Percy had been travelling for two months now. He had planned on going back to stay at his mom and step-dad's apartment to stay for a bit, but when he arrived the building was on fire.

Flashback

Percy vapor travelled to a nearby alley to where his mom and Paul lived when he saw something that would haunt his dreams for the rest of his life. Their apartment building was on fire. He cautiously approached the building only to be stopped by a firefighter.

"I'm sorry, but I can't allow you to approach this building," The officer said firmly.

With a thick voice I said, "My mother and step-father live in that building, please tell me there are survivors."

He gave me a sad look, "What were their names?"

"'Were'? As in past tense?" Percy said loudly.

"Sir, I need you to calm down," The firefighter said calmly.

Percy took a few deep breaths, "What do you need?"

"I need you to identify a few bodies for me," He said sadly.

Percy looked stricken, Percy had never thought that Percy would be identifying my mother's body. Being a half-blood Percy had always thought that Percy would pass before her. Percy just nodded and followed behind him. When we reached a line of bodies we reached two that Percy recognized as my mother and Paul, finally everything collapsed on me and Percy started crying. The officers looked at Percy with pity.

"Sorry, I've already had a horrible week and now this on top of everything else…well, I've almost reached my breaking point," Percy explained brokenly.

They nodded and started talking about making arrangements.

End of Flashback

Percy travelled all across the country. At first it was random because he had to escape the monsters that could smell him from miles away and wanted revenge, but then he decided to do something productive with his time on the run.

He began looking for lost half-bloods across the country. It was pretty easy once he started relying on his senses more. He would travel to bigger cities and often found a few that were running away or that needed to get to camp because their scent was becoming too strong. It was easy for Percy because he could vapor travel the half-bloods to either Camp Half-Blood or the Wolf House.

He never forgot a half-blood that he had taken to camp and apparently he had made a name for himself. He had actually succeeded in spying on the Hunter's camp and heard Thalia telling her fellow hunters that many half-bloods were mysteriously being brought to camp by "man with sea-green eyes".

Exactly two months after Percy had left Camp Half-Blood he was awoken by a bright white light. He immediately reached for Riptide before the person who appeared in the bright, white light chuckled, "You won't need that Perseus."

"Percy," He interrupted automatically. It was a jerk reaction.

The man before him raised an eyebrow, "Percy then, I've come to offer you a position."

"I don't even know who you are," Percy said with narrowed eyes. "I've been offered many positions before and all by enemies."

"True," The man said. "I'm not your enemy though, my name is Chaos."

Percy's eyes widened, "Like THE Chaos?"

Chaos looked amused, "Yes, like 'THE Chaos'."

Percy nodded, "Am I supposed to bow to you or something?" He looked up at the Creator. "Because I'm not really into that."

Chaos gave him a smile, "No, you don't have to bow to me, I'm not into that stuff either."

"Then I think we'll get along just fine, now what is this position you were talking about?" Percy asked while raising an eyebrow.

Chaos nodded, "Over the millennia I have realized that many planets require outside help when solving their problems and so I created the Army of Chaos."

"Sounds reasonable," Percy said.

"That's what I thought," Chaos said. "I just want to make sure that all my creations remain peaceful or if not peaceful, intact."

"That sounds like a good idea to me," Percy said.

"I'm glad that you agree," Chaos said while a smile to Percy. "Now, while my army had done a fantastic job the past millennia keeping peach throughout the galaxy I have noticed that without proper leadership some of their plans are falling through."

"But aren't you their leader?" Percy asked.

"I am their leader, but I meant a Commander, one that would be their leader in battle," Chaos said. "But that person needed to be perfect, at first I thought I could pick someone from my current army, but soon realized that I needed someone outside of it to bring in a newer perspective."

Percy nodded, again that made sense.

"So, I looked around at each planet I created to find the warrior that would make the perfect Commander for my army," Chaos explained. "I had almost given up when I reached Earth, my first and favorite planet, and I saw you, Percy Jackson."

"Me?" Percy stuttered.

"Yes, I saw you through your years and knew that you would be the perfect Commander. You are loyal and humble, you do have great leadership qualities and people listen to you. It also helps that you're already famous within the army."

"I am?" Percy said while making a face that amused Chaos.

"Yes, if you join you will see," Chaos said and then gave Percy a moment to let it all sink it. "So will you join?"

Percy looked up at Chaos, "I promised Dad that I would see him again, will I be able to keep that promise?"

Chaos looked down at Percy, "I think you'll find that the next time you're down on Earth you might not want to return to the army and when that time comes, I will be sad to see you leave, but will let you go."

Percy didn't ask what Chaos meant, because even though he loved his friends, right now all that was keeping him on Earth was the promise to see his dad again and since Chaos said that he would see him again, the son of the sea god accept Chaos' offer.

It was the Summer Solstice after Percy Jackson was banished from camp. At first the campers didn't care that the Savior of Olympus was no longer in the midst.

At the Summer Solstice though, many of the half-bloods that had fought in the Giants War were offered immortality as immortal camp counselors.

Each Olympian stepped forward towards their child, not looking too happy with their child, which confused them, what had they done to cause their parents to be upset with them?

As each half-blood received immortality it suddenly seemed as if a veil had been lifted off of them and they started to look around them as if they were finally aware of their surroundings and they were looking for someone.

It was Annabeth who spoke first, "Mother, what are we doing here?"

Now all the Olympians looked confused at that, "You were granted immortality, don't you remember?"

Each half-blood shook their head, "No, the last thing I remember was waiting for Percy at the border of Camp Half-Blood because I was told Percy would be returning that day."

The Olympians looked shocked, "I don't know how to tell you all this," Athena said nervously. "But that was over two months ago."

The half-blood's eyes went wide, "What!?" "What happened!?" "Where's Percy!?"

"SILENCE!" Zeus yelled. "Athena do you want to explain what happened about two months ago and then what Percy was doing for you."

"Yes, Father," Athena said to Zeus. Athena then began speaking about giving Percy tasks that he had to complete, some were nearly impossible Athena admitted and so Athena was shocked when Percy returned. "When Percy returned to Camp Half-Blood everyone was acting weird towards him and slowly you all turned your backs on him as well."

The immortal counselors gasped, "What!"

"What happened to make Percy leave for good?" Annabeth asked cautiously.

Surprisingly Poseidon picked up the story here, everyone knew that he hadn't been very talkative lately, "I had been talking to him on the beach that morning when we heard someone scream, when we reached the Big House we saw that it was Mike, son of Apollo and he said that Percy had left Mike to fend for himself. Zeus banished him, and Annabeth with the rest of the counselors and Chiron agreed."

Poseidon got down from his throne and every Olympian knew what he was going to do. He walked up to the daughter of Athena. "That morning I was giving my son a pep talk, do you know why?"

She shook her head, tears threatening to fall, "No."

He took something out of his pocket, it was a box with a beautiful ring that made all the half-bloods gasp, "He was going to ask you to marry him that night."

Aphrodite spoke up, "All Olympus knew and we were all very excited."

"You all knew," Piper spoke up.

"Yes, we all knew that Percy was completing tasks for Athena's favor and when asked he told us that he was going to propose," Hera said.

All the half-bloods looked hurt and ashamed. Poseidon gave Annabeth the ring, "The night he left he told me that if you ever came to your senses or asked about him to give this to you."

"What else did he tell you Poseidon," Zeus asked. "I was under the impression that when you went back to his cabin all you were doing was getting something for Tyson."

"Well," Poseidon looked solemn. "As of a month ago unless you have the blood of the sea running through your veins, you will not be allowed into Cabin Three."

With that Annabeth started crying, when Percy had been kidnapped hiding in his cabin had been her one solace, many gave her pitying glances.

"He knew that you all were going to be turned into immortal counselors-" Poseidon began.

"He did, how?" Athena asked.

"He eavesdropped," Poseidon smirked along with Hermes and Apollo, slightly proud of Percy. Then his face grew serious again. "So he decided to leave his journals behind."

"He had journals?" Thalia asked. She was completely shocked along with the rest of the Throne Room.

Poseidon nodded, "I was shocked as well, but they're very well written," He received many skeptical eyebrows at that. "Here I'll read you one of my favorite excerpts, "…after the Olympians voted on whether they should kill me or not, my dad (yes dad, because for what he did for me today showed that at least he cared for me) vouched for me. He vowed on his honor that I would not betray Olympus. It is true, my loyalty will forever lie with Olympus..." See, isn't that well written and it was the first time he called me 'Dad'."

"Why did he leave the journals?" Nico asked.

"He wanted to make sure that his future siblings got a firsthand account of what he did and that he wasn't portrayed as a villain, like you all had been making him out to be the past couple of weeks," Poseidon said.

"Right, so we have to get to the root of the problem," Artemis said. "How did this happen?"

Everyone in the Throne Room thought for nearly half an hour before Annabeth gasped. The gods and half-bloods turned towards the daughter of Athena before asking, "Do you have something to add Annabeth?"

"I was just looking at the events that correlated to our unusual behavior and the only event that I could think of was when Mike came to camp," All the half-bloods looked at Apollo.

"Why are you looking at me?" Apollo asked with a confused look on his face.

"Well, Mike is your son," Jason said.

"No…I don't have any son named Mike," Apollo said slowly.

"If he isn't a son of Apollo then who is he?" Clarisse asked, getting annoyed.

"I think that we should summon the boy here to verify whether or no he had anything to do with this event," Demeter said while the other gods agreed. Zeus grudgingly, he had finally gotten rid of that Jackson menace and now they would possibly be getting him back.

"Fine, we'll summon this Mike from Camp Half-Blood," Only when they tried summoning the boy it didn't work.

"Why isn't it working?" Ares asked.

"I don't know," Zeus looked nervous. "Something is blocking me," He turned to Hermes. "Summon Hecate, maybe she'll be able to see what magic is behind this."

"Will do, Father," The half-bloods closed their eyes and Hermes disappeared with a pop! and a bright white light.

No one really knew what to say about what was going on. The immortal campers, while the knew it wasn't technically their fault, were ashamed of their actions. If only they were strong enough to fight off this curse.

The gods tried not to give their children looks of pity, they knew how much they respected Percy, for Olympus! Some of the gods may not like Percy, but they definitely respected him. The gods were worried how the camp would survive without Percy because he was the glue of the camp.

Five minutes of silence Hermes appeared again, but this time with a woman by his side, she bowed towards the King of the Gods and asked, "You summoned me Lord Zeus?"

"Yes, Hecate," Zeus said. "While trying to summon a half-blood it seems that I was somehow blocked. I was wondering if you could identify the magic and could remove it."

Hecate bit her lip, "Could you tell me the name of the boy you wish to summon?"

"How is that relevant Hecate?" Apollo asked.

"If he's doing magic he might be doing magic and if he isn't then it would be very dark magic, wouldn't it?" Hecate snapped, but then she relaxed and concentrated on Zeus. "I won't be able to remove it."

"Why not?" Zeus thundered.

"This wasn't my type of magic!" Hecate said. "This boy, whoever he is, got it from another source, then she turned towards the half-bloods, "Now I've been told that the camps have been put under a spell, that I can fix."

The half-bloods gave a sigh of relief, they didn't want the other half-bloods ruining Percy's name any longer.

"You'll have to manually search for this boy, I am sorry I couldn't have been more help but I will go to Camp Half-Blood now and remove the spell," and with that she left.

"I don't think we should look for him," Hephaestus said for the first time of the Solstice meeting.

"Why do you say that, Hephaestus? He's wronged everyone in this room," Athena said.

Hephaestus sighed, "This boy will probably be seen eventually, we should just keep an eye out and be wary."

"Fine," Poseidon said. "It isn't like my son will be back anytime soon."

"What do you mean?" Annabeth asked.

Poseidon sighed sadly, he had been very depressed ever since Percy had left, "Before Percy left he told me that it would probably be the last time he would be seeing him in a while," Everyone started talking about that.

"What does that mean?" Artemis asked.

"Percy said he just had this feeling that about two months after he left that something was going to happen, but that he'd see me eventually. My son said that it could be days, months, years, decades, or centuries but he would come back."

"That was more than two months ago," Apollo said.

"I suppose that the event that he predicted has already come to pass then," Artemis finished for her twin.

Everyone nodded.

"Let's just hope that when he returns he'll be understanding," Hestia said.