"I still can't believe it." Percy said for me what felt like the millionth time. "We are the first demigods to reach twenty since twenty years!"
Annabeth chuckled. "Yeah, Percy. You have mentioned it." He pecked her on the lips.
"You know what I still can't believe?" Leo suddenly asked. "That we are sitting here with you. This is worse than that sappy romance you dragged me to last Thursday!" The couple blushed as the group laughed.
Three years had past since the giant war and the group was closer than ever. They sat by the canoeing lake in the August heat. "Four years." Percy said softly.
"Yeah." Annabeth said and closed her eyes. Percy looked at the other veterans and the fairly new demigods, the seven. There was Travis, who was fooling around with his girlfriend Katie. His brother Connor playing tic-tac-toe with Leo, whose best friend Jason was lying next to his his girlfriend Piper. On his other side were Hazel and Frank, who was a huge cuddly dog. Hazels brother Nico was arguing with Thalia, about something no one knew or cared.
"I'm bored." Connor suddenly said, as he won the fifteenth match in a row.
"Yeah, me to." Percy agreed. "Let's go swimming!" He exclaimed.
Everyone groaned.
"No!" Jason said, causing Percy to pout. "Why not?"
"Because we've just been swimming!" Leo said. "Yeah! And yesterday we've been swimming all day!" Travis stated. "And the day before that too!" Connor added. "Ok, ok. No swimming. I get it." Percy said pouting.
Suddenly Argus came running from the Big a House.
"What's wrong?" Percy asked worried.
"Nothing is wrong. Chiron wants to see all of you. Now."
They all looked at Travis, Connor and Leo. "We didn't do anything!" Travis exclaimed. "Well, not anything..." Connor slapped his hand in front of his mouth. "Nope, we didn't do anything."
Even Argus looked at them suspiciously. Then he sighed. "Better go up there. It sounded urgent."
Annabeth raised an eyebrow. Then she got up and pulled Percy up. "Well, we better go check it out. Don't want to deal with an angry Chiron!"
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They met the centaur in the rec room. "So what is this about?" Frank asked.
"Please don't tell me it's another quest!" Percy begged.
Chiron looked thoughtful. "You could call it quest. But you could also call it vacation. It's up to to decide what it is."
The old centaur said.
"Huh?" Leo asked confused.
Travis and Connor decided to add their two cents. "Well that's a new one." "But what's it about?"
Piper glared at them. "Maybe, if you three shut up we would already know!"
Chiron looked at the charmspeaker gratefully. "Thank you. Now, as I was saying, most of you will probably see it as a quest. It is for you to decide. We, the gods have decided to send you there as a... How should I put it? A break? Yes. A break from the life of a demigod."
Silence. "You mean a pause from demigodishness? That's awesome!" Percy exclaimed.
Annabeth slapped him upside the head. "You don't even know where we're going."
Percy shrugged. "As long as there aren't any monsters..."Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"You know, I gotta side with my dear cousin on this. I've had enough of empousai hitting on me and then try to eat me."
"It's a weird reason Nico, but I get where you're coming from. I think we all need a rest from monsters."
"But no!" Leo protested. "The monster was the best part of that romance!"
"Yeah. Till you nearly got eaten because you had to laugh so much."
Leo rolled his eyes at Piper. "Was it my fault one of the humans thought the Cyclops was a giant walking Penis?"
Travis and Connor burst out laughing. "What the fuck?" Travis gasped. "Why would he..." Connor was cut short when Chiron slammed his hand on the table.
"Quiet!" He yelled. "This is an important matter." They quieted down again. "The place we are sending you, is another universe."
This caused another uproar. "Another universe?" "How?" "There are other universes?"
"Quiet!" Chiron yelled annoyed. "There are a few things different about that place. It is filled with creatures, much like animals, but more powerful. They are called Pokemon and have elemental powers. But you will find out about them when your there." He let that sink in. "Another thing is, that you'll be split up, into families or to live with a mist-influenced older sibling."
They group looked at him confused. "But we're old enough to live on our own!" Percy and Jason said at the same time. "Jinx!" Percy said quickly. "Ok maybe not all of us." Jason said. "But still..."
"You didn't let me finish." Chiron said. "You will be deaged, to the point where the youngest of you, Hazel," he looked at the daughter of Pluto, "will only be born at arrival. Percy, Annabeth Katie and Travis will be the oldest at four."
Silence. Then Leo answered with quavering voice: "What?"
"You heard me." Chiron looked like he tried hard not to laugh at their expressions.
"So we basically get our memories wiped?" Annabeth asked.
Chiron pursed his lips. "We haven't decided that yet. "But you'll probably keep them."
Connor snickered. "Then we're super babies. Imagine their faces when a baby can tell you the Relativity Theory."
"What about our powers though?" Percy asked, ignoring Connor.
"The ones that are in your anatomy like your underwater breathing, Leo's technological abilities and Annabeths intelligence will stay. But you won't be able to manipulate your surroundings anymore." Chiron started to roll to the door. I asked Grover if he wanted to go and he said yes if you would go. You'll have time to decide until he comes back from his inspection at Maine." Then he navigated his wheelchair out of the Rec room.
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"So what do you think?" Jason asked.
"It's sounds awesome!" Leo said immediately.
"Ditto!" Frank and Percy said. "Though it's not so cool that you were going to be separated." Percy added.
"But it won't be for long, will it?" Annabeth said. "It would be a great experience. I'm for going there."
"All in favour for going there?" Leo asked. Everyone raised their hands, except Thalia. "I don't want to leave my sisters. Also, I meet creatures like that nearly everyday! So you have fun at that place. I need to go back to Artemis." She explained and said goodbye to everyone. Then she walked out of the rec room.
"Well that was kinda easy." Leo said surprised. "And what do we do now?" Nico asked.
Percy face brightened. "We can go..." "NO SWIMMING!"
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A few days later the whole group stood on Half-Blood Hill, ready to go enter their next big adventure.
"So what do we do?" Travis asked.
"You stand still. Lord Zeus here will bring you to your respective regions. See you in a few days."
With that Zeus smirked and snapped his fingers. Suddenly everything turned black in front of their eyes and they fell unconscious.
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Percy groaned. His head throbbed. Muscles, he didn't even know existed, hurt and he felt... strange. Unnatural even.
'Man, I think I haven't felt this strange since Luke's scorpion poisoned me!' He opened his eyes. Lying on his back, he looked at some trees over him. It was night. The wind rustled in the trees. He thought about the conversation with Chiron.
'Nice vacation.' He thought. He sat up, even thought his body seemed to say: 'Hell, no!'
He looked at his body and nearly had an heart attack! 'Man the only memory of this body is the time I went to the National Air and Space Museum with my mum!'
Suddenly he heard an explosion and his head snapped around. In the distance, between the trees, he saw a faint, red glow. He stood up groggily. Being in his younger body felt like being drunk! A feeling he didn't want again, he had hated it since the Stolls had spiked his drink at an anniversary. After a few steps his vision cleared and he approached the fire. When he was as only a few feet away from the flames, he stood still and dodged sparks as he tried to se what was going on. What he saw was strange, even at his standards: A blue and red coloured dragon was fighting a strange dog that walked on to feet. The dragon shot a stream of flames at the dog who dodged and shot a glowing blue orb from his hands.
"Salamance, use Hyper Beam." A girl next to tree a little further away said.
'Hyper Beam? What's tha...' Suddenly the dragon now identified as Salamence shot a white beam of light at the dog. It tried to dodge, but it got hit and was sent flying, straight into Percy's direction. It hit a tree next to him and fell to the ground. As it sat up, it's eyes fell on the four year old Percy, whose body was shaking from fear.
'Calm down, Perce.' He thought to himself. 'You have faced worse than an overgrown dog who shoots laser and a dragon.' Suddenly a voice that was not his own spoke inside his head.
'Please!' It seemed to be begging.
Percy looked at the dog who had a strange look on his face. Hopeful? Longing? Desperate? Percy decided to go with desperate.
'Take my child! You have a good heart.' It said in Percy's head again. From one of his paws the dog released an egg, maybe as big a small American Football. It rolled onto the Forrest floor. Percy jumped over and cradled it.
The dog looked at him with loving eyes.
'Run!' It said, before it jumped up and and rushed back into battle against Salamence. Percy took a confused look at the egg, then at the battle and then he ran for it.
After what felt like a kilometre, he slowed down and took a breath. He looked at the egg and swore to get revenge. After two hundred meters he had heard bloodcurdling scream and instantly knew the eggs parent was dead. He started running again. If that girl went far enough to kill for what she wanted, then he would rather not be found by her. Suddenly he slipped and rolled down a hill that had basically just appeared in front of him. Somehow the egg didn't break and Percy held it close, so he wouldn't lose it. He tried to remain conscious. He stood up and walked a few feet. Then he stumbled and his world became black.
He woke up on a comfy bed. He could feel the egg next to him. Suddenly he shot up.
'Dammit, that girl! I need to get away!' He thought as he grabbed his shoes, that were standing next to the bed, and ran to the door. Just as he wanted to open it, the door opened from the other side and a woman, about twenty five years old, with auburn hair stepped inside. On her arms she held a toddler.
"You're up! Finally!" She said, as soon as she saw Percy in front of her.
"Huh?" Percy asked.
"You have been asleep since three days!" She frowned. "Or at least, that's when we found you in the woods, unconscious. "
Percy looked at her gratefully. "Thank you, ma'am."
She smiled at him and the toddler giggled. "Where are you're parents, though?" She asked suddenly frowning.
Percy shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I woke up in the Forrest a few days ago and couldn't remember much." In his mind, he congratulated himself for coming up with a lie that fast.
The woman looked at him in pity. "We will find them. If not, you could just stay with us!"She crouched down to him. "This is my son Ash. My name is Ketchum. Delia Ketchum."
Percy smiled and had to hold back a snicker. "Jackson. Percy Jackson." Suddenly the egg started glowing and Percy nearly dropped it. "Woah!" He said. "What's going on?" He asked Delia confused.
"I guess it's hatching!" She said wide-eyed. "We should take it to the Professor, he will know what to do!"
Percy nodded, even though he didn't know who the 'Professor' was. With the egg in one hand and Delia's hand in the other he ran out of the house and followed Delia through the small town. They ran through the outskirts of the small town. "Until next time in Pallet Town!" He read on a sign at the entrance to the city. Up on a hill near the town stood a large house with a windmill.
"That's the professors lab. I do hope he is there and not out conducting field work!" They climbed the stairs to the house. Delia rung the bell.
"Come on, come on!" She murmured. Suddenly the professor opened the door. He was a middle aged man, maybe in his late forties, and wore a white lab coat.
"Ah! Miss Ketchum. To what do I owe this pleasure?" The professor asked. "Remember the boy I told you about? The one I found in the woods? Well, the Pokemon egg he was carrying appears to be hatching." Delia said breathlessly.
"Oh." The professor expression became astonished.
"It is? I could've sworn it would take a while... Come on in, quick!" He led them inside, into his laboratory, where he put a pillow on one of the tables. Percy carefully set down the egg and took a step back. Suddenly the flow became brighter and a final burst of light the egg disappeared.
'That looked like a nuclear explosion.' Percy chuckled at his thoughts. When the light finally dissipated, Percy could look at the new born for the first time. It was a smaller version of dog he had seen previously. It blinked. Then it let out a small growl as it took in its surroundings.
"What kind of Pokemon is that?" Delia asked. "I have never seen it in my life!"
Professor Oak stroked his chin. "It is a Riolu." He said thoughtfully. "They're native to the Sinnoh Region. I've never, ever seen one in Kanto before."
Percy looked at Riolu silently. When they locked eyes, Percy saw a spark in its eyes and suddenly the little dog-like Pokemon jumped into his arms. Percy staggered and nearly fell, but he managed to regain his balance. The professor had taken out a small device.
"This is something I developed and a friend improved it."
'That looks like a cellphone.' Percy thought to himself.
The professor opened it and it beeped. "Riolu, the emanation Pokemon. When sad or scared, Riolu's aura becomes stronger as a way of signalling its allies."
"It seems Riolu has chosen you to be his partner." Professor Oak said.
Percy looked at Riolu. "That true?" He asked. "Riolu nodded and grinned at him.
Professor Oak cleared his throat. "You're actually not aloud to have a Pokemon, as you're not old enough."
Percy frowned. "Why not?" He asked and the professor chuckled. "You only get your trainers license when you're ten years old. Until the, you're not aloud to have any Pokemon. But I guess..." The professor look at him and then at Delia.
"I guess your gonna stay with Misses Ketchum for a while, aren't you?" Percy looked at the woman and nodded. "Then I would suggest, that Riolu officially 'belongs' to her. Percy's face brightened. "Alright!" Delia smiled. "Alright Percy. Let's get you home. You still look exhausted!"
So, I finally got something online! Congrats to me! How long has it been? Five months? Six months? I've lost count. I'm sooo terribly sorry for not updating any of my other stories. I have to admit that I haven't even started writing the next chapter for "Starting A New Life" and I'm only at, I dunno, a hundred words for "The Watcher". This is because of major writing blocks and YouTube (that place is an evil thief of time) and too many ideas I wanted to write, this story included. I'm kinda (not really) working on a PJO and HTTYD crossover, then I have many chapters for this story started, but this project is huge! I will try to cover most episodes of the anime, which will make this a very long story (and will most likely not finish it, because I'm very lazy(YouTube is a dangerous place). Any ideas are VERY welcome,( no OCs though) and I will try to take them into account.) Also I have football (or soccer for you Americans) training three times a week and a match on weekends, which takes up pretty much a whole day. Combining that with school and YouTube (very evil place) and free time for writing is pretty much gone... Again, I'm very sorry for not updating, but I will try to do it a little more often from now on (keyword: TRY)
I hope you like it,
blackdaniels