"What is become of my life?" Percy thought as he overheard the conversation.

Percy later on spent the last days of the month and half of the next month enjoying with his cousins, listening to their adventures and getting used having a god in the head all the time with another one visiting often, which was quite irritating and uncomfortable for him by the way, to give lessons on Egyptian mythology and get a hang of having a god in his head all the time, exchanging memories to get to know each other and all.

Carter and Sadie were still mourning their dad while Percy tried to bottle up everything and lash out his frustration on the dummies he used to practice and test out the new powers on as he couldn't share everything with his friends on both sides for his cousins didn't know about the Greeks while the Greeks didn't know about the Egyptians.

Percy initially struggled with the fact of having a god in his mind. He often talked out loud, lashed out at random people while talking to the voices in his head, often got headaches, which unnerved him a lot. And there was also the worry of the Greek gods finding out about it. They had till now avoided going to Thoth about separating souls as it might make his cousins and cousins suspicious and so, stayed quiet.

Though, after a few experiments he found out that it had its own advantages. He even had the god to keep a list of the advantages and disadvantages the hosting. As of now all they have gathered is:

It is completely permanent

The person's heart is replaced by a scarab

The person can allow the god to take over at any time they want.

Powers can be borrowed from the gods if necessary.

You gain a part of the god's power as if you were their demigod child.

You get hungry easily

It was an accident when he discovered his blood colour had changed. He had been teaching Carter to fight with a sword after he came to know that he knew how to fight with a sword and also had an enchanted one. They were having a duel when Percy had got distracted and giving a chance for Carter to graze him and when he looked up to congratulate him for listening to him, he was met with shocked faces.

"What happened?" he asked, oblivious to the bleeding. Carter just pointed at his arm. "That's nothing dude, it will..." Percy froze as he saw the cut bleeding black. "Ok... that's new." Percy said, blinking at the cut and saw as it dripped onto a paper, fascinated as he opened his link to Anhur.

"Is that normal?" Percy asked.

"As far as I know, no. And watch out for the paper" Anhur warned and receded back to into the mind, probably going to make a note of the list of consequences of a demigod hosting a god.

And the most recently, you gain black coloured acidic blood.

Just great. 'Maybe it will work like the scarab skin thing?" Percy hoped and willed the blood colour to turn back to red and to his relief, it did change but not without any consequence. His whole body felt like it was on fire as he witnessed his skin turn translucent during the change before returning back to normal.

"Another thing to keep a note on Anhur, the blood colour can be changed but needs more practice as we can't have people notice the blood change colours" Percy said as he sent a memory of the feeling.

"Alright, another thing to add on to the list then" Anhur said as he filed that away too. After this incident, Sadie tried to get Percy to try magic but he failed miserably but instead found out that he could contact the dead and also increased his water powers up a notch and hence, he could control water with lesser effort. He also got the ability to summon any weapon he required and the knowledge to use them from Anhur. Bingo.

Soon, they started recruiting more people who have the blood of the pharaohs to prepare for the apocalypse, most attempts did not succeed unfortunately. It was in one of these attempts that Carter and Sadie along with Percy stumbled upon the Greek heritage of Percy.

It was again a complete accident. Carter and Sadie were on the recruiting magicians while Percy was meeting Nico at some McDonald's and then visiting camp for the day. Carter and Sadie were running away from the House of Life magicians when they came across a few demigods being chased by hellhounds. Wanting to help them and thinking that they were magicians, the two jumped in to help them, only to be dragged into camp by some Clarisse and Grover.

Percy, who by chance came in at the same time with Nico, cooked up a story on how the two were his cousins on his mother's side and were clear sighted mortals and all and managed to get them out of the camp before anyone came to know about the Egyptians.

And then, it was one hell of a explanation to his cousins about how the Greeks were alive and have demigods and all the problems in his world etc. Sadie and Carter were upset initially at the thought of Percy keeping it a secret from them but they understood and let it cool down. They also understood why Percy was permanently hosting a god and its side effects. They suggested that they can go to Thoth but Percy refused, saying that it wasn't necessary right then.

And then came another problem. In the start of February, the cousins got worried as there were not enough magicians who have the capability to host gods and recruiting the rest of them always fails due to the HOL people chasing them all the time and they didn't know how long they have before Apophis' next attack and they were going desperate.

And everything went downhill from then.

A/N: I know it is quite short and a little vague and all but... this is a basic outline of this chapter since I don't think I will have time to update during my vacation after today. And I also wanted to know when you would like Carter and Sadie to know about the Greeks: Now, before Nico joins in or After Nico joins the gang? It is up to you here, I mean I did include it here but I would gladly change it if you think it is a must.

And regarding the pairings, it seems like Nico x Will and Percy x Zoe are the most popular pairings with Nico x Reyna and Percy x Annabeth behind. Anyone who hasn't voted but wishes to can please go to the voting page and vote before New Year's eve.

This part will be rewritten when I have time (probably soon) and I hope you like this chapter as of now. All comments and criticism and suggestions are accepted and appreciated from you guys. It means a lot to me. Wishing you all an advance Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thank you all for reading!

Rasi10 signing off

Published on 24 December 2018