The Betrayed Demigod

The Beginning

THIS IS SET BEFORE TRIALS OF APOLLO. LEO AND CALYPSO STARTED THEIR GARAGE AND LIVE THERE.

Percy Jackson POV

Athena had told me that after a year of being away from Annabeth, I was finally allowed to marry her daughter. When I heard the news, I rushed to the forges of Hephaestus to collect the ring I had asked him to make for me when I had left. I'm not going to talk about the tasks she had me do though, because some of them were pretty messed up. 

I got the ring quickly and tried a trick I had recently learned how to do, Vapor Travel. It was much more pleasant than shadow traveling, which was sort of surprising considering that shadow traveling was passing through shadows, and vapor traveling was being broken down into mist particles. As you might notice, I'm not as stupid as I pretend to be around other people. 

I materialized at the borders of camp, by Thalia's pine tree. Everyone glared at me as I walked through the crowd, heading toward the beach. I barely noticed because of how nervous I was, and I fingered the ring box as I walked.

When I got to the beach, I could hear a crowd chanting, "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" and I walked over to see who it was for. I really hoped that it was Travis and Katie, or maybe Will and Nico because I had been cheering them on for months before I left. It turned out it was some blonde kissing the new Zeus camper, a guy named Mark Skye. 

The girl he was kissing looked a bit like Annabeth, so I assumed it was one of her sisters, but when she came up for air, I gasped. It was Annabeth.

"This is what you've been doing while I was gone?" I thundered, seeming louder than Zeus. I rose into the air and water swirled around me, "I go on quests to gain your mother's permission Annabeth, and I come back to see you've been cheating on me! Why?"

She smirks, "I was never in love with you. No one here ever liked you. They just liked how powerful you were. But Mark is so much more powerful than you'll ever be. That's why I chose him over you. So go away!"

I staggered back, looking at almost everyone's glaring faces, and I ran faster than I've ever run before. A couple of people followed me, yelling after me, but most of them just went back to what they had been doing.

"Percy! Wait up!" Travis and Connor yelled after me, "We just want you to know that there are people around here who still care."

"Who?" I snapped, not caring about how they felt.

"Us, Katie and Miranda, Will and Nico, Hazel and Frank, Grover and Juniper" They replied, "Plenty of people care about you Perce. Just don't forget that"

I nodded because I could understand their meaning, but I was never going back. So I decided to ask the Olympians for a favor because they owe me. 

I vapor traveled directly into the throne room, causing Zeus to jump up and yell, "Who has the power to travel into the throne room?"

I didn't understand what he meant, because I had always had the power to travel into the throne room, but now that I say it, it does sound like a power Olympians had. I raised my head, and respectfully asked, "Lord Zeus" Gasps came from the fact that I was being respectful, "I have come to ask you to do me a favor."

"What is this favor?"

"Swear on the River Styx that you will do it since I know it is in your power."