He then spent most of his time creating new methods of security leading to the foundation of Half-Blood Inc. the leading monopoly in Boston for security.
Percy looked at this and a light bulb light up in his head. This was why he got a familiar feeling when he read Edward's name. The guy was rich and not a dick, which was rare. Percy had read about him before, during Yancy academy, Nancy even did a project on him.
"So this is the guy whose ass we need to kick," Luke said as he finished reading the article.
"Holy shit," Grover said with an open mouth, "if what this thing says is true, this guy is a bloody millionaire!"
Percy nodded and got up, "doesn't matter. This Edward guy seems okay enough, but we still have a quest to finish."
Grover sighed, "okay then. So where to?"
"Where all rich people go during this time of the day," Percy replied as he hailed a cab, "his office."
The building that hosted Half-Blood Inc. was huge. It had the company's name in bronze above the door and the lobby was filled with greek paintings and statues. This Edward guy was really pushing it with all this Greek stuff.
As the entered they were searched by two security guards, let's call them…..dumb and dumber. Percy used the Mist to conceal some of the divine stuff in their bags, like the Nectar and Ambrosia, and the two let them through.
Percy and the others got into a lift and pressed the top floor button, what? He is the owner and CEO of a very powerful company, of course he would be in the top.
The doors opened revealing a woman with blonde hair sitting behind a grey desk. All around the room where paintings of Hermes, okay this guy was obsessed with this stuff. The woman saw the three boys and smiled, "hello. Can I help you?"
Luke took charge as he put on a charming smile, "ah yes. You see me and my friends here have a dilbert for Mr. Edward," he then waved his hand over his backpack manipulating the Mist, "we need to see him."
The blond woman continued smiling as she looked at the bag, "that's a bag."
Luke looked stumped, he waved his fingers again, "no this is a box."
"No….that's a bag."
Luke sighed in defeat, 'a clear sighted mortal great.' "Just tell Edward his family is here to see him."
"I was unaware Mr. Neak had family," the blonde said in surprise.
"Yeah. I'm his half-brother, and those two are his cousins," Luke said pointing at Percy and Grover who waved.
"Hm, you do have the same smile as him," the secretary said, "okay I'll tell him. By the way whatever drugs your own please make sure Mr. Neak doesn't find out, he hates the stuff."
"What? I'm not on any drugs!"
"You just pointed to your bag and called it a box," the blonde explained with a raised eyebrow.
"Ju-just call him, okay?" Luke said with a sigh as he walked away to a laughing Percy and Grover. "Shut up!"
Percy and Grover agreed to stop and the three then sat down on the couch in the corner of the room and waited. Soon, after what felt like forever, the blonde woman called them over, "Mr. Neak will see you now."
Luke muttered, "finally," under his breath as they walked to the door on the other side of the room, "look guy's while we are in there let me do all the talking. Maybe we can convince this guy to help us instead of kicking his ass."
Percy and Grover nodded, "lead on."
The door lead to an office which had glass windows instead of walls on two sides, leading to an amazing view over the Boston skyline. There, standing behind a large desk, was a man in a grey suit whose back was turned to them.
'Drama queen,' Percy thought as the man slowly turned around to face them.
Edward Neak, CEO of Half-Blood Inc.
Lv-32
HP:2800/2800
MP:500/500
Race-Demigod
Str-23
Vit-44
Dex-32
Int-42
Wis-21
Luc-9
The son of Hermes, he ran away from camp when he was young and built himself an empire using his skills as a son of Hermes. He now owns a powerful company and uses it to try and help whoever he can. A nice guy at heart, but seriously, do not trust him with you food. Dude's a stress eater.
Edward Neak then smiled a familiar smile, "I heard a little brother of mine wanted to speak to me." Edward had a old smiling face, if Percy was to guess he looked around 30 years old, making him the oldest demigod Percy has ever seen.
Luke stepped up, "my name is Luke Castellan, I'm a son of Hermes."
"Edward Neak," then gave stretched his hand out which Luke shook, "now how did you know I was a son of Hermes? I kept that secret well hidden and away from public eye."
"Well hidden?" Percy asked with a look of disbelife, "bull shit! You have Greek painting and statues littered all over your lobby and a 8 foot tall statue of Hermes right outside."
Edward shrugged, "I was hiding in plain sight."
Luke sighed, "okay looked we found you because we need your help in our quest."
Edward's eyes light up with a spark of mischief, "oh is this a questing party? How exciting! But that still doesn't explain how you found me out."
"With this," Luke then handed Edward the note they found in Hephaestus's forge.
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Edward looked at it and smiled, "ah yes. Uncle Hephaestus' forge. I remember that. You have no idea how difficult it was to sneak in there, get the chain and get out without activating the giant robot snake. Who even builds something like that in the first place?"
"We know," Luke said with a sigh, "we recently got very...personally with the thing."
"You actually fought that thing?" Edward asked impressed.
"More like ran away," Luke replied as the two half brothers nodded in memory of the robot.
"So what do you need?"
"We need the chains," Luke replied frankly.
"Well okay then, how about….no."
"Why not?"
"Well basically their mine and I don't want to give them to you."
"Well actually their Hephaestus," Percy cut in, "and I am sure he would love to know you have them."
"Are you threatening me?" Edward asked with narrowed eyes.
"Basically...yeah," Percy replied back shurgging.
Edward smirked as he sat down in his seat, "well good luck with that."
Percy frowned, "look we need your help. I promise I'll give the chains back after we are done using it."
Edward raised an eyebrow, "really? You promise?"
Percy nodded, "yes I do."
"Do you swear on the Styx?"
Percy was about to open his mouth when Luke cut in. "Percy wait," Luke interrupted, "you don't know what you are doing. If you swear on the Styx you will be making an unbreakable promise, and if you do break it something bad will happen to you, something really bad."
Edward laughed, "he doesn't even know that? What type of idiots did the Gods send on this stupid quest of theirs."
Percy got angry, he was pissed beyond belief. Gamer's minds kicked in and helped him control himself but that didn't change the fact that Percy wanted to slap Edward across the face, "look here asshat, the Gods did not send me. I am doing this quest to find my mom and bring her back."
"Really?" Edward looked intrigued, "so you didn't get a quest from the Oracle sending you to get something or another for the Gods?"
"Yeah I did, but I don't give a damn about that. All I care about is getting my mom back."
"And where is she right now?"
Percy looked Edward died in the eyes and in a serious tone replied, "in the Underworld."
Edward looked surprised, "w-what?!"
"Hades kidnapped my mom and is holding her for ransom. He want's the lightning bolt of Zeus, which he thinks I stole. So I need the chains to capture Hades and get my mom back, because I didn't steal the damn lightning bolt."
"Who the hell are you kid?"
"My name is Percy Jackson, I am the son of Poseidon."
Edward looked at Percy, at his face, eyes and then smiled and threw his head back laughing, "haha! Oh Gods this is amazing! You're like a modern day Orpheus!"
Percy grimaced at the comparison, it was similar. Orpheus went to Hades to bring back his lover and he was going to bring back his mom, only difference is Orpheus failed, he wouldn't. "So will you help me?"
Edward looked at the three kids in front of him and then got up and paced around his large office. The silence hung in the air for a long time before Edward spoke, "do you know I named this place Half-Blood Inc.?"
"No I don't," Percy and Luke replied with Grover simply shaking his head.
"It's because of Hera," Edward explained, "her contribution to camp is just as important as the other gods there. You see while she couldn't have demigods of her own, she still loved them all. It's just Zeus she hates and by extension some of his children. But when camp Half-Blood was built Hera took this opportunity to protect her new family. She placed a spell over it, this spell influenced everyone there to consider the people there family. It wouldn't affect everyone there directly, more like made way for them to think in such a way."
Percy looked stumped. So did he like camp because of this spell or because he liked them? No. Wait, his Gamer's mind made him immune to tricks like that so he must just like camp because he does.
"When I left camp I never wanted to return, the way the unclaimed were treated were inhuman, neglected, forgotten. I didn't want to see that anymore, so I came here. I used my demigod skills and built my empire. Whenever I can I help this city but for now this is my home. But that being said, I still love camp Half-Blood. Despite how fucked up it is."
"But things have changed now," Grover replied in a pleading tone, "people are being treated better."
"Sure they are," Edward replied with a dismissing wave, "they will try, but in the end the unclaimed will remain the unclaimed."
"No, they aren't," Luke spoke up finally as he looked right in his half brother's eyes, "the unclaimed are no longer unclaimed."
"What? How is that possible?"
"It's because of Percy," Luke then turned to the son of Poseidon, "he came into camp and the first night there defeated the Minotaur. The second night he revealed himself to be the son of Poseidon and the next night told each and everyone of the unclaimed there just who their godly parent was."
"WHAT?!" Edward yelled out loud, "how did you do that?"
"I just… I just knew I guess. I can't really explain it, I just get a feeling from demigods that helped me identify who was how."
Luke nodded, "yup, though that was a lucky guess you made when finding out Ethan Nakamura's mom, serious how did you feel he was the son of balance and vengeance?"
Percy shrugged, "he just felt very balancy to me, and did you see his eyebrows?" Percy shivered, Ethan had some big ass eyebrows.
"Look why should I believe a word you are saying?" Edward interrupted them, "it would be nice if they were treated fairly, but that only happens in fairy tales, and this isn't a fairy tale."
"I Luke Castellan swear on the Synx that everything I just said about Percy and the unclaimed was the truth," the blond son of Hermes said and just then thunder cracked outside drawing everyone's attention to the clear blue sky.
"Ah, is that supposed to happen?" asked Percy worried.
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