Disclaimer: Still don't own it
Sorry for not posting in a long time guys. I'm still in school and we had midterms so it's getting really hard to post at regular intervals. There is a surprise in this chapter that will be hard to understand unless you know the Hindu mythology.
Percy's POV
7 Jan, 2017
I was walking around in my palace on Olympus. Today was the day that we are going to reveal about the mythologies to all the people. Along with me, there were Chaos, Thor, Odin, Vishnu and Shiva who were also nervous. Bianca was next to me trying to calm me down.
"Percy, it's okay. You fought against so many titans, gods, and monsters. Telling the mortals about yourself shouldn't scare you. Plus even if it turns out to be bad, you can just make it so that it never happened." Bianca said.
"I wish it was that easy. I can control time to an extent but turning the time back for such a long time is close to impossible. Also to make sure that the gods know about this, I will have to have contact with them so they come back in time as well. Otherwise it will create many problems." I said.
"Ok, so it's not as easy as it's shown in the movies."
"No it is not"
"Well, it's almost time for you guys to go. Good luck and be safe." she told everyone and went back to her room.
All of us flashed to the throne room and summoned the council. I think that everyone was just as nervous as us because all of them flashed in at once. Everyone was on high-alert, even Dionysis.
"Ok everyone. Here is the video that we made about ourselves. I'm going to release it into the media now. State any objections now because once I launch the video, it will be impossible to back out." I said.
No one objected out loud though most of us were thinking about the danger this could pose. After some time, I tapped into my technology powers and created an official page on my name in Facebook, Twitter and other social media and launched this video in them. Also to boost the interest in this video, I made trend in top place worldwide until I chose otherwise.
I opened the views list for the video and saw that they were going through the roof. In 10 minutes, the video got a million hits. Only problem was that the comments made us realise that the most of the people thought this was a video with exceptionally good graphics but still not real.
"Ok, most people that watched that video are thinking that it was just a video with really good graphics while a few are believing it is true." I announced.
"Remember, I already said this would happen." Vishnu said.
"Well, it's a good thing that we had a backup plan." said Odin.
That was true. Our backup plan was to do a live broadcast onto all the major channels in the world. We already had an appointment with most of the channels. There was many acres of unused land close to Camp Half-Blood and we'll be telecasting it from there. Being a live show will make a lot more people convinced. Only Poseidon, Hades, me, Vishnu, Shiva, Odin, Thor, Athena and Chaos will be going. Also for any channels that aren't coming, I made it so that we had a 3 hour slot in every channel and I'll be telecasting it for those channels myself personally.
The 9 of us flashed down to the area near Camp Half-Blood and in five minutes, at 11:55 am, all the channels were there. I connected the live telecast across the world, stepped forward and started talking.
"Hello everyone, my name is Percy Jackson. The people that you see around me are Odin, Vishnu, Chaos, Athena, Thor, Shiva, Hades and Poseidon." I said pointing to the gods/goddess as I said their name. "This might shock you but all of us are gods and goddesses. All the gods from the Hindu, Greek/Roman and Norse mythologies are real and still here. Not just the gods, the entire mythologies are real. Also these three are the only mythologies that exist. All other mythologies or pantheons are actually non-existent."
I looked at news reporters and they were looking at us like we were crazy but I continued.
"The reason no one knew about this was that there has been something called the Mist which is essentially a magical layer that separates the mythical and mortal worlds. Once we remove this Mist, you will all be able to see us for who we are. But first, what do you see here?" I asked holding out riptide.
"A gun" came the answer.
"Now see what happens"
After I said this, all 9 of us focused our powers and shot out beams of power which completely destroyed the Mist across the world.
"Okay, we know you raised your hands up and a couple of lights shone but nothing is different here." said a reporter.
"Fine, look at the gun again," I said. Slowly the Mist around the weapon disappeared and you could see Riptide very clearly. I explained all of our domains and exactly what weapons and powers we had. We all gave a small demonstration of our powers and flashed back to Olympus in a way that Chaos, Shiva and Odin invented together. It makes it so that we don't have to take our true form so no one dies.
Once we got back to the throne room, I posted that interview and telecast on my official page and started trending it as well. This time, a lot more people believed it and it was all over the news. Also since, the mist was gone, everyone could see Olympus on top of the Empire State Building.
We flashed down to where the news reporters were gathered again.
"Why did you vanish in the first place, we still had 2 hours of your time and we still have an hour and a half." the reporters asked.
"We vanished to make sure that most people believed us." I said.
"Next, none of the gods showed themselves to the humans for hundreds or thousands of years. Why show yourselves now?" came a question.
I was about to answer but Vishnu stepped forward.
"We chose to tell everyone now because there is a war coming up. The war is between the gods and our enemies. Even though we didn't show ourselves, we made sure that the life on Earth went by nicely. But if our enemies win in this war, all the humans will be turned into their slaves. The last time we battled with them, all the humans knew about us and their prayers gave us the extra power that we needed to beat them. If the same armies returned, we would still be able to beat them but their strength multiplied hundred-fold. So, if the humans start praying for us again, we will have enough power to match them. The human armies are absolutely no match for them as you need godly powers and godly weapons to fight them."
We could see the dread on the people's faces but also hope as we were there. We decided to put on a show with our powers. Shiva and Hades brought up reanimated skeletons, Poseidon created a trident of water, Thor summoned a Mjolnir which was covered in lightning, Odin and Athena both summoned their powers and infused them with war power, Chaos created a new species of flower which can only be touched by those who have purse intentions, Vishnu showed his Dasavatharam(A/N: ten forms) while I slowed down time for some birds that were flying.
"These are some of our basic powers that we have mastered already."
Everyone stared at us in awe and slowly left because the time was done. After this, Poseidon and Athena left back to Olympus while the rest of us had other work.
We flashed to where Indra was at the moment(his palace) and asked his permission to do something to which he happily agreed and also informed us that Duryodhana, Dusshasana and some other Kauravas were brought back to life by Gaea and Tartarus. After that we also asked the permission of Yama Dharma Raja, Vayu, and the Ashwini twins(a.k.a Ashwini Kumara) and they all agreed.
We all connected our hands and went to India and since it was so far away, we needed some extra power. It was a barren field. We bent down and brought up two skeletons which were brought back to life. We poured power into the skeletons till they looked like they did before they died. Before us were two men, one in normal ancient indian clothing and looked like he was in his late 20s while the younger one was a teenager of about 16 in magnificent battle armour. They were still unconscious and we brought up 4 more skeletons and did the same process again. All of these 4 men looked the same age as the first person and were wearing the same clothing. Vishnu made it so that they were all awake. In front of us were 4 people who were legendary warriors. Their names are:
Yuddhistir, Bhima, Nakul, Sahadev.
The other two were even greater warriors named:
Arjun and Abhimanyu.
The Five Pandavas and Arjun's son Abhimanyu were alive again.
A/N: I know I said that the three were the only mythologies that existed. this wasn't meant to offend anyone. This is so that it is easier for me to write as I only know about these three. I know that the two most popular religions are Christianity and Islam and I have many friends in both but they aren't there in this story. There is also a reason for this that you will find out later in the story. Plus if the others were there, I felt the story would get too complicated.