Apollo had the decency to blush, "well......"
Percy rolled his eyes, "besides, I don't mind her talking to other guys, I just don't want her to talk to you."
Apollo's grinned again, "yeah, men tend to get jealous easily when they see their women with me. But mark my words, if you try to control her, she will leave you. And soon you will see her in the arms of another man."
An image popped into Percy's head, it came from a dark part of his mind, but it was clear as day. It was him alone while Thalia walked away from him. She was smiling, the same smile she wore only for him. He then saw Apollo lean down to kiss her as Percy stayed in the back watching them with anger taking root in his heart.
Percy's eyes turned red indicating the activation of 'Le Bete', "tell me Apollo. Do you think Thalia's pretty?"
Apollo blinked, "well..I mean, she's very cute. And she is technically my sister, but that's not much of a deal breaker. Also she has that whole punk rocker thing going for her. Plus she has this nice ass that-"
Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 52 hours.
STR— 69,120 (+20+20)= 69,160
Body Form activated: Right arm
STR— 691,600
Percy swung his hand back clipping Apollo across the face sending him flying through the sky and away from Olympus.
BOOM!
"Fucking cunt," Percy cursed as he deactivated his strengthening perk and resealed his remaining strength.
Just then Thalia and Artemis arrived only to see Percy standing alone seething with his eyes flashing red from time to time.
"Percy? Are you okay?" Thalia asked as she approached her boyfriend.
Percy turned to them and the two girls were paralyzed at the amount of hate they saw in his eyes. Pery quickly realised why they looked scared, he had still been thinking about what Apollo said to him, and the very idea of Thalia cheating on him made him angrier than ever before.
'What am I doing?' Percy asked himself, 'Thalia hasn't done anything to deserve my anger, neither has Artemis.'
Percy sighed as his eyes slowly stopped changing settling on his natural green hue, "yeah I fine.... Apollo just kind of pissed me off."
Artemis nodded, "yes, he tends to do that. I find it's best to just tune him out."
Percy nodded, "oh and he also has a huge sister complex, thought you should know."
Artemis chuckled, "yes, he definitely does." Percy and Thalia looked at the goddess in surprise. Artemis blinked, "what? I spent centuries with the guy, you think I don't know that? Hades, Apollo could be the God of overprotective brothers if he wanted to."
Percy rolled his eyes, "he's can also be the God of pissing people off if he really tries."
"Where is he by the way?" Artemis asked looking around, "I asked him to wait for me."
Percy smiled at that, "oh he said he needed to check something out. Should be back any minute."
Lie Successful!
"Did you two have a fight while we were gone?" Thalia asked, "we heard a lot of shouting."
Percy shook his head, "yeah. He wanted to know why I hate him so much."
"You hate Apollo? Why?" Artemis asked in surprise, "granted most people who meet him hate him, but they are mostly female and at least wait until the two hour mark to do so."
Percy shrugged, "he was ogling Thalia and when I called him on it he then tried to put the blame on me by saying I was being a bad boyfriend."
Thalia's eyes widened, "he what?! How could he even think that?!"
Percy grumbled, "I don't want to talk about it."
Artemis sighed, "my brother is the kind of man who would sleep with a woman and then tell her husband it was his fault for not looking out for his wife more often. He is....difficult."
"He's a fucking cunt," Percy hissed, "oh, and next time you see him tell him to stay away from Thalia and me or else I will shove Waverider up his ass and use him like a fucking puppet."
Thalia and Artemis blinked. The Goddess spoke up, "I haven't heard you curse like that in some time Percy. What exactly did he say?"
Percy grumbled, "nothing worth mentioning."
Artemis recognized that Percy was unwilling to speak about it so she dropped it. She then turned to Thalia, "think about my offer sister."
Thalia glared, "my answer is the same."
Artemis nodded, "very well. Now, I suppose it's time to send you both back home," Artemis then snapped her fingers and Percy and Thalia vanished in a flash of light. She then turned around, "now...where did that troublesome brother of mine go?"
The Middle of the Mess Hall;
Percy and Thalia opened their eyes and suddenly found themselves in the middle of their Mess Hall. It was around lunch time now and everyone was eating.
"Get off me you stupid mutt!"
"Michael no! You'll just make it worse!"
"He stole my bacon!"
"You stole his!"
"So?!"
Percy and Thalia sighed at the sight before them. Leo and Michael were in the middle of a tug of war with a handful of bacon being the rope.
"Somehow I knew this would happen," Percy said with a sigh. He then opened his inventory and pulled out a huge piece of steak, "Leo! Come and get it!"
Everyone turned and saw Percy there. Leo however reacted first as he let go of the bacon causing Michael to fall on his ass. "Master!" Leo cried out as he pounced on Percy.
Percy fell on his ass as Leo started to lick him all over his face. Percy grinned, "okay boy. Stop. that tickles! Haha! Here," Percy said feeding the dog the steak allowing himself the chance to get back to his feet.
"Percy! Thalia!" Annabeth cried out, "your back!"
The two demigods smiled as soon everyone came over giving them hugs and asking how they were. Percy and Thalia promised to explain later, they were exhausted from the emotional drama that just happened and wanted to do nothing more than just sit and eat with their friends.
It seemed that while Percy was gone the campers had gotten somewhat of a break. Chiron had gone easy on them all, unlike Percy who was a slave driver. They had become soft, more relaxed. Percy was sure to change that.
Annabeth had not come far when it came to decoding Argo's book, it seemed she had called on some of her siblings to help, hopeful with the help of her siblings Annabeth would be able to make some progress soon.
After lunch everyone went their own way. Thalia went to unpack and get a nap in her own bed while Percy snuck off into the Forest.
Percy stood alone in the Forest and quickly entered an empty ID. Percy sighed, he always felt safer in here, while in here the only person that existed was him, and him alone. Even though Percy had bounded so flawlessly with the other campers and now he actually had a girlfriend to spend time with, it was times like this when he was alone that Percy felt most relaxed.
'Well, might as well get the show on the road,' Percy told himself as he channeled mana into his crystal jumping into the well of souls that was inside it. Percy quickly found the ghostly grey form of Alcyoneus and smiled as he selected the giant.
Smoke poured out of the crystal as it slowly rejoined into the form of the 40 foot tall giant that Percy knew and had grown to hate.
The Giant looked down at Percy and growled. But he had no choice, the magic of the crystal compelled him. He lowered his head, "master."
Percy smirked, "rise my loyal subject." Alcyoneus did so while still sneering. "Now, let's see how powerful you really are."
Percy then pulled up Alcyoneus bio. This was the power level of a Giant, the thing which is meant to be powerful enough to take on God, and Percy now had him as a slave. This was the perfect opportunity to see what the stats of a God might look like. And what Percy saw surprised him to say the least;
Alcyoneus,
Lv-150
HP:40,000,000/40,000,000
MP: 5,000,000/5,000,000
Str-3000
Vit-1000
Dex-600
Int-900
Wis-800
Luc-201
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, but plans have changed as he now serves you.
Percy's mouth was agape at the stats this Giant possessed. Percy still can't believe he managed to take someone like this down. Granted he didn't kill him, but he still managed to knock him out. But then again he did throw a mountain at him.
Percy just then realised two things. One, Alcyoneus was his strongest servant to date, the only reason he even has him is because Zeus killed him. And two, he can never use him in a public battle. That would raise way to many questions and way too many problems for Percy.
Percy sat down as he began to think of all the things he could do with Alcyoneus. The giant was literally a gold mine, he could also teach Percy various things. Percy had always tried to learn from his servants, if they had something to teach him, and he knew Alcyoneus had something to teach him.
"Tell me about Haki," Percy spoke up.
The giant grumbled, "what do you want to know?"
"How do I obtain it?"
The giant shrugged, "hell if I know. It's something that all of us giants were born with. I assume as a mortal it would be difficult for you to use it, but I don't really know. If you want knowledge you should have enslaved my brother Enceladus, he's the brains in the family."
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Learn about Haki!
Rewards,
Haki!
Failure,
Death
Do you accept?
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes, "okay...what is it?"
Alcyoneus grumbled, "it's basically a being's presence in this world. Our will. If the world and everything in it was a cloth, we are a stain. That stain is us, our identity. We have a consciousness, a will of our own. Weaponising that will power if called haki."
Percy smirked "I thought Enceladu was the brinas in the family."
"He is," Alcyoneus grunted, "these are his words. I just repeated them."
Percy sighed, "fine. Hm...." Percy suddenly thought of something which made him grin from ear to ear, "tell me about your plans to return to power."
Alcyoneus looked frightened. Beads of oil poured down his face, it must be his version of sweating, "w-what would you like to know?"
Percy's grin turned deadly, "everything."
Alcyoneus gulped, "the plan is already set. Gaea has been contacting me for years telling me how everything has been progressing. I was the first to be raised from Tartarus, my mother has already made arrangement for my other brothers."
Percy nodded, "so what's your plan? How do you hope to accomplish this?"
"T-The Doors of Death. Gaea plans to open them to keep the monsters in the world from dying, once that's done we plan of rallying them against the Gods back in Greece, the roots of their powers."
Percy nodded, "the Doors of Death, what do they do?"
"They are basically a portal from the depths of the Underworld to the human world. With those open nothing can died, not mortal or divine."
"So you plan on useing the doors to keep your army of monsters alive and fight the Gods with them," Percy hummed, "but why? If the doors remain open it would mean that neither side would ever win. It would just be senseless war."
"It's a distraction," Alcyoneus spoke, "it is meant to lure the attention of the Gods and demigods away while we attack the real mount Olympus, the origin and the roots of the Gods' power."
"I see, very sneaky and very effective plan. Did your mother plan it all?"
The Giant nodded, "yes."
"Okay....do you think we can beat her?"
"No."
"Why is she waking up now?"
"I told the Gods this, the raising of Kronos has alerted Gaea. She believes that it is time for us to strike. Once she is fully awake we will win this world back."
"Wait, I thought you said she planned this all out, how did she do that is she is not even awake?"
"My mother is the Earth itself. The physical body is detached from her mental process, all the planning she has done is through careful manipulation of weak minded mortals."
Percy sighed, "so we can't beat her and or stop her.....is there a way to put her back to sleep?"
Alcyoneus grinned at that, "not that I know off."
"But there is a way," Percy repeated himself with narrowed eyes.
The giant sighed, "yes. I have heard Gaea speak something about a boy of fire. She never told me any of the details though but yes, there is a way."
Percy nodded, 'this could be very useful for the Giant war to come. Alcyoneus was very useful.' Suddenly a thought came into Percy's head that scared the shit out of him.
"A-Alcyoneus, you said that your mother is the Earth itself but her mind is detached and can communicate with people....does that mean she can see everything I am doing?"
The giant nodded, "yes. If you gain her attention, which is very hard to do, then she will be able to see you."
Percy played at that thought, 'okay Percy relax. She hasn't found out about you yet. Well this means one thing for sure, I can never use Alcyoneus in the real world. In my ID's I'm safe, but otherwise....I can't risk drawing her attention to me by using Alcyoneus. She would wonder why he's alive again and bamn! I get a Primordial on my case.'
Percy sighed as he recalled Alcyoneus and broke out of his ID. He had learnt a lot, he needed to be ready, and not just that, he needed to make sure the camps were ready.
Ping!
Two of your skills have leveled up!
ID Create, Lv-23 (1%)
Used to create Instant Dungeons. Higher the level, stronger the dungeon.
Current list—
Empty Dungeon— no monsters.
Monster Dungeon— Zombies
Monster Dungeon— Goblin Camp
Arena Dungeon — Mountain/ Island/ Swamp/ Forest/ Plains
Empty Dungeon — Time dilation (1/4)
ID Escape, Lv-23 (1%)
Used to escape from Instant Dungeons.
Percy smiled as he swiped the boxes away. He looked down at his hands and wondered, 'I wonder if I can summon some gold right this moment.'
Percy didn't know what to do exactly, so he just followed his instincts. He put his right hand forward, the one with the ring of Alcyoneus on it. He focused on the image of a bar of gold in his head and felt his mana pour out of him and into the ground.
Percy felt some kind of pull behind his navel, and he did the only logical thing, he pulled back.
Ping!
You have spent 500 MP to summon: Gold!
Slowly the ground in front of him started to split open as a rough impure glob of metal came up past the dirt. It looked so ordinary that Percy actually thought he had failed to bring up some real gold, but he realised that the gold he brought up was just impure, it was covered with mud and other types of impurities.
