~A.N.~
Hey, I'm back!
Ok, firstly, Gazzy is one of the many ways The Gasman's name is abbreviated; others include Gassy, Gasser, and The GM.
Secondly, I'll try and update sooner this time
Thirdly, I've been working to get my writing skills up enough to write longer chapters, this one is longer, not by a huge amount, but it is longer.
Fourth and hopefully finally... The Gods are kind of OOC, only with Max though, they don't know why they are like this, just that they are really over protective and caring of Max. Oh, and Max is only 14 or so in this, where as In Percy Jackson, they are shortly after the last book before the second series.
I lied, Fifth, Thank you: Teen Titans Forever Together, Ravenclaw667, awesome, guest, candycanelia, matt, and Geust11 for your reviews!
~Disclaimer~
I have been recently informed by my psychiatrist that I in fact do not own Maximum Ride, or Percy Jackson. At least not in this version of reality...
One minute Max was standing in the camp and being gawked at by everyone, the next the dude had invaded her personal space, grabbed her arm, and she was in a simply ridiculously enormous throne room.
And by giant, I mean the bottom half of the chairs alone were at least 20-25 feet high.
Max just sighed, really just accepting that her life couldn't get much weirder after everything that had happened to her by now.
"Maximum!" a number of the very colorful and oddly dressed people in said giant thrones thundered, roared, cheered, giggled, and even hissed at her. Most were cheerful, maybe some fear, worry and distaste, but overall warm and accepting.
"Ok," Max said just a wee bit freaked out by the larger than life greeting from the legit Gods. The following silence was incredibly awkward to put it lightly.
"So," Zeus began breaking the silence after about a minute or two. "Just about all of us undeniably knows you are our child, but none of us can seem to recall how, or who you were -er, conceived with." Zeus practically shouted with his booming voice while he looked very embarrassed of saying such a thing in front of the other gods, such as his scarily calm wife sitting next to him.
Max let out a sigh. "Let me guess," she started as she looked up at the many gods watching her. "12 of the 14 of you?" Max asked as clicked what was going on, with a steadily growing fear of how they could possibly want her as a daughter after they learned just what she was. They were gods, quite literally perfection, and she was a science project.
"Yes, exactly 12, only Demeter, and Persephone alone do not claim you." Athena said thoughtfully with slight wonder as to how her child had figured this out so easily and pride of her doing just that.
"Ok, so what does all this mean?" Max asked noticeably nervous despite her trying to hide it.
"This sort of thing has never happened before." Hermes admitted. "There are no records of such an event even being possible even." Hermes finished eager to contribute but with a gentle voice.
"Do you have any understanding of what exactly is going on here Maximum?" Artemis asked, out of the many gods/parental figures, Artemis was looking absolutely peeved about this situation, her and Hera.
"Unfortunately." Max mumbled as she slung her back pack off and pulled out the page she had read earlier just that day. Oh how this morning now feels like at least a life time away. "I'm essentially a test tube baby." Max reveled quietly, but with an unwavering voice that refused to be looked down on or pitied. "A being whose sole existence is to help further science." Max all but spit the last few words with noticeable disdain and hatred.
Athena, and the few other gods who knew what a test tube baby was, cringed noticeably. Athena looked absolutely livid, and ready to spit fire and terrorize a few towns, or countries... Among those who knew what was being talked about were Artemis, Apollo, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Persephone.
"What!" Screeched out Aphrodite, Hera, and Persephone, almost simultaneously and nearly all equally peeved.
"Would you care to elaborate for those of us who don't quite understand, Maximum?" Hades requested with growing dread feeling like he should know this already.
"Well a test tube baby is a baby that is designed, altered, engineered, and created in a lab. It is basically artificial life. Created by sick people, with no real purpose, and very sub-human rights." Max said with lots of sarcasm that was obviously being used to help her cope with all of this seeing as how she had just called herself subhuman, and said she had no purpose.
The color drained from the remaining gods' and goddesses' faces at the very idea of what their Maximum was describing and had already labeled her as being.
"Child, what is on the paper you hold?" Hera asked barely able to rein her righteous and dangerous temper to help her mortal daughter that had been so horribly wronged.
"Logs, the logs of the experiment and what they had done. It was called Experiment Godling." Max said with a roll of her eyes as she passed the paper to the nearest god to read.
The paper grew to a size legible to the god in his form, and Hermes read the lab reports. He quickly made copies after reading it for a second time. He then incinerated his copy and Max found the original back in her bag no worse for wear.
Just about every one of the gods had torn up, incinerated, or otherwise destroyed their copy of how Maximum Ride came into existence.
"This new experiment, what did they do to you there." Ares seethed already planning how he was going to destroy every last being involved in such impossibly inhumane treatment of his daughter.
"Well, I was the first subject, that I know of, for that experiment as well, that was successful at least. In that lab, they performed DNA recombination, or gene splicing. I am a recombinant humanoid life form." Max said as her voice got quieter and she looked down. Honestly, she was scared to be judged. For the first time since the betrayal of Jeb she had a parental figure who wanted to fight for her, hell, she had 12, and the other 2 Goddesses probably wanted to destroy the White coats just as much as her godly parents do.
"What did they add?" Hera asked in a soothing voice that only a loving mother could possibly have.
"Two percent." Max said as she looked up. "Two percent Anvin. Ninety eight percent human, and two percent bird." She finished looking only at Hera.
"And what kind of effects did the two percent have?" Hera asked Max kindly.
"Well, I'm stronger, and faster than any normal human. My body is designed similar to that of a bird's. My heart rate is higher, my body's temperature is lower, and my reaction time is much faster. I have a much higher metabolism and better senses." Max said all while looking at Hera. She then looked down and said "And I have wings..."
"May we see them Child?" Hera asked soothingly as the other gods were now watching their Maximum intently.
Max shifted nervously and gave a short nod before she tentatively began to unfurl her wings. When they had reached their full fifteen foot wingspan, Max looked up to search for any expressions of disgust or rejection from her new family. Max's wings were quite the sight, the looked like eagle or falcon wings with bits of other bird feathers scattered but only added to the beauty.
"They are beautiful." Artemis breathed, breaking the silence first.
"Simply magnificent." Zeus complemented recognizing many of the birds present in his daughters wings.
"You look like and angel." Apollo commented with a wide smile.
"Brilliant." Athena breathed out as she studied the wings from afar with pure fascination.
"They suit you perfectly." Hera encouraged as Max had begun to blush from these comments.
"Truly priceless beauty." Hades added in awe.
"Stunningly spectacular." Poseidon supplied with a small almost sad smile.
"Wonderful, absolutely stellar!" Hermes shouted cheerfully.
"Fearsome, and truly awe inspiring." Ares boomed with a wide proud smile.
"A true master piece." Hephaestus grinned and ran his hand through his hair.
"Mesmerizing perfection." Aphrodite mused with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"An intoxicating site to behold." Dionysus finished with a proud smile on his face.
Max was smiling very largely and blushing a lot more than she ever had before in her life. "Thanks, thank you all." She said with pure joy at being accepted by such, well, godly beings. She was feeling a little overwhelmed by all the compliments aimed at her; and normally she would be smirking, saying sarcastic things to make sure no one notices her blush, and other such Max like things to make sure no one notices her blush. But, right now she was just so excited that they had accepted her, hell, they even praised her just for what she was. That was more than she could have ever asked for.
"So," Demeter began. "What should be done with your child?" She asked all but her own daughter Persephone in a slightly teasing tone, but still welcoming and warm hearted.
"Well, I doubt any of us will willingly deny Maximum as our daughter, so we will have to share her." Hera said rather reluctantly knowing that she would gladly claim Max as her own in a heartbeat.
"And just what would that entail?" Hades growled out refusing to be short sticked again by his brothers, especially about something so important to him like his daughter.
"Equal time with Maximum, a month each, now how that time will be divided up we will have to figure out as we go." Zeus said surprisingly diplomatically.
"So Maximum will be changing cabins each month?" Apollo asked as he thought about the arrangements.
"That sounds rather reasonable, and for certain months like when Artemis has her month with Maximum, Maximum will most likely be spending time with her parent outside of camp." Athena elaborated on how she had understood the idea.
"Now hold on, Maximum, how do you feel about all of this?" Hera asked Max.
"Wow. I, I don't know what to say." Max said as she saw how the gods were practically fighting over her, (insert snort of derision) of all people. "Yes," Max blurted out excitedly. "I've never really had a family who wanted me. So, Yes!" Max said as a joyous smile broke over her face.
She had a true family now. One that she would gladly defend and that would defend her.
~A.N.~
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