LAST TIME:
"So I guess since you unlocked the last door I will show you my face first." I said as my helmet retraced showing my overly handsome face. I could see her blush as she saw my face, my universe eyes were even there with my white streak in my hair as well.
"I see why she put the curse on you, you are quiet handsome." She blurted out.
"Ha well I guess." I said as my armor changed to the jacket with without my gloves, so everything was back in place as the armor changed.
"What is the white streak from?" She asked me.
"Holding the sky in Atlas's place." I said to her as she just silently wowed.
"Diana I thank you for clearing these curses form me, I owe you my life so I give it to you." I said as knelt down and kissed her hand as she was stunned.
"Well stop kissing my hand and go tell the hunters we have a buys week ahead of us." She said slowly pulling her hand away and putting it to her chest as if to protect it.
"Yes ma'am." I said as I turned around in my jacket and blue jeans to go help the hunters in any way possible.
NOW:
PERCY POV:
Truth was I was already at my past demigod level so I could still preform some extreme magic but not a lot, my body stood strong though almost stronger since my fight with Abyss. But just as I left Diana's tent I was met by a spear passing right by me into a wooden barrel. With a solid hit the barrel tumbled over as I held up my hands and turned to see who it was.
"Milady we have an intruder!" Elizabeth screamed as the rest of the hunters gathered around either wielding a spear of a bow and arrow.
"Wait it just-." I tired.
"Silence male, before I gut you like a pig." She said holding the spear close to my throat as Diana still a little flustered came out of her tent.
"What is it...? Oh." She said as she realized my appearance changed drastically.
"What shall we do with him milady?" She asked her as she seemed to press harder on my throat.
"Don't do anything this is Percy." She said as they all looked confused.
"What no way Percy is in rags not new clothes and he is much smaller than this." She said gesturing to my 6' 5" height which I has seemed to grow as well.
"No this is him I was able to unlock his last curse from Hecate, he just returned to his original is all after all the curses were lifted." She said as they seemed to try and find any distinction between me and old me.
"If milady says so I will believe you, so this is Percy without the hood huh." She said looking me over, I looked at myself to find if anything was wrong just to find my jacket unzipped down the middle revealing a white skin tight shit that made me look like women's candy.
"Not bad *Smack!* Ow what was that for!" Sophie said as Elizabeth hit her head.
"You have an oath to hold and personally Percy that shirt isn't making it any easier. Even if you are a slave you are what a normal women would call an eye candy so please don't tempt the new girl." She said with a sigh as I realized how laid back they were about it.
"Yes mam." I said as I zipped up my shirt as Sophie seemed to sigh in disappointment, after I did that I was left with Diana and Elizabeth who both looked at me funny.
"You think this new form will be a problem for the girls?" Elizabeth asked Diana as I stood in place listening to their conversation as they both looked at me.
"Maybe he is kind of good looking, so the girls might have a problem especially new ones that come in a week." She said looking at me.
"You know in my dimension Diana is just like Artemis and is a total man hater why are you so laid back about it?" I asked her as she just looked up from my abdomen to my face.
"That is because even though you are a slave your body has what we Romans call surplus genes. With those genes we could sell some of your sperm for a fortune but we won't be doing that since we still have a massive amount of money you're brought us." She finished with an emotionless face.
"What milady is trying to get at is that the inner Roman in all of us wants your babies but thanks to years of practice we can control it. Don't get us wrong we don't like you in any way but just as a mate that stands above the rest." She said with a blush as Diana just stood emotionless still.
"Wait so your saying is that something inside you is telling you that I am what you call a person who will give you powerful babies." I said as she nodded.
"And you have no control over it." I said as she nodded again as the idea of the rivers came to mind.
"Sounds like the rivers of power back in my dimension making all of the decisions." I said as she seemed surprised I brought that up.
"So you know about the rivers huh." Diana asked interested.
"Yes but I guess unlike you guys it isn't commonly known knowledge." I said to her as she nodded.
"Everyone knows about it on this planet, but yes the rivers hold control over us like it does you. That is the whole thing about excellent mate thing in our minds so don't get your hopes up, you are still a slave and I will have no of that happening around my camp." She said as if it was something that usually happened.
"You say it like it happens a lot...does it?" I asked her raising an eyebrow as she just sighed and put her hand to her head.
"Percy come with me and help I don't think milady wants of explain this." Elizabeth said grabbing my arm and pulling me away for a grateful face Diana.
"What was that all about?" I asked her as I helped putting things in the backpack that they had for me. It was an army back pack that was camo green and it was infinite like mine but this one didn't lighten it at all. But I didn't mind gave me a work out every time we move camp.
"Well you see you weren't exactly wrong about that subject." She said.
"You mean sex right?" I asked her as she blushed form embarrassment.
"Yeah that well you see once every four years on February 29 we have to make what you call a sacrifice." She said.
"You don't kill people do you?" I asked her.
"No but in our hearts if feels like it, you see over the past four millennia or the last time Diana reformed something happened. Jupiter attacked this place but he stopped and waited as she reformed as he held us hostage. But as she came to our aid Jupiter said he would release us for a condition." She led off as I could guess that much.
"He released you for tribute to him." I said as she nodded looking down stopping what she was doing.
"Every four years he takes one of the hunters in their tent, not Diana because she is an Eternal maiden but one of us. But the thing is he impregnates them and forces them to birth his child, you see we are the same as you prime gene pools. So to get powerful children he rapes us every four years, but so far only one of us has been raped by him in all these year." She said the last part quietly as I understood her tone.
"How many times and children?" I asked her as she just handed me the thing she was carrying as I walked with her to the bag.
"1000 times or every leap year and I have five hundred children that are his royal guard." She said almost crying, I just put the stuff in the bag and turned to her.
"I don't know how much it means but this slave of the hunt is amazed by your strong front of emotion with your personal horror sitting in the background." I said to her as I lightly hugged her as she sniffled as smacked my chest which hurt a lot surprisingly.
"Thank you now get back to work slave." She said as I did as I was told to do as we had almost finished up with everything. As I worked Diana came over to me I guess to talk about what I just learned.
"She told you, didn't she?" She said to me.
"She is brave I give her that, to become the person every leap year that he...I can't even say it." I said with disgust in my voice.
"Indeed." She said in a sad voice.
"I don't know what I am capable in my current power level but if Jupiter dares to lay a hand on anyone of the hunt he will regret his decision for all of eternity." I said in a voice of a demon, I could feel Diana just shiver at the level of hostility in my voice as I said it.
"What do you mean power level?" She asked me.
"I am not fully recharged yet I still have a ways to go till I am at my limit maybe two weeks." I said truthfully referring to my crystal on my arm that was the size of a 50 cent piece.
"You are truly a powerful demigod you would match the power of a minor god at full, but with your weapons even higher." She said looking at my crystal that showed through my jacket as I sealed up the military back pack and slung it on. A couple tons of utilities and other things weighted me down so much that my feet sunk into the ground.
"How are you so strong anyways?" She asked me as I readjusted the straps to get them in comfortable position.
"I trained in the marine trench when I was young, with the pressure and gravity it worked my body to its limits." I said as I moved a little getting used the too the weight.
"You sound like you were a hero of sorts were you?" She asked me.
"I guess you could say I was but I was just as much as a hero as the other demigods, after fighting the second titan war I was just one in the crowd of victors." I said to her.
"You sound like you don't take credit for as much as you actually do, unlike normal males who hog all of the glory." She said.
"No I am just a son of Poseidon who happens to be strong that is all, well other than the curses that is." I said as she just laughed.
"You never told me the main reason why she curse you to hide your face all you told me that she curse you why did you curse you so much in the first place it can't be out of hatred." She said as I thought up a story.
"Truth is she tried again and again to seduce me after I found her school to keep me quiet but I refused so she put the curse of the hood because of that." I said as she just laughed at me.
"You just can't catch a break can you?" She asked as we laughed as the hunters gathered to leave the area.
"No I guess I cant." I said as we started to depart for the area that was wiped out by the blast.
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ONE WEEK LATER:
We emerged out of the wrecked forest to find something I found astonishing. Thing of a half sphere but cut in half, my guess it was all the molten stuff flowed back in it to form a giant pool about three hundred miles across. The forest we just came from was nearly destroyed trees were burned to a crisp and some that had vegetation on them were toppled over.
Skeletons of animals lay everywhere as they saw the explosion tried to escape it but they didn't stand a chance against the wave of energy. Also to add to the hole somehow a river was going through it but then it went from our side to other. But it didn't gather because of a hole I guess was cave as it took it away forming a river not a lake.
"My gods." I said as I looked over it as the hunters did as well, but then I noticed the armies situated on each side of it with my super vision. They had built stairs or something that the army used to get in the hole. I only counted half of the troops which my guess the other half's were in the back for support.
"Yes this is what happens in war now let's get going I sense we have only a few hours until they battle. Percy leave the stuff here I don't want it getting lost." Diana said as I nodded as I secretly as no one was looking tossed it in a storage until dimension at the cost of a tiny bit of energy.
"Let's go ladies we don't have all day make sure you have all the necessary items for battle just in case." Diana said as they were already ready as she slid down the slope into the hole. I was already in my normal clothes making sure to make not much of an impression.
We ran for the middle of the battle but with my vision I saw two chariots going to the middle, one from each side. One was stark red with a dove on it while the other was white with golden trim on it. With a lightning bolt on the side I cold easily tell the ones in the chariots were Jupiter and Venus making the normal prewar discussion.
With them were two people each but I could tell that they were no ordinary people since their power signatures. My guess was they were the most powerful people in their ranks much more powerful than the two I fought protecting Diana. I might actually have a problem if all four of them attack me at once.
"Milady do you sense that?" Asked Elizabeth as we all ran ninja style well me and Diana did as the others were running with spears in hand but still pretty fast.
"Yes I do their making their prewar claims, we must hurry. All of you I am going ahead if you can keep up do so." She said as she started to pull off much faster than any human ever could.
But with ease I caught up as I pulled away also leaving Elizabeth a little bit ahead while the others ran with all their might. But with ease I caught up to her as I pulled up beside her grinning, at the speeds were going we could easily pass cars.
"Milady." I said as I startled her a little as she didn't expect me to be beside her.
"I didn't think a demigod could possibly go this fast." She said as I laughed as we slowly got closer to the two gods but as I averaged we would be there in time. Then I noticed the river that ran to my right that ran right in-between them both.
"Milady we won't make it in time I have to pull ahead I will try and stall them." I said as I hopped in the water as I boosted my power, then I started to use it to give me a little more power to my step. But I made it look like the water was doing most the work as I pulled away from her with my full speed the water helping just a little.
It was almost freighting as fast as I pulled away as I broke the stone underneath the water but it was hidden by the water. I was going so fast I was nearly going a solid 750 miles an hour alone as I quickly approached them just as they met. But with a second to spare I reached a point I had to slow down.
With a quick movement I summoned Soul Reaper as I stabbed it into the ground, the blade sliced through the ground like a butter knife as I used the water to make sure my feet didn't touch the ground. With a second to spar I slid perfectly in between them but they couldn't see who I was as the wind gust following me tossed up the water into a fine mist.
I stood with Soul Reaper by my side in the ground in the mist as I summoned my armor, as the mist cleared I summoned Crimson sky's shield but I held my position as normal standing human not in ready for battle position.
"Who dares disturb the meeting of two gods?" I heard Jupiter roar, no matter how different they were he and Zeus were almost alike. I stayed silent as the mist cleared and the water began to run by again as I passed right above my ankles at full height.
"Who are you boy?" I heard as I turned to see Venus with her guards ready as I pulled Soul Reaper out of the ground and situated the blade on my shoulder. I could sense Diana was about a minute away and the hunt about twenty.
"I am Lady Diana's personal slave, Percy Jackson so of Poseidon at your service." I said mock bowing with Soul Reaper up in the air.
"Not possible you are much smaller and weaker than this." Venus said as her guards reached the river edges weapons ready same with Zeus's guards as they approached my left with Venus on my right.
"I was stuck in an age of less power thanks to some curses, but they are gone leaving me in my full power state." I said revealing my 50 cent piece crystal as the gods looked shocked.
"How...but that doesn't matter where is your mistress?" Jupiter asked as I turned to him with my helmet.
"My mistress is coming my job is delay your prewar discussion no matter what, we are here to stop this war." I said letting Soul Reaper fall forward slicing in the ground in front of me.
"What could a child of Poseidon do against two children of Jupiter?" He said as his guards stepped in the water.
"As well as two children of Neptune." She said as her guards stepped in the water.
"Depends but I can sense something off in their bodily functions what did you do to them?" I asked as they all stopped.
"Ah I guess a child of a Greek god does have enough power to sense that huh, simply it is drugs they made them as powerful as you while remaining loyal to us." Jupiter said as I noticed their crystals were a little bit bigger than my fake one.
"I see I guess technology does have a part in wars now days, it is good to see no guns of anything though." I said as they nodded in agreement.
"Guns are for the week, swords are for real warriors." Venus said as if it was turn on.
"Well..." I started as my helmet went down and molded to the armor like it always does, revealing my face.
"Like I said I am here to stop this and I guess my job is almost done I sense my mistress coming in close." I said with a smile, with my hearing as it was I almost heard Venus's heart skip a beat at my smile. On the other hand Jupiter was pissed a male as handsome as myself stood in his path.
"You will die!" He shouted as I two guards ran towards me as they were about twenty feet away.
"I guess they never got a taste of the real word have they, judging by the way they run through water. Well let's have a taste of nature shall we." I said as I slammed Soul Reaper in the ground summoning my pet. In a matter of moments the Hydra I first caught stood tall in their path as all the heads hissed at them.
"Get them boy I will deal with these two." I said as I summoned my helmet as I charged the two sons of Neptune, like a gust of wind the water around me transforming into hands but I easily dodged them as I ran faster to the tow. I felt ice spikes behind me as I jumped dodging one as I hopped off one in the air as the kept coming at me.
"You call this water manipulation I will show you how it is really done." I said as I twirled in the air moving like a liquid as fluid movements controlled my body. Just then I grabbed one of the spikes in the air making it under my control. I launched it down with all my strength over water at the time as I plunged right towards number two's chest.
In an instant all of the ice and water hands fell from the sky as both of them focused on the ice pike. But it was so fast I was near impossible for them to control, but with luck on their side them managed in the second I launched it to move it a little. But it still collided with his armor ripping it off his body flinging him in a partial circle.
During this time I had time to land and launch myself closer to them, but as I got closer one drew a trident and the other a weighted net and some mall scythe thing connecting it with a chain. He twirled the trident as I smiled as I approached him, all I needed was one touch. I ran as fast as I could in the distance between us.
With luck I launched past him as his trident reelected off of shield I had, but as I flew overhead I lightly touched his arm. But then I dodged the scythe thing barely as I bent backwards as it passed overhead. But I kicked up my foot lightly as the water bellow became a spike and went right through a chain loop.
I fell on my back from the move I just preformed, I then very quickly used Soul Reaper to stop the trident an inch form the helmet. I had about twenty seconds till Diana got here, I had to finish up these two quick. I rolled and stood up quickly as the two stood back to back as I breathed out as I started to use some energy.
Soul Reaper stared to give off a sudden frost in the air as I slowly fell to the ground same as Crimson Sky's shield as you could feel the air grow cold.
"Time to finish up." I said as I slowly dipped Soul Reaper in the water, as I rose it up it left a trail from its blade. Almost as if a shadow was left in the air of ice, the same was with Crimson sky as I slowly walked forward leaving behind a trail of ice floating in the air. But it held itself up as small towers of ice a needle thin held them up from the river.
In a second I was slicing and dicing at them leaving behind a maze of ice that was intricate and elegant at the same time. But quickly I pushed them in a center circle dome of it as my plan finally pulled together.
"Be gone sons of Neptune." I said as slammed Soul Reaper in the river as the awkward dome of elegant ice shattered. But as the shards fell they hit the two but as they hit they tore through their skin like it was butter. Blood began to pool in the water where they lay as the shards had nearly turned them into ground beef.
"This is the best you can do?" As I looked over at my pet Hydra, it had a couple of burn marks for lighting but it was happily munching on the tow demigods with its more than forty heads.
"You are released from your burden." I said as the beast nodded as it dissolve but then I noticed it reappeared on my blade as I smile, looks like it has come to like me.
"Ah milady you missed my match." I said as Diana just slowly strode forward as I bowed to her.
"I will kill you!" Jupiter yelled in anger as he pulled out a trusty master bolt and pointed it at me. He fired it but I was quicker than the lighting as I parted the water at my feet and Diana's and raised a wall of water as the lighting hit it.
The water turned to vapor but the electricity traveled in the water not hurting me or Diana.
"Milady are you okay?" I asked her not paying any attention to Jupiter as her furry grew.
"Yes I am fine." She said as I took my spot next to her as she walked in-between them.
"I think you made it just in time." I said as I smelled the ozone increase in the air as I turned to Jupiter.
"You have angered my boy I will kill you!" He shouted again as I felt the air radiate with energy. Just then a lightning bolt bigger than I had ever scene. It was smaller than mine but it put a new prospective on how powerful these gods were. Diana just grabbed my shoulder and without warning flashed us out, as we landed she let go and turned to me.
"Are you okay?" She asked me in real concern.
"I am fine take us back." I said as I watched the bolt finished, as she looked worried.
"Normally a demigod would dissolve in a teleport." She said as I turned to her.
"Immortal, now please master take us back." I said as she nodded and took us back.
"You had to kill him didn't you?" I heard Venus ask as Jupiter sill radiated with plenty of energy.
"No he didn't, but if he tries again I will make sure he wished he hadn't." Diana said as both turned to her with awe.
"Teleportation huh somehow he stayed together." Venus said eyeballing me as my helmet came down as I knelt at Diana's side as she started to talk. I just kept my head down as Diana yelled at them, telling them that if they were to start it here she would use all of her powers to kill as many as she could.
I just kept my face forward as I expanded my senses over the area as far as I could, but what got me was I felt another energy source in chariot of Jupiter. But as far as I could tell it was a child not even the age of five yet. I just looked up at the chariot as he seemed distracted by Diana's argument and yelling to notice me.
But from what I could tell from the power signature it wasn't Jupiter's but it was Zeus's power in the child. I was stunned I thought he was dead unless somehow Jupiter kept him alive only to produce super powerful children. I was sickened at that the thought as I noticed the power started to move in the chariot unnoticed by Jupiter.
I just watched as a child slowly got out of the chariot, I just watched as two small feet plopped on the ground and circled to my side of the chariot. I stopped thinking as I saw the child look curiously around the area. It was a spitting image of Thalia but super young, she had the electric blue eyes.
Her black hair looked to be long to below her shoulders, I just watched as she went unnoticed by the three. She had a look that said she was searching for something as she spotted me as her face lightened up. She gave me a smile that said hi without the words as I smiled back at her. She had on mostly black white clothes for a child her age.
She looked carefully at Jupiter then Venus and then Diana as she carefully came over to me staying as close to the ground as possible to stay unnoticed. With Dian drawing their full attention as the arguments went on she slipped past their line of sight right over to me. Without a word I carefully drew Soul Reaper and stuck in the ground to provide a line of sight shield for her.
"Hi." She said in cheerful voice below a whisper as I smiled at her.
"Hi." I said as she smiled back and surprisingly gave me a hug, I surprised me so much I didn't react until a couple seconds later. I gently hugged her back as I caught a whiff of her ozone like sent.
"What's your name?" She asked me.
"My name is Percy, Percy Jackson." I said as her whole face brightened up.
"Some lady told me to go to you she said you were the key to a brighter future, her name was B...Bambi? No maybe Bella, no that wasn't it what was it?" She asked herself as she made a cute thinking face.
"Balance?" I asked her.
"Yeah that's it she told me to go to you, and that Jupiter was a mean man." She said with a frown as she seemed to cry a little.
"What happened?" I asked her.
"He said I was worthless one time but I didn't understand but Balance told me what it means so I am going to do what she say and follow you to the future." She said with a smile but one tear escaped.
"Don't worry I will keep you safe." I said as I made sure the others weren't paying attention as I activated one power. I opened a portal as I pulled out small ring I had prepared for situations just like this. The ring was silver plain band as I slid it on her finger as I automatically adjusted to her finger size.
"This will keep you safe." I said as I lightly tapped something around her as a shield an inch off her person lightly made a small wave as the force went around her person.
"Thank you so much Percy." She said hugging me again as I hugged her back, just them I felt the hunters were only a minute away and Diana's anger was coming to an end.
"I need you to get on my back." I said as she nodded and climbed on my back but not before I put Soul Reaper back in the back slot in my armor. After she climbed on my armor suddenly put straps on her legs, arms, and around her body making sure she wouldn't fall off. There were three half straps that only half way over on each side.
It had the pattern were the ones on the right were in the gaps on the ones on the left. As Diana finished up the hunters just came into play as she let out on last bit of anger kicking what was left of a corpse at Jupiter. It sailed straight into his face covering him in blood and guts, he let out a scream as the quickly tried to clean himself off.
"That is that." She said as she came back huffing with anger.
"Who-." I cut her off with I finger to my lips.
"Shh I will tell you later." I said quietly as she nodded slowly as the hunt came around and took a glance at me but paid it no mind as the two gods just looked furious at her.
"Diana you have made two enemies today, we will have this war no matter what we will just send a force to your capital to annihilate it again." Jupiter said as Diana seemed to pale.
"You wouldn't dare." She said with a fear in her voice.
"Watch us." He said as she just turned to me.
"Percy attack him." She said in anger but I didn't mind her judgment was clouded.
"Right away." I said as my armor suddenly spread to the girl on my back completely covering her. But I noticed it was Eternal Bonds shield that molded her to my back, I also felt the shield cover me.
"Milady I need you to step back." I said as the water began to swirl around me in a vortex as Jupiter looked a little scared. I then took Crimson sky off my arm and planted it in the ground as I shielded the hunt
"Milady this will protect the hunt from this attack." I asked as I began to vaporize all of the water molecules in the air and ground. In a matter of second the temp of the area skyrocketed, the two gods started to pull away from the heat. I just stood with my arms up as I was actually struggling to hold the bubble of a few miles.
"You will see me again boy I promise, and when you do I will be standing over your corpse." I heard Jupiter shout as he escaped, Venus didn't say anything as she escaped as I finally stopped. I had worked up quite a sweat as I stood breathing slightly hard. Finally the temp returned and I picked up Crimson sky as the armor around the girl went back to normal.
"Milady." I said as I caught my breath.
"So special weapons I guess?" She asked as I nodded.
"Yeah." I said as I began walking back to base camp that was on edge of the hole.
"So how long until the battle takes place here?" I asked as the others began to follow as the girl just sat in the holster in my back listening to us.
"A couple days at best but that isn't our major concern right now they are going to the capital, I must depart ahead of you by flashing to ready the forces. In the meantime Elizabeth is in charge." Diana said in the front.
"Roger milady but I have one question." Elizabeth said.
"Who is she?" She asked pointing to the child on my back.
"I don't know what is your name?" I asked her as she perked up.
"Thalia Grace Daughter of Zeus."