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Percy noticed the tense used, "was?"
Thalia growled in anger, "Hera, that bitch. She took him from me. My
mom, that weak fool gave him away as a peace offering. She said that
Hera hated the fact that my mom had managed to seduce Zeus not
just once, but twice. She said that the only way Hera would even
consider sparing our lives was if we gave Jason up as a sacrifice."
Percy listened in silence and astonishment. "I-I'm sorry Thalia."
Tears ran down her cheek and Thalia wiped them away as soon as
they came, "no, don't be. It's not your fault. It's Zeus's fault. He should
have just stayed away, he shouldn't have come back."
Percy's lowered his eyes in sadness, the way Thalia spoke right
now...it was the same way he spoke about his dad over a year ago.
"I'm going to bed," Thalia said getting up and patting the sand from her
back, "good night Percy."
"Good night Thalia," Percy replied back but the daughter of lighting was
already gone.
Next day,
Percy had just finished the daily training routine for everyone, he had
made everyone fight the Knight of the damned again, and things didn't
turn out any better. Thalia though had managed to get in two lighting
bolts and had leveled up in the process, not that she knew that.
After telling Chiron and his friends about where he was going Percy
was off for New York. He reached the city in mere minutes and he
quickly went to his mom's place. It was located on East 83rd street, a
few blocks away from Central Park. It was an expensive location to be
in, but Poseidon got the money part covered.
Percy walked into the building and went to the third floor. He knocked
on his mom's door several times and waited for her to open.
'This is taking way too long,' Percy realised looking at his watch. 5
minutes had passed, he began to worry. 'Did something happen to
her? Did Kronos go after her again?'
Percy needed to find out what was going on. He knelt down in front of
the lock and tired to look in through the keyhole. He couldn't see much,
but everything looked normal. Percy pressed his arm against the
keyhole and formed his shadow lockpick from the darkness under his
jacket.
Percy almost had the door open when a voice called out, "what are you
doing?"
Percy was stunned and immediately removed the shadow lockpick
from the door. He slowly got up and turned to see the neighbor's door
flung open and standing under the door frame was an older woman
with short brown hair and brown eyes. She had her hands crossed with
her eyes narrowed and on her hips was a badge and a gun.
'A cop lives next door?' Percy realised surprised. He hadn't spent too
much time with his mom, but he felt like he should have know that at
least.
"I was just looking for my mom," Percy said eyeing the attractive
female officer 'god she is so hot!', "Sally, Sally Jackson."
"And you are her son?" the detective asked raising an eyebrow, "why
haven't I ever seen you before?"
"I stay at a boarding school, I rarely see my mom," Percy explained as
he looked at the woman's name and title;
Katherine Beckett, The foxy Cop
Lv- 10
"She never mentioned a son," Kate said looking Percy up and down,
"and we both are very close."
"If you two are very close then I'm sure she would have mentioned
me," Percy shot back, "after all she did mention you, Ms. Katherine
Beckett of the NYPD."
Kate was surprised that he knew her name but hid it well, "I'm
surprised she told you that."
Percy nodded, "my mom and I may not be close but we still talk."
"Right...then why didn't she tell you she's not home right now?"
"She's not?" Percy asked surprised.
Kate shook her head, "no, she said she was going for a campus
interview. So that brings up the question, who the hell are you?"
"Is this an interrogation?" Percy asked.
"Maybe."
"Why so hostile?"
"Because I just saw you trying to break into her house."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "using what tools?" He rolled up his sleeves
showing nothing there.
"Or you're just better at hiding things."
"Kate!" a masculine voice called out from inside her apartment, "where
are you?"
"Outside Castle," Kate called out before turning to Percy, "so let's say
you are her son. What are you doing here?"
"I just came to surprise her with a visit, we haven't seen each other in
so long," Percy said just as a man walked out from Kate's appartment
standing next to her. He was tall and ruggedly handsome with black
hair and dull blue eyes. Percy looked at the man's name and title;
Richard Castle, Writer
Lv- 7
'Where have I heard that name before?' Percy wondered.
"What are you doing out here Kate?" Castle asked before he noticed
Percy, "ah, and who's the kid?"
"This is the neighbor's son Castle," Kate said not talking her eyes off
Percy, "what was your name again?"
"Percy, Percy Jackson," Percy replied.
"Sally's kid?" Castle asked surprised, "wow, didn't realise she had a
kid. Nice to meet you, Richard Castle, Kate's fiance" the man said
shaking Percy's hand.
"Well she does," Kate replied before sighing, "fine Percy I believe you.
Sorry about the interrogation thing. Sally's a good friends and I take
personal offence to anyone trying to harm her."
Percy nodded, "glad to know my mom has a friend looking out for her,
one who also happens to have a gun."
"Why don't you come inside and wait for her?" Castle suggested, "it's
better than being out here."
"You sure? I wouldn't want to be a bother," Percy said.
"You won't be a bother at all, and I insist," Castle said flashing Percy a
smile, "after all Sally has baked God knows how many blue cookies for
us. It's the least we can do."
"Well if you insist," Percy said as the three walked into Castle and
Beckett's place. The inside was huge, bigger than Sally's place. There
was a staircase to the side leading to the another floor. There was a
fake wall near the end lined with books and Percy could see an office
just beyond them. The entire place was filled with toys and video
games. Everything looked expensive and very posh.
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"Wow," Percy said looking around, "how many kids do you guys have?"
Percy looked around, "there are enough comic books, video games
and toys to entertain everyone at my camp!"
"We don't have any kids," Kate said as she walked behind the counter
pouring herself a mug of coffee, "those are all Castle's."
Percy's eyes widened in surprised as he turned to the grow 30 year old
man, "you own all of this?"
"Ah, yeah," Castle said.
"You must be a hit with the kids," Percy said looking around.
"Yeah, kids like me. And so do most adults-"
"-No they don't," Kate cut in.
"Yes they do," Castle replied.
"So what do you do for a living Mr. Castle?" Percy asked, "you must be
loaded to own all of this."
"I'm a writer," Castle said smiling.
"Oh? Anything I would have heard about?"
"Let's see….Nikki Heat."
"Never heard of that."
"Dereck Storm?"
"Nope."
"A Midnight's Kill?"
"Not a clue."
"Do you even read books?"
"Yeah, I love fantasy and fiction, though I prefer Greek stories to
anything else."
Castle looked surprised, "you like Greek stories? What are you 15?"
"13 actually," Percy replied.
"13?! The last 13 year old I meet you like Greek stories was my
daughter. I'm surprised somebody so young likes Greek Mythology.
Usually teens are more into vampires and other stuff rather than
Odysseus."
Percy shrugged, "guess I'm just different than."
Just then the door swung open, "dad, Kate, I'm back!" a voice called
out as a young attractive red haired girl walked in. She was petite and
had a very delicate features. Her eyes were blue like Castle's so that
probably made her his daughter.
"Ah Alexis you're back, wheres-"
"BARK!"
'Oh, no, not him,' Percy groaned as a black and white blur ran out from
behind the pretty red haired girl and launched himself at Percy's
ankles.
Chomp!
Percy sighed as the dog started to bite at Percy's ankles trying to tear it
off. The dog barely made 1 damage doing this and Percy just stood
there looking down at Leo biting into him.
"Hello, stupid mutt," Percy said groaning, "why the hell are you here."
"Sally gave him to use to take care off while she was gone," Kate
explained looking at Leo try and tear Percy's jeans apart, "he doesn't
like you huh?"
Percy sighed, "he was a gift from my dad for my last birthday," Percy
reached down and grabbed Leo by the neck and pulled him off his
ankle, "and I don't know why, but he hates me."
"Don't take it personally," Castle said, "he hates me too, stupid thing
pissed on me the first time we meet."
"Strange, he loves me," Kate said sipping her coffee.
"And me," Alexis said taking off her coat, "and who is this by the way?"
"Oh, right, Alexis meet Percy Jackson, Sally's son," Castle said before
looking at Percy, "and this is Alexsis, my daughter."
"Pleased to meet you Percy," Alexis smiled giving Percy a handshake.
"Hello Alexis," Percy said, 'gods she had an amazing smile. Is
everyone here super hot?!' Just then Leo jumped out of Percy's grasp
and started to bite and scratch Percy's face.
"Leo don't!" Alexis shouted grabbing hold of the dog and pulling him off
Percy, "I'm sorry, I don't know why he does that."
"Don't worry about," Percy sighed, "he and I hated each other the
moment we meet."
"I can tell," Kate said as she scratched Leo behind the ears calming
him down, "who's a good boy."
"Hmm," Leo whimpered in happiness as he stopped moving burying his
face into Alexsis chest before falling asleep.
"I think I'll go put him down," Alexis said, "poor guy was exhausted from
the walk. Don't know how he had enough energy to attack Percy."
"He has a special place in his heart for me," Percy grumbled, "I bet
even if he couldn't walk he would still find a way to jump ontop of me
and try to bite my head off."
"I can believe that," Castle said as Alexis left going upstair was Leo.
The man then turned to Percy, "so what do you like to do for fun kid?"
'Kill monster, grid for exp and item and sword fighting,' Percy thought
but instead he said, "I like video games."
Castle smiled, "game on."
An hour later,
Castle blinked as he stared at the screen. His hands still held onto his
controller but they weren't moving. "HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"
"I'm just that awesome," Percy said with a smirk as he shot down his
50th victim in Call of Duty.
"50, you killed 50 people," Castle said turning to Percy, "you are a God
Percy Jackson."
"No, just the son of one," Percy said as he switched out his AK-47 for a
sniper rifle and in one swift motion shot through the head of another
player 50 meters away.
"How did you do that! I didn't even see that guy!" Castle said as he did
his best to avoid getting killed by the enemy team.
"I have great eyesight," Percy said as his sea green eyes shined
indicating the activation of his 8.0 Eyesight perk.
"We are so going to get best player if you keep going like this," Castle
said he tried his best to keep up with Percy.
When Castle had suggested the video game Percy was a little bit
nervous. Despite living in one, Percy had very little experience playing
video games. But when he began playing he realised he was a better
player than Castle.
After a couple of one on one matches Percy finally realised why, his
Dex was many times greater than the average man's. His reaction
speed made everything in the game go in slow motion, he could see
everything clearly and think faster than Castle could. Using his 8.0
Eyesight Percy could aim every bullet of his for a headshot with a 99%
hit rate.
After kicking Castle's ass a couple of times they decided to take the
match online, and boy was the world in for a surprise. Percy had
dominated every match since and always got the last kill in every
game. He had died a maximum of 5 times in a game, but his kills were
in the 50's.
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"And time," Castle said as Percy pressed the fire button on his
controler launching a bullet into the skull of an enemy gaining the last
kill achivement.
"I am so cool," Percy said with a smile as Castle sighed throwing his
controller to the side, "what's wrong old man? To hot for you?"
"Are you sure you have never played this before?" Castle asked
rubbing his eyes, "because no one is that good on their first try."
"I just have very good reflexes," Percy said putting aside his controller
as Castle shut their system off, "I have to say though, this makes me
want to play some more."
"Well you are welcome to come over anytime you want," Castle said
walking out of the living room towards the dinning hall, "come on, let's
get you a victory snack."
"Victory snack?" Percy asked, "what kind?"
"The only kind a champion of Call of Duty deserves, Mountain Dew and
Doritos."
Castle and Percy walked to the kitchen where Kate sat over the
counter looking over several files.
"What are you working on Kate?" Castle asked as he opened his
fridge.
"The Don Fanico case," Kate mumbled as she closed one file and
opened another, "you know the body at the docks."
"Hmm, any leads?" Castle asked as he passed a can of mountain dew
to Percy and one for himself.
"No…, do you have any ideas?" Kate asked.
Castle shook his head, "fresh out Kate."
"What's going on?" Percy asked.
"Oh, right, well Castle used to be a consultant with the NYPD," Kate
explained, "we used to be partners, but after we started dating we
stopped."
"Really sad that part," Castle said with remorse, "it would be nice
solving crimes with you again. The criminals of New York would cover
in fear."
Kate chuckled, "yeah, I'm sure."
"So wait you guys used to work together?" Percy asked surprised, "I
thought you were just a writer."
"Yeah but you need inspiration to write about anything," Castle
explained, "I was basically in a rut and then I meet Kate."
The detective laughed as she took a sip of wine from her glass, "I was
actually investigating him when we meet. There was a killer who
reenacted murder scene from Castle's books. We caught the criminal
together and… we have been together ever since."
"Woah," Percy said, "that sounds so sweet. Almost like a TV drama
show."
Castle's eyes shot up, "that's a great idea! We should totally make a TV
show about us!"
"Castle no-"
"But think about it! It would be so cool!"
"I do not want a repeat of the Nikki Heat movie Castle," Kate said with
narrowed eyes, "no."
Castle looked down and sulked while Percy took a peek into Kate's
files. It was filled to the brim with various files and details. It seemed
the body of one Don Fanico was found brutally murdered in the docks
two days ago. The man was the head of the Boston crime family, and
since he died in New York everyone is blaming the crime lords in New
York.
"Hey!" Kate said slamming the file shut, "that is official police
documents."
"Sorry," Percy muttered as his eyes went over the titles over every
other file there when suddenly Percy's eyes popped open in
recognition of one marked, 'Attalia Ander.'
'That's the chick I saved a year ago in Boston!' Percy realised when
suddenly it hit him, 'she was kidnapped by Don Fanico's men!
Wait….that's the guy who got shot! Holy shit!'
"Hey, eyes of the files," Kates said taking all the files and putting them
into her bag, "this isn't something a civilian should worry about."
"What does Attalia have do with all of this?" Percy asked.
Kate blinked, "how do you know that name?"
"So it on one of your case files," Percy said, "now what does she have
to do with this?"
"I'm not allowed to discuss an ongoing investigation," Kate stated.
"Right," Percy said looking at Kate who simply stared back.
"Ah…..does anyone want doritos?" Castle asked.
"No, thanks," Percy replied as he turned to see Alexis walk down the
stairs with her hair wet in a fresh set of clothes holding Leo in her arms.
"He's clean as a whistle," Alexis said as she handed him to Kate who
scratched the dog behind the ear.
"I still can't believe how calm he is with you two," Percy said as he tried
to touch Leo only for the dog to growl at him, "he still hates me."
"Give it time Percy," Alexis said smiling, "after all you two have spent
what? A few hours together? He just doesn't know you."
"Oh he knows me alright," Percy said as the two glared at each other,
"he knows me very well. Stupid mutt from hell."
"Oh don't listen to the big mean boy Leo," Kate said scratching the dog
again, "he's just jealous of how small and cute you are."
"Sure I am," Percy said rolling his eyes. Just then Percy noticed
something, Leo hadn't grown….at all. He was the same size when
Percy first obtained him from that pot of chance nearly a year ago.
'Maybe something's wrong with him?' Percy wondered as he Observed
Leo;
Leo
Lv-1
HP:50/50
MP:10/10
Race- HellHound (1/2)+Wolf (1/2)
Str-2
Vit-2
Dex-1
Int-1
Wis-2
Luc-4
A dog which is a mixture of a hellhound and a normal mundane
wolf. It is strong and quick and very lucky. It is also know to be
very hyperactive
Likes: Bacon, women and long walks
Dislikes: Percy, men, vaccum cleaners and Percy
He hates Percy
He feels happy getting scratched behind the ear.
Percy was surprised, the dog was still in the same level as before.
Percy was sure he would have leveled up by now at least.
'If only I could ask him what's going on, it would be so easy. Maybe I
could also ask him why he hates me so much,' Percy thought to
himself when he suddenly got an idea.
Percy quickly pulled up his perk tree chart and started looking through
his perks. He then found what he was looking for, his Canidae trainer
perk;
· Canidae Tamer- user of this perk can control members of the
Canidae family with relative ease. This also includes magical
beasts like werewolves and Hellhounds!
This perk was useful, but it did have limits. Percy could give out orders,
but Leo would still hate him for it. Percy then looked at what new add
ons he could use for this perk and immediately found the only he could
use;
Communicate- Allows user to talk to and understand the members
of the Canidae family. This insures a better understanding
between the two.
Percy immediately bought the add on for 2 perk points and turned to
Leo whose ears was twitching as Kate continued to scratch behind his
ear.
"Alright Leo, tell me why you hate me," Percy said simply drawing
strange looks from Castle, who was making a sandwich with Alexis's
help, and Kate who just thought it was a silly thing to say.
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"Huph," Leo groaned out, but that was what everyone else heard.
"I hate you because you abandoned me asshole," was what Percy
heard.
'It works!' Percy realised as he continued, "I didn't abandon you Leo, I
just had a lot of things to do."
"Yeah? Like what? I heard you had something called school to go to.
Yeah I know, don't even try to hide it. You went to school and left me
behind!"
"Do you even know what school is?" Percy asked raising an eyebrow.
"No...but I know you abandoned me!"
"Oh grow up short stuff!" Percy yelled back.
"Ah, Percy are you talking to Leo?" Castle asked as the others simply
looked on in surprise.
"I'm only short because you refused to take me with you! You were
supposed to train me asshole!" Leo said braking furiously.
"Wow there I think you struck a nerve," Castle said taking a bite out of
his freshly made bacon and cheese sandwich, "strange, it's almost like
you guy's can communicate."
"It's not that surprising Castle," Kate said petting Leo calming him
down, "some owners who are really close to dogs like talking to them
and pretending they talk back." She then narrowed her eyes at Percy,
"though I have never seen the dogs respond back."
Percy was just about to respond when suddenly there was a knock on
there door. "Coming!" alexis said as she walked towards the door and
opened it letting an older woman inside, "Aunt Jackson!"
Percy and Leo's eyes widened hysterically as the both jumped to the
ground and charged Sally who was surprised to see the both.
"Mom!"
"Mama!"
Percy hugged Sally tightly while Leo rubbed his head on Sally's leg.
"P-Percy? What are you doing here?"
"I came to visit," Percy said breaking the hug, "Gods it's been so long!"
"Yes it has, when did you come?"
"In the afternoon," Percy said shrugging, "Castle and Kate have been
keeping me company."
"Have they?" Sally asked turning to the lady and gent in question,
"thank you both so much. I didn't even know he was coming!"
"Anytime Sally," Kate said with a smile.
"Yeah he's a great kid. Can totally pop by anytime," Castle said.
"That's because you just want to use me to win at Call of Duty," Percy
responded.
"Yeah….so?"
"Thank you both again," Sally said before bending down to pick up Leo
and scratching him behind the ears, "and thank you for taking care of
Leo. I hope he wasn't to much of a bother."
"None at all Ms. Jackson," Alexis said, "he was easier to take care of
then my dad."
"Hey!" Castle shouted and was promptly ignored.
"Well then we better get going," Sally said turning to the door, "thank
you all again so much!"
"Bye guys!" Percy said waving at them as they walked out of the
apartment and into Sally's.
After she put her stuff away sally sat down with Percy as Leo sat down
on the couch snoozing away. They talked for a while, Percy told her
how he sailed with Odysseus, and after he assured her he was the
original she was amazed. She wasn't to happy about the whole
Janai'ngo thing, but after Percy told her he did it save a life she forgave
him.
He told her about the prophecy, the revived daughter of Zeus, the
children he rescued from the casino and then finally about how they
were all preparing for war.
"Amazing," Sally said as Percy drank from a glass of blue milk Sally
made for him.
"I know I am," Percy said with a smirk.
"Well Mr. Amazing you should know you have a blue milk mustache
growing on your face," Sally said as Percy quickly wiped the extra milk
away. "So…. a lot has happened to you Percy, how are you coping?"
"I'm okay," Percy said sighing, "well, I'm trying anyway. I almost it
around two weeks ago and nearly ran away from camp, but luckily
cooler heads prevailed and I stuck around."
"I see….. I'm proud of you Percy," Sally said with a smile that warmed
Percy up, "have I ever told you that?"
Percy smiled, "you never had to."
Sally nodded, "so, what's the plan now?"
"Now? Well it depends. I actually came here for a reason other than
just talking mom, thought the blue milk was worth the trip," Percy said
finishing his glass, "I need some of your blood."
Sally blinked, "my blood? Why?"
"I need it for a ceremony mom," Percy explained, "with the war coming
for us I find myself without a proper weapon. I need something to give
me an advantage over the rest, and thanks to Odysseus I might just
have a way."
"I see…. Have you talked to your father about this?"
"Yup, and he already gave me his blood."
"Well...okay then," Sally said going into the kitchen and bringing out a
knife, "how are you going to carry it?"
"Woah mom, what's with the knife?!" Percy asked shocked.
Sally looked confused, "didn't you say you needed my blood?"
"Yeah, but I don't need that," Percy said pointing at the thing, "just sit
down and I'll do the rest."
Sally nodded and sat down putting the knife aside. Percy then took one
of her hands and using his blood control drew out a long stream of
blood from her index finger. Percy then used his ice powers and
formed an ice test tube big enough for the blood. He put the blood in
there and sealed the test tube shut throwing it into his inventory.
Progress made!
Create your own weapon!
2- The blood of the person/persons you care about the most
(Completed)!
"And done," Percy said, "see, no mess."
"That's amazing," Sally said looking at her finger, "how did you do
that?"
"Blood is basically 70% water, so I can control it," Percy shrugged, "oh
wait let me heal that for you." Percy took his mom's finger and used his
healing skill to heal up Sally's wound in a flash of gold.
"Amazing Percy," Sally said looking at her hand, "since when can you
do that?"
Percy shrugged, "since two weeks ago."
"What is it? Did Apollo give you a healing power?"
Percy shook his head, "no, not really, besides the only thing that
asshole of a God would give is curses to children of Poseidon.
Remember the quest to find the Golden Fleece?" Sally nodded, "well in
the process I managed to get a power similar to that. It's called healing
and it basically allows me to heal any person."
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Sally looked at Percy in wonder, "amazing…..so you can heal
anything?"
Percy nodded, "pretty much yeah."
Sally eyes' turned to worry, wonder and then finally filled with hope.
"Percy….can I ask you for a favour?"
"Mom, come on, you don't need to ask me anything. Just tell me what
you need and I'll do it."
Sally nodded and looked at the clock, "it's 6 right now, we just might
make it in time."
"Make what in time?" Percy asked as Sally got up and grabbed her
hand bag.
"I need you to heal someone for me, Percy. A daughter of my friend,
Maria, is very sick. I want you to try and heal her."
Percy blinked, "ah...okay?"
They quickly left the apartment leaving Leo once again with the
Castle's. Sally went outside and hailed a cab which took them towards
Mount Sinai Hospital. The cab reached the hospital in 20 minutes,
something Percy didn't like. He could have ran the distance in seconds,
but this just gave him more of an excuse to be with his mom. They
entered the hospital and Sally lead them to the third floor to room 322.
Sally slowly pushed the door opened walking into the room, "Maria?
Are you here?"
"Sally?" a woman called out, "why are you here?"
Percy walked into the room and saw his mom hugging a latino woman
whose face was covered with dried tears. His eyes then roamed the
room and fell on the bed in the center. On the bed was a small child,
around 9 or 8, with several tubes and wires attached to her. Her face
was thin and sulken with no hair on her scalp. Her heart beat was slow
but steady and her tiny body was thin to the bones.
"I wanted to see you and Tabitha Maria," Sally explained breaking the
hug, "how is she doing?"
"She's well, thank you for asking," Maria said before turning to Percy,
"and who is this?"
Sally smiled, "this is Percy, my boy."
Maria smiled as she walked up to Percy, "you have your mother's
eyes."
Percy smiled, "thank you ma'am."
"Oh no need to call me ma'am," Maria said, "I'm barely 30."
"Right," Percy nodded.
"How have you been Maria?" Sally asked.
"Okay," Maria nodded to her friends, "Tabitha, she's been...the doctor's
say she's getting better. But…. the tumor is still in there. Right now
we're not sure," Maria started to tear up again as Sally pulled her into a
hug.
"It's okay Maria, it's all going to be fine."
"I pray to God everyday Sally," Maria cried out, "why is he taking my
baby from me?"
"I don't know Maria, but I promise Tabitha is going to make it," Sally
lead Maria outside, "come let's get you something to eat. You look like
you haven't had anything in days."
"But Tabitha-"
"Percy will take care of her," Sally reassured Maria, "I promise nothing
will happen to your girl as long as Percy's there."
Maria turned to Percy, "take care of her for me will you?"
Percy nodded giving a weak smiled, "yeah, I promise."
"We'll be back soon Percy," Sally said while giving Percy a look that he
understood as, 'work fast Percy.' The two mothers then walked out of
the room leaving Percy alone with the dying girl, and she was dying;
Tabitha Alejandro Quanswala Forthaco, Dead girl
Lv- 1
HP: 10/50
MP:0/0
Race- Human
Str-1
Vit-0
Dex-0
Int-1
Wis-1
Luc-0
After being diagnosed with cancer at an early age Tabitha's life
has been a living hell. She has rarely held on to her childhood and
the only reason she has lived this long is thanks to the amazing
doctors she has had and the love and constant support of her
mother.
Likes: Cotton candy, the clouds
Dislikes: Cancer, seeing her mother cry
She doesn't know Percy
She is in a lot of pain but can't feel it due to the temporary coma
she is in.
Percy could almost feel the sadness and pity pouring out of his heart. It
felt like someone had punched into his chest and ripped out his heart.
Before Percy would have to simply stand around and do nothing...but
now he could do something. He could make an actual difference. Percy
didn't know whether his powers could cure cancer, but they do come
from the Golden fleece, which brought back Kronos and Thalia, so they
should at the very least be able to do this.
Percy bent down and squeezed the little girl's hand, "I don't know
whether you can hear me or not, but if you can I just wanted to tell you
hold on, I'll make sure the pain goes away."
Percy then began the healing process pouring his mana into the girl.
Ping!
You are attempting to heal somebody with several ailments!
Please chose one to heal;
Low bone density
Low metabolism
Low white blood cell count
Cancerous tumors in lung
Cancerous tumors in esophagus
Leukemia
Medically induced coma
Percy then pulled up his healing powers;
Healing, Lv- 1 (90%)
Allows the user to heal any disease or ailments threatening
himself or others.
Limit- 1 aliment per use.
Cost- 500 MP
'Okay so if one alimet costs 500 MP then I should be able to all of her
ailments easily,' Percy said to himself smiling. He first chose to cure the
tumor in her lungs. Percy's hands glowed, lighting up the dull hospital
room with a golden light. Percy felt his mana being eaten away, but it
was nothing compared to how much he had left.
Percy looked at her heart beat, with the cancer removed from her lungs
the girl was breathing better already.
Percy then did the process again and again and again slowly curing
every single ailment Tabitha had until only the coma remained. Percy
fell down to the chair next to the bed from mana exhaustion. He had
just used 3,500 MP in less than a minute. Percy was strong, but that
type of strainfull magic took its toll.
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'Should I cure her of the coma now?' Percy wondered, it would be
strange if she suddenly woke up just as Percy was with her. But then
again Percy didn't want the girl to stay in a mental limbo if he could
help it.
So with a shrug Percy threw caution to the wind and used his powers
one last time and healed the girl of her last alimet.
Ping!
Healing, Lv- 2 (10%)
Allows the user to heal any disease or ailments threatening
himself or others.
Limit- 1 aliment per use.
Cost- 450 MP
Just as the golden glow from the healing settled down the door opened
and Sally and Maria walked in with a cup of coffee in their hands.
"Thank you for looking after her," the latino mother said taking a sip of
her coffee, "and thank you Sally. This visit means a lot."
Sally nodded, "not a problem Maria," Sally turned to Percy and
widened her eyes, "Percy are you okay?!"
'Way to attract attention mom,' Percy sighed, "yeah, I'm fine."
Maria now noticed Percy as well, "Percy, you're sweating. And you look
exhausted."
"Nothing a nap won't fix," Percy said with a smile.
Just as Maria and Sally were about to check up on Percy once again a
groan came out from Tabitha as well as a word, "my-mom-my?"
Maria's grip of her cup failed causing the ceramic cup to fall out her
grasp. Percy moved quickly and grabbed the cup before it hit the floor
and then moved back as Maria ran to her child's side, "Tabitha? Tabitha
honey can you hear me? It's me, it's mommy."
The woman had tears flowing out as the small shield opened her eyes,
"mommy? Is that you?"
"Baby girl," Maria said with tears as she grabbed the child in a light and
gentle hug, still afraid of breaking her. But then Tabitha did what she
couldn't for over a year. She lifted herself up and curled her arms
around her mother's neck and hugged back. Maria cried harder, the
tears flowed even more now.
As mother and daughter hugged each other Percy and his mom slowly
walked out into the empty corridor given the two some space.
"Thank you for that Percy," Sally said, looking at the two people inside
still hugging, "ever since I knew Maria she had been worried only about
her daughter. The poor woman has suffered enough, I wanted to help
her anyway I could."
"Didn't I tell you that you would never have to say thanks?" Percy
asked with a smirk drinking the rest of Maria's coffee.
"You did a good thing Percy," Sally said with a smile.
"I know, I'm a hero. It's what I do," Percy smiled as he finished the cup
of coffee, "Although I never imagined I could ever use my
powers….like this."
Sally smiled, "maybe you should become a doctor when you grow up."
Percy shrugged, "maybe." 'I could if I wanted to. I can learn everything
I would need to know in the press of a button, and I beat if I am careful
enough not to get caught I could help a lot of people.'
"So will you be leaving now?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, if I stay too long monsters might catch my scent."
Sally sighed, "take care of yourself Percy," she then pulled Percy into a
hug, "and remember I am always there for you. You may live in a world
filled with things I cannot even being to imagine, but I am still your
mother."
Percy smiled and held his mother close, "thanks mom."
Sally broke the hug, "I'm proud of you."
Percy smiled, "I know. Well, guess I better get going," Percy turned and
took out his Goggles from his inventory. He put them on but then
turned to his mom, "hey mom could I ask you a favour?"
Sally nodded, "what is it dear? Need more blood?"
Percy shook his head, "no, I was just wondering whether I could take
Leo with me."
"Leo?" Sally asked surprised, "whatever for Percy?"
"It's just that Leo hasn't grown at all since I last saw him, and that was
a year ago. I think it has something to do with the fact he is supposed
to be with me or something."
"Hmm, well the vet I took him too just said that Leo was a slow grower,
but that could also be the Mist talking. Well I suppose it does make
sense that a magical creature can only grow up in a magical
environment."
Percy nodded, "right. And the reason I gave Leo to you was because I
wanted someone strong enough to protect you while I'm gone. Since
Leo can't do that right now I think it's best I train him for some time
before I give him back."
Sally nodded, "okay Percy. He's all yours."
Percy smiled, "thanks mom. I'll get them from the Castle's, oh, and
before I forget, here," Percy opened his inventory and pulled out a
green casino card with a lotus printed on it;
Lotus Cash Card,
This card may be used as a debit card anywhere.
Money contained within- Infinite.
Sally raised an eyebrow as she received the card, "what's this?"
"It's a casino card. Remember I told you I saved some kids form a
casino?" Sally nodded, "well while I was there I got this. It has an
unlimited amount of money in it."
Sally's eyes widened as she looked down at the little green plastic card
in her hand, "h-how is that even possible?"
Percy shrugged, "I'm not sure, but when I showed it to Annabeth she
said it contained some sort of influence in digital mechanics that tricks
a bank's system into believing the card has unlimited amount of
money."
"Percy….this is amazing," Sally looked at the card.
"Yup," Percy smiled, "I thought maybe you could use it to pay for
Tabitha's hospital bills and what not. But remember to always withdraw
money from an ATM, it might attract attention if you send money left
and right and I don't want-"
Percy was cut off by his mom grabbing him into a hug and holding him
close, "you are the best son any mother could ask for."
Percy smiled, "and you're the best mom ever."
Sally smiled and broke the hug, "you sure you don't need this?"
Percy shook his head, "no. I was going to use it to buy things left and
right, but I figured I was to irresponsible with unlimited money. So I
gave to the most compassionate person I know."
Sally smiled, "thank you. This is going to make college so much
easier."
"Don't' forget, never use this directly, withdraw money from an ATM
first," Percy then pressed the button on the side of his goggles from his
jelly like helmet around his head, "see you later!"
Percy then turned on the spot and zoomed away leaving Sally blow
back by the speed Percy was traveling at. "That is so cool," Sally
whispered as a smile came onto her face.
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Percy ran thought New York leaving a gust of wind behind him. He
reached his mom's place 9 seconds flat, mostly because he wanted to
slow down and take in the sights. He deactivated his helmet and
lowered his goggles to his neck before he went up and knocked on the
Castle's door.
The door opened up to Alexis standing there with Leo next to her
growling at Percy.
"Percy?" the beautiful redhead said in surprise, "I didn't realise you
would be back so soon."
Percy nodded, "yeah, we finished the thing early. Mom's still in the
hospital but I just came for Leo."
"So you can abandon me again asshole?" Leo asked
"For the last time I didn't abandon you Leo! You hated me, and I hated
you. You pissed on me the first time we meet!"
"So?"
"Grr! You are just so irritating!" Percy felt like ripping his own hair out as
Alexis giggled in amusement.
"You know dad was right, it's almost like you can talk to him."
Percy sighed as he picked up Leo by the collar and held him at an
arm's length, "thanks for taking care of him."
"Let go me you useless man! I only allow beautiful women to touch
me!" Leo yelled, 'guess that explains why he hates me and Castle.'
"It was my pleasure," Alexis said suddenly Kate walked out from behind
her surprising the two, "Kate? Where are you going?"
"We got a hostage situation in Harlem and one of my suspects is right
in the middle of it, I need to get there now.," Kate said as she put on
her jacket walking down the stairs.
Percy was surprised, 'maybe I should help out or something. What am I
saying, of course I should help out!'
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Save the civilians!
Rewards,
500 XP per civilian saved
New Title!
Failure,
Death of hostages
Arrested
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes and turned to Alexis, "see you later red."
"No! My beautiful caregiver! Let me go! I don't want to go with you
sticky man!" Leo barked out in protest but Percy ignored him.
Before Alexis could respond Percy took off at a moderate pace for the
stairs. Once he was out of sight from the girl Percy opened his
inventory and stuffed the shouting dog in it silencing him. Percy then
took his goggles form around his neck and put them on activating his
helmet.
Percy snuck out to the main road and spotted Kate traveling in a car
turning right. He activate his super speed and quickly caught up to her
and hide in the shadows of an alleyway. He waited as Kate slowly
made her way through New York traffic till eventually she reached a
KFC restaurant in Harlem.
The place was teeming with cops and reporters everywhere. People
were gathered around just behind the yellow line Percy disabled his
helmet and quietly slipped into the crowd of people. He walked towards
a reporter and eavesdropped on the woman as she spoke into her
camera.
"-The man responsible has been identified as a criminal of the Boston
underworld, one Jordan Clifford. This man has reportedly has over nine
hostages inside, the KFC was reportedly filled with people when
Clifford opened fired. Most managed to get out while Clifford managed
to grab 9 hostages. He is not working alone as reports tell that four
men were working together with Clifford and helped him secure the
building. Police have been so far unable to identify the people helping
Clifford but have managed to make contact with the man inside. It is
said that-"
The reporter went on but Percy didn't really pay attention. His mind
went back to the time he saw Kate's open files. He remembered
reading something about this Clifford guys being the Don's second
hand man, why he was now holding up a KFC Percy didn't know. But
he did know one thing, he had to save those people inside.
Percy turned to the KFC and saw the place around it teeming with
cops. There was a truck parked behind the yellow time which had a
dish on top, probably the communications center for the negotiation.
Percy then turned to the building itself. The windows were boarded up,
Percy could barely make out anything in there. He didn't have a way of
finding out where the hostages were, his mana sense powers only
detected mana, and normal humans didn't have any.
Just then an idea hit Percy and the demigod slowly slipped back into
the shadows of an alley nearby. 'Okay, if I'm going to do this I need to
make sure I don't get recognized,' Percy said to himself as he looked at
his clothes, 'maybe something a bit more….superhero.'
Percy took out his skin tight super fabric legging and quickly switched
them out for his jeans. Changing at super speed really was something
else. Percy then zipped up his jacket hiding the easily recognizable
orange camp shirt and activated his lightweight helmet.
Percy then focused his mind as slowly his body turned into smoke
before activating his Speed demon perk and zooming off towards the
KFC.
'Okay my time limit for this form is 1 minute 30 seconds, so every
second counts,' Percy told himself as he slipped into the KFC from the
the back avoiding the cameras and all the people at the front.
Percy was pushing his speed to the max, but since he was in cloud
from his max speed was basically just him running at normal speed.
But that would have to do. Percy went through a broken window in the
back and found himself in an old unused supply closet. Percy quickly
went under the gap between the door and floor and began searching
the restaurant.
He passed quickly through the company break room in the back and
through the main dining area. There Percy saw five armed men
standing by the door and barred up windows with machine guns in their
hands.
Not wanting to waste time of risk getting spotted the blue cloud moved,
he still needed to find the hostages. Percy quickly found the manager's
room a few door down from the unused closet and inside he found all 9
hostages tied up and gagged. A blonde haired man stood over them
with a cellphone over his ear. He was buff, his muscles had veins
popping out of them and his hair was long, just like his beard.
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"I said I want detective Beckett, and I want her now!" the man roared
out.
'Kate? What does he want with Kate?' Percy wondered as he hovered
in the corner of the room. Luckily no one had noticed him. The
hostages were to distracted to notice him and the man, Clifford, was
still waiting on Kate.
"Detective Beckett," the man finally said, "is it really you?" Silence,
"fine. I believe you." Silence again, "I called for you for one reason, I
needed your attention." Silence, "because I know you are investigating
into the murder of Don Francisco and one of your main suspects is
me!" silence, "listen here bitch I know what you have been doing!
Going around asking questions that shouldn't be asked! You're the
reason I have to run now!" Silence, Percy could hear Kate frantically
shouting on the other end, "the reason I called you is because I know
who is responsible for the Don's murder." Silence, "yeah, the real one.
The reason I called you hear is because I want you to help prove I'm
innocent." Silence again, " you have 24 hours. Until then I won't hurt
anyone of these people, but after that I will kill every person one by one
every extra hour you take! And don't you dare try and sneak in! I have
each entrance in this dump locked shut!"
The man disconnected the call and Percy could feel his time in smoke
form run out. 'It's now or never,' Percy thought as he slowly
transformed back into his human form.
Percy hit the ground with a thud drawing everyone's attention to him.
The hostage's went wide eyes and Clifford pointed his gun at Percy.
"How the hell did you-" the man didn't even complete this line as Percy
activated his speed and blurred into motion tackling the man to the
ground before slapping him across the face breaking a few of his teeth.
'Damn, forgot how strong I was,' Percy told himself as he pulled the
man and smashed his head into the ground knocking him unconscious.
Percy slowly got up and turned to the hostages, "are you alright?"
They nodded blankly as one man asked, "is he dead?"
Percy shook his head, "just knocked out. Stay here," Percy then
zoomed out of the room leaving everyone stunned at what they had
saw.
"That just happened right?" one man asked, "like, I didn't imagine that
did I?"
"Nope," the man next to him said.
"Good to know."
Percy had managed to sneak into the main dining area. The five armed
men did hear the commotion inside, that was good. It gave Percy the
advantage of surprise. 'Okay then, let's dance.'
Percy moved with his super speed and punched the back of the man
closest to him. The thug didn't even know what hit him as he was sent
flying through the boarded up window. Percy moved, he grabbed the
gun of one thug and threw it to the side before throwing a weak punch
to the man's face breaking his nose.
"Who are you!" the other three thugs shouted as they opened fire on
Percy. Percy moved before the bullets could even hit him as he
knocked out two things before turning to the last.
The last man's face turned to one horror as he threw his gun to the
side, "I give up! I swear I didn't want nothing to do with this! My cousin
Frankie made me! I-"
"Oh shut up," Percy said slapping the man across the face knocking
him out. Percy smiled, 'damn I'm good.'
Just then the barred up doors were flung open as several SWAT
agents came pouring in. Kate was leading the charge, "you! Stay
where you are!"
Percy didn't even wait as he zoomed away circling the entire team of
SWAT and police before jumping out the window he threw a thug
through. Percy didn't stop for even a second in a second he passed the
yellow tape and people gathered around slipping into the alley he was
in before.
Percy watched from the shadows as the hostages were slowly taken
out of the restaurant one by one.
Ping!
Quest Completed!
Save the civilians!
Rewards,
500 XP per civilian saved
New Title!
Total Exp earned!
4,500 XP
New Title unlocked!
Novice Hero- Almost nobody knows about you.
2% chance of getting recognized
+1 to every stat when doing good
0.3% chance of being liked by the public.
Percy raised an eyebrow at the new title but it was to be expected.
'Guess this makes me the first person crazy enough to actually dress
up like a superhero and save people.'
Percy closed the notification box and quickly zoomed away, his job was
done. Percy took very little time to get back to camp. He reached just
after dinner was over, meaning everyone was now gathered around the
camp hearth singing songs and being merry.
Percy reached the heart and stood at the side simply observing
everyone. He quickly spotted Annabeth, Michael, Clarisse and Nina
sitting together sharing stories with Thalia. Percy deactivated his
helmet and put it away as he went up and sat next to Annabeth and his
other friends.
"Your back," Michael said smiling, "did you bring us a souvenir?"
"Yeah here," Percy flipped the son of Apollo.
"Rude," Michael huffed.
"How's your mom Percy?" Nina asked.
"She's okay," Percy admitted, "I didn't get to spend much time with her.
She was gone for a campus interview so I had to spend time with her
neighbors, but it wasn't all that bad. The guy, his name was Rick
Castle, had plenty of video games to pass the time."
"Richard Castle?!" Annabeth shrieked, "the Richard Castle?! Author of
Derek Storm?!"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I think so."
"Percy that man is a God of murder mysteries!" Annabeth said with
stars in her eyes, "oh Gods! I wanted to meet him since forever! I have
all his books!"
"You can come with me next time if you want," Percy suggested, "he
said to come over any time so.."
"-REALLY?!" Annabeth yelled out in happiness, "LET'S GO!"
"I don't think he meant right now Annabeth," Percy said claiming the girl
down, "besides, I just went to New York. I'll take you some other time if
you want."
"Promise?"
Percy nodded, "promise. Though it won't be any time soon," Percy said
with a sigh, "I have something that needs to be taken care off first."
"You got another quest sea head?" Thalia asked surprised.
"No," Percy shook hi head, "it's more like a self imposed mission. I
recently acquired a way to create a super powerful weapon from a
friend-"
"-Do you mean that scroll you got from Odysseus?" Nina asked.
Percy nodded, "yup. Anyway so I am going to try and make a weapon
for myself. That's one of the reason I went to New York, to get my
hands on some of the materials needed for the foregoing."
"Percy why do I get the feeling you are about to do something stupid
and dangerous?" Michael asked.
"Because he probably is," Clarisse said turning to Percy, "this is
dangerous right? Because I find it hard to believe anything you do is
not dangerous."
Percy sighed, "well I wouldn't say it's dangerous…."
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"Do you need back up?" Thalia offered.
Percy shook his head, "no, not really. It's more of a solo thing, I don't
think you guys can help."
"We can try," Annabeth shot back.
"Sigh, fine," Percy groaned, "you people are as stubborn as me."
"Yup," Michael agreed, "so when do we start?"
Percy rubbed his temples, "I was hoping tonight. The time needed for
creating the weapon in unknown. It could be a few days, or weeks."
"Fine, when and where," Thalia asked.
"The Fist of Zeus, 11," Percy said and his friends nodded in agreement.
Percy then turned to Nina, "oh and Nina could you do me a favour?"
Percy spent some more time with them before he went to his cabin and
meet John inside. After telling his half-brother what he did for the day
Percy changed his shirt and took a quick shower. The way he saved
those people still filled Percy up with happiness. Maybe after all of this
is over he should become a superhero or something. After all being a
hero was what he was meant to be.
After the shower Percy sat down and took out the scroll of sword
creation. He read and reread the spell Odysseus had written down, he
didn't want any mistake for when actually did the spell.
After reading that paper more time than he could count, Percy took out
Riptide and looked at the blade. For the spell to work he needed a
piece of this and his crystal, meaning Percy had to find a way to break
off a peice of both.
But as he knew first hand, breaking celestial bronze was next to
impossible. The only time he ever say a celestial bronze weapon break
was during the battle between himself and Luke. Percy had just found
out that Luke was the lightning thief and he was angry. He used sheer
force to attack Luke, so maybe the answer was that, shee force.
Percy opened his inventory and pulled out another celestial bronze
blade of his, this one he got from Hephaestus forge in Boston. Percy
then held Riptide with his left as he continuously brought down the
other celestial bronze blade over and over on top of Riptide.
As Percy kept hitting the blade more and more of the ordinary celestial
bronze blade broke off instead of Riptide. It seemed almost impossible
to break off the piece of the legendary blade when suddenly Percy
noticed a small crack near the tip of the blade.
The crack itself was strange, Percy had no idea how it got there. So far
he had only hit Riptide in the middle, for a crack to appear near the
tip….something else must have caused it. But Percy didn't know what,
and he had never seen that crack before, he had literally spent the
night before maintaining the blade and he didn't see one crack.
It was almost like the crack just appeared out of thin air.
Percy put away the other sword as he grabbed the tip of his blade and
pressed down on it. Percy tried his best but the metal still held on
strong. So Percy activated his Body Form;
Body Form Activated: Right arm
And he slowly felt the metal bend under his strength.
Crunk!
That was the sound of the tip being chipped off by Percy. The demigod
held up the tip of his sword between his finger as he deactivated his
strength. The sliver of metal wasn't much, one could hardly see the
chip in the metal of Riptide unless they knew where to look.
Percy then put he sliver of metal and Riptide away;
Progress made!
Create your own weapon!
3- A peice of an item that you hold dear to your heart (Completed)!
'Guess that means I can't use more than one item for that creation,'
Percy realised meaning his plans for also using a part of his crystal
was scrapped as well. It was for the best, in all honesty he had no idea
how he would even begin to cut a piece of the crystal out of his head.
Soon it was time and Percy snuck out of his cabin the moment John
went to bed. Percy reached the Fist of Zeus and waiting on top of the
rock structure. He didn't have to wait long because the rest of his
friends soon joined him.
"Here you go Percy," Nina said as she handed Percy a big celestial
bronze cauldron, "it was actually pretty easy to find. Surprisingly the art
department has a lot of these."
Percy nodded taking the pit, "thanks Nina, this will help me a lot."
"So what exactly if the plan?" Michael asked.
"I do the spell and….well I don't know really. I think I just go into a
trance or something."
"You sure about this sea brain?" Thalia asked.
Percy smiled, "is that concern I hear in your voice Thalia?"
The daughter of Zeus narrowed her eyes as Annabeth stepped up,
"Percy are you sure about this?"
Percy nodded, "yup."
Lie successful!
Annabeth sighed, "okay then. What do we do?"
Percy say down on the stone structure with the bronze cauldron placed
in front of him, "stand back, and watch."
The demigods all stood back as Percy opened his inventory and took
out all he needed. He first took out his mom's blood and poured it into
the cauldron. He then put in the shard of Riptide before taking out a
small amount of his own blood using blood control. With that all done
Percy opened up his inventory and pulled out the fang of Janai'ngo he
pulled out of Mere;
Fang of Janai'ngo
A fang of the legendary monster of the deep. It's poisonous nature
will bring death with the slightest touch.
Effect: causes -100 HP damage per minute.
Percy put the fang into the cauldron and then took out the final
ingredient, the blood of Poseidon.
"Percy," Annabeth started, "is that ichor?"
Percy nodded as he took off the cork and poured the golden blood into
the cauldron, "it's my dad's."
"You are using the blood of Poseidon?" Thalia asked surprised,
"Percy….are you sure you want to do this?"
The son of Poseidon nodded as he looked deep into Thalia's eyes, "I
have to. I need to be the best that I can be, and I can't be that if I
continue to play it safe. I need to take risks."
"Fine," Thalia sighed, "stubborn brat."
Percy smiled and turned to cauldron. Only two more things remained to
be done. Percy summon a fireball in both his hands and placed it
below the cauldron heating it all up.
Slowly the blood started to boil as Percy began the spell;
[The light shines when darkness calls.
The power of one cause will always fall.
It is together that achievement is near at all.
The will of Green, the rage of Red, the fear of Yellow and the hope of
Blue.
The love of Violet, the compassion of Indigo and the greed of orange
shall lead me true.
Be it result in life or death, I make this pact.
And with the power of the universe, I enable this act.
I am Perseus Jackson, a pilgrim of Greece, I seek power to rule myself
and protect what I believe.
I invoke the Will of the Gods and of man, guide me upon this journey
towards my wayward land.]
Suddenly the blood started spinning clockwise as the fang of Janai'ngo
slowly started to melt like candle wax. The shard of Riptide glowed
bright blue but was soon covered by the blood and the remains of the
melted fangs.
Percy's eyes started to glow green before they exploded into a white
light. A wave of white energy exploded outwards forming a shield
between Percy and the demigods around him.
"Percy!" Thalia shouted as she tried to punch the barrier only to be
thrown back by the white power.
"Thalia!" Annabeth shouted moving to help her friend.
"We can't break through!" Clarisse shouted out as they simply stood
there and watched Percy stare straight ahead.
Percy's body didn't move, his hands remained below the cauldron with
the fire still going strong. The liquid in cauldron soon began to boil up
as the fumes slowly moved up and into Percy's nose. The son of
Poseidon took the fumes into himself as slowly everything faded to
black.
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Percy found himself looking out at nothing but darkness. He was
floating in the middle of nothing, not a sound was heard, not a breeze
was felt.
'Where am I?' Percy wondered as he looked ahead at the nothingness.
Percy moved his arm freely, he couldn't even feel the air being pushed
away, it was like his was floating in vacuum. 'But then how am I still
alive?'
Percy's mind was calm, it was unthinking. His ADHD wasn't acting up,
form the first time in his life Percy felt like he could sit still in one place
and be at peace.
'I need to find a way out,' Percy realised as he kept looking around for
an exit of some kind, but there was none.
'Where am I?' Percy wondered as he tried to push himself upwards, to
no avail.
The emptiness was getting to him, the way everything just seemed to
push at him was aching Percy sweat.
'I need to get out of here.'
Seconds passed. Percy looked around keeping his cool.
'I need to get out of here!'
Minutes passed. Percy's temper was getting to him. Panic grew and for
some reason Gamer's mind wasn't activating.
'Status,' Percy thought, but nothing happened.
"Status!" Percy shouted out loud, but again the brown box failed to
show up.
"STATUS!" Percy yelled again and again but nothing came. Soon hours
went by, Percy realised that for the first time ever, his gaming powers
did not work.
"How do I get out of here?!" Percy yelled out hoping someone would
hear him.
"Is anyone there?!" Percy asked, "hello?!"
The darkness all around him started to pull at him. Percy could feel it
trying to kill him as slowly more and more of his life force was drained
away into the great nothing.
"STOP THIS!" Percy yelled out, he pushed back against the darkness.
He pushed and pushed, but he could feel it grow.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Percy yelled out as he tried to use his mana
to attack the darkness only to find that he had no mana. He was
powerless. The darkness crawled onto Percy's legs, the demigod could
no longer see his own legs.
"Get off of me!" Percy yelled as he turned to hit the darkness only to
find nothing there. Whatever the darkness took ceased to exists.
Slowly it started to move closer and close as now his knees
disappears.
"I said, GET OFF OF ME!" Percy yelled out.
Suddenly the darkness vanished, replaced by a bright white light that
threatened to blind Percy. The demigod closed his eyes and put his
hands over his eyes. But eventually the light lessened in intensity and
Percy looked at what had come to save him.
Floating in front of him was a white circle that was around 10 feet in
diameter. The white lines of the circle moved like fire, Percy could feel
unimaginable power pour out of it. Percy looked down and saw the
darkness gone, his legs were back.
Percy stretched out a hand, he moved forward and slowly went
towards the circle. Slowly an image appeared in the circle, the image of
a spear.
'That must be my weapon,' Percy realised as he tried to grab the
weapon. His hands burnt, it was like the light was burning away his
very being. But Percy pushed and pushed and finally he wrapped his
hands around the weapon.
A bright light flashed out, blinding him and pulled him through the white
circle.
Thalia straightened up in surprise, "look!"
The demigods gathered around turned to what Thalia was pointing and
saw that Percy's eyes, which were previous glowing white slowly
change back to normal as the barrier around him disappeared.
Percy blinked away the temporary blindness. He found himself back in
his own body surrounded by his friends.
"Guys?" Percy asked blinking away pain and exhaustion, "how long
was I out?"
"A minute," Thalia said stepping up to support Percy, "take it slow."
"I'm fine," Percy muttered as he slowly got off the rock formation
shaking his head, "just a bit shaken up."
"What happened back there Percy?" Michael asked, "you looked like
you were in a trance or something."
"I think my mind was transported elsewhere," Percy stammered to get
out, "I couldn't do anything. I have never felt so helpless in my life."
"Ah, guys, I think you should see this," Nina called out as all of them
turned to the bronze cauldron Percy used before.
The blood in the cauldron began to boil and slowly lift itself out of the
bronze container. Percy watched opened eyed as slowly the blood
grew into a tower bigger and bigger until it was 5 feet tall. Then the
blood slowly started to drip down revealing a white staff with the fang of
Janai'ngo attached to the top.
"Is that your weapon?" Nina asked in horror.
Percy blinked, "I think it is." The son of Poseidon could feel power pour
out of the weapon, 'maybe the test was to see what I would do in a
stressful situation.'
Percy approached the weapon and grabbed hold of it taking it out of
the cauldron. Percy focused on it with Observation;
The Stinger,
A staff created out of the ceremony of weapons. It is charmed to
only be used by it's maker and kills anyone else who tries to use
it.
Tidal Wave- A spell to summon a tidal wave of water out of the tip
of the staff.
Attack- 300
Percy sighed in disappointment, "it's not exactly what I was expecting."
"Not that great?" Thalia asked as she tried to reach for it.
"NO!" Percy shouted moving the staff away, "you touch it, you die."
"Okay sheesh!" Thalia said putting her hands up, "no need to be so
protective, I just wanted to see it."
"No I mean you will literally die. It has a charm on it so that if anyone
other than me touches it that person dies."
"Woah," Michael said taking a big step back, "that is so cool, and so
scary."
Percy nodded as he opened his inventory, happy that once again his
Gamer powers had returned, and out the staff inside.
"Come on guys," Percy said sighing, "I'm exhausted."
The others nodded in agreement as they all began walking out of the
Forest and into camp.
"You know maybe I should give that ceremony a try," Thalia said with a
smile, "it doesn't seem to bad."
"Well that's because you were on the outside," Percy said as a shiver
went up his spine, "you don't want to know how it was on the inside. It
was like I trapped inside my own body."
"Well I don't know, that does sound-"
Chapter 359
ROAAAR!
Percy and the others turned to the source of that noise and saw a giant
winged creature flying high above camp.
"Guys, is that-is that a dragon?!" Michael screamed in horror as the
beast slowly started to descend on them.
"Everyone move!" Percy said opening his inventory and taking his new
weapon out, "wake everyone up! We are under attack!"
"What are you going to do?!" Nina asked.
"I'm buying you some time!" Percy shouted as the dragon came closer
and closer. It was bigger than Percy thought before, it was easily
bigger than the camp Arena.
"I'll bring some air support," Thalia said readying her spear.
"Thalia you can't handle this!" Percy yelled out as the dragon only grew
more in size the closer it got, "go with the others!"
"Percy-"
"-I said go!" Percy yelled out shutting the demigoddess off. The other
moved quickly each trying to wake everyone up. Percy looked up and
saw a giant foot come right for them.
Percy moved out of the way but the shockwave sent from the foot
impacting the Earth threw everyone off their feet. The ground split open
as rocks were thrown everywhere. A few came hurling towards Percy,
and the demigod was fast enough to dodge them all.
"HEL-" a voice was cut off as the sound of bones snapping was heard
through all the destruction. Percy turned in horror and saw the crushed
body of Michael underneath a huge rock. There was blood everywhere,
only half his head remained intact.
"M-Michael?" Percy asked in shock, 'no-no, this can't be happening!
This can't be happening!' Percy ran to his friend's side but there was
nothing left, nothing except a head and blank eyes that stared at
nothing.
"ROAR!" The dragon shouted again as it moved its huge tail over
Percy before slamming it down. The son of Poseidon moved away but
was thrown off his footing and sent hurling through the air.
Percy smashed into the ground and quickly got up just in time to see
Thalia charge up to attacked the monster.
"THALIA!" Percy screamed, but his cry fell on deaf ears as the
demigoddess attacked the beast's wings tearing one apart with her
lighting.
"KAAAA!" The dragon roared as it turned to Thalia. It drew back it's
gigantic head and Percy could see flames lick the corner of it's mouth.
"NO!" Percy yelle doubt as he activated his speed and ran towards
Thalia. He moved at his full speed and just as he came ten feet in front
of her, everything stopped.
You have been trapped inside a time stasis field!
Percy couldn't move his body, he could barely move his eyes. He
watched at the dragon opened it's mouth and a stream of fire burnt
Thalia from head to toe. She didn't scream, she could barely move.
Percy watched the flames burn first her clothes and then her skin.
Stasis field removed!
The moment Percy saw that he moved, he went into the flame and
removed Thalia. He was on fire, his defence points were dropping like
flies;
Defence- 296,176,000
Defence- 296,076,000
Defence- 295,976,000
Defence- 295,876,000
Defence- 295,776,000
Percy held Thalia in his arms as the flames on her body died down.
Smoke rose up, but Percy could still see here clearly. Her skin was
gone, Percy could see the muscles underneath move as Thalia tried to
talk.
"P-pe" her vocal chords moved up and down, but she couldn't speak a
single word. Percy held onto his cousin as she slowly died from the
pain, he cried, because he knew there was nothing he could do.
Percy lowered Thalia's body to the ground, the time for grieving would
be latter. Now was the time to fight. Percy turned towards the dragon,
on instinct he reached for his pocket and pulled out Riptide.
"I'm going to make sure this hurts," Percy growled out as he zoomed
towards the dragon at his max speed.
The giant monster tried to move but Percy was already on him. The
demigod stabbed Riptide underneath the dragon's throat and he
dragged the blade down the monster's body. Riptide cut through the
monster's delicate throat causing a ball of fire to drop down and
explode. Percy kept running, Riptide grew hotter and hotter, Percy
could feel the skin on his plan being burnt off;
Defence- 295,775,000
Percy's grip however didn't loosen, it only tightened. The blade cut
through the monster's rib cage and then it's belly. In front of him Percy
could see the dragon's balls, and the demigod charged for them.
Riptide cut the dragon's genital straight down the middle and Percy
made sure to castrate the dragon with a twist of the wrist.
"GROO!" the dragon cried out in pain.
Riptide was covered in blood and gore. Percy eventually hit the
dragon's pelvis and the celestial bronze blade broke in half. The heat
was enough to soften the metal, it was amazing it lasted as long as it
did.
The dragon fell down, it's insides spilled out from the cut Percy made
as the demigod walked away from the dead beast.
"Impressive Jackson," a voice filled with power called out from ontop
of the giant monster.
Percy jumped and ran towards the voice. There, mounted on the head
of the the dragon, was a throne. Percy saw only the back, but he
already knew who was there.
"Today you die Kronos," Percy said as walked up to the throne.
"No Jackson, today you die," The Titan got off the throne and turned
towards Percy. He was bigger then Percy even imagined. He was
around 18 to 20 feet tall. He wore greek armour with the other half of
the Golden Fleece tied around his neck like a cape. His skin was olive
tinted with a long black hair and a beard. His right arm and left leg were
grey and bugling like a cyclops. And his eyes were hue of poisonous
gold.
"Why are you attacking us now," Percy growled out as he tightened his
grip on the broken blade. His palm was covered with melted metal
bronze, but Percy didn't notice.