Summary: You know when life gets you down remember that you aren't a child of one of the most powerful gods in all of the Greek mythology, you aren't being hunted down by monsters and gods, and everyone isn't pining after your twin brother, Percy Jackson. Welcome to my life, fate's favorite chew toy Morally ambiguous! OFC! Twin! Other pantheons included
Disclaimer: I do not own anything any part of the PJO franchise
A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates, been a bit busy! Happy holidays to everyone! I have the next chapter pretty much written, so that should be out by next week, sorry again, this chapters really short.
I can lead with pride, I can make us strong
I'll be satisfied if I play along
But the voice inside sings a different song
What is wrong with me?
-"How Far I'll Go" by Auli'i Cravalho
Like most people who have the maturity and mind of an adult and casually find themselves in the body of a baby, it was utterly boring.
There wasn't much to do other than sleep, eat, and cry and seeing as how most teenagers already did that on a daily basis, being a baby wasn't anything special at least in Ana's viewpoint. Sure she had loads of time and could sleep for how long she wanted, but it was rather dull.
The only exception to the breakable baby stereotype was, low and behold, the one and only Perseus Jackson.
The number of times he would knock into doors, fall down, and get a random bruise from who knows where was actually insane, yet he never cried or made a big deal about it. At first one may think she had thought that as half-bloods they were built stronger than other mortals making it harder to significant injury or harm them. What she found was that it true to an extent though they were still squishy little mounds of flesh and just because skin and bones were stronger than other babies, pain tolerance was still shit. Especially when it came to teething, the most painful experience she'd had gone through. Yet, like always, her brother seemed unaffected, the lucky bastard.
Besides teething and watching the little sea boy of energy there really wasn't much to do. 'Course that being said, it didn't mean she wasn't doing something productive with her time. From what Ana knew everything major and the important parts would all happen in just a little over a decade from now, at least in the canon.
Hopefully recalling correctly, Percy would be 12 when he first found out about his godly parenthood and begins the path to save Olympus. It also meant the master bolt would be stolen as well. And in under 8 years from now, Thalia would be turned into the tree, (as it was 5 years before the first book started meaning age 7 or 8). Though she didn't know how helpful this could be nor if there was anything she could do about it. It wasn't like she could come across the traveling demigods on their way to camp and say, 'oh here's some supplies and oh don't worry I'll see you all again when I'm 12 except for you Thalia, you'll be a tree lol. And Luke will go crazy'. There was no doubt in her mind she'd be electrocuted in a heartbeat.
But then again, how accurate would any of this be now? Her simply being there has already made a butterfly flap their wings and change things. As cliche as it sounded, she's already changed Percy from his canon character. Before he didn't have a sibling, another who would go through and learn their powers, be by his side from the beginning to end, but now there she was. The two would grow up with together, sleep, eat, and bathe together. She was bound to affect his personality and future actions. Which ultimately left her with few choices.
One, she, of course, could do her best to follow canon, allow her mother to marry a disgusting abuser just to protect and hide them, her children, as well as letting Percy deal with the weight of the world on his shoulders just when he hits puberty. Perhaps if Ana had been reborn in a world where she wasn't connected to the main character such as Bleach or had been born simply normal like a muggle in Harry Potter she had no doubt she would've stayed away. Although she could've been worse off, she might've been born as Naruto's twin sister or been born in a world with no tv, wifi, or plumbing, hell it could've been Game of Thrones or horrifyingly Twilight.
If she hadn't been born the fucking twin sister of the main character, Ana wouldn't have known she was in a so-called fictional world. Most likely she'd assume there was a glitch in wiping her memories and leave it at that. Fortunately or unfortunately to her, that didn't happen. Instead, she had to make a change, a choice, since there was no running away to a small little village and camp out till the canon finishes.
So that left her with a second option, train, become a hero, protect her family, and rip destiny and the canon a new one. In the end, she supposed it was a no-brainer, she'd have to change the original story. The next issue she faced was how?
There were so many variables and events that could change and might be better off if they never happened like Thalia turning into a tree or Luke noting pulling an Anakin and going to the dark side. However, if somehow she stopped Thalia from turning into a tree she might never join the hunters and taken over Zoë's position as Artemis's second in command. But then who's to say Zoë would even die now? And then if Thalia doesn't go all tree, Luke probably wouldn't have fallen into the clutches of Kronos, but if that's the case who would Kronos then take instead?
And don't get her started on wrapping her head around the fanfiction where Annabeth took Lukes place. Where instead of killing a friend, Percy killed his girlfriend. Or the ones where Percy joins Kronos and let Olympus be razed to the ground. Anyone and everyone could fall prey to the Titan, and at least sticking to canon till they turned 12, she knew who would betray camp. But was it worth it?
Kronos rising from Tartarus was bound to happen, sooner or later he would try to take over the world and Percy would have to take care of him, even at the expense of emotional trauma over killing Luke. It was a safe bet that the Big Prophecy won't be too different even if she was born, Percy was meant to be the Chosen One, wasn't he?
Again there were too many possibilities and routes that could happen in the future just from the tiniest of things. What if she decided to open the door for someone outside a Denny's and next thing you know Artemis is married to Percy, Annabeth is dead, the Strolls have become the masterminds of the universe, and someone decided to create a third Mean Girls movie to make a trilogy. There were too many what ifs and most of them were worst cases scenarios.
It had taken almost 3 months to come up with a decent but logical plan. Course there were flaws, and it would be tweaked as time went on and if things ended up changing, she still had a backup plan. Her plan was strong though, and pretty straightforward.
It was simple, fuck the canon up.
Yeah, she already knew she'd regret the plan. She did remember all the fanfiction where characters and OC's have tried to change the biggest events in canon and it's blown up in their face or changed things so much that they no longer know what's happening. And while it did weigh on her with the realization that someone could die because she fucked something up, she also had to do something to prepare for her and her family's future.
Obviously, she knew damn well that Percy was a male Mary-Sue. He was outrageously good with his powers and a prodigy at sword fighting, being able to take out fury and the Minotaur without any formal training. The child of one of the Big Three, incredible at everything he did, and a completely unpredictable pain in the ass. Honestly, all the children of the Big Three were pains.
But Ana wasn't Percy.
She couldn't risk the chance that just knowing how to swing a sword or avoid death. She might be the main character's sister, but that's where her plot armor ended.
And she wasn't going to take any chances on her family's survival either. Ana was an unknown and because of that had to be prepared for whatever comes her way. Which meant she had to grow stronger.
Already she had laid out a plan for the next decade, train and befriend as many half-bloods and gods as possible. Once she could walk on her own, she'd try some form of karate or self-defense class perhaps even gymnastics as flexibility would come in handy (perhaps even dragging Percy in on it as well). Maybe even try to enroll in a kendo class, true it was definitely a different type of fighting then the Greeks and Romans used, it would still get her partially prepared. Lastly, she planned on doing as much research on mythologies as possible, Greek or not.
It was common knowledge that the Roman Pantheon and Norse pantheon existed in this world and while Rick Riordan never confirmed that the other books he wrote involving the Egyptian pantheon she couldn't simply leave them out just in case. Though she recalled a line from Chiron mentioning that the big man upstairs himself existed too.
Along with learning the basics of self-defense and researching, she'd see about nabbing some killer weapons off of daddy dearest. Ana knew that Gabe would be able to cover Percy's smell from monsters, but she was sure as hell won't be letting Sally nor Percy near that man. She'd rather walk through Tartarus then let that man even come into their lives, if she even caught a whiff of the man, she'd kill him. Sure it was taking her chances, and it would completely mess up the future but if there was one thing that stood out to her about the walrus of the man was the fact he had not only hit her mom but her brother as well actions that she would never ever forgive.
From that, it left her with coming up with some sort of plan to keep them all safe and alive without going to Camp Half-Blood.
Of course, it wasn't as if she didn't want to visit camp one day, but that day wasn't going to be anytime soon. She was living in New York, granted not the greatest parts of New York, but it was New York nonetheless. There was so much you could do in New York, there was fashion, musicals, theatre, a world of creativity, and history. Yes there would be more monsters and it was definitely dangerous on both the mortal side and the supernatural godly side but she was going to use it to her advantage.
An idea came to her what if she could kill a monster or get the dust from one that was disintegrated, douse herself, her family, and home in the remains of the monster. If the theories were correct, it would counter the half-blood smell and either make it void or make them smell like monsters, either would be good in any case. She'd also wager that there were also half-bloods in New York if there were monsters. Half-bloods that could be befriended and gain as allies for her grand plan which was, hopefully, make a safe house in Manhattan for half-bloods on their journey either to camp or on quests.
There was a lot that could go wrong and in all honesty, she knew might not even happen but it was worth a shot. Ana came to the realization that they needed allies, god and half-blood alike, and she couldn't just rely on the idea that being the main character would make either likable. In the original storyline Percy's life was literally voted on by the gods and while she didn't know if it had a close call or not she'd manipulate the living death out of the story so either that situation never is brought up or there's so much opposition from allies there wouldn't even be a chance of a vote.
Yes she was going to influence others and make children fight, and yes deep down she knew some would die but if it meant her family was safe then she was willing to do what it took. It's cruel and she swore to try her best to keep everyone alive, but realistically not everyone will live and that's okay, as long as Percy and Sally lived it's fine everything would be alright.
In the end, she would need to let both Percy and her mom in on the plan sooner or later at the very least.
Which ultimately could and would endanger everyone even more so than they already were there were risks. She knew that there are always risks in being a child of the Big Three, being a Half-Blood even there would be risks. It was a dangerous decision and she gave neither in her family a choice. Her mother wouldn't really be that proud although if she wanted the future that was planned to come to fruition Ana would need her family in on it. Admittedly the whole situation was so very dangerous, considering that if a half-blood found out their parentage, it attracted monsters and basically gave one a death wish. Though to give Percy a happy childhood one to be proud of and look back on with happy memories, not what was in store if she let everything the canon had happened, things needed to change.
It would be a lot of work in such a short time though it'll be worth it if she could protect her family and be prepared for the future ahead of them. She prayed to every god, goddess, deity, and even Cthulhu. But little did she realize, that Fate, while supportive of some of her changes, would not be on her side, something Atalanta learned the hard way.
Edited/Revised: 6/13/2019
