Percy was falling. it was surprisingly soft, like the air was a big fluffy thing that he was sinking into. Above him, the bottom of Mt. Olympus got smaller and smaller. "Well" he said to himself, "This is it. Its better than the last few weeks at least."
Two Weeks Earlier
"Percy! Hey Percy!" Percy turned to see his favorite person in the world running to catch up with him. "Hey Seaweed Brain, where you going this early in the morning?"
"Well Wise Girl, i was trying to go to the beach." Percy smiled down at Annabeth. "You look great" he said. This was in fact a total lie. Annabeth had just woken, her hair was the definition of messy, she was wearing Owl Pajamas and was missing her left shoe. But none of that mattered to Percy, all that mattered was she was here, and she was beautiful to him. "Hey look I didn't mean to wake you up, I was just going down to the beach, try and relax."
"well then I'll come with you" Annabeth said giggling, "beside beaches are always better with two instead of one.' With that she ran off towards the beach, with Percy following.
Later at breakfast, when the two love birds came into the pavilion together obviously from the beach, there were lots of snickers and a few cat-calls. Annabeth flashed Percy a smile, "Just ignore them, they're only jealous." With that she walked over to the Athena table and started chatting with her siblings.
That afternoon, Percy was going for a walk along the beach when he heard a shout. Looking up, he saw a kid running through the surf being chased by a bunch of hell hounds. The kid, who couldn't have been older than Percy, looked scared to death. Drawing Riptide, Percy charged the hellhounds. One leapt at him but he swung his sword, and it exploded into dust. The other boy was throwing handfuls of sand at the hounds "like thats gonna do anything" Percy thought to himself. He killed another hell hound, sending it straight to Tartarus. The last hell hound jump at him, and he barely had time to swing his sword it knocked him over then exploded into dust. Percy's head hit the ground hard and he slowly blacked out.
When Percy woke up he was in the Camp Infirmary and Will Solace was bandaging his head. He groaned and tried to move. "Dont, you'll only hurt yourself more man." Will looked down at him and caught a flicker of pity in Wills eye. Then he turned and left. suddenly Percy heard the clip clop of horse hooves outside the infirmary and then saw Annabeth, Chiron and Nico Di Angelo walk in. Annabeth had tear marks down her face and was glaring at him. Chiron and Nico both were wearing pitying looks on their faces. Finally Chiron spoke. "Percy come, the camp is waiting for you." Percy got up-albeit slowly from his head- and followed the trio out the door. They walked towards the campfire circle where the entire camp was sitting. As they walked into it, all the talking died away when they caught site of Percy. Then angry mutters began to spread around the arena. The flames of the fire turned a venomous green. The kid I had seen earlier stood up from in front of the crowd. "Thats him! He's the one." Percy wondered what the heck was going on. "Umm, excuse me? Who the heck are you, and why are you raging at me?"
"Percy!" I looked over, it was Annabeth who had shouted. "Dont your dare accuse Andrew for failing when it was you who failed. You left him to die, then fell asleep, Andrew had to fight those hell hounds all by himself"
"Wh-what? What are you talking about?"
Andrew walked over towards me and put his arms around Annabeth. "I'll tell you what she's talking about. You came in,a and started throwing sand at the hounds! Then you let one knock you out! I had to fight them all, which wasnt hard by the way, so you can shut up, you nearly got me killed."
Percy POV
Suddenly I knew what happened. This kid, Andrew, had lied to the whole camp. He had made himself out to be the hero and made me the dumb guy. Thinking about it... I nearly killed him then and there. "Get. Your. Hands. Off. My. Girlfriend." I growled at him. He laughed, "She's not your girlfriend any more loser, she's found someone waaaaay better. Me."
Thats when I lost it. "You Bastard!" I shouted at him, as I drew Riptide and slashed at him. Just then an arrow came out of nowhere and knocked my sword out of my hand. "Percy! Stop this now!" Chiron shouted at me, another arrow on his bow.
I looked around in confusion, at all the faces of the campers. Campers i had known for year and years, fought with, laughed with. I couldn't believe it. "Well then let me tell you this. Since you OBVIOUSLY dont want me here, I'll leave. But before i do I have to say one thing. Andrew is lying. He's lying about this whole thing. I swear on the River Styx." Thunder boomed, and all the campers gasped, some calling out to me. But it was too late, I was already running from the camp. I neared the top of the hill and paused to look back at camp. This was my home. I had fought for this place so many times, and it held so many special memories. It hurt more to leave camp then it had when I held the sky. I turned back and ran towards the city. At the bottom of the hill, I haled a taxi. "Empire State building please" I told the driver. "You got it kid" the guy said and pulled off. I arrived at the Empire State a few minutes later. I walked into the lobby and up to the bald elevator guy. He knew me by sight from all the times I had been here. He tossed me the security key and said "Go on up kid" then went back to reading his magazine. I walked into the elevator and watched the numbers change. 200. 300. 400. 500. And here we are, my floor. Oh boy.
Half an hour later, I was standing in the throne room assembled before the gods. "Perseus Jackson" Zeus thundered
I looked around. There before me stood 12 of the most powerful beings ever. I looked at each one, thinking of how they had affected my life for the past 6 years. My dad, Athena, Dionysus, Ares(I hate to say it), Aphrodite, Hera(the queen of dirt herself) and all the others. "Perseus!" Zeus said, "have you come here to merely look at us, or is there some other reason?"
I looked up at him calmly and replied "My lords and ladies, with the deepest respect, I, Perseus Jackson have one request. I wish to die." (A/N I was gonna end it here, but I figured I was almost to 2,000 words so I kept going.)
The throne room erupted into chaos. 'WHAT!" Poseidon and Athena shouted at the same time. "Percy, why would you want to die!?" Poseidon asked. Athena backed him up, which was surprising. "Perseus, if you died, it would break my daughters heart!" Aphrodite looked like she agreed with Athena, Zeus looked surprised, Hera and Ares both look smug and Dionysus was browsing wine weekly. However it was upside down and shaking, so I knew he was faking it. "Athen and father, I will tell you why I wish this." Suddenly Hermes stood up and said shakily, "I can do better, I can access Percy's memories and show it to us all."
White mist surrounded my head, then dispersed. A big flat screen came down from the roof and my past two weeks started to play. It began when I first saw Andr-I mean that piece of crap and ended when I walked into Olympus. By then Poseidon and Athena were crying, along with Aphrodite, most of the other gods looked either appalled or were sniffling. The only one who wasnt showing interest was Ares (big surprise). FInally, Zeus got over his shock and looked at me. "Percy, I am sorry, but you are the strongest hero that has ever lived. We cannot kill you." This really surprised me. The gods had voted to kill me twice. I thought for sure they would go along with my plan. "Oh," I said, "Well if you wont, I always can." With that I ran out fo the throne room and towards the nearest edge of Olympus. As soon as I got there, I looked over the edge and threw myself off.
Present
The wind whipped at my hair as I fell. Not many thoughts went through my head. The main one was if I would feel it, or simply *poof* and go to the underworld. Suddenly, a bright gold light flashed off Olympus and came straight for me, faster than I was falling. It hit me right in the chest, and dissolved into my body. Suddenly my back started to stretch and itch really badly then came an audible *WHOOMF* and my fall started to slow. I hit the ground at a lot less then terminal speed, and somehow, I was on my feet. I looked around, but could only see large feathers. I stood up, and the feathers moved with me. "Oh man, what is this?" I looked down at my knee that was scraped from the fall. It was bleeding golden ichor, the blood of immortals. "No, no they didnt! They didnt, I said no, I said I didnt want this!" I looked behind me and what I saw nearly made me pass out. Spreading from out of my back were two huge wings. They were at least 20 feet long each, and started off black from my back then changed slowly to purple which faded to a small dot of pink right at the tips of each. I felt as if they had always been there, and like I had had only one arm until this moment then got a new one that worked. I took a few test flaps, and sure enough they lifted me off my feet. Suddenly I took a hard down-stroke with my wings and shot up into the air. i could still see Mt. Olympus so I decided to fly there and see what was going on. It took only two flaps before I was heading up. After a few minutes of flying, I arrived at the gates to the throne room. I threw them open and walked in. "What the Hell is this!" I shouted, suddenly angry. "Whats with the wings, and the ichor!? If you made me a god, so help me I will-"
"Perseus!" my father shouted, "Calm down!" I shut up, and looked at him. His expression was understanding. Zeus looked at me and said, "Perseus Jackson. For your heroic deeds throughout your life, for destroying Kronos and Gaea, for all your actions in your past life we gods have took it upon ourselves to reward you. Since you have turned down being a god, we have decided to bless you with three things. One, you are now an immortal. Two, you are not a god, but an angel. Specifically, the angel of broken hearts. Eros will be your overseer. Third, since you are gone, Camp Half-Blood is critically weakened, so we are assigning you to be the camps protector. If the camp is threatened or one of the campers taken, it will be your job to defend them. Chiron has already been informed or this."
I looked at him as if he was from Mars. Seriously, I was an angel? And immortal! That part was actually cool, now that there was only my parents that cared about me. However, the part of me having to guard Camp, and keep everyone there safe, that part was horrible. I felt like I was drowning, then someone handed me an anchor and said "Good luck!" Zeus started talking again and knocked me out of my thoughts. "Also, you will have to give up Riptide. Riptide is a heroes weapon, and cannot be used by an immortal. You will however be allowed to choose a different weapon." That part, that part sucked. I literally would have rather died than had to give up Riptide. Riptide was part of me. You know how my wings made it feel like i got another arm? Having Riptide taken away was like getting that arm and one leg cut off. "Your protection of Camp shall begin right after you choose your weapon. Also, you will retain your power over water, and since you are part of the realm of love- kinda- Aphrodite is going to bless you with good looks." Here Aphrodite squealed and said, "oh your gonna look soooooo good honey!" I groaned. Add a large rock to the anchor, and cut off an ear. Here we go. Then something came to me to ask. "Before I go, one question. Who is Andrew's father?" Here Hera glared hard at Zeus, who began to shift awkwardly in his seat. "Oh, um. Harrumph, uh. He's mine."
AAAAAAAAND I'm BACK BABY! Well I have absolutely no excuse for me missing so much. It was all my fault, I take full responsibilty. No excuses.
But anyway I have been reading some fanfics lately about Percy getting dumped by Annabeth and so on a so forth, then he becomes a god and blah blah blah. Well I have read about 4 and seriously I can write a better one than that. So here's my version of the Annabeth dumps Percy thing. i hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for reading!
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