When Moon Meets Sea: A Pertemis Story : The Prequel

Events before the Great Fall : Part 1

This chapter is dedicated to samdman2020, I have enjoyed the 'Betrayed By All' story it's basically a pertemis story btw Pertemis is my favourite ship except the source material's Percabeth.

I don't own Pjo HoO BoO ToA etc those are owned by respected author Rick Riordan. I am only a fan who have read more than hundreds of fanfictions and continuing in reading those.

Quietly endure, silently suffer, and patiently wait.

                      Martin Luther King Jr

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Percy POV

After Feast Fortuna I was doing just well if you don't consider how much anxious I was to meet my girlfriend Annabeth.

No unnecessary dream well thinking about the dream it seemed it was a past event just relayed to me because probably it would be important to me ,well later I asked few 'Somnia' campers (equivalent to Morpheus in our camp half blood), about if their father could play a past event to anyone but they shrugged off saying that their father was capable of showing present events if it's like current going on.

Then I started bonding with the fifth cohort which became the most feared cohort in the legion well we have stopped the wargames after the attack of Polybotes but it was sure we could defeat 2 or 3 cohorts alone,the whole legion's spirit has been lifted as the failed quest's equipment has been returned despite the fact that the dead legionnaires have been manipulated by the evil Earth mother Gaea.

And specially Hazel was worrying more about her brother who gave her the second chance of life. I didn't express to others specially I tried hard not to break down in front of Hazel, but the disappearance of Nico reminded me all over the battle of labyrinth when Nico was so young,naive yet he learned those things from the manipulative ghost judge 'Minos', the way he has accused me of not taking care of his dead sister Bianca the grief the hurtness in his young eyes still stung me. I knew I had not my memory and he had acted as if not knowing me but he was acting up in his dad and probably in Olympus's orders. And I prayed to every gods that if we don't fail him in our journey,I knew he had taken a risk in taking it and probably facing dangerous monsters in the ancient lands but we would go for sure.

In the meantime I decided to train archery. I know you would say oh Percy Jackson archer probably half of legion is dead right? I was aware of that so I requested first an Apollo camper to show me the proper stunts and I watched very closely I mean it was very easy compared to reading books to us demigods specially for me. Then I decided to go out to the Oakland hills it was the far I can go as the legionnaires always gather around Fields of Mars.

Then I started to shoot arrows according to what the camper had said. For first two shots I completely shooted in the opposite direction I feared I had shot a legionnaire but good lord no one was there. I went on for 6 hours well first hour I spent in straightening my arrow projection but I realised somebody must have cursed me in that .

I remembered the myth about the giant hunter Orion who ironically was my half brother who had probably gained the curse because according to myths he is the best archer after the twin children of Leto, well I used my mental will of my hardest to overcome the curse I knew from myths a dumb story for sure that Apollo had tricked Artemis to shoot Orion and I also heard that how he being a drunkard raped Merope and her father king Oenopion of Chios removed his eyes and once a hunter who vowed to hunt anything from earth and pursued the mother of Pleaides, grandmother of Hermes, Pleione.