Prologue

"Perseus Jackson, come to me, I will be waiting." I heard a man say in a completely black suit with twinkling white lights.

Flashback

I heard the alarm-sirens clang in the distance. I stopped from my usual sword training with my new friend Samuel. Samuel was a son of Nike the god of victory. Samuel was an amazing sparring partner since he had the whole son of the god of victory going for him and stuff, but I still beat him every single time. He was still an excellent swordsman though. We turned and sprinted toward the noise. I arrived a good 30 feet in front of him so I got a look of what was wrong before him, I didn't like what I saw. Down below a figure was sprinting away from a hydra.

"What's wrong..." his voice trailed off as the scene unfolded beneath him. We shared a look and them sprinted down the hill swords drawn. I whipped out Riptide and Sam pulled a silver chain from his jacket. He yanked it and it started morphing into a silver 5 foot jagged edged scythe engraved with the Nike swoosh, which in Greek is the sign of victory. I ran toward the nearest blazer and grabbed a handful of coals. I ducked and rolled as I felt a blob of acid fly over my head. I ran up next to the Hydra sliced one of the heads off of the beast. I pushed a coal into the steaming stump and it sizzled them finally lay still.

I ducked as one lunged for my head. "Take him past the boundary." I yelled to Sam, as he severed another head and I tossed a coal to him.

"Got..." Then a scream broke through his voice. Looking back on it was probably mine. One of the hydra heads loosed a stream of acid right at him coating his body. I yelled in fury and the earth shook beneath me. Water exploded through the ground and surrounded the Hydra in a rapidly condensing sphere of water. The Hydra yelled in pain and attempted to break out. I squeezed my fist and felt another tug forming in my gut.

It was similar to when I summoned and controlled water, but it felt slightly, I don't know how to put it, heavier. Like it was condensing my entire being. The earth shook beneath my feet and a platform of earth rose up behind me. It hovered in the air and then began it's path to the Hydra. It melted into a liquid of pure earth and covered the Hydra. The beast writhed in pain and then became increasingly smaller. It shrunk and grew smaller until a deep green liquid seeped out and then it was no more. I rushed over to Sam's side, but I knew it was to late. He had a peaceful look on his face and he said "Percy, you were always a good friend to me.

"No, you're not going to die on me Sam, no I wont allow it."

"Percy, take this and remember me by it." He pressed his sword into my hand and it shrunk into the chain. Then with a faint goodbye, he passed on to the underworld. I remembered the kid screaming for help, and me yelling at the top of my lungs then, from the loss of air, passed out.

When in awoke from my self-induced coma I found myself lying on a stretcher in the infirmary. I looked around and I found Annabeth, Niko, Grover, and Chiron at my side. I looked to my other side and found that Sam was lying on a stretcher similar to my own. The only difference was that he had a peaceful look on his face and he was way to clean to have just been in a battle.

"Is he..." then I was to choked up to continue. With a small sad nod, Chiron confirmed my suspicion. The next few hours passed by in a haze. I remember some small details, like a bunch of people coming to the infirmity to confirm the rumors, the conch horn signaling a camp meeting, me lighting the burial shroud, kids coming up to me and offering their condolences, then with a the balance of a drunken man I staggered off into my cabin and lie there wishing that it was me instead of Sam who had died.

The next morning I woke up not knowing where I was. Then I remembered what had occurred and started to softly weep. Then I collected myself and thought "I have to be strong, they can't afford to see their leader like this. Sam would want me to be strong." Then I looked at my magical calendar (A gift from Annabeth because I always could never keep up with date) and saw that 12 days had passed. I again collected myself and I strutted out of the cabin with my head held high.

For the next couple of months life was a complete hell. The new kid, Zanier, turned out to be a son of Poseidon, Poseidon himself appeared and proclaimed that Zanier was his son and how he had cleverly kept him concealed in his underwater palace and had trained him himself. He talked on and on of his marvelous talent and of all the great quests and deeds he had completed. From that moment on Zanier had a bigger head than even Ares. For some reason he was always after me trying to frame me and make me look weak. Then Annabeth started to hang out with me less and less. She said she had work, but I once caught her on the beach as though waiting for someone. She played it off as she was concentrating on a problem, but I wasn't completely convinced.

Around Christmas time i was searching for Annabeth hoping to give her my gift when I turned a corner and to my despair saw a sight that would scar me for the rest of my life. Annabeth standing hand in hand with the Zanier.

They were standing in the shade of a evergreen with mistletoe hanging above them. As they leaned in for what would turn into a kiss, the ground shook with the force of an earthquake. I soon later resized that the shaking was coming from me. They fell to the ground and I walked up to them barely controlling my anger.

"How could you after everything we've been through, you, you, ugh I can't even talk to you!" I shouted at Annabeth tears forming in my eyes. "And you, you mister hotshot, I saved your life and this is how you repay me, by hitting on my girlfriend!"

"Oh shut up, no one cares about you don't you see, even your girlfriend thinks I'm better, so you can just take your sorry little ass, and get the hell out of here and do everyone a big favor." Zanier sneered.

"Don't even try and act all big and..." I trailed off because he had just flung a knife at me that I barely dodged. "What the hell man."

"Oh you scared" Annabeth said as he threw a second dagger.

"No I'm just..." then slipped on a patch of ice as he launched a dagger that I knew would make contact. Just before it impaled me and stuck me to the ground a black blur whizzed in front of me. I was confused at first than my surprise turned to despair as I saw what it was. Blackjack laid in front off me bleeding heavily from his rib area. I knew at that moment it was to late and I think so did he.

"Blackjack why?" I said with tears glistening my cheeks.

"I would take a million knives for you, boss..." then lay still on the ground as his body slowly faded away leaving nothing, but a single night black feather. "I'm going to kill you." I roared hurling millions of tiny ice spears at them. Just before they made contact, there was a flash of light and appeared Zeus, Athena, and Poseidon.

"How dare you." Poseidon roared the earth around him shaking.

"You do not deserve anything that marks you as a hero." Zeus roared, "Therefor I am removing the Achilles Heel, let you suffer in pain because of it."

Poseidon raised his hand and I felt riptide rip out of my pocket, "This is a heroes blade, you are not worthy." He glare at me one last time before handing the blade to Zanier.
"You have thirty minutes to gather your stuff and leave the boundaries of this camp and are hereby banned from Camp and Olympus. Now go!" Zeus thundered with those last words I was teleported to my cabin, and I proceeded to pack up my stuff. The only thing I left was a picture of Annabeth and it was torn in half with Annabeth's face blotted out.

I rushed out of the cabin and blindly stumbled down the road to exit camp when I ran into Chiron. One look at his told me that he had been told and knew what I had transpired.

"Chiron I'm sorry, I really am."

"Percy my dear boy you have nothing to apologize for it was the upstart and the she-devil Annabeth has turned into, I have no clue what has gotten into that girl but alas. Just remember that you Percy are a true hero no matter what anyone says. And in time all debts will be repaid."

I stumbled out of the camp boundaries and thought of Chiron's words.

In time...

In time...

In time they would all regret the pain they've caused, and I Percy Jackson will be there and when they plead for forgiveness, I will turn away.