Utopia | Percabeth Royalty AU

11.

As Annabeth and Percy stared in amazement at the newly risen king with his aura of energy, the door to the room burst open and Hazel and Lou Ellen came skidding into the chambers, as if drawn to Poseidon by a fishing line, Nico and Will hurrying in behind them in a state of utmost confusion. The two witches rushed up to the king and knelt at his feet, while Nico and Will stood stunned in the doorway, seeing the king who was supposed to be dead.

"My Lord," Hazel spoke. "Thank the gods that you have finally awaken. We are in the most trying of times."

"Yes, My Lord," Lou Ellen added on. "Olympia is not the peaceful utopia that you left it to be. We have been-"

"Wait a second," Annabeth came out of her stunned sate, knowing that this was not the time to interrupt, but too curious to keep her questions inside. "Olympia was founded two hundred years ago, and the king is but fifty. I apologize if I am being impertinent but I just do not see how he 'left it to be'."

The king let out a chuckle before gazing down and Hazel and Lou Ellen, touching each of their heads lightly. "Please, my blessed ones, rise." He then looked at Annabeth with a smile. "It is true, my dear, that I did not create Olympia in the body of this host, but yes, my energy in a different host did found Olympia."

Percy looked shaken. "So, you are no longer my father?" He looked so close to another breakdown, Annabeth crossed the room and took his hand, giving it a gentle squeeze.

The king smiled sadly, "Of course not, Perseus, my prince. Your father and I are merely sharing headspace. I have always been subconsciously in the back of his mind, as I was with his father and his father before him, now that I am fully awake, he is still in there, and he still cares for you, he and I merely cooperate now and agree on what to speak of. We are one person now." At the looks of confusion from everyone but Lou Ellen and Hazel, he sighed. "I suppose I should explain this all in depth but I wish to explain it to the court as a whole, so that I may be saved the exhaustion of re-telling my story many times. Please send a harold to gather the court, we will meet two hours hence."

***

Two hours later found all members of the court and a few other palace occupants awaiting the king in the largest court chamber. Everyone was holding small whispered conversations with their neighbors, all casting sideways looks at Percy, Annabeth, Hazel and Lou Ellen who were seated around the throne, an area normally left unoccupied. The muttering stopped as soon as Poseidon took the throne, his aura of energy radiating throughout the room. "Now, ladies and gentlemen of the court," his new godly voice boomed intimidatingly. "I have gathered you all here today, to make an important announcement, and, to teach you the full history of Olympia."

"Approximately two hundred and fifty years ago," the king began as everyone settled back into their seats for the long story he was about to tell. "As you all know, Olympia was a country known as the United States of America. The entire world was full of technology, and that technology was polluting our beautiful planet Gaea, what the mortals used to call Earth. At some point in time, all of the world leaders save for those of two countries, came together and forged an agreement to protect Gaea. Some of the scholars out there may have read of this Paris Climate Agreement. Well, some years later, America elected a president with no political experience whatsoever, and with a deep hatred for those who were different. He started with bombing other countries, saying that it was good for America. He then removed the U.S from the Climate Agreement, sticking to his America First rhetoric. It all went downhill from there. This president bombed the rest of the world into pieces and polluted the environment so badly that birds could not fly through the skies without getting covered in smog. At this point, your history books tell you, three men stepped in and took him down, founding Olympia and ridding the world of his ill effects. That is wrong. In the past, gods were the controlling forces of the world. The Greek gods moved with western civilization, and we found ourselves in America during this great time of crisis. After Apollo was cast down from Olympus, we lost the power of divination and were unable to take preventative measures in time. The Gods had never directly intervened before, but we found that it was the time to do so. We struck down the President and all of his cabinet, using up most of our power to cleanse Planet Gaea. There were few salvageable places left for humans to live and we greatly debated killing you all and letting the planet heal itself, however, we had not enough energy left to produce such destructive energy, so we settled for a different option. Along with entities of other faiths, we created five utopias across the world for humans to live in, Machu Picchu in Peru, Nome in Egypt, Valhalla in the Netherlands, Hindustan in India and Olympia in the United States. We broke all of the technology and, with the last of our power, moved our energy into hosts. In Olympia, the three rulers have always held the spirits of a god inside of them. The other gods have also taken hosts and passed down their energy through generations. We left the safety of the world in the hands of witches, those born with the gifts of magic, and we vowed to sleep until we were needed again. It was only recently in the time of my host's father, that a young witch in Nome, Ruby Kane, was born with the gift of prophecy. She foretold that the gods would need to wake again in the next generation, and she told all those with the energy of the gods to name their children with the names of the old gods so that they might have more power when the energies of the gods awoke. The witches have been preparing for our arrival since then and I am quite thankful that they had been doing so, or else awakening may have been a much less pleasant experience. So now, I have my announcement. I am the god Poseidon, awoken in this time of peril for Olympia. Many of my fellow gods chose to take hosts in this court and I would like for them to all stand, as they have also awoken today."

Around the court figures rose to their feet, all glowing with the same powerful energy as Poseidon. In the end, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena and Hermes stood. Murmurs spread through the room like wildfire but Poseidon cut them off by speaking again. "The gods Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena and Hermes have chosen to take residence in hosts of my court, although Hermes delivers messages for all of the Courts. Kings Hades and Zeus are my brother gods and they harbor Persephone and Demeter, and Dionysus respectively. There are also many minor deities awakening in hosts throughout Olympia at the moment. There is much work to be done against the rebels, many of whom are hosts of evil spirits. I would hope that all of my fellow gods would attend me, everyone else, please be back to your own business."

A/N

Wow, so that was a lot of information for one chapter, I apologize. I'm also really sorry for getting political, I try not to include modern politics in my writing too much bc people want to enjoy my writing, not stress about what the current govt is doing, but Dildo Jackass Turnip has made me really angry with his latest decision and blatant hatred for the beautiful planet that we live on, and art should reflect the artist's feelings so I just had to put that in and get those feelings out. I'm really excited about this chapter tho bc now I can really move the plot along and get to some action scenes and whatnot. I'm also gonna try to write more fluff which I suck at but that's ok. I'm also working rlly hard to start my personal novel which is more of a dystopia than a utopia but it has cool greek monsters and whatnot so stay tuned for that. I really hope that Dildo gets his shit together soon or else we're all doomed, but I hope you all try to stay snazzy and have good summers and all that jazz. Please don't stop voting and commenting bc it makes me feel good about myself and it inspires me to continue writing.

Until the next chapter my babs,

-Lailz

[WC~1281]

[CP~6.2.17]

P.S. Have a meme, bc even if we're drowning in tears, ice cap melt and the rising oceans, we'll always have memes about the tragic state of our planet.