Chapter 9

The New Age Begins

(6 Years Later)

The striking of blades and rattle of armor could be heard in a large room as a crowd of skeletons surrounded their prey, a teenage boy, and moved to attack. But this prey had claws and fought back against them, strategically slashing them apart with his bronze leaf blade sword, a black shield moving to block the attackers' blows. Within a minute all the skeletons were reduced to a giant pile of bones. The boy stood and examined his work as his sword turned into a pen and his shield retracted into a wrist watch.

A girl walked out of a door hidden in the wall and snuck up behind him, she waited a few seconds before she scream "HI!" This was met with near decapitation.

"Wow there, watch the blade!" Came a near scream of surprise.

"Then next time don't sneak up like that!"

"Oh come on Percy, you know I can't help it!"

"Yeah but that doesn't I have to put up with it. What do you want anyway Faye?"

"Your dad sent me, apparently he has a mission for you."

"Really? Let's go then."

"Do you think I can go with you?" Faye asked bouncing so much the feathers nearly flew out of her hair. She didn't really get to many assignments due to her high energy. But the puppy dog eyes got the better of Percy.

"We'll have to see, this mission might be important." Percy sighed, every time with the eyes.

"Yay!"

So as they left the training room they walked through the hall of Hades' palace, took a left at the VIP torture pit and-

"No Faye don't stare into that!"

-reached the throne room with 'few' problems.

The doors swung open and revealed the King and Queen of the Underworld. Hades and

Persephone, in all their dark glory flanked by rows of dead soldiers from various eras of history and war. Most people would run in fear at this sight, Percy did the opposite, walked up smiling.

"Hello Percy, how are you today?"

"I'm fine Mom. You can stop hugging me now." He replied rather strained as his Mother put a little too much love into that hug.

"Let him go honey, we don't want to hug him to here."

"Sorry sweetie." Persephone let him go and returned to her throne.

"It's alright," Percy said as he waited for things to stop spinning and for Faye to stop standing still. "so why did you guys call me here today?"

"Ah yes well there are two reasons for that. The first is that is finally time to retrieve your siblings from their stay at that school in Maine." Percy's eye lit up at this, he would finally get to meet his brother and sister. "And second is that Jason has sent a message saying that he has finally finished your new armor and weapons, which is why Faye is here, so it might be a good idea to visit him first, and take her with you." Hades said as Faye was goofing around in front a zombie dressed as a Buckingham palace guard.

"Right." Percy said awkwardly, Faye was like a sister to him since he had known her ever since his first few months with Jason, but she could really be a handful, her attention span is like that of a squirrel with ADHD in a meth pipe. But according to Jason she had a lot of potential if she could direct her energy.

"Know that Alecto and her sister will be available to assist you should you need help." Hades said snapping, "And also know that the Olympians are after your siblings as well. They must not get to them first or else Zeus will execute them."

"I understand." Percy said, deep down he was really thinking 'geez not much pressure, huh?' "Well I guess I should get going. See you later, c'mon Faye. "

"Percy! Wait."

"Mom?"

"Just… be careful alright? "

"I will Mom." Percy smiled as he left to go to his other home.

AN: Hey guys its been a while. Sorry its been so long since I've updated this story. I just recently started college and its been busy. So I'm gonna be honest here. I need to know if I should keep updating this story. Give me your feedback about how you feel about this story and I'll make my decision. I'm also taking suggestions for the story if there is enough interest. Note that I draw references and ideas from various cartoons and other series. Thank you and I hope I will be able to keep this story going.