Thalia shrugged, "yeah, I guess. Will we have any trouble getting back in?" Percy looked at her and raised an eyebrow, "right, stupid question."
They walked into a deserted corner and at once took off into the sky. Thalia was surrounded by cool ocean winds that lifted her up while Percy used his telekinetic flight. Luckily for Percy he was flying just low enough as to not draw the attention of Zeus, plus any flying Zeus might detect from this area would just be attributed to Thalia.
Percy reached out and held Thalia's hand, "so did you enjoy date night?"
"That was a date?" Thalia chuckled, "compared to our usual ones that seemed pretty tame."
"Well if you want we could always just hope into one of my ID's and get in a good monster workout," Percy chuckled.
"Yeah, no. I'm way too tired for that," Thalia yawned, "damn, it's times like this when I wish I had Gamer's body."
Percy smiled, "yeah, I am pretty lucky." They quickly reached Yancy academy flying right over their walls. As they flew into the school Percy looked down into the thick trees and saw a shadow run through them.
"What's that?" Percy stopped following the mysterious figure moving in the dark.
"What are you looking at?" Thalia asked as she drew up behind him. She looked down and immediately saw the person trying to sneak around the dense trees, "maybe someone got the same idea we had? Coming back from a late night adventure?"
"Then why are they running away from the school?" Percy asked as he saw the figure run closer and closer to the walls bordering the academy grounds.
The figure then leapt up into the air clearing the 20 foot tall walls with a single leap. Percy saw the figure in full view, he or she had a black cloak wrapped around them hiding their body. Percy wasn't able to make anything out as he saw them land on the other side of the wall and run into town.
"Did you see that?!" Thalia said in surprise.
Percy nodded, "yeah. Definitely not a normal human."
"What do you think? Monster?"
"No, I don't think so. Anything powerful enough to disguise itself as a human would be too arrogant to hide itself, it would want the world to see it. No, I don't think we are dealing with a run of the mill monster here."
"Demigod?"
Percy shook his head, "I don't think Michael or Clarisse are very stealth, do you?"
"Then I suppose it's our job to follow it huh?" Thalia sighed.
Percy chuckled, "well you were the one who wanted our date to seem a little more up to our standards."
Thalia rolled her eyes, "so I jinxed it, great."
The two quickly took off following the mysterious figure. From up in the sky Percy and Thalia tracked it easily enough. They followed till the edge of town, but just then the black cloaked figure slipped between two building and when Percy and Thalia rounded the corner they were met with a dead end with no mysterious black figure in sight.
"Where did it go?" Thalia asked.
"It couldn't have gone far, I mean we saw it go in there," Percy looked at the neighboring buildings, "which means....LOOK OUT!"
"GRA!" The black cloaked figures appeared on top of a nearby building above Thalia and Percy. It jumped at Thalia shoving her down.
"Thalia!" Percy roared as he chased after his girlfriends.
The black figure and Thalia crashed into the road below as the demigoddess kicked the monster off of her.
"Get away from her!" Percy channeled the biggest psychic attack he could muster grabbing the thing and throwing it half way across town.
"Fuck that hurt," Thalia grumbled as she pulled herself out of the ground.
"Are you okay?" Percy asked as he landed and helped her up. His hands glowed gold as he began healing her, "looks like the marble skin spell took most of the damage for you."
Thalia grumbled, "yeah...I can't believe I let it get the jump on me."
"It's okay, you weren't prepared. And besides that thing moved fast, like insanely fast. One moment it was on the ground the next it scaled up a, what? 3 story building?"
Percy and Thalia looked at the red brick layered building. It had a boutique in the ground floor with housing on the remaining two.
"Where did you send it?" Thalia asked looking around.
"Halfway across town," Percy cracked his knuckles, "stay here, I'll super speed around and find it. I'll call you once I have."
Thalia nodded, "great, good luck love." Percy nodded and disappeared in a gust of wind leaving Thalia alone.
Curious the daughter of lighting walked to the alleyway where she saw the mysterious figure enter and looked at the red brick layered buildings sides. It was dark, Thalia couldn't see much, but not for long.
Thalia snapped her fingers causing a spark of lighting to jump between them. Then another, and another, before finally the lighting curled in on itself forming a ball of blowing hot plasma that Thalia used as a light source.
Thalia inspected the side of the building and found small impression in the bricks. Something small and sharp pierced the wall and from the way the trail moved up the building. Each were in seats of five, Thalia was willing to bet the thing she and Percy were tracking made this by piercing the wall with it's fingers.
Suddenly a gust of wind rushed into the alley kicking up dirt. "Did you find it?" Thalia asked not taking her eyes of the wall.
"No, I searched entire town, twice. Every alley way, every building. Nothing," Percy grumbled.
"Really? That was fast."
"Got a new speed upgrade. Anyway, found something?"
"Yeah," Thalia narrowed her eyes, "I think so." She reached into one of the hole located at her shoulder height. She then carefully pulled out a small shard that was pink in colour.
"I think our black cloaked friend left this behind for us. What is it?" Thalia asked.
Percy narrowed his eyes and used Observe on the substance;
Human nail (broken with pink nail polish),
It's a broken human nail.
"A human nail."
"Really? Human?" Thalia was surprised, "so we were chasing a human?"
Percy grumbled, "yeah....maybe the thing we chased didn't leave this behind. After all a simple human can't cause," Percy turned to the holes in the wall, "well...this."
Thalia grumbled, "so what in our parent's name are we dealing with here?"
The Next Day;
The next day found Thalia and Percy sitting in Mrs. J's class. They both told Michael what had happened the night before and needless to say the son of Apollo was interested.
"Maybe it was some kind of super human," Michael suggested, "you know like the ones Argo created?"
Percy nodded, "could be, that's possible. But Elsa would have told me if there was someone so close by, she knows I live in this area and would probably ask for my help if it came to that."
"Then maybe it was a human that escaped her notice," Thalia suggested, "maybe when Argo 'died' for the first time this thing jumped at a chance to run away and managed to successfully hide from everyone."
"Yeah, plus I mean why are you guys even looking into this thing in the first place?" Michael asked.
"What do you mean?" Percy asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"I mean what has this thing done to cause us grief?" Micheal supplied, "from what I understand it was just attacking two flying people that were chasing it. If this thing is trying to hide then can you really fault it for wanting to keep it's privacy?"
Percy and Thalia shared a look. "He does have a point. I mean, I would have done the same if I thought Kronos was after me," Thalia spoke.
Percy nodded, "yeah...maybe it's nothing after all."
"Alright class settle down!" Mrs. J waked in silencing the class within seconds, "now today we are going to talk about the impact of religion on history. Since obviously this is a very large and complex subject we will be dealing with this a lot over the term. Now, let's begin...."
As the class went on as Mrs. J explained how religion shaped the world, she kept getting sidetracked however going on and on about how the world could have done without religion, and Percy couldn't help feeling the same way. Which was ironic considering who his dad is.
Eventually Percy started to loose focus. Mrs. J was now talking about the facts of history and Percy already knew a lot about all that, he didn't need a reminder. His eyes drifted from one person to the next.
Tyler was in the front row staring at Mrs. J's very very attractive lady parts. Percy was too, but he made sure not to stare or get caught, because if Thalia found out he was checking out his hot teacher.....well Percy was just glad he had 600,000 in defence points.
Most of the guys were to busy having their eyes glued on Mrs. J's ass while the girls just looked bored. However when Percy looked to the corner he spotted Monica, and that girl did not look normal.
She had her head down with her hands blocking the sunlight from her face. Her eyes bags under them with a little bit of sand near the edges. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably and Percy could see her lips moving under her breath, but she didn't have a book out to read.
Percy was worried, but for all he knew this was how Monica acted normally. Normal humans would probably act like that if they didn't get a full night's rest, which is probably why Monica looked like shit.
If Percy was to guess she probably stayed up all night drinking, which would explain the reason she didn't like the bright sun light. The thing she dug up from the courtyard yesterday morning was probably a flask of alcohol, Monica was probably just suffering from a hangover.
Percy couldn't explain the whispering thing, but then again she wouldn't be the first person who talked to themselves a lot.
Percy was about to move on when suddenly Monica raised her head and made eye contact with him. Green meet chestnut brown and Percy felt a chill run down his spine. Her eyes were almost pleading for help.
And just as quickly as it began it ended. She lowered her head again looking away from him, but Percy couldn't forget how she made him feel. He continued to glance at her, but Monica didn't look back.
"Alright class that's enough for now!" Mrs. J announced much to the cheer of everyone there, "now for the rest of the period I want you all to go to the library and pick out one book on an ancient civilization. I want you to read it and then present it in class. Understood?"
"Yes Mrs. J!" came the resounding response.
Everyone quickly got up and went outside. Percy motioned for Thalia and Michael to wait back while the rest of the class moved forward. Percy noticed Monica looking sideways, she was aiming for the door. She was about to reach it when Mrs. J spotted her.
"Come along Monica, I expect you would be wanting to do something about the Mongolian Empire," Mrs. J patted Monica's back pushing her forward.
"Huh? Why Mongolians?"
"Because they were a very brutal race and judging from you punk like attitude you like brutal things, yes?"
Monica nodded blankly, "ah, yeah."
"Great! Then let's go!" Mrs. J turned to Thalia, Percy and Michael, "come on you three!"
"Be right there Mrs. J!" Percy waved as they walked forward.
"What gives Percy? Why did you want us to stay back?" Michael asked.
"Monica was acting weird," Percy whispered back, "she looked half asleep."
"Maybe she didn't get much sleep last night?" Thalia theorised.
"No, that can't be it. When I saw I felt...something." PErcy shook his head, "I can't put my finger on it, but...but something's wrong."
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Find out what's wrong with Monica and save her!
Rewards,
+5,000 Exp
?
Failure,
Monica dies
Do you Accept?
YES/NO?
Percy blinked in surprise. "What happened?" Thalia asked in a whisper.
"I-I'll tell you later," Percy waved her concern away as he pressed 'yes'
They reached the library in minutes and Percy turned to Michael, "follow Monica, talk to her, find out what's wrong."
"Why me?" Michael asked.
"Because she hates our guts," Thalia grumbled, "she even had the balls to call me a wannabe."
Michael whistled, "damn, either she doesn't know who she insulted or she has the biggest balls out of all of us."
Thalia smirked, "I'm thinking she's just stupid."
"Anyway," Percy spoke up, "talk to her and find out what you can. Got it?"
Michael nodded and quickly went to the furthest shelf of books where he saw Monica go in. Percy and Thalia followed but quickly hide away a few shelves down.
"So are you going to tell me what happened?" Thalia asked.
"I got a quest," Percy explained, "it said I have to save her or else she will die."
Thalia's eyes shot open, "woah, okay, that sounds bad. Did it give us any clues? Was there a way the quest was worded that we might be able to use to figure out what's going on?"
Percy shook his head, "nothing we could use. Although I do have a feeling that it might involve whatever she dug up the day before."
"So what do you think it is?"
"No clue, but I know that it's definitely not a flask of whiskey."
"Oh there you two are," Mrs. J walked up to the two demigods with a smile on her face, "and here I thought you both snuck off to some corner to make out."
Percy and Thalia blushed red. "W-we were just looking for something to talk about," Percy stammered out.
Mrs. J nodded, "right. Well I would recommend this," the busty blond took out a red covered book from the shelf and handed it to Percy. The title read 'They Mysterious of Greek Mythology'. "I really think you two could do well about a project on ancient greek civilization."
Percy blinked, he looked to Thalia and saw that she was trying her best not to burst out in laughter. Percy turned to Mrs. J, "thanks ma'am. We'll get right on this."
"Great! I'll expect great things out of the both of you!" Mrs. J waved at them and walked away, probably to check up on her other students.
Percy and Thalia looked at the book. "She would probably freak out if she knew we were demigods," Thalia chuckled.
"Probably," Percy shrugged, he opened his inventory and put the book inside, he would do his project later, for now his attention was focused on his classmate.
"Screw you freak!" Percy and Thalia heard Tyler's voice loud and clear, and form what they could tell it was coming from where Michael and Monica were.
Percy and Thalia ran towards their friend. They saw Michael on the ground with Monica helping him up. Tyler stood over them with a smug smile, "when your girl hears about how easily I kicked your ass she'll dump you in a second."
"What the hell is wrong with you Tyler?!" Monica roared as she got Michael on his feet, "why are you acting like such an ass?!"
