Dislikes: Greeks, Percy, Anchovies
He hates Percy and wants to humiliate him
He is feeling excited and confident
Percy scoffed at his strength level, for a demigod it was impressive, but nothing compared to Percy, "fine the. A test of strenght. I agree."
"What's you wager?"
Percy opened his inventory and looked for something to give. And suddenly he spotted just the thing. He smiled as he reached inside and pulled out the shield of Ares, he got it in during that time in the amusement park and he had it ever since.
Shield of Ares,
It is the shield of Ares which is charmed to be unbreakable and can withstand godly amounts of force. It is also charmed to give the wielder a + 20% on all attacks.
The shield itself was plain made out bronze with the omega symbol etched onto the surface. "The shield of Ares," Percy said holding it up, "I got it after doing your dad a favour. He tried to use this to start a war, luckily I was there to stop him."
Rob grumbled, "I'm, going to enjoy taking that away from you."
Julia however was more concerned about where he pulled the shield from, "where did you store that shield? I didn't even see you pull it out."
"I have the ability to create pocket dimensions," Percy explained, "I use one to store items for safe keeping. Think of it like an inventory you would find in video games."
Julia nodded, "I see....do you have a limit?"
Percy shook his head, "nope. I can store anything, along as I can move it inside I can fit it."
"So you mean you can only store things you can lift?"
Percy nodded, "yeah."
Julia nodded as she got up from her seat, "interesting. Tell me more about this as we go."
"Go?" asked Percy, "go where?"
"You didn't actually think I was going to let you have your competition in here did you?" Julia asked looking amused, "we are going to the field of Mars, our training ground. You can fight there."
They nodded and soon the group set off once again. This time they were taken through the back of the military encampment. People were looking curiously at the sight of the two Praetors leading the Greek demigods so slowly more and more people started to follow them.
Julian turned to one of the Legionnaires that was following them, "call Hannibal and get it to bring two large marble blocks to the field of Mars, we are going to have a competition between the Greeks and Rob."
The legionnaire saluted and took off while the rest of the following members talked in hushed tones about what they were about to see.
In the back of the military encampment was another door that opened up to a road. The road went forward and forked into two paths, on towards that hill with all the temples and the other towards the city that Percy saw before.
But instead of going on the road Julia and Rob lead them off the trail and into the grassy plains surrounding them.
The fields of grass soon lead towards a large stretch of land that was rocky and rough. Percy could tell that the terrain had been stepped on repeatedly over and over, this was probably where the Roman demigods trained.
"This," Julia said, "is the field of Mars,. This is where we train, where we fight and this is where you two will settle this little argument of yours."
Percy nodded and turned to Rob, "before we begin I would like to change our wager a little bit."
Rob smirked, "why? Scared you'll lose the shield? I don't blame you, hell any Roman here would kill for a weapon of Mars."
The Romans suddenly broke out into talk.
"The Greek has a shield of Mars?"
"How did he get it?"
"This is no fair! He is a Greek! He shouldn't be allowed to even look at it!"
"How dare he!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "I don't want to change my wager, the offer still stands. And besides I never use this shield anyway, useless thing."
"How dare you!" Rob roared, "that is the shield my father gave to you! You should treat it with the respect it deserves!"
Percy yawned, "yeah yeah, look let's get down to buisness, I don't want your spear, okay? It's kind of useless, it won't serve me well. I'll just do to it what I did to the shield, put it away in my storage space and let it collect dust."
Rob growled, "fucking Greek."
"What I want from you though is an apology," Percy said with narrowed eyes, "you insulted my dad and that I something I can't forgive. I want you to apologize over and over again, whenever I ask you will say, 'Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars'."
Rob snorted, "fine. I'll say that, I have no problem saying that. If you win that is, son of Neptune."
The declaration of Percy's parentage instantly set off a chain reaction inside camp. Everyone started to speak out about him bringing bad luck and how he wanted to destroy camp.
"Get rid of him!"
"Throw him out!"
"Take his shield and then throw him out!"
Percy rolled his eyes again as Julia went into overdrive trying to control the people and assure them that everything was taken care of. After she told them that Percy promised to never use his powers over the Earth inside camp most calmned down. Some were still furious about what Percy said about Mars, but they kept quite.
Just then a giant elephant came out of the military encampment and into the field of Mars. Percy watched the giant thing move slowly as it dragged forward two 15 foot tall blocks of marble.
"I'm assuming that's Hannibal?" Percy asked.
Julia nodded, "yes."
"You didn't mention he was an elephant."
Julia shrugged and soon the blocks were unloaded. Percy and Rob stood in front of their respective blocks of marble. Percy gave the shield to Thalia to hold and Rob gave his spear to Julia.
Behind them the Romans were all cheering, for Rob. They booed Percy and cried out insults. It continued like that for some time before Thalia got angry and summoned a bolt of lighting threw it in front of the crowd shutting them up.
Rob smirked, "if you truly are the leader of the Greeks then that means your loss will prove that Romans are better."
Percy smirked, "then I'm going to enjoy proving you wrong. And besides what do you mean Romans are better? You guys basically plagiarized everything from our cultural and called it your own. You guys are like the Dane Cooks of cultures. You steal things which aren't yours and then claim you are better for it somehow."
Rob and the other Romans growled in anger as Thalia face palmed herself, 'this just turned super bad super fast,' she told herself.
"We will fucking kill you Greek!" someone shouted, but was promptly ignored by all.
"I'm going to make you eat those words," Rob turned to his block of marble and drew back his right arm. He stayed perfectly still for a few seconds before he launched his fist forwards and into the marble cracking it and forming spider webs that were growing along the stone block.
Rob took his arm out and shock it, Percy could see blood around his knuckles. Rob had completely shattered the stone around the area of impact. Pieces of rocks were knocked loose and were on the ground. The cracks on the marble reached the edges, but Percy could tell they weren't really deep.
"Damn," Percy said whistling, "that is impressive."
Rob smirked as he held his throbbing arm, "your god damn right Greek. You might as well hand that shield over right now."
Percy nodded as he walked around his own marble block, "tempting, but no." Percy then released all of his six seals causing his strength to increase exponentially;
Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 26 hours.
STR— 69,120 (+20)= 69,140
Percy stood to the side facing away from Rob's block of marble and pressed his hand up on the surface of his marble block. He used as little force as he could he pushed it forward pressing bother stone together.
Percy took his hand off the stone and saw his hand print imbedded into the stone. Percy smirked, he drew back his hand and launched it forward.
The moment his hand touched the stone the block shattered into pieces. The force of the punch didn't stop there however as it hit the stone block next to it destroying that as well.
Pieces of stone flew everywhere as the force of the punch sent them flying forward like leaves in a hurricane. The marble blocks were grounded into nothing as a large amount of the marble turned into dust, only a few pieces remained as a solid, and even then they only were in the form of small stones.
Percy patted himself, the marble dust was everywhere. He walked towards the crowd and reactivated his seals.
"So," Percy began looking at the stunned crowd of Romans, "which one of you wanted to kill me?"
Well...techinucally I did promise a chapter on the 8th so...here you all go. Enjoy. Anyway expect maybe another chapter this week, but after that I'll be tacking a break for a week or so, vacation and all that.
Review and send a PM with your questions. Also no, the pairing hasn't changed, I full intened for this to be a Percy/Artemis story...it's just going to take some time to get there is all. Some time a girfirend or two, a couple of flings and maybe even a movie before it happens
Chapter 41
Chapter 41:
"Again."
"Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars."
"Again."
"Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars."
Percy smiled at Rob, "are you beginning to see the truth?"
Rob nodded, "yes."
"And what is the truth?"
"Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars."
Percy nodded and turned to the group of Roman demigods, "now, who the fuck wanted me dead?"
The crowd parted and there standing all alone was a skinny Legionnaire with his spear clutched tightly to his side. Percy looked at his title;
George Mathews, Legionnaire
Lv— 14
"So?" Percy asked crossing his arms, "you going to do it or what?"
George gulped, "ah-I ah, I didn't mean-"
"Come on George," Percy smirked as the boy was surprised Percy knew his name, "come and get me."
"H-how did you know my name?"
Percy smiled an evil smile, "because I'm death. And it's my job to know the names of all those who are going to die."
"EK!" George said as his eyes rolled to the back of his head before he fell forward unconscious.
"He killed George!" someone yelled out.
Percy couldn't control himself as he suddenly broke out laughing, "oh my Gods! He actually fainted! Oh this is too good! He actually fainted! World's best army my ass!"
"Percy!" Thalia hissed hitting him across the head, "stop scaring people!"
Percy pouted, "but they started it....."
"I don't care who started it! I'm ending it!" Thalia roared.
"She's crazier than him!" one of the Roman men said.
"Jason," a legionnaire from the 5th cohort called out, "your sister's kind of hot."
"Shut up Mark!" Jason hissed out as his friend chuckled.
"Now then," Julia walked forward, "this competition is finished. And just in time too," Julia held up a piece of paper, "I have received word that the Senate has been assembled, we should go there now."
Percy nodded, "right. Okay then, what are we waiting for?"
"Wait you can't be serious!" Rob called out, "we can't let this guy into the Senate! He could kill us all with one punch!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "dude we talked about this, I'm not here to fight, I'm here to make friends."
"You literally wanted to fight a few minutes ago!"
"You insulted my dad," Percy shrugged, "by the way remind me again what you are."
Rob looked like he was about to argue, but he realised he couldn't. He had made a deal in front of all these Roman Legionaries and if he backed out and didn't keep his end of the deal, it could hurt his image.
So Rob sighed, "Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars."
Percy nodded, "right. And if it makes you feel any better I promise on the Styx not to kill anyone while in the Senate, unless provoked or it's an emergency."
Thunder roared as most looked at Percy in wonder. Percy blinked, "what?"
"YOU IDIOT!" Thalia roared at him, "how many times do you have to be told not to swear on the Styx?! And what the hell do you mean by an emergency?!"
Percy gulped, "you know....in case someone threatens us with a bomb or something. Or-ah,I don't really know. I just kind of-"
"-Enough," Julia spoke up, "first off Thalia is right, you should have not done such a thing Jackson, it could mean your life if anything goes wrong."
Percy shrugged, "I can manage."
Julia nodded, "right, and thank you. The promise does make it easier to trust you," she turned to the Legionnaires there, "I trust this is enough for the son of Neptune to do in order to ensure our safety?"
The Legionnaires all agreed and soon they were off.
The went back to the road leading away from the Roman encampment and towards the far off city Percy saw before. As they drew closer and closer the images of the houses became more and more clear. The houses were white with a roof covered with red tiles on top or a domed roof. Percy could see the beginnings of what looked like a replica of the Roman Coliseum in the back along with parks and restaurants all over the place. It truly looked like a piece of heaven had dropped down from the sky.
As soon as the reached the city limits Percy noticed a marble status in their way. The Praetors and Legionaries all slowed down and Percy and Thalia did the same.
"This is the Pomerian Line," Rob explained in a low tone, "basically it's the borderline of New Rome, beyond it no one is allowed to carry any weapons."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "I assume it's because they don't want anyone dead like Julius Caesar?"
Rob nodded, "yeah."
"Single line people! And have your ID's ready when you enter!" The marble statue suddenly came alive.
Percy studied the statues closely, it was the marble figure of a man with no arms and everything below his waist was still one big block of stone. Percy looked at the moving statue's name and title;
Terminus, God of Boundaries
Lv— ?
"Terminus?" Percy asked aloud.
Julia raised an eyebrow, "you know your Roman mythology Percy, yes, this is Terminus, the God of Boundaries, he guards the Pomerian line and makes sure no one carries a weapon inside."
Percy nodded as they quickly reached the statue who greeted them.
"Ah Julia, how are you Praetor?"
The Praetor bowed, "fine Terminus, thank you for asking."
Terminus nodded and then looked at Percy and Thalia, "and who are these two?"
"The boy is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon and the girl is Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus. They are Greek."
"Greek?!" Terminus shouted in surprise, "you are going to bring Greeks into New Rome?!"
