Guess what, my new story is up!
This is it, Son of Vesta: Reborn From Ashes!
I have to warn you though, my main focus is on Son of Chaos: The Road to Vengeance, therefore I won't be able to update this story very frequently, but I promise I'll do my best!
Enjoy the first chapter!
Prologue: Goodbye and A New Journey
It's middle of the night, a teenage boy around sixteen is running like crazy.
He has warm orange eyes with a very small ring of sea green around it, his long messy jet black hair was all over his face as he ran. He wore a simple orange T-shirt, blue jeans and a pair of sneakers.
In pursuit appears to be a dozen of tall men. If there is anything unusual about them, they only have one eye.
Cyclops.
The teen turned to face the Cyclops. He took out a ballpoint pen and uncapped it, extending it into a long, bronze sword.
A faint glow was radiated from the blade in the darkness. It's Celestial Bronze, the magical metal of the Gods and heroes.
The teen charged at the Cyclops, dodging Celestial Bronze clubs wielded by the monsters as he stabbed his blade into the first Cyclops' chest, bursting it into a pile of golden dust.
There was silence.
Then the Cyclops screamed in rage as they charged at the young half-blood. But no avail, the demigod easily dodged and blocked all the attacks from the Cyclops as he slayed the monsters.
Slicing, stabbing, swinging, he destroyed Cyclops after Cyclops with ease, as if it's the easiest thing on Earth to do.
Minutes later, all the Cyclops are gone. Where they once stood are now filled with golden dusts.
The teen wiped sweet away from his forehead as he continued to make his way towards his destination, Caldecott Tunnel located in San Fransisco.
In case you don't know, monsters burst into golden dusts after they are killed.
Only weapons made of the metals, Adamantine, Celestial Bronze, silver enchanted with magic, Stygian Iron and Imperial Gold.
You must be wondering what the Hades is Imperial Gold.
Well… Imperial Gold has similar effects with Celestial Bronze, almost as rare. Celestial Bronze is mined directly from Mt. Olympus, and Imperial Gold… Well, it's a whole different story.
The reason you've probably never heard of Imperial Gold from Percy Jackson before, is that Greeks don't use Imperial Gold, only Romans use it.
Speaking of which, I should probably explain that the teen mentioned before, is Percy Jackson.
The Percy Jackson? The Son of Poseidon and Savior of Olympus?
That was another lifetime.
He is now Perseus Jackson, Son of Vesta, Champion of Apollo, Athena, Diana, Mercury and Pluto.
As you already know, after the Second Titan War, Percy Jackson was offered godhood by the Olympian Council, as a reward of defeating the Titan Lord Kronos.
He however, turned the offer down, for the sake of demigods and minor gods.
You'd think that after everything he's done, he'd be worshipped like the hero he is. Well, WRONG!
New campers would always keep their distance from Percy, as if he is some sort of alien or freak.
Even his best friend, Annabeth Chase, who he was hopelessly in love with. Key word, was, has been more distant than ever.
Only the very few close friends of his, Grover, Tyson, Thalia, Nico, Travis, Connor, Katie, Malcom, Chris, Clarisse and Chiron (If he counts), still acted the same way.
A few weeks later, Percy was summoned to Olympus by Zeus.
You'd think that Zeus is going to reward him further for saving Olympus. Well… Wrong again.
During the council meeting, Zeus claimed that Percy is a threat to Olympus, since he has became too powerful, and he had to be planning on turning against the Gods since he declined godhood.
Right, after risking his life for the Gods for five years he'd decide to overthrow them all the sudden.
You are not going to believe it, but most of the council, including his own father, Poseidon agreed that Percy is too powerful and posses a threat to Olympus.
Only Apollo and Hermes (His good friends), Athena (For once she's not letting her emotions blind her judgment), Artemis (Who thinks Percy is the only decent male ever lived ever since he held sky for her), Hades (Surprisingly) and Hestia (Who is as nice as usual) supported Percy.
So, Percy Jackson was banished from Camp Half-blood and Olympus.
And most of the idiotic campers even threw a f***… Sorry, my bad, forgot this story is only rate T, I mean a freaking party to celebrate it. Annabeth, A.K.A. bitch, was the one who started it. She even spread fake lies about Percy.
All the sudden, the Savior of Olympus was betrayed and banished.
The worst part is, his own mother, Sally Jackson, has left him and moved away because she doesn't want Percy anymore, since she has a chance to live a normal life, without a freak son in it.
He had nowhere to go.
He had nobody with him on the run, but Blackjack, Mrs. O'Leary and Peleus. A Pegasus, a Hellhound and a Dragon, isn't that sweet?
A few weeks later, he was visited by Hestia, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Hermes and Hades.
They told Percy there is a place that he can go, and it's called Camp Jupiter in San Francisco.
They had to explain the Gods having two personas and there are Greek and Roman demigods.
Camp Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-blood. They also told him a new threat arises and Zeus being the arrogant idiot he is, has closed Olympus and cut all the connections between the Gods and the mortal world.
His mission is to do his best at Camp Jupiter, and prepare the legionaries for the upcoming war.
Percy received all their blessing, from their Roman equivalent of course. Except Athena who hates Rome with a passion after they stole her Parthenos and took away her title as Goddess of Battle Strategy.
Apparently Athena thinks Annabeth has made a dumb decision by betraying Percy like that and the only hope of the western civilization rests on Percy's shoulders.
Another good news is, Hestia, or should I say Vesta offered to adopt Percy, which he was more than happy to accept. Since he relinquished his title as Son of Poseidon and was adopted by the Roman Goddess of Hearth, Percy is a Roman now, which is something he really appreciates after everything.
Being the first and only child of Hestia or Vesta and all, makes him being spoiled by his mother a lot.
Percy got a bunch of cool magical items from his mother and patrons. An invisibility cap like Annabeth's and an encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology from Athena, a pair of flying sneakers like the ones Luke gave him from Hermes, a watch that turns into a circular Celestial Bronze shield morphed with his second spoiler of war, Medusa's head like the one Athena has from Apollo (Don't ask me how Apollo got that after Sally "Disposed" it, I have no idea), only it can actually petrify someone under his will, a bow charm pierced through a silver necklace that turns into a magical bow and quiver and hunting knives enchanted with some cool magic from Artemis.
Hades on the other hand, had Percy's namesake's consent to give his Adamantine blade to him, blessed by Zeus in the ancient times to be able to control lightning. And Hestia, you won't believe what Percy got from her.
Kronos' scythe.
Hestia re-forged it in her hearth on Olympus with Adamantine, Celestial Bronze and mortal steel. It is enchanted to take the form of a ring, and it can turn into any weapon of choice.
It's a very powerful weapon that can even make an immortal fade.
Lucky he bathed in River Styx.
Vesta warned Percy about the Tiber River that would wash away his Curse of Achilles since it's a Greek curse, and Percy would take extra caution to make sure he avoids the Tiber River.
Percy once turned it into a lightning bolt, and let's just say that the Hydra Percy "Experimented" on had a rough time before returning to Tartarus.
Percy made his way to the traffic near by the Caldecott Tunnel, and that's when he ran into two familiar looking monsters in what appears to be supermarket employee uniforms holding metal plates filled with snackers.
'The Gorgons' He thought sarcastically, Athena's encyclopedia helped a lot since it's written in Greek, 'Great'
He stumbled forward, impaling the first Gorgon's chest with Anaklusmos by surprise before turning to the second one. He thrust his right forward at the Gorgon as flames engulfed the monster's body. It's eyes widened at the flame before letting out an agonizing painful scream.
Another mile ahead, an entrance is being guarded by two teenagers behind a river.
Mortals would just ignore it but Percy knows better. Through the mist, he sees a large city. New Rome.
Using the last ounce left of his strength, he marched forward.
In front of the entrance, stood a fat Asian boy with a bow and quiver strapped on his back and a tall girl with chocolate hair, golden eyes and brown skin, hands on her Spatha, both in light golden Roman style battle armor.
"Halt! Identify yourself!"
Well, that was a short prologue of this new story, hope you like it so far!
If you've got any ideas, feel free to review or PM me, I could use some.
The next chapter, Percy's adventure in New Rome will begin!
The poll voting for this story's pairing is still up, go vote for it!
Bianca is leading so far!
Anyways, thank you for reading,
have a nice day,
and til the next time!
T.C. ya!
