DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Percy JACKSON
Seven Hundred Seventeen Years Earlier
Percy Jackson was betrayed . . . wait, that isn't even the right word. To betray, you must have trust one and use that against him. The king of the gods never trusted him, and so he was not betrayed. He was used.
His king threw them out like trash and was replaced by a so called 'better' version of them: Dray, Drew, and Dee. He scoffed. They were more like pirated, and Percy was the original, although Percy didn't think like that.
His true friends hated the 'replacements'
Thalia was hurt but made her way back to her family. Nico, who always knew Bianca was his father's favourite and was used to it, fled to the Underworld.
Percy's father was obviously torn between his daughter, Dee, and his son. He both favoured them. But when Drew and Dray accused Percy of things when it was them who actually stole the glory (though no one knew) and the King of the gods backed the three up, the god of the sea had no choice but to side with her daughter.
And so he fled, with only a letter left at camp. He didn't plan to disappear entirely. He went back to his parents only to find them….dead. More specifically, murdered
It enraged him that he created the world's most intense earthquake and tsunami in history. And you know what the King of the gods did? He punished him! He punished a boy because he grieved his parent's death.
That's when he ran away and took on a new identity.
As he was making himself comfortable in the woods, he had offered to Hestia, to Hestia alone, some food praying this is my new home now, with myself, and I offer it to you, Lady Hestia, that since hope survives with you the best, you may have hope enough for me for I have none now.
And that's when Hestia appeared to him smiling hugely.
"Lady Hestia" Percy had bowed.
"Tell me, Percy, why have you no hope?" she asked kindly and amused.
"The gods have made me stop aging as one of the gifts for Olympus. I daresay that now that I think about it, it was more beneficial to them that their heroes were partially immortal than partial immortality being a gift. Now I have forever to roam around without a purpose" Percy says bitterly.
"What do you say, if I give you a purpose?" Hestia smiled. Percy looked at her and Hestia never saw eyes as sincere as his. "Then I shall serve you even against the world" Percy automatically said.
"I shall make you my Champion. Do you accept?" Hestia asked and Percy nodded.
"I accept, and wish to change my name to Shay"
A few days after that, Shay told Thalia and Nico about this and informed them about his oncoming 'disappearance'
Of course, they'll get to see Shay secretly and such, but they swore not to tell anyone though Shay never asked them to swear.
A week after Hestia pampered Percy as if he were his own son, Shay was sent on a mission were he found Blackjack who faked his own death for Percy, and were he found his silver companion who he named Aku.
A year after that, he had offered Nico and occasionally Thalia to go on Hestia's mission with him as a form of bonding. In those missions were the times that Thalia was 'claimed' by her black Tigress, which she named Nix. It was funny because the Tigress' stripes were white, but all over she had black fur and Nix meant 'snow' in Latin.
It was also one of the times were Nico found his companion, a white lion, and named it Pisto which came from pistos that meant 'loyal'
Five years then, he had a mission from Hestia. During the mission, he chose to 'almost' fail it just to make sure to 'save' Mars from one of his predicament and thus Mars offered to be his patron
Three years after that, Percy seemed to find a knack at finding demigods. He led the demigods to camp as discreetly as he could. But one of the boys (this happened every time he found demigods) wished to accompany him.
Of course, he would not allow it. They would never see their parents, so he asked Hestia, and the two of them offered a deal. They would send the demigods to camp. When there were girls, they made sure to send the girl to camp when the Hunters were there so that she be given the choice to join as soon as possible.
Of course, each demigod Percy delivered; he erased a part of the memory they had of him. But when those demigods felt unwanted, their memories rush back to them and the location of where Percy can be found so that those demigods can join them.
"Are you sure you want to join?" Percy asked the first one to join him
"Yes"
"Then from now on you shall be called Shay. Now, introduce yourself to me" Percy asked
"My Patron is Hestia. I am Shay" the boy says
And that started it all.
Present Time
Percy was a bit anxious. He had just been informed by his lieutenant that one of the boys had been caught by Artemis but escaped. Hopefully, Thalia didn't have to help the kid and get in trouble.
The kid was able to rendezvous with the Pack, that's what they call themselves, safely and headed to flee. Percy was on his way to them as he just finished his mission.
They haven't had a slip up like this since the last century. Now that he thought about it, last century was a lot more dangerous than now.
He sighed. He could've had Blackjack fly him to the Pack, but with Zeus finding about this recent scene with the Hunters, he needed to clear out of the sky, so he was now lying on top of Aku.
He had his cloak and hood on. He always did. And just when he was arriving at the meeting point, he could see that camp has been set out and that the tents were ready. But what he found strange was that no one was there.
His eyes widened. O-oh. And that's when he was forcibly transported in an eruption of flame
Instead of lying down on top of Aku and staring at the starry sky, he was now staring at the Olympian Throne Room's ceiling. His eyes widened and Mars, his patron, showed him what has happened so far.
Oh shit. He has been caught.