AN: Hey Guys and Girls! Thanks for the people who left those great reviews last time! It was their encouraging reviews that persuaded me to write this next chapter far earlier than planned. I hope you enjoy. P.S: there is one flashback in this chapter, but it is the last one. Enjoy!

Chapter 2- Myths?

Percy POV

The cool shade of the old oak tree just outside of New York was refreshing and comforting. It had been just over 2 months since Annabeth broke up with me and my parents died. 2 months of non-stop training. I was faster, and stronger. My control over the sea had increased.

Snap! A twig from a nearby bush cracked. I slowly stand up, pulling riptide out of my pocket, every muscle in my body tense, ready to face the oncoming danger, if it was danger. A rustling sound from the right catches my attention, and as soon as I glanced there, something pounced, knocking me backwards onto the grass. There was a rabbit, but not an ordainary rabbit. It had bloodshot red eyes and razor sharp teeth. It was extremely ugly, and could in no way relate to the cute fluffy ones that I had seen hopping around.

That rabbit seems to glare at me, before swiping its claws at my face, I manage to roll out from underneath it just in time. I burst into action. Leaping up, I uncap riptide and take a quick but efficient slash at the rabbit. It leaps to the side, easily dodging riptide. I start rapidly slashing at it, but it danced away from riptide every time, making no move to fight back.

Out of the corner of my eye I see the small pond that I had been watching earlier. I use my left hand to summon water from the pond, and create a small drill. A drill made of water. I throw my left hand forward, and the spinning cone of water flew forward towards the rabbit. The rabbit tried to dodge, but the drill bested it. I grin. I charge after it with my sword, only for it to leap up again and start dodging. My hopes begin to fade.

Still, I worked on, hitting the rabbit with everything I had. Who knew a rabbit could be so powerful? Riptide weaved in and out, stabbing and slashing. The rabbit evaded my attempts every time. Then it vanished into thin air, and a boy who looked to be around 13 took its place, and he was laughing like crazy. I stared at him in confusion. He looks up at me, and starts laughing all over again.

"You should-d have-e se-en your face! You thought-t you were-e going to die-e!" I frown at him. He eventually calms down and stands up, holding out his hand to shake. Wearily, I shake it. "Hi, I'm Zarcrix. I have been watching you train Percy, and decided to come meet you, the greatest hero earth has ever seen!"

"No offence, but who are you?" I ask.

"Haven't I introduced myself, I'm Zarcrix." He replies.

"No, I mean like umm, what are you? A God? A demigod? What?"

Zarcrix looked at me. "I am a deity. Not a primordial one, a proper Deity."

"Your Chaos?" I ask in disbelief.

Zarcrix looks at me in horror, "Chaos? Me? No. Chaos is my niece."

Confusion runs through my body. Niece? Zarcrix must be old. Were just some of the thoughts entering my mind.

"Do you want a history lesson?" he asks with a sigh.

"Umm, sure." I say, because for some reason I wanted to know about this stuff.

"Well, one day, Chaos, My Niece, created earth. And after a long time, filled with the Japanese, Chinese and Egyptians, after all them, along came the Greeks. The people who worship Zeus and the Olympians. Are yes, I remember the day they found out about us as if it were yesterday…"

*Flashback* (Zarcrix POV)

I was standing up on my observation deck on planet Zaros. Then I saw my younger brother, Craotos, travel down to earth. But he forgot to take off his Deity sash. A man named Osgreld saw him, and started up a rumour about these people older than Zeus, and the titans. He knew because we had a creator symbol on a sash, which was known universally back then. This started up a myth. The Greeks began to think of us as myths. Their kind of myths.

*End Flashback*

Percy POV

"Wow, so the ancient Greeks had myths too. Like the mortals, believing in one true God, believe the Greek gods are myths? Wow." I say amazed.

"Yes, the world back then was quite different." He says thoughtfully.

"I think I shall tell you about the Deities." He says.

I look at him, I was interested. This was stuff the ancient Greeks thought were myths, yet here was proof. Wait, what proof? What if he was just a fraud? Many gods could change shape. He was probably a minor god of rabbits or something.

"Can prove to me you are a deity?"

"How so?" he asks, looking at me like I had passed a test.

"I need you to do something deity like, maybe if you duelled Zeus and won? That would-be deity like, I would believe you then." I say.

"Okay then, if I must duel him, I will."

"OI! ZEUS, GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE, I CHALLENGE YOU TO A FULL MAGIC DUEL!" he yelled, as if he was yelling at a child to clean his room.

Up on Olympus, Zeus was very angry, time to teach this kid a lesson. He flashed down there in all his glory, but not in immortal form.

I watch Zeus look at the kid, almost in pity that he was going to get obliterated, you don't just call down the king of the Gods to duel him. I didn't think he was actually going to. Silently, I watch from my hiding place in the bushes, as the fight began. Zeus blasted a massive bolt of lightning at Zarcrix, but Zarcrix flicked his wrist and the bolt sizzled and vanished in mid- air.

He lazily flicked his wrist and sent a massive sea of conjured hawks at Zeus, who barely blasted them down in time. He was lucky they were copper hawks. Zarcrix pointed at Zeus and summoned a massive ball of power into his hand, which he then flicked towards Zeus, sending it travelling faster than lightning. Zeus was blasted kilometres backwards, and eventually flashed away in fear.

I leap up from the bush and look at him in disbelief.

"All right, time to do what a came for" he said.

I look at him in curiosity, waiting for an answer.

"I have created a small home for you, deep in a forest nearby. I am also offering you partial immortality, so you can die in battle, but not of old age. This is for the upcoming war, I can sense primordial's and titans rising. This is to help you prepare for the war. Do you accept?"

I wanted to accept, but I didn't want to. Did I really want to help those idiot demigods? Those Gods that never gave anything worth having back?

"Poseidon is currently searching the entire ocean for you, and Hermes is searching the land. It has been a good choice sleeping in the pond, but eventually you will be found. Thalia and Nico are on your side." Zarcrix says, obviously hoping me to accept.

The words were out of my mouth before I realised I was saying them.

"I accept."

AN: Thanks for reading chapter 2! I hope you enjoyed. Sorry about the extensive amounts of dialogue in this chapter. But it had to be done for the sake of understanding. I also probably won't be able to update every day from now on, however, I aim for a chapter a week. Thanks for reading!