Percy Jackson

and the Wars of the Gods

The Spawn of the Tartarus

Chapter One: Slayer Ends in a Bang

I do not own the Percy Jackson and the Olympian or the Heroes of Olympus Series. Only the characters I create all other right go to the Rick Riordan.

Please, do not read this story until you've read The Lost Hero.

My life sucks. Just like my dreams. I don't remember who I am. All I know is that I am Percy Jackson, in the middle of a Roman demigod camp, where everyone treats me like crap. Apparently, the Roman gods, demigods and monsters exist (which didn't come as a shock to me for some reason). And the only friend I have is Anthony Johnson, one of the unclaimed kids.

Anthony is around fifteen, and a bit muscular with stormy eyes and brown hair. Lupa, the camp director, gave him a special weapon, called Thunderbolt. The sword seems like a pocket knife, but when Anthony comes in contact with the weapon, it changes into a golden nightmare. Everyone knows he the son of Jupiter, but Lupa says he cannot be in the cabin of Jupiter until claimed. As for Lupa, she's just an annoying, talking, she–wolf.

I mean, she expects so much from me. She expects me to stop calling my father Poseidon and call him Neptune. She want me to be a great at archery like the Apollo kids. More than anything, she want me to be better at swordplay. It's not my fault I fight like a Greek and not like a Roman. The only thing I can prove useful to this camp is my control of water.

Then there's Jack "Attack," son of Mars. The biggest bully you'll ever see at the camp. Jack is eighteen and you wouldn't want to pick a fight with him. He would kill you with his sword and shield and that would be that. Fortunately, he usually sends his cousin Tony, son of Discordia (go figure what she's the goddess of), to fight his battles for him. Tony is not as beefy and muscular as Jack, but hell, he knows how to destroy.

And then, there is Jason. Jason has been missing ever since I got to this accursed place. The campers always say things like: "Jason was so great he killed the Trojan Sea Monster," and "Jason crushed the Titan Lord, Krios, and toppled Mount Othyrs." Seriously, who gives? I could have done that too!

I woken from my alarm. Today, I had to go through the regular routine again. Get up take a cold shower, clean my room for inspection, eat, and then the day's normal activities. I went over to the calender, and just my luck. Today was Friday. Which meant I got to play my least favorite sport in the world: Slayer. Plus, today was the day I got my progress report. Great. Just great.

After my shower, I did my mediocre job of making my bed so that Lupa's wolves didn't come and eat me (Yes, really). I checked the door just to make sure the other cabins didn't place another atomic stink bomb there. After the coast was clear, I opened the door and there was Anthony, in his usual jeans and the ocean blue t-shirt that said: Camp Demigod. His hair was spiked and gelled as usual. On the outside, Anthony might seem like a half–descent guy. However, on the inside, Anthony is a bit of a coward. As a result, Tony and Jack and the rest of this God forsaking place pick on him. Sad. But still . . .

"Static electricity!" he said as he attempted to fry my brains out. Unfortunately, for my best friend, I was ready. I pressed my watch which transformed into a Greek shield.

"Ut aqua!" I said. My shield turned into a solid water, not quite ice, and absorbed the electric shock. "My turn."

Of the things I hate about Lupa, she showed me how to use my powers to not only control water, but to create it.

"Creo aqua," I spoke in Latin. As I spoke the words, I water formed in my hands.

"Forma tridens," I said as I could feel the molecules of the water condensing into a solid trident in my hand. "How do you like me now?"

"Not very much," Anthony said trying to go for Thunderbolt, but I was quicker and threw the trident precisely at his chest. Just as the trident was a foot away I yelled "dispergerem!" Anthony watched in horror as the trident melted and plopped at his feet. Anthony breathed and then panted like a dog.

"Don't ever do that again," he yelped.

The two of us made our way to breakfast and got our food and sat at our assigned tables. I'm the only one that sits at my table since I'm the only son of Poseidon to be born since the end of World War II (don't ask how I know, because I don't know). Since Jupiter never claimed Anthony, he gets lucky and sits with the Mercury cabin. I look at the plate in front of me. Pancakes with chocolate milk and some maple syrup.

"Let's change this a bit, shall we?" I said to myself. "Blue pancakes with blue chocolate milk, please."

Without hesitation, the pancakes turn blue and my chocolate milk had turned into blue m&m milk. Perfect!

After the satisfying breakfast, I changed into battle gear. Time for sword play. I entered the arena and there Jack stood next to Tony, both armed, in full golden battle armor, just waiting patiently to kill me.

"Jackson," Jack said. "Ready to get your ass dragged to Tartarus?"

"You first!" I snapped back at him.

"Oh, I see," Jacks mused "Being smart mouth. You'll be Tony's first victim of the day!"

More campers came piling into the arena ready for Tony to kick there behinds.

"You're a coward," I said loud enough for everyone to hear. "Do you think Tony is going to be there all the time to help save you from a pit scorpion?"

The campers bursted into laughter.

"Fine Jackson, you asked for it," Jack said.

Tony walked off into the crowd. Jacks drew his sword. I uncapped my pen and watched it transform into Riptide.

"So," I started to joke. "It must suck being the son of one of the smallest planets in the solar system."

That's where Jack struck the first blow. I barely deflected it.

"Come on, son of Neptune," Jack mocked. "You can do better,"

I could see Jack's dark blue eyes and dirty blond hair through his helmet with his cruel grin. That image sent a chill down my spine.

Don't let him get to you, I thought. He just wants to get you angry.

I flipped in the air, kicking Jack in the jaw and sending him flying backwards. At the same time, I faced his sword being thrown at me one foot per second. Somehow I managed to sidestep in midair and hit his sword with mine in just one swing. I landed on my feet, but Jack wasn't so lucky.

Jack landed face first in "The Ring of Doom" as the campers put it.

Jack started to get up.

"You'll pay for that, son of Neptune!" Jack roared. He lunged at me bare hands. I was so shocked I dropped my own sword. Good News: I kicked Jack away from me. Bad News: He landed next to his sword.

I picked up Riptide and charged. But Jack was ready and he quickly disarmed me. Now the even worse news: I had a sword at my throat.

"Well," Jack said. "Still think your Greek way of battling is going to save you?"

I waited for about two seconds.

"You have no idea," I said. I made a go for my watch and watched the shield hit Jack right in the forhead. I dove for my sword and while on the ground, I rose my feet into the air as Jack ran towards me like a wild boar, flipping Jack into the crowd. I patted myself on the back and left the arena while Tony taught the rest of the class by himself. Grade: A+.

The next class was Archery. Well, there was no winning in that. Kelly Wilson, from the Apollo cabin, worked us until we either left or kept working until we fainted. Since I already fainted, I went with choice A. As for Kelly, she's a witch with a B. Her face is next to to that word in the dictionary (not only in the English one, but in the Latin one too). She has blond hair and green eyes of jealousy that all the other campers and I get really creaped out by. She also has a real bad attitude and if you don't hit the target exactly in the middle, you give her one hundred push ups. Grade: C+.

Horseback riding on a Pegasus was next. I already earned my A in that. I even beat Natalie from the Ceres Cabin in the Pegasus Race. Natalie is quite the opposite of Kelly. She's a red head with blue eyes and her personality is calm and composed toward nature. However, if you kill one of her plants, expect to be turned in a corn on the cob for the week. How do I know? Been there, done that.

After the usual Pegasi race, there's lunch (which for me is a tuna sandwich and some orange juice). I expected to get killed by Jack at lunch, but he sat and chatted with his friends. Tony sent me "the look," meaning "watch out, because I will dominate you in Slayer tonight."

Pegasi combat: A–. A– because I almost killed a camper, but luckily it was Anthony, so he forgave me.

Monster Assault Class with Mercury Cabin: B–. Why? Because I fight in a Greek style. That's why. Lucius Castellan, the Mercury Cabin leader, wishes he could give me an A, but Lupa says if I don't show progress in my Roman fighting I get a B–. Fuddruckers.

Lucius seems quite familiar to me. I'm not sure why. His last name creeps me out. It's like it was cursed or something. He looks like a twin of someone I knew in the past. The blue eyes, the golden hair, the shape of his nose, everything.

Free Choice: B+. The Vulcan Cabin was mad because I built a weapon that accidentally self destructed; canoe racing with Naiads I cheated in by tipping the Naiads' boats over; and, well I have a habit of knocking the Fauns of the climbing wall and watch them fall into the lava pit.

Swimming with the Neirads A+. Well, I'm the son of Poseidon what do you expect?

Free Time: A. Basketball I learned to just stay out of the way and pass to some Apollo kid that can shoot the ball perfectly. Volleyball is not a problem and cleaning my cabin was okay.

As for things that I am secretly graded in, Defense was an A–, Team Spirit was a C+ (mostly because I deliberately attacked Tony with my power over water), and Latin Speak was a C–. Side fact: I'm fluent in Ancient Greece, not Latin. So, Lupa has me learn the hard way: I have to learn all the major Romance Languages before I study Latin. Romance Language numberr one: Spanish

After I received my progress report, it was about six o'clock and . . .

Oh, crap, I thought. Slayer. I went to Cabin Three (Neptune's cabin) and put on my battle armor, for I took it off for Free Choice. I got Riptide out and put the cap of the pen in my pocket.

I checked the cabin mail and looked at who the teams were.

The letter read:

Dear Percy Jackson,

I wish you good luck on the Slayer game tonight, and I hope you do not die in the middle of tonight's game. Bellow are the teams that have been assigned:

Mars Minerva

Discordia Neptune

Mercury Apollo

Venus Ceres

Trivia Potestas

Cupid Vulcan

Juventas Hercules

Bacchus Milinoe

Janus Morpheus

Psyche Arcus

Pompona Rivalitas

Somnus Nymphs

Fauns Unclaimed

Your Camp Director,

Lupa

Well, Mars, Discordia, and Mercury and Minerva, Potestas, Arcus and Apollo cancel each other out. Trivia and Milinoe cancel too, I thought. With Venus, Cupid and Juventas they can try to seduce our players, but since we have Morpheus and Hercules so there's nothing to worry about there. But they have Somnus, so that cancels out Morpheus. Bacchus and Ceres cancel. Nymphs and Fauns cancel. Psyche and Pompona cabin are kind of powerless so that cancels out with the unclaimed. Janus could be a major problem, but the Vulcan cabin is a major problem for them too. All in all, the teams are evenly matched. Fine by me.

I met up with Anthony and went to the Slayer Base, as it was called. At base, Sabastien Johann (the campers called him Seabass), counselor of the Minerva cabin, gathered everyone together. Over the intercom, Lupa's voice came on.

"Attension campers," said the she-wolf. "You all know the rules. Don't kill. Only wound or severely injure. Only take the leader of the other team and bring them back to your Slayer Base. If your leader is at the enemy base by nine o'clock, or if your entire army is defeated, you lose. Enjoy!"

Seabass then presented his master plan. Half of the each cabin (with the exception of the Ceres and Morpheus Cabins and the unclaimed) would stay behind and guard base. Then, the rest of the Apollo and Vulcan cabins (as well as myself) will go up the middle of the field. The Minerva and Hercules cabins will follow taking right flank, while the Potestas and Rivalitas cabins take left flank. Meanwhile, the Nymphs and the Milinoe cabin will keep the other army distracted. The Arcus cabin is to hide in trees and spy on the enemy. And lastly, if reinforcement are needed, the Morpheus cabin, the Ceres cabin, and the unclaimed will take the field.

"Everyone understand the procedure?" Seabass asked. Silence from the campers. "Good. Percy, Lupa wants you to lead the assult."

"What!" I shouted. "Me? In charge? Lupa? No."

"Agreed," said Savannah Singer from the Vulcan cabin. Kelly shook her heard in agreement. Savannah was kind of the "oh-my-gods-what-am-I-going-to-do-with-you-Percy" type of person. She was a burnett with brown eyes and and the most shiny battle armor you have ever seen. You would never suspect she was a daughter of Vulcan working in the forges of a demigod camp until you look at her muscular arms.

"That's what the boss says," Seabass remarked.

A smile spread across my face.

Time to show these losers what I can do, I thought.

The first attack came quickly. The Fauns played their reed pipes, and put some of the our campers into a trance. Luckily, Savannah took out wax to plug our ears. Once everyone was ready, we plunged into battle with our ears full of wax. Tony led the other army. The Nymphs went into action, blinding the other army while we wounded them. That's where things went wrong.

The Trivia cabin quickly disarmed the Vulcan cabin. I hit the ground to avoid the spell. As quick as light, the Cupid cabin shot arrows of love, the Apollo cabin counter with flaming arrows, burning some of the forest. The Fauns didn't like that. Some of the Fauns dropped their reed pipes, drew daggers and attacked.

Finally the Minerva and Hercules cabins arrived taking down Tony's army from the right flank.

"Milinoe cabin, CHARGE!" I said. Out of nowhere, ghost teens were on the field unable to be harmed.

"No!" Tony screeched. "Somnus cabin, attack!"

The Somnus Cabin did some little yoga moves that seemed useless, but one by one our army fell to the ground, asleep.

I yelled across the field. "Now Scott!"

Scott Marshall and the rest of the Potestas cabin came with celestial bronze beebe guns. Jasmine Robinhood and Rivalistas kids used their magic staffs. Together, they quickly defeated most of the Somnus cabin.

However, I think we all underestimated the power of the Venus and Juventas cabins.

"Youth Grenades!" Savannah yelled. "Retreat!"

Everybody started heading back to base as the Juventas cabin turned the Rivalitas cabin into babies with their magical grenades. The Venus cabin used love magic which both seduced and wounded our players. Only the Milinoe cabin stood fighting, but the Trivia cabin quickly turned them into mortal form and wounded them.

Then, I got an idea.

"Stand your ground!" I yelled. "Use your powers! Get the reinforcements!"

Some Arcus kids retreated back to bases to get more warriors.

As for Tony, he had his wide grin across his face just as if he had won.

"Thanks for the idea, son of Neptune!" he said. Tony made a motion with his hands and the earth exploded. Trees fell, the earth shook. Everything was in chaos. "There is no winning, Perseus."

Lucius then led the Mercury Cabin into a raging battle field unleashing traps and throwing celestial bronze grenades. Suddenly, BAM! The Trivia cabin had fallen at the hands of the Morpheus cabin, who had put them into some sort of dream. The Ceres cabin had turned the Venus and Cupid cabins into a field of corn.

"Arcus cabin," I said. "Attack." From the trees the rest of the Arcus kids used their staffs and defeated the Mercury cabin. The only other cabin on the field was the Discordia cabin, but then where was the Mars and Bacchus cabins . . .

"It's time to end this game of Slayer," Tony bellowed. More destruction. Nymphs fell out of trees, Fauns fled in terror of their own army, and I landed face flat on the field of corn. I rose, and with Riptide and I charged at Tony "Destructicus."

Tony laughed and countered my blow. The Pompona, Psyche and Janus cabins had taken the field, pushing our army back to base.

"You cannot win!" he said. "You have failed, Perseus."

"But you have epically failed," said a thundering voice. The sky turned dark; Anthony rose from the darkness and used Thunderbolt as a lightning rod. With a flick of the wrist, Thunderbolt turned into lightning itself, and Tony was flipped across the field. The fire died away and the chaos stopped.

"Well played," I told Anthony.

"Indeed, said a voice from behind. There Jack stood with the Bacchus and Mars cabin by his side.

I whispered to Anthony to go back to base and get Seabass and the rest of the army together. I turned, faced Jack. His helmet was off so you could see his perfectly undamaged face.

"Prepare to lose, Percy," he said.

"Coward," I said. "Stop hiding behind an army fight me yourself."

Jack bit his lip then spoke. "Tell you what. You defeat at least half of the rest of my army and I'll fight you myself. Deal?"

"Deal." I said. Jack turned to Christopher Rockefeller, from the Bacchus Cabin. Chris' eyes made me feel wasted. It was like being in a room surrounded by beer, wine, whiskey, you name it.

By the time I realized his eyes had put me in a trance, I had a sword at my throat and grape vines growing around my knees.

"Well," Christopher muses. "That was easy."

At the last word, Foosh! The water from the river rose into a gigantic tidal wave.

Jack turned to Christopher.

"You had to say something, didn't you?" Jack said with anger.

Just before Jack could get his hands on Chris, CRASH! The camp had flooded. I wondered what Lupa was going to do to me because of this.

Christopher and the rest of his cabin were down and only a few of the Mars kids were still standing.

Then there was a loud "CHARGE!"

Seabass and the rest of his army ran toward the remaining opponents.

"It's over Jack Attack," Seabass said.

"Not quite," Jack said. He turned to me. "We had a deal."

I raised Riptide.

"Your on," I said. Our sword clashed as the Psyche, Pompona, Janus, and Mars Cabins had a face off with the rest of our army. Jack sidestepped, spun on one foot and hit me with the butt of his sword. Jack smiled victoriously. I countered and swung my blade, but Jack was to quick and deflected my blow.

"You cannot beat me, Percy," he said. "After all, Rome did conquer Greece."

I feinted to my left and jumped to my right. Jack got out a dagger and threw it, but I dodged it. I pressed my watch as I saw Jack summon a javelin from his skin – which is really disgusting to see. Jack jumped in the air and threw the spear with incredible force as if it were a missle. My shield deflected the projectile, but I fell the ground. Jack let out a triumphant laugh. He walked over toward me, going for the kill. I tried to rise, but I was too drained out of energy.

Then Jack made a stupid move.

"You see, Percy," he started. "Troy was always more powerful than Greece. The only reason Greece won the Trojan War was because of Minerva's favoritism towards Ulysses. However, Aeneas escaped Troy and founded Rome. And you know what happened next. Rome conquered Greece. Rome became the greatest empire of all time!"

"Unfortunately, Rome was the empire to have the greatest downfall of all time too. Oh, and Rome was a republic before it was an empire." I teased.

Jack made a go for my leg, but I rolled over and ran for the river. Jack summoned and threw all sorts of weapons. Spears, hammers, arrows and swords. I was almost to the river when an arrow pierced my heart. I hit the ground. I knew it was the end.

Jack came down by my side with a worried look on his face.

"Shoot, Percy. I didn't mean to . . ." he said. For some reason it didn't feel any different from any other wound in the leg. I pulled the arrow out and dove for the river. An energy boost went through me. My wound closed. And I felt more powerful than ever. I summoned my trident and rose from the water. The river exploded everyone stood still as they watched me rise form the water unharmed. Jack stood as completely shocked as if he had seen Medusa's eyes.

I pointed my trident at him.

"Sayonara," I said. Lightning exploded from the trident and hit Jack square in the chest. Jack flew in midair landing flat on his back, knocked out cold.

Our army cheered and Seabass gave me a pat on the back. Anthony congratulated me.

"Hey, Percy, how did you use that lightning power from your trident?" he asked. "Because I know lightning is not a power of Poseidon."

Anthony was also fluent in Ancient Greek, but since he was here longer he picked up some more Roman training techniques than me.

"Well, it's not lightning. It's more like Hydro power." I said.

"Ah," Anthony mused. With that, I took the wax out of my ears, and we all went to dinner.

I gave some of my food to the campfire to sacrifice to my father. Tonight's dinner was meatloaf, stuffing and corn. I got myself a cherry coke and told the glass to make it a blue. The glass obeyed. I tried the corn first. It was tasteless, as usual. The stuffing was the best because it melted in your mouth as if it was cotton candy. The meatloaf was hard to cut, but it tasted okay. After my not so bad, but not so good dinner, I headed for my cabin for bed.

"Percy," said a woman's voice. I turned around to see Lupa with a few of her wolves. "I congratulate you on your victory over Jack."

"Mmm hmm," I said.

"I know this must be difficult for you and all, losing your memories. Jason, well, he's on his own now, as you will soon be."

"What does that mean?" I asked. "Why don't you tell me something about my past?"

"You must find out on your own, child. Your dream did say something about Gaea, did it not?"

I wondered how she knew about my dream. Could she read my thoughts? It didn't matter.

"How I am involved with this Gaea?" I asked.

"I don't know what the Fates have in store for you. All I know is you will play a big part in what happens next. Your old enemy rises, Percy. Use must defeat him before the earth awakes."

"I don't understand."

"You will soon, child. The gods are now at war, and only you can stop this war from destroying the Western Civilization."

"Great."

"You will travel east to Camp Half-Blood. There you will fit in more, and meet old friends. I know you will not remember them Percy, but it must be done."

"Will I be able to stay there?"

"That depends on the will of Hera and Zeus."

"You called them by their Greek names. Gaea, Zeus and Hera instead of Terra, Jupiter and Juno. Why?"

"The gods have two main forms Percy, Greek and Roman. Which is why demigods, such as Jason and his sister are different. Jason being the son of Jupiter, and Thalia being the daughter of Zeus. It is the same god, but a different personality."

Something about the name Thalia should have clicked my mind, but it didn't. It was same thing with Lucius' last name.

"You can take two of the partners with you. You will need friends on this journey." she said.

I turned away from Lupa and walked toward the cabins. I saw Anthony ready to walk into his (literally) stormy cabin. The Jupiter cabin was decorated with golden lightning bolts and a black stormy cloud above it.

"Anthony," I called. He turned towards me, half asleep because of Slayer.

"What's up?" he asked.

"You ready for the adventure of a life time?"

"Quest?" he asked a little excited.

"Kind of."

"Where we headed?"

"East. To a place called Camp Half–Blood."

"What's there?"

"Will you stop asking questions, and get your stuff packed?"

"You won't need anything but your weapons," Lupa said out of nowhere.

"Alright. Any other volunteers?" I asked expecting someone to answer. Surprisingly some one did.

"Well, me of course" said Lucius' voice. I turned to see it was Lucius. "Am I not your friend anymore?"

"All right pal. Your in," I said. I faced Lupa. "How are we getting there?"

"You do know how to drive a chariot, don't you?" Lupa teased. "I suppose you'll head out tomorrow."

"Of course," I said as I started walking towards my cabin.

"Percy," Lupa said. "Hera did not take all of your memories."

"Hera took my memories?" I screeched.

"She has made a dangerous move exchanging you for Jason. Do not be disappointed if you find out things have changed a bit."

"Right. Whatever that means."

"And Percy, don't trust all of your friends. I wish you luck."

I let that sink in and then said. "Get some sleep, guys," and left for my cabin.

So guys, what do you think? Please DO NOT READ this story if you have not read The Lost Hero.

I know it's getting a little confusing with the Roman names and all.

So if you're having trouble understanding who is who, go to .com, and type the name of the Greek god you want. It will give you the Roman name at the top of the page.

I will also post the Roman names of the gods on my webpage, so stay tuned.

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