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JASPER
Jasper felt like he had just been served a bowl of cereal with water. Confused. His parents are demigods? If Jasper had heard right, his father had just announced that they're beings that are half-human and half-god born of great and divine power. This was impossible, since demigods were mythical beings as were the Greek gods and didn't exist. At least, Jasper thought so. He had two choices that he could think of as to why this was happening, either his parents were going to go a long way to pull his leg or his father was telling the truth.
Jasper's mother's face scrunched up and her nose crinkled as if she'd just smelled something rotten. She grabbed his dad's shoulder and shook her head.
"You know Percy, you could afford to be a little less obvious." She said. Jasper must have looked as confused and intrigued as he felt because his dad, Percy, nodded at him as if to notion him to start talking. Jasper had so many questions, most of which questioned his father's motives. Of course the fact that they were demigods didn't seem so far-fetched once past the fact that a family had flown into their kitchen earlier.
Jasper grappled at his sides and let out a nervous laugh, everyone turned to look at him with alert and confused looks.
"That's impossible dad, first off gods don't exist. They're myths. Secondly, if the gods were alive today why would they go around having kids with humans? They have better things to do, maybe like kill off the entire human race. Lastly, if you're trying to play a prank, you'd have to come up with better material." Jasper said, rattling off different facts. After finishing, he crossed his arms and sniffled. His dad was about to say something, but closed his mouth. Of course in times like these, Jasper's mom would always talk for his dad.
"Jasper, do you really think their habits have changed over the past millennia or so? I mean, you've read the myth book we gave you when you and Laura were younger. There were so many demigods, Hercules, Achilles and well, there's nothing more that I can say to prove it to you. You'd have to see camp." Annabeth said, letting go of Jasper's shoulders. Jasper shivered at the lasting feeling of his mother's hands on his shoulders.
Jasper swallowed several retorts. He didn't like being ridiculed like this. But by the looks on his parent's faces, they weren't joking. His dad was pulling a face and his mom looked extremely stressed. Jasper shook his head and when he was about to speak again, Laura interrupted him.
"If you really are demigods, then – then who are your parents?" Laura asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Well, my father is Poseidon." Jasper's dad said, putting his hand to his chest and finishing his statement gingerly.
"My mother is Athena." Annabeth nodded in a matter-of-factly manner. "Your grandparents – your mortal grandparents are aware of this as well. They were, after all, the ones who had a child with a god."
Poseidon and Athena are two very powerful gods, both of the Olympian spectrum. If what his parents said was true, they were two very powerful people. Jasper felt his face go red at the thought of his parents being so, so interesting. To be frank, they'd been too normal all his life.
The man with blonde hair, Jason, let out a heavy breath and shook his head, snapping Jasper out of his thoughts.
"Gods Percy, I honestly thought a water pipe would burst or something. I mean when James found out, he caused a huge city power outage." Jason shook his head. Percy's eyes widened and he cleared his throat.
"Well – then what does that make us?" Jasper asked, he felt a little awkward that there was a whole family observing this conversation.
"You and Laura are what we'd call – Legacies. A possible power inheritance of the gods. In this case, there's over a 150% chance you'll inherit our powers. Normally, legacies don't but –"
"Annabeth." Percy stopped her from babbling on. So, Jasper and Laura were Legacies. But they had over a 150% chance that they'd inherit power according to their mother, who apparently was a daughter of Athena. But then, who would get what? Poseidon was the god of the seas and Athena was the goddess of wisdom, there would either be a power split or a dead even dividing.
"Don't worry about it. Your powers will come to you eventually if they already haven't. I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out once we get to camp." The dark blonde haired boy nodded with a smile on his face.
"This is all really disorienting." Laura shook her head as if something was on it. "Are you guys' demigods or legacies?" She asked the two kids whom earlier flew into their kitchen.
"We're legacies. Our parents are the demigods, just like your mom and dad." The brown haired girl said blandly as if she couldn't care less.
"Well – our parents have different godly parents though. Like my mother is a daughter of Aphrodite and my father is a son of Zeus."
"It's Jupiter, Tom." The blonde man said, correcting the dark brown haired boy, who was apparently named Tom.
Jasper examined the two adults, the woman was indeed quite beautiful. With twisting nearly kaleidoscope eyes and a slim body, despite her hair being messy, it still shined and despite her lack of detail in clothing, she still looked great. On the other hand, Jason had electric blue eyes that gave one a bit of a shock at first and he wore a small smile, glasses and had a scar on the corner of his lip. Unlike the lady, he didn't give off much of any obvious aura. He quickly glanced at their kids, the girl glowed with uncertainty and she had a nervous look on her face, her eyes were a soft-stony blue and her hair was a regular brown, she wore a plain sweatshirt and jeans and was carrying a side bag, but she still seemed really pretty. The boy, Tom, was smiling, again, and had dark blonde hair with eyes much like his mother's, a color that Jasper couldn't put his finger on, he didn't glow like his sister, much less seem pretty.
"Just to be clear – we are talking about the Greek gods right? I just assumed since demigods were often used in their myths but-" Jasper asked.
"There are Roman gods as well but we're not going to load that on you now – your father and I are both Greek. Yes." Jasper's mom replied.
Jason took a glance at the watch on his wrist and twisted his lips. Jasper glanced up at a clock on the wall, it was already 11PM. His stomach let out an involuntary growl. He still hadn't eaten any dinner yet. Laura let out a small laugh from behind, Jasper whipped around and scowled at her. He didn't need to be embarrassed even more.
"I know it's a lot to take in. It's basically discovering a whole new world, but you'll get used to it. I promise. It'll be even easier, since you'll get to go to camp." Jasper's dad said as he grabbed a shirt from the bag on the ground and pulled it on.
It reminded Jasper that he was wearing a really weird shirt, which was his dad's. He suddenly felt self-conscious, he was also wearing his glasses.
"Talking about camp – Percy, it'd be great if we could leave soon. It's really not a good idea for too many demigods and legacies to be in one tiny apartment for too long." The pretty woman said, worriedly. Jasper's dad nodded and faced Jasper and Laura.
"You two – pack everything you would as if you're going on a vacation. Lots of clothes, some snacks, anything else."
"But dad- we've never been on a vacation." Laura argued.
"There's a first for everything." Their father shook his head and shooed them away, he seemed to suddenly be in a bit of a hurry. Jasper turned and began to walk down the hall when he was stopped by a hand on his arm.
"Wait up." A voice said, Jasper looked behind him to see the brown haired girl behind him. She let go of Jasper's arm and walked beside him. "My parent's wanted me to go and help you." She said and gave Jasper a tight smile.
"Oh. Yeah, that'd be nice, thanks." Jasper gave a smile back and opened the door to his room. Which was actually quite neat. He dashed to his bed and poked underneath for his backpack. When he pulled it out and set it on the bed he saw there were t-shirts and shorts already there.
"I took the liberty of getting started. Sorry." The girl mumbled. Jasper felt his face going red, feeling awkward that a girl had just rummaged through his drawers. At least not his underwear drawer. Either he had been looking for his backpack for a really long time or this girl could really pack.
"No, thanks." Jasper replied. "I'm Jasper." He said and stuck out his hand for her boy to shake. The girl looked up from her feet and looked at Jasper's hand as if it was poisoned or there was something gross on it, but there wasn't, Jasper had checked. She gingerly took Jasper's hand and looked back down at her feet.
"I'm Lia." Lia's face was focused merely on her converse shoes, which weren't as interesting as they seemed. Jasper stopped shaking Lia's hand and began to shove shirts and pants into his backpack, he grabbed underwear, a book and his phone. Jasper decided to change into a decent white t-shirt that read 'A Taco Titan' and a grey hoodie over with some jeans. Jasper patted himself down and slung the backpack over his shoulders.
Making eye contact with Lia, they had a silent conversation and both walked out of Jasper's room. Jasper walked down the hall to see Laura and Tom already standing there, Laura looking frazzled, as if she couldn't believe it.
Jasper couldn't believe it either. But, if this was a practical joke, for once, he'd follow along, though at the bottom of his heart he felt a string tugging, as if inside he truly knew it wasn't a joke. When Jasper got to the mob in his house, the adults all nodded at each other, as if some kind of cult sign.
"Okay, you guys are all set?"
Jasper and Laura nodded together.
"What about you guys?" Laura asked, referring to their mother and father.
"We packed a couple of things in this – "Their mother patted a small backpack on their dad. "Little backpack."
"Do you guys by any chance have a car?" Jason gritted his teeth. "We flew in, so we made a bit of an assumption you had a car that could fit all of us."
That was a heavy assumption he had made.
Jasper's mother looked upset for a second but then she nodded. "Yeah, we have a car. It's actually a van, so it should be able to fit most of you. We might have to illegally fit some people in there but we don't really have time to spare."
"Alright." Piper, the pretty lady nodded. "Come on, let's go." She nodded to Lia and Tom, they picked up small bags that Jasper hadn't noticed before. Jasper and Laura were forced to leave their apartment a couple moments later, soon everyone was out the door in a tiny hallway. Jasper's dad fumbled with his keys and locked the door.
They all waited in front of the elevator for what seemed like hours, people began tapping feet and whistling. Finally, the elevator dinged and the doors opened only to reveal the elderly next door neighbor, Mr. Brittles. His name reminded Jasper of a cat name, which Jasper assumed the man had several cats.
"Good evening, Jackson's." He said, hobbling by. Jasper's parents waved and Jasper muttered a small hello. God, this was awkward. Once the man was out of the perimeters, all 8 people shoved themselves into the elevator and Jasper pressed the button to the parking lot. It was a quiet ride aside from the elevator music.
Once they finally got to P2, the second parking lot level, they all rushed out of the elevator and walked out into the parking lot. Jasper's dad rushed to the car first and started it up, his mother told everyone to keep their bags on and pushed the kids into the seats with seatbelts first. Jasper sat down and pulled a face at the uncomfortable feeling of the backpack behind him while sitting down. However, there wasn't time to think or adjust because Lia and Tom's parents shoved themselves into the middle of the seats and Jasper's mom sat in a front seat.
"Everyone good to go?" She shouted, craning her neck and trying to get a good head count. Everyone shouted a 'yep' in reply.
Jasper adjusted his glasses, he felt the car engine start beneath him, it let out a small rumble and they began driving away.
