A/N: Firstly hello to everyone, its been a very long time since I was last here.
Well I am here with the first chapter of my new book, I am very proud that I have finally started writing the second book in the series.
Even though this story has no particular relation to Percy Jackson itself apart from the core setting, I still have to declare that I do not own PJO or any of the characters associated with it, however I do own the Plot to this story and the characters shown within it.
Chapter 1
He isn't dead
As I walked towards the council room on Olympus, the events of the past few hours were still flashing before my eyes, it all felt like a dream. A hand stopped me in my tracks, as I looked back I saw Kathy's eyes full of sympathy, she turned me around and just hugged me. "Snap out of it Nancy, whatever happened back at the cave was not your fault" she whispered in my ear "if he didn't let go of the sword you would have died too, he wanted you to live."
As I pushed open the doors to the council room, my jaw nearly hit the floor; the room was huge with white marble flooring and marble pillars to match. In the centre of the room was a large bonfire being tended by a little girl in a red dress which matched her flaring red hair. Her eyes however were a warm chocolate brown; she looked at us with intrigue as did the twelve Olympians.
Having never seen them before I now understood how an ant felt when it looked up at humans, looking around I could feel power emanating from them even though they weren't in their divine forms.
Each of them sat on thrones that reflected their status and power, each of them were easily ten feet in height. If you saw them in the street you would not think that they were the twelve Olympians, they were all wearing modern clothes the one who looked most relaxed was a man in blue Hawaiian shorts and shirt.
Taking out the swords I threw them to the ground, they flew through the air and seemed to get bigger before hitting the ground near the bonfire. As the swords hit the ground the resulting sound echoed in the room for a bit, a man wearing dark shades grinned as he saw them.
"See Athena I didn't take your precious blades."
"Ares this doesn't prove anything, you could have taken them and passed them on to someone else to get these children to bring them here. You always were jealous of me."
"ATHENA!" he shouted rising from his seat.
"Enough! Both of you, the blades have been returned so there is no need for this animosity" said an old man with sparkling blue eyes.
He looked over at us and his expression changed immediately, he looked at us as if we had gone and spit in his gold chalice. Without saying a word he turned to Ares and Athena who sank back into their thrones, from the look of it Ares was mumbling insults.
As silence filled the room the old man spoke to us, his voice boomed in the hall and his gaze made me feel like I was going to be turned into ash anytime soon.
"Where did you find these blades? " his voice boomed
Mustering up the courage I look him in the eye, his expression changed to show intrigue. He must have been wondering who I was and how I had the courage to look him in the eye.
I swear at one point I must have seen him smile but I can't really tell, it might have even been an itch on his cheek.
"We found these blades with a son of Boreas. We do not know what he was plotting but he is no longer with us." I said confidently still staring into his eyes
At the mention of the son of Boreas small whispers erupted between all the gods, it was like they had just gotten some juicy gossip to spread.
"Child are you sure that he was the son of Boreas?" said the old man.
"Yes" I sighed "I am sure"
He seemed a little insulted at my tone and the room rumbled with the sound of thunder.
"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" he roared "I am Zeus, the King of Olympus and you dare to talk to me in that tone."
Even though I was still staring into his eyes I felt weak in the knees, I knew I would not be able to stand in front of him any longer. Regaining some composure I decided that it would be best to end this conversation quickly and get out of here.
"I – I apologize for my rudeness" I said slowly hoping that it would be enough to calm him down.
It must have been my lucky day as he sat back on his throne, but he was still not calm. Hoping that no one would stop us from going out of here, as I turned around I was sure I saw Ares give what I thought was a smile.
"Come on guys lets go, there is nothing left for us here" I said looking at the girls.
I was sure that I had made a lot of gods angry today but I didn't care, I was the one who should have been mad at them. The trip back to camp was silent, even the radio in the cab was playing rather sad songs and to make it worse it began raining before we even got half way to the camp.
The spray of the rain against the window felt so soothing; I could feel the tension and stress of the past two days melting away. As my eyes closed I returned to that scene, it was now something that would stay with me not matter where I go.
I could feel the hilt of the sword digging into my skin as I tried to pull him back up, the chain linking the swords just kept extending. I lurched forward as I lost my footing, now with one knee on the ground and one leg over the edge of the fissure.
I was barely able to keep myself from falling over, as I looked down into his eyes I could tell that he was about to let go before he even said anything.
"No…please"
"I'm sorry I can't come back with you but I promise Nancy I will come back" he said grinning at me.
My voice got stuck in my throat as I watched him let go of the chain, the chain retracted itself at such a speed that I thought the sword would cut through my shoulder. It was then that I felt someone shaking me, jumping awake I saw Kathy standing with the door open smiling at me.
Happily she said "Come on sleepy head, we are home"
Slowly I peeled my face from the fake leather upholstery which funnily gave off the smell of sardines. I was going to look for the bag that I was carrying when I saw Angie holding on to it, as I stepped out of the cab rain splashed my face as if to wake me up.
Louise paid the fare and the cab just drove away into the rain, for a few seconds we all just stood as if waiting for someone. Looking into the distance you would have only seen a field full of strawberries and nothing else but we had our eyes set on the sturdy arch which proudly spelled out Camp Half blood.
As we crossed the boundary we expected the splatter of rain to stop but that didn't happen, in fact it was pouring down. We could barely see five feet ahead of us but we distinctly make out the sound of hooves in the rain, slowly a figure materialised a little ahead of us.
Anyone that looked at him would have screamed and run away thinking they were mad but we knew better. The person that had come to greet us was none other than Chiron; as he stood there in the rain I could see his eyes searching for someone. The eyes that always shined with years of wisdom looked empty today; he already knew what had happened before we could say anything.
Smiling at us he said "You don't want to stand out in the rain too long, you will end up catching a cold and I don't give sick days to my students."
At this Angie completely broke down, Kathy tried to get her to calm down but she just carried on crying. Coming forward Chiron just gave her a hug and in the little light we had I thought I saw a tear roll down his cheek. We stood there for a while letting the rain wash away our pain but soon we were ushered to the big house for a cup of hot chocolate and rest.
Thankfully Chiron did not send us to our cabins, he let us all sleep in the big house that night but he didn't go to sleep. He left the cabin after we had brought down the sleeping bags from the attic, none of us were in the mood to follow him to see where he was going but we all had an inkling.
That night no one felt like sleeping till the early hours of the morning, as the sunlight broke through the window and hit my face.
A tear rolled down whilst I whispered "He is not dead"
A/N: Well that is the end of the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed reading it. Those of you thinking what happened to all the blood and gore don't worry
it will be back soon :)
The next chapter will be up soon, feel free to leave some comments about the chapter.
But please no flames be nice :)