A/N: Anyone who wants to do a story where the characters read 'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes' series is allowed to do so as long as they tell me before hand.

In this chapter and the next chapter there will be parts based off of SoulReaperCrewe's Son of the Huntress: The Lightning Thief

I don't own Percy Jackson series or Naruto series, or any of the characters of either series. Nor am I the writer of the Son of the Huntress series

Warning: Read these stories if you haven't before reading this story:

'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Lightning Thief'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Sea of Monsters'

I do not own the Percy Jackson or the Naruto series nor do I own The Son of the Huntress or any other fanfics that inspired some of the scenes in the stories.

Naruto Dreams About Zoe and Hercules... I mean Percy

Naruto and his friends were in the van crossing the Potomac when they spotted the helicopter. It was sleek, black military model like the one at Westover Hall. And it was coming straight toward them.

"They know the van," Percy said. "We have to ditch it."

Zoë swerved into the fast lane. The helicopter was gaining.

"Maybe the military will shoot it down," Grover said.

"I doubt it," Naruto said.

"How can the General use mortals, anyway?" Percy asked.

"Mercenaries," Zoë said bitterly. "It is distasteful, but many mortals will fight for any cause as long as they are paid."

"Sounds like Zabuza Momochi," Naruto said before explaining to those that didn't know who Naruto was talking about, "A son of Ares who was a Ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mist that gone rogue—betrayed and left his village. After that he basically became a rogue ninja for hire for a criminal organization just to make some money."

"That's great and all, but we still need to get away from that helicopter," Thalia said.

"There!" Bianca said. "That parking lot!"

"We'll be trapped," Zoë said.

"Trust me," Bianca said.

Zoë shot across two lanes of traffic and into a mall parking lot on the south bank of the river. They left the van and followed Bianca down some steps.

"Subway entrance," Bianca said. "Let's go south. Alexandria."

"Anything," Thalia agreed.

"Hold on guys!" Naruto said as they reached underground and made the hand sign. "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Six clones appeared around Naruto.

"Five of you transform into my friends here and all of you distract that helicopter!" Naruto said.

"Yes sir!"

Five of the clones transformed into Grover, Percy, Thalia, Zoë, and Bianca and all six clones raced outside.

"The clones should distract the helicopter, but the transformation jutsu can't fool monsters with a strong sense of smell. So we should get as far from here as possible," Naruto explained

No one argued since they haven't forgotten about the Spactai that were chasing them. They went to buy their tickets and got through the turn-stiles. A few minutes later they were safely aboard a southbound train, riding away from D.C. As their train came above ground, they could see the helicopter flying away from the driveway. Naruto guessed his clones got into the car and were now driving away—although it was hard to tell since he hasn't received any of their memories as they haven't disperse yet.

Grover let out a sigh. "Good idea on the Shadow clones, Naruto. Nice job to you too Bianca, thinking of the subway."

Bianca looked pleased. "Yeah, well. I saw that station when Nico and I came through last summer. I remember being really surprised to see it, because it wasn't here when we used to live in D.C."

Grover frowned. "New? But that station looked really old.

"I guess," Bianca said. "But trust me, when we lived here as little kids, there was no subway."

Thalia sat forward. "Wait a minute. No subway at all?"

Naruto frowned a bit as he started realizing something. He met the di Angelos in the Lotus Casino, but he never thought about how long they were there until now.

"Bianca, what ye—"

Naruto stopped when he had a flash of memories from his clones. The helicopters had managed to gunned them down before they dispersed.

"My clones were destroyed," Naruto said. "They probably will head back to the parking lot. We should change trains just in case they get lucky and find out what train we took."

No one argued and in over the next half hour, they changed trains twice. When they got off the final train, they found themselves at the end of the line, in an industrial area with nothing but warehouses and railway tracks, and lots of snow. To make things worse, it seemed colder here.

"Great, now what?" Thalia asked.

"Naruto, is there any roads nearby?" Percy asked.

Naruto closed his eyes and focused but didn't sense anything. "No—at least none close enough for me to sense, and I don't sense any form of transportation we can use anywhere near. But—" Naruto stopped as he felt a tingling sensation. It wasn't like when he was near locks or something valuable, but rather like someone was holding hundreds of matches near him.

"But?" Thalia asked.

"This could be a blessing of Hestia, but I can sense a fire source nearby," Naruto said. "There might be people there."

Naruto lead them to another area full of freight cars, most of which were covered in snow, like they hadn't moved in years.

Sure enough they found a homeless guy standing at a trashcan fire which were dying. He looked at them and gave them a toothless grin and said, "Care for some fire? I'm afraid it's not much, but it should help."

They didn't argued as they came to the trashcan for warmth. At first they wanted to get as close as possible but once they did it burned out.

"Hmm, maybe I need to go get more wood," the man said before leaving.

Once the man was out of sight, Naruto unsealed a few pieces of paper and focus chakra into them. Sure enough the paper caught fire and Naruto dropped them into the barrel. Sure enough the fire blazed up.

"Nice," Thalia said.

"Beauty of Fire Chakra," Naruto responded. "Which is of course a courtesy of being a champion of Hestia."

"Maybe we should contact the camp," Bianca said. "Chiron—"

"No," Zoë said. "They cannot help us any more. We must finish this quest ourselves."

"Whoa! Look at that fire go!" the homeless man said as he came back with some burnable. "I guess one of you had some matches on you—or good in starting fires."

"That's me," Naruto said. "Hey sir, do you know where we can find a train to take us west?"

"Why yes I do. There's one over there." He pointed off with his greasy hand.

Suddenly they noticed a freight train, gleaming and free of snow. It was one of those automobile-carrier trains, with steel mesh curtains and a triple deck of cars inside. The side of the freight train said SUN WEST LINE.

"That's… convenient," Thalia said. "Thanks, uh…"

They turned to see that the homeless guy was gone. The trash can had once again died as if the man took the fire with him.

That was when it clicked in Naruto's mind. "I think that was Apollo."

"Apollo?" Thalia asked skeptical.

"I think the boy is right," Zoë said grudgingly. "Since My Lady is his twin sister, it only makes sense he would risk a lot to help us save her."

An hour later they were rumbling west. There was no problem about who would drive now, as all of them had their own luxary car. Zoë and Bianca were crashed out in a Lexus on the top deck. Grover was playing race car driver behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. Naruto and Thalia worked together to hot wired the radio in a black Mercedes SLK so she could pick up the altrock from the D.C. before Naruto took seat in a blood red corvitable Mustang, which he had somehow figured how to lower the roof and set the seat back as he jammed to the radio music of White Stripes.

Percy decided to join Thalia in her car to talk.

"Join you?" he asked her.

Thalia shrugged so Percy climbed into the shotgun seat.

"Nice coat," Thalia said.

Percy pulled the brown duster around him, thankful for the warmth. "Yeah, but the Nemean Lion wasn't the monster we're looking for."

"Not even close. We've got a long way to go."

"Whatever this mystery monster is, the General said it would come for you. They wanted to isolate you from the group, so the monster will appear and battle you one-on-one."

"He said that?"

"Well, something like that. Naruto might be able to confirm it."

Percy looked at his blonde friend who decided to use his steering wheel as a bongo set as he hit the wheel to the song until he accidentally hit the car horn causing a loud HONK! That made everyone jumped from their seats/ Grover looked over from his Lamborghini to Naruto and Zoe and Bianca peeked down from their van as Naruto smiled impishly and rubbed the back of his head apologizing for the disturbance.

Percy and Thalia—who saw the whole thing—burst out laughing at Naruto's unplanned stunt.

"Leave it to Naruto to find a way to brighten up the mood," Percy chuckled.

After that things calmed down and Naruto decided to stop using the steering wheel as a bongo set.

"You know where we're going, don't you?" Thalia asked. "San Francisco. That's where Artemis was heading."

Percy frowned a bit as he remembered Annabeth mentioning something about San Francisco at Westover Hall—at least she was about to when they noticed the di Angelo kids missing.

"Why?" Percy asked. "What's so bad about San Francisco?"

"The Mist is really thick there because the Mountain of Despair is so near. Titan magic—what's left of it—still lingers. Monsters are attracted to that area like you wouldn't believe."

"What's the Mountain of Despair?"

Thalia raised an eyebrow. "You really don't know? Ask stupid Zoë. She's the expert."

She glared out the windshield as the afternoon sun sone through the steel-mesh side of the freight train. Percy decided to leave Thalia to her thoughts and ask Naruto if he had any idea what the Mountain of Despair was? Naruto may of not been raised in this world, but Percy had hoped that with his knowledge of the ancient Greek Stories, Naruto might have an idea.

"Percy! Hey! Join in," Naruto greeted.

Percy sat in the shot gun seat. "Hey Naruto, do you know anything about a Mountain of Despair?"

"Depends, is it in the Greek stories?" Naruto asked.

"I'm not sure, but I was talking to Thalia and she mentioned it being in San Francisco," Percy said. "And since a lot of the Greek Mystical places moved here, I thought it might not hurt asking you."

Naruto closed his eyes and crossed his arms—which Percy recognized as Naruto's thinking stance.

"It could be the old Titan Base," Naruto replied.

"The old Titan base?" Percy asked.

"Yeah. Mount Olympus wasn't always the base of operation for all immortal beings," Naruto said. "When the titans ruled, they had their base on a separate and formerly tallest mountain in Greece."

"Formerly?"

"Zeus sheered the mountain top off with his master bolt during the last Titan War, which in turn made Mount Olympus the largest mountain in Greece," Naruto explained.

"And you think this mountain is the mountain of despair?" Percy asked.

"It would go with our dream visions of Annabeth and Artemis," Naruto said.

Percy never thought of it, but Naruto was right. He remember the ruins of the place during his first dream vision of Luke fooling Annabeth into holding up the ceiling. Something also clicked in Percy's head.

"The General is the Titan that holds up the sky, isn't it?" Percy asked.

Naruto nodded. "Atlas. Kronos' right-hand general."

"I wonder what all this has to do with Zoë?" Percy asked.

Naruto gave his friend a quizzical look.

"Thalia said something about Zoë knowing something about the Mountain of Despair," Percy replied.

"Well, that I can't answer you," Naruto said. "The only other residence I'm aware of near the Titan's base is the Hesperides-nymphs that look after the tree of the golden apples and the dragon Ladon that protects it."

"Great," Percy muttered.

Time rushed by and it started getting dark. Grover tried to impress the hunters with a poison ivy song, which only made things worse when poison Ivy grew out of their airconditioner.

After Grover fell asleep, Percy decided to join him in his car, but Naruto just sat there trying to sleep—and failing miserably. Naruto wasn't sure if it's from nerves or fear of dreams. All he knew was that he couldn't sleep.

"Ah, a mustang. A perfect car for useful dreams." A voice said beside him

Naruto jumped and turned to see Apollo—still in his homeless guy clothes.

Apollo cleared his throat as if starting another Haiku:

"Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears,
They tell me cool stuff."

"Nice to see you again, Apollo," Naruto greeted.

"Call me Fred," Apollo responded.

"Why?"

"Because I'm incognito. Why else? Zeus insist on certain rules. Hands off, when there's a human quest. Even when something really major is wrong. But nobody messes with my baby sitter. Nobody."

"Is that why you gave us this freight train?" Naruto asked.

"That's right. It won't take you all the way to San Francisco, but it'll get you most of the way there," Apollo replied.

Naruto shrugged. He wasn't going to complain. Especially since the freight train was a better than the Not-so-humane animal transport truck or the confederate ship that wasn't meant for sea travels full of zombie soldiers Ares supplied for the last two quest.

"By the way, I overheard your conversation with Percy earlier," said Apollo. "I take it you figured out the location of Artemis, right?"

Naruto shrugged. "It wasn't that hard after Percy brought up the Mountain of Despair. But I'm guessing you already knew that, all knowing Apollo."

Apollo chuckled at the nickname. "Too be honest, I actually didn't think of her being there. She's been clouded from my vision since she been kidnapped. But after overhearing yours and Percy's conversation, I can understand why."

Naruto was rather shock to find that Apollo didn't know, but something else occurred in his mind. " Do you have an idea of what is the monster Artemis is hunting?" Naruto asked. "The only thing we know is it's powerful and slaying it will give someone the strength to destroy Olympus, but we have no idea what that monster is."

"Ah, well, that's a question I cannot answer," Apollo said. "But I can tell you who might know. If you have yet to find the monster when you reach San Francisco, seek out Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea. He has a long memory and a sharp eye. He has the gift of knowledge sometimes kept obscured from my Oracle."

"Nereus, huh?" Naruto smirked. "Sounds good."

"Good! Well, I better get going. I doubt I can risk helping you and your friends again, Naruto, so I suggest you get as much sleep needed."

With that Apollo snapped his fingers and the next thing Naruto knew his eyes were closing on him and his dreams began.

…

Naruto normally hates dream visions, even when he's sharing it with Percy. But when he sees Percy dressed in a greek toga being tugged around by a Zoë, Naruto couldn't stop his jaw drop in shock.

At first Naruto didn't recognized Percy, nor did he know where he was at. All Naruto could guess was that he was in some sort of garden of tall grass and plenty of flowers to give someone hay fever.

Then out of nowhere, Zoë Nightshade came out of nowhere wearing a silk robes that glowed faintly in the starlight. tugging a dark hair man wearing a Nemean Lion cloak. At first Naruto was confused of what he was seeing, but the image of the man flickered, briefly showing Percy instead.

Oh, this is another shared dream vision, Naruto realized, This time Percy is playing a part of someone else.

Some part of Naruto found himself glad he wasn't playing a part in this, otherwise he guessed he would ended up playing the part of Zoë and he really don't want to explain that to her if it ever comes up.

"Hurry!" Zoë said. "He'll find us."

"I'm not afraid," Percy said in a gruff voice—probably the voice of whoever Percy was playing the part of.

"You should be!" she said, pulling Percy along.

Naruto watch as they raced up the side of the hill. It seemed Percy didn't recognized Zoë, but that didn't stop him from being pulled behind the thorn bush by her.

I wonder if he's being forced into acting this part by the dream, Naruto thought

"There is no need to run," Percy said. "I have bested a thousand monsters with my bare hands."

Yep, Naruto thought to himself with a smirk. He knew for a fact that Percy never beaten animals with just his bare hands.

"Not this one," Zoë said. "Ladon is too strong. You must go around, up the mountain to my father. It is the only way."

That's when it dawned to Naruto where he was and what he was watching. They were in the garden of Hesperides, and Percy taking part of Hercules' task of getting the golden apple.

"I don't trust your father," Percy said.

Atlas, Naruto thought.

"You should not," the girl agreed. "You will have to trick hi. But you cannot take the prize directly. You will die."

Or ended up with a really bad scar, Naruto thought to himself as he remembered Luke's failed quest to get the golden apple.

Percy chuckled. "Then why don't you help me, pretty one?"

"I… I am afraid. Ladon will stop me. My sisters, if they found out… they would disown me."

"Then there's nothing for it." Percy stood up, rubbing his hands together.

"Wait!" the girl said.

She antagonized with her decision, which got Naruto's attention. Then, her fingers trembling, she reached up and plucked a long white brooch from her hair. "If you must fight, take this. My mother, Pleione, gave it to me. She was a daughter of the ocean, and the ocean's power is within it. My immortal power."

The girl breathed on the pin and it glowed faintly like polished abalone. Naruto's skin tingled with the familiar presence of precious metals.

Last summer, Naruto realized he had the innate ability to sense objects that are either worth a lot of money or very valuable and rare when he sense the Golden Fleece in a dream vision.

"Take it," Zoë told Percy. "And make of it a weapon."

Percy laughed, which told Naruto the guy he was acting as didn't realized the preciousness of that broach. "A hairpin? How will this slay Ladon, pretty one?"

"It may not," she admitted. "But it is all I can offer, if yo insist on being stubborn.

Zoë's voice must have soften Percy's heart. He reached down and took the hairpin, and as he did, it grew longer and heavier into a familiar bronze sword.

"Well balance," Percy said. "Though I usually prefer to use my bare hands. What shall I name this blade?"

"Anaklusmos," Zoë said sadly. "The current that takes one by surprise. And before you know it, you have been swept out to sea."

Naruto bit ack his lip to keep himself from yelling.

That's the Ancient Greek name of Percy's sword, Naruto remembered. That's Riptide!

With that the dream faded out into nothingness.

…

Naruto shot up from his seat and once again hit the car horn.

"Geez Naruto! What's with you and that horn?" Thalia asked as she was on the otherside of his car rubbing her ears.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked. "Where are we?"

Zoë and Bianca started rolling up the metal curtains, revealing a snowy mountain dotted with pine trees, the sun rising red between two peaks.

As he watch Zoë, Naruto was certain that was Hercules Zoë helped. He was also certain of something else—something happened after that quest that made Zoë hate men.

"The train has stopped and we're getting off," Thalia said. "Come on, we got to wake Percy."

A/N: With this update that means "The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Titan's Curse' won last month's poll that decided what I should work on this month. For those who don't know, I set up a poll to let the readers decide what I should update every month. There are five of the incomplete stories on my list on the poll and at the end of the month the one with the most votes is the one I work on on the next month when I can, and the one with the least number of votes is added to the next poll with four other different stories. I've also made it each polls now has a theme based on what kind of story is the losing story. Of couse that doesn't mean I will be updating every month as anything can happen to prevent me from getting a chapter done each month