A/N: anything that happened in this story that shouldn't be possible will be explained when I get to the main story of the Percy Jackson stories.

Faithful Encounter

Somehow, I always knew I wasn't like a normal child. At least, not as normal as someone with ADHD and Dyslexia could be. But I never imagine what I truly was until one day my step-father Gabe Ugliano, decided to have me wait as my elementary school at age seven while everyone has gone home.

My name is Perseus Jackson, but you can call me Percy and I was only seven years old when my troubles began. My mommy Sally Jackson always told me that I should never go home by myself, that it was dangerous for me.

Of course, growing up in Manhattan New York City, New York I could believe it, but I never realized how far from the truth did I truly understand.

I was standing in my school's playground waiting for Smelly Gabe to show up or at least my mom, when I heard a sudden growl. My instincts told me to run, but for some reason-maybe out of curiosity-I turned to the source of the growl, and I wish I hadn't.

Behind me was a huge massif dog the size of one of those tanks. It had lava like eyes and dagger like teeth and it was glaring down at me.

I did the one thing that came to my mind-run! I ran to the school to get help and the dog chased after me and nearly jumped me. And pinned me to the ground.

"Good doggie-Nice doggie!" I cried.

"Mrs. O'Leary! Stop!"

The dog stopped and slowly got off. I got up and looked to see an old man standing at other end of the street.

"Are you okay, son?" he asked.

Instead of answering I ran away.

Now, I know what you're thinking, that was mean. But I was so scared I didn't know what else to do. So I quickly got out of there without knowing where to go, which eventually led me to getting lost.

Now I had no idea where I am at. It been weeks maybe months since the incident-I'm not sure since I lost track of how long I been lost, but I must have traveled miles from my home. I doubt I was in the state of New York anymore after how many detours I took.

I had somehow learned to live with what I could get my hands on. I stolen a few things just to survive. Now I was in a middle of the forest next to a creek at who knows where.

The monstrous dog wasn't the first beast I manage to escape from. In fact, the more I tried to avoid monsters, the more lost I got. I had no way to contact my mommy, and I was dead tired.

I looked at my reflection in the water and saw my usual scrape up face, messy black hair, and bags under my green eyes. Mommy always said I had my daddy's hair and eyes. Apparently he was this rich man who fell in love with her one summer, but before I was born he had to leave.

"I wish you were here daddy," I said, "Maybe I you can help me."

Just then something happened that I couldn't explained. A blue light appeared above my head, nearly blinding me. When I looked up I saw a hologram of a three point spear-a trident. I didn't know how I knew what it was, but for some reason I felt drawn to it.

So when it started moving I started following it despite being so tired. Sadly it faded after reaching a clearing, and since I used up my energy following then thing, I collapsed onto the ground.

I guess I caused some ruckus, because the last thing I saw was two kids-a girl and a boy walking up to me.

The boy was a teenager at least with Sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and elfish features while the girl had black messy hair electric blue eyes, and freckles across her nose.

"Are you okay?" the girl asked.

I didn't answer as I started passing out.

"Hold on, kid!" I heard the boy said before I passed out.

...

When I finally regained conscious, I found myself in what I guess was a children's hideout.

The sandy-haired boy was apparently watching over me when I woke because he hollered, "Thalia! He's awake!"

The black hair girl walked up to us.

"Wh-where am I?" I manage to ask.

"You're in our hide out, kid," the boy said, "My name is Luke, and this is Thalia. What's yours?"

"Percy Jackson," I replied.

"Where's your parents?" Thalia said, "What happened to you?"

I wanted to stay quiet, but for some reason I found myself telling them what happened-the giant dog (Thalia called a Hellhound), the man, me running-everything that happened until I passed out.

Thalia and Luke were shock when they heard about the trident that they went outside to talk for a bit. I was scared. I hoped they don't leave me. Fortunately they came back.

"Percy, have you heard of the Greek Gods?" Luke asked.

"Like from the movie Hercules?" I asked.

Thalia looked as if she was holding back an urge to roll her eyes. "Sort of, but more from the actual Greek stories."

"Oh..."

"Percy, what if I tell you the gods are real?" Luke asked.

My eyes widened. Being a seven year old kid, I was open minded to such stuff. So my response was, "Really?"

"Yes, and demigods are real too," Thalia said. "In fact, Luke and I are demigods. I'm the daughter of Zeus, and Luke here is the son of Hermes."

"And we think you are one too," Luke said.

My eyes widened. "Me?"

"You said you were chased by monsters, right?" Thalia asked, "Well, you see, demigods gave off a special scent that only monsters can sniff out. The more powerful you are, the stronger the scent is."

"Why?"

"Monsters find demigods delicious apparently," Luke replied.

I didn't like the idea of me being a treat to a monster. "So who's my godly parent?"

"You said a trident appeared above your head, right? That's the sign of Poseidon-god of the sea. It could be his way of claiming you to help you," Thalia said with a slight envy in her voice.

"Really?"

"Yes, but that also means you are in greater danger," Luke said.

Suddenly I had a dreadful feeling. "Why?"

"You see, Percy-your father as well as mine and another god name Hades are one of the three strongest gods. Cause of it their kids are more powerful than most demigods," Thalia said, "In fact World War II was fought between sons of Zeus and Poseidon against a son of Hades. Cause of it, we attract either the most monsters, or at least the most powerful ones."

"Oh..." I didn't say it but I had a feeling there was more to why, but I didn't pressed on it.

After we talk some more and I learned more about demigods-like how I was ADHD due to my brain being hardwired for battle, and my dyslexia because it was hardwired for ancient Greek, and that I had somehow traveled to Virginia while on the run. I also learned that Luke and Thalia had run away from their homes because their mommies were either crazy or just plain mean. Soon we found it was dark outside and Luke decided it was time for bed.

But I couldn't fall asleep. I was thinking about my mommy back in New York. Finally I couldn't wait anymore. I got up and was about to leave when Luke said, "Going somewhere?"

I turned to see that he was awake.

"I want to go home," I replied.

"Percy, New York isn't just the next city over," Luke said, "You'll be chased down again if you go out on your own."

"But-" I stopped as I didn't know what to say as Luke had a point.

Luke sighed, "Your mom must of special person if you care about her so much."

I nodded.

"How about this, you travel with Thalia and me for a while until we can get you home," Luke said, "We can even train you to fight monsters."

"Really?" I asked.

"Well, I'll have to talk to Thalia about it, but I'm sure she would agree," Luke said, "After all, we're not going to let a seven year old half-blood son of the big three roam around unarmed."

I practically jumped on him with a hug. This was the best thing that happened me since the Hellhound incident. Little did I know I was going to be even more grateful to decide to stay with them later on.

A/N: How do you like my first Percy Jackson fanfiction? This is just the prequel to the series to come yet. I already got the next few chapters planned out. I mainly going to cover meeting Hal and Annabeth, meeting Luke's parents, and add the Hunters later on, but I won't have Grover appeared until after they returned to New York.

By the way, the mystery man was Daedalus, but I won't go into details of what he was doing there until the Battle of the Labyrinth. I'll also explain why Mrs. O'Leary pounced on Percy during the Battle of the Labyrinth since we know Gabe's pungent odor would cover up Percy's scent

By the way, I might use a Cannon of the Crossover with Percy Jackson and The Kane Chronicles using this story-but after I read the rest of the Kane Chronicle series. I'm already on the second book on the Kane Chronicles.

I have read all the books in Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus and I have read the mini stories of the Percy Jackson series.