Chapter 7: The Greek Roman

[Annabeth's POV:]

[Just As Percy Arrives:]

I had just come out of my cabin holding my cute little baby girl Persephone Jackson. Of course I'd give her Percy's surname since once he gets back. He will have to adopt her as well and I'm certain as I am in anything he will. I remember nearly 2 months when I found this poor bundle of joy.

[Flashback:]

I was on another journey to find my seaweedbrain that probably got himself captured l, cursed or memory wiped again. Knowing my luck it was probably all three.. I wondered through the surrounding forrest  and out to the road. Hailing the overly creepy taxi, we drove to New York, the closest city and one I hadn't checked in a couple years. Arriving, I headed straight to Sally's home praying he was somehow there, not even caring why. He wasn't.. Turning around I went to central park and broke down crying, I missed him so much! His smiles dam jokes that loyalty and looks. Why does the fates always try to take him from me? What did I do to loose him?

After a few hours the sky had darkened and rain began to fall from the clouds above like the tears from my sore red eyes. I started heading back, taking a different route as to not see the painful reminder of Percy's disappearance. On the way I heard a baby's cry, I ignored it since it probably came from inside a family homes or something. What I didn't expect was to find the wailing baby wrapped up in thin clothes abandoned in the same alleyway I had walked into. I quickly rushed to her side and picked her up, hushing and cradling the poor baby in my arms. She was wet, freezing and malnourished I had to warm her up fast so I placed her inside my clothes close to my skin, discarding the useless drenched cloth. My body temperature wasn't enough, but better than nothing. I quickly called back the cab to take us back to camp, instructing the old ladies to blast the heat. On the way, I could feel a strong connection develop to her and on the spot decided to adopt her as my own, even going as far as asking my mother to make it official. It seems she was a demigod, but I cared not whose. She was my child now, my persephone Jackson. A good name if do say so myself, one that reminds me of seaweed brain only if he were a girl.

[Flashback End:]

I noticed Cecil approaching and gave him a smile, I had been asking him to look after persephone whenever I had left to find her father, well father once he adopts her, which he will. I noticed a wolf in front of us, it seemed distraught for some reason. I knew straight away that was percy based on the prophecy, but before I could react, he turned away and ran for it. Why had he left? Was it a memory thing? I then realised he had seen the baby and Cecil cooing her, knowing that seaweed brain.. he probably got the wrong idea. "DAMMIT FATES GIMME A BREAK!" I shouted my frustration out, before taking my baby from a confused Cecil and stomping angrily to the Big house.

"CHIRON PERCY WAS HERE!" I screeched Chiron bolted up about to dash out after him. Before surprisingly Lady Artemis interrupted him.

"Yes, he is I sent him to go get you, where is he?" So percy was with Lady Artemis? Why would he be with the hunt?

"I think he saw me with my baby and misunderstood the situation. She's adopted and made official by my mother" I explained myself hoping not to come across as a cheat. Something I'd never do to him no matter how long I'd have to wait.

"That idiot! He's adopted two daughters of his own that way! Why doesn't he just think for once!" Percy had adopted two children as well? I looked around seeing two young girls shuffle anxiously. I assumed they were his, they looked so much like him..

"Are you two his adopted kids?" I was so stressed and confused that I was just taking each problem at a time to stop myself from losing it. The girls nodded their heads shyly and told me there names, Aria and Coral Jackson. The first name didn't seem like one percy would give so I guessed she already had that before hand, Coral just screamed percy naming style. I introduced them to their younger sister Persephone Jackson.

"Lady Artemis, why was Percy with you?" While I'm sure there was a decent reason, I was still curious.

"Well, as a wolf he couldn't get into the camp, the barrier stopped him..." she begun explaining how he arrived at the hunt, how he Saved Aria and Coral. One from abuse the other a battlefield. It seems he was unable to talk to anyone but gods, his children and zoolinguists thanks to the curse. And he stayed in the hunt to protect his daughters. I stayed in the Big house with the others getting up to scratch on Percy's 5 years away.. Including how the hunt developed crush on him as well as confessed which we had to swear on the styx not to speak of to anyone without direct permission from herself.

I couldn't get mad at them since percy i irresistible, but I am not gonna loose to moon goddess or her hunt.

[Percy's POV:]

Why, why did she do it?! I gave her everything I could and more. I love her enough to reject a hunt full of gorgeous women! I just ran and ran, paying no attention to my direction nor surrounding. Letting the wolf inside me take the rains.

I ran for near enough a month stopping to hunt for food and the odd monster every so often. I had found that I was heading west, but was still too depressed to care. If my wolf instincts wanted to travel west, then I saw no point in stopping it from doing so. I arrived at the little tiber and realised just where I was. Without hesitation I jumped in paddling  arossed it, feeling it's power wash over me. I wasn't concerned about it since I didn't have the Achilles curse anyway. What I had forgotten though was that it prevented all monsters from entering, which technically I partially was now judging by the fact that camp half blood originally blocked me. The power quickly became a hostile torrent invading my body, Darkness clouded my mind and I passed out.

[Timeskip a few hours:]

I awoke inside a lumber house that looked as though a billionaire had chucked money at the builders that made it. I tried to think of what happened to me, but nothing came to mind except the name Damian and that I was a demigod which I assumed was my own name. Standing up from the cloths I looked at myself, a massive wolf around the size of a large car, which for some reason I found myself comparing to a tank. noticing a light in the next room, I  walked towards it, revealing what looked like a dining room only one fit for a wolf? Was this my home? Was I rich or something?

"Ah young wolf, you have finally woken up. I feared you sleep the week through, this is my home, the wolf house" so I'm not a rich kid.. oh well, turning my attention her way, I saw a wolf similar size to myself, I immediately felt the need to bow my head to her and did so.

"I am Lupa, Guardian of Rome and Goddess figure to all wolves, I found you washed up by the river tiber" I guessed I nearly drowned or something, which felt oddly ironic. I straightened up and introduced what I knew of myself.

"My name is Damian, I think I'm a demigod, but I don't remember.. do you no anything of my past?" She looked at me skeptic skeptically probably wondering why a wolf was a demigod same as me.

"While unusual, I would not put it past the Gods to fornicate with animals.. It has many times happened in past, creating very..  different species, you are no exception, I do sense human in you, suppressed by a curse of some kind. You are lucky your wolf instincts work alongside you instead of helping to suppress you" I thought about what she said, concluding that I must have been a human demigod, cursed into a wolf.

"Is there anyway to undo the curse?" She shook her head telling me it was impossible to undo a curse rooted as deeply as mine.

"I can however help you with it" I gained a curious look, wondering what she could do that would help an impossible to remove curse.

"I can adopt you as my son, it would normally give a demigod the ability to turn into a wolf once a day, in your case It would do the opposite" so in order to be able to be human again, I'd need to become her son. She seemed nice enough even with her intimidating aura.

"I would love to be your son.. mother" she cracked a wolf smile before chanting something in Latin, the more she spoke, the more the words began to make sense as if my brain learning auto-translate it. Once she finished I felt different as if my wolf body before was clothes on my back and this one was the skin directly. I walked over to a conveniently place tall standing mirror and took in my features properly for the first time. I was still sea green and blue but was used to be black had become a beautiful grey. On one side of my left back leg I had a sea blue trident and the other the symbol of a howling wolf.

"I see you are a son of Neptune.. wait Neptune? You couldn't be.. Damian switch to human now!" Her strict and urgent words slightly scared me as I tried to focus on this switch thing.

"How do I do that?" I asked sheepishly, I had only just been given the ability.

"Just focus on it. Will your body to be human again. Search for some familiarity" I did as was told and sure enough felt a strangely familiar tingle in my core. Focusing on it, I willed my body to change. Screaming at the pain that followed as muscles tore and reconnected followed by snapping and reforming bones. Once done lupas face looked shook, I noticed I was dressed in clothes, but that didn't seem to be what had her spooked.

"Percy?!? Why are you here again? Don't tell me Juno is repeating that plan again! I already sent him off once and now she wants me to do it again? That goddess of is getting on my nerves. 'adhæsit in bitch!" She kept rambling on in Latin a numerous amount of choice words for the Goddess, it seems I had been here once already in a similar situation due to this Juno goddess.

"So you know who I am?" I interrupted her curse words marathon, intent on getting to the bottom of this.

"Ah, sorry, I lost my composure there. While I cannot say the details I will say you are actually greek, well greek and Roman now since I adopted you. I'm afraid i cannot say more since this is most likely a plan from the gods that I have interfered with enough already. You must pretend to not have heard what I said and use the name Damian as you first thought. I would be worried about your human looks giving you away, but it seems my adoption is beginning to change your human form as well" I took that as my cue to look at the mirror once more, my eyes gaining a strong grey as well as dilating like a wolves. The grey glowed bright and even in the mirror I felt like they were staring at my soul. My hair grew messier and fluffy almost gaining a more fur like texture and colour. My body bulked up and face sharpened. The most noticeable change was the addition of a wolf tail and claws. Grey and sea green mixed together.

"Well at least my son looks handsome" Lupa chuckled to herself. I was still taking in the changes, I still looked like before, but not enough that I'd be caught out.

"You will be able to hold that form for a hour at most before changing back currently, after that you will have to wait until the next day. The only exception to this is a full moon, where you will become a human whether you try to or not. For a week I shall train you to hold your human form for longer for the next week. I expect you to increase it to 3 hours, though It will be difficult with the curse trying to turn you back constantly" I nodded in understanding, ready to learn not only the ways of the wolf, but the ways to stay human as well.

"When do we start mother?"

"Now son. So let the lessons begin my pup" somehow I felt worried about this.