"I did," Kronos admitted, "I care about power, I care about respect and I care about getting back what's rightfully mine."
"The world?"
"Revenge."
"I see...and" target="_blank">see...and then what?"
"And then I rule, as was always my destiny."
"Over our dead bodies."
"My dear boy, that was always the plan," Cronus smirked as he started to pull himself forward.
The portal started to shake once again as Hypnos ran to it's side holding it together. "You need to be more careful!" the God warned as Kronos pulled his body out as well.
'The portal can't handle bringing him through!' Percy realised, Hypnos was keeping it stable, but he needed to have physical contact to do that. Seeing his chance Percy charged at the minor God, Waverider and Riptide coming straight down at the god's neck.
"NO!" Hypnos cried out as he clicked his fingers causing a shockwave of pure energy to explode outwards.
Percy flew across the hall, but spun around mid air and flew right back at Hypnos.
"Shit!" Hypnos cursed as he clicked his fingers again, this time flashing away with the portal in hand. Percy's swords met nothing as he stood where Hypnos was just moments ago. Percy sent out a wave of mana, trying to figure what spell the god used, only for nothing to come up.
Percy cursed, "fucking Hades," he turned to the demigod army and found that even the remaining titan soldiers had disappeared.
Ping!
Exp gained!
1,750 upgraded animals killed!
350 Exp X 1,750 = 612,500 Exp!
Ping! Ping! Ping!
You have leveled up three times!
Percy Jackson
Health— 18,550/18,550 (+2000) = 20,550
Mana— 9,900/9,900 (+2000) = 11,900 (+20% more mana, +2,380) = 14,280
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-54 Exp— 109,550/240,000
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— 80
MONEY— 25,221,683$/ 20,856 D
Percy dismissed the box and turned to his friends. "What happened?" Jason asked as slowly everyone let their gaurd down.
"I don't know, but I think they must have teleported away," Percy grumbled, "low tide," the phrase caused his armour to snap back into his left hand gauntlet revealing Percy's school uniform underneath.
Slowly all the other demigods relaxed themselves, Percy's servants turned into smoke as they went back into Percy's gem. Quickly the 'leaders' of the demigods gathered around Percy, Julia, Rob, Thalia and Jason.
"We need to set up a perimeter," Rob told him, "in case they try and ambush us like we did to them."
"Maybe one on each side of the tunnel?" Thalia suggested, "after all we don't know where Hypnos teleported them."
"Then we need to be sure, where's Morpheus?" Percy asked. And just then said God came flying down and landed besides them.
"Hypnos did something he shouldn't have," the god grumbled, "there is a layer before this world, just below this world. It's sort of like my own version of the underworld where the nightmares go to rest. Any time anyone has a nightmare it's because one of those monsters managed to escape their prison and come up here inflicting the sleeping people. One of my major duties is to make sure that doesn't happen."
"You mean those same nightmare monsters you used against me?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow.
Morpheus paused for a moment before replying, "when I summon them they are under my control, but Hypnos doesn't posses the came control. He will likely release them wild on the battlefield."
"Great, just great. So how many monsters are we talking here?" Percy asked.
"How many people are there in the world?" came the gods reply.
"And Hypnos sent himself there? Is he crazy?!" Rob exclaimed.
"Yes, and desperate. It was quick thinking going after him Percy. He can't hold the portal for long, especially with Kronos being the one coming through, maybe...not, anyway one good thing came out of this, we have time. Hypnos sealed himself in that realm, but you can be sure he going to come back here, so we have some time until that happens."
"How long?" Percy asked.
"Three, maybe four hours?" Morpheus guessed.
"Could you send us in there?" Percy asked, "we have him on the run, send just a few of us in there and we can defeat Hypnos and close the portal."
"No, I can't."
"Why not? Aren't you the master of this realm?!" Rob yelled angrily.
"I can open get you there, but if I do so then all those monsters will be released. Hypnos' magic is different, he can travel freely, but my duty is not to open breaches, but close them. So I would have to force it open, which could cause permanent damage to the fabric of the dream world."
"Then it's time to leave," Jason argued, "let's go right now, wake everyone up and just leave this realm."
"No, we can't," Rob shot back, "this place is too important to lose."
"Rob's right Jason." Percy sighed, "imagine if Kronos could torture us via dreams? We wouldn't' be able to sleep. Like it or not...we have no choice. This place has become the first battle between us and the Titans. We need to stand here and fight."
The others looked at each other horrified. They shared worried looks, Percy couldn't blame them, after all he did just basically tell them they had to fight Kronos himself.
"So what do we do now?" Thalia asked the question everyone was dreading to have answered. They all looked too scared to say it, so Percy knew he had to do it himself.
"We fight," he spoke up turning to the other gathered demigods, "I know this isn't ideal, and this probably wasn't what you all wanted to happen. But we have no choice, we need to stand our ground here and now, because if we fail here we will not be safe from the Titan's even in our sleep!"
The demigods looked at each other and murmured. Percy opened his status and clicked on his title changing it to 'Leader';
Leader— allows the user to control his troops easily giving a +10 to all stats for all subordinates.
Percy cleared his throat, "I said, are you with me?!"
The demigods yelled, "aye!"
"Good, get ready for round two everyone, we have some time to prepare, but not much. You," Percy pointed at an Apollo camper he vaguely remembered. He looked at his name, "Bart, get a few others and make record of everyone who was injured or in critical condition, I'll heal them all as soon as I can, got that?"
Bart nodded, "yes sir!" He quickly moved getting help from other greek demigods along the way to survey their army.
Percy then turned to Morpheus, "we need more demigods. Since Hypnos is out of the way can you revive all the demigods you put to sleep?"
Morpheus nodded, "yes, I can do that."
"Good, do it," Percy turned to his close friends, "I'll go around and gather everyone Morpheus releases and I'll bring them back here. But there are going to be a lot of people here, especially from the Roman side since I'm assuming Morpheus put their entire city to sleep," Percy turned to the god who nodded, "right, then when I bring them back you guys determine whether they can fight with us or not."
He turned to Julia and Rob, "do you think you guys can convince those who have retired to come out of retirement?"
Julia and Rob shared a look. They whispered to each other in rapid sentences of Latin before July nodded, "yes, we'll try. We'll remind them of their duty to Rome, but I cannot promise you they will stay and fight with us."
"That's fine, even a few warriors will be enough. Julia I'll leave you in charge of that. Rob, I'll leave you in charge of getting the fighters ready, you're the general, get them to line up and ready for anything."
Rob nodded, "right Percy."
"Got it," Julia replied.
Percy then turned to Thalia, "are you okay?"
The girl rolled her eyes, "this really isn't the time to be worrying about your girlfriend Mr. Jackson."
"Yeah but that won't stop me from worrying," Percy said with a smirk.
"I'm fine, I recovered my mana easily enough," Thalia shrugged, "I should be good."
"Right, then you and Jason get those who can use their divine mana and make up your own squad. I want you to focus on attackers got that? Find a Demetre kid? Use them for defense, but find an child of Hephaestus that can control fire? Use him to burn yourself a path."
Thalia nodded, "find the magic users, bring them together. Any reason?"
"You and Jason are both children of the prophecy, Kronos will most likely try and target you first. Oh, that reminds me, if you find Bianca and Nico in here somewhere get them too. So when Kronos does attack I want you and the others to make him regret it."
Thalia smirked, "you got it fish face."
Percy smiled before turning to Morpheus, "we need weapons."
"I don't have any," Morpheus replied, "nor can I summon much."
Percy cursed, "we can't have an army without weapons. I armed these people with the few I have and the few lucky ones that happened to fall asleep with their weapons on hand. We need weapons."
"This is the worst part of being stuck in a dream world," Rob grumbled.
"Wait, what about using the world itself?" Julia suggested. Everyone looked confused so she continued, "this world, this world is real right? I mean sort of. Percy, can you use that tactile telekinetic thing to-"
"-To make it into a weapon!" Percy completed grinning. He turned to Morpheus, "can I do that?"
"This world is a part of me, so I suppose with my permission you can," Morpheus shrugged.
"Good," Percy dropped down and placed both hands on the ground. He closed his eyes and activated his tactile telekinesis, and suddenly the world shifted out from underneath him.
Percy found himself looking at the world from a third person point of view. He saw the entire world covered with vertical and horizontal lines, like a blanket of mass. He quickly realised this was one of the upgrades CHAOS must have given him and got to work.
Suddenly the tunnel started to rumble, everyone got alert, thinking it was Kronos coming back for round 2. But just then the are of the tunnel before them started to shake, as a field of swords came bursting out of the ground handle first. They were dyed purple, similar to the colour of the tunnel, the swords were formed out of the tunnel floor and when they were fully completed the collapsed on the ground ringing out loudly.
Percy opened his eyes and got up, he wiped the sweat on his brow and stood up looking at the sea of blades before them. He sighed, "I should probably also make some shields huh?"
The others turned to him with open mouth. Only Thalia seemed unfazed as she nodded adding, "maybe also a couple of spears?"
Olympus:
In the throne room of Olympus the entire Olympian council stood present with the minor gods standing before Zeus, all twelve looking nervous.
"So let me get this straight," Zeus grumbled, "you twelve created your own council of gods and worked in opposition to us?!"
"No Lord Zeus, we did not," Eunomia, the leader of the minor gods responded quietly, "we formed the council because we needed each other's help. You 12 weren't bothered about us, or our children. We have no choice or say in the affairs of our own lives, we needed to at least be able to talk to each other."
"Why? So in order to conspire against us?!" Zeus roared.
"We didn't mean to-"
"And now because of you our children are in danger!" Zeus roared, "every single demigod child of ours is trapped in their sleep thanks to you people! Tell me why I shouldn't just destroy you right here and now?!"
"Because it's not just your children," Eirene's calming voice cut through Zeus' rampage. The goddess of peace sighed, "all our children are in danger, but not from Morpheus."
"Then who?" Athena asked with narrowed eyes.
"We sent Percy in after Morpheus," Triton spoke up, "we took him to Hypnos to get him into the dream world, but Hypnos betrayed us. He betrayed all of us, he's now on the Titan's side."
"You sent Percy into the dream world? Alone?!" Poseidon roared, "Triton I know you don't care for him, but he is your brother!"
"Which is exactly why I trusted him to do this father," Triton meet Poseidon's eyes, "I believe in him, he said he would bring them back and he will. I know it."
"Then why hasn't he?" Ares asked scoffing, "I mean if you have such faith in your champion why come to us at all?"
"Because we believe Hypnos and Kronos are about to invade the Dream world," Iris spoke up, "and even Percy won't be able to face them all."
"If Kronos is invading the dream world first then was can follow," Athena informed them all, "the ancient rules allow it."
"Yes but how?" Hermes grumbled, "we need a god of sleep to get into the dream world. And last I checked we only have two, one went rogue and the other switched sides. So how do we help out the kids?"
"I can help with that," Hecate said stepping into the light, "I have been working on a spell to send people into the dreamworld every since Morpheus started talking about betraying Olympus."
"Ah-ha!" Zeus exclaimed.
"Oh do shut up dear," Hera scrolled making the king of Gods grumble.
"Anyway, the spell hasn't been perfected, I can't send people into the dreamworld, but I can send things," Hecate smiled, "including mana."
"So what are you suggesting?" Poseidon asked curiously, "that we send a portion of our powers through your portal and hope it reaches the demigods?"
"Yes, that is the only card available to us right now so I suggest we take it," Eunomia nodded.
"You come here and tell us that you created your own council behind our backs. And then you tell us one of your own went mad and imprisoned out children in their own bodies, and now you're telling us to send our powers into a portal?" Zeus growled, "how do we know this isn't some sort of trick? That you and Morpheus have planned this all along, force us to feed you our power?"
"For the love of all that is good Zeus! We don't have time for this!" Iris hissed, "I swear on the Styx we don't have any other intention than to help save our children!"
The sky flashed with lighting as thunder rumbled through the throne room. The gods looked at each other before turning to Zeus who looked displeased.
Sighing Poseidon got up and shrunk down standing before Hecate, "what do I need to do?"
"Poseidon! Stop this at once!" Zeus yelled.
"No brother, I will not," Poseidon dismissed the God looking at Hecate, "can I send my blessings as well? Or just items?"
"You can send mana, spells, anything you want," Hecate nodded.
"Then maybe you should send this," Triton spoke up as he summoned the Pegasus staff bringing it before the Olympians who gasped as it glowed sea green in the presence of Poseidon.
