101DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own the story The fate in our hands. That belongs to Shadow Priesstes, and she gave me permission to finish it.
First Chapter that Shadow Priesstes wrote.
I. Blame my grandaunts for this
It was a normal day in Olympus, to be more precise the Winter Solstice, filled with arguments between the gods and goddesses. Demeter was complaining to Hades for kidnapping her daughter while Persephone stood between her mother and husband to prevent them from attacking each other. Athena was gloating about her triumph over Poseidon for getting to be the patron of Athens while the god tried to ignore her, he accepted his defeat after having his revenge, with that what he did with medusa in her temple. Though to be honest, he hadn't wished that fate on the poor girl, to become a monster who was then killed. He was still kind of pondering if Pegasus who was born from her blood counted as his son or not…. you don't walk up to a girl who got turned into a monster because of you and ask them casually if they happen to be pregnant by you. Even Hermes and Apollo weren't this dumb. Speaking of the Messenger of God and the Sun God, they were going over the plan as to how they could get Apollo into the Hunt's camp. Artemis did not notice them whispering because she was busy trying to explain it to Aphrodite that she doesn't need a love live. Zeus and Hera were again in an argument about Hera plotting against Zeus's demigod children when there was suddenly a flash of light making all arguments stop and making the gods stare with confusion at, they guests.
There where the light flashed Amphitrite and Triton, both confused why they were here on Olympus and that they possessed legs before a frown appeared on the queen's face, when spotting two heroes her husband had sired, Theseus and Orion from which the latter was busy not to look at Artemis for Apollo was glaring at him, while his brother tired not to meet the annoyed look of Dionysus because of Ariadne. The other guests were also confused why they were suddenly here in front of the gods Hercules was careful to avoid the dark look on Artemis's face, she was angry because of the hurt he had caused her lovely Zoe. Perseus on the other hand kept a careful look on the Queen of the Gods and on his wife princess Andromeda who looked close to fainting unlike their son, Perses found the whole thing exciting.
"What is the meaning of this?" Zeus demanded from the group.
"Brother, if you would care to look at their faces you would know that neither of them has a clue about how they had com here." Hades said rolling his eye as he sat down on his guest throne, he hated that thing because it was there for this one day.
"I agree with uncle in this father." Athena said sighing, she hated being confused with unexplainable happenings.
"Uh... if I may speak Lord Zeus." Andromeda' unsure voice drew all attention to her, a note was in her hands. "This piece of pergamen was on the ground and may explain why we all are here."
"Then you may read it to us, and no one should dare interrupt her." Zeus said to his daughter-in-law as she nodded hesitantly, she was not used to be in the presence of so many gods.
To the gods of Olympus
We have brought here the heroes of Old, the fair princess and her child, the Queen of the Seas and prince Triton. Soon a new group will appear two groups to be correct, the Heroes of New even though their deeds will only be happening in about one and a half year in the time from where we have taken the first group, the second one will come from a bit later. They are descendants from the first shifting of the Western Civilization. In the future the world will be plunged two times into great despair, these heroes shall be the key to saving the gods from destruction. We have chosen this time period in the old days because then you won't be jumping into idiotic conclusions. -Yes, we mean mostly you Zeus, you tend to act more like an overgrown child-…
There were some chuckles from some of the gods and well, they weren't technically interrupting.
…Those demigods shall not be harmed by any of you for their death would mean your own demise in the future so heed our advice! Apollo may also inform the one introducing himself as a legacy of his that he that he shall be careful with his big mouth, we have taken care of it that he doesn't interrupt you all too much.
At this looked everyone confused at Apollo who only shrugged while Artemis muttered that someone should have taken care of her brother's big mouth, hopefully in a different way than he likes it. She shuddered at the sudden, unwanted mental images.
Usually, it's not something we allow to happen, but after a throughout discussion between u, our mother, and with her help also with grandfather it was decided that you all shall read ten books about the future featuring a young, unique hero who is different than all those who have come before him.
At this the four heroes of old looked confused at each other, a demigod who surpassed them all?
You will have the chance to change the future, to save people from dying and to be at least a bit more of a family.
Hera perked up at this, she will tolerate any demigod if it should mean that her family would be a bit closer to a perfect one.
Believe us we never thought it is possible, but we have got proven wrong so it might be good to start this process a good deal earlier with less tragedy leading up to it and we think that Lord Hades and his workers would also be pleased with less overnight shifts, we know that our two brothers would surely agree on that.
Hades nodded, that would truly help if he had less paperwork and all the other stressing things that comes with this job. Persephone also smiled at her husband, less work would mean that in those months that she was in the Underworld Hades would have more time for her. She knew that he tried, but his work was tiring him out and it was not a one time occurrence that she found him sleeping by his desk, surrounded by stacks of paperwork, his face smeared with ink because he fell asleep on the document he had been working on.
This brings us to the last group that will come from our time, these are not demigods but legacies, though don't let yourselves be fooled because somehow, they have inherited strong powers from their parents so they may be able to use the gifts from two gods. – Some of the demigods we send from the future are the parents of these legacies, so some of you will have the amusing chance to also meet your grandchildren. – We also wish to mention that one of them is different from them all for she can't be fully called a legacy or a demigod in the meaning of the words due to the circumstances of her birth. The rules of not harming anyone also extends on them! Have fun reading and try not to have all too many heart attacks.
At this everyone exchanged unsure glances with each other.
Sincerely,
The fates
P.S.: Grandfather has sent word by our mother that when you finish all the books everyone will return to the time that they came from but will be allowed to keep the memories of that was read if they decide to change things that went wrong. In those case the timeline will split, and an alternate dimension will be born so the different timelines will not interfere with what you decide to do in the end. Hope that this will be enough for the goddess of wisdom.
Athena nodded blushing while some of the others snickered at her, mostly Poseidon.
"Well, this was certainly an interesting letter, though ho is the grandfather of the Fates?" Apollo asked his father, not noticing his brother flinching, Zeus shifted uneasily in his throne while Hera smirked, Artemis only glared.
"The Fates are the daughters of Nyx the Goddess of Night, she is your great-grandaunt in other words sister to your great-grandmother Gaia the Earth. She like her sister and three brothers were the children of Chaos, he was the primeval state of existence, a being without a true form, a silent emptiness who gave birth to your great-grandmother Gaia and her siblings Tartarus" Hades nodded the god rarely appeared in full form in the domain he created he preferred to stay hidden "Eros the embodiment of love before deciding to watch from the sidelines after Aphrodite came, Erebus the silent darkness and Lady Nyx. I should mention that from all of them most ay that she is the most similar to her father thought no one knows why."
"But if he has no form how can his daughter be similar to him?" Perses asked curiously.
"It is because of a feeling young one; you should never offend her then she will take cruel retribution." Zeus said to his grandson.
"Believe you grandfather and uncle child, she is not a lady when angry." Hermes said flinching; she took that thing with him stealing his granddaughter pretty badly on top of the other things his father caused. He didn't dare do deliveries by night for a few years, for she would send shooting starts at him, no wonder some of her children represented not exactly positive things or if they were in trouble they would hide behind their mother.
"And you deserved it father for what you did to Nemesis." Artemis growled, she had liked the goddess, she was her best friend who even decided to be part of the Hunt, so close was they bond, but after her father's actions had she started to keep a distance from her because she was not a maiden anymore. It hurt Artemis because she knew that she had not wanted it, her father had robbed from her a person she held dear, they bond shattered and one of her half-brothers had even made things worse with stealing her once friend's child born from the forced union.
Sensing the tense atmosphere tried Orion to diffuse the situation, well he would have gladly let someone else do it, but all the gods seemed to busy with either glaring at Zeus and Hermes or calming down Artemis and his lovely brother and cousins had pushed him forward.
"Uh…does someone know when these demigods from the future will be arriving?" and as if to answer his question there was a flash of light and a large group of strangely dressed, confused teens appeared in the middle of the throne room. "Forget that I asked."
It was Hestia who left her place by the heart and went over to the children and explained them the letter in kind words, one of the groups seemed to take the news slightly better then the other who were looking about to faint from the sheer thought that they are in the presence of the gods, though one looked more bothered by it then overwhelmed.
"Young heroes, state your names and your parentage." Zeus said, glad that now the attention was off of him, he didn't need to remember what the Night Goddess had done to him in her anger because of her daughter, there was a ground why he backed away so readily when Hypnos his behind her skirt.
The children nodded and two blonde teens stepped forth.
"Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena." said the girl, her mother smiled kindly at her.
"Malcolm Kent, Son of Athena." with that he stepped back beside his sister feeling awkward when seeing his mother smiling at him. This was something to which he was not used and hoped that the Stoll's would not dare using this as blackmail against him. Speaking of the two troublemakers, they were the ones next up with their third brother.
"Travis" started one of the boys beside the one who could be his twin.
"And Connor Stoll, Sons of Hermes."
"Chris Rodriguez, Son of Hermes." Hermes grinned at his boys while most gods held back a groan about the thought of having to watch out for a flood of pranks and disappearing objects, in fact Hephaestus was already thinking about improving some of the traps he has made around his quarters and his throne.
"Katie Gardner, Daughter of Demeter." said a petite looking girl at which Demeter tried to ignore the smirk her son-in-law/brother was giving her while Persephone decided to wait a bit and see if she should try getting to know her half-sister, but she was sure to hold this against her mother, but there was something she needed to know.
"Katie, do you have other demigod siblings?" the Queen of Dead asked curiously while her mother looked nervous.
"Yes, I have at least fifteen half-siblings." she said not fully understanding why her older half-sister asked, though she needed to admit that she was really beautiful.
"I see." Persephone replied smiling, yep, she will be using this against her mother, meanwhile had Katie stepped back and another young man with blonde hair and blue eyes stepped on her place.
"Will Solace, Son of Apollo." Apollo grinned at his son, missing the fact that Artemis was rolling her eyes at him.
"Clarisse La Rue, Daughter of Ares." it was an interesting sight to see the God of War falling out of his throne while some of the other gods and heroes started spluttering.
"I…I have a daughter…?" Ares asked looking slightly mortified which confused Clarisse because her father never looked like this while Ares tried desperately to figure out how to deal with a female demigod daughter. The only thing he knew about women was how to bed them!
"Was about time that you have a daughter beside all your sons." Aphrodite said finally, she was curious what fun she could have with the girl's love life.
"Now is it your turn, we know that you descendants of a time when the Flame will shift to a new territory to where we may follow it." Zeus informed the children after getting over the thought of Ares having a daughter, he really didn't see that ever happening.
"I'm Reyna, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion, Daughter of Bellona. Her Greek counterpart is Enyo." stated a black haired girl as she bowed to the gods.
"She is fun talking to about war." Ares agreed.
"Jason Grace, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion, Son of Jupiter, my father's Greek counterpart is Zeus." replied the young man beside Reyna making Hera glare at her squirming husband, he was still at it, but at least is the boy named after her favourite of those brats, while Perseus and Hercules were looking with interest at they little brother.
"You are my uncle to?" asked little Perses as he run up to Jason who was now feeling extremely awkward but managed to nod before freezing down as the child hugged him happily. For Perses was this all too much fun.
"Dakota, Senior Centurion of the Fifth Cohort, Son of Bacchus, his counterpart is Dionysus." at this looked the God of Wine interested at the boy and gave him a little smile which surprised Dakota somewhat because this was the first time, he saw his father in person, and in Greek form, but it was nice to finally meet him none then less.
"My name is Gwendolyn, but I prefer to be called Gwen" said a shy looking girl carefully before continuing her introduction "Centurion of the Fifth Cohort and Daughter of Venus, her counterpart is Aphrodite."
"YAY, I HAVE NOW ALSO ONE OF MY DEMIGOD CHILDREN HERE!" squalled the love goddess happily, nearly making everyone deaf.
"The lady is pretty loud." stated little Perses making the goddess blush and some gods snicker.
"I'm sorry sweetie." Aphrodite to the little child, he was so cute.
"Frank Zhang, Member of the Fifth Cohort, still undetermined." Frank said before stepping back so that the last of they group could step forth, a lanky blonde teen.
"Does he also remind you of Luke?" Chris whispered to his brothers who nodded as they watched the last of the Roman group. They were all not sure how to feel seeing that Greeks and Romans were rivals and they had not known that there were Roman demigods left, similar to the other group who were thinking the same only switching up the names.
"I'm Octavian, Centurion of the First Cohort, Augur, I'm a Legacy of Apollo." he finished proudly.
"Well, he got your ego for sure." Artemis whispered to her brother who was now looking at his grandson, remembering what the letter said, he had noticed the disgusted look on his face when the Greek part of the group introduced themselves.
"Octavian." he said addressing the blonde.
"Yes, Lord Apollo?" he asked curiously.
"In the latter the Fates advised me to advise you to be careful with your words, I don't know what they did, but they can surely be creative if they wish to be." the Roman demigods started laughing at the expression on Octavian's face, it was priceless.
"Now that this is done, we need only the books and the last group to arrive." stated Hera, still somewhat miffed at her husband, but she would keep calm for the chance to get her perfect family.
Soon a new light appeared, but this time it was above the golden table in the throne room and a group of kids fell from it, crashing on the golden table except three of them, one was caught by gathering shadows, for the second the earth formed some type of a cushioned hand and the third missed the table and landed on the floor. The gods and heroes were watching the nine visitors with great interest, there were six boys and three girls, one of the boys had a bag with him which they guessed held the books in it.
"Ugh…why is it that you two land comfortably and we crashed on the table…a solid gold table none then les." groaned a blonde boy with sea-green eyes as a black haired, grey eyed girl climbed carefully down from him.
"Speak for yourself…ugh…I got the marble floor…" groaned the blonde boy who had an unfortunate, intimate meeting with the floor.
"You guys know that you could just have used your own powers to break your fall." stated the boy who was caught by the earth, he had medium skin complexion with shoulder length black hair and golden eyes.
"Good, the next time En's grandaunts send us on a trip will I be ready to concentrate less on falling and more on landing." replied another boy with brown hair before glaring at the brown haired girl on top of him. "Could you now get down from me cus? The table is not all too comfortable to lay on."
"Quit complaining." the girl replied but got still got down from him and proceeded to climb down from the table, her mother would have had a fit if she knew, now she will only freak out when she notices that she is gone.
Soon all of them were standing in front of the gods, heroes and the other guests looking at everyone to make sure that those who were planned to be here are all present. Meanwhile was everyone also looking at them in return, knowing that even thought they were legacies they inherited strong powers from the demigod parents which was not usual. It also made them curious to know which of them was a grandniece to the Fates and how she was different from the others.
"Could you children please introduce yourselves to us so that we can start?" Athena asked, she knew that reading ten books with all the present people here would take a while and she wanted to start as soon as possible. Then there was also the feeling of familiarity with two of the children, but she was bothered by the boy's eye colour.
"Yes, though some of us will not state both of the Godly Ancestors names because we don't wasn't to spoil all the fun for some." stated the brown haired girl and Frank wanted to groan when her eyes landed on him for a few seconds, he could freak out later about the fact that there is a high chance that one of them is his kid.
"Should we leave the parents also out?" asked the black haired girl with the gray eyes as she looked at the others.
"No, it will be fine, you two should only leave out your dad's Godly Parent." said the last girl who was caught by the shadows. She had pale skin, waist long black hair with two blonde strains framing her angular face, but it were her eyes which made everyone look at her. They seemed to be a mix of black, blue, and gold, but some of the gods who have sat the closest to the place where she landed could have sworn that they were black when she fell.
"Ok, then we go first." said the blonde boy with sea-green eyes as she stepped forth with the black haired girl at his side indicating that they were siblings. "I'm Luke Jackson." the Greek demigods looked curiously at the name.
"And I'm Sally Jackson named after my grandmum, our parents are Perseus Jackson and Annabeth Chase, so we are a Legacy of Athena, and you will soon figure out who our granddad is." finished Sally while Athena narrowed her eyes, she had a feeling that she will not be pleased when finding out who the other god was. Annabeth on the other hand was blushing while her friends snickered, Malcolm was mortified by the thought of his sister with a guy, this was not a thing a little brother wanted to imagine, meanwhile was Perseus feeling awkward to know that someone was named after him so far in the future, if those strange clothes were an indication.
"Nathan Grace" at this Jason gulped while Zeus looked interested to hear about his other grandson "son of Jason Grace and Reyna Vermont" Reyna was too busy blushing with Jason to react to her family name which she had thrown away a long time ago. "Praetor of the Twelfth Legion, Legacy of Jupiter and Bellona." finished the blonde who had fallen on the floor before making place for a boy who looked to be partly of Hispanic descent, he had short brown hair and muscled arms, but there was a hint of mischievousness in his dark brown eyes.
"Ace Rodriguez" this shut Chris up in his teasing and he felt slightly freaked out by the small grin his son was giving him before stating his parents "son of Chris Rodriguez and Clarisse La Rue" fine he was not freaked out anymore, now he wanted to faint "Legacy of Hermes and Ares." he finished.
"YOU PUNK MARRY MY DAUGHTER!" Ares yelled furiously as he jumped up from his throne, Hermes was only gapping at his future son and grandson.
"YOU MARRY HER?!" the Stoll brothers screamed at their half-brother ready to demand from Will or Apollo himself what type of head injury he received… or to find out who used love arrows on him.
"You are going to marry Ares's daughter?" Hermes asked finally looking still dazed.
"You know, this is kind of similar as to how grandfather found out that my parents are dating, though by that time got my uncles and aunts in camp already over the shock." Ace said grinning while said grandfather was forced back into his throne by his father and uncles and his parents did everything to not look at each other. "The whole camp heard him scream Grandfather Hermes's name and then proceeded to hunt after him with his bike, armed with a few spears because he could not hurt dad with mom standing between them, so he went for another target. Granddad Hermes had forgotten to wear his shoes on that day." at this Hermes groaned while everyone who got over the shock only shook, their heads at their family.
"Well, if our cousin is now done is it our turn." said the boy who had not long ago made that comment about concentrating the next time on his landing instead on the falling part. "Lance Stoll, son of Travis Stoll and Katie Gardner" at this Travis pumped his fist in the air before realizing that his son was standing only a few feet away from him, Katie only stared in disbelief while Connor went to teas his brother "Legacy of Hermes and Demeter. Hay granny Dem." Hades smirked when he saw Demeter pale at the thought that she might have a prankster in her domain if it is true what the "being family" comment implies.
"Nice going cousin, she looks freaked out even before you re-decorated her wheat fields." said the girl with violet eyes and Demeter paled further while Hades looked even more pleased, he might start liking the kid already even before he gets born. "I'm Misty Stoll" this made Connor shut up and be happy that they had no more girls present in they group so this will be only half awkward for him" daughter of Connor Stoll and Lou Ellen Hall" ok, he had no clue who she was so this will be fine "Legacy of Hermes and Hecate." she finished.
"A minor goddess?" Zeus asked stunned when he noticed a flash of anger rush over the faces of the children sent by the Fates.
"Yes, though hopefully by the end of the reading you will understand that even those you see as minor gods and goddesses deserve the same respect as you all do." she said while looking Zeus in the eyes, but before the god could give a retort about being disrespected by a demigod stepped another Hispanic looking boy up.
"Well, I will be the only one not giving my parents an early heart attack seeing how they are not here. I'm Michael Valdez, son of Leo Valdez and Piper McLean, Legacy of Hephaestus and Aphrodite." he finished grinning now that the danger was gone. 'En would have not tolerated Zeus trying to blast Misty and it would be kind of awkward to ask one of her grandparents or mum to hold her for a while till she recovers.' he thought.
"Well…that is kind of ironic." Apollo stated while looking over at his brother and sister-in-law who were glancing at each other unsurely. This was the first time that they heard that they demigod children got together.
"It is now our turn, though I don't know if this got clear for you all from the letter, but in the future you king of try accepting the demigod children of your partners, though they didn't have anymore since a while, well my granddad actually since around eighty or so years in our time and even before that was the number incredibly minimal." said the boy who had controlled the earth while looking at the three queens who nodded slowly in understanding. "I'm Henry Zhang." Frank blushed while already knowing that he will still need to wait to find out who his godly parent was, though he still had his bets on Apollo, but was a bit discouraged while looking at the god, his son and then to Octavian. "Praetor of the Twelfth Legion and I'm the son of Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque, sorry dad, but you will have to wait till the seventh book to know who it is" Frank groaned at this "I'm a Legacy of Pluto the Roman counterpart of Hades." Hades flinched and Demeter was about to start yelling at him, but surprisingly Persephone hugged her husband.
"It is fine, if I can accept them in them in the future then I can try doing it now, though I still want to know how many demigod children my husband had in both his forms before stopping." she said, it hurt that he went to other women, but a part of her could understand that he felt lonely and with all the workload he always had and her not being there for him.
"Kore…"
"Mother, I want to hear, and my name is Persephone." she said, in the past did she not care what she was called by others, but when Hades spoke her name the first time after he abducted her as he tried to calm her fears, she knew that she didn't want to be called anything else then the name which he had used for her. Though it still took some time to fall in love with him, anyone would with Zeus as they father who could not keep away from all sorts of affairs.
"Well counting all of them together till he stopped were it so around seven." Henry replied honestly while looking to the last girl who also shook her head, she also only knew about those.
"That is fine by me." she said surprising her mother, husband, Hera, and Amphitrite. The two queens were not so sure if they could get so easily over with being cheated on, but compared to the number of demigod children Hades had… they husbands had already more then him and according to his grandson he had no more affairs going on. Triton meanwhile stared at the Jackson siblings, somehow, he felt a strange feeling inside his stomach while looking at them, mostly by the boy's eyes and the girl's features. It was slightly similar to that what he felt in the case of his two half-si…uh…looks as if he now knows who the other grandparent is and he had really no clue how to feel about that with him seeing Athena as an adopted daughter, and those two being the children of his half-brother and his in a way adopted granddaughter. Ok, they family tree needs to be ignored, it is already worse then a labyrinth and Atlantis knows how tangled it will be in the future.
"Knew that you would be the first to understand grandma Pers." Henry said smiling while Persephone blushed, but still smiled back at her grandson, making Hades relax even more, he hated it when his wife was upset.
"Now is it my turn." said the last girl from who they all figured was the one about whom they were the most curious of. "First of all should I make the fact clear that it is not easy to categorize me seeing that I have three parents whom had all given a part of themselves to create me." at this stared everyone confused at the girl.
"How can one have three parents and be blood related to all of them?" Theseus asked bewildered, but before the girl could answer Hephaestus looked up with wide eyes.
"You were created like the first humans from clay and water." he said while all gods stared at her with wide eyes.
"It was eons ago that someone created life that way." Zeus said while looking at her carefully remembering what failure the humans were he had made.
"True, but this was suggested to my parents by great-grandmother Nyx herself and it were my grandaunts who actually cleared it up that my dad is one of the few souls to whom two lovers belong and really, some of you would have had a heart attack if one of your male demigod children would have ended up pregnant." everyone nodded slowly knowing that if the Fates said that, then this was the case, though with the fact that she called Lady Nyx her great-grandmother this meant that at least one of her parents was a demigod of one of her children, the problem was to know which. They really should keep tab on the children of the minor gods and goddesses as for the male part they didn't comment. "All three of my parents gave me some of they power and my father and one of my mothers combined they powers to fully awaken me, this is why my eye colour changes regarding which powers I use from which parent."
"I think now they all know why she goes as last." Lance whispered to Michael who nodded grinning.
"And they don't even know who her parents are, yet." he replied back, taking out the ladybug like automaton camera from his jeans pocket. Those photos will be priceless about they expressions.
"Now that we are done with that explanation I can finally introduce myself. I'm Enysswe di Angelo, daughter of Nico di Angelo, Clovis Lauren and Will Solace" this made Will let out a strange sound as his face slowly become just as red as his father's sacred cows, Apollo looked at his granddaughter with interest, she kind of reminded him on someone, while Octavian bit his lower lip in annoyance. "I'm a Legacy of Hades, Hypnos and Apollo." she finished and Michael let the bug go, it had a dual photo and video camera installation so it made photos while taping everything at the same time.
"Yo…you are whose legacy?" yelled a shocked Hades as he was now faced with a second grandchild while most people now could note that most of her features, the high cheekbones and nose were pretty similar to those of Hades. This might be also the ground why no one noticed the deep blush which had graced Apollo's cheeks, no one knew that he had a crush on his uncle about which he still hoped that it would one day go away.
"I get a granddaughter?" Persephone asked much to Demeter's annoyance and to the envy of both Hera and Amphitrite who wished again that they could so fast get over the whole children with mortals thing.
"Yes, you do and now we should get over to the books." Enysswe said smiling as the gods shrunk down to human size and let a few comfortable seats appear while Henry took out a book from the bag he had with him.
"Who will start reading first?" he asked while looking over the group they had gathered, he hoped that things would really turn out for the best, 'mostly after the shock dies down fully' he thought.
"Dad wants to start!" yelled little Perses happily from his mother's lap who tried not to giggle at the expression on her husband's face, his brother and cousins were of course not that considerate and were in the middle of a laughing fit.
"Fine." Perseus said sighing while accepting the book and raising an eyebrow at the title. "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" " he read before looking over at the future demigods who had helped bringing them here, namely a certain sibling duo. "I thought you said your father's name was also Perseus?"
"It is, but dad kind of thinks that it sounds embarrassing so he always goes by Percy, he is only called Perseus when he is in trouble or forced to do a full introduction with name, parentage and all his titles, which by the way can take a while till he finishes with the list." Luke said while Perseus blushed, mumbling something about his name not being embarrassing while the others either laughed or were like some of the future demigods wondering how much titles this Percy had earned himself, mostly Annabeth as she looked at her future children, this was still a strange thought.
"Continue reading Perseus." Hera said and was pleased with herself that it had sounded polite and no harsh like a demand.
"Of course, Lady Hera." Perseus said a little shocked by her tone while Zeus was staring at his wife.
I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher
To be continued…