Percy POV:

Thalia walked over join me at the Zeus table. She sat down her plate across from me, and said "So you really are my nephew. The son of Annabeth and Jason?"

I wasn't sure if it was a question or a statement. but I answered "Last time I checked. Thanks for the shield, by the way."

She smiled, and said "Sure, it's served me well for a long time, but lately I've been using hunting knives for close combat. By the way have you mastered any of your powers yet?"

I shook my head and said. "No I've barely used them at all. The only time was when I shocked Piper while sparing."

"Well lunch is almost over. When it is why don't we work on some of them. I've never been good at wind powers, but I can still teach you the basics. Besides the other main power is lightning and electricity which is a piece of cake for me."

After lunch Piper and Thalia showed me around camp. Then Thalia took me into the middle of the strawberry fields and worked with me on my powers. By the end of the training I could give a pretty powerful shock, but it felt like I had to grope around in the dark, find a switch, and then press really hard to turn my abilities on. I was slightly better with my wind powers, but it was a similar feeling. At the end of our session she took me to what looked like a weight room. There were a bunch of buff sweaty guys lifting gigantic weights.

"Hey baby, watch this." said one of the guys winking at Thalia, and straining to lift an impossibly big weight. Thalia rolled her eyes, walked over, picked it up and easily lifted it over head. She put it down, and drew one of her hunting knives. She held her dagger to his throat, and said in a voice full of calm fury "I. am. a. hunter. of. Artemis. Flirt with me or any other hunter again, and I will burn every hair on your body off." She gave him a small shock through her knife to emphasize the point. Overreact much? I thought but decided not to say anything. She sheathed her knives, after sending another shock through the guys body, and said "That goes for the rest of you too." before pulling me through the door.

"What was that about?" I asked

"Hunters don't do flirting." she said "I took you there to show you another power. Herculean strength. Most people's strength is limited by their muscle mass, but for us strength is a power. Our muscle mass isn't important. It just takes energy the way calling down a bolt of lightning would."

I nodded, it made sense when you thought about it. Suddenly Thalia stumbled, and I caught her.

"That whole thing took more energy than I was letting on." Thalia said smiling. "I'm going to take a nap before capture the flag. I suggest you either do so as well, or join you cabin."

I said. "I am pretty tired, after that bolt of lightning. I'd take a nap, but I wouldn't know which bed to take in the Athena cabin."

"Then you could nap in the Zeus cabin, it's mostly empty, but it has one bunk in it. I'll show you the way." she replied. She took me down a long row of various cabins. I saw Piper on the porch of one cabin, that smelled weird. She was talking to another girl, but waved at us as we went by. We walked up to a big cabin with a lightning bolt over it. We went in, and the first thing I noticed was the statue. It was a giant statue of a guy I supposed was Zeus. He stood there frowning down on the world like everything annoyed him. He holding a lightning bolt like he was getting ready to kill pulverize someone. The second thing I noticed was the thundering, and the lightning which crackled through the air.

"Seems like a dangerous place. Who knows when you would be struck by lightning." I said

"Oh yeah it is dangerous for those who aren't descendants of Zeus. Being hit with lightning would just make us stronger though." she led me over to a bed in a little alcove, where it didn't feel like Zeus planning on squishing you like an insignificant bug. On the walls there were a bunch of pictures. The first one I saw had a younger Thalia standing with a little girl, and what looked like someone else, but the picture was ripped. The second one had Thalia with the same little girl, but older, and a guy that looked sorta like Cora with black hair, and green eyes. Thalia grabbed all the pictures on the wall before I could see any others, and said quickly. "Wondered what happened to these. Anyway sleep well." She left before I could reply.

Eventually I got to sleep. When I did I dreamed of the beautiful city first, then I dreamed about the other group of buildings. After a moment of studying it I realized that it was camp half-blood. My dream then changed again, and I saw a face made of dirt in the middle of half-blood hill. The face started to say something, but I was shaken awake by Theodore standing over me. "

"You should get up, it's almost time for supper. Then we have capture the flag."

I got of my bed, and he lead me to the mess hall, where I joined the Athena line waiting to be let in. Eventually we were and I sat next to Malcolm. I walked up to the bronze brazier, like Piper had told me I should back in Alaska when she was explaining things to me. "To Zeus, and Athena. Please help me to do good tonight." Piper had told me that my parents lived in Alaska to escape the gods wrath. I wondered why they were so angry with my parents, but Piper didn't know why, and my parents refused to tell me. I hoped that whatever it was the gods wouldn't hold it against me. I walked back to the Athena table and listened to the conversation. They were discussing strategy for capture the flag. I tried to follow them, but my mind felt fuzzy like I wasn't entirely awake.

When supper was over Chiron said "Heroes, you know the rules"

Mr. D. muttered "I sure hope so you repeat yourself every week."

Chiron continued as if he hadn't heard. "The creek is the boundary line. Killing, and maiming are illegal. All magic Items are permitted. The hunters will be blue team, while campers are red." he snapped his fingers. Swords, shields, and armor appeared on all the tables. The other kids jumped at the armor on the Athena table, but I stayed back not wanting to get in the middle of the scramble. By the time everyone else was left there wasn't much left at all. Only the random vambrace, or helmet.

Malcolm looked at me apologetically, and said. "Sorry there's not much left."

I shrugged and said "thats fine I already have a sword, and a shield."

He looked at me for a moment then his face lit up. "You're a legacy of Zeus too right?"

I hadn't mentioned it to him, but he had probably figured it out when I sat with Thalia at the Zeus table.

I nodded, and he continued "Then I'll help you find some good armor from the Zeus table. I smiled, and we walked to the Zeus table. On the way there I saw Cora putting on a helmet, and she grinned at me looking the most excited I had ever seen her.

"Is capture the flag a big deal here?" I asked Malcolm.

"Huge, especially when the hunters are here. They're our big time rivals. We haven't won against them in, well a very long time." he said sounding dejected.

He handed me a helmet, but I said "no thanks." I showed him my Yankees cap, and he nodded. After I had given him the letter from my mom he had told me they were pretty close growing up, so apparently he knew what the cap did. He then helped me find a lightweight set of good armor.

Just then Cora walked up, and said. "Chiron asked me to show you the ropes. Everyone else from Alaska is need to lead their cabins, but I'm the only Poseidon kid so I'm free. Now lets go pwon some hunters.

After she said that Malcolm hurried off to a cabin leader meeting.

Cora led me down to the creek where we would be doing boarder patrol. After a while we heard a conch horn signalling the beginning of the match. We waited a while longer than we heard footsteps running toward us from our side of the creek. Until this point we hadn't seen a single other person. We spun with weapons drawn. There was a crackling, and Piper ran out from of to our left, but that wasn't the footsteps we had been hearing.

Piper panted and said "get ready we'll be having trouble real' soon."

A lone hunter stepped out of the forest, and Piper said "Put the flag down, and back away slowly." But her voice sounded different, richer, more powerful.

The girl just laughed mockingly, and said "You're not the only daughter of Aphrodite."

Cora sneered, and said "Well either way its three on one. Just surrender, and we won't hurt you."

The girl just kept laughing, and said "Now why would I do that when I'm just a throw away from winning." She lifted up the flag with the pole it was on, and sent it flying to some hunters across the creek.

Time seemed to slow down, and I knew I had to do something, but what? I thought for a fraction of a second then it hit me. I held out my hand, focused on what Thalia had taught me. Suddenly I felt a tugging in my gut, and the flag changed direction. It sped right to me, and I caught it. The hunter who had thrown it looked at me amazed, and started to draw her bow. I lifted Aegis hoping to unnerve her, but she seemed unfazed. Maybe she had gotten used to it while Thalia had it? I lifted aegis covering as much of myself as I could. An arrow from such close range would probably hurt a lot, but at least Aegis would take most of the blow. I glanced up, and saw Cora drop the hunter with a roundhouse kick.

She grinned at me, and said "Run, carry the flag back to the people who were supposed to be guarding it. We'll take care of them." She pointed her finger at a the hunters from the other side of the creek who were wading through it. She lifted her hands, and the water began to swirl. Piper pointed me in the right direction, and I started running. Unfortunately running in armor wasn't easy, and another group of hunters had seen the flag. They were coming after me. I started to panic, then I remembered the hat. I slipped it on, and became invisible. Unfortunately the hunters still seemed to be able to track me. Maybe I was making too much noise, as I ran. I started thinking about my powers. I couldn't concentrate well enough to zap them and my wind powers seemed useless here. Thalia had mentioned something about flying, but I could barely summon a bolt of lightning, let alone flying. What about Herculean strength? I hadn't used it yet, and I didn't know how it would come in useful. Maybe I could like knock down a tree to get in their way? I had to think fast the hunters were catching up to me. Suddenly I thought of something. Did Herculean strength apply to other muscles then just biceps? I didn't see why not, so I tried focusing the energy inside me into my legs. Accessing that inner energy was weird, but it happened every time I shocked someone, or used the winds. Suddenly I felt myself speeding way up.

I laughed.

I had never run so fast, or felt so free in my life. I just kept speeding up...

right into a tree.

I felt my chest hit something solid, and I fell back. Everything went black. I woke up with a splitting headache, and a girl pouring something down my throat I coughed and asked "What happened?"

"You tell me. We were patrolling when we found you on the ground, and a hunter grabbing the flag. Fortunately we managed to surround them, and retake the flag. We saw you on the ground so I being a daughter of Apollo, god of medicine was told to treat your wounds. As far as I can tell you hit a tree, fell back, and then whacked your head. You're lucky your torso took the impact of the tree instead of you head. You had a few cracked ribs, but your armor took a lot of the blow. The nectar should have taken care of the cracked ribs, but you should be more careful in the future. By the way I'm Liz."

I nodded, and got up. I thought back and realized that when I had hit the tree I had had my head back laughing like a maniac. Just then we heard a conch horn.

"That means one side won. Probably us, since I didn't hear any fighting near where we put the flag, but lets go see." She said sounding excited at the prospect of finally having beat the hunters. She led me through the woods to the forest's entrance. All the campers, and hunters were there. The campers looked gleeful while the hunters looked murderous. Liz went to join the apollo cabin, while Piper and Cora came over and high fived me. I saw Connor holding the hunter's flag. He was sandwiched between Travis and Theodore.

Piper whispered in my ear "Connor managed to steal the flag and get away with Travis' and Theo's help. It's tradition that he is given both the flags. One will become the Hermes cabin's flag for next time, while he choses the other mvp player and his or her cabin gets the other flag."

Someone walked up, and handed him the campers flag. He lifted them both up high, and the hunters flag shimmered from silver with a bow and arrow to white with a black caduceus. His cabin cheered, and the hunters grumbled, but they were ignored.

Chiron said "And to whom will the other flag go to?"

He scanned the crowd apparently thinking till Cora walked up, and whispered in his ear. He nodded, and lifted up the camper's flag. It shimmered, and the Camp-half blood logo disappeared. It shimmered again, and an owl appeared. Everyone gasped, probably expecting it to have changed to apollo's sun since Theodore had helped him.

"This goes to the player who single handedly stopped the hunters from winning before I even touched the flag." He tossed it to me, and right as it hit my hand everyone gasped staring at me. But they weren't' staring at me exactly, they were staring at something above me. I glanced up and saw a glowing lightning bolt with an owl perched on it.

Everyone kneeled, except the hunters. Chiron said "All hail Perseus Jackson, legacy of Zeus King of the gods, and ruler of the heavens, and legacy of Athena goddess of wisdom, and battle."

- Line Break -

Mt. Olympus:

Three years latter: the winter solstice.

Third Person POV:

"Come to order!" Zeus yelled trying to get his family to calm down. "Oh hades with this." He muttered before flickering into his roman form. As soon as he did this all the other gods did as well. Jupiter smiled to himself. The gods were always more orderly in this form. It was a pity he couldn't conduct the entire meeting like this, but he needed Athena. Minerva wasn't as smart, plus she was unstable. "Now everybody shut up, and stay quiet." He changed back to his greek form after which everyone did as well. "Now Athena, report."

Athena said "Alright, I have observed a new, and interesting phenomenon."

Dionysis groaned, and summoned a can of coke, and a new wine magazine.

Athena looked at Zeus pleadingly. He caused the sky to thunder loudly, and said "You will pay attention." She smirked as the thunder, his tone even made Apollo take out one of his earbuds.

Athena smiled at my father and said "Thank you. Now to make a long story short Perseus Jackson's Greek, and Roman aspects in his blood have reacted strangely."

Poseidon seemed straightened at hearing Perseus, then slumped again, when he realized it was a different Perseus then his favorite son.

"For some reason he has become powerful. Even more so than his parents. Although he started out relatively weak at first, his powers have grow with practice. In the last few years I have been monitoring him. I believe he may even have become as powerful as the first Perseus Jackson for which he was named." Athena continued.

"Do you know why this happened?" Zeus asked.

"I have a hypothesis, but as yet I can't be sure. I have also to say that he is a natural leader. In the last few years he has become respect of all. " She replied. "On a side note Gea-"

"Do not mention that accursed goddess! She is stirring, but as long as we stay inactive, there will be so little godly energy that she will fall back to sleep without any problems. Now this meeting is dismissed." He left in a flash of lightning. Slowly all the other gods, except Hera flashed out. Hera walked over to Athena. They had never gotten along, so Athena was preparing to flash out, but Hera looked almost desperate.

"Do you think Zeus is right?" She asked as if she already knew the answer.

Athena shook her head, and said "I must come up with a plan to bring him to his senses."

Hera nodded, then flashed out.

Athena shook my head, and muttered "Oh father, you'll doom us all." Before she left. After she did the lights flickered out and the throne room of Olympus was left looking cold, and creepy.

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