Meet Percabeth (+Oneshots)

Demigod Life [AU] Part 1

Futuristic and changes made (a lot)

//Age 12//

Annabeth invited her best friend Percy to play her favourite video game together.

When Percy came, he literally screamed when he saw the video game that had been set up.

His head whipped towards Annabeth 'You never told me you had Demigod Life! I've been wanting to play since I was nine!'

Annabeth chuckled. 'Well, you can play now. We can play together every summer. Is that fine?'

'Yes!'

Percy was jumping with excitement. He'd always wanted to play Demigod Life, but he knew his mom couldn't afford it, and Gabe was no use.

As they walked into the living room, someone else with blond hair was playing the game.

Percy nudged Annabeth. 'Who's that?'

'That's my cousin, Luke. He's a big fan of the game too.'

Taking a controller, headphones, and glasses, Percy sat on the couch.

'First, you need to create your profile. The game's practically a simulation, and it's as if it has a mind of its own. Based on everything you answer, it gives you a weapon, skills, your godly parent and everything.'

-oOo-

'Annabeth,' Percy said. 'Was Thalia ever here to play this game? Or did the game create her tree?'

Annabeth tensed up. Thalia. The girl who'd come to play for one summer, until she... left. She still missed her.

'Yeah,' she said softly. 'Once. But it was almost as if the game knew she was going to tell us the news that day, so it turned her into a tree.'

'Oh. Well, um... I-I um, I should go now, my mom must be waiting.' He said, turning away quickly.

Percy mentally scolded himself. What was he thinking? But how would he have known? It was a valid question!

-oOo-

Percy high-fived Annabeth. 'Awesome! We did it! We actually did it! We caught the lightning thief!'

Annabeth was happy, but somewhat nervous too. The game was designed to create someone's character based on how someone is. Did that mean Luke really was like how the game portrayed? Did he really think like that?

She'd walked in on Luke doing something in his room at times, but he always quickly hid it, lying to her face. He'd always been a good liar, but Annabeth had spent enough time with him to know that he wasn't the Luke she'd known.

//Age 13//

Percy and Annabeth played again that summer. Luke had found his own apartment and moved in, although Annabeth had a feeling he'd bought the game for himself too, so he could continue playing. He'd not even need to restart his progress, and while Annabeth couldn't see or hear what he did while they played together, this eradicated any chance for her to be able to find out his plans.

And so, Percy and Annabeth set out on another adventure in the game.

She had a good laugh when Percy was turned into a Guinea Pig, although she mentally knew that it could have been game over for him, and he'd probably not be able to play it again. She knew that it was possible to die in the game, even if you don't die in real life.

When her health went dangerously low, she was afraid even she wouldn't be able to play the game again, unless she made another profile and restarted her whole progress.

-oOo-

Percy was loving the game. Even when he was trapped in a hamster cage with a bunch of pirates. When he saw what the sirens had shown Annabeth, he realised that the vision wasn't just in the game. 

Annabeth had confided in him a while ago. How she wished her mother and father hadn't gotten divorced, and that Luke, the cousin she treated like a brother, was still living with them, and hopefully hadn't turned evil. That she wanted to redesign the world, in a better way.

Though, Percy had heard enough about dystopian worlds from her to know that as amazing as she would design the world, she couldn't design how people's minds work. She could change the infrastructure, but the world would still be as terrible as it was now.

He didn't want to tell her that though. Not yet.

When the two put the golden fleece up on Thalia's tree, he wasn't entirely sure what would happen. He knew that the tree would heal the tree, but will that secure the borders once again? Will the fleece put up its own protections for the camp?

-oOo-

When the doorbell rang while Annabeth was keeping watch in the game, she wasn't entirely sure what would happen.

She was definitely not expecting the girl whom she'd love as a sister before she left to turn up at her doorstep again.

'Thalia?'

She was absolutely not expecting Thalia to turn up after she'd left for more than 5 years.

'Hi Annabeth.'

The game seemed to have sensed Thalia's return, because right in front of the girls eyes, Thalia appeared next to her tree, once again in play.

Stay tuned in for future parts!