A man almost seven feet tall wearing all black with shoulder length hair although Percy could not quite make out his face. It shifted and changed every time he thought he had gotten a good look it was making him cross eyed. He managed to stutter out "Who are you?"
The man smiled or at least Percy thought he was smiling, he couldn't really tell with all the changes and said "I am the one who brought you here. Surely you realise by now that this is not your world? Anyway, the gods of your world are becoming like the ones who used be in charge of this one. This needs to stop. I do not wish to do what I did here to your world. But with how arrogant they have become and have no respect for mortal life I am inclined to get rid of them there as well. You however Percy Jackson Have a unique chance to save them. You are not attracted to power but power is attracted to you. So I know you will not be corrupted by the power I have given you. I am sorry that your death was necessary to bring this about but your mortal half would not have withstood all that power and have just burned you out."
Percy was gobsmacked "My death?"
Still smiling the man replied "Yes when Zeus blasted you out of the sky you were attacked by one of the minor gods who wanted to cause a war. They knew that with your death after being zapped by Zeus your father would see that as an act of betrayal from Zeus and start a war to avenge you. You were the reason I did not destroy the gods in your world. Your father's love for you stopped him from doing what his counterpart here did earning my ire. If I forced the others to fade he would fade too and that would not be fair."
Percy asked the question that he had wanted to ask ever since seeing the man or whatever he was because clearly he was nothing he had ever encountered. "Who are you?"
Giving a mock bow the man replied "I am Chaos creator of the universe and you are my champion."
Percy just nodded and said "Oh is that all?" Then passed out.
When Percy woke up he was no longer in the underworld. He was lying on something soft and he could hear a brook nearby. Sitting up he noticed he was in a beautiful meadow. Chaos was sitting beside him and when he noticed that Percy was awake he spoke "I figured you would be more comfortable above ground instead of in the underworld. As I said you are my champion and I'm going to teach you how to harness the powers I gave you. When you are ready you are going to be my eyes and ears I your world. You will be the one to control the actions of the gods and if that fails that will leave me no choice but to remove them like I did their counterparts here. They seem to have forgotten the reason they received their responsibilities and power. The reason they took over from the titans."
Percy gapped before saying "Okay I get that you need someone for this job but why me? I don't exactly remember being asked if I wanted to do this. I don't want power, especially power over beings who are eons older than the oldest dirt on the planet. Why can't you reign them in?"
"I cannot be there all the time. It has taken me millions of years dealing with other worlds that are in a far worse situation than this one before I noticed what was going on. I have begun to place a champion in each world. Yours was very difficult. I was about to give up on finding one until you were born. My champion has to be a pure soul, incorruptible good and capable of love even after adversity, which is you Percy. You have complete free will in this you do not have to agree, although it will mean I will have no choice but remove those in power and along with them those who are connected to greek mythology in your world."
Percy looked at Chaos as he asked "What will happen to me then of you do that?"
"Nothing. You have not done anything wrong Percy. You will continue as you are. Whether you choose to live here or go back home is up to you. You will be the only one immortal and with power left."
Percy knew that there really wasn't any real choice here. He was kidding himself if he thought there was. He would not be able to forgive himself if was the death of all those has known including those he loved.
So he got up from where he sat and said "Okay I'll do it."
Chaos was still taller than Percy even while he was sitting down, something that Percy noticed and frowned at. Thinking back when he met those people at the docks he remembered feeling smaller. He knew he had not looked in a mirror ever since he arrived but he knew he was different. He hadn't even thought about it till now it had not been important. Chaos seeing where his thoughts had gone conjured a mirror for him and said "The changes couldn't be helped. When you lost your human half in the attack and half of you survived your size was always going to be affected. Your looks changed due to your godly side now being completely dominant without the mortal side of you."
Percy's only reaction was "Please tell me you have not changed my gender."
Horror was written all over his face making Chaos laugh. When he unzipped his trousers to check if his family jewels were still there Chaos was rolling on the ground in laughter.
Percy felt relief then mortification as he finally noticed that he was standing there with his hand down his pants in front of someone. His face was bright red as he managed to zip up his jeans again. He couldn't believe he had not noticed how different he looked. He was the size of a fourteen year old girl compared to his previous body where he could have easily passed for eighteen despite being almost sixteen. He looked like a girl. There was no other word for it.
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Chaos spent much of his time with Percy in the void. He was teaching him mediation to help him bond with his new powers. He knew this was going to take a long time especially with everything Percy had learn the most important was control. The last thing he wanted was to have Percy get angry and blow up the planet. It was proving very difficult especially as Percy had a very short temper and was never one to hold back. Simulation after simulation ended up with Percy blowing something up. When managed to control his temper enough not to blow anything up for the first time Chaos looked at him and said "finally, it's only taken you two hundred years to get the hang of it." Percy's training continued like that for every power he had to learn. He found out that by being given the powers of the big three he got the powers of the other gods as well even the minor ones. His training took the better part of 10 000 years before he mastered them all. When they finally left the void Chaos said to him.
"Percy, when you return to your world everything is going to be different even if you are going back the exact time you left however if you like you can stay here for one lifetime. Have a life where you are not running from monsters from greek myths. Go to school get a job the whole nine yards. I'm not saying it will be easy especially if you form bonds and you have leave them behind or they die from old age but the way I see it, it is a chance to live the way you want to before all the responsibility crops up."
Percy looked at Chaos who had become his mentor and friend over the years and realised what he was offering. It was not every day that you were offered a chance like this. A chance to see what it was like to have a normal life. The very thing that most mortals took for granted.
Before Percy agreed he asked "What if I fall in love? I would not want leave them behind and I don't think I would want to live an immortal life with a broken heart."
Smiling Chaos replied "You can only fall in love with your soulmate Percy. If that person is here where you go they will go too."
Percy smiled back and said "Okay, I think I'll take you up on that offer."
