towards the entrance of the room, grabbing the end of her cloak with each of her hands she bowed down and mist travelled away leaving behind a cold laugh that sent shivers down the jailer of monster`s spine.
Feeling the presence of the female goddess vanish the Minotaur appeared in a matter of seconds at the entrance of the door."Take him down to Tartarus make sure he survives the next five years and grows stronger "The primordial being gently grabbed the baby from its resting place in the crib and handed him to the monster. Before the monster could touch the baby Tartarus slammed the Minotaur in the wall and started choking him out with his forearm."I trust you with this child if something happens to him in his five years in the pit you shall suffer greatly got that?"He said as calm as he could. Tartarus still couldn`t believe he was trusting a monster with a demigod it was as if asking a rabid wolf not to eat a flock of sheep.
The Minotaur nodded its head; he gently took the child and ran as fast as he could towards the nearest entrance to the underworld to start his new quest.
Tartarus sighed he quickly lifted the hood back up and made his way downstairs. When he arrived he was surprised to see the place had been cleaned up the mess that once had littered the place had been cleaned and re build. He wondered who would bother to clean up a murder site. He glanced around the room and he quickly found his answer, his beloved sister Nyx.
"What do I owe to this pleasure sister "asked Tartarus as he started down his sister? Nyx stood up gracefully and if it wasn`t for the darkness within the room he would bet he would see her stark naked."Well well aren`t we feeling a bit naughty tonight "laughed out Tartarus.
"Quite you fool "she said in a stern voice. Nyx moved two steps forward and allowed to moonlight to reveal her face. She had long flowing black hair with a glowing white skin. But the thing that always caught Tartarus attention, besides her godly body, were her beautiful and bottomless black eyes whenever he would stare at them he would feel as if falling through a bottomless dark pit.
"What are you doing in this house?"She asked in a stern voice.
"Well to put it mildly cleaning up my brother`s mess the gods figured out your plan of sending them their next jury so they sent their beloved monsters to see that their judge is murdered before he could start to analyze the case" he said coldly.
"This is your fifth failure Nyx, you failed with our brother and sister, you failed with the titans and you failed with the gods. You sire children and abandon them to face the god without any training or any help but from here on I'm taking charge and things will be different. The gods need to learn a lesson and the Nephilim will be the one to give it to them"
"The child won`t survive your jail and he won`t survive Amphitrite`s torture so in a way you shall kill him and doom our plans. "She responded.
"I have seen you manipulate the Nephilim for too long now it's my turn "He passed right beside her and made his way towards the exit "Even if you have something against my idea it`s too late as the child is already on its way to Tartarus"
"The Nephilim will fail "she stated coldly turning around leaving her bare body to his eyes. The moonlight bounced of her naked body and as much as he wanted to jump her he held himself back, after all he wouldn`t betray his brother`s trust.
"The Nephilim has a name it would be wise if you learnt it after all he will be the one that will finally bring balance to this corrupted world "he stated as he walked outside the house. A black vortex appeared in front of him he turned around surveying the world behind him
Percy Jackson the first ever Nephilim of Erebus I wonder what your future will be like
And with that he vanished
Tartarus : The word Tartarus has two meanings the first it could refer to the pit that lies within the underworld and the second could refer to the primordial Greek god of nothingness that has control over the prison with the pit of Tartarus
Amphitrite : Poseidon`s wife
Nyx : She is the personification of the night and is also considered a daughter of chaos,she is the primordial of the night
Erebus : He is the primordial of true darkness and has control over the mist that surrounds the Tartarus and Nyx he also is a son of chaos.
Nephilim : In this story Nephilim are children of Protogenoi
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