What if Percy had accepted his father (Poseidon's) offer to becoming a god. What would his life be like? What would Annabeth's life be like, without him? What would the fate of the world be like, without him?
Percy's pov: I woke up, I was underwater, lying on this bed of coral. I was breathing, I wasn't willing the water to create an air bubble around me. There was no way I'd been holding my breath all night, although that would break my record to 7 minutes, but no, I was actually breathing underwater. At first, I panicked, but then I remembered I was a god now, I could do that.
I enjoyed being a god, it allowed me to spend time with my father, and actually get to know him. Which most demigods don't get the chance to do. But I missed Camp Half-Blood, I missed my friends, and my mom and Paul (my step-dad) and being on the swim team. Most of all, I missed Annabeth. She, was the reason I had originally declined Poseidon's offer of becoming a god, but, being the kind, smart, brave, demigod daughter of Athena she is, Annabeth insisted I take the opportunity.
"Annabeth… Annabeth…" I thought. I really should go back to camp, to see how everyone is doing. "But first…" I thought, I...need...a cheeseburger.
After I ate, I stopped and talked to Tyson, I started to ask him if he wanted to come with me back to Camp Half-Blood for a visit, when he immediately said ooh, yes! grabbed his bag, and was out the door before me!
"I can't wait to see Pony! Ooh and Annabeth! And goat boy!" Tyson exclaimed joyfully.
"Tyson," I said, "remember, the pony's name is Chiron. And goat boy's name is Grover."
"Oh!" he said, "right."
Once we arrived at camp, I immediately searched for Annabeth, almost completely ignoring all of the "Sup' Percy's" and pats on the back. Merely half waving/smiling back at all the kind remarks… I pretty much zoned out everything, my only focus, was finding Annabeth. Which is saying a lot, considering I have ADHD. So, "focusing" on one thing, for more than... I'd say about three minutes, maybe five tops, is a real difficulty.
Finally, I spotted her reading under the shade by the Athena cabin. I was about to go up to her and say hi, when I realized how extremely retarded that would have sounded. I mean now that I was a god, wasn't I supposed to make some kind of an entrance… meh, I don't know. This whole "being a god" thing is still kinda new to me. I still wanted to be seen, by Annabeth at least, as… me.
I couldn't think of anything much better to say than hi, but I eventually decided to go with, "Hey, is that a good book." and then hope she would pick up the conversation from there. So, I casually walked up to her and said "Hey..." and, then forgot the rest of what I had planned to say, when she looked up at me. And I completely froze. "Real smooth" I thought to myself "Real smooth".
"Percy…" she said, "oh... uh, hi. You came back."
"Yeah… of course I came back." I said shocked. "Why wouldn't I?" Had she really thought I'd just leave like that, I thought silently to myself. I mean 'loyalty' was my fatal flaw… she knew this, so how could she possibly think I would just up and leave. "You thought I would just leave…(I bit back the urge to say "you"...) like that." I said, probably sounding kind of hurt, without meaning to of course… I mean, I didn't want to make her feel guilty of accusing me or anything like that…
"No!" Annabeth said, quite loud… "No." she said again, probably realising how loud she had been the first time she said it… "But..." she said, "while we're talking about leaving…" Annabeth paused, I noticed this. She than took a few steps toward me, judo flipped me, looked me in the eyes, and said, "Don't you EVER leave for that long again!" Okay, I'll admit I was A bit frightened… 1. By Annabeth, and the murderous look in her stormy, grey eyes, 2. By the fact that she just judo flipped me, and 3. By the fact that it hurt, really bad… I mean I was a god now, was I not. But for some strange reason I couldn't help but smile up at her.
She smiled back at me, leaned down even further, and kissed me. She then helped me up, or so I thought... and judo flipped me again.
"Ow!" I said… "What was that one for?!" I groaned.
"Fun!" she laughed.
And so I couldn't help but laugh too. She helped me up, and then wrapped me in a hug. "I missed you Seaweed Brain." she said.
"I missed you too Wise Girl… I missed you too."
Just then the bell rang for lunch. We headed down to the campfire where we had lunch, and met up with Tyson, who was catching up with Grover.