~•3rd POV•~
It has been a year since Percy started training his ice powers with Khione. Thanks to Ares' blessing he was able to master it in such a short time. Khione started his training with him turning water into ice. After that she made it more complicated everyday. He is now able to make ice beings that has a mind of their own, snow travel, turn almost any liquid to ice, and make very detailed ice creations.
Over the year they had made a brother sister bond. Percy loved her dearly, as as his sister, and she loved him just as much, as her brother. They had gotten as close as Percy was to Thalia and Nico.
Percy did all of his training in the valley they met in. Khione had put a spell so the valley stayed in a winter state while they trained. It was constantly cold and snowed softly, painting the trees and ground white. Percy had started to like the cold more than the heat, he guessed it was part of Khione's blessing.
One day while Percy was doing his daily meditations on an edge of the cliff that is above the lake, he sensed a being waking over to him. Over the past year he had mastered the ability to since people, monsters, and gods based on the water in their body. He could also see everything around him because of the water in the air, it was kind of like in the first Matrix film when Neo killed the agents.The being sat down in front of Percy. "Hey sis." Was all Percy said, with his eyes still closed.
Khione sighed and slouched a bit. This gesture did not go unnoticed by Percy, who opened his eyes to see what was wrong. Khione looked at him with sad eyes and said, "Hey Percy." Percy frowned, she normally is happy around him. "What's wrong Khione?" Percy asked. She sighed and scooted to Percy and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Percy we need to talk." She said sounding depressed. "I can't keep training you. You have mastered everything I have taught you, and my father wants me to go back to Quebec to help him rule." She said in tears. Percy was shocked and really sad. He was going to miss Khione dearly. He smiled sadly and put his hand under her chin and lifted it, making Khione look at him. He wiped her tears away with his thumb and hugged her.
When he pulled back he smiled sadly at her and said, "Its ok Khione, I will see you again, I promise. You will never truly be without me." As he said that he held up his hand, palm up. The snow around him came together in his hand and created a detailed ice sculpture of him and Khione sitting together smiling happily off into the distance. Khione's head rested on his shoulder like it was now. He gave her the sculpture, "As long as you have this we will always be together, I will see you again. I love you Khione." He said smiling. She smiled and pulled him into a hug. "I better see you again, and I love you too Percy." She kissed his cheek and disintegrated into snow flakes.
After a few minutes Percy got up and packed his stuff. He debated on what to do now. He decided to go around the world and learn any fighting style he could. With Ares' blessing it would be easy enough, and it would help him get his mind off of things.
He snow traveled to the nearest library and went over to a computer. He new if he used it he would attract a lot of monsters to him, but he more than equipped to handle them. He opened up the browser and started looking for fighting schools he could learn at. He found a combat training school in Italy called 'Italian School Of Martial Arts' and decided that would be his first stop.
He snow traveled in front of the school and walked to the office. He walked up to the front desk started the enrolling process. When he finished enrolling he payed with the credit card Khione got him for his birthday, it had an infinite amount of money (being hooked up to a godly bank account and all), and left to find a national park he could stay at.
He went to a store nearby to buy a laptop. When he bought one he went and found a mobile Wifi port. He went to a nearby park and sat on the bench and started looking for a good national park to stay at while he was in Italy. He decided to stay at Etna National Park, or Italy's Fire Mountain. He thought it would be perfect because it is so hot. It had active volcanoes and lava streams everywhere, making it the perfect place to maximize his ice powers, because he would have to work to keep the ice from melting.
He was about to to snow travel there, but he realized it would be way too hot to snow travel there. Khione had warned him not to snow travel places where it was too hot, because it would melt the snow he was made of while traveling, effectively killing him. He silently cursed, how was he supposed to get there. He thought about it for a minute before getting an idea. He was going to try to mist travel. He had never done it before, but he knew it was possible because Khione told him about it when she taught him to snow travel. His only fear was not being able to reform because of the heat.
He began to concentrate on turning his body to vapor. He thought about his body parts resolving to a thick mist, similarly to how he snow traveled. When he looked down he looked normal. He sighed, it was going to take a long time to get this right.
3 hours later he finally was able to turn himself into vapor. He then thought about where he wanted to go and the mist shot forward at speeds close to light. It was kind of like flashing, because flashing is just a really fast flying ability, the only difference was he was traveling as vapor, not as his godly form (Which he didn't have). Almost instantly he was where he needed to be, now came the tricky part, he had to reassemble himself. He had to concentrate on how his body was before he turned to vapor. Thankfully he didn't have to think about all the insides and stuff like that, his subconscious would do that for him.
After multiple attempts he finally got it right and rematerialized. He let out a sigh of relief and laid down. He needed to sleep after that, it took a lot of energy to do that, especially on his first time. He grabbed his sleeping bad and instantly fell asleep, like Nico always said, "With great power, comes great need to take naps."
~•~•~•~•~•Time Skip•~•~•~•~•~•~
It had been a year since Percy enrolled in the Italian School of Martial Arts and he had already finished all of the classes, from hand to hand combat to swordsmanship. The hand to hand combat classes included karate, taekwondo, jiu jitsu, and some more less known styles of hand to hand. He also did Roman, Greek, Samurai, dual wield, and knight style swordsmanship. Surprisingly his favorite style of swordsmanship wasn't Greek, it was actually traditional dual wielding. Sadly he wasn't able to use Riptide for any of the classes, so he had to settle for swords that weren't balanced correctly for him, but he still passed.
He broke all records in the school when it came to speed of completion of the classes, thanks to Ares' Blessing. By the end of the year he was able to beat all of the teachers in 1 on 1 combat, in all of his classes.
He also was able to further his snow powers to the point that he could use ice to wrap around and pick up fresh lava, and the ice not melt. Thanks to his new level of water and ice manipulation powers, his aura was now around that of a minor god, making his scent extremely strong. He had to fight an innumerable amount of monsters during the school year. He had a lot of close calls, but because it was a combat based school, with the mist it usually looked like he was sparing, not fighting monsters.
After the graduation ceremony he decided it was time to move to the next place to train. He went to a park and pulled out his laptop, to find a new school to train at. After hours of research, and a lot of monster attacks, he was finally able to find a school in Japan. He decided on Japan, because during school his language class was Japanese, making it easy for him to go there. Also, this school was famous for teaching people how to completely control your mind. This ability would prove most helpful in combat.
After Percy packed all of his stuff he snow traveled to the Japanese temple the school was located at. The temple was a classic Japanese temple. It was a large red building with a curved grey roof. It had a porch with railing that wrapped around the entire building. The building was about 10,000 square feet in total, so a good sized building.
He walked in and started his enrollment process, again. When he finished he looked at his schedule and sighed, most of his classes were self control classes, with a few combat classes. He walked over to a nearby bench and sat down. He pulled out his lab top and groaned when he looked at the web sight list. All of the web sights were in Japanese! He sighed as he and began the tedious work of typing and translating.
After many hours of struggle he finally found a national park that would suit his needs. Nikkō National Park, it was a jungle covered mountain range with a lot of large rivers and waterfalls. It would be great to work with his water manipulation powers. He was getting somewhat rusty with them, with all of the ice control practice he had no time for his water powers.
He vapor traveled there to begin his water power practice, pthen started to walk to the middle of the jungle. He had to be extremely careful of all of the sudden slopes, wildlife, and dangerous plants.
He finally got to the middle and set up camp. He created a water dome around his camp and sat down to concentrate on the dome. He would have to always concentrate on the dome to make sure he didn't have any unwanted guests in his camp.
A few weeks later school started and he had to leave the national park for the first time since he got there. Since he hunted for his food, he didn't need to leave the jungle, and he could simply purify the water with his powers.
When he got to his first class he sat in the back of the group. There were no chairs of desks. Just mats for them to sit on. He sat down meditation style and began listening to the teacher.