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"Make sure they suffer".
"It will be done my king".
"Are our brothers and sisters prepared".
"Yes last I spoke to them they were sharpening their weapons".
"The plan must go off perfectly without a hitch, other wise they may survive".
"Don't worry sir they will never see it coming, I will take my leave now to join the rest of our family, well at least those who wont be dead by the end of the night".
"Good, Oh and Ourea after you deal with them I want you to personally take care of their lovers and their children, they are not worthy of are bloodline".
"By the time the sun rises no one will know they ever existed".
22 Years Later
Percy's POV
We were driving into New York to drop off the wheat and corn the local orphanage by a farm had grown over the last season. I had promised Chiron to take it for him and bring back the earnings, I often did things like this for the orphanage even though I no longer had to be there. It was my home for so many years and I feel that there's a debt I owe, especially to Chiron. He was a mentor to me teaching me right from wrong, making me feel like I had a place in a world where I was all alone.
"Percy were almost there, you think they'll be any chicks her for the Bane of woman".
"I don't think anybody calls you that Leo and even if they did it wouldn't be a compliment, but we can swing by the bar on the way back maybe there will be a girl for you there".
"Cool beans Perce".
Leo and I have been best friends for as long as I can remember, I'm a few years older then him and ever since he was dropped off in a basket like I was at the orphanage I've made a vow to Chiron to look after him. Hes like a younger less handsome brother to me, we finally made it downtown and It looked like there were extra police on duty. Which wasn't unusual now a days with all the attacks, people couldn't walk around without worrying about being hurt.
"Leo do you know whats up with all the reinforcements".
"You didn't hear".
"Hear what".
"There was a big attack last night and a bunch of people were killed, there saying it was gang related".
"How can it be gang related after all our years of living here I've never heard of gangs doing these sorta things".
"I've got no idea, but were here so help unload the stuff, the sooner I get to the bar and the Ladyinator starts talking to the ladies the better".
"Whatever you say Leo, whatever you say".
We finally made it to the bar thank goodness for Leo I swear I could hear him vibrating next to me on the drive over. I figured I'd let him suffer a little longer so I hopped out and decided I'd let him park the car. I was currently sitting at the bar waiting to be served by the waitress, she was about 5'9 with blonde hair and gorgeous grey eyes. The kinda eyes that make you melt, she looked about my age. Shes walking over so I should try to not make an idiot out of myself for once in my life.
Once she got over she asked "What can I get ya?"
"Ummm a shot of whiskey?".
"Sure thing coming right up" she says to me as she winks and walks away.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid why would I say that last time I had whiskey I couldn't drink half of it. Well its not like I'll ever see her again so I may as well try to pull this off with out looking like an idiot, which is probably the worst idea I've ever had but when in doubt. I turn and see Leo in the corner trying and failing to talk to woman, I feel bad for the guy not that I'm any better but Leo just seems to be in league of his own. He just needs to find the right person and I'm not even sure that's enough. The bar tender is walking back over here and I cant help but stare, here I am talking about Leo and I wouldn't even know the first thing to say to her.
"Here's your whiskey" she says as she slowly slides it onto the table with a knowing smile.
"Thanks, where uh where are you from". Nice one Percy real smooth, shes definitely going to like you now. Just as shes about to reply the bar door slams open and in walks a bunch of guys, one guy in particular who looks a little older then me with blonde hair and lightning blue eyes stands out from the rest. Hes wearing a leather jacket with jeans and hes fiddling with a coin. His friends leave to go sit at a table, but he seems to catch the bar tender out of the corner of his eye. Oh great now I'm definitely not getting her number. The guy comes and sits down next to me and orders two shots of whiskey winking at the bar tender but to my surprise shes not winking back maybe I got a shot after all. As soon as she puts the shots down he fires them down his throat one at a time. I'm surprised he didn't do them both at once with his testosterone levels.
"Hey babe" he says to the bar keeper.
"What can I do for you" she reply's.
"Whats your name".
"Whats it to you".
"I just wanna know what a beautiful girl like you is doing in a dump like this".
"I should ask the same question".
"No need to be feisty I just wanted to know".
"My names Isabelle if that's all you wanted to know".
"Actually I was wondering about a certain phone number you may have Isabelle".
"I don't have a number that I'm gonna let you see".
"Don't be like that, don't you wanna go home with someone like me tonight".
"Pshh Please, get out of the bar I don't have time for people like you".
"And what kind of person it that?"
"A stupid one".
All of a sudden he reached over and roughly grabbed her wrist. "Now you listen her Isabelle I wasn't making a request, I was making a demand." Next thing I new she was dumping beer over the guys head. "You little bitch" he said as he grabbed her hair. I guess I should probably intervene and be the hero of the day because of course I'm good at that. I quickly stood up and yelled at the guy "Let her go or else". I'm praying that will be enough to scare the guy off but if I was a betting man I wouldn't place anything on it. He seamed a little taken back by me yelling at him like no one had dared to do it before. Luckily he let go of Isabelle and unluckily he turned towards me. "And what are you gonna do about it" he said if its possible to say anything more cliche.
"I'm uh gonna do something you wont like".
"Is that right" he said "Oh I'm trembling in my boots". I hope he is cause I definitely am, I've never been in a fight before and I don't plan on it. He took his coin out and started to twirl it in his fingers.
"You've got to the count of three to leave the bar or else and I will follow through on my threat unlike you" he said as he pointed the golden coin at me.
"3"
Is this guy seriously threatening me with a coin.
"2"
I took one last look at Isabelle and knew what I had to do.
"1"
All of a sudden the guy threw the coin into the air and I watched it spin, it felt like the world was in slow motion as I saw the rotation of it in mid air and just as it reached its apex I decided to make my move. The guy didn't see it coming for some reason he was so dependent on that damn coin. I squared my shoulders and right when it was half way back to his hand I threw the first real punch I had ever thrown in my life, but for some reason it was an amazing punch. Almost like I had some sorta power running through my veins. The punch hit him square on the jaw sending him to the floor as his coin hit the ground. For some reason it almost looked like it was transforming into a sword, but it must have been the adrenaline, plus I didn't stay long enough to figure it out. I ran straight to Leo yanking his arm to get going.
"Come on Leo we've gotta go quick, we need to run are ass off".
"Run are ass off for what I was just starting to get to know Linda here".
I looked and saw Linda role her eyes, poor Leo the guy didn't stand a chance. I turned around and sure enough the Coininator 3000 was getting up ready for round two yelling at his drunk friends who were across the bar.
"I'm sorry I gotta ruin this for you Leo but look over there" I said pointing at the guy, "You see him".
"Yea what about him".
"I just punched him square in the face and now him and his friends are gonna come kill us".
"Us you mean YOU".
"No I mean us were in this together".
"Why would you punch him any way".
"He was harassing the bar tender".
"Oh so just because you gotta a thing for her you had to go around being the hero".
"I don't got a thing for her".
"Yes you do".
"No I don't".
"Yes you do".
"No I don't".
"Boys" said Linda "I hate to ruin the moment but you might want to run".
Leo and I turned just in time to get out of the way as one of the Coininator 3000's henchmen came crashing between us going for a tackle landing on the ground with a hard thud, with the rest not far behind. Leo grabbed my arm and asked" What the hell are you waiting for lets go?" So we sprinted out of the bar as fast as we could with Leo yelling "I'll catch you on the flip side Linda". It was pitch black once we got out of the bar, I looked for the car but it was no where to be found.
"Leo wheres the car".
"It should be right there" he said while pointing towards a fire hydrant.
"Why would you park next to the fire hydrant".
"Why wouldn't I".
"Its illegal, the car probably got towed".
"Oh...well shit".
"Yeah OH SHIT, I just punched a guy in the face and we don't have an escape vehicle".
"Escape vehicle, snail vehicle. Who needs that when we can run, your looking at the track champion of my junior year of high school".
"Leo you came in 15th and there were only 10 runners".
"Who cares about the details, you got any better ideas".
"No, running it is". As soon as I said that sentence the bar door crashed open with Coininator 3000 and all his henchmen in their full glory.
"You had to punch the guy with all the friends didn't you" Leo said.
"Yep, I did".
"Well look who it is boys, Pipsqueak and the guy way under Linda's league". Oh I wish he didn't say that, Leo can get a little sensitive when it comes to the lady's.
"For your information me and Linda were having a wonderful time" Leo slightly yelled.
"Leo shut up" I whispered to him.
"Is that so".
"Yeah that's so" said Leo, "Who are you anyways".
"I'm the guy who's going to crack your head on the pavement" yelled Coininator 3000 a little more aggressive then my liking if you ask me.
"Well could we at least have the pleasure of knowing your name before you crack are heads on the pavement?" I asked him.
"The names Jason, not that your going to need to know it after I'm done with you" said Coininator 3000 or I guess I should probably just go by Jason now. I looked at Leo and gave him the look you give your best friend when you know your times up, one of pure horror.
"Look Jason you think maybe you could forget the whole punch in the face thing, I'm really sorry about that".
"Not a chance you picked the wrong fight, you mortals have no idea who my father is".
"Mortals, ouch why don't you try to use less offensive language. Who's your dad anyways the Manager at Chuckie Cheese or just the server?" I told him.
"Not even close, Get em' boys" yelled Jason, at once all of his henchmen came running at us ready to drag us down. Guess this is going to be my second fight of my life in the same day, well not counting that one time I punched Leo for eating my pancakes when I was eleven. The first henchmen came at me and pure instinct took over, at the perfect moment I sent a knee straight into his stomach. With the force of him running at me and the power behind the hit it sent him sprawling on the ground crying for his mommy, well maybe not the last part.
"Holy Molie, Percy where did you learn to do that?" said Leo, at the same moment a henchman came at Leo. What happened next surprised even me, Leo did a full somersault over him landing on the guys back pushing him and his ugly face straight to the pavement.
"I would ask you the same question but I think its a good time to RUN!" I said as I started to sprint the way are backs were turned on the sidewalk with Leo less then five feet behind me.
"Agreed" I heard Leo shout from behind. We didn't make it more then forty feet before I noticed something in the air hovering five feet off the ground and ten feet in front of us.
"Did you really think it would be that easy to get away from me" said the object which for some reason sounded oddly like Jason. As we got a little closer and I could see better I realized it was Jason, not just Jason but Jason with a sword in his hand. It looked like the one I thought I saw earlier, I guess it was the one I saw earlier. The only reaction I could think of was to say "Holy Shit".
"Not Holy, but close" Jason said.
"Do you think there was something in the drinks" Leo said.
"I didn't even touch mine" I told him.
"Surprised to see someone flying are you, its a privilege that comes with having my father".
"Well I"m a little surprised its not like your a bird, unless you haven't told me the whole truth about yourself" I said.
"Dude I gotta get my application into Chuckie Cheese ASAP" Leo retorted.
"Make all the jokes you want but I suggest you say goodbye to each other because the next person you meet will be the god of the Underworld himself. HADES" Jason screamed as he pointed his sword at Leo and launched himself straight at him. I watched in slow motion my friend with terror on his face moments before he would be driven through like a shish kabob. I thought of my friendship with Leo everything we had been through in are lives, the vow I had made to Chiron to protect him. Everything just came crashing down on me at once, all my anger and frustration of never thinking my parents loved me enough to keep me, knowing my best friend was going to die in front of me, with me not far behind. It all raged throughout me and I released it all at once with a blood curdling scream. I felt a power with in me that a had never felt before. I felt as if I could lift a bus above my head, like something that had been inside me for so long was finally released. The fire hydrant that Leo had stupidly parked next to exploded sending pieces of shrapnel everywhere even taking out one of Jason's henchman, freezing Jason and his sword point a foot away from Leos chest. I guess its a good thing our car got towed, Massive amounts of water in streams started flowing throughout the air and it felt like I was controlling it all. I looked down at my hands, could this really be me, was I meant for something greater then just being, well me. I couldn't believe it, I shouldn't believe and yet I want to so bad. I guess the only way to find out if its the real deal is to test my new found powers. I closed my hand into a fist sending all the water into a ball, next I made a quick twisting motion with my hands. I watched as the water started spinning faster and faster. I'm not sure how I knew what hand motions to make it all seemed to come naturally, like I was born to do this.
"Percy are you a super hero" a heard Leo ask.
"I don't think so, well at least not that I know of".
"Well, Well. It looks like we've got a son of Poseidon in all his glory buys and he doesn't even know who he is" Jason said as his henchman laughed.
"Son of what?" I said.
"It doesn't matter, compared to my father yours may as well be a piece of gum on his shoe".
"What kind of gum?" asked Leo.
"Yea boss what kind of gum?" replied one of his henchman
"The kind that I'm going to chew and spit out" Jason said with a constipated look on his face, this guy really needs to calm down. If I'm going to go out I'm going to go out being a bad ass.
"To bad your never going to taste that gum" I told him, and before he could take another step forward I snapped my fingers. The water went flying at him and his henchman, with the full force aimed at Jason's face. The last thing I saw was Jason's eyes go wide and a split second later the water smashed into them sending them all crashing down.
"Come on Leo we've got to go, I don't know if I can do that again".
"Right behind you Perce".
Leo and I ran down the street but it seemed to go on forever. "Do you remember the street being this long?" asked Leo.
"No I don't" and as I said it something caught the corner of my eye, Leo look over there I think its an alley hopefully we can hide in there for a while".
"Sounds like a plan Stan".
We turned the corner into the alley and kept running down it, there was garbage sprawled out everywhere, with dumpsters on there sides. We finally came to a dead end.
"I guess we should just stay here and hope they don't find us" said Leo.
"Yea I guess" I said looking at my hands.
"Percy what was that?"
"I'm not sure Leo, I'm not sure".
"Well it was totally bad ass, the way you sent the water hurdling at them".
"Haha, thanks Leo".
"Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that this was possible".
"But tonight wasn't a dream, tonight was real and were gonna figure this one out as a team, like always" I told him.
All of a sudden I could hear foot steps. "Leo do you hear that" I whispered to him.
"Yea I hear it" he whispered back, " do you think its them.
"With are luck tonight do you think it would be any one else" I told him.
"No, not really" he replied, "What are we supposed to do?" he asked.
"Leo you see that over there?" I asked him while pointing to a man hole cover".
"Percy you've got to be shitting me".
"You see any other way out?" I asked Leo as he looked around frantically.
Finally he unhappily replied "No".
"Well down the hole it is then".
I walked over with Leo to the man hole and we lifted the cover off. I could hear the foot steps getting closer and closer.
"Leo come on we've got to hurry, you first" I told him.
"No way".
"Leo we don't have time to argue just climb down the damn hole".
"Fine".
I watched as Leo reluctantly but efficiently went down into the abyss until I could no longer see him. I guess it was my turn know, meanwhile the foot steps had gotten heavier and heavier. I could tell they weren't that far away from me now, with out a second thought I went down the man hole pulling the cover along the cement until it fell back into place. I prayed to god they didn't hear it, but if they did I was prepared to make sure Leo got away safe. I looked up through the cracks of the cover and could make out shadows on the alley wall. Their footsteps sounded as though they were on top of the cover, at this point I was trying not to breath.
"Jason where do you think they went?" asked one of his henchman.
"Not sure but they couldn't of gotten far, if I find them I'm going to ring their necks out".
"Your father isn't going to be happy that you were defeated by a son of Poseidon" said one of his henchman.
"Is that so", said Jason as he slowly walked over to the henchman that had said the foolish words with his sword drawn. The henchman started to slowly back away from Jason until his back hit the wall.
"I'm sorry boss I didn't mean it, no one would ever cross you".
"Flattery isn't going to work" replied Jason, "but thanks for the compliment. In the wink of an eye Jason's sword was buried deep into the henchman stomach. Holey shit this guys for real, hes a hundred percent whack job, the henchman doubled over taking shallow breaths until he just went still.
"Does any one else want to tell my father" yelled Jason, no one said a word. "That's more like it".
"Now hurry up and make the body disappear I've got to go visit the big man upstairs" said Jason, "And the search is off, if we were close to them they're long gone by now".
I'm not sure how much longer it was, it could have been a year for all I know but once they left I had to take a couple breaths, I still cant believe I just watched I man be murdered less then 15' feet from me. Jason didn't even think twice before he plunged the sword into the man and to think that could have been Leo or I, I climbed the rest of the way down the ladder and saw Leo at the bottom.
"So what happened" he asked me. There was no way I was going to tell him what really happened.
"They left finally, didn't check the man hole".
"Well that's good".
"Yea really good, I don't think we should go back up though, we need to walk for a bit and find another way out".
"Agreed" said Leo.
Leo and I walked in silence for what felt like and hour but must have been only twenty minutes through the windy sewers taking lefts and rights one after another. We finally made it to a corner that had light shining out of it.
"That must be a way out" said Leo.
"Yea must be" I told him. Once we rounded the corner we saw something that we didn't expect, there was what looked like to be a chest with light shining extremely bright out of the cracks.
"Now what the hell is it, first it was a guy flying, then it was water powers and now its a magic box" I said to Leo.
"I don't know but lets open it" replied Leo.
"Hold on a second Leo we don't know what it is" I told him while grabbing the back of his shirt as he tried to run to it.
"Come on Percy don't be a bore, we've come this far haven't we".
"Yea I guess, alright but once we open it we've gotta dive for cover" I said letting go of his shirt.
Leo and I walked over to the box, there were two latches on the front of the box and me and Leo both grabbed one.
"On Three" I told him. In union we said "1".
"2".
"3".
We opened the box diving back for cover holding are heads and waiting for a boom, to are luck and surprise nothing happened except for the light dimming down. We walked back over to the box leaned over and looked inside.
"No way are those what I think those are" Leo said excitingly.
"Yea, I think they are" I told him.
"Hell Yea" he shouted.
I reached into the box pulling out the most beautiful sword and shield I had ever seen, I think the sword is a Greek Xiphos. It had a dark silver blade with an oak handle that had leather wrapped around it, also it had bronze letters on the cross section where the metal met the handle. Not to mention the shield which was circular in shape and had the same dark silver material as the sword, as well it had what looked like bronze drawings of waves all around the front of it.
"Dude no way this is happening" said Leo, I looked at him and he was holding a magnificent hammer with a bronze head, the handle was also made of bronze with black leather wrapping all the way around it.
"I know right this is so bad ass" I told him.
"I'm glad your happy with your weapons" said a voice behind us, Leo and I froze in place.
"Did someone just talk behind us" whispered Leo.
"Yea I think so" I whispered back".
"Should we ignore them and hope they'll go away".
"I don't think that will work".
"Are you sure".
"Pretty sure".
"Its rude to not look at someone when they're talking to you" said the voice.
Leo and I both slowly turned around to come face to face with a giant man, he stood what looked like 11' feet tall and had massive square shoulders. He had what looked like a kind face but I wasn't feeling that right now. What he said next really surprised, more then a guy flying or me having water powers. He smiled sadly and said "You both look so much like your parents, my brother an sister". Leo and I were to shocked to say anything, we just starred at him with are mouths open.
"That was you fathers sword and shield" he said pointing to the weapons I was holding, "They'll both turn into wrist bands so you can put one on each arm". He then turned to Leo and pointed at his hammer.
"Your mother had that made for you just... well just before she went to the void, it will turn into a tool belt to go around your waist that will have any tool for any problem life throws at you".
"Like women?" Leo asked.
"Unfortunately no" replied Mr.11', "Not women".
I finally worked up the courage to ask him a single question. "What is your name?"
"Well young Perseus my name is Ourea and I am your uncle".
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