The Greatest Tragedy Chapter 1: A Gathering Storm
AN: Sorry guys for the confusion with the Prologue. I decided I didn't want the first chapter to just be an AN, so I fiddled around with everything and added it to the prologue. If you haven't read the long AN at the beginning, please go back and do so.
Delos POV:
It has been one year since Kronos and the army dedicated to reinstating the children of Gaia as rulers of the universe was defeated by the sea-spawn Perseus. One year of constant harassment, abuse, and attacks from those that either stayed out of the Second Titan War or fought with the Olympians. Who could have faulted me for siding with Prometheus, the Titan of forethought, who himself believed nobody could stop the combined might of Kronos, Typhon, and the army of the Lord of Time? That Perseus Jackson was nothing more than a demigod upstart who prevented the correcting of a grave correction to our world, and it was up to me to punish him for doing so.
Being the spirit of trickery gives me certain advantages as I managed to convince some demigods who fought for Lord Kronos in the Battle of Manhattan to continue their work for the cause as spies for myself in the demigod camp. This past year I have been watching and listening through their eyes and ears, part of my powers I gain from my domains of trickery and beguilement, once a human enters into my service, they become mine to use as I will. For the past year I have watched the demigod child from afar. Until yesterday that is. For yesterday, Perseus Jackson vanished into thin air. I watched the demigod camp fall into disarray as their beloved hero left them with no warning, with no message. I watched as some demigods erupted into anger over his disappearance and abandonment of them. I watched as some continue training and living on without him, doing as everyone believed he would have wanted them to do. I watched Chiron, that traitor to his father, as he tried to continue running the camp without the assistance of the one who many campers saw as their protector, their savior, their older brother, their confidant, their knight in shining armor, and for one child of Athena, their lover.
I do not know why or how Perseus Jackson managed to disappear off the face of the Earth, but what I did know was I needed to use his disappearance to my advantage and sow discord in the Greek camp, while I let the Roman camp who assaulted Mount Orthys tear itself apart without their beloved Praetor and son of Jupiter. AN: I'm putting a small time gap in between the disappearances of Percy and Jason, and their placement in their new camps. As the spirit of trickery, and as a son of the Earth Mother herself, I knew I could use the disappearances of the children of the Big Three to throw their respective camps into chaos.
Knowing many of the children of the minor gods still resented the Olympians for how they were treated before the Second Titan War, I decided to contact Butch, the son of Iris, to aid me in my quest for revenge. Prometheus informed me that Butch would rescue a powerful son of Zues and bring him to Camp Half-Blood. I ordered Butch to tell the son of Zeuxs all about Annabeth Chase, Perseus' girlfriend, and try to push him romantically in her direction. I knew Jason had romantic interests back home at the Roman camp, but like a good Praetor he did not seek to date those below him and he never created any spark with his co-praetor. AN: Much like the Riordan version, there will be no JasonxReyna here.
What happened at Jason's "rescue" by Butch went better than I ever could have expected. According to Butch, once Piper realized that her memories of the son of Jupiter were false, she decided to table any relationship with him for the time being. Knowing Jason would be disappointed that the beautiful daughter of Aphrodite seemingly rejected him, Butch was able to regale Jason with stories of Annabeth's genius and heroism during the Second Titan War. The son of Jupiter couldn't help but slowly fall for the beautiful blonde girl who was in the other chariot as Butch told Jason more about her. What Jason did not know was how dangerous these feelings would become…
In New Rome, I did not meddle with the newly found son of Neptune's love life. In fact I even aided Perseus in his fight against my half-brother Alcyoneus. You see, Alcyoneus was unique among the giants, for he did not need a god to assist a demigod in killing him, but he could not be killed in his homeland. How did I help Perceus you ask. Well I did it by tricking Alcyoneus into believing he was still in Alaska, even after Perceus had removed him from Alaska. I knew my half-brother would reform by the time the final battle was fought in Athens, and I wasn't done with Perseus' personal life yet…
AN: I know I said future chapters would be longer, but this is still very much an introductory chapter and will be shorter than the average chapter.