Percy's POV

"Couz, wake up" a deep gruff voice said. Someone nudged me, "come on we don't have that much time"

"Come on he is just as useless as his father" this time a female voice said. "No, it has to be him" the gruff voice retorted, "look he's waking up".

I sat up without opening my eyes, strangely my body felt fine. Weightless for that matter, the sensation was surreal. I opened my eyes to see two blurry images standing before me.

"Mom?" I asked fearing the worst.

"Idiot" the women cursed.

"Not your mom, your cousin" the gruff voice said, "I'm Hephaestus and this is my sister Athena"

"Interesting names" I pointed out while rubbing my eyes. When I was done my eyes came into focus and I saw a weird couple. The man's face was brutal and grimy, his hair was a mess and his body was uneven; almost cripple. He had scars all over his arms and his hands were super dirty and thick. He wore a dirty jumpsuit and had an uncombed beard that was full of little flames and it sparked every once in a while. Hideous would be the best way to describe him. The woman on the other hand was beautiful. She had beautiful grey stormy eyes and gorgeous light brown curly hair. She had a deep tan and was wearing full battle armor and Greek from the looks of it. The only thing they had in common was that their faces seemed timeless. They were different from the looks of it and also people I had never met.

"Got any last names?" I asked.

"No just those" they responded at the same time. What a waste of time, I thought. They were lying and trying to joke around with me. The truth was that I wasn't in the mood.

"Sorry, but my family is dead" I said swallowing the bitter feeling with my own doubts about it.

"That's offensive, spawn" the women hissed, trying to insult me.

"Relax Athena he doesn't know anything yet" the man reasoned

"I'll back you up there he does seem to be an idiot" Athena agreed.

"Hey!" I said making both of them turn to me, "What's your problem and what do you want?" There was a short pause followed by tension in the air. Hephaestus looked down and started fiddling with his fingers, Athena turned all business looking me square in the eyes.

"We have a proposal" Athena said

"I see" I said still not believing a word from their mouths.

"You see, you're the first one too go unnoticed" Athena said

"First what?" I interrupted

"Why, spawn of one of the three el-", Athena started but was interrupted again.

"In good time kid" Hephaestus said looking up,

"You see you are special and very capable, but still at a disadvantage" I was going ask something but Athena hushed me, and Hephaestus continued "We want to give you the sight" he said holding up a pair of bloodshot eyeballs in a plastic bag.

"Gross!" I exclaimed.

"They are mechanical eyes, and will allow you to see a titan in his true form along with its many other capabilities" Hephaestus finished

"We've never done this for anyone before, so be grateful" Athena snobbishly added, "It also has information on battle stuff, skills so on-" I must have looked confused because she got frustrated and snapped at me.

"Do you follow, spawn? We don't have much time here." I let the question hang in the air and then answered.

"Um… You lost me right about when you said you weren't my mom" I admitted and Athena turned dark red. I swear, if possible she would have been breathing fire and puffing steam.

"You see, You see!" she said throwing her arm up, "He's and idiot" she said looking at the man. He raised his hand and she fell quiet, then he started "We are offering you a proposal-"

"Okay, okay" I interrupted " First off let me say… that I don't trust you" Athena got even madder. Her eyes started to glow threateningly, while Hephaestus just gave me a blank stupid look. Athena was going to say something but I held my hand in her face and went on before she could, "Second of all I don't believe you" their reactions were the same.

"Third off" I said, "I believe I have already been noticed. Last I can remember armed forces invaded my house and killed the last of my family" This made them stop. They looked at each other and then Athena spoke.

"I'm sorry spawn, I really am. But you being a powerful spawn can help us" that was a weird moment for me. Aside from her name I knew nothing about them, plus the women kept insulting me, then she just turned sympathetic, and the fact that she kept calling me "spawn". It gave her words a bitter-sweet sensation. I sighed and gave in to the strangers.

"How can I, help you?" I asked. They both looked at each other and smiled.

"You must accept our gift" Hephaestus said looking dead serious.

"And what are the so called conditions?" I asked

"You must help us" Hephaestus replied and then Athena hit him on the back of his head.

"Are you testing my patience?" I said threateningly.

"You must find two people for us in other words a child of mine and a child of his. Their names are James Law and Leo Valdez respectively." I let that hang trying to decide.

"The eyes look just like the ones you have now" Hephaestus added innocently. I took the time to look around me and saw nothing but whiteness. I was in some sort of room but I couldn't tell its size. My mind drifted to my mom and her word echoed in my head "I know its going to be you who can do it". If this was going to give me power I was taking it, even if it was fake I had nothing to lose.

"Okay. I accept" I said defiantly. They both gave each other evil grins that made me uneasy.

"This might hurt a bit cuz" Hephaestus said grinning. Just then my vision faded to white and my eyes got hotter. Soon the pain was unbearable I remember yelling then being shaken.

"It's okay. It's okay. Your with me now, your safe." A soft female voice tried to comfort me. My eyes were closed so I couldn't see anything but I felt something at my lips.

"Here this should help sooth the pain" I opened my mouth and she slipped something into my mouth. It was sweet and soft but I couldn't put a name on it. I felt a few of my ribs slip back into place and the pain in my eyes died down to a splitting headache.

"Don't worry the extraction team is on its way" she said. I didn't nod or try to assure her at all. I wasn't going to but I decided to open my eye just a slight crack to get a glimpse of my savior. She was beautiful. Seriously she was drop dead beautiful, blonde hair curled at the tips like a princes, perfect tan and stormy grey eyes, and hot body. She was looking out the window shade upon the street, obviously on guard and was wearing full bronze armor which also appeared to be Greek. She had a bow and quiver full of arrows slung over her shoulders as well as a sheathed sword strapped to her hip. I tried to sit up but yelped in pain. She turned towards me quickly and forced me back down.

"Relax. Its okay, your safe." She said again. I looked strait into her eyes.

"No" was all I managed before blacking out. I lost my mom. It was definitely not okay, and I was definitely not safe.

Leo Valdez POV

The view was really was beautiful sitting on a ledge. Ledge of a SKY SCRAPER! Yeah baby. Idiot harpies thinking they stood a chance against me. Messing up my 14th birthday. Insane. Monsters sure are getting bold these day's. Well, here I am enjoying my birthday alone on one of the terraces of Sear's tower Chicago, Illinois. Below me the busy city flashes and honks at me screaming "I am here", but I could care less. Today is about me, the day I was born "the day I was cursed, with my life and my abilities". The people below my feet simply scurry from point a to b stealing glances at some of the monsters patrolling the streets, scared out of their minds. Aside from my birthday its also the anniversary of my moms death. It has been five years exactly since she's been dead and also five years of solitude. Five years of pain and more

Importantly five years of running. Something I have learnt; is that places harbor memories and memories bring pain. That's why I change. It's been to long since I left Chicago its time to change city so I thing I'll be going to…Toronto. I don't belong anywhere and this is how I live, lived and probably will continue to live like this… until my luck runs out.

Third Person POV

"Arghhh" The sound of a cracking whip sliced trough the room. In the room there were three figures: one boy, one woman and one dracaena. .

"Had enough demi-god" the woman harassed. She was short, thin and had black hair and wore a long elegant dress with an icy crystal necklace that illuminated the room. Her name was Khione goddess of snow, also goddess of the north winds. She signaled to the dracaena that was wearing rusty steal armor and was holding a bloody whip. The dracaena struck the boy once again. His back was scared and his wounds spewed tears of blood. Though his body cried in pain he did not, he knelt their embracing it: through forced breaths, he sweated off his agony making sure to show no emotion. He knelt in the middle of a dirty cement cell wearing nothing but black torn rags. The cell was frosted in the corners, dirty on the floor and the only light came from a small barred window high up on the wall. The room was square and large. It had a circular ring in the center where the one prisoner was shackled in large heavy chains. He was stuck kneeling on his bloody knees completely immobilized… his name was Nico di Angelo… his crime: existing.

"What did you think you could accomplish defecting from us?" Khione laughed and then continued, "An officer like you should know it's useless. Your sister would be disappointed."

"SHUT UP! Don't talk about my sister, pant" Nico screamed.

"Hit a raw nerve did I?" Khione pushed

"When I get out of these chains I'll kill you" Nico assured. Khione signaled to the dracaena who furiously began whipping Nico.

"Oh dear Nico, you must realize that if ever you were to get out of these shackles, it will be when we are removing your corpse" she finished with a wink and then left the room. The dracaena as if on q began mercilessly whipping Nico again.

Percy' POV

I passed out two more times after I got an eye transplant from some weird couple and met some girl who made it a hobby to save random guys like me. I woke up after that and remember being picked up. Then I heard the girl's voice talking to someone, though I only made out part of it I am pretty sure it was about me. Her voice was occasionally drowns by the sound of my own breath in my head.

"There was this huge explosion-" the girl explained but then I lost her to the sound of my lungs, next I heard, "-showed up on the shore wounded-"still the girl's voice but I lost her again. Then I heard a deep voice,

"Are you sure he's a demigod?" There it was again that word "demigod" it didn't make sense to me, it meant nothing to me. Surely they were talking about someone else, then the girl answered

"Yes." Losing conscience is really interesting because you can always tell exactly when you do, unlike when you fall asleep which is unpredictable. Right then I passed out. The second time I woke up things were different.

When I woke up my head was throbbing and my throat was dry. All that had happened to me was too much for me. I had been chased, mentally abused, I watched my mom die, got an eye transplant, was saved and then very possibly kidnapped. I was not going to stay here very long, whatever the cost I was getting out. The least I could do was honor my moms last request, and for all I knew these so called saviors could have just saved me so they could subject me to a life of pain. Maybe they even worked for the titans. Right then I was sure of nothing so I started to move my fingers with my eyes still closed just to make sure they worked. I finished my right hand, and was about to start on my left, when the door to my room opened. I stopped dead cold and started listening to the steps coming my way.

I opened my eyes just a crack and got a glimpse of the wall in front of me. I quickly closed my eyes and started to analyze the metal photo I had just taken. The wall wasn't too far in front of me so the room must have been small. The walls were a marble like white and reflected some light, and there was an average size window slightly to my right. I couldn't make out what was past the window though that was the least of my concerns. I felt for my ring and was relieved to find on my finger, all I could do was lie in wait and prepare for the worst. The sound of their steps and I could feel them looking down on me. Then the same girl that had found me spoke,

"It was weird, because I was walking along the shore of the beach coming back from my scouting mission when there was this hu~~ge explosion. Next thing I knew there was this splash a good way into the water. At first I thought it was a monster but then I saw him just floating their. Obviously, I dove in and got him out. But Chiron it was terrible! His clothes were shredded and burnt but that's the least of it" her voice was showing deep concern and it was making me grateful.

"His fingers were almost cut off, his left ankle was fractured, and his right arm was broken in three places, and on the right side of his body he had 8 broken ribs"

"My gosh" the so called Chiron said in exasperation but the girl wasn't done,

"His right shoulder was dislocated, he had a~~ tone of internal bleeding and was cut in hundreds of places. I'm telling you it's a miracle he survived. It took 12 to cure him. So much happened in the short time you left, it unbelievable." She finished and the report of my condition hung in the air.

"You did well Annabeth. Meanwhile we must figure out what to do with him." Uh-oh. This Chiron guy was making me uneasy. He continued talking and making me nervous,

"We have to take precautions, because if he is with them" as Chiron spoke he said the word "them" with such hatred it shocked me. Then he continued, "we will have to deal with him."

"Deal with him how?" the girl Annabeth asked nervously.

"We have brought him within our borders so he knows our location. That's information that can't fall into the wrong hands." Chiron said defiantly. By now my stomach was doing summersaults, for all I knew I could be with "them" and not know it. Plus the way they said "deal" to me meant death. Thing were already going south when I had just lived through a dire situation.

"But he was so-"the girl started.

"Annabeth" Chiron said sympathetically, "You being you are very trusting and under suspicious-"

"Are you calling me naïve?" Annabeth said accusingly, sounding hurt.

"Far from dear girl" Chiron assured, "it's just that the enemy is tricky and devious, and they are all too quick to exploit qualities like that. I've seen all too many fall to their tricks." Chiron finished with a sigh. This conversation was driving me insane and to worsen thing up tension grew in the air since it took a few moments before Annabeth spoke up,

"I understand. How should we deal with him-" That was it, I could no longer stay still. I rolled off the bed and jumped up, instantly my side started to burn intensely. Both Annabeth and Chiron jumped back. Well actually just Annabeth jumped, Chiron was in a wheel chair but he backed up none the less. Annabeth looked like she had some words stuck in her mouth, but I was long gone. I had already run past her, then jumped up bracing myself with my arms: forming an x. I also raised my knees in front of me as I sail through the air and out the window.

I know, I know, that was stupid but don't judge me. I had bumped my head for one, and certain people were arranging my execution. That's enough to make a good percentage of the world's population uncomfortable… unless you don't understand them, which is different. Resuming, to me good luck had already become a foreign concept and as it turned out the window I had just jumped out of was on the second story. As I fell I used my momentum to do something like a summersault, when it connected with the ground it shot me forward in a full out sprint. Some glass had stuck to my arms and I know realized that I wasn't wearing the clothes that I had the other day. I was wearing an orange t-shirt and some army pants over a tone of bandages. They covered every inch of my arms as well as my hands and I could feel them under my clothes as well. I only got a few steps away from the house when someone whacked me square in the face full force. It knocked me right off my feet and consequently gave me double vision.

My nose was hurting so much it was hard to stay focused, I managed to roll away just as someone's foot impaled itself right where my chest had been. I rose to my feet and raised my arm in the basic brawling manner. It was getting really hard to stand up and I felt that soon I would fall over, not only that but out of the shadows and buildings 40 or 50 people gathered around. I can't be sure because my vision was messed up by the hit I had just taken. I felt a warm liquid dribble down onto my mouth, which I'm pretty sure was blood. I looked around me and identified my attackers. There were two identical girls wearing blood red armor and they both had their swords drawn. Some unfamiliar person came out of the crowd and was yelling franticly.

"Don't move around, your wounds will open! Your wounds will open!" He came closer and I turned towards him taking a step back. He stopped and seemed to notice my dilemma, he gave me a sad sympathetic look and joined the others who watched me. Down through the crowd two people pushed their way through.

"Stop, it my fault everybody!" it was Annabeth

"Clarise stand down" Chiron ordered as he came into view. The girl in red armor reluctantly sheathed her sword now my vision was coming back into focus and I could see clearly. Unfortunately for me my body was reaching its limit; I lost balance and fell onto one knee. I kept one hand on the floor for balance as I rubbed my nose with the other. When I looked up I saw Annabeth coming towards me. My heart was racing 300 miles an hour. These people were going to kill me!

Annabeth came over and put her arm on my shoulder and tried to help me up, but I shook her off. I backed up breathing heavily and was about to put the last of my strength in to a sprint when I felt a jolt of electricity sting my arm. I turned just in time to see a girl wearing punk clothes, who had straight black hair and sky blue eyes. After the shock I passed out to Chiron's voice.

"Calm down boy."