Hand of Chaos - Original (Discontinued)

by Umlobi

Gaea has been defeated. Unfortunately, Percy has been executed, by the hand of Zeus. A few hundred years later, a new threat arises on the horizon, one that the oracle prophecies will defeat Olympus, unless old heroes return. Now, an ancient deity that has been all but forgotten offers his help and his armies to help save Olympus. UPDATE: Please read profile for more info.

2. Chapter 1: Quests of Love

Please Note that I do not own Percy Jackson. Now! Enjoy Chapter 1!

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Chapter 1: The Quests of Love

P.O.V. of Percy Jackson

As I stood or rather kneeled before Zeus and the Council of Olympians, in Olympus I wondered where it had gone all wrong. Who am I? Well let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Perseus Achilles Jackson. I was once known as the Retriever of the Master Bolt, Defeater of Ares the God of War, Retriever of the Golden Fleece, Saviour of Artemis, Navigator of the Maze, Bane of Kronos, Slayer of Polybotes, Porphyrion, Otis, Ephialtes, Mimas and Gration, (A.N.: I have to make a lot titles for him, I believe that he did not slay Gration, Mimas and Porphyrion. However I cannot say, as I have not read Blood of Olympus yet, so it may be a little departure from what Riordan had in store for Percy. If you have read Blood of Olympus, please tell me who he slew.)Bane of Gaea. Twice Saviour of Olympus. Son of Poseidon. But did you note how I said 'Once Known'? About that. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you about a wonderful and heroic Son of Poseidon known as David Anderson.

Flashback, (Still P.O.V. of Percy)

I awoke suddenly, gasping from my nightmare. Still I could not shake that one nightmare off. To summarize it off in short, the nightmare consisted of 3 parts that I knew could not happen. All 3 are absurd if you think of it. The first component is the fact that Gaea is sleeping, while in the nightmare she had risen. The second is that her armies are dead, so Annabeth can NEVER be taken away from me, the Third? Well Poseidon wouldn't replace me with someone else, until I die. Right?

I slowly but surely got out of my bed, and went over to my cabin. I was the only occupant of it, because at the end of World War II, the Big Three (Zeus, Hades and Poseidon) signed a pact, that they will not conceive anymore demigod children. The pact has now been called off, but Poseidon and Zeus broke their oath. One of which did it twice with the same mortal... cough cough Zeus cough cough.

Despite my loneliness, the cabin had a cozy feeling to it. Mainly it was due to all of the trophies I had placed around it and the fountain in the back right that always made sure to renew my strength and energy. Through my various years of travelling and slaying, I had acquired quite the amount of memoires.

The Minotaur Horn, the Shield Tyson gave me, the thousand or so pictures of me and all my friends. Most of the other trophies I have sacrificed, for it was already too cluttered in my cabin.

My own conscience began to steadily pour commands into my ADHD brain that was hardwired for quick 'thinking'.

I exited the cabin and began to walk over to the Athena cabin, where my girlfriend Annabeth was. Annabeth exited her cabin roughly the same time as me. If you have never met Annabeth, then you can easily mistake her for an Aphrodite Child, at least until she opens her mouth and begins to bombard you with facts.

Annabeth had beautiful blond princess curls, amazing grey eyes that will study you no matter what and her personality was the most loyal, despite her fatal flaw of Hubris.

Annabeth strode over to me, her golden curls flowing through the wind. "Hi Seaweed Brain, how's it going?" She greeted me. "Hey wise-girl" I responded just as the conch horn sounded. "Let's go over for breakfast"

Breakfast went by quickly, and before long Chiron announced to the campers "Campers, today we have news that Lady Artemis and her Hunters shall be joining us." He was met with a wave of groans and complains. "As well Nico Di Angelo will be joining us as well, for he need to give us his monthly report."

I began to swallow up with excitement. Both of my best friends will be coming today. Chiron then dismissed us to do our daily chores, activities and training. During my first chore which was cleaning my cabin and preparing it for inspection, Athena flashed in.

For some reason I have still yet to discover, Athena hates my guts. She was hell-bent upon separating me and Annabeth, and making my life as miserable as humanly (or godly) possible.

Of course, I went into a low bow, for what other choice did I have? "Hello Perseus" She spat out my name as if it was a disease. "I have recently spoken to Aphrodite, concerning your relationship with my daughter, Annabeth. Aphrodite has informed me, that you wish to have her hand in marriage, yes?"

I looked at her utterly puzzled and responded "Yes, Milady"

"Good" She glared at me, "Before you have my blessing for the marriage, you must do 15 quests, in order to prove your love for her. I shall leave you this letter, detailing what you must do." With that she left, still glaring at me.

The letter itself was simple but long. Written in Greek (A.N.: I will not have it written in Greek, because that is cruel to all of you non-Greek readers/speakers. The letter will be in English :D)

Quests of Love

1. Slay Nemean Lion

2. Slay Lernean Hydra

3. Capture Golden Hind of Artemis

4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar

5. Clean Augean Stables in one day

6. Slay Stymphalian Birds

7. Capture the Cretan Bull

8. Steal the Mares of Diomedes

9. Obtain Girdle of Hippolyta from Amazons

10. Obtain Cattle of Garyon

11. Steal Golden Apples from Hesperide Gardens

12. Capture Cerberus

13. Survive 6 months with the Amazons

14. Survive 6 months with Artemis & Hunters

15. Defeat me (Athena) in one on one combat

Complete these quests and you will receive my blessing for your marriage.

You may bring two companions, but they are not allowed to help you in any way, shape or form. If they do, then you will have to restart your quests. Annabeth or anyone who is not concerned by the quest is not allowed to know what you are doing and where you are going. Enjoy.

I stared at the letter in shock. I had to do the 12 Labours of Hercules, Defeat Athena and live one year with 2 groups of man hating/enslaving women.

P.O.V. of Athena

Perseus stood no chance, and I feel like this would be the last push he needs to realize that my daughter deserves someone more worthy.

I flashed myself over to Chiron and let him know of the quests. I told him that none may know of these quests but the people involved. He looked grim, and unhappy with my decision but did not comment.

I then flashed myself over to my palace in Olympus and prepared to see what Perseus would do.

P.O.V. of Percy

The two people, I had already selected. The conch horn had blown during reading the letter and I knew that Thalia had arrived. I dashed over to where Artemis and Thalia were speaking to Chiron. Chiron looked over at me and nodded to me, and separated Thalia from Artemis.

He whispered something in her ear and a look of understanding passed her face. She bounded over to me, and I looked at Chiron who merely winked at me.

To Thalia I asked "Hey Thals, I need to show you something. Want to come with me?" She replied "Of course fish face"

Thalia and I walked over to the Poseidon Cabin. I showed Thalia the letter, and asked her to become one of the members. "Who is the other member you want to ask?" She inquired of me, "Nico" I responded.

Thalia looked utterly puzzled. "Fishy, how exactly are you going to contact the Ghost King, if he is in the Underworld?" At this point Nico barged in to the cabin, "Percy, you in here?" "Nico! I need to ask you something" Thus, I showed Nico the letter as well, and both agreed to come and keep me company, as long as their respective god allowed them to.

While Nico and Thalia went off to gain permission, I began to gather my things, in preparation for the journey that awaited me. One would think that defeating Kronos and Gaea and countless Giants would be enough to appease Athena, but that one would be wrong.

Nico and Thalia returned with their things, and together we set off, to begin my Quests. Chiron, did not ask what we were doing, but if he knew, he did not show it.

Our first stop was in Nashville, where we found the Nemean Lion, seemingly minding its own business. It was currently walking down in alleyway, where there weren't many mortals. The few mortals that happened to come upon it confused it for a kitten.

The Nemean Lion is basically a dumpster truck, with an unquenchable thirst for Demigod Blood, oversized teeth the size of swords each, and fur that protected it from any source of harm. So how they saw a kitten from THAT thing? No clue whatsoever. The mist works in weird ways.

I had already defeated this Monster once, when I was 14. However back then I had the support of the Lieutenant of Artemis, and right now? I am alone.

The way to defeat the Nemean Lion was to coax it into opening its mouth. Usually it does that when the battle starts you have to attack it and hope for the best. This time it did not fail to appease.

Just as we rounded the corner we saw it, and it saw us. It sensed our smell, and it began to open its mouth, in anticipation to roar, and attack. As soon as it began to open its mouth I grabbed my sword disguised as a pen, made it turn into a sword, and brandished the bronze weapon at the Lion.

My sword was given to me by Chiron, but was created by the then Hesperide, Zoe Nightshade. See Zoe was once a Hesperide, but she broke that by betraying her family so that Hercules can have an apple from their garden. She got kicked out, and joined Artemis. From then on she has been the immortal lieutenant, but was killed by her Father Atlas, when we were on a quest to save Artemis and Annabeth.

The Nemean Lion as expected roared and I charged. Yelling out a war cry as I did, I dashed at it with blinding speed and stabbed my sword into the upper roof of the Lion's mouth. It immediately dissolved into golden dust and began to be absorbed by the Earth, its essence going back to Tartarus to reform.

Slowly but surely Thalia, Nico and I began to clear out all of the Labours of Hercules. When we had gotten to the 9th Labour, 4 months had passed. I once again headed over to Seattle and wanted a conversation with Queen Hylla of the Amazons.

The entrance I had gotten this time was much more different than the last time. Nico and Thalia had gone to a mall, and thus, I had to go alone. Kinzie was once again guarding the front doors, and for a moment did not recognise me "HALT!" She barked at me "Identify yourself, MALE!"

"Kinzie, it's me, Percy." I stated, and immediately a look of realization dawned upon her face. "Oh, Perseus, pardon me I did not realize it is you." She said, now in a calm voice "Girls, it's ok, he is a friend."

I asked her for an audience with Hylla, and she agreed right away. She once more led me through the countless warehouses, until we finally reached the throne room of Hylla.

Hylla herself sat upon an intimidating throne chair made purely out of gold, and glittering with various gems at the top. She looked down upon us, and when she realized it was Kinzie and myself, got of the throne, crossed the oversized throne room in blinding speed and greeted us.

"Ahh, Percy, Kinzie. What is it you need? I already know that this is to a social call" "Well, you are half right, and half wrong, Your Majesty. Currently, in order to prove my love of Annabeth to Athena, I am doing the – as she called it – 15 Quests of Perseus." I responded.

I explained to them my tasks and what I had to do. You should have seen their faces light up at the prospect of having me for 6 months. I only shuddered at what I could expect.

"Wonderful, I cannot wait for you to join us, I could use your skills. Now I take you are not at that stage yet, what do you need? Hylla asked me, "See, I'm on the 9th Labour right now, which says that I need the Girdle of Hippolyta, worn by the Queen of the Amazons. So could I sacrifice it to Athena, and then you can have it back?" I proposed.

Hylla was a little reluctant and instead we negotiated a new deal. I would spend 8 months instead of 6 with the Amazons. I agreed and she gave me the Girdle of Hippolyta. I then made a fire and sacrificed it to Athena. "Thank you, Your Majesty"

She waved me off by saying "It will come back to me in a few days, can't wait for you to come to Quest 13!" With that I left the Amazons in pursuit of Geryon along with Thalia and Nico.

Before long we were once more standing in front of the Gates to the Gardens of the Hesperides. Upon entering the Garden itself, I was met by the four remaining Hesperides (A.N.: Thalia and Nico hang back, and will watch the engagement between Percy and Ladon, but they are not allowed to interfere, so they just come as company. When it comes time to doing the quest, they hang back or go to a cafe.)

The first approached "Hello Perseus, friend of our traitor-sister, Zoe." This got my anger flared up "She was not a traitor you stuck up gardener!" I replied hotly, my anger beginning to get the better of me.

"We know why you have come, Perseus, you seek the Golden Apples. Nevertheless, we believe you will fail for you must face Ladon." The second matter of fact stated. "Turn back Hero, or else we will wake Ladon and you will die." The third simply put in.

"I will face Ladon, and I will get those apples, for Zeus's sake I defeated Gaea, PRIMORDIAL goddess of the Earth! I can handle some over headed and over grown lizard!" I replied, unsheathing my sword and readying to attack. "Ladon, WAKE!" the fourth yelled, and then all four disappeared.

Ladon, for your information was a Hundred-headed dragon that can spit fire, poison, and was huge. As in 30 feet tall, huge!

Ladon began to charge at me, full speed with the goal of quickly killing me for disturbing his mid afternoon nap. The lizard charged and the last moment I jumped, propelling myself through the air, with my trusty sword Riptide or Anaklusmos stuck out to my side. I landed on the other side of Ladon, along with 2 of his heads. "2 down, 97 to go!" I muttered to myself.

Why did I only want to take out 99 of his 100 heads? Well my long dead huntress friend, Zoe. She is currently in the sky and last night she appeared as a dream to me, and said she knew what I was doing and she was watching over me. She asked me to spare Ladon. She knew I was going to win and she was always quite fond of the dragon. I obviously accepted her request.

I was snapped out of my musings about Zoe, when one of the heads snapped at me. I dodged and decapitated it, while sprinting at the monster's tail. I sought to climb up behind it and take as many heads as possible, before he managed to turn and defend.

I quickly dashed up through his spine and at the base of all the heads. I began to wildly slash in my hope to take as many heads as possible. I managed to take down 60, before Ladon had finally turned and began to defend himself once more. My next move was daring, but if successful could prove to be the turning point for this battle.

My plan was to propel myself at the heads at the ends, so that he was less intimidating. Jumping off the base of the heads, I slashed at the end heads and severed 3 more.

Ladon was now down 65/99 heads. He began to retreat and I pressed my assault, as the heads slowly started to decrease, the amount of dodging poisonous spit and flames that can make me a Perce-ka-bob, decreased, slowly but steadily. Finally, Ladon was down to one head. He immediately began to retreat and allowed me access to the tree.

I realized that I had forgotten a bag to put the apples in, and a gray flash later, I had one with me. Making a silent thanks to Athena, I began to pick the tree, and as soon as I finished, Ladon returned to the tree, and began to silently heal, and once again guard the tree.

I exited the Garden of the Hesperides, with the Apples and the satisfaction of defeating one of the most feared monsters.

I regrouped with Thalia and Nico and we all began to head towards the Underworld, to pursue Hades to let us have a chance of capturing Cerberus. Well when I say us I really mean me, because for Thalia and Nico this is just a road trip.

The 12th quest was easy enough, considering I had remembered to purchase red rubber balls for Cerberus. So capturing him was a walk in the park compared to the Erymanthian Boar. 5 months in, and I had completed all 12 Labours of Hercules. However all that would be made into a piece of cake, compared to what was to follow.

As part of my 9th quest, I had a deal that instead of 6 months with the Amazons, I had to spend 8, because Hylla willingly gave me the Girdle.

I can say that the next 8 months were some of the hardest in my life. The Amazons were actually very nice to me, while Thalia and Nico explored Seattle. The Amazons value training a lot, and thus they create levels where each warrior is at. Each level is slightly more challenging than the previous. At the very top is Queen level, which only two people can beat. Hylla and Myself.

Hylla and all of the Amazons were clearly impressed after I had defeated the Queen level, and so their engineers wanted to give me a challenge. They made a Percy Level. It consisted of over 5000 of Hephaestus' best fighting robots, all armed with different weapons. It was my final test and it took me over 10h to complete.

It was completed in my 7th month with the Amazons, and they all rejoiced when I defeated it, saying that that level will now be the top, until the engineers could come up with something more difficult. It was the last day, when the celebrations of my victory took place.

The last day itself?

"Perseus Jackson, for defeating our top level, we, the Amazons bestow upon you a gift." Hylla's voice boomed throughout the throne room, where all Amazons were gathered. I kneeled before her and was presented with a Bow and Arrow. Before I came to the Amazons, I used to be more of a danger to my allies than to my enemies with the Bow and Arrow, but now I was actually proficient in it.

"This new Bow and Arrow shall not be limited in arrows, and with it you will be able to pour constant slaughter upon your enemies. I know that now, you may consider yourself proficient with the Bow, but when you go to the Hunters, you will need to be even better. My advice, train whenever you can with it, for it is your one weakness." Hylla proclaimed, her voice laced with pride. After the ceremony was over, a party descended upon the Amazons.

Hylla came up to me "Perseus, stay safe. I know not of what you will encounter with the Hunters, but it will harder than it was here. I have also invited your companions to the party. Now let us have a dance to celebrate!"

The party went on late in the night, and early into the next morning. Thalia, Nico and I left, with all the Amazons wishing us good luck and god speed upon our travels.

P.O.V. of Athena

I could not believe it. Perseus had completed the Labours of Hercules and instead of 6 he stayed 8 months with the Amazons. I hope Artemis discourages him from further completion of his quests.

I flashed over to my father's palace for I had to had to talk to him concerning the upcoming awards ceremony.

I made a mental note to also talk with some of the Hunters...

P.O.V. of Artemis

I just received an Iris Message from my lieutenant, Thalia. She said she was coming over?

P.O.V. of Percy J.

Thalia had just sent Artemis an IM that we were arriving at their position, in the Yellowstone Park. I was honestly nervous of what the Hunters had in store for us.

If you do not know who the Hunters are, let me introduce you.

The Hunters are a bunch of girls, who are for all purposes immortal, but they can fall in battle. Picture the girl-scouts of America, only they are half-immortal, armed to the teeth, and if you are a male will make your life a living hell. Unless of course Artemis says you can kill, then they will kill you. Fun times!

As we approached the camp, the two sentries posted jumped stealthily off the trees, and right in front of us. "Halt, identify yourselves!" "Put down your bows, girls. I'm your lieutenant, Thalia. I also need to speak to Artemis." The two girls, put down their bows, but cast us glares. "Very well Thalia, and what of the two boys?" They spat out the word boys as if it was a disease

"Them? Oh, they are with me. Let them come with me." Thalia replied nonchalantly. Thus we bagn to walk towards the center of the camps, where all the tents were. The two Hunters escorting us, had hteir bows pointed at Nico and I's backs, daring us to make a move.

When we finally reached the center of the camp, Artemis came out the head tent. I had to admit, the way the Hunters set up camp and take down camp, was very impressive. There 18 tents, signalling 16 members, Thalia and Artemis.

The tents themselves were not that huge, and were painted Silver, in honour of Artemis and the Moon that she represents. The camp was positioned very well, with an easy to defend mountain and a lake nearby for fresh water and protection.

As Artemis strode out she greeted us "Hello Thalia, Perseus, Nico. I have already been noted of your arrival, although Thalia if you could have been more blunt I would welcome you to." "Thank you milady" Thalia cheekily responded.

"Perseus, I know what you intend and have to do. I will warn you right away however that the Hunters do not tolerate any foolishness. IT would also be wie for the Son of Hades, to now go. As I fear for his safety if he remains here." Artemis said to me. "HUNTERS. I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT FOR AS LONG AS PERSEUS IS HERE, HE IS NOT TO BE SHOT, TORTURED, OR KILLED! UNDERSTOOD?" Artemis shouted into the camp.

A chorus of "Yes, milady" accompanied by groans and puppy-dog eyes followed. "FINE, YOU CAN PRANK HIM." At that particular statement I started to considerably pale. Nico then shadow traveled back to the Underworld.

Artemis then took me to her tent, and told me all the rules I needed to follow. "Alright, Rule #1. Do not flirt with my Hunters, Rule #2. Do not attack my Hunters, Rule #3. Do not hurt my sacred animal. Follow these rules and we will get along just fine." I looked at her in the eyes and said "Yes, milady."

"Ah, and Perseus? We will be doing Bow and Arrow training." Artemis said, without even looking at me. I walked out and got ready to set up the tent Artemis had given me. Thus began my 6 Months with the Hunters.

The first 4 Months, were utter hell. The Hunters began to prank me, and dumped upon me all the Hunt's chores. I basically had to Hunt, do the Laundry, cook, get supplies, wash dishes. Sounds hard right? Well it gets better. The hunters were determined to undermine my every effort.

Always I would get a prank sometime during the day, when I was doing chores. The Pranks themselves? Well I somehow go to sleep in the river every night and wake up 5 miles away from camp. The Laundry would 'magically' disappear, and then reappear in the mud. The wildlife would suddenly attack me, even though I was never spotted, and I mean ALL the wildlife. Who would have known? Squirrels hurt!

On top of all of that, I had to train. Apparently, Artemis was informed on exactly what I had to do (Defeat Athena in combat) and so she was hell-bent on making me the perfect warrior. Every day for 5 hours, I would be with her training with her (Artemis) fighting against Artemis, and being lectured by Artemis about my moves and how to improve.

By the 5th month with the Hunters, I was able to hold my own against Artemis for over 30min before I would be over-exhausted. By then Artemis had caught the Hunters 'playing a joke' with me with a bear trap, and had grounded all of them, to do my chores for 5 days.

Still this only made the Hunters hate me more. By the middle of the 5th month, I finally snapped.

It had been a normal day, being literally attacked by the Hunters. The thing that really pissed me off, was when I had been off to Hunt for the ungrateful brats.

P.O.V. of Phoebe

Finally, we had the perfect opportunity to get rid of the venomous male. Lady Athena herself even came and asked a group of us Hunters to get rid of him. We were more than happy to comply. Right now, I gathered of 10 hunters, and we went off into the forest together.

We found a herd of Stags, and with our blessing of Artemis, commanded them to attack the vile male. Then, we got up high into the trees to watch the show.

P.O.V. of Percy

I kept on walking into the forest, completely unaware of what was about to happen. I heard a small twig snap, but paid it no mind. That is one of the worst mistakes of my life.

As soon as the twig snapped all hell broke loose. A herd of stags attacked me at once, and I began to run for my life, seeing as I could not harm them.

Eventually the stags found a place to eat and stopped pursuing me. Unfortunately, I was now lost. I slowly made my way over to, in a vain attempt at finding the river. I succeeded and upon finding it, strolled right in to fix my injuries. Being a son of Poseidon has its perks.

Taking the path that I usually do through the ancient woods, I make my way through the path, until a very quite cling was heard, and next thing I knew, a bear trap had trapped my leg in its jaws of metal.

Freeing myself out of that nasty thing took long enough as is, and I then realized that I had not even gathered the food yet. I returned through the way I came, found a juicy looking deer, and killed it. At this point, I had to walk around 4 miles, lugging an oversized deer with me, while being attacked EHRM, sorry pranked by the Hunters.

Slowly and eventually I made my way over to the camp. Through those 4 miles, I encountered 3 hollow crevices, neatly covered by leaves disguised as the forest bed. 2 herds of wildlife wanting my blood, and another bear trap.

Eventually I got to the camp, and saw the Hunters in a little group, excitedly whispering about how they made my life hell, to each other. I could hardly care any less at this point to continue my chores.

I honestly did not mean for the lake and river to explode, and I really did not mean to soak the hunters to the bone. Honestly!

Artemis came out of her tent, and upon seeing the disaster that was her camp, turned straight for me. "Perseus what happened here?" Phoebe, like the great actor she is came up to Artemis, and with an accusing finger pointed at me "This vile male, attacked us for no good reason!" and promptly broke down crying.

Artemis turned upon me and said "Perseus, I wish to inspect your memories." Knowing that is my best chance to get out of this mess, and to continue my quests I allowed her to do so.

Artemis looked over my memories, and by the time she was done, the aura she emitted could make the King of Olympus himself, want to call for mommy.

"HUNTERS! You will tell me in detail why exactly you continued to 'prank' Perseus, after I specifically told you to stop? You are all lucky Thalia is on a mission for Zeus..." She left the threat standing. Phoebe, who realized that Artemis could not be tricked, explained that Athena had come down in a dream to the Hunters.

"She came down to all of us, and told us that Perseus is here to try to seduce you. We have only been trying to get the vile male out of here, for we did not want that to happen. Lady Athena said that he was going to attack her soon!" Phoebe said.

"Very well, I am going to tell you a few thing Hunters, 1st, Perseus is not here to seduce me, he is here to complete 15 quests in order to prove his love of Annabeth to Athena. Obviously she has been trying her best to sabotage him, 2nd, He will indeed fight Athena, for it is his 15th Quest. We are here to help him succeed, not to weigh him down, although it may be what Athena had in mind for us to do." Artemis thoughtfully said.

The 2 weeks I had remaining were the best time I had spent with them. The Hunters quit pranking me and instead began to help me train, in order to take down Athena. I could now comfortably fight against Artemis, and could often go for the draw. If I could draw with Artemis, I was assured to win against Athena, seeing as Artemis is the most trained of all Olympians.

My Bow skills improved greatly, and I could shoot almost as well as Artemis. Before long, the 6th Month came rolling around and my time with the Hunters was finished. I was now identified as a Brother to the Hunters and they all accepted me now.

My Bow was upgraded, so I could also fire elemental arrows as well as normal arrows. My sword skills easily rival and maybe even surpass Ares.

I was sent off from the Hunters with warm words, and good luck on my next and final Quest.

My final quest itself was to win in one-on-one combat against Athena.

I had to say, I was very nervous for this quest. Fighting against the Goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy, least to say, she would be prepared.

I had already begun to form a plan about how to take her down. The plan? Do not do the expected. Instead of a sword use a bow. For whatever she accounts, do the opposite. I am guaranteed to win that way. Also if there was water...

Well, off I went searching for the Wisdom Goddess, to prove to her my love for Annabeth.

Finding Athena was not as hard as I imagined. In fact it was quite easy. I found Athena by the pier in New York.

Out of pure arrogance, she had let the fight happen in my home turf.

"I am quite honestly surprised Perseus, you have managed to reach this stage. But your merry journey ends here. You will lose this battle, and you will fail. You will obviously live, but that is beside the point, for you will be shamed by all!" She arrogantly proclaimed.

Athena then proceeded to take out her Gorgon headed shield, the Aegis. She also took out her spear. I thought a little, and then I took out my bow. Aiming my first arrow, I sought to make Athena immobile.

Taking careful aim, I summoned an arrow coated with ice. The arrow hit the shield, and due to me being a Son of Poseidon I began working the Ice until it covered all of the shield.

"Bah! You have done nothing but make Aegis stronger. That was a foolish move that will cost you." Athena mockingly stated, and then she proceeded to get closer to me. I paid her no attention as I kept on expanding the Ice that had already formed on the shield.

Eventually, the ice managed to cover the entirety of her right arm, basically immobilizing that particular arm. Athena charged at me with her spear, and as she did that she grew to her godly height of 25 metres.

I put my Bow back on my back and sought to change my position on the battlefield. I took out my trusty sword Anaklusmos, and with it slashed at Athena before she had a chance to impale me. I managed to make a cut in her heel.

She bellowed in rage, and tried to smash me with her foot but was too slow. She quickly turned back to her human form, and bringing the butt of her spear to face towards her immobilized arm, swung it at the ice and the ice shattered.

I took out my Bow once more, and fired a Greek Fire coated arrow at her, hoping to take her by surprise with the sheer explosive power of it. I failed and Athena managed to bring her shield to block the arrow, the impact however still knocked her to the ground.

My first instinct was to run at her and try to keep her pinned, however she was a goddess and so that would be foolish. Instead I took aim once again and fired yet another Greek Fire coated arrow. This time it hit the target (Her Spear arm) and it knocked her spear a few metres way from her.

I then dashed over to her spear, and capped Anaklusmos. Taking the spear, I had a sudden rush of power envelop me due to the fact it was a godly weapon. I brandished it at her and charged.

The spear was apparently very sharp, seeing as how Athena brought up Aegis to deflect the shot, but instead Aegis was penetrated and the spear managed to graze Athena's hand.

Yelling in pain and rage, Athena charged with Aegis, in the hope of knocking me out. I barely managed to dodge her attack, and pointed the spear at her back. "Milady Athena, surrender." I muttered to her, loud enough so that she can hear, but not loud enough so that any spectators can hear.

" I ... surrender." Athena said. It clearly must have taken a lot of pride swallowing, to surrender to a demigod that is the son of Poseidon, Athena's rival.

Athena flashed herself over to the other end of the battlefield, not before taking her spear with her. "It shows that I clearly underestimated you Perseus. Well done. I now give you permission to court and marry my daughter." Athena said, generally surprised.

I thanked her quickly and prayed to Lord Hephaestus. One fiery flash later, and the God of the Forge himself stood there. "Well done lad, I saw the major ass whooping you gave my half-sister. What can I do for you?"

"Hello Lord Hephaestus, I will be proposing soon, and I was wondering if you could forge me an engagement ring?" I asked Hephaestus. "Of course lad, you still had a favour of me, for clearing out those damned Telkhine out of my forge in Mount St. Helens, even if you also awoke Typhon doing it. I had actually already begun to work, and have created one. Want to see it?"

I was intrigued, so Hephaestus to me to his forge on Mount Olympus. The ring itself was amazing!

It was made out of silver on the inside, and gold on the outside. The gold was surrounded by gems coloured in Aquamarine, that looked like the waves, and under the right light, you could see and owl in it.

"Wow" Was all I could say as I gazed at it, star struck by its beauty. Hephaestus gave me the ring and upon touching it, it was consumed by the pink light. Once the light died out, on the inside it was in scripted "Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl, Forever Together." I read out loud.

"Well lad, here is the box that comes along with it. I hope you have success on your proposal." Hephaestus told me. "Thank you My Lord, I have a question, why did it glow pink and get the inscription?" I asked, curious to know what happened. The answer disappointed me "I have no idea lad, no idea whatsoever.".

With that, Hephaestus flashed me back to the New York pier, and I was let with a gray box, that had an owl and a horse upon it, both coloured in their respective god's colour. (The owl gray and the horse aquamarine).

With that and my recent victory I began to make my way over back to Camp Half-Blood.

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Authors Note: What is up guys? First Official Chapter of my first Fan fiction, and hopefully it is good . In all seriousness however, it has to be said I have been planning this since the end of 2014, so about time eh? I have a few announcements that I need to make as part here, so here it goes!:

1: I will not abandon this fanfic. I have seen many authors do that before and the results are not pretty.

2: I will provide polls for you guys to vote in with 5 titles, that I could do. I will provide the summary, plotline of the story, and all you have to do is vote for which one you like. These polls will be available when I finish or will nearly finish a fanfic.

3: No Lemons. Period. Go to other authors for those, there will be none here.

4: I am open to any suggestions or comments you may have, but please make sure that the comments thy post (Zoe English!) are constructive and provide feedback for ways to improve, I do not enjoy mindless spam of "This sucks".

5: I will not be doing any fake chapters where there is only "Author's Notes", instead these notes will be put at the beginning, end and certain parts of my chapters.

6: I will be updating regularly, around about 1 chapter every 1 - 2. Expect at least 12 chapters per year, and probably a lot more. :-D

6: I hope you enjoy

7. The next will go over the Betrayal at camp. I seek to keep my chapters around 4 – 7k words and if I combine the two it will be over 12k. I feel like that will be a little too long. Expect it soon!

8. I will be messing around a little with how I format my stories, so minor changes can be expected until I find the perfect one.

Definitions of Language used:

P.O.V.: This is an abbreviation of Point of View

A.N.: Author's Note

IM: Iris Message

Responses to Reviews:

Candycrum: This is the update :D

Gopercyjacksonstuff: The next chapter will go over the well, the questions you have. If you are too impatient I can PM you...

Cheetah2613: The guilt will be laid out within the next few chapters. Expect it to begin next chapter. I have already written the ending for it, and now I have to the rest :D.

Sea and Wisdom: Why thank you good person. I sincerely hope you enjoy.