Percy Jackson lived a simple, but hard life. Living with his mother and pig of a stepfather in a small apartment in New York. He had problems at school, and it didn't help that his drunk stepfather used him as a punching bag from time to time. Percy had a goal to just graduate high school and get a job, so he and his mother could move. Far, far away from all of their troubles. But the plan went from two people moving, to one. Percy's mother dies. Mugged and killed on the streets on her way home from work. But his plans change again when the man that left Percy's mother before Percy was born, suddenly appears. It doesn't just change Percy's plans. It changes his life.