CHAPTER 16: LET THE HUNT BEGIN

PREVIOUSLY:

The General did not share her humour, "His name is …" he continued but was promptly cut off "Subject X, AKA Perseus Jackson" she finished, the older man's eyes widened in surprise, "How did you…?" he tried to ask before being cut off again, "I might be a mercenary, but I like to keep tabs on everything information, especially the pentagon, oh and by the way nice nuke you guys got there" she said curtly.

"I see…in that case you know what to do" and with that statement the General turned around and began to walk away, after a few steps he turned around and spoke "Happy birthday Cecilia" and with that he resumed walking away.

The now christened Cecilia smiled ruefully, "Thanks…dad"

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Once out of sight, General Dickson activated his intercom, "Is everything set?" he asked gruffly, "….yes General, Subject A has been activated"

NOW:

Percy blinked to clear his eyes of the spots that filled them as a result of the bright light produced from the dimension travel, 'I'm still not used to this bull crap' he thought dryly.

He took a look at his surroundings and frowned, a feeling in his gut was telling him that something big was about to go down, whether he would or would not like it, he did not know.

He shook his head to clear out such thoughts from his mind, he could have jumped to the future to see what it was, but then again he loved surprises. He stretched his limbs causing them to pop and crack to his satisfaction and after that he contemplated running off but quickly shot that idea down, 'haven't had a stroll in a while' he thought before strolling off into the woods.

Few minutes into his 'stroll', a repugnant odour filled his sensitive nostrils causing him to dry heave (he was certain that if he had eaten anything, he would outright vomit).

He quickly gathered his composure and narrowed his eyes, there was no way that smell was from a rubbish pile (sadly he knew how those smelt) and the smell was some how 'living' so to speak.

He craned his neck, 'damn it to hell, I'm itching for another fight', and with that thought our blood thirsty hero charged into the dense shrubbery with an intent to kill whatever living thing that was giving off that atrocious odour.

LINEBREAK (an hour ago)

"So how exactly do we find one person?" Leo asked whirl twirling a screw driver between his fingers, "I was hoping that you could help us with that death boy" Eric asked the son of Hades who seemed to be conversing with a shadow.

Nico paid no attention to the sea spawn for some minutes before he turned away from the shadow and blew his hair out of his eyes, "This person we are tracking has the power to subdue an Olympian goddess without moving, meaning that he has a large aura and considering the fact that we are half gods we should be able to track him through his aura" the ghost king spoke.

Annabeth furrowed her eyebrows in thought "so you're saying that we can track him using his mana trail?" she asked causing Nico to shrug. "More or less".

"But how are we going to do that? In case you haven't noticed we have zero experience in 'mana sensing'" Hazel argued.

"It doesn't matter, all…" Reyna began before a large explosion of energy erupted a few kilometres to the west.

The demigods looked at each other, "I get a feeling that's our quarry" Eric quipped and immediately took off in that direction with Anaklusmos uncapped.

Leo groaned "I'm pretty sure that running toward explosions can get you killed" he complained, the other half bloods shook their heads but regardless went after the obnoxious son of Poseidon.

LINEBREAK (the present)

Percy burst into an opening expecting to come face to face with a horde of blood thirst Greek monsters but to his great surprise (and disappointment) all he saw was a sleeping Drakon and a twenty foot tall half man with red Dragon legs

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'Holy Shit! Twenty foot tall dragon man!' that's what he would've exclaimed if it weren't for the fact that he wanted to preserve his dignity.

The half man, half Dragon turned to him and fixed him with a curious stare, "Hello…..?" he stated, that snapped Percy out of his stupor, "Fancy seeing Dragon out here" he quipped.

The giant raised a bushy eyebrow at the boy obviously surprised that he wasn't surprised seeing something like him in a place like this and not take off running.

"Oh no pal, I've seen worse shit than you and I didn't run then so why should I run now?" he asked, the giant jumped in surprise, 'did he just read my mind' he questioned himself internally.

"Yes, yes I did" Percy answered back, the giant's eyes widened before they narrowed in suspicion, "Who are you?" he asked tensely as he reached for his spear in case things turned violent.

Percy

waved him off, "No need for that tooth pick pal, if I wanted you dead I would've done it the moment I saw you" he said coolly.

"You still haven't answered my question, Who. Are. You?" the giant questioned with his temper rising with each word, Percy gave him a blank stare, "You're the one waving weapons at me recklessly, I think you should tell me who YOU are first" he said in the same cool voice.

The behemoth of a man narrowed his eyes, "You are in my camp, reading my mind and now you're demanding my identity? I don't think so, You tell me who you are" he demanded.

The two males stared at each other for a few more minutes before Percy cracked a smile, "You've got guts, I like it" he said 'every one I've met since my escape from that lab has got guts, meh I guess my awesomeness affected them' he mused internally, the giant opened his mouth to speak up but was cut off by the boy, "Perseus. Perseus Jackson, but you can call me Percy" he said with a smile.

The giant nodded tersely, "My name is Damasen" he said, Percy's face took a thinking expression "I've heard of that name somewhere" he said slowly, "I'm the son of Gaia and Tartarus, one of the Gigantes, I was meant to be the giant to oppose Ares"

"So you're the 'giant of war'?" Percy asked, Damasen gave him a quick glare but continued his 'story' nonetheless, "You could say that, the giants were polar opposites of whatever god they were meant to oppose, but I highly doubt that considering the fact that both parties were as arrogant as Gaia craves sex" he said.

Percy snickered at the truthful statement causing the son of Tartarus to smile, "I guess I was the one who got the short end of the helix strand, unlike the Olympian god of war Ares who was a blood thirsty animal, I was peaceful in nature, so did not take part in the first gigantomachy"

"So what did you do?" Percy asked eagerly, "Stop interrupting me Perseus" Damasen snapped irritably causing the boy to look sheepish, giving him one more glare he continued, "I left the company of my brethren and went to the kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia were I became a farmer" he paused for some seconds as he remembered his life before.

"One day I was out in the fields when one of my friends came running to me, he told me that the Maemonian Drakon was ravaging the village and had killed a good number of villagers, I rushed down to the village and in a fit of rage I killed the Drakon"

"My mother, Gaia heard of what I did and in spite cast me into the pit where my father punished me to kill the same Drakon that would reform every week to do battle with me"

"I'm guessing that the sleeping Drakon is the same Drakon you had to fight down there" Percy stated causing the giant to nod, he sucked in a breath, "You my friend have the shitiest parents ever" he said with a shake of his head, Damasen smiled slightly at his ability to make light of a serious situation, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes.

Percy cocked his head to the side, "We're about to have some company" he said softly, Damasen shot up in surprise "What!" he questioned in surprise, "You and your Drakon need to move. NOW" Percy said seriously.

Suddenly a group of people armed with golden and bronze weapons burst into the clearing.

'This isn't just my day'

AN: You guys should really be more responsive *sigh* any way the idea of a harem is still ongoing, for those of you who don't want a harem, I suggest you say so, but hey it's just a suggestion. You will get the final answer on the next update.

PS: How are the elections over there guys?