Chapter 4: An older brother?

Percy's POV

How? How could I have a younger brother? More importantly, why didn't dad tell me? I mean, I probably should've put two and two together, with Ryan looking like me and being a natural surfer. But I guess Annabeth doesn't call me Seaweed Brain for nothing. But how could you have seaweed in your head? Wouldn't that hurt? Wait, what am I thinking? Ugh! Stupid ADHD! Back to Ryan. How could he be my brother? Dad told me that I'm his only demigod son, why didn't he tell me?

"I can answer that," a voice said. The water in the ocean started to churn, and a Man with black hair and sea green eyes rose out of the water, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and holding a trident in his hand. As soon as everyone saw them, left bowed, except for me.

"Lord Poseidon, what an honor to have you visit." Chiron said.

"Rise heroes, no need to bow," my father said. "Hello Percy," my father said, smiling towards me.

"Hey dad. Is Ryan really my brother?" I asked before I could stop myself.

"Yes, I believe so."

"Excuse me, but you said you believe so. Does that mean you're not for sure?" Annabeth asked. Ah, Wise Girl, always asking the questions.

"He's my son for sure, the water healing was enough to prove that he is the son of a water god, and the aura that Ryan gives off is enough to prove that he is the child of an Olympian."

"Are those the only reasons that you're claiming him as your son?" Travis asked.

"Of course not! I can sense when a child of mine enters my realm. Now I had been so used to sensing Percy that when Ryan entered the water, I dismissed his presence as Percy's. But when Ryan got into his accident, and Percy dove in, I realized that there were two sons of mine in the water. So that's why I claimed this mystery child of mine and came here." My dad explained.

"Wait, mystery child? What does that mean?" I asked confused.

"I mean that I know he is my child, but I don't know who the mother is. I'm positive that Sally was the last woman I had a demigod child with." My father said, causing me to shiver from the thought of my parents having… having… ugh! I can't even think about it!

"So, if you are sure that you haven't been with another woman since, well Percy, are you saying that Ryan might not be from this time? That he is like Nico or Hazel, a demigod from another century?" Annabeth asked.

"I'm glad that you could figure it out. Except it's not centuries, its more like millenia." An unknown voice said. Everyone, including myself and my dad. Suddenly I notice something different about Ryan (who was still unconscious by the way), his hand was covered in a strange blue-green glow. Suddenly the glow slowly resided and a ring appeared on Ryan's finger. I recognized the ring as what Ryan called his "Father's ring". But wait, if Poseidon is Ryan's father, does that mean it's his ring? I turned towards him to ask him. "Dad is that your"

"It can't be." My dad interrupts me. His eyes are wide and his mouth is hanging open. "Waydarshianos, is that really you?" It looked as if he was talking to the ring. Suddenly, a glimmering light appeared right next to Ryan. When the light died down, a tall handsome man was standing there. He had long green flowing hair, and his skin was as blue as the sea. After a couple moments of just looking at us, he finally spoke. "Yes Poseidon, it is me, Waydarshianos. And this really is your first born son."

"First born son? What does that mean?" Annabeth asked.

"Ryan was born millennia ago as Poseidon's first demigod child." Waydarshianos said. " But the day after his birth the gods found out about a very important prophecy about the young child. The first Great Prophecy. All of the monsters from Tartarus escaped and appeared on the island where the young Prínkipas and his mother were under attack."

"But by the time that I got there, his mother, who was my wife at the time was already dead. I took the baby and ran to my temple where I summoned my most trusted assistant, Waydarshianos to guard and protect my son until the time was right to send him back into the world. When he agreed I gave him the child and my wedding ring, and left to fight this army of Tartarus." My father said.

"I transformed Ryan into pure energy and stored him inside of Poseidon's ring and for thousands of years I watched and protected him, until 15 years ago when the time was right and I gave him to two clear sighted mortals who had recently got married, and were willing to adopt Ryan as their own until the time was right to send him to Camp Half-Blood."

"So Ryan is my older brother?" I asked confused.

"Really Percy. You find out that Ryan is Poseidon's first demigod son and a ton of other things and that's what you're wondering? And you wonder why I call you Seaweed Brain." Annabeth yelled.

Poseidon just laughed. "Yes Percy, Ryan is technically your older brother."

"Well I think it is time to wake our young hero up." Waydarshianos said. I totally forgot that he was still unconscious. Waydarshanos walked over to Ryan and with a glimmer of blue and green, he disappeared back into Ryan's ring. As soon as the ring stopped glowing, Ryan's eyes snapped open.

"Uh, hi?" Ryan said as he sat up. "Um, did I miss something?" Ryan started but was interrupted by a bone crushing hug from dad. I'm not gonna deny it, I was a little bit jealous, but that jealousy disappeared when I felt a hand on my shirt pulling me into a hug. My dad had pulled Ryan and I into a group hug. "My sons." He said. He probably would've said more but a boom of thunder told him that he had done enough.

"Well I gotta go, Zeus doesn't like me hanging around here too much. Goodbye my sons." And with that, my dad disappeared into the sea. A conch horn blew in the distance, signalling time for dinner. I didn't even notice that the sun had started to set. My friends all started to disperse, heading to their cabins to get ready. Soon, it was only Annabeth, Ryan, and I. Annabeth turned to me.

"Well I got to go and get ready for dinner. See you there Seaweed Brain." With that she kissed me and left. Now it was just me and my younger/older brother. I finally broke the silence.

"Well brother of mine, you ready for dinner?" Stupid, I know.

"Look I'm sorry that all of this happened," Ryan said, looking ashamed.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well I thought that you enjoyed being the only son of Poseidon, and now that I'm here you're not."

"Hey don't say that. Now we're not only friends but brothers. Now my, or our, cabin won't be so lonely. Same goes for the dining table. Plus, I get to show you all of the cool things about being a child a Poseidon." I say smiling.

"Like how to control water so next time I go surfing I don't almost die?" Ryan asked innocently causing me to laugh. I slung an arm around his shoulder and together we started walking to our cabin. I think I can get used to having a new brother around.

AN: OMG! Guys I'm sooooo sorry for the long wait. I know this isn't a very good chapter but I had bad writer's block and a lack of inspiration to continue to write this story because of the lack of reviews/favorites/follows. But never the less, I finally finished this chapter and hopefully the next chapter won't take so long to write.