"Because it involves demigods," Hades said simply causing Percy to get startled, "ah, look's like I have your attention now."
Percy narrowed his eyes, "how does your quest involve demigods?"
"I will give you the location of two demigods, I want you to locate them and bring them back to camp, unharmed."
"Where are they?"
"They are located in a place called the Lotus casino in Las Vegas, you will have no trouble finding the place I assure you."
"And why are these demigods so special?"
Hades rolled his eyes, "come now Jackson I'm sure you have guessed it by now. Their names are Bianca and Nico di Angelo, and they are my children."
Okay I'll be honest, I got around 20 writers blocks writing this chapter, as you guys know I hate writing canon stuff, I enjoy doing my own thing.
In this chapter I wanted to focus on Percy finding about the prophecy and being pissed, but then Thalia came back alive and that just all went to shit.
Hope you enjoyed the Pertemis though, i did like writing that part.
Anyway, yay Nico is coming!
Note 1: I want to do a crossover with Percy being sent to another world for a quest, please leave reviews telling me wether you want that or not. It will be just him going through diffrent worlds learning diffrent things.
Note 2: VERY IMPORTANT I WILL NOT BE WRITING ANY NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE NEXT MONTH, I HAVE EXAMS TO PREAPRE FOR AND WRITE. Hence why I spent this week giving you all chapters left and right.
Note 3: Next chapter will be on 8th May
Bye Bye
Chapter 33
Chapter 33:
"You have kids?" Percy looked surprised before letting out a depressed sigh, "why aren't I surprised? So basically everyone of the 'Eldest Gods' broke your oaths and had children, sigh, Greeks."
"No, for your information I didn't break my oath," Hades said in a better than you tone, "I was the only one who kept true to my word."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? Because unless your kids are 60 years old or something there's no way you didn't break your oath."
Hades shook his head, "no, they are still children, but they were born before the oath was even made."
Percy sighed again, "I feel like you want me to ask you how that's possible, but if I do that you are probably not going to shut up, so I don't want to do that."
Hades narrowed his eyes, "you are as rude as your father."
"Thanks, it runs in the family uncle."
Hades glared at Percy, "my children were born before world war 2, I knew they were in danger, Zeus had already killed their mother to try and get to me. I had to protect them. I sent them to the Lotus Hotel and Casino, which is a place that dilutes time making people feel time has nearly stopped when it reality days if not years has passed. I did this to protect them from everything, the war, Zeus and even Poseidon."
"I doubt my dad is capable of killing children Hades."
"You have no idea what my brother is capable of nephew," Hades said with narrowed eyes, "your father may seem like the perfect god to you, but to others he is a monster. I have seen him destroy lives Jackson, I know what he truly is like."
Percy narrowed his eyes, "that may be but that is the past. People change, I know my dad isn't the same man."
"People change, God's don't."
"Look let's just get to the point, you want me to save your kids, why? The have been safe for so long, you could have released them any time you want. But right now Kronos is back and we a in the brink of war, why risk your kids lives?"
Hades remained silent before answering, "because before Zeus would have killed them without a second thought, but now he is more.....tame. He doesn't try and kill you every day, though you give him plenty of reason to," Percy flipped off the God, "and right now I believe Olympus needs all the powerful demigods it can get. Or am I wrong?"
Percy nodded, "you're right. We need help. And you also sound like a caring father, if I didn't think you were full of it," Hades remained quite as Percy continued, "I think you are throwing your hat in to try and snatch the prophecy. Plus you have two kids, twice the chance of you winning. You don't look at them like your children, you only see them as w-"
"Don't you dare complete that line Jackson!" Hades roared.
Percy narrowed his eyes as he threw the words out, "as weapons."
"How dare you! I care for my children more than anything else! I was heartbroken when their mother died and I did everything I could to exact my revenge! I protected them! I wanted to be with them always but kept my distance because I knew that if I tried to stay with them I would put them in danger, again! And you say that I treat them like tools?!"
Percy remained silent, he processed all that information and suddenly something came up. It was a memory of a long time ago, the first time he saw the mummified oracle.
Percy's eyebrows shot open, "you cursed the oracle of Delphi because Zeus killed your lover," Percy remembered what his Observation powers had told him about the mummy, and when you're next to a rotting corpse that talked information like that tended to stick out.
Hades nodded, "yes, I did. I don't know how you know that, but yes I cursed her. She will never again find another host unless my children are released from the Great Prophecy, and the only way to do that is to fulfill it."
"Is it possible for you to lift the curse? It's kind of creepy to keep talking to a mummy."
Hades shook his head, "no, my curse is set and it's been active for too long. It would take too much energy to destroy it."
Percy sighed, "fine, I'll help them. But you owe me one Hades."
Ping!
Quest alert!
Find and bring back Nico and Bianca di Angelo
Reward,
5,000 Exp
50 D
+1 level in Shadow control
Failure,
Kronos gets the children
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes, it wasn't much in the case of a reward but the failure option made it so that Percy had to do it.
Hades and the black mirror disappeared leaving Percy once again alone. The son of Poseidon turned and walked to the Big House as fast as he could, he still needed to check up on Annabeth.
Percy entered the Med Bay and saw Annabeth sitting next to a still unconscious Thalia.
"She still hasn't woken up?" Percy asked surprising Annabeth.
"Oh, it's you Percy. No, she hasn't woken up yet. What are you doing here?"
"I came to make sure nothing happened to her, or you," Percy said looking at Annabeth. The demigoddess looked bad, her eyes were red with bags under them. Percy felt guilty just knowing he was the cause of that.
"Look Percy I am sorry that I didn't tell you, I just-"
"I get it," Percy interrupted her, "I know Annabeth, and I was mad, but I realised you just did what you thought was right. I get it," Percy smiled, "friends?"
Annabeth smiled sadly, "I don't get how you can just forgive me like that."
"'Like that?' Didn't you see the big temper tantrum I threw? It was worse then how Michael gets when we make fun of him with Clarisse," Percy joked causing Annabeth to laugh.
"Yeah, those two should totally get a room," she said, "again, I'm sorry."
Percy patted her on the head, "forget about it Annabeth, besides I said 'friends' and did the whole forgiving thing. Move on already."
Annabeth chuckled, "you are such a seaweed brain."
"You know it," Percy turned to Thalia, "think she might wake up soon?"
"I guess," Annabeth said yawning, "but I'm not sure when."
"Why don't you get some rest," Percy said pointing to the empty bed next to them, "I'll stay and watch her. I promise to wake you up if anything happens."
"No Percy's it's okay I, YAWN."
"I think your body just spoke for you," Percy said pushing Annabeth off the chair and to the bed, "now sleep."
"Can you even stay awake all night? You did it last night I don't want to be stressing you out or anything."
"Relax, I slept in the afternoon, besides I don't need much sleep anyway," Percy smiled as he threw a blanket on Annabeth, "now sleep."
Annabeth smiled and soon she was off to her dream land. Percy sat back in the chair over Thalia's bed and began his watch. He didn't really mind, after all he didn't really need sleep. Plus now he could look at two cute girls sleep.
....
'Okay where did that come from?!' Percy yelled at himself, 'I sound like a fucking stalker!'
Percy looked at Thalia again and he couldn't help but note how long and slender her legs were. Those things could go on for miles! And her hips, god they were so thick and plump, just made him want to—
'HOLD THE FUCK UP!' Percy yelled out as he shut his eyes slamming down his Gamer's mind to drive stray thought out of his head, 'what the hell is happening to me?!'
Percy opened his eyes a bit and immediately they went to Thalia's large firm breasts before Percy shut them close again.
'Okay think Percy think! What happened to you? Why are you acting this way?! You have never even checked out a girl before?! Well there was that time with Marchasis, and Persephone, but those times they were practically naked, it would have been rude not to look! And Artemis was kind of literally on me...wait! That's it!'
Percy quickly his status and looked at his new one;
Puberty— This status will last for the next three years and will cause;
Hair growth in— face, armpits, limbs and genital area
Voice cracking up
Increase in the size of your genitals
Your emotions will get out of hand
You will have a sexual awaking
Prone to be dressed or hyperactive
You will grow taller
You will care more about your appearance
'SEXUAL AWAKENING?!' Percy's eyes threatened to pop out of their sockets when the demigod read that.
'Is that why I'm checking Thalia out?! Then why haven't I checked out anyone else?!' Percy turned to look at Annabeth, now that she was asleep she looked so calm. One could imagine what was under that sheet. Percy could just see the hint of her chest underneath and her toned stomach was clearly visible. Why hadn't he realised how hot she was?
'No!' Percy yelled out slapping himself, 'bad Percy! You are not allowed to check out your hot friends!'
He pushed down Gamer's mind and slowly he could feel the awkward sexual feelings slowly slip away. Percy needed a distraction, something, anything to get his attention away from the two hot girls in front of him.
Percy opened up his inventory and looked through the books he got from Argo. He immediately took out around 15 books or so and began reading them at normal speed in order for them to last longer.
By the time the sun came up Percy had read three books about Roman history earning his that skill;
Roman history— Lv-8 — A basic understanding towards Roman history. Slightly above common knowledge
Percy figured the only reason he got such a high level starting off was because Roman myths were basically a rip off of Greek Myth, which he was a level 15 at.
He also got one more level in physics by reading another book about the forces of nature;
Physics— Lv— 3— Basic concepts of physical science.
Of course he didn't understand anything he read, but it somehow still counted. Percy also read three books describing advanced quantum mechanics but those didn't level his skill up or give him the option to fast learn due to his low level in physics.
There were around 7 books on geography which Argo seemed to have used to try and find temples in Greece. This gave Percy a new skill all together;
Maps, Lv— X
The skill tell you how well you know certain areas;
America — 0.9%
Greece— 50%
The maps were very detailed and Argo even had notes in the side about things that weren't even mentioned in the books.
The last book however wasn't actually a text of any kind. It was a novel by George Orwell called 1984. It was a very interesting book to read for Percy, it was one of the few books he ever read for fun.
It's story was about a future where the government monitors everything, even emotions. It kind of reminded Percy about that Christian Bale movie, Equilibrium. Guess the movie was based on the book.
The book featured a man, Winston Smith, who was a thought criminal, meaning he had his own independent thoughts, something the big brother government he lived under hated. He spent his entire life hiding who he was, what he was. He repressed his sexual urges and desires to rebel until eventually he fell in love with a woman named Julia.
Together they both defied the government and had sex for the sake of sex, which again was not something the government allowed as sex was only supposed to be done to reproduce. Yeah, the government was a dick.
Eventually though Winston and Julia got caught, they were tortured, Julia was lobotomized and Winston was to be put to death. In the end the story ended in a sober note, something Percy felt connected with. It must have been the Greek in him, after all the Greeks did love them some tragedy.
While reading the book Percy related Winston's problems with his own, except they were complete opposites. Winston wanted to show off his sexuality, he wanted to be with the woman he loved, but couldn't. Here Percy wanted to not be inappropriate and control his urges, he wanted to make sure that he was always in control.
But if he didn't react to these urges Percy might end up like Winston, and believe me you do not want to be like that man, ever.
So an answer came to Percy, balance. Percy needed to both control and explore this new emotion he was feeling. He shouldn't hide it like Winston did, nor should he become a total pervert like a certain rich son of Hermes he knew who lived in Boston.
Ping!
+1 to Wis!
Percy blinked, he didn't expect that. Guess reading interpreting and applying books increases wisdom. Percy closed the book and put it away just as Annabeth was stirring.
"Percy?" Annabeth grumbled out as she rubbed her eyes.
"Hey Annabeth," Percy smiled as his eyes went to the girl's breasts before Percy regained control and looked at her sleep filled eyes, "nice nap?"
"Yeah, did you stay up all night?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, Thalia hasn't said a word."
"I see," Annabeth said getting up, "you know you should probably go back to your cabin and get some shut eye as well. I'll take over now."
Percy nodded, "right, well about that. I've been meaning to talk to you about something."
Annabeth looked cautious, "what's this about?"
"Last night, before I came back, I meet up with Hades," Percy said as he began to explain everything that happened between them to Annabeth.
"Wow," Annabeth said as her eyes sparkled with the new information Percy just dumped on her, "so there's a place that will basically make you live in a form of stasis?! It's like your storage dimension only bigger!"
