As Fate Deems It
Summary: Poseidon never had an affair with Sally. But Percy Jackson is still the "demigod" child of Poseidon. "My Lord, I am with child, our child." Amphitrite, the immortal wife of Poseidon, said.
Disclaimer: I don't own the PJO series.
Warning: genderbender
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'It has been eons, since I've birthed to Triton.' Amphitrite thought, 'My husband has had many children none of them mine, except Triton. No, ever since their pact, he's been loyal to me, loving me like we were just newlyweds.' Amphitrite mused, as she stroked her slightly swelled stomach. 'But I will not last. I'm being forgotten; no I've already been forgotten by the mortals. I am fading and I'll never have the chance to rear my child. At the rate my powers are being used, I'll fade as I birth my child. What am I to do?' Amphitrite smiled sadly as she gazed to the waters outside her window. Sharks, stingrays, dolphins and all matter of marine life swam by.
Suddenly, three lights appeared in front of her. Immediately summoning her weapon of choice, Anaklusmos, gifted to her by the daughter of Atlas eons ago, she readied herself in a battle stance. When the lights died, three old grandmother-type ladies stood before her. Held in their arms was knitting tools and a pair of giant socks. Amphitrite quickly stood up and kneeled towards the three old ladies. "My Lady Fates, what brings you here to me, a mere minor goddess bound to the Elder God and Olympian, Poseidon?" Amphitrite greeted as was how they were to address the Fates.
"The child, the godling, your child is needed by the world. The child never meant to be but even we, the Fates, had no control over the child's conception. Your lord is enraptured with a mere mortal, the one we deemed to be the mother of the child spoken in the great prophesy." One of them spoke. Amphitrite looked affronted, her husband was supposed to cheat on her again?
"Do not be offended Queen Amphitrite for forces higher than us, are at work. Sally Jackson, a clear sighted moral has been born barren, a curse we found as the cause. No seed of mortal or divine man can ever plant itself in her until her first born is birthed." Amphitrite was confused. Rightly so, as the Fates, as all knowing and powerful they are, were not making sense at all.
"But we know of your fading and the child you carry. Your child coincides the time we had planned for the Great Prophesy to come true. The child we planned to be the hero of the Big Three is impossible to be born, a concession must be made." Then the fates disappeared in another flash of light. The doors to her chambers flew open with force as her husband and son stormed in armed tot the teeth with mermen behind them. After assessing that no enemy was in the room, Poseidon dismissed his guards and closed the doors. Triton had already sat next to Amphitrite his head on her lap, reverted back into his child form, drawing comfort form his mother. Poseidon sat next to her with a worried look in his face.
"We had sensed something powerful entering my domain, your room specifically. We had rushed to your doors but it would not open. Magic, powerful magic kept you out of our reach. When the powerful entities left the magic that held the doors closed allowed us to open it. Who or what was it?" Poseidon asked, holding her to him closer. Poseidon felt terrified, as his second immortal child laid in his immortal wife's womb. He had neglected his wife for hundreds of years and now he poured his attention on her after the pact.
"It was the Lady Fates." Amphitrite said, still in shock. Triton's head snapped up to his mother's face and Poseidon tightened his hold on Amphitrite considerably and was shaking. The fates had not shown themselves to any being for the last 300 years. The last time they appeared the Olympians were told of the shift of power and the biggest wars to ever be fought would come in between that time to the time that they'd show up again. And it had happened, the devastation of WW1 and WW2 caused was catastrophic and horrific. Even Ares, the God of War, turned away from the sight of the holocaust and the Hiroshima Bombings. It was then that the new great prophesy was given and the pact was made.
But what had been unknown even to Apollo is that before the current oracle was cursed, she came to Poseidon bearing an altered prophesy.
The children of the Elder Gods
Will still come forth
16 years still awfully short
Heroes still all the same
A decision still shall be made
Of whether to end his days
Cursed blade hero's soul shall reap
And mortality gained whether to keep
Of will Olympus preserve or raze
Will determine how the child will live its days.
A chill ran down Poseidon's back. 'Mortality gained… You can't gain mortality. A mortal can become immortal but for this particular phrase… An immortal must become mortal. The gods are too proud to ever step down.'
"Amphi, tell me everything they said." Poseidon said in a commanding tone, Amphitrite complied. As she told them what was told to her realization dawned onto Poseidon he couldn't stop the hurt emanating from his heart. Poseidon swam away from his family. Amphitrite and Triton looked to Poseidon as he swam away; Triton had curiosity in his eye while in Amphitrite, a sad understanding.
The next day Poseidon marched up to Olympus seeking 3 childbirth goddesses: Hera, Artemis and Ilithyia. The three were sworn to secrecy pertaining to a ritual only they knew as their domain's goddesses.
When it was Amphitrite's time to give birth, Apollo was entered into the circle as he was the god of healing, medicine, truth and prophesies it was inevitable to include him into the circle. As Apollo lifted the small godling into it's mother's arms everyone looked bitterly happy.
"Hello little one. Look at you, so small, so fragile, so beautiful." Amphitrite cooed. "My beautiful daughter, remember this, mommy will always love you even when I've joined the void. I'll always watch over you, I love you little one." Amphitrite looked around the room, spotting Sally Jackson, her daughter's soon to be new mother.
"Come here Sally." She said weakly.
"I give you the task of raising my daughter, soon to be yours as well. Love her like I would always will, care for her when no one else will, always remind her there is always someone that loves her. She will always know me but she will know you as her mother as well. And lastly I give you the honor of naming her once you bear her on your own." Amphitrite said tiredly. She turned wearily to the three goddesses with them in the room and to her husband as well. "Take my milk and take some drops of my ichor place it into a container that will never let it dry off. Let her keep it for in time when the time comes that she decides she can be a godling once more. Take the sand that will be me and bathe her in it before you perform the ritual for her to become mortal. Poseidon, take my sword and keep it until the time comes that she is ready to receive it. Lady Hera, Lady Artemis I ask that you bless this daughter of mine as a final request from this fading goddess." Everyone had a solemn look to them as they accepted the terms given to them. Apollo quickly took the milk and ichor from Amphitrite and placed it into a container that Poseidon created out of nowhere.
Then Amphitrite began to dissolve into golden shimmering light and sand. Poseidon gathered the sand and there they bathed the baby girl in it. The child was quiet throughout the process, her eyes shining with intelligence and sadness.
It was nine months later that Sally Jackson gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Perseas Atalanta Pacificia Jackson. (1)
(1) I wanted to keep the name of Percy and because Perseus was the only male hero to ever achieve a good ending. Antlanta because she's the only heroine that I know of. Pacificia because Sally wanted to honor Amphitrite.
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