"Indeed it doesn't. I would suggest looking for cave or any form of underground systems, it may be a vast generalization, but we demons do love our caves."
"Monica, that thing you mentioned Churchill was trying to hide, do you think the demon is there?" Thalia asked.
"It would make sense," Christy nodded, "I mean, it probably targeted Monica because she was looking for it's resting place. It probably let her reach out for help because it wanted even more people to find it."
"So now we have to find out whatever Churchill was hiding, great, just great," Percy scratched his chin, "any tips?"
"Don't die, because if you die at the hands of a demon you get a straight one way trip to Hell, and while I may like you, the others will most definitely not."
Percy nodded as he dismissed Marica absorbing her back into his gem. He turned to the team gathered in the van, "okay guys, last chance, you all sure you want to do this?"
"Yes," said Christy and her team in an even tone.
"Yes!" Michael said with a grin.
"Yes?" Tyler said unsure of how he could be useful.
"Great, then let's go."
"Where to first oh fearless leader?" Michael asked.
"We need to figure out where this Demon is hiding, Monica, does the book tell us anything about where this underground chamber that Churchill left is located?"
"It gives some vague idea, but...well, it's confusing. It's more like a journal than a map. It talks about the chamber, but I can't figure out what it means."
"The library," Percy realised, "Mrs. J mentioned that there were maps of the school in the library. Maybe using the notes in the journal we can find where this thing is."
Percy quickly pushed Christy's wheelchair up the road to the school. The others were walking in front of them, Jet and John were speaking with Michael asking about camp, Thalia and Clarisse were helping Monica telling her how everything was going to be alright. And Tyler? Well he just walked forward looking as lost as ever.
"It's been a long time Percy," Christy spoke in a whisper so that only Percy could hear her.
"Indeed, I honestly prayed I would never see you guys again," Percy chuckled, "not because I hate you or something, but because if we did it would probably mean you guys got yourself into some deep shit."
"I can understand that," Christy nodded, "things seem to escalate to a 100 with you around."
"Yes, they always do. Anyway, how's life? Other than the hunting for monsters thing?" Percy said with a little anger in his tone.
"You really don't want us to hunt monsters huh?"
"Christy, I may look like a kid, but I'm not innocent," Percy sighed, "I have seen things you wouldn't believe, and have done things you wouldn't like. I speak from experience, there are some things in this world that you wouldn't expose your worst enemy to."
"I get it Percy, I do. You want to protect us, and I appreciate that. But you can't always be there, we need to protect ourselves."
"By going after things you can barely understand?"
"And you do?"
"Definitely more than you."
"Look, we have a right to fight for our lives. We won't just run away and hide, this is our world too."
Percy sighed, "you're as stubborn as Luke."
Christy perked up hearing the son of Hermes's name, "Luke....where is he anyway? I figured he would be with you."
"He's.....he's not here. He's on an important mission right now."
"Really what kind of mission?"
"He's trying to save the world."
Christy blinked, "really?"
Percy nodded, "really."
Christy chuckled, "you two are so like Sam and Dean."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "I'm sorry who?"
"Sam and Dean Winchester," Christy clarified, "their two brothers we met on our journey. They were Hunters, like us, but a lot more experienced. We were chasing a ghost when we met, Dean basically said the same thing you are, 'you three are rookies, you don't belong in this job'."
"Sounds like a smart man."
"He thought so. Anyway, we stuck around, and in the end helped them catch the ghost and send it away. We kind of earned their respect that day, so now whenever one of us needs help we call the other."
"I see...how many Hunters are there?"
"Hundreds."
"Then how come I have never heard of them?"
"Well it's all very hush hush, and the only way you could ever meet them is if you're a monster of a fellow Hunter."
"Hm...maybe Artemis would know something about this," Percy wondered aloud as he recalled the goddess of the Hunt.
"What was that Percy?"
"Nothing, never mind."
Soon they reached the gate and saw the security gaurd there.
"Shit, how do we get in now?" Tyler asked.
"We could jump the wall," Jet pointed at the 20 foot tall construction.
"And what about Christy?" John asked.
"I'll carry her and you toss the chair over," Jet replied.
"Relax guys, we got this," Michael walked right past the gate manipulating the Mist to turn himself and everyone else invisible to the guards sight.
"Michael wait!" Tyler hissed, but everyone was shocked when they realised that the gate gaurd didn't even blink as Michael walked right passed his line of sight.
"How did he do that?" Monica asked.
"He used the Mist to turn himself invisible," Thalia explained.
"You can control the Mist?" Jet asked in amazement.
Percy nodded as he rolled Christy forward, "yeah, we can."
"So you can hide things from us?" Christy asked.
"Yes, we can."
"So are you even the real Percy?"
"I am, I may be able to trick the others, but you are a clear sighted mortal, I can never use the Mist to trick you."
The small group of friends/Hunters quickly snuck across campus walking to the library. They reached the door and when Tyler tried to pry it open he discovered it was locked.
"Shit," John cursed, "we can't get in. And I don't think we can just break in a window."
"Step back," Percy bent down and placed his hand over the lock. He focused and using his telekinesis twisted the locking mechanism inside snapping the door open. It was crude, but it got the job done.
"Woah," Tyler said amazed, "how did you do that?"
"Trade secret," Percy opened the door, "come on, we don't have time to waste. Marcia said the demon could kill Monica at any moment."
"Where are the maps?" Thais asked.
"History section," Percy pointed as he closed the door as soon as everyone was inside.
The history section was trashed, Monica's outburst from before had left the windows broken and a couple of book shelves toppled.
"Damn, there's glass everywhere," John said as everyone carefully stepped around the fallen glass, "if this is how much of power the demon leaked into you one can wonder how much energy it actually has."
"Alright, gather everything you can about the school and bring it here," Christy rolled to the nearest table, "Monica since you're the only one who can touch the book I want you to look over it and find what we need, the rest of you must look over this mess and try to find a record of some kind."
The others nodded as they all split up into different groups. Percy walked with Thalia as they quickly looked through a self together.
Thalia yawned, Percy chuckled, "are the late nights getting to you?"
"Yeah, it's times like this when I wish I had Gamer's body as well," Thalia grumbled.
"Well if you want you could take a break, I'll sort through the shelf myself."
Thalia nodded as she stepped back rubbing her eyes. Percy used his super speed to quickly look through the various book finding nothing useful.
"So what's the deal with Kirsty and Luke?" Thalia asked.
"Hm? Oh, nothing big, they just liked each other is all."
"Is she like his girlfriend or something?" Thalia asked.
"Why? You jealous?" Percy smirked.
"No!" Thalia hit Percy's arm, "I don't like him like that!"
"Good, because I don't really think I can deal with you having a crush on an older guy."
"Hm," Thalia huffed, "I was just asking because when you mentioned Luke she looked like someone had just kicked her puppy."
"I meet Christy and the others on my quest to get back my mom. She and Luke kind of hit it off, and Luke inspired her to be a hero, he even gave her that celestial bronze blade she carries around."
"Huh, wondered where she got that from," Thalia muttered as she spied Christy from the corner of her eye, "thought you gave it to her."
"Neah, I prefer punks over redheads."
"Oh, so you like Monica then?"
Percy blushed as he looked at Thalia, "not what I meant sweetie."
Thalia chuckled, "I know Percy, I know."
"I got something!" Tyler's voice called out. Everyone ran to the table as Christy and Monica poured over the book that tyler brought to them. It was a book with the blueprints for the school written by the architect. Christy went through page after page, but nothing stuck out.
"Monica which page did you say sounded like the secret chamber was here?" Christy asked.
"This one," Monica opened the book and looked through it, "'the second wing if finally complete. If all goes on schedule we can finish the gymnasium within the week. The 'location' that Mr. Churchill wanted to build is also nearing completion. To avoid suspicion we have built it before the gymnasium construction. The blame of digging up will fall to plumbing for showers and the like.'"
"So it's somewhere near the gymnasium," Clarisse concluded.
"Yeah but where?" John asked, "from what the maps say the gym is near the border wall, the only thing next to it is the main building. There isn't even much space for anything else."
"So maybe we shouldn't be looking for something else, maybe it's in the gym," Michael suggested.
"Wouldn't make sense," Thalia yawned, "I mean if Churchill wanted to keep this thing hidden and safe he wouldn't put the entrance somewhere kids visit on a daily basis."
"Then.....maybe something happened. Something Churchill had no way of stopping," Christy suggested, "maybe after he died the school went against his wishes and did something he didn't want them to do."
"So they built over the entrance?" Jet asked.
"Yes, I think I know just the place," Percy said with a smirk.
A few minutes later;
"You have got to be kidding me," Tyler said with an open jaw. They were now inside the swimming pool searching around for a secret entrance.
"Nope," Percy replied as he sent wave after wave of mana out trying to pick up on something, "this place was built 20 years ago, and is right next to the Gym. Churchill wouldn't have put the entrance somewhere outside the school ground, so that meant this is the only place it could be."
"So it's somewhere below this building?" Christy asked as she looked around.
"I'm guessing so," Monica replied as she shuddered. Her skin had lost it's colour, she looked like she was about to drop dead, luckily Tyler kept her on her feet.
"I think I found it," Percy spoke up as he felt a trace of demon mana coming from underneath the pool, "it's coming from underneath the pool."
"The entrance is under the pool of water?" Jet asked with a sigh, "great, so all we have to do is drain the pool and then break through who knows how many feet on concert."
"This is becoming more and more impossible by the second." John grumbled.
"We aren't giving up," Tyler snapped, "we aren't just going to let her die!"
"We didn't say we were Tyler," Percy walked to the pool and looked down. He sent a wave of mana and felt a solid brick of demon mana right underneath the water. If he was to guess the entrance was a few feet below the water.
"Alright then smarty pants, since you're so confident, care to explain how exactly we are going to get down there?" Yet asked with crossed arms.
"Dude, just wait and watch," Michel told the man patting him on the shoulder, "you're going to be in for a treat."
Percy stood up straight and without a second's hesitation jumped into the water. He glided down to the bottom and touched the marble. He closed his eyes and activated his molecular manipulation ability. He scanned the marble and concrete below him gaining a 3D picture of what there below.
It felt like a long drop down, even his powers couldn't pick up the end of the passage. Percy groaned, he could just smash right through, it would be easy, but the others would need to come as well.
So Percy closed his eyes and focused. He pulled the concert upwards creating a long tunnel inside the pool. It reached the surface and expanded showing a hollow interior that lead directly to the entrance of the tunnel underneath.
Percy quickly swam back to the pool's edge and climbed out, "we can use that to get inside."
The mortals stared at him. Tyler whimpered, "a-are you God?"
Percy blinked and then chuckled. "Yeah right?" Michael threw his hands over Percy, "if he was God all the women would have size DD breasts and an ass that you could chip your tooth on."
Clarisse smacked her boyfriend up the head while Thalia just rolled her eyes. Percy chuckled nervously, 'actually that does kind of sound like something I would do.'
"Percy how did you do that?" Christy asked looked at the pipe leading down under the swimming pool.
Percy shrugged, "I have certain abilities, it's a whole thing. This is why I didn't want you guys here, we are going to have a hard time fighting this thing, if we also have to protect you as well, then it's going to only get even more harder."
"Relax, we can take care of ourselves," John cocked his gun.
"Oh sure, a gun is totally going to help," Michael rolled his eyes, "I'm sure lead is going to harm the thing that crawled out of hell, a place where everything is literally on fire."
John and Jet shared a look and then turned to Christy. The woman sighed, "we can defend ourselves, you won't have to worry about us."
Percy nodded, "okay then. One last thing, don't try to play hero, leave the demon to us, if things get shitty, run," Percy turned to the water and snapped his fingers. The entire swimming pool suddenly froze over, 10 inches of water turned to ice making it safe to walk on.
"Woah!" Monica yelled out touching the ice, "how are you doing this?!"
Percy shrugged, "I'm Percy Jackson." Percy pushed Christy forward getting her on the ice. He then walked to the concert pipe he created with Thalia and Clarisse following closely behind.
"Well?" Michael asked jumping onto the frozen pool, "are you guys coming or what?" The humans looked worried but quickly moved. They were weary at first about the ice, but quickly realised it was strong enough to hold them all on it.
"So how are we getting down?" Thalia asked Percy as she looked down the hole, "it's at least, what? A 40 feet drop?"
