TTAB Chapter 4: Four, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

YEAR ONE

Six Month Marker

PERCY

During my first six months here Thunder focused mainly on weaponry, which I mastered. Not to brag or anything, but Thunder said I master it faster than anyone else.

I didn't see Nico during those first few months, so I don't really know what he was up to. I would sometimes see him during breakfast, which he said was dinner for him. Not seeing Nico much meant that I spent a lot of alone time with Thalia. I've always liked spend time with Thalia, but now it feels like a lot more. I wish Nico was here more, maybe he would know what was up with me. Raff hangs out with us and he's a pretty cool dude.

It's really funny to watch Thalia and him argue over music. Thalia is a punk rocker, Raff is more rap and hip hop, and I'm just alternative. I will never forget their first argument which took place on out third day here, which was our(Nico, Thalia, and my) first time in the game room thingy.

We had been standing by the music box thing, and Thalia was blasting a song out of it when Raff came over.

"What's this crap?" he yelled. Thalia glared at him.

"It's Green Day, how could you have not heard of them?" Raff made a face.

"Punk is terrible, not to mention completely over-rated."

"Yeah, well I bet it's better than the shit you must listen to."

"You wish, rap is the best music out there."

"Rap? Rap is barely music, it's just a guy rhyming to a lame beat." Raff scowled.

"It's way more than that."

"Oh really, enlighten me."

"With rap you don't have to be good at singing to do it, you can say what you want, it's a way of expressing the hardships of life."

"All of the rap I've heard is about getting drunk, and having sex."

"I could say the same about punk, and don't get me started on metal or screamo. You can't even tell what their saying." Thalia raised her eyebrows at that.

"You can't tell what rapper are saying most of the time either."

"True dat," said a new voice. Raven had come up behind us. "Raff are you going on about the greatness of rap again?"

"No, I'm just trying to prove that rap is way better than what ever the hell she's playing." Raven turned to the music box, which had stopped playing

"Green Day huh? I love that group. Unfortunately Raff is a bit confused, I'm still working on him," Raven commented.

"Well I'd love to help you," Thalia offered. Raven grinned. Raff took a few steps back.

"You know I think I can hear Thunder calling for me, I better go," muttered before running off. Thalia and Raven laughed.

Since then they have been constantly trying to convert Raff to punk, rock, metal, or even screamo. Enough about that though, you'll probably hear more about it from Thalia.

Speaking of Thalia, I'm suppose to be eating lunch with her. Our mentors both had this mission that they couldn't tell us about, so we got the day off. I looked at my watch, I had about thirty seconds to get to the cafeteria. I jump off my bed and sprinted to there, and since it was just two and a half hallways from my room I was only late by forty-five seconds.

Thalia was sitting at our table, yes our general group has a table, and she was eating a cheeseburger. I grabbed a tray of food and then plopped down next to her.

"You know what's weird?" she said. I shook my head. "We're not suppose to age down here, yet my fingernails grew out, and your hair is longer." I ran my hand through my hair, it did seem longer.

"Is this your way of telling me to get a hair cut?" I asked, because I didn't see how else my hair growing could be relevant. Thalia chuckled.

"No, I like your hair just how it is." I grinned, for some reason whenever Thalia complimented me I felt all warm inside. "What I was getting at was that we are ageing, albeit very slowly. That means Tartarus must be changing too, which means there will have to be a way out of here." I nodded very slowly, then something occurred to me. I snickered.

"Since we're ageing very slowly Nico is going to be stuck in puberty for a long time."

"I don't think that's quite how it works. Look at Thunder, he's been down here for thirty years and he's supposedly twenty-two. He looks twenty-two, I think our hair and nails grow at maybe a fourth of what they did, and us as people age at like .19723426 of what we use to." She must have been think about this for a while.

"That's a very specific number, did you by any chance make it up?" I sighed.

"Yes I made it up, I'm not really going to try and do the math. Do you get what I'm saying?" She asked me. I did, she was saying there could be a chance to get out of here. I grin at the thought, I'd love to get out and get back at those douche bags. I don't know how exactly I'd do that though.

"I get it." Thalia smiles, and we eat in silence.

"Well I'm done, I think I'm gonna hit the training area, then I can tell Thunder I did something," I told her.

"I'll see you later then." I took off to the training room, I figured I'd destroy a few dummies. While I was walking to then I tripped over something, or rather I should say someone. Nico was laying on the floor, covered in sweat.

"Uh Nico what are you doing?" he looked irritated.

"I'm laying on the floor," he snapped.

"I can see that, why? And where's Raven?" I questioned him. He shrugged.

"I don't know, Raff came in a few minutes ago, and said he needed her. Raven and I had been sparing so I'm just resting." That's weird, I wonder why she had to leave. It's kind of like Aina and Thunder.

"Do you know when she'll be back?" Nico shrugged again.

"I think she said dinner, so in like three hours. If you're here to practice then don't mind me. I'll just sleep or something," he muttered. Nico looked really put out, not exactly tired just bummed.

"Why don't you practice with me? Thunder's gone too," I offered. That perked Nico up a bit.

"Yeah, sure."

Nico got up, and we started to spar. He had gotten better in the last few months, but so had I. It was nice just fighting with him, it was almost like old times. When our watches chimed, we stopped and head down for some chow.

We sat down to eat, and Nico kept glancing around. He was looking for Raven, but I was looking around too. I on the other hand was looking for Thalia. I sighed.

"We might as well stop looking around every second. They'll get here when they get here," I said.

"Yeah your right, so how have things been in the life of Percy?" Nico asked. I told Nico about mastering weaponry, and trying to decide what to start next. Nico told me about his shadow traveling, how Raven had a specific schedule for them, and trying to discover new powers. That's when Raven and Raff appeared.

"Right so what happened?" Nico asked.

"Thunder and Aina had a mission that they had to do today, and they ended it up needing Raven's help for it."

"So where are Thunder and Aina?" I asked. If Raven was here they should be too.

"Their reporting to the Boss, they need to go over the whole mission with him. It could take a while," Raven answered as she plopped down. "Oh yeah, congratulations you two," Raven said to Nico and me.

"What did we do?" we asked at the same time.

"You made it six months, and since I'm aware of how Thunder teaches, what are you going to focus on next Percy?" Raven responded. I paused, I'd gotten and idea from Nico, but I wasn't quite sure yet.

"I think I'll focus on my powers," I decided.

"It's about time, Thalia and I have been working on them for months," Nico muttered. The rest of them laughed.

"Hey did either of you see Thalia recently?" I asked.

"Yeah, just before we got here she was walking out of the infirmary. I think she was helping out, because she was covered in blood, and she said, 'I really shouldn't have volunteered to help here," Raff informed me.

"She said she was going to take a really long shower too," Raven added. That sound pretty good, actually. I feeling sticky with sweat from my sparing with Nico.

"I think I'm gonna take a shower to, and then I'm going to sleep. You made me pretty tired Nico." I patted his back, and headed to my room.

I grabbed my pajamas, a towel and some soap. The shower felt like heaven. Another bonus was that I ran into Thalia on my way back to my room.

"I heard you were being a voluntary doctor," I teased.

"Worst decision of my life. Today just had to be the day a bunch of people decided to get cut up. They had me on blood clean up, both on the floor, and on the people. It was just horrible."

"Sounds like it sucks, at least blood doesn't make you squeamish. Can you imagine being a doctor, 'Don't worry I'll stitch you up' and then passing out in the middle of an operation?" I joked. Thalia laughed.

"I would hate to have that doctor. I wasn't sure if I could eat though, but now I'm fine. Did you eat?" I nodded, then yawned.

"Uh-huh, I was just headin' to bed. Nico, Raven, and Raff might still be in there," I told her.

"Okay, night Perc."

"Goodnight Thalia."

YEAR ONE

Six Month Marker

THALIA

My first six months here have been some of the strangest of my life. I'm never going to get use to not being attacked when I pass a monster in the hall.

While trying to discover some new powers, Aina and I found out could in fact fly. Which lead Aina to try to get me over my fear of heights, hasn't worked out so far. I can control wind though, which will come in handy, and I have these static abilities. Aina and I are try to see if I can light things on fire. Oh and I master my summoning lightning ability. We've also been doing weaponry, and monster logy. Aina thinks that all three will be mastered in next six months.

I still don't know many people down here. Thunder and Aina spend most of their free time together, so they're out. Percy and Nico know as many people as I do. Which only leaves Raven and Raff, I almost never see Raven, and when I'm with Raff more important things are going on. Like trying to stop him from listening to rap.

We have a mini battle going on over music. Even though I have the watch and stuff, I still keep albums out, and one time Raff took all my cds and deleted the music from them, and he replaced it with rap. I then came up with a plan, I had Raven hack into the music downloader, and whenever Raff downloaded music the sing he got would stay for only a day, one of his other songs would disappear, and a rock song would replace it. After that we were in battle. Other than that I really like Raff.

Since I don't know many people I decided after lunch to volunteer at a place where I had to interact with demigods. That's where I am right now, the infirmary.

"Ah, you must be the famed Thalia Grace!" a voice exclaimed. I turned around and saw a blonde guy in his mid-twenties.

"Yeah, and you are?"

"I guess you could say I'm the doctor down here."

"So are you a son of Apollo?"

"Nah, I'm actually a son of Demeter." That's different, it makes sense though. I'm not sure if I could handle another Apollo kid.

"Right, so what should I do?" I asked him. He handed me a mop, bucket of water, and a couple of towels.

"You get to clean up blood."

To say I didn't like the job would be an understatement. First floors covered with blood are really slippery(trust me I've fallen more than once), second it reeks, third cleaning someone up is really hard when they don't cooperate. When I was done I was covered in blood, and I had officially lost my appetite. I figured I'd just shower, and go to bed. I almost walked right into Raven and Raff in my haste to get to the bathroom.

"Are you okay?" Raff exclaimed. I was not in the mood to go over it with him.

"Let's just say I never should have volunteered to help here." Then I left.

The shower really helped, my appetite returned, and now I was really hungry. I was also really tired. I guess I'll just sleep after I eat. Just as I was heading to the cafeteria I walked into Percy.

"I heard you were being a voluntary doctor," he teased when he saw me.

"Worst decision of my life. Today just had to be the day a bunch of people decided to get cut up. They had me on blood clean up, both on the floor, and on the people. It was just horrible."

"I would hate to have that doctor. I wasn't sure if I could eat though, but now I'm fine. Did you eat?" Percy nodded, then yawned.

"Uh-huh, I was just headin' to bed. Nico, Raven, and Raff might still be in there," he told me.

"Okay, night Perc."

"Goodnight Thalia."

True to his word Nico, Raven, and Raff were in the Cafeteria. I grabbed a hot dog and a coke, then I joined them.

"Congratulations," Raven said when I sat down.

"For what?"

"Apparently making it six months is a big deal," Nico explained. I nodded.

"We were just arguing about something, and we need your opinion," Raff said, "which song is best 'American Idiot', 'Holiday', or 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams?'" I looked up from my hot dog, shocked.

"Since when did he listen to Green Day?" I asked Raven. She shrugged.

"It's a mystery, he won't tell me," she scowled and pointed at him, "I will find out, and Thalia might help me!" Raff just rolled his eyes.

"Anyway which song to you think is best? Raff is routing for 'American Idiot', Raven's all for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', and I like 'Holiday'," Nico stated. I considered it. They were all good songs, but the best is really the best.

" I guess it kind of depends on your opinions…wait no it doesn't. 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is the best, just don't argue with it." Raven grinned, and gave me a high five.

"I told you guys it was the best!" Raven exclaimed.

YEAR ONE

Six Month Marker

NICO

After that first day Raven and I didn't spend much time in the dungeon thing, I did get down to level 235 though. We focused really hard on shadow traveling, and since neither of us wanted to end up in a hoard of monsters we took to practicing at odd times, when less monsters were out. Of course we also practice my fighting skills, which I'm suppose to complete next month. I'm still a bit iffy on my powers though, Raven predicted another three to seven months for that. I'm also learning a bit about the jobs too. I didn't learn anything about jobs from Raven though. She was assigned on a mission, and I had nothing to do. I was just moping around, when Raff came up and offered to tell me about some of the jobs. It was actually pretty cool of him, and Raven still doesn't know. When we get to the jobs part, I'll amaze her.

The really cool thing about working with someone else to figure out my powers is that they come up with ideas. With shadow traveling instead of going to a location, I can lock onto an object or person( I can still do locations), we're still working on it though. The last time I tried to do it on Raven I arrived three feet above her. I also don't like accidentally falling on hard objects, then there's when I end up some hundred feet from it.

I also discovered I could move in the shadows, and not be seen(Raven really regretted giving me that idea). I can't really summon skeletons down here, but that makes sense.

People, I'm not really a people person so it's safe to say no I don't know anyone new down here. Of all the abilities I kept it was how I emanate death and fear, you know those are just great tools for making friends. There's also how because of the weird hours I'm up I don't really see anyone, except Raff. For two weeks I though Raff was stalking us, then he disappeared for the next week.

I'm not sure how I feel about Raff, he seems okay and he's nice to me, but he's…I don't know I can't quite put my finger on it. Percy and Thalia I obviously like, they're like my older siblings. Thunder and Aina I barely know, Raven talks about them, and I heard Aina was daughter of Aphrodite(I think I'll be avoiding her). Now that I think about it I almost never see any of these people, even Raff who it seems like is always with Raven.

Then there's Raven. Raven's different from anyone else I've ever met. She's really cool, funny, and good at games(just never play cards with her!). She's a good teacher, well for me, and I'd take her over some guy in his thirties any day.

Today we started off with a nice chat about fatal flaws.

"Right, I just realized that I know your strengths, but not your weaknesses," Raven told me, and then sat back down on my bunk.

"You don't? I thought I told you." Raven shook her head.

"No you didn't, and if you did then I don't remember. Let's have it." I sat down opposite of her.

"Well my fatal flaw is holding grudges," I informed her.

"That makes sense, typical child of Hades," she commented.

"What I'm worst at would be monsters, I never spent much time at camp so I was never taught about the monsters, I'm not the best at Greek or Latin either," I told her. Raven looked thoughtful.

"When we're done with what we're focusing on now, we'll work on those."

"So what about you?" I asked.

"What about me?'

"What are you bad at?"

"Oh well, the basic skills everyone has to master to become a member I've mastered. My fatal flaw is trust though," she told me.

"Trust? That's kind of ironic don't you think? In what way is it fatal? And not the skills we have to master, just what things are you bad at?" I questioned.

"I don't think it's ironic, it makes sense. I'm shifty I guess, and since I know what I'm like I expect others to be the same way, so I don't trust people. I guess you could say I'm a very cynical pessimist, as for what I'm bad at? Well daughter of Hermes kind of a jack of all trades, I really suck at poetry though. There are definitely better artists out there too, I wouldn't say I'm terrible, but I'm not good," she confided. I smirked.

"So I shouldn't trust you with a pencil?"

"Pencils are fine, just not paints, or oils, or clay. I'm not good at math either, and I'm not a real sciency person. You also shouldn't ask me how to spell something." I snorted.

"You could say that about any demigod, so you're dyslexic?"

"No, I'm just a really bad speller. I suppose it's what I get for being able to read. I can't believe we haven't had this conversation earlier, like while we were trekking through Tartarus." I nodded in agreement, then my watch chimed. It's time to eat.

"I swear we were talking for like two minutes," I muttered. I don't mind time going so fast, but still how is that possible?

"Yeah, there's still that whole magical realm thing. Time can be pretty messed up," Raven commented. I got up and Raven followed me.

"So what are we doing after breakfast?" I asked on our way down to the cafeteria.

"I thought I would show you some jobs."

"Really? That's a bit strange."

"Yeah well the whole day has been a bit strange, I mean we're up at a normal time!" I laughed.

After breakfast Raven took me to different job post.

"Later you'll get to do the jobs, but we have work to do still."

She showed me first the cafeteria jobs; cooking, cleaning, handing out food, identification, and preparation. Next was the infirmary jobs; nursing, cleaning, being a doctor, and sitting around saying nice things to people. Then came the prisoner jobs; interrogation, torture, condemning people, cleaning, delivering food, monitoring the cells, arresting people, and so on. There were also jobs like guarding the building, hunting people down, hall monitor, cashier, janitor, going on quests, recruiting, and of course mentoring.

When we had looked at all of those jobs we sat down for an uneventful lunch, seriously I could've fallen asleep. Then Raven took me to the gym to spar. Percy probably told you what happened but I'll tell you again.

Raven and I were sparing, and it was intense. Then Raff just burst in, he ran up to Raven and whispered in her ear.

"Sorry Nico but I need Raven!" Raff yelled.

"Why? When will you be back?"

"I can't tell you, and about three hours," Raven got out before Raff pulled her out of the room. I slumped down on the floor, this really sucks. I have was having a good time, and then it was just ruined. I wish I knew what they were doing, it all happened in a rush and now I feel horrible. The funny thing is I don't know why I feel horrible, well I guess it's not that funny. A few minutes later Percy came into the room and tried to step on me. He fell flat on his face, which made me feel slightly better.

"Uh Nico what are you doing?" Percy asked. I frowned irritated, I wanted to be alone.

"I'm laying on the floor," I snapped.

"I can see that, why? And where's Raven?" Percy questioned me. I shrugged.

"I don't know, Raff came in a few minutes ago, and said he needed her. Raven and I had been sparing so I'm just resting."

"Do you know when she'll be back?" I shrugged again.

"I think she said dinner, so in like three hours. If you're here to practice then don't mind me. I'll just sleep or something," I muttered.

"Why don't you practice with me? Thunder's gone too," Percy offered. That perked me up a bit. I felt a happier, so I got up and accepted.

"Yeah, sure."

Percy got a lot better at sword fighting, but so did I and I didn't even notice. I actually made him sweat, he beat me but still. I really liked spending time with him, the guy was like my older brother. We stopped when out watches chimed for dinner.

We sat down to eat, and I kept looking for Raven. She said three hours, it's been three hours. I want to know what's up. Percy was also looking around, maybe he's looking for Thalia. I might have to talk to him later.

"We might as well stop looking around every second. They'll get here when they get here," Percy said.

"Yeah your right, so how have things been in the life of Percy?" I asked. He told me about mastering weaponry, and trying to decide what to start next. I told him about his shadow traveling, how Raven had a specific schedule for them, and trying to discover new powers. That's when Raven and Raff appeared.

"Right so what happened?" I asked., I was dying to know why they had left so suddenly/

"Thunder and Aina had a mission that they had to do today, and they ended it up needing Raven's help for it," Raff replied.

"So where are Thunder and Aina?" Percy asked. He has a point if Raven was here they should be too.

"What did we do?" we asked at the same time.

"You made it six months, and since I'm aware of how Thunder teaches, what are you going to focus on next Percy?" Raven responded. I stopped for a moment, I didn't realize Percy's mentor took things one at a time.

"I think I'll focus on my powers," he decided.

"It's about time, Thalia and I have been working on them for months," I muttered. The rest of us laughed.

"Hey did either of you see Thalia recently?" Percy asked Raven and Raff.

"She said she was going to take a really long shower too," Raven added.

"I think I'm gonna take a shower to, and then I'm going to sleep. You made me pretty tired Nico." Percy patted my back, and headed to his room. I glanced between Raven and Raff.

"So what do we do now?" They shrugged and we sat there in an awkward silence. Then we started arguing I'm not sure how it began, but we were arguing over which Green Day song was the best. Then in the middle of our argument Thalia arrived.

"Congratulations," Raven said when Thalia sat down.

"For what?"

"Apparently making it six months is a big deal," I explained. Thalia nodded.

"We were just arguing about something, and we need your opinion," Raff said, "which song is best 'American Idiot', 'Holiday', or 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams?'" Thalia looked up from her hot dog, shocked. Raven was surprised when she found out too, I was not. I heard him singing it in the shower just days ago.

"Since when did he listen to Green Day?" Thalia asked Raven. She shrugged.

"It's a mystery, he won't tell me," she scowled and pointed at him, "I will find out, and Thalia might help me!" Raff just rolled his eyes.

"Anyway which song to you think is best? Raff is routing for 'American Idiot', Raven's all for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', and I like 'Holiday'," I stated. Thalia put on a thoughtful face and considered it.

" I guess it kind of depends on your opinions…wait no it doesn't. 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is the best, just don't argue with it." Raven grinned, and high five'd Thalia.

"I told you guys it was the best!" Raven exclaimed.

"So how've you been Thals?" I asked.

"Fine, life had been pretty good so far." Thalia told me how far she was in training, and the mysterious disappearance of Aina, and just some fun times she and Percy had. Raven started looking at her funny near the end of the conversation, and Thalia noticed.

"Oh not you too, I've already got Aina," she complained. "We can talk about it some other time." Raff and I looked on confused, so I stepped in and told Thalia about my training, Aina's quest, and then some of the fun Raven and I have done, and that did not include the time we landed in a giant's cave and had to sneak out but the giant woke up anyway(we lived by the way). I had a great time talking with Thalia too. Reliving old memories, sharing the stories we've made her, man I've been her six months it feels like forever(stupid space time crap).

"So do you want to talk now or not?" Raven asked. Thalia shook her head.

"Later, I'm going to sleep," Thalia replied, then she yawned. We all gave her a chorus of good night then she left, and we were alone again. Raven stood up.

"Well I'm gonna hit the hay too, what're you guys going to do?" I shrugged.

"I might as well sleep," I told her. Raff nodded in agreement. Then we all just went to sleep.

YEAR ONE

3rd PERSON

It's been a year and Percy, Thalia, and Nico are fitting in. Percy has mastered monster logy, and has two more months to master his powers. Thalia has mastered her powers and monster logy, and she has another month to master weaponry. Nico has mastered his powers and weaponry, but is still a month and a half away from mastering monster logy.

They've become really close friends with Raven and Raff(they will even closer after Nico finally gets his schedule straightened out). They're a group, they have memories, and arguments together. Right now things are smooth sailing. They won't always be though.

It's also been a year in the mortal world too. Things are changing more up there than they had in the underworld. That little six year old girl is seven and a half, and she still has our three heroes on her mind. A few other campers are thinking about them too. A couple of them feel guilty and wonder what really happened between them and the gods. Others just went along with it though. Most people went along with it actually, the gods have spies spreading lies, and making the campers hate the ones who saved them.

One night something changed. The little girl, whose name was Angel, accidentally said she liked Percy. She said it in front of Travis Stoll, which was very fortunate for her. He put a finger to his lips.

"Shhh, a daughter of Athena? Well you're the only one of them who disagrees. You're name is Angel right? Come to the Hermes cabin during the sing along tonight. We might have something to talk about."

That night was the first secret meeting in honor of the lost heroes.

UNKNOWN LOCATION

"So did it work?" a man with dark hair asked. The other man nodded.

"It did, the prophecy is starting."

"And you didn't even do it on purpose." The other man grinned.

"I didn't realize what I did before I realized I did exactly what was fore told." The dark haired man nodded.

"Do you regret it?" The other shook his head and laughed.

"No, I feel much better now actually, I hated betraying them. Even when it wasn't my kids, I had to come up with the frame job."

"I know what you mean. In a couple years balance will be restored though."

"We might have to help it along. That would mean breaking Zeus's orders."

"Of course it would, I think that power has gone to Zeus's head though. Besides how else would we get them out of Tartarus?" the dark hair man snapped.