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Chapter 1

Lupa woke up to something yanking and dragging on her ears, she could hear a faint "Mom." with the o drawn out unnaturally long.

Groggily she opened her eyes and turned to the source of mischief, her now huge pup, Perseus, was staring at her with big innocent eyes. It had been almost nine months since she gave birth to him in the cave in the woods, and so far her life was a hectic mess, and she loved every second of it.

Two weeks after he was born, he opened his eyes, and Lupa was shocked, she had never seen such beautiful eyes before, they were sea green mixed with her silver eye color. And they mixed together perfectly, like a storm that draws you in and will not let go. Lupa and Percy, her nickname for him, had been in their wolf forms the first couple of months.

In that time, Lupa had been teaching him the basics of life as a wolf. When he was five months old, he finally learned how to change into his human form, Lupa was pleasantly surprised again. He had dark, windswept hair, with a chocolate red stripe in the front, the same sea green and silver eyes, he had her facial features, with little canines sticking out as he smiled, and he was tall for his age, which looked to be about ten years old then. 'He's going to be a ladies man when he grows up.' she had though.

Over the months they had been together, they had grown close, closer than any other mother-son relationship before. She taught him the basics that children would learn in school, their lessons were fun and full of activity. With Percy's ADHD and dyslexia, there was no hope in ordinary schooling. What Percy found the most interesting was, naturally, Greek and Roman mythology, he could sit for hours listening to his mothers stories about different heroes and the facts and behaviors of the different Gods and Goddesses. Lupa had taught him how to defend himself and how to hunt, she had also discovered that he had some of her hypnokinesis powers. He was a stealthy and deadly wolf, you couldn't see him coming before it was too late.

"Are you hungry Percy?" she asked her son, who nodded his head vigorously and almost moaned out a "Yes".

Percy had started to eat meat after about 4 weeks, and now that he was nine months and a fully grown wolf, he looks like a 15 year old in his human form and he was bigger than her in their wolf forms. She got up and stretched and started walking out of their cave that functioned as a home for them, with Percy sprinting ahead of her.

Since Lupa was a virgin goddess, and was technically not allowed to have any children at all, so she and Percy were in hiding for the moment. She didn't want to expose him to any of the Olympians at all. So as a result of that, she didn't let him go hunting or go too far out of the cave without her, in fear of him being discovered or caught.

By the time Lupa was outside the cave, Percy had already disappeared. She chuckled and smiled at her sons behavior. She had to sprint to catch up with him, following his scent into the woods. When she found him, he was already digging into a buck carcass.

Percy looked up, ginned and pointed with his head towards another, slightly bigger buck lying a couple of feet to his left. She smiled at him and dug into her breakfast herself.

Percy was always like this, he was respectful and a gentleman, but he was also had a playful and mischievous side to him that she loved. She knew that deep inside, he was a real mommas boy. While they were eating, Lupa felt several powerful presences coming. Like when a God or Goddess was about to flash in or were walking to her location.

"Percy! Do you feel that?" Lupa called to her son, looking over at him and licking her snout.

"The presences? Yeah I do, what should we do?" he asked as he had walked over to her, both of them now in their human forms. Lupa's hair and eyes were the same color as in her wolf form, she is tall and curvy with the same facial features as him. She frowned.

"Do what I have told you in these situations, you have run Percy, they can't find you!" she said frantically, the presences were growing stronger, indicating that they were coming closer. Percy started to protest, he never liked those talks, he didn't want to leave his mother behind in the hands of the Olympians, who knew what they could do to her?

"Percy," she said sternly, "you have to go. I don't want to leave you either, but you are perfectly capable of taking care of yourself, as am I. Run as fast and as far as you can ok? I will contact you in your dreams as soon as I know everything is safe for both of us."

"No! Mom, I'm not leaving you! Who knows what punishment there going to give you!" he hugged his mother as hard as he could, probably squeezing the air out of her. But he didn't want to leave.

She took his shoulders in her hands and pulled him an arms length away, so she could look at him. "Percy, listen to me, you have to go. Promise me you won't come back for me." When she saw his hesitation, she added, "Do this for me, please? Just remember that I love you more than anything and I will protect you in any way I can. Stay safe, my son." her tone left no room for argument, and Percy looked down at his feet, ashamed that he can't do anything more for his mother. Lupa pulled him into a hug, both of them squeezing as hard as they could, savoring the felling, none of them wanting to separate.

"Fine," he huffed, "I promise. I love you mom, I'll see you soon" Percy whispered, tears brimming in both of their eyes. Lupa closed his hand around a ballpoint pen, Anaklusmos, the pen he had trained with as long as he could remember. He smiled sadly and kissed his mothers cheek before turning around and changing into his wolf-form.

He walked to the edge of the clearing and looked back at his mother, who was also in her wolf-form, laying by the carcasses. She smiled at him and inclined her head for him to keep moving. Reluctantly he turned around and sprinted into the forest. Away form the lurking presences of the Olympians, but most importantly, away form his loving mother.

Percy had been running full speed deeper and deeper into the forest for several hours, he never turned back, not wanting to ruin his promise to his mother. He stopped running when he entered a small clearing, still panting, he changed back into his human form, ballpoint pen clutched in his right hand.

He sank to the ground staring at the last item his mother had given him. Since he was a kid, or pup in his case, he had always wanted to keep the pen. But his over protective mother had never let him keep it longer than their training sessions. And now that he finally had the pen, was it worth it? Hell no. His mother was alone, in the presence of multiple Olympians that could overpower her in seconds. His mother had always tried to prepare them for when something like this could happen, and it had happened, on a lot smaller scale, before.

Flashback

He remembered when he was only a couple of months old, exited to finally be running around outside the den. They were both in their wolf forms. His mother was sitting by the entrance of the den, after a long discussion that he would be fine as long as he was inside the clearing, telling him to "Come back!" or "Be careful!". He didn't listen.

He was running around the very edge, when suddenly he tripped over a stray root with his short feet, and went tumbling down an edge. After a short period of tumbling, he was suddenly picked up by two, very humanly, hands. He immediately started trashing and yelping for help.

"Aren't you a little clumsy fellah?" said the man that was holding him, chuckling.Percy stopped squirming and looked at the man oddly, he kind of looked like one of the Gods his mother told him about. With his salt-and-pepper hair, athletic build, blue eyes, sly grin and a caduceus in the hand that was not supporting him.

Percy's eyes widened, this was Hermes, God of Messengers, Travelers, Thieves, and so much more.

His mother was going to kill him when she found out, but before Percy could think any longer about that theory, said person came bursting through the bushes by them, looking for him frantically. When she spotted him in the arms of a God, her eyes widened and panic crept up on her. He would have thought it was funny, in any other situation.

"Ah, Lady Lupa. There you are, took me a time to find you. Anyways, I have a message to you. Caught this clumsy little fellah rolling down the hill, is he one of the pups in your pack?" Hermes asked with a slight bow before he had adressed her. Lupa composed herself before answering him.

"Oh, good day Hermes, yes that is one of our pups." at least it wasn't a complete lie, "He has a habit of doing the opposite of what he's told." Lupa told him sternly while Hermes chuckled.

"So who's the message from?" Lupa questioned him curiously, she hadn't gotten any messages in a while.

"Well, Aphrodite got it into her tiny brain that you had had some kind of love affair a while back, and obviously the outcome was a child, or pup in your case." Hermes chuckled before continuing, "So when Aphrodite told dear daddy Zeus, he had a hissy fit at her for not telling him any sooner, and gave me strict instructions to find you and bring any offspring of yours to Olympus before the council. I'm here to check on you, got any pups?" Hermes, oblivious to the fact that he was holding that one pup, grinned cheekily at her. While Lupas mind was racing with a million questions and no answers. Her eyes flickering between Hermes and her pup in his arms.

"Well of course not, I am a virgin Goddess, am I not?" she told him, giving him a piercing glare, a waring, leave now.

"Liar." Hermes blurted out before he could think it through. "I'm the God of Lies, I know when somebody tells me one." He observed her as her eyes darted between him and the pup in his arms. "It's this little guy isn't it? That's why you're hiding all the way out here, to protect him from us." Hermes questioned, but it was more like a statement. Lupa readied stance to lunge at him, bearing her teeth and extending her claws.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Hermes said as she saw her stance, he knew she was deadly and stronger than him. He quickly dropped Percy to the ground, who ran over beside his mother. "I wasn't planning on taking him with me, didn't even expect you to answer my question! But it's what you wanted all along wasn't it? Your own family?" Hermes asked carefully, Lupa nodded and relaxed her stance a bit, but still ready to attack at a moments notice.

Hermes smiled, "It's nice to see that you got something you've always wanted, you deserve it. But I need to warn you, when Zeus finds out it's true, he's gonna try to capture and possibly kill him." Percy whimpered and Lupa shot a withering glare at Hermes who flinched back. "Sorry, but you need to be careful, your lucky I like you so much."

Lupa signed, "Thank you Hermes, you have no idea what this means to me." She smiled at him, he nodded his head at her, said his goodbyes and disappeared in a flash. Percy, thinking he was off the hook, started walking home again.

"Where do you think your going mister?" his mothers voice rang out from behind him, he turned around slowly to meet her glare. "We're not done yet."

Flashback end

While Percy was reminiscing, he failed to notice that the darkness was creeping in. It was eerily quiet, too quiet.

He changed into his wolf form to see and smell better. He sniffed the air, finding that there was no wind to help him, so he decided to find shelter for the night, he was getting tired from all the days events.

Percy walked south, the opposite direction of his old home. He strained his ears, trying to find any other source of life in these woods, he was getting pretty hungry too. After walking for a couple of minutes, lost in thoughts of what might be happening to his mother right now, Percy could hear rustling circling around him, he was surrounded. He looked around, trying to detect his followers, only to see several pairs of red eyes staring right back at him. That's when the first one attacked.

Percy just managed to dodge the beast, identifying it as a hellhound. He emitted a low growl from deep within his chest, catching the hound of guard for a moment.

Taking his advantage he launched himself at it, dragging his long claws along the monsters neck, killing it instantly in a puff of golden dust. Another hound growled and launched itself at him, Percy dodged and dug his teeth into its neck, golden dust covering him again. The three remaining hellhounds howled and charged at him all at once. Percy frozen in shock for a second - he had not expected them to attack at once - got slammed into a tree by one of the hounds, another dragging its claws all along Percys sides, blood pouring out of his wounds. Out of breath and dazed, Percy laid there, exposed to his attackers.

Suddenly a picture of his mother popped into his mind from when they had been training "Remember Percy, never let your opponent get you on the ground, then your as good as dead." her tone had been strong but understanding at the same time. He took his mother advise and stood up on shaky legs, panting for breath.

Percy crouched and launched at the hound in front of him, he managed to latch onto its neck, killing it, but the other hellhounds had decided to claw and bite at him. Giving him even more deep cuts.

He staggered forward, landing face first in the soft grass. The blood loss was getting to him, his head was spinning and his body refused to respond to his commands. He was not going to die in his first real battle! But he ended up just lying there, the world spinning and fussy in front of him. He could hear two yelps of pain, quickly being cut short. Somebody had killed them, were they here to kill him too?

The last thing he saw before unconsciousness dragged him under, was a pair of silver eyes and chocolate red hair, that reminded him so of his mother.

Okay, I hope you guys like this. I was in "The Mode" today, so you got two chapters in a day :)

Thanks for reading!

- Emma