1039 Smoothed out Slappy Hours
Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordan
Hi! My name is Percy Jackson. For as long as I could remeber weird things have happened to me. That's cause I'm a half blood. That used to be the reason for all the crap in my life. It used to screw everything up. But now I've managed to screw things up all on my own. Immortal families are internally messy. But they also are kinds prone to acts of incest. Raping each other,sleeping with your daughter,fooling around with your cousin. That is all normal to them. Unfortently some of it became normal to me. For instance the whole Luke and Annabeth thing, was weird enough. The me and Thalia thing was even weirder. Back to my life!
"Thalia. Daughter of Zeus" said Thalia. Annabeth was kneeling next to us now. This was going to be difficult. How to you tell a girl that her best friend has betrayed her, all her friends are now seven years older and most of her favourite bands had broken up? "Uh, Thalia we have something to tell you" I began. "But first say hello to Annabeth" Annabeth turned to stare at me as Thalia's eyes widened. "Where is she?" asked Thalia leaning slightly forward. Annabeth seemed to freeze. "Right there" I said pointing at Annabeth. I thought Thalia would be shocked or maybe even a little fased. All she did was say "How long was I out?"
Before I could answer Chiron took Thalia out of my grasp. "My Dear, you need medical attention. I will also fill you in on everything that has happened." Chiron turned to look at me. "Percy, find a Sartyr and tell him to ready a calming tune. You have to go wake up everything and everybody. They may not be happy, but if Thalia's awake it means one thing. Zeus will be coming." And with that he galloped off. I quickly ran to Grover. Annabeth followed looking shocked. "Word up, Percy!" said Grover making a peace sign. "Grover can you make a calming tune?" I asked. "For Sure!" said Grover. "Here we go!" he said taking out his pipes. A hollow distorted tune filled the air. "Now come on we have to go find a Sartyr to play a calming tune" I said to Annabeth. Annabeth seemed to have calmed down enough to ask a question. "But Grover is already playing a calming tune." "Yeah but that's to wake everyone up."
The entire camp was awake and sitting around the campfire. Dionysos was briefing us. "Hello you arrogant brats!" he began. The campers cheered just to throw him off. "The great Lord Zeus wil be visiting us along with Athena and Ares. They will be here to discuss the fate of Thalia and Percy." He turned to fix me with his best stare. "That will be in one hour. However in three hours all the major gods will come here. They are here to discuss which of you is the child that would serve us best. If Percy is chosen they both live. However if Thalia is chosen Percy will be killed to ensure that she reaches 16 before him. And Percy, I'm so voting for Thalia." Dionysos drew in his breath. "Now when every god is here you will be forced to abonded the rags you call clothes for actaul Greek clothes." One of the Ares guys started moaning. "We're going to have to wear skirts again." "All your parents have send your clothes to your cabins. Except for the unclaimed losers in cabin elven. Because their Parent doesn't love them or even care that they exist" "Mister D Please" said Chiron. "Like it's my fault their a bunch of losers who nobody will ever love?Huh!" Normally those words would hurt but when your already thinking them they seemed to rip you apart. I could see several kids looking at Dionysos with pure hate. "Now all of you except for the afore mentioned losers in cabin elven, go get dressed. Shoo!Shoo!" As the campers walked away I saw something that I thought I would never see in Dionysos eyes. Fear.
I approached my cabin wearily. I had no doubt I would be forced to wear skirts and soft white shirts. I found a note on my door saying "Perseus, your clothes have been provided by me and your uncle Hades. He seemed to have taken an interest in you.
Ps. Don't worry. Hades is very punk rock." I walked in and stared at the clothes I was excpected to wear. Their was no skirt. Instead there was a pair of pitch plack pants with two pictures of Hades's symbol on them. A bronze helmet. The shoes were Nike's that had the words Hades written on them in Punk style. It was however the shirt that shocked me. It was a shimmering green, the excact coulour of my eyes with the slogon AC DC. Whoever insted of lightning bolts their were two trytants. I put my clothes on and smiled at the idea of Clarrise in a skirt.
Me and Annabeth met up halfway to the campfire. She like everyone else was staring at my clothes. I thought it was probably cause I was the only person not wearing a skirt. "Percy why in Zeus name are you wearing Hades's symbol?" "It's much more catchy than my Dad's." I said Sarcastically. Annabeth slowed down. All the circle were standing at a half ring. Most of their jaws were practically lying on the floor. When I saw why my jaw dropped too. Dionysos, freaky trail park reject, Dionysous was standing there. But he looked different. He looked excackly like those statues you see of the greek gods. The change was shocking. "Half Bloods" he called, voice loud and clear, unlike his usaul drawl. "My brothers and sisters approach.Don't look at me!" he yelled. The air shimmered and a man approached with a long red beard. He had muscles on his arms and thin wily legs. Heaphsteus had come.
The next one to come was Aphrodite came and placed herself on his arm. She was the very defintion of hot. She calmly placed herself on Heaphsteus's arm all the while glancing at Ares who came next. Hermes came next, looking extremelly jittery in formal robes. Athena followed looking gracefull in jeans and a t-shirt. Next came Artemis. She had long dark black hair and shimmering eyes. She was wearing army pants and a red t-shirt. She had a hunting rifle slung across her back and was chewing pink bubblegum. She calmly waited for Appolo to appear. He came in a shiny tuxedo with carefully combed hair. I was pretty sure he was gay. Demeter followed in battered jeans and a pink t-shirt. Next came my dad. He was wearing jeans and an haiwain t-shirt. He was smoking something I was pretty sure wasn't a siggarette. He smiled at me and walked off. Zeus followed in a black power suit. He took me by the shoulder and steered me of towards the campfire. Except that the campfire was now on top of a marble pedestal and their was a large marbe roofless courtroom, everything was normal.
Each god seemed to sit instantly. Their was however an open chair. The chair that was left of Zeus. Hades's chair. Zeus stood. "As you all know my daughter has returned to the living realm. As you all know the prophecy dictates that one them wil safe or destroy us all. Now we have to chose. Both of them are trustworthy so all that is left is to decide which of them to trust with our lives.We know both of them are powerfull heroes." Zeus shot an angry look at Posedion as he said that part. I looked at Thalia who had come to sit down next to me. She was wearing a long white dress with a black shirt that said Skywack. This shirt had lightining bolts however. "And now lets hear the cases. Afterwards we will vote who is most worthy."
My dad stepped up. He stared at Zeus. "Percy should be chosen for this. He is a proven warrior and has also shown he would never betray us. Thalia hasn't the fighting expirence he has. He is also a friend of the cyclopses. They have already promised me if a war with Kronos comes they wil fight under my banner. And Percy will be the one to weild it." Posedion sat. I had hoped he would make a longer speech but he didn't. Zeus stood up next. "Thalia is far better suited for this task than Perseus. She lacks expirence but can easily attain it. She also if any would care to remeber, went down fighting. She won't stop fighting for us no matter what. She is also far more powerfull than Perseus in the sense that Poseidon is the only god who can claim to train him. Tradisionally all children of Zeus will be trained by me, Athena and Artemis, while the children of Poseidon are trained by him,Ares and Apollo. Ares and Apollo for some reason despises the boy and refuse to train. Poseidon will need help to train Percy up to stantard in this short time. Thalia had more time and teachers. She may be weaker now but she will eventually be a far more powerfull warrior that Perseus." Zeus sat. "If any has any objections please voice them or shut up forever,and because we're gods, we mean litterally forever." said Dionysos. No one spoke. Partly cause Zeus's argument rested on training and he was right. My dad would need help, but Zeus had probably made sure nobody would help him. Zeus was beginning to smile when a darkness gripped my hear. I felt cold. So cold. I knew what it meant. Hades had shown up.
Hades had struck me as the most godlike god, and even in the clothes he was wearing he appeared to be immortal. He wore picthblack jeans and a macthing t-shirt that was just like mine except it had lightining bolts. His hair glistened with green highlights. "Yes, I have one. For the matter of Percy's training. He will also be trained by me." I felt hope in my chest until he siad. " I will summon the most deadly monsters that their are to battle him" Suddenly I wasn't so sure he was here to help me. "Believe me, that way he would get the maximum amount of training." All the gods stared at Hades. Annabeths eyes lit up as she suddenly realised why I was wearing Hades symbol. "Let the voting begin" said Zeus gravely.
My head shot up. "Okay eveybody. For evey meter of the fire that is blue, Perseus has been voted for, for every yellow meter it's means a vote for Thalia." Weird system. However the fire flared up high and was blinding. "Hell Yeah" I yelled and sat. There was much more blue fire than yellow fire. Dionysos stood. "Very well, the bastard lives."
The story is something I wanted to write for a long time but I couldn't find an place to post it. Tell me if it's any good. Title will be explained in the next chapter.