A/N: Hey guys! This is the second of my two writing projects that I'm currently working on and just to let you know, this takes places after my first story, which will be posted sometime soon. In the meantime, I ask that you bear with this, and I promise, this story does not require in any way for you to have read the previous one.
Disclaimer: I'm not a white male from Texas who writes awesome stories. Rick owns all.
Prologue
Zeus was trying to give a long speech again. Ares and Dionysus had both dozed off, Athena was arguing about the recent news the gods had received that Titans were stirring. Apollo and Artemis were bickering, albeit a bit more quietly than usual. Hermes was in deep thought. Now that the titans were indeed stirring, he would probably have to tell the other gods about his son Luke and the fate he had seen for him. Needless to say, that would cause a massive uproar and he didn't exactly feel like facing the whole council at the current point in time.
I'll let them know about it soon enough. It's not like it is urgent news, anyways. But even as he thought that, he knew it was a lie.
Demeter was twitching uncomfortably in her seat. Heh, she's probably just realized that wasn't a normal cushion. Suddenly, a high-pitched scream rang through the throne room. Ares and Dionysus jumped up in their seats, and Ares had his sword unsheathed in his hands.
The scurrying of eyes stopped on Demeter, who pulled out the cushion from behind her, and ripped it apart. Here we go, Hermes thought. Demeter was livid. Who had filled her cushion with her cereals? Who had the audacity to crumble them all to dust and leave a mouse inside the cushion with it? All eyes turned towards Apollo and Hermes.
"Oh come on. It's just an innocent little prank. Are you honestly considering—"
Suddenly, a bright white light engulfed the area in front of the gods. Six beings emerged from this light and took stock of their surroundings.
Thalia's P.O.V
"Who are you? What are you doing in our presence?"
Oh great. I guess Apollo was serious about the time travel. Oh well, let's get this over quickly.
"My lord Zeus, we are demigods from the future. I would just like to ask what year we are in? Oh, and also, here is a letter from Apollo. We ourselves are not completely sure why we are being sent back, since the events that have transpired need to happen, at least the main ones do, for our future to be assured."
All the gods around the room looked stunned and annoyed at the same time. Apollo up to his tricks again.
"You, demigods, are in the year 2003. Now, let me read this note."
I got up and gave him the note, bowed to him and then the other gods, and retreated to my friends.
"How interesting. Apollo sends us these demigods from the future at the request of Athena. It seems these children from the future have managed to survive till 10 years from now. Apparently, the Fates have allowed this, provided that these demigods are safe when they need to return. Very well. Let us hear you. Tell us, who are you?"
I took a deep breath. This is going to be a shocker.
Third person P.O.V
"My name is Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, Lieutenant of Artemis, and slayer of the Giant Porphyrion."
"Th-thalia? But how? You were a tree; I did that myself, to keep you safe—"
"Relax father. A certain friend of mine, ah, cured me of my condition."
"Who is this person? I must reward him immediately!"
"Brother now is not the time! Let them finish introducing themselves first!" bellowed Hades.
Zeus grumbled but waved his hand for the others to carry on.
"My name is Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Architect of Olympus and commander of the demigod armies!"
Athena looked at her daughter, stunned. Commander of the demigod armies? What had happened in the future to require such a position?
"Annabeth, child, tell me, is there a conflict in your time? Has something happened to re—"
"All in due time, mother. The only thing I can say, however, is that we are all safe and sound, and have been so for the past 2 months. We are however, preparing to defend against a full-scale assault on Camp Half-Blood and possibly Olympus."
Another wave of confusion spread across the gods. What could possibly attack both camp and Olympus in large enough forces to require the need of an army to defend them?
"My name is Nico di Angelo. I am a son of Hades—"
"HADES! YOU BROKE THE OATH! AND—"
"Oh be quiet, Zeus. You know you broke it more times than he did." Hera said angrily at her husband.
"And as I was saying, I am from an era before the oath. I am the prince of darkness, lieutenant of the forces of Hades and am the one and only ghost king."
Stunned silence greeted these words.
"Son, I would like to know what happen—"
"Not now, Hades. Let them finish!"
Hades grumbled but sat back down and wondered about his little Bianca.
"I am Clarisse, daughter of Ares, and I marshal the forces of Olympus, by order of Annabeth."
Ares cheered up at his daughter's name and she blushed almost imperceptibly in return.
"My name is Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Praetor of New Rome and I serve under Annabeth!"
"Zeus, who was yelling at who about the broken oath?" Poseidon asked testily.
Zeus grumbled and let it pass. He was happy that both of his demigod children were alive and well ten years into the future.
"And my name is Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon. I am not too keen on revealing my titles as of right now."
"Poseidon, were you saying anything before?"
"Oh shut up Zeus. Son, I think you should tell us all your titles."
"Okay, father. I am Perseus Jackson, child of the prophecy, Saviour of Olympus, Consul of Rome, Slayer of numerous monsters and giants."
Of course, he had left out the fact that he had not named half of them, but he figured those would be enough for now.
Apollo and Hermes both realized this, and asked who the monsters and giants were. Percy replied by saying that they were not too powerful, and certainly not worth mentioning in the presence of these gods. Artemis and Hera were stunned at his words. They did not expect modesty from a male demigod. Those were usually the ones who boasted the most. They were going to have to re-assess their current view of this boy.
Zeus, Poseidon and Hades all looked at him askance, and then they saw a powerful aura show itself through Percy's eyes. All three looked away and pondered on what they had seen. When was the last time they had seen so much power in someone's eyes? Hades and Zeus shared a knowing look. They'd have to interrogate him later on.
"We have been sent into the past so that the future may be a more comfortable place, and so that the demigods of our time may stand a chance. Therefore I am guessing as such, Apollo sent us a series of books detailing the occurrences, and, ah, it seems to be from my point of view. Oh great. Annabeth, don't get mad at me, please. I sort of rambled on in my thoughts and—"
"Relax seaweed brain! I know. Oh, mother and Poseidon, I would just like to say before we start that Percy loves me and I love him."
At these words, Aphrodite cried out in delight, Athena shot Percy a murderous glare and Poseidon looked slightly amused.
"I should also probably warn you that, um, my humour is only a way of expressing my, ah, nervousness and yeah so please don't judge me on that and—"
"Enough, Percy. Let's start reading the books. I need to get back and show them your disarming moves against hammers."
Nobody wanted to point out that since they time-travelled, they could return at any point of time in the future. Annabeth didn't like being wrong, and nobody wanted a cranky commander.
"All right. Who wishes to start us off?" Zeus asked calmly.
"I will, Lord Zeus." said Nico. He wanted to know about his friend a bit more.
"Chapter 1: I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher" Read Nico.
"Oh, before we start, seems like Apollo only wants us to read certain happenings. I don't see any mention of us going in the sea of monsters, Annabeth. The titan's curse... hmm, that's gotta be from when Zoe was around, and there's no Labyrinth mentioned, okay! So we're only going over a few of the actual occurrences, my lords and ladies. I guess you'll find out soon enough. We'll gladly elaborate and fill you in on the stuff that happened in between." Percy was in shock that he managed to get all that out in a single go.
"Percy's right, ask us anything if you're not clear, but we have to draw a line at any attempt to draw out the future events. No foreshadowing!" Annabeth chimed in.
"Alright. Let's go, Nico."
A/N: Lemme know how you guys feel about this, I promise, this is not going to be like the reading the books stories, especially since the plot line deviates from this soon.
R&R! I really want to know how you feel, I'll accept justified criticism. :)
