A/N Hi guys sorry for not updating any of my stories during the week just that I had a tonne of tests to do and I think that is more important than FanFic because it is school.

Also I have thought of a little updating schedule during the week, The Forgotten Hero or Slave to the Moon

and on Saturday Champion of the Sea

and on Sunday whatever I like

But expect some notices at the bottom.

Champion of the Sea

Chapter 4:

Percy POV: (Percy's Birthday)

It is official Artemis has discharged me from the Hunt; and it all started 4 days ago after the game of capture the flag with the Hunters.

*FLASHBACK 4 days previous*

Zoë was currently dragging me towards the loud voices of the cheering Hunters who had yet again won for the 46th time in a row. We broke into the small clearing that campers and hunters were gathered in, they were currently arguing over something of how the Hunters had cheated and had purposely injured male campers. Unlike the rest of the people there Artemis and Chiron were trying to calm the campers and hunters down before violence broke out, they tried to do this by shouting over the crowd and separating the two forces, however this had little or no effect as verbal insults were still being chucked between the two groups and the shouting of the Hunters and campers were far greater than what Chiron and Artemis could muster.

Zoë and I could see this turning into a full blown riot if someone didn't step in and stop them as they were starting to break from the grips of their respective leaders; that is when it appeared that Artemis lost it as another insult was thrown at her Hunters, her eyes glowed a bright silver and her pupils appeared to get darker, that is when I realised Artemis was beginning to turn into her divine form and if anyone was to look at her they would die, her clothes looked like they were changing colour from a light silver to a white tunic.

Quickly shouting over the bickering crowd as loud as I could, who also had seemed to have noticed Artemis giving off a strange aura, "Everyone look away; she is going into her divine form," I shouted. I turned myself around and faced the forest which I had just left, suddenly a bright light came from behind me lighting up the forest, I refrained myself from turning around because I knew it would be certain death if I looked at her if she was in her Godly form.

Soon the harsh light dulled down until nothing was there and the forest was its normal bright green colour, turning round I sore Dionysus standing over Artemis' limp body whilst he held big wooden club which had a certain dent in it which some-what looked like Artemis' head. Everyone looked at the two and almost instantaneously the Hunters started shouting words at Dionysus for harming their mistress, rolling his eyes he held up a defiant hand asking for silence which he grudgingly got from the Hunters.

"Hunters and Campers shut up and let me speak before you interrupt, you got that! What Artemis did was wrong and could of lead to a war if some of you died from her rash actions. If Perseus over there hadn't have warned you we could possibly be preparing for World War III and the reason why I knocked her out was an order from father to tell her to calm down and so I did… I guess." He said sternly leaving no room to argue Artemis' case, the Hunters groaned before picking up Artemis and heading off to their cabin whilst most of the campers did the same.

Like most of the campers I was starting to walk out the clearing and back to the main body of camp to get some rest for the next day, that was until I felt someone yank my arm roughly from the left causing me to topple over in that direction. Landing face first in a pile of mud I rolled over and faced my captor which in fact turned out to be Zoë; weird I thought she went off with the Hunters carrying Artemis to the cabin. Still muddled of why she had brought me here I asked her a question, "Zoë not that I don't mind the company of you, but what do you want that was so urgent at this time of night?"

"Sorry Percy; Artemis just as she woke from her daze asked to see you in the morning at 7am and told me to tell you; so here I am telling you," she replied offering a hand for me to pull myself up on. Feeling mischievous and cocky that she didn't beat me in Capture the Flag –well neither did I, but that was expected-; instead of using her weight to pull myself up on I grabbed her extended hand and tugged down on it; she was caught by surprise and tumbled to the ground and landed on top of me; for the second time today Zoë was straddling me and this time it wasn't in a fight, however unlike whilst fighting I was now blushing profoundly as was she at are current position.

Speaking up before she could get over her embarrassment and beat me to a pulp I thought I should tell her what I was going to do, "Zoë, before you kill me I am going to tell the truth, I didn't mean to pull you on top of me what I intended on doing was pulling you down into the mud and running off not this, do you understand." I stated trying to wriggle out of her vice like grip.

She hesitantly nodded with a now look of annoyance on her face; she stood up letting my legs go and started walking off back to camp, just as she was leaving my view she turned around, "Percy let it be known, but if we weren't such good friends I would of castrated you there and then, you are very lucky that I didn't and by the way good luck with Artemis tomorrow."

"Thanks Zoë and see you tomorrow," I said franticly before she left, she acknowledged my good bye and gave one last wave before she turned on her heels and strolled off back to the camp leaving my thoughts and I alone. I wonder what Artemis could want with me, I know she is pissed that I was sleeping with a Naiad, but could she possibly be angry at me for tonight for some unknown reason, well there is only one way to find out and I headed back to the Hermes cabin where all my bags and sleeping arrangements were.

I headed back into the now silent camp and quietly made my way to the already cramped Hermes cabin which was made and now looked like an old cabin with wood that was now on the verge of rotting and falling apart. I entered the cabin and made my way to the far side of the room where all the unclaimed Demigods slept, since I was the newest I didn't have a bed to sleep on and instead had to sleep on the uneven floorboard with the only warmth coming from my old mouldy sleeping bag.

That night I slept like a log, and didn't have any dreams I could remember, the only thing I was thinking of was what did Artemis want to talk to me about and that sole thought kept reverberating off this inside of my mind all night long until I swear I started mumbling it in my sleep.

I awoke as the sun shone in to the cabin through the torn blinds and onto my sleeping face, effectively blinding me and waking me up, deciding I was now too awake to go back to sleep I instead got up and headed over to what I thought was the cabin showers or was either a mushroom farm I couldn't quite tell. The moment I stepped in the room I nearly gagged as the smell of faeces when it entered my nose; it smelt like when some takes a number two and leaves it to rot for a while; scrunching up my nose I stepped cautiously into the shower cubicle.

Twisting the shower knob a stream of cold water trickled out of the green shower head; already frustrated that I had to endure the smell of shit I willed the water out the shower head and warmed it so I could have a proper shower, this was a trick I learnt a year ago on how to raise the temperature of water if it was cold, it was like the opposite of freezing water and I had nearly been able to turn the water into gas.

I enjoyed the rest of the shower and decided to give something back to the bathroom for the rest of the Hermes kids and unclaimed ones, forcing a few gallons of water out of the shower head I forced them into tendril shaped cleaning appliances and made them clean every nook and cranny of the room, first the mould ridden floor which also had mysterious traces of a white gunk, then onto the toilets and showers which now were as white as marble and finally the brown roof which actually turned out to be yellow; Jesus the cabin really let itself go through out its years.

Sufficiently clean and dry I put on my hunting uniform and headed out the Hermes cabin door and in to the outside world which was basically empty, examining the positioning of the Sun I realised it was only about 6am and I had an entire hour to burn before I needed to see Artemis. Heading over to the empty archery range I thought I might as well make use of it before the Hunters come I started to practice using my bow from around 500-400 feet away, this was a challenge for me since I wasn't the best at archery, but I still in the end managed to hit two bulls-eyes, 23 times inside the yellow and red, 14 times inside the red and the other 11 arrows were either in the trees behind the range or in the black and white; altogether I shot 50 arrows around an entire quiver for me. Eying the Sun once again I sore it was nearly 7 so I rushed over to my target ring and picked up all the arrows which were now mostly blunt and proceeded back to Artemis' cabin.

Arriving at the cabin only now do I see the architecture Annabeth was probably talking about yesterday, the Cabin stood at around 10-12 feet tall and was about 15 feet wide and was a mixture of silver and white patterns all over it, there was also some columns at the front holding up a roof over the door and atop of the roof was a figurine of Artemis stroking a deer. On the sides of the building there were engravings of Artemis and her Hunters hunting various different animals or monsters.

I didn't notice the irritated Goddess at the door of the cabin tapping her foot quickly and was only knocked out of me daze when said Goddess cleared her throat loudly. Whirling around; I noticed that it was Artemis who was tapping her foot impatiently and was also the one who cleared her throat. Muttering an apology I looked back at her waiting to see what see said and why she had called me here at 7am.

Almost as if she had read my mind she began to speak, "Perseus I bet you are wondering why you are here," she said in which I retorted to with a nod of the head and let her continue, "I am here to tell you that you are now discharged from the Hunt, all the Hunters already know so you will not need to speak to them or they may attack you for being a male." And almost like that my entire life crumbled down onto me, I had just been informed my new family didn't want me anymore, my old family was dead and I had nowhere to go apart from stay in this shit hole of a camp, to say I was sad and angry would be a massive understatement, but what most was apparent in my appearance and feelings was betrayal.

"But why Artemis, why did you do this what have I done wrong," I pleaded. I really wanted to know what I had done wrong and how I could amends to it so I could possibly re-join my extended family, even if most of them didn't like me I still did and would save any of them in a blink of an eye.

She seemed to ponder the question a bit as if she was trying to think of a plausible reason which I bet there wasn't, after a few awkward tense seconds she responded, "Percy as we both know you like to flirt with Naiads and Nymphs, and before you argue let me finish, I have also decided you won't be travelling with us anymore on the hunt because of yesterday's photos most if not all the Hunters have become hostile to you and believe you to be some sort of man slut and they would probably attack you and it is either you or the girls and my answer is the girls so sorry Percy, but this is good-bye." My eyes drooped and I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes, but I stayed strong holding back my emotions and not to look weak in front of my once tutor.

I started to think of a reasonable excuse, but there were none, she and the Hunt really did think I was a man slut and like any typical male and that pulled at my heart strings until I couldn't hold it in anymore and the tears gushed forward as I slumped to the ground and let the tears flow out along with my emotions. I leant against the cabin walls finding no-where else to sit and just sat and cried; what happened next surprised me, Artemis bent down and gave me a quick embrace and as I did seven years ago I cried heavily into her shoulder until there was no more tears to cry.

After I had finished she went back to the her cabin and I hurried off to the forest to go and relax and let my emotions out some more and thank Gods none of the campers were awake when I started to cry I would have been and even bigger laughing stock than I already am.

Now what am I supposed to do.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

So after I finished reminiscing on that now old memory I silently congratulated myself on achieving the ripe old age of 12 years old, unlike most of my previous birthdays I had at least one person to say happy birthday to me, but this year I had none the Hunters don't speak to me, I have no friends and the Naiads and Nymphs don't know or they would of said it.

So I sat on a log and silently ate a piece of cake that I made myself last night in the kitchen, it was my favourite flavour chocolate with chocolate icing on the top and chocolate icing in the middle with strawberries on the top, I didn't have too much because it was rather rich and sickly in flavour, but was good if you had a small piece, the rest I left in a plastic box for the Hunters to eat even if they didn't like me who else would eat the cake.

The three previous days had been slow and tiresome with me still not having got a plan for the week I just had to go from place to place doing stuff, or what I could do which wasn't much; the Hunters wouldn't let me use the Archery range and tried to shoot me if I got to close apart from Zoë who had a sorrowful look on her face because after all the years of being with her we had finally managed to build up a good friendly relationship and now it was gone. I couldn't use the Arena because most of the time there was some Ares campers there who didn't appreciate me beating their cabin leader Clarisse and would offer to challenge me which was mostly a 3 on 1 or 4-5 on 1 which I couldn't possibly win, the rest of the buildings and activities didn't really tickle my fancy and I would spend most of my day either canoeing or practicing my hunting in the woods with my bow and arrows or knives which Artemis let me keep along with my only set of clothes which would mock me every day- my hunting uniform.

I sat motionless on the log listening to the activity in the camp and forest trying to sense danger or something to hunt: Which there was none. I had sat here all day long and hadn't done much apart from sharpen my blunt arrows with my whet stone and fill my water canister up with some clean water I had filtered. I am pretty sure it was starting to border on 6pm, but it was hard to tell in the dense forest when I heard and smelt a smell I hadn't heard for seven long years and I was going to kill it in the most brutal way possible: The smell was that of the Minotaur.

I rushed over to where the loud bellow of the Minotaur came from and the scene that greeted my eyes when I arrived shocked and thrilled me. The Minotaur was missing a horn from its head leaving only one on its head making it look rather lopsided and stupid and said horn was in the hands of an almost exact copy of me, except instead of having my unruly black hair his was neater and not as black and then there was his eyes unlike mine which were a sea green as I have been told his were an ocean blue, but apart from that we were mostly the same apart from me having more muscle from my training with the Hunt.

I glanced back at the scene to see the boy backpedalling away from the Minotaur who was swinging his Omega axe menacingly, that was when the boy tripped on a raised root and hit the ground with a thud leaving him at the mercy of the Minotaur. Deciding I didn't want to let some innocent die I jumped into action pulling out my bow and strung an arrow, "Hey ugly over here," I yelled at the Minotaur, the now angered Minotaur looked at me and gave me a death glare, but that didn't last long as I shot an arrow at him and it hit him precisely between the eyes; expecting this is to kill it I prepared to hurry over to the boy, but in fact this just made it even more pissed off than what it already was.

It charged at me quick axe above its head and was preparing to give me a death blow, but I knew this was what it would do since it was a stupid monster and I just unsheathed my two knives and jumped into action. The Minotaur brought down a powerful strike that I had no chance of parrying so instead I sidestepped to the side dodging the blade and exposing his left side which I took full advantage of by giving him two deep gashes along his left side; I went to go cut his throat, but as I leapt to deliver the final blow he swept me aside with the butt of his axe sending me flying backwards. Coming to a stop I rolled out the ray of another strike he aimed at me whilst I was on the ground and I stood up facing the enraged beast that was dripping monster blood from the arrow in his head and the gashes along his side whilst I was only suffering from a bruised stomach.

I sidestepped another one of his blows again, but instead of slicing his exposed side I jumped onto the staff of the axe whilst it was now stuck in the ground and I completed his look by swiping off his last horn and plunging my knife into his brain letting his explode in a plume of gold monsters dust.

Relieved I had finally killed it I strode over to the boy who had a slightly fearful look on his face, "Hey man why do you look scared I just killed the monster I am not going to hurt you man," I joked and extended a firm hand for him to grab onto, he slowly grasped my hand and I hoisted him up, now I could get a better look at him, we actually didn't look to alike we had pretty dissimilar faces and the only thing that was the same was our height.

"Thanks for you know killing that thing, but Mum told me to go this place called Camp Half-Blood, do you know where it is. My Mum said I am a Half-Blood whatever that means." He asked looking me up and down trying to see if I was going to kill him which I wasn't, besides me and him could be friends and that is what I need friends since I have none.

"Yeah I know where Camp Half-Blood is, do you want to follow?" I said he hesitated a second before nodding his head and he followed me past the Thalia's tree and into the big house. Along the way we talked about each other's lives, he was from New York like me and that is where the similarities ended, he had attended about 5-6 schools and had been expelled or had been permanently excluded from them, he like me also had ADHD and dyslexia. I also found out his name was Damion, now where have I heard that something Artemis probably said. Damion had a Mum but not a Dad which meant his Godly parent was a God and not a Goddess. On the way I also explained to him about the Greek world and how it still existed; Damion was curious about my life to so I told him about my venture with the Hunt and how I had been discharge from the Hunt 4 days ago.

We soon arrived at the big house, him with two Minotaur horns and me with some monster dust on my shirt, we got some inquisitive looks from some campers who were milling around the big house, but they were none of my concern as I hurried over to the porch with Damion in pursuit.

We got to the top of the stairs which led to the porch and unsurprisingly Dionysus and Chiron were playing Pinochle as usual. Getting there attentions I called over, "Excuse me Dionysus and Chiron we have a new camper, his name is Damion," I shouted, Chiron and Dionysus instantly turned round one with a look of concern one with a look of boredom.

"Oh for fuc-," Dionysus began before Chiron elbowed him in the side.

"Damion did you say, I think you better come over here whilst Mr.D and I have a talk with you; right Mr.D." Chiron said giving Dionysus an intimidating glare before ushering Damion over who had a worried face on, I reassured him with a gentle pat on the back.

They were gone for ages, and there also seemed to be a mysterious ominous green glow that came from the top room of the Big House, but eventually a rather shaken up Damion stumbled out the door, running over to him to see what he had to say he looked at me and gave me 'I'll tell you soon,' look and I backed off and let him past, he walked down the stairs and headed in the general direction of the cabins.

As he started to fade from my view Dionysus and Chiron entered the porch area and headed back over to their game of Pinochle; I was about to strike a conversation up, but instead Chiron started speaking, "Percy you will find out at dinner which should be soon, see you later," he finished waiting for me leave before they restarted their game of cards. Following his unsaid command I left and headed back to the forest to practice my Archery once more.

(LINE BREAK)

The sound of the conch horn rang through the camp as everyone rushed to the pavilion to go and get tonight's tea, I even heard from the depths of the forest and I hurried over to the pavilion eager to hear the news of Damion since it had been pestering me for an entire evening and I was getting excited just thinking about it.

I arrived at the pavilion and was at the back of the Hermes cabin queue since I was newest and not unclaimed hopefully maybe Damion and I could be claimed tonight that would be cool yet I highly doubted it my dad specifically said he wouldn't claim me until the time was right and to me tonight didn't feel like it was right. I was finally in and seated on a white plastic chair with my food in my lap because of the lack of tables. I noticed that Damion was sitting with Chiron and Dionysus eating quietly.

On my plate today was a some ravioli and a tomato sauce with some coke on the side I didn't like eating greasy food so I normally ate pasta and soup which was nice; by the time I had finished and offered some of my food to my dad whoever he was most of the other had also finished and Chiron looked set to start speaking.

Rising to his feet/horse legs he made a loud stomp on the marble floor getting all of our attentions, "You may of heard that there is a new camper who has arrived at the camp, his name is Damion and is unclaimed," Chiron said, but his face lied he obviously knew who his Godly parent was and so did Dionysus by the look on his face, " also the Oracle of Delphi met him and issued him a quest," the whole pavilion exploded into shocks of gasps and frustrated yells of why haven't I been given a quest and what not, but all I did was look emotionlessly at the front and think so that it why he didn't want to speak, "the quest is to retrieve Zeus' Master Bolt which was stolen and apparently it was stolen by Damion which isn't true and the Prophecy issued is;

You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,

You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned,

You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend,

And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.

"So I believe that Damion has to pick some quest members which he will do after tea," Chiron said finally, as he finished Damion went to stand up and come down to the Hermes table when a Trident flashed above his head, obviously to the others this meant something, but to me this meant nothing until Chiron spoke up, "All hail Damion Clark, Son of Poseidon," and everyone including me bowed in front of him. I bowed because everyone did and I mean how often will you see a son or daughter of the Big Three and Poseidon is the coolest because he is the God of the Sea.

I exited the dining pavilion and was making a b-line for the Hermes cabin, but was stopped by Damion who must have ran to catch me up as he was panting, "Hey Percy do you want to come with me on the quest, I haven't got any friends apart from you of course, so I thought I might ask you first." He panted out breathlessly, I was torn in two different decisions, go with him and make a friends or stay at the camp; normally any other Demigod would have had jumped at the offer, but I didn't want to go however I did have an idea who would want to go specifically two people.

"Damion I am not saying no to your offer because we aren't friends, but because I think there are two people who are more deserving than me; Annabeth a child of Athena and Grover a Satyr, they're really good at fighting and you'll probably be good friends now go and ask them before it is too late," I suggested and pushed him away from me.

"Oh okay Percy, thanks by the way." He said whilst running off in search of the two people, I told him to go get Annabeth because she was totally staring at him throughout the entire speech and Grover because I didn't know anyone else to tell him to go with. Me and Grover met when he caught his crush talking to me, Juniper, who was talking to me and was completely ignoring Grovers attempt to speak to her so instead of carrying on talking to her I told her that Grover might want to talk to her and so they did.

I was now shattered and super tired so I headed off to the world of Morpheus for the night and prepared myself for another boring day tomorrow, oh how wrong I was.

(NEXT DAY)

Awakening from a weird dream of meeting a person on a sunny island in the middle of the sea; I quickly dressed myself and had a quick shower before heading off to breakfast and to say good bye to Damion and give him some good luck with his new friends.

I approached the dining pavilion and the usual smells of bacon and sausage filtered in to my nose, but as I said I don't really eat greasy foods, I am not a vegetarian; however I will still not eat greasy and fatty foods that often. I walked in to the pavilion and Damion and his quest members were standing at the front talking to Chiron and Dionysus about the quest, the quest members appeared to be the ones I suggested last night being Annabeth and Grover.

Sitting down at my place I asked for some porridge and sugar to sprinkle on I normally had this or on the off chance some toast and maybe bacon, because I don't even care if it is unhealthy. I took a look round the tables and looked at what food each table mainly ate, at the Hermes table it was a spread of just about everything, the Dionysus table there appeared to be a massive bottle of Kool-Aid and also seemed to be eating Lucky Charms or something like that as they were very colourful, the Demeter cabin was eating a variety of cereals gazing at the Ares table with looks of pity as they ploughed through bacon slice after bacon slice, the rest of the other cabin tables much like the Hermes cabin table ate a variety of foods.

Chiron finished his meal and prepared to make a speech, however Dionysus was a lot quicker and started to speak, "listen up I am only going to tell you once, the Demigods are leaving in an one hours' time so before they leave say your good byes because they may not come back, okay." And as soon as he said it he flopped back down onto his chair and took a big sip of his drink which was probably Kool-Aid or water since wine was banned for him.

Not waiting for my peers to finish I headed out from the pavilion and waited at the top of the hill to say good-bye to Damion and his gang; as I walked through camp people were still sneering at me still from the picture of me and the Naiad and how I had been discharged from the Hunters, but that was a few days ago and what happens was inevitable so I had to live with it because there was nothing else I could do or a third party. Sitting down on top of the hill I waited for them, however I heard a loud noise and thud behind me, turning around expecting to see another a Demigod instead I sore the blacksmiths God Hephaestus stumbling through the dense shrubbery.

"Perseus isn't it, I have a task for you to do, it isn't that hard do you want to do it," he said in a loud voice before coughing even louder as some soot poured out his mouth; all in all the God didn't look to bad he was 6'6" nearly 7 quite stocky, but probably most of it was muscle and the only thing that was rather disabled was that he had a sort of limp that wasn't even that noticeable. The face was very sooty and grimy, but was a strong face with defined features nothing out of the ordinary, but not like it had taken a sledgehammer to the face or something; honestly I don't know why Aphrodite said he was so ugly he was quite handsome in a blacksmith sort of way.

"Yes that is me, but please call me Percy Lord Hephaestus," I replied looking at him and only now did I see his eyes and how cool they were, they were a deep brown and had little flames jumping around in them creating small fires as well as at sometimes creating a small green fire that looked like Greek fire before they burnt out and reformed somewhere else.

"Well Percy the task I want you to do is get me Achilles armour from its tomb on Gardiner island, the tomb was first in an island outside Greece, but as the Gods move with power so did the tomb and it managed to end up on Gardiners island which I can't get to because I have a council meeting in exactly 2 seconds; so here is a map and bye," he frantically finished before he flashed out causing me to close my eyes and wait for the light to diminish.

Peering at the map of New York islands I sore a big red cross on Gardiners Island marked Achilles tomb and another cross by the beach on Long Island saying 'you are here' from where the you are here mark was I started to plan a route; after some time I planned I would first go to Nepeague for a rest and look at the pond to see if the Naiad there was okay and then I would head for Gardiners from there.

I was shaken out my thoughts as I heard the approaching voices of Damion and Annabeth and the noise of a goat trotting which was obviously Grover; I quickly pocketed the map and got up to greet the questers, as they got to the top I gave them a big smile, "Hi Damion, Annabeth and Grover, good luck guys hope you get the Bolt before the world ends okay," I joked, but it was apparent that if they did fail then the world would end, maybe not the greatest joke to tell.

"Yeah thanks Percy," Damion said softly and not in his regular cheery voice, he was obviously distraught and worried about the quest and I only made it worse, "and bye as well Percy see you in a few weeks' time or days."

"Thanks Perce for letting me go instead of you," Grover chimed in obviously quite happy that he finally got to go on a quest and also Annabeth had a small smile on evidently happy that I let her go on the quest instead of me.

"It is fine Grover and I'll see you all soon, you better start going Argus is waiting for you at the bottom," I replied; and true to my word the 100+ eyed Argus was leaning on the door of the van waiting for them to hurry up and get in the back so he could drop them off Gods know where.

The 3 of them headed over the hill giving a small wave to their friends who were at the top of hill like me, as the questers got in the van people gave their last waves and headed off to go do their daily activities and I followed suit, but not to do my activities, but something much, much greater.

(LINE BREAK)

I was currently travelling at about 80 knots in the water and thanks to my dad's power over water I hadn't died or lost my skin or something and was fine at travelling in these speeds in the water. At the moment I was just off the coast of East Hampton and I would be nearing Nepeague any second now; on the way to Nepeague I had had some nice conversations with the local Naiads who would constantly flirt or tell me what was happening at Atlantis at the moment Atlantis was they were preparing for some sort of big war with Oceanus the Titan God of the Sea who was planning on burning Atlantis to the ground, well not burning more like tearing Atlantis to the ground.

Anyway I did try to get some information of who my Dad was whilst talking to the Naiads, but apparently they are masters at not giving in when they have to not tell someone something and all my attempts at trying to get some info were futile and not effective as they didn't budge an inch so I just gave up and continued to speed swim through the water; the coast around New York was quite disgusting from my point of view and I tried at times to clear the murky waters yet as soon as I did more waste started to slowly trickle in and I decided I was battling a losing fight and carried on my merry way.

The trip didn't take that long and would have been shorter if I hadn't have been held up along the way with Naiads/murky water and some other stuff, but alas I made it and I was standing bone dry on the coast of Nepeague looking at the map Hephaestus gave me I started looking for the pond I found earlier; spotting it I saw that it was just behind this Wildlife park that I was standing by.

Running through the forest I spotted not much to say the least, no monsters, no wild animals just plants; I guessed the plants must be endangered or something like that as they were certainly not looking after animals because there was none to look after. Jumping over a fallen log I made it into the clearing that the lake was in and I was very shocked for two reasons; one the lake was the colour of the forest leaves pure green and it wasn't algae and secondly there appeared to be a Naiad in distress telling some water centaurs to go away in which they responded by sending a stream of murky water her way.

Getting my mind into gear I stopped the approaching water and sent it back in the direction of the two water centaurs who were now shocked that the water seemed to defy gravity and come back at them. 'Splash' the centaurs were drenched in the stuff covered from head to chest as their lower halves which were mermaid tails were already drenched from swimming in the water.

Casually strolling over, "hey what are you two centaurs doing," I asked rather forwardly wanting to get to the point, but as soon as I said centaurs their faces contorted to that of displeasure and they wore a thick scowl and sent another wave at water, however this time at me; shocking them yet again I raised a hand and sent back to them.

"I don't know who you are boy, but we are not centaurs we are Ichthyocentaurs closely related to centaurs, but not centaurs got that," one of them spat whilst the other nodded in agreement sending a fierce glare at me.

"Okay man I am sorry, but I was just wondering what you are doing harassing the Naiad," I asked.

"Oh her, we were just having some fun… weren't we," the other one said forcibly as if asking her to say yes.

"y-y-yes-s," she stuttered out blatantly lying about the situation.

"Come on you don't have to lie to me; were they or were they not harassing you?" I asked sternly wanting to get a straight answer out of her so I could beat these to punks down.

"Yes they were harassing me," she finished looking down ashamed and also scared that the two Ichthyocentaurs might attack her.

"So you two," I said looking at the two Ichthyocentaurs, "why were you harassing her?"

"Well we spotted her well let's just say having some fun with herself and then she started to cry and sank to the bottom of the pond and then we started attacking her with the shitty water for some fun," I was confused about the first part of the sentence, but I knew why she was crying I nearly was; I mean she was forced to live in a lake that was green because the humans couldn't be bothered to look after it properly.

"Yeah well I have a proposition you'll leave the girl alone if I beat you in an archery competition, but if I lose you get to carry on harassing her: Deal." I asked sticking out a hand to shake; the two Ichthyocentaurs looked between each other and then back to me with a look of certainty on their faces.

"Deal!" they said together before pulling out two finely made bows from their backpacks that they carried and turned to face a target which was hovering above the water; the target I made was made of solid ice and I was holding it up with some water from the lake.

We started walking back until we reached the tree line; this was about 400 feet away and would be quite easy to hit a bulls-eye from. I was about to take my place and aim when the two Ichthyocentaurs shot their arrows one after another until the two arrows they shot were both in the target; one of the arrows was a bulls-eye whilst the other one had miraculously split the other one and was now in the bulls-eye.

To win this I had to split an arrow that had already split another arrow, this was going to be harder than I first intended it to be; taking a deep breathe I drew my bow and put an arrow in it and pulled the string until it was taut, taking one last breathe I aimed and focused in on my target and fired. As I fired it the world around me went in slow motion as we all watched the arrow; the Naiad and I were hoping for the best, and the two Ichthyocentaurs were hoping for the worst.

It closed in on the target and all four of us held our breath in anticipation for what was to come. 'Crack' the noise echoed around the still atmosphere as the arrows split the intended target and somehow I had actually managed to win by splitting an arrow from 400 feet away, to say I was happy and the Ichthyocentaurs were annoyed would be an understatement; I had a smile Apollo would be jealous off on my face and the two Ichthyocentaurs were glowering at the arrow and they looked like they were trying to use the force to move the arrow.

"I guess I won then," I said happily still smiling and headed off to the Naiad and gave her a big hug, whilst she kept muttering over and over again, 'thank you, thank you'.

"I guess you did human, but before we leave please may we get your name so we can tell our brethren of you," one of the Ichthyocentaurs mumbled loudly, but still not accepting defeat.

"Sure why not, it is Percy and how about you," I asked genuinely curious to who they were.

"I am Vilppu and this here is Quinn; we are part of Poseidon's army and we are on break for this year," Vilppu responded.

"Oh okay, I'll see you whenever," I said giving them a parting wave before they jumped in the pond and headed down the stream to the ocean, I turned to face the Naiad who was now sitting by the pond staring at her green reflection in the pond, "Hey what is wrong."

"It is just that I shouldn't have been caught 'playing with myself' and crying and to top it all of I have the worst pond in the world," she snivelled, I was still curious to what playing with myself meant so I was going to strike a deal.

"Hey I don't even know what 'playing with myself' means so how about you tell me and I'll clean your lake," at these words the Naiad became flustered and her cheeks brighten up to a bright red.

"Do I have to tell you it is slightly embarrassing," she muttered softly and quietly almost so I couldn't hear it, but I did because of my above average hearing.

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you, but I'll clean your lake for you," I said and waved my hands and focused on the water changing colour and also not letting it ever allow sewage or dirt in again and then I felt the familiar pull in my stomach and there in front of us was a crystal clear lake. A look of surprise flashed through the Naiads face as she realised what had just happened.

"Did you do that for me and I don't have to show you?" she asked ecstatically causing me laugh at her reaction; as I finished laughing something very unexpected happened I was tackled to the ground by the over excited Naiad who then started to pepper me with small kisses on the cheeks and nose that is until she went for my lips; I was laughing to hard at her reaction and hadn't realised she was going to kiss me on the lips and when she did it was a pleasant surprise.

When her lips collided with mine I swear I felt some electricity spark between us as we kissed; I had never kissed another girl before so I didn't know what to do so I sat up and the Naiad slid down my chest and was now sitting in my lap, the Naiad reached a hand around the back of the neck and pulled me closer, I then felt a weird tingling feeling on my lips and realised it was her licking my bottom lip, it tickled a bit so I opened my mouth and then she thrust her tongue into my mouth which caught me off guard and I started to push back on her tongue trying to get it into her mouth like it was some sort of game. This went on for a few minutes before I had to pull out and get some air into my system, I was gasping for air trying to get as much in as quickly as possible, the Naiad on my lap was also doing the same and I felt a strange wet patch on my legs; it must have been some water from before I told myself what else could it be.

Suddenly the Naiad jumped to her feet and had a scared look on her face, "Percy I am so sorry I didn't mean to upset you I am so sorry please don't tell your Dad please I beg of you," she began, but before she carry on rambling I held up a hand and called for her to be silent.

"Shush, I am not going to tell Dad for one I don't know him and two why would I, but I think a more important question is what is your name and why did you do that?" I asked raising a questioning eyebrow.

"My name is Kayla, I kissed you like that because I am certain I am in love with you Percy and I have had dreams of you before I had even seen you, please understand me and don't think I am a creep." She pleaded. I guess I was rather happy and annoyed; one I had a beautiful Naiad who loved me with all her heart and secondly I know who had planted the thoughts in her head: My Dad.

I finally looked at the Naiad and took in her grace and beauty she was smaller than me and thankfully looked the same age as me, she had brown hair that cascaded down her back and a perfect face, her skin tone didn't bother me at all I found the slight blue tint rather awe inspiring and just added to her beauty. I blinked twice and pinched myself to check this Naiad was the one who just confessed her love for me and it was.

"Okay I am just going to ask my Dad something quickly don't worry," I said before going into my brain, Dad what should I do I am completely confused can you please tell me who you are and if you can, could you transport the Naiad here to a new home where I can visit her regularly please. For the first time ever I think I heard my father say yes in my head.

Just then a beam of blue and green light emerged from the water and landed on the shore and started to form a human body until there in front of me stood what must be my Dad, he wore a golden crown with a golden cape as well and also had some sea green armour on with normal trousers.

"Ermm hi Dad if that is who you are?" I guessed, but also shifted uneasily in my feet, but not as much as Kayla who practically fell to her knees in a bow before standing abruptly on her feet and shying away from the powerful aura that radiated from his body.

"Yes Son it is me. I am Pontus Primordial God of the Sea and you are my son are the Heir to the throne." He said calmly, but everything but calm was in my head right now; wonder, surprise, mystery, anger and many more, but the most profound curiosity.

"Primordial what, and what do you mean by heir to the throne what throne," I asked.

"I thought this would be the reaction I would get, I am a Primordial and long before the Gods and the Titans we ruled the world I was the God of the Sea and my sisters, brothers and mum were the rulers of many different types of domains we were the original council of the Gods, but we grew tired of ruling the world and gave control to the Titans and you know the rest from their and by heir I mean I will soon be fading from existent as my name gets forgotten and so are my other children, but you are young and have a great life ahead of you so it is possible for you to rule the seas when I am gone. However there is one big clause in this you have to find a wife or partner for each great ocean in the world and one for the Mediterranean Sea in total I think that is 6 lovely ladies for my boy and by the way this needs to be ready for when you are 18 and you will marry when you are 20 okay Son and by the way do not under any circumstances tell the Gods I am your father or they will try to kill you and on a side note I am going to set Kayla free from looking after a lake or river because I suspect she will become a wife and I will send her back to Camp Half-Blood to rest. Bye!"

And just like that he disappeared leaving me with a confused Kayla who actually looked pretty happy that she might one day become an immortal wife of mine, but this is all too quick; I felt nauseous and sick, I was feeling like I was just about to pass out before I felt a pair of reassuring arms wrap around my chest.

"Percy it'll be okay you still have six years left, now I think I better be preparing to go, love you," she said and as she finished she was flashed away back to camp leaving me on my own and I was just about ready to finish this quest and get back to camp before the sun set.

A/N So please let me know if you like the way it is unravelling and if not please send in some constructive criticism so I can make amends for tomorrow.

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