Sorry for the long delay, it was enrollment and the first day of school. But anyway, here is CHAPTER 5. Also, quick shoutout to WOLFIE and McWOOPIN (that's my boy Thanatos) for reviewing this. Now, ONTO THE STORY!
Jason POV
"Who are you?"
You know those moments in your life where you go like 'Oh fuck, what do I do?'.
Yep. This is one of those moments.
I honestly don't know what to do at this moment, I can't just say "Oh hey mom, yeah I'm your son, you know from the future, yeah. Oh, nothing just taking a stroll in the past to prevent a war from happening. What's that? Who's my dad? Oh no one other than the one and only Percy Fucking Jackson". Yeah, I have no idea what to do. Honestly, I'm scared. Not to my mom, but what I will say to my mom. I have a habit of being dumb, courtesy of my father. I don't want to ruin the future, but I don't want to give information to my mother that leads to her finding out that I'm her son. She's a hunter right now, a devoted hunter at that. And if she learns of my identity because of my stupidity, then things will escalate a-
"Hello? I'm talking to you!" I was snapped out of my musings and realize I hadn't answered my soon-to-be-mother's question. I was just standing there like an idiot staring at her- that sounded wrong in so many ways- but hey, my mom and dad are cousins, fucking sue me.
"Um… Umm… Uh"
"Are you going to keep saying um?" she asked, a bit annoyed.
"Um… I'm J-Peter Johnson" I told her, she narrowed her eyes on me as if I was hiding something from her, which is true in a sense. It was weird staring back into my mother's eyes, seeing her younger that me was, well, freaky.
"I heard you're a son of Poseidon" she said.
"Legacy of Poseidon" I corrected her.
"Whatever, I have a cousin who is a Son of Poseidon" she said, smiling, probably remember the shenanigans she and dad used to get into. I remember one time when I was younger, I was playing in New Rome when I got hit in the head by a brick- how it got to me, I have no idea- even though I was injured, mom and dad laughed their asses off saying how I'm just like my uncle.
"How are you a Legacy of Poseidon?" she inquired.
"Oh, you see, when a mommy demigod and a daddy demigod fall in love-"
"I know that shit, what I want to know is who was the son of Poseidon in your family?" 'Oh Fuck' I forgot that mom is smarter than she looks. I try to make up some random name to cover my fake identity.
"Uh, it was my Great-great-great Grandfather, Uh, Karl Jorgensen Hauser- Um- Concord-Johnson? Yeah! Karl Jorgensen Hauser Concord-Johnson, son of Poseidon of circa- uh, 1730 something" I proclaimed proudly of my lie. My mom just stared at me like I was crazy, probably because I am.
"Ooook, so your family has been a Legacy of Poseidon for a while huh?"
"Yeah, a while" deep inside, I kinda hate lying to my mom, mostly because I love her too much. But I had to hide the truth, for the sake of the future and shit.
"Soooo, how long have you been a Hunter of Artemis?" I questioned.
"3 years" she answered.
"Do you plan on serving Artemis for a long time?"
"I don't know, I love my friends a lot and seeing them grow old, live their lives, and die is just… unfair and sad" she admitted. I knew the reason why mom joined the hunters, to avoid the great prophecy and hand it to dad. It has been a mystery to me why she didn't leave the hunt after that.
"Why don't you just leave the hunt?"
"The hunt gave me purpose, family, a home. I made an oath to Lady Artemis and will die withholding that oath" I faintly remember when I asked the question the first time and mom told me the same exact answer but can't remember the other thing she told me about after that.
"Oh, uh, well-"
"Its very late, you should get some sleep" and with that she walked back into the Cabin 8. I stood there alone and watched the waves crash onto the sandy shore, before walking back into Cabin 3. Before I could touch the doorknob, I was called out by Will Solace.
"Oh hey"
"Are you ok? I heard what Nico did to you!" Wow, I completely forgot about that.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm just… shaken after what happened"
"I'm sorry about Nico, he can be a bit… sensitive" he told me.
"Yeah, I noticed that" I paused for a moment until Will spoke up.
"You met Thalia, didn't you?" I just stood there and said nothing.
"I know you told me that your mom died before you got here but if you need help, me and Chiron are here for you" I thanked him before he left for the Hades cabin, probably to give Nico the scolding of his lifetime. I entered the cabin and stood frozen on the spot, inside the room was a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, he had raven-black hair that was messy but clean and he had a beard, his skin was of a tan complexion, but what made my blood frozen was weapon he was holding, a celestial bronze Trident. My grandfather, Poseidon is here, in his cabin, with me, his future grandson. 'Oh Fuck'.
"I may have lots of children, but Karl Jorgensen Hauser Concord-Johnson is not one of them" he said, 'Oh Fuck'.
"Do not fret child, I sense the sea in you, but I also sense the sky within you, so tell me, who are you?" Well shit, there's no escape here.
"Ok, but can you please create a barrier around the cabin?" he raised an eyebrow at me but did it anyways.
"Ok now I need you to swear on the Styx that you do not reveal what happens in here" he sealed the oath and thunder rumbled in the distance.
"Ok, I'm gonna be honest with you, you are right, there is no Karl Jorgensen Hauser Concord-Johnson, nor there has ever been a Karl Jorgensen Hauser Concord-Johnson, and my name isn't even Peter Johnson…" I took a deep breath before I told him the truth.
"I'm Jason Jackson, I'm your grandson, from the future" he just stood there, eyes wide, jaw dropped, and pale skin. He begins the stutter like his usual self as he tries to ask a question.
"H-How?! No one can transverse through time! Not even my father could do that!" he exclaimed.
"Oh well you see, I kinda accidentally used Kronos' Scythe with the intervention of the fates to open a rift in time throwing me back into the past in order to stop the Tartarus War"
"THE TARTARUS WAR?!"
"Yeah, the Tartarus war, it began when monsters are coming back more monstrous than before, many of them abominations and cross species of different monsters" when I finished, he stared at me in disbelief before he asked.
"When does this war start?"
"This summer"
"Oh Fuck"
"Oh Fuck indeed Grandpa" he looks at me with wide eyes again and smiles.
"I'll be frank, I am not yet ready to be called grandpa yet but here we are" we both laughed at the same time.
"Ok but that still doesn't explain why I sense my brother within you" 'Oh Fuck'.
"Well, Zeus is my grandpa too" I told him, then he made a face that clearly showed confusion.
"But the only demigod child Zeus has right now is… Oh Fuck"
"Oh Fuck indeed Grandpa"
"But I though my son- your father- is with the Athena Spawn, what happened?" he asked, my faced dropped.
"She…died" I simply said. His face darkened, probably thinking how it devastated dad in the future, because from what I know, dad would give up the world for Annabeth Chase.
"I'm… sorry" he said and put a hand on my shoulder "But even though you are born in the future, I will still consider you as my Grandson" I smiled and gave him a Tyson level hug.
"Thanks Grandpa"
"Say, can I see your weapons?" he asked. I pulled out both Riptide and Tyfónas, he looked at my trident with awe.
"Did I give you this?" he questioned.
"Yeah, you had the Elder Cyclopes build this when after…" I paused choosing my words carefully, the next piece of information may be sensitive to Grandpa, so I said it slowly.
"After…Triton and Amphitrite…um…faded" I finished and looked to see his face completely pale as Hades, a look of horror dawned on his features, and silent tears dripping from his face.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said-"
"No. No don't be sorry, I'm just… shaken by the news of my wife and son's fate" he said wiping the tears off his face. I told him everything about the war, from how mom always used to take care of me, how she trained me, and how we fought Tartarus before he made Atlas drop the Sky.
"I wish you good luck my Grandson, Godspeed" and with that, he disappeared in a mist of sea water.
I walk up to the bed and let myself fall asleep until I was in Morpheus' realm.
Flashback
Third Person POV
It has been a year since the fall of Camp Half-Blood, with the fading of Hecate, the mist had been broken and mortals were being killed left and right, causing mayhem around the entire continent of North America.
Percy Jackson had just come back from San Francisco all bloody and battered, carrying on his back was his cousin Nico Di Angelo- who is currently unconscious- while limping on his left leg with Riptide on his right hand. They exited the Caldecott tunnel with a few dozen mortals and a handful of Demigods. Upon seeing this, Thalia Grace, rushed to help the Son of Poseidon carry their gothic cousin.
"Oh Fuck, what happened?" she asked.
"San Francisco… Attacked... Too many abominations" he breathed out. At that moment he fell to his knees and started crying. Thalia kneeled down and rubbed his back.
"Percy, tell me what happened?"
"I-I-I couldn't save them" Percy choked out.
"Who?" she questioned.
"Annabeth's family" he said. Thalia was shocked, first her little sister/best friend, now her family? Thalia was going to make all the Titans fade, she won't show mercy, not to Kronos. She pulled him up alongside the unconscious Son of Hades, they both walked back into the infirmary where the Children of Apollo started tending to them the moment they entered.
Percy was sitting on the side of a bed while a son of Apollo gave him a piece of Ambrosia and a cup of nectar while stitching up his open wounds. He had been working hard on saving lives as much as possible, really, he tried, but things were just going to fast. His mind then drifted to Thalia, he had been thinking about her since Annabeth died, every time before he leaves Camp Jupiter, he would always look back to see her one more time, and when he returns to Camp, she was the one he would always find first. There was something about Thalia that always made him want to stay with her, could it be-
No. He can't. She's a hunter, a devoted hunter at that.
Maybe he could- no, just no. Stupid fatal flaw! Percy can't act selfish, he is on Artemis' good side, he doesn't want to get on her bad side.
Little did he know that Thalia was having the same train of thought as Percy.
She would always have her thoughts drifted to the son of Poseidon, she doesn't understand, she thought that these feelings would ebb away as she became a hunter, apparently, the fates had different plans. Yes, Thalia Grace had a crush on Percy Jackson, fuck off. She would try to help the hunt or people coming into Camp Jupiter, but she couldn't help herself when it comes to Percy. She would always try to find him just to say goodbye before he left to help people outside Camp, and she would always wait at Caldecott tunnel to welcome him back and help him get stitched up. People keep saying that she and Reyna look good together, they are friends for Hades' sake! Plus she's straight dammit. The supposed to be ebbed away feelings started to come back up to torture her. Maybe if she left the hunt-
No. She can't. She has people who depend on her.
She won't let her feelings compromise everything.
All she could is-
"Thalia" she turned around to see Reyna, wearing her hunter's gear, standing outside the infirmary.
"Yes Reyna?" she inquired.
"I know you like Percy" she said deadpanned.
Thalia froze, paled, and thought of 14,000,005 possibilities of avoiding the question or running away. Oh Fuck.
"Wha-what made you think I like Percy?" she said with a nervous laugh and sweat falling off her face, her feet already backing up ready to run out so fast that she could outrun the fanfic this stupid-ass late-posting wannabe-author was writing.
"Its kinda obvious Thalia, the fact that you left me while we were talking just to say goodbye to Percy the first time he left, that one time you were fighting in the colosseum with him, where he got his shirt so sweaty that you kicked him under his feet just to sit on top of him, that fact that you laugh at all his stupid jokes when everyone isn't, how close you would stand next to him, how you would randomly speak about him as if he was a god, and how your hand and lips twitch like you just want to pull him down and kiss him? Yeah, obvious, so obvious that even Lady Artemis and Lord Zeus knows, they just chose not to say anything" Reyna finished.
Dam, was all Thalia could say.
"Does that mean that I'm out-"
"Before you finish, Lady Artemis said that your choice to stay in the hunt and your choice to be with Percy is entirely on your own terms, either way, she won't get made, in fact, she wants you to be happy" Reyna said to the Lieutenant of the Hunt. Thalia just stood there, thinking, Percy or the hunt? Percy or the hunt? Percy or the hunt?
"I-I need some time alone" and with that she left the infirmary to do some thinking.
Flashback End
Nico POV
I hate everything, except Will… and Hazel… and Percy…and Thalia… and Ms. O'Leary… and my dad… and my bed. But right now, Will is knocking on my door violently, almost to the point he could break it down. I open the door to see him fuming at me, I take a few steps back away from him.
"Well?" he asked, arms folded.
"Well, what?" I asked back.
"Are you stupid?! He almost killed that kid!" he shouted.
"You were talking to that kid, that's what!"
"Oh c'mon! A simple talk with him doesn't hurt!" he tried to reason but failed.
"No! no I won't listen!"
"Seriously what did Jason do to insult you?" I froze, I turned around to see his face so pale, he was just as pale as me.
"What did you say?" I close in on him and he pales even more, taking a few steps back. I also heard him mutter 'Oh Fuck' under his breath.
"Um, what did I say? Did I say anything at all?" he said and laughed nervously. I stepped closer until I pinned him on the wall,
"What. Did. You. Say?" I said slowly and deadly. Will begins to sweat and pants.
He sighs and says that we should go to Chiron and talk about it. We walk to the big house and meet Chiron drinking a cup of tea. He notices us and smiles beckoning us to come in.
"Mr. Solace, Mr. Di Angelo, what brings you here?" he asked, Will steps closer and whispers to Chiron, Chiron's eyes widen, and he looks at me with a pale face.
"I suppose we should tell him now" he said with a sigh.
"Sit down Nico, we have a lot to talk about"
-LINE BREAK-
I don't believe it, Peter Johnson isn't Peter Johnson, he is Jason Jackson, Son of Thalia and Percy, my nephew of sorts.
'Oh Fuck', now I feel horrible towards him.
I decided that I should apologize to him for real this time. But something just bugs me.
How in my father's name did Percy and Thalia become a thing?
But I put that though aside as I swore on the river Styx not to tell anyone about it. Me and Will walked out of the Big House and outside cabin 13.
"Now you understand?" he asked me.
"I'm sorry"
"Don't say that to me Nico, say that to Jason" and then, he walked back to Cabin 7.
I enter my cabin and fell on my bed, thinking about what I just heard tonight, Percy and Thalia having a kid? It must be the end of the world. I mean they could either be the best of friends or the worst of enemies, never had it crossed my mind that the two would have feelings for each other, much less have a kid together. This is also weird because I thought Reyna and Thalia have a thing going on? I know they aren't allowed to have a thing since they are hunters, but every time I look at them, they seem very close to each other. But anyway, that line of thinking can be continued tomorrow, now I must make love with my bed.
Jason POV
I woke up earlier than the conch horn and went straight to the beach just to say good morning to Grandpa.
I then took a stroll around Camp Half-Blood, taking in the fresh air that surrounds the place. It is certainly better than the air in the future, the time we were in Montauk, the air smelled like death, and that time I was in Miami, the air was toxic, like poison.
I look up to see the sky, I never saw the sky so blue before, mainly because the sky was sometimes always orange or yellowish grey.
And the clouds, I never seen them so white and pure, the clouds in my time were always grey.
Looking around the environment, the trees, grass, plant life, and other natural things feel so… green and alive, everything here seems to be breathing, living and beautiful, I frown, everything in the future is either ashes or dead.
While I was absorbing the beautiful environment, I heard the conch horn ring throughout Camp Half-Blood, then the children of the gods come out of their cabins and straight to the Mess Hall. There I thought of Blue Burger and sacrifice the good half to Grandpa and murdered the Burger with my mouth. After that I go through the schedule until it was archery.
"Good morning Mr. Johnson" Chiron greeted me.
"Good morning Chiron" I greeted back.
Then Chiron started to teach the younger kids to fire an arrow, I just started firing arrows at the target, looking around no one seemed impressed by it, I shrug, after a few days of shooting arrows in an incredible pace and accuracy, it gets boring.
After archery I went to talk to Chiron.
"Hey Chiron"
"Ah yes…" he looked around to make sure no one heard him.
"What is it you want to discuss about Jason?" he asked me.
"Poseidon-" his eyes widened at that "-came to me last night" I said. He just looked at me before saying what had transpired. I told him what I told Grandpa and he seemed relived that I wasn't blown up to bits. After a few hours it was free time and I thought it was a good time to go to the Arena. Apparently, I was wrong because Nico was there, waiting for me, 'Oh Fuck'. He seemed to be waiting for me, I looked at his face and didn't see any anger or hate as yesterday all I saw was regret. I hesitantly place my hand on my gladius that is strapped on my belt, as Nico approached me, I almost pulled out my sword until he spoke.
"I'm sorry" I narrowed my eyes thinking this is trick to get near me and chuck me to the Underworld. But then what he said next completely surprised me.
"They told me everything…Jason" 'Oh Fuck'. He then told me how Will slipped my real name by accident, which got me curious, why didn't he got punished by Styx, from what I know he broke his oath. He paused and continued "Why didn't you tell me? I could have avoided trying to kill you yesterday, I would have sworn on the Styx t keep it a secret" he said.
"I-I sorry but I wasn't sure how I was going to tell you" I said apologetically. We were both silent for a while waiting for the other to speak.
"So, you're my nephew, eh?" he asked with a smug smile. I glared at him.
"Although I want to ask you something, something I didn't ask Chiron and Will last night" I nodded waiting for his question.
"How in my father's name are you the son of my cousins, I thought Percy would have a kid with Annabeth?" I frown in sadness. This didn't go unnoticed by Nico because he too frowned.
"What happened to Annabeth?" he asked.
"She died" I told him. He bowed his head down in sorrow.
"How?" he asked in a dangerous voice.
"She was killed by… the Crooked One" he looked up at me so fast he could have ripped his head off, his eyes were so widened it was bulging out, his skin was paler than he normally was.
"Ho-How is he back?" I bit back a curse, why didn't Will and Chiron just tell him everything instead of me.
"He was revived by-" I carefully try to say it without causing him to faint "-Tartarus"
To my disappointment he fainted on the spot, so I dragged him to the infirmary where Will was, he saw us, and his eyes widened.
"What happened this time?" he asked, annoyance in his voice.
"Told him about Tartarus, he fainted" I told him. He sighed and brought him inside, I left the Infirmary and saw my mother, Thalia, talking with a tall Latina, she had beauty fit for a queen, her arms were muscled, she had light brown skin, and black eyes and hair, telling by her stance, she looked to be a warrior, and telling by her aura, she is a hunter. As soon as I took a closer look at her face I recognized her immediately, my Aunt Reyna. She was talking to my mom like the best of friends. She caught my gaze and I started to rush forward to my Cabin to avoid her, then Suddenly I bumped into something or more accurately someone and fell onto the ground with an oof, you know, how a Roblox says it.
I looked at her and noticed her features, she had blonde curly hair in a loose bun, she had grey stormy eyes that seemed to analyze your entire body to find the best spots to take you down, I will admit, she was beautiful, but not my kind of beautiful, she had an athletic fit body, she wore a grey jacket with black stripes on the side of the sleeves, she had a camp shirt on and a bead necklace, she also wore denim shorts and a pair of sneakers, she was holding a book about architecture and a few blue prints.
"Um, do you mind?" she asked. I realize I was just staring at her. I realize that I landed on her…
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'Oh Fuck' I landed in between her boobs. I wished I didn't bump into her at all.
I stood up so fast I could have teleported. I pulled out a hand for her to take to help her stand. She took it and got to her feet wiping off the dust on her clothes. And once I got the full view of her I paled.
I recognized her, from my dreams, she was Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena, and Girlfriend of Percy Jackson, and she is destined to be killed this summer.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: SO YEAH, THAT'S CHAPTER 5, ITS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER CHAPTERS BUT I WILL TRY TO CONTINUE MAKING THEM IN LONGER NEXT TIME. UNTIL NEXT TIME PEOPLE. LEAVE A REVIEW AND FOLLOW THIS STORY.
