"So what's the plan for tomorrow?" Thalia asked.
"Well I suppose they could all use a break," Percy said with a smile which caused all the demigods sigh in relief, "so it's back to training with me."
"What?!" Michael cried out, "but you said we were going to take a break!"
Percy nodded, "I know. Training with me is your break. Or would you prefer working with Mera?"
The demigods in camp all shook their heads at once. Percy smirked, "thought so."
Mera smiled, "you certainly have the charisma of a prince, Percy. You would make a fine ruler of Atlantis, though you may not like to admit it."
"Yeah he has charisma in spades," Annabeth said rolling her eyes, "he also has plenty of idiotic tendencies, a thing for forgetting about people and an aptitude for pissing people off. Oh and let's not forget the way he always ends up causing more trouble for himself."
"Hey I don't.....," Percy put his head down in defeat, "never mind."
The camp laughed at him while Mera frowned, "well that may be, but every great person has his flaws. And besides," Mera grabbed Percy's arm and held it between her boobs, "all of those flaws just makes him all the more cuter."
The camp went blank at that statement as they just stared at what happened. The boys were envious and a few girls, Bianca and Nina, hide their anger under blank faces. Thalia on the other hand did no such thing.
"That's it!" Thalia roared out as she stood up. The smell of ozone filled the air around her as the campers all moved away not wanting to get caught in the path of her anger. "Get your stinking seaweed hands off my boyfriend!"
The entire camp gasped at that as half of them looked on in surprise while the other half just still couldn't' believe what Thalia just said.
"What?" Mera said as she stood up folding her arms, "what do you mean he's your boyfriend? I was not aware prince Percy was courting anyone."
"Well he is!" Thalia said as a sharp gust of wind blew through the campground, "me! Not get off of him you bimbo before I zap you into next week!"
"I don't believe you!" Mera huffed, "price Percy would never date-"
"-Oh for the love of the Gods," Thalia grabbed Percy by collar and pulled him up. She then grabbed his face and smashed their lips together. Percy was surprised at first but quickly got into it as he wrapped his arms around Thalia kissing her deeply.
The camp and Mera looked on in surprise or horror. The girls who liked Percy looked like they were about to faint. Bianca did fait. Annabeth smirked, 'about time.' Michael looked like he had just looked into Medusa's eyes while Clarisse just shrugged.
Thalia broke the kiss and turned to Mera, "there. Now do you believe me?!"
Kind of a slow chapter but whatever, it is what it is. And I enjoyed it. And it seems everything is voting, that's nice. I'll keep the polls open for about 2 more weeks, just to be sure.
Also to the guy who suggested getting sex skills via porn due to photographic reflexes...I like the way you think boy. P.M. and I'll give you credit for when that chapter comes out. And you beat your ass I'm useing that idea!
Anyway, see you next week faithful readers! Also tomorrow is Monday, meaning another week of work, so send me lots of reviews to wake up to.
Chapter 45
Chapter 45:
After Thalia kissed him and told everyone that they were dating things had become a little....complicated to say the least.
Most of the campers were shocked beyond belief and had started barraging them with questions. Percy and Thalia had answered them all to the best of their abilities and in the end everything turned out alright.
No one really had any problems with them being together, and if they did they didn't voice it. Mera did glare at them a lot, but Thalia didn't mind. Every time the mermaid looked at her and Percy the daughter of Zeus made sure to kiss or flirt with Percy just to rub it in.
Bianca had become....quite to say the least. The girl had not spoken to Percy at all after the incident and had become very quiet. Percy often asked Nico to make sure Bianca was alright and the boy promised to do tell him if anything happened to her.
And Nina......well Nina didn't really give any outward signs of anger or disapproval, she just carried on like nothing had changed.
Percy sighed, 'life just got so much more complicated.'
"Death's wind!"
Percy moved to the side as Zed's blade landed right where he was standing. The ground cracked underneath the weight of the blade adding to the destroyed landscaped on which they fought.
"Your movements are still too slow Zed," Percy commented as he used his telekinetic abilities to pick up a rock from the ground and slam it into Zed head.
"Ouch!" Zed whined, "that hurt."
"I know, it was supposed t-"
Warning! At—
Percy was already moving as he blocked a strike from behind with Waverider in sword mode. The attacker was Craig, the Damned Knight, and he pushed the blade down with all his might, but Percy held his ground, "nice, you almost got me."
Craig didn't say anything as he and Percy began to fight each other. Their blades clashed as sparks came out from each clash. Percy managed to disengage from Craig's blows and sent more rocks up from the ground distracting the knight while Percy ran away.
The entire ground on which they fought on had been destroyed by Percy's powers over the Earth. Ever since Percy had heard how one of his half-brother's almost destroyed the San Francisco Bay Area he wanted to increase his Earthquake control.
Of course he only ever used them while in an Empty ID. Hence every single training session Percy had these days involved him breaking the ground with his powers.
"Damn boss, you're getting better at this," Zed said twirling his blade. Craig was by his side but said nothing.
"Alright then," Percy said reading his blade, "begin."
Zed and Craig charged at once. Percy hit Zed first as he blocked his strike and kicked him away. Percy turned to engage Craig but the knight had moved backwards. Percy kept moving forwards to engage the Knight but Craig skillfully avoided combat.
Percy sent a kick at Craig's head, the knight blocked it and tossed Percy to the ground. Percy threw himself forward and swung Waverider widely, spinning it around in his hand causing it to transform into a trident and hit a surprised Craig with its increased range.
Percy had been practising using both modes of his weapon, the fact that he can switch between it's two forms gave him a great advantage in surprising his enemies.
Craig jumped back as he looked at his chipped shoulder. The Knight grunted as he leveled his blade at Percy. The two stared down each other as moments passed, no one moved.
Craig launched himself at Percy so fast he seemed like a black blur. Percy waited until the last second when Craig was finally upon him to make his move. Craig swung down at Percy aiming at his neck, but the blade hit the ground without cutting anything.
Craig pulled the blade up and looked around in confusion, it was like Percy just disappeared. Just then Waverider exploded out of Craig's chest cavity as the knight fell to his knees. And there stood Percy right behind him as he ripped his trident out of the servant.
Craig slowly dissolved into nothing while Zed got ready to charge him, Percy sighed and simply used his telekinesis to pick Zed up and smash him into the ground over and over until he too turned into smoke.
Ping!
A skill of yours has leveled up!
Telekinesis, Lv-12 (80%)
The physic ability to move objects with your mind.
Range— 50 feet
Max weight— 500 Pounds
Cost -30MP
Carrying Multiple item, Lv-3 — Carry multiple items, Max— 9
Percy smiled as he pushed the screen to the side. It had been a month since the kiss and since then Percy had been improving anything and everything he could. The training with Craig and Zed was mainly to try out new methods of battle while also improving on fighting skills he already had.
Since Percy had been switching between using a sword and a spear, which the trident skill fell under, he ended up leveling up both at the same time;
Sword Mastery, Lv-20 (40%)
Allows user to freely handle swords.
100% more damage when using swords.
Spear Mastery, Lv— 17 (0%)
Allows user to freely handle spears or spear like weapons
85% more damage when using spears or spear like weapons
Trident, Lv— 3, 20% efficiency
Percy still wasn't used to the whole spear/trident thing, but it didn't really matter to him. He had time, that was all he needed to get there.
Percy also ended up increasing his Earthquake powers due to their constant use, though admittedly not by much;
Earthquake control, Lv-14 (90%)
You can cause an Earthquake through any part of your body.
Attack— 1,200
Cost 100 MP
Magnitude-3.0
Earth mover— by pushing your earthquake mana into the ground you may cause tremors by becoming the focal point of the own earthquake. Effects whole areas resulting in varying levels of damage, Max— 2500 Attack
Percy had also been training another perk of his, something he hadn't realised he could use. In all honestly he had forgotten he even had it, he had way to many abilities to keep track off;
Flying Thunder God— Allows a short burst of speed that is similar to teleportation. Limit— range of 210 meters.
Percy was honestly excited about this perk when he first started using it. But then came a problem. Percy assumed it was going to similar to Speed Demon and he would be able to control it easily....that was not the case.
The burst of speed that the perk gave was so much that the first time Percy teleported he ended up crashing into a tree. Sure nothing happened to him, but that wasn't the point. He didn't have any control over it, it was like the perk turned him into a bullet being fired from a gun.
And that was the problem, he didn't exactly have a way to know where he was going. Short distances like 3 or 4 feet wasn't a problem, he could easily visualize it and stay in control. And yes, his limit was 210 meters, but that didn't mean Percy could actually safely travel that distance.
He needed a way to anchor himself to where he had to go, like a marker or something. So far he didn't get any ideas, so for now Percy stuck to short range movements, he would not use this skill in combat, it is way too risky.
Percy put away Waverider and activated his super speed zooming into the Forest which was unharmed by his battle with Zed and Craig. Inside he saw Thalia floating in mid air with Timmy by her side.
"Good, you're not wasting any mana, that's good," Timmy nodded in approval, "let's move on to vacuum spears."
Thalia nodded as she slowly let herself down. Percy smiled and stayed in the shadow's of the trees, he didn't want to interrupt.
Thalia took of her jacket and put her hands forwards. She focused her mana and shouted, "VACUUM SPHERE!" Slowly all the air around her hands disappeared as a ball of vacuum formed in her hand. Thalia strained to maintain it, but maintain it she did.
The sphere was like a ball of exploding energy, the winds that was being forced into and out of the sphere caused a storm of sorts on the surface of the sphere. The winds were sharp and deadly enough to cut skin. Unfortunately Thalia learnt that the hard way. But nowadays she learnt how to control the winds better.
"Good, now throw it."
Thalia nodded as she pulled her hands over her head before throwing the sphere at a nearby tree. The sphere flew like a beach ball, slowly. But the moment it touched the tree the air around the sphere shredded the bark of the tree. It dug into the trunk ripping apart anything and everything in it's path until it burst through the other side.
Timmy nodded again, "good. Maybe next time we can go into creating vacuum blades."
"Right," Thalia said nodding. Percy chose this moment to walk in and make his presence known.
"That was awesome Thalia," Percy said with smirk.
"Hey Percy," Thalia said as she put on her jacket, "finished so soon?"
Percy nodded, "yup," he snapped his fingers causing Timmy to disappear in a puff of smoke, "I managed to beat Craig quicker this time. I'm pretty sure my sword skills are probably better than his right now. I might need a new sparring partner soon."
"Hmm, mayb you can ask Ares. I'm sure he accept any offer that involved kicking your ass," Thalia kissed Percy, "so, lying time?"
Percy nodded, "lying time."
Thalia sighed as she sat down on the ground as Percy sat next to her, "I still don't like this game."
"I told you, it helps me increase my lie detection skills."
"I still don't like it."
This 'game' Percy had made up was something he thought of in the shower. Percy was wondering how to increase his lie detection skills when suddenly it came to him, just have someone lie to him.
Percy managed to convince Thalia to help him, and so every time after their respective training sessions they both sat down and played the lying game, where Thalia would only tell him lies.
"I think your ugly," Thalia started.
Lie detected!
"Thanks."
"I also think that you have very bad hair, and I do not want to run my hands through it."
Lie detected!
"Hm, you trying to seduce me?"
"No."
Lie detected!
"What do you like about me?"
"I hate the fact that you care about me."
Lie detected!
"What do you hate about me?"
"I love the fact that you sometimes act super bossy. That just turns me on."
Lie detected!
"Well then what does turn you on?"
"I hate the way you kiss my neck, total turn off."
Lie detected!
"Okay....do you also hate the way I grab you ass every time we make out?" Percy asked with a cheeky smile.
Thalia blushed, "...yes."
Lie detected!
Percy grinned, "nice to know."
Ping!
Your skill has leveled up!
Lie detection, Lv— 10 (2%)
You can detect lies said to you, 55% chance of success.
Percy blinked, "and we are done."
Thalia was surprised, "really? Already?"
Percy shrugged, "it makes sense. The skill didn't level up the last two times we did it. We were bound for a level up."
Thalia nodded, "sweet. So what's the chance of detection now?"
"55%."
Thalia whistled, "not bad. Not foolproof, but still, not bad."
"Right," he pushed the screen away, "ready to leave?"
"How long have we been in here?"
Percy did some mental math, "about 4 hours. Meaning only one hour has passed outside."
Thalia nodded, "right then, it should be around breakfast time now."
Percy nodded as he grabbed Thalia and took her out of the time dilution ID. Percy turned to the sky and saw the sun slowly raise out of the horizon, they had made it just in time for breakfast.
