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Yet Another Read The Books Fic: The Lightning Thief

Summary:


In one last flash of light, three old women appeared. They were old and wizened, and were carrying five books each, which they then dropped on the floor.


"We are the fates" they said in a creepy unison. "And we brought you here through time and space to read your adventures"


"Time travel?"


"Indeed. We were displeased with how things were handled by your God-King."


The Fates then disappeared as if they were never there, leaving the books behind.


 

Just a read the books fic

Notes:

This was beta read by my sibling Bo0ks_4nd_C4tS c:

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

Chapter 1: The beginning

Chapter Text

During the council meeting of 2005 on Olympus, there was a bright flash of light that interrupted Zeus' usual monologue.

As the light faded, the gods found themselves looking at four people. The first was a teenage blonde boy who could only be a child of Apollo, an emo-like person who had a black Camp Half-blood t-shirt and two people who looked suspiciously mortal.

Before anyone could say anything however, another flash broke the silence and revealed a woman wearing a purple t-shirt, who looked like she had just gone through hell. As she swayed on her feet, the boy that looked emo ran up to her, then shouted something to his companions. As they rushed over and started to heal her, there was another sudden flash as a second group of people appeared there. These people were wearing purple shirts and had strange tattoos on their forearms.

One last flash of light and a last group of visitors arrived, all wearing Camp Half-blood t-shirts and looking like they had just gone through a war.

"EXPLAIN YOURSELVES!" The shout echoed through Olympus from the king's chair.

"You mean, you didn't call us here?" The brunette mortal said.

"Why would I call a mortal here?!"

The mortal looked like he was going to do something drastic but was held back by his companions.

"How did you get it here?" Rumbled Zeus.

In one last flash of light, three old women appeared. They were old and wizened, and were carrying five books each, which they then dropped on the floor.

"We are the fates" they said in a creepy unison. "And we brought you here through time and space to read your adventures"

"Time travel?"

"Indeed. We were displeased with how things were handled by your God-King."

The Fates then disappeared as if they were never there, leaving the books behind. As the red-haired mortal went to investigate the books, another girl spoke up.

"Why doesn't everyone just introduce themselves by name and year?" The blonde, tanned girl asked.

As everyone seemed to agree to this, she continued.

"Alright, I nominate him to go first"

She pointed to the black-haired boy standing near her.

"Why?" He asked, slightly annoyed.

"Because I said so," was the only answer he got.

"Fine, My name is Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, 2012."

Someone in the last group to appear looked surprised, and the group that were wearing purple shirts, with the exception of the black-haired girl, were looking outraged.

The obvious son of Apollo went next "Will Solace, son of Apollo, 2012."

"Rachel Dare, Oracle of Delphi, also 2012."

Apollo looked delighted.

After Rachel, the brunette mortal was next, but instead he whispered to his companions.

"What should I say?" He asked quietly, almost as if he had multiple names. He appeared to have received an answer, as he then said:

"Lester Papadopoulos, son of Zeus, 2012." He sounded hesitant as if he wasn't sure.

People looked confused but before anyone *cough Zeus cough* could say anything the next person went next.

"Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, daughter of Bellona, 2011."

By the looks of everyone's faces, no one except the people wearing purple shirts knew of any Goddesses named Bellona but she might be a minor god so no one looked too bad (except the gods but they always look like that.)

"Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, 2011."

The group of purple shirted people went next.

"Dakota Johnson, son of Bacchus, 2010."

"Gwen Lyttle, daughter of Venus, 2010."

"Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, 2010."

Hades sputtered, "you were dead"

Hazel just smiled

"Frank Zhang, son of Mars, 2010."

Then it was the Greeks' turn.

"Clarisse LaRue, daughter of Ares, 2009."

"Connor -"

"And Travis--"

"Stoll," they chorused together. "Sons of Hermes, 2009."

"Grover Underwood, Lord of the Wild, 2009."

"Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena, 2009."

The Romans looked offended.

"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, 2009."

There was uproar.

"POSEIDON!" Zeus screamed. "WHAT IS THIS?!"

"Hey-" Poseidon started, but Percy cut him off.

"DON'T THINK YOU HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SAY THAT WHEN YOU HAD TWO KIDS WITH THE SAME WOMAN"

Silence.

"Thalia, daughter of Zeus, 2009."

Zeus was surprised. The last he had seen his daughter, she was a tree. He opened his mouth to say something but closed it at Poseidon's glare.

....

Apollo interrupted this tense silence by going over to the pile of books and picking one up.

"Didn't the fates say we had to read these?" Said the sun god.

"Indeed," Zeus grumbled begrudgingly.

"Well then, we had best get started”