Author's Note: Hey, this is my first Percy Jackson story. I hope it's good. Review please to tell me how it is and what you think I could change:))
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson. Rick Riordan does. I do own this plot though. If it sounds like anything you've heard before, I'm sorry but I haven't read any stories like this or seen any stories like this yet.
Summary: The war is over in the future. But one little mistake in the past changes everything. Now the heroes must venture into the past and complete a prophecy that is, literally, thrown into their face. With only a short amount of time to stop it, will they conquer a war the second time (which is actually the first if you think about it) or will they fade just as the prophecy says.
Setting: They come from after The Last Olympian. Percy and 11 other campers travel back in time, to August 31st, 1 week and 6 days after Percy's birthday, in the year 2001 (A year after Thalia got turned into a tree) 8 years into the past.
Chapter 1: I See Three Heads Spin Round, Right Round
3rd Person
*August 31st 2009-Present/Future*
It was right after the bead ceremony. The Hephaestus cabin had designed the beads, the Empire State Building with all the names of the deceased spiraling the image. Most would say it was a very relaxing last two weeks, after the war and all.
Percy was just glad the war was over, to spend time with friends, but he would never forget the ones who died either. As Chiron said those last words all the campers went to scatter. Apart from a few friends of his: Annabeth, Thalia (Yes, the hunters were still there), Nico, the Stoll's, Katie, Will, Clarisse (They may not have been exactly friends, but thy earned each other's respect during the war) and Chris. They decided to just spend maybe 10-15 minutes enjoying the peace and serenity while it lasted. After all with half-bloods it's hardly ever like this.
They were sitting at the edge of the canoe lake and Percy was wishing Tyson was there, but he was still in the forges and Grover was off with Juniper saying his goodbyes. He would be leaving soon, new Lord of the Wild and all that.
He was just laughing and joking having a great last day (or evening) at camp. But obviously, his bad luck wouldn't spare him just a couple of minutes of peace. A bright light rose from the lake, it was a never ending shade of color. One second it was blue, the next green and then red and then… well you get the picture.
All the half-bloods rose from where they were sitting and got their weapons out. How they were going to fight light with weapons, I have no clue. The light got closer and approached quicker. Connor tried to run, but it engulfed them all within 2 seconds.
And then they were falling.
Have you ever gone on a roller coaster that has a 90 degree drop? Well if you have, that's exactly how it felt like in the tunnel-like-thing they entered once engulfed by the light. Annabeth grabbed Percy's hand and they were free falling. You could hear Travis's girly scream and Katie telling him to shut up.
The surroundings were weird. All the colors had mixed together and created a spiral, which made the tunnel. They were falling but they didn't actually touch the sides or seemed to hit the walls.
It was great, until they hit the white marble floor with a THUMP!
Luckily no-one was injured…Owwww! Actually, spoke too soon. Annabeth was lying on the floor, well they all were but never mind that, but she was in a weird position. Somehow during falling from the light and landing on the floor she managed to twist her arm into a position where it would surely break.
"Annabeth!" Percy exclaimed "Are you okay? Will, could you help out Annabeth please, I'm pretty sure she's got a broken arm." Percy said to Will.
"Sure" Will replied.
"No, no I'm fine. Just a little bruise" Annabeth protested. Percy looked at her with an eyebrow raised "I'm fine" She snapped. Percy held up his hands in mock surrender, stifling his laughter.
It was then they surveyed their surroundings. White marble floor with white columns that reached the roof. The room was fairly large but was surprisingly empty. No furniture or people. Just empty.
"Where the Hades are we!" Thalia cried out.
"Hey that's my dad's name you're using!" Nico said.
"Don't pretend you don't use my dad's name" Thalia argued back.
"Back to the point!" Clarisse growled "Where are we!" Chris nodded in agreement.
"Wait… this looks oddly familiar" Percy said trailing off, thinking hard about where they were.
"Don't think too hard now Percy" Travis joked and high-fived Connor while Katie slapped both their heads.
"I know!" Annabeth exclaimed "This looks just like one of the rooms in the palace on Mount Olympus! Looks exactly like it does in the blueprints" Annabeth explained.
"Well I wonder why we're here" Percy pondered.
Mist started to appear around them, it curled off the walls and the floor. The mist kept heading inward towards the middle of the room pushing the demigods into a circle with their backs to each other.
Then three heads slowly appeared in the mist. They looked really familiar to Percy. Their faces looked ancient, they had grey eyes and silver hair that was tied back by a bandana.
"It's the fates" Annabeth whispered to Percy as the trio of heads circled them, spinning round them chanting in ancient Greek.
Percy immediately knew she was right. He had seen the fates in his very first year of knowing he was a half-blood. He also saw them around 2 weeks ago carrying Luke's body away. They stopped chanting in ancient Greek and then spoke in English with raspy voices.
12 campers that have just finished a Titan war
Will have to bear another or their world will be no more
The Powerful beings while in chains bear no strength
Search for the past or it will bear a great deal of consequence
The least expected one will rise
The ones brought back in time will have the element of surprise
The children of the gods will be no help
Unless a hero sacrifices and the cards have been dealt
The powerful ones will be the hardest to retrieve
So use the most common and you will have all that you need
Nothing shall be changed in fear of the future
Things must be fixed by the next eclipse of the lunar
Failure to do so gives you an unforgivable fate
The future will have changed and you will all fade
The fates finished speaking and they themselves began to fade.
"Wait! What does that mean" Percy cried out. But it was in vain as the heads shrunk back into the mist leaving the half-bloods in the large room which had suddenly gotten colder.
After a few minutes of silence a piece of paper fell from the sky. Thalia went over to pick it up.
"What does it say" Connor asked when everyone crowded around her.
"Well it has the prophecy written on it on one side and on the other side it says…
Dear Heroes,
We warn you not to change the past, great consequences will occur if you do. And you are also probably wondering what is going on, we can't tell you. You will have to conclude that within yourselves. But please be aware there will be a deadline. As to how you are to go home, that will be dealt with at the appropriate time. As for weapons and armor and other equipment you may need, we will add to your powers. Think of a weapon or nearly anything really and it shall be there with a wave of your hand. We warn you though, it may tire you if done too often. Whether you want to reveal your names or not, is up to you. But remember that the fates are on your side. We don't like that our powers are being messed with.
Good Luck
-The Fates"
Thalia finished reading.
"I wonder what this all means" Annabeth had that calculating look on her face. Her strategic face.
"Who cares I want to try out that power thing" Travis exclaimed. He closed his eyes and thought hard. And then and ice cream appeared in his hands.
"Whoa, dude! That's awesome!" Connor cried about to do the same as his brother when Katie hit him on the head breaking his concentration.
"Now's not the time, gods can't you two be serious or once!" Katie said getting aggravated.
"Sorry" Travis said, while totally not looking sorry at all. In fact he was smirking while eating his ice cream.
"Guys stop flirting, seriously" Chris said wiping the smirk off Travis' face. Katie began to splutter.
"What-no! You think….NO!" She finally managed to comprehend what she was saying "never in a million years! Although our future doesn't look too good now, because of the prophecy so shut up!"
"Whoa! Katie I didn't mean it" Chris said surrendering.
"As entertaining as this is to watch" Will stated in a matter of fact voice "I'd like to know what's going on" He said, while getting a glare from Katie.
"Annabeth, assuming you know what this means" Clarisse said "daughter of Athena"
"Actually I'm not so sure myself. I kind of understand the first line '12 campers that have just finished a Titan war'. Well among us is 10 so I'm not sure about the other 2"
"We can just go back and get 2 other campers" Percy said nonchalantly.
"Kelp head" Thalia said "I don't think that's going to work, something seems different. Like why were we sent to Olympus via weird tunnel, instead of just being asked by the gods?" Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
"I think" Annabeth started "we may have been brought back in time." After she said that sentence there we cries of 'not possible'/ 'What the Hades!'/ 'Holy Zeus!'/ And 'HOW!'
"GUYS!" A girl shouted. We all looked to Clarisse "SHUT UP! And LISTEN!" And everyone quietened down.
"It's possible if it's the fates" Annabeth said. And she had a point. "The prophecy mentioned something about 'The ones brought back in time' and other stuff about the future. The letter also mentioned things about not changing the past. So it's most likely we're in the past guys." Everyone agreed, some more reluctantly than others.
"We have to find out what's happening for the 'search for the past' thing" Nico said.
"Well, no duh!" Clarisse said.
"Let's go find a more suitable place to talk about this" Percy said already walking towards the door.
Everyone turned then followed.
When Percy reached the door he heard voices outside walking past.
"Guys! Be quiet!" He said in a hushed whisper making a gesture to the door.
"What" Connor said bluntly before Katie hit him over the head.
They all gathered around the door. With Percy clutching Riptide in pen form
"The godssss don't know what'ssss hit them." Someone said.
"Sssso ignorant, it will be and isssss their downfall." A voice sounding different also said
"And the puny demigodssss are frozen in time asssswell" The first voice said. Clarisse made a grab at her dagger that was in its sheath at her side.
"Don't" Annabeth whispered really quietly. "Let's try to get some information" She informed. It was a smart idea.
"I can't believe they put usssss in defensssse of thisssss place" The second voice said. Due to their speech with the 's' everybody was now guessing it was Scythian dracaenae.
"Yesss, itssss not like anyone can esssscape the minor godsss are frozen. And itssss not like they check the defensssse of thisss place. Completely usssselesssssssss." The first dracaenae said
"There isssss only 40 of usssss here anyway, I completely agree no point in thisssss." The second one said their voices getting quieter as they reached what was probably the end of the hallway.
"Well we've gathered some information" Thalia blurted breaking the silence of everyone's thoughts.
"Yeah" Will said.
"Like how demigods of this year are frozen in time" Percy informed.
"And the minor gods are frozen in time" Nico added on
"And the defense-" Connor started
"Isn't checked for Olympus because of that" Travis finished
"Oh my gods" Katie said getting irritated. They both just smirked.
"There are only 40 monsters assigned to guard Olympus to make sure nothing happens" Chris said
"But they don't suspect us here, so it will be easy to kill them" Clarisse added
"But we do have to be careful so we don't raise the alarm" Annabeth stated "40 of them 10 of us so its 4-1 as a ratio" She then summarized
"NO MATH!" Travis, Connor, Will and Nico exclaimed. The rest just laughed.
"Wait guys" Katie stopped abruptly "we've got to be quiet, the monsters may sense we are here"
"Right" was the general reply throughout the room.
"What are we going to do now" Thalia said. People looked at her confusedly "about the conference room"
"Oh….um…. I have an idea!" Percy exclaimed
"Duck and cover! It's a Percy idea!" The Stoll's said simultaneously and then they snickered.
"Anyway" Percy said ignoring them "Just watch" He then closed his eyes and then a big circular black marble table appeared in the middle of the room. Like those tables in conference rooms, but the ones in conference rooms are normally rectangular. But the table barely took up any of the space in the room (fairly big room on Olympus, you see)
"Cool" Was the general reply throughout the room this time.
"You know the thrones in the throne room right?" Percy asked, there were nods as replies "Well imagine any chair you want but it will be kind of like a throne. Only temporary though" There were nods.
People walked to the places they wanted to sit. And then thought of a throne each.
Clarisse's chair was blood red. The Ares symbol was painted at the top and then had various weapons painted around the chair with the weapons name.
On Clarisse's right was Chris who had a fairly simple chair. It was brown and looked rustic with Hermes' symbol a caduceus at the top. Simple.
On Chris's right was Will. Now Will's chair was a little…bright. It was yellow with a few orange stripes on it like sun rays. Comes with having a dad who's the god of light…figures. There were poetry lines and song lyrics covering the chair, every once in a while you would find a bow and arrow decorating it as well. It had Apollo's symbol as well, at the top.
On Will's right was Thalia. Thalia's chair was halfway between the looking like the sky and halfway between looking like a forest. The color was sky blue and had white clouds near the top. But along the bottom it had trees that made a forest. Bows, arrows and spears decorated it. Along with a load of band names she likes. It also had Zeus' symbol at the top.
On Thalia's right was Nico. His throne was the opposite of Will's. It was very…dark. It was black, a bunch of skeletons lined the very bottom. It had a massive painted image of his Stygian Iron sword on the back with Hades' symbol on the top.
On Nico's right was Percy. He was at the head of the table (don't ask how). His chair was, you guessed it, green with blue waves rolling of the sides. On the back was a bunch of scenes from all his adventures, a bit like his old shield from Tyson. And it had Poseidon's symbol at the top. A trident.
On Percy's right was Annabeth. Annabeth's chair was purple and grey, with a bunch of ancient Greek equations and a few buildings with great architecture here and there. It had Athena's symbol on it.
On her right was Katie and her chair was green like Percy's but paler. It had a bunch of flowers and plants and strawberries. Pretty much anything to do with gardening and it had Demeter's symbol on it.
On Katie's right was Travis and Connor's (who was to the right of Travis) chair was exactly identical to this. It had a bunch of scenes from their greatest pranks their chair was the same color as Chris', brown so it looked rustic. It had Hermes' symbol at the top. Their chairs were the same apart from different pranks on each chair.
"Nice chairs guys" Percy said with a grin on his face.
"Hey we could be the new council" Travis said gleefully
"Not a bad idea" Thalia said "considering since the Olympians aren't here"
"Hey!" Nico said "we could be the Delympians"
"The what?" Will said.
"The Delympians" Connor said exasperatedly "mixing the words demigods and Olympians. Therefore Delympians." Everyone started laughing.
"That's not a bad idea. In the letter it said 'Whether you want to reveal your names or not, is up to you'." Annabeth said "We could use that as an alias, make sure the enemy don't know who we are. Because if they do we don't know what they'll do to our past selves" She concluded.
"So does this mean we can use fake names" Connor said gleefully.
"I was thinking more of codenames" Thalia said.
"I like that" Said Katie
"Yeah, I go with Thalia's idea" Clarisse voted
"All in favor of Thalia's idea" Percy said. All but Connor and Travis put their hands up, they just pouted but agreed.
"I feel like we're actually the Olympian council when we do that" Will said excitedly.
"We kind of are the Olympian council until we know what's happened to them" Chris said matter of factly.
"Let's get this meeting going then" Annabeth said "Let's start with the prophecy…."
Author's note: Thanks for reading. That was kind of an introduction to the whole story. Please review and if there is anything I need to change.
-Khristi:)