Hello, my awesome readers! The almighty dragonswoe here (just joking, I'm not almighty. But hey, I can dream, right?). So, this lovely new fanfic of mine... the gods and demigods from PJO and HoO read a book that I'm writing especially for this fanfic. It will be entirely my book they are reading, and a completely new book that none of you will ever have encountered before (I guarantee it).

The book they're reading? Kronos didn't eat them. Which means the six kids (I mean the children of Kronos and Rhea) are raised on Othrys by Rhea, and hilarity will ensue with little Poseidon (and after a few chapters, baby Zeus) sort of trying to get Kronos to pay the slightest of attention to them. I have nearly finished the fifth chapter for this, so we'll see how it goes for the first chapter before I post the next.

Chapter 1

Zeus frowned at the Three Fates. "My Ladies? Is there a reason you're here?"

Atropos nodded. "Yes," she said, turning to scan all the beings in the throne room. "Good, you're all here."

"We are here to give you something," Clotho continued as a book formed in Lachesis' hands. "This book may interest you. It tells of the events in a different galaxy, an alternate galaxy."

"In other words, in this galaxy one certain event didn't occur," Lachesis said simply. "You will realise soon which event that was, and you will find that the galaxy was changed significantly. It is your opinion whether it was changed for better or for worse."

"What event is that?" Athena asked curiously.

Atropos smiled. "You'll soon find out," she said as the book floated from Lachesis' hands to Athena. "And I would also like to congratulate you on your triumph over Gaea."

Zeus inclined his head. "Thank you, Lady Fates."

The three Fates disappeared into columns of dust which faded away, leaving nothing in their wake.

Athena stared wide-eyed at the book before turning around so everyone else can see the front cover. The cover features eight people, seven of them in the foreground. The oldest being is an incredibly beautiful woman, dark brown hair flowing down past her shoulders and a young boy holding her hand. Her eyes are a rich forest green, like a microscopic jungle. The boy at her side has bright blue eyes and ruffled black hair. In front of them are two other boys, both of them raising weapons up as if warding off an enemy. They're wielding a trident and a gleaming black sword, with sea green eyes and black eyes respectively. Beside the woman and boy are three more figures, all women. Two of them have brown hair and the other has black hair, but the resemblance to the other woman is obvious.

Athena clears her throat and turns to the six children of Rhea and Kronos. "You're all on the cover. Along with…" she trails off, double checking the front cover. "I think that's Rhea."

Zeus' eyes narrowed as he recognised the final being on the cover. "Is that who I think it is?"

Poseidon grimaced. "Look, demigods," he said, "the actual body of Kronos."

The final being is a man standing behind the Rhea and the six gods, half-turned towards them as his hand is extended out in front of him, a glimmering golden barrier spreading out from his left palm. Black arrows are mid-way towards being dissolved in their flight as they pass the barrier, a pile of black dust scattering the ground around his feet. His position ensures they are able to see one golden eye, gleaming with ancient knowledge and anger, his scythe held tightly in his right hand. His stance is tall and confident, and the beings realise – as they stare at him – that he's protecting Rhea. And, maybe, the six children around the Titaness.

"Huh," Percy Jackson said, "he looks like you, dad."

Poseidon frowns slightly. "I have green eyes. He had gold."

Percy shrugged. "Yeah? You still look like him. Though I have a question: why do we have to read it? Can we watch a film about it instead?"

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Seaweed Brain," she sighed.

Poseidon waved his hand to summon some seats for the demigods as Athena opened the book and scanned the first page. When she looked back up, she seemed shocked – something which surprised the demigods and other gods.

"What is it, Athena?" Zeus asked.

"I think I know what the change was," she said slowly. "And I'm not entirely sure if it's good or not. Is everyone ready?"

Various sounds of agreement echoed around the room, and Athena started to read.

The sea crashed up the beach, storm clouds converging over the waves. Shark fins broke the surface, mere yards offshore before sliding back underneath into the dark depths. Underneath the surface, the sea was eerily calm and shielded from the thunder above.

Slowly, the shape of two boys rose out of the darkness, shapes which gradually became more visible until bright sea-green eyes and ruffled black hair broke the surface of the sea.

"Green eyes?" Annabeth asked curiously. "Is that you, Percy?"

Percy shrugged. "I guess we'll find out."

"But who's the other boy?" Thalia asked in confusion.

"Hades," the boy called, quickly swimming over to the other boy. "Are you alright?"

"Dad?" Nico asked incredulously. "What are you doing with Percy?"

"What am I doing in the story?" Hades grumbled back.

Hades groaned. "You're an idiot, Poseidon," he huffed. "He's going to kill us!"

"Poseidon?" Percy exclaimed. "But then… what?"

"They're described as boys," Annabeth murmured.

Poseidon grinned and shook his head, flinging droplets of water over Hades. "Oceanus wouldn't dare," he said in amusement.

"So they're boys, and there is Oceanus there," Jason said.

"That doesn't make sense," Nico frowned.

Hades' eyes widened. "You might want to think again. Move!" he pulled Poseidon out of the way of the approaching shark, its jaws open and teeth intending to tear into the younger boy. "Get to the shore!" he yelled.

"Action already," Ares said gleefully.

Poseidon nodded and tightened his grip on his brother before they were shooting through the water, twisting away from the other sharks trying to corner them. The sea suddenly started rising around the two, trying to box them in.

"Oceanus," Poseidon growled, his hands tightening around the arms of his throne.

Poseidon ground his teeth, trying to get them to shore, but Oceanus was slowly forcing them back out to sea. Then a flash of light shot down into the sea, blasting back the water around them and allowing the brothers to escape.

"Someone saved us?" Poseidon asked curiously.

They scrambled ashore, Poseidon breathing heavily at the use of his powers, before they turned and looked back out to sea. The storm clouds dispersed, the sea's anger calming down now that they were out of Oceanus' domain.

"That was fun," Poseidon said gleefully.

"Idiot," Hades grumbled. "We could have died!"

Hades shot him a glare. "Really? We could have died, Poseidon! You know Oceanus doesn't like anyone entering his domain!"

Poseidon just shrugged. "He wouldn't dare to kill us."

"Oceanus won't," a voice agreed from behind them, "but someone else might."

"Who is it?" Apollo asked.

"I want to know who wants to kill us," Hades said.

Poseidon's eyes widened and he scrambled to his feet. "Uncle Hyperion," he greeted nervously. "How did you find out?"

"Hyperion?" Percy choked out. "That Titan we turned into a maple tree?"

"Two Titans already in the opening chapter. Poseidon and Hades as boys. This is starting to seem like…" Annabeth trailed off before shaking her head. "That's impossible."

Hyperion snorted, his fiery gold eyes scanning the sea for any sign of Oceanus before he turned to his two nephews. "Everyone knows. Rather hard to miss three screaming nymphs saying how Oceanus was attempting to kill you."

"Everyone? Who's everyone? And why are you talking to him?" Zeus demanded. "And where am I?"

The sea started rising as Oceanus rose up, glaring at Poseidon and Hades. Before he or his two nephews could speak, Hyperion had already planted himself between his brother and the two.

"Why would he do that?" Hades asked in confusion.

"Oceanus, Kronos would like you to know that he would be severely offended if you killed the two brats."

"Kronos?" Percy asked incredulously. "Wait a minute…"

"The Fates said this is a change in the past," Annabeth murmured. "I think that this is set in the Golden Age! And… for some reason, Kronos didn't eat you all."

Poseidon stared at the book. "And this has actually happened somewhere?"

"We'll be able to learn about the Golden Age first-hand," Athena breathed in amazement.

"What happened to make Kronos not want to eat us?" Zeus asked curiously.

"If you all let me read then we'll find out," Athena said pointedly.

Oceanus' glare darkened, the sea stretching up the beach towards them. "You can tell Kronos that they should be aware of the consequences of invading a deity's domain. I am well within my rights to have them killed."

"Ouch," Leo muttered. "That's gonna suck."

"Kronos has told them. Numerous times, but they insist on repeatedly doing so," Hyperion explained.

"Like father like son," Annabeth said, nudging Percy with a smile.

"Then he should ensure they remain aware of the Ancient Laws during their little schemes," Oceanus hissed. "If they invade once more, then I will have my sharks tear them apart – regardless of Kronos' opinion."

"So admittedly I've never met Kronos," Jason said, "but I don't think he'll like his opinion not being put into account."

"Trust me," Percy said grimly, "he'll hate it."

Hyperion chuckled. "Trust me, brother. I don't think he'll particularly care."

"Really? Huh, alright," Percy said.

Oceanus' mouth twitched into a smirk. "True. Very true." A wave suddenly thrust upwards in front of him, and when it cleared the Titan was gone.

"No theatrics," Hera said, looking pleased as she snuck a glance at Zeus who pointedly ignored her in favour of staring resolutely at the book in Athena's hands.

"Right, brats," Hyperion said, turning back to the two brothers. "Let's get back to Othrys, and then I'll be able to bet on you surviving your encounter with Kronos."

"That's harsh," Hazel said with a frown.

Poseidon shifted slightly. "Are you sure you don't want to just let us run off and pretend you didn't find us?"

Hades sighed. "Like that's going to work."

Hyperion snorted. "Not a chance in the Two Hells, brat. You have a better chance at convincing Iapetus to admit that the East is the best."

"But he'll never say that," Poseidon protested.

Percy smiled fondly, remembering Bob and Small Bob.

"That's the point," Hades said pointedly.

Hyperion shook his head slightly before grabbing the two and flashing them back to Othrys, landing with their feet firmly planted against the black marble.

Poseidon took the opportunity to stare at the throne room doors, the intricate engravings of Chaos creating the Universe. From the hatching of Chronus and Ananke down to the Five Rivers of the Underworld and the formation of Elpis with the first mortal. Prometheus even had a section on the doors, honouring his creation of mortals. Though Poseidon wondered why Kronos had bothered, since he didn't seem so keen on watching the 'little ants' construct their 'petty' huts. Rhea had bluntly told him that if he didn't like watching it then he should just look away. If anyone else had said that then Kronos would have suggested – mostly ordered – that they help the mortals. In other words, he'd throw them off the mountain and refuse to allow them back.

The long corridor stretching out behind him was lit a glowing green from the Greek fire torches, the light mingling with Hyperion's harsh glow. High above Poseidon's head there were gaps in the black marble to allow in natural light, gaps which were sealed from the elements unless Kronos wished otherwise.

The walls themselves were strong enough to withstand a Titan being flung into them (which Poseidon had seen with his own eyes when Atlas became irritated or angry because of his brothers or the Titan Lelantos, the twin of Leto).

Artemis and Apollo shot up straight at hearing the mention of their mother while everyone else listened intently to the description of Othrys at its prime.

The corridors were temperamental. Sometimes they'd be set out in one layout, and other times they'd be different. It made living in Othrys horribly confusing, but Poseidon had learnt that the torches would be brighter in the path he wanted to take, a little trick that Hyperion and Kronos had come up with. If Krios or Koios had recently passed through, the corridors would be freezing. Hyperion made them unbearably hot, with Iapetus being a more comfortable heat. Oceanus, in the rare times he visited, made them annoyingly humid. Kronos left the smell of sharp iron in his wake, the crackling of energy and raw power, and a warmth which was between Hyperion and Iapetus, bordering on uncomfortable. Whenever Poseidon entered a corridor which Kronos had recently left – he tried to avoid being in the same corridor as him – he always felt like he'd inhaled several dozen squares of ambrosia.

"Smell of iron?" Percy asked.

"Blood," Annabeth said simply, looking slightly pale. "Ichor."

Kronos. Quite possibly the most terrifying aspect of Othrys, at least to Poseidon's young mind. Despite being the father of Poseidon and Hades (and Hestia, Hera and Demeter) the King generally ignored them. Unfortunately, that had led Poseidon and Hades to desperately trying to get his attention any way possible, even though they were deathly terrified of him. Iapetus had laughed when Poseidon had told him that, before saying that there were things far worse than Kronos hidden deep beneath Othrys. Kronos could be thinking one thing, but saying something completely different, and every move was calculated for its effectiveness. Then there was his anger; if he was really angry then the person wouldn't know until it was too late, since he became steely calm. The only warning would be his eyes, the hypnotising molten gold glowing as he repressed his divine form, and then they'd darken until almost black. It was then that he'd seem to calm down, but in reality the being in front of him likely wouldn't survive another minute of their life. Some beings knew about that, and upon reaching that point had decided that since they wouldn't live then they would take the opportunity to insult him – they had lived for a long time after that, but in agonising pain for every remaining day of their life as their bones slowly turned to dust inside their body until they were like jelly flopped on the floor.

"Okay, that's horrible," Thalia said in horror. "How could someone do that?"

"That's a pretty good description of what I've had experience with," Zeus remarked.

And that was merely one of the thousands of stories and rumours that ran through Poseidon's head as he waited outside the throne room.

"And that's awful," Annabeth added. "He's horrible."

"Hey, Poseidon," Hades said as he twitched his younger brother's elbow, "don't worry. He won't harm us, else Mother will beat him up."

Poseidon snorted. "Really?"

Hades shrugged. "I don't know, do I?"

Poseidon's mouth twitched up slightly. "Right," he agreed. "But mother isn't here."

The hopeful expressions around the room faded. "Shit, Lord Poseidon," Nico said, "you're so dead."

Rhea had disappeared down to the Mortal Plane with their three sisters, uneasily leaving her two sons behind in the care of Leto and Phoebe. For some reason that none of the five were aware of, Rhea didn't trust Kronos to be in the same room as any of them alone. Poseidon vaguely wondered why as Hyperion finally pushed open the doors, and the two sons of Kronos stepped into the throne room.

"Wait a minute," Zeus said sharply. "Five? Where am I?"

"Either you're not needed," Poseidon said in amusement, "or you're not born yet."

"Good luck, brats," Hyperion said with a smirk before the doors shut with a low thud.

"I think we're going to need the luck," Poseidon said mournfully.

"Next chapter we may finally be able to find out what father was like," Demeter mused.

"And we'll die in the process," Poseidon mumbled.

"This could be an interesting story," Percy admitted to Annabeth.

"I think it'll be very interesting," she agreed.

Entering the lion's den...

So, what do you think? Should I continue? Or should I just scrap the rest of the fanfic?

(Nervously waiting for the response to a potentially awesome new fanfic here. Please review.)