Chapter 3 Lounging.
I have come back with chapter 3, yes sorry about the wait! I was a little busy but yeah, now I should have time for this story... Though this summer will be packed, So it will be hard to get it written but I can't wait to get it out! Shout out to my new beta for this story, SpartanBoy (BN Aw your to kind) go check him out, I hope you guys will enjoy this because soon this story will get intense. Please review and enjoy!
Percy looked at the statue in the center of the room. Why did it look so familiar? This place didn't seem so safe. Percy looked around and thought to just stick with the situation and just go with the flow. He didn't want to blow it so he just decided to act normal and try to get more information to see if this place was a trap or not.
The statue was made of solid Stygian Iron, it was a figure with a cloak it was very detailed and just an amazing statue the hooded figure was wielding sword and had this helmet that looked like a horror to anyone that looked at it. For some reason Percy thought it was changing faces becoming even worse each time.
"What is that?" Percy asked
"That is a prize that I have just claimed after thousands of years have finally captured yesterday!" The old man said like it was just some normal light statue that you can carry around in your pocket.
"Did you use some like growth potion or something?" Percy asked because it seemed to big for something like that.
"No, no..." The man thought for a second, "this is just magic! Different then the magic your gods use... This is different."
"How different?" Percy was unsure what to think. "Like what do you mean?"
"More... Ancient." The man started to give a small smirk almost unnoticeable.
"Can you like... Show me?" Percy knew something was up so he just played along.
"Ahh yes but I will need something." The man went to go to the back room which had two golden statues standing guard with pikes out, the man swatted his hand and they moved there pikes, he went through the door into a blinding light to bright for Percy to stare at.
"Where are you going?" Now Percy was actually confused.
"Help your self... Look around and just... Lounge." The man said.
"I need to check some stuff out." Percy said to himself after he noticed the door shut and disappeared. Percy was very nervous and looked around the room, it seemed. Odd? Something smelled funny... Something smelled burnt? It was this calming burnt smell it was so calming and soothing that Percy felt a strong urge to just lie down and sleep.
Percy put his mind about the weird burnt smell it made him not fall asleep and got his mind around something instead of standing there awkwardly, Percy may have been raised to be fearless and the best of the best, but he was still a awkward teen like basically everyone else.
Percy was sitting on a couch before he realized and then laid down, he was tired, he needed rest after all of the trials and after barely surviving, it was well deserved so he just closed his eyes, and before he knew it he was fast asleep.
Percy looked at his surroundings and he saw it was in a cave, this giant was strained holding up this shadowy cloud that seemed like the ceiling to the cave, next to the giant was the same man Percy saw before, the young man named Luke, with sandy blonde hair and that horrible scar.
Percy was paralyzed in place unable to me unable to speak, all he could do was watch. This deep voice echoed through the cave, "Get ready. If the calculations are correct then everything should be planned and perfect... I just need you to be ready for this. Hard choices will be made and some of them by you."
"I know general." Luke said, "plans will rage and it should all go according to 'his' liking." He empathized on the His like there was a hidden meaning.
Now Percy was already scared from the first dream now he is down right terrified what the hell was he getting himself into? He didn't even know if he was getting himself into whatever this was. "Yes 'he' is who we please not you."
"I know General. Everything is flowing already the young boy who spied on us before is on out trap. He had a dream of where we were and our conversation." Luke growled at the beginning but his voice got more... Different like sharp metal scraping against sharp metal.
"My lord how much longer?" The general voice asked.
"Wait my general lead my army against them and have more join our cause and soon enough I will be free." The body of the young man dropped to his knees.
"Ahh so much better to he is more active nowadays." The deep general voice spoke. "Now get the plan in action completely."
"He is here... Kronos said so." Luke man looked straight in Percy's eyes. "There."
A large hand swept forward from he misty depths of the cavern and Percy's dream disappeared.
Percy woke from a short dream and the man was nowhere to be seen, he looked at his surroundings one more time got ready to find an exit. As he started to look at bookshelves examining everything the door reappeared and swung open.
"I am back my son!" The man said with a new found love for Percy with no reason to it. "I have prepared a meal before you go."
"Go where?" Percy asked confused and made it seem like he was look at books examining there names and such. A few caught his attention and he pulled them from the shelf. "Also, you have a nice selection of books. Where did you get half of them from?"
"Random treasures I have found deep in the ocean... I clean them off with a little bit of magic and then I store them somewhere completely safe... Nothing can reach it!" The man spilled something weird but didn't seem like he would explain some of the details that Percy was wondering.
"Where are we? And how did you search under the water deep in the ocean and what magic?" Percy asked, he had read a lot about kids of Poseidon and it sounded like this was one.
"I was once a child of Poseidon." The man said proving Percy's point but that sprung up a whole new set of questions. "I was banished form the world above for imprisioning a god. It was the only thing I could do to save my family, so they cursed me here, into this dark and filthy manor. I used to have a castle command armies and be great for Greece. But now I am here, in this filthy dark place. All memory of me was forgotten and torn to pieces because your father was angry. And now I live under the fiery river..."
Percy for some reason only heard that he was abandoned for something he was wrongly convicted of. He needed to save him and bring him to his father and tell him that it was wrong. He felt so bad for this man and wanted to do everything in his power... Even bring his family back from the dead. "I am so sorry... Is there anything I can do for you?" Percy asked.
"Today is just a troubling time. You father needs you but you first must regain health by filling yourself with food." The man said.
Percy then realized his stomach grumbled and he really needed food... Like he hadn't eaten for 3 whole days. He knows the feeling from personal experience. Percy sat down at the table set with food and started to read. he slowly grabbed some food and ate it while he focused his attention to this very peculiar story about this son of Poseidon.
"Hey I have a question." He asked as he read horrible stories about this man. The old man nodded in his direction, "do you know anyone named Themistocles?"
"Funny to ask that is my name... Though there were a few I know. Back in the days when I ruled over a small part of Greece called Sicily not known very well. Until the time of Archimedes."
"Huh... Thats weird." Percy's mind raced from thousands of things that could mean, he slowly but surely started putting the connections together. "Ahh okay I get it now." Percy by mistake said aloud.
"What do you get my young fellow?" The old man glared into his eyes with a new found look, worry, horror, and a little fear.
"Oh it was just this problem in school I was doing, this book really helps plus your story explains some things I was forgetting." Percy tried to cover it up with a simple excuse.
"Greek history is very confusing." The man said. "So I would understand the struggles." The man got up to grab this little bottle next to the god. "Well I just need to clean this off and polish it."
"No." Percy said sternly and got up with a straight face. "I know what that is who that is and what you have done. Its over for you!" Percy glared at the man.
"Is it?" The man looked at Percy his look changing every second amusement, fear, excitement, angry, sad, heartless, and a few others Percy didn't recognize right away. "Today is you resting day. Have a long sleep and please... Never wake up in the morning!"
"I will end you!" Percy growled when he noticed these two golden Panthers crawled across the floor examining the unarmed demigod.
"Fascinating." Themistocles said, Percy remembered that named and would always remember it. "They seem to like you... But as always they know the deal pin you down and a new statue will become... The aren't normal ones, but ones strong enough to pin Hades down."
"I am not alone." Percy grunted as he felt something in his stomach itch.
"It wasn't supposed to come to this... I was told to poison you and let you die. You weren't supposed to be this smart. But since you are you will be dead in seconds." Themistocles stated.
"I wont die yet!" Percy said and charged forth. "You don't have the element of surprise you lost it awhile ago." Percy was intercepted from getting the old king by one of the golden panthers. It growled and stared into Percy's eyes with a passion it didn't want to hurt him but it had to.
At that moment Percy needed a way to survive to peace his plan together perfectly. Percy jumped into the air and wings sprouted from his back. He sent a huge shockwave towards the Panther and it was knocked flying into a wall, it was not knocked out but just merely dealt with for 3 seconds.
"KILL HIM!" Themistocles yelled at the panthers. This amulet glowed gold and the panthers closed in on poor Percy. Just then two plans popped in his mind. There was a way to save the Panthers and bet them good again and away to kill the easily... Or... A distraction.
Percy swooped in low and kicked the statue of Hades to the ground. It didn't shatter but started to become... Less solid. Percy stood his ground and a large Stygian Iron Scythe appeared in his hands. We swung the weapon and hit one of the panthers in the side. The blow was strong but the panther metal or whatever seemed impenetrable.
"You see why no one can beat them?" Themistocles asked. "They are unbeatable only slowed."
"I can tire them out." Percy whispered to himself and went into dodge mode. He was just a distraction. Hades was a quarter way less statue. Percy was just dodging all over the place until he was backed up against a wall. One of the panthers jumped to right, Percy's strong side so he just stood his ground and blocked the panther.
What Percy did not realize what that the second panther snuck up behind him and bit his left arm pulling him to the ground. "Ugh" Percy moaned in agony as he felt his back in massive amounts of pain from the panthers strength and his spine hitting the solid ground full speed.
"ALMOST!" Hades screamed from where he laid down on the ground part statue part alive again.
"Its to late." Themistocles said trying not to show he was frightened. "Preparations have begun and you will be destroyed!"
"I haven't gotten started." The rest of the stone immediately ran away from Hades's body. "I will show you fear, I will being your worst nightmare, and play over and over again, until you yield... Or maybe even longer, I will take that amulet that rightfully belongs to someone you stole it from."
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Themistocles screamed in agony and dropped to his knees. "Stop! Please!"
Hades ripped the amulet off and threw it to Percy. The Panthers disappeared into a glowing gemstone light. "My lord," Percy said bowing. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Head up to you father he has been worried sick for 4 days. I know this since I am talking with him right now." Hades smiled at his nephew he calls son.
"Goodbye My lord." Percy said vanishing into shadow and disappearing from sight.
As Percy reappeared back in his room he saw it was messy with books and letters, someone had gone through here, he looked back on the time he came back from practice with his father one night. It was different from anything else but truly remarkable. Percy grabbed the amulet from his pocket and started to search through his whole room for something he was missing.
"Where is it?" Percy mentally screamed at himself. He started to get frustrated there was no way he could have lost it, somebody called his name interrupting his search, a voice so familiar that he hadn't heard in awhile.
"Percy!" Thanatos shouted with excitement. Percy ran out of his room and saw Thanatos making his way towards him, his father wrapped the small boy into a huge hug, almost crushing the kids spine. "I hope your trials have went well my son, because there is two kinds of news! One being good the other... Not so much."
As Percy and his father made there way to the great hall there was a certain Fury he despised of sitting on a couch in a old hag like human form. Thanatos made his way to her and sat Percy down and a chair on the opposite side of himself and Alecto. He grabbed some tea and some sugar and gestured them towards his son.
"When was the last time you saw me drink tea father?" Percy asked plainly with a little bit of humor added to the statements.
"Ah yes, true!" Thanatos laughed but then his face turned serious. "Your accomplishments shall be rewarded greatly giving you much training but now there is a great danger we will be facing." Thanatos said this fiddling with this small blue diamond.
"I know... I have been having dreams. Also that Diamond is mine." Percy said pointing towards the gem.
"This is something stronger then you think. This is for the Amulet you have in you pocket." Thanatos stated grimly. "we have much to do and your first... 'Real' quest will begin very soon."
"When is that?" Percy asked, "also what am I doing?"
I will see you in my next chapter, so he patient. I will put it up around Saturday or Sunday evening, thank you and please leave a review to let me know how it was.
Beta Note
The beginning of the chapter reminds me of Thor Ragnarok, with him being captured and everything. By the way this star thingie mijig * means I will have a beta note about it in the end.
*You have no idea how tempted I was to put 'I used to have strings but now I'm free' Age of Ultron quote.
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