(To the guest reviews that have questions, I can not reply unless you have an account. If you can, I do not know how.) (I am trying to write longer chapters.)
(After checking the votes I saw most of you(at least those who voted)want Hestia. Including my beta reader. So, with that in mind, and the fact that no one else is really voting, Percy x Hestia is most likely going to be the pairing. I will give the voting a couple days after this chapter, but I believe that Hestia is still going to be the pairing.)
(Percy will meet Hestia this chapter. Her appearance will be different because this is fanfiction. Her Personality will be somewhat different as well.)
(The three dots are a small time skip when they are by themselves. Or are a separation to make reading easier.)
(Thank you Qwityboy for beta reading. Also thanks to Qwityboy for helping with Hestia.) (Q: Awww, shucks. Thanks!)
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(Longest chapter yet!)
I woke up Groaning at the ache I felt in my body. Opening my eyes, I took a look around to see where I was, the bathroom? What was I doing here? Slowly, I pulled myself up from the floor. Taking a look at myself in the Mirror, I stepped back in shock. I could feel my eyes widen as I saw the markings on my body.
I had a dragon-like tattoo's going on my arms down to my wrists. The dragons had their teeth bared at my elbows and flames from their mouths, down to my wrists, and past the bracelet on my arm. I also had some strange Pentagon, star-shaped, tattoo on my chest, and almost on my neck. While wearing a shirt it would still be visible, considering how high up the tattoo was on my body.
That, and all I had on at the moment were black jeans and the V-jacket. All that was underneath was leather straps holding the jacket together at the chest, and down to my stomach.
Staring down, I saw that I had tattoo markings on my hands too. On my right, I had a letter on my index, middle, and ring finger. Put together it spelled the word Ice. On the thumb and pinky finger was a small black star tattoo. It was as if they were there just to fill the blank that the word ice left. On the left hand was more stars on each finger not spelling a word like the right hand. Shaking my head hoping to clear it, I started to remember what had happened last night.
Unstrapping the jacket, I felt a sigh of relief as it fell to the floor. It could be taken off, thank god. Looking down at my now bare feet, I saw another pentagon shaped star on both of my ankles and a tattooed band around both of my feet. What was with these tattoos? I thought.
Turning around, I was preparing to leave the bathroom when I turned my head back to check the mirror once more. What I saw froze me in my tracks. There on my back was a large tattoo of a hellhound. It covered the whole of my back a void black color that seemed to suck in the light in the room with, a small mix of silver. The hellhound had molten orange eyes that...had silver mixed with black and orange? Is it Reika?
Did I hear a growl of pride in my mind? In my head, I could see the events that had taken place while I was out. There, on my back, a dragon tattoo started to form. Reika was not liking all the dragons and decided to put a tattoo of herself on there, Growling in pride at her work as she did so.
Shocking could barely describe what I feel at the moment. I am now covered with tattoos; my companion put a tattoo of herself on my back, and... my hair has grown longer? Somehow while staring at the tattoos, I had missed that my hair could almost reach my shoulders now. It wasn't straight, but a little curly and had some silver and black looking clasps on some bands of hair by the side of my head. My hair was also currently a darker color than my usual black.
Giving up at the moment, I decided to use the observe skill on everything, at the very least, I would know how I got these tattoos, and why.
[Black sleeveless V-Jacket]
[Stats Sealed]
[The consequences of wearing this jacket when at a low level is having most of the power the jacket grants sealed]
[Permantly grants the user the ability to use Ice]
[Fire - Sealed]
[Water - unlocked] Sub-element - Ice unlocked
[Earth - Sealed]
[Wind - Sealed]
[Light - Sealed]
[Darkness - Sealed]
[Shadow - Partially sealed]
[Void - Sealed]
...
[Power Seals]
[All the tattoos on the body are a seal. Unless unlocked, changed, or the name is shown on the body]
[The Ice tattoo is unlocked]
[Tattoo has changed, Shadows are mostly unlocked]
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[Silver/Black Hair clips]
[Stats Unknown]
[Can not be removed]
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Forcefully I calmed myself down. So my appearance has changed all thanks to this jacket. On the other hand, I now have the power of Ice with unremovable hair clips (a useful thing, no doubt). Getting the new elements ice and shadow was interesting, although shadow was not completely unlocked.
Thinking it over for a while, I realized that while this may not have been what I wanted or expected, it was a good thing nevertheless. Not only did I have new elements, I had the potential to gain even more!
Grabbing the jacket off the floor, I walked to the bedroom and placed it on the bed. What would everyone say about my appearance? Last night everyone had seen what I looked like; they would definitely know something had happened to change it. Sighing to myself, I decided to deal with it as it happened.
Opening the item shop, I went to the clothes section and bought a black sleeveless tank top. It would be odd to wear a normal t-shirt with this sleeveless jacket on. I thought about buying some food, but ultimately decided against it. I might as well get this over with and eat at the Poseidon table.
After putting on the jacket and shirt, I was about to head out the door when I heard the notification sound. [Ding!], Opening the window, I checked to see what it was.
[Congratulations!]
[You have killed your first demigod, last night Mike Cirez Lv.29 died]
[After knocking Cirez out, he bled from his wounds and died early this morning. He was found when the demigods were searching for dropped weapons and other items from [Capture The Flag]]
+ 10,000 Exp
- 20/100 demigod reputation
[Most demigods dislike you, there are exceptions/Ares cabin]
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[You have leveled up!]
+ 5 stat points
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I felt sick as I read what happened. Sure I had fought and killed monsters and fought demigods last night, but I had never killed anyone. Thinking back I realized that his injuries were serious but, after knocking him out, he never crossed my mind. Other than when I compared him to other demigods.
I sat there in the cabin, thinking it all over. I had killed someone. Not only that, I was currently disliked by almost everyone in this camp. The only good thing out of this, was that I did not kill the other demigod that fell out of the tree. He most likely would have died, but his friend probably saved him, or other cabin mates found them.
Too bad, the Exp would have been useful. I felt myself come to a screeching halt. What did I just think? The Exp would have been helpful. What was wrong with me. I went from feeling sick from killing someone to feeling bad that the second one did not die. Looking down at my tattoo covered arm I stared at the bracelet.
I began to think about how much I had changed starting from the moment I had put this on. Why did I want Exp so much? What was the reason? Was it just to level up? Maybe I had just wanted to be stronger? As I thought Over all of this, I kept throwing the reason I came up with away. I had no clue as to why, I do know that before I had found out about being a demigod or monsters, I had wanted to be a higher level, stronger, smarter, faster.
Still staring down at the bracelet, I did something admittedly crazy. I used the observe skill on the bracelet. At first, there was nothing; then I felt pain. All I could see was white. I thought I heard someone screaming, but that all faded when the pain increased.
...
Slowly the pain receded, and I started to see colorful blobs of objects, I had no clue how long I had been out. As my vision cleared, I saw that I was again laying down on a floor. Picking myself up I heard a notification sound. [Ding!]
Opening the window, I read the text.
[Mental Resistance] Lv. 2
[For continuously going through pain for no reason you have gained a perk]
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[Hephaestus's Failed Creation]
[This Item was created by the god Hephaestus for reasons unknown]
[Hephaestus created this from... Information locked]
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Well, that's helpful. While I now knew who made the bracelet and it was a failed creation. I had no information on how my mind was changing.
Heading towards the bathroom, I took a shower. After all this excitement I needed to wash the sweat off me.
...
As I finished changing into another pair of clothes. I checked my appearance in the mirror. I had Black, slightly curly hair with silver and black hair clasps on the side, Black jeans, a black tank, a leather V-Jacket down a little past my knees, and an earring in the shape of a dagger hanging from my ear. I still had the same eyes for the moment, but who knew when those would end up changing.
In my opinion, it did not look bad. Although it did draw attention to all the tattoos on my body. Tracing the pattern of tattoos on my arms, I paused as I saw in the mirror no bracelet. For a second I panicked. Taking a look down I saw it there on my arm, just like it had been before. Looking back in the mirror the bracelet was not there.
This does make sense. After all, no one questioned where I got an expensive looking bracelet or why I had one on my arm. Thinking quickly I glanced at my ear. Nope, it's only the bracelet that is invisible; the earring was still there.
Turning away, I walked over to the door and laced up my black combat boots. I really did need another color besides black.
As I was heading out the door, I heard the same horn I heard when I first got here, the dinner horn. Walking along the path to the pavilion I saw some demigods leaving their cabins while others were coming from the training arena or other activities.
While walking, I could hear some demigods whispering and pointing their fingers at my back. Others were glaring at me. The Ares cabin I have not seen at the moment, so I do not know how their reactions would be. Out of all the demigods around me, by far the worst was the Apollo cabin. Some of them were glaring, others looked to be sharpening their weapons while keeping an eye on me. But they all had one thing in common, all of them had hatred in their eyes.
Thinking back to Mike, I thought about his appearance and then the Apollo cabin. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that Mike was their brother. Turning away from them, I thought about the consequences of this. Not only were the Apollo cabin the healers in the camp, but their dad was also the sun god. He would literally be able to track me no matter where I went.
I would need to watch my back around any Apollo demigod. Reaching the pavilion, I grabbed a dish of soup and headed straight to the Poseidon table. As I sat down, I noticed instantly how most of the demigods were whispering about me, not even pretending to be discreet. I knew that this was definitely not the first death here, especially when using real weapons. But I figured with me killing a demigod, accident or not, and being the son of Poseidon was not a good thing.
Halfway done with my meal, I looked up sharply at the sound of someone placing their bowl on my table. It was Clarisse.
"Hey, Percy," she said in greeting as she sat down. "I must say for a new camper, you are definitely better than all the others we get." she said a small smirk on her face.
"Not only did you maim a couple of demigods, one of them died," she said after taking a couple of bites of food. "After watching that, I knew I had to fight you and see how good you really are." she grinned.
"Hold up." I said as she continued to eat. "You were watching me fight those demigods."
"Yup." she said, placing her food down. "It was surprising to see that you were the son of Poseidon. Most of the Ares cabin was sure you would be joining us, including me. Not only were you merciless, and injured your target to slow them down, but you also knocked one out to bleed out, with no help."
I frowned as I thought of how my actions looked like last night. From an outside perspective, it was exactly as she had just described. Although I did not mean for Cirez to bleed out, he just wasn't important enough to waste time thinking about.
"I guess it could be seen that way," I replied to her only pausing for a moment to gather my thoughts.
It may not have been exactly as she described, though for the most part, it was true. I couldn't afford to alienate the only demigods in this camp that did not seem to dislike me. That, and after fighting with Clarisse, I realized that it would be good to have sparring partners. Dummies can only do so much before they become useless.
"Hey, would you be willing to spar with me tomorrow?" I asked her.
"Sure! it's always good to practice battle with different people." she said. "Meet me at the training grounds at 11, tomorrow."
Nodding my head, I told her I would see her tomorrow and left the table. I decided to head to the training grounds. I could get a few hours of practice in, before I head back to the Poseidon cabin.
As I was getting closer to the training grounds, I saw a girl next to a fire. She was sitting next to the flames, poking it with a stick while staring into the illusion of heat. She had fiery red hair, burning orange eyes that reminded me of lava, lightly tanned skin, and a knee length dark red dress.
Unconsciously, I walked over to the fire and sat down next to her. Who is this girl? Now that I was closer, I could see that she seemed to be in her late teens. She raised her head and looked at me in surprise. That was odd, why would she react like that?
"Hello, I'm Percy." I said hoping to find out who this girl was, and why she was sitting here all alone.
"Hello Perseus, I am Hestia." she said, as she continued to poke the flames.
The first thing that popped in my head was that there was someone daring and stupid enough to name a demigod after a goddess. I was about to ask who her godly parent was when I heard a notification [Ding!].
[Get to know the goddess, Hestia]
+ 10 Relationship points
SHE IS THE GODDESS! Quickly, I closed the window and was about to apologize, when I realized that I should have no way to tell she is a goddess. It would look odd if I apologized when no one had told me who she is. Putting my acting skill to good use, I tried to have a conversation with her. Completely forgetting about the reward for the quest.
So for the next hour, I hid how nervous I was (or tried to), and talked with Hestia. We talked about me a lot of the time, like, where I lived in the past, how old I was, where I went to school, how I was doing as a demigod new to camp. At some point, we got talking about my mom, and how she died.
-I felt awful; there was nothing I could do as I watched her die. I said as I finished telling her how mom died in that fire.
"You do know, that it wasn't your fault Percy." she said, smiling warmly.
Speaking with Hestia made it feel like a huge weight was lifted off of my shoulders. She listened, and did not criticize me, well, not too much. Of course, there were some things that I had spoke about that she said was just plain stupid to do. But as I talked about my mother's death, and later Mike's death, I realized how much I had been bottling up inside, and how good it felt to speak to another person or goddess, about these things.
"When Mike died, that was an accident. You got caught up in the moment and did something that you regret now. There was no way for you to know that he would die."
The talk up till now had been good. But as Mike was mentioned, I started to feel guilty. Not because of his death, but because of how I did not regret him dying. After all, I only cared for Reika at the moment. All of these demigods were in my opinion untrustworthy. That and since Mike died I felt like I saw 10,000 Exp stamped on the forehead of each demigod I passed.
I heard Reika growl in my mind, and I realized I had been in thought for too long. Staring at Hestia, I decided to come clean. Not about the bracelet, no one was ever finding that out, but about Mike.
"I don't feel guilty," I said in a rush. Seeing her confused expression, I elaborated. "I don't feel guilty for Mike dying." Her eyes widened a fraction in surprise.
"Why not," she questioned.
I knew why not, but I could not explain the experience or how the bracelet was changing my mentality. Or how I did not care about any of these demigods. Maybe I could use that?
"They only thing I care about is my companion Reika, who is not here," I told her, I decided to be straight forward. "All of these people in the camp I couldn't care less if they died or not."
I decided to tell her an altered version of what I had been doing.
"After my mom died I spent a month in the woods hunting hellhounds. During that time my mind changed. I stopped caring about a lot of things, Reika was a companion I found while hunting hellhounds three weeks in. I would have most likely killed her as well, but I didn't. With my mom dead and Reika being my only companion, and fighting monsters every day. I stopped having empathy I guess." Well, at least after my breakdown over my mother's death.
"The thing scaring me is that I can not find it in me to care. When I know I did a year ago," I told her while watching her face remain blank.
After a slight pause, she started to laugh quietly to herself. With a small smile on her face, she told me. "Percy, you remind me of myself and other gods/goddesses, thousands of years ago. I had panicked slightly when I, after hundreds of years of watching mortals and their families stopped caring. Watching them die over and over hurt, but after 300 years I felt indifferent."
"Did you change or did something happen after," I asked curiously yet surprised that she admitted to being a goddess so easily.
"No I am still indifferent unless I happen to find a favorite to watch," she said as she shook her head.
"As a demigod, you either will not live long or if you were a girl, might have gotten blessed by Artemis to not age while joining her hunt," she said a sad tone to her voice when mentioning death, but then regaining a slightly happier voice when mentioning Artemis.
"If anything, this may be a good thing. You won't be attached when someone dies on a quest. You would be able to continue and not make as many mistakes."
Sighing she said, "On the other hand I am the goddess of families. I would like to see every demigod start or have a family; it's just how I am."
Frowning I asked her, "How do I deal with becoming colder. I broke one of the Ares kids legs; I do not feel anything. No satisfaction or horror for doing it."
She smiled, "Percy, you are a demigod you mind is different than mortals. When someone dies, you will process it differently. Although for you, it seems to be magnified to a higher degree than other demigods."
I sat there thinking over everything she said. It was true that My mind has changed recently, but I thought it had been the bracelet. Could it have just been me being a demigod that helped push my change along? As I was thinking I felt ridiculous, why did I think I should feel guilty about causing a demigod to die or the others to have injuries. Would this help me in the long run? No, it would not.
I was a demigod we as Hestia said we have shorter life spans. Why waste it by worrying over something that I should feel or had felt in the past. Cirez died, a couple sons of Ares were hurt. That's all if I continued what would I do if something really major happened. Wallow in guilt that I felt like I should have but didn't?
If anything I might as well change my attitude to go with my change in appearance, it's not like I would care if these campers like me. All that matters is Reika, and, maybe, possibly, Hestia who was slowly becoming my only friend even if she was a god.
After that realization, I felt as if I was as light as a feather. Smiling, I stood up and hugged Hestia. Now, this may seem like something odd to do, but I had for the past month all this emotional turmoil bubbling up inside. And in just a couple of hours, she had solved it by just talking with me. So hugging her seemed like the right choice. It's not like I would be hugging anyone else in the future.
As I hugged her, I missed her shocked look, and how she clung to me for a little longer than normal. With how she reacted, I'm not sure if she'd ever received a hug before, or, at least, not in a long, long time.
Pulling away, I sat next to her in a comforting, peaceful silence while staring at the fireplace. After a few minutes, it hit me that I was not afraid of the fire. I knew I should have been at the very least nervous to be near them after being burned. But at the moment I felt calm, and comfortable.
Taking a glance at my hand, I read Ice tattoo and thought of a question that Hestia might be able to answer. Not that I would ask about the Ice yet. I'm starting to trust her more, but not enough to tell her about my ability to learn how to use Ice.
After a little struggle on deciding how to form my question, I went with the more straightforward way.
"Hey Hestia, I have a question. How would I learn to control water? I know that I can heal from it, but not how to do much else."
She looked at me for a moment before nodding her head. "How you control or manipulate your element is by using your godly energy. As you are half god, you have the ability to control the element of your parent or if you were a champion of someone their element."
"Champion?" I asked.
"All of the gods can choose one person to be their champion, that person would be their champion till they die. When someone becomes a champion, they are infused with a piece of their gods energy. that usually either gives an element or ability granted by said god."
"Do you have a champion?" I questioned.
"No, I have not seen a point in getting one. Not only that, but someone becoming a gods champion is extremely rare. It has not happened in millennia," she said.
"Back to your element, I as the goddess of fire can control most types of flames. I use my godly energy to do that. First I meditate, then I think of my element, fire, after that I pull on the energy inside me and fire appeared." She said as she demonstrated each of the steps she spoke of.
Closing my eyes, I tried to follow her instructions. [Ding!] After some time I heard a gasp beside me. Opening my eyes, I saw in my hands a ball of water. The shock made me lose concentration and drop the ball of water to the floor. Sighing I looked over to Hestia feeling drained of energy.
She was staring at me with a shocked look on her face. Uncomfortable I started to speak. "What's wrong Hestia."
Turning to face me fully she explained. "Percy, that should not be possible, you should not be able to follow my instructions and get a result within a few minutes. It should at the very least have taken you a few weeks."
It dawned on me what had happened. The bracelet must have been helping me. It sped up my learning of everything else, why not this. Not that I could tell Hestia that.
"When I was in the woods, I spent hours after it had rained trying to get a reaction from the drops falling from the leaves," I told her hoping she would buy it. Not like I didn't do that, I just told her I spent hours instead of a minute or two.
She nodded her head with an odd look in her eyes. "I suppose that could explain it."
Taking a look at the sky, I saw the stars among the darkness of the sky. Were we really talking for that long?
"Well, Hestia, I can't thank you enough for helping me with all of these problems and feelings." I told her with a smile on my face. "It was really nice talking to you; I really enjoyed it."
"You made good company as well, Percy." she said with a kind smile on her face. "I have not spoken to a demigod in years, would you like to do this again?"she asked, with a nervous glint in her eyes.
"Yeah, sure, I would enjoy that." I smiled at her, then paused. "Why would demigods not speak to you? you are right here in camp."
She sighed, "I am usually overlooked. Every now and then, there will be someone that glances at me but then the moment passes by..." she said with a frown on her face. "You are the first in a fairly long time who noticed me and sat down to talk."
"Does anyone ever talk to you here?"
"Sometimes Chiron does, but he is busy with training demigods." she said with a small smile.
"Well, I'm definitely gonna come back," I said as I turned. Sopping myself, I turned back and asked, "Will I be able to find you again?"
She smiled again, "Yes Percy; you seem to to be different than other demigods, you should have no trouble."
[Ding!]
As I was heading to the Poseidon cabin, I checked the notifications that I had gotten during my talk with Hestia.
[Quest Completed!]
+ 10 Relationship points
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[You have discovered the use of mana]
[-500 mana when creating water]
[-50 mana per second when using existing water]
[Your intelligence stat increases your amount of mana, while your wisdom stat lowers the cost of mana]
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I arrived at the training grounds the next morning a couple of hours earlier to level up some of my skills. Moving over towards the dummy I spent the next three hours hacking at it in a variety of different moves. During those hours of slashing at the dummy, I thought back to last night and the discovery of mana and how I could use it in the future.
I stopped as soon as I heard the familiar sound of a notification. [Ding!], Opening the window, I read the text.
[Quest Completed!]
[Reach the rank of an Advanced beginner with any skill]
+ 20,000 Exp
[You are Dagger Advanced beginner Lv-1]
...
...
[You have leveled up!]
+ 5 stat points
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[You have leveled up!]
+ 5 stat points
...
[You have leveled up!]
+ 5 stat points
I sat down on the ground in relief. This would be very helpful; my dagger skill increased, plus an extra ten stat points. Opening my window, I clicked on stat points.
Stat Points - 65
Huh, I have quite a few points to use. As I was sitting, I thought over what I should use these stat points on. I know facing Clarisse will be hard, but it will be easier if I used my stat points. After a few more minutes I decided to make most of my stats 50 for the stat bonus. 16 in dexterity, 13 in wisdom, 1 in strength, 5 in luck, and 3 in charisma. I get + 20 for reaching 50 stat points with dexterity and wisdom, which brings up the stats to 50 or above with luck being 100.
[Stats]
Strength - 60
Vitality - 59
Dexterity - 70
Intelligence - 81
Wisdom - 70
Charisma - 50
Luck - 100
Stat Points - 0
[For reaching 100 in a stat... Calculation finished in 12 hours]
I was very excited to have a stat in the three digits and could not wait to see what it was. Unfortunately, I have to wait for twelve hours.
Shaking my head and getting rid of those thoughts, I took a final look at my stats and closed the window waiting for Clarisse to arrive. Hopefully, I would now stand a better chance against her.
I took off the leather V-Jacket showing the tattoos along my arm as Clarisse entered the arena. I grabbed my daggers and patiently waited for her to get ready. She walked closer to me and started to talk as she put on her armor.
"I see you're ready for the spar Percy," she said, glancing at me as she strapped her armor on.
I nodded my head, "This will be much better than slashing at a dummy, I'll be slashing at a moving one!"
She chuckled, then narrowed her eyes, saying, "Depends on who you ask." Standing up she got in position. "Ready Percy?"
"Yea," I replied.
Running forward, I tried to get a quick slash in, which backfired. My swing was far faster than I was used to and threw my blade into the air. Not stopping I touched the earring as I dodged a swing from Clarisse, and felt the dagger back in my hand.
Clarisse lunged towards me with her spear. Thinking quickly I crossed my daggers into an X, and caught the wooden part of the spear. The dagger managed to nick the wood of the spear, but did not break it.
Seeing what I did, Clarisse smirked. "I upgraded my spear, so how well you can handle it."
Not responding, I did what I had done previously. I threw My daggers at her legs. She hit one with her spear blocking it, while the other scratched her thigh.
-32 HP!
Not bothering to use my daggers again, I backed up and threw a few of my throwing knives. With expert skill, Clarisse blocked all but one knife which lodged itself in her upper thigh.
-441 HP!
The same one that I had scratched before. Taking hold of my daggers again, I prepared for her attack.
It would be wise to look into poisons that I could use on monsters when I go hunting. Clarisse yanked the knife out and rushed forward, slashing at me with surprising speed and forcing me to go on the defensive. As I blocked a thrust from her spear, I felt pretty good. It seems that getting those extra stats helped massively.
Seeing how well I was doing Clarisse spoke up. "You know Percy; you are doing pretty well." She smirked, "I feel like taking this a bit seriously now."
What?
Backing up, Clarisse stood still for a couple of seconds. Grabbing a throwing knife, I prepared for whatever she was doing. Her eyes started to turn a fiery blood red. Her body got a reddish glow to her already tanned skin. She looked at me and started to charge. Panicking I started to dodge; her speed had increased.
Pushing me into a corner, she forced me to block her weapons. All it took was that one hit. After blocking her spear, one of my daggers flew off into the air. While the other got stuck to her spear. WHAT JUST HAPPENED! My arms felt like lead, and I was barely standing on my feet. Taking a glance at Clarisse, I saw her back where she started and the red from her eyes starting to fade.
Thinking quickly I used the observe skill on her.
[Character Status]
[Name: Clarisse La Rue] Lv.40
[Age: 17] [Race: demigod] [Title: Unknown]
[HP: 8,827/9,300]
[Mana: 270/270]
[Stats]
Strength - 372
Vitality - 315
Dexterity - 177
Intelligence - 27
Wisdom - 14
Charisma - 62
Luck - 63
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Skill: [Blood Rage] x2
[Children of Ares can use this skill to double their Strength, Dexterity, and Vitality. The price is to go into a flying rage that takes practice and high mental strength to come out of.]
[Clarisse has spent most of her life practicing this skill and has evolved the skill.]
Special skill: [Blood rage] x3
[Clarisse triples her Strength, Dexterity, and Vitality]
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Sitting down on the ground I thought over what I had learned from her stats and skill. While her base stats might be lower than they should, her skill more than makes up for that. Looking at my health screen in the corner of my vision I saw [HP: 863/1,500].
That one hit from her that I had blocked did 637 damage. Slowly I got up and walked to Clarisse. I glad she could control her blood rage skill, otherwise, I'd be dead.
what I came to see was her signature smirk and she asked. "How was that new blood?"
"Insane." was all I could say. If I had not blocked her last hit with the spear... I shudder thinking of the damage it could cause.
"You did decent, for a newbie." she said as she looked me over. "With more practice from these spars..." she trailed off in thought, then asked. "How about it? You want to spar with me and others from the Ares cabin?"
I thought it over; it would definitely be beneficial for me. I would be learning how to fight against another person and leveling my skills. Looking at her for a second longer, I nodded my head in agreement.
"Just not today, my arms are killing me after that." I told her as I put on my V-Jacket and walked with her out of the arena.
She had a small smile on her face and said. "That's fine, quite a few of the newcomers in the Ares cabin acted the same way after sparring with one of the older campers. Just head over to the Ares cabin whenever you want to spar."
I told her I would, then headed off to my cabin to rest, and possibly drink a healing potion to fix my arms.
...
[Ding!], [Ding!], [Ding!]
(Percy at the moment has forgotten what the heart means for the relationship stat.) (For those on fanfiction I forgot to place the heart symbol in chapter 4 when I posted. It has been put there now.)
(I am making up for other demigods having low stats. They will have high skills or special abilities like Clarisse.) (And yes, the spar was short.)
(BTW yes I know, fire and ice. But Percy will be getting other elements throughout the books. It may not be the lightning thief, but for the others it is a possibility.)
(How does everyone like the Hestia pairing? Any thoughts on how to improve on that?)
[The demigod System]
[Character Status]
[Name: Percy Jackson] Lv.24 Exp 1,330/9,000
[Age: 16] [Race: demigod] [Title: Monster Hunter] [Companion: Reika]
[HP: 1,600/1,600] (Health Regen: 7 per min)
[Stamina: 893/893] (Stamina Regen 12.2 per min)
[Mana: 1,620/1,620] (Mana Regen 7 per min)
[Affinity - Water]
[Stats]
Strength - 60
Vitality - 59
Dexterity - 70
Intelligence - 81
Wisdom - 70
Charisma - 50
Luck - 100
Stat Points - 0
[Skills]
Stealth Lv-1 (70%) + 20% stealth when in shadows
Acting Lv-1 (38%)
Lying Lv-1 (91%)
Presence Lv-1 (99%)
Tracking Lv-4 (89%)
Dagger Advanced beginner Lv-1 (31%) [You deal 15% more damage when using daggers]
Knife throwing Lv-Max
Archery Lv-1 (0%)
Sword Novice Lv-1 (0%)
Eavesdrop Lv-1 (0%)
Observe Lv-9 (91%)
Running Lv-8 (72%)
Cooking Lv-5 (61%)
Languages: English Lv-Max, Latin Lv-2
Skill Points - 1
[Special Abilities]
Water Manipulation Lv-1 (1%) Proficiency level (17%)
Ice Manipulation Lv-1 (0%) Proficiency level (0%)
Shadow Manipulation Lv-1 (0%) Proficiency level (0%) [Partially sealed]
[Fire - Sealed]
[Earth - Sealed]
[Wind - Sealed]
[Light - Sealed]
[Darkness - Sealed]
[Void - Sealed]
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
Knowledge Absorber Lv-1 [You can learn skills from books, the more advanced the book, the higher the skill you get is.] Can raise skill level by absorbing books for that skill.
Physical Endurance Lv-11 [You take 22% less damage from physical attacks]
[Mental Resistance] Lv. 2 [You are 20% more resistant to mental attacks]
[Resistance]
Fire resistance Lv-4 [You are 40% resistant to fire]
[Items]
Credit Card, 24 Celestial bronze knives, Healing Potion x2
[Item shop]
[Relationships]
Grover - 32/100
Chiron - 20/100
Reika - 70/100
Annabeth - 0/100
Clarisse - 27/100
[Romance]
Hestia 10/1,000
[Reputation]
God reputation 2%
demigod reputation -20% [You are disliked by most demigods]
Monster reputation 10% [Monsters are now slightly cautious in your presence. Does not include companions.]
Titan reputation 0%
Primordial reputation 0%
Money: $341,822
Drachma: 225
[The Q Files]
Anyone have an answer on hectic? Answer: Well, it's basically the opposite of inspired, something like Piper x Percy, or Leo x Annabeth. Canon don't work like that! Next, let's talk about AU's, or, alternate universes. They usually are based on a theme, or a change. Certain AU's revolve around Percy bring in the hunt, considered a change AU, and some are more complex, like it's all in pirate times! It takes a lot of forethinking for the small changes, because you're not sure how the characters will react, and still stay true to their personality, while with themes, you can just pin it on the world they live in. There a lot of science and psychology that goes into fanfics, if you have questions, comment! See you next chapter!