Capítulo 97: Pj430
Chapter 421
Percy smiled, "yeah I know. I tend to give people that feeling."
"I-I'm sorry," Jason apologized, "it's just that Thalia was a lot more,
well, open than you and I-"
Percy laughed as Jason talked so fast he tripped over his words, "relax
little dude, it's fine. And it's understandable, Thalia was on a role, so
there was nothing for me to do or say. And I don't know about you, but I
have found that doing anything to interrupt or irritate you sister is a bad
thing."
"Yeah, like waking her up by pouring water on her," Thalia mumbled
under her breath.
Jason nodded, "right...sorry again. It's just that, you seemed kind
of….laid back?"
"That's because I'm kind of a laid back guy."
Thalia laughed, "yeah right! You're only 'layed back' when you're with
me or a friend. You basically spend your free time killing zombies and
training. You, Percy Jackson, are one of the least laid back people I
know."
"We coming back to the, 'I don't know how to have fun' argument aren't
we?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah, we are. And we will be returning to that, the
moment we go back to camp, leader."
Rob laughed, " Haha! This little shrimp is your leader?!"
Thalia nodded, "yeah, and?"
Rob was stunned at Thalia's bland tone of voice, "b-but why?! You are
clearly stronger than him. After all you are a daughter of Jupiter and
he's...ah, what are you again?"
"Son of Poseidon," Percy said with a casual shrug.
"What?!" Rob shouted as he stood up in shock. Even Julia looked
surprised at that while Jason just looked startled.
Percy blinked, "ah, did I say something wrong?"
"Your a son of Neptune?!" Rob yelled out.
Percy nodded slowly, "ah, yeah, I guess."
"Oh shit," Julia cursed as a look of tension came on her face, "this so
bad."
"Why is this bad?" Thalia asked.
"Because a son of Neptune is considered bad luck," Jason explained,
"camp Jupiter used to be in the San Francisco Bay area, but then a
child of Neptune accidentally caused a giant earthquake killing lots of
people and forcing us to move."
Percy was in shock, "woah, that must have been quite some child of
Neptune. I don't think even my powers are strong enough to do that."
"Really?" Thalia asked in surprise, "that seems strange."
Percy nodded, "yeah, but it makes sense. A child of a God or Goddess
with many domain can only focus on one domain of their parent. Like
Nico and Bianca, Nico is great at shadows controlling, but Bianca is
better at controlling the Earth, see? I'm not perfect at Earthquake
control, but I am very good with water. Maybe John can use
Earthquake control better than me, but he hasn't really tired."
Thalia nodded while Julia and Rob were busy discussing amongst
themselves. Finally they came to an agreement and Julia spoke up.
"Percy I want you to promise us that as long as you are here you
shouldn't use your Earthquake powers."
Percy nodded, "done. No problem."
"No, I mean I want you to swear on the Styx."
"Hmm, my Earthquake powers are a big part of my powers, is it alright
if I only swear to only use them if there is an emergency?"
Julia and Rob shared a look and they nodded, "that is acceptable."
"I Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon swear to only use my Earthquake
controlling powers within Camp Jupiter if there is an emergency."
Thunder roared outside and the two Praetors looked visibly relaxed.
"So, how long do we have to wait till the Senate get's back to us?"
Percy asked.
"A hour," Julia replied, "it shouldn't be any longer than that."
Percy nodded, "so….what do we do until then?"
Thalia and Jason were already talking to one another. Jason told his
sister all that had happened to him over the last few years. It seemed
that Jason grew up in camp Jupiter, not unlike Annabeth in camp Half-
Blood. He was basically raised by the people in camp and they treated
him like family.
Thalia was glad for that last part, she was so worried that he was
mistreated that Percy could sense it without the use of his Empathic
powers. Eventually though the topic of conversation came to Thalia.
"So I have been meaning to ask," Jason said, "why do you look so
young?"
Thalia laughed, "simple brother of mine, I died."
Jason and the others looked surprised. Thalia then went into her story
about how everything went down. How she died protecting camp and
was turned into a tree. How the tree was poisoned by Kronos's army
and how Percy got the Fleece to save it. And how the fleece
accidentally healed her as well bringing her back to life.
"So that's why you don't look like you're 20," Jason nodded in
understanding.
"Wait, so how old are you?" Rob asked.
"Well seeing as I was dead for so long, I would assume I started
ageing again the moment I got brought back, meaning I am right now
15."
"When's your birthday?" Julia asked,
"22nd December," Percy replied. Thalia looked surprised, "oh don't
look so surprised. It's my job to know such things."
"Wait, you're going to be 16 in 6 months time?" Rob asked, "that
means-"
"-That you have the highest chance of being the one the Great
Prophecy speaks about," Julia finished.
Thalia nodded, "yeah, I know."
Julia sighed rubbing her head, "we at first thought Jason was the child
of prophecy, we have been training him to be so. But now with you
here…. Percy, who old are you?"
"I'm going to be 14 in a month's time," Percy told them.
"So you are the next candidate for the prophecy if anything happens to
Thalia," Julia thought out loud as she rubbed her chin in concentration.
Thalia sighed, "yeah, I also wished I wasn't the chosen one. In all
honesty Percy would make a much better chosen on than I ever could."
"Thalia we talked about this," Percy told her in a warning tone, "stop
belittling yourself."
Thalia nodded, "yeah yeah I know."
"Wait your serious?" Rob asked surprised, "the daughter of Jupiter is
freely admitting that she is weaker than someone? And that someone
being a son of Neptune? Are you sure you're a daughter of Jupiter?
Where is your pride woman?"
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Thalia glared at him, "I am a daughter of Zeus. Would you like a
demonstration?" Her hand started to spark with wild electric sparks.
Rob shook his head, "no, I'm good."
"Smart boy," Thalia said cutting the electricity, "and I do have my pride,
it's just not blinded by arrogance or hubris. It's obvious Percy is
stronger than me, it doesn't me I like to admit that, but it's true."
"Bullshit he's stronger than you," Rob said, "you're a daughter of
Jupiter for crying out loud! How can the son of that stupid water God be
stronger than you!"
"Dude my dad is one of the Eldest gods," Percy said in a calm voice,
"he controls around 70% of the Earth, do you really want to go and
insult him?"
"We Romans don't care for Neptune," Rob explained, "to us he is
nothing but a crazy water God who is barely better than a Nymph."
Percy felt his anger rise, "hey shut up! You don't see me insulting
Ares!"
Rob turned to Percy, "how did you know I was the son of Mars?"
"You have a giant spear attached to your back, a stupid grin on your
face and you pissed me off the moment I saw you, of course you're a
son of Ar-, I mean Mars. The only thing left is the tendency to act like a
madman and we have a perfect match."
Rob growled, "my father is not a mad man!"
"Yeah he is, and he's also a traitor," Percy spat back.
"How dare you!" Rob stood up, "I should have you hanged for that!"
"You can try asshole, and when I kick your ass don't go crying to your
daddy because I kicked his ass to!"
"Lies!" Rob shouted, "how could you possibly do something like that!
Mar is the best fighter ever!"
"Simple, I took the Master bolt, which he helped steal from Zeus might I
add, and I shoved it up his ass. I then sent a blast of thunder up his
behind!"
Rob was seeing red, "lies! My father would never fall to someone like
you!"
Percy shrugged, "like I care what you believe. You can believe the sun
is blue, doesn't mean it is."
Rob growled, "that's it! I demand a fight for you!" Rob grabbed his
spear and leveled it at Percy.
Percy scoffled at the spear, it looked like a giant version of Clarissa's
own spear, "and why should I fight you? I have nothing to prove."
Rob growled, "fight me, or else you admit that Neptune is a weak God."
Percy growled, his eyes turned Red and stayed that way, "insult me if
you wish, I can take it. But if you ever say anything about me dad I
will rip your heart out!"
Rob was visibly frightened at the aura of anger Percy gave off. He
could feel the Bloodlust in Percy voice, it was so thick that Rob felt like
it was choking him. But he couldn't give up now, it would make him lose
face.
"I-I still demand a fight."
Percy's eyes glowed red as he smiled, "fine I acc-"
Thalia hit Percy upside the head startling the boy, "knock it off sea
brains."
Percy looked at Thalia and immediately the aura of anger and the
Blood lust all went away. Percy rubbed his head, "that hurt Thalia."
"Yeah, it should," Thalia put her hands on her hip, "we came here to
get their help, not fight them."
"But he insulted my dad!"
"So you were what going to kill him?" thalia asked putting Percy on the
spot light.
"No…..just beat him up a bit. Maybe break a bone or two."
Julia were taken back by what just happened. Julia couldn't stop Rob
from running his mouth, again. It was true that the Romans didn't care
for Neptune, but they still gave him respect out of fear. Rob however
went overboard with the insult and had pushed their guest. Julia was at
first worried for Percy, Rob had been known to hurt people that insulted
him in anyway, and Percy had just insulted his dad, who Rob looked up
to.
But the moment Percy opened his mouth she stopped being scared for
him, and started being scared of him.
The way the anger and Bloodlust poured out of Percy was just
phenomenal. The power he radiated was almost toxic, it called to her
and Julia for a split second felt like she would be lost in those red eyes.
She felt a wave of overwhelming power that was almost seductive in
nature. But just as it came it left. All it took was one look from Thalia
and that powerful and dangerous person she saw disappeared
replaced with the guy who was currently getting scolded for over
reacting.
Thalia sighed, "look I get it okay? But you can't just go around beat the
shit out of people we are trying to be friends with."
Percy lowered his head, "I'm sorry."
Thalia then turned to Rob, "and you," the Praetor yelped, "don't even
insult a God in front of their child. It doesn't matter who it is, Olympian
God or minor God, don't do it."
Rob nodded, "yes ma'am."
Percy glared at Rob, "don't think this is over asshole."
Rob gulped. Julia sighed, "maybe we can settle this some other way."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "how so?"
"A test," Julia supplied, "a test between you and Rob. You both will
wager something and the winner gets all. This way you two can work
out your issues before it becomes a problem in the senate floor."
Percy and Rob glared at each other. Now that Rob didn't actually have
to fight Percy his confidence was back. He knew that Percy was
probably more skilled than him, judge by the power he radiated. But
Rob had one skill he knew Percy couldn't beat him in.
"I have an idea for a challenge," Rob said with an arrogant smirk.
Percy nodded, "what is it?"
"A test of strenght," Rob smiled, "we see who's stronger."
"And the wager?"
"I wager my spear," Rob said motioning to his weapon, "it was given to
me by Mars himself."
Percy nodded, "must be pretty confident huh?"
Rob grinned, "I am the strongest roman in the camp. I was once told
that my strength was nearly Herculean."
Percy narrowed his eyes at the Praetor;
Robbert Bigwheel, Son of Mars
Lv- 21
HP: 1,500/1,500
MP: 200/200
Race- Demigod
Str- 49
Vit- 32
Dex-22
Int-12
Wis-7
Luc-1
The son of Mars, Robert was raised by a single mother who sent
him off to camp at the age of 8. He rose through the ranks and
eventually was raised to be a Praetor in the middle of a battle. He
is known to be impulsive and rash but inside he cares about his
fellow demigods beyond anything else.
Likes: Mars, Julia, Rome, Training
Dislikes: Greeks, Percy, Anchovies
He hates Percy and wants to humiliate him
He is feeling excited and confident
Percy scoffed at his strength level, for a demigod it was impressive, but
nothing compared to Percy, "fine the. A test of strenght. I agree."
"What's you wager?"
Percy opened his inventory and looked for something to give. And
suddenly he spotted just the thing. He smiled as he reached inside and
pulled out the shield of Ares, he got it in during that time in the
amusement park and he had it ever since.
Shield of Ares,
It is the shield of Ares which is charmed to be unbreakable and
can withstand godly amounts of force. It is also charmed to give
the wielder a + 20% on all attacks.
The shield itself was plain made out bronze with the omega symbol
etched onto the surface. "The shield of Ares," Percy said holding it up,
"I got it after doing your dad a favour. He tried to use this to start a war,
luckily I was there to stop him."
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Rob grumbled, "I'm, going to enjoy taking that away from you."
Julia however was more concerned about where he pulled the shield
from, "where did you store that shield? I didn't even see you pull it out."
"I have the ability to create pocket dimensions," Percy explained, "I use
one to store items for safe keeping. Think of it like an inventory you
would find in video games."
Julia nodded, "I see….do you have a limit?"
Percy shook his head, "nope. I can store anything, along as I can move
it inside I can fit it."
"So you mean you can only store things you can lift?"
Percy nodded, "yeah."
Julia nodded as she got up from her seat, "interesting. Tell me more
about this as we go."
"Go?" asked Percy, "go where?"
"You didn't actually think I was going to let you have your competition in
here did you?" Julia asked looking amused, "we are going to the field
of Mars, our training ground. You can fight there."
They nodded and soon the group set off once again. This time they
were taken through the back of the military encampment. People were
looking curiously at the sight of the two Praetors leading the Greek
demigods so slowly more and more people started to follow them.
Julian turned to one of the Legionnaires that was following them, "call
Hannibal and get it to bring two large marble blocks to the field of Mars,
we are going to have a competition between the Greeks and Rob."
The legionnaire saluted and took off while the rest of the following
members talked in hushed tones about what they were about to see.
In the back of the military encampment was another door that opened
up to a road. The road went forward and forked into two paths, on
towards that hill with all the temples and the other towards the city that
Percy saw before.
But instead of going on the road Julia and Rob lead them off the trail
and into the grassy plains surrounding them.
The fields of grass soon lead towards a large stretch of land that was
rocky and rough. Percy could tell that the terrain had been stepped on
repeatedly over and over, this was probably where the Roman
demigods trained.
"This," Julia said, "is the field of Mars,. This is where we train, where
we fight and this is where you two will settle this little argument of
yours."
Percy nodded and turned to Rob, "before we begin I would like to
change our wager a little bit."
Rob smirked, "why? Scared you'll lose the shield? I don't blame you,
hell any Roman here would kill for a weapon of Mars."
The Romans suddenly broke out into talk.
"The Greek has a shield of Mars?"
"How did he get it?"
"This is no fair! He is a Greek! He shouldn't be allowed to even look at
it!"
"How dare he!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "I don't want to change my wager, the offer still
stands. And besides I never use this shield anyway, useless thing."
"How dare you!" Rob roared, "that is the shield my father gave to you!
You should treat it with the respect it deserves!"
Percy yawned, "yeah yeah, look let's get down to buisness, I don't want
your spear, okay? It's kind of useless, it won't serve me well. I'll just do
to it what I did to the shield, put it away in my storage space and let it
collect dust."
Rob growled, "fucking Greek."
"What I want from you though is an apology," Percy said with narrowed
eyes, "you insulted my dad and that I something I can't forgive. I want
you to apologize over and over again, whenever I ask you will say,
'Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars'."
Rob snorted, "fine. I'll say that, I have no problem saying that. If you
win that is, son of Neptune."
The declaration of Percy's parentage instantly set off a chain reaction
inside camp. Everyone started to speak out about him bringing bad
luck and how he wanted to destroy camp.
"Get rid of him!"
"Throw him out!"
"Take his shield and then throw him out!"
Percy rolled his eyes again as Julia went into overdrive trying to control
the people and assure them that everything was taken care of. After
she told them that Percy promised to never use his powers over the
Earth inside camp most calmned down. Some were still furious about
what Percy said about Mars, but they kept quite.
Just then a giant elephant came out of the military encampment and
into the field of Mars. Percy watched the giant thing move slowly as it
dragged forward two 15 foot tall blocks of marble.
"I'm assuming that's Hannibal?" Percy asked.
Julia nodded, "yes."
"You didn't mention he was an elephant."
Julia shrugged and soon the blocks were unloaded. Percy and Rob
stood in front of their respective blocks of marble. Percy gave the
shield to Thalia to hold and Rob gave his spear to Julia.
Behind them the Romans were all cheering, for Rob. They booed
Percy and cried out insults. It continued like that for some time before
Thalia got angry and summoned a bolt of lighting threw it in front of the
crowd shutting them up.
Rob smirked, "if you truly are the leader of the Greeks then that means
your loss will prove that Romans are better."
Percy smirked, "then I'm going to enjoy proving you wrong. And
besides what do you mean Romans are better? You guys basically
plagiarized everything from our cultural and called it your own. You
guys are like the Dane Cooks of cultures. You steal things which aren't
yours and then claim you are better for it somehow."
Rob and the other Romans growled in anger as Thalia face palmed
herself, 'this just turned super bad super fast,' she told herself.
"We will fucking kill you Greek!" someone shouted, but was promptly
ignored by all.
"I'm going to make you eat those words," Rob turned to his block of
marble and drew back his right arm. He stayed perfectly still for a few
seconds before he launched his fist forwards and into the marble
cracking it and forming spider webs that were growing along the stone
block.
Rob took his arm out and shock it, Percy could see blood around his
knuckles. Rob had completely shattered the stone around the area of
impact. Pieces of rocks were knocked loose and were on the ground.
The cracks on the marble reached the edges, but Percy could tell they
weren't really deep.
"Damn," Percy said whistling, "that is impressive."
Rob smirked as he held his throbbing arm, "your god damn right
Greek. You might as well hand that shield over right now."
Percy nodded as he walked around his own marble block, "tempting,
but no." Percy then released all of his six seals causing his strength to
increase exponentially;
Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 26 hours.
STR- 69,120 (+20)= 69,140
Percy stood to the side facing away from Rob's block of marble and
pressed his hand up on the surface of his marble block. He used as
little force as he could he pushed it forward pressing bother stone
together.
Percy took his hand off the stone and saw his hand print imbedded into
the stone. Percy smirked, he drew back his hand and launched it
forward.
The moment his hand touched the stone the block shattered into
pieces. The force of the punch didn't stop there however as it hit the
stone block next to it destroying that as well.
Pieces of stone flew everywhere as the force of the punch sent them
flying forward like leaves in a hurricane. The marble blocks were
grounded into nothing as a large amount of the marble turned into dust,
only a few pieces remained as a solid, and even then they only were in
the form of small stones.
Percy patted himself, the marble dust was everywhere. He walked
towards the crowd and reactivated his seals.
"So," Percy began looking at the stunned crowd of Romans, "which
one of you wanted to kill me?"
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The sun was slowly rising as its first rays hit Percy's face. The demigod
had spent the entire night on top of the Fist of Zeus, and it was not a
comfortable thing to experience. It was after all just a pile of rocks
stacked together. But there was one reason Percy didn't move away or
even sleep in her own place. And that reason was currently sleeping on
top of him.
Thalia and him had spent the better part of the night making out ontop
of the rocky structure. She was excited and a pretty good kisser. The
rocks were painful and uncomfortable, but Percy was distracted
enough to ignore all that. In the end he had gained three more levels in
the kissing skill;
Kissing, Lv- 12 (5%)
It is what it is. The higher level you are the better kisser you are.
And remember practise makes perfect.
Your level is kissing leaved the person feeling happy for the six
hours
5% chance of turning them on.
The last part was new for Percy, but it kind of made sense. After the
intense make out session Thalia had laid down on Percy's chest and
fallen asleep. The son of Poseidon wanted to do the same, but for
some reason couldn't bring himself from looking away from Thalia.
She made him feel happy just be being there. He had spent the night
mostly looking at the stars or at her. Sleep hadn't come for him, but
Percy wasn't to bothered, thank you Gamer's mind. Time seemed to
flow past quickly as Percy spent the night thinking about the future and
his role in all of this.
Was he a hero? Well he did save people constantly so yeah, he was.
Was he a leader? The camp did look up to him, so yes, he was. But
most of all Percy saw himself as one thing, and one thing only, himself.
Despite all the titles he held, official and unofficial, he was still himself.
And the only thing he should be doing is whatever the hell he wants.
And right now he wanted to be there for Thalia.
Percy gentle shock her, "Thalia. Wake up."
The daughter of Zeus grumbled, "five more minutes."
Percy smiled, "you better wake up or I'm going to make you."
"Fuck off."
"You asked for it," Percy smiled as he summoned a blob of water over
Thalia's head and then let it loose drenching her head to toe.
"AH!" Thalia shrieked as she quickly got up, "PERCY JACKSON!"
Percy threw his head up and laughed hard falling off the stone
structure and hitting the ground. He rolled on the ground holding his
stomach in pain as Thalia growled angrily at him.
"You asked for this!" Thalia shouted as she sent a blast of lighting right
at Percy shocking him.
Defence- 296,376,730
"Damn that stung," Percy laughed as he got up. He snapped his fingers
drying Thalia off in a second.
Thalia huffed looking down to make sure she was fully dry, "asshole."
Percy smirked, "hey it's not my fault. You didn't want to wake up."
Thalia gave a similar smirk, "or maybe it's because pouring water on
me is the only way for you to get me wet."
Percy blushed, 'really? You want to go there? Well two can play it that
game.' Percy bent over, he was inches away from Thalia, "really?
Because you very pretty hot and heavy last night. And I distinctly
remembered feeling a wet spot along my thighs."
Thalia blushed. She gritted her teeth, "sh-shut up."
Percy smirked, he gave her a small peck on the lips, "I win. Now come
on. The sooner we tell Chiron about our quest the sooner we can find
your brother."
That last sentence sobered Thalia up as all the flirting and sleepiness
was pushed to the side, she was all business now.
The two quickly made way to the Big House where they saw Mr. D
sitting on the porch with a coke in hand.
"You know those are horrible for your digestive track," Percy
commented.
Mr. D snorted, "I'm a God. I don't care."
Thalia rolled her eyes at her divine half-brother, "where's Chiron Mr.
D?"
"Inside," Mr. D took a sip, "is this about the Roman camp thing?"
Percy and Thalia nodded. The God of wine sighed, "this is a stupid
mistake. I don't know what Hera was thinking."
"Do you know anything about the Roman camp that might be useful?"
Thalia asked.
Mr. D nodded, "yes, I know a lot."
Percy turned to Thalia, "you learn what you can from him. I'll find
Chiron and the other Head counselors. I'll meet you back in the War
Room."
Thalia nodded, "okay." Percy wanted to kiss her goodbye, but he
couldn't, Mr. D you cock blocking asshole. Percy took off at super
speed zooming across camp trying to find Chiron. He found his old
mentor in the Arena practising archery. Percy then went to call the
other head counselors.
Some were cooperative, like Charles from Hephaestus cabin and the
Stoll twins from the Hermes cabin. Some were…..not that much of a
morning person. Percy had to move at near mach 1 speed just to doge
Clarisse's spear.
Eventually they all met up in the war room with Percy and Thalia
standing side by side at the head.
"So that's what we have to do," Thalia concluded explaining to them
the task that they were given.
"A Roman camp?" Annabeth asked in amazement,
"that's….surprising."
"Not really," Clarisse grumbled drinking from a mug of coffee,
"remember back in Boston when we wondered whether there could be
such a thing?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, but that was just speculation. This, this is real.
And the Gods want us to ally with them."
"Sigh, I see," Chiron looked saddened as he rubbed his temples
vigorously, "I never thought this day would come."
Lee Fletcher raised an eyebrow, "anything you would like to share
Chiron?"
The half horse sighed, "I knew about the Roman camp. I remember the
war they waged on us."
"Of course," Annabeth said scratching her chin, "you are immortal, so it
would make sense."
"So do you know anything about them you think we should know?"
Percy asked.
"Yes….they hate Greeks," Chiron said with a depressed look, "unlike
the original Roman, who had a healthy respect for the Greek culture,
these Roman's are both afraid and distrustful of us."
"Great, so we are sending them off into a lair off people who hate them
and will do anything to kill them. Great. Just great."
"I have to agree with Lee on this one," Percy spoke up, "but we really
have no other choice in the matter."
"Okay then," Annabeth spoke up, "I get why you're going. You're
basically the only one who can get out of there alive if this goes South.
But why is Thalia going?"
"She's daddy's little girl," Travis snarked, "why do you think she's
going?"
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Thalia narrowed her eyes, "actually, I'm going because I know one of
the Romans."
"Really?" Chiron asked in surprise, "who?"
"My brother, Jason," Thalia smiled saying that out loud, "he's alive."
"Thalia that's amazing!" Annabeth said hugging her friends, "but how?"
"It seems Hera took him away because he's a roman demigod and not
a greek one. And since we belonged to two different pantheons we
couldn't stay together."
"This is good news," Chiron said with a smile, "now we can-"
Suddenly the door slammed open as Leo ran into the room. He jumped
onto the war room table and pounced on top of Percy pushing him
down.
"Of," Percy had the air knocked out of him as Leo stood on top of him
with his head lowered.
"Where were you master?! I want to go for my walk!" Leo said whining.
"Okay boy, just get off of me," Percy commented as Leo did just that.
Annabeth and the other's blinked, "hey Percy I have been meaning to
ask me about that dog….ah, whose is that?"
"It's mine. Oh right, I never told you guys," Percy smiled scratching
Leo's ear "this is Leo. I have been taking care of him for the past few
days. You haven't seen him much because he basically spends time
sleeping or going out for training with me."
"Training?" Clarisse asked in surprise, "he goes into the ID's with you?"
Percy nodded, "yup. Why just yesterday he managed to take down a
Gergosa all on his own."
"Woah," Thalia said in amazement, "that is one powerful dog." She
then bent down scratching Leo behind the ear.
Percy smiled as Leo wagged his tail, "good woman. Pretty woman. I
like. Is she your mate master?"
"W-what?!" Percy asked blushing, "no Leo!"
"But she smells like you. And you smell like her."
"No Leo she's not!" Percy asked as he face palmed himself.
The rest of the war council looked at Percy with a worried look.
Annabeth spoke up, "ah, Percy...are you okay?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I'm fine. It's just….look let's move on. Chiron
Thalia and I are leaving right away, that means I won't be able to train
the campers today."
Chiron nodded, "don't worry I'll take over."
They quickly discussed the rest of the arrangements and the couple
quickly got ready to leave. Percy left Leo in Annabeth's care. The dog
whined and begged to come with Percy but the demigod refused, it
was to dangerous, plus the Roman's might not care for a large demi
hellhound walking around in their camp.
Thalia and Percy meet up under Thalia's tree, which at this point
should really be renamed something else. Percy had changed into his
skin tight super fabric legging along with his goggles and Fric shoes,
they had both agreed to have Percy run the distance.
"You ready?" Percy asked put his goggles on.
Thalia dumbly nodded as she gave Percy her backpack to store away.
While he was doing that her eyes were drawn to Percy's leggings.
They were skin tight and gave a great view of Percy's muscular thighs.
Thalia couldn't help staring, they were so bloody firm! They had to be
considering at what speed Percy was know to travel at.
"Ah, Thalia? Are you okay?" Percy asked snapped Thalia's
concentration from his legs to him, "were you just staring at my
thighs?"
"What? No, I-ah, no. Not at all," Thalia shook her head vigorously.
Percy chuckled, "sure…..you do realise you can look right? That part of
the boyfriend/girlfriend deal. You get to stare at me and I get to stare at
you."
Thalia smiled, "as if you wouldn't before."
"No I wouldn't!"
"Really? What about that time you gave that motivational speech?
Remember that? Your eyes were glued to my chest."
"No, they were glued to your hips," Percy shot back before he put both
hands over his mouth realising what he just said.
Thalia smirked, "well I don't blame you," she said looking at her own
behind, "they are very perky."
Percy sighed, "let's just get this over with."
Thalia laughed as Percy carried her like a bride and carefully put her
inside his inventory. He then took off at speeds just below Mach 1
running across country towards San Francisco.
He passed through New York and took the I-78 into Jersey city. Percy'
current max speed was 932 miles per hour, which is passed the speed
of sound. But Percy never crossed that threshold, he didn't want to
cause a sonic boom while running down a highway, that would damage
so many cars and tear up the roads.
So instead Percy maintained a constant speed of 700 miles per hours,
just below the speed of sound. So at this constant speed Percy
crossed Pennsylvania in half an hour.
He travelled for around five straight hours. Three times he ran out of
gas and was forced to stop at a Taco Bell or McDonalds to fill up his
stamina. That was why it took so long to reach here in the first place.
Percy eventually stopped in Orinda, the area just before the Caldecott
tunnel. He went into a nearby mall called the Orinda Theater Square. It
was a pretty okay place, not really a mall per say, more like a place
with a lot of streets and a movie theater which played only one movie.
Percy went into one of the abandoned streets and quickly changed his
clothes, switching his tights for a pair of jeans. He then quickly took
Thalia out of the inventory and carefully put her down.
The daughter of Zeus looked around in amazement, "I still can't get
used to this."
Percy nodded wiping away the sweat on his brow, "yeah, most can't."
"Are you okay?" Thalia asked looking him over, "you look exhausted."
Percy sighed as as he leaned on the street wall, "just ran for 5 hours
across the country, of course I look tired."
"Holy shit," Thalia said in surprise, "I-I'm sorry Percy. I didn't know. Shit,
what the hell was I thinking!"
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Percy chuckled, "it's okay. Most people don't realise it. They think just
because I can do I should do it. The pain isn't really a big deal, what
really is a big deal is the boredom. Seriously five hours and all I had to
do to keep myself busy was look at the countryside pass by."
Thalia bent down touching Percy's forehead, "you're warm Percy."
"Running for five hours under the hot sun will do that."
"We need get you something to cool yourself off right now."
Percy nodded, "right. Food. Good idea. Can I have ice cream?"
Thalia helped Percy up and took him into a small local deli. Percy and
Thalia sat inside way in the back away from prying eyes. Percy
lowered his goggles and sighed as he felt his legs throb. There wasn't
any pain, just his legs spasming, it was like he was experiencing this
form a third person's view.
A young teenager came to take their orders. Thalia ordered a
cheeseburger while Percy asked for a steak and a three ice cream
cups. The blonde waitress was surprised at the early desert oder but
quickly went to get their order.
"So how are you feeling?" Thalia asked.
Percy sighed, "exhausted. But I think I'll get better once I have some
food in me."
Thalia nodded as she quickly looked around at the people around them
nervously. She looked fidgety, nervous.
"Relax Thalia," Percy assured her, "there's no need to get nervous."
Thalia nodded, "yeah I know. But… I'm going to see Jason again. It's
been so long...I don't even know what to say."
Percy smiled, "how about, 'hello, I'm your sister,'?"
Thalia rolled her eyes, "ha, ha. Very funny, True, but seriously, it's been
years. I died and came back Percy. Hell I don't even know whether he
remembers me!."
Percy smiled, "so tell me about him. What did he look like?"
Thalia smiled, "he had, has, blonde hair, like our mom. But it was not
curly like her, it was more straightened out, like mine. He has this scar,
along his jaw. Haha, he got it when he tried to bite into a stapler. Idiot.
And he has dad's eyes, except they were more...stormy and mine are
more-"
"-Electric," Percy said with a smile. Thalia looked surprised, Percy just
responded with, "I am very good at paying attention when it comes to
things I like."
Thalia rolled her eyes, "so cheesy."
Percy chuckled, "yeah, but you liked it."
Thalia sighed, "so, what's the plan?"
Percy laid back and grumbled, "well after this I take you to Caldecott
tunnel, which is just a few miles south west of here. Then ...well I don't
know. Did Dionysus tell you something about the camp's entrance?"
Thalia nodded, "he did. He said that the entrance to the camp was on
one side of the four lanes right on one end of the tunnel."
"Thats….vague and confusing," Percy sighed, "okay. After lunch we'll
get a cab and go to the tunnel. And just to be safe we'll check all the
possible entrance points."
Thalia nodded, "are you okay Percy? You still sound tired."
Percy nodded, "I'm fine. In all honesty I can actually run some more,
but after 5 straight hours my brain is refusing to do something so
boeing again."
Thalia raised an eyebrow, "running near the speed of sound is boring
for you?"
Percy sighed, "it is when you realise that my brain is still need of
stimulation when running at high speeds. Plus the faster I go the longer
the trip seems, must be something to do with the fact that things get so
boring so easily, but either way I don't want to be doing that again any
time soon."
Thalia nodded, "right...so, ah, any idea how we are going to convince
the Romans to trust us?"
"I was actually hoping you can help with that."
"Me? How can….Jason. Right."
Percy nodded, "yeah, plus your a daughter of Zeus, and considering
that they named their camp, camp Jupiter, they must love your dad. So
maybe you can help bridge the gap between the camps."
Thalia formed, "I get that...but it's not going to be that simple."
Percy sighed, "it's going to be difficult, but at least we know we can rely
on them if nothing else. They are immensely loyal to the Gods, we can
count on them helping out in the fight against Kronos if nothing else."
Thalia nodded, "enemy of my enemy and all that."
Percy nodded as he looked around. The place they were was very
nice. The walls were daisy yellow and the wooden tables look locally
made. All in all it was a very homely and family friendly place to eat in.
The people around them were mostly family members, most brought
their kids along and they all looked so happy. Percy wanted this, the
last time he ever had a meal with his parents was a year ago and since
then…. Percy took a deep sigh, he should really spend more time with
his mom.
"Feeling envious?" Thalia asked with a smile.
Percy smirked, "very. But I suppose not having normal family meals is
part of the deal when it come to being a demigod."
Thalia smiled, "yeah. I know what you mean."
Percy then looked to the families around him and one in particular
stood out to him. It was a family of three, two mothers and a son who
looked like he had down syndrome. The two women sat on either side
of him as they helped serve the boy food.
Percy felt pity in his head, but also guilt. He had the power to make that
boy's life better. Down syndrome was an alignment right? Shouldn't his
healing powers technically be able to heal that?
"Stop staring Percy," Thalia said gaining his attention. Percy blinked as
he looked at his girlfriend, he didn't even realise he was staring until
she pointed it out.
"Sorry, it's just….sigh, guilt I suppose."
"Why? It's not like you can help him."
"No, I can," Percy said surprising Thalia.
"What do you...your healing powers...are you saying you can heal
him?"
Percy shrugged, "I think so."
"Then you have to at least try Percy," Thalia said looking at the boy and
his adoptive mothers, "they deserve that."
Percy sighed, "you're right but how? I mean I can't jus go up to them,
touch their kid and walk back can I?"
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Thalia sighed, "you're right, the Mist would hide the golden glow your
power gives off but not you. If only you could go invisible."
Percy blinked, "that's it!" Thalia looked surprised when Percy got up,
"I'll be right back." Percy then walked away from his girlfriend walking
to the men's bathroom. After making sure he was alone Percy took out
the ring of invisibility he had gotten from Ares and slipped it on.
Percy then walked back outside and carefully went over to the kid with
down syndrome. His mother's were looking away at the moment,
currently looking at their menus. Percy knew there wouldn't be a more
perfect time to do this.
Percy reached down and touched the boy's forehead activating his
powers;
You are attempting to heal someone with several ailments! Please
chose one to heal;
Genetic disorder- Down Syndrome
Poor motor skills
Sub par thinking process
Percy grinned as he selected the genetic disorder first healing the
cause of all this. His hand flashed gold alerting Thalia to his process,
but none of the mortals noticed it.
Two more flashes of gold and Percy was done. He went into the
bathroom and put away the ring before walking back inside the
restaurant.
Percy sat in his seat, "any improvement?"
Thalia smiled, "look for yourself."
Percy did and saw that the kid was now eating properly, much to the
amazement of his mothers.
Percy grinned, it had worked. Sure they might not realise it now, but
they would in a few days time. Maybe one day one of them would
notice their kids better motor skills and ask a doctor about it. Then that
medical profession would tell them about the miracle that he witnessed
in their child.
"You know," Thalia said smiling at him, "you should probably open up a
hospital or something. After all, there are plenty of people who could
use your help."
Percy smiled but didn't say anything. Soon the couple were served
their food. Percy did his best to maintain proper table eating habits,
after all he was in front of his girlfriend, so he couldn't just stuff his face
full of food like he wanted to.
Thalia on the other hand had no problem consuming her burger like
she hadn't eaten in days. Percy finished the steak in record time, the
meat was really tender, it fell apart in his mouth. Percy quickly finished
the rest of his food and after giving a big tip to their server they were
off.
Percy and Thalia hailed a cab and went down the highway towards
Caldecott tunnel. They passed the first end of the tunnel without
incident, they didn't notice any obvious signs that there was a secret
door to a Roman camp hidden away somewhere.
When the cab opened up on the other side though Thalia immediately
spotted a pair of guards standing outside guarding what looked like a
maintenance hatch. Percy got the cab to pull over and after paying the
man healthy for stopping on a highway the two teens got out of the cab
and off of the road.
They approached the two guards, they were dressed like how one
would expect a roman to dress like. They had a roman helmet with a
red plume on top and chest piece over a purple shirt. They wore jeans
and white sneakers and on their sides was a spear and a sheathed
short sword, a Gladius if Percy remembered his Roman history
properly. As they drew closer Percy could see their names and titles;
Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, Daughter of Bellona
Lv- 18
Donny Dewin, Son of Pomona
Lv- 13
As Percy and Thalia approached the two guards they took notice. The
girl, Reyna, took notice of them first.
"Hault!" she said lowering her spear, "who are you and what do you
want?" The girl had long glossy black which was tied back in a single
braid with black eyes. Her skin was brown, not tanned like Percy's but
naturally brown. On her arm was a tattoo that Percy couldn't quite
make out, but over all she looked very imposing, well, as much as 12
year old can be.
Percy and Thalia raised their hands up and opened their plans. Percy
took the lead, "my name is Percy, and this is Thalia, we mean you no
harm. We just want to talk."
"Talk about what?"Reyna snarled.
"We are demigods," Thalia explained calmly, "and if we assume
correctly this is the entrance to camp Jupiter, yes?"
Reyna was about to open her mouth when Donny stepped up. "Relax
Rey," Donny said with a smile, "it's obvious these two are demigods,
else they wouldn't be able to see through the Mist otherwise." The guy
who spoke up had long straight blonde hair with blue eyes. He had that
laid back tone Percy often associated with himself, except this guy
didn't look like he had a serious bone in his body. And for some reason
Percy immediately wanted to punch the guy in the face.
Reyna snarled, "don't call me Rey. And they don't look like the normal
demigods Donny, look at them. Not a scratch or spot of mud on them, if
they really came from the Wolf House then they should at least have
muddy shoes or something!"
"Ah, are you even looking at my shoes?" Percy asked pointing to the
worn out edge to his Fric shoes, "do they look brand new to you?"
Reyna wanted to argue some more but Donny stopped in, "relax
newbie. Stop sneering at everything that moves, you children of
Bellona are all the same, so paranoid. It's obvious that they made it this
far unharmed because they are strong," Donny flashed a smile at
Thalia, "and beautiful too."
Percy felt his left eyebrow twitch as his eyes turned red for a split
second, 'calm down Percy. The last thing you need to become is this
super obsessive boyfriend that become jealous the moment a guys hits
on Thalia. She's a beautiful girl, she can handle herself….yeah.'
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Thalia rolled her eyes, "okay since we have established that we are not
the enemy can you please allow us inside? We would really like to talk
to the one in charge, the-ah, the Praetor?"
Reyna lowered her spear, "fine," she glared, "but I'm going to be the
one who-"
"Ah not so fast new blood," Donny stepped in, "I'll take them inside.
You stay out here."
"But-"
"-Look Rey you're new here, okay? And I am your superior, so what
does that mean?"
Reyna looked like she wanted to argue but kept silent, "it means I obey
you sir."
Donny nodded, "right. So stay out here and I'll take our new friends
and make sure their comfortable," he smiled at Thalia again.
'One more chance,' Percy told himself, 'I'll give him one more chance
before I throw him into Hades. Yeah…. That sounds reasonable.'
Thalia was disgusted but she hide it well, "so...can we go?"
Donny opened the maintenance door he was just guarding, "after you
my lady."
Thalia nodded at Reyna and walked in followed by Donny who closed
the door behind him.
Percy grumbled and turned to Reyna, "is he always such a dick?"
Reyna grumbled as well, "yes. All the time. You would think that's
impossible, but no, he's always a dick."
Percy nodded to the girl and threw open the door walking in and
catching up to Thalia and Donny. Donny was explaining his position
and rank in Camp Jupiter to Thalia in hopes that he could impress her.
It seems he was a he was an officer in a high position in the 3rd
Cohort. It seemed he had gotten caught pranking one of the Praetors
and was punished with gaurd duty with the new blood officer, Reyna.
Donny kept boasting about himself and Thalia was forced to smile and
nod along. Percy wanted to shut Donny up, but the more the man kept
talking the more information he was giving them to use for later.
Percy noticed that the tunnel was was a lot like a maintenance tunnel,
it was about the size of a school corridor more or less. There were
pipes running along the walls with wires and pressure meters built in.
The ground was concertet, but slowly it turned mosaic. Percy noticed
that the pipes and wires had stopped running and the walls were now
covered with Roman paintings and the such. The walls were lined up
with torches that gave off no smoke and the tunnel was growing bigger
and bigger.
Just then something caught Percy's eye. It was a blue triangle etched
into the side of the tunnel, it was a delta symbol. This was an entrance
to the Labyrinth!
Percy was surprised to discover this, but it did make sense, after all
there was one Labyrinth entrance inside Camp Half-Blood, hence there
should be on in Camp Jupiter as well.
Percy quickly approached the delta symbol and;
Ping!
You have spotted the entrance to the Labyrinth: Dungeon Lv-20
Do you wish to enter?
YES/NO?
Or
Do you wish to fast travel to another known Labyrinth location?
YES/NO?
Percy smiled, with this he didn't have to run across the country to reach
Camp Jupiter, a five minute walk through this and he would be back in
Camp Half-Blood in no time.
Percy dismissed the box and quickly caught up to Thalia and Donny.
They had quickly reached the end of the tunnel and the small dark
corridor had opened up to sun light and open space.
The area before them was huge, Percy had a hard time believing they
were anywhere near the San Francisco area anymore. There were Oak
trees everywhere along with golden fields around them. The entire area
was inside a bowl shaped valley, they right now stood on the edge of
the valley looking down at it all.
Percy could see a light blue river cut across the from of the valley in a
semi circle before it moved inland getting collected into a lake forming
what looked like a giant 'G' shaped structure. Percy saw the path
before them lead down into the valley and towards a military base of
sorts. The base was guarded with tall wooden walls and gates with
sentry towers on all four corners.
Behind that military base was a city in the far distance along with a
small hill to the side where a bunch of temples were located. Over all
the Camp was very impressive, not as great as Half-Blood, but
impressive.
Donny smiled, "welcome to Camp Jupiter new recruits. Impressive isn't
it?"
Thalia was just as amazed as Percy, "it's...it's beautiful."
Donny girned, "I know. Come on, I'll give you a private tour," he then
tried to move closer to Thalia but Percy got between them.
"That sounds like a great idea!" Percy said putting his arm around
Donny's back and dragged the boy forward.
"W-wha-" Donny stammered out by the time he realised what was
happening Percy had already taken him out of the tunnel exit and down
the valley road towards the military encampment.
Thalia chuckled, 'guess even Percy can get jealous,' the daughter of
Zeus told herself. If she was being honest it kind of felt nice having
Percy feel jealous, it reminded her that he was in fact human and not
some perfect being that fell out of the heavens.
Donny was stuck with Percy as the son of Poseidon dragged the
Roman down. "Dude! What gives?" Donny hissed out under his breath,
"you totally just cock blocked me!"
Percy narrowed his eyes, "really? I'm so sorry."
Donny huffed as he shrugged Percy's hand off of his shoulders, "it's
fine. Just...could you tell me something about Thalia?"
Percy was really trying to pull in his temper. His left eye was twitching
like crazy, a small part of him was amused by all of this, but it was a
very small part.
"Why? Do you like Thalia?"
Donny nodded, "yeah, she's hot!"
Percy wanted to say something but by that time Thalia caught up to
them and Donny shut his mouth. They quickly reached the river that
Percy saw before and just beyond its banks was the entrance to the
military encampment.
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Donny stopped at the banks, "this is Little Timber, the river that flows
around the camp. We basically use it for everything we need, drinking
water, fishing, some we use for our baths. It's supposed to be a
reminder of the original Timber back in Rome, but I say it's better."
Thalia nodded, "right, so how do we get across?"
"Well usually new recruits have to walk across the water. It's kind of an
initiation thing. New blood have to bath in the waters of Little Timber
and emerge reborn as a Roman. But I don't really think you can afford
to get that jacket wet so you can just use that bridge over there."
Donny pointed to the side and sure enough there was a bridge there.
He turned to Thalia, "I'll take you. You know if you want to get into a
good Cohort you're going to need a good recommendation letter, if you
want I can-"
"-No thanks," Percy but in again, "we got this."
"Dude! We talked about this!" Donny hissed out again while Percy
ignored him.
The son of Poseidon carried Thalia with both arms like a bride and he
jumped clearing the river and landing on the other side with the grace
of a ballet dancer. Percy let Thalia go and turned to Donny, "see you
soon!"
Thalia snickered as the Donny looked at Percy in shock. His mouth
was hanging open, he couldn't believe what he just saw. That Percy kid
had cleared at least 13 feet of water in one leap and had reached a
max height of 24 feet! That was some Olympic level shit right there!
Percy and Thalia ignored Donny after that and turned to the large
wooden doors of the encampment. They reached the door and
knocked, just then the shutter in the center opened up and a young
teen was seen on the other side.
"What do you want?"
"We need to get into camp," Thalia explained.
"Why?"
"Because we are demigods and we are on an important mission from
the Gods."
The eyes behind the door rolled, "yeah, haven't heard that one before.
Look if you're a fresh blood then just say so, I don't have time for this,
'quest from the Gods bull shit'. And where's your gaurd? He's supposed
to be with you right now. It's tradition."
"Look can you please just open the door?" Thalia asked nicely, "it's
really important that we speak to your Praetor. We really are on an
important mission."
"Look kid for the last time wait until you gaurd gets here and then you
can enter and see the Praetor or whatever, okay?"
"Do we have to?" Percy whined, "Donny is kind of a dick."
The person behind the door chuckled, "yeah, I know. But those are the
rules man. Sorry."
Percy and Thalia sighed and waited for Donny to show up. The
Legionnaire was quickly crossing the cold waters of the Little Timber
and quickly caught up to Percy and Thalia. He huffed from the strain of
the walk, the current was really strong and the armour was weighing
him down.
"Y-You jumped across," Donny said panting in disbelief, "how did you
do that?"
Percy shrugged, "I have great legs."
"Yeah you do." Thalia replied checkley.
Percy blushed but ignored it, he turned to the person behind the door,
"dude, our gaurd in here, open up."
The man nodded and he stepped back opening the large wooden
doors. The figure behind the door stepped forward, he looked around
15 with black hair and black eyes. He stood off to one while Donny
stood on the other. The spread thier hands open in welcome and said
together with a smile, "Welcome to Camp Jupiter."
Percy and Thalia smiled at sight before them. The encampment was
filled with life. The building there were ether armories or barracks.
There were several people walking around wearing a purple shirt with
the name of the camp printed on, with the words, 'SPQR' written below.
Everything looked normal, until Percy spotted a ghost.
It was a legitimate, I shit you not, translucent, wall walking, pale as fuck
kind of ghost. There were so many of them Percy wondered how he
didn't notice all of them before. Each one looked like a human. Some
were normal enough, there was a child walking around playing with his
ball. There was even a ghost that was covered from head to toe with
blood, but he was playing a merry tune on a harp acting like everything
was normal.
"Ah, why are there Ghosts here?" Percy finally asked.
"They are called Lares," Donny explained, "they are basically house
Gods."
"So does that mean they are smaller than real gods but bigger than
apartment Gods?"
Donny rolled his eyes, "they are the spirits of our ancestors, most of
them are harmless."
Percy nodded, "they aren't so bad, right The-" Percy turned to his
girlfriend and saw her scared stiff by the ghosts. She was growing paler
and paler by the second. Percy quickly wrapped his hand around her
own giving Thalia a reassuring squeeze, "it's okay Thalia. They're
harmless."
"Thanks," Thalia muttered as she drew closer to Percy. Just then a
Lares popped out of nowhere screening Thalia into grabbing Percy's
jacket with her other hand and pressing up to him all the while keeping
an eye out on a ghost that just passed them. "This is so creepy!"
Donny looked at the way Thalia held onto Percy and he felt liked of
betrayed, after all the guy promised not to cock block him and here he
was holding onto his, potential, girl!
"You know if you want I can help you with them," Donny said with a
smile, "I'm great with Lares."
Percy nodded, "thanks, but I think we'll manage. Right?" Percy asked
Thalia giving her another reassuring squeeze.
Thalia finally managed to calm down, "yeah-yeah. They aren't so
tough. Quick question, are they weak to godly weapons?"
Donny nodded, "yeah."
"Good."
Percy smiled at Thalia and then turned to Danny, "right, now where is
this Praetor of yours? We still have a quest to complete."
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Donny and the gaurd raised an eyebrow, "why are you so curious to
meet the Praetors? Usually new recruits take a bath and a shower
before anything else. Heck most of us don't even get to meet the
Praetors unless we are in trouble or because we are being rewarded."
Percy nodded, "sure. But when did we ever say we came here to join
camp?"
Donny looked surprised, "what do you mean?"
"We told you Donny," Thalia spoke up, "we have a quest sent from the
Gods. We need to meet up with the Praetor."
"Wait...if you guys aren't here to join up with the Legion...they why are
you here?"
"We are from another camp," Percy explained, "we came here at the
request, well more like deman really, of the Gods. We need to speak
with the Praetor, so can you please get her for me?"
"Who are you guys?"
Just as Percy and Thalia were about to answer one of the Lares
screeched out, "Graecus!" It was the ghost of the boy from before, and
he was pointing right at them. Percy and Thalia turned to see all the
Lares suddenly get spooked as they all went through the wall of the
nearby buildings hiding away.
"What did that thing just call us?" thalia asked.
"Graecus," Donny muttered in a defensive tone, "it means Greek."
Percy nodded, "huh, I wonder how it knew."
"What?" Donny and the gourd asked.
"Yeah," Thalia said, "we are Greek. Didn't we tell you that?"
"What?!" Donny and the other gaurd shouted this time as they leveled
their spears at Thalia and Percy.
"Put your hands up!" Donny shouted.
Percy and Thalia did just as they asked decided not to escalate the
situation.
"Look just bring us to the Praetor and we'll explain everything to him or
her," Percy said slowly.
Donny turned to the gaurd, "get Julia and Rob, I'll hold them off." The
man nodded as he turned away running into camp.
Soon however a crowd came and all of them had their weapons
leveled at Percy and Thalia. They were all Roman soldiers by the look
of it. While most didn't have armour on they did look very fierce in the
way they stood together shields locked and spears lowered.
"Who the fuck are you two," Donny asked, "why are you here?"
"We told you Donny," Percy said, "we are on a mission from the Gods."
"Why would the gods ever trust you sneaky Greeks?!" a voice from the
crowd shouted out.
"Woah there!" Percy cried out, "that's a lot of hostility! You don't even
know us man! Why do you think we are sneaky?"
"Because you're Greek!" The same voice shouted.
"That's racist," Percy crossed his arms.
"No it's not!"
"Yes it is. You think I'm sneaky because I'm a Greek!"
"Because You are!"
"Okay fine, let's say I was black. Would you say that I am good at Jazz
and liked watermelons?"
"No! That's racist!"
"Exactly!"
"Percy shut up!" Thalia roared at her boyfriend, "you are so not
helping!"
Percy gulped, "sorry."
"You two tricked me," Donny growled out, "I brought the two of you
here, right to the doorsteps of my camp. I'm such a idiot!"
"Donny we mean you no harm," Thalia tried to calm him down.
"Shut up Geek Bitch!" Donny roared out, "don't you realise what this
means for me?! I'm already on thin ice! I could lose my rank for this!"
Percy narrowed his eyes, "apologize Donny."
The roman looked surprised, "w-what?"
"I said apologize. You Romans do know how to do that right? Or did
your culture exchange common manners for the extra lessons in spear
polishing?"
Donny and the other blanched for a second. "S-shut up!" Donny
roared.
"I will when you apologize," Percy repeated himself.
"I owe that Greek Bitch nothing! She seduced me into-"
BOOM!
A lighting bolt zipped across the air hitting Donny on the chest sending
him flying back. The Romans behind him were pushed onto their backs
form the force of the attack. And on the other side was Thalia with
electricity running across her hands and a look of anger on her face.
"Who the fuck are you calling a bitch?" Thalia grumbled out.
Donny groaned out, "w-what the hell?"
"Oh stop acting. I barely hit you with enough energy to shock a mouse,
let alone a human being," Thalia rolled out.
Percy and the Roman demigods blinked. "Thalia, I'm not going to lie,
that was so scary," Percy said as the other Roman demigods nodded.
"W-who are you?" Donny finally got up and managed to ask.
"I am Thalia Grace. Protector of camp Half-Blood. I am the daughter of
Zeus, or in your case, Jupiter, you know that guy whose names you
have splattered across your t-shirt," suddenly the cloudless sky filled
with the sound of thunder rumbling, "now. What exactly did you call
me?"
"N-nothing. Sorry," Donny immediately back away, "please don't kill
me."
Percy smiled, "and that is why you don't mess with the daughter of
Zeus, ah, I mean Jupiter."
"Wait, did you say your name was Grace?" a soft voice called out from
the crowd of Roman demigods. Slowly a figure moved from the back to
the front, pushing past people before finally standing next to Donny.
Percy and Thalia gasped. The person who stood before them was
around 12 or 13. He had blond hair and a very handsome looking face.
On his jawline was a small scar, the kind one get when biting into a
stapler. He wore the purple camp Jupiter t-shirt along with a pair of
jeans. His eyes were blue, the same shade as Thalia. Percy didn't
even need to look at his title to know who he was, but he did anyway;
Jason Grace, Son of Jupiter
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"Jason!" Thalia shouted out as she charged towards him. The Roman
demigods readied their weapons in case she was attacking again, but
to their surprise Jason simply walked up to the girl.
Jason didn't know what he was doing, it just felt right. He said nothing
as he met Thalia halfway. She immediately enveloped him in a hug
holding him close. Jason smelt like oak with the hint of ozone that all
children of Zeus had. Thalia held her brother close as she cried tears of
joy.
"I thought I lost you forever Jason," Thalia said as she sniffed, "Gods
how I have missed you."
"W-who are you?" Jason asked.
Thalia broke the hug, "you don't remember me?"
Jason shook his head, "n-no. Should I?"
"Then why did you come forward?"
"You had the same last name as me," Jason said rubbing the back of
his neck, "I can't explain it, but it just felt like….like I had to come
forward."
Thalia nodded smiling, "it makes sence. You were only a baby when
Hera took you, I mean, Juno. When Juno took you away. But nothing?
You don't remember anything?"
Jason shut his eyes in concentration, "I do remember something. I
remember….chocolate chips. With..with-"
"-With three layers of fudge on top," Thalia completed, "that was your
favorite flavour. I used to sneak you some when mom wasn't looking."
"Mom?" Jason asked, "you mean...our mom?"
Thalia nodded again, the tears came back, "yes Jason… our mom. I'm
your sister. My name is-"
"Thalia," Jason said as a look of remembrance came across his face,
"you're Thalia. You're my sister."
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