A/N: I do not own the Percy Jackson series Kane Chronicles or The Stand Cut or Uncut version. I have however posted 'The Tales of...' series. This story takes place after The Tales of Magicians and Demigods: The Crown of Ptolemy but before the events of Trials of Apollo. Before reading this I suggest to read if you haven't yet:

The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Early Adventures
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Lightning Thief
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Sea of Monsters
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Titan's Curse
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Magical Labyrinth
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Stolen Chariot
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Sword of Hades
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Bronze Dragon
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Last Olympian
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Staff of Hermes
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Quest for Buford
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus
The Tales of Magicians and Demigods: The Son of Sobek
The Tales of Magicians and Demigods: The Staff of Serapis
The Tales of Magicians and Demigods: The Crown of Ptolemy

Also I'm going to let this out. On rough decisions based on what I know from The Stand, any mystical creatures Monsters, and automatons that are usually associated which characters from The Tales of and/or Percy Jackson won't be in this story

Also there's no character list for the stand, but if I had too pick two from the book it be Stu Redman and Fran Goldsmith as a pairing, and if I was allowed to add a fifth character to show, it would be of course Mother Abigail.

For the list of pairings which would be spoiler alert for those showing up later:

Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase
Leo Valdez/Calypso
Jason Grace/Piper McLean
Frank Zhang/Hazel Levesque
Stu Redman/Fran Goldsmith
Larry Underwood (no relations to Grover obviously)/Lucy Swan

Other Important Characters

Mother Abigail
Nick Andros
Tom Collins
Glen
Ralph
Trashcan Man
Susan Stern
a few more demigods as extra characters to help out.

Antagonist but still important
Randal Flagg
Harold Lauder
Nadine Cross
Lloyd

And of course the two main forces that are mention but more of Lead Supporting Roles without actually making a character appearance: God and Devil

Hazel and Frank Meets a Deaf Mute

Hazel and Frank were on a date in New Rome at Camp Jupiter and gone home to sleep only to wake up in a small town in Arkansas. At first they thought it was just some Roman God sending them on a quest, as Juno/Hera did the same with Percy and Jason, only Hazel and Frank had all their memories.

Then they found out they were in the 1990s which made no sense to them as they were in the 2000s just the other night. They even started suspecting they were in another world all together when days went by and no monsters attack, which was odd considering Frank was the son of Mars and legacy of Poseidon and Hazel was the daughter of Pluto. Surely the two of them would of attract monsters.

Fortunately they found residence with the town sheriff John Baker and his wife Jane, which is a good thing because they quickly found that they were in a community that mainly look after itself and don't always take kindly to strangers, and many were even racist to Hazel for being African American.

Hazel was pretty much ignore the racism about her ethnic and skin color, as compared to what she went through in New Orleans in the 1940s when people thought she and her mother were witches and cursed, this was actually easier. Especially since those who were also African Americans weren't judging her and calling her names too. It was Frank she mostly worried about, as his Chinese-Canadian background combine with the fact he was dating Hazel, didn't exactly help him with the towns folk.

Since it was summer, school was out, and John couldn't find their families, he let Hazel and Frank volunteer a little at the station help cleaning the cells and bringing in food since most of John's deputies left, leaving him short handed. It was actually Jane's idea, and it took a lot of convincing to get John to agree. Mainly with Hazel being about fourteen years old. But Frank backed her up by telling John Hazel is a capable hard worker and not afraid to get dirty—both in a fight and cleaning, which is true since their Cohort, the 5th, often got jobs none of the other Cohorts wanted, which either dangerous or filthiest.

Then one night, the town doctor brought in a young man either in his late teens or early 20s who looked like he been ganged up beaten and possibly robbed as he was covered in bruises and cuts with his mouth bleeding. Apparently the doctor found him after nearly running him over. They decided for now to temporarily lock the guy up in the cell until he wakes up, just incase the guy was dangerous.

Hazel was doing some rounds, making sure the cells were clean, when she heard shuffling coming from the only occupied one with the unconscious guy. She looked to see the guy slowly getting up and look to be in pain because of it.

"Hey," Hazel knocked on the bars trying to get the guy's attention, "Take it easy!"

The guy didn't seem to notice her as he looked around the cell, wincing in pain anytime he turned his head. Finally he propped himself on his elbows and let his clad paper slippers feet dropped over the edge of the cot, and then swung up to a sitting position, obviously earning some pain from that.

"I tried to warn you," Hazel said.

"Something wrong, Hazel?" Frank asked walking up. Although he was nearing seventeen, Frank looked like a muscular giant since his blessing from Mars, but he was still as sweet as he could be.

"Our guest finally woke up," Hazel said. "He doesn't seem to be paying attention to anything I'm saying."

Frank turned and bang the bars. "Hey!"

The guy leaned over his knees, one hand on each cheek as if waiting for the pain he was feeling to pass. Then he started fiddling with the bandaids.

"Huh, I wonder if he's deaf or something," Frank said.

"What the Sam's h- are you two doing, shouting and banging around?" John Baker, a large man in Khaki suntans said as he came through the corridor.

"Our guest from last night woke up," Frank said.

John walked up, wearing a Sam Browne belt with a big pistol. He hooked his thumbs into his pants pockets and looked. "I'll say so since he's standing at the cell door now."

Frank jumped as he and Hazel turned to see the guy was indeed at the cell door looking at them curiously. Hazel wasn't as shock as Frank as she was use to silent sudden appearance from her half-brother Nico.

John decided to speak up to the young man, mostly to break the tension. "When I was a boy we caught ourselves a mountain lion up in the hills and shot it and then drug it twenty mile back to town over dirt hardpan. What was left of that creature when we got home was the sorriest-lookin sight I ever saw. You the second-sorriest, boy."

For the first time since the guy woke up, Hazel and Frank noticed that the guy seem to be paying attention to what John just said.

"You got a name, Babalugah?"

The guy put a finger to his swelled and lacerated lips and shook his head. He put a hand over his mouth, then cut the air with it in a soft diagonal hashmark and shook his head again.

"I think he can't talk," Frank said.

The guy nodded and then plucked an invisible pen from the air and wrote with it.

"You want a pencil?" Hazel asked.

The guy nodded.

"IF you're mute, how come you don't have none of those cards?" John asked.

The guy shrugged and turned out his empty pockets. He balled his fists and shadowboxed the air, which caused him another jolt of pain. He finished by tapping his own temples lightly with his fist, rolling his eyes up, and sagging on the bars. Then he pointed to his empty pockets.

"You were robbed." John guessed.

Another nod.

"I'll get something he can use." Hazel said which the guy didn't seem to catch.

"How are you able to know what we're saying now but didn't respond to us shouting earlier?" Frank asked. "Are you deaf?"

The guy nodded as Hazel came back with a notebook and pencil and gave it to the guy. The guy tapped on the top of the sheet which had the words From The Desk of Sheriff John Baker.

"That's me," John said. "The girl is Hazel Levesque and the towering giant is her boyfriend Frank Zhang."

The guy then wrote down. "Nick Andros. Yes I'm deaf as well as Mute, but I can read lips. You probably were shouting when I wasn't looking."

"Deaf-Mute who can read lips," Frank said, thanking the Olympians he wasn't Dyslexic like most demigods. "That does makes sense."

"What happen to you tonight? Doc Soames and his wife almost ran you down like a woodchuck, boy."

"Beat up & robbed. A mile or so from a roadhouse on Main St. Zack's Place."

"That hangout's no place for a kid like you, Babalugah. You surely aren't old enough to drink."

Nick shook his head indignantly. "I'm twenty-two," he wrote.

"I told the sheriff you might be in your twenties," Hazel said.

Nick nodded. "I can have a couple of beers without getting beaten up & robbed for them, can't I?"

Baker read this with a sourly amuse look on his face. "It don't appear you can in Shoyo."

"Be glad you're not in a big city, it's more common there than a small town," Frank said.

"What are you doing here?" Hazel asked.

Nick tore the first sheet off the memo pad, crumpled it in a ball, dropped it only for Hazel to catch.

"We been helping the sheriff's wife clean these cells," Hazel said as she tossed it in the toilet.

Nick nodded in understanding. This time he wrote longer, pencil flying over the paper. As soon as he was done he handed the pad through the bars.

"I've been traveling around but I'm not a Bum. Spent today working for a man named Rich Ellerton about 6 miles west of here. I cleaned his barn & put up a load of hay in his loft. Last week I was in Watts, Okla., running fence. The men who beat me up got my week's pay."

"You sure it was Rich Ellerton you was working for? I can check that, you know." Baker had torn off from Nick's, explanation, folded it to wallet-photo size, and tucked it into his shirt pocket.

Nick nodded.

"You see his dog?"

Nick nodded.

"What kind was it?"

Nick gestured for the pad. "Big Doberman," he wrote. "But nice. Not mean."

Baker nodded, turned away, and went back into his office.

"He's getting the keys," Hazel noted. "We only locked you up because we didn't know if you were a threat."

Nick nodded in understanding as Baker returned with a big keyring, unlocked the holding cell, and pushed it back on it's track.

"Come on in the office," Baker offered. "You want some breakfast?"

Nick shook his head then made pouring and drinking motions.

"Coffee? Got that. You take cream and sugar?"

Nick shook his head.

"Take it like a man, huh?" Baker laughed. "Come on."

The two headed to the office as Baker talk about having insomnia.

"Nice guy," Hazel said. "I hope we can help him out?"

"I'm sure the sheriff will think of something," Frank said.

Baker came back as Frank and Hazel got back to work in cleaning the cells.

"Prepare four cells. The boy wants to press charges on those that robbed him."

"You know who it is?" Hazel asked.

"Unfortunately," Baker said. "It's my brother-in-law Ray Booth and his goons."

"Nick knew his name?" Frank asked.

"No, but he remembered the fraternity ring Ray has from LSU and a small scar on his forehead." Baker said. "Wifey not going to be happy about it, but it's nothing new."

"So how are we going to get them?" Frank asked.

"Nick and I will bring Vince Hogan in and interrogate him into giving details. It shouldn't be too hard getting Mike Childress and Billy Warner. Meantime Nick will also be working with you two in order to work back the money he lost until trial."

"Sounds good," Frank said. "Hazel and I will do whatever we can to help."

"Thanks, because babalugah is going to need it," Baker said. "It's not going to be an easy trial, but first we need to get these guys."

Little did they know, although they would get three of the four guys, Captain Trips will strike long before their trial as it's already spread pass the state line of Texas.