Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or it's characters Rick Riordan does.

I was in the middle of preparing for the Arena. My armour consisted of a leather chest piece, leather wrist guards not full vambraces, cotton pants, and leather sandals that covered the whole foot. Apparently I was wearing traditional gladiator armour and we all know what happened to most of them, yay me.

I was checking over everything when I felt a presences enter the room. When I looked up it was Alex in his golden praetor armour with a purple cloak draped over it.

"Yes, praetor!" I stopped what I was doing instantly to salute to the highest ranking demigod at camp.

"At ease, Perseus." I instantly reacted to resting. "Is everything coming along?"

"Yes, sir." he nodded and walked to an area with different armour displayed.

"Are you prepared for this fight?"

"Yes, sir."

"Good because every cohort will be throwing their best fighters in and if you make it you can join but if not we can't accept you."

"I understand, sir." he came closer to me.

"Good because I would love to see a son of Neptune's skill in battle." he went to walk out. "Also watch your back at all times and good luck, Perseus."

After he walked out I went back to inspecting my armour and weapons, Tranquility and Attrition. Was I really prepared for this? I mean I told everyone I am but still. I have trained with mother have plenty of times but I know she holds back every time. I guess is to just pray to the gods and hope I can join the legion.

I stood at the front entrance to the colosseum and wow there was a lot of people. The crowd consisted of every cohort and citizen in New Rome. The architecture for the colosseum was magnificent. It was made out of concrete but smoothed down and had open windows all around it. It was lined with gold trim everywhere and it stood at 189 meters long and 156 meters wide like the original in Rome, Italy.

"Ladies and gentlemen the time has finally came for a fight in the arena." the speaker was Augustus the augur that hated me. "The fight will consist of no killing-" some booed "-only making. This fight will be judged by you fine people of New Rome." the crowd was cheering and yelling at that point.

"Now lets introduce our fighters shall we." I stepped a little closer to the entrance. "The opponent is the son of Neptune. He just came here yesterday after supposedly killing a sixteen headed hydra singlehandedly but who can believe that. I welcome Perseus into the Arena."

I stepped into the Arena after unleashing Tranquility in my right hand and Attrition in my left. I was in the middle of the arena and was being booed at and I think someone threw a tomato at me.

"Now with two warriors of the fifth cohort. One of them took an army of hellhounds on and came out with only a few scratches while the other fought five griffons without any help, I give you the son of Mars, Mark Landon and son of Mercury, Christopher Munoz."

Mark's name I recognized but Christopher's I didn't. Once they walked out I saw Mark's tall and bulky frame and next to him was a guy with a small but slim body and I couldn't see his facial features because of the helmet he wore. There weapons consisted of a spear and daggers Mark with the spear and Christopher with the dual daggers.

"Fight!"

That's what was said the made all hell brake loose and I had Mark charging me and Christopher trying to flank. Once Mark was in range he thrusted his spear towards me and I used Attrition to flick it away before having to dodge a dagger coming for my right leg.

I broke apart from them to try and get some room but that didn't work well when Mark close lined me and knocked the breath out me and left me on the dirt.

"Look Mark, the weakling is already beat." Mark laughed and went to say something before I brought my leg around and tripped him leaving him defenseless.

"Don't count me out yet." I said once I was up and had my bearings straight.

I charged Christopher and he didn't have too much time to react before I kicked him in the chest sending him to the dirt causing his weapons to fly out of his hands leaving him weaponless. Mark was in the process of getting up before I already had my sword at his neck. He raised two fingers up, index and middle finger, meaning submission.

"Well, that was fast." It was at that point I realized everyone is silent. "Well the winner is Perseus." Augustus didn't sound happy

There was two medics that came to get them out of the arena before the next match. It was actually trying to see one of the medics try to pick Mark up seeing how he was about twice the size of the medic.

"Give it up for the fifth cohort." not much cheering now. "On to the next match. This time the next challengers are the twins of Apollo himself, the two that took on an army of laistrygonian giants and survived, Eric and Alyssa Thyme."

From the other side of the arena came out two figures, male and female, that looked very similar in appearance. Both were dark skinned with high cheek bones small but lithe figure, and brown eyes that looked like dark chocolate (being raised and a champion of the wolf goddess gives you some perks like very good vision.). The male had gladius that looked like it was made of gold while the female had a bow made of gold with arrows to match.

"Fight." Augustus gave the signal.

Once that was said the male, Eric, charged me while his sister, Alyssa, nocked an arrow and fire. You wouldn't think but when you are trying to dodge a sword swinging man and a arrow firing woman it is really hard. While Alex tried to distract me Alyssa just kept firing and kept missing but only by hairs.

Eric feigned an attack to my left then turned direction and went to my right and that made me lose concentration on Alyssa who took the opportunity and fired another arrow and it lodged into my leather chestplate. If it weren't for the thickness of the leather the arrow would have lodged into my gut and probably kill me. That made me lose focus on Eric who got a slash in on my face causing a gash from the bottom of my right ear to my chin going over my lip, just another scar to add.

Eric went for another attack while I was stunned on my left but this time I deflected it with Attrition and attacked with Tranquility slashing him across his chest plate and across his shoulder causing him to back up stunned.

"You are and exceptional fighter Perseus." Eric said with a deep voice.

"Thanks."

"Too bad you are not good enough."

After saying this Alyssa fired two shots one passing over my shoulder the other embedding in it.

"Ahhgg." I fell to my left knee.

"Do you submit?" Eric had his golden sword at neck.

"Never."

I swiped his legs out under him with Attrition's flat side. I ripped the arrow out of my left shoulder and went after Alyssa. She had no time to react before I was on her and had Tranquility at her throat.

"Yield." I saw the look in her eye's and turned in just enough time to disarm Eric with the technique that mother basically drilled into my skull by now. Now I had both swords at their throats.

"Yield." both yielded thankfully.

"The Winner is Perseus." Augustus was definitely not happy.

The next two matches were a lot harder but I pushed harder almost to my max. Cohort three had a son of Vulcan and a daughter of Venus and the duo were very hard to get pass with the way Venus' daughter tried to make me yield before we even fought and Vulcans son was very good with pilum that is all I have to say about that.

The second cohort had a daughter of Bacchus and a daughter of Ceres. Which now made the whole arena covered in all sorts of plants. I also think I have poison ivy somewhere that I don't think anyone wants poison ivy to be. Out of both fights I gained more wounds that will turn to scars in time but hey they might look cool.

"Well, I didn't think we would have made it this far." Augustus was now red with anger. "Now who is ready for the final fight." people cheered and yelled.

"Well, I must present the opponents from first cohort-" The gates on the other side of the arena opened a little early and out stepped a familiar face.

The figure had black hair in a military buzz, with stern facial features, and had brown and reddish colored eyes. This figure stood at least six foot clad in golden armour. Alex son of Mars and praetor of first Rome has entered the arena.

"Well this is… a different outcome than expected." Augustus announced "Welcome praetor Alex!" everyone cheered for Alex and once Augustus gave the signal we both charged each other.

I knew this would be a tough fight and there was a low chance of me winning but I had to keep fighting no matter what. Alex's weapon of choice was a spatha which was not easy to block with one sword especially a master with a spatha like Alex is.

He just kept coming and I could barely block and dodge he was just too fast to lay a hit on. I would go to block an attack and he was already changing directions.

"You are too slow, Perseus." Alex said over the clash over our blades.

"You are just too fast."

"No excuses. Concentrate and only focus on us not the crowd just this battle between us." I did just that and wow it really helped.

I mean Alex still had the upper hand but it helped me focus on just the clash of our blades. Sadly it was all ruined by Augustus' obnoxious laughter and when I looked over he just smirked and at the moment I knew I royally messed up.

Alex took that time I was distracted and tripped me causing me to fall straight on my head. I was barely conscious and Alex had his spatha at my throat. I did the best response I could give and succumb to unconsciousness.

I was on a mountain top and I could tell by the high altitude, coldness, and the ground under me. I looked to be surrounded by ruins and nothing else besides two men arguing. One man faced me and his eyes were like an ice storm the blue looked cold as ice. His features were that of someone inhuman the way he looked too perfect. His armour was that of a blue looking steel and his helmet had horns that had the look of a ram.

The man he was arguing with was faced away from me and I am lucky he was because he was just too bright to look at. I think the only way I could see the first man was because of the second illuminated the dark mountain top. From what I could tell the man had gold armour and fire surrounded him licking at his skin.

"This is the perfect time to attack, brother. Their defenses are weak." the man in gold said.

"Patience, brother. That is how we win wars." the man with cold eyes had a cold sounding voice to match.

"Our spies have told us of a threat. That sea spawn and that tells us we need to strike before he gets any stronger."

"When the time comes what will one child of Neptune do. In just a few months there will be more of us think what will happen in a few years. We have time just be patient."

"Fine but don't let that sea spawn get too strong."

"Fine brother I won't let that happen."

"This was a nice chat, Crius. I wish I could continue but I have a war to prepare for good luck here."

"You too, Sun. We will see how this all plays out."

"Good luck."

"Good luck, brother." and with that the titan of light, fire, and power flashed out. "Let's see if we can get in trouble shall we."

I was pulled out of my dream as I heard of that monstrous laughter.

I know its been awhile but I had writers block but I'm back now. I know I said I will start the quest in this one but I need something to start next chapter. When I say Percy is Lupa's champion I mean he has heightened senses and speed that's it no over powered abilities. I hoped Y'all liked this chapter.

so for review now:

AACM25: hm i've never read a percy/hera fic usually i prefer staying with percabeth but otherwise i like him with reyna
but going into the chapter, i really enjoyed it and i really hope you can finish this story, so it doesn't end like twins of rome or romulus and remus i was truly saddened that those haven't been updated in a long time.
my favorite god it Apollo and goddess hestia
i feel you in wanting to be a son of hephaestus as i mechanics is kind of a passion of mine and being able to fix anything and make anything would be a dream come true and fire is just an added bonus:)
the thing that i want percy to do is struggle at the camp, this time he is younger and not as powerful or as secure of himself, i don't want the romans to be jerks but to be wary of him and when the titan war start that he is subjected to distrust as in times of war there is plenty of that and being a son of neptune will likely not help. What i'm wondering is how thing are going to go during the titan war, as percy is the child of the prophecy and yet kronos is going to attack the greeks, so how can he fulfill the prophecy when he is stuck facing krios, *afterthought* unless he does not become the child of the prophecy, with jason still in the picture would thalia join the hunt?
i guess the titan war would likely start before for the romans, as they don't have as powerful defenses as the greek demigods have and would therefore be attacked first, like it happened in heroes of olympus, added with the fact that the romans don't have an as powerful force as the greeks, yeah they would likely be attacked first. So maybe just after atlas is put under the sky, after all they already had that huge army we saw in the titans curse just waiting to be used and finish around the same time

So first of I will finish this story so you wont have to worry about that but for a lot of the stuff you bring up has excellent points but sadly I can't answer some things without out spoiling anything but I will try. As you could see from the past one or two chapters the romans are very wary of him and the war hasn't even started yet so you will have to wait and see further on. In this Percy is not the child of prophecy but he is very important in the upcoming war and you will see why. lastly this chapter should tell you that yes the romans will be facing the army first so just keep reviewing and I will answer questions without spoiling anything

Shigure Toshiro: Interesting story so far, looking forward to what happens next

thanks for the review I appreciate it. it's short and sweat thanks.

Malosi06:Just wanted to read this cause I saw Percy/Reyna anyways this story is going very well. I would have wanted Percy to fight Jason but you already said he was going to be Greek. So maybe Thalia. She could be super proud/ jealous that there's another big 3. They fight. Then have a brother/sister bond after

thanks for checking my story out but I will see about what you want and see if maybe I can put it in.

Feraa:Hmm... I dunno about the quest, but I would definitely prefer Percy not to completely sweep the Arena. Like, sure, Percy can be powerful and all, but surely he will have SOME sorta difficulties when fighting people who are quite a few years older, right? Then again, I may be underplaying his power, as it has been a while since I've last read part of this...

Well I hope you liked this I tried not to make him sweep it entirely but in the process he got some very bad damage to himself so that tells you he is not invincible and the way Alex took him out tells you he still needs training. also I didn't indulge into his power really I just wanted to show you his skill with a sword so yeah.

That's all the reviews and that was some pretty good ones I hope all of y'all enjoyed this chapter but now on too the question. we have two this time:

First, If someone could tell me where Perseus' outfit from this chapter came from I will give them a shout out next chapter? Hint: It was from a gladiator show on Starz First person wins

Second, Do y'all want me to scrap the reviewing of the reviews? because I know not everyone wants that but I enjoy them but I what ever y'all want I will do just give me feedback.

So that's all. see y'all next time.