Percy turned around and zoomed back to Thalia, "you hurt?"
Thalia nodded, "broke rib, and I think I tore something."
Percy nodded as he pressed his hand up against Thalia's temple. Slowly began helping all of Thalia's wounds, mending the ribs and fixing the muscles tears. She was beaten up badly, he felt like he needed to say something, but Percy knew she wouldn't want his sympathy, pity or guilt. Thalia was not someone who liked that sort of thing.
Percy suddenly felt a sense of danger wash over him;
Warning! Alcyoneus behi—
Percy turned around just in time to see Alcyoneus try to take a swing at him. Percy instantly turned his body in smoke and waited for the fist to pass through, but for some reason Alcyoneus was able to touch to touch him as the giant smashed Percy throwing him over the cliff.
"PERCY!" Thalia cried out as without a second through she dived over the cliff after him.
Percy's body returned to normal. His head was spinning, that last blow had rocked his brain;
Percy's HP— 1,550/11,550 (+1000) = 2,550
Percy squinted, he saw the sky above him, the wind blowing past him. 'I'm falling,' Percy realised.
The son of Poseidon didn't know if he could even survive this fall. He was away from the US, away from his father's influence from the sea. Would his father's protection even work?
Percy knew he had to try something and just as he started to think of what to do he saw a black dot coming towards him. Percy activated his 8.0 Eyesight and recognized the blue streaked hair immediately.
"Thalia?" Percy asked in surprise, 'what is she doing?!'
Thalia fell down faster and faster, she begged the wind to reduce the speed of Percy fall while increasing her own. For a second Thalia felt like an idiot, the wind wouldn't answer her, it never had before. She had always been to afraid to even try and control it due to her fear of height. But now...now" target="_blank">now...now that the one who she cared about was in danger, now that the only person who promised to help her was in risk of dieing, all of that seemed unimportant.
Thalia still felt the fear, but her love for Percy tore through that emotion.
Suddenly as if to answer the call the winds moved. Thalia felt herself speeding up as she caught up to Percy and grabbed him.
"I've got you!" Thalia yelled.
"Who's got you?!" Percy asked.
Thalia closed her eyes and for the first time ever she felt a connection to the air around her. It was like she had been blind her whole life, living in a room of darkness and finally she got the courage to turn on the lights.
The height didn't scare her anymore, no, instead the feeling of happiness took over. The winds around Thalia picked her and Percy up and launched them both up.
Thalia was flying higher and higher, soaring through the sky. She danced like a leaf in the breeze, twisting and turning, letting herself be guided by her powers.
The reason she was so afraid before was because she was afraid she would lose control and die. But now...now she knew that her powers would never fail her, not as long as she had a person to save with them.
Percy was amazed, "T-Thalia, you're flying?!"
Thalia smiled, "yeah, I guess I am."
"Holy Shit!" Percy said looking down as Thalia zoomed past the Glacier. Percy could see Alcyoneus standing below looking just as surprised as Percy was.
Thalia stopped and hovered, she was constantly bombarded with waves of wind, but managed to stay in a stable position. Percy turned to her, "drop me down and then get as far away as you can. I'll lead Alcyoneus away, grab the Eagle and go back to the boat. And no matter what happens don't come back for me. Got it?"
"I'll let you fight him Percy," Thalia tightened her grip on him, "but you better come back alive. Or else I will go into the Underworld and bring you back."
Percy smiled, "good. Now," Percy then did something he never even tried before. He activated his Body Form perk which increased his strength over 10 times over;
Body Form Activated: Full Body
STR— 69,120 (+20)= 69,140 X 10 = 691,400
His muscles felt like they were being sucked out through a straw. The power was almost too painful to have. Percy could feel his muscles spasm, they were trying to grow bigger to compensate for the huge surge of energy that flowed through them.
"Percy are you okay?" Thalia asked.
"I'm fine," Percy gurnted, "this just needs a little getting used to."
"Don't you dare lie to me Jackson," Thalia yelled, "if you can't handle this then we are leaving right now and-"
"-Thalia!" Percy yelled out, "I'm fine. I promise."
Thalia looked into Percy's eyes and saw the determination in them. She sighed, "fine."
Percy nodded as Thalia lowered him down. The son of Poseidon fell through the air and landed on the glacier cracking the ice.
Alcyoneus growled, "so you came back for more."
Percy was already sweating, even if technically speaking he could keep this mode up for a long time his body was still reacting oddly to the combination of the two perks. Percy didn't have anytime to waste.
"You're coming with me to Olympus Alcyoneus," Percy said.
"Not bloody likely," the giant growled out. Percy could feel the bloodlust in the Giant's voice, but such meager levels of the stuff was nothing to Percy. Janai'ngo had more bloodlust in one tentacle than Alcyoneus had in his whole body.
Percy activated Speed Demon and vanished into a blur of speed. Alcyoneus's eyes widened, 'he's faster than before!' The Giant realised as suddenly a black blur moved towards Alcyoneus.
The giant raised both hands to try and block the attack, but the moment Percy's fist impacted Alcyoneus's own the Giant knew he made a mistake. He should have dodged.
The strongest recorded punch in the world by a human weighed in at a force of 5,000 Newtons. This was done by the best mortal boxer in the world with 20 points of strength.
Percy had 691,400 points of strength, his punch carried with it a force 34,570 times greater than that of the strongest human punch. Alcyoneus was hit with a total off 172,850,000 Newtons.
The punch hit Alcyoneus in the gut ripping apart his metal abdomen and tearing into his platinum ribcage. The shock wave that came out of the Giant's body was enough to cause several cracks in the ice destroying the surrounding area.
Alcyoneus felt everything in slow motion. He felt the pain. He felt his body being lifted off of the ground. He felt Percy's punch push his body across the sky so fast that it resulted in breaking the sound barrier.
Percy was nearly blown back by the sonic boom Alcyoneus's body caused as it was sent across the sky. Percy stayed his ground and saw the Giant flying off of the Hubbard Glacier and into one of the nearby mountains. Percy activated his Speed Demon perk and took off. He ran down the side of the glacier, he increased his speed slowly until he too broke the sound barrier for the first time.
The resulting sonic boom shack the icy glacier even more as more and more pieces of ice fell off and into the water below. It was a good thing Percy put the Trident Mobile so far away, else the resulting waves caused by the falling ice would have capsized the boat.
Percy ran over the water around the glacier and towards the mountain into which Alcyoneus had crashed. Percy climbed the mountain without a second thought and quickly found Alcyoneus embedded deeply into the side of the rocky surface.
The giant looked sick. His Haki armour around his stomach where Percy had hit him had been broken off.
Percy didn't stop to chat. He just launched himself at Alcyoneus again throwing a fist at the giant's face.
At the very last second the giant dodged the attack, and what's more he did it with his eyes closed. Percy snarled as he continued the attack in a flurry of speed, but not one managed to land a solid blow on the Giant.
Alcyoneus suddenly melted into his own shadow and disappeared. 'Shadow travel,' Percy realised as he turned around to find the Giant.
Warning! Shadow—
Percy didn't read the rest, he didn't need to. He took off right as a large amount of shadowy spikes spread where he just was. Percy quickly sent a wave of mana out and felt Alcyoneus at the top of the mountain.
Percy turned and ran up. He saw the giant standing at the mountain's peak. Alcyoneus raised his hands, they were filled with two balls of shadows. The Giant brought them together and sent it down at Percy.
The two balls of shadows combined into one before mixing in with the ground below. Suddenly the surface of the mountain started to rumble as a great big explosions of black mud broke through the ground and flowed down.
Percy knew he couldn't touch the the mud, if Alcyoneus's power were anything like Bianca's then it would mean he could control the black mud. So Percy stopped, put all his strength into his legs and sprang forward like a jacked up kangaroo.
Percy cleared the mountain top with a single bound as he quickly began falling towards Alcyoneus. The giant growled, he lifted both of his hands up and coated them with a gloves made of gold that came out of the ground.
Percy lowered his fist and fell down faster and faster. Alcyoneus readied himself as he adjusted his foot and drew back a fist.
"AHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHH!"
The both hit each other with everything they got as the resulting explotion from their fist's that leveled the top of the mountain.
Rocks and snow flew outwards like lava spewing out of a volcano. The top of the mountain was covered with dirt flying everywhere observing the area. Thalia was panicking, she flew over to the mountain, she need to see what was happening.
As the last of the stones fell down and the dust settled, Thalia saw that the entire top of the mountain was leveled down. It looked like someone had taken a blade and had crudely cut off the top half of the mountain.
Thalia commanded the winds to clear the dirt and the rocks revealing the flat surface of the mountain. Thalia gasped, Alcyoneus stood tall with Percy bound at his feet.
"You fought well," Alcyoneus managed to say. His jaw was broken along with his right hand. The Haki armour was completely gone now, just slivers of it existed along different parts of the Giant's body, but the rest were blown off. Oil spilled all over the place but the giant still stood tall.
Percy was also injured from the attack. His right arm was broke in half and his ankle was twisted and cuts were present all over his body.
Percy tried to get up, but he was chained down. The chains were black, just like Alcyoneus's skin was. Percy struggled to break them, but even with his strength they still put up a challenge, "what are these?!"
"Chains infused with my will," the Giant spat out, it sounded like he also had a collapsed lung. "You will find they are nearly impossible to break," Alcyoneus's blood lust was gone. He was weakened, but Percy could tell that the Giant was already starting to regenerate at an amazing pace.
"Haki," Percy muttered, "I didn't realise you could infuse it with objects."
The Giant nodded, "you can do a lot with the breath of man."
"Why do you call it that?"
The Giant sighed, "it matters not. You will be dead in a few seconds."
"No," Percy got on his two feet, "I won't."
Alcyoneus bleached at the sight before him. Percy was trying to break free, he flexed and strained his arms pushing the chains to their very limits.
"Stop," Alcyoneus said, "it won't work!" Percy said nothing as he focused on only breaking the chains of haki. "STOP!" Alcyoneus shouted again, "I said stop!"
Percy's arms began to move from his side, the chains of black were slowly starting to groan.
"No," Alcyoneus said as he stook a step back, "this can't be!"
Percy slowly stretched the chains more and more. They were barely hanging on. Slowly Percy felt something stir in him, it was that will power he felt before in the illusionary world. The world where he almost died. He felt the will to live burn in him again, flowing through his veins, empowering him to do the impossible.
"NO!" Alcyoneus roared as he summoned a sword made of diamonds and infused it with his Haki turning it black. He then slashed it down at Percy, cutting through the demigod's jacket, skin and the chains that held him.
"NO!" Thalia screamed.
Blood flew out of Percy coating the black jacket with blood. The slash began at his left shoulder and ended near his right lateral muscle. The son of Poseidon felt pain, for the first time ever he felt pain.
Warning! Blood lose status active! Lose 100 HP per second!
Percy blinked away as he tried to push past the pain and get up. Just then Alcyoneus appeared over him, "how are you still not dead?!"
The giant grabbed Percy by the head and lifted him up, "HOW?!"
Percy struggled against Alcyoneus's grip around his neck. He felt pain every time his blood exited his wound. It felt like tiny pieces of glass were twisting and turning inside of him, Percy groaned in pain as the giant squeezed him harder.
"I will make sure you will never see the light of day again," Alcyoneus said with narrowed eyes. He waved his hand over the ground and a hole was created that lead down to deep within the mountain.
The giant dropped Percy inside the hole and covered it up. Percy fell and fell. He could tell how far he was falling. '20 feet. 30 feet. 40 feet. 50 feet. 80 feet.'
Suddenly the ground came and hit Percy. The demigod wasn't hurt by the rocks beneath him due to Marble skin, but a wave pain came from the wound he got from Alcyoneus.
Percy groaned as he looked up. The hole he came in from was closed now. He was effectively buried 80 feet underneath a mountain. Percy got up, he had around 10 feet of movement. He looked to the cut on his chest, it wasn't to deep.
Percy gathered the moisture in the air, there was very little, mostly all the water came from soft soil Percy was standing on. Percy ran the gathered water over his wound. There was little of it, but he managed to seal the wound up enough to stop the bleeding status.
Percy looked around, 'how the hell am I going to get out of here?'
Outside;
"NO!" Thalia roared as she saw Alcyoneus close the hole. She flew over and sent a blast of lightning at the giant's back.
"ARGH!" the monster roared and turned back. He narrowed his eyes at the daughter of Zeus. Alcyoneus dug into the ground and pulled out a large boulder. He then threw it at Thalia who skillfully dodged it.
"Give him back!" Thalia roared as she sent another stream of lighting.
Alcyoneus brought up a boulder just in time to block the lightning bolt. The rock exploded in his hands but the Giant was unfazed.
