The Oceanic Adventures of Percy Jackson

Awkward...

Aquatic/Equine speak: "speech"
Normal speech: "speech"
Thoughts: 'speech'

Prompt: Percy gets called to the ocean floor and finds a pair of sharks in a... peculiar situation.

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Percy gets woken up to a voice basically in his head.
"Boss... boss... BOSS GET UP!"
He shoots out of bed, capped pen in hand, ready to fight when he notices a familiar looking black muzzle through his sleep-filled sea green eyes.

"Blackjack? What are you doing, it's..." he looks at the time on his watch, "3am. Why are you in my cabin?" He asks.

Blackjack looks... embarrassed? For a Pegasus, anyways.

"Well... there's a situation..."

Percy sighs, still tired. "What's up buddy?" He asks, flopping back down onto his pillow.

He looks both smug and sheepish at the Same time. "Well... a few of our fishy friends got caught in an... inexplainable situation, if you catch my drift- pun intended." Said the Pegasus. Percy sighed.

"No, blackjack, I don't. But, I'll go check it out."
The black haired male kicked his legs out from under the covers, and stood up. He was still in his Pajamas, so he sent blackjack out before changing into soft shorts and a camp t-shirt.

Leaving his cabin, he nodded to blackjack. "Okay, give me the nautical coordinates." Percy said.

...

About 3 hours later; with the help of his natural knowledge of direction on/in water and a bit of a push through the water to make him faster, he ran across the issue.

One tiger shark biting the other.

"Hey!" Percy shouted, using oceanic speak underwater subconsciously, "let her go, now." He said, putting his sword up. He knew it wouldn't harm the creatures, being normal sharks, but a scare couldn't hurt.

The shark that was biting looked over at Percy somehow, and seemed to relax in relief. "Oh thank gods," it said "I cant, that's the problem!"

Percy was confused, and put his sword down. "Wait, what?"

The other shark, the one being bitten, sighed. "So embarassing... how much do you know about shark reproduction, dear?" Asked the other shark, which thoughts seemed to have a feminine tone to them, while the first had a masculine tone.

Percy was even more confused now. "I mean- more than a little; but less than a lot? I-I-I don't see how that helps us as to why he's latched on to..." Percy seemed to look more closely at the situation, and saw where the first shark was biting, before he quickly covered his eyes.

"Oh! Um-... got it, uh... so..." Percy really didn't know how to continue such a conversation.

"It's my fault" said the male shark, rolling his eyes. "I mean, I could feel myself getting tired but I NEVER woulda thought-."

"I don't need an explanation!! Don't- don't need an explanation." Percy inturupted the shark before he could continue. "Just- give me a second to think... and pray." He said, turning around. "Dad..."

...

An hour later; a very quiet, awkward hour, and help finally arrived. In the form of his half-brother, Triton.

"So..." triton said, tapping one tail fin on the sea floor like a disappointed mother when her child broke a vase. "You couldn't unlatch them yourself?" He asked judgmentally. Percy blushed in embarrassment.

"I- it- IT WAS VERY AWKWARD! I am 16, I don't need to see that!" Percy squawked indignantly, causing Triton to rumble in laughter. He passed his brother, and with ease, unlatched the two tiger sharks from each other.

"Thank you, prince Triton. And sorry, Lord Perseus, that you had to see that." The sharks said in unison. Percy tried to wave off the 'lord' title as usual, but Triton grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away without a word.
...

Reaching his fathers palace, Percy was pushed into the throne room by his brother.

"Ah, my boy!" Poseidon shouted, using English as he did with his mortal child when he visited.  "Did you find out the issue we got from that distress call? It was odd that it wasn't specified what it was on the call, but I hope you solved the ordeal?"

Percy blushed in embarrassment once again as his older brother spoke up. "He didn't, I did. He had to call for... assistance." Triton sneered.

"Hm... why was that, kiddo?" He asked, using yet another affectionate name for his children.

"Because separating two tiger sharks who were stuck in intercourse was 'something he didn't need to see'" triton said, snickering as he used the finder quotes. Percy felt even more blood rush to his face as his oldest brother laughed himself silly as he left the throne room, returning to his duties and leaving Percy at the mercy of his father.

It was only a few seconds before Percy looked up to laughter, and in shock, saw his father doubled over cackling. He'd never seen the man so... openly happy. It made him smile, and even chuckle a bit.

A hand on his shoulder, still shaking from the laughter, caught his attention.

"My boy, no need to feel embarrassed, remember, you were made in a similar fashion!" Poseidon said, making Percy flare up in even more embarrassment. "Oh-YUCK DAD! So did NOT need to know that!" He said, waving his hands and pressing his palms against his eyeballs as Poseidon fell into another fit of laughter.

...

It was another two hours of embarrassment from father and brothers alike before he returned to land, done with their shenanigans. Annabeth was on a quest, but Percy did see her brother, Malcom, waiting at the shoreline as Annabeth usually did when he went into the ocean. He guessed that Annabeth put her brother up to the task for her

"Welcome back, Percy- why is your face so red?" Asked the temporary Athena counselor

"Trust me." Percy said. "You do NOT want to know." 

Chapter one: finished! Most of these are one-shots, but I may do a mini-series if I feel obliged to, or if I get bored. Warnings will be in the next page cause I'm lazy and forgot them.

Also, for context on why the male shark was stuck on the female, I got this from Google as an explanation:
The male will insert his clasper into the female's cloaca, releasing sperm and fertilizing her eggs. This usually happens whilst the sharks are swimming parallel to one another, the male will hold on to the female with his teeth, often inflicting bite marks along the female's body.

This chapter was completely inspired by mxsonwillxms2 on tiktok, check out his PJO content!