A/N: Anyone who wants to do a story where the characters read 'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes' series is allowed to do so as long as they tell me before hand.
I don't own Percy Jackson series or Naruto series, or any of the characters of either series. Nor am I the writer of the Son of the Huntress series
Warning: Read these stories if you haven't before reading this story:
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Lightning Thief'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Sea of Monsters'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Titan's Curse'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Battle of the Labyrinth'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Last Olympian'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Staff of Hermes'
'The Legacy of the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero'
'The Legacy of the Heroes of Olympus: The Quest for Buford'
I'm going to make this clear to those who don't approve the idea of legacies in Camp Half-Blood.
One: If you actually looked into Greek Mythology you know there been plenty of Greek Legacies. Heck Frank's ancestors were Greek legacies before they joined the Romans.
Two: Time and time again in the Percy Jackson series they mention many famous names Rick Riordan used as demigods Greek Demigods reaching adulthood-George Washington, Amelia Earhart, F.D.R., General Sherman and many more-many of which had children of their own which would make their kids legacies.
Three: About Naruto not being wise enough to be a Legacy of Athena, keep in mind in future reference for any sequel fanfictions of Percy Jackson that when Percy and Annabeth have kids, if they have any of Percy's personality they might not have much interest in school and thus not show much of any of Athena's wisdom. So I should have a pass on the matter with Naruto because of that fact.
Four: Since I made Naruto a legacy of Athena through Minato, he can't have any connections with the Romans as for any god/goddess, Olympian or Minor to have a legacy they must have children who later grow up to have children of their own. Minerva doesn't have kids, and it been clear before the return of Athena's Parthenos the idea of the matter was saw as a disgrace to the Romans as it meant Minerva broke her vow in their eyes. Not to mention the fact that the feud between Greek and Romans was kept alive for so long because of Athena.
Also for anyone who thinks it be okay having a child/Legacy of Artemis or Hestia to meet the romans, although Diana or Vesta wasn't treated any worse from their Greek counterparts as the comparison of Athena and Minerva, keep in mind they also made a vow to not have any kids, and since Romans take their vows so seriously they have their own god whose domain is over vows I think they would frown upon the idea of Diana and Vesta breaking their vows. Although I did enjoy The Son of the Huntress series, even though Naruto saved Reyna and Hylla the fact any more Romans would accept the idea there being a child and grandchild of two virgin goddesses feels a bit far fetch.
Heads up, Sheffinator has posted the reading of fanfiction for The Legacy series called 'Reading of the Legacy of Athena and Hermes'. I have gave them permission and the first chapter is posted.
I started it 'Reading of the Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Lightning Thief as part of my youtube channel of me reading fanfictions and actual books. I can't send the link because of course fanfiction site won't let me, but just look it up under my name Ashleigh Stratmann.
Hazel Sees The Giant Army
Hazel was glad when Percy and Frank showed up as the fire died down.
"It was easy to find you when we heard screams and saw the grass on fire," Percy explained.
"Hey, guys." Yugito called from the top of the rock. "You need to see this."
They climb back onto the rock and looked and gasped.
Down below them, an army was on the move.
The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where the country road wound north and south. On the opposite side of the road, grassy hills stretched to the horizon, empty of civilization except for darkened convenience store at the top of the nearest rise.
The whole ravine was full of monsters-column after column marching south, so many and so close, Hazel was amazed they hadn't notice the fire Yugito caused much less the shouting.
She, Frank, Percy, and Yugito crouched against the rock. They watched in disbelief as several dozen large, hairy humanoids passed by, dressed in tattered bits of armor and animal fur. The creatures had six arms each, three sprouting on either side, so they looked like cavemen evolved from insects.
"Gegenes," Hazel whispered. "The Earthborn."
"You've fought them before?" Percy asked.
She shook her head. "Just heard about them in monster class at camp." She never liked monster class-reading Pliny the Elder and those other musty authors who described legendary monsters from the edges of the Roman Empire. Hazel believed in monsters, but some of the descriptions were so wild, she had thought they must be just ridiculous rumors.
Only now a whole army of those rumors was marching by.
"Earthborn fought the Argonuats," she murmured.
"What are those human/horse things behind them?" Yugito pointed to horse men that were cantering past. They were human from the waist up, palomino from the waist down. They were dressed in barbarian armor of hide and bronze, armed with spears and slings. At first Hazel thought they were wearing Viking helmets. Then she realized they had actual horns jutting from their shaggy hair.
"Centaurs," Percy said. "But... that's not right. Centaurs are good gus."
Frank made a choking sound. "That's not what we were taught at camp. Centaurs are crazy, always getting drunk and killing heroes."
"Are they suppose to have bull horns?" Hazel asked.
"Maybe they're a special breed," Frank said. "Let's not ask them, okay?"
Percy gazed farther down and his face went slack. "My gods... Cyclopes."
Sure enough, lumbering after the centaurs was a battalion of one-eyed ogres, both male and female, each one about ten feet tall, wearing armor cobbled out of junkyard metal. Six of the monsters were yoked like oxen, pulling two-story tall siege tower fitted with giant scorpion ballista.
Percy pressed the sides of his head. "Cyclopes. Centaurs. This is wrong. All wrong."
The monster army was enough to make anyone despair, but Hazel realized that something was going on with Percy. He looked pale and sickly. In the moonlight, as if his memories were trying to come back, scrambling his mind in the process.
"We need to get Percy back to the boat," Yugito noted. "The sea should help him."
"No argument," Frank said. "There are too many of them. The camp... we have to warn the camp."
"They know," Percy groaned. "Reyna knows."
A lump formed in Hazel's throat. There was no way the legion could fight so many. If they were only a few hundred miles north of Camp Jupiter, their quest was already doomed. They could never make it to Alaska and back in time.
"Come on," Hazel urged. "Let's..."
Then she saw the giant.
When he appeared over the ridge, Hazel couldn't quite believe her eyes. He was taller than the siege tower-thirty feet, at least-which scaly reptilian legs like a Komodo dragon from the waist down and green-blue armor from the waist up. The breastplate was shaped like rows of hungry monstrous faces, their mouths open as if demanding food. His face was human, but his hair was wild and green, like a mop of seaweed. As he turned is head from side to side, snakes dropped from his dreadlocks. Viper dandruff-gross.
He was armed with a massive trident and a weighted net.
Just the sight of those weapons made Hazel's stomach clench. She'd faced that type of fighter in gladiator training many times. It was the trickiest, sneakiest, most evil combat style she knew. This giant was a supersize retiarius.
"Who is he?" Frank's voice quivered. "That's not-"
"Not Alcyoneus," Hazel said weakly. "One of his brothers, I think. The one Terminus mention. That's Polybotes."
She wasn't sure how she knew, but she could feel the giant's aura of power even from here. She remembered that feeling from the Heart of the Earth as she had raised Alcyoneus-as if she were standing near a powerful magnet, and all the iron in er blood was being drawn toward it. This giant was another child of Gaea-a creature of earth so malevolent and powerful, he radiated his own gravitational field.
"So that's what a giant looks like," Yugito said calmly. "Nice to know."
"How can you be so calm?" Frank asked.
"Part of mastering tail beast power was facing her in combat in order to weaken her long enough to absorb it's chakra," Yugito said.
Hazel couldn't help but be amaze at Yugito'scourage, but she knew they should leave. Their hiding place on top of the rock would be in plain sight to a creature that tall if he chose to lookin their direction. But she sensed something was about to happen. She and her friends crept a little farther down the schist and kept watching.
As the giant got closer a Cyclops woman broke ranks and ran back to speak with huim. She was enormous, fat, and horribly ugly, wearing a chain mail dress like a muumuu-but next to the giant she looked like a child.
She pointed to the closed-up convenience store on top of the nearest hill and muttered something about food. The giant snapped back an answer, as if he was annoyed. The female Cyclopes barked an order to her kindred, and three of them followed her up the hill.
When they were halfway to the store, a searing light turned night into day. Hazel was blinded. Below her, the enemy army dissolved into chaos, monsters screaming in pain and outrage. Hazel squinted. She felt like she'd just stepped out of a dark theater into a sunny afternoon.
"Too pretty!" the Cyclopes shrieked. "Burns our eyes!"
The store on the hill was encased in a rainbow, closer and brighter than any Hazel had ever seen. The light was anchored at the store, shooting up into the heavens, bathing the countryside in a weird kaleidoscopic glow
The lady Cyclops hefted her club and charged at the store. As she hit the rainbow, her whole body began to steam. She wailed in agony and dropped her club, retreating with multicolored blisters all over her arms and face.
"Horrible goddess!" she bellowed at the store. "Give us snacks."
The other monsters went crazy, charging the convenient store, then running away as the rainbow light burn them. Some threw rocks, spears, swords, and even pieces of their armor, all of which burned up in flames are pretty colors.
Finally the giant leader seemed to realize that his troops were throwing away perfectly good equipment.
"Stop!" he roared.
With some difficulty, he managed to shout and gush and pummel his troops into submission. When they'd quieted down, he approached the rainbow-shield store himself and stalked around the borders of the light. "Goddess!" he shouted. "Come out and surrender!"
No answer from the store. THe rainbow continued to shimmer.
The giant raised his trident and net. "I am Polybotes! Kneel before me so I may destroy you quickly."
Apparently, no one in the store was impressed. A tiny dark object came sailing out the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!"
He covered his face. His troops hit the ground.
When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up.
He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.
The monsters got to their feet. Several muttered hungrily. "Ding Dongs? Where Ding Dongs?"
"Let's attack," said the lady Cyclops. "I am hungry. My boys want snacks!"
"No!" POlybotes said. "We're already late. Alcyoneus wants us at the camp in four days' time. You Cycloes move inexcusably slowly. We have no time for minor goddesses!"
He aimed that last comment at the store, but got no response.
The lady Cyclops growled. "The camp, yes. Vengeance! The orange and purple ones destroy my home. Now Ma Gasket will destroy theirs! Do you hear me, Leo? Naruto? Jason? Piper? I come to annihilate you!"
The other cyclopes bellowed in approval. The rest of the monsters joined in.
Hazel's whole body tingled. She glanced at her friends. "Jason," she whispered. "She fought Jason. He might still be alive."
Frank nodded. "Do those other names mean anything to you?"
Hazel shook her head. She didn't know any Leo Piper or Naruto at Camp.
"No clue," Yugito said.
"Naruto..." Percy muttered looking worse than before. "I think I know someone by that name..."
Hazel was shock Percy seem to know something, but Percy looked so sickly she didn't ask more.
Hazel pondered what the Cyclops said: Orange and purple ones. Purple-Obviously the color of Camp Jupiter. But orange. Percy had shown up in tattered orange shirt. That couldn't be a coincidence.
Below them, the army began to march south again, but the giant Polybotes stood to one side, frowning and sniffing the air.
"Sea god," he muttered. To Hazel's horror, he turned in their direction. "I smell sea god."
Percy was shaking. Hazel put her hand on his shoulder and tried to press him flat against the rock.
The lady Cyclops Ma Gasket snarled. "Of course you smell sea god! The sea is right over there!"
"More than that," Polybotes insisted. "I was born to destroy Neptune. I can sense..." He frowned, turning his head and shaking out a few more snakes.
"Do we march or sniff the air?" Ma Gasket scolded. "I don't get Ding DOng, you don't get sea god!"
Polybotes growled. "Very well. March! March!" He took one last look at the rainbow-encased store, then raked his fingers through his hair. He brought out three snakes that seemed larger than the rest, with white markings around their necks. "A gift, goddess! My name, Polybotes, means 'Many-to-Feed!' Here are some hungry mouths for you. See if your store gets many customers with these sentries outside."
He laughed wickedly and threw the snakes into the tall grass on the hillside.
Then he marched south, his massive Komodo legs shaking the earth. Gradually, the last column of monsters passed over the hills and disappeared into the night.
Once they were gone, the blinding rainbow shut off like a spotlight.
Hazel, Yugito, Frank, and Percy were left alone in the dark, staring across the road at a closed-up convenience store.
"That was different," Frank muttered.
Percy shuttered violently.
"We need to get Percy some help," Yugito said. "If there's a goddess in that store, maybe they can help."
That sounded reasonable to Hazel.
"Except a bunch of snake things are guarding the hill now," Frank said. "And that burning rainbow might come back."
"I should be able to distract them," Yugito said.
Frank looked at Yugito but shrugged. "Fine, let's go!"
A/N: Sorry for the wait, my old phone kept causing trouble I had to get a new phone and decided to wait until it comes in to work on the story again. Because of it, I"m going to continue working on The Legacy of the Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune through next month as well as Mark of Athena if I finish son of Neptune before the end of January. And in case any of you forgot Naruto had a roll in the Lost Hero, Ma Gasket pretty much reminded you of it.