Danny Neumann is a boring 16 year old who's crushing on his best friend, Becky, and lamenting the defection of his good friend, Kevin, when a man in black arrives at his birthday party and tries to kill him. Fear never has a chance as suddenly, bursts of pure energy erupt from Danny's hands and knocks the man in black on his ass-ets But more surprises are in store for Danny as he learns he's adopted and his real parents were the last demigods left and he's the first offspring of two demigods. Though no one knows what Danny is capable of, they are sure of one thing--he's the only one who can save earth from the man in black and his army of monsters