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Song: Hey Look Ma, I Made It by Panic! At the Disco

17 August 2024
Olympus
1800

We did it. We won.

Without any godly leaders the Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and US governments all came to a peace agreement. Each government is destroying any and all nuclear weapons they have left.

Everyone agrees that enough people died in WWIII to never use them again.

With the new peace and unprecedented amount of military members in the US who lived, most of us have been deactivated and placed in the reserves.

All of the demigods who survived are in the throne room for the long awaited awards ceremony. Word of my actions on Olympus last month has reached everyone, and Hestia and Poseidon look quite happy in their roles.

Hades looks at me with respect now too, which is nice.

"We would like to thank every one of you for your dedicated and loyal service to Olympus. Any veteran demigod not currently fully immortal will become so today." Hestia says.

Gasps go around the room, as Poseidon states "We do not want to lose any more of you, and you all fought for us when we have treated you poorly as parents and used you for our own means. That stops today too. Now, will the following demigods and creatures please step forward: Piper, Jason, Frank, Hazel, Reyna, Nico, Will, Thalia, Clarisse, Katie, Travis, Connor, Grover, Sarina, Hermione, James..." he went on to name all cabin counselors as well as any new heroes from the war.

Once everyone was blessed with full immortality, the throne room went silent and all eyes turned to me.

"Percy Jackson. There is not much we can give you, my son."

"Is there anything you desire hero?" Hestia smiles at me warmly.

"Actually there is. You all know that I gave up the throne and being an Olympian, and you seem to be doing well with the terms I gave you then. I have never wanted power, and I have seen far too many lives destroyed by it. I would like to give up my godhood and return the powers to the Earth so it can heal."

Everyone seemed stunned, but Athena, Artemis, and Demeter assisted me. Athena found the spell, and Artemis and Demeter used their connection to the Earth to channel my power into it.

The meeting was dismissed, and the party started for the demigods as the gods and I went outside into nature.

"I, Perseus Jackson, hereby relinquish godhood and return these powers to the Earth from whence they came." I read, and felt power surge from me into the two goddesses and finally into the Earth. Not Gaea, who has faded, but the planet itself.

The two goddesses continued channeling energy into the world around us for a moment longer. Suddenly I felt quite weak.

"There, Percy. You are just a full immortal now and our combined powers healed the portions of the planet that were damaged during the war. People may begin to return to the sites of nuclear wastelands soon and start rebuilding."

"How will we explain that to the mortals?" Poseidon asks, genuinely curious.

"I will pose as a researcher with a scientific breakthrough. They'll probably buy it." Athena states.

"Can you fix global warming while you're at it?" I ask.

Demeter looks at me fondly and says "I'll assist with that Athena. Might as well start saving this planet now that we've completely destroyed it."

With that, we all traveled back to Olympus and partied.

Sarina and I danced well into the night.

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18 August 2024 (the next day)
FBI Headquarters, Washington DC
0900

"Welcome back, agents. It's good to have gotten you both back in one piece."

"It's good to see you as well, Director James. We have a lot to catch up on."

After retelling the past year to Emily, she promotes Sarina to level six.

"Jackson, I would promote you but I happen to like my job and you can't have it. At least, not yet."

"Yes, ma'am. Don't worry, I don't really want your job!"

We all laugh, and Sarina and I get assigned training positions.

"You two have been in the field long enough. I'm going to pull you both from your military contacts and let you train the next generation for a while. You won't be at the academy, but you will be training special tasks candidates. You'll still get missions as I deem it necessary but for now you both can relax a bit."

"Thank you director, we won't let you down." Sarina says.

"You better not, or I'll assign you desk jobs." We both shudder at that horrifying thought, and get ready to leave her office.

"Oh, Jackson one last thing."

"Yes ma'am?"

"Happy birthday." She smiles at me.

"Thank you." I smile back, and we leave towards the training center.

Before we get there, I'm tugged into a corner abruptly and Sarina kisses me. "Happy birthday Sharktopus." She pulls away and pushes up her shirt sleeve, showing me a shark tattooed just under the EGA on her forearm.

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21 June 2025 (11 months later)
FBI HQ DC- Training Center
1200

"Romanoff! Barton! Stop playing around!" I shout at my recruits who had gotten into another brawl. The fiery redhead ninja and the blonde archer are going to make a great pair one day, if they can ever stop fighting each other long enough to focus on the enemy.

Sarina walks over to yell at them too while I pull Romanoff off of the poor soul. She's quick though, so I sneakily use my time powers to appear faster than I am.

Turns out I still have some control over all the powers I had as a god, just to a much lesser extent.

"Alright you two, ten laps each around the building! Whoever gets back first can leave early." I say, putting Natasha down while Clint dusts himself off. Upon hearing that, they both take off sprinting.

"Weren't you planning on ending early today anyway?" Sarina smirks next to me.

"Yeah, but they don't know that now do they?" I raise my left eyebrow as she laughs.

"Those two are a handful for sure."

"Yeah," I start, "But don't they remind you of someone?"

She smiles at me, and reaches to hold my hand.

"So, I see Athena has been busy in politics." I say.

"Yeah, stopping global warming was one thing, but solving world hunger last week? Amazing. I can't wait until it's approved and implemented globally."

"True, although to be fair like two billion people died last year, so that had to have helped somewhat." I reply.

She smacks my shoulder, then rests her head on it.

"I could get used to normal life again. Do you wanna visit camp tomorrow since we have the weekend off?" She says after a moment.

"I don't think that necessarily counts as normal, but sure babe. I haven't seen the others in a few months."

Natasha beats Clint by approximately two seconds, and immediately starts gloating.

"Alright you two, that's enough for today." I stand up, releasing the pair of incredibly intelligent dimwits.

"Thank you sir!" They say together, and run off to do who knows what.

"Let's go home."

One chapter and an epilogue to go!