A young boy, soon to be the one to change the face of humanity. His name was Perseus.
One day while out at sea, Thoron, a skilled fisherman, Looked upon the crashing waves and saw a small coffin.”Certainly not large enough to be occupied by a grown man”, he thought to himself. Lugging his net he lowered it into the sea, drifting out, it wrapped around the coffin. Yearning for him, his wife and daughter called him into the bunker that contained the sleeping beauty, his wife Athena and his daughter Annabeth. Opening his eyes, Thoron saw that he had left the coffin unopened. Athena had run to the coffin, she was frightened, she had seen a coffin delivered to her father this way many years back and it was a blood reaper, a menacing demon from
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starting a fire in the boat was nearly impossible, but Perseus had learned the skills and techniques to accomplish this astonishing feat time and time again. casting his gaze out to sea, Perseus saw that a light storm was coming. Nodding to the bunker he advised his mother to take Annabeth and herself to be away from the storm. Jerking up from his little hammock chair, Perseus was startled awake. There was yelling in the distance. Barbarians were rebelling against the gods. The gods were the ones that were filled with blissful immortality from the civilians prayers to be prosperous. The Barbarians had had enough of praying every day multiple times and none of their wishes being granted. Hades, from the underworld. Releasing fear upon these tiny human beings by sending demons into the world and frightening the frail hearts of these slaves, Fear was what fueled the immortality of Hades. Right then Hades had released a horde of his Blood Reapers upon the rebellious Barbarians. Flying everywhere the blood Reapers had wiped out the entire group of barbarians. “A Demigod? This boy could end the existence of the gods altogether!” Thought Hades. Hades, a dark underworld god appeared, screeching, “Die demigod!” he blasted the boat with a fiery ball of darkness. Perseus had survived the explosion, but his family had died in the wreckage of the boat. Slowly sinking into the