Piper's pov
"Come on Sakor you can't be serious. Few years ago we wouldn't even have thought of torture and we are already doing it, now you want to brutalize it even more."
"It's not like I like it, but this is big, bigger than anything we have faced up to now. We have interrogated 30 monsters by now and we still don't have anything. Not one piece of information. Not even the gender some say he while some say she. If we were just killing the monsters we would have killed hundreds by now. We will have to take it up a level. The monsters aren't telling us anything."
"Fine! I just don't want you to loose yourself. I will use the fire to burn them and then you start drowning them."
"Ok. Burn them good. And don't worry I won't loose myself. I have changed, I am not the same guy I was before. The betrayal and everything changed me, I know how the world is and sometimes you have to do things you don't like." I nods. I lit my hand on fire and let the flame travel from her fingers to the monsters leg. The monster had metal legs and so as the flame crept up the legs the metal slowly started getting red and looked like it would melt any second. Just before it would start melting the flame would creep up higher leaving the lower part to cool. I did this to the whole leg and then said "As you can see I can easily melt your legs and then have them shaped however I want. I you don't want that to happen tell us something about your master." Just to prove a point I made the fire burn hotter close to melting it.
"Please stop. I like my legs how they are. I can't tell you anything, I really can't." The monster cries out.
I was going to stop and kill it when Percy said "Wrong answer mate." He summoned water and started drowning the monster. It's knife head and everything was surrounded by water. Slowly I could see the metal start to rust. I guess he can make metal rust in the water. The water leaves the head of the monster and Percy asks "So what do you say now? Still won't answer?"
"I can't answer you. This is nothing compared to what he will do to me." He groans out. Taking pity on it I plunged my sword in it and killed him.
"We aren't going to get anything over here. I mean we are in Russia now and they still won't even tell us anything. This is the third country we are in. These damm idiots aren't giving us anything." I say frustrated.
"Yeah, the person still has a strong hold of the monsters Greek and Egyptian both even this far from American. He really is powerful." Percy continue "Maybe we should just leave Russia and go somewhere else"
"I don't think that is a bad suggestion. Where do we go?" I asks him
He walk towards me and give a peck on my lips "How about we go to... France. More specifically Paris, we could have our date and then interrogate some monsters, there won't be Greek monsters that far away but Egyptian sure there will be."
I kisses him passionately which he respond to with the same amount, and then I say "I love that idea. Didn't know you could think of being romantic."
"I'll have you know I am a romantic when it comes to my girlfriend."
"Alright hotty lets go to Paris then." I say as I open a portal to Paris. We got out in a alleyway. We quickly removed our costume under which was out casual wear. Mine was doctor who t shirt and jeans while Percy wore a green t shirt with had some designs and jeans. Ironic the two of us were wearing each others favourite colour. "So where do we stay now?"
He looks at me "You know I would love to stay in a fancy hotel with you, you know get all romantic and stuff but we can't do that. We have no money on us and it would be risky to fool them."
"Kelp head. I meant which motel do we stay in? Do you know any or do we need to ask?"
He laughs and then replies "This is my first time. We need to ask people cause we can't use phones."
LINE BREAK ~ a day after
Wow the date was spectacular. He had taken me to the Eiffel tower of course and he would start spewing some facts about it some times. He then took me to a fair which was quite fun considering we are in our early 20s. He then took me to a fancy restaurant. The day was just awesome, we talked and talked. In other words we had loads of fun. When I asked him how he got the money he said that he had been saving up for three years now. And now we have to go hunt a monster. We already are fighting a monster. It had a humanoid form, it had webbed legs, it's body was rotten away like a 20 year old dead body, it's eyes were red and it had a hook instead of a palm like a pirate. It moved fast for what it looks like. Percy was taunting and playing with it while I prepare the spell to capture it, the spell itself isn't tough but takes a long time to chant. I kept throwing fire balls at it in between the chant. Finally it was over and I signalled Percy to lure the creature into the circle that I chanted.
Too late the creature realised what was happening, it fell inside the circle and then got up with incredible speed as it tried to escape only to hit a energy force field. Percy tied up the creature with great difficulty as it was trashing around trying to escape. Percy for some reason always preferred to tie up the creature instead of using magic. We opened a portal to our hide out and dragged the corpse monster with it. I pushed it down hard and asked in a intimidating voice "Who do you work for?"
The monster had the balls to say "A pretty face like you can't make me talk. We could spend the night together though." My eyes widened, I am going to beat the shit out of this guy, he is going to have a world of pain to experience. I move ahead to punch the guy but a blur moves past me and I see Percy on top of the monster.
Percy starts beating the guy like crap, punching his face again and again and again. He was putting everything he had into this. It made me smile to see him care so much. I really, really like him, more than I did Jason. Percy starts breaking every joint in it's body that he can find, at the same time pounding it's face with his feet. He kept stamping his face as he went around breaking his bones. He is going really overboard with this. After he has broken every joint he can find he just keeps punching and kicking the creature brutally. The aftermath wasn't good. The place looked like tens of people died at the same spot, all of them bleeding to death. He summons some water and cleans himself. He walks towards me smirking "He regrets saying that to you."
I start walking towards him too and kiss him passionately. After some time I withdraw panting. "We are going to have to wait till he gets up. And you are way to possessive, I am not going to leave you, you know." I say smiling
"I know you won't leave me. And we aren't going to wait till he gets up. We wake him up." He says as he controls the water he had previously summoned and slashes it on the monsters face again and again. In like five splashes the monster wakes up but Percy still keeps splashing him quite forcefully might I add. After almost two minutes of doing that he stops "If you even THINK of talking like that to her again you will find yourself thinking this was merciful to what will happen then." He threatens in a very menacing voice "Now back to business. Who the hell are you walking for? Answer the damm question or else..."
"Like I said I am not going to tell you that. You might be brutal but our master is expert at this." The monster manages to get out.
Well at least we are making some progress, he thinks we are brutal "That was nothing. The interrogation is starting now." I say as I light my hands on fire and proceeded to burn him.
It has been almost 3 hours of torturing and asking questions with no avail. I still think we can break this one. He is already begging for us to stop but still won't say anything. This much torture is sickening I don't like to this, even if it is just a monster. Right now Percy is dousing the wounds I created with hot acidic water "Please stop, please. I can't tell you anything he will torture me worse then this." The monster screams out.
Percy walks over to me "At this rate I am going to have to use that. What we have done up till now won't even compare to how painful it will be, the plus point is we will be able to see all his memories so we will know who is the person behind all this." He says out loud so that the monster can here him.
The creatures face pales "Please no, please. I'll tell you something related to all this. I can't tell who is behind all this, but I can't tell you something. Just let me go after that."
"Alright you have a deal." I jump at the first opportunity to get some information "So tell us what you can."
"What is happening right now is called the great stirring. It was recently tried out by someone but that was a failure. This though won't be a failure, a war is coming and in that you will face all the monsters you have ever heard of. It might take time, but it will be completed before the war." The creature tells us. Percy's face is pale under is hood, it's like he understood everything. " Sakor do we let him go now? Is this enough information?" I ask him. He just nods in return.
"We need to go to the first nome now. This is huge, bigger than we originally though. Let the creature go its useless anyway." He says with a grim but hurried voice. We let it go and then open a portal to Egypt just outside the entrance to first nome. Percy starts running as fast as he can to find Amos and Carter. The two of them were in the throne room discussing something.
"Amos we have a big problem here. The monsters are scared of whoever is behind this. They are a more scared of it than I can imagine. They wouldn't even speak under torture. Yes I did torture then, had too, didn't like it. Right now we were in Paris and we found a monster that we were able to break. He gave us some important information."
Amos looks at us with a weird expression "You actually managed to make one talk? None of the other magicians were able to do that. What did you do?"
"Well you see the monster first tried to hit on me saying that it and me could spend a night. Before I could even start beating the crap out of it Percy was already there doing it. He broke every joint in the monsters body and kept punching it till it was unconscious. After that we woke it up and asked who was behind it. Then it was just three hours of torturing and asking questions. In the end Percy came to me and said that he would have to use that and the torture the monster had endured up till then wouldn't even compare. Herring this the monster caved and told us one piece of information that made Percy come here running." I explain. Carter just looks shocked.
"So what we found out is that the great stirring is happening. Last time it was being done by Kronos when he was rising, apparently that was incomplete and yet we had seen ancient monsters not seen for a long time, some even forgotten by the gods. If this person does complete it we will have a lot of monsters and that too tough ones during the war."
Carter exclaims "War! We have another war in our hands. Damm this person."
"The war might not happen in your life time. The monster said it will take time but that it will be completed before the war starts. So we have time to prepare too. This war will happen but the thing is it can happen after a very long time. So we will have to keep training the magicians for war. Even the next generation and the one after that. The two of us will be there for Egypt when ever it happens. We will fight from where needed the most." I chim in to comfort him
Amos being the observant guy he is asks "What do you mean whenever the war is you will be there?"
"The two of us have partial immortality. We can only die in battle or if some one kills us" Percy explains.
"What why didn't you say that before. How did you even become partially immortal?" Carter asks in a frantic tone I don't know why he was so frantic about this
"Who is partially immortal?" comes in t he voice of Zia
"Me and piper are. I became partially immoral when the great god pan was fading, he gave me some of his essence. Usually that would have made me immortal but since he was fading it only made me partially immortal. Piper was give partial immortality by the same person who gave me these eyes." Percy explains
"Wow! So the two of you will always be there to help our empire. With your skills there is no one that can kill you." Zia says in awe
"That's not true Zia, you should never underestimate someone. Even I might die someday." Percy argues.
"When did you become wise?" I ask him
" Always was darling, always was. Now me and piper are going to leave for our own training. This three months of trying to make a monster talk has been exhausting and it would be nice if we got some money for a vacation or something before we start training." He asks.
Amos smiles "Certainly, that will be arranged. You two have done quite a lot for us. That's the least we could do."
Carter chimes in "Yeah definitely. It won't be a problem, we have a business in the outside world. It has grown quite big economically. Accommodating two people for a vacation won't be a biggie. No worries on that."
"Thank you a lot. We really do require a vacation. Kelp for brains does get some good ideas after all." I say and every one starts laughing.
Zia again points out "I didn't hear the whole thing but I did here the great stirring part. If that true doesn't it mean this is bigger than one pantheon as it has happend before in the Greek world. Right?"
Percy looks glum "That's what I fear. We know as much as Greek and Egyptian are involved. But that's the only pantheons the two of us know about. We don't even know which other ones exist even."
"All the Pantheons exist except the Christian one. (AN: NO OFFENCE TO THE CHRISTANS. IT'S JUST THAT IF GOD WAS REAL THAT IT WOULDN'T EVEN BE A WAR. HE COULD JUST STOP IT WITHOUT PROBLEM. SO THERE WOULD BE NO PLOT.) I believe the Greek and Egyptian are the two strongest ones. Then there is Asgardian pantheon. We don't count the Indian pantheon as long, long ago at the beginning of everything a deal was made with them. They don't interfere with anything that's happening outside their region of influence which is India and countries beside it, and we don't try to mess with them. Their normal gods are not that strong but their three main gods are incredibly strong. Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma are more stronger than your Greek primordials or Apophis himself. These gods are also allowed to interfere with mortal matters so no one wanted to mess with them. Their other gods aren't that strong, only the major ones which are quite few in terms of power are as strong as the Olympians or the Egyptian major gods like Isis or Nephtys." Amos explains
"Alright that's news. Carter what information did you get from Annabitch?" I ask
"Oh yeah me and Sadie forgot to go there. I will leave now do you want to come?" he asks me and Percy
"Well I have never been the one to follow rules so why not?" Percy agrees with carter.
We are above half blood hill right now. It Sadie half an hour to get ready, another half hour to come to Egypt. That girl takes a long time to get ready. It Carter, Sadie, Zia, Percy and me. The two of us have worn our hoods and everything. We walk to camp border and our greeted by Clarisse pointing her spear at us "Who are you people and why have you come here?"
I had to stifle a laugh as carter says "I am Carter Kane, this is my sister Sadie, girlfriend Zia and my two friends Sakor and Scandra. We are here to meet Annabeth."
Percy taunts her "Put that pick poker aside before you hurt yourself or accidently one of my friends which wouldn't be very good for you."
Clarisse face contorts to one of anger as she tries to skewer Percy, who lazily doges the attack. She tries again with the same result. This time she tries to stab Percy but is unsuccessful as Percy holds the spear shaft while doing it. Skilfully disarm her as he does a 360 degree turn and holds the spear at her neck "Now like I said you either call the girl he mentioned or take us to her. Your choice."
She growls at him "I will call her here. I don't want people like you scarring the children." With that she gets up and leaves to call Annabitch.
"Well that went good. Now we wait." I say. In two minutes Clarisse is coming towards us with Annabeth on her trail. Carter and Sadie wave at her to act normal. "Hey guys what brings you here. I though we decide only to contact each other in case of emergencies."
"Yeah it kind of is. We are having some problem with monsters, there are lot more than there should be. Something is stirring them. We though you might have some information." Sadie explains.
Annabitch tenses for a moment and then quickly relaxes "No there isn't anything like that happening here. We still have a peaceful life. Well for most of us, I don't like to speak about it. He was still my friend and I still did believe in him "
Percy clenches his fist. He must have remembered the night he had found out about her and Garry. "We aren't even going to ask who it is. But Annabeth I need my secret name back. Just say that 'I give you your secret name back.'" Sadie tells her.
"What is it? You don't trust me anymore?" Annabeth asks her kind of hurt.
Sadie Just smiles in return "It's not that. We are having problems and if someone captures you and learns my secret name, I could be in a whole lot of trouble. So please just say the phrase."
"Fine! I give you your secret name back." She gives it back, slightly annoyed.
I ask again "Are you sure there is nothing going on here?"
"Yes! I would know if something was going on here. Stop asking the same question again and again." She exclaims. Wow her temper has grown a lot. Suddenly there is a flash of light and in front of us is my mother goddess of love Aphrodite. What does she want now?
"Sakor, Scandra can I talk to the two of you for a minute." Everyone else except me and Percy bow to her.
"No you may not. We are not interested in talking to you goddess." Percy gets out. His hands are clenched in a fist. I put a hand over him to calm him down. A angry Percy is very dangerous.
"Now, now I am asking you nicely. Since you said no I'll have to play dirty. If you don't come to talk I will tell all of them who you are." She smirks. Damm that women.
"Alright goddess you have five minutes. Don't waste it." Percy gets out through gritted teeth. She waves her hand and we are teleported to her house in the mortal world. She keeps it for when she has to bring her dates home.
Percy pulls his hood up "What is it Aphrodite?!" He screams at her.
"Now Percy I know you are angry with me but I am sorry. I only did it because I knew the two of you would get together. The two of us had grown a friendship kind of thing and I wanted to help you out with your broken heart. If you had stayed at camp seeing her again and again it would have been a lot more painful and would have taken a long time to heal your heart. Now look at it, you and Piper are madly in love with each other. Oh I should say this too, if you break her heart you will have to face my wrath."
Percy is smiling at her "I will never leave her, she is one of a kind I would have to be insane to let her go. And thanks for explaining all that. I thought you were... you know just toying with me."
"Believe me Percy I have never done that With you."
I suddenly remember what Apollo had told me about mom "Wait how are you different then what you show others. I know you acting like a slut and everything is just a charade, a coping mechanism but for what?" both of them look shocked at what I said.
Mom sighs and explains "I am not what you see me to be. I wouldn't even have cheated on Hephaestus if he had paid any attention to me. He just assumed that I wouldn't like him because he is a little disfigured. So I got lonely, I didn't like it. I tried finding love in the other gods but they too were just crap, thinking I am nothing but a slut or a whore." She looks so sad by now "That's how it all started. I thought I should just act like that till I find some one." She glances at Percy "And I did some time ago, but the thing is he was taken. Then he had a breakup with his girlfriend and then before I could even make a move some one else got his attention. So I let him be, at least he will be happy. I am still waiting for him, i have even broken up with Ares and haven't slept with any god either. I do have a fling sometimes, I too have needs but other than that nothing. I have fallen in love with him but can't do anything. Can you imagine that me of all people." She is crying now. Her tears falling down like a waterfall.
I do the only reasonable thing, I hug her and say comforting things. I know she has fallen for Percy and isn't making a move on him for my sake. This is the least I could do, she is my mom after all. She backs up from the hug and says "Thank you I needed to get it out of my system. I will be waiting for him if he breaks up again. I hope for the sake of the girl she doesn't give him up."
"Wow the guy must be pretty awesome to get your attention. I always knew you weren't how your reputation was. The time we had spent as friends it showed me that much." Percy says. He is so dumb when it comes to things like this. I can't believe it.
"I will send the two of you back now. I am going to my palace. Take care alright."
"Aphrodite if you ever need my help for anything don't hesitate to ask. Your part of the family bow. Team Percy." He says smiling "One more invaluable information for you. More like blackmail stuff. I defeated Artemis at archery, sparing and she couldn't find me and Piper for an hour when she was suppose to hunt us. We only had twenty minutes to hide
She smirks evily at him "That is invaluable information Perce. Thanks for it." She then snaps her fingers. We are covered in light and are teleported to where we were before. Annabeth asks "What did lady Aphrodite wants switch you?"
Me and him just ignore her and Percy say "There isn't anything going on here apparently according to your source Carter. We shouldn't waste time , let's leave." With that we open a portal and leave to Egypt. When we have reached Egypt Percy says "She was lying. That much was clear. I have known that girl since I was 12 I can tell she was lying. They must have gotten news too. So this confirms it that both the pantheons are targets, other research won't be done by us. I have a lot of job to do, training and I have duties as a Lord of the wild too. So it's your job now Carter, pass on the information you have to next generation if war isn't in yours tell them to pass it down too. Don't forget to put us in your information." Percy say the last part with a smile.
AN
Hope you like the chapter. Please comment guys. I am open to ideas if you have any.