DISCLAIMER : Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordan.

4. Triton (part 1)

"There is no way that child can be normal." A man said loudly to his friends watching the strange child struggling against his friend's grip.

"Perhaps he's a monster." A woman said with a disgust look on her face.

"Probably. Let's go throw him where he belongs." The first man smirked cruelly expecting the young weird child to die.

His friends nodded. They didn't think that the child was normal, the boy didn't even look like a human being. The group went to the cliff, they looked down to the child who was panicked at that moment. The first man took the child and threw him in the sea.

His eyes widened as he fell quickly straight to the sea. Why people were so cruel with him ? He wanted to have friends. The young child closed his eyes preparing himself to his death. But at his own surprise, it didn't hurt at all. And he wasn't drowning. He never learned to swim so it was weird. The young child noticed a another thing he was breathing underwater. What the fuck was it going on ? He thought bitterly. What secrets his mother kept from him ?

Perseus Jackson or Percy for short was living a few months ago with his mother and his stepfather Paul. His mother was so much strict, he wasn't allowed to go to the pool or the beach. He never had the right to ask why his appearance was so different. Then when he persisted to get answers, by anger his mother told him he wasn't a human but a monster. At that moment, Percy ran away ignoring Paul's screams to come back. It was months ago. He met so much mean people. But also he was surprised to find some nice people.

'Where am I ?' He asked to himself as he looked around. 'I should never come back to the land. Too dangerous for me. Maybe I should… '

The young teen began to swim around. He explored the place where he was, he found an abandoned ship which led to a cave. The young man decided to live by himself in the strange place.


Triton was furious. Not against his father despite him having a new demigod. He was furious against his mother. She was so awful. She believed to know everything. But no ! Triton had his own secrets. The god sighed as he walked out of his palace with his guards. Triton got saluted by people who saw him, he waved back to them. As he walked, he heard people talking about some rumors.

"I heard that there is a child living near the man's land."

Triton's eyebrow raised naturally. Who let his child living by himself ?

"I heard that the child has some human features. But he seemed to be like us."

It… was weird. Triton exchanged a glance with one of his best guards asking silently to investigate on the matter. Perhaps he will get some answers.


Percy was hungry. He hadn't eat for two days now. His stomach growled again and his sighed. He went on the land to get food because he couldn't get any food down there. He didn't know a thing about living underwater. People hurt him when they saw him, they heard rumors about a monster child that was him. Percy tried his best to ignore them. Percy succeeded to escape them, he returned to his new home with a lot of food. Thanks to his new powers, food wasn't destroyed by water.

'It's so lonely.' He thought as he watched the landscape. 'But I'm too scared to go further.'

Percy frowned. He sworn to have seen something moving. He shook his head as he laid down on his 'bed'. The child – in merpeople's years – closed his eyes letting his own powers protect him from everything. He never saw the stunned look of a woman, not the incredulous look of man, not hear the gasps from both of them.

"We need to report to Lord Triton." The woman said to her mate who nodded still surprised.

"A mere child living there by himself.." He sighed rubbing his neck.

Then they swam to Triton's palace to report him about what they knew.


Triton was swimming far away from his palace, from Atlantis. Two guards and the two people who found the child were following him. He stopped. He felt powers and unfamiliar presence, was it the child ? He glanced at the two guards and the couple, they nodded as they stayed put. No one said something as the Prince, and King of his Realm, swam to the abandoned ship. He entered rather quickly, he found the young child laying down on his 'bed'.

'No… How ? This woman… How dared she to hide my child from me ? What happened to him ?' Triton thought furious.

The water reacted immediately at his angriness. He approached slowly the young child, he kneeled and watched the young child, his son. He smiled. He was definitely beautiful. A perfect combination between his people and a human.

Percy opened his eyes slowly. He felt so hungry, he hadn't eat the last night because he wanted to keep food a little longer. He began to sit down on the rock, his bed, them he noticed the stranger in front of him and froze. He had dark hair with purple eyes, he wore luxury clothes and a crown on his head. The stranger chuckled, Percy stepped back.

"Don't be afraid of me young child."

His presence was so strong so powerful… so warm.

"People talked about you. I got curious. Here I am. I never thought that your mother will hide your existence from me." The stranger continued as he upped.

"Wh.. What ?" Percy stuttered shyly and terrified.

"You're a demigod, son of a mortal and a God. But your case is even more special because you belong too to the race of Merpeople. Each child with Merpeople's blood need to be rise in Atlantis. I will take you there. You'll not live with one of my people but with me."

Percy was dumbfounded. What was going on ? He wasn't feeling well, the stranger noticed and took him in his arms.

"By the way, I'm Triton."

Percy passed away because of the lack of food. Triton was glad to hold him when he fell unconscious, he called the group and ordered them to take the stuff as he walked away with the child.


"Triton."

His father's voice startled him. He stopped to pace as he turned around. He saw his father standing in the waiting room.

"Father."

They looked at each other for a couple of minutes. Then Poseidon sighed loudly as he sat down.

"You have a son." He stated.

"That I didn't know until today." Triton answered to his father's silent question.

"Is that so ? Who is his mother to ignore our law ?" Poseidon asked serious.

"A mortal. A clear sight woman. She knew about our world, our laws. But again she didn't tell me about my child. She hid him from me." Triton responded quickly as the healer came to see him.

She handed him a rapport and swam away. Triton looked startled by her behavior then he began to read the rapport and understood why she ran way. He was upset. His son had several sequels and injuries, he was also malnourished. Triton sworn to take care of his youngest child.

"You can't keep him from going to the camp." His father said suddenly.

"I know. But we cant ignore our own law. Olympus understands that. He will go in a year or two to the camp but only for the summer. Then he will come back." Triton explained to his father his plan.

Poseidon smiled.

"Does he know about you ?" He asked to his heir.

"No. I'll tell him though."

Triton turned away and walked in his son's room. He was laying on a comfortable table. The Prince frowned at the view of his son playing with his food. He closed the dark startling his child as he raised his eyes.

"Do not play with your food." Triton ordered sternly. Then he continued with a soft voice. "I said earlier you were the son of a God and a mortal. I'm your father. But I didn't know your existence until I found you in the abandoned ship."

Percy stayed silent. Triton sat down. They fell in uneasy silence. No one talked. Until Triton broke the silence demanding Percy's name. The young hesitated but he was petrified of Triton so he answered.

"Perseus Jackson."

Triton smirked. Maybe that woman wasn't so careless as he thought. Perseus was the name of a son of Zeus who got the nicest end.

"Perseus." Triton began raising an eye to his son's reaction at the pronunciation of his name. "You're not a normal child. Because of you being my son, you're a Prince, you're Royal."

Percy shut his eyes as his father began to speak about his Realm. He never wanted it. He just wanted to be left alone. Why did he let him take him away ? People were the same. They will hurt him for being different. He fell asleep rather quickly during his father's lecture. A father that he didn't even recognize as a father. After all, he was an unknown. What kind of father came to see him like that ? Who was he ?

Percy hadn't no answer. He would eventually know what was going on. He hoped that Triton wasn't like his mother.


If you have any suggestions, please tell me, I'll consider it and perhaps writing it.If you have any suggestions about scenes in Triton part 2, please tell me.Thank you for reading so far this story !