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Bulba Fett: Welp, it's great to actually be able to write chapters in my own room again, and not in a hotel room :D
But, enough on my new found dislike for hotel rooms and stuff, let's get to some reviews! :D
REVIEWS
the unsung antihero: ...yeah...that was TOTALLY what I was going for. Yes.
zrocker119: I don't know man, but thanks for the complement! That adjective is what I strive to make all of my stories like! So let's keep being Fan*#$ ingtastic! XD
Yousuck: Well...a lot like your name. YOU DO SUCK! *blissful sigh* I love the taste of salty flamers in the air :)
Bango the Fox: I'm sorry you think that way? I mean, I really don't like bashing characters, and thought I made that clear in my last review session, but I must implore that Percy is not a 'little bitch'. He is the (Arguably) most powerful demigod to ever live! He is (arguably) the best swordsman in the Gods of Olympus Universe, and honestly, why bring up those terrible excuses for movies into this? I was having a nice day until you made me remember those horrid films. Percy literally 1 v 1'd a TITAN. A VERY POWERFUL TITAN. And wiped the floor with him in book 5! So, yeah. As of right now in MY story, he's about as powerful as Mark of Athena Percy. (His sword skill, not his super powers). And yeah he's like a young Naruto. The dude is literally only a threat in the earlier books because of his hard headed determination and never say quit attitude. That is quite literally, all part one Naruto had going for him...until the chunin exams.
YuukiAsuna-chan: Well, honestly. You guys saw how Naruto dismantled Atlas like he was a used chew toy. Do you really think Sasuke is giving an actual effort in this fight? (Hint: The answer is, No:P )
*VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE! PLS READ AND DO NOT SKIP!*
Okay, those of you who read through my earlier story, 'The Oracle' know I am prone to doing this.
That's right bitches! It's time for another Q&A! XD
All you guys have to do is leave a review labeled 'for the Q&A' or PM me about it, and I will answer ANY question you have in my next chapter!
(Hint: That would be next week)
So, make sure you ask lot's of good questions!
*End of Important Message!*
Now, enough of my jabbering,
TO THE STORY! :D
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Chapter 12: A Few Pegs Down
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"Over here kid!" the man said before sending a powerful kick towards the demigod, clashing with the broad side of the boy's sword, and sending him through the air and over the wall.
"SHIIIIITT!" Percy screamed as he fell further than he thought he would. Apparently, the wall was to block a small cliff, leading to a small pond...wait...he could use that.
A loud splash signified that the son of the sea made it into his turf. While Percy sat in the chest high water, he smirked viciously as he began to feel rejuvenated, and empowered.
'Time for a little payback…'
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The first thing Percy did as he reopened his eyes was gasp in shock and terror.
He had just fallen into the water and gained his godly boost in strength when he decided to give the man before him a taste of his own medicine. He willed the water to form a cyclone around him, forming at his waist and raising him into the air.
As soon as he cleared the wall he stared down at the man and will the water flowing around him to strike out at his foe.
But that all ended when he saw the man completely disappear in a burst of speed so fast that even with the aid from his boosted abilities he couldn't keep up.
And then he heard man whisper in his ear.
"Don't get cocky, you aren't the only one who has a few tricks up their sleeves…"
And that was when he felt a sharp pinch in his neck, and suddenly he was looking at his own body from a place somewhere on the ground.
This lead up to the present with Percy looking at the man before him in absolute terror. "W-What the hell are you…." he breathed out as he began to shake. For the first time, he felt actual fear as the man stared him down, exerting his presence onto the boy. Percy couldn't breath, and was nearly knocked to his knees by the man's look alone.
'This is even worse than when Hades was trying to KILL me! What in the living Tartarus IS HE!?' He mentally screamed at himself as he began to back away slowly.
The black haired man watched the boy's reaction to his light amount of killer intent with a strutinating eye. And then he noticed the boy's feet begin to inch backwards, causing him to outright scowl.
"Oh?" he began. "So. Now that you know you aren't the big dog on campus you're trying to puss out and run on me!? What happened to that fire!? That DETERMINATION!? You...you're nothing like him...you ARE NOTHING!" the man's temper began to rise alongside the the demigod's fear. "I had hoped that you would have the balls to stand up in the face of adversity! I guess now, I see the real you. A scared little boy with too many responsibilities thrust upon him...feh. You aren't worth my time. Begone from here." he finished with a wave of his hand, releasing the Tsukuyomi illusion prematurely.
Percy was frozen at the spot. He didn't even notice the illusion's dispelling as he watched the black clad man walk away from him. His back turned and all signs of guard down. And then Percy's eyes widened.
'Chance!' he mentally roared out as he brandished Riptide and lunged as fast as he could towards the man. Bringing his sword back close to his chest, he coiled his muscles and readied himself for a series of quick thrusts.
But right before he attacked, his instincts roared at him to defend. And so he did, barely registering he stopped a fatal blow from striking his neck.
"Wah…!" was his intelligent response before his body was sent flying through the air from the impact. The demigod slid across the ground and only stopped when he crashed head first into a wall of a market building.
As he groggily stood up, Riptide still firmly in his grasp, he heard the man's chuckles.
"So...you only grow a pair of balls once my back is turned!? Alright brat! I'll show you how scary I can be! Now, remember, you aren't in the Tsukuyomi! People die if they are killed brat! So prepare yourself, or just go and die!" With his final cry, the red eyed man rushed Percy in a blur of speed. The boy was barely able to lift his sword enough to divert the killing blow into a minor cut across his cheek.
Percy's eyes widened as he backpedaled away from the man's onslaught, but was only given the courtesy of a kick to thr stomach, sending him through the wall of the closest building.
Within the rubble of the building, Percy tried to stand as best he could before he was forced to roll away from a downward thrust from his opponent.
"Shit! Do you ever slow down!?" The boy yelled in frustration as he brought up the flat of his blade to block a slash from the dark haired man, again sending him flying across the ruined city.
'Holy crap! He's even stronger than Atlas!' He thought to himself as he scrambled to his feet once again, preparing to defend from another onslaught, until another thought struck him. 'Wait...if this guy knew that Kurama guy…then he has just been playing with me this whole time...I know while we were in the illusion he wouldn't hesitate to cut me down...so why hasn't he done that yet?'
His thoughts were interrupted when a sword clash with his own. "Were you just wondering why you haven't died yet? Well, to tell you the truth, you are a very good learner when you have a blade pressed to your throat...you have improved immensely, but that means nothing now…I'm just going to take pleasure in guttin you…" the man growled before driving a knee straight into the boy's stomach.
Percy's eyes widened as he coughed up his own blood, the metallic taste filling his mouth, just before the man drove the pommel of his sword into the side of his head, once again sending him flying across the ruined village.
The dark man watched as Percy flew across the village with slightly narrowed eyes.
'Now...how will you handle a real life or death situation? Will you crumble under the pressure? Or will you stand up, and fight?'
Crawling ever so slowly out of the small crater created under his body, Percy wheezed in pain. Blood was spilling from his head, clouding his vision as he stood on shaky legs. 'I can't beat this guy…' he thought to himself as he tried to lift his sword arm, until he noticed that it was just hanging there limply, Riptide falling from his grasp. 'Dammit...I can't even hold onto my sword anymore…'
He shakily turned his head as he heard the man's footsteps behind him, forcing him to stagger a few steps around to face him once more.
"So, do you still have enough steam to continue? Or is this the end of the road?" The man in black asked. As he grew closer, he lifted his sword higher, readying his finishing blow.
Percy tried to speak up, but his words just caught in throat as he began to cough up more blood. 'Well that ain't good…' he thought as his vision began to fade. 'It would be so easy...to just fall asleep…' he began to let his shoulders slump, his muscle relaxing at the thought of rest…
"No…" He breathed in pain, mentally screaming as he forced his muscles to tense once more.
'They need me…'
'Grover…'
'Chiron…'
'Tyson…'
'Nico…'
'Thalia…'
'...Annabeth…'
'They need my help...I can't afford to lose here, I can't die here...I CAN'T DIE HERE!'
His eyes hardened and his vision cleared. Bringing one foot forward he begn his march to his death. In his mind, if he was going down...he was going down with a FIGHT!
"Rrrrrrraaaaaahhhhhhh!" With his final war cry, he used whatever strength he had left to rush his slowly approaching enemy...only to fall just steps away from the man, pain and fatigue finally overcoming his will.
"...da….Dammit…" He breathed as his approach slowed to a halt as his legs gave out and he fell forward, skidding across the ground. Taking one last look at the man who would be his reaper, he barely noticed the proud smirk playing across the man's face.
"...hm...It seems you are a little similar after all…good job, Percy Jackson…"
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The next time Percy opened his eyes, he was forced to quickly close them due to the amount of light that filled his vision. Groaning as he again tried to open his eyes, slowly this time as to not blind himself, he tried to get a feel for his surroundings.
Looking to his right and left, he noticed he was on a beach, not just any beach, a familiar one. "Wha..but...how….how am I back at camp!?" he said as he shot to his feet, until a wave of nausea instantly sent him falling back to the ground. "Urk…"
Groaning from the dizziness in his head, he tried to get up again, this time much slower. Once on his feet, he looked around and confirmed his beliefs. He was back at Camp Half-Blood, not only that, but he didn't have a scratch on him. Aside from the nausea, he was completely fine.
"Was...was it all a dream?" he thought aloud to himself as he took a step forward, stopping as he felt his feet touch something that wasn't sand.
By his feet was a blade. A guardless blade that had a black scabbard and hilt. Reaching down, Percy grabbed the sword and unsheathed it, and then gasped as he recognized the blade.
It was the same single edged blade that had cut him down numerous times in that gods forsaken cave.
The only thing Percy could think of, was why the man had entrusted the sword to him, if he was trying to kill him.
"...This is so weird…"
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(A/N): To be continued…
Bulba Fett: You guys have no IDEA how sorry I am for the long wait. Once I finally got moved into my house, I forgot that I didn't have any internet to post stuff.
Now that I do, I can formally apologize. *bows* GOMENASAI!
Anyway, I know this chapter is short...and kinda bad. But I wrote pretty much ALL OF THIS ON MY PHONE. So...yeah. I also didn't have Anonymous Jonin here to help with the story this week because he's off doing things and stuff for his summer vacation before college. :P
If you haven't heard by now, I have push up my plans to rewrite 'The Oracle' and have released the first two chapters of
"THE ORACLE: REMASTERED."
Here's a peek to get your interest…
"Jesus...why does Mr. Burns have to be so brutal with his tests?" A young man groaned as he made his way down a busy sidewalk. "I mean, come on! We literally went over that subject like once, a week ago and he put like, nine questions about it!" He whined as he flung up his arms in exasperation.
"I honestly don't know why you had so much trouble with it Roy, I mean it's not like you don't ever pay attention in class or anything, riiiight?" The young man's friend said in a heavily sarcastic tone.
The brown haired young man, Roy, put his hands behind his head and looked away from his friend with a half pouting half deadpanned expression. "Well, maybe if he didn't sound like he didn't want to be there and changed from that crappy monotoned voice he uses, then maybe he'd earn my attention." Roy said in a haughty tone as he and his friend continued to walk down the sidewalk on their way home from school.
Roy, the adamantly complaining young man, was a tall fairly lean you man with a bit of baby fat covering his cheeks. His face was marred with a light peppering of freckles that darkened his relatively pale complexion. Along with his hazel blue eyes he had a long mop of brown hair that curved slightly to the left and reached down to his shoulders.
His friend, standing only a few inches shorter than him snorted as he listened to the boy complain. "Please, like he could tear you away from reading fanfiction on your phone in class, I bet if his head caught on fire you wouldn't look up from your phone long enough to even care."
This earned a snort of humor from the taller boy who then quirked and eyebrow. "Oh, wait. Speaking of which, Derek, do you know if there is a new episode of Naruto up yet?"
Derek thought for a moment before shrugging. "I think so, but it might just be filler again, kinda getting sick of it frankly." He said with a shrug.
Roy furrowed his eyebrows as he dug into his pocket for his phone. "Here let me check…" He said as unlocked his phone and opened Safari.
And in doing this, he didn't notice Derek stop walking.
"Hey, Roy sto-"
'Hm? What's this.' Roy thought as a message popped up on his screen.
'Look to your left'
And he did, just in time to be crushed by a bus whose brakes stopped working…
So, what do you think? Interested?
The Oracle was the very first story I had written, and to be honest, it is both my favorite and least favorite story I have made.
It's my fav because of how much fun I had writing it, fast paced action, quality characters (If you can call my early work quality:/ ) And it is my longest story, hitting over 200000 words.
But, after writing The Caged Bird, and this story, I just felt the quality of The Oracle was SEVERELY lacking. So, I bring you THE ORACLE: REMASTERED. I have upped the quality by 100%, the length of the chapters will be in the 2500+ words range. And I will be changing a LOT of the events in the story to make it not just a copy of the original.
AND YES, IT IS A SELF INSERT STORY, AND YES ROY IS MY NAME :/
So, if you're interested, go check it out.
Remember to REVIEW AND LEAVE A QUESTION FOR THE Q&A! And to all of you in Germany, stay safe, and look after your loved ones. Like always, I'll see ya next time!