The Heroes Of Olympus: Aincrad Reborn

Percy

"Holy Zeus this is freaking awesome!" Percy shouted as he ran through the streets, drawing stares from passerby as he admired how he could now run and jump around as much as he wanted without tiring out.

Several other players chuckled, "Must be his first time in VR..they all act like that the first time.."

That's when Percy noticed his reflection in the windows to one of the gun stores nearby. And when Percy saw what his avatar looked like, he couldn't help but remember the time he looked at that weird fabric back on Circe's island where he had been shown a more perfect looking version of himself.

The well sculpted features, the dreamy eyes..he looked like a more beautiful Percy, only his hair was more windswept and even blacker then it had been in real life. His eyes were no longer sea green, but a sharp electric blue that kind of disturbed him.

Percy whistled as he examined himself, looking at the simple white jacket and black pants he was dressed in. Just wait till Annabeth saw this..which made Percy wonder, what did Annabeth's avatar look like?

Percy looked up at the towering building that was peeking up from the center of the massive city. Might as well head towards the meeting spot.

After walking for about 5 minutes though, Percy couldn't help but begin to feel absolutely lost. While he kept on trying to walk to the center of the city, the twisting roads and dead ends seemed to be directing him in a circle around the city instead. 

"Oh my gods..." Percy muttered slapping a head to his forehead. "How the heck am I supposed to get to the stupid administrative building!!?"

"Hello? You seem rather fustrated." 

Percy turned around to find a girl a little shorter then him with short medium length bluish blonde hair. She had a brown short combat jacket on and long combat boots along with very short black pants and a large scarf. She had a long massive sniper rifle slung around her shoulder, if Percy's sluggish knowlege of guns held right, the sniper was called a Hecate 2, a gun originating in France. He knew because Camp Halfblood had one with celestial bronze bullets specially fitted for it.

The girl was looking at Percy with some concern. As Percy looked at the gun and bluish hair, she couldn't help but think he was forgetting something, something about..a girl? Hmm..

"Hello?" the girl said again waving a hand in front of Percy's face. "You okay?"

"Oh..um sorry." said Percy. "I've been trying to get to the administrative building, but I've gotten myself kinda lost see?"

The girl looked Percy up and down. "Hmm..no gear...one of the only guys in this game that hasn't tried to hit on me yet..I'm guessing you're new to this game?"

Percy nodded uneasily.

"Well then, I guess I could take you there myself." said the girl. "I'm headed to the administrative building myself to meet a friend of mine. What's your name?"

Percy began to say that his name was Percy, but then stopped, he tried to remember the username he had entered into the Amusphere for his character. Then he remembered that he really hadn't been that creative. "Er..Perseus."

"Interesting name to use as your login." said the girl. "I'm Sinon."

"Sinon.." Percy muttered. "Where have I heard that name...?"

Sinon chuckled. "You're weird, you know that? Come on, I'll show you to the administrative building."

As Percy followed Sinon through the city, she began to give him various pointers on the game. She told him that he wasn't the first beginner she ever showed around, and that her friend was also somebody she showed around once. Immediately Percy started to wonder if the guy she was talking about was her boyfriend or something, kinda how Kirito and Asuna had started dating in the virtual world. Then again, it had been a special situation.

That's when Percy saw it..a player who was wearing all black combat armor with a black high tech helmet obscuring his face. He had a large M-16 on his back and his body was really buff. The guy stood in Percy and Sinon's way, his posture seemed to exude an arrogance as Percy could feel himself starting to get angry for no reason. Sinon seemed to be feeling the same way.

"Who are you?" growled Sinon. "Just get out of the way already.."

The guy chuckled with a familiar voice. "All in due time little mortal. I gotta talk to pretty boy over here first."

The man took his helmet off to reveal a guy with a military haircut, a brutal face and dark wraparound shades.

"Ares!" Percy said stepping back.

"Wrongo boy!" said the war god. "I'm Mars right now..though I have to say, both my Roman and Greek selves love this game. The bullets, the bloodshed, the explosions. My kind of game!"

"You know this guy?" Sinon said uneasily.

"Little Shino Asada." said Mars grinning at Sinon. "You'll have a pretty interesting role in all of this."

Sinon backed off, looking scared. "How do you know my name?"

Okay, now that was going a little too far. If there was one thing Percy knew about ettiquete online, it was that people didn't tend to like revealing who they were in real life..privacy was everything. Right now Mars was acting like an online predator.

"Hey." Percy said. "Back off, what do you want here Mars?"

The god of war gave Percy a smile and removed his shades, revealing two empty eyesockets with miniature nuclear explosions going off in them. "Well, I'll show you...that's why I'm here after all.."

Mars waved his hand and a large motorcycle with steampunk weapons attatched to the front sprung out of mid air. "Well what are ya waiting for you two? We've got a plenty to see..especially Ms. Asada.."