The Blind Son of Lupa

On the Run

AN: the picture above is Percy's necklace. Percy is going to be the tag along on the quest to save Artemis and he's going to be travelling with Nico afterwards. Also, because his mother is a Roman goddess, Percy is Roman as well. During the events of the titan's curse. Also, for things to work, I have to mix up the ages a little bit. The only major change is that Percy, Nico and Bianca are all 14.
     Also, I am SOOOOO sorry about the long wait. I took a break the morning I was writing it to go to school, (I'm only 13) and I just kind of forgot about it.
Percy POV
It's been four years since I became the champion of Apollo, and I've never been happier. According to my patron, my mother knows what I'm doing and she's proud of me. I can't iris message her myself because the gods are still hunting me, but at least she knows I'm safe.
The missions I've been on haven't been huge yet, but slowly they've been getting bigger. I only get a mission every week or so, which means I have a lot of downtimes. I mostly spend it either running from the hunters, training with my sword, or practicing my echolocation abilities. But, even then I have so much free time, so naturally I picked up a few hobbies.
     I learned to sing. (A/N: I know Percy sang in my other fanfic, but don't judge. I guess I just like the idea of Percy singing. It works well for this concept. And to learn the lyrics I used a radio that Vulcan got me on my eleventh birthday.
Vulcan has visited a couple of times since our first meeting. And he tries to through the hunt off my tail whenever he can.
I also made a new friend. This friend is 35cm long and weighs 4kg. (AN: I live in Canada. I know the metric terms. Sorry if it confuses you) also an iguana. (AN: don't judge. I like iguanas.) Doogle the green iguana, who for some reason hates Apollo. I think he's got beef with my patron. Now I know what you're thinking, 'Percy if you're a werewolf, then why do you have a pet?' While that's a valid question, the answer is quite simple. I need... friends. And being a werewolf gives me the ability to talk to animals, so it works out. Doogle is also obsessed with tacos for some reason.
That's how things are most of the time. On a full moon, there is a forced shift and a werewolf's primal urges come into play. It also really hurts.
When the full moon does show itself I pack up all of my stuff into a magic bag, give the bag and Doogle(who just sits on my shoulder most of the time) to Apollo, and wait to have my insides torn apart. Then in the morning, after I turn human again, my Patron comes back with Doogle, my bag and a fresh pair of clothes.
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     The sun was setting and I was packing up my camp to move out again because the hunters travel less at night when Apollo showed up with a mission. "Hey Perce!" He greeted,
I turned to look at him, well sense his movements. "Hello Apollo, what brings you here this time?" I asked him,
He almost seemed to get nervous for a second, but it disappeared quickly. "New mission," he responded seriously, "you might want to sit down for this."
We both sat on the grass and the sun god continued, "my uncle, Pluto, has two children."  I wanted to interrupt, but I knew better than that. "These children were born before the oath was made, and were kept in a place called the lotus hotel and casino. Where time stands still. Three months ago their father took them out of the casino. And placed in a school in Maine. But now both the satyr and a monster have found them. You need to get there ASAP and make sure they don't die. You up for it?"
     Despite knowing Apollo can't understand him, Doogle spoke first 'that's a big ask sunshine' said my cold-blooded from my shoulder (he liked it there because it had a heater built in just for him) 'we're in!'
     "Apollo, I'm on it. Doogle's in too."
     The sun god grinned and gave us the location. After he left, it took me 1 minute to pack up the rest I'm of my camp. I shifted and ran towards the school in Maine.

Time Skip

As I arrived at the school my enhanced ears were bombarded with sounds. To the point where I could barely stand. As I am a werewolf, I have hyper enhanced senses. Therefore, I can hear almost anything in a mile radius.
     This happens sometimes, but for all of the times it has happened, I wasn't alone so I could focus on the voice of whoever I was with. But now I was on my own. I tried to listen to Doogle's voice, but before I got here, used the mist to hide him since I didn't think the school allowed pets. Also, he couldn't hear what I could and so he didn't understand my problem.
     Then, just faintly, I could hear the sound of human music. I focused on it only slightly confused as to why I could hear Jesse McCartney coming from a school, but nonetheless, I followed it towards the school. Once there I shifted and walked inside
    The closer I got the louder the music until it was too much to process. The noise almost caused the werewolf in me to take control like on a full moon, but I fought it down. 'No!' I told myself 'I can't go rabid right now, I have a job to do.' I continued to stumble through the halls towards the music. As I pushed open the final door the music got a lot louder, and I struggled to maintain stability.
     Once I got a hold of myself I sniffed around for the demigods. Goat? No, probably the satyr. Bad perfume? No, that's a human. It went on like that for a few seconds until dead people there they are.
     I followed it towards the source, using echolocation to make sure I didn't run into anyone though that didn't work out very well. I got bumped into like, 12 times. After what felt like an eternity, I finally made it through the mob of people I sensed the di Angelos as I was told they were named sitting on the bleachers.
     "Hey," I said to them "can I sit with you guys?"
     "Sure," the girl told me "you can sit here."
     I used my hands to feel around for a free spot to sit and sat down. "I'm Percy by the way," I said trying to strike up a conversation.
Both demigods looked at him. The boy, who was on the other side of the girl, answered first. "I'm Nico! And this is Bianca! Do you wanna play Mythomagic with us?" He asked enthusiastically.
I chuckled nervously, I'd always been self-conscious about my blindness, this time was no different. "I want to, I really do, but I uh, can't."
"Why not?" Nico asked
"I uh, can't see. I'm blind." I said looking down.
No one spoke for a few seconds before I felt a hand on my shoulder, "it's Ok Percy. We won't play if you can't. What do you want to do?" Bianca said
I smiled and as I was about to respond I smelled a monster coming close. "Hey, doctor Thorn!" Nico exclaimed to the monster.
"Hello, would you two be so kind as to follow me?" He said before grabbing Nico and Bianca and dragging them away. Leaving me alone. I waited for them to leave the room before following them. Hiding behind corners and opened doors to avoid being seen, I slowly went outside towards the cliff.
"Thorn!" I yelled the monster turned to look at me.
"Get back mutt!" He shouted back "This doesn't concern you! Besides the great stirring is already upon us"
I drew my sword, Daybreaker, and charged. As I was running he took out a rocket launcher and fired it at me. I dodged and continued my charge. As we were fighting another demigod ran out of the school followed by two more and the satyr from before. That stupid goat must have called backup. This made my job that much harder.
Noticing his disadvantage, the monster took on his true form. I sensed get much bigger, his shape changed to that of a lion. He grew the wings of a bat and the tail of a scorpion. The curved horns of a ram sprouted from his head.
"The Manticore!" I shouted, "everyone get back!" Most of the demigods obliged, but I could smell one of them snuck around the back of the Manticore.
Just then, an arrow hit the beast in the paw, causing him to drop Nico and Bianca. The sound of a hunting horn rang throughout the clearing. "Great the Hunters. Just what I needed today." The demigoddess behind me said sarcastically.
I looked back at her and said "I hear you,"
I sensed about 30 people walk out of the woods. "Permission to kill Milady?" One of the girls asked the goddess
"No!" The manticore boomed, "Direct interference! It is against ancient laws!"
"Not so!" Diana said "the hunting of all wild beasts is within my sphere. And you, foul creature, are a wild beast. Zoë, permission granted."
Just then, the half-blood from before decided it would be a good time to jump on the manticores back. "Get back demigod! Get out of the line of fire!" the lieutenant shouted.
Then, the monster jumped off the cliff with the girl still on its back. "ANNABETH!" the girl behind me screamed. I ran to the edge and listened, but the Manticore never hit the water. It flew away so I put my sword away and went over to the di Angelos.
"Percy I have two questions. One: WHAT WAS THAT!!!!! And two: where'd the iguana come from."
I was about to lead the siblings to a better place when the cold, slim blade of a dagger touch the back of my neck and I began to burn when I touched the silver. Then it retracted a little bit. I froze, "can I help you?" I asked who I assumed was Diana.
The silence was broken by none other than the Spanish voice of Doogle the Iguana. 'Yes, what do you want.' He said climbing up and sitting on top of my head. Then he seemed to see who it was 'oh, Diana heh. I'm Doogle, bye.' Then he ran down my chest and hid in my coat pocket.
"Who are you?!" Diana demanded,
"My name is Percy, but after hunting me for over 4 years you should probably call me Perseus. Now, what can my blind and wolfish self do for you today?" I asked again, only now turning to her. She gasped and I couldn't see why, but I could only hope it was because she saw my unseeing eyes.
She tried to walk past to grab the confused children of Pluto, but I stepped in her way. She tried moving around only to be met with the same result. "Move," she ordered "or be moved."
"No, I don't think so," I said, surprising her and everyone else too. "You want them you go through me. The children of Hades are under my protection. I do not want to hurt anyone. I am only here under orders from one of the only gods who didn't try to kill me on sight. I'm here because my patron gave me a job to do, that's protecting these demigods, and I take my work very seriously. So are you going to leave us alone, or is this going to get ugly." as I was the only roman here, I made sure to say the Greek term for the lord of the dead.
Everyone present was looking at me in n shock, but I shrugged it off and led Nico and Bianca away. We sat down on a log not too far from where the hunters were putting up camp. I would have to lead them farther, but the hunters were watching us like hawks.
I turned to the di Angelos, "Now, what do you know about the Greek myths?"
After explaining everything about the gods and their existence and what I've been up to for the past two years. Nico asked a question. "Okay but again, where did the iguana come from?" He said petting Doogle who was once again sitting on my heated shoulder.
"Oh he's been there the whole time, I just had him in my pocket instead of my shoulder. I wasn't sure if your school allowed pets. His name is Doogle"
"Hello, Doogle!" Bianca said, reaching out to pet him. 'Hello to you too, senorita .' He said flirtatiously, walking down my arm and sitting on my hand.
     I sensed someone walking up from behind me. "Someone's coming,"  I warned, and a few seconds later, there was the point of a sword on my back. I wasn't scared, only silver could hurt me, but I was annoyed.
     "How dare you interfere with a quest from camp half-blood." The voice was male, maybe 14 years old. He smelled like seawater, the son of Poseidon.
     I groaned but stood up nonetheless. "You know, you demigods are very good at interrupting conversations." I tsked as I turned to face him. "And you question why Dionysus hates you so much."
     He growled and pushed his sword point closer to my chest. But when the sword touched it just went right through. "What?!"
     "I'm, a werewolf? You can't hurt me with celestial bronze." I said as if it was obvious. "and, to answer your question, son of Poseidon if you were listening to the wonderful conversation I had with Artemis, then you would know."
     He growled again, louder this time. "okay, what's your full name? You only used Percy."
     "that would be because I don't have a last name. Not one that I was born with anyway. So instead you can use this. Perseus, " I hesitated and said the last part with a little bit of sadness. "Son of Lycaon."
     Immediately after that, I heard a few gasps and the sounds of about 25 bowstrings being drawn back, and I could only assume they were pointed at me. I put my hand on my wolf pendant protectively and got in a battle stance.
"Hold your fire!" the lieutenant ordered, "Lady Artemis wishes to speak with him."
I groaned, "fine, but Nico and Bianca come too."
"Deal," she replied and began leading us to Artemis' tent. Once there, we walked inside. Zoë bowed and then walked around and stood behind her mistress.
"Artemis, " I said rigidly, "to what do I owe the pleasure?"
Artemis ignored my tone and said, "I have some questions for you, mutt."
"I will answer, though I must warn you, I will not answer some of them. Whether it is because of my patron or because I don't want to." I said, and the goddess nodded.
"What is your full name?"
"Perseus" I answered,
"Last name?"
"Don't have one originally but the one I use when I go into the city is Jackson."
"Were you always blind?"
I nodded, "since the day I was born."
     "Who's your patron?"
     "Can't answer that." I said, "for his sake and mine."
     "Parents?"
     "Lycaon, but he hates my guts and the feeling is mutual."
     "What about your mother?"
     I looked back at the Children of Hades, they were just standing there listening quietly, I silently prayed to lord Pluto. 'Lord Pluto, will you ever tell Nico and Bianca about the other pantheons?'
     After a second he answered, 'I will but I would like to do it myself.' I turned back to Artemis. I then mouthed 'Not Greek, Roman'.
"Very well, that is all. You may go." She said and we began to leave before the goddess held Bianca back. "Not you." Making me freeze.
"Perseus may stay." The goddess said. Making me look back at Nico. Seemingly noticing my indecisiveness, Artemis continued, "no harm will come to him today, I swear it on the Styx." Making me nod,
"Nico you go on, ok. I'll come to join you soon," I said, knowing what was coming.
After he left Bianca spoke, "what did you want to talk about?" She asked,
"I have a proposition for you," Artemis said, "would you like to join the hunt?"
Bianca seemed confused and after Artemis and her lieutenant (Zoë I think?) explained it to her, she agreed. I hung my head, shifted into my wolf form, and slowly walked towards Nico.
Upon my arrival, I curled up next to my friend as he quietly petted me.
After about five minutes, Zoë came out and informed her fellow hunters that Artemis was going on a solo hunt and we were going to camp half-blood, to which everyone in the hunt, (and me,) groaned.
Soon after, Bianca arrived. In a huntress uniform.