AN: Continue voting, we'll get the next girl at Chapter 41. Also, I'm thinking of doing a Transformers Prime marathon, what do you think?
Time: A Few Days Later
"How did they forget to add a garage?!" Percy exclaimed, looking at the girls with his arms spread dramatically as he introduced them to the newest addition to the house.
The day was beautiful, if a bit... hot, though that was to be expected on a tropical island. The sun beat down with a fierce intensity, making the golden sands of the beach look like molten gold, the light making the seemingly endless sea glisten, its frothy white waves gently lapping at the shores. A gentle breeze whipped through the palm trees dotting the beach, making their leaves rustle. The forest was teeming with life, the sky dark with the wings of seabirds out to hunt. Wisps of milky white clouds lazily floated through the clear azure sky, looking every bit an image straight out of a beautiful landscape portrait. The air reverberated with the shrill echoing cries of the seabirds that formed a loud cacophony of lively music, the dull, thunderous roar of the sea a continuous background of white noise.
It was on this fine summer day, though it was nearing October, that the mansion at Ogygia had woken up to be greeted by a new addition to the house, attached beside the building.
It was a relatively small outdoor room, only two floors tall, dwarfed by the several floor tall mansion in the shadow of which, it stood. There was an unpainted, automatic metal door that slid up, allowing them access to the inside. The bright light reflecting off it hurt their eyes. The walls were painted an equally bright, obnoxious neon blue, a shade so bright that it hurt the eyes to look at, horribly unmatched with the rest of the mansion.
That's why neither Athena nor Annabeth when she had been alive, ever allowed Percy to do anything by himself.
It had a flat glass roof that glinted in the bright, almost angry sunlight which heated up the entire island, making the sand hot and unbearable to bare feet.
"Why is the roof made of glass, Percy?" Athena asked, blandly as she tried to figure out the undoubtedly silly things he had done to the... innovative, impractical architecture of the garage.
He waved his arms excitedly. "There is a helipad on top! I thought the glass looked cool."
"You made a glass floor for a helipad." The wisdom goddess' voice had a certain, dangerous edge to it as her much-beloved subject of architecture was twisted to fit Percy's childish whims.
The other girls just continued to gawk at the structure which had sprung up overnight without anyone of them knowing, as large as an average house in downtown Manhattan.
"Yeah, don't worry! I know it doesn't make sense, but they told me that it would be fine. They engraved it with runes or stuff like that to strengthen it. You know, godly stuff. The answer to every impossible, science defying question."
Athena's eye twitched.
"Absolutely not!" Thalia screeched. "I'm never allowing you to keep a helicopter!"
"Ah, come on, Thalia, it's all in fun! Asteria will teach me how to fly, won't you, Asteria?" He looked towards the sun goddess, giving her his baby seal eyes. "Pwease?"
The goddess gulped, waving her hands in front of her face as she looked away. She felt Thalia's warning glare on her, and it took every fibre of her willpower to resist the wide, teary and innocent, sea-green eyes that Percy looked at her with.
"I know Jackson will find a way to get me on that helicopter he will get!" The daughter of Zeus complained, stomping her feet.
"Don't worry, I'll strap you in, too!" The words were out of his mouth before he could comprehend what he was saying.
Luckily, he was saved from facing the inferno of Thalia's wrath by Artemis.
"Percy, why do you even need that? Can't you just, I don't know, flash around?" Artemis asked him incredulously, waving her hand.
"Yeah, but I don't want to! Besides, getting all those cars would be fun!"
Nyx nodded in agreement, speaking for both herself and Styx, "Yeah, we've never been on a modern mortal vehicle. It might be interesting, they've come far from chariots."
On the other hand, Nemesis shared Percy's excitement as she jumped around, again, not looking her part of the terrible Dark goddess of revenge.
"I'll go and get my bike- Hey, Jackson, can we get a sports bike, too?" She asked with a silly, excited grin on her face, which was reciprocated by the only male on the island. "Yeah, of course, we will! It'll be great!"
Hestia merely smiled at his antics, enjoying his obvious, genuine excitement, something which was a rare sight for the hearth goddess, a lovely, welcome break from Percy's masked, feigned emotions. While Calypso was having trouble picking her jaw up from the ground.
Rachel, Reyna and Piper hugged him tightly from all sides, smiling up at the excited Dark god, who was feeling like a kid at Christmas. "It's beautiful, Percy."
"The colour could have been better though," Aphrodite noted, grimacing as if the colour caused her physical pain... which, for all intents and purposes, it might have had.
Percy ignored the critics. "We'll get a helicopter, and I can finally take off to the skies, and lots of tools and stuff for whenever I have an itch for taking anything apart!" He waved his arms free from the hug he had yet to be released from. It took conscious effort on his part to tone down the blush from feeling three gorgeous pairs of breasts pressed up against his body.
Luckily, almost everyone mistook his blush for the heat and excitement.
Percy continued, stuttering slightly from his excitement, "An-and the upper floor can store stuff, too. Artemis and Asteria's chariots can be here, and we will buy some cars- preferably expensive and cool looking ones, supercars and sports cars, to stuff in here, too."
Whatever he was gonna say next, was cut off by a rumbling coming from the garage.
The Little Big Three stopped the little happy dance they had been doing, feeling their clothes stick to their skin from the sweat. Dancing fully exposed to the midday sun on a tropical island wasn't the best idea they had ever had, to be honest.
Phoebe gulped, "Percy, what's that?"
He looked annoyed, "Why is it that every time I try to throw a surprise, you all regard me with suspicion?"
"Perhaps that's because the last time you decided to throw a surprise, my sister almost died!" Thalia all bit screamed, her shrill voice several octaves higher than usual.
That's because when Percy had invited Neo to a rodeo, she had thought she would be watching a professional fighting a bull on land. Instead, she had been fighting a bull shark in water.
Percy did not find it so odd. She should have understood what he was going to say, which sane person in the world would NOT want to fight a bull shark?
He would.
The two daughters of Zeus shivered.
"Hey, that bull shark was tame!" He tried to defend himself and Sam, the bull shark... which was still with him as a pet, at a secret location.
Neo thought that the twins would defend her, but apparently, all children of Poseidon followed the same sense of humour, as they complained, "You didn't tell us from where you got Sam! Bull sharks like him aren't found here!"
Everyone sweatdropped at Rose's words with the more reserved Violet nodding frantically as the two sought to learn all the secrets there were to being a child of Poseidon.
Percy just laughed creepily, striking a ninja pose, as he whispered, "It's a trade secret." Before he continued to make what was, in his mind, realistic ninja sounds.
"Percy..." Atalanta brought all of them back to the present as she glanced warily at the closed garage door. "You still didn't tell us what's behind that door."
"Oh yeah! Come on, peoples! Don't dilly dally, we've got a lot to do today!" He straightened, excitedly dragging Thalia and Artemis to the garage, their frightened protests falling on deaf ears. The others chuckled nervously, opting to follow the jumpy Dark god, who was acting like a five-year-old high on sugar...
Which, for all they knew, he probably was.
Everyone screamed together as Percy threw the door open with a loud bang, their eyes able to make out an enormous lumbering shadow lurking in the darkness behind the door. The garage was dark, still, they could distinctly make out something moving inside, as if all the sounds did not make it obvious.
"There is a monster inside!" Artemis shouted, summoning her silver dagger.
"There's no need for that." Percy snatched the blade from her hands, tossing it away as he nonchalantly strolled to what was undoubtedly a Cyclops or a Giant inside.
Nobody had forgotten the time when Percy had played rodeo with the Minotaur, fully garbed in Spanish matador costume, with a red cape and Sombrero hat for some reason.
"PERCY, LOOK OUT- oh." Thalia calmed down, seeing who it was after Percy flipped the lights on.
"Tyson!" Rose and Violet cheered, sprinting forward to hug the gentle giant around his knees.
"Little sisters!" Tyson laughed as he patted them, making the twins' smile a little strained as their knees buckled. Sometimes, his underestimating his own strength was cumbersome.
His single sea-green eye swivelled from the two girls hugging his knees to the Dark god patting his elbow.
"Big brother!" The friendly cyclops cheered, scooping Percy up in his arms as he cradled his elder brother in his arms.
Percy laughed, patting Tyson's head of shaggy, matted hair. "Let me down, Tyson!"
The cyclops grunted, showing no intention of letting him down anytime soon.
There was another, masculine laugh. "Tyson, let your brother down." A deep, familiar voice called out.
Tyson made a sound of reluctance, finally letting Percy back on his feet. He smiled as he felt his feet touch solid ground, but he never let go of Tyson's massive hand, feeling like a child beside his brother.
"Dad!" The twins cheered again, running to hug Poseidon around his waist, making the sea god laugh.
"Uncle." Artemis and Athena greeted as Hestia padded over to hug her brother.
"Niece. Sister. And Athena." He greeted.
Percy elbowed him, "Dad." He hissed, making Poseidon wince as he realized his involuntary slip-up.
"No worries. I already predicted that the seaweed brains of sea... gods," Athena had almost let slip, "cannot, in fact, remember a thing."
Percy laughed nervously, seeing Poseidon about to retort, "Dad, don't you have to attend something?"
Poseidon whipped towards his son, smiling gratefully, "Yeah, thank you, son. I'm in a hurry, so I'll not be able to stay long, Tyson will give you a tour of the garage."
"Remember to take everyone to a day down at Atlantis sometime, okay? See you later, Rose, Violet. Look after Neo and Thalia." He smiled, his eyes shining with mirth as he flashed away hurriedly, but not before shooting Athena a last, warning glare.
Percy breathed out. "Crisis averted."
"Umm... Percy," Eris looked panicked, "Poseidon saw us!"
"Ah, don't worry!" Percy waved off her concerns. "Poseidon knows everything, even that Asteria is in my harem, and all about you four and the Dark council, and all that. He's cool... how could he not be? He's my dad after all." Percy's attempt at being arrogant did not affect anyone given his previous track records. The four Dark goddesses still looked slightly panicked, but were cut off before they could say anything.
"Now, the more important stuff. Tyson."
"And you are sure that the dumb Cyclops will be able to give us a 'tour' of your garage? Why do we even need a tour, anyway?" Athena hissed venomously, glaring at Percy before she was elbowed by Artemis.
Percy looked at her sadly, before smiling creepily.
Athena took an involuntary step back, and just as well, because the next moment, he had sprinted forward, grabbing her hand as he half dragged, half carried her through the garage, which was really as large as an international airport parking lot, rather than a two-floor 'garage'.
Tyson followed them, with everybody else behind him, and Rose and Neo holding the hands of their second favourite big brother the entire way, his Cyclops hands comically disproportionate to theirs.
"Percy! Slow down!" Athena pleaded as she was dragged up the stairs, her feet on autopilot as the grinning Dark god sprinted towards the roof. Despite that, she could not resist the small, playful smile tugging at the corners of her lips.
She turned back to look at the other girls piling up the stairs behind her, with Tyson's lumbering form staying back on the ground floor. Grey eyes met silver, and Athena smiled gratefully at Artemis, her eyes shining as she was pulled along by her love. She was as giddy as him, though for different reasons, and could hold her excitement better.
Percy popped open a hatch, peering out over the glass floor of the helipad. He hugged Athena close to his body as the two gazed out over the helipad for the first time.
The wisdom goddess, for once, could not think of anything as her mind went into a complete lockdown. It was a terrifying feeling for her, who prided herself on her intellect, but strangely elevating, at once, too. Feeling her smaller body pressed into Percy's stronger, taller frame was exhilarating, his warmth gentle and comforting, making her feel as if she was being gently caressed by her mother, a feeling which, unfortunately, she never got to experience. His strong arms wrapped around her waist, hugging her tightly as his chin rested on her head of silky, soft blonde hair, the goddess' head fitting perfectly into the crook of his neck.
Percy was saying something, but she could not make out head or tail of it as he rambled on about stuff, and his plans for the area. The only thing Athena could comprehend, however, was that the helipad was a great place to relax when it was not occupied. The perpetual breeze was stronger here, and it was much cooler, despite being exposed directly to the sun. Besides, from this height, she could see the endless stretch of admittedly beautiful, clear azure sea for miles around. The canopy of the forest was also visible from that vantage point, the entire expanse of forest visible as an enormous carpet of green over the earth. The tops of the trees swayed in the breeze, and the calming, audible rustling of their long, emerald leaves was much more clear here. Although she could not see it right then, Athena was sure that she would be able to spy on everything that went on in the house, the pool- the entire island- from there.
It was a small looking glass to the small, happy and peaceful world of Percy's tropical island of Ogygia, and their home.
She made a mental note to pay a visit to the mansion's roof sometime in the future.
"You coming, Athena?"
And before she knew it, the magical moment had ended as Percy called out to her, already having moved back down the staircase behind the other girls, as they returned to the ground floor, ignoring the bare, and relatively uninteresting second floor.
She mentally rebuked herself for missing Percy's warmth and comforting arms, as she nodded back towards him, a cool mask slipping over her confused emotions as she followed the Dark god.
"Alright, so, hold your pegasi, but this is gonna be great, I can tell." Percy bribed them as he slowly stalked towards a particular door, separating it from the rest of the building.
"Percy, stop creating unnecessary suspense, and tell us what it is."
"Alright, alright, sheesh, Thalia chill." He winced as he threw the door open, his expression brightening again as he gaged the others' reactions.
"Woah." That's right, they were speechless.
The room they had just entered was simply enormous, and, by mortal physics, should not have fitted inside the garage at all. It was simple, just an inlet letting in the sea into the garage, another metallic door separating the dock from the rest of the sea, complete with a pier. There were two small walkways leading across the room, but what really took their breath away, was the yacht gently rocking on the almost non-existent waves.
The yacht was the typical, if a bit small, yacht you would come across on the horizon in a lazy seaside scenery. The sail, a bright striking red, was a minimum of fifteen feet tall, and the shiny, new hull was painted sea green with swirling white designs representing waves. On the hull, in bright golden letters that beautifully contrasted the sea green, the name of the ship was written, the... "Blue Cookie."
Despite the... playschool level name, the deck was beautifully furnished. There were luxurious looking deck chairs sprawled out along the edges, at the stern of the yacht, with a small swimming pool/hot tub between them. There was a small sunroof in the middle of the deck, and below it were several barstools and couches, along with an unfurnished bar, ready to be filled with alcohols of all types. There were also two beds, much smaller than the massive, almost double queen-sized beds at Ogygia, spread out in the open part of the deck, just beside the array of deck chairs.
There were several wolf whistles. "Sexy."
Athena, ever the critic, interrupted their joy, "The name could be improved, of course."
Pervy ignored her negative, perceived as discouraging words, knowing that it was only Athena's way to express her emotions.
"You think this is good? Wait till I completely fill the garage with all sorts of cars! We will have Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Mercedes, BMWs and everything!" Be waved his arms excitedly. "Of course, we will get a few sports bikes or so, but the majority will be supercars."
The others could only nod dumbly, their minds still lingering over the luxurious yacht they had just witnessed, a yacht which held who knows what below decks.
A few days out in the middle of the sea with everybody on the island sounded too good to be true. It would be a several days long party to rival the Isles of Blest.
The small crowd of twenty-five girls followed Percy as he continued walking.
"Alright, so this is the only thing, apart from the yacht, that I have right now." He said mysteriously, stopping suddenly.
The others forced themselves to concentrate on the present at Percy's words. The last one had been an enormous yacht. What now?
"Ta-da!" He presented them with the view, his arms spread dramatically.
"...Percy, what- did yo- seriously?!" Piper's nerves were fried.
"Yeah!" He replied excitedly.
"It's an Abrams M1A2, complete with a 120mm XM256 smoothbore cannon, and two 7.62mm M240 machine guns and a .50 cal M2 machine gun."
"Per-"
"I need several rounds of ammunition, but that can be easily catered for."
"Jacks-"
"I spent all the money on military-grade grenades."
"Jackson! Don't you dare take out the tank for anything!" Thalia screeched.
"My island!" Calypso wailed.
AN: Alright, I have a few announcements. There will be only one update in the next week, an 8K word sex scene. So, there's that.
But! I have got a job, instead of sitting at home on my lazy ass all day. Now, since the lockdown is preventing transport, I'm standing in place for the doctor at our neighbourhood's local clinic. Writing prescriptions, checking patients with mild ailments, and the occasional patient with mild COVID, or ones showing symptoms.
It ain't much, but it's honest work. My medical degrees are finally put to some work other than lengthening my name.
So, now, I'm busier than I was, but I guess I'll still be able to write since I'll not have as many patients as usual, again, thanks to the lockdown.
Easy bucks.
Lmao, I'm now a doctor who writes fanfic and lemons.
Also, since my PC is not the sharpest tool in the shed, I uninstall games after finishing them. I would send you invites... but nah. Also, several of my readers are asking me for mobile games, so... there's one.
Check out Transformers Forged to Fight by KABAM on Playstore or YouTube. It's a nice game, if I do say so myself. And if you do decide to play, then join my alliance- [askml]killerkings. My username is Valkyrie77. (Looking at you Dharamdas Panjwani. I expect to see it on your YouTube channel soon enough. Also, if some of my other readers decide to post the game, my alliance, and by extension, me, on their YouTube videos, (if they do) then, tell me your channel name and I will go check it out. Kudos!)
I know, cringe name. I named it several years ago.
Keep calm and CR7!! Keep calm and LM10!! (Messi)