Percy Jackson

And The

Heart of the Olympus

Percy had just returned from school and walked inside his apartment. He dropped his bag and walked to the kitchen. As usual, his mom had put out a plate of blue cookies, his favorite, and a glass of milk. As he picked up the first cookie he looked around; his mother was not there. Hmm. She's usually home by now. I wonder where she could be, he thought.

"Mom!" he called out. There was no sound but the echo of his call. His mother was always home before he returned from school. If she had gone anywhere she would have left a note or called. Percy began to worry. Maybe a monster had come in the house earlier and kidnapped her. Damn it, Luke. How dare he stoop so low just to get to me!

But this was unlike Luke. He rarely attacked family members and chose to hurt Percy head-on and physically as much as he could. So Percy did the only thing he could think of doing. He Iris-messaged Annabeth. She always knew what to do in tough situations.
"Oh goddess, accept my offering. Show me Annabeth Chase, Camp Half-Blood."

When the message finally connected Percy saw Annabeth sitting in front of a mirror surrounded by half of the Aphrodite cabin. He cleared his throat loudly so they could hear him without being rude. The girls turned around, saw his face and began to giggle. They whispered for a few moments and left the cabin to allow the two to talk.

"Annabeth?"

"Oh, Percy. Hi. Sorry I didn't hear you over the girls."

"That's fine. What were they doing in your cabin?" he asked.

"Oh nothing. They kind of jumped me and wouldn't let me go until I had a makeover. Once they started there was no stopping them" she said her face getting redder by the second. "What's up? How are things back in the city?"

"I came home from school and walked into the kitchen. My mom is always there waiting for me. But when I went inside she wasn't there. No note. No call on my phone to explain where she went. I thought maybe it was Luke, but it is unlike him to go to family members. So I thought you could help," he explained.

She looked at him for a second and began to think. Even a child of Athena was stumped by this one. Then she got it.

"Percy, Iris-message your mom. I've never tried it before but maybe the goddess can connect you to her without a location. Once you've tried that come to camp. Chiron has an important message for us."

Percy brought out another drachma and Iris message his mother. He was surprised to see her in a bridal shop, picking out dresses with Aphrodite and a few water nymphs. I guess Paul proposed to her while I was away. Good for him.

After clearing the message, not wanting to ruin her moment, Percy gathered a jar of nectar and a few ambrosia squares and left for camp. He had Riptide on him and Tyson's watch on his wrist and he felt ready for almost anything. Not wanting to walk he took a cab and was dropped off a block away from Half-Blood Hill. After the long trek up the hill he ran to the Big House for the meeting. He was unfortunately 5 minutes late.

Percy opened the door to the Big House and stepped.

"Ah Peter Johnson finally joins us. Welcome," Mr. D said with absolutely no emotion.

Will he ever get my name right?

Percy sat down next to Grover and Chiron continued what he was saying.

"Percy, I have been explaining to Grover and Annabeth here that there is a need for a quest. The gods have lost the Heart of Olympus, a valuable item that is essential to the rule of the gods."

"What exactly does it do?"

"I was at that part when you arrived. The Heart of Olympus is an orb. Inside the orb is a large gem known as Olympium. It radiates power. The gods store a fraction of there essence and power in the gem and keep it locked up in a Celestial bronze vault guarded by 100 Cyclopes. Recently the orb has gone missing. A child of Zeus, Charles "Chuck" Norris was sent to find it 30 years ago and yet again it is gone. We can't rule out the possibility that Luke has something to do with this." Chiron explained to them that the three have been assigned to find the Heart of Olympus because of multiple previous successes.

"When do we begin?" Percy asked.

"You have three days time to prepare and train. I have no doubt that there will be many monsters and challenges along the way."

Percy, Grover and Annabeth left the Big House. It was time for dinner and all three were starving. After eating the three returned to Percy's cabin to discuss what they were going to do about the Heart.

"Well this is obviously very valuable and very, very dangerous. We'll need to spend the next few days training, and researching possible locations of the Orb. Oh and Percy, you have to go the Oracle. We need a prophecy. I'll try to contact Chuck Norris to get any leads."

Annabeth always had a plan. Percy left for the arena to train while Grover and Annabeth left to find out more about the Heart of Olympus. Annabeth went to large library that was in the back of her cabin. She spent hours going through the different books. After four and a half hours she picked out a book on many godly items. At the back of the book was a small section on the Heart. Apparently the gods didn't want anyone knowing too much about the orb. It stated that the orb was hidden in a neutral zone of the gods so that one of them would not have power over it. The Heart of Olympus is hidden in the fountain of Chaos. The fountain was the only essence of the creational blackness that remained on Earth. It would immediately kill any mortal. Chuck Norris was sent to retrieve it after the Titanomachy to restore the gods' power.

"Hmm. It doesn't give a location. This is going to be really hard. I'd better go ask Chiron where the Fountain of Chaos might be" Annabeth said to herself.