"You okay Percy?"
"Honestly? I have never felt more alive in my entire life," Superman offered a hand and Percy accepted.
"Is everyone okay?" Percy asked as he and Superman walked towards the group of gathered heros.
"All reports of Parademons attacks have stopped," Bataman reported, "and Victor here says that he can't detect any boom tubes active on our world."
"So that's it?" the Flash asked in amazement, "we saved the world?"
"What about the civilians?" Superman asked.
"I think they are fine," Percy said pointing at the edge of the crater in which they stood in. People came out in drove, thousands of them. And standing next to them were Percy's servants. Marcia had an entire family on her back while Zed and Craig stood protectively in front of their humans. Alceto however was flying overhead with Timmy next to her.
"Come here guys," Percy called out causing all the servants walk toward him, after ensuring the humans were safe.
"Any casualties?" Percy asked once they were close enough.
"No," said Alecto, "I managed to shoot down a couple of those Parademons though. Tough little things."
"Really? I figured you were tougher than that Alecto," Zed gave a sly comment infuriating the Fury.
"Wait, that's Alecto?" Diana asked in amazement, "Percy, why does a Fury obey you?"
"Oh, right. Well she tried to kill me once, I killed her first, and to basically cut a very long story short she kind of serves me now," Percy explained with a shrug.
"This is amazing," Diana said in wonder, "to enslave a Fury...."
"This is nothing," Timmy said with a shrug, "boss also controls Cerberus. Nice dog, needs to go out more though."
"Cerberus?!" Diana exclaimed.
"A story for another time," Percy said as he turned all his servants into smoke sucking them back into his crystal.
"Shit," a voice came from above. Everyone turned and saw Hal flying towards them with Arthur carried in a green sphere made with his ring, "did we miss out on all the fun?"
"Kind of," Flash grinned seeing his friend. Hal landed softly on the ground releasing Arthur from his sphere.
"Are you okay?" Batman asked, "Darkseid damaged you pretty badly."
"Ah, are you worried about me Bats?" Hal teased, "and I'm fine, kind of."
"No your not," Victor said as his machine body scanned Hal, "you have three broken ribs, the bone in your arm is broke in three places. Internal bleeding and I'm pretty sure your appendix just burst."
"Hal we need to you get to a hospital now," the Flash urged.
"Relax Barry I'll be fine," He waved his friend's concern.
"No, you won't," Percy spoke up. He reached into his inventory and pulled out a low grade potion. He downed it in one swing restoring 30% of his MP. He threw the bottle away and touched Hal, a golden light shined out causing everything in Hal's body to snap into place.
"What the-" Hail stopped as he felt his body suit underneath his skin. He expected pain but found none. He looked at himself, "I feel great!"
"All your injuries are gone," Victor said in astonishment, "P-Percy, what did you do?"
"I can heal people," Percy answered, "kind of a gift I got from the Golden Fleece."
"Percy, you and I must spend some time together," Diana said in excited disbelief, "I think you might have many a story to share."
Percy nodded, "yeah, anyway," Percy turned to Arthur, "you okay? If you want I can heal you as well."
"I'm fine," Aquaman replied, "the water healed most of my wounds."
Percy nodded, "figured. You Being Atlantean and all. Oh and by the way you were wrong," Percy grinned spinning Aquaman's trident, "this is my dad's trident."
"What?"
"Yup. Apparently if any of you guys use it nothing will happen, only Poseidon or his direct children can even hope to use it's full power."
"S-so what do you plan to do with it?" Arthur asked in a worried tone. He would have demanded the trident back, but he knew he was in no position to do so.
Percy raised an eyebrow, "what do you mean," he threw the weapon to Aquaman who caught it easily, "it's your weapon."
"B-but-"
"Dude I'm not even from this world," Percy said as he pressed the button on the side of his helmet opening up his helmet, "the version of Poseidon on this world isn't really my dad. Besides, if he doesn't mind you guys using his weapon then who the fuck am I to say otherwise?"
Arthur looked at the weapon and then to Percy. He was astonished at Percy's actions and wanted to ask why anyone would ever give up a weapon of the Gods. But instead he smiled and bowed, "thank you Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."
Percy bowed back, "your welcome, Arthur curry, king of Atlantis."
"Ah guys, maybe we should leave," Flash said as slowly all the humans that were at the edge of the crater began to reach the group in the center.
"Why?" Percy asked.
"We don't have the best reputation with the public," Superman explained.
"Yeah, they kind of hate us," Hal nodded in agreement.
"Why? You're all superheroes!" Percy said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"People fear what they don't know," Batman said.
Percy looked at the people around them. Percy reached out with his powers of empathy and tried to feel out what the civilians felt. But instead of fear or anger, Percy felt only happiness, joy and hope. Percy smiled "actually, I think they know exactly who you are."
"You saved us!" one of the people suddenly cried out.
"You guys did it!" another man yelled out as he held his family close.
"You eight are the best!" a woman cried out as she helped her injured boyfriend stand up to get a good look at their heroes.
"You guys are heroes," Percy said, "and they know it."
"No," Diana said sharply. Percy looked concerned, but the princess smiled, "we are heroes."
Percy was surprised to be included when Hal patted him on the shoulder, "got to admit kid, you held your own. Hell you probably caused Darkseid more damage than any of us combined!"
"You may not be from this Earth Percy, but here you are a hero," Superman said putting an arm on his shoulder, "and I'm glad that you were here."
Percy smiled, "thank you," he looked at them all, "all of you."
"So how exactly are you going to get home?" Victor asked.
"I honestly don't know," Percy admitted, "I have a way," the new interdimensional travel skill, "but I'm not strong enough to use it."
"Well then for now you can stay here," Flash said, "and don't worry, we'll make sure nothing to bad happens to you."
Percy smiled and just as he was about to accept the Flash's help the ground started to shake;
BOOOOOM!
A new boom tube opened up in front of the heroes and Percy as they quickly got ready to face the new threat. Hal was covered with the green glow of Ion while Percy slammed down his helmet as he and Diana leveled their blades.
"Flash, Hal, get the civilians away!" Batman ordered out, "Victor I thought you said all the mother boxes here were fried?"
"They are," Victor claimed looking through his readings once again, "th-this is something else."
"What is it?" Superman asked as he, Arthur, Percy and Diana stood shoulder to ready to face the new threat.
"It's....I don't know," Victor admitted.
"PERCY!" Thalia's voice called out from inside the boom tube.
Percy's eyes shot up in recognition, "Thalia!"
Suddenly Thalia's figure appeared in the edge of the portal as he held out her hand, "grab my hand! We are going to try and pull you through!"
"I'm coming!" Percy turned to his new friend "I have to go."
"Then go!" Batman shouted. The rest of the heroes nodded in agreement as they all told Percy their goodbyes.
Percy nodded as he turned and ran toward the boom tube. He jumped towards the portal, he reached higher and higher, but it still wasn't enough. He pushed out his tactile telekinetic field and pushed himself higher grabbing Thalia's hand. The moment he did she pulled him through the portal as everything went white.
The boom tube closed leaving the heroes and humans baffled by what just happened.
With Percy;
Percy was thrown out of the portal as he landed on something hard. He rolled along the floor until he suddenly stopped. His brain however was still ringing. He groaned as he blinked away the rush he felt in his head, it wasn't this bad when going through the portal into their world, maybe there was a reason.
Percy picked himself up as he opened up his helmet, "fuck me in the ass."
"PERCY!" Thalia's voice was heard. Percy turned to see his girlfriend on the ground next to him. She jumped up and wrapped her hands around him pushing him to the ground, "you're back!"
Percy hugged her back as he rocked her back and forth. He looked around and saw that they were right now in the middle of the Roman encampment. The roman demigods were gathered around them as they stood in front of the Golden Eagle.
"Percy," Saito called out. Percy saw the scientist standing in front of a hastily put together workstation with Julia at his side. The computer box Percy was holding before he dimensional traveled was on the workstation with several large data banks pulled up behind it. Wires ran from the box to the Golden Eagle which was currently sparking with electricity.
"Where did you go?!" Thalia broke the hug as she hit him on the chest, "idiot!" tears ran down her face as snot rolled down her nose. She looked a mess but she didn't care as she simply continued to beat on him, "don't you fucking dare do that to me ever again! You hear me?!"
"Yes, I'm sorry," Percy held her tightly. Thalia resisted as she kept hitting him but slowly stopped allowing Percy to pull her into a hug holding her tightly as she cried into his shoulder.
"Thank the Gods we got to you Percy," Saito said with visible relief washing over him, "what happened? Where did you go? What did you do?"
Percy looked at the scientist, "I......I think, no.....no, I know, I traveled to another world."
"Really? What was it like?"
Percy smiled sadly as he held Thalia's crying form, "it was super. But I'm not going there again any time soon."
Saito nodded as he walked away. Percy picked himself up as he held Thalia's crying form. They both then walked hand in hand out of camp Jupiter. Julia didn't try to stop them, though she wanted to make sure Percy was alright. The Romans made way as Percy and Thalia walked towards the exit of the camp.
They reached the service tunnel now and Thalia was still crying, "it's going to be okay Thalia," Percy said again patting her back, "I promise. I'll always came back to you."
She looked at him, trying to control her tears, "promise me. Promise me you'll always come back for me."
Percy smiled as he best forward, "I promise," he then caught her lips in a kiss. They tasted salty from her tears, but Percy didn't care. He held her tightly as she slowly stopped crying.
She broke the kiss, "I want to go home Percy."
He nodded, "yeah...let's go home."
So yes that's a wrap. Quite honestly I tried to fit in more powers for Percy, but everything just went by so fast...
Anyway this won't just be something that happened and people move on, Percy will remember this, he will be inspired by this. That I can promise.
Anyway next up is a relaxing chapter which will end this whole book series which I'm going for. Like the first book was about Percy finding his powers, the second was about the quest to defeat Argo and the third...well I was thinking 'Percy Jackson and the Daughter of Lighting'.anyway after that the really fun stuff begins!
WAR! (Well in like three to four chapters)
Chapter 52
Chapter 52:
Percy stood in front of the Golden Eagle in the middle of the Roman encampment. He had stayed away from this place for a few days, but eventually his curiosity won out, he needed to know what happened here. The Eagle looked like it had been well used, almost tiered even, that shine which had been there before for was gone. Percy could feel like it was recovering slowly, but still, for now it looked like it was tuckered out.
"I didn't expect to see you back so soon," Saito called out as he worked on the workstation he had built near the Golden Eagle structure.
"I needed to find out what happened," Percy explained.
"Honestly Percy.....I have no clue," Saito shrugged as pulled out the computer box Percy and him used to find the quantum number of parallel universes. It was burnt out beyond belief, "fucking broken."
"How did you bring me back?" Percy asked as he looked at all the fired equipment on the table. Saito had always treated his toys with care, but seeing them like this told Percy just how much had to be sacrificed to bring him back to his world.
"After you left my computer was able to decode the probability matrix of the world you traveled to," Saito sighed, "nearly took up my entire memory storage to do so....anyway, we had the number, we just needed to find a way to bring you back. It seems that the box emitted some extra dimensional radiation that could be harnessed to open another portal, all we needed was a strong enough energy source."
"Did you use the Golden Eagle?" Percy asked pointing at the Eagle. He had unlocked a skill while traveling through worlds, it was called 'dimensional portal creation', and Percy could use it to travel between world. But to use it he needed 20 million MP, something he didn't have. So if Saito needed to open a portal he would need the exact same amount of energy.
"Yeah, we did," Saito nodded, "but we were afraid that might not be enough, after all the Eagle isn't a power source, it's a weapon. Thalia was....insistent we try something. She might have threatened to neuter me once or twice."
Percy chuckled, "yeah she's like that."
Saito sighed, "anyway, yeah, we were afraid we wouldn't be able to help you, and then I saw this," Saito pointed at the marble slab the Eagle was inserted into. Percy remembered this, someone had fused the Eagle with the stone and had drawn runes on it.
"Did you figure out what it is?" Percy asked.
"At first, no, but the longer I looked at it the clearer it became to me," Saito said with a smug smile, "honestly I don't know why no one else figured it out, it's so simple."
"Alright Narcissist, enough with the boosting. What is this?"
"It's a power distributer," Saito said with a smile, "it channels the lighting produced by the Eagle into energy that is channeled through the marble," Saito pointed at the latin words inscribed onto the black marble structure.
"So it was a spell," Percy muttered as he observed the thing once more;
Block of marble;
This is a simple block of marble that is inscribed with the names of dead Roman legionaries and power distribution spell which will convert the lighting attack of the Eagle into energy.
