"You're worried about the prophecy," Percy deducted, "aren't you?"
Thalia sighed, "no shit dumbass."
"Hey now no need for names, I'm just trying to help."
"Yeah, well stuff it," Thalia said, "it doesn't matter anyway, I'm supposed to save the fucking world and I can't even beat one stupid monster."
"You do realise it takes more than just strength to win a fight right?" Percy said as sat down next to Thalia, doing his best to ignore the way her skin glistened under the sun light. 'Damn, she smells like pine wood.'
"Yeah, but I still need to be powerful. I mean look at you, you're two years younger than me and yet you can probably kick my ass."
"Thalia don't tell me you're having an identity problem," Percy said smirking, "though I do admit I can kick your ass, repeatedly."
"You are worse than Luke," Thalia groaned.
"Hehe, true. But my point stands, there is more to being a demigod then strength. Thalia, a lot of great people became great not because they were the best at what they did, but because they never gave up. Heck if Thomas Edison gave up we would have had to wait for a couple of years before the light bulb was invented. If Mahatma Gandhi gave up India would have been under the British rule for probably another 50 years or so."
"So your advice is what? Never give up?" Thalia chuckled, "that is the cheesiest line I have ever heard."
"That might be," Percy admitted, "but it's true. And remember one thing Thalia," Percy looked into her electric blue eyes, "never give up. Ever. You have the entire camp by your side, you have Annabeth, Grover and me. Kronos doesn't stand a chance."
"Percy, the camp wouldn't follow me," Thalia admitted, "you're their leader. They would follow you, heck when I first meet you I hated you, but now I can't help but admit you are better than me in every single way. You should be the child of the prophecy, not me."
Percy got off the stone and patted his back, "maybe, maybe in some world I am, and you are still stuck in that tree. But right now, in this world, you are the child of the prophecy. You are the one who is supposed to lead us. And fine, the camp may not respect you like they do me, but if you want them to, then earn that respect. Earn that trust."
"Do you really think it's that easy?" Thalia asked with wonder and hope restored in her eyes.
"I do," Percy nodded, "because I believe in you."
"Why? You barely even know me," Thalia said.
"Because you gave your life for your friends. You died to protect them. And the barrier around camp, the one that is keeping all the monsters away, you made that. Zeus may have given the power, but Chiron told me that it was your love for your friends that gave it form. It is your love for them that protected us all. That, Thalia Grace, is why I believe in you."
Thalia looked at Percy in awe as tears started leaking from the corner of her eyes.
"Thalia are you okay? I'm sorry if I-"
"-oh shut up fish head," Thalia said wiping her tears and smiling brightly, "these are tears of joy."
Percy sighed in relief, "oh thank the Gods. I thought I did something stupid again."
"Not this time Jackson," Thalia said as she playfully punched Percy's shoulder, "although I may surprise, you give one hell of a motivational speech."
Percy grinned, "yeah, one of my many skills." 'Wait...it isn't a skill....don't tell me-'
Ping!
You have created a new skill!
Motivations speaking, Lv— 1 (50%)
Motivates other people around you.
20% chance of working provided the person isn't depressed or suffering from any other negative status effects.
Percy sighed and closed the box. Just then Thalia's stomach grumbled as the daughter of Zeus blushed in embarrassment.
"Damn, i forgot about lunch," she said smiling sheepishly, "do you think the Mess Hall would be open right now?"
"Probably not," Percy said causing Thalia to sigh in disappointment, "but I can do you one better."
Percy then opened his inventory and pulled out one of the many food items he had gotten from the Lotus Casino, a large cheese and bacon pizza.
"Woah! I didn't know you could store food!"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "you saw me store human beings but you thought I couldn't store food?"
Thalia shrugged, "the thought just never crossed my mind."
The Pizza still had the metal plate under it so Percy just put it besides Thalia, "dig in."
"Thank you Gods!" Thalia said as she began to dig into her food.
"Don't thank them, I'm the one you should be grateful to."
"Yea buft thez geav yoh youh powah soa e showa thaniw theam," thalia said with her mouth stuffed with pizza.
"Chew and swallow Thalia," Percy said.
The daughter of Zeus did such that and respoke, "I said, yeah, but they gave you your powers so I should thank them."
"Oh, then I'll just take the rest of this and you can ask the Gods for more," Percy said making way to the pizza.
"NO!" Thalia yelled out as she grabbed the pie, "please don't."
"Then who should you thank?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You, thank you Percy."
"Hehe, good sparky," Percy said with a smile, "well enjoy your meal, I'm off for some rest and relaxation."
Thalia groaned at Percy's retreating back and quickly sent a low powered zap of electricity pinching Percy's behind.
"Hey!" Percy yelle doubt turning around.
"Don't call me sparky!" Thalia yelled out as she grabbed the pizza with both hands and her jacket in her mouth, before running away like a madman.
Percy chuckled, 'she's kind of cute when she's angry.'
Percy shook his head and continued towards the beach and continued to grind away with his ID skills. He eventually reached the beach and went to his spot, which was sitting on top of a flat stone that served as a seat for Percy.
Percy was slowly slipping from one world to the next, but as he was doing that, he realised he had a lot of time in his hands. So he opened his inventory and took out the sword skill book he had gotten from the damned knight;
You have obtained the sword skill book!
Do you wish to learn?
YES/NO
Percy pressed yes;
Ping!
A skill has leveled up!
Ј Sword Mastery, Lv-16 (40%)
Allows user to freely handle swords.
80% more damage when using swords.
Ping!
Please select one of these attacks;
Angel's Strike,
A techniques that uses multiple blades as a source of attack. The user attacks with one blade and then abandons it, grabs another blade and strikes the opponent's again. This is done several times until the user runs out of blades.
Attack: [Number of attacks x Vit x Dex]% for each strike
Heavenly Ice Dragon,
A technique used to manage a large group of enemies. The user coats their blade with water and attacks. There are two major attacks,
Dragon's Fangs— if you draw blood from the emey a small part of the water from your blade travels in their blood and the user may chose when to freeze the water.
Dragon's Wings— a wide wave of ice sent sent out of the blade. This can be used to take out a large group of people easily.
Cost— 120 MP per use of all the water coated on the blade.
There was a dilemma here for Percy. Here was two perfectly good sword techniques, each was good on it's on, but Percy had to chose. And since he was most likely going to face an army he needed some kind of crowd control skill.
So Percy choose Heavenly Ice Dragon;
Are you sure you want, 'Heavenly Ice Dragon'?
Heavenly Ice Dragon,
A technique used to manage a large group of enemies. The user coats their blade with water and attacks. There are two major attacks,
Dragon's Fangs— if you draw blood from the emey a small part of the water from your blade travels in their blood and the user may chose when to freeze the water.
Dragon's Wings— a wide wave of ice sent sent out of the blade. This can be used to take out a large group of people easily.
Cost— 120 MP per use of all the water coated on the blade.
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes and the boxes disappeared as the knowledge of the technique entered Percy's mind. Percy sighed when it was over and then closed his inventory. He looked at his new watch and went through his checklist for more things to do.
Percy then noticed a reminder he set for himself;
Get your own blade made
'Oh yeah. The scroll Odysseus gave me,' Percy realised as he quickly opened his inventory and selected the scroll of sword creation. He took the scroll out and quickly opened it;
[To whoever finds this scroll return to Odysseus. Please.]
Percy blinked, it was written in ancient Greek but he could read it just fine. 'Did he give this to me by mistake or something?' Percy wondered as he continued;
[If you are still going to read it without returning it then I have only one thing to say to you: Fuck you asshole!]
Percy sighed, 'that does sound like the captain'
[But if you received this scroll from me then forget about the two lines above. Anyway aren't you lucky! If I give you this scroll it means I both trust you and think you are worthy to receive your own personal weapon! Now be warned to make your own weapon you will need a lot of things, mysterious and powerful things. You will have to go on a long and tiresome journey and you will be in grave danger at all times. Now the first thing you should understand it this, the weapon you make may not be a sword. This scroll will teach you how to make your personal weapon, but it may not come out as a sword. Heck it would be a bow and arrow for all you know. Anyway, let's get started. This is what you are going to need to begin;
1— A piece of the monster powerful enemy you have ever defeated
2— The blood of the person/persons you care about the most
3— A peice of an item that you hold dear to your heart
4— A drop of your blood
With these three combined you may begin your first steps to forming your perfect weapon. After you have gathered these three things take a cauldron made out of celestial bronze and put all tree inside it and light a fire below it. Breath in the fumes while reciting the spell written below to begin the process of forming your weapon. NOTE: Be in a safe place when doing this, you will be knocked out for a long time, so remember to tell people you trust what you are doing. Be warned starting the process will result in you going on a journey of self discovery, and not the fun kind. You will face your deepest fear and your words will be your weapon for that battle. I myself have only ever completed 3/9th of the journey and though my blade was powerful, I have failed to form my most powerful weapon (please don't tell anyone that, I would loose all my street credit.) Now go, and may the Gods be with you.]
Percy looked down and saw a huge spell in greek written out below. He needed to do a lot of work to make this happen, but if 9,000 Attack was just 3/9th of what Percy could gain as a weapon he should atleast try.
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Create your own weapon!
1— A piece of the monster powerful enemy you have ever defeated (Completed)
2— The blood of the person/persons you care about the most (Not completed)
3— A peice of an item that you hold dear to your heart (Not completed)
4— A drop of your blood (Not completed)
Reward;
One new weapon!
+100,000 Exp!
?
?
Failure,
Death
YES/NO?
Percy sighed, 'why is it always death?' He pressed the yes button and the box evaporated. Percy then put the scroll away as he began to think about what he could make or do with this.
He already had his own blood. He could just ask his mom for her's..... Maybe he should also ask his dad for some, after all the scroll did say he could use several people's blood.
A piece of an item that held dear to his heart.....maybe he could shave a piece of Riptide, after all it was the one item in the world that kept saving his ass time and time again. But then again the crystal currently inside his skull also saved him again and again, plus the people inside was close to Percy's heart, he did care for them in a way.
But then came the last item he needed, a piece of Percy's most dangerous enemy he had ever defeated. The answer came quickly, Janai'ngo, and Percy even had a fang of his from the time he attacked Mera. So that was done.
All Percy had to do now was get his dad and mom's blood and he was done! Percy smiled, he could Iris message his dad and asked him to come over, after all the God hadn't seen John yet. He could then leave for his mom's place tomorrow and be back in camp in time for dinner.
Percy smiled and finally stopped spamming his ID skill, he couldn't use the Iris messaging system if he continually went between dimensions.
Percy formed a mist using his powers and used the Iris chant to place a call to his dad. The tone rang out for a while before the rainbow cleared up revealing Poseidon sitting in his underwater throne.
"Percy? What a surprise?! To what do I owe this unexpected call?"
"Hey dad," Percy said with a smile, "I just wanted to call and check up."
"Really? You don't need some help or anything? Haven't saved one of your nieces recently?"
"Ha-ha, very funny, but seriously I just want to talk. We haven't in some time, I was hoping you could make a personal visit."
"Personal visit?" Poseidon asked with a raised eyebrow, "whatever for?"
"You know about John right? What am I saying of course you do, you claimed him."
Poseidon nodded, "yes, I am aware that John is alive, and form what I understand that's thanks to you."
Percy nodded, "I just did a little. But anyway dad you really haven't meet him, and thought he is coping with the whole, demigod out of time thing, he could still use a visit from his dad."
Poseidon smiled, "you're right Percy. I'm sorry I haven't been there sooner, I have just had my hands full preparing for war with Kronos. I can feel something stirring in the darkness, something evil, I have kept watch these past few weeks but nothing. I suppose I could make time to see John, he deserves that at least."
Percy smiled and nodded, "right. Oh and before you go how's Mera? Is she better?"
Poseidon sighed as his smile dropped, "the girl is.....trying. She has been obsessed with power recently, she had been swallowing every magical spell she could get her hands onto. I think the incident changed her, she needs to feel powerful, only then would she feel safe."
Percy nodded, "you know is she's having problem in Atlantis she could always come here. We are basically training every single day, she would fit right in."
Poseidon's smile returned, "you know what, that's a great idea! And I'm sure she would love to see you again! Plus you did say you needed a tutor for learning more about your control over water, I don't know anyone better than Mera!"
