Hey guys! It's been a while still unsure where this is going, but hopefully we'll find out soon. Quick note, this isn't Betaed. I'm looking for a Beta so if anyone wants to volunteer, just pm me. Also if you're going to be my Beta I will need you to heckle me into writing a new chapter or else I'll just forget.
When Percy woke the next day, he checked to see if he was still young with a grin. All his plans would go to waste if he was sent back to the future before he could do anything. Firstly, he needed to ask his mother if she could get him some books on the ocean. It's better to start his plans early to build a base for them. Now that he thought about it, should he inform his mother? It's probably better not he didn't need to worry her in any way, plus he didn't want to rob her of watching her child grow up.
"Percy! Breakfast is ready honey" His mother called. Speak of the Devil.
"I'm coming, mom!" He yelled back.
He quickly got dressed and ran to the Kitchen. When he reached the kitchen he couldn't help but take a quick intake of breath, smiling down at him was his mother, Sally Jackson. It wasn't until he got older that he really treasured the, rather short, moment he could see her. Tears welled up in his eyes, she looked so young.
"Mom!" he yelled as he ran up to her and hugged her tears threatening to fall. Thalia was right he really was a momma's boy.
"Oh, baby are you alright? Did you have a bad dream?" Sally hugged him back and rubbed his back soothingly.
He didn't answer he just hugged her tighter. He hadn't realized it when he was older, but he must have caused her a lot of stress. She just looked so much younger right now and he wouldn't fool himself into thinking that in a little over ten years she'd aged that much. Even before he'd gotten introduced to the magical world he'd worried her so much.
He silently vowed that he would change that soon. There were tons of ways he could make money; just easing her financial stress would be a good start. It might take some time, but he could definitely do it.
With that thought, his motivation to get started was redoubled.
He silently let go of his mother and got started on getting the tables set up to his mothers surprise. She smiled encouragingly at him and went to get the plates. They ate silently, but none of them seem to mind.
"Mom, could I get a few books at the library later today?" he asked as they were finishing up.
"Not that I mind, but why the sudden change? I though you disliked books?" she questioned curiously.
"I-I had a bad dream about a scary woman who took you away because I didn't know a lot of stuff" he stuttered embarrassedly. "I know it wasn't real, but I wanted a few books to read y'know just in case?"
"Of course honey, how about I drop you off on my way to work? I'll visit you on my breaks and if you're too bored I could just walk you home." She didn't ask more about his dream, but gave him a smile of understanding
"Thanks." He replied
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Percy sighed for the nth time that day. Although his plan was moving along nicely, he hadn't realized how bored he would be before things really got exciting. He couldn't help it though; he had to build a proper foundation. Even the smartest prodigies couldn't learn everything in a day that would be far too suspicious. Once in a while he would go to the librarian and ask if he had done a problem right. Apparently the library had a summer learning program in which they taught children things they might learn in the next school year, he had gotten his mother to sign him up for it.
The only problem was it was far too easy. He was trying his best to hint to the librarian that he was a bit faster at learning then the other children, but the librarian assigned for this group didn't seem to care. It could possibly be because she seemed to be a student and instead going out to have fun she was stuck here watching kids for a summer job. This might be a lot harder than he imagined. He sighed again.
"If you don't want to be here kid you could go to the park!" the librarian snapped.
"Amy! Don't yell at the children! Now what's go you so annoyed." An older lady said as she came out the back room.
"I just don't wanna be here, mom. Especially when I could be somewhere else on such a nice day, and this stupid kid keep making I worse and sighing so loudly every second" the girl, Amy apparently replied with a huff.
"Excuse me for giving you a chance to make some money for your own. I already told you, I won't keep lending you money for every little thing. Besides maybe you could check with the child and see what they want instead of yelling at them." Her mother replied.
"Whatever, I'm going on my break you could do it if you want" she said walking out the door muttering under her breath.
"Hi, sweetie I'm Linda, what can I do for ya?" the lady, Linda smiled sweetly as she approached him.
She had a dark brown hair tied in a messy bun. This contrasted greatly with her daughter Amy who had blonde curly hair, in fact if it wasn't for the fact their eyes were so similar a grayish blue, it would be oo hard to equate them as a mother and daughter.
"Oh you're already finished I see, well why didn't you just say so? We get a lot of smart cookies who know their stuff around here. Why just yesterday…" She chattered on and Percy stopped paying attention when she handed him another sheet.
This was his chance! Percy picked up his pencil and quickly wrote down he answer in a quick and steady pace.
"Wow! You're really good at this aren't you? How about I get something more difficult? Follow me please if you would so we don' disturb the other children." Linda said.
Percy followed her into an office on the back. Was it really that easy?
"Now take a seat, I'll be right with you in a moment I just got to find where I placed those dang papers" She said as she rummaged through her drawers.
"oh, there they are." She said picking up a stack of papers.
The hopeful look on Percy's face died as he saw the first page. It was more addition and subtraction sheets and his time it was a even bigger stack than all of the ones the other kids combined. He steeled himself for some more mind numbing work.
"I could tell you already have a good grasp on the basics of adding and subtracting so let's just skip the first page" Linda smiled lightly at him knowingly as she turned the page. Was he really that bad at hiding his emotions?
"Now dear, after Adding and subtracting comes multiplication and division. We'll start on the basics of multiplication first and see where we go from there. So look here…" she started.
A few hours later His mother visited. Linda had taken her to the back room and they had a chat on who knows what, but he was guessing by the proud smile Sally had given him it might be about him.
Later that day he and his mother headed home. He really had gone rough things really quickly, but he couldn't help himself. Linda had explained everything so perfectly and he guessed she might have had some experience in pushing children to their full potential, because she seemed to know when he wasn't really trying so he couldn't really hold back as much as he liked.
"So I hear my little man is on his way to becoming a real math genius? Where did this come from?" his mother asked teasingly, the happy smile gave her away though.
"I don't know, I think it could be because of Linda she really helped me focus" and she actually had, his ADHD was a lot harder to control within his younger body, he found himself getting distracted a lot more.
"That's great Percy. You know I think she believes you could really do some great things, and I'm inclined to agree. She suggested Thompson School for Gifted Children, she says she knows the principal and that she could get you enrolled if you feel up to it?" Sally asked with a hopeful smile. While going to a school for gifted children was not exactly what he had in mind he really couldn't turn down his mother. He nodded smiling back at her.
"Great, now the school is a bit expensive, she mentioned that there are full scholarship applications for the summer, but they require you to be strong academically and play a major role in a school sport or activity. While that's not super important for the younger kids, they have to at least show they have potential in that sport or activity. I think that you could do well on the swim team perhaps?" Sally suggested.
Percy almost burst out laughing at his mother's not so subtle suggestion. She must really want him to go o this school. Well if he was going to go to this school he definitely was going to try and make easier on his mother financial situation.
"OK" he said nodding.
"Perfect, sadly it is a boarding school so you won't be able to see me much, but I could visit on the weekends if you're feeling homesick" she smiled.
"Linda said she'd pick you up next week to show you around if you agreed. You also might have to do some tutoring to catch up to the other children. I heard that most children are at least one grade ahead. They're one of the top schools in the world, well at least that's what she mentioned." Sally explained.
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Linda went and picked him up the following week, she showed him around the school. They even got started on some tutoring sessions. Apparently Linda was a teacher here so she was very familiar with the layout. She told him that with the speed they were going he might overtake some of the students.
Thompson didn't have a specific age or grade for a class and they taught based on what you were learning. So if a student learned at a quicker pace then they could learn on their own time and challenge a class to skip to the next level. The minimum grade to be allowed to proceed to the next level after challenging it was an 85 percent. So there was a orderly chaos for as some student could be great at one subject and average in another. So there were a few students doing three levels higher in one subject and maybe one or two level higher in all others.
Percy thought that it was all too confusing. He planned to just have everything at the same level.
A few weeks later Percy had already caught up to the other students and was steadily overtaking some. It took a bit longer because he was not focused on just one subject. He was now officially a grade three student all around. Technically he did already overtake all the other students, but many were two or three grades ahead in one subject they were most gifted at.
He hoped to set himself apart from the rest and in a few years finish all of Elementary and High school level classes. He really wanted to do that this year but was afraid it might draw too much attention to him.
Well he settled on exploring his powers for the time being. There were a lot of experiments he couldn't try for fear of having himself killed in his sleep because he used too much power and exhausted himself.
He was really excited to try out his Earth manipulating abilities. His water manipulation skills came to him as easy as breathing. That was mostly due to the fact that the ocean was Poseidon's main domain while Earth shaker was a secondary thing. Another thing was also due o the fact that the earth domain was shared by a few other deities. That was why children of Hades had better talent in controlling earth than Poseidon's children, since Hades had major control over the earth domain.
He might never have Geokinesis as good as a child of Hades, but on the other hand his destructive capabilities with the earth would far surpass them.
The first thing he needed to do though was get to creating something he called a domain. It helped in controlling his powers better and it could make it so that only he could control a specific piece of land or water.
The trick was to "charge" a piece of land or water by putting some of his power into it. After continuously doing so in a specific way so the power didn't just leak out and dissipate, he could make it so he had his own little domain where his powers where easier to control. He only ever used it on water so he wasn't even sure if it would work with the earth. He would get to testing that later too.
He learned from his father that most Elder Olympian gods with a tangible domain did the same with their actual domains. Well really it was only Poseidon, Hestia and Hades. Zeus had somewhat started, but got bored soon after and stopped. That might also explain the reason everything to do with the domain of the sky was chaotic. Especially since the last person to have done so was Uranus and the only person who could erase his signature with somewhat ease was Zeus so the minor gods of the sky had a lot of trouble controlling he domain.
Also since Zeus hadn't taught he trick to erase he old and create add their own signature they were just pumping as much power into a part of the domain and dissipating some of Uranus' old signature, but since Uranus was a Primordial it would take years before a simple minor god could erase some of his signature with that method.
Poseidon didn't teach any of the minor sea gods either, but since he himself maintained a steady amount of power onto the sea himself, the minor gods didn't need to since he wasn't going to obstruct their control over the sea. It was a good way to enforce the laws of the sea too. Those that broke laws found that their control over the sea diminished by a lot and that being in the sea was more stifling than it's usual comfortable.
Percy sighed loudly. It was the day before the start of school and he'd accidentally sped right to the seventh grade material. At the rate he was going he was probably going to be finished the high school graduate level by the end of the school year. That might be a problem, but there was really nothing he could do about it. Well he'd face it when or if it came.