AN: Hello again, so I'm thinking about what my update time should be, and I'm placing it at anywhere from 1 day after a chapter has been published to 3 days. So depending on how big a burst of energy I get is how fast I publish a new chapter. Also I would like to clarify, in the first chapter Percy's hurricane turns black and the lightning red, that is a power that will be revealed later, and Percy will by no means become OP at all in this story so that he could one shot a god or anything like that, I don't like those kinds of stories. That being said, enjoy :)
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(Olympus, Artemis POV)
I took a deep breath, mentally preparing myself for my wrathful uncle. I opened the throne room, as all the gods turned their heads and looked at me expectantly.
"Well, where is my son?" Poseidon growled. I noticed Aphrodite lean forward, a hopeful expression on her face. I turned back to the sea god. He was staring at me intently. I met his gaze with a defeated expression. I don't think I have ever seen Poseidon this agitated before in all the thousands of years we have been through.
"I don't know," I said, finally gathering the courage to look him in the eye. "He managed to escape me," I told him, expecting a trident to fly at me, or at least a bellowing roar, but instead I heard a loud chuckle. The source of the laughter was surprisingly, Zeus.
"And why are you in such a good mood?" Poseidon snarled, as his trident manifested itself. "Because," Zeus answered. "Your son has managed to evade even Artemis for so long, before pulling quite the Houdini and ending their wild goose chase across the country," he said continuing to chuckle. I narrowed my eyes as several other Olympians began to snicker. 'I will not take their mockery of me lightly,' I thought as I marched to my throne and sat down, fuming. Looking around, I noticed Aphrodite's hopeful expression was gone, and a hint of worry flashed in her eyes.
"If he does not want to be found that badly, then I suggest we leave him be for the time being, after all, we should respect the wishes of our savior, should we not?" He asked as he looked at each of us Olympians.
The biggest shocker was when Poseidon agreed. "Very well," he said. "But we will only give him a year to himself, if by then we still have not heard from him, then we must find him just to make sure he is alright," Poseidon said, listing off his condition.
"All in favor?" Zeus asked, and every hand went up, including mine. Even though I was no longer required to search for him, I knew that neither I nor my sisters would let a male give us the slip like that. In order to find him, we would need to return to the last location we knew he was at. Which meant the Hunt would be paying that odd clearing another visit, and this time we wouldn't leave till we found him. 'Challenge accepted, Perseus,' I thought with a smirk as I flashed out of the throne room once the council had been dismissed.
A wave of heat hit me as I appeared in the camp, and it took me a second to realize that I had teleported right on the huge bonfire the hunters had made. I shrieked as the flames began to envelop my clothing, burning me. I managed to jump out, and the hunters, after getting over their fits of laughter, dumped water over me.
"Why did you make the fire so huge?!" I reprimanded them, as their only response was to burst into laughter again. It was massive, a good 15 to 20 meters in diameter, and glowing a bright purple. "And where are the campers, aren't they usually piled around the bonfire?" I asked. Phoebe looked at me with a malicious grin and cracked her knuckles. "Well let's just say they decided to relocate after I relocated some of their bones," she said as our sisters snickered. I just sighed. "Figures."
"We are no longer required to search for Percy," I started as Thalia frowned. "But, were not forbidden from searching, and quite frankly I refuse to believe that we can't find a single male," I said as Thalia looked at me with a smile, and the huntresses all agreed, and began packing up, getting ready to find the troublesome hero. We returned to the clearing we were in before, and I smiled as I could see tracks in the now very muddy ground, as well as quite a bit of monster dust scattered around the clearing.
(Camp Jupiter, Percy POV)
I had taken my place with the Romans, although I can't say quite peacefully. Even though Reyna told them I was a friend, they still eyed me warily. "He's a Greek," "Probably a spy," I heard them whisper to each other. The Roman army was well organized, and each soldier knew their position perfectly. As far I could see, they were positioned in succinct rows, not even a little out of line. 'That must have taken quite a bit of training,' I thought, impressed at the way things were run around here.
I saw movement by the ice army, and saw the snake rearing its massive head, before letting loose a ground shaking roar. It seemed to be a battle cry, as suddenly the shark men broke ranks and ran as swiftly as possible towards the Romans.
They descended on us in seconds. "Romans, stand and fight!" Reyna screamed from atop her pegasus. She would fly close and decapitate several soldiers before flying back up, making sure to help any soldier who needed assistance. The Romans roared a battle cry that put the snake to shame, before lowering their spears and impaling the first of the stampeding shark men.
I rushed to the front of the lines and slammed Riptide into the closest one. I shoved the blade right in between his eyes. It began to melt and in seconds there was no trace of it. Romans may have an order to their army, but I was my own army, and I make up my order as I go. I pressed the watch Tyson had given me long ago, and watched as the newly modified shield sprung out. It was definitely an upgrade to what it had been. Tyson took it to the forges and added certain modifications so that it didn't get messed up as easily, and could take more of a beating. It was rimmed in Adamantine, an extremely powerful metal that glitters like diamonds. Adamantine is supposed to be really rare, and mostly used by the gods, but Tyson managed to get some by calling in a favor with his boss at the forges. The inner layer, where the hand strap was, was also Adamantine, so as to prevent it from bending under intense pressure. The front of the shield, however, still retained its Celestial Bronze.
I saw one of the ice soldiers try to sneak up on me, and when he swung his blade, I blocked it with Riptide, then swung the rim of my shield at his head. He was decapitated in a second, as the Adamantine cleaved right through his icy neck. I looked on to the battle field and saw a trio of them corner an unsuspecting Roman. They quickly knocked away his shield, and he closed his eyes as he knew it was over for him.
I rushed to him, but knew I couldn't make it in time. I screamed in rage as I tried to take control of them once more, sending everything I had at the water that made up their whole bodies. It was hopeless, they kept slipping out of my power. I felt rage take over as I continued to try and latch on. Finally I managed to grab a hold of the ice, but I felt it slipping again. The most I could do was keep them from from moving, but not for long. They were about to deal a killing blow when they stopped completely, their blades inches from his skin.
The Roman opened his eyes in shock, and looked at me. "Kill them now!" I screamed, feeling myself start to lose focus, as he nodded and took one of their blades and used it to slice them into pieces.
I sighed in relief, but didn't get to rest for long because another one rushed at me. I blocked his strike with my shield, and slammed Riptide onto one of his watery eyes. I saw the Roman from before rushing to me, and when he stopped, I saw gratefulness in his eyes. "Here," he said, "You deserve this," he handed me the Oceanic silver sword. I dropped my shield, like Tyson told me to, and instead of hitting the ground it disappeared and the watch materialized on my wrist. I decided to dual-wield Riptide and the silver sword, swinging them around experimentally.
I grinned. "Thanks," I told him before rushing off into the horde of shark men and Romans. I tested out my new blade by impaling one shark man, cleaving another, gutting a third. There was little to no resistance from the ice as the silver cut through it. It was like stabbing water, and I quickly pounced on the next shark man, before deciding it was time to go all out. Dual-wielding is not something that I do often, so now was the perfect time to brush up on my skills. Four of them converged on me at once, and I sighed. I parried two slashes aimed at my chest, and sent a jab at one, which he blocked. I crouched down low, steadied my body, and flipped backwards, vaulting over two of them, so that now they were all in front of me. The two I jumped over were slow to react, which allowed me to cut both their heads off. The remaining two charged at me, and I blocked their blows, sent a sweeping blow at the legs of one, and slashed the sword arm of the other off. While one of the shark men was on the ground, trying to get up, I sent each blade into the eyes of the armless soldier. When the final ice soldier got up, his head was cut off.
I jumped into their ranks and began taking them down in two's and three's. I felt my mind going into battle mode, and everything around me seemed to slow down as I cut through them in seconds.
One shark man swung at my backside, but I felt it coming and ducked, before quickly twisting around and slicing his head off. Another tried attacking my arm, but I jumped back and rammed Riptide into his icy chest. A third soldier came at me and slashed at my neck. I brought up both my swords in an 'X', and kicked him in the chest. As I walked past him I stuck my silver sword into his chest. I was about to delve back into the horde of monsters, but another roar issued from the ice snake, as it finally joined the fray, crushing several Roman Legionnaires. I decided to instead go for the snake, and started running towards it.
(Reyna POV)
I looked around atop Scipio and saw that there was someone deep within the enemy ranks, and I felt my eyes widen as I realized it was Percy. He was disemboweling them left and right with one of their own silver swords and his own bronze sword.
I smiled, glad that he had come before they attacked. He had to be at least a minor god of battle or something, there was no way a demigod of Neptune could be so powerful. Urging Scipio to the ground, I jumped off his back onto a shark man. I impaled him with a gladius and started making my way towards Percy. Just as I reached him and the path of destruction he had left in his wake, a giant head rose from the icy army. It was the snake.
One look towards Percy told me that he was going straight for it. 'I've got to help him,' I thought. I finally caught up to him as he as he was staring the snake down.
"Percy! Do you even have a plan?" I asked worriedly. He looked at me with a grin. "Of course, win," he said triumphantly. I sighed. "Let's not get ourselves killed," I told him. He looked at me weirdly before smirking. "Maybe you will, but not me," he said as he began running towards the snake.
"Percy!" I yelled as he reached the ice snake. He leaped up and stabbed his swords into the icy behemoth. I watched on in wonder at the black haired demigod used his swords as ice picks, slowly climbing up the icy monstrosity. It wouldn't be long before it would notice, and then Percy would be in trouble. I had to distract it somehow. I looked around, and suddenly had a crazy idea. "Percy get ready!" I shouted. "What?!" I heard him yell as he turned his head to look at me.
"HEY! LOOK HERE, YOU STUPID ICE CUBE!" I screamed, waving my arms and jumping, trying to get its attention. "What are you doing!" Percy yelled, as the snake looked down at me, its icy tongue slithering in and out of its mouth. I turned around and started running as fast as I could. I could here it slithering after me, as Roman soldiers and ice soldiers alike were crushed under the quick moving mass of ice. "Watch out! Jump to the left!" I heard Percy yell, and, heeding his advice, I leaped to my left. A split second later the snakes head was buried in the ground I had been standing on. It lifted its head again, preparing to strike. I heard it hiss again, as I leaped to the right, and again its head crashed into the ground. "Scipio!" I shouted as the trusted pegasus flew towards me. When he neared I jumped on top of him and steered him towards the frozen up hole that Percy had patched up. "Reyna!" I heard Percy shout. 'That's my cue,' I thought, as I pulled Scipio up quickly. The snakes head flew by below us, and crashed into the ice covered hole. It burst through the ice, and was drenched completely. "Now Percy!" I shouted as he finally understood what I had been trying to do. The water began to steam as Percy heated it up to extreme temperatures. The snake was hit with a torrent of scalding water, and began melting at a rapid rate. Eventually nothing but a bunch of massive silver teeth remained. Percy returned the water and froze up the hole once more. Then he realized that without the snake, he was a hundred feet in the air, with nothing to stand on. He screamed as he fell, until I swooped in and caught him. "Uh... Thanks," he said as I chuckled.
When we landed I pulled him in to a hug, noticing that he was breathing pretty heavily. "You've done enough, Percy, why don't you get some rest?" I said. He shook his head. "The enemy has not been defeated yet," he said nodding towards the ice army.
He pulled away from our hug and began running into the throng of battle once more. I sighed, before rushing after him, following the trail of death that he left behind.
When the last of the shark man had been killed, the Romans cheered. The medics were scrambling around, trying to save as many people as possible.
After the dead had been honored and the wounded tended to, the Romans all turned to look at Percy. "What?" Percy asked, confused. "Percy, Percy, Percy," one of the legionnaires began to chant as the whole army began picking up the chant. Percy just smiled sheepishly.
"Romans! We have won a great victory today, and as such we must feast!" I told them as they cheered. Not long after I saw Percy gorging himself on cheeseburgers, which only made me smile even more. Out of everything he could have asked for, he wanted cheeseburgers.
After the feast, Percy was given an accepted by the Roman Legion, and as such was given an SPQR tattoo with one bar. Needless to say, he did flail quite badly at the stinging pain, which amused us all greatly.
"Well now we know, although Percy can take down giant ice snakes, a simple tattoo will incapacitate him," I said as the Romans burst out laughing. Percy turned a visible shade of red and muttered something about tattoos and fighting giant snakes being less painful.
After the festivities and the Roman Legion had returned to their quarters or whatever else they felt like doing, I asked Percy to walk with me.
"Percy, I just wanted to say thank you. I don't know what we would have done were it not for you," I said. He turned to me and was caught off guard by my hug as I leaned into him, letting myself relax in his chiseled chest.
He chuckled after getting over his initial shock. "Don't go soft on me now," he said still chuckling. Although I do believe he regretted saying that as was sporting several new bruises because of it. "Never," I said, smiling sweetly.
After an hour of blissful walking we both went to our houses. He had been rewarded a house in the civilian center for his actions, and I hadn't slept in mine for a while. I lay awake, thinking about how I had lucked out when some former Roman legionnaires had sent me a message praising the power and skill of a young son of Neptune. I had worked hard to be able to send him a message to meet me on the shore of the pacific near the tunnel that led to camp Jupiter and could only pray he chose to come, as he already had a home in the Greek camp. Those were my last thoughts before drifting off to sleep.
(California, Artemis POV)We had followed his scent out to the shore of the Pacific, and noticed two sets of tracks, which indicated that somebody joined him, and together they walked to the Caldecott Tunnel, then their scent vanished. For some reason, I had a feeling of trepidation about this place, but couldn't put my finger on it. A car zoomed by as I growled. "His scent vanished completely, there must be a tunnel somewhere here," I said before it hit me. This was the entrance to the Roman camp.
My eyes widened. If he was with the Romans then we couldn't do anything about it, at least for now. "Come on, there's nothing here," I said growling. Thalia looked more depressed than I had ever seen her, and all the hunters were extremely angry that a male had evaded us like this. I merely smiled at their behavior, before flashing us away.
AN: There you have it, the third chapter down, don't worry I don't intend for Percy to remain with the campers for long, and this is still most definitely a Pertemis fanfic if you were wondering, and I don't plan on changing that at all. Also sorry about the battle scenes I'm not that great at doing them, but if you have any suggestions or ideas you would like me to try, just PM me or leave a review. Thank you for reading and have a great day :)
AN (Updated): Another one down, man I am on a roll :)