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Chapter 12: Percy vs Ares, The Child of the Moon
~Underworld~
As Naruto walked out of his uncle throne room and saw his companions waiting for him.
"So what did Ares want to talk about?" asked a curious Annabeth.
"It's not important but what is important that if your ready for the task?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know, I don't know if I can take on Ares?" replied Percy.
"You have no choice Percy, humanity is in your hands now."
"Naruto," said quietly Percy and Naruto looked at him. "Why did you say that? Why did you agree too that?!" Percy said in outrage.
"Do you want the fucken god of the Underworld on your ass too. We don't need more problems as it is and that mouth of yours nearly got us killed," Naruto answered simply and Percy was about too protest but Naruto didn't give him the chance as he continue on.
"Percy I had it under control but you let your selfishness and stupidity ruined it, if I didn't interfere you would be dead and Annabeth and Grover would as well, did you really want their blood on your hands Percy?"
Percy really wanted too deny it but in reality he knew it was true and his mouth nearly got them killed in front of the God of the Underworld and couldn't help but look down.
"Just be thankful that Uncle Hades gave us an opportunity to go save your mum, but the problem is, we don't know where Ares is?"
"Maybe I can help."
As the group turned around and saw Hades in front of them and were scared shitless except for Naruto.
"Relax godling, I am not here too fight you but to take you where the God of War is, I since he is at a nearby location," Hades said.
"And where is tha..." Percy tried to ask Hades but he just snapped his finger teleporting them to where Ares is.
"Keep an eye on them," Hades ordered the furries who were behind him.
"Yes my lord," said all three as they teleported to keep an eye on the demigods.
~Beach~
As they were teleported, they landed on a beach and wonder why they were here until they realise that Ares is here somewhere and began to look for him.
Percy felt as if he had just come back from the dead—which they did. He felt his backpack was heavy with Zeus's master-bolt and his heart was even heavier from seeing his mother.
"I don't believe it," Annabeth said. "We went all that way—"
"It was a trick," Percy said. "A strategy worthy of Athena."
"Hey," she warned.
"You get it, don't you?"
She dropped her eyes, her anger fading. "Yeah. I get it."
"Well, I don't!" Grover complained. "Would somebody—"
"Percy ..." Annabeth said. "I'm sorry about your mother. I'm so sorry..."
Percy said, "It's OK. Naruto managed to get Hades to agree to release my mum if I can get back the Helm of Darkness."
"Yeah, but I can't help you Percy since I cannot interfere in this," Naruto replied.
"It's OK, you gave me a chance to save my mother Naruto, but the prophecy was right," Percy said. "You shall go west and face the god who has turned.' But it wasn't Hades. Hades didn't want war among the Big Three. Someone else pulled off the theft. Someone stole Zeus's master bolt, and Hades' helm, and framed me because I'm Poseidon's kid. Poseidon will get blamed by both sides. By sundown today, there will be a three-way war. And I'll have caused it."
"Rather it is your fault or not Percy, you can fix all this and save millions," Naruto said and Percy nodded.
Grover than shook his head, mystified. "But who would be that sneaky? Who would want war that bad?"
Percy stopped in his tracks, looking down the beach. "Gee, let me think."
Then they saw Ares waiting for them, in his black leather duster and his sunglasses, an aluminum baseball bat propped on his shoulder. His motorcycle rumbled beside him, its headlight turning the sand red.
"Hey, kids," He said, seeming genuinely pleased to see Percy. "You were supposed to die well except for Uzumaki over there," Ares pointed at Naruto.
"You tricked me," Percy said. "You stole the helm and the master-bolt."
Ares grinned. "Well, now, I didn't steal them personally. Gods taking each other's symbols of power—that's a big no-no. But you're not the only hero in the world who can run errands."
"Who did you use? Clarisse? She was there at the winter solstice."
The idea seemed to amuse Ares. "Doesn't matter. The point is, kid, you're impeding the war effort. See, you've got to die in the Underworld. Then Old Seaweed will be mad at Hades for killing you. Corpse Breath will have the Zeus's master bolt, so Zeus will be mad at him. And Hades is still looking for this ..."
From his pocket he took out a ski cap—the kind bank robbers wear—and placed it between the handlebars of his bike. Immediately, the cap transformed into an elaborate bronze war helmet.
"The helm of darkness," Grover gasped.
"Exactly," Ares said. "Now where was I? Oh yeah, Hades will be mad at both Zeus and Poseidon, because he doesn't know who took this. Pretty soon, we got a nice little three-way slugfest going."
"But they're your family!" Annabeth protested.
Ares shrugged. "Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fights, I always say."
"You gave me the backpack in Denver," Percy said. "The master-bolt was in there whole time."
Ares's face cleared. "I didn't want the trouble. Better to have you caught red-handed, holding the thing."
"You're lying," Percy said. "Sending the bolt to the Underworld wasn't your idea, was it?"
"Of course it was!" Smoke drifted up from his sunglasses, as if they were about to catch fire.
"You didn't order the theft," Percy guessed. "Someone else sent a hero to steal the two items. Then, when Zeus sent you to hunt him down, you caught the thief. But you didn't turn him over to Zeus. Something convinced you to let him go. You kept the items until another hero could come along and complete the delivery. That thing in the pit is ordering you around."
"I am the god of war! I take orders from no one!" Ares shouted. Then he somehow calmed down. "Let's get back to the problem at hand, kid. You're alive. I can't have you taking that bolt to Olympus. You just might get those hard-headed idiots to listen to you. So I've got to kill you."
He snapped his fingers. The sand exploded at his feet and out charged a wild boar, even larger and uglier than the one whose head hung above the door of cabin seven at Camp Half-Blood. The beast pawed the sand, glaring at Percy with beady eyes as it lowered its razor-sharp tusks and waited for the command to kill.
Percy stepped into the surf. "Fight me yourself, Ares."
Ares laughed. "You've only got one talent, kid, running away. You ran from the Chimera. You ran from the Underworld. You don't have what it takes but what about you Uzumaki."
"I can't interfere," Naruto finally spoke and responded.
Ares just glared at Naruto. "And why not?!"
"Because Hades made me swore not to interfere and let Percy handle this."
"Ares just stare at him for a bit and than laughed. "Either death breath really want to see the sea spawn dead or to test the the sea spawn, but either way I gonna fight you after I deal with the sea spawn here and the oath will not affect you after he is dead."
"Looking forward to it, but I'll be in the sidelines watching this," Naruto said as he approached Percy first.
"Percy, Ares will not take you seriously, he will be using about less than 10% of his powers, but you can use that to your advantage since he will not take you seriously and I think he doesn't know how powerful you are. But remember, don't drop your guard. Stay full alert. Do not get distracted for a single moment, or your dead. And that goes too the rest of you, got it," Naruto said looking at Percy but to Annabeth and Grover as well and they nodded.
"Good, good-luck Percy. You gonna need it," Naruto said as he walked to the sideline.
"Enough talk, are you ready!" Ares shouted
"I am, but are you? You scared?"
"In your adolescent dreams." But his sunglasses were starting to melt from the heat of his eyes. "No direct involvement. Sorry, kid. You're not at my level."
Annabeth said, "Percy, run!"
Percy ignored her. The giant boar charged at him. 'No more,' He thought.
As the boar rushed Percy, he uncapped his pen and sidestepped. Riptide appeared in his hands. He slashed up. The boar's severed right tusk fell at his feet, while the disoriented animal charged into the sea.
Percy shouted, "Wave!" Immediately, a wave surged up from nowhere and engulfed the boar, wrapping around it like a blanket. The beast squealed once in terror. Then it was gone, swallowed by the sea.
"Scared?"
'Fucken idiot,' thought Naruto
"In your adolescent dreams." But his sunglasses were starting to melt from the heat of his eyes. "No direct involvement. Sorry, kid. You're not at my level."
Annabeth said, "Percy, run!"
Percy ignored her. The giant boar charged at him. 'No more,' He thought.
As the boar rushed Percy, he uncapped his pen and sidestepped. Riptide appeared in his hands. He slashed up. The boar's severed right tusk fell at his feet, while the disoriented animal charged into the sea.
Percy shouted, "Wave!" Immediately, a wave surged up from nowhere and engulfed the boar, wrapping around it like a blanket. The beast squealed once in terror. Then it was gone, swallowed by the sea.
Percy turned back to Ares. "Are you going to fight me now?" He asked. "Or are you going to hide behind another pet?"
Ares's face was purple with rage. "Watch it, kid. I could turn you into—"
"A cockroach," Percy said. "Or a tapeworm. Yeah, I'm sure. That'd save you from getting your godly hide whips, wouldn't it?"
'One day, that mouth of yours Percy will really get us killed,' As Naruto thought putting his hand on his face
Flames danced along the top of his glasses. "Oh, man, you are really asking to be smashed into a grease spot."
"If I lose, turn me into anything you want. Take the bolt. If I win, the helm and the bolt are mine and you have to go away."
"Percy," Annabeth said. "Don't do this. He's a god."
"He's a coward," Percy said.
She swallowed. "Wear this, at least. For luck." She took off her necklace, with her five years' worth of camp beads and the ring from her father, and tied it around his neck. "Reconciliation," she said. "Athena and Poseidon together."
Percy said with a small blush, "Thanks."
"And take this," Grover said. He handed him a flattened tin can that he'd probably been saving in his pocket for a thousand miles. "The satyrs stand behind you."
"Grover ... I don't know what to say." Percy stuffed the tin can in his back pocket.
"You all did say good-bye?" Ares came to Percy, his black leather duster trailing behind him, his sword glinting like fire in the sunrise. "I've been fighting for eternity, kid. My strength is unlimited and I cannot die. What have you got?"
'A smaller ego,' Percy thought. He kept his feet in the surf, backing into the water up to his ankles.
He remembered Annabeth had said at the Denver diner: Ares has strength. That's all he has. Even strength has to how to wisdom sometimes.
"Percy!" Annabeth yelled. "Cops!"
Percy was breathing heavily, but he managed to get to his feet. He couldn't look away from Ares for fear he'd slice him in half, but out of the corner of my eye he saw red lights flashing on the shoreline boulevard. The car doors were slamming.
"There, officer!" Somebody yelled. "See?"
A gruff cop voice: "Looks like that kid on TV ... what the heck ..."
"That guy's armed," another cop said. "Call for backup."
"Hey, what is this?"
They noticed black-feathers that seem to be like crows feather started to fall from the sky.
Someone said, "I feel..." and he dropped on the ground. One by one all cop began to fall on the ground.
Naruto, Annabeth and Grover were surprised at this.
"What's going on?" Annabeth asked.
"I don't know?" Grover answered and equally confused.
However Naruto was in a deep thought. 'This is definietly a Genjutsu but I'm the only chakra user in this world and black feathers of crows, there's only one person that can do that,' Naruto thought but decided to focus back on the fight.
Percy ran for his sword, scooped it up, and launched a swipe at Ares's face, only to find his blade deflected again. He stepped back toward the surf, forcing him to follow.
"Admit it, kid," Ares said. "You got no hope. I'm just toying with you."
Suddenly, Percy felt weird like his senses were working overtime. He was wide awake, noticing every little detail. He could see where Ares was tensing. He could tell which way he would strike. At the same time, he was aware of Annabeth and Grover, thirty feet to his left.
Ares roared with laughter. "Now, little hero. Let's you add to the barbecue." He slashed.
Percy deflected his blade and got close enough to strike, tried to fake him out with a faint, but his blow was knocked aside. The waves were hitting him in the back now. Ares was up to his thighs, wading in after him.
Percy felt the rhythm of the sea, the waves growing larger as the tide rolled in, and suddenly he had an idea.
'Little waves,' He thought. And the water behind his seemed to recede.
Ares came toward him, grinning confidently. Percy lowered his blade.
'Just little bit longer.'
Ares raised his sword.
'Now!'
A six-foot wall of water smashed Ares full in the face, leaving him cursing and sputtering with a mouth full of seaweed. Percy took that chance and landed behind him with a splash and fainted toward his head, as he had done before. Ares turned in time to raise his sword, but this time he was disoriented, he didn't anticipate the trick. Percy changed direction, lunged to the side, and stabbed Riptide straight down into the water, sending the point through the god's heel.
Ares roared angrily. The very sea was blasted back from him, leaving a wet circle of sand fifty feet wide. Ichor, the golden blood of the gods, flowed from a gash in the war god's boot.
"You!" Ares roared angrily. The expression on his face was beyond hatred. It was pain, shock, complete disbelief that he'd been wounded. "Play time is over Percy Jackson." Before Ares could do anything, he was in a deep thought and was like having a conversation someone with someone in his mind and he lowered his weapon thinking Ares was showing them Mercy but Naruto again thought differently.
'There's something wrong with him, it's like he was being controlled or something, it could be him but there's something else inside his mind, is he being controlled?' Naruto observed Ares seeing from his point of view. 'Was it that thing in Tartarus?'
Ares lowered his sword and glared at Percy. "You have made a powerful enemy today godling," he told them. "You have sealed your fate. Every time you raise your blade in battle, every time you hope for success, you will feel my curse. Beware, Perseus Jackson. Beware."
Ares' body began to glow.
'''Percy, Naruto!" Annabeth shouted. "Don't watch!"
They turned away except for Naruto who was still looking as the god Ares revealed his true immortal form. They somehow knew that if they looked, they would disintegrate into ashes but however, Naruto didn't and the light died.
When they looked back, the body was Ares was gone. They had own…for now.
"How... How's that possible, you should be dead by just looking at Ares?!" asked a shocked Annabeth.
My mum explained that certain shinobi with either special abilities or shinobi that are S-Rank can survive Gods, Titans and Primordials true form," Naruto answered shocking everyone.
Naruto than saw tje tide rolled out to reveal Hades's bronze helm of darkness. Naruto decided to pick it up as they made their way back to shore to meet with their friends.
But before they got there, they heard the flapping of leathery wings. The three furies with lace hats and fiery whips drifted down from the sky and landed in front of Naruto.
Alecto stepped forward. Her fangs were bared, but for once she didn't look threatening. She looked more disappointed, as if she'd been planning to have Percy for supper, but had decided he might give her indigestion.
"We saw the whole thing," she hissed. "So ... it truly was not you?"
"What do you think we have been trying to prove." Naruto said as he tossed the helm to her, which she caught in surprise.
"Return that to Lord Hades," Percy said. "Tell him the truth. Tell him to call off the war."
She hesitated, than ran a forked tongue over her green, leathery lips. "Live well, Percy Jackson. Become a true hero. Because if you do not, if you ever come into my clutches again ..." She cackled before turning to Naruto and bowed.
But than she looked at Naruto.
"We have nothing against you since Lord Hades welcome you anytimw and we know it was out of self defense but I want one thing. Me and sisters want a rematch Uzumaki," Alecto said pointing at Naruto.
"Looking forward to it," Naruto replied and Alecto and her sister smirked before she and her sisters rose on their bats' wings, fluttered into the smoke-filled sky, and disappeared.
Grover said. "That was so incredibly ..."
"Terrifying," said Annabeth.
"Cool!" Grover corrected.
Percy smiled but he was dog tired and he didn't feel scared at all. "Did you guys feel that... whatever it was?" They both nodded uneasily.
"Must've been the Furies overhead," Grover said.
"Well whatever it was, it saved your asses off," Naruto commented emotionlessly.
Percy reclaimed his backpack from Grover and looked inside. The master bolt was still there. Such a small thing to almost cause World War III.
As if reading his thoughts, Naruto commented, "Like it said before, it is Zeus' toy of mass destruction. A stupid war over a fucken weapon. Now we just need to get back to New York."
"By tonight" Percy amended.
"That's impossible," Annabeth said, "unless we—"
"Fly." Deadpanned Percy.
She stared at them. "Fly, like, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, and carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?"
"Ah, but that is the point." Naruto cut in. "He wouldn't do that since we have the bolt and wouldn't risk destroying the world."
"Yeah, what Naruto said." Percy replied, "Pretty much exactly like that. Come on."
"Here's the money," Naruto handing them money to but the tickets. "You guys go on ahead, theres something I need to do," said Naruto.
"Are you sure, we don't want to leave you behind," asked Percy.
"Yeah go on ahead, I about to meet the other child of the moon, so this doesn't involved you."
"OK."
"Good get going," Naruto said and they all nodded and headed towards a nearby taxi to take them to the airport.
As Naruto saw his friends left and was now alone or was he?
"Oh right I know your there, c'mon out," Naruto called out to the genjutsu user.
Than suddenly, a bunch of crows flew out of now where and dive down from the sky into one spot forming a person.
He is a young man who is 18 years old with onyx eyes, and jet-black hair that was pulled back with a red elastic in a low ponytail which extended to his shoulder blades. He is wearing a a black shirt with a high collar and and black cargo pants, had a ninja pouch on his side and a single scroll under his pouch.
"So it's you."
"Yes it is, Itachi Uchiha former ANBU of Konoha and former member of the akatsuki, but also the Son of Tsukuyomi the Shinto God of the Moon and Night, and descendant of Vesta the Goddess of the Hearth, Home, and Family," Itachi said.
End of Chapter 12
~Omake: Hades Level Zero Punishment~
As Hades was standing in front of someone who committed the worst crime there is and Hades decided to deal with this scumbag himself.
"Let's see, John Bart who recently died from murder and in your life time, you have committed the worst crimes there is in history including murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking and many more, do you have anything to say for yourself," said Hades.
"I'm not scared! So go ahead, do your worse!""My worse ha, OK than I will show you something worse than Tartarus, Alecto commence level zero punishment!"
And than Alecto appear with a TV and than Hades looked back at Bart. "May the Shinigami have Mercy on your soul when you watch this for all of eternity." And with that Hades left and the TV suddenly turned on which revealed see two men in a green jumpsuit, horrible haircut and they are on a beach.
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
And they both hugged and suddenly a sunset and sparkles appeared all around the duo!
"OH GOD! OH GOD! MAKE IT STOP, I TAKE ANOTHER PUNISHMENT BUT PLEASE MAKE IT STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
And Hades was outside chuckling to himself.
"I love my job sometimes," Hades smiled evilly but shivered at that cursed sunset genjutsu of youth of Gai's.
And that is the level zero punishment in the Underworld that's even worse than tartarus!
~End of Omake~