Chapter 1

His Trident.

His necklace.

His face that I don't even remember.

"I left to protect you and your mother." He says.

"Get out of my head." Is what I always tell him back.

I am Perseus Jackson. Percy for short. Eighteen year old son of one of the most powerful gods in Olympus and a human mother. Labeled as a demi-god by others in this world that's unknown to humans. I was only 12 years old when I found this out about myself however; but I never stayed at Camp Half Blood like I was expected to. My friend, Grover, and the rest of Olympus were shocked when they found out that I turned to Hades.

I ran away from the Camp for reasons I'll disclose with you later on. I am the target of many immortal beings mostly because of my abilities and strengths. But out of them all I chose to go to Hades. He is my uncle after all. But he's an evil god and probably only accepted me to gain use of my powers once he can get me to obey him.

I didn't turn to him for evil purposes. He's just where I find comfort for now. Zeus never really liked me but that's okay. No hard feelings. Hades gives me freedom to do what I please.

"Percy!" My name rang through the Underworld.

"Hades?" I answered.

"I need you to go to earth and get me some things. Persephone demands too much and I hate walking on earth soil. Three bottles of the best wine they have there." He gave me earth money and opened the portal of the Underworld.

I went out onto the earth and breathed in the air. It's actually better than in the Underworld that smells like death. I think Hades has death scented cologne.

I took my time and walked to a Wine and Liquor store. I passed a glass building on my journey and stopped and looked at my eyes. They reminded me that I cannot stay on earth for too long. My eye color is a bright red. They're originally supposed to be sea green but because Hades is scared that one day I will go on earth and never return to him, he put a spell on me that turned my eyes this color. Now I cannot be on earth for more than an hour. I'm allowed 12 hours on the weekend.

I hurried and got the wine. On my way out of the store, I bumped into someone because of my haste. I knocked her onto the floor, but I didn't even step back. My body was still as if she'd walked right into a brick wall.

I observed her as she leant up on her elbows and looked at me. She was the most beautiful creature I'd ever seen. Black hair, brown eyes, not too tall and a gorgeous face. I stretched out my hand towards her. "I'm terribly sorry. I was in a bit of a rush and wasn't looking where I was going."

She ignored my offered hand and got up on her own. She brushed herself off and glared at me. "Watch where you're going next time." And stormed off.

I looked at her retreating figure and decided to follow her. I easily ran up next to her and pretended that nothing was out of the ordinary.

She stopped walking. "Why are you following me?"

"Forgive me for just not wanting to leave a beauty like you upset and not accepting my apology." I gave her my charming smile that usually have girls swooning. Her expression never changed though.

She carefully scrutinized me as she looked over my form. "You're eyes are red." I see she noticed.

"Contacts." I easily lied.

"Weird color for contacts." She looked away. And I noticed a light pink shade forming in her cheeks.

"You're blushing." I pointed out and she lowered her head to allow her hair to fall and cover her face.

"I was just noticing how nice they actually look on you even though it's not a color most people wear in contacts." And the blush got deeper.

I gave her a small smile. "Thank you. They don't look as good as this blush does on you though." I made a bold move and reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. If she blushed any deeper she'd look like a tomato.

"My name is Percy. And you are?"

"Selena."

"How beautiful. Just like the owner of it."

"Stop." She groaned. "I'm blushing so hard. It's embarrassing." She hid her face in her hands.

"Being cute is not embarrassing." I put my hand over hers and she removed them from her face.

Suddenly, a sharp and stinging pain ran through my eyes and I quickly retracted my hand to use it to lightly press against my eyes.

I knew what that mean. I have 15 minutes remaining to get back to the Underworld.

"Percy? Are you okay?" I heard the concern in her voice and that's the last thing I wanted her to be.

"I'm fine." I removed my hand when the pain subsided. "I'm fine." I looked at her and tried to smile convincingly. And she seemed to buy it as she smiled back.

"You had me worried for a second there."

"No need to be. I'm okay. See?" I puffed out my cheeks and crossed my eyes. That earned me a giggle from her and I smiled again. She warms my heart already.

"I uh, better get going." As I said that, the sides of her mouth dipped down a little into a frown. "I need to get these back." I held up the bag with wine to her sight.

"Right. Well it was nice meeting you Percy."

"Same here. Hopefully we can meet again. How does this weekend sound?"

And her smile was back in full force. "It sounds great." She told me where she lived and when I can pick her up. We parted and I ran back as fast as I could back to the portal before Hades personally comes to Earth for me and before that awful pain comes back.

"Percy?" Hades loud voice rang through the Underworld again once the portal closed.

"Yes, your evil highness?" I called back in a playfully annoyed tone.

"The wine?" He appeared in front of me, blocking my path.

I gave over the bag to him and he observed the wine bottles. "Not bad choices."

They vanished and Persephone's voice soon rang through our ears. "Thank you dear."

"You're welcome." I replied to her.

And the sound of heels clicking was soon heard. Hades sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "You love seeing me get into trouble don't you?" He said to me.

"I have to admit. It's my favorite thing to watch."

"Why is it that the boy had to go to Earth to get these for me when I know I sent you?" Persephone did not look happy. She doesn't agree with the spell that he put on me and argued that my punishment for not returning on time shouldn't be so harsh. "You know what you did to the boy yet you send him on all kinds of errands on Earth. It's not fair Hades."

"Yes I know honey but I was – "

He got cut off. "It's bad enough that you kidnapped me and I can't leave this death smelling place at all but when I want something you can't even go for it yourself. If I wanted someone else to go I would've called someone else. If I wanted the boy to go, I would've called the boy!"

"Persep – "

She waved a hand in front of his face to stop his talking and I laughed to myself. It was always enjoyable to see him being chastised when he's supposed to be this tough god.

"The boy and I will enjoy the wine ourselves and you are not to taste one drop. Is that understood?"

Hades hung his head slightly in defeat. "Yes dear."

"Good." Persephone put her hand around my shoulder and messed with the hair at the back of my head as we walked to her room and sipped on the wine.

"So tell me dear, why do you go when he sends you out to Earth? The pain cannot possibly be enjoyable." She asked me as she lightly scratched through my hair. She seems to have an obsession with it. Then again, she said Hades' curls aren't too enjoyable.

I shrugged at her question. "I get fresh air instead of this horrible scent all the time. Plus, today wasn't that bad. I met this girl."

"A girl? Does Percy have a crush?"

"I think I might. She's so beautiful. I asked her out on a date this weekend."

"Well it's a good thing that he allows you more time on the weekend or I might have had to strangle him to take the spell off of you."

I smiled. Persephone is the only reason I haven't left Hades as yet really. I mean, I get freedom to do what I want down here but it gets boring sometimes and I barely have much time on Earth. So we keep each other company here.

I closed my eyes as she kept softly scratching through my hair and thought of one person.

Selena.