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.
Percy Dreams of Potential Help
Percy already felt like the lamest demigod in the history of lame. The purse was the final insult.
They'd left R.O.F.L. in a hurry, so maybe Iris hadn't meant the bag as a criticism. She'd quickly stuffed it with vitamin-enrich pastries, dried fruit leather, macrobiotic beef jerky, and some few crystals for good luck. Then she'd shoved it at Percy.
Here, you'll need this. Oh, that looks good. The purse-sorry, masculine accessory bag-was rainbow tie-dyed with a peace symbol stitched in the wooden beads and the slogan Hug the World. Percy wished it said Hug the Commode. He felt like the bag was a comment on his massive, incredible uselessness. As they sailed north, he put the man satchel as far away from him as he could, but the boat was small.
He couldn't believe how he'd broken down when his friends had needed him. He'd watched that army marching south and he had some kind of nervous breakdown.
Embarrassing? Yeah. But he couldn't help it. When he'd seen those evil centaurs and Cyclopes, it had seemed so wrong, so backward, that he thought he would explode. Especially the Cyclopes. He got the feeling they should be training at the camp to learn how to forge, not marching off to destroy the camp. And the giant Polybotes... that giant had given him a feeling the opposite of what he felt when he stood in the ocean. Percy's energy had drained out of him, leaving him weak and feverish, like his insides were eroding.
Iris medicinal tea had helped his body feel better, but his mind still hurt. He'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That's how his mind felt-like his missing memoring were aching.
Worst of all, the farther north Percy went, the more those memories faded. He had started to feel better at Camp Jupiter, remembering random names and faces. But now even Annabeth's face was getting dimmer. At R.O.F.L., when he'd tried to send an Iris message to Annabeth, Fleecy had just shaken her head sadly.
It's like you're dialing somebody, she said, but you've forgotten the number. Or someone is jamming the signal. Sorry, dear. I just can't connect you.
He was terrified that he'd lose Annabeth's face completely when he got to Alaska. Maybe he'd wake up one day and not remember her name.
Still, he had to concentrate on the quest. The sight of that enemy army had shown him what they were up against. It was early in the morning of June 21, now. They had to get to Alaska, find Thanatos, help Yugito fight Alcyoneus (he, Yugito, and Hazel had talked about it and agreed the whole escort mission was just an excuse to send four demigods instead of the usual three), locate the legion's standard, and make it back to Camp Jupiter by evening of June 24. Four days. Meanwhile, the enemy had only a few hundred miles to march.
Percy guided the boat through the strong currents off the northern California coast. The wind was cold, but it felt good, clearing some of the confusion from his head. He bent his will to push the boat as hard as he could. The hull rattled as the Pax plowed its way north.
Meanwhile Hazel and Frank traded stories about the event at the Rainbow Organic Foods as Yugito just sat back and listen. Frank explained about the blind seer Phineas in Portland, and how Iris had said that he might be able to tell them where to find Thanatos and the giant holding him prisoner. Frank wouldn't way how he managed to kill the basilisks, but Percy got the feeling it had something to do with the broken point of his spear. Whatever had happened, Frank sounded more scared of the spear than the basilisks.
When he was done, Hazel told Frank about their time with Fleecy.
"So this Iris-message worked?" Frank asked.
Hazel gave Percy a sympathetic look. SHe didn't mention his failure to contact Annabeth.
"I got in touch with Reyna," she said. "You're supposed to throw a coin into the rainbow and say this incantation, like O Iris, goddess of rainbow, accept my offering. Except Fleecy kind of changed it. She gave us her-what did she call it-her direct number? So I had to say, O Fleecy, do me a solid. Show me Reyna at Camp Jupiter. I felt kind of stupid, but it worked. Reyna's image appeared in the rainbow, like a two-way video call. She was in the baths. Scared her out of her mind."
"That I would've paid to see," Frank said. "I mean-her expression. Not, you know, the baths."
"Her expression was worth it," Yugito said, "I get the feeling Reyna isn't the type of person who scares easily-or at least try not to show it."
"Anyway," Hazel interrupted, "we told Reyna about the army, but like Percy said, she pretty much already knew. It doesn't change anything. She's doing what she can to shore up defenses. Unless we unleash death, and get back with the eagle-"
"The camp can't stand against that army," Frank finished. "Not without help."
After that, they sailed in silence.
"I did get a few ideas how we can use Iris messaging," Yugito said. "According to Fleecy as long as you know the location and the person you want to spy on, you can use it to spy on enemies. It even seem to jog some memory in Percy."
Percy tried to hide his blush. "I think I saw it being used that way before."
"Fleecy also says Iris messaging can be used in the elemental nations to contact each other, but not to or from this world," Yugito said. "She told me that after I asked. I was hoping to contact lord Raikage and see if he can send cloud ninjas to camp to help with the defenses. Or at least Killer Bee-another jinchuriki from the same village as me."
"Another person with a cat sealed in them?" Frank asked.
"Ox-with eight tentacles for tails," Yugito corrected. "Like me, he has control over his tailed beast's power, but he is older and has far more experience in it than me. Not to mention his tail beast is stronger than Matatabi."
"That would be great," Frank said. "But you couldn't contact him across dimensions though?"
"The gods here are limited in the elemental nations," Yugito said, "I would think even Gaea is limited there."
"Maybe that's how we can take down Alcyoneus," Frank said. "We can teleport him to your world."
"Except we have no waY to teleport Alcyoneus to the elemental nations," Yugito said.
"Oh, right," Frank said.
"It was a good idea though," Hazel admitted.
After that, they sailed in silence.
Percy kept thinking about Cyclopes and centaurs. He thought about Annabeth, the satyr Grover, Naruto, his dream of a giant warship under construction.
You came from somewhere, Reyna had said.
Percy wished he could remember. He could call for help. Camp Jupiter shouldn't have to fight alone against the giants. There ust be allies out there in this world.
He fingered the beads on his necklace, the lead probatio tablet, and the silver ring Reyna had given him. Maybe in Seattle he'd be able to talk to her sister Hylla, or at least Yugito. Yugito might be able to convince Hylla to send help.
After a few more hours of navigating. Percy's eyes started to droop. He was afraid he pass out from exhaustion. Then he caught a break. A killer whale surface next to the boat, and Percystruck up a mental conversation with him.
It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, as close to Portland as possible?
Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals?
No, percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though.
The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north.
Deal.
Soon Percy made a makeshift rope harness and strapped it around the whale's upper body. They sped north under whale-power, and at Hazel's Frank's and Yugito's insistence, Percy settled in for a nap.
...
His dreams were as disjointed and scary as ever.
He imagined himself on Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco, fighting at the old Titan stronghold, That didn't make sense. He hadn't been with the Romans when they had attacked, but he saw it all clearly: a Titan in armor, Annabeth, two other girls fighting at Percy's side. Naruto showed up at the end. One of the girls died in battle. Percy knelt over her, watching as she dissolved into stars.
Then he saw the giant warship in it's dry dock. The bronze dragon figurehead glinted in the morning light. THe riggings and armaments were complete, but something was wrong. A hatch in the deck was open, and smoke poured from somekind of engine There was dozens of Narutos all over the ship. Shadow clones. Percy don't know how he knew but it came to him what they were. Meanwhile a boy with curly black hair was cursing as he pounded the engine with a wretch. Two other demigods squatted next to him, watching with concern. One was a teenage guy with short blond hair. THe other girl with long dark hair.
"You two realized it's the solstice," the girl said. "We're supposed to leave today?"
"We know that!" all the Narutos shouted. Then one shouted. "Leo you got to give me something to look for?"
The curly haired mechanic whacked the engine a few more times. "Could be the fizzrockets. Could be the samophlange."
"Leo! Speak simple!" another Naruto shouted.
"I'm not sure!" Leo shouted.
"How long?" the blonde guy asked.
"Two, three days?'
"They may not have that long," the girl warned.
"I still doubt we can trust Ares," another Naruto warned. "He wants Percy dead just as much as he wants me dead."
"We don't have much of a choice," the guy said.
Something told Percy that they were talking about Camp Jupiter. Then the scene shifted again.
He saw a boy with his dog roaming over the yellow hills of California. But as the image became clearer, Percy realized it wasn't a boy. It was a cyclops in ragged jeans and a flannel shirt. The dog was a shambling mountain of black fur, slight resemblance to Hiruzen actually, but this one was the size of a rhino. The Cyclops carried a massive club over his shoulder, but Percy didn't feel he was an enemy. He kept yelling Percy's name, calling him... brother?"
He smells farther away," The Cyclopes moaned to the dog. "Why does he smell farther?"
"ROOF!" the dog barked and Percy's dream changed again.
He saw a snowy mountain so tall they broke the clouds. Gaea's sleeping face appeared in the shadows of the rocks.
Such a valuable pawn, she said soothingly. Do not fear, Percy Jackson. Come North! Your friends will die, yes. But I will preserve you for now. I have great plans for you.
In a valley between the mountains lay a massive field of ice. The edge plunged into the sea, hundreds of feet below, with sheets of frost constantly crumbling into the water. On top of the ice field stood a legion camp-eamparts, moats, towers, barracks, just like Camp Jupiter except three times as large. At the crossroads outside the principia, a figure in dark d robes stood shackled in the ice. Percy's vision swept past him, into the headquarters. There, in the gloom, sat a giant even bigger than Polybotes. His skin glinted gold. Displayed behind him were the tattered, frozen banner of a Roman legion, including a large, golden eagle with its wings spread.
We await you, the giant's voice boomed. While you fumble your way north, trying to find me, my armies will destroy your precious camps-first the Romans, then the others. You cannot win, little demigod.
...
Percy lurched awake in cold gray daylight, rain falling on his face.
"I thought I slept heavily," Hazel said. "Welcome to Portland."
Percy sat up and blinked. The scene around him was so different from his dream, he wasn't sure which was real. The Pax floated on an iron black river through the middle of the city. Heavy clouds hung low overhead. The cold rain was light, it seemed suspended in the air. Percy's left were industrial warehouses and railroad tracks. To his right was a small downtown area-an almost cozy-looking cluster of towers between the banks of the river and a line of misty forested hills.
Percy rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "How did we get here?"
Frank gave him a look like, You won't believe this. "The killer whale took us as far as the Columbia River. Then he passed the harness to a couple of twelve foot sturgeons.
Percythought Frank had said surgeons. He had this weird image of giant doctors in scrubs and face masks, pulling their boat upstream. Then her ealized Frank beant sturgeons, like the fish. He was glad he hadn't said anything. Would have been embarrassing, his being son of the sea god and all.
"I think it was a blessing of Neptune," Yugito said. "It would make sense he would help with Percy being his son. Those Sturgeons pulled us for a long time and we took shift sleeping. Then we hit this river-"
"The Willamette," Hazel offered.
"Thanks," Yugito said, "After that, the boat kind of took over and navigate us here by itself."
"Did you sleep okay?" Frank asked.
As the Pax glided south, Percy told them about his dreams. He tried to focus on the positive: a warship might be on the way to help Camp Jupiter. A friendly Cyclops and a giant dog were looking for him,. He didn't mention what Gaea had said: Your friends will die. Percy also decided not to bring up that Naruto guy mentioning Ares wanting him dead as much Naruto.
When Percy described the Roman fort on the ice, Hazel looked troubled.
"So Alcyoneus is on a glacier," she said. "That doesn't narrow it down much. Alaska has hundreds of those.
"Hopefully this Phineas guy can tell us which one it is," Yugito said.
The boat docked itself at a wharf. The four demigods stared up at the buildings of drizzly downtown Portland.
Frank wiped the rain off his flat-top hair.
"So now we find a blind man in the rain," Frank said. "Yay."
A/N: Sorry about the wait. My heart wasn't into fanfiction writing for some reason. I had all my plans set in mind for this story and even Mark of Athena but anytime I tried to work on this chapter I just couldn't work myself into typing more than a few sentences. Thankfully I got myself into it again, because I planned to at least post a chapter by Chinese New Years January 22nd since Frank has a chinese ancestry.
Speaking of Frank, I noticed many of you seemed to like the last chapter and didn't care that I didn't have Yugito fight the Basilisk instead. Which is good because I was worried some of you might have a problem with me sticking to using Frank and revealing Gray like in the original. Of course it helps that Frank still had his bow since Yugito was the one that kept the basilisk busy as they were trying to enter Iris' store.
Just to make clear, when I had Hera mention Iris had found herself being the reason for Iris staying loyal in The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Battle of the Labyrinth (as Naruto asked about Iris as he was worried the Titans would be spying on their Iris messages) I was foreshadowing Iris appearing in Son of Neptune