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Chapter 7

'Damn it! Don't you all go die on me!' Naruto thought in his mind as he was rushing towards Percy and the other's location. 'Damn it! I should have left a fucken clone with them!'

As Naruto reach to his destination he saw Percy was hiding behind a statue and a snake like women whose tall, old with wrinkled, coffee colored skin and snakes for hair with long, elegant, wrinkled hands. She wore a long black gown, and her face is a shimmering pale circle under her black veil.

'So that's Medusa, better not look at her directly in the eyes. Better use sensor sense,' thought Naruto as he closed his eyes and began to sense his surroundings.

'I know I should go down there and kill her right away but if I do that, I'll be babying Percy then. I already saved his ass twice, better let him deal with this better made sure Annabeth and Grover are alright,'thought Naruto as he sensed for their presence and found them to be OK.

'Good, better find a good spot to enjoy the show,' as Naruto went to find a good spot to see how Percy do and decided to go on the roof and look from up-side down.

~Percy and Medusa~

"Such a pity to destroy a handsome young face," Aunty Em said to Percy soothingly. "Stay with me, Percy. All you have to do is look up."

Percy fought the urge to obey. Instead he looked to one side and saw one of those glass spheres people put the gardens— a gazing ball. He could see Aunty Em's dark reflection in the orange glass; her headdress was gone, revealing her face as a shimmering pale circle. Her hair was moving, writhing like serpents.

'Aunty Em... Aunty 'M'...How could I have been so stupid?' He thought.

"The Gray-Eyed One did this to me, Percy," Medusa said, and she didn't sound anything like a monster. "Annabeth's mother, the cursed Athena, turned me from a beautiful woman into this."

"Don't listen to her!" Annabeth's voice shouted, somewhere in the statuary. "Run, Percy!"

"Silence!" Medusa snarled. Then her voice modulated back to a comforting purr. "You see why I must destroy the girl, Percy. She is my enemy's daughter. I shall crush her statue to dust. But you, dear Percy, you need not suffer."

"No," Percy muttered. He tried to make his legs move.

"Do you really want to help the gods?" Medusa asked. "Do you understand what awaits you on this foolish quest, Percy? What will happen if you reach the Underworld? Do not be a pawn of the Olympians, my dear. You would be better off as a statue. Less pain. Less pain."

Suddenly an invisible force slammed on Medusa and sent her away from Percy. "Arrgh!" She yelled, her snake-hair hissing and spitting.

Percy scrambled away and hid in the statuary. Right next to him, Annabeth's voice said, "Percy!"

Percy jumped so high his feet nearly cleared a garden gnome. "Jeez! Don't do that!"

Annabeth took off her Yankees cap and became visible. "You have to cut her head off."

"What? Are you crazy? Let Naruto handle her."

"Percy, you have to do this your own," Naruto said appear to be standing up-side down from the roof.

Percy asked as he looked up to him from the roof, "Why?"

"Percy, I won't always be there to protect you. You have to learn to defend yourself, so toughen up and kill that bitch of a monster Percy, you bet Alecto remember" Naruto said.

"But you killed her."

"Yes, after you defeated her before I killed her, you can do it, you don't need me Percy,"

Percy was unsure about that, but Annabeth said, "Medusa is a menace. She's evil. I'd kill her myself, but..." She swallowed, as if she were about to make a difficult admission. "But you've got the better weapon. Besides, I'd never get close to her. She'd slice me to bits because of my mother. You—you've got a chance."

"What? I can't—" Percy said.

"Look, do you want her turning more innocent people into statues?" She pointed to a pair of statue lovers, a man and a woman with their arms around each other, turned to stone by the monster.

Annabeth grabbed a green gazing ball from a nearby pedestal. "A polished shield would be better." She studied the sphere critically. "The convexity will cause some distortion.

The reflection's size should be off by a factor of—"

"Would you speak English?"

"I am!" Annabeth said and she tossed him the glass ball. "Just look at her in the glass. Never look at her directly."

"Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above them. "I think she's unconscious!"

"Roooaaarrr!"

"Maybe not," Grover corrected.

"Hurry up," Annabeth said. She whipped her Yankees cap onto her head and vanished.

"Good luck, Percy," Grover said. He went into hiding.

"Good luck," Naruto said. "Use the lessons Chiron taught you back in school, use your brain on this one!" as he said from the roof and hang up-side down.

'Easy for you,' Percy thought.

He took out his pen and uncapped it. The bronze blade of Riptide elongated in his hand.

He followed the hissing and spitting sounds of Medusa's hair. He kept his eyes locked on the gazing ball so he would only glimpse a Medusa's reflection, not the real thing. Then, in the green tinted glass, He saw her.

He yelled, "Hey!"

Percy advanced on her, which wasn't easy, holding a sword and a glass ball. She let him approach—twenty feet, ten feet. He saw the reflection of her face.

'Surely it wasn't really that ugly. The green swirls of the gazing ball must be distorting it, making it look worse,' He thought.

"You wouldn't harm an old woman, Percy," Medusa said. "I know you wouldn't."

Percy hesitated fascinated by the face he saw reflected in the glass—the eyes that seemed to burn straight through the green tint, making his arms go weak.

"Percy, don't listen to her!" Grover shouted from his hiding.

Medusa cackled. "Too late." She lunged at Percy with her talons.

Percy slashed up with his sword, and then heard a sickening shock! Then a hiss like wind rushing out of a cavern—the sound of a monster disintegrating. Something fell to the ground next to his foot. It took all his willpower not to look. He could feel the warm ooze soaking into his sock, little dying snake heads tugging at his shoelaces.

"Oh, yuck," Grover said. His eyes were still tightly closed. "Mega-yuck."

Annabeth came up next to him, her eyes fixed on the sky. She was holding Medusa's black veil. She said, "Don't move." Very, very carefully, without looking down, she knelt and draped the monster's head in black cloth, then picked it up. It was still dripping green juice.

"Good Job, Percy," Naruto said as he fall down from the roof and landed behind them, freaking them out.

"Don't do that Naruto," Annabeth shouted.

Naruto ignored her and asked Percy, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Percy decided, though he felt like throwing up his double cheeseburger.

"Why didn't ... Why didn't the head evaporate?" He asked.

"Once you sever it, it becomes a spoil of war," Annabeth said. "Same as your Minotaur's horn. But don't unwrap the head. It can still petrify you."

Percy recapped his sword. Together, they stumbled back to the warehouse. They found some old plastic grocery bags behind the snack counter and double-wrapped Medusa's head.

They plopped it on the table where they had eaten dinner and sat around it.

Percy said, "So we have Athena to thank for this monster?"

Annabeth flashed him an irritated look. "Your dad, actually. Don't you remember? Medusa was Poseidon's girlfriend. They decided to meet in my mother's temple. That's why Athena turned her into a monster. Medusa and her two sisters who had helped her get into the temple, they became the three Gorgons. That's why Medusa wanted to slice me up, but she wanted to preserve you as a nice statue. She's still sweet on your dad. You probably reminded her of him."

Percy's face was burning. "Oh, so now it's my fault we met Medusa."

Annabeth straightened. In a bad imitation of Percy voice, she said, "'it's just a photo, Annabeth. What's the harm?'"

"Forget it," Percy said. "You're impossible."

"You're insufferable."

"You're—"

"Hey!" Grover interrupted. "You two are giving me a migraine, and satyrs don't even get migraines."

"What are you going to do with the head, Percy?" Naruto asked.

Percy stared at the thing. One little snake was hanging out of a hole in the plastic. The words printed on the side of the bag said: WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS! He was angry, not just with Annabeth or her mom, but with all the gods for this whole quest, for getting them blown off the road and in two major fights the very first day out from camp. At this rate, they had never made it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.

'What had Medusa said?' Percy thought. 'Do not be a pawn of the Olympians, my dear. You would be better off as a statue.'

He got up. "I'll be back."

"Percy," Annabeth called after me. "What are you—"

Percy searched the back of the warehouse until he found Medusa's office. Her account book showed her six most recent sales, all shipments to the Underworld to decorate Hades and Persephone's garden. According to one freight bill, the Underworld's billing address was DOA Recording Studios, West Hollywood, California. He folded up the bill.

"So this is the underworld's address," Naruto said, who appeared behind him.

"Y-yes," Percy said and stuffed address in his pocket.

In the cash register they found twenty dollars, a few golden drachmas, and some packing slips for the Hermes Overnight Express, each with a little leather bag attached for coins. Percy rummaged around the rest of the office until he found the right-size box. They went back to the picnic table, packed up Medusa's head, and filled out a delivery slip:

The Gods

Mount Olympus

600th Floor,

Empire State Building

New York, NY

With best wishes,

PERCY JACKSON

"Percy they are not going to like that. They will take it as an insult" Grover said hoping to change Percy's mind about him little gift.

"Good, then maybe next time they won't lose that stupid bolt" he grumbled as he poured some golden drachmas in the pouch. As soon as he closed it, there was a sound like a cash register. The package floated off the table and disappeared with a pop!

"Percy, even though that was brave of you but also stupid at the same time. Now Zeus might make this harder for us now, he could be sending something worse then The Furies and Medusa. Are you ready to face what is going to be installed for us?" Asked Naruto.

"I'm ready, I don't care what they sent at us, I'll do anything to get my mum back, even if I have to go through anyone to do it," said a determined Percy.

"That mouth of yours is really going to get us killed one day," replied Naruto and Annabeth just nodded at that.

She didn't try criticize Percy but was more resigned to the fact that He had a major talent for ticking off the gods and agreeing with Naruto that Percy would get them killed one day. "Come on," she muttered. "We need a new plan."

Omake: Naruto and Zoe day at the Carnival

As the hunters and Naruto just finish a hunting down a couple of Drakon and successfully got all of them. Naruto managed to take 3 down with no sweat but really didn't enjoy and showed any emotion to it, so Zoe with Artemis permission decided to take Naruto with her to a carnival that was close to the camp to show Naruto what fun is.

They are at the carnival walking around until they heard.

"Step right up, step right up, if you can shoot all the targets with this gun, you will win a fabulous price," said the guy at the gun stand game.

"Naruto thou should give a try," asked Zoe.

"O right, let's do this," replied Naruto.

As they both headed towards the stand and payed to play the game.

"The rules are simple kid, you have to should all 10 targets with 10 bullets in this rifle, you ready?" asked the guy and Naruto nodded. "OK go!"

And Naruto shot ten times in ten seconds from the rifle and when he put the rifle back on the stand and looked at everyone's face that was around them. Not only did he hit all 10 targets, but managed to get them all in a bulls-eye.

'Damn, this kid is good' thought the guy who runs this stand.

'Thou are not surprised, you are looking at Mi'Lady's flesh and blood after all,' thought Zoe.

"Wow, kid that was good, here you go, the grand prize," said the guy and handed Naruto his prized which was a giant sliver teddy bear, coincidence isn't it.

And Naruto didn't really want the teddy bear so he gave it to Zoe who was surprised about it but accept it no less.

The rest of the day, they went to play different games, go on rides and eat carnival food together. To them, it was really enjoyable and fun.

And as they were about to head back to the hunter's camp, Naruto stopped her and as she looked at him with a confused face while holding her teddy bear.

"Zoe, even though I don't know how to express emotion but I really had a fun day, thank-you Zoe," said Naruto and which it got Zoe to lightly blush.

"No, thank-you Naruto, thou has given me a day to enjoy, even if thou are surrounded by men in this carnival," replied Zoe as she went towards him and kissed him on the cheek which surprised him and Zoe moved back and blush a bit darker now and decided to head back to camp first. Naruto just stood there and placed his hand on the cheek Zoe kissed and stood there quietly for a few minutes before he decided to catch up to Zoe.

Unknown to the two of them, they were being followed by Kushina and Artemis. She didn't really trust her baby outside of camp without her even with Zoe there, and was paranoid on something might happen to him so she and Kushina decided to follow them on their day at the carnival. And was happy that her son was having a good time with Zoe.

"You know Kushina, those two really are a good together," said Artemis with a smile.

"Yeah they do, they reminded me and Minato when we were young," replied Kushina.

And Artemis smile turned to a growl. "You had to remind me that you, you dated my husband in the past."

"Oh c'mon, you can't let it go can you."

"I did but thanks to you, you reminded me about it."

As the two agrued about Kushina used to date Minato for a couple of minutes and decided to teleport back to camp.

Omake End