Chapter 2
A/N: I'm just going straight into the flashback. It's not going to be in italics for a flashback because I find reading a whole chapter in italics is stupid.
Percy's POV:
This was going to be the best day of my life! I walked through Camp Half-Blood, going to the Big House to announce to Chiron and Mr. D that I was back from my quest. I was going to propose to Annabeth today. I had Hephaestus craft a ring for Annabeth. As I got closer, I saw Chiron was talking with one of the campers from the Ares cabin, who was babbling about how the other team cheated during capture the flag. As Chiron saw me his face lit up. "Oh, hello Percy. Welcome back. I assume you successfully defeated the hydra," Chiron said, shooing the Ares kid away, glad I came to save him from that chatterbox. "Would you care for some tea?" Chiron asked.
"I'm fine thank you. I'm going to go propose to Annabeth today. I had Hephaestus make a ring just for her," I replied with a sheepish grin on my face. I looked at Chiron's face and he held a smile but his eyes said otherwise. They were filled with pity and sadness. I decided to ignore it and left the Big House to see where Annabeth was. I decided to look at the Athena cabin first so if she wasn't there then her siblings could tell me where she was. When I got there, I knocked on their door and Malcolm, one of the siblings of Annabeth opened the door.
"What do you need, Percy? Are you looking for Annabeth? She's at the beach," Malcolm said.
"Uh, ok," Percy said as he turned around to walk to the beach. "Thanks." That was rather abrupt like he didn't want to talk to me.
He thought that he should surprise her so he hid in the trees. He heard voices coming from the beach. As he got even closer, making sure to keep quiet, one of their voices turned out to be Annabeth. The other one was his annoying brother that came to camp a little before Percy left for his quest named Mark. A/N: Almost everyone uses the name Mark as Percy's brother for these types of stories. Why didn't they ask me to hang out with them? That's no fair. The next things changed Percy's mind completely. "Mark, you are the best boyfriend I could ever ask for," Annabeth said. What. What. What. What the bloody hell. I ran back to my cabin and threw away the ring, tears stinging my eyes. I hated feeling weak like this. I looked on my nightstand to find pictures of Annabeth and me standing next to each other at various places. One was in Bryce Canyon and another one at the Grand Canyon. I felt so betrayed. It was like someone scooping out your heart with heated rusty spoons. Or something else like heated forks. That is so stupid. What did I ever do? All the money in the world says that Mark is the one behind this. Oh, he's gonna get it.
The next day I woke up at 10:00 in the morning, as usual. I walked to the dining pavilion for breakfast. People were giving me weird looks, some sad, some sneering. I understood the sad parts but why the sneering? Everyone kept looking at me as if I just ran over their dog. What's up with that? I'll tell you what's up, Mark has found his mark again. As I neared the tables, Mark instantly stood out. He was bragging to all the new campers about how he was so great and is far better than me. Yeah right. As long I know deep in my heart that I can destroy him under one second, I'll be able to keep my cool. But Annabeth. If I see that thot one more time I will literally dump the Pacific Ocean on her and force her to be at a deep ocean area with water pressure that won't kill but will hurt so much. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yup, I see it happening. Oh yeah. Ok, only if she aggravates me, therefore, it's happening. I casually sauntered over to mine own wood table and gracefully slid into my seat. I wasn't really paying attention to the cancer cell sitting at my table until I noticed it's lap dog. Oh god. That's disgusting. Well, the toxic waste aside, I was ready to eat. So some nymph-probably the only one that would dare come near big scary me-scapered up to me and dropped the plate in front of me and leaped away as if I was going to do something to her. "Excuse me but do I look like I'm on crack?" She shook her head. "Then stop treating me like I am." After I gave her a lasting glare and was about to turn to my plate with to-be-summoned pancakes, I saw Mark found a way to distract Annabeth for about twenty seconds with some random designs he probably printed off the Internet, one of the many camp rules he breaks. While his slave was distracted he started groping the nymph. What the heavens. A/N: LOL So, with my brilliant strength and brains, I ninja-starred the slut with my pancake. Surprisingly, it managed to cut her head off. No idea how. Must have summoned razor pancakes. That's what's good, baby. Mark, just stared at the body that went slack. He turned to Annabeth, who just happened to look the moment I threw my deadly projectile.
"Look, Annabeth, what did I tell you, he's a killer. He murdered this poor lady and I tried to save her. Look everyone, he's a savage. Watch out-you might be next." Anyone one remotely close to me started shuffling away from me. Honestly, I'm starting to like this power over them. But then! All of the gods! Flashed in the pavilion! Deep trouble!
Then the king of the gods spoke for them all. "Perseus Jackson! We do not accept you casually murdering beautiful women! How do you plea?!" Excuse me. I literally just witnessed a nymph about to get raped. Saved her the trouble. These people, am I right? I was about to say something when out of the blue came the Fates.
"Perseus Jackson, for being bamboozled, you are gifted with gamer powers. But for now, you are sent to Tartarus." Wait so I gift then got sent to- ... Tartarus. And now I'm falling. I can see the faces of everyone I once knew. At that moment, I hardened my heart. I don't know them; who's Annabeth again? Never heard of her. HAHAHAHA!
Ding!
New Ability:
Maniacal Laugh
Effects: Shivers to your enemy, slight encouragement to your sadistic friends.
Mana: 0.01 per hour
What the… Well I mean the Fates did mention something about gamer powers. In conclusion, that must be part of the power. Well then, I'll just do what most games have. "E-S-C!" Nothing… Wait. "Settings" Again, nothing. "Menu?" With a flash, a menu from a random Italian restaurant appeared right in front of me. Um… how did I do that?
Ding!
Again?
New Ability:
Menu Summoning
Level 1 (50%)
Effects: Summons Menu
Ethnics: Italian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, American, Mediterranean, Mexican, Greek, French, Indian
Mana: 10 per menu
Let's all be honest here, I'm never going to use this skill. I was pulled out of my thoughts when I gyrated to face the place that I'm going, and my nose was 0.0001 nanometers from touching the floor. Guess I don't get an easy death, and have to endure this wasteland.
I trudged this particularly swampy area with nothing more than some Nike. Well, At least it had the gel for cushion. Assuming I still have my natural affinity with agua, I dived into the waters. I started fucking drowning. I reemerged at the surface of the mucky water, Gasping for air the first time in my life. Huh. Alright. Let's try to get my powers back by sheer willpower. I dived back underwater and thought 'I can breathe underwater' like twenty gajillion times. And it seemed like it was working. Mainly because I was hallucinating from lack of air. Thought I was controlling a bubble of air inside the water but then realized it was as long as a sword. Natural instincts kicked in and I propelled myself out of the way. I looked back to where I just was and in my place a second ago is estoc jutting into the water. 100% not hallucinating. Maybe. Anyway, I sprang out of the water, ready for this guy with Riptide already out. Well, I thought it was only one guy but nope. I was completely surrounded. About twenty mortals with sniper rifles and assault rifles, ten cyclops with big-ass swords, and too many hellhounds to count. There was one particular hellhound that was about the size of the goddamn White House. Then the very same doggo trotted up to me. Then it started talking and I almost barfed because of how bad his English was. "Stop making fake gagging noises! Perseus Jackson, you have killed too many of my minions! I challenge you to a fight!"
"Wait, are you the king of hellhounds or something?" That would explain this guy's size.
"No, I'm the king of heaven cats. Of course I'm the king of hellhounds." So heaven cats can be sarcastic. Huh. Very interesting. I bolted forward and stopped, channeling my momentum into my arm which caused a wide swing at his leg. This big mutt glared down at me and swiped at my blade with his claws unsheathed. These two forces clashed against each other, each simultaneously blocking the other from landing a hit and pushing forward for the swipe. Almost as fate, we both jumped back at the same time and started circling each other. The other monsters shuffled around to form a circle, not wanting to have to reform again. I wonder how good this dog is by game standards. I'm not quite sure how to see his stats but then a screen popped up with, you know it, a Ding!
HP: 30,000/ 30,000
MP: 5,000/ 5,000
Buddy, King of Hellhounds
STRENGTH: ?
ENERGY: ?
STAMINA: ?
SKILL: ?
SMARTS: ?
LUCKINESS: ?
POINTS: undefined
Description: This overgrown mutt is just big. Not really good at anything. Mainly a big bully to get his power.
Loot: Cloak of Darkness, Rune of Darkness, Crown of Hellhounds, Broadsword of Darkness, Pillow of Darkness
Wow, how did I do that. Interesting…
Ding!
New Ability:
Observe
Level 1 (50%)
See other's stats and descriptions
Mana: None
It seems that I am a certified stalker now. Mmm hmm. Wow. Big pause. That big boy is looking at me funny. "Imma eat ya face!"
Ding!
The Great Devourer
Level 1 (10%)
Effects: Allows Percy to effectively bite of anything. Once within range, it's simply eaten by him. No question. Screw any momentum, screw any sharp claws. He's just going to down it all. Receives 100 health per 10 in.3 consumed. Special drops preserved and put into inventory.
Mana: 200 manna for 5 minutes
Wow. This is probably an ability I'll use no matter how overpowered I get, I'll probably use it more once my mana increases. A/N I'm gonna throw in everything good I've read on fanfic. Prepare for more stuff not in summary. Oooh, oooh, oooh, I just thought of a technique I could use with this ability. Go straight forward and get hit once, then eat 'em. Yea, I'll do that once I get good enough stats to pull that off. For now, I'll just fight for my life. The big mutt gave another test swipe to see if I was worth the trouble of getting his claws soiled. His mistake. Never underestimate your opponent. A/N IRL too. If you ever get in a fight, which I don't recommend, always be on your guard. Unless you're a legit professional boxer or karater or whatever. I put so much force into this swing I simply cut his paw clean off. If someone was recording, it would have been number one in a "Satisfying Video". Then the exponentially large dog fell over and started whimpering. Yeah, right. Just tried to kill me and wants mercy. What a joke. So I just walked over to him. Ate him. Maximum casullness. Just went like, "Ze Great Devourer ability, please activate." Boop. Gone doggo. Then, two Dings (dong) occurred next-to-simultaneous. Like this.
Ding! (insert .1 second delay) Ding!
You have received items from "Buddy, King of Hellhounds" and they were instantly moved to your inventory.
Gained position of Hellhound King. Permanent control over hellhounds until you die. Congratulations.
Amazing. Just as amazing as my sarcasm. People gonna be out to get me now. I guess I'll look at what I got later. I still have the rest of the monsters to take out. Oh, wait. I now have a disposable army of hellhounds. Lovely. "Minions, sic 'em." And sic 'em they did. With all the golden dust, could have made those giant cartoon sand castles. Would be a billionaire at the minimum with all the gold dust.
Now with my army of hellhounds accompanying me, I can have some me time without none of those pesky monsters. Now I can see all the items I received from killing that big boy. "Inventory" There's a black box just hovering up and down just slightly about a foot away from me. I peer round inside and see even more black stuff. I take it out and lay it on the floor. It's a black cloak and helmet. I use observe on the objects and find that the items would be useful. The cloak is called the Shawl of Hellhounds and the helmet is called the Helmet of Darkness II. I picked them up, dusted them off, and put it on. I walked over to my army of hellhounds and they all greeted in unison, "Greetings, Lord Perseus."
"YO, wassup. You guys think you know the way to the House of Darkness"