A thousand apologies from my part as an author. To all those who didn t give up on me! Thank you! Now this won t be a proper chapter because of my poor memory about Percy Jackson second movie. As I told some of the people who messaged me, I had exams and 12th standard exams are really difficult. Not just that, due to this whole situation, I was cut off from TV and movies. And then when everything was clear, most of my ideas stored in a file for this story went missing, overall, this is just a bell being rung to let my readers know that Percy Jackson is back in action. I will see the movie once again and revive my knowledge on Greek Gods and also, for the past two weeks, I kind of got involved with One Piece, and day in and Day out, I read all 827 chapters and got distracted by it. So Oda is to be blamed too and if anyone s interested in Fairy Tail and One Piece crossover, I am doing one.
Once again I am sorry!
Chapter 3: A Quest to Free Thalia
Nature is the most beautiful personified being in the universe, her colossal beauty put many to shame and at the moment, the light rain gave a special glow to the large wilderness he was flying through. 'This world is dying..' He could sense it, the greenery only lasted around some parts, from his time journeying, that was a quarter of an hour, he found the humans living here to be more ambitious but less enhanced, where as his planet's population knew the concept of sustainable development, or maybe it is the fact that his planet was more in size and resources? Or that there were no boarders between nations?
Suppressing his aura, he allowed the cool droplets of the light rain be grazed on his face. He didn't know where he was going, nor did he care, the only thing he wanted to do at present is to enjoy this peace and hence did not keep track the time and environment, but came to his senses when a large wave of water splashed over him, jolting him out of his meditative trance. 'The ocean? Night? How long have I been flyin-' He was a few feet's above the raging ocean when a huge wave crashed over him, soaking him to the bone.
The booming thunder and dazzling lightning swept over the skies. The heavens were angry. Angry at him. But they did not possess the power to make him feel their wrath..yet. Pulling up so as to fly over the clouds he powered up, his light blue transparent aura roared to life. 'Goten..Mom..Dad..Piccolo..' Tears threatened to fall from the deity's eyes, but narrowing his eyes, he steeled his resolve. 'I will find a way..' And he allowed the wind to guide him.
To say Gohan was surprised would be an understatement as he stood there, in front of Camp Half-blood's gates, the tree that stood there, Thalia's tree, radiated poison. "What is this.." He poked a little on the malevolent looking substance. This world maybe foreign to him, but his heart and concise will never allow him to see suffering without helping.
The demi-saiyan god walked up to the tree and touched on its bark. "Gah!" He pulled his hand away as if it burned him.
'Save me..'
The voice of a woman, deep and fearful, laced with pain. He looked around. 'Help...' The voice breezed past his ears, causing him to whip around with a startled intake of breath. His eyes fell around the woods and bushes, but no movement other than that of rodents and other small night crawlers who were trying to escape the rain, was seen nor heard.
Then it dawned. "The tree..." Slowly turning his head to the tree, he found his answer. Reaching out once again, he placed his hands carefully over the tree and closed his eyes.
'Help...' When he opened his eyes, he was in the blank space of his mind or someone else's. There was nothing there except blackness that covered all sides.
Taking a deep breath Gohan called out. "Hello…is anybody there?" No immediate response came.
"Who are you?" The words were as solid to his, and came directly from the back. Slowly turning around, he was met with a pair of blue eyes staring into his obsidian ones. In the darkness, only they were the only visible components. "Why are you here?"
Gohan looked at the girl curiously;
"My name is Go-Gii!" He shrieked when he looked up to see the naked girl a few feet away from him, standing one foot in front of him. Her hair was down and reached halfway till her back, few locks falling in front, and covering her breast. It didn't help the fact that she was well blossomed and was leaning towards the Saiyan from her spot, a few fleets away. Solidifying his stance, he looked straight into her blue eyes. And he could identify the deception in her. This form of naked serenity was not her thing, but it didn't necessarily mean that she was evil.
"Ha. Go-Gii. I thought people became more fashionable these days." Now he could solidify his assumption as her voice changed dramatically to that of like Launch's other self.
"My name is Gohan. Who are you?" He asked, not wanting to waste both their times.
"A quick one eh? Well the names Thalia punk, Thalia Grace." She wasn't graceful. Not one bit. "Didn't know dad was gonna put a guy in this tree with me." She muttered annoyed.
"Dad? He put you in a tree? Why?" Was she some evildoer? This was turning out to be more confusing more than it already was.
"Nah he didn't have a choice. It was either me dead or to a tree." She walked away from him, looking on to her nails to find something interesting.
"Well, that must have been difficult..." Gohan really had no words to say. Being sealed away wasn't really good.
"Tell me about it. Now I have to suffer this for eternity. Thalia Grace, the demi god daughter of the King of Gods, Zeus, a pine tree. Imagine how stupid it sounds." That one name caught his attention.
"Zeus?" He was not sure how to take this. "He's your father?" His eyes narrowed ever so slightly.
"Yep, mine and many more like me." She said uncaring.
Deciding to forget what he pulled in Olympus, Gohan tried to juice out some more. "Why did he seal you?"
"Duh Cus I was gonna die." She spoke as if it was something minor like a small form of punishment. Seeing the male's confusion, she began. "You staying in Half-Blood?" She saw him nod. "Then you should know about Thalia's Tree." She saw him shaking his head.
"I just arrived yesterday..." Gohan stated lamely.
"Ah well...me and a few other demigods came together to join the camp, but you know the usual, bad guys come around trying to kill us. One of my friends got injured in the fray and we all were running for our lives and like there was only a hundred more meters to the camp's entrance. But the bad guys were catching very fast, the stereotypical way alright? So, again the part where one of us had to buy time came, I volunteered, got killed, dad turned me into a tree. The End." Thalia's story didn't amuse him, nor her way of presentation.
In fact it placed her father deeper into Gohan's shit list. 'Guess I have to go back again..' "Tell me Ms. Grace-"
"Thalia." She cut him off. "I'm not an old bat to be called Ms. Grace."
"Oh..okay..so do you think what your father did was right?" He asked, his eyes narrowed when it accidentally fell on her right breast, where there was a purple mark, as if some infection affected.
"Whattdya mean?" She followed the demi-saiyan's gaze and saw him staring at her, but was quick to realize he was observing the odd color. "Don't mind that, it s some kind of poison." She spoke uninterestedly. But before he could say anything, she was gone and he was standing in the night rain, his hand at his side.
"Gohan?" Turning around, the demi-saiyan god saw the person who mentioned him. Annabeth stood there with an umbrella. "What are you doing here?" She walked closer and held the umbrella over him too.
Still a little dazed from his encounter with the naked lady inside, he simply followed the demigoddess into the camp. "Uh if you don't mind, do you know someone named..Thalia?"
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The tan skinned, golden eyed beauty flew slowly over the oceans, her mind deep in thought at what had happened or whatever that she felt was going to happen. 'This man holds the key to my destiny.'
A light golden aura surrounded and unknown to her, the seal of the Sun God she used to carry on her shoulder slowly disappeared. She was no longer a pawn on the table of the Egyptians who perished with time.
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"How is this possible? An insolent brat walks into our home and humiliates us and walks away?!" Ares roared, his injuries healed, and his energy rejuvenated.
"Maybe you should calm down and see it from the boy's perspective father..." Athena sat in her throne as she watched her restless father walk around the place. It was beginning to bother the goddess.
"His perspective?! He attacked Olympus! The city of gods! The home of the most powerful beings!" Zeus roared at his fellow gods. "He humiliated us! In our temple! I cannot tolerate that!" He walked restlessly.
"So, what do you intend to do now? Call in for a war against him, brother?" Poseidon questioned from his place.
"If I must!" Zeus angrily smashed a vase that was kept on the side table. He was met by silence, and somehow the Greek god seemed to have snapped out of his tantrum. "Pardon me...but the current uprising of these demigods and the possible resurrection of Kronos and now a new god coming here and humiliating us..as the King of Gods, I must redeem our honor." He spoke in a more controlled tone.
"You are right, but we must analyze the situation carefully." Poseidon began as he walked towards huge window. "The boy holds power that is beyond us, but he is not the strongest…" This drew out curious glances at the Ocean god.
"What do you mean?" Zeus turned around to look at his brother who was staring off into the space.
"We were ignorant for so long…we forget easily, sometimes like humans..." Poseidon began. "We forget that gods aren't the only ones in this universe with power..." His words finally brought out what everyone wanted to hear Zeus looked at him with interest on his words..
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The atmosphere in Camp Half-Blood was that of a War camp, patrolling units marched in group from one side to the other, the weaker demigods and children were pushed inside to the center and other groups of strong and eligible males and females have set guard around the perimeter of the camp.
"Percy," The activities director called the teenager who was in a busy discussion with his other comrades; upon the centaur's call, he ran towards him. "Walk with me." He said and Percy silently complied. "Percy, do you know that you are the only half blood child from a human of the elder gods?"
"Uh...I guess so; I don't know any others...well Tyson's not human..." Percy spoke with uncertainty.
Good. So things can proceed smoothly since I don t have to explain everything from the beginning. The director sighed in relief. Percy, not beating around the bush; there's a prophecy regarding half bloods born to the Big Three with a human which as it stands, comes down to you.
So what s this about? The demi god asked the man.
I don t know, but let s find out shall we? Chiron led the prophetic child. It is a matter of up most importance that you try to understand what this prophecy is about, considering the fact that you are the only demi god child born out of a human parent.
Meanwhile, the Camp Director Dionysus was amidst a very important job, one that he stole information from one of the students. And with the Golden Fleece, we shall be able to heal, Thalia s Tree. For this holy quest I bestow the honor to Clarissa and her company. Gohan and Tyson watched Grover trying to calm a fuming Annabeth.
So what s the deal about the Golden Fleece? The demi-saiyan asked the demi goddess of fight with obvious interest.
Huh? Grover looked at the demi-saiyan for a moment before the question was registered in his mind. Oh! Yeah, that s about something like super healing stuff. It kinda heals and revive people.
So you are going to revive your friend? Gohan asked as he bit into the apple.
Revive? Nah man, it s more of like, healing her tree, she s still alive you know? Grover spoke with a little sarcasm.
Yes, inside the tree right? Gohan asked politely.
No no, see she is the tree, it was the only way. Grover corrected. But before they could continue with the conversation, Percy came running and grabbed Grover and Annabeth.
Guys! We need to talk! That was all they heard before being dragged away by the son of Poseidon.
Gohan and Tyson stared at the trio who disappeared with the other man and shrugged. These guys sure are weird The demi-saiyan was met by a nod of agreement. But I guess I should lend a hand in retrieving this fleece.
So we are giving my brother a hand? Tyson asked curiously.
Who knows? Who ever comes first within my range, I ll lend a hand." He wiped of his mouth and stood up from his seat.
"Master Gohan, would you mind taking a moment with me?" The demi-saiyan god looked at the Camp Activities Director and gave a small nod. The cyclops watched his friend slowly making his way towards Chiron.
"Yes Mr. Chiron?" He asked politely to the man who showed him hospitality.
"I couldn't help but over hear your intention, and I know it is not my place to interfere but your purpose in our world is quite confusing, and-" He paused when he saw the young adult smile.
"I know, but I cannot stop myself from helping that person stock in the tree. A from what I hear, the Fleece is pretty much untouchable." Gohan spoke with a smile as he saw the half man half horse sigh in defeat.
He slowly made his way to Tyson, all the while looking at the boy, Chiron stood. 'He attacks Olympus and Zeus but helps his daughter? What is the meaning of all this?' Thus a Quest has began, one that will change the outlook of the Greeks and the beliefs of many.
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