Whoo I'm happy I managed to get this up in week, thankfully I had all of this pre-written, sorry if this is a bit shorter then the other chapter but I wanted to get this done focused mainly on the beach rather then jumping around for once. Thanks for everyone's support and I super excited that I past 100 reviews! this is so awesome thanks alot for everyone for staying interested in my fic! Now for some responses to reviews:
Shinigami: Lol no I think its too early for Nico and Percy to return back to camp they will go to the camp but not until later. The enemy is still plotting so you'll see that coming up soon and you're right about Percy having some control over his power he can't fully control them but he can manipulate water to a certain extent as you'll see.
TheMuseNamedPancake: *dodges cake chunks* Don't worry it was just coincidence that they ran into each other lol but they don't know about Tatsuya...yet *evil grins*
Shinigami: (Uh dunno if this is the same person but I'll reply) You'll see what happens with Luke and Thaila meeting Nico in this chapter don't worry he's not heading back to camp yet just because they met up here. Lol Nico and Percy will be outnumbered but who they're fighting it'll be a bit of a shock. About your question about the gods being nervous about a dragon, its because he's an unknown factor. They know next to nothing about him since they keep their concerns in their territory and not concern themselves with gods in their own realms. So they're not quite sure how to handle a dragon god in their territory much less taking care of Poseidon's son and Hades's son. Hope that helps.
Raptorrix: Maybe it is a bit weird for Tatsuya and Percy to eat fish but it never said in the books Percy never ate fish being poseidon's son and Tatsuya is a water dragon so he would eat fish alot (in my opinion anyway)
Hayley: Tatsuya didn't really give Nico and Percy his blessings, (you'll find out what he really gave them later on) but for now what he basically did was tagged them so if they were in trouble he would know and be able to help/save them and about the prophecy in my story there really isn't one lol sorry.
Dream-Glaze: I'm glad you don't mind the OCs and thanks for the lovely compliments about my story!
That's about it I'm working on the outline of the next chapter so hopefully I can get consistent with my chapters, anyway I need to thank my beta Tonbo-Kitsune for helping me and now enjoy the chapter!
Meanwhile in a more secluded part of the beach where the pier was at a bit of a distance, Percy had just finished setting up the two towels for himself and Nico as Celeste settled down onto the towel watching the belongings as Percy grabs his board.
"Now you watch the stuff and tell me if you see Nico or someone coming alright?" Percy said.
The Labrador retriever nodded as her tail wagged making Percy laugh as he grabbed his board and ran towards the waves happily as he swam out for a bit. It didn't take long for the waves to come towards him and soon he was surfing on small to medium sized waves, knowing better then to swim out too far since Tatsuya had warned him not so swim farther then the middle of the pier.
The son of Poseidon continued to enjoy his time out on the ocean until he was climbing back onto his board after falling off of it when a waved had knocked him over. He heard barking coming from the beach making him look over and he sees two people walking on the beach, prompting him to paddle quickly over and dragged his surfboard to his towel, sticking it into the sand as he stands next to Celeste as the two people walked over.
When Percy got a better look at the two he could see they were a bit older then Nico, one was large burly looking African-American teen while the girl was burly and big herself, she was almost as big as the boy next to her. The two stopped only a few feet away from Percy before they stopped and took a good look at him, which made Percy a bit nervous.
'Why are they looking at me like that?' Percy thought to himself as he stayed close to Celeste. The dog could feel Percy's uneasy and bumped her head against the younger boy's body trying to assure him it was all right.
"Hey doesn't he look like the kid from the photo we were given a while ago?" the tanned male teen asked the girl. The girl next to him squints her eyes a bit staring at Percy before she agrees with her companion.
"Yeah there's no mistaken it, can't believe we actually found the kid now we just have to haul him back to camp." The girl replied.
At that statement Percy stiffened up and glared at the two.
"I'm not going back with you to some camp I don't know anything about!" Percy stated adamantly.
"I'd like to see a pint sized brat like you stop us, you wouldn't last even a minute against either of us!" the girl sneered as she moved closer to grab Percy.
"Oh yeah! Try this!" Percy shouted and before her friend could warn her she suddenly was hit hard by a roaring wave that sent the girl sprawling, getting her completely drenched. When the waved pulled back the girl had seaweed covering her head and on her clothes as well.
The water didn't stop there the water moved over to Percy and in his hands a trident formed allowing the boy to hold the weapon in front of him threateningly.
"That proof enough for you?" Percy growled at the two teens as the dark boy helped the girl up.
"Now Clarisse calm down you did kind of threaten him." The guy said.
"Screw being nice Beckendorf! He's going to get a thrashing!" the girl now called Clarisse hissed as she pushed the boy away from him, turning to glare angrily at Percy clenching her fists angrily.
"Now Percy, I understand that Clarisse isn't the best Percy to make a suggestion but we need you to come with us back to the camp, you're be safer there." Charles tried but the young half-blood narrowed his eyes.
"I'm safe where I am now, I don't need some camp for protection." Percy stated before he nudged Celeste gently, "Celeste go get help, I need you to go before you get caught in this fight."
Celeste whined a bit but when she saw Percy not faltering she barked at him as a sign to be careful before she sprinted off the beach. Clarisse meanwhile finally pulled off the last bit of seaweed off of her as she continued glowering at Percy.
"They never said that we had to bring you back to the camp conscious, we can always drag your sorry butt back unconscious!" Clarisse shouted as she brought out her spear that had sparks of lighting around the tip making Percy suddenly nervous.
The young half-blood's eyes widen when he saw the electric spear, he remembered from some of his science classes that water conducts electricity which meant Percy was going to have a tough time fighting Clarisse with a trident made out of pure seawater.
"Come on you two, we aren't suppose to be fighting and we're not suppose to hurt him!" Charles tried reasoning. He was horrified that Clarisse had brought out her spear but with her weapon out Charles was half hoping that maybe the young boy would back off and be more willing to go with them but much to his dismay he saw that it only made Percy more determined as he backed a bit away from the two making Charles sighed.
"Let's not hurt him too much alright? Or its not just going to Chiron that'll be upset with us." Charles sighed.
"I make no promises except for maybe a bit of bruising," Clarisse sneered, "but nothing a bit of ambrosia can heal…"
Meanwhile back with Nico's situation…
'Great just great….' Nico thought as he gripped his board tightly watching Luke and Thaila carefully, as the two were doing the same with the son of Hades.
Thaila couldn't help but glance over at Nico who instead of wearing his black jeans, shirt, and bomber jacket, wearing a scowl of on his face all the time, was wearing some loose black swimming trunks and water shoes.
"Nico…what exactly are you doing?" Luke finally managed to get out.
"What does it look like I was going to do?" Nico couldn't help but indicate to the board in his hand, "its kind of obvious."
"We don't mean that! I mean shouldn't you be looking for Percy or at least training! What are you doing surfing!" Thaila practically shouted at Nico.
"I have better things to do and I have been training, I'm on my break." Nico retorted as he turned his back to the two.
Luke's eyes narrowed as he's suddenly suspicious about Nico's reply, being the son of Hermes's he can read people easily when they're lying to him and has the distinct feeling that the son of Hades's knows more then he's letting on.
"What about the camp? We were all given the mission to bring back Poseidon's son and what about Bianca?" Thalia argued.
"Don't talk about Bianca!" Nico raged dropping his surfboard angrily, "I don't even want to think about her after what she did!"
"She misses you!"
"Oh now she misses me huh!"
"Yes and she wants to apologize!"
"Well tough I don't want her apology!"
"You're being a brat Nico!"
"And you're being a pain Thalia!"
The two start arguing between each other on the boardwalk as Luke tried to intervene but more then a few times the two turned to him and started to get on his case. This continued on for a bit longer until Luke's attention was turned elsewhere, more specifically it was turned down to the beach in the distance.
"Hey guys any idea what's going down over there?" Luke asked trying to catch the arguing duo's attention.
Nico and Thalia stopped their arguing to turn where the son of Hermes was looking at over in the distance. Nico moved towards the rail of the pier to try and get a better look but then his eyes widen when he managed to catch what was happening and cursed under his breath as he gripped the rail and then leapt down from the pier straight onto the beach and started running.
"Nico! You get your damn butt back here!" Thalia shouted as she looked around and found the stairs that the pier had that went straight to the beach, Luke wasn't far behind chasing after both Nico and Percy.
"Stand still you little brat! It'll only hurt for a few seconds!" Clarisse sneered as she tried to get Percy with her spear, the other boy just barely managing to dodge the strikes aimed at him, he knew better then to use his trident against the spear since he'd be the one taking the damage from the electricity.
"Man next time I see dad I'm talking to him about upping my training to form ice…" he muttered ducking just in time for the blunt side of the spear and ended up standing in the water.
Percy took advantage of his training and got the sea water to wrap around Clarisse's ankles and with a quick pull of his arm the bigger girl fell hard onto the sand making her lose her grip on the spear, moving quickly he retracted the water and formed a bubble around him just as Charles tried to come from behind him to grab him.
Clarisse angrily spat out the sand as she stands up furiously gripping her spear tightly, swinging it harshly making Charles dive to the side so that he wouldn't get hit in the process.
"Clarisse! Watch where you're swinging that thing you nearly took my head off!" Charles shouted shaking the sand off of him.
"Bad mistake brat using water to shield you!" Clarisse roared as she looked like she was about to stab the bubble with her spear, if she didn't lose her balance at the ground shaking underneath her making her fall back onto the sand again..
"Dammit what the hell is with everyone tripping me!" Clarisse growled out looking around.
"Nico!" Percy cried out happily making Charles and Clarisse stare at him as he ran up to Percy, as the bubble popped and Nico stood next to Percy holding out his own stygarian sword out against the two half bloods just as Luke and Thalia joined them.
"Nico what the Hades is going on!" Thalia shouted as she stared at the younger boy standing close to Nico glaring at them, "have you known all the time where he was this whole time Di Angelo!"
"What is goth boy doing here and in swim trunks!" Clarisse glared.
"Yes Nico why don't you explain to us why you're here with the child we've been looking for?" Luke asked dangerously.
Nico didn't say anything but he shifted his stance a bit holding his sword in front of him, as if daring them to try and get closer to him and Percy.
"Why don't we take that as a yes…" Charles said as he frowned as well looking at Nico, "you could've at least mentioned you knew where he was living so we could keep an eye on him, or at least convinced him to come back to camp."
"The reason I haven't bothered trying to get Percy to the camp is mostly because of his adopted dad would've refused to let him go when he can train Percy himself." Nico retorted.
Clarisse scoffed at that as she folded her arms.
"Exactly what can this guy teach that the brat couldn't learn in the camp?" Clarisse sneered.
"My dad is really strong and could beat all of you easily!" Percy shouted not liking the tone of how Clarisse was speaking about his dad as his grip tighten on his trident.
"Nico why don't you come back to camp with Percy, so we can talk about this where its safer and no one can eavesdrop on us." Luke tried to negotiate.
"No way Luke," Nico replied shaking his head, "I promise his dad that I wouldn't let Percy go to the camp until he was deemed strong enough to do so himself, and that I'd take care of him in his stead."
"You're being ridiculous and its better for the both of you to return to camp!" Thalia growled.
Nico's reply to that was to make a small quake at the group making most of them lose their balance.
"Thanks but no thanks, I'm rather keen on not going back to the camp anytime soon besides," Nico replied as he smirked, "do you really want to take me on when I can summon skeleton warriors to fight as well?"
Most of the group faltered when they tried thinking of their chances against skeleton warriors, even Clarisse looked unsure since she had heard how hard it was to get rid of those creatures if you weren't a child of Hades.
"Idle threat Nico, we're out in the public where anyone can walk over and it can cause too much of a disturbance since it's the middle of the day at well at the beach no less…" Luke replied smirking a bit back at Nico.
"Fine, then you'll just have to drag both me and Percy to camp because we're not going back willingly." Nico shot back determined.
"Fine you really think you can last against us when you hardly trained compared to us? Then we'll show you!" Clarisse roared as she was the first to run forward and thrust out her sword as Luke brought out his own sword as Thalia brought out her own spear and shield.
Nico parried the blow from Clarisse and bunted the other girl in the head with the bottom of his sword, dazing her before slammed his weight against the bigger girl sending her crashing into Charles who was coming up from behind Clarisse.
Percy was giving support from the back as he stayed in the water allowing him to manipulate the water to attack and protect. Thalia and Luke tried to get past Nico to get to Percy but they were taken back with how well trained Percy was with his gift. The son of Poseidon was keeping Luke and Thalia at bay by throwing condensed spheres of water that forced them to dodge along with tendrils of water so they wouldn't get captured either. Not only that when they tried to over power Nico, Percy managed to make solid walls of water that the weapons bounced off allowing Nico to push them back through his control of the earth.
Although it wasn't the time, Nico managed to manipulate sand a bit since it was just broken pieces of earth so that the terrain for Luke and the others were bumpy and had to watch where they ran less they wanted to fall and lose momentum.
"This isn't working! We need to come up with something to get to them!" Charles shouted as he ducked a sphere of water as Clarisse burst one by shoving the tip of her spear in it where the electricity made it explode.
"If you have any bright ideas I'd love to hear them!" Thalia snarled as she tried taking Nico herself but Nico was managing to stay a few steps ahead of her when she tried getting to the young boy. Her shield helped her but with Percy as Nico's back up it was hard to concentrate on just one half-blood.
"Luke do you have anything?" Charles asked looking at the son of Hermes who was swiftly dodging anything thrown from Percy but still couldn't get close enough to grab him or Nico.
"I have nothing…" Luke grimaced as he sliced a tendril of water that tried to grab him but couldn't get a good grip.
It was a stroke of luck for Luke and the others that despite Percy being trained well, he didn't have that much stamina compared to the others. He was breathing heavily, sweat falling from his head as he tried to keep up with the others despite how tired he felt. So it wasn't surprising when Percy fell to his knees before he completely fainted behind Nico.
When Nico heard a 'thud' behind him he turned to see Percy on the wet sand as the waves ran over him.
"Percy!" Nico shouted about to run towards him but he forgot that he was in a battle which the others took advantage of it as Thalia leapt forward and kicked Nico away from Percy, making him drop his sword and pin him down into the sand as Clarisse made sure he stopped moving by pointing her spear at Nico's throat.
"Game over goth boy…" Clarisse gloated as she smirked down at Nico who was glaring loathingly at them.
None of the campers noticed Percy and Nico's hands briefly glow a bit before disappearing once more.
"I'm sorry we had to do this Nico but you challenged us and we beat you." Luke said as he wiped his forehead, "I didn't want to fight you but you forced our hand."
"Oh quit with the dramatics and let's get going already already!" Clarisse grumbled keeping her spear out as Thalia hauled Nico up with the help of Charles to keep him subdue.
Luke nodded and made his way over to the unconscious son of Poseidon and was about to grab him when suddenly the water shot out and wrapped around him forming a bubble.
"What the…can he control the water unconsciously!" Luke exclaimed swerving around to get answers from Nico but the son of Hades seemed just as surprised as he was.
"No, he's never done anything like that before." Nico replied suddenly worried.
"Dammit!" Luke cursed as he took his dagger and tried popping the bubble but like earlier, the weapon just bounced off the water the same happened when Luke tried punching it.
"Move aside blondie." Clarisse said and raised her spear about to try and pierce the bubble when Luke tackled her down.
"Are you crazy Clarisse! Your spear generates electricity you're going to put Percy into a coma if you try breaking a water bubble with it!" Luke shouted at the Ares girl.
"Then what do you suggest pretty boy? By the looks of it he's about to go out to the ocean!" Clarisse snarled back making everyone turn back to Percy and indeed, it seemed what the Ares girl said was true Percy, seemed to be pulled towards the ocean.
The others ran towards the unconscious boy and also tried to get him free but the bubble was too strong as was the pool, but they were having next to no luck as soon Percy was half way submerged in the water.
Out of no where everyone froze when they heard a loud roar of water and stared as water flew up and crashed down onto everyone except for Nico who just watched Luke, Thalia, Charles, and Clarisse get washed away.
"Now what is going on here?" a deep voiced asked making the group that had just been washed away stare at the newcomer warily while Nico looked relived when he saw the man.
"Tatsuya…" Nico said smiling at the adult.
"Hello Nico I'm glad you're okay." Tatsuya replied smiling before turning his attention else well.
"How did you know to come here?" Nico asked.
"Remember the marks I gave you? I told you it was a signal incase something happened to either you or Percy." Tatsuya replied.
"Who the Hades are you?" Clarisse spat as she was completely soaked, trying to stand but for some reason she was feeling very uneasy in the presence of the man that appeared out of nowhere.
He didn't seem to be paying her any mind and more focused on Percy. His eyes narrowed when he saw small ropes of water attached to the bubble pulling it into the ocean.
'So there's someone else I should be worried about besides the camp and the other group huh?' Tatsuya thought to himself as he raised a fist and punched right through the bubble bursting it into tiny droplets.
Everyone stared as this stranger instantly broke the bubble that had given them trouble to break as he knelt down and picked up Percy. They watched, as Nico seemed to know the man as he handed Percy to him before the two of them walked forward towards them until they stood a few feet away.
"H-how…how in the world did he break though that bubble like it was nothing?" Thalia gaped staring at the man that was watching them.
"I don't know but he's giving me a bad feeling…like we should be careful." Luke replied rubbing his arm nervously.
"He's just a normal mortal! How can he give off that feeling!" Clarisse hissed refusing to believe what Luke was saying as she stood up and glared threateningly at the man who didn't seem to think they were much.
"So Nico care to explain how this happened?" Tatsuya asked turning to the older teen.
Before Nico could reply Charles interrupted him.
"how did you do that? Are you related to Poseidon since you could control the water?" he asked boldly.
Tatsuya shook his head, "I'm a bit how should I say, similar to Poseidon but that isn't the case. What I'd like to know is why my son and his cousin were attacked when they were suppose to be relaxing."
"Nico ran away and we were looking for Percy, they needed to come back to the camp!" Thalia retorted.
Tatsuya raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
"There is no way I will allow my son or Nico to go back to the camp without my permission I still need to train him a bit longer." Tatsuya replied making the campers mouth dropped.
"I don't care what kind of freaky powers you have whatever you are, but we are taking them back with or without your permission!" Clarisse declared.
"Oh really now?" Tatsuya replied as his eyes glint at the Ares girl and with a snap of his fingers Clarisse was hoisted up into the air by water that wrapped around her body pinning her arms to her side forcing her to drop her spear.
"Clarisse!" Thalia and the others shouted in shock as they turned to look horrified at Tatsyua who looked bored.
"Really child you have a lot to learn about manners and exactly who you're pointing your pretty little glow stick at." Tatsuya yawned as he looked at Clarisse who was struggling.
"Let her go!" Thalia said as she gripped her own spear tightly as the others brought out their own weapons.
"Honestly what are they teaching you at that camp of yours, if you think you can attack me to free your friend you're wrong, now I'm more assured in keeping Percy away from the camp." Tatsuya stated, "You really need to learn how to pick your fights."
"What do you want…" Luke gritted out glaring at Tatsuya.
"I want to make things clear, so tell whoever is in charge of the camp this, I am not allowing my son Percy or Nico to return to the camp." Tatsuya said darkly as he threw down Clarisse into the group. The Ares girl was coughing trying to get feeling back in her limbs as she looked at Tatsuya.
"Do you know who Nico and Percy are?" Thalia asked looking at Tatsuya who returned her look with an annoyed one of his own.
"That Percy is the half-blood son of Lord Poseidon, one of the Big Three gods of Olympus, known also as the Earth shaker as Nico is the son of Hades Lord of the dead the other brother in the Big Three? Of course I know child." Tatsuya replied in a tone that made it sound like the question Thalia asked him was a stupid one.
From the look on Thalia's face which contorted into one of fury she could tell that this man was making fun of her. It was only when Luke put a hand on her shoulder that she calmed down considerably.
"Now that I have your attention, this is only warning for you or anyone else from the camp to try something like again. Otherwise I might not be so 'kind' to leave you all conscious." Tatsuya hissed darkly making the group flinch as they stared into cold blue electric eyes.
Once Tatsuya could see that the campers finally got it through their heads that they weren't getting Percy or Nico back to camp, Tatsuya motioned for Nico to follow him as they headed back to the spot where Percy had put his towels earlier.
Before they completely walked past the group of stunned half-bloods Thalia managed to gather her courage and ask Tatsuya one last question.
"Just what exactly are you! Your control over water means you aren't a normal mortal!" the daughter of Zeus demanded.
Tatsuya stopped and turned around, giving the group a chillingly dark smirk that they felt a shiver go down their spines when they saw the look on Tatsuya's face.
"Someone you younglings are a few thousand years from even attempting to fight." He replied cryptically before disappearing into the distance with Nico and Percy.
"That…did you feel the power coming off of him?" Luke gasped out as he held a hand to his chest, "that pressure…its like when one of the gods are in front of us letting out their power…"
"But that's not possible is it? For an unknown god to appear is it?" Charles asked a bit worried.
"Clarisse are you alright?" Thalia asked as she helped the older girl up, but she was fine as she pushed Thalia away.
"I'm fine princess!" Clarisse scowled calling Thalia the nickname she had been given when it was discovered she was Lord Zeus's daughter.
"Well sorry for worrying about you." Thalia glowered before she turned to Luke, "so what do we do now? Follow them?"
"And risk getting one of us hurt I rather not. The best thing to do would be to report back to Chiron, maybe he has some insight on this." Luke replied shaking his head.
"Damn it all! Next time I won't be taken by surprise by that guy!" Clarisse scowled as the soaking wet group headed off the beach.
"Next time you may not be so lucky." Luke shot back seriously, "now stop sulking and lets move already."
"Watch your back pretty boy…" Clarisse hissed as she followed their appointed leader.
oOo
Back in the ocean Triton emerged as he rubbed his hand where a bruise was forming as he glared at the retreating figures that carried Percy.
"Damn that guy, if he hadn't severed my trap I would've had him.." the immortal son of Poseidon growled angrily, "I was so close…"
"Something troubling you Triton?" a female voice next to him asked making Triton turn and see Aquarius right there.
"I was close in capturing my disgusting half-blood brother if it wasn't interfered by that man. He managed to burst my trap as if it was nothing and he had control over the waters almost as well as father." Triton spat out.
"Really now? A mere man managed to break apart a trap of yours easily? Care to describe him?" Aquarius asked interested.
Triton went on to describe Tatsuya in as much detail as he could from what he had seen, throughout the explanation Aquarius's eyes widen and by the time Triton was finished she was positively giddy with an eager expression on her face.
"This is excellent! I want you to keep watch on this beach in case he or the kids come back and take in every single detail you can about him!" Aquarius stated before she disappeared in another burst of bubbles leaving a confused Triton behind.
"What's so interesting about him?" he mumbled to himself frowning before he dove back into the ocean trying to think of more sure-fire ways of getting his half-brother to him.