"No...no you didn't. You needed a lacky," Percy spat.
"No Percy it isn't like that," Clotho spoke in a gentle tone, "we needed a hero. One that would surpass all the heroes before him. The rules we have? The rules we made? They were made because the Gods couldn't be trusted to keep their word. But you...someone whose very essence is a representation of said rules? Well you would never break them, because it was who you are. We needed a hero that would never falter, who would never betray, who would always do the right thing."
"We needed someone to make sure the world wouldn't end because some idiot priest wasn't strong enough," Lachesis said flatly, "or maybe some valkyrie wasn't brave enough. One mistake, and it's all over."
"Why now?" Percy asked, "it's been so long, why did you need someone now? 2,000 years, why is it suddenly decided that the world is going to end? Why has all these religions suddenly decided that the world must end?"
"Because we are standing at the start of the next chapter of human civilization," Chaos spoke, "humans have evolved so far from what they were, they believe less and less in the divine, and this makes the gods weaker. They are dieing, slowly, but surely, and so now at the turn of the century the end of all religions must occur, because without shedding away the old Gods, the new cannot take their place."
"New Gods?" Percy asked, "what new gods?"
"Before man believed in other wordly things in order to survive, in order to understand the world around them," Clotho explained, "but now they believe in themselves, they believe in their own abilities. Man has put up a statue of himself to worship, that is their new God."
"And if you wish to save the human race, you must ensure the end of all religions as we know it," Chaos finished leaving Percy stunned silent.
The next words were said with horror and fear, "I can't do that. I can't....I can't-what if I fail?!"
"Then you fail," Chaos shrugged.
"I'm being serious!"
"So am I," the collected thoughts of humankind flicked it's hand and suddenly the Fates disappeared. They looked started for a second, but then they vanished without a trace leaving Percy and Chaos alone.
"If you die Percy, then you die. If you fight, then you will live. It's as simple as that."
"Why the hell should?! Why should I do all this fuckign bullshit!? Why me!"
"They already told you why."
"They had no right to do this! To-to force me into this!"
"And yet they did....so what are you going to do about it?"
"I...I..." Percy sat down with a sigh, "I don't' know. All this power....I knew there was a cost but....I just didn't....I didn't expect this."
"I know...and I....I suppose in a way I can relate."
"You? How?"
"Well I never asked for this did I?" Chaos asked, "I never wanted to be a collection of human thoughts and emotions creating divine creatures and all that. I never even had a choice, one day I just was and I knew my role. I have performed it dutifully and over time...well I suppose I started to get bored. I started to get restless and....look that's not important, what I'm trying to say is this. The world is a fragile place, it has been and alway will be. And it needs people like us, people who....who have the temperament to protect it, even though we don't wish for that duty."
Chaos snapped his fingers and suddenly the world changed. Percy saw himself standing before a destroyed camp, he was younger, around 12, this was the time Luke and Hyperion attacked the camp, he saw himself slowly grow enraged as he swore vengeance.
"This was the moment, the moment where you realised if you didn't take this seriously, people would die. This was the moment when you stopped playing around, when you stopped acting your age, because the people at camp needed leader, they needed a hero, and you chose to become that hero. Like we are asking you to do now."
"It's different."
"How? Would you not stop to protect an innocent woman on the road if she was attacked? Wouldn't you try and catch a killer for justice? Wouldn't you try and protect a little boy from his abusive step father? For me sake Percy, you work as a fucking cop on the weekends. Being a hero is in your blood. The only difference now is I'm asking you to do it not just for the Greeks...but for the whole world."
Percy remained silent as he saw the scene from over a year ago act out. He saw himself loose his mind as Le Bete took over. He saw himself attack Hyperion, cleaving his arm off, and he saw himself return to the Underworld to barter for the souls of his friends. He saw himself grow up to be a hero, grow up and stand right where he stood now.
"I didn't ask for this."
"The person who is most qualified to be given power is the one who knows it's burden and rejects it. Only they can use it properly with the respect it deserves."
"Are you quoting someone?"
"Yes, me."
Percy remained silent as he looked at the world before him. He sighed, "i-if I.....if I agree...will you send me back?"
"I was planning on doing that even if you didn't. Only diffrence is I would have removed your powers and given them to someone else."
"I see...."
"Having second thoughts?"
"Yes."
"Good, because only a madman would want all this power and responsibility," Chaos sighed, "now I'm going to ask you this one more time...are you sure Percy?"
"If the world is truly in danger...then there's no one else I would trust to say it other than myself. Is that....does that sound a bit arrogant?"
Chaos shrugged, "not if it's true."
Percy chuckled, "yeah...yeah... I'll do it. Like I have a choice right?"
"Exactly," Chaos snapped his fingers and suddenly Percy felt a wave of calm wash over his trouble thoughts. Gamer's mind was back, and it was purring like a kitty pushing away all his doubts and regrets. He only had one goal, save the world or die trying. No pressure.
Ping!
Quest alert!
Legendary quest!
Save the world from destroying itself!
The Greek/Roman Apocalypse— Active!
The Egyptian Apocalypse— Inactive!
The Christian Apocalypse— Inactive!
The Nordic Apocalypse— Inactive!
Rewards—
?
?
?
Failure—
Destruction of the world (no pressure)
Do you accept?
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes without hesitation dismissing the box.
"Speaking of quest, here, I believe you have earned this," he snapped his fingers summoning a quest box in front of Percy;
Ping!
Quest Completed!
Find about the real history of the divine!
Rewards;
Skill: Gamer vision
Power mimicker
Level 10 skill disk
Percy narrowed his eyes at the last reward, " ? What's that?"
"It's a patch, a gaming patch. It's time you got an upgrade," Chaos snapped his fingers and suddenly the blue notification in front of Percy fritzed out of sight. A black screen appeared with the words:
'Loading new program. Please Wait'.
And then Percy felt his body reboot. The black screen disappeared replaced with a new type of screen. It was circular with greek runes along the edge, in the center was a message written in black;
'Welcome to the gaming system, 2.0. Please note that there have been several changes made to your gaming style and system. Discover them first before use. Thank you!'
Percy turned to Chaos, "what did you do?"
"It's about time you got an upgrade, the Fates didn't really put much thought into their system, and not to brag but I am the creator of everything, so mine is much better. Relax though, it's not that different, just...a bit more streamlined. Now here are the rest of your rewards," Chaos snapped his fingers summoning a power mimicker sphere and a skill disk in front of Percy.
Percy grabbed them and opened his inventory, only to discover that even this had changed. Now everything had been separated into smaller section, clothes, weapons, misc, aids and even food! Percy smiled as he put his two new rewards in watching them automatically sort themselves into the aids section.
"Now, I believe it's time for you to go," Chaos snapped it's fingers summoning a portal of yellow light, "thought that portal is Thailand Morpheus, I suggest you hurry. They are in trouble, Kronos has invaded the dreamworld and is looking for Morpheus, if the god of dreams die then the dream world is destroyed. I don't think I need to tell you how bad that is."
Percy nodded, "right, tsunami!" Percy armour activated dawning itself around him. Percy stepped up to the portal and stopped, "I...I won't' ever see you again will I?"
"No, you will. Maybe not in the way yous aw me now, but you will. I am a part of you Percy, your thoughts and ideas run through my head we are one, there is no reason to say we won't meet again."
Percy chuckled, "for once I would like a straight answer."
"Yeah, never going to happen. My character's not designed that way," Chaos shrugged.
"Right...well then, it's been real...I think," Percy walked up to the portal and without a second thought jumped through.
Dreamland:
"I hate this guy!" Robb cried out as he ran back holding his melted sword.
"Jason hit him again with lighting! Thalia grab Morpheus and get out of here!" Julia ordered as she and the other demigods surrounded the flaming titan. The Roman Gods worked together as a unit facing him head on while the greeks were spread out, flanking his sides.
"I can still help!" Thalia growled.
"You are out of weapons and low on power, you can't help, get Morpheus to safety, he still needs to wake the rest of us up!" Julia ordered as Hyperion charged the roman unit.
The soldiers were lucky all armed, they had been posted on gaurd duty and had their weapons with them when they slept. So they used said weapons and blocked Hyperion's charge with a wall of shields, pushing him back, but not before Hyperion sent a blast of fire, burning the front line.
"Fuck!" Jason cursed as he felt the flames hurt him. He felt the pain, but after a moment it went away, and his body was still in one piece. Being in this dreamland had it's benefits.
"Morpheus! Come back here!" Hyperion roared as he turned and charged at Thalia and Morpheus.
"Shit!" the demigoddess cursed as she limped away with Morpheus on her shoulder for support. Julia jumped into Hyperion's path but the Titan swung his fist throwing her to the side.
"Julia!" Robb cried out as he jumped to grab her. They rolled around the ground and stopped just in time to see Hyperion reach Thalia and sent a blast of fire at the girl. It was inches away from hitting her when suddenly a blur of speed came in and swept them away from the blast.
"What the-" Hyperion's eyes went wide in shock, he looked around for the missing minor god and demigoddess when suddenly the blur was back. It collided head first into Hyperion's chest breaking off a huge chuck of the armour with a deafening crack;
KRACK!
Hyperion stumbled back, he panted, "how-"
KRACK!
KRACK!
KRACK!
The hits kept on coming as more and more hits landed on the Titan. Pieces of his bronze armour was slowly stripped away leaving the titan bleeding and hurt, bad.
"Who is doing this?!" the titan roared, "who dares-" a fist met his face sending the titan tumbling back ass over head into the wall. He looked up, pushing past the pain and the numbness in his jaw to see a figure standing before him decked in black armour with a white cape attached to his back.
The helmet slid back and the bane of Hyperion's dreams stood before him. The boy who took his arm when he was 12, the boy who lead the greek demigods.
Thalia and Morpheus stood a few feet away besides the other demigods. The god gasped, "it's not possible... he shouldn't be alive."
Thalia just smirked, "sure keep telling yourself that."
Percy Jackson smiled down at Hyperion, "hey there fire butt, what brings you here?"
"Jackson!" Hyperion roared as he tried to summon his fire to him only for a wave of water to come crashing down into his body, binding itself around his limbs and spreading outwards.
Percy turned to Morpheus, "why isn't he dead?"
Morpheus blinked in surprise, "I-I, only I can kill people in this world. Me and whoever I give permission to."
"Then give permission to me," Percy narrowed his eyes, "now."
The God of dreams flinched at the command. He nodded, "I give you the right to this world Percy Jackson."
Percy turned to Hyperion and smiled, "looks like you just reached the end of your line Hyperion." He drew out Waverider and turned it into its sword form. He channeled his rage into his weapon turing the white lines red activating it's rage mode;
Ping!
Special mode activated! Emotion: Rage
Rage— 4 X Attack, special ability— causes people to go into a rage filled frenzy.
STR— 0.146 (+11+20+75) = 106.146
Seal Release: Layer 10 Time: 1 1.2 months
STR— 42,467,328 (+11+20+75) = 42,467,436
Body Form Activated: Full Body!
STR— 42,467,328 X 10 = 424,674,360
Percy meet Hyperion's eyes and grinned, "now lets see how strong you really are flame breath," he vanished in a rush of speed disappearing down the hallway before charging back with the speed of a bullet.
Percy trusted his blade like a spear into Hyperion's chest,
Waverider— 100,000 X 4 = 400,000 + 424,674,360 = 425,074,360 attack!
The titan's eyes bulged in horror as he saw all his ichor leak out in bursts. He looked up in horror at Percy, "y-you bastard."
And suddenly he exploded into golden dust.
Ping! Ping!
You have gained two levels!
Percy Jackson
Health— 16,150/16,150 (+2000) = 18,150
Mana— 8,700/8,700 (+2000) = 10,700 (+20% more mana, +2,140) = 12,840
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-51 Exp— 107,050/190,000
Race-Demigod
STR— [Original— 150] 0.146 (+11+20+75) = 106.146 (Layers of seals applied — 10)
VIT-150 (+11+20)=181
DEX-100(+11+20)=131
INT-150
WIS-100
LUC-100
POINTS— 65
MONEY— 25,221,683$/ 20,856 D
Percy dismissed the box and turned to the loot he got from Hyperion. There was his flaming blade, a book with the skill 'Flame control' on it and a glowing chest piece similar to the one he was wearing while alive.
Percy grabbed the skill book and put it away,, he would need it later. He then turned to the gathered demigods who were staring at him in awe. They had never seen a titan defeated in combat before, and never so badly.
Percy however didn't pay attention to their looks of awe, he had eyes for only one person across the hall standing besides the god of dreams.
Thalia's eyes watered as he walked towards her deactivating his armour. "Percy-" she began only for him to grab her head and kiss her as deeply putting every single emotion he had into it. She sighed in happiness as she curled her fingers around his hair.
