So I decided to try my hand at a Percy Jackson story. Let me know what you all think!
The sun was rising on Camp Half-Blood; Apollo was beginning his journey to the west. With first light shining Cabin seven begins their morning routine. As the light continues to spread over the camp one particular cabin holds our resident two - time savior of Olympus Percy Jackson son of Poseidon. Percy rolls over trying to block out the sun but his efforts are in vain. There is a knock on the door and the person was in no way going to be ignored. This is how our story begins….
"Ugh who could be up this early in the morning?" Percy complains
"WAKE UP!"
I roll out of bed and open the door to find Annabeth my girlfriend standing at the door.
"Can I help you?"
"Percy come on you promised to train the new demigod kids today." Annabeth says
I sigh at this, I had forgotten I had promised Chiron yesterday to train the newbies.
"Alright, let me get ready and I'll meet you at the pavilion." I tell her
Annabeth smiles and kisses my cheek and runs off. I close the door and lean against it staring at the wall. After a minute I push off and begin to get ready for the day. As I am getting dressed thoughts run through my mind that I have had for a few days now. It has been a year since the defeat of Gaea and with this time of relative peace I have realized something about my relationship with Annabeth. When we first met I thought she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. We became friends and eventually we started dating each other. I thought like everyone else that our relationship was perfect. However, I'm starting to think that our relationship with each other isn't as strong and perfect as I thought. I just don't see her as I use too, I'm starting to see her as just a sister, but I don't know how to tell her that without hurting her feelings.
"Oh well, one thing at a time" I say to myself
Once I am done getting dressed I walk out of my cabin over to the dining pavilion where I can hear the other campers eating breakfast. I look around seeing someone I didn't expect to see Nico di Angelo. I quickly make my way over to him and sit across from him. He looks up and with a small smile he greets me.
"Hey Percy"
"Hey Nico, I thought you would be in the Underworld until next week."
"Oh yeah, I got what my dad wanted me to do pretty quickly actually and decided to come back early."
I smile at this news "Awesome, I had missed you these past few days"
Nico smiles at that and goes back to eating his food and I follow suite by calling up cereal to eat. Nico notices and smirks "are you trying to please Lady Demeter or something?"
I laugh and shake my head "No I just actually wanted cereal for breakfast".
Nico shakes his head and sticks a bite of pancakes in his mouth. I'm glad Nico and I can talk like friends now. After he confessed to me I was shocked and flattered. I was eventually able to talk to him about his feelings and he told me his affections were based on his childhood hero worship of me. Nico is now my best friend next to Grover. Speaking of Grover he and Annabeth are heading over towards me now.
"Hey Perce you almost done. You have to go set up the arena and get ready to train the newbies."
"Yeah I am almost done man."
"You are giving the lesson today? Can I join you Percy?" Nico asks
"Of course, we can spare each other afterward if you want to."
Nico nods his head and finishes up his breakfast just as I am go to drink my blue milk.
I stand up to walk towards the arena. Annabeth stands on my other side holding my hand as we all walk together. Once we arrive Nico and I walk over to the equipment and make sure everything is in order while Annabeth and Grover go to sit on the stands. A few minutes later loud chatter can be heard heading this way. I stand in the middle with Nico facing the new kids as they walk in.
"Alright, listen up I want each of you to separate by your godly parent!" I say
The kids hurry to follow my orders. Once they are done I nod my head in satisfaction.
"Good, now the person standing next to me is Nico di Angelo he will be helping me out this morning. Go ahead and pick your weapon of choice and return to your groups."
I turn to Nico while the kids do that "Who do you want to work with?" I ask him
"I'll take the Apollo, Athena, Hephaestus and Hecate kids." Nico said
I nodded my head, that left me with Hermes, Ares, and Nemesis.
Eventually the kids returned and we began training until lunch- time was announced. During this time Annabeth and Grover left half way through to go and do their own thing. Nico and I put everything away and then left to go get lunch.
"Percy, is everything ok?" Nico asked
"Yeah why do you ask?"
Nico sighed "I have known you for a long time Percy and I could tell you weren't completely into the training today."
I was shocked at this I didn't answer right away instead I sacrificed some of my lunch to my dad and we sat down at Poseidon's table this time.
"I don't know what to do anymore Nico. It took me an entire year but I realized I am not actually in love with Annabeth and I don't know how to tell her. It has been bothering me a lot lately because I have heard her talking with Piper about college and how she wants to study in New Rome. I decided I'm not going to college but I am going to stay at camp."
Nico's head shot up and stared at me with widened eyes "Wow, that was not what I was expecting."
I chuckled at his reaction and nodded my head at that. "Well all I can say is Percy you have to tell her soon. She leaves for college next week and I am pretty sure she is expecting you to go with her."
I sighed "Yeah, I know I'm just trying to figure out a good time to do it."
"There is never a good time Percy. Just like when I told you my feelings for you. I eventually just got up the courage and told you."
"Your right, thanks for listening can we postpone our spare for later?"
Nico nodded "Yeah don't worry I want to shower anyway and take a nap."
I smiled and finished my food.
That's it for now. I plan on making this a multi-chapter, since I don't do one-shots well. The story is going to be slow paced. I want to really flush out Percy's character and make it seem real! Let me know I know the first chapter is kinda boring.
