First off this is a combination of the first two "chapters" I wrote. I honestly thought I did terrible but it's alright. I'm Tempest or Cesar by the way. Call me whatever you want. I'll definitely make mistakes and there might be some edits of the story cause I think of some ingenious ideas a month later so be warned. Also quick notes. Most characters will still act the same. For example Percy will be the same as the books. There might be some changes because it's been a while since I've read the books or I did it on purpose which I will probably put in the AN (After Note) if I do.
Prologue
As was tradition for the sisters they preached to themselves. The last gift of their mother to their eyes was more beautiful than anything else ever conceived and to come. Thus they embraced it every day. They had decided amongst themselves many years ago that no one else would be able to comprehend its beauty. It was their story. Their gift. How could anyone who was not them understand. However even they did not fully understand her gift. A bright light shined from their eyes and mouth taking control over their bodies and thoughts. And like every other day it embedded the same images and thoughts into their mind.
A lone doe battered and bloody crosses a sea of ice. A flower wilts as the others around it suffice. An eagle falls from the heavens for a price. Thrones lay empty in dark halls.The stars begin to stall. The false savior awakens with a shawl. A golden sword lays untouched in a river of blood still leaving all appalled. The destroyer falls with no harness. A lone flame in the darkness. The wolves' gold without harshness. All decisions will lead to more than one carcass.
They sat there feeling joy. One of the few times the sisters felt anything. But joy like all emotions are temporary. Their minds went to the tragedy of their mothers gift. They would never see the finale.
End of prologue
"I'm telling you just slash their Achilles tendon and they ain't got no chance to win." I say to my friend Markus
"Jaxson do you really think that type of attack can hurt him he literally killed a God." He argued back.
"Listen I like Kratos as much as you do. I played God of War back when I was like 9. But all you need is a smart slice and you can win any battle. Power isn't everything."
He looked at me like I was weird. A vibration came from his pocket. "Sure. Shit I gotta go, my mom said to be home by 4."
I watched as he ran with his backpack hitting his back. We just finished 8th period and were about to go get a coffee but there's always tomorrow right? Now time for introductions I'm Jaxson Morrigan. Morrigan like the ship in Assassin's Creed Rogue and Jaxson spelled with an X instead of a C and K. I'm 13 and I just began highschool as a freshman and got out of my computer science class. I got black hair and green eyes. I live a pretty normal life. I live with my dad and mom. I'm an only child so I guess you can say I'm spoiled. Some hobbies of mine. Reading, writing, drawing which I suck at and sports. Not a particular one. I'm pretty decent at everything, not the best but not the worst. I also suck with names and faces and dates and time and basically anything to do with memory.
I sat underneath a tree bored. My parents wouldn't be home till six. Markus left. What do I do. I'll just grab a coffee. I got up and began walking towards the nearest Starbuck , A good twenty minute walk to clear my mind and think of some new ideas for my book. No name just my book I suck with names, faces and everything to do with remembering. It's strange I love reading and writing but I can barely fucking read. My eyesight sucks and I have a minor form of dyslexia and I'm nearsighted and farsighted. But That won't stop me from not wearing glasses.
I walk into Starbucks. The cold air hit me as I got ready to say my order.
"One tall caramel frappuccino please." I ask.
"Okay what's your name?" the guy working in the front says
"Jaxson with an X." I say
"Okay wait for your order."
This is probably gonna take a while. I remember this guy he takes forever and the drive thru is packed. I take a seat near a table and go on my phone. "Excuse me young man, can I sit here?" A young woman says.
I look up and a bombshell of a woman is in front of me. She had a set of all black clothes. A black dress, shoes, and hat. She was beautiful. "Y-yeah of course."
She takes a seat then asks "What's your name dear?"
"Jaxson Morrigan ma'am." I reply.
She sits there analyzing me. "How old are you Jaxson?"
"I'm like thirteen." I reply nervously back to her. She begins analyzing me. While she's analyzing me I feel something moving on my shoulder. I quickly scratched my back and the feeling disappeared weird.
"How are you, Jaxson?" Her voice was smooth and enticing.
"I'm good, how bout you" I ask courteously.
"I feel wonderful." She says
"Did you get a promotion or something?" I ask.
"No, If only that was the case" She replies now bored. " I'll give you some advice before I go. Your eyes are better than most." She then snaps her fingers.
"Tall caramel frappuccino for Jaxson. Tall caramel frappuccino for Jaxson." The guy up front calls.
I started getting up off my seat. "Sorry ma'am that's me. What's your name?"
" My name is Hecate and I'll see you soon Jaxson. Thanks for the company." She says as she walks out the door with a coffee in her hands
"You're welcome ma'am." I walk up to the register and pay for my coffee. I don't remember her having a coffee when she sat down. I must've not noticed.
I walked out of the Starbucks and began my walk home. I feel like I know her from somewhere. Could she have been a distant relative. She did have black hair. Wait, she had green eyes as well. She probably was a distant relative. I made it to my home and I made it quicker than I expected. I was only half-finished with my coffee and I was already home. I went up to the door and was strangely unlocked. My survival senses kicked in. There's a robber in my house. I braced myself for a fight and I walked in.
"Hello Jaxson. Sorry to intrude." Hecate the lady from earlier, apologized as I walked through the door.
"Um, what are you doing here? Are you a distant family member or something?" I asked very confused. How did she
"Not distant, I'm a very close family member. And I've come to break some news to you." News? Did something happen to my parents?
"What's the news?" I asked scared.
"You have been accepted to go to a summer camp." She said with a smile on her face.
"A summer camp? It's fall?" It's also in the middle pf the school year.
"Well then it's a fall camp now. Your parents have already agreed." She held out a paper with their signatures on it.
"I see. How do I know you aren't part of a cult and trying to kidnap me?"
"I would've done it while you were walking home." Fair enough. But has she been stalking me or something?
"Well then you should probably get going." She got up off the sofa and pulled out a coin.
"Where is this camp even at? And who's gonna take me?"
"I'll call you an Uber and you'll have to go to Long island New York."
"That's across the country!" I yelled well not yelled more like loudly said.
"Sorry but you parents already decided." she said, shrugging.
"Where are my parents?" I asked.
"At the moment they're on a plane heading to Hawaii." She says nonchalantly
"What about school?"
"They have a teacher there that will teach you the same things as here. And it'll all count towards your grade. You might even get college credits. Enough talk, your Uber is outside." She replied getting kinda frustrated.
"When did you call an Uber?" I question confused.
She sighs. "You really need to have your eyes checked Jaxson."
She put her hand on my shoulder and began pulling me towards the car. "Hey, what are you doing?" I ask confused.
"Hey old hags take this young man to camp half-blood." She says. snap. "Close your eyes for a second Jaxson." I do as she says. I open them and I see a New York taxi cab like in the movies. I also see 3 old ladies without eyes. Forget I said that 2 old ladies without eyes and 1 with a single eye. They looked like witches. Not the hot witches but the really ugly ones. Their hair was just a few strands on their scalps. Their clothes wrinkled and dirty. The smell of a dead animal was radiating from them.
"Whoa what the fuck?" I say absolutely bewildered "Language young man! Would you kiss your mother with that mouth?" she exclaims. Yeah, I would. I thought. She looks at me with confusion as if she read my mind. She should go to a hairdresser and get twin tails. That would definitely suit her better. I hear her murmur something about twin tails. She shakes her head. "Hey hags if you give him a quick rundown of the world I'll give you an extra drachma." Dracma? I heard that word from somewhere. she says to the 3 old ladies.
"Deal!" They all yell synchronized. Their raspy voices like chalk scratching a chalk board. Hecate opens the door and pushes me into the car.
"See you soon!" and she disappears leaving a thin mist behind.
"What the hell is going on here!" I say to the 3 ladies.
"You're a child of the gods. And you're being taken to a sanctuary for them called camp half-blood." I looked at them confused and frightened. They aren't really pleasing to the eye.
"You do realize I'm more confused than before. I'm a demigod?"
"Yes you are not a powerful one giving that you've survived this long but Hecate did personally see you so you never know. Enough talk time to go."
The car ride if I could call it that was one of the worst experiences of my life. My body felt like it was being pulled apart and put back together constantly. Finally I'm thrown out of the cab and on a dirt road. Well isn't this great. Apparently I'm across the States at Long island, I'm a demigod and I'm at a safe haven for demigods. Safe to say I'm a bit confused. Just a bit. Well all I can do is follow the road I guess. Not like I have anything better to do. I start kicking pebbles on the ground to pass the time. A little while later I found a huge gate. With some weird language on it. Camp half blood. How did I read that? Im so fucking confused. I hope I get answers here. "Do not tell them we spoke Jaxson. I Hecate give you permission to enter camp half-blood." A voice a lot like Hecate's declared. Give me permission? Don't say we talked? She seems serious. I don't want to mess with her anyways. But I kind of do wanna mess with her.
"Hey, we got someone over here!" A dashing blonde hair guy says. He was tanned and looked pretty fit. His hair was messy but neat. Now this guy looks good. Way better than the old ladies from before. He was almost perfect except for a scar running from his eye to his chin.
"What's up? Are you a part of the camp or something?" I ask.
"Yeah I'm the counselor for Hermes cabin. Do you already know you're a demigod?" He asks, surprised.
"Yeah a voice in my head told me. Well since you're a counselor maybe you can help answer my questions." I say "Sure I'll take you to Chiron, he'll help you. How old are you by the way?"
"I'm thirteen. Why? What's up?" I answer back
"Nothing you're older than I expected." He says confused.
"I'll take that as a compliment." I say
"Yeah you should." He starts walking, probably still confused.
The walk to the big house as he called it was simple explanations of everything. The cabins, who Chiron is, Mr.D, and who my parents were. Apparently Chiron is a centaur and Mr.D is a god. But not a god like in the stories more like a horny middle aged man going through a midlife crisis. I explained to him I have two parents. But he completely dismissed it saying it should be impossible unless I was adopted. Honestly him saying I might be adopted kinda hurt but if I was a demigod I guess it would make sense. There's also a magical force field from a tree. "Why is it called Thalia's tree?" "Cause a girl named Thalia died protecting people. The gods saw this and turned her into a tree that protects all demigods inside the camp. The tree is where she died" He said somberly.
We went inside the big house and a centaur and a middle aged dude with purple eyes were playing some kind of card game. "Chiron. Mr.D I have a new camper. He's thirteen apparently. " So this is what they look like. I think to myself underwhelmed. My expectations for Mr.D have somehow been too high. Chiron of course was quite tall and had short curly brown hair on his head with a goatee to match. Mr.D had dull purple eyes. A tangled mess that was his hair and beard with a smell of old Gatorade around him.
Both Chiron and Mr.D look at me. "Probably nothing special then. A minor god or goddess' child."
"What is your name, child?" Chiron asks nicely.
"My name is Jaxson Morrigan. Jaxson with an x." I reply.
"Well Jason you don't seem surprised." Mr.D asks.
"Well Lord Dionysus he gave me a brief explanation so I'm fine for now." I point to the guy who showed me around. Mr.D raised an eyebrow.
His purple eyes staring through me reaching my soul. Instinctually his hand rised to his medium sized beard till he corrected himself and put his mask back on. "Well at least someone other than this old horse shows me respect." He says turning away looking at the cards on the table.
"I'm Luke by the way. Sorry I forgot to introduce myself." The guy says
"No worries man." I reply.
"Luke since you're here give him a full tour and if he doesn't get claimed put him in Hermes cabin."
Chiron says. Suddenly they all look at my head. "Well your parent has some good timing." Luke says
I look up and I can barely see two torches in a X. The fires are a bright orange with a hint of green on the bottom of the flames. "All hail Jaxson Morrigan son of Hecate. Goddess of the mist and dark lady of the Empousai." Chiron exclaims. So she was my mother. Honestly she sounds badass. Dark lady of the Empousai? That definitely sounds badass. I'm not even upset she ain't a big name god or goddess.
So that's why she looked at me like that. So she can read my thoughts too damn. Then so can Mr.D. He can read my thoughts too. "So that's why you survived so long. Your mother is the goddess of the mist. You must've been hidden with a lot of mist since you're her child." Luke says understanding now.
"Must also be why I haven't heard his thoughts either. Hmm. His mother must've put in some strong protection." He pauses then says. "Anyways, go do your tour and make sure you don't interrupt our game anymore than you already have." Mr.D says annoyed.
"Well let's go Jaxson. You got a camp to see." Lule said walking out the door
As we walk away from the house. Luke asks me "So what do you wanna see first, the cabins or the arena?"
"Let's see the arena first." I say. Luke smiles.
"Great choice. Follow me." Luke began walking ahead saying hi to everyone who walked past him with smiles and they all returned. So he's pretty popular here. He seems like a pretty chill guy too. He slowed down and turned around and began slowly back pedaling. "So what's your weapon of choice?" He asks. Weapons? I get weapons?
"I get a weapon?" I look at him confused. He does the same.
"How else are we supposed to kill monsters." Well I'm just gonna stop there.
"I'd like to be able to dual wield swords." I say.
"Dual wielding is a hard skill to master." He looks at me skeptically
"I'll figure it out." I say, shrugging.
"You know I'm a swordsman. I teach a class you can join if you want?" Luke asks.
"I'll definitely take that offer." I answer.
"Sweet. Here's the arena where the classes take place. You can join the class right after breakfast.'' Luke says smiling.
"That works for me." I looked as I saw a couple of people sparring. In a decently sized arena.
"Come on, let's head to the cabins. It's almost lunch." Luke says. We walk past more and more campers till we reach a U shaped group of cabins each unique representing their father or mother.
"Is this all the cabins? Where are the rest?" I ask.
"There isn't anymore just these eleven." He answers.
"Are there only eleven gods who have demigods?" I highly doubt it. From the few myths I know they're a horny bunch.
"No,the Olympians all have their own. All the rest stay in Hermes cabin. Hermes is the god of travelers; it's only right." Luke says with fake acceptance. I haven't known him for long but I can tell that he lied.
"There should be more cabins at least so that the campers can have more space and privacy." I say
"I completely agree but the gods do not change and we aren't allowed to make new cabins." he says sadly. He looks away for a second and I see longing on his face. As if a painful memory came back to him. I already don't have a high respect for the gods except for my mother.
She actually came to see me even if it's been 13 years but apparently she's also been protecting me. The only other god I met is a bum that was sent here cause he can't keep his dick in his pants. Also why would they send a guy like him here it's a recipe for disaster. He gets punished for having sex with a nymph and his punishment is getting sent to a place with nymphs and teenagers honestly fucking stupid. "Well Jaxson this is Hermes cabin. I'll get you a sleeping bag after lunch and I'll get your schedule. " He says, faking a smile.
Do these people have standards making kids sleep on the floor? What type of place is this? It's segregation and treating campers of more "important" gods better than the rest. The cabin looks like it's falling apart and there's only 2 beds. The other cabins look so much better. They all look brand new. "This isn't that good compared to the life I was living before." I say. He looks at me nodding.
"Yeah if I were you I would try to head back and live as normal as possible. You could definitely pull it off if you've lived this long anyways. But I suggest you stay here for a bit till you can manipulate the mist as well. Cause it'll make for a good backup plan in case things go south."
"The stuff that hides monsters from people?" I ask.
"Yeah I explained it a bit before but I'll have you talk to Annabeth she can probably explain it better than me. She's a daughter of Athena after all." He says. A daughter of Athena I wonder how she's like.
"Well then here's the mess hall. Hermes cabin sits there. Wait here I need to call everyone." Luke says as he jogs off.
I stood waiting watching as the other cabins sat at assigned tables. No one went to another table, no one talked to someone at another table during lunch. Blatant segregation again. I'm surprised there hasn't been a revolution or at least a protest. After a bit Luke came with around 50 campers probably more. So they have that many kids sleeping on the floor absolutely disgusting. Everyone looked tired unlike the other cabins where they all were fresh and lively. We began taking out seats. I tried to sit next to Luke but I was a bit late so I sat in the middle. "You new here?" The guy sitting next to me asked. I looked at the guy talking to me. He had black hair and brown eyes.
"Yeah today's my first day." I answer. He nods.
"Welcome to camp half-blood I'm Chris Rodriguez." Chris says. His voice was a bit deep.
"I'm Jaxson Morrigan. Jaxson spelled with a X." I reply.
"Have you been claimed yet Jaxson? '' He asks curiously.
"Yeah I'm a son of Hecate." I say proud.
"Oh that's nice. You have a sister, her name is Lou, she's over there." He points across the table to a young girl with black hair and green eyes like mine. I'll have to say hi later.
"Have you been claimed Chris?" I ask. Seems like a pretty big deal.
"No I haven't. I've been here for over a year and still haven't been claimed." He says disappointed.
"I hope you get claimed soon." I say sympathetically. Definitely a big deal. He seems like a good guy.
"I do too. I do too." He says looking at his food.
I look around and see people saying aloud what they would like to eat and drink. Might as well do the same. "Eggs bacon and hash browns. With apple juice. " I ask aloud. Breakfast at lunch I know. Immediately my food and drink appears. After we're all done eating Luke comes up to me again.
"Come on time to burn our food in the fire." he beckons me up.
"Why?" I ask.
"It's a way to say thank you to your parent." He responds as he walks towards the fire burning his food and walking away. I ask for the eggs, bacon and hash browns again and walk towards the fire. I dump my food into the fire. Thank you for seeing me mom. I'll bring you the respect you deserve and I'll make sure no one has to sleep on the floor again. I don't know how but I'll do it. I think to myself. The thoughts didn't seem mine however. As if it was hardwired in my brain. The fire flashed green and I walked away wondering if my mom was the cause.
I met up with Luke again as he began taking me to the Athena cabin. The cabin was made of marble. It looked like the a mini Parthenon. As we walk up to the cabin he is met by a girl maybe a year younger than me. She had blonde hair to her shoulders, and grey eyes that looked like there was a storm in them. In the corner of my eye I saw a small sheath. "Hi Luke, what are you doing here?" she says trying to play casual. She definitely has a crush on him.
"Hi Annie, I'm here because a child of Hecate came today and I would like it if you could explain mist to him." He says scratching the back of his neck.
"Of course I could." She exclaims.
"Thanks Annie I owe you one." He calls to her as he walks off, probably heading towards Hermes cabin. As Luke walks away Annabeth turns to me
"What's up Annabeth. I'm Jaxson Morrigan." I say with my hand out. "
"Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena but you already seem to know that." She takes my hand and shakes it. Damn she's got a strong grip on her handshake. "Come on in." She calls and I walk into the cabin with her.
She sits on I'm guessing her bunk and asks "So you're a son of Hecate. How old are you? Where are you from?" "Yeah I'm thirteen and I'm from California." I reply in quick succession.
"You're thirteen?" She asks confused.
"Yeah what's wrong" I ask even more confused than her.
"Most demigods don't live past twelve." Now that is a low mortality rate. What the fuck? Is this the fucking dark ages?
"Well I guess I'm a special case then." I remark, shrugging.
"Anyways I'll give you an explanation of the mist so I can continue my day." She says regaining her composure "The mist is a magical field that hides things normal people do not want to see. Such as monsters. The goddess of the mist Hecate your mother can control the mist to make her and anyone or anything she wants practically invisible. With enough practice you will be able to as well." She explains, proud of her knowledge.
"What other powers might I get?" Hopefully I get something badass. I bet I fo considering how strong Hecate is.
"Honestly Jaxson, anything your mother can do you can probably recreate at a smaller extent. Necromancy, chronokinesis, pyrokinesis, hypnokinesis and umbrakinesis." I look at her confused. She sighs "You hopefully know what necromancy and pyrokinesis is. Chronokinesis is the power of time. Hypnokinesis is the power of controlling dreams and sleep. And umbrakinesis is the power to control shadows. Your mother probably has more powers but those aren't really that known. She's kind of mysterious." She lectures, tapping her fingers on the bed.
"That's more than enough. Thanks for the help Annabeth." I walk out of her cabin and begin looking for Lou.
Answers to some unexplained shit.
1. Jaxson will go bad, that's for sure now. He will definitely join Kronos and if I get that far, duel Percy. Also he will play a pivotal role in both fronts of the war. Hence the name The Ambassador.
2. Up to the end of The Sea of Monsters expect most things to be the same. Percy will still get the lighting bolt and fight Ares. But Jaxson won't be sitting on the sidelines doing jack shit same with Luke he'll be doing shit too.
3. The children of Hecate don't get much spotlight and on fandom Hecate seems kind of OP so naturally Jaxson will get some powers. However he will not be given powers because of the power of friendship or some other bullshit reason. He will have reasons for his power and he will train. Don't expect him beating the fucking God of War at thirteen.
4. Something I just thought about. The gods and goddesses are definitely going to be out of character. One of which will be Mr.D himself. Mainly as he had a lot of potential and I intend to use it. I have one big change in mind that I think if I can pull it off will be great.
Well that's about it. Have a good one. Cear or Tempest out.