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Percy let Allie rest while he tried to master his control over essence. He figured he should go talk to Annabeth, she might have books and other sources where he could get more information about his new ability.
Percy walked towards Athena cabin to meet Annabeth, hoping that she was there. Percy knocked on the door but it was Malcolm who opened the door.
"Hey Percy, here to see Annabeth?"
"Yeah, I wanted to talk to her about godly powers and essence, will power and energy. You know stuff like that." Michael nodded but held up his finger.
"She went with Clayton on a date today, but if you want I can help you with that." Percy considered this for a minute. Malcolm might not be Annabeth but he was easily on her level when it came to brain power.
"Sure man, I really appreciate it." Percy walked in and started to listen to Malcolm as he lectured about a god's' life force and source of power. Percy learned that every living thing contained essence and that gods were for the most part just pure essence and energy. He learned that it slowly regenerates and that it is essential for them and demigods, it is the basis of their godly abilities, it is the source if their godly power.
"So if I somehow managed to get access to your essence and absorbed it, what would happen?" Malcolm thought for a second as he narrowed his eyes and scratched the back of his head.
"Well it is basically my life force so if you were to take it, my body will fall to the floor dead and I'll just be some kind of spirit within you to be absorbed or remain there. Of course, unless you released me and gave me some kind of vessel where I could gather energy and live..." The theoretical situation was really getting to Malcolm, there was not really much knowledge about the absorption of essence and the only accessible object to mortals that could do that was Stygian Iron. That being said, it was typically only used against monsters by children of Hades to prevent monsters from reforming as if absorbed most of their essence by ripping it apart from their bodies.
"Umm Percy, if you don't mind me asking, why are you so interested in this. Don't get me wrong, it truly is fascinating but it has very little real life applications." Percy wondered if he should tell Malcolm but decided to only let him know some of the truth.
"Well, when I was on Olympus I received Lady Athena's blessing." Malcolm's jaw dropped. His mother had never really liked Percy and it took her years to finally approve of Percy's relationship with his daughter but now she gives Percy her blessing? It was truly surprising.
"It was a 'thank you' for what I did for Annabeth. She also said she did not want me to do anything stupid in the future, almost as if she knew something that I did not..." Malcolm nodded as they were reasonable explanations but Percy had still not answered his question.
"Anyway, when your mom was giving me her blessing she seemed to create some energy out of thin air, then gave it to me and my body absorbed it. There was this curious thing that happened though, my own essence or life force ate the blessing from her hands, like if it had a mind of its own."
"Well Percy, that is interesting and it makes sense why you're so interested in life force all of the sudden. Was there anything nearby that could have had an impact on yours or my mom's godly essence?"
"I don't think so..." Percy lied. The reftate has something to do with this new ability of mine, but I only infused it with my essence after receiving the blessing.
"Anyway Percy, I'll give you these few books about about if about want to keep researching." Malcolm gave the books and waved Percy off.
Percy took the books to his cabin and read them. There was not much in them but with Athena's blessing Percy was able to figure out most there was to it. In basic terms, a god's life force is their essence and their abilities or powers are created by it, as for demigods they have much less than that of the gods as their mortal bodies cannot handle it. Demigods could gain more and stronger essence by training with their mortal bodies, godly powers or abilities which increases quality and/or quantity of their powers and abilities.
"Percy?" Percy turned around to see a messy haired blonde.
"Hey beautiful, had a nice nap?" A grinning Percy looked at the yawning blonde.
Allie remembered what happened a few hours and looked kind of sad. She had slept with Percy, someone who had just lost his love and child a week ago. Now here she was in his bed after seducing him, the boyfriend of her recently dead friend. She felt so guilty but happy at the same time. Sorry Clarisse.
"Something wrong Allie?" Percy really looked worried about her, he knew she might feel guilty about what they did and did not want her to regret it.
"Yes I'm fine, were you serious about what you told me?" Allie was pretty nervous about this, what if Percy only said this because of the great sex, he barely knew her after all.
Percy tilted his head as if confused. "Yeah, I would not joke about something like that." Percy came closer to Allie and cupped her hands in his. "Stay with me, stay in my cabin. I'll be at your side for the rest of our lives, I promise. We could be so happy, plus we pretty much already have the same friends." Percy smiled but Allie was not as happy about it.
Allie was not going to have any privacy if she agreed but then again this was Percy Jackson. "I am not sure, I love my cabin. They are my brothers and sisters… how about we work on teaching you some healing instead?" Percy could not help but to feel a bit disappointed when Allie said she was not sure but he agreed, healing was an important skill to learn.
Allie taught Percy that healing was the application of godly energy to a wound that commands it to repair itself by the healer's will. The short burst of energy temporarily increases the amount of energy on the person's body enough for the it to repair itself by magical and physical means. As a result of sacrificing part of their energy, it tires healers very quickly. Especially if they apply too much power or not enough so that they have to try again. She also explained how healers were typically children of Apollo as his essence ensured some of his children had an aptitude for it.
"I myself am an average healer and archer as I only got a bit from all his powers. You know, like a jack of all trades." Percy had noticed that Allie did not like being average at all, she did not feel special.
"Well that just means you have a head-start on everything, sounds pretty great to me. I personally can only control water at a decent level. I am not that good at controlling earthquakes, it almost got me killed once," Percy shook his head as he remembered the fiasco at Mount St. Helens.
"Yeah, I heard. When I joined camp, the campers told stories about you finding and returning Zeus' Master Bolt, when you helped rescue the Golden Fleece that revived Thalia, when you held up the sky for Lady Artemis, when you exploded Mount St. Helens and were thought dead or when you bathed in the River of Styx to fight Kronos." Percy nodded as he remembered doing all of that and could not help but to blush as he was getting too much praise for his liking.
"Allie, want to follow me to the arena? I got some training to do and want to try to heal some hurt campers if possible." Percy was really looking towards using his energy to heal other demigods. He was already aware he was much stronger than them but did not know by how much. According to Allie a healer can heal up to 5 people before fainting unless they take some godly food. If she was correct then all he had to do was learn to heal properly then he could calculate how powerful he really is.
"Sure, I needed to meet up with my friend anyways but I still feel kind of tired. Do you have any regular or godly food?" Percy nodded but wondered why she was so tired, after all she just took a nap and should be well rested. He had made the reftate safe for use as well so it could not be that either.
"Yeah, I'll get some for you." Percy grabbed the nectar bottle and gave it to Allie. She graciously drank from it and instantly looked better.
"Well then, let's get going," said a smiling Allie.
Percy went to the arena and pulled out his trusty pen. A broken Riptide sprung to life and Percy's gaze fell as he remembered that he had failed Clarisse and his child. Allie seemed to notice as she placed a hand on his shoulder and rubbed it gently.
"Maybe you could create some weapons from your gift of Hephaestus." Percy nodded and tried to think of what weapons he should use. He really did not want to hurt his fellow campers too severely but did not want them to be completely fine as he wanted to heal them once they finished sparring.
Percy's new brain worked really fast as he tried to think of the new weapon he should use. He remembered how Ares had used heavy weapons and armors to train and when he removed them it made him stronger. The act of handicapping oneself while training to remove it while on a real battle was extremely alluring to Percy. If he could somehow hinder every part of his body and even his weapon by the time he removed them he will be even stronger and faster than before.
Percy made the Ethereal Reftate form into a set of heavy armor and helmet to impair his vision and willed it to become heavier until it weighed about 50 pounds. The new armor was quite annoying as it was too bulking but then Percy realized if he could make the armor weight as much as he wanted, it did not have to be big at all. He transformed it into a black bodysuit with light padding and made it weigh 50 pounds. Allie could no help but to blush at Percy's new suit as it outlined his toned body.
Percy noticed Allie's gaze and chuckled a bit before concentrating on his next goal. Percy needed a weapon that could hurt but not kill his fellow campers, preferably a blunt one. His new weapon must also benefit his swordsmanship so war-hammers and clubs were out of the question. Percy settled for a pair of 32 inch solid black escrima sticks and made them weight 10 pounds each, they would bruise the campers but not be deadly unless he hit them really hard on their head.
"So, what do you think Allie?" Percy was proud at his work, the suit was thin enough to not inhibit his movement but heavy enough to weigh him down. The escrima sticks will help him become a faster swordsman and improve his technique as they were heavy blunt weapons and not deadly.
"You look fine, very swift and intimidating." Percy nodded and challenged one of the campers, a son of Hermes. Allie practiced with her knives with a friend, a daughter of Athena. The son of Hermes named Jim, was very skilled and easily parried all of Percy's strikes, even as he double wielded. Percy struggled to keep up as his new armor and weapons were relatively heavy and made all his movements slower. Percy eventually defeated the camper when let his guard down for a split second. By the end of the battle Percy was out of breath but he still managed to heal the bruises from the son of Hermes without breaking a sweat at all.
"Thanks Percy, I did not know you could heal. Also I noticed you were much slower than usual, something on your mind?" Asked Jim.
"No, everything is fine. I learned how to heal today and was trying it out as it could be really beneficial in the future. As for my slower movement, I'm just using a heavy suit to improve my speed in battle you know? Here try one as well." Percy summoned an identical one for Jim and the boy immediately fell to his knees.
"Holy crap Percy, you were using this while we fought? It must weigh like 100 pounds," Jim was surprised that someone could fight while wearing such deceivingly heavy armor.
"Nah, it only weighs 50 pounds, we are just really tired right now. I probably would have dropped to my knees right now if I was not used to it already." Percy was about to take the armor from Jim away but thought he should maybe keep it. Jim was very skilled and had great technique although he was a bit slow and weak. If he used Percy's ethereal armor he could improve drastically and will give him a great match once he sparred without it, not to mention protect him from serious injuries.
"Hey Jim, How would you like to keep the armor. It is indestructible and very thin, you can wear underneath your clothes and it will help you with your training."
"Sure Percy, I just wish it was a bit lighter. It is kind of heavy and I can't stand up." Percy figured he was right and made the suit half as heavy. Jim stood up and thanked him before he left.
Percy turned around to look at Allie who was struggling to keep up with the daughter of Athena. The girl soon overpowered Allie and was about to stab her abdomen with an insane amount of force when Percy summoned a very lightweight vest of Ethereal Reftate on Allie to prevent the injury. The daughter of Athena and Allie were shocked that the attack did not go through.
"Hey you were getting pretty carried away there don't you think?" Percy walked towards the pair only to see two angry girls.
"Umm, whats going on?" The girls were not very happy that he had interrupted their battle.
"Why the hell you do that? This was supposed to be real training with real consequences, it is the only way for her to improve. So how about you look away and mind your own business." Said the Karen, the daughter of Athena.
"Well excuse me for not wanting my girlfriend to get hurt. That attack had enough force to cause severe damage, it was just too extreme for casual sparring." Karen was shocked Allie was Percy's girlfriend specially after everything's that happened.
"Y...y...your girlfriend?" Karen did not know that to say and Allie was blushing with a scowl angry that Percy was telling Karen she was his girlfriend before she had a chance to break it to her.
"Yes, my GIRLFRIEND. Is it so bad that I don't want my girlfriend to get hurt?" Karen had recovered and was angry her best friend Allie had not mentioned this before. I went on vacation to my parents for two months and now my best friend is dating Percy Jackson? How come she did not tell me? Was not he with my sister?
"Weren't you with my sister Annabeth?" Allie looked at her best friend cursing herself for not catching her up to the current situation. It's not that she didn't want to tell her but that the proper way of bringing it up had not passed yet.
"She was a fine woman but she fell in love with someone else, with Clayton Simmons so we broke up. A few days later I got with Clarisse and we were expecting a child but the camp was attacked a week ago and she died along with my child but now Allie and I are together and I want to protect her as much as I can." Is this girl acting like she does not know anything? From the looks of it she is close friends with Allie, although I have never seen them together.
Karen looked from Percy to Allie and could not help but to feel angered by Percy. The guy had broken up with Annabeth to get with Clarisse a few days later? Then impregnated her and let her die with his child? He had just lost his woman and child and a week later he was with her best friend acting like nothing had happened. It was like he did not even care about them. She was also confused as to why Allie will get with him as she wanted to join the hunt to be an eternal maiden, not to mention he was 4 years older than her.
"So you could not protect Clarisse and your child so now you got a new girlfriend and want to make it up!? You don't seem to be too broken up about them at all, I bet you got tired of her as well as my sister and now you are trying to do the same with my best friend!" Karen was shouting loudly and had gathered the campers attention, nobody could believe the daughter of Athena was shouting at Percy like that.
"What a hero you turned out to be, I would not be surprised if you never cared for them at all. I would even bet it was you who got Clarisse and your child kill-" Percy roared in rage as he summoned a storm that knocked the campers to the ground and destroyed the arena.
"Don't you dare! You know nothing! I loved them all! I loved Annabeth but she did not love me back! I loved Clarisse and I loved my child but I was not strong or fast enough to save them…" at this point Percy broke down in tears or rage. Percy fell down to his knees and started sobbing. He hated himself, he hated himself more than anything even Ares. The curse of Himeros had not let him grief but he was finally crying. He was stronger than he's ever been before and he was finally free.
The campers could not believe that Percy had destroyed the arena and was on the floor crying. The rest of the campers had showed up, Chiron and even Dionysus. Is that Percy crying? How the Hades is he crying, he must have overpowered the curse of Himeros.
Soon Percy realized that he was crying, he was sad angry and happy all at the same time. Sad that Clarisse and his child had died, angry at himself, angry at Ares, angry at the monsters who took Clarisse and his son away and angry at Karen for even implying he never loved them. However he was happy that he could finally mourn their deaths. He started laughing like a madman and stood up. He summoned his Ethereal Reftate escrima stick and walked towards Karen who was terrified at the image.
"YOU CROSSED THE LINE! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME AND ALL I HAVE BEEN THROUGH! I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU SAID, I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER, I WILL ENJOY EVERY SECOND AS I REAP YOUR SOUL." Percy returned the escrima stick of Ethereal Reftate to its former glory and Karen felt like her soul was slowly being severed from her body as Percy's escrima neared her face. Karen let you a scream of agony as she felt the most intense pain she ever felt in her life.
"Percy, please stop!" Malcolm said. He could see Karen's essence slowly getting pulled by his weapon and knew Percy had to be stopped, if he did not Karen would get very painful death that Percy will regret for the rest of his life.
"Percy, my boy what are you doing?" said Chiron. Percy turned to look at the old centaur but could care less, he was angry and not thinking straight. He will reap all their souls, they did not know what he was going through, they did not understand.
"YOU'LL GET YOUR TURN CHIRON, YOU ALL WILL," hearing Percy's voice made a chill run through Chiron's spine. Percy had a weapon that was stealing Karen's life force and everyone was too afraid to stop him.
"Percy you must stop! You are scaring the campers, you are scaring me…" Percy turned to see a crying Allie. He felt his heart sink as he saw her face, she was scared for her life, scared of him. Percy's face softened and the storm calmed down. He felt a sharp pain on his wrist as the flower took control again but it was not as strong as before.
Percy looked around the destroyed arena and saw the terror in the eyes of the campers. They did not look at him like a hero, they looked at him like a monster, one that they should fear. Percy could not help but to feel they were right, he had lost control and almost killed Karen. Sure, she got him mad but she did not deserve that. It was not a quick death, he was torturing her and he slowly sucked her essence making the pain as long as possible. He was literally ripping her spirit from her body, the same way Kronos scythe did to him and it was a horrible experience.
"Karen, I'm sorry… I just got so mad." Karen looked at Percy scared for her life. The pain Percy had subjected her to was unimaginable by anyone besides her and she feared him like nothing in the world. Percy leaned closer to her but she backed away and braced herself tightly.
"Allie, I'm so sorry. She started saying all this stuff about me and Clarisse and my child, she does not understand what I've been through. Nobody does." Allie looked at Percy with sympathy and fear but she managed to give him a sad smile.
"I don't think I understand you either. You scared everyone, you scare me... Percy, I don't think it's going to work out. You clearly have issues you need to fix before... I don't know if anyone can help you fix them…" Allie was breaking down in tears, if only I had talked to Karen before Percy did, everything would have been alright… then again Percy turned into a psycho and tried to kill her, he was not ready for a relationship so soon...
Luckily for Percy, the mark of Himeros was working again but he still felt a bit sad Allie had already broken up with him. It was like fate itself prevents me from being happy with anyone I chose, maybe leaving the camp- No, leaving everyone behind is the best thing I can could do. This is probably why Zeus talk about me leaving the camp.
"Okay, I'll get going…. Stay safe umm keep the vest, It will keep you safe " Allie nodded and was thankful for the gift, it was made of a lightweight indestructible material and it did absorb all the kinetic force of the stab Karen was going to injure her with.
Percy walked over to Karen who was shivering in fear. Percy clapped his hands in a praying position and concentrating on releasing the little essence he had absorbed. Karen started to feel better until Percy stopped then looked at him cautiously. Percy turned to see the rest of the frightened campers, the ones at the front were the veteran campers as the new ones were too scared to come closer.
"I am going to leave the camp as soon as I pack my things. Mr. D if you could inform the Olympians I would greatly appreciate it." Dionysus nodded and flashed away to tell the gods. They all needed to hear about what transpired here and how they going to proceed.
"I'm sorry everyone, I'm sorry you had to see that. Sorry Allie, sorry Karen…" Percy turned to see the frightened campers faces again, even his friends were a bit scared.
"Umm Percy, Are you okay?" Percy nodded and Travis looked relieved. "Percy, if you need anything let us know, we got your back you know?"
"I know, thanks, I really appreciate this. I will see if I can fix my issues then come back, again thanks for everything." Percy turned and walked towards his cabin as the rest of the campers avoided him like the plague.
Percy did not know what he would do when he left the camp, he had no purpose in life besides trying to be happy but obviously that was not going to work out. Maybe I can go into the city and try to live a mortal life, no monster would dare to attack me If I -. Percy was interrupted when a deity flashed behind him. He turned around to see a thin woman with short curly black hair, tight leather pants and a red jacket. She was holding a whip and that looked like the one's Demeter used on him and Percy couldn't help but to blush. The deity seemed to noticed and made it disappear as she was not here for that.
"Tell me Percy, why am I here? I know you aren't the vengeful type yet I can sense you have recently impacted my domains greatly..." Percy realized who did goddess was, she was Nemesis the goddess of revenge and she said she was here because of him.
"Honestly Lady Nemesis, I have no idea why you are here. I don't believe I prayed for your help and I don't exactly have feelings for revenge." Nemesis looked at Percy curiously but then gave him a huge grin.
"Percy, you should know I am also the goddess of balance and redistribution. I can sense that you want to be punished and punish someone else. You want to punish yourself and everyone that has taken everything away from you, you want to find the peace that the fates have so abruptly taken from you. You feel like someone needs to pay for what they did to you." Percy could not help but to feel energized by Nemesis little speech.
"Yes, someone has to pay. Annabeth left to become happy, and Demeter would not change her ways for me, I scared Allie and the rest of the campers because of my issues. They all left me but Clarisse and my son, they did not leave me. They were taken by monsters and they will get what they deserve." At this point, Percy was grinning like a madman.
Nemesis had cleared his mind and he realized what he had to do, he will make every literal and metaphorical monster he meets suffer, he will reap their essence from their bodies and watch them crumble into little piles of ash, they will never take anyone ever again if he could help it. He was going to be the hero that he never was, one that could have protected Clarisse from the hell-hound and truly one that would keep everyone safe.
Nemesis was quite happy at the recent developments. In times of peace there was no desire for revenge, balance or retribution on either the Romans or the Greeks and Nemesis was slowly losing her power. Now here was Percy Jackson, the boy who lost everything, she did not know what he wanted but she knew what he needed. They boy has been given a shitty role to play and needs to find some peace. He wants to get even with the world, with the fates themselves and enjoys punishing those who he feels deserve it, he will be the perfect champion to help me regain my power.
"Percy, you know that I am grateful for what you did for my son Ethan in the titan war. You are a true warrior, one that knows how to bring justice and I can't help but to believe you were born to deliver retribution." Percy was curious at what Nemesis was saying, she was clearly playing him as her tone of voice was overly sweet but he was interested in what she had to offer.
"Allow me to make you my champion, with my blessing you will see who deserves retribution and who yearns for revenge, you can make everyone and every monster pay for what they done, every stepfather who was abused children, every bully in school that ever belittled others, every killer out there that has gotten away with it, every single soul that deserves to be punished in order for balance to prevail will be shown to you. You will enact my will onto everyone who you feel deserves it."
Percy knew that Nemesis was playing him but what did he have to lose? He knew Nemesis was really weak at the moment and would probably fuel on his so called retribution but it would be worth it, plus he might able to take some more of her power is he played things right. Percy enjoyed ripping Karen from her essence and was ashamed but nothing would stop him from avenging every single demigod's life that was taken by monsters. He would avenge Clarisse and his son and every other demigod who had died at the hands of a monster.
"Lady Nemesis, I would be honored to be your champion." Nemesis could not help but to grin as hearing those words come from the strongest demigod in existence. With Percy as her champion she would surely rise to power once again and truly create balance in the world.
Nemesis started to conjure some of her godly essence to make Percy her champion but as she was weak it took some time. Just when she as about to finish Percy pulled her into a passionate kiss that made her lose her concentration. Percy started to absorb more essence from the goddess as she accepted his kiss. Nemesis was so overjoyed by Percy that she was not aware Percy was slowly draining her. When the kiss stopped Nemesis composed herself and looked at him angrily but blushing nonetheless.
"Percy I like you but I don't like you that much. You are my champion now and this would be extremely inappropriate."
"Sorry, I just could not help myself. You are very pretty you know?" Nemesis blushed but tried to shake it off in a business like manner.
"Percy, my blessing will allow me and you to gain strength permanently each time you use my domain as for the other stuff but you'll figure out the rest by yourself. I must be leaving now… bye." Percy chuckled at her flustered state and waved Nemesis off. He watched her flash away as he was immortal and he figured he could do that now.
Percy had absorbed more of her essence as he knew he was going to get the short end of the deal like with Himeros, plus he figured it will give him greater power on her domains, the fact he will permanently gain strength whenever he used it was an added bonus. Percy felt Nemesis' blessing and godly power take effect and could sense most the campers were good people, some wanted revenge on other campers for petty things and others revenge on monsters that taken their fallen friends. Percy knew that this was going to be real useful in tracking down those deserving of retributive justice, specially monsters.
Percy took a bag and tried to summon some nectar but could not, he did not have enough godly power to do godly things yet so flashing was out of the question but maybe he could mist travel like his father now that he was stronger. He took out his backpack and put some nectar and ambrosia inside along with some bars of dried food.
Percy finished packing and tried to turn his body into mist like he did with his Ethereal Reftate and found himself reappearing in the beach as it drew him there. Percy was confused as to why it happened. He saw a water nymph and thought it would be safe to approach it.
"Hey there, my name is Percy Jackson, what is yours?" The nymph looked at Percy and blushed.
"My name is Crystal my lord." Percy had forgotten the nymphs in his father domain treated him like royalty but let it pass.
"Well Crystal, I was attempting to mist travel but as soon as I turned myself to mist I appeared at the beach so I don't really know how to do this. Do you think you can help me?" The nymph seemed to think for a minute but nodded.
"I think you came here because you are naturally drawn to the sea Lord Percy. Whenever I mist travel, I picture the place I'm going to so that I appear there. It usually requires a lot of energy and concentration to do so but requires even less when we are in our domain and become used to it." So to do it successfully I must be near the sea and slowly it will become easier, makes sense.
"Thank you Crystal, I appreciate it." The nymph nodded and disappeared into the mist. Percy stepped into the water and closed his eyes, he concentrated on the outskirts of the camp and when he opened them he was near Peleus.
"Hey there buddy," Percy walked closer to the dragon but Peleus just backed in fear. Of course, Peleus must be scared of me as well.
"I hope I see you soon Peleus." The dragon narrowed its eyes at Percy and turned away from him and circled the tree. Percy felt drawn to the fleece and approached it, Peleus looked alarmed but just looked at Percy curiously. Percy touched the golden Fleece and felt the warm power that it radiated. He absorbed some of its energy and the fleece lost a little of its glow, Percy tried to return it but it did not accept it back as it was an inanimate object. Shit, hopefully the fleece regenerates its power slowly or something.
After a few minutes the golden fleece started to regain its glow and Percy sighed in relief, he was worried he might accidentally doomed the camp by absorbing the Fleece's power. He tried to think of where he should go, it was obvious that he should be hunting for justice as a champion of Nemesis. Percy tried to concentrate on a priority target and felt this mortal in the city, he turned his body into mist and appeared near this apartment complex.
Nemesis' blessing let him know that this widowed man abused his children, two of them a boy and a girl. The man was their real father but had succumbed to alcoholism and came home drunk to daily beat his kids. He was destined to spend his afterlife in the fields of punishment but to Percy his death was too late.
Percy created an infinitely thin covering of Ethereal Reftate on top of all his skin including his eyes to make sure he would never die from any injury, Why did I not think of this sooner? It's like the first thing I should have done. Percy also created himself a black overcoat, some sunglasses and a Smith and Wesson XVR with Ethereal Reftate hollow point bullets. This will make sure he spends the rest of his miserable life in agonizing pain.
Percy noticed this part of the city was not a very good neighborhood, in fact it was filled with scum but this guy took the cake. He climbed the stairs and reached the 5th floor where the man lived with his children and knocked on the door.
Some time passed before a disgruntled voice came from the other side of the door. "Go away, we aren't expecting anyone and I don't know you." Percy was trying to think of the best way to approach this and lied himself through it.
"Hey there, I was just walking to my apartment when I saw a wad of cash near your door. I was just wondering if it was yours or you knew who it belonged to." The man's greed overpowered his sense of logic and opened the door a bit to the stranger.
"Yeah, it's mine. Give it here and go away." If Percy had any doubts about killing the man they were long gone. Not only is he a drunk fuck that beats his children but he is also a greedy asshole? In a fraction of a second Percy shot the leg of the man and kicked him to the floor and he opened the door all the way.
The children had heard the gunshot and ran to hide in the closet, the boy was of 13 and his sister was of 9 years old. Percy looked at the screaming man on the floor. He was grabbing what little remained of his thigh crying, Percy walked up to him, stepped on his fingers and pressed as hard as he could. The screams of pain of the man seemed to shake the whole apartment building. Percy looked up from the man and walked towards the closet where the kids were hiding.
"I'm not here to hurt you kids," said Percy in a serious tone. "I was sent here to punish your father for hurting you, he is going through unimaginable pain as we speak." Percy realized that the kids were not going to listen to him if the man kept screaming in pain so he shot one more bullet into the man's head to blow it up into silence. The blood and brains of the man splattered everywhere but at least he was not interrupting with his screams of sheer agony as the bullet severed his soul from his body. After the man had ceased to live, Percy felt a surge of power and he figured it was Nemesis's blessing and the essence from the man he had stolen working in unison.
Percy thought of the best way to approach the kids and settled on an universal code of friendship for kids."Want to go get some ice cream? I can take you get some ice cream right now if you want" The boy opened the door but still look frightened.
"You aren't here to hurt us? But you killed him..." Percy shrugged his shoulder and changed his black full bodysuit, black coat and sunglasses into something more casual, some jeans, a white shirt that said "Fish Nation" and some sandals. The kids were in awe as they witnessed Percy do something impossible.
"He deserved it, I was here sent by a goddess to serve some divine justice."
"A goddess? Did she hear our prayers?" Percy figured that it was partly true so he nodded and looked at the boy once again.
"Here both of you grab my hands. We're gonna celebrate the Justice of today with some ice cream." The kids reluctantly grabbed his hands and Percy mist traveled them to the best ice cream shop he could remember from when he was kid.
The kids looked at Percy amazed that he could teleport them and asked him how he did that. "Well it's one of my many powers but let's get that ice cream for now." The kids walked to the man and picked the flavors that they wanted. Percy picked one of his own and handed the man a reftate twenty dollar bill and received his real change which he stuffed in his pocket and willed the dollar he gave the man to disappear once the man put it in his pouch. He would have felt bad for basically stealing but Nemesis' blessing had informed him that the ice cream man stole most of his merchandise from the local ice cream factory.
Percy sat in the bench with the two kids he had rescued. He had saved them from a miserable life and made the cruel man pay with blood. He looked at the kids and saw they were smiling for what he figured was the first time in years. Percy smiled as he figured he was liking his new life after all. Time to be the hero I never was, I'm sorry I let you down Clarisse but I will make it up, I won't ever be weak again. This new me is for you and my child Clarisse...
Apparently, I created this Karen character way back when I updated frequently in November 22 of 2016. Looking back on it, the name seems fitting.