Ok, first, I need to reply to all the wonderful guests:
Avengerscrazygal: It's been ten days...add on already! Sorry, Avengerscrazygal, my time on the computer these days is seriously screwed up right now. One week you may have ten chapters, the next, zilch. Again, sorry.
Stephen: Why not have Percy show them Olympus or camp Half-Blood? Ok, first off, dude! You are seriously awesome! I've NEVER gotten this much GOOD advice from anybody! Onto the answer: Sorry, can't do that if I want to stay in accordance with the books. Camp Half-Blood 99% of the time keeps mortals out, and mortals aren't allowed on Olympus, even though some would argue that most of them aren't entirely human.
Stephen: Could you introduce some Greek creatures? Possibly Percy's Pegasus Blackjack? Have them express awe at seeing it. Good idea! I'll incorporate that somewhere in this chapter. I think. I don't even know anymore.
Stephen: Maybe you could have Percy show them camp half-blood or Olympus. When they learn about the population of Demigods, have Percy tell them what Annabeth told him when he first came to the camp. 'In the myths, what is the most common thing the gods did? Run around falling in love with mortals and having kids with them. Do you think they've changed their habits in the last few millenia?' Are you going to introduce Thor? What will he and Percy make of each other? I've already answered the first suggestion (sorry, it was a good idea), the second suggestion is hilarious, it'll definitely be in this chapter, and yes, somewhere in the next two or three chapters (since I respond to these first, I don't know if it'll be in this chapter or not), Thor will appear, and so will Thalia. Two lightning users. Joy. Percy will probably be like, "Great, another god I can piss off." In fact, now that I wrote that, look out for that line.
Red: In the books, it is revealed that Demigods born to Zeus, Poseidon and Hades were involved in WWII. Have Percy tell Rogers that, being a soldier of that time how would he react? Also, why don't you have Percy's mother introduced to one or more of the Avengers? I would imagine that they would be curious about her, because of her relationship with a god. And have the Avengers meet some Olympians. OH MY FREAKING GODS, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?! You, my friend, have as good suggestions as Stephen. Percy's mother...I don't know. She'll be coming in somewhere during or after the war and will probably share a scene with the Avengers. I can actually see her and Steve hitting off quite nicely, as well as Paul with Dr. Banner. They've both got that calm demeanor.
Overall, guests, specifically Stephen and Red, please keep the reviews coming. I seriously think that the more ideas you give me, the better this book will be.
PS-Idon'townPJOorAvengers! Sorry, didn't feel like using the spacebar. But you got the general point. It's the disclaimer.
Ok, you can start reading now! \/ (481)
Percy whistled, loud, long and clear. Steve winced. He didn't know that a human could whistle that loud. "When he arrives, I can only take one of you with me. Stark, you might want to get your car. Though you aren't allowed in camp, you can still see the campers once they start assembling on the hill."
"Whoa, wait, what? Where are we going?" Stark demanded.
Percy shrugged. "Not we, me. You peeps are just along for the ride. I know you guys want to know where I disappear to. Well, you can get to the place. You just can't go in. You try, you just kind of bounce off or you get fried. Depends on whether you're friend or foe."
Steve backed up and crouched into the defensive position as a black blur fell out of the sky. "Hey, Blackjack. How many times have I told you not to call me boss? And um, don't scare them too much, please." Percy said, petting the horse's mane. Percy sighed in exasperation. "Seriously?"
"Are you, um, talking to, um...what is it?" Clint asked, baffled.
"Yes, I am talking to him, and he's the only black pegasus." Percy said. "Oh, chill, you know that I have a stash on me at all times in cases like this," Percy scolded the pegasus. He reached inside his pocket to produce a slightly fuzzy sugarcube. "Here." Perccy suddenly yelped: "Don't try to eat my hand like last time!"
Blackjack gave an indignant whinny. Then he snorted. Steve's eyebrows climbed to his hairline. "Oh, right. Forgot about that part and why I was illegal at all."
"What?" Natasha said quizzically.
"Yeah, um, Steve...World War II was started by my gods' children bickering...and, um, you may have met a couple of my brothers and sisters and cousins," Percy scratched the back of his neck sheepishly and refused to look at anyone but Blackjack.
Suddenly Percy yelled in shock. "You said what to Thalia's bird?!"
Stark snorted a little from laughter and startlement.
"He said that a) I smell like raw meat, b) my falcon looks like it just went through a lawnmower, and c) you managed to get yourself in a war again," a sharp voice said from across the street. "And I say that I make him into a fried pegasus and make my pillow with his down and have a grand feast with his meat. And don't even bother to say, 'speaking of the devil,' because we all know that that's Nico."
The Avengers had to watch in amazement as a girl in silvery clothes and spikey black hair dodged her way across the street quicker and with more fearlessness than Stark had ever seen.
"Kelp Head," she greeted. It sounded sharp to the Avengers, but Percy grinned.
"Pinecone Face," he returned.
She punched him in the arm, then glared at him. "Seriously? Another war? Where in my order did you not understand the words don't get into another war? Sorry. Keep forgetting that water conducts electricity."
Percy grimaced as he rolled his shoulders. The punch didn't bother him, it was the unintentional shock that got to Percy. "Yeah, and I keep forgetting that water is very good at soaking people." Percy turned to the Avengers, who all wore a mixture of amusement and confusion. "Avengers, may I introduce my idiotic couisn who apparently has short-term memory loss, Thalia, daughter of Zeus, lord of the skies. Tip: don't mess with her unless you can dodge arrows and lightning and run really, really fast."
"So she and Thor would hit off rather well, yes?" Stark asked.
"Thor?" Percy asked, puzzled.
"For a genius, Stark, you sure are stupid to forget that he's never met Thor, the Norse god of thunder." Natasha remarked.
"Oh," Percy said. "Great, another god I can piss off."
Thalia, Blackjack, and Percy stood there looking confused as the Avengers started laughing.
"Another god to piss off," Natasha repeated, her shoulders shaking. It just riled up the laughter some more.
The laughter tapered off as they finally realized that Percy was being dead serious.
"Please tell me he doesn't do it on a regualar basis," Steve asked incredulously to Thalia.
"Ok. He doesn't." Steve sagged with relief. "He does it on an hourly basis."
"WHAT?!"
Percy shrugged. "Perk of being a a hero of Olympus multiple times is that you can say just about anything and get away with it."
"Um..." Stark, for once, seemed to be at a loss for words.
"Yeah, it's a bit like that," Percy agreed.
"Holy-" Thalia let out a long string of expletives.
Suddenly, Percy was having a bad flashback of the Titan War, when Manhattan was silent for days upon end. Now he was here to witness what it was like. Noise level decreased drastically, until nothing could be heard except some phones and breathing. It was like Manhattan had sighed, and then went to sleep. Engines sputtered to a stop and even the rats curled up and went to sleep.
"Oh my gods," Percy breathed.
"Which god did they recruit now?" Thalia asked angrily.
Laughter cut through the silence. Thalia grabbed Steve and Stark with iron grips and dragged them into a narrow alley. The rest of the Avengers followed her quickly, and Percy covered them.
Percy quieted his breathing so he could hear. "-prisoner, Hypnos. Most coopertive. I would thank you, but since I forced you, I doubt my thanks would be welcome."
Percy peeked around the building with one eye. A guy that was all dark he assumed was Erebus, and he was holding a tanned man with swan-white wings, handcuffs, and shackles, by the guy's chocolate brown hair. Besides the wings, he looked pretty normal. He assumed it was Hypnos.
Hypnos saw the movement and was trying to get something across to Percy, but he couldn't figure out what. He knew it wasn't run, he knew that expression well on any face. Then it clicked, and Percy was instantly awed by the god. No god he knew would ask for help. But this one was.
Percy ducked behind the building again, and crept along the wall to Thalia. He mimed sleeping, then restraints. Thalia's eyebrows shot up. Percy mimed sleeping again, and made an exaggerated face that screamed help. Thalia's eyebrows disappeared into her hair.
Thalia adamantly shook her head no, and mimed that it would be suicide going out there, especially for the mortals, meaning the Avengers.
Percy gave her a bored look. Either I'm going out there alone, or you can come with me, is basically what he was trying to say to Thalia, but she kept shaking her head.
He gave her a stubborn look. She rolled her eyes. He mimed sleeping and sliced his finger across his throat.
Thalia's eyes grew wide in fear. He turned around, and the darkness was gathering. Thalia grabbed Natasha and practically threw her into the sunlight, followed by Stark, Banner, and Clint. Percy and Thalia ran for the Avengers.
"Thalia," he hissed quietly. "I'm sorry."
"Percy, don't you dare," she hissed back, but Percy was already in motion. He picked up Thalia like she weighed nothing more than a football and threw her with the Avengers, and boosted himself off a garbage can up into a first-story apartment. He ran in the sunlight, noting that it was darker in the shadows than it should be, and burst out the window where Erebus was gloating.
Percy's aim was perfect. He dropped onto the shoulders of Erebus, and Hypnos promptly snapped back his head and gave Erebus a bloody nose. Percy tossed him Riptide, which took him all of half a second to cut his bonds and run Erebus through.
A mass of shadows burst from Erebus, and Percy clung tight, not sure what would happen if he let go, and then the thing he was on top of melted to a black puddle like a hellhound would.
Hypnos capped Riptide and handed it back to Percy. "Thank you. That actually wasn't so hard. Why did I even get captured in the first place?"
Percy pointed at the shadows, which answered Hypnos without any words needed.
"All who vote to skedaddle out of here before Erebus reforms say 'aye'!" Percy shouted. He whistled, and jumped off a car onto a black blur, Hypnos launching himself into the air right behind him. "I think that's pretty understood that we both say 'aye'!" Hypnos shouted to Percy. Percy could only nod in agreement.
