CHAPTER 21: EASING IN AND ALL ITS CHALLENGES

PREVIOUSLY:

Percy's eyes flew open at the sight but regardless still spun around with his eyes shut firmly, "Uh, are you alright?" the girl asked in a confused tone making Percy's blush intensify, "You're naked" he managed to squeak out making the girls confusion grow.

"So? Aren't we all born this way?" she asked making Percy groan internally, 'Seems like the obedience chip chipped out some parts of what should be her natural memory instead, this is going to be embarrassing' he thought tiredly.

"Just put on your clothes please" he said tiredly, the girl gave him a strange look but heeded his words anyways and put on her long sleeved tactical suit top before crossing her arms under her chest, "Well?" she demanded.

Percy turned around to face her, "Do you have a name?" he asked politely (which was a feat on its own) making the girl frown slightly as she struggled to remember, "S…Sadie, Sadie Kane" she answered softly.

"Well then Ms Sadie, you might want to get comfortable because I've got one hell of a story for you" the hybrid said.

NOW:

A sphere composed of red electricity sailed across Percy's head and blasted an unfortunate tree that was in the line of fire out of existence, Percy pulled a few strands of hair out of his eyes and narrowed his eyes at the offender before closing the distance between them in a quick burst of speed.

It had been two weeks since Percy had explained to Sadie about their similar and yet different physiological differences to normal humans, needless to say she had taken it quite well though he had taken care not to tell her about the mythological world and his the Helixean essence in him.

Speaking of Helixean essence, the voice that spoke to him in his head those two weeks ago had not spoken to him since then and he wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing but he was equal parts relieved and disturbed at the silence.

Pushing that issue aside, during his two weeks with Sadie Percy had found out that she was as if not more rebellious as he was. Their similarities had brought about numerous clashes that were often destructive hence leading to them having to leave the village that they were holed up at.

They had come to consensus that whenever they provoked each other they would settle it in a spar, their spars turned out to be destructive as well but at least they were far less destructive than when they were trying to kill each other.

One of such spars was currently going on.

Percy threw a light (in esper proportions) jab at Sadie which she scoffed at before sweeping him off his feet in a leg sweep, as he fell he threw his right arm forward and grabbed her by the arm before flipping her over his head and using her weight to right himself.

The female esper landed harshly on her back with a loud huff indicating that the wind had been knocked out of her, to her credit she recovered from the move almost immediately and jumped to her feet before growling at Percy who had a smug smirk plastered on is face.

"What's the matter lass? I ain't too much for ya am I?" he taunted in a terrible British accent to mock her speech pattern, the girl scowled at him but said nothing as she generated large voltages of coloured elecricity at the sole of her left feet.

Seeing her hesitance Percy rolled his eyes and quickly threw a fireball at her as a distraction which she dodged as he predicted enabling him to come inside her guards and deliver a palm strike to her mid section.

Sadie flew backwards with a gasp but regained her focus slightly from the attack just in time to drive the electrified foot into his mid section as well sending him flying back as well with a gasp of his own.

They both landed on opposite sides, one in a heaving mess and the other in a twitching mess, after a few minutes they both had enough energy to pull themselves to their knees while breathing heavily.

"Truce?" Sadie asked with a straight face making Percy raise an eyebrow discreetly at how willing she was to end the spar without a win (not that she had ever won him before) but regardless gave a nod causing her to smirk faintly behind her caramel hair that covered some parts of her face.

Percy turned around and attempted to move but his senses tingled in warning making him roll his eyes at the under handed move, he spun around once she was a few inches shy of hitting him in the back and grabbed her by the neck before slamming her into the jungle floor.

"I win lass" he stated simply with his lips curled in mischievous smirk, Sadie huffed in frustration but regardless her lips twitched upwards into a smile of her own.

Percy got up and dusted his knees before stretching out a hand of his own, she rolled her eyes at him but still grabbed his hand enabling him to haul her to her feet.

She stumbled slightly before righting her self and standing on her own, they both began to make their way back to their designated camp site.

Their camp site was a small clearing in the exact same spot that Cecilia and her small band of mercenaries had parked their state of the art ATV in the Amazon jungle.

The duo had disassembled the poor vehicle and rebuilt it (with an addition of a few pieces of wood from the trees of course) as a small cabin which contained a few essentials which even though it was far from the luxurious lifestyle that most normal humans living in big cities enjoyed (or so they thought, they hadn't really been in one before), it was sufficient for them.

Percy walked into their crudely made 'apartment' and plopped down on the floor with a sigh, Sadie on the other hand walked over to a corner of the cabin and picked up a leg of Deer that they had hunted a few days back and walked over to where Percy was and sat down as well before proceeding to tear out a piece of meat with her teeth and eating it raw, blood, skin, bone and everything else.

Percy grimaced slightly at the sight, sure he and Sadie had been eating that way for some time now because they both knew that lighting a fire would attract unwanted attention to their location, and considering the fact that they were staying out of General Dickson's radar they did not need attention of any sort.

Percy had decided that it was pointless to continue his search for the mentally messed up officer, sure he had robbed him (and hundreds of other children) of his (their) childhood but he had gotten some sweet powers in return and indifferent nature of his brought about by the Helixean essence in him had simply made him not care about the insignificant insect of a mortal.

Besides his gut told him to play it quiet for some time, something was stirring in the shadows and it would do him no favours to give away all his trump card to this elusive enemy.

His gut had never lied to him before and he doubted it would do so now.

Sadie on the other hand had no memory of her past and she frankly didn't want to find out hence she had no beef with the General though she was a bit miffed that he attached a chip to her brain but that was minor.

Percy glanced at his female counterpart as she began to lick the excess blood from the deer off her palms and forearm.

He had been thinking a lot about Nemesis for the past few weeks up till the moment he met Sadie and even as he and the female esper had begun to live together, he still remembered the smallest details about the daughter of Nyx, her dark eyes that seemed calm but had an under tone of malice in them, her pale skin, her ruby red lips and even the slight scar she had just above her left eyebrow.

He often wondered what would have happened if he had actually decided to take her as she offered herself to him, his face darkened as the thought of her following in the footsteps of her fellow deities and bedding mortals for the sake of dooming the children that would no doubt sprout from such a union to untimely deaths crossed his mind.

But that wasn't what was plaguing him right now, as of recent he had been thinking of the caramel haired beauty in the same way and he found it utterly ridiculous.

Sure she was attractive but he had known her for just two week dammit! He could have easily dismissed as his body reacting differently because he was an esper or the Helixean essence in him, heck he it could have been as a result of his godly which found various women attractive and mated with them to sate its lust.

But he knew deep inside that it went further than simple lust and that fact was tearing him apart on the inside.

It was outright ridiculous how he got attracted to females he had spent only a short time around.

"….rcy!,...PERCY!" Percy blinked rapidly to clear out his thoughts as he saw Sadie snapping her fingers in front of his face while calling his name.

"What?" he asked dumbly making the girl shoot him an irritated glare, "I said that I just sensed some foreign energy signatures converge on our location" she repeated making Percy narrow his eyes a little, "Esper or machine?" he asked seriously.

"Neither, and it has a similar energy signature as yours except slightly weaker" she replied as she quickly threw on her tactical combat clothing(it hadn't been washed in a while but meh, beggars can't be choosers), Percy's eyes widened slightly at that bit of info as it could only mean two things.

Either Dickson had experimented a little and created a new type of super human (or weapon) to eliminate him and Sadie or those half bloods, er immortals where behaving like Sheep on orders of their almighty council and were poking their nose into his affairs once more.

'Looks like she's about to find out 'bout this mytho bullcrap sooner than I thought' Percy thought dryly as he threw own a pair of loose fitting shorts and a form fitting shirt (AN: Hmm).

F of speed.

Maybe whoever it was would spare their dwelling and come their way instead.

BOOM

The both of them let out sighs of irritation at the sound of their home being blown up but did not slow down, instead they seemed to speed up.

They were not running because they were afraid. No, rather they were running because they had both developed a penchant for sadistic violence over the course of the past two weeks and they were not in the mood to torture a poor bastard before putting an end to his or her pathetic existence.

That seemed like a plausible enough reason.

A bright light suddenly appeared in front of them halting them in their quick steps as they narrowed their eyes at the bright light.

In front of them stood the immortal heroes of Olympus but they were not on their own.

Eric Summers stood dressed in Atlantean armour with a shield in his right arm and Anaklusmos drawn on his right.

Annabeth Chase stood dressed in Athenian armour with a spear at the ready.

Jason Grace stood covered with Roman armour with the standard issue square like Roman shield on his left and his Gladius drawn and his red cape billowing behind him in the nonexistent wind.

Leo Valdez stood at the ready dressed in Barbarian armour with a mighty flaming war hammer held with both his hands.

Piper Mclean was clad in Amazonian armour with two daggers held firmly in her respective palms.

Frank Zhang was clad in archers gear with a bow held firmly in his right arm and a quiver full of imperial gold tipped arrows on his back.

Hazel Levesque stood in pitch black Roman armour forged from Stygian iron from the depths of the underworld and instead of her usual Spatha, a large sword the size of her body rested in its sheath on her back.

Reyna Avilla Arellano Ramirez was clad in her usual Praetorian armour but this time around it was gold all around and instead of the usual one Gladius she held two Gladii in each arm.

Nico Di Angelo stood in armour as black as the depths of the Tartarus itself with two chained blades in each palm.

The difference from last time? They had their respective godly parents stood at their sides with their various symbols of power drawn.

"The fuck?" Sadie muttered slowly as she felt the power rolling off each of them, she was certain that she could only take down two of them tops after that she was screwed.

Percy rolled his eyes at the thought of the spectacle that was about to go down, it seemed that the immortal heroes had under gone a massive power boost. He knew he could take down four of them at most the rest he would take care of through the use of some Helixean energy.

Sadie kept her gaze on the group and asked, "From Dickson?" she asked making Percy snort but answer "No" he said simply, she fixed him with an irritated glare, "Just who the hell did you piss off?" she whispered harshly only to receive a shrug in response.

"Too many to count" he answered simply, she growled slightly but spoke again, "we can't take them all" she said quietly, "Don't worry about that, just hold your own and once I've taken down the fourth person if you want to keep fighting just come over and give me a tap on the shoulder if not then high tail the hell out of here" he replied.

Sadie gave him a confused look at the shoulder tapping part but regardless got into a crouched stance as he did.

Percy face her, "Oh and when this is done, I'll explain this ah situation" and on that final note the Greco Romans attacked.

AN: Welp I got this done, now time for a mini rant,

I like harem stories but I hate, hate, HATE it when there is no conflict between the females in said harem. When I say conflict it doesn't necessarily mean a consistency of cat fights but there should be a tussle of sorts between the females the fact that most authors just make the females seem submissive to sharing their man makes them seem like property to the male which is out right sexist (note this does not apply if the females are 'active' with each other *shudder*)

Rant Over.

On a side note, I begin lectures in the university on Monday wish me luck

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