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The Son of His Parents
In Manhattan, New York, in a particular Strawberry Farm, a small boy no older than three weeks blinked, looking around his cream colored room. His eyes, a stunning emerald green, were inherited from his father. The ability to take in so much information and process it, though, was inherited from his mother.
It was safe to say that a son of his parents would be one of the most powerful demigods of his time. It was safe to say that Alec Jackson, son of Annabeth and Percy Jackson, would be one of the most powerful demigods of his time.
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"Alex!" Percy Jackson cried from the dining table, hoping his thirteen-year-old son would be able to hear him. "Time for sword fighting!" At first there was no reply, and then there was a groan.
Alex stumbled downstairs, his hair messy and tousled from a ten-hour sleep. "Hey, how're you going to be as good as me if you don't practice?" Percy asked, trying to uplift his son's spirits.
"What if I don't want to be as good as you, dad?" Alex mumbled, taking the seat across from him. Percy sighed. It wasn't uncommon, he had been told, for teenagers to behave as though they wanted to do nothing anybody else wanted of them. He just hoped Alex wasn't turning out to be one of those teenagers.
"Do you want breakfast?" Percy asked. Alex looked up at him, and Percy was again startled by the power his son's sea- colored eyes welded.
"Where's mom?" Alex replied. Usually in the Jackson household, that meant yes.
"She's taken Gwen to the Camp Library." Again Ale groaned. If his mother and eight- year- old sister were in the library, there was no chance they would come home for hours together. He was going to have to fend for himself.
"Well," Percy sighed, "I am the Swords Master, so I can't be late. Why don't you come join me at the arena when you've showered and had breakfast?" His son nodded, and watched his father leave the house.
Alec then got up and grabbed a banana. While he ate it, he thought about his best friends. His Roman best friends. Gods, he missed them. Just thinking about the "adventures" the three had had together years ago made Alec feel strangely nostalgic.
That's irrational; he thought to himself, they've changed. You have too. And then the poisonous thought: What if Lara and Sammy don't even like me anymore?
His eyes lingered onto the framed photo of the lot of them. It was taken three years ago, the last time they had properly met without meetings and monsters ruining their vacation.
Sammy Zhang was on the edge, laughing at something somebody- probably Louis- had said. His nose was wrinkled comically, and his mocha- colored cheeks were bright red. Alex grinned at the memory of Sammy. Never had he seen such a gullible nine-year-old.
His arm was around Lara Grace, daughter of Piper and Jason Grace. Her smile was classically dimpled, confident, and highly contagious. Glossy brown curls cascaded down her back, framing a beautiful descendant-of-Aphrodite face. Lara's electric blue eyes, the only evidence of her Jupiter heritage, shone, illuminating the photograph.
Alex smiled now, as he looked over to himself. So different but still the same, he thought, looking at the ten- year- old boy smiling his too-big-for-his-face smile, one hand around Riptide's pen form.
Next to him was Louis Valdez. The thirteen- year- old boy was winking, one hand behind his head in a rather flashy pose. Alex laughed out loud. His parents always told him Louis was a recreation of his father, Leo, and besides his green thumb (and hazel eyes) nothing like his mother, Calypso.
Louis was holding onto his sister, five at the time. Her front teeth were missing, forming a strange yet happy looking little- kid smile. Gwen's black hair was pulled back into her ponytail, yet there were still wisps falling out. Her grey eyes twinkled mischievously the way everybody's eyes did at the age.
That was it- the five of them. Younger, yes, but still best friends. And I'd have it no other way, Alec thought as he stepped out into the Manhattan sunshine.
** A/N: Thanks for reading so far! I know this chapter was somewhat short, and I will make the next one considerably longer. This is my first fanfic on here, so please tell me what you think. Constructive criticism will be much appreciated and revered! Again, thanks for reading. Chapter 2 will be out soon~ **