When Percy opened his eyes, he was back on Earth.  He immediately knew where he was.  He was in New York City.  The buildings towered over him, reminding him of the time he had spent among the living.

Percy decided to walk over to the Empire State Building.  While he strolled through the crowded streets of the City, he noticed something strange.  The people he had passed had a light inside of them.  Their bodies illuminated the air with brilliant colors, each different, yet similar.  'It was their souls' Percy realized.

Percy marveled at the beauty of human spirit until he was pulled out of his thoughts by a large man.

"Percy?" said the man.

"Dad?"  Percy was terrified.  How was he going to tell his own father that he had disowned him for another God?

Poseidon pulled his son into a hug.  "I thought you were dead."

Percy tried to hold back his tears.  "I am." he mumbled quietly.

"I'm sorry, my son, what was that?"

"I'm dead." Percy almost yelled.  The mortals passing by gave him weird looks.

"W-what do you mean you are dead?  How can you be here?"

Percy gave his father a sad look.  "I'm so sorry, father."

"Perseus, what did you do?"  Poseidon whispered.  

"I-I pledged myself to the Lord.  To the Christian God." Percy sighed, tears threatening to spill, "I can no longer be your son."

Poseidon looked at Percy in utter shock, "Perseus," he began, "I may not support your decision, but you will always be a son of the sea.  You have brought nothing but good into this world, and you are here to make it eternal.  I am so proud of you, Perseus.  I love you" 

Percy looked up at Poseidon, "I love you too, father.  I will try to visit you as often as I can." He took out Riptide and placed it in his father's shaking hands, "Please, give this to my beloved, Annabeth.  Tell her that I love her, but she has to move on.  I will not be able to live with myself if she spent the rest of her life grieving."

"I will, my son."  With that, the god of the sea disappeared. 

After the awkward conversation with his father, Percy walked into a coffee shop down the street, called Java Jones.  It was small, but seemed to have a good atmosphere. 

As the waiter walked over to him, he could see lust in her eyes.  'Ew' he thought to himself. 

"Hi, my name is Maureen.  What can I get for you?"

"Can I get a hot chocolate and some coffee cake, please?"

When Maureen brought him the beverage, he suddenly realized that there was no taste to it.  He took a bite of his coffee cake.  Nothing.

'Was this some kind of sick joke?' he thought to himself.

'God!' he mind messaged.

'What?'

'Why can't I taste anything?'

'Remember Perseus, you are dead in this world.  Mortal food will appear tasteless to you.'

"This sucks!"Percy said out loud.

The man on the guitar stopped playing and looked at Percy.  Percy looked away.  He noticed something peculiar about this man's soul: it was dead.  There were no colors radiating off of him, like the other mortals.

Percy had to investigate.  He saw a stack of flyers on the stool next to the strange man.  With his enhanced vision, he saw that they were for a band called Millennium Lint.  Apparently, they were holding auditions tonight at 7pm.

Percy walked over to the man as casually as he could, picked up a flyer, and walked out.

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That night, Percy walked into Java Jones to find two other guys auditioning. Suddenly, he remembered that he couldn't sing. In his past life, he wouldn't dare sing a single note in front on anyone, even if his life depended on it.

He quickly snuck into the bathroom and brought out his steele.  An eerie blue light burned though his skin, leaving an odd tattoo. Looking at the rune, Percy was reminded of some of his favorite musicians.  

When he walked back into the coffee shop, he noticed the strange man from earlier setting up along side he band mates. They didn't seem strange in anyway.  You know, besides being in a band called Millennium Lint.

Once they had finished, the strange man walked up to Percy and the other two men audition.  "Ok!  Let's start the auditions."

Percy watched his competition carefully.  They were good, but not good enough to beat an angel of the Lord.  He felt kind of bad for cheating, but he knew it was the only way to find out what this strange man was.

When the two boys were done singing, Percy walked up onto the stage.  The band stared at him expectantly.  

He began to sing.  The band looked at him, wide-eyed.  Once he was done, the strange man stood up.  "Looks like we've found our lead singer."