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Avenger Compound
"You want me to put her on house arrest?" Asked Percy to Tony Stark.
"Yes and no. Think of it this way: The whole world right now is calling for her blood, if you agree to help me keep her here, she will not only be safe from the world, but she will also be safe from herself. I will put Vision also watching around, so no one can get in."
Percy looked thoughtful for a minute. He wanted to protect Wanda, right now everything was very confusing, but putting her behind a locked door? Was it the best option?
"What are you going to do?" Percy asked Tony.
"Senator Ross is calling for us right now. I suspect that he is going to force our signature. I need to be there to convince the others…" Tony said.
"So you already made up your mind?" Percy asked the billionaire.
"Well…Yes. It must be done, for the greater good."
"Who would've thought that the great Tony Stark would be serious about something." Percy smirked. "Fine, I will keep her here, but you must understand that I am not going to force anything on her. I will not force her to hide."
"Fair enough, just keep her here until we can sort something out." Tony said.
Tony left the room and walked towards another wing of Avenger Compound. Percy on the other hand was still a bit doubtful about forcing Wanda to stay hidden, but at the same time he understood that it was better this way. At least until the public calmed itself a little.
He grabbed his phone to call Peter and his mom.
"Funny. Since the battle with Gaea I have not attracted any monsters with the phone waves. Wonder why though…" He muttered to himself while he dialed his mother.
"Hello?"
"Hi mom." Percy said.
"Percy! Oh my god, where are you?"
"Listen, Mr. Stark asked me a favour. I need to stay at this complex helping him guard it. It's safe and the Avengers are in the other room. I don't know if I will be staying or not, but just so you know…"
"Fine, I trust that you know what you are doing…just be safe, okay?" Her mother said. She was used to this either way.
"Yeah, love you mom."
He was about to dial for Peter when the door opened to reveal a teary eyed Wanda. When Wanda saw Percy she ran to him and hugged him.
"Percy I am a monster." She sobbed.
Percy did not know how to act. The fact that he usually did not deal with this type's of situations was not helping either. Annabeth never broke down, and when she did, she did not require anything more than a hug to be back on her feet.
"N-no, you are not a monster…it's not your fault…" Percy tried.
"It is…I killed to many people…They hate me…"
"Hey, it was not your fault. If you did not try to control the explosion maybe more people would have been hurt, at least you tried to help. It doesn't always work out, but it does not make us bad." Percy said. He had some flashbacks to the wars while he said this.
There was silence and Wanda nodded, still with her face in his chest.
"Here, let's go to a room. You look like you need some sleep." Percy guided her to a room and she immediately went to the bed to sleep. Percy went back to the living room of the apartment and sat down. He saw something go inside the room through a wall.
"Hello Perseus." Said Vision.
"Hey Vision, call me Percy."
"Very well Percy, how is young Wanda."
"Well, she seems in shock. Not that I blame her. To be honest I think that it will be a while until she can assimilate what happened. The international media is not helping her, just blaming her for a situation that could not be helped." Percy said, a little anger in his voice.
"I agree with you. After analyzing a certain amount of data I got to the conclusion that Wanda had only three options. There was a total of 626 people inside the explosion radius. The course of action she took saved almost 322. It was not the best option but it was one of the best at the moment." Said Vision.
"Don't tell her that. She may take it the wrong way." Said Percy.
"Very well. I came to tell you that Mr. Stark and the rest of the Avengers are in a very important meeting at the moment. I shall head there right now. If you please stay here until the end of the meeting we will all be very grateful, also it is better to keep you under the eye of the government so they don't force anything upon you." Vision said.
"Thanks Vision, go ahead then. I will be fine." Percy said.
Vision nodded and exited through the wall.
Space.
"Dear god…" Athena said. Athena and Hestia were half way through their trip toward the temple of the watchers, they suddenly felt a disturbing presence and decided to investigate.
To say that they were horrified with the sight was an understatement. They had gotten to the planetary complex that was supposedly protected by Xandar, but when they got to the first planet they found total destruction. The genocide on the planet could put Ares to shame with his little soldier games. They decided to descend on the planet to try to find more about what had happened.
Hestia and Athena changed into the normal shape of the habitants of the planet and they decided to walk.
"What the hell happened here?" Athena asked after seeing the destruction.
"I feel pain and sadness. Families broken and societies destroyed. The hearth of the planet is so…"
"yes?"
"…weak…" Hestia said with sadness.
They continued to walk around the ruins of the city until they found a man cowering in the corner of a destroyed home. It broke both goddess's hearts seeing the man holding a baby to his chest while next to him lay the dead body of a woman.
"Sir…" Said Hestia.
"Get away from me!" said the man in his own tongue. The goddesses used godly energy to communicate with him.
"Sir…calm down, we aren't going to hurt you. Just tell us what happened?" Hestia asked.
"Y-you mean y-y-you didn't s-s-s-see it?" the poor man stuttered. Still clutching the sleeping baby to himself.
"No sir." Athena said.
The man took a deep breath.
"He came. The one with purple skin. He had an army of monsters. Women with snake feet and spears…another woman that had snakes in her hair…a man with human body but that looked like a bull…giant black dogs…giant one-eyed man…"
Athena and Hestia looked at each other with worry and fear in her eyes.
"Also…tall men and women with armour and powers… women with bat wings… they came…they destroyed everything. The purple one said that our world was overpopulated and he was going to kill half of everyone to help us… He killed everyone…all of us…" The man said. Then his eyes widened with terror.
"THERE! ONE OF THEM!" He yelled, pointing behind the goddesses.
Slowly, the goddesses turned around and their breath caught in their throat. Usually, goddesses did not fear anything. Not Athena, Not Hestia. But upon seeing their enemy, they could not help the shiver that went down their spine.
"Well, well, well… Isn't this a beautiful family reunion?" Koios, the titan of Farsight, Intellect and Knowledge, said.
"What are you doing here?" Athena asked.
"Well, someone out there gave us a better deal than Gaea and Kronos. In fact, he beat some sense into both of them and forced them to be his pets. After seeing that, well…We just decided to help on his crusade."
"Which is?" Hestia asked.
"The annihilation of half of the universe. Honestly, those dumb protogenoi thought that they could stop us…how sad the result." Koios smirked sickly.
"W-what did you do?!" Athena asked.
"Oh, as you know, most of the protogenoi are bound to earth, but the ones that are not, well…let's say that they look nice as silver dust."
He took a pause and then said.
"Our master decided to have a 'talk' with one of the protogenoi…what was her name? Oh yes, Ananke. Yes, he had a talk with Ananke and he found out about some very interesting piece of history. Before she was 'dismissed' he told our master about six singularities, six power stones that could accomplish the goal of my master. With those stones he could annihilate half of the universe with a snap of his fingers."
SNAP!
"That easy. Let's say that Ananke tried to warn someone about him, but she miserably failed and ended up as silver mist a couple of seconds later."
'So that was the reason of the prophecy…' Thought Athena.
"Anyway…this was just one of the crusades that our master asked us to do. But not only us were freed, also this weird lady was freed from some chains in some place. She said she would help us only if she had something back, something called Asward or Ascar…who cares?"
Athena and Hestia paled.
"Weird lady if you asked me, black haired, weird helmet, likes knifes. Anyway, now, why are two of the Olympians on my humble territory? Came for a chat?" Koios asked.
"We sensed something wrong, we came to investigate. Apparently we found the reason everything was messed up. Once we are back, we will bring your essence back to Tartarus where you belong." Athena said, summoning Aegis and a spear to her, while Hestia summoned two hunting knifes that were red hot with flames.
"The goddess of strategy and the goddess of the hearth…do you really think you have a chance against me?" Koios asked, summoning a sword to him.
"We shall see."
They charged.
Ohio.
"Annabeth, we have been on the road for a couple of days now… don't you find it weird that we have encountered only three or four packs of monsters?" Piper asked the daughter of Athena.
"The little bitches have been avoiding us since Gaea fell, not many people have found monsters." Said Clarisse.
"Cyclops in Daddy's forge also missing. We worried." Tyson said.
"Now that you say it…Yes…it's like they suddenly disappeared. I doubt that it has to do with the doors of death…but at the same time…" Annabeth began to think.
'We have been on the road for five days. We only have encountered a couple of hellhounds and some empousa, nothing else. If we are on our way to Prometheus and he is the titan of forethought he should know we are coming. Either way he has not sent a force to intercept us. That leaves only two options. One, he has a large army waiting for us, or two, he is lacking minions…' Annabeth thought,
"…nabeth! Annabeth!" yelled Piper, breaking her concentration.
"Oh, what? Sorry, I was thinking." Annabeth said.
"Yeah, I realized. We are approaching something. It looks like a hut." Piper said.
Annabeth looked towards the hut. It was a nice old house. Wooden, in the middle of the country. It had a nice garden with many different flowers. It also had statues on the outside that adorned the already beautiful garden.
They stopped when they caught sight of two old ladies. Both had their heads covered in some sort of Hijab and wore glasses that showed beautiful green eyes. They turned and noticed the group of demigods.
"Oh, hi! What a lovely surprise." Said one of them.
"Yes! We don't get visitor very often over here." Said the other one.
"Oh hi…We were just passing by." Annabeth said.
"Nonsense, you four look like you could have something to eat and drink." One of the ladies said.
The group looked among each other.
"Food!" Tyson yelled.
"Food…" Annabeth said. "Fine, I guess it could not hurt."
The old ladies beamed with happiness. The group of demigods, ridden by hunger, entered the garden but Annabeth stayed behind. She then noticed the statues and something about them triggered a familiar memory from long ago.
One of the ladies noticed her looking at the statues.
"Do you like them? My late sister gave them to us. She was great in her work. She enjoyed making this beautiful statues for the garden." The lady said. "Call me Muriel."
"Hi Muriel, I am Annabeth, you said your sister made this? They are very nice." She said.
"Yes, yes. My dear sister. She was cursed, long ago. After that she decided to leave us and moved to some place near New York to set her garden emporium shop."
Annabeth froze. The sense of familiarity suddenly became suspicious.
"An emporium?" She asked, worry in her voice.
"Yes, she made this beautiful statues for the garden. One day she disappeared." The old lady said.
"Oh, I am sorry for that. I will go look for my friends." Annabeth said, hurrying inside.
'Why are the statues so damn familiar?! Why is this situation as a whole so suspicious?' Annabeth thought. She entered the house to find the four of them sitting around a table and the other lady bringing them a plate of sandwiches with Jam.
She then noticed the bandage covering the left hand of the lady that was carrying the plate.
Then it clicked.
"Miss! Can I ask you something?" said Annabeth with a shaky voice.
"Why yes dear, what is the matter?"
"Is Aunt Em related to you?"
The old lady froze.
"Y-yes…she is my late sister…" she said.
Annabeth's eyes widened. She then took out her knife and pointed it at her.
"Guys! We need to go!" Annabeth yelled.
"what is the matter dears?" Muriel asked.
"Yes, what has gotten into you?" Clarisse asked.
"Really? After all these years you cannot distinguish between a monster and a mortal?"
"Annabeth, what are you talking about?" Asked Piper, failing to notice how the old ladies took of their Hijabs.
"THEY ARE THE GORGONS!" Annabeth yelled, just when Muriel jumped at her with claws and the snakes in her hair began to bite at her.
Clarisse, Tyson and Piper sprang into action. Clarisse, with her spear, struck it at the other gorgon pushing her back. While Piper forced Muriel to join her sister on the other side of the room.
"My, dear, how did you figure it out? We thought we caught you." Muriel said.
"The statues, Medusa had a familiar façade, Percy, Grover and me got caught in the Garden Emporium of Medusa, Percy killed her." Annabeth said.
"Oh, so that lousy son of the sea is still alive. What a pity. Where is he? I would've thought that you too would be together." Muriel said.
"Shut up." Piper commanded.
"Let's get this over with." Annabeth said. She launched at Muriel who Annabeth figured was Euryale's cover, with Tyson. Clarisse and Piper launched at Stheno with equal force.
Annabeth sidestepped the claws of the gorgon, while Tyson hit her square in the face with his stick.
"Bad lady!" Tyson yelled, as he hit her again.
Annabeth ducked as the snakes in the heads of the gorgons snapped at her, she spun on her heel and delivered a strike with her knife to the chest of the gorgon. Euryale screamed, and her body fell. Disintegrating in a puff of smoke but leaving behind two small vials. At the same time, Clarisse drove her spear into the chest of the other gorgon while Piper drove her knife into her leg. Again, the gorgon disintegrated.
"Damnit. Should've known…" Clarisse said.
"Doesn't matter now. What are those?" Piper asked to Annabeth, who had the two containers in her hands.
"Gorgon blood. Percy told me how they work. The blood on the right side can heal any injury while blood from the left side is a lethal poison. I noticed the cut on the left side of the gorgon and everything clicked. They are the sisters of Medusa, but they don't petrify. They are just as dangerous. Either way, these might come in handy." She said as she put both of the vials into her backpack.
"What now?" Piper asked.
"Nothing…we keep going…I guess there is nothing more we can—" She stopped herself from speaking when she saw the painting on one of the walls.
She walked towards it and gasped.
In the painting, a purple man with a golden hand was on top of a mountain of skeletons. In front of him, six different coloured stones were placed in a line. Next to each stone, was a word
"Purple – Power, Blue – Space, Red – Reality, Brown – Soul, Green – Time, Yellow – Mind…What does this mean?" Asked Annabeth.
"No clue, but it resembles what Rachel drew." Piper said.
Annabeth nodded. The stones were the same, in the same order as the painting of Rachel. The man was apparently very similar to the face on Rachels drawing, such as the golden glove…
'wait…Golden glove? Where have I heard that before?'
"We need to take it." Annabeth said.
"Why?" Clarisse asked.
"It's basically the same Rachel drew, isn't it weird it his in the house of gorgons?" Annabeth asked the group.
"Well, Rachel isn't that normal…" Clarisse said. "Ugh, fine. I'll take it." She said after she noticed the glare she got from the other three.
"There is certainly something weird going on. Monsters are missing, Rachel has a vision that is basically a painting on some random gorgon's house, Apollo is trapped under Prometheus' forces, Jason is missing. What on earth is going on? I also had this weird conversation with my mom…Ugh, too much information." Annabeth said.
The group exited the house and began to walk again into the country. Completely oblivious to the significance of the information that they had on them.
Hey there. Well, short chapter. Not a lot of Percy/Avengers, but rather focused a little on moving forward the other roads of the story. Can y'all see how everything is beginning to overlap? Slowly but surely the story is advancing. I know that my chapters are not as 'good' right now, and its mainly because I am trying to save the good parts for a little further.
The story is a crossover between universes, not only Percy. So for me it makes sense that the two universes at large are overlapping, not only one character. But don't worry though, the nice fight is coming soon enough. Slowly the pieces are starting to fit, and slowly we are getting to that point where the story will explode.
Thank you for your support, It really makes me happy to know that you guys love my writing. I know some chapters (like this one) are boring or not that interesting to read, but please, I assure you that they are necessary. Mainly because they will come back in the future to explain how the universe is overlapping. Give me more ideas for filler chapters so this story can be nice and long. We all hate those stories that are 1000 words per page and 12 pages long, right? So gimme a hand.
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