Percy.
I was almost completely absorbed into the metal creature when I heard the familiar male voice from my dream last night began to speak. "Percy if you wish to stay alive allow me to take control of your body, and your powers I won't be able to act through you for long but it will be the only way to save your life, and as soon as your life is no longer is in danger you will instantly get control back over your body."
I had no way of moving my head, and but I grudgingly said yes inside my head. There was a sudden explosion of power inside my body that filled my muscles with renewed strength, however as soon as the power entered my body I felt my mind get pushed out from my body.
I could see my real body under me, and I nearly yelled in shock I was now floating in the air but my body wasn't solid, my body that was in the sky was like an astral projection. I could feel my real body yearning in distress to have my mind back inside of it but the being inside of my body didn't feel evil.
I saw the top of my real body glow blue, and before I could react it blasted itself from the metal monster. The monster was blown into a hundred pieces in different directions a couple of the pieces of the still living monsters smashed into Uzaton's face, and I saw real surprise on his face.
"How did you break out, my pet was stronger than your current strength." My physical body landed softly on it's feet and it looked directly up at me and nodded its head. Uzaton looked to where my body was looking but he didn't seem to notice me.
The strange being in my body touched the gauntlet and made the armor return to it's dormant form. He then proceeded to turn tombstone into riptide, and then the capped it and slipped riptide back into my pants pocket.
Strange armor appeared out of thin air and appeared on my body, and I could feel a powerful aura flow off the armor, and it's strength blend with my scent, and it wasn't until then that Uzaton raised an eyebrow and yelled.
"Who are you, you are not Percy Jackson." A small smirk appeared on my real bodies face, and a voice that was not my own began to speak from my own mouth and it was strange seeing something other than myself controlling my body.
"It does not matter who I am to you Uzaton, son of Gaea. What does matter is that I cannot allow you to end the life of Percy Jackson. His destiny is not meant to end here at your hands, and I will not allow you to stop him from finishing his quest. If you do not allow him to leave now alive, I will end you."
Uzaton's face transformed into barely controlled anger, and he summoned a sword. "You dare to give me an order, I don't need to know who you are to know that you wont be able to stop me from taking the powers of Percy Jackson."
Uzaton immediately went into his divine form, and with the sudden increase of power I felt his subordinate's strength triple in power. The metal monster that was blown up began to reform, and when it's mouth was fully reformed it roared in anger and charged my physical body.
The person in my body didn't even flinch at the charging monster but when it got close enough sea storm appeared in his hands and it grew 3 feet longer in length, and it turned into a double ended trident.
I watched from the air as the person in my body slashed upwards with sea storm, and the newly modified sea storm sliced through it's body clean through. When it's 2 sides fell to the ground at my bodies feet, I saw the being stab sea storm directly into the part of the body with the biggest part of the head, and before my eyes I saw the metal dragon's body turn completely into water.
Uzaton had a look of shock on his face, because the water that used to be the metal monster hovered in the air and split into 5 separate chunks of liquid. The balls of hovering liquid shook then began to take the forms of human bodies.
The faces on the bodies were blank until energy flowed out of my real body into them. Their bodies instantly changed to look like 5 duplicate forms of me. But they didn't like like my current body with the scars, and white hair, they looked just like I did before the injuries.
The being in my body looked up at me and gave me a friendly smile, just as my real body began to change. My real body didn't shrink or grow taller, but I saw all the wounds on my body shimmer then vanish.
I also saw my hair slowly turn from white, to my familiar unruly black hair. But the changes didn't only affect my real body, in my astral form I could slowly start to see out of my blind eye. It started slow at first kinda of blurry but then I could see everything out of both my eyes even with the enhanced vision from Nemesis's eye patch.
I then looked down back to the being in my body, and he began to speak to me. "Consider this a gift for your hardships, my power that is in your body has healed all your old injuries, and it will stay like this even after I leave your body, but now I must get back to work protecting you from this annoying insect."
The energy flowing from my physical body continued to enter the water versions of me but I could start to feel my powers enter their bodies. The water clone of me to the immediate right of my physical body gained a slight red aura.
It's hair grew longer and harsh red armor, and in it's hand appeared my war whip in it's full form. Then the water clone on the immediate left gained an aura that smelled of the wild. It's hair shortened, and on it's body grew light leather armor, and in it's hands appeared my bow, and on it's back appeared a quiver full of arrows, and my dual hunting knives sheathed on it's thighs.
The other water clones gained their own aura's that were each different from the others. The water clone next to the clone started to smell of a combination of fire, and death, and pitch black armor appeared on it's body that gave off a wave of immense heat. In it's hands appeared tombstone gleaming in the sunlight.
The clone next to the clone that held the bow gained an aura that filled the air with the smell of ozone. Armor as blue as a clear sky appeared on it's body, and in it's hand appeared thunder terror in the shape of a sword.
1 of the final 2 clones didn't gain an aura but it got something even more impressive. In it's hands appeared aegis, and a power looking spear. I saw it's eyes narrow in concentration, but then I looked at the final water clone to see what it was going to get.
The final water clone tapped it's wrist and my armor appeared on it's body, and on 1 arm was the shield that Tyson made me complete with the Stygian iron spikes running on the sides of it, and in it's other hand appeared riptide but in it's original form without the red button that unleashed a devastating power.
The being in my body began to speak. "What you see now Uzaton is some of the physical manifestations of Percy's powers each clone has a piece of his his spirit inside of them, and don't think you can take his powers 1 by 1 from these clones because it wont work."
The clones of myself glowed brighter their respective aura's of power strengthened, and I watched as the clone that gave off the scent of death, and fire press his hands to the ground. Right away 6 pairs of hands shot out of the ground.
At first they were just bones but flesh started to grow on their emerging body parts, and I knew at once that undead spartus monsters were being summoned using my powers over death. The spartus covered themselves in fire, and each of them pulled a bone from their bodies that morphed into daggers made of celestial bronze covered bones.
The spartus's split up into 3 teams of 2, and ran at the remaining 3 creatures that Uzaton summoned. The dragon monsters ran to meet them occasionally jumping over large holes in the ground that I suspected came from the metal worms.
The first spartus collided head to head with the dragon monster, and instantly the spartus began to change. It's stomach exploded open in half. At first I thought it must have gotten hit by some invisible attack but I saw ropes of rotting intestines spill out from it's body, and they began to wrap around the dragon creature.
The monster roared in anger, and unleashed a shower of flame directly into the chest of the spartus. However the flames didn't damage it, instead the spartus's aura of death grew stronger, and the heat that it expelled tripled in temperature.
The intestines then started to pull in the creature like I was pulled in earlier, and I watched on as in under 10 seconds the dragon creature was swallowed hole. The spartus's stomach sealed itself, and the spartus slowly began to sink back underground.
I waited for the dragon creature to claw it's way out from the skeletal stomach but it never happened. The other spartus creatures met in battle with the dragon creatures, but they didn't attack the same way as the first did.
The 2nd spartus rolled to the side as the dragon creature tried to trample it, and when it was running by the spartus started slashing the creature through it's right side of it's body with the bone knife. The monster roared in agony, and before it could finish the spartus's body turned into a mass of flames, and started to push it's way through the open wound.
Nothing really happened at first but then the dragon creatures skin started to boil, and it blew up in a showering mist of chunks of rotted flesh, and metal. The 2nd dragon creature also didn't revive leaving only 1 regular dragon creature left, along with it's creature, and my other enemies.
The final dragon creature minion died in a less spectacular way, it's head was ripped off it's body like someone tearing off a paper towel from it's roll, but what was slightly worth mentioning that it did manage to disarm the spartus before it got torn apart.
The spartus like the other 2 died away after it's kill was taken down, leaving 3 of it's comrades, and the original dragon. Uzaton barked an order to his subordinates to protect the dragon from harm but before they could take more than a single step, the clone that held thunder terror stepped forward.
The clone slammed thunder terror into the ground, and impaling it in place. Thunder terror immediately changed from that of a weapon to the form of a weather vane. Thunder terror in it's new form shot a bolt of lighting into the sky, and when it got to a certain point the lightning bolt split off into multiple smaller lightning bolts.
The smaller lightning bolts pierced the ground in a perfect 100 foot circle that surrounded the spartus creatures and the dragon, and they too turned into weather vanes, but what happened next made Uzaton yell in a furious rage.
Because the 10 weather vane's started sending chains of lighting to each other going faster, and faster until before all of our eyes a barrier surrounded the spartus's, and the dragon. Some of the godling's tried to blast the barrier with a surge of power but without warning their attacks where sent back at them with an added bonus of electricity in them.
The godling's were sent falling back at the counter attack. Uzaton must have known that him trying to destroy the barrier like his underlings did wouldn't work because he didn't try to attack it. What he did though was try to teleport inside the barrier
When his body started to shimmer the being in my body suddenly thrusted the modified sea storm in his direction. A pressurized wave of water shot out of each prong of the trident, and the water appeared around Uzaton before he could get away.
The water wrapped around his legs, and with a jerk he was sent flying. The moment his body left the ground all hell broke loose. The other clones with my powers in them separated and dashed to Uzaton's underlings.
The clone of myself that held the powers of Pan, and Artemis's blessing appeared next to some of the demigods. I saw my clone open his mouth and unleash a terrifying scream. The scream had it's effect because every enemy fell down in either pain from the sound or in terror.
The clone took it's shot because it shot an arrow into the younger looking demigod. I was expecting some magically magnified super arrow but it was a plain celestial bronze arrow. But what it lacked in powers it made up for in accuracy.
The arrow embedded itself through the stomach of the demigod, and he writhed in pain. The second demigod tried to stand but my clone switched from the hunting bow, to the hunting knives. He stabbed with the left hunting knife into 1 of the demigod's lungs, and with the second hunting knife he slashed downwards slicing open the demigods stomach.
The demigod's didn't have time to react before healthy looking vines shot out of the ground, and wrapped around the 2 demigod's bodies, and before I knew it they were both wrapped head to toe in vines.
But the greenery didn't stop there because the vines kept on spreading until they turned into tree roots. In under a minute the 2 demigods were trapped in a giant tree just like Hyperion was on the battle of Olympus.
The clone of myself that just did all the work turned to look at me and bowed it's head. Before it shimmered and vanished. Next up was the clone that held the powers of strength, and anger. The clones face turned into that of a blood thirsty smile.
It slammed it's right boot into the chest of a minor godling, and backhanded another demigod in the face that caused the demigod to go flying into the electric barrier. The demigods body writhed in pain as thunder terror sent a deadly amount of electricity into his body.
The demigod had no chance to lay on the ground in pain because the clone of myself brought the war whip back and the slashed forward. The razor sharp whip wrapped around the demigods body, and I could see the whip start spinning like a chainsaw.
The cries of pain matched what I was seeing because the demigods armor was destroyed instantly, and if the war whip dispatched the armor that quickly than the demigods unprotected body stood no chance. I was sure the clone would have kept going but it's attention was drawn to the godling who just stood up.
The clone pulled his weapon hand backwards and the war whip retreated back, but it was not the only thing to leave the demigods body. An entire leg was sent whirling through the air from the action of the war whip being pulled back, and it looked like it had just been put through a giant meat grinder over 30 times in a row.
The clone of myself that was wielding the war whip laughed when the leg crashed into the godling's chest. I would like to say the godling wasn't affected by the gore, but he started throwing up whatever he had for lunch but the clone didn't feel like waiting because he jumped in the air, and when the godling looked up he scrambled backwards in fear.
My clone was falling down through the air towards the godling. In his left hand he had the war whip while in it's right hand he held nothing, but he closed his fist. The clone clashed into the godling fist first.
His fist slammed through the armor that covered the godling's chest, however the armor crumpled away like it was paper. The godling sat up forwards slighting in pain from the punch, and I didn't have to ask to know that every ounce of power was put into the punch.
The remainder of the fight between the godling and the clone was nearly non existent. The clone made the whip vanish and then when his hands were free he grabbed the godlings head in both hands and proceeded to headbutt him 5 times.
With each headbutt the clone glowed in an angry red color that I knew was from the power of Menoetius. I had to look away because if I didn't I felt like I would have too throw up from the brutality. When the clone was done it gave a chuckle of arrogance, and it flashed away in flash of red.
I watched on as the other clones successfully defeated their targets. The clone that held the blessing of Athena quickly defeated her foe in under 20 seconds. The fight consisted of a block with aegis, and the clone thrusting his spear into the chest of the enemy.
The enemy gave a single twitch, and then stopped moving. I knew he wasn't dead because he was 1 of the final godlings but the blow was precise, and meant to be a 1 hit fight finisher. The other fights were just the same except for the fight inside the barrier.
That fight was the only fight that ended in a fatality. The remaining 3 spartus's started jumping around dodging the dragon's attacks, and when the skeletal warriors saw their opening they took it. 2 of the spartus's grabbed the upper arms of the dragon, and pulled them back sharply.
The result ended with the upper arms being broken clean off her body. The final spartus's hand erupted in flames, and then it punched the ground. A tower of fire erupted under the dragon, and while the fire didn't destroy the creature it did manage to distract it long enough so that the spartus, could deliver the final blow.
The spartus jumped up in the arm colliding into the dragon. The dragon fell on it's back from the impact of the spartus's knees, and then the spartus stood, and walked the few feet up to the creatures neck.
The dragon tried to rise after the fall but the other 2 spartus's bodies fell apart, and in a single fluid motion the bones transformed into a nearly full body length weighed net that kept the dragon tied to the ground.
When the final spartus got close enough it put its hands on the dragons throat gripped tight, and snapped it's neck. The dragons body began to shimmer, and it vanished leaving behind strangely enough a belt of small bones.
That battle was the last of the mini fights. The only people still standing not counting me because I was floating in a non physical body, was the strange being in my body, and Uzaton. The being in my body had managed to keep Uzaton away from the other fights because be put a bubble of water around Uzaton.
However the bubble of water had the power that even my father, and Oceanus would have had a hard time managing to summon, because the being inside the bubble was not a weakling. He was trying to blast his way outside with every power he had ranging from the acid, to even changing his body into dozens of different types of monster parts.
Uzaton even tried to turn his body into a gas and try to slip out. He again was unable to get out but the longer I saw him inside the bubble the more pressure I felt being put on my real body. When the being inside my body saw that all the other battles were over he moved his hand up and flung it down.
The physical movement caused the bubble to fly upwards in the air at fifty miles an hour, then crashing down into the ground just as hard. However the being inside my body was there by him when he fell. The second the bubble dissipated I saw my bodies left arm being brought backwards like he was going to backhand Uzaton.
However it wasn't a backhand that hit Uzaton instead it was a surge of electricity that shout out of my fingertips. From the time he spent inside the water it made Uzaton's body more conductible to the electricity.
Uzaton's body's started to writhe in pain, but that wasn't the end of it. The next flurry of attacks to Uzaton started with a stab to his left shoulder and surprisingly I heard a snap. The cause of the sound was 1 of the heads of sea storm being snapped off.
I was starting to worry that Uzaton did something but I saw ice starting to form on the broken handle of sea storm, and it started to take the form of what was there before. Uzaton yelled in anger, and I looked at his shoulder and saw the head of sea storm changing.
The celestial bronze head started to turn from celestial bronze, to ice, and then to water. When it changed into water I saw the water squirming it's way to the open wound. Uzaton must have known something bad was happening because he looked at his open wound in complete shock.
"No no no you cant be able to do this, they are a part of me now." The being inside my body laughed.
"They were not yours to begin with the power inside Percy's body will allow me to take back what you have stolen." The conversation ended there because I saw some of the water that entered Uzaton's body, started to come out, and it wasn't alone.
A stream of water started to pour out of the open wound, and the first thing that appeared other than water was a foot long claw. I recognized the claw as a hellhound claw. The second the claw left his body I seen Uzaton's chest change.
His chest changed from being godly armor, to that of a hellhounds head that roared in response. But the hellhounds head vanished even quicker than it arrived. The hellhound claw separated from the water in a bubble just big enough to hold it, and the claw shot over towards my body.
The being in my body grabbed the claw, and the claw changed, and shrank in size. Then he touched the claw to my chest, and I could see the claw hang from my real chest like a medal. Something else began to pour out from the wound.
It was a single brown eye that could only have belonged to a cyclopes. I was starting to wonder why Uzaton didn't just break free, but the being inside my body must have read my mind because he started to speak.
"You see Percy I was not expecting to have to take control of your body, I am afraid this will be the only time I will be able to do so but your friend Nyx managed to find a way to contact me, she told me my help might be needed."
"The last time you saw her she managed to slip something inside your body. What she placed inside your body was a single drop of ichor. But the ichor did not come from her instead it came from her son Hypnos."
"Now normally anything from Hypnos would have the power to put anything near it to sleep but asked him to make a change to the ichor. The ichor instead of putting someone to sleep had the power of immobilization."
"The drop of ichor is so strong that it could even paralyze Gaea herself for a time. But it wasn't the only thing done to the ichor. The ichor had a seal on it the ichor's power would not be activated until I took control of your body with your permission."
"What you didn't see was that when I changed your trident and gave it a second trident head. Was that the ichor was placed inside the trident head, and when I changed it to water the ichor silently paralyzed Uzaton. For the next 10 minutes Uzaton will be unable to move, or use any of his powers, and that includes the power he used on you which negated your ability to escape."
"Unfortunately for Uzaton before that time is up I will have robbed him of most of his stolen powers and you will be safely out of Tartarus" I continued to watch as multiple foreign objects began to leave Uzaton's body.
After each item left it became a hanging ornament. I saw the claw, the eye, a harpy's feather, a flower. It kept on going. With each item taken Uzaton's godly aura flickered and lost it's luster. Some of the items I saw weren't just random monster parts, or flowers created from the goddess of nature Gaea.
I saw the head of Medusa pop out from the wound, I saw a glowing orb of light that had no trace of Aether, but of Hyperion himself. I had no idea how Uzaton managed to get a piece of power of Hyperion but I had a sneaking suspicion that Hyperion didn't get sucked in like Uzaton's other victims, or become a slave in Uzaton's army.
Because Uzaton would have surely boasted if he managed to claim the powers of the that titan in particular. The little ball of light was probably just a fraction of what Uzaton could get before he escaped, or somebody or someone rescued him.
It was only after 30 items that seeped from the wound did the being in my body speak. "We have only four minutes left before the ichor wears off so I think I have done enough here. Uzaton I will now take you to your new permanent home.
"You see not only did Nyx give me a drop of ichor from a child of hers, but she has also blessed our friend here Uzaton with a luxurious new home close to herself. That way she and Uzaton here can have some 1 on 1 time to thank him for the accommodations he has given to her son, and Styx."
I could see Uzaton's eyes widen in fear. But he had no time to react because just then the water stopped flowing from the wound and the being in my body shot towards him like an arrow shot from Artemis, and when he was inches from Uzaton I saw the being bring back my leg and he kicked Uzaton in the ribs.
The kick didn't send him falling into a boulder, or a wall instead it sent Uzaton flying into the sky. At the speed he was flying I knew he would be shot clean past the canyon that the stronghold was inside. The being inside my body followed Uzaton, and when we were outside the scope of the barrier of sunlight a mass of shadows came out from nowhere, and started to wrap around Uzatons immobile body.
Uzaton's body was pulled into the shadows, and that was the last I saw of him. The being inside my body turned to look at me, and smiled at me like seeing a long lost friend. "Sadly I would have loved to beat down that worthless scab for all eternity, I used to love to punish wrong doers like him, but I am sad to say if you do not get out of here in the next hour then your Olympian friends will enter Tartarus for the first time."
"Your loyal centurions may not have any problem navigating their way to find you because they are locked in on your DNA, but the second the giants in Gaea's realm sense their arrival and they will attempt to capture them."
"Not to mention as strong as your centurions are, they are neither god, nor demigod and they will not be able to destroy the giants, and the giants will capture the Olympian's given time. I cant even mention the trouble the Olympian's arrival in here will do to the sleeping form of Gaea."
"Plus you want to trust me on that Gaea has already been in an uneasy sleep as of the last 300 years, and the arrival of even 1 Olympian let alone multiple Olympian's will be like a shot of espresso to her, and lets just say she isn't to friendly with them right now."
I felt my non physical body start to gain some weight to it, and I started to feel it go down to the ground. At the same time I saw the being in my body hold up his left hand in that hand I saw the belt of dragon bones.
"Normally you would be able to keep spoils of war, even while I was in your body you would be able to keep them but you see the dragon that used to be this belt was banished for all eternity to stay in Tartarus by the primordial goddess Hemera."
"So this belt will be unable to leave this realm. However you will be able to keep these." He pointed to the 30 miniature ornaments hanging from my chest.
"Most of these are just regular spoils of war since they left Uzatons body but 4 of them will gift you with a new power passive power that while not as strong as most your other powers I am sure you will find them interesting. The final item is so unimaginably powerful that if it gets into the wrong hands it could upset the balance of fate. Luckily Uzaton believed it was just a random bit of useless stuff he taken from an enemy but it is even older than I am, and I have no doubt you will be in need of it in the weeks to come
The 5 items started to hover in the air. They were the hellhound's claw, the orb of light, Medusa's head, the Cyclopes's eye, and 1 of the other items I didn't think was that special. The final item was an empty see through ball shaped orb.
He first pointed to the hellhound's claw. "With this claw an enemy hellhounds will only see you as 1 of them, you will smell like a hellhound to them making it so they will see no reason to attack you. But I know 1 hellhound in particular who has no reason to ever attack you other than in a play fight. If you do not wish to keep this item you can give it to anyone else you want."
He then pointed to the Cyclopes's eye. "With this eye you will now have the same power Cyclopes's have when they hear a persons voice, you will be able to mimic any voice from now on you ever hear. You will know how to use this power if you ever wish to use it. However this item cannot be passed on it's innate power has already been embedded in your vocal cords."
He next pointed to Medusa's head. "This item has 2 powers. Firstly if any mortal see's it they will turn to stone. The second power makes you immune to being turned to stone. But seeing as you have Athena's shield aegis which gave you both powers the head's power has not been passed to you. Also because at the time when he absorbed the powers of Medusa the head's powers have been substantially weakened."
"You can give the head of Medusa to anyone if you wish to be able to do so, and the powers will pass to them but because the weakened state of the head anyone they wish to use it's powers on will have to be within 5 feet of them, and the head will only turn people to stone if the user wants them to be turned to stone, and if they wish to turn back the effects then all they have to do is splash them with water.."
"Another warning is if you wish to give the head to someone choose wisely because you will only able to do so 1 time." He then pointed to the glowing orb of light. "This item may of also be of use to you. From Uzatons mind I saw that Uzaton ambushed Hyperion over 6 months ago."
The being in my body did the air quotes with my 2 hands. "By some strange source of power Hyperion managed to escape Uzaton's grasp. Uzaton managed to get a taste of Hyperion's power before he escaped. Uzaton was smart because with this DNA, Uzaton knew that he could sense if Hyperion was ever close."
"This DNA will alert you if Hyperion is ever within a 100 miles of you consider it a pulsing radar." Finally the being in my body pointed the see through orb, and he smiled. "This item was created at the same time the fates were born. No one knows how it was created, or who created it because the fates have no power over this item. Every powerful being born during the reign of the primordial know of existence but no one has ever been able to find it."
"With this item you can store a beings soul, or essence inside this vessel. Some of the primordial beings believed it was created at the birth of this planet, and that it has the power to even bring back a faded being."
If my non physical body had a beating heart I bet it would have stopped at what I just heard. But I listened as he continued to speak.
"You will be able to use this vessel to capture the soul's or essences of anything you wish at the time of their death. I do not know if the rumors of it being able to bring back the life of immortal being, but I think you will know what to do with it when the time comes."
"I must warn you though never tell another being of it's existence because if anyone finds out where it is I have no doubt that if 1 being knows about it then others will. Others who will hunt you down to the ends of the earth to use it's power."
He must have known what I was about to say because he nodded his head. "Yes you must not even tell an Olympian. You know as well as I do that power can change anyone. If you ever have 1 ultimate secret this must be it."
He smiled at the sky above. "It is time I leave this body. I thank you Percy I will remember this for the rest of my days, but if I stay in your body any longer your body will began to fight me as I am not you, and I fear the result of the outcome will destroy your body."
"I will never be able to again take control of your body so be careful in your future battles, but I tell you, me taking this action I have done today was not your fault Uzaton had it planned that you would be swallowed alive by the creature, he was just not aware that I would protect you."
"Enjoy my gift to you what power was in my soul managed to heal your bodies wounds goodbye Percy Jackson we will talk again if you need my advice." I felt my spiritual body float towards my real body, and when they collided I felt whole again."
I moved the eye patch that covered my up, and I saw out of it again for the first time since my battle with Ares. I looked down again at my body to see if I had any scars but my chest was like it was before with the only thing not changed was the fact I still was over 6 feet tall, and built like a power weight lifter.
I looked down in my hand, and felt the weight of belt. "Lady Nyx I offer you this gift for all that you have done for me. I threw the dragon bone belt into a mass of shadows that was in front of me, when I heard no sound of it landing on the ground I knew that she accepted the gift but I saw her face in the shadows moments later.
She smiled to me and began to speak. "Thank you for the gift Percy it was not necessary but I know about that you could not leave with it because it is bound to Tartarus. I will make sure it is safely destroyed so that they will never do anyone any harm."
"I will speak to your more tonight in the world above but right now I must go say hi to my new prisoner. He will feel what he has done to his victims for the rest of eternity a 1000 times over."
"Won't he be able to get out Nyx? He is the child of Gaea he is really powerful."
"He is powerful as the child of Gaea, but do not forget Percy I am a primordial goddess who was born at the exact same time as Gaea herself, my power is equal to hers, and much more powerful than Uzaton in my natural environment."
"But to answer any fears you have of Uzaton coming to seek revenge on you for his defeat. I will tell you I have placed him in a prison of my own creation. A seal has been placed on the prison to make it so no other being than myself can ever leave it, and I can tell you the prison was specifically designed to hold Uzaton so no one other than him will ever be kept inside of it."
"I am also speaking with you now to warn you. When you leave Tartarus you must not return to the Olympians. I know you are equal to them in power, and respect but you have done something that will have given them reason to punish you."
"Now by punishment I mean that they will question you for why you have entered this place, and you do not have the time to answer all their questions because they might ask you what your reason for trying to find Styx, and you cannot possibly tell them the full reason without letting them in on your full mission, and if they all know then your enemies will act faster than earlier intended."
"What of Ethan Nakamura can I take him with me? He does not deserve to be down here."
"Not right now Percy you see Uzaton managed to smuggle down here in Tartarus when he realized that Ethan could give him secrets on the Olympian's and Titan's. However by the time he managed to get Ethan in his stronghold he knew that if he did not act soon than Ethan would die from his injuries taken from the battle of Olympus."
"Uzaton knew of a drug created by a creature in Tartarus that would keep Ethan alive, but the side effects of the drug was that it would make Ethan a mindless slave who would follow any order given to him, luckily for Uzaton that is what he looks for in a minion."
"I can save Ethan's life but I must remove the drug from his system while replacing his body with blood, but this is where I need your help. Ethan cannot leave Tartarus right now because if he does the drug will leave his system and he will die."
"Tell me what I can do lady Nyx, and I will do it." Nyx nodded her head and gave a small smile.
"This is where your in luck Percy because it is simple. When you get to the real world go to your island. You can relax there for a little bit. Your island will hide your presence from the Olympians while you do what is needed to help Ethan."
"When you get to your island call upon the goddess Nemesis. She is the only person who can replace his blood seeing as she is his godly parent, and his father is dead. Tell her I have her son, and she is needed to save his life."
"Nemesis knows of where I am, and she knows she can trust me. Nemesis will want to save his life for his role in the battle of Olympus. After his body is purged of the drug he will be able to leave Tartarus and if you wish it he can live on your island, until Nemesis can seek immunity for him for his role in serving Kronos."
"I must go now and welcome Uzaton but expect a visit from me at midnight and I will find you." Nyx's face dissolved into the shadows. I wished I could say I was fond of this dank pit of despair but I was glad to be rid of it.
My only happy thoughts of this place was I got a group of innocent demigods, and demititan's to safety, I rescued Styx, and Aether, and I got to meet a primordial goddess of the shadows, and found out she was 1 of the good deities that I could count as an ally.
I made sure I had all my weapons, and armor which were already there, and I called upon my 2 chariots. Within moments they were back upon my person. The grenade, and golden cellphone in my hands I knew my new spoils of war would stay on my chest but to be sure I placed the see through orb in a hidden pocket in my armor. Along with the golden cell phone, and the grenade
Like I was told I knew immediately how to expel the essence of Polybotes. A glowing aura of power started to seep out of my body, and I felt a bubbling sense of energy flow inside of me. The second the energy of Polybotes left my body my left the ground.
I was sent flying up into the air faster than I ever went before. Even quicker than I could even go with the sandals of Hermes. Before I knew it I saw what appeared to be the ceiling of Tartarus, it was what separated Tartarus from the underworld, and the rest of the world.
Before I could slam into the ceiling a hole opened it I went through it. I could feel the hole close behind me, and I felt like I was going through an endless black hole. The feeling ended suddenly when I was spat through the other side.
I was falling towards the ground when I saw a group of skeletal solders under me guarding the entrance to Tartarus not that far from them was the fury Tisiphone I managed to pull the shadows around me just in time before any of them spotted me.
I shadow traveled 300 feet away from the entrance when I felt the presence of the Olympians nearby. Leading the Olympian's was Athena, flanked by a tall looking goddess with short hair on her right side, and Hephaestus on her left.
Behind them was Ares leading lines of my centurions. Each centurion was equipped with an assortment of weapons, and 20 of them were pulling carts filled to the brim with dangerous traps. Behind the centurions was Briares flanked by a group of automatons I recognized as Hephaestus's work but they were not alone.
Behind them was the minor god Lee Kruger, and his automaton Talos. The Olympians were about to go further but suddenly the Centurions stopped moving and all looked to where I was. After a few moments they all turned back around and started walking the way they came completely leaving everyone else behind.
When they got over 30 yards away from the Olympians they water traveled away leaving the Olympians shocked. The short haired woman who I could only assume was Nike had a look of slight irritation on her face.
"Athena where are they going? You said they would follow any order given to them, and we haven't even entered Tartarus." For probably what was the only time in her existence I think Athena didn't have an answer but it wasn't Athena who spoke next it was actually Briares.
"The reason why the centurions have went back to their original posts is because Percy is no longer in Tartarus lady Nike."
"How can that we would have known if he left. Hades has had the entrance to Tartarus under watch by his furies since the minute the Olympian council meeting was over, and they would have seen if anyone escaped."
Briares nodded his head. "That may be lady Nike, but from what I have understood Percy now has an invisibility cap. With the invisibility cap, and the fact that Percy no longer has a demigod scent it would be entirely possible that they wouldn't see him."
"I can also tell you all that if Percy did die down in Tartarus the centurions would have still gone down there into Tartarus to retrieve his body. Not to mention the only other order they were given was to protect all of us when we entered Tartarus. So since none of you have entered Tartarus they had no orders to obey."
"I can promise you Olympian's that if you entered Tartarus now if any of you believed he was still down there then you will not find him. Now if I may have your permission to leave lady Athena, I am behind on my work."
Athena had a moment of hesitation before she answered but she nodded her head, and then Briares motioned to Hephaestus who proceeded to return Briares to where he needed to go. A minute and a half later Hephaestus returned with Hades in tow.
"So my nephew has informed me that Percy has saved all of you the trouble of finding him. Now that we have that out of the way I assume I can have my servants get back to their duties." Ares was about to yell something but Athena began to speak.
"Hades you know as well as we do that we will have to have someone to keep guard over the entrance for another day in case something escapes, but if it is what you want you can have your furies return to their duties while your undead solders stand watch."
"But we must ask you that if Percy proceeds to contact your son, then you have Nico inform Percy he is wanted for questioning by the council of what happened while he was in Tartarus." Hades narrowed his eyes at Athena, and scowled at her.
"Athena me, and my son are well aware of the council's order, I am sure you have not forgotten that I was there when my brother put out the order to find Percy. Now if you will excuse me I must inform my brother that his son is no longer in danger."
Hades was about to flash away when Athena began to speak but Hades cut her off. "No Athena before you ask I do not sense him in my domain. I would have told you if I did when I first got here now unless you want to work a shift in the fields of punishment than take your group and leave my domain."
"Unless you forgot that you have over a 150 demigods at Camp Half-Blood that need your wisdom. Tisiphone with me." Tisiphone was flying above his shoulder before he even finished his sentence, and they both melted into the shadows leaving Athena, Hephaestus, Nike, Lee, and Ares standing in the cold shadows.
Athena nodded to Nike. "Please go inform Aphrodite that Percy is out of harms way. You will need Hestia's permission to enter the island, and while you are there see if Percy has returned to his island. Now that he is out of Tartarus getting him to answer my fathers questions is number 1 priority."
I didn't know if it was normal for Nike to not immediately follow an order but she didn't leave at first. "Athena seeing as I was not at the council's meetings can you please tell me why Percy was ordered to stand in front of the council. Last I checked performing the summoning, and entering Tartarus was not a punishable offense."
Athena was not offended by the question, because she answered in a calm voice. "You are right Nike none of them are a punishable offense nor is Percy in any major trouble besides from Aphrodite for making her worry but he is going to need to be questioned."
"Percy is the first demigod child of the big 3 to enter Tartarus of his own free will, and we need to find out what he found out while he was down there. We need to find out of if did find Styx. We also need to find out if he was harmed on his mission, or if any of our major enemies are close to escaping."
"Percy's attendance is mandatory for the questioning, and the only way he will be in trouble if is he refuses to come which I doubt will happen, seeing as he is an honorary Olympian." Nike must have been satisfied with the answer because she didn't ask anything else."
The next Olympian to speak was Ares. "Damn that punk couldn't wait another 10 minutes to leave I was itching for a fight." Athena sighed in exasperation.
"Ares if you are wanting a fight so bad then I will make you a deal. If you come to Camp Half-Blood for an hour tomorrow to give the demigods who are over 15 a surprise sword fighting lesson then I will give you something to make up for it."
"If you teach the demigods a viable lesson and teach them something important then I have the power to loan you a centurion for the rest of the day to spar with. However the lesson cannot be a half halfhearted lesson that is meant to say to make sure your sandal's are tied before a fight."
"You have to actually teach them something advanced, if I feel you are not trying then I won't loan you the centurion." I could see Ares fighting back a sarcastic joke but I saw him trying to find out if the offer was a joke."
"How are you able to loan out the centurion's bird breath? I heard they could only be used for our kids protection."
"I am able to do this because they were placed at Camp Half-Blood for the demigods protection, by a fortunate loophole in the order I have them spar with the demigods to teach them advanced defensive techniques."
"The centurions act as moving targets, and sparing targets for demigods who are more advanced than the others. The restrictions to the loop hole, is that they cannot leave the camp's borders, or land any mortal wounds to the demigods."
"If you succeed in my restrictions to the offer I can loan you a centurion to spar with as a lesson to the demigods of seeing how to fight an immortal. If you accept you will have to limit your powers as to not cause any permanent damage to the camp."
"How do I know you will not just pull the offer of the sparing session when my lesson is done?"
"That is easy Ares. Chiron will be present during your lesson. If he also feels that your lesson was useful to the demigods then he will also give you the okay. If you think I may not hold up to my end of the bargain you know he will not cheat you out of your reward."
"Fine I will be at Camp Half-Blood at noon tomorrow to give your top 25 campers an advanced sword fighting lesson. So as not to squander the lesson I will only teach the top 25 campers who have been at camp for more than a year, and at least 3 of the campers must be from my cabin."
Ares held out his hand, and I could see the both of them staring at the other to see any dishonesty from the other but when Athena shook his hand Ares gave a triumphant smile and flashed away in a flash of red heat.
Athena quickly wiped her hand that she shook with on her jeans, and she turned to Hephaestus. "As we will not be of use of your inventions today, I think it will be best to save them for later. "Hephaestus nodded his head."
"Yes I will have my Cyclopes's place all the items I made for this mission today in my armory for later. I must get back to work my celestial bronze stores are still half empty from the creation of the centurions."
The 2 of them flashed away on their own leaving behind only Lee, and his automaton Talos. I was about to leave while the getting was good, until I head Lee began to speak. "Talos, Alpha 2 please." Talos gave a mechanical sound in response, and I saw 100 yard red circle spread outwards from Lee, and Talos.
"You can come out now I know your there. The barrier that just appeared will hide your presence while we are speaking, and to ease your comfort I swear on the river Styx that I will not tell the Olympians where you are or that we spoke."
I didn't bother denying that I was hear so I slowly dropped to the ground that was covered by the barrier, and when I was safely on the ground I made the shadows dissipate. "How did you know I was here Lee?"
Lee pointed to the sphinx tattoo on his arm. "When she gave you the gift of the nemean lion skin it left a marker on your body. Not on purpose but because the skin used to belong to me it marked you with my scent. She informed me of your presence, and I needed to have a word with you."
"Before you ask I have been given a job by lady Artemis. She has informed me that you are working on something important. Now I know it was serious because even though Artemis has taken a fondness to you she still hesitates to call upon a male when she thinks, or knows a female can do it too."
"What you do not know Percy is that my master lord Hades has been ordered to close all exits of the underworld besides 1 that can only be used by gods, or very specific servants of Hades. This has been done just in case something other than you escaped from Tartarus."
"Now not only will it stop you from leaving but it will alert everyone to where your at. Hecate has placed a spell on each exit to show any hidden enemies. Now I may not know much about whats going on but I know that if lady Artemis says it's important than I need to help you. If you tell me where you wish to go I will see you get there undetected."
"But I should warn you against going to Artemis's camp. While they are on a mission at the moment Artemis has had to swear to get you to Olympus if you go to her, and there are no loop holes for to go through to avoid it."
"If you contact her she must report it, and if you try to Iris message anyone Iris will have to tell Zeus where you are. However I have been told that if you are on your island then your location will not be able to be tracked."
"From the last 5 minutes it sounds like I have become a wanted fugitive." Lee gave an amused chuckle but then he turned serious. "Percy while what you have heard from Athena is true that you are not exactly in trouble your recent actions have upset a few of the minor gods. Some of the minor gods feel that from your recent accomplishments that you are nonpunishable. I do not agree with them because you have not broken any laws."
"Some of the minor gods feel that you are stepping out of your means by doing things like challenging Olympian's to duels, be given an entire magical island. Even be given a seat in the Olympian throne room while you are not even a god."
"I cannot name names, but if enough of them complain then Zeus might be forced to have to step up to placate them. There are not that many but Zeus cant take the chance that they will slacken their work on their duties."
Lee stepped aside, and pointed to Talos. Immediately Talos knelt on the ground, and his chest opened up. The space was just big enough for me to sit in. I knew I could trust him so I walked up to the massive automaton and jumped inside.
No chains wrapped around me so I knew I was safe. Lee walked up to me, and for the first time he must have noticed a change in me. "Well I don't know what happened down there but it seems you benefited from it."
I touched my smooth face, and I nodded. "Yeah it was a surprise to me too. I gotta say it will be nice to be able to walk down a street without people staring for once. But I have to apologize because I lost your gift on the way back."
Lee just shrugged at my comment. "The gift obviously worked seeing as you are here now, that was the point of it. Now just tell me where you want to go before Hades starts to wonder why I haven't got back to work yet."
"Can you take me to the forest on my island home. I give you permission to enter my island." Lee looked up to Talos.
"You heard him my friend please take him to the forest near his home on his island. Shrink down to a third of your size so you do not get spotted. Percy I wish you luck, and I suggest you stay low until you get what you need done over with."
"Artemis says if you need anything from her then speak to Penny. She is staying with Ashley in the hunters home in your community she has the power to aid you if you need anything, and she will give you the heads up if you are getting any surprise visitors."
Talos's chest began to close when it was completely closed Talos began to sink underground. I wouldn't say the trip was overly fun being inside a 100+ ton automaton but if anyone ever asked I could say I was in the stomach of Talos.
I knew the ride was over when the stomach began to open again, and I saw the darkness of the dense trees. My island must have known I needed to stay hidden because the trees that normally overlooked my home were now towering over my home.
I half jumped out, half fell out of Talos because I felt that it was in a hurry to get back to his master. No sooner had my body left his stomach than he started to sink back into the ground. I had to get to work quickly to help Ethan so I did a quick wolf whistle.
I heard the heavy sounds of a 200 pound wolf's paws hitting the ground before I saw him. The gray wolf's head appeared in a heavy underbrush, and Fang tackled me in and proceeded to cover me in t-bone smelled licks.
"Hey buddy I am happy to see you too, but I have a job for you. I need you to find the huntress Penny. Get her to come here because I need her help. When you find her get her to meet me here in this exact same spot, but make sure she is alone."
Fang gave me 1 last slobbery kiss before he ran the opposite way he came through the woods. I would have set up the meeting in my home but I could sense Aphrodite inside. It made me sad to not see her, but now that I knew she knew I was okay I could stand the separation at least for now.
I didn't hear any screams of terror from the nearby town so I knew no one actually saw a large wolf running nearby their young kids. If anything they probably just saw a great Dane, or for my kind an iconic wolf who was probably making sure no boys tried to hit on a huntress.
It was 10 minutes later when I heard fang coming back. Thankfully he was not alone because I saw Penny dressed in her casual jeans, and hoodie. She must not have immediately recognized me because she didn't see a beat up looking old man.
She and Fang were 10 yards away from me when recognition came across her face. She jumped off of Fangs back and nearly knocked me to the ground in a hug that would have made Mrs. O Leary jealous. "Percy what happened to you? When did you get back? Did you bring me anything?"
"I got a healing unknown friend gift me with this." I brought my hands up and down signaling to show off my face. I don't know who it was but I wasn't going to complain. I just got back not more than 30 minutes ago, and yes I brought you something."
I reached up to my chest and pulled off the shrunken Medusa's head. She shrunk back at the sight of the shrunken head but when I placed it in her palm she shivered like ice was just dumped on her. "Congratulations Penny you just became immune to Medusa's powers of turning people to stone, and your mind now became a radar of knowing when she is nearby."
Penny just stared at me like I gave her a key to her fathers personal joke store. I endured another bone crushing hug. "Percy I was only joking about the gift but you didn't have to."
"It's fine Penny I didn't need it. But to the reason I had fang call you here. As Artemis must have told you I have pretty much become a wanted fugitive. I would have went to her for this but she has been ordered to bring me to Zeus if she see's me."
"Yes Percy I know. I was taken off the hunt of a ferocious drakon to help you, just tell me what you need, and I will do it."
"I need you to take me back to the hunters home in my town, and contact lady Nemesis. Tell her Artemis is in need of her help, and she is needed in the hunters home. I would do it myself but I cannot contact her myself."
"I knew Penny would help me in what I asked but I saw a look of worry in her face about lying to the goddess of revenge. "Do not worry Penny, I know for sure that this will be something that Nemesis will not be mad about being lied to."
"Any look of fear on her face died away at my promise so I scratched fang in thanks and told him goodbye. After fang ran off back to my mom probably in search of a warm lap to rest his head on, and a juicy steak to eat I looked back to Ashley.
"Ashley I would have at first water traveled directly into the hunters home to find you, but as I have never seen inside the home I didn't want to scare any young girls. So when I water travel us. I want you to think of where the most private place for us to water travel to would be."
I held out my arm and she placed her hand on my wrist. She nodded to me when she was ready and I water traveled the both of us inside the hunters home. At the last moment I gave her control. Now before I absorbed the powers of Tethys, and Oceanus I would never have been able to do that with someone who never had control over water, but I could do so now with effort.
When we arrived I saw that we were in a nature themed room. A couple of surprised tree nymphs jumped in surprise, and I saw 1 of them reach for a dagger when they saw a man, but I ordered them to stand down.
I knew from the scent of the nymphs that they lived on the island, and were not hunters so I brought forth the mark of the wild. The nymphs stood silent at being show the mark of the wild. "My name is Percy Jackson. I am the first ever male hunter of Artemis, and the owner of this island."
"I regret to do this but I order you not speak word of this to anyone. This here is a hunter of Artemis and she can calm your worries about a male being in this home, but we are in need of some privacy is that okay."
They both nodded their heads, and I made the mark of the wild go away. "I am truly sorry that I had to order you 2 around, but I cannot have any of the gods know that I am here." 1 of the nymphs stepped forward, and held out her hand.
"Hello Percy my name is Flora." I held out my hand and shook her hand. "Is it true that you actually met the great god Pan?" I gave a small chuckle and nodded my head.
"Yes me and some of my friends met him when we had to look through the labyrinth meeting him before he faded is something I will remember for the rest of my days." Both of the nymphs gave a sad smile and shook my hand 1 last time before they promised me that they would stand guard at the door, and also not mention to anyone that they saw me here.
When it was just me, and Penny in the room I began to tell her what to do. "Okay Penny now since I trust you the reason I am having you do this because in Tartarus I saw a child of hers who she thought was dead. His life rests in her hands, and I need to get her to go into Tartarus to save his life."
"Now it will be safe for her to go down there because now here is the part you must keep secret from everyone but Artemis. I met the primordial goddess Nyx while I was down there and she will make sure Nemesis gets there safely."
"Now I have to hide just in case Iris might see me when you make the call, and to make sure Nemesis can get here I give you permission to give her permission to come here on the island." I stepped back into the corner of the room next to a pair of bunk beds and I pulled the shadows around me, just like I did when I was near the Olympian's.
Penny then proceeded to create a rainbow, and then she tossed a golden drachma into the rainbow. "Lady Iris goddess of the rainbows I wish to speak to the goddess Nemesis." Nothing happened for a second but then I saw Nemesis's face appear in the rainbow.
Nemesis's face looked at Penny's in thought before she spoke. "Huntress you have called upon me speak your business, and I will listen."
Penny bowed her head in respect. "Lady Nemesis I have called upon you because lady Artemis requests your assistance at Percy's island. It is an emergency. I would not have bothered you if it was not important."
"Because this home belongs to Artemis I have been given you permission to come here."
"Okay huntress I will come and aid your mistress if it is in my power. Make sure you are alone, and close your eyes for I will have to appear in my divine form to come to Percy's island." Nemesis slashed her hand through the rainbow, and Ashley nodded to me before she left the room.
"I saw a light start to appear in the room, and I knew it was time. I stepped out of the shadows just as Nemesis arrived. I closed my eyes to avoid seeing her divine form, not because it would harm me if I didn't because I needed her help, and to honor her.
When the light faded I opened my eyes. Nemesis was standing before me in a slightly younger form then when I last saw her, and instead of her dress clothes she wore a red leather jacket. Her face, and hair was the same albeit younger looking.
"Percy Jackson what is the meaning of this? I was told Lady Artemis needed my help yet I do not see her." I flinched backwards at the glare she gave me. Even my new look didn't curb her annoyance, so I decided it was in my best interest to explain to her quickly why I called her here.
"Lady Nemesis I am sorry that you are here under a lie but there is something that requires your direct assistance in. I would have called you myself but I couldn't. The reason you are here is because of lady Nyx."
"How do you know of lady Nyx, Percy Jackson?"
"I met her on my journey in Tartarus, and along that journey I saw your son Ethan Nakamura." The look of surprise from me mentioning Nyx faded away into anger.
"First you have me summoned here under a lie, then you tell me you seen my dead son in a place he cannot possibly be I should send you throw you back into Tartarus for what you have just said to me."
I held up my hands in placation. "Lady Nemesis I swear to you what I have just said is true. A being named Uzaton captured your son before he could die of his wounds, and he stopped him from dying by putting something in his body that made him a mindless slave."
"Lady Nyx told me that the only way to save his life is for the drug in his body to be drained, and replaced with blood from a parent. She has told me that if he gets taken out of Tartarus before the new blood can be put in him then he will die."
Nemesis took a moment to speak again, and I could hear strain in her voice to keep back any emotion. "Percy I do believe what you said is to be true, but you know based on my power that I cannot do what you said or else I would imbalance his life, he gave up an eye to make a difference. If I save his life it will cause an imbalance."
"Yes lady Nyx that is true but your offer was an eye for a difference with the chance he would die. But he didn't die instead he was made a slave under an evil tyrant. His service to that tyrant caused an imbalance in his life, don't you think saving his life would make up for the fact that he was being controlled for so long?"
Nemesis had a look on her face like I had just corrected Athena on a complex math problem but there was no anger only a look of thankful happiness. "Percy you are right me saving his life would create balance. Uzaton unbalanced Ethan's life by stopping him from his death therefore I must make up for it."
Before Nemesis could make any move to leave I held out my right hand. Inside the hand was the eye patch she gave me. "Here lady Nemesis I can no longer use this. Now that my body was restored to normal this gift would only make me stronger, and not make up for any weaknesses."
Nemesis took the eye patch, and told me to summon my armor. When I did so she placed her hand with the eye patch on the center of my chest. When she took her hand back her hand was empty but instead I had the symbol of a balanced scale on my chest.
"Percy Jackson I have never given this gift before but I name you the protector of balance. With this gift you will be known to all Olympus as my envoy of balance, and you now have the power to create balance. Should you ever feel that someone is to confident in their abilities you can curse them with something to punish them for their hubris."
"You shall also be able to make deals like I do. If you feel like someone deserves an opportunity to make a name for themselves or like my children do make a difference in the world then you can call upon my name and have them make a sacrifice."
"For example you can take away someone's weapon, or skill, or even an eye. But with their sacrifice you must give them something in return if the succeed. But unlike my gifts you may share with them something from yourself, whether it be a blessing of power in their weapon like 1 of yours, or a minor blessing of 1 of your powers."
"Do know this though the gift you give them must be equal to that of the sacrifice they give you."
"So the curses I can give them could be like Ares gave me when I was younger when he said 1 day my weapon would fail me?"
"In a sense yes Percy however the curse may not be to great like loss of all their strength, or complete loss of eyesight. The curse you can place on them cannot completely throw them out of balance because if you do a backfiring effect will be placed on you to make up for the imbalance."
"2 last warnings do not abuse the gift I just gave you because as my envoy you must represent me with pride, equality, and honor. I will train you on your new powers when we both have more time because I must go rescue my son."
"Lastly your new power will act as a punishment device. If someone around you breaks a promise, bet, or rules that directly involve you it will cause them great pain. It is kinda like breaking the oath of the river Styx but on a smaller scale."
Because of my recent mistake in updates. I accidentaly updated a chapter ahead of this 1 yesterday. That chapter as you all who read it noticed that it was after Percy's battle with uzaton. Because of that you may have seen something that I was going to change as a gift to all my readers.
I will still do the change if you all wish it. The change I was going to make was making an Interactive poll, that would affect a future chapter in the story. If you all wish for it to happen comment to this chapter, saying you wish to take part in the interactive poll.
Finally as a lot of you have know by the recent mistake that chapter was nearly double the length of my regular chapters so I will cut that chapter into 2 parts, and edit them to fix any spelling mistakes, and post them again. The 2 chapters will be reposted in total beore friday, and it not enough of you wish to take part in the poll by Friday, then I won't do it.
I thank you all for your understanding, and I apologize for the confusion on how Percy got out of Tartarus in that chapter. I hope you enjoyed the real chapter.
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