That night our intrepid trio holed up in a seedier motel that for an extra 50 on the side didn't ask any questions, like why are there three kids buying a motel room, or where are your parents. So they settled down for the night and discussed how they were going to go about killing Medusa, grover told them where her lair was located and they began to make plans such as using highly reflective surfaces to see her instead of well looking at her.
The trio began to settle down for the night but percy stayed awake as the other two drifted off to sleep and when he was sure they where, Grover snores like a fog horn and Annabeth drools, he got up and snuck out of the motel room down into the foyer for the motel he grabbed one of those small local maps and he heard a 'Ping'.
{For coming into contact with a map you have unlocked the map function of The Game please say or think Map to bring it up.
With the Map function you can set way points, get real time birds eye view of areas/things you have mapped out, and set rally points for party members.}
Smiling at his luck Percy put the pamphlet map back and opened his Map, and was absolutely shocked at the level of detail in it the whole map was a 3D rendered form of the city with small people, cars and animals walking around it that he saw throughout the day. "Whoa" percy couldn't help but let out as he was awestruck for a moment before he shook it off and marked down the location he wanted, aunty em's garden gnome emporium. As soon as he selected it for a waypoint on his map a faint glowing trail lit up the ground leading outside. Following this trail quickly led percy to the outside of the city and down a country road the first sign of civilization he found after leaving the urban area was aunty ems, so he did the only thing he could think of...he knocked.
After a few tense moments Percy heard a soft but almost melodic voice ring out from inside, "I'm coming please wait just a moment" a woman sung out. Soon after the door swung open revealing a mid forties looking middle eastern women whose face was covered in a vale. She paused for a moment looking down at percy and smiled gently "Oh my poor dear what are you doing out here all by your lonesome" she asked in a motherly voice that hid her true intent.
Percy had to slam gamers mind all the way up to avoid flinching when the mist that hid her true form failed to hide her and revealed her long serpentine body, she had no idea her disguise failed thanks to his skill. "I-i ran away from home m-my step d-dad" percy stuttered out acting for all the world like a helpless and scarred child. He was rewarded with two pings from the game and an awe of sadness from Medusa.
"Won't you come in dear and get warm i'll make you some food" she pat Percy's head rubbing it gently and turned around slithering back indoors. Unbeknownst to her a wide almost sadistic grin spread across percy's face as he silently pulled out his pen and lined the back of it up with her neck.
Thumbing the cap, and flicking it off three feet of solid celestial bronze sprung to life the tip of which sprouted out from Medusas jugular. Swiping left percy left her head half severed as he leapt back on instinct barely dodging a powerful tail swipe the smashed the doorway to splinters. Medusa twirled around trying to hiss bloody murder but all that came out was the gurgling and bubbling of the blood now profusely pouring from her neck asher head listly hung by the half of her neck that remained unsevered.
She fell to the ground spitting up globules of blood on percy in an attempt to roar and scream in anger and pain. She desperately reached for her veil with her hands but was stopped short as Riptide sung through the air and left bloody stomps on her newly formed stumps desperately pinched at the veil and were dragging it down in vain as the blade came back around swiping her head clean off. She swore a silent oath of vengeance before her body vaporized to dust and the head sorted itself neatly into Percy's inventory.
Turning gamers mind down back to normal percy sunk to his knees shaking silently in fear 'One wrong move and i'd be stone right now' Percy silently thought as he stared at his reflection in the now bloody blade of Riptide. Shaking the fear off Percy starred up at the multitude of screens now presenting themselves to him.
{By combining the actions of lying and acting you have discovered the skill [Deceitful Arts]! And by using it successfully on an opponent 51 levels above you it has gained 4 levels!}
{[Deceitful Arts]LVL[5]:To lie trick act and use any underhanded tactic to your advantage you can con and deceive those around you.
This skill has no Cost
+25% to deceitful acts}
{Quest Updated! [Summer Blockbuster!]:"three to head west. At the serpent of stone there path is shown. Beware the wrath of the turned god. In the face of the hound of hell two shall prevail. At the precipice of the world the true enemy will be unveiled. The fourth will be bring back the bolt at zeus' behest" or so says fate but who lets a little thing like the guiding hands of fate get in there way?
[Objectives]
Find that stone cold snake:[X]
BEWARE IT! Head the warning:[]
Face the Mutt:[]
It was I [?] all along!:[]
Let Her go:[]
[Rewards]:400,000 Xp, the begrudging trust of [?], future quest lines!
[Failure]:lots and lots of dea...you know what just dont fail okay? I want to keep living.}
{You have gained 30,000 xp for defeating the level 60 monster Medusa….you monster. You have also gained the head of medusa item and the skill book [Gorgan] both can be found in your inventory.}
{you have leveled up twice! You are now level 11 with 1,167 out of 51,200 Xp and have 50 stat points going to waist.}
Checking his inventory quickly Percy let out a snort at the icon the game choose for medusa's head, it's a cartoonish crying medusa head, 'seems the game has a thing for her...eh whatever' selecting the skill book he choose to learn it and read the notification that he received afterwards.
{Skill book failure! You do not have the required stats you plebeian.
WIS Requirement 25 or greater
INT Requirement 40 or greater}
Percy was sorely tempted to use his stat points to get this skill but he thought about how rough it would be to earn stats later if he artificially increased it now. Although he had yet to earn even a single point for wisdom or even make progress on his goal for it, maybe he could ask annabeth if she knew some way to help him with that later. His musing was cut short by a annoying ping.
{For making your first wise decision in a long time the game took pity on you and increased your wisdom by one!}
'Ass' percy thought as he glared the screen to death. After he was done he stood up brushed himself off and looted the store using his observe skill on pretty much everything, and earning it another level up as well as finding 50 drachma and the 'Quest item hells address' which was just a invoice for some record company in L.A. called DOA. shrugging he inventoried it before finally noticing his now much larger inventory.
{INVENTORY
[Magic ankle and wrist weights] [Bag of clothes] [3 furry leather] [Hellish whip]] [Medusa's Head] [Gorgan skill book] [Quest item hells address] [-] [-] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]
Money Pouch:50 Drachma
Current max Slots 20
Used Slots 7/20
Next Inventory Slot increase at Player Level 20}
Shaking his head and closing it he made his way back to the motel and tried to sneak his way back into the room. Key word here tried.
"Perseus Jackson!" Annabeth cried out in a shrill and angry voice. He froze mid step quickly turned around and attempted to walk back outside, key word again her this being attempted, before a hand frozen over with the ice cold fury that would make any ex wife proud grabbed his shoulder "Get back in here" Annabeth growled out in a low and dangerous tone that made percy gulp in fear, as his foreboding skill pinged off alarm after alarm telling him to run now. Sighing in defeat he turned back around and marched in sitting down on the chair in the corner and looking for all the world like a 12 year old boy on death row.
Boring holes in his skull with a laser like glare Annabeth sat across from him on the foot of the bed with grover giving the occasional snort or snore as he rolled over in his sleep on the other twin sized bed. "Explain" she demanded after several minutes of glaring.
"I was outside" he snarked back before he could stop himself. Seeing her grey eyed glare he averted his eyes and quickly summarized his actions for the night "i went and killed medusa and found out where we were supposed to go" his words pouring from his mouth like a muffled torrent as he stared at his now very interesting shoelaces.
Annabeth for her part looked gobsmacked "Y-you did what!" she almost shouted before remembering grover and glaring at him again "Do you have any idea how foolish and downright dangerous that was" she whispered to him.
Percy became indignant at being called foolish "I had a plan and it worked flawlessly" he stated turning his head up and away so she couldn't see just how close he came to failing in his eyes.
Huffing in frustration Annabeth held out her hand "Well i guess you're alive so it couldn't be all that bad of a plan now show me these…"she rolled her hand and chewed over her words for a moment before continuing "Directions you found".
Selecting the letter quickly Percy thought about it for a moment before he also snagged two drachma out of his inventory and handed all three items to Annabeth. "Here the Drachma i owe you plus an extra for putting up with me" he said as way of apology for leaving them behind. She grabbed the items tentatively before pocketing the drachma and opening the invoice. "If it's any consolation the only reason i left you guys here is because i didn't want my friends getting hurt...i'm already going to hades for my mom i don't want to add my friends to that list as well" percy add after she took the items.
Sighing Annabeth looked Percy in the eyes "What you did was incredibly dumb, and you went behind our backs to do it" percy went to speak in his before Annabeth held up a hand cutting him off "But i appreciate it Percy it's not every day you have a friend willing to put themselves in danger to keep you from it after all. However next time it happens i will kill you go to hades drag you back to life kicking and screaming and hang you by your toes on the climbing wall, am i clear?" she said with softly at first before her tone became steely towards the end.
Snapping to a mock salute and straightening his spine Percy replied with a quick yes ma'am. That got a snort of laughter out of Annabeth who quickly hid her face and blushed at the snort and went back to reading the invoice like it was the most important document in the world avoiding looking at percy who was blushing just as hard as her but instead of embarrassment it was because of how cute she looked with a blush. Shaking his head of the thought he spoke up. "Don't suppose you know some magical shortcut to L.A. do you?" he asked inquisitively.
"Actually i just might, how much dracma do you have on you?" she asked with a sly grin. Percy almost sweat in nervousness for his new found piggy bank.
Hey guys sorry this is so late i was out of the house for a couple of days and wasn't able to write on saturday when i actually had motivation then ended up with a case of writer's block. i hope you all can forgive me also there will be a chapter this sunday dang nabbit.
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Still looking for ideas for side arcs and omakes and other shenanigans for this story please leave a review, pm me, or post it up on the form for this story if you have an idea and are so inclined to share it. Thank you all for reading and once again im sorry-NPS