ahh yes. the legendary story of perseus jackson, the godkiller.

percy did not kneel for mars when he was at camp jupiter. mars, the protector of rome, second to only jupiter, and percy!!! did!! not!!! kneel like the rest!!! percy also says something along the lines of "i fought you before" but he doesn't remember, and as mars, the god tells him that he could not beat him. as ares percy could've won in the fight maybe, but he could never win with him as mars. so imagine if percy's like "bet." and challenges him to a duel and they swear on the styx to not go against the other in any way shape or form after if they survive...... and mars laughs bc duh, he'll just kill that little shit who dares go against him. whatever. so he agrees LOL and the romans see all this unfold w horror, but they cant do anything. another LOL.

they fight and percy fucking beheads him and after he regenerates (bc he's a god) he can't curse him LOL. BUT mars doesn't need to bc the romans all attack percy, and he fucking dies, but since the doors of death don't fucking work he comes back from the dead à la centurion gwen. so, funny story. That Happens, and still frank asks him to join his quest to return the eagle or whatever, reyna and the senate discuss this, and percy's like "uhhhhh did y'all just kill me and now y'all want me to help rome survive?? ok awkward. i'll only do it because i like frank and hazel and they'll probably die without me xo u can all go to hell." off they go on the quest. hazel tells percy first about pluto's curse and that she's from the 40's bc she just trusts him a lot and also because he can relate since he also died and came back. frank is a bit scared of him but they quickly reconcile.... like it's ok. u beheaded my dad, but he can be a dick i get it :) and the funniest shit ever is that, when the eagle is retrieved, the romans make him praetor.