'I need to do something about that wound,' Annabeth thought. She couldn't feed Clarisse the Ambrosia, the girl couldn't chew and Nectar didn't help physical wounds as much as cure exhaustion.
"ARGH!" it was the roar of the blonde Gergosa from before. It was now inside the warehouse and it was looking for them both,
Seeing no other choice Annabeth grabbed Clarisse and slung her arm over her shoulder. She grabbed Clarisse's body with one hand then used the other to hold Clarisse's spear.
She then slowly dragged the demigoddess out of the warehouse gritting her teeth at the weight of her friend, 'Clarisse really needs to go on a diet'.
Argo blurred into motion appearing in front of Percy with two arms drawn back ready to pierce him through.
Percy activated the speed demon perk in the last second dodging Argo's attack before sending an Earthquake kick right into the man's stomach.
DING!
Percy moved to side and ignored the pain he was feeling in his leg. He saw Argo hold his stomach with a one hand as he laughed, "come now Percy don't you know by now that doesn't work on me?"
Percy didn't understand what was going on. Even if that man's skin was protected by that black substance the vibrations his Earthquake attacks sent out should be hurting his internal organs!
"You're probably wondering why you can't seem to hurt me with those vibrating attack's of yours," Argo said smirking, "well that answer is simple really you see-."
"-Oh do shut up," Percy said interrupting him, "enough with the monologue. What are you a Bond villain?"
Argo raised an eyebrow, "most people would be happy that their enemy is explaining their powers to them."
Percy sighed, "Yeah okay sure it would be smart of me to listen to your explanation and then figure out a way to defeat you, but by the gods your voice is so annoying! It's like my ears are going to rip themselves off my head just so that they don't have to listen to it anymore!"
Argo blinked at Percy and for a long time simply stared before saying, "Has anyone ever told you that have a penchant for pissing people off?"
Percy shrugged, "deal with it." The demigod then sprinted and reappeared in front of Argo and sent a punch at the man's face. Argo blocked the strike with one hand but just then Percy opened his other hand and sent out a blue fire ball towards the man's head.
Argo release Percy and moved back batting the fire ball away with his black hand before suddenly the shadows created by the fire ball launched up from the ground and sliced into Argo's face.
"Shit!" Argo cursed before he blurted back. His face had several cuts on it and blood slowly poured out of his wounds.
"I already know how to beat you," Percy said lighting up two more fireballs, "I just have to aim at the normal colored part of you."
"I thought you were a son of Poseidon! How the hell can you create fireballs and control shadows?!"
"I'm special," Percy replied before sending both fireballs at Argo. The blue flames lit up the night as Percy commanded the shadows under Argo's feet to attack him. The suited man started to swing his arms quickly with his left taking care of the fire balls and his right cutting the tendrils of shadows that were coming out of the ground for him.
'So his black arms can nullify magic,' Percy figured out. The fireballs weren't doing any arm to his clothes, which should at least be burnt when something so hot came near it, and furthermore the shadows that Argo cut looked like they were melting in his arms, something that Percy remembered his shadows doing only when he didn't have any more mana to power them with.
Instead of attacking Argo, Percy dashed to his gauntlet with his ridiculously high speed. But just before his hands could even touch it Argo swooped in and grabbed the thing before jumping away towards Luke.
"Get back here you slutspawn!" Percy cried out before dashing towards Argo. He managed to catch up to Argo just as they reached the warehouse. He grabbed Argo and reached for the gauntlet but Argo threw him aside.
Percy skidded across the ground and looked up just in time to see Argo put on the gauntlet.
"NO!" Percy cried out. Argo laughed as he moved his fingers getting a feel for the weapon.
"With this I can rule the world!" Argo roared out holding the gauntlet up in the air. He then channeled mana into the gauntlet, "come out my minions!"
Percy then watched as slowly smoke started to pour out of the gauntlet. A feeling of dread filled him as slowly the smoke turned solid tacking the form of five distinct forms. But before they could solidify the gauntlet started to spark as a surge of electricity went out of it and into Argo.
"ARGH!" Argo cried out in pain and quickly took off the gauntlet and threw it aside holding his left arm in pain.
Percy grabbed the gauntlet and saw Argo's arm, it was black, and not black from his special skill but black from getting burnt. His entire arm was smoking as little peices of skin was seen cut off in different places.
"What did that thing do to me?" Argo screamed doubt looking at Percy, "you'll pay for this brat!"
Percy narrowed his eyes before slowly putting the gauntlet on. He channeled his mana into it and prayed to his dad that it wouldn't shock him like it did Argo. Luckily though everything seemed normal as five smoky figures spread out of Percy's left arm.
Zed, Craig, Alecto, Marchosias and Cerberus stood besides and behind Percy as they all brandished their weapons, or fangs and fists at Argo. "Try me bitch," Percy said with narrowed eyes as he slowly reached into his pocket pulling out and uncapped Riptide.
Argos' eyes widened in fear at the sight of the monsters at Percy's side. He looked at Percy and glared;
Bloodlust detected! Argo!
Percy sighed and pushed the box away. He then looked at Argo read to fight the man to death but just then Annabeth, who was dragging an unconscious Clarisse on her back, came out of the warehouse and right behind them was the blonde haired Gergosa.
"Annabeth!" Percy cried out before turning to his servants, "help them!" The five nodded running to the demigoddess, but Marchosias reached there first as the winged wolf took a huge bite out of the Gergosa's feet.
Percy then turned to Argo, behind whom was Luke. "Let's finish this," Percy said reading his blade, they both were injured, this would be Percy's only chance at beating them.
Luke smiled as he placed his hand on Argo's shoulder, "maybe next time kiddo," and just then the two vanished in a flash of light that nearly blinded Percy. The son of Poseidon blinked and soon realized her was now alone.
'Shit!' Percy cursed himself for letting them get away. He then ran to Annabeth and Clarisse as he took the daughter of war off Annabeth holding her up with one arm, "are you okay?"
Annabeth nodded, "broken rib, but I had some Ambrosia, I'll live."
Percy nodded and then looked at Clarisse who was slowly bleeding out of her head covering his black jacket in blood. "Shit," Percy cursed as he held her tighter, "what happened?"
"She tried to attack one of them by jumping off a 30 foot shelf. She managed to hurt him, but she fell down pretty hard."
Percy felt her ribs, luckily nothing was broken but her left arm did feel fractured, "we need to get her somewhere safe, now."
"But what about-" Annabeth's words died in her mouth as she turned to the blind Gergosa who was now nothing more than scraps of meat slowly dissolving in Cerberus's mouth.
Ping!
You have leveled up!
'Huh how did that happen? Oh right my servants took care of the Gergosa, sweet free Exp.'
Percy Jackson
Health-2,600/2,600(+1000) = 3,600
Mana-1,475/1,475(+1000) = 2,475
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-19 Exp— 17,898/69,000
Race-Demigod
STR-34
VIT-50(+5)=55
DEX-31(+5)=36
INT-34
WIS-32
LUC-50
POINTS-51
MONEY— 87,597$/466D
Ping!
Quest Completed!
Survive the ambush!
Rewards;
You live!
30,000 $
Skill disk, Lv-2
Bonus!
Make Argo and Luke run away!
And just like that three objects spread and landed in front of Percy and Annabeth. One was a skill disk and the other was a stack of cash held together by a band. The third however was a giant white canon with black circuits carved along the weapon. Percy observed it;
Light Beam Cannon,
A canon that uses light to form beams of energy. Light can be stored up inside the canon like a solar panel and be used at anytime, anyplace.
Damage— 4 x number of minutes it has collected solar energy
Warning! Overcharging can cause a backlash from the weapon which may hurt the user!
Note: You will get +500 Attack if you shout, 'Super beam cannon!' at the top of your voice when using this weapon!
Percy read its info and was frankly impressed with the weapon. This would surely come in handy later.
"P-percy, what is that?" Annabeth asked as she slowly back away from the three things that suddenly appeared out of thin air.
"It-s ah.... it's a long story," Percy said as his monsters slowly walked back to Percy and Annabeth. The daughter of wisdom looked nervous seeing all of those monsters, after all one was literally the guardian of the Underworld and the other was the personal servant of Hades himself.
"Relax," Percy told Annabeth who was reaching for her dagger, "they are on our side."
Annabeth looked at Percy and then at the monsters in front of her before she narrowed her eyes at him, "explain."
Percy nodded, "I will, but right now we need to help Clarisse." Annabeth glared at Percy but eventually sighed nodding her head. Percy turned to Cerberus, "Cerberus I need you to go back to the Underworld and guard it like before."
The three headed dog started to whine and all three head began looking at Percy with what could only be described as 'the puppy dog eyes'. Percy felt like his heart was going to melt the longer he looked into those three pairs of eyes. Any normal human would have just given in at that point but luckily Percy had Gamer's mind to keep in him check.
"I'm sorry buddy, but I made a deal with Persephone and Hades. But I promise I'll call you some time and then we can play together, okay?" Percy said causing Cerberus to lower its heads and whine even louder. Oh Gods this was so difficult to do, "I'm sorry buddy, but I promise you I'll call you soon okay? Every Sunday, I promise!"
The three headed dog smiled at that and quickly nodded it's heads before it jumped into the shadow of the warehouse, shadow traveling to the Underworld.
Percy sighed; he so needed to get immune to those thrice damned pleading eyes of Cerberus or the dog was going to become his master instead of the other way around. He then turned to Clarisse who was slowly paling in complexion.
"Can we get to camp in time to save her?" Percy asked Annabeth.
"No....I don't think so. She's losing too much blood," Annabeth said touching Clarisse's skin, "she's also freezing."
Percy nodded and then looked at Alecto, the only one who could fly her in time to save her life, "Alecto do you think-"
"-Don't even ask me," Alecto said crossing her arms, "I'm a good flyer and all, but if you want me to get somewhere fast, I'm going to have to fly recklessly, and who knows what type of damage that could do to her body."
"She's right," Annabeth said looking at Percy with hope slowly dying in her face, "we can't risk it."
Percy looked at Clarisse and held her tight, he needed to do something, anything! He was the reason she was even hurt, if he had tried to do this on his own then maybe she wouldn't be hurt right now. If there was only a way he could transport her without anything happening to her body. Like a car that went supersonic or a pod that froze her body so that her life wouldn't be in immediate danger.....wait a second.
"I got it!" Percy yelled out causing everyone to jump back a little from the enthusiasm. He lifted Clarisse up bridal style and held her calling out, "inventory!"
The brown box appeared in front of him and Percy increased the size of the box before sliding Clarisse into the pocket space he used to store his items. Annabeth watched as Percy put Clarisse....somewhere. Soon she was gone leaving a gob smacked Annabeth and a smug looking Percy.
"W-what did you do?" Annabeth asked as she waved her hand in the general direction that she saw Clarisse disappear to.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Percy commented as he took his quest rewards from before, the skill disk, money and light beam cannon, and put them in this inventory, "It's one of my powers. Right now Clarisse is being stored safely in a place that will keep her in stasis, until we reach camp that is."
"So she's safe?" Annabeth asked with relief shining on her face.
Percy nodded, "she's safe. But we shouldn't waste time; we need to get back to camp right away."
"Fine, but the moment we reach camp you are telling me what the hell is going on with you. How can you command these-these monsters? And how the hell can you move so fast?! And where did you take that first Gergosa?!"
Percy held up a hand calming Annabeth don who was panting due to lack to breath, "relax Annabeth, I'll tell everything. Just not now, okay?"
Annabeth nodded, "yeah, I got it."
Percy nodded and turned to Alecto, "think you can fly us both to camp?"
The math teacher shook her head, "I'm a one passenger kind of vehicle."
"But I can," Marchosias cut in turning all attention to her.
"You can?" Percy asked with an eyebrow raised.
Marchosias spread her wings wide before flapping them down hard pushing out a gust of wind, "these aren't only for show you know."
Percy nodded and turned to Annabeth, "you up for riding on the back of a demon?"
Annabeth looked at Marchosias and then Percy, "you sure it won't eat us?"
Percy nodded, "I'm sure, and it is a she. And be warned she is a very nosy person. Very annoying."
Marchosias scoffed at that but said nothing to defend herself. Percy dismissed the rest of his servants before going to where the last Gergosa was and collecting the 5,000 $ and three low grade potions. He then mounted Marchosias, not that type of mounting, pervert, and helped Annabeth on.
"You sure you can carry the both of us?" Percy asked, "I could always toss Annabeth into my inventory."
"Hey!"
"Hm, it would be nice to spend some alone time with you, master," Marchosias purred the last word out.
"Okay so you can fly us both, that's good to hear," Percy continued on pretending he just didn't hear Marchosias purr. That coming from a giant wolf and not from a naked woman was far less sexy and far more disturbing.
