A/N: Hello, fellow readers and writers, welcome to a new take on the Percy Jackson away from Camp Half-Blood (CHB) type story. This new experiment is titled, Tweaked Fortune. By the one and only That On3 Guy.
Summary: Perseus Jackson was violently thrown from his world of monsters and immortal deities into the world of mortals and everyday issues. Now when he has cemented himself in a nice community, his world wants him back, but what happens when he's not the same foolish kid he used to be.
August 11, 2011- Percy Jackson
The day had finally come, I had been waiting a year since my father had announced that I was to be second in line for the throne of his kingdom of the sea, after Triton of course. After the second gigantomachy my life, aside from Annabeth, had been mediocre at best, we had lost Leo Valdez the idiotic loveable head mechanic of Camp Half-Blood. I hadn't been completely oblivious of some of the looks of a few of the more radical campers that felt it was my fault that Gaea rose, and I can't say their wrong, I should have felt the warm blood rolling down my lip rather than ignoring all the senses I had been gifted with.
However, like I said before not everyone looks at me like that, only a select few that had never liked or respected me. The bright light in my love was Annabeth "Wise Girl" Chase, the beautiful daughter of Athena that I loved with ninety-nine percent of my heart, the other one percent was reserved for friends and my mom, Sally Jackson. Anyways back to the original topic, I was going to be fully adopted into the extended great house of Poseidon.
At the time, I had been on my way to the royal palace when I was caught in school of Flounder, I couldn't help but over hear what they were saying from what I could tell they heard that Lady Amphitrite was speaking of me and my mother in a negative, Apparently, my mother was a tramp, and I was only a bastard child of the Lord of the seas. Internally I bristled at the thought of Amphitrite insulting my mother, when it was me I was only a little steamed, but then my mother was brought into I was so close to losing my lid. I knew that she never liked me, nor did she agree with my father's decision to induct me into the royal family.
Not many people were aware of my everlasting ire towards Amphitrite, it was a side of me that only Annabeth had seen during our run in with Akhlys' in Tartarus, that was the first time I felt totally in tune with my abilities when I had tapped into their full potential to manipulate the blood in a person body. Since the war with Gaea, Poseidon had mandated that occasionally, I stop by to greet citizens and get to know more of the royal family. Every time I showed up the queen of the seas would make it her mission to remind me that I am only a bastard child of Poseidon, and my mother was only a lowly mortal compared to her, of course I detected that she wanted me to go off on her while my father was present in of our ever-growing numerous squabbles. I try my hardest to stay out of trouble, but then I learned something new that day, you can only avoid an issue for so long, before it begins to culminate in to something dangerous for both parties.
It was a week before my eighteenth, the day in which I would receive a seat on the council, and aid in making decisions that will benefit all marine life. The day started off fine, I ate breakfast in the mess hall at camp, before meeting up with Annabeth and telling her how much I love her and will see her soon, she told me good luck, and then I went off on my merry, then this returns us to me pushing my way through a school of flounder. I had finally reached the palace gates when I was stopped by a pair of guards, they asked me for my name and purpose for coming, and I politely responded, "Perseus Jackson, the Royal Induction" at that point they seemed to realize who I was and their eyes widened and they began to apologize for the mix-up, however I card very little about it. All I did was say that it was okay and then I made a joke, "I'll be sure to fire you when I'm on the council." This time their eyes widened to the size of frying pans and they began to grovel at my feet begging for my forgiveness, I remember thinking what would make them believe I would cut them from the royal guards, but at the time I simply shrugged it off and continued up through the palace where I was happily greeted by my father and I received a repulsive look from my "evil" step-mother. I don't believe that she was expecting my wolf glare that I had learned from Lupa, because the look that showed up on her face was a little funny.
What I do know is that Poseidon could feel the bitter animosity rolling off us in waves. At first it was only the three of us in the room, but then there were two when father said that Amphitrite and I need to talk out our issues before I could go further with the induction. "My beloved wife, my wonderful son, I need you to learn accept each other, soon you may be working together, and if you are unable to bury the hatchet there will be no room for progress in the noble house of Poseidon." Those were the exact words he left us with, there were no if's and's or but's about, I couldn't argue that it was all Amphitrite's doing, and all I wanted to do was defend myself. The evil being rose out of her chair with a hard look of resolve marring her face. "So, bastard, how's your whore of a mother doing?" She decided to begin by insulting my mother even more, I had no response she just kept on advancing on me while I stuffed my hand in my pockets just in case we got into fisticuffs which has never happened before.
By now Amphitrite was in my face, and I was prepared to fight her if I had to. However, I was determined not to throw the first punch. She continued to taunt me about my mother but then she placed the straw that broke the camel's back, she talked about Annabeth, The evil queen's words verbatim, were, " I can't believe that the wisdom spawn is still with you, what is it you call her, "wise girl" ha, more like "foolish girl" am I right" The first time I spoke in the entire altercation was after she said this, I brandish my faithful sword, Anaklusmos, or Riptide, and said in a dangerously low voice, " I can take anything you say about me, I have little tolerance of how you speak of my mother, but you brought my Wise Girl into this. You won't ever be able to talk about her like that when were done."
Amphitrite summoned and Atlantean Pewter sword and said, "If it's a fight you want then it is what you shall get, bastard child, prepare yourself," those were the last words exchanged between us before our little brawl began. Or at least that's what I remember, the next thing I know I'm on my knees before the Atlantean council and my father is speaking saying that I need to be punished for misdeed, there were many ideas that were brought before the council, however in the end it came down to disownment or prison time, the main exponents for my disownment was Triton and Rhode, two people who hated me almost as much as Amphitrite , Apparently, I brought their mother to the brink of fading, and if the servants hadn't been there sooner she would have faded. My father had decided to put it up to a vote, and it up being two-thirds of the council voted for me to be disowned, I was devastated, there were no words spoken between me and my father as I felt him remove his essence from me, I felt a great deal of power depart from me as it was sucked in to his trident, it felt impossible to me, I noticed that for the first time since I was twelve, that I was weak. Suddenly I was being propelled upwards by an unknown force.
I felt water begin to rush into my lungs as I lost all since of direction, up became down, and left felt like right. The pressure was getting to be to much as water pushed down on me from all side. The more I struggled the more disoriented I got, nothing was making since any more, the worst part was whenever I think about dying, I hold on a bit longer, and my lungs begin to pound hard at my ribcage as blood flowed throughout my body to my head, I gulp in as much water as I can, I want this nightmare to be over, I began to push my arms and legs harder, for all I know I was swimming deeper. The darkness began to engulf me, as I had no power left in me to fight. In the end, I gave into the darkness and let the water become my shepherd...
A/N: That's it Ladies and Germs, the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed it, I for one think that this is some of my best work. Please I need your reviews telling me where you want the story to go, and I may or may not require a beta if that is something you would like to do then PM via my profile, and we will be in touch. Don't forget to follow or favorite, you are aware that they send you neat notifications whenever I update this little experiment, and in the next couple of days I'm planning on posting something else, so be prepared for that.
