"Go on," Poseidon prompted, "put it on." Percy nodded as he made to remove his watch and armband of Cerberus when Poseidon stopped him, "leave them on."
Percy looked at his father confused, "there doesn't really seem to be enough space for them. Are you sure-"
"Yes, yes, now put the damn gauntlet on, I want to see if it works," Poseidon said sheepishly as he motioned Percy to hurry up.
Percy wondered why his dad was in such a hurry be he shrugged it off, crazy Gods. He put the gauntlet on and was surprised to find that his watch and bracelet didn't scratch the inside, hell it barely felt like he was wearing anything at all. He could however feel his hand push up against the gauntlet, but it never felt something resisted him, it was like it went on forever.
"This is amazing," Percy said moving his wrist around getting a feel of the gauntlet, "it doesn't' even feel like I'm wearing it."
Poseidon grinned, "yes it is charmed to feel like that. Think of it as space being compressed multiple times in one point, this skill is called, 'Spatial Deflection', but I just like to call it the bigger on the inside charm."
Percy nodded as he suddenly realised why the metal seemed familiar, "did you make this out of the Galvron I gave you?"
Poseidon grinned, "yup. The metal is pure galvron, mostly. The rest is a mix of celestial bronze and imperial gold. The cloth on the other hand, well that's Galvron mixed in with some of Athena's personal silk collection, virtually indestructible and it feels like silk to the normal touch."
Percy blinked, "dad....that sounds super expensive."
Poseidon grinned, "I know, I'm awesome. But after you defeated Alcyoneus Hades felt indebted to you. So he offered to pay up his debt to you by giving me the raw supplies to build your armour. Don't ask how I got the silk...just don't."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "armor?"
Poseidon grinned, "why don't you go ahead and observe your new gift Percy. I assure you, you won't be confused anymore if you do."
Percy did just that;
Percy's gauntlet;
This gauntlet is the basic form of Percy's armour. It is made out of Galvron and a combination of other metals. The cloth is a combination of Athena's divine silk and Galvron.
Features;
Can only be used by Percy or who ever he gives permission to.
It has a storage space present underneath the metal forearm plate, slide to access.
Currently being stored— 2 pens, a box of Nectar and Ambrosia.
It has electromagnets and a charm present in the metal forearm plate that will automatically summon or repel your shield.
The cloth can become as hard as metal, simply channel mana into it.
Percy stopped right there as he immediately wanted to try out all the gauntlet just said. He looked at the metal plate around his forearm and pressed on it. It was pushed in and clicked, sliding open revealing the hidden compartment inside.
"Ah, so that's what you wanted to see first." Poseidon smiled, "well you see I figured you needed a few extra weapons, just in case something happened to Waverider and Riptide. Sure you have your inventory, but incase you are unable to use it, this might be helpful."
Percy nodded dumbly as he looked in the storage spot, which was 4 inches deep. Percy remembered what his dad said, 'it is bigger on the inside.' That explained how a four inch deep storage compartment could be in his gauntlet.
Percy then looked what was stored there. Like the description said there were two golden pens stored in there, they looked almost exactly like Riptide, except more...new? Yeah, new. And next to the pens was a tin box containing a square of Ambrosia that was dipped in Nectar.
Percy then closed the compartment and began to channel mana into the cloth on his hands. Suddenly the smooth, almost silk like, material turned hard. It felt like Percy was wearing chain mail, thick, but not that heavy. The smooth silk curved jagged, taking on an almost fish-scale like appearance. That wasn't the only new feature as Percy found metals caps over his knuckles. They must appear when he activates the clothes hard mode.
Percy deactivated the enhanced cloth and turned back to reading the info box for the gauntlet;
Special features;
Activate Arm gaurd mode— Transform you gauntlet into its arm gaurd mode. To activate say, 'Wave.'
Activate full Armour mode— Transform you gauntlet into it's armour mode. To activate say, 'Tsunami.'
Deactivate— Say 'Low tide.'
Percy blinked as he snapped his head to his dad, "dad.....did you make me an armour?"
Poseidon grinned, "hell yeah I did." Percy turned from his father to his gauntlet and simply started with his mouth open. "Well?" Poseidon asked him, "what are you waiting for?"
Percy grinned, "Tsunami!"
The gauntlet glowed blue as suddenly it exploded into motion. Percy saw more than felt peice of armour come out of the gauntlet and flow into their place. The silk and metal moved separately. The silk moved like a fast stream of water as it coated Percy's entire body in a few seconds flat. The metal on the other hand were like boats that sailed on the silk, moving to where they needed to go.
Percy felt the chest piece slide into places as suddenly the silk jumped up and sewed itself into the metal, blowing blue where the silk metal metal. The chest peice then moved as it suddenly expanded meeting with the pieces of metal on Percy's abdomen and fusing with them forming one whole piece of greek style armour that ended slightly below Percy's shoulders.
On Percy's right hand came a gauntlet similar to the one on his left, though a bit smaller in size. There was no metal on Percy's biceps and triceps allowing him for a full range of motion with his arms.
Soon his trunks was covered with the armour as a belt snapped into place taking the form of a plain band of white that broke apart the constant black suit.
Percy's legs didn't have any more metal on them, most of it was just silk, the this cloth seemed thicker, like the kind Percy found in his friction proof suit. He had knee gaurd that looked very sharp and a set of shin guards that came to his upper shin. His shoes were exactly like his fric shoes, down to the pattern on the soles, except these were again black and blue keeping with the theme.
Just then Percy felt something creep on his face, the silk covered his ears and hair leaving only the front half of his face free. Suddenly a large metal dome closed down on Percy's vision shutting close.
Percy could see through two holes in, what he assumes, is the helmet. Percy looked looked down and moved his arm around, "woah."
Ping!
Armour activated!
+20% MP
+10% HP
+70% Elvish magic
+5 Dex
+2 Str
+3 Vit
+2 levels for water, ice, shadow and earthquake control
Percy looked at all that and couldn't help muttering the words that came to his mouth, "fuck me!"
Poseidon grin grew even bigger, which almost seemed impossible, "I hope you like the design, I made it myself."
"You made this?!"
"Well not physically," Poseidon admitted, "I did design how it should look and all that but my forgers took care of the actually creating."
"Still," Percy looked down, "this is so cool!" Percy immediately summoned a block of ice in front of himself forming a mirror to check himself out.
If he had to describe himself in one word it would be cool. On his chest peice was the form of Waverider expertly designed into it, it looked so much like the real thing it was scary. The helmet in was a full mask one, kind of like a great helm except more streamlined. Percy could see a fin like structure on both sides of his helmet and a large on the top back. It reminded him of a shark, two small fins in the side and one large one on top.
The one thing that Percy didn't notice though was the cape that he now had. The cape was black with its ends attached to pins near his neck. It looked similar to his armour cloth, but much more thicker.
Percy then Observed his armour;
Percy's armour;
Armour made out of Galvron and a combination of other metals. The cloth is a combination of Athena's divine silk and Galvron.
Features—
Enchanted to be resistant even under extreme weather conditions.
Flame proof
Water proof
The cloth can become as hard as metal, simply channel mana into it.
Friction proof
Defence— Indestructible
Boots—
+20% MP
+10% HP
+70% Elvish magic
+5 Dex
+2 Str
+3 Vit
+2 levels for water, ice, shadow and earthquake control
Special feature—
God Mode—
Will give you +50 points to all stats and 9 million defence points
Cost— all your mana, leaving you unable to use your mana while in this mode. -20 to all stats after use.
Time limit— 5 minutes
Percy's cape;
Cape made out of a combination of Galvron, Athena's silk and celestial bronze.
Feature—
Memory cloth— While usually it is a normal flexible cloth, if one was to pass mana through it, the cloth will take on whatever form said user choices. The cloth will also become as hard, provided a passable level of defence
100 MP— Iron hard
500 MP— Steel hard
1000 MP— Chromium hard
1500 MP— Quartz hard
2000 MP— Diamond hard
"Dad this thing has enough stats to make a normal human on par with the average demigod!"
Poseidon grinned, "thats why I keyed it to only you and whoever you give permission to. No one else can activate it, let alone use the gauntlet."
"How do I take this off?" Percy asked pointing at his helmet.
"The button is on the temple," Poseidon supplied.
Percy pressed on his right temple causing a screen to slide down. The helmet's eyes sockets started to glow blue as Percy saw a virtual screen in front of him that showed his life and mana bar in the corner along with a mini map.
"What the hell?" Percy asked looking at the health and mana bar. It was perfect, it told him exactly how much mana he had and how much he was recovering on a per second basis.
"Ah yes, the hud screen. Something the Fates suggested I do."
"You talked to the Fates?"
"More like they talked to me," Poseidon said with a shrug, "anyway, they gave me the spell to use on the screen. They told me it would help you know how much energy you had let behind. It a Gamer thing right?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, something like that." Percy pressed the button on the right again deactivating the screen. The helmet's eye sockets stopped glowing as Percy's vision returned to normal. He then pressed the button on his left temple causing the helmet to pop open revealing Percy's face.
"So...what do you think?" Poseidon asked eagerly.
Percy looked down, "dad....I don't know what to say. This armour it's......is amazing."
Poseidon nodded, "I know, I made sure you only had the best. It was easly with the Galvron, the metal is a great mana conductor so I was able to put in a tone of enchantments. This is probably one of the best forged pieces of armor in the entirety of Atlantis."
Percy quickly hugged his dad pulling him close, "thanks dad...this is....this is the best gift I have ever gotten."
Poseidon grinned, "you made me proud Percy," the God broke the hug and looked Percy in the eyes, "I don't have many son's that have been....necessarily good people. They were never respected much in the Greek world but you.....you have made me proud son."
Percy smiled, "thanks dad."
Poseidon grinned, "anytime.
"Although.....the cape is a little....too much?"
Poseidon sighed, "I'll admit, it is more Roman than Greek, but you are the head of the oncoming war Percy. Both the Greeks and the Romans look up to you. You're their hero, so you need to at least look the part."
Percy wanted to argue but he knew Poseidon was right. So instead he just sighed, "yeah, you're right, I guess."
Poseidon nodded, "though if you want to remove it, all you have to do is," Poseidon reached behind Percy's armour and pressed a rune below the back of his neck causing the cape to retract back into the shoulder pins they came out of.
Percy grinned, "cool, everyone else is going to be so jealous."
Poseidon chuckled, "yes, yes, I am sure they will be. Speaking of the demigods I do believe the rest of them have arrived, meaning it is time for me to go."
Percy looked over and saw a couple of demigods unchanged and ready. Percy nodded, "right, Low Tide," he said deactivating his armour causing all of it to pour back into his left gauntlet leaving Percy in his trunks and flip flops.
"Have a great birthday son," Poseidon told Percy giving him another hug.
"Thanks dad," Percy replied, "and thanks again for this amazing gift, I promise, I won't let you down."
Poseidon grinned, "I know you won't." The God then disappeared in a flash of light leaving Percy alone.
The demigod quickly threw his new gauntlet into his inventory and walked back to his fellow demigods, he would learn to use his new armor later, but for now it was time to relax and have fun.
Percy walked back to the demigods, it seemed only the guys were ready along with a few girls. Percy went to Michael who, along with Travis and Conner, was busy ogling Katie Gardener who was wearing a green two piece.
Percy sighed, "you know if you three stare any harder you might burn a hole into her bikin."
"Shut up Percy!" Michael hissed, "don't say that out loud! We don't want her to find out!"
Percy rolled his eyes but remained quite. But they did have a point, Katie was hot. She was extremely gifted in the chest department, one couldn't tell before due to all the baggy clothes she wore, but Katie had some great big melons on her. But that didn't mean Percy perved on her, no he didn't, he had far too much of a healthy fear of his girlfriend to do that.
But Katie wasn't the only good looking girl in the group, in fact almost all the campers were good looking with very athletic bodies. But then again they were all the children of the Gods, so it made sense that they all looked beautiful or handsome. Plus they trained everyday, hell Percy was surprised that camp half-blood wasn't just one big orgy party 24/7. Sure a few people did it, mostly couples or children of Aphrodite, but over all it was just like any normal teenage camp. You know if a normal teenage camp fought monsters and controlled the very elements.
"Damn look at Clarisse," Travis said out loud pointing at the daughter of war who had just come out of changing room.
Why Clarisse wasn't what one would call a....classical beauty, she was very sexy in her own right. Clarisse's' body was trimmed of all fat with tightly packed muscle. Her breasts weren't huge like Katie's but her ass was very firm. She wore a red two piece bikini with black straps that showed of her trained body. There was something to be said about a girl with ab's, and judging by the way Michael's jaw was hanging Percy believed he liked it.
