"Percy what's wrong?" Luke asked the boy.
"It-It's Ares. He's here," Percy stammered not daring to look away.
Ares then locked eyes with Percy and smiled. He then began walking to their booth and slid into the seat opposite Percy and right next to Grover, who looked like he was having a heart attack.
"Hello shitheads," the god of war said as he smiled at them.
"Lord Ares," Luke said while Grover bowed and Percy looked at his stats;
Ares, God of War, traitor
Lv-?
HP:?
MP:?
Race— Olympian God
Str-?
Vit-?
Dex-?
Int-?
Wis-?
Luc-?
The son of Zeus and Hera, Ares is infamous for his temper and his powers in battle. As the god of war he craves for more and more destruction. He is now allies with ? and ? in order start a war on mount Olympus.
Dislikes the brat because he is a better fighter than his kids
Feels mostly angry at all time. He's Ares the god of war, what did you expect?
Ares turned to Percy, "so your the little shit that stole dad's lightning bolt."
"I didn't steal anything!" Percy yelled out.
"Percy that's enough," Luke said, "how may we assist you lord Ares?"
"Well at least one of you brats has manners," Ares said as he eyed Percy's stake, "that a good looking stake coral."
Percy looked at him and then his steak, "stop drooling over my steak."
Ares smirked, "well it's mine now, "he then reached for Percy's stake and pulled it away from the boy.
Percy saw this and looked at Ares questioningly, 'oh hell no! Fuck you ass hole!' He then immediately pulled it back, "that's mine thank you very much."
Ares looked stumped at this and blinked several time, guess he never had people take their food back from him. "Give me that boy,"Ares growled out.
Warning! Bloodlust detected! Origin, from that thing sitting next to you!
Percy wiped the screen away, "fuck off. If you want it get your own."
"You little shit," Ares reached for it again and Percy moved. He pulled out Riptide and pushed the end of the pen under Ares' neck.
"Reach for my stake again and I'm cut off your head and turn you into an ashtray," Percy growled out with his thumb right under the cap ready to flick it open at any point.
Ares looked at Percy and then the pen. He then smirked, "good reflexes kid." Suddenly Percy felt something cold press up against his neck.
Percy slowly looked back and standing behind him was Ares with his sword pressed up against Percy, "shit," Percy then watched the Ares carefully as he lowered Riptide.
The two Ares grinned as the one with the blade slowly merged with the one sitting down. He still had his blade up against Percy's neck and was grinning like a madman, "we gods can split ourselves into many different form. Like clones if you will."
Percy's eyes narrowed, "so not an illusion," which made sense. After all he had Gamer's mind, no illusion, no matter how strong, should not have any effect him.
"Nope," Ares said as he lowered his blade, "now I believe this is mine." Percy saw Ares reach for his steak and quickly pushed it to the floor.
Ares looked at Percy who simply smiled, "oops."
The god of war smiled, "ruthless, prideful and willing to do anything to win. It's like looking at a mirror."
Percy's smile fell at those words as the old waitress quickly came over.
"Oh dear what happened here?" the kind old lady asked.
"I'm sorry ma'am my hand slipped," Percy then picked up the steak and the still intact plate and gave it to her, "please tell the chef I enjoyed every bite I ate."
"Oh that's nice dear, do you want me to bring you another one?" she asked taking the plate.
"Oh please no it's okay," Percy then looked at Areas with narrowed eyes, "I lost my appetite."
Ares chuckled while the woman quickly walked away to the kitchen. Percy sat back down and crossed his hands, "so what the fuck do you want."
"Already don't like me huh?" Ares said with a grin.
"You tried to steal my meat."
"If this was ancient Greece men would have offered me their wives. And when I made them moan like their husbands never could they would thank me and give me half their wealth."
"Than it's a good thing this isn't ancient Greece huh?"
"Haha, if only," Ares said with his eyes flashing brighter behind his shades.
"If you do not mind me asking Lord Ares," Luke asked stressed, "why are you here?"
"Oh right, I need you three to get something for me."
"Nope," Percy repled crossing his hands.
"Percy!" Luke called out, "stop trying to piss of the god!"
"He stole my steak!"
"Attempted to steal you steak," Ares corrected as he smiled at the fight Luke and Percy were having.
"Look can we do this later?" Luke said with a sigh. Percy frowned and looked away.
"As I was saying, I need you three to get something for me. I was on a date a few days again and I lost my shield in the Waterpark. I would go there and get it myself but I frankly would rather want you to get it."
"Why?" Percy frowned.
"Percy gods are restricted by the ancient laws, the only way they can give help in any form to questers is as a reward. I'm sure Lord Ares is just giving us a simple task so that he can reward us later," Luke explained in a very scripted like tone.
Percy then turned to Ares, "and why do you want to help us? Isn't war kind of your thing?"
Ares grinned a mad grin, "my reasons are my own. You either accept this or you don't. That's all."
Percy narrowed his eyes at Ares but then relented, "so what's the reward?"
Ares smiled and pulled out three rings and laid them out on the table, "these."
Percy picked one up and observed the;
Rings of Invisibility;
The wearer of these rings is given invisibility for one whole day.
Time remaining— 24 hours
"I got these from my brother," Ares explained, "grants the user 24 hours of invisibility. You can use them to get into Hades's palace."
"So you are just willing to give us these?" Percy asked putting the ring down, "no strings attached."
The god of war smirked, "see, aren't I a generous god?"
Percy nodded, "yes. But I'm still not giving you my steak."
The god frowned, "you still don't understand just who you are talking to do you boy. But no matter. You will learn respect for me in time."
"I don't think I would ever-" Percy began.
"-Thank you lord Ares, we will get right on this," Luke interrupted Percy.
Percy frowned but kept quiet shooting Luke a dirty look. The god gathered the rings and then got up, "bring my shield back here in two hours time."
Soon after the god left Percy turned to Luke, "why the hell are you so eager to kiss his ass?!"
Luke frowned, "Percy you already managed to piss of Hades and Zeus, two of the strongest gods in Greek myth. I would rather not have the literal god of combat come after us as well."
Percy scowled but kept quiet. He then spent the rest of the meal in deep contemplation. Why was Luke was pushy right now? Before he was so laid back leaving everything to Percy but now...did he want us to do the quest for some reason? Was Are the one who Alecto found Luke talking to?
But why? Did Luke contact Ares before had to arrange all this? Why would the god even agree to that? Percy's head spun as he felt a headache come on. Something didn't add up. He was looking at only half the picture, the rest were missing.
After paying for the bill Percy and the rest got into their car and drove to the Waterpark. The place was empty, abandoned really, so obviously it was closed. Luckley jumping really high was one of the first things Percy learned how to do. He jumped over the fence and opened the gate from the inside.
"So where exactly is this tunnel of love?" Grover asked as he looked around the abandoned place.
"Let's take a look," Luke said turning to the map. There in the center of the park was a boat ride called, 'Thrill Ride O'Love' "I think this is it. We should go straight ahead and then take a left."
Percy nodded and the three did just just. Soon they came to the love tunnel which was unsurprisingly was a water tunnel shaped like a pink heart. The tunnel was decorated on the side with statues of cupid along with other omatic stuff like hearts and fishes. Wait....fishes? Well to each their own.
On top of the tunnel was a sign that said, 'Thrill Ride O'Love: This is not your parents tunnel of Love!'. The tunnel was now empty leaving behind only a big concret skating halfpipe but Percy could feel the water in the pipes below.
Percy slide down and began walking into the tunnel. The tunnel was dark but luckily Grover was prepared as he took out a torch light lighting their way in. Inside the tunnel was covered with mirrors on all side, if someone was to go into this thing they would always have a good view of the person they were with.
"Where did he say his stupid shield was?" Percy asked.
"Don't know," Luke replied, "he just said it was in here somewhere."
"Guy's I'm getting something," Grover replied, "like a scent."
"Really? Do you think it's Ares's sent?" Luke asked.
"Yeah Grover does it smell like old gym socks?" Percy asked causing all three boys to snicker.
"Haha, no. It smells...well it smells kinda good actually," Grover said, "like Juniper leaves."
"Do you actually think there is something down here that smells of Juniper leaves?" Percy asked in a mocking tone, "come on man we are in a concert tunnel in the middle of an abandoned amusement park ride. There is no way a plant is growing here."
"Hey don't blame me. The nose smells what the nose smells."
"Okay Grover," Luke said nodding, "but either way it is better if we stay alert. No telling what we might find down here."
The other two agreed as they all went deeper inside. There in the middle of the room was a bullet proof vest, but Percy's Observing skill showed what it really was.
Shield of Ares,
It is the shield of Ares which is charmed to be unbreakable and can withstand godly amounts of force. It is also charmed to give the wielder a + 20% on all attacks.
Note: This shield has a secret compartment hidden inside of it. Object hidden :?
Percy looked at the box in surprise. Something was hidden inside that thing? Percy didn't know what and quite frankly anything Ares wanted to keep hidden Percy didn't want to find out. Probably some his anal beads or something "There it is," Percy said pointing at the vest.
"Woah, you sure Percy?" Grover asked as they walked up to the vest.
"Yup. Feels like him," Percy was getting pretty good at this lying thing.
Lie Success!
"Well okay then," Luke replied as he reached for the vest but the moment he picked it up something clicked.
"Oh what now?!" Percy yelled out as she and grover quickly ran to Luke who already had his sword out and ready.
Suddenly a loud creak could be heard as the wall on top of the tunnel opened revealing several robotic spiders that then jumped down and started to attack the three demigods.
"What the hell are these things?!" Grover yelled out as he pulled out his sword he got from a robot.
Percy then used Observe;
Robotic Spiders,
Lv-6
HP:300/300
MP:20/20
Str-3
Vit-2
Dex-12
Int-1
Wis-2
Luc-0
The robotic creations of Hephaestus, the god of forges, these things are tasked with only one objective, to capture their enemies and then broadcast the captured people directly to Olympian television. Usually used to capture Aphrodite and Ares while the two are doing it, these things are sneaky and dangerous.
Kill to gain— 50 Exp
"Hephaestus made them," Percy called out as he punted one of the spiders into the wall.
"What makes you so sure?" Luke asked as he sliced a couple of them into pieces.
"They feel like the robots we fought in the forge!" Percy called as he helped defend Grover while the Satyr used his reeds to form vines to attack the robots with, "plus they are freaking robots! Who else but Hephaestus?!"
"True," Luke said as quickly between Luke's slicing, Grover's vines and Percy's constant use of the moisture around them to shortcircuit the spiders, all of the robots died quickly.
Ping!
Total Exp gained: 600 Exp!
"Well.... that was easy," Grover said kicking one of the dead spiders. Just then a bigger rumble roared out as suddenly the entire tunnel started to shake. The roof above them split opened and down came a giant Spider, 8 feet big with bronze legs and red eyes. It looked at the three questers in front of it and hissed steam out of it's mouth.
"FOR FUCK'S GROVER SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP JINXING US!" Percy shouted.
The spider jumped towards them causing the three to jumped away in order to not get crushed. Percy and Grover ended up on one side with Luke on the other. Percy then Observed the beast;
Giant Robotic Spider,
Lv-17
HP:1900/1900
MP:20/20
Str-23
Vit-20
Dex-42
Int-13
Wis-16
Luc-0
The robotic creation of Hephaestus, the god of forges, this thing is tasked to capture the enemies of Olympus. Usually used to capture high profile targets this spider is only used when Hephaestus really wants somebody in chains.
Kill to gain— 2,200 Exp
Great, just great.
Percy closed the box and looked at the spider as it attacked them with it's sharp and pointy legs. It was slow as Percy managed to grab Grover and dodge it easily. He then moved away as Luke began to attack the thing with his sword distracting it for the time being. Percy then reached into the water pipes underneath them and he pulled the water out and up to the tunnel flooding the concrete half pipe with water once again.
"Percy what the hell?!" Luke called out as Percy directed the huge amounts of water into the form of a giant snake that grabbed the spider between its jaws. It then lifted the spider and smashed it into the ground and bite down shattering it's entire body into pieces.
"Warn us next time you are going to do that Percy!" Luke yelled out as he slowly walked over to him and Grover.
"Sorry, kind of focused on creating the whole giant snake thing," Percy replied coldly as he walked over to the decomposing robotic spider.
The spider left behind 300$ and a small robotic spider. Percy put the money way and Observed the spider.
Spy Bug,
A tool that once attached to any person will turn invisible and record whatever the person sees. It can only be seen by the person who used the bug and only he/she can remove the bug from the spied on person.
Percy quickly put the bug way into his inventory and turned to Luke and Grover, "we should probably go now."
Luke sighed, "yeah. Okay let's go."
Ping!
Congratulations you leveled up!
