Perseus The Gamer Chapter 1, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

Perseus The Gamer - Brave New Gamer

Percy awoke with a loud snort as he felt the weight of a book slamming against his desk.

"Percy! Percy Jackson!" Percy's head shot up to the sound of an evil shrewd woman that happened to be a math teacher. Ms. Dodds stood over the small black haired, green eyed boy. eyes blinking owlishly as he tried to clear the blur of a great rest from his vision. 'Oh...I had been asleep almost the entire time I'd been in class.' Percy thought as he remembered falling asleep as soon as his but hit the desk.

Though even if he had been awake he wouldn't have been able to answer the question anyway, mostly because the numbers in front of him were as hard to decipher as regular English.

"Percy Jackson, what is the answer to number 5?" The she bat in front of him droned off while staring down haughtily. "Um... B?" Percy mumbled out, not sure at all about the answer. Not even bothering to look up at the board. 'I'd be wrong either way…' he thought

"That is incorrect Mr. Jackson, maybe if you had some knowledge at all you would've at least know that the-"

Percy blocked out the rest of what the annoying woman was saying as she made her way back to the board. World was still a blurry mess to the tired child. He yawned as he began rubbing his eyes for a moment. He thought he'd heard something as he answered his teachers dumb question, a light 'ping' from somewhere but it didn't seem to come from the very room he was in.

The sound of the kids speaking in hushed tones seemed to overpower what he'd heard. The dreary and boring detail of his private school math class finally began to loose the abhorrent blur that it carried as Percy finally decided to try and pay attention, only to see a floating thin blue box with text that seemed to pulsate on it.

Hello young Perseus, you have been chosen to be the 'Gamer of this Universe', should you choose this great power to help you Improve, you will be taken through a very easy tutorial.

Percy's began blinking rapidly in confusion as he stared at the floating blue shaded screen before him. 'Am I really awake?' he thought to himself, looking around his class suspiciously. Grover, his roommate and best friend, sat next to Percy; eyes glued to the bored though it looked like he himself was struggling to stay awake as he took down notes.

The glowing yes/no in a smaller box sat before Percy and no matter where he looked. Percy looked at the box for a final time before shrugging in resignation, thinking it to be just his hyperactive imagination once more.

Enough field trips where strange stuff happened and having that be the cause of it trained him to just accept that as the answer for most weird stuff that happened.

But longer as class continued the box would stay in the lower corner of his vision, the black text pulsating slowly trying to entice him into reading it once more and taking it seriously. After fifteen minutes of agonizingly boring math that didn't make sense to Percy, he finally let his ADHD riddled mind entice him to stare down at the box.

Looking side to side for a moment to make sure no one was looking, Percy reached out with a single finger and tapped the glowing 'Yes'

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'Uhhh…'

Badabum! Welcome Percy Jackson and thank you for accepting our state of the art, brand new L.G.S system. Or Life Game Simulation, you're welcome for the esteemed position. This grand, divinely created system, will allow you to improve and adapt yourself at an unprecedented level. Your puny mortal mind will only come to realize the greatness of this system in time, so for now Enjoy your first quest.

Quest - Brave New Gamer

Welcome to your new life as a Gamer, but to fully use this system, you have to learn the basics.

Tasks -

Open your Stats page

Use your Dimension Create skill

Open your inventory

Improve one of your skills

Improve one of your stats by 1

Discover/Create a New skill

Rewards -

+10 Stat Points

One Eternal Skill

+20 Luck

Yes/No

Percy could only stare in dumb silence as he tried to comprehend what his imagination had come up with. He could see everything so vividly but he couldn't believe something like this would actually be real. But after a long time of staring at a floating screen again, Percy finally just pressed the 'Yes' trying to see where this would even go.

Percy was met with the screens disappearing in front of him and nothing happening, though the same quest screen seemed to grow smaller and place itself in the corner of his vision. He really only noticed it every time he actively tried to look at it, but otherwise it stayed out of his way.

The black haired boy could only look around dumbly as he tried to figure out how his dream power even functioned. With a deep audible sigh, that made Grover turn to look at him in interest for a few moments before going back to his work, Percy's eyes roamed over the quest he was given for long minutes before he went with the first thing that came to his mind.

'Stats' he thought, not wanting to say it out loud.

'Ping!' (Good Job!)

{Name – Perseus Jackson}

Title – Sally's Son

Race - ?

Jobs – 1/10

Student, Lv 1 (+1 Int)

Level – 1 XP 0/100

Health – 225/225 (Regen 15%)

Mana – 40/40 (Regen 10%)

Defence - 5/5

STR - 10 + 5 = 15

DEX – 10 + 5 = 15

END – 10 + 5 = 15

VIT – 10 + 5 = 15

INT – 8 + 1 = 9

WIS - 5

LUC - 10

Points - 5

Money - $50

Status Effects – Due to ?, you have received +5 to STR, DEX, VIT and END.

Overview – Perseus Jackson the Single child of Sally Jackson and Son of ?. Due to his birth as a ? He was born with ADHD and Dyslexia, and therefore has a deep hatred for the boredom school causes. He loves Going to the beach with his mother Sally Jackson who he thinks is an angel on earth and hates Gabe Ugliano.

Percy's eyes roamed over what apparently his stats were, his eyes widening a bit at the question ?'s over his race and the reason he apparently got stat boosts. Using this as further more credence that it wasn't actually real the boy only sighed as he gave the screen a few once overs.

Everything on it seemed so accurate, he did only have 50 bucks, what's left of a parting gift his mother gave him before he left Yancy. Sally Jackson is his mother, and he didn't know who his true father was. But it seemed that because of my apparent non human race, i was born with ADHD and Dyslexia.

'Oh, how lucky of me' he thought in sarcasm before looking around once more before reaching up and tapping on the deep Red 'X' that sat in the corner of the blue screen. Since thinking of his status had caused that to appear, Percy decided to repeat the same thing with his 'Inventory'.

'Ping!' (Good Job!)

Right before Percy's very eyes appeared a small blue square, the size of a Notebook. What seemed to be small boxes ran throughout the entire screen. And at the top it had an assortment of ways to sort items placed in.

Miscellaneous, Potions, Ingredients, Weapons (C,R,G,L,D,E), Armour (C,R,G,L,D,E), Skill Tomes, Quest Important, by Quantity

'Who knew my mind would go this in depth for a daydream?' Percy asked himself as he sifted through the many ways to sort through what items he may be getting. Seemed the grading levels put before Weapons and Armour stood for 'Common, Rare, Grand, Legendary, Divine, Eternal' though, the last two just seemed to be synonyms. 'Why even have a differentiation between the two?' He thought again as he scrolled through everything.

Deciding to test it out, he grabbed the only thing he hadn't touched the entire time he'd been in class, the pen from his desk. But as he touched the pen, a small box appeared right above the writing utensil.

Would you like to store: #2 Pencil? Yes/No (Note: This only works on Non Living things, with dimensions of that more than 10 x 10 ft being the limit)

Percy read through the note quickly before pressing yes, and watched as the Pencil seemed to dissolve in a cloud of pixels before appearing in his inventory as the first slot. Percy took the money from his pocket and did the same and watched in wonder as a slot specifically for currency was opened.

Tapping on the screen he quickly pulled out both the pencil and his money, and watched in wonder they both slide out of the screen and appeared in his hands. Percy, admittedly didn't think this was a dream as much as he did before, and wanted to freak out. But a calming wave overcame his mind as he took a breath. Deciding to just push through.

Percy didn't want to try his Dimension Create skill at all yet, because if it caused something noticeable by other people. It would be impossible for the boy to explain without being called insane. So instead for now, he focused on his other tasks. The last few minutes of class ticked down as Percy tried to think of something he'd feasibly be able to create.

His mind stuck he decided to look around the room before he spotted Nancy Bobofit, his class bully and also one of the top students in his math class. She sat at the back surrounded by her fellow coven of witches babbling on about inane whatever. Percy didn't like her much, she bullied him all the time, but he hated her even more for how she'd treat Grover. Even though the man was crippled she was still heartless enough to bully him over nothing.

As Percy stared at the side of her head he thought to himself 'I wonder what he stats would be…'

'Ping!' (Good Job!)

{Name – Nancy Bobofit}

Title – Class Bully (+2 STR)

Race - Human

Jobs – 1/5

Student, Lv 10 (+5 Int, +50% INT gain)

Level – 5

Health – 100/100

Mana – 0/0

Defence - 5/5

STR - 5 + 2 = 7

DEX – 7

END – 4

VIT – 9 + 5 = 15

INT – 20

WIS - 5

LUC - 10

You have created a new skill, Good job, Observe is the ability to ascertain the stats and effects of certain objects, items, and beings have. The more you level it the stronger it will become and will gain access to more information.

Observe – LV, 1 (0%)

Allows you to see the basic information about someone or something within your power range.

Health, Mana, and Stats

Percy smiled as he blew through another of the tasks he was given. Next period for him would be a free one as they'd be given an 1 hour off before reporting to their final class of the day. Percy decided to sit in silence and wait for the bell to dismiss him from this torturous math class as he planned to have so much fun in just one short break period.

Percy nearly falling asleep again was relieved by the sound of a loud ring and not even caring about whatever annoying homework Ms. Dodds would be giving him, ran out of class first and made his way straight to his dorm room.

Closing the door, and locking it to be sure he walked around shutting the blinds to make sure no one could peak in.

Finally Percy sat down on his soft bed and thought 'Dimension Create'

'Ping!' (Good Job!)

Dimension Create, Lv 1 (0%)

The ability to make Pocket/Alternate Dimensions that you can leave after completing them or at your leisure. More dimensions are unlocked through completion of Dimension Dungeons, Leveling the skill, and through experience.

Dimensions –

Empty Pocket Dimension

Skeleton (Basic)

Zombie(Basic)

Goblin(Basic)

Percy looked at the options before him, then simply pressed on the Empty dimension. A loud crack ran through the world around him, everything looked the exact same too him but there was no longer any sound at all. No soft rumble of kids shoes as hundreds of them made their way through the halls. No sound of birds chirping or the guard dogs outside with the guards of the front gate barking. Not even the sound of the wind coming through his open curtained window.

Percy felt unsettled by the quiet atmosphere for a long time before his mind calmed once more. He only had two more tasks to complete, level up a skill. And Bring one of his stats up. It stood to reason that since all his stats except luck were based off of base physical attributes. Strength, Vitality, Endurance and Dexterity would be improved through different types of exercise. Vitality and Endurance likely improved through similar exercises, whilst dexterity would likely improve through gymnastics and stretching. As well as training his eye by target practice. 'Should think about joining the Archery team if I want to improve that…'.

Though the way to improve his Intelligence seemed obvious, really boring studying and learning, wisdom was something that stumped him. His mom spoke about being wise sometimes when she was with him. She said wisdom was different from someone's intelligence in that it comes with life experience, more so it's how you do things instead of your ability to do them in the first place.

It takes intelligence to become a skilled tactician for example, but a better tactician would be someone who is deeply experienced and well versed with people and the way battles go. Some of the best ones would have to be both extremely wise and intelligent.

'So for me to improve my wisdom, I would have to study in a different way, like studying tactics and battle. Or playing chess, gaining experience and practicing how to do something.' Percy thought.

'Ping!'

Due to thinking through a logical set of steps on how to improve yourself, you have gained +2 INT and +3 WIS

Health – 225/225 (Regen 15%)

Mana – 88/88 (Regen 11.5%)

Defence - 5/5

STR - 10 + 5 = 15

DEX – 10 + 5 = 15

END – 10 + 5 = 15

VIT – 10 + 5 = 15

INT – 10 + 1 = 11

WIS - 8

LUC - 10

Percy smiled as he completed another task from his quest, and even doing this allowed him to see a bit more into how his power seemed to work. Trying his best to go through the math he knew as fast as he could, it seemed his Mana Points improved based on his INT and WIS in conjunction. 'Likely both attributes multiplied together equals how much mana I have' He thought, though he felt like some number was still missing from that equation.

That means for his health, it would take in account the two attributes most closely related with his life points. 'His Strength x Vitality'

'Ping!'

For logical extrapolation you have earned +1 Int

Percy nodded from being confirmed; looking around at the silent world around him he decided to try something out before he fully left the quiet dimension he stayed in.

Getting out of bed the boy ran out of his room and down through the halls of the dormitory. Leaving the main building of his schools compound, he ran to the recreation building, where towards the back of the large building he arrived at the large Olympic sized swimming pool.

Percy divested himself of his school uniform before jumping into the cold water, the frigid temperature not bothering him as he seemed to zoom through the water quickly. He always had been a really good swimmer after all, and he wanted to see if he'd gained a skill for it.

'Ping!'

Swimming, Lv 20 (9%)

Your Ability to swim in water

Speed – 10 MPH

Satisfied with his correct assumption, Percy began swimming around and around in a circle, wading through the water for so long he lost track of time.

Until finally as he swam backwards in the water of the still world

'Ping!'

You have Leveled a skill!

He'd finally completed the tutorial after leveling his swimming once, Percy swam back to the edge of the pool and relaxed. The screen listing his rewards and congratulating him for completing such an arduous task floating in his vision. He didn't doubt the authenticity of the game anymore.

It was definitely real, and the realization that this game was real invigorated him. He wouldn't have to sit in boring classes all day any longer, no more bullying. He could live his entire life as a game and he'd have other dimensions to test his magical powers out on.

Percy could feel his face widening almost uncontrollably as he felt relief and calm over take the almost manic happiness that tried to crowd his mind.

Relaxing as he began wiping the water from himself from a towel he got off a rack. Percy stared at the final screen before him.

Congratulations on completing the tutorial to become a Gamer, I wish you luck on your ventures young Perseus. And as a gift from ME to you, I gift you the power of an %&^#*^7, though you may not be able to comprehend what I mean by that yet.

Have Fun XOXO - &$*% # #$&

The screen read off, it was much less objective and straight to the point then the others had been. More like the personal thanks of a game developer to someone for buying their game. It kind of made Percy smile that there is a being out there, with power capable of doing something like this that gifted such a wonderful thing to him.

Percy muttered a silent thanks before swiping the screen away, the message closing itself automatically. The following screen was just the description of his new ability.

Eternal Ability(1/5): Soul Conqueror

The soul of a being surpassing even that of the Divine, your will given Manifestation to capture and bind those to your will. You take their very souls, conquer them and bind them too you. You gain complete control over said being.

You can conquer one's soul by either killing them in battle, or drinking/eating a portion of their blood or body. You must then enforce your will and capture their soul.

(Note, For this second method to work, you must have a level of Mana, Health and Level that far outclasses that of the being you're attempting to conquer. This can be natural, or you can artificially lower their Health and Mana, leaving their Level as the only difficulty to completing this task.)

Percy's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as he went over the skill he had gained. This is a lot more than he thought whoever made The Game would actually be giving him. But not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, he simply accepted the great present.

Percy gave his final stats a once over, smiling at the now 30 luck he had gained. He banked the skill points for later deciding not to use them at the moment. 'If working out these skills is going to be anything like real life, then the larger these stats get, the lower they will improve.' He thought

Percy planned to save the use of his skill points for when he truly needed them in a dire situation, while he could manually improve all his skills through some good ol' hard work.

As Percy closed his inventory he gazed at a new quest screen that surprised him, but felt him with a little hope as he thought of it.

Quest - A little Investigation

Your a child who's only ever known of their mother, with faint memories of a long past father; but with this new ability you have the set skills to discover who your true parentage is. What you truly are if not human…

Tasks -

Discover what your True race is

Discover who your father is

Rewards -

Two New Skills

Two New Perks

+5 Stat Points

Rare Weapon

+500 XP

The boy reread the quest over and over again, committing every word to his mind as he did. He always wanted to know who his true father was; his mom told him so many times that he'd been lost at sea. But something about that felt like a lie to him, his father couldn't have simply just disappeared one day.

Percy had always wanted answers, and now this game was going to give them too him. Leaving the recreational building, now re clothed in his Yancy Academy uniform, he walked slowly. Periodically using his Observe ability to look around the plaza around him.

Though it was for delinquents and trouble makers, some of New York's best and richest would also come to get a private twelve year long education. It was a well maintained, well staffed, and greatly funded mecca for the education of students.

And Percy had, so far, squandered the free opportunity he had gotten. The library would contain a wealth of information, on history, mythology, anything he could possibly need. If he was going to find out who his elusive father was, whilst confined to stay within the grounds of this school, then he'd have to get his INT up by a lot.

Percy arrived at his dorm room, and exited his pocket dimension, only to see the naked back of his dorm roommate Grover…

"AAAAH! DUDE WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES!" He shouted as he closed his eyes and looked away. A startled Grover letting out a very goat sounding yelp in surprise as he quickly covered himself in a tower.

"Don't you knock dude! I just got out of the shower! I didn't even hear you come in!" Grover replied as he ran to the bathroom to get dressed quickly. Percy only shook his head in embarrassment as he sat in his bed, trying to scratch the image of Grover's butt from his young innocent eyes.

"Who stands naked in the middle of a shared room dude!" Percy responded, though he received no answer back from his troubles as Grover decided to ignore that instead asking him. "Where have you been? You missed the entirety of 4th Period, Mr. Brunner had to write you up for skipping."

"I-I was in the Library studying and I fell asleep…" Percy said nervously

Ping!

Lie Detected!

"You're a garbage liar Percy, look i don't care where you were. Mr. Brunner says he wants to see you in thirty minutes." The boy said as he stepped out of the bathroom and walked over to his bag lifted it up.

"Where are you going?" Percy asked

"To the Gardening club, it just started the other week and I signed up, see ya tonight Perce!" Grover said as he walked out of the room, leaving The Gamer by himself once again. The wind through the window now audible as Percy, ignoring the subsequent ping he got from his new skill being created, began thinking on how he'd go forward

AU: Thank you to anyone reading after having enjoyed the first iteration of this story. Like before I am open to suggestions on improvements of the system, every 5 or so chapters I'm going to leave Percy's stats and skills.

(Not going list the skills this time though, I don't want to inflate the word count)

Have a good day- Koto

{Name – Perseus Jackson}

Title – Sally's Son

Race - ?

Jobs – 1/10

Student, Lv 1 (+1 Int)

Level – 1 XP 0/100

Health – 225/225 (Regen 15%)

Mana – 104/104 (Regen 11.5%)

Defence - 5/5

STR - 10 + 5 = 15

DEX – 10 + 5 = 15

END – 10 + 5 = 15

VIT – 10 + 5 = 15

INT – 12 + 1 = 13

WIS - 8

LUC - 30

Points - 15

Money - $50

Status Effects – Due to ?, you have received +5 to STR, DEX, VIT and END.