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"Character thinking"
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White...
Snow...
Cold...
Those three simple words were enough to perfectly describe most of the scenery surrounding Percy Jackson, Neptune's 36-year-old son, as he walked through a snowy forest in who knows where with a great deal of annoyance in him.
"Damn gods... stupid Romans... damn Greeks... fucking son of Hecate" besides the fact that the son of the seas complained for the umpteenth time in recent days about the gods who inhabit Mount Olympus in New York and about their descendants
But why was Neptune's son upset and complaining about the gods, as well as the other children of Greco-Roman deities, especially those living on the east coast?
That was because the SEAL, with the rank of Boatswain First Class who would surely be a Chief Petty Officer or Chief Chief Petty Officer if not for his dyslexia, as well as the problems demigods got in using modern technology, was both lost and stranded in a strange land after Apollo's chariot crashed on this snowy land.
And why was the son of the seas in the chariot of Apollo with which he crashed in this place?
The answer was that Alabaster C. Torrington, the son of Hecate who is the Greek aspect of the goddess Trivia, had managed to survive for almost 20 years since the second war against the Titans ended and had been plotting his revenge against the gods ever since, recruiting Greek demigods who were still resentful of the Olympians. as well as deceiving and manipulating several others to join him.
In addition to the fact that the son of the Greek goddess of magic got the help of several monsters for years and what was left of the fallen Triumvirate, but as if that wasn't enough, some of the former proud supporters and idiots with similar ideas to the imbecile legacy of Apollo known as Octavian who died in a rather ridiculous way. Imbecile Romans that Bellona's daughter could not completely get rid of before joining the Huntresses of Artemis and that both Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang also failed to get rid of despite all the time they have been praetors of New Rome, also joined Torrington because of the greed and ambition they had.
"What part about me leaving the legion didn't they understand?" Jackson growled at nothing as he continued to complain about the Romans who had enough brains to act discreetly with their support for Alabaster and that it was Jackson who ended up discovering what they hid for years "It was their damn trouble!"
Leaving the complaints of the son of the sea for the moment and returning to why he ended up in the middle of nowhere, luck was not on the side of Hecate's son due to some of his followers becoming too ambitious, proud and arrogant, several of them the Roman idiots who joined him. So these allies/lackeys of the son of magic decided to look for artifacts of the gods that they could steal to increase the chances against Olympus, forgetting that thefts should go unnoticed as best they could.
They somehow managed to steal the chariots of the sun and moon of the archer gods, as well as other important things from the temples of the gods of Olympus like Ceres' sword in broad daylight. And as always the gods or at least most of them had the cursed habit of making half-bloods fix their problems, various demigods, legates and hunters were sent to find all those stolen divine artifacts, capture the thieves to take them before the Olympic council to receive their punishment
With Perseus being one of them by order of Jupiter himself, even if that bothered Neptune, plus they basically ruined Jackson's vacation because he was the most skilled and capable living demigod because despite not being one of the famous 7 who were still alive, he never stopped training, improving, nor did he seek a quiet life like the vast majority of veterans of the war against the titans, as well as the war against the giants and the primordial goddess Gaia.
"You should have shown more harshness in punishing insubordination, how about throwing them to fight hellhounds without weapons, only with their bare hands!" Jackson knew that the idea he was suggesting, even if no one was around to listen, would be quite cruel and regarded as a form of punishment that goes too far for Romans who usually do not inherit as much gifts from the gods as the Greeks, and that their strength lies in numbers, with only a few exceptions such as Frank, Hazel, Jason, Reyna or him.
But thinking of Pluto's daughter and Mars' son, Jackson couldn't help but consider them too kind and tolerant when it came to leading the legion despite all the years they had been Praetors, as well as the esteem he had for them, because they didn't have that aura of control and dominance that Reyna had at 16.
In addition to the fact that he was the only Roman who really interacts with the modern human world thanks to his solo searches when he was still in the legion and after leaving it, that is why, unlike the rest, Jackson knows how backward and stagnant the half-bloods were becoming, especially the Romans due to their obsession with tradition.
Which is one of the reasons why he enlisted in the navy and later in the SEALs, to have a better as well as more complete and more modern training to improve his skills, and so also increase his chances of survival after he left the legion when he turned 18, just two weeks after the fight against Gaia ended.
"Wasn't I supposed to be retired from the searches?!, They didn't get the memo!"
Curiously, the brother of the messenger of the seas had not had to deal with any major Greco-Roman problems in almost 15 years apart from an occasional monster, although he also had some encounters and fights with beings from some of the other divine pantheons due to the different missions he carried out as part of the navy that were in other parts of the planet.
But thanks to all of his experience and the skills that Jackson has gained throughout his life he was considered for this quest and was the one who had managed to track down Alabaster's followers quickly. As well as finding the place where they were keeping most of everything that was stolen by the Greek son of Trivia and his allies, which by some joke of fate or something similar was in Salem, but when he discovered what Hecate's son was planning he had to act and finish them off.
Torrington was also in place checking the latest artifacts that had been stolen, as well as complaining and berating his allies for attracting Olympus' attention due to the latest thefts, but when Hecate's son was about to punish his lackeys it was the son of the sea that acted, killing several of his lackeys quickly.
"Couldn't they have sent an idiot who wants recognition and glory?!"
But Hecate's son, instead of facing him, tried to escape in Apollo's chariot and as Neptune's son was not going to let him escape, he jumped into the chariot of the sun as soon as he eliminated his other followers in the place. Although Jackson almost didn't make it because the divine carriage had the appearance of a sports car at that time, he could barely hold on to the side of the sun's carriage at the very moment when he flew off at full speed.
Jackson would never admit it, but it was the most annoying and in some ways one of the most dangerous fights the son of the seas has ever had, but it wasn't because the Greek demigod had great power and was a great threat to the son of the sea, but because the Greek son of the goddess Trivia, he changed the appearance of Apollo's chariot several times to get rid of the Roman demigod, Torrington performed crazy maneuvers such as flying the chariot of the Sun headfirst and more.
The sun chariot went from a sports car to a school bus, a tractor-trailer, a pickup truck, and other 4-wheelers while being driven erratically, and Torrington was firing spells at the back of the vehicle with the power of the sun as it flew across the country at high speed and aimlessly. causing some fires, droughts, and more chaos along the way.
"Oh, but it has never occurred to them to put security cameras because no one would dare to steal from the gods..." said Neptune's son in a mocking way, a way in which this last and crazy trip could have been avoided, also remembering the things that his Greek half-sister and his blonde girlfriend told him, as well as remembering the time he was called to Olympus when Júpiter' lightning was stolen and he had to swear by the river of the Underworld to prove his innocence.
No doubt the Mist would have to work overtime to hide everything that happened throughout the chaotic journey through the heavens from mortals, not to mention that the last thing Neptune's son could recognize from modern society while riding in the chariot of the sun that now belongs to Apollo and holding on to it as best he could, it was the coast of Miami before they entered the sea of monsters.
Then the whole crazy journey in what was once the chariot of the god/titan known as Sol by the Romans and Helios by the Greeks, got worse as they flew through powerful storms, tornadoes and hurricanes that appeared out of nowhere as Jackson tried to reach the son of magic to knock him out or kill him in order to take control of the sun chariot.
However, he was unable to achieve it because a strong lightning bolt struck the divine vehicle, although Jackson was unaffected by the electric shock due to his lineage and the various trainings he had with Jason as teenagers to practice his powers, but he could not say the same about the Greek demigod who was unconscious, if the force of the lightning did not kill him.
But that didn't matter much because by that lightning bolt Percy went from trying to take control of Apollo's car to trying to prevent them from crashing when the body of the unconscious or dead Alabaster fell from the driver's seat and ended up pushing the gear lever, as well as pulling the steering wheel when he did.
At least the Roman son of the sea managed to slow down, as well as change course to prevent the collision from being worse than it was, and if it were not for the fact that they crashed into an almost frozen lake that was melting very quickly due to the heat emanating from Apollo's chariot, the water would not have reached Jackson to heal his horrific impact wounds despite his other abilities.
Torrington did not have the same luck as Jackson, it did not matter if he was still alive during the crash or not, because being the son of one of the three great Perseus and some rewards that he has achieved over the years of one or another of the gods, especially those of the sea or fighting monsters, Jackson is much more resilient than most demigods, so unlike Hecate's son his body was not totally torn to pieces by the speed of the crash.
On the other hand, the Neptune's son had shot through the windshield of the last form of the sun's chariot, which was that of a passenger truck, which is why he crashed into the ice of the lake with great force, embedding himself in it while several of his bones broke and his muscles tore apart.
It is not an experience that he wants to repeat, and only because of his jacket, his abilities, as well as because the ice of the frozen lake melted quickly thanks to Apollo's chariot was that he began to heal very quickly, preventing him from fainting from the impact, the wounds and the pain in his body.
That was almost 4 days ago, with more than half of the first day Jackson deciding to spend it asleep in the lake, at least until it started to cool down again because the Sun's chariot had stopped emanating heat, so the lake started to freeze again, although that really wasn't a problem for him, but since then he had been traveling southwest for the last two.
"A safe is also a ridiculous idea, right, gods?" a growl came out of his mouth as he finished saying that.
Anyone would think that complaining for 4 days in a row was unhealthy, but he felt that he had every right to do so because he had had to put up with a lot of the nonsense of the demigods, legacies, monsters and gods for years.
Being in the navy was a respite from it all, it almost seemed like a vacation compared to the disasters that Greco-Romans get into again and again, plus few could understand or put themselves in the shoes of Neptune's son, and there were even fewer with whom he could vent in confidence.
However, as Jackson was walking through the woods he could sense that something was missing in the air that he hadn't noticed in the past few days because of his bad mood, that after a while he realized that he couldn't feel any of the Mist, besides that the forest was strangely quiet. A silence by which Neptune's son kept an eye out for any danger, just as he kept his guard up because in all the time he had been walking he had not heard, nor seen signs of the animal life of these lands or people who inhabit it.
In addition to the fact that the day he left the lake he came across a strange tree that sported a bark almost as white as the snow that surrounded it, while its leaves seemed red as blood, but the strangest thing was that there was a face on the trunk of the tree that seemed to be crying because of the tears of the sap that were a blood-red hue. Not to mention that this tree made Neptune's son more cautious, because it gave him the feeling that he was watching it and that there was something more to it.
Jackson didn't know if anyone had been imprisoned in that tree in any way similar to what happened to Jason's sister or when Hyperion was imprisoned in one by several satyrs while fighting with his half-sister, Poseidon's daughter, if it was some strange kind of forest nymph, some similar being or something else, but she had quickly left that tree and continued walking after changing into clothes more suitable for the cold and snow, clothes that Percy kept in one of the three decks of Magic Cards that a few years ago he had bought from Lou Ellen, another Greek daughter of Trivia, and that she called Mist Cards (Note 1).
Cards that had been very useful to him because in them he kept many of his belongings to be prepared for dangerous and problematic situations, thanks to the fact that they were easy to carry due to the little space they occupy... and he had also stored Apollo's chariot in one of them after taking it out of the lake.
Jackson could have used the divine chariot to fly back, but he wasn't sure if the god's vehicle was quite right, and Percy wasn't a son of the blacksmith god of Olympus like Leo Valdez, nor a specialist in imbuing magic into magical or divine artifacts, such as to determine how bad the chariot's condition was with the power of the sun, he had learned some magic over the years, but he was by no means a master of magic.
If it were a boat or a ship he could do it, because then the information would come up in his brain, he would know the problem without even seeing it and how to fix it, but in this situation he could only be guided by the latest appearance of a passenger truck, which was badly dented by the crash, and from what he had learned about auto mechanics, vans and trucks since I left the legion, and that was a little more than most mortals.
And in no way would it be like fixing some problem that human-made vehicles had. Although it seemed that the chariot of the sun was still working and he could use it to try to return home, but Neptune's son preferred not to risk it, and to increase his chances he could try to fix what he could, however little that helped.
But first the veteran demigod would try to get as close as possible to the entrance of the sea of monsters before using Apollo's chariot, that is why Perseus was traveling southwest which is where he thought he had come in Apollo's flying vehicle or at least from the west, only now Jackson stopped when he heard a soft noise that would be imperceptible to the hearing of a normal human.
Jackson calmly looked around for any danger, nothing happened for a moment, but then the noise repeated again with a little more force which helped him realize that it was coming behind him.
"Great," said Neptune's son dryly as he realized that the noise was not about a branch breaking and falling to the ground, snow falling from a tree, the sound of cold wind or this stirring the frozen leaves of the trees, but it was about hurried steps in the snow.
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Well here, we have a Roman version of Percy Jackson who grew up in the Roman Legion, at least until he abandoned it and sought his own way, a little more of his past will be shown in future chapters of this "What if PJ" where Neptune's son ended up arriving in Westeros.
But if you have read other of my fics where I put a Roman Percy you can get an idea of more or less what the past of this Percy is like with the Legion and New Rome. In addition to the fact that in certain parts he leaves small clues that there is more than what is seen in this Roman Percy, as well as that there was a daughter of Poseidon (OC) who took his place with the Greeks.
As for Westeros, basically the Earth has various realms or dimensions like the 9 realms of the Nordics, which are only accessed by certain places in the world, in each realms.
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Note 1:
Within the book The Diaries of Demigod – The Son of Magic, it is mentioned that there are cards called: Mistform cards, which are three-by-five-inch cards that allow whoever uses them to summon people and objects that can help when necessary. When a demigod finish using the Mistform card, he just touch the card and everything th card had returns to it. If used too often, they will burn.
They appear in Alabaster C. Torrington's story with Hecate and Lamia, but it is not clear if he created them or at least I don't remember. But for this fanfic, the cards that the Roman version of Percy bought from Lou Ellen are very similar.
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