Prolouge
To say that he was happy was a lie. Perseus Jackson was beyond happy, and for a good reason. His best friend, Annabeth Chase stood beside him, along with his cousins Nico di Angelo and Thalia Grace, and all the other people he had met over the past seven years of knowing he was a half-blood.
Yup, you heard me. Half-blood.
Half God and half mortal, Demi-Gods. The children of the Greek Gods. In fact, the whole room Perseus was standing in was filled with the Gods children, waiting for The Gods themselves.
Perseus was a son of Poseidon, the only one in a long time. Why?
There had been an oath, sworn on the river Styx by Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the Big Three to never have demi-god children ever again, after the second world war. Together they had decided that their mortal children where to powerful, and could overpower them, much like their father, Kronos.
Of course, the Gods never keep their promises. Zeus, god of the sky, was the first to cave, falling for an eighties movie star, Sandra Grace. Together, they had a little girl named Thalia, whom Sandra named after another one of Zeus's daughters.
Then was Poseidon, go of the sea, with a woman named Sally Jackson.
And that leaves Hades, god of the Underworld. Surprisingly, he never really broke the oath. His two children, ten and twelve at the time, were born before the oath was made, sometime during the 1930's. But of course, when Zeus found out about them, he got angry, a killed Maria di Angelo, the mother of the two and the love of Hades's life.
Hades, heartbroken, had sent his children to the Lotus hotel, where they would never grow old, so they could be released when they would safe, and not have missed most of their lives.
The river Styx, the river the swore on, takes oaths very seriously. The young daughter of Zeus was killed by a monster when traveling to camp Half-Blood when she was twelve, the only safe place for demi-gods. Zeus took pity on his deceased daughter and turned her into a pine tree on Half -Blood hill, so she could watch over all demi-gods who came to camp.
Perseus was followed by many monsters, but managed to reach Camp Half-blood. And, before we go any further into this story, let me tell you about his life, leading up to him standing with Annabeth.
Most demi-gods have protectors, satyrs who befriend them so that they can protect them from monsters so that they can reach camp. Perseus's protecter was a satyr named Grover.
Now Grover was only a junior protector, and Perseus was his second and last chance to become a senior protector, because of what had happened the first time. Perseus was twelve.
Perseus's mother, Sally, knew that he was a demi-god, but couldn't tell him about his father or his heritage, because the more you know about the Greek world, the more monsters come after you and Sally wanted to protect Perseus as much as Grover. It was her who drove the two of them to Camp Half-blood.
Sally was taken by the Minotaur and taken to Hades before Perseus reached the camps boundary line as a bargaining chip . Perseus killed the Minotaur.
At camp, Perseus was devastated by the loss of his mother. He met a daughter of Athena, Annabeth, who was his age, and a son of Hermes, Luke, who was about nineteen. He had also been claimed as a son of Poseidon.
While that had been happening, a fight had broken out between Zeus and Poseidon. Zeus was accusing Poseidon of stealing his master bolt, the source of all his power. While the gods could not take each others property, due to ancient laws, their children can.
Zeus was positive the Perseus had stolen the bolt and taken it to Hades.
When Perseus heard about this at camp, he was confused, he had never met his father before, nor Hades. Perseus was given a quest to go to the Underworld and retrieve the bolt, or the whole world would be destroyed by the war between Zeus and Poseidon.
Perseus agrees to the quest, but not to save the world, to save his mother.
Perseus succeeds in getting to the Underworld, only to realize that the bolt had been in the shield he had been carrying. A shield given to him by Luke.
Perseus never thought much about how the bolt got there, but raced to Olympus to deliver the bolt to Zeus.
All was happy. Hades returned Sally to the land of the living, and Zeus was grateful to Perseus.
It wasn't until Perseus was back at Camp when the trouble started.
Perseus met with Luke, who explained that it have been him who had put the bolt in the shield so Perseus would take it to Hades. Luke wanter a war between the gods.
Luke was mad at the gods because they ignored their children. Luke wanted revenge.
The next summer, when Perseus returned to camp, he found out that Thalia's tree had been poisned by Luke, whp had joined Kronos and the titans. He went on a quest with Clarisse La rue, daughter of Ares, Annabeth, and his cyclopes half-brother, Tyson to get the golden fleece, the only objet that could save the tree.
It was on this quest where he leaned that Annabeth had come to Camp with Thalia and Luke, and Grover had been their protector. Annabeth had been seven, Thalia, twelve and Luke, fourteen.
Perseus and his friends get the fleece and return to Camp to put the fleece on the great pine tree. But the fleece not only healed the tree, it brought Thalia Grace back to life. She had aged in her tree, but slowly, so had only gained three years instead of six.
That winter, the children of Hades, Nico and Bianca, were rescued by their father because he wanted one of his children to be the child in the prophecy that had been set forth many years ago, and only started, when all four of the Big Three kids were alive at the same time. That winter, Bianca was killed. Blaming Perseus, Nico left. Thalia joined the Immortal Hunters of Artemis the day before her sixteenth birthday, so that she would stay fifteen forever, and the prophecy would not be hers.
During the next summer, a group of demi-gods went into the Labyrinth to slow down Kronos's army, with the help of a mortal who the gift to see throught the mist, a magical protection causing mortals to see monsters as something different, to keep the Greek world safe. Sally also had this gift. The mortal's name was Rachel Dare. Nico came back, and helped, forgiving Perseus. Kronos went into Luke's body, using him as a host.
Many were lost in the battle of the Labyrinth.
The summer after that, a week before Perseus was to turn sixteen, he heard the full prophecy.
A half-blood of the eldest gods
shall reach sixteen against all odds
and see the world in endless sleep
hero's blade cursed soul shall reap
a single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raise
The god of dreams put all of Manhattan to sleep, so no mortals would be harmed during the war.
Kronos was about to destroy Olympus when Luke struggled, and turned to the good side in the end. Perseus gave Luke Annabeth's knife, the knife the Luke had given her, because it was the blade, and Luke was the hero. Luke killed himself, sending Kronos back down to Tartarus and saving Olympus.
And that's why all the demi-gods were gathered in the room. The room, actually, was the Throne Room on Olympus, on top of the Empire State Building. Waiting for the Gods to exit their meeting about the war and talk to them.
Annabeth nudged Perseus shoulder. "Percy?" she asked, calling him by his preferred nickname.
"Yeah?"
"What were you thinking about? You've been staring at that wall over there for like two minutes."
Percy looked to Annabeth. Gods, was she beautiful. Even sweaty and tired, with her arm in a sling and face covered in blood, Percy still thought she was more beautiful the Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
"Just about us." He blushed. "All of us. You, me, Thalia, Nico, you know."
She raised her eyebrows. "Yeah?"
"We've just been through a lot."
Annabeth sighed thoughtfully. "Sure have."
"Wonder what's taking so long?" Percy wondered.
"And how would you think I would know?"
Percy laughed. "Well, Mrs. Daughter of Athena..."
"Yes, Mr. Son of the Sea God?"
Next to them, Percy's cousin and Annabeth's best friend, Thalia, gagged. "This is disgusting. Could you guys be any more Girlfriend and Boyfriend?"
Percy blushed. He had never thought of Annabeth as his girlfriend.
Annabeth looked just as embarrassed, but covered it up with a sarcastic remark to Thalia.
"Oh, sorry, we would want little Mrs. Hunter of the virgin goddess to burst into flames."
Thalia scowled playfully. "Trust me, I'm speaking for everyone."
Annabeth narrowed her eyes. "Everyone?"
"Well, Nico at least," she said, gesturing to the black-clad thirteen year-old son of Hades standing beside Percy.
As if on cue, he gagged. "Ahhhhh! Cooties!"
Annabeth smiled "Percy?"
"Got it," said Percy, before kicking Nico in the leg.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
They smiled at each other. Thalia rolled her eyes, and was about to make another comment when fourteen twelve-foot-tall beings burst into the room.
Okay, this is my first FanFic, so I'd like to hear your feedback. I should be updating again in about two or three days.
Thanks!
Okay, this is my first FanFic, so I'd like to hear your feedback. I should be updating again in about two or three days.
Thanks!
