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Chapter 2

I was doomed. I had, no matter how intentionally or unintentionally, fallen in love with Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. The first summer I spent there consisted of going to find the Lightning bolt.

You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,

You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned,

You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend,

And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.

That was the prophecy we had to guide us and in a large nutshell, the quest went something like this.

Flashback of entire quest:

At camp, I started to learn more information about how demi-gods live now instead of what I had seen over the centuries. Chiron also seems insistent that I am the prophecy child but I'm hoping I'm not because seriously, I don't need Mr Hey-you-get-off-of-my-cloud-if-you're-not-going-to-worship-me-obcessively (aka Zeus) to find any more reasons to hate me. When Zeus's master bolt (the most powerful weapon to ever be made apart from *cough* titan's weapons *cough* Other Big three weapons *Cough* *cough*) got stolen, Apparently uncle lightening blamed Dad is blamed for the theft and then of course he throws a hissy fit and tells Dad that the master bolt must be returned to Mount Olympus by the summer solstice, or else he will declare war. Later Dad Iris-messages me complaining that he's miffed that his brother would even accuse him of such a thing.

So I get the delightful prophecy, fun times, set out on a quest to retrieve Zeus's master bolt, which is believed to be in Hades's captivity in the Underworld. According to Chiron quests are now done in threes unless the prophecy states Otherwise so I had to choose two companions that were Grover Underwood, a satyr, and Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. We take a bus, which ends us up fighting Medusa in 'Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium, a truck to St Louis where I ended up fighting Echidna and her son, the Chimera and won although then I was suspected of terrorism as the Chimera blew up the arch as I jumped into the river below. At a diner where we able to stop, we had burgers until Ares came in and asked (demanded) us to do a side quest. So that's why the three of us have an inside joke about the Tunnel of Love as Ares wanted us to get one of his shields back and that happened to trigger the ride into going and hence the gods of Olympus saw us making rights idiots of ourselves as we were attacked by metal spiders. Ares thought he would award us and therefore gave us a rucksack with supplies, and a ride in a truck to Vegas where we ended up spending five days in the Lotus Casino, and a taxi cab to LA. In LA we were almost stretched to death by Procrustes and hence I ended up tricking him into demonstrating where I defeated him and freed Annabeth and Grover.

Once in the Underworld, we find that Hades does not have the master bolt, and he is missing his own symbol of power: the helm of darkness. Hades then accuses us of stealing both the master bolt and the helm of darkness for my father even though that's impossible since I've never been to the Underworld or Olympus before in all the years I've been alive. He accuses Dad of being power-hungry so we end up in an argument which Annabeth has to break up. To make things worse, the master bolt magically appears in the backpack Ares gave us on Grover's shoulder while I'm is talking to Hades. After escaping Hades's wrath, Annabeth, Grover and I encounter Ares, the god of war, on Santa Monica beach. Percy questions Ares and discovers that Ares stole the master bolt and helm of darkness from the original thief and I had a hard time believing that Ares would do that until I noticed the slight golden tint his eyes had. As it turns out, Ares had been tempted by the possibility of sparking one of the biggest wars of all time between the Big Three: Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon. Ares and I battle it out on the beach, with me calling on the powers of the sea to avoid being completely skewered and I ended up beating Ares, winning Hades' helm. Ares curses me by saying that when I needed my blade the most, it would fail me.

We return the helm of darkness to Hades via the furies much to Annabeth's chargin as she has big monster trust issues but I told to simply suck it up. Grover insists we take a plane back to New York City or we'll never make it on time. So there we were 600th floor of the Empire State Building aka Olympus and we tell them everything that we know and suspect adding bits in to other people's stories if it was relevant. Annabeth and I tell them that we believe Kronos, King of the Titans who ruled in the age before the Greek gods, is getting ready to wage war on the Olympians and the demi-gods. I tell them about the dreams about Kronos in which Kronos talks to me. Zeus goes all arrogant saying it's pointless worrying about the impossible blah, blah, blah and doesn't want to hear it. Our parents tell us that they're proud of us and that we were saviours of earth and all that.

Flashback/explanation over. Normal time:

Today was the last day of camp and Annabeth and I were just messing about by the lake laughing at ourselves. Ever since I had admitted my heritage to Annabeth, we became much closer and I felt somewhat…. Lighter? Maybe?

"Procrustes' face when he realised you tricked him was hilarious!" Annabeth was laughing hysterically and so was I and I joked about Annabeth dazed look from when we were in the Lotus Casino. She joking smacked me on the arm as I faked being wounded, rubbing my hand over it.

"Seaweed brain." She muttered failing to keep the grin off her face.

"Wisegirl." I muttered back grinning.

"Just you remember that Perseus of Sparta."

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Soon Luke, a son of Hermes, came over to us saying Chiron needed to see me. Luke led me to the woods and I frowned in confusion.

"I thought we were going to the Big House?" I asked.

"Oh you are," He grinned. "I just wanted to talk to you first."

I followed him deep into the woods where we sat down and made idle chit-chat until I sensed something was wrong.

"Are you okay Luke?" I asked again, looking at him. He brought out a box from

"Of course I am!" He said cheerfully as he opened the box.

A pit scorpion shot out of the box and on to my hand and sat there

"Uh Luke?"

"How does it feel Jackson? To be defenceless? Where are those Gods now, eh? You want to know who stole the bolt? It was me: Lucas 'Luke' Castellan, soon to be saviour of the world from the Gods." He sneered

"Why?" I whispered

"Why? Because the Gods are arrogant, deceitful, stupid and ignorant bastards. I serve Kronos now and there's nothing you can do about it!"

He stormed off and left me there with the deadly scorpion. I tried to move but it slammed it's stinger down and I lost consciousness in seconds.

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I woke up in the infirmary with Annabeth's head resting on my torso.

"Hey Wisegirl," I smiled as she shot up

"Don't you ever do that again Perseus Jackson!" She shouted drawing the attention of people nearby and some looked bemused.

"Sure thing Wisegirl!"

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Saving the world became a yearly tradition for us to the extent that we named each year after a major event like the first year is the lightning thief, the year after we called the sea of monsters then the battle of the labyrinth and so on.

Currently we were stood in the lobby of the Empire State Building as campers got out of vans and walked to join us. Annabeth and Argus were quietly talking about something and he handed her a shield. About forty demi-gods stood in front of me action ready. I mentally sighed; how was I supposed to defend Manhattan with 40 people.

"Listen up guys," I started looking at everyone in the eye. "This is it guys – This is war. We will defend Olympus and we will win. We need to keep Manhattan in our procession so here's how it's going to work. We need to guard all the bridges and tunnels, the easiest way for them to do this is for them to launch either a mid-town or a downtown assault. Michael? Take the Apollo cabin to the Williamsburg Bridge. Katie, Demeter's cabin to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, use your powers to make ivy or bushes – whatever you want just do not let them through. Hey Connor! Take half of Hermes Cabin and cover the Manhattan Bridge. Travis, you need to take the other half and cover Brooklyn Bridge. Hermes' kids that means no looting on the way!"

"Awwww!" the entire cabin groaned

"Silena, Drew? I need you to take the Aphrodite cabin to Queens-Midtown Tunnel."

"We can totally accessorize on the way because there's Fifth Avenue," An Aphrodite girl squealed, clapping her hands together. "And monsters hate the smell of Givenchy!"

"If it works then go for it but don't take all the perfume."

"Gotcha Perce!" The girl called from the back.

"Aphrodite cabin to me!" Silena shouted as her cabin went off running.

"What am I missing? Jake Mason! Take the Hephaestus Cabin to The Holland Tunnel. Use any traps, devices, Greek fire, whatever you've got." I turned to the newly appointed Hephaestus councillor. It had originally been Charles Beckendorf, but a duo mission with him, I had to jump off the ship we were on then and he was going to but didn't make it.

"For Beckendorf!" He grinned and led his cabin off.

"The Fifty-ninth Street Bridge," I said "Clari…"

I stopped. There had been a petty disagreement between the Apollo and Ares cabins over a flying chariot so she refused to come.

"The Athena Cabin can take it, bro." Malcolm spoke up saving me from an awkward silence from my stupidity.

"I'll go and activate the statues around the island on Guido." Annabeth said and jumped upon the waiting Pegasus and flew off.

"Hold up," a satyr said "You haven't covered the Lincoln tunnel."

Well shit, I thought sarcastically. We knew from what we saw on the way here there was already monsters using that tunnel to get here.

"The Hunters can take that Kelp Head." Thalia smirked. "Hunters of Artemis reporting for duty commander."

I never thought I would be so happy to hear my lightning bug of a cousin in any situation.

"Thanks Gods for you Thals!" I embraced her in a hug as I caught sight of the band of thirty or so girls behind her armed to the teeth.

They had white wolves milling around their feet as if they were expecting the monsters to pop up out of the ground. But then again, I was half expecting that as well.

"We have some catching up to do, Death Breath as well, so usual place after the war or else." She threatening giving me that look that she always gave me when she was being serious.

"Yes we do." I said.

I turned to anyone left.

"You're the greatest heroes of this age, Fight bravely and I'll open a tab at Domino's for anyone that survives this war." I raised Riptide. "FOR OLMPUS!"

"FOR OLYMPUS!"

Everyone cleared out and went to their posts.

We were in for the war of our lives.