What if Percy Jackson had became a god in The Last Olympian?
Percy Jackson is sixteen when he accepts Zeus’s proposal
He wants to cry out I’m sorry
But instead he just smiles and thanks the king of the gods
Percy Jackson is seventeen when he talks to Grover
To see everyone age around you
Percy Jackson is eighteen when the giants attack
He isn’t affected by the split personality disorder that the other gods are facing
He helps the seven demigods defeat Gaia and her minions
But it just reminds him of what he isn’t anymore
Percy Jackson is nineteen when he goes into the woods looking for a monster to fight
They all cower in fear of the god standing before them
He doesn’t understand why at the time
Percy Jackson is twenty-one when Annabeth tells him she can’t be with him like this
But she still walks out of the cabin
He knows he chose this life
Percy Jackson is twenty-three when the sea creatures and horses stop calling him the son of Poseidon
But rather the god of the waves
They don’t worship him any longer
Percy Jackson is twenty-six when he stops coming to Camp Halfblood
This place that was once his home is now a stranger to him
The kids keep getting younger and younger
Percy Jackson is twenty-nine when Thalia comes to him
“This is only the beginning” she says
She’s been fifteen for over two decades
Percy Jackson is thirty-two when his mom gets cancer
He uses his new powers to heal her
He finally thinks maybe he made the right decision
Paul never looks him in the eye again
Percy Jackson is thirty-five when Nico dies on a quest
He doesn’t even find out until Grover sends him a letter
Percy Jackson is thirty-eight when he goes to live on Mount Olympus
The gods there despise him
He has to be with his own kind
Percy Jackson is forty-one when his mom dies
She was going to a book signing
Percy Jackson is forty-four when Annabeth marries a man named Felix
He burns the wedding invitation
Percy Jackson is forty-six when Clarisse calls for help
She is cornered by a monster
She knows she has no other option
Percy Jackson is fifty when Medusa is reincarnated
She thirsts for his blood
He doesn’t even have to try
He keeps her head as a souvenir
Percy Jackson is fifty-five when Annabeth dies
He hears her screams from Olympus
Her nine-year-old son is all alone
Percy Jackson is fifty-six when he creates his first real hurricane
It ravages the entire east coast
Even his father is worried
Percy Jackson is fifty-seven when his brother won’t talk to him anymore
Tyson lost friends in the hurricane
Percy laughs at him harshly
Percy Jackson is sixty-one when Grover dies while trying to put out a forest fire
He died saving the lives of hundreds of dryads
Percy’s storm destroys the tiny plant
Percy Jackson is sixty-eight when monsters break the magical barriers surrounding Camp Halfblood
Less than half the former population is left after the attack
He supposes he could have saved them
Percy Jackson is seventy-three when he raids Dionysus’s stores and gets drunk
He wonders along the streets of New York City
Everything is so different now
A pretty mortal girl sees him and offers to take him home
But no one has smiled at him like that in so long
Percy Jackson is seventy-four when his daughter is born
The next time he sees either of them is when he claims her
The symbol that flashes over her head is a broken sword
Percy Jackson is eighty-six when he first meets his daughter for real
She has no interest in meeting the man that abandoned her and her mother
Percy Jackson is eighty-seven when his daughter is killed
Ares always did have a grudge against him
Percy Jackson is ninety-five when he meets Chiron on Halfblood Hill
“How do you do it?” he asks
“Every day I try to honor their memories
So that they didn’t die in vain”
Percy Jackson is ninety-six when he walks to the middle of the woods
He writes down all the names
The people he has loved and lost
The people who have been lost on his watch
He sits there writing for over two days straight
Then he puts all the names into a jar
Percy Jackson is one-hundred and two when Thalia Grace dies on the Hunt
She was the one person he thought would be with him when everyone else was gone
He goes to take his frustration out on Artemis
But when he finds her she is so distraught his anger evaporates
And he is left with only his grief
He and Artemis mourn together
Percy Jackson is one-hundred and three when he finally understands why Pan wanted to die
The prospect is so appealing now
Leave the suffering of the world
Percy Jackson is one-hundred and eighteen when the minor gods rebel again
He considers joining them
He considers joining his father and the demigods that back the major gods
Percy Jackson is one-hundred and thirty-seven when he goes to the underworld
It’s his first time as a god
This time he’s not trying to bring someone back
He just wants to feel death on him
To know what it’s like to be mortal and able to die
He doesn’t remember the feeling
Percy Jackson is one-hundred and seventy-one when Zeus and Poseidon start fighting again
There was a time when he would have been in the center of the fighting
The war destroys the mortals
Most of the land is nothing but rubble
People scramble to survive
He doesn’t understand how they are so weak
Percy Jackson is two-hundred and thirteen when Camp Halfblood is destroyed for good
Like the vision he was shown by a titan many lifetimes ago
The grief he should feel isn’t there
He doesn’t remember how it was once his home
Percy Jackson is two-hundred and ninety-seven when Typhon beheads Zeus
Percy Jackson is four-hundred and fifty-two when he goes to sleep
He doesn’t plan to ever wake up
Percy Jackson looks sixteen when a girl with stormy gray eyes and blonde curls finds him
She looks like someone he used to know
He can’t put his finger on it
“You drool in your sleep” she tells him
Percy Jackson has been alive for five-hundred and seventy-eight years
And now he starts living again
