Me Against The World-Simple Plan

I'm a nightmare, a disaster
That's what they always said
I'm a lost cause, not a hero
But I'll make it on my own
I've gotta prove them wrong
Me against the world
It's me against the world

-Me against the world: Simple Plan

Percy POV

Slash. Thrust. Block. Duck. Those are the only 4 words I
could think in the last 5 days. It had been 5 days since the defeat of Gaia and everyone was celebrating, save for me who preferred to train in the arena while everyone else was at the party.

I've been training and sparring since my girlfriend, the oh so gorgeous Annabeth Chase, publicly announced her relationship with his half-brother, Jacob Hoff. Yeah, Poseidon wasn't joking when he said I had more siblings.

Annabeth had broken up with me a few months after I came
back from Camp Jupiter. I, like the gentleman I was, accepted it honorably because I loved (and still love) her. She claimed that we had grown apart, which was true. See, I had not been part of the seven, despite being taken to the roman camp. I was just the link between the two and nothing more. My brother replaced him in the prophecy and with the help of the rest of the seven, Nico, and Thalia they all defeated Gaia together. I, on the other hand, had taken on the Giants with a few of my friends, Trent Blackwood son of Thanatos, Violet Winters daughter of the Roman goddess Libitina, Alex Bane daughter of Apollo, Kane Greene son of Dionysus, Jun Kirman son of Hemera, Tara Robinson daughter of Hephaestus, Tori Holder daughter of Nike and Dallas Colt son of Mars. The 9 of us had taken down the Giants all by themselves. But we got no credit. Why? Everyone assumed that when Gaia was defeated, her children (the giants) lost their source of powers and died. It's like how when Kronos was destroyed, everyone assumed his palace just fell with him, but in reality, it was the Romans who took it down. And since no one saw my friends or me in the fight, they thought I had run away and that we were cowards. And thus, camp hated us.

But back to the point, I still loved Annabeth even after their break up so I wasn't going to scream or attack her for
breaking up with me. And then going out with my half brother whom she grew very close to since they were both part of the seven. Basically, Jacob replaced me. I used all of that anger I had stored up from those experiences for training.

I let out my frustration on the dummy I was fighting with. I slashed and hacked it with skill and then I got tried of training so I stabbed it with riptide. The dummy was ripped and
mangled with the stuffing all over the ground and riptide impaled in it. I yanked his sword out of the thrashed dummy and admired my work. If that had been Jacob... I stopped those thoughts quickly as I remembered Jacob was dating Annabeth and I would do anything to make her happy.

I sighed and dropped Riptide to the ground with a
thump and fell to the sand floor of the arena. I put my head in my hands as I remembered the pain and sadness I felt when Annabeth told me, "I think we should take a break." Of course I asked why, any sane person would. She said that we had grown apart while she had become closer to the seven. "It's for the best," she said with a look on her face she used when she was thinking of Luke. At that, I groaned internally as I thought of being compared to the dead son of Hermes. Then when she mentioned Jacob, her face lit up like she used to do when she mentioned my name to anyone.

Jacob, I groaned in his mind. The son of Poseidon
who was, according to the Aphrodite girls, 'totally yummy!' He has long, overly shaggy brown hair, and hazel eyes. He doesn't have sea green because apparently he's 'special'. Yeah, he's special like special ed! He was short if you ask me, and a bit scrawny too. But if that's what girls find good looking, then I must be the ugliest guy on Earth. He was arrogant, and cocky not to mention rude. I mean, seriously? He spit on Chiron's hooves for telling him that he had couldn't maim anyone in capture the flag. But from what Annabeth told me, he was really sweet and passionate. I snorted at that. I wasn't here when he came to camp, but apparently he came here after he ran away because his parents wouldn't give him a new iPhone. Can anyone else say spoiled brat? But he acts like it's as bad as what Thalia's mother had done to her or how Annabeth's parents used to ignore her. He eventually made up with his parents for the 'terrible' thing they did to him and lives with them during the school year. You're probably asking about my parents. Well, they died in a hellhound attack. Apparently my scent was all over the apartment. Isn't it great knowing that it was your fault your parents were dead?

I figured I should finally get out of the arena so I picked up riptide and capped it and walked at the door. As soon as I placed my foot out of the door, I was met by shouts and screams. Shit, it looked like everyone in camp was here. "Coward!" One shouted and I recognized it as Jason. Jason
and I had never got along, and especially after Gaia's defeat. Neither had Piper or Leo. Frank and Hazel didn't hate me as much as them, but they still disliked me. We had worked on the quest together and had been best friends, but they too grew closer to Jacob then me.

"You should be ashamed to show your face!" That one was Thalia and it hurt since she used to be like my sister. She hated me too after she heard about me 'being a coward and running away from the fight.' I had tried to tell everyone that I had taken on the giants but they say "Oh, shut up. Everyone knows the Giants were killed when Gaia was defeated! Don't take credit for something you didn't do!"

People continued to shout insults at me and all I could do was stand there and take them. But lucky for me, Dallas Colt, son of Mars and Tara Robinson, daughter of Hephaestus
stepped in front of me so they could defend me from the angry mob. They had fought the giants with me and became pretty good friends of mine.

At the presence of my two friends, the camp grew louder and there screams and howls were louder. Dallas gazed at them all with an angrier then the usual angry look on his face. Tara's dark blue eyes hardened and gazed at the crowd with an icy fire in them. They were both daring the crowd to attack me, which I did not like, but nobody seemed to accept their challenge.

I can see why they wouldn't attack Dallas and Tara. Tara had pin straight blonde hair that fell a bit past her shoulders and dark blue eyes. Tara had three stud piercings in her left ear and two in her right ear. She had a light tan and looked a like a California girl. It would be so hard to attack her with her nice, California girl appearance, especially since she was wearing a shirt that said 'free hugs'.

The crowd wasn't attacking Dallas for a completely different
reason. Dallas had short brown hair that's cut short and spiked up, and pale blue eyes. He was ripped and had a light tan, and he looked like an ice sculpture. He was wearing a tight diesel v-neck that exposed every muscle in his body and a tattoo on his left bicep of two ancient Roman soldiers fighting each other to death and farther down on his lefe forearm was his tattoo from Camp Jupiter. Then on his right hand he had a bullet wound from a cop that had shot him years ago. But the thing that must have made the campers not attack him was that cold and proud look on his face. So yes, Dallas was very intimidating.

"COWARDS! People died and you just ran off!" Jacob shouted at Tara, Dallas and I. I was getting angrier and angrier by the second and the insults kept coming. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Dallas reach to take out his spatha, but he paused when Tara shot him a look saying don't-make-this-any-worse-then-it-has-to-be, but the crowd kept closing in on us as if they were trying to corner us. We knew we couldn't fight the crowd that started to randomly attack us so we backed up into the arena and the mob followed. We were officially trapped. I knew that camp was angry with us because they thought we were cowards and ran from the fight, but killing us was a little extreme. Regardless of it being extreme, the Greeks and Romans cornered us in the arena. However, they couldn't decapitate us because two strong hands reached out from behind us and grabbed us and shadow traveled us away from the mob.

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After the dizzy and unpleasant experience known as shadow travel was over, I took in my surroundings. I was in a dark room, and I recognized it as the bunker the Greeks used in the civil war against the Romans that my friends and I had found. It was lit with green torches that burned with Greek fire on the dark stonewall. We had recently furnished the room as well. On the leather couch in front of the TV sat Kane Greene, son of Dionysus. He had music blaring in his ears from his iPod and he only glanced down at me with a smile. Tori Holder, daughter of Nike was jogging on the treadmill and looked up at us as we got up off the floor. Trent Blackwood, son of Thanatos was at the bar we installed for his benefit (And our benefit because it keeps him from annoying us). I had to assume it was Trent that shadow traveled us here because he's the only person who can shadow travel in our little group. Jun Kirman, Son of Harmonia (Goddess of Harmony and Concord) was sitting at the table eating a slice of pizza, but when he saw us he rushed over to help. Alex Bane, daughter of Apollo and Jun's girlfriend leaped up and joined him. Violet Snow, daughter of Libitina (Goddess of death, corpses and funerals) was sketching a picture of Trent being stabbed to death by her. Did I mention they don't get along? Rachel Elizabeth Dare sat right next to Kane and she hopped up to come towards us.

"You guys alright?" Jun questioned with a raised eyebrow while Alex held her hand out to help us up. Dallas grabbed her hand and hoisted himself up and then tipped his head as if saying thanks. He then grabbed both Tara and me and yanked us to our feet.

As soon as I stood up I could feel the blood rush to my head and the world went dizzy again. Shadow traveling does that to you, but it didn't seem to affect Dallas. Either that or he was great at hiding it.

"What happened to you guys?" Tori asked from her treadmill.

"We were attacked." Tara grumbled as she tried to escape the dizziness of shadow traveling.

"But then you're oh so charming savior, by the name of Trent Blackwood, came and saved you." Trent smirked cockily as he strutted towards us.

"And then they all died because they saw your face." Violet smirked at him.

"That's such a bad story!" Kane exclaimed. " Here's a better one!" Kane took a deep breath before continuing. "There was once a princess name Percy," Interrupted him with a cry of "Hey!" but he continued "An annoying mortal named Tara and a short and fat dwarf named Dallas." There were more cries of protest at this part. "So, Percy the princess was in a tower asleep like sleeping beauty. This mean dragon and Dallas, the short and fat, attacked him and Tara, the annoying, came to rescue him. But the dragon was to-"

"Kane, your story sucks so shut up." Alex spoke bluntly. Kane pouted but he shut up, which was good.

"Now back on task," Tori continued with a glare in Kane's direction. "Who attacked you?" She asked.

"The campers." I sighed with frustration and Tara lay a hand on my shoulder, as if she were comforting me.

"What happened this time?" Tori finally got off her treadmill and asked us. Dallas quickly walked over to her and slung an arm around her shoulder.

"I gone toe-to-toe with monsters people would be afraid to even see in there dreams, but that mob was vicious, Darlin'" He drawled in his southern accent. (A/N: I have absolutely no idea how southern people talk so if anyone can help me with that, it would be amazing)

"Why attack you guys though?" Violet asked. "What have you- we done wrong."

"They still think that we're cowards for running away from the fight." Tara told her through clenched teeth.

"Those retards still believe we didn't beat the giants?" Kane asked with a confused look on his tanned face. He looked like a surfer, with shaggy and messy short blonde hair and vibrant purple eyes that looked exactly like his fathers, they even had the same twinkle of insanity in them. He was tall and well muscled with a surfer's build.

"You bet!" Rachel exclaimed. Rachel didn't hate us; apparently she had predicted that we would fight the giants. She believed that we had fought the Giants, which we did.

"God, we have to get out of this hell hole!" Violet exclaimed while Dallas nodded in agreement. Those two were best friends, being the only Roman's out of all of us and growing up together. He was very protective of her, and he absolutely hates it when Trent flirts with her. He doesn't love her romantically or anything, more like a sibling kind of love.

"Its true," Jun nodded in agreement. "The campers hate us and I'm pretty sure there on the verge of killing us." He frowned, but then he smiled at the thought of leaving. "I'll go."

"So do you guys think we should just leave?" Tori asked with a grin on her face. I knew she would want to leave, especially since her two half-siblings, Megan and Alex have been harassing her more then usual. They always tease, fight and argue with her and no matter how much she hates it, she has to deal with it because she has no where else to go.

"Yes!" Kane shouted with glee. There was that same reckless grin on his face that he always had on, but it seemed 8 times as wide. Before the war with Gaia, he was known throughout camp as the partier, but now that everyone thought he was a coward, he was hated.

"All the girls think I'm a coward and none of them want to go out with a guy who runs away." Trent pouted while we all sighed. Leave it to Trent to think about girls at a time like this. "I mean, they still check me out and everything, and I've made out with a bunch of them, but not as much as I'm used to!" He growled out. "I'd love to leave."

"I'm all for leaving too," Tara said with smoldering eyes. "I can't even practice archery without getting mauled by campers!" She shouted while Kane put a hand on her shoulder to calm the daughter of Hephaestus down.

"I'm with Tara," Alex agreed. "I can't step out of my cabin, or even be in the cabin for to long without worrying about getting killed! The only reason my cabin members haven't tried to kill me is because Adrian keeps them busy whenever I'm around." Adrian was her trouble making half brother, I've met him a few times and he believes that we fought the Giants, but he'll believe anything he's so gullible so it doesn't really count.

Everyone turned to me as if they were looking for approval like I was their leader or something. I hadn't been leading anyone since Camp Jupiter, so it was nice to be in charge. Like a blast from the past or something.

I ran a hand through my short and messy black hair as I thought about leaving. I couldn't just leave camp; there were so many memories here. But then again, no one wants me here.

"Ok, we can leave." Everyone cheered and laughed and hugged each other while I just sat there.

"I'm going to go pound Jason's face in while I can't get in trouble!" Dallas laughed and pumped his fist in the air. He and Jason had a fierce rivalry at camp. Especially since they were both good friends with Reyna.

"I'm going to go pack my pinecone collection!" Jun cheered and whooped while we stared at him. He didn't pay attention; he just kept cheering and laughing.

"I'm going to get drunk 'cause I can't get in trouble since were leaving!" Kane screamed.

"You already do that, Kane." Tara laughed while Kane frowned.

"I'm going to go grope Drew and no one can stop me! Oh, wait I already did that!" Trent laughed and jumped behind the bar in the bunker we installed to keep him occupied. He pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels, and was about to drink it, but Tara stopped him. She grabbed the bottle away saying, "No underage drinking, Blackwood!"

"Yes, mother." Trent grumbled and sat down at the bar with his head in his pale hands. Trent looked like the corpse of a male model. He was pale and deathly, but he was good looking. He had inky black that was cut short and messy, along with coal black eyes that helped with the corpse of a male model appearance. He was tall, maybe an inch shorter then me, but he was ripped too. Trent was possibly one of the most girl-obsessed, man-whoreish people I have ever met.

"I have to go pack!" Shouted Alex and right before she could run off to the Apollo cabin, Tori spoke up making her halt.

"I hate to put a damper on things," She began. "But where are we going to go?" She asked and we all looked at each other for ideas.

"What about the Huntresses?" Tara asked.

Trent snorted, "Like that would be good, they hate all guys and there isn't one that will go out with me!" He pouted while we all stared at him blankly.

"And because they hate us." Violet added while slapping Trent on the head.

"Umm… the Amazon's?" Kane supplied.

"That would be great," Tori laughed. "You boys would be locked up in orange jumpsuits and metal collars while were treated like princesses."

"Okay, forget about that, it doesn't seem to pleasant." He frowned but Trent disagreed.

"I don't know about that, Kane." Trent smirked. "I've always wanted to try out bondage." We all gave him a look that said are-you-serious? "What?" He said indecorously.

"How about Camp Jupiter?" Dallas asked, no doubt thinking about all of his old friends there like Reyna.

"That might work," I agreed. "I heard Lupa and Chiron talking, they said they were going to merge camps and would live in Camp Half blood."

"But when will they finish moving?" Jun asked.

"Two year," I frowned, recalling the conversation between Chiron and Lupa. I knew none of them especially Kane, would want to wait that long.

"But I hate waiting!" Kane whined childishly.

"We'll leave now," Tara supplied. "But we'll move in there later."

"Yeah, we can travel the world and train for a year!" Tori said enthusiastically.

"I don't see why not." I agreed with them. "We'll leave next week, now go pack." I commanded and they all scattered off to pack.

I turned to Rachel. "Can you cover for us? You know so they believe were dead or something." I asked her. She nodded and left the bunker with everyone else leaving me there, alone.

Ok, sorry for the wait, but I had mid terms all this week. Anyway, in you review I need suggestions for my writing, the next POV, plot, etc. I also need criticism and tell me who your favorite OC of the chapter was!