I know it's been a while, but here is chapter eleven of Gohan and the Sea of Monsters. Enjoy.
Chapter 11- Escape from the Demon of Time
When Gohan, and the others awakened, they found themselves in one of the rooms on the ship. They were able to get a good view of the sea from one of the windows and all sorts of food could be seen on a table nearby. A sarcofogus could be seen in the back of the room and while it made them feel uneasy, it was nothing compared to the feeling they got when they looked at a throne in the center of the room. Sitting upon it was the sleeping form of the man Megenso had possessed with Kuriza standing next to him.
"No!" Gohan grasped. "It's them!"
"Come on. Let's see if we can get out of here." Percy said as he scanned the room. Escape was impossible as Cell stood in front of the only exit.
"Well. If it isn't my favorite cousins." Came the voice of Luke. The four turned around to see the son of Hermes standing there. On either side of him was a giant about 8 feet tall holding sharp javelins. "Well, a little nicer than that camp, isn't it? Especially that Cabin 11." He said as he made a gesture towards a dining table in the corner. "Come. Sit down." Nobody even moved, even with the two giants pointing javelins at them. "Where are my manners, dear cousins? These are my assistants, Agrius and Oreius. Perhaps you've heard of them."
"Oh yes." Gohan said, remembering a story he had heard years ago. "They got caught up in the affairs of the gods and abandoned."
"If it isn't the saiyan wonder, himself." Luke said as he looked right at Gohan. "Yes. You're hard to forget, Son Gohan, and correct. It is typical of gods to get mortals stuck in the middle. Agrius and Oreius have no love for Olympus, but they like half-bloods well enough."
"For lunch." Agrius growled. Oreius laughed in response, causing a little brief quarrel that compelled him to walk over to the corner and bang his head against the table.
"Well, Percy." Luke began as he turned to him. "We let you live another year. I hope you appreciated it. Then again, you had a good choice in bodyguards."
"I didn't even know until recently that Gohan's an alien!" Percy shouted at him. "Well, half alien."
"Yes. One of the few remnants of the race the gods tried to distance themselves from." Luke responded.
"And you poisoned Thalia's tree."
"Right to the point, eh?" Luke sighed. "Okay, so I did. So what?"
"How could you?!" Annabeth shouted with a fury that could rival even that of a saiyan in the middle of combat. "Thalia saved our lives! Several times both here and off world! How could you dishonor her like this?!"
"I didn't dishonor her, Annabeth. The gods did, even when she faced the one alien being they feared and survived. If she was alive, she would be on our side!"
"Liar!" Annabeth shouted.
"She's still alive...sort of." Gohan commented.
Almost as if he was ignoring the young Gohan, Luke continued what he was about to say. "If you knew what was coming, you'd understand."
"I understand that you want to destroy the camp, you monster!"
Luke shook his head. "The gods have blinded you, Annabeth. Three thousand years of baggage! The west is rotten to the core!"
"So is he!" Annabeth shouted as he pointed to the throne.
"Is he? He got fed up with his fellow gods and killed them." Luke countered. "He has the same idea. It is time to create a new world. Join us, Annbeth. We need your intelligence. We both know you deserve better than this. Tagging along on some hopeless quest. It's over for Camp Half-Blood. It will be overrun by monsters within the month and survivors will either join us or be hunted down to extinction. Do you really want to be on the losing team with people like...him?!" Luke said as he pointed at Tyson.
"If that's what you want, why don't you let me destroy this planet and move on?" Kuriza smirked.
"Are you insane?!" Luke shouted. "Wait, don't answer that. Your father was. The Demon's body is still sealed within the Earth!"
"A minor detail." Kuriza began. "I can just hop on over to another timeline to revive him...if he wasn't currently bound to this one."
"At least you have more control than your father." Luke sighed as he stared at Annabeth. "Seriously, Annabeth. Traveling with a cyclops?! Who's the one dishonoring Thalia's memory here?!"
"HEY!" Percy shouted. "Leave Tyson out of this!"
"Oh yeah." Luke laughed. "I heard. Your father claimed him." He must've seen their surprised looks since he continued with "Yes, Percy. I know about about your plans to find the fleece and about your quest. What was it again? 30, 31, 75, 12 and the location where the destroyer of worlds met his end at? You see, I have still have friends at camp who keep me posted."
"Spies, you mean." Percy responded.
Luke shrugged. "How many insults can you take from your father, Percy? Do you think he cares more for you than he does for that monster." Luke said as he turned to Gohan. "Of course the biggest surprise was you, Gohan. I never imagined our paths would cross again, let alone like this! I never imagined you were one of us."
"How do you mean?" Gohan asked.
"Don't play dumb, Gohan. I've heard all about you. About how Athena claimed you. How does it feel, Gohan, to find out about your heritage?"
"Well...compared to the uncle who tried to kill me?" Gohan asked.
"You mean him?" Luke asked as he pointed to a form in the corner of the room that was the unmistakable form of Raditz. "Gohan, Percy, don't you see the gods are using you?" He said as he looked at Percy. "Did they even tell you what will happen if you turn 16? Did Chiron tell you the prophecy?" Percy looked a bit uneasy. "And you, Gohan. Do you want to know why your mother seems to favor you and that prince over the rest of her children? Do you know how long saiyans live for?"
"No. How long saiyans live for?" Gohan asked with curiosity. "Vegeta never mentioned it."
"Their natural lifespans have been known to reach many centuries, even millenia. She knows you will be around longer that her human children will. Much longer." Luke said as he motioned towards Annabeth. "Not to mention that the gods made sure their definition of 'mortal' was only restricted to humans, not aliens." This got Gohan so angry that he started charging his ki. "I wouldn't do that. You'd be a fool to unleash your power. All of you would be to oppose us!"
"Indeed." Gohan smirked as his hair turned from its normal black to the blond hair of super saiyan.
"Fool!" Cell shouted as he flew at Gohan, only to be blocked by a strange energy field. "Huh?" Cell looked in the direction of the throne only to see Megenso with his hand pointed in the direction of the energy field. "What is the meaning of this?!"
"Don't kill the boy. Not just yet, anyway. He's much to valuable for that." Megenso said in response.
"Are we seriously going to let that boy live?!" Kuriza shouted. "I don't want this to turn out the way it did in that other timeline."
"Other...timeline?" Percy asked. "Just who are you?"
"It is only proper for these ignorant demigods to know what is going on." Megenso began. "Would anyone care to explain?"
"I've already explained enough." Luke sighed. "It is only fitting to explain this to you. You see, That being on the throne is Megenso, the legendary Demon of Time."
"We already know that!" Annabeth responded. "We are more than familiar with that voice."
"Yes. That is not surprising. His assistant over there is named Kuriza, and I think you are familiar with his father." Luke said.
"His...father?" Annabeth said as she looked at Kuriza. "It can't be. You're Freeza's son, aren't you?!"
"Indeed, I am." Kuriza smirked. "Or at least the one in my world. The fool never knew what he could have accomplished."
"Yes. He has been most helpful in our quest to bring...him back." Luke began. "Both him and the demon who can control time."
"Yes. We help restore Kronos and you help restore Megenso." Kuriza smirked. "However, one obstacle has gotten in our way before, and it's related to you!" The alien shouted as he pointed at Gohan.
"Me?" Gohan asked in shock. "How have I gotten in your way before?"
"It's simple, really." Kuriza began. "Your-"
"Don't chance it, Kuriza." Megenso began. "He doesn't need to know the future of his alternate selves just yet. Not when they are close to his own."
"Coming from the guy who invades our dreams." Gohan shouted at the alien as he flew toward him, only to be repelled and thrown across the room to a wall with one wave of Megenso's hand. "What was that for?!" Gohan shouted as he regained his composure.
"You aren't strong enough to be any match to me, boy. Our previous encounters were only offers to you and that human girl over there known as Annabeth Chase. I made you this offer twice before. Join me as my servants and you will receive powers and knowledge the gods on this planet could only dream of having, especially the wisdom of your mother." Megenso began. "If you refuse, your friends will die."
"No thanks!" Gohan groaned as he tried to back away. "Aren't you going to kill them anyway?"
"I wasn't, but your response changes everything." Megenso began as he looked in the direction of the others in the room. "Brings the saiyan boy to me. As for his friends, do what you want with them."
"Very well, Lord Megenso." Kuriza began as he bowed before them. "I'd rather not get my hands dirty with this, so their yours, Cell. Even you can join if you wish to die, Raditz."
"I assure you that I'm not as weak as I was before." Raditz smirked as he approached the group and glared directly at Gohan. "Never thought you'd see me again did you, nephew? Well, I assure you we will not meet again! I'll take your unconscious body to Megenso and dump the bodies of your friends in the sea...after I've killed them."
"You miserable creature!" Annabeth shouted as she slashed her knife at Radtiz. "To think you're Goku's brother!"
"Kakarott is an embarrassment to the saiyans, human. You know, maybe I'll just destroy your body once I've killed you. Yeah. That will be easier." Raditz said as he lunged at Annabeth.
"Maybe in a million years!" Percy shouted as he threw a right punch at Raditz's face that was powerful enough to send Radtiz to the far side of the room, unconscious.
"Wow!" Gohan gasped. "Good one, Percy."
"Thank you, Gohan." Percy said as he drew Riptide and turned to face Cell and Kuriza.
"Don't make me laugh, kid. Even if all four of you gang up on us, you can't beat us." Cell smirked as he stepped forward.
"That's what you think, Cell!" a female voice shouted as a flash of purplish light appeared in the air. As soon as it disappeared, a black-haired girl with a red shirt, jeans, and an orange bandana appeared with Future Trunks standing beside her.
"Trunks!" Gohan shouted happily.
"No! Not again, time walker!" Kuriza shouted.
"Ah." Megenso laughed. "So our paths cross once more."
"Only thanks to you!" Pan smirked. "After all, you're the only reason I'm able to be here."
"True. A mistake in judgment I made since my revival was incomplete. But I assure you that while I did throw you out of time, it doesn't mean you cannot die."
"True." Kuriza said as he and Megenso started growing transparent, and so did the sarcophagus, Luke, and some of the other demigods in the room. "I hope you like death, for this ship will explode in ten minutes!" he then proceeded to drop a strange device on the ground that seemed to sink into the floor. "See ya in Hell, probably stopping whatever uprising my father has caused down there. I'll come back to bring the unconscious saiyan to Megenso." With that, they disappeared with only the unconscious Raditz, Cell, Gohan, Percy, Tyson, Annabeth, Future Trunks, and the mystery girl in the room.
"That's not good." Annabeth gulped.
"Yeah. Not good at all. I sense many people on this ship. I'm guessing they thought this was an actual cruise ship." Gohan said in shock as he turned towards Cell.
"You guys take care of Cell. I'll get the humans off of this ship." Future Trunks said.
"Got it." Gohan said as Future Trunks took off. "Now what?"
"I'll even the playing field." The mystery girl said with a grin as an aura surrounded her and her hair turned blond.
"You're a saiyan?!" Gohan shouted.
"Yep. One forth, anyway." She said as she walked towards Cell. "So you're Cell, eh? My family told me about you. Especially my dad."
"I guess my reputation precedes me." Cell began. "Then you'll know not to mess with me."
"Nah. I've dealt with tougher beings than you." The girl said as she fired several ki blasts at Cell, severely damaging him.
"Not bad." Cell smirked as he regenerated. "You have some fight in you, but I may be stronger than other versions of me."
"Try me." The girl smirked.
"Like this!" Cell said in response as he slapped the girl aside with his tail quite easily. "Who said that Megenso and Freeza's son were the only ones traveling between alternate worlds?"
"Isn't that how you ended up here in the first place?" Gohan asked as he flew towards Cell.
"Yes, but that is a bit different from what I was referring to." Cell shouted as he lashed his tail at Gohan and drove his tail into his back.
"What are you doing?!" Gohan shouted as he was shocked with electricity and his energy seemed to drain.
"Just absorbing your powers." Cell smirked. "Something I should have done on our first encounter."
"No!" Annabeth shouted as she ran up to Cell and struck him in the jaw, causing Cell to let Gohan fall to ground unconscious. "Back off!"
"Intriguing." Cell began. "A human like you shouldn't have been able to strike me like that. Did that fact that I was attacking your brother like that bring out some sort of latent power? Even if it does, I couldn't care less. You're all dead!" With that, he slapped her aside with his tail.
"Um..." Percy began as he started swinging his sword at Cell. "Weren't you supposed to bring Gohan to that time demon alive?"
"Was I? How careless of me. I'll just tell him that all of you died attacking me." The artificial life form smirked as he grabbed Riptide with one hand and punched him in the stomach with the other. "It's not that much of a stretch." Cell said as he dropped his unconscious form on the ground. "I highly doubt we'll meet again, and good riddance." With that, Cell put his fingers to his forehead and disappeared with Instant Transmission. Future Trunks flew in a few minutes later as the ship started falling apart.
"I got everyone off. I think we should-oh no!" Trunks grasped as he looked at all of the unconscious forms on the ground. "I don't know if I can get everyone out of here, but I will try."
"Need any help?" came a voice from outside of the ship.
"Huh?" Trunks asked as he looked up and saw a cloaked figure hovering outside the ship. The same person seen as the group made their way to the ship. "Who are you?"
"That's not important right now, time walker. What is important is getting everyone out." The figure said as he picked up Percy, Annabeth, and Gohan. "I'll get these kids out of here. You get your friend and Raditz out of here."
"Wait. Raditz?" Trunks asked. "Is he worth saving after what he's done?"
"You never know, time walker. I am sure you have seen people who have surprisingly redeemed themselves. Perhaps he will, as well." the figure said as he flew out of the ship.
"If you say so." Trunks sighed as he picked up the girl and Raditz and flew out of the ship.
"Follow my lead." The figure said as he led the way to a nearby island. When they landed, the figure carefully placed the demigods on the ground and placed his hand on Gohan's forehead. "They seem to be all right. Especially this boy. His energy should return in time."
"I see." Trunks said as he placed the girl and Raditz on the ground as well.
"Heh." The figure said as he looked closely at Gohan's face. "This boy seems to resemble his father."
"His father?" Trunks asked. "Hmmm...I may have a guess about who you are."
As the demigods were resting on their quest, Piccolo and Dende were watching them from the lookout. Vegeta was also there waiting for the others to arrive.
"This doesn't look good." Piccolo began. "It seems Cell is a little different from when we last met at the Cell Games."
"He sure does, and it worries me." Dende sighed as he lowered his head. "Where are his loyalties, anyway?"
"I don't know, but he doesn't seem to have any true loyalty to Freeza's son or that man with him." Piccolo responded.
"I'm more interested in the identity of that figure who saved Kakabrat's group and that weakling, and I have a few guesses." Vegeta said. "This is sure to get enjoyable.
"The saiyan love of fighting knows no bounds, does it?" Piccolo sighed as Mr. Popo walked up.
"Dende, the others are on their way here." The genie began. "The first group should be here in a few minutes."
"Very well, Mr. Popo. We're on their way." With that, Dende walked towards the palace.
"Shouldn't you be there to greet them as well, Vegeta?" Piccolo asked the saiyan prince. "Your siblings in the Athena cabin should be among the first to arrive."
"Ha!" Vegeta scoffed. "Do you really think I care about some of my mother's children? Not likely, Namekian. Unless they are even close to being a match for me, that is."
"Why am I not surprised?" Piccolo asked himself as he headed for the palace. "Oh well. We might as well prepared for what's to come."
Hmmmm... Who could the mysterious cloaked figure be? The answer to that will be revealed in the next chapter. Until next time, everyone.
