"Why not?" Thalia asked, "you set them up."
"You will find Ms. Grace that there are some somethings only a demigod can do," Poseidon said, "the ancient laws are clear on this matter. We cannot interfere more than simply sending a message of notice."
Percy and Thalia shared a look and they knew what the other was thinking, 'lazy Gods.'
"So where is camp Jupiter?" Percy asked.
"San Francisco," Hermes spoke up for the first time.
Percy's eyes shot open, "what?!"
"I said it's in San Francisco-"
"-They are positioned right next to Mount Othrys?!" Percy asked allowed.
The God's looked suspicious. Zeus narrowed his eyes, "how do you know that Perseus?"
'Because I committed suicide there during the trials of the Entities,' Percy wanted to say, but instead, "I remembered Luke saying something about Mount Othrys being reformed above mount Tamalpais. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what he meant."
Zeus leaned back, he appeared satisfied with the answer, "well...yes. We placed camp Jupiter there because we needed to keep Mount Othrys in check. If it ever reformed we need the Romans to destroy it."
Thalia nodded, "okay. San Francisco. Got it. Let's go Percy."
The child of Poseidon nodded as he opened his inventory. Just then Hermes spoke up, "wait. I think it would be best if you two started in the morning."
Thalia glared at the God, "why?"
"Ah-,well the Romans are already a suspicious lot. It's best if you two didn't suddenly drop in in the middle of the night or something."
Thalia reluctantly sighed, "okay. Fine. But we are leaving first thing tomorrow morning."
The Gods dismissed them and Artemis took them back to camp. Percy tired to talk to her again, but she left before he could get a word in.
"I don't think I can sleep tonight," Thalia sighed, "I can't believe it. Jason. Alive."
Percy smiled, "I'm happy for you," he sat down on the Fist of Zeus as Thalia sat down next to him.
Thalia smiled back, "yeah....what's up with you and Artemis anyway?"
"What do you mean?"
"She's totally in love with you."
"W-what?!"
"Yeah. Why else do you think she got pissed seeing us two kiss?"
"N-no way! She's just a friend!"
Thalia raised an eyebrow, "really?"
"Yes, really. And if you must know I am one of the few friends she has. And she was pissed because now that I have you as my girlfriend she thought I wouldn't want to be friends with her anymore."
"That's stupid, why would she think that?"
Percy shrugged, "I have no idea. I don't really think she has the best personal experience with guys."
Thalia nodded in agreement before a smile broke out, "so...I'm your girlfriend huh?"
Percy blushed. He didn't realised what he had just said. "Ah, well yeah. I mean I realise we haven't really defined the relationship and all but-"
Thalia pushed Percy down on his back again as she climbed ontop of him, "-Percy?"
Percy felt himself lost in those amazing eyes again. "Yeah?"
"Ask me properly."
"T-Thalia, would you-"
"-No. No stammering. Come on, I've seen you fight monsters and international assassins just this week. Where's that courage of yours?"
Percy was getting more and more nervous. Finally he slammed down Gamer's mind and felt the nerves being crushed away. Percy opened his eyes and steadied his breath, "Thalia, would you be my girlfriend?"
Thalia smiled as she kissed him deeply. Percy ran one hand through her hair while the other found it's place at her hip. A fire burned inside Percy, it filled him up in ways he had never known. He had been alone before, never had anyone he could call his own by choice. But now he did. And he was happy.
They stayed like that through the night underneath the stars. The world was dead to them. All they saw was each other.
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Chapter 40
Chapter 40:
The sun was slowly rising as its first rays hit Percy's face. The demigod had spent the entire night on top of the Fist of Zeus, and it was not a comfortable thing to experience. It was after all just a pile of rocks stacked together. But there was one reason Percy didn't move away or even sleep in her own place. And that reason was currently sleeping on top of him.
Thalia and him had spent the better part of the night making out ontop of the rocky structure. She was excited and a pretty good kisser. The rocks were painful and uncomfortable, but Percy was distracted enough to ignore all that. In the end he had gained three more levels in the kissing skill;
Kissing, Lv— 12 (5%)
It is what it is. The higher level you are the better kisser you are. And remember practise makes perfect.
Your level is kissing leaved the person feeling happy for the six hours
5% chance of turning them on.
The last part was new for Percy, but it kind of made sense. After the intense make out session Thalia had laid down on Percy's chest and fallen asleep. The son of Poseidon wanted to do the same, but for some reason couldn't bring himself from looking away from Thalia.
She made him feel happy just be being there. He had spent the night mostly looking at the stars or at her. Sleep hadn't come for him, but Percy wasn't to bothered, thank you Gamer's mind. Time seemed to flow past quickly as Percy spent the night thinking about the future and his role in all of this.
Was he a hero? Well he did save people constantly so yeah, he was. Was he a leader? The camp did look up to him, so yes, he was. But most of all Percy saw himself as one thing, and one thing only, himself. Despite all the titles he held, official and unofficial, he was still himself. And the only thing he should be doing is whatever the hell he wants. And right now he wanted to be there for Thalia.
Percy gentle shock her, "Thalia. Wake up."
The daughter of Zeus grumbled, "five more minutes."
Percy smiled, "you better wake up or I'm going to make you."
"Fuck off."
"You asked for it," Percy smiled as he summoned a blob of water over Thalia's head and then let it loose drenching her head to toe.
"AH!" Thalia shrieked as she quickly got up, "PERCY JACKSON!"
Percy threw his head up and laughed hard falling off the stone structure and hitting the ground. He rolled on the ground holding his stomach in pain as Thalia growled angrily at him.
"You asked for this!" Thalia shouted as she sent a blast of lighting right at Percy shocking him.
Defence— 296,376,730
"Damn that stung," Percy laughed as he got up. He snapped his fingers drying Thalia off in a second.
Thalia huffed looking down to make sure she was fully dry, "asshole."
Percy smirked, "hey it's not my fault. You didn't want to wake up."
Thalia gave a similar smirk, "or maybe it's because pouring water on me is the only way for you to get me wet."
Percy blushed, 'really? You want to go there? Well two can play it that game.' Percy bent over, he was inches away from Thalia, "really? Because you very pretty hot and heavy last night. And I distinctly remembered feeling a wet spot along my thighs."
Thalia blushed. She gritted her teeth, "sh-shut up."
Percy smirked, he gave her a small peck on the lips, "I win. Now come on. The sooner we tell Chiron about our quest the sooner we can find your brother."
That last sentence sobered Thalia up as all the flirting and sleepiness was pushed to the side, she was all business now.
The two quickly made way to the Big House where they saw Mr. D sitting on the porch with a coke in hand.
"You know those are horrible for your digestive track," Percy commented.
Mr. D snorted, "I'm a God. I don't care."
Thalia rolled her eyes at her divine half-brother, "where's Chiron Mr. D?"
"Inside," Mr. D took a sip, "is this about the Roman camp thing?"
Percy and Thalia nodded. The God of wine sighed, "this is a stupid mistake. I don't know what Hera was thinking."
"Do you know anything about the Roman camp that might be useful?" Thalia asked.
Mr. D nodded, "yes, I know a lot."
Percy turned to Thalia, "you learn what you can from him. I'll find Chiron and the other Head counselors. I'll meet you back in the War Room."
Thalia nodded, "okay." Percy wanted to kiss her goodbye, but he couldn't, Mr. D you cock blocking asshole. Percy took off at super speed zooming across camp trying to find Chiron. He found his old mentor in the Arena practising archery. Percy then went to call the other head counselors.
Some were cooperative, like Charles from Hephaestus cabin and the Stoll twins from the Hermes cabin. Some were.....not that much of a morning person. Percy had to move at near mach 1 speed just to doge Clarisse's spear.
Eventually they all met up in the war room with Percy and Thalia standing side by side at the head.
"So that's what we have to do," Thalia concluded explaining to them the task that they were given.
"A Roman camp?" Annabeth asked in amazement, "that's....surprising."
"Not really," Clarisse grumbled drinking from a mug of coffee, "remember back in Boston when we wondered whether there could be such a thing?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, but that was just speculation. This, this is real. And the Gods want us to ally with them."
"Sigh, I see," Chiron looked saddened as he rubbed his temples vigorously, "I never thought this day would come."
Lee Fletcher raised an eyebrow, "anything you would like to share Chiron?"
The half horse sighed, "I knew about the Roman camp. I remember the war they waged on us."
"Of course," Annabeth said scratching her chin, "you are immortal, so it would make sense."
"So do you know anything about them you think we should know?" Percy asked.
"Yes....they hate Greeks," Chiron said with a depressed look, "unlike the original Roman, who had a healthy respect for the Greek culture, these Roman's are both afraid and distrustful of us."
"Great, so we are sending them off into a lair off people who hate them and will do anything to kill them. Great. Just great."
"I have to agree with Lee on this one," Percy spoke up, "but we really have no other choice in the matter."
"Okay then," Annabeth spoke up, "I get why you're going. You're basically the only one who can get out of there alive if this goes South. But why is Thalia going?"
"She's daddy's little girl," Travis snarked, "why do you think she's going?"
Thalia narrowed her eyes, "actually, I'm going because I know one of the Romans."
"Really?" Chiron asked in surprise, "who?"
"My brother, Jason," Thalia smiled saying that out loud, "he's alive."
"Thalia that's amazing!" Annabeth said hugging her friends, "but how?"
"It seems Hera took him away because he's a roman demigod and not a greek one. And since we belonged to two different pantheons we couldn't stay together."
"This is good news," Chiron said with a smile, "now we can-"
Suddenly the door slammed open as Leo ran into the room. He jumped onto the war room table and pounced on top of Percy pushing him down.
"Of," Percy had the air knocked out of him as Leo stood on top of him with his head lowered.
"Where were you master?! I want to go for my walk!" Leo said whining.
"Okay boy, just get off of me," Percy commented as Leo did just that.
Annabeth and the other's blinked, "hey Percy I have been meaning to ask me about that dog....ah, whose is that?"
"It's mine. Oh right, I never told you guys," Percy smiled scratching Leo's ear "this is Leo. I have been taking care of him for the past few days. You haven't seen him much because he basically spends time sleeping or going out for training with me."
"Training?" Clarisse asked in surprise, "he goes into the ID's with you?"
Percy nodded, "yup. Why just yesterday he managed to take down a Gergosa all on his own."
"Woah," Thalia said in amazement, "that is one powerful dog." She then bent down scratching Leo behind the ear.
Percy smiled as Leo wagged his tail, "good woman. Pretty woman. I like. Is she your mate master?"
"W-what?!" Percy asked blushing, "no Leo!"
"But she smells like you. And you smell like her."
"No Leo she's not!" Percy asked as he face palmed himself.
The rest of the war council looked at Percy with a worried look. Annabeth spoke up, "ah, Percy...are you okay?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I'm fine. It's just....look let's move on. Chiron Thalia and I are leaving right away, that means I won't be able to train the campers today."
Chiron nodded, "don't worry I'll take over."
They quickly discussed the rest of the arrangements and the couple quickly got ready to leave. Percy left Leo in Annabeth's care. The dog whined and begged to come with Percy but the demigod refused, it was to dangerous, plus the Roman's might not care for a large demi hellhound walking around in their camp.
Thalia and Percy meet up under Thalia's tree, which at this point should really be renamed something else. Percy had changed into his skin tight super fabric legging along with his goggles and Fric shoes, they had both agreed to have Percy run the distance.
"You ready?" Percy asked put his goggles on.
Thalia dumbly nodded as she gave Percy her backpack to store away. While he was doing that her eyes were drawn to Percy's leggings. They were skin tight and gave a great view of Percy's muscular thighs. Thalia couldn't help staring, they were so bloody firm! They had to be considering at what speed Percy was know to travel at.
"Ah, Thalia? Are you okay?" Percy asked snapped Thalia's concentration from his legs to him, "were you just staring at my thighs?"
"What? No, I-ah, no. Not at all," Thalia shook her head vigorously.
Percy chuckled, "sure.....you do realise you can look right? That part of the boyfriend/girlfriend deal. You get to stare at me and I get to stare at you."
Thalia smiled, "as if you wouldn't before."
"No I wouldn't!"
"Really? What about that time you gave that motivational speech? Remember that? Your eyes were glued to my chest."
"No, they were glued to your hips," Percy shot back before he put both hands over his mouth realising what he just said.
Thalia smirked, "well I don't blame you," she said looking at her own behind, "they are very perky."
Percy sighed, "let's just get this over with."
Thalia laughed as Percy carried her like a bride and carefully put her inside his inventory. He then took off at speeds just below Mach 1 running across country towards San Francisco.
He passed through New York and took the I-78 into Jersey city. Percy' current max speed was 932 miles per hour, which is passed the speed of sound. But Percy never crossed that threshold, he didn't want to cause a sonic boom while running down a highway, that would damage so many cars and tear up the roads.
