The First Son of Artemis, Book 2: A Mother Trapped

A:N) A quick note before the beginning of the sequel! THIS IS NOT A KANE CHRONICLES/PJO CROSSOVER! I know some of you have never read The Kane Chronicles, don't worry you people. This first little bit will be the only major mention of Magicians and Ancient Egypt in the whole book. There will be small mentions here and there, but don't worry, this will be all PJO after this! SO PLEASE ENJOY MY FRIENDS!

Jay's POV (1st person)

Lightning sparked at the tip of the long wooden staff. I could feel the power radiating around me. It continued to spark more and more at the tip. Okay now was the time, I would finally be able to do it! Nothing could distract me this time around, I was going to do my first piece of magic if it killed me. I was finally about to wave the staff to let the lightning fly, when out of nowhere I was tackled from behind and I felt something on-top of my neck!

"Ahhh Hades!" I shouted as I was taken to the ground.

I looked up and Khufu, Amos's crazy pet baboon was on-top of me! Apparently according to Ancient Egyptians, baboons were worshiped for their intelligence. Me personally, I didn't see much of that.

After the whole, finding out I was the first ever half demi-god, half ancient Egyptian magician ever born, Amos, the man who explained all this crazy Egypt stuff to me, offered to take me in for a few months, to at least show me how to control magic. That was 6 months ago, it was December now. Here I was 14 years old now, hard to believe I survived this long. I still had my mother visit me in my dreams regularly, and I was always talking to Percy and Annabeth via Iris message.

My mother had been scaring me lately however. Her visits had become less frequent, and when she did see me, she seemed so stressed out a tired. Which may not seem like much, but since she's the goddess of the hunt, she never tires easily. However she had been very secretive to what was wrong, and she made more of a point to see how my magician training was going instead of telling me what it was that was bothering her.

Well part of Amos's wall was now burnt to a crisp and I was laying on the ground with a baboon on my back, so you can probably tell how my magician training was going. Speaking of Amos's wall, when I first saw Brooklyn house… well let's just say it made my grandparents mansion look like a hobbit house. It was absolutely huge! It was a few stories high, with all sorts of ancient Egyptian decorations. A huge luxurious kitchen, a grand entryway, and more it seemed like it had enough bed-rooms to fit all of camp half-blood! However I must admit, the giant statue of Thoth, the Egyptian god of knowledge standing in the entryway, did scare me.

"Get off me you crazy baboon!" I yelled pushing him off me.

He did a back-flip, a better back-flip then I could ever do. He had his basketball with him and shoved it into my hands. "Ugh!" He urged, after being with him for a few months, I had learned to translate what those "ughs" meant.

"No Khufu I don't want to play basketball right now!" I said tossing the ball back to him.

I also learned that Amos's pet baboon, was very fond of basketball, and would make me play with him from time to time. Let's just say you've never officially had a crazy experience in your life, until you've played basketball with a pet baboon in Brooklyn. He made a few more baboon noises which were no doubt curses at me, before walking away.

"Hold on Khufu, where's Amos? I need to talk to him." I asked.

"Ugh!" He went pointing towards the back balcony.

"He's over near the pool on the terrace?" I asked for approval.

He nodded and ran into the living room to watch "NBA TV" on the sofa. I walked through the huge house, which I still got lost in sometimes. I had to ask Amos what I was doing wrong with this magic stuff. I had been here for 6 months, and I still had only managed a few simple spells. If I was really going to lose someone close to me this year, like my Uncle, the god of the sun and prophecies Apollo, predicted, I would need to at least know enough spells to do some damage. However I didn't know how much damage Egyptian magic would do against Greek monsters.

I walked out and smelled the fresh Brooklyn air, and found Amos sitting at the table by the pool. Oh yeah, another thing this house had, was a pool on the back terrace over-looking the whole of the city. I could see the empire state building from here. I could pretty much feel the power of all the gods who were up there right now. In case you didn't know, the famous Mount Olympus from Ancient Greek mythology, always moved to wherever the seat of power was in the world. So since for the last few hundred years, America had been the main seat of power in the world, Mount Olympus was a-top the empire state building.

"Ah Jay, please sit, how have you enjoyed the 21st Nome these last few months?" He asked me as I sat down at the pool-side table next to him.

Of yeah I should probably explain that to you guys to. When the Ancient Egyptian Gods gave the Pharaohs of Egypt magic, as Pharaohs died and had children, there magical blood was passed to them. Eventually when there was enough magicians, they formed an organization called, The House of Life. The House of Life grew more and more as years went by, and they still continued their operations even after the fall of the Egyptian empire. As years went on the started to spread, and make more bases across the globe. Each base was called a Nome, and whatever number the Nome has in-front of it. So the base in Egypt, is called the 1st Nome, since it was the first base established. Brooklyn house, which was what Amos called this place, was the 21st Nome, which means it was the 21st house of life base created. The House of Life basically served as the police force for any problem that was Egyptian.

"It's been great, I really like it here thanks. I just wish I could finally get this magic thing down." I told him sipping from a cup of coffee.

He nodded, "Good I'm glad you're enjoying it. Please, don't fret about the magic part that will come. It took me months before I could cast any spells at all." He informed me trying to make me feel better.

It helped a little, as I watched the giant crocodile splash about in the pool. Yes, yes I know Amos kept some very odd pets. The crocodile's name was Phillip of Macedonia, I know weird name. He was white with red, eyes and Amos had told me he was here for protection reasons. I had to admit he was rather intimidating. It would be suicide for anyone trying to rob this place.

We were silent for a second, munching on donuts and sipping coffee Amos had brought. I finally had to break the silence, and ask him the same question I asked every-day.

"So any-word on how Carter and Sadie are doing?" I asked.

He nodded his head. "Same as every-day Jay. Carter and my brother are somewhere studying some Egyptian artifacts. Sadie, is living quietly in London with her grandparents. The two of them are both okay from what I gathered." He told me, the same exact thing he told me every-day I asked.

I nodded. Amos went on. "Don't worry too much about them Jay. My brother is an even more powerful magician then I am. Sadie, you have my word that absolutely nothing will harm her, she's well protected."

"How is Sadie well protected? I thought you told me her grand-parents hate magicians." I asked him.

"Trust me Jay, no harm will come to her. Nothing bad will happen to her." He said in that tone that meant. "I mean what I say don't ask questions."

I understood and didn't question further. "So, how do I not remember them at all? Or how-come I don't have any memories from that time at all?" I asked him.

He leaned back in his chair and sighed. "Well first Jay you must understand, the cardinal sin you can commit in the House of Life, is interacting with any god in any way. It is punishable by banishment." He explained.

I nodded. "Yeah I know that, you told me that before."

"Well when I sat any god I mean ANY god. When the House of Life figured out your mother, was Artemis, they were outraged. We had managed to hide your mother's identity for 5 years, but once you started showing signs of being a demi-god, the house figured out. They were outraged at your father, so he was banished from the house along with his family." He said reminiscing.

"So is that part of the reasons my grandparents don't exactly like me?" I asked.

He nodded. "Yes, they were banished along with him. He was a great magician, he was one of the best students i ever had here. After you were about five years old the house figured out that your mother was a goddess. So, before they banished your family, they made sure you yourself couldn't remember anything about magicians and the House. They wiped your memories of all stuff magic, and that included Carter and Sadie." He explained with a grim expression.

That answered a lot of questions. Like why my father kept his magician identity a secret from me. He wanted me to just focus on my demi-god side, and not the magician side. If I were to show my magician side, the House could have possibly found me. I didn't regret who my mother was at all, I loved her and she was a great mother, I was lucky. Most demi-gods can go there whole lives without meeting there godly parent, but I was lucky enough to be an only child. I don't know what I would do if anything happened to my mother, however I never worried about her safety. She was goddess, she couldn't die, and would never fade unless the moon got blown up or something. Nothing could cause her any serious pain.

I was about to say something else to Amos, when the water in the pool began to splash furiously. Phillip was going absolutely crazy. I was about to press my belt-buckle, to summon the special silver daggers my mother had given me. However thankfully I looked up, and it was just an iris message. In it, was my best-friend, and favorite son of the sea god Percy Jackson.

I smiled and walked over to the pool side. He was in him and his mom apartment, and looked like he was getting ready to go on a trip, which was weird considering it was the middle of December. "Percy! It's good to see you man." I said smiling.

He smiled back. "It's good to see you to Jay. How's all the magic stuff going?" He asked.

Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Nico and Bianca, and our friend Thalia were the only other demi-gods who knew about me being half demi-god, half magician.

"It's going great! Is anyone with you?" I asked looking around.

"Hey Jay!" I heard someone yell in the background.

Into view, came my favorite daughter of Athena, it was Annabeth! Right behind her was our new recently tree turned human friend Thalia.

"Annabeth, Thalia! It's good to see you guys to, it gets hard having nothing but a baboon and crocodile for company haha." I said into the mist.

The three of them laughed. "How's your magic training going? I've started reading somethings about Ancient Egypt, I can't wait to tell you about them!" She said sounding genuinely excited.

Leave it to Annabeth to get so excited about knowing stuff. "Haha I look forward to it! The training is fun, before you know it I'll be shooting lightning like Thalia." I said jokingly.

Thalia laughed. "Haha let's not get too far ahead of yourself now silver-head." She told me.

We laughed and talked for a few more minutes, before I finally asked where they were going. "So where are you guys going? You guys look ready for a quest, it's the middle of December." I asked them.

"Oh that's actually why we called you. Grover is on a mission right now, he found a new demi-god up in Maine. He says he can't rescue her though, because there's like a red alert, high level monster he says. He says it's too powerful for him to handle alone, he says he needs out help. So what do you say, you wanna come help us?" He asked me.

I nodded my head in a second. I like Brooklyn house, but I was starting to miss being a demi-god. It had been 6 months since I fought a monster, or even train so I was getting rusty. I needed this quest to get back into the game. Besides I knew enough magic to at least control it now. It was a simple quest to, go up to Maine, and help Grover save the demi-god. Easy enough.

"You know I'm in. I'm getting rusty with all my demi-god powers. I could use a good quest." I told them happily.

"Good, so you want my mom to come get you she's driving us up there?" Percy asked.

I shook my head. "No that's fine, I'll just hitch a ride on Agatha. We should get there around the same time." I told him.

The three of them nodded. "Okay sounds good! We'll see you there Jay, the school is called Westover Hall." He told me.

"Alright good luck guys!" I said before dispelling the iris message.

The next few hours I spent packing my few belonging into my pack. I talked to Amos and explained the situation. He understood, and said I did in-fact know enough to be able to at least control my magic. He let me go, with a promise to send me any word if anything changed with Carter and Sadie. He gave me a magicians bag with a staff in it, and sent me on my way.

I was walking out towards the balcony, I waved a goodbye to Phillip and Khufu. Odd enough, I was gonna miss the two. It was time now however to summon one of my other closest friends. I sent out a prayer in my head.

"Agatha!? Long time no see, it's Jay!" I prayed out.

"Ah Jay! It's good to hear you again, I will be right there!" She said.

I waited with crossed arms at the edge of the balcony. Soon, I heard the giant flap off great wings, and soon after that a flash of silver flew by me! I have no idea how she got to all these places so fast. However I wasn't complaining.

She landed in front of me, and to this day she was still an amazing sight. She had a body as big as a Pegasus, with long flowing silver wings. Her whole body was a silver color, the color of my mother Artemis. Her beak was black and she had big gold eyes with a silver center. The sight of her was amazing. It was like she had been pulled right out of a video game or a story book. My mother had started raising Agatha when I was born. She was raised specifically to be my guardian, and to help me whenever I needed it.

I wanted to feel like spider-man so I took off in a run and leaped off the balcony and started plummeting. Soon after I started falling I felt myself land right on Agatha's back and we took off into the sky. We soared by the top of the empire state building and Agatha let out a huge falcon cry.

"It's good to see you again Agatha, we got a nice ride ahead of us." I told her admiring the view of New York.

"It is good to see you as well Jay. So what's the mission this time?" She asked.

"We're going to a place called Westover Hall in Maine. Grover found another demi-god there, and a really powerful monster is in the area. The monster is keeping Grover from rescuing the demi-god, I, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia are going to help him." I explained to her.

"Alright, relax and enjoy the ride Jay. We should be there in a few hours." She told me.

I didn't question how she knew where she was going. I just always assumed she had some sort of magical falcon gps. So I made myself comfortable and enjoyed the view. It was time for me to finally get back into action.

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"Jay, wake up. We're right near the school." I heard in my head.

I jolted awake, and almost fell of Agatha's back from surprise! I had been asleep practically the whole ride. I loved living in Brooklyn house, but I always preferred sleeping under moonlight. I missed my cabin back in camp half-blood, I had it all to myself, and I always left the window open to let the moonlight in. I looked and we were in a snow covered forest, it looked like Maine, I looked ahead and spotted the school, which was situated near a cliff with a huge drop into the icy Atlantic Ocean. Not the best location to have a middle school. I did some more research before I fell asleep and turns out this is some sort of military school.

"Alright thanks Agatha, drop me off in the outer tree-line. Stay close by, I have no clue how strong this monster could be." I told her readjusting my pack.

"Alright Jay, I must tell you before you leave. I can sense your mother's presence, she is somewhere close." She told me.

"Really!? I haven't seen her in person for months, what is she doing this far north?" I asked.

"I do not know, here this is a good spot, I will stay close good luck my friend." She said bring my in towards the tree's.

"Alright thanks Agatha, I'll call if we need any help." I told her before standing up.

Before I jumped off I saw a car, driving up the road towards the school. I noticed Mrs. Jackson's car. I made a mental note to mess with Percy later about having his mom drive him to his battles. I leaped from Agatha's back and thanks to the bright half-moon that was out I was able to gracefully, and cleanly land on a two feet on a large tree branch. I started hoping from tree to tree, towards the front of the school. I had a good feeling we'd win I we had to fight some monsters tonight. It was a nice big moon out tonigt, and a great big forest around it, I was in my perfect element.

I was ecstatic with the thought of seeing my mother again. It had been way to long since I've seen her in person. Dream visits were never the same as seeing her in person. Perhaps I could even figure out what it is that's been bothering her lately. However she was probably with her hunters, whom she still hadn't told about my existence. I couldn't blame her, my mother was the goddess of virgins and the fact she had a kid probably wouldn't go well with her band of maiden warriors. Her lieutenant, and my good friend Zoe Nightshade was still the only hunter who knew about me. Zoe and I we were … well to be honest I don't want to think about my love life right now.

My mother had explained to me one night her, and my father never technically… well you know did the baby making business. So my mother was still a virgin, I was born from her and my father's combined love of the forest, and love, similar to how Annabeth's mother Athena birth's her children. Athena's children are born from the combined knowledge and wisdom of Athena and their father. Confused? Well don't worry, I still don't fully understand it either. I like to worry about the here and the now, not worrying about how I was born.

I finally reached the tree-line and at that moment I saw Percy, Annabeth and Thalis getting out of their car. I smiled, it was good to finally see them all again. Normally when I'm not training in Brooklyn I live with Percy and his mother in their apartment.

"Percy, Annabeth, Thalia!" I yelled before taking one leap out of the tree and gracefully landing a few feet from them.

A smile crossed all of their faces. I said hello, and goodbye to Mrs. Jackson before she drove off. After hugs all around and a little catching up. We were ready to head inside.

"So how was the drive up here?" I asked Percy as we walked up the steps.

He rolled his eyes. "Terrible, I was crushed between those two. My mom wouldn't stop telling all the stories from when I was younger either. It was so embarrassing."

I couldn't help but laugh. "Ha don't worry about it man, she's just worried about you. It could be worse you could-"

"Woah." Annabeth and Thalia both said at once cutting me off.

Percy and I both looked up and, it was a jaw-dropping sight. The entryway was like the one back in Brooklyn house! A huge staircase in the middle and rows of lockers panning off to the left and right. It was decorated with swords, and armor stands, and all sorts of cool old stuff.

"And I thought I've been to some rough schools." Percy muttered as we walked deeper inside.

We followed the sound of music playing in the gymnasium. Something was off about this place, it didn't necessarily smell like a monster's lair. However I could smell a faint monster smell. There was definitely one here, there was no doubt about that. We just needed to identify it. We walked closer and closer to the sound of music and kids, it must be dance night. I hated school dances.

"What is this!? Who are you children?" A French sounding voice came from behind us.

The four of us turned around and two older teachers were there. One woman in a high heels, and man, who I almost coughed from the stench as soon as I saw him. He was old and had two different colored eyes. He was the monster, I had no doubt in my mind. He had such a strong monster smell. In-case you're wondering, when the moon is out and I'm near a forest, my senses heighten ten-fold. When they get like that I can sniff out a monster no matter what form they're in. This old French guy was a monster, I was sure of it.

"Umm we're student here we were just heading back to the dance." Thalia said stepping forward.

"Well what were you doing out of there? You insufferable children, I hate middle school dances." He said in that thick French accent.

"Oh relax Dr. Thorn, I must say though, I do not remember ever seeing you children. I know every child at this school, how come I have never seen you!?" The women demanded.

Thalia kept her cool, while Percy, Annabeth, and I were about to lose it and run. "It's us ma'am you don't recognize us? It's us, me Thalia, Percy, Annabeth, and Jay." She said snapping her finger.

A small gust of wind went forward as she did, and crossed over the two teacher nostrils. The women opened her eyes wide and shook her head. The man was unaffected, which gave me reason to believe he was a monster even more. Manipulating the mist, smart move Thalia.

The women regained her composure. "Oh yes I remember you children now! Please get back to the gym, and refrain from loitering in the hallway anymore." She told us.

The man just shot me in particular a dirty look, and his power started to radiate even more. What could he possibly be? I had no idea what gave off a power-level that high. We ran towards the entrance to the gym where we met Grover. He quickly briefed us on the situation.

"Okay, the demi-god is a girl. Her name is Nicolette, she's sitting up there in the bleachers by herself." He said pointing up towards the top of the bleachers.

Sitting there was a girl, probably twelve years old, so two younger than me. She had bright blonde hair, and was wearing a blue zipped up jacket, with combat boots on. I couldn't be sure who her parent was based off her looks, I would have to get closer to figure that out. Normally each Olympian's children had a distinguishing feature. Poseidon children smell like the ocean, and have oceany green eyes. Children of Zeus, like Thalia, have the dark electric blue eyes, and normally blonde hair, however Thalia's was black, I prayed to the gods this wasn't a daughter of Zeus. Athena's children normally had the same stormy grey eyes as Annabeth. Well there weren't any children of Artemis other than me, but if there were, they'd have the same silvery eyes as I did. I couldn't tell who this girl's parent was.

"Alright well if she's right there then let's go get her. Where's our monster?" Percy asked.

Grover looked at me. "You smelled him right?" He asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, it's that old French teacher dude. What is he do we know?" I asked the Satyr.

Grover shook his head. "No, I haven't figured that out. I can't get to her because whenever I do Dr. Thorn shows up. Dr. Thorn is the monster." He explained.

"Well for now let's just mingle with the crowd, because I see him waiting near the door she's right next to. Let's just mingle till we see if he moves. Percy, you and Annabeth take one end of the gym. Grover, you and I will take the other. Jay you stick to the outside of the gym and try to stay undetected and get to that girl. You're the only one who could possibly stay undetected now." Thalia commanded.

We all nodded and straight away I retreated to a corner of the gym. Well… I tried to. The minute our group dispersed, I was mobbed. Mobbed by the group of girls, that had been walking all around the gym, finding boys to pray on. I tried my best to get out from the middle of them, but it was no use! I looked up desperetly trying to catch sight of the girl and Dr. Thorn. I did, and I almost screamed when I saw what happened.

Dr. Thorn was dragging the girl away, despite her kicking and protesting. To my absolute horror, the man… had a tail, but not a normal tail. It was a scorpion tail, I saw the back-end of it when he exited the door! I knew what the monster was now, it was a manticore! Those were more deadly then Cyclops and hellhounds put together! They were some of the fastest monsters in existence, and there sharp poisonus barbs would kill you in seconds! To make matters even worse, I saw Percy run out the door after him, by himself! Percy was strong, he was probably the strongest in camp half-blood, either first or tied with Thalia and I. However he wasn't nearly fast enough to take on a manticore by himself! As much as i hated to admit it, i was the only one who could possibly be fast enough to fight that thing.

I improvised, I dropped to the floor and crawled out of the mob of girls. I couldn't find Annabeth, Thalia, or Grover anywhere, I would need to go after Percy and Dr. Thorn by myself. I was the only one who would even have a chance of matching his speed. Well just this morning I was playing basketball with my pet baboon friend, and now I'm chasing an evil monster that would probably kill me.

Yup, all in an average day for the first son of Artemis.

A:N) So here it is everyone the first chapter of "The First Son of Artemis book two: A mother trapped! I am SO excited to bring this story to you guys, after how well the first book in this series did I had to continue on and I can't wait to do so!

So for those of you who are reading who haven't read the first book in the series called "The First Son of Artemis" a big welcome to you and I hope you enjoy my content!:) If you haven't read the first book, I highly suggest that you go read that, that way you'll have a better understanding of the story and Jay!:)

Now for those of you who didn't read the Kane Chronicles and were therefore confused by the first part, trust me when I say that will be the only real major mention of magicians and Egypt in the story. I will have small mentions here and there but nothing major! I will eventually have a series where I write Jay into the Kane Chronicles, but that won't come till at least after I've finished PJO:) Also if you haven't read the Kane Chronicles, I highly recommend you go pick them up if you're a big fan of Rick Riordan, while its not as good as PJO in my opinion it is still amazing and you will have a very fun time with it!:)

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