A/N: sorry guys I finally got back from the field after more than a year and I don't have an update for the other story "My Seaweed brain, my wise girl". I will still finish it I just need to force my mentality back to that story. Anyway here is something I just thought of.
"Breathe in, breathe out" Chiron intoned at the five demigods sitting cross-legged in front of him.
As he watched their shoulders lift and drop at the same time he continued.
"The ability to control and manipulate your parents' domain comes from your mastery of the mist," he lectures as he paces back in forth in front of them his tail swishing. "Every demigod has a container of sorts in their bodies where they store the magically charged particles that are abundant in this world; it may be small or large depending on your usage and mastery. For example comparing Piper who has currently learned to manipulate katoptris to a scrying mirror, charmspeaking, and to enforce her endurance and strength to a degree; to Jason, who has mastery of the winds, lightning, and augmenting of physical strength, speed and reflexes to a superhuman level: The two would have a huge difference with Jason's container being exponentially higher."
Chiron stopped directly in front of Piper and Annabeth.
"Piper and Annabeth, the two of you would be focusing on expanding the containers in your bodies and using them to charge magic and re-enforce your stamina, endurance, speed, and strength during battle. While you may have experience in it, I expect of you to raise them to a degree bordering on the superhuman now that you are consciously attempting it."
Chiron moved over to Percy, Leo, and Nico.
"Percy, having once bathed in the River Styx, you're container would have been increased to that of a minor god, and after the whole "Tartarus Fiasco" you and Annabeth both would have a boost in your latent ability once again. Round everything of with your father's domains and your mastery of them and I have no doubt you would become the most powerful demigod to have ever lived.
"Nico, like Percy and Annabeth, you have been dragged to the pit as well giving you an increase in the size we can work with. Along with the fact that you have been training in the underworld and have ran a few errands with your father means you're most likely the second when it comes to mastery of your powers, I would hazard a guess the you can also match a minor god in terms of power alone.
"Leo, you haven't yet discovered even half of what your father's fire can do. With Percy and Nico, I will take you to the pinnacle of your element."
Chiron trotted a bit farther from the five demigods and wheeled around, astonished that throughout his explanation none of the demigods have so much as twitched a muscle though their ADHD are showing through the waves of mist currently encircling each one erratically, their control has improved exponentially. Chiron smiled, the last three months has not been easy for him and the five who earned the advanced training they are currently going through but based on how they are manipulating their powers it has been more than worth it.
"Piper, release your mother's domain." Ordered Chiron to the young brunette, with a grunt the bluish mist circulating around her started to gain a bright pink tinge,
"Now rein it in, take control."
Piper took a breath and relaxed her muscles extending her senses to the surge of magic currently extending from her. True to her mother's legacy, the maelstrom of pink energy gathered towards her forming a creature above her. A Dove that is, pink as it may be, majestic and calming.
Piper opened her eyes, kaleidoscopic and swirling with emotion. Chiron gave her a proud smile as she continuous to maintain the magic showing no strain.
"Now Annabeth, your turn"
Much like Piper's the swirling magic around Annabeth increased, only unlike Piper's it increased to wondrous proportions, swirling in grey and silver light.
"Remember Annabeth you medium is your own mind, use the magic to your advantage."
And now with Annabeth the magic gathered once more outlining her form in silver light, opening her eyes showed they are currently glowing silver as well. Several nearby boulders lifted into the air outlined in silver light, as everyone heard Annabeth in their heads laughing.
The activity continued showing various powers (as Percy calls it) and magics (as Chiron sometimes refers to it). Afterwards Percy was called by Chiron and Mr. D into the big house.
"Perry Johnson," Started the cranky god of wine. "I called you here today because we believe you to be ready."
"Uh, what?" came the ever so fluent answer
"Apparently still as dim-witted as when you first stepped in this blasted camp" grumbled the camp director. "Apparently your father and good old uncle corpse breath" cue thunder "have a bet of sorts to know who the most powerful demigod alive is currently. My father, the ever so prideful, chose not to participate, so Tanya whose power stopped growing after she became a huntress and Jasper who is assuredly the third most powerful demigod did not join your training session."
"Uh, what?" once more was Percy's reply
"Percy, my boy," Chiron began "I told you earlier that you and Nico will have your final test later, remember?"
"Yes, I remember" answered Percy
"Well, you two will be engaging in a duel, in which your father and your uncle are betting for the rights to bug the other probably for at least 500 years."
"Also," Mr. D cut in "the winner will be given a mission, a mission to catalogue and check a world that we created a few thousand years ago, sort of like a vacation spot where gods can kick back and relax. It was so charged with our magic that the very air itself is vibrant and full of life. We want the winner to look into it and see how it has evolved without interference from the gods."
"Uh, what?" is once again the ever so eloquent response
"Bah!" Dionysus finally lost his patience "go and prepare for the fight, it is time for Niño to be briefed on the terms of this battle." And shooed Percy off
"Everyone prepare for the battle of the millennium!" Screamed Leo on the microphone, everyone in camp half-blood and camp Jupiter have been invited to watch this battle, and the betting pool has never been so epically high, Leo and Annabeth (surprisingly) wouldn't need to work at all for their whole lives. Hephaestus is excited at the prospect of the highest rated Pay-per-View in Hephaestus TV, and the coliseum in Olympus has never been so full.
"Two demigods, both children of the big three! Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, known to monsters as the 'Rushing Typhoon'! Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, known to monsters as the 'Scythe of Hades'!" A massive cheer erupted from the coliseum Annabeth designed. "They have both been training for the past months to fully realize their powers, their magic, their birth right. Right here, right now, right in front of us, time limit is 30 minutes, let the battle begin!"
The combatants are fully unaware of the shouting and cheers in the stands. They are looking at nothing but each other. Percy is currently wearing a black long sleeved shirt, with denim pants, covering his chest is an angular breast plate, his right arm with a gauntlet armoured from the tips of his fingers to the elbow, clutching his newly improved weapon Anaklusmos, he can change its form to different weapons by willing the mist to reform it, though at the moment it's on its default form of a sword. His left arm is decked from shoulder to finger tips, shoulder pad showing his father's symbol the trident, from the elbow to the back of the hand is a shield made by Tyson, practically indestructible, insulated from electric and magnetic attacks, it can even absorb magic, it's light weight and easy to carry. Although it is only a foot in width it covers the width of his arm with a bit more extra, it's easy to manoeuvre and is flexible with usage. From the knees down he is wearing armoured greaves, and reinforced metal boots, every bit of armour he's wearing is composed of celestial bronze. Percy is very proud of this armour as this is the first full set armour Tyson created.
Nico on the other hand is wearing a black long sleeved shirt and denim pants, decked in black chest plate, gauntlets and boots, on his head rests a crown of sorts which is a weaker copy of his father's helm of darkness gifted to him by Hades himself. He carries no shield but his gauntlets have been forged to the point that it can be used to deflect full powered hit from a weapon as heavy as a war hammer. Leo also marked it with runes that afforded Nico easier control of his hell fire.
A flick of the wrist, that very few people could follow, started the match as riptide in javelin form soared towards Nico. Crouching down and pushing forward as strong as he can launched the prince of the underworld towards the now unarmed Percy, a loud clang resounded as Nico's stygian iron blade, shadow fang, struck Percy's miniscule shield at full power. Percy made a come-hither motion with his hand as Nico heard the wind whistling behind him, jumping to the side just in time to avoid the spinning sword Percy called back, extending his mist-sense he saw a thin green thread of magic from Percy's hand to his sword. Charging magic to shadow fang, Nico slashed in the air and sent a wave that cut the thread, buying him enough time gain distance before Percy can grab his sword and swung exactly where Nico had been just a second ago this time riptide in mace form.
The entire exchanged took all of 2 seconds and the entire arena went nuts, Nico mused how right Chiron was. Taking control of the magic in them and directing it where needed makes a world of difference.
Then silence settled again as Nico this time initiated the attack. Gathering a ball of shadows in one hand he hurled it towards Percy as it literarily came to life in mid-air expanding to about 5 feet in diameter the entire first half opened up and sent tendrils of shadow in an attempt to ensnare the target. A split-second after the shadow covered him from view Nico turned into a melted into his own shadow to appear right above Percy about 25 feet in the air, gathering shadows and solidifying it to a platform he watched as his shadow ball swallows Percy whole, only to leap to the side as a sword struck down slicing his platform in half.
"You want a power battle Nico?" Percy asked as he motioned his shield arm up, the ground beneath Nico rumbled before a massive fist made of rock shot out towards the son of Hades.
"Earth is my element too Percy, or have you forgotten?" Nico smirked to his elder cousin as he swiped his hand in the air and ending up pointing the index and middle fingers to Percy with the other fingers closed in forming a sort of gun like gesture. The earthen fist moments before smashing into Nico changed trajectory to Percy. The son of Poseidon closed his fist with the air of crushing something between them and the earth formation crumbled to little pebbles, a quarter of it reformed under his feet floating him in the air, the rest all shot towards Nico supercharged by Percy, Nico tried once again to redirect the barrage but found that Percy's hold was too tight and he just wasted precious time for evading the attack. He didn't even have enough time to project the mist particles out to enforce his physical defence as he was bombarded by exploding rock bullets.
"First blood!" Leo shouted to the microphone in excitement "Jackson landed the first attack!"
A black comet shot out of the smoke racing towards Percy, who crossed his arms and channelled his energy to create a mini whirlwind in defence. Though it was enough to send Nico shooting back after he struck the whirlwind, it was negated as well leaving both combatants in a staring contest, each assessing the other.
"I guess I really need to give this my all right Percy?" Nico stated as he garnered a massive amount of mist tinted black to gather around him swirling in power. Nico quickly inhaled the massive amount of magic swirling around him, and blew it all out towards Percy location. Percy suddenly disappeared in a swirl of water before the breath slammed and obliterated the inner wall of the coliseum, He reappeared behind Nico, Anaklusmos in war hammer form, was swung towards the opponents back. When Nico's whole body, armour and all, became covered in shadows, lost its form and surged towards Percy much like how a massive wave would look like rushing towards you. Percy couldn't stop his momentum anymore and was rushed by the shadow, being scratched in different places. The shadow morphed into a sphere 10 feet in diameter with Percy inside being rushed by shadows on all sides. Percy closed his eyes in an attempt to protect them from the shadows and to gather his thoughts; he has never seen Nico fully morph into shadow before granted he was sure that like himself everyone has been training individually in their free time as well.
'Focus'
Percy chided himself; there will be time to be impressed later, right now he has to take care of a little problem, namely his powerful(and probably favourite) cousin Nico Di Angelo. Gathering the magic from his core he felt a slight pull in his gut and felt the mist surround his form with power. He opened his eyes revealing to everyone glowing green eyes and unleashed his power. A powerful blast of wind and lightning shattered the shadow sphere and threw Nico Di Angelo to the other side of the coliseum. Percy's outline and eyes still glows a bright green as lightning streams intermittently all throughout his body.
"Let me show you Nico, why my dad is called the storm bringer!" he shoved his arm towards Nico's position and blasted a massive blue lightning bolt easily twice his height, which made Thalia and Jason gasp in shock, to his downed cousin. Nico not wanting to be fried, transformed into a shadow again and sped out of the way. He managed to avoid the worst of the attack although a stray tendril of lightning struck his shadow form and dispelled it leaving Nico convulsing on the ground. The pain passed quickly enough though his body still felt rather numb and he can't move fast enough as Percy materialize from a gust of wind picking up Nico and tossing him straight up with sheer power. Percy swiped his left arm in a twirling manner and created a huge wall of air surrounding the two of them as Percy lifted Anaklusmos in sword form.
"It's my win cousin." Percy declared, Nico braced himself for the impact and created a thick shield of shadow in front of him and pointed his shield downwards as well. It was all for naught however as his back faces the heavens, the hair on Nico's nape stood on end, a bolt of lightning rained from the heavens and struck Nico in the back passing through his body and striking Anaklusmos.
Percy dispelled the wind wall and turned around walking away from where Nico will fall a sudden flare of mist magic sent him spinning back in disbelief, just in time to block a sword strike, even as he defended he felt a sudden all-consuming heat explode on his back. He kicked Nico even as he got blown away, only to have 'Nico' explode to some pale purple fire that caught on his leg, he scampered to put out the fire as he felt it sap his strength. When the fire finally spluttered and died he looked towards Nico who definitely looked worse for wear. He's missing his shield and chest plate, the crown is missing too and his clothes are in tatters, blood seeping through the multiple cuts on his body. Percy had to blink three times, and rub his eyes a few more times, because he is not just looking at Nico, he is looking at six Nico di Angelos.
'Eight minutes, after that I'll have nothing else in the tank' Nico internally though. He expended an extreme amount of mist just to survive the lightning strike and not get knocked out.
'Eight minutes, after that It's a tie' Leo thought as he looked into his clock. His throat is starting to hurt from all the talking but the audience is eating it up, he has a funny feeling that the combatants couldn't hear them if the way they were beating each other up was any indication.
Percy willed his sword into the weapon his dad has been secretly training him on, a trident, and gathered magic in his feet and arms. With a speed that breaks the superhuman barrier he rushed Nico cutting two shadow clones in one swipe melting them into the ground as the shadow returned to one of the Nicos before the smaller demigod can react, the normal demigod wouldn't have noticed this but Percy is a battle hardened warrior. The Nicos rushed to surround Percy raining shadow spikes, green hellfire from Erebus, ghost fire, and sword strikes from shadow fangs. Percy twirled his trident above his head charging magic effectively dispelling the shadows, hellfires, and ghost fires that touches it. Although the ghost fire managed to sap a little bit of the magic he charged into it. Faster than thought Percy speared the Nico that uses ghost fire with the trident's three points dissolving it to shadow, in a split second Percy twirled riptide using the shaft to block a sword strike and the points to once again spear a Nico, this time the one using hellfire. The other four copies jumped back to gain some distance, one of them charging shadow fang with mist and making it burst into hellfire, Percy struck the tines of his trident on the ground and the ground beneath all the Nicos burst into geysers. One of the Nicos melted to shadow due to the sheer strength of the steaming water of the geyser, the remaining three geysers suddenly shifted to extremely cold water freezing them immediately, the other Nico suddenly melted to shadow due to the change in extremes, and Percy speared the last copy with his trident easily breaking the ice. Before he can turn to the original which gathered the shadows of the other copies the ice exploded with a shockwave of shadow and hellfire. Despite being a good 6 feet away Percy was still sent flying with the sheer magnitude of the shockwave's power.
Percy stood up his glow diminishing as he sees Nico, looking straight at him raising his blade; Percy morphed Anaklusmos to a sword as well and raised it towards Nico. They weren't able to make a move however as a loud voice distracted them both.
"Time's up! It wasn't settled in thirty minutes! Everyone put your hands together to the most powerful demigods alive! Percy Jackson and Nico Di Angelo!"
The crowd went nuts cheering and shouting, Percy capped riptide and walked to shake hands with Nico, when Nico extremely exhausted fainted.
"What kind of training where you Greeks doing?" Nico heard a familiar voice ask as he woke up.
"Chiron taught it to us" Another familiar voice said, "claimed it was the training the old Greek heroes did before the Trojan War broke out."
"Are the romans allowed to learn it?" this time a female voice asked
"Of course, Annabeth and Piper went to talk to Reyna about it." Nico now recognize the voice to be Percy's
"How did you do those things with the lightning and the wind?" the first voice asked, Jason, Nico detected a hint of jealousy
"My dad is the storm bringer," Percy answered "Chiron taught me to realize that storms can be broken down to wind, lightning, and water." His voice took in a tone that made Nico believe he shrugged at the end
"And as the earth shaker, you can also control earth" Nico interrupted as he made to sit, he felt a sudden lack of wind as he was squeezed really really tight.
"Hazel, let your brother breathe" Percy said with a hint of amusement
"Where are Frank and Leo?" Nico asked
"Frank is with Reyna, Annabeth, and Piper; they're discussing about training the qualified roman demigods in controlling the mist particles too."
"Well I don't see a lot of candidates to be honest" Hazel began "According to Chiron's requirements probably around five or six will pass"
"They can always train the next ones to reach the requirements" Nico said evenly
"True" Hazel answered
"Wait" Jason interrupted "We're getting off topic. So Nico you mean Percy can control wind, lightning, water, and earth?" Jason asked
"You missed ice and steam, but yeah pretty much"
"Jackson once I learn that trick you are going to fight me."
"I don't see why not; prepare to get your butt kicked again"
"You've never beaten me Jackson"
"In your dreams Grace…"
As Percy and Jason launched into their "my-guns-are-bigger-than-yours" bro moment, Nico opted to chat with his sister instead. It's a refreshing moment as he remembered how he used to be when he was afraid of people rejecting him so rejected them first. Of course the one to claim credit for fixing that is the one who should claim credit for healing him as well, the one currently walking towards him with a bright smile and a cup of whatever it was that will help Nico.
"Drink up Nics" Will Solace interrupted as he reached the medical bunk Nico's occupying "Hi Hazel, how are you?"
"Really good Will, has Nico been treating you right?" Hazel asked obviously unaware of Nico's embarrassment
Nico did a spit take which made Jason and Percy laughed at him.
"Oh shut up you too, you're even worse with Piper and Annabeth" Hazel admonished as the two broke out into goofy grins thinking of their girlfriends as Will, Nico, and Hazel laughed.
They were interrupted though when Leo walked into the infirmary
"Nico, Percy, the gods wants to see you guys in council"
Nico and Percy are currently standing in the presence of the Olympians, they are understandably nervous as most of the time this happened is when they are voting to who to kill, at the moment though they are debating about who to send to their project world.
It's been about two hours of non-stop pointless arguments until Athena decided to put her foot down,
"I propose that we send both, despite appearances and how the match ended the official records is that they ended the match in a tie. The world of Earthland is incredibly diverse and the favoured kingdom of Fiore is quite large. I propose that we send the two demigods and drop them in different locations to gather our needed intelligence quicker"
Zeus was rubbing his beard absentmindedly thinking of the pros and cons of sending both demigods. Poseidon and Hades are still haggling about the end of the match, after a few seconds Zeus stood up his brothers following soon after.
"Percy Jackson," Poseidon smiled at this son "Nico Di Angelo," Hades nodded at his "I decreed that the two of you will scout Earthland. Your mastery of combat, godly magic and manipulating the mist particles has exceeded expectations. I hereby appoint Athena to provide the plan; Hebe and Hecate will maintain the connection for the two of you to return. You will spend 10 years in that world during which you will not age, Time runs differently in that world so 10 years in Earthland will count as 10 months in this Earth, any questions?"
Percy raised his hand
"Uhm, Annabeth and I sorta has this separation anxiety thing? Where we kinda breakdown if we were away from each other for a while?"
"Dionysus has healed your minds about a month back Perseus" It was Athena who answered "I just allowed you two to stay together because you have gained my trust and approval."
"Uh, what?" came Percy's ever so eloquent answer
"Oh not this again" Dionysus groaned "give them the plan and send them off already"
"Very well" Athena agreed with Dionysus
"Perseus you will be sent to a town called Magnolia, I want you to hereby locate a man named Makarov, one of the most powerful mage in that world and a user of Titan Magic. Find him and he will help you walk in the light of that world.
"Nico you will be sent to a place known as the library of Magic, there you will find a man who styled his name after your father Hades. Do everything in your power to gain his acceptance, he will help you traverse the darkness of that world.
"If anyone ask what magic you use, tell them that it's the magic of the gods, when in that world you will incur an impulse to naming your attacks as spells it's up to you to give in to the impulse or not, it will simply be due to the fact that Earthland is so lush in mist magic particles that the mere act of breathing helps you recover a bit of power.
"Both of your missions are of the utmost importance, do not fail. Young Nico, your mission is a much more difficult one than your cousin; no one can accomplish it apart from you, not even Perseus. Should any of you perish in that world you will wake up in ours alive and well but we will no longer be able to send you back there so please take care.
"Now I want you two to enjoy your last day, tomorrow this time you will be sent to Earthland."
It was a fine day at the Fairy Tail guild, There was the usual bar free for all brawl between members and a couple of patron having a guild at the bar while stealing glances at the very beautiful barmaid. The master of the guild was sitting in his customary place at the counter; most of the members are currently sitting around gossiping and discussing anything and everything, the wonderful day though suddenly changed when most of the mages felt a sudden spike of magic above the city. It was a weird magic with a confusing quality, even the master Makarov felt uneasiness from the magic power he can feel.
As a loud boom resounded every single mage of the guild ran outside and looked up to the sky. They were easily able to identify the source of the sound, after all not many would miss a massive tunnel like formation fifty miles wide made of swirling light. Though only a few were able to notice a small dot falling through the formation, one of them is a young red haired woman wearing armour. As soon as she realized that the falling dot was actually a person that would most likely die her entire ensemble started glowing a bright golden light, once it subsided she was shown to be decked in silver armour with wings. She leaped to the air to catch the person when Makarov appeared holding on to her left arm.
Makarov swiped his hand into the air and threads of warm yellow light launched from a magic circle that formed from the old man's hand. They wrapped the falling body protectively and gradually slowed his fall as the young woman held the glowing cocoon and dropped to the ground. Once there Makarov dispelled his magic and the cocoon vanished showing a tall, tanned teenager with raven hair, and as his eyes fluttered open showed sea green eyes.
"What happened?" the young man asked as he sit up rubbing his head "Do any of you now a guy named Makarov?"
