Being Human: A Percy Jackson Fanfiction

The Creator of The Universe Asks Me Out: Chapter 14

Percy just be chillin' with the creator of the universe while Annabeth is sad and missing her boyfriend. Hear me out, Percy misses Annabeth. But time passes... differently in Tartarus. In the mortal realm, he's been down here for, say, 3 or 4 months. In his perspective, he's been down here for 4 or so years. I know there's not a lot of context, but this is about 3 years after An Awkward Game of Chess. Hell, when Percy came into Tartarus, it took him days to find the hut, even if it seemed like a few hours. The next Percy chapter will have a pretty big time skip- even Annabeth will have one.

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I was taking a waz when the creator of the Universe first approached me.

Overall, I was having a pretty normal day. I got up, changed my armor, fed Zagreus, trained for a bit, then went to take a dump. 

Yes, demigods- or immortals, in my case- still have to pee. One of my empousa friends, Jas, asked me that once. Apparently some monsters were under the impression that demigods don't pee. Which was weird, because I was under the impression that monsters didn't use the restroom. 

Spoiler: they do. Jas offered to show me, but I politely declined. 

Oh, yeah. What was I talking about? Right. The creator of the universe.

I was casually whistling the Avocado song and peeing when I was approached by a strange woman. She reminded me of Nyx, in a way. But she was much more elegant, and around 15 feet tall- which made me feel very uncomfortable. And feel like a child. I am not a child.

"Perseus Jackson," the woman said. Her voice was quiet and seemed to echo throughout the barren wastelands of Tartarus, though she spoke in my mind, much like the Oracle had done in the woods of Camp Half-blood so many years ago.

She looked around the hut, like she had been seeing it for the first time- though it was clear she had a sort of familiarity to the place. Like she had been here many times before - or, at least, seen it. 

Zagreus growled next to me, like he was ready for a fight. But I knew him too well. I could see how he had stiffened up and was shaking ever-so-slightly. Like he was... Frightened by this woman. Frightened by her power.

I finished peeing and zipped up. "Can I help you?"

"Er." She looked at me, noticing what I had been doing a moment before. "I'll come back later."

I was confused. Who was this woman? Did she usually walk in on people peeing?

"Uh..." 

But she was already gone.

Zagreus lay by my feet, as if nothing had ever happened.

And I... I stood there confused, next to a puddle of my own pee.

Later that day, the same woman came to me.

I was talking to one of the empousai who had first found me- her name was Veronica. She was Jas' older sister and when she was in the mortal realm, she liked to get KFC. Not that you needed to know that. But she was nice and a good friend. She was one of the first to visit me- she introduced me to Jas too. 

I remember when I was a mortal. It's been, what? 4 years now? But it doesn't really matter, does it? When I was a mortal... We thought monsters were creatures without feelings. They didn't like things, they didn't hate things. They just existed to annoy us.

But down here, now that I'm immortal... Everything seems to slow down. I found that all I thought were truths were lies. Monsters lived too. They had thoughts, feelings. They were like me. They were like humans.