When the day of Percy's 12th birthday arrived, Hera had sneaked away from Zeus early that morning to transform the apartment into the perfect party.

The apartment was decorated with blue bunting, blue balloons and blue ribbons. As Hera had soon found out that percy had a thing for the colour blue, resulting in a blue velvet cake, covered in blue butter cream frosting.

Percy had woken up to the sight with surprise and wonder as he made his way to the breakfast table, where blue pancakes and blue cherry coke awaited him.

"this is just... WOW!" he explained, shoving another syrup coated pancake in his mouth. Hera let out a giggle from his childishness -yes, the queen of the gods let out a girly giggle.

As the birthday boy finished off his glass of cherry coke, Hera handed over a large box, blue of course.

"Whats this?"

"your present! What else?" She explained, waving impatiently for him too open it.

Percy eyed the box with mischief, before shredding the papper off and proceeding to take off the lid. His jaw dropped almost instantly, Hera smirked with accomplishment.

"No way?" he whispered, taking in the sight before him. Hera laughed with satisfaction, as a pair of floppy black ears shot up from the box.

"It's a hell hound- but only a pup- this one is very special, it can change its form. The fuffy little black labrador you see before you, can transform into a very strong and powerful hell hound, it is your job to train it. Not all monsters are mean you know!" Hera finished with a smirk, knowing fair well that he would do her proud.

"this is awsome!" he shouted, putting the dog down. He immediately gave him mum a bear hug, chanting his thanks untill she started laughing again.

Hera watched as her favourite son bonded with his new pet, rubbing its tummy and smoothing its back. This fascinated her, how he would be so laid back with a killer hell hound, but then again she had trained him well.

"good boy" he said, rubbing it behind the ear. Hera tried to stiffen her laughter." what is it?" Percy asked, looking up at her with a confused face.

"o nothing, just that its a girl, not a boy!" Hera giggled.

"o, then 'she' will be called 'miss O'leary!" he said, grinning like a mad man.

" miss O'leary... really?" she giggled, leave it too Percy too come up with a silly name for a underworld-killer-monster.

"yep!" he replied proudly. Just then, miss O'leary decided to lick Percy right in the eye, sending him flat on his back with surprise.

The rest of the day whent as followed. Hera and Percy had large pieces of blue cake, whilst watching Finding Nemo for the hundredth time. Percy decided to show Hera his masterd hurricane move in the pool and Hera told her son about the 12 Olympions. After feeding blackjack- Percy's black pegases- and walking miss O'leary, Hera decided that it was time for percy's main gift.

In the end, Percy had decided to dress casual, not whanting to show off his designer clothing. He wore a blue, v-neck shirt that matched his convers trainers. He had a gray hoodi for warmth and basic denim trousers. His hair was its usual untamed self and just incase, he had his watch-that-terns-into-a-really-cool-shield around his wrists. He was set on going as that, but Hera had pleaded for him to take a dagger, one small enough to fit in his belt unnoticed. Soon enough, he had his nikon camra in his hand and was ready to go.

" now, be careful!" his mother reminded him as he stood in the centre of the lounge. " try to stay away from entering any buildings and don't talk to just enyone" she continued, looking him up and down with approval. " don't touch anything, don't say anything, don't tell anyone how yoy are and stay away from the main temple!" she listed, only stoping to breath. Percy just nodded in understanding.

"o no, this won't do!" Hera mumbled, taping her foot with her hand on her hip." your going to have to keep these eyes hidden, there a plain give away!" she ordered, pulling his hoodie over his head. 'It was sad to have to cover something so wonderful up', she thought, stepping back once again.

"mum, I'll be fine, don't worry!" Percy reassured her, leaning in for one more hug, whitch Hera happily returned.

"I know, its just that... be save okey?"she wined.

"I promise on the river styx mum, ill be fine" he promised, repeting her famous words, with a rebellious smirk. Hera just leaned down and kissed his forehead, remembering her words to him, before giving him a relived smile and sending him to the streets of Olympus.

Her boy was growing too fast.

so that's chapter 3!

I hope you enjoyed it, I whanted to get this chapter out of the way as the next chaptet I am looking forward to wrighting.

thanks for reading and I hope you liked it.

thanks!