I do not own Destiny or Percy Jackson, I only own my OCs.
"Oh why reader, glad you could make it." Slim Prime said while sitting on top of a boxed room.
The room shook moments later as if something was trying to get out.
"Oh don't mind that, it's just Rogue trying to get out. Yeah this is his punishment for something that we will not speak of. His punishment, extreme boredom. He will stay in this box until he correctly guesses the two items that brought a kid true happiness before the time of the internet."
The box room shook again.
"He has yet to correctly guess the answers."
"Anyways let's hit those guest reviews and get into the story. BUT there are no guest reviews, so I guess this is a good time to talk about something. Some of the characters in the PJ universe will not be acting as they normally would. Some prime examples are Atlas and Prometheus, they will back be acting differently from the cannon selves. This is many done to help more a few things along in the plot in Atlas' case or because I feel some characters were miss represented IE Prometheus."
"Also, as the story goes on you might notice some characters from other universes making an appearance. If you know where they come from feel free to shout out where they come from in your review. If you guys feel someone would make a good guardian, or you want to make one up, just PM me and I will review your character/character suggestion."
"Lastly I would like you guys to go check out a story called "The Revingston Monster Removal Service" by CzarSoza. If you would go check out his story and show him some love it's all about a bunch of normal humans taking on the supernatural world with guns. It's good stuff!"
Now let's start that story!
Its been a few months since we moved our base out of New York and more inland to the state known as Colorado, and the location of the last city in our future. The land around the area was not totally the same as it was in our future but there were some similarities. Osiris theorized that the traveler changed the geographical landscape of the area to add to the mountains that surrounded the city, as it stood now there were only a few mountains in the surrounding area.
Orion has been exploring the county wilds to get a good idea on where everything is at. He has been dealing with the monsters in the area the most, killing anything that gave off the same signature the monsters gave off. Strange thing is he ran into a goat man who was trying to get him to go to some kind of camp, but Orion blew him off once he found that he was a non-threat. I have also noticed that he seems to be looking for some people that show the potential to become guardians, though he has not had any luck as of late.
Osiris on the other hand has already started forming his organization, at the moment he has gathered ten people to help him along in his plans. Some of them were at the base with me but that was only two of the ten as the other eight were working else were. He mentioned to me that he was going to be checking out the mountain sometime soon, but he did not give me a date and being immortal soon could mean a few years from now.
For the most part I have been staying at the site of our base building the darn thing. Oliva has been helping me build the base where she could, mainly the architecture of our over and underground base. I on the other hand have been doing all the heavy lifting. The base was coming together and I had a feeling I would be done in the coming months.
I've also done some combat training with Oliva, nothing fancy but she would be able to deal with things bigger than her by the time I was done training with her. She seemed so soak up information like a sponge, especially when I got into combat related stories. It dawned on me that she might become a guardian, but we really did not have any way to determine if someone would one-hundred percent become a guardian. But if she was destined to become a guardian there was no doubt in my mind that she would become a titan. While she did have the mind of a warlock, she had the soul of a titan and that was what mattered.
I did what I could with the two kids that were requested by Osiris, but they were more interested in reading a book then learning how to shoot a gun. However, none of them seemed to be interested when I tried to teach them how to dance. They laughed at me when I said that we were going to spend the next month learning how to dance. I guess they forgot just how powerful I was, and how powerful they would become at one point. It was common to have two guardians settle differences by a dance off, seeing as the crucible became more of a live fire training arena then a place to settle differences. After threatening to burn all the other two kids' books, they started to pay attention to my lessons.
After a few more months had passed and I finally got most of the base up and running. No more camping outside for this titan! The kids were also happy to have somewhere to sleep other than a tent. Large two story house with twenty bedrooms and a bathroom for each, this place was ready to house a bunch of people.
Then one-night Olivia came into the living room, it was way past her bedtime. She had a scared look on her face.
"Olivia you should be in bed." I said, taking a glance at her.
She did not reply, she only walked over to the couch opposite of me and took a seat. "W-what are you?"
I looked up from the newspaper I was skimming.
'Guess she is getting to that point where simply seeing you as "that powerful guy" is no longer working for her.' Mhyrixis said into my mind.
'It was bound to happen sooner or later.' I said back, folding the newspaper.
"Well I am a human." I said smiling, she was about to say something, but I held up my hand to stop her. "But I am not a mere man, I am what humanity could achieve if something came in and helped out a little."
She looked at me with those curious eyes that yearned to know more, but she was not ready for that talk… and the other one now that I think about it. All the kids here knew that Osiris, Orion and I were not normal humans. Osiris may be dropping hints to what he is, but I would rather be plain with someone then drop hints for them to figure out. They were still young and did not need to know about the horrors that existed out there beyond our little world of ignorance bliss.
She tried to push me to elaborate on what I had said but she had neither the experience nor the mental strength to make me bend to her wishes. In the end she went to bed with more questions then she had answers.
Just after she left that damn fly, who is living well past a fly's life expectancy, started to buzz around my ear again. What followed was the sound of high impact clapping as I tried to kill the damn thing, but the damn thing still managed to evade me. It was like this fly was crafted by the Darkness itself to torment me!
Osiris was making his way up Mount Tamalpais in his warlock robes, his scout rifle in his hands ready to deal merciless death at its master's command. The old warlock was already sensing the area around becoming thick with the same energy that hid the monster from normal human sight. He noticed as he climbed the mountain that the energy only got thicker as well as the distant sound of singing. Oddly enough it was getting louder as he went up the mountain.
It soon got to the point where he began to feel himself being drawn to the sound of females singing. However, as he realised the singing was meant to draw him in it became easy to resist the melody. As he neared the voices a thick mist began to set in, he knew it was supernatural in origin. But this simply mist would not deter the warlock. As he reached the upper parts of the mountain the guardian came upon three beautiful women who were dancing and singing. They soon took notice of the warlock but that did not stop them from dancing and singing.
They smiled at him and beckoned him to join them in their dance.
The warlock looked down to the area around the dancing women. He could see it; Darkness was pooling in this area caused by the mass death of humans. Osiris narrowed his eyes at the three women and raised his scout rifle. The three stopped dancing as soon as they saw the threat.
"I will say it once," Osiris declared to the three "women". "What are you?"
"If you are resisting our song then you must be a demigod." The mile and oldest looking one hissed at him. "You are here for the Golden Apples then."
"I am here to investigate the space anomaly in this area not for you colored apples."
"You lie!" The youngest one declared she then turned towards a tree in the distance and yelled. "Ladon!"
It did not take Osiris long to spot what she was calling for. From the tree in the distance a creature with over fifty heads began to rise. Seeing the monster Osiris did not wait for it to make the first move and began firing at the monster with his scout rifle, the warlock aiming for the heads of the creature. His time in the infinite forest had not dulled his skills with a gun at all, in his rifle's sixteen round mag, each round found their mark in one of the dragon's heads. The dragon roared in pain as sixteen of its heads exploded in a blast of blood and gore from the large caliber rounds the intruder was shooting at it.
Osiris reloaded his rifle before having to jump back to avoid the monster's heads all trying to take a bite out of him. With a creature like this he would have to use more area effect attacks. He could see the heads he had shot out regenerating. Switching his light focus to Void, Osiris pooled his light into his hand creating a Nova bomb. Moments later the guardian fired the Nova Bomb, the large ball of Void light flying towards its target.
Even the monster knew that this attack would hurt it and tried to get out of its way, but its size coupled with the Nova Bomb's able to track its target made escape useless. The Nova Bomb slammed into the dragon's head, the large monster letting out a pain filled shriek as over thirty heads were obliterated by the Void light energy. However, Osiris was far from finished with him. Switching his light focus to Solar the warlock jumped into the air and called fourth his Dawnblade.
Fire wings sprouted from the warlock's back as the sword took shape. He hovered in the air while he used his dawnblade to rain down fire upon the monster. The creature's heads burned under the heat of the guardian's soul light energy. With less than fifty heads remaining Osiris saw his opportunity to end this, with most of the heads gone he could see its main body. Pouring more light energy into his dawnblade the sword began to burn brighter. Aiming his sword at the monster's main body Osiris shot towards the monster.
The monster tried to use its remaining heads to intercept the guardian, but they were easily slashed aside. The dawnblade made contact with the monsters skin moments later, crying out in pain as Soul Light filled its body, burning it from the inside out. Its skin began to burn away as the Soul Light moved outward in a second the cries of the monster faded as its last head burned into nothing.
With the monster dead Osiris dismissed his dawnblade and turned to the three women who were staring at him wide eyed as if he had just done the impossible. Osiris narrowed his eyes at the human-like creatures then charged a grenade in his hand. Seeing the danger the three turned tailed and ran, disappearing into mist as they did. With them gone Osiris dismissed the grenade and continued on his way up the mountain.
It did not take the warlock long to reach the very top of the mountain and spy the anomaly and the huge human looking being holding it up. Now seeing it the anomaly strangely looked like the night sky. The being holding up the anomaly was easily over thirty feet tall and very well built, all in all he looked like any titan he had met before; muscles all over his body, strong facial expression, and large shoulders. He could also tell that this being was a leader or at least one who could lead. Strangely enough he also noted that the giant was wearing an expensive looking business suit, odd given his position.
Osiris began to walk towards the giant, while telling his ghost to get the necessary equipment ready to repair the damage. Most of said equipment being derived from Vex technology or research on the Vex. After all he was able to build The Sundial so fixing a fracture in the space continuum would be child's play.
The giant noticed Osiris as he drew closer to the anomaly, his eyes burning with hatred whether it was for him or something else Osiris didn't know.
'Careful Osiris I don't like the looks of this guy.' Sagira said into her guardian's mind.
"I do not know you." The giant spoke, his voice shaking the ground. "Are you a demigod looking to steal more golden apples from the tree? Be warned I will not be tricked again."
"I am not here for your colored apples." Osiris said back, getting tired of these beings thinking he was here for some colored apples.
"Then who are you, and state your business for being here", the giant asked, though it sounded more of a demand if anything.
"I am here to fix that anomaly you're holding up." Osiris said, pointing to the sky looking anomaly held up by the giant. "Why the powers that be of this time have not come to fix it yet I do not know."
Osiris saw no need to give the giant his name, so he decided to only answer the reason for him being here. If push came to shove he could simply kill the giant while he was holding up the anomaly. He had a feeling that the giant was not holding up the anomaly by the goodness of his heart.
The giant looked at the man, thinking he was insane for saying such a thing. To be able to release him of his burden and began to laugh. His laugh vibrating and shaking the land all around him, which simulated that of a small earthquake. This went on for half a minute till the giant's laughter soon faded into small chuckles until he was able to speak again.
"Only Two beings are capable of easing me of my burden, the one who gave me this punishment, and the one who tricked me into completing his eleventh labor. Tell me, do you know who I am?" The giant asked, curious to know whether the man in front of him had heard of him.
Osiris looked at the giant for a while, in his head he was driving into the centuries worth of information he had obtained over his years as a guardian. Yet in all his years he had never heard of a giant holding up an anomaly. It was possible such information was wiped out during the dark age.
"I do not know who you are, but it gives me pause that you say this is a punishment. Was this anomaly made to hold you?" If such a thing was true then these beings might be more of a problem, then he thought.
The giant hummed in response, once learning that the being in front of him did not know of him. "I see, then allow me to tell you. I am the titan titans were the gods before the Olympians until they decided to overthrow us. I became the leader of my kind when we went to war with Zeus and the olympians of Mount Olympus In what was known as the Titanomachy. As you can see, the war ended in our loss, the titans were imprisoned in Tartarus and as punishment from Zeus, I was condemned to carry the heavens upon my shoulders. There, now you know my story, may I know your name and story in return?" The giant asked, intrigued by this unknown man in front of him.
Once again Osiris became silent.
'Might as well Osiris, if he is talking about the same people who live on that mountain, we saw in New York then he will have information about them.' His ghost said. 'we could use all the info we could get."
"Before I tell you about myself, I have but one more question for you." Osiris said he needed to know if this Atlas was a threat to mankind if he got out or not. "If I repair the damage to the space continuum and by extent free you. Then what will you do, be warned that your answer will decide your fate."
The Titan hummed in response thinking over his answer, knowing that this would decide his fate and carefully thought it over. After a few minutes, he came to a decision. "If you had come to me with this long ago, I would tell you that I would try to enact my revenge against zeus for imprisoning me by freeing the titans, await our leaders' return, and wage war against the Olympians. But, the passage of time has allowed me to think things through and it has made me realize that our efforts would be pointless, with the needless slaughter and destruction that would ensue, what would there be left to rule over even if we win. And If we were to fail, history would repeat itself and we would be imprisoned once again, and I would most likely be condemned to death. Instead I will go see my daughters and spend time with them. After that I do not know what I will do." The titan gave his answer and waited in return for the response from the being in front of him.
'Alright you got your answer, now intrudes yourself.' Sagira ordered.
"My name is Osiris, I am a Warlock or guardian if you would like. Myself and two others have been tasked with protecting humanity from an approaching evil we call The Darkness. An all-consuming entity that will drown our world in its dark energy and turn it into something that was spawned in the blackest of voids."
Osiris's response began to worry Atlas, if this entity was capable of defeating the gods, then all would be destroyed. The only way they would have a chance to possibly win were if the pantheons, and if it came down to it the titans, were to unite together against this Darkness and it's followers, but the chances of that happening were slim to none due to the strained relationships between not only the pantheons but the Olympians and Titans as well.
"Tell me, do you have a way to combat this Darkness? If so, what can you and your two comrades do against a being that you say can kill gods?"
"No we don't." Osiris responded quickly.
After what Osiris said, there was only silence between the two, with Atlas thinking that all would be lost, and nothing could be done but to accept their fate.
"I see, then all we can do is await for the end to come." Atlas said solemnly.
"That's not what I said." Osiris said stepping forwards and deploying his ghost to start setting up the equipment needed to fix the anomaly.
Atlas was confused by his statement, "But you said-"
"I say WE do not have a plan to fight the Darkness. We simply do not have the power to fight the Darkness head on, but there is something that does. We call it The Traveler." Osiris explained while Vex looking structures began to take shape around Atlas
"And pray do tell me what is this 'Traveler' and how can it help?"
"In truth we do not know for sure, many brilliant minds have come up with theories as to what the Traveler is, a god, a machine, the list goes on. However, as we know The Traveler is the only being in existence that has the power to fight The Darkness."
"If this Traveler has the power to face off against The Darkness, then why does it not go and try to fight it? Or at least try to stop it from moving and slow it down?"
"We don't know, but this is where our plan lies. We hope to get to a point where we can provide the Traveler some level of assistance in some hope that it will take a stand against the Darkness. So, when I free you from your prison all I ask is that you do not become a problem for us to deal with." Osiris said as the last Vex spire took shape and began to shoot data streams at the anomaly.
"Very well, I shall not cause problems for you and your allies. However, do know that if you are ever in need of assistance, then I shall do what I can to help you. It is the least I can do for you in return for freeing me from my confinement." Atlas states hoping that he may return the favor one day.
"I hope so." Osiris finished narrowing his eyes at the titan, not fully believing the being.
The weight from the sky began to lessen on Atlas' shoulders as it was slowly pulled back into the sky. Soon enough the weight on Atlas' shoulders began to fade away and soon the anomaly began to lift off his shoulders and began to meld back in with the sky. With the height off his shoulders Atlas rose from his kneeling position and stretched.
"Thank you for releasing me, Now I shall go off and see my daughters, see how they are doing with taking care of the Golden apples." Atlas stated before getting ready to head off. "I hope you get this Traveler to assist you against the Darkness." He then began walking off towards the area where the three human looking creatures were.
"Before you go, I need to know something." Osiris said, causing the titan to stop and look back at him. "The ones who imprisoned you, is this there base?" He asked using a device to project an image of the mountain hanging over The Empire State Building. The titan nodded. "Will they get in our way."
"If you are powerful enough to challenge them, they will get in your way. Their leader is jealous of the power he wields. If he feels you have similar power to him or have the power to match him he will try to kill you."
Osiris hummed his engagement.
"You should also know they have many powerful gods among their ranks. However, they do not get along with each other. If you managed to fix the sky, then I imagine it will be simple for you to turn them against one another." Atlas continued on his way after he finished leaving the guardian to his thoughts.
"Well that went well." Sagira commented on, flying back to her guardian's side.
"And now we have these "gods" to deal with. Tell the others, I have research to do." Osiris said, turning and starting down the mountain.
"Right, I also snagged a few dozen apples while you were busy dealing with that dragon."
"Sagira-"
"Hey if something like that thing was guarding it then there must be more to these apples then they appear."
Osiris sighed. "Fine, I will look at them when I get the chance."
Sevro was not having a pleasant day, first he had been chased by a that old hag for stealing some bread again, some gang came around and trashed his home while he was away, after that some cops show up and told him he has to clear out of the old factory he has been living in of bull shit reasons. Of course, he kicked their asses for it, normally he wouldn't as beating up a cop was more trouble than it was worth. But the asshole kept waving around that gun in his face, and Sevro didn't suffer assholes.
After he was done handing them their asses on a silver platter, he knew he had to clear out as the cops would come for him this time. And he had a feeling he was not going to get out of it by smooth talking either. So, he grabbed what few things he had left, and I tailed it out of the Chicago slums. Had to snatch a few dollars out of some woman's pocket to get enough money for the subway but he got out of the city before any of the cops found him.
Of course, that did not last long as apparently the Chicago PD didn't have anything else better to do then to chase him. Damn cops chased him all the way to the edge of the city and then some. He was tried as hell, but he was not about to let the cops get him. To help lose them he ran into the forest but that only got them to bring out their dogs to help track him.
But his troubles today were far from over.
As he was running through the forest like a wild animal, he made a habit of checking behind him a few times to see if he could see any of his pursuers. While he was running he checked again causing him to run into someone. Both of them were thrown to the ground, Sevro ending up on top with whoever he ran into underneath him. He shook his head to try and get rid of the fuzziness in his head and pushed himself up. However, it was then he noticed his hand on something soft. Wondering what it was, he squeezed his hand gently earning him a soft moan from the person underneath him.
It was then he noticed that the person he had run into was a girl in silver clothing with a bow and arrow. She had a slightly upturned nose, copper-colored skin, and dark hair. He looked down to see what his hand had fallen on to see it over her rather small right breast. Seeing this, Sevro got off her and rolled to his feet.
"Shit, I didn't mean to." Sevro frankly apologized to her.
The girl seemed to regain herself and got to her feet, her hand trembling with anger.
She mumbled something to herself before she turned around, knocked an arrow and shot it at him. Sevro threw himself the ground to avoid the deadly projectile, his mood turning from apologetic to pissed in a second.
"The Hell! I said I was sorry!" Sevro yelled at the girl who just shot at him.
She did not reply and simply tossed aside her bow, drew two long silver knives from her belt and charged at him. Now Sevro was by no means a highly trained fighter but growing up on the streets made him a hell of a fighter. The scars on his body provide this, he knew how to deal with someone who had a knife. The attack came like he expected it straight at him with the girl expecting to cut him easily as most kids nowadays where not in knife fights.
Sevro grabbed her wrist and quickly twisted it in a direction a wrist was not meant to twist. The sudden moment of the girl's wrist caused her to cry out and drop the knife, which Sevro quickly picked up. Now armed he stood a better chance of beating her. The girl looked at him surprised for a moment before rage covered her face. Suddenly he found the girl was right on top of him, almost like she teleported in front of him. This time her knife was coming in with speed and masterful skill. He did not have time to block the attack.
However, the attack never reached his flesh as someone else knocked the knife from her hand. The next thing he knew Sevro was thrown over someone's shoulder and the trees were flying by him.
"Who the hell are you?!"
"No time to explain, we are in this together now!" the man with a hood over his head called back.
"And that's that! First off, I would like to thank R.O.W. for doing Atlas' lines. I would also like to tell you guys that we have a discord now, you can find the IP on my profile page!"
As always I am Slim A Lou Prime these are da boys: R.O.W., Rogue, Crusader, and Snek
God bless and try not to go insane while you're stuck at home.