Percy saw a Principa near the very center of the camp with several barracks and other buildings near the ends. There were even watchtowers on each corner, but they were all empty. Hanging around the wall was the banner of Camp Jupiter, except instead of being royal purple, it was faded to icy blue.
Percy opened his inventory and carefully pulled out Thalia. He set her away from the edge, but the demigoddess still managed to look at the height at which they stood.
Thalia became pale. "Are you okay?" Percy asked her.
Thalia gulped and nodded, "I'm fine," she looked away from the edge, "I just need to focus on something else."
Percy nodded as he turned to the encampment, "I think we will find Alcyoneus in there."
Thalia was surprised, "that thing looks just like the military encampment in Camp Jupiter."
Percy nodded, "yeah. The old Fifth Cohort probably built it."
"I don't' see any signs of life," Thalia said looking around, "think they are all dead?"
Percy nodded, "most definitely. If I was to guess Alcyoneus probably killed them all."
Thalia nodded as she and Percy took out their weapons. Thalia activated her spear and Percy had Waverider on his right while Riptide was on his left. "Can you, I don't know? Sense the Golden Eagle? They Senators did say that it was imbued with my dad's powers, can you feel it out or something?"
Percy formed in thinking before nodding his head, "yeah, I can. But.... if Alcyoneus really is in there than he could possible scene me when I try to sense for the Eagle."
Thalia nodded, "right. So we just walk in?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. But first..." Percy trailed off as he closed his eyes and channeled his mana into the jewel that was embedded into his skull. Percy opened his eyes and saw his servants standing before him bowing.
"Master," they said at once. Thalia was freaking out that the sight of Craig, she almost attacked him but Percy told her to stand down, assuring her that he was one their side.
"Get up guys," Percy said as they all stood up straight.
"Great! Where in Hades are we now?!" Alecto cursed looking around before she spotted the Roman encampment, "is that a Roman-"
"-Encampment, yes, yes it is," Percy said, "listen, this might be one of the biggest and deadliest battles we will ever fight. I need you all on your A-game."
"Great," Timmy, the Goblin King rolled his eyes, "who did you piss off this time?"
"I didn't do anything, this is a mission from the Olympians more than anything else. Oh and before we continue, Timmy could do something about this wind?"
The Goblin King nodded as he flicked his wrist turning the harsh icy wind into a gentle breeze.
"How did he do that?" Thalia asked.
"Timmy can control the wind," Percy informed her.
"Cool," Thalia said looking amazed.
The Goblin King smiled, "and who might you be beautiful?"
"Back off Timmy," Percy narrowed his eyes, "she's mine."
"And who is she?" Marica asked as everyone servant there finally realised they had no idea who this mysterious girl was.
"Oh, right. Never introduced you guys," Percy scratched his neck, "well first, Thalia," he turned to her, "these are my...well servants? They were my enemies but are now basically bound to me."
Thalia nodded as she looked at them all, "Annabeth told me about them...damn, I didn't realise you had such powerful backup. I kind of feel useless now."
Percy held her hand, "no your not. They are great and all but nothing compared to you."
"You still haven't told us who exactly she is," Marcia reminded Percy with a glare in her eyes.
"Right," Percy nodded, "this is Thalia Grace. She's ah, she's my girlfriend."
"Oh," Marica said in a surprised tone, "you have finally chosen a mate. Good, it is about time."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "you are taking this quite well given your obsession with me."
"What obsesion?" Thalia asked.
"Oh, right. Well Marica here has been trying to sleep with me ever since I killed her," Percy said in a casual tone.
"What?!" Thalia roared out, "but she's a wolf!"
"Well I don't always look like this. Maybe you and I should get acquainted." Marica said with a wink.
Thalia blushed as Percy blinked, "what?!"
The wolf shrugged, "I'm a demon from hell, did you really think I was only interested in men?"
"Wait!" Alecto shrieked out, "I remember now! You're Thalia Grace! The daughter of Zeus! You're supposed to be dead!"
Thalia shrugged, "shit happened."
"Okay that is enough introductions for now," Percy into their conversations, "we have a job to do."
The servants and Thalia all nodded in agreement. "What's the plan boss?" Zed asked.
"You guys have one mission," Percy stated, "protect Thalia and distract the giant."
"Giant?" Alecto asked, "what giant?"
"Alcyoneus," Thalia told her.
"WHAT?!"
"Keep it down!" Percy hissed, "do you want him to hear us?!"
Alecto bowed her head, "sorry master. It's just that....are you sure?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I am. Why? What do you know about him?"
The former Fury of Hades shuddered, "he is considered as the bane of Hades. He is a reflection of the God, he had his powers, but at the same time he is his opposite. He can control rocks and minerals. Everything below the Earth is his to control, metal, stones anything and everything. He can also control shades, but he lacks the power to bring them up from the Underworld since Hades still rules over that. He is invincible in his homeland, to kill him you would have to take him across the country.
"He is incredibly good in battle, he once took on both Hades and Hercules. His main choice of weapon is a bow staff and his skin if made out of metal."
Percy blinked, "metal?"
Alecto nodded, "yes. In fact he is a very unique Giant, his body is made of precious metal, his heart is said to be made out of raw diamond and his bones of platinum. He also had rubies, emeralds and other precious stone embedded all....along.....his body....ah, master, why are you drooling?"
Thalia and the servants looked at him and sure enough the son of Poseidon's mouth was open and drooling.
"Oh, ah, sorry," Percy said closing his mouth wiping away the drool. 'Just think all that gold and precious metal...I could use that, plus the pirate treasure to build the Greek Haven. Hmm, this just keep getting better and better.'
"Right," Thalia said looking at Percy, "you sure you're alright?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. Let's do this!" Percy and the others stood in a line. "I'll first use my mana sence to find out where the Golden Eagle is. You guys then go in there and distract him while I use my super speed to search for the Eagle. Hold out for as long as you can, I'll come back the moment I found the Eagle."
Thalia and the others nodded. Percy closed his eyes and sent out a wave of mana. Suddenly Percy's senses were assaulted by something that was coming right at them.
Percy opened his eyes;
Warning! A wave of Shadows is coming your way!
"Get down!"
Percy tackled Thalia to the ground as all the other servants, save Timmy, got down quickly enough to avoid what looked like a blade of shadow. The Goblin King was cut in half by the blade of shadow and turned back into smoke returning to Percy's jewel.
Percy cursed as he looked up to see what had attacked them. His eyes went wide with surprise and astonishment as standing before them was what Percy assumed the giant Alcyoneus.
The thing was huge, at least 40 foot tall. He had golden skin and armour made out of platinum, just as Alecto said. His hair was was rusted copper, twined with precious stones and gems. On his right hand was an Iron staff as big as a totem pole.
The biggest surprise however wasn't his metal body, but his legs. They were reptilian in nature. With the red hind legs of what looked like a dragon Alcyoneus stood above them with a smirk on his lips, "and who might you be?"
Percy and the others got up slowly. Percy uncapped both his weapons turning them into swords, "well you see we just moved in into the glacier next door and we just wanted to come and say hi to our neighbor."
Thalia gulped as she readied her spear and stood behind Percy. The other servants got ready as well, Craig and Zed took out their weapons while Alecto and Marcia took to the sky circling Alcyoneus over head.
The giant scoffed, "you talk in the face of death? Truly you must be either mad, a fool, brave or all three."
"I usually find it's a little bit of all," Percy told him as the giant began spinning his giant metal pole.
"So have the Romans finally come to avenge their fallen comrades?" Alcyoneus asked.
"Well, kind of," Percy admitted, "we're not Roman."
"Oh?" a look of genuine surprise came over Alcyoneus's face.
"Greek," Percy answered the giant's unasked question.
"Well be whatever you are," the giant had both hand on his pole, "you die now."
"Not bloody like-"
BOOM!
A lighting bolt exploded out of Thalia's hands and into Alcyoneus sending him flying backwards. Percy turned to look at his girlfriend who just shrugged, "you talk too much."
"I know, it's what I do," Percy turned to the groaning form of Alcyoneus and he finally got a read on the Giant;
Alcyoneus, Bane of Pluto
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HP:X/X (He can never die as long as he remains inside the state of Alaska)
MP:?
Race— Giant
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Vit-?
Dex-?
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Luc-?
Alcyoneus is the son of Gaea and Tartarus. He is the Giant equivalent of Hades and is born to destroy him. Alcyoneus died during the first Giant war back was brought back thanks to his mother who manipulated a daughter of Pluto, Hazel Levesque, into recreating the Giant piece by piece. He is undefeatable in his home state of Alaska and is currently waiting for the day that his mother calls for him, so that he and his brothers can join forces and destroy Olympus
Likes: Eggnog, his mother, killing children of Pluto
Dislikes: Everything he doesn't like, including his brothers.
He is curious as to why Percy is here
He is feeling angry
Percy turned to Thalia, "you got this?"
Thalia nodded, "I got this. Find the Eagle."
Percy nodded and turned to his servants, "your first mission is to protect her, the second is to beat the shit out of Alcyoneus."
The servants nodded and Percy took off in a blur towards the Roman encampment. He reached there in seconds and immediately started strip searching the area. What Percy found was amazing.
There was tons and tons of imperial gold here. Swords, shields, armour, there was even a solid gold chariot in the corner.
'I am so going to loot every single thing in this camp,' Percy told himself as he tore himself away from the imperial gold treasure. Percy sent out a wave of mana and suddenly he felt the presence of something similar to Thalia's mana.
Percy was drawn to the broken Principia, he walked passed the broken door and looked inside. The floor was littered with scroll and books. There were skeletons everywhere, the remains of the fallen members of the 5th cohort. It looked liked this was where they made a last stand against Alcyoneus. Each had died with a weapon in hand.
Percy turned to look deeper into the building and in the very back was the fallen body of a skeleton holding up a still standing imperial Gold Eagle. Even after all this time the roman skeleton hadn't allowed the Eagle to fall over, he held it up with his remains.
The 12th Legion's Eagle— Attributed towards Jupiter,
Imbued with the powers of Jupiter himself, this staff has the ability to channel enormous amounts of lighting. The power is activated by saying the phrase, 'Twelfth Legion Fulminata'. They Eagles attack will ignore all members belonging to the Roman army but will kill a monster in it's path. Only a roman soldier can wield this symbol of great power.
Attack— 1,000,000
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Observe Lv-13 (0%)
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-Max HP,MP, stats, info, their emotions, likes/dislikes and will give their opinion of you.
The Eagle had it's wings spread open with it's head looking down at Percy. It was almost if the Eagle was judging him. Judging him to be worthy, or not.
Below the Eagle were the words SPQR, the Roman code. Percy approached the Eagle and wrapped his hands around the golden rod. Percy tried to move it, but the skeleton underneath didn't seem to want to let it go.
"Don't' worry," Percy spoke out loud, "I promise to return it to Camp Jupiter. I won't let Alcyoneus get his hands on it. You can relax now, everything's going to find."
Percy pulled and almost as if the skeleton had agreed to his terms the golden Eagle slid right out. Percy held the Eagle up, it was heavy, but not much of a problem for Percy. It's mana was similar to Thalia's, except far more powerful.
"PERCY!"
Percy's eyes shot open, 'Thalia!' Percy turned around and zoomed away.
A few moments ago;
Percy had just left for the Roman camp. Thalia twirled her spear as Alcyoneus slowly got back up. He spat out gob of what looked like oil.
"So, a daughter of Zeus," Alcyoneus narrowed his eyes, "my brother will love it if I gave you to him. He would take great pleasure causing you pain."
"If," Thalia said with narrowed eyes.
The Giant chuckled, "I don't think that will be a problem."
Zed charged first as he engaged the giant in one-on-one combat. The giant blade struck the iron pole of Alcyoneus as the two exchanged blows. Each attack of Zed was filled with his unnatural strength, but Alcyoneus was a Giant, he held his own easily, sometimes even managing to push Zed back.
Alecto swooped down from the air and swiped her claws along Alcyoneus's bac. Marica followed that up by sending a wave of darkness at Alcyoneus's legs knocking him off balance and to the ground.
Seeing his chance Zed jumped on top of Alcyoneus, but the Giant grabbed the red armoured man and threw him aside. Thalia gathered her mana again as she sent a blast of electricity toward Alcyoneus.
The giant saw the thunder as he grabbed Marcia and pulled the demon in the path of the attack. Thalia watched in horror as her attacked burnt away at the demon's back. Thalia stopped the attack but by that time the damage was already done. Alcyoneus closed his hand into a fist, destroying Marcia's body turning it into smoke.
"You all really should work on your co-ordination," Alcyoneus grinned. Just then Craig and Zed hit Alcyoneus in the back of the leg knocking him back down.
Thalia saw her chance as she jumped on top of the giant and thrusted her spear into the giant's chest.
"ARGH!" the Giant cried out in pain, but Thalia wasn't done with him. She called forth lighting from the skies as the clear blue sky suddenly was filled with dark thunder clouds. A lightning bolt came down and smashed into the giant's body pushing him deeper into the ice beneath him.
