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A Tiny Hero - Hiatus

Summary:

Percy was born a normal demigod. But one day, Gabe threw an empty bottle at him and Percy gained the ability to become tiny.

Notes:

I will keep adding tags.

Chapter 1: The First Meeting

Chapter Text

Luke had just come back from a long day of camp activities.

Sighing softly, he set down his sword and took off his hat, walking to his bedroom tiredly.

He had his own, separate room from the rest of the Hermes cabin because he was the Cabin Director of the Hermes Cabin.

As he walked into his room, he turned on the light and noticed nothing out of the ordinary.

When he walked over to his desk however, he saw a tiny child passed out on the table.

The male child shifted slightly, waking up.

As he slowly awoke, he slowly got up and stretched a bit with a small yawn before noticing Luke.

He immediately tensed up in fear at the sight of Luke, trying to scoot back but almost falling off the desk in the process.

Luke quickly rushed over and caught the tiny child in his hands.

“Hey, hey. Shhh, it’s ok. I’ve got you.” Luke whispered to the child

Luke slowly sat down on his bed and placed the tiny human on his lap.

As the tiny child was saved from falling, he felt relief wash over him.

He then looked up at Luke, his eyes filled with a mix of fear and relief as he was gently set down on Luke’s lap.

He gulped, looking around nervously before finally speaking

“W-who are you...?” The child asked, his voice shaky.

Luke softly chuckled at that. He gently caressed his cheek with his large fingers before replying to the small male.

“I am Luke, and you are on my lap. Who are you, sweetheart?” Luke spoke softly, knowing to not raise his voice if it would scare the small man.

Luke gently moved a hand towards the tiny child, but not close enough to scare or touch him just yet.

The tiny male looked at Luke’s hand with mixed emotions before looking up at his face and swallowing with a small gulp.

The small male man took a small breath and nodded a bit nervously as he tried to calm himself.

He saw Luke’s hand coming closer and he backed up a bit, almost falling off his lap. He gulped again, the child not used to people coming near him.

“I-if I tell you my name, will I get killed?”

The tiny man asked softly, still trying to calm his small hyperventilating body as it shook slightly.

He was still scared, after all he was in a new environment.

“No, no, of course not.” Luke reassured the child, “Are you alright, you’re shivering…”

At seeing Luke’s hand close to him, the small male flinched but then let out a soft sigh and leaned into his hand while slowly closing his eyes.
“I’m fine, just a bit cold.” The chile said softly.

When the tiny man opened his eyes, he looked up at Luke again and let out a small yawn.

“My names Percy, I’m 10 by the way…”

Chapter 2: Regular visits and new friends

Notes:

I FINALLY FULLY UPDATED. It’s three in the morning and my arm hurts so I’ma head to bed now. Mon, July 15, 2024.

2,396 words, that’s good compared to last chapter.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Percy visited. Every. Single. Day.

Each day when Gabe became too much, he snuck out.

Luckily, he had found out in his tiny form, he was a. A lot more durable than a normal demigod or mortal. He could run very fast, sometimes(though rarely as it tires him out quicker the faster he goes) as fast as a train. He tired a lot more slowly in his tiny form.

So honestly, during the summer, he had a place to go.

He and Luke had dubbed him a demigod, though that was obvious, since he made it to camp and wasn’t a god.

They didn’t who his parent was but they had narrowed it down to one of the minor sea gods as he had water powers and Poseidon was, ‘-out of the question, the big three made an oath and so far only Zeus has broken it. And I doubt the lord of the sea or the lord of the dead as seeing they don’t seem like the gods to break their oath.’ - Luke Castellan, 2004(Percy was born in 1993 during August and is ten. It is in the summer. Do the math)

The one thing Percy dreaded explaining to his mother was how he got the giant, triangular shaped burn scar across his left face.

*Y/*\Y*

Luke was pacing around in the area after a day of training with the Hermes cabin.

Everyone else had gone down to the lake with the heat and Percy was perched on Luke’s shoulder eating a sugar cookie.

”You need to learn to protect yourself!” Luke proclaimed suddenly to the tiny figure on his shoulder. “Also, how are you eating a cookie that is twice your size, almost done with it, and you still haven’t thrown up?”

Percy shrugged before he pushed the last piece of cookie in his mouth and swallowed.(Luke looked mildly disgusted and concern and ready to push Percy off his shoulder should Percy start to throw up)

“Luke, dear friend, I don’t think that there’s any swords, spears, axes, bows and arrows, or shields for anyone my size.” Percy counted each weapon on his fingers.

Nodding, Luke resumed his pondering and pacing, “Maybe sticks? No no no, that wouldn’t work…Maybe, no…Should I ask Khiron, nah…No, not that either…”

Percy meanwhile was braiding the underside of Luke’s hair into tiny braids.

”Ahah! There might not be any weapons or protection in your size at the moment, but I know somebody who can make some.”

And that’s how he met Charles Beckendorf.

*l/*\l*

Both Beckendorf and Silena were looking down at Percy dumbfounded.

Beckendorf exclaimed, “H-how! How? How is this possible. No one should possibly be that small!”

Putting a supportive hand behind Percy, Luke just shrugged.

They had found only Beckendorf and Silena in the forge and Luke had promptly dropped Percy onto the table with a squeak and made hand gestures like he was saying ‘here you go, I have presented my pride and joy, Percy Jackson.

Silena was the first one to break out of the confusion. “Oh my gods, aren’t you absolutely adorable. Just tell Luke to find me if you need any clothes. I’m sure I have doll clothes that could fit and if I don’t I can just make some.” She poked Percy‘s stomach at each word.

Percy just looked at her weirdly and nodded, not being used to being cared for like this.

His mother was always at work and smelly Gabe was horrible.

”Sil, don’t hurt the kid.” Beckendorf said. Silena looked absolutely appalled at the mere idea of hurting Percy. “Well, I’m Silena and this is Charlie.”

Percy looked confused.

”Your name is Charlie.” He questioned, looking straight at Beckendorf. (Percy’s Mind) ‘WHY THE F$#K IS HE SO BEAUTIFUL!!!’ (Percy internally raged at Beckendorf’s beauty)

Beckendorf looked uncomfortable at the attention. “Well, my name is Charles, but everyone calls me by my last name, Beckendorf.”

Percy nodded and looked down with furrowed eyebrows.

“B-beckenor?” Beckendorf shook his head. “Eckensnorf?” Silena was holding in her laughs. “Benksendorf?” At this point Luke and Silena were both leaning on each other for support while they laughed and Beckendorf was pinching his nose at Percy’s failed attempted tries.

“How about this, you make up a nickname for me since you can’t say my last name.” Beckendorf offered, picking Percy up in his gloved hands.

Both Luke and Silena were looking at Beckendorf in surprise. 

The only person Beckendorf let give him a nickname was Silena. “Oh, Charlie, he’s now dirty from the oil on your gloves.” Beckendorf blushed at Silena’s comment because of the tone but it was only noticeable by Luke.

(Percy’s Mind)’Dorf, no. Char, no. Char Char? Nah. I’ma leave Charlie for Silena. There’s not really anything else… wait a minute.’(Percy’s gonna do it)

”Becky!” Percy called out as Luke was about to take him out of Beckendorf’s hands. Becky nodded in agreement.

Luke cleared his throat and carefully curled his fingers around the ten year old, picking him off of Becky’s hands.

”Anyways, Beck-Beckendorf, we came here to ask if you could make a weapon and a shield for Percy.” Luke said, placing Percy back down on the table, which made another soft squeak.

Becky seemed to ponder this for a moment. “I could try, it’d be difficult though. Is there anything I should know?” Becky questioned Luke.

Luke looked down skittishly at Percy before answering. “We know, or at least speculate, that he’s the child of a minor sea god.”

Becky nodded before setting 5 buckets that were 3 times the size of Percy next to him on the table.

“Ok, this is common weapon making for sea children knowledge. The weapon has to be forged with special water that has some level of importance to that sea child. It can absolutely not be lake water or river water or water from the surface of the ocean, and it especially can not be tap water.” Becky kindly exclaimed. “You think you’re up to the challenge Percy?”

Percy nodded excitedly. “Of course I am! Anything for you.”

It’s not like anyone noticed, but there was a faint blush on Percy’s face from Becky trusting Percy with an important job. 

*O/*\O*

It took a little while but finally Percy made it to the Ocean.

Leaving the buckets on the beach, Percy dove into the water to find special water.

Quickly he found a deep trench that was filled to the brim with clean water.

No pollution, no litter, no dead animals, and no invading species.

The water here was perfect. Percy smiled happily and swiftly made his way back to the beach to get the first bucket.

On the third bucket trip, Percy froze.

He felt a presence, an old one at that.

It was older than the presence of Khiron, trainer of Heroes. Percy had seen him teaching an archery class at the camp, though it’s not like anyone besides Luke, Silena and Becky knew he existed.

But no, this-this this… being’s presence was overbearing in a sorta comfortable, ‘let me protect you’ way. Though Percy knew not to trust peop- beings like that.

Like he was lighting, Percy hid in a crevice in one of the walls of the trench.

He blocked the opening with the 3 times his size bucket but it quickly got yanked out and crumpled up like paper but with a sickening sound.

Percy squeezed his eyes shut and his whole body was shaking when he saw the giant, pink that faded into a deep purple then into very deep navy scales at the end forked tongue thrust it’s way into the crevice.

Feeling it inch its way around his body made him want to scream if he could, which he couldn’t because its weight on his chest was restricting his breathing.

Suddenly, the tongue lurched backward and released him into the open water.

“Oh! You’re even smaller than I thought, little one.” A deep voice grumbled out, though the tone did not match the depth of the voice at all. 

Hands came to cup him from beneath to keep him from slowly sinking downwards.

 The voice was deep, the depth and terrors of the ocean, while it still sounded like a melody, representing the beauty of the ocean. While the tone? It sounded a lot like when Luke or Silena or his mother was doting on him.

Even though the tone and voice wouldn’t seem to do together, it did and it did beautifully.

Percy risked cracking one eye open and the sight that met him made him want to lick his lips. 

(That’s just how beautiful the being is, making a ten year old feel warm inside. Remember this is not how Percy normally acts.)

The man had tan skin, dark, very close to black, navy hair tied into braids that was pulled into a puffy ponytail that was pulled into another, small puffy ponytail, which color faded into the color of sea foam at the end. Chains were wrapped around both of the puffy ponytails. The front swish of his hair was white, but most of the swish was made up of very dark water with some teal water spread like veins.

He had a toga on, one that looked nothing like the ones on the statues in the museums. The top of his toga was dark navy, but a lot lighter than his hair. He had a golden choker on with light teal cloth hanging down from the gold ring. The bottom part of his toga was made up of two pieces of cloth connected to a gold belt around the bottom edge of the top toga part. Along the cloth were very light yellow stripes that looked like sand. There was a dark teal green strap connecting another piece of cloth to the gold belt. It was a bright blue with light blue waves on the bottom.

There was water flowing from his eyes but he wasn’t crying, no. It was the same kind of water that was around his feet, hiding it from view.

And then there was his crown. I-it was just just so….  Beautiful. 

Wire was formed in hoops with pearls and amethyst dangling from the wire.

The hands that were supporting him had webbed fingers that were teal, the same color as the webbing on his ears. 

Percy’s breath was caught in his throat. 

“You okay little one? It looks like you have a fever…” The man asked worriedly, but Percy was more entranced by the man’s looks and the fact that the man had used his own tongue to forcefully pull Percy from the crevice.

Nodding tho Percy didn't fully hear the question, he said, “Crown, pretty. I want one!”

The man looked surprised at that and a bit uncomfortable. 

“Uhhh, aren’t you a little young?” The man- ‘You know what, I’ma call him Crown man.’ Percy thought, Crown man asked.

‘Crown man is full of questions.’ Percy noted with a pout.

Percy shrugged, “I don’t care, I want one!”

He fully did not care that he was sounding like a brat.

Crown man looked very uncomfortable but one look at the look on Percy's face and he gave in with a sigh. “Fine, I’ll give you one when you come of age.”

Percy raised his eyebrows in question and Crown man said, “When you turn 18.”

“Oh! So I only have to wait 8 years then.” Percy exclaimed in happiness.

Crown man looked so surprised and scared that he left with a ‘POP’ and a ‘don’t you tell anyone that this happened’.

It took a few seconds before Percy registered what happened and he yelled into empty water, “Hey, what about my bucket!?”

The bucket returned to its uncrushed state with another ‘POP’.

Grumbling under his breath about people destroying other people’s stuff, Percy finished filling up the rest of the buckets and he returned back to camp.

It wasn’t until later when he was in the infirmary that he realized that he never found out Crown man’s name.

*Π/*\Π* 

“Alright Percy, what type of weapon would you like?” Becky asked, putting his smithing mask on his face. 

Percy didn’t even need to think about the answer. “A bow!”

Becky looked a bit nervous but he nodded anyway. “Could be dangerous, but let’s try it with a makeshift one.” 

Luke left and a few minutes later he came back with a few sticks and some string. Crafting them together, he made a makeshift bow, arrows and target.

He helped Percy correct his grip and then stepped back to watch.

Percy let go of the string and makeshift arrow, and the arrow hit dead center on the bullseye on the makeshift target.

“Bow and arrow it is.” Silena said, congratulating Percy and making him beam with pride.

Another hour later and Becky finished with getting the measurements for Percy.

………

While extracting a hot metal rod from one of the buckets of salt water, Becky accidentally hit it against the wall and a piece broke off.

The broken off piece flew through the air for a few seconds before it hit Percy on the left of his face.

Luke, Becky and Silena heard the most sickening scream come from him.

In a complete act of fear and protection, Silena scooped Percy up into her hands and raced out of the forge and to the infirmary.

Luke ran after her while Becky stayed back to make sure the forge didn’t catch on fire.

“Hey Silena- WHAT’S HAPPENING??!!” Will said panickedly as soon as he say Silena’s scared face.

Shoving Percy into Will’s hands, Silena began her explanation, “He’satinydemigodofaminorseagodandCharliewastryingtomakehimabowwhentherodofmetalhewasusinggothitagainstthewallandapiecebrokeofandhitPercyintheface.”

Despite her words blurring together, Will understood.

He carefully looked at Percy’s face before splashing water on it.

The water helped a lot but there was still damage. Even with using his powers, Will knew there would be permanent damage done.

Will carefully wrapped the left side of Percy’s face in bandages and laid the unconscious ten year old down on his chest.

“There will be a scar.” Will said calmly, able to mask his fear.

Silena nodded and briefed Luke and Becky on what happened.

What Percy told to his mother of what happened was that he was attacked in an alleyway after getting lunch.

 

 

✅❕FINISHED❕✅

 

 

 

 

Notes:

Percy to the Crown man: I want your crown. Gimme. 😡

What Silena said : He’s a tiny demigod of a minor sea god and Charlie was trying to make him a bow when the rod of metal he was using got hit against the wall and a piece broke off and hit Percy in the face.

Who is the crown man? Put your guess in the comments.

Chapter 3: Percy hates Yancys and Nancys galore!

Summary:

Percy’s at Yancy and hates it! But look who has made their appearances,👀, guess I like Epic: the Musical too much……………………………………………………………………………………………………
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“YOU ARE ATHENA! BADASS IN THE ARENA!” “THIS LIFE IS AMAZING WHEN YOU GREET IT WITH OPEN ARMS” “GREAT WIND GOD AELOUS, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS” “WOULDN’T YOU LIKE A TASTE OF THE POWER” “I KEEP THINKING OF THE INFANT FROM THAT NIGHT, I KEEP THINKING OF THAT INFANT FROM THAT NIGHT” “WE ARE THE SAME YOU AND I~~~~~~” “WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT CHAMP?” “HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE HELPLESS? HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW PAIN?” “YOU DON’T THINK I KNOW MY OWN PALACE? I. BUILT. IT.”

Notes:

It’s 1:38 am right now and I promised to post this a week ago. Sorry, lost track of time and got sick, which made me lose track of time more. Also, you should probably check the tags and the fandom tags. Plus, *sniffle sniffle* who’s sad that Epic: the Musical has officially ended? 😭😭😭😭 Now I want a Hermes Saga, and more time with Telemachus.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Percy hated Yancy. He hated it with a passion.

It was filled with bullies, rich kids who thought they were better than ‘poor’ people, rich kids who thought poor people were dangerous & criminals, and mean & racist teachers who straight up bullied their ‘poor’ students unless said ‘poor’ students bought their mercy.

The one of the few nice kids was Percy’s best friend. Grover. 

Of course, Percy and Grover were friends with the rest of the nice, ‘nerdy’, and ‘weird’ kids. Which made five of them. But Percy and Grover were the closet, and them being dorm mates didn’t help.

But Pene, Oddy and Racheal were still very good friends.

Okay, okay, maybe Pene and Oddy were way better ‘friends’ the rest of them. Even if Percy still couldn’t believe they haven’t even exchanged numbers yet.

Whenever Percy was around them, he felt… weird. It’s kinda felt like when your taking a test and you get to a question where you know you know the answer but you can’t think of the answer. This feeling always tenfolded whenever they brought up how their parents named them.

Pene was named after Penelope from the Odyssey and Pene is just a nickname and Oddy is the same way, named after Odysseus from, you guessed it, the Odyssey. Oddy has his nickname have two ds in it even though Odysseus’s only have one (in it) because he wants his nickname to match Pene’s nickname and hers has four letters and because he doesn’t want to have a tragic fate in order to have a happy ending. He wants to have sMooTh SaiLInG.

Of course, since Percy’s mom always told him about Greek myths like bedtime stories a child asked to be told no matter the time and rebirth is a choice in Hades (A/N: the place, not the god. The difference will come up later)…… PERCY BRINGS UP HOW THEIR PARENTS MUST LOVE EPIC: THE MUSICAL EVEN THOUGH IT ONLY STARTED TWO YEARS AGO AND THEY’RE ALL TWELVE YEAR OLDS. TOTALLY.

Anyways, even though Percy and Grover are better friends than everyone else (Pene and Oddy don’t count because they’re basically married. Oddy literally has gotten in fights with Kurt, Pene’s bully who clearly has a crush on Pene and only bullies Pene in order for her to break up with Oddy, and won and almost killed Kurt on multiple occasions), Percy has started to not trust Grover as well as before.

It all happened because of the field trip to the museum.

(A/N: Heh muse, Apollo, Helios…. do you not get it? Oh right… I haven’t posted that fanfic yet. I keep getting this mixed up with OGoNG(Old God or New God) so sorry if things contradict)

Long story or short story? Probably short story.

So in short, Percy went to the museum for a field trip, got called out by his favorite teacher, Mr. Brunner, for telling Nancy (his and Grover’s biggest bully) and her friends to shut up, so he had to name a craving which was Kronos eating his kids, Nancy asks in a mocking tone to her friends when are they going to use this in real life, and apparently PERCY has to answer this question.

After Percy answers it ‘wrong’, (he said it teaches how paranoia leads to the outcome that was dreaded, how racism (cause technically Kronos was a titan god and he feared his children were god gods and thought they were lower than him so they were ‘different subspecies’ even though at the end of the day, they were all gods. And white people in history saw black people as lower than them even though they were all human and at the end of the day, everyone in an animal because humans are mammals and mammals are animals, we just few ourselves as higher life forms because we have higher intelligence than most animals) can lead to long lasting and terrible effects, and how a corrupt government will eventually fall, whether it be because of it’s own citizens getting fed up or an outside force that got fed up with all it’s bullshit ‘morals’ and ‘laws’ and what it teaches and stands for), they go outside and eat lunch on the front steps.

Nancy dumps her half eaten lunch on Grover’s lap then somehow ends up in the fountain yelling “PERCY PUSHED ME”, then the pre-algebra teacher (a mean woman from Georgia named Mrs. Dodds) came over and brought Percy back inside, and then proceeded to turn into a crazy bat terror that would have killed Percy if it hadn’t been for Mr. Brunner throwing a pen at him which turns into a sword once Percy grabs it which then Percy has to use to KILL THE TERROR BY HIMSELF WHILE AN ADULT, WHO HAD A SWORD AND WAS KNOWN BY THE STUDENTS FOR CARRYING A SECRET GUN AROUND FOR PROTECTION OF HIMSELF AND THE STUDENTS DESPITE THE RULES, JUST SAT AND WATCHED BEFORE DISAPPEARING AFTERWARDS.

When Percy got outside, everyone is basically gaslighting him into thinking Mrs. Dodds never existed and a perky, blonde woman named Mrs. Kerr was the pre-algebra teacher since winter, the only people who don’t are Racheal, Oddy and Pene but they don’t say anything until everyone’s back at Yancy. 

So Percy gets branded as “insane” and “dangerous” and became the prime target of every bully in the school, student and staff member a like.

Notes:

This is Part 1 of two parts (probably). Btw, when Percy gets to camp for the “first” time, don’t get attached to anyone. You don’t know who I’m going to kill off, plus this IS NOT A PERCABETH STORY SO EVEN THOUGH PERCABETH WILL HAPPEN, IT WILL GO UP IN FLAMES BECAUSE OF THAT DAMNED CROWN

Chapter 4: A secret shared between friends

Summary:

Percy gets fed up with Grover and Mr. Brunner hiding things from him and decides to vent to Rachel, Pene and Oddy… and to tell them his secret because he’s tired of hiding it from the people he cares about.

Notes:

Yeah, instead of Percy having this conversation at the end of the school year like the conversation between Grover and Chiron that Percy overheard, this is happening a week after the field trip. And yes, this does still happen after the Grover and Chiron conversation, I just decided not to do that conversation.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Percy groaned as he flopped onto Oddy’s bed face first, burying his face into the hard pillow, “I hateeeeeeeee Groverrrrrrrrr.”

"Why? Just a few days ago you and him were attached at the hip and did basically everything together like a couple. You know some of the gossipers thought you guys were together and had broken up in a big fight, right?” Oddy, who was sitting on the floor while Pene braided his hair, said with a raised eyebrow.

With a sound that was a little too suspiciously like a sound of Percy saying a curse word, Percy turned onto his back. He was glaring at Oddy.

To be fair, even though Oddy, along with Pene and Rachel, technically knew what Percy was talking about, he had probably not connected the dots that Percy was referring to the Mrs. Dodds incident. But seriously, it’s not that hard to realize that Percy’s and Grover’s friendship had gone sour after the field trip. Hades, even fucking NANCY BOBOFIT had noticed and had started gossiping that it was because Grover had stood up for her. Like, is Oddy just being oblivious?????

"It's because he keeps lying to me about the Mrs. Dodds incident and claiming she never existed!" Percy angrily sad through gritted teeth, "And he and Mr. Brunner have been talking about me behind my back!"

"That's... understandable, the part about you being mad, not at what Grover and Mr. Brunner are doing," Pene said as she finished her fifth braid. She had always been the mom of the friend group. Oddy leaned back against her as she pulled him in for cuddles.

Rachel, or RED as they liked to call her, hummed thoughtfully as she painted what looked suspiciously like the bow he uses when he is miniature. "There's something fishy going on here..."

"That's what I'm trying to say!" Percy exclaimed, sitting up to stare at Red. "Nice painting by the way, how'd you get it to look so accurate?"

Okay... so maybe his topic change wasn't the best, but he'd been dying to tell them about his secret for months, screw him.

Red narrowed her eyes at him, "One, thank you for the compliment, but two... how do you know that my painting is accurate when I've only seen the bow in my dreams?"

"Why have you been dreaming about my bow?" Percy asked, eyes wide.

Silence stretched between them for a minute... two minutes, then three, then-

"Since when did you do archery?" "Is it for self-defense?" "Why didn't you tell us?"

Percy just took a deep breath before he said, "One, I got it three years ago during the summer Red. Two, to answer your question Pene, I need to protect myself when I'm tiny, do I not?"

They just stared at him like he was crazy. 

"What?" Oddy asked.

Just because Percy felt like messing with them, he went. "What what?"

Red scowled at him. "He was talking about how you said, and I quote, 'I need to protect myself when I'm tiny, do I not?'. Do you understand how crazy you sound when you imply you can change your size?"

"Ohh, I thought I had told you guys I could do that, sorry?" Percy shrugged as he said that in the most unapologetic voice he has ever mustered before. 

He was met with stares that told him they didn't believe them. Percy faked an exasperated sigh and muttered, "I'll just show you."

And then, instead of standing at 5'1, Percy was suddenly only an inch tall.

Notes:

I'm ending it here and will pick up with the reactions hopefully next week. It's just that it's 1:37 am on a sunday night which means I have school tomorrow and the quarter ends on Tuesday... Thank you Slenderlyn for pestering me to do this chapter.

Chapter 5: That escalated quickly to say the least

Summary:

What the heck does vulounerbility mean?

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

“What… the actual fuck!?” Oddy said, staring wide eyed at Percy, who was currently the size of a thimble. But Percy’s ‘new’ size and possible vulnerability seemed to have flown right over his head as he stepped forward on autopilot, trying to make sense of the scene before him.

Percy yelped and scrambled away as Oddy almost stepped on him, backing up to a point he was almost cowering under the bed.

Luckily, Pene was there to make sure Oddy didn’t make anymore stupid descions, hugging him from behind and whispering in his ear, “Maybe don’t step near our friend who coukd easily be squished underfoot?”

Oddy blinked and sighed.

“Right sorry Perce,” he said slowly, like Percy wouldn’t believe him, “I wasn’t thinking with the absurdity of this whole situation.”

Percy laughed nervously, “Yeah, it’s fine dude. Not the first time someone has reacted that way.”

He cleared his throat, trying to ignore the tension in the room.

Everyone was quite nervous, but then again, who would expect their best friend to randomly shrink?

Deciding to be safe than sorry, Oddy slowly lowered himself to the floor so he was sitting crisscross and extended his hand toward Percy.

”Dude… are you trearing me like a frightened animal?” Percy sputtered out, completely dumbfounded.

”I’m sorry, okay! I’m panicking while trying not to panic because I just found out my best friend has another form where he is as tiny as a bug, very squishable and probably tastes like mozaralla!”

”Dude sersiously, what the fuck!”

”I’m panicking, okay!”

Red, who had been just staring quietly at Percy for the last few minutes with a look of shock, realization and some concern, cleared her throat to avoid an inevitably fight that would break out because it’s very clear both boys are panicking.

Stepping forward, while being very mindful of the very tiny person of the floor, carefully scopes Percy up in her hands, Pene scolded the two of them by saying, “Now now, boys, calm down, we don’t want anyone getting hurt, do we now?”

Oddy muttered a weak “no” but Percy was a bit preoccupied…

…with panicking.

The last time someone held him like this, bad things happened. He knows it wasn’t Luke’s nor Becky’s fault he was hit by the metal, but it doesn’t mean Percy still doesn’t like being held in the palm of someone’s hand. 

It’s very much like a flight or fight response, as Percy is growing more and more agitated the longer he is in Pene’s hand, especially since Pene is accidentally pressing against Percy’s scar.

Percy could sense, that deep in the ocean, the water, along with a very familiar being, was growing more concerned the longer Percy panics.

His panic is only getting worse and he can’t hear what anyone is saying. His breathing is too fast, too shallow. His eges are darting around wildly, trting to find any reprieve. He’s shaking and there’s a faint buzz like sound ringing in his ears.

…he does the only thing he can think of… he bites Pene.

A metallic taste fills his senses as he wonders briefly he this was a mistake, but he doesn’t get much time to think as Pene, out of surprise and pain, throws Percy towards the wall nearest the dorm door and the desk Red is sitting at.

Percy hits the wall with a sift “thump” sound and Pene gasps, but doesn’t get a chance to apollogize as someone opens the door.

Notes:

Short chapter this time as I has forgotten about this for three weeks and didn’t have that much time.

Btw, chat, am I cooked for not finishing a major assignment on an Asia project that was due on Friday and we have to present it?

Also, as soon as Spring break starts, which is in around a week and 1/2, I’ll be updating all my fics weekly before I have to go back to school. Plus, this will be the same thing for when Summer Vacation starts in 33 days. I just want to get to Wisconsin already but I still have to deal with school 😭

I also want to mention that I probably won’t be updating any of my fics until spring break as school is really stressing me out right now and I’m trying to work more on the first draft of the book I’m trying to write. Unless I write/update as a way to relieve stress or just to let ya’ll know I’m alive.

Btw, does anyone remember the series “Gift of Wings” that I did during the summer but onky ended up doing the first work because I got burnout, school started back up, and I had no ideas how to continue it? Well good news for you if you do remember it because all of thise problems no longer exist because I have an idea for it! These ideas were absolutely NOT planned and know I have to work them into the plot, just like in the Forced God.

I want ya’ll to guess who the person who Percy saud was familiar is, because ya’ll failed miserably last time and all you have to do is look at the tags, cross refence them to the ones for I just want to please you, my lord, see which ones line up, and go from there. Simple.

Chapter 6: Children of Dionysus suck

Summary:

Liam, a boy with blonde curls, slightly chubby face and blue eyes that Percy swore were purple, had just caused Percy to be thrown against a wall. Percy wishes Liam wasn't a jerk sometimes.

Chapter Text

"Hey guys, how are you doing?" Liam said, closing the door behind him as he stepped into the room, just barely missing stepping on Percy.

He luckily doesn't hear Percy's startled yelp nor notices how Oddy, Pene, and RED are staring at him, and goes to sit down on Percy's empty bed. 

While Percy doesn't think Liam wouldn't take Percy's newly known powers badly, especially since the two of them are friends, Percy doesn't want that many people knowing about this. Wait a minute... HASN'T PERCY SEEN HIM AT CAMP BEFORE???

Oh gods... he's one of Dionysus's kids... and Dionysus tells his kids basically everything, which means he probably knows of a tiny person that is at camp and steals Dionysus's grapes (don't ask, okay?). Might as well just tell him.

Liam and the others were talking about grades, how weird things keep happening, and how nobody seems to remember Mrs. Dodds, normal school stuff.

Percy cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled, "Liam, down here!"

Unfortunately, no one heard him because he was on the other side of the room by the door, everyone was talking in loud voices, and RED had her music playing, all to probably cover up Percy's presence so his secret wasn't revealed to Liam.

Which would be nice, if Percy hadn't realized Liam was from Cabin 12.

Grumbling, Percy sprinted over to where Liam's feet were touching the ground and hoisted himself up on top of Liam's shoe.

Liam had made the mistake of not wearing socks today, as Percy bit his bare ankle.

"What the fuck!" Liam screeched, swinging his leg onto the bed so he could stare at the tiny form of Percy attached to his ankle.

Percy blinked up at him and stuttered out a weak "Hi?"

Oddy groaned and put his head into his hands while RED and Pene just stared at Percy.

"I hope you know we were trying to not get you noticed," RED muttered, crossing her arms.

"Did... did you bite me?" Liam asked dumbfounded.

Percy shifted his grip so he was sitting on Liam's shoe instead, "Umm... I was just trying to get your attention. Sorry?"

Liam sighed and yoinked Percy off his show to hold him in his hand. 

"I hope you know that at this size, all it takes is one swallow to get rid of you," Liam said seriously.

Everyone else looked ready to murder Liam if he so much as made a move that looked like he meant what he just said.

Percy started sweating, "I um... listen! I'm sorry for stealing your dad's grapes, okay! I was just hungry!"

Liam blinked.

"Perce... one, I wasn't serious and was just joking, two, that was you?" Liam asked, staring at Percy like he just personally offended him while everyone else visibly relaxed.

Percy faked a cough, "I don't know what you are talking about."