"Stop that!"
"No," Percy replied and then threw more and more water balls at Hades's face.
"Enough!" Hades screamed, "if you ever want to see your mother again you will come to Hades with the bolt or I will kill her!"
Percy narrowed his eyes, he was hoping he had more time to get more training in, but Hades was forcing his hand. Percy then commanded all the water and the drinks gathered at the camp fire into the air and sent them all at Hades, "never threaten my mother!"
"Wait wh-!" Hades was then drenched and the fire was put out. Percy huffed at the ashes and quickly turned away.
"Chiron I'm going, now," Percy called out to the half-man half-horse creature.
"Understood Percy," Chiron said walking alongside Percy, "come with me. You need a prophecy from the Oracle first before you leave."
Percy nodded as chiron lead him to the Big House. Inside Chiron told him to go the attic and will find her there, he also told Percy to be ready to see something startling.
Percy then opened the attic door and walked up to the room. It filled with several things like paintings, shields, weapons and....is that the ark of the covenant? Either way the room was filled with dust, but there in the shadows of the attic was a figure whose face was hidden
"Ah, hello? Oracle lady?" Percy asked as he approached the woman. As Percy came closer he realised that the thing he was talking to was a mummified body with brown hair and was dressed up as a hippie from the sixties.
Suddenly the mummy moved and it's eyes glowed green. A green smoke came out of it's mouth and a chilling voice spoke, "I am the ssspirt of Delphi, speaker of the prophecies of Phoebussss Apollo, Slayer of the Mighty Python. Approach, seeker and assssk."
Percy gulped and walked forward,"wh-what is my quest?"
"You shall go wessst, And face the God who has turned. You shall find what was stole, and sssee it safely returned. You shall be betrayed by one who callssss you friend, and you shall fail to ssssave what matters mossst in the end."
The green mist then moved back into the mummified body and all life went out of it's eyes as it once again transformed into a corpse.
"Wait what?" Percy cried out, "who is it that will betray me?!" Percy then started at the Oracle, Observe;
The Oracle of Delphi;
The spirit of the Oracle lives in this mummified body. Cursed by Hades after the death of his lover and the attempted murder of his two children by Zeus, the spirit of the Oracle has been unable to move on due to this curse. The only way to break this curse is to fulfill the Great Prophecy thereby releasing Hades's children from it.
Great just great, more of Hades's bullshit. Just what Percy needed right now. Percy sighed and quickly exited the attic and meet with Chiron on the ground floor. The centaur stood in the porch of the Big House with arms crossed and a frown on his face.
"Why the long face Chiron?" Percy asked.
"Percy? Oh, nothing. I am just worried. Annabeth informed of a Hellhound attack on you during capture the flag. Why didn't you tell me Percy?"
"Well I was kind of busy with all the people who wanted to talk to me and then getting threatened by the king of the Underworld and all. I think someone must have summoned it inside camp."
Chiron nodded, "yes that seems very likely."
"If I was to guess, I would say the lightning thief did it."
"Why are you so sure?"
"If I died then my protests would die as well. The Gods would be left thinking I was the one who stole the bolt and with that being said they would start their war. It just seems logical."
Chiron nodded, "yes it does. Do tell me what did the Oracle tell you?"
Percy repeated the prophecy and Chiron looked disturbed at this. "Alright Percy it is decided, your quest will be this. Go to the west, if what the Oracle say is true, and it always is, you will find the bolt along the way. You need to reach the underworld and come back here by the 21st."
"Where is the entrance to the underworld?"
Chiron grumbled, "Hollywood."
"...I'm not really all that surprised. Alright then see you later Chiron."
"Wait Percy you need to pick two others to join you on your quest."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes you do," Chiron said with a stern look, "you need someone out there to look out for you Percy."
"Okay.... is Grover better now?"
"Yes he has been spending his time with Juniper lately but if you ask I'm sure he will say yes."
"Alright Grover and.... Luke."
"Luke?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. He's a good sword fighter and a great leader. He is also old enough to know anything we would need to do. Also we are going to the Underworld, would be handy to have theif with us, just in case."
Chiron nodded at Percy's reasoning, "a well taught out reason Percy. Very well I will inform the two now, you on the other take this time to get ready for the quest."
Percy nodded and soon student and teacher split up. Percy quickly walked to Athena cabin where inside was just as busy as always. Percy walked in and nodded to a few of them and went to his desk. He then picked up all the notes he had made about Hades and how to trap a God and began to leave before Annabeth came in his way.
"Percy where are you going?" Annabeth asked with concern.
"I have a quest Annabeth. I'm going west to Hades to save my mom."
"So that's why....," Annabeth said pointing to the notes in his hands.
"Yeah, the more I know about Hades the easier I can beat him."
Annabeth nodded, "smart move Percy. Quick question who's coming with you?"
"Grover and Luke. I need Grovers help in case we run into an animal or something and Luke's help incase we get stuck in a prison in Hades."
Annabeth nodded, "I see.... you going to pack your stuff now?"
"Yeah Annabeth. I'll you later. We all are leaving early tomorrow," Percy and after a quick chat with Malcolm and the other campers Percy left the cabin and walked to his own.
The entire night Percy spent checking and rechecking everything he had. He needed to make sure everything was perfect.
He got loads of food, from the many days he had been sneaking it into his inventory. His weapons were all sharp and ready. His armour would be ready only later so Percy will have to make do without it.
After it was all finally done, Percy sighed and went to bed. The moment he closed his eyes he fell asleep.
Ping!
You have slept in you own bed; HP and MP have been restored 100% each. All ailments and negative status effects have been cured.
Percy woke up and saw it was a little passed 6. He quickly showed a few things like clothes and his shield into a bag he got from the camp After all if he didn't have a bag and kept pulling things out of the air things would start to look a little suspicious.
Percy then made sure Riptide was in his pocket, it was, and then he went to the entrance of the camp and walked passed it towards Thalia's tree.
There waiting on him was Luke and Chiron with the former having a bag slung over his back similar to Percy's.
"Hey Percy," Luke called out.
"Hey Luke, were you waiting too long?"
"No just got here," Luke said and just then they saw Grover come out of the camp as well, well running more like it. Then then reached PErcy and stopped panting all the while.
"Out of shape G-man?"
"S-shut up P-Percy. Unlike you demigods we Satyr's don't have enhanced stamina," Grover said with a girn.
"Well now that you're all here we can begin-"
"WAIT!" a voice cut in. The group turned and once again someone from camp was running towards them. This time it was Annabeth and she had a package in her hand. She reached them and smiled, "good you guys haven't left yet."
"Why are you here Annabeth?"
"To give you this of course," Annabeth replied and gave Percy a book with papers sticking out in various places and even a few book marks here and there, "it's a book about the entire of US where you should go and what you should avoid, demigod edition. Athena cabin has been making it for some time and we thought the best test run for you would be this."
Percy then Observed it;
Book of US,
A book which contain vital information about the Us and all the important areas in it for demigods. Listen to this book and treat it like the bible.
Percy smiled and put the book inside his bag, "thanks Annabeth I'm sure we will be able to put this book to good use."
Annabeth smiled and Luke then spoke up, "alright guys we need to move, if we get to New Jersey before noon we can catch the train to L.A. from there. If all goes well. But it won't so let's see."
Percy grinned, "you are such a pessimist Luke."
"What ever sea head, let's just get going."
Percy smiled and the three began their quest to find the lightning bolt. But as they were going Percy couldn't shake this feeling of despair in his heart. It was like something was about to happen. And he and his friends would be in the middle of it.
Alright here you go the chapter for this week. I chose Luke because it would be cool to see Percy fight him over the pit and all that. Also more drama that way. Needless to say the plot has gone right through the window.
Question,
Can Percy control other elements?: Yes, but am I going to do that? Probably not. Maybe later like if he get's on Zeus good side or something (which will never happen)
Marble skin?: Yeah It's still there Percy just never got a chance to use it. He doesn't need to train in it so he doesn't really need to use it and in all battles he had so far made him use his MP for offence not defence.
Can other people enter Percy's ID?: Yes they can. If Percy is holding them when creating an ID they can come with him. Also is a being is strong enough, like a god, than they can ripe into Percy's ID and pull him out.
Roman and Greek Percy?: Yeah sorry no. A little to late for that. You see PErcy's gamer power is absolute. It's the Fates power, yes? So they know everything and so Percy's power knows everything. Hence when he looks at his bio it should say, 'son of Posedion/Neptune'. But it's kind of too late for that. Plus it would just complicate things.
Alright see you all later and so on and so forth. Bye!
Chapter 13
Chapter 13:
From camp Percy and his teammates got into the caamp van, which kind of looked like the kind you kidnapped children in. Their driver was named Argus, a being made by Hera as a security gaurd for the camp. He was covered in eyes and didn't really speak, he was the first step for every campers quest.
Soon they came to the bus terminal in the outskirts of Manhattan and they waved goodbye to Argus who smiled. Percy then went to the bus terminal and got three tickets to a trip straight to L.A.
Soon the three were waiting for their bus as a quite atmosphere settled between them. Percy spoke up breaking the silence, "so.....the nymphs at camp are kind of cute huh?"
Luke chuckled, "hell of an ice breaker Percy."
Grover laughed, "yeah. When we ever have an awkward situation we want to get out off we'll call you."
Percy shrugged, "well at least I'm trying something."
"Well you're not wrong," Luke said with a grin, "they are pretty hot."
"Yup," Grover nodded his head, "the perfect creature of nature. They are smart, beautiful and very....healthy."
"Don't you have a girlfriend?" Percy asked with a knowing smile.
"Well yeah I do but ah..... please don't tell her I said that. She will kill me, very very slowly," Grover said with a pleading look.
"I don't know. It did seem like you loved the nymphs a whole lot. Especially their....healthy bodies. What do you think Percy? Should we tell Juniper?" Luke asked turning to Percy who was looking a little confused.
"Wait quick question when you guys say healthy bodies you mean like the fact that they are very good swimmer right?" Percy asked with a questioning look on.
"Ah...no Percy we don't," Grover replied with a sigh, "what we mean is...ah...gods why did I have to be the one to explain the birds and the bees to you? Why I mean is-"
"Boobs," Luke cut in, "we were talking about how the nymphs have huge jugs."
Percy's face went red and he finally got the picture. Now that he thought about it the nymphs that beat him up the other day did have some huge....ah...boobs. Wait why am I stammering in my own head, that's just silly. Let's try this some more times so that I don't stammer, boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs. There we go. Wait a minute....
"So wait when Grover was talking about their healthy bodies he was talking about thier boobs?"
Luke and Grover nodded and the former replied, "yup, perverted little goat."
"Hey!" Grover cried out.
"Then we definitely go tell Juniper," Percy replied and smiled seeing Grover's frightened look.
Thier bus came soon after that and Percy and the other two got on quickly. They sat in the middle where there were fewer people with Percy and luke on one side and Grover on the other. Poor Satyr had to sit next to a fat man in a wife beater who smelled like beer and nachos. But better him than me.
As the trip began the last two passengers got on and immediately Percy's Bloodlust detect went off;
Ping!
Bloodlust detected! In front of you — Tisiphone and Megaera!
Percy recognized the names immediately. They were the other two furies, Alecto's sisters. Well shit now what. Percy looked around nervously and realised the back of the bus was less crowded with the last three rows deserted.
"Luke Grove get up and follow me," Percy said and got up from his seat. He then turned to see them look at him questionably, "now."
Luke nodded and Grover was more than happy to abandon his seat. "What's going on Percy?" Luke asked with worry in his voice.
"How good are you at manipulating the mist?" Percy asked as he sat in the last row occupying the center seat getting a view down the bus at the two Furies who were slowly passing the middle of the bus.
"Very, why?"
"We have two monsters on our tail, when I say so put the mist up around the back three rows and make sure the mortals can't hear us."
Luke nodded, "okay but I won't be able to hold it up and fight," Luke said as he sat at Percy's right and started to suddenly use the mist, the Furies were now five rows away.
"Grover when I say so grab the one on my left, got it?"
"R-right Percy," Grover said stammering and took his seat to Percy's left.
Percy then lowered his head to look like he was sleeping and the Furies were now in front of him and the others as Percy felt Luke use the Mist to block out everything else.
"We were waiting for you sea spawn," said one of the them with a raspy voice.
