Greetings readers. If you have been following my work you may remember that I said SoaH 1 was my first Fanfic.

I should like to Amend that statement. It was the first Fanfic I wrote PROPERLY.

I was digging around in some old files on my father's desktop PC, when what should I find but an old set of folders with my name on them. To keep a long story short I found a Fanfic I started writing when I was fifteen amongst some old documents.

There were just so many differences that I thought; Just for the sake of it I will upload it as is for your enjoyment. Please feel free to read and review at your leisure.

Athena's wisdom to you.

-Athena'sPride95

Note: this story takes place after the last Olympian but the timeline has been altered so the events of heroes of Olympus have not occurred yet. As this is a first attempt I didn't want to have too many lead characters to deal with.

Chapter 1: Percy

"Wake up Perseus!" The voice reverberated through his mental blackness shaking Percy back to consciousness.
"Wha…What happened? Where am I?" Then memories came flooding back in painful and rapid flashes and he almost blacked out again.
"Perseus?" the voice asked now sounding slightly more concerned. "Perseus, Return to us boy, you have been away far too long."
"Peace Poseidon" a female voice said somewhere off to Percy's right "The boy is not yet fully restored." There was a brief silence then Poseidon mumbled something Percy couldn't hear.
"We know" Athena said, for it is she who had spoken "but these things take time, especially something as risky as this."

Percy finally managed to open his eyes; he stood shakily and looked around. He was in the throne room on Olympus, the entire Olympian counsel was present, including Hades, and they all had their eyes on him. Most were full of concern but as expected Dionysus looked bored and Ares was wearing his usual sneer, which made it all to clear he wasn't happy to see Percy.
"What happened?" Percy said again "the last thing I remember…" He staggered as more memories hit him, he felt like the Minotaur was trying to beat its way out of his head. "Nevada" he said as his vision came back into focus "Those three half-bloods, the Manticore, where…?"
"Whoa there kid slow it down before you hurt yourself" Apollo said standing up next to Percy and moving to sit in his throne "That's all I can do, the rest is up to him now."
Percy stared at his father then glanced around the room again just to make sure he was actually there "What's up to me? And how did I even get here?" Panic was starting to rise in his chest by now clearly something was wrong, and what was worse whatever it was it was to do with him.
"Percy, what exactly is the last thing you remember?"

The moment Poseidon asked Percy remembered and he could have sworn he felt the pain all over again.
"I remember…" he swallowed hard before continuing "I remember that we found three new half-bloods at a Clark High school Nevada and we were leading them back to camp when we were attacked" the council listened in silence and he continued "a Manticore and two sphinx against me, Annabeth, Grover and three untrained half-bloods. We tried to stand and fight but we shouldn't have stopped. The last thing…" he nearly broke down as he spoke "I killed the Sphinx and we thought Annabeth had killed the Manticore, we started to leave but it". He stopped to take a breath "I pushed Annabeth aside and then…" he trailed off not able to talk about it. "I failed didn't I?" he asked miserably not bearing to think what had happened to his girlfriend after he blacked out.

"No, no they all survived and made it back to camp safely" Poseidon paused and Percy could have sworn he saw a tear glisten in the corner of the sea god's eye. "I'm afraid that you weren't as fortunate." Percy's stomach dropped like a stone.
"Brace yourself boy" Zeus rumbled, it was the first time the God had spoken since Percy had woken and he was shocked to see that even the lord of the sky was fighting restrained emotion. Only then did Percy look at himself, or rather look through himself, because he saw something that would have made his heart stop had it still been beating.

He was transparent.