RAGING SEAS Chapter 49
A/N:- So…. I know I haven't been really regular with the updates at all… in fact, I didn't update at all…. The thing is that I am just trying to figure things out with personal relationships and other things… so it is actually complicated… and I wanted some advice… but I'll talk about it at the end…. but yeah, let's get on with the chapter… I'll try to update more and more frequently!
Percy remained standing, smirking. "Long time no see Mars!"
The god of war turned towards him with flames in his eyes.
"Nice to see you too, Punk!" Mars replied, with a sneer. He was wearing full battle armor with the helmet in his hand.
"So I believe you were telling them about something?" Percy asked, hands in his pockets.
The god of war cleared his throat and said, "So…. As I was saying, there'll be a quest with Perseus leading it!"
Hearing this, there was a huge uproar, shouting protest.
"SHUT UP!" Mars yelled and everyone slowly quieted down, their shouts reduced to murmurs.
"My Lord! How do we know that that newbie is even suitable for a quest?" A voice came from the back of the crowd.
"Oh, he's more than suitable for the task," The God Of War said.
At this Percy smirked even wider.
Another rookie raised his hand and asked, "But, Lord Mars! What is this quest about?"
"Good question, it's just to take down some old geezers who have been creating…. Erm…. Problems for us." Mars said and then pointed to Percy. "And, I believe our friend here is quite familiar with them."
A huge number of hands rose in the air hoping that Percy would pick them for the quest.
"So. do you mind telling us who's going to be your companions for this quest?" The god of war asked.
"Of course not, my lord," Percy said and dropped into a mock bow. "I will be choosing Jason Grace and Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano." He smirked at the last part.
Jason just looked plain shocked and Reyna furious.
Mars smirked and said, "Very well…. Dismissed! I would like to talk to Perseus in private to brief him about the details of the quest."
As the rest of the crowd shuffled off murmuring quietly, Reyna and Jason stood there, and Percy walked off with Mars into the darkness.
They reached a place in the dark night with not many people around. Mars, who had transformed into Ares and was now wearing a biker's jacket with fingerless gloves, sat down on a bench.
Percy followed him and sat down on the other bench.
"I take it you know which old geezers I was talking about, Jackson?" Ares asked him, lighting a cigarette. "Care for a smoke?"
Percy nodded and grabbed the cigarette offered by Ares, and lit it, running his hand through his hair. "Tsukasa Shinobu, Ernesto Miranda, and Assunta Maresca."
Ares nodded and took a long drag, releasing a puff of smoke. "Terrorized the world those bitches… until you put an end to their rein. Care for a smoke?"
Percy looked shocked.
"Oh please, it was all over the news, a 13-year-old boy kills the heads of the oldest and most ancient Mafias," Ares said. "Quite the feat you achieved. But what you killed, was the leader, not the spirit. The gang continued and expanded until today, the day when those monsters returned."
"That should be impossible. They were mortals, not actual monsters…. When I killed them…" Percy said, shocked.
"That's right… but the giants are rising, the Earth Mother is rising…. And she's opened the doors of death and let those monsters loose again. And this time they are immortal, blessed by Gaia herself."
The name of the primordial of the Earth darkened the already dark atmosphere considerably.
"Well, fine…. I'll see what I can do," Percy said, releasing a puff of smoke of his own.
"Good," Ares said. "Now, I guess you'll have to tell your quest members the truth of your heritage?"
Percy nodded.
"All right, until next time Jackson," The god of war said, before flashing away. "And remember, you have my respect, punk."
Percy smirked and got up, walking back raising his hood, back to camp.
That's when the first ambush happened. It was a pair of Laestrygonians, wielding nasty swords.
Percy instinctively sidestepped and dodged the attack that threatened to split him into two.
He looked to his sides and saw both giants ambushing him from both sides.
"Hmm… smart move," He told them, then smirked.
The second one aimed for where he was standing, as Percy jumped up and drop kicked it in the chest and flipped off, onto the first giant.
He punched its throat, while in the air, and that was enough to make it disintegrate into dust as Percy went for the dazed second Laestrygonian and kicked its head cleanly off its shoulders.
With that Percy resumed his walking, and this time decided to just jump into a shadow.
He appeared behind Jason and Reyna, who were in a heated discussion of whether a car was good transport or a plane.
"Uh, what are you guys doing?" Percy asked, amused.
Seeing him both Jason and Reyna jumped, Jason a little more than Reyna.
"When did you arrive?" Reyna asked.
"Right now," Percy said, nonchalantly, then turned serious. "I got to tell you guys something. I am not actually the son of Apollo… I'm actually the son of Neptune and Pluto."
Jason and Reyna were shocked, then they started laughing.
"I'm not kidding guys, look," Percy said and made a water ball out of thin air, then stretched it out to form a long spaghetti, then compressed it to form a sword, and then threw it away.
Then he stomped his foot on the ground, and it cracked, as skeleton hands got out of the fissure and rose to reveal full-fledged skeletons.
And with another stomp, they disintegrated and the crevice closed.
Reyna and Jason were watching the scene wide-eyed as Percy finally tapped into the 'Apollo' powers residing within him and created a ball of pure bright light and slammed it into the ground, brightening the atmosphere.
"I know you guys need explanations," Percy said watching the bewildered expressions on his friend's faces. "Basically, I'm organically Neptune's son, and then Pluto found me and adopted me, and then Apollo gave me his blessing… So yeah."
"All right…" Jason said, still unable to comprehend what had happened.
Though Reyna looked at it in a more positive way and said, "That's good, we'll have a wider arsenal at our side…. Now mind telling us what the threat actually is?"
"Yeah… I was just getting to that…" Percy said and explained the whole fiasco to them.
And to say that the two demigods were shocked was an understatement.
"So… we'll have to put down the gang in the US, then go to Italy, and then to Japan? In just 14 days?" Jason asked, expecting something along the lines of 'Oh no, that was all just a joke, all of the gangs are gathering in one place and we just have to blow their lair up.'
"Yeah, I guess so," Was Percy's only response.
"So I guess, going to Japan first would be best, right?" Reyna asked and Percy nodded. "So then, how in hell are we going to reach there?"
"I'll book the tickets for the planes," Percy said and went off.
"Well shit," Jason muttered. "What have we gotten ourselves into?"
A/N:- Well that's it for today folks… I know a little short, but the best I could do at the moment. And now I wanted your advice about one thing... Like… how do you impress your crush? Like seriously… there's this one girl, and I may have asked her to go out with me, and the date is tonight… and I don't know what to do… some help would be great…
Anyway, this is the 49th chapter of "The Raging Seas"… see you tomorrow. Bye! Do leave a review letting me know how you liked it!