Percy POV

I've been wandering for about a couple weeks now. Honestly I'm starting to lose track of time. The days pass and I just keep walking, always moving forward. Never looking back.

I try to help as much as I can, but that isn't much. When I see a demigod, I take them to camp unless they were a girl who was abused or hurt by men, in which case I lead them to the hunt. I never stay long enough for anyone to see me. It's too much for me to see any of them again. So I keep working, hoping that one day I will find a purpose in this world again and not have to worry about what I will do with my life.

I was about to leave the small town in Michigan where I was staying so I could get some sleep, when I heard a scream come from a house on the corner. As I rushed to the house I could smell the beer from two houses down. I knew something was extremely wrong so I decided to break down the door instead of knocking. When I entered I saw something that made my blood boil. There was a hippo of a man lumbering towards a maybe six year old girl who had bruises covering her face and cuts covering her arms. Before I knew what I was doing I tapped the man on the shoulder.

"Huh?" He grunted as he slowly turned towards me. When he saw me his eyes went wide before I knocked his lights out. I wanted to do so much more for hurting that poor and innocent child, but I didn't want to scare her so I just quickly ended his life with a twist of my hands, snapping his neck.

I turned back around to face the girl and could feel electricity in the air, flitting about as she cowered. The girl looked at me in fear, "Please don't hurt me!" She cried out in terror.

"I won't hurt you I promise, your father sent me to help you. He is very worried about you."

"You liar! My father is dead!"

"No, he isn't. He's just very important and couldn't take care of you himself. If he could he would. He loves you very much."

"Who is he then?"

"Do you know about Greek mythology?"

"Yeah, like Dionysus, Ares, and Zeus, right?"

I glanced up at the sky, nervously, as it rumbled with thunder, "Yes those exact ones, well... your father is an Olympian god."

She just stared at me in shock.

"Zeus actually," I could tell now for sure because of her a blonde hair and electric blue eyes.

"Really?!"

"Yes really!"

"Thank you... by the way..," she said timidly.

"Hey, no need to thank me, I'm just happy that you're okay. I'm afraid to ask but I think I should... did he touch you anywhere... underneath your clothes..?"

"No. I was really scared though..." she replied, finally giving me a tiny smile.

Then she did something I wasn't expecting, she hugged me. She held on to my neck as I lifted her up and chuckled at her actions. She climbed onto my shoulders and we walked out of the house and started to travel to the hunt, her asking me questions and dozing off against me along the way. Hestia had seen the hunt they had been at camp so I began to head that way. I learned how to vapor travel after practicing on my travels. The only god who knows I'm gone though is Lady Hestia, and she keeps me updated on things which really helps.

"So, what's your name?"

"My name is Jade."

"Such a pretty name, perfect for such an adorable little girl like yourself," After I said this, she give me a big grin that lit up my world. I was already starting to look at her as a daughter or younger sister.

"Thank you! But... what's your name?" 'Ugh, I'm an idiot, I forgot to introduce myself,' I thought.

"My name is Percy. It's nice to meet you Jade."

"Nice to meet you too, Percy. Where are we going?"

"We are going to a group of girls who, like you, have been hurt by men. They swear off men forever and their patron is Artemis."

"Really?! But wait... if I have to swear off men, does that mean I won't be able to see you ever again?" She asked tearing up slightly.

"I will visit you as much as I can. I promise Jade. Nothing will keep me from seeing you."

"Good!" She said as I chuckled a little.

"So, to make his trip quicker, I'm doing to do something that might make you feel a little sick. It won't hurt you in anyway. I promise, I would never hurt you."

"I trust you, Percy," That kind of shocked me. I mean she was abused by a guy but she already trusted me, another male? I felt a bit of pride in my chest as I continued onward.

"Okay, get ready," I gave her a moment to get ready then vapor traveled us to Long Island. When we arrived, I felt my hand starting to get squeezed to death by Jade, who looked a little green.

"You okay Jade?"

"Yeah... yeah I'm fine. Let's go find these..."

"Hunters."

"Then let's go find these hunters."

"Okay," As I was about to walk off she climbed up my back and sat on my shoulders and I just laughed and started walking. After about two hours of walking through the forest we finally reached Camp Half-Blood, which is where the hunters were staying for a time. I didn't want to go in there, but I knew Jade would be nervous with the amount of boys in camp so I steeled my nerves and walked into camp past Thalia's tree. I saw a commotion going on with Thalia, she herself was screaming at some campers.

"WHERE IS HE?!" She screamed.

"We don't know, or care, he could be dead and we might as well celebrate for his death," said Zack.

"He was a hero! He was... is better than you'll ever be, you BITCH! Percy was the hero of Olympus twice and you all betrayed him! How could you?! Especially you Annabeth! I thought you were smarter than that?!" Thalia screamed and that's when I knew they were talking about me. Thalia and Nico had never betrayed me, mainly because Thalia was with the hunters and Nico was in the Underworld helping his father.

Then I decided to step out of the shadows before things got worse. Everyone but Thalia saw me and gasped. Thalia then turned around and saw me. Her eyes went wide and her eyes started to collect tears. We were always like siblings, so close and stood up for each other always, but still got into frequent fights. She ran up and hugged me.

"Hey Thals." I said quietly, with a small smile on my face.

"What happened?!" She screamed as she hit my chest. I bent over in pain.

"Don't worry about it, I just came to drop this girl off to the hunters. Don't worry about me Sparky, I'll be fine."

"Okay... sorry for hitting you," She apologized.

"It's okay, I probably deserved it."

"May I know what the name of this sweet little girl is?" Asked Thalia as she turned her attention to Jade.

"My name is Jade," Jade said nervously hiding behind my leg.

"It's okay Jade, she's my cousin and a really good friend, you can trust her."

"Who's daughter is she, do you know," Thalia asked.

"She's Zeus's daughter, she's your baby sis Thals."

"Really?" She asked in disbelief, "Can't say I'm surprised though. Well come on Jade, let's get you initiated. And Percy, stay for a little at least, I want to catch up."

I nodded reluctantly, "Okay Thals. See you later. And Jade, I hope you like your new sisters and friends, see you around."

"Thanks brother!" She said as she hugged me.

I froze, "Brother?"

She froze too, "Yeah, I mean I just see you like one now and... and I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that!"

"No it's okay. I like it. I'll see you around Jade, stay safe."

"Sure will!" She said bouncing from one foot to the other in excitement.

After that I just walked to the Poseidon cabin, ignoring everyone else. When I entered, I felt a tear run down my cheek at the memories of camp, the good and bad. Of all my friends I lost and gained. It was sad but comforting. It was needed for me to completely accept what I wanted. I knew Thalia would be mad at me for doing this but I needed to. I couldn't keep my life up, doing what I was doing then. It was just too much. I needed to speak to Thalia then Artemis. Many wouldn't agree to what I planned doing. But I still had to do it anyway. I was running through these thoughts when a knock came to my door. I opened it up to see Thalia. I guess it was time to get caught up with each other's lives.

One hour later

"Wow, all that happened? How are you still alive?" Thalia asked in wonder.

"I'm not, well not on the inside at least. I don't feel much anymore, I feel dead inside and put on a façade to where I seem happy and everything, but really, I'm not even alive anymore. I don't know what to do Thalia."

"Just keep fighting, you'll get through this. I know you can," Thalia said and I smiled, knowing that it was fake. That I wouldn't listen to Thalia. That I would still follow up with my plan. Once she left, I had to steel my nerves for the second time that day and headed out to find Artemis. Thalia told me she was here with the hunt.

As I was looking for Artemis to take me to Olympus, I ran into Zack and his goons.

"Hey bitch! Whatcha doin'? Looking for a beating because it sure looks like you are!" Zack said to me as he walked up to me poking me in the chest. I just looked down on him as I towered over him by at least half a foot at my height 6'2".

"No, just looking for someone, can you get out of my way?"

"Well then that person is going to have to wait. We have to teach you a lesson about respect first."

The group of maybe fifteen demigods surrounded and came at me and I knew I couldn't beat all of them, but I wasn't going out without a fight, so I punched Zack right in the face. Instantly breaking his nose and blood spurting everywhere. Right after three sons of Ares came at me. I tripped one and swept another off his feet. The third one came at me from behind and held my arms together. Zack wiped the tears from his eyes and got up off the ground after about maybe ten minutes of me struggling against five Ares boys, trying to break free. When he got up he pulled out a knife, and started to slowly come towards me.

"Hey freak! You wanna know what you are? Let's just make you remember!" He screamed at me. After he did so, he rolled up my sleeves and started carving into my arms. He carved words such as 'LOSER' or 'WEAK' or even 'BITCH'. He kept doing this with more and more words until eventually he ran out of room in my arms. I was slipping into the peacefully eerie darkness, when I heard someone scream for help from Apollo. And an extremely beautiful pair of silver eyes looking at me with so much concern and worry when a bright flash came into my sight. Then the darkness took over.

Time skip: Unknown amount of time

I woke up to an extremely bright room and even brighter smile.

"Hey cuz," someone said to me. Then I realized where I was. I was in Apollo's temple on Mount Olympus. Then I remembered why I was there and I shot up quickly from the bed and almost fell out of the bed. Someone caught me instead.

"Woah, calm down bro, you shouldn't be moving so much. You lost a lot of blood. If my sister didn't call for me, you probably would've died."

"Apollo? What do you mean?"

"My sister found you lying in a pool of your own blood. She called to me for your help. I tried the best I could, but the scars are still there. Sorry bro."

I looked down and saw the scars Zack gave me and felt ashamed that I couldn't stop him from doing that. I felt like a failure.

"Well then help me up will you? I wanted to ask the Olympian council something anyway," I asked Apollo as I slowly tired to get out of bed.

He helped me out and we walked to the entrance of his temple where, surprisingly, his sister was nervously pacing. She must've heard the footsteps but didn't look up too much lost in thought and worry. 'Her worry couldn't be over me, right?' I thought to myself. (A/N Artemis is in her 18 year old form)

"Apollo, is he okay?"

"Why don't you ask him little sis?" Apollo asked amused.

She looked over to glare at Apollo for calling her 'little sis', when she spotted me. Before any of us knew what happened. She ran at me and pulled me into a bone crushing hug. I was so shocked I just stood there for a few moments before I hugged back. I looked up at Apollo and he just gave me a smirk.

"It's okay Lady Artemis. I'm fine, don't worry about me."

That's when she realized what she was doing. She slowly let go with a light blush on her cheeks.

"I wasn't worried about you... I... I was just afraid Olympus was going to lose their greatest hero. That's all," I raised my eyebrow when she mentioned 'greatest hero'.

"Of course m'lady."

"Okay guys let's head to the throne room. Percy said that he wanted to go there anyway and I promised to update the others when Percy was awake so let's get on our way," Apollo told us as he led us out the door. As we were walking, Artemis slipped her hand into mine. I looked at her with my eyebrows raised but she ignored me. I looked at her strangely. Honestly I thought she was pretty cute when she looked worried. 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PERCE?! SHE'S AN ETERNAL MAIDEN! YOU CAN NOT EVEN BE ATTRACTED TO HER!' I screamed at myself internally.

"We've arrived!" Apollo announced as he opened the doors. When he did Artemis let go of my hand and both siblings went to their thrones. I missed the feeling of Artemis's hand in mine.

"Perseus Jackson, its good to see you're okay. Why do you wish to see us?" Zeus asked, surprising pretty much everyone with his first statement.

"I have a request Lord Zeus."

"What is it boy?" He asked.

"I wish...

...

...

I wish to die..."