It was another day for Percy do whatever odd job he could for a little money go out and hunt with a homemade bow and some traps gather as much edible plant life as he could come home feed his family go to sleep. Now his family did not include any children of his he had none but it did include several aunts,uncle,nephew,nieces,cousins and the person he can never forget his mother.

Now you may wonder why such an important job falls to him well its because of his father and his grandfather his father no one know who they are but everyone knows his mother never married him and his grandfather well it is more a rumor but nearly all know his mother did not have the same father as the rest of her siblings were most of them had blonde hair she had dark brown where her siblings had blue or brown eyes she had gold. The only reason they let her live was the blessing Kronos's temple displayed when she was to be sacrificed his symbol appeared over her and the knife shattered upon it.

However all these shames upon there family they expressed upon Percy making him do all the work they possibly the only reason he was still alive was because having as many male heirs as possible was a smart thing it helped insure your family would continue. But yah this is how his life was today being no exception as he stumbled into town a dear slung over his shoulder and a bag fruits at his waist.

However when he got home he heard nothing no shouts of anger or for him to hurry up with the food however these days Percy wasn't curious he knew what being curious got you into. So he just started to prepare the meat slicing off usable pieces and leaving the parts that would give you indigestion preparing several large pots for the food and putting the vegetation he gathered in a bowl he than added seasonings and vegetables as well as water to the pots were the meat was stored he hanged the large pots over the fireplace in a few hours there would be an excellent stew made.

All of this took well over an hour though and this was enough to make him wonder what had happened so he ventured out into the town working his way from there home to the centre he found there where no people anywhere on this side of town and very few on the other. But in the centre of town was an incredible amount of peolpe some he didn't even think lived here others he'd known his whole life.

On a stage in the centre of the centre of town where five people he knew he had never seen before Uranos guards these were some of the most deadly warriors in the kingdom only one hundred of them having survived training one hundred out of eighteen thousand. They were hanging up a banner

The Tournament

A competition open to all no money needed to enter winner takes all. This great event has three trials.

Combat you will face off against one another and battle until one yields or falls.

Survival you will be placed in the wilds and have to return to the city attacking another in this stage is acceptable.

Stealth you will do as you wish with your life but be wary for at any point someone else who completed the previous trials can come and claim victory over you this will continue until only one stands.

To enter go to Mount Othrys huge prize awaits the Victor.

Reading through the sign Percy felt hope hope that was instantly squashed by disappointment there was no possible way he would be allowed to go they'd probably choose Orion and Daubeny the two best fighters there family had supposedly after all Percy beat them in a fight every time but given his heritage they refused to aknowledge it and instead insisted he cheated every single time.

Walking back home Percy checked on the stew took the pots that where ready down fetched more water from the well and did general cleaning while once again waiting for the others to come home.

As they entered so to did a wave of noise his the younger ones starting to race around while his cousins argued and wrestled his uncles and aunts where speaking in calm but heated tones however all where arguing they should be the one to go the two who insisted most where Daubeny and Orion as expected "enough we will discuss this after dinner". this came from his grandfather "now you boy you better have dinner ready". he looked at Percy with a pointed glare but all he received was a calm nodded "good your certainly no use when it comes to conversation". Percy simply ignored the comment and went to set the tables.

As they ate many considered praising Percy's skills but thought for a moment and shrugged they'd been treating him like this for his whole life why stop now.

After the meal was done the children where sent to bed and Percy was kicked out for the time or he was supposed to be but instead he slipped back in you see when Percy was young he realized he could become nearly invisible its what made him such a great hunter. "Alright everyone let's speak about this tournament first off all in favour of us entering say I". everybody said I "good since it is unanimous who shall we send I say Daubeny".several agreed with him but many voted for Orion to go until Sara spoke"it never said anything about a limit perfamily on the sign maybe we can send both". grandfather pondered on this for a time before nodding "alright we will send both of them and Perseus incase they run out of supplies on the road plus it will get that useless boy out of our for a time". Daubeny and Orion were the only ones to have a problem with it but what hurt Percy most of all was with how much vigor his mother agreed.

HERE IT IS TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIGURE out how to do it this story will have 9 very big arcs from here to the end of the second giant war and I will try to be more articulate while writing it Percy is not a mute