"Yeah, I know," Thalia moved back looking at him with concerned eyes, "what's wrong?"
"It's nothing it's...." Percy sighed, he wanted to lie and say everything was fine, but he couldn't' not to her. "I'm worried, about everything. The war, the Titans, the Gods, the demigods, what the future will hold....I'm just so worried."
"You put too much responsibility on your shoulders Percy," Thalia said in an understanding tone, "especially when you take other people's problems and make them your own."
"What do you mean?"
"Kronos and the Titans are my problem remember? I'm the one who has to fight them."
"And your problems are my problems," Percy stated as he drew her closer placing his head on her neck, "you think I'm just not going to worry about the monsters my girlfriend has to face? Sorry Thalia, but if it's your problem then it's my problem."
"Fine, fair enough, but what about everything else? The world isn't your problem Percy, the demigods, while family, isn't your problem. Believe me, they have survived long before we came and they will do so after we die. Same for the world."
"Yeah...but Thalia I can make it better, I can change everything. Demigods don't' have to die at 20 thanks to the Haven. Which I remind you exists because of me interfering. And I remember what happened in that other world Thalia, that world filled with heroes, they didn't just hide in one corner when the world needed them, no, they stood out in the light and fought back, they fought for the world, for the future."
"And you think you have to do the same?" Thalia asked, "that's not fair. Why you? Why us? Why can't it be someone else?"
"Who else but us? Who is stronger? Who else would be willing to do what is needed?"
"So that's it? You just want to give your life up for someone else?"
Percy shook his head, "no, not someone else, you, and every other demigod here and in camp."
Thalia pulled away from Perry and looked at him, "Percy you promised me you will always come back to me," Percy nodded, "thank you for that. But I want one more promise from you."
"Anything."
"If there comes a time when you have to chose between the world and your happiness, you must pick the thing that makes you happy."
Percy chuckled, "isn't that just a tad bit insensitive?"
Thalia shook her head, she don't look like she was laughing, she was deadly serious, "no, it isn't. Of all the people I know you are the one who needs some fucking happiness in your life. You, not me, not the camp."
"You make me happy Thalia," Percy kissed her on the check, "don't' you see that?"
"So let's say Kronos captures me or something, would you come for me?"
"Is that really a question?"
"Okay, fair enough, how about....if you had to chose between me and saving Olympus, what would you pick?"
"You," Percy replied without a moment's hesitation.
Thalia smiled, "good boy," she leaned in and kissed him for all he was worth. She grabbed his jacket collar and pulled him close grinding on his crotch.
They broke the kiss and Percy smiled, "you know I think the Happy Happy juice might be working a little too well."
Thalia chuckled, "yeah, maybe," she got off of Percy and helped him up, "come on, we have a party to enjoy."
Percy nodded as the couple walked back to the gathered demigods. Percy was still worried, but for now he put that all to the side, he didn't care for any of it. For now, just this moment, he was happy.
Suddenly Michael jumped out of the group of gathered demigods and made a mad dash for the bottles of Happy Happy Juice.
"Micheal! Drop that bottle of Happy juice!" Percy ran to stop his friend.
"No Percy! I'm getting my threesome!" Michael yelled as he grabbed the remaining happy juice running around the Hearth like a man possessed.
"Get him!" Clarisse yelled as everyone ran off chasing the son of Apollo.
Outside;
Dionysus and Chiron stood outside the Hearth looking down at the demigods.
"How did you know about this place lord Dionysus?" Chiron asked.
"I'm the god of parties, you think I wouldn't know that the kids were throwing one?" Dionysus said with a shrug as he gulped down the rest of his diet coke.
"I must admit this is certainly surprising," Chiron smiled, "but they deserve it."
"So we aren't going to punish them?" Dionysus asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No, I don't' think we should. They need this, they have far too much weighing on their shoulders, let them have their fun," Chiron chuckled as he saw Percy tackle Michael to the ground grabbing a bottle of what looked like apple cider.
"Hmph, you're growing soft Chiron," Dionysus snapped his fingers sending an invisible wave of energy over the demigods.
"What did you do?" Chiron asked.
"I gave them my blessing," the god of wine stated, "now they won't end up with a hangover the next day."
Chiron smiled, "that is very kind of you lord Dionysus," the god grumbled under his breath but said nothing. Chiron turned back to the demigods and noticed Percy looking right at him. The legendary trainer was surprised, he didn't expect Percy to notice him, Dionysus was a god and Chiron was a master of stealth, how a mere demigod could pick them out....it was unnerving.
"He must have sensed my spell," Dionysus hummed as he noticed Percy looking at them.
"Maybe," Chiron waved and Percy waved back. Quickly the demigod turned back to his party, an unspoken agreement ran between the two, Percy wouldn't react to Chiron and the trainer wouldn't stop the party.
"He's gotten too powerful," the god frowned, "Zeus is worried about that he might become a threat."
"He won't be," Chiron assured the God, "he considers the demigods his family. He would never betray them."
"And what of the Gods?" Dionysus summoned a new bottle of coke cracking it open, "from what I understand he only likes a handful of us, and I'm not on that list."
"As long as we don't betray him he won't betray us."
"Why do you have such faith in him?"
"Because....because he's my student."
"Tell me has he even taken a single lesson from you?"
"Does that not make him my student?" Chiron shot back, "in the end it doesn't matter. I have put my faith in him before and was not lead astray. He has done so much for demigods it is almost akin to the tasks of Hercules."
"Fine, I'll judge him based on his actions, not on his sayings," the god grumbled, "still I don't like it. He could hate us and we wouldn't even know about it. For all we know we could be hosting our own weapon of destruction."
"I doubt that's true," Chiron stroked his beard, "after all there isn't much the Gods don't know. Despite Percy's power I doubt even he could hide his actions fully from the Gods."
Dionysis nodded, "agreed....nothing can remain hidden for long."
Unknown to both the camp workers a third figure was hidden right next to them. This figure hide herself using the Mist manipulating it so skillfully not even a God like Dionysus could see through it. In effect she was invisible to the world, but she could see it just fine.
The blue haired woman smirked as she heard Chiron and Dionysus speak, it was almost ironic, no, wait, it was ironic. Like the textbook definition of ironic. The woman shook her head chuckling under her breath, 'those two are still so funny.'
She turned to look into the Hearth and at the demigods. A smile came on her lips as her eyes became glazed. It was almost heart aching to see all that happiness and not join in. But she kept her distance, after all it wasn't time to reveal herself, not just yet.
"Thalia get back here!" Percy shouted as he ran after a half drunk Thalia who had stolen his jacket.
The blue haired woman chuckled, 'they are certainly a lively bunch. Almost makes me wish for...no, no don't think about it. Just...sigh, just focus on the task at hand. You have waited for so long, you can wait a little bit longer.'
"You better catch me sweetheart!" Thalia roared as she jumped from seat to seat with the jacket flying behind her, "or else I'm going to throw up all over it!"
"I hate it when you get drunk!" Percy yelled as he chased his girlfriend, "you always act like an idiot!"
"Hey! You take that back!"
"Fine! You act like Micheal!"
"I think I liked being called an idiot," Thalia frowned as Percy zoomed to her side grabbing his jacket and pulling her close. Thalia laughed as Percy wrapped his arms around her once more, "okay fine, you caught me. Now what do you plan to do with me?"
Percy smiled, "I have a couple of ideas," he kissed her as slowly they ignored everything else happening around them.
The blue haired woman sighed, 'damn, now I'm depressed. Sigh, why oh why did you ever think this would be a good idea?'
Chiron and Dionysus left after a few more minutes, but the blue haired woman stayed. She looked as the demigods slowly began to go to sleep. They all wrapped themselves up in blankets and slept on the floor of the Hearth. Pillows were used generously as Percy had gotten way too many of them.
Percy and Thalia slept right next to the Hearth, they had a thick blanket over them as they snuggled in close. Slowly one by one they all fell asleep. Even Michael, who was tied up for the majority of the party, was now snuggled up close to his girlfriend.
Once everyone was off to the realm of Morpheus the mysterious blue haired woman walked into the Hearth. She bypassed the wards like they were nothing. She slowly walked past all of the sleeping faces, each so young and innocent, she felt pity and pain knowing what they would have to face.
Finally she reached Percy and Thalia. She looked at them and smiled, Thalia had her head snuggled into Percy's' neck, it fitted perfectly as Percy wrapped an arm around her warm body pulling her close.
The woman knelt down over Percy's head, "when we meet everything will change. I'm sorry it has to be this way, I promise I'll do my best to lift some of this burden off your shoulders Percy, but in the end only you and Thalia can end this, only you two are destined to."
She bent down and pressed her lips up against Percy's. It was warm with the taste of apple cider hitting her strongly. She broke it and waited for him to react, nothing, the demigod was knocked out like a log.
So she kissed him again, this time it lasted longer, it was almost like she was memorising how it felt. And then like a shadow in the night she was gone. It was almost instant, one moment she was there, the next she wasn't.
Percy's eyes fluttered as he woke up. He felt something strange on his lips, something warm. He looked around, nothing was out of the ordinary, maybe it was nothing. After all his Area sence would have notified him if it was.
Percy brought his hands to his face and felt his lips. They were warm and wet, maybe Thalia had kissed him in her drunken stupor? But just then Percy felt something, a single wet spot on his cheek, a tear drop and it was freshly made.
Percy turned to Thalia, 'was she crying?' He couldn't tell, there were no tears streaks on her face, but it didn't matter. Percy quickly drew her closer wrapping both arms around her.
Thalia reacted to the warm embrace by snuggling closer, "I love you Percy," she muttered as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Percy smiled, "I love you Thalia."
Well first off, no, I was not in an accident. I was takeing a very very long break. I honestly had grown bored of writing this story and wanted to stop for some time. I didn't want to publish crap, so I just waited until I got inpsired again to write.
Sorry I didn't tell you guys sooner, I was shocked when I read all the review you left behind. Hell I got about 50 PM's asking me when I'm going to recover from the 'car crash'.
I'll try to publish every Sunday like before, but I cannot make any garenties. Sorry.
The next chapter can be considered the start of the next book, it will focus wholey on the titan war. Anyway...bye!
Chapter 53
Chapter 53:
Percy took a deep breath and let it out. He opened his eyes, he floated in mid-air staring up at the red sky.
He looked down, the city of New York stood before him in ruins. The entire south of the city was destroyed by an artificial tsunami Percy had made. A few buildings in upper town were leveled flat thanks to Percy throwing buildings around using his super strength and Mid town was now laid in ruins thanks to Percy's molecular manipulation skill.
All this destruction had taken him a day to completely inside his time dilation ID, and it was all in the name of training. After all he was extremely powerful now, him destroying cities is now basically a regular workout.
Of course it wasn't all just chaos, there was a reason for it. The first being improving his control over water;
Water Controlling Lv-29 (61%)
Allows you to control any form of water from any source of water. You can reconstruct it in anyway you wish and it will obey your every command.
Cost-1 MP per minute
Special attack— Water Spikes-800 Damage cost 110 MP
Special defence— Water shield-1000/1000 Durability cost 50 MP
Special control— Blood control-cost 20 MP per minute. (Can control those who are weaker than you and those 10 level above you.)
Special control— Moisture control— cost same as water control + 5 MP
Special defence— Water armour— X/X durability cost— 100 MP + X amount of water available
Special control— Water construction— Create structure out of the water— 50 MP per liter of water.
This was Percy's strongest skill and the one he was most used to using in an emergency. No matter how many different powers he got, Percy would always be a son of Poseidon, the water was a part of him on a basic level.
Percy had also trained his water storm skill, the same one which helped him fight off Darkseid and Argo;
Water Storm, Lv— 12 (23%)
Forms a storm by drawing water from all available sources.
50 mana per 10 liters of water used
Damage— Depends on the affected area.
It was a big improvement, Percy mainly used this attack as an area attack, causing mini whirlpools on land or sea.
Percy has also been training in his ability to control fish. Ever since he saw what Aquaman could do with them.....well let's just say Percy didn't like being the second best at anything;
Control Aquatic life, Lv— 5 (89%)
You have the ability to control creature from the sea or those who need water to live.
Range— 50 feet
Can control— normal life forms
The skill was a strange one, Percy already had the ability to control fish, thanks to his status as his dad's son,
Status— demigod, giving Percy — +11 VIT, +11 DEX and the ability to breath underwater, enhanced strength, communicate with fish, create earthquakes, talk to horses, control water and look cool.
