Chapter 10 The Quest Begins

First off sorry about the delays just got to say I got sick and didn't really want to write.

Please review also need a beta reader, read the author's note at the end for more details.

Remember Perry Johnson = Percy Jackson

Peter awoke to the sound of someone walking beside his bed, he opened his eyes a crack and saw exactly who he didn't want to see, members of the Triarii. Peter thought the Triarii coming to the infirmary, especially the fifth cohort's section was never a good thing. It almost always meant one of a few things. They were here to invite a legionnaire to the Triarii, which was a very unlikely option. They could be looking for a family member after a battle, to see if they were okay. Which was almost an impossibility, seeing how having a family in the Triarii, generally meant that you were treated to a better cohort. Then the last option was one that Peter was the most likely option, to congratulate someone in the cohort for prowess on the battlefield. Peter silently hoped it was for him, something that was finally going his way.

Then they did the worst thing imaginable, they turned to that new kid, Perry and started to talk to him as if he had just won a battle single handedly. Peter didn't even know the reason why they would congratulate Perry for a job well done, he had stayed towards the rear of the formation the entire time.

Then he heard the reason, they were fawning over Perry. Boy, did he hate that kid, Perry comes in and makes a good impression with the Triarii, by breaking formation, assaulting a formation by getting hurt. While Peter had been fighting for almost the entire time and was one of the few who stood and fought the Triarii.

Why weren't they impressed with that, why were they impressed with Perry's fight against the Triarii, he hadn't been fighting on the front lines against the 1st cohort for even a minute before the Triarii showed up. Then he had lasted in a fight against them for all of a couple seconds.

As Peter wallowed in his hatred, he unknowingly shifted in his bed, alerting the unruly guests to the fact that they were not alone. The Triarii, who had been trained to fight for most of their lives, turned towards the sound. They saw Peter, and the leader came and patted him on the shoulder, and said "You did a good job out there, you keep it up and you will join the Triarii one day. We were just wondering how he had gotten through our first line of spears."

The hatred left Peter, for the first time in his short career in the legion he had actually been told that he had done a good job. The rest of the day passed for Peter rather uneventfully. Peter left the infirmary the next day, fully healed, he would have to remember to thank the gods for that. Alongside him leaving the infirmary, almost all the rest of the legion left that same day, including Perry, who had recovered physically and was one of the last to leave. As Peter watched him leave, he couldn't help but think that Perry wasn't fully back mentally, something had been shaken loose during the battle.

Peter, after his sudden shift of feeling towards the new Legionnaire, something inside made him want to ask Perry about what was wrong. Peter was being weighed down by the thought for hours until he finally went out to find Perry. Perry was sitting in the dining area, alone quietly eating some bread, as Peter approached. Perry got up as if he was about to leave. Peter told Perry to sit down, and the younger boy listened. Peter sat down across from Perry, looked at the boy, thinking that this entire idea was stupid.

"Something seems off about you, I don't know what, but I want to talk about it." Saying Peter, out a feeling of curiosity, then of compassion.

"Do you remember when Fred announced that we have a quest? Well I am one of the 4 people meant to go on that quest." Said Perry before being cut off by Peter.

"Wait the camp has a quest, when did Praetor Fred announce it?" Said Peter, confused to when the Male Praetor would have said anything about a quest.

"Well he was supposed to announce the Quest after the war games." Stated Perry not understanding what that meant.

"Oh now I understand. Fred always was very clever. He told the legion about the quest when no one would hear it, or at least the fewest legionnaires. He announced the Quest without announcing the quest." Said Peter, feeling excited for the idea of a quest. "Well what does the quest say?"

"Well it goes something like this,

The Newcomer, the smart idiot, the legacy, and the bold,

Must set out for the lands of old,

The quest may take a few turns,

Until you reach the land of burns,

The son of the sky is not far off,

Be careful not to scoff,

As the beast of old is near and jaws are real,

And one of you it will steal,

I still don't know who, the smart idiot, the bold and the Legacy are. Do you have any ideas?" Said Perry starting to act more like he was before the battle, getting excited, but yet a little removed, as if he felt he didn't belong.

"Hey, I know a smart Idiot! Matt is smart, but can be very dumb at times, and if that is Matt, I am probably the bold one." Blurted out Peter, barely able to listen to the entire prophecy before saying those words.

"What makes you say that, I understand the smart idiot one, as Matt is the least smart, child of Minerva, I have ever encountered, but what about the bold one." Said Perry, without thinking, before he realized that Matt was the only child of Minerva he had even got to know, even in passing at the camp. Perry felt as if he knew something that he didn't know, but quickly dismissed this thought as, how could he know something and not know something.

After a moment of silence Peter spoke up in reply, "I just have feelings and I act on them, they tend to be bold strategies or attacks. I don't know, I just kind of do things in battle." As Peter talked, the last remaniates of his hate for Perry died.

As the talk went on, Peter realized, that actually finding the Legacy for the quest. Would actually be very hard, easily three quarters of the camp was a legacy in one form or another.

"Well, maybe it is a legacy that you know, that could limit the number of legacies greatly." Said Peter, hoping to find a few names.

After about a minute of silence Perry replied, "Well the only 2 I have really heard of are Crassus and Octativion. The only one I have met is Crassus, and I am pretty sure he hates me, so we should go with Octavaion."

"You go talk to Octativion and I will talk to Matt, we should try to set out on the quest as soon as possible." Said Peter before getting up and shaking the hand of the younger Legionnaire across from him. They both soon left to talk to their respective legionnaires.

"Say, Matt, how would you like to go on a quest?" Said Peter as he walked into the barracks.

"There's a quest on?" Replied Matt, confused.

"Wow, the Praetors really did a good job announcing that quest." Said Peter pausing for a second, holding back laughing, but grinning fully. "Anyways there is a quest on, and I am on it, and you are coming with me."

"Wait what? Slow down, what will be going? Who is coming on the quest? I have so many questions." Said Matt quickly, clearly excited that this might be a way out of 5th Cohort. Dismissing the preexisting idea that quests were a bad omen. Not yet saying it, but it was clear he wanted to go on the quest.

As Perry approached the barracks of the first cohort, he felt that he was walking into his own private hell. As he entered he was pelted by insults, not just about his status in the fifth cohort, but also the quest to come. They felt that they were the best thing in the entire camp and that the fifth should be their slaves. Perry still didn't understand why the fifth was viewed so poorly.

As he walked through the barracks it quickly became clear that he wasn't going to find Octativion anywhere. Perry decided to find a Centurion to aid his search, and that's when he learned that Octativion was off practicing with his sword in a fighting area.

Percy walked over to the fighting area and quickly spotted the skinny blonde kid fighting with a wooden dummy. His strikes were heavy, especially for his age and size, sometimes even having to rest a on the dummy in order to pull the sword out. An act that he was performing as Perry approached the legacy.

Octativion turned to Perry, his Gladius still embedded in the dummy, "Well, well, well, if it isn't Triarii boy himself. Have you come to fight me a second time?"

"No, Octavaion, I am here to invite you on a quest." Perry said trying to be respectful, even though he hadn't been shown any himself. Upon saying this Octavaion, burst out laughing.

"You, a member of the fifth cohort, has come to ask a member of the first cohort, to join a quest to with presumably 2 other Legionnaires of the worst cohort, this camp has ever seen. It is an insane idea that I would risk my life on a quest for no gain. I say let one of your stupid cohort go die to save that 'Son of the sky'. That's even if you survive on the quest long enough." Said the Young Demigod, smirking the entire time.

"A simple no would have worked." Said Perry offended by the way he had been demeaned.

"You could have hit me with the butt of your sword, but you decided to stab me in the gut. Yes I know that was you. If you survive this quest, you will have to pay for that for the rest of your stay in the legion." Said Octativion, grinning ear to ear, his mind clearly on the future. Perry turned and walked not really thinking much of the threat, his mind focused now on finding Crassus.

Perry returned to the barracks, starting to think more and more about the quest and that one of the members would not return. The second he entered the barracks, Crassus stuck his head out at the very end of the room.

"Hey, Crassus", Perry said awkwardly.

"Hello." Replied Crassus, before pulling his head back into his bunk. Perry slowly made his way over towards the man.

"So we need to talk about the quest." Said Perry as he approached the bed.

"No, we don't go away." Said Crassus, the anger showing through his teeth. This almost convinced Perry to back off.

"Yes we do, you are a part of the quest." Said Perry with a fair amount of confidence.

"No I am not going to be apart of a quest." Said Crassus now getting up to walk away, Perry starting to follow him. Crassus turned around, Perry seeing how clenched the man opposite's jaw was, which made him lose confidence in himself for a half second.

"Well maybe if you hear me out, I can change your mind." Offered Perry, but Crassus turned to walk away. He made it all of two steps before getting knocked on his ass, by a Centurion striding around the entrance to the tent. Perry smiled at the sight of James, somehow knowing what was about to come.

"Legionnaire, were you just offered a spot on a quest?" Questioned James, pausing for a nod.

"Do you have any prior commitments?" Said James once again waiting for a response, this time in the form of a quick shake of the head.

"I do believe you have a rather poor standing in the legion. Is this correct?" Said James, immediately receiving a nod, "Well in that case I order you to go on this quest."

On Mt Olympus

"I know what you did! Juno, did you really think you could get away with it forever! He had a deal, a deal which included not having his memories erased! He could keep all of his memories, not just selected memories. Anyways he's my son you can't just do anything you want to a child of mine. Stop looking so offended you know what you did." Yelled Neptune at Juno, who just started to look as if these accusations were being made up. She knew she was guilty of wiping that Demigods memory, and that Neptune would get mad. She just didn't know that he would get so mad he would come to Mt Olympus, just to yell at her. It wouldn't have changed her decision, she just would have left Mt Olympus for a while, after a while Neptune stopped to take in a breath. That's when she chose to return fire.

"Well what you thinking, a Greek in New Rome! I don't care about any deal, do you want an all out war between the Greeks and Romans, that's what your little deal was going to lead too. Okay Fish Brains!" Stabbed Juno angrily towards her brother.

"Hey, I love my son, but I do not want war between the two camps, I thought he could keep the secret to himself." Responded Neptune trying to reason with his sister. " I understand wiping his memory of the other camp, even though I disagree with the decision you made. The main issue I have is that you didn't just stop with his memories of the camp, you wiped his memory of me, you wiped his memory of Sally, and most importantly any knowledge of his powers. Now you want him to go out on a quest. That is a death sentence and you know it."

"It's not as if he will be alone on the quest anyways. He will have other Legionnaires." Said Juno innocently in a way that angered Neptune.

"Even though you wiped the memories, you couldn't wipe the scent. When he was younger, he still had the scent of a much more powerful Demigod. Now that he has no memory of his powers, he can't even use basic powers to protect himself." Replied Neptune, with surprising amounts of logic, for how angry he was.

AN By the way you shouldn't hate on the chapter title, as technically the quest began with assembling the group. I would like to thank you all for reading this chapter, and would like to say, if you liked the chapter please consider leaving a Review. I have a reason for almost everything in the story, feel free to ask questions about it. Also would love to have a Beta reader, not just for proofreading, but for bouncing ideas off of, PM me if interested. I believe that this will allow the story to be written better, the next chapter is also going to be rather long, so look forward to that. Btw if you were wondering why this chapter was late, this was a hard one to write. Expect the chapter up by Thursday or earlier. Thanks for reading, there were no reviews to respond to so, I will see you next chapter! -Kate

I got a PM asking how the Roman Senate was set up in my story. I will explain that here.

The senate was made up of the current leaders Praetors (4), 2 of which functioned as the leaders of the camp, the other 2 function as leaders of the city of new rome. All former Praetors got a seat in the senate. All 12 Centurions, 5 numbered cohorts plus the Triarii, got a seat on the Senate, most would show up, but power ranged based on the Cohort you were a part of. Just like with Praetor all former Centurions got a seat in the senate, if they left the Legion honorably. Then there was the seat for the current Augur, and the previous ones. Final seats were taken by the Questors in New Rome, who supervised important parts of the city, such as the Aqueducts, or the Temples to the gods. They would only be in the Senate for as long as they served.

The current Praetors had the most power in the senate, followed by the current Augur, then the former Praetors, then the Centurions and former Augurs, but there was rarely more than three that attended a meeting. The rest were largely on the same level power wise. Also for the most part the city of New Rome held a different meeting than that of the camp.

Tell me if you want to learn about anything else in the world. Such as the camp's layout in greater detail, a list of the Centurions or something like that.