Disclaimer: Naruto is property of Masashi Kishimoto and Percy Jackson is property of Rick Riordan. I don't own this in anyway so please don't sue me.
Chapter 3: Shove it Tantalus!
The way that Tantalus saw it, the stympalian birds had been minding their own business when Annabeth's terrible chariot driving had pissed them off. I knew he was making it all up and I told him to 'Go chase a doughnut' and he sentenced us to kitchen patrol, infuriated I used Za Warudo to kick Tantalus in the balls, pulled down his pants and pushed him into a pile of stympalian bird shit. Then I returned to my original position and joined the camp as we laughed at the smug bastard, and then we wend off to the kitchens which I learned used Lava instead of water to kill 99.9% of germs. I scrubbed the dishes trying to avoid burning myself, I looked over at Annabeth and who was looking at me and I blushed at her gaze reminding myself how beautiful she was.
"Percy,' She said gaining my attention "tell me about that dream."
"Grover was trapped in a came and the cyclopes there was calling him 'Honeypie', he was weaving a bridal train claiming that the Cyclopes though he was a lady cyclopes and he wanted to marry him. The dreams are a result of an empathy link that he made between us, we've got about 14 days to save him."
"The same amount of time before Thalia's tree has before the poison kills it."
"but what could have Grover found that could pull him off the path towards finding Pan?"
"Well let's answer your question with another question, what do you get when you skin a ram?"
"Messy?" I said jokingly but Annabeth rolled her eyes,
"No Seaweed Brain a fleece, and if that ram had golden wool."
"The Golden Fleece, you're joking right?"
"No, its the only thing that could radiate the same energy as Pan, and the only thing that could pull him off course. I don't think I need to tell you what the fleece can do."
"It could purge the tree of the poison, save the came and, odds are, we'll meet Luke along the way and we can kill him or drag him in chains to Olympus." Annabeth nodded grimly.
"I'd have the Gods decide Luke's fate but after lats summer and the poisoning of Thalia's tree I'd gut him myself."
"We need a quest, the best time to get one is tonight at the campfire and have the campers join in and pressure Tantalus about it, he won't have a choice." Annabeth nodded and we continued to help with Kitchen patrol. After that we were at the campfire sing along as we all tried to maintain a positive altitude but I knew everyone's heart wasn't in it. After a few songs Mr. D. left saying that even Chiron's Pinochle games were more exciting than this, a while later when Tantalus was about to end the campfire I stood up and I coughed gaining everyone's attention, Tantalus looked at me.
"Our Kitchen boy has something to say?" He asked and the Ares cabin laughed a bit but I didn't verbally or physically react as if I hadn't hear Tantalus.
"I have an Idea on how to save camp." I laughed silently as I saw the flames grow brighter and increase in size a bit.
"Ridiculous we don't need saving."
"The Golden Fleece." Before Tantalus could stop me I started explained my dreams and how Grover had found the Fleece. Annabeth reminded everyone of what the Fleece could do.
"The Fleece can save the camp, I'm sure of it." Annabeth concluded. The Flames were a bright yellow and quite hot.
"The Sea of Monsters," Tantalus said clearly trying to discredit me. "hardly an exact location."
"30, 31, 75, 12." I said remembering what the Gray Sisters had told me and everyone looked at me, some got it others, like Tantalus, didn't.
"Ooohkaay, Thank you for those meaningless numbers."
"If you used your brain for 30 fucking seconds you'd know that those were sailing coordinates." Some campers snickered at that, "We have an idea on how to save camp," The flames grew brighter and hotter, "we have a location to got to," Some of the campers looked excited, "and a goal," I looked around at the other campers, "We need a quest!" the other campers took up the chant
"WE NEED A QUEST!" they repeating the line, the flames responding to the chant growing hotter and larger, Tantalus tried to reign in control but it was useless.
"You brats want me to authorize a quest?!"
"YES!"
"Very well! I shall assign a quest to someone who is brave, strong, and who has proven themselves in defense of the camp." The whole camp looked between Annabeth, me and Clarisse. "Clarisse!" The Ares cabin erupted into cheers and many campers vocalized complaints but were drowned by the Ares cabin's cheers,
"Oi!" I complained "the dreams come to me, I gave you the location AND THE HADES DAMN IDEA!" looking around some campers agreed
"Sit down!" one of Clarisse's siblings shouted, "You had your chance last summer, give someone else a chance."
"Shall we dance?" that shut him real quick as I was starting to traumatize people with that phrase as they started to associate it with a trip to the infirmary.
"I Accept!" Clarisse said "I, Clarisse Daughter of Ares, accept the quest for the Golden Fleece and save the camp!" The Ares shouted in cheers and I was considering using Genjutsu to convince Clarisse to take me and Annabeth with her.
"The Oracle, my dear." Clarisse bowed and left for the attic in the big house, "now," He turned to us and the fire light turned blue, "how about a scary story? There once was a king who was beloved by the Gods," Tantalus placed a hand on his chest and I knew he was talking about himself. "This king was even aloud to feast on Olympus, One day he decided to take some Ambrosia back to earth, a small dogie bag, mind you, just to find out the recipe, In punishment they band him from their halls forever, he was ridiculed by his subjects and children, oh yes, he had horrible children, Just. Like. You." He pointed a finger at campers, including me "However, the king invited the Gods, just to show there were no hard feelings, he served them stew, one of the Gods had noticed that none his children were present, can you guess what was in that stew?" everyone gulped, "oooh the gods punished him I n the afterlife but he had his moment of satisfaction, his children never talked back to him or questioned his authority again," some were silent in fear but I was silent in boredom. "It is said that the kings still haunt this camp waiting to claim the souls of more disobedient children." Tantalus waved his hand and the flame wen tout. "well off to bed, the Harpies will enforce curfew and anyone who sneaks out of camp, should they survive the attempt, will be expelled forever." The campers filed off to bed and I laid down in my bed staring at Tyson's bunk thoughts swirling in my head.
"You want to go on trip?" Tyson asked
"Yeah," I said still thinking, "I'm worried about camp, but I'll get kicked out if it do."
"You will go anyway?" I didn't answer but I knew I had to go and that Grover's life depended on it, I also knew that I had to hunt down that bastard Luke and kill him. My mind was dancing with activity and I grabbed a six pack of Coke form under my bed and went off to the beach. Now technically Coke was against the rules but pay a son or Daughter of Hermes a gold Drachma and he'll sneak just about anything in for you (Yeah I've even heard that you could get condoms yeahhhh, creepy) I also knew that I was breaking curfew and I didn't care, the sound of the ocean always helped me focus and calmed me, the cokes were for me to enjoy and enjoy them I did. I stared at the stars an smiled as my plan formed but to be safe, I bounced it off Madara.
"So the way I see it, I use Za Warudo to grabbed Annabeth then pray to dad for transport to The Sea of Monsters. Then I head to the location that the Grey Sisters gave me and we grab the fleece, after then I use dreams to send a message to the Bastard Kronos to get him to send Luke after, me."
"Then you kill him." Madara finished
"But only after I get him to admit that Chiron had nothing to do with the Poisoning of Thalia's Tree to Dionysus via an Iris Message."
"And Getting the fleece back to camp?"
"I use some cash from our time in Vegas to get Annabeth a plane ticket to fly back to camp while I go by sea."
"And what if Clarisse beats you to the fleece?"
"I have a Henged Mokuton Bunshin as her favorite Bandana that she cares for good luck and it will alert me if she finds it first."
"Then, what?"
"I have my clone tell her my plan and send her back to camp with the fleece and create a duplicate to use as bait to lure in Luke."
"What if Luke gets there first?"
"He won't, taking tings directly, not Kronos' style, he's going to let us take it, do all the hard work for him and then take it from us."
"Knowing any sort of plan your foe can conjure is key, What else could Kronos gain if you succeed in getting the Fleece back to camp?"
"Do you think the fleece could resurrect Thalia?"
It's possibility so keep that in mind."
"A nice plan young one." a new voice to my left and I slashed with my sword after pulling it out of my pocket only for a caduceus to block it. "Do you always attack people who are trying to help you?" I looked at the man, who had a grey jogging suit, and I activated my sharingan and saw this guy glowed gold, I looked at the caduceus and pieced together who this guy was.
"Lord Hermes." I bowed "sorry about that, reflex."
"Don't worry about it, Percy." Hermes smiled. "with the defenses of camp the way they are it's understandable that you would be a bit jumpy."
"So what can I do for you Lord Hermes?" I was slightly trepidatious because when Gods sought you out it wasn't out of the goodness of their hearts, it was because they wanted something.
"Well actually," I braced myself, "I'm here because I want to help you, see I know you're going to try and save your friend Grover and I'd like to help." Hermes looked at his caduceus and the snake on the left. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?"
"Yes, Hermes." a female voice sounded as if projected for all to hear, Martha opened her jaw until She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
"That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"
"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."
"Hercules Busts Heads?"
"Great show," Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-"
"Or if it hadn't been in Martha's mouth,"the other snake added like Martha's his voice was projected.
"I'll get you for that."Martha began chasing him around the caduceus.
"Wait a minute," I said. "This is a gift?"
"One of two," Hermes said. "Go on, pick it up." I almost dropped it because it was freezing cold on one side and burning hot on the other. The weird thing was, when I turned the thermos, the side facing the ocean- north-was always the cold side.… "It's a compass!" I said. Hermes looked surprised.
"Very clever. I never thought of that. But its intended use is a bit more dramatic. Uncap it, and you will release the winds from the four corners of the earth to speed you on your way. NOT NOW!" he shouted and I took my hand off the cap, "and when you do please only twist the cap a little bit the winds are like me… wild and hard to control. Now for the second gift,"
"She's touching me." The male voice said again
"You're intertwine she's always touching you, now knock it off, George, Martha and give me the second package." George stopped moving and opened his jaw and spat out a bottle of multivitamins.
"You're kidding," I laughed. "Are those Minotaur shaped?"
"The lemon ones are yeah….and the grape are fury or are they gorgans I can never remember."
"Thank you Lord Hermes."
"Oh but the best part is yet to come." Hermes waved his hand and conjured up 3 duffle bags which had Annabeth's stuff in it and the other had Tyson's stuff. "Water proof and if you ask your dad he'll help you out by reaching the boat."
"Boat?" I echoed and then heard a foghorn echo which caused me to turn around to see a white ship.
"I wish you luck Percy and personally I think you can save someone else other than your friend Grover." Hermes' meaning instantly was clear.
"You mean Luke." It wasn't a question Hermes smiled then went off into the night, a few seconds later I heard Annabeth and Tyson's voice calling my name, then I saw them running towards me.
"Percy!" Annabeth said. "we heard you call for help."
"You said 'bad things are attacking'" Tyson said
"We need to go, now." I said grabbing a duffle bag and walk to the edge of the surf. "Dad, we need transportation to the ship….help." the waves broke and three shapes came speeding towards us.
"Fish Ponies!"
"Hippocampi!" Annabeth sighed, "they're beautiful!" The three hippocampi stopped at the edge of the surf
"There!" A voice shouted and I saw the patrol Harpies. "Naughty children out of bed, snack time for lucky harpies." We got on the hippocampi and Tyson got on the largest one and we rode away while the harpies wailed for their snacks to come back. As we approached the ship I saw its' name was 'Princess Andromeda' the figure head was just like the myth and we saw an emergency latter and we pulled a long slide to it. Annabeth and I climbed up the latter and Tyson followed slowly and watched his hippocampi treat him to tricks which caused him to laugh.
"Time to go, buddy." I said and Tyson looked at me
"Can rainbow go with us?" Tyson asked
"Uh, rainbow can't climb latters buddy but maybe we'll see him again.
"Oh, Tomorrow please?"
"Sure." I said and Tyson hugged rainbow which let out a sad neigh and then we boarded the Princess Andromeda. We dodged crew memebers but they all just smiled at us in trance like states.
"I don't like this." Annabeth muttered then we ducked into a room which was empty which really surprised me as it was prepared for us and even had a mint on the pillow.
"We should rest," I said and walked over to the door and drew a seal on it. "I've put a seal on the door so that anyone who tries to open it from the outside will forget what they were doing and walk away." I walked back towards the beds
"Don't eat or drink anything."
"This place has to enchanted." Tyson ignored us and fell asleep on the couch and I took one of the beds and Annabeth took the other, I soon fell asleep and soon found myself in the familiar cavern of Tartarus and I felt the evil presence of Kronos.
"Little hero, on your way to another chance for glory." Kronos crooned. "By all means, continue, maybe when you failed you will see how worthless it is to serve the gods." The dream faded and I was looking at Grover who was unraveling the bridal train and muttering under his breath.
"AHA!" A booming voice shouted and Grover jumped as a huge cyclopes appeared from the she shadows. "Unraveling, that is why it is taking so long."
"Oh, honey," Grover said startled "you were so quiet I didn't hear you."
"Come with me, I have gift." The cyclopes picked up Grover and took him outside, the island looked like a tropical paradise, I saw the golden fleece and could fell its power and the nature energy, even though this was a dream I could enter sage mode. I couldn't imagine the longing Grover could be experiencing at this moment, the cyclopes handed a wool skin and smiled at him, "Magic can not be undone but on loom and have dress finished by tomorrow." Grover looked less than pleased
"But dear, what if someone where to attack the island?" he looked directly at me and I new he was asking for my benefit
"Aww wifey scared, don't worry Polyphemus have state of the art security system they would have to get past pets." Polyphemus pointed to the sheep and he smiled "Then they would have to get past me!" he smashed a rock with his fist and then roared a challenge to the sea, which turned into the fog horn of the ship which woke me up.
"Greetings passengers of the Princess Andromeda, we'll be at sea all day today, the weather is partly cloudy with highs in the 80's today we have million dollar bingo on the promenade and for our special guests, disemboweling practice."
"What?!" I said my eyes snapping open
"Happy man say bowling practice." Tyson muttered sleepily
"Disemboweling practice!" Annabeth's voice said to my left and I turned to see her rubbing her eyes, in the same bed as me. I flushed red as I realized that she had been cuddling up against me and I was, as usual, shirtless.
"A-Annabeth?!" I stuttered as she looked at me and fell out of here face beet red
"P-Percy! Wha-what are you doing in my bed? YOU PERVERT!"
"Pervert?!" I recoiled, "you're the one in my bed, first off, second of all who was spying on who in their bedroom?" Annabeth turned ever brighter red and refused to make eye contact with me. We all got dressed, in separate rooms, and I couldn't calm my blush no matter what I tried.
"You remind me of Hashirama and Mito before they got married." Madara chuckles and I growled a bit.
"Or Hinata whenever Naruto spoke to her." Sasuke's voice spoke up, surprising me. " She had a huge crush on him but Naruto was too much of an Idiot to notice, at least not until after the fourth Shinobi War."
"Sasuke-sensei?" I said confused "I thought you left."
"I did, but when your rinnegan awkward my chakra was called back as there is now more I can teach you."
"WE shall teach you rinnegan techniques tonight as you sleep." Madara said, I got out of the bathroom and we got ready to leave. I stored our duffle bags in my pocket dimension and we passed Hypnotized crew and passengers, we hid when monsters passed. We passed the promenade where a kid in armor was slashing a straw dummy with a campy Half-Blood t-shirt on and with one final strike the dummy was decapitated and the crowed of monsters cheered.
"Let's get out of here." Annabeth said when suddenly we heard a two more sets of footsteps and we ducked into a room and I heard a voice worse than any monster (and by worse I mean making me want to go into a monster slaying rampage)
"-only a matter of time, don't push me, Agrius!" It was Luke, beyond a doubt. I could never forget his voice.
"I'm not pushing you!" another guy growled, his voice was deeper and even angrier than Luke's. "I'm just saying, if this gamble doesn't pay off-"
"It'll pay off, " Luke snapped. "They'll take the bait. Now, come, we've got to get to the admiralty suite and check on the casket. " Their voices receded down the corridor
"Leave now?" Tyson whimpered, Annabeth and I looked at each other and we nodded at one.
"We have to find out what he's up to." Annabeth said
"Right," I said, "Let's go ki- I mean find him." Tyson whimpered again but we dragged him along towards the admiralty suite.