A/N: Hey, remember when I said that it would be a Percy/ Piper? Well, stuff happened. Now it's a Pertemis. If you've looked at my other account then you would know that's what I do best.
Percy POV
I quickly made my way to Yancy Academe wanting to get there and get my quest over with quickly. While I was running I thought back to the meeting and went through it in my mind, just now realizing one throne was empty. It was a silver throne, and had a moon at the top with deer and birds painted all over it… Artemis. I had never met her before, but I was not looking forward to ever meeting her, with her hunt and her male jack lope populations increase? No thank you. I was broken out my thoughts when my phone started beeping. I pulled up the alerts in my mind, it looked like the screen was right in front of my eye, and I quickly read what it said. Destination reached, walk 76 yards forward and destination will be right there. I walked where it told me and once I had gone about 60 yards I saw a light ahead of me. A fire to be exact. Now why would a school have a fire in front of it? And… silver tents? I picked up my pace till I was hidden behind a tent within hearing distance of the people around the campfire. "… Lady Artemis, you know we are all itching to leave and hunt some more monsters… man or creature." I looked around the corner and saw about 16 girls grinning evilly at the thought of torturing men. It was then that it clicked. The hunters of Artemis. When the thought processed I almost fell over trying to get out of there, but close enough I could still hear. "I know Zoë, but there is something keeping me here, it feels like something really important will happen…" She trailed off towards the end other sentence and I had a split second to hide behind the tent before her head snapped towards it. "Father… is that you?" I started freaking out, what would happen if the hunters found me sneaking around their camp. "Father?" I knew telling the truth would be the best option so I walked around the corner with my hands up. "Not your father, but technically I was sent here by him." Before I even finished my sentence all the hunters had their bows pointed at various points throughout my body, from my head, to my heart, to my… let's just leave it at that. "What are you doing here, boy?" Once I got a good look at Artemis I almost fell over. She was more beautiful that Aphrodite, and I drooled over Aphrodite. "S… Sorry milady, but I am here under the order of the 'next great prophecy', as my what… great nephew? I mean Certus is my dad, and his brother is technically Chaos… so I'm not really sure, but I know I'm…" I didn't get to finish because Artemis was on me with a knife at my throat, and once I put up a layer of wind around my neck so thick a primordial could barely break through it I just laughed at her. I knew I was blushing from our close proximity, but I was still scared out of my mind when she growled and tried to break the layer of wind around my neck. Not wanting to test my luck I held up my hands in a surrender sign. "I really don't want to cause trouble, but if you want it I can dish it." To prove my point I turned my eyes into lightning and made it flash lightning in the background. She jumped off of me and I immediately bowed down. "Who's your father?" I looked up and tilted my head to the side. "I already told you, didn't I?" She blushed before mumbling something under her breath. I just laughed and asked her to repeat it. "I can't remember!" After she yelled I decided I liked it better when she mumbled. "It's Certus." She growled at me and I got to say, I almost peed myself. "I meant your godly parent." I just laughed, and when she pointed her bow I just raised my hands in surrender. "He is. My mom is Sally Jackson, a mortal, and my dad is Certus, older brother of Chaos and embodiment of electricity, wind, and weather, but not the sky since that's ouranus." She looked at me blankly and I stared back the same, almost expecting the reaction that came next. "Is that supposed to make me scared or something? If anything I just think you're more power hungry than before." I growled and resisted the urge to show her my power. "You think I want this? I mean I guess it's cool at times to be able to fly and stuff, like charge my phone with a click of my fingers, but I would gladly trade it to be mortal or even just a demigod!" By the end I was almost shouting and had accidentally let go of my powers a little, and there was a storm brewing with lightning and winds so fast Artemis was standing there with a terrified look on her face.
Suddenly there was a bright light in the clearing and before I could blink my storm was gone and someone was on me with a sword on my neck. I slowly looked at his face and saw it was my dad. "Dad? What's going on?" He just growled and pushed harder on my throat, slightly drawing blood. "Chaos notified me of what's, or rather was, going on." I gave him a quizzical look and he pushed harder, making it hard to breathe. "She told me how you were harassing the hunt and attempting to kill them with your powers." I could see tears coming out of his eyes before I felt a sudden rush of power flow through my veins and my dad's eyes widened. "She wasn't lying. You are growing to powerful, soon we won't be able to stop you when you go rogue." I gave him another quizzical look and he started sobbing. "I should have known it would pass onto you and infect you. I had it to after all." At another of my questioning look he finally explained. "I was cursed with the heart of evil from birth. It takes a while to activate, but it can only be destroyed one-way, killing the person who has it. I had and made Chaos put me into prison before I could serious harm, but know you have it, and since I can't stand to kill you I will just take away your powers and place you into Tarturas, making you immortal so you will forever be alive in Tarturas." I had tears coming out of my eyes. If I truly did have this curse I wouldn't want to hurt anybody, and in Tarturas maybe my curse would take out its rage on the monsters, keeping the world safe from them. "If I must then I will." Dad just nodded his head and suddenly all of my powers disappeared, and the rush of power I had earlier slowly started dissipating. "Goodbye my son." He reached forward and pushed me, and as I was falling I saw a man flash in that looked like a starry night sky reaching for my hand, and him giving out an annoyed growl before gripping his hair in his hand, then it went black.
3rd person POV
Chaos stood pacing in front of the hole Percy had just went through while Certus sat on a rock near by bawling his eyes out. It hadn't been Percy that had been corrupted by the heart of evil. It had evolved. After living so long in such a powerful being, Certus, it had evolved to the point where it didn't even need a host. It could shape itself into any form it wanted, and even has some of Certus power, but any time it infects someone it gains his or her power to. Luckily Chaos was able to stop the heart of evil from taking all of Percy's powers before he went into the pit, but all he had was one unknown power, so maybe he would survive and be brought back, after all he was the only one not able to be affected by the heart of evil.
Percy POVLet me tell you one thing. Falling to Tarturas is not fun. Especially when your dad just disowned you and cast you into hell… not fun. I knew it was wrong, but I was pissed. I already knew that time passes by faster in the pit than the upper world, so I'll be out in a less than a century for the Olympians, and dad. Finally I started reaching the ground only to realize two things. First: There was a huge monster I've never seen before waiting for me at the bottom, and Two: I had all my powers taken away, or I least that's what dad- I mean Certus told me, but I still had this feeling in my stomach like I had something left. Not like controlling lightning or anything, something different… ancient. I shrugged it off when the monster looked up and roared at me, and luckily my phone chooses that moment to buzz. I quickly pulled up the screen in front of my eyes just like I always do, except it was different this time. It was like a video game, and in front of me were three different characters to choose from, and just then I realized time was frozen around me, and I was frozen to. It was like I paused a game.
Berserker:
Weapon- Hammer/ throwing knives
Power-Strength—evolved power- rage mode (Becomes invincible for a short amount of time and strength level is increased.)
Assassin:
Weapon- scythe/ bow
Power-Stealth—evolved power- invisibility (player turns invisible and is completely undetectable)
Mage:
Weapon- staff/ sorcery
Power- slight control over elements—evolved power- elemantoid (can spawn in a monster made of a certain element for a short time)
Each player has other unique abilities to be discovered along the way, and upon reaching level five each has it's own mystery pet to help in battle.
I decided that I didn't really want the berserker since I was planning on bathing in the Styx later on anyways so I would just get stronger.
The assassin sounded pretty cool, and I could use the stealth for sneaking past some of the stronger monsters before I could beat them. I also always wanted to use a scythe and learn to shoot a bow so that was another bonus.
The mage honestly seemed better in power terms, but I didn't want my only weapon to be a stick and these random creatures I can't summon until I'm stronger.
Finally I decided on the Assassin and reached out my hand in front of my and pressed the assassin option. I don't really know how to explain it besides my hand was the mouse and I clicked by pressing it. When I did press it everything lit up for a second, and when it disappeared it was in a tight silver shirt with a black hood that I could tell covered my face, and went down a little passed my knee. I had on black cargo pants with black boots, and I had two tattoos on my arms. On the left one was a scythe, and on the right one was a bow. As soon as I imagined the scythe in my hand and felt a burning feeling as my scythe tattoo grew into a Scythe.
It had a pure black blade that sucked in the light around it with a pure silver handle and I little spike stocking out the end to hit people with.
Percy- Level 1 Health- 100/100 Strength- 100/100 Stealth-200/200Magic- 0/0
Right after I finished taking it in time unfroze and I continued my fall bracing for impact on the ground. When I landed I was surprised to find that it was like my legs were shock absorbers and I didn't feel a thing. Suddenly a little message appeared in the tope right corner of my vision, but time kept going.
New power discovered: Feather fall- takes no damage from falling from any height as long as you land on your feet.
As soon as I finished reading the message it went away, and I was left to fight the monster in front of me. I finally got a good look at it and almost pissed my self. It was like a Cyclops on four legs and twice the size; it also had a glowing purple eye that shot some sort of flame or something at me as soon as the monster caught sight of me.
I quickly rolled away from the flames and started attacking the monster with only one thought… I'm screwed
Suddenly I health bar and name popped up above the monster, Ogre- Health level 200. I though back to what my health was and realized I had half as much health as he did, which was really unusual as most monsters had a deadly reaction to precious metal and would die in one hit, maybe two. Hopefully this guy will to.
I was broken out of my thoughts when the rock I was hiding behind suddenly blew up as his fire eye thing broke through it. Using the dust from it as a distraction I ran through the smoke and sliced up with my sword, cutting a fairly large gash in the ogre's front leg and causing it to let out a yell of pain while I quickly got away and looked up at it's health bar. Health- 189. I just let out a sigh and went back to hacking and slashing for a good five minutes and landing a couple decent blows on the monster, but when I finally got away and looked at it's health. Health- 86. I would have gone in and continued fighting, but by now I was exhausted and just now realizing he was slowly regenerating.
As a last resort I pulled out my bow and took aim at its eye. Once I was satisfied with the aim I released it, and as soon as it left my string it disappeared, just leaving a slight image in the air that apparently only I could see. As soon as it went invisible the monster looked around before giving what I though was a laugh before the arrow hit its mark, right in his eye. He growled and burst into dust, leaving behind one of the little horns I saw upon his head and several messages waiting for me to look at them in the corner of my eye.
First battle completed- reward is a special pack for spoils of war that can hold as much as you want it to, will appear as a little pouch in the side of your cloak.
Invisible arrow unlocked
Level up- Percy: Level 2
Health- 125/125
Strength- 125/125
Stealth- 250/250
Magic- 5/5
Discovered Ogre- added to battle deck, which will be found in your pouch for spoils.
The last part of my stats surprised me. I had magic level 5? I had no idea what it was, but I felt a familiar feeling to controlling lighting in my gut, so I stuck out my hand and focused on it.
After a couple seconds a small purple flame appeared in my hand that looked just like the one the ogre was shooting at me. I kept making it grow bigger till it was just a little smaller than a basketball, and then I heard a beeping in my head and a message went across the top of my vision. Maximum power being used- gain levels to gain more. I slowly let the fire die out until there was nothing left before I suddenly felt very tired. I opened up my stats and looked at my strength only to see it was at 75/125. I decided I could wait until tomorrow to go around doing stuff, and plopped down onto the ground before falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.
A/N: honestly had no idea where this story was going, I just let my imagination do whatever it wanted, but I hope you like it. Tell me how you like the video game thing and if you didn't understand just tell me in the reviews and I'll try to better explain it next chapter. Thanks and that's all.
