Poseidon sighed, "that's all I can ask for. Oh and what's this I heard about you picking a fight with Triton?"
"Ah sorry what was that? You're breaking up dad! I can't hear" Percy canceled the message and sighed in relief. His dad was going to be pissed when they actually met face to face. He turned to the sailors and nodded, "well let's go."
They nodded and soon the group walked into the cave. It was dark and creepy, like one would expect a cave to be. The ceiling was at least 50 feet above them with stalagmites and stalactites everywhere. There was almost no light in here, other than the light coming from the entrance. But then again light may not be the most important thing for a blind cyclops.
"You know I'm surprised," Marc said, "I kind of expected Polyphemus to come rushing out here, after all Percy did make a lot of noise breaking the stone entrance."
"Yes he should," Galen said scratching his chin, "the only reason he hasn't-"
"-Is because he is busy trying to eat my friends!" Percy's eyes shot up in realisation as he activated his super speed dashing forward deeper into the cave.
The cave was small in comparison to the mountain. Percy reached its centre in less than a second. Standing right in the center of the cave was a giant being that automatically drew Percy's attention. It was bigger than a Gergosa but smaller than a Gigantic Gergosa, wearing nothing but a filthy loin cloth and a golden cape strapped to his back. Percy didn't even have to Observe him to know who he was;
Polyphemus, Carnivorous Sheep herder
Lv— 25
HP:2,500/2,500
MP:0/0
Race— Cyclops
Str— 62
Vit-21
Dex-2
Int-12
Wis-1
Luc-9
Polyphemus is basically your mythological equivalent of Joffrey Baratheon, if you don't know who Joffrey is then fuck you, go read a book. The cyclops is big, dumb and spoilt to the core. He is arrogant and egotistical as fuck. He loves his dad, but more often than not takes advantage of Poseidon's love for him.
Likes: Poseidon, human flesh, female cyclops
Dislikes: Odysseus, Popcorn and bad sheeps that bite
He doesn't know about Percy
He is happy he is about get married and eat human meat.
Percy bleached at the idea of Polyphemus eating his friends. Percy then took notice of the rest of the cave. Polyphemus was standing in front of a huge cauldron stirring the pot. There was a platform to the side of the cave where Percy saw Grove standing in a .....white wedding dress... what the hell?
"Please don't eat us!" Percy heard Nina's voice yell out. Percy turned back to the cauldron, tied to a stick on top of the boiling liquid was Nina and Annabeth. Polyphemus was slowly spinning them like meat being heated above a fire.
"Oh shut up, you demigods are all the same!" Polyphemus yelled out as he took a giant salt shaker sprinkling Nina with it, "there, now you might just taste better."
"You know that really won't help!" Annabeth shouted out, "we humans are nasty! We don't taste good at all!"
Percy knew he didn't have time to waste, Nina and Annabeth were keeping that thing distracted, none of them even saw Percy arrive, he had the element of surprise.
Percy wanted to kill the stupid monster for even trying to kill his friends but he remembered his promise to his dad. Instead Percy focused on Binding Hands;
Binding hands, Lv-Max
Allows user to bind an opponent's body making it unmovable. Release is possible only when user deems it. Only allowed to bind a maximum of 5 people at a time.
Time limit— none.
Cost-1000 Mana
"Yo ugly!" Percy yelled out startling everyone in the room.
"Percy?" Grover called out his voice was filled with disbelief, "PERCY!"
"Percy?" Polyphemus asked out loud as he turned to Percy. His eye was scratched up and scathed, Percy doubted he could even make out his silhouette with that thing.
"Hey asshole I heard your ma'mas so ugly that when she looked out the window she got arrested for mooning!"
"What?!"
Percy backed up slowly, he needed to get the giant away from his friends, "your mama is so ugly even hello kitty said goodbye!"
"Who the hell are you?!" Polyphemus roared as he turned away from the cauldron stepping towards Percy.
Percy backed up some more, "your mama is so stupid she stuck a phone up her ass to make a booty call!"
"Don't talk about my mama like that!" Polyphemus roared out charging Percy.
The demigod just smiled and waited for the cyclops to try and trample him. Polyphemus was right on top of him as he brought his fists down hard.
"PERCY!" Nina cried out.
Percy waited for the possible moment before dashing away from the attack. He ran behind Polyphemus and quickly sent out the blue ribbons of Binding Hands to wrap around the monster. Polyphemus's wrists were tied together with his ankles causing the cyclops to fall to the ground unable to balance himself.
"What in the name of Poseidon is this?! I demand you let me go!"
Percy huffed, "fat chance you giant tub of lard." Percy turned and dashed towards Nina and Annabeth and quickly untied them. He grabbed them before they could fall into the boiling water below and brought them back to the ground.
"Wow," Annabeth said trying to maintain her balance, "that was fast."
Percy smiled, "thanks, I have been trying to improve my speed."
"Percy!" Grover called out. Percy turned and saw Groove running to him with arms open reaching for a hug.
Percy raised a hand and stopped the Satyr midway, "one, why are you here, two, why are you dressed up in a fucking wedding dress and three what the hell is that?" Percy said pointing to the giant eyeball Grover had stuck on his forehead.
"It's a long story," Grover said sheepishly, "I suppose it all began when-"
"-No time for a the long story Grover," Annabeth said turning to Percy, "Percy we need to find Clarisse and Michael, he got injured badly trying to protect us."
"Get me out of this!" Polyphemus shouted again. Percy rolled his eyes and repositioned a blue ribbon over the cyclops's mouth shutting him up.
Percy turned to Annabeth, "Clarisse called me, that's how I knew you guys were in danger. But where the hell are they? I can't see them anywhere and this cave is pretty small."
Annabeth pointed at the walls and Percy noticed several tunnels built there, "they are in one of those. Polyphemus was too big to go in and try to find them, but he had us so he let them be."
Percy nodded, "Clarisse come out!" He shouted, "it's me! We have dealt with Polyphemus!"
"Percy they aren't going to come out if you do that," Nina explained, "Cyclops's have a very good sense of hearing and can mimic voices perfectly. She probably thinks you are just Polyphemus trying to trick her."
Percy raised an eyebrow, he didn't know a cyclops could do that. "Hey Clarisse it really is me!" Percy shouted again.
"Percy-" Nina began.
"-Hey give me a second," Percy told her before shouting again, "look I'll prove it! The last thing Michael said to me before we left our separate ways was how he didn't want to be stuck in a boat filled with racist zombies!"
Still nothing happened, 'well then, time to turn it up a notch.'
"Oh I get it! You don't want to come out because you actually want to spend more time alone with Michael! I can see it now! He struggled to breath as he whispered, 'I'm cold Clarisse, hold me closer'. You slowly lower your defense; you sleep next to him hoping your presence will help him heal. You snuggle close, but Michael is still cold, so you take of your clothes and pile them up like a blanket before you press up on each other's bodies. Skin on skin breath on breath as-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP SEA SHIT!" Clarisse's voice came out from a cave to the right as a spear came flying through the shadows right at Percy's head.
The demigod easily caught the spear and spun it around in his hand. He turned to Nina, "found them."
"Damn Percy you should be a smut writer," Grover commented as the two friends shared a laugh while Annabeth shook her head in amusement and Nina blushed a deep shade of red.
The group of questers quickly ran towards the cave the spear came out of and found Clarisse and Michael there. Clarisse was by Michael's side holding a piece of cloth over a wound on Michael's shoulder. The cloth was covered with blood, Michael's skin was a pasty white. Percy looked at his health;
Michael's HP: 10/1,000
"Shit this is bad," Percy said as he opened up his inventory and pulled out a medium grade potion. He went to Michael's side and slowly lifted the boy's head up, "Michael? Michael can you hear me?"
The child of Apollo slowly opened his eyes, they were unfocused but they turned towards Percy, "Percy? Dude is that you?"
Percy nodded, "yeah it's me" as he uncorked the potion pressing it up against Michael's lips, "drink this up man."
Michael slowly drank the potions, his lips were parched beyond belief. His throat could only take a little of the potion at a time. But slowly the color returned to his face.
"His wound stopped bleeding," Clarisse exclaimed as she took off the piece of cloth she was holding.
Percy nodded, "yeah but he's not out of the woods yet," he said as he used blood control to take out a tiny amount of his own blood and used it to create runes around Michael's injured shoulder. The potion had restored 75% of his health, normally that would be enough but Percy wasn't going to risk his friend's life.
Percy poured out 250 of his own HP along with 200 MP to full restore Michael to his full health.
Michael's eyes slowly readjusted as he blinked away the pain. He looked up, "thanks Percy."
The demigod of the sea smiled, "no problem man. Just don't kill yourself any time soon okay?"
Michael smiled, "okay."
"Now that that's done," Clarisse said as she got up and grabbed her spear that Percy laid down on the side. Electricity poured through the tip as she pointed it at Percy, "it's time for payback asshole."
Percy took a big gulp, "Clarisse I just wanted to find you quickly and that was the best-"
ZAP!
"Shit!" Percy exclaimed as he felt the electricity go through his whole body. His Marble skin was still active so he only lost around 500 defense points but that still hurt.
"Stay still so I can impale you!" Clarisse shouted as she chased Percy around the tunnel much to the amusement of everyone else.
As soon as Michael could walk again the demigods walked out of the tunnel and to the main cave where they found the crew standing there taking turns drawing dicks on Polyphemus' face and body.
"We got company you guys!" Clarisse said as all the demigods quickly readied their weapons for a fight, everyone except Percy and Grover, the former because he knew the crew were on their side the latter because he had no weapons and chose to promptly scream and pretend to faint.
"Relax guys they're with me," Percy said stepping forward, "this is the crew I sailed with to finish my quest."
The demigods glared at the sailors who had finally noticed Percy and the other campers. "You sure they are trustable?" Annabeth asked looking at the sailors.
Percy nodded, "I trust them with my life. Heck they saved my life once."
The demigods nodded and slowly put away their weapons.
"Ah Percy you found your friends I see," Galen commented giving the demigods a big smile, "hello kids, I'm Galen the Quartermaster of The Ascension."
Annabeth raised an eyebrow, that name sounded familiar to her.
"These are the guys you sailed with Percy?" Michael asked with his jaw wide in surprise. Percy smiled and nodded, "so not fair! What the fuck man! I got stuck with racist zombies and you got stuck with what looks like the bloody A-team!"
"Oh shut up," Percy said smiling, "the reason I got the A-team and you got zombies was because I got the tougher quest and I needed the extra help."
"Odysseus!," Annabeth suddenly shouted out drawing everyone's attention to her, "that's your captain right? Odysseus? You called yourself the Quartermaster meaning you must have a captain above you."
Galen smiled, "Aye lass you are right. Judging by your eyes and your sharp brain I would guess you are a daughter of Athena yes?"
Annabeth blushed at the compliment and nodded. Percy smiled when suddenly a thought hit him.
"Shit we forgot about Odysseus!" Percy shouted causing the entire crew to go into panic.
Grover sighed, "it's like you always forget about people Percy. Last year you left me in LA this year you forgot about Odysseus."
"I didn't forget!" Percy yelled out opening his inventory, "I just pushed the memory aside until I needed it again. Okay so where is this fucking golden fleece I have heard so much about?"
"Right here," Marc said as two sailors went on top of Polyphemus and removed the golden fleece bringing it towards Percy.
"That's the golden fleece?" Percy said looking at the stretched piece of cloth. It glowed gold and with a pure golden aura that drew Percy to it.
"It's amazing," Nina said as it drew the attention of everyone present.
"Okay," Percy said drawing everyone's attention, "time to get to work." He slowly reached into his inventory and slowly and carefully pulled out Odysseus. Everyone gathered there looked at the man. The crew members could see their captain still breathing but just barely. The spike was still partially inside him, Percy gripped the end and pulled it out.
"AHH!" Odysseus roared out in pain as he blinked his eyes open, "w-what-"
"Shh, don't talk," Percy said as he grabbed the fleece and wrapped Odysseus up in the golden cloth. Slowly color came back to his face as the fleece glowed brighter and brighter. Percy used his observation skill on the fleece;
Golden Fleece;
This enchanted piece of cloth has the ability to heal any living being be it monster, man or plant. Even if the being is on the verge of death the fleece can bring them back to perfect health, destroying anything that causes the being to not be in perfect health.
Percy was beyond amazed at the power of the fleece, it could bring back anyone from the brink of death. Percy looked at Odysseus and found that the man was no longer poisoned; Janai'ngo's venom had been flushed out. The Greek Hero's health was being regenerated at a rate of 5% per minute.
'Maybe....' Percy thought out as he opened his inventory and pulled out the loot item he got before, the power mimicker;
Power Mimicker,
It has the ability to copy a certain skill possessed from any being or object and give the user the same ability.
Note: This will only grant the skill, not the proficiency of the skill. Meaning all skills gained through this object will start at '1'
