POV: Percy

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Chapter 10: The Master Bolt

We decided to begin our story by explaining our first ever quest, the one from years and years ago (aka when we were eleven). Annabeth and I took turns to explain the quest to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and our journey to the Underworld.

"So, our first ever quest began when we were eleven. Zeus's Master Bolt had somehow been stolen, and he blamed his own brother, Poseidon. And so when Percy was claimed to be a child of Poseidon when he first got to Camp Half-Blood… well, it got a little complicated," Annabeth began. "A very long time ago, the Big Three - which are Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon - made a pact and swore to never have demigod children with a mortal again. They did this because of an ancient prophecy given by the Oracle of Delphi, which basically said that when a child of the Big Three turned sixteen, they would either save or destroy Olympus." The Cullens all stared at Annabeth like she was crazy, at the same time trying to absorb all of the information. "Should I continue?" she asked hesitantly, noticing the bewildered look on their faces.

"Yes, yes, please do!" Carlisle encouraged, curious and wanting to learn more.

"Okay. Well… Percy came to Camp Half-Blood when he was eleven. His mom brought him - Sally Jackson. She already knew that he was a demigod and that his father was a Greek god. Later, he was claimed by -"

"Hold on, hold on! You're forgetting the part about the Minotaur!" I exclaimed.

"Fine, then, Seaweed Brain. You explain that. I wasn't really there."

"Well, when I came to Camp Half-Blood, we were being chased by a monster. This was the Minotaur. Yes, he was - is - real," I added as the Cullens gave me a strange stare. "Anyway, I had to… um… fight him, and eventually I managed to dissolve him into dust. But not before he picked up my mom. She kind of… dissolved, but into golden light. I thought she was dead, so I attacked the Minotaur ferociously. That was my first battle against a monster. Well… kind of. But I won't go into any more details. I kept one of the Minotaur's horns, which I ripped off his head, as a sort of trophy. Alright. Continue, Wise Girl."

The Cullens turned their attention back to Annabeth, who explained how Poseidon had claimed me, which broke the Big Three's pact, and then how Zeus had blamed Poseidon of using me to steal his lightning bolt. "And that was when the quest began, I guess. The only way for Percy to show that it hadn't been him was to retrieve the Master Bolt and return it to Zeus. So Percy went to receive a prophecy from the mummy in the attic, which contained the spirit of the Oracle of Delphi. The prophecy was as follows:

"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." I looked at Annabeth in surprise, shocked by how easily she remembered the prophecy. It was like she knew what I was thinking, because she pointed at her own head and said, "Daughter of wisdom, knowledge and memory, Seaweed Brain."

"Right," I muttered.

"Alright, so we started the quest. Percy chose two people to go with him - a satyr named Grover and me. We all set off westwards, as the prophecy said. Chiron, who is an ancient centaur who lives at Camp Half-Blood and helps to train demigods, suspected that Hades had the lightning bolt, and there was also an entrance to the Underworld in Los Angeles, California, so that's where we traveled."

Now, not only the Cullens were staring at us wide-eyed, but Calypso, Amanda, and Leo too. I took over the story momentarily.

"So, later on, we got on a bus, and there were three old ladies that we later recognized as the Three Furies, who live in the Underworld with Hades. We barely survived the attack and escaped into a place called - what was it? - right, Aunty M's Garden Gnome Emporium. This old lady with a veil on served us food and then wanted to take our picture. It was when she started to take the veil off to take the 'picture' that we figured out it was Medusa."

"Wait, the Medusa, who can turn people to stone with her eyes?" Renesmee asked with wide eyes.

"The very one. Anyways, it led to another fight, where we all almost became stone statues for sale in Aunty M's Garden Gnome Emporium, but eventually, I managed to cut off her head."

"What?!" everyone yelled in unison.

"Yes, Percy did cut off Medusa's head, like the Perseus in the stories. Except that Perseus was a son of Zeus - you know what, it doesn't matter. Continue, Percy. Maybe with less details."

"Um. Ok. Well, later on, we had a couple of adventures with a Chimera and Echidna at the top of the Gateway Arch, and I… um, I jumped into the Mississippi River from the top because it was the only way I could live. I actually found out that I could breathe underwater and go deeper than any other person because my father was Poseidon. Anyways, a nereid, who was one of my father's friends, came up to me in the Mississippi and told me to go to the ocean before the Underworld."

Annabeth took the story from my hands there. "Well, after that, we took the train to Denver, and after a series of unfortunate events in Waterland because of - ahem, ahem - Ares, the god of War, received some information about Percy's mom and got a ride to Las Vegas in the back of a truck with some poor animals in it. When we got to Las Vegas, we were invited into the Lotus Hotel and Casino and given a free room there. We all got some food, rest, and went to the arcade. We spent a couple of hours in there before figuring out that there were people in there who thought the year was 1977 or 1985. After that, we immediately left the hotel. Thankfully, we were still in the same year, but we'd spent five days in the Lotus Hotel and Casino without even knowing it. Did I mention that we had only before the summer solstice to retrieve Zeus's Master Bolt? So we had one day left to get it from the Underworld."

"Okay, again, hold your pegasi! What? How did you spend five days in there without knowing it?" Leo interrupted, clearly very frustrated.

"Well, time in the Lotus Hotel and Casino passed much slower than it does in the real world. I don't know exactly how it works," I explained. "Wow. Describing just our first quest is taking much longer than I thought it would. Who wants to take a short break?"

A/N: Thanks for your patience and please review!