Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1. Chapter 1

Son of Khonie

**I don't own Percy Jackson. That is the reason Piper is still alive. **

** Also this story is adopted from RedRyuzki. He did the first chapter is all his work.**

Chapter one: A not so smooth getaway

Third Person POV 

A figure in a icy blue motorcycle jacket, black pants, icy blue and black motorcycle helmet was seen bursting out of the main doors of the bank. Chaos followed, police cruisers began to chase the lone figure, who was now riding on a snow white Suzuki Hayabusa, on the empty streets of New York. The figure reached for a switch activating the N20 giving the thief a sudden burst of speed. 

The thief balled his hand into a fist, seconds later ice began trailing from his rear wheel. He opened up his hand making spikes popping the tires of the police cruisers. However, the thief ran into a trap, he was boxed in the front and rear. The officers got out of their cruisers and pulled out there guns and pointed at the figure. 

They exchanged words and they opened fire. The thief formed a wall of ice, and in front of him built a ramp of ice. He sped toward the ramp, later flying over the heads of the reinforcements. Then he disappeared into mist. 

Percy POV 

Drip, drip, drip. 

Man, those cops never learn to keep up. Half the fun is gone right there. I pulled up to the Silver Stallions' warehouse at the dock. You see I'm part of a five man operation of demigods for higher. Mercenaries if you prefer that name for us. We do any job for the right price, sometimes hunting down dangerous monsters or attacking demigods. Our strategist, Malcolm is a son of Athena, the wisdom goddess. 

"Percy look at this" a frustrated Malcolm said pointing at the TV screen, "What were you thinking robbing a bank?" You see we try not to put ourselves out there. Oh, boy better get my camera. I wonder how he is going to react when they find a ice statue of a horse and a card saying "Silver Stallions". 

"The only evidence found by the investigators is statue of a horse and a card the read "Silver Stallions". That I all we have found on this "Jack Frost" as some of the locals are now calling the thief. What was stolen? 50,000 dollars. Stay tuned for more updates. This is Christopher Ramirez signing off." The TV stated. Silence. 

"YOU DID WHAT! PERCY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? THE OLYMPIANS COULD SEND QUESTERS TO GET US OR EVEN WORSE THE HUNT!" Malcolm screamed. 

"Well, you see I thought it was funny…" 

Then, three more motorcycles pulled up, one orange, one electric blue, and a black. All being a Hayabusa, which we all saved from getting scrapped. The rider on the orange motorcycle took of his helmet. A Latino son of Hephaestus named Leo. The electric blue rider took of her helmet revealing a dark haired daughter of Zeus named Thalia. The last rider off his helmet revealing a deathly pale son of Hades named Nico. 

"Hey Perce." They all said with a smirk. 

"Nice job you did there at the bank bro." said Nico who was walking over to the fridge. 

"NICE?" Malcolm yelled, "THE OLYMPIANS COULD BE SENDING THE HUNT!" 

"Yo Owl Head, chill out" Thalia called out, while sitting on the couch with her feet up. 

"Yeah you're right Thals, chill out Malcolm." I said raising my hand. 

"Don't you do it Perce, don't you dare do-" Malcolm got halfway through his sentence before I formed ice to seal his mouth. 

"What's that Malcolm, can't hear you there." Leo said while laughing. 

"Ok guys, funs over." I said while commanding the ice to melt over Malcolm's mouth. 

"HUNT!" Malcolm yelled as several volleys of arrows punctured the walls. How, would he- ohhhh, right he added those camera things so he could monitor the warehouse. 

"You guys go out back, I'll hold them off." I said while unsheathing pago̱niá and dánko̱ma. They were shaped like kukris but made out of hardened ice I made. Frost and bite, I said while mentally laughing. 

"Perseus Jackson, come out of the building. We have your accomplices." A girl shouted. I slowly walked out without my helmet while holding pagoniá and dánkoma. "Put down your weapons." the same girl said. I dropped my kukris and slowly walked with my hands up. First thing I noticed was the legendary Hunt, was a bunch of teenage girls in silver parkas, silver skirts, and combat boots. Seriously Malcolm? This is what you were afraid of? 

"You have committed crimes involving, interfering with a quest," she said. 

"I did not know that." I huffed 

"Killing a group of demigods." 

"Ahem, they attacked first." 

"Revealing your powers in the human world." 

"What about the mist?" 

"For these crimes you are to be either brought to Olympus or… to go to stay at Camp Halfblood." She finished while closing a scroll, and putting it in her pocket. 

"Sorry, but what? Camp Halfblood, never heard of it." 

The girl pinched the bridge of her nose clearly frustrated with the situation. I then halted for a second realizing something off with her aura. She felt more like a god than anything else… 

Oh crap. I realized why Malcolm was so afraid. The Hunt's leader was no other than Artemis herself. 

"You know, I'll just go with Camp sounds fun." I said 

TIME SKIP 

So this is Camp Halfblood. It looks… nice I guess. We got to bring our motorcycles thankfully. I would have missed my ride. We got a couple of weird looks from the campers. Five new demigods riding on motorcycles. 

A centaur walked or trotted up to us. Chiron I'm assuming from what Artemis told us on our way here. We got lost three times… all because Leo kept holding the map wrong, well until Thalia zapped him and took it. 

"Hello, demigods, I'm assuming you're the Silver Stallions?" Chiron said. Once, he said that the demigods that started to crowd in curiosity around us gasped like they saw a ghost or something. 

"Like, THE Silver Stallions? The one that robbed the bank with that awesome bike?" some demigod asked excitingly. 

"Uh, yeah, that was me." I said while waving with a small smile. A chorus of "Whoa's" and "Really?". 

Chiron stomped his foot on the ground to get everyone's attention. All the questions gradually stopped and it got quieter and quieter. Chiron looked at us as if he was waiting for something. 

"I guess we'll introduce ourselves. 

Third Person POV 

A short, lightly tanned Latino, with brown eyes, stepped forward and said "My name is Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, the mechanic of the group." 

A tall, fit, blonde, with grey eyes stepped forward and stated "My name is Malcolm, son of Athena, the brains." 

"Hey!" four demigods protested. 

"Sorry but its true guys" Malcolm stated. 

A averaged height, deathly pale teen with dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and circles under his eyes stepped forward and said, "My name is Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, the scout of the group." 

Several demigods in the crowd stepped back from the front row. Nico lightly laughed at this and stepped aside. 

A below average height, teen, with punk style hair, and electrifying blue eyes stepped forward and said, "My name is Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, the hammer of the group." Just to emphasize her point the she summoned a bolt of lightening to hit the ground. Scaring a lot of unprepared demigods. 

"Show off." Nico huffed and crossed his arms. 

The last teen stepped forward, with light skin, raven hair, icy blue eyes, and two kukris at his side stepped forward and said, "I am Perseus Jackson, I do not know my godly parent, but I am the leader of the group.

**Hey guys if you can't tell I'm starting another new story. Yes this one is adopted but it's just the first chapter. From now on I will be calling the shots. I still have another idea going around in my head for a Percy Jackson story and will try to get that up over the weekend. If you are wondering what happened to child of sea prince of shadow please read my bio. Thanks.**

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	2. Chapter 2

Son of Khonie

Chapter two:Drinking away the pain

The day passed quickly for the Silver Stallions. Right after their introductions they had been mobbed by a ton of demigods (mostly younger ones) asking about what they did.

"Were you part of the battle of Manhattan?" a boy asked Percy. The boy had gray eyes like Malcolm and brown hair. Percy though he appeared to be about fifteen, three years younger then Percy and most of the gang.

"The what?" Percy said, putting on his best fake curiosity face as he climbed back onto his bike.

"See Robby I told you they weren't real heroes," a girl Percy's age scoffed. She also had gray eyes but blond hair which flowed as she moved through the kids to the boy. "This criminal was probably out robbing or killing as we fought for our lives." The girl gave a pricing glare to Percy her calculating gray eyes almost making him flinch, almost.

The words stung Percy but he didn't show it. He never let himself show it.

"Or I could have been having a great time," he said meeting the girls eyes and winking not so subtly. If the girl was effected she didn't show it as she practically dragged what Percy assumed was her younger brother away from him.

"You my friend are screwed," a boy with sandy blond hair and blue eyes chuckled.

"Ya that's Annabeth Chase," another boy who looked exactly like the other began. "Not only is she a beast with that knife but shes dating our bro. Luke Catsellan. He's the best swordsman this camp has seen in three hundred years and the savior if Olympus."

"So what did he do kill a cyclops?" Percy said smirking.

"Defeated three titans," one of the boys said.

"Oh," was all Percy could say. By now the crowd had left him and the twins. "What did they give him? Immortality or something?"

"They offered it but he turned it down." the one that Percy noticed was slightly shorted began.

"Wanted the gods to claim their kids and have all the minor god's kids to have cabins here," the other finished.

Percy froze. His parent was supposed to claim him. Show some sign they cared about him, but they didn't. He was a mistake to them. They might not even know he existed. Percy knew he had to get out of here, leave this prison.

"Well that's interesting," Percy said to both twins at once. "but I really got to run. See ya around." Percy revved the engine on his bike, spun it around and streaked past the camp boarders and the suspiciously dragon looking thing.

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Whiten minutes Percy pulled into the small parking lot of his destination. He pulled off helmet only to expose himself to the Manhattan air. The air would have felt cold but that was something the young demigod never felt. Percy pocketed his keys and walked through the wooden doors.

As soon as he stepped through Percy was assaulted by the familiar sounds of laughter and cheering found at any bar. The bartender saw him almost immediately and went to fix the drink he knew the young man would order.

Moving across the loud space Percy made it to his seat just as the bartender did. Without a word the man handed Percy his drink and left to attend to a cheering group of boys the demigods age. They were all glued to the flat-screen on the far wall showing the Yankees game.

Ignoring them Percy sipped his drink and tried to sort through the events of the day. Camp would send people to look for him soon enough, that much was certain. The teen doubted they would find him, he knew these streets better then anyone. They couldn't get the others to tell either. This bar was Percy's own place, when he didn't want to be found he came here.

Quickly the demigods thoughts shifted elsewhere. His parent had sworn an oath to claim him but they still refused to acknowledge him. Percy hated his godly parent, hated them with a passion. They were the reason he was a criminal, the reason he was a pain in the Olympians tail. He wanted his parent to notice him, know he could amount to something. Percy's thought were interrupted by a person sitting down in the seat next to him. Of course they had do be a chatty one to,

"Aren't you a little underage?" a female voice said with slight amusement in it.

Percy turned to face the person addressing him. It was a girl around his age. Her green eyes sparkled with slight playfulness and red hair fell far past her neck. Small freckles doted her face. She wore a green t-shit that said 'love the arts' on it and tattered jeans.

"It's coak smart," Percy replied, irritation evident in his voice. Normally he was all for the bar scene but tonight he was far from in the mood.

"Isn't it a little hard to forget everything from coak?" the girl continued, completely ignoring Percy's tone.

"You'd be surprised," Percy muttered. The girl just smiled and waved over the bartender.

"Get me whatever he has," she said when the man made his way over. Nodding the bartender disappeared farther up the bar.

"What are you doing?" Percy said giving the girl a look like she was doing something incredibly stupid.

"You're not the only one with something to forget," she responded, her face turning serious. Percy raised an eyebrow but when the girl didn't continue let it drop. When the bartender came back neither had spoken and the girl quickly began downing the soda. After almost a minute Percy decided to speak.

"Why aren't you hanging around with your friends?" he asked genuinely curious.

"My dad put me in a rich kid privet school. Most of them are jerks," she said, the chattering person gone from her voice and posture.

"So that's why they can afford fake id's," Percy chuckled. The girl managed a smile but it quickly faded. "So whats the shirt mean," Percy asked trying a different approach. The sudden light in the girls eyes told him he took the right one.

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About thirty minutes later Percy was seriously starting to regret asking about that stupid t-shirt. The girl Rachel (he had finally gotten her name) went on and on about her love of art and the lack of funding for it in schools. When Percy revealed he was a criminal, instead of leaving she had pouted until he 'donated' a thousand of his hard earned dollars. Percy thought it was thievery. I mean who in their right mid would turn down a putting pretty girl. Whatever everyone was in the business these days.

Around one am Rachel's group started to stutter out the door, most of them clearly drunk out of their minds. When Percy questioned the sense in going home in that car Rachel just replied they had a designated driver. As she stood up Rachel scribbled something on a napkin, looking back and flashing Percy a smile right as she reached the heavy wooden doors.

Percy knew what was on the napkin before he even looked. On it was a hastily scribbled phone number.

"Score," Percy muttered, his mind blank of why he came here in the fist place. He always knew this bar was magic.

**AN:Hey again guys. I was absolutely blown away by the warm welcome this story got (even if the first chapter wasn't my work) so I decided to put in the effort to get this chapter up in one day. Don't expect this ever again. If you guys give me a ton of reviews, favs follows I will try to get a chapter up Monday. **

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	3. Chapter 3:Don't always be Batman

Son of Khonie

Chapter 3: Being Batman isn't always a good thing

Next time someone tells you you're screwed and they happen to be the brother of the guy there saying is going to beat you up, take them seriously. Percy walked out of the bar feeling immensely better then walking in. So much so he almost missed the really ticked looking group of guys his age, trailing him as he walked toward his bike. The demigod could hear the light steps of two people behind him as he pushed through the wooden doors. Percy willed ice to encase the two people behind him up to their head. Turning around slowly the demigod of ice held a smirk on his face.

"Now now, don't you two know it's not nice to sneak up on someone like that?" Percy lectured, shaking his head in mock disgrace.

"It's also not nice to leave your prison sentence, and flirt with the warden's girlfriend," a voice behind Percy said.

Turning around to face the obvious leader, Percy was a little bit scared. The person now in front of him looked a few years older than Percy. His hair was a sandy blond and he had blue eyes like the sky. A scar ran from the corner of his mouth adding to the intimidating look. He was wearing a pair of jeans and an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt. Standing next to him was the blond girl who the twins had said was Annabeth Chase.

"Funny with that little cut I thought you were Joker, and if you're Joker then I'm Batman," Percy joked, doing a little fist pump after saying he was Batman. "I mean you even have your own little Harley Quinn over there," Percy continued pointing to the blond girl he had messed around with earlier. She suddenly looked like she was about to kill him herself. "All she needs is a skimpier outfit," the now on a roll demigod muttered under his breath. "And you know what buddy?" Percy said louder. "Batman always wins."

The boy who Percy assumed was Luke, clearly hated Batman. He charged at Percy, closing the distance between them in seconds. With a yell Luke slammed his fist into the side of Percy's head, causing the gang leader to fall to the ground. Struggling back onto his feet Percy kept yelling at the son of Hermes. "Look at you, being all tough for your girl. It's kind of pathetic that you need to beet people up to look good in front of her. I mean really, does she even enjoy this or is this your idea of a date?"

Beyond any emotion but rage, Luke rammed his fist into Percy's stomach, and when the demigod doubled over, drove his knee into Percy's face. The two demigods Percy had frozen had thawed out and picked up the abused demigod and forced him onto his knees. Mercilessly Luke tore the captive demigod apart with his fists, drenching Percy's face in blood. The gang leader however refused to scream, instead focusing on the blond girl who just sat there watching the whole thing.

"Come on man. You're pathetic, having others hold me for you. Beat me up like a man," Percy mocked, forcing the words past the blood trying to flood his mouth. A wicked grin stretched across the son of Hermes face. He motioned with his hand for the bleeding demigod to be released. Percy was roughly shoved onto the ground. His blurred vision kept him from seeing Luke pull out the knife till it was plunged into his stomach. The girl ran up to Luke just as the demigod had pulled out the knife and raised it to strike again.

"Come on Luke it's not worth it," she pleaded, putting a hand on his shoulder. The enraged demigod ignored her and drove the knife into Percy's left shoulder. "Luke," the blond repeated wrapping her arms around the demigod's neck, and moving closer to him. "We have better thing to do." A wide grin stretched on the son of Hermes face.

"You're right, this mistake isn't worth it. Let's go." At this the girl smiled and detached herself from the demigod. The group began to walk away, but the blond trailed behind. Just before turning around the corner of the building she cast one glance backward.

The last thing Percy saw before total darkness were those gray piercing eyes, filled with pity and maybe a little you so owe me for this.

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Two motorcycles sped into the parking-lot not five minutes later. The riders took off their helmets to revel Nico di Angelo and Thalia Grace. Jumping off their bikes both rushed to the side of the limp body of their leader and friend, Percy Jackson. Both taking a side the pair hauled the unconscious demigod onto Nico's faster scout bike. Not waiting for Thalia, the son of Hades raced off into the night.

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The screeching of wheels broke through the New York night's silence. Nico pulled into the gang's little warehouse and put down the kick-stand faster than he ever had in his life. Percy was dying, and the son of Hades was not about to let his best friend die because some stupid arrogant son of Hermes decided to be touchy. Without that tip from a hidden caller id, Percy would probably be dead by now.

The son of Hades picked up his best friend, and gently set him down on the small mattress the gang used as a medical table. Shadow traveling frantically around the room, Nico found the medical supplies stashed in the food pantry (He had no idea why they would be there). Jumping into a shadow and appearing right next to his friend, Nico carefully removed Percy's shirt and poured at least halve of the groups stored up nectar all over the demigod's wounds.

Without flaw the godly drink began closing the gang leader's wounds. Most of the bruises that were starting to form, faded. Blood however still covered almost all of Percy's abused form, and the two big slash wounds were clearly form a knife. They shrunk, but were still clearly still there, a little bit of blood trickling from them. Using some bandages that had been in the group's med kit, Nico poured more nectar on the knife wounds and covered them, trying to stop the bleeding.

The rest of the gang showed up not ten minutes later. All of them wore a expression full of concern. Percy was their leader, he had brought them together. Given them a family, a purpose. He had made them the Silver Stallions.

"How's he holding up," Leo asked calmly. He had never been this serious. Even when the Romans had sent that quest after them (Long story don't ask), Leo had been the one yelling at the twenty or so demigods that if they died by his hand they would 'pray that hell would make Antarctica look like a dead refrigerator.'

"He'll be fine," Nico answered. "From the way he's improving he should be awake soon."

"Wait...wha?" Percy practically moaned, not even sitting up. The Nico moved to help him, but didn't when he saw the waves of emotions flash across his best friend's face. At first it was confusion, wonder even. It then quickly shifted to hate. What was next was by far the scariest. The look on the gang leader's face was horrifying. It contained absolutely pure loathing and hatred. Think of the look on people's face when discussing Hitler or Ivan the Terrible. This look contained far more disgust and hatred then that. Far more.

Snapping to life Percy shot up and quickly took in his surroundings. "I'm going to be gone for a little bit," the demigod said, shifting into what Leo called his 'commanding Vader voice'. "Thalia you're in charge. Try not to anger anyone important and for the love of Olympus don't start any fights with that Luke punk," Percy continued, sifting through his jean pockets for something. Grinning the gang leader pulled out a worn napkin and folded it as he stood up, a little groggily. The demigod started to walk away from the group, only making it a few steps before Thalia shocked him back onto the floor.

"What are you doing kelp brains?!" She yelled at him.

"Taking a much needed vacation, "Percy said coldly. As he turned to walk away again, Thalia summoned a blast of wind and slammed Percy into the side of the warehouse. Using the wind to boost her speed, the daughter of Zeus ran up to her leader and shoved him against the wall.

"Why are you really going?" the demigoddess threatened, her eyes narrowed, ready to detect any lie her friend said.

"Somewhere I should have gone a long time ago," Percy said darkly, meeting Thalia's eyes with his own.

"Fine," the daughter of Zeus huffed. She let go of Percy and he walked out of the base without looking back once. Once Percy was out of earshot from the building he whipped out his Samsung Galaxy and pulled a wrinkled napkin out of his jean's pocket. Hastily he put the number into his contacts then it the call button. It only ringed once before someone picked up. Percy smiled.

"Hey Rachel it's Percy. I know this is a little sudden but, ever wanted to go to Quebec?"

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Two hours later, after a lot of last minuet scrambling, crazy fast packing, and a quick convincing of parent, Perseus Jackson was sitting first class on an airplane with a direct flight from New York to Quebec. Next to him in the window seat was Rachel. Her long led hair spread across her back as she looked out the widow, somehow finding peace in the moon lit sky and, the fact they were a few thousand feet above the ground. The pair hadn't really spoken since they had boarded the plane. It wasn't really surprising since they had just met and Percy had already invited the girl on an out of country trip.

On the outside Percy appeared relaxed and calm, resting his head against the back of the chair and, lazily playing Candy Crush. Inside he was freaking out. This was Zeus's domain. One whiff that he was here and the sky god would probably blow up the whole plane. Thinking how he would be responsible for all these peoples deaths, the demigod looked over at Rachel. Her green eyes caught his and she smiled causing him to as well. The red head turned around in her seat so she was leaning up against the wall, and facing Percy.

"So do you do this with all of your girlfriends or am I just special," she asked, mischief glinting in her eyes, as well as genuine curiosity.

"So were going out now huh?" Percy asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I mean we can if you want to be, but you don't have to. If you don't then I totally understand,"

Rachel began spitting out, red dominating her cheeks.

Percy smiled and moved closer to the rambling girl. Carefully he put a hand on one of her cheeks and stared into her eyes.

"Do you want to Rachel?" he asked, cutting the girl off mid-sentence. She quit rambling, looked Percy in the eye, and nodded, not even trying to find the word. "Good," Percy replied and leaned back into his seat. Smiling Rachel leaned into his chest and quickly fell asleep.

IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE PLEASE READ. WILL EFFECT STORY!

Ok amazing readers. That last part does not at all mean that the pairing for this story is set. I could go pretty much any way with this story pairing wise except for goddesses. There are couple of people who if they get the most votes will end up dying and I will go with someone who fits the story *cough*Annabeth*cough. So please leave your vote on who Percy should be paired with in this story in the reviews.

Well other than that as always tell me how I did. Could we please get ten reviews on this longer chapter that would be amazing. Also sorry for not updating sooner. I had to put one last chapter for my other story child of sea prince of shadow up. If you guys would read that that would be amazing and you would be awesome. Thanks.

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	4. Chapter 4:The work of fate

Son of Khione

Chapter 4: The work of fate

For the first time in a long time Percy was truly happy. Not the adrenalin of battle, the spark he found in a quick hook-up or even the satisfaction of revenge when he ticked off the gods. This felt to right to be something with dark side effects like the others. The demigod knew he came here for a reason other then walking with Rachel through a massive mall, but he honestly didn't care. For once revenge could come second.

To say Rachel was a hyper shopper would be a huge understatement. She shot from store to store, and never stopped talking. It was always "doesn't this look nice,or how about this?" Percy really didn't mind, he actually kind of liked it. Anything other then Malcolm's constant rambling about how there was a seventy four point eight three percent chance of dying on the demigods newest 'idea'.

The next day the pair had decided to stay in their massive hotel room (Thanks to Percy's successful carrier and a bit of divine funding.) This had led to quite a few unavoidable make out sessions, along with Rachel learning about Percy being a demigod when he froze his cell phone out of force of habit when they were 'busy'. After about two hours of explanations and realizing that Rachel could see through the Mist, the pair of teens sat on the king sized bed in silence. Rachel had stopped talking and Percy had decided to let her process it all.

"Why are you really here?" Rachel's comment broke the silence. For a brief second Percy considered lying to her. Then again he had dragged the girl here. Why, he had no idea, but she deserved some form of an explanation. Besides Rachel would probably see through it anyway.

"There is someone here how can help me."

"Why bring me?" Rachel asked, still whispering.

"Um... because you like Coke-a- Cola?" the demigod replied nervously, running a hand through his hair nervously.

At this Rachel smiled and leaned in Percy.

"I'm just glad you did."

The couple stayed there in silence, content with each other till the red head Rachel lifted her head so she could look Percy in the eye.

"Who did you come here to see?"

"Boreas, god of the north wind."

"Where is this Boreas?"

"About five stories up."

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Percy stepped out of the elevator, just as the doors opened to reveal the tenth floor, alone. He was in what appeared to be a hanger of some sort. There was a staircase running along the wall on the far side of he room, which led to a large set of gray doors. The strode to the center of the room, clearly waiting for someone or something. Soon a pair of what to most would consider angles, flew into to room and faced the demigod.

"State your business," one of them ordered. He was slightly taller then the other, but probably due to his ridicules hairstyle, and was far skinner. In a pathetic attempt to be intimidating, the being held its sword out at Percy, nearly touching the demigods throat.

"I am here to speak to your father Lord Boreas," Percy replied calmly, trying to keep a smirk off his face.

"Destroy?" the other angle asked, clearly eager at the proposition. The skinny guy seemed to seriously consider the idea before a cold voice rang from the opposite side of the room.

"No destroying now Cal, father is expecting this one."

Percy turned to see a woman walking down the stairs across the room. She wore a traditional Greek robe, and had dark black hair and icy blue eyes.

The bigger angle looked sad whial the other just humphed. Sending a sly smirk at both of the brothers, Percy crossed the large room, and bowed before the woman. Smiling, the woman turned toward the massive pair of doors. They opened without her doing anything. Confidently, the woman (Who was obviously a goddess. She radiated power like one) strode into the what was obviously a throne room. Not only was their a ten foot tall dude on a throne, the room was massive and filled with massive sculptures of ice. Percy wasn't all that surprised when the woman had to tell the ice sculptures to stand down when he entered the room.

The man on the throne didn't look as much like a psychopath as some of the other gods Percy had been met. Percy was well aware that looks could be deceiving. A flowing cape that appeared to be made of snow covered the deity, who also had a beard and hair that were both covered in snow.

Not wanting to die quite yet, Percy knelt in front of the go, who was clearly Boreas. At this the god let out a booming laugh, that echoed across the chamber.

"Look at this. The modern day bane of Olympus bowing before me, a humble wind god! You know demigod, I could turn you in and get recognition for at least a few generations for my deeds," the god said, staring at Percy critically during the last sentence. The demigod lifted his head to look the god in the eye.

"We both know that's not how you operate."

Another laugh echoed around the chamber.

"How right you are demigod. I always expected you would come to me for guidance. Who wouldn't want to master their own element?" Boreas nearly taunted, creating a miniature blizzard on his palm. Percy grimaced, but didn't say anything. "So child of ice, what do you desire?"

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That night Rachel insisted they go out for pizza to celebrate. The red head was down about Percy's time away till he told her that he had made one of he requirements that he got a total of three hours for time off, reserved just for her. After that Rachel was her normal happy self. The pair spent the rest of the night stuffing themselves with pizza (Although Percy had a considerable bit more.) and watching whatever movie came to mind. They fell asleep on the massive couch, happily in each others arms.

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Training with the ice deities was hard, very very hard. They constantly pushed his limits, working him often to the point of exhaustion. The worse by far was Khione, the woman who had first escorted him to Boreas. She was far harsher then the others, but she also taught him more, a lot more. For one she revealed to Percy that the blood in humans and monsters had enough water in them for people with ice abilities, granted they were strong enough, could freeze someone inside out.

After a week of training Percy finally felt like he had the hang of things. The demigod was close with Cal. They would often discuss hockey, Percy and the ice god's favorite sport. The gang leader even got along with Zethes. When the god had realized Percy wouldn't mind a little relationship advice, the two hit off pretty quickly. Even Rachel was happy with the agreement. Boreas had let Percy bring the red head up to the god's area. She had been entranced by the ace sculptures (Not the alive ones.) and was taking lessons form Boreas himself.

The week passed quickly and all to soon Percy forgot that nothing ever stays perfect. Eventually reality always comes crashing down on top of you.

It was Saturday night and Percy was hanging out with Rachel in the apartment. Well more then that but whatever. Percy cell phone rang, but neither teen felt like stopping. They only pulled apart when the person called another four times. Groggily Percy picked up his phone and pulled himself into a upright position on the couch. The caller id had been Nico, but what the voice of the son of Hades didn't say anything Percy thought he would.

"Percy we know where you are. Get out here now! The Olympians declared us traitors since you went missing for so long. Luke's chasing us he's.." an explosion shook the listening demigods ears and the line went dead. Percy threw the phone onto the ground and ran to his suitcase. Frantically digging between his close Percy grinned and pulled out what he was looking for just as Rachel walked into the room.

"Percy, why do you look like a guy from Battlefeild?" It was clear she was scared, and had every right to be. Standing over a suitcase was Percy, strapping a set of throwing knives onto across his chest Chewbacca style. Loads of ammo clips were strapped to a belt, along with two pistols firmly in their holsters. Strapped to his back were two swords crafted from a pure whitee metal with Ruby's incrusted in the hilt.

"Rachel, something bad is happening. Go up to Boreas and stay with him till this blows over." Percy's eyes burned with the fire of determination, and blood-lust.

"Are you fighting on the right side," Rachel whispered quietly. Her own eyes alight with fear and worry.

"Isn't family always the right side?" the demigod replied, smiling slightly.

Rachel moved froward, to Percy who was now standing. Slowly she pressed her lips to his. When she pulled back she looked him in the eye.

"Just make sure you have the chance to be mine."

"I promise," the demigod whispered.

Turning away from his girlfriend, Percy ran and lept straight through the glass of the nearest window, and using the water molecules as snow to cushion his fall fell in font of the massive hotel. The demigod looked up to see four motorcycles round a building and shoot straight toward him. Above them were about halve a dozen pegasus all with at least two people riding them. Somehow keeping up with the motorcycles were three white vans with strawberries painted on the side.

Freezing the water molecules around him, Percy made a throwing knife of ice appear in his hand. With expert precision he threw the knife. The blade spun end over end through the air till it sliced clean through the rubber of the tire of the closest van. As the vehicle swerved to a halt, the side doors opened and at least a dozen teenagers dressed in full battle armor jumped out. When the van came to a stop another dozen demigods followed. Percy swore, he had no idea that camp would sent this many campers. There had to be at least the same amount in the other vans, an there were at least ten people on pegasus. At lightning speeds, the lone demigod drew his duel pistols, and opened fire on the remaining two vans,shattering the windshield of each and bringing them both to a grinding halt.

By this time all of Percy's fiends had made it over to him and had lept off their bikes and drawn their weapons, ready for a fight. Instantly Percy took charge.

"Alright guys get inside the lobby, remember the mist will probably not work in our favor so watch out for mortals. Malcolm you guard the back entrance, the will definitely send people through there. Thalia, anyone tries to get through the doors fry them or throw them back. Nico you pop in and out of their ranks, but stay to the edges, we cant have you get caught. Leo I need you to stay in here and protect Thalia. When she runs out of energy, give us a signal. Me and Nico will pull back in. Then you let whoever's left of the fools in the room. On my mark start spraying them with flames, I'll keep them trapped in there with ice wall. Everyone got that?" The entire group nodded. "Good," Percy said, a fiendish look now covering his face. "Playtime."

At that Nico grabbed Thalia and Leo's wrist and Thalia grabbed Malcom's and the group shadow traveled inside, leaving Percy alone before about eighty war craving demigods. The seventy or so that were on the ground were all out charging the gang leader and were whiten a hundred yards. Having reloaded his pistols when talking Percy slowly backed closer to the doors while firing and reloading the guns at rapid paces, dropping at least ten of the oncoming group. Realizing they were little more then moving targets, the demigods fell behind cover. Cars buildings, anything they can find. With the ground troops now near impossible to hit, Percy turned his attention toward the skies just as he was about to get chopped in halve by a pegasus rider. As he ducked Percy quickly replaced the guns in his hand with his new twin swords, which were a gift from Khione. Before the horse could get an upward arch, Percy jumped and thrusted one of his swords straight through the riders lower back, leaving to bleed out in the sky. Facing the street again the lone demigod saw five demigods charging him in triangle formation and were almost whither striking distance. Just as the lead one raised his sword to slash Percy, an arrow penetrated the two demigods next to him's hearts and the two outer ones were cut down by a black blurr. The lead one however was able to bring his sword down at Percy despite his comrades quick deaths. He didn't last long however as Percy merely dodged the wild stroke and bringing the sword in his left hand in a horizontal slash, cleanly decapitated the demigod.

Adrenalin pumping through his veins, Percy kicked the head toward the now frozen campers. Meeting every enemy he could in the eye, Percy bellowed one sentence across the silent streets.

"I WANT LUKE!"

Nothing moved until a figure strode confidently out from behind a car. No one moved or spoke until the man was five yards away.

"You want a fight Jackson?" the man growled. The darkness somehow illuminating the scar that ran across his face.

"I really want a chance to kick you as.." the enraged demigod began until he was cut off by a voice that wasn't Luke's.

"No you don't."

A blinding white light flashed through the area causing everyone to cover their eyes. When Percy reopened his, next to Luke stood Boreas, with a grin across his face. In front of him was Rachel, her knees frozen to the ground, facing Percy. From her position it was obvious that her hands were also frozen together as was her mouth. Pure, raw hated coursed through Percy's veins and when he moved his gaze back the wind god, the deity flinched. Percy moved to run forward, but Luke's voice stopped him.

"Don't do that Percy or else I will be ecstatic that you have a very hot girlfriend." If at all possible Percy got even more enraged. "You see," Luke began again, "My mission here was to either kill you or break you. Either one worked honestly and I think Zeus would prefer if you were broken. The trick was, how? You didn't care for anyone except for your gang members, who are all good fighters." After this Luke bent down and started caressing Rachel's cheek with his hand. "It was a good thing we found about this pretty little thing isn't it?" Luke mocked, turning to face Percy with the last part. Rachel was glaring daggers at Luke but none of them seemed to hurt the demigod. Standing up Luke walked behind the red head, who was now looking at Percy with pleading green eyes. Locking Percy's eyes with his own. "Perseus Jackson. Today you will not break, but shatter." In one fluid motion , Luke drew his bronze and grays sword, and decapitated Rachel. Not even bothering to look at the stunned demigods reaction, Luke turned around and began walking away, sheathing his blood stained sword.

Screaming in rage, Percy ran straight at Luke only to be met by a mass of demigods. Not even caring about anything else but revenge, Percy's powers were in overdrive. Half of the demigods to get whiten striking distance were frozen solid only to be shattered by the demigod. The ones who were left didn't have much of a chance. Percy however saw none of it. None of these weaklings mattered. Only two people had his attention, Luke and Boreas. Lucky for him Boreas was coming straight for him. The now retreating demigods formed ranks behind the deity, knowing they were overmatched. Leaping straight for the god,Percy was shot back by a blast of wind. Now vulnerable and on the ground, Percy was surrounded and brought to his knees by the pegasus riders who had flown down and dismounted. Attempting to freeze the surrounding demigods, the trapped gang leader found Boreas was canceling his powers. The wind god strode up to Percy's kneeling form, and drew his wicked sharp pure white blade.

"It appears you will be broken in more ways then one today, demigod."

As Boreas brought the blade down, a hand wrapped around his throat and yanked him backwards. At the same time two beings appeared next to the demigod and quickly sent the demigods holding him scrambling back. A shocked Percy looked around to see Khione fighting her father while Cal and Zethes started to decimate the demigods. The twins were dressed in light blue armor with elegant spikes protruding from the shoulders horizontally and up ward from the knee joints. Cal held a massive spear and Zethes fought with a single sword, in graceful style. Khione faced her father in a beautiful white armor that appeared like a beautiful dress and seemed to flow with her movements. She weld dual swords that seemed identical to Percy's except the gems were sapphires.

Her style was smooth and athletic. She moved around her father and often lept over him and somehow made it look easy. Boreas looked absolutely horrified. He had no idea his daughter was this good and even if he did beat her his two sons and Perseus could easily finish the job. After about a minute, Khione managed to land a spin kick on her father, knocking him out and sending hid crumpling to the ground. Percy just stared at her in awe. Turning around her eyes locked on Percy as she ran over to the demigod and her brothers.

"We have to leave now!" she commanded.

"But my friends..." Percy started till he was cut off by the snow goddess.

"Left you when Boreas showed up. We have to leave."

Anger and sadness crashed into Percy all at once. Not only was the girl he was really starting to love dead, but his friends left him when he needed it most. Turning back to Khione he tried to hide the tears swelling in his eyes.

"Where are you going?" he demanded.

"To someone who wants the Olympians and their children dead just as much as you.," the goddess responded, her face hard and grim.

"And who would that be."

"Gaea, primordial goddess of earth."

**AN: Yes I just did that. **

** By the way please don't ill me for not updating I like living it's convenient. Life has just been crammed pack with stuff lately and I finally had a good amount of free tame to finish this. It is one of the longest chapters I have ever written, maybe even the longest. So please don't kill me**

** Yes some of this chapters was just time skips in words, but that's how it had to work. This was a filler chapter as is and if I drew those scenes out it would have taken forever.**

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	5. Chapter 5:A new purpose

Son of Khione

Chapter five: A new purpose

His face becoming stone cold, Percy gripped the goddesses now outstretched hand with a death grip. Nodding to her brothers, Khione then began to glow, turning into her true form. Closing his eyes tightly Percy barely felt the teleportation. Opening his eyes he looked around to see a ancient roman city. It could have passed as the real thing if it wasn't inhabited only by monsters and obviously in a cave of ice.

"Where are we?" Percy breathed.

"Alaska, the land beyond the gods, and current base of operations for Gaea's army," Khione answered, looking down and smiling lightly.

"If it's the land beyond the gods then how did you get here?" Percy asked, clearly confused.

"Gaea's influence allows to go anywhere in the world, as long as there is earth to land on." this time it was Zethes who spoke up. The demigod turned to him just as the god whipped masses of blood off his pure white weapon as he sheathed it. Cal had just finished doing the same with his spear.

"Khione! You made it!" a voice echoed across the not so busy streets.

Turning once again, Percy saw a girl a few years younger then him running up to the snow goddess. When she made it the two shared a brief embrace, before they separated and looked at the rest of the group. The new girl had brown hair and sky blue eyes.

"Hello Cal, Zethes," the woman greeted, a smile never leaving her face.

"Hello Hebe," Zethes greeted back, flashing the girl a dazzling smile. Percy would have laughed at the wind god's sudden change of attitude, but he was to busy slightly freaking out.

"Wait you're Hebe. As in daughter of Zeus and Hera wife of Heracles Hebe?" the demigod asked in complete and utter confusion. The goddess laughed and turned to face Percy.

"Yes that is me." Hebe paused but Percy didn't say anything so she continued. "And you must be Perseus. Your mother has told me so much about you."

Immediately Percy's face came together in fury. His body began to glow with a pure white aura.

"It looks like we have much to explain," Hebe sighed, completely ignoring the powerful raging demigod next to her.

Percy was about to lunge at the goddess before Cal put a steady hand on the demigod's shoulder. Shaking is head the god got his message through. Not now.

"There is our first strategy meeting going on in five. Percy grab onto someone, they know where to go," Hebe's happy voice ran throughout the city. The demigod calmed down enough to grab onto Cal's had just as the wind god flashed to the meeting place.

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The meeting started no more then five minutes later. When Percy had opened his eyes, he had found that the room he was in was massive. A the front of the room was two massive thrones, with a being sitting on each. On the slightly larger throne sat what looked like a woman made completely of mud. She had no expression but looked calmly over all the gathered beings. The other throne was occupied by what Percy could only call a living nightmare. It was constantly moving and shifting and changing but one thing always remained the same. It's appearance was always hideous. Percy turned to Khione and nodded to the two beings to show what he was asking.

"A manifestation of Gaea and Tartarus's powers. Despite the limited amount they are still powerful. Don't make them angry." Silencing a gulp Percy slowly nodded, showing his clear understanding.

Looking around the room, the demigod found that the rest of the space was taken up by a massive halve circle bench around two massive thrones. Wearily Percy took a seat in between Cal and Zephyr. The amount of monsters in the room was more then a bit disturbing, especially since many were eying him like a midday snack.

"Attention," a deep voice echoed throughout the room, easily bringing all existing chatter to a halt. Every pair eyes shifted to the two dominant deities. Once the room was dead silent, Gaea rose from her seat, and calmly strode up to the table before the half circle of chairs. The mud on the table shifted till it represented North America, with symbols on New York, Lon Island and San Francisco.

"My friends," the goddess began, her voice carrying clear confidence."We have waited long for this moment, this opportunity. Soon we will bring Olympus to its knees!" A round of cheers went up. "We have assembled an army, a plan, and even know the one of our enemies." By now the whole room was listening intently. "Hera plans to swap the leaders of the demigod camps in order to unite them! I will let her play her games then crush it before it can work!" More cheering. "When Hera sends her pawn into the Roman camp we will attack, wiping out the camp without the Greeks knowing it existed." The cheering dominated everything but the goddess's voice now. "We have an army," the goddess near whispered, causing the room to go silent. "All I need now is a general."

"I Polybotes volunteer!" a voice boomed around the room before anyone else could move. A massive being stood up and walked to the front of the room to stand before the two thrones. To Percy surprise Gaea smiled down at the monster. It was at least thirty feet tall with the torso and up being human. His legs however looked like the were made of snake scales. A massive trident was strapped onto his back. Wild green hair covered his head.

"Anyone else?" Tartarus boomed. Without thinking Percy hesitatingly stood up in his seat. All eyes shifted to him. For a second the demigod considered sitting down. No he couldn't do that. He needed this, needed to do something worth doing. Something that would put him down in history forever, would get him recognized by those foolish Olympians. He needed a position that would let him kill Luke. Confidence surging through him, Percy wordlessly strode forward from his seat in the back. Polybotes had looked back to see who else had come forward. A smirk stretched along the giants face as he stood to face the demigod. Then he began laughing.

"Little demigod. What right do you have to challenge me, a giant for such a powerful position?"

"I have every right!" Percy growled. His voice was low and absolutely venomous, his face covered in a deadly calm. The giant moved to speak was cut off. "Are you hailed the modern day bane of Olympus? Do you even know anything about how the world has changed in drastic way since you were KILLED?! Are you aware of the modern weaponry the demigods can arm themselves with?" Just to prove his point Percy pulled out one of his pistols that were hanging from his belt and fired it straight through the head of a Empousai who screamed and exploded into dust. "Can you keep monsters dead even with the doors of death opened?" The pile of gold dust that had been coming together froze in peaces, effectively trapping the monster. "Have you even ever led giant? All I remember from reading about your last war that you seemed pretty content to sit back and let your brother take the full blunt of Zeus." Percy was now standing in front of the massive deity, looking eyes with the giant. "Now tell me giant," the demigods voice was a scary calm once again, "What right do you have?"

Silence covered the room like a blanket. No on moved as the two primordial deities seemed to be weighing their options. As if they were in a telepathic conversation (Which they probably were) the two gods eyes seemed to focus on the two competitors at once. Gaea's face was blank while Tartarous's looked almost proud.

"Perseus Jackson will lead the attack on Camp Jupiter in eight months time," the deep voice of the pit boomed around the room. Only a single voice raised to challenge the primordial god.

"What kind of fool are you Tartarous, to pick a lowly demigod before a giant, one of your own children? Surly you plan for us to actually succeed in this battle against the Olympians?" Polybotes bellowed from his position next to Percy. "It would be dishonoring to fight beneath this lowly filth!" Before the giant could say anything else, his entire body went up in a black flame which ate away at the creatures flesh. A deep booming laugh came from Tartarous and was clearly audible over Polybotes earth shattering screams.

"You forget child. Victory is the greatest honor." The god flicked his wrist and the writhing giant exploded into pieces like shards of glass, the screams still echoing around the city. If the beings in the room were scared before, they were petrified now. As soon as Gaea muttered a "meeting dismissed every being except for a bold few shot for the exit. "Perseus, stay behind," the god of the pit said once almost everyone is gone. Hearing this Cal shot the demigod a worried look before leaving the room. Putting on his best poker face, Percy faced the two powerful gods. Once Tartarous was sure he had the demigod alone, he spoke a single sentence. "You have my favor Perseus, but remember, failure is not an option." The primordial turned to face his partner and Percy strode from the room, clearly being dismissed.

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Word spread quickly of what happened in the meeting room. Instead of looks of awe, Percy received mostly looks of hate. It was quite clear the monsters resented having a demigod as their general, especially with one leading the recent failure of the Titan war. None of the beasts moved to attack Percy though, no one wanted to anger Tartarous like Polybotes had. Despite this, one of the wind gods or Hebe seemed to be by Percy's side for the rest of the day. During the sloppily set up diner, it was announced that a small portion of the best of the best would be sent to Tartarous for what was described as 'personal training'. Unsurprisingly Percy was among the group, along with a dracanae who was called Queen Sess and a three bodied man named Geryon. There was only one other demigod in the group. He had dark blue eyes and dark black hair, like a Poseidon child.

That night, after a few brief goodbys, the group stood with the feared primordial god in the empty town square. With only one last sentence before snapping his fingers the deity sent the group plunging into hell.

"Remember, only the strong will survive."

**AN: Yes I know it took forever and I am so sorry about that. MY parents had the computer a lot lately and I got kicked outside a lot so that's that. Yes I am also aware that this is a much shorter chapter. I wanted to get this out so I could give myself some time to plan out what will happen in Tartarous. Sorry but it might take a bit. In the mean time drop a review on how I did on the introduction to the titan army and who the godly parent of the new demigod is. Please.**

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	6. Chapter 6: Boot camp in hell

Son of Khione

Chapter six: Boot camp in hell

Percy knew Tartarous wouldn't be the most hospitable place but he didn't exactly predict to be attacked as soon as he stepped through the portal to the deepest pit of the underworld. Before the group of supposed elites could let their heads clear from the nausea of teleporting, they were attacked by at least twenty dracane. They had been chosen for a reason though and the group quickly grouped together in a circle, halting the surprise charge. With the dracane's momentum halted the snake like monsters were easily slaughtered. The whole time the queen dracane screamed insults at the monsters declaring them all traitors. She didn't even stop once they were all dead. The monster queen's screams were cut off by the sound of a deep echoing laughter.

"No worries Queen Sess, they were acting on my orders." A tall being stepped out of the surrounding darkness. He had long brown hair that was pulled back behind a crimson war helmet that was splattered with streaks of black. The rest of his form was covered by matching body armor. Standing at fifteen feet tall the being was imposing, the clear power radiating from him making him even more so.

"Lord Perses, an honor," the monster with three chests said as he bowed.

"Geryon, as smooth as ever," the now identified titan laughed. By now all the other monsters had bowed but neither Percy nor the other demigod did. When Perses eyes landed on the two humans his eyes turned curious. "Why do you not bow, demigods."

"I didn't get to where I am by being submissive," Percy replied evenly, meeting the titans gaze. To everyone's surprise Perses simply nodded.

"Good, you have a backbone. Just make sure you don't make me angry with it." Without warning titan lunged at the other demigod, a crimson spear prepared to go straight through its victim. Just as quickly though the demigod rolled between his attacker's legs only to have to have to dodge a horizontal slash by the titan as he spun to face the demigod. The demigod took the opportunity to lunge at the titan but once again had to roll out of the way of the being's massive spear. Just as the monsters started cheering for the boy's death, Perses stopped and stared straight at the boy. "Just making sure your father didn't exaggerate your skills." In response the boy simply nodded, as if that is what he expected. Sweeping his gaze across the assembled monsters Perses then began to smirk in chilling glee. "Now then, let's get on with whipping you fools into shape shall we?"

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The group had been lead in a brisk pace through the fields of Tartarous to their barracks, if you could even call them hospitable. Instead of a bed and a small place to put your things, the three boxes of mud barely looked big enough for no more than ten people to lie down. There were no windows and the mud was already starting to droop apart. A young cyclops who had been the groups escort began to speak.

"These are your living quarters. Divide yourselves among them as you wish. If you find these not fulfilling to your needs Perses says you are permitted to build one. It will be done on your own time however and will not be used as an excuse to skip training." With that the small monster ran away, clearly encouraged by the hungry looks some of the elite monsters were giving him. Once the cyclops was out of sight, the monsters began to divide themselves among the three huts. Both of the demigods present received more than one wink from an empousa, but neither went close to the famous man killers. Quickly the only two left standing in the clearing were Percy and the other demigod.

"If we stay in one of those deathtraps were going to get eaten," Percy said, stating the obvious.

"I know," the other boy admitted, letting out a sigh.

"We could team up." At this the other demigod turned to face the son of Khione, curiosity lighting up his ocean blue eyes. "Everything in this stupid pit of hell trying to kill us. Another human down here is infinitely helpful." Now the other demigod was obviously weighing the obvious proposal in his head. "Besides it would be a lot easier to build a decent house with two people." Meeting his fellow human's eyes, Percy extended his hand. "What do you say," his voice trailed off at the end realizing he didn't know the teen's name.

"It's Andrew," the demigod said reaching out and shaking Percy's hand. "Andrew Stulris, son of Oceanus."

"Perseus, Percy Jackson. Son of some Chaos forsaken god." The pair shared a laugh, which echoed around the deepest parts of hell.

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Over the next hour the pair of demigods went their separate ways looking for something to build their house with. Building your own shelter was clearly a test. There were parts for multiple types of housing scattered just outside a mile radius from the mud huts.

Percy arrived back at the camp with a good haul of supports and obvious roofing material. Looking around the demigod didn't see any signs of Andrew arriving before him. Quickly dumping the materials near where he and Andrew had agreed to build their shelter. Percy set off to look for more materials. Beside the part of his brain that was constantly analyzing the surrounding plains of Tartarous, Percy's thoughts wandered. From what little he knew about the titans, Percy assumed the last person standing would be the one to get out of this hell hole and lead the monster armies on Camp Jupiter. That meant he would eventually have to kill Andrew. Percy would wait as long as possible to do that, humans were at a distinct disadvantage here, then again he would have to be ready at all times. Andrew might force his hand. Most of the other monsters wouldn't be a problem. Each of them were powerful yes, but complete loners. They would probably end up fighting each other or at the very least disagree on almost everything. Still alone each was a good fighter or had some stupid technicality that made them really hard to kill. Letting your guard down here was suicidal.

Not far away from camp Percy found a good set of boards that seemed sturdy enough. Picking them up carefully so he didn't get splinter the demigod made turned around only to run into Andrew who didn't look the least bit happy.

"Those scumbags took our stuff," the son of Oceanus growled. His hands were balled into fists and he was clearly out for monster dust. Good thing Percy had thought of this.

"Then we build the house out here and leave a guard," the demigod said evenly as if nothing had changed.

"How can you take this!? There testing us. We have to fight back!" Andrew was already yelling.

"I stained most of that stuff with demigod blood. Monsters will flock to it twenty four seven. Rest now no longer exists for our palls over there." Andrew's grin was so wide it hurt for Percy to look at.

"Your nastier then your attitude gives you credit for." Instead of taking the compliment Percy remembered his hellish childhood.

"The street life demands you be tougher then you look."

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Perses returned a few hours later making all the 'students' aware of his presence by smashing his spear into the ground. As the pair of demigods approached the group in front of the titan Percy saw the giant being's nose twitch slightly. A pair of glowing red eyes quickly met Percy's which was followed by a slight grin of approval. The sound of Perses clearing his throat brought all attention to the titan.

"Alright scrubs were having a set of spars. Each pair will be in the ring five minutes. Lethal force is encouraged. Attacking after the timer goes off will result in instant eradication. First off Andrew verses Polybots!" All around the monsters cheered as the legendary cyclops stepped away from the crowd and stared down his opponent as Andrew calmly pulled out what appeared to be a blue container until it extended into a five foot trident. Yelling Polybots charged Andrew, his club raised far over his head. Rolling to the side Andrew barely avoided the oncoming strike. Percy frowned, Andrew should have dodged that easily. The son of Oceanus was slower than before. Looking around Percy saw that Perses was the only other to notice. Turning back to the battle Percy saw that Polybots had Andrew stuck on his knees, his trident the only thing keeping his from getting a bone shattering blow. Earth shattering blows were coming at Andrew at lightning speed, it was a miracle that the demigod had lasted this long. Finally one blow had enough force behind it so it beat the trident into Andrew's shoulder. Shaken Andrew didn't see the club coming that would easily shatter his skull. Turns out he didn't have to. A wave of black water smashed into the cyclops from behind sending him into the ground face first. Blinking Percy swore that he saw faces in the water. Wobbling slightly Andrew rose to one knee. In the time it took him to rise all present heard the clear sobs now coming from Polybots.

Sweat pouring down his face Andrew raised his weapon and brought the prongs through his enemy's skull. With a scream Polybots shook violently and then went silenced. The entire crowd gathered went silent as the demigod stood and walked wordlessly back to his place next to Percy. Finally Perses began clapping.

"Bravo Andrew bravo!"

The matches went quickly after that. Only a few weaker monsters were the only ones to fall. Finally it was Percy's turn.

"Perseus verses Medusa," the titans voice rang out as murmurs stared among the crowd. Percy wore a wicked smirk as he stepped into the area that had been determined as the arena. Although the fact that sunglasses were being passed out was funny, that wasn't why the demigod was laughing inside. He had not only prepared for this matchup, he had hoped for it. Medusa was only effective if her stone power was and Percy could cancel that so easily. Once he and the monster were in the arena the female monster somehow missed his look of triumph. As soon as Perses gave the go ahead Medusa took off her sunglasses only to find that Percy was laughing. Across his eyes were a thick sheets of ice.

"You can't do that! Medusa shrieked as the demigod in front of her slowly made his way toward her, a look that promised death on his face. "Cheater!" she yelled but Percy kept advancing. "I will tear that frost from your eyes you weakling!" the monster screeched as she lunged at Percy in one last effort to kill him. Hearing her, a scowl crossed Percy's face. Luckily for him the focus of his anger was headed right toward him. In one smooth motion Percy drew one of his pure whit blades and stuck the point straight through the monsters heart. Momentum prevented Medusa from even having a chance of surviving. The body only stopped when it hit the hilt of the blade. Tilting the blade downward Percy allowed gravity to remove the corpse. Once it hit the ground with a resounding thud Percy wiped the blood off his blade on the monsters jacket. Silenced once again took over the gathered beings. Once again it was Perses who broke it.

"And with that we conclude todays training. Please try not to enjoy your stray in the pit that much!" A few nervous chuckles were the only response as the monsters made their way back to the cabins, avoiding the demigods like the plague. Eventually even Perses with one last look at the demigods flashed away from the area. For a few seconds neither demigod moved.

"Dude we have really got to stop killing important things," Percy muttered. Despite their situation Andrew bust out laughing.

"Na. Between you and me this is way too much fun." Another round of laughing followed as the two made their way back to their cabin.

Both demigods were exhausted by the time they made it back to their shelter. Despite the amount of time it took to assemble the wooden building it was nothing more than that, a shelter. The door only had one hinge holding it in place and the 'beds' were just a couple of planks separating the users from the toxic floor of Tartarous. However poor it was the shelter was infinitely better and safer than sleeping in the provided buildings and sleeping with monsters. So tired were the demigod they almost missed the corpse hanging in a noose from the already unstable ceiling. Andrew being the first to notice the body yelled in terror until quickly composing himself by taking a few deep breaths and audibly counting to ten. Percy took one look at the object in question and started mumbling a impressively long string of cuss words at the inconsideration the monsters had for the human sense of smell. Once he managed to fully recover Andrew looked at the corpse again and found attached to the noose was a massive note. Scrawled in terrible handwriting were the words "We WILL KILL you! PS. This one tasted amazing with a bit of centaur blood sauce." After reading the last sentence Andrew's eyes got slightly larger as he excused himself with the raise of a finger and ran outside. Even from inside Percy could hear the demigod throwing up, a lot.

Although neither would admit it, no human got any sleep that night in Tartarous.

"YOU DID THIS!" the voice of Nico di Angelo filled the big house. The normally quiet kid was standing in at the head of the ping pong table inside the big house's rec room. As soon as the battle had ended between the biker gang and the campers with the startling conclusion both sides had agreed to meet neutrally to figure out what the heck had happened. Despite the near visible tension things were getting done. They were at least until Chiron explained where the three snow gods' and Percy had gone. Nico, who hadn't said a word the entire meeting exploded, figuratively and near latterly with rage. "DO YOU KNOW HOW SCREWED WE ARE NOW!?" The shock from the outburst still hadn't wore off so all the son of Hades got for a response was silence. Opening his mouth to yell again Nico was cut off by Leo who looked thoroughly entertained as he tinkered with a paper clip with his feet relaxed on the table.

"Calm down kid you might scare the weak hearted kiddy campers." The members of the gang snickered except for Malcom who looked nervously at the son of Iris who had introduced himself as Butch. Finally having had enough Luke stood up and slammed his fist into the admittedly over abused ping pong table.

"I am tired of your guys crap! Chiron why haven't we killed these idiots yet? I'm sure we would all be better off." The gang braced themselves for Luke to launch himself at Leo after the son of Hephaestus made the inevitable blond comment until the very old looking centaur Chiron spoke to answer Luke's rhetorical question.

"You know the prophecy Luke. We need them."

"What prophecy!?" Thalia growled from hers spot at the head of the gang members. All the campers turned toward the blond daughter of Athena who Leo especially remembered introduced herself as Annabeth. After a slight nod of encouragement from Chiron she began to recite.

To Earth or Ice the world will fall

A web of lie and deceit surrounding one but affecting all

Enemies must surrender their pride

To work together as the hero fights a war inside

To this one the world is prone

All will fall before the son of Khione

"I really don't get what everyone is freaking out about," Leo muttered as all present attempted to put together the puzzle pieces that both Athena kids already had. "I mean Percy is powerful but he has ice powers and Khione is just an ironically hot winter goddesssssssss, crap."

"I agree with the creepy kid were screwed," one of the consolers breathed. No one really cared to figure out who it was.

"No were not," Annabeth said from her spot next to Chiron. The confidence in her voice caused a few of the camper's drooped shoulders to rise. "The prophecy confirms what we already know. Gaea will lie and manipulate Percy to get him to fight for her." A few nods came from around the table. "All we need is to show Percy that what we are fighting for is better than Gaea's plan for the world." Just as confidence was finally coming back into the room it was smashed again.

"You really don't understand do you?" Thalia said darkly, merely voicing what all the Silver Stallions were thinking. When Annabeth didn't respond the daughter of Zeus continued. "Percy already hates you far more than most of you couldn't understand. He want's nothing more than to watch Olympus burn to the ground. If he gets to kill an Olympian even better. You are going to need a far better reason than your precious city in the sky to get Percy to see logic. Have fun dying." Taking the obvious cue the rest of the Stallions stood up and followed their leader toward the door.

"That's it," Luke growled as he drew his sword Backbiter and prepared to throw it until he was distracted by a scream from behind him. Whirling Luke found Nico had shadow traveled behind Annabeth and shoved his blade against her neck and had used the shadows around him to bind her legs together.

"Now isn't this a familiar position we have here," Nico spat, humorless laughter threatening to overwhelm him. "I should kneel her down and remove her head. One step toward any of us and that's what happens. Luke could see the fear gripping Annabeth. For one of the few times in her life she didn't have a plan. "Do it hero," Nico taunted. "Allow me to take an eye for an eye." The entire room watched in horror as Luke snapped and threw himself at the son of Hades. Instead of decapitating Annabeth Nico threw her, straight into Luke's blade. The daughter of Athena screamed as the cold metal pierced he flesh. The room went to hell as Chiron rushed to Annabeth and Nico said one last sentence before vanishing. "Remember if she dies you killed her."

Far across the country in what looked like a throne room sat a teenage girl who sat upon one of the two throne like pedestals. Two automation dogs sat curled up at her feet, one gleamed gold the other silver. In front of the throne however was a massive wolf that easily dwarfed the automations. Its fierce brown eyes could easily see through ones lies and soul. The beasts black pelt made it seem almost invisible as it moved in and out of the shadows.

"The prophecy is being fulfilled isn't it?" the girl asked, which seemed delusional till the wolf responded in a deep voice.

"Yes pup, war is coming."

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	7. Chapter 7: Death will follow

Son of Khione

Disclaimer: Only Andrew and the plot are mine

Chapter seven: Death will follow

"This is probably the stupidest thing they could have made us done," Andrew muttered as he slid on the aqua blue helmet that matched the rest of his armor. Percy just snorted and let the demigod keep rambling. "I mean just because those idiot Greek demigods play this doesn't mean we have to."

"Well we're doing it so now all that we can do is survive." Andrew fell silent as he looked around at the monsters around them who were now their 'teammates'. Perses hadn't let the sleep last (as if either of the demigods got any anyway), and with an early announcement declared that the competitors would play a game of capture the flag. Both demigods were more on edge then they would care to show. The rest of their 'team' had assigned them as the people who defended the hill boarder between the two flags. It was obviously a set up. Not only would they take the blunt of almost any enemy attack they could be surrounded if their teammates tried to kill them as well.

"Should we just go straight for the flag?" Andrew asked quietly. Percy shook his head as an idea slowly began to form. Andrew didn't give up. "Why? I mean if we get the flag the game should end right?"

"I doubt that. These monsters want blood and Perses isn't going to do anything to stop them. If we end the game quickly we will be targeted very soon after."

"I assume you have a plan?" Andrew already knew the answer.

"I'm going to start a fist fight," Percy said with a wicked grin.

Line Break

The Silver Stallions were on their bikes and gone far before news of what had transpired in the Big House could spread around camp. Now they were racing through the streets of Manhattan putting as much distance as they could between themselves and their strawberry scented camp. In near record time they had made it into the non-urban part of New York. Around them stretched farmland for miles and miles. Still together they slowed down and pulled into one of the groups many safe houses that were scattered around the country. As soon as they were inside Nico voiced what everyone was thinking.

"We need to find Percy." Thalia would have hit the son of Hades for it stupidity but now wasn't the time.

"There's no way were going to find him if we don't split up," Malcom brought up.

"You're right," Thalia muttered letting out a sight. Splitting up was always a bad idea but now it was necessary. Silence took over the room as the daughter of Zeus paused to think out a plan. Finally she seemed to come back from a zone out and immediately began giving orders. "Leo go west along the most northern states. On your way back loop through the bottom of Alaska and through Canada. Malcom move south on the east coast states and move one state inland on the way back. Nico you're in charge of the west coast. Get there through the underworld if you think your dad will let you. I'll take a diagonal rout that hits down to the west side of Texas hit the coast and come back. Remember only use cell phones if necessary and don't attract attention. Contact Nico if you find anything that you think may count as Gaea related."

Each of the other silver stallions gave a nod as they made their way back to the bikes. When each was about to speed off they heard a subtle "Road trip," from Leo as they raced onto their routes.

As soon as the game had started every other member of Percy and Andrew's team vanished. Moving quickly but not at top speed the pair made their way to the River Acheron just as the first enemy attack reached their side. Gyron the three bodied being along with an especially vampire like Mormo , and a Manticore who was dressed in an old army commanders uniform had all already crossed the river and were charging the demigods. Calling upon his powers Percy created a massive wall of ice in the path of the charging monsters. The slope from which the monsters ran kept them from slowing down until they smashed face first into the wall, shattering it. As their opponents stumbled momentary to gather themselves both demigods leapt into the middle of the small group, picking and isolating a foe.

Andrew blasted the searing waters of the Acheron at the Mormo as it threw itself into the air, using desperate evasive moves to dodge the waters. Quickly though the creature recovered and bore its fangs as it dived straight at its demigod foe.

Percy launched himself into the air, both pure white swords raised over his head as he prepared to finish this before it started. The Manticare however composed itself and rolled out of the way just as Percy brought his swords in their downward arch. Lightning fast the demigod had to raise one sword to block a spike shot from the beast's tail. Springing back onto his feet Percy went on the offensive as the Manticare matched his movements and drew a sword of his own. The demigod thrusted one sword forward only to have it deflected by his opponents own blade as the other weapon was pulled back to block a swipe from the beasts tail. A quick burst of spikes followed and Percy was forced backward as he ducked and weaved through the projectiles. Percy found himself back to back with Andrew as the son of Oceanus fended off the dives of the Mormo with his staff's long reach. Spinning one hundred eighty degrees the demigods switched opponents.

Using both legs Percy launched himself into the air, meeting the Mormo head on. Momentum powering both beings the pure white blades Percy weld went through the beasts opened mouth, sliding easily through the exposed throat. Blood spilled from the wound and coated the blades as both demigod and monster fell to the ground. Percy turned as Andrew pressed a button on his staff causing a spike to shoot off the end of the weapon and pierce the Manticore. Moving as one both demigod launched themselves at Gyron, who had recovered just in time to see the death of his comrades. Being the first one there Percy shoved each of his blades through one of the monster's outer chest hearts. As Gyron screamed in pain Percy shoved the monster to the ground and rolled out of the way just as Andrew smashed the spiked part of his staff straight through Gyron's last heart. With one last wail of pain the rancher exploded into golden dust and was swept away by the Tartarous wind. Before either demigod could feel relief, they found themselves surrounded by the remaining monsters that had been sent to this place with them. Sharing only a single glance the demigods went back to back as the monsters charged the hill, trapping their targets in.

Nico had just made it to the underworld using the tunnel in the middle of central park. He had been lucky, not a single monster or annoying demigod had shown up yet. The boy knew his luck couldn't hold but he wasn't prepared for what await him. Now Nico trekked through the Fields of Asphodel when it happened. The shades rose form the ground, robes covering anything that would make them recognizable. Each held an elegant steel sword that reflected the dim light that shone through the underworld. They floated around him whispering as they tightened their circle.

"You will fall son of Hades. You will be the mothers."

Drawing his stagon iron sword Nico lunged at one of the circle of shades. The spirit shot backwards as the rest pounced, covering the son of Hades. Nico swung his sword in deadly arcs only for its path to be stopped every time until the weapon was ripped from his grasp by an unseen force. Whiten seconds Nico couldn't see anything other than the masked faces of the spirits. Slowly one shade detached itself from the rest and moved in front of the now kneeling demigod. One of its misty hands rested on the demigods head as it began chanting. Soon all signs of Nico resisting were gone as his eyes glazed over a slight dirt brown which was still mostly dominated by black. The dirt beneath Nico shifted till it formed the face of an old woman.

"Now child go to the camp. There you will find your assignment."

"Yes mistress," Nico responded as he bowed then shadow traveled from the underworld.

The demigods broke apart almost instantly as the wave of monsters crashed down upon them. Raising his swords in an x Percy met the first monster with a roar as he moved his blades faster than he ever had in his life. With a screech the monster fell, blood pouring from the new old in its stomach. From then on all he saw was red. It didn't matter what the daemons were or how many encircled him at once, each fell before the son of Khione. Raising both swords, one two each side, Percy blocked two incoming strikes. Spinning around he ripped one weapon from the clash it was locked in and brought it across another the other monster who was so focused on overpowering the other blade. Poor fool didn't see it coming till it was staring up from the ground in its own severed head.

Malcom was just hitting the Rhode Island boarder when it happened. At a speed that was clearly illegal an ATV shot out of the wheat field next to the road and smashed into the son of Athena's bike. Jarred from the impact he Malcom didn't see the massive six armed mud monsters till one picked him up and threw him back into the concrete a few yards away. Moaning the demigod made a futile grab for his sword when he was punched straight in the mouth by something that felt like one of Leo's hammers, minus the fire. When the demigod lay on the ground motionless one of the earthborn lumbered over to the body and knelt down, chanting as he did so. Whiten seconds Malcom's eyes reopened this time with a slight hint of dirt brown.

The Dracane came at him next. Her spears long reach keeping him outside her guard. For someone who could only slither the monster was impressively fast. It was really a smane Percy was faster. Ducking past an overextended thrust Percy brought both his blades onto the daemon's spear snapping the weapon with a satisfying sound that run through the depths of Tartarous. Hissing in frustration the snake women drew a sword from her scabbard and charged at the demigod. Leaping straight over the charge Percy flipped in midair as he tapped his extended fingers on the Dracane's scaly skull. Spinning to face his opponent Percy saw frost had covered the monster which was quickly turning into ice. Slowly the demigod tread over to the monster, blocking an earthborn's massive broadsword effortlessly as he then spun around to put both blades into the clay man's chest forcing him to melt back into the earth. His eyes holding nothing but disgust Percy cleaved the newly forming ice sculpture before the ice had even reached Queen Sess's eyes which in their final seconds wide with fear.

Leo had barely made it into Canada when it happened. Somehow he hadn't been able to see the freakin Vrykolakas before one of them raced beside him and bit through his rear tire. Grinding his teeth the demigod threw himself off his bike and into the sow, his body covered in flames before he rose to meet the undead werewolves. They hunted like any pack, encircling their pray slowly, taunting him.

"Come at me you stupid son of a." Apparently the undead could still hear because they cut the demigod up before he could finish his favorite curse. Leo blasted the first wolf to make it to him before ducking out of the way of another's leap. Pulling the twin five pound hammers out of his belt the son of Hephaestus lit the metal on fire and smashed the jaw of one wolf as another tore a gash into his thigh. Yelling Leo brought a hammer onto the monsters head but as soon as he turned another two wolves tackled the demigods to the ground as another two ripped the still flaming hammers from the boy's grasp. One wolf morphed into his human form right before the demigod's eyes as the others held him down. Pressing a palm to the demigods head the undead werewolf began chanting. Soon the demigod's eyes showed hints of dirt brown as the undead slipped back into the Canadian forest.

Percy had just cut a vicious Telekhines in halve when he heard the scream. Spinning around in shock Percy a werewolf he knew as Lycon pull a claw out of Andrews still body. Blood dripped from the talon as the werewolf raised his head and howled to a moon that didn't exist. Finally the dam that had been holding back Percy's power burst. A scream that he didn't hear ripped from the demigod's throat. Pure power radiated from the demigod as an ice storm began to rage around the entire field, with Percy sitting perfectly in the middle. Massive spikes rained from the sky as the demigod advanced on the remaining monsters. The few lucky ones were torn apart by the first spike to hit them. Most of the daemon's however had holes ripped through them by the lethal hail before finally disintegrating into dust. Lycon however wasn't even this lucky. His resistance to everything but silver kept the werewolf alive despite having more than a few bloody wounds from the rain of spikes. Percy finally reached the wolf and drawing both his swords drove them through the monsters shoulders pinning the terrified beast to the ground. With a mask of pure hate Percy reached down to pick up his fallen comrades spear. On the tip of the weapons only spike was a faint bit of silver. With one last look at his friends body Percy drove the spear through the dying monsters exposed throat, ending the creature. Without looking back Percy turned to face Andrews's corpse.

Thaila had no idea where she was but she dint really care, somewhere in Pennsylvania. This focus is what kept her from looking up and seeing the Venti as they advanced on her. One of the wind spirits shot a blast of wind to soot the bike off the road and into one of the wheat fields beside the road. Whiten seconds the daughter of Zeus had recovered and held out her celestial bronze spear. One of the Venti dived but was forced back by the girl's weapon. Soon however more of the wind spirits became bold as they dive bombed the demigod in greater numbers. Eventually one caught Thalia in the back and the girl was thrown into the dirt, trampling stocks of wheat as she did. The spirits encircled the girl as she reached for her spear which she had lost in her dive. A blast of wind knocked the girl into the dirt, knocking her out. One of the Venti moved forward and placed a vapor hand on the girls head, chanting as he did so. Quickly the girl's eyes snapped open, now with a trace of dirt brown.

Percy ran to Andrew still body, the tears already threatening to fall from his eyes. Only when he collapsed to his knees in front of the body did he see the slight rise and fall of his friend's chest. With great care Percy moved his friend into a sitting position as the son of Oceanus slowly opened his ocean blue eyes.

"We did it man," Percy whispered to the silent boy. "We got them all."

"This isn't done yet," Andrew forced out. "Only one of us is going to make it out alive." Rage filled Percy as Andrew kept talking. "We both knew that from the start Percy. This was bound to happen." The Percy was beyond words as Andrew than began to smile. "I knew it the whole time you would be the one to make it out Percy. You're a leader, you always know the best call." Tears were now falling down Percy's face. "I know for a fact that when the time comes you will do what is right." With one last breath Andrews's eyes closed as the demigod took his final breath.

Percy could no longer held back as tears stained his face in waves. A wail came from the keeling demigod as he tried desperately to calm hi shaking hands. Another look at his friend's body tore another rounds of sobs from the demigod as he hung his head, not wanting to face the world beyond this moment. This was how Perses found the demigod an hour later, sunken to his knees, heads hung limp at his sides with his eyes fixed on Andrews body.

** Wow that was intense to write. I admittedly listened to like four songs over and over for about an hour and a half as I wrote the second half of this chapter. I even almost cried writing about Andrew dying. Did you guys I need to know if anyone else cared about him at all. As always thanks for reading and please review. Thanks.**

**The four songs I listened to as writing to were…**

**Everybody wants to rule the world by Lorde**

**Coming Home by Diddy dirty money**

**Eyes open by Taylor Swift **

**How we do it by Cannon**

**So ya if anyone cares that's what I wrote most of this to. **

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	8. Chapter 8:Plots and guns

Son of Khione

Disclaimer: Don't own it except for my ocs' and plot

Chapter eight: Plots and guns

Percy didn't even care that Perses had to drag him from Andrew's body. All he could feel was an overwhelming sense of anguish, along with the sparks of anger that came with any form of pain. Anger at who caused you this pain. The demigod didn't even notice that he was standing in the middle of the town of ice that he had left not even two days ago. None of this reached his brain until Perses shook Percy near violently. Looking down to meet the demigods eyes Perses showed sympathy.

"You are a general now Perseus. This is war. Solders will die. That is how war works. All that matters is the mission." Quickly running a hand over his face, Percy tried to clear all the turmoil from his expression. Perses gave a nod of approval as many of Gaea's forces gathered around their new leader.

The first people to greet the new general was the children of Bores. Cal and Zethes wore huge smiles as they embraced the boy. Khione as normal showed little feeling but not even she could keep a look of pride off her face. All at once the celebration stopped as the face of Gaea appeared in the stone of the town square.

"There will be preparation meeting held in the senate hall in five minutes. All high ranking personnel report on time." The face melted back into the earth as the gathered gods and monsters began moving on to whatever they were doing before Percy's arrival. With a flick of her wrist Khione surrounded herself and Percy in mini blizzards, teleporting them to the senate house.

Camp was still shaken by the departure of the Silver Stallions. Annabeth had been cleared to leave the infirmary. This however failed to raise the spirits of even the veterans of the second titan war. The fate of the world still rested only the shoulders of a single person, but this time it was far worse. This time that single person was the enemy, and they had seriously pissed of him and all his friends. Not much chance of him coming to their side now. There were even rumors that talk had been made about killing Luke not only for getting them into this situation, but to appease Percy. Of course no one would dare go against Luke but the idea did little to help.

Despite what he tried to display to his students, Chiron was far from ok. This boy, Percy, hated them, and if the prophecy wasn't enough the boy was powerful. At first Chiron thought the boy was a god. The camp was in it deep now. Luke had burned every bridge they had it and now with Annabeth not at full strength who knew what the son of Hermes would do.

That's why the old centaur was currently making his way to the infirmary. Annabeth was about to be let out and Chiron needed to talk to her. Annabeth was level headed, calm, collected. The camp would need her leadership just as much as Luke's in the coming war. Shifting into his wheelchair Chiron rolled into the room only to see an empty and perfectly made bed. Franticly Chiron looked at the room number making sure he hadn't been mistaken. He wasn't. That was when he saw the peacock feather.

"Chiron! We found a girl on top of the hill. She claims she has no idea who she is!" Wheeling his way out of the room, Chiron let out a string of curses at the queen of the gods his brothers would have been impressed by.

The new girl had been unconscious when the campers came to, but slowly her eyes blinked open, widening as she saw about ten people surrounding her. Slowly the girl rose, shaking her head to try to clear the fog that was in it. She couldn't remember anything, anything but a name. Reyna. That must be her name. One of the people around her extended a hand toward her. Grasping it Reyna hauled herself shakily to her feet.

"Where am I?" The words came out in almost a whisper.

"You are safe child." Turning slightly Reyna saw a man in a wheel chair. He was in his late forties but all the kids her age seemed to respect him. He must be the leader. Seeing her expression the man formed a grim smile. "Come. We have much to discuss."

The instructions from Gaea had been very clear. March on New Rome in three days. Crush any and all resistance. Failure means eternity in Tartarus.

Percy now stood in front of his army as they made their way toward Seattle. His army. It still felt weird saying. Today his army would be put to the test. The Amazons were based in Seattle and Percy knew for a fact they would try to halt the approaching army's advance. His suspicion was confirmed when a scout came back with news that Seattle had been evacuated due to flooding warning. This was the test. First the Amazons and then, Rome.

The next day the army surrounded Seattle. Hastily made barricades were blocking every road into the city. Percy stood in front of his army, covered in a set of snow white armor that had spikes coming out of it like icicles at the joint areas. Both of his matching colored swords were strapped to his back. Standing on top of a wooden wall about three hundred yards away was Hylla, queen of the amazons. She wore an elaborate set of armor that showed her position. The armies' had been at a standstill for a little over an hour. Finally Percy decided, it was time.

"Hylla," the demigod yelled, his voice easily projection itself to the enemy. "Surrender, march with us on New Rome. This doesn't have to happen. Your people will be spared. We both know this battle can only end with your defeat." Percy let the words sink in. This was this the last chance he was giving the queen. He didn't have to wait long.

"You are delusional Perseus! Look around you. You are a demigod, monsters are your enemy! Gaea will never give you what you want!" Percy seriously hoped the queen was as desperate as she sounded.

"You are wrong Hylla. These monsters are not my enemy! They are my brothers in arms, and with me they will burn your city to the ground!" Turning to his army Percy gave one more command. "SOLDERS! DON'T LEAVE A SINGLE ONE LEFT STANDING! BURN THE CITY TO THE GROUND!"

Forming an ice path in front of him, Percy shot down the path as if on skates as a roar came from the army behind him. At a yell form the wall hundreds of arrows shot into the sky and raced toward the approaching army. Now whiten twenty yards of the wall, Percy shifted his path into a ramp. Shooting toward the wall, the demigod dodged the hail of arrows and spears that came his way. Throwing an ice dagger from each hand, Percy killed two amazons on the wall and landed in between their corpses. Every amazon on the roof seemed to be an archer. That made his job a ton easier. Percy ran down the wall tearing through amazons before they could even notch an arrow. By the time this section of the wall was clear, adrenalin raced through Percy in a way battle could achieve. Leaping off the wall Percy landed on the concrete, only to find himself surrounded by a massive group of amazons.

Swearing Percy threw himself at the first enemy he saw. Unprepared the amazon only managed to block the initial strike before Percy's second blade slid into her stomach. Percy managed to bring his blade up just in time to block a slash from another amazon as he used his sword to throw the injured amazon into another charging one, knocking her into the ground. Using his free sword Percy forced the pressing amazon to let off his right side so he could spin around and sweep another's legs out from them. Reflexes and instinct slowly took over as the circle around the demigod tightened. Slash, redirect, block, spin, stab. Percy would spin around and drive one sword through one enemy only to have to block one slash and dodge another. He was running out of space. Behind him Percy heard a crash but didn't turn to look. Not seconds later the amazons in front of him became swept away by a mass of monsters. The army had breached the walls.

Composing himself, Percy launched himself into the air and shooting off toward another wall. From his point in the air Percy smiled. The amazons were retreating, monsters having breached almost every entrance. It was however far from a desperate retreat. The amazons were converging in the middle with squads blocking off the monsters in alleyways, giving their comrades a chance to recover. Percy stopped his ice path and dropped toward the ground. Below him a squad of hellhounds who had shadow traveled to close to the enemy were surrounded by amazons and light.

With all the power of gravity Percy slammed into one of the amazons. Screaming as multiple bones in her body shattered at once the girl was silenced when her fractured skull collided with the ground. Spinning, Percy drew his swords and jammed them through the chest of the amazon next to him. Pulling one sword out Percy used the corpse as a shield as he jumped on an amazon and fainted high. The warrior took the bait hard and soon had a blade slide across her stomach. In one fluid motion Percy kept his slash's momentum and swiftly decapitated the amazon.

Now that the amazons circle was broken the hellhounds were now fighting with their commander, tarring their human enemies to shreds. His job done, Percy once again took to the air looking for the next trouble area. Whiten seconds he was in battle again, using ice spikes to tear apart a forklift driven by a man in an orange prison suit. From then on he was everywhere. As soon as one group was fine another met some sort of amazon problem. Finally the amazon's numbers were shrinking and they were down to less than one hundred. They were centered at their headquarters. Slowly the warriors were slipping through the door and heading presumably underground as a final stand. Percy's armor had splats of red and black sprayed across it from blood and concrete. He walked calmly from the monster ranks toward the remaining amazons. Concentrating all his energy the demigod felt a stab through his stomach as he unleashed his powers. Ice formed on the ground around the demigod in a circle and quickly shot out toward the headquarters. The temperature dropped rapidly and whiten seconds every amazon's breath was visible. Dark clouds began gathering around the building, that's when the first massive hail ball hit. After that it came in floods. Hail poured from the sky, larger faster, until finally it was the size of basketballs. The boulders of ice shattered into ice shards upon hitting the ground that would have been scary on their own. At least a dozen amazons died before they made it inside. Despite this most of the amazons were still alive. Their glass was impressively weather proof and was reflecting the hail chunks. Bringing his hands closer together in front of him, Percy began slowly sucking the power from the storm into a ball of pure energy between his hands.

The storm died as the ball of energy grew rapidly in size right in front of Percy. When the orb was almost half his size, Percy shoved the ball and it shot toward the building. The door didn't stand a chance. Once it tore through the door the orb exploded, unleashing a frozen hell on everyone inside. With a quick hand motion Percy began striding toward the building and he was soon flanked by a pair of Cyclops. Despite the creek of support beams Percy calmly walked into the room, taking in everything through his helmet's vizier. From one side of the room amazon twitched too much for Percy's liking. With a hand motion, one of the Cyclops walked over and smashed the woman's head. When Percy reached the elevator Percy merely stepped off the edge of the drop, freezing the corridor as he fell. Landing on a soft layer of snow beneath his feet, Percy took in the room in seconds. It was packed with boxes of both human and demigod things. Only one other being stood in the room. Hylla.

The queen's armor was dented and scratched to the point of almost being useless. Wariness clouded the girl's eyes as she faced the lone demigod before her. A spear was held tightly in her right hand. Waving his hand, Percy froze the elevator shaft, keeping everyone else out.

"I'm assuming the last of your troops are running with their tales between their legs," Percy mocked with a smile. Hylla's eyes narrowed as she began twirling her spear.

"I may not be the one to kill you Jackson but I will rest well knowing that someone will." A smirk spread across Percy's face.

"I'm sure that immortality isn't that hard. If Dionysus can get it anyone can."

Percy drew his swords as Hylla stepped forward to make the first move. She was fast, Percy would give her that. Being the daughter of a war god must have its advantages. Blocking the assault, Percy pressed back, bringing his swords in from both sides, forcing Hylla to use both sides of her spear. Slamming both swords down in an overhead strike, the weapons were soon stopped by the shaft of the spear. Hylla threw her weight into her spear, sending Percy stumbling backwards and on the defensive again. The pair fell into the age old dance of death. Each strike had a purpose, as did each block parry and counterstrike. Only the clashing of weapons filled the room as each combatant ducked, slashed and moved with their enemy. Moving out of the way of a thrust from Hylla, Percy brought one sward toward the queen's side only to be knocked to the side by the blunt end of a spinning spear. Backing up, Hylla tried to put some space between herself and Percy. Percy ran his vision around the room, looking for something to end this quickly. Spotting a crate with a very appealing label, he began climbing the side of the shelves, hoping Hylla couldn't throw her spear. Apparently she couldn't because the queen raced after him. She was better at this then Percy and was soon only a yard or so away from him. Finally Percy reached the box. A sturdy gripped wrapped around his ankle at that moment, causing the demigod to desperately grab the contents inside. Hylla pulled down hard, making Percy lose his grip. Flying through the air, Percy aimed the object he had raced for. With the squeeze of a trigger, a bullet ripped from the Colt revolver and into the queen's skull, killing her. Franticly, Percy gripped the side of one of the shelves, saving himself. The body wasn't so lucky as it crashed into the ground with a thud. Shoving the Colt inside his armor, Percy let himself drop the way down onto snow. Unfreezing the ice over the elevator, the demigod pressed the ground floor button and rode it up to the surface.

After what seemed like eternity the doors opened with a ding. Greeting him was a group of hellhounds who howled upon seeing him. The howls were soon joined by cheers as Percy made his way outside and was bowed to as a leader.

Standing around a table of mud were two of the oldest beings in the world. One was an old woman made purely of mud and the other was constructed of pure darkness. The table had the image of a boy dressed in white armor being bowed to by an entire army, their army.

"This idea had better work Gaea," the mad rumbled, his voice echoing in the blackness of the room.

"It will. We control everything he holds dear," the woman responded.

No more words were exchanged as both beings turned back toward the screen, each planning their next step.

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