The Heroes of Old Chapter 1: The Bargain, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

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"What are your reasons to bring us together, God of Death?" asked Perseus impatiently.

"Theres a job that's needs to be done." Thanatos told him.

"Naturally," said Hercules.

"And you expect us to help the Olympians...again? People say gods don't age but the loss of sanity…" Odysseus remarked. "Let me guess, you need us to fetch you something again?"

"Or maybe our delightful mothers and fathers messed up the world really bad this time, how could they, and now they need us to clean up the mess." Theseus chimed in.

Another hero would make a joke at the god's incompetence and then another, or someone else would say something sarcastic. The heroes gathered were the greatest in history and unfortunately the wittiest as well. There was Hercules the Strong, Theseus the Intellect, Odysseus the Wise, Perseus the Gorgon Slayer, Achilles the Warrior, Bellerophon the Master, Jason the Argonaut, and Leonidas the Mighty.

Thanatos allowed them to continue whining for a few minutes longer before he finally cut in. "Are you wenches finished?"

"Not quiet," Odysseus added. "The gods are idiots," he burst into laughter at his own remark. He noticed no one else was laughing and his moment of hysteria died out awkwardly. "All right, now I'm done."

If Thanatos wasn't wearing his hood they wold have seen him roll his eyes. "As you all may have heard, my beautiful great grandmother is waking from her slumber and decided to get her very capable giant sons to chain me up. My leave of absence allowed that very thin line that has kept the dead and living separate for centuries to begin to crumble. Souls escaped and monster could not die. On top of all that Gaea decided it would only be right that she cracked my doors wide open allowing her to pick and choose any soul she wanted to walk the mortal Earth again."

"Why would this concern us Death God? We're dead. Why do we care?" Jason asked scornfully.

"That's a good question Jason but I was getting to that. While I was chained up Camp Jupiter was under siege by the giant, Polybotes and his fairly large army of hungry monsters. Camp Jupiter had no chance to defeat them in less I was freed so I would be able to make monsters stay dead when they got killed. In hopeful defense, Camp Jupiter mandated a rescue mission in order to save me before they go wiped out. Long story short, I was freed from my icy imprisonment and the heroes who saved me saved the camp in the process. This is all well and good but there is still a mountain of problems to deal with."

"Naturally," Hercules said for the second time. "We aren't your errand boys. Why don't you use the your new demigods you keep on giving birth to?"

"Oh, no! The task we have in store for you isn't a simple errand my dear dead friend. I would call this more of opportunity." Thanatos told him.

"And what would that be?" Bellerophon asked.

"Gaea has become a needle in the gods' sides'. First she kidnapped Hera, then me, raised her sons from the dead, killed some demigods, and now Gaea controls my doors and is defending them with a massive army. I can't get them closed by myself because she's to powerful and I may be immortal but the army is just way to large. They would stop me hundreds of miles before I even reached my doors. I am in no mood to be chained up again. Besides, Heroes are the one who function in the mortal realm."

"Oh, it looks like the big bad God of Death need us puny mortals help." Odysseus asked in a mocking tone and Thanatos ignored him.

"If I don't close them-if WE don't close-she can allow anyone from the underworld to comeback. She has already done this with Midas, Otrera, Phineas, and many more. I fear soon it will be many others who are much worse."

"That's...that's an abomination, no one gets to bring people back to life, that isn't fair," Achilles said in his usual tired voice finally speaking up.

"Any other time you would be right; death isn't fair." Thanatos grinned under his hood. "However, I can make it fair….And that is why I'm bringing you all back to life. Olympus's finest raised from the dead. Oh, they would be telling this one to their grandchildren for centuries to come."

"What if we refuse?" Odysseus asked defiantly.

"We can if we want," said Theseus, "but the gods have something to offer us, something we can't refuse."

"Naturally," Hercules said a third time.

"Precisely, If you help us, I'm sure Lord Hades and I can work out something that would give you what you couldn't have in your past life."

"As a Spartan my lord, no tribute is necessary in order for me to serve the gods," said Leonidas.

"Oh, give me a break," Odysseus rolled his eyes. "Aren't you tired of being a puppet Leonidas? Besides what could you give us that we don't already have Thanatos?"

"Exactly, we all live in the Isles of the Blessed. We have everything we need. What we imagine we get," Perseus added.

"Exactly, everything here is just an apparition an allusion, not real!" Thanatos explained excitedly. "The people who surround you in this paradise are just mere imitations of the real things. I can give you your real queen Perseus, or your family Odysseus, or your father Theseus, or you wife Jason!"

Thanatos paused as he looked into their eyes. He had them where he wanted now. He merely letting his words settle. "Shall I continue?" They all shook their heads understandingly. "I can allow the people that you loved and cared about so much when you were alive, be with you forever, right here in the Isles of the Blessed, for eternity, but only if you help me.

"Do you swear on the River Styx to keep your end of the deal?" Hercules asked with a new twinkle in his eyes as he thought of his children.

Thanatos looked them all in their eyes, peering into their souls. "I swear. Now do you?"

"Their just using us again," Perseus warned the others in a sing-song voice.

"Of course they are, that's all they ever do, but they have something we want this time. Something we wanted even more than we did when we were alive." Achilles responded. "I swear."

The rest were about to do the same but Jason raised his hand.

"Wait, before I swear I want to hear the rest of the gods as well." Jason added.

The others nodded their agreement.

Thanatos shook his head and sighed. "Fine, but It takes a lot of time and resources to call them all down her in person. I'll see what I can do."

He rummaged around in his cloak till he pulled out what he was looking for. It was rectangular mirror object that the dead heroes recognized as the Ipad. The modern and current mortals living on the surface world were infatuated with these devices.

"Ah ha, here we go Mt. Olympus," he said as he tapped a finger on the screen and then started to speak with it. "Yeah...I'm sorry but they wanted all of you...okay...Hermes just put them all on...everybody?...I guess the minor gods too. All right, okay."

Thanatos then diverted his attention back to the heroes, "Here!"

Thanatos held up the Ipad so it faced the dead heroes. On the screen it showed at least a couple dozen little boxes with different faces on it. They recognized Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Zeus, even Hera, and so on. There, upon the face of an Ipad, was every single Olympian, and they were all bickering.

"This better be worth it Hades," Zeus complained.

"Worth more than your wife," Hades retorted.

Hera gasped, "You dare?"

The rest of the faces started shouting and joined the argument. They called each other names, throughout insults, spat out slanders, and some even resorted to making rude gestures.

"Hey!" Thanatos shouted interrupting them. "HEY, can we do this already?"

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the coffin," grumbled Apollo.

"You can say that again," Poseidon agreed.

Thanatos rolled his eyes hidden behind the cowl of his hood and shot them a literal death glare.

The gods rollers their eyes back, sighed in exasperation, and in unison they swore:

"We, the Olympians, swear on the River Styx to honor our end of the deal which entitles the code named, 'Heroes of Old,' to be reunited with their loved ones in the Underworld."

"Now your turn," Thanatos nodded toward the heroes.

In unison the Heroes of Old swore:

"I, *insert name*, swear on the River Styx to uphold my end of the bargain. We will shut Death's Doors. "

"Finally," a voice exclaimed from the Ipad. It sounded like Hera. "We can get on with our lives!"

"Fantastic!" Thanatos said sarcastically as he hastily pressed a button on the Ipad's screen causing it to go black and then placing back in his cloak.

"Hercules, Leonidas and thirty of your Spartan warriors, Theseus, Perseus, Odysseus, Jason, Bellerophon, and Achilles: With the permission from Lord Hades himself, I hereby allow you, Olympus's greatest heroes, to walk in the land of the living….Again."

They all nodded glumly except for the obedient Leonidas and the Spartans who chanted in pride. The heroes always hated serving the gods to begin with and why would they start to enjoy it now? This time was different though. They had something really worth fighting for at the end of this deal. If-a very large one for that matter-IF they got the job done they would get to see the beautiful faces of their wives or their children or their parents.

"I hope you guys like kids because its time to visit your modern counterparts." Thanatos cheerily said as he snapped his fingers.

They began to float toward upwards, past the artificial Underworld skies, they phased through the Earth's curst, came out of the sea floor, burst through the surface of the ocean, and up into the real world, leaving the Underworld behind them. Each hero had the feeling of impending doom lodged in their guts and the premonition they would be back in the Underworld sooner that they would like.

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