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3rd
We've been at sea for a few hours now. From what Percy can tell they were some where off the coast of Rhode Island and would be home soon. Being that Percy was asleep the last time the rode to the golden fleece. It felt amazing to be able to feel the sea under him, with out being worried about the attacking monsters and storm.
Percy was so happy, so empowered. He felt unstoppable, and he nearly was will in his fathers domain. Most of Percy's time was spent in the waters, just swimming and feeling the power he was getting. Never has he felt so much power, he was in his fathers domain, sure he got power from fresh water, but not as strong as this, and much more powerful than the Pacific Ocean. This was the Atlantic he was in, much closer to his fathers kingdom.
The only time Percy left the water was to inform the others were they were and to check up on them. And the others were also enjoying themselves. Now that Percy was conscious there was no attacks at all. Even before they entered the sea of monsters there was still the occasional monster attack and of course the untamable currents of the sea.
But with Percy being here, with him awake and his power pulsing off him in waves. And him being a son of a sea god, all the creature could sense this, all monsters staying away from him. Knowing if they were to fight a prince of the sea they would die. With the only visitors being the occasional school of fish, shark, dolphin, or any other sea animal that could sense their prince's power.
They even got to see a small herd of hippocampus, and a pod of blue whale. And Tyson was loving the entire thing, him being a son of Poseidon gave him the ability to talk to the fishes and other sea creatures, but being part cyclops, he didn't have as much power in the hierarchy of Atlantis. any demigod of Poseidon would be seen as a prince, any other son of Poseidon wouldn't be seen like this. They would be treated like any other servant of Poseidon.
Chris and Anthony were also quite enjoying themselves. Being able to see such majestic creatures up close. And those were just the normal mortal creatures but they were also able to see a herd of hippocampus. And these weren't just any hippocampus, they were a more rare species. Unlike other hippocampus, that all four legs were a type of fin with their tail also being a fin, this one had one long tail, and it's two front legs were regular horse legs.
"Hey we should be there soon." Percy said walking onto the deck while drying himself off.
"How it should've taken longer to get back? I mean this is an old boat." Chris said waving his hand at the old World War 2 battle ship.
"Yea I know. I had to use my power over the ship and water to make it go quicker. We have to get back before Thalia's tree dies."
"So you've been using your powers all this time? How?" Chris asked.
"Well it's a lot easier while I'm in the ocean. It gives me a power boast being so close to my fathers kingdom, and in his domain."
"That's awesome what els..." Chris began to say before he was interrupted.
"Wait how are we going to get to camp? It's not like we can just leave this ship lying around." Anthony said.
"The lake at camp is enchanted. Will end up in the lake if we continue. Don't asked how it works, because I don't know, but I do know will end up in the lake." Percy said." It's just a feeling I got when ever I was training in the lake, I could just feel it with my connection to the water."
And just as he finished they could see the camp in the distance.
"Hey look, speak of the devil. We'll be there soon." Anthony said very happy to be back at camp and on land.
He might of like the beautiful nature of the ocean and it's creatures, but he much preferred the woods and land. Once they got off the ship they were greeted by most of the campers waiting for them with many questions. But Chiron quickly gathered them a brought them to the preparation room, as well as summoning the leader of each cabin.
Once every one was there, Chris and Anthony told their part of the story. How they were venturing down to Florida, fighting off the occasional monster. Until they came to a river to rest, were they meet the Hydra. And as they were about to be finished off by the Hydra, Percy showed up and saved them. They then went to explain how they went to Philadelphia by Ares' orders to get a shield he lost.
And as a reward they got a ship. We they sailed to the sea of monsters. They explained how Percy was unconscious, after fighting of the Hydra, basically by himself, and protecting the three of them. While telling the story they got a little nervous, not wanting to focus on the death of their friend.
Since they couldn't continue any more Percy took over from there. Explaining how after he woke up they were soon in the sea of monsters. He described how the waves started acting up, the winds picked up, how it was down pouring and massive size lightning bolts going every where. And how the ship was under attack by sea monsters that weren't under his fathers reign.
Every one was listening very contently, many wanting to know what happened to Clarissa and how they survived. Especially Anthony and Chris who hadn't heard about this yet, since they were distracted by the death of Clarissa.
Percy told them that he had no control over, this confused all of them. By the sounds of it they should have died a long time ago. With every thing going on it could have sunk any modern ship easily, whether it was a regular cargo ship or a armored battle ship.
Percy told them how he put all his power into the ship, barely keeping it from falling apart. He told them how Clarissa stayed on deck with him, not wanting to leave him alone, she tried to get him to come under deck, but he couldn't. Percy refused to roll over and take the beating. Even if it wasn't his father's domain he wasn't about to die at sea.
They were told how Percy used all his powers to keep the ship together, while at the same time poking the storm with his powers. Trying to get some kind of grab on it, but he couldn't. He told them it felt like he was out there for an eternity, when in reality it was hours. Hours that he was using his powers to keep the ship intact, with barely any empowerment from the water falling, since it was in his fathers domain, but since it was still water, there was a little boost.
And then the part every one dreaded came. Percy told them how Clarissa died. Or at least he tried. As soon as he started he got choked up. They sat there in silence. Looks of sadness and pity were held all over the room. Both towards Percy and for Clarissa.
Not a lot of people liked Clarissa, but she was still a camper. A miss understood one at that. She was kind of mean and rude, but she would still die for any one at this camp. There was only a few who got to know Clarissa well, and every one who did knew how she was. She was obviously rude, the campers weren't wrong about that.
But once you got closer to her you could notice her rudeness was just how she showed her love. That's how she knew to express herself. But she was also very determined, strong, protective, and even kind when she wanted to be. There was a reason she was one of the best fighters at camp, at the age of only thirteen as well.
Percy managed to explain what happened. How she was attacked by a Kraken's. Albeit it did take a while, with him stopping every minute or so to compose himself, when ever the anger or sadness was to much. But he managed to tell every one. And the room was once again covered in a blanket of silence.
The fire cracked in the room. The only noise that could be heard. Even with the fire the room seemed dark and cold, as they all had to hear the details of their fellow camper dying and the reaction of Percy's sadness.
Every one was in a mixture of sadness, pity, anger, and awe. Sadness for Clarissa's death. Pity for what Percy had to go through and see at such a young age. With the only angry one being Percy, at himself, he stilled blamed 'her' death on himself.,'If only I was stronger.' He thought over and over again. And awe, an emotion the campers were getting quite comfortable with in Percy's presence. At hearing that Percy took on a Kraken. He might not have killed it, but he was able to get some good damage on it, as well as trying to protect Clarissa, keep the ship intact, and he was already tired from holding the ship together for so long. And then there were the two final matters. He did all this will a giant storm ragged on, and he was only thirteen, and still had barely been in the mythical world.
Percy quickly finished the story, opting out about telling every one about his dreams, his vision, and their encounter with Polyphemus, well the part about he becoming good and turning into a bad ass giant lumberjack man.
"Well, okay than. I think we should tend to Thalia's tree don't you?" Chiron asked everyone, who quickly agreed.
But before any one could get up they were interrupted by a camper.
"Chiron... there's a horde of monsters attacking the camp." Said the teenage camper out of breath.
"What? What about the tree?"
"Were fending them off for now but I don't know for how long."
"I'll go help, I need to blow off some steam." Percy said thinking about Clarissa again. "Here hold this." He said throwing the golden fleece to the older camper.
"Percy you can't go by yourself, you'll get kill." Annabeth said with most of the counsel agreeing, well all except for the three that were with Percy on the quest.
"Just watch me." Percy said deadly quite not even looking behind him.
And just this one sentence sent shivers threw the campers.
Percy jogged to the borders of camp. As he went there, there were campers running all around. They were getting weapons, tending to the wounded, and some of the younger ones just panicked. But not Percy, the only emotion that was able to be noticed was anger and pain. Having been in the middle of a quest took his mind of Clarissa's death, and being able to swim in the ocean calmed him down and cleared his mind. But now he had nether. And having to relieve what happened destroyed Percy.
He was just starting to heal from his mothers death, not getting over it, but healing. Being able to go forward at least. But now he was even worse, because unlike last time he was keeping all his pain inside, and exchanging it for anger.
Once he got to the border he saw all the the campers retreating, not being able to handle the on slaughter of attacks. There was about four dozen monsters, a mix of dracaenae, myrmekes(giant ants),empusa, catoblepas(man eating,buffalo like creatures), hell hounds, and cyclopes.
"Well this is going to be fun." Percy sighed not knowing there was going to be this many.
Percy took out the four throwing knives and threw them at the only dracaenae, killing three, but the last was a better swords women and was able to deflect it. But she wasn't that god of a swords women. Percy grabbed the top and bottom of his xiphos, making sure not to cut himself and pushed the sword at the female dragon hybrid, pushing her to the ground were Percy impaled her with his sword.
Percy looked up to see what he was up against. There were now only forty-four monsters left. One catoblepas the size of a truck, three cyclopes ranging from six foot to eight foot, five empusas, fifteen myrmekes, and twenty hell hounds.
"Okay than. Water, earth, and wind. Lets see what I got." Percy said to himself preparing his powers.
Percy gathered his powers and stomped the ground hard. Causing the earth to shake violently, making a huge hole in the ground, and jagged rocks to explode out of the ground kill and throwing monsters. This killed ten of the myrmekes, two empusas, and five hell hounds, and also caused the remaining empusas to run.
Percy looked around at the damage he had caused."Oops." he said out loud looking at the giant crack in the ground and the jagged rocks every where."Maybe I can." He started to say as he rose his and and imagined how it was before he had caused the earthquake.
He opened his eyes to see everything back to normal, he had a huge grin on his face and the discovery of his new powers over the earth. He went to walk to the pack of hell hounds but feel to one knee.
"Shit. Note to self, destroying is easier then fixing." He said with a small smile at his own joke.
He stood up and readied himself,'looks like I'm going to have to deal with the rest with out powers', he thought before charging one of the smaller groups of hell hounds. He cut down the first two, before the rest of the monsters finally came out of their shock from the demigods power, causing five hell hounds to run away.'Okay eight more two go' he said before going into auto pilot and quickly dealing with the rest of the hell hounds. Slashing and jabbing at them while evading the attacks.
When he was done he readied himself once again and studied the myrmekes, since he hasn't battled them before, and hadn't studied them yet, since he hasn't been he for long he didn't have time to study all the creatures of Greek.
Percy watched as three charged, three stayed behind, and the other six split up and flanked him. The first one jumped at him, causing him to somersault backwards and under the giant. 'Okay, these things are fast, and can jump pretty high and far' Percy quickly noted for later times. The second one snapped at his leg, but before he could connect Percy lifted his leg and stomped the ants head. The third one lunged at Percy, not as first as the first one, so Percy slashed upwards and killed it.
The first one had was now charging Percy again, but this time when he lunged he didn't go to bite Percy, but he had his head down and rammed Percy. The power of it threw Percy a couple of feet into a tree.
'Damn, the things got power, don't want to know how much power those pincers got.' And like the things knew what he was thinking, the first one charged again and snapped at Percy, missing and cutting the tree Percy was leaning against in half. Causing the tree to fall on the ant.'oof, ouch.'
Percy stood up and charged the six remaining ants, leaping over the first, side stepping the next two, kicking the fourth, spinning around the fifth and stabbing the last ant. Pulling the xiphos out using the momentum to spin and kill the still dazed ant. 'Four more', he thought before getting blind sided by a club sending him flying throw a small tree, but just the same breaking a few of his ribs.
'How many times am I going to end up on the ground.' He stood wobbly before the cyclops that had just swatted him through a tree."How as I thought. You might have all that power but you're still a weak mortal." The tallest of three cyclopes.'Oh you can think?' Percy thought, trying to contain the comment.
"You don't have to do this brothers." Percy said to the three, surprising the two smaller ones.
"Ha, you think we are brothers, I am not related to you mortal."
"You don't have to do this. You can be redeem, forgiven, and go to Atlantis with father."
"You think we want to be 'forgiven' just to have to slave around for the lazy old sea bastard?" The oldest/tallest said while the other two looked skeptical and thought it threw.
"Please brother, I don't want to kill you, but if I must I will." Percy said. But the cyclops didn't noticed this was only directed at him.
"Ha, come at me mortal." He said cockily.
Percy charged, far quicker than the cyclops assumed possible with his injures, but Percy wanted to end the quickly. Not from annoyance, but pity, he might have been cocky, stupid, and annoying, but Percy didn't want to kill any of his family, he had already lost enough loved one. Percy sprinted towards his half-brother faking a downward swing before sliding under the giant man like create feet first, before rolling in place quickly and pushing himself up. Stabbing him in the back, directly in his heart, wanting to make it as painless as possible. The young demigod stood with a look of pain in his eyes no one that young should have, especially for killing a 'monster'.
"I will not kill you." He said two the younger cyclopes."I forgive you both for your sins, it isn't your fault. You were corrupted by your brother, who was corrupted by others, who were corrupted by humans. You have my forgiveness, now return to father."
They both had looks of happiness before running into the woods, were a bright green light shone from were they headed towards. Percy smiled, knowing he would meet them again, looking forward to what they will look like in the pure forms, he could tell they were young, maybe a few years older than Tyson.
The woods where he stood were quite, he looked around and saw the myrmekes were gone. He walked quietly back to camp. Still saddened at having to kill his brother, even if he wasn't his full brother and they just meet. by the time Percy got back he saw a group of fifty people ready for battle.
"There all taken care of." Percy sad with a mixture of sadness and tiredness, all the anger now gone.
"What how there was like eighty of them?" An older blonde guy said, probably a son of Apollo, his eyes didn't have the same mischievous look most of the Hermes son's had.
"Nah, there was only forty-eight."
"What? You say that as if its nothing, that's still a lot." Another older blonde said, but this one was a son of Athena.
"Nah, six of them ran." Percy said, sadness subsiding a little at how annoyed the two older boys were acting.
"That's still a lot! And what do you mean 'ran'? Monsters don't run away."
"Well these ones did."
"Okay that is enough. Percy you are dismissed, go shower up and get some rest. You deserve it." Chiron said with a fatherly smile that warmed Percy up.
"Thank you." Percy said sincerely and gave Chiron a big huge, which surprised Chiron. He was very close to the campers, but very few were this affectionate, only those who he knew a very long time. But he didn't pull back, he knew the young demigod had gone threw a lot, at such a young age. It pained the old centaur and he knew it was only the beginning, and that there was going to be lots more to come, and much more difficult tasks at that.
When Percy let go he gave the centaur a smile and walked away. Getting a look of awe, confusion, and shook from his fellow campers. Once he got to his cabin he took a nice long shower just sitting on the floor letting the water hit his back. Percy let his few weeks in the mythical word wash over him. His few weeks of hard training, studying, and two quest.
If this is what his first weeks had in store for him, what are the rest of his years have in store. If he had that long to live. Percy thought sadly. After Percy got out of the shower he dried himself instantly and put a fresh pair of clothes on. He was now in a loss blue tank top and a pair of blue jeans. He walked to his bed and just feel on it, falling asleep instantly.
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Percy was woken up by the sound of pounding on his door.'Great, one of the only nights I don't have some kind of nightmare and I get woken up.' Percy slowly walked over to the door and opened it, were he found a very worried looking Annabeth.
"Whats's wrong?"
"It's... the ...tree.. there, it, she." Annabeth panted and stuttered.
"Whoa, slow down. What's going on."
"Come with me." She said before turning around and sprinting.
Now Percy was a really strong, both for his age, and in general comparison to demigods. But that was only because of his powers and how quickly they grew and how strong they were in general, but physically he was still weak. He hadn't had enough time to train his body, and since his body took longer to grow he was still slower than Annabeth.
As they got to Thalia's tree there was a small group of people. It looked to be Chiron and the cabin leaders, and they were all in front of the tree. As he walked closer he realized they weren't surrounding the tree, but some one laying at the base of the tree.
"Whose that?" Percy asked tiredly.
"It's Thalia." Annabeth answered with tears of joy in her eyes.
"What? Hows that possible?" Percy asked in a voice that showed he didn't really care, and both Chiron and Annabeth noticed this.
They both could do nothing but hope that Percy would recover from this state of his."We think it is because of the fleece. It must have more power then we thought." Chiron answered.
"Oh. So is that it? 'Cause I'm tired." Percy said while rubbing his eyes.
"Uh, yes I guess for now." Chiron said hesitantly.
Percy than left without another word, wanting to get as much sleep he could before he woke up early, well earlier than all the other woke up so he could start training.
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Percy
I didn't end up sleeping much. It took a while to get back to sleep, and even when he did get back to sleep it was only for a hour. But never the less I took a quick shower changed my blue tank top for a blue sleeveless shirt and a pair of swimming trunks, knowing I was going to be training with my water power. Even though I can't get wet, I still liked swimming trunks.
I walked out of my cabin to see the sun still hadn't came up yet.'Sigh, maybe I shouldn't wake up at five in the morning.' I walked over to the pavilion and grabbed some fruit and sat at my table.
While I sat their I thought what I should do first.'Okay lets see, I have to study. Which is going over Greek and Roman, since the Greek and Roman cultures are basically the same, but both have subtle differences that could help, culture, history, government, and language. And then reading all the myths about heroes, both mortal and half-god; immortal, which consisted of gods, titans, giants, and a whole lot of other , and that is only the Greek stuff. I still had my regular school stuff to learn, all that math and science stuff. As well as reading about mortal historical heroes and tactics. and studying knew fighting styles, ways to hold weapons, and different weapons in general for when I do physical training. Knew was to use my powers, and implement my powers into both battle and non battle scenarios.
And then there is my physical and spiritual training. Which consist of weapons and fighting style training, strength, conditioning, and training my mind. Which I stumbled over during my studies, this included things like meditation, and mind training, which is picturing a scenario with so much power and focus it physically improves you. And this gives me more control over my body, which will make me faster, both speed and reflex, stronger, both physically and mentally, pain resistance, both mental and physical, and direct and indirect pain. Which is the resistance to sickness and the environment, aka temperature and stuff, gods just thinking of what I had to do was tiring.
And last but not least my power training. Which was now not only over water, but also earth and air. When I trained with water I usually trained my conditioning with it as well as power and accuracy with it. As well as implementing knew was to use it. Which I would now have to do for three powers.
'Sigh. I hope I don't die from just the training.' Okay if I get up at five a.m. and go to bed at curfew, ten p.m., minus the twenty minute breakfast, the hour for lunch and relaxing, as well as the hour for dinner and cleaning up before bed, that leaves me with, fourteen hours and forty minutes, roughly. Hmmm, five hours of physical and spiritual training, five hours to training my powers, and four hours and forty minutes for studying. But if I start studying during lunch that'll give me an extra hour. Meaning five hours for physical and spiritual. Five four studying, and five hours and forty minutes for my powers.
Perfect. I'll do my physical and spiritual in the morning, the spiritual training will give me time to wake up, and the physical will give me time to get my blood pumping. And then I'll have my lunch while I eat, giving me more time to study, and relaxing my body after training and giving me energy for my training with powers. And then I'll be able to rest right after my powers.
Okay then, lets get started. I thought to myself as I stood up and went off for my day of intense training.
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Three weeks later
3rd Person
After Percy stood up after thinking his schedule through, he barely stopped training or studying, only stopping to sleep, since he eat while he studied. And he barely had any sleep, because after the first week he cut his sleeping from five hours to three, so he could get more time to train and study. He relied heavily on his stamina boost he got from water, working a hundred times better than any coffee or sugar would.
And during this time he barely talked to any one. Only to Annabeth when needing some more material to study or asked her about something. And the occasional person who walked up to him during his training, but people quickly learned to stay away. And not because of his attitude, he tended to hide his anger and sadness quite well. People tended to stay away from him because they were either intimidated or threatened. Intimidated at how strong he was and the advanced technics he could use as well as his powers. And when ever he was studying people left him alone out of politeness not wanting to interrupted his reading and researching.
And those who were threatened were usually the older more cocky or prideful ones. the ones who didn't want to be out done by the thirteen year old boy, but they were consistently getting out done by him. Some people accepted this, he was the son of Poseidon, and was working far harder. Those people either admired him or loathed him. And the ones who didn't accept it were in a mixture of adoring him and loathing.
But this all ended at the end of the second week. Chiron had walked up to him and told him he was training himself to hard, that he was going to kill himself with all this, and that he was secluding himself and need to talk to the other campers. Percy countered this by telling him he need to be ready for Kronos' return. And Chiron all ready knew that was going be his answer.
Chiron consulted and comforted Percy, telling him 'what is the point in fight a war, if you don't know the people your fighting for' and this really caught Percy off guard, he knew Chiron was right. So he promised Chiron to slow down, going back to his old schedule as well as taking off Saturday and Sunday and ending Fridays training at seven p.m., using the rest of Friday to talk with Chiron, and the old centaur greatly appreciated this and looked forward to it. Percy did something no one has ever done before, came back regularly, making their father son relationship even stronger. Sure some of the campers talked to him, but mainly about the camp, and the ones who visited weren't an everyday thing, more like a once a week or month thing, and not for three hours.
On Saturdays Percy decided to walk up with the rest of the camp, around seven a.m. and just wandered around camp, talking to people, relaxing, exploring, and helping other campers with their training. This allowed Percy to become a lot closer to Grover, Chris, Annabeth, Anthony, the Stole brothers, Charles, the cabin leader of Hephaestus, while also getting to know a lot more people at the camp. He now knew every one at camp, liking and hanging out with most of them, but only being close to the named people. Sunday was pretty much the same thing, with the only difference being he went to bed early so he could have more energy for the morning.
Surprisingly he hasn't meet Thalia yet. Their schedules being very different. From what Percy found out from friends she had readjusted quite well. Usually sleeping in to seven, were she than studied, ate lunch early before going of to train, and then ate dinner before going to bed early(In my version there is a larger and extra table were everyone can sit at during breakfast and lunch to talk, but at dinner they had to sit at their parents). Were in Percy's case he usually ate dinner and did some late night studying before bad.
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It was now Friday of the fourth week, and Percy was loving his new schedule. He was a lot less drained and getting more friends at camp. He was currently walking back from his talk with Chiron, enjoying his stroll in the chill air of fall. Percy loved his talks with Chiron, he looked up to him like a father or grandfather. They talked about a lot of different stuff with Chiron told him stories of his past.
Percy has grown quite strong in his three weeks of training. He easily caught up to the campers physique and was now surpassing a lot of them. His height was now 5'8', and he was growing a quite defined four pack, that was slowly turning into a six pack. His control over water now surpassed a lot of minor sea gods, with his power over the air not being as good. He could now create his own mine hurricane around him, that protected him and made him quicker, multiplied by the fact that the water particle were also boosting him. He had no problem holding this hurricane or implementing it into battle. His air power was easily on para with an sky gods child. From what he was told he was told by Chiron his abilities were higher than that of the average child of Zeus, but not quite close to challenge a god of wind. His power over earth was by far the weakest, and most destructive, and because of that he wasn't able to train it easily.
The improvement of his other training was a bit harder to measure. Chiron said his intelligence and strategy was on para with some of the stronger Athenian children. And from Chiron's many years of traveling and studying, he said his spiritual abilities were on the same level of some of the greatest monks most possible greater. As from what Chiron could tell, Percy's training had made it near impossible for him to get sick, poisoned, have his mind attacked, altered, or manipulate. And his control over his mind was around thirty percent, doesn't sound high but with most people being ten percent at best. Demigods tended to have twelve percent, and children of Athena and other war or wisdom gods could range from thirteen to sixteen.
And finally Percy's improvement in fighting. To sum it all up, Chiron said his fighting skills were on para with the legends of Greek. His knowledge of fighting technics and wide range of weapons were far wider than any Greek hero. But if it came to an actual battle, Chiron said that a couple could still beat him, but those were still only the greatest, people like Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, and the original Perseus, with a few others as well, but he said that no mortal could stand against Percy.
All of this made Percy incredible happy.'When the day comes, when Kronos shows his ugly face, I'll be more then ready.' Percy thought to himself before going to bed.
Okay and there's the next chapter, I decided to put out a couple of new chapter in both stories since I was gone for a while, and don't know if there will be another wide gape like that. Hope you all enjoyed it, please follow, favorite, and review. And I wanted to know if you guys wanted more character developing stories so I can really get into the Percy x Thalia, or if you wanted a bit more action. Remember to check out my second story. Until next time, see ya.