Chapter 661
It felt like a long drop down, even his powers couldn't pick up the end of
the passage. Percy groaned, he could just smash right through, it
would be easy, but the others would need to come as well.
So Percy closed his eyes and focused. He pulled the concert upwards
creating a long tunnel inside the pool. It reached the surface and
expanded showing a hollow interior that lead directly to the entrance of
the tunnel underneath.
Percy quickly swam back to the pool's edge and climbed out, "we can
use that to get inside."
The mortals stared at him. Tyler whimpered, "a-are you God?"
Percy blinked and then chuckled. "Yeah right?" Michael threw his
hands over Percy, "if he was God all the women would have size DD
breasts and an ass that you could chip your tooth on."
Clarisse smacked her boyfriend up the head while Thalia just rolled her
eyes. Percy chuckled nervously, 'actually that does kind of sound like
something I would do.'
"Percy how did you do that?" Christy asked looked at the pipe leading
down under the swimming pool.
Percy shrugged, "I have certain abilities, it's a whole thing. This is why I
didn't want you guys here, we are going to have a hard time fighting
this thing, if we also have to protect you as well, then it's going to only
get even more harder."
"Relax, we can take care of ourselves," John cocked his gun.
"Oh sure, a gun is totally going to help," Michael rolled his eyes, "I'm
sure lead is going to harm the thing that crawled out of hell, a place
where everything is literally on fire."
John and Jet shared a look and then turned to Christy. The woman
sighed, "we can defend ourselves, you won't have to worry about us."
Percy nodded, "okay then. One last thing, don't try to play hero, leave
the demon to us, if things get shitty, run," Percy turned to the water and
snapped his fingers. The entire swimming pool suddenly froze over, 10
inches of water turned to ice making it safe to walk on.
"Woah!" Monica yelled out touching the ice, "how are you doing this?!"
Percy shrugged, "I'm Percy Jackson." Percy pushed Christy forward
getting her on the ice. He then walked to the concert pipe he created
with Thalia and Clarisse following closely behind.
"Well?" Michael asked jumping onto the frozen pool, "are you guys
coming or what?" The humans looked worried but quickly moved. They
were weary at first about the ice, but quickly realised it was strong
enough to hold them all on it.
"So how are we getting down?" Thalia asked Percy as she looked
down the hole, "it's at least, what? A 40 feet drop?"
"Not a problem," Percy pressed his hand against the interior and
concentrated. Slowly a ladder came out of the call attached to the
inside, "there, that should get you guys down there."
"And Christy?" Michael asked.
"I got it," Percy knew he would have to display another one of his
powers, but it didn't really seem to be a big deal, after all he just
showed them all he could manipulate matter itself and freeze over a
swimming pool.
Christy felt her chair shake as suddenly it flew into the air. "What the
hell?!" she yelled grabbing onto it for dear life.
"Relax, I'm just going to carry you like this for a while, it would be
difficult going down otherwise," Percy replied as he lowered Christy
down the pipe with himself floating down with her.
"How are you doing all of this Percy?!" Christy yelled out as she saw
the light slowly die as they got closer and closer to the bottom.
"I'm psychic," Percy knew it was only a half truth but he figured it was
better than nothing.
"A psychic?!" Christy yelled.
Percy nodded, "yup," the light was almost gone now, he snapped his
fingers conjuring a fireball illuminating the darkness. They eventually
reached the bottom and Percy noticed that the ground was tilled and
clean, almost like no one had set foot there in over 50 years.
"And you can create fire as well?" Christy asked.
Percy shook hi head, "no, just fire ball. Fire isn't really my element."
Christy wanted to ask more but then Thalia jumped down landing
besides them with a gust of wind padding her landing.
"That was fun," Thalia mumbled as she looked ahead at the tunnel
before them, "so we waiting for the others?"
Percy nodded, "yes, we shouldn't go in without backup. Speaking of
which..." Percy focused on his gem and smoke poured out of it.
Marica appeared before him in her wolf form and bowed, "master. I
see you have found the demon's domain."
Percy nodded, "yeah," Percy sent out a wave of mana and got
assaulted by message telling him that he was surrounding by demon
mana, "you think you can tell what kind of demon this is now?"
The wolf shook her head, "no, it's still too weak. I doubt it even has
a physical form like me, probably still just a spirit. I would suggest
you be careful, you will not be able to simply punch your way out
of this."
Percy nodded, "noted."
They waited for the others to join them and they quickly walked into the
dark tunnel before them. The tunnel quickly opened up into a bigger
chamber. Percy saw a pool of water to the right with glowing moss
inside and around the water. In front of them was a trident carved into
the wall with a circle around it. And in the center of the chamber was a
seastone green rod with a pegasus on the top and the words 'SPQR'
written below.
"Is that-" Thalia began with halted breath.
"-A legion symbol," Percy completed. He walked forward as he stared
at the thing before him. He was surprised to see it down here, Hades,
he was surprised to see it at all. If he recalled correctly Julia and Rob
told him that all other legion symbols were destroyed, all of them. The
12th legion's Eagle was the only remaining memory of Roman. But
now….now that no longer was the case.
Percy narrowed his eyes and Observed the thing;
The 11th Legion Pegasus- Attributed towards Neptune, (cursed)
Imbued with the powers of Neptune himself, this staff has the
ability to control and direct the very sea itself. This power can be
activated by saying the phrase, 'Eleventh Legion Fulminata'. The
staff can conjure great amounts of water at command and can be
used to cleans water source to become drinkable. It's strongest
ability is to create localised Earthquakes.
Percy couldn't believe what he was reading, this was his father's
symbol, proof that there was in fact a roman legion that respected and
represented his father.
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He wanted to grab it right then and there, but he wasn't an idiot. It was
cursed, and Percy had an idea who had cursed it.
Percy growled, "come out. Now." He could feel the demon mana
around him, he didn't even have to send out waves of mana to do so.
"So you have all finally come," a voice of cold death spoke filling the
chamber with a loud rumble.
"Show yourself demon!" Jet yelled out as he and the other's quickly
formed a circle around Christy and Monica. Thalia was at the lead with
Michael and Clarisse in the back.
"Marchosias, you are here as well? Truley this is an amazing
event. Now I can eat the souls of these pathetic humans along
with enacting my revenge on you!"
The wolf looked confused, "and….who are you again?"
"What?! Don't tell me you have forgotten! I am your sworn enemy!
I am the great Earl of Hell! I rule over 30 legions of demons! I stole
the soul of the very first child of Abraham!"
"Ah which Abraham was that?" America asked looking even more
confused.
"Abraham Frea!"
"Right….wait...Raum? Is that you?"
"Yes! It is I! You finally remember you greatest foe Marchosias?!"
Percy turned to his wolf servant, "you know this guy?"
The wolf sighed, "we dated for a while...didn't end well."
"It was all that sea gods fault!" the psirt yelled out. Slowly a cloud of
shadows formed over the Pegasus staff creating a mass of pure
demonic energy that had red glowing eyes in the center of it, "he took
my Marchosias from me!"
Raum, Night's End
Lv- 30
Percy turned to Marica, "my dad?"
The demon sighed and nodded, "yeah. I kind of got bored with
Raum, we always fought, and he refused to apologize. And when I
meet your dad...well I just kind of left him."
"He's the son of Poseidon?!" Raum yelled shaking the very chamber
with his anger, "I'll kill him! You hear my Poseidon?! I'll kill your
son!"
Percy sighed, "great, just great."
"So this again comes down to one of the gods sticking their dick where
it doesn't belong huh?" Thalia said as she and the other demigods
stood by Percy's side.
"Looks like it," Michael sighed, "when will our parents ever learn? It's
embarrassing is what it is!"
"Well think of it this way, if they never stuck their dick in our mother's
we wouldn't have been born," Clarisse shrugged.
"Yeah, true," Percy shrugged as they quickly took out their weapons in
their hidden form.
"What's going on?" John whispered to the other mortals. "They are just
walking up there like there isn't a mass cloud of evil above them."
"I don't know," Christy admitted as she saw the four demigods stand
without a care in front of the black cloud. Fear did not fill them. Percy
was even smiling in glee.
"Alright Raum, I'll give you one chance, release your grip on my friend,
or I'll make you into tailpipe exhaust."
"Foolish son of Poseidon! You cannot stop me! Marchosias! Join
me! Together we can kill these greeks!"
The wolf sighed, "yeah, sorry Raum, but I'm kind of on their side."
"What?! Why?! You are a demon are you not?!"
"Four words: The Gem of Kefka."
At that Raum yipped the red eyes in the cloud slowly turned to Percy,
"h-how did you obtain the gem?"
Percy smirked, "I killed the guy who owned it before," Percy uncapped
Riptide and Waverider summoning both swords. Thalia followed by
activating her shield and her spear, Michael took off his rubber bracelet
and turned it into a bow an arrow with a quiver appearing on his back
while Clarisse turned her necklace into her spear.
"It matters not!" the demon roared, "I'll still kill you all!" The cloud
exploded forward as it covered the demigods whole.
"Not today asshole!" Percy sent out a wave of his mana sending the
cloud back long enough for him and his friend to gather around closely
and Percy to create a mana shield around them.
"What's the plan?" Thalia asked.
"Marcia, can he be hurt by celestial bronze?" Percy asked.
"50% of the time, yes" Marcia nodded, "but I would recommend you
use elemental magic instead."
"And for those of us who can't control lighting or water?" Clarisse
asked.
"Clarisse you and Michael protect the mortals," Percy ordered as he
slowly let down the barrier, "Thalia, you and I are going to hit this thing
with everything we got, Marica, that means you as well."
They all agreed and the moment the barrier was down they all split.
Michael ran to Monica side while Clarisse followed.
"Lighting bolt!" thalia roared as the tip of her spear sent out a blast of
lightning hitting the cloud right in the center.
"ARGH! A child of Zeus?! Impossible!" The cloud condensed itself
turning into a black version of a minotaur, "fine! If I am to face greeks
then I shall do it as a greek monster!"
Percy grinned, "dude, poor choice. I fought the real thing when I was
12," Percy activated his super speed and rushed Raum side cutting
him in half with Riptide and Waverider, "and he lasted longer than you."
"No matter!" the pieces of the black minotaur turned back into smoke
before reforming into a large snake, "this form will suffice!"
"Right," Michael let loose several arrows blinding one of the snake's
eyes with one arrow while pinning to the ground with the others, "I'm
sure it will."
"How?!" the snake exploded into its cloud form again, this time it had
only one eye, "how did you hurt me?!"
"I'm the son of Apollo," Michael drew another arrow which glowed gold,
"I just infused a little bit of light into the arrows and," he let the arrow
loose cutting through the smoke causing Raum pain, "presto."
"Dark Wave!" Raum yelled out sending a blast of shadows at Michael.
"Clarisse catch!" Thalia threw her shield like a discus at the daughter of
ares. Clarisse caught it easily enough and jumped in front of the wave
of black energy deflecting it to the side with the indestructible shield of
Aegis.
"How?!" Raum yelled out as he transformed again, this time into a
black humanoid figure with horns and a tail. He summoned a sword in
his hands and charged Michael.
"Sorry pal," Percy jumped forward swinging Waverider across the
demon's neck, "I'm your enemy, not them."
"Foolish son of Poseidon!" The demon blocked with his sword trying,
and failing, to push Percy back with raw strength, "I'll kill you where
you stand!"
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Percy rolled his eyes, "yeah, sure you will," Percy covered his leg with
mana forming an armours layer over it. He then kicked the black
demon sending him flying into the wall. "If you were like a couple of
levels stronger you might be able to anyway."
"Fool! This isn't even my true power!" Raum started to glow red as
his black body turned crimson, "fear my wrath!" He swung his sword
sending out a wave of black and red energy at Percy.
The demigod yawned as he sidestepped the wave of energy as it
smashed into the chamber walls. "You need to be a lot stronger than
that if you want to beat me," Percy rushed forward thrusting Waverider
into the demon's body causing it to leak out red energy.
Percy pushed it to the ground as Thalia ran and impaled her spear
downwards into Raum's chest sending a huge electric charge into the
demon's body.
"H-how?" Raum stammered out as he felt his body disintegrated.
"Simple," Percy shrugged, "compared to the things we had to fight,
you're nothing, less than nothing. You're a leach, simple as that."
The demon growled at Percy and then turned to Monica. It smiled,
"yes, I am a leash, but at least if I'm going to die, I'm taking her
with me!"
The red body disappeared and reappeared directly in front of Monica.
Percy dashed forward as he saw Raum raise it's hand intending to stab
Monica through the chest.
Tyler moved on instinct, he jumped to his sister's side, "noooo!"
As the demon's claws approached Monica Tyler pushed her away. The
demon's hands were inches from Tyler's body. Slowly it closed the
distance, Tyler's eyes looked down in horror, he didn't know what to do.
And just as Raum was about to puncture a hole through tyler's ribs
Percy caught the demon's hand and stopped him dead cold.
"What?! How are you so fast?!" Raum tried to break Percy's grip but
couldn't.
"Simple, I'm special," Percy pushed Raum back before throwing him
into a wall. He then summoned Waverider into his hand before
telekinetically shooting it into Raum body like a bullet from a gun.
"ACK!" the demon coughed up blood, or something that looked like it.
Percy turned to Marcia, "how do I kill it?"
"Light," the demon replied.
"I got this," Michael stepped up as he drew back and arrow. "Percy,
think you can give me a boost?"
Percy nodded, "one mana dump coming right up," he put his hand on
Michael's back and channeled as much mana as he safely could into
the son of Apollo.
The arrow Michael held glowed brightly first, before slowly it grew
bright and brighter. Soon it lite up the entire room and Michael let it
loose.
The arrow flew with a whistling sound as it hit Raum in the head. The
demon roared for mercy again and again before it finally exploded into
a cloud of red dust that settled into the ground.
Ping!
Quest Completed!
Find out what's wrong with Monica and save her!
Rewards,
+5,000 Exp
Pegasus of the 11th Legion
Percy smirked, "well...that takes care of that." He turned to Monica who
was being helped stand up by Thalia, "you feeling better now?"
The punk girl nodded, "yeah...it's like whatever it was doing suddenly
stopped. I don't feel 100% better, but I think I should be okay."
Percy nodded, "great." He turned to Tyler, "that was a brave thing you
tired to do Tyler. I'm surprised."
"She's my sister asshole, of cource I would try and save her," Tyler
huffed as he tried to hide a smile forming on his lips.
Monica looked to her brother, she looked like she wanted to shout at
him, but instead she simply hugged him and whispered, "thanks...bro."
Tyler smiled as he hugged her back.
"I didn't think it was going to be that easy," Jet said as he looked at the
floating red dust.
"It wasn't," Thalia clarified as she struggled to hold back a yawn, "it was
four against one and we four were much stronger than it. If it was you
guys going up against it it would have killed you in a minute."
"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence," John grumbled as he put
away his gun.
Percy looked at the red dust left behind and narrowed his eyes, "he's
not dead yet."
Thalia and the other's looked at him and readied their weapons, they
didn't question it, Percy was rarely ever wrong.
"What do you mean?" Christy asked, "you four vapourized him into
dust."
"Every time I defeat someone a piece of them is left behind," Percy told
her, "it's an ability of mine, nobody doesn't mean it's dead. It just means
he's hiding."
"But that would mean to say he was even here in the first place,"
Marcia said as she licked her paw.
"What do you mean?" Percy asked.
"The thing you fought wasn't the real Raum, just a spirit projection
of him from Hell. He was trying to bring himself to the real world,
and he would have succeeded if he killed your friend over there."
"So he isn't really dead huh?" Michael said as he relaxed his bow.
"No, he isn't, though I doubt he will be able to come back any time
soon."
Percy nodded as he turned once again to the sea stone staff in front of
him. He put away Waverider and Riptide as he approached the staff.
He Observed it again and this time there was no 'cursed' tag next to it.
"He was hunting this as well?" Percy asked Marcia, "why?"
"His grudge against Poseidon is long, he may have started
haunting this in order to get back at him for stealing me away
from him."
"So Churchill discovered this and brought it here?" Thalia asked as she
examined the staff, "I mean sure, it's an impressive structure and all,
and very very important for the Romans, but how would Churchill know
that? Why would he build a school just to hide this?"
Percy quickly dismissed Marcia and looked around the chamber
looking for a clue. He saw the trident carved into the wall broken, it
happened when Percy threw the demon back. Behind the cracks was a
hollow compartment that was covered with shadow.
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Percy got curious as he quickly walked up to the wall examining it. "Did
you find something Percy?" Christy asked.
"I think so," Percy murmured as he drew back his fist and drove it into
the wall breaking through with ease. He cleared open the hollow
compartment on the inside and found sitting there a single yellowed
envelope and a golden key with teeth as thick as Percy's first.
Percy took out the envelope and showed it to everyone else. On its
cover were the words, 'To the one who lifts the curse,' and it was
sealed with a wax imprint of a very royal looking nature.
"Want to bet that Churchill wrote this?" Thalia said looking at the seal.
"Maybe," Percy slid his finger into the letter and broke the seal. He
carefully took out the letter and began to read it outloud.
"'I write this letter now to address the person who has, presumably,
lifted the curse off of the Scepter of Neptune. Not much is known about
the Scepter, even the most brilliant of historians have but a vague idea
as to it's origin. But I must admit, I know it's exact origins. It was the
symbol of power for the 11th Legion of Roman, before thought lost to
time, now rediscovered in a ruin off the coast of Italy. But the price of
discovery was high, the lives of it's discovers, one Dr. Ronaldo Freesia
and his entire 30 men team. The prize soon came to me, and I knew
what it was immediately. And there is a reason for this, I reveal this to
you, only because I believe only a person of noble heart and pure soul
could ever hope to triumph over this evil, I implore you, keep this secret
to yourself, for if the world finds out my family name will be sullied.
"'My father, Lord Randolph Churchill, is in fact not my father. He was
infertile, unable to produce a son he long wished for. But, he eventually
found a way. He was approached by a God, a being long faded to the
realm of myth and was given an offer. The God would give the my
father a child, and in exchange the child will represent the God's will
when the time came. And so I was drafted into a life of servitude before
I was even conceived. I did not understand what I could have ever give
for a God, but as I grew up I realised what he wanted. He wanted the
country, my country. I did not know how he knew I would ever become
the Prime Minister, when I researched about my origin I came upon the
Fates, I assume they told him my destiny, and through them he got me.
"'I was angry at first, refused to obey. But then I realised the reason he
wanted control of the country was to help guide it in a safe way. The
world wasn't a safe place, he wanted a weapon to make sure that
when World War II began that there would always be someone fighting
for what's right. He made me the man I am today, he helped me
achieve my victory over the Nazis. He is the reason Britain is safe. So
when I discovered a symbol of his was cursed I knew I had to do
everything in my power to protect it and keep it from doing harm, or
else he would only blame himself.
"'Such is the kind of God my father is, such is the kind of person that
created me from his loins. He wanted to protect me and my country
and the world, and for that I will forever be proud to call myself, even if
only in the privacy of myself, a son of Poseidon.'"
Percy stopped as he stared at the letter in his hand.
"Holy. Shit," Monica exclaimed, "Churchill was the son of a God?!"
"Dude," Michael looked at the letter over Percy's shoulder, "your
brother was the greatest Prime Minister in the world!"
"Wait what? Brother?!" Jet asked confused.
"Come on Jet, don't tell me you haven't figured it out yet," Thalia rolled
her eyes, "didn't Raum basically scream it over and over again?"
"What do you mean?" John asked with a confused look that Tyler
matched.
"Percy isn't human," Christy began as she looked at Percy with
calculating eyes, "all the things he can do, along with friends….none of
them are human."
"Not fully human anyway," Clarisse clarified.
"Then what are they?" Jet asked.
"Demigods," Percy completed as he put away the letter in his inventory,
he figured his father would want to see it at some point. Percy walked
out the Pegasus and wrapped his hands around it. The moment he did
the side of him that was devine started to sing.
He felt the same way he did when holding the trident of Neptune that
belong to Aquaman. He felt a rush of his father's energy mix with his
own as everything in the room feel to a blue and green glow that the
staff emitted.
Ping!
You have obtained a Godly weapon that you can connect with!
+1000% HP
+1000% MP
Perfect Water control
Summon any amount of water
Absolute control over the sea
Cleaning polluted sources of water
Earthquake creation
Percy pulled the staff out of the ground and raised it into the air. He
turned around to his friends and smiled, "damn that was rush. Is this
how you felt when holding the Eagle?"
Thalia chuckled and nodded, "yup."
"Wait, so you're all demigods?" Tyler asked looking at them, "all of
you?"
Michael nodded, "yup! I suppose we should properly introduce
ourselves huh? My name is Micheal Yew, son of Apollo."
"Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares," the daughter of war nodded.
"Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus," Thalia grinned as she watched the
colour drain out of Tyler's eyes and the look of wonder sparkle in
Monica's.
"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon," Percy smiled, "and I suppose this
now belongs to us." He quickly put it into his inventory cutting off the
blue and green light show.
"Woah!" Jet exclaimed, "where did it go?!"
Percy smiled, "an ability of mine."
"And the swords and the blue green stuff that you used to beat up the
demon?" Monica asked in excitement.
"Magic," Percy replied, "we'll continue this later, for now let's get out of
here. I don't know about you guys, but this place is giving me the
creeps."
"Yes, Churchill did know how to pick underground layers," Christy
mumbled before her eyes shot open, "wait! That means you and
Churchill are brothers!"
"What?!" John shouted in sudden realisation.
A few minutes later;
The group of human, plus demigods, now stood in front of the black
van that Christy and her team came in. While walking back Percy and
his friends explained what they were, what they did and why the divine
world wasn't a nice place.
Needless to say after explaining about the oncoming war with the
Titans Christy and the others promised not to try and get involved, they
knew when they were outclassed, they didn't want to die.
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John and Jet were now talking with Michael and Clarisse about camp
and what kind of powers demigods got. They were very curious and a
daughter of Ares was exactly the person they wanted to talk too.
Tyler and Monica on the other hand stood in one corner talking with
Thalia. After Monica apologized to Thalia for calling her a wannabe
those two got along like a house on fire. Tyler on the other hand
apologized for being an ass, he flat out refused to meet Percy's eyes,
which was honestly entertaining for Percy.
"If you guys ever need help just give me a call," Percy told Christy as
he rolled her to the van's sliding door. He had already exchanged
phone numbers with Christy, just in case he needed her help.
"Believe me, we will," Christy chuckled, "you're basically like the
nuclear option."
"Yeah, I know."
"But I promise not to abuse it, after all we can't expect you guys to
solve all our problems. And I would offer you my help, but I don't really
think you would need it."
Percy nodded, "not really. If it was any other time I would have been
glad to accept your help, but now...with the war and all, I just can't
afford to get distracted."
"I understand," Christy nodded, "you can save hundreds of lives, while
we can save only one."
"And yet, you can still save one," Percy smiled, "don't cut yourself short
Christy, just because you aren't a demigod doesn't mean you can't kick
ass. Just….don't bite off more than you can chew, deal?"
Christy chuckled, "deal. Now, could you help me get on the van?"
Percy looked at the ramp leading into the vehicle and then at Christie's
immobilised form. "You know if you really want to become a monster
hunter you're going to need be able to use your legs."
"Relax, Jet and John are the one's who are going to be fighting, I'm
more of the research end myself."
Percy chuckled, "not what I meant Christy," Percy placed his hand on
her shoulder and smiled as her medical disability came up.
Please select what you wish to cure
Lower body immobilization
Percy selected the option and watched as Christy was bathed in a
golden glow.
The redhead blinked, "what was that?"
Percy grinned, "just giving you my blessing. Call it an added bonus of
being friends with a demigod."
Lie Successful!
Percy then lifted her with her wheelchair into her van. He didn't want to
tell her, it would be far more amusing to if she discovered she could
walk on her own.
"Well...thanks, anyway," Christy nodded, "and next time you see Luke
tell him….tell him I said hi."
Percy nodded, "I will."
Soon Jet and John got into the van and they left saying brief goodbyes.
A day from now when Christy tried getting into her bed she will
discover her little toe wiggling. She would then call her friends and they
would see it too. Soon they would discover that she could walk again,
and they would know who to thank.
Percy smiled at the retreating vans and turned to his friends, "well that
was productive."
Michael nodded, "yup. Killed a demon, saved a friend, even got a staff
of power to boot."
"We should probably inform the Romans we have this," Clarisse spoke
up, "if we don't and they find it through other means I don't think it
would bode too well for our alliance."
Percy nodded, "agreed. Though I would hate to give it up, it would
probably be for the best."
"Yeah," Thalia yawned loudly, "damn I'm getting sleepy."
Percy chuckled, "yeah. I noticed."
"Not just her man," Michael yawned as well, "I can barely keep my
eyes open."
"Me," yawn, "too," Clarisse yawned as well.
"Well we did do a lot today," Tyler said, "it would be reasonable to feel
sleepy."
"But this doesn't make sense," Thalia yawned, "I never get sleepy after
a fight. Ne-" yawn, "never."
Percy narrowed his eyes, "guys...are you feeling okay?"
"Percy," Michael sounded exhausted, "I think somet….." he trailed to a
whisper before suddenly collapsing forward.
"Michael!" Percy grabbed him and set him down carefully on the
ground.
"Percy something wrong," and with that Clarisse also fainted only to be
again caught by Percy.
"Percy help," Thalia's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she too
faited.
Percy grabbed his girlfriend as he activated his healing powers trying
to cure them of whatever was happening.
"Thalia?! Thalia?! Micheal?! Clarisse?!"Percy tried healing them all,
but his powers couldn't find anything wrong with them, "what the hell is
happening?!"
"Did they just drop asleep?" Monica asked.
Percy nodded, "yes," he quickly used Observe on Thalia but found
nothing wrong. There was no cursed status update, nothing to show
foul play. For all intents and purposes she was just asleep.
Percy lifted her up and quickly put her and the others into his inventory.
He turned to Tyler and Monica, "I'll take them to the infirmary, you two
go to Tyler's room and stay there. If this is Raum's way of getting back
at us for kicking his ass then you two need to be safe. You have my
number yes?" Tyler nodded, "call me if Monica feels something. If
Raum is back then she will be the first to know."
"Got it," Monica nodded, "are they going to be okay?"
Percy shook his head, "I don't' know, but I'm going to find out."
Percy turned around and put on hand up, "ID Create: Time Dilation!"
Percy disappeared in front of the twins eyes startling them both.
"Okay, I swear of whatever God or Gods that exist, I am never, ever
going to piss that guy again," Tyler swore as he and his sister walked
back to the school.
Percy ran as fast as he could inside his ID. He tore across the state as
he ran to camp half-blood. He could heal people, but he didn't know
much about healing itself, at least healing magical problems, which this
surely was. He needed the help of the other Apollo kids, and he
needed it now.
Chapter 666
As soon as he reached camp he exited the ID and was immediately
greeted with the sight of Chiron and a few of the worker Harpy ladies
dragging bodies upon bodies of unconscious demigods into the Great
House.
"Chiron!" Percy shouted as he ran to his mentor, "what in Hades' name
happened?!"
"Percy?!" Chiron gasped as he gently placed the five children that was
on his back inside. He turned to the son of Poseidon and hugged him
closely, "oh I thought it had happened to you as well!"
"What? What happened?!" Percy asked as he looked around.
"Every demigod in camp suddenly dropped to the floor asleep where
they stood!" Chiron said in horror, "we are getting them inside the Great
House but I don't know what more we can do!"
Percy started to panic, luckily Gamer's mind didn't let it get too far,
"okay, okay. So it isn't just a curse that Raum placed on us, it'
happening to everyone."
Chiron raised an eyebrow, "what do you mean?"
"We were fighting a demon a few hours ago, when Thalia and the
other's fainted I thought it was because of something the demon did,
but now..."
"We'll talk about this demon hunting later, for now I need your help
getting everyone inside."
Percy nodded as he took off in a rush of speed. He quickly gathered
asleep demigods and brought them into the medbay. Once he finished
that he took out Thalia and the others out of his inventory and placed
them on beds in the med bay as well. There was barely any room in
here, but someone Mr. D had conjured up more bed for the place
ensure each demigod had something to sleep on.
Percy looked down at the unconscious Thalia and sighed, "I promise
love, I'm going to get you out of this."
Just then in a flash of light Hermes appeared in the Medbay with the
unconscious bodies of the demigods in the Hermes squad floating
behind him.
"Chiron we need help! They all suddenly...fainted…." Hermes trialed off
as he saw every other demigod in camp laying there unconscious.
"We noticed," Percy spoke up as he quickly took all the demigods and
put them in different beds. He turned to Hermes, "do you know the
exact moment this happened?"
"Ten minutes ago," Hermes replied, "you have any idea of who's doing
this?"
Percy shook his head, "not a clue," he quickly conjured a cloud of Mist
and created a rainbow using the rays from the celing light. He tossed a
coin in and said the words to Iris, "show me Praetor Julia."
The rainbow disappeared replacing it with an image of Julia asleep at
her desk with papers in front of her.
"Is that the roman Praetor?" Hermes asked as he suddenly changed
form. He had a metal helmet on his head with wings on either side
along with a pair of sandals and a leather bag at his side. He looked
more serious, less fun.
"I'm assuming this is your roman form?" Percy asked.
"Yes, it is."
Percy turned to Julia, "Julia! Wake up!" Percy continued to shout for
sometime but she didn't stir.
"Maybe she's simply asleep?" Mercury suggested.
"No," Percy cursed as he swiped the image away, "Julia is far too
dedicated to sleep on the job. Plus she was holding a pen, she
wouldn't just drop asleep with a pen in her hand."
"Agreed," Mercury turned back into Hermes, "I'm going to go to
Olympus right now, I'll get back to you the moment I find out anything."
Percy nodded and closed his eyes as the God flashed away. He was
left alone in the room with the unconscious greek demigods, his family.
Percy walked to Thalia and sat down by her side.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Percy whispered, "all this power, and I have no
idea how to help you…..I promise you Thalia, I swear, I'll find a way to
fix this. I'll do whatever it takes."
"Percy Jackson," a new voice called out behind him. Percy turned and
there standing near the stairs was a woman dressed in a rainbow
coloured dress with white wings behind her and rainbow coloured hair.
Percy looked at her name and title;
Iris, Goddess of rainbows
Lv- ?
"Iris," Percy nodded in acknowledgment.
"Did you mean it?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "mean what?"
"Did you mean what you said? About doing whatever it take to fix it. Did
you mean it?"
Percy nodded, "yes," he used his telekinetic powers to pull Waverider
out of his pocket and flipped off the cap creating his trident, "why are
you here?"
"To help you," Iris waved her hand and on the wall beside her opened a
portal made of rainbow light, "come with me and I can help you bring
them back."
"Back? Back from where?"
"From where he has taken them."
"Do you know who did this?"
Iris nodded, "yes. Morpheus, the god of sleep."
Percy was confused, "why did he do this?"
"Come with me demigod, and I will tell you."
Percy narrowed his eyes and the goddess, but put away his weapon.
His lie detecting abilities didn't go off once when he talked to her. So
either she was telling the truth or a very good liar, and Percy didn't care
which it was. If she could help him get his family back he would gladly
walk into a trap.
Percy walked to the goddess and faced the portal. He turned Iris, "is
this is a trap I swear of the Styx you will regret it."
Thunder boomed outside. Iris however didn't look startled or scared.
She simply nodded, "that is acceptable. Please, enter."
Percy turned to the portal and sighed. He walked into the rainbow
portal and disappeared. Iris quickly followed suit closing the portal
behind her.
Just then Chiron walked up to the Med bay and looked around. He
looked around confused, "Percy? Where did you go?"
At Yancy Academy;
Deep underneath the school in the hidden compartment that Churchill
made, a cloud of black with red eyes woke up. If it had teeth it would
have smiled.
Those demigods that it fought were fools. They had wasted so much
energy fighting him. He didn't have to do anything, just pretend to be
hurt, all the while he absorbed more and more of the stray mana they
let loose.
It now had enough strength to leave this chamber, and so it did. It
seeped up and through the cracks in the ground escaped the chamber
and into the fresh air of the world. It looked around, the night was dark
with a crescent moon hanging dimly in the night sky. Truly the perfect
night to escape his prison.
Raum looked around, he was a in a school, presumably those
children's school. If it was any other time he would have immediately
had a feast eating on the souls of the children here, after all the pure
virgin souls of the young were what he relished most, but he couldn't
risk it. If those demigods knew he was alive they would track him and
kill him, this time for good.
So regretfully Raum turned away from his buffet meal and flew to the
border of the school. However as he was about to cross the school's
grounds and achieve his freedom he suddenly crashed into an invisible
barrier of sorts that shocked him so badly he felt actual pain in his
body.
He was flung back into the school and quickly shook off the after
effects. He growled as he looked around, "what in Satan's name was
that?!"
"That was Churchill's final layer of protection for the world from you."
Raum looked around and saw a woman with blonde hair aproach him.
She was very beautiful with full hips and a large pair of breasts which
were just begging to be played with. If Raum had his physical body he
would have had here right then, but alas, he couldn't have it all. Oh
well, he could just eat her soul.
"You will do nicely for a snack," Raum slurped as he charged at the
blonde haired woman.
"You see when Churchill built this place he didn't mean for it to be a
school, he meant for it to be your prison," the black cloud was almost
upon her. Suddenly the woman's hair shifted from yellow to blue.
The woman's hand suddenly turned black as she grabbed the cloud
with her bare hands. She then proceeded to smash him into the ground
creating a crater big enough to fit a car. She raised her fist and began
battling her fists into Raum's body.
"ARGH" he didn't understand what was happening. He felt pain, real
pain, he didn't have to fake it like he did with those children. He didn't
understand how she was able to hurt him, especially when he was
nothing but a ball of smoke.
The woman eventually stopped. She wiped the sweat from her head
and looked down at the beaten demon. "Inside every one of these
bricks that layer the school's wall is a little inscription that is specifically
designed to stop you from leaving this place. In other words this is and
always was intended to be your grave."
"You can't kill me! I'm a demon and you're just a-" Raum stopped
mid sentence as he noticed something. Her eyes, her eyes were
sulphuric yellow, and the moment her eyes meet his Raum found
himself paralyzed with fear.
"No, no it can't be! This isn't possible! You should be dead!"
The blue haired woman smiled as she snapped her fingers summoning
a black sword. She raised it into the air and looked down at the demon,
"tell Satan I said hello."
She brought it down and a demon's cry filled the night.
Percy Jackson
Health- 15,400/15,400 (+2000) = 17,400
Mana- 8,325/8,325 (+2000) = 10,325 (+20% more mana, +1,865) =
12,190
The Gamer
Title- Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-49 Exp- 127,050/150,000
Race-Demigod
STR- [Original- 150] 0.146 (+11+20+75) = 106.146 (Layers of seals
applied - 10)
VIT-150 (+11+20)=181
DEX-100(+11+20)=131
INT-150
WIS-100
LUC-100
POINTS- 50
MONEY- 25,221,683$/ 20,856 D
Chapter 667:
Percy walked out onto the other side of the portal and found himself on
the top of a very tall lighthouse. The tower over looked a cliff below
which was the raging sea. Percy smelt the fresh sea breeze as it hung
in the air. He reached out to the sea and immediately connected with it,
he used his powers as the son of Poseidon and found that he was
somewhere just off the coast of Washington state.
"Come Percy, in here," Iris called as she stepped out of her portal and
closed it behind her. She then walked into the lighthouse.
Percy walked into the lighthouse and instead of a giant beacon he
found a circular table with twelve comfortable looking leather padded
chairs around it and a hearth in the center warming up the room.
"What is this place?" Percy asked as he walked inside weary of an
oncoming attack. He still wasn't convinced this wasn't a trap.
"This is where we meet," Iris as explained, "our own version of
Olympus." she turned away from Percy and conjured up a rainbow.
She spoke, "he's here," and vanished the multicoloured ray.
Suddenly the room light up light a christmas tree as many different
coloured light filled it up. Percy barely managed to close his eyes in
time, otherwise he was pretty sure he would have gone blind.
He opened them and standing before him were ten new figures sitting
in the chair around the table. Percy didn't recognize them, but he didn't
need to considering he could see their name floating above them;
Triton, Minor God of the Sea
Lv- ?
Nike, Goddess of victory
Lv- ?
Eirene, Goddess of peace
Lv- ?
Pothos, God of lust
Lv- ?
Eunomia, Goddess of good law and order
Lv- ?
Harmonia, Goddess of Harmony
Lv- ?
Tyche, Goddess of luck
Lv- ?
Hecate, Goddess of magic and Mist
Lv- ?
Nemesis, Goddess of revenge
Lv- ?
Zephyrus, God of gentle west wind
Lv- ?
Percy was surrounded by 11 Gods in total, and once more they were
all minor Gods. Percy looked at Iris and something inside him clicked.
"This isn't just a group of random gods is it?" Percy looked at the room,
the table, the way they were all organized, this wasn't the first time they
gathered here. There was only one logical conclusion, "this is a council
of minor Gods."
Triton smirked, he turned to Tyche, the goddess of luck, "that's 20
drachma."
The goddess was dressed in a silver Harvard hoodie and grey slacks.
She looked like a college freshman with silver hair and bright purple
eyes. She sighed as she snapped her fingers summoning a bag of
drachma's and tossing it to Triton, "I hate you."
The divine son of Poseidon grinned as he snapped his fingers sending
his newly won money away. The God hadn't changed much from the
last time Percy met him. He still had his green skin and black seaweed
like hair tied into a ponytail. He wore a nothing but a pair of lifeguard
trunks and blue flippers displaying his god like chiseled body.
"Okay," Percy looked at the Gods, "what the Hades is going on?"
"Percy Jackson," Eunomia, the Goddess of good law and peace
walked to a seat on the table and sat down. She looked frighteningly
similar to Kate, with her brown hair and sharp cheekbones. She wore a
long coat with a business suit under it, she also had a gun strapped to
her chest along with a golden shield proudly displayed on her belt, "we
need to talk."
The other gods and goddess took that as their que to move. They each
quickly found their seats and sat down leaving Percy standing at
looking at them.
"I came here because Iris told me she would help me fix what
happened to the demigods," Percy said as he looked at the minor
deities, "are you guys going to help me do that?"
"We are," Eunomia nodded, "we believe we can help each other in this
regard."
"Okay," Percy nodded, "first off who caused this?"
"We believe that one of our own has caused this chaos," Eirene, the
goddess of peace spoke up. She wore a golden and white toga with a
golden laurel on her head. On her shoulder was a white dove which
seemed to radiate a sense of calmness and satisfaction that washed
over PErcy and the rest of the Gods.
"One of your own?" Percy raised an eyebrow, "so a minor god caused
this?"
"Indeed little brother," Triton nodded, "and as he is one of us, we
believe it is our duty to fix this."
Percy blinked, "since when have you called me little brother?"
Triton smirked, "since you stopped being an embarrassment to father."
Percy rolled his eyes, "gee thanks Triton, that's some really deep
brotherly advice there."
"Yeah well don't get used to it," Triton smriked.
"Now, back to business," Eunomia spoke drawing attention back to her,
"the one who did this was Morpheus."
"The god of sleep?" Percy asked, "well, that would make sense,
considering everyone feel asleep. It would make sense the God of
sleep would be involved."
"Correct, accept Morpheus isn't the God of sleep, Hypnos is, Morpheus
is the God of dreams and the unconscious, much more powerful and
much more eccentric." Hecate, the goddess of magic and the Mist
spoke. She was dressed in a black robe with blue runes stitched into
the fabric. Besides her floated two torches with green fire burning in it
and a pole cat sitting in front of her on the table.
"I see..." Percy nodded looking around, "and why exactly did he decide
to go crazy?"
"Watch your tongue boy!" Nemesis yelled out as she slammed her
hand into the table. She looked around 50 with a leather jacket and a
bandana tied around her grey straw like hair. She wore red sunglasses
behind which her eyes glowed like two ball of fire, "Morpheus is one of
us! He most certainly did not go crazy!"
Percy narrowed his eyes at the goddess, "he made all the children of
the Gods fall asleep. Some of them were working on something, he'll
just a few minutes before my friends fell asleep we was fighting a
demon, imagine if they had all dropped to the ground, they wouldn't
have lasted a second. The demon would have ripped them into
pieces."
Nemesis growled, "he isn't crazy."
"Yes, he is."
"Enough," Eirene, the goddess of peace whispered. Her voice was
small and gentle, but everyone heard it. Slowly the anger that took over
Nemesis's face went away as she sat back down. "We have not come
here to discuss Morpheus's actions. We have come to try and save our
children."
"And we must stay focused on target," Eunomia finished.
Percy sighed, "fine. Why did he do this in the first place?"
"Because he believed it was the only way to keep the demigod's safe,"
Harmonia spoke. She was the goddess of harmony, and unlike the
other humanoid deities in the room she wasn't exactly normal.
Harmonia took on the form of a snake with a pair of 60's purple shades
stuck over her eyes and a rainbow bandana over her crown. Percy
would have been freaked out a little bit, but after seeing talkings dog's,
underwater monsters that could end planets and an interdimensional
warlord his standards of freakyness was set pretty high.
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"You see Kronos came to us with an offer," Harmonia continued, "he
said that if we join him and support his war when he wins he would
give us and our children a place in the new world he makes."
"And you denied him…...right?"
"Not at first," Nemesis growled. Perry shot her a look and she shoot
one back, "what? Don't look at me like that kid! Don't tell me it wasn't a
reasonable request! The Gods have never valued us! Our official title is
minor Gods! Do you think we owed them anything?!"
Percy shrugged, "I'm not one to judge, after all I can't stand half the
Olympian's myself. But, they are still family, and one doesn't abandon
family."
"Which is preciously why we denied their request," Eunomia spoke up.
The way she acted and the way everyone shut up when she talked told
Percy that the goddess was the leader, and if this council was lead by
the goddess of good law you know they were in the right hands.
"Kronos didn't like being denied," Triton schooled, "he told us once the
Olympians were defeated we would be next. Most of us took it as an
ideal threat, but Morpheus…."
"But Morpheus disagreed," Iris picked up the story, "he believed that
the Olympians were arrogant and uncaring enough to sacrifice their
own children if it meant they would win the war. And if they sacrificed
their children, ours would soon follow. We didn't know what to do, and
that's where you came in."
Percy blinked, "me? Why me?"
"Simple," Tyche spoke up eating from a box of thai take out, "you are
kind of like the leader of the Greek demigods, and while you aren't
Roman, the Romans still respect you. We wanted to meet up with you
before, ask you to stay out of this war, let the Titans and the Olympians
sort their own mess out."
"You wanted me to make the demigods betray the gods?" Percy asked
a little startled.
"Betray?" Eunomia raised an eyebrow, "why do you think it's betrayal to
not want to die?"
"They are family Eunomia, we can't just-"
"-Precisely, they are family, you are their family. And they would send
their own children into battle to die for them."
"So you would just let them die?"
The goddess shock her head, "they wouldn't die. Kronos may be
powerful, but Zeus and the other's could still take them. No, the
Olympians would not die, they would win and send the titan's back to
Tartarus, and hundreds of demigods would have wasted their lives for
nothing."
"And why should the demigods obey them anyway?" Nemesis asked,
"the only reason I could guess is because of the protection they
provide in their little camps. But what you don't understand is that we
can provide the same protection, and we wouldn't want you to due for
the privilege."
"The Olympians are flawed Percy," Triton spoke, "even our father is
not….all there. They try, but in the end they see themselves as better
than everyone else. Better than humans and better than minor gods."
"Enough!" Percy snapped, "I didn't come here to argue philosophy, I
came here to get my friends back. So are you going to tell me how to
do that or am I on my own?!"
The council of minor gods looked at each other as unspoken words
were shared. Percy knew they were talking about him, he didn't like
being ignored, but he dealt with it. Percy waited and soon Eunomia
stood up and spoke.
"We don't know how you were not affected by Morpheus's speak,
technically every demigod should be asleep right now. But if it turns out
you are immune somehow to mis mental magic then you are probably
the best one to help save the other demigods."
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Enter Morpheus's realm and save all the demigods!
Rewards,
300,000 Exp
One random gift from the minor Gods
?
Failure,
All the greek and roman demigods in the world will die from brain
damage
Kronos will win
Do you accept?
YES/NO?
Percy pressed on yes and pushed the notification away. "Okay, so now
I know who did, why they did it and why I wasn't affected. Now I have
one more question," Percy glared, "how do I get this son of a bitch?"
"Hypnos, the god of sleep can help us there," Triton spoke up as he
and Iris got up and approached Percy. "He is weaker than Morpheus,
true, but they share similar abilities. We get him to take us to Morpheus
realm and you should be able to reached the demigods trapped within
no problem."
Percy nodded, "great, are you two coming?"
"Hypnos is….dangerous," Iris hummed, "he is not very easy to work
with. Triton and I will accompany you to him and will help get his
services, after that though it will be up to you."
"Why can't you guys help?"
"Morpheus's realm is very unstable," Harmonia answered, "you see like
his domain suggests it is a literal dream land. If one isn't careful they
could destroy the entire place by making it collapse in on itself. That
was why we were apposed to his plan in the first place, we won't risk
trapping our children inside their own heads."
Percy nodded, "okay...makes sense."
"Come," Iris raised her hands summoning a rainbow coloured portal in
front of Percy, "we have much to do."
Percy and Triton walked into the portal with Iris following behind. The
portal closed leaving the remaining 9 gods by themselves.
"I don't like him," Nemesis growled as she sank into her chair.
"You don't like anyone," Harmonia replied.
"He's a good kid," Tyche spoke up finishing her food and tossing the
empty take out cup away, "plus you hate everyone."
"Indeed, Percy Jackson has my faith," Eunomia nodded in acceptance,
"he's smart and caring, a perfect combination for the kind of person we
need to save our children."
"Oh please, you just like him because he works in a police station!"
Nemesis yelled.
"True," Eunomia nodded, "and anyone who is so dedicated to serving
justice at this age is deserving of respect."
"Either way nothing we say now will change what is about to happen,"
Eirene said as ashe walked out of the room and into the open air. She
looked down at the sea and immediately the raging storm that was
building died down giving way to calm winds and steady waves, "all we
can do now is wait and see what the son of Poseidon does."
With Percy,
Percy stepped out of the portal and found himself once again in an
unfamiliar place. He was in the middle of a city, dusty, very windy. The
street he was on looked abandoned and very poor, there was trash
flowing freely on the street and graffiti on the wall.
From the short palm tree planted on the sidewalk Percy figured they
were somewhere south, from the humid temperature he figured they
were somewhere near the sea.
"Where are we?" Percy asked.
"Florida," Triton replied as he and Iris stepped out of the rainbow portal
and started walking. Percy followed and the group quickly arrived in
front of a old abandoned mattress store that seemed to be over run by
dust bunnies and the occasional cockroach.
"Okay, that's both disgusting and unhygienic," Percy shivered.
"Hypnos isn't one for hygiene," Iris snapped her fingers causing the
door to unlock. They walked into the dark building, Percy could barely
see, but after Iris summoned a floating ball of light and rainbows the
room burst into colour.
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It was run down and very old. The wallpaper was coming off the wall
with mold growing on the wood. The goddess and god walked forward
uncaring but Percy was creeped out. He swore he saw a rat scurrying
about in the shadows somewhere, he may be able to take on
monsters, but this was another thing completely.
As Percy continued walking he remembered his latest adventure and
what they had found inside. Percy looked at Triton, "Triton, after this we
need to talk. I found something of dad's, I think he might want it back."
Triton turned back and raised an eyebrow, "what is that?"
"You remember the Roman's have the Eagle for Zeus? Well I
discovered the symbol of Neptune, the 11th Legion Pegasus."
"What?!" Triton stopped dead on his tracks and turned to Percy, "where
did you find it?!"
"Under my school," Percy shrugged.
"Why was it there?!"
"Well it seems my school was built by Churchill and he was apparently
a son of Poseidon. He wanted a place for it be safe, so he decided to
move it to US and build a school around it for protection."
Titon's green eyes looked completely stunned, "Churchill? Seriously?
Damn...well it does make sense, bugger always was resourceful."
"We need to keep moving," Iris warned the son of Poseidon.
Triton nodded, "right," he looked at Percy, "come we can walk and
talk."
They continued heading deeper into the building as Percy spoke up,
"so you know him?"
Triton nodded, "yes. We were...well, not close as I would have liked,
but it was enough. He had a giant weight on his shoulder, as we now
know, so the Fates forbid anyone from our divine family to contact him.
Father himself only had one chance to meet him, and that was only to
tell him the truth. Sigh, maybe if we were closer...nevermind, that's all
in the past now. You have it safe?"
Percy nodded, "it's in my inventory."
"Okay...do you plan on using it against Morpheus?"
Percy's eyes narrowed, "only if he threatens my friends."
Triton sighed, "fine...but please, use it only as a last resort. It's a very
powerful object, if the other Gods knew off it they would remove it from
your possession. It's your Trump card, keep it hidden for as long as
possible, got that Percy?"
Percy nodded.
They walked deeper down the corridor eventually reaching a single
steel door that was rusted all over. Iris walked up to the door and
pressed her hand up against the door summoning a burst of rainbow
light that destroyed the door blowing it off it's hinges;
BOOM!
Percy winced as he blinked his temporary blindness away. He looked
up and saw Iris and Triton walk in, guessing this was his cue Percy did
the same.
The grimly and dirty hallway gave way to a clean and pristine white
marble coated room. Every single spot in the room looked like it had a
micro brush passed through it removing it off all dirt. There was no light
in the room, their only source of light was Iris's floating ball.
Iris walked around to the side wall and flipped a switch turning on the
brightest light's Percy had ever seen in his entire life. Percy's eyes shut
close on reflex alone nearly blinding him. It took him a few seconds but
he was able to finally open them again. The lights were high powers
and placed on the ceiling in such a way that they enlightened every
corner of the room.
In the center of the room was a pile of pillows each the size of a full
grown human being. And curled up into a little ball in the middle of the
pillow pile was a young man with white hair wearing blue striped
pyjamas.
Percy looked at his title;
Hypnos, God of Sleep
Lv- ?
Percy blinked, "is that little shrimp really Hypnos?"
Iris nodded, "indeed he is. Triton, please wake him up."
Triton nodded. He bent down and dug his fingers into the two iron door
Iris had blasted into the room. He lifted them with ease and walked to
Hypnos' body before smashing the two doors together like a pair of hit-
mats.
CLACK! CLACK! CLACK! CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
Percy's held his ears in pain, "how is he not awake yet?!" He yelled
through the noise.
"He's a heavy sleeper," Iris told him as she closed her own ears.
Finally, after what seemed like minutes of continuous noise making on
Triton's part, Hypnos started to stear. He got up and rubbed his eyes
with one hand. Slowly he opened them revealing milky white eyes that
seemed to be able to focus on everything and yet nothing.
Triton stepped back as the god of sleep looked at his guest. He gave a
lazy smile with his eyes still half closed, "hello Iris, hello,yawn, Triton.
And who is, yawn, this?"
Percy blinked, "I'm Percy...Percy Jackson."
"Yay," Hypnos yawned, "why are you all, yawn, here?"
"We need your help Hypnos," Iris told the God, "Morpheus has done it
Hypnos...he actually went through with it. Right now every single
demigod child in the world is unconscious, trapped in his realm. We
need your help to bring them back."
Hypno's eyes looked just a little bit more awake, "I see. And how do
you plan on doing that? Morpheus might have broken the rules
allowing you Gods to interfere, but if anyone of you even steps into his
realm you could potentially collapse it in on itself."
Triton nodded, "we know. That's why we're aren't going, we are
sending Percy here to get back the demigods."
Hypnos turned his white gaze on Percy, "who exactly is Percy?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "you don't know? I mean come on, everyone
in Olympus has at least heard about me."
"Hypnos doesn't get out much," Iris explained before turning to
Hypnos, "Percy is a son of Poseidon and very powerful one at that.
He's somehow the only one who has survived Morpheus' attack."
"I see," Hypnos didn't take his eyes off Percy, "and how old are you
Percy?"
"14," Percy replied evenly.
"I see...then just two more years until the world ends. Lovely. Now, how
exactly are you immune?"
"We were hoping you could tell us," Triton spoke.
"Maybe, maybe...tell me Percy, what do you dream off?"
"I...I don't."
Hypnos raised a white eyebrow, "what do you mean?"
"I don't dream. I haven't since I learnt I was a demigod. I sleep when I
can, but I don't dream."
"Wait really?" Triton asked, "that's...impossible. Everyone dreams, it's a
part of life. Even God's dream."
"Yes, but Percy doesn't," Hypnos hummed, he waved his hand in front
of Percy causing the demigod to glow white, "well from what I can tell
he's telling the truth. He doesn't dream, so that's why Morpheus hasn't
been able to take him into his realm as well."
"But how is that possible?" Iris asked curiously.
"I'm not sure,"Hypnos hummed, "but I sense a touch of….destiny from
the boy...a touch of Fate."
Chapter 670
Percy's eyes widened, Triton and Iris looked confused at Hypnos words
but Percy knew what he meant. Hypnos winked at Percy and turned to
the minor gods, "either way it doesn't matter. How he's immune isn't
important, what is important is that Percy is probably the only one
capable of entering Morpheus' realm and fighting the God on even
ground."
"You mean you can do it? You can help me save my friends?" Percy
asked.
Hypnos nodded, "yes Percy Jackson, I can."
Elsewhere;
Thalia grumbled, "I swear to the Gods Bethany! Get down this instant
or I swear, no video games for a month!"
"But mom!" a girl with long black hair and sea green eyes whined from
on top of a apple tree. The girl wore pink leggings and a black t-shirt
with 'Green Day', Thalia's favourite band, featured on it.
"No but's young lady! You are five years old and unlike your father you
are not indestructible!"
"But dad told me you both did way more dangerous stuff!"
"Yes, but we are at least 12 years old when we did it! Now get down!"
Bethany puffed her cheeks and crossed her arms, "you never let me do
anything fun!"
"I let you fight a zombie the other day!"
"No, dad let me fight it!"
"And I didn't object to you fighting a zombie, you're welcome."
"Moooom, I'm already level 8! Dad said when he was level 8 he fought
demons from hell!"
"Well your father didn't climb trees at level 8, if I remember he didn't do
that till he was level 40. So get down here this instant!"
Bethany grumbled, a grunt similar to her mother, "fine," the girl jumped
off the branch falling head first towards the ground. Thalia flinched in
fear, but didn't move, she knew better. Suddenly air currently pulled
around Bethany straightening her out and softening her landing. The
girl landed gracefully like a feather and smiled at her mom.
Thalia couldn't help smiling back, "you just love scaring the shit out of
me don't?" Bethany giggled and said nothing. Thalia shook her head,
"whatever. Go inside, I'm made you some pancakes for breakfast."
"Blue?"
"Of course."
"Great! Thanks mom!" the girl waved at her mom rushing into the small
cottage house that was next to the tree.
Just then the front door to the small cottage house opened revealing
an older man in a suit and tie with a golden detective's badge clipped
on his belt. His hair was short and his eyes sparkled sea green. He
grinned at Bethany, "morning pumpkin."
"Morning dad!" Bethany yelled back as she rushed inside.
Percy chuckled as he walked towards Thalia, "she seems excited."
Thalia sighed, "she's starting school today Percy. Of course she's
excited."
"Well that certainly is strange, last I remember the both of us hated
school," Percy stepped behind Thalia wrapped her in his arms. The
couple looked down the hill on top of which they built their house.
Large plains of grass surrounded them, there wasn't a neighbour in
sight, a luxury they could afford since everyone in their family had
some form of quick transportation. Flying for Thalia while super speed
for Percy and Bethany.
At the very edge of the horizon was a city surrounded by giant walls.
This was Gardiner island, Percy had finished constructing the
community and now it thrived as a home for demigods and
supernatural creatures everywhere.
"Hm, well I wouldn't say hate," Thalia shivered as Percy kissed her
neck, even after all this time he could still make her shiver at his touch.
"True...so...what's your plan for today?"
"I'm thinking after I drop Bethany off at school I need to check the data
banks. Annabeth mentioned something in the system that tried to shut
us down last night. They managed to shut it off, but they need my help
identifying the bug."
Percy chuckled, "amazing, my wife the tech wizard. I always thought
modern technology was more of Leo's thing?"
"The dog or the demigod?" Thalia and Percy chuckled.
Just then Bethany called out, "mom! Leo's licking me again!"
Percy and Thalia shared a looked before laughing out loud. Slowly they
became quiet once more. Thalia sighed, "I didn't think we would make
it Percy."
"Yeah….it didn't feel like that for a few years but...we did it," Percy
turned her around and looked into her eyes, "I'm the luckiest guy in the
world lighting girl."
"And don't you forget it seaweed brain," Thalia chuckled. She closed
her eyes and leaned in kissing Percy. A surge of warmth surrounded
her, she felt his arms hold her steady. It felt like sleeping on a cloud,
but something was wrong...something was missing.
Thalia's mind began to blur, she remembered the times she kissed him.
She remembered all of them. How it was almost supernatural they way
he could make her putty in his arms. Now the kiss was amazing, but
before it was divine. Something was wrong, something wasn't right.
Thalia's eyes snapped open as she pushed Percy away, "no!"
Percy blinked in confusion, "what's wrong Thalia? Did something
happen?"
"You-you're not Percy," Thalia's eyes narrowed as she reached into her
back pocket and pulled out her can of mace. She transformed it into
her spear and leveled it at the imposter, "who the fuck are you?"
"Thalia, sweet heart, are you okay? You're not making sense," Percy
said as he tried to approach her only for Thali to take a swing at his
head. Percy ducked quickly, but Thalia saw the speed at which he did
that. The real Percy was much faster and the real Percy wouldn't have
dodged, he would have simply caught her spear and disarmed her.
"Stay back," Thalia growled as she channeled lighting into her weapon,
"stay back or I'll kill you."
"Mommy? Daddy? What's going on?" Bethany walked outside looking
confused.
"Stay back Bethany," Thalia called out stepping in front of her daughter
protectively, "something's wrong. This isn't your father. This is…..no..."
'I never had a daughter...I'm not a mother.'
Thalia looked at Bethany in horror, 'who is this?!' She backed away,
"who are you?!"
"Mommy?" Bethenny asked looking scared with tears her eyes, "you're
scaring me mommy."
Thalia flinched, "I'm sorry baby I-" 'No! Don't apologize! She isn't your
daughter!'
Thalia narrowed her eyes, lighting coursed through her blood, "no! Get
away from me!"
"Thalia calm down!" Percy roared as he stepped in front of Bethany,
"you are going to hurt our daughter!"
"She's not my daughter!" Thalia roared out as she swung her spear at
Percy who dodged the swing easily, "and you're not my Percy!" Thalia
swung again, the thing with Percy's face moved backwards but ended
up tripping on itself falling on it's back.
Thalia ran up and shoved her heel into him fixing him on the ground.
She raised her spear up and leveled it's electric tip on 'Percy's' neck,
"die!"
Thalia trusted the spear down and for a second doubt clouded her
mind, 'wait! What am I doing?! This is Percy! My Percy! My...no...not
my Percy! Not my life! Not my daughter!'
And suddenly reality itself exploded.
Thalia gasped. She couldn't see. Whiteness clouded her vision. She
couldn't breath, something warm and silky ran down her throat, she
was suffocating, and yet she didn't feel like she was being choked.