Hello everyone! Another challenger has arrived in the ring! Percy Jackson, Forgotten and Betrayed! If you read this, please answer if you like me to write in first or third person. I'll have a poll set up on my profile with my other poll for a new book. Also, if there is any third person POV mistakes, it's probably because I'm not used to writing in third person most likely. Thanks everyone! - Steven

Percy Jackson, Forgotten and Betrayed

Chapter 1: The Betrayal

Percy has had bad luck before, but it was ridiculous right now. He had never thought that one demigod could cause so much trouble and damage for him, especially with his current situation…

Flashback

Percy was hanging out with Peleus the dragon around Thalia's tree and the Golden Fleece. He was watching over his home, a happy and peaceful smile on his face for the first time after months of battle against Gaea and her giants. As he watched over the camp, he heard Connor Stoll blow the warning horn three times in his post in the watchtower. Three blows meant there was a demigod approaching. Percy immediately looked around for any sign of his demigod. He then saw him, running away from Percy's dear old friend the Minotaur, tailed by some empousai and dracaena. Percy immediately jumped into action, slicing his way towards the boy. He seemed maybe the same age as Percy, with brown-black eyes. Percy quickly got the boy away while some other demigods battled the monsters. Soon enough, the monsters were either fleeing or lying dead on the ground, dissolving into dust. Chiron galloped over after the carnage.

"Annabeth, see to it that our new camper is shown around. What's your name?" he asked the newcomer.

"Noah." he muttered. "Noah Corrigan." Chiron smiled at him.

"Well then, let Annabeth show you around camp." As Annabeth steered the boy away for the tour, Connor spoke up.

"You did good dude. That guy could have been dead if you didn't get him out of there." Percy raised his hand.

"Stop that. You guys helped out too. Doesn't matter anyways. Just get back to what you were doing." Connor grinned at that and left back for the watchtower. Percy left for his cabin, just wanting some rest for a while. After maybe 10 minutes, Percy didn't keep track, the horn sounded three times once more. Percy grabbed his sword and ran outside, headed back for where he saved Noah. Once he got there, he stared at the scene unfolding in front of him. Another demigod was running away from more empousai and some hellhounds.

Percy looked at him. There was something strange about the kid. He had this strange aura of power around him, puzzling the demigod. He was so enraptured by this that he was just standing there, sword hanging by his side. A shout from Connor awakens him from his daydream. Percy charges at the monsters, slicing through them for the second time today. "Get the kid to safety Percy! We'll cover you!" Lee shouted from back at camp. He sliced down another hellhound before grabbing the kid by the arm.

"Come on, we have to go!" Percy yelled, dragging him away. The boy looked at him with his blue-green eyes, catching him for a moment unguarded, opening him up for an attack. As a empousai lunged at him from behind, the boy wrenched Percy's sword from his grasp and stabbed the empousa straight through the heart, destroying it. Percy comes out of his trance and tries to get the boy to leave, but he runs away back towards camp as the last remaining monsters fled from the battlefield.

"HEY!" the boy yelled, waving Percy's sword around in the air. "That kid over there watched me kill some monsters without even helping out!" Some of the newer campers looked at Percy in disgust while some of the more experienced campers, many of them Percy's friends looked at the new kid in rage at his remark. Only one person was not on either side. That was Noah, looking at them both with a perplexed expression, as if he was confused about what was going on. Percy had finally caught up to the new kid. He grabbed his sword from him and said,

"I heard what you said. If you don't stop spreading lies like that, you're gonna be in big trouble." The boy shrugged.

"I don't if it's true." Percy looked like he was contemplating about hitting his kid with his sword when Chiron intervened to stop the fighting.

"What is your name?" Chiron asked. The boy proudly said,

"Lucas Smith."

"Do you know your godly parent?" Chiron asked the boy. He frowned.

"No. But I had a dream that once I got here he would claim me." Once he finished, a sign appeared above his head. A trident. Percy stared in disbelief at the trident, not wanting it to be true. How could this slimy backstabbing kid be his brother?

"Well then Percy, show him around. I'll arrange the building of a third bed set up for him since Tyson occupies the other when he visits. Everyone, back to what you were doing!" Chiron walked away while the campers walked away in groups, talking about what happened today. Percy turned to the boy.

"I'll give you some slack since it's your first day, but if you try anything like that again, you will find yourself dead." he threatened.

"Fine by me." Lucas replied.

After that day, Percy wished he had been true to his threat or anything else to stop Lucas. From that day forward, Lucas proceeded to make life as miserable as possible for Percy. It was already bad that he was a son of Poseidon. The typical sibling rivalry was already rubbing in. It also didn't help that everyone kept telling Lucas that Percy was better than him in every way. He was honest, loyal and a great swordsman. Everyone liked him. Lucas tried to insult Percy and tried to get others to see the "truth" about their famous hero. Percy didn't care about it though as more and more people started to hate him. Once Lucas realized Percy didn't care about his actions, he started to target some of his closest friends in camp. He first decided to target Will. When Will left for dinner one night, Lucas broke into the Apollo cabin and destroyed the place. He crushed his bow and medicines underfoot as a final memento before leaving a note on his bed saying, "Lol, this was fun. Percy". When Will came back, he was met with his destroyed cabin. He swiftly confronted Percy the next morning, saying that they were no longer friends. Percy tried to defend himself, but it didn't work. Lucas watched from the shadows, grinning. "One down." he said quietly. He proceeded to do bad things to the rest of Percy's friends, like flooding the Hermes cabin, tampering with the shower system of the Demeter cabin and much more. So one by one Percy's friends left him. Percy had lost the joy of his home. No one ever talked to him anymore. Whenever he walked by, people gave him dirty looks of pure hate. But besides turning the entire camp against him, that was not the end of Lucas's plan. There was much worse things coming for Percy.

He had went to meet Annabeth at the beach, it being the only place where he could be away from all the hate back at camp. She had been strangely quiet with him, but he understood. It had been very crazy with what has been happening these few days. Maybe she didn't want to be seen with him. As he walked towards the beach, he thought he heard people talking. He walked over the hill that Thalia's tree stood on. He petted Peleus before heading down. As he did though, he saw something that made his heart stop. Annabeth was sitting in the sand near the beach. But she wasn't waiting for Percy. Lucas was already with her. They were talking and holding hands in the sunset. Percy watched them the entire time, until Lucas pulled her towards him and kissed her. That threw him off the edge. Percy raised a huge wave of water and doused both Lucas and Annabeth in salt water. "So, you don't need me anymore either Annabeth? That's fine with me! Betraying me was the last straw!" he spat, every word stinging like venom. Annabeth turned around and went pale.

"Percy?" she said hesitantly. "It isn't what it looks like! I swear, I just-". She was interrupted by Lucas.

"Look at the camp now Percy Jackson! I turned everyone against you! Your friends are gone, and everyone else in between who looked up to you, gone too! Hell, I even took your girlfriend!" He jumped Annabeth and kissed her again, but she pushed him away.

"Percy, I was just talking with him! He came onto me, I swear!" Annabeth protested.

"Yeah, likely story." he said, already walking away. "Have fun with your new boyfriend Wise Girl. Enjoy him while it lasts."

That had been before, and now Percy was in his cabin after that incident. He sat there on my bed, thinking about Lucas Smith and how he ruined his life in just a few short and unhappy days. As he sat there mourning his old happy life, he heard the dinner bell ring. "I have to get out of here." Percy thought. He quickly went to work. He went for dinner, ignoring his old friends. He wolfed down some food before collecting some more as stealthily as possible. Once he did that, he ran back towards his cabin and dropped it all on his bed. He left to raid the gift shop for a backpack and some other supplies. He ran back to his cabin, stuffed all his belongings into it and shouldered it. Percy took one final long look at his cabin, silently praying to the gods to hopefully come back here and live a normal happy life back here once again in another time. As he made his way to the door, his thoughts suddenly made its way to Chiron. He was both a fatherly figure and a great mentor.

"I can't just leave without telling him." Percy thought. He ran back and pulled out Riptide. He uncapped it and then recapped it, allowing the pen point to be exposed. His thoughts then headed back to his ex-girlfriend, who back in Tartarus had shown him he could write with his trusty weapon. He winced at the memory, remembering how she betrayed him. Brushing the pain aside, he scrawled out a letter addressed to Chiron and left it on his bed. He finally walked out of the Poseidon cabin. He grabbed a pyre and burned some of his supply food to the gods near his cabin for good luck on his quest. He knew one thing. He was heading off on a journey to find a new purpose. But he didn't know two things. What he didn't know was that the smoke brought Chiron and the rest of the camp running. The other thing was that a lone person had followed him away in the shadows, following him on his quest for purpose in a new life and in a new way, pretty much anything that would allow him to get away from the painful memories of his old home.

Speaking of third person POV mistakes, I found one while I chopped the chapter into paragraphs. I corrected it of course. Please answer my polls and I hope you enjoy the next chapter, The Missing Hero! (Once I write and post it) - Steven