Percy's point of view
I was sitting in school, suffering...i mean enduring another lecture on atmospheric and meteorology, long story short? It sucked. I got lost in my nightmare from the night before.
'that dream felt so real, almost like it had happened, or will happen? But why? How? More importantly, who and what where those….beings fighting? Why where they fighting over? Just what the hell is going on? Why is this all happening to me? Why and what are Tony and Pepper hiding from me? Am I in danger? Why? How? Who? What? Where? When? Why?'
"Perseus…..Perseus…...Perseus Jackson, are you still with us? Perhaps you would be willing to explain what is so important that you feel the need to disregard my lessons?" Mr. Bracken said, while also glaring at me. I didn't like the look on his face, not as he aimed it at me, it was almost as if he wanted to eat me.
'is it me, or is he glaring at me? What is this uncomfortable feeling? It almost feels like something or somebody wishes to kill me?!' I looked around, feeling a huge amount of blood lust. I noticed no one else was paying attention, but that was because no one else was in the room, which made me realize something.
'how did I miss everyone leaving?! Where did they go? When did they leave?' so lost in my thoughts, I missed an object being thrown at me. Luckily my instincts to dodge, screamed at me, because I rolled out of the way. Good thing too.
Looking up, I noticed Mr. Bracken's eyes were no longer the brown they use to be, instead one was brown, the other was bright blue. He was no human. He couldn't be, not with that look of hunger in his eyes as he stared at me. He licked his lips. I involuntarily shuddered. I gulped, backing up. My pocket started heating up.
I put my arm down, my hand slipping into my pocket, fingers rolling around and fingering a smooth, comfortingly warm, object. It was a ball point pen. Colored black and gold. The thing in front of me made a weird growling and snarling noise, it freaked me the fuck out, truth be told.
I clicked the pen cap, and I no longer held a pen. Instead, I now held a sword in my hand. The sword was a bronze looking, medium xiphos, with writing down the side Anaklusmos. A beautiful blade. It was slightly glowing. I didn't have much more time to appreciate the sword, because something came flying at me, if I hadn't raised the sword, I would have been pierced right in the chest from the spike that flew at me. Looking up, my heart started beating faster, I was terrified. In front of me was no longer my teacher. It was a monster, right out of Greek mythology. (1)
It was large. He had the body of a lion, a giant scorpion tail, two large, pitch black wings, skin as red as cinnabar, and a face of a man, with bright blue eyes, and three rows of sharp teeth. The manticore. I was shaking, however I managed to dodge the next spike throw. (2)
"You are quite lucky son of the sea god. Normally I would devour you, but the general has given me an executive order to capture you. Lord Kronos has awakened, and has begun his rise and resurrection, and you have the privilege to be his guest of honor, as the host for the titan lord. Come quietly, or come screaming, but either way, you will accompany me. Now is it going to be willfully by choice, and by quietness, or must I forcefully drag you out of here, kicking and screaming?" the beast spoke chillingly, and fanatically.
"wow you really are one ugly son of a bitch, aren't you? Also what's this bullshit about this 'titan lord' you keep speaking about? Are you delusional or on drugs? Mom always told me to say no and stay away from them." I somehow managed to speak without my voice shaking, despite how much I was trembling.
The manticore lunged forward. I rolled underneath him, slashing Anaklusmos across his legs. He roared in pain. His tail swung towards me, I ducked and cut it off. He thrashed around for a moment, before turning to me with a look of pure anger and hatred on his face. He lunged at me again, I kicked him in the face, stunning him for a moment. He snapped at me, trying to bite me, I swiped my sword across his face, cutting him deeply. He threw his head back and howled with agony. Not wasting any more time, and wanting to avoid potential injuries, I went on the offensive, I jabbed and stabbed with the sword, striking his chest and through his ribs, anywhere and everywhere I could cut on him. I don't know how or why, but somehow I was able figure out where to strike him, where to cut, and how. Wielding this blade almost felt natural, like it was an extension of myself, or like it was a long lost friend.
Before to long, the beast had been slain, I was alone. I shuddered, unable to get those bright blue eyes out of my head. A thought ran through my mind, 'if a monster attacked me, what about Cordelia? Is she safe? Or in danger? Has she been attacked? What about Tony, or Pepper? No time to waste.' knowing I wouldn't be able to leave through the front doors office doors, I looked around, and noticed one of the beast's spikes shattered a window, I heard someone banging on the door, "what's going on in there?! What's all of that racket?! Why is this door unlocked?! I demand it be opened at once! I'm calling security"
I took a brief moment to survey the room, taking note of all of the destruction and chaos that had been caused. The desks were knocked over or smashed. A window was shattered. One desk had even caught fire. Soon the fire would reach the chemicals in the cabinet and explode.
'fuck me and fuck my life. I have no time for this, my family could be in danger! If I get caught by security, or even another teacher I could get arrested! Wait a minute, if Bracken was a monster, does that mean another teacher could be a monster as well?' I had no choice, I jumped out of the window, and rolled onto the grass, luckily there was some there, if there wasn't I would have splattered on the ground.
I took off down the street. I had to get to Cordelia, she could be in danger. 'hang on Lia, I'm coming, I won't let anything happen to you, I promise.' I was hoping, praying even, that I would get there in time. Sirens blared in the distance, heading right towards the school I had just jumped out of.
'great, just great. That's what I needed, now once they cops get involved I will be suspected, and potentially arrested as well as taken in for questioning. As if my job wasn't hard enough, now I have to get to Cordelia and do it without being spotted, I'm most likely already on the news.' I thought bitterly.
Seeing her elementary school in my front view, I ran forwards, before stopping by a tall oak tree, next to the playground. I climbed up in the tree, thankful that it was a cloudy day, and I was wearing black and dark green clothes, it made blending in and hiding much easier. Sitting up in the tree, I noticed just how out of breath I was, I must have been going off of pure adrenaline, my legs were burning with exhaustion, and my chest was hurting, desperately gasping for breath. After a few moments of resting, I quickly scouted out the building, making sure I wasn't seen. Knowing I couldn't grab her and go, I had no choice I left, but I knew I would come back when she got out of school, and then we would hightail it to home.
I pulled the phone Tony gave me out of my pocket, and called Tony, got voicemail, left a message.
"hey Tony it's Percy, something weird happened at school. This may not make sense, but It really happened I swear. I was attacked by a monster, a manticore. I know it sounds insane, but I promise I am not making this up. Call me back when you get this message."
I then quickly called a cab, and had him drive me to my house, grabbed some clothes, and other essentials, then had him take me the one place that could calm me down. A place I had dreamed about. The place where my mom met my dad. Montauk beach. Arriving, I stepped out, grabbed my bags, and paid him the fare, plus extra. I walked over to the cabin I use to share with my mom, after placing my stuff in there, I closed my eyes, lost in memories.
A young boy was seen running towards a beautiful woman. The little boy had raven black hair, a mediteranean tan, sea green eyes, and he was wearing a crooked grin. His name is Perseus Jackson.
The beautiful woman he was running towards, had long brown hair, a beautiful smile on her face, bright blue eyes like clear water, fair skin, and a kind expression on her face and in her eyes. This woman was Sally Stark, or as she changed her name to Sally Jackson.
As the boy got to his mother, he slid past her and dived into the sea, and started splashing her with the water, making her laugh, before she grabbed him and started tickling him. Smiling a broad smile as his giggles filled the afternoon air.
"mommy lookie at what I can do, see are you watching? Mommy it's going to stop soon, look!" Percy called out trying as hard as he could to get his mom's attention, Sally felt her eyes tear up, while also feeling her heart climb up and try to escape through her throat. Percy had subconsciously manipulated the water in the sea, to create a heart, with the words 'I love you mommy, you are the bestest mommy in the whole world'.
She was terrified that he was going to be discovered, and if that happened she didn't know what she would do. She didn't want to lose him, he was everything to and for her.
"Percy, you must promise me, for your own safety, that you will never let anyone know that you can control water like that, okay?! Please, baby, it's for your own good, you can only tell someone if you absolutely trust them, alright?! I want you to promise me!" Sally said seriously.
Percy, hearing the fear and seriousness in his mother's voice, nodded his head, and said, "okay mommy, I promise."
Sally just looked down sadly at her son, and kneeled before him taking him in her arms. The mother and son stayed like that for a few moments in the water. Eventually Sally pulled back, and smiled at her son, "now, why don't you try and use a few other ideas with the water, such as making horses, or cars or something, hm?" she asked him.
Before too long, the pair were soon ready to lay down, well more like take a nap in Percy's place, and read a book while watching over her son in Sally's place. After his nap, Percy woke up, and watched the little mermaid, before having some dinner and smores, though Sally wasn't sure smores was a good idea for a child like Percy, however she couldn't say no to his pony eyes. (3)
Unknown to Percy however, was that his father would be visiting Sally the whole time they were at the cabin, but only when Percy was asleep. Poseidon left Sally Anaklusmos, even going as far as enchanting it to come to Percy the moment he needed it, so he would have a weapon.
Percy and Sally were once again playing in the water, well after Percy decided to build several sand castles and other sand buildings, dubbing them as kingdoms, calling them Troy and Sparta, along with a few others, such as Crete, Athens, and Mycenae.
Hell the boy even went on to create other sand figures, naming them things such as Achilles, Chiron, even a few gods such as Poseidon (oh the irony), or Hestia. Sally didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He made some sand creatures like pegsai, or drakons, which did worry Sally.
Going into the water, Sally was nervous and worried, clearly Percy's abilities with water were getting stronger, which means, according to what she was told by Poseidon, before he knocked her up, that Percy is starting to figure out who he is, and would soon be getting hunted.
Percy could summon waves, make shapes, figures, and creatures out of water, could form icicles (small ones), could generate minuscule winds, small currents of electricity, rumble the ground a bit, could control fire as well (to an extent). (4)
As the young mother and son played around on the beach, they were unaware of the stalker they had attracted, a big behemoth, a monster. It was tall, and muscly, burly with broad shoulders, no hair on it's head, and one giant, brown eye in the center of it's forehead. A cyclops, looking for a snack.
Looking at the young, but powerful half blood, the monster licked his lips, even if the child was his half brother, the monster was still hungry. 'though the woman looks a fine fit for a potential mate, heehaw' the cyclops perversely thought, while blushing with a bit of blood leaking from the nose.
The cyclops lumbered forwards, his heavy, thunderous footsteps softened by the sand. He grinned, he would devour the bastard child of the sea god, then he would take and make the woman his, she would birth his children.
Percy looked up, having a feeling he was being watched, his eyes widened when glancing upon the cyclops. He pulled his mother into the sea with him, pushing her behind him, as he glared at the beast. His eyes narrowed in protectiveness, as the waves surged back and forth behind him.
Sally's eyes went wide when she caught sight of the cyclops, as it lumbered towards her and her son. He came barreling down the beach, kicking through Percy's little city states. Percy gritted his teeth, angry over his work being destroyed.
"quick get behind me mommy, I will protect you, he won't hurt you while I'm around." the demigod of the sea said, not that she had a choice as Percy made sure he was in front of her, and she was behind him in the sea.
The monster was in front of them, his sickening yellow teeth sharp and pointed, his breath foul and rancid, Sally grimaced. "oh you think you will protect her from me, boy?! I will devour you, and then I will rape your mother for the rest of her short mortal life, making her have my babies! You are protecting no one, UNDERSTAND ME?!" he roared out the last part, before, with his arm outstretched, he struck at the boy and his mother.
Percy didn't know how or why, it was pure base instinct, he slammed his hands onto the ground, and giant watery hands reached up, and grabbed the trembling cyclops, holding him down, dragging him to a watery grave. Percy then looked up at his mom, and smiled cheekily, as if the cyclops was never there, "see mommy, told you I would protect you!"
Sally just gaped at her son, stunned beyond belief, at the raw power her son just displayed. The child then evidently forgot about his killing the cyclops or just didn't care, he grabbed his mother and dragged her out of the sea and onto the sand, wanting to try and salvage his little sand projects.
Night had fallen, Percy was asleep in the cabin, while Sally was sitting with her knees pulled up, staring out at the sea. She was waiting for someone. She didn't wait to long, a voice spoke up behind her.
"sorry about the wait." the voice belonged to a tall man, with tanned skin, long black hair, a black beard, with sea green eyes, he was dressed in a hawain beach shirt, with khaki shorts, and flip flops. This was the powerful Olympian god of the sea. Poseidon, and he was Percy's father.
"he is getting stronger, much stronger. His manipulation of water is far more powerful than any other half blood or legacy I have ever fathered. He has even grasped a basic concept of his other abilities. I have been watching him the whole time he was here." the god spoke softly to her, filling her with fear.
"well, what can I do about it?! What should I do?! Even if I wanted to, which I don't, but the camps aren't an option, either of them. You know that!" Sally hysterically said.
"No, you are right, that worthless, useless brat, Dionysus would report Percy's presence and heritage to my bastard of a brother first chance he gets, camp half blood would then throw the boy out and leave him to be hunted. It would then be a race between Zeus and Hades to see who got to him first. Camp Jupiter is out of the question, Lupa would kill him if she didn't tell Juno first chance she got, who would most likely tell Jupiter, so back to square one. There is only one thing we can do. I have to seal and block off his memories, as well as get someone or something to block his powers, until he is old enough, or in danger, so that he can use them." the sea god spoke heavily clearly struggling with such a decision. He hated having to do such a thing to his son, but it was for his own survival.
"wouldn't that kill him, since his powers are a part of him?" Sally asked.
"only if I tried to take them from him, which for the record, Chaos and the Fates don't allow us to do that, don't ask why, I have no clue." Poseidon said, before chanting under his breath. If anyone had looked at Percy's body, they would have seen a trident, with an omega symbol in it, showing his abilities had been sealed temporary.
"wanna stay the night? Maybe meet your son, even if he's not awake?" Sally asked hopefully. Poseidon looked at her, and agreed, "I suppose I can stay one night."
A few hours later, Percy had gotten up, wanting a drink of water, when he heard his mother and a man's voice, that somehow, sounded familiar, moaning, his eyes widened, fearing for his mother, he crept to the door, and seeing it slightly open, he peeks in, unable to understand why his mom was bouncing up and down on a man who was laying on the bed. His mother's eyes were closed, while her breasts flailed up and down with her.
Quickly closing the door, making sure he wasn't heard, Percy ran back to the bed, and crawled under his covers. Shaking like a leaf. He buried his head in his pillow, determined to go to sleep, and erase this.
Six months later, Cordelia was born.
I was snapped out of my memories, having spent several hours remembering them, 'but why? Why am I remembering this now? What caused this?'
A loud bellowing noise rang through the air. The hair on the back of my neck raised up, I got a tingle running down my back. I quickly turned around and ran out of the cabin, and came across two young girls, about my age, running from a giant bull man. The bull man had thick, hairy, coarse, rough looking hair, big beefy arms, thick, vein webbed hands, sharp, little, beady eyes, and sharp, razor point horns. The Minotaur.
'what the fuck is even my life at this point? Seriously, who or what the hell did I do or piss off, that resulted in this utter shit storm?' I thought as I ran toward the monster. Seeing the girls getting knocked back, I wasn't able to explain it, but I felt angry, she crashed into a dune.
"hey beefy, over here, why don't you pick on someone who can fight back, or are you a minotaura, because you lack the balls to fight me one on one?" I taunted. Not my best one, but beggars can't be choosers, after all. Evidently it did the job well enough, because the Minotaur. slammed his hands onto the ground, lowered his head, snorted, and then came galloping down at me.
I rolled to the side, at last moment, while also cutting into his side with Anaklusmos. The Minotaur. bellowed out, from feeling the sting of my blade cutting into him. He spun around, smacking me out of the way, with his big, bulky arms, full of immense strength. I spat up some blood. Feeling my back ache from that hit. I focused on the ocean behind me, mentally straining, trying to pull it, when it rose up, and formed into a watery trident, which I then threw and impacted against the monster, knocking him back. Allowing me a moment to regain my breath and my bearings, the bull thundered back up, and out of the water.
He charged, I jumped to the side, watching as he destroyed the cabin my mother and I use to visit. I felt my eyes water. The sky darkened, rain clouds forming over head, wind picking up and howling, thunder rumbling, lightning flashing. Rain was pouring down now. My sadness while still present, however I now felt a hot, steaming, flashing anger. Strength filled my veins, rage flooded my system, all I was seeing, was….red.
I ran forward, while the Minotaur. spun around and came back, I jumped up, and was going to bring Anaklusmos down, to attempt to cut him in half, vertically, however I underestimated myself, I ended up landing on his head, I grabbed a hold of his horns, and pulled back. Snap! Both of them came off, he threw his head back, tossing me backwards. I flew off, hitting a dune, and rolling away.
The bull was screaming in agony, from having his horns snapped off. Lumbering around, stumbling. I shakily got up, but the rain healed my injuries, as well as restored my stamina, and gave me more strength. As the monster came towards me, I ran forward, and slid down to my knees, plunging my sword right through where the beast's heart was. A deafening screech of pure agony, and hatred, a howl of unbridled pain, tore through the rainy afternoon, the monster exploded into a pile of yellow, sulfuric monster dust.
As I turned around, remembering the unconscious girls, who the Minotaur. had chased here. I glanced over them, and I had to admit they were cute, and would most likely be beautiful when they grew up. The first girl had a pale, healthy skin tone, with long, black hair, and green eyes. The second girl had long black hair as well, and milky, white, creamy, unblemished skin, but her eyes were a nice pretty blue color. I had a feeling both girls would be true beauties when older. I felt my cheeks warm up a bit. Dam it I am to young to be thinking about girls. (5)
As I was making sure the girls were okay, (read, checking them out), I hadn't been paying much attention to anything else, for some reason I seemed drawn to them. I would have noticed both girls had opened their eyes, and were watching me curiously.
"who are the two of you? Why was the bull chasing you?" I asked the two girls.
The green eyed girl said, "I am Heaven víkingr-dauði.
The blue eyed girl said, "I am Nyla. Night"
'I think there is more to these girls than meets the eye. I should keep an eye on them (yea, sure Percy, whatever you say).' the thought circles around in the back of my head.
"I am Percy Jackson." I said,
'those are some unusual names, very odd.' I thought, but before I could comment on the strangeness of Heaven's last name, my phone rang. I didn't bother glancing the caller ID, since there were only three people who had the number. I clicked the answer button.
"yes? How can I help you?" I asked.
"Percy, perhaps you can explain what you meant by you were attacked by a fucking MANTICORE, or better explain WHERE THE HELL YOU ARE, OR WHY YOU LEFT SCHOOL SO EARLY?!" it was Pepper.
'this will be fun' I thought sardonically.
"well you see here, this is what happened. I was attacked by that ugly son of a bitch, as I said before, though I did kill that foul monstrosity. As for where I'm at? Well I am at Montauk. I left school because I didn't know if there were any more monsters around, and because I wanted, no because I needed, to check on Cordelia. She's safe, by the way." I answered calmly.
"okay, well when you come home, we are having a very long discussion about this, you can be assure of that." Pepper said.
"I have sent a cab to pick you up, it should be there in no less than twenty five minutes. We have a lot talk about, some of it will be about things you don't even have an inkling clue about, Percy." Tony said, Pepper must have handed him the phone then.
"okay, see you in less than a half hour." I hung up, which is most likely going to get me punished later, but oh well. I am already in deep shit for leaving school. Pepper hates it when I ditch school.
(1) – Anaklusmos' appearance is slightly altered, but that is not really that big of a deal.
(2) – I suck at descriptions. I know that in PJO the manticore doesn't have wings, but a few myths I read said it does, and so do about half of the pictures drawn of it.
(3) – everyone talks about Percy using seal eyes, but to me, looking into a horse's soft brown eyes is more heartbreaking, lol. But if everyone wants me to, I will change it.
(4) – yes technically Poseidon has no control over fire. However some things to take into account. Percy is highly resistant to heat and fire, he has, through his earth shaker powers, to my knowledge, erupted mt st Helen, cyclops children of Poseidon are amazing forgers and have immunity to fire, so Percy has that, Poseidon is honestly kind of like a god of destruction, he controls storms, droughts, floods, etc. so Percy will be able to do that as well. Right now Percy has only slightly used that, he will really train it all thoroughly though, once he buckles down with it, he will be the most powerful demigod of his generation, maybe even in history.
(5) – he is not as dense here, as he is in cannon (and even then I don't think he is dense, he just has more to worry about than dating), he notices women, and he is entering the stage, where he will find women attractive. Yes he is only twelve, but as a demigod, in my world, demigods ALL mature faster than humans, as in physically, emotionally, and mentally, to an extent. Not ridiculously, mind you, but by the time he is about fifteen to sixteen, he will be done growing in height, and his mentally along with his emotions will be as fully developed as they can be (reasonably, that is).
Haha poor Percy got scarred for life by Sally and Poseidon making Cordelia, lol.
Remember the harem ideas, lol
Now, we see Percy kill two monsters, we also see some small fluff between Percy and Sally a bit, a sweet moment, you all think? If not I might edit it.
What did you all think about Percy building his sand figures and villages?
What about Heaven, and Nyla? Who or what are they? Humans, or something different?
The phone Tony gave Percy is monster proof.
