Summary: The Gods of Olympus were defeated long before Percy was born and since then the planet has been under the evil and terrifying rule of Kronos. While Percy lives on the streets with his Mother and Grover there is a secret, underground force called HBO. He is fine until he learns about the existence of his father and about a secret underground rebellion called HBO and worse yet, the Minotaur kidnaps his mother. He then sets forth on a journey to reunite with her…but along the way he meets other…unexpected people.
PAIRINGS: PercyxAnnabeth, JasonxPiper, SilenaxCharlie PoseidonxSally and other pairings…deciding whom Nico or maybe even Leo should be with…
To Authors: (Holy! I didn't think I would have to update this soon! But a promise is a promise…) And also, replies to comments…
SMiiLE- Congrats to you for getting Artemis first and being my first review, this chapter is dedicated to you!
Xover Queen- The reason why put "I want this amount of reviews" is so that when I do get that amount of review I have an obligation to update instead of being lazy and not. If I say I will, I always do. If I don't have motivation besides loving the story, I don't usually update. But thanks, you also got Artemis right!
Jamie Daughter of Artemis- Yeah, its Artemis. I put her hair a different color for two reasons: one, I forgot, and two, and probably best "save face" answer, is because she is not as powerful as before so she can't alter her appearance anyway she wants as much. I totally just made that up but it fits, but mainly yeah, it's because I forgot and was too lazy to look it up. Sorry! I'll probably change it later!
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Oh yeah! I forgot! Percy is…fourteen in here! Luke is nineteen! Nico is twelve in here and so on and so forth.
Chapter 2: Thinking
Percy POV
"Percy?"
I quickly looked up, sweating slightly from the situation, and saw my mom in a little bit away in a doorway across from me. I smiled, because seeing her always made feel better.
Incase you don't know, my mom isbeautiful!She could give any evil Goddess a run for their drachmas! She has long, wavy brown hair and warm blue eyes that changed color in the light. She was the bravest, strongest woman I knew.
Of course I hadn't seen another woman in a long time. In fact, Grover and my mom were the only people I had seen for a few months now. In my scavenges for food I've only been seeing more and more monsters and absolutely no humans. I wonder if everyone besides my family has been taken as slaves by Kronos, I didn't doubt it but it still was horrible.
But I was talking about how beautiful my mom is. She has a tired, and work-worn face and her posture is clearly just as exhausted out. That wasn't surprising either, most people would kill; yes, literally kill-age, for this place. We were really lucky to have it with only three people living in it. She worked really hard to find this place after the war began, said that her apartment had burned down and our father had sent us to this place that he had found. I guess I should be grateful for that, and I was but still…
My mom came over to me, with concern written clearly over her face. I realized what a sight I must be. I was sweaty from running, my worn out clothes all rustled up and holy, though not from running away like a madman, and I probably had a look of pure horror on my face. She most likely thought that I had gotten attacked!
"I'm fine Mom." I say before she can say anything. "I wasn't attacked or something… I just got close to getting caught that's all." It wasn't a lie.
She pursed her lips the way she does when she wants to say something. After a moment she breathes a sigh and shakes her head sadly.
"Well, as long as you're alright." I breathe a silent sigh of relief. She didn't notice, phew.
I then remembered why I had been outside in the first place. I held out a wet bag of groceries that I had scavenged. Her eyes widened and her mouth opened a bit in surprise.
I grinned, rather pleased with my load today. I had risked a lot to get this food but it was worth it. I thought mom would be really proud of me too but instead she frowned.
"I wish you didn't have to try so hard to get us supplies. I'm the mother, I should be the one doing it."
I frowned, no longer as pleased with my load of priceless treasure; it really was priceless around here. My mom always blamed herself for not being able to help more but she wasn't as fast as I or strong and she wasn't able to find things as well as I. If a monster caught my mom, she wouldn't be able to get away. At least I would only get a few scars and still be able to leave alive.
And my mom helped out a lot more than she thought. She cooked the food, clean the warehouse and clothes, put up camouflage over the warehouse with Grover, and a lot of other things that I couldn't do.
She walked over to me and flattened down my hair the way she always does when she's showing affection, or concern. I blushed a bit, I was fourteen not ten years old, but somehow I still liked my mother caring about me like this. That sounded like a conceited over ground teenager, sorry, but I am one.
I opened my bag of food and we both peered inside. There was a loaf of smashed bread, three zip locked bags of turkey slices, a few cans of ravioli, and a box of… Mom's eyes widened considerably so when her eyes landed on the box of blue dye making me smile even wider than before. I had gone through some trouble to pick that up from on the streets, I had to search weeks and weeks for it.
My mom got teary eyes and hugged me. "You really didn't have to Percy! You are such a good son to me!"
I smiled brightly again, I was happy to make her so happy.
I guess I should explain the reaction of my mom to a bottle of blue food dye. Before the war mom used to date this really stupid and ugly guy, before she met my father of course, name Ugliano.
Gabe Ugliano, the worst sounding guy on the face of the planet! You wouldn't believe what my mom went through with that jerk by the sounds of it! She always makes things easier and better than it sounds but with this guy she didn't hold back a bit. He was greedy, stupid, and a complete lazy fool!
Anyway, she used to date this complete jerk and one day he said to her that there was no such thing as blue food. In her own act of rebellion she told me that she had immediately started going out of her way to get blue food until she broke up with him when the war started. Today, its' her own way of remembering her "rebellious" nature so that she can remember to be being a rebel today. I was proud of her for that.
I gave the groceries to my mom and said that I was going to go to my room and asked her to call me when she was done preparing dinner. She nodded and I walked passed her down the hallway and towards my room.
"Food!" Cried out Grover from his room and I cracked a small smile this time.
If you're thinking that Grover doesn't do anything you're wrong! He often comes and scavenges with me but he was recently hurt by a viper tongued giant snake who's greek name I forgot. He luckily hadn't been bit or anything but had taken a bad whack with its giant tail into a brick wall. We barely were able to get away from that thing. That had been a week ago.
Grover had wanted to go with me for this one, saying that he was healed but I hadn't believed him and told him to stay home for at least one more scavenge. We went scavenging at least twice a week and find what we can.
It must be confusing to understand for you, I mean, this is eleven years after the war ended and Kronos took over! How would I be able to find human food after so long? That's the thing…I have no idea. I mean, I know where I find it, usually in the garbage or streets, but where it comes from I don't know. It's like there's a huge group of mortals around here living in secret, and I am just picking up the stuff that they lost or forgot. And since that's farfetched and totally impossible I will just go with I don't know. Yeah.
I passed the sound of his snoring and food murmmers in his room and went down the hall to my own. I had a mattress that Grover had found for me when I was a four, so now, ten hard and long years later; it was pretty raggedy but still better than nothing. Anything was better than nothing. I had learned to be grateful for what I had.
Other than my mattress and a few blankets there wasn't much else in my room. There was a small window, one if I wanted I could barely fit out of, (A/N REMEMBER THIS!) and a wooden desk my waist tall under it, on the desk was a mirror where I looked at how much worse I was than the day before. I had a feeling that this used to be an office or something.
I walked tiredly over to the mirror and looked into it. I examined my face, my short, jet black hair was gritty and sloppy, my sea green eyes were full of a worn out type of tiredness. I had inherited them both from my father I was told, but not like I would know. I'd never met him.
But in a way, I feel like I have. A sort of…warm feeling as his memory when I was a baby. Before my mom told me that I had he had never met me I had always assumed I had. And then when I thought he had "died"…I wasn't sure what to do. I had just cared for my mom all these years with Grover.
I sighed deeply and put a hand to by brow in a stressful like matter. I hadn't acted it earlier with my mom but I was shaken up by that girls words. I knew them to be true, I had known it to be true my entire life. But I just hadn't…believed it really, kind of a sort of denial. I know I just said that I didn't know what to think when I thought he had died but now I really didn't know what to do.
I knew he was alive now, but did it matter? Shouldn't I be even more angry for him not coming home to help take care of her? And for never being there for me? For abandoning us before I was even born in the middle of a war? I knew I did feel some resentment but I couldn't bring myself to hate the guy… maybe if I did find him I would be able to…I don't know? Work it out?
Another thought made me run pale. What happens if he is part of Kronos army or something? I had heard of mortals who ruled with the mythical monsters for their own greed and want of power. What if he was like that? It would make sense why he would be alive after all this time…
Or even worse? What if he didn't want me? What if I found him and I was nothing more of an annoyance and he had a new family or something? Why would he want some mistake that he made almost fifteen years ago?
(A/N Poseidon will not be married to Amphrite and Triton doesn't exist. Well, i might have them come in but be evil or not at all. I'm one of those fool-hardy people who thinks a mortal can love a god and have them only be together...yeah, I'm THAT person! At least with Poseidon and Sally…)
(A/N You know…nine months pregnant plus fourteen equals almost fifteen…he's not quite fifteen though)
I put both hands on my head feeling a major headache coming on. I would think more of this topic later. I walked over to my bed and collapsed onto it, exhausted from the day's work. At least tomorrow would be okay and easy going. No troubles for tomorrow for me. Just peace and quiet.
Yeah right.
End Chapter 2: Thinking
Woah! I really didn't expect that I would have to update this fast! It was hard too since I had just wrote that first chapter one night and posted it that same night, went to sleep and BOOM! More than five reviews!
Okay, How about 7*SEVEN* more reviews since i could barely deal with six and update! So a grand total of twelve more reviews please!
