The God of Mako Island (I'm a Mermaid Series Book 3)

Chapter 2

Key for later dialogue:

"speech marks and italics": Percy

Just italics: voice

Chapter 2:

How did I even stop them from taking away the power I have? I knew I was trying to block it out, but I don't feel like I lost any power at all, surely that wasn't possible? Or did something else change about me when I destroyed the virus?

You need not worry about what happened to you Percy, you're still the same person you've always been, except now you're just starting to see the truth about the gods and who they really are. 

There was the voice again, the same one from a few minutes ago, "Who are you?", I asked the voice.

I'm no one, just a part of you. We share the same feelings, especially those about the gods.

"You keep talking about my 'feelings' for the gods as if you know what they are, but what does that even mean?"

So you're saying you don't feel that anger towards them? They tried to kill you! To take away everything you worked for your entire life. You know everything you did for them, and you know what they tried to do. Now that your power matches, even surpasses, theirs, they're afraid of you. They always have been.

The voice was making a lot of sense, and I did feel the same anger towards the gods. I felt like I had no one to turn to anymore, forgetting about Will and Nico. This voice in my head somehow gave me comfort, and it made me feel less lonely than I normally felt. It was a part of me, so I guess in a way I was talking to myself, but it was nice to finally have someone that understood. I could never put my feelings about the gods into words, but the more I pondered over what the voice said, the more true it felt to me. After all I did for them, this was the thanks I got? It was just surreal to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it. 

Sitting on the beach of Mako Island, where I made so many happy memories, I realised how much times had changed. I was no longer the kid visiting Australia with his family for the summer, I was no longer a marine biology teacher, but more than that, I no longer felt like a hero. 

I just felt nothing. 

I was nothing. The gods were nothing. All those happy memories- nothing. Taking down the virus- nothing. My friends at camp or on Mako- nothing.

You can't feel nothing forever, it's not right. You are still a hero, whether you believe so or not. The gods may not be grateful, but when have they ever been? One small trip in your path doesn't mean you fall down forever. You say you're nothing, you say that you've done nothing, but you of all people should know that you're the very reason that the Mako Mermaids could live, you're the reason so many people have found a home at Camp Half Blood. 

"I'm the reason that people I care about are gone."

I know you're thinking of Annabeth Percy, you love her, but it is not your fault she's gone. In fact, I think it's time I share something with you I know about the gods, something they did.

"What do you mean?"

Well, Zeus used his influence to persuade someone to infect Grover's mind. The rest of the Olympians knew of this too, he used Grover as a vessel to destroy you emotionally before he could do so physically. He made Grover create the virus', both the one in Annabeth's phone and the one planted on Mako. It was never meant to destroy the mermaids, it was meant to destroy you.

"This can't be true, I know they're bad but could they all have done something so horrible?" I was in complete and utter shock, but for some reason this made sense to me.

Think about how angry he was today, think about how he tried to kill you once again. Think about how it took no convincing of the other gods to aid in your destruction. They all knew.

"Is Grover alright?"

How very you Percy, never failing to think of others before yourself. Grover to my knowledge is free from the mind control, but I don't know how long this will last. You angered the Gods today more than you ever have before.

"I don't care if I angered them. We need to go to camp to save Grover before it's too late." I never questioned how the voice knew all of this, but since I assumed they were just a part of me I trusted them. After all, it was just a voice in my head, what was the worst that could of happened? Not to mention how much they understood me. Being understood was something that I hadn't had since Annabeth died, but even then I was never fully understood.

Wise choice, and since you're now a supposed God, why don't you attempt to flash there? It would be much faster to save Grover after all-

I didn't really know how to flash, but it must have been what I did to get out of Olympus, so I tried by just closing my eyes and thinking of going to camp, going to my cabin, my old home.

I felt slightly dizzy but fine overall, then I opened my eyes. I was outside of the border, next to Thalia's tree, so I guess it worked partly? I don't know why I didn't end up in my cabin, instead appearing just slightly outside of camp. 

No one seemed to be around, so I took a step towards the entrance, only to be repelled away by the border. 

"What?" I thought, surely the border didn't register me as a monster and try to keep me out? I tried again, only to get the same response. I didn't understand what was happening, I was a god, and the border shouldn't have repelled me away. Did camp think I was dangerous? That I was meant to be kept out of my home? "Hello?" I shouted, "A little help please?"

Demigods suddenly came into view, walking outside of the border to where I was standing, and I knew it wasn't going to be a friendly interaction to say the least, but I was hopeful. "Percy Jackson?" One of them asked, "Is it true what you did today?" There were only three demigods there, two boys and a girl, all holding weapons towards me as if they feared me.

"Look at the golden stain on his shirt, of course it's true," the girl replied then turned to me, "Please, if you've come to do to camp what you did to the gods then leave. No one wants to fight but we will if we have to."

Why was their first instinct to be on the defensive when I came to camp? First the border, now the demigods, it feels like everyone here is against me too, "I don't know what you heard but I didn't come to fight, I just came to check on Grover. The gods hurt him and, and so did I. I need to see if he's alright. All I did was defend myself against the gods, they were the ones who attacked me, so please, let me in. Grover needs my help."

"I don't need anything from you Percy." Grover stepped out in front of the border, "I was under the control of who knows what when I hurt you, and I'm sorry for that, but you believed that was me, who would have never done that to you. You doubted me, and now you've lost my trust. I don't know what you did to the gods, but I know it was bad enough for them to come down to camp themselves and make sure the border wouldn't let you in. You're now a threat to camp, and to us, your friends. Please just go-"

Why did everyone think I was there to hurt them? Was Grover still under the Gods' control? Were  they all under their control? Could I even trust anyone anymore? It's like none of them remembered everything we did together to save the world, or anything I did for them. "We told you to leave. Now please go, before we make you." 

AN: and that's chapter 2! Sorry it's been a while since chapter 1, but to not add stress to writing I don't have a solid update schedule for this book. I hope you're all enjoying reading the book so far! I know I'm enjoying writing it! 

That's all from me, feel free to guess what you think is going to happen and I'll see you all in the next chapter!