Perseus Jackson: A Hero Once Broken

Chapter 2: Another normal day?

Location: Camp Half Blood, Long Island, New York.

Annabeth's Point Of View

It was just another day at Camp Half Blood for Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena, Head Councillor, and Architect of Olympus. It was the same old timetable, wake up, morning fitness and jogging, breakfast, archery teaching with James, knife practice, then lunch. But that's where the day took a turn to the confusing side of things at lunch. Halfway through her meal Chiron stood up and made an announcement of a councillors meeting after lunch. Once Chiron finished Annabeth quickly finished her meal and walked out of the pavilion.

"Hey Beth." A male voice called out.

"I've told you not to call me that James." Annabeth replied.

"Yeah, yeah babe whatever you say. Shouldn't you be heading to the Big House for the meeting." James replied with a smirk.

"Nah we have enough time to go for a walk, and its not as if these meetings are ever important. Chances are the hunters are going to be coming tomorrow and then we'll have to face them at capture the flag. They won't mind if i'm a few minutes late." Annabeth replied with a grin.

James just shook his head and laughed. The pair grabbed each other's hands and began walking around the camp. Time passed by quickly and the sound of the conch horn rang throughout the valley.

"Right, it's time for me to go teach first aid class, and for you, to go be a head councillor and do your job." James spoke with a small smile.

Annabeth sighed. "Fine. But don't forget, after your class we're going out for a date tonight."

James replied quickly. "I know, I know. Now come on your going to be late. Love you"

"And I love you too." Annabeth replied and kissed him quickly.

Annabeth checked her watch and saw that she was 2 minutes late so far. She began jogging in the direction of the big house. She eventually reached the porch and checked her watch, 5 minutes late now. 'Oh well, better late than never' she thought to herself. She entered the building and all eyes fell on her.

"I see you have decided to finally join us Annabeth." Chiron spoke out.

"Took your time" Nico sneered from the corner, his jet black shaggy hair covering his face. "Too busy sucking face with James I assume."

"Fuck you Nico." Annabeth retorted whilst glaring at him with her calculating grey eyes.

"You're good at that aren't you. Once you're done with people getting them to fuck off." Nico retorted.

Annabeth grew angry and everyones eyes opened wide realising what Nico was referring too. She pulled out her knife and pointed it at Nico. "I've said it countless times, it wasn't my fault that he decided to leave. He could have stayed, he could've gotten help. But no, he was too messed up in the head and locked himself up."

Before she could continue two skeletal bodies had her pressed up against the wooden wall. In a blink an onyx black sword was pressed up against her throat.

"NICO" Chiron's voice roared stopping the two in their tracks. "Nico, put your blasted sword away and sit down, we do not need blood spilt over a pointless argument.

Nico completed Chiron's orders as he respected him but not before tripping Annabeth up with a smirk plastered on his face. Annabeth took one of the empty seats, whilst Nico leant on one of the wooden walls.

"What is it you wanted to tell us Chiron?" Jason asked respectively.

"As we all know, Perseus went missing 10 years ago, and we stopped looking for him 9 years ago."

"Not all of us." Nico muttered.

Chiron rolled his eyes and continued. "Anyway, I believe we have found tangible information as to where Perseus is."

"Well Chiron, would you like to share this information?" Nico asked with hope gleaming in his eyes.

Chiron sighed. "Well as some of you may have heard their was a volcanic eruption in the Aleutian Archipelago late last night, some of you may have not heard of it. But allow me to direct you all to the iris screen over here."

Everyone turned round and faced iris message that began to appear. "O Iris, goddess of rainbows, please show us the news clips regarding the Aleutian volcanic eruption." The mist barely moved for several seconds until a voice broke out.

"Breaking news tonight-" the face of a female news caster appeared. "- a volcano on a small island a part of the Aleutian Archipelago erupted. It is unknown the cause of such an eruption however tragic news has unfolded. 2 men have been unaccounted for last night and failed to appear from a flight. One of these men, known as Andrew was a student at the University of British Columbia, was a grade A student who excelled in classes. The second man was world renowned seismologist Dr Perseus Jackson, America's leading scientist in earthquakes. Dr Jackson was a popular guest speaker at the UBC. We have a clip here of one of his recent talks." A new clip began to appear on screen and played. Once sound began playing everyone recognised the voice. "-and thats what makes earthquakes so incredible. They are powerful forces of nature. Powerful to destroy blocks of buildings, cause destructive tsunamis, and cause volcanoes to erupt. But there is no need to fear them, as technology advances, earthquake prediction becomes more accurate, is able to warn people earlier and save more lives-" The screen faded and went back to the newscaster. "A man truly devoted to his work-"

The screen flickered again and a different newscaster appeared. "We have received more news regarding last nights volcanic eruption. As previously mentioned we spoke of how Dr. Jackson and the student called Andrew went missing. We have been informed that the eruption took place on Unimak island and has caused a 7.9 earthquake. Tsunami warnings have been issued for west coast USA stretching down as far as California as a safety precaution. Anyone living near the west coat is being advised to go to higher ground or further inland."

"Holy shit. He's doing well." Nico spoke whilst staring at the screen. Pride evident in his voice.

"Yeah this is great news, but whats happened to him?" Hazel spoke out in confusion.

"Wait... that said he's one of USA's leading scientists. How long have you fucking knows about this Chiron." Nico spoke, his voice trembling in anger.

Authors Note

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Edit: Minor text fixes, mixing up names.