章節 110: PJ560
Chapter 551
So Percy zoomed back to the Arena and found the place empty of Leo.
Percy was nervous already, "Leo? Leo are you here boy?"
Percy sent out a wave of mana to try and sense the wolf hybrid out
when he suddenly felt something stir behind him. Percy turned just in
time to see Leo pounce on him from his own shadows pinning him
down.
"I got it master!" Leo shouted as he started to lick Percy's face over
and over again.
Percy laughed, "okay okay Leo stop!" Percy scratched the dog and
slowly he got off of him. Percy got back up and patted himself down as
he smiled at Leo, "well? Let's see it."
Leo barked and quickly ran into the nearest shadow. He came out on
the other side of the Arena and ran back to Percy. He pounced again
but this time Percy was ready as he caught Leo in a hug swinging the
dog around laughing at his pet's success.
Percy finally put the dog down and scratched him behind the ear, "you
deserve a reward boy, what do you want? Ask me anything, and I'll try
my best to do it."
"I want to visit mama again!" Leo barked out, "I haven't see her in so
long! I want to show her how big and strong I became!"
Percy smiled, Leo considered Sally his mom, and the poor thing hasn't
seen her in months and that was like a year in doggy time.
Percy nodded, "done. After breakfast you and I'll go and visit mom. I'm
sure she'll be happy to see how much you have grown Leo."
The demi wolf barked in happiness as Percy scratched him behind the
ear again. Percy smiled, "so you done for the day?"
Leo nodded, "yup!"
Percy smiled, "okay, I still have some training to do, I have some new
powers I want to test out, so I'll first drop you back in the real world and
come back here for some time. We'll leave after breakfast, okay?"
Leo nodded, "okay!"
Percy then grabbed Leo's celestial bronze collar, which was Nina's
birthday gift to Percy, and brought them back into the real world. Leo
then ran away towards the Forest while Percy went back into the time
dilation ID. He really wanted to keep training his tactile telekinesis
powers.
Percy came back into the ID and found everything hard reset like it
always did. Percy smiled and began to destroy the camp, he still a lot
of issues to work out. He particularly made sure to make sure Apollo
cabin was reduced to nothing more than a stain on the ground.
Ping!
Due to constant use you have leveled up a skill!
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 3 (20%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range.
Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the
molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 2,000 pounds of mass
Percy smiled at the agin ruined camp. There was just something primal
about letting loose and destroying everything in sight. It felt
so….relaxing. But now everything was broken again, so Percy had to
again pop in and out of the ID for everything to reset.
Just then an idea popped into Percy's head, well more of a question
really. Did he truly have a whole another world in his ID? He never
really tried to explore this place. Other than the immediate area where
he created the ID Percy has never really ventured too far away.
'Maybe I should give it a try,' Percy told himself, 'it would mean I didn't
continually have to move in and out of an ID every time I destroy camp.
Plus that would mean I have an entire city to blow up!'
Percy grinned and decided to do just that. He turned around and took
off towards New York. Percy sighed as he ran passed under the red
skye world, this place truly was amazing. There was no one else here,
no cars to avoid, no need to pay attention to where he was going.
And…..nothing to break…..
Percy smiled evilly, 'I don't have to hold back anymore.' And with that
Percy pressed his feet hard into the ground and pushed his speed to
the max.
BOOM!
A sonic blast blew out as Percy broke the sound barrier ripping across
the road as he ran across the tar road. Everywhere his stepped cracks
were left behind. Chunks of the road were ripped off as Percy ran past
the countryside heading towards the city at speeds past mach 1.
Percy saw the tunnel up head and grinned as he went through it
without a second thought. He reached the city on the other side of the
tunnel and tried to stop. He tried to slow down, but he wasn't used to
the extra momentum.
Percy tripped and slammed into the side of a building breaking through
it completely and landing on the other side.
Defence - 432,902,432
Percy coughed as he pushed himself out of a pile of cement and steel.
He looked around a saw himself in the middle of the road on the other
side on the building. Percy groaned, "well this is fuckign new."
He got up and dusted himself off. This was unexpected. Usually when
Percy crashes into something he's the one who is pushed back. Sure
his marble skin defence takes most of the damage, but every time he
crashed into a wall Percy was the one who was hurt. He never caused
the damage….well, until now that it. He had run into and through a
fucking building.
Percy groaned and thought about what was different this time around
and immediately he got an idea. 'Maybe it has something to do with my
telekinetic force field.' Percy thought about it and the more he did the
more it made sense.
His force field basically was like tank armour. Before his defence would
just absorb the blast or hit but never resisted the attack. But now that
he had some sort of defence that could basically be considered as
armour.
Sure it wasn't foolproof, since he clearly lost some marble skin defence
points there, but maybe in time it would be.
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Percy then began to look around and noticed New York city empty and
quiet. As a guy who was born and raised in the city Percy would testify
that this was one of the creepiest things he had ever seen.
It just didn't feel….right. It was like seeing Aslan without his mane or
princess Leia wearing anything other than the golden bikin. It was sad
and just plain wrong. The city felt unnatural to him like something that
simply begged to be destroyed.
Percy grinned, "time to work out some more of my anger."
He walked up to the side of the building he crashed into and pressed
his hand next to the side of the building.
'Let's see the average building weighs what? Let's say…..200,000
tons. That's….a….one second…...carry the two, add the three...wait,
why did I have a three left over? Shouldn't it be a five? Oh…..so that's
why I have a three left over. Okay…...there, So 445,000,000 pounds.
Give or take. So 500 MP is needed to destroy 2,000 pounds of mass.
That would mean I would need 11,250,000 MP to destroy this entire
building. I think'
Percy sighed at the mental calculations he did, math may not be his
favorite subject but he was still good at it. So obviously he couldn't
destroy the whole building so maybe just some of it.
Percy reached out with his mind and began to spread his telekinetic
field all across the bottom wall of the building. He reached as far as he
could and then began to crush the building's structures with his
powers.
BOOM!
Several support beams exploded as concrete and iron came flying out
of the building. Percy felt the building slowly sink down into itself. Percy
had spent all his mana, but it wasn't enough to destroy enough of
cause the building to topple in on itself. All it did was create a huge
hole in the side of the building which covered the first three floors. It
didn't really do anything in terms of damage, but it did look impressive.
Percy gasped as he fell back on his behind looking at the still standing
building. Sure he had destroyed half of the ground floor, if his math was
right that ment he got rid of 40,000 pounds of concrete and steel. But
obviously it wasn't enough.
Ironically Percy could have punched this entire building into dust with
his bare fists if he wanted to. His strength seals alone would be enough
for that. Add in Body Form and well that building didn't stand a chance.
Percy then smiled, 'well I'm not exactly doing anything until my mana
regenerates so….'
Body Form Activated: Full Body
STR- 69,120 (+20 +20) = 69,160 X 10 = 691,600
Percy unsealed all his strength restraints and felt his body slowly throb
at the pressure of having two strength enchanting perks work
simultaneously. Hsi muscles glowed with a blue green aura, that Percy
began to identify as his own, as all his muscles grew in size. His skin
also began to tighten up, they looked almost dehydrated now by the
way they clung to his muscles.
The pain was almost too much but just then Percy felt his telekinetic
powers activate as it slowly started to work to keep his body in check.
Slowly the throbbing stopped, and Percy grinned, the body
enhancement skill was really starting to paying off;
Body enhancement- Mind over matter, any stress or struggle your
body feels will be suppressed until it cannot be held back
anymore. This effectively improves the amount of energy your
body can access allowing it to use the full range of Tactile
Telekinesis powers without causing self harm.
Sure it said this power was for tactile telekinesis techniques, but that
didn't mean Percy couldn't use it for other things as well.
Percy took and deep breath and let it out. He walked into the building
through the giant hole he made with his attack before. He walked to the
center of the building and looked around seeing all the support pillars
holding the building up.
He knocked down a few of them with his previous attack. But the rest
of them were still standing. Percy smiled, 'time to fix that.'
He took off at bullet like speeds as he destroyed each pillar with a
wave of his mighty arms. Slowly each of them fell and the building with
them. Slowly the 10 foot high lobby began to crash down on itself, but
before it did Percy ran to the center of the building and put his hands
up holding the entire structure above his head.
Percy groaned, "I immediately regret this decision," Percy could feel
the matter in the structure above him about to give away, he couldn't let
that happen. If the surface above him broke then the building would
crash around him, and that was not what Percy wanted to do.
So he did the only thing he knew, he reached out with his telekinetic
field, but this time instead of destroying the matter, he enforced it. He
wanted it to remain as it was, intact. And slowly his power's did just
that. The groaning stopped and Percy could feel the materials above
him stop shaking.
Ping!
You have unlocked a new ability via tactile telekinesis!
Material Enforcement, Lv- MAX
Materials you enforce with your telekinetic field will be considered
unbreakable. The only way to destroy this enforcement is if you're
concentrations is broken.
Percy grinned at that, that meant he could hold this up for as long as
he wanted, he just had to make sure not to loose focus.
Percy dismissed the box with a mental command and turned to the
task at hand. He took a deep breath and pushed the building on top of
him.
Groan…
The building was slowly lifted up as Percy strained to hold the building
steady. Percy then lowered the building down and spoke through
gritted teeth, "one."
Percy tried to ignore the fact that he was right now doing shoulder
presses with a building on his back. After all he had enough strength to
lift part of a mountain, this was the only way he was ever going to get a
good strength workout.
Percy struggled to keep the building in check, on wrong move this way
or that and it could result in a domino effect. And while destroying
buildings with another building did sound cool Percy knew he needed
to learn control. So there would be no building toppling today.
Percy lifted and lowered the building again, "two."
The building groaned but held on. Percy smiled, "three."
At the count of five Percy's body was covered with sweat. He could
take the load and he didn't feel the pain, but that didn't mean his body
had enough energy to continue on this level of training for long.
'Just five more,' Percy told himself, 'just hit the count of 10 and you can
stop.'
"Six," Percy groaned out pushing the building up again.
"Seven," Percy focused on his muscles, the way the moved, the way
they felt.
"Eight," Percy ignored the pain, what was the point? It wouldn't stop
even if he did stop. He needed to push through.
"Nine," Percy groaned out when suddenly something gave out.
CRACK!
The entire first floor that Percy was carrying on his shoulder's broke as
the building crashes down on top of Percy.
Defence - 432,871,332
Percy broke the ceiling with his head and now stood on the third floor.
The momentum of the building falling down completely crushed the
second floor, but luckily Percy's body was tough enough that he could
walk out of his basically unharmed, well other than his ruined clothes.
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Percy climbed out of the hole he was in and collapsed into the ground.
He resealed his strength and deactivated his Body Form. He panted
slowly the burning feeling in his muscles began to die out. His body
was slowly recovering, he needed to rest now.
Percy started to pant, 'why did it break? Wasn't is supposed to be
enforced by my tactile telekinesis? Wait….Shit! I got distracted!'
By count nine Percy's attention was whole focused on simply making
sure he didn't drop a building on top of himself. Multitasking as hard
when it involves a power you aren't fully sure about.
Ping!
You have gained +1 to STR due to your monstrous workout
regimen!
Ping!
Your 'Super Strength' skill has increased due to constant use!
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination
of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 25
Percy smiled at the power boost. He had honestly not expected just
improving super strength alone. He figured he would have to improve
tactile telekinesis to improve that, but it seems that is not the case
here. He could improve skill individually, though that did bring up the
question, what would happen if tactile telekinesis leveled up?
Percy sighed, 'a problem for another time.' He closed the box and lifted
himself up. He needed to eat food, and a lot of it.
He opened his inventory and kept pulling up all the food he could and
stuffing it in his face. He didn't have anyone to impress by showing self
restraint, not that he would have even if there were, so Percy just ate
like a pig.
After finally getting his fill Percy closed his inventory and got on his
feet, 'let's give this whole molecular manipulation a shot.'
Percy then pressed his hands on the surface he was standing on. The
first and second floor had collapsed down, that meant Percy was
standing two levels higher than ground level. He needed to fix that.
This time instead of just randomly targeting matter with his psychic
powers Percy focused them to only destroy the ground of the second
floor. He reached out and suddenly the ground below him started to
break up into dust and steel as it slowly broke down.
There was a lot of leftover residue, which Percy pushed to the side with
his telekinetic powers, he didn't need something as powerful as
molecular manipulation for something like this.
Percy then broke down the pillars holding the second floor and
activated his two strengthening perks grabbing the collapsing building
and holding it over his head;
STR- 96,952 (+20 +25) = 97,007 X 10 = 970,007
Percy grinned at the extra boost in power. All that just because he got
an extra point in STR. The weight was now manageable, his body was
still paining, but Body Enhancement took care of that. Percy also
activated his matter enchantment skill, don't' want the roof crashing
down on him again.
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
"Four."
"Five."
"Six."
"Seven."
"E-Eight."
"Nine."
"Ten."
This time Percy managed to get to ten. He smiled at that
accomplishment. The boost in power definitely did help with this.
'Now….20.'
"Eleven."
"Twelve."
"Thirteen."
"Fourteen."
"Fif-fifteen."
"Sixteen."
"Seven-seventeen. Fuclk!"
"Eight-"
Ping!
You have gained +1 to STR due to your monstrous workout
regimen!
Ping!
Your 'Super Strength' skill has increased due to constant use!
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination
of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 30
'What the-' Percy got distracted by the noise as he turned to look at the
new notifications. The moment he did his focus was shaken causing
his Material Enforcement skill to stop working.
CRASH!
Percy groaned as he broke through the third floor;
Defence - 432,861,332
At least the damage wasn't that bad now.
Ping!
Your 'Second Skin Force field' skill has increased due to constant
use!
Second skin force field- An invisible force field around your body
that simulates invulnerability. This force field covers your whole
body and cannot be felt by others unless you wish them to.
Defence - 300
Percy shrugged, 'at least I got something out of that.'
Percy pulled himself out of the hole he stood in and began the process
all over again. He ate, destroyed the floor underneath him with his
molecular manipulation, broke the pillars supporting the floor above
him, held the building up while his strength seals were active and
began his work out.
Since he was moving from the ground floor to the top he obviously had
less weight to work with with each floor he broke through. This resulted
him passing the 50 count by the time he was halfway done with the
building.
Soon the entire building wa nothing more than a broken heap and
Percy walked out with a tattered shirt and torn jeans. He really needed
longer lasting clothes. But the results of his 'work out', if it even
qualified for such a title, were obvious.
He had gained + 3 in STR and increased his super strength six more
times;
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination
of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 60
STR- 2.89 (+20 + 60)=82.89 (Strength is sealed.)
Percy was honestly impressed with the super strength skill. It made
him much stronger than he was before. Plus it was almost equal to
Percy's real STR levels, and that was only after one day of training.
One could only imagine where the limit of this power was.
Percy turned to the building, or at least what was left of it. Before it was
kind of impressive, a testament to man's accomplishments. All it was
now was a pile of rubble, rubble that Percy could use to train up his
molecule manipulation.
So he did just that. For the next hour Percy slowly went through the
cycle of destroying all the crumbled up rubble. It was a long process,
due to him needing to constantly change up his mana after every use
of his ability, but it was worth it in the end;
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 7 (0%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range.
Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the
molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 4,000 pounds of mass
It wasn't much, but it was something. Plus now he could destroy a lot
more stuff, Percy was really letting his inner anarchist out today.
Soon however the four hour mark passed, meaning Leo must have
been waiting in the real world for over an hour. So Percy speeded back
into camp and once there quickly slipped out of the ID world and into
the real one.
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He went into the Mess Hall and immediately spotted the familiar crop of
hair that belong to his girlfriend. She was currently sitting in the Zeus
table with a hot mug of coffee in front of her with a blanket over her.
"Morning Sparky," Percy said as Thalia turned to see him walking
toward her.
"Morning fish head," Thalia's voice came out horse, it was like
something was stuck inside it.
"Woah, got a little throat problem there," Percy said sitting next to her,
"you okay?"
"I'm fine," Thalia groaned, "it's all your fault you know."
Percy blushed, "I didn't realise you could scream that loud. Hell if I
didn't take you into my ID you would have woken up the entire camp!"
Thalia gave out a chuckle, or at least it sounded like a chuckle, "still, it's
your fault. How the hell were you soo good at….well, you know."
Percy smiled, "how about I do this first," he put his hand on her throat
and it glowed gold healing her up instantly, "there. Better?"
"Much- A hem, I mean, yeah, much better," Thalia smiled, "thanks
Percy."
"Any time love," Percy kissed her check, "and if you must now, I used a
skill disk."
Thalia blinked, "t-that's cheating! You can't just use a skill disk! Plus it's
like totally irresponsible and stuff!"
Percy shrugged, "I told you, just because I increase my skill level
doesn't automatically mean I can use this skill properly. So I just kind of
had a skill disk I didn't know what to do. So….well I never ever used
one for personal reasons, always because I needed a special power or
something like that. And hey, I figured as your boyfriend I owe you the
best, hence my use of a skill disk."
Thalia puffed her cheeks, "but that's still not fair! I have to physically
work for my skill but all you have to do is use a freakin skill disk!"
Percy lowered his head, "I'm sorry….I-ah, well I just thought you would
like it."
Thalia sighed, "Percy I want us to experience all this together, I know it
may sound stupid now, and believe me I'm certainly not telling that you
should have not used a skill disk, but I still want us to do this together. I
can't do that is your always five steps ahead of me you know."
Percy nodded, "yeah I get." Thalia wanted him to learn all of this with
her, she wanted them to do it together, and that couldn't happen unless
they stood side by side as equals. "I promise, no more skills disks to
improve my ah, 'bedroom' skills."
Thalia smiled, "good. And if you do happen to get an extra skill disk it's
mine. Next time I'm so gonna scream out my name instead."
Percy chuckled, "we make such a weird ass couple."
Thalia smiled, "yup! Anyway what's the plan for today? Don't you have
a free day?"
Percy nodded, "yup. Leo wanted to go see my mom, he hasn't seen
her in so long and even yesterday when she came to camp Leo didn't
get to see her. So I promised him we could go and meet her today."
Thalia nodded, "sounds good. I and," she groaned, "Mera," she spat
the name out, "have some personal one on one training today. I'm
gettin her to teach me a few basic spells, like the ones she taught you.
Hopefully it won't be too much of a pain in the ass."
Percy smiled, "well it is a great ass." Thalia slapped him up the head
but smiled. After a few more minutes spent talking the couple went
their separate ways.
Percy walked back to his cabin and saw Leo on the porch waiting for
him eagerly.
"Can we leave now?!" Leo barked out.
Percy nodded, "yup, let me just get your collar."
Leo whined, "do we have to?"
"Yeah Leo, it's against the law to have a dog unleashed walking around
the city. Plus given your size, if you weren't on a leash you might give
some poor old lady a heart attack!"
Leo whimpered and shot Percy a pleading look, but the son of
Poseidon ignored the look completely, he has been immune to that
look for some time now.
He went inside and came out with new set of clothes wearing his new
leather jacket that Thalia gave him. He also had a simple leather and
steel chain in his hand that Percy had made himself. He attached it to
Leo's collar and carefully put the pet into his inventory.
Percy then took out his goggles and took off for New York. Percy
entered a time dilation ID and entered Mach 1. Since he couldn't use
his full speed in the real world for fear of collateral damage he would
just have to use it in his ID.
Percy honestly didn't know what he didn't think of this before, but he
mostly just chalked it up to him wanting to feel the wind rush past him
as he ran, which didn't happen in his ID because there was no wind in
here.
He soon reached New York but Percy started to slow down before he
even entered the city limit. He dropped down to manageable
momentum and slipped out of his ID into the real world.
He made his way to his mom's place and there was a single police
vehicle standing outside and Percy stopped the moment he saw it.
'No, no, no, no! This cannot be happening again!' Percy thought to
himself. The last time he saw police cars in front of his mother's
apartment it was in the illusionary world and she was dead. Sure that
world wasn't really, but the things Percy saw in there still left a scar on
his soul.
'Maybe it's nothing.' Percy tried to assure himself, 'maybe it's just one
of Kate's cop buddies coming over for a visit. Yeah...yeah that sounds
right.'
Percy kept that optimistic thought in mind as he put away his goggles
and ran into a nearby alley. He took Leo out and grabbed his leash,
"you ready boy?"
Leo whined, "it smells here master. Like poop."
Percy nodded, "yeah well you basically spent most of your growing
days at camp, which is filled with clean air. Now you're older and your
senses have been enhanced as well, so it's natural for you to be extra
sensitive. Do you need some time to adjust?"
Leo shook his head, "no, it's fine. I'm used to it already."
Percy nodded and soon they both entered the flat. Leo wagged his tail
in excitement as the climbed the stairs to his mother's floor.
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Percy didn't see any yellow tapes or forensic people in his mom's
apartment, thank the Gods. But there were two policemen in uniform
standing outside Kate's door.
Percy walked up and immediately the two officers started to eyeball
him. They didn't find anything suspicious, to them he was just a
teenager in an orange shirt with the words, 'camp Half-Blood' written
on it.
Percy walked to his mother's door and knocked, "mom? Are you
home?" Percy waited for some time but nothing happened, he couldn't
hear anyone inside. Percy sent a wave of mana into the apartment and
got nothing. She wasn't home.
Percy sighed as he turned around and looked at the cops. "Ah...can I
talk to Castle?"
The officer's looked at him as one spoke up. "What about kid?"
"My mom, she's not home. I want to know wether Castle or Beckett
knows where she went."
The cops exchanged looks when one motioned the other to go in and
check. "Give me a second kid," one cop told him as he went inside
closing the door behind him.
Percy was left alone with the other officer as the two looked at each
other.
"So…..you're a cop," Percy said, "what's that like?"
The cop chuckled and shook his head as he remained quite. Suddenly
the door was thrown open and Sally stepped out.
"Percy!" she smiled as she wrapped him in a big hug pulling him close,
"I'm so glad you're here."
"Hey! What about me!" Leo barked furiously, angry that he was being
ignored.
Sally broke the hug and turned to the dog and stared. "Percy is-is that
Leo?"
Percy grinned, "yup. He had something of a growth sprout."
Sally blinked as slowly a smile came on her face. She bent down and
scratched him behind the ear, "you sure have grown Leo."
That seemed to push Leo over the edge as he barked out, "MAMA!"
and jumped on Sally pushing her down and licking her face over and
over again.
"Haha, stop it Leo! Stop!" Sally giggled as she tried, and failed, to stop
Leo and his barrage of lickes.
The policeman who went inside came out and chuckled at the sight.
Soon another figure came out of the apartment and stood next to him
staring in confusion at the scene before her.
Percy turned and smiled, "Detective Beckett!" Percy smiled like a cat,
"awesome to see you again."
"Percy, nice to see you too," Kate said in a distracted tone, "ah, is that
dog...Leo?"
Percy grinned, "yup. He kind of got a growth spurt over the summer.
And since it was so long since he saw you guys I thought I should bring
him over. Oh, and speaking of which, Leo!" Percy turned to his dog
who finally got off Sally, "guess who's here!"
"Pretty lady!" Leo barked as he ran passed the policeman and jumped
on Kate pushing her down and licking her face as well. The detective
tried to resist, but she obviously didn't know the strength of a
hellhound, even a demi-hound.
Soon after Leo was done showing his affections Kate and Sally took
the both of them into Castle's apartment allowing the policemen to
return to their duty of staring at the opposite wall.
"You have really grown Percy," Kate commented ruffling his hair, "and I
see your voice has also cracked."
Percy smiled, "yeah. Guess both me and Leo had something of a
growth spurt over the summer."
"Well I'm sure soon enough the girls will be lining up the block just to
get a piece of you."
Percy chuckled, "well then they're going to have to get passed my
girlfriend, and believe me she has a mean right hook."
Kate raised an eyebrow, "you sure work fast Percy."
Percy smiled, "not really. It just...clicked."
Kate smiled and nodded, "I know what you mean."
"So...ah, why the cops?" Percy asked as he unclipped the leash off of
Leo's collar. The dog wanted to run around but he knew better,
Annabeth once caught him trashing her work stations inside the Athena
cabin and let's just say the Leo learnt that day the true meaning of the
words, 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'
"For them," Kate lowered her voice to a whisper as she motioned over
her shoulder.
Percy looked and saw Castle sitting down with a middle age man and
woman, married by the rings on their fingers. The couple looked
haggard, like they had just went through some kind of disaster. Their
clothes were messy and their eyes had bags under them.
The man had a white full beard with very short hair. His skin was
tanned, a sign that he had been working in the sun for long periods of
time. The woman on the other hand still had a bit of grey in her hair,
her face were covered with smile lines, almost like she did nothing but
smile.
Castle looked like he was trying to tell them a joke, lighting their spirits,
but they weren't laughing. They were kind enough to smile, but Percy
knew a fake smile when he saw one.
"What happened to them?" Percy asked in a low tone of voice as the
three of them, and Leo, went into the kitchen. Percy and Kate sat on
the stools next to the kitchen counter while Sally was on the other side
putting a tray of what looked like blue chocolate chip cookies in the
oven.
"A lot," Kate told him with a sigh, "they are Mr. and Mrs. Rebowl, they
came to the precinct 3 days ago to file a formal complaint. Their son
had gone missing, he was in New York over the weekend visiting his
sister, it seemed he did that a lot. Two days later the sister calls her
parents and told them that her brother was missing. They immediately
came over, but when they reached the daughter's place they
discovered that she was also gone."
"Why did you bring them here?" Percy asked as he made eye contact
with Castle who smiled at the demigod.
"Yesterday someone tried to kill them," Kate replied eyeing the couple
next to her fiance, "Castle and I were with them at the time and
managed to escape with the Rebowls, and obviously we couldn't allow
them to walk around without any protection. It was only one attacker,
but we didn't want to risk it. So Castle offered our place for them to
stay."
Chapter 555
Percy raised an eyebrow, "they don't look like the kind of people that
other people want to target. They kind of look like….well farmers."
Kate nodded, "they are. They live in the countryside, honestly I have no
idea why anyone would ever want them dead. They are just...well, not
that threatening. Very quiet, very nice, even did a background check on
them, just a couple of speeding tickets and one restraining order
issued by them against someone else."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "restraining order?"
Kate nodded, "yeah," she then got up and walked to the kitchen to help
Sally make something to eat. Obviously that was her way of saying that
this conversation was over.
Percy sighed and turned around to see Castle struggling to keep the
couple occupied. Percy narrowed his eyes and focused on them both
activating his observing skill;
Chad Rebowl, Owner of Rebowl's Farm
Lv- 16
HP: 1,000/1,000
MP: 0/0
Race- Human
Str- 16
Vit- 15
Dex- 12
Int-9
Wis-10
Luc- 13
Chad was born and raised to be a farmer, he knew no other life.
He married the love of his life, Diana, and the two have had a very
a happy marriage. He has two kids, Mark and Angelina, and is
loved by all in his county. He is known as a carrying and gentle
man who helps out those in need of helping.
Likes: Diana, Angelina, Mark, farming
Dislikes: His town's mayor, selfish people, Eggs
He hasn't meet Percy yet.
He is feeling scared and nervous.
Diana Rebowl, Owner of Rebowl's Farm
Lv- 12
HP: 650/650
MP: 0/0
Race- Human
Str- 9
Vit- 14
Dex- 15
Int-11
Wis-17
Luc- 13
Diana is considered to a smart woman who always is willing to
help out other people. Her advices is freely given and often she
goes out of her way to help others feel better. She married the
love of her life, Chad, and the two have had a very a happy
marriage. She has two kids, Mark and Angelina, and is loved by all
in her county.
Likes: Diana, Angelina, Mark, cooking
Dislikes: Her town's mayor, selfish people, peacocks
She hasn't meet Percy yet.
She is feeling scared and nervous but puts up a strong face to
support her husband.
Percy smiled at reading their bio's they seemed like a nice enough
couple, the kind Percy liked. It was awful that something like this has
happened to them. And just then;
Ping!
A skill leveled up due to constant use!
Observe Lv-15 (90%)
By Observing a target one will get information about said object
-Max HP,MP, stats, info, their emotions, likes/dislikes, their
strength and will give their opinion of you.
Percy raised an eyebrow at this. He hadn't had this skill level up in
quite some time. He looked at the new feature, apparently now he
could tell what a person was good at.
Percy looked at Chad Rebowl again and Observed him, and sure
enough there was a new feature in the Info box;
Strength- Farming, chores, fighting
This would be useful in the future, Percy could totally use this to gauge
future enemies. The demigod then got up and walked over to the living
room. He spotted Castle and smiled, "hey Castle."
Castle looked up and smiled in relief, "hey Percy, glad to see you!
Came to see your mom?"
Percy nodded, "yup."
Castle nodded and turned to the Rebowl's who looked confused. "Oh
right, Chad, Diana, this is Sally's son, Percy," Castle introduced Percy
to them.
Percy shook their hands, "how do you do sir? Ma'am?"
"Well son, thanks for asking," Chad shook his hand, he had a tight grip.
Percy could feel the roughness of his palms underneath, the man used
them a lot, it was only natural.
Ping!
Lie detected!
Percy nodded, "I heard what happened. I'm sorry that it did. This city
can be both amazing and a nightmare at the same time."
"Had some bad experience here have you?" Diana asked with a smile.
Percy nodded, "yeah...a few. But I also had a few good ones, matter of
perspective I suppose."
"Well for someone like you yes," Chad spat, "you were born and raised
here. But people us, like our children, they had no business being
here."
Diana patted her husband's shoulder, "there there Chad, it's going to
be alright. Detective Beckett said-"
"I know, I know," Chad looked like he had been kicked in the stomach.
His eyes were baggy, he probably didn't get any sleep last night, or
even for the whole week.
"Percy why don't we go and help Kate and your mom out?" Castle
prompted him, "I think the Rebowls' need some time to themselves."
Percy nodded and the two left.
"You've grown," Castle told him with a smile, "I almost didn't recognize
you."
Percy shrugged, "puberty has both blessed and cursed me."
"So planning on staying for a while?" Castle asked as they reached the
kitchen counter.
"Kind of," Percy told the man, "just wanted to see my mom. Leo and I
missed her a lot."
Castle looked surprised, "Leo's here?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, Leo!" Leo barked and quickly ran from Sally's
side to Percy. The demigod scratched him behind the ear while Castle
semple started in open astonishment.
"T-that's Leo?!" Castle yelled out loud, "he's huge!"
Percy chuckled, "yeah, guess he and I had a growth spurt this
summer."
"I'll say," Castle turned to Leo, "remember me buddy?"
Leo barked, "of course I do! You're the guy stinks of sugar and paper!"
Percy chuckled as Castle tried to scratch Leo only for the dog to snip
his fingers with a playful bite.
"Guess he's a little more used to guys now huh?"
"I wouldn't say that," Percy told the man, "he's just more…..well he
tolerates us, he still favours women. When I introduced him to my
girlfriend she and him instantly became super close. She almost stole
him from me completely, the only reason he even bother to stay was
because I was the one who scoops his poops and feeds him."
Castle smiled, "sound's like Leo alright."
Percy nodded as he turned back to the Rebowls', "so where are you
guys with the case?"
"It's going…..nowhere," Castle sighed, "Kate and I were assigned to it
before but now we are stuck in here until someone can relieve us. But
the investigation is ongoing."
Percy nodded, "so basically you guys have nothing."
Chapter 556
Castle tried to argue but gave up before he even began, "sigh, we let
another team take over the actual investigations but….well they are
great and all, but they got nothing on us. All we know is that the son
was tied up with some gang, didn't want to tell the parents' that, would
probably break their hearts."
"I thought you guys only did homicide?"
Castle shrugged, "department is short on people. Plus Kate
volentured."
"So what? Son deals with a gang, get's kidnapped. Sister tells parents,
also get kidnaped?"
Castle nodded, "look's like it."
"Which gang?"
"Some biker's near the docks. Call themselves the 'Hound' or
something equally stupid. The guy who attacked them wore one of their
jackets and rode a model the Hounds have been known to ride. So we
kind of just put two and two together," Castle said with a shrug, "but we
don't have enough evidence on them, nor do we have enough proof of
their actions. But we also know that the gang has been seen around
the sister's apartment."
"Who told you that?" Percy asked Castle.
"The sister's roommate," Castle replied with a casual shrug, "she said
that she saw a couple of gang members drive by before Mark went
missing. She heard the brother talk about them with his sister,
mentioned something about drugs a couple of times."
"Enough Castle," Kate cut in startling the two men, "don't want to give
Percy any ideas now."
"Oh come on Kate, what do you think I'm going to do? Run and try to
find the two siblings on my own?" Percy shot a mischievous smile at
the detective;
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Find Angelina and Mark!
Rewards,
The Rebowl family will be indebted to you!
?
Failure,
Death of two innocent people
Do you Accept?
YES/NO?
"Oh I recognize that smile," Sally spoke up, "that's the look you have
when you're planning on doing something stupid."
"No, this is my innocent smile," Percy pressed yes and turned to his
mom putting on his best fake look of innocence, "see?"
Sally narrowed her eyes, "you've gotten better at acting. Maybe you
should try out for the drama club or something."
Percy chuckled, "yeah, no. I have no talent for it, and I don't wish to join
the world of drama. To much….well, drama."
"Well what do you want to do in the future?" Castle asked as he tried to
reach for the bowl of leftover cookie dough only for Kate to slap his
hand away.
"Well….I'm not really sure," Percy shrugged, "I haven't really given it
much thought."
"Well what are you good at?" Kate asked.
"A lot of things."
"Name a few."
"Well, I am a very good swimmer, can speak and read ancient Greek. I
know how to use a sword and a bow and arrow. I am a pretty good
teacher, or so I've been told. I'm okay at other science and math, but I
don't really like them. I'm also good at biology, so that. I can sing, play
the drums, guitar and the bass. Can cook and I'm also pretty good with
sea animals."
Castle and Kate stared at the boy in amazement while Sally just
chuckled, "that's my boy!"
Percy gave his mother a thumb's up, "it's only because I have an
awesome mom like you!"
"Why do you know how to use a sword?" Kate asked about what she
found the most strangest of his skill set.
"Camp has special classes for it," Percy replied with a shrug.
"What type of camp do you go to? And can I send Alexis there?" Castle
asked in amazement.
Percy chuckled, "my camp is awesome, but invitation is kind
of…..exclusive. I have no idea how Alexsis could possibly ever get in."
Castle shrugged, "oh well. Fine. Keep your secret super camp. Me and
my baby will make do with Harvard."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "Alexis got into Harvard?"
Castle nodded, "well she's applying for it next year."
Percy nodded, "I hope she get's in. So….why are you all making
cookies?"
"It's to lift up the Rebowls' spirits," Sally told him with a sad sigh, "they
have been through so much. If only we could help them."
"Yeah..." Percy and Sally shared a look and a message passed
between mother and son. Percy slowly nodded and Sally smiled. Her
son would take care of it.
"So I need to be going!" Percy called out suddenly startling Kate and
Castle.
"What? But you just got here!" Castle cried out, "I've been waiting for
you to come back so that I can finally get revenge on Call of Duty! I've
been practicing non stop for a month! You owe me a rematch!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "I doubt you actually did nothing else but play
Call of Duty the whole month Castle."
"Actually he did," Kate growled out glaring at Castle who started to
sweat a little, "every night he does nothing but play that stupid game."
"Well I-ah, well you see-"
"-And that's my cue to leave!" Percy jumped off of his stool and hugged
his mom, "I'll see you soon."
"Take care Percy," Sally hugged him back. She then lowered her voice
and leaned down to his ears, "you'll find them right?"
Percy nodded and whispered back, "I'll find them. Message me the
detectives number later. I'll call when I find them."
Sally nodded and broke the hug, she scratched Leo behind the ear
while Percy walked to living room.
"Mr. and Mrs. Rebowl, it was nice seeing you," Percy said with a smile,
"I know you guys will be reunited with your kids soon."
Chad Rebowl glared at Percy while Diana just smiled, "thank you dear.
And be safe, this city….it has taken enough good people."
Percy nodded, "yeah, I know." He turned and walked away, 'okay, I am
so finding those two now. I was before, but now it's personal.'
He put Leo on leash again and walked out, much to the disappointment
of the dog. Once they were outside the apartment Leo barked, "why did
we leave so soon?"
"Because we got a job to do boy," Percy told him as he walked Leo to a
nearby alleyway, "some bad men have taken two nice kids. The pretty
lady and the sugar guy are looking for them, and mama what's us to
help. So, what do you say Leo?"
Leo snarled, "where do we start?"
Percy grinned as he opened his inventory, "good boy."
A few minutes later;
Percy and Leo walked around the dock's looking for suspicious looking
people. But then again this was the docks, if you don't see shady
looking people hanging around your not looking in the right place.
Percy focused on people and their titles, he was looking for someone
who could get him information.
"This place stinks," Leo whined, "it's really hurting my nose."
"If you want I can put you inside my inventory again," Percy spoke
looking around, "I'll take you out when I need your help."
"No," Leo snarled, "mama wants these people found and I'm going to
help you. After all it's my job, what's the point of a Alpha if he can't
even protect his Beta?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "ah, I think you got that confused Leo, I'm the
Alpha, you're the Beta."
Leo huffed, "no I'm the Alpha, you're the Beta. You pick up my poop
don't you?"
"Yeah, but that's because it's what humans do."
"You also feed me whenever I ask you."
"Yeah but that's because you whine like a bitch if I don't."
"You take me out on walks."
"Yeah, and I'll remind you whenever we are on these 'walks' and you
bite off more then you can chew I am the one who saves your tail."
"So what? What's the point of a Beta if he isn't willing to risk his life to
save yours?"
"I risk my life to save yours because I care about you Leo."
"Yes you care about me, like a subordinate cares for his boss."
"You are not my boss."
"Yes I am."
"No you are not, in fact you have called be boss and master several
times."
"I just do that to improve your self esteem."
"I don't need you to improve my self esteem."
"Yes you do. I make you feel important and in return you do everything
I ask."
"Not all the time."
"But you still do it."
"Yeah because I want to, not because I have to."
"No, you do it because I tell you and you are afraid of me."
"Dude I've been insulting you since the day we meet. What part of that
makes you think I'm afraid of you?"
"You do whatever I say whenever I threatened you."
"Yeah, but only because you threaten to tell Thalia I was abusing you.
She's the one I'm afraid off."
"So….she's the Alpha?"
Percy blinked, "huh, guess she is." Just then Percy noticed somebody
hanging around in the corner of his eye. He leaned back on the side of
a building smoking a cigar. He had pink hair, bright pink, it was shaped
into a mohawk, if his hair didn't scream, 'delinquent' his clothes sure
did. His jacket kind of looked like a fucked up version of Thalia's own,
spiky all over with several badges crudely sewn on.
Derek Congo, D-C
Lv- 12
Percy smiled, he looked like the kind of guy who was willing to do
anything for money, just what Percy needed.
Percy and Leo walked up to the man and he glared as they got closer.
He dropped his smoke and put it out under his steel toed boot.
Chapter 557
"What the fuck do you want?"
Percy opened his inventory and put it behind his body. He reached
back and mentally took out a hundred dollar bill and waved it in front of
Derek, "information, D-C" Percy added the last part to make it sound
like like he knew who he was, after all, information was power.
"Who sent you?"
"Does it matter?"
D-C shrugged, "guess not," he reached for the money but Percy
snatched it back.
"Where can I find the biker gang known as the Hounds?"
"Are you a cop?"
"No. Why?"
"Because you have to tell me if you are, it's a rule."
"Actually that's a lie, cops don't actually have to tell you that, they are
allowed to lie."
D-C raised an eyebrow, "oh….so that means you can be a cop."
"Do I look like a cop?"
"Don't know, they can look very young," D-C eyed Leo who snarled at
him, "and I'm not a big fan of your mut ether."
"Look just tell me what I want to know and I'll be out of your neon pink
hair," Percy waved the cash in front of D-C again, "where are the
Hounds?"
"Why? You looking to score some blow? Because if you are I know a
guy who can get you better stuff then the shit the Hounds are tossing."
Percy raised an eyebrow, 'wasn't this guy just a moment ago wanting
to know if i am a cop or not? Now he's openly admitting he has
connections to a drug ring? Seriously kids, don't do drugs.'
"No, thanks," Percy repeated, "just the Hound's."
The man scoffed, "go three blocks down and take a right. They hang
out a pub called 'The BOX', now cash," he extended his hands and
Percy sighed as he slid the note into the amns' palms. "Thanks kid," he
tucked the cash into his pocket and walked away leaving Percy and
Leo alone.
Percy probably shouldn't have given the criminal money, he could have
just used force to get the info. But he didn't really feel like it, after all if
his guess was right D-C is probably just going to smoke it all up later,
hopefully he'll die from lung cancer or something.
"Come on boy, we got ourselves a lead," Percy spoke as Leo barked in
confirmation.
Percy quickly found what he was looking for. The BOX was a shit stain
of a building. It smelt bad, even from the outside, it looked like the kind
of place where even rats and cockroaches would avoid.
Percy turned to Leo, "stay here."
"You sure?"
Percy nodded, "I killed the Minotaur when I was 12 Leo. I doubt a
couple of bikers can scare me, I got this."
Percy walked into the club and was immediately hit with the smell of
alcohol. It was 12 in the morning but the place smelt like beer and
cigars. Percy walked into the club and saw around 30 men and women
dressed in leather with tattoos and piercing.
On all their jacket's was the logo of a hound with the words, 'Ride free
or die tryin,' written around the picture framing it. Percy could tell that
each one was armed with at least a handgun, one even carried a
baseball bat with a spiked wire running around it's length.
The moment Percy stepped everything in there stopped as they turned
to look at him. Percy raised an eyebrow at this reaction, 'so this is how
a western saloon would react to a stranger walking into the bar.'
"No minors allowed kid," the bartender, a black fat guy with a stained
white shouted, "get the fuck out!"
"What about her?" Percy asked pointing to a young girl suited up in
biker gear sitting on the bench nursing what looked like a glass of beer.
She had brown eyes, a nasty glare and bright pink hair, seriously what
is it with people and pink hair? "I'm pretty sure she's what, 15? 16?"
"She's old enough," snapped a man standing next to her, "and you are
not."
Percy turned to the man who shouted at him, the name James Howllet
hung above his head. The man looked around Percy's height if not
shorter, but his muscles stretched his shirt and jeans out. Percy figured
the man must be a body builder or something. He looked at the man's
name and then the girl, Jinna Howllet.
'Father and daughter?' Percy wondered in surprise, 'this is sure a hell
of a bad place for them to bond. But my dad and I spend our bonding
time killing monsters so who the hell am I to judge?'
"Look I just came for some information, okay? I'm looking for someone,
well two someones actually. A guy named Mark Rebowl and a girl
named Angelina Rebowl, their brother and sister. Anyone heard of
them?"
"I know Mark," Jinna spat out in a drunk slur, "fucker dumped me a few
days ago."
Percy blinked, "you and him were….together?"
"Yeah, why?" Jinna glared at Percy, "is it because I dyed my hair and
my dad is in a gang? What, is it hard to imagine a farmer boy like Mark
and I have anything in common? Or do you think I'm some kind of slut
who just sleeps with any guys she sees?!"
Percy blinked, "ah, no, I didn't think that! Damn lady, I was just thinking
since he lives far away it would be difficult for you two to get together is
all!"
"Wait…so you don't think I'm a slut?"
"NO!"
Jinna smiled, "you're nice, I like you. Be my boyfriend."
Percy turned to the barkeeper, "how much did she have to drink?"
"A full bottle."
"Of beer?"
"Kid, that's whiskey," the barkeeper pointed at her glass.
Percy blinked, "huh….thought the foam was a little flat."
The barkeep nodded sadly, "she's been drinking ever since Mark
dumped her. Poor girl, thought she finally found someone who would
like her for her. Sigh, good kid too. He would visit her every time he
was in town to see his sister."
"So his sister knew as well?" Percy asked.
"Yeah, and she didn't like it, but she knew if she stopped it Mark would
just run away or something."
"Look kid we don't know where Mark or his sister is okay?" James
snapped, tired of being ignored, "the cops are looking for them as well,
so bug off!"
"Dad! Don't tell my new boyfriend to bug off!" Jinna screamed, "we're in
love!"
Percy blinked in confusion, "I'm sorry what?"
"Honey he's not your boyfriend, you just meet this kid," James told her
slowly.
"No! We are soul mates! He doesn't think I'm a slut dad! We're perfect!"
Percy blinked, 'this girl is pretty fucked up in the head, and this is
coming from the guy whose best friend is Michael.'
"So-ah, a quick question, if you guys didn't do anything to Mark and
Angelina, who did?"
"We don't' know," the barkeep said with a shrug, "last we heard from
him the kid was at home."
Percy nodded, "I see….so he didn't try to buy drugs off of you guys?"
"Who Mark?" a biker from the crowd asked, "hell no, the kid was clean
as a whistle."
"That's why I liked him," Jinna mumbled as she slowly looked at Percy,
"I think I can like you too," she leaned towards Percy to try and kiss
him, the stench of alcohol rolled off her lips.
"Ah...I, ah, have a girlfriend," Percy said stepping back.
"Don't care," Jinna huffed, "I'll kick her ass."
"Yeh that's not happening," Percy chuckled, "she crazy strong."
"I'm stronger," Jinna growled out, "I can take anyone."
Percy blinked, "right..." he turned to James, "look one more question
and I'll leave, did you guys try to kill the Rebowls?"
James chuckled, "nah, not kill them, just scare them off."
"Wait so you did try and kill them?"
"Please, I didn't even aim at them, I aimed at a tree five feet to their
left," James chuckled, "fuckers nearly shit themselves."
"Why did you do that?!"
"Their boy dumped my girl!" James snarled, "no one dumps my girl!"
"You could have killed them!"
"Well I didn't!"
"Daddy!" Jinna shouted as she got up on her wobbly feet, "don't shout
at my new boyfriend!"
"He's not your boyfriend."
"I'm not your boyfriend," Percy told her while he turned to James, "did
you guys ever come and visit Mark at his house?"
"No, never," James, "didn't want to mis the kid up in our lives. Jinna
insisted."
"I see…." Percy began to think, 'this doesn't make any sense. Mark
was suspected by buying drugs from these guys, but they didn't sell
him any. They were also reported to drive by Angelina's place every
once in awhile, but that's not true either. And I get why Jinna would
want that, she sees Mark as something good in her life which she
doesn't want to harm, so she would infact go through all the efforts to
make sure those two parts of her life never interacted. So then...who's
lying? Who reported Mark meeting up with the gang in the first place?
Who said he was….the roommate. Of course, it's always the
roommate.'
Chapter 558
"You have Mark's home address?" Percy asked the barkeeper. The
man nodded as he scribbled it down on a piece of paper and gave it to
Percy. The son of Poseidon read it and memorised it before putting it in
his pocket.
"Thanks...well….. see you all later," Percy waved as he turned to walk
out.
"Wait!" Jinna called out, "kiss me!"
Percy blinked, "yeah, no. My girlfriend would kill me."
"I said kiss me!" Jinna shouted as she jumped at Percy trying to grab
him by his jacket's collar.
"Woman get of me!" Percy shouted pushing her away. Jinna tripped
and fell backwards knocking herself unconscious. Percy looked at her
and then at the rest of the bar as a wave of Bloodlust flowed out of
them and towards him, "that was totally not supposed to happen."
"I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!" James roared out.
"Ah, gotta blast! Thanks for this info!" Percy turned and ran. Leo
blinked in wonder, but before he could do or say anything Percy
wrapped his arms around the large dog and using his super strength
he carried him away from the pub.
Just then several of the biker gang member run out of the pub with
chains and bats. James stood at the lead as he snarled, "get him!"
"Oh fuck me!" Percy cried out as he turned into an alley way and went
super speed blasting away with Leo in hand. By the time the bikers
came to the alley all they saw was a strong gust of wind picking up all
the trash in the alley.
Midtown;
Percy stopped at an alley in Midtown and put Leo down. The dog
immediately started to puke out his lunch on the side of the alley
panting, "never. Do. That. Again."
"Sorry boy, it was an emergency," Percy told him as he used his
healing powers to bring Leo up to perfect health. Guess this just
proved that Percy should definitely not carry anyone when going super
speed.
After Leo recovered, and Percy feed him a large plate of bacon, they
were off. Percy had ran them towards Angelina's apartment, he needed
to talk to this lying roommate.
The apartment complex itself was old, probably was built in the 1940's
or something. It was a dump, a big nasty dump. Guess that's how a
teenager can afford a place in Midtown.
Angelina lived in the ground floor, Percy stood in front of the door and
turned to Leo, "be weary, we need to find out if she knows anything
about the missing kids. So if you smell something that shouldn't be
here, or hear something strange, tell me."
Leo nodded, "got it."
Percy nodded back and turned to the door. He knocked on it gently and
waited.
"Coming!" a voice came out from the inside. After a few seconds of
shuffling feet the door swung open and there stood a young woman
with a towel wrapped around her blonde hair and a large shirt drapped
over her petite body. She had a very perk set of breasts, not that Percy
was looking, no sir, he also didn't notice that she wasn't wearing
anything underneath that shirt.
"Ah, hi….this is awkward," Percy said with a blush.
The girl giggled, "well yeah. Amm, do I know you or something?"
"Oh, right," Percy looked at her name;
Carol Borit, Crazy
Lv- 9
Percy blinked, 'crazy?! What type of title is crazy?! Plus she's way to
hot to be crazy! Gods be damned why is it always the hot ones?!'
"Ah...hello? Anyone there?" Carol asked snapping Percy out of his
inner rambling.
"What-oh, right. Well you see I just kind of wondering if you would be
open to talk about your missing roommate."
A look of anger passed by her face so fast Percy almost missed it,
almost. She smiled sadly, "okay but, like are you a cop or something?"
"PI actually,"
Lie Successful!
"The Rebowls hired me to do a parallel investigation," Percy threw her
a disarming smile, "I was just hoping you could help me out."
She nodded, "sure, glad I can help," she then turned to Leo and
smiled, "oh, and who's this little cutie?"
"That's Leo," Percy said with a smile, "he's my partner."
"Hello beautiful!" Leo barked as he jumped up and licked her face.
"He likes me!" Carol said happily as she scratched his neck.
"Yeah, he likes everybody," Percy said with a smile "mostly women
though. Hates men, took him ages to even consider me not just his
poop scooper."
"Well aren't you a little playboy doggy," Carol said as she ruffled his
ears, "plus a totally cute!"
Percy smiled, 'damn she loves dogs, sigh, why does she have to be
crazy?' "so Carol, care to invite me in?"
"How did you know my name?" Carol asked as she stopped playing
with Leo. A serious look came on her face, a hard look.
"I told you, I'm a PI, it's my job to know about my case."
Lie Successful!
"Oh….right," Carol giggled, "sorry, I forgot. You know with everything
that has been going on and all-"
"It's okay, I get it," Percy gave her a shit eating grin he remembered
Michael always sprouting.
"So...yeah, come in, please," Carol stepped inside allowing Percy and
Leo in as well.
The inside of the apartment was small, like really small. It was around
the size of Percy's cabin, maybe smaller. He could see her bedroom to
one side while another on the other side, probably Angelina's.
She set the down on the couch while she went to her room to put on
some pants. Percy looked at her leaving figure, admiring her rear, it
was almost as good as Thalia's, almost. Carol caught him looking and
winked, Percy blushed but the crazy girl said nothing as she shut the
door behind her.
Percy sighed and mumbled, "why are the crazy one's so hot?" he
turned to Leo, "sniff this place from the bottom to the top, we are
looking for blood or chloroform, you know, that thing the whole camp
smelled like after we visited the water park?"
Leo nodded, "got it." He then began to sniff around the place while
Percy waited patiently. He looked around, saw pictured of the
roommates spread out all over the place. It was like every wall had at
least 7 pictures on it, and each of them had Carol and Angelina in
them.
Chapter 559
'Talk about obsessive,' Percy commented when an idea struck him,
'wait….could that be it? Could she be obsessive crazy? Like have
some kind of obsession disorder that's focused on one person alone?
Like a crazy stalker?'
Percy looked around, he then realised something he hadn't before, the
place was clean, like freshly cleaned clean. Did she just happen to
want to do some summer cleaning? Or did she want to hide
something? Sure the brother went missing three days ago, but the
sister went missing yesterday….there was something missing here.
"So what can I help you with?" Carol asked as she walked in now
wearing a pair of torn jeans.
"Well I was just wondering if you-"
"You want coffee? I want coffee," Carol walked into the kitchen and
opened up her coffee maker, "I just put the pot on."
"Ah, yeah, no thanks. I'm good," Percy smiled nervously, he wasn't
going to eat anything that woman givee him.
Carol shrugged, "suit yourself." She poured a cup of coffee and took a
sip of it sighing at the taste. Carole walked to the couch and sat down
next to Percy, "you know now that I look at you you're kind of young to
be a PI."
"I graduated college early," Percy replied with a shrug.
Lie successful!
"I see, what college?" Carol asked curiously.
"NYU," Percy replied as he looked at Leo who was still sniffing around
the apartment.
Lie successful!
"Really? You got into NYU? How?! You must have been what? 13
when you joined?"
Percy shook his head, "look that's not important-"
"-Dude you got into NYU. At 13. That is important!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "look I came here to ask when the last time you
saw your roommate," Percy said narrowing his eyes, 'come on lie
detection skills!'
"Well….I suppose it was a day ago," Carol sighed, "I think. Give or take
a few hours."
Lie detected!
Percy smired to himself, 'got you!' Percy nodded, "I see, and Mark?"
"Haven't seen him in three days."
Lie detected!
Percy nodded, 'okay, that means that she saw them both after they
were reported missing. That means that a) she's the kidnapper and b)
they are both still alive.'
"So…..how old are you anyway?" Carol asked as she sipped her
coffee.
"Wha-oh, right. Well how old do you I look?"
"I don't know…..17, 16?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I'm 17."
Lie successful!
"Oh, damn," Carol sighed in disappointment, "guess your way to young
for me."
Percy chuckled, "yeah. Plus I have a girlfriend so that."
Carol shrugged, "never stopped me before."
"Really? When was the last time you ever date a guy with a girlfriend?"
"Well I wouldn't say date," Carol put the mug down, "I kind of had this
thing for a guy who was dating this biker chick, total bitch. She was bad
news but he couldn't see it, I kept telling the idiot to stop dating her, but
he didn't listen."
Percy nodded calmly but he was freaking out in the inside, 'the biker
chick is obviously Jinna, meaning this crazy chick was crushing on
Mark….'
"So...what happened to the guy?" Percy asked hoping she would spill
some info about Mark. She didn't know that he knew who she was
talking about, Percy hoped that Carol had the same Achilles heel as
every other crazy person he ever meet, arrogance.
"He's basically in hell right now," Carol smiled, "stupid fucker flew too
close to the the sun and got burnt."
Percy chuckled, "little vindictive there I see."
Carol shrugged, "he deserved it. Told him a hundred times….."
"So did you ever see him again?"
"Yeah, I see him everyday," Carol smiled, "hope he enjoys that hole he
dug himself into."
Percy chuckled, "you sound so Greek."
Carol smiled, "really? I do?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, your vindictive, know the story of Icarus, love
drama, you're basically Greek."
Carol giggled as she stretched her hands, "yeah well I'm taking a
college course in Greek culture, kind of had to read….well everything
that involves the ancient Greek."
"Really? That's surprising, I'm kind of a Greek buff myself," Percy said
with a smirk, "been one ever since I was 12."
"Really?!" Carol asked in amazement, "I haven't meet anyone who is
that interested in Greek myth!"
Percy shrugged, "my dad's Greek, so it's kind of like a family thing."
"So you know all the stories? Like the Gods and the heroes?"
"Well I wouldn't say I know all of the, but yeah, I'm pretty well versed in
Greek myth. Heck I could say the Olympians are practically family."
Carol nodded, "nice….mind if I test you?"
Percy shrugged, "shoot."
"Hephaestus is the son of…?"
Percy rolled his eyes, "please, don't insult my intelligence. He's the son
of Hera."
"And Zeus," Carol said with a smile, "guess your not that smart after
all!"
"No, only Hera," Percy repeated himself, "Hera got pissed Zeus was
having so many children with other women, so she tried to make her
own. The result of the need for vengeance was Hephaestus."
"Really? I could have sworn-"
"Don't sweat it, there are like a thousand different versions to every
character," Percy shrugged, "we'll never know what's really and what's
not."
Carol nodded, "guess your right."
"So who's your favorite God/Goddess?" Percy asked.
"Me? Oh, well I suppose I like Poseidon a lot. He's like totally
awsome."
"Me too!" Percy said in an excited tone as he sat closer to Carol, "he's
like the best of them all. Totally cool powers, and basically an awesome
dad to all his kids!"
"Yeah I know right!" Carol sat closer, "when Odysseus blind
Polyphemus Poseidon was all like, 'fuck you asshole! I'm going to
screw up your life!'"
Percy chuckled, "yeah, totally." He looked up and saw he and Carol
were just a few inches apart. She looked at him and licked her lips, he
looked at her and did the same. Carol leaned in and Percy closed his
eyes.
They were inches apart when Percy's fist flew up knocking her across
the jaw;
SMACK!
Carol flew back and landed as a heap on the floor. Percy quickly
walked up to ther and healed any damage he might have caused. He
made sure to only use the minimal amount of force he would have
required to punch her, but even that resulted in Carol losing a tooth.
Just then something in the aliment page popped up that caught Percy's
eye;
Mental illness: Obsessive love
Percy frowned at that. The girl wasn't just crazy, she was sick in the
head. Percy figured most crazy people were, but this….this just felt
unfair. He should heal her, right now he should heal her, but when she
wakes up she will realise what a monster she has been. Percy didn't
know if that was the right thing to do, he honestly didn't. But he could
save someone's life, he save the life of the siblings that went missing
and Carol who has been inflicted with this terrible disease.
Percy sighed and turned to Leo, "did you find anything?"
Leo nodded, "I can hear something coming from below, it's like
somebody's tapping on metal…...and heart beats, two heart beats."
Percy nodded, "and it's coming from directly below us?"
Leo nodded, "yes."
Chapter 560
Percy wondered if this place had a basement, if it did that's where
Carol was keeping them. "Leo watch her," Percy instructed as he
walked out of the apartment and looked around the lobby. He saw a set
of stairs leading downstairs by the corner but when he went down them
he was met with a closed door.
'Not a problem,' Percy smirked as he held up the Ring of Alcyoneus
and controlled the metal in the lock, causing the metal gears inside to
turn away unlocked the door.
Click!
'Jackpot!' Percy cheered as he opened the door slightly and entered.
The moment he did he was hit with the smell of piss and shit. It hit him
hard. He snapped his finger and summoned a ball of fire in the palm of
his right hand and he used the light to walk into the room.
The floor was dirty, covered with newspapers littered all over. He
looked ahead and saw a table pressed up against one side of the wall
and on it were various tools. Saws, knives even a screwdriver. The
tools looked polished, brand new even, but there were stain of
something red on their metal, blood, and it was fresh.
"He-hello? Is anyone there?" Percy heard a soft feminine voice call out
from the darkness further inside the room.
"Angelina?" Percy asked as he turned to walking towards the voice, "is
that you?"
"D-dad? Daddy?" the voice sounded hopeful.
"Angelina are you safe-" Percy's voice got stuck in his throat as he
looked in horror at the site before him.
It was a cage, metal bars and all. It was only a 4 feet tall, barely
enough for a person to sit in. The figure inside wore nothing but a loose
bedsheet over her frail body. Percy could see blood dripping down to
her toes, there were scars, there were wounds. The woman's body
may have been thin before, but now it was anorexic.
Angelina had a very pretty face, she reminded Percy of several
daughters of Aphrodite. Her hair was black and her eyes were green
and small, like two perfect marbles. And she would be considered
beautiful, if it was not for the scars.
Her face was covered with them, they ran from her forehead to her jaw.
Percy could see the marks of the knife he saw on the table before,
Carol must have done this. Her left eye was swollen shut from bleeding
and her ear had a huge hole in it's ear lobe, guess that's what the
screwdriver was for.
"Please help us!" Angelina cried out with tears and blood streaming out
of her eyes, "please before she comes back!"
"It's okay Angelina," Perc knelt down and he placed a hand on the
cage, "Carol is being taken care off. I'll get you out of here."
"Thank! Thank you! Whoever you are!" she cried out in joy as a smile
came to her face.
Percy used his bracelet to unlock the cage and threw the door open.
Angelina pounced on him wrapping her bony arms around his neck,
"thank you, thank you."
Percy wrapped his free hand around her body, "it's okay, everything will
be okay." He and Angelina stayed like that for some time, Percy
understood why, she wanted to feel safe, he got that.
"Where's Mark Angelina?" Percy asked as he slowly broke the hug,
"where is he?"
"There," she pointed and Percy turned to find another cage next to
her's. This one had a boy with with almost no scars on his body. But he
was unconscious and naked. He looked healthy, well feed. And the way
his dick stood up in the air hard as iron told Percy he was currently
very aroused, which was kind of confusing.
"How is he-"
"She feed him nothing but viagra," Angelina spat, "she used him for
hours on end, she didn't hurt him, not like me. No, he was her precious
boyfriend, deluded bitch!"
"How long?" Percy asked horrified already about what the answer
might be.
"I've been here for...two days? Mark…...longer."
"She did all this to you….in two days?" Percy asked horrified, every
thought he ever had of Carol turned sour instantly.
"She's very good with time," Angelina cried into Percy's jacket, "she
spent every hour here, every single hour. She would leave to only
bathe and freshen up and then she would return back to-to….to the
pain."
Percy held her close, taking care not to hold too tight or else he
accidently breaks something, "it's fine, everything is going to be fine. I
promise."
"No it's not!" Angelina snapped, "look at me! Look at what she did to
me!"
Percy did and he was again horrified. He knew however what he had to
do, "I can take care of that."
Angelina blinked away her tears, "w-what?"
"I'll take care of it, but you have to promise me you won't tell anyone
what I'm about to do, okay?"
"W-what do you take care of it?" Angelina broke the hug and began
leaning back, "and-you're going to hurt me aren't you? Y-You're just like
her! Get away from me!"
"Angelina stop!" Percy cried out as the girl jumped back into her cage
pressing herself against the bars away from the cage door, "I'm not
going to hurt you!"
"That's what she said! She said she wouldn't hurt me and then-"
"Enough!" Percy cut her mid sentence as his hands started to glow
gold The light distracted Angelina as her eyes widened in amazement.
Slowly an aura of calmness took over her as slowly her body began to
heal.
Percy fixed her. He fixed the broken ribs, he fixed the fractured
forearm. He sealed the drill hole in her earlobe and he even caused the
swelling in her eye to go down. The wounds on her face also slowly
went away, but the scars that were there before remained, marking
Angelina's face forever with three cut from her jaw to her lips.
"H-how did you do that," she looked at her arms and slowly raised her
fingers to her face feeling it whole again.
"Angelina," Percy called out causing the girl to turn her stunned face
towards him, "I need you to promise me you will never tell anyone
about this. Please, promise me."
Angelina nodded dumbly, "w-who are you?"
"My name is Percy Jackson," Percy smiled.
"Are you God?" Angelina asked in wonder.
Percy chuckled, "no, but that doesn't matter. I'm here to save you,"
Percy stood up and held out his hand, "take my hand."
Angelina looked at it and then at him. This needed to be a choice she
made, it would be her moving out of her nightmare and into the light.
Percy may have saved her, but she needed to save herself.
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