Yo guys! I'm finally back! Sorry I had a block for a while on both stories plus an idea for a story on Highschool DxD so...
Thanks for waiting! And I'll now answer most of the reviews, if not all.
Arkyz: Hehehe, thanks man! Feels great to hear that :) Read to see how he handle this :D
JustLucky05: I hope it is epic enough for you, if not then the end of the chapter should pleases you ;)
TheFallenAce: Really now? You know? Are inside my head? My computer?! Someone call the police! Humhum... For the four wives part... Well, I thought it would be fun, and... Well, it isn't a romance fic... And well, for the instant falling in love, I have one thing to say, the olympian gods are alive above New-York, so screw logic. :D
Gold Testament: No saving from Jason. Let's just say he was busy with Piper XD
Wade98: It IS a rather characteristic trait of Zeus so... And yes. Yes I'm completely serious. When am I not serious? ... Don't answer that one.
Guestx2: Yep, CLIFFY! And another one today XD As for the overclocking... I don't play CoD, but if it is alike then it's pure coincidence XD
IchiIchi: Thanks, and mistakeS not mistakeA :P Just kidding :D
The Keeper of World: Seems so huh? :)
Demigod52204: ... You're actually the first one I know who love cliffhangers... As for Artemis, yes she will, but in a slower and more chaste way. Apart that time in the tent. XD
Guest+Theadmetoultar: Here comes the chapter, as for a longer one... next time, today I had a lot of trouble to write ^^'
zdeath01: Strangely, not me XD
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"Such ugly words in a so lovely mouth." Her eyes glowed, she was about to punish the demigod when a tension made her stop, a magical tension, dreadful, enough to make her shiver. She slowly turned her head to see Percy.
His anger was rising, the more he looked at him, the more his anger was rising. This demigod was openly trying to flirt with his wives. Instantly, his battle software booted, letting him know every possible punishment. His HUD flickered, hesitating between activating his aiming assistant or not.
On his back, Backbiter was slowly fading in existence. His powers were slowly activating. The time was shimmering around him. His right eye illuminated in a bright silver light.
"Son of Jupiter, if you value your life, apologize to Lady Artemis, and walk away this instant." Threatened Percy in a low voice. Andromeda jumped off his back and wet behind Thalia, who looked a bit worried.
"Who are you to threaten me? I'm a son of Jupiter, my father will protect me against anyone." Retorted the demigod while glaring at him. A small chuckled escaped Percy's lips.
"Jupiter? Protect you?" Percy made his celestial bronze right blade unsheathe slowly.
"Just to let you know. Zeus, Jupiter's greek form, transformed his own daughter in a tree when she was facing an army of monster, and Jupiter gave his son to Hera just to avoid her wrath. And, just so you know, Jupiter… I killed him." Answered Percy. This seemed to take the demigod aback before he took a more angered face.
"You're lying. How could a demigod kill the great King of the Gods! Huh? Give me a proof!" Yelled the son of Thunder.
Behind him, Percy heard the huntresses sighed. He quickly looked around to see that a great number of people came to see the spectacle, the romans, the greeks, Chiron and Lupa. Even Dionysus was here. He sighed.
"I don't need to prove myself to you. Walk away while you can. You tried to flirt with Lady Artemis, a maiden goddess. Thank the Fates to still be alive." Said Percy as he walked passed him. He was two meters away when he head four words.
"You're a coward."
He froze. Everyone gasped. Percy slowly turned around, he fixed his glare into the demigod's eyes.
"Tell me your name demigod. State your name and your cohort." Said Percy.
"I'm Kevin Boyle. Second Cohort." Stated the now named Kevin.
"Well Kevin Boyle, son of Jupiter, centurion of the Second. You insulted someone out of your reach. I will let you one last chance. Walk away after apologizing to Lady Artemis." Said Percy. Kevin only glared at him. After a disapproving sighed, the cyborg reached for his scythe and slammed the blunt edge on the floor.
"Alright. Now, it is my turn to introduce myself. I am Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, Hero of Olympus, Champion of Hestia and Thanatos, Lord of Time, the Last Spartan, Assassin of the Artemis, Cybernetic Protector of the Hunt, Husband of Rhea, fiancé of Hera, Artemis and Gaea. I am the Broken Hero. One. Last. Chance." Growled Percy as he put the cold blade of the scythe on his neck.
"I… I… I'm sorry!" Yelled the demigod as he fall on his knees, crying in fear. Percy flashed away his scythe and offered his hand.
"It is okay Kevin. You didn't know. Plus, Jupiter's blood were surely acting up. Just try to be more careful with your words next time." Said Percy. Kevin looked up, half scared, half shocked. He took Percy hand and the cyborg helped him on his feet.
"Thank you…" Breathed the demigod. Percy tapped him on the shoulder before walking away with the girls, in direction of the Big House.
"Girls, go and train, try not to cause too much injuries, okay?" Said Artemis. Thalia nodded with a smile.
"I'll go and talk to my new brother! Thank you for not killing him Perce." Said the lieutenant. Percy glared playfully at her.
"I'm not killing everyone you know. Just the ones who really, really annoys me. And the ones who deserves it of course." Said Percy as he walked with her. But Artemis called him back.
"Percy! Stay here for a moment please." Percy nodded and Thalia walked out.
"What is it Arty?" Asked Percy as he sat on a chair next to the Ping-Pong table. Artemis walked to him and kissed him, gently and chastely. Slightly shocking him.
"Hmmm… Thanks, I mean it was great but… why?" Asked a confused Percy. Rhea giggled at the face of her husband.
"That was a thank you. For how you defended me. It was sweet." Percy rubbed the back of his head, embarrassed. Then, Chiron and Lupa walked in.
"Percy! My boy how are you?!" Exclaimed the centaur as he hugged the cyborg.
"Well I'm great! I really am! It's good to see you Chiron. You as well Lupa." Said Percy as he bowed slightly to the Wolf goddess.
"It is good to see you too Pup. So? Fiancé and Husband?" Percy became red from embarrassment, as well as Artemis and Hera. While the two others simply smiled.
"Yeah… I kind of inherited the husband thing by claiming the title of Lord of Time. And I saw, with the help of Lady Hera, my future… marital status. And we saw that I will have four wives, these four goddesses." Said Percy as he gestured for the women.
Chiron chuckled and pat him on the back.
"My boy, I always knew you were special. But I have a few questions. First, Broken Hero? Why? You seem fine to me." Said the centaur with a curious and sad tone. Percy smiled a bit and raised his hand to show him his metallic limb.
"Do I really need to tell you? I mean, they are useful and all, but I still miss my old arms and legs. And I will always have phantom pains." Said Percy with a sad expression. Chiron hugged him while Lupa snorted.
"You are a roman, you should be stronger than that." Percy fixed his eyes on the wolf goddess.
"I know the romans are harsher and more strict than the greeks. But really? I lost my four limbs and an eye, I nearly died, and almost every night, I relive the exact same pain I felt that day. I suffered all that so you, gods, could live happily on your thrones, so don't come and tell me to be stronger, because I think I have been strong enough." Stated Percy as pain and anger mixed in his mind, tears began to fall from his natural eye and Lupa seemed sincerely regretful.
"Sorry pup, I went too far, but to be honest, you were the strongest centurion I saw in a long time, so I let my hopes fly up." Percy sighed.
"It's okay. And I apologize for disrespecting the gods. Oh! Chiron! I also have to tell you that I will participate in the capture the flag, with the Hunt." Smirked the demigod. And Chiron felt tears coming in his eyes.
"Why? Why do you betray us my boy? You were our only hope to win…" Pleaded the centaur. Artemis rolled her eyes while Hera, Gaea and Rhea chuckled at the antics of the millennia old trainer. Percy took a quick glance at Artemis.
"Because I'm in the Hunt now. I would love to help you, but she is my fiancée, and I really, really don't want to anger her. I hope you understand Chiron." Chiron sniffed and nodded while hugging the cyborg, who returned the hug while half crying too.
Artemis grabbed Percy's ear and pulled, hard.
"I know I am strict but do you really have to make me look like a brutal tyrant?" Percy began to yelp and then answered.
"I don't need to, you're already showing it right now!" Artemis' eyebrow twitched, and she pulled harder.
"Ouch ouch ouch ouch! Stop it! I don't want to lose another part of my body!" Pleaded the cyborg. Chiron chuckled at the sight of the strict maiden goddess reprimanding the cyborg.
"So Percy, tell me, why are you here?" Said Chiron. Percy, massaging his bruised ear, answered with a smile.
"Well, I came with the Hunt for a few reasons in fact. First, I want to see the result of the training I put the girls through. Second, I wanted to see my friends, and third, I wanted to see how my cousin was integrating." Answered the metal armed demigod. Chiron looked at him nervously.
"You trained them? Really? In swordsmanship?" Asked the centaur, half ho^ping it wasn'the case. Percy shook his head.
"I only trained Andro personally, the others trained either in archery, where I didn't help obviously, or in knife combat, where I didn't help either. But I did gave them tips when I could." Said Percy with a smile. He stood up.
"Sorry, I really want to see Anna. See ya." Waved Percy as he walked away. On his way to the Athena cabin, a lot of people looked at him, whispering different things, either jealousy raging comments or dreamy compliments. He also noticed a huge difference compared to before. There was, next to each cabin, a huge statue representing the patron of the cabin. He smiled slightly at the sight.
Once he was in front of the Athena cabin, he knocked. After a while, the door opened on the familiar face of Malcom, now head councilor.
"Hey Mal! How are you?" Exclaimed Percy with a smile. Malcom smiled and took him in a quick man hug.
"I'm good and you? Still with the Hunt?" Percy smiled and nodded.
"Of course. Say, is Anna here?" Asked Percy, his face showing concern. Malcom nodded.
"Yeah, but she is very closed, she doesn't talk much… I don't know what's up with her really…" Said the son of Athena. Percy frowned slightly.
"Let me take care of this okay?" Malcom nodded and let him in. After walking through, avoiding scattered papers with a lot of writings and calculus on it, he managed to reach a small room next to the councilor's one. He knocked at the door and waited for a bit. Not hearing anything, he frowned.
Malcom looked at him with a confused face. Percy sighed.
"Heat vision, active." Pronounced Percy in his usual system voice. He looked at the door and saw a figure, in a fetal position and slightly shaking. He frowned, deactivated his enhancement and opened the door. He looked above his shoulder to Malcom.
"I'll handle this. No one interrupts me and no one leaves. That's an order." Said Percy. He closed the door and sat next to his cousin, not saying a word.
After a while, he booted on his system a game of pac-man and waited, after twenty minutes, Anna raised her face to look at Percy.
"Wh-What are you doing?" Asked the demi-titan with a broken voice. Percy looked at her with an eyebrow raised.
"Hmm… You mean in general or right now, because to the later, I'm answering that I'm playing Pac-man, and to the former, well… I'm just waiting to see if you want to talk about what's wrong." Anna gazed at him with her broken eyes.
The cyborg sighed and passed an arm around her shoulder.
"Okay, first of all, I'm sorry for your brother, he… he destroyed a gift from my first crush, Calypso. I'm sure you heard about her." Smiled sadly the hero.
"I-I understand, and we never really were kind with you either. So… It isn't the problem…" Breathed the white eyed girl. Percy looked at her.
"So what is it? You know, I'm family, both mortally and godly. And would do anything for family." Said Percy in a smoothing voice. Anna stayed a bit hesitant, so Percy took a teasing face.
"Don't make me hypnotize you…" Anna looked at him half scared.
"You can do that?" Percy laughed for a bit and shook his head.
"No I can't, can't find the right intonation. Anyway. Tell me. I'll help you."
"It's… It's the demigods… They… bully me…" Said the girl in a sad tone. Percy frowned.
"They bully you? Which cabin in particular? It s always a single cabin leading the others." Stated Percy.
"The… the Aphrodite cabin…" Whispered softly the daughter of Koios. Percy shot on his feet and outstretched his hand for his cousin.
She took it shakily and after she was on her feet, Percy gave only one order to her.
"Follow me." He changed his coat in a cloak, putting his hood, flashing in his sniper rifle and opening the door.
Anna followed her intimidating cousin. He didn't care anymore about the papers. Making some of the demigods grumble. But no one tried to stop him, too afraid of the single glowing gold eye in the shadow of the hood.
He barged out of the cabin with Anna and Malcom on his heels. On his way, everyone stared at him, an eyebrow raised. He didn't stop, everyone was walking on the side, giving him passage.
Then, he arrived at the cabin. He knocked and a minute later, a uncombed Piper opened the door with behind her, an equally uncombed Jason.
"Regroup your cabin. Immediately." Growled the son of Poseidon. Piper raised an eyebrow and Jason frowned.
"Be a bit more polite please." Scowled the God of Heroes. Percy knew he was right, but he was way too angry to care.
"Now is not the time to test my patience, Patron. Especially not in this cabin." Jason gulped a bit at the frost in the cyborg's voice, he looked on his left and saw from afar the waves raising and crashing hard on the sandy beach. He gulped and nodded, flashing away.
Ten minutes later, a group of Aphrodite children was regrouped in front of Percy who was glaring at them. Piper looked at him a bit angry.
"Everyone is here?" Asked the son of Poseidon with irritation. Piper nodded and Percy smiled evilly.
"Great. Lesson start. But first." He looked at the sky and took a deep breath.
"APHRODITE! GET HERE ON THE SPOT!" Roared the half-robot. Piper looked shocked for a moment.
"You can't just talk and call a god like that. It's disrespectful." Scolded the daughter of Love. Percy smirked.
"Watch me. APHRODITE! IF YOU DON'T COME! I'LL BLOW UP YOUR WHOLE PALACE! BONDAGE ROOM INCLUDED!" Roared again the mad demigod. And an instant later, the goddess of sexual desire was next to him with an angry face.
"Don't talk to me like that young man." Said the goddess, with apparently a teasing undertone. But she shut up when she saw the barrel of his handgun against her forehead.
"Don't. Test. Me. Your children pissed me off so you better be quiet and listen." He then turned and faced the demigods while Anna looked at him shocked.
Who is this guy to simply order the gods around? Thought the daughter of Koios. Then, she noticed four women, two she saw already and two unknown, looking at Percy with a smile.
"I just had a talk with my cousin. And I heard something that I really, but really don't like." Said Percy in a professorial tone. Everyone looked confused for a moment. Piper spoke up.
"Hmmm… What did Thalia told you?" Asked the young goddess. Percy frowned in confusion before widening his eyes.
"No, I was speaking about Anna here. She is Paul's nephew." Said the cyborg as he pointed at the embarrassed demi-titan. Every Love's children's eyes widened. They, of course, knew of Paul for multiple reasons, first, Percy always talked about his family, including him. But in the tales of the War, Paul was quoted in the Battle of Manhattan, as the mortal who disposed of monsters with his rapier.
"Yeah… Anna is my cousin. And I heard that you guys, bullied her." Said Percy, his tone hardening at the end of the sentence. Aphrodite flinched a bit, as well as Piper. A small crowd had formed and went totally quiet at this moment.
"Now. I'll ask one question. And I'll ask it only once. Who led you?" Growled the cyborg. His stance changed slightly. And his wives noticed it, him passing from a warrior to an assassin. The temperature dropped, cold, white-bluish flames began to ran in a circle at his feet, spreading ice on the floor. They could feel the time shake around his body. And everyone pointed to Drew Tanaka who looked terrified.
Percy fixed his glare on her.
"Oh? You? Well… I shouldn't be surprise. I heard some pretty bad stuff about you.. I even heard that you bad mouthed Silena." Drew gulped and took a step back. But Percy took one forward.
"So? Will you all apologize and swear to never to something like that again?" He then dashed at Drew, positioned himself next to her and pressed the barrel of his handgun against her temple.
"Or should I make an exemple!" Shouted Percy. Piper's eyes went wide at the idea and shook her head, not wanting to see the scene. Drew then smirked.
"You wouldn't do that Percy… You want to let me go. Calm yourself." Anna felt power in her voice and understood she was trying to charm Percy. And she saw the four women laughing quietly a bit away. Piper shook her head.
"It won't work on him Drew. He is somehow immune. I already tried once." Said the goddess. Drew's eyes showed fear.
"We're sorry! We'll never do it again!" Began to cry some of them, and after a few minutes, everyone apart from Drew apologized.
Aphrodite stepped in.
"Please don't killed her! I beg you! I'll offer you anything to calm you Perseus! My body, or even Drew! You can even take her as you sex slave if it appease you!" Began to cry the goddess. Percy looked at her, no expression on her face.
BANG!