Percy nodded, "yeah, I know." He turned and walked away, 'okay, I am so finding those two now. I was before, but now it's personal.'
He put Leo on leash again and walked out, much to the disappointment of the dog. Once they were outside the apartment Leo barked, "why did we leave so soon?"
"Because we got a job to do boy," Percy told him as he walked Leo to a nearby alleyway, "some bad men have taken two nice kids. The pretty lady and the sugar guy are looking for them, and mama what's us to help. So, what do you say Leo?"
Leo snarled, "where do we start?"
Percy grinned as he opened his inventory, "good boy."
A few minutes later;
Percy and Leo walked around the dock's looking for suspicious looking people. But then again this was the docks, if you don't see shady looking people hanging around your not looking in the right place.
Percy focused on people and their titles, he was looking for someone who could get him information.
"This place stinks," Leo whined, "it's really hurting my nose."
"If you want I can put you inside my inventory again," Percy spoke looking around, "I'll take you out when I need your help."
"No," Leo snarled, "mama wants these people found and I'm going to help you. After all it's my job, what's the point of a Alpha if he can't even protect his Beta?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "ah, I think you got that confused Leo, I'm the Alpha, you're the Beta."
Leo huffed, "no I'm the Alpha, you're the Beta. You pick up my poop don't you?"
"Yeah, but that's because it's what humans do."
"You also feed me whenever I ask you."
"Yeah but that's because you whine like a bitch if I don't."
"You take me out on walks."
"Yeah, and I'll remind you whenever we are on these 'walks' and you bite off more then you can chew I am the one who saves your tail."
"So what? What's the point of a Beta if he isn't willing to risk his life to save yours?"
"I risk my life to save yours because I care about you Leo."
"Yes you care about me, like a subordinate cares for his boss."
"You are not my boss."
"Yes I am."
"No you are not, in fact you have called be boss and master several times."
"I just do that to improve your self esteem."
"I don't need you to improve my self esteem."
"Yes you do. I make you feel important and in return you do everything I ask."
"Not all the time."
"But you still do it."
"Yeah because I want to, not because I have to."
"No, you do it because I tell you and you are afraid of me."
"Dude I've been insulting you since the day we meet. What part of that makes you think I'm afraid of you?"
"You do whatever I say whenever I threatened you."
"Yeah, but only because you threaten to tell Thalia I was abusing you. She's the one I'm afraid off."
"So....she's the Alpha?"
Percy blinked, "huh, guess she is." Just then Percy noticed somebody hanging around in the corner of his eye. He leaned back on the side of a building smoking a cigar. He had pink hair, bright pink, it was shaped into a mohawk, if his hair didn't scream, 'delinquent' his clothes sure did. His jacket kind of looked like a fucked up version of Thalia's own, spiky all over with several badges crudely sewn on.
Derek Congo, D-C
Lv— 12
Percy smiled, he looked like the kind of guy who was willing to do anything for money, just what Percy needed.
Percy and Leo walked up to the man and he glared as they got closer. He dropped his smoke and put it out under his steel toed boot.
"What the fuck do you want?"
Percy opened his inventory and put it behind his body. He reached back and mentally took out a hundred dollar bill and waved it in front of Derek, "information, D-C" Percy added the last part to make it sound like like he knew who he was, after all, information was power.
"Who sent you?"
"Does it matter?"
D-C shrugged, "guess not," he reached for the money but Percy snatched it back.
"Where can I find the biker gang known as the Hounds?"
"Are you a cop?"
"No. Why?"
"Because you have to tell me if you are, it's a rule."
"Actually that's a lie, cops don't actually have to tell you that, they are allowed to lie."
D-C raised an eyebrow, "oh....so that means you can be a cop."
"Do I look like a cop?"
"Don't know, they can look very young," D-C eyed Leo who snarled at him, "and I'm not a big fan of your mut ether."
"Look just tell me what I want to know and I'll be out of your neon pink hair," Percy waved the cash in front of D-C again, "where are the Hounds?"
"Why? You looking to score some blow? Because if you are I know a guy who can get you better stuff then the shit the Hounds are tossing."
Percy raised an eyebrow, 'wasn't this guy just a moment ago wanting to know if i am a cop or not? Now he's openly admitting he has connections to a drug ring? Seriously kids, don't do drugs.'
"No, thanks," Percy repeated, "just the Hound's."
The man scoffed, "go three blocks down and take a right. They hang out a pub called 'The BOX', now cash," he extended his hands and Percy sighed as he slid the note into the amns' palms. "Thanks kid," he tucked the cash into his pocket and walked away leaving Percy and Leo alone.
Percy probably shouldn't have given the criminal money, he could have just used force to get the info. But he didn't really feel like it, after all if his guess was right D-C is probably just going to smoke it all up later, hopefully he'll die from lung cancer or something.
"Come on boy, we got ourselves a lead," Percy spoke as Leo barked in confirmation.
Percy quickly found what he was looking for. The BOX was a shit stain of a building. It smelt bad, even from the outside, it looked like the kind of place where even rats and cockroaches would avoid.
Percy turned to Leo, "stay here."
"You sure?"
Percy nodded, "I killed the Minotaur when I was 12 Leo. I doubt a couple of bikers can scare me, I got this."
Percy walked into the club and was immediately hit with the smell of alcohol. It was 12 in the morning but the place smelt like beer and cigars. Percy walked into the club and saw around 30 men and women dressed in leather with tattoos and piercing.
On all their jacket's was the logo of a hound with the words, 'Ride free or die tryin,' written around the picture framing it. Percy could tell that each one was armed with at least a handgun, one even carried a baseball bat with a spiked wire running around it's length.
The moment Percy stepped everything in there stopped as they turned to look at him. Percy raised an eyebrow at this reaction, 'so this is how a western saloon would react to a stranger walking into the bar.'
"No minors allowed kid," the bartender, a black fat guy with a stained white shouted, "get the fuck out!"
"What about her?" Percy asked pointing to a young girl suited up in biker gear sitting on the bench nursing what looked like a glass of beer. She had brown eyes, a nasty glare and bright pink hair, seriously what is it with people and pink hair? "I'm pretty sure she's what, 15? 16?"
"She's old enough," snapped a man standing next to her, "and you are not."
Percy turned to the man who shouted at him, the name James Howllet hung above his head. The man looked around Percy's height if not shorter, but his muscles stretched his shirt and jeans out. Percy figured the man must be a body builder or something. He looked at the man's name and then the girl, Jinna Howllet.
'Father and daughter?' Percy wondered in surprise, 'this is sure a hell of a bad place for them to bond. But my dad and I spend our bonding time killing monsters so who the hell am I to judge?'
"Look I just came for some information, okay? I'm looking for someone, well two someones actually. A guy named Mark Rebowl and a girl named Angelina Rebowl, their brother and sister. Anyone heard of them?"
"I know Mark," Jinna spat out in a drunk slur, "fucker dumped me a few days ago."
Percy blinked, "you and him were....together?"
"Yeah, why?" Jinna glared at Percy, "is it because I dyed my hair and my dad is in a gang? What, is it hard to imagine a farmer boy like Mark and I have anything in common? Or do you think I'm some kind of slut who just sleeps with any guys she sees?!"
Percy blinked, "ah, no, I didn't think that! Damn lady, I was just thinking since he lives far away it would be difficult for you two to get together is all!"
"Wait...so you don't think I'm a slut?"
"NO!"
Jinna smiled, "you're nice, I like you. Be my boyfriend."
Percy turned to the barkeeper, "how much did she have to drink?"
"A full bottle."
"Of beer?"
"Kid, that's whiskey," the barkeeper pointed at her glass.
Percy blinked, "huh....thought the foam was a little flat."
The barkeep nodded sadly, "she's been drinking ever since Mark dumped her. Poor girl, thought she finally found someone who would like her for her. Sigh, good kid too. He would visit her every time he was in town to see his sister."
"So his sister knew as well?" Percy asked.
"Yeah, and she didn't like it, but she knew if she stopped it Mark would just run away or something."
"Look kid we don't know where Mark or his sister is okay?" James snapped, tired of being ignored, "the cops are looking for them as well, so bug off!"
"Dad! Don't tell my new boyfriend to bug off!" Jinna screamed, "we're in love!"
Percy blinked in confusion, "I'm sorry what?"
"Honey he's not your boyfriend, you just meet this kid," James told her slowly.
"No! We are soul mates! He doesn't think I'm a slut dad! We're perfect!"
Percy blinked, 'this girl is pretty fucked up in the head, and this is coming from the guy whose best friend is Michael.'
"So-ah, a quick question, if you guys didn't do anything to Mark and Angelina, who did?"
"We don't' know," the barkeep said with a shrug, "last we heard from him the kid was at home."
Percy nodded, "I see....so he didn't try to buy drugs off of you guys?"
"Who Mark?" a biker from the crowd asked, "hell no, the kid was clean as a whistle."
"That's why I liked him," Jinna mumbled as she slowly looked at Percy, "I think I can like you too," she leaned towards Percy to try and kiss him, the stench of alcohol rolled off her lips.
"Ah...I, ah, have a girlfriend," Percy said stepping back.
"Don't care," Jinna huffed, "I'll kick her ass."
"Yeh that's not happening," Percy chuckled, "she crazy strong."
"I'm stronger," Jinna growled out, "I can take anyone."
Percy blinked, "right..." he turned to James, "look one more question and I'll leave, did you guys try to kill the Rebowls?"
James chuckled, "nah, not kill them, just scare them off."
"Wait so you did try and kill them?"
"Please, I didn't even aim at them, I aimed at a tree five feet to their left," James chuckled, "fuckers nearly shit themselves."
"Why did you do that?!"
"Their boy dumped my girl!" James snarled, "no one dumps my girl!"
"You could have killed them!"
"Well I didn't!"
"Daddy!" Jinna shouted as she got up on her wobbly feet, "don't shout at my new boyfriend!"
"He's not your boyfriend."
"I'm not your boyfriend," Percy told her while he turned to James, "did you guys ever come and visit Mark at his house?"
"No, never," James, "didn't want to mis the kid up in our lives. Jinna insisted."
"I see...." Percy began to think, 'this doesn't make any sense. Mark was suspected by buying drugs from these guys, but they didn't sell him any. They were also reported to drive by Angelina's place every once in awhile, but that's not true either. And I get why Jinna would want that, she sees Mark as something good in her life which she doesn't want to harm, so she would infact go through all the efforts to make sure those two parts of her life never interacted. So then...who's lying? Who reported Mark meeting up with the gang in the first place? Who said he was....the roommate. Of course, it's always the roommate.'
"You have Mark's home address?" Percy asked the barkeeper. The man nodded as he scribbled it down on a piece of paper and gave it to Percy. The son of Poseidon read it and memorised it before putting it in his pocket.
"Thanks...well..... see you all later," Percy waved as he turned to walk out.
"Wait!" Jinna called out, "kiss me!"
Percy blinked, "yeah, no. My girlfriend would kill me."
"I said kiss me!" Jinna shouted as she jumped at Percy trying to grab him by his jacket's collar.
"Woman get of me!" Percy shouted pushing her away. Jinna tripped and fell backwards knocking herself unconscious. Percy looked at her and then at the rest of the bar as a wave of Bloodlust flowed out of them and towards him, "that was totally not supposed to happen."
"I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!" James roared out.
"Ah, gotta blast! Thanks for this info!" Percy turned and ran. Leo blinked in wonder, but before he could do or say anything Percy wrapped his arms around the large dog and using his super strength he carried him away from the pub.
Just then several of the biker gang member run out of the pub with chains and bats. James stood at the lead as he snarled, "get him!"
"Oh fuck me!" Percy cried out as he turned into an alley way and went super speed blasting away with Leo in hand. By the time the bikers came to the alley all they saw was a strong gust of wind picking up all the trash in the alley.
Midtown;
Percy stopped at an alley in Midtown and put Leo down. The dog immediately started to puke out his lunch on the side of the alley panting, "never. Do. That. Again."
"Sorry boy, it was an emergency," Percy told him as he used his healing powers to bring Leo up to perfect health. Guess this just proved that Percy should definitely not carry anyone when going super speed.
After Leo recovered, and Percy feed him a large plate of bacon, they were off. Percy had ran them towards Angelina's apartment, he needed to talk to this lying roommate.
The apartment complex itself was old, probably was built in the 1940's or something. It was a dump, a big nasty dump. Guess that's how a teenager can afford a place in Midtown.
Angelina lived in the ground floor, Percy stood in front of the door and turned to Leo, "be weary, we need to find out if she knows anything about the missing kids. So if you smell something that shouldn't be here, or hear something strange, tell me."
Leo nodded, "got it."
Percy nodded back and turned to the door. He knocked on it gently and waited.
"Coming!" a voice came out from the inside. After a few seconds of shuffling feet the door swung open and there stood a young woman with a towel wrapped around her blonde hair and a large shirt drapped over her petite body. She had a very perk set of breasts, not that Percy was looking, no sir, he also didn't notice that she wasn't wearing anything underneath that shirt.
