Percy closed the notification box and quickly zoomed away, his job was done. Percy took very little time to get back to camp. He reached just after dinner was over, meaning everyone was now gathered around the camp hearth singing songs and being merry.
Percy reached the heart and stood at the side simply observing everyone. He quickly spotted Annabeth, Michael, Clarisse and Nina sitting together sharing stories with Thalia. Percy deactivated his helmet and put it away as he went up and sat next to Annabeth and his other friends.
"Your back," Michael said smiling, "did you bring us a souvenir?"
"Yeah here," Percy flipped the son of Apollo.
"Rude," Michael huffed.
"How's your mom Percy?" Nina asked.
"She's okay," Percy admitted, "I didn't get to spend much time with her. She was gone for a campus interview so I had to spend time with her neighbors, but it wasn't all that bad. The guy, his name was Rick Castle, had plenty of video games to pass the time."
"Richard Castle?!" Annabeth shrieked, "the Richard Castle?! Author of Derek Storm?!"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I think so."
"Percy that man is a God of murder mysteries!" Annabeth said with stars in her eyes, "oh Gods! I wanted to meet him since forever! I have all his books!"
"You can come with me next time if you want," Percy suggested, "he said to come over any time so.."
"-REALLY?!" Annabeth yelled out in happiness, "LET'S GO!"
"I don't think he meant right now Annabeth," Percy said claiming the girl down, "besides, I just went to New York. I'll take you some other time if you want."
"Promise?"
Percy nodded, "promise. Though it won't be any time soon," Percy said with a sigh, "I have something that needs to be taken care off first."
"You got another quest sea head?" Thalia asked surprised.
"No," Percy shook hi head, "it's more like a self imposed mission. I recently acquired a way to create a super powerful weapon from a friend-"
"-Do you mean that scroll you got from Odysseus?" Nina asked.
Percy nodded, "yup. Anyway so I am going to try and make a weapon for myself. That's one of the reason I went to New York, to get my hands on some of the materials needed for the foregoing."
"Percy why do I get the feeling you are about to do something stupid and dangerous?" Michael asked.
"Because he probably is," Clarisse said turning to Percy, "this is dangerous right? Because I find it hard to believe anything you do is not dangerous."
Percy sighed, "well I wouldn't say it's dangerous...."
"Do you need back up?" Thalia offered.
Percy shook his head, "no, not really. It's more of a solo thing, I don't think you guys can help."
"We can try," Annabeth shot back.
"Sigh, fine," Percy groaned, "you people are as stubborn as me."
"Yup," Michael agreed, "so when do we start?"
Percy rubbed his temples, "I was hoping tonight. The time needed for creating the weapon in unknown. It could be a few days, or weeks."
"Fine, when and where," Thalia asked.
"The Fist of Zeus, 11," Percy said and his friends nodded in agreement. Percy then turned to Nina, "oh and Nina could you do me a favour?"
Percy spent some more time with them before he went to his cabin and meet John inside. After telling his half-brother what he did for the day Percy changed his shirt and took a quick shower. The way he saved those people still filled Percy up with happiness. Maybe after all of this is over he should become a superhero or something. After all being a hero was what he was meant to be.
After the shower Percy sat down and took out the scroll of sword creation. He read and reread the spell Odysseus had written down, he didn't want any mistake for when actually did the spell.
After reading that paper more time than he could count, Percy took out Riptide and looked at the blade. For the spell to work he needed a piece of this and his crystal, meaning Percy had to find a way to break off a peice of both.
But as he knew first hand, breaking celestial bronze was next to impossible. The only time he ever say a celestial bronze weapon break was during the battle between himself and Luke. Percy had just found out that Luke was the lightning thief and he was angry. He used sheer force to attack Luke, so maybe the answer was that, shee force.
Percy opened his inventory and pulled out another celestial bronze blade of his, this one he got from Hephaestus forge in Boston. Percy then held Riptide with his left as he continuously brought down the other celestial bronze blade over and over on top of Riptide.
As Percy kept hitting the blade more and more of the ordinary celestial bronze blade broke off instead of Riptide. It seemed almost impossible to break off the piece of the legendary blade when suddenly Percy noticed a small crack near the tip of the blade.
The crack itself was strange, Percy had no idea how it got there. So far he had only hit Riptide in the middle, for a crack to appear near the tip....something else must have caused it. But Percy didn't know what, and he had never seen that crack before, he had literally spent the night before maintaining the blade and he didn't see one crack.
It was almost like the crack just appeared out of thin air.
Percy put away the other sword as he grabbed the tip of his blade and pressed down on it. Percy tried his best but the metal still held on strong. So Percy activated his Body Form;
Body Form Activated: Right arm
And he slowly felt the metal bend under his strength.
Crunk!
That was the sound of the tip being chipped off by Percy. The demigod held up the tip of his sword between his finger as he deactivated his strength. The sliver of metal wasn't much, one could hardly see the chip in the metal of Riptide unless they knew where to look.
Percy then put he sliver of metal and Riptide away;
Progress made!
Create your own weapon!
3— A peice of an item that you hold dear to your heart (Completed)!
'Guess that means I can't use more than one item for that creation,' Percy realised meaning his plans for also using a part of his crystal was scrapped as well. It was for the best, in all honesty he had no idea how he would even begin to cut a piece of the crystal out of his head.
Soon it was time and Percy snuck out of his cabin the moment John went to bed. Percy reached the Fist of Zeus and waiting on top of the rock structure. He didn't have to wait long because the rest of his friends soon joined him.
"Here you go Percy," Nina said as she handed Percy a big celestial bronze cauldron, "it was actually pretty easy to find. Surprisingly the art department has a lot of these."
Percy nodded taking the pit, "thanks Nina, this will help me a lot."
"So what exactly if the plan?" Michael asked.
"I do the spell and....well I don't know really. I think I just go into a trance or something."
"You sure about this sea brain?" Thalia asked.
Percy smiled, "is that concern I hear in your voice Thalia?"
The daughter of Zeus narrowed her eyes as Annabeth stepped up, "Percy are you sure about this?"
Percy nodded, "yup."
Lie successful!
Annabeth sighed, "okay then. What do we do?"
Percy say down on the stone structure with the bronze cauldron placed in front of him, "stand back, and watch."
The demigods all stood back as Percy opened his inventory and took out all he needed. He first took out his mom's blood and poured it into the cauldron. He then put in the shard of Riptide before taking out a small amount of his own blood using blood control. With that all done Percy opened up his inventory and pulled out the fang of Janai'ngo he pulled out of Mere;
Fang of Janai'ngo
A fang of the legendary monster of the deep. It's poisonous nature will bring death with the slightest touch.
Effect: causes -100 HP damage per minute.
Percy put the fang into the cauldron and then took out the final ingredient, the blood of Poseidon.
"Percy," Annabeth started, "is that ichor?"
Percy nodded as he took off the cork and poured the golden blood into the cauldron, "it's my dad's."
"You are using the blood of Poseidon?" Thalia asked surprised, "Percy....are you sure you want to do this?"
The son of Poseidon nodded as he looked deep into Thalia's eyes, "I have to. I need to be the best that I can be, and I can't be that if I continue to play it safe. I need to take risks."
"Fine," Thalia sighed, "stubborn brat."
Percy smiled and turned to cauldron. Only two more things remained to be done. Percy summon a fireball in both his hands and placed it below the cauldron heating it all up.
Slowly the blood started to boil as Percy began the spell;
[The light shines when darkness calls.
The power of one cause will always fall.
It is together that achievement is near at all.
The will of Green, the rage of Red, the fear of Yellow and the hope of Blue.
The love of Violet, the compassion of Indigo and the greed of orange shall lead me true.
Be it result in life or death, I make this pact.
And with the power of the universe, I enable this act.
I am Perseus Jackson, a pilgrim of Greece, I seek power to rule myself and protect what I believe.
I invoke the Will of the Gods and of man, guide me upon this journey towards my wayward land.]
Suddenly the blood started spinning clockwise as the fang of Janai'ngo slowly started to melt like candle wax. The shard of Riptide glowed bright blue but was soon covered by the blood and the remains of the melted fangs.
Percy's eyes started to glow green before they exploded into a white light. A wave of white energy exploded outwards forming a shield between Percy and the demigods around him.
"Percy!" Thalia shouted as she tried to punch the barrier only to be thrown back by the white power.
"Thalia!" Annabeth shouted moving to help her friend.
"We can't break through!" Clarisse shouted out as they simply stood there and watched Percy stare straight ahead.
Percy's body didn't move, his hands remained below the cauldron with the fire still going strong. The liquid in cauldron soon began to boil up as the fumes slowly moved up and into Percy's nose. The son of Poseidon took the fumes into himself as slowly everything faded to black.
100 Exp if you know who Castle and Becett are
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Also please leave a review and please do continue to read the story. And I have learnt my leasson. I make no promises as to when the next chapter will be released.
Chapter 36
Chapter 36:
Percy found himself looking out at nothing but darkness. He was floating in the middle of nothing, not a sound was heard, not a breeze was felt.
'Where am I?' Percy wondered as he looked ahead at the nothingness. Percy moved his arm freely, he couldn't even feel the air being pushed away, it was like his was floating in vacuum. 'But then how am I still alive?'
Percy's mind was calm, it was unthinking. His ADHD wasn't acting up, form the first time in his life Percy felt like he could sit still in one place and be at peace.
'I need to find a way out,' Percy realised as he kept looking around for an exit of some kind, but there was none.
'Where am I?' Percy wondered as he tried to push himself upwards, to no avail.
The emptiness was getting to him, the way everything just seemed to push at him was aching Percy sweat.
'I need to get out of here.'
Seconds passed. Percy looked around keeping his cool.
'I need to get out of here!'
Minutes passed. Percy's temper was getting to him. Panic grew and for some reason Gamer's mind wasn't activating.
'Status,' Percy thought, but nothing happened.
"Status!" Percy shouted out loud, but again the brown box failed to show up.
"STATUS!" Percy yelled again and again but nothing came. Soon hours went by, Percy realised that for the first time ever, his gaming powers did not work.
"How do I get out of here?!" Percy yelled out hoping someone would hear him.
"Is anyone there?!" Percy asked, "hello?!"
The darkness all around him started to pull at him. Percy could feel it trying to kill him as slowly more and more of his life force was drained away into the great nothing.
"STOP THIS!" Percy yelled out, he pushed back against the darkness. He pushed and pushed, but he could feel it grow.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Percy yelled out as he tried to use his mana to attack the darkness only to find that he had no mana. He was powerless. The darkness crawled onto Percy's legs, the demigod could no longer see his own legs.
"Get off of me!" Percy yelled as he turned to hit the darkness only to find nothing there. Whatever the darkness took ceased to exists. Slowly it started to move closer and close as now his knees disappears.
"I said, GET OFF OF ME!" Percy yelled out.
Suddenly the darkness vanished, replaced by a bright white light that threatened to blind Percy. The demigod closed his eyes and put his hands over his eyes. But eventually the light lessened in intensity and Percy looked at what had come to save him.
Floating in front of him was a white circle that was around 10 feet in diameter. The white lines of the circle moved like fire, Percy could feel unimaginable power pour out of it. Percy looked down and saw the darkness gone, his legs were back.
Percy stretched out a hand, he moved forward and slowly went towards the circle. Slowly an image appeared in the circle, the image of a spear.
'That must be my weapon,' Percy realised as he tried to grab the weapon. His hands burnt, it was like the light was burning away his very being. But Percy pushed and pushed and finally he wrapped his hands around the weapon.
A bright light flashed out, blinding him and pulled him through the white circle.
Thalia straightened up in surprise, "look!"
The demigods gathered around turned to what Thalia was pointing and saw that Percy's eyes, which were previous glowing white slowly change back to normal as the barrier around him disappeared.
Percy blinked away the temporary blindness. He found himself back in his own body surrounded by his friends.
"Guys?" Percy asked blinking away pain and exhaustion, "how long was I out?"
"A minute," Thalia said stepping up to support Percy, "take it slow."
"I'm fine," Percy muttered as he slowly got off the rock formation shaking his head, "just a bit shaken up."
"What happened back there Percy?" Michael asked, "you looked like you were in a trance or something."
"I think my mind was transported elsewhere," Percy stammered to get out, "I couldn't do anything. I have never felt so helpless in my life."
