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Hey there guy! I'm back in the PJO fandom story community! I've been inactive since I was trying to focus on school. Now that it's my summer break, I can finally focus on this!

Please keep in mind that I will try to describe each character in much detail as possible. I apologize right now if I screw up anything.

Following info are what is in the story:

Percy and Nico are cousins, but Thalia isn't in this cousin thing

Percy, Thalia, Katie, and my OC are 17. Nico and Annabeth are 16.

Enjoy my new PJO fic!

Desolation

Prologue

The day was almost too surreal, picture perfect, whatever words that people to describe the most perfect day. The azure color that adorned the sky gave New York the weather needed. Actually, imagine the sky before the Towers were struck. That divine blue was exactly the color of today's sky. The temperature was at the low sixties, allowing a breezy afternoon. Within the Manhattan apartments, there will be one apartment that we will be focusing on. This was Percy Jackson's apartment, and there was a little party on its rooftop. Nothing that extravagant, because high school kids can't afford reservations to Gold Top Bistro (seriously, that place was damn expensive). There was a wooden table covered with tablecloth, some pizza and soda, and one piece of watermelon left. There were lawn chairs that were lined along the edge of the apartment, right behind the little edge that was higher than the rooftop itself. Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Thalia, Grover and Katie were there. The Stoll twins used to be close with Katie but went along with Luke and his friends. Basically, the jackass group. But, there was a new addition to their group. His name was Carson Shrute, a new kid who moved into the neighborhood. He was 17, just like everybody in the group. Except for Nico and Annabeth.

Carson was a junior in the nearby Goode High School (which is where they all go). He is a 6'0'' Filipino guy who has tan skin, midnight black hair that was brushed up and black eyes. He has a chiseled jawline and preferred to dress up nicely if he could help it. He wasn't a full fashionista boy, albeit he was an "all-around" person. At the moment, he wore black jeans, black high-top sneakers, black baggy long sleeves that were rolled up right below his elbow and a black chain that was around his neck. Was it also mentioned that Carson's black clothes were midnight black? Anyways, everybody was sitting along the chairs enjoying the skyline of New York (at least, what they could see), when someone's agitated scream echoed throughout the neighborhood.

"Damn it! WHO ATE ALL OF THE DAMN WATERMELON!" That was Thalia, Percy's electrifying, loud and punk girlfriend.

"You mean this piece?" This time, it was Nico who spoke. Nico was Percy's cousin, who shared the same color taste as Carson. So that meant, Nico was wearing all black. His left hand was balled up into a hollow fist. The fist slowly opened and there was the last piece of watermelon. Thalia's eyes widened as she said with a scary voice, "Give. Me. The. Piece. Now." Nico pondered about this for a moment for a minute and then decided. "Nah…" He said and right after he said it, Corpse Breath popped the last piece of watermelon into his mouth, its coldness and the juices ravaging his taste buds. He was relishing the summer taste, but Thalia on the other hand…

Was beyond pissed.

"YOU FUCKER! I WANTED THE PIECE!" Thalia balled up her hands into fists as she ran towards Nico. She was grabbed mid-run by Percy.

"Thals, calm down. There's more in the fridge. I'll go get it." He said, chuckling at the antics of his cousin and girlfriend. Percy went inside the apartment to grab watermelon, with Thalia trailing close behind him. When the two disappeared, a blonde with princess curls approached Nico and gave him a little noogie.

"Damn Neeks, you were about to get murdered by my best friend!" This was Annabeth Chase, Nico's girlfriend. Nico chuckles like a dopey idiot and said, "Seriously, I really wanted the watermelon…" Annabeth laughs and says, "You should go apologize to her." She didn't even give Nico time to respond as she grabbed his ear, dragging him inside. Now, the only people left on the rooftop were Katie Gardner and Carson Shrute. There was a silence between them and Carson decided to break it,

"Nice day outside today, isn't it?" Carson said, appreciating the gentle breeze and the azure sky. Katie took the time to take in the view of whatever view they had and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, it's beautiful…" She said, softly. As she looked at their pretty decent view, a thought popped up in her head. "You know what this day reminds me of?" Carson adjusted his sitting position so he was facing Katie. He also changed his posture to look a five-year-old about to hear bedtime stories. "What?" Katie let out a little laugh as she said, "The day we met. When Travis, Connor, and Luke were beating me up. The sky was exactly like this." She lifted the sleeve of her turquoise tee to reveal a medium-sized horizontal scar on her left shoulder. Carson nodded and said, "Ahhhh. That day…

The day Katie and Carson was a day that had circumstances that weren't really suitable to meet for the first time. But never the less, they met. It started in sophomore year, when Katie was fresh out of her relationship with Travis. Why? Well, Travis and Connor strayed and found themselves in the "bad groups". One of the bad groups were Luke, Clarisse, Chris Rodriguez, Nancy and Damian. They were the ones that smoked cigarettes, smoked weed, went high on many drugs, pretty much the group you wanna avoid. Rumors had it that they mixed cocaine and morphine somehow. Luke tricked the Stoll twins into trying the drugs and they got hooked. This ruined Katie's relationship with Travis. After the entire fiasco happened, Katie was simply walking around the school courtyard, tending to the various gardens Goode possessed.

A spade was forced into the soil, and a drop of sweat fell to the fertile soil. Katie wiped her forehead and sighed in relief. "There we go. I'm done and now these lilacs can grow beautifully." Katie was leader of the Environmental Club, and wanted to do whatever she could to keep the Earth beautiful. Suddenly, Katie was picked up from the ground and thrown onto the Patch (The Patch was medium-large sized plot of grass in the middle of the Courtyard). Katie landed on her back and sinister laughing was heard, and she identified the perpetrators. There they were, the "baddies" of Goode High. Connor, Luke and her ex-boyfriend Travis. Connor wasted no time making his way towards Katie holding her arms down. Luke did the same, except with her legs. Kate tried to flail around and started to scream at them,

"What are you doing? Are you going to rape me?" Alas, her valiant attempts to break out of their grip failed as Travis looked at Katie's eyes with a harsh expression. "You hurt me when we dated… Luke made me realize that. And you, out of all people, know what I do to people to hurt me…" Travis suddenly brandished a knife from his pocket. Katie's eyes started to widen and water. She was scared. Deathly scared. Doing the only thing that she could do, Katie started to scream in fear. Travis, on the other hand, went on to one knee and slowly started to cut Katie's left shoulder. As the blade worked on her skin, Katie started to thrash wildly and screamed at the top her lungs. All she felt was excruciating pain, blood slowly cascading down her arm. She was sobbing loudly and was pleading, "Please stop, Travis. Connor and Luke, stop!" The trio did nothing and continued to do what they were doing. Suddenly, something tackled Travis out of nowhere. There was an unknown figure and slugged Travis's temple, knocking him out.

The figure stood up and held the knife that Travis was using. The unknown person was a man, as he chucked it into the ground and went after Connor and Luke. The duo fought side-by-side and this mistake of formation gave the man an idea. When he was in front of Connor and Luke, he slid underneath them and stood up quickly. Before they could turn around, he bashed both of their heads together, creating enough pressure to make them faint. When Katie's assailants were knocked out, the boy rushed to her side. He took out his phone and told Katie,

"Don't pass on me! I'm calling help!" he said as he called 911 and put the phone on speaker. When the operator was asking the emergency, the boy explained it as he took off his shirt and wrapped it around Katie's wound, applying pressure to stop the bleeding. Katie looked at the boy's body and despite the situation, slightly blushed. His body wasn't like celebrity bodies, but was pretty close to it. "What is your name?" Katie asked, with a twinge of pain in her voice. "Carson. Carson Shrute." He replied, "I know you're Katie Gardner. I went to the last Environmental Club meeting. I was the dude in the back, listening." This description was now familiar to Katie as she was wondering who the one in the back was. "Hang on, Katie. Help is coming…" Katie nodded and said, "Thank you… You have no idea how thankful I am for you right now."

Sirens were suddenly audible in the distance as four officers rushed to the scene. One of the officers saw Carson trying to stop Katie's wound and said, "Call an ambulance! She needs help!" the other three looked at the teenagers and nodded quickly. One called the hospital and the three officers went towards Katie and Carson, trying to keep Katie from going unconscious.

Carson remembered the day like it was yesterday, mainly because that's when he started to have a crush on her. He would see her after school every day to make sure she wasn't confronted by the trio again. Carson would walk her home, and eventually, they hung out a lot. Now, he had the perfect opportunity. They were alone, the weather was perfect and he had the chance.

"Katie…" Carson started to say, "We've been hanging out for a while and something affected me. Look, I really-." Katie cut him off and said, "Like me, and you were gonna ask if I could date you. Right?" Carson got wide-eyed for about a second and looked towards the side. A light shade of crimson red appeared on his cheeks and said, "How…?" Katie chuckled and said, "I'm not all that clueless, if you must know…" Then, she did the unexpected. Katie threw herself at Carson and locked lips with him. Now, if this was the Fourth of July, this kiss that the two teenagers shared could've been more romantic. But hey, at least Carson and Katie got each other now.

Katie broke the connection and took a medium size breath. Carson's midnight black eyes never broke contact with Katie's caramel brown eyes. They were leaning against each other's foreheads, they felt each other's breaths on their faces. "Love you, Katie…" Carson whispered as Katie giggled, "Me to, Carson. I love you too…" In the distance, the doorknob that led to the interior of the apartment turned, but the door was never opened. Instead, the knob returned to its original position and from within, there were wolf whistles and gasps and a bunch of comments that consisted of the word, "Finally!"

Now you see, here is the part where the clichéd little love story about two teenagers that grow so close together in high school and end up being the couple that you, the reader, should fangirl over ends. This was two months ago. Two months before the Apocalypse. But enough reminiscing, let me take you to modern time…

"Shit! Run!" A head dropped to the ground and six people made a run for their lives. Blood was everywhere and massacred New York City. Groans echoed throughout the air and there was no longer the bustling New York City that the Concrete Jungle was once famous for. Now, it's a living hell…

And there is my prologue!

So, this here fanfic was inspired when I read and watched Highschool Of The Dead. I will make it original, but I might change the course of this story. There will be a definite end to this story, if I have the motivation.

Hey, let me speak about updates. The thing is, my motivation to finish a story comes from the people who read this. If they like my content, then I will provide. So please, drop a like and a follow or some shit like that. I can't finish this story without you guys. I had a story called "Life Anew" and that was also a PJO fic. I wanted to continue it, but it was too messy. That was when I was an amateur writer. Now, im better and im ready.

Have a nice night! (its 22:41 where I am)

-Zeyphr