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Chiron smiled sadly, "Welcome back Annabeth." Annabeth walked past Thalia's tree to see her friend waiting for her in his full centaur form. "Even Percy's mom doesn't know where he is!" Chiron gestured to the big house with his right hand. "Wait to tell me about it at the big house Annabeth, everyone is waiting for the news." If you didn't know Annabeth has been looking for her boyfriend Percy for about a week now. One day he just disappeared out of thin air and no one knows why and she is trying to figure out where he went. Annabeth and Chiron arrived at the big house to find Nico, Grover, and Tyson sitting on the porch all looking at Annabeth. She meets there eyes one at a time and sighs, "I couldn't find him." She looks at Nico again, "Any sign of him?" Nico just shakes his head no and walks off into the closes shadow and leaves. That was weird. "What's wrong with him?" Grover spoke up, "We have no idea he just showed up without saying a word but something was obviously bothering him."
"Tyson aren't you suppose to be in Atlantis?" asked Annabeth.
"Daddy gave me a break to go look for Percy and I need to go back soon."
"So you didn't have any luck either?" Tyson face grew depressed. He really is a emotional cyclops isn't he.
"No, not even the hunters have seen him." Wow... That takes guts for a monster to go up to the hunters but I guess they remembered him from camp. Annabeth looked around, "Where is Thalia at, I thought she would be here?" Grover got up and started walking towards the woods, "she couldn't make it but she wants you to know that she has the hunt looking for him." Good if the hunt is looking for him then he he will be found soon Annabeth thought to herself. "Alright bye Grover." He turned and waved and continued to walk away. "I'm gonna go to my cabin guys tell me if you hear anything." She turned but Chiron put a hand on her shoulder, "Annabeth we will find him I have informed the gods of his disappearance and it shouldn't be to long now." Annabeth turned and smiled at Chiron who smiled back. "Thanks Chiron."
"Bye Annabeth!" Tyson yelled. Chiron turned to Tyson.
"I think it's time for you to go back Tyson if we find out anything I am positive Lord Poseidon will tell you." Tyson jump up and waved goodbye to Chiron. He nodded back.
At the Athena cabin Annabeth just walked in and after telling everyone she hadn't found him she went to her bunk. There was a white envelope on it with no name just a letter inside.
Go to the Grand Canyon. Was all it said. Then it hit Annabeth a unnatural vision of the grand canyon and a boy with one shoe standing with a golden sword in his hand. It didn't take more than a few seconds to understand what needed to be done but the question was what just happened and why? She looked down the letter was gone.
One week before Annabeth's vision Aphrodite appeared in the underworld holding a baby. She appeared in the throne room and no one was there. So she walked over and sat down on Hades throne just to make him angry. She waited for a while then got bored and yelled, "HADES!" Moments later the god himself walked in with Nico. Hades took one look at her and looked at Nico and told him to leave. Nico looked at Aphrodite and the baby then vanished. Hades walked over to his throne. "Get up," Hades commanded. Aphrodite pouted and whined, "but I was just getting comfortable."
"Get up," he repeated. She did and Hades sat down in his throne. "This is your child you want me to bless?" He was confused why was this child so young. What was so special about this baby holding a rattle?
"and to take care of here in the underworld until his all grown up!" Aphrodite tried to hand the baby to Hades but he stared at her, his face unreadable. "That was not apart of the deal Aphrodite and you did not tell me how young this boy was."
"Why does it matter how old he is lord Hades?" she batted her eyelashes. "We made a deal."
"Me taking care of this boy was not apart of it." he still wore an unreadable expression.
"But how else is anyone going to think he is your son if he doesn't grow up around you!" Hades growled, "I don't care besides gods cannot take care of there children the way you are talking about."
"Remember though technically his not YOUR child his mine and there is no rule for other gods to take care of other gods children." Aphrodite smiled, "and look he already likes you!" Truth be told Jordan was smiling at the god of the underworld.
"Lord Hades look we made a deal and I was able to keep up my side of the deal now it's your turn."
"I will not take care of this child."
"Why not!?"
"I do not have the time for it and I do not want to."
"If he doesn't grow up knowing you and having you as a role model in his life he will naturally end up acting like me so you have to!" Hades didn't speak he only wore that unreadable expression of his.
"Look you could even have one of your servants take care of him just visit him from time to time will you?" Hades finally gave in and frowned, "Fine I will let one of my servants take care of him." Aphrodite's smiled grew and handed Hades Jordan. He look extremely uncomfortable with the small demigod in his arms. Jordan started to glow black while Hades blessed him with his powers.
"Now Hades I know he is really young but I plan to change that I know there is going to be another war and I want OUR son to be in it and I'm going to ask Hecate about what we can do about it, I'll be right back." Aphrodite disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke. Hades looked down at Jordan who was looking at him and meet his gaze. Jordan's once green eyes had turned a darker shade to an almost purple color but would every once in a while turn pitch black or green like they used to be. Hades took the rattle from Jordan and examined it. Jordan on the other hand did not like that and started to cry and it made Hades jump. "I've only been gone no more than three minutes and you've already made him cry!" Aphrodite appeared with Hecate next to her who looked slightly confused.
"Um Lady Aphrodite what exactly is it that you want me to do?" Hades looked at her and Aphrodite didn't say anything she just snatched the rattle from Hades hand and put it back into Jordan's hand which made him stop crying. She looked at Hecate, "I want you to make Hades son older." Hecate frowned why would she want that and Hades wasn't allowed to have children so how is that baby even alive? "Lord Hades with all do respect why do you have another child?"
"It's not mine."
"Um okay but Aphrodite I can do that for you but if I may ask is why?" Aphrodite smiled sweetly, "Why Hecate I don't believe that's any of your business now do it, make Jordan around twelve for me." Hecate frowned she didn't like being talked to like that but then again who did?
"Look if I do make him older it will shorten his life, meaning he will age twice as fast so one year for him will really be two on his body." Aphrodite thought for I moment... ya she could live with that.
"I want him to also have memories of him training with his powers with Hades and him training with whatever weapon he prefers here in the underworld by one or multiple of Hades servants I don't really care how many." Hecate made a potion appear. "This will make him bigger and give him whatever memories you want I just need a hair from his head." Aphrodite walked over and summoned scissors and cut off a hair to give to Hecate. She put the hair into the potion. "Now think of what you want the memories to be like." Aphrodite did and she could feel herself slowly losing the idea of what she wanted his life to be like until she completely forgot all of it. "Lord Hades if you would."
"Well that's my cue," with those parting words Aphrodite left. Hades took the bottle from Hecate and poured the misty liquid down the throat of Jordan Charm. Nothing happened at first when Hades set Jordan on the cold hard floor but after a few moments Jordan began to slowly grow and grow and grow the whole process took about five minutes. During this process though Jordan was asleep and Hecate disappeared. Jordan opened his eyes revealing the battle of love and darkness that would forever go on in eyes when you looked into them. Hades examined his "son" who had grown into a boy of about twelve years old and he has grown to about five foot and six inches tall. His hair short with bangs spiked up in the front with gel.
"Ugh, what just happened?" asked Jordan. He looked up at Hades. "Dad?" Hades smiled slightly but only for a second. "Jordan what do you remember?"
"Umm it's coming back to me now..."
"You were just about to test me to see if I was good enough to go to some camp you mentioned... right?"
"Yes Jordan lets see what you can do." Jordan got into a his fighting position. His silver rattle had transformed into a silver one-handed war axe with two blades at the top of the handle with a spike at the top. The blades were curved like crescents and the whole weapon from spike to handle was about three feet long. As Jordan got up and got into an almost boxer like fighting position with his war axe in his right hand Hades summoned a Stygian iron sword in his right hand and stood there waiting to be attacked. What he wasn't expecting was for Jordan to disappear and reappear behind Hades and swing his war axe at his head. Hades ducked and turned slashing at Jordan who jumped back and got into his unorthodox fighting position. "Who taught you how to fight like that?"
"Come on dad you know who, you introduced me to them yourself."
"Right." Hades really had no idea who would teach Jordan to take the stance like he does but he thought about who he would get to train Jordan to fight and how to fight with a war axe. Sarpedon. Of course I would pick him he did always love weapons when he was living but did that mean my other two judges trained him to? Maybe... but Aphrodite picked the memories maybe Hecate took some from me to.
Hades summoned a throwing knife made of shadows in his left hand and flick his wrist sending the knife flying for Jordan's shoulder trying to disable his dominant hand. Jordan has quick reflexes like Hades assumed but not as well as he thought Jordan spun to dodge the knife but it still put a pretty deep gash on his arm. Red blood began to slowly drip out. What Jordan did next slightly impressed Hades he tossed his war axe to his left hand and changed his style of fighting right in front of him. Instead of the boxing form he was using he changed to having his right hand out slightly facing Hades and his left hand with the war axe lower a bit so it looked like he was more relaxed. What Hades got from this is that the boy was ambidextrous. Hades summoned another knife and threw it aiming for the same arm. This time Jordan was prepared he ducked down under the knife and closed the distance between him and his"father" spinning backwards and slashing diagonally down at Hades chest. Hades sidestepped and stabbed at Jordan's midsection. Jordan moved his body side ways to avoid the blow and sent a kick to Hades head. Hades caught his kick with his left hand and threw him across the room towards his throne. Jordan got up and once again changed his style. He put his war axe into his right hand again even though that arm was beginning to hurt. It didn't hurt as bad as his left arm though because that's the arm he landed on when he was thrown. This time though he had his body completely side ways facing Hades with his war axe in his right hand which was the side facing Hades. His left arm was behind his back and he was also crouched but only a little. Jordan waited for Hades this time. Hades vanished and reappeared gripping Jordan's left arm but only to have Jordan use his hold on him to flip him over his back and put Hades on the ground and followed up with his war axe heading towards his head. Hades shadow traveled to the other side of the room and threw his sword at Jordan who was still in the middle of swinging his war axe. The sword hit Jordan's war axe knocking it out of his hand which made both weapons fly in separate directions away from Jordan. Hades took the opportunity to shadow travel again in front of Jordan with a shadow sword in his hand aimed at his neck. Jordan smirked. "What's so funny boy I win." Jordan looked down with his eyes and when Hades looked down he was shocked. At his heart was a hardened shadow dagger ready to pierce through him at a moments notice.
"So a draw then dad?"
"No I could cut your throat before you could stab my heart so I win." Both there weapons vanished and Jordan picked up his war axe. "Very good Jordan nice job." Hades turned to the voice to see his three judges all looking at Jordan with pride. Obviously they new each other very well. Jordan grinned, "Thanks!"
"Lord Hades it looks like Jordan is ready to go to camp Half-blood don't you think?" It was the judge Minos who spoke. "Yes Minos I believe it is." I guess the potion affected my judges as well, I wonder who else it affected Hades thought. "Now it's time to give you that sword you have been promised by Aphrodite as your prize for finally getting to go to camp half-blood." Aphrodite at the mention of her name appeared in the room with the biggest smile on her face any one could ever make. Jordan bowed along with Hades's judges. "I've been watching you for a long time now Jordan and I'm really impressed with your progress so far." Aphrodite winked at Hades showing she new what happened to the judges and wasn't affected by the potion either. Aphrodite pulled out a sword behind her back it was four feet in length and it was a weird platinum looking color.
"This blade was forged by Hephaestus himself and is made of steel, celestial bronze, imperial gold, and Stygian iron." Well that explains the weird color but what did Aphrodite do to get Hephaestus to create something that difficult? She handed it to Jordan and it glowed pink and black. "It's name is incantator in honor of your name."
"Thank you my patron this means so much to me." Aphrodite smile widened Hecate's potion worked extremely well it looks like. "It can transform like your war axe, potentiam." Jordan's weapon potentiam changed into a silver ring on his right middle finger and the sword incantator changed into a darker silver colored ring on his left hand's middle finger. The ring on his left hand glowed faintly pink and black but you could only tell if you looked closely at it. "Now Jordan say your goodbyes I will personally bring you to camp half-blood." Jordan walked over to the judges and shook there hands and then walked over to Hades and caught him by surprise when he hugged him. Hades didn't hug him back which Jordan thought was weird because he always hugged him back... "Alright lets go Lady Aphrodite." Jordan and Aphrodite disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke. Hades turned to his judges, "So tell me about how Jordan's been doing."
