Disclaimer: I do NOT own Percy Jackson, nor Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan does.

Percy's POV:

As I fell, I thought about my life. I thought about how it started off simply and got worse and worse. I thought about the first monster I ever encountered, Gabe Ugliano. I smiled at the memory of him being turned into stone by Medusa's head. I remembered the quest to the sea of monsters to retrieve the golden fleece from Polyphemus. Memories continued to flow through my mind as I continued my decent into the pit. After about an hour I felt the hole I was falling through open up and I sighed.

'Well, new life... here I come...' I think to myself as I down and notice the river Styx beneath me, I smile sadly as I brace myself for unimaginable pain

I hit the river with a loud splash and I close my eyes and wait for my death. After a few moments, I started to become impatient, I opened my eyes and noticed I had sunk down to the bottom of the river and still wasn't feeling any pain. I crossed my arms and sighed.

'I guess the fates don't want me to die yet. Great, they just absolutely LOVE messing with my life...' I think to myself as the murky water shimmered in front of me

I raised an eyebrow as the water took the shape of a beautiful nymph who had her arms crossed as she looked at me with a look of slight amusement.

"Perseus Achilles Jackson, son of Poseidon, Hero of Olympus twice over, bearer of the Achilles Curse, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion. What brings you to bathe in my river again? Did you love the feeling of the water on your skin so much you had to dive in again?" Styx said with amusement in her eyes as she regarded me

"Lady Styx" I bow my head slightly to the River Nymph "And its Former Son of Poseidon. I am now just the son of the Sea." Styx looks at me for a moment before she smiles

"Well Perseus, I sea a bunch has changed since your last visit to my river. I'm shore you have enough time to update me on the current events on Olympus" Styx says while smiling and I look at her incredulously

"Whale, everything was going fine until a few hours ago, I found out that Annabeth cheated on me while I was doing tasks to ask for her hand in marriage... Poseidon tried to disown me, but only managed to take away my parentage and not my powers. Then I was told I was to powerful so Zeus sent me down here to Tartarus for the rest of Eternity, oh yeah I'm also immortal..." I say with a slight sad tone which Styx picks up on and floats over to me

"You've lost so much, I can feel you losing hope..." Styx said and I looked at her "If you can't tell, the reason why my waters are murky is because everyone who dies and crosses my river loses hope that they will never complete their dreams..." she finishes sadly and I look around and I notice something

I swim over to the object and I pick it up and look at it sadly as Styx floats over to me.

"It looks like you found the dream you've given up on... it causes me pain... yes it's a small object but the dream behind it was powerful..." Styx says in a weak voice as she looks at the ring in my hand

Third Person POV:

Percy stared at the ring for a moment before he started muttering something. Styx looked at him curiously as she felt a shift in the way her currents flowed. Normally they flowed with a feeling of lost dreams and lost hope, but right now she felt a surge in what could only be described as pure determination. That's when Styx noticed Percy clench his fist that held the ring and a pulse of pure energy radiated from it. Percy's eyes glowed sea green with power as he slowly raised his voice so Styx could hear him. Styx realized that Percy had started singing and for some reason the more he raised his voice the more power he radiated.

"It's time to strap our boots on

This is the perfect day to die

Wipe the blood out of our eyes

In this life there's no surrender

There's nothing left for us to do

Find the strength to see this through

We are the ones who will never be broken

With our final breath

We'll fight to the death

We are soldiers! We are soldiers!

Woah!

We are soldiers!"

The waters of the Styx hummed with power as the murky water slowly became clearer as Percy continued to sing.

"I stand here right beside you

Tonight we're fighting for our lives

Let me hear your battle cry

Your battle cry!

We are the ones who will never be broken

With our final breath

We'll fight to the death

We are soldiers! We are soldiers!

We are the ones who will not go unspoken, (Not go unspoken)

No, we will not sleep

We are not sheep

We are soldiers! We are soldiers!

Yeah!"

Styx looked at Percy in awe as he sang. Percy closed his eyes and the power he radiated lessened as he carried on singing.

"We stand shoulder to shoulder

We stand shoulder to shoulder

We stand shoulder to shoulder

You can't erase us

You'll just have to face us

We stand shoulder to shoulder!

We stand shoulder to shoulder!

We stand shoulder to shoulder!

You can't erase us,

You'll just have to face us!"

Percy tightened his grip on the ring he made while simultaneously snapping his eyes open as he raised his voice. His eyes glowed with the unrestrained power of the sea while his voice boomed like the crashing of waves on the shoreline. The waters of the Styx responded by pulsing with power as it did away with the pollution of forgotten dreams and Styx felt her waters infused with power, determination, and Hope. Styx watched Percy as he continued to sing the final few verses.

"We are the ones who will never be broken, (Never be broken)

With our final breath

We'll fight to the death

We are soldiers! We are soldiers!

We are the ones who will not go unspoken, (Not go unspoken)

No, we will not sleep

We are not sheep

We are soldiers! We are soldiers!

Yeah!

We are soldiers!"

When it was over Percy's eyes stopped glowing as he looked around, the waters of the Styx river were no longer murky as it hummed with renewed power. Styx looked at Percy before she lunged at him and brought him into a hug.

"Thank you so much Percy" Styx said as she pulled back and looked at Percy with a thoughtful look on her face

"It was the least I could do for you. After all, no one deserves to live without hope." Percy responded with a small smile

"Percy, I know your father disowned you, but I can't bear to think about you being parentless... how would you like to be my adopted son?" Styx said with a hopeful gleam in her eyes

Percy's eyes widened as he looked at Styx. He smiled his trademark smile and nodded before replying

"I would be happy to be your adopted son... mom"

A/N: So how did you like the chapter? I do NOT own the song either, 'Soldiers' by Otherwise is owned by the band Otherwise (It is a truly amazing song, and when I was listening to it, I just knew I had to put it into the chapter). Anyways, make sure you check out Stregger and Leonidas_son_of_Nike as they are both amazing writers! Till next time my fellow Demigods and Demigoddesses, Take Care!

~Major Nich