As you all know by now I'm at the Roman Camp and I've found out that my twin is still alive, though I guess with all the weird stuff that's happened in my life I shouldn't be surprised, though meeting my little sister, Amy, that had been a shock, apparently as Neptune my dad was a little busier. My first day was rather eventful but, now I've settled into Roman Camp life, though I am shocked that no one here has made a play for my sister, although considering her fight with Reyna maybe I shouldn't be surprised, " Percy, care for a little sword practice. "
I look over at Bobby, the Vulcan kid, he'd worked long and hard to make me a Roman style weapon, and he'd given me a long range weapon, a trident, he'd spent weeks doing drill with me on that. Now I could handle long and mid-range attacks, I had been hoping to work on knives with him. " Sure, but could we work on knives, I'd like to be able to handle short range as well. "
Bobby smirks, " I was wondering when you'd bring that up. Your sis has Legion One doing aquatic maneuvers, and let me tell you, they are not happy with her, though after what Reyna did no one dares to oppose her, they know Jason's reaction would have been worse than that. " Bobby says.
" What about our legion? "
" Day off, though a group of five is guarding Amy and another group of five Haley. " Bobby says as they start to trade sword blows. Once our sword workout is done Bobby starts to teach me how to use a knife. I knew I wanted to be able to train with Annabeth with knives.
As he worked me hard with all sorts of knife fighting forms I think of how Jason was faring in my camp. I had truly proven myself my first day when Ariella and I fought Reyna, the Mars daughter, not even Clarisse was depraved enough to attack little kids, I hoped Clarisse was exceptionally cruel to her. I knew Clarisse and I knew that she detested those that picked on little kids.
Of course, I had to place my attention back on what I was doing and then came a major surprise, Hazel came stumbling into camp, " New camper, too many monsters, can't get him across. "
Bobby and I both race across the border and I immediately summon water from the bay to wash away some of the monsters. The kid looked to be my age and he reminded me of Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. As Bobby and I help fight off the monsters Aaron, son of Apollo heads for the new kid, " Come on, leave the monsters to them, we have to get you into camp. "
Several Apollo archers let loose their arrows as the rest of us continue to deal with the ground troops with swords, spears, shields, whatever. " He's gotta be Big Three material, this many monsters after him. "
" Probably Pluto kid, he looks like someone I know, goes by the Ghost King. " I state.
Ariella sweeps in then like a tsunami, leaving a wake of devastation after her. The Roman campers don't look surprised at this, apparently she was a berserker type of fighter. Once every monster is defeated I look at my twin, she looked worried but I didn't know why, she brings up the rear as we head in and all of us are startled by her scream of agony. I was the first one to race back and check on my twin, only to see her in the clutches of the Minotaur, " Hey, horn head, remember me! " I shout at him.
He tosses my twin aside and charges at me, I clench Riptide in my hands and slash his head off. He dissipates and I look for my twin, Bobby had run to her after the Minotaur had tossed her aside and she looked sickly pale, " Milo, get Alex, now. "
The young Vulcan camper races off to do so and a blonde Apollo kid races through the forest to us, and drops to his knees, chanting an incantation in Latin and then cursing in English like a sailor. " I'm not any good with frigging healing incantations. " Alex snaps.
" Get her to the bay, the water can heal either one of us. " I snap.
Alex and Bobby gently carry her to the Bay while I stay alert, with four half-bloods out and about the monsters were sure to come after us, especially when two of the said half-bloods happened to be the children of one of the big three. My life just kept getting more and more complicated. Slowly she starts to heal and once Alex gives the all clear they release her and Ariella comes to cursing in a mixture of Latin and Greek. Bobby and Alex chuckle at this and we all race back to camp before more monsters can appear. I head off to check on the new camper, wondering if he had been claimed yet. Lupa was already with him, giving him his orientation. The kid looked shell shocked at everything that had happened to him and then the helm of Darkness appears above him.
Just as I had known, a son of Pluto or as I knew him, Hades. " Hey, I'm Percy Jackson, son of Neptune, what's your name? "
" I'm Nickolas Martini, yes, that is actually my name, so whose kid am I? "
" King of the Underworld. " I state matter of factly.
" I'm the flipping son of Pluto. " Nickolas says.
" Yes, you are, pup. " Lupa says.
" Man, this is just ridiculous. I was perfectly content with my life and then that stupid faun just had to go and mess things up for me. " Nickolas snaps.
" It was for your own protection, pup. " Lupa snarls.
He stalks right up to her, " No, it wasn't, confining me is the last thing you want to do. I have things worse than the mythological beasties after me. "
Lupa looks at him in shock, not many dared to get up in her face, in fact Ariella was the only one that had the guts enough to do it. " Such as? "
" My mother is the child of a dragon, so I have all that crap to deal with, and now you're telling me that my flipping father is the Roman God of the Underworld. This is just freaking fantastic, my life was already complicated, this just makes it worse! "
Lupa stares at him in shock and I shake my head sympathetically, " Come on, I'll show you to your cabin and give you a tour, Lupa, sis and I will want him in our legion. "
Lupa sighs, " He has to go in Legion Three. "
" Why not have representatives of each legion fight and whoever wins gets him, that is fair, is it not? " I ask her.
She growls an ascent to this, knowing it was fair. Now, the legions would have to choose their warriors and I already had a warrior in mind for legion two, and it wasn't me or my twin either. I was already planning on telling Bobby to get ready. Nickolas comes with me, and I start pointing everything out, to my surprise he comes to a full stop when he spots my sister, " Who is that? "
" Ariella Jackson, my twin sister. " I reply, she had her long hair braided today.
Nickolas blinks, " She's a Neptune kid, damn, any problems with me going after her? "
" No, but if you hurt her you should know that I bathed in the Styx and will maim you as painfully as possible. " I reply.
" Good to know, she seeing anybody? "
" No, everyone's too scared of her, she is, well, she's got a wickedly nasty temper which has been known to unleash Cat 5 hurricanes. " I admit.
Nickolas just grins at this, " Seriously, where has she been all my life? My mom's half storm dragon, so that's not gonna bug me, getting anyone in my mom's family pissed is suicide. "
I blink at this, " How do you feel about earthquakes? "
" Grew up in San Fran, they don't bug me in the least. " Nickolas states and starts walking towards my twin. I wished him luck, because my sis didn't really seem like she wanted a romantic attachment. Then again I noticed her send an appraising look at Nickolas and shake my head, if anyone could brave the storm it was him. Though a Greek and a Roman hooking up, that would turn the world on its axis. I briefly wondered if Aphrodite or Venus here had anything to do with his arrival at this precise moment in time. As Ariella trains him I could see her relaxing and dare I even think it, flirting with him, well, maybe having him around would be a good thing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or Heroes of Olympus.
Author's Note: The first chapter was third person, the rest will alternate between Percy and Ariella. Please enjoy.