A/N: Anyone who wants to do a story where the characters read 'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes' series is allowed to do so as long as they tell me before hand.
In this chapter and the next chapter there will be parts based off of SoulReaperCrewe's Son of the Huntress: The Lightning Thief
I don't own Percy Jackson series or Naruto series, or any of the characters of either series. Nor am I the writer of the Son of the Huntress series
Warning: Read these stories if you haven't before reading this story:
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Lightning Thief'
'The Legacy of Athena and Hermes: The Sea of Monsters'
I do not own the Percy Jackson or the Naruto series nor do I own The Son of the Huntress or any other fanfics that inspired some of the scenes in the stories.
Never Play with a Nemean Lion
The problem with Naruto using the flying thundergod jutsu while holding onto someone is that Naruto doesn't have much experience in it, so Naruto knew the landing would be rocky, nut he didn't have a choice.
Naruto fought those gray-skin-skeletons during his time at Meriwether Academy (after the Quest for the Golden Fleece, Naruto thought for sure Ares send them since they were in soldier uniforms). They were really difficult to destroy, but not impossible. Naruto learned the best way for him to destroy them was to destroy the body until nothing was left—not even the bones. Simple, but not easy as it takes a lot or something more powerful to do just that.
So when Naruto saw the things coming from the ground, he grabbed the fabric, jump back to Percy grab him, Then he focus on the nearest seal besides the one he put on Percy and jumped them out of there.
Fortunately, they didn't land on Bianca or Zoë (as Naruto didn't think they would appreciate him crash landing on them), but they did land on Thalia—causing her to slam into an Apollo space capsule.
The cap of invisibility fell off Percy's head from the landing as he shimmered into appearance.
Grover yelped in surprise.
Naruto managed to stand on his feet after the landing. Percy on other hand wasn't able to before having Zoë and Bianca notched their arrows at his chest.
When Zoë realized who it was, and she didn't seem anxious to lower her bow. "You! How dare you show thy face here?"
"Percy!" Grover said. "Thank goodness."
Zoë glared at him, and he blushed. "I mean, um, gosh. You are not supposed to be here! How did you get here?"
"You brought him!" Zoë now pointed her arrow at Naruto. "You use one of your ninja tricks to bring him here."
"What? No! I found Percy outside the Museum," Naruto said.
"Unlikely story," Zoë said.
"It's true!" Percy responded. "Naruto wasn't aware I came here until after he caught me."
"We got more important things to worry about," Naruto said. "Luke and Sasuke are both here."
The anger in Thalia's eyes immediately melted. She put her hand on her silver bracelet. "Where?"
Percy and Naruto told them about the Natural History Museum, Dr. Thorn, Luke, Sasuke, and the General.
"The General is here? Zoë looked stunned. "That is impossible. You two lie."
"We're not lying!" Naruto argued, "We just managed to escape with this before the skeletal warriors could get whiff of it."
Naruto held up the silky cloth.
"What?" Thalia demanded when she heard skeletal warriors. "How many?"
"A dozen," Percy said. "But thanks to Naruto's quick thinking, they got nothing to track us down with."
"That is if they don't have something else to track us down with," Naruto said. "To make matters worse, the General send us a playmate to keep us busy. A monster."
Thalia and Grover exchanged looks.
"It looks like you're right, Naruto. The trail did lead us somewhere," Grover said.
"Zoë," Bianca said nervously, "if it is the General—"
"It cannot be!" Zoë snapped. "They must have seen an Iris message or some other illusion."
"Iris message don't jump off twenty feet from a balcony," Naruto said.
"and illusions don't crack marble floors," Percy told her.
Zoë took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.
"If Percy and Naruto are telling the truth about the skeleton warriors," she said, "we have no time to argue. They are the worse, the most horrible."
"No need to tell me about them," Naruto said. "I fought some of them last year while Percy and I attended Meriwether Academy. Paper bombs might finish them off, but in a place like this with mortals around—"
"We get it, not a good idea," Thalia said. "We should leave now."
"Good idea," Percy said.
"Not you, boy," Zoë said. "You are not part of this quest."
"Hey, I'm trying to save your lives!"
"You shouldn't have come, Percy," Thalia said grimly. "But you're here now. Come on. Let's get back to the van."
"That is not thy decision!" Zoë snapped.
"I hate to admit it, Thalia, but Zoë is right," Naruto said. "The oracle choose her to give the prophecy. That makes her the Quest Leader."
"Listen to the boy, Thalia. It's the only thing you're good at. You never had any wisdom when it came to boys," Zoë interrupted with a growl. "You never could leave them behind!"
Thalia looked like she was about to hit Zoë for that. Then there was a growl so loud that made everyone froze.
Below the, a few adults screamed. A little kid's voice screeched with delight: "Kitty!"
Something enormous bounded up the ramp. It was the size of a pick-up truck, which silver claws, and golden glittering fur. Naruto recognized it from two years ago, when he and Percy were on a train, and judging from Percy's expression, so did he."
"The Nemean Lion," Thalia said. "Don't move."
The lion roared loudly as its fangs gleamed like stainless steel.
"Anyone have any ideas on how to destroy it?" Grover asked.
"There's one way," Naruto said. "But I'll need a few minutes to prepare."
"Seriously?" Percy asked.
"Just distract it!" Naruto said. "I'll find a quiet place for me to meditate—maybe a closet."
Naruto ran off.
"Closet?" Percy asked.
He didn't have time as the Nemean Lion Roared.
"Separate on my mark," Zoë said. "Try to keep it distracted until I think of a way to kill it."
Percy noticed that Zoë sounded as if she didn't think Naruto will return.
"Go!"
…
Naruto found a staff closet, which worked to his advantage. Most of the staff were too busy about the rabid cat (as they called the Nemean Lion) terrorizing everyone.
Once inside Naruto went into a meditative stance. Even if his plan would be enough, he had only five minutes to successfully destroy the Lion. At first Naruto thought of creating shadow clones to increase his time, but Naruto decided against it since this wasn't Mount Myoboku.
He just hope his friends can last long enough for him to enter Sage Mode.
…
A few minutes. How are we supposed to survive for a few minutes when we can't even injure the thing? Percy thought.
So far all their attacks did nothing but angered the Nemean Lion. It didn't even seemed frightened by Thalia's shield Aegis.
Percy tried to lead the Nemean Lion through displays and aircrafts.
Sometime during the chase Percy did noticed it's weakness—the inside of its mouth. But the Nemean Lion wouldn't let any arrow or sword hit it there.
Percy managed to land on the floor level after jumping off a giant globe. However the Nemean Lion jumped after him with no hesitation.
Then Naruto jumped from above (probably after appearing next to one of their friends) and landed on the monster's back. Naruto wrapped his legs around the lions mane covered neck, grab the jaws with his hands and started trying to pride it open.
He's trying to get give us an opening. Percy realized.
The Nemean Lion tried to shake Naruto off by running around in circles. Unfortunately for it, this wasn't Naruto's first time riding a monster like a rodeo bull.
Naruto locked his legs tighter around the neck and struggle more.
"Come on, your stupid monster! Open your mouth!" Naruto responded.
Naruto manage to get a good grip and pull with all of his strength as the lion's snout started opening—revealing a little pink, but not enough.
Then Percy had an idea and ran off to the nearest gift shop.
Naruto manage to pride the jaws open enough but not enough for a hunter to send an arrow into its mouth.
This is taking too long, Naruto thought. At this rate, I'll time out before I can get the Nemean Lion to open it's mouth completely.
"I'm coming!" Percy yelled, jumping over a broken exibit, "Hey big guy, come and get me!"
At that moment the Nemean Lion seemed to have forgotten about the demigod on it's back and turned to Percy. It's jaws unclenched, making it easier for Naruto to pull it's upper snout further open.
Then Percy threw something that looked like ice cream wrapped up in some kind of silver packet.
Whatever it is, it went into the lion's mouth and the lion's eyes got wide and it gagged like a cat with a hairball.
This allowed Naruto to pull Nemean's lion's snout wide open.
"Zoë, now!" Naruto yelled.
Immediately, arrows pierced the lion's maw—two, four, six. Naruto disappeared and reappeared next to Percy.
For the first time since Naruto landed on the Nemean Lion, Percy got a closer at Naruto, and noticed some differences in his friend—as if Naruto went through a transformation. It wasn't like one of Naruto's tricks with the transformation jutsu—more like when Naruto uses the Nine-Tail Fox's power.
But instead of having features of a fox, Naruto had orange markings around his eyes, and his irises were golden and slitted sideways like a toad. Another difference—and the biggest difference Percy had noticed, was that Naruto wasn't radiating with red evil chakra, but rather energy that Percy haven't felt since they were on Polyphemus' island with the Golden Fleece.
Nature Energy, Percy thought. This must be sage mode.
Percy didn't have much time to think of anything else as the lion thrashed wildly, turned, and fell backward. And then it was still.
Alarms wailed throughout the museum. People were flocking to the exits. Security guards were running around in a panic with no idea what was going on.
Zoë Bianca Thalia and Grover dropped from the balcony and landed next to them. They staggered a bit noticing that Naruto looked slightly different. Except for Grover. He nearly dropped to the ground to grovel at the nature chakra radiating from Naruto.
"Naruto—what?" Thalia responded. "How?"
"Sage mode," Naruto said as he felt the nature chakra disperse from his body. "It—"
"Basically power drawn from nature itself and combine it with thy own chakra," Zoë said.
"Yeah—how—"
"Lady Artemis sometimes take new recruits to the Elemental Nations a few times in order to learn how to hunt in a pollution free environment." Zoë shrugged. "We often hear of powers like Sage mode and Jinchurikis, but this is the first time I seen someone in Sage Mode."
Now that Naruto think about it, Zoë didn't see surprise when he brought up about him being a jinchuriki.
"I take it, thee used the enhanced strength of Sage Mode to try and pry the jaws open?" Zoë asked.
"Uh, yeah," Naruto said. "I thought I try something slightly different. Good thing for Percy and whatever he fed the lion, otherwise I would have run out of time before I could get it's mouth open enough."
The lion seemed to be melting, the way some monsters do, until there was nothing left but its glittering fur coat, and even that seemed to be shrinking in size of a normal lion's pelt.
"One of thee should take it," Zoë said, "We would of not defeat it if it wasn't for you two."
"Are you sure?" Percy asked.
Zoë nodded.
"You go ahead and take it, Percy," Naruto said. "You might need it too keep warm since the Lion tore up your jacket."
It was true, Percy's jacket was shredded from his failed attempts. There was even a hole in the fabric that looked like a piece torn off.
"Ah, thanks—I think." Percy took the pelt and tried it on. It changed shape into a full length golden brown duster coat.
"Not exactly my style," Percy said.
"We have to get out of here," Grover said. "The security guards won't stay confused for long."
They noticed that the guards were scrambling around in all directions, as if they were searching for something. A few of them kept running into each other or into walls.
"You did that?" Percy asked Grover.
He nodded, looking a little embarrassed. "A minor confusion song. I played some Barry Manilow. It works every time. But it only last a few seconds."
"We got bigger problems! Look!" Bianca pointed at the balcony above.
There were a group of men at the balcony where Percy once stood. Each of them were gray men in camouflage outfits. One of the was holding a torn fabric and seem to be sniffing it.
The torn piece of Percy's jacket! Naruto thought.
"We got to go!" Zoë decided, turning to Percy. "All of us."
Percy stare her. "But you said—"
"You are part of this quest now," Zoë said grudgingly. "I do not like it, but there is no changing fate. You are the sixth quest member. And we are not leaving anyone behind."