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Hey everybody. Welcome back. Just wanted to say thank you to everyone. It's been about two months since I updated and I feel bad for not doing so and this chapter has been on the verge of completion for awhile. Anyways, besides that, I have no idea what else to include up here so I guess I'll move on to the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: PJO and HoO belongs to Rick Riordan. All I own is the plot of the story and a few of the characters.

Now onto the story.

Legion Camp

As Percy began to come to, he could immediately tell he was no longer on Blackjack. Instead, he was laying in a bed, albeit a rather comfortable one. As he began to force himself awake and get up, a quiet groan escaped his lips, alerting to the person nearby that he was awake.

"Oh, you're awake." He heard a voice from the foot of the bed. Looking over, he saw a woman in her early to mid thirties with blonde hair and blue eyes. "Tell me, how are you feeling?" She asked as she walked over and handed him a glass of water.

"Better, thanks." Percy replied as he graciously took the water a quickly drained the glass of its contents, immediately feeling better.

"That's good. You were brought here by Hunter after you two landed. He was quite worried when you didn't wake up. Told me that you were poisoned and wanted to make sure you were alive." She explained as she began checking him over. The process took a few minutes but soon enough the woman was done and concluded that the poison had been successfully removed from his body and there were no further complications.

"Alright, you're all clear. Poison's all gone and that nasty cut on your arm is gone."

"Thanks, umm...?" Percy trailed off, realizing he didn't the woman's name.

"Sarah Winters, daughter of Apollo." She answered him, realizing why he trailed off. "I'm the senior healer here in the Legion." She explain and held an hand out to shake, which Percy did.

"Percy Jackson."

"Oh, I know who you are. Almost all of us here at least know who you are and what you've done." Sarah said with a smile almost as bright as her father's. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to contact the others to let them know you're awake."

"Alright. I'll try not to escape while you're gone." Percy joked which got a laugh out the medic. He was still too exhausted to make any kind of attempt like that. Soon another voice joined sounded from the door.

"Glad to see that you're awake, Percy." Percy and Sarah both looked over and Hunter leaning on the door frame, still in full armor. "You did good, Sunshine."

"Well after you barged in here yesterday, half panicking over Percy and half swearing unholy vengeance on the Trojans and their allies if he didn't make it, how could I not do everything in my power to make sure the son of Poseidon fully recovered?" Sarah teased. "Now watch him while I go fetch the Andromeda. He's probably overflowing with questions." With that, Sarah left the infirmary, leaving the former hunter and the son of Poseidon alone. The two were silent for a solid minute until Percy finally broke it.

"Thanks." Hunter looked at him with a bit of confusion. "For helping me out back there. I probably wouldn't have made it if you didn't stepped in."

"No thanks necessary." Hunter said with a raised hand and a smile. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling a lot better." Percy said as he got up and got himself another glass of water, noticing that it was still bright out. "How long was I out? I noticed you and Sarah mention I was brought in yesterday."

"You ended up sleeping through the rest of the day. It's about six something in morning." Percy nodded and thought about it as he drank from refilled glass of water.

"So what happens now?" Percy asked as his hand brushed against his pocket to make sure Riptide was still there in case things took a turn to the worse.

"We wait for the commander to make his appearance. He wanted to talk to you about some things but until then, I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you have. To the best of my abilities, of course." Percy nodded in agreement, already deciding on his first question.

"So what is the Legion? Both you and Sarah mentioned that you're part of it. Is it a part of the Roman legions because if that's the case, I never heard of you while I was Praetor of New Rome."

"No, we hold no real ties with New Rome, or the original Roman Empire, for that matter, although we do house three of their legions in our camp. The full name of the Legion is the Legion of the Lost. We started off as an all Greek army with no name to go by."

"So how did you guys get your name?" Percy asked.

"I was getting to that." Hunter responded before chuckling, half because of Percy's embarrassed look and half because of how they got their names, although the latter turned the laugh bittersweet. "The name was actually thought of by one of the recruits. He had noticed a common theme when it came to the people who joined us. Originally, he meant it as a joke, saying, 'We were a legion of lost souls.' We all shared a good laugh over it but there was truth to those words and in the end, the name just stuck." Hunter said. "You see, the Legion of tendency of recruiting people who have lost their purpose or have lost something important."

"And what did you lose?" Percy asked, unable to stop himself before the words came out. Hunter looked at him with a bit of surprise before laughing. "I am so sorry. You don't have to answer that."

"It's fine, just be careful when asking about people's pasts here in the Legion. Many of us don't like talking about our pasts. They bring up memories many don't wish to relive." Hunter said. Percy nodded in understanding. "As for myself, I lost my chance at happiness with the woman I loved."

"What happened?"

"I died." He said with a chuckle while Percy eyes went wide in surprise. "She killed me, accidentally, of course." Percy's face at this point caused Hunter to let a full laugh. As Hunter recovered from the laugh, he heard the door open causing the two to look back. In the door, they saw a man in full armor with a red plume on his helmet and Sarah standing behind him. "Ah, Andromeda. Glad to see you finally made it."

"I take it everything is well with the youngest son of Poseidon?"

"Yeah. I just told him how the Legion got it's name and what I lost that caused me to join." Hunter said as he walked over to helmeted man. "Percy, I'd like you met our commander, Andromeda. He may claim that he only runs things on the Greek side of camp but he actually has pull over the whole camp, Romans included."

"Nonsense. I leave the dealing of Romans to the twins and JT." Andromeda said, holding his hands up innocently.

"That is when JT and the Ninth are actually at the camp." Hunter said while Andromeda just chuckled. "JT is the Legate in charge of the Ninth Legion." He quickly added for Percy.

"Yes, the Ninth Legion does spend a lot of it's time away from the camp. Their activities aside, I'm here to answer any other questions you might have." Andromeda said as he walked over to Percy and took off his helmet, revealing jet black hair, sun kissed skin with a few freckles from his time in the sun, and electric blue eyes. Percy nodded and began asking his questions and did his best to keep his attention on the man answering his questions as he gave Percy some background on the Legion. He told him briefly about their history since their formation three years ago and the purpose of the Legion hoped to fulfill once they made themselves known to the Gods, of the loss many of soldiers in this army have face and the determination that drives the stop it from happening to as many people as possible, and finally of the oncoming war and the how the enemies of Olympus have been gathering their forces and bidding their time until they're ready to strike. Despite his ADHD, Percy was mostly able to keep focused on the information presented to him, let his mind wonder to only other question, this one being a question only he could answer himself. By the time, Andromeda had finished and Percy was out of questions, he had already come to his decision. "So anything else I can answer for you?"

"Just one. Where do I sign up?" This surprised both officers of the Legions. They weren't expecting him to want to join, at least not this soon.

"Are you sure about this, Perseus? You have done more than enough in your short lifetime than any of us in ours, in our old lives and this one."

"Isn't that why you brought me here? To recruit me?" Percy asked, confused.

"Not really. My mission was to watch over you and protect you, which admittedly, I could have done better in doing. I brought you here because despite the salt water counteracting the poison, the poison was still your body and the effects of the water were starting to fade and you needed a healer."

"You could have just dropped him in a lake or pond instead." Andromeda said. Hunter just stopped and thought about it before responding.

"I...didn't think about that actually. I was too focused on making sure you didn't fall off of Blackjack." Hunter said causing the Andromeda to drag his hand down his face.

"Hunter's stupidity aside," Andromeda sighed causing Hunter to shout a 'hey' in protest, "we weren't going to try recruiting you until after you died and even then we weren't going to make the deal seem important because you have already done so much for the Gods and not many would want to partake in another war." Percy knew what he was talking about. Many of the campers, specifically the older campers, didn't want to be part of another war. They've lost many too friends and siblings in the past two wars and welcome the peace with open arms, Percy included. Yet, upon the hearing all of this, Percy couldn't help but get involved and do his part to help and protect the camps and all of camper.

"Trust me, the idea of being a part of another war isn't something I'm particularly thrilled about but I would rather join up with you here and stop this threat before the camps get involved over having the campers sent in again to fight another war that would cost more young demigod lives." Percy explained causing Andromeda to sigh.

"Your loyalty to your friends is admirable as is your willingness to sacrifice yourself in their place. " Andromeda said before pinching the bridge of his nose. "I just pray to the Gods this is the right choice and won't cause any trouble for any of us."

"What are you talking about?" Percy said.

"Hunter, do you want to do the honors?" Andromeda asked as he stood up and picked up his helmet, holding it under his arm.

"With pleasure." Hunter said as he removed his helmet, showing off jet black hair and a beard that had been recently trimmed and all too familiar sea green eyes and a wide smile on his face. "Perseus Jackson, I welcome to the Legion." Out of nowhere, a horn was the sounded, surprising the three demigods. "Looks like you get to meet everyone after all."

"And here I thought that horn was for me." Percy said, looking back at the two other demigod, getting a laugh out of both of them.

"Come, there's a great deal of people who are eager to meet the Hero of Olympus." Andromeda said, leading them out.

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Central Park, New York

A lone hellhound made it's way through the wooded area of Central park, sniffing the ground that once served as the battlefield for the brief skirmish between the Trojans and their allies and the son of Poseidon, picking up on the blood that splattered about the scene. Finding the blood with the strongest scent, the monster soon followed it and found several things; a empty canteen that carried the scent of the sea, a bloodied torn shirt, and a broken arrow cover in dried blood. As the hellhound went to try to lick some of the dried blood off the arrow, a silver arrow penetrated it's neck and the monster soon dissolved into golden dust.

"Foul beast." A girl in a silver parka muttered to herself. "Now why were you so drawn to this place?" The girl in silver continued to say to herself as she began to investigate. However, as soon as she found traces of a fight, she immediately called upon her Goddess.

"Katelyn, what's wrong?" A young girl around the age of twelve or thirteen with auburn hair said running to the Hunter.

"Milady, there seems to have been a struggle here." The hunter of Artemis said. "There are arrows embedded in and around that tree and there's dried blood around the place as well as signs of recent struggle from how the ground is." Artemis nodded her head, noticing the signs as well.

"Is there anything else? Something that could tell who was fighting?"

"There were these, milady." She presented the items she found.

"A camper?" Artemis asked no one in particular as she examined the shirt. 'But which one?' She thought to herself. Grabbing the canteen, she opened it up and the scent of the sea greeted her senses, making her fear the worse for who the camper might have been.

"Milady, is everything alright?" the young hunter asked.

"What was this the last thing you found?"

"No, milady. There was this broken arrow." Handing the Goddess the broken arrow, Artemis carefully observed the arrow and aside of the blood of certain sea spawn, noticed the traces of poison on the arrowhead. "Is something the matter, milady?" the hunter asked, seeing her Goddess go wide eyed.

"Katelyn, go get Thalia and tell her to meet me in my tent immediately."

"Milady?"

"Now!" The hunter nodded and took off running to find the Lieutenant of Artemis. Artemis quickly returned back to the Hunter camp with the found objects and entered her tent and started preparing to head to Olympus when she heard the tent flaps open as someone step in.

"Milady, is there a problem?" Thalia questioning voice was heard behind her. After the end of the last war, Thalia had asked to be allowed to continue aging after the war until she was at her prime as the Great Prophecy from the first war was no longer in effected, a request that Artemis accepted. However, even after a few years, very little of Thalia's appearance changed, the only difference being her growing a few inches taller and her hair being slightly longer.

"Thalia, I'll be heading up to Olympus soon to inform them of some urgent news but I need to check something with you before I go."

"Okay, sure? What's do you need?" Thalia asked with a bit of confusion.

"Tell me, do you recognize this?" The Goddess said, holding out the empty canteen. Thalia immediately recognized it.

"Yeah, this is Percy's. Annabeth got it for him a few years ago. How did you get this?" The confusion in Thalia only growing.

"Then it is as I feared."

"Milady, what's going on? Did something happen to Percy?" Thalia said, worrying for the well being of her cousin.

"We don't know. One of the hunters came across signs of a fight and we found that and a torn camp shirt at the seen along with this poisoned arrow with Perseus's blood on it." Artemis said. "It is likely he got away but we aren't sure where he's gone. For now, I must report to this council. You're in charge of the Hunt while I'm gone." Artemis could sense the turmoil brewing in her lieutenant and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Thalia. I'm sure he's alright."

"Yes, milady." Thalia said, calming herself down a bit. Artemis smiled at her friend as she left, leaving Artemis on her own to flash to Olympus to call the council to give them this troubling news.

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And that's a wrap. Thank you so much for reading this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter we get an introduction to the rest of the Legion as Percy takes his tour around the Legion camp and formally joins.

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