"But Percy Tan-"
"Not right away," Percy interrupted, "you go ahead first and then we will sneak out of camp and catch up with you."
"And how are we going to get to her?" Nina asked.
Percy shrugged, "we'll figure it out somehow. But for now that's the plan, any objections?" They shook their heads, "good. Now we need to get going," and with that they all left via Percy's pocket dimension and no one was any wiser, well no one except Mr. D who had a big smile on his face.
Percy dropped each one back in their own cabins before he went back to his own. He opened the cabin door and walked in. He sighed taking off his leather jacket putting it on his bed, "you know you really must be more alert of your surroundings."
Percy moved before the voice finished speaking. He jumped across the bed and threw punch to where he heard the voice.
Body Form Activated: Right Arm.
The punch hit the figure's open palm, Percy rolled to the side and sent a kick at said person's head which they also blocked. Percy opened his palm and sent a blast of ice right into where the person's face would be.
Suddenly Percy felt himself being thrown out of his window crashing through rolling outside. The demigod quickly got to his feet and opened his inventory putting on the gauntlet of kefka. Percy took out Riptide and turned to his cabin door which slowly opened revealing the person who he attacked.
"Artemis?" Percy blinked at the silver eyed goddess, "w-what are you doing here?"
The goddess of the hunt smiled, "meet me at the Fist of Zeus, we have much to discuss." Before Percy could answer she disappeared in a blur of speed, she didn't teleport she just ran that fast. Percy could keep up a little, but not by much.
Percy sighed, he got his jacket and quickly formed an ice wall in his now damaged window sill, it was going to be a pain in the ass to replace that.
Percy snuck into the forest like he had done many times before and walked to the Fist of Zeus. Artemis sat on top the rock figure crossed legged as she sharpened several of her arrows. She looked oddly at peace sitting on the rough surface as she glowed from the moon light falling on her.
She looked up and smiled at Percy, "you took longer than I thought."
"Well I just wanted time to wonder if this was a prank or something."
Artemis chuckled as she put away her arrows with a snap of her finger, "I assure you I am not trying to prank you."
"I on the other hand just might," said a new voice. Percy turned and out of the tree line walked a man with salt and pepper hair and blue eyes. He wore running short with a t-shirt saying 'New York Marathon' and on his face was a familiar grin.
"You're late," Artemis told the newcomer with narrowed eyes. She then turned to Percy, "Percy this is-"
"Hermes, Luke's dad," Percy said looking at man.
"How did you-oh right you have the ability to sense people out," Hermes said grinning, "you probably recognized my power from the Hermes cabin right?"
"No," Percy said surprising the god of thieves, "it's that stupid grin you have on. Ever single Hermes kid I ever met has the same bloody grin." 'That and your name and title is floating right above your head.'
Hermes, Messenger of the Gods
Lv-?
HP:?
MP:?
Race- Olympian
Str-?
Vit-?
Dex-?
Int-?
Wis-?
Luc-?
Son of Zeus and Maia, this god is know for many different achievement in life even before he became a god. He has a variety of different domains under his belt and is known to be a jack of all trades. He loves all his children dearly and is always looking out for them however he can.
Likes: His children, his family, his job and the human race
Dislikes: Titans, Hubris, not being able to be there for his kids and broccoli
Thinks Percy is an okay guy, hopes Percy will be able to bring Luke back
He feels hopeful
Percy was surprised reading Hermes's profile. He loved his children and he hated not being there for them. And this was the guy Luke had a problem with?!
"Haha I see," Hermes said rubbing his neck still grining, "well my kids do get their good looks from me."
"So what exactly do you guys want from me?" Percy asked, "I'm guessing this isn't just a social visit."
"Not exactly, but it is nice seeing you again Percy, how long has it been? A year?" Artemis asked getting off the rock structure standing straight.
"Yeah, almost a year," Percy smiled.
"Wow," Hermes said blinking, "I didn't think I would ever see the day where the man hater Artemis would be making small talk with a man."
Artemis shot the god of thieves a glare which immediately shut him up. She sighed and turned to Percy, her face turned stone cold and Percy got serious as well, "it's about the quest Clarisse La Rue is going on."
Percy nodded, "yeah, what about it?"
"We," Hermes started, "the gods that is, want your friends to join her."
Percy looked taken back. He was surprised and his brain suddenly started thinking of different reason as to why this was asked before Gamer's mind activated allowing Percy to form a path of questioning, "okay first off all I thought you guys were the ones who wanted her to go alone."
"A trick to make the spy think she would be alone," Artemis said, "Zeus is concerned about the spy in your midst, he wants your friends to sneak onboard Clarisse's ship just after she leaves and help her on this quest. That way the spy will have no idea about the extra people Clarisse has helping her."
Percy nodded , "okay….that sounds great and all but something has been bothering me. You said, 'my friends,' and not me. Don't you guys want me go with them?"
Hermes cleared his throat drawing attention to him, "well no, you have another job."
"What kind of job?"
Artemis narrowed her eyes, "Gergosa."
"What about them?"
"We got intel that the Titan army has a Gergosa creation site just off the coast of the Bahamas. It's an island called Nassau, it borders on the sea of monsters but is mostly unaffected, somewhere on that island a madman named Argo Kishin is creating Gergosa's we need you to stop him."
"Is this a solo assignment?"
"Yes it is," the goddess of the hunt paused before speaking, "do you accept?"
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Summer Quest!
Find and destroy Argo's base of operation in Nassau.
Survive the encounter.
Don't let a single Gergosa get off that island
Reward,
?
?
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200,000 Exp
Failure,
Your death
Camp is destroyed
YES/NO?
Percy read the failure options and sighed, 'always the same thing. For once can't something nice happens if I fail? Like I get a slice of pizza or something?' He pressed the yes button and looked to Artemis and Hermes, "I accept."
The goddess and the god nodded. Hermes looked at his watch, "damn look at the time! I need to leave right now!" he snapped his finger and three yellow bags and one blue bag appeared in front of Percy, "use this during your journey. The yellow ones are for the others while the black one is for you."
And with that he flashed away. Percy closed and opened his eyes finding himself alone with Artemis once more, "so how have you been?"
"Good, the hunters and I have been busy, there has been a lot of monster activities lately, most go to join the Titans while the rest simply wish to kill and eat all demigods, like usual."
"I see….so anything exciting happen to you?"
"Exciting? Like what?"
"I don't know? Ah...meet any cool people? Did you travel? What do gods do anyway?"
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