Chapter 12
Naruto kept his eyes wide as he scanned every nook and cranny as he, Percy, Annabeth and Grover walking along the New Jersey riverbank which went through the forest they were currently in hiking in.
After already being attacked by the Furies earlier all four were on high alert since they didn't want a situation like on the bus to occur again. They almost got separated and the promise he made Chiron was horribly close to being broken.
Behind them the glow of New York City was making the night sky yellow behind the group and the smell of the Hudson River was causing a reek smell to enter their noses, Naruto and Grover especially due to their enhanced sense of smell.
"Three Kindly ones" Grover kept muttering to himself. "Who would have guessed we would run into them so soon. In fact what were the chances of us running into them in general?"
"Well it was bound to happen. When we are on this mission of this magnitude we have to always be watching our backs. If the Furies were the first to go after us then I dread to think what else could be after us. There is always a bigger fish as they say" Naruto said as he had his pen in his hand just in case.
"What do we do now? All our money was back on the bus and now we lost it all" Percy said dreading this quest more and more every moment.
"Well, maybe if you hadn't decided to jump into the fight—" Annabeth started before she and Percy started arguing again.
Naruto and Grover rolled their eyes. "They sound like an old married couple."
"NO WE DON'T" they both yelled scowling at that comment.
"We don't have time to argue. We are a team" Naruto encouraged but he knew it was going to take more than that with these two.
Grover brayed mournfully. "Tin cans ... a perfectly good bag of tin cans" he said getting a chuckle from Naruto as the four trudged on.
The three made their way through muddy and mushy ground causing their feet to get stuck in the ground where the mud got deep. Even Grover struggled and had to take off his fake legs to cross the ground properly.
After a few more minutes of trudging through the forest and Naruto saw at the corner of his eye Annabeth fall into line next to Percy. "Look, I..." Her voice faltered. "I appreciate your coming back for us, okay? That was really brave. It's just that if you died ... aside from the fact that it would really suck for you, it would mean the quest was over. This may be my only chance to see the real world."
Naruto snickered a little before a small smile graced his face. It was not much but at least Percy and Annabeth were heading in the right direction to being civil with each other. Who knows maybe by the end of the quest they may be friends.
The thunderstorm above them finally began to dissipate but it left them almost in complete darkness. They had not noticed it until now but it was well into the evening and it would not be long until the sun had completely disappeared and left them in the night.
"At camp you train and train" Annabeth said still talking to Percy. "And that's all cool and everything, but the real world is where the monsters are. That's where you learn whether you're any good or not."
"You know you're pretty good with that knife" Naruto said getting a glint of glee from Annabeth eyes.
"Yeah anyone who can piggy back a Fury is okay by me" Percy said with Grover nodding in agreement. Annabeth meanwhile blushed a little at all the praise.
"You know if you were from my world you would have made a great shinobi. Knife skills are similar to Kunai's in away."
That made a big smile form on Annabeth's face. A compliment like that from someone as strong as Naruto sent waves or pride and joy through Annabeth. She was very quickly beginning to look up to Naruto despite not knowing him for very long. When you were with him you just had this aura of safety around him like as long as he was there no one would hurt you. Plus he knowing his Greek mythology caused her to respect him too and his world just fascinated her.
Over time maybe she and Naruto could have a brother-sister relationship just like she has with Luke.
She stopped her thought when she saw Naruto staring at his wrist and saw him examining it. "Every thing okay Naruto?" she asked frowning a little at the confused look on Naruto's face.
"I'm not sure" he replied. "On the bus one of the furies managed to get her fire whip around my wrist but when it did I didn't feel any pain. My skin is not even burned" he said showing his wrist to the others and they saw his skin was completely untouched and unharmed.
"The same thing happened to me sort of" Percy said rolling up his sleeve to show a small burnt marks on his skin but by the looks of it as already nearly healed due to Naruto giving them all portions of his ambrosia and nectar since they lost their bags back on the bus.
"Maybe it's not as complicated as you think" Annabeth said getting everyone's attention to her. "Remember your not just the son for Artemis but also a descendant of Hestia therefore you have Hestia's blood running through you right?" Naruto nodded intrigued at what she was getting at.
"Hestia is the Goddess of the Hearth and therefore she has dominion over fire like Hephaestus does. Since you have her blood in you perhaps it makes you resistant to fire to some level. Although I doubt you're resistant to Greek fire since it so hot and powerful, perhaps when it comes to regular fire Hestia's blood in your veins shields you."
"So you're saying I'm immune to fire to a certain degree?" he said with Annabeth nodding. "Huh guess I will have to thank her when I see her" he said closing his eyes and sending a thank you prayer to Hestia who he still wanted to know how she was related to him.
"That does sound pretty handy" Grover muttered with Percy agreeing although he was happy with his weird water powers.
The group was quickly bought out of their thoughts when they heard what sounded like an owl being strangled. It was only when they looked at Grover they realised it was him using his reed pipes. He must have had them in his pocket instead of his bag.
"They still work" he said with joy causing Annabeth to roll her eyes but keep a smile to on face while Naruto and Percy chuckled.
After a few more minutes of walking, tripping over and walking into trees eventually they found themselves staring at a neon light sign just up ahead of them. Naruto and Grover could but smell fried and greasy food.
They walked closer and by now Annabeth and Percy smelt it to. Annabeth's stomach gave a small rumble causing her to blush in embarrassment while Naruto could swear he saw a bit of drool escaping Percy's mouth.
Through the tree's they found themselves stopping at a two laned road. On the other side was a closed-down gas station, a tattered billboard for the 90s film Jurassic Park, and one open business, which was the source of the neon light and the greasy fat food smell.
From the billboard alone they all guessed this place was not visited often.
They walked up to the building with the neon light sign and saw it was not actually a fast food restaurant. They all figured it looked more like one of those roadside corner shops that sell cheap souvenirs.
The main building was a long, low warehouse, surrounded by acres of statuary. The neon sign was red in colour and was in cursive English that was murder for the three demi gods to read.
To the three of them it looked like: ATNYU MES GDERAN GOMEN MEPROUIM.
"Any idea what this says?" Naruto asked while Percy and Annabeth shrugged. Grover then glanced at it.
"It says Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium" he said getting an odd look from the three.
"That is perhaps the most ridiculous name I have ever heard" Naruto said while Percy quickly agreed.
"The lights are on". Someone must be in" Percy said while Grover nodded.
"We could see if they could give us a hand. I think there is also a snack bar" Percy said before he looked at Annabeth. "Snack bar?"
"Snack bar" she agreed before
"I don't know this place looks a little weird. I don't trust it" he said sniffing the air which caused Naruto to do the same. The place did smell weird. It smelt to much like a reptile house at a zoo which Naruto knew could not have been a good sign.
He looked over and noticed Percy and Annabeth had already headed towards the building with Grover following after them.
"Why do I have bad feeling about this" he thought before he too followed after.
They headed over and the first thing they saw was all the stone statues. The front lot was pretty much just a forest of statues: cement animals, cement children, even a cement satyr playing the pipes, which gave Grover the creeps. The place was just odd and the by the looks of it no one visited in a while.
"Bla-ha-ha!" Grover said excitedly as he began to examine the statue before he bleated. "This looks like my Uncle Ferdinand. That is so weird" he said examining it carefully.
"It does look pretty detailed. Whoever made it must be pretty skilled."
When they finished looking at the statue the group of four went to the front door.
"Do we just knock?" Percy asked getting a shrug from Naruto and Grover.
"I don't know but I really don't trust this place. Something about this place is just off. Let's try somewhere else" Grover asked with Naruto agreeing but they guessed Percy and Annabeth's hunger was getting the better of them.
"All I smell is burgers. Aren't you hungry?"Percy said looking at Grover.
"Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian. When have you ever seen me eat meat?"
"Good point" Naruto thought.
"You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminium cans," I reminded him.
Grover would have retorted but the door in front of them suddenly creaked open. When the door was fully open standing in front of them was a tall Middle Eastern woman. She was wearing a long black gown that covered everything but her hands, and her head was completely veiled.
She had coffee-colored hands that looked old, but they were well-manicured and elegant. Naruto imagined she was some sort of grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady back in her youth. By looking at her perhaps she had been some sort of model and getting old was not something she enjoyed due to the fact that she was completely covered up.
"Children, it is too late to be out all alone. Where are your parents?" she asked with a very thick accent. Listening to her accent Annabeth thought she might have been from the Middle East.
"Were orphans" Percy suddenly blurted out causing the other three to look at him as if he just hit his head.
"Orphans?" the woman said. The word sounded alien in her mouth and Naruto didn't like it. "But, my dears! Surely not!"
The concern in her voice sounded fake as if she was putting it on. Naruto and Annabeth both were a little suspicious of her.
"We got separated from our caravan," Percy said continuing his story. "Our circus caravan left us behind accidently. We don't have anywhere to go."
Annabeth looked at Naruto and mouthed the word caravan and him and was now beginning to think Percy was going a little loopy.
Naruto just shrugged back and mouthed back 'just go with it.' It might not have been the best lie but it would have to and it did look like it was working. When they got back to camp he would have to get the Stoll brothers to teach Percy how to lie properly since they were masters of it.
The ringmaster told us to meet him at the gas station if we got lost, but he may have forgotten, or maybe he meant a different gas station since he was gone by the time we got there. Anyway, we're lost. Is that food I smell?" Percy said causing the three to face palm a little.
"Oh, my dears," the woman said. "You must come in, poor children. I am Aunty Em. Go straight through to the back of the warehouse, please. There is a dining area."
"Thank you" the four said before the headed in. While they walked their Naruto and Grover were keeping their eyes on the woman.
"Kelp head" Annabeth muttered still not believing the lie Percy had told the woman.
As they walked through warehouse they all that it was filled with more statues—people in all different poses, wearing all different outfits and with different expressions on their faces. Naruto frowned when he saw that many of them looked like they had scared faces plus the eyes of the statues just looked like they were following them. Naruto had to admit it was a little of putting.
Eventually they arrived at the back of the warehouse to see a room with a dining table with some chairs around it. They saw that there was a fast-food counter with a grill, a soda fountain, a pretzel heater, and a nacho cheese dispenser. Everything that you could want was there and it was all there's.
Naruto had to admit his stomach was beginning to crave for food. He had not eaten since lunch so he would not deny food at this moment in time.
"Please take a seat my dears" she said gesturing to the chairs at the table.
"Um," Grover said reluctantly, "we don't have any money, ma'am. We can't really pay you anything."
"No, no, children. No money. This is a special case, yes? It is my treat, for such nice orphans."
"Thank you, ma'am," Annabeth said before Aunty Em whipped her head around to look at her. When she did Naruto saw a quick look of anger cross her face before she managed to get back under control. Naruto wasn't sure if anyone else noticed it but it was a little of putting.
"Quite all right, Annabeth," she said. "You have such beautiful gray eyes, child." She then turned to look at Naruto. "Your eyes to my dear. Such beautiful sapphire and silver eyes. Heterochromia I believe it's called. It's like looking into a pool of water and at the moon."
"Urm thanks" both Naruto and Annabeth said in tandem causing them to smirk at each other before both realised what she said. Naruto's silver eyes was suppose to be covered up by the mist and appear looking like a blue eye just like it was before he was claimed. Plus how did she know their names?
This meant only two things. Either she could see through the mist or she was not human and Naruto's gut was telling him it was the second option.
Aunty Em then went behind the snack counter and started cooking. The four did not have to wait long before she came out with trays of food and put them down on the ground. While she was cooking Naruto had his pen back out ready along with Annabeth playing with her sleeve which had her knife in it. They also convinced Percy to ready his pen which he was reluctant too since Aunty Em was being so nice.
When the food was put down the four began to eat away at it. Naruto and Grover gave it a quick smell over to make sure it was poisoned or anything but it smelt fine so they dug into their food.
As Percy devoured his burger and Annabeth ate her fries while Naruto and Grover were slowly drinking their shakes when they heard what sounded like hissing.
"Did you just hear that?" Naruto whispered to Grover who nodded and looked glad that he was not the only one who heard it.
It sounded like hissing he the satyr said however Aunty Em had heard them.
"Hissing?" Aunty Em asked. "Perhaps you hear the deep-fryer oil. You have keen ears, Grover."
Naruto began eating his fried as the others dug into their food when he noticed that Aunty Em wasn't eating and was instead just sitting their staring at Percy. She hadn't taken off her head dress, even to cook, and now she sat forward and interlaced her fingers with her eyes solely o Percy as if she was waiting for something to happen.
"So you sell gnomes" Percy said trying to strike a conversation with the woman since her sitting there just staring at him was beginning to unnerve him as well as the others. The woman just had a weird vibe around her and Naruto was not letting his guard down for a second as was Annabeth who was shooting her eyes all across the room checking there were no traps.
"Oh, yes," Aunty Em said. "And animals. And people. Anything for the garden. Custom orders. Statuary is very popular, you know."
"A lot of business on this road?" Naruto asked though he doubted it. The place just looked abandoned and was surprised to find someone actually live here. He was trying to get the woman to talk. See if he could learn anything about her."
"Not so much, no. Since the highway was built... most cars, they do not go this way now. I must cherish every customer I get."
Naruto saw Percy rub the back of his neck and saw him look at a statue of a little girl holding an Easter basket. Both Naruto and Percy frowned at the statue. The statue of the girl had a face that was full of fear and terror. A face Naruto recognised to well since he himself wore that a face like that when he was younger.
"I love my creations" Aunty Em said. "But the face is always the hardest to create. Even thought they are stone they are good company to have around. Makes it feel like one big party."
"Right" they all thought thinking this woman might now have been all their in the head before Naruto and Grover's head whipped around when they heard the hissing noise again. Except this time it was louder and it sounded as if there was more than one.
"Do you live here alone?" Percy asked Aunty Em causing them all to look at her and all found themselves surprised when she shook her head.
"No actually I live here with my two sisters" she said and as she did two figures in similar dresses suddenly appeared behind Aunty Em coming through one of the warehouse doors. Both were about the same height.
When they did Naruto and Grover were hit by a strong smell that nearly made them yelp in surprise. The smell was intoxicating and it was a smell that Naruto hated and was now berating himself for now smelling earlier. There were small traces of it before but he thought nothing of it. It was the smell of serpents or more in particular, snakes.
Grover was shivering slightly in his seat. Naruto could only guess that he got a strong wave of monster scents hit him.
He looked over to Annabeth and he could see she was thinking and was trying to make the connection. Three sisters, stone statues, hissing noises and the smell of snakes in the air.
Naruto thought over all stories he had read from the Greek mythology text book he was given and was beginning to remember a story. Thoughts began to race around his head before he remembered the story about the original Perseus and how he defeated-
"Oh shit" he immediately thought and looked over at Annabeth who's eyes had gone wide as well. She too had figured it out.
Aunty Em too figured out that the two of them knew before she stood up motioning for her sisters to stand beside her. When they did Naruto and Annabeth did the same.
"I think it time we left" Naruto said getting a quick nod from Annabeth who's knife was now on show as Naruto then uncapped his hunting knives.
"Woh what are you guys doing?" Percy said now understanding what was happening as Grover grabbed his arm and fell back behind Naruto and Annabeth.
"Oh you children are not going anywhere. It's been about a month since we last had visitors" the sister on the left said as the group could she was grinning behind the face veil.
"And we are not going to let this opportunity slip through are fingers" the other sister now said.
"Three demi gods and a satyr" Aunty Em said. "It's been a while since we had a satyr here. The last was one being so troublesome before we finally got to him."
"Last satyr?" Grover said before his thoughts went back other satyr statue he had seen out in front before his eye went wide in realization. "That WAS Uncle Ferdinand" Grover said as he now understood what was happening.
"You cannot leave with hearing my story children" Aunty Em said slowly approaching the group. "It's a terrible story really. You see a bad woman was jealous of me long ago when I was younger."
As she spoke she along with the two sisters slowly began to take of the face veils and now the sounds of hissing could be clearly heard as day.
"I had a... a boyfriend, you know, and this bad woman was determined to break us apart. She caused a terrible accident. My sisters stayed by me and because of that they shared my bad fortune."
By now the face veils were taken off and had now completely reviled their heads. Where their hairs should have been were instead dozens and dozens of small snakes which were all hissing and writhing around in a mad frenzy.
"Don't look in her eyes" Annabeth called out causing all four to look away.
"I know who she is" Percy said now understanding why the others had been so freaked out and why Naruto and Annabeth had brought out their weapons.
"Your Medusa" he said getting a hiss of approval which he guessed came from Medusa. "But who are the other two?" he asked.
"They really are her sisters. There Euryale and Stheno, the Gorgon sisters. But I thought they faded years ago" Annabeth said while looking at the floor doing her best not to look up.
"Oh no my dear" one of the other sister called. "We were just fed up with those pesky gods bothering us that we simply stayed hidden all this time. The gods simply assumed we had faded. We could not leave our sister now could we."
"Hmm who to start with" Medusa called as she tapped her chin as she gazed at them all before she stopped at Naruto. "You are a surprise my dear. You have caused quite the stir in the world. To think that the great huntress and goddess who had sworn of men had given birth to a child and broken her oath. To think that the mighty Artemis would have a son. I can only imagine how she see's you. Her own child being very thing she hates the most" she said trying to rile Naruto up and causing anger to flare through Naruto.
"Shut the hell up" he shouted doing his bet not look up from his spot. "You don't know anything."
"Oh I know enough boy" she said but the clicked her forked tongue." But you don't interest me right now. There is another I am more interested in" she said gazing over at Annabeth who was looking at the ground.
"You my dear have her eyes. The eyes I hate the most. The eyes of that jealous wench of a goddess. The eyes that I will turn to stone" she said before she lunged at Annabeth.
When she did Naruto was fully prepared to jump in the way but was surprise when Percy suddenly moved from his spot, uncapped riptide and jumped on Medusa while trying to keep his eyes away from hers. He hit her with enough force to knock her to the ground
When he did the other two gorgon sisters went into action but then everyone else retaliated. Naruto had slammed into Stheno and gave her a hard kick across the chest which was strong enough to knock her over over towards the grill. Annabeth meanwhile talked Euryale to the ground in a tumble before she got up and run while she grabbed Percy.
Grover meanwhile had put on the magic shoes in the confusion and was now hovering in the air. He looked over to Naruto but Naruto signalled for him to go and follow Annabeth and Percy and that he would be okay. Medusa and Euryale hissed in annoyance before they took off after the three while Naruto remained in the dining room with Stheno.
"NARUTO" Annabeth called getting his attention. "Only Medusa can turn people to stone. You can look her into the eyes" she said getting a grin from Naruto.
"That makes things easier" he said as his gaze lifted from the ground and over towards the snack bar where Stheno was now getting up and hissing in anger. The snakes in her hair going wild in some sort of frenzy.
"Man you really are ugly" Naruto said watching Stheno as she got more and more angry. She was hissing so much that saliva was spitting out of her mouth and go all over the place making Naruto's stomach a little queasy.
"We were just going to turn you to stone but I'm going to enjoy killing you, you little whelp" she screamed out as to Naruto's surprise two giant bat like wings shot out of her back and two giant tusks that now stuck out at the corners of her mouth. Also her legs began forming together until her legs were now like a serpents body with light green scales covering it which glittered in the light.
"That could be a problem" he thought as Stheno lunged towards him with her tusks aimed right at Naruto chest. Naruto watching her as she came towards him managed to roll out of the way and kick her again in the back making her hit into a wall. When he did her snake hair was hissing loudly and some tried to strike at Naruto but were a little bit out of range.
"You will die demi god" she said as her nails began to elongate until they were a couple of inches long. She scraped the macros the table next to her which showed they were strong enough to rip through it and therefore could easily cut their way through skin.
"Well if you want me, come and get me" he said as he poured chakra into his feet and leapt on to the walls of the warehouse and began running along it.
Stheno growled at him but her wings began to flap and the green snake haired gorgon was now flapping in the air and chased after Naruto.
Naruto was running along the walls now with his bow and arrow unsealed and had an arrow prepared. He wanted to keep the gorgon sisters as far away from each other as he could. He hoped that Percy could handle Medusa while Annabeth and Grover would Proberly take care of Euryale.
Stheno screeched flying behind him and he let an arrow rip through the air and towards her. However Stheno used her knew mobility in the air to dodge the arrow and let the arrow go sailing past her and imbed itself in one of the chair below.
Naruto watched the flying gorgon and shot another arrow at her but Stheno speed was on her side and dodged it again.
"The bow and Arrow won't be any good right now while she is in the air. She can easily manoeuvre out of the way and I don't want to waste my arrows on her."
Stheno reached where Naruto was before she began swinging her sharp claws at Naruto while the blonde haired shinobi demi god easily dodged them. She may have been fast in the air but the swings were slow but they left their marks in the wall.
Naruto quickly resealed his bow and arrow before he brought out his hunting knives again.
As she swung her right hand at him Naruto blocked the swing with his blade halting the movement before quickly moving the blade out of the way and swing the other across her nails which gave a loud audible snap.
"AHHHHH YOU LITTLE BUG" she screeched out as her snake like tail whipped around and tried to slam into him but only ended up hitting the wall.
She began using her tail as a spear of sorts and was using it to jab at Naruto. Each time Naruto moved out the way and her tail hit the wall behind him.
All across the warehouse wall there was now small holes showing the outside which showed the complete darkness outside.
"Her speed is superior in the air then on the ground" Naruto thought. "I have to get her back on the ground and I know just how to do it."
"Wind Style Double Gale Palm" Naruto said as he capped his blades back into a pen and did the hand sign and shot both palms forwards to Stheno.
The double blasts of wind barrelled into Stheno causing her to lose control of her wings and began flapping around wildly trying to regain control but it was to no avail since the current of the wind was too strong. She spiralled down to the ground and collided with the table they had been eating on before.
Naruto ran down the wall and leapt of it towards Stheno and delivered a hard kick to the head causing her to stagger backwards and hold her head in pain. The snakes tried to latch onto Naruto
"Damn you. Why are you so hard to hit" she screeched.
"I'm not. Your just to slow" he said further infuriating the gorgons sister as she tried to hit him but Naruto was using his superior speed to his advantage.
One of her fists hit Naruto which made her grinning triumph before her eyes widened to see a wooden log was now in Naruto's place and the blonde demi god had disappeared.
"WHAT!" she growled out before screaming in pain when she felt two sharp pains glide down her wings. She looked behind her to see Naruto now behind her who had used his hunting knives and cut of her wings since he now knew it was best to keep her grounded.
"You're so loud" Naruto complained further infuriating her. "You might look ugly but your voice is just as bad."
She screamed in anger at him but Naruto was prepared. "Shadow Clone Jutsu" he called out and ten clones formed around Stheno making her eyes go wide.
"What are you? No demi god can pull these kinds of tricks. Is it magic?"
"Nope. Its chakra" he said grinning before shouting out "TAKE HER DOWN BOYS." As soon as he did the clones shot towards Stheno and began delivering punches and kicks to Stheno.
Stheno tried to block and used her long snake like tail to destroy two of the clones that surprised her when they burst into smoke.
During the surprise the clones took the opening to their further advantage. Here go they shouted as one appear beneath Stheno and kicked her right in the chin. Stheno went soaring into the air before three more appeared beneath her and in tandem kicked her up in the air.
As she went up in the air the original Naruto barrelled down to the ground again making her eyes widen before Naruto's foot planted itself in her face which knocked her right back to the ground which made a loud thud.
Naruto landed not he ground with a soft landing and brought his blades back out. He stood over Stheno who was trying to get back up and was berating herself for now being able to land a hit on Naruto. She could feel his presence behind her since her snakes were hissing wildly.
Some of the snake in her hair tried to strike Naruto but he just swiped at them with one of his blades that caused the heads of the snakes to drop to the ground.
"You won't win. Your friends are as good as dead. Just because I failed, it does not mean my sisters have. Medusa will turn you all to stone and I will be back among the living in a few years."
"Never underestimate my friends. As long as I'm alive, I won't allow any harm to come to them and when you do come back to life. I will be waiting to put you back again" he said with no emotion evident in his voice.
Before Stheno could retort Naruto brought his two blades beside her neck before he cut right through her neck causing her head to fall limply to the ground. Her body erupted in to golden dust as did her head. When her body was completely gone only one of her tusks were left.
Naruto saw it and picked it up and whistled. "Another spoil of war. I'm on a roll" he said smiling to himself hoping his mother would be proud.
He pocketed the tusk before he left to find the others.
It didn't take long since he saw Grover still in the air with the magical shoes on his feet and he was throwing tins cans at Euryale while Annabeth was deflecting Euryale long nails with her bronze dagger.
He watched as Annabeth dodged a swipe from Euryale before one of Grover's tins can smacked Euryale in the head. Momentarily stunning the red haired gorgons Annabeth used it to her advantage as she drove the dagger into Euryale chest making her erupt into golden dust while a tusk similar to Stheno's dropped t the ground.
"Good job" Naruto said appearing to Annabeth and Grover who had now landed and began taking the shoes off.
"NARUTO" Annabeth called jumping the blonde and wrapping him in a hug." I'm glad you're okay. Stheno was known as the most vicious of the gorgon sisters and I was worried."
Naruto was happy that his new friend cared for him and returned the hug. "Well she didn't make it easy but I took care of her. I'm glad to see your both okay too and well done beating Euryale too" he said getting a proud grin on both Annabeth and Grover's face.
He picked up the fallen tusk and handed it to Annabeth. "This belongs to you to show your win and triumph" he said as Annabeth took it and pocketed it.
"We better find Percy" Grover said getting a nod from the two blondes.
"Make sure sea weed brain has not turned himself to stone" Annabeth said before their ears heard a loud slicing noise before they heard something drop to the ground.
Following after the sound the group arrived to see Percy standing their covered in sweat and a few cuts and bruises on his body and had riptide drawn. They saw the severed head of Medusa on the ground with her eyes closes thankfully while the last of her body had turned to gold dust.
Naruto whistled and nodded at Percy with pride. "God job Percy. I knew you had it in you" he said coming up to the green eyed boy and gave him a pat on the back.
"Thanks but she was tough. It hard not being able to fight someone you can't stare right in the face. Well that and she kept referencing my dad as her boyfriend. I really didn't need to hear that."
Grover gave Percy a hug although Percy winced a little in pain while Annabeth walked up to him and studied the head and then Percy. She let a small smile grace her face when she said "not bad Seaweed brain."
"I guess you guys won your battles too then?" he said getting a nod from the other who all showed him the gorgons tusks that were their trophies.
Cool he said before a bag that read Thank you for your business suddenly made Percy get an angry look on his face that caused Naruto and the others to look at him oddly.
"I'll be back in a moment" he said as Percy began rummaging through the warehouse before he found the sisters office.
"I think Percy may have lost it" Grover whispered to Annabeth who was looking a little concerned.
"Maybe fighting Medusa took more out of him that we thought" Naruto thought as he watched his friend picked up a cardboard box and slung the head on medusa in it before he taped it up. He wrote an address on the top of the box that read:
The Gods
Mount Olympus
600th Floor,
Empire State Building
New York, NY
With best wishes,
PERCY JACKSON
As soon as he read it Naruto began cracking up with laughter and had to admire Percy's guts at this point. No one else in their right mind would so such a thing except maybe himself. Annabeth was fuming that Percy would do something so stupid and Grover looked like he just wet himself.
"Percy they are not going to like that. They will take it as an insult" Grover said hoping to change Percy's mind about him little gift.
"Good, then maybe next time they won't lose that stupid bolt" he grumbled causing Naruto to laugh a bit more.
"Hang on I got something to put in it" he said making everyone looked at him before he pulled an object out of his bag which made all three start laughing when they saw it. It was a bright yellow beanie lightning bolt that made a zapping noise when you squished it.
"Where did you get that?" Percy asked between laughs.
"Back at the bus stop there was a small corner shop. I saw it in the window and I just had to get it. The noise it makes is just a bonus."
"Put it in" Percy said opening the box back up and Naruto put a small note next to it just for Zeus. When he did Percy resealed it.
"That should be a good substitute for Zeus. I'm sure he has a good sense of humour. If not I'm sure the other gods will get a good kick out of it."
So how do we deliver it Naruto asked but as soon as he did the box began to glow before a second later it disappeared.
"Where did it go?" Percy asked but Annabeth answered.
"Since it was addressed to the gods Hermes probably collected it. It is his job as the God of Messengers after all so the gods will probably get it soon no doubt.
"Cool" the two boys said in unison.
Annabeth meanwhile rolled her eyes and smiled a little before she walked into the office. She scavenged around and took money out of the cash machine, found some gold drachmas and a few blankets that they could use during the trip. They couldn't rely on Naruto equipment for the entire mission. She placed them all in a bag she found before slinging it over her shoulder.
"Come on let's get moving. I don't want to say in this place any longer" she said getting a nod of agreement from everyone as they headed out.
Naruto took one last look at the place and sent a silent prayer to all those turned to stone by Medusa before he headed out following after the others.
"It's only the first day and we have run into the Furies and the Gorgon sisters. What in the gods name are we going to run into tomorrow?"
Chapter 12 Completed
I figured that since this chapter is usually always the same with other stories I would spice it up a little. Im not the best at fight scenes but i did my best. :)
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