Author's note

Rick owns all canon characters/story, Henrie James Locker (HJL) owns all OC characters/story, I own my own OC characters/story.

So in case you were wondering (I know I was) since I'm doing another 'My take on _', am I a jerk for taking someone else's ideas and running with them? I figure that's what this entire site is about, and as long as I give credit where it's due, I should be fine, right?

Just to explicitly state, there will be an Olympian civil war, which I won't be writing (at least not anytime soon) so I invite anyone and everyone to take a stab at it. Please PM me if you do so I can see where you've taken it. Just make sure to give credit where it's due and mention me and HJL (or anyone who inspired you to write). Also, Leo asks for freedom for Calypso, which I took from/was inspired by Firsts by she.s. .one. Not sure if I'm gonna expand on that here. Probably not.

Also, spoiler, Percabeth gets married and moves to their own island. Please help me with names. I'm shit at them.

Not sure how I want POV to work. I'll probably do third person, focusing mainly on one or two per chapter.

Link to original story by HJL here

s/11128317/1/Path-of-conquest

Link to Firsts by she.s. .one (for some reason the name and url won't come out right, no matter how many times I retype it out, just use the number).

s/9782445/1/Firsts

To start off, I love the story as written. Writing for a language not your first must be a challenge, so congrats, and it's well written. I can only imagine how hard it was to write, since I'm a stereotypical ignorant uni-lingual American.

This started out as my being unsatisfied with how Annabeth became so accepting of the harem, and it kinda went from there.

My third FF, and my first lemon (though it will take some time to get there), so lemme know how I did.

Setup

So basically all canon stuff is the same, except Percy's relationship with his dad is not nearly as healthy as it is canon. Poseidon calls him his favorite son, but really treats him like his favorite weapon, not really caring about Percy as a person, more as a tool to further his own power. Poseidon's also way more power hungry. Octavian survives the battle with Gaea/doesn't launch himself, so you know he's gonna start trouble. Also, Leo makes it back to CHB, but hasn't left to find Calypso yet.

After the Second Giant War, life is basically good, the camps heal and have good relations, couples do coupley stuff, not always good. Soon after (before the heroes could be given their gifts from the gods) civil war erupts. Let's call the two sides the Loyalists and the Rebels. This also affect the demigod camps, though the divisions aren't what anyone expects. Anyone not explicitly mentioned I haven't decided yet which side they're on.

Immortal Loyalists: Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Hestia, Dionysus, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Hermes, Artemis (and her hunters), and Heracles (other gods take sides as well, but I'm not sure which side they'll be on, or if I even want to include them).

Immortal Rebels: Poseidon, Hades, Ares, Apollo, and Khione.

Amongst the demigods most Greeks are Loyalists and most Romans are Rebels. Why would the Romans rebel against Jupiter, their namesake and patron for Neptune, a god they had always feared but never really worshiped? They were following Mars mostly; helped along by honeyed words from Octavian. See, Octavian painted Jupiter as that dead beat dad, who was never really around. Mars was the guy who married your mom, but treated you like his own. Yeah, Jupiter gave them that sweet eagle standard that shoots lightning, but the Romans have never been big on the magical. They rely on the strength of their arms, and the bonds of camaraderie in the legion, which Mars fostered in them. So basically, Mars is your step dad who really loves you with tough love and all, while Jupiter is the dead beat that tries to buy your love with shiny toys.

Demigod Loyalists: Percy, Annabeth, Piper (broke up with Jason b/c of reason later explained), Leo, Frank (also broke up with Hazel, later explained; leads a small loyalist resistance within the Roman camp). Tyson's here too, since he's way more loyal to his brother than a father who barely interacted with him (though I'm not sure if he'll have a part in the story).

Demigod Rebels: Jason (returns to Camp Jupiter after breakup), Reyna, Hazel.

Battles happen, war rages. Piper and Khione fight, Khione gets her butt kicked. Frank and the loyalist resistance take control of the Legion from the Octavian, Reyna, and Jason. Eventually the loyalists make their way to the rebel leaders. Hades is battered to within an inch of his life. The only reason Percy didn't finish him off is because his father and Ares/Mars were hiding and chose that time to ambush the demigod. Percy and the loyalists fend them off, eventually killing both (like Gaea/Ouranos). The war effectively ends, though some of the generals are still at large (not sure if I want to develop that, but I wanna keep that door open).

The story begins with the reward ceremony with the heroes.