The True Confessions of Percy Jackson

the road not taken

              THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF PERCY JACKSON

THE FOLLOWING TEXT ON THIS MANUSCRIPT WAS FIRST DECODED BY GRECIAN-AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS MR. PERCY 'PERSEUS' JACKSON AND MS. ANNABETH CHASE IN THE UNEXPLORED WOODLANDS OF GREECE, DECEMBER 2009. SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THIS STORY IS ONE OF THE EARLIER DESCRIPTIONS OF GODS IN ANCIENT GREECE, AS THE NAMES OF MANY NOBLES CAN BE ROUGHLY TRANSLATED TO DEITIES IN THE GRECIAN PANTHEON. OTHERS ARGUE THAT THE 'LOST' CITY OF OLYMPIA PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED, AND WAS BURIED BY A SET OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS DURING THE ARCHAIC PERIOD. HOWEVER, MOST ASSUME THAT THIS DOCUMENT WAS A DRAMA BY THE FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT RICHARD RIORDAN, AS MANY EVENTS ARE INACCURATE AND OUT OF CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

                                                        ~PRELUDE~

   If you are reading this manuscript right now, it means that Olympia has fallen and my body is most likely rotting in a corner of the palace

   Well, that's a pessimistic thought, isn't it?

   If Annampeth was here with me right now, she would most definitely smack me in the face and tell me to get a hold of myself before she struck me with a iron pipe (to my family jewels. Ouch).

   But enough of this unimportant topic. The real reason I bothered to write this was because I feared Lukas Kastellanou to be a traitor, the very person who was feeding Lord Cronus vital information about our kingdom and also the man who stole my uncle's most powerful weapon, nearly killed my cousin [Princess] Thalia, and kidnapped Artemis of the Eternal Maidens and Annampeth for the sake of freeing Atlas...

   The list could go on forever. Literally. But this hopefully is enough to convince you to take action, because there isn't enough time before they set their eyes on other empires.

   Listen. These texts are a series of witness accounts of me and my buddies before and after we were Chosen. I need you to read this once, store it in your head real good, and then journey southbound to visit Lord Hades in the Land of the Underworld and pass it on. 

   The end of the world is coming. The only person who can save it is you, because clearly my crew and I are no longer alive to help you guide your way.

                                                        ~PERSEUS JACKYIOS

                                                                         AGE 17

                                                        COMMANDER OF OLYMPIA

P.S. Good luck, kid. Don't die.