WALK WITH THE SHADOWS

a percy jackson story

🥇 1st Place overall in The Big Three Writing Awards 2024

🥇 1st Place overall in the Percy Jackson category in The Utopian Fanfiction Awards 2024

🥇 1st Place in Best Writing Style in the Maltese Falcon Awards 2024

🥈2nd Place in PJO General in the Percy Jackson Watty Awards 2023

🥉 3rd Place in Best Pairing in the Percy Jackson Watty Awards 2023

🥉 3rd Place in Best Fight in the Percy Jackson Watty Awards 2023

🟠 #1 in The Last Olympian

🟠 #1 in Riordan

Mistakes had been made.

Alex knew that. A million alarm bells had gone off in his head the moment he'd peered into that creepy coffin containing the partially reformed Titan lord. But there was Luke, and Luke was his brother, and Luke said they would make the world a better place. That's where his loyalties lay. Not with a father who'd left Luke scarred. So he didn't listen to those alarm bells until much, much later.

Ophelia had never been to Camp Half-Blood. She'd known only dark alley ways and creeping shadows until Luke had found her. Or really, she'd found him. Her mother had whispered in the shadows, guided her to family. Hecate had guided her to Luke. But when demigod after demigod descended into the maze on his orders and came back spouting insanity, Alex told her of a better family. A family he'd once been willing to die for, and one he said he would be willing to die for again.

Kitty had resigned herself to a quest-less existence the instant Tyche had claimed her as a daughter at the age of ten. The children of minor gods didn't even get their own cabins, let alone a quest. But that was fine. She liked a few of the campers, like her fellow Cabin 11 kid, Alex. But with Percy Jackson's arrival throwing everything into chaos and Luke's betrayal at the end of summer, she soon found herself alone. Kitty had no interest in serving some mostly-dead Titan. But she had no love for the Olympians, either. So she bided her time, sharpened her blade, and won a whole lot of poker against Mr. D.

Unfortunately, her luck ran out as it always did. The war reached Camp Half-Blood. The monsters arrived, swords out. But so did Alex. The golden boy came back an outcast with a daughter of a traitor minor god in tow, but they needed all the swords they could get, so Cabin Eleven grew a little more.

Cabin Eleven, the cabin of Alex Griffith, Kitty Ellis, and Ophelia Byrd.

Cabin Eleven, the cabin of rejects.

IN WHICH THREE REJECT HALF-BLOODS

become sacrificial lambs on behalf of all the fallen demigods

starring

ALEXANDER "ALEX" GRIFFITH
son of hermes

OPHELIA BYRD
daughter of hecate

KATERINA "KITTY" ELLIS
daughter of tyche

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

- Hermes, The Last Olympian

PRIMARY MYTHOLOGICAL INSPIRATIONS:

The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Legends surrounding Alexander the Great
The Trojan War
Orpheus & Eurydice

SECONDARY INSPIRATIONS:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Works of Edgar Allen Poe
and
Personal Experience

DEDICATED TO MY ENABLERS

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CorvusPitch
PilindielTheElf
AdamantiumDragonfly
a-wholelotof-fandoms
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also dedicated to my gruelling internship which pushed me to look for escapism in the form of my childhood books, percy jackson and the olympians. rereading these books was the first "reading for fun" i'd done in 5+ years.

WALK WITH THE SHADOWS
June 16 - December 8, 2022