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Percy Jackson: Son of Poseidon and Lord of the Force
…Chapter One…
Twenty-five years in the past:
"Can we please start!? I have a 'date' with a tree nymph in three hours!" Apollo said to his fellow Olympians.
"Try not to scorch her insides this time." Hephaestus joked. Ares, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, and Demeter laughed.
"Big talk for the dude with three knots on his di—" Apollo was cut off.
"Apollo, Hephaestus, boys, quiet. We have important issues to discuss. We are only waiting for your uncles." Zeus said.
"Father," Athena spoke. "Did you say uncles, as in more than one? It's bad enough that I have to put up with Poseidon, but Hades attending an Olympian meeting…and during the summer solstice!"
"This is a very important meeting, Athena. Both of your uncles are crucial to it. You know that we are stronger together, Sky, Sea, and Hell. Even during the summer solstice, Hades must be welcomed to this most important of councils." Zeus said.
"Why are we here, anyways?" Demeter asked. "All is fine. Camp Half-Blood has made a huge breakthrough with Thalia's Tree, and Camp Jupiter has just recruited two sons of Mars and three daughters of Bellona."
"We are meeting for much, much more than the present, sister. We are here to discuss the future." Zeus said. Just then, storm clouds filled the Room of Council. Rain poured heavily from the pitch black clouds. The rain accumulated into a six foot tall structure. Poseidon replaced the water in the blink of an eye.
"King of Storms, Earth-Shaker, and Lord of the Seas, clocking in!" Poseidon said, taking a drink from a coconut that refilled itself with orange martini. "I was pissed off at your for a century, Zeusie, but ruling the beaches, kicks ass!"
Ares laughed. "Zeusie?"
"Not now." Zeus turned to "Poseidon, this is very serious. Please take your throne and let us wait for the council to begin."
"Quit fuckin' around, little bro! You said the same thing when mortals made airplanes." Poseidon said.
"Hades is attending the council, you drunk." Athena said.
Poseidon's face became serious. "You're kiddin'? You're not screwin' around? Us-damn, there is some apocalyptic shit going on."
"Should I get rid of his drunkenness, Zeusie?" Dionysus asked. A few of Zeus' godly children snickered.
"Yes, please do so." Zeus said, slightly angry. Dionysus snapped and Poseidon as sober.
"Thanks, nephew." Poseidon sat in his throne.
After several minutes of waiting, more storm clouds appeared. Like Poseidon's they were pitch black. The clouds swirled for a few seconds, Hades had appeared. He wore his Helm of Invisibility and had a staff with the skull of a baby Cerberus drawn.
"Is this some cruel joke?" Hades said, waving his staff.
"No, Baby Hadie, you've actually been invited to the Summer's Council." Poseidon said.
"Baby Hadie?!" Ares laughed. "Uncle Poseidon is now my favorite relative."
"Now that we are all present...let the Council begin." Zeus said, ignoring his son. The room shone a bright gold, and every Olympian held their signature weapon and wore armor made of a pure, untainted mixture of Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold, and steel. Their eyes leaked their perspective element. Their godly forms.
Poseidon gripped his trident. "So, why have you called us together, Zeusie?"
"I…I have felt a great…disturbance. I'm sure you have too, my brothers." Zeus said.
"Yes. I have." Hades spoke. "Gaea is waking. Slowly, but she is. If she wakes, then our father, Kronos, will rise even sooner."
"Yes, Grandmother is in fact awakening. But that is not the disturbance I am talking about." Zeus said.
Silence filled the Room of Council.
"I…I felt it first." Aphrodite held her scepter tightly and it shone a reddish-pink. "There…there is a girl, Sally Jackson. She was thinking of her love life, and her future. I was…drawn to her. My presence was now stronger around her. Then a…a ripple just went through me. The same I feel whenever a war or bloody battle is fought because of a love. Only this was at least tenfold the power."
"As did I." Hera said. Her staff baring a peacock with sharpened feathers shook. "I was attending a Roman Demigod wedding, as Juno. Between Gregory Zhang and a mortal woman. I sat there watching. Then…something…shook me to my core."
"Well if—" Zeus was cut off.
"Do you remember, those three Demigods, Anakin, Luke, and Leia?" Hera interrupted. All of the gods gulped nervously and twitched.
"Yes, Stepmother." Artemis said. "The first daughter of Poseidon, Leia and also the first Demigod with powers over the seas, the first son of Zeus able to summon lightning, Anakin, and Luke, the only son of Hades able to come and go from the Underworld unharmed physically or mentally. They were the first Demigods with powers. Not blessings from their parent. Powers."
"If I remember correctly, those three were cousins. Both by their godly parent and their mortal parent." Athena said.
"Yes, Athena." Poseidon said. "But believe me, it was not intentional."
"Yes, anyway," Hera said. "Those Demigods almost had enough combined power to overthrow Hades."
"I remember…I remember, sister. I had to kill my only son and send him to the Fields of Punishment, after all. One doesn't forget that." Hades almost sobbed.
"But, didn't you say that during the battle, Anakin…choked you…from a distance. One might even say he used only his willpower, am I not right, brother. One might say he was…a Jedi." Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades stood and charged their weapons.
"No! One would not!" they yelled in unison.
"The legend of Sith and Jedi are just that. Legend. Pegasus crap Kronos told us to scare us. If there were truly gods of the Cosmos, I would have found them millennia ago." Zeus yelled.
"If a Sith or Jedi truly existed, I would have come across them. Even gods get thirsty. Why hasn't one drunken any water or liquid? If they existed, they would have used their…Force Sensitivity…to melt the ice on Mars or some other planet out there. They would have drawn it from the atmosphere or the sand. They would eventually create bodies of water that I would control and sense." Poseidon screamed.
"If they were real, one would have mated. Made Demigod or some other creature, which would eventually die. No spawn of a Jedi or Sith has ever come across any of my guards." Hades hollered. The Big Three sat angrily.
"It was only a thought." Hera said.
"I felt that battle." Ares set down his double-sided spear. "It was intense. Like, Giants intense. The power in that throne room…I was jealous. But…if those stories are true…then those three were definitely Jedi. Or Sith. Anakin did choke you using only his willpower. Leia almost convinced you to give up the Underworld, as if she was the world's greatest charmspeaker. And Luke…the shocking he gave you….Two words. Bad. Ass."
"Shocking?" Zeus said. "I was informed of no shocking. That is a gift of Zeus and Jupiter. Neither Hades or Pluto has that power to give."
"I don't think Hades gave him that power." Ares said.
Zeus slumped back in his throne. His Master Bolt levitated above his open palm as he thought.
"New, rule, the Force is real. And so are Sith and Jedi. I cannot think of any other way a son of Hades could gain such a power." The Olympians became nervous.
"Father, are you to suggest—" Hermes spoke.
"That midichlorians exist, and virtually unlimited power could be granted to any mortal, god, or Demigod, without consent of the gods? Yes." Zeus said. "However, I fear that the power of the Jedi and Sith was underappreciated by Kronos. If their power can affect the future of not only the physical elements, but emotions and events…I believe we should prepare."
"Could you be more precise?" Apollo asked.
"We must prepare for history to repeat itself. We must ready ourselves for Father rising. And soon afterward, the rise of his mother, Gaea. But more importantly. We must ready ourselves for the gods of the Cosmos to come to Olympus. Who knows what they will want." Zeus said.
"How should we prepare, brother?" Hades asked.
"Brothers, do you remember the oath we took some forty years ago?" Zeus asked Poseidon and Hades.
"Yes." Poseidon said. "We must not mate with any mortal women, in order to prevent the birth of the Demigod son or daughter of the Big Three that will either save or destroy Olympus."
"Yes, that's the one. I have a new oath. Hades, Poseidon, please stand and set down your weapons." they stood and set down their weapons as Zeus had asked. Zeus did so as well. "Now, repeat my words. I swear on the River Styx…"
"I swear on the River Styx…" Poseidon and Hades repeated in unison.
"…that I will mate with any mortal woman or women of my choosing, in my Greek or Roman aspect…" Zeus said.
"…that I will mate with any mortal woman or women of my choosing, in my Greek or Roman aspect…" Zeus' brothers said confusedly.
"…to give birth to a maximum of two Demigods." Zeus said and sat.
"…to give birth to a maximum of two Demigods." Poseidon and Hades finished and sat.
Zeus sat in silence and his eyes scanned the room. "We aren't in Tarturus, so I presume the loophole was successful."
"So, Zeusie, you want us to mate? To make Demigods?" Poseidon asked.
"Yes, very much so. But that oath must stay totally Olympian confidential. No soul, living or dead, must know of it. Now, we must plan. Aphrodite, we will need a charmspeaker. A female, charmspeaker would be preferred." Zeus.
"I think I can manage that." Aphrodite laughed.
"Good. Mars!" Zeus said. Ares' double-sided spear turned into a one-sided and bloodied spear.
"Yeah, Jupiter?" Mars said.
"A son of yours would be excellent." Zeus said.
Poseidon spoke. "There is a girl, Maria. She is young now, but she has the blessing of Polyos. A son or daughter of Mars with my blessing would be very powerful."
"Cool. I just don't want to wait very long. Would it be pedophile-ish if I were to just—" Mars said.
"Yes, Mars. That would be very pedo-ish." Poseidon said.
"Hephaestus, we will need a fire-user." Zeus said.
"I'll get to it right-away." Hephaestus said.
"Hades, your daughter, Hazel—" Zeus said. Hades' skin paled, his hair slickened and darkened, and his staff was replaced by a gold, diamond encrusted scepter.
"The one who postponed Gaea's rising in the 1940's, yes." Pluto said.
"We could use her." Zeus said.
"Jupiter, you know that neither I nor Thantos can revive the dead. It is law." Pluto said.
"When Gaea begins to stir, she will take over the Doors of Death. If a son or daughter of Hades were to rescue her from the Underworld…." Zeus said. Pluto became Hades.
"I understand, brother. I have two children. Nico and Bianca DiAngelo. They have been hiding in the Lotus Hotel and Casino for some thirty years now. When the time is ripe, I will release therm." Hades said.
Poseidon laughed. "You were always the smart one, Baby Hadie."
Hades grinned. "And you were always the good-looking one, Poseidon."
"I never thought I would see the day when Hades was welcomed to the Summer Council, and he actually got along with his brothers." Hera said.
"Nor did I. Athena and Poseidon, I ask of you to make Demigods as well. I too will seek a mortal mate." Zeus said.
"Father," Hermes said. "I think that we should revisit 'the book'…for future readiness."
"Do you mean…?" Athena asked.
"Yes. The Book of Jedi, Sith, the Force, and Lightsabers." Hermes said.
"That book Kronos wrote full of…false stories. He told us those every night, just to watch us sleep only because of fear." Hera said.
"Well, Stepmother, if the legend is true, then the stories must be as well." Hermes said.
Mars laughed. "Lightsabers. Badass. If those legends are true, they can cut through Dad's Master Bolt like butter. Damn, I'd like to see a war fought with those…."
Zeus frowned. "If all goes wrong, you just might have your wish. Hermes, we will not consult the book. We need not information. We need heroes and power. We will all train as we did during the Giant War. Council, dismissed."
