And here is the next chapter. I said I would be busy, but I wrote it anyway. By the way, I have gotten my hundreth view. Thanks a lot! This chapter is also to celebrate that.
This chapter is dedicated to VitamInTenebris, who is the fourth to follow the story and all the people who have read the story up till now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Blue Exorcist.
A few weeks later…
"You there! Take out yer sword and show 'im how it's done!"
Percy hesitated but took out his sword when the teacher asked. The teacher took her own sword out of her… stomach. Okay, Percy admitted, they know some pretty handy things here. And one of those things were seals. But personally he liked the keys better. They were a lot less dangerous, like how they couldn't be used for swiftly summoning swords. Well, not that he knew of. Then his teacher attacked. Percy blocked and shifted the blade to his side. He used that opening to try to stab his teacher, but she jumped backwards. Then she slashed shockwaves at him (Percy found that pretty interesting, he would ask for it later) which Percy evaded with a the length of a hair. He tried his own invented move, a shot of tranquillity at his opponent, but it was swatted of course by the teacher and it hit Rin instead. He started dozing off. Percy cursed himself, that was not the intended effect.
"Ooooh, a beam eh? Well, ya hafta do better if ya wanna beat me. But this was a good example of nifty swordsplay. Didya see that, Rin?" For some reason, Mephisto had told Shura that he was able to use powers. So now he could use his domains in training. And the teacher didn't care enough to get to the bottom of it, so no problems from her. Or maybe Mephisto had already told her. Percy made another mental note to watch out for Mephisto. He was too tricky.
But Rin was still dozing off. Percy was happy that he didn't use his time powers, those would have caused trouble in this situation, as he had yet to learn how to start time again for only one person, without stopping time for the rest. And Rin didn't know. Not that he was a god, at least.
"RIN! YOU DAMN IDIOT!" the teacher smacked Rin on his head with her sword.
"Uh, teach, is that necessary?"
"I'm Shura, not teach or teacher. And yes, it was necessary. I hafta enjoy work too y'know."
And she took beer can out of a six pack and began to drink. Percy had his doubts about the sanity of "Shura" and Mephisto. And the way they dressed was out of the ordinary too. He pitied Rin for having such an horrible teacher.
"But you're pretty good with the sword. I think yer meister will be coming up soon. Right on cue, Mephisto poofed into the room.
"Did I hear someone who was skilled enough for meister?" He looked at me and a disturbingly big grin formed on his face. "Ah, Ich verstehe es. I think you meint Percy?"
"He is a strong li'l bastard with that sword of his, I think he can participate in his meistertest."
"I will have his test prepared and well by tomorrow evening. I will see you then, Percy." He poofed away, but I heard him laughing in the hallway.
"Well, having that covered, I wanna do something else. Come with me, will ya!"
Percy was surprised, it was the first time they went outside. Rin, however, looked pretty irritated. Percy went over to him.
"Is this a good sign?"
"You'll see." He said grimly.
As they were walking to the destination, Percy thought for a bit. He was pretty happy with himself. He started speaking Japanese little by little and no-one suspected anything. He learned a lot about demon history from Annabeth's notes, and Nico was making good progress with exploring the school. He discovered that Riptide was also effective against demons, making it a perfect weapon for possession cases, as it couldn't harm humans, but only the demons that possessed them. He also learned that Rin was the Son of Satan, the "god" of Gehenna. Feeling Rin and themselves were in the same boat, the three gods befriended Rin and later on the rest of the class too. Only Yukio, Rin's brother, wasn't befriended by them. They hadn't had an opportunity to do so. They had also trained their godly powers more. Percy started with tranquillity as he had the most troubles with that domain. Next was time, because he didn't have much troubles with it. And last would be Adventure, because he had honestly no idea what the domain meant. Nico had done well too. He was promoted to Lower Second Class in a matter of days. His promotion had something to do with him being able to sneak pretty well (Percy knew Nico was making good use of his shadow travel) and that he was able to control his undead familiars exceptionally well too (No surprises there for Percy either). And Annabeth had remembered almost all passages needed for meister level.
They arrived at some kind of balance beam thirty meters up in the air. Under it were different kinds of swords, pointed so that if you fell, you would be skewered by them. If he didn't know better, he would be convinced she had been too camp half-blood. But the fact that she hadn't only showed that she liked to be cruel.
"Up!" she shouted.
Percy and Rin went up. They didn't like this one bit.
"If you runts become full exorcists, you hafta be able to fight in all kinds of environments. So I have prepared a good simulation of a bridge over a ravine." Percy and Rin looked at each other. They were pretty sure that 'a bridge over a ravine' was one of the least likely situations. And that a beam was not the width of a normal bridge. But one smirk from Shura explained all of it. She wanted to play one of her dangerous games with them. Rin and Percy weren't so happy about it.
Shura jumped on the beam and started attacking. Percy could keep up with her, but she was better than Percy, and he knew it. Especially in this kind of situations. But Rin and he had been preparing for this.
"Come on runt, even Rin is doing better then you!" Shura taunted.
"Yeah, hello…. There only three of us, and Rin has a tail."
Shura got Rin by his tail and yanked it. Rin was in pain.
"Yeah, so what?"
Point taken, Percy thought. Even if Percy was a god, Shura had way more experience in situation like this.
And while Percy was distracted (Stupid ADHD), Shura knocked him of the ledge. While falling, Percy thought of the danger of revealing that he had Golden Ichor for blood. That wouldn't be good for the quest. And he activated his time powers. He stopped time a few random times in his fall, and positioned himself more towards the outside of the area with swords every time. While Percy stopped time, he could use air as a plateau, standing on it or lying down on it. He wasn't exactly sure how it worked, but he thought it was pretty neat. He had once asked Annabeth if she knew, but her explanation was too long for his ADHD mind to focus on.
Rin watched as he saw Shura kick Percy of the edge. Shit. Knowing Shura, those swords weren't fake, and Percy would be severely wounded in a few seconds. But then something strange happened. Percy was falling in a straight line to the ground, or was he? When he hit the ground, Percy was just outside of the area with swords. But that couldn't be possible. From the way he fell, he had to land on a sword. And now he thought about it, one way or another, Percy would never get wounded. Even if he should have. And Nico and Annabeth didn't either. If he was just a normal kid, he wouldn't care, but he was to become an exorcist, and in the world of the exorcists, it was way too dangerous to ignore things like this. He would get to the bottom of this. This wasn't normal. Shura got of the beam, to look if Percy was okay enough to go on. Rin went to look too. Not a scratch. But when Shura threathened Percy in taking his shirt of, which he did, Rin saw a lot of scars. Rin didn't know how this transfer had possibly gotten this much scars. Rin gulped as he thought of the option that had the biggest chance of success.
"Guten Tag, Rin! Is there something on your mind, little brother?"
Mephisto was surprised that Rin had come to him on his own accord. Normally he had to get Amaimon to get him. He had to say, Rin was pretty good when he challenged Rin to play vido games in exchange for his freedom.
"Yes. You know Percy, Annabeth and Nico?"
Mephisto smiled. He knew it was a good choice to keep their identities secret.
"Yes."
"Well, I think they're hiding some sort of secret. I'm pretty sure actually."
Oho, Mephisto thought. Rin was better then he had thought.
"Yes, they do. And I happen to know which secret.", Mephisto said.
Rin looked at him in disbelief. "Really?"
"You would be an idiot if you tried to keep a secret from me in my own academy."
"Let me guess. You want to tell me, but I have to do you a favour first?"
Rin wasn't a fast learner, but he was smarter than he let on.
"Exactly. Come zu meine office tomorrow, and I will give you the details of my favour."
And Mephisto poofed Rin to his dorm. He was pretty happy. He was plotting for a while already how to put his plans in action, but the solution had just presented himself before him. This was going to be wonderful.
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