Ever since that unfortunate day in the museum Percy was beginning to think he was going slightly insane. Whenever he asked about Mrs. Dodd's there pre-algebra teacher people would give him a look that was asking if he was going insane. He would always try to pull a quick one on some people to see if they were playing a joke on him but each time he kept getting that strange look.

At least Larissa still believed him but the sad part was that Grover didn't believe even believe him. When he expected his first male best friend to believe him he was left hanging, leaving only his best female friend as the only one. As time passed he returned to his daily life which mainly was sleeping in class and copying Larissa's homework.

"Percy, percy wake up." his English teacher said.

"Be quite you old sot I am trying to get some sleep." Percy yawned before placing his head on the desk. Larissa couldn't help but laugh a little at what Percy had called there teacher. Smiling she then watched as Percy got kicked out of the class and went to the principal's office.

As Percy was walking towards the principal's office he felt a familiar pain in his heart and he fell to the ground. He was struggling to breathe when suddenly his eyes closed on their own accord and he swallowed up by the deep black abyss that awaited him.

Opening his eyes Percy looked around and saw that he was standing in space. Remembering that there was no air in space his hands instantly went up to his neck while he took a deep breath of air. As time passed Percy let go of his throat and realized he was breathing still.

'Well I guess my teacher is wrong about space after all we can breathe out here. Now the question is how I got here?'

Feeling a presence standing behind him Percy turned and he came face to face with a large black dragon. He had read about dragons before but this was unreal to him, the dragon was huge.

At most Percy could guess it was the length of 5 school buses while it was almost as tall as a 5 story building. The dragon turned its giant head and looked down at the boy who stood in its presence. Moving it's nostrils to the boys head the dragon took a large sniff of him before its red eyes darkened. Raising one of his giant paws the dragon swatted at Percy who raised his arms in defense.

As the paw was about to tear Percy in half, it instead went through his body causing no damage whatsoever. Roaring in outrage the dragon extended its head to the sky before a torrent of black fire shot out of its mouth covering everything in darkness.

'So you are the one my brothers son has chosen to wield MY powers.' The dragon roared telepathically when it stopped firing into the sky. Walking around the boy the dragon examined him to see if there was anything special about the boy that Chaos would grant him… HIS powers. Seeing nothing the dragon just glared at the boy who was shaking uncontrollably.

"I don't know what you are talking about dragon but I am wondering who or rather what are you." Percy asked. In his books dragons never looked like this but not only that the dragon was radiating death and it wasn't something he wanted to be at the end of.

'Well isn't this strange the boy that has my old powers knows nothing about me the great Darkness.' the Dragon roared while Percy slowly stepped back away from the dragon. Looking at his chances there was probably no chance he could fight it but if he ran he might be able to make it somewhere, but first he needed to keep the thing talking.

"Wait are you 'the great' or are—I" Darkness roared and snapped at the boy with its large teeth. Like his paw the teeth went right through Percy. Snapping a few times Darkness pulled back and curled up into a ball annoyed by the arrogance of whatever the boy was.

My name is Darkness and you will do well to remember it. he said but suddenly a white light appeared and shot towards Percy before it stopped in front of him. The light faded and it revealed a man standing in gold armor from head to toe. With a wave of the man's hand Darkness vanished but not before he promised that he would return one day to retake what was his.

"I am sorry I hadn't appeared quicker. I didn't think that he would start appearing before you so quickly." The man said as he turned around to face Percy. His facial features were hard to make out but Percy saw dark purple eyes and long flowing silver hair coming out of his helmet.

"Who are you?"

"Who I am is of no concern young champion of Chaos. It isn't yet your time to face him or meet me for that matter. First you must walk your own path and when you have finished your journey we will meet again. Until then your memories will be wiped of this time." Before he could react the man placed a hand on Percy's head and he felt his eyes closing.

Waking up Percy found himself sitting in a bed of his and Grover's room. Looking around he felt a major headache and then he noticed that Larissa was standing in the doorway her hands on her hips and an angry expression plastered on her face.

"Well sleepy head you finally woke up," she then walked over to him and shoved him back into his bead. "Mind telling me what happened to you earlier today?" It wasn't a question instead it was more of a demand than anything.

"Larissa, I don't remember or know what you are talking about. The last thing I remember was when I was walking into the hallway my chest started to burn and I was struggling to breath and after that nothing." Once she heard that her eyes were filled with worry for a second before hiding it behind her usual emotionless and or angry expression. Currently it was her worried expression that was shown.

"Well at least you are alright that is all that matters." She said when Percy looked at her with that damned look. When he gave her that look it reminded her of a baby seal and when she saw it she just felt the urge to help him.

After discussing what had happened after he left the classroom, Percy was ashamed to know that apparently he screamed at the top of his lungs. People came out to see what the problem was but suddenly his yelling stopped and he fell over unconscious. Once he heard this he was then nicknamed 'Crybaby Jackson' by Larissa herself. Not being the best at giving people nicknames he gave her the best he could think 'Ice Queen.'

Ironically both of their nicknames represented both of them in one way or another. Crybaby was because sometimes Percy was a softy and would cry over some of the weirdest things. While Ice Queen represented both her personality and her powers as a daughter of Oceanus.

Currently though both young children were heading towards Mr. Brunner's Office since Percy wanted to say sorry that he couldn't attend his class earlier today because of his breakdown. Another reason he went down here was that he wanted to say sorry about the big F he was most likely going to receive tomorrow on the test. As Percy's hand was a few inches from the door handle it stopped abruptly when he heard voices coming from inside.

"A kindly one was in this school! Now that they know it is only a matter of time till they know." Percy recognized the voice as Grover's almost instantly while the other was obviously Mr. Brunner.

"We can't rush him it will only make matters worse. Besides that display of power he showed in the museum is… mysterious. It felt ancient but at the same time sinister, it reminds me of my father."

"He may not have time anymore. Besides the summer solstice dead-line—"

"It will have to be resolved without him, besides that power he has could activate any time and if it did," Chiron looked at his door before sighing. "He would instantly want to destroy him and if that happened the war will continue. We should just let him live in ignorance and hopefully that power will vanish."

"Sir he fought with, no he defeated her! One second he was crying and the next he was a monster if we don't act soon he may go into frenzy/monster mode again."

"And if we rush him he will enter that side again. Besides the mist that is over the students and staff will be enough to convince him otherwise." Chiron insisted.

"Sir, I… I can't fail in my duties again. I already failed twice I can't lose this last chance, you know what that would mean don't you." Grover's voice was choked with emotions since he wanted to achieve his dream but at the rate things were spiraling out of control he would never reach it.

"You haven't failed Grover; I should have seen her for what she was. At least the girl protected him at the last second and then he destroyed her himself," Chiron said kindly. "Now the only thing we have to do is figure it how to keep the boy alive until next fall—" Percy then dropped his notebook on the ground with a thud that echoed through the hallway.

The voices of Grover and Chiron stopped and with only a few seconds to act Larissa grabbed both the notebook and Percy before running into the nearest door that was unlocked. The door also happened to lead into a broom closet and so both kids were cramped in the room holding onto one another. Trying to whisper something Larissa placed a hand on Percy's mouth and placed a finger on her mouth.

As the two of them waited in silence the sound of something was sounding in the hallways with a clop-clop-clop, like muffled wood blocks. A sound of an animal snuffing was then heard right outside the door while a large dark shape passed in front of the window, and a drop of sweat fell from Percy's forehead and onto Larissa's arm.

"What's out there?" the worried voice of Grover said that was stuttering.

"Nothing, m nerves haven't been right ever since the solstice." Chiron spoke somewhere farther down the hallway. Larissa looked at Percy and saw he was giving her his baby seal look before she felt his tongue touch her hand and she almost yelped had it not been for Percy placing a hand on her mouth as well and grinning.

'You did that on purpose didn't you?' Larissa thought while she glared at him and he was just grinning making her assume she was right.

"Mine neither, but I could have sworn…" Grover said before getting silenced.

"Go back to the dorm; you have a long day of exams ahead of you tomorrow." Chiron said.

"Don't remind me this is like fifth one." The lights then went off in Chiron's office signaling that both were heading to their individual rooms. Waiting for the steps to get farther and farther away Percy finally removed his hand from Larissa's mouth and gave her a toothy grin. Making sure the sounds of footsteps were gone Larissa opened the door and slammed Percy against one of the walls.

"You gave me that baby seal look on purpose didn't you?" she asked even though it was more of a demand than anything. No matter what it was with her Percy always knew when she asked for something it was more of a demand than anything else.

"I have no idea what you are talking about Larissa." Percy said then he felt Larissa's head move to his ear and she whispered.

"I am going to get you back for that Percy." She then pulled away and shoved his notebook back into his hands. As Percy left to go to his dorm Larissa thought of a good way to get him back for that incident and right when he was walking into his dorm room she shot inside as well shocking both of the boys inside.

"Larissa, what are you doing in here this is the boys dorm." Grover said but it wasn't loud enough that anyone nearby could hear them. Percy meanwhile was looking at her with a look of shock on his face since he found out what she was doing.

"Percy told me he was having nightmares earlier and that he was hoping that I could sleep next to him." Grover blushed right down to his Adam's apple, before turning to Percy who was sweating. He was already cornered and there was no chance of getting away.

"Grover don't listen to her it's not what you think." Percy cried as he shook his hands wildly for Grover to understand. Grover turned around on his desk and looked out the window wondering how the situation could have turned out like this.

"Don't worry Percy you don't need to lie to me. I understand when you're having nightmares and all and you need someone close by to watch over you. However I can't allow the two of you to sleep in the same bed." Grover then pointed to the spare bed in the room. "Larissa will sleep in the spare and that is final." He didn't see it but both of them were blushing and looking away from one another.

Sitting down in the spare bed Larissa looked at Percy and grinned before she took her shoes off and went to sleep. Percy looked at her sleeping form and the one thing going through his head was of how evil she was. Sighing he removed his shoes as well and went to sleep shortly after while Grover watched over both of them. For a second Grover could see a string connecting his two friends together but he shook his head and figured it was just a figment of his imagination.

Meanwhile the one thought going through Larissa's mind was worry. Worry for Sally losing her son, and most of all worry for Percy and what Grover and Chiron said. Did Percy have a power she knew nothing about and if it's true then was that how he destroyed the fury? With that she entered the first peaceful sleep she's had in a long time.

o-O-o-O-o

Opening her eyes Larissa found herself standing in the sky of Manhattan. Looking down towards the street she saw a large battle breaking out between humans and monsters. The humans were fighting the best they could but slowly they were being pushed back towards the empire state building. However one thing caught her eye in the distance.

A flash of light lit up the dark sky and two people were fighting in the sky. Both of them were wearing hoods but from what she could make out they were an equal match. While one was using the power of light the other was using something black and sinister that looked to have the desire to devour everything and anything.

Trying to move closer her dream changed and she found herself standing in a crater. The person that had the white hood was standing over the crater looking at the one in it. From what she could tell the one with a black hood had been beaten and badly. Suddenly it was beginning to rain and slowly the crater started to fill with water while the body vanished underneath.

Before she could look at the white hood the dream then shifted and Larissa found herself standing in a giant throne room. Unsure of where she was she saw that the white hood was now fighting someone with a gray hood but this new person had a scythe in hand.

Both were fighting desperately but neither could land any serious blows on the other. Every time the white hood landed a strike on the person's body the blade would bounce off. The grey hood couldn't get anywhere because a person with a blue hood was backing her up and blocking most of the slashes that would have been fatal.

Larissa was to say the least amazed by the display of skills being shown in the battle. Every time a blade slammed against the scythe sparks would fly and the air would become harder to breathe. However the scythe wielder finally found an opening and as the sword was thrown out of the persons hand the scythe came down ready to split the person in half.

Right as the scythe was about to connect with the person's head a gust of wind shot into the room and suddenly someone else was in the room that looked familiar. The man with a black hood was standing there with two swords and he had blocked the slash. The hood then fell of his face and it revealed none other than her friend Percy Jackson.

o-O-o-O-o

Shooting awake Larissa found herself in her Latin classroom. Looking up she saw that Percy was standing over her wondering if she was alright. Getting up she looked down at her table and remembered that she had finished her three-hour exam early and had fallen asleep. Yawning Larissa looked at the clock and realized that it was time to go pack before getting on the bus to go home.

Grabbing her things she shot out of the classroom to her dorm room thinking about the dream she just had. Apparently Percy was going to be someone powerful in the future but the question going through her head was where he had learned such abilities. Currently she know he is a son of Poseidon but if what that dream showed was true then he also had the ability to control Darkness.

Forgetting that she had abandoned Percy in her hurry she continued running to her room as she thought about a story that her mother had told her long ago. Meanwhile Percy was in the classroom still being held back by Chiron who wanted to discuss something with him of the upmost importance.

"Percy I am sorry for your expulsion but don't be discouraged. I think that maybe it's for the best." Hearing that Percy was pained that his most favorite teacher would think that it was best he was expelled, meanwhile something inside him was getting angry.

"Okay sir." He mumbled but he wasn't really listening, instead he focusing on why he was getting angry suddenly for no reason. 'Mr. Brunner is just saying what he believes in why am I getting angry over something like that?'

"Percy my boy, please don't think that I am pushing you away. This just isn't the right place for you anymore; it was only a matter of time." Chiron looked at Percy and even though the boy couldn't see it something dark was beginning to radiate off of his body. Suddenly his eyes went wide with shock behind Percy a ghastly image of a huge black dragon was standing behind him before it suddenly vanished.

"Right—" was all Percy could say before he felt something beginning to burn in his back this time unlike his gut. As he was about to fall forward Percy placed a leg out and caught himself while Chiron looked at him with worry. It was obvious something was happening to the boy but he didn't know what it was or what to do and the image of the dragon he saw was beginning to worry him.

"Percy, start thinking things. What I am trying to say… is that you're not normal, Percy. That is nothing to be—"

Before Chiron could say anymore Percy ran out of the classroom as the burning was beginning to increase but this time it was being directed towards his right hand. Running into the hallway Percy slumped against a wall while he watched as something was starting to form in his hand. Once the pain stopped Percy looked at his hand and saw a black diamond on his palm. Looking at his other hand was another diamond.

As if it was instinct Percy felt both his arms shot out and suddenly a sword appeared in his right hand. Looking at it Percy saw that the blade was maybe 4 feet long but it had silver lining the side. While the guard was magnificent since it reminded him of a V that was going down to him. On both sides of the handle say a ruby and a sapphire that were in the shape of a flower. The end of the handle was an emerald that was in the shape of a tear drop.

'What is happening to me? Am I some kind of freak?' that was the last thought going through his mind as he blanked out. Before someone came and found him though the sword vanished and the only thing people found was Percy lying down slumped in the hallway.

o-O-o-O-o

As the last day of term came around Percy started to become distant from all his friends which saddened them greatly. However currently he was in his dorm room grabbing his suitcase, making sure that he had everything including his bus ticket Percy walked out. Turning around one last time he looked at the place he had come to call home before closing the door and leaving.

Once Percy was about to get onto the bus he saw that Grover was shouting after him. Turning around Percy placed his free hand in his pockets so that Grover wouldn't see the diamond that had been engraved into his hand.

"Hey, Grover what are you doing here?" Percy asked.

"I got a ticket on this bus as well and since you are also on this bus I figured we could hand out for a little while longer." Percy smiled hearing that he wouldn't be alone on the bus for once. Before he stepped on the bus he looked for any sign of Larissa but was saddened to see none. Sighing he walked onto the bus not noticing that Larissa was calling after him.

Right when she was about to reach him the bus doors closed and the bus left leaving her there with dozens of boys. Sighing she turned around and headed towards the car that her mom had come to pick her up with. Placing her bags in the back she got in and the car headed towards her home that happened to be right next to the Dare's family house.

While Percy was sitting back with both hands in his pockets he looked at Grover and saw that he kept glancing down the aisle watching the passengers to see if they might transform. It then occurred to him that no one on the bus could tease him about what he was about to say he decided he would fish for some answers.

"Looking for Kindly Ones?" he asked suddenly while Grover shot up from his seat but no one was noticing. Instead they were either on the phone talking to someone or reading the newspaper.

"What… what do you mean?" sighing Percy confessed about eavesdropping on him and Chiron the night before the exam without revealing anything about Larissa. As long as the teachers don't know she was out after curfew she wouldn't be expelled and she would finally go somewhere without him.

"Percy how much did you hear and who did you tell." Grover asked while he began to pale considerably.

"Oh… not much. What's the summer solstice deadline by the way?

"Look, Percy… I was just worried for you, see? I mean hallucinating about demon math teachers."

"Grover—" Percy said before getting cut off.

"And I was telling Mr. Brunner that maybe you were overstressed or something, because there was no such person as Mrs. Dodd's, and…"

"Grover, you're a bad liar." Percy said while putting on a nice smile.

His ears turned pink before reaching into his shirt pocket, he fished out a grubby business card. "Can you just take this, okay? In case you need me this summer." Percy looked at the card and saw the word in fancy script.

Grover Underwood

Keeper

Half-Blood Hill

Long Island, New York

(800) 009-0009

Percy couldn't understand what that meant so he asked "What's Half—"

"Don't say it aloud!" Grover yelped."That's my umm… summer address."

"Okay so like, if I want to come over and visit your mansion." Grover nodded before replying. "Or… or if you need me."

"Why I need you to protect me when you can barely walk? Besides last I checked I've been the one protecting you." Percy said while he recalled all the times he stood up for Grover while he got picked on by the other students because he was crippled.

Grover blushed right down to his Adam's apple. "Look, Percy the truth is, I–I kind of have to protect you."

"Grover what exactly are you protecting me from?" Before Grover could respond there was a huge grinding noise under our feet. Black smoke poured from the dashboard and the whole bus filled with a smell similar to rotten eggs. Both of them heard the driver curse before the bus limped over to the side of the road.

After a few minutes clanking around in the engine compartment, the driver announced that we'd all have to get off, so Grover, and Percy filed outside with everyone else. They were on a stretch of country road—no one would notice if you didn't break down here. On their side of the highway was nothing but maple trees and litter from passing cars that disgusted Grover a little who began running around and tossing the garbage away into a garbage bag he had brought.

On the other side, across four lanes of asphalt shimmering with afternoon heat was an old-fashioned fruit stand. From first glance the food looked really good however as Percy looked around he noticed there were no customers. Instead all he could see was three old hags sitting in rocking chairs knitting socks.

These weren't just any socks though they were the size of sweaters however the more he watched them finish it the more Percy realized that an ancient power was coming from them. Even though all three of them looked ancient Percy noticed they were all looking at him.

"Grover hey man—"Percy aid while Grover walked over to him and looked at what he was looking at before paling.

"Tell me they're not looking at you. They are aren't they?" Grover asked while he covered his face with his hands. Before Percy could respond he felt the urge to turn around and he saw the three old women were no longer in there rocking chairs instead they were standing in front of him. Turning around to look at Grover he saw he wasn't moving. Waving his hand in front of Grover one thing began to go through his mind and it was time freeze.

Turning around to face the fates Percy felt a hand grip his throat and lift him into the air. Struggling to move Percy looked down into the person's face and saw nothing but cold eyes that were determined to kill him. As the grip tightened on his neck Percy coughed before something familiar roared.

Looking into the sky a black dragon landed and the women dropped Percy by his neck before turning to face the dragon. The other two took up there sides and together the three of them drew scissors and got ready to fight the thing while Percy tried to crawl away.

"You have no business in this dimension Darkness go back to your prison that Aether sealed you into." One of the women demanded while the others began to slowly step sideways but the dragon just roared and gritted its teeth.

Slowly Percy began to crawl when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Looking at his leg he saw a giant pair of scissors holding him down. Percy wanted to scream but when he opened his mouth no sound came out. Worry was plastered on his face but he was at least grateful the dragon came and saved him at the last second before suddenly his eyes closed and he fainted.

'Do you honestly think I am going to let you murder the one who wields my original powers? You fates are truly foolish because as long as I exist he will never be killed until it is his time to die my own hands.' Darkness roared while it started to rake its giant talons into the ground.

"In the name of the Primordial Goddess Nyx we are ordering you to leave." The taller woman said but the dragon just laughed but it was more of a roar than anything else.

'Your mother has no power over me, besides you know the story better than anyone in this time. None of the primordials were powerful enough to stop me and it required their father's sacrifice to finally defeat me and my armies.'

"And legend goes that you were separated from your powers. Your physical body was sealed into a planet while your powers were sealed into a gem. That gem is now in that boy and we refuse to let you get your powers back."

Before the dragon could say anything a giant summoning circle appeared in the sky and a beam of light shot down. Standing in the light was none other than the Primordial Aether who had come to stop this petty fighting. Looking for the cause his eyes landed on Percy again who was now unconscious from the blood lose.

Teleporting to the boys said Aether placed a hand on the boy's legs and the scissors were removed before the wound was healed. Placing a hand on the child's head the boy then vanished returning to the normal world with no memories of what happened before turning around and glaring at his sisters children. Darkness then opened its wings and he flew into the sky leaving the Fates and Aether behind.

"Aether, why did you protect that child? If we had killed him the dragon Darkness would never have regained his powers."

"You are fools; the boy was given those powers by my father before he went to sleep."

"Why didn't Chaos just destroy the gem if he had done that then Darkness would never regain his powers. Besides that boy is destined to walk a path of destruction." But before the Fates could continue they fell to their knees because of the pressure that Aether was using to keep them down.

"All three of you will shut up this instant. The reason the boy has that dragon's power is because one day he shall break out of his prison. And when he does that boy is going to stand against him because he will have a new power." With that Aether released the pressure he was dropping on the Fates before leaving. He gave one warning though and it was if they interfere with the boy's life he would destroy them himself and that Nyx would never be able to hide them from his rage.

o-O-o-O-o

"Tell me they're not looking at you. They are aren't they?" Grover asked while he covered his face with his hands. Percy looked at the old women and saw that they were looking down at the socks they were knitting.

"No they aren't looking why?" Percy asked but he had a weird sense of déjà vu like this had already happened before. Turning to look at the women he felt that something was different about them but before he could think about it he felt Grover's hand touch his shoulder.

"Percy let's get on the bus I don't think it's safe out here." He said while he eyes the three women. The women glared at Grover before returning to their original business at hand.

"What it's like a thousand degrees in there." Percy wined while Grover continued to push him towards the bus. As soon as Grover and Percy got on the bus the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered before the engine came to life causing everyone but myself to cheer. The bus driver then gave a small grin before ordering everyone to get back on board. Percy looked like he had a flue while Grover didn't look much better. He was shivering and his teeth were chattering which made me call him something in only a slight whisper.

"Grover?"

"Yeah."

"What aren't you telling me?" Grover didn't respond instead he just looked out the window and examined the flowers that were outside. Mentally he was picking the flowers that were going to be placed on Percy's grave once the day came. Suddenly though Grover fainted because outside he could have sworn he saw a black dragon walking towards them it's filled with blood lust.