Demigods of SHIELD

The Child

Somewhere in the outskirts of Philadelphia

Percy turned as he cut down a large Hell Hound, getting covered in a cloud of fine gold dust. As he turned around, Percy observed the battle in front of him. A group of half a dozen demigods in light armor fought against several dozen monsters who were spread out throughout a large park, only being visible through the darkness of the early morning when one walked close enough to a street lamp or when a monster spit fire at someone.

Percy watched, as a demigod with brown curly hair and tool belt dashed behind a tree to avoid an arrow before turning around and throwing a fireball at a monster in the darkness, before turning around to look at the burning house behind him

"ANNABETH! What's going on in there?" Percy yelled into the house as the sound of emergency sirens approached

Just as Percy finished his sentence Annabeth burst through an open door onto the porch in front of Percy with a bundle in her arms.

"The Mother is dead, hell hound tore her in half when she tried to protect the kid, I manage to kill it and I got the kid!" Annabeth yelled over the sounds of fighting, the sounds of emergency sirens getting closer and closer

"Damm. We need to get the hell out of here, fire and ems are about to be on top of us" Percy shouted, "Is the kid ok?"

"He somehow managed to sleep through all this, but we need to move, we can worry about the rest later" Annabeth replied

"Agreed" Percy replied before turning to face the park "Everyone, fall back to the Argo, we are leaving!"

As Percy and Annabeth ran towards the large greek style warship parked in an opening in the trees, the other demigods disengaged or destroyed the monsters they were fighting and started a controlled retreat towards the ship.

The first demigods to reach the ship climbed on board and began laying covering fire with the automatic ballista mounted on the bow of the ship, killing half a dozen monsters in a matter of seconds

"LEO! Get us the hell out of here!" Annabeth shouted as she ran onto the ship, with Percy fighting of a dracaena who was wielding a boar spear that had been chasing them.

"Yea! Yea! I am on it!" Leo Valdez yelled as he ran to the helm of the ship and began working with the controls, the ship's engines roaring to life as they began to move and slowly gain altitude. The other demigods, pushing monsters off the railing as the ship rose higher and higher into the air and turned northeast.

As the ship rose above the city, the demigods looked down at the park and burning house as monsters roared and ran into the night as half a dozen emergency vehicles pulled up to the house and people began to pour of out the vehicles and ran towards the house.

Percy turned to face the other demigods who were covered in gold dust, cuts, and bruises. "Clarrise, contact Chiron, inform him of what has happened," Percy said quietly trying to catch his breath "Annabeth, the kid still asleep?"

"No, he's not, Percy come here and take a look" Annabeth responded quietly

Percy walked over to Annabeth who moved the bundle in her arms so Percy could see. Percy looked down at the small child, no more than 2 or 3 years old, and saw a pair of brown eyes so so light they were almost gold and a tuft of short brown hair.

"Whose kid could he be? I have never seen a demigod that looked like this before" Percy asked looking up at Annabeth

"Neither have I" Annabeth replied vaguely as she ran through the possibilities.

As the Argo II flew towards Camp Halfblood, no one on board knew how different this child was to them.