Another Chance

I remember a mostly shitty day

Hello.

My name is Percy Jackson, Son of Poseidon. You might know me as the bane of Kronos and the savior of Olympus with a whole lot of other titles.

So, you might be asking, how did I find myself snogging one of my best friends and interests in front of super-powerful immortal deities that ruled the universe?

Here is the story of me almost dying (Literally and with embarrassment).

I was having a pretty crappy day so far. Ever since Queen Dirt face had won the war, we demigods were in a...compromising situation to say the least. We were being hunted left and right by monsters and minor titans and giants. A lot of my friends from both camps were captured and executed. Piper was killed in a surprise Empousa attack at night. Jason was absolutely devastated, so much so, he stopped eating altogether. His depression increased and he became sloppy and distracted. He was killed by an unsuspecting arrow to the heart by a wind spirit during one of their frontal attacks. Hazel and Frank passed away together painlessly when an earthborn threw a large boulder on them, crushing them instantly. Leo was killed during the fight with Gaea.

The remaining of us were mourning them in hiding when Artemis approached my best friend, Annabeth. She offered her a place to stay in the hunt. Annabeth refused in fear of abandoning me, but Artemis clarified that the offer extended to me as well.

Yes, the man-hating Artemis' hunt. How did I not get turned into a pincushion? Turns out, they respect me!

I was already good friends with most of the hunt with me traveling with them for a while before the Giant War.

The newer hunters were pretty skeptical of me at first but after being vouched for by Thalia and Artemis (This gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling), they quickly warmed up to me.

We would often have various competitive challenges within the hunter's rank that generally ended up with me being on the floor and the hunters' laughing their butts off. Fortunately, I didn't have hubris as my fatal flaw, so I just brushed off most of their insults and taunts. Due to this, slowly but surely, their pranks and taunts started becoming light-hearted and without the previous intent to hurt.

We were traveling west towards California to rendezvous with the rest of the surviving demigods. Artemis had become a bit more lenient towards boys because of the trying circumstances. While she had not allowed anyone else but me to travel with the hunt, she did lose some of her man-hating tendencies.

Artemis and I were walking side by side ahead of the rest of the hunt. Everyone in the hunt knew about the 'glances' that were thrown between us. Thalia and Annabeth teased me and Artemis relentlessly after an incident involving me dozing off on her shoulder and her resting her head on mine instinctively.

It was a normal morning, the birds were chirping, Thalia and Annabeth were bickering, the hunters were having an archery competition and discussing various castration methods *shudder* and of course Artemis and I were a blushing mess around each other. It was a good morning indeed.

Until it wasn't.

As I was talking with Artemis about the frequency of attacks from Gaea's forces, a hunting horn sounded.

An attack.

Our eyes widened as we sprinted towards the armory. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Thalia and Annabeth engaging with a few Earthborn.

I quickly strapped on my armor and uncapped Riptide. I saw Artemis summon her bow and start rapidly shooting at the monsters.

I let out a war cry as a dracanae lunged forward to stab me in the chest. I sidestepped and ran my sword through her midsection quickly. She vaporized with a wail and I brought my attention to the three cyclops towering before me.