A/N: Ehhh, what is this? I'm not entirely sure. I've been rereading the Percy Jackson series and wanted to write something before I go on to the Kane Chronicles (I just got the third book in the mail, but I wanted to wait until I was done with exams). This is just a rough cut, unbetaed, so all mistakes are mine. I might revise it later, but I wanted to post it today.
DISCLAIMER: disclaimer. I don't own the Percy Jackson series, Proverbs for Daily Living or Forbidden Kingdom. I do, however, own a FANTASTIC copy of the Iliad and the Odyssey my friend John got me for Christmas. It's hardcover, with a blue cover with fancy embossing, and it's got gold paint on the end of the pages, like bibles and stuff.
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"If you wish to know the character of the prince, look at his ministers; if you wish to understand the man, look at his friends; if you wish to know the father, observe his son." –Proverbs for Daily Living
"Nothing can overcome water, yet it can overcome rock. It does not fight; it moves around the opponent, boneless, nameless." –The Silent Monk, Forbidden Kingdom
One must wonder how the myth of Percy will begin. When they tell his story to generations to come, what will they say? They tell of pious Aeneas, wrathful Achilles, ingenious Odysseus. What will they say of this Perseus?
The two brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, are about as different as two brothers can be. Zeus has fathered many heroes, so often just to say he can, and is very set in his ways. He does not like to say he is wrong. Poseidon is different. Poseidon is the sea, strong but soft, ferocious yet calm. Patron of fishermen, he shares this trait with those who harvest the sea, the everlasting, incredibly needed patience. Few heroes can claim Poseidon as their father.
Percy Jackson can. With absolute certainty, he can. All children of the gods embody some part of them. The children of Ares are the brashest and bravest, children of Athena, the wisest and smartest. Percy embodies the character of the sea. The temper of the sea is a dangerous thing, and when Percy's emotions are stirred up as the sea during a storm, he is the most dangerous, ferocious and unpredictable. But after the storm, the sea returns to calm, as does Percy, there to stay. The sea adapts itself for the landscape, slowly changing the landscape itself.
Percy takes whatever the Fates throw at him. Prophecies, quests, danger, loss, he takes it all on his own shoulders. He chose to be the hero that saved Olympus, although he will say that he did everything because he had to, that he had no choice.
But he made the choice to choose. Indecision is easy, making the choice is hard. It takes strength, the strength of the sea.
Sing to me O goddess, muse of ancients, of the strength of Perseus, son of Poseidon, the hero unexpected who saved the Gods from themselves.