I awoke on my bed, remembering what had happened in the past few hours. I wondered if it was all a dream, if the Olympians had actually killed me and...Thalia...and I was adopted by a new family soon after. To say I was still dumbfounded was an understatement. I looked around, seeing my room for the first time since my mom died, and I realised it was the same as that day. It seemed like a lifetime ago, my mom waking me up so that I could go back to Yancy. That was just weeks before Mrs Dodds revealed herself to be a Fury and I had my first experience with the mythological world. I missed those times, where all I did was go to school, go to camp and go on a quest. I looked around the room to see that it was slightly bigger and there was another bed in it. Sure enough, as my parents had earned me, there was John. He laid in his bed, drooling and snoring almost as loud as Gabe did. 'Wow, I hope I never looked like that' I thought to myself.

'Trust me my son, you could never look that stupid'Gaia's voice spoke in my mind, making me jump.

'Gaia,' I thought in my head, 'please don't tell me you can read my thoughts.' I soon heard her reply in my mind,

'Umm, I can't read your thoughts?' Clearly she wasn't sure what to say, I just smirked and spoke back to her.

'So, if we can talk like this at anytime, can I ask you some questions?'

'Of course, anything.' She told me, obviously trying to be motherly for the first time in millennia.

'Well, I was wondering how I would fight? In the last timeline I had riptide but I need something to defend myself with, either that be from monsters, Gods or demigods.' I told her, knowing I would need some form of weaponry. All of a sudden, I saw some objects appear on my bedside table, there was a ring, bracelet, pen and a watch. 'My son, these weapons were forged by the Elder Cyclopes. The pen is a sword, your bracelet a bow, the ring is a spear and your watch is a shield. Each weapon is an alloy of the immortal metals: Tartarian Steel, Chaos Silver, Imperial Gold, Celestial Bronze and Stygian Iron. The weapons are unbreakable and are imbued with the power to fade immortals. In your wardrobe you will find a black leather jacket with matching trousers. They are blessed by Eros so that they never get dirty and they will morph into any type of clothing that you wish, they even turn into a suit of armour. Like your weapons, the clothes are unbreakable. Are these gifts good for you?' She asked me, genuinely worried that I would complain, saying that I wanted more. Honestly, I was shocked that I got anything more than a sword, but then again I guess my new mother was a mom to go above and beyond for her new child. 'Seriously mom? THIS IS GREAT! I only meant for a sword not all of this, thank you!' I told her, I could imagine the smile on her face hen she heard how happy I was. "Perseus, get up now!" I hear my mo...no Sally...shout at me. The coldness in her voice surprised me, she had always been friendly to anyone she met, seemed like the best the Primordials could get with the fates was me seeing my dead mother again. Oh well, I've got a new family now.

I walked over to the wardrobe and saw my new clothes, I put them on and imagined them being like something Thalia would wear. They morphed into a leather jacket with cargo pants, I seriously thought I looked cool. I left the room and walked into the kitchen, immediately gagging from the stench. I remembered the stench that Gabe left behind but never remembered it being this bad. I could smell a mix of alcohol and cigarettes, in the past I would have felt angry at Gabe for making Sally live with this but now I just ignored it. The smell was fresh compared to Tartarus so I could just sit through it after I got used to it. I sat at the table after getting a bowl of cereal, Sally walked past me not saying a word, it was almost as if I wasn't there. I get that this time I wasn't her son but still, the Primordials made her believe I was her adopted son that was originally her friends child, I honestly thought she would be nicer and more caring but I guess not. I silently sat with my cereal as John walked in, I looked up at him and he looked at the ground, it seemed like he was still scared of me. Sally glared and me obviously trying to threaten me, I just looked back at her without a care in the world. As John sat down, on the opposite of the table I might add, Sally sat next to him asking him if he had a good sleep. I rolled my eyes, obviously she would be friendly towards her own son and not her adopted one. I walked off as she shouted at me to get ready to leave because it was nearly time for school.

I walked out of the apartment, John flanking me, and set off towards the bus. I sat down at the back and no one seemed to want to sit near me. Personally, I was fine with that and looked out the window, watching as the city came alive before my eyes. Grover got on at the next stop and when I saw him people shied away from me. I must have been scowling because they looked fearful at me, perks of being a son of Tartarus I guess. Grover sat down next to John and they began to laugh with each other, they looked stupid when they started to giggle like little children. As we stepped off the bus I looked up at the supposedly 'grand' entrance to Yancy Academy, I shuddered at the thought of having to spend another term here but I guess I needed to. I walked towards the front desk and asked them about my dorm room, telling them I had forgotten which one it was. My excuse was that I had lost my key and needed a new one, but it seemed I didn't need one as they began to stutter the minute I arrived, "M..M..Mr Jackson, you h..h..have been transferred to the Prefect Corridor and you are n..n..now in room 12. Now r..run along." Mrs Charles the receptionist told me, obviously wanting to get me as far away from her as possible. I soon arrived at my new room, I unlocked the door and stepped in. Compared to my previous room in this school, I was going to be living like royalty. I noticed that there was only 1 bed in it where usually I would have a roommate, 'Mom, I'm guessing this is your doing?' I mind messaged my mother, sensing her nodding in response, now I don't know how I did it but it just happened so I rolled with it. 'We thought you could get used to fighting again. Since you are back in your 12 year old body, you know the techniques but do not have the strength to use them. Practise my son, and by the time you go to camp you will be able to take on any monster with ease.' My mother's presence left my mind and I walked into the scented of the room, pulled out my pen and looked at my new sword. The only way to describe it would be that it was a work of art. It had a silvery-grey blade with a golden hilt that was bound in leather, around the sword there was a red aura. I swung it as it cut through the air like a hot knife through butter. There was writing across across the bottom of the blade, it said κόλαση (Hell Raiser). I think the name fit perfectly as I could feel the power within the sword which was emanating outwards, causing the aura. I smiled when I felt as much power as I did when I was close to a Primordial's throne, my sword was stronger than Zeus' Master Bolt. Time to make it as strong as a primordials weapon.

I had been training for the past 4 weeks and I was close to the best I could be in the amount of time I had. Even though I could only train within the restricting space, the skills I learnt in my previous life surfaced and soon I was able to perform many of them without thinking. My reflexes had grown to be as strong as they were when I fought against Kronos, back then it had taken me years to reach that level but I had managed to accomplish it in just a few weeks. I attended my lessons during the day, finding John's idiocy funny, especially in Chiro...sorry Mr Brunner's classes. When I saw Nancy Bobofit throw sandwiches at Grover and John, I joined in with everyone as they laughed at them. At times I would see Grover looking at me weirdly, I think he had caught my scent and soon my theory was proved correct. He came up to me, telling me that I should help John and not laugh at him like a bully, but while he was telling me this, he smelled me again and looked at me in confusion. "Strong smell isn't it, Goatboy?" I asked him. He looked at me in fear and confusion, he immediately ran off towards the history corridor, probably going to tell Chiron that there was something weird about me because I knew about him. Well what could Chiron do about it?

It was the day of the museum trip where Mrs Dodd's would reveal her true-self and accuse John of being the lightening thief. I was looking forward to see how John would handle his first monster, and how he would handle Nancy. We met with Chiron by the school entrance as the bus pulled up and we all got on. I sat in the same place I had when we came to Yancy and enjoyed the journey by watching John do nothing to help Grover from being turned into a Goat and Peanut-Butter sandwich. When we arrived and we all got off the bus in single file, eventually we all collected together in front of Chiron and Mrs Dodds as they told us how we would be moving through the museum. We started off near the Roman Ceramic section and soon came to the Greek Mythological Artefacts. This was when we stood in front of the mosaic

(A/N: Was it a mosaic?) of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, I thought about the look of disappointment on Poseidon's face as he voted for my death, I remembered Zeus' face of pleasure as he murdered Thalia, but I smiled sadly as I remembered Hades voting for us to live. I lost my train of thought and regained it just as Chiron was asking John what the mosaic was showing. A string of "ummmms", and "aaaaaahhhhhs" came out of his mouth proving how stupid he really was, even though everyone already knew it. I was laughing loudly, louder than anyone else and Chiron noticed this. "Perseus, how about you tell us what is going on here." I looked at him and smiled,

"Well that is Zeus, Poseidon and Hades cutting up their father, Kronos, in revenge for him swallowing them all except for Zeus who got his other 5 siblings out by feeding Kronos a mix of mustard and wine until he puked them up. Sound about right to you, Sir?" I looked him, feeling smug when I answered the question he thought I would be stuck on.

"C..Correct Mr Jackson, well done." He spoke, looking at me intensely, obviously thinking about what Grover had told him about my scent. Mrs Dodds stepped forward and told the class it was time for lunch, 'Finally,' I thought, 'I get to see how powerful John is this time around.' Last time he struggled to make a wave that I had made when I was 14. He was 16.

Well lunch was pretty boring, I ate my lunch and kept watch on John, anticipating Nancy's taunts. And eventually the time came. Honestly, it was pitiful. He splashed her, SPLASHED HER! Honestly, I would have thought that the son of Poseidon would be stronger than that but no. Well Nancy pulled her modified complaint of "Miss, John splashed me." I saw that Mrs Dodds actually did just appear behind Nancy and took John to "speak to him". Well I wanted to see how he would react to Monster-Dodds so I followed them. As expected, John freaked out and nearly fainted. He didn't even ask what she was, he just screamed, fell on his butt and backed away. I just stepped out of my hiding place, walked up behind her as she was accusing him of stealing bolt and whispered in her ear "Hello Alecto." She turned around and looked at me as I uncapped Hell Raiser and stabbed her in the stomach. She looked shocked and looked at my sword as she melted away into dust. John took this to mean he could faint as Chiron walked in and saw me with a sword covered in monster dust.