Chapter 3: Apollo
A/N: My computer is acting up, updates may start coming slower, or faster depending on if it starts working or not
Percy POV (I decided I needed some other pov than 3rd person)
I don't know what Zeus said before he left but it sure got dad in a panic. The only time I had seen dad this stressed looking was while mom was in labor with Triton. Well, right now we were running through a forest about as fast as we could run. "Hey dad, why don't we just flash where ever we're going?" He face palmed before he flashed us to a new location.
Standing in front of were we flashed was a boy, he looked about 16 same age I had my body in right now. He had blonde hair and sky blue eyes. Apollo. When he saw us he almost dropped the basket of berries he was holding, but once he noticed it was Poseidon he gave us his signature smile. "Sup Uncle P. Did you come to get advice on picking up ladies?"
My dad growled at him and once Apollo realized this wasn't the laid-back personality Dad normally had he stopped with the joking. Then he saw me. "Triton is that you, man you look a lot more… hot." I smiled and thought about what Triton's reaction would be when I told him about this. "Let me introduce myself, Perseus first born and more hot son of Poseidon, at your service."
I gave a mock bow towards the end before reaching out my hand for Apollo to shake. He gave a small laugh before shaking my hand. "Man, I like you a lot more than Triton. He was just to… strict I guess." I laughed just trying to imagine what Tritons expression would be when he found out that not only did Apollo call me more hot than him, but also that he liked me more than him.
"So, uncle P. what brought you and… umm… Percy, yea I like that. So what brought you and Percy out to the wonderful island of Delos?" Poseidon looked around before giving Apollo a small frown. "Is Artemis not here with you?" Apollo's smile slowly faded and I'm pretty sure this was the first time any one had seen the sun god without a smile on his face.
"No, she's…uh… not she's not here. You see mom didn't like to see her two children fight all the time so I visit one day every week and she visits another." My dad nodded in understanding probably having seen them fight many times before. "Well, Zeus found out Percy, as you called him, excited when I tried to turn him into a god. Well, Zeus was thought I was trying to over through him or something so he cursed Perseus.
He cursed him so that the only way he could become a god was by vote of the council or if he decided it was ok. Since there's a better chance of him giving up his throne than letting Perseus become a god I decided I would try to turn most of the in favor of Perseus before Zeus got to them. So will you vote for Percy to become a god?' Apollo nodded his head before smirking.
"I will on one condition. While you go around and try to recruit people to help him become a god I get to keep him and teach him to be a ladies man, also how to shoot a bow, and I'll bless him and teach him some hunter's skill and stealth skills with his new powers. If you agree to my terms I swear on the River Styx I will vote for Percy to become a god."
Dad seemed to ponder this before wearily looking at Apollo. "One rule. No taking him to bars," Apollo nodded his head and dad sighed, " Well then I swear on the Styx to abide to your terms, BUT if your not done with whatever it is you plan on doing by the time I've convinced at least half the council to vote for him I get him back before you are done." Apollo nodded his head before my dad told me bye and flashed out.
Apollo turned to me after dad left and smiled even bigger. "Okay, I'm going to give you half my blessing. I won't give you my bow and arrow blessing because if you can learn to shoot well with out it, with it you'll never miss. I will give you most of my powers tough." He stepped forward and before I could protest put a hand on my head. I heard him saying something but I couldn't understand any of it because of the pain.
It felt like he was trying to force the whole sun into my head at one time. When he was done I felt a lot better and felt like I had just feasted on Ambrosia and Nectar for an hour. "My blessing gave you: Music abilities as good as mine, Minor control over sun light, so you can bend it to shield your presence or blind enemies and more, You also can heal better than any of my children, After you can hit ten bull's-eyes on a target from 100 yards away then it will also make you an even better shot, it also changed your looks, and let me say, if you ever turn gay I'll be here waiting on you."
I gave him a disgusted look at the last comment and he just laughed. "I was joking, but seriously I'm pretty sure you could make most maiden goddesses drool just looking at you." Seeing my confusion he summoned a full body mirror in front of me. I had always had muscles and pretty big ones to, but now they were the perfect size. Defined enough you could see them without flexing, but small enough it didn't look like I used steroids.
My pitch black hair had almost glowing blonde tips and was a little longer and more unruly than before. My teeth were now perfect and my face looked good enough that I couldn't find anything wrong with it. And my eyes. They Were still swirling colors except now the looked more bold and defiantly glowed with more power, and on the outside of the normal colors there was a small ring of yellow that looked exactly like the sun, except mine wasn't as bright as the sun.
There was still white and my iris didn't look any bigger than before so it must have shrunk a little to fit in the golden ring around it. "Now that you have my blessing ill introduce you to my mom, shell give you a bed to sleep in, and then tomorrow we'll start your training." I groaned knowing it was going to be a long time until Dad came to pick me up. But who knew, maybe this would help me later on in life.
