A/N - Another wild journey starts. The reacting starts from the next chapter and oh, its going to be fun writing this book. Its going to be quite funny and intense in some chapters especially the gorgon's poison and the final battle and of course the friendly bond between Percy and terminus. Till then, here is another chapter which is on the humorous side and I hope you enjoy. I know that you all are really eager for SON reacting and that starts from the next chapter and till then I hope you have a good laugh over this chapter :)
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The next 3-4 months passed with the newly turned gods getting trained by Dionysus and him eventually getting so tired that he had ended up finishing more than ten bottles of wine in that time. At first it had been quite weird because nobody could be sure of how slow or fast the time was moving, courtesy of Percy. One second, they would be in the shower at 10am and five minutes later they would come out at 5pm due to him learning to control time which ended up making the person think that they had been in the shower for 7 damn hours.
The newly turned gods also tried to figure out some sort of name for themselves because they said that they couldn't exactly be called 'demigods' now so they went through multiple names. Heck, they even went as far as the name of the houses from Game of Thrones. Eventually, the gods just suggested that they stick with demi younger gods. It would make it easier for everybody and they would still have the 'demi' in being referred. The demi younger gods were more than happy to agree to that.
Along with their powers, the demi youngers (that's how they referred to themselves as well) were being trained to use their weapons by their parents and Ares. They were quite enjoying it because the demigods were absolute demons with their weapons. Especially Percy. Nico was getting great with his targen as well.
Once they all started getting a hang of their powers and once people started emerging from the showers at a proper time which is 10 – 30 minutes after they went, they contemplated starting to read again. Dionysus, poor tired fellow, said that the demi younger gods were ready enough to keep a control during the reading and should be able to prevent accidents though when you are just turned, there are some accidents caused and they couldn't always be prevented.
A few days later, the got a note from the fates stating that some demigods and Sally would be sent to be turned immortal. Paul and Estelle would be turned immortal as well but not right now. Percy was picked to choose an age when Estelle would turn immortal along with Paul and till then they would be protected by the fates. Percy had chosen 20 as Estelle's age because he wanted her to live her teen years peacefully and normally.
"Wow. So mom's coming here finally." Percy grinned
"Yep. I'm excited to see her." Annabeth smiled
"Everybody's always happy to see Aunt S." Nico snorted with a chuckle.
"That is true." Jason agreed
"Your mom knows about the whole reading procedure, doesn't she?" Hermes asked
"Yeah." Percy nodded.
"She's gonna be so weirded out when she sees your tattoo." Katie snickered. Percy grinned sheepishly.
"Damn it, Katie. I'm still not used to you sounding like a duplicate copy of your mother." Nico grumbled
"Well, I'm still not used to you sounding exactly like your father." Katie smirked.
"Burn." Travis snickered. Nico glared at him and Katie.
"You and your son need cereal." Demeter shook her head. Nico and Hades exchanged pitiful and painful glances.
"Katie, say that to Nico. Like, yell it at him." Thalia smirked.
"Thalia-" Nico started
"Just do it, please." Percy smirked as well. Katie sighed and grinned.
"YOU NEED MORE CEREAL!" She yelled, throwing her hands up and acting exactly like Demeter. Nico decided to play along and just held his ears.
"I DON'T NEED ANY MORE CEREAL!" He yelled. The fact that Nico and Katie looked like exact duplicates of their parents and sounded like them (no exaggeration), it made the whole situation a whole lot more hilarious. Hades was chuckling and Demeter was shaking her head. The others were roaring with laughter. Nico and Katie fist bumped.
Nico had starting wearing his hair in a ponytail because he didn't want to cut it and coincidentally that is exactly what Hades and Katie and Demeter had the same length of hair and the same height as well and Percy and Poseidon's hair style was the exact same as well so not only did they all look like identical twins without differences from the front and not only did they sound like they shared one voice, they looked exactly same from behind except Nico because Hades was taller than Nico but when they laid down, nobody could tell them apart.
"Anyway guys, everybody's showing up within an hour." Apollo informed. They all nodded and grabbed coffees and got ready. An hour later, the demigods who were going to be turned immortal, Calypso and Sally were sent to Olympus.
Percy ran and crushed Sally in a bear hug. Sally staggered back a little and chuckled as she hugged her son back. Everybody chuckled.
"Hey mom." Percy grinned.
"I think that even the video call didn't highlight how much you and your father look and sound alike." Sally chuckled. Percy and Poseidon grinned at each other.
"Aunt Sally!" Jason shouted with a grin and Thalia, Jason, Nico and Hazel raced towards and gave her a huge hug. The gods smiled at that.
The other demi youngers also surrounded her. Sally was looking at Jason and gave him another tight hug and everybody chuckled or smiled.
"Hey Lou." Connor smiled as he went to her.
"You look really good." Lou said with a chuckle and a touch of red on her face.
"So do you." Connor grinned. Lou gave him a smile.
"Pollux!" Caleb called. Pollux grinned when he saw him.
"Caleb!" he said and went to him. Soon the demi younger gods were talking to their partners and smiling. The ones who were already couples were placing bets on the first kiss and looped the other gods into it as well.
The fates appeared ten minutes later and the demi younger gods knelt while their weapons appearing on their back and their clothes changing into their togas or chitons as they did whenever they knelt. Sally and the demigods' eyes widened as they saw the new look of the demi younger gods looking powerful and looking like the Greek gods that they were. The elder gods clothes still remained the same because they didn't kneel but they did bow and even they looked even more powerful.
"Rise." The fates said. The demi youngers stood up and grinned at each other. They actually quite liked the change that would take place. It was kind of cool.
"We will be taking them and Juniper and Zoe." The fates said
"I'm sorry. Zoe?" Artemis asked. The fates smiled which was plain creepy but nodded. Zoe appeared in front of them and Thalia gave her a hug and Artemis smiled warmly. The others from the third quest smiled at her. Zoe returned them.
Juniper appeared and Grover gave her a huge goaty hug. Juniper smiled and hugged him back. The fates then took the demigods, Juniper, Zoe and Sally to the throne room. There was a glow but it was dimmer than it was for the demi younger gods because they were only being turned immortal and not into gods. The demi youngers went inside and grinned. Percy hugged his mother and the new coupled demi youngers kissed the hand of their partner and there were some grins exchanged between the others as well.
"Wow, Aunt Sally." Thalia whistled with a grin.
"You look really beautiful." Piper said with a smile. Everybody nodded. Sally turned a little red under the praise and Percy grinned at her.
"So that's where Percy gets his modesty from." Frank chuckled
"Percy's somehow more modest than I am." Sally chuckled.
"Nah. You're more." Percy said with a grin. Everybody chuckled or laughed good naturedly.
"Lets go meet the others." Annabeth smiled. The fates appeared and the now turned gods, Juniper and Zoe disappeared.
"Uh what?" Connor asked
"They'll come back after the reading." Atropos said
"My mom's staying for the reading?" Percy asked.
"No. We just want her to meet the others." Lachesis smirked. Percy gave a light shudder at the smirk because it made him feel weird but he nodded and bowed as the fates disappeared.
"Well, that wasn't weird." Nico chuckled.
"Oh shut up." Percy sighed. Nico snickered.
"You sounded freaked out about your mom staying." Jason teased. Percy stuck his tongue out at Jason who smirked. Sally chuckled and they all went outside.
Sally went out and the demi younger gods introduced her to all the gods and she nodded and smiled. She could easily sense a change in them even though she hadn't known them before meeting them right now.
So now the thing was that once you became immortal, your eyesight became much clearer and the mist didn't affect your sight even a bit anymore and because of that you could actually see the other gods more properly.
Percy took Sally to formally introduce her to Poseidon which made everybody laugh. So, when she and Poseidon looked at each other, they both ended up staring at each other which was seen by practically everybody.
Percy's face turned extremely awkward and he looked at his cousins for help who were trying not to laugh. Amphitrite and Triton were not looking too happy with whatever was going on between Poseidon and Sally.
"Help me." He mouthed to them.
"Hey mom." Percy interjected. Sally turned to look at him. Percy exchanged a glance with his cousins.
"Aunt Sally, Percy made some awesome blue cookies when we found out that you were coming today. You should taste them." Jason said. Percy gave Jason a grateful look and Jason winked.
"Right now?" Sally asked
"Yes. Right now. Immediately." Nico said. There were some snickers. Percy's eyes widened as he realized that there were no blue cookies. He gave the warning sign to Jason who face palmed.
"Uh okay this is awkward but I might have eaten the cookies?" Percy said
"Oh wait you were talking about those cookies?" Thalia asked with mock surprise.
"Yeah." Jason said with a raised eyebrow.
"I might have um helped Percy eat them?" Thalia said putting on a faux sheepish expression. Hermes looked proud and impressed of them at this point of time.
"Oh." Jason said
"Well then maybe we could take you to meet somebody." Travis said smoothly.
"I thought everybody was here?" Sally asked.
"No. We should take you to meet somebody really amazing…" Percy started
"Yeah definitely!" Thalia said quickly.
"We should take you to meet our…our grandmother!" Nico said with a grin.
"Your grandmother?" Sally asked
"Yeah obviously not the maternal side but our paternal one." Nico answered
"Yeah, she's a titan!" Jason added
"A good titan." Thalia said quickly. This conversation was descending into pure chaos.
"Yeah and you'd get along really well with her. We should go now because she sleeps in the afternoon or reads and we should let her read in peace then." Percy said
"He's right." Nico nodded
"And then we could help you meet our grandma too." Connor offered
"And ours." Will said. Hermes was looking so proud that it looked like he was going to start crying. Meanwhile, the other gods were just trying to keep their ribs from cracking as they tried to prevent the laughter from escaping them at the whole situation.
The demigods dragged Sally away and the poor woman just looked really confused at what was going on.
"Hey grandma!" Percy grinned.
"Hello." Rhea smiled
"Soo this is my mom. She just met all the other gods and we wanted her to meet you as well." Percy said, trying to make his grandmother understand the meaning without any facial expressions. Percy had always had a way with words because Rhea nodded with a small mischievous smile which was only visible to the demi youngers.
"You should talk and we should give you some privacy with the motherly talk. And we have to train too so we can't sit. See ya." Nico grinned and then the demi youngers fled the quarters. They all collapsed against the wall and burst out laughing. Percy was holding his head.
"I am so screwed." He said.
"Maybe you could just wait the day to see how it goes and then figure out what to do." Travis suggested
"Lets hope I survive the day." Percy said
"You're a god. You can do it. And you're Percy. That sums it all up." Thalia said
"And we're there to help too." Nico said and then grinned and bowed. "King." He said
"Please don't call me that." Percy grumbled. Everybody snickered.
"As you say, Kelpy." Nico grinned. Percy groaned and they all laughed. The other gods except the sea gang walked towards them and half of them looked that they were ready to roll on the floor in laughter.
"That conversation was pure chaos." Apollo snickered
"Maybe Amphitrite and Triton didn't notice." Percy said hopefully
"Oh, they noticed. Everybody noticed." Ares said
"That's really helpful. Thank you." Percy sighed. Everybody chuckled.
The demi youngers had decided to host a pool day for everybody in the infinity pool and they were all getting ready.
Percy stepped into the elevator. It was made all out of special glass and you could see outside from all sides but people outside couldn't see inside.
The elevator opened on one of the floors and Sally walked in. Percy grinned at her and Sally smiled. Then as the elevator was about to close, somebody stopped it and Amphitrite walked in. Percy paled. Just as the elevator was about to close again, somebody stopped it and Poseidon walked in. The color drained from Percy's face and even Poseidon was looking awkward. There was a really uncomfortable silence in the elevator. Percy's head was spinning and there was a dull thud as he rested his head against the wall of the elevator. He gave them all an awkward smile when they looked at him.
"Hey guys." Percy smiled.
"Hello son." Poseidon said with a smile. Even he looked awkward as he stood between Amphitrite and Sally.
"Hello, Percy." Amphitrite smiled. The elevator went one floor up and stopped. Nico stood there. He took one look at who all was inside the elevator and he started wheezing with laughter. He chuckled and went inside the elevator and stood next to Nico.
"Awwkwwward." He muttered to Percy.
"You don't say." Percy retorted in a whisper. Nico snickered and tried to control his laughter. Percy hit him upside the head.
"Ow." Nico said and pouted and rubbed the back of his head.
Needless to say that when they reached the infinity pool, Percy was the first one out, followed by Nico who had finally given up and had started laughing like a maniac.
"Booked the pool today?" Annabeth grinned at Percy as she jogged up to him. Percy nodded weakly.
"What happened?" Annabeth asked Nico was still laughing.
"Oh nothing. He just happened to be in the elevator when his mother, dad and Amphitrite walked in and then I did on the next floor." Nico said with a nonchalant tone. Annabeth tried to control her laughter for Percy.
"Okay, that's really uncomfortable." She said
"You don't say." Percy said weakly and he just went to the changing rooms.
"I honestly feel bad for him." Nico chuckled.
"That has to be really awkward." Annabeth shook her head
"You have no idea." Nico said. Everybody went into the changing rooms and changed into their costumes.
Will started the music once he had put on his swimming trunks. The first song was 'Love Nwantiti'. Nobody bothered translating the song because why?
"Thals!" Percy grinned and ran up to her and threw his arm around her shoulders.
"Some warning, Squirtle." Thalia said with a smile. Percy grinned at her.
"Annabeth!" Thalia called out. Annabeth grinned and went to Percy. Percy chuckled and slung his arm around her shoulders. Jason came and slung his arm around his sister's shoulders and everybody grinned. Nico was standing next to Will as he played music. Percy ran and cannonballed into the pool, splashing water on the sea gang and the Hermes gang who was nearby. They all laughed and dunked him underwater.
Percy swam underwater and sneaked up behind Triton.
"BOO!" He yelled. Triton jumped into the air and Percy grinned and winked at him. Triton pouted.
"Hey, scaring people is my thing!" Nico protested with a grin and jumped into the pool along with Will.
"Nico jumped into the pool on his own!" Percy cheered. Jason and Thalia grinned and cheered. Will whistled and clapped as well. Will swam to talk to Annabeth and Sally and the four cousins were still laughing and grinning and slung their arms around each other and sang along with the song playing in the background.
Hades and Zeus looked around and nodded at each other and then smirked at Poseidon who was looking in thought as he looked at Amphitrite and Sally.
"She's married, brother." Hades said as they went to him.
"Right." Poseidon said
"And she has a daughter." Zeus added.
"You're married and you have a son." Poseidon reminded him. Hades burst out laughing.
"Well then listen to me." He said
"Yeah. You're right." Poseidon sighed.
"Never in a million years." Hades said dramatically
"You're just like your son or rather he's just like you." Poseidon said
"Same for you." Hades replied.
Everybody stayed at the pool for about three hours before they all went to change. Sally was sent back by the fates and Percy looked nervously at Amphitrite.
"Okay. I'm sorry." He said
"For what?" Amphitrite asked in confusion
"That you had to see that and all." Percy said
"Its not your fault. Like, not even close." Amphitrite chuckled.
"So you forgive me?" Percy asked
"I never blamed you." Amphitrite said a little worriedly. Apparently, her stepson still hadn't left the habit of sometimes apologizing when it wasn't his fault but at least it was getting better.
"Hey Perce, another nymph has a crush on you after the pool." Jason told him with a grin.
"Just add her to the list." Annabeth chuckled. Percy grinned sheepishly.
A few days passed and everybody then decided to continue reading because they had had quite a good break and they wanted to finish the books as fast as possible.
"What's the next book's name?" Katie asked
"Son of Neptune." Annabeth replied
"Its about Percy then." Reyna said
"I think its about our quest." Percy said to Frank and Hazel who nodded.
"Most probably." They said
"So you three aren't going to be reading?" Nico said. They shook their heads.
"All right. I'll read first." Chris said and picked up the book.
