And then the pictures changed, morphed into things he didn't recognize. He saw himself fight a man, no, not a man, a Titan. He saw himself holding up the sky with blood leaking from his legs. He saw himself fighting on a giant floating city with Luke as the two fought back to back against something, someone. And finally he saw himself being kissed by Artemis.
"Enough," Clotho said as she returned back to looking like a hag.
Percy blinked, his brain felt like it was on fire. All that was burned into his head, it lasted for a second but Percy could clearly remember what had happened.
"That was your true form?" Percy asked after his mind slowly recovered.
"Yes, it was," Clotho explained summoning a glass of Ambrosia and giving it to Percy, "it showed you your future, or possible future."
Percy graciously accepted and drank it all in one swing, "why did you want me to see that?"
"A deity's ture from Percy is a representation of who they are," Clotho explained, "it is what they are. You saw my part of fate, I weave the lives of man, I make their threads, so that is what you saw. And I wanted you to see that because I need you to understand, as hard as it was for you see my true form, it would be equally hard for me to gaze upon the forms of beings like Cthulhu."
Percy's eyes widened in shock, "y-you mean-"
"-Cthulhu and beings like him, the Elder Gods, are far more powerful than any deity on Earth."
"B-But you're all gods! All of you! How can anyone be stronger than you?!"
"There are many thing in the universe that are stronger than us Percy," Clotho said looking at the giant spinning wheel, "and one of them are the Elder Gods. So do you understand Percy? If you ever encounter one of their kinds every again, run."
Percy nodded, "yeah okay no problem, I'll never fight an Elder God ever again."
"Actually the monster you fought was just a servant of an Elder God known as a Great Old One."
Percy blinked, "yeah okay this just got confusing," he sighed rubbing his temples, "I need a vacation."
Clotho smiled, "well you still have a quest to do young Percy,."
Percy sighed, "yeah don't remind me. So how do I get out of this place anyway?"
"I shall send you back," Clotho said before suddenly a thought struck her, "oh wait I nearly forgot to give you this," she snapped her hands and summoned a big ball of blue energy.
"Wow," Percy said mesmerised by the ball of energy, "what's that?"
"The experience points you gained from killing Janai'ngo," Clotho than launched the ball right at Percy. The blue energy filled Percy up and then;
Ping!
You have gained 230,000 Exp!
Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
You have leveled up three times!
Percy Jackson
Health-5,550/5,550 (+1000) = 6,550
Mana-3,150/3,150 (+1000) = 4,150
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-28 Exp— 27,710/ 87,000
Race-Demigod
STR-50(+20)=70
VIT-52(+7+20)=79
DEX-35(+7+20)=62
INT-43
WIS-32
LUC-50
POINTS-85
MONEY— 224,637$/1,208D
Percy smiled, "sweet."
"Indeed, but that is not all," Clotho said snapping her fingers summoning a golden seed in the palm of her hand, "here eat this."
Percy narrowed his eyes and tried to Observe the seed but the info box came out as expected;
SNKDJEOE
SDHWOJE EFNROUGUT RGJERIGJIT
Complete garbage. Percy sighed and took the seed swallowing it in one go. The seed sent out a jolt of power throughout Percy's body;
Congratulations! You have obtained an update to your powers thank to the amazing Clotho!
You have unlocked: Perk Tree
Perk Tree— Allows you to pick and chose specific additions to you perks! For example would be adding extra speed to your Speed Demon perk or cutting down the recovery time of your Body From perk. You can use Stat points to buy perk instead of investing in stats. Please note that in perks gained from stats, in order to increase the number of perk-add ons you must have a higher level in the stat.
Percy blinked, "this is so cool! But why now?"
"You need the extra support Percy," Clotho said turning back to her spinning wheel, "for what is to come."
"And what is to come? You guys still haven't given me a clear answer to why you have given me these powers," Percy said closing the box, "and I'm not an idiot, I know it's not just to destroy Kronos, you want something from me, what is it?"
Clotho smiled, "you aren't an idiot Percy, I never thought you were. There is a greater reason for why we gave you this power, true, but right now as you are you do not need to know why. One day I promise you I will tell you all that you need to know, but for now, leave, you have a quest to get back to."
Percy narrowed his eyes but finally gave in. He turned around and a door suddenly appeared waiting for him. Percy began to walk towards the door when Clotho spoke up again, "wait Percy."
"What?" Percy asked. Clotho snapped her finger and Percy's inventory automatically opened up tossing out his gauntlet of Kefka. The armour floated to the Fate's open arm before exploding into tiny pieces.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Percy yelled as he ran towards Clotho. He fell to his knees and held the broken piece of the weapon in his hands, "why did you do that?!"
"Relax Percy, it isn't broken," Clotho said. Percy looked up and saw the blue gem that was fixed in the back of the gauntlet in Clotho's hand, "this," she wiggled the gem, "is the true power of the gauntlet. The tear of the Cameleon God crystalised and enhanced."
"Cameleon god?" Percy asked.
"Just a nick name we Greek have for the Christian God, you know because he is always changing his mind," Cloth explained as she pressed the stone up against Percy's forehead. Percy blinked, the stone was cold, colder than the marble under his feet. Slowly Clotho pushed and Percy felt the stone being inserted into his skull. There was no pain, no discomfort. The stone simply locked itself into Percy's forehead.
"What did you do?" Percy asked as he formed a layer of ice under him and looked at his reflection. The stone was now embedded into his skin, it looked like a third eye had been vertically inserted into his skin.
"I improved your connection with the stone Percy," Cloth explained as he snapped her finger causing Percy's body to automatically pull itself up, "you will find your connection with you servants far more powerful now."
Percy touched the stone on his head and flinched feeling the cold mineral next to his arm skin, "is there anyway to ah...I don't know hide it? It's going to be difficult to explain this one to my friends."
Clotho smiled and snapped her finger causing the stone to disappear completely, "it is hidden. It will only show itself if you wish it."
Percy looked at the ice mirror and smiled seeing his normal face again, "sweet."
"And one more thing Perseus," Clotho said with narrowed eyes, Percy gulped, she used his full name, that was never a good sign, "you must not use the power of the crystal to bind Janai'ngo."
Percy looked surprised, "really? But why not?"
"Because if you do that will give you a direct connection to the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones. You will be highlighted as a target, and believe me that is the last thing you want happening. Do. You. Understand?"
Percy gulped again at Clotho's scary demeanor but nodded, "got it, no using the crystal to bind god like beings."
"Good, oh and you will find I added an extra feature into the gem, something of my own design," Clotho explained with a prideful smile, "now I believe it is time for you to leave Percy."
"You sure? Like you don't have any other weapons of mine you want to destroy and then insert into me for you own sick experiment?"
"Well there was this one thing I wanted to try, it involves Riptide and you genitals, if you want-" the Fates didn't even finish her sentence when Percy activated his power zooming away from her and through the door leaving the Fate alone, "huh, works every time."
Bottom of the Sea,
Percy found himself back at the cave where Janai'ngo met it's end. He swam to the rocks and dug through them looking for any loot left behind. He used his water control and easily got the rocks away from the cave and found four very amazing loot items;
Treasure chest
Map to secret Hephaestus Forge of the Rooster
Skill Book: Water Storm
Skill Disk— Level 20
The treasure chest was huges, 5 by 6 feet. It was wooden and it's lock was rusted shut. Percy used water control and lifted the heavy chest up and slid it into his inventory before pocketing his map book and skill disk. Percy was amazed at that last one, he had never gotten a skill disk that powerful before.
Just as Percy was ready to swim away though he noticed something. There was something else stuck underneath the treasure chest, a silver piece of paper and on that paper was directions for creating a monster out of water;
Page of the Necronomicon,
A page belonging to the legendary book of evil, the Necronomicon. This one gives clear instruction to forming your very own monster of the sea.
Ingredients;
1 human soul to permanently bind the creature
X amount of water to form the being
Blood of the creator
10,000 Mana
Percy blinked, this was very powerful and very deadly. He could feel the power and darkness flow out of the silver page. Percy carefully took the page and put it into his inventory and vowed never to use the spell on the page ever, not that he could even if he wanted to.
Percy swam back up and saw the Ascension waiting for him. Galen helped him on board as quickly Percy dried himself off.
"Is it gone?" Galen asked.
"Yeah, it's gone," Percy replied nodding causing a sigh of relief to travel through the crew.
"And the captain?" Galen asked causing everyone to worry, the fear of battle had passed and now everyone was worrying over the fate to the legendary hero of Greece.
"He's alive, but if you want him to stay that way we need the Golden Fleece," Percy said causing the entire crew to goran.
"Oh great we have to go see Polyphemus again! This is going to be such a pain in the ass!" Marc yelled out as many crew members nodded along.
"And we still have your mission to finish," Glane said sighing, "it is important, the fate of Olympus rests on it's completion."
"Not necessarily,"Percy said with a smile, "remember my friends who were going on another quest without me? Thier quest is to retrieve the golden Fleece and bring it back to camp Half-Blood. The barrier around the camp is slowly dying so the God's sent them to find and bring the fleece back."
"And you believe your friends can bring the fleece back to camp?" William asked raising an eyebrow.
"Marc turned to his fellow sailor, "Will, your being a dick right now, stop being a dick."
"I believe in my friends,"Percy spoke up, "they can bring the fleece back in time. So right now we need to focus on getting to Nassau as fast as we possibly can."
"Right," Galen stepped up, "alright man you heard the son of Poseidon! Hop to it! Get those sails up! I want this ship running at full speed in ten minutes!"
The crew saluted the Quartermaster as everyone ran to do their respective jobs. Percy turned to Galen, "how long till we reach Nassau?"
"Less than a day," Galen looked to the sky, "probably by tomorrow afternoon, if you give us another speed boost."
Percy nodded, "okay then" the son of Poseidon turned to the horizon, "onwards to Nassau!"
"Onwards!"
Later at Night,
Percy stood at the bow of the ship pushing it forward with his water control skills. The rest of the crew were already asleep but Percy chose to stay up and sail the ship himself to make up for lost time, after all he didn't really need the sleep.
The demigod let out a sigh, it had been a long day. He reflected on all that happened today and realized that today was probably the closest he had been to death. And for a guy who literally gets into life or death situations every other day that's saying something.
Percy opened his inventory and looked at Odysseus frozen in status, the man had saved his life, it was Percy's turn to repay the favour. Percy then took out the skill book he got and learnt the skill;
Water Storm, Lv— 1 (0%)
Forms a storm by drawing water from all available sources.
100 mana per 10 liters of water used
Damage— Depends on the affected area.
Percy smiled and then took out his skill disk, he already knew what skill to invest in;
Ping!
Physical Endurance, Lv-38 (20%)
Your Body's durability increased and you take less damage.
52% less damage from physical attacks.
Percy hadn't used Skill disks on this particular skill before because he was more focused on attack than defence, but the last battle he fought made him realise that still had a long way to go and maybe now was the time to invest.
Percy then closed that and opened up his stats;
Percy Jackson
Health-5,550/5,550 (+1000) = 6,550
Mana-3,150/3,150 (+1000) = 4,150
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-28 Exp— 27,710/ 87,000
Race-Demigod
STR-50(+20)=70
VIT-52(+7+20)=79
DEX-35(+7+20)=62
INT-43
WIS-32
LUC-50
POINTS-85
MONEY— 224,637$/1,208D
Percy hadn't spent a single stat point of his in a year. He had focused mostly on trying to level a stat up the old fashion way. But right now due to the nature of the quest it would seem that Percy didn't really have much of a choice. If there was even a chance that he might encounter something like Janai'ngo again while fighting Argo he needed to be ready.
First thing Percy did was put in 7 points in Int raising it to 50;
INT-50
Annnnnnnnd;
Ping!
You have achieved 50 stat points in INT! You have gained a new perk!
Telekinesis— the physic ability to move objects with your mind.
Range — 30 feet
Max weight— 50 Pounds
Percy was surprised at the perk he had received, sure there had been plenty of people who claimed that the smarter one get's the higher chance one would have for getting psychic powers. But to actually receive it though, it honestly felt like some next stage of evolution shit.
Percy closed the new perk box and started allotting more stat points. He put 15 points in Dex raising one of his weakest stats up to 50;
DEX-50(+7+20)=77
Ping!
You have achieved 50 stat points in DEX! You have gained a new perk!
Please choose from one of the two perks;
Acrobat's Helm — Turns your body into that of a very flexible acrobat. Causes your ligaments to stretch to various degrees without snapping allowing for a wide range of movements.
