Seven years later
Scene changes to Ithaca's palace
It's just me, myself, and I
"Wait, is this Telemachus?" asked Piper.
"Yes! The palace and everything!" said Annabeth.
"A change in perspective? Nice!" said Percy.
"But I wanna know what happened to Odysseus!" groaned Leo.
"He might not even be in this saga probably," said Jason. "But we never know!"
Stuck in my bedroom
Living in this world you left behind
Dreaming of all these monsters
That I'll never get to fight
But boy, I wish I could
"Woah, woah, woah woah, woah," said Percy. "Hold up. You want to fight monsters?"
"Is he mad?" asked Leo. "We'd do anything for a break and he wants to start fighting?"
"He gets a cool palace to live in, nice mom and peace and quiet," said Annabeth. "Who wouln't want that?"
"The whole point of stories is to teach a lesson that life could be worse." said Frank.
"Yeah!" said Hazel. "For example, if we were book characters and people actually read us as if we weren't real, they would want to become demigods?"
"If I ever got my own series I would immediately say in the first lines that being a demigod sucks." said Percy.
"But people probably won't listen and day dream about being a demigod and wishing they were one and making weird stories about us on a website." said Jason.
"They'd just be creeps but who in their right mind would do that?" asked Piper.
"Yeah, that won't happen." said Nico. "We are real people and not some fictional characters in a book."
"Yeah." said Will. "That would be insane!"
So I could bring this world some light
'Cause I'm stuck with your stories
But no clue who you are
And no idea if you're dead or just too far
"He has hope and that's always a good thing!" said Will.
"Without hope, we probably would have lost the war." said Reyna.
"Wars." corrected Thalia.
"There is a lot going on with us: Kronos, Gaia, evil Roman Emperors, Loki with the Norses and Set with the magicians, what monsters haven't we faced?" asked Percy.
"Don't jinx us! There is probably another deity out there to kill us!" said Piper.
"Like who?"
"Chaos." said Annabeth.
"Who's Chaos?" asked Jason.
"The most ancient being in all of reality!"
"Before Gaia?" asked Will.
"Way before Gaia! Before Ouranus, before Nyx! You literally almost died to him!"
"The void? That was Chaos!"
"Yes! He could strip you of your very existence! Destroying everything that closes to it, your body, soul, everything."
"A fate worse than death." said Hazel.
Somebody tell me, come and give me a sign
Telemachus pets his dog
If I fight those monsters, is it you I'll find?
If so, then
Give me sirens and a cyclops
Give me giants and a hydra
I know life and fate are scary
"They really are." said Hazel.
"No one knows what the Fates have in store for you." said Frank.
But I wanna be legendary
I'll fight the harpies and chimeras
The Minotaur, even Cerberus
I know life and fate are scary
But I wanna be l-l-l-l legendary
"It's nice that he would do anything for his dad." said Hazel.
"But the fact that he doesn't know him shows a lot of love." said Annabeth.
"Yeah, I didn't care about my dad until I knew him and even then it took me a couple of years to forgive him." said Percy.
"Do you realise as well that all of those monsters have been seen so far?" asked Clarisse.
"No they haven't!" said Annabeth. "Only the sirens and the cyclops."
"But the chimera was in the Circe Saga." said Piper.
"And the Laestrygonians were also called giants." said Frank.
"And people tend to be confused by Scylla and the hydra." said Hazel.
"Fine... but that's all!" said Annabeth.
"They have been in the Underworld though so Cerberus might be a direct link to that." said Nico.
"And if we're talking about links, winions kind of remind me of harpies." said Will.
"What about the Minotaur then?" asked Annabeth.
"It might be a link to Poseidon, he was the one that created its father." said Clarisse.
"And Circe was the sister to its mother." added Jason.
"Ugh! I hate it when you're right!" growled Annabeth.
"Get used to it! Clarisse is on a role!" quoted Clarisse.
There are strangers in our halls
Trying to win the heart of my mom
"Being king was a big deal back then." said Leo.
"Many would want to become the next heir to the throne and throughout history, many have attempted several different types of ways for them to get the crown on their head and their butts on the throne." said Frank.
"It's still kind of the same now except it's easier to do so," said Nico. "If you want to become the 'king' you'd have to follow a democracy and have a party and-"
"Please no more politics." said Will.
"Fine..."
But she is standing tall
A hundred eight old faces of men who call me small
"Someone's like you Leo!" said Jason.
"I'm not short!" said Leo.
"You're 5'6, that is short." said Percy.
"I can get a growth spurt!"
"You're sixteen, you'd be 5'7... if you are lucky." said Annabeth. "But you're parents are quite short so genetically you would probably stay 5'6."
"That's not fair! Nico is the same height as me!"
"Yeah but if people mock me I can stare at them to death, what can you do?" asked Nico.
"I can light them on fire!"
"Would you?" asked Hazel. "Would you really?"
"No..."
They keep taking space
And it's not much longer we can stall
"That reminds me of the burial shroud. It's something which is woven by the widow and you can't get married until the proper death rites are set." said Annabeth.
"Yeah, that was very important during the Ancient Greek period." said Nico.
"Yeah so what she did was weave every day and during the night she would undo it so that she can give Odysseus more time to come home."
'Cause they're getting impatient, dangerous too
"People can only be patient for so long." said Reyna.
And I would fight them
If I was half as strong as you
Somebody help me
Come and give me the strength
Can I do whatever it takes to keep my mom safe?
"You can try your best and most of the time it works." said Percy.
"'Most'?" asked Will.
"The other times... uh, well... you know."
"Yeah, we don't talk about it that much." said Annabeth. "Let's just continue."
If so, then
Give me sirens and a cyclops
Give me giants and a hydra
I know life and fate are scary
But I wanna be legendary
I'll fight the harpies and chimeras
The Minotaur, even Cerberus
I know life and fate are scary
But I wanna be legendary
Suitors arrive
Where is he?
Where is the man who'll have you to wife? Oh-woah
Where is he?
Where is the man with whom you'll spend your life?
"Wait, what do they mean?" asked Leo.
"It's probably directed to Penelope." said Annabeth.
'Cause it's been twenty years (twenty years)
And we still have no king
"Wait twenty years?!" said Nico.
"Yeah." replied Annabeth.
"That's an awfully long time." said Will.
"It is..."
Give me a chance, a single opportunity and
I'll overcome these obstacles and scrutiny and-
Antinous throws a bowl at Telemachus
"That's gotta hurt." said Will.
"Uhh..." said Clarisse.
Boy
"Why are they treating him like a child?" asked Frank.
"Yeah, he's an adult." said Grover.
"I have... no idea." said Annabeth.
"Maybe twenty is just... young in Greek times." said Piper.
"No the life span is way less, you don't even get to meet your grandparents." said Annbeth.
"Some people say you are not an adult until twenty-four. Maybe that's the case." said Percy.
"But they're expected to fight in a war at a young age, Achilles went to the Trojan War at the age of sixteen."
"Maybe it's just a matter of disrespect." said Grover.
"Yeah, that might be it."
When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband?
(Oh)
"That's rude!" shouted Thalia.
"And they wish to marry her yet they call her rude names!" shouted Reyna.
"Reminds me of Gabe." said Percy. "Hate him."
Why don't you open her room so we can have fun with her?
Don't you dare call my mother a tramp
(Oh)
I just did
Whatchu gonna do about it, champ?
"That's how I felt back when Gabe was in charge," said Percy. "I had no power whatsoever."
"Well, you're free from him now." said Annabeth.
"Yeah, but... so many years of taunting her... is just... wrong."
"Your mother is strong and loves you, most of us don't have that." said Thalia.
"What happened to Gabe though?" asked Leo.
"My mother killed him." replied Percy.
"Respect." said Reyna.
Somebody tell me
Come and give me a sign
If I fight this monster
Is it you I'll find?
Author's Note:
hweoiamk - Thank you! Now it's here! Hope you enjoy!
Molly - Thank you! 'Ruthlessness' was one of my favourites to write.