The Lost Trident: Percy Jackson

Riptide got an upgrade

A few days had passed since I had arrived back at camp, everything was back to normal the lake had all its water back in it the camp was no longer flooding and most importantly Nico was walking again. Annabeth and I had gone to see my mum and explain to her what had happened on the quest and I thought my mum wouldn't be able to look at me the same again but she looked so proud of me.

"so, you made the tidal wave to struck New York?" Paul asked, I just nodded back to him nervously but I felt myself relax when he smiled and said how cool it was. I was lucky because no one had actually got hurt from the wave most people saw it coming towards land and ran away from the water. because I was so far away from the city it was also much weaker and it didn't damage anything which was good. I didn't get to spend long with my mum though because I had to go to Olympus and give my father his stolen trident back.

Annabeth and I made our way the empire state building to go up to Olympus, Travis and Nico were going to meet us up there so it was only us two in the elevator. I had spent the past few days contemplating whether or not I should tell Annabeth about what I had seen on my quest but I never truly had the right time to talk to her about it if I decided I wanted to. being alone in the elevator waiting for it to go up to Olympus I decided in that moment to tell her, so whilst we were going up I told her everything.

"remember you can't tell anyone" I said as the elevator doors opened. Together we met up with Nico and Travis and made our way to the throne room. Walking into the throne room I was actually really nervous more so than any other time I've been in there. As we made our way to the middle of the room it was complete silence, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of our feet hitting the ground. I kept my head down whilst walking trying to avoid eye contact with anyone. Once at the centre of the room, Annabeth went and sat in front of her mother's throne since she wasn't part of the quest and wasn't going to be addressed by the gods. Each of us got addressed in turn starting with Travis and ending with me.

"Percy," my father started "I am so proud of you" he said, I looked up at his face and I could see that he genuinely was proud of me.

"not only did you retrieve the trident, but you brought someone back to life with your pure anger and willpower. Now I know that the most of the anger you used to do this was actually caused by many of us gods, me in particular but without it Nico would not be with us." Poseidon said. I looked over at Nico sitting in front of Hades who had his hands on Nico's shoulders. They both looked happier than I had ever seen them.

"No demigod has ever done what you did, there is no denying that you are one of the best demigods to have walked this earth if not the best." Poseidon continued, "that is why I am giving you the trident." He finished. I looked up at him with disbelief,

"but this is your trident, it has been for however long, I can't take it. without it you won't have a weapon." I said in reply.

"all of us came to the agreement to give it to you as soon as we saw what you did with Nico" Athena said,

"you should have already noticed that it is connecting with you" Zeus said.

"but I already have a weapon, I have riptide" I told them.

"Percy, twist the other end of the pen to the right" Poseidon said

"you mean the end the end where the ink goes in?" I said confused, I looked around and saw that Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hades and Hermes were all nodding at me.

"ok" is said not really expecting anything to happen. But as I twisted it the right my pen grew into a trident slightly taller than me. It was my father's trident, but it was now mine and somehow it was my riptide. I looked up at my dad mouth gaping open in shock, he was smiling back at me,

"don't worry if you uncap it, it's still your sword" Hermes said.

"um, how do I turn it back into a pen?" I asked, it wasn't very comforting when they all looked at each other as if they hadn't thought about this part,

"twist the ink thing in the bottom of it" Hades said to me as if he didn't know the answer himself, I found what he was talking about and twisted it to see it turn back into a pen. I then uncapped it and watched it grow into the sword I know and love except it was slightly different.

"Tyson suggested it." my Father told me. I was shocked at the new design of my sword, it was amazing, for the most part it was still exactly like riptide but the pommel had a sharp celestial bronze point sticking out of it by at least 3 inches and the guard had two prongs that were about 5 inches long on either side of the blade. Everything else about the blade was the same as the original. And it was still perfectly balanced.

"thank you so much, dad" I said, I looked over at Annabeth Whose face was lit up with excitement and happiness. We said our thanks and were about to leave when I was asked to stay behind by Zeus. As I approached him I became worrisome about what he was going to say to me. but it wasn't all that bad he just said congratulations and that he admired what I had done to safe Nico. I then got thanked by Hades who was extremely grateful I had been able to save his son. Next came my dad I once again thanked him for the gift and he then told me that he knows I don't really like using tridents and that is why he had it made into my pen.

"just so you know the it still possesses all the abilities it had whilst I wielded it." he informed me,

"what will you use now that you have given your trident to me though. I can't actually take it knowing that you don't have a weapon" I told him

"don't worry about that Percy, as we speak the Cyclopes in my forges are building me a new trident exactly like the one you are holding. In a way, the one I will possess in the future will be a replica of the one that you currently possess." He replied, we exchanged a few more words before he had to leave and so I began walking back towards my friends who were waiting for my outside. 

The image attached at the top is how I imagine riptide looks now. I only did the because I saw the art and thought it looked amazing and it would be possible for it to happen and be his gift for completing the quest.