Supplies— 25,000,000 MP
"I'm sorry what?" Saito asked curiously.
"When I first saw this it felt like the woman who put this block of marble here put some kind of spell on it," Percy said, "guess we know what that spell was now."
"I see......a woman did this you say?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. She somehow summoned this thing out of thin air and stuck the Eagle right in the center."
"Did anyone get a description of her?"
"No, well, yes. A Lares did, he said she had blue hair, a soft jaw and yellow sulphuric eyes."
"I see," Saito rubbed his jaw, "well I know no one like that here, nor do I recall any Roman goddess matching that description."
"Yeah....but that's not the thing that worries me," Percy said as he ran he hand over the carved runes.
"Then what is?"
"This was exactly what was needed to bring me back," the demigod stated, "and I mean exactly. The person who made this, this.....blue haired ghost, did she make this because she knew what was about to happen to me? Or was it all a coincidence?"
"I don't' think it's a coincidence Percy, it's to perfect to be one," Saito spoke as the two faced each other.
"That means that this mysterious woman knew what was going to happen to me and helped bring me back."
"And the question now is, why? And who is she?" the two men looked at the Eagle, it didn't say anything though, it was, after all, just an object.
A few days later;
Percy floated up in the air as he looked at the red sky above him. He was still not used it, the flying, the floating, whatever it was, it was amazing. He stood there in mid air and simply looked at the sky, everything was just so.....amazing from up here. Not as amazing as the sea, but still amazing nonetheless.
"You okay?" Thalia asked from the ground as she looked up at her boyfriend floating in the air.
"I'm good," Percy replied back as he looked down, "maybe I should try and move on to the next level."
Thalia nodded, "okay, but only if you're sure."
Percy nodded, "I'm sure," he then bent forwards and laid himself parallel to the ground. He put his hands in front of him like he remembered Superman doing, maybe this would make him more aerodynamic or something. He then pushed the air around him, flying forwards slowly.
"Can you go faster Percy? I can literally walk faster than you can fly," Thalia chuckled at the slow pace her boyfriend was moving at.
"Well I'm sorry some of us aren't natural flyers okay? I'm literally a fish out of water!" Percy suddenly lost concentration as he began to fall down. 15 feet from the ground he caught himself, he really needed to focus properly, he needed to keep his tactile telekinetic field up at all times.
"You okay sweetie?" Thalia asked in a worried tone, "I was about to step in, but you caught yourself before that seemed necessary."
"I'm fine," Percy told her as he slowly rose higher and higher into sky. He had no limit to how high he could fly, but he did have a limit for speed;
Telekinetic flight, Lv— 1 (90%)
By pushing on the ground and the air via your telekinetic field you have obtained the ability to fly!
Speed — 5 Kms/ Hr
Percy sighed as he stabilized himself, "you make it seem so easy."
"And you can make an olympic swimmer seem like a beginner Percy. We each have our natural talent," Thalia reassured him, "mine just happens to be flying, while you can swim around like a fish. Not a big difference."
"Har har, and for your information I can swim faster than you can fly, so eat that!" Percy shot back. He knew what Thalia was trying to do, keep him talking allowing his mind to split its attention between between keeping Percy afloat and talking back.
"You're doing better hun," Thalia called out, "how much more till you level up?"
"10%," Percy called out looking over the skill one more time. He just just needed to hold this a little longer.
Warning! Lightning heading your way!
Percy turned to see Thalia blasting a bolt of blue lighting towards Percy. He rolled out the side to avoid just in the nick of time. "What the hades Thalia?!"
"I got tired of waiting!" Thalia shouted back, "doge lover boy!" she sent blast after blast of lighting at Percy who kep moving away just in time. The added quick motion helped him level up sooner;
Ping!
You have leveled up a skill due to constant use!
Telekinetic flight, Lv— 2 (0%)
By pushing on the ground and the air via your telekinetic field you have obtained the ability to fly!
Speed — 10 Kms/ Hr
"It;s done Thalia! I leveled up!" Percy shouted as he avoided another blast of lighting, "you can stop now!"
"Not happening fish head! We aren't stopping until you reach level 10!" Thalia slowly started to quicken her pace blasting Percy over and over with lighting bolts. She was slow before, but her speed was quickly picking up forcing Percy to move faster.
"Is this because I traveled to another dimension without talking about it to you first?" Percy asked as he narrowly dodged a lighting bolt aimed for his crotch. He started to move around, trying his best to avoid the attacks. Soon he was bouncing through the air, it was similar to moving in water, only here you aren't limited to just the water.
"Maybe!" Thalia shouted sending a chain of lighting bolts at him, "or it could also be because you did something stupid again!"
"Hey! I didn't know I was going to get sucked into another world!" Percy yelled, "it wasn't my fault!"
"Yes it is, Julia told you stop, but noooo, you just had to mess with things you couldn't control," Thalia then sent out a lighting bolt faster than the rest. Percy couldn't react fast enough and it hit him square on the chest pushing him back.
Defence — 432,841,332
Percy groaned he should really start dumping mana points in his marble skin, it's starting to get a bit to low. He slowly lowered himself to the ground and looked at the hole Thalia's attack burnt into his shirt and groaned, "I really like this shirt."
"Well think of it as punishment," Thalia grumbled, "I'm sorry, by the way. It ...well" target="_blank">just...well I just got carried away is all."
"Relax Thalia, no harm done. You knew I could take it," Percy smiled, "and besides it's kinda our thing isn't it? You punch me, I say sorry, we have a steamy make out session...."
Thalia smiled, "and I guess since we already finished the punching and the apologizes that just leaves out the make up huh?"
Percy walked up behind her wrapping his hands around her putting his head on her shoulder, "I don't know. You tell me."
"I was so worried Percy," Thalia sighed, "you-you were just gone. And I didn't know if you were ever going to come back. I.....I lost it. I almost blasted Julia with the Golden Eagle, Jason stopped me but.....I need help Percy, my anger is getting out of control. I fear that-"
"-You might hurt someone you care about," Percy nodded, "I get it. I understand, for the longest time I couldn't' control myself whenever I got angry, I told you right, about Le Bete?" Thalia nodded, "but I got my anger under control, even before the entity of rage upgraded the Le Bete perk. And I can help you as well."
Thalia smiled as she turned to Percy and pissed him gently, "thank you Percy....promise me you'll never leave."
Percy smiled as he tightened his grip around her, "I promise. You're going to have to try very hard to get rid of me."
"Good," Thalia kissed him again as the two sat down enjoying the peace and quiet. Soon Percy was back in the sky back to flying practise as Thalia helped him from below. It took a few tries but he got it in the end. At the end of their session he had leveled up three more times;
Telekinetic flight, Lv— 5 (0%)
By pushing on the ground and the air via your telekinetic field you have obtained the ability to fly!
Speed — 25 Kms/ Hr
Percy finally landed on the ground and smiled, "I think I'm finally getting the hang of this skill."
Thalia nodded, "yeah, I'll say. Soon you'll almost be as good as I was when I first started. You know, after a few more years of training really really hard."
Percy grumbled, "stupid girlfriend and her stupid super powers."
Thalia chuckled as she pulled him along as they walked around the empty time dilation ID. She brought him to the beach and sat down with Percy by her side. There were no waves in the ID world, but it wasn't really a deal breaker.
Thalia spread her feet out on the sand only for Percy to place his head on her thighs using it as a pillow. Thalia smiled, "comfy?"
Percy nodded with his eyes closed, "very."
The daughter of lighting chuckled, "alright then, tell me about this other world you visited."
"Well....it was amazing, to say the least. I was in this city, I think it was their version of a clear New York, only thing was it was infected with these things called Parademons that seemed to be attacking Earth."
"And you obviously had to help," Thalia said rolling her eyes.
Percy chuckled, "you know me so well."
"So what were they? Monsters?"
"Nope, extradimensional being," Percy supplied, "beings that travel between dimensions."
"Like you?"
"Yeah, except I can't do it on purpose. They can, they have these things called mother boxes that can teleport people. I figured I needed to get my hands on one of those in order to escape, but they were all destroyed when I and the others sent the army away."
"Others?"
"Oh, right, when I arrived there, on that Earth, the planet was being invaded, but a few people were fighting back. I can honestly say I have never seen anyone like them Thalia. They were all so...amazing. There was one guy, Arthur, he was basically a child of Poseidon, expect he could control sea creatures on such a wide range it pales in comparison to my own abilities."
"Then you need to step up your game Percy," Thalia patted his forehead, "can't have someone steal your crown of most badass thing that ever came out of the sea now can we?"
Percy smiled, "no, no we cannot. Anyway, next was Victor, half man, half robot, all awesome. He was basically like if the terminator had a human side that hated violence."
"Wait if he hated violence how did he help drive back the parademons?"
"I may have given him one of my world famous pep talks."
"You mean the same one you gave Michael to push him to date Clarisse?"
"The very same," Percy smiled, "anyway then came Hal, he basically has the ability to control the emotional spectrum of will power. Remember Ion? The green whale I meet in my trials? His symbol was on Hal's costume, apparently Hal could weaponize his will power and project it as hard light constructs, isn't that amazing?"
Thalia smiled, "I love it when you get all nerdy like that."
Percy rolled his eyes, "fine, maybe talking about weaponised emotions isn't all that interesting for you....hm, how about an Amazonian princess?"
"Now you're talkin my language," Thalia said excitedly, "what's her deal?"
"She's an Amazon, well trained, a lot better than the average demigod in camp. You could probably take her though."
"Hm...there's something you're not telling me isn't there?"
"Well.....she might have been kind of attractive."
"I see....." Thalia smirked, "well then it's a good thing she's in another dimension isn't it."
"You know I wouldn't ever cheat on you right."
"I know, but I still gotta mark my territory," Thalia shrugged, "anyway, other than the Amazonian bimbo who else did you meet?"
"Well there was the one guy, he calls himself the Flash and....and he has the same powers as Argo."
"What?"
"Yeah, lighting and all. Well, except his lighting was yellow and his suit was red while Argo's was blue and black. He also seemed like a nice guy, he mainly focused on help the people get clear of the attack, he saved many lives.....he's clearly a hero......"
"But you can't help but worry," Thalia finished for him, "it's understandable, but Percy, just because they have the same power doesn't mean they are the same person."
"I know, I know," Percy waved off her worries, "I just can't help but think....how many more speedsters are out there? I'm not fast enough to stop them if they ever become a threat."
"Don't' worry about that now," Thalia kissed his forehead, "focus on the here and now. We have a war to win, then we can worry about the future."
Percy sighed, "right....anyway. There was also this guy called Batman, total badass."
"Let me guess, he could fly like a bat?"
"Nope."
"He had bat like wings?"
"No."
"He's blind and uses sonar to get around?"
"Different superhero honey," Percy smiled, "actually he's a human. Just a plain human."
"What?! And he helped you fight off bad guys?!" Percy nodded, "bullshit! What's his level?!"
"24. And he did help fight them off, a human Thalia, a human did that."
"Dman..." Thalia whispered in amazement, "I wonder what the hell he did to be that powerful."
"No clue.....but anyway, all that aside there was one more hero there. One guy was was more amazing than all of them combined. I didn't get to see much of him, but he saved my life Thalia. He called himself Superman, and by the Gods he deserves that title."
And so Percy went into his story about what Superman would do. He then told her about Darkseid and his army. She was understandably a little frightened, the monster was as powerful as a God, and he also had the means to travel between dimensions. With the power he could just pop into their world and start attacking. At least in this world Percy had an army of demigods to back him up. If Darkseid even things of coming here he'll be in for a 'warm' welcome from them all.
Soon Percy was done with his tale and Thalia just sat there quietly taking it all itn. She sighed, "we need to get stronger, faster."
"I know," Percy sighed, "I figured I should probably train my tactile telekinesis more. I will need the molecular manipulation to be at a higher level if I want to build the Haven. Plus it was also one of the only things that seemed to actually effect Darkseid, it tore into his skin and armour when not even celestial bronze could. Obviously it's worth looking into."
Thalia nodded, "yeah....this would be so much easier if you had a skill disk."
Percy blinked, "wait....I do!" Percy got off of Thalia's lap and opened his inventory. He quickly went through it and found what he was looking for.
"When did you get this?" Thalia asked as Percy pulled out a level 10 skill disk.
"It was the quest I did in finding those two kids," Percy reminded her, "you know the one which got me a job with Kate and Castle?"
Thalia nodded, "I see, and why haven't you used it yet?"
