Hehe, here I am again! Here's the next chapter to 'My Twist on the Titans Curse'. Now I know it's been a while since I've uploaded so sorry, I just have a lot of great ideas for my other story 'The Curse of Kronos'. Hope you guys like this chapter :D
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson. At all. Sadly.
The next day Percy woke up exhausted. Outside the compartment people were shuffling around trying to get off the train. He noticed every single one of his friends were asleep. Percy rolled his eyes.
"Wake up you sleepy heads, we're here." Bianca and Nico woke up instantly when they heard his voice. Nico rubbed his eyes.
"Five more minutes."
Percy rolled his eyes and stood up. He closed his eyes in concentration.
"If you guys don't get up right now, I'm going to let this water fall."
Above everyone but Percy, a blanket of water was levitating in the air. Bianca and Nico shot up, and moved over to Percy. The other four grumbled something unintelligible. Nico and Bianca were getting ready to burst out laughing.
"Last warning,"
No one got up. Percy sighed.
"You guys asked for it!" And he let the water drop.
The four spluttered, and grabbed at their weapons, Luke his sword, Thalia her spear, Annabeth her dagger, and Grover his tin can.
When they saw Percy, Nico, and Bianca laughing at them, they got even madder. Thalia was trying to get the water off her, but was still managing to give Percy her death glare, Luke was drying his sword, muttering things to it, Annabeth was frozen in shock, and Grover smelled like wet dog, or wet goat.
Percy, Bianca, and Nico shook their heads at them and walked out. People were pushing themselves to get out of the train, so the three waited for them to pass by. Percy heard the four getting out of the compartment and got ready to protect him. The four walked out and glared at Percy. He smiled sheepishly.
"Don't get your panties in a twist guys, I'll fix it." Percy laughed as he walked over to them. He touched their shoulders and instantly dried them. He almost laughed at their expressions.
"Yeah, being the son of Poseidon makes you more awesomer than anyone else." Percy said. (Honestly, I think Poseidon's children are a whole lot more powerful than any other Big Three children :D)
He saw Thalia open her mouth, probably to have a long debate on whose father as better, but Percy ran ahead towards the exit. He heard the other six running to catch up with him. When Percy saw the exit, he ran towards it but stopped abruptly when the door slammed in his face.
He looked back at his friends confused.
When he turned around he saw that none of his friends were there. He looked around in alarm.
"Bianca? Thalia? Nico?" He called out.
He heard a scream coming from the front of the train and quickly put his hand to his pocket. He tried not to breathe as loud, and his steps were silent against the floor. He tiptoed to the front of the train carefully, trying not to alert whatever was there.
He uncapped Riptide and put his back against the wall. He sharpened his senses and tried to listen to what was going on.
"-bait. He'll definitely come to get these six." The monster who said this had a weird French accent.
"But how are we supposed to catch him?" This person's voice was low, and sounded somewhat childish.
"Shut up, don't want to get our master angry do we?"
Percy stopped listening. There were only two of them, how did the other six get captured? Percy took a deep breath and began to think. The six could've been caught by surprise, but surely they could've been able to destroy two monsters? Maybe these two weren't the usual monsters.
Percy decided his best chance was to get them out of there without being detected. He quickly came up with a plan. Percy knocked on the wall and held his breath.
"What was that?" It was the one with the childish voice.
"Go check it out, it could be reinforcements."
He heard shuffling and calmly waited. He hid behind the doors he wouldn't be spotted at first. The door opened, but didn't shut all the way or else Percy's position would've been revealed.
The monster in front of him was a Cyclops. Percy didn't want to kill it, since they were technically half-brothers, but Percy reminded himself that the monster would attack his friends if he didn't do anything. Percy crept silently behind the monster, and the monster as if sensing him, turned around. Percy was ready though, before the Cyclops could utter a word, Percy slayed him.
The monster exploded into little pieces of pixie dust, and Percy waited until the other monster came out. He waited until he heard the voice.
"What is taking him so long?" The voice grumbled and made its way to the door.
Percy again waited. The monster completely passed him though, and went into the other room. But Percy had gotten a good look at him, and what he saw was not good. Not good at all.
He was sure the monster was a manticore, he had been able to look into its memories, which made it even more difficult since he would have to protect the others. The manticore had one brown eye and one blue eye.
Percy got out from behind the door and quietly crept into the room the manticore had left. Inside was a little room, and on the other side of the wall was another door. Percy ran to that door and opened it.
The controls to the train were all there, but Percy didn't understand any of it. The train was going at about 60 miles an hour, and Percy didn't know how to stop it. He had no idea if there were any other trains on the same track as they were.
To the side were his six friends, all tied up. The ropes were wrapped around their wrists, their mouths, and their legs. Most of them were unconscious, but Thalia and Nico had managed to stay awake. Thalia's eyes were full of anger, but relief when she saw him. Nico's eyes were full of hopelessness, even when he saw Percy.
Percy walked over to them quickly and untied Thalia. She rubbed her wrists in annoyance. While Percy went to untie Nico, she spoke.
"Couldn't have come any earlier Seaweed Brain?" She said annoyed.
Percy chuckled as Nico went over to the train controls. He looked at them confused.
"I have no idea how to work this. We can't just leave the train on the track, it might cause an accident." Nico said worriedly.
Thalia was at the other side of the room getting her shield and weapon. She took out Aegis and readied her spear.
"We kind of have to worry about that manticore first." Thalia said, just as the manticore came back inside.
The manticore stopped and looked at the scene. Thalia didn't wait, she charged straight at it. The manticore growled as she came closer, and when she swiped he swatted her spear. Thalia's spear went over her head and ended up hitting the controls. The train lurched forward.
The manticore lost its balance for a second, but that was all the time Percy needed. He came in close with Riptide, and the manticore barely made it out Riptide's path. The manticore however backed up into Thalia, who bonked him upside the head with her shield.
The manticore growled and began to transform. It transformed into a lion, but kept the head of a human. Off to the side of the room, the others began to awake.
Percy was sure he could beat it up in about a minute, but he had to worry about his friends. Especially since the tail of the manticore was such a dangerous weapon.
Thalia backed away from the manticore, causing her to place her hands on the controls. The train went even faster, and Thalia looked at him sheepishly and mouthed sorry.
Percy twirled Riptide in his hands and glared at the manticore. The manticore roared and launched a volley of missiles, which Percy hadn't seen, at him and Nico. Percy concentrated on the air in room and managed to slow the missiles enough for Nico and Percy to jump out of the way.
Nico looked wide eyed at the manticore, and while it was battling Percy, went over to untie his friends. Grover and Annabeth were still out cold, but he untied them anyways. He hugged Bianca and went up to Luke.
"Might as well go help Percy." Luke nods and runs behind the manticore to get his weapon. The manticore felt someone behind him and moved his tail towards that person. Luke didn't see it coming so he got hit by the spikes on the tip of his tail. Luke cried out, causing Thalia and Percy to turn.
Thalia's face turned pale, and she clenched her fists. Her electric blue eyes were turning brighter and brighter, and she let out a scream. The scream was so loud and high, that it affected the train controls and broke all the windows.
The manticore was blinded, and couldn't hear anything. Percy took advantage of it and charged. He quickly cut off the tail, since it was the most dangerous part, and proceeded to cut off its head. The manticore wailed before exploding into golden dust.
Thalia had tears in her eyes as she ran over to Luke. She shook him by the shoulder.
"Luke? Are you okay?" She whispers.
Luke manages a smile.
"Never better."
Thalia laughs at him and strokes his hair, tears streaming down her face. Percy walks over and kneels beside Luke.
"Do we have any nectar?" Thalia asks him. Percy shakes his head, but bites his lip.
"I can heal him." He says determinedly.
Thalia is about to protest when Luke grabs her arm.
"Let him, I trust him." Percy smiles gratefully at Luke.
Percy scoots closer and thinks of the water vapor in the air. With great concentration he manages to turn it into liquid water, but he'll need more than the amount he has. He concentrates more and gets all the water vapor in the air from the room. His friends notice the change and look at him strangely.
Percy pays them no mind and lays the water over Luke, including his face which causes protesting from Thalia.
"How is he supposed to breathe?" Thalia asks.
Percy raises an eyebrow.
"I can transfer my ability to breathe underwater to him by touching his arm." Percy says.
Thalia looks away.
Percy concentrates on the way he heals whenever he's in water. His eyes are closed; his arm is touching a wound on Luke's shoulder. He can feel the wound closing. Behind him he hears Thalia try to explain what happened to Grover and Annabeth, who have finally awoken.
Beside him Luke didn't say a word. He was looking towards Thalia with a weird look on his face, a look of love. Of course Luke loved her, and Percy goes around kissing her. He wasn't going to tell Luke that would make Luke mad at him, but most importantly, Thalia. Percy had seen the look Thalia had given Luke; they shared each other's feelings.
Percy finished the healing process and Luke got up. He hadn't been able to fix everything, since there were scars on him, but he had fixed the most serious injuries.
Once Thalia saw him up, she ran over with Annabeth on her heels. Luke didn't have time to brace himself; he was knocked down by Thalia and Annabeth hugging him. Annabeth was smiling, but Thalia was crying.
Annabeth looked at the two and got back up. She looked over and saw Percy smirking at the two. He was obviously happy for them. Percy caught her looking and winked. She rolled her eyes and went over to Grover.
Grover was looking out the broken window. The train had stopped, but they could hear something. Grover's nose twitched. His eyes opened in alarm and that was when Annabeth heard it.
She turned around and yelled.
"There's a train behind us!"
The train behind them was blowing its horn, obviously telling it to move the heck out of the way and go to another route.
Thalia and Luke got up, alarm in their eyes. Percy got up and grabbed the di Angelo's.
"You first." He said.
The di Angelo's climbed out of the broken window. There were no cities nearby, only surrounding woods. Back in the train Percy was getting all of them out.
Grover had gotten out and walked over to the di Angelo's who were staring at the train behind them.
The train was painted red, an ugly shade, and was carrying a bunch of train cars. What was scary about it though, was that Grover could vaguely smell something on that train.
Explosives.
The train was only about 400 yards away. The next one's out of the train where Annabeth and Thalia, but Annabeth had gotten her shirt stuck on some of the remaining glass.
"Dammit!" She cursed as she tried to pull herself out.
Thalia managed to pull her out, but it took extra time. Her shirt was ripped at the side but she did nothing. The train behind them blew the horn.
Percy took one look at Luke and grabbed him. He lifted Luke and pushed him out the broken window. Luke got up and scrambled out of the way.
Percy scrambled out after them and looked behind him. His eyes widened.
"Run!" Percy screamed.
The seven took off running into the forest. They ran for about thirty seconds before the ground shook and their ears popped. A huge explosion was heard, and it was big enough for the seven to be thrown off the ground.
Luke was thrown against a tree, Thalia landed on her wrist on the ground, Grover ended up over a log, Bianca went face first into the ground, Nico landed on his back in a puddle of water, and Percy managed to just fall on his side.
Percy got up immediately and surveyed the damage. There were trees on fire; some had managed to fall to the forest floor. There were remains of the train around them, some seats there.
"Guys we need to move! The smoke is going to get heavy and the police might come to check out what's going on!" Percy yells at his friends who are barely getting up.
Grover protested.
"But the trees! We can't leave them to burn!"
Grover had a point. There were a lot of wood nymphs trying to bat the fire out from their trees frantically. Percy sighed.
"Luke! Take Thalia, Annabeth, Bianca, and Nico to the closest town. We'll meet up there." Luke didn't protest and quickly gathered up everyone that was called.
Before they left Bianca went up to Percy.
"Be careful." She hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
Percy blushes tomato red while Grover wagged his eyebrows playfully at Percy. Bianca smiled and walked back to the group, also blushing.
Grover took out his reed pipes and began a rain song. Percy raised his eyebrow as his song made it worsen the situation. The fire glowed brighter and filled more of the forest. Grover got many angry glares from wood nymphs.
Percy chuckled and concentrated on the clouds in the sky. The humidity wasn't that high, so Percy had to raise it just a bit.
He concentrated on a few ponds and lakes nearby and made the water rise. He quickly heated the water to the right temperature to create more water vapor. He carried all of the water vapor to the sky, where he bound the raindrops together to create a cloud.
Percy kept filling the cloud until the cloud couldn't handle the water anymore. Water fell from the sky and Percy concentrated on making more clouds. Some of the fire was washing out now, due to the combined efforts of the wood nymphs and the son of Poseidon. Grover had gone help get water from nearby lakes.
It took a while, but the forest was mostly fire free the next hour. Percy was greeted by a lot of stuttering and blushing wood nymphs, which he had no idea why they were doing that, that all said thank you to him. Grover had even gotten hugs from some of them, and he was sure his friend was going to melt right then.
Grover and Percy said their goodbyes, and left.
~I'm so glad you made time to see me, how's life? Tell me how's your family?~
Sally Jackson was at her house on Earth, on a laptop she had bought. She hadn't had time with Chaos, so she decided to write a book now. She had always had a passion for writing. She drummed her fingers on the couch she was sitting on.
I could write about the life of my son, mortals would believe it fiction, Sally mused.
She thought for a while before deciding to look around for inspiration. She went to her room and put on a plain white blouse with black pants. She put on tennis shoes and took her brown hair from her pony tail so her hair could fall past her shoulders. She took a quick glance at the mirror before grabbing her purse, stuffing a notepad and a pen inside. She went back to the living room and grabbed her jacket, a black fluffy jacket.
She walked out the door to her house. Chaos had given them a house in the middle of the woods, which would be creepy to some people, but to Sally it was peaceful. There was even a lake nearby where she sat by and wrote sometimes.
Sally began to walk towards the lake, it was only about a mile away. Along the way she admired the beauty of nature.
The trees were large, Redwoods, and she liked to feel the roughness of the bark as she walked. It was the middle of winter, so the trees were all relieved of their leaves, which made it even more beautiful. It had snowed often so she listened to the soft 'crunch' noise she made as she stepped in the snow.
More than once snow would fall from the c=branches above her head and she would laugh every time one landed on her.
It began to snow again and Sally watched at how the snow fell delicately on everything. She had a huge smile on her face when she made it to the lake.
It had frozen, which made it even more beautiful. Sally looked around for a comfortable place to sit and decided just to sit by the lake. She made her closer to it and sat down where the shore would be. She rummaged through her purse and pulled out her notepad and pen.
When she wrote, she wrote about personal experience. She would jot down the ideas and she would make a short story. Most of them were tragedy's, due to her parents and uncle, some were about family and care, about Percy, and some⦠some were about love.
Which was because of Poseidon.
The best time of her life was when she had met Poseidon. She couldn't remember a time, other than that one, where she felt more at ease.
At the thought of Poseidon she sighed in longing. She felt a tear forming and she wiped at it. She remembered around this time the year she met Poseidon she had discovered she was pregnant. She remembered how he had reacted when she first told him, he was so excited. So was she. But both of them knew that their son would face many hardships. Especially since he was Poseidon's son.
Poseidon had left around January, but he had kept touch. Sometimes he would make the sink turn on, to assure her he was there for her. Lots of time when she was at the hospital for checkups, she could've sworn she saw a man with tan skin, raven hair, and beautiful sea-green eyes looking at her and smiling.
She would smile back and he would evaporate into mist.
Then when she gave birth on August 18th, she knew there was a man just outside the door, excitement showing in his eyes. He looked exactly like Poseidon.
After she had Percy, she remembered lying down with her son in her arms. The nurse and doctor had left, but she heard the door opening. She didn't open her eyes but allowed whoever it was to enter.
She felt the person stand next to her and brush back hair on her forehead. She opened her eyes and met eyes with Poseidon. She gave him a hesitant smile and handed Poseidon Percy. He had been so excited, but they both heard thunder outside so he had to leave, to not make Zeus suspicious.
"A forbidden love." She whispered to herself.
She smiled and flipped her notepad to a new page. She began writing when she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand. She slowly put her stuff down and stood up. Sally hesitantly turned around.
A man stood there, he had pure black eyes, which did not match at all with his long blonde hair. Sally stared at him fearfully.
"Who are you?"
The man smiled and took a step forward. He decided to risk it and began to walk around Sally.
"Ah, the mother of Perseus, am I correct?" He asked the woman.
Sally shivered, already suspecting who it was.
"Loki." She whispered.
Said man laughed at her hopelessness.
"I might be able to use you as a bargaining tool, will you come peacefully?" Loki asks.
Sally looks at him firmly.
"No."
Loki just laughs.
"You cannot stand up against me." He closes his eyes as he laughs, and Sally takes a chance.
Loki hears movement and he opens his eyes.
Sally had dove into the lake, it hadn't hurt much since she tried to land on thin ice. It had broken immediately and she began to swim under the ice, hoping she'd find another thin ice patch.
Loki snarled and dove in after her.
Sally felt the water trying to comfort her, but she was still panicking. She opened her eyes under and saw Loki not far behind her. He would catch up, she wouldn't be able to hold her breath forever.
She felt something brush past her and she jumped in alarm. It was just a fish and it seemed to be gesturing at her. The fish began to swim away and she followed it.
The fish was going deeper into the freezing water, but she knew it was important. She began losing oxygen, but she forced herself to keep swimming.
The water began to get dark, and the fish went closer to its destination.
Sally was still following when she felt something grab her ankle. She opened her mouth to scream, having forgotten she was underwater, and began to choke on water. She turned around to see Loki before her.
She threw herself at him, hoping to tumble past him and make a desperate attempt to swim to the surface, but Loki simply caught her.
Sally struggled, but her attempts became weak at the loss of oxygen. She became limp in Loki's hand and he smiled. He quickly transported them to Mount Tam.
At the surface, a bright white light erupted and in its place stood a woman. She looked around desperately and spotted a purse near the shore. She looked at it, and then at the ice broken in the water.
She used her powers to see if anyone was in the water but could sense no one. She cursed before feeling the presence of another being with her.
She turned around to see Poseidon quietly weeping. She stood uncomfortably, but decided to walk over to him. She crouched beside him.
"He might have Sally, but Perseus will save her. Anything for family." She whispered in his ear, before disappearing.
Poseidon looked around wildly, not seeing who had been there. He thought of the person's words, and he realized they were correct. Percy would save his mother. A smile touched his lips at the thought.
Yay! I'm done! Not much action so sorry I'm bad at doing that stuff. Well hope you guys appreciate this upload! See ya soon!
