(I now have a twitter account for when I am posting or not. Details in profile.) (There is now a poll for the pairing in my profile.)
(Thanks to my beta reader Qwityboy.)
(So I have been thinking for a couple of weeks on who and how to pair Percy with one of the goddesses. My first couple of choices were, as most of you know, Athena, Hestia, and Khione. The problem is that while I have thought of how to get the one chosen whichever that is into the story. I am not too sure how to get them together.)(Q: I vote Hestia!)
(With that out of the way I am adding the only demigod (so far) into the running for a romance option for Percy. Clarisse has been chosen. Why Clarisse, well one it is a very rare pairing unless you can find one that has not been stopped halfway through or is less than 5,000 words. And I just like her character. Clarisse looks like the one in the Percy Jackson movies)
[Character Status]
[Name: Annabeth Chase] Lv.42
[Age: 16] [Race: demigod] [Title: Unknown]
[HP: 3,400/3,400]
[Mana: Locked]
[Stats]
Strength - 44
Vitality - 76
Dexterity - 58
Intelligence - 83
Wisdom - 97
Charisma - 41
Luck - 27
Her level may not be as high as Luke's, but her wisdom and intelligence are the highest I have ever seen. Shaking myself from that thought, I walked over to the blue side. As I stood, with all the people gathering on their colored areas, I took a glance around and realized how out of place I looked. The people around me were putting on armor, sharpening their weapons, and practicing their sword swings, and I was just standing there in jeans and a plain white Tee.
Opening the items shop, I scrolled through all the different types of armor plates that I could wear. Seeing the prices, I sighed to myself. A thousand drachma was WAY too much money for a piece of armor that would slow me down, and I couldn't afford it, even if I wanted it. Closing the shop window, I started to wait for the game to start.
Until I heard the notification sound ringing in my ear. [Ding!], [Ding!], [Ding!].
[Special Event]
[Join the blue side in capture the flag and win]
[Rewards]
Unknown
Join Event?
[Yes] [No]
This was new. Seeing this event made me think about what else there is to discover. Not only about the bracelet, but for things like this event or quests I have yet to find. Clicking yes, I heard a [Ding!] and, naturally, I thought it was just confirmation for accepting the quest and ignored the unseen gold flashing light.
...
Following the blue team, I stopped a little in front of the flag as I watched Annabeth send people into positions. Seeing almost everyone gone, I walked to Annabeth preparing to ask where I would be placed.
"Hey, Annabeth Whe-". I was cut off quickly by her.
"There you are Percy, You are going to be stationed here, and you're going to guard our side of the creek." she said, and then sped off with all the other demigods charging ahead into the trees.
Well, that went well. Standing by the creek I stared and waited for something to happen. I felt like slapping myself after a moment or two of standing there. Who said I have to stand right here? She said I am stationed here, not that I have to stand here. Facepalmed, I Took a look around. After searching the area, I walked over to the largest trees overhanging a large part of the creek.
Climbing the tree, I sat, hiding in the shadows and using my stealth skill while juggling one of my throwing daggers with one hand. Catching the dagger, I nicked the blade with my hand and paused as I watched the cut on my hand drip blood onto the tree. How was I going to fight other demigods?
I could go down when one shows up and use my daggers to fight. The problem was that I am not too sure how demigods will react when I fight. Would they die if I threw a dagger and it pierced one of there vitals? Or maybe they would be the same as monsters, and be able to keep going as long as they had the health? Thinking this all over I decided that the next demigod that shows up will be my test subject.
If it was the past, I would most likely be horrified at that train of thought, but now... I seriously couldn't care less, survival of the fittest, and all that. I could here Reika growl at me in agreement. How I knew it was agreement, and not just my imagination, I haven't the slightest clue.
I froze into place, as I heard a large snap in the woods. Watching from my place in the shadows, I waited for my prey to appear. Of course, when I saw it was one of the red team, I grabbed a throwing knife and prepared to throw it. Keeping my hand in place, I used the observe skill on the guy first. I really did not want to kill someone in this game. Who knows what the consequence of my actions would be.
[Character Status]
[Name: Mike Ceriz] Lv.29
[Age: 17] [Race: demigod] [Title: Unknown]
[HP: 2,200/2,200]
[Mana: Locked]
[Stats]
Strength - 27
Vitality - 66
Dexterity - 29
Intelligence - 21
Wisdom - 16
Charisma - 5
Luck - 1
Huh, His stats were worse than mine. even if he has more health I should be able to do more damage. Pulling the knife back, I aimed for his leg, as a precaution of course. Throwing the knife I watched surprised at the speed and strength of my throw. I was surprised so much that I completely overshot my target. Wide-eyed, I remembered that I had raised my strength and dex since the last time I had thrown a knife.
The now named Mike spun around, searching for where the knife had been thrown. Staying still, I watched as he got himself into a crouch and slowly stalked over to where the knife had come from. I felt a large Cheshire grin form on my face as he crouched right under the tree I was hiding in. As I was still watching, I prepared another knife as he looked into the bushes and behind the trees. Throwing the knife, I snaked up onto a different tree branch as the knife hit his leg.
-570 HP! Critical Strike
Well, well, well, it seems that the damage for demigods is different compared to monsters. The demigod cried out in pain as he searched for where the knife had come from. Thankfully, I had moved, because he was looking at the place on the tree I had been at previously. Taking another knife, I threw it at his sword arm.
-420 HP!
No critical strike this time, I thought as I watched the demigod drop his sword and grab his arm looking up directly at me. Seeing as I was spotted I jumped, using the force of my fall I hit his head with the hilt of my dagger. His eyes rolled back into his head and he collapsed into a heap onto the floor.
Maybe in the eyes of other demigods, this was perhaps a cowardly way of fighting. Sneak attacking the enemy and not leaving an opening for a counterattack, but I sure as hell didn't think so.
Looking at the demigod, I decided to leave him at the base of the tree and hide in the next tree about ten yards away. Who knows? It may draw someone out and leave me an easy target. Moving quickly up the tree, I could not shake the feeling that someone was watching me. It kind of felt like that no matter how much I moved or shifted from my position, a pair of eyes would follow.
Bored I started thinking over my fight one-sided or not, with Mike, and how much weaker he was than Annabeth even though he was a year older. I know Annabeth is a daughter of Athena, but I do not know which god or goddess Mike is the kid of. Does it matter that much? My train of thought was broken as I heard large cracks of branches and trees being broken. Is sounded like a much larger group than the previous demigod.
Out of the forest came three burly looking demigods with thick muscles, helmets covering their faces, a chest plate, and carried a thick looking shield in one hand while holding a sword in the other. I stared at them for just a moment and then looked at myself. I looked scrawny in comparison. As it was a three on one fight I knew I couldn't take them down fair and square. But, I don't even think of fighting fair in the first place.
From my position in the trees, I slowly but quietly snaked my way towards them. As I was doing so, I heard a gasp. Activating my presence skill as a precaution, I snapped my head back to look for the person who gasped. Not seeing anyone, I was about to continue when I saw the air shimmer. WHAT WAS THAT? Hardly believing my eyes I watched as out of nowhere Annabeth appeared with a baseball cap.
Invisibility, there is invisibility, I thought in a deadpanning. Looking at the cap, I noticed that the moment she took it off her head she was visible, or at least that is what I assumed. If children of Athena could turn invisible I think that would be in some book on demigods. Using the observe skill, I read the window.
[Yankee cap of invisibility]
[This cap was gifted to Annabeth by her mother Athena. It turns the user invisible as long as the hat is on its users head]
Well, that is a better description than I hoped. After that enlightening description, I watched as her face turned into one of determination while looking around. Her lips started to move but I was too far away to hear what she said. Thinking over why she was here, the only thing I could come up with was that she wanted to watch me. But why is my question?
I saw her turn around and put the cap back on turning invisible and disappearing to wherever she wanted to go. Turning back to the three brutes coming in this direction I started to think if there was a way for me to turn invisible. That would be useful in this coming fight. I slowly started to move again through the trees and to the direction. Stopping myself a couple yards away, I paused. I did not know if they had some sort of special item like Annabeth did.
Looking closely at there gear I used the observe skill on them.
[Helmet]
Armor - 20
Durability - 70/92
[Chest plate]
Armor - 35
Durability - 51/150
[Sword]
Damage - 55
Durability - 82/100
I need some armor, was the first thing that popped into my head. I did not know if the stats on the armor was good or not, but I do know that the armor was better than what I was currently wearing, jeans and a t-shirt.
Reaching for a throwing knife I prepared to throw the knife at the leg of the one on the left. It was either the legs or the arms, so legs it is. At least this way if one of them sees me, the person hit can't chase me. Steadying my breathing, I threw the knife and hit the leg of the guy on the left.
-410 HP!
Immediately it was obvious that these guys were more experienced than Mike. The brute with the wounded leg ripped the knife out stared at it for a moment and started to search for where it came from. The other two used their shields to cover their bodies and helped search for my location.
Throwing another knife I hit the sword hand of the wounded brute.
-520 HP! Critical Strike
And watched as he dropped his sword, and fell to his knees clutching his hand. One of the two left standing somehow saw my position and pointed his hand in my direction revealing my location to the other burly guy yelling.
"There he is! get him!"
Seeing them start to charge towards me, I threw two more knives. One hit a shield, while the other lodged itself into brute 2's shoulder. Jumping down from my position in the tree, I ran through the forest in a circle hoping to lose them in the darkness. As I was running I checked behind me and saw burly right on my trail, while the other one still following was lagging behind with that wound on his shoulder.
As I continued running, I thought on how they were able to see me so clearly and not lose track of me. Glancing down at my clothes almost stumbled as I saw my white t-shirt. It was a miracle that I was able to stay hidden for so long while wearing this. Skidding to a stop I turned threw a knife and raced up a tree. I realized that if they want to catch me in a tree they would have to climb up in there bulky armor.
After reaching a decent height I looked down at the two sons of Ares who were now just reaching the tree I was in. I sat there,waiting for them to try something, that, and somehow I had doubled back to where the creek was, this time on the opposite side. Looking down, I saw the uninjured burly guy unstrap and remove his armor, then climb up the tree. The injured brute 2 stayed at the bottom holding his sword, waiting for something.
Seeing the burly number one getting closer, (I know I need better names) I had a feeling that they wanted to either push me off the tree, or force me to go to the bottom to the one guarding it. Taking a knife from my pocket, I held it by the hilt directly above the demigod climbing the tree and watched as he froze in his spot. I could feel myself grinning as I let the knife go and let gravity do the rest. The boy seeing the knife heading towards him leaped from his spot in the tree and seemed to forget that he was quite far from the ground.
I started to move down as he fell. The surprise would not last long, and I would prefer to be close enough to attack the brute guarding the tree. As I came closer to the bottom I saw the burly demigod on the ground out cold with his arm at an odd angle. The brute was Looking at his teammate and turned to look at me. I was about to reach for another knife and throw it when I realized I have not battled another demigod in hand to hand combat.
So with this realization, I used the observe skill, which I should have done previously but forgot too.
[Character Status]
[Name: Philip Walker] Lv.39
[Age: 18] [Race: demigod] [Title: Unknown]
[HP: 4,100/4,100]
[Mana: Locked]
[Stats]
Strength - 142
Vitality - 140
Dexterity - 62
Intelligence - 9
Wisdom - 5
Charisma - 3
Luck - 5
Seeing the guys strength and health changed my mind very quickly. There was no possibles way I was going to climb down and fight that tank in a one on one duel. So with that conclusion, I grabbed a couple of knives and started to throw them. The two knives missed, with him dodging and all but with my luck I hit his foot making him have to stop.
Using a couple of more knives I pinned his leg to the floor with one knife and with the rest hit his two arms. Under the strain of his wounds, the demigod dropped his sword and shield. Jumping from the ground I walked over to the guy, and kicked his head with my foot. Leaving the two boys there, I crossed the creek getting my shoes and pants wet as I did so.
Looking down at my clothes, I saw some tears from when I was climbing the tree. Sighing to myself, I realized I would have to spend more of my hard earned monster killing money on yet more clothes. As I looked up, I got whacked in the face by the flat end of a spear. Falling back from the force of the blow I looked to see who hit me.
It was a girl with reddish-brown hair, grey eyes and was about the same height as Percy. Wearing a black top with a grey tank top over it, black jeans, combat boots, and a black leather jacket. She was holding a spear, which is what I presume she hit me with and standing ready for an attack. Seeing her outfit, I felt that I had seen her before.
Slowly getting up preparing for an attack I used the observe skill.
[Character Status]
[Name: Clarisse La Rue] Lv.40
[Age: 17] [Race: demigod] [Title: Unknown]
[HP: 3,100/3,100]
[Mana: Locked]
[Stats]
Strength - 124
Vitality - 110
Dexterity - 59
Intelligence - 27
Wisdom - 14
Charisma - 62
Luck - 63
What is with the strength of these demigods!? Touching my ear, I held my daggers in position and prepared to fight. Though I must say it was nice of her to wait for me to get ready after that attack. I can't say I would have done the same. I took a quick slash at her which she blocked with her spear and counterattacked. I felt the blood slide down from the new cut on the side of my face.
Taking a couple more slashes I noticed that for every slice, she blocked and returned the attack. She succeeded more than I did, that's for damn sure. Knowing that I was losing, and in a last-ditch effort, I threw my two daggers at her. One of the daggers clipped her side, while the other broke her spear in half. I really need to find out how strong I am now.
Looking up from the spear to her I again got hit in the face. This time it was by a fist. But I now knew where I had seen her before. This was the girl who was sparring with Luke. Falling back, I managed to push my leg back and catch myself. Looking back at the girl I saw her glaring at me and preparing to throw another punch. So I punched her first.
The feeling of my fist hitting her face was much more painful than I thought it would be. Pulling my hand back I held it as I took a step back. As for Clarisse, the punch only made her take a couple steps back. Then again she is not level forty for no reason. Pulling her hand back I saw her ready to throw another punch. Then a piercing sound started going off.
Clarrise and I both turned our heads and saw the blue team yelling and screaming as they carried the red flag to home base. I looked back at Clarisse only to see her mumbling under her breath. Looking back at me she glared but nodded her head and started walking to where the red team was coming out of the woods.
Wiping the sweat from my head away, I could not help but take a deep breath. That had been one of the hardest fights I have had yet, and I had a feeling that if we continued she would have won. Getting out of the creek I noticed that I felt more fatigued than before but ignored it for now. I was about to walk to the cheering blue team when Annabeth appeared.
"Not bad for your first couple of fights". she said taking off her cap as she did so.
So, she was spying on me. I just looked at her. Seeing the unsurprised look on my face seemed to throw her off for a minute.
"Who taught you how to fight," she said looking around at the area around us.
I simply stared and waited for her to get to the point. I did not owe her an explanation.
Seeing that I was not going to answer she asked me.
"Where did your wounds go?", she asked.
"I assume you can see the cut on my face," I said in a dry tone.
"There's no cut on your face Percy," she said as she looked it over and appeared to be deep in thought.
Touching my face I felt no cut, some blood sure, but no split flesh. Thinking about how I was fatigued after getting out of the water I stepped back in. The change was instant, I felt as if I was fully rested and prepared for anything. Seeing what I did Annabeth started to panic.
"Oh Styx..." she cursed, "This is not good."
Hearing what she said I prepared to ask her what she meant, when I heard a growl in my mind warning me about something. Glancing up I saw the hellhound before I heard the howl. The hellhound turned looking towards me and leaped. Thinking quickly and relying on my previous experience. I grabbed my dagger and threw with all my strength the blade into the roaring mouth of the monster.
The blade hit the hellhound and stopped the momentum slightly but the hellhound kept coming. The force from the hellhound landing on me forced us both into the creek. Feeling much stronger I grabbed my other dagger and stabbed it into the eye of the hellhound. Taking a step back I watched as it rolled over the water bleeding golden dust, then it exploded. As I walked out of the disappearing dust I heard both the bracelet notification sounds but people gasping as well. [Ding!], [Ding!]
Chiron who must have appeared when I was distracted started talking.
"It is determined," said Chiron.
Campers bowed and stared above my head. Looking up I saw a glowing trident symbol floating above my head.
"Poseidon," said Chiron. "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of Poseidon."
...
After that eventful night, Chiron moved me to the Poseidon cabin, which just so happened to be by the beach. Sitting down on the bed, I opened the notification window. I may have been able to ignore it for a while, but a gold flashing light was very annoying... wait, Gold?
Reading the windows I felt like slapping myself for not opening this earlier.
[Special Event Completed!]
[Join the blue side in capture the flag and win]
[Rewards]
Unknown
[Congratulations]
[Happy Birthday you are now sixteen years old]
[Reward]
Birthday Gift
I forgot about my birthday. I was shocked, not only did I forget, I get a reward for turning 16. Would I get a reward every birthday? Shaking myself from that thought, I clicked the unknown reward first.
[Healing Potion x3]
I must admit, I did not see this coming. Clicking a potion a red filled glass bottle appeared in my hand. Walking to the bathroom I removed my shirt and gazed into the mirror that showed the burn scars on my back.
"I hope this works."
Drinking the potion I watched as ripples appeared over the burns. I hissed as steam rose from the burns and slowly healed over. Wiping the sweat from my brow I smiled as I saw my back completely healed from the burns.
Opening the window, I clicked birthday gift. Taking it out I saw it was the color black, and a mix between a cloak and a leather jacket, with the length going a little past my knees.(emoedgelord cloak, anyone?) The front had no zipper or buttons. It was open with a leather type of vest on the inside with crisscross straps for the vest. Well, this looks cool.
Putting it on I looked in the mirror and decided to have this jacket as part of my main outfit. with this jacket, black jeans, and black combat boots I thought I looked pretty good. Looking down I used the observe skill on the jacket.
[Black sleeveless V-Jacket]
[Stats Unkown]
[The consequences of weraing this jacket is unknown]
Seeing the first part I got excited, I now had clothing with stats. That all came crashing down in the second part. What could these consequences be?
As I was thinking this over I felt itchy. Scratching my skin I felt myself getting hotter and my skin burning up. As I continued to itch I felt a blasting pain and collapsed to the floor. It felt worse than when I was burned at the apartment. Rolling around I tried taking the jacket off, it would not budge. Slowly my vision started blurring. My last thought before I passed out was.
Didn't I have 40% Fire resistance?
(As with darer1992 suggestion, behold, monsters now bleed golden dust.)
(I know the stats do not match, so here is my explanation. Different gods have different powers and abilities, so the stats for the children of different gods do not match. For example, Ares kids get more strength, Hermes kids get more dexterity.)
(Percy is part of the big three so he will be getting better stats than other demigods. Well until Thalia, Nico, and Bianca appear.)
(For Percy's new jacket it is black with no sleeves from the DMC 5 trailer. the guy at the end where's it. I saw it in a live stream. Otherwise, I do not know anything about it.)
(I hope you enjoyed reading.)
[The demigod System]
[Character Status]
[Name: Percy Jackson] Lv.20 Exp 4,170/7,000
[Age: 16] [Race: demigod] [Title: Monster Hunter] [Companion: Reika]
[HP: 1,500/1,500] (Health Regen: 6.5 per min)
[Stamina: 850/850] (Stamina Regen 11.6 per min)
[Mana: 1,200/1,200] (Mana Regen 3.7 per min)
[Affinity - Water]
[Stats]
Strength - 39
Vitality - 59
Dexterity - 34
Intelligence - 61
Wisdom - 37
Charisma - 27
Luck - 75
Stat Points - 45
[Skills]
Stealth Lv-1 (70%) + 20% stealth when in shadows
Acting Lv-1 (16%)
Lying Lv-1 (11%)
Presence Lv-1 (99%)
Tracking Lv-4 (89%)
Dagger Novice Lv-9 (71%) [You deal 10% more damage when using daggers]
Knife throwing Lv-Max
Archery Lv-1 (0%)
Sword Novice Lv-1 (0%)
Eavesdrop Lv-1 (0%)
Observe Lv-9 (31%)
Running Lv-8 (67%)
Cooking Lv-5 (61%)
Languages: English Lv-Max, Latin Lv-2
Skill Points - 1
[Special Abilities]
Water manipulation Lv-1 (1%)
Proficiency level (16%)
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
Knowledge Absorber Lv-1 [You can learn skills from books, the more advanced the book, the higher the skill you get is.] Can raise skill level by absorbing books for that skill.
Physical Endurance Lv-11 [You take 22% less damage from physical attacks]
[Resistance]
Fire resistance Lv-4 [You are 40% resistant to fire]
[Items]
Credit Card, 24 Celestial bronze knives, Healing Potion x2
[Item shop]
[Relationships]
Grover - 40/100
Chiron - 21/100
Reika - 70/100
Annabeth - 5/100
[Reputation]
God reputation 1%
demigod reputation 5%
Monster reputation 10% [Monsters are now slightly cautious in your presence. Does not include companions.]
Titan reputation 0%
Primordial reputation 0%
Money: $342,021
Drachma: 225
[The Qwityboy files]
First time, and the first file. Basically, I'm going to rant here on how fanfics work! Let's start with shipping. There are three types of ships, Canon, Inspired, and Hectic. Canon is pretty self explanatory, but Inspired is based on details already in the story, but aren't Canon. Like, Calypso and Percy, or Artemis X Percy. With Calypso, it's the time Percy crashed on to the island, with Artemis, it's the time they worked together. Thalia x Percy (my personal Favorite) is also an inspired, can you guys guess why? I'll discuss Hectic in the next one!