"Hey." Percy yelled once Puppeteer had got him back to the mansion in the forest most of the creepypastas who felt like they needed a permanent home lived. "I'm home!" Puppeteer flinched at such a loud noise and flinched again when a screech came from inside the house. After a minute a small brown haired girl came hurtling out of the house.
"Hey Sal!" Percy greeted excitedly picking Sally up when she collided with his legs. "You're gonna break someone's legs like that one day."
"You're home! You'rehomeyou'rehomeyou'rehome!" Sally yelped bouncing in Percy's arms making him laugh. Right now being home seemed like a great thing despite the circumstances.
"Ya I'm home. I missed you little sister." Sally squealed and clung to Percy.
"Now that you're home I'm going to leave." Puppeteer said, laying a hand gently on Percy's shoulder. "Before any more people show up."
"Okay Puppeteer." Percy said turning to grin at him. "Thanks for bringing me here. Piper's gotten powerful enough that even if I tried, I don't think I could have found my way on my own." Puppeteer nodded and then vanished. Percy turned away and walked into the house carrying Sally still. She wasn't heavy.
"Hey asshole, you're home early." Jeff shouted from the top of the stairs. Sally gasped at the bad word but they both knew it was play. Here she heard enough swearwords to know them all and not be shocked by them. She just liked to play shocked.
"Ya I am, dick." Percy shouted back. "Too bad I have to see your ugly mug earlier than expected."
"Oy I'm beautiful and you know it!" Jeff shouted back and Percy laughed, letting Sally down when she squirmed.
"L.J.! L.J.! Percy's back we need to make blue cupcakes!" She shrieked excitedly.
"Percy's home?!" Laughing Jack yelled back and immediately he appeared in the foyer. He laughed delightedly when he saw Percy standing there, he stepped forward and picked Percy up swinging him around. "How have you been kid!?"
"Hella bored without you around." Percy laughed, hugging L.J. back, ignoring the small cuts L.J.'s sharp fingers opened on his back.
"I'm sorry your demigods found out about us." L.J. said suddenly. Percy pulled back in shock to see that for once L.J. was frowning. "I know it was my fault for being caught on camera and that you really liked playing with them." L.J. looked scared and it clicked for Percy that he was afraid he would be abandoned again. He had opened up to Percy when he was fourteen about Isaac, and how part of the reason L.J. killed kids was so that they didn't have a chance to forget him.
"Don't worry L.J. you and Jason are my favorite playmates. The demigods were bound to find out sooner or later anyway." He grinned at L.J. and L.J. grinned back putting Percy down.
"Okay now we have cupcakes to bake! Come on!" He exclaimed giggling and taking Percy's hand to lead him to the kitchen. "Afterword's we can go out and play. Nothing like spilling some blood to get rid of bad feelings, right? It's only been a couple weeks but you still must be half mad?"
"Oh I am." Percy assured. "Besides, after today I need to let off some steam and cheer up."
"Good good!" L.J. said. They walked into the kitchen and found Sally standing on one of the counters, getting down ingredients for cupcakes. "Your room is just the way you left it by the way, except maybe a bit cleaner." He giggled and Percy groaned. L.J. liked to clean his room sometimes even though Percy had told him he didn't need to anymore when he was twelve. L.J. liked to put things away and Percy had trouble finding them.
"And I've been taking a different one of your toys every night to sleep with!" Sally commented, handing down chocolate chips to Percy. "Just so they don't get lonely. Jessica is in my room right now, but now that you're home you can have her back."
"Thanks Sal, I'm sure they appreciate it." Percy said getting out a bowl from underneath the counters as Sally hopped down. Percy knew that by most standards he was to old to sleep with toys but they were gifts from Jason, so he didn't care. Besides the toys had heartbeats and breathed, so he didn't think they counted. Besides, with Jason's permission, Percy broke his toys from time to time when he was angry and couldn't sleep. It was more satisfying when the toys bled and gasped in pain.
Knowing this Jason still made toys for Percy now and then, and gave them to him as birthday and Christmas presents. Jessica, the one that was in Sally's room right now, was Percy's favorite though. He would never break Jessica; she was a doll with blushing cheeks and curly black hair. She wore a blue dress most of the time but for her Percy had even gone so far as to buy her some other dresses. He mostly let Sally dress Jessica though, because even though she was just a doll now, he still felt a bit odd about undressing her.
Percy had gotten Jessica when he was about ten. The year after he first came into contact with the creepypastas his mother actually tried to send him to a boarding school to try to get him away from them and lessen their influence. While he was there the ones that could go unseen visited him like BEN, Jack, and Jason. He didn't make friends with many of the humans there, but he did make one. A girl a year older than him called Jessica who took a maternal liking to him.
He was expelled from that school on purpose, but he couldn't bare the idea of being separated from the only human friend he had made. Next time Jason came to visit he found Percy crying and asked why. When Percy explained to him why. Jason said "Don't worry I can make her into a doll for you. She won't be as talkative, but she'll still be there, and she'll be small and light enough that you can take her with you whenever you want."
Percy had been ecstatic and went with Jason on the last night of boarding school to Jessica's room. She let Percy in because she thought he just wanted to say goodbye. The next morning Percy had his new doll in his suitcase as everyone ran around franticly looking for Jessica. Percy's mother didn't let herself question the doll Percy had gotten from nowhere that looked just like the photo of the missing girl she was shown on the day she came to pick him up. She didn't send him back to boarding school after that, letting him go with his new friends instead.
'\(-_^)/` - (time skip dude till something interesting happens. I don't want to write them making cupcakes or killing tonight.)
"I'm going to get you!" Kate yelled laughing from behind Percy. Her breath coming in bursts and her feet hitting the ground hard as she ran.
"No you won't!" Percy yelled back over his shoulder but he was laughing too. Just like the Camp had their games of capture the flag, the Creeps had games of nighttime manhunt. Percy dodged around a tree and swung up into it. Kate was much faster than him, but not quite as good at climbing.
"Got ya!" Came an enthusiastic yell from above him and suddenly he was crashing back down to the forest floor. His fall was broken by the leaf litter and the wind knocked out of him by the person on top of him. "Now you're it too!" Yelped Toby jumping up off of Percy.
"Ya, ya I am." Percy said getting up on his own. It was safer than let Toby help him and maybe get dropped again when he twitched. "Good job that was a nice trap you two." Toby looked very proud of himself, Percy could never read Kate's expressions.
It was just after dark, they had started hiding just before dark for anyone like Percy who didn't have the best night vision. The seeking had started as soon as it was dark enough for Kate, who was seeking.
"Who hasn't been found yet?" Percy asked rubbing his hands together excitedly.
"Most of the player actually, it would take too long to list." Toby said smiling wickedly.
"Oh come on." Percy groaned. "I was caught that early!? I thought I was getting better."
"Oh you are." Kate said, but Percy could tell she was teasing him. "You're just still not that good." Percy stuck his tongue out at her.
Just then an Iris message window opened in front of him. Percy quickly retracted his tongue and closed his mouth.
"Percy, what's that?" Kate asked coming around to the front of the window, Toby did too curiously.
"It's an Iris message. Demigods main way of communicating. It just seems to be having some trouble… maybe because it's dark… there we go." It cleared to show bright light on the other side. Kate hissed immediately and ducked away.
"Sorry Kate." Percy yelped.
"What?-" The person on the other end started to ask.
"The light hurt Kate, hang on. Kate, are you going to be okay?" Percy cut them off, standing on his toes to stare over the message at Kate.
"Ya I'm going to be fine. My eyes just can't take much light anymore. I'm guessing you're dropping out of manhunt?" She asked.
"Just for now." Percy reassured her. "You won't be able to find KageKao without me after all." She nodded and ducked away. "Sorry about that." Percy said turning back to the Iris message, showing no expression when he noticed it was Jason, Piper, and Annabeth who had called. "What can I do for you?"
"You really weren't kidding huh?" Jason said looking a little shocked.
"No, of course not." Percy laughed.
"Who are you talking to?" Toby asked going to rest his head on Percy's shoulder and instead head-butting Percy when he twitched.
"Ow Toby you did that on purpose." Percy complained rubbing his head. "These are some of the Demigods I spent the summers with. Jason, Piper, Annabeth this is Toby. Toby- Jason, Piper, Annabeth." Percy introduced them and they studied each other for a long minute.
"Well then I guess I'd better let you have your conversation with them." Toby said at last, and jogged off after Kate.
"What are you doing?" Annabeth asked.
"We were playing manhunt. It's a tradition here, like capture the flag at camp. Cate and Toby had just caught me when you called." Percy explained.
"At night?" Piper asked raising one eyebrow.
"Well ya a few of us can't go out in daylight. Eyeless cant, neither can Cate, and a whole bunch more just don't like it. For the rest of us who don't see so well in the dark we still spend most of our time in the dark, so the more we get used to it the better. All around it works better at night."
"We uhhh, we wanted to talk to you about what you said about how bad an idea it would be for us to try and fight the… creeps?" Jason said awkwardly.
"Ya we call ourselves the creeps and good I'm glad you've been thinking about it, because I meant it. You CAN'T kill L.J., I've seen Jason get cut in half and helped him sew himself back together, no harm done. Every weapon goes through Sally without touching her, but she can sure as hell tear through anything in her path." Percy shook his head. "I could go on and on, and a lot of our oldest and strongest haven't even been called in yet. The old ones like to hide off in the woods." The three demigods on the other side of the message exchanged looks.
"So could we maybe talk about this?" Piper said and he could feel the hints of charmspeak on him. He shook his head emphatically.
"No." He snapped. "Do not charmspeak me, Piper. I know that trick, I'm more used to it than you would think because Puppeteer and Seed Eater do it too. We can talk but if you want to talk, do it fairly." She looked taken aback.
"Okay." Annabeth said immediately before he could end the connection. "Okay no charmspeaking, we just want to talk."
"Okay." Percy said softening slightly when he looked at her. "We can talk."
"Will you come back to camp?" She asked watching him carefully. "Summer isn't over yet."
"I don't think you actually want me back." Percy said immediately then relented. "But I will come back. Tomorrow if you want. But I'm staying near the beach and I don't want you to bring Piper. Whoever you want other than that." Piper looked hurt. He smiled at her apologetically. "Sorry Piper, but if Puppeteer hadn't found me after you told me to get lost I might not have found my way home for a week. You've gotten too powerful and I don't want to see what else you could make me do if you decide to start a war. Despite my advice."
"That's fair enough." Annabeth said quickly. "Do you want to bring anyone else with you."
"No." Percy said shaking his head. "This is a show of faith, Beth. I want this to work out."
"Tomorrow at the beach at one?" She asked him and he nodded.
"Sure." Percy said nodding immediately. Annabeth stood up waving her hand through the message breaking the connection. Percy sat down on the ground rubbing his face tiredly. Well tomorrow would be an interesting day, but for tonight he had promised to help catch KageKao.
A/N anon Matt, I find your concern for Sea touching but you don't have to worry, as you can see I did credit her in the first chapter which is all the credit she asked for when she asked me to take on this challenge. Sea is an amazing writer and I'm glad that you can see that, goodness knows I was not that good when I was her age. If you want to read her story only and not mine no one is stopping you. However until you learn to be polite and constructive with your criticisms I will be deleting all of your comments as soon as I see them. If you get an account I invite you to message me any constructive criticism you my have for my stories, or comment in a mannerly fashion, however as long as you continue to be rude about it I will not be taking any more feedback from you.