Thalia nodded, "so we have a day and a half to prepare to fight that thing."
Percy nodded, "yeah."
Thalia looked at Percy, "want to make out again?"
Percy shrugged, "why not?"
Thalia pounced on him pushing Percy down on the sun beds as she pressed her lips up against his own. Percy had his hands on her perky behind as he pressed her close. The couple kissed and touched the other forgetting the world around them as the luxury boat they were on speed past the San Francisco area.
Here have a chapter. I don't know I decided to write one, I just did. anyway after this I'm going to be on vacation for the next week, so don't expect any chapters till maybe next Tuesday or something.
So yeah, The Son of Neptune is my favorite story line in the HoO series, I so wanted to do and not have to wait for Gaea and all that, or else this would have only happened in chater 96 or something. So with this I have official chewed up and thrown out the script for the canon stories. Yay!
The limitations of Photographic Reflexes— you can't learn a skill you already know. Meaning if Percy didn't know archery and saw Artemis perform archery then he would gain her skills. But since Percy already knows it wouldn't be effective.
So what do you think? Like it? Hate it? Also I hope you enjoyed the little lemon in sprinkled in there, hopefully this will show you a little of how I might write proper lemons in the future.
Chapter 42
Chapter 42:
Percy tightened his grip around his imperial gold spear. He had checked his inventory and sure enough there it was;
Imperial Gold Spear
A spear made of imperial gold. Like celestial bronze this spear can kill even the divine.
Attack— 30 x Dex
Percy didn't know why he didn't use this spear before. With his amazingly high Dex rating of 80 his total attack would have come up to 2,400 points, much more than Riptide. But then again Riptide was better suited for combat with the bonus he got from his sword mastery skills.
Thalia started to circle around the small battle area they made in the living room by pushing all the furniture and TV to the side. They both had taken off their jackets. Thalia had her hair tied up in ponytail while Percy stood with sweat gathered on his brow. Percy steadied himself, he took a deep breath and slowly let it out.
Thalia jumped on him swinging her spear down. Percy blocked with his spear and pushed her back before thrusting the tip at Thalia.
The demigoddess blocked it easily before swinging her spear in a low angle aiming for Percy's leg. Percy jumped up to avoid the weapon started repeatedly stabbing Thalia.
Thalia side stepped all of the attacks, moving backwards. Percy swung at her legs, and his spear was promptly stopped by Thalia's own. Percy then pushed forward pinning Thalia to the wall behind her using their spears as a choker on her neck.
"Give up," Percy hissed.
"Never, lover boy," Thalia smirked as she kicked his left knee losing Percy's stance. She then pushed back and unlocked their spears with a wide swing throwing Percy off balance. Thalia swung her spear down and Percy moved to block.
Percy was just managing to hold his own, but he had to bend backwards to block her spear in time, which resulted in throwing him off balance. Thalia took advantage of this by suddenly bringing her spear back knocking Percy of balance yet again before thrusting the spear tip into his chest.
"Not again," Percy mumbled as he saw his defence points decrease;
Defence— 305,668,730
It wasn't much of a lose, but it was still considered his lose. The reason why Percy so much more defence points was because he had been adding on defence points like crazy during their boat ride. Every chance he got he would activate his water body bonus and drain all his mana into his Marble skin skill.
"You're definitely skilled with that," Thalia said smirking as she transformed her spear back into a can of mace, "but you're not good enough."
Percy smirked, "yeah. Your right. You're pretty good with handling a spear. Long pointy spears."
Thalia was confused at first before she realised Percy's choice of words. A deep crimson took over he face, "perv."
Percy chuckled, "yeah, yeah. Oh, and before I forget, start pouring all of your mana into your marble skin spell, and then keep doing it again and again."
"Why?"
"It will build up your defence," Percy told her, "and I am not letting you face a Giant without being at your best."
Thalia nodded and started doing just that.
Percy nodded, "good, now...what do you want to do?"
Thalia calmned herself down, "I don't know. Want to watch TV?"
Percy shrugged as they quickly moved the couch and the TV back into place and sat down. Thalia had hold of the remote as she started to search through channels. Percy on the other hand had one arm around Thalia as he sat right next to her, holding her closely.
Thalia smiled at the action as she leaned back putting her head on Percy's shoulder as she finally settled on the News channel. It was an international news network that was currently covering the UNO meeting in New York.
"-And that concludes our coverage of the UN's decision to increasing funding for WHO. Up next we tackle the issue of the growing crime rates all across America. In the recent months the police have found that there has been a strange uptick of crime. Police have been unable to find the cause of this phenomenon but have found that this crime wave had started somewhere around 2 weeks ago. For more we go to Chang Williams for more."
The news then changed to an asian man talking to the police commissioner of Seattle, one of the cities most affected by the crime rates. While most other cities were prepared for this increased crime, Seattle was not.
"Do you think this has anything to do with Kronos coming back?" Percy asked Thalia.
Thalia sighed, "I'm not sure. He was revived 2 weeks ago, so maybe there is a connection, but I'm not sure. Maybe it has something to do with his title."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "his title?"
Thalia nodded, "he is know as the titan lord of time, harvest and evil."
Percy chuckled, "that's so funny."
"What is?"
"Well he has two amazing titles, like lord of time and lord of evil, but then the third one is harvest. Can you imagine that? And evil time manipulating farmer wearing overall threatening to kill kids because they were playing in his corn field?"
Thalia laughed, "yeah, Gods that sounds so silly. Hey, you know what? I don't like the name Kronos, sounds like a failed energy drink. So from now on we call him the crazy Farmer."
Percy smiled, "look at you, coining your own nicknames and making fun of powerful immortals. Guess I am rubbing off on you."
Thalia smiled, "maybe."
Percy kissed her forehead, as then her lips. Just then he noticed several purple markings along her neck and he stopped and smiled, "did I give you those?"
Thalia looked down and groaned, "yeah you did," she hit him on the stomach, "ass."
"Ophf," Percy chuckled as he faked his pain, "what was that for."
"For almost forcing me to explain to Jason what a hickey was," Thalia grumbled, "next time don't make them so obvious."
"Why not," Percy asked as he kissed her just below her ear slowly going down her neck, "I want people to know you are mine."
Thalia grumbled as she pushed him away, "nope."
Percy grumbled, "but Thaliaaaaa-"
"No buts," Thalia huffed, "if all we do when we are alone is make out the our relationship will be based on nothing but physical attractions. So tuck it in big boy, I want to watch TV."
Percy grumbled, "fine....but let's at least stop watching something so depressing," he said takeing the remote and changing the channel, "let's see what else is on TV."
They skipped a few channels, sports, cartoons, sports, Discovery channel, sports, how many god damn sport channels are there?!
"Wait," Thalia said, "go back."
Percy went back showing a food channel with a woman called Nigella Lawson hosting the show. The woman had black hair and black eyes with a great smile and huge breasts. She wore a very modest baggy blouse but even through that Percy could tell that she had huge tits.
Percy looked at Thalia, 'is this a test? I heard girlfriends do this to test whether their boyfriends are attracted to other women....yeah this is a test. Don't look at the hot older woman's boobs Percy, don't do it. No. Don't do it.'
Percy eventually had to use Gamer's mind to stop his head from imagining those bare giant tits while Thalia was just enjoying the show.
Percy eventually got himself under control and watched the program. Nigella was british, her accent gave her away, and apparently the theme of today's show was cheese.
"Why do you like this show?" Percy asked Thalia.
"I used to watch it with my mom and brother," Thalia said in a low tone, "some days, when my mom wasn't drunk or fucking crazy, would sit down and watch this show with us. It would just be the three of us and no one would talk for the entire time. Then after it was over, and mom was really feeling good, she would try and cook one of the recipies for us."
Percy could see the tears gather around Thalia's eyes, Percy didn't say anything, he simply held her closer. Thalia placed her head right below Percy's neck holding him close.
"She was a terrible cook," Thalia chuckled as a few teardrops ran along her cheeks, "but Jason loved her food. She would often joke about trying to restart her celebrity career as a tv chef. She said it would be the perfect thing for her to do.
"Then one day she found out a network was looking for a new TV chef. She contacted her old agent and begged him for a chance to audition. She got into the final two candidates. The day she came back after the audition was one of the few moment that my mom looked sane and happy. She cared so much for us, she even...she even tried to fix things between her and me. But a week later we came to find out that she didn't get the part and mom lost it. She...she wasn't the same after that. She got worse and worse. And....and that's it."
Percy held Thalia close as more tears fell from her eyes, "I'm sorry you had such a shitty life," Percy told her as he gently patted her back, "and I know I can't really do anything to make it better. But-I ah, I want to make sure your future isn't as bad."
Percy tried to sound mature and caring, but trying to console somebody wasn't something he was good at, "I get that what I'm saying might not mean much. I understand that. But I want you to know that as long as I can, I'll try and make your life not suck. I promise."
Thalia looked up at him, "you promise?"
Percy looked into those sad eyes. Thalia ever allowed herself to look weak, Percy knew that. Even when Percy contacted Parallax, the entity of fear, she put up a strong face. For her to lower her gaurd in front of anyone meant only one thing, she trusted him, she put her faith in him. And he wouldn't let her down.
Percy cupped her face with his hands and pulled her close. He bent down and kissed her. They broke apart and Percy pressed his forehead against her's, "yes. I promise."
Thalia smiled, "I'm going to keep you to that."
Percy smiled, "I know."
Thalia curled up into Percy as the two turned towards the TV. They didn't speak, they had nothing to say.
As the show went on and on Percy began to realise how easy this Nigella lady made things seem. Before Percy always saw cooking as something complex and difficult to do, but now it seemed like it was just a matter of doing the right thing at the right time.
Eventually the show ended and when it did Percy got a pretty big surprise;
Ping!
You have learnt a new skill through watching someone via your photographic reflexes!
Cooking, Lv— 25 (80%)
The skill to create food through mixing and combining different ingredients, using different methods.
80% chance of making the eater happy
70% chance of not destroying all nutritional value inside the food made
90% chance of making the food look great
10% chance of botching the recipe
Recipes;
Cheddar Cheese Risotto
Macaroni Cheese
Percy was amazed at what he saw. The program went on for about an hour and while Percy was focused all that time he found it amazing that that allowed him to gain a new skill! And something at such a high level!
Nigella Lawson was a very good cook, so it would make sense that the cooking skill he would gain from her via Photographic reflexes would be pretty advanced as well. But this was....this is just amazing. Turely the points he spent buying the Photographic reflexes was well spent.
And what's more this mean something else, Percy could now just sit on the couch, watch different episodes and he could practically learn anything he wanted! Why this opened up his world to unlimited possibilities!
All he needed to do is get access to the internet and Percy could theoretically learn every single skill in the world just by watching a couple of videos done by people who are great in the field!
"So, what did you think?" Thalia asked turning off the TV.
"Think of what?" Percy asked.
"The show," Thalia said getting off of Percy's chest and stretching.
"I thought it was brilliant," Percy admitted.
"Yea right," Thalia scoffed, "you were probably distracted by her enormous cans."
Percy blushed, "no I wasn't!"
"Yeah you were."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes," Thalia smiled, "don't think I didn't notice the way your eyes were glued to the TV."
"Hey I was just appreciating her cooking skills," Percy said crossing his arms, "and for your information I was glued to the TV because I was trying to learn the recipes."
Thalia rolled her eyes, "Percy you don't have to lie. I don't mind that you look at other women's boobs. Just don't do something to piss me off, like stare at them like Donny did."
"Okay first off, I really wasn't looking at her boobs. I admit I was at first but then I was actually trying to focus on the cooking. And second, wow. Really? You're okay with me looking at other women?"
Thalia shrugged, "it's not like you're going to do anything about it," she glared, "right?"
Percy nodded, "right."
"And besides," Thalia threw her leg over Percy straddling him and pushing him down, "why would you ever cheat on this?"
Percy put his hands on her hip as she bent down to kiss him. Percy broke the kiss, "I wouldn't."
Thalia smiled, "I know." She then bent down and began kissing him again.
Percy broke the kiss again, "but just for the record I really was trying to learn how to cook."
Thalia rolled her eyes, "sure you were."
