An old lady's face isn't really a normal sight to wake up to, but even more odd was that Machaíri recognized the old woman's face it was Lachesis the fate of Life.
Groaning in exasperation he began to sit up forcing Lachesis to step back before she tapped him once on the forehead causing him to reel back in surprise as he heard three voices speak into his mind.
"Machaíri, you have finally awoken, think and we will hear."
"The first Titan War is over I take it?"
"It ended thousands of years ago with your father being sliced apart with his own scythe, however the second Titan War is on the horizon, this in turn has led to your awakening, as your father had control over your string of fate."
Machaíri's head was spinning at the information he just received until the fates last statement finally registered within his mind. "Wait had, he does not still have it?"
The three fates shook their heads as Clotho brought out a pure white thread of yarn. Which she then gave to him to his endless surprise.
"You are right to be surprised for we have done nothing of the sort for anyone before now, we have given you your personal string of fate, you Felix Epoch are now fateless, we gift you with the abilities your father never would have given you and we bless your sword, as capable as your bastard of a weapon was made of silver, steel and celestial bronze it is now capable of severing strings of fate should you will it."
The newly named Felix was understandably stunned. "I'm fateless?"
The fates smirked a look that didn't belong on the faces of three old ladies with ultimate power. "Your father desired to keep your string he begged us for it so he could maintain absolute control over you, with you now awake and him still eviscerated, we decided to gift you with a fate of your choosing, one not even we can control."
They looked between each other before continuing to speak within his mind.
"You have control over time an ability of your father, and as both a fateless individual and with your father's domain over fate you also have minor control over fate, in addition you have control of the glass of time."
"Thank ye for thine gifts, truly I am thankful I have a name, powers, a now blessed weapon, but what did thou mean glass of time it is that phrase that I do not understand?"
This time Atropos was the sole fate to speak as she inclined her head. "Concentrate on forming any weapon, imagine sand coalescing together before burning into a solid shape." Felix did so as he watched in fascination as a dagger grew almost seemingly from his hand small embers dancing and burning across the growing edges of the completely transparent weapon.
"Now concentrate, focus on the blade until you can envision it as an invincible weapon of death and stab it into the tree besides you." Following her orders Felix stabbed into the tree to his left startled by the ease in which it had cut through the bark, before trying and failing to pull it out the blade was so sharp it had cut through the tree like it wasn't there but had gotten stuck, so without looking to the fates for instructions he shattered the blade leaving shards of glass in the tree and his own hand unharmed.
Looking back at the fates Felix bowed his head before thanking them once again, thinking they were done with him.
"No Felix we are not done, we have much to explain, the world is very different to what it was like before your father put you in dormancy, we are no longer in Greece we are now in America a very different land one you might be familiar with considering you visited here many times before the end of the war." Felix didn't have anything to say so he continued to listen.
"The gods, Kronos' immortal children, have ruled since the war ended and a lot has happened since then, none of it is terribly relevant to you anyway. Your golden apple of immortality the one you were given before you fell asleep, no longer affects you, the apples do not make you immortal forever they simply elongate your life which in turn allowed you to stay young while you were asleep."
This time Felix did have questions, which he wanted to ask as soon as he got the chance.
"Why did ye do this, what do ye get out of making me fateless, especially if I am no longer immortal?" As much as he wanted to know the answers, he had another question. "Why are ye speaking so differently than how people used to? That seems terribly uncharacteristic of the fates."
The three fates stared at him blankly before explaining themselves.
"We are the fates do we have to have a reason for doing the things we do, but if you absolutely must have a reason it is because we have faith in you that you are fully capable of making moral decisions others won't be able to, an abused, scarred, and beaten bastard child who knows true emotional and physical pain, we have faith that you are capable of being something better than both the Titans and gods, you have a hybridized view biased and unbiased yet you are willing to learn and understand regardless of your stance."
"That does not make much sense."
"It's not supposed to make sense yet, you will come to understand in time."
Felix just stared at them with confusion plastered across his face.
"If ye say so, but that still does not explain how different your speech is."
"You have been asleep for thousands of years, languages change over short periods of time, for immortals anyway, you can imagine how much it would change in that time, now is that all?"
No I still don't understand what's going on, I don't know anything about the gods."
"The major gods, are some of the more significant of Kronos' children as well as their own, they rule from Olympus, and their mortal children aid them in their times of need."
Felix was still confused but he didn't get to ask anymore questions as the Fates had just teleported away, unsure of his next move he figured he might as well start walking.
It didn't take long though for him to find some form of civilization in the form of a campground, there were several cabins in the shape of an omega, with a bonfire in the center, there were strawberry fields, a beach, a larger farmhouse building, and Felix had no clue what he was going to do about anything, so all in all it was almost a normal day.
Making his way out of the forest Felix meandered down to the farmhouse discovering an older man sitting in a chair with wheels his legs covered in a blanket and another man in a leopard print purple shirt.
"Ah Chiron we have a visitor, do you recognize this one?" Felix watched as several playing cards set themselves down on the table, as the now named Chiron looked him dead in the eyes, before his own widened significantly.
"No Dionysus I do not recognize this boy as a camper I do however recognize the boy's features."
"Well then who does he look like maybe we c- oh I see the resemblance." Dionysus had finally looked up and also recognized the startlingly close comparison of Felix to Kronos.
"That could be a problem… well boy does a cat have your tongue, speak!"
"What is going on, who art thou, where am I?" Felix was genuinely confused and even more so after he saw Dionysus roll his eyes at Felix's questions.
"My old friend I believe he is one of those people." Felix didn't really understand what Dionysus meant but he understood he was being insulted and that didn't bode well with him. Fortunately Chiron was far more sympathetic than his rather rotund friend.
"My dear boy, you are in Camp Half-Blood a camp designed to protect, teach and train demigods, I am Chiron trainer of heroes and camp director, and this pleasant fellow-" He was interrupted as Dionysus interrupted with a snort of laughter at the word pleasant. "Dionysus please the boy's confused as it is, this fellow beside me is Dionysus the Greek god of wine, madness and some other domains that are less important."
Chiron paused staring directly into Felix's golden eyes before proceeding with his explanation. "As for what's going on, well that depends on you, so now it is my turn to ask you, just who are you?"
Felix wasn't sure what to say at first the fates had told him that Kronos had been defeated and the gods had taken over his rule and just in front of him was one of those gods, openly saying who his father was would probably just lead to more problems down the line.
"I am Felix Epoch." He couldn't stop himself from grinning in complete happiness, he had a name and he just got to say it for the first time, and it was a wonderful feeling.
Dionysus was the next one to question him scrutinizing his face. "Do you know who your godly parent is?"
This was it Felix had to lie he couldn't just say he was a child of the gods biggest enemy to a god. "No I don't know who my godly parent is, but I know that my mother was mortal." He figured that in the event that the gods were capable of detecting lies like the Titans he might get lucky.
"You're lying it's all over your face, you know exactly who you're related to." Of course Dionysus would be able to call his bluff, Felix was terrified he didn't know anything about what could happen to him, he may be fateless but if his future held excruciating pain it wouldn't matter.
"Answer truthfully or I'll turn you into a dolphin." Felix didn't know what a dolphin was but he didn't want to be turned into anything regardless, and so he conceded the truth.
"I am a son of Kronos, my mother was mortal and I was born seventeen years before the end of the first Titan war." With every word Felix shrunk inwards trying in vain to make his tall form smaller, he was afraid he didn't know what he was going to do.
He figured he could fight, his sword was made to kill anything and he could cut through fate with it, but the death of a god was not something easily ignored.
Except something happened that he hadn't expected, the pudgy god in front of him began to laugh uproariously.
"Boy, I already figured as much, I'm the god of madness it's rather easy to figure these things out, that and you seem to be very out of practice protecting your thoughts." At Felix's horrified expression Dionysus continued. "If you ever say this to anybody I'll deny it, but your secret is safe with me just don't cross me and we'll be fine demititan."
"Dionysus enough leave the poor boy alone there is no need to frighten him anymore, Felix my boy do you follow your father still?"
Felix shook his head desperately. "No, not anymore and when I did it was because he forced me to."
Chiron nodded his head knowingly, as he seemed to stare off into the distance for several seconds before regaining his composure and brought a three clawed hand across his heart and pushing outwards.
"He can be like that believe me I would know… very well I understand how you feel and if you are telling the truth which I have been led to believe you are." Chiron said sternly looking at the god beside him who had been studying his cards. "Then I think everything will work out in the end."
Felix didn't say anything, he was amazed that he was still alive and even more so with his freedom intact.
"Annabeth will guide you around the camp feel free to ask her any questions you may have, and I hope you don't decide working with your father is a good plan of action."
Nodding his head while turning away he found himself facing a young honey blonde girl in an orange shirt and blue pants, it seemed he had a lot of work to do to gain the trust of these people, after all he didn't want them to think he was serving his father since he already knew he would be rising again soon if he hadn't already.
a/n: Just to clarify in the first book of Magnus Chase Utgard Loki eats an apple of immortality and explains why he needs it despite being an immortal giant, while I can't remember exactly what he said, I'm following that logic for the apples, so Felix is no longer immortal.