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Stephanos POV Part 1

Ever since I was young my family had told me stories of the gods that lived on Olympus and how they were worshipped because they were the reason everything was. We would not have any fish without the God of the Seas: Poseidon, any crops without the Goddess of Harvest: Demeter or what my mother considers very important: no love without the Goddess of Love and Beauty: Aphrodite.

I had grown up listening to the tales of the gods, their demigod children that served them and the monsters that haunted the world. Most in today's society believed that the gods had disappeared, that they were no more, adopting more modern religions but I've known the truth since I was five years old.

When I was five years old and walking home from a friend's home with my sister I heard a growling, my sister said, "Oh look, Stephanos! It is a puppy!" When I looked over it was no puppy, but a dog with fur as black as night, the size of a garbage truck, claws as sharp as razor blades, and eyes as red as fresh blood.

Trying to sound calm, I said, "No, sister. I do not want to play with the puppy. Maybe another time?" I gave her a small smile. "It would not go far, yes?"

My little sister gave me a beaming smile, "Fine, I will race you home, Stephanos!"

I sighed and before I started running I gave one last look at the demon dog.

Over the years I saw many different monsters and odd occurrence that other didn't notice, but none as often as about five years ago. I was vacationing in Rome when I all of a sudden I looked up and saw a giant, flying warship with the name 'Argo II' printed on the side. A few hours later my friends and I went to the area by the Coliseum only to see and hear loud noises, bright flashes of lightning and I'm sure I got sprayed with salt water somehow (my friends thought a light show was going on). Then later that day we went back to our car that we rented only to find out that it had fallen into a sink hole, but I could feel that it was no sick hole, especially when I saw the people on the ship looking down with almost desperate looks on their faces.

I tried to forget about all those odd occurrences as I got in my swimming gear, ready to snorkel off the coast of Greece just a few miles away from Alexandropolis.

"Stephanos," I looked up to see Alexander looking at me. "Have you seen my snorkel? I placed it nearby, but now I can't find it," he kept walking around while lifting the different items on the boat as if the snorkel had somehow fallen underneath it.

"No, I haven't," then I grinned. "Maybe you should ask Simon, I think I saw him with two pairs of snorkels."

Alexander looked up at me, incensed, "He better not or he will pay!" With that, he marched off. I checked once more to see if I had everything when all of a sudden I heard a splash, as if someone had been pushed in and when I reached my friends I saw that Alexander had pushed Simon into the water.

"What a great way to get your revenge," I said to Alexander, slightly sarcastically. "It isn't like we aren't getting in the water anyways."

Alexander shrugged and then smirked, "Who said that was my revenge?"

By then I had enough and decided to go in, "I'm going into the water now!" They said good-bye and I jumped in.

I spent a little while just admiring the vastness of the ocean (A/N: I've never even been snorkeling, let alone in Greece so bear with me) it was then that I noticed two young adults surrounded by a large air bubble. My first thought was Great another odd occurrence that my friends won't see. I decided to approach them, maybe I would finally get some answers, but when I got close I realized the two were locked in a passionate embrace so they might not even notice me.

I was wrong, apparently these two have great situational awareness, because about five feet away from their bubble they separated and looked at me while I looked at their bubble that I, again, was apparently not supposed to see. They looked at each other and then gestured for me to come forward into the bubble.

Going into the bubble felt like I was being sucked into a tube, but when I got in there I was perfectly able to breath and the two young adults were looking at me with questioning eyes, "I saw your bubble."

The girl asked, "You did, but you aren't supposed to."

I nodded, "Yeah, I've seen a lot of things over the years, like this giant ship called the 'Argo II' in Rome a couple years ago, a demon dog when I was five…"

The couple looked at each other, "You saw the 'Argo II'!"

Raising an eyebrow I asked, "Yeah, why?"

The guy smirked, "We were on it."

I just nodded, "Right, so can you tell me why I'm seeing all these things and my family thought I was slightly insane when I was younger?"

They both gave me a sympathetic look before the girl said, "I'm Annabeth Chase and this is Percy Jackson, the reason you're seeing these things is because you're a clear-sighted mortal, you can see through the Mist which is like a veil put over mortal's eyes so that they don't see anything from the world of the gods."

It took a minute to process that but then I looked at them and said, "So this 'Mist' hides all the monsters and unusual activity that happens?"

Percy nodded, "We have weapons that aren't harmful to mortals, only to other demigods and monster but to the Mist they look like baseball bats or hockey sticks."

"You're both demigods," I asked shocked and my eyes widened to the size of golf balls.

They nodded, "I'm a daughter of Athena," she gestured to Percy. "He's a son of Poseidon."

I raised an eyebrow, "What are a child of Athena and Poseidon doing together?"

They laughed, "It's a long story."

"Well, why don't you tell me tonight?" they gave me questioning looks. "Come to my restaurant for dinner and dancing."

They looked at each other and then smiled, "We were planning on going to the city, so that sounds nice."

With that the trio began swimming towards Stephanos' boat.

This is Part One of Stephanos. Review if you want to read any particular type of one-shot!