The Roman Avenger (Percy Jackson)

Chapter three

Chapter 3

There Reyna and I sat on top of Mount Rushmore looking up at the stars. We had shadow traveled out out of the underworld after everyone had gone to bed for the last time. We were both nervous for our first day at Camp Jupiter tomorrow. Reyna was afraid she wasn't strong enough to be a Roman, though I knew very differently. She was a skilled warrior she was just discouraged, because she thought all the demigods would be as powerful as me. I wouldn't be surprised that after a year of constant training with me, she will be in the top three girl fighters immediately. When she arrived I didn't slow my training schedule. I introduced her to some of my teachers and we began learning at a more basic level all over again. But as Achilles told me there is nothing wrong with going back to basic technique.

I on the other hand was more afraid that the gods of Olympus would strike me down tomorrow. So Pluto tells me the Roman gods are much less active in their lives that that of their Greek counterparts, but I still wasn't sure if I would live to see the end of the month.

Reyna and I were holding hands and just watching the stars as we laid on our backs. I really liked Reyna, romantically? I am not sure yet, I know I have very powerful feelings towards her and I feel connected with her. I am not sure though if they are like sibling feelings or like romantic feelings. I wasn't really sure how to test it either. I thought about kissing her sometime just to see what would happen. Apollo advised me to do this as well, but of course I know his mind is always in the gutter. I looked over at my beautiful best friend, the moon made her face glow with happiness and hope, and I knew she was happy that I brought her to one of our many favorite spots on our last night in hiding. Her face kept changing emotions, it would go from happy, to sad, from hopeful to worried. She looked very conflicted at the moment, so I gave her hand a gentle squeeze. She looked over at me, and just stared into my eyes for a moment, she then asked, "Are you okay Percy?"

I smiled gently at her, "Of course. I am just thinking. Wondering what it's going to be like at Camp Jupiter."

She looked at me with worry, "What if they don't like us?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "Then we leave. Spite what my father thinks, I don't care what Olympus thinks of us. I now have another person to look after now. Rey I will protect you, I just want you to know that. After I saved you in the alley I feel that part of you is my responsibility and that part is your safety. I will not let any of them touch you, I swear it. If they don't like us then you and me will leave. I have the resources where we could survive very comfortably without ever having to work or fight in wars. It would just be the two of us, maybe we would make new friends maybe not, but as long as its us we will be okay. If the gods come for us I will fight them."

She looked at me in shock, "You would do that for me?"

I gave her a small reassuring smile, "Of course I would. Your like family to me Rey, the closest I have ever really had to one. One that was alive anyways."

She squeezed my hand saying she was there for me. I still haven't told her my full story or my past yet, but I knew the day would one day come. It was a few silent, comfortable moments before anything else was said, "Why don't we just leave then? Avoid the conflict of having to fight in the wars! You could die Percy. I could lose you at any point to the rising Titans or Jupiter. You future is dark, why not just run, we could do it like you said together. We could search for my sister, we could be a family. We can track down the three children of Pluto that are alive as well and then you would have some siblings to and they would be safe."

I sighed, "Rey, I am not afraid of death."

There was silence for a minute. Before she said quietly, "Yeah well death isn't hard for the person who experienced it, its hard for the people you leave behind."