Percy's a badass
One month later: Jason POV: two hundred miles from the Caldecott tunnel:
We have been great. We'd steal food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if we didn't have time to hunt. Percy had defeated at lease a hundred monsters and I was somewhere in the seventies. I noticed that he preferred his Greek style sword, the Xipthos over his Gladius, which is the Roman standard issue sword. He also preferred a Greek tip on his spear. I mean it's fine I don't really mind however it's just really surprising. And the funniest part is that he's proving them to be much more versatile. While the Roman style weapons are better for team fighting. When the battle goes haywire and you're in a little sea of monsters. You gotta rely on yourself. And being able to slice with a spear and to have that reach on the sword and the sharpness of the edges. It really goes a long way.
However just as I was contemplating this we heard a ferocious roar.
"What was that?" Said my brother. His bow was already up with three imperial gold arrows notched and ready to go. But then all of a sudden, his weird ass monster just suddenly popped out of the bushes. It was a weird thing, like a dog faced seal. However that thing didn't make the roar we heard. Then all of a sudden about 50 of what we call tier 3 monsters, see we had bunched them together. Cheap little monsters like telekhines, dracaena, little Cyclopes, and others like them are Tier three. Tier two are monsters like big Cyclopes, weak or young drakons, earthborn, Laistrygonians, and others like them. Tier ones are things like big drakons, the most powerful being Ethiopian Drakons, the Maeonian drakon being one of the strongest and the Lydian drakon the strongest, Other's like dragons and things like the Chimera, the Nemean Lion and such. Then the god level monsters like Typhon, Elder Cyclopes, Heketonkhieres, and Ladon are in their own category.
The weak Tier three monsters were easily torn apart in about two minutes by my brother and myself. However then 15 Laistrygonians, ten southern Cyclopes, and the minotaur appear.
I go for the Cyclopes why Percy shot three of the giants dead with his bow before stringing three more arrows and firing again. He did this four times, killing twelve of the giants before they got to him. I had just killed my third Cyclopes with a thrust to the throat while I blocked a club with my shield. I leapt up summoning the winds to keep me up before willing my Gladius back into a coin and flipping it for tails getting my spear out and raising it to the sky, dropping a bolt onto the ultra conductive metal and channeling it down into the monsters. Thereby killing the rest of the Cyclopes. This drained me greatly however, I was still able to evade the axe of the ever so clumsy Minotaur.
Percy willed his bow into a coin and got his hasta out in under a second. He then thrust forward through two giants, turning them both to dust before lifting his left hand and shooting a bolt of lightning from his hand into the monster turning it to dust as well. Then he leapt up, flipped his coin again and turning it to a bow forming three arrows of pure electricity and shooting them into the throat of the Minotaur all while he was airborn before rolling and firing two more. This didn't kill the hardy monster but it did sure make him flee.
"Jason, you did really good back there, that was a mighty fine lightning bolt you summoned little bro eh?" He questioned/stated. I was excited at the praise greatly. "Yeah, it was, thank you. However you did much better. I mean you killed twelve of those giants before they even reached you and you nailed the Minotaur in mid air with three arrows in one draw!" I exclaimed shaking my head.
"Hey, don't worry about it. You're still a better speaker than I am. I mean you get so much more food whenever we are forced to ask strangers for shit. Plus you're more of a leader than myself. I can inspire however you really know how to rile up a crowd.. Remember when you turned all 500 of those mortals against whatever they saw that gorgon as. That was pure awesomeness! He exclaimed right back.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. We both have our strong suites huh." I said.
"Yeah, yes we do." he said with certainty, making me laugh a little.
Three months later: Percy POV:
'We had been hanging out around the tunnel for two and a half months now. Waiting for it to be four months so we could go in like Lupa instructed. However we were attacked daily by monsters. The life or death fighting provides us with some serious training. It's like training with Lupa except dueling every day. Albeit much easier than dueling Lupa, the amount of monsters is insane. I guess the most powerful demigod and the third most powerful Son of Jupiter in history attract lots of monsters. I bet Thalia would have attracted a lot of monsters too... no, don't think about that. Romans are strong they don't get emotional over losses from nearly two years ago.' I firmly told myself. However just then the monster that's been tormenting us the entire time came. We heard the ever so familiar mooing of the Minotaur as it came near.
"Let's make a swaggy entrance!" I yelled to Jason who nodded with a grin before flipping his coin for tails drawing his spear and then he pushed the button on his watch making his shield spiral out. We sprinted down the hill towards the tunnel with the monster in tow. The two guards noticed us soon as we sprinted down. However I pushed my watch making my shield spiral out shocking them both that two young demigods had that sort of stuff as most demigods just get a decent gladius. Then I jumped full strength ten feet in the air while going down the steep decline. I flipped so my legs were in the air before using the winds to propel me even higher and keep me upside down. I flipped AUXILIA for heads summoning my bow. I willed three fully charged lightning arrows appear. I fired three sets of them into the monster. Making it fall to the ground and grip its chest as all of them hit it on it's left side. I then dropped from the sky and rolled as I did. I got my spear at the last moment and as I spun I made contact with the ground propelling me up the hill a bit. As my head came up from the roll I launched my hasta with full strength and used the winds to propel it even further while willing all of my lightning powers into it and it hit the monster with the power of four semi trucks, tearing through it's chest and the volts frying the skin to black. By this time a cohort was coming to fight off such a powerful monster and were shocked to see my little brother drop two bolts of lightning using my spear as a hyper conductor for it which finally turned the Minotaur to dust. The last thing I heard before I went out was "Children of Jupiter!" And a pair of blue eyes looking at me confusedly.
One hour later:
I woke up about an hour later with Jason sitting next to me and two tall Romans looking at me sternly. One was a girl about twenty one or so with really blonde hair that fell to about half way down her neck, it's fluffy and puffed up a little and has some twirls in it. (for an example check Julianne Hough during her lip-synch battle thing) Her eyes were stern and questioning almost as if a prank call had told her that I'd show up and now when I did she's shocked since... well it's a prank call. However I didn't pay much attention to her thoughts as I noticed that her eyes were gold, the color of wheat almost. Her figure is like an hour glass. You can tell even through the full armor she's wearing. She has a Praetor badge, 'Well I guess that's who our mom's going to be while we're here?' I asked myself.
Next to her was the boy who I assumed is Jeremy. He's got a pale complexion and seems to be about nineteen. He is obviously greatly attracted to Cassidy but is getting denied over and over just from the way he keeps glancing at her and the way she scoffed at him when he tried to fix her cape when she turned towards me as I woke.
His eyes are blue like a mortal's and he has a large sturdy build. He clearly works out a lot and has a V-Taper however his hair is brown and won't stay up as it keeps falling over his keeps trying to get it to be in a flow by combing his hand through his hair but it just won't. His face has a few pimples and his teeth are nearly white. He clearly tries to look as sexy as possible but unfortunately it's just not meant to be. He's got the body but not the face. However this doesn't change the fact that I already hate him. He's glaring at myself and Jason like we are the last thing he needs. If I were to guess I'd think that he's trying to act like he's the best since he's the only descendant of Jupiter here and now that two of his son's just show up we completely knock him out of the spotlight.
Then the girl on the right spoke up, Cassidy. "Hello, my name is Cassidy and that's Jeremy. We are the Praetors of New Rome. Clearly Lupa took great interest in you and so does your father as they gave you two incredible weapons. You two also now hold the record for fastest time to get to the tunnel. Also as per Lupa's request I am adopting you two." She said with a bright and happy smile. However her eyes still shone with annoyance as Jeremy seemed to try to glare me into the ground.
"You see, each demigod that comes here and is under the age of ten must get an adoptive parent. Since you are children of Jupiter you guys were top choice and since I got a letter requesting I do so from the mother of Rome herself, I signed up real quick. So here's how this is going to work. I'm just going to tell you guys how New Rome works. Then Jason will get a tour from someone while I show Percy to the house you two will be staying at, my house. Then Percy will get a tour and I'll show Jason the place. Now, here's a sheet that you will want to keep at all times. Not on you, just know where it is.
Then she handed us both a sheet.
"Milestones of a Legionnaire at New Rome!
- Age ten and two months: join the junior legion. You will be required to do:
~ Armed combat with one of the Junior Legionnaires for 30 seconds
~30 push-ups
~50 sit-ups
~8 minute mile
~basic hand to hand combat
-Age Twelve: Join the Legion: You will be required to:
~do placement tournament for cohorts 1st place gets first cohort 2nd place gets second cohort so on and so forth until fifth guy gets fifth cohort.
~ six minute mile
~solid hand to hand combat
~Must complete armed combat with centurion of your cohort for 15 seconds
~40 Push-ups
~75 sit-ups
~bench-press 45 pounds twice
Age Thirteen: can apply for centurion position or higher, unless you have skipped a milestone and then can do it after one year in the legion
Probatio: this you will have for the first six months, unless you can defeat a centurion of the third cohort or higher, or can pay 500 denarii to the senate.
After you are thirteen you will acquire a new sheet."
"That's it? Lupa had us doing much more than that just to get there." I commented.
"Ha! Lyin-" Jeremy tried to call me a liar but Cassidy stopped him.
"Are you insane! Did you just try to call a son of Jupiter a liar? You are lucky Lord Jupiter didn't strike you down with his bolt for even suggesting it! And he is correct, Lupa told me they did much more than that and also they have the first and third fastest times in all of history for sons of Jupiter. Percy beat Hercules's time by 25% and Jason fell under it by a little. While that son of Neptune from a few centuries ago has the third fastest time in history, just about 15 seconds faster than Jason on the obstacle course. So, this means that Percy will probably skip straight to the first cohort once he's ten and two months." Cassidy chastised the pissed off Praetor.
"Well, in four weeks I'll be ten and two months. By the way, why the extra two months? Why not just ten?" I asked honestly after stating my age.
"We figured that a lot of kids would be coming here at age ten due to most demigod's scents beginning to attract monsters around age nine if they are in California due to Mt. Tam." She replied.
"Ah. Yeah, I understand. However one thing's for sure. I'm not the kind of person that should be running a state like this. I mean I'm a good warrior and leader like that however I really can't run anything. I just don't know how to. However Jason is, he's a natural born leader albeit not as good a warrior as me." I said the last bit with a smirk as I punched Jason on the shoulder which then resulted in me getting punched right back.
Cassidy chuckled a bit. "Yes, Lupa did mention how you are the ultimate soldier while Jason is similar however seems to be able to plant courage into hearts. It's a thing that seems to always pop up in children of Jupiter." Cassidy replied with a smile. Jeremy had already walked out grumbling about children of Jupiter and "stealing his thunder.
"Hey Cassidy watch this!" I said with excitement causing her to jump a bit as I hadn't been that loud yet. "Okay what are you going to do?" She asked with a bit of glee in her voice. "Just watch." I said with a grin.
'Oh, Lord Jupiter. Father, please if you could show that delusional legacy of yours that he should not disrespect you or your children. He should welcome us. Show him why we are feared?' I said in my head as I prayed to my father.
I swear I could hear chuckling in my head. Then clouds came over the place and a large bolt of lightning landed right next to Jeremy causing him to scream like a girl and jump back only to fall on his ass. The sky rumbled with thunder however I swear it sounds like laughter.
"That storm sounds like it's laughing." Jason pointed out with confusion.
Cassidy burst out into laughter at the revelation as to what I had done.
"Oh- Oh my! Ha-ha, *sigh. I can't! So funny, you just prayed to Jupiter for that didn't you?" She asked with laughter in the back of her voice after she stopped her small fit of giggles.
"Yeah, he's an awesome guy. One time when me and Jason were sleeping and the night was cold we asked him if we could get a warm breeze even though we didn't have any sacrifices and a nice warm air blew in. We'd even see a really big Eagle watching us quite often." I said with pride causing Jason to nod and smile at the ceiling as if trying to smile at dad.
"Wow, being a child of Jupiter sure sounds awesome." Cassidy said wistfully. This caused me to remember something making me laugh a bit. "What?" She asked.
"Oh, it's just that I remembered it's not all perfect. You see, the birds can talk to us and vice versa, they are always calling us Milord, or prince." I commented.
This caused Cassidy another row of laughter and Jason to scowl, remembering all those annoying pigeons and such. "Yeah, so by the way what kind of armor do we get? I asked.
Cassidy smiled. You'll see when I bring you to my estate. Now come, Percy. Jason, go and ask the first person you see to direct you to the first cohort barracks. Then ask one of them to give you the tour. Just tell them you're Jason Grace, the son of Jupiter." Cassidy said with happiness in her voice.
"Okay, and by the way Percy. I have something to tell you after we are done with the tours and such." Jason said with a bit of worry in his voice. Cassidy must have heard it too as her eyebrows furrowed a bit.
"Okay, no problem Jace." I said before smiling at Cassidy. "Okay, so where is this Estate?" I asked as we walked out of the building and towards the city.
Jason POV:
What I want to tell Percy is that when Juno took me as her Champion I also gained a bit of power from it. She met me in a dream as I slept while I waited for Percy to come to after exerting all that energy. She said that my power won't be anything like his however that I am immune to almost all mental attacks due to her powers. And that if I train them enough I'll be able to mess with people's memories. So I'll be training in my dreams with her on those powers. I need to tell Percy as it's a very important thing.
Just then before I could leave a woman with a stern and royal face with a goat skin on appeared in front of me. "You will do no such thing." She said with great authority in her voice.
"What, why?" I asked.
"Ugh, listen. Percy is just a big statue dedicated to Jupiter's unfaithfulness to me. You are to be my champion which you are. I will not tear you from him. However you may not tell him of your powers. If he learns of what I do to most sons and daughters of Jupiter he'll hate me and most likely try to kill me. He will try to protect you thinking that I want to kill you. So do not tell him about the powers. You may tell him you're my champion but that's it." She said. "Don't even answer just do." She said again. "Now, go get that tour." She said with a slight smile before flashing him outside the First Cohort Barracks.
I looked around until I spotted someone that looked to be about twelve.
Percy POV:
I walked up to the estate. Cassidy pushed open the pearly white gates that open up into her garden. There is a garden for tomatoes and peppers on the right with squash and other vegetables on the other. Then there's some strawberries lining the entire perimeter. There are flowers on both sides of a large granite and marble staircase up to her house. It's four stories tall and is a huge long rectangle. However there are two small wings off at the back which disrupt the rectangle shape putting it in the shape of a misshapen cross.
As she went over the first floor having entertainment rooms like the kitchen, living rooms, dining room, a pool, and an arena. Then out back is another arena next to a big lake surrounded with grass, rocks and trees. Then the second floor is only for exercise. With tons of gym rooms with cardio machines, body weight exercise weights, like belts that you can attach plates to so you can do weighted dips or pull ups etc.. Like weighted vests, leg weights and such. Then medicine balls and other things similar. Also huge weights and benches and other machines even smith machines, lat pull downs and cable machines. An indoor half mile track, and another arena with lots of Roman style weapons. The third and fourth stories have bedrooms, bathrooms, pools and such. Then she took me to one of the bedrooms. "You will sleep in this room and your brother across the hall, however Jason may sleep in here too until he gets older. When you guys aren't at barracks which will only be on the vacation weeks. I think you two will be in positions of power like centurions though, so I don't think that you'll be living here for a long time. However, I am going to be your mom. So that means that I'm gonna be taking you guys to the beach all the time. Quite simply I'll pull you out of archery practice or something whenever we are gonna do something. So yeah. Oh, by the way. You should try on those three armors. Lupa had them sent to me. They'll adjust to any size, the only differences are the styles. One has mail underneath and it's heavy armor style. None of you is exposed really however anyone with a plaited Olympian gold weapon could slice right through it. One is light armor that only covers your chest, forearms, and calves. The middle one is the one that Lupa said you favored the most back at the Wolf House. It's been enchanted though. So it weighs half of what it normally would to you, however to anyone else it's twice as heavy. It's made of Plaited Imperial Gold so it will take a very sharp plaited Imperial Gold weapon with a strong man behind it to cut through that. However anyone who has good technique could kill you by thrusting up with the grain of the metal which would be able to pierce it if they got a really good thrust behind it. It protects your chest, leather over your back, Vambrances on the forearms, little plate of metal over the top of your shoulder, a normal Roman Centurion style helmet goes with it however, the plumes you'll get once you're that rank and they'll sent in a separate box. Everyone in the godly world knows you're going to take over as Centurion for the first Cohort from Adam, the current Centurion. It also has greaves for your calves and some leather over the tendons on the back of the knee." she finally finished and took a big breath of air.
"Yeah, the middle one." I said.
"Awesome, now I gotta get Jason's armor set up for him and then we can get you kids training." Cassidy said.
"Okay, Jason's here, now it's your turn to get the tour." Cassidy said.
Four Weeks later: 3rd Person POV
Jason had told Percy about Juno blessing him and him becoming her champion. Percy was actually very excited for Jason. In fact Percy wanted to meet Juno to thank her for helping to take care of his little brother. Unfortunately, Juno assumed that he was trying to get her there so that he can try to kill her. Even though he is much smaller than her he is already five foot five and is upwards of 140 pounds with under 5% body fat. He's been using the hell out of his new mom's gym. All the girls think Percy is going to be the badass hot boy when he's older while Jason is seen as turning into the sexy, proud, sturdy leader later on. They are already deciding what the sons of Jupiter are going to become. All the magazines from New Rome had pictures of the two labeled, "The hottest sons of Jupiter since Hercules!"
They are all the rage around the camp and people can't believe how young Percy is due to his size. He's not like some ultra super bulky guy. He's like the jacked up swimmer kind of build. Like if a swimmer lifted twenty pounds more than he usually does and did exercise a lot more than usual... and didn't neglect their chest or biceps they'd look like Percy does. Jason has a more of a young warrior build. With lean muscle and little fat, however he does have a scar under his eye that gives him even more of a warrior look. But one look at a battle, and you can see the difference between the two brothers.
Speaking of appearances Percy is currently being greeted into the Junior Legion he had passed all of the tests without a single extra breath, and with no sweating. Like it was nothing. Then he requested to fight the first cohort centurion so he could get out of "Probatio" and go straight into the real Legion.
"What!? Why would you want to fight him? Why not the Third Cohort's Centurion Richard?" Jeremy shouted from the stands as they were all in the Coliseum of New Rome.
"Well, I get to show how good I am this way." Percy said nonchalantly.
"You're funeral." Jeremy grumbled as he called out the First Cohort Centurion Adam. Everyone roared with approval at the son of mars. He's sixteen and has a bow on his back with twin gladi out.
When Jeremy shouted "Start!" Adam rushed Percy.
He's a great warrior and he knows how good Percy is but he thinks that due to his minimal experience outside of his five months at the Wolf House Percy will drop his guard early on into the fight, or run out of breath.
Unfortunately for Adam, this isn't the case.
Just as Adam was thirty feet from Percy he flipped "AUXILIA" in his hand faster than the eye could see so he had his bow out with three arrows ready. He leapt into the air with his super strength and used the winds to allow him to go even higher. Then he flipped upside down and used the air to hold him there as he rained trio after trio of arrows down directly at the Centurion.
After two entire minutes of the boy blocking the arrows with his gladi Percy knew that this battle wouldn't be won by arrows. However as he touched down it appeared that Adam didn't believe Percy to be of equal caliber with the bow. He was shocked when Percy shot an arrow with such accuracy that it cut the string on his bow just as he reached for it. Rendering it useless. He was just as shocked when Percy was unaffected by holding himself up with his aerokinesis for that long as he didn't know the extents of the Son of Jupiter's powers.
However his six years in the legion were not wasted. He immediately flipped mid-air chucking both his quiver and bow at Percy. He thought that the boy would duck or block them however he was shocked when the boy flipped his coin again bringing forth his seven foot Hasta. He used his aerokinesis to knock the objects from the air while raising his spear to the sky calling down a bolt of lightning to his spear before shooting it from the tip of his spear with 15% more power than the bolt that actually hit the spear due to the spear's own electric powers and conductivity. (I'm breaking physics with this but my physics professor will never see this, don't tell him, also this is the physics used in the books as clearly there is a form of godly influence in the item that allows him to use lightning like that) The bolt was shot to hit right where Adam would land and it did. The conductivity of his armor just made it worse as he was knocked back thirty yards from the blast. Then Percy flipped "AUXILIA" again bringing forth his bow and firing three consecutive lighting arrows from it. This effectively knocked the great Son of Mars back again. The Centurion never went unconscious due to the lining of his armor. It is a fabric that takes Vulcan to make it. It won't let you pass out from electricity. It's only causing him more pain though.
Percy then slips AUXILIA back into his pocked and brings out AUGUST. It comes out as a Xipthos, Percy's favorite weapon. He used the winds to fly him to Adam just as the Centurion stood up. He sent an overhead strike to the boy's shoulder however it was blocked by the twin gladi. What resulted from this was a sword fight of the ages. The crowds cheered and yelled.
Percy charged his blade with electricity, and sent strikes for Adam one after another. Each was met with one gladius or a vambrance. Percy fought the boy all the way across the arena. Neither ever faltering. Neither ever making a mistake, never misstepping and never missed. That is until Adam blocked with both gladi. Percy quickly let go of his Xipthos and willed It to return to his pocket just as he preformed a spinning back kick at speeds that were unseen in all of the history of New Rome.
This is why the croud was shocked when Adam barely was able to put up his arm to catch the kick on his vambrance. His Vambrance was dented of course and his arm was like jelly for the next few seconds however it also felt terrible for Percy's heel. He then did something unsuspected. He flipped AUGUST about 1000 feet in the air willing it to land heads for Xipthos However it'd land in a few seconds, not moments. So he spun and as he did he brought out his shield and his Hasta. He blocked the double swipe from Adam coming to his left side before slamming the shaft of his Hasta into the side of the teenage Centurion. He broke three ribs and knocked the boy down.
Just then he caught his Xipthos in his left hand as he shifted his shield higher up his arm. He held the Xipthos behind the Centurion's head while having the spear trained on the Centurion's chest. Just then Adam did the last thing expected, he slammed his head backwards as if trying to decapitate himself. However it was not so, Percy willed August to return to coin form in his pocket as he didn't want to kill the demigod. Then unexpectedly the Centurion kicked Percy's chest with both feet sending him flying back twelve feet. Percy grinned as he realized what the Centurion had done. He knew Percy wouldn't kill him so he got the main threat away as he knew that it would confuse the son of the sky into not striking with his Hasta and gave him time to increase the distance between the two. Percy flipped August again this time as a gladius.
He switched it to his left hand while deactivating his shield. He willed his Hasta to shrink down to five and a half feet in length. Now it's only a short spear thing. Awesome.
He then Willed his Gladius to extend to 30 inches, two and a half feet. He met the twin gladi one for one. They both gritted their teeth as they both tried to gain the upper hand. The two gladi formed an X on Percy's left and his Hasta and Adam's gladius formed a cross on his right side. Percy finally used his massive strength reserves and pushed with enough strength to move a Corinthian column. This greatly weakened him for the next few minutes as he had just tore a bunch of muscle fibers. He then extended his Hasta's length and launched it straight for Adam. The Centurion barely had enough time to move before he was engulfed in a bright white light. Then the Hasta impacted his chest. Everyone gasped. But then something unpredictable happened. Nothing. Nothing happened. Except for the fact that Adam got a lot stronger, he had just gained the blessing of Mars. This meant that he was indestructible until the battle was over. Also all abilities he'd ever unlock from his heritage were unlocked.
However then something happened for the first time in history. Percy began to glow electric blue. He gained the blessing of Jupiter. This increased his abilities, allowed him to pierce the main part of any other temporary blessings(obviously, it's Jupiter's temporary blessing. And thus it cancels out the others.) , and ultra super awesome control over Zeus's domains, it's permentant mark is a slight height increase that brings his proportions with it as well as the awakening of any dormant abilities from Jupiter. For Percy this included his powers over rain, however it would take a long time to gain powerful control over it. The permentant mark only makes them possible to use not instantly granted. However while he maintains the temporary blessing of Jupiter he did.
It was a metaphorical clash of Titans.
Percy put away his sword and reactivated his shield while raising his hand and his spear came rocketing back into it as he increased the length back to seven feet.
As the twin gladi clashed against shield Percy went into action. It was just blurs of blue and red until finally one of them hit the other. There was an Earth shattering crack and twelve bolts the width of a column slammed down around Percy. Two hitting Adam. They sent him to the floor. Percy then kicked him so hard he flew up about three feet. Percy then swung his spear like a baseball bat after calling down another bolt however this one was only the width of a water bottle to his Hasta before swinging it like a baseball bat and colliding with the head of the son of Mars. He didn't get up this time.
"Percy Grace, Son of Jupiter wins! And he is now qualified to fight in the qualification tournament to see what Cohort he will be in tomorrow at six P.M. He also wins the money from the bets taken. He had put up one thousand denarii that he'll win, and since the bets were one hundred to one he wins one hundred thousand denarii! For those of you who are new here that's the equivalent to one hundred million American dollars! Percy Jackson is now the ninth richest man in New Rome! Jeremy announced. Very loudly. The only people who ever bet are the people in the government. The rest are in the legion and don't get paid until they get out at the age of sixty. Or become a Centurion or gain a senator, Augur, or Praetorian position. So Percy realized that they'd all bet against him as they're all friends of Adam, which means that Percy is now very rich.
Then Percy smiled, changing all his weapons back into their magical items, thanked his dad and passed out on the ground. AN: Yes, Percy was just very overpowered I know. However he won't ever be that powerful again until the end of the "Heroes of Olympus" part. It was merely because of the blessing of Jupiter, it made him a bit taller, and kept his proportions, and unlocked the talent that no child of Zeus, or Jupiter has ever acquired. The power to make it rain... Heh, make it rain. Get it? However that power will be weak to the point of uselessness until "Heroes of Olympus" also Jason is gonna get his spotlight soon, and he'll be catching up with Percy too.
The next day: Percy POV: Cassidy's Villa/Estate
"-up Percy. You have to get ready for the placement tournament." I heard Cassidy say as she nudged me with her arms to get me up. I grudgingly got up. I brought my arms up to rub the sleep out of my eyes.
"You really did put on quite a show yesterday. Do you remember what you did? You defeated Adam even when he had the blessing of Mars and you acquired the blessing of Jupiter. You also gained a fortune and provided the greatest entertainment possible. That fight was the physical manifestation of epic. Both you and Adam gave it your best." She said with awe present in her voice.
"Mom, I'm just worried that Jason won't be in the same Cohort as me. I mean if I'm the male Centurion for the First then he can't be the other Centurion since he's not a girl." I said with a slight laugh at the end. "Don't worry, if he's not in the First with you he'll be the Centurion of the second. Yeah, I guess you're right. I mean he'd be a better leader than me, I know it. I'm a warrior and a good commander. Not a good leader." I said with a downcast look. "Hey, that's why you two stick together. You guys' strengths cover the other's weaknesses." My adoptive mom said with a smile. "Yeah, again you're right. Ha, oh and by the way has Jeremy tried anything lately?" I asked.
This caused her to scowl. "Yeah, he walked in on me when I was taking a bath saying that he took the wrong turn however he just got in the same tub with me anyways." She said with anger present in her eyes.
"What did you do?" I asked as I knew mom would never let him do that without killing him. That question caused her to brighten up. "I kicked him in the balls, punched his nose and walked away after covering myself up before taking a shower here." She said grinning. "That's the mom I know." I said with a grin before I grabbed my stuff and got dressed and ready for the tournament.
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The qualifying kids were, me, a girl named Gwen, this weird son of Venus, a daughter of Ceres named Elizabeth, and a son of Hercules named Dominic. 'The son of Hercules is very buff and strong, he's two years older than me at twelve, just like everyone else however I'm still the tallest and I'm stronger than Dominic so his one strength is my completely blocked out by me.' I thought to myself.
"I got this in the bag." I heard him say. This made me grin. 'You wish.' I whispered to myself.
Jeremy announced the first round from the stands. 'Almost all the bets were that I'd win except for about twenty that were on Dominic. I had 1 grand riding on me winning again so I would get minimal money back however it doesn't matter. If I make it in the First I get a double on my money no matter what so it's all good.' "The first round is, Percy Jackson Son of Jupiter Optimus Maximus age ten vs. Gwen Ryder Daughter of Mercury age fourteen!" He said with a slight snicker. Everyone was laughing really hard as they all knew I'd put a daughter of Mercury in the dirt.
We got ready. I flipped AUGUST for my gladius and I pulled out my Pugio. I'm just going to finish this real quick.
"Begin!" He shouted. I took off with the wind behind me and my super powered legs pushing me at inhuman speeds. However Gwen came at me at a slow jog. 'What is she doing? Is she just surrendering?' I thought to myself.
Just as I swung with my Gladius expecting to end the match instantly she poured on the speed and ducked, while slamming my right side with her shield.
"Damn she's quick." I said under my breath as I skidded back four inches. 'Oh yeah, daughter of Mercury. Damn it Percy' I chided myself. I used the momentum of her bash to roll backwards and put away my Pugio. I then activated my shield as I got up. As I rolled however I had flipped AUGUST again and now had a Xipthos. I knew this battle wouldn't be pathetic.
The crowds were quiet now and were shocked that she actually had skill. I heard Jason yell out. "You got this Percy! You can't lose, you've got similar DNA to me right?" He yelled down with humor at the end. This made the stands laugh and angered Gwen.
"Shut up! He won't beat me, he's just a ten year old kid." She laughed at the end as if it's impossible for me to beat her. This got me red in the face. Her intended effect as I rushed her. However what she didn't expect was for me to use my powers. I was pissed, nobody got to take jabs at my age, nobody. ...and I don't mean Odysseus, I actually mean no person. (ahaha, see what I did there? huh? yeah? too cheesy? ...sorry)
As I slammed my shield into her shield I discharged massive volts of electricity through her. I had her hair sticking up and the skin on her right left arm was now burnt to a crisp and black as a volcano.
She screamed out and began crying as she saw her arm. I didn't feel mercy though as she had insulted my pride. That's no small thing to a Roman. I called a bolt down on her head knocking her unconscious.
The crowds roared in approval. And I heard a few yell. "Another useless ugly bitch for the useless ugly Fifth!" This turned into a chant for a few seconds before Cassidy calmed them down. For some reason it really pissed off Jason when they made fun of the Fifth.
"Okay, okay. Percy Jackson Son of Jupiter Optimus Maximus wins! No surprise." He muttered at the end but everyone heard him and snickered. This made Jason even more angry and me a little sorry for the Fifth and the girl Gwen, however I brushed it off and got ready for the next.
"Okay, first well one thing we learned from this is you don't wanna tick off Percy!" He yelled, making everyone laugh.
The second round will be Dominic Son of Hercules vs. Alabaster... Son of Venus." This caused another roar of laughter. "Begin!" he shouted.
This battle took a surprisingly long time. It seemed to be a tie before Dominic landed a nasty right hook knocking the boy unconscious.
"Dominic wins! And because of the close match Alabaster goes to the fourth cohort instead of the fifth." He said.
"Okay, next up is Elizabeth, daughter of Ceres. Since both others are eliminated you get to choose your opponent." He said. This was clearly a new addition to the rule.
"I choose Dominic." She said. This angered the Son of Hercules as that means she sees him as weaker than her.
About four minutes later Dominic won. Albeit with a bunch of thorns stuck in him but he still won. He obviously wasn't too happy with her picking him though, as was obvious by her beaten and bloody form.
"Next up, is the match we all knew was coming, and we all have been waiting for." This caused the other three to growl and the crowd to laugh again. "Percy Jackson son of Jupiter Optimus Maximus vs. Dominic Montero Son of Hercules.
Olympus: 3rd Person POV:
"Hercules, be quiet, my son will destroy Dominic. And Mercury, why are you angry? She insulted his pride and because of that she got hit with electricity." Jupiter commented to the other gods. Obviously, he is quite fond of his son.
"Yes, but he burnt her arm to a crisp!" Mercury yelled. "I agree with Mercury for once. He greatly harmed a young maiden, he's just another greedy, power hungry pig." Diana snorted with disgust. "But he's super hot though!" Venus squealed as she changed her appearance to that of a sexy version of a twelve year old girl. (try and imagine that... I feel sorta pedoish after writing that but I mean, we all know the kind of girls I'm talking about, some 12 year olds DO NOT look 12) "I'll reward him later." She said to herself as she turned back into a woman. 'Ha, only ten and he already has Venus lusting over him. He's really a boy after my own heart isn't he.' Jupiter said as he watched his son prepare to fight Hercules's.
"Yes, I approve of the boy. He is a mighty warrior. He respects strength just like I do. He beat my son fair and honorably, and it was one of the greatest battles in history. Plus he respects my son greatly, I like him!" Mars said with a grin.
"Yeah, he's cool I guess." Bacchus said from his throne.
"He's nothing compared to me or Dominic." Hercules grumbled.
"Hush hush bro, he'd kick your son's ass any day and I wouldn't put it past him to put you in your place too Herc. I mean he's great with a bow too, he's smooth with the ladies, he's cool, he's a great fighter, and he's nice. I like him too." Apollo said from his throne.
"How could any of you like him!? He's just proof of Jupiter's cheating!" Juno yelled. "Then why do you like Jason so much, I personally find Percy Grace to be quite the demigod and if he ever travels by sea I will assist him." Neptune stated with annoyance at the beginning of his sentence. This made Juno huff and Jupiter to grin with pride.
"I like Thalia more than all of them, she's a strong willed maiden who don't need no man in her life." Diana said as she shifted to her Greek aspect for a moment before shifting back. "She won't be a maiden for long, she's traveling with my son Luke remember?" Mercury said with a laugh as he shifted to Hermes for a moment. This angered Diana greatly.
"Quiet all of you! It's starting." Jupiter said.
"I like him, he eats his cereal and he's my adoptive grandson." Ceres muttered.
Back at the coliseum: Percy POV:
As Jeremy said begin I flipped AUGUST forming my gladius as I knew that this I would need to get up close to fight this one.
Dominic took a wild swing at me with his sword. I ducked under it and delivered a solid front kick to his chest sending him flying back ten feet.
"That daughter of Mercury was the hardest opponent here besides me. You are just a brute who relies on strength. The son of Venus was able to evade you for a while with his bow, and the daughter of Ceres relies on her powers. She was the best here. You are but a useless brute. Stop bragging and show us how good you are. This is why sons of Hercules are never great." I said with a shaking head as I slowly approached him.
This made him really pissed off. He bounded towards me weaponless but I merely slid to the side, and whacked him as hard as possible with the flat side of my AUGUST.
He crumpled to the ground in an undignified heap.
"Wow, that was quick, anyways... Percy Jackson Son of Jupiter Optimus Maximus wins, he is now in the First Cohort, wins 2300 denarii and should report to their barracks by nine P.M. of tomorrow night
The same goes for the others. You know what Cohorts your in." He finished.
Three days Later: Percy POV:
After I was welcomed into the cohort Adam immediately denounced his position of Centurion and gave it to me the day I joined
One week later: Percy's first war games: Percy POV:
'We're attacking with the fourth cohort and the fifth while the second, third, and fourth defend. This should be a breeze.' I thought to myself.
"Okay listen up. I want the right half of my Cohort to attack from the right in V-Formation while having the left half of my Cohort go into Testudo formation and attack the main gates. I'll lead the charge on the right side!" I shouted.
"AVE!" I got from my Cohort as they split up and began their marches. The Fourth split up and did the same maneuver but on the left and middle of the walls while the Fifth was sent out as canon fodder everywhere.
I flew up over the field and landed at the head of the V formation and charged. I flipped AUGUST forming my Xipthos as I knew they'd all go for me while in my left I used my shield. As we to got to the wall the formation got out the battering rams. As they worked on the wall I used my wind powers to stop all the arrows that came raining down. Then I noticed the water cannons. They were being aimed at me.
I decided that I'd have to take out all the artillery so we could get into the base. "Dammit!" I yelled as the cannon fired before I could blast it with a bolt. It collided with our right flank knocking a lot of our soldiers back however most were okay. They are all hardened warriors.
I raised AUGUST calling down a bolt and shooting it at the water cannon. The electricity and water made a great combination as I knocked out all the demigods using the water cannon.
"First Cohort, I'll go up ahead and take out all the artillery, you guys work on that wall!" I yelled before I flew up to the walk on the top of the wall.
I called down another bolt to destroy the cannon on the left side of the wall. Then I ran along the walk attracting about twenty demigods towards me. I continued to run along the walk on the inside of the wall and severing all the strings on the ballistae. Just as I cut the last one the First Cohort broke through. I decided to see how long I'd last against the group of twenty legionnaires to delay them from reaching my Cohort as they worked their way through the fortress to get to the flag and claim it for our team.
I readied both weapons.
The first strike was thrown by a kid from the second Cohort, Michael. He thrust his Gladius towards my chest. I sidestepped and knocked him off the wall with my shield before spinning and hitting the next kid with the flat of my blade knocking him out. I ducked under another stab but then I got kicked from the back. I fell forward however I used that to my advantage. I tucked and rolled between one of their legs. When I came up I span and kicked out two people's legs, I used that as an opening. As the next couple stepped foreword I called down a bolt knocking three out and making the others stop for a second. I capitalized on that short victory by flying up before coming down a few feet away. They followed me again. This time I got engaged in a big fight instead of quick strikes.
I blocked a thrust with my shield before slashing at one on my left and bashing another on the knee. I had a tingling on my neck so I spun and blocked a slice to my neck. I then parried his next strike and hit him with the pommel of my sword to his helmet knocking him unconscious too. Then when I turned around a Pilum was flying towards me. I used the wind to knock it away before feinting a strike to a girl's chest then kicking her back into the one behind her who in turn knocked a boy down next to her. I used that to get next to one and kicked him into another. The two went unconscious as they fell over the wall as well.
It was just me vs. about ten now. I went into action. Block, stab, slice, block, parry, feint, kick, run back, jump, wind gust, lightning, stab, thrust, slice, block, stab, parry, block with sword, shield bash, parry, feint, stab, stab, parry. That's basically how the next ten minutes went by before they all fell down. I couldn't fly for the death of me and I had about one more bolt left in me. Just then I noticed the flag. It was being taken from Adam by some legionnaire. I jumped down and tried to jog over. By the time I got there Adam had knocked the kid over and was running out. Just then an arrow hit his helmet knocking him unconscious.
I barely had the energy left in me to fight a fucking daughter of Venus. I grabbed the flag and ran as quick as I could. That's about a fast walk.
Three other legionnaires from my cohort showed up within four seconds and began to block arrows for me. I recognized them as Ezra, Ely, and Tommy. They're all good fighters.
I kept on moving albeit slowly towards the gates as the others began to surround us. "We're screwed." Tommy said blandly. 'Yeah, we are.' I thought to myself.
But just then I remembered something. 'No we're not.' I thought as I called down my last bolt. It hit the middle of their group and just as I blacked out from exhaustion I gave the flag to Tommy.
Tommy, Ezra, and Ely made it out a few seconds later.
Line Break:
'I woke up in the infirmary... again.' I thought to myself. I looked myself over. No major cuts or bruises. Just over exertion. 'Hmm, I gotta go talk to my Cohort.' I thought to myself as I got up.
I grabbed my jeans and purple camp shirt. I slipped both coins back into the pockets before walking out.
As I walked through the city towards my barracks I noticed a few things. Number one everyone is looking at me with either affection or hate. Many of the Senators with high power hate me as I'm always upstaging them and same with other people who used to be held in high esteem. However Adam never seemed to dislike me. 'Must be a power hungry dick thing.' I thought to myself making me chuckle.
When I entered my barracks everyone cheered.
"Hey man! How you doing?" Adam asked. "Great man, we won right?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, of course. Tommy carried it out with Ezra, and Ely." Adam stated with happiness clearly present.
"Great, hey guys I think it's time for lunch." I commented. "Yeah, it is. Well let's go." Adam said with surprise at the beginning at not knowing that it was almost time for lunch.
The friends I have acquired so far in my Cohort are Adam, Ely, Ezra, and Tommy. They're all nice and they all are great fighters. The rest respect me as a leader but that doesn't mean I'm their close friend. All the girls seem to like me though, for some reason.
"Hey, what are we doing today?" Ezra asked me after I finished taking a bite of my eggs.
"Well, we're doing archery first, then we're doing sword drills, and finally we are just gonna do sparring with the rest of the legion like every day." I said.
time skip:
For archery we were in groups of four at each target. I'm at one hundred yards currently. "Okay guys, I'm gonna fire ten arrows, if none get out of the bulls-eye I'll go out to one hundred fifty yards until I miss one from the bulls-eye." I stated. "Gotcha, I call second!" Adam yelled as he scooted in front of Ezra. "Ugh, so childish." Ezra scolded.
"Oh, come on I'm a great fighter I don't need to be grown up." Adam gloated. "Yeah but Percy's ten, a better fighter, and less childish than you." Ezra replied with. This was one Adam couldn't come back from.
"Shut up." He grumbled, however he never left his spot behind me.
I fired ten shots in ten seconds. All split the one ahead of the other.
Everyone stopped to see me shoot AUXILIA
Percy then shot the one hundred fifty yard target. Another perfect ten. The first miss from the bulls-eye was at 200 yards. "There we go folks! That's how you shoot." Percy gloated before going to the back of his line.
About an hour later they moved on to sword drills. Percy partnered up with Adam of course and they all practiced the disarming technique. Then they moved on to whatever they want. It ended up turning into sparring.
After about five minutes of pound for pound fighting Percy began to take the upper hand. Percy swung his Xipthos from the right but was blocked by a gladius, then Adam thrust at Percy's mid section with his second gladi but he got blocked as Percy activated his shield. Then the Son of Zeus kicked the ribs of the son of Mars and smashed his shield into the ex-centurion's chest sending him back a few feet. The boy got up and went to attack with a double overhead strike but was blocked again with Percy's shield however he blocked Percy's counter, a thrust with a kick to the arm before spinning and round house kicking Percy in the arm. This sent the son of the sky into the air where he hovered for a second before descending.
Percy landed with a roll and smashed the edge of his shield into the side of Adam's head ending the spar.
Then he searched the arena for another opponent. He found Ezra just as she beat Ely.
"Hey Ezra, let's spar." He said as he reactivated his shield.
"Oh come on Percy this isn't fair I just fought." She said trying to get out of the fight.
Percy grinned. "So did I." And he rushed her. "Good luck!" Ely yelled to Ezra as she backed up.
The two met in a flurry. Ezra's gladius vs. Percy's Xipthos. Percy swung down with his Xipthos form of AUGUST before spinning and hitting the side of Ezra with his shield. The daughter of the sun quickly got back on her feet and rushed in again. She came at him again but got a kick to the chest before yielding when he pressed the point of his blade to her neck.
Two Years Later: 3rd Person POV: Percy's twelve and a half, Jason's ten and a two months.
Jason easily met all the requirements for the Junior legion and had requested to fight in the legion qualification match.
He had to fight the Centurion of the third cohort who's currently that daughter of Demeter Elizabeth.
"Begin!" Jeremy yelled.
Jason flipped IVLIS as he ran at the daughter of Demeter. She grew weeds and vines to stop him but he just hacked them down. Once he was in range he called down a bolt and launched it at her before jumping up and flying straight at her from behind. She was knocked down from the bolt but just barely blocked the strike from Jason's gladius.
Jason swung she blocked, he thrust, she caught it on her shield, he kicked her legs out and she fell, hard. It knocked the wind out of her lungs and he straddled her with his gladius to her throat. "Yield?" he asked.
"I yield." She said.
"She only relies on powers but has no skill." Percy grumbled to himself after all the cheering calmed down.
"Jason Grace, Son of Jupiter Optimus Maximus will fight tomorrow afternoon at three in the Placement tournament! He also wins five thousand drachma as pretty much everyone bet on him."
Just then they heard a girl scream as she came running through the tunnel with the two guards behind her and a pack of Hellhounds behind them.
Percy jumped into action. He flew up about forty feet and launched two bolts at the hounds killing twelve of the twenty. He flew down to them as he flipped AUGUST for his Xipthos and activated his shield. He bashed one on the head turning it to dust before slicing two down with his sword. Then Jason came and killed the other two with the spear side of IVLIS. Then Percy got a good look at the girl he had just saved.
She looked like she's from Puerto Rico, she was the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She had an hourglass figure and the face of a goddess. 'Shit, I guess what they say about Latinas and having an *ahem, stupendous posterior is true. haha' Perseus laughed to himself as he stared in wonder at the girl before him. Unknown to him she was staring at Percy too. She saw as his shirt clung to him his perfect physique and his god like face and hair. They both realized they were staring at the same time and coughed simultaneously before blushing madly. Unknown to the both of them Jason also thought of the new girl as incredibly beautiful.
"Hello, my name's Jason." He said awkwardly with a blush to the girl.
"What's your name?" She asked Percy.
"Percy." He said.
"Wow, that's a really cool name. Mine's Reyna." She said. Jason turned red in anger at being ignored. And scowled at his brother before shifting to an uncaring look as he figured out ways to get the girl now known to be Reyna to like him.
AN: Well, this chapter was a major filler. It was mainly to show both Jason and Percy's prowess at fighting and to introduce the First Cohort. The beginning was just an intro to New Rome. As you can see I begin to set up the plot at the end. This story is either a Preyna, or a Priper. One of the brothers will end up with one of those two girls. I know that a lot of this chapter sucked and I'm sorry. I was just trying to introduce the First Cohort kids that will be important and setting up Jason's entrance to the legion. Finally, I am going to tell you guys that the battle of Manhattan and the raiding of Orthrys will be in about three and a half years. That's about it. The third chapter will be up within 2-5 days. I'm going to chapter five then I'll work on both this story and my other. The plot will really get rolling next chapter. (I just realized that a pairing between Percy and Venus would be Penus... just saying.)
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