Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson
NEW POLL:
This poll will be about mana moves, if you think you got a mana move worthy of being called the coolest mana move out there or you just want me to have Percy use it a lot then post it. This Poll will be going on for the next two weeks okay. It must have a title, element kind, description, and finally pro's and con's for it. Also the moves can be for battle, mind, or something you just want like transmutation or whatever. So vote okay guys I want some good mana moves.
A/N: last time to vote guys I know you have more in you.
LAST IME:
As I starred upon it I found myself crying slightly as I quickly wiped away the tears as I slowly walked over to the brick fireplace as I starred at it. Slowly I reached up and slowly pulled out a brick as it revealed small box about the size of a fist that I grabbed and pulled out. I didn't even open it as put it in my satchel and started to walk back outside but stopped as I reached the door as I looked back one last time.
It was just too painful to stay here any longer than was necessary as the memories of all the times with Irene flooded my mind as I looked at the dark interior. It was the last physical thing that Irene and I shared. I swear one day I will avenge her and when I do I will burn down this place, but for now it was a reminder of my goal as I looked over it one last time as I wiped a few tears out of my eyes.
"I will be back in one year don't wait up." I said as I closed the door and set out on my journey to find chest containing the origin of humans and soon to be the origin of mana.
NOW:
Finding Hecate's shop again was not hard at all, it took me a total of 3 months but I found it again as I smiled at the sight of the shop. Not a thing had changed about it even the water like force field around it. But one thing was different about it but specifically in front of the house not the house itself. Laying on the ground in front of the house was three goddess with long black hair on sheets of cloth. Each wearing a different color bra and underwear that didn't help hide their curves from predatory eyes, the colors in general were gold, blue, and red.
All I could do was raise an eyebrow at the sight of the hot looking goddess's as I noticed one take a sip of a flask what I guess was wine. She just resumed to put a hand behind her head as her gaze never left a book in her hand as she enjoyed the sunlight from Apollo as a small smile was placed on her face. Another one was spreading some oil like liquid lazily across her stomach as she seemed to not be paying attention at all as she soaked in the warmth.
The last one was laying on her front with her bra undone but her underwear still on, she looked like she had just gotten the liquid put on her as well as her back was a nice tan color. All in all the goddess or goddess's were about as good looking as a goddess could get as they all seemed to be enjoying their time tanning. But in my mind Irene was still the most beautiful women I had ever seen but I could not lie as they were beautiful.
"You all looked relaxed." I commented as I walked inside the water barrier as all the goddess jumped in surprise at once. The red one with the book accidently dropped it as she placed a hand on her chest as she gave me a face that said she just had a heart attack. The blue one with the oil on her front accidently put her oil smothered hand on her face as she was now spitting the substance out.
Finally the last one I got a show from as her nice C cups with lightly tanned melons with pink nipples were shown to me as she shot up. All I could do was shake my head at how at the sight as I tried to looked away as I put a hand over my eye. Even if I was a male I was not one that lusted over women like Ares did.
"You might want to cover up." I commented as her face went as gold as her bra as she quickly put it on as the other two were giving me a small glare.
"I swear on Artemis's name whoever just scared us like that again I will castrate you." Said the gold one before she faced me once she was breasts were covered. All I did was laugh as I shook my head as I adjusted my satchel on my shoulder and fixed my thin shirt. As I did I noticed the goddess's were all staring at me like a ghost as I looked down at myself.
"Do I have some-?" But I was instead tackled in a hug by the red one as she knocked the air out of me. All I could do was huff out in pain as I felt the goddess give me a good hug as I looked down at her with a confused face. As I did I noticed her form had changed from a 28 year old to a 18 year old along with the others.
"Why are you hugging me?" I asked her as I was not used to human contact at this point and time all she did was let got as I saw tears in her eyes, with a glance I saw the other two crying as well.
"We are sorry we couldn't do anything." She said as she pulled me into a hug again as I gave her a sad smile.
"I know and I do not resent you for it, so don't worry." I said hugging her back as her head was in my chest as the other two stood twiddling their fingers as they looked down at the ground.
"I think a group hug is in order." I said as they smiled at me and rushed over as I quickly wrapped all three of them with my arms as I laughed as they all hugged me. Each one burying their faces in my shirt as I felt hot tears seep through my shirt.
"It is good to see you all again." I said as they all smiled at me as they pulled back from the hug. You see me and Hecate or Hecate's three personalities had formed a close bond over the years along with Irene. So over time I noticed that their age never began to pass 18 around us and soon we all formed a daughter father relationship. It was Irene's idea but since Hecate was never close with her father she was kind of in need for the type of relationship so she quickly agreed with Irene.
"You to Dad." They said as I smiled as I ruffled the hair of the gold one as she was still blushing.
"I wish I could have visited sooner." I said as they all seemed to flare up in anger for a second.
"Damn Ares." They said as I laughed lightly.
"I couldn't agree more, so have you three been dating lately? It looked like you were trying to improve on your tan over there." I said as I winked at them as they all blushed.
"Well there is this one guy." Gold said as I smiled at all their blushing faces.
"Good for you getting back out there." I said ruffling her hair again as she glared lightly at me.
"You're so mean." She said with a huff.
"What are dads for?" I asked her as she shook her head but smiled at me.
"Well if I were you I would stop checking out your daughters." She said as I rolled my eyes as she smugly grinned at me.
"No offense but you aren't my type, plus I know you all too well as a father figure to do so. As a matter of fact why are you tanning you are a goddess you can just poof on a new tan. " I said as they all seemed to look at me like I was stupid.
"It isn't the same." Said blue as I rolled my eyes.
"I am not going to argue with you about that but in reality I think it is the same thing one just takes longer than the other." I said shrugging as they narrowed their eyes at me but began to laugh as I chuckled myself.
"So what bring you to our, oh so great house in the woods during your 50 year probation?" Red asked me.
"How do you guys know this stuff? I the only one who should have known is Athena and Ares." I said as they all rolled their eyes like it was obvious.
"Iris." They all said together as I face palmed remembering the nice rainbow goddess.
"I feel like she gossips more than Aphrodite." I said as I slapped a hand onto my forehead.
"You have no idea." They all mumbled at the same time as I sighed.
"Well the real reason I am here is to pick up a certain key I left you all, also I need you all to enchant something for me." I said as they all raised an eyebrow but they all nodded agreeing to the second part.
"Let me go get the key." Said red as she ran into the house as I nodded as the other two looked at me.
"What item do you need enchanted?" They asked me as I slowly brought out the small fist size box.
"What is that?" They asked coming closer as I opened the box revealing a very peculiar looking item. Both of them looked confused as I laughed lightly as I handed the box to them as they studied it.
"It was a gift." I said as they both looked at me.
"From who?" They asked.
"Cronos." I said as their eyes went wide but before they could say anything I held up my hand to stop them.
"It is Cronos with a C and not a K." I said as they eyes widened even further, at this they just looked at the device like it was more important than the universe itself as they held it like a baby.
"Now before you go ranting on how I got it, I will say that it was an apology gift from the primordials." I said as they seemed to look at me like a strange creature, but finally gold managed to speak.
"W-What did they apologize for?" She asked me.
"I don't really know, something about the fates and stuff. I didn't really understand what they meant by that but apparently Chaos thought it was a good idea to send an apology gift for the fates misdoings." I said to them as they looked about as confused as I did in my dream that Chronos met me in.
"What did the fates do that was so wrong?" They asked me.
"I don't know he wouldn't tell me, but apparently something important. I assume it has to do with the day Irene passed but what has happened has happened and I cannot change that. But don't get me wrong one day I will get my revenge on that pitiful god." I said as they looked at me in a lonely expression.
"We know that." They said as they turned their gazes back to the device that clicked away.
"So what does it do?" They asked me.
"I think it tells time." I said as they looked back at it. Little did they know the other function of the device that I found out on my way here.
"What do you want us to do with it?" They asked.
"I just need you to make sure it is invincible against anything, like from magma to Zeus's lightning bolt. Also it needs to be water proof and always return to my wrist if I ever lose it or repair itself it does managed to crack." I said as they seemed to think it over.
"We can do that but it will take a while." They said.
"How long?" I asked as they seemed to think for a bit longer.
"If you want the full package at least 5 days." They said as I nodded.
"I will come back tomorrow and just wait then, first I need to find the chest and get its contents out of it." I said as they nodded as they closed the device.
"So have you come up with a name for this wonderful looking device?" They asked me.
"Actually Cronos told me that it was called a watch." I said with a shrugged as they seemed intrigued by the device.
"Well it seems like it will become useful in the future, who doesn't what to know the time at all time?" They asked as I laughed.
"I guess it doesn't hurt now does it." I said taking the box away from them as I opened it revealing the golden watch. (It looks just like a gold citizen eco drive watch with a black inside) I just smiled as I looked at it, but the thing I liked most about the watch is that if you held down the crown or that little thing you pulled out to make the needles spin. It would do something cool, it would project an image of any time that had existed into your head.
It was like watching the mirror of a lake play out events in time in your head that had already existed. I could basically see the past and only the past of any person I wanted to and see if I wanted to and the person would have no idea. But the cooler thing was that I could spend years in your head looking at someone's past and you wouldn't even spend a second in the real time. Plus you can search for anyone you wanted to this included any gods, titans, primordials, and humans and then learn about their past from when they were born to present.
Excellent way to spy on a person because the past met up with the present and you could basically watch a person's day play out. But if reach up to current time then the special ability were it basically stops time besides your brain ends and you come back to real time.
So in essence I loved this watch already because during my time of owning it is found out a few personal secrets that the gods had. One was that Hestia eats a whole batch of small cakes covered with sugar every Friday as she hums old melodies to herself. Or that Hades helps Persephone plant around his home and he enjoys every moment of it. But my most favorite godly habit had to be one of Hera's. Every time she took a shower by herself she would sing into a scrubber and dance in the shower at the same time.
To say I laughed would be an understatement when she fell on the slick rock when she was dancing. But I didn't want to tell Hecate this in fear that Iris might spread it around if she told anyone. So I decided to keep the whole past slideshow in my head power to myself as I handed back the box to them.
"I have the Key!" Called the third one as she came back out with the key and handed it to me as I gave her a hug as she smiled and stuck her tongue out at the other two. They in turn just rolled their eyes as she pulled away as I smiled at the third key as I put it with my other two.
"I will be back in at least 2 days okay, so don't do anything stupid in that time." I said as they all huffed at me.
"We have been separated from each other for well over 300 years I think we can handle 2 more days." Said the blue one as I just grinned.
"Well you keep thinking that, I still haven't forgotten the time you guys burnt down your own house after we specifically told you not to when you guys were gathering ingredients from that small fire drake." I said as they all turned their eyes away from me and started to whistle.
"Well just safe okay I will be back." I said as I gave them all one last hug and started on my way to my specific place I kept the chest.
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As I arrived at my destination I smiled at the sight as I slowly started down small hill that led to a small cave on the side of a mountain. As reached the bottom I noticed not a single tree or even bush was out of place in front of the cave as I nodded. I just started forward as I entered the cave as I lit a torch with some flint and stone as it lit up the darkness of the cave. It was long, dark, and damp or in other words the perfect cave.
In truth this cave originally took me about 5 years to find, I had heard about it from a forest nymph. All she told me was that there was a very well hidden cave deep in the mountains of Greece. With that little information to go off of I managed to find it after a time and started to explore it. In all I maybe only explored about 4% of all the length of the caves in this massive maze of them. The 4% I did explore went on for miles underneath and through the ground.
One point I even reached led to a massive underground cavern that went down so far that when I dropped a rock down the cavern it didn't hit the bottom until I reached the count of 20 seconds. But from the spread of the tunnels I could tell about another 5% led into the cavern from all different heights. I was tempted to go down in it but I wasn't the crazy. There were lots of strange noises as well that I didn't care to mention either, I swear I heard someone walking in it before.
But as I went father down in I recognized old rock formations that led me on my path as it began to fork and go deeper down. But slowly over the hours I managed to find my way after losing it once or twice as I finally stopped at a dead end. With a nod I set the torch on the side of the dead end as I looked it over. As I did nothing special was shown to me as I slowly ran my hand over the damp and cold stone.
But finally I felt the place I was looking for as the rock seemed to move, with a smile I slowly started to lightly tap my fist against it as dust from in the cracks began to fall. Finally after about 3 minutes I managed to move the stone slab revealing a small hidden compartment. It was no larger than a normal sized chest but in it was two things. One was a small black chest that was marked with engravings that I recognized all to well.
The other thing was a small wooden box that was short and long but I just pushed that out of the way as I grabbed the special chest. As I pulled it to myself I reached around my neck and pulled out three keys as I slowly began to unlock the chest until I finally hear the click of the last key. As the key clicked the top popped open as dust was flung from its cracks. All I could do was wave my hand at the surprise amount of dust as I coughed a few times.
But once the dust cleared from in front of me I slowly opened the chest to find two objects in it but they were free of dust unlike the chest. I just reached in it and grabbed the black covered book as I simply nodded and put it in my endless storage satchel. But once I did that I reached in for the other item as I pulled out the small collapsed metal bare as I looked it over. It was smooth and seemed greasy with its shine to it but instead it had a perfect amount of grip on it.
"Another day I guess I will figure out what you are." I said stuffing the item in my satchel as I turned back to the empty chest and then my satchel.
"Maybe…" I said as I closed the chest as I took off my satchel. As I did I set it on the ground as I lifted up the small chest as I opened my satchels as I began to force the chest inside it. There was barely enough room for the chest to barely slide in the entrance of my storage space as I managed to shove it in. Though as I managed to fit the whole thing inside I smiled and nodded as I tossed in the keys as I put the satchel back on finding it the same shape.
Man I love my satchel so much, it can store anything and not even loss its perfect shape. Once it was in the bag it simple disappeared weight and shape and all. Can't tell you how many pairs of clothes I fit inside this thing. But as I settled down from my small achievement from forcing my chest inside my satchel I looked over at the other box. All I did was stare as I carefully opened the box revealing a beautiful chiton that was the color of the blue sky.
It had gold trim around it and also seemed to sparkle like the ocean on a clear day, it was a piece of art in my eyes as I ran my fingers over the soft as silk fabric. It had the slight scent of the forest and berries, but while also retaining an earthy smell to it like a garden. I just slowly picked it up as it unfolded itself in front of me showing me just how beautiful it was. Along the bottom of the chiton wave like patters that ran up the dress to the hips that were stitched in it with gold thread.
It was made for a women that was slightly thin but had the right curves in certain places I knew that much. All I could do was slowly fold it back up and hold it in my hands as I looked at the gold colored ropes holding it together. At the sight I felt tears breach my eyes as they streamed down my face as I held the soft Chiton up to my face. This was Irene's weeding Chiton that she herself hand crafted, she was afraid of it being destroyed or damaged a long time ago so I put it in here.
As I cried into the chiton I slowly pulled myself together to find my torch almost out as I quickly put the chiton into my satchel as it disappeared into my endless storage. Next I looked into the box and found an old dagger in it with the pair of sandals she wore along with my chiton I wore that day as well. Mine was much more plain as it was simply a light blue and it had not gold on it like it did for her. I just smiled as I stuff it inside my satchel along with the two pairs of fancy sandals.
Once that was done I set the dagger in a hip holster that I always had on me just in case, it was made of celestial bronze as well. But as I took the last item I just grabbed my torch and began to walk away from my dead end as I started on my way out. But as I reached my first room of a sort that had 5 different paths leading from it I stopped. Not because I was tired but because I heard a noise.
It was faint as a whisper in the wind that had traveled hundreds of miles, but as sensitive as my ears were now I just stopped and listened. I waited for about 30 minutes then I heard the sound again coming from the far right tunnel. All I could do was turn towards it and walk to its entrance as I stared into the darkness. The sound itself was the sound of breathing but I couldn't tell if it was female or male from how far away it was.
"Well it is worth a shot." I said to myself as I looked at my torch and found it had a good 5 hours left on it while my other three torches in my satchel had about 10 on them. So in all I had about 35 to maybe 30 hours of light in this place. Not that I minded the darkness in fact since all my senses were maxed now, over the years as a slave of Ares more of my functions began to unlock. I only had one left and that was a god's brain which was Irene's beginning one. I suspect that once I get that one I will finally be able to grow again.
Not as I height or something like that but strength and my wits and all that. It was like being stuck in a lifelong slump that you couldn't get out of. But once I get god's brain I will finally be out of that slump and again I will be able to progress to that of a god if I so much as wish. But I was planning on pumping my brain full of knowledge before strength I had enough of that already. But back to my eyes basically I was able to use night vision in the caves I just didn't like using it since it took about 10 minutes for my eyes to adjust and that was time I could be attacked.
I just took one last look around my surroundings one last time before I decided to go on an adventure. As I did I nodded and began to descend into the largest cave in possibly all the world.
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After about 18 hours I found myself stuck in-between two different entrances as I was sitting on a stone in front of the two as I tried to figure it out. By this time the noise was clear as normal talking to me but it was still slow and delayed it only happened once about every 30 minutes. I had confirmed it as a female voice as well as it light and had the female tone to it. But as of right now the sound was coming from these two entrances in an equal level making it hard to choose.
"Hmm." I tried as I looked from the left and the right as finally I just sighed.
"This is harder than I thought." I said as I sighed again and reached in my satchel and pulled out the black book.
"Guess I might as well read as I wait for another breath to sound." I said as I opened the book about human creation. As I read it I quickly found myself sucked into it as I started to not pay attention to the world around me as I waited. But as I read I found that when my father started creating us he wanted us to be a species that walk on all fours. But then he figured out that we would need out hands so he made us stand on two legs.
Reading it was eye opening as I flipped past pages with great speed as I memorized his research, even parts about the different materials he wanted to use to mold us. At one point he though gold would be a good idea but then he figured there wouldn't be enough of it to create a population of a big enough size for us to be able to sustain a populations with children. He even wanted the males to give birth instead of the males but Athena told him no and that we should be molded to be like the gods so females gave birth.
It was all so interesting that by the time I found myself at the end I was surprised to find that only 1 hour had passed and I had missed the breath. But I didn't mind as I turned my attention back to the last few pages as I found something interesting. It was about mana which wasn't mentioned at all in the whole book. But now there was only three pages on it as I looked up at the top to find something interesting.
It explained how making humans out of clay was going to make them able to be one with mana and be able to use it in a sense. But in making humans one with mana put them outside the boundaries of the gods, the book had multiple things on this and how humans would grow to become a strong being. But he never mentioned anything about how they would use it only that it existed around them and only they had access to it.
He claimed it was like a well of power that only humans had the power to access and all gods or immortals that had godly blood in them wouldn't have access to them. It was short and brief but it what I seemed to get from it was that mana was a power give to humans to protect themselves from the gods. Just the thought of a weapon that only humans could use would cause an uproar on Olympus, Zeus would kill us without a moments hesitations if he knew that.
But at the idea I just grinned as I thought of humans actually standing up for themselves against the gods. No longer would we be the doorstep for the gods to walk upon but we would be equals in a world that I knew the gods didn't want. I had to keep this a secret no matter what or hell would rain down upon this world and wipe the humans from the face of the planet. Then I be Zeus would create us again but as an army to do his bidding, truly the knowledge of mana was to much for us humans to handle.
But as I finished reading the book I slowly closed it as I put it back in my back as I put a hand to my chin and thought as I waited for another breath from the cave. But as I did I began to think, if mana was in me and everything around me does that mean I can sense it if I try? But if I do try and find it what am I looking for?
"Might as well give it a shot." I said as I closed my eyes and slowly let out a breath as I let my senses spread around me and away from my body. As I did I just waited for anything to hit me as I breathed in and out slowly as I mediated. But nothing came as I tried hard but still nothing came as I sighed and broke my trance as I opened my eyes and sighed.
"This is harder than I thought." I said looking down at the ground as I thought of something. Slowly I reached forward and touched the ground as I felt the semi wet stone floor beneath me. Though it felt weird on my hands I focused again as I started to mediate again as suddenly I felt something start to poke at me in the back of my mind. Though faint in my deep trance of meditation I slowly reached out for it as it got harder and harder to focus as the poke turned into a jab then a punch then a full on throttle.
But with hundreds of years of meditation behind me I broke through it as I suddenly felt something rush into me like a door just broke. At the feeling I gasped for air as I coughed violently as I found the room around me was dark as I tried to figure out how long I had been meditating. I had no clue at this point. It could have been hours or even a day, but as I tried to regain my senses I found something odd in my vision.
Underneath me in the ground was a green light almost that ran in a small stream that had small bubbles almost in some spots like a rope with knots occasionally in it. It was amazing to say the least as I starred in complete awe as the swirling colors of every green imaginable as they seemed to flow forward and backwards up and down the stream. But as I starred at the stream it suddenly vanished as I blinked as I jumped in surprise.
But as I tried to find them again they weren't there as I was surprised but as I began to focus again I began to see the outline of the streams but in far less detail. Instead of color they were pure white but almost misty in a way. It was like seeing one really long ghost snake that just ate a bunch of eggs that were too big for it. But as I stood up I noticed that if I barely focused on seeing whatever it was I could see them.
I just smiled at my new discovery as I looked around to find that a large amount of the streams were converging into the right tunnel. They were on the ceiling, the walls, and the floor but all of them were focusing a little bit more on the right tunnel. There were even some faint ones in the air that passed through me occasionally. I was so curious as of what they were but I didn't mind them as I began to walk down the right tunnel as I followed the small ½ inch streams of whatever it was.
But as I travel more and more began to converge from the ground forming bigger streams with knots in them. The largest probably being at least 6 inches wide as I felt a power coming from it and were it was leading. As I followed the streams I began to wonder if they were the mana flowing in the earth but then a thought hit me. If this was mana then why was a tone of it going to one place?
"What can you be hiding cave?" I asked as I suddenly reached a place that seemed to be out of a fairy tale. The room was small about the size of a bedroom but coming down from the ceiling were tree roots that wrapped around the walls of the small room as they went down farther into the ground. These roots were at least 4 feet wide in some place as I slowly walked into the room and approached the thing in the middle of the room.
All the mana streams were all converging into the glowing object that seemed to be made out of some fleshy type material. But on my weirdest things I have ever seen it still didn't break my top 10. But the object seemed to be breathing almost as it grew in size and then decreased in size like lungs do. But even though the object didn't let me see through it like glass in the middle I could still make out a black outline of a female.
Though I couldn't actually see her besides her shadow outline I could tell she was at least late 20's to early 30's. All I could do was stare in awe as I heard her breath again as the ball slowly inflated then deflated as it came out. I didn't know how to feel at the moment as I looked at it in awe, it was like the earth itself was growing something in a womb that was growing out of the ground. I just slowly walked forward and placed my hand on it as I felt it was warmer than I had imagined.
Though as I starred at the women inside as I noticed only her chest was moving with an occasional twitch through the whole body. But nothing more than that was seen as I pulled back my hand and starred at it. None of this made any sense to me as I was worried as of what to do, was I supposed to save the women or was she not in danger. Was I going to wait for her or was I supposed to leave right now? I had no clue as I sat down in front of it and just starred as I looked at the streams of mana.
"What to do." I said as I tapped my fingers on my knees and thought of what to do. I promised Hecate I would be home in a day and I didn't know what to do right now. But as I starred I didn't noticed the presence behind me as the person cleared their though as I whipped around and faced her.
"I see that my daughter has a visitor, this is rare." She said as I starred at the women for a minute having no idea who it was. But as I looked at the women I noticed she had on a pitch black chiton that would make Hades jealous. Her hair was done up nicely and almost seemed to flow like a river at night down her back. But the show was given to her delicate looking eyes, they were filled with so many colors I could have looked at them for days as they shifted.
But as I starred at her she simply laughed as she walked past me as I starred at her, she just stopped at the globe in the middle of the room. As she did she placed her hand on it and closed her eyes as she focused for a second and then smiled.
"It seems that your presence has made her happy, I guess getting visitors is nice since she hasn't had one for a while. But I am going to have to ask you to leave soon, this is no place any mortal should be." She said as I was going to say something but she glanced at me which silenced me. But as she did I waited for a while as she starred at the globe as I finally spoke.
"Just who are you?" I asked her.
"I am creator of the cosmos Chaos, it is nice to finally meet you Perseus Jackson the undying mortal."
Sorry it took so long to do guys but life is kind of getting busy so I don't know if I will be able to update like I usually do.