"I could have killed you any time I wanted to," the Agent turned around and took out a briefcase from the seat next to him and placed it in front of Percy.
"If you didn't have this collar you wouldn't be saying that," Percy grumbled out as the Agent opened the suitcase revealing a screen inside with a strange logo displayed. It was a triangle with a skull in the center with a crown on top of it. On each corner of the triangle was a letter I, C and A.
"Your powers are great, but you have no proper training and lack the skill," the Hitman said activating the screen which changed to an image of a man in a silhouette.
"Hell Mr. Jackson," the shadowed man said in a muffled voice, "I am so glad The Agent was able to bring you in."
Percy looked at the screen and then at the Agent, "why am I here?"
"Because we wanted you here," the man said.
"So wait, you went through all this trouble, you killed Don Fanico, targeted Edward and the heads of Abyss, just so that you can get your hands on me?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You underestimate your worth Mr. Jackson," the shadowy man replied, "and who said you were our only objective? The Agent had a mission, we knew he couldn't complete it with you around, so we decided to cut our losses. Luckily we managed to get you as bonus."
Percy narrowed his eyes, "so what do you want?"
"To offer you a position in our ranks," the man said surprising Percy.
"Why do you want me to join you?"
"Any person who managed to kill Kishin Argo is worthy of our attention," the man replied surprising Percy.
"How do you know that?" Percy narrowed his eyes.
"We have contacts everywhere," the man replied, "in this case it was Argo's assistant, Mr. Jake Haro that provided us with the information. Once we knew what you looked like all it took was a little digging and we knew who you were."
Percy looked down, "I assume you made this collar off the information Argo collected about my powers?"
The man nodded, "yes, with a few modifications of our own. We are very much aware of your ice powers and your speed. That along with disrupting your mana leaves your virtually powerless."
Percy calmed down, 'so no mana, no Kefka crystal and no speed.' Percy was in panic mode before but now he could finally think. Suddenly an idea came to him, 'Idiots.'
Percy nodded, "this is very impressive. You people must have been tracking my movement and powers for some time now."
The man nodded, "yes, we have. Information is what we are good at."
Percy smiled, "but you forgot one thing." The Agent and the man were surprised by the smile and Percy immediately activated his seals removing 3 of them;
Seal Release: Layer 3, Time: 20 hours.
STR— 72 (+20)= 92
Feeling his strength flow through his body Percy flexed his arms and broke the zip lock holding his arms back. He reached up to the collar around his neck and crushed it with a tight squeeze.
The Agent took out his guns and fired. But by that time Percy's powers had activated already causing him to regain every single one of his powers, including marble skin.
Defence— 296,175,500
The bullets took off only 500 defence points. Percy took the bullets head on, they barely bothered him. He punched the Agent in the stomach sending Agent 46 into the boat's control and before the assassin could get back up Percy was already on top of him.
Percy drew back an arm and launched it right into the man's face plowing through it and into the controls below. Percy took out his arm, it was covered with blood and brain matter. The man was a killer for hire and a murderer. But worst of all he had hurt Thalia, he didn't deserve any mercy from Percy.
Exp Gained: 60,000
The body of Agent 46 disappeared into nothing leaving behind Loot in the form of two fully loaded silver guns with a black grip and spare clips, 200,000 $ and a scroll of stealth.
Percy took the guns and scroll and put them away for later. Percy then turned to the computer in the briefcase, the screen was not facing Percy, meaning the man didn't see what just happened. 'Good, last thing I need is someone I don't know finding about my gaming powers.'
Percy used blood control to remove the gore off of his hand, he then sat down in front of the laptop and reactivated his strength seals, "so....are we done?"
"How did you do that?"
"You have your secrets, I have mine."
"Indeed.....is he dead?"
"No."
Lie success!
"Why didn't you kill him?"
"I have my reasons."
The man remained silent for a long time, and Percy mimicked him. It felt like hours had passed by before the mysterious figure spoke up, "we will find him."
"You can try."
"Join us Mr. Jackson. We need people like you. People who are willing to make this world a better place."
"No thanks, I don't want to be part of an assassin's guild," Percy smiled, "stealth is not my style."
"We can offer you our help in exchange for your....services."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "what type of help?"
"We can help you fight Kronos," the man replied back.
"Yeah, sure you would," Percy rolled his eyes, "I'm sure a group of assassins will be very useful against the Titan of time."
"We would be, we are very good at what we do."
Percy smiled, "I just killed your top assassin. How would anyone else do any better?"
"We never said he was out top assassin." Percy narrowed his eyes, "he was sloppy, he was noticable. The Agent was exceptional, but he was also famous. The most well known assassins are also the worst."
"So you're telling me that you have someone better than Agent 46?"
The man in the shadows was startled, "I don't know how you know that name......but yes. We do have someone better."
Percy looked at the man and remained silent for a long time. He thought it over, 'could I really join up with these guys? If we could have them assassinate Kronos and the others...no, of course they can't. They are just desperate.'
"Sorry bud, no deal," Percy finally said.
"But-" Percy didn't let the man finish. He grabbed the laptop and threw it overboard into the water.
"Damn that guy was talkative," Percy then controlled the water around him to turn the boat around and take him back into the city.
Once he reached the docks Percy got off the boat and took off at full speed. He reached 'The Writer's Den' in minutes and saw that there were cops outside setting up a perimeter. Percy looked at the cops and recognized Kate Beckett in the crowd.
Percy didn't know how he should feel about the woman, technically he lived with her for a week. She was a kind person and very good at her job. Hell she even figured out that Percy's mom's 'death' had been done by a wild animal.
But now is not the time for a reunion, Percy couldn't let himself be seen. Percy snuck around and finally spotted Edward by an ambulance pacing around.
"Ed!" Percy called out drawing his attention.
"Percy? Oh thank the Gods!" Edward rushed Percy giving him a hug, "we thought you were dead."
I'm fine, where's Thalia?" Percy asked looking around frantically for the girl.
"She's fine, we got her in a stable condition," Edward explained. Just then;
Ping!
Quest completed!
Saving Edward Neak. Don't let him die.
Reward,
Skill disk— 10
10 points
Abyss card
Percy had received the Abyss card already, from Joseph. So instead a golden disk spread out of thin air in front of Percy. Edward looked surprised but didn't say anything as Percy put the disk away for later.
Percy turned to Ed, "did you get it?"
Ed nodded, "since technically I was the last one to bid for it I won."
Percy nodded, "good. Now, take me to Thalia."
"Right, follow me," Edward took Percy into the ambulance he was standing in front of.
Inside was Thalia on a gurney with an oxygen mask on her with Michael next to her using his healing powers to keep her stable.
"Michael, is she okay?" Percy asked stepping into the ambulance.
"Percy? Thank the gods, yeah, she's fine," Michael said looking down at the daughter of Zeus, "I managed to get her stable, they were planning to take her to the hospital, but with you here we don't have to."
Percy nodded, "right," he turned to Ed, "we have to go Ed. I took care of the assassin, you and the others should be safe."
Edward nodded, "right, you guys go ahead. I'll call you when I have completed the scent destroyer."
Percy nodded. Michael gave Percy back Riptide before the son of Poseidon opened his inventory and put Michael inside. He then moved to Thalia, carefully lifting the girl and putting her inside the inventory as well.
Percy then switched shoes, from the nice leather ones of his suit to the Fric shoes he used for running.
He took off a near mach 1 reaching the camp in minutes. He ran into the Big House and up to the Med Bay.
He opened his inventory and took out Micheal first. He then went to a bed and carefully took out Thalia setting her down on it.
"The assassin's blade was poisoned," Michael said looking through his shelf for medicines, "it's a the degrading kind, cure her of the poison and I'll get something to improve her vitals."
Percy nodded and immediately pressed his hand to her side activating his healing skill. The room glowed with a hue of gold as Percy destroyed the poisoned alliment she had.
Michael then stepped forward with a vial of green liquid that he carefully poured down Thalia's throat. Thalia started to cough out loud, Percy held her hand tightly as slowly she began to swallow more and more of the medicine.
"Is she going to be alright?" Percy as asked holding onto her hand in worry.
"She'd be fine, the danger has passed," Michael assured him, "what happened with the assassin?"
"I'll tell you later," Percy told him, "can you get me a chair Michael?"
"You know you don't have to stay by her side right?" Michael told Percy as he put a chair next to Thalia's bed.
"I know.... I want to," Percy told him.
"Right... you stay here, I'll go tell Chiron what happened."
Percy nodded and the son of Apollo left leaving Percy and Thalia alone.
That moment still was fresh on Percy's mind. The way Agent 46 stabbed Thalia...it felt like Percy's heart was going to stop. It was his anger that helped him overcome his shock and move to attack the assassin. If he didn't.... He was afraid to think what the man would have done.
Percy looked at the girl, her nose was twisted the wrong way, it was still broken from the attack. Percy cursed the dead assassin again, that man almost took away someone Percy cared about.
Percy pressed a hand on Thalia's face and healed her broken nose in a flash of light. Percy smiled and slowly Thalia's eyes started to flutter open.
"P-Percy?"
"I'm here Thalia," Percy said looking over her with a smile, "you're okay. You're going to be fine."
"Where...where are we?" she tried to get up but Percy stopped her.
"You are back in camp, and stay down. You were poisoned, you might be weak from the after effects."
"I....remember....what happened to the assassin?"
"I took care of him."
"What did you do?"
Percy narrowed his eyes, "I... I put a fist through his skull."
"Percy you shouldn't have-"
"He nearly killed you Thalia," Percy snapped back, "I was weakened, and I couldn't stop him. And because of that he nearly killed you." Percy lowered his head, the shame, the guilt, Thalia could hear it in his voice.
"Percy...I'm fine, look at me," Thalia said raising his head up with a hand, "I'm fine."
Percy nodded, "yeah. I know."
Thalia smiled, "you know.. While I was knocked out I had the strangest dreams."
Percy smiled, "really? What kind?"
"It was the same dream as before. You know, the one about somebody kissing me."
Percy was scared again. He didn't want her to find out. But after nearly losing her completely....thing's didn't seem that bad.
"So what happened in this dream?" Percy asked, finally confronting his worries.
"You were there," Thalia smiled, "you brought me back to my bed and tucked me in. And then... and then I kissed you."
Percy smiled, "was it a good kiss?"
Thalia blushed, "it was my first kiss."
Percy chuckled nervously, "I hope I rocked your world."
"You did," Thalia's blush grew bigger, "so...is that why you were avoiding me? Because I kissed you?"
"It's not that it's....yeah. I... I didn't really know how to react."
Thalia looked down, "oh, right." Percy could hear the disappointment in her tone. She paused for a second, "well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to freak you out. I realise I took advantage of our friendship and I was drunk. I know that's not an excuse and I don't want us to not be friends any more, I-"
"-Oh shut up," Percy said throwing away and his fears and doubts. He threw caution to the wind as he bent over Thalia and pressed his lips against hers
"Hmm!" Thalia mumbled in surprise. Percy pressed his lips up against hers and slowly deepened it. The daughter of Zeus slowly let her instincts take over as she wrapped her hands around Percy's neck.
Percy was pulled on top of Thalia as he supported himself with one hand using the other to hold her head as he kissed her over and over again.
They stopped after what felt like hours. Thalia looked into his eyes, "what the Hades was that?"
"I have no idea.....but I liked it," Percy said as Thalia pulled him down to kiss him again. They were all over each other as they both finally gave into their desires. Percy made sure to not put too much weight on Thalia, she was still hurt, but the demigoddess kept pulling him closer by wrapping her arms around him.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!" someone yelled out.
Percy and Thalia stopped making out and slowly looked behind them to see Annabeth standing there with her mouth wide open.
"Ah....we can totally explain" Thalia said. Annabeth didn't move or say anything.
"Ah, I think we broke her," Percy replied as the two stared at their paralyzed friend.
Status:
Percy Jackson
Health— 11,550/11,550 (+1000) = 12,550
Mana— 6,500/6,500 (+1000) = 7,500 (+20% more mana, +1,500) = 9,000
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-42 Exp— 91,860/117,000
Race-Demigod
STR-100(+20)=120 (Multiseal — 6— 1.5(+20)=21.5)
VIT-100(+10+20)=130
DEX-50(+10+20)=80
INT-100
WIS-53
LUC-100
POINTS— 129
MONEY— 688,043$/ 556D
Okay here you all go. 3 chapters in 3 days. I hope you are all happy. And yes, this chapter was kind of out there, but I reeeeealy wanted to do it.
I can honestly say I am exaushted right now. Sigh, anyway, see you next chapter.
