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Way back when, when Kronos ate children, and Zeus "took" them out, there was an extra child. The youngest, and forgotten. When all the gods had been assigned domains, the forgotten one had been given none. This at first made him sad, but later became his greatest strength. See, as a god with no domains, one was untouchable, for now that god had no strengths, thus no weaknesses. The god wasn't the "best" at anything. He was excellent at everything. So, that god basically got everything. God of the skies, underworld, everything, and exempted from the Ancient laws. But there was one alias given to the god that made him happy, this was "The devil". The god was quite happy with this. The god's name was Perseus.
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Perseus pov, 1496
I got bored watching everything. I was tired of waiting in the shadows. I basically had everything I didn't really want. I wanted family, someone to love, but instead I was basically the Devil. Don't get me wrong, I loved being the Devil. People worshipped me, and I got to torture bad souls, and I was quite powerful. I was like a primordial in every domain. I often got bored and chatted with the fates. I was chatting with the fates one day, and it went pretty much like this:
Me: *sighs* Well how's your day going?
One of the Fates: Just great, I got to cut 157 strings again!
Me: I'm bored. I want something to do
Fates: We can help with that
Fates: How about a curse. I love that idea.
Me: Wait, what? No…. if you do this I will torture you in my specifically made pit
Fates: *raise arm and chant something* too late
Fates: You will now be a 12 year old…. You will only have the powers of…Poseidon, until you fall in love. Once you do, you will get your powers. If you die, you shall be back here, as a god. Until then, you are to be gone. I curse them, and they give me a smile. I make a mental note to torture them.
I wake up on a bus. I see somebody sitting beside me. I try to remember the curse. I was a demigod, until I fell in love, and then I was godly again. I loved being a god, being able to torture souls, and have the power to do literally anything. But I wasn't complaining. I see a carrot bonk the guy beside me. I see it was from this really weird looking girl. "Do you want me to take care of it?" I ask, feeling friendly. "No, it's fine, I actually like carrots" We get off the bus, and I try to remember where I live. A sudden address pops up in my mind. I thank the fates, because I see them knitting socks across the street. They're weird. I travel to the address.
I see a small apartment. Well…it's nothing like my mansion, but whatever. Inside I see a disgusting fat man, and his friends. They seem to be drunk. The really fat man looks at me. "Ah, so the punk is back. Got any money kid?" I shake my hand. "I walked here." "Well, I need some money to buy some of my friends some drinks, and I know you have some, so hand it over" "No, and don't you think you should lay off the drinks, you old sot?" I didn't know what it meant, but I'm pretty sure it describes him. He raises his hand to hit me, but I hear a voice from the kitchen. "Percy sweetie, are you here?" The old sot glares at me, and lets me pass. I look in the kitchen not sure what to expect, but I see a nice lady, who comes and hugs me. "How was your day sweetie?"
"It was ok…" "Well that's ok, here I made you some cookies." A delicious smell wafts up my nose. I see some blue cookies. I love the color blue, but I like red more, it's vibrant. Blue's my second favorite. I'm Poseidon's son, so Blue seems to be at a tie with red, currently. I try one cookie, oh my gods this was amazing. "Mmmhhmmmhh" My mom laughs. I eat all the cookies, and go up to what I'm guessing my room. It was disgusting, I sit on the clean side of the bed, and my mom comes in. "Hey Percy, guess what?" I look at her. "We're going to Montauk!" I didn't know where that was, so I just pretended as if it were the best thing ever. She seemed so happy. "And Gabe isn't coming with us" By the way she said "Gabe" I'm guessing it was the fatso. I would be happy of that too.
"Sally, you're not going" A low voice groaned. Ugh. "But sweetie, I would make you a lot of your seven layer bean dip. With eight layers…" There was silence. "Maybe if the punk says sorry, and you hurry on the bean dip…" I wanted to kick him, but mom gave me a look. Me, the devil, and I'm saying sorry to an old sot. I would make sure he comes to hell… I will torture him. The thought of this made me happy inside. "Sowwy" I said, trying to put on my best sorry face. I hoped it was adorable enough. It seemed to work. "All right, fine, just get you and your ug-adorable face out" I was happy to comply.
*A couple hours later*
I wake up in a hospital like thing. I see this princess like person looking at me. I remembered what had happened, and to my mother. I swear the Minotaur will rot, and I will make sure he does. I looked at the blond, and fall back asleep. *Time skip* (Too many things to be specific on)
I guess now I have to go on a quest to get a lightning bolt back. I have to go with Annabeth, the princess, and my friend, who I later learned was a satyr. I think Annabeth hates me because of my father. She's annoying though. She keeps spurting out random facts.
We decided to head directly to the underworld, since that is where most likely the lightning bolt would be. If I had my powers, I would just create another one. Stupid lightning bolt. I also had to fight a lot of monsters. We get to "Aunty Em's garden emporium" I realize this was Medusa's garden. I decide to make sure she plays nice. I see her walk in, with her hair covered. "Percy, I think we should just go"
Annabeth looks at her warily. I remember Athena and Medusa's story. I had watched the whole thing. There was so much drama, I could keep myself entertained. "Relax Annabeth, I got this." "Hi sweeties" I know what she was trying to do. Medusa looks at us. "Είμαι ο διάβολος" I say. Medusa shivers and nods at me. I was known by monsters, actually, just the smart ones, unlike the Minotaur in underwear.
After that we get attacked by so many monsters. I wish I had my powers. I could snap my fingers, and they could just go 'poof'. Then we get to the Gateway Arch. "Can we please go see it?" Annabeth pleads to me. "Sure, whatever." She was really annoying. I was going to stay with Grover, but he went to see if there were any more cans.
Annabeth grabbed my hand and dragged me up here. She kept dragging me around, telling me about the history. The sun was starting to set. We were facing the ocean, and while she was ranting about a random fact, I noticed how the sun set on her golden locks. She looked like a real princess. But I knew better. You should see her with her dagger.
Annabeth led me around everywhere, showing me the different things, spurting out random facts. "Come one Seaweed Brain, don't tell me you're bored." "But" "Come on, we've barely seen anything." I hate the name Seaweed Brain, I was the devil, the strongest being ever, and I was being called seaweed brain, by a 12 year old. Granted I was a twelve year old and I didn't have my powers, but whatever. It takes all of my might to keep myself from smiting her. Then I realized I couldn't if I tried.
The last person left the top of the roof. Leaving us with some old lady and her dog. Annabeth stops in the middle of her fact and looks around. "I think we should go Percy" Her face looked like she was holding in a panicked face. She hid it really well, but I was able to see through it. I decide to find out, and I want a little revenge for the 'seaweed brain'. "I think I want to stay here." "No, no Percy, I thinks it's time we left." "But you were just telling me about the, uh, building" "And it's time we left." I realize she wouldn't give up and decided to give up. We get up to leave and suddenly out of nowhere, the Chimera attacks us.
I tell Annabeth to get downstairs to get Grover, but she refuses. After battling, I realize that we wouldn't win. "Annabeth" I yell. She looks at me. "What" She yells back. I motion for her to come here. She jabs Echidna in the stomach and runs to me. "We can't win this" "I know, duh" I would've sighed, but I had better things to do. "We need to get out" We run to the doorway, but see it is covered in fire. Stupid Chimera breath. I will torture that Chimera. My powers would really come in handy right now. The Chimera starts to corner us. We back away to the ledge. I grab her hands.
She looks at me. "Get ready" "For what" I jump of the building. She screams. "YOU IDIOT" As we fall, she panics. Then she looks down. There was water. She starts to calm down. "Why are you calming down?" I ask, still a little panicked. "Well, duh, there's water down there." "So?" "Oh my gods seaweed brain, you're a son of Poseidon. You can make the water cushion the landing" "Oh" I forgot I was a son of Poseidon. I make the water cushion our landing.
We fall into the water. I look around. There was a lot of trash. I saw wet wrapper, probably to contain some kind of food. I came close and I touched it. I became dry. I saw a lighter nearby and lit it on fire. The wrapper lit on fire, even though we were in the water. I push it away, and notice the fire goes out, and the wrapper was wilted somehow again. I guess I have some kind of air barrier around me. I see some light behind me, and I turn around to see a nymph. She doesn't say anything, but hands me 3 pearls, and then leaves before I can ask anything. Dang it.
I stare at the pearls for a while, and I suddenly hear a muffled sound. I turn to see Annabeth. Her face is really red. Is she blushing? She points to her nose. Oops. She can't breathe underwater. I make an air bubble around her. She starts to breathe heavily. I gently grab her shoulder. "Deep breaths" She starts to slow down her breathing.
Once she's calm, she hits me. "Seaweed brain, I almost died. How could you forget?" She seems hurt. "I'm sorry, I just got caught up looking at the water" She starts to look around. "I guess it is really pretty down here." A shark comes nearby and nudges my foot, and then goes to hers. She yelped. "Relax, it won't hurt you. I'm right here."
"I've just never been underwater in the sea. You know, being a child of Athena. It's really pretty down here. I've been missing out." I nod, back in my palace, I used to come into the Pacific. It was cold, and nobody really went out far. Sometimes even the Bermuda Triangle. "Well, now you know how pretty it is down here" We get out. There were people running everywhere. The building was on fire.
Grover ran to us. "Where have you guys been?" "Uhh…" "Let's just leave before the police come" Annabeth said. We ran. We catch a train to Denver. There we meet Ares. He's a serious jerk.
*Time skip*
I am now about to fight Ares. Around the beach. For one, he has a lot of flaws in his stance. Around his arm, and sword. I could easily pull this off. (AN: I can't do a fighting scene, and I don't really think I need to do one, so I will just skip this.)
Ok, so I forgot I was a demigod and he was the god of war, but oh well. The fight had still turned out pretty well. I mean, I managed to be the god of war, as an untrained demigod. Who's awesome? Me. I am currently outside the empire state building with Annabeth. I don't know where Grover is.
I ask the man for the key to the 600th floor. "Sorry kid. There ain't no 600th floor." Annabeth was about to say something, when I cut her off. I noticed he was reading a cheesy novel. "Listen here, if you don't give me the key now, I will march up to the top of the building, and call upon my dad, who is Poseidon by the way, because I WILL get this up there, and when I do, I will tell them about you" I say gesturing to the novel, and he quickly understands. We head up to the elevator. The music is terrible. We really need to get that fixed. We finally arrive. I was excited, and kind of mad at them. They forgot me. When I get there, I admit, I was kind of intimidated. I forgot I was a demigod, and they were 20 feet tall gods.
If I were a god, I could go to about 1,000 feet. Poseidon looks happy to see me, I am his kid after all. Even though I am actually his brother, that's weird. Whatever. Zeus glares at me, then sees I have the thunderbolt. Annabeth was just examining everything, from the walls, to the god's throne. Her gaze seemed to linger at her mom's. I go and get on my knees, and raise the thunderbolt. Zeus raised his hand, and the thunderbolt flew to him.
"I told you Zeus, I didn't have your bolt" Poseidon said. Zeus looked kind of sheepish, but then covered it. "Well, you tried it once, I can't trust you" "Awww, come on Zeusy" My dad teased. "Umm…." I said, not knowing what to say. Zeus cleared his throat. "Well then, Perseus Jackson, you are excused. You may leave" We turned to leave, when Athena called out. "Wait" We stop and turn around. "I believe that they should be rewarded" Zeus looked like he didn't agree, but they seemed to have a silent conversation, and he nodded.
Athena turned to Annabeth. "My dear daughter, you have returned the bolt, and stopped a major was from occurring" I wanted to say something, like I did some work too, but I kept quiet. Shen then turned to me. "You Perseus Jackson are a traitor. You had purposely stolen the bolt, and then returned it with my daughter so that you may receive a reward." I looked around, and everybody except my dad looked at me like a traitor. She raised her hand, and a gray ball of light was forming, she directed it toward me, but she suddenly flew back. A blue ball of light had smashed her to the wall. I turn to see my dad, with his trident raised. "You. Will. Not. Touch. My. Son."
Zeus immediately got up. "Sit down brother" My sat down, content. But Athena had the last word. She raised her hand and a pitch-black bolt of light hit me. Or it was supposed to. I saw I was intact, but at my feet, was Annabeth. She jumped in front of me. Athena and I said "NO" at the same time. I leaned down, and checked the pulse. There was none.
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I don't know if that was really a cliff hanger. I have a dare for you, wait 5 minutes before you read the next couple of chapter or so. I don't think it's that hard.