"So, where did my brothers meet you?" Hazel asked leading the way to the attic. Troy followed keeping his eyes down. " Ummm, dumpster," he explained, focusing profusely on not tripping.
"Dumpster, really?" Hazel laughed smiling as she pushed open the door to the bedroom. She walked over to her bed and sat down, pulling her hair up with an elastic she always kept on her wrist.
"Really, one of my dick friends threw my 3DS into a dumpster, speaking of I need to prank them back for that," he explained trailing off at the end as he spotted a painting. It showcased a beautiful scene of the ocean, art of the shot was above water and it saw dolphins jumping up the top. Troy's favorite part was the part under the water, showing schools of fish and seals swimming around.
It sent a quick pang through his heart and he looked away. Hazel noticed his gaze and smiled " Isn't it pretty?" she asked leaning back against the wall and sighing.
"Ummm, yeah, do you know who made it?" he asked awkwardly, starting to play with his necklace. "I made it." Hazel beamed, her smile lighting up the room. "Really? Well, it's really good."
"Thanks, god this is awkward isn't it, Twizzler?" Troy turned and looked at her questioningly "Huh?"
"Twizzler. Do you want one?" she explained while waving around a pack of extra long Twizzlers. "Sure? I've never had one," he replied, taking one quickly. He bit into it and immediately cringed "Tastes like strawberry flavored plastic." he groaned swallowing quickly.
"Really? I love Twizzlers, I guess you must be part of the minority who hates them. Troy looked over incredulously "How could anyone like that shit?" Hazel laughed and smiled shaking her head " I don't know, people just have different taste's I guess." she wrapped her arms around her knees and smiled at him.
"So why are you wearing glasses indoors?" Troy paused before setting the remains of the Twizzler on the bed. "Eye problems, my eyes are super sensitive, it's rather quite annoying." he lied quickly, a light almost brownish blush spreading across his skin. He assured himself it was partly true when he didn't wear the glasses everything was too sharp, too much information pouring into his mind.
"Shut up!" he heard Nico say. He turned to the door and watched as Percy and Nico walked in, Percy grinning like an idiot and punching Nico lightly. Nico was red and was currently glaring at the object of his anger.
"We're tied now!" Percy sang before collapsing on his cot with a groan. " I am a granny, respect your elders my children, respect them." he deadpanned before throwing his arm over his eyes. Nico grinned and jumped on Percy wrestler style, Percy let out a slightly girly shriek. Nico stood up and walked to his bed and smirked over at Percy "Technically I'm your elder, same with Hazel." Percy rubbed his stomach angrily and growled at Nico playfully. Hazel laughed and said, " Down doggy!"
"Technically, physically I'm older than any of you," Troy said smiling lightly. Percy looked over and looked confused for a second before saying " Oh yeah! You said your twenty, what's up with that dude?"
Hazel looked over and blushed "Your twenty? Wow, you seemed . . . much younger." she trailed off awkwardly. Troy nodded, noticing the blush on Hazel's face and decided to ignore it, he was absolutely done with girls, at least for now. Hazel wasn't even his type.
"Twenty, except my birthday is on leap year so technically I'm, well you do the math."
Nico frowned "Wait, your eighty?!" he exclaimed, staring at the fairly young boy in front of him, twenty he could understand but eighty?
Troy nodded and leaned back against the wall, he said in the most grannies voice ever "So you need to respect me, youngins." Percy burst out laughing and fell off the bed, he landed on his tailbone and let out another sharp cry.
Hazel looked confused and scared "B-But how?" she asked. Troy looked over and rose his eyebrows over his glasses "You did know I was supernatural right?" he asked confused.
"How could I?" she shrieked throwing a pillow at him, his hand immediately flinched up and caught it. He studied it before putting it behind his back.
"Umm, your brothers?" he explained, hiking a thumb at the boys, they looked over sheepishly "I mean you guys have phones right?" Nico crawled under a blanket to hide his red face "We do. In fact, we usually text when it comes to important stuff." she growled her eyed flashing murderously.
"Sorry guys, but I guess you have to deal with angry Hazel." Troy apologized trying to control the large grin that threatened to split his face.
"Nah, it's cool man, just can you say something at my funeral?" Percy asked half-jokingly. Troy placed his hand over his heart and said solemnly " Percy Jackson, was a great man, I only knew him for a few hours but I could tell he was the diamond in the rough. He stopped to help a random stranger find his DS even if said stranger was covered in crap and banana peelings. He invited me to hang out with him even if people would normally walk away in disgust."
Percy kept a straight face for exactly five seconds before doubling over with laughter. " Thanks, Troy, such nice words." he wheezed. Nico was smirking before he pushed Percy off the bed, smiling when Percy cried out for the second time that day. "I'm done here." he deadpanned before dusting imaginary dust off his pants and striding away out the door. Percy let out an offended squawk and followed him all while glaring.
"Wow." Troy mouthed before stretching his body, he sighed as he felt his joints pop and he crumbled into a heap. "My body hurts soo much," he whined, talking to the ceiling.
"Well, maybe it hurts because of your eighty years old weirdo," Hazel asked munching on candy that she seemingly seemed to pull out of thin air, staring at the painting she had brought to Troy's attention earlier.
"Nah, it's the fact I haven't changed shape in over a year, damn I've never gone this long, but Poseidon has been acting like such a worrywart that the seas aren't safe," Troy explained shucking off his hood, Hazel expected him to toss it aside, but instead he cradled it, making sure it never left his fingertips left it's furry surface.
"What's the deal with your outfit, and what do you mean changed shape?" Hazel asked, throwing candies at his head with amazing accuracy. Troy looked over and smiled, Hazel shuddered, it was so freaky to not be able to see someone's eyes. "Let's wait for the fantastic duo," he said while smiling.
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"Are you done!?" Hazel huffed glaring angrily at her supposed brothers 'There, not my real brothers thank the gods.'
"Almost," Percy said holding a hand up "Nico I'm obviously so much better than you and overall my fighting skills or more refined, and girls like surfer boys better than goth kids."He smiled and turned to Hazel and Troy who were glaring at him. "Now I'm ready."
Nico opened his mouth and started to protest with an "It's called a bad-" before having Percy's tanned hand pushed against his lips. "So rude, can't you see Troy and Hazel are trying to talk, have some manners!" Nico glared before biting Percy's hand. Percy yelped and pulled his hand closer to his chest, cradling it as he stomped on Nico's foot, hard.
"No! Deorum, you fight like little brats! Always squabbling, if you don't want to hear my story then I will leave!" Troy shouted, he felt his eyes burn but he kept his sunglasses on for now.
They all just stared at him, eyes wide, mouths open. "May I continue, ya royal brats?" he asked sarcastically, he smiled when they nodded.
"Okay, There was a God, the great I am. Ruler of the Heavens, creator of the universe. He created everything we see in seven of his days. However time and time again his chosen people would rebel, turning to their idols and fake deities, finally, God fed up said: "If you want these "gods" they have them! Any Idol believed in enough will become real, and until the second coming of my son any who die believing in their name will stay in their realm of the dead. No matter how much pain they are in.
God then set up regulators, angels who were meant to regulate the in-between between worlds, realms. Their names were Etienne: The Lord is My God, Abbadon: Ruler of the Abyss and partner to Etienne, Abigal: my father is joy,Abijah: my father is the one true God,Abner: My father is light, Abital: my father is the night dew, and Bethel:House of God.
Etienne and Abbadon were set up to regulate and rule over the dead/afterlife, despair, and every negative emotion or sinful notion. Abigal was set up to regulate the joy and happiness. Abijah was set up to make sure that the realms would not come too close in contact. Abner was set up to regulate the light and sun around the realms. Abital was set up to regulate water and ice, and gasses. Bethel was set up to make sure that all gods and deities of all kind knew and acknowledge they were just pawns and not true gods."
Troy took a huge breath before continuing " The very first idol was the goddess of the Acheulian's, the goddess was named The Great Mother, and she became the one who taught the early gods who they were. However, some of these gods such as Odin,Ra, and Takamagahara refused to pass this knowledge down to the other 'gods' so the next few gods actually thought they were gods, however, they were taught to fear the names of the holy angels. The Great Mother faded away lonely and sad since she was no longer believed in and therefore, no longer fueled by the love and faith that powers 'gods'."
He finished and watched the expressions on his new group of friends. They ranged from shock, confusion, anger, and acceptance.
"So you're telling me there are millions of gods out there, and there like these super-powered enforcers," Percy air quoted "that control and enforce the law? What the fuck!?" He exclaimed, his voice filled with anger.
Hazel just shrugged and smiled "It can't get any weirder, my mind literally can't comprehend how weird this has gotten, so I don't give a fuck." she whistled happily before pulling out a case of Dots.
"So where do you fit into this? I mean you're obviously aware of other gods but you're not Greek or Roman . . . I guess." Nico asked trailing off and frowning as he thought to himself.
Troy laughed and explained "I'm a Selkie, an Irish one to be exact, and of course I know of these things. Most nature spirits and minor gods know because they have gotten a little too cocky."
Hazel pulled out a laptop and tapped in a few words she looked up confused. "But it says here that you can't turn into a seal without your skin, and if it's stolen you'll die."
Troy wordlessly held up his outfit "Are you really that dumb, just look." he snarked. Nico, Hazel, and Percy leaned in. They then noticed the coat suspiciously looked like seal fur, his necklace was seal teeth, and he was wearing shoes that were a light brown with speckles.
"That's your skin?" Hazel asked her face a mint green as she stared at horror at the outfit.
"Well yeah, I figured out a while ago that lugging around a seal skin, uh my skin," he shuddered "god I just realized how gross this is, I'm wearing a skinned version of myself." he muttered trailing off.
"Anyway," Nico said rolling his hand in the go on gesture. Troy nodded and continued "Well carrying around a skin is really annoying, like really, so I made this!" he boasted happily " I have to keep it close, though, but it allows me to be able to turn into a seal when I hit salt water, also it minimises all that body fat."
They just stared at him in less than ten minutes their world had just expanded and gotten a whole lot weirder.
"Damn."
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Wow Wow Wow, a double update!
Troy is just a wee little, (HOT,BUFF, CUTE) nature spirit. So he doesn't really have any powers, he's like the water downed Percy or the slightly improved Annabeth. (So Immortality is worthless?)
Funny thing is I had that explanation written out for another story, and I thought "Well fuck I have so many stories this ain't gonna fly!" But that is my head cannon, my ability to have Rin (In Gods x Demons) say he is the more powerful religion. (Shameless Self Advertisement: I got the first chappie updated for Gods x Demons, so much better I do say myself!)
'Cause Uncle Rick did say that the gods are fueled by human belief and follow around advancement, so if there just fueled by human belief who made them? Why GOD of course! :)
I feel like that got way too deep so fast, oh well had to be done, because one dude said he didn't like seeing people get overpowered for no apparent reason, I have to agree, so Percy is going to be 'blessed' by a lot of gods, and learn some new fighting styles, so time skip is gonna be soon.
Now for Responses to Reviews!
From: Scoldinggiraffe
This is very interesting and definitely more original and much better than the other stories I've seen. I hope you continue, because this is a really good story. I also hope you don't abandon it because of lack of support, as I've seen countless stories abandoned because of it. Anyways, keep being awesome like you are. Ciao!
Why Thank You! I do not plan to drop this, and I do have a weird mind so I purposely made it so if I get bored with one thing I can drop it and add a new element easily. Once again thanks! -Throws Hazel's candy stash- Have some candy! (Love your user btw!)
Guest:
:I don't really like stories where Percy gets unreasonably strong powers , but you'll probably make it work as I've seen some people do before.
Well thanks! Glad to see that I can pull off something well ad I hope I live up to your standards! -Looks at empty candy bowl- Uh -sneaks over to Scoldinggiraffe and steals some candy- Here enjoy some candy too!
Reyna: Please Review and Follow, Hey Jay why does Hazel have so many hidden stashes?
Jay: Well I was reading Raina Telgemeier's adaptation to The Babysitters Club ( Claudia and Mean Janine) Claudia always has so much candy and never gets fat! I wanted to add that in for Hazel.
Reyna: What a well thought out responese.
Jay: Thank You!