Time... 10/24/2006... Location... Northern New York State

*Gasp*

Barely able to breathe it feels like being stabbed by dull knives. Soon my breathing evens out, the pain lessening enough for me to have some form of thought. It seems that I am in an abandoned factory of some kind but for some reason, it doesn't feel familiar. The room is a dull grey with crumbling concrete and exposed rebar poking from the walls.

I look around for anything that could be of use and after searching for a few minutes the only thing that looks like it could offer me a form of defense is a rusting iron pipe, it ain't much but it will have to do for the time being. I explore the nearby rooms and I am not liking what I am seeing.

In one room I see a pile of orange t-shirt scraps among bones and other things and I feel the urge to puke rise in my chest. Trying to suppress the foul taste of bile I say a prayer for the dead in my head before searching them for anything that could be used to get myself out alive. I find what remains of what looks like a Templar knight's sword among the remains and the blade is broken to a jagged point but the rest of the sword seems to be still in usable condition. I get threw a few more rooms before an even worse stench hits me in the nose. I swear I hear voices not far away and I curse my curiosity and I sneak closer to get a look.

"So when are we gonna eat that strange demigod we found in the alleyway?" I hear a gravelly voice ask.

"Soon I don't want him to wake up and mess our stuff up." I hear another voice say.

Sneaking a peek at what I am dealing with, a group of four Cyclops circled around a makeshift campfire. Grabbing a brick off the floor and I make a quick plan. I see one of the Cyclops stretch and begin to walk off.

"I am going to check on our food, I'm almost tempted to feed him. He is close to being too thin to eat." He says as he lumbers up the metal stairs.

I hide in a room behind the door and throw the brick into the opposite corner. The sound of lumbering footsteps stop and change direction to my location. Soon enough the Cyclops looks into the room and with reflexes that I didn't know I possess, thrusting the sword into the Cyclops's eye ends its wretched life and as its corpse falls to the floor it turns into a golden dust. As I look threw the dust I check my weapon and see something carved into the crossguard crudely like it was done by a previous owner.

"Ashton." I say and nothing happens.

Or so I thought, some of the monster's dust is absorbed by the sword and a ghostly figure emerges from the rent blade.

"You called hero?" A spirit asks me as I see it seems to have died around 17 or 18 years old.

"Were you the owner of this blade?" I ask, gesturing to the broken sword.

"I was but I was killed by those Cyclops back in the 80's when I was on a quest. My soul bonded to my old weapon because I had unfinished business. If you could kill those Cyclops my spirit could rest in peace." The spirit says in a tired emotional voice.

"I promise on the river Styx I will slay them in your memory." I say with my right hand clenched into a fist while over my heart as thunder rumbled overhead.

As I finish my sentence the spirit smiles and fades back from whence it came for now. I am able to fool and kill another two Cyclops the same way I slew the first and I was able to find a small bag of gold coins and a few other things. There were two more Cyclops in the main floor and I was able to get a crudely made spear from one of the fallen monsters and I prayed my aim was swift and true and by the gods I hit the Cyclops on the right in the neck, the one place it didn't have some form of armor. The Cyclops on the left looks around frantically trying to spot the slayer of his brothers as I climb on the railing of the second story balcony. I pray to the gods as I jump from the metal rail at the Cyclops. I was able to stab it in the chest but it rips me off fracturing a couple of ribs.

"Puny demigod I will crush you!" The Cyclops bellows as it swings its club at me.

I slide between its like a baseball player slides into home plate, I cut the tendon on his ankle as I jump up to face him. He tries to run at me. I keep slashing at his thick skin while I dodge his slow swings. He brings his club over his head which gives me an opening, I stab the sword into his stomach and rip it to the side causing him to bellow in pain. I followed up by slashing its throat and stabbing the bottom of his head causing him to crumble into golden dust that covered me. I shake my head back and forth trying to dislodge the monster remains from my shaggy hair and I look over what they left me as my reward. I search the building from top to bottom and I am able to find a few things of interest along with a makeshift forge in the bowels of the building's basement.

I find some broken weapons in the "Trophy" rooms, I am able to salvage a hunting spear with a broken handle and a heavily worn hatchet. I found a few books and other items amongs what the cyclops threw away. I find a fistfull of gold coins, a leather rucksack and some slightly better clothes than the tattered shorts I am wearing. While I am working I get flashes of memories, I see several video games like Shadow of Mordor, Ryse son of Rome among others. Using some wood and the bronze metal I found in the building I make a crude shield and with some scavenged leather and more bronze I repair a few pieces of armor and make what I can. After a few hours of work I repaired a Corinthian helmet and a worn cuirass (Breastplate) and made a set of vambraces, greaves and thigh guards.

I make my way to the exit of the building due to some strange pulling feeling I have near my navel. I leave the run down factory and I make my way to the closest park, as I am walking I keep getting strange looks from the mortals causing me to wonder what they see threw the godly magic. I glance at a store window and for a brief minute I see myself but I am wearing hockey pads and my spear looks like a worn hockey stick. That wouldn't be odd if it wasn't near August, no wonder they are giving me looks. I hear the laughing of children as they play and I see some old men playing chess at a concrete table. As I get closer to the big pond that is near the center of the park I catch the smell of sea spray and metal. I see a boy with dark hair and tanned skin playing in the shallow part of the pond.

"Percy, be careful you don't want a sea monster to eat you sweetie." I hear a melodious voice say from nearby.

"Yes m...mom." I hear the boy stutter out.

I pan around and find the boy's mother, I slowly walk towards her after I put my spear away to show that I am not a threat. I take my helmet off and sit next to her on the bench.

"W...Who might you be, young man?" The woman asks me.

"My name is Ajax Strider and I was wondering if that is you son ma'am?" I ask her subtly pointing at Percy.

"Yes he is my son and I am so proud of him. He is going to be turning twelve this year." She says with a smile on her face.

"Huh, I am a year older than him. So does he know of his father and his world?" I ask her.

"I was going to wait until his birthday but I am guessing you could sense his aura?" She asks fearfully.

"I am not sure I can tell I have some connection to him but he gives off two types of power, the main one being a sea god but I don't want to name him yet and the other reminds me of Hephaestus. If you want I can watch over him for a few months and get to know him and his wonderful mother before he has to go to camp." I say as I see him look at the fish that swim near his as if they are protecting him.

"I would love that, Where are your family though?" She asks with a concerned face.

"They died when I was young, a Cyclops killed my mother when I was five and my uncle was in the military so we moved from place to place. He died in Afghanistan two years ago. I was given his Purple Heart before I was sent to an orphanage. I have been roaming around North America ever since." I say as I pat the pocket that held my uncle's Purple Heart.

"Oh my gods I am so sorry for asking you. If you want to you could stay with us I am sure Percy would love to have you stay with us. Oh I'm sorry my name is Sally." She says with a heart warming smile.

"I don't want to be a bother ma'am." I say while I scratch the back of my head.

"I won't be having any of that young man just let me get Percy." She says to me before yelling for Percy to come over to us.

"You called mom?" Percy asks as he comes jogging over to us.

"This is your cousin Ajax, he is going to be staying with us since his family passed away." Sally says in a sad tone and I see Percy get a sad look that I want to make disappear for some reason.

"It's okay little dude, it's gonna be okay." I say as I place my hand on his head and ruffle his hair.

Time_Skip Five Weeks - September 7th

Using the powers of the Mist I was able to get enrolled in Percy's school and I was able to help him in several classes while he helped me in a few others. I always did well in science english history and gym while Percy did better in swimming, marine studies and other subjects. I looked up ways to help with our ADHD and Dyslexia and I found that it took a lot of effort for us to try to sit threw the meditation but even a few deep breaths can help in the toughest situations. Thankfully we don't live very far from the school so we jog there in the morning and I can tell the exercise has done us some good. I can't tell if it is our godly sides helping in the recovery but whenever we get done exercising it only takes a few minutes for us to recover our energy. I even took up wrestling and Percy joined the swim team, it was all going great until halfway there the year a Satyr named Grover entered the school and started hanging around Percy. I got some kind of uguly feeling in my chest and I started "Guarding" Percy and I could tell the Satyr suspected something was up.

Thanks to our meditation and training methods our adhd lessened to a degree to where we could sit threw a class without causing a scene and Percy and me got decent grades mostly A's but a few B's in areas like math. Ugh I loath who ever invented algebra, I mean come on why explain A squared + B squared = C squared. Why couldn't they teach us in practical methods like my uncle taught me. If you have a 22 gallon gas tank and you get 25 miles to the gallon how far can you go? The answer would be to multiply the amount of gas by the amount of miles per gallon of gas your car gets, which would be 550 miles. Near the end of the year we are sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Greek & Roman display. Weirdly enough two day before our History teacher Mr. Cortz leaves for maternity and is replaced with a Mr. Burner he is a nice enough man but it is a shame that he is stuck in a wheelchair.

Well any way we are going threw the exhibits when I get a pulling sensation to the Greek arms and armor section. I see a display of a once proud looking shield said to be made of leather and bronze but it has been treated harshly by time. I reach my hand towards it and I feel a thrumming in my chest and I can feel like it is part of me. As my hand brushes the glass it feels as if it disappears and my hand touches the shield and the most magical thing happens. The shield glows in a bright golden glow and looks like the hands of time are forced to reverse and I can see the shield in all its splendor. It looks like it is made out of seven layers of thick cowhide and a thick layer of gleaming polished bronze. I brush my hand over the mirror-like surface and I feel a weight around my left wrist and I see a bronze wrist watch with a dark brown leather strap with the word ámyna which Greek for defence. I go threw the rest of the exhibits and I don't get that pulling sensation except for a weirdly shaped bronze hunting knife with a serrated edge and a finely sharpened edge and a leather wrapped handle which I also get a tugging feeling towards.

Near the end of the tour I see Nancy Bobfit bullying Grover but I see Percy confront her and to my surprise his anger gets the better of him for a moment and I see the water in the fountain that Nancy was standing in front of pulling her in. Then I see Grover try to cover for Percy which I commend the Satyr for but I get a gut feeling about Mrs. Dodds and I follow Percy and her when they go inside. I hear Mrs. Dodds acuse Percy of stealing something and I feel a sweat drop form on my brow. Then she snarls at him and transforms into an uguly bat creature that I remember fits the description of the Furies Hades torturers.

I rush in and get in front of Percy to protect my brother. I yell ámyna and my watch shimmers and turns into the shield from the exhibit and I pull out the blade I named Ashton after its previous owner and glare at the monster.

"You have no business with my concerns child of war before you meet the same fate as the sea-spawn." Mrs. Dodds snarls at me.

"I would rather dance with you in the flames of Tartarus than let you harm my brother witch!" I yell at her raising my shield.

"Where did you get the shield of Ajax the Greater, you vile grave robber. I will give no quarter to those who defile the dead." Mrs. Dodds yells as she slashes at me with her flaming whip.

I feel the adrenaline flush threw my veins and I yell for Percy to hide behind a pillar while I fight her. I raise my shield up and ready my broken sword ready to defend my brother in all but blood till my last breath. I feel a cool breeze and I sell sea spray and I feel a rush of energy, I breath in deeply filling my lungs with the salty cool air and when I open them the Furry is startled. I sheath my sword and grab my spear from my rucksack and pull my arm back and launch it with all my might. I pray to the gods and by Tyche's grace I clip the Furry's left wing causing her to plummet to the ground. I pull out Ashton and charge her and it is not a one sided fight and I get a nasty cut to my side and I hear Percy yell and the ground shakes and rumbles and from a pool of water that was formed by a destroyed water fountain he pulls out a bronze xiphos with a wave pattern on it and rushes the half dead Furry knocking her on her back as he stabs her in the chest. I thank the gods as she turns into golden dust, as we are about to leave I see something among the pile of gold monster dust.

"Hey Percy looked at this, the witch left her weapon as loot. Think we should sacrifice it to the gods?" I ask him as I pick it up.

"Yah we could sacrifice it to our dads and the rest of the gods." Percy says with a smile.

When we get back with the group I can see Grover and Mr. Burner giving me and Percy looks and I overhear the words Need...Go...Camp...Halfblood. We finish up the day and head back to moms brownstone home and we get the charcoal grill out and pile some sticks in it and some newspaper as tinder and get a small fire going.

"To the gods and goddesses of Olympus may we forever be in your good graces." I say before I toss the flaming barbed whip into the fire and it quickly burns into golden dust that rises to the heavens.

I tell mom about the Satyr and my suspicions of Mr. Burnner and about Camp Halfblood. I tell her we will gather our things and head out at first light. At 4 in the morning I get Percy awake and I strap on my crude armor and my "watch" and new hunting knife along with whatever else I could use in our trip to Longisland. We head to the pier due to a feeling I have and I see a small boat with an outboard motor and after checking it I am grateful it is half full of gas. I had just gotten the motor started when I heard someone yell.

"Wait for me you guys." I hear Grover yell and he jumps in the boat as we pull away.

"So why did you guys steal a boat?" Grover asks while looking around as if he was looking for sea monsters.

"We are heading to Long Island but there is only enough gas to get us 85% of the way there. So we will have to beach the boat and pray that Lord Poesidon can return the boat to its owner in one piece." I say as I keep the boat as close to the coast as possible without getting spotted.

It is getting dark by the time we have to beach the boat and make our way to camp. I get a gnawing feeling in my gut as it starts to rain and even hail as we get closer to camp, in the distance I see something vaguely cow shaped but I dismiss it as my eyes playing tricks on me. We are so close to the camp border that I can taste it but I hear something that shakes my nerves.

*MOOO*

The next thing I can feel is pain and tons of it. Then it hits me Greek based cow monster.

"Run like fucking hell it's the Minotaur." I yell like a man possessed running up the hill but to my horror I see Grover struggling with his fake feet and Percy is trying to help him up the hill.

"Son of a bitch and I don't mean me." I yell as I run down the hill full tilt as the Minotaur is closing on them.

"Come on Grover we are so close." Percy says trying to be optimistic.

"Get your asses up that hill and that is an order." I yell as I rush by them.

Just as I am getting close to the Minotaur I get my shield out and slam into him. I make the man-beast stumble and that is all I need. I pull out Ashton and start stabbing and slashing like a man possessed by a spirit of rage.

"You will not harm my brother!" I yell as my vision gets a tinge of red.

The battle seems like it lasted forever but eventually I run out of energy but then I smell the sea and feel the cold wind fill me with energy to defend my family. By the end of the fight I am barely hanging on to consciousness and my vision is swimming. The Minotaur rushes at me one more time trying to gore me to death but I have had enough of his shit. In one last move I vault over him lopping off his horns in the process. As I land on his back I wrap my legs around his waist and begin to stab him in the ribs. I have to grab his matted shaggy hair to hang on but after a dozen and a half stab wounds the minotaur drops its Omega bladed ax and dissolves into golden dust.

(Chiron's Point of View)

As I and the rest of the camp came to see what was going on I see the young boy that was with Percy rush at the Minotaur of all monsters while Percy and Grover are trying to make their way up the hill. I hear the young man yell something about not harming his brother and proceeds to brutalize the monster. As the battle is nearing its end the young man shocks me for the fourth time that night by using the Minotaur's forehead as a springboard landing on its back and stabs the dieing monster in the ribs a total of 18 times and as it turns to dust I hear the Ares cabin all yell at the symbol that appears over the young man's head, A giant raving boar with a spear and sword crossed behind it.