Chapter 1 - Council of Heroes

A/N: Welcome to The Restorer, a Percy Jackson fanfiction. This fanfic is HoO compliant and takes place about two years after the events of Blood of Olympus. Meaning Percy is 20, for the people who care enough to calculate everyone's age. This fanfic does not include events in ToA, and Apollo is still a god. Also, credit to Rick Riordan for all the demigods, camps, and stuff other than my characters who are: Simon Daniels and Zelena Henricks, along with Rollan and Ronald Smith. Credit to Roman mythology for Remus and Romulus, the gods, monsters, and all that. Credit due? Good. 

      Jupiter, king of the gods, kneeled beside his brother's bed, watching in horror and despair as the god of the sea was burned by a black fire that started from his heart, and spread to the rest of his body slowly over three days, causing agony to burn like a thousand suns through his blood. Three days ago, Neptune was fine, just as powerful. But over those three days, his tanned skin was now cracked and blackened from black fire, he smelled like burnt skin and smoke, his hair was burnt off his head, leaving him bald, and facial hair-less. His veins were no longer green, but orange and Neptune was bleeding in many places. Neptune's hands shook with pain as he grasped Jupiter's shoulder.

"Kill me...", Neptune rasped. His voice was cracked and low, barely a whisper. Jupiter shifted his grip and drew his lightning bolt. He raised it over his head, and his eyes began to leak liquid. Tears.

"Goodbye, brother.", Jupiter spoke with finality as he brought down the lightning bolt, but it rebounded and flung across the room. 

"Even scorched by demonic fire, my immortality holds. End my cursed existence. And... protect...  them.", Neptune said, his voice trailing off as the god of the sea, Earthshaker, died. 

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     Jupiter held a Council of Heroes and Gods in his throne room. Among those attended were Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, and Frank Zhang, son of Mars. The gods, evidently missing a few faces, the most obvious being Neptune, Vulcan, and Vesta. The full list also included Chione, Victoria, and Iris. The heroes took place in the middle, surrounded by both major and minor gods in a full circle, minus the walkway to the middle. Reyna and Frank stood on a dais, considering they were praetors of New Rome. Jupiter was flanked by Pluto, who had left his throne to stand with his brother. Percy was looking around the crowd, confused. 

"Over the course of the last three weeks, we have lost many Roman gods to an unstoppable fiery plague that burns away the Roman godly aspects.", Jupiter said, "Among the dead, Neptune.". Percy stumbled, gasping.

"My dad's... dead?", Percy asked, shocked.

"Well, no. His Roman aspect is dead, Poseidon still lives, but he's in stasis, torn apart from his other half, unable to function properly, because he's been torn in half. Someone is targeting the Roman forms of the Olympians, but Neptune's... distasteful experimentation with unborn demigods has presented a solution.", Minerva interjected. Percy looked confused.

"Can you say that in... easier to understand terms?", Percy asked.

"Neptune and his experiments where he took DNA from himself and unusual paired gods, to create powerful, inhuman demigods. He called them his Genesis demigods.", Minerva explained.

"So... Neptune had children with lots of humans, then stole their baby for experimentation?", Annabeth exploded, both outraged and quite a bit confused.

"Not in the way you're thinking of. He took a page out of my books and created head children, but then put them in lab capsules before they developed into life. And now, a combination of his powers, and Opis', along with recently awoken Gaea powers, has created a young boy, Simon Daniels, whose powers can find the missing gods, and destroy whatever darkness is destroying them.", Minerva explained. Jupiter shifted in his seat, a little displeased with Minerva's continuance of answering questions he kind of knew the answer to. 

"Is this stupid, or won't it be like, 12 years until the guy's ready to do something?", Percy asked.

"It will take only days, with this.", Jupiter spoke, drawing Saturn's scythe, extracted from Olympus' hearth. The seasoned Greeks in the room were thrown into chaos. 

"You have Kronos' scythe?", Percy asked, shocked. 

"Yes. And we can use it to age up Simon Daniels to the age of questing, along with a daughter of Neptune and artificially Diana.", Jupiter said, glancing at Diana nervously. Diana choked.

"WHAT?!?", Diana screeched, "Neptune had the nerve to make a child with my DNA? Once this Roman hero retrieves Neptune, I'll kill him myself!". Jupiter looked away from the spluttering Diana to Minerva. 

"Prepare Simon Daniels and Zelena Henricks. They will go to Camp Jupiter, undergo training, and prepare to find the missing Roman gods before all of us go extinct.", Jupiter declared. 

And that's Chapter One. It's very short, but it is getting the point across. Chapter 2 will be longer, definitely. However, I do not have a good cover art for this story yet, so if you want to receive a special shoutout, and have an OC of your choice made into a main character, please submit cover art down below: contest ends May 15. Here's some info to make your cover:

Simon Daniels: short brown hair, sea green eyes, glasses, Roman. 

Zelena Henricks: long blond hair, stormy blue-green eyes, Roman.