Disclaimer: I'm not Rick Riordan, genius.
Intro
Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus. She excelled with the bow and arrow, but she was equally as good with the sword as well. She lived with her mother and step sister, Carra (both mortals). Her step sister was the daughter of her step father, now dead from illness. Her mother treated Carra more like a daughter than Thalia. Thalia was never jealous. Her mother was horrendous. Thalia also had a brother, Jason. Jason was Roman while Thalia was Greek. He was the son of Jupiter. As soon as he was born, he was carted off to Rome. He became praetor. He was the best swordsman in all of Rome.
The Greeks and Romans were allies. When they finally noticed that they would be a very strong force together, they stopped attacking and hating each other. It helped that the Greek and Roman military leaders were very close friends. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Frank Zhang, son of Mars, and Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. No woman was allowed in the military.
The four military leaders of Greece and Rome were longed for by all of the girls their age. They were all taken. All except for Nico. Percy was married to Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Jason was married to Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, and Frank was married to Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto. Nico turned down every girl that offered to be with him. And that was a lot of girls. Like, a lot. So much that he probably lost count.
So where was Thalia Grace? No one knew she existed except for Jason, her mother, and her step sister. No one but her mother and her step sister knew that she was a daughter of Zeus. Her mother told Jason that Thalia was mortal.
Thalia knew that she was a daughter of Zeus ever since she was seven. Ten years ago, she got so angry at her mother that she accidentally burned down the house with lightning. Her mother was bitter to her long before that, and Thalia got fed up with it. When they got to the new house, her mother 'accidentally' pushed her off the roof of the two story house. Before she could land, she moved the wind around her to essentially make her fly. She didn't how, but she just did it. She's always practiced flying and using the lightning. And no, she didn't start any fires with her lightning. But Thalia always wanted to join the military. More than that, she wanted to get away from her mother and step sister. So this is where she is. Thalia Grace is about to run away from home.
Thalia
I double checked my pack. I had a few clothes, my bow and quiver full of arrows, and a dagger. I put on my bracelet that turned into my sword, Aegis, that my father had given me. (Yes I know that it's Aegis her shield, but I wanted her to have a cool sword, so yeah.) That was honestly all of my stuff. I climbed out of the window and left. My mother and Carra were out shopping. They left me with a big list of chores to do while they were gone for the day. That's right. The day. They took that long to go shopping. I didn't do any of the chores. Why would I? They should do it themselves. They always mistreated me. So now I was leaving. I strapped a different dagger than earlier to my belt. It's always good to be armed. Especially when I'm this a huge magnet for monsters. That and random people who dared cross paths with me.
The war was coming. This was the opportune time to enlist. I made my way to the capital. I made my way to the nearest line of enlistment. Men gave me a confused look as I stepped into line. A few made a few snide comments, but as soon as I gave them a glare, they stopped.
As I walked up to the man who were enlisting people, he dropped his pen and laughed.
"Is this some sort of joke?" he asked her. I glared at him.
"I wish to enlist into the army." He laughed some more.
"You will not be enlisting into any army today young lady." I pulled out my dagger and pressed it against his neck.
"You sure about that?" I said glaring at him. He shakily picked up his pen.
"Name?" he said shakily.
"Thalia Grace."
"Age?"
"Seventeen." He wrote everything down and gave it to the others. They registered me and gave me a slip to tell me where I'll be staying.
I had been in the soldiers dorm place for about a week now. They had given her a separate room because she was a girl. Training began today, and she couldn't wait.
Nico
The Greeks and Romans practiced separately because they were at different places obviously. Percy and I would be training the new recruits today. I was only interested because of the fact that the girl, Thalia Grace I think her name was, would be one of he new recruits. She had pitch black hair and electric blue eyes. The only eyes I'd ever seen that blue was Jason's, but even his weren't as blue as hers. I was a little worried that she would get hurt. She looked really tough and everything, but she's the first girl ever to be enlisted. I saw her pull a dagger on the guy who was enlisting people. I laughed a little when she did, but I was mostly impressed by how confident and strong she seemed. No one would really take her seriously. She was going to get hurt, but she signed up anyways. This was going to be hard.
But why did I care? Maybe it was because she was different from everyone. The girls that my friends were married to were tough, but they kind of just accepted that they weren't allowed in the army. This girl was different. Plus, all of the other girls were all girly and weak. She was strong and tough.
"You ready to train the new recruits?" Percy asked me, snapping myself out of my thoughts. He had on an orange t-shirt. I smiled a bit. I had on a black t-shirt and black skinny jeans with some combat boots.
"Yeah, you?"
"Yeah, let's go." They both set off to the training ground.
When we got to the outdoor training grounds, I saw all of the men laughing at Thalia. She was wearing a black t-shirt with black skinny jeans and combat boots. What a coincidence.
"She's a girl!"
"She'll get crushed!"
"She's no match for a man!" They were making fun of her. I was getting angry. They were making fun of a girl.
"Attention!" Percy and I yelled at the same time. Everyone hurried to stand in line. All of them except Thalia. She slowly got up from her spot on the ground and against the outside wall of the inside training room and made her way to the end of the line of recruits. She walked at her own pace. All of the recruits gawked at her. I smirked. She was confident. She was independent. I looked over to Percy to see that he was smiling. He looked at me.
"Nice recruit." he muttered to me.
"Real nice." I replied.
"Well now that you all have gotten into line, I'll introduce myself. My name is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. This here is Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. We'll be running through the basics this week. Today, show us what you got." Percy told them.
"Form up in pairs!" I shouted at them. There were a few trees and bushes around the perimeter of grounds. Percy walked off to see the battles, correcting them as much as possible. I was doing the same thing when I saw her. She was standing alone, back against the wall. All around her, men in pairs were battling each other, some doing a better job than others, but none of them had even bothered to pair up with her.
"No one wanted to fight you?" I guessed.
"Nope." she said. She didn't have to explain why. Everyone thought that she couldn't stand a chance. I didn't know whether or not it was true, but I did want to know what she knew. I realized that she was standing there without a sword of shield.
"Go grab a sword and shield. I'll spar with you." A few groups around us stopped when they heard me say that. I pulled out my stygian sword. No, it doesn't automatically send a person to the underworld when I hit them with it.
"No shield for you?" she asked me. I smirked.
"Won't need it." She returned the smirk.
"We'll see." She didn't make a move to the sword table.
"Don't you want a sword?" I asked her. She smirked yet again.
"I'd rather use mine than those unbalance cheap ones." I was confused. She didn't have any sword present with her. She saw my confusion and tapped her bracelet. At least, it was a bracelet. Right after she tapped it, it grew into a beautiful sword. I was impressed.
"Where'd you get that sword?" I asked her.
"Wouldn't you like to know," she said. I attacked her. She countered and almost sent my sword off flying. Everyone had stopped to watch now. She was a worthy opponent. Every time I attacked, she countered. Every time she attacked, I also countered. It seemed as if both of us couldn't get an upper hand. She blocked more than attacked. She was smart. An early lesson I learned about combat. If your opponent wasn't attacking, why should you repeatedly attack, leaving yourself tired? I put everything I had into my last attack, thinking that she would continue to block it with her sword. I positioned and calculated it so that it would be too much force for her to block. Instead of blocking it, she sidestepped. I struck air as she came behind me and pressed her sword up against my throat.
"I guess this means I win," she says breathing heavily. Everyone was staring at us, stunned that the only person who can be as good with a sword as Percy was just beaten. They were even more stunned when that said person who defeated me was a girl. I guess I should be more about her hurting the others than the others hurting her.
"I guess so," I say to her. She pulls back her sword and looks at me.
"Your hard to beat," she says to me.
"You too." We stand in silence just looking at each other.
"You're different," I tell her.
"I'd hope so. Not many girls join the army."
"And not many people can beat me period."
"I see why."
"And I see that you're really good with a sword." She just shrugs at my comment.
"I practice a lot."
"With what teacher?"
"No teacher."
"Really?"
"Really." I studied her. She was obviously tired, but she did a very good job hiding it. If I wasn't looking at her so closely I wouldn't have noticed. I checked the time.
"Alright everyone. It's time for lunch!" Percy shouts before I could. I just smile. Percy is like an eating machine.
"You hungry?" I ask Thalia.
"Yeah, a little."
"Then let's go eat." I take her hand and take her to the mess hall. The nymphs were already all around the room serving people. Annabeth had decided to come see Percy. They were talking at the general's table, which could honestly fit ten people, but there was only two of us. I took Thalia to the general's table to sit. People were staring at us as we passed by. No new recruit has ever sat at the general's table.
I took a seat, and Thalia took a seat next to me. Percy was eating a sandwich with a blue coke. Annabeth was also eating a sandwich, but her coke was normal colored. Thalia and I both also had a sandwich (the sandwiches here were to die for). Instead of coke we got water.
"Ummm, what's with the blue coke?" Thalia questioned us.
"There was this weirdo named Gabe who said that food could never be blue. So, my mom cooked blue food all of the time," Percy explained.
"Makes sense," she replied.
"So you're the girl who joined the army and took down ole Nico here?" Annabeth said with admiration in her voice. She had the heart and mind for a soldier, but she'd known the rules for girls. She gave up on it, but Thalia didn't.
"That's me," Thalia replied.
"Can I join the army Percy?" Annabeth asked Percy.
"No. It's too dangerous."
"You do realized that I can beat you in combat right?" Percy started to get pink.
"We'll talk about this later."
"But I want to talk about this now!"
"No Annabeth!"
"Please Percy," Annabeth put on her best puppy face. Percy couldn't resist. He smiled.
"Fine." Percy told her. Annabeth had a wide grin on her face.
"Thank you so much Percy!" she said before she kissed him. Thalia smiled when they broke apart.
"So I'll finally have a person to spare with." I faked offense.
"Are you saying that you don't like sparing with me?" She smirked.
"Too easy."
"Yeah right, rematch after lunch."
"You're on di Angelo."
"Whatever Grace." I looked up to see Percy and Annabeth looking at us weirdly.
"I thought you guys just met today," Percy said.
"We did just meet today," I told him with a 'duh' tone.
"You guys act like old best friends," Annabeth said. I roll my eyes.
"Whatever," Thalia and I say in unison. I checked the time.
"Back to training guys!" I yell at the new recruits. Annabeth, Percy, Thalia, and I move with the crowd back out to the training grounds.
Annabeth and Thalia turned out to be better than all of the men there. They fought each other with such precision, strength, and intelligence that it would put the elites to shame. After everyone had left, they were still going at it.
"It's time to go home girls!" Percy shouts at them while they're fighting. They were too engrossed in their fight that they didn't stop. I shot Percy a look and we both advance on them. Percy blocked an attack from Thalia for Annabeth. They stopped and glared at us. We just smirked. Then they looked at each other and smiled. Next thing Percy and I knew, they were attacking us. They worked well together. We laughed a bit, but we also focused on the fight. These two girls had the skills of Percy and I. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I know that I'm pretty good in combat. They were a challenge when no one else was. They also proved that they girls can be as, good if not better than guys.
We finally called it a draw when the moon came out. I gathered up my things to go back to the castle. The two generals always lived in the castle with the royal family. That meant that Percy and I got to live there. The king didn't have any children. He didn't mind that he didn't have an heir to the throne. His wife and himself didn't want a child, simple as that. I Greece and Rome, if the people didn't like the king, he was toast. They were then allowed to elect a new king. Yes, people did inherit the throne, but you have to be a good king to stay king. That's what he always told Percy and I. He treated us like sons. We were always grateful to him, seeing as how our fathers weren't here. They were gods, they had other things to do.
We did get to visit them from time to time. It's easier for me to see my dad because I could just pop in whenever. I did scare the living crap out of him the first time I just popped up in front of him though. He's gotten used to it after that. Percy on the other hand had a more difficult time seeing his father. Poseidon dwelled in the sea and in Olympus. Percy couldn't just pop in. Mainly because he doesn't have the power to do it. Poseidon does invite him to his sea palace as often as possible. Percy loves going there. He gets to see his dad and his half brother, Tyson. Tyson was a cyclops. He helps out in the forges of his dad. Tyson had welded Percy a really sweet shield the first summer he was there.
I look over to Thalia to find her walking towards the soldier's dorms. I felt a little bad that she had to live there with a lot of men who don't respect her. I looked over to Percy and Annabeth to find them thinking the same thing.
"Thalia!" I call out. She turns around.
"Yeah?"
"You want to stay in the castle?" She looked stunned.
"Am I allowed to?"
"Yeah, there's plenty of room," Annabeth said.
"Are you sure? I mean, I can just stay in the dorms."
"We're sure Thalia! Come on!" Annabeth said.
After Thalia came back with a small bag we started to head off to the castle.
"Is that all of your stuff?" I ask her. It was a small bag that looked really roomy inside.
"Yeah, why?"
"It's just, that's not much."
"I've never had much to begin with." We walked in silence.
"What did your family say when you wanted to join the army?" I asked her. I was curious.
"I don't know," she said simply.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'?"
"Because I never told them."
"How could you leave without telling them?" She shrugged.
"I ran away."
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