So here you go, chapter two/one. so umm, this chapter is going to be shorter than the other chapters that I will point in the future. 'Cause that I really want to finish this first chapter so we can get to the part where he is appointed Guardian, and stuff.

Chapter Two

"Perseus Jackson, if you wish to marry my daughter with my blessing, then you shall complete 3 tasks to prove your worth!" A certain wisdom goddess told Percy.

"Errrrrrrrr say Wha?" Percy replied. He was confused.

2 Hours Ago

Percy had just woke up, took a shower and came out just in his boxers when Athena had flashed into his cabin.

"Perseus I am here to-ARRRRGH MY EYES!"She screamed when she saw Percy.

"AAAAAAAGH what are you doing here Lady Athena?" Percy screamed back, trying desperately to cover himself up.

"Never mind Perseus, just meet me at the Arena in 4 Hours." Before flashing herself out.

"Ugh, jeez, Gods/Goddess's these days, no respect for privacy". Thunder Rumbled.

"Looking at you Zeus." He muttered under his breath, right before another rumble of thunder. He sighed. Then he dressed, and headed out to breakfast just in time as the conch horns blew. After a breakfast of blue coke, and blue pancakes, he went to the beach for an hour to cool off before going to the Arena.

3 Hours Later (Not 4 'cause he went to the beach for an hour)

When he came to the Arena, Athena was there already.

"So, erm Lady Athena, what did you want to tell me again?" Percy asked

"Now, of course, I must tell you not to freak out about what I will tell you next" Warned Athena

"Okayyyyyy" Said Percy nervously, not knowing what was coming next

"Perseus Jackson, if you wish to marry my daughter with my blessing, then you shall complete 3 tasks to prove your worth!" Athena told Percy.

"Errrrrrrrr say Wha?" Percy replied, naturally, he was freaked out.

Percy Was Confused, sure he loved Annabeth and all, but marry her? What if she said no? What if she said he was rushing things? What if-

"What if she says yes?" Athena said.

Percy looked at her weirdly. "How'd you-"

"I read your mind, and before you ask, yes I can do that. I also know my daughter is ready for marriage, she's just waiting for you to ask her" Athena told Percy.

"Really?" Percy said happily."Then I'll ask her now-"

"No"

"Wait N-No?" Percy looked at Athena nervously.

"No Perseus, as I said before, you must EARN the right to marry my daughter" Athena said.

"But H-How?" Percy asked, suddenly nervous, if there was one person that you do NOT want to plan your quests, it is definitely the goddess of wisdom, 'cause they make it as hell.

"Relax Perseus, it's easy, I am pretty sure that you can handle this, compared to what you've done before, it's a piece of cake!" Athena lied.

"Are you sure?" Percy asked, after all, nothing was simple and easy with the goddess of wisdom (, and crafts, and war…).

"Yup, now move it!It your quest starts… NOW!" Athena Said

"Wait what? But I haven't trained yet! I haven't prepared at all!" Percy said nervously

"Hah! Well too bad, the best heroes can do anything without training"

"Anyway, your quest has just started Perseus! Now first objective... Yesterday, Hyperion escaped from his tree prison, and I want you to go there and defeat him." Athena announced.

"Seriously? Is that it? That is pretty easy you know."Pausing a little, Percy said again. "There's a catch isn't it." He said glumly

"Ha! Correct! Remember Perseus, when your facing the goddess of wisdom, there's always a catch, now… (Drumroll,) you cannot use any of your powers to defeat him, you will be fighting him on land, and as I said before no powers, I want you to defeat him with pure skill." Athena said, smirking when Percy paled.

"What? But that's no fair! If I can't use my powers to stop him using his powers, (yes I know how that sounds,) I won't stand a chance!" Said Percy

"Well, hell. Not my problem, now report back here once you've finished with him, wait never mind, I'll come to you when your done with him, by the way, I'll flash you to where he is." Athena said, not waiting for Percy to finish, she flashed Percy right in front of Hyperion, who was running around, terrorizing mortals.

Hyperion stumbled back in surprise as Percy flashed in front of him.

"Good luck Perseus!" Athena shouted, cackling.

"Holy crap!" shouted Percy as Athena flashed him in front of Hyperion, reacting fast; he retreated a few steps and uncapped Riptide, his sword extended out in front of him.

"Hyperion." He acknowledged.

"Perseus Jackson. Son of Poseidon, Hero of the prophecy, Destroyer of Kronos, and The Bane of Gaea, how nice to meet you again, but the time for pleasantries is well over, today is the day you meet your fate!" Hyperion said, swinging his sword at Percy. Rolling out of the way, Percy attacked back, slashing and stabbing.

However Hyperion fought back with equal skill, parrying each strike, and counter-attacking. After fighting for a few more minutes, Percy knew that he was losing the fight, almost every time he swung at Hyperion, Hyperion would block the attack, then explode into light blinding him, making him retreat, while Hyperion forced him back slowly.

Once, Hyperion got through his defenses and cut his left arm, leaving a small gash that burned like it was on fire. Percy had to do something and fast, switching from holding Riptide with 2 hands, to just using his right hand, retreating back for a couple steps to catch his breath, Hyperion,taking his retreat as a sign of weakness, charged forward and swung at his head, a move that would've decapitated him, he ducked, down and slashed at the titans legs, the titan jumped up to avoid his strike, Percy slashed again this time leaving a wound on Hyperion's right leg. Screaming in fury, Hyperion lifted his sword up and brought it down with all his might. Percy saw the move, sidestepped, and jabbed at Hyperion's head. Moving to the right, Hyperion avoided the attack and with a burst of light, he reappeared behind Percy, slashing at Percy's head, Percy ducked, and turned around to face his opponent, but got Hyperion disappeared again to his left, slashing at his waist, Percy parried the strike, and fainted to the left, as Hyperion moved to parry his strike, Percy stepped back, and then to the right, and stabbed Hyperion in the heart.

"No Impossible!" Hyperion shouted, as he slowly distengrated into golden dust.

"No, it was hard, but not impossible" Percy replied, smirking as the titan distengrated. He sighed, he was lucky on that one, if Hyperion hadn't been so angry, he would've already died for sure.

Suddenly Athena flashed beside him, surprised; he whirled around and put Riptide at her neck.

"Perseus Jackson, will you please lower your sword" Athena said angrily

"Oh! Lady Athena, Sorry I thought you were something/someone else!" Percy replied, lowering Riptide, and then capping it.

"Well make sure you don't make that mistake again Perseus, anyway, so you've finished your first task, normally I would immediately send you to the next one, but seeing that Zeus is very happy that you took care of Hyperion, and that you seem tired, I'll let you rest for a day. I'll tell you your second task tomorrow" Before flashing Percy to his cabin, exhausted, he climbed into his bed and promptly fell asleep.

Percy didn't have any dreams that night. That was weird, usually all demigods had dreams. Maybe someone, Lady Athena probably, blocked out those visions/dreams for him, so he could prepare for tomorro-today's task, ugh, he shook his head.

"Man I have got to stop tiring myself so much, I'm even losing my sense of time!" He said, voicing his thoughts.

He then took a shower, and dressed, checking the time, it was 8AM, he was late for breakfast, sighing, he headed out for breakfast.

5 hours later (1:00pm)

Almost right after lunch, Athena had flashed beside him, taking him by surprise, again.

"Well Hello Perseus, I see your awake are you ready for your next/2nd task?" Athena asked him.

"I suppose Lady Athena" Percy said, sighing. He wondered what he would have to do next. Kill Kronos Again? Defeat Gaea? Go to the Harden of Hesperides and pluck a few golden apples while fighting Ladon?

"Exactly" Athena said

"What?" Percy asked, confused.

"Your right, your second task is to go to the Garden of Hesperides, defeat Ladon, and pluck a few golden apples." Athena told him.

"Aw come on! That's impossible! He has like… 100 Heads! That spew Acid!" complained Percy

"Oh no, that's your final task, and that is final! However, though on this task, I will allow you to pick 2 companions/allies/friends to go with you, like a real quest." Athena told Percy.

"Oh…Ok" Percy said, relieved that he could at least have some allies to help him with this task.

"Now try to pick quickly, I have other things to do than to hang around here all day you know!" Athena said

"Yes, Lady Athena" Percy replied glumly

"Now, I will be back in 2 hours, so get to work" Athena said, before she flashed away.

"2 hours?" Percy said, "Well, let's get to work."

In the next hour, he wandered around, thinking of people to ask, coming up with a list: 1. Thalia

2. Nico

And on and on and on, after Iris-messaging the seven, (only 5 included on the list,) he learned that all of them were busy, either making mechanical stuff, or trying to run a roman city. Leaving the first two, Percy had been hesitant to call them because they might've been busy too, Thalia with her hunter duty's, and Nico's with his Underworld stuff, but he did it anyway, too his surprise Nico's dad, (Hades,) said he would let Nico off, as long as he did the chores that he missed when he came back.

On Thalia's case, Artemis also agreed to let her off for a while, due to her being a *cough* 'Loyal and Hard Working Lieutenant' *cough*. Anyway, he asked them to meet him in front of his cabin in camp when they were ready.

In a few minutes, Thalia appeared right next to me, saying that Artemis had flashed her there, just as Nico stepped out of the shadows.

"So Kelp head, would you please explain what are we doing?" Asked Thalia, Nico nodded his head beside her.

"Well first of all, you guys will both have to swear on the River Styx not to tell anyone unless I allow you to." Percy said.

"Why so secretive Kelp head?" Thalia asked, sighing "Fine, I Thalia Grace, swear not to tell anybody what Kelp head here said, unless he allows me" Thunder Rumbled. Nico did the same

"Now Percy can you explain what we are doing here?" Asked Nico

"Of course, well you see a day or so ago, Athena…" Percy said, telling them the whole story.

"Ahhh" Thalia said, "So Kelp head here is on a mission, so he can marry Annabeth? Young love… So cute!" exclaimed Thalia

"Shut up Thals, your sound like Aphrodite" Percy told Thalia

"Okay, Thalia. Percy's got you on that one" Nico said

"Both of you shut up!" Said Thalia "Now… What's this task we're supposed to do?"

"Okay, brace yourselves" Percy said to Thalia and Nico.

"We're going to defeat Ladon, and get some Golden Apples" Percy said, he looked at both of them, waiting for what they were going to say.

"WHAT?" Nico and Thalia exclaimed together loudly

"Are you crazy? That's impossible! We can't possibly defeat Ladon! He has 100 Heads! That spews acid!" Nico said

"Exactly" Percy said

"So do you have a-"Nico started, but was interrupted by a flash of light beside them, it was Athena.

"Lady Athena" The 3 of us said together

"Ahhh, Perseus, so I see you have chosen your companions?" Athena said "Good, Now Let's get going" Without waiting for anybody to speak; she flashed us all to the Garden of Hesperides.

"But Lady Athena, we haven't come up with a plan yet!" Said Nico

"Well that's too bad for you; you should've come up with one faster!" Athena said, chuckling. She pushed us all in the direction of the tree that held the Golden apples of Immortality. As we got closer, we saw a huge lump of mass in right in front of the tree, it was Ladon. Suddenly… He, no, it moved and it stood up, all one hundred heads looking directly at us.

"Good Luck Heroes, and have fun!" Athena said, before flashing herself out.
"Have fun?" Nico repeated. "You have got to be kidding me" He sighed

"Great, now we're stuck in the Garden of Hesperides, with a hundred headed dragon looking at us, now what?" Thalia said before looking at me.

"Isn't that obvious?" Percy said looking at them.

"What's obvious?" Nico asked, curious.

"We attack him, duh" Percy said,

"Of course, attack a hundred headed dragon that spews acid, wow. WOW. Best Idea Ever." Thalia said sarcastically.

"I know right?" Nico Laughed. "Hell, what have we got to lose?"

"Nothing except, everything we've ever owned, including our lives." Thalia said

"Ha, ha. That's just so great, now can we just kill him/it already?" Said Percy. As all three of them charged the dragon.

Alright, Alright that last few parts might've sucked a little, I was in a hurry, anyway there you go… chapter two. The time where he actually finds out Annabeth cheated on him will probably be chapter 3 or 4, so yeah.

Sincerely ~xXShadowninja12Xx (author)