Chapter Two: Jackson For The Win!
Reyna wished Percy luck and made her way back to her seat on the main stand.
"Legionaries! Today, Perseus Jackson, son of Vesta has been admitted into the legion and now seeks a cohort to accept him! He will be fighting with all the centurions starting from the fifth cohort to the first until he is defeated! First up, centurion Gwen, daughter of Ceres from fifth cohort!"
Loud cheers came from the stand as an average height girl with black hair and brown eyes stepped into the middle of the coliseum.
She eyed Percy incredulously before asking, "Where is your armor?"
Percy just grinned mischievously as he tapped on his belt. A flaming orange glow engulfed Percy's body and when it died down, Percy was covered in light, orange Greek style battle armor without a helmet.
Gwen's eyes widened, "Weapon?"
Percy responded briefly, "That depends."
Gwen unsheathed her golden Gladius and Percy smirked. He took his ballpoint pen out of his pocket, earning snickers from the stand, but they quickly died down when it transformed into a three feet long bronze sword.
Gwen raised an eyebrow, before she could ask, Percy already answered, "A Celestial Bronze sword is a preferred choice than a sword made of Imperial Gold since its more balanced and easier to wield." Percy half-stated, those lessons from Athena really helps a lot.
Reyna watched the two opponents cautiously before shouting, "Begin!"
Gwen wasted no time in raising her golden Gladius and charged at Percy, while the legendary demigod just calmly brought up Anaklusmos to block the strike.
Percy jumped back as Gwen made a quick slice across Percy's chest, barely missing the son of Vesta's shirt. Percy then swung Anaklusmos is a swift motion aiming at Gwen's midsection, but only to be blocked by the daughter of Ceres' Gladius.
Gwen made her counterattack at Percy, twisting her body just enough to bruise against the bronze blade in the hands of the son of Vesta, before suddenly making a wild swing aiming directly at Percy's head.
Percy, much to his opponent's shock, simply twisted his wrist and deflected Gwen's blade with the flat of his own, batting the Gladius aside. Gwen held onto her Gladius firmly right after raising her shield to block a powerful strike made by Percy, shocking her left arm as she was forced to drop her shield and fight with her Gladius only.
Percy fainted a jab aiming at Gwen's chest, and the centurion quickly raised her blade to counter Percy's, only for her opponent to slide his legendary blade down against Gwen's, before twisting his wrist, and using everything he's got, yanking the Gladius out of Gwen's firm grasp.
The golden Gladius on the ground as a certain bronze sword was pointed on Gwen's neck, forcing her to stay still.
"Do you yield?" Asked Percy in his usual care-free tone, but what he and everyone else didn't expect was, the daughter of Ceres twisted her body again in a fluid motion, side flipping away from Anaklusmos before taking out an Imperial Gold spear and held it tight in her hands, staring at Percy defiantly.
The son of Vesta raised an eyebrow, looking at his opponent with new found respect before capping his sword.
Gwen looked at him, clearly confused, but Percy just grinned while pulling his semi-circle leg ornament off his right thigh, expanding it too into a long, Imperial Gold spear.
The two charged at each other simultaneously, sparks jumped into air as metals clashed. Percy and Gwen exchanged blows after blows, obviously Gwen is just as skilled with a spear as she is with a sword, while Percy has always favored a sword over a spear ever since he first came to Camp Half-blood as a twelve-year-old.
Percy blocked another one of Gwen's stabs, only to be stabbed on the left chest as Gwen quickly found an opening. The spear however, just bounced off Percy's skin harmlessly, much to Gwen's, and everyone else's shock.
Before Gwen could recover, Percy quickly brought down his spear, sweeping Gwen off her feet with the blunt of his spear, pushing the daughter of Ceres to the ground. Percy then jabbed Gwen on the stomach hard with the none-business-end of his spear, causing her to yelp as she was forced to release her hold on her spear.
Not giving Gwen another chance, Percy pointed his spear against Gwen's throat a lot harder this time, making the daughter of Ceres yield before she gets an hole on her throat.
Loud cheers and applauses came from the stand of the coliseum, even Jason and Reyna were cheering once they got over their shock.
Reyna raised a hand to silence the crowd, "Next we have legionary Dakota, son of Bacchus from fifth cohort!"
A tall boy with black hair and blue eyes made his way to the middle of the coliseum, stumbling forward as he walked, nearly tripped himself with his own feet. His body seemed to be shaking as he held a long Imperial Gold sword sternly.
Percy eyed Dakota incredulously before asking, "Are you drunk?"
Dakota took out a bottle from his pocket and shove more red liquid down his throat before responding in a half-drunk tone, "I… It's call-called Kool-Aid, kid."
Percy gave him an are-you-freaking-kidding-me look, but Dakota just dunk more Kool-Aid down his throat and tossed the empty bottle aside, managing to get into a fighting stance.
"Begin!"
Dakota rushed towards Percy in a surprisingly fast pace, thrusting his sword at Percy's neck.
Percy just rolled his eyes as he barely batted the flat of Dakota's blade away with his bare hand before delivering a powerful smash at the son of Bacchus' face with the hilt of Anaklusmos, knocking him out cold as Dakota's body dropped to the floor motionless.
Guess fifth really sucks.
Reyna cleared her throat to silence the crowd before ordering, "Someone bring Dakota to infirmary, the next fighter will be centurion Leo Valdez, son of Vulcan from fourth cohort."
A short Latino boy with black hair and brown eyes raised from the stand and walked into the middle of the coliseum with a troublesome grin on his face.
Percy sized this Leo boy carefully, but he just grinned as he pulled out a hammer from what must be a tool belt enchanted with magic. Percy decided to keep using Anaklusmos to fight this boy, judging by his movement and stance the son of Vulcan might be an excellent mechanic, but definitely not the best fighter.
Reyna signaled the start of the fight as Leo charged at Percy.
Leo waved his hammer forcefully at the son of Vesta, but every single one of his swing was blocked by Anaklusmos accurately, not giving the son of Vulcan an exposed opening to deliver the final blow.
The boy has strength that Percy has to give, and he wielded the hammer like a natural, but Percy has fought much tougher and stronger opponents before.
Leo smashed his hammer down at Percy's head, only to meet the son of Vesta's bronze blade. He growled in frustration and he swung his hammer harder and faster, pressing Percy back as he desperately tried to land a blow on the son of Vesta, but Percy batted all of them away with much ease.
Leo retracted his right arm to slam it at Percy's ribs harder, but it was intercepted by Anaklusmos as Percy put so much force into the swing, yanking the hammer forcefully out of Leo's hand.
Before Percy could finish the spar off, Leo backed himself away from the son of Vesta as fire engulfed his body. Putting Percy's initial shock to good use, Leo blasted a ball of fire at his opponent's chest, but the son of Vesta only smirked as his body absorbed the fireball, much to Leo's shock.
Using Apollo's blessing, Percy concentrated on the rays of sunlight around him as he draw an immense amount of energy from the sunlight. Faster than human eyes can comprehend, Percy threw himself at Leo, pressing the Latino boy below him body firmly with his right knee and held Katoptris at Leo's throat.
"Yield?"
Leo nodded eagerly and Percy unattached himself from the son of Vulcan.
"Next up is centurion Frank Zhang, son of Mars and legacy of Neptune from fourth cohort!" Reyna announced loudly while a fat Asian boy approached Percy clumsily, holding a bow with his right hand somewhat nervously while a quiver full of arrows was strapped on his back.
"Begin!" Reyna shouted.
Not wasting even a second, Frank quickly notched an arrow and pulled the string of his bow back, aiming at Percy.
The son of Vesta tapped on his watch quickly and hid his body behind his mixed Celestial Bronze, Adamantine and Imperial Gold circular shield, while shrinking his body as much as possible.
Percy waited behind his shield patiently as the son of Mars approached him slowly and carefully, while the number of arrows in his quiver quickly diminished, causing Percy to smirk internally.
Just as Frank ran out of arrows, Percy pulled his silver bow charm pierced on his necklace, turning it into a silver bow and a silver quiver magically appeared, strapped on Percy's back tightly.
Those were bow and quiver Zoe carried for two thousand years until she fell on Mt. Othris, Artemis trusted Percy enough to pass her greatest huntress' bow to him.
Zoe. Percy thought sadly, as a beautiful, tall, fourteen-year-old figure with rocking volcanic black eyes and copper skin came into his mind. To be honest, he missed her. She had been a great friend, and the greatest person Percy Jackson's ever met in his entire life. He used to spend hours just staring at Zoe's constellation in the sky, he felt guilty for letting her die at her father Atlas' hands.
He quickly took aim at the son of Mars and released an arrow, impaling his shoulder and Franks screamed in pain.
Before Percy could notch another arrow, his jaw dropped. In front of his disbelieving eyes, Frank Zhang shifted into a giant elephant and roared at him.
Frank, or should I say the elephant charged at Percy wildly, and the son of Vesta barely managed to jump aside just in time to evade Frank's large ivories.
The elephant turned to lung itself at its opponent again, but it froze in its track fearfully when Percy waved is hands, creating a wall of orange flames and it blocked the elephants.
The elephant turned around, only to meet another wall of fire. Soon, it was trapped in its place by four high walls of flames. Percy waved his hands again as he summoned enormous amount of shadows and they were wrapped around the elephant's head.
After a few long, exhausting seconds, Percy dropped to a knee, panting hard to catch his breath again. The elephant on the other hand, has dropped to the ground hard before transforming back into an unconscious Frank Zhang.
Reyna ordered a medic to take Frank to the infirmary and called the next opponent. The spars after that went smooth as Percy defeated the centurions from the third cohort with ease.
"Now we have centurion Bobby, son of Mars from the second cohort!"
A tall, well built boy with brown hair and red eyes came into Percy's sight, wearing a smug smile on his face. Percy could already tell that Bobby is just like his father.
"Well, you are lucky you've made it this far kid, but your test ends here." Said Bobby in a prideful tone as his smug smirk grew.
Percy narrowed his eyes at the son of Mars, "And why would that be?"
"Because you only defeated those weak centurions from those rubbish cohorts, especially the fifth!" Replied the other centurion from the forth, Mark, who is also a son of Mars, arrogantly.
"And I am the centurion from the second cohort, the best cohort and myself is the best swordsman in the legion!" Bobby finished, still smirking smugly.
Percy's body trembled in anger as his eyes caught fire, "Then why don't you two fight me altogether, show me power of the mighty centurions of the great second cohort!"
Mark just laughed, "Ha! This newbie here has a death wish! No thanks, I think my brother can handle you myself."
Percy smirked, "I thought so. So are just like your coward father. You know, I was able to defeat him back when I was twelve. Huh, he even cried like a little girl when I gave him a nice stab on his heel, hmm… I wonder if it still hurts or not." He taunted, causing Mark's face redden in rage.
Not even bothering for Reyna's signal to start, Mark jumped into the arena and charged at Percy with his spear out, soon followed by Bobby with a Gladius in his hands.
Percy grinned and met Mark's spear with Anaklusmos, he delivered a hard kick at his ribs before bring his sword to his right to block Bobby's Gladius. Percy jumped back as Mark's spear was thrust at were he stood seconds ago.
Grabbing the spear firmly with his free hand, Percy pushed it hardly at Bobby's Gladius which was swung at his head, catching it in mid-air. He then slammed the hilt of Anaklusmos onto the spear, smashing it clean in half and caught Mark's exposed nose with the blunt of the broken half of his spear, knocking him out cold.
Percy raised Anaklusmos again, batting Bobby's Gladius away before flipping the broken half of the spear in his left hand. He then thrust his left arm forward, impaling Bobby's right shoulder with the lance of the spear he held, causing the son of Mars to cry out in pain as he was forced to drop his Gladius.
With a wave of his hand, Percy swept Bobby's legs from under with the blunt of his sword and smashed his foot onto Bobby's face, breaking his nose in the process as the son of Mars passed out.
The crowed silenced in shock, knowing that two of the best fighters in the legion have been defeated with ease in mere seconds by the son of Vesta single handedly with only a sword.
"Can some one please bring douchebag No.1 and douchebag No.2 here to the infirmary?"
Reyna cleared her throat loudly and instructed a few medics to take the two sons of Mars to the infirmary.
"Next up is centurion Octavian, legacy of Apollo from the first cohort!"
Percy grinned in excitement, looking forward to humiliate the idiotic legacy of Apollo in front of the entire New Rome.
Not a moment later, a smug looking blonde boy with blue eyes walked up in full battle armor, while holding an Imperial Gold blade and a golden shield, wearing a golden helmet with a purple feather stick in it.
Percy grinned as he stepped forward to approach Octavian.
"Where is your weapon?" Asked Octavian arrogantly.
"Against an opponent like you?" Responded Percy innocently, "Why would I need one?"
Snickers came from the stand, Jason laughed loudly and even Reyna cracked up a small smile on her face despite her efforts to not to.
Octavian's face reddened at both anger and embarrassment as he raised his sword high above his hand, "You insufferable Graeceus! I will show you how a real Roman fight!" Octavian yelled angrily before charging at Percy with his sword raised.
The son of Vesta smirked. He easily sidestepped Octavian's attack and land a hard punch at the legacy of Apollo's face, breaking his nose effectively as Octavian dropped his sword, groaning in pain while holding his nose with his right hand, loud laughter were heard from the fourth's and the fifth cohort's stands.
Octavian growled angrily again, but Percy just laughed at his face.
"Go!" Said Percy mockingly at the auger while eying the golden blade lying on the floor, "Go pick up your weapon, hero. Show me the strength of the mighty centurion of the first cohort."
Octavian glared at him before taking off running to pick up his sword, even more laughter came from the crowd. Shadows wrapped around Octavian's right heel before solidifying, tripping auger as his face fell straight onto the hilt of his own blade, damaging his already broken nose even further.
"Oops." Said Percy in a fake innocent tone, Jason was rolling on the floor, clutching his stomach, laughing hysterically as he gasped for oxygen, same can be said for most other Romans watching in the coliseum, even Reyna was laughing hard.
Octavian groaned again before trying to stand up, key word, trying, only to have another shadow wrapped around his neck, pulling him down quickly, slamming his face onto the ground even harder.
The auger reached for his blade with his fingertips, but the sword seemed to be keep moving forward, slipping away from Octavian's grasp every time he tries to retrieve his weapon.
Octavian finally managed to get on his feet again, not a moment later the Imperial Gold sword was sent flying backwards by an invisible force, slamming its hilt hard right onto the auger's family jewelry, making Octavian to drop to the ground again with even more force, holding his manhood tight for his dear life as he screamed like a five-year-old girl.
Everybody, by everybody I mean everybody was rolling on the floor, laughing harder than they've ever done in their entire lives and tears streamed down their cheek, Jason was even cursing Percy for making him laugh so hard so that his stomach hurts like Pluto. Percy himself fell off his feet, laughing his head off at his master piece.
After a few long, agonizing minutes, Octavian successfully pushed himself onto his feet, while still clutching his manhood, trying to ease the immense amount of pain coming between his legs.
Percy barely managed to contain his laughter for awhile before snapping his fingers, summoning three skeletons, surrounding the now terrified auger.
Two of the skeletons held Octavian firmly in his place while the last one started tickling Octavian hard on the sides.
It was the most entertaining event in the history of New Rome.
Percy only ordered the skeleton to stop to knock Octavian out when the poor auger looked like his stomach is going to burst out of his mouth any second now.
After a good five-minute of laughing, Reyna finally calmed herself down and ordered to children of Apollo to drag the unconscious Octavian to the infirmary while most other Romans were still laughing their heads off.
"The last centurion in coliseum today is centurion Piper McLean daughter of Venus, centurion of first cohort!"
Hey guys, sorry for the wait. I tried to update earlier, but fanfic was down.
I bet many of you didn't see Piper and Leo being Romans and Frank being a centurion already.
Anyway, now that another chapter is finished, the next chapter will be very interesting that I assure you.
There's been a change of plans and I'll be updating this story a few more times before updating the next chapter of Son of Chaos, but no worries, it's not on a pause or anything, I'm just having tons of inspiration about this story right now.
It's going to be Percy/Zoe since Zoe beat Bianca with five votes, and to answer many of your questions, hello? The last I checked, the Doors of Death are wide open, remember? Might bring both Zoe and Bianca back as well.
Go vote for my new poll!
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