NPU: Welcome to the Sea of Monsters
Chapter 2
DODGE!
Glad to see that you all are enjoying this series. I honestly didn't think this was a big hit but I guess it is. Hopefully I get a job so I can continue this story at the end of the month. Seriously, I still live with my dad, I'm 22 btw, so his rules still apply for some reason and if I can't get a better job than the one I got, which he calls 'shit', he will take away all my electronic devices and basically kick me out of the out of the house until 4 pm to 'motivate' me to get a job in this crappy economy. THE FUCK! My problem is that I don't have the experience needed for most jobs and that is why they won't even consider me.
Now, enough ranting, on with the show! Oh and this part of the story will have some Naruto/Clarisse fluff just for fun.
"Ah! I had a nice night's sleep." Naruto yawned out while stretching his arms out.
Annabeth shook her head, only Naruto could shake off that deadly poison like that though sleep and pass it off as a good night's sleep. Silena told her the boy tossed in his sleep and she doubted the idiot knew that fact. "I am glad you're ok you nut! I mean, if you died, how would Percy take it?"
"Oh he would be extremely sad that one of his best friends died like any normal person would be." Naruto replied with his eyes closed as he walked with his arms behind his head.
"That would be true but you two are far from normal." Annabeth said with a smirk, making the blond trip a bit at her words.
"Oh that's cold." Naruto commented as they made their way to the big house so that they could Chiron that they were leaving. Mr. D couldn't care but he suspected that man a soft spot for him. He then grew annoyed. He knew they were just getting Percy, but seriously, what was the worse that could happen? If he had his way, Annabeth would have gone by herself so that his plan on getting the two together work. Buuut noooo, she insisted that he come along.
"I still don't know why I am coming along." Naruto said, showing his annoyance.
Annabeth sighed. "I told you, Percy might be in danger of some sort and I don't feel like fighting it off alone and with him." She didn't know her feeling for the boy but with Naruto around, she didn't have to think on it much when they were together. Being with friends made it easier for her.
"Ok…" Naruto drawled as he opened the door the Big House for her and went in after her. Hey, he was still a nice guy even though he was sarcastic and all that. "Explain that annoying to D.C. Why did I have to go?"
"Because I asked you to." Chiron said with a small chuckle.
"Yeah and it didn't kill you learn a few things about this country." Annabeth input with a smirk.
"Still it was boring and having to listen to you talk about all architecture in the building was driving me nuts!" Naruto said with a frown before he smiled. "Still it was nice hanging out outside of camp, but seriously, you should talk Percy's ear off about that stuff. He might actually listen."
"Wait, you weren't even listening?" Annabeth said in mock shock. She kind of figured that out by the way he responded to her some of the time.
"Yeah about half way through your rant." Naruto said with a smirk. It had seemed that the blond girl had picked up on some of his personality and figured him out.
"Ok that is enough." Chiron interrupted the playful banter. "Are you two about ready?"
"Heh, you know me. I got my clothes with seals on them to change into my ANBU gear at a moment's notice, my bracelets with my charm like weapons on them, and my red fox shoes, which I finally figured out to work." Naruto said. His clothes changed a bit, he had on a pair of ripped jeans and a black shirt with orange flames running along the bottom with the Uzumkai symbol on the back. He had even added a pair of sunglasses that rested on his head at the moment.
"I am all set." Annabeth replied, "I mean, we are not going on a long trip so we don't need much."
"Good, a taxi is waiting for you at the hill so hurry up." Chiron replied.
"Right-o" Naruto stated as he gave off a mock salute, getting rolled eyes from his fellow blond.
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"Really, we are at Percy's place? You that eager to see him?" Naruto asked with a teasing smile.
"Oh shut up," Annabeth blushed a bit. "Look, you know where is room is, so let's go straight there."
"Meh…" Naruto said as he put a hand on the girl's shirt. "I get us outside his window just in case he is changing….or you want to see that?" The blonde just smacked his shoulder as he laughed before they disappeared in a black flash once they were away from the car. Not that the drive would see that little detail thanks to the mist but hey.
They appeared on the wall since the fire escape was all rickety, which Naruto found about that the hard way a long time ago. However, Annabeth was light enough so she was fine. She leaned over to look in the window and it seemed Percy saw something because he froze up a bit.
"Percy, you're going to be late!" they heard the voice of his mom called and Naruto sighed.
"Yeah, let's go before we freak her out." Naruto said. He like Percy's mom, she was nice. Annabeth quickly nodded before they disappeared in another black flash to the car.
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Naruto got out of the car and looked at the building in from of him. He was so glad he decided not to tag along with Percy and go to school with him or he would already be at this place. Meriweather College Prep, according to Percy's emails, it was not that great. That was mostly because of the bullies.
Annabeth saw the spiky hair blond look at the place with disinterest. "So…how do you want to surprise him?"
Naruto rose an eyebrow before he smirked with an evil gleam in his eye, which scare the girl somewhat. Maybe asking him that was not sure a good idea. "Oh, go invisible to spy on him and mess with his mind."
"Oh great, mental torture." Annabeth dead panned.
"Yep! And it gives me a chance to test out my new darkness jutsu." Naruto replied.
"Oh and what is that?"
"A jutsu that messes with the light, making people think that I am invisible." Naruto said as he performed some hand signs while walking in the door. He wondered if the doors suddenly opening with no one there would freak anyone out. Oh I hope it does.
Annabeth sighed. Sometimes she wondered about his sanity. She put on her cap and became invisible.
"Darkness Style: Invisibility!" With that, they were both invisible and they could see each other so that they wouldn't bump in each other.
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The duo of Naruto and Annabeth walked the halls in silence, with Naruto grinning like a mad man. He had already pranked a few students into thinking that there was a ghost in the hallway because messing with them. As in messing with them, tapped them on the shoulders before he created a few shadow clones to open the lockers and bang them around.
However, his fun was cut short because Annabeth smacked him on the back of the head. Still, it was funny and he could see the hidden smile on the girl's face.
Soon, Naruto found Percy's unique energy signature. Since people in this world didn't have chakra, it was harder to find someone, but if you were a demi-god, you could tell who the person was by their energy because it reflected who their parent was.
They found the water boy in the a class that Annabeth said was a science class, thanks to all the strange looking glass tubes and colorful chemical. He instantly saw Percy paired up with a very tall kid. Something was odd about him, but he really didn't care.
Telling his invisible partner in crime to stay and watch, he went in and walked around nonchalantly. He tapped a few kids on the shoulder to mess with their heads. When the got to Percy and his tall partner, he heard what they were supposed to do. An explosion? Oh that was so perfect!
He decided to mess with the tall kid a bit and tapped in the shoulder while he was trying to grab hold of the test tubes. This action caused the tall kid to bump into the rest of the chemicals, sending them all into the trash, creating an orange mushroom cloud. Seeing this, Naruto quickly made out of the room, where the kids in the room vacated too while the has-mat team cleaned it out. The one good thing that came out of this was that Percy and his tall friend passed some test.
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Away from the students, Naruto was on the floor laughing his ass off while his fellow blond scowled at him. "You could have gotten them or you hurt!"
"Oh relax!" Naruto wheezed out. "I was just having fun and it seemed that they passed whatever test they had to take, so that's a plus." He paused before smiling, "And another plus is that I created my favorite color!"
"Still, it was stupid to do, Naruto." Annabeth replied with her arms crossed.
Naruto smirked a bit, she was more worried about Percy getting hurt than anything, he relented and said, "Ok ok, I'll be more careful next while I am around your boyfriend." That made the girl blush before he growled and smacked, causing him to laugh.
"He is not my boyfriend!"
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From that point, they observed the water boy for a bit more while he went to his next class, which was a history class that the blond Shinobi almost fell asleep in but Annabeth smacked him awake so that he cause any attention with his snoring. Yes, Naruto snored…loudly.
It seemed that Percy got bored while doing the assignment and took out his notebook and stared at the two photos inside. When Naruto and Annabeth went to D.C., they took pictures and emailed them to Percy. The first picture was of the Lincoln Memorial, but that didn't really catch his eye, what did was his friend Naruto on that stone man's shoulder, giving him bunny ears…literally.
The blond ninja was wearing a white T-shirt with crows, ripped blue jeans, a camp half-blood cap that he had on backwards and the red shoes he got from the fox he killed. Annabeth was in the picture and it seemed that she was pissed.
The other picture was of said blond girl. She was wearing jeans and a denim jacket over her orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt. Her blond hair was pulled back in a bandanna. She was standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial with her arms crossed, looking extremely pleased with herself, like she'd personally designed the place.
Naruto was again in this picture, but he looked very bored as he stared at the clouds. He couldn't blame the blond, neither of them had any interest in architecture like Annabeth did and if he had to guess, Naruto was made to come along.
Percy silently chuckled at the pictures. He was glad to have them because looking at them reminded him that adventure they had was real and not from his imagination. He kind of wished the both of them where here with him because they he figure out the dream he had. He wouldn't admit, but Annabeth was smarter than he was. And Naruto seemed to have the dreams like he did he was good a figuring things out because of his shinobi skills.
Percy was about to close his notebook when Matt Sloan, the local bully, reached over and ripped the photo out of the rings. "Hey!" he protested.
Sloan checked out the picture and his eyes got wide before he laughed at Naruto's picture. "Heh, no way this cool guy is your friend! And this girl, she is not your-"
"Give it back!" His ears felt hot. Annabeth was NOT his girlfriend.
Naruto rose an eyebrow as he watch this and saw Percy's embarrassment. Ah denial….
Sloan handed the photos to his ugly buddies, who snickered and started ripping it up to make spit wads. They were new kids who must've been visiting, because they were all wearing those stupid HI! MY NAME IS: tags from the admissions office. They must've had a weird sense of humor, too, because they'd all filled in strange names like: MARROW SUCKER, SKULL EATER, and JOE BOB. No human beings had names like that.
"These guys are moving here next year," Sloan bragged, like that was supposed to scare the water boy. "I bet they can pay the tuition, too, unlike your retard friend."
"He's not retarded." Percy defended his tall friend.
"You're such a loser, Jackson. Good thing I'm gonna put you out of your misery next period." Sloan said while Percy shook with rage as he watched the idiots destroy his pictures.
With Naruto and Annabeth, they saw this and sighed. Percy would always be the same. However, Naruto narrowed his eyes the supposed new students. Something was not right with them. The duo stared at them and their forms shifted a bit thanks to the mist and their eyes widened. "Oh boy." Naruto said.
"You got that right." Annabeth replied as the bell rung. She made a split second decision and called out his name, "Percy!" He seemed to hear it but shrugged it off as he and he tall friend walked away.
The blond duo rush out of the room to see Percy and his tall , that he heard Percy call him Tyson at one point, get carried off into the gym by a bunch of rowdy kids. Naruto sighed, "Well, let's go and make sure nothing bad happens."
"I have a sinking feeling that something will." Annabeth replied with a bit of worry in her voice.
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At first, things seemed fine in the beginning. Their coach, a very old guy by the name of coach Nunley, didn't seem that interested in the students he just let them all do what they want for the dodge ball game and went back to reading his sports illustrated magazine.
Then the game began. It was Matt Sloan and his gang with the newbies against Percy, Tyson and pretty much everyone who Matt and his gang picked on. It was pretty much one sided. When one of the huge new kids threw a ball at the sound of sound Percy shouted, "Hey! You could kill somebody!"
The visitor named Joe Bob grinned at the water boy evilly. Somehow, he looked a lot bigger now ... even taller than Tyson. His biceps bulged beneath his T-shirt. "I hope so, Perseus Jackson! I hope so!"
"Oh that is not good." Naruto deadpanned.
"You think?" Annabeth sarcastically said.
All around Matt Sloan, the visitors were growing in size. They were no longer kids. They were eight-foot-tall giants with wild eyes, pointy teeth, and hairy arms tattooed with snakes and hula women and Valentine hearts.
Matt Sloan dropped his ball. "Whoa! You're not from Detroit! Who ..."
The other kids on his team started screaming and back-ing toward the exit, but the giant named Marrow Sucker threw a ball with deadly accuracy. It streaked past Raj Mandali just as he was about to leave and hit the door, slamming it shut like magic. Raj and some of the other kids banged on it desperately but it wouldn't budge.
"Let them go!" Percy yelled at the giants.
The one called Joe Bob growled at me. He had a tattoo on his biceps that said: JB luvs Babycakes. "And lose our tasty morsels? No, Son of the Sea God. We Laistrygonians aren't just playing for your death. We want lunch!"
He waved his hand and a new batch of dodgeballs appeared on the center line—but these balls weren't made of red rubber. They were bronze, the size of cannon balls, perforated like wiffle balls with fire bubbling out the holes. They must've been searing hot, but the giants picked them up with their bare hands.
"Shit, get into gear Annabeth. We got…whatever that thing just called itself." Naruto said as his clothes changed to his AMBU Armor. The blond girl nodded and took out her knife, which Naruto sweat dropped at. "You seriously need to get something bigger."
"Oh shut up, we have to get to Percy!" Annabeth growled before the two made their way through the chaos.
The giant named Skull Eater threw his ball. Percy dove aside as the fiery bronze comet sailed past his shoulder. "Corey!" He screamed to his nerd like teammate.
Tyson pulled him out from behind the exercise mat just as the ball exploded against it, blasting the mat to smoking shreds.
"Run!" Percy told his teammates. "The other exit!"
They ran for the locker room, but with another wave of Joe Bob's hand, that door also slammed shut. "No one leaves unless you're out!" Joe Bob roared. "And you're not out until we eat you!" He launched his own fireball. Percy's teammates scattered as it blasted a crater in the gym floor.
When Percy reached for Riptide, which he usually kept in his pocket, but since they wer ein gym and he was wearing his gym clothes…well he didn't have pockets and that was a bit of a problem. He was completely defenseless! Ah! Where is Naruto and his jutsu when you need them!
Another fireball came right for him, but Tyson pushed Percy out of the , the explosion still blew the water boy head over heels. He found himself sprawled on the gym floor, dazed from smoke, his tie-dyed T-shirt peppered with sizzling holes. Just across the center line, two hungry giants were glaring down at him.
"Flesh!" they bellowed. "Hero flesh for lunch!" They both took aim.
"Percy needs help!" Tyson yelled, and he jumped in front of Percy just as they threw their balls.
"Tyson!" Percy screamed, but it was too late.
Both balls slammed into him ... but no ... he'd caught them. Somehow Tyson, who was so clumsy he knocked over lab equipment and broke playground structures on a regular basis, had caught two fiery metal balls speeding toward him at a zillion miles an hour. He sent them hurtling back toward their surprised owners, who screamed, "BAAAAAD!" as the bronze spheres exploded against their chests.
The giants disintegrated in twin columns of flame—a sure sign they were monsters, all right.
Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of
trouble cleaning up after a fight.
Naruto paused in shocked. "Is that normal?" He said, referring to Tyson's strength.
"No." was all Annabeth said as she continued on.
"My brothers!" Joe Bob the Cannibal wailed. He flexed his muscles and his Babycakes tattoo rippled. "You will pay for their destruction!"
"Tyson!" Percy said. "Look out!"
Another comet hurtled toward them. Tyson just had time to swat it aside. It flew straight over Coach Nunley's head and landed in the bleachers with a huge KA-BOOM! Naruto look at it with a dead panned expression. "Yeah, and how does he notice that?" he said to himself.
Kids were running around screaming, trying to avoid the sizzling craters in the floor. Others were banging on the door, calling for help. Sloan himself stood petrified in the middle of the court, watching in disbelief as balls of death flew around him.
Coach Nunley still wasn't seeing anything. He tapped his hearing aid like the explosions were giving him interference, but he kept his eyes on his magazine.
Surely the whole school could hear the noise. The head-master, the police, somebody would come to help them.
"Victory will be ours!" roared Joe Bob the Cannibal. "We will feast on your bones!" He and his friend all hefted those giant flaming balls and aimed for Percy and Tyson.
Naruto watched as Percy told Tyson to move. He was impressed with the boy's dodging skill but he did have a few near misses. Then, when Tyson punched the one called Skull Eater, the giant went down pretty easily, however, another one of those balls came right at the tall kid.
The ball caught Tyson square in the chest. He slid the length of the court and slammed into the back wall, which cracked and partially crumbled on top of him, making a hole right onto Church Street. They couldn't see how Tyson could still be alive, but he only looked dazed. The bronze ball was smoking at his feet. Tyson tried to pick it up, but he fell back, stunned, into a pile of cinder blocks.
"Well!" Joe Bob gloated. "I'm the last one standing! I'll have enough meat to bring Babycakes a doggie bag!"
"She might have to wait a while on that order!" Naruto's voice rang out through the gym. He could not stand by anymore and watch everyone get terrorized like this!
"NARUTO!" Percy cried out happily. They were coming to hang out after all, but he was glad they came earlier.
"Who the hell are you?" Joe Bob roared.
Naruto walked around the flames with a serious expression and the monster gulped. "Oh shit…the Angel of Death!" Yes, even the monsters knew him by that name. Their little adventure last year had gained a lot of attention from the monster world, even though he was the son of Hades.
Naruto turned to Percy and said, "So…how are things?"
Percy's eye twitched at that. Only this blond could be so nonchalant in a situation like this.
"HEY! I AM STILL HERE YOU BRATS!" Joe Bob roared in rage before he charged.
"Look out!" Percy and Annabeth shouted.
Naruto smirked as he held out his hand. "Darkness Style: Rasengan!" He thrust the ball of swirling darkness in the raging monster's gut, making it twist around before shooting off, but Naruto wasn't done, he flashed away before appearing behind the fling monster. He then caught Annabeth's knife and sliced down the middle, turning the monster to dust.
The blond landed in the smoke and when it cleared some, Percy saw his two blond friend smiling at him. Naruto looked fine except all the soot on his skin, but with the newish clothes, he looked like the same as the knuckle headed ninja he met a long time ago.
Annabeth's face was grimy and scratched. She had a ragged backpack slung over her shoulder, her baseball cap tucked in her pocket, a bronze knife that was now in her hand, and a wild look in her storm-gray eyes, like she'd just been chased a thousand miles by ghosts.
Matt Sloan, who'd been standing there dumbfounded the whole time, finally came to his senses. He blinked at Annabeth and Naruto, as if he dimly recognized them from Percy's notebook picture. "That's the cool guy ... That's the girl—"
Annabeth punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. "And you," she told him, "lay off my friend." Naruto sweat dropped at that, but then smirked.
The gym was in flames. Kids were still running around screaming. Percy heard sirens wailing and a garbled voice over the intercom. Through the glass windows of the exit doors, he could see the headmaster, Mr. Bonsai, wrestling with the lock, a crowd of teachers piling up behind him.
"Annabeth, Naruto..." Percy stammered. "How did you ... how long have you ..."
"Pretty much all morning." She sheathed her bronze knife. "We've been trying to find a good time to talk to you, but you were never alone."
"Yeah and you can thank me for you passing grade in that science class of your." Naruto bragged with an arm around Percy's shoulder.
Percy smiled at Naruto thankfully before the word's Annabeth said caught up to him and his face grew red, "The shadow I saw this morning—that was—" Naruto chuckled at that, muttering something along the lines someone getting in a peek, to which Annabeth punched him. "Oh my gods, you were looking in my bed-room window?"
"There's no time to explain!" she snapped, though she looked a little red-faced herself. "I just didn't want to—"
"There!" a woman screamed. The doors burst open and the adults came pouring in.
"Meet us outside," Annabeth told me. "And him." She pointed to Tyson, who was still sitting dazed against the wall. Annabeth gave him a look of distaste that Percy didn't quite understand. However, he didn't have to worry about Naruto because he looked at Tyson with interest. "You'd better bring him."
"What?" Percy asked a bit confused.
"No time!" she said. "Hurry!" She then put a hand on Naruto's shoulder while he gave a salute with a smirk before black flashing away.
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The duo appeared on Church Street to wait for their fellow demi-god and his new friend. Soon, they saw the figure of Percy running to them in his gym clothes and riptide in pen form in his hands, followed by Tyson. "Here we go." Naruto said.
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There is the second chapter, next time they go on a wild taxi ride to get back to camp!
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