Chapter One: My Brother Ruins my Life

Hello my fans, and welcome to a new story! This brilliant idea was crafted by a new friend of mine, and I felt that their story is just too good to be ignored. So onward to the story!

This story is just after the Kronos' defeat. Also this is an updated version.

Percy's POV

You know, my life was going really well, the war has ended, I got my love to love me back, and everyone was happy, until today that is; the day my life finally collapsed in on itself and it was slowly ending as I laid on the ground, faced down and suffering from unimaginable pain. No, it wasn't a monster that got me, but the very people I thought were my friends . . . my family. They sun was setting as I lay here, waiting for death to take me, memories of my past appeared at first they were just pictures until they started reaching closer to the present. They started to become videos, showing me what I saw, how I felt, and what I thought. I relived through all my hardships, all of my joys in the world, and even ones I wished I would forget; much like these past few days. These days are one some I wouldn't mind losing, but it seems that the fates wanted me to remember it.

Flashback!

I smiled at the sky as a gentle win blew over me. Peace has seemingly come to the gods and demigods. Currently I sat on Camp Half-Blood's hill under Thalia's Tree, Peleus' head lying in my lap as I pet him. Though the peace didn't last long, as I saw a male demigod running form the forest, behind him was five hell hounds. Quickly I stood and took out my trusty sword, Riptide, and prepared to help the boy. Peleus stood ready to guard the tree, letting me handle getting the boy, but I knew he was ready to help me if I needed it. I slowly started walking towards them; they looked ready to charge at me, but stopped as they recognized me. They became more cautious and started growling at me as I neared them. In return I glared at them as I got my shield out from its watch form. During the shield formation was when the dogs attacked, but they foolishly misread what I was doing. I was prepared for them; I wanted them to do this. It was all part of my plan. When the first one arrived in front of me, I quickly slashed its head off making it turn to dust. The second and third one tried double teaming me but I stabbed the second one in the mouth as it tried to bite me, and I smashed the third's face in with my shield. The third hell hound tried attacking me, but it was still daze and ended up running into my sword. I chuckled as it did that, but it died quickly as my gazed landed on the last two hounds, they seemed smarted than the previous three. They started to growl at me and showed their fangs in attempts to intimidate me, but I've faced the lord of time before, compared to that, they are nothing. One charged at me while I charged as well. It try to take me down by jumping on me, but I quickly slid under it, giving me the perfect chance to slice its stomach open, quickly killing it. I got up to find the last one turning to dust as the boy who I went to save stood behind it with a bronze knife. I smiled at the boy in thanks, as he gave me a weak one back.

"Thanks for the assist . . ." I stared but I didn't know his name, he seemed to understand and quickly filled in what was missing.

"Harry, Harry Sailor is my name." The boy said as I nodded waved him for him to follow me.

"So do you know of the Mythological world?" I asked as he nodded, surprising me.

"Yeah, my father told me all about it. He's Poseidon, God of the Seas." Harry said proudly, I suddenly felt hurt at the fact my father had another child and he helped him when I got noting; but I ignored it and smiled at the boy.

"Well, that makes us brothers, Harry!" I said as I threw my arm over his shoulder as I lead him to the Big House, where I could see Chiron sitting in his wheel chair reading a book quietly. I had Harry stop as I approached my favorite teacher.

"Chiron, we've got a new camper. Perhaps you want to show him the ropes." I asked of Chiron as he looked up and saw Harry.

"Ah, so we do, come, child. Let's get you situated. Your parent should claim you soon." He said as I quickly butted in.

"He already knows his father; it's the same as mine." I said as Chiron looked at me a bit surprise.

"Well the, while you may know, we still have to wait for him to claim you. Can't be too careful." He said as he led Harry inside the Big House.

"Ah, Percy, don't you have something to do right now?" Chiron asked with a knowing sparkle in his eye. My eyes widen as I remembered what it was I was supposed to do.

"Ah, thanks Chiron! See you around bro!" I said as I left the two and quickly ran to my cabin, upon entering, I quickly searched through my things, I recently got something that my Wise Girl will love, I just know it! I soon found what I was looking for; it was a rare 3D puzzle of the Athens Parthenon, along with a book about it. What are they for? Well her birthday is coming up, and I know how much she likes it. Smiling at the thought of how much she would enjoy it, I then ran to the beach where I asked her to be for a surprise. There I found her, in all of her beauty, Annabeth. She was currently reading something, which I didn't pay much attention to. She looked over at me and smiled.

"Hey Seaweed Brain, what's this surprise?" She asked as I scratched the back of my head. Even though I knew she'll love it, I still felt nervous about giving it to her, perhaps I was wrong and she'll hate it, or she already has it, or-

"Will you just show it to me already? I'm sure it's good." She said with a reassuring smile. In relief I hand her the presents, and her eyes widen at the sight.

"Where did you find these? I couldn't ever find them!" She asked as I shrugged as I smiled at her. "Oh well, you know, I had some help for a few friends, they really were the ones to get it, I just paid for it." I said with a slight blush as she smiled and kissed me. I smiled big as the kiss felt as if it sent me to cloud nine, but who would have known that, today would be my last day of happiness for the foreseeable future?

Day Two

Today I couldn't hang with my brother, as I had a sword training class to teach. Though people from the Ares Cabin seemed to be glaring at me, and doing everything they could to make teaching difficult; by either ignoring what I told them to practice or do the exact opposite. When class ended I searched out Clarisse to find out what's wrong with her siblings, but instead of being somewhat friendly she glared at me.

"Why did you attack my brothers?!" She asked angrily while her glare hardened

"Whoa, whoa, whoa I did no such thing!" I defended myself as she huffed.

"Well, who else owns Riptide other than you and is able to fight as good as you?" She asked me.

"I swear that I didn't do it, please, you know me I wouldn't do that!" I tried to explain to her that "Shut up Prissy, apparently I don't!" She said as she punched my face, leaving me dazed as she stormed off. Thanks to my curse of Achilles, the punch didn't really have any lasting effect on me.

Day Three

The next day, everything was going smoothly and began to think yesterday was a fluke until the day was nearing lunch. I wanted take some of my mom's famous blue chocolate chip cookies, since my dad was also a fan of them, but when I arrive at the spot in my cabin where I hid them, I found that they were gone. It really confused me where they could have gone, since only I knew where they were, but got over it pretty quickly since my mom loves to bake; I was sure that I would get more when I visited her. When I left my cabin to go to the Mess Hall, I saw the Strolls walking by with blacken faces, as if one of their pranks went wrong. Worriedly I ran up to them.

"Hey guys what happened? It looks like one of your pranks backfired." I said as they glared at me

"Yeah, our latest prank did backfire. But you should know all about it since you're the one who sabotaged it." Travis said as I looked at him in confusion.

"No . . . I didn't even know you two had a prank planned out. How did you know it was me that did it?" I asked as they held up my missing bag of blue cookies.

"Do these look familiar?" Conner asked as I looked at them with a frown.

"Those are my cookies, the ones that were stolen." I told them as they rolled their eyes.

"Yeah right, nobody has found them, not even us! I thought we were friends, well apparently not." Travis finished as his twin nodded and they stormed away.

Day Four

The fourth day I decided to stay to see Chiron about the issue of someone blaming me for their crimes. When I arrived I saw Chiron reading the same book that I've saw him reading days ago.

"Chiron . . . I thought that you would be done with that." I said as Chiron looked up at me and smiled while shutting his book.

"Ah, one would think so, but you seem to forget that I have to train other demigods. I don't get much time to read. Now what is it that I can do for you? Perhaps you need help with the wrong doings you are being blamed for?" He asked standing up from his magical wheel chair as I stared a little surprised that he knew that, not that I thought it wouldn't hear about it, just that I never thought he would guess why I was here.

"Seems to me that I hit the nail on the head; and just so you know, I do not believe you to be the one responsible for those issues. Though I also don't have a lead on whom it really is either." Chiron said as he walked forward and placed his hands on my shoulders and sighed.

"Normally I would help you clear this mess up, but I was asked by a god earlier today to help their child come here safely, because of this I can't help you. I'm sorry." He said with a sad smile as I smiled back at him.

"Chiron, thank you for wanting to help me . . . don't worry I'll try to fix this on my own." I said as he smiled at me and patted my back

"That's good to hear my boy . . . I'll see you in a few weeks." He said as he left, I sighed as I wondered what to do. My Wise Girl was out of the question, she was called by her mother to help her with something, I wasn't told what, but I trust her. So I decided to go and try to contact Thalia. I went back to my cabin where I grabbed a drachma and tossed it into the mist created by my fountain in the cabin, given to me by my father. It disappeared and I smiled as Iris took my offering. I then quickly asked to be connected to Thalia. Soon she appeared and I found myself blushing madly as I noticed her changing, she then noticed me and her face too turned red as well. In a panic she waved her hand through the rainbow, breaking our connection. I sat on my bed with a red face, wide eyes, and muttering prays to that she doesn't kill me the next time she sees me. A few minutes passed and soon a rainbow appeared before me, showing an angry Thalia and unfortunately, Artemis as well. Seeing them sent me through a panic.

"I-I-I didn't mean to-to do that I-I swear! I-I di-didn't know y-you were ch-changing!" I said as I Thalia sighed a shock her head.

"Fine, but I'll pay you back for that." She told me as Artemis spoke up.

"Perseus, what did you need from my lieutenant?" She said, but I could tell she was trying to keep calm.

"I need advice . . . I didn't want to bother her, but no one else is available and Nico isn't really the best at advice giving." I said as Artemis nodded.

"Well then, I leave you to it. Oh and I understand it was an accident, but it would still be in your best interest to forget it." She said as I nodded quickly as she left.

"Well, what do you want Kelp for Brains?" She asked as I began explaining to her the problem.

"And you sure it's not Henry? I mean that base on what you said this started once he arrived." Thalia said as I shook my head.

"I'm sure, he's always be trying to help me, and never shown any intent to hurt me." I told her as she nodded.

"Okay . . . but you still can't factor him out." She said as I nodded, and was going to speak again, when a knock was at my cabin door.

"Sorry Thalia, I got to go, someone's is trying to get my attention." I said as she nodded and I swiped my hand through the rainbow, making it disappear, and answered the door. Behind it was an enraged Katie who slapped me. I looked at her surprised as I she growled at me.

"Don't act dumb Son of Poseidon; I know you were the one who destroyed my garden a few minutes ago. I have a witness calming that they saw you do it" She said as I denied her claim.

"I did no such thing! I was talking to Thalia for like ten minutes. How could I possible do that during it?" I asked as she rolled her eyes.

"Lie all you want Jackson, but I still got my witness." Katie said as she left me as I walked back to my bed and sat done.

"Perhaps I sure talk to Henry . . . maybe Thalia was right." I said to myself as I decided to go train for a bit. It was a few hours later, after showing some training dummies my skills, was when I saw Grover stomping up to me and I looked a bit concerned.

"Hey G-man, what's wrong?" he asked as he looked at me and sighed.

"Oh, you know just the normal things, mortals mistreating the wild and such. Sorry if I looked like I was going to yell at you. I was just made about that, but I really did want to talk to you." He said as I nodded for him to continue.

"Well, I thinking of traveling the country to help protect the forests, and I wanted to know your opinion about it." He finished as I smiled at him.

"I think you should go and do it, sure it means leaving everything, but it's something you want to do right." I said as he nodded.

"So don't worry about it, okay? Just be sure that Juniper knows okay? I'm sure she would be worried about you if you leave without telling her." I said as he chuckled.

"Already thought of that, here look." Grover said as he held up a leaf.

"Okay . . . a leaf?" I asked as he blushed a bit.

"Oh sorry, it's from Juniper's Tree; I've enhanced it so we can communicate without having to use a drachma." Grover said as I looked at him impressed.

"Wow . . . pretty cleaver, truth is that I never thought that was possible." I told him as Grover smiled.

"Well it only works if you're both nature creatures such as I and Juniper. So demigods can't really use it, sorry." He said as I shook my head.

"Don't be, I'm glad for you, but when do you plan on leaving?" I asked as Grover's face lit up.

"Oh yeah, I was planning on leaving tonight. Sorry it's so soon, but I heard some mortals planning to destroy a section of the forest to build a mall or something, so got to be there fast! See you later Percy!" Grover said as he patted my shoulder and hurried away. I smiled as he left, and then saw my brother walking up to me.

"Hey bro, can we talk? I think I might have found the one hurting your rep." Harry said as I nodded.

"But not here, let's go somewhere more private." He added as he started leading me away, into the forest, where I would lose everything. We walked for a bit before Harry stopped at a random clearing in the woods.

"So, who's the one trying to ruin my rep?" I asked as Harry started chuckling darkly.

"Oh you really are a Seaweed Brain, aren't you?" He asked leaving me confused as he suddenly drew a sword from nowhere and swung at me.

"Whoa! What are you doing?!" I asked him as he smiled twistedly at me.

"Don't you see Percy? It was ME! I was doing all the wrong doing in you name! I was behind it all!" Harry said as he swung at me again, and response I pulled out Riptide and blocked it, but he held his blade against mine.

"Though, I feel like I should inform you that I wasn't alone . . . there was another master mind with me and she was the one who really planed it all I only acted." Harry told me as he moved his head near my ear and whispered a name I thought I would never hear: Annabeth. In a rage I pushed him back and punched his face, probably breaking his nose, as he fell down. But he didn't look mad at all, in fact he looked pleased, but I ignored it and glared down on him.

"Lies . . . my Wise Girl would never hurt someone who didn't deserve it!" I said as he laughed again.

"Oh you really believe that? Let's see what happens!" Harry said as I stared at him confused as he suddenly started shouting

"PERCY, PLEASE STOP! I'M YOUR BROTHER!" He shouted as I heard many footsteps heading our way, and from the tree line was most of camp, led by Annabeth. She had a smug look on as I suddenly felt something stab me, it was true. Annabeth ran towards Harry and started looking him over, when she saw the blood coming from his nose she turned on me.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO HIM? HE ALWAYS DEFENDED YOU!" She shouted at me getting the others to begin shouting as well. I looked around as I tried to find a friendly face, but soon realized that all of my remaining friends were not here. I tried explaining to them, but they ignored it like every time I tried to defend myself. Suddenly a bright flash appeared between us, we looked away until it faded and I found my father there. At first I thought he was going to help me, but soon I saw his frown.

"Percy . . . I'm very disappointed in you. I wanted to believe that you were not responsible of the crimes that were said to be caused by you. But seeing you here, with your brother's nose bleeding and the campers against you, I now know that your brother was right. You leave me no choice." He told me as I wondered what he was talking about, however I didn't have to wonder long.

"PERSUSE JACKSON, I DISOWN YOU!" My father yelled as I felt as if half of me left. I stared shocked as my former father looked away in disappointment and went to help Annabeth tack my former brother away and towards the camp, with the campers leaving with them, but not before they glared at me one last time. After I was alone, I felt a pain, a pain far worse than taking a dip in the Styx. Riptide slipped from my hands and was stabbed into the ground. The pain was so intense that I couldn't even scream as I fell forwards onto the ground.

Flashback End

That was how I ended up on the ground suffering. I painfully rolled over and looked up at the stars, and saw the constellation that Zoe became; The Huntress, her eyes were sparkling, as if she were crying for me. Perhaps she is . . .

Third Person

Percy laid there, his mind becoming numb from the pain he's in. Unknown to him, his black hair was losing its color and turning white His sea green eyes also faded to being a greyish white. Under his shit, were black cracks spreading from the center of his chest. Next to him, Riptide was experiencing the same cracks, but at a much faster rate. It suddenly fell to shards of the sword, but Percy never saw nor heard it, his vision and hearing had gone before the blade shattered. The fragments of Riptide glowed, a light blue color before floating up and started surrounding Percy's fallen form. The then stopped and shot into Percy, ripping his shirt and acting like stitching to try to prevent the cracks from spreading, but they only reduced the damaged and slowed it down. Though it did give Percy's sight and hearing back, and enabled him to move again. Slowly Percy got up, his numbed body made it hard for him but he managed. So slowly Percy limped back towards the camp. It seemed like hours for the form son of the sea, but he finally made it to the camp. He was passing the fire when the pain came back and made him fall again. Riptide was forced from his body and the shards land around him. Percy's senses left him and soon his consciousness left him. However someone saw Percy fall the second time the campfire's flames shot into the air and when it calmed Hestia was there. She quickly went to Percy and flipped him over; she stared shocked at his features. She could barely recognize him, with his white hair but she could still feel his energy, even though it was nearly completely different from the last time she saw him.

"Percy what happened to you?!" Hestia asked to no one as she looked him over. When she looked at his chest through some of the rips in his shirt she saw the black cracks and she felt her heart stop. She knew what this was, but she had known idea what had caused it . . . Soul Fracture. Hestia had only read of this in an ancient book, and even that had little to give. Though she knew if she didn't do something quick, Percy will die, or worse . . . fade. She knew she needed to find its beginning; perhaps she could fix it somehow. Hestia grabbed his shirt and ripped it off; it was already ruined so it didn't matter. She looked over his exposed chest and found a small black circle, which seemed to go deeper into his chest. She froze, nothing came to her, she couldn't think of a single thing to stop this! In despair Hestia grabbed her head as it raced to try and figure out what to do. She couldn't let the boy who gave, her and her younger brother Hades, so much recognition and respect to fall like this. It was then she realized that she couldn't feel Poseidon's energy in him anymore, it was completely gone. But how is that possible; perhaps his memories held the answer. So Hestia laid her hand and Percy's forehead and reviewed his most recent memories. She saw everything, all the betrayal and his true friends currently out of camp, and Poseidon's exclaim.

"He disowned him . . ." She said as she gritted her teeth, her brother would surely feel her wrath, but Percy currently needed her. Only one idea came to mind and that was to replace Poseidon's missing energy with her own energy. She brought up her hand and started channeling her energy, all around her hand reddish orange spheres appeared, and with a silent will, the combined into one larger one. Hestia then started to make the large sphere become smaller by condensing it to the size of a marble, and then she shoved it into Percy's chest, where the black circle was. It easily accepted it and the black lines glowed a reddish orange before disappearing. Hestia sighed in relieve and closed her eyes as her heart slowed down to a normal pace. When she looked back to Percy, she was taken back as his hair was now red like hers. Out of curiosity she opened on of his eye lids and saw her yellowish orange colored eye staring into nothingness.

'What's going on . . . Percy's starting to gain my features, as if he was my . . . child.' Hestia thought as she felt a warm feeling spread through her. She smiled as she knew that this was what a mother felt looking at her child. While she was lost in the new feeling of motherhood, Hestia failed to notice the shards of riptide slowly maneuvered themselves into the shape of the Huntress. They glowed and the mock constellation that was Zoe became the real Zoe. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around confused. The last thing Zoe remembered was seeing Percy being betrayed and wanting to help him. Zoe got up with a groan, alerting Hestia and she stared at the revived former hunter, and then to the sky to see that The Huntress was still there. Zoe tried to get up, but found her body to be very stiff and so she decided to look around the best she could and saw Hestia and a boy that looked a bit like Percy.

"Lady Hestia . . . where's Percy?" Zoe croaked out as Hestia looked back at her.

"This is him; I'll explain more to you later. I must look after Percy in a safer environment." Hestia said lifting Percy with strength Zoe didn't know she had.

"Are you coming?" She asked as Zoe tried to move but still couldn't.

"Sorry . . . I can't really move." Zoe said as Hestia smiled warmly.

"I understand, let me help you." She told the former hunter as she willed the flames of the Campfire to lift Zoe without harming her and the three vanished from sight.

Well, here's an updated chapter to Hestia's Flame. I hope it's better than the pervious version.