Hello, my Amazing Readers! Are y'all having a wonderful Christmas? ... Oh you don't celebrate Christmas... Umm well uhhh HAPPY HANUKKAH!

Lol anyways, the poll was redone so y'all go vote! Rn there are like only 16 people who voted so yeah, not looking good. -_-

Okay people, a few reviews that I want to answer up here so everybody sees the answer.

1) While I do watch The Flash show and love the lightning throw, remember Percy can't do that right now because his top speed is 300mph not mach 2 or whatever is required to generate that amount of power. And lightning travels way faster than 300 mph, so unfortunately he cant catch lightning either. BUT remember this is temporary.

2) I was not trying to hate on Thalia, and I never meant to make her super arrogant. I'm sorry if that's how it came across. I reread a small bit of the Titan's Curse and while Thalia wasn't arrogant, she was used to being in charge and making decisions. Like how she and Percy agreed to be co-captains in capture the flag, but she wanted to make all the battle plans and refused Percy's. That's what I was going for, Thalia liked being in charge and with my speedster percy there she feels her position as leader is threatened, so she wants to prove herself. That's what I was going for. Does that make sense? I hope it does.

That's it I will answer all reviews at the bottom, and I hope y'all love the chapter!

Regular talking- "..."

Thoughts and flashbacks- '...'

Disclaimer- Me: I refuse to do a Discalimer, I own EVERYTHING! MUH HAHAHAHAHHAHA! *Gets an blunt arrow to the crotch* "Squeak"

Zoe: Shut up! You own nothing, foolish boy!

Me in the background: OH I AM HURT! I AM SERIOUSLY HURT!

Zoe: *Rolls eyes* Only Rick Riordan owns PJO... Even if he is a male...

3rd person Pov

The arena was packed, people were pushing themselves into the tiny area. Despite the smaller numbers due to it being winter, the arena just wasn't designed for this many people. But that didn't stop the Stoll brothers from roaming around trying, with varying success , to get people to place bets on Thalia or on the mysterious Perseus, although very few were willing to placing bets on Percy.

Just outside the arena Thalia was prepping for the fight. She had just finished strapping on her light battle armor, when Annabeth came to give a pep talk.

"You know you can win, and I know you can win. So just go win...okay?"

Thalia looked at her weird, "Are you giving me a pep talk, or yourself?"

"Well its just, you saw how he fought at the school and how he even beat Lady Artemis in archery! Archery for crying out loud!"

Thalia just waved her concerns aside, "Luck, it was all luck." But even the daughter of Zeus sounded uncertain. Continuing she said, "Okay, time to beat that jerk into a pulp!" Grabbing her spear, she walked out into the arena to roars of the crowd.

Off to on side the hunters clustered together, with the campers giving them a wide birth, to watch the duel. Walking next to Zoe, Ariana asked, "So you going to bet on someone?"

Curiously Zoe responded after a minute or two, "Perseus 25 drachma" The hunter counting bets froze.

"Seriously, Zoe? You're going to vote for the boy!?"

Zoe nodded, "You saw the way he moved earlier at the school, while he may be a boy, he is possibly just as skilled with a blade as I am ..."

The Hunt was pretty silent after that.

On the opposite side of the arena from Thalia, Percy was talking with Bianca and Nico. "Okay," Percy started, "After this fight I will start training you guys, so you won't be completely defenseless during Capture the flag."

Nico began to bounce like a kid in a candy store, "So are we going to train with real swords!? And with real arrows? Will I be able to shoot lasers? Can run as fast as you?"

Bianca out of pure reflex said, "Hush Nico, and he might tell you."

Percy chuckled at Nico's excitement and patted his head, "Unfortunately kid, no. You can't shoot lasers, but I might let fight with real weapons."

With Nico positively pumped and bouncing off the walls, Percy turned to Bianca, "I plan to train you as well, but you have only delayed your entry into the Hunt. You might, unfortunately, have to train with them."

Bianca had a thoughtful face, brushing her dark hair out of her eyes she said softly, "How about we talk after the... duel" Hesitating at the unusual phrase.

Percy nodded, but added, "You mean my win" Smiling a smile Apollo would be proud of, he turned and walked into the arena.

The crowd didn't cheer, but they didn't boo as Percy strode in. Not that it bothered Percy in the least, he had been in Rome's coliseum. Now that was a interesting crowd.

"What, decide to save yourself the embarrassment and forfeit?" Thalia taunted at his lack of armor, or of anything related to battle.

"Nope, not even close. But its not like I need anything to beat you Thals." Thalia started sparking in response.

Chiron walked between the two, "Okay prepare for battle."

Thalia readjusted her grip on her spear to underhand. While Percy shrugged off the cloak he was wearing, revealing him in midnight black tunic with light armor plating in key spots. Gasps echoed around the stadium as the female campers saw, for the first time clearly, Percy's black and silver hair, and his mesmerizing multicolored eyes. While the hunters just rolled their eyes and muttered amongst themselves, except for one. Ariana, she had her eyes trained on Percy, tears shining in the corners of them. 'Oh Percy, who is your new family? Why was I such a fool?'

"Okay, this battle will allow weapons and powers. The winner will be declared when one yields or is unable to battle, ", Chiron said, "Battlers to the ready... BEGIN" And he quickly backed off to the side.

The battlers circled each other, reading the other person. Both trying to spot any weaknesses. "Ready to lose dip-stick?"

Breaking his fighting stance, Percy looked at her confused. "What on earth is a dip-stick?" Not getting a respose, he looked away form Thalia and into the crowd, he asked again, "Like seriously, what is a dip-stick?"

Seizing the opportunity, Thalia struck.

Going on the attack, Thalia lunged forward as she was trying to impale him with her spear, aiming to end it quickly. But seeing the movement out of the corner of his eye, Percy easily dodged with a small sidestep to the left. Using his left hand he finished pushing the spear just pasted his right shoulder. Meeting no resistance, Thalia stumbled forward. Taking a small step toward Thalia, Percy stood right next to Thalia as she was straightening from her stumble.

Making a split second decision, Percy clapped both hands on Thalia's ears... hard. With her ears ringing, Thalia quickly backed away with a grimace on her face. Percy relaxed as she backed away, saying " Well, where did all that confidence go?"

With her ears still ringing, the daughter of Zeus couldn't understand what Percy said, but the meaning did get across by his body language. Anger and adrenaline flooded into her system, electricity flowed from her body into her spear, which quickly began to spark. Slapping her wrist her shield sprang around her arm, trying to use the horrendous face of Medusa as a distraction as she charged toward Percy.

Everyone in the crowd cringed away from the sight, but Percy didn't flinch away. Slightly surprised, but not going to slow down, Thalia kept up her charge.

As she neared, Percy put his hands in front of him, keeping his stance relaxed, ready to enact a plan already forming in his head.

Thalia smiled as she got closer and closer, going for the surprise factor Thalia suddenly switch her grip to over hand. And just within a few yards of Percy she threw the spear.

Percy saw it coming a mile away, the changes in the way she ran and the shift in hand position, all of that gave away her intentions. With time to spare, Percy went into a back bend, or aka the matrix. The spear flew just inches from his nose, still crackling with electricity, and slammed into the ground just a few yards behind him.

Thalia grunted in annoyance at seeing her spear miss, but decided to keep charging putting her shield in front, planning to ram into Percy. Percy hearing her grunt and glanced her way and saw her charging...again.

Percy knew he couldn't stand back up in time to meet Thalia's charge without tapping into his powers, which he really didn't want to do, so instead of standing he planted his hands into the ground. With milliseconds to spare he pivoted off his right hand, using his abs he swung his legs over and around the charging Thalia. Landing on his feet just a scant few inches from her.

Thalia skidded to a stop, panting from the exertion. Reaching over she pulled out her spear from where it was lodged in the ground. She reset her self as Percy again placed his hands in front of him in a relaxed stance. Going for the same strategy again, which to her credit almost worked, Thalia rushed forward again. Again closing rapidly on Percy, she launched the spear from about the same distance away hoping to get the same result. But unfortunately she forgot one small detail, she didn't charge up her spear with electricity.

Percy quickly noticed that as the spear flew towards him. He had already subtle shifted his stance, sliding his right foot back some. Now reacting quickly, he grabbed the spear just past the head, pivoting on his back foot and spinning around. Percy swung the spear around just like a baseball bat. A very long and dangerous baseball bat, that smashed into the edge of Thalia's shield and into her side, shattering on impact.

Stumbling down to the ground on her hands and knees, Thalia held her side that had splinters from the broken spear. A split second later, Thalia felt the cold razor sharp point of her spear press into the back of her neck.

Percy was holding onto the only piece of the spear that wasn't splinters. In a even tone loud enough to be heard in the stands Percy said, "Dead" and dropped the rest of the already destroyed spear. Turning to the crowd, "This is your hero? The one your going to rely on for this upcoming war!?"

The crowd immediately started murmuring and mumbling. It wasn't hard to tell they had no idea about the war that was headed their way. Percy just shook his head and began walking out of the arena.

Percy Pov

I had just turned to exit the arena, when I heard the subtle crackle of electricity. Realizing it to late, I got thrown forward by the blast of the lightning hitting my back. Landing on my back wasn't very comfortable either, but I never the less got up with my right ear ringing a little. 'Okay maybe I pushed that button a little to hard.' I thought. I could still hear out my left. despite the ringing in my right, and all I could hear was Chiron attempting to reprimand Thalia for her 'cheap shot'.

"Thalia! I taught you better than that! You..."

"No Chiron, its fine." I said, as I shook my head trying to dispel the ringing.

"But Percy..."

"No Chiron, she's fine. There is no honor in modern war, you fight until you break the other ones will to fight."

Everyone's eyes widened at my statement. Then Thalia just added on, "Okay then, the real fight starts now!"

I shook my head, no. "Unfortunately for you Thals, I'm already bored with this fight."

Her eyes widened and then narrowed in anger, "How dare yo.." is all she got out before I raced forward and in less than a blink of an eye covered the 30ft between us. In a flash I was behind her and hit her temple with the butt of my hunting knife. And she immediately crumpled to the ground.

The surprised and shaking voice of Chiron broke the silence, "P-Perseus is th-he winner."

I turned to the shocked crowd, giving them a small but very sarcastic mock bow, and looking toward the Hunt, they looked totally dumbfounded except for Zoe which was rather strange, and gave them a two finger mock salute. Then I raced off, grabbing Bianca and Nico, to begin their training.

Okay if I'm honest I really didn't want to end it here, but I had said I would try to get a chapter out for Christmas and that obviously didn't happen. So I decided no matter what I would get one posted this Sunday, and this was the best spot to stop.

Okay I got a little hate for how Thalia was portrayed in last chapter and as I said earlier that wasn't intentional. Now before anyone hates on the battle and how Thalia fought, I could not remember a single time Thalia got trained by Chiron. I know she didn't before being turned into a tree because she was on the run the whole time, and there is only so much you can learn from teaching yourself, like proper form isn't something you can teach yourself. And I also know after she was "resurrected" or whatever she would have started training, but that's like what 6 months tops? So 6 months of official training vs. like 2500 YEARS of training and war. So that's why I had Percy outclass her in some cases, but I also tried to give Thalia credit because she would be a natural being the daughter of Zeus.

Okay after that rant, lol, I wanted to talk about another story I'm thinking about starting. Oh and, I wont be starting it any time soon! Good Lord! One story is hard enough with a busy schedule.

But have you guys heard of Sword Art Online? It's an anime and while I'm not an anime addict or anything, it had cool plot and that's what originally got me interested. Its set in the future in 2022, I think, and its about the game called Sword Art online (duh) and its a VRMMORPG, and you wear something called a Nervegear helmet that allows you to "full dive" basically it transports you into the game and the helmet takes your brains signals to move your actual body and applies them to your virtual avatar! Which is really cool and then Sword Art Online turns out not to have a logout button, and there's no other way off the game because you cant move your real body while in a full dive, so there's no way to take off the helmet. And then the game developer tells them that if your HP in the game hits 0 its gameover in game and in the real world. The helmet will fry the users brain. Kinda violent at the end, but I think its pretty cool.

Anyways that was a crappy explanation to a pretty cool show I was watching. It is on Netflix if any of you care to watch it.

ANYWAYS that whole thing was for I was thinking about doing like a crossover type thing with some Percy Jackson characters replace the Sword Art characters. It was just an idea right now, but I wanted to get y'alls thoughts on the idea.

Okay the Poll!

Artemis-8

Zoe- 9

Bianca-4

Piper-4

An OC-2

Okay I'm curious, do you guys care if I respond to reviews? Like the ones that ask important questions or things that I think might need more explanation I'll always answer those before the chapter. But do you guys actually care if I respond to all the reviews? Because I don't want to take the time to write a response if no one actually reads them. But if people read them, then I'm perfectly fine with writing them. I would rather do it, because its fine kinda talking to you guys.

Wow that got kinda sappy, moving on! I will be posting even less... probably anyway. My lacrosse season is starting this Tuesday, and we have practice like EVERYDAY! I know it going to be hard to beat that 2 month streak of not posting, but I will do my best NOT to break that! Lol!

Okay THANK YOU so much for being patient with me, Yall are the best readers ever! If that makes sense?

Anyways, Hasta la vista, I'm outie!