The first person he saw was Travis Stoll, the boy was smiling and in the middle of a joke, probably trying to keep everyone's spirits up. Percy smiled at that and quite snuck up behind the group.
"...so I said, 'Conner dude, that's a tampon'. And believe me, he lost his shit!" Travis laughed as he healed onto his stomach causing a ripple of laughter to spread all over the little group.
"That's hilarious Travis," Percy said cutting in. Slowly all the demigods turned around and noticed him standing there. Percy then smiled, "hey guys, fancy seeing you all here."
"Percy?!" Travis quinones in aloud voice as he jumped onto Percy pulling him into a huge. "It's so good to see you!"
"Percy?" came a familiar voice from his left. Percy broke the hug and turned to see Annabeth standing there whole. She didn't have a huge cauterized whole in the middle of her chest, in fact she looked normal, "what are you doing here? D-did you die?"
Percy shook his head, "no Annabeth I didn't. I came back for you, all of you," Percy then pulled the clay pot Persephone gave him, "whit this I will be able to send you guys back."
"B-but Percy you can't do that! The dead cannot come back to life!" Annabeth shouted while the rest of the demigods looked uneasy about that.
"It's okay I talked to Hades. We worked out a deal like Orpheus did. I gave him his helmet and in return he allowed me to take you guys out of here," Percy said smiling at them all.
Slowly the air around them changed, while before they were laughing the thought of death still hung around their heads, but now...now there was hope in their eyes.
"Well then what are you waiting for?!" Travis said breaking the silence that fell, "let's do this!"
"Percy are you sure you won't get into any trouble with Olympus because of this?" Annabeth asked with concern in her eyes. But below that Percy could see hope just like everyone else.
"Yeah, I'm sure I'll be fine," Percy said.
Lie Success!
Annabeth nodded slowly as Percy turned to the group and held the pot up, "now how do this thing work?"
"Well we are supposed to go in it," Travis said examining the thing, "maybe we should touch it?"
Percy nodded his head as Travis moved to do just that. The moment his finger touched the pot Travis disappeared in a ball of light and went into the pot.
"Okay then....who wants to go next?" Percy asked motioning to the pot.
One by one the demigods touched the pot and one by one they all went into it. Soon the last one there was Annabeth as she looked at Percy with a concerned look, "Percy who are you going to get us across the country before our bodies rote away?"
Percy smiled as he held up Persephone's pearl, "a gift from Persephone. Instant transportation."
Annabeth nodded, "alright then," she then neared the pot, "good luck Percy," and touched the pot.
In a flash of light she disappeared leaving Percy all alone. Percy then put the pot inside his inventory and quickly walked out of the DOA. The street outside was empty, very empty. He felt like someone, or something emptied this place out. Maybe he was just being paranoid though, maybe he was already seeing shadows where there wasn't any.
The night however was not dark, it was very bright. Percy looked up and saw the moon big and bright as it started him down. Percy felt more and more uneasy the longer he looked at it, it was almost like he was being warned about something.
Percy shook his head yeah okay he really was getting delusional. He then put the marble underneath his foot and crushed it, 'bring me to camp.' The familiar feeling of being transformed into a cloud seeped in as Percy then drifted away into the sky. Soon the world went by as a blur and just then everything stopped.
Percy found himself in the bottom of the hill leading to camp, the same place he fought the Minotaur. He got to his feet and moved, he needed to find their bodies fast. If he was to guess the campers must have put them all in one place, the Big House.
But just as Percy entered the tree line a blast of white light illuminated the entire forest as something appeared right in front of him. 'Great, they found me,' Percy thought as he looked up slowly to see who Zeus had sent.
There standing in Percy's way was a teenage girl around his age with auburn hair and silver eyes. She wore a silver parka with a quiver strapped onto her back and a bow in hand. Percy used Observe on her, though he kind of had a clue who she was;
Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt
Lv-?
HP:?
MP:?
Race-Olympian
Str-?
Vit-?
Dex-?
Int-?
Wis-?
Luc-?
The daughter of Zeus and the goddess of the Hunt Artemis is known for her hatred of men, which has been extremely exaggerated. She is the patron of all maidens and considers it her duty to protect them all. She leads the Hunt.
She sees Percy as her target for her mission
She is eager to complete her mission and get back to her Hunt
'Well....I'm screwed,' Percy thought to himself as he started to push Gamer's mind to his limits he needed a plan and until he came up with one he needed to distract the goddess.
"Hello there. Lovely day for a stroll in the forest isn't it?" Percy said putting on a lazy smile.
Artemis crossed her arms, "it is the middle of the night."
'So not much of a talker huh,' Percy however didn't stop smiling, "oh that it is, I never even noticed. Ah....can I help you with anything?"
Artemis raised an eyebrow, "yes you can. Are you Percy Jackson?"
Percy shook his head quickly, "no I'm Peter Johnson."
Lie Failed!
"You are a horrible liar boy," Artemis replied as she walked up to him, "but then again so are most boys."
"Oh hey now you are sounding just a little bit sexist there," Percy replied as he walked backwards away from the forest.
"It's not sexisim if it's true," Artemis rebutlled.
"No that's sexist."
"No it isn't."
"Totally is."
"It isn't!"
"Define sexism."
"Discriminating or the subjugation of women by men."
Percy looked at her in disbelief, "even you defination is kind of sexist."
"That is its literal definition you get when googling for Sexism. You males are just that universally annoying."
"Well not all of us annoying. Me for sure," Percy admitted, he knew he had a very....irritating persona when dealing with important people, "and definitely not your dad, come on you can't even try to defend him," Artemis nodded, "but there are plenty of guys out there who are just nice people."
Artemis crossed her arms, "name one."
"Ah...."Percy then began to think. Edward? HELL NO! Michael? Neah, kind of a dick. Travis and Conner? Nope far too mischievous. Jet? Nope. John? Nope. Chiron?...Chiron! "Chiron."
Artemis looked at Percy then blinked. "Ah....he is ah... he..... Olympus damn this! He doesn't count!"
"Why not?"
"His father is Kronos! A vile man who mistreated women!"
"Isn't your dad Zeus?" Percy countered back.
"He's a centaur!"
"Now you're being racist and sexist!"
Artemis started to ground her teeth in anger, "shut up you annoying boy!" She then drew an arrow and launched it at Percy.
The son of Poseidon turned into his smoke form just as the arrow passed right through him. Percy then booked it as he flew into the forest and to Thalia's tree. He looked back in his smoke form and sure enough Artemis was right on his tail.
"Get back here!" Artemis cried out as she sent a blast of sliver energy at Percy forcing the boy to doge it, there was no telling whether godly energy could harm him or not in this form and right now he rather not risk it.
Percy weaved through the trees as he flew up and down avoiding all of the goddess's attacks. But just as Percy reached the camp barrier his time limit for his smoke form was up as he turned solid solid again.
"You really have anger issues!" Percy called back as he crossed the barrier into the camp. He jumped back as another arrow came flying for his head,
"Stay still so I can shoot you!"
"How about no?!" Percy called back as he transformed back into smoke and flew into camp. He quickly reached the Big House and turned back into his solid standing at the door was Michael who looked at Percy with side eyes, "Percy?! Since when can you do that?!"
"Not now Michael," Percy replied, "is everyone in there?"
The son of Apollo nodded, "yeah we got all their bodies in there. Did you do it?"
Percy nodded and took out the pot showing it to Michael. But before he could open it Artemis grabbed him by his collar and threw him towards the Amphitheater.
Percy looked back and saw the solid stone monument coming close, 'Marble skin!' Percy put around 100 MP into the skill turning his body dense. He then crashed into the stone stands and slid across destroying it.
Ping!
Skill leveled up!
Ј Physical Endurance, Lv-18 (20%)
Your Body's durability increased and you take less damage.
42% less damage from physical attacks.
Percy got out of the ruble and looked around for the pot. But before he could search for it Artemis appeared in a flash of light and stood in the middle of the Amphitheater with an arrow locked onto Percy.
"Don't move boy," the goddess warned as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"My name is Percy Jackson, not boy."
"Oh really? I thought it was Peter Johnson," Artemis replied with a smirk.
Percy smiled, "well what do you know, you do have a sense of humor."
"I assure you Perseus I am very funny, like there was this one time where I shoot this son of Poseidon who had a very loud mouth and a stupid looking grin right between the eyes. Think that's funny?"
Percy shrugged, "well maybe not haha funny..."
"You have guts boy-"
"-Percy," Percy interrupted.
Artemis narrowed her eyes and repeated,"-boy. And as I was saying you have guts, and your ability is very unique something I have never seen a son of Poseidon achieve. But you have had you fun, you will return the souls you stole back to the Underworld and come with me to Olympus."
"And if I don't?"
"Well then I'm going to get some good target practise."
Percy started to sweat, this was a little above his pay grade. He could use the Master Bolt but something told him that she is a lot faster than Ares ever was. Just then Percy noticed something between the stone stands and the Amphitheater stage, the clay pot.
Quickly Percy thought up a plan, first step, distract Artemis. "Do you even know why you were sent to go after me?"
"You stole souls from Hades's domain. We don't know how but we know Hades must have assisted you in some way."
'Okay good she doesn't know how I transported the souls meaning to her the pot is just an ordinary clay pot.' "Do you know whose souls I have taken?" Percy then put his hands up as he slowly walked towards the goddess.
"It doesn't matter whose souls it was. The laws of Olympus are final, and you have broken one without the permission of the gods."
Percy raised an eyebrow as he slowly stepped off the last step of the stone steps onto the main theater floor, the pot was just a few feet away from him now, "really? It doesn't matter who? Not even if the 36 souls belong to their dead children?"
Artemis's eyes widened the moment Percy said that, "w-what?"
Percy nodded, "yup. I'm not just bringing back any normal back to life, I'm bringing back their kids, and they still want to stop me?"
"W-we weren't aware that any demigods died," Artemis said with confusion in her voice as she lowered her bow and arrow.
"You didn't? You didn't notice when the freaking Titan of the sun came and started impale campers like shish kebabs?"
"That can't be true," Artemis replied in a low voice, "how is this possible?"
"Look around," Percy gestured with his hands, "the proof is all around us."
Artemis turned and saw the camp destroyed. The Arena was surrounded by golden dust while the cabins were broken down into pieces. The Climbing Wall was covered with scorch marks that broke down pieces of it littering the grounds with stone.
Percy took a few steps to the clay pot while Artemis was distracted but before he could reach it she turned back to him, "Helios is back?! That's impossible!"
"Ah, no, Hyperion."
"Hyperion if the Titan of the Fire and Light! Get your Greek Mythology right!"
"Right, anyway what the hell were you guys doing when all of this was going on?"
"We...we were having a meeting."
"Oh? So you guys had a meeting while your children were being slaughtered by monsters, that's nice."
"The meeting was about Hyperion!" Artemis snapped back, "he had recently escaped Tartarus and we were trying to locate him before he did any damage."
"Looks like you all were a little too late," Percy replied back as he stepped right besides the pot.
"I don't need to be told that by you boy," Artemis called out as she aimed the arrow back at Percy, "be whatever your intentions may be you still are attempting to bring back the dead, which is illegal. Stop right now or I will be forced to kill you."
Percy sighed as he nodded, "okay, you caught me," he then took a step forward and brought down a foot over the clap pot shattering it into little pieces.
"What did you do?!" Artemis cried out as balls of light rushed passed her, out of the pot and to the Big House.
"Oops?" Percy said shrugging with a smile on his face, "I didn't see where I was going. Honest mistake."
Lie Failed!
Artemis then looked at Percy, "oh I am going to make you hurt for that one boy." She then threw her bow away and took out two hunting knives as she slowly walked up to him.
Percy grinned with the souls all safe he could now cut loss, "now this is more my style," he then took out Riptide and uncapped it forming his sword, "bring it girl scout."
Artemis roared as she charged him, "AHH!" Percy blocked her first swing and stepped aside to avoid her second. He jumped to the Amphitheater grounds and turned just in time to parry another of Artemis's blows.
"Your good boy," Artemis kicked Percy sending him rolling across the ground, "but not good enough."
Percy groaned picking himself up, "tell me about it." The demigod then raised his blade, "you may be faster stronger and smarter than me but at least I am better at one thing than you."
Artemis raised an eyebrow, "oh? And what is that?"
"I can do this, Earthquake Fist!" Percy then smashed his fist into the groud breaking the stone in half forcing Artemis to move away from the crumbling platform and the random flying stones.
Percy smiled and jumped back heading to the Lake, if he was going to fight off a god he would need all the bonuses he could get. But before he could take more than a few steps forward a blur of silver appeared in front of him causing Percy to stop.
