Chapter 10! :D Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: Flash characters belong to the CW Channel/DC Comics. Percy Jackson characters belong to Rick Riodan.
Barry was amazed as to how quiet the teen had managed to stay. Except for the few times he had spoken up the teen had made it clear that he was not in the mood to talk.
Currently he was sitting uncomfortably in the chair. Carter had not been too gentle with tightening the chains. Even from his position from a couple feet away Barry could see the metal was pressing hard into the boy's arms.
His other friends had left knowing it was probably the best to leave the four of them in the room since it was their shift. Barry's face twisted into a slight smile thinking about how peeved Cisco would be about having to wake up in the early morning hours to 'baby sit' a Metahuman.
"What are you smiling about?"
Kendra had lifted her head up for the first time she had lowered it deep in thought five minutes ago. She had been pretty quiet since the teen had woken up.
"Oh nothing..." Barry snorted while taking care to disguise his voice, "Just the fact that Cisco is never going to let it down that he'll have to wake up early."
Out of the corner of his eye he spotted that the teen had lifted his head. But the boy held it at an angle that it appeared that he was not looking at them but he really was.
Kendra laughed, "Go figure. He's up half the night trying to make sure the city is safe."
She fell quiet and started to nervously finger a pen left on the desk. Her eyes narrowed as she appeared to be deep in thought about something. Barry let her be and turned to the teen who was watching them with mild curiously. Carter suddenly let out a loud snort from the corner that it took a lot for Barry not to crack a smile into how ridiculous it sounded.
The teen on the other hand smiled slightly before his face fell again. He shook his head and turned away.
"So um...you like sports?" Barry asked tentively.
He decided to make small talk with the teen since there was nothing else better to do. He decided it was best not to talk about anything that had happened. Who knew...maybe he could make the kid break down the barriers had put up around him and talk about what happened.
For a moment the teen shifted slightly and stayed quiet. But then he lifted his head and looked at Barry right in the eyes. His sea green eyes were a bit unnerving due to their unusual color.
"Yeah..." he answered uncomfortably, "Baseball."
"Its a pretty cool sport..." Barry smiled slightly at him trying to entice him out of his shell, "You play?"
"No..." the teen turned his head away again.
"Not much of a talker is he?" Barry thought.
What was with this kid? He seemed like he was holding something in but did not want to let it out.
The teen winced slightly as the chains dug into his rib cage. Barry cast a quick glance over to Carter who was dead to the world and Kendra who was watching him curiously. She then looked at the teen (who had turned his head to face them again) who was staring at her as if she had sprung to life from the pages of a book.
"Hi..." she said gently.
"Um hi?" the teenager's face had taken on the look of confusion.
"You know if you tell us your name we won't do anything to you," Kendra sighed.
The teen watched her warily as she came and stood in front of him. She knelt down so she could look at him in the eye. He met her gaze without flinching.
"You already know ours..." she said, "Well...at least our first names. Can you at least tell us your first name? It's okay if you don't tell us your second one."
Her gaze flickered to Barry and he nodded impressed. Maybe the teen trusted her more than him. If that was the case then why? He decided not to mention that the teen really did not know their real first names.
The teen shuffled uncomfortably. He glanced from side to side as if fearing he would be overheard.
Eventually he sighed and said quietly, "Percy."
He stared down at his feet as he spoke.
"Wait...what did you say?" Barry asked sitting up.
He was not sure if the kid had said his name or not.
"I said my name is Percy, Flash. Percy," the boy growled, "Perseus is my full name but for the sake of being discrete call me Percy."
Kendra arched an eyebrow to his venomous attitude but did not say anything.
"You're named after a Greek hero in mythology?" Barry asked curiously.
"Yeah..." 'Percy' snorted softly, "He was one of the lucky ones in the myth."
He did not elaborate on anything else about his namesake.
"So um...do you have a family?" Barry asked.
The teen did not answer and did not look at Barry at all. He seemed like he was frightened of even looking at him.
"Ok kid...answer my friend. Do you have a family?" Kendra asked.
Her voice held a bit of an edge and was directed towards the teen. Barry could tell she was irritated that the teen did not seem to want to answer any of his (Barry's) questions.
Why was that?
"Mom...step-dad," Percy eventually muttered.
"Your real father?"
"Dead...died before I was born," the teen answered in a low voice that sounded like he was lying, "Lost at sea."
He shifted uncomfortably in his seat.
Kendra turned to Barry and shook her head. He knew what she was thinking: "What are we going to do with this kid?" It seemed like the teen was hiding many things but why?
"Is something bothering you?" Barry asked.
The teen lifted his head up. He looked at Barry helplessly but did not say anything. His mouth twitched slightly as if the words were trying to shove themselves out into the open.
"You seem...lost," Barry continued gently.
He had seen a queer type of facial expression in the teen since they had captured him. Not just anger or fear; grief.
"I am...," the teen replied huskily, "And its none of your concern. Just to let you know I don't think I can talk anymore. It is too dangerous."
"Why is it dangerous?" Kendra asked before Barry could.
He knew she was the one who asked since the kid seemed to answer the more difficult questions coming from her.
"Sorry Hawkgirl..." Percy sighed looking at his feet again, "Even I won't answer that one coming from you."
Barry threw his head back to stare at the ceiling while thinking, "Well this is just great...what is eating at this kid? Normally kids his age would be thrilled to meet me...err...even in these circumstances. But he is acting as if I am a plague that he should avoid."
He got to his feet and motioned Kendra to follow him. Out of hearing distance but still in sight of the teen he voiced his concerns to her in a low voice. For a moment all he could hear was Carter snoring and the chains rattling quietly as the teenager leaned his head back and stared up at the ceiling before closing his eyes.
"I noticed that as well..." Kendra eventually said quietly, "When I...when we were...fighting...Percy when he was creating that hurricane and everything else he did I um...noticed something about him."
"Like what?"
Here Kendra's eyebrows furrowed and she nervously fingered a pencil on the desk, "It was like he did not want to hurt us."
Barry snorted loudly almost startling Conner awake. The man peered around the room eyes half lidded and mumbled in a sleepy voice, "Five more minutes my love."
Kendra frowned at him and as if he knew what she was doing Carter yawned loudly before falling back to sleep snoring. Barry lowered his head apologetically when she turned around to face him confusion as to why he had scoffed at her idea.
"Why do you say that?" he asked, "I'm sorry I did that but..."—he sighed deeply before continuing—"I know you have not dealt with Metahumans before like I have. I know when they are trying to fight; he was."
Barry glanced over Percy who had his head lowered nearly to his chest. His breath was even signifying he had fallen asleep.
"I know what I saw..." Kendra said annoyed.
Her eyes glared at him from behind her mask.
"Look...he nearly drowned me and he practically flung Carter out of the hurricane with enough force to throw him into Star City..." Barry said before furrowing his brow and asking in confusion, "That isn't trying?!"
He struggled to see what his friend had saw. But he trusted her enough to know what she talking about.
"No it isn't..." Kendra responded flatly, "When he was drowning you...I saw him hesitate. For a moment it looked like he wanted to complete the job but...he didn't. And when I tried talking to him in the hurricane he—" —she cut herself off and looked at her feet before raising her head and continuing—"he let me approach him. I could see something in his eyes. It was apologetic. He looked like he wanted to say that he was sorry for all this. "
Barry understood what she meant the second she had said it. He looked over to the boy and sighed heavily. When Carter woke up and it was their turn to watch while it was Kendra's turn to sleep Barry did not talk to the man who kept on talking about one of his past lives in Renaissance Italy.
He was too busy thinking about if the boy did not want to hurt anyone then why did he fight them. Why did he kill that man? Even after he had finished his shift and it was time for him to go home and sleep he was still thinking about it.
It took a long time for sleep to envelop him.
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Percy was upset that he had mentioned his name and that he had a family. No doubt now he was going to hear it from the monster. But Hawkgirl or whatever the lady's real name was had managed to get those out of them along with the Flash's help.
He wanted so badly to tell them everything; everything! Starting from when the monster first showed up in his universe up to when the creep kidnapped his girlfriend and decided to use her to get what it (he) wanted; to have Flash dead.
Percy warned them. He really did. But he could see suspicion in both their eyes. More so in the Flash's. Had the man had a confrontation with the monster already? Or was it something else? Had the monster already pitted others with special powers against the man in hopes they would be the ones to kill him?
The whole idea was revolting and he rejected it for being too out there. Or was it?
He managed to fall asleep as best he could while sitting chained in a chair. He woke up when it was the rugged looking man and Cisco's turn to watch him. Both were talking in low voices about something that he could not over hear.
Percy's throat felt dry and he was about to ask for water when something grabbed him. For a moment he felt a sense of weightlessness and saw things passing by his face at a rapid speed.
Then everything came back into focus and his surroundings had changed. He was in a shipping yard surrounded by shipping crates stacked over eighty feet tall. His stomach felt sour and he threw up into a couple of weeds growing through the asphalt.
"Poseidon's undergarnments...I really hate this..." he thought angrily.
He had no clue as to who had taken him out here.
"You have forgotten your place boy!"
Percy froze and turned slowly recognizing the monster's disemboweled voice from anywhere. Even if he had heard it in a crowded shopping mall he would instantly know who it came from.
His left side felt wet and when he pressed his ribs his hand came back slightly stained with blood. The monster's claws had impaled his side (but not too deep) when it had grabbed him and had spirited him away from wherever he had been held captive.
Even with nectar helping the scars would remain a while.
"Consider the scars you will now bare on your side a warning..." the monster snarled, "In case you have forgotten."
It would have been nice that he did not give a scar before finding out if his 'pawn' had forgotten his place.
"I have not..." Percy choked out making sure to spit the words out, "I have not forgotten."
The monster glared at him through its mask. Its eyes were pitch black; no pupils and no whites surrounding them. Unlike the Flash's eyes which showed some compassion the monster's showed malice and hate.
Blue electricity sparked around it instead of gold. Whereas the Flash's mask exposed the lower part of his face the monster's mask hid it. It looked half melted and it was currently pulled into a ghastly sneer.
"You told them nothing about our little deal?" the monster hissed in mockery, "I highly doubt that boy! You know well enough I will not hesitate to snapping your precious little girlfriend's neck if you do not do as you are told."
Percy bit his lip to hold back the words that he wanted to shout at this nightmare. But if he said them...it would most defiantly get Annabeth killed. He trembled slightly and placed his hand in his pocket. Riptide was there in pen form and so was his photograph of Annabeth.
Feeling those to objects gave him some sense of peace.
"They will still be after me you know..." he said, "So why did you break me free?"
The monster threw its head back and laughed. Its very sound sent shivers down Percy's spine and he had heard a lot of scary things in his life. He had even gone through the depths of Tartarus and heard things and seen things he never wanted to hear or see again.
But the sound of laughter the monster made defiantly made him want to crawl into a hole and hide.
"I did not break you free..." the monster chuckled menacingly once it had finished laughing, "I only freed you now just to know if you are going to go through with your plan."
"I'm still working on it Death Face..." Percy snapped, "I just need a little more time."
"My patience is running out Perseus Jackson," the monster growled while lifting a clawed finger and pressing it on Percy's throat, "You kill him...and then you will see your girlfriend again."
Percy swallowed hard; feeling the lump pass under the monster's claw with an uncomfortable feeling.
"I will try..." he managed to whisper.
The monster's face spread into a leer of triumph, "Gooddddddddd."
Percy blinked and found himself back once again in chains in the laboratory like room. The men who were suppose to be watching him gave no indication he had left. He trembled slightly still feeling the monster's claw pressed on his throat.
But he managed to still think, "That's nice Death Face...you expect me to escape on my own. Thanks!"
He hated what he might have to do to escape. But if it meant getting Annabeth back he would do it.
Another short chapter I know :( So sorry guys but I hate bunching up a bunch of story into one chapter. Hope you enjoyed this!
Here are the results for whether or not Oliver should show up. And to be honest I was very surprised.
Yes: 5
No: 0
But I am still having different opinions on whether or not he should show up. Part of me does not want the story to be too crowded but another part wants to add an amazing character into the story.
Maybe for just one chapter?
Sameen Hadiya: I update when I can XD I'm glad you are enjoying this!
erika. r. bedolla : (from chapter 8) Thank you! ^^ I might add Oliver but not Roy Unfornuatly. I wish I could but I do want to stay in correlation with the current episodes from both shows.
Guest: (chapter 1) Yeah I remember that. But remember Zoom is entirely different thing. He fast for one and two he is evil. Percy has never seen anyone like this before. So logically he would be scared; but not that much. (chapter 8) I remember that but also remember that this is an other earth where there is no presence of the gods. I know it was the same was in Alaska but still Poseidon is still present in the water. On this earth he is not and there are no water spirits or anything. (chapter 10) Ah...I see what you mean. But I did saw he was already weak from fighting Barry, Kendra and Carter. So the lightning was able to knock him out...easy. Thank you for your support!
SergioAguero: Thank you ^^
stormwingsky: Yep...given from what I saw in the two episodes Carter/Hawkman showed up in he really does not like people attacking him (-cough- Barry -cough- Oliver). And the chains are really necessary XD
Silver Huntress: Yeah you are right. But to be fair both Team Flash and Percy are kind of villains. Percy is because he does not realize Barry can help him and Team Flash because they keep pursuding him. Thanks for the wonderful review!