Chapter 1: The son, A sign from the father

It was a horrible day here on earth. Sally Jackson had just died giving birth to a beautiful baby boy. Only the doctors were there,shaking their heads in disappointment asanother life left this world.

"The poor boy, not even a minute old and yet he has already lost his mother." A female nurse despairedas she took the infant away.

While they were taking the baby, another beingwas watching. It was the mother of the gods, Rhea, Titaness of motherhood. She could only fear sorrow for the poor baby. Never knowing his mother, and never feeling a family's love, Rhea despaired

and made up her mind. She never had the chance to actually raise a child mostly because her husband kept eating them. She didn't even get the chance to raise Zeus, the child she saved as he was left with the Nymphs for his own protection. She was
/a mother but never got to actually become one. When her other children werefree from Kronos, they were already grown up. They joined Zeus into battle and left her behind.

She still had so much love to give and comforting thousand-year old men and women wasn't exactly... the doctors filled out some papers, Rhea appeared. She waved her hand andtook control of the mortal doctors minds makingthem

forget everything about the baby. And to hide herself from the Olympians who were watching she wore a dark cloak to hide her face.

She picked up the baby boy and wished Sally Jackson the very best in her after life. She took the child to her home near Mount Tamaulipas. Her house was two stories tall justlike a suburban home; The insides were graces with marble columns and cold
/lining for the crevice and lining.

When she got home,two baby lions came out to greet their ownerand the newly born Percy. "This little boy is Percy, say hello."

Before Sally died, she read her mind and gave her comfort asshe died. Sally wanted to name her son Perseus, after Perseus hoping his luck would rub off on him. Percy still continued crying until Rhea used her powers to calm him down. The lions circled
/her as she breast-fed Percy on a rocking chair and the baby soon fell to sleep. Rhea materialized a crib out of thin air, made of entirely red oak and hanging from it was a golden pegasus appearing to fly in a circle over head.

"Sleep tight my little Perseus." she said lovingly asshe swept her hand against Percy's baby hair.

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12 years later

Percy POV

Hi I'm Percy Jackson and I'm running through Hades. Now for all this to make sense I need to rewind this all they way back to the beginning. I am a Demigod. Amazing I know right? Wrong. Being a Demigod can be awesome sometimes, but the endless swarm of
/monsters and immortals that want you dead sort of put a damp on things.

Anyway this story starts with the unicorn. I was with my mother Rhea. She was the Titan of Bless, Motherhood, Generation, blessing and Ease. Being her son came with a lot of perks and a lot of dangers. For most of my life nobody would bother me and I
/was pretty happy. Until my mother disappeared.

I ran all over the country,but I couldn't find her. Oh and I also have super speed.

Basically it was Hercules all over again. When Hercules was a baby, He was breast-fed by Hera and that had granted him hisincredible strength.

My mother had breastfed me when I was a baby, and as a result I got super speed. I talked to my mom about it, but she only told me there would be more surprises to come and then she would boop my nose.I didn't get what she meant, but I did love

her. She was probably the best mother anyone could ever have.

Our house was in California near Mount Tamaulipas. I walked backinto the house but the place felt as if it no longer home. The house lost its warmth and vitality it previously had and now seemed so empty and lions walked in

front of me as if expecting that I would be home without her.

The male lion was called Προστατευτικόor Protector. Mom would always like to protect me and since she was symbolized by Lions she got me 2 baby lions as pets. The first was Protector, and the second was called Να φροντίζετε, or Nurture in english.

The lions were enchanted. They could turn into a necklace and they would hang on my neck, encase something happened. "Sorry guys, I couldn't find her."

The lions layed down in front of me as I sat down on a chair. I rubbed both their heads and relaxed. That was when I heard clopping like a horse running andit was then that I saw it.

It was pure white, had green eyes, and a golden horn. "Master please come with me."

I had no idea if I was going mad or if I was hallucinating from all the lack of sleep.

Unicorns were extremely rare. Some people thought that Unicorns were actually the only myth in Greek Mythology, but here was one.

"Um, are you talking to me?"

The unicorn lifted its head up and down and started running. Both of my lions were turned into a necklace and I ran after the horse.

I had no idea where it was leading me but I was sure it would help me find mom. Now this horse was fast, but not as fast as me. I had a lot of endurance and running across states wasn't hard. But this thing was leading me somewhere.

Eventually we reachedManhattan in New York which was on the other side of the country. It stopped in front of some sort of hill thenbecame like mist and dispersed.I looked around and I could only see a pine tree surrounded by a bunch

of other treesand that was it. "Unicorn leads me to nowhere in New York." I slumped in exhaustion and annoyance.

There was no one around for miles and the nearest sign of civilization was a gas station a couple miles down the road, but I doubt a magical unicorn would lead me all the way here for just a gas station. I started to wander around, looking for any signof
anything that could have made the unicorn lead me to this place.

I wandered towards the shores and saw a dirty beach; The water was cold and gray and crashed violently against the shore. The wind picked up and grew violent and the earth seemed to shake with anger. Then I saw it, a sea monster with glowing orangeeyes
in the distance. It's eyes were bigger than my body and they were at the center of the storm locked on me. I backed away slowly but as I did, Iheard a loud crack and crunch. The concrete road had an impact on it as if it was struck by a meteor,the
trees behind it were crushed and fell over on their trunks, broken branches sprawled everywhere. And the thing that caused it was not any less intimidating. It's eyes green and its flesh was grey like weathered stone. It must have been about twentyfeet
tall and like the monster in the ocean, it's gaze was locked upon me.

Fear welled up inside of me as I stoodthere, petrified in terror. It was then that the green eyed giant spoke. It's voice loud and shook the earth beneath our feet. "We shall have you now Perseus. Your mother can no longer hide you from us."He
bellowed

The sea monster spoke as well but it sounded raspy like a person being choked alive gasping for air "Who shall have you first young Morsel, shall it be I or the giant?" It slitherdly rasped at me

It crashed into the invisible force field and it soon fell backward. I ran forward and kicked him. It's eyes opened but it tried to grab me. My Lions came out and started to claw its body and started to destroy. The Lion's claws were Celestial bronze
/and their teeth were Imperial Gold, those two features alone made them vicious... Well that and the fact that they were lions.

As the Minotaur was turning into dust I walked over to the hill and tried to touched the barrier that the minotaur crashed into, but there was nothing there. "Weird... Let's just see what makes this place so special."

My Lions returned on my neck as I walked up that hill. There was only a lone pine tree at the hill, but that wasn't what piqued my curiosity. It was what I found over the hill. There was a big blue baby blue building and twelve cabins with each of them
/having a different design or symbol. Kids from 4 and up were walking around all in orange t-shirts.

"W-what is this place?"

It only took a moment for someone to appear in front of me. "Well what do we have here? A new guy? Great more, just what I need. Well come with me." the man said dejectedly

He was heading to the big house and made a hurry motion with his hands. I decided to walk there, so I wouldn't attract attention. When I went in, I noticed a man inside a wheelchair. He had a beard and looked a little old.

"So could you please tell me who you are?" the man asked

I told the man my name and he nodded listening to every word. I kept everything secret like who my mom was. When he asked me about my father... things got awkward. "I never knew my father, and I could care less."

The man in the wheelchair looked like he heard this story a million times before, then he introduced himself, he told me his name was Chiron, as the guy who trained heros. He waved his hand inside and a girl walked inside.

She had a tan like I do, she had blond hair that curved like princesses, stormy grey that looked like they were calculating me like I was a math equation. Her eyes were hopeful but she tried to hide it. She was pretty, but seemed to fixed on something.

"Well? Come on. I'll take you to your new home."

She then walked out. She led me to all the places inside the camp and showed me the cabins. Some were big others were small. The only one that caught my attention was a low, long building facing directly at the sea. The walls were gray with coral and
/sea shells that looked embedded into the stone. I was about to walk towards it when Annabeth pulled me back.

"What are you doing?!" She asked clearly shocked

"I was about to check what was inside that cabin."

"You need to know how things work. That is the Poseidon cabin, and no one but the children of Poseidon are allowed in there."

It took me about three seconds to understand what she was saying. "So basically all these cabins are for the gods kids?"

She nodded, "So who's your god parent?" I asked

"I'm a daughter of Athena." she said proudly then turned away. "Wait then where are you gonna put me? We don't know who my godly parent is."

She looked like she had heard this before then began to explain. "When we don't know who your godly parent, you are automatically put into the Hermes cabin. And judging by how you look, and you already knowing your mother, I would take out all the female
/goddesses. And since Dionysus didn't recognize you that would leave him out. That would leave only Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, and Ares."

Wow she could tell all that just by looking at all the stuff I said, but something sounded missing. "What about Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades?"

Thunder roared across the sky even though there was not a cloud in the sky. "Don't say there names! Names have power and it would be reckless to have the king blast you for it. And to answer your question those three haven't had children since World War
/2. There children were too powerful and were changing the course of Human history. So they made a pact saying they would never have any demigod children anymore. Especially since the prophecy was made."

"Wait, what prophecy?" This was worth knowing

"Forget about it, it probably doesn't concern you."

After we finished talking she led me to the Hermes cabin. "Hey welcome to the Hermes cabin. I'm Luke." he stuck out his hand

I shook his hand and took a quick glance at Annabeth and she was blushing and had a little love struck smile. "It's nice to meet you Luke, I'm Percy."

"Well we're a little crowded so- Conner stop!" I turned my head and saw the guy named Conner about to try and take my necklace, but in that moment I used my super speed and grabbed his arm and slammed him to the ground. "Whoa, man chill. It was just a
/prank." Conner said

"Try it again and you won't have to worry about pranks." No one was going to take this necklace away from me, and I meant no one.

I let him go and I saw everybody looking at me. I did the only thing I could do. I ran out. They looked at me like I was some sort of freak, and I hated that look. I ran out in the blink of an eye and to make my day better I ran into someone.

"Hey watch it punk!" She was big, beefy and looked real mean.

"Sorry, I just got here and-" My first mistake, telling them I was new

"Well how about we show you the ropes." they tried to grab me but I backed up

"I'm having a really bad day and I would apre-" My second mistake, trying to negociate

They grabbed my head and and my arms and started to drag me to the bathroom, and it nearly made me lose my lunch. I stomped my feet into the ground just outside of the bathroom and stopped them. "Let me go." I growled

I may have been raised by the Titan of bless, and motherhood, but just like a mother lion when you mess with her baby you get the claws. The lions felt my anger and appeared. Needless to say those guys let go immedietly.

But the girl didn't back down. "I don't know where those cat's came from but I ain't scared." She was about to move forward when the guy in the wheel chair appreared except instead of a wheel chair he now had a horses body.

I could tell he was nervous around Protector and Nurture. "Ok guys back down."

They roared at the girl then jumped at me. As they were jumping they returned into necklace form and hung there. "Well I see you have a magic item already, tell me my boy where did you get it?"

"I don't have to tell anybody here anything, and after the rough treatment they gave me you can expect that I ain't gonna be staying here."

I was about to turn around and leave when Chiron put his hand on my shoulder. "Do not be rash."

"I don't care. I only care about finding my mom and it's obvious that this place isn't going to help me with that. Besides I've been doing pretty well on my own, So there's no reason for me to stay."

"You're wrong. This is the only place that's safe for people like us." Annabeth said trying to convince me

She had just made it here along with some of the other campers."I don't need to be safe, I can take care of myself!"

At that moment something happened, they all stared at me in shock and got down on one knee and bowed their heads. I was confused for a moment then I noticed the glowing sea green trident above my head.

"All hail Perseus Jackson, son of the sea god."

That was when everybody came out came out. The entire camp had come out and were doing the same thing. It wasn't just them, girls were coming out of the trees, bushes, and rivers and did the same thing. My life was gonna get more complicated in ways I
/never would've imagined.