I was in the fifth grade when I first read this beloved series. Ever since, I fell in love with the series and I treasure it so much. It helped create such wonderful memories in my life. From my imagination and even to my real life.

No other fandom has made such a great impact on me and I can't believe it because I usually don't socialize with fandoms(My best friend does that. Yeah I'm looking at you, zewujun). So thank you for accepting me into this family.

I guess you could say this is definitely one of my greatest achievements. Having received above a hundred thousand views is such a big achievement and it would not have been possible for you readers.

I was expecting very few people to read it, no joke. This is because I was only writing what I wanted to write, and not exactly...targeting an audience. But then you all proved me wrong and I nearly died of happiness.

As a tribute for this long journey I've been in, I have decided to share to you guys some of my inspirations for some of the characters involved and some memories I made. It doesn't sound fun, but this all held special places in my heart.

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These are the people that inspired some of the characters

1. Joana May: Omg this girl. I admire her so much. My inspiration for this was my wamen friend who worked for my mom and dad for a few years. While she was here, we shared so much books to read(mind you all, I was a 12y.o. sharing books to a 20 y.o.). How much did I trust her? Enough to lend her my own original set of Percy Jackson books. She was so willing to watch me fangirl and share things about Percy Jackson. I even showed her my miniature Anaklusmos. (Sadly, we don't have any contact at all right now. So, Miss Joana May, if you see this, I'm waiting for you to show me a pic of the cat I gave you. Has he gotten even fatter??? Is he pregnant???)

2. Steffi Gale: My classmate since forever. She is one of the sweetest people you would ever meet. She is so kind. Like so so so kind. She's a definite diamond in the rough. It is very hard to find people like her. She's calm and reserved. I admire that about her. She perseveres through each day despite all the hard tasks thrown at us. She's so thoughtful and observant. I was really really down in the dumps one day and she kept asking me what was wrong and if I was okay. I didn't speak, but she still stayed by my side. Awesome awesome friend.

3. Elyza Teeper: Art goddess. *Drops mic* *picks up mic* Guys, this girl is amazing. Also my classmate since forever(but she moved school last year so I am sad). Her art skills are so admirable. She is responsible for the really awesome drawing you all see as my profile picture. I want all of you to know how amazing she is. She noticed my love for a certain character so she drew Nico Di Angelo for me. It was one of the best gifts I received.

4. Clarice Campi: She loves volleyball. Sporty. We were close at one point but we drifted away. Though, when we were close, she supported my back. There was this one time, someone said something about me. Gossiped about me. And basically bad mouthed me. This girl told me about it and told me that she knew I really wasn't like that. From her, I learned that being a kind and good person to people I meet goes a long way even if you aren't as close anymore.

5. Maria Reynon: Me. Just plain old dull me.

6. Sapphire Skye: Miss President of the class for six straight years. A truly admirable girl. She is a pillar of strength. She always held her beliefs firm and never got swayed by anyone's wrong doings.

7. Irene Callo: One of my favorite inspirations. I made this character to be the best friend of my counterpart in this fanfic. So you guessed it, it's zewujun. This girl stayed beside me and stood by my side for the longest time. She has been my best friend since Grade 6. How did we become BFFs? We both don't know. The origin of our friendship is the biggest mystery of our life. We shared fandoms, fangirled together and simped for certain characters. *cough* Kageyama, Daisuke *cough*. She plays the piano, and I am a wannabe who slowly plays the piano. We went through troubles and got past them together. All in all...it's well balanced between fun and drama. You could say that she completes me as my best friend. We've got each other's backs and we know this even without saying it. (I love you bro, no homo. You're the only one I can talk to quite openly.)

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Okay, now, some things that Percy Jackson and the gang has inspired in my real life.

#1
One of my fondest memories is somewhere in 8th or 9th grade. I was with zewujun was called Percy. And Arianne(the other friend)was called Jason. No joke, we literally adopted the names.

Me in class(Nico): Percy. PERCY.
zewujun(Percy): Nico?
Arianne(Jason): I'm shipped with a brick.

We can just say students and teachers alike were really really confused by how we chose to call each other guy names.

We even made a group chat named "Dam Demigods" and nicknamed some of our classmates using PJO characters.

#2 sequel to #1
You know how Percy Jackson sucks at archery?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, that Percy skill truly carried on.

At school, we had a fair. (Mind you, this is the greatest thing our school ever does.) In this fair, they had ARCHERY. I paid for me and zewujun to have a go at it.

5 arrows each.

I was so focused that all my arrows hit within the target.

I looked over at 'Percy' and BEHOLD.

She was on her fourth arrow.

I stared long and hard at the target she had.

Zero.

ZeRo arrows on the target.

ThReE arrows on the floor.

I cheered for her as another arrow drove straight down to the floor. "That trajectory really is questionable, are you sure the bow isn't broken?"

And I lost it. My brain screamed: OMG IT'S THE REAL PERCY

Me: *Wraps an arm around her* Dam, Percy really is rubbing off of you

Her: *shoves me off a cliff*

#3
So we gathered our group of friends. The guy we call RED saw a moth stuck in our classroom so we helped each other lead it out the window. You should have seen all of us being "BE FREE MY LITTLE MOTH"

Me: Yes, we must not anger the gods by killing this innocent creature.
'Percy': Appease the gods
Everyone else: You're free now, little moth. FLY. FLY AS FAR AS YOU CAN.

We all felt...like really good people.

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A few flaps later, a bird flew down and ate our little moth.

Everyone was ridiculously crushed.

Me @ my fellow demigods: That, my people, is what you call...natural selection.

#4
I have two guitars....named Chase and Nico Di Angelo. (Yes, it's random deal with it)

#5
I kinda made a tradition every time Percy Jackson and 'Percy' over here's birthday comes around. I bake something blue. Like...super blue. Two years ago, I baked really really sweet sugar cookies. They were delicious. Last year, I tried to bake blue cookies. They ended up tasting like Play Doh BUT THAT ASIDE. This year I made a cake for their birthdays since I had enough time to dedicate. Before I baked it though, I did a lot of dry runs to make sure I get used to baking. SO, here's the end result:DDDD

Before it was cut:

Super messy cutting of the cake AHAHAHAHAHAHA:

And a clean slice AHHAHAHA:

#6
Being a Percy Jackson fan brought along funny moments too. For like...the times I wear my CHB sweater to school, people who recognize the shirt just go person.exe has stopped working.

There was this one moment. Of THIRTY DAYS of my stay in Canada around a year or two ago, I chose ONE day where I wore my Camp Half Blood T-shirt and my sweater. My family was on a trip to Quebec. The thing is, Quebec is FULL ON FRENCH. I HAD ZERO IDEA ABOUT FRENCH EXCEPT 'OUI OUI'.

It was quite hot that day so I removed my sweater, forgetting that I wore my CHB shirt. So I looked no different. (Yeah, this shirt sweater combo throws a lot of people off) 'I took off my sweater to reveal...the same shirt'

So while walking around a certain historical place, we visited a shop and of course did not understand a single thing. We were about to leave when a lady came up to me and pointed at my shirt. 'Percy Jackson fan?'

I am not exaggerating when I say I got scared and did not reply for a whole thirty seconds. My mind was racing with thoughts. 'How did she know? Why is she asking? Is she here to annihilate me?' Thoughts like that.

Then it clicked.

My shirt.

Then she showed me the most beautiful replica of Anaklusmos. Small replica. It was heavy and all. It felt like a tiny sword(knife). It wasn't sharpened but boi it was amazing.

And now I own this:

DO YOU SEE MY POINT??? It's fate that I wore that shirt on that day. Otherwise, this replica won't be sitting in my room.

I have a lot more memories but I don't know how to write them all down. But you get the point that it's a part of my life.

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Percy Jackson is very important to me in way I cannot exactly just put in words. I'm really confident in saying life will not be the same if Percy Jackson did not exist. So thank you, Uncle Rick. (Even if you are a troll.)

I am going to mark this book complete and I thank all of you readers. I'll be commenting and responding to new comments so don't worry, I'm not dying.

To those who newly read this collection of oneshots, thank you so much for choosing to read this.

All the love I can give,

Whyte Winters.

Happy Birthday Percy Jackson! And Happy Birthday to the 'Percy' Jackson in my real life!!! May you guys have a great birthday!!!

Maraming Salamat at MABUHAY