I woke up with my entire body flaring with pain, and then I heard the tweeting of a bird. I shot up and looked around, I didn't feel any presences that I would've back in my--stop invading my thoughts memories. I felt stronger, and better than I used to. I looked down at my blue claws and looked to see how sharp they were...wait claws--paws, I looked at my paws and claws again before rushing to the nearest pond which I could feel and smell nearby. I whined in frustration when I saw a reptilian head looking right back at me, I had the same sea green eyes that I had before, but the rest of my eyes was entirely an electric blue. I had blue horns and I opened my mouth to see, yep I also had blue teeth, well I guess that I don't have to worry about brushing them anymore I thought and then I cursed my stupid ADHD for making my brain go all over the place about random things. I looked behind me and saw that I had black and blue wings protruding from my back and I had a tail, I almost jumped at the sight and I could move it around to do whatever I wanted it too. I thought of it as another hidden part of me, and ignored it. I smelled the air and turned my head a little too late as a net made of imperial gold surrounded me, and I hissed loudly as the Hunt and Artemis came into view. How hadn't I smelled, or sensed them earlier to avoid this, I clamped my teeth down on the imperial gold and to my surprise it snapped. I spat it out to the side and continued biting down on the netting to free myself.

I heard them yelling things like "stop it" "It's trying to escape" "how is it doing that" and "what are you" before I felt something sharp lodge itself on the inside of my leg and my vision blurred as I became woozy and sleepy. I shook my head and the fuzziness disappeared, I bit down again and another sharp thing went into my leg making my head snap down to see a red dart embedded in my foot. I gave it no attention as I bit down on another link, I was so close, another one went into my foot, I tried pushing my head through, and then I felt a couple more pricks and I eventually fell to the floor as the sleeping drug took effect. The last thing I saw was Artemis looking at me in pure wonder as my vision darkened and I was plunged into darkness.

"What is it" a male voice said on my left making me wake up slowly, I tried to stand, but my back hit something and I felt streaks of heat go through my body, and I hit the floor of the cage huffing hard. I saw a face enter my vision and I lifted my head to see them clearer, and I saw that it was Apollo, and I huffed in his face and lay my head back down.

"It looks like a dragon, but haven't those been dead for years" Apollo said and I inhaled his scent, and found that it smelled like sunflowers blooming in the sunlight, and there was another scent in the room. It smelled like the Moonflowers from the planet Luna, and I figured that this was Artemis, I looked up again just to be sure and I met her silver eyes that were filled with wonder and a little sadness, but for what.

"Your eyes look so much like--" she started and then she stopped suddenly and walked away, but I smelled a hint of tears in her scent following her out.

Hi Apollo I thought and I lay my head back down as Apollo's head snapped from watching his sister to look at me in confusion.

"Did you just...no I'm going crazy" Apollo said and I was starting to wonder if he heard me "I'm a god of healing, and I'm going crazy, not a good sign, but until Artemis gets back, which may be a while, I have to watch you" and then he sat in a chair and pulled out a book on herbs and potions. I lifted my head and then I reached my scaly arm through the bars and snatched it from his grasp. Then I lay it out in-front of me and started to read, he shot out of his chair and tried to reach through the bars to get it, but I could smell his fear as he did so. I blew a small plume of flame towards his finger and he jumped back cradling his arm like I burned him, and I broke out into dragon-like laughter.

"Your fire is really cold" he said and then his eyes lit up "oh I almost forgot, I need to grab my journal and study you"

I never thought you'd be the studying type I thought Athena does the thinking

"Just because Athena--wait you can talk" I looked at him with my eyes turning my head slightly

I guess so, but I never thought that you'd be able to hear me I thought and his face lit up with excitement before he literally ran around the cage and went through a door that flashed as he went through it. I decided to test out something, and I opened my mouth gathered the energy that I needed for what I was about to do, and I blasted the celestial bronze wall in-front of me. It took three full breaths until it eventually was cold enough to my liking. I was actually surprised that I didn't have regular hot fire like other dragons that I've read about and met on other planets had, by the way right after I left that dragon planet it exploded from a moon sized meteor hitting it. It was rather sad and I mourned the loss of a couple of friends that day, I snapped out of my thoughts as I felt something nearing me. I swiped against the metal and it slid away shattering against the floor. I pushed my way through and when I was out I spread my wings to their full length making a few cracks and pops along the main bone joints. Then I folded my wings, which were as long as my body, and I stood at eye love with a god sized god. I stretched the rest of my body like a cat would and I felt several places pop back into place. I walked over to where Apollo went and I thought about where I wanted to go and pushed the door open with my snout. I stepped through and found myself three-thousand feet in the air. I opened my wings and looked down to see that I was brought to a place that I never wanted to see again, Camp Half-Blood, but it looked different than I last saw it.

-----------------------<Nico's POV>-----------------------

It has been three years that I've been searching for Percy, and the last encounter I had with him was when he came back to camp and everyone thought he was dead. I knew he wasn't dead, and he still isn't I can feel it, though he did die for a second, but I searched the Underworld, and Hades searched the Elysium, but nothing was found of his whereabouts. It was the third anniversary of his death, and even though I knew that he wasn't dead, and I tried telling everyone, but they were too caught up in grief of their lost hero to notice. Annabeth took it the hardest, ever since he betrayed the gods, the camp, and framed it all on Percy. I still remember that day they punished him, and I got to watch his soul personally get fitted with chains and sent to eternal punishment.

"Yeah I did it, and there is nothing that you can do to reverse it" George sneered in-front of the council, and Poseidon was in tears at the realization. Earlier Iris had shown Percy's travels, battles, and what he went through to make Annabeth happy, and it also showed what George did to Percy's family not too soon before Percy left. They were tortured for absolutely no reason at all, and it showed Percy using his water powers to vapor travel and bury them all in the forest. Then it went up to him asking for death and Poseidon wanting to kill his own son personally, but Zeus declining and sending his master blot at him, but there was a bright light and the iris message was blown apart. Everyone was still trying to figure out what that light was, but everyone knew that one way or another Percy was dead and it was their fault.

"You are a disgrace-" Zeus started but George cut him off again

"Yeah so what if I'm a disgrace to anyone" he said "I've been killing everything and everything even my own kind since I was ten, and the thing is. I. Like. Tearing. Apart. Families, it just comes naturally for me" Poseidon got mad and threw his trident at his betrayed son and it hit him in the chest.

"Oh and you know the best thing about it" he said smiling evilly with the trident in his chest "I made a deal with Gaea and Kronos, and in three years from now, thanks to my blood in the heart of Olympus, they will both rise in three years time to crush you all, and I'll be at their lead" he smirked before Hades reduced him to ash and them made his soul visible to everyone so that they could see the embarrassment of him being chained up and sent to the deepest parts of the Underworld screaming.

It was almost time for everyone to meet by Percy's Statue and tell their stories about him, and today it was Annabeth's turn, and even though she was one of the reasons Percy was killed and broken, she had been forgiven by everyone but the other five of the seven, Poseidon, Hades, Aphrodite, but they still made her immortal due to her being the leader of her cabin, as they did to, or for everyone else in camp. The two camps had combined when we found out that Gaea was really rising and in doing so it made the borders almost ten times stronger than they were before. I shadow traveled to the Underworld, and I went around on another check through the souls to see if Percy was one of them.

-----------------------<Percy's POV>-----------------------

A large gust of wind came made me tip over a little too much and I fell for a little bit before regaining control of myself. This happened for a long time and I cursed Zeus for having control over the skies, and then I wondered if it was this hard for Jason when he first flew. Then as if Zeus heard me a large pocket of wind hit my wings and I fell towards the earth in a spiral like a jet or plane plunging to earth. I braced myself in case I hit the force-field surrounding the camp, and after a couple of minutes I opened my eyes just in time to see the leaf green floor rushing up to meet my snout.

I woke up and looked at the positioning of the sun in the sky and noticed that I was asleep for almost an hour. I could've been captured again, or maybe eve killed while I was asleep, and I. Do. Not. Want. tobecapturedagain. I stood up and jumped back growling and yipping when I saw a young girl in silver clothes watching me, and in a flash she had her bow out and an arrow aimed at my face, but I was faster and her bow and quiver were in my teeth. She still had an arrow in her hand, but at least it wouldn't be as annoying as a bunch of arrows scratching up against my polished scales would be, even if they couldn't pierce my skin. 

What are you doing I asked watching the girl slowly walk around me I am not letting you get your bow back until you apoligise she stopped and looked at me in confusion and wonder like Apollo when he heard me in his head. 

"Wait you can talk" she asked and I recognized her as Artemis "I'm surprised"

Oh it's just you Artemis I said and then put my head down dropping the weapons just in-front of my snout, so that she would still be reluctant to try and get them with my mouth and what she has surely seen by now, my teeth and here I was thinking that you got a new, and quiet roamer new to your hunt. 

"No, no I--wait you talked about me like you know me and what I can do" she looked at me with curiosity, and then eyed her bow. 

I had known you before, but that doesn't matter, though I don't see why I am related to you and your hunt because besides Apollo, who is your  younger-by-a-couple-seconds brother , and adding to the fact that I am a male and males aren't allowed into the hunt  I said 

"Yes you are correct" she said and then she seemed to drift off into her head looking at the sky in sadness. 

What I asked

"There was one person that I would've let in my hunt, and they would've liked him too, even if he was a male" I tilted my head because if she didn't say boy like she usually does then she and her hunt must've really liked this person. 

Who was it and where are they I asked making her snap out of her trance and look at me

"Oh his name was Percy Jackson, but he's long gone in the Elysium by now" she said and I used my earth powers to move her weapons over to her, she picked them up looking at me in gratitude, and even though I was still shocked that she would've let me into her hunt and that they would've actually liked me as a part of them. 

Why what happened to him I asked wanting to find out what she thought of my death

"His brother betrayed him, killed his family, and destroyed him, his love-life, and his reputation at the camp, so he came to us and Zeus killed him wit his bolt" she said looking at the floor and I realized how cute she was in her twelve-year-old form "we should probably bring you to Olympus" she went to touch my shoulder by I growled and her hand stopped mid-way. I did not want to see that council or my ex-father again. 

"Then shall we go to the camp and get my hunters" I took a step back from her 

No I am not going in a mortal camp, after all I am just outside of the borders, and I don't think that anyone will take a dragon going in there well, like you and your hunters that one day. I think that maybe Festus and Peleus will either not care, or attack and I do not want to fight anything at the moment I said and Artemis nodded in understanding. 

"Okay then I guess that I'll go and get my hunters" Artemis said and then a large roar sounded in the forest coming this way

I think that Peleus knows I'm here I said go and get your hunt, I'll, um, hold him off I looked at her and she nodded going left into the forest and I saw a ripple in the air signaling that the field was actually closer than I thought it would be. Then I saw a golden dragon barreling towards me, and I got into a stance to fight, and then I noticed that it's eyes weren't hostile, but friendly and I tilted my head confused right as it lept at me and made us both go rolling. 

PERCY I froze on the ground looking at it in confusion your back, and different he looked me over with confusion.

Wait you can talk I asked confused 

Come on your getting sidetracked he said stepping off of me and letting me get up, and then he tilted his head at me just move your mouth like you had when you were human, and tada you'll talk I tried it and managed to get out no in dragon, but I then tried to talk English and that worked fine. 

Huh he said tilting his head I guess that we'll have to work on that later and then he bent down in a playful position and I looked at him like he was crazy. 

No because what if they come around and see us playing thinking that I am trying to tear you apart I said and he shook his head

No I don't think that they will he said and when'd you get a brain that thinks like that he got down in a playful position because he knew that he struck a nerve. I got down in one too and he started to jump around like a puppy that it way too excited to be in a house. 

Fine I'll pin you down in a second he said 

Sure, I'd like to see you try he said and I lept at him, and we were rolling around snarling, and clawing at each-other trying to pin the other down, and after a couple of minutes I had him pinned on his back with his wings spread out and my feet pinning his to his sides.

Told you I said and then we both yelped as an arrow came flying in-between both of our snouts, making me jump off of him and his bolt up into the nearest tree and peek out at the shooter, which I found to be Thalia. 

"You are not killing my tree's dragon" she said and I caught a little smirk when she said that, and I laughed noticing her expression but it was cut short as another arrow thunked into the tree behind me. How'd she manage to do that, I jumped into the tree with Peleus and peeked through at her as well. 

I wasn't attacking him I said we were playing, until you messed that up I said but she only wavered for a second before aiming at me again, and then our eyes met and she dropped her bow and fainted, as the others rushed over to her trying to see what was wrong. Then Phoebe got her own bow and had an arrow aimed at me in a flash. I noticed that Peleus was slowly coming down from the tree and Phoebe saw him but didn't care, I saw her continuously look over at him for some reason, and then she relaxed and put away her bow, but I stayed in the tree. 

"Go guard your tree Peleus and don't leave it again unless you know and trust someone or something to protect it while you're gone. He bolted and I looked over watching him disappear in the trees before going back to Phoebe. 

Why'd you put your bow down, for all you could know I could've killed or attacked all of you I said and her face didn't change

"But one, you didn't and two, you would've killed Peleus first and he would've had lots of cuts, bites, and scratches on him which he doesn't have" she said and I tilted my head at her noticing so many things in just that moment. 

Why'd she faint I asked Phoebe

"I don't know, that's what I was going to ask you about" she slipped her bow over her back and put her arrow back in the quiver. Then Artemis came out in her regular form and looked at Thalia, Phoebe, and then me and I knew that this was going to be a long night. 

Thanks for reading and I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a while like I said I would, but I plan to from now on.