Chapter 2

(Time skip a few weeks forward)

Slowly but surely, all the campers moved away from me and towards Jack Antigo. I didn't mind this as I still had Nico, Grover, Thalia and Annabeth with me. However, only Annabeth was still at camp. Then one day Jack got a quest to kill a hellhound, for this quest he chose Annabeth and Will (counsellor for Apollo cabin) to go with him.

When they came back successful, I was happy because I could see Annabeth again, but she seemed distant from me, as if she didn't want to be with me anymore, but I ignored these thoughts, along with the pitiful looks with which Will looked at me with, when he thought I wasn't looking.

So, anyway here I am going to the beach, because I was a bit depressed that Annabeth seemed so distant from as the sea always cheered me up, along with the fact that Annabeth was going to college meant that I almost never saw her.

(At beach)

I decided that I am going to Annabeth's college to see her. With that happy thought I went to my cabin to sleep.

(Time skip next morning)

I asked Chiron if I could go and see Annabeth and he agreed. So, here I am looking at the gates of her college. I went to where I knew Annabeth's dormitory was. As I paused outside the door to knock, I heard giggling; I checked the dormitory to make sure that I was in the right, it was, so I opened the door, worried, because Annabeth never, ever giggles.

When I looked in, my heart was destroyed. Inside was my so called girlfriend making out with my jerk of a brother.

'mmm, Jack you are so much better than Percy, he was always so naïve and ignored the hints I always dropped him, but you aren't like that. You actually have a brain.' Annabeth said.

'Why did you even go out with that guy?' Jack asked.

'I don't know, I think it was cos everyone thought he was the best, and since like you said, I'm the best, I thought I should go out with him.' She replied

'Just dump him then, he's not worthy of you', Jack finished.

'You know what, I think I will when I get to camp', She replied.

That single sentence rendered my heart into a thousand pieces.

'Don't bother waiting 'til summer,' I said,

'I HATE YOU!' I screamed.

'Per' she started, but Jack interrupted her.

'Ignore him Annabeth, and Jackson bugger off, you aren't wanted anymore', I heard him as I walked off.

I ran out of the college and drove the van to camp like a mad man. (Chiron let me borrow the van to go see her) Once I got to camp, I went to Poseidon's cabin and packed everything I needed, and wanted to take with me. I then took all the pictures I had and burned the one that had Annabeth in it, while I kept the rest. I then wrote a letter to Chiron explaining why I went and told him not to look for me, after that I left camp, after patting Peleus, I mean who wouldn't…

I then vapour travelled to camp Jupiter, and went in. When I got near the little Tiber, I saw Lupa and the entire twelfth legion. I saw a look of pity on Lupa's face. When I reached them.

'I'm sorry Perseus, but Lord Neptune and Lady Minerva have commanded us to banish you from this camp and to inform you that you are banished from camp half-blood. I'm sorry pup, but we have decided to give you a gift', Lupa said as the legion parted to show Jason, Reyna and Octavian carrying a roman armour and weapons and a purse containing about $1,000,'Take these my child, and may the odd be ever in you favour.'

I looked around them and saw pity on all the faces.

'I'm sorry Percy,' Octavian said, actually feeling sympathy for me, you see after we had defeated the giants, I had gone on a quest to find the Sibylline books, and asked Ella the harpy to fill in the missing parts, now I counted Octavian as one of my best friends.

'Thanks everyone, for everything you did for me', I told the campers, then bowing down to Lupa 'Thank you mother', with that I tuned and walked off.

I wandered for about a month, before I decided to go to Canada. I used the money I had to buy myself food. I vapour travelled once more to the border of Canada, and decided to spend one more night in America. As I was lighting the fire, I felt a presence behind me, I slowly turned around with Riptide uncapped. But, I didn't need it, because I saw Hestia behind me.

'Percy, I'm so sorry for you', she said.

'Don't worry about it, when your own father disowns you…', I didn't finish the sentence because the tears that I had been holding back fell, and I started breaking down in front of Hestia. Hestia engulfed me in a motherly embrace.

'It'll be alright', she repeated while rubbing my back, when her hands went over the small of my back, I didn't feel any pain. Hestia probably saw the look of confusion on my face because she explained that I had lost my Achilles heel, when I broke up with Annabeth because she had been my mortal point. Then completely out of the blue, Hestia asked,

'Percy will you be my champion?'

I was dumbstruck to say the least. I then mulled over the question, seeing as I had nothing else to do.

I said, 'Yes milady, I'll be honoured to be you champion.' Earning a wide grin from Hestia, she quickly sobered up and said,

'By the powers vested in me, I, Hestia, goddess of the Hearth and home, hereby make Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson, my champion.' And with that she shot flames at me. Eventually, the flames subsided, and I could see clearly again.

'Percy, you can now control fire to any extent, you are also immune to all types of fire and any heat and can summon most food at will.' She said, 'go on try it out' she encouraged me. So I tried it, I imagined flames around myself, and I couldn't help but shout,

'Flame on!' immediately green fire surrounded me, I yelped and the flames quickly petered out.

'What the hades?' I nearly screamed.

'Percy, calm down, you're resistant to all types of fire, including Greek fire. Anyway, I think you summoned Greek fire, because you are the son of Poseidon, so normal fire wouldn't be able to survive inside you, so it turned into Greek fire, which can burn in water. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot, when I said you could do anything with fire, I meant anything, you can even create wings of fire, which can help you fly and protect you against anything, especially since you create Greek fire, you can also create any type of weapons with fire as well, it should help with your archery. Oh yeah, you can also summon fire from within yourself, like a god, and only I will be able to wrest control of the fire from you.' And with that she created a pair of beautiful wings behind her, and beat the wings as she rose into the air. I tried it myself, and saw green wings behind me.

'Now then, you try to summon some food.' When she said that, I thought of mum's blue waffles, and immediately the smell of sweet, homemade waffles overwhelmed my nose. I opened my eyes, before me was a platter full of blue waffles. Hestia took one and said,

'mmm, now that's some seriously tasty waffles, even if I say so myself since I gave you that power. I have to go now, take care of yourself Percy, and take a look at you sword.' With that she flashed away. Confused, I looked at my sword to see that it was covered in green fire.

'Flame off', I said, and the green fire went out. So with a small smile, I crossed the border into Canada.