The year is 2050, 30 years after the 2020 plague. Chiron said it is time to record the story. I have been asked to do it. Before I say who I am, Let me give you my background. I am the son of two legacies, some of the first in our history and Camp Half Blood. My fater was the first legacy, his parentage is from Posiden and Athena. He married a legacy who was decended from Apollo and on the other side, fully mortal. I am Noren Jackson. For all of those who say that name sounds familiar, yes my grandfather was Percy Jackson. I never met my grand parents. You all may think that after all the wars they would have lived a happy life? But no. There is no one left besides Thalia from that generation who fought in the Second Titan War.
Before I get to their story Chiron told me to tell you what life is like here. In the year 2016 New Athens was first built by Annabeth Chase, my grandmother, her siblings and some other people and g-ds. Once the treaty between Camp Jupiter and us was signed, New Rome filled up quite fast. My grandmother decided that the Greeks needed their own city. She bought a large farm not to far from the camp and started to build. The Hecete cabin added mist enchantments to hide it. It's a beautiful city with Greek architecture everywhere. We have our own school system, specifically for us. Ya know for dyslexic and ADHD kids, us legacies aren't exempt form that demig-d annoyence.. The teachers are all demig-ds or clear sighted mortals. Our city is like any other, resturants. cafes and places to work.
I live in a nice family estate that overlooks the beach. My fater said that his parents took that location and built the house themselves. I live here with my aunt Bianca, her husband and her 3 kids along with my parents and sister. If you were wondering my grandparents had two kids, my fater Luke and my aunt Bianca. They're three years apart.
My father has messy blond hair with sea green eyes. Aunt Thalia says he looks like a mix of his parents. Aunt Bianca is the opposite, long wavy jet black hair and intense gray eyes. They were both blessed by their g-dly grandparents to have their parents powers. Aunt Thalia says thier basically smarter versions of grandpa or my grandma with some water powers.
All the legacies were blessed to have the parents powers. Like Selena Grace can charmspeak and fly and so on. Well shes adopted and Pioer gave her, her boyfriends last name. Artemis is the one who blessed her with flight because Zues wouldn't do so. I have no clue how it happned really.
All the seven got married and had around two or three kids who look either like a carbon copy of their parent or a 50/50 mix of them.
There are more legacies than demig-ds now, and not because we multiply fast, but because the g-ds have increasingly less children. The Big 3 haven't had any kids since their famous ones. Posieden and Hades don't want to bring pain to their next children and Zeus is being a fateful husband for once. (Hera cursed him for the next century.) Apollo and Hermes have also not had to many kids. We only have rumers as to why. The minor g-ds seem to also not want kids, however the rest are pretty normal.
My father was only 6 and my aunt 3 when their parents were killed. The only one who knows the whole story is my Aunt Thalia. She isnt really my aunt but dad says she was just as close to Grandpa as a sister. The only reason she is alive is because she is a hunter. Rumer has it that Artemis is going to take away her immortality to let her go to Elisym with her family. Now switching off so Aunt Thalia can tell the story of The Great Generation.
*Thalia*
I never thalk about the old days, its just too hard sometimes. The only thing I do say is that anyone in 'The Great Generation' whould have called the name stupid. I can almost laugh when I think of what Pecry and Leo would say. After the wars, after all those horrible losses, we were sopposed to get a break. We did, it lasted around 7 whole years. In that time everyone got married, they got to start families. Annabeth started New Athens. It was great for all of us. As much as I was with my hunters a lot, we made sure to get together all the time. I was there when Sally and Paul became a grandma and grandpa. Percy and Annabeth were so happy and they stayed true to there word. There son was named Luke and to Nico surprise and joy their daught was Bianca. We were all so happy. Well as hapoy as we could get. Percy had bad depression, but he would always hide it for us. We all felt some sadness in us, but thats why we stuck together. Our group consisted of The Seven, Me, Nico, Will, the Stolls, Clarisse, Chris and Calypso. Ugh just thinking of Leo and Calypso gets me sad. Those two were on and off for like 3 years until they got married. They kept going "We're not in love." "he so annoying." and all that. And I thought Annabeth and Percy getting together was painful to watch, trust me Leo and Calypso were way worse.
Those 7 years were amazing. Then, something got ahold of the plague spirits. Only Percy figured it out, he killed it with some power called storm between him and a temporarily revived Jason. It all started that December, we knew something was weird but not what it actually was.
Sometime in January, Apollo told us that something got to his plague spirits. He wanted to let the next generation deal with it, but Percy and his fatal flaw said "I've already done things and seen things. Spare them." somehow he knew just how tough it would be and didn'tnt want the next generation to suffer all this death.
Once he vaulenteered of course we all joined, our whole group, the whole generation. The plaugue spirits were spreading a plauge the mortals called COVID-19. It was a deadly epidemic for everyone. Sally and Paul died from the sickness. What the mortals didn't know, is that the first of the mortals who were killed had something do to with us. Whoever it was that stole the spirits, targeted our loved ones. Estelle who was only 8 at the time became an orphan. However it didn't lat long the plague killed her a year later in its 'Delta' varient.
Throughout that time, the plague spread in our world. It had different effects on us. At camp, they was safe, the barrier kept the spirits out, but with the rest of us well, we were out fighting.
I was with Piper, who was first to be attacked. The spirit went through her and she rithed in pain. There was nothing I could do because a different spirit froze me. Piper choked, and weized, the spirit was talking to her and that was it.
Everyone was different. Frank and Hazel died more peacfully. It took 3 days for the plaugue to shut their body down. Leo and Calypso became extreamly figety and feverish for a day until the plaugue took them.
It seemed like the thing that was controlling them, handpicked their deaths. Annabeth was killed infront of Percy. From until then, whoever was together died the same way. Like Conner, Travis, Katie and Miranda were in the same group and died the same. But not with Annabeth and Percy. They were fighting them with water, the same way percy did almost a decade prior. The two killed at least a dozen, then Percy heard the scream. Annabeth suffered for days. Percy wouldn't move from her side. Will was dead at this point, the only place left to go was to camp. Percy made the camp under strict orsers not to let the campers out when he saw how it could effect them. Percy got his adrenaline boost and got Annabeth to camp from where they were upstate. For days she lay there in pain amd nobody could do anything. After a week she mustered her last strength to tell Percy what happned. Artemis shlwed me all these scenes but she would never let me hear what was behind everything. However she did tell me that in Annabeth's week of suffering she got to find out who did this.
Percy was the only one left, however he couldn't do it all aline. Hades freed Jason, so they could use a rare power called storm. Jason knew he was going straight back to the underworld. Percy tried to save him from however the two died. Ah Percy and him trying to save everyone.
My immortality saved me. Artemis's blessiñg wouldn't let the curse touch me.
Thats the story. The legacies were brought up in camp. They never had a real family. My whole family was killed with the Plague of 2020. I treated the kids as well as I could, though I mightve accidentally had too much favoritsm to Luke and Bianca.
I should probably also add how Chiron took this. To put it simply, he did not take it well. He doesn't get close to any of the new campers. The big house is filled with many happy pictures of the heroes that deserved better. Sometimes I worry that the new campers will get jelous, I just hope they realize why those heroes are so big around camp. Many of the camp stories are stories found in journals and diaries of those heroes. I here campers talking about how their stories must be so over exaggerated. Luckily Herakles is still a bit disliked here.
*After*
After Thalia finished the recordeing and gave it to Chiron, she was approched by Artemis, who finally told her the missing peices to the story. She told he what Annabeth said to Percy and showed her the last battle that killed her last living brother. Thalia questioned why she was told this after the recording. Artemis answered that the last fact had to remain unknown. When Thalia thought that was all Artemis had to say, she was given the offer of a lifetime. "Your job as my leutenent is over, I strip you of your immortality. Go to the Isle of Blessed to join your family." With that Thalia's life force gave out. Her soul passed straight though Cerberus and straight to the Isle of The Blessed where she was united with her family so many years later.
*Author's note*
I'M BACK! Ok not really I'll post when an idea hits me, like this one. maybe I'll continue that story I started but don't get any hopes up. Yea well there's not really anything else to say besides I hope you liked this super random oneshot. Also what's an AU?