Chapter 49:
Percy wore a simple camp half-blood t-shirt and a pair of jeans as he stood in the middle of his zombie ID. He leaned back against Waverider, which was stabbed into the ground, as Leo charged and attacked a Legion Zombie who was crawling away from the wolf.
Percy had a new book out, A Storm of Swords, the second sequel of his Game of Thrones book. This one was the third book in the series, he had already finished the last book a few days ago. Before Percy was depressed about how the author could just kill off every important character in the story, but now things were looking better. Robb Stark would avenge his father's death, Percy was sure of that. Percy turned each page with anticipation, this really was extremely exciting, for a book that is.
Ping!
Percy groaned as he closed his book, looks like his reading time needs to be pushed back, again. Percy looked at the notification he had gotten;
Your companion: Leo, leveled up!
Leo
Lv-20
HP: 2,500/2,500
MP: 625/625
Race- HellHound (1/2)+Wolf (1/2)
Exp- 80/4,100
Str-66
Vit-30
Dex-25
Int-16
Wis-15
Luc-9
Points-5
Skills-
Crunch Lv- 9 (70%)
The user's bite will be more powerful than an alligator.
Attack- 80 X Str
Critical strike, Lv- 2 (3%)
A precise strike that cause 400% more damage to the target
Chance of success- (Luc+Dex)%
Your companion has reached level 20! It has gained a new Perk!
Shadow Travel- Can travel through shadows like doors in a room.
Percy smiled at Leo's new Perk. He didn't really see any limit to it like when he had first obtained shadow travel. But maybe that was because Percy gained it through Chimera's blood and Leo was a hellhound so it just came to him naturally.
Percy whistled for Leo to come over and the dog did so. It was now three feet tall, big enough for a small child to ride. His mane of fur was slowly becoming darker and darker, probably due to his hellhound side finally acting up.
"Awesome boy," Percy said scratching Leo behind the ears, "you managed to get a new skill."
"Yup!" The wolf barked out as it wagged it's tail in excitement, "I think I can walk through shadows now master! Isn't that cool!"
Percy grinned, "hell yeah it is! Come one, let's give it a try," Percy said as he turned Waverider into it's form, he then took them out of the Zombie ID and into a Time dilution ID.
Percy looked around for a place to practise before he saw the perfect training sight. He pointed at a large shadow by the stands, "I want you to try and run into that. When you do, don't think of it as a shadow, think of it as a doorway."
Leo nodded, "right, got it master." Leo then started to stalk the shadowy area of the Arena's stand as he suddenly charged forward throwing his mana out widely. Percy wasn't surprised when Leo ended up banging his head up against the side of the wall instead of going through the shadows. No one ever gets anything on their first try.
"You need help?" Percy asked the dog.
"No," Leo growled glaring at the wall, "I got this."
Percy chuckled, Leo was acting like the wall was an enemy to defeat in combat, but it was a good attitude to have, especially for someone who wanted to get stronger.
Percy smiled as he went to one of the stands and leaned back opening his own stats. Ever since that huge stat point deposit yesterday Percy hadn't touched his own stats. He held off doing so last night because of....reasons named Thalia;
Percy Jackson
Health- 14,850/14,850 (+1000) = 15,850
Mana- 8,050/8,050 (+1000) = 9,050 (+20% more mana, +1,810) = 10,860
The Gamer
Title- Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-48 Exp- 50/130,000
Race-Demigod
STR-100(+20)=120 (Multiseal - 6- 1.5(+20)=21.5)
VIT-100(+11+20)=131
DEX-50(+11+20)=81
INT-100
WIS-53
LUC-100
POINTS- 358
MONEY- 25,437,683$/ 856D
Percy smiled at all the points he had. It was a major boost to his power, and quite frankly he had no idea what to do with them.
Percy closed his stats and opened his perk list. The only way he knew how to spend points large amount of points was to improve a perk via their perk trees. So he would do just that.
Percy first opened up Chimera's blood. Percy had already one add on bought which allowed him to have a total of 2 extra slots for that perk. This allowed him to have Goblin's growth and Metal summoning. So obviously Percy wanted to increase the number of perks he could obtain through this power of his.
There were a total of three add ons, each resulting in unlocking another slot. Percy bought them all. He spent 10 points on the first one, 15 on the other and 20 on the last unlocking them all for a total of 45 stat points;
POINTS- 313
Chimera's blood- Allows user to temporarily take on one trait from the last monster he killed. The user can use this trait for however long he wishes. Slots- ⅖
Percy then moved to his Psychic powers perk. It was like a well of powers that Percy could chose from and he hasn't done so simply because he didn't want to divide his attention to much focusing on improving different powers, but right now it felt like he should at least see what the perk has to offer.
Percy opened the perk tree and saw various amount of skills available to him. There were useless things like 'Tarot card reading' or 'Star gazing', things that while they might be useful aren't necessarily something Percy was going to use. Then as Percy was scrolling through the list he saw something that stuck out;
Tactile Telekinesis - The user's body is completely surrounded by an invisible field of telekinetic energy protecting them from harm and enhancing their physical abilities. The field can also be extended to manipulate objects on the same surface as the user or even the user themselves. The applications are endless.
Percy was definitely interested. He used his telekinetic abilities a lot, like a lot lot. It definitely made things a lot easier for him and definitely helped in the fight against Argo. Anything similar to that is definitely something Percy might want.
He pressed on the ability and four options showed up;
Please select the level at which you wish for your Tactile Telekinesis ability to be at;
Human Level- Your abilities are nearly human like, barely reaching the mark of super human. Cost-1
Superhuman- Your abilities are above human, you can do things like lift cars with your mind or your body via physical augmentations. Cost - 20
Meta-level- Your powers are unique and definitely is not anywhere near human level. Your mental strength is enough to carry a building. Cost - 50
God- You powers can be called God like by others. Your limitations are what you set for yourself. NOTE: This ability will start at the bare minimum, you will have to level them up.
Cost - 100
From what Percy could understand each skill level was different. Meta and Superhuman were basically perks, giving you instant access but limiting your abilities. Human was....trash. And God was basically a skill without a level cap.
Percy scratched his head, it was obvious what he should pick, after all God could theoretically make him into a...well God. And there was the added bonus of strength enhancement, which would give Percy a total of three ways to improve his strength.
And since Tactile Telekinesis enhanced one's body that might mean the stress Percy feels when using Body Form with all his seals removed will be no longer an issue.
'Plus I have like 300 stat points, I can afford to waste some,' Percy shrugged and pressed on 'God'.
Ping!
Note: If you select Tactile Telekinesis, your skill, 'Telekinesis' will be merged with this new skill. Your level will NOT be reset to one, but telekinesis will be considered a sub skill of Tactile Telekinesis.
Do you Accept?
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes and saw his points decrease from 313 to 213. A new box then appeared before him;
Ping!
You have obtained a new skill!
Tactile Telekinesis, Lv- 1 (0%)
The user's body is completely surrounded by an invisible field of telekinetic energy protecting them from harm and enhancing their physical abilities. The field can also be extended to manipulate objects on the same surface as the user or even the user themselves. The applications are endless.
Available abilities:
Second skin force field- An invisible force field around your body that simulates invulnerability. This force field covers your whole body and cannot be felt by others unless you wish them to.
Defence - 200
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 20
Body enhancement- Mind over matter, any stress or struggle your body feels will be suppressed until it cannot be held back anymore. This effectively improves the amount of energy your body can access allowing it to use the full range of Tactile Telekinesis powers without causing self harm.
Telekinesis, Lv-12 (80%)
The physic ability to move objects with your mind.
Range- 50 feet (Exception- Any object present on the surface you stand on or interact with can be manipulated by your mind.)
Max weight- 500 Pounds
Cost -30MP
Carrying Multiple items, Lv-3 - Carry multiple items, Max- 6 (Exception- 'X' number of objects can be manipulates and carried as long as they are present on the surface you stand on or interact with can be manipulated by your mind.)
Percy felt a wave of energy burst out from his head and cover him whole. He could feel it around him as it slowly built up. He could also feel everything around him, the way the air moved, the way the ground felt. It was like his mind was linked to everything he touched. The ground he walked on...he could feel it's presence. It was like he was seeing it from a third person's point of view.
He then looked at the info box and was stunned silent at what he read. He had not only gotten a boost in his defence through this invisible barrier, but also a boost in his strength. Percy know that his telekinesis ability has also been some what advanced as well, it was like his brain had been split open and introduced something new, something super.
Percy needed to try this out, now.
He closed the info box for the skill and walked to the center of the Arena was empty, well other than Leo of course who was still running into walls, so Percy could practise to his heart's content. Percy bent down and placed his hand on the ground and sent his mind through it.
Now that he was focused Percy could feel the ground around him. It felt.....it felt big to say the least. It wasn't similar to his control over water or even shadows, it just felt big. He knew he had some form of control, but that paled in comparison to what he could do with water.
Percy reached out and focused a patch of dirt in front of him. He felt his telekinetic field reach out through the molecules on the ground and surround itself around the patch of dirt. It was like Percy was extending an invisible hand to grab the dirt through the surface of the ground.
Percy then willed the dirt to move up, and sure enough, it did. Through the telekinetic connection to the ground the patch of dirt was surrounded in a mental capsule of sorts and lifted up. The clump of dirt stayed steady, it didn't trickle down or anything. Percy was amazed at the amount of control he felt, it was like before he was using a spoon to lift objects with telekinesis, possible, but difficult. But now it was like he was using a fucking super scooper to dig the dirt out, his powers were like an industrial machine.
Percy released the dirt and reached out with his mind further than he had ever done before. While 50 feet was his range, tactile telekinesis advanced it to such a degree that Percy could reach out till the edge of camp if he wanted to. As long as it was on the same surface as Percy himself he could control it.
Percy quickly zoomed out of the Arena and looked around for something to lift. He spotted a tree in the distance and smiled, 'that'll do nicely.'
Percy placed both hands on the ground and reached out to the tree. He felt the roots and the dirt around it and he slowly began to pull the tree up.
The ground began to shake as Percy felt the roots being pulled up from the ground. But the tre was much too big, it's roots were woven into the ground. It was difficult ripping the roots up, but Percy knew his new powers could do it, he could feel them begging to be let loose.
So Percy did.
He pulled the tree up, he felt the roots struggling to stay submerged, it seemed that they were wound around a huge rock underground that prevented the tree from being pulled out. Percy however didn't give up and he pulled and pulled, when suddenly;
SNAP!
Percy felt his telekinetic field rip into the roots as it destroyed them molecule by molecule. Percy was stunned as the tree suddenly rocketed out of the ground. Percy couldn't control it as it flew across the ID landing on the other side of camp. Percy blinked as he looked at his hands, "what the fuck?!"
Ping!
You have unlocked a new ability via tactile telekinesis!
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 1 (0%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range. Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 1,000 pounds of mass
Percy was astounded at what he read. This power really was something else, it was like all this time Percy was using the kiddy pool and now suddenly somebody pushed him into an Olympic sized six laned behemoth with a depth of 50 feet. He was definitely in a whole nother league now.
'Okay then, time to test this new power out,' Percy smiled as he turned to the nearby cabin, the Apollo cabin, and walked to it. He pressed his hand on the side of the cabin and suddenly his mind automatically connected to the entire wooden frame work.
Percy could feel the walls, but not the inside, guess that was one of the limitations of Tactile Telekinesis, hopefully this little problem can be solved as he levels up.
Percy reached out with his mind and pulled on the wood and slowly the began to ripe it out of it's fixtures. Percy then went deeper, he felt the molecules inside the wood, feel the way they moved, maybe because he was holding physical contact with it. They kinda felt like sand, but much much smaller. Percy was amazed he could even feel them at all.
Percy then closed his eyes and focused, 'destroy.' Cracks started to appear in the wood. Slowly they spread until the entire wooden wall exploded into chips and bits of wood. The only thing left behind was the inside of the cabin and the roof, which promptly collapsed straight down with nothing to hold it..
Percy looked at the destruction and smiled, this was his new trump card.
Sure it was basically only useful for destroying things now, but if Percy worked on it hard enough it should be able to convert matter itself. Maybe even transmute things. He could use this power to build buildings for the Haven.
Plus if Argo ever came near him again Percy could destroy the man from the inside out. Percy didn't know if Argo was immune to telekinetic abilities, but since they were powered by mana maybe he was. But either way Percy was looking forward to find out.
Percy cracked his knuckles, 'time to train in molecular manipulation.' With a face splitting grin Percy moved as he began to destroy every single thing inside the ID. He began with the Ares cabin and moved on one by one.
BOOM!
BOOM!
Percy grinned as he destroyed the Athena cabin, 'I think I might just become addicted to this!' Percy released all his pent up anger and frustrations.
He moved the the Poseidon cabin, "this is for leaving mom!" Percy yelled out as he obliterated his own cabin.
BOOM!
He still hadn't forgiven his dad for leaving him mom, but the God was trying his best to make up for it. And yes Percy knew he was acting like a dick, but hey, he deserved to once in awhile.
He then moved on the Zeus cabin and placed his hands on the statue of Zeus in the middle of the cabin, "this is for being such a shitty dad to Thalia!"
BOOM!
He went to the Aphrodite cabin, "this is for telling everyone we were dating!"
BOOM!
Hermes, "this is for being a shitty dad to Luke!"
BOOM!
Dionysis, "this is for always calling me Peter! My name is Percy shit head!"
BOOM!
Percy then turned to Artemis's cabin. The demigod really couldn't bring himself to destroy the building, after all Artemis was his friend. So he moved on to the Apollo cabin again. This time he made sure to level it down completely by using his Earthquake powers to cause the cabin to sink into itself.
Percy then began blowing up things one after another.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Soon the entire camp was destroyed into nothing but a smoking mess, well other than Artemis's cabin and the Arena. Percy grinned at the sight as he looked over his handy work. He never told Thalia this, but he kind of enjoyed blowing up the camp inside his ID whenever he trained. Sure he made it look like an 'accident' but he always did it one purpose. It was a way for him to work out his frustrations.
Ping!
Due to constant use you have leveled up a skill!
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 2 (0%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range. Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 1,500 pounds of mass
Percy hadn't really gained much in the level up, but that was understandable, after all he just destroyed like 12 buildings or something, plus one level shouldn't really give a game breaking boost in skill anyway.
So Percy zoomed back to the Arena and found the place empty of Leo. Percy was nervous already, "Leo? Leo are you here boy?"
Percy sent out a wave of mana to try and sense the wolf hybrid out when he suddenly felt something stir behind him. Percy turned just in time to see Leo pounce on him from his own shadows pinning him down.
"I got it master!" Leo shouted as he started to lick Percy's face over and over again.
Percy laughed, "okay okay Leo stop!" Percy scratched the dog and slowly he got off of him. Percy got back up and patted himself down as he smiled at Leo, "well? Let's see it."
Leo barked and quickly ran into the nearest shadow. He came out on the other side of the Arena and ran back to Percy. He pounced again but this time Percy was ready as he caught Leo in a hug swinging the dog around laughing at his pet's success.
Percy finally put the dog down and scratched him behind the ear, "you deserve a reward boy, what do you want? Ask me anything, and I'll try my best to do it."
"I want to visit mama again!" Leo barked out, "I haven't see her in so long! I want to show her how big and strong I became!"
Percy smiled, Leo considered Sally his mom, and the poor thing hasn't seen her in months and that was like a year in doggy time.
Percy nodded, "done. After breakfast you and I'll go and visit mom. I'm sure she'll be happy to see how much you have grown Leo."
The demi wolf barked in happiness as Percy scratched him behind the ear again. Percy smiled, "so you done for the day?"
Leo nodded, "yup!"
Percy smiled, "okay, I still have some training to do, I have some new powers I want to test out, so I'll first drop you back in the real world and come back here for some time. We'll leave after breakfast, okay?"
Leo nodded, "okay!"
Percy then grabbed Leo's celestial bronze collar, which was Nina's birthday gift to Percy, and brought them back into the real world. Leo then ran away towards the Forest while Percy went back into the time dilation ID. He really wanted to keep training his tactile telekinesis powers.
Percy came back into the ID and found everything hard reset like it always did. Percy smiled and began to destroy the camp, he still a lot of issues to work out. He particularly made sure to make sure Apollo cabin was reduced to nothing more than a stain on the ground.
Ping!
Due to constant use you have leveled up a skill!
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 3 (20%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range. Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 2,000 pounds of mass
Percy smiled at the agin ruined camp. There was just something primal about letting loose and destroying everything in sight. It felt so....relaxing. But now everything was broken again, so Percy had to again pop in and out of the ID for everything to reset.
Just then an idea popped into Percy's head, well more of a question really. Did he truly have a whole another world in his ID? He never really tried to explore this place. Other than the immediate area where he created the ID Percy has never really ventured too far away.
'Maybe I should give it a try,' Percy told himself, 'it would mean I didn't continually have to move in and out of an ID every time I destroy camp. Plus that would mean I have an entire city to blow up!'
Percy grinned and decided to do just that. He turned around and took off towards New York. Percy sighed as he ran passed under the red skye world, this place truly was amazing. There was no one else here, no cars to avoid, no need to pay attention to where he was going. And.....nothing to break.....
Percy smiled evilly, 'I don't have to hold back anymore.' And with that Percy pressed his feet hard into the ground and pushed his speed to the max.
BOOM!
A sonic blast blew out as Percy broke the sound barrier ripping across the road as he ran across the tar road. Everywhere his stepped cracks were left behind. Chunks of the road were ripped off as Percy ran past the countryside heading towards the city at speeds past mach 1.
Percy saw the tunnel up head and grinned as he went through it without a second thought. He reached the city on the other side of the tunnel and tried to stop. He tried to slow down, but he wasn't used to the extra momentum.
Percy tripped and slammed into the side of a building breaking through it completely and landing on the other side.
Defence - 432,902,432
Percy coughed as he pushed himself out of a pile of cement and steel. He looked around a saw himself in the middle of the road on the other side on the building. Percy groaned, "well this is fuckign new."
He got up and dusted himself off. This was unexpected. Usually when Percy crashes into something he's the one who is pushed back. Sure his marble skin defence takes most of the damage, but every time he crashed into a wall Percy was the one who was hurt. He never caused the damage....well, until now that it. He had run into and through a fucking building.
Percy groaned and thought about what was different this time around and immediately he got an idea. 'Maybe it has something to do with my telekinetic force field.' Percy thought about it and the more he did the more it made sense.
His force field basically was like tank armour. Before his defence would just absorb the blast or hit but never resisted the attack. But now that he had some sort of defence that could basically be considered as armour.
Sure it wasn't foolproof, since he clearly lost some marble skin defence points there, but maybe in time it would be.
Percy then began to look around and noticed New York city empty and quiet. As a guy who was born and raised in the city Percy would testify that this was one of the creepiest things he had ever seen.
It just didn't feel....right. It was like seeing Aslan without his mane or princess Leia wearing anything other than the golden bikin. It was sad and just plain wrong. The city felt unnatural to him like something that simply begged to be destroyed.
Percy grinned, "time to work out some more of my anger."
He walked up to the side of the building he crashed into and pressed his hand next to the side of the building.
'Let's see the average building weighs what? Let's say.....200,000 tons. That's....a....one second......carry the two, add the three...wait, why did I have a three left over? Shouldn't it be a five? Oh.....so that's why I have a three left over. Okay......there, So 445,000,000 pounds. Give or take. So 500 MP is needed to destroy 2,000 pounds of mass. That would mean I would need 11,250,000 MP to destroy this entire building. I think'
Percy sighed at the mental calculations he did, math may not be his favorite subject but he was still good at it. So obviously he couldn't destroy the whole building so maybe just some of it.
Percy reached out with his mind and began to spread his telekinetic field all across the bottom wall of the building. He reached as far as he could and then began to crush the building's structures with his powers.
BOOM!
Several support beams exploded as concrete and iron came flying out of the building. Percy felt the building slowly sink down into itself. Percy had spent all his mana, but it wasn't enough to destroy enough of cause the building to topple in on itself. All it did was create a huge hole in the side of the building which covered the first three floors. It didn't really do anything in terms of damage, but it did look impressive.
Percy gasped as he fell back on his behind looking at the still standing building. Sure he had destroyed half of the ground floor, if his math was right that ment he got rid of 40,000 pounds of concrete and steel. But obviously it wasn't enough.
Ironically Percy could have punched this entire building into dust with his bare fists if he wanted to. His strength seals alone would be enough for that. Add in Body Form and well that building didn't stand a chance. Percy then smiled, 'well I'm not exactly doing anything until my mana regenerates so....'
Body Form Activated: Full Body
STR- 69,120 (+20 +20) = 69,160 X 10 = 691,600
Percy unsealed all his strength restraints and felt his body slowly throb at the pressure of having two strength enchanting perks work simultaneously. Hsi muscles glowed with a blue green aura, that Percy began to identify as his own, as all his muscles grew in size. His skin also began to tighten up, they looked almost dehydrated now by the way they clung to his muscles.
The pain was almost too much but just then Percy felt his telekinetic powers activate as it slowly started to work to keep his body in check. Slowly the throbbing stopped, and Percy grinned, the body enhancement skill was really starting to paying off;
Body enhancement- Mind over matter, any stress or struggle your body feels will be suppressed until it cannot be held back anymore. This effectively improves the amount of energy your body can access allowing it to use the full range of Tactile Telekinesis powers without causing self harm.
Sure it said this power was for tactile telekinesis techniques, but that didn't mean Percy couldn't use it for other things as well.
Percy took and deep breath and let it out. He walked into the building through the giant hole he made with his attack before. He walked to the center of the building and looked around seeing all the support pillars holding the building up.
He knocked down a few of them with his previous attack. But the rest of them were still standing. Percy smiled, 'time to fix that.'
He took off at bullet like speeds as he destroyed each pillar with a wave of his mighty arms. Slowly each of them fell and the building with them. Slowly the 10 foot high lobby began to crash down on itself, but before it did Percy ran to the center of the building and put his hands up holding the entire structure above his head.
Percy groaned, "I immediately regret this decision," Percy could feel the matter in the structure above him about to give away, he couldn't let that happen. If the surface above him broke then the building would crash around him, and that was not what Percy wanted to do.
So he did the only thing he knew, he reached out with his telekinetic field, but this time instead of destroying the matter, he enforced it. He wanted it to remain as it was, intact. And slowly his power's did just that. The groaning stopped and Percy could feel the materials above him stop shaking.
Ping!
You have unlocked a new ability via tactile telekinesis!
Material Enforcement, Lv- MAX
Materials you enforce with your telekinetic field will be considered unbreakable. The only way to destroy this enforcement is if you're concentrations is broken.
Percy grinned at that, that meant he could hold this up for as long as he wanted, he just had to make sure not to loose focus.
Percy dismissed the box with a mental command and turned to the task at hand. He took a deep breath and pushed the building on top of him.
Groan...
The building was slowly lifted up as Percy strained to hold the building steady. Percy then lowered the building down and spoke through gritted teeth, "one."
Percy tried to ignore the fact that he was right now doing shoulder presses with a building on his back. After all he had enough strength to lift part of a mountain, this was the only way he was ever going to get a good strength workout.
Percy struggled to keep the building in check, on wrong move this way or that and it could result in a domino effect. And while destroying buildings with another building did sound cool Percy knew he needed to learn control. So there would be no building toppling today.
Percy lifted and lowered the building again, "two."
The building groaned but held on. Percy smiled, "three."
At the count of five Percy's body was covered with sweat. He could take the load and he didn't feel the pain, but that didn't mean his body had enough energy to continue on this level of training for long.
'Just five more,' Percy told himself, 'just hit the count of 10 and you can stop.'
"Six," Percy groaned out pushing the building up again.
"Seven," Percy focused on his muscles, the way the moved, the way they felt.
"Eight," Percy ignored the pain, what was the point? It wouldn't stop even if he did stop. He needed to push through.
"Nine," Percy groaned out when suddenly something gave out.
CRACK!
The entire first floor that Percy was carrying on his shoulder's broke as the building crashes down on top of Percy.
Defence - 432,871,332
Percy broke the ceiling with his head and now stood on the third floor. The momentum of the building falling down completely crushed the second floor, but luckily Percy's body was tough enough that he could walk out of his basically unharmed, well other than his ruined clothes.
Percy climbed out of the hole he was in and collapsed into the ground. He resealed his strength and deactivated his Body Form. He panted slowly the burning feeling in his muscles began to die out. His body was slowly recovering, he needed to rest now.
Percy started to pant, 'why did it break? Wasn't is supposed to be enforced by my tactile telekinesis? Wait....Shit! I got distracted!'
By count nine Percy's attention was whole focused on simply making sure he didn't drop a building on top of himself. Multitasking as hard when it involves a power you aren't fully sure about.
Ping!
You have gained +1 to STR due to your monstrous workout regimen!
Ping!
Your 'Super Strength' skill has increased due to constant use!
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 25
Percy smiled at the power boost. He had honestly not expected just improving super strength alone. He figured he would have to improve tactile telekinesis to improve that, but it seems that is not the case here. He could improve skill individually, though that did bring up the question, what would happen if tactile telekinesis leveled up?
Percy sighed, 'a problem for another time.' He closed the box and lifted himself up. He needed to eat food, and a lot of it.
He opened his inventory and kept pulling up all the food he could and stuffing it in his face. He didn't have anyone to impress by showing self restraint, not that he would have even if there were, so Percy just ate like a pig.
After finally getting his fill Percy closed his inventory and got on his feet, 'let's give this whole molecular manipulation a shot.'
Percy then pressed his hands on the surface he was standing on. The first and second floor had collapsed down, that meant Percy was standing two levels higher than ground level. He needed to fix that.
This time instead of just randomly targeting matter with his psychic powers Percy focused them to only destroy the ground of the second floor. He reached out and suddenly the ground below him started to break up into dust and steel as it slowly broke down.
There was a lot of leftover residue, which Percy pushed to the side with his telekinetic powers, he didn't need something as powerful as molecular manipulation for something like this.
Percy then broke down the pillars holding the second floor and activated his two strengthening perks grabbing the collapsing building and holding it over his head;
STR- 96,952 (+20 +25) = 97,007 X 10 = 970,007
Percy grinned at the extra boost in power. All that just because he got an extra point in STR. The weight was now manageable, his body was still paining, but Body Enhancement took care of that. Percy also activated his matter enchantment skill, don't' want the roof crashing down on him again.
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
"Four."
"Five."
"Six."
"Seven."
"E-Eight."
"Nine."
"Ten."
This time Percy managed to get to ten. He smiled at that accomplishment. The boost in power definitely did help with this.
'Now....20.'
"Eleven."
"Twelve."
"Thirteen."
"Fourteen."
"Fif-fifteen."
"Sixteen."
"Seven-seventeen. Fuclk!"
"Eight-"
Ping!
You have gained +1 to STR due to your monstrous workout regimen!
Ping!
Your 'Super Strength' skill has increased due to constant use!
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 30
'What the-' Percy got distracted by the noise as he turned to look at the new notifications. The moment he did his focus was shaken causing his Material Enforcement skill to stop working.
CRASH!
Percy groaned as he broke through the third floor;
Defence - 432,861,332
At least the damage wasn't that bad now.
Ping!
Your 'Second Skin Force field' skill has increased due to constant use!
Second skin force field- An invisible force field around your body that simulates invulnerability. This force field covers your whole body and cannot be felt by others unless you wish them to.
Defence - 300
Percy shrugged, 'at least I got something out of that.'
Percy pulled himself out of the hole he stood in and began the process all over again. He ate, destroyed the floor underneath him with his molecular manipulation, broke the pillars supporting the floor above him, held the building up while his strength seals were active and began his work out.
Since he was moving from the ground floor to the top he obviously had less weight to work with with each floor he broke through. This resulted him passing the 50 count by the time he was halfway done with the building.
Soon the entire building wa nothing more than a broken heap and Percy walked out with a tattered shirt and torn jeans. He really needed longer lasting clothes. But the results of his 'work out', if it even qualified for such a title, were obvious.
He had gained + 3 in STR and increased his super strength six more times;
Super strength- You can exert extra force through a combination of your mind and body simulating super strength.
STR- + 60
STR- 2.89 (+20 + 60)=82.89 (Strength is sealed.)
Percy was honestly impressed with the super strength skill. It made him much stronger than he was before. Plus it was almost equal to Percy's real STR levels, and that was only after one day of training. One could only imagine where the limit of this power was.
Percy turned to the building, or at least what was left of it. Before it was kind of impressive, a testament to man's accomplishments. All it was now was a pile of rubble, rubble that Percy could use to train up his molecule manipulation.
So he did just that. For the next hour Percy slowly went through the cycle of destroying all the crumbled up rubble. It was a long process, due to him needing to constantly change up his mana after every use of his ability, but it was worth it in the end;
Molecule manipulation, Lv- 7 (0%)
You can manipulate the molecules of objects within your range. Your control over this ability is minimal, you can only separate the molecules not manipulate them.
Cost- 500 MP per 4,000 pounds of mass
It wasn't much, but it was something. Plus now he could destroy a lot more stuff, Percy was really letting his inner anarchist out today.
Soon however the four hour mark passed, meaning Leo must have been waiting in the real world for over an hour. So Percy speeded back into camp and once there quickly slipped out of the ID world and into the real one.
He went into the Mess Hall and immediately spotted the familiar crop of hair that belong to his girlfriend. She was currently sitting in the Zeus table with a hot mug of coffee in front of her with a blanket over her.
"Morning Sparky," Percy said as Thalia turned to see him walking toward her.
"Morning fish head," Thalia's voice came out horse, it was like something was stuck inside it.
"Woah, got a little throat problem there," Percy said sitting next to her, "you okay?"
"I'm fine," Thalia groaned, "it's all your fault you know."
Percy blushed, "I didn't realise you could scream that loud. Hell if I didn't take you into my ID you would have woken up the entire camp!"
Thalia gave out a chuckle, or at least it sounded like a chuckle, "still, it's your fault. How the hell were you soo good at....well, you know."
Percy smiled, "how about I do this first," he put his hand on her throat and it glowed gold healing her up instantly, "there. Better?"
"Much- A hem, I mean, yeah, much better," Thalia smiled, "thanks Percy."
"Any time love," Percy kissed her check, "and if you must now, I used a skill disk."
Thalia blinked, "t-that's cheating! You can't just use a skill disk! Plus it's like totally irresponsible and stuff!"
Percy shrugged, "I told you, just because I increase my skill level doesn't automatically mean I can use this skill properly. So I just kind of had a skill disk I didn't know what to do. So....well I never ever used one for personal reasons, always because I needed a special power or something like that. And hey, I figured as your boyfriend I owe you the best, hence my use of a skill disk."
Thalia puffed her cheeks, "but that's still not fair! I have to physically work for my skill but all you have to do is use a freakin skill disk!"
Percy lowered his head, "I'm sorry....I-ah, well I just thought you would like it."
Thalia sighed, "Percy I want us to experience all this together, I know it may sound stupid now, and believe me I'm certainly not telling that you should have not used a skill disk, but I still want us to do this together. I can't do that is your always five steps ahead of me you know."
Percy nodded, "yeah I get." Thalia wanted him to learn all of this with her, she wanted them to do it together, and that couldn't happen unless they stood side by side as equals. "I promise, no more skills disks to improve my ah, 'bedroom' skills."
Thalia smiled, "good. And if you do happen to get an extra skill disk it's mine. Next time I'm so gonna scream out my name instead."
Percy chuckled, "we make such a weird ass couple."
Thalia smiled, "yup! Anyway what's the plan for today? Don't you have a free day?"
Percy nodded, "yup. Leo wanted to go see my mom, he hasn't seen her in so long and even yesterday when she came to camp Leo didn't get to see her. So I promised him we could go and meet her today."
Thalia nodded, "sounds good. I and," she groaned, "Mera," she spat the name out, "have some personal one on one training today. I'm gettin her to teach me a few basic spells, like the ones she taught you. Hopefully it won't be too much of a pain in the ass."
Percy smiled, "well it is a great ass." Thalia slapped him up the head but smiled. After a few more minutes spent talking the couple went their separate ways.
Percy walked back to his cabin and saw Leo on the porch waiting for him eagerly.
"Can we leave now?!" Leo barked out.
Percy nodded, "yup, let me just get your collar."
Leo whined, "do we have to?"
"Yeah Leo, it's against the law to have a dog unleashed walking around the city. Plus given your size, if you weren't on a leash you might give some poor old lady a heart attack!"
Leo whimpered and shot Percy a pleading look, but the son of Poseidon ignored the look completely, he has been immune to that look for some time now.
He went inside and came out with new set of clothes wearing his new leather jacket that Thalia gave him. He also had a simple leather and steel chain in his hand that Percy had made himself. He attached it to Leo's collar and carefully put the pet into his inventory.
Percy then took out his goggles and took off for New York. Percy entered a time dilation ID and entered Mach 1. Since he couldn't use his full speed in the real world for fear of collateral damage he would just have to use it in his ID.
Percy honestly didn't know what he didn't think of this before, but he mostly just chalked it up to him wanting to feel the wind rush past him as he ran, which didn't happen in his ID because there was no wind in here.
He soon reached New York but Percy started to slow down before he even entered the city limit. He dropped down to manageable momentum and slipped out of his ID into the real world.
He made his way to his mom's place and there was a single police vehicle standing outside and Percy stopped the moment he saw it.
'No, no, no, no! This cannot be happening again!' Percy thought to himself. The last time he saw police cars in front of his mother's apartment it was in the illusionary world and she was dead. Sure that world wasn't really, but the things Percy saw in there still left a scar on his soul.
'Maybe it's nothing.' Percy tried to assure himself, 'maybe it's just one of Kate's cop buddies coming over for a visit. Yeah...yeah that sounds right.'
Percy kept that optimistic thought in mind as he put away his goggles and ran into a nearby alley. He took Leo out and grabbed his leash, "you ready boy?"
Leo whined, "it smells here master. Like poop."
Percy nodded, "yeah well you basically spent most of your growing days at camp, which is filled with clean air. Now you're older and your senses have been enhanced as well, so it's natural for you to be extra sensitive. Do you need some time to adjust?"
Leo shook his head, "no, it's fine. I'm used to it already."
Percy nodded and soon they both entered the flat. Leo wagged his tail in excitement as the climbed the stairs to his mother's floor.
Percy didn't see any yellow tapes or forensic people in his mom's apartment, thank the Gods. But there were two policemen in uniform standing outside Kate's door.
Percy walked up and immediately the two officers started to eyeball him. They didn't find anything suspicious, to them he was just a teenager in an orange shirt with the words, 'camp Half-Blood' written on it.
Percy walked to his mother's door and knocked, "mom? Are you home?" Percy waited for some time but nothing happened, he couldn't hear anyone inside. Percy sent a wave of mana into the apartment and got nothing. She wasn't home.
Percy sighed as he turned around and looked at the cops. "Ah...can I talk to Castle?"
The officer's looked at him as one spoke up. "What about kid?"
"My mom, she's not home. I want to know wether Castle or Beckett knows where she went."
The cops exchanged looks when one motioned the other to go in and check. "Give me a second kid," one cop told him as he went inside closing the door behind him.
Percy was left alone with the other officer as the two looked at each other.
"So.....you're a cop," Percy said, "what's that like?"
The cop chuckled and shook his head as he remained quite. Suddenly the door was thrown open and Sally stepped out.
"Percy!" she smiled as she wrapped him in a big hug pulling him close, "I'm so glad you're here."
"Hey! What about me!" Leo barked furiously, angry that he was being ignored.
Sally broke the hug and turned to the dog and stared. "Percy is-is that Leo?"
Percy grinned, "yup. He had something of a growth sprout."
Sally blinked as slowly a smile came on her face. She bent down and scratched him behind the ear, "you sure have grown Leo."
That seemed to push Leo over the edge as he barked out, "MAMA!" and jumped on Sally pushing her down and licking her face over and over again.
"Haha, stop it Leo! Stop!" Sally giggled as she tried, and failed, to stop Leo and his barrage of lickes.
The policeman who went inside came out and chuckled at the sight. Soon another figure came out of the apartment and stood next to him staring in confusion at the scene before her.
Percy turned and smiled, "Detective Beckett!" Percy smiled like a cat, "awesome to see you again."
"Percy, nice to see you too," Kate said in a distracted tone, "ah, is that dog...Leo?"
Percy grinned, "yup. He kind of got a growth spurt over the summer. And since it was so long since he saw you guys I thought I should bring him over. Oh, and speaking of which, Leo!" Percy turned to his dog who finally got off Sally, "guess who's here!"
"Pretty lady!" Leo barked as he ran passed the policeman and jumped on Kate pushing her down and licking her face as well. The detective tried to resist, but she obviously didn't know the strength of a hellhound, even a demi-hound.
Soon after Leo was done showing his affections Kate and Sally took the both of them into Castle's apartment allowing the policemen to return to their duty of staring at the opposite wall.
"You have really grown Percy," Kate commented ruffling his hair, "and I see your voice has also cracked."
Percy smiled, "yeah. Guess both me and Leo had something of a growth spurt over the summer."
"Well I'm sure soon enough the girls will be lining up the block just to get a piece of you."
Percy chuckled, "well then they're going to have to get passed my girlfriend, and believe me she has a mean right hook."
Kate raised an eyebrow, "you sure work fast Percy."
Percy smiled, "not really. It just...clicked."
Kate smiled and nodded, "I know what you mean."
"So...ah, why the cops?" Percy asked as he unclipped the leash off of Leo's collar. The dog wanted to run around but he knew better, Annabeth once caught him trashing her work stations inside the Athena cabin and let's just say the Leo learnt that day the true meaning of the words, 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'
"For them," Kate lowered her voice to a whisper as she motioned over her shoulder.
Percy looked and saw Castle sitting down with a middle age man and woman, married by the rings on their fingers. The couple looked haggard, like they had just went through some kind of disaster. Their clothes were messy and their eyes had bags under them.
The man had a white full beard with very short hair. His skin was tanned, a sign that he had been working in the sun for long periods of time. The woman on the other hand still had a bit of grey in her hair, her face were covered with smile lines, almost like she did nothing but smile.
Castle looked like he was trying to tell them a joke, lighting their spirits, but they weren't laughing. They were kind enough to smile, but Percy knew a fake smile when he saw one.
"What happened to them?" Percy asked in a low tone of voice as the three of them, and Leo, went into the kitchen. Percy and Kate sat on the stools next to the kitchen counter while Sally was on the other side putting a tray of what looked like blue chocolate chip cookies in the oven.
"A lot," Kate told him with a sigh, "they are Mr. and Mrs. Rebowl, they came to the precinct 3 days ago to file a formal complaint. Their son had gone missing, he was in New York over the weekend visiting his sister, it seemed he did that a lot. Two days later the sister calls her parents and told them that her brother was missing. They immediately came over, but when they reached the daughter's place they discovered that she was also gone."
"Why did you bring them here?" Percy asked as he made eye contact with Castle who smiled at the demigod.
"Yesterday someone tried to kill them," Kate replied eyeing the couple next to her fiance, "Castle and I were with them at the time and managed to escape with the Rebowls, and obviously we couldn't allow them to walk around without any protection. It was only one attacker, but we didn't want to risk it. So Castle offered our place for them to stay."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "they don't look like the kind of people that other people want to target. They kind of look like....well farmers."
Kate nodded, "they are. They live in the countryside, honestly I have no idea why anyone would ever want them dead. They are just...well, not that threatening. Very quiet, very nice, even did a background check on them, just a couple of speeding tickets and one restraining order issued by them against someone else."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "restraining order?"
Kate nodded, "yeah," she then got up and walked to the kitchen to help Sally make something to eat. Obviously that was her way of saying that this conversation was over.
Percy sighed and turned around to see Castle struggling to keep the couple occupied. Percy narrowed his eyes and focused on them both activating his observing skill;
Chad Rebowl, Owner of Rebowl's Farm
Lv- 16
HP: 1,000/1,000
MP: 0/0
Race- Human
Str- 16
Vit- 15
Dex- 12
Int-9
Wis-10
Luc- 13
Chad was born and raised to be a farmer, he knew no other life. He married the love of his life, Diana, and the two have had a very a happy marriage. He has two kids, Mark and Angelina, and is loved by all in his county. He is known as a carrying and gentle man who helps out those in need of helping.
Likes: Diana, Angelina, Mark, farming
Dislikes: His town's mayor, selfish people, Eggs
He hasn't meet Percy yet.
He is feeling scared and nervous.
Diana Rebowl, Owner of Rebowl's Farm
Lv- 12
HP: 650/650
MP: 0/0
Race- Human
Str- 9
Vit- 14
Dex- 15
Int-11
Wis-17
Luc- 13
Diana is considered to a smart woman who always is willing to help out other people. Her advices is freely given and often she goes out of her way to help others feel better. She married the love of her life, Chad, and the two have had a very a happy marriage. She has two kids, Mark and Angelina, and is loved by all in her county.
Likes: Diana, Angelina, Mark, cooking
Dislikes: Her town's mayor, selfish people, peacocks
She hasn't meet Percy yet.
She is feeling scared and nervous but puts up a strong face to support her husband.
Percy smiled at reading their bio's they seemed like a nice enough couple, the kind Percy liked. It was awful that something like this has happened to them. And just then;
Ping!
A skill leveled up due to constant use!
Observe Lv-15 (90%)
By Observing a target one will get information about said object
-Max HP,MP, stats, info, their emotions, likes/dislikes, their strength and will give their opinion of you.
Percy raised an eyebrow at this. He hadn't had this skill level up in quite some time. He looked at the new feature, apparently now he could tell what a person was good at.
Percy looked at Chad Rebowl again and Observed him, and sure enough there was a new feature in the Info box;
Strength- Farming, chores, fighting
This would be useful in the future, Percy could totally use this to gauge future enemies. The demigod then got up and walked over to the living room. He spotted Castle and smiled, "hey Castle."
Castle looked up and smiled in relief, "hey Percy, glad to see you! Came to see your mom?"
Percy nodded, "yup."
Castle nodded and turned to the Rebowl's who looked confused. "Oh right, Chad, Diana, this is Sally's son, Percy," Castle introduced Percy to them.
Percy shook their hands, "how do you do sir? Ma'am?"
"Well son, thanks for asking," Chad shook his hand, he had a tight grip. Percy could feel the roughness of his palms underneath, the man used them a lot, it was only natural.
Ping!
Lie detected!
Percy nodded, "I heard what happened. I'm sorry that it did. This city can be both amazing and a nightmare at the same time."
"Had some bad experience here have you?" Diana asked with a smile.
Percy nodded, "yeah...a few. But I also had a few good ones, matter of perspective I suppose."
"Well for someone like you yes," Chad spat, "you were born and raised here. But people us, like our children, they had no business being here."
Diana patted her husband's shoulder, "there there Chad, it's going to be alright. Detective Beckett said-"
"I know, I know," Chad looked like he had been kicked in the stomach. His eyes were baggy, he probably didn't get any sleep last night, or even for the whole week.
"Percy why don't we go and help Kate and your mom out?" Castle prompted him, "I think the Rebowls' need some time to themselves."
Percy nodded and the two left.
"You've grown," Castle told him with a smile, "I almost didn't recognize you."
Percy shrugged, "puberty has both blessed and cursed me."
"So planning on staying for a while?" Castle asked as they reached the kitchen counter.
"Kind of," Percy told the man, "just wanted to see my mom. Leo and I missed her a lot."
Castle looked surprised, "Leo's here?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, Leo!" Leo barked and quickly ran from Sally's side to Percy. The demigod scratched him behind the ear while Castle semple started in open astonishment.
"T-that's Leo?!" Castle yelled out loud, "he's huge!"
Percy chuckled, "yeah, guess he and I had a growth spurt this summer."
"I'll say," Castle turned to Leo, "remember me buddy?"
Leo barked, "of course I do! You're the guy stinks of sugar and paper!" Percy chuckled as Castle tried to scratch Leo only for the dog to snip his fingers with a playful bite.
"Guess he's a little more used to guys now huh?"
"I wouldn't say that," Percy told the man, "he's just more.....well he tolerates us, he still favours women. When I introduced him to my girlfriend she and him instantly became super close. She almost stole him from me completely, the only reason he even bother to stay was because I was the one who scoops his poops and feeds him."
Castle smiled, "sound's like Leo alright."
Percy nodded as he turned back to the Rebowls', "so where are you guys with the case?"
"It's going.....nowhere," Castle sighed, "Kate and I were assigned to it before but now we are stuck in here until someone can relieve us. But the investigation is ongoing."
Percy nodded, "so basically you guys have nothing."
Castle tried to argue but gave up before he even began, "sigh, we let another team take over the actual investigations but....well they are great and all, but they got nothing on us. All we know is that the son was tied up with some gang, didn't want to tell the parents' that, would probably break their hearts."
"I thought you guys only did homicide?"
Castle shrugged, "department is short on people. Plus Kate volentured."
"So what? Son deals with a gang, get's kidnapped. Sister tells parents, also get kidnaped?"
Castle nodded, "look's like it."
"Which gang?"
"Some biker's near the docks. Call themselves the 'Hound' or something equally stupid. The guy who attacked them wore one of their jackets and rode a model the Hounds have been known to ride. So we kind of just put two and two together," Castle said with a shrug, "but we don't have enough evidence on them, nor do we have enough proof of their actions. But we also know that the gang has been seen around the sister's apartment."
"Who told you that?" Percy asked Castle.
"The sister's roommate," Castle replied with a casual shrug, "she said that she saw a couple of gang members drive by before Mark went missing. She heard the brother talk about them with his sister, mentioned something about drugs a couple of times."
"Enough Castle," Kate cut in startling the two men, "don't want to give Percy any ideas now."
"Oh come on Kate, what do you think I'm going to do? Run and try to find the two siblings on my own?" Percy shot a mischievous smile at the detective;
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Find Angelina and Mark!
Rewards,
The Rebowl family will be indebted to you!
?
Failure,
Death of two innocent people
Do you Accept?
YES/NO?
"Oh I recognize that smile," Sally spoke up, "that's the look you have when you're planning on doing something stupid."
"No, this is my innocent smile," Percy pressed yes and turned to his mom putting on his best fake look of innocence, "see?"
Sally narrowed her eyes, "you've gotten better at acting. Maybe you should try out for the drama club or something."
Percy chuckled, "yeah, no. I have no talent for it, and I don't wish to join the world of drama. To much....well, drama."
"Well what do you want to do in the future?" Castle asked as he tried to reach for the bowl of leftover cookie dough only for Kate to slap his hand away.
"Well....I'm not really sure," Percy shrugged, "I haven't really given it much thought."
"Well what are you good at?" Kate asked.
"A lot of things."
"Name a few."
"Well, I am a very good swimmer, can speak and read ancient Greek. I know how to use a sword and a bow and arrow. I am a pretty good teacher, or so I've been told. I'm okay at other science and math, but I don't really like them. I'm also good at biology, so that. I can sing, play the drums, guitar and the bass. Can cook and I'm also pretty good with sea animals."
Castle and Kate stared at the boy in amazement while Sally just chuckled, "that's my boy!"
Percy gave his mother a thumb's up, "it's only because I have an awesome mom like you!"
"Why do you know how to use a sword?" Kate asked about what she found the most strangest of his skill set.
"Camp has special classes for it," Percy replied with a shrug.
"What type of camp do you go to? And can I send Alexis there?" Castle asked in amazement.
Percy chuckled, "my camp is awesome, but invitation is kind of.....exclusive. I have no idea how Alexsis could possibly ever get in."
Castle shrugged, "oh well. Fine. Keep your secret super camp. Me and my baby will make do with Harvard."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "Alexis got into Harvard?"
Castle nodded, "well she's applying for it next year."
Percy nodded, "I hope she get's in. So....why are you all making cookies?"
"It's to lift up the Rebowls' spirits," Sally told him with a sad sigh, "they have been through so much. If only we could help them."
"Yeah..." Percy and Sally shared a look and a message passed between mother and son. Percy slowly nodded and Sally smiled. Her son would take care of it.
"So I need to be going!" Percy called out suddenly startling Kate and Castle.
"What? But you just got here!" Castle cried out, "I've been waiting for you to come back so that I can finally get revenge on Call of Duty! I've been practicing non stop for a month! You owe me a rematch!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "I doubt you actually did nothing else but play Call of Duty the whole month Castle."
"Actually he did," Kate growled out glaring at Castle who started to sweat a little, "every night he does nothing but play that stupid game."
"Well I-ah, well you see-"
"-And that's my cue to leave!" Percy jumped off of his stool and hugged his mom, "I'll see you soon."
"Take care Percy," Sally hugged him back. She then lowered her voice and leaned down to his ears, "you'll find them right?"
Percy nodded and whispered back, "I'll find them. Message me the detectives number later. I'll call when I find them."
Sally nodded and broke the hug, she scratched Leo behind the ear while Percy walked to living room.
"Mr. and Mrs. Rebowl, it was nice seeing you," Percy said with a smile, "I know you guys will be reunited with your kids soon."
Chad Rebowl glared at Percy while Diana just smiled, "thank you dear. And be safe, this city....it has taken enough good people."
Percy nodded, "yeah, I know." He turned and walked away, 'okay, I am so finding those two now. I was before, but now it's personal.'
He put Leo on leash again and walked out, much to the disappointment of the dog. Once they were outside the apartment Leo barked, "why did we leave so soon?"
"Because we got a job to do boy," Percy told him as he walked Leo to a nearby alleyway, "some bad men have taken two nice kids. The pretty lady and the sugar guy are looking for them, and mama what's us to help. So, what do you say Leo?"
Leo snarled, "where do we start?"
Percy grinned as he opened his inventory, "good boy."
A few minutes later;
Percy and Leo walked around the dock's looking for suspicious looking people. But then again this was the docks, if you don't see shady looking people hanging around your not looking in the right place.
Percy focused on people and their titles, he was looking for someone who could get him information.
"This place stinks," Leo whined, "it's really hurting my nose."
"If you want I can put you inside my inventory again," Percy spoke looking around, "I'll take you out when I need your help."
"No," Leo snarled, "mama wants these people found and I'm going to help you. After all it's my job, what's the point of a Alpha if he can't even protect his Beta?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "ah, I think you got that confused Leo, I'm the Alpha, you're the Beta."
Leo huffed, "no I'm the Alpha, you're the Beta. You pick up my poop don't you?"
"Yeah, but that's because it's what humans do."
"You also feed me whenever I ask you."
"Yeah but that's because you whine like a bitch if I don't."
"You take me out on walks."
"Yeah, and I'll remind you whenever we are on these 'walks' and you bite off more then you can chew I am the one who saves your tail."
"So what? What's the point of a Beta if he isn't willing to risk his life to save yours?"
"I risk my life to save yours because I care about you Leo."
"Yes you care about me, like a subordinate cares for his boss."
"You are not my boss."
"Yes I am."
"No you are not, in fact you have called be boss and master several times."
"I just do that to improve your self esteem."
"I don't need you to improve my self esteem."
"Yes you do. I make you feel important and in return you do everything I ask."
"Not all the time."
"But you still do it."
"Yeah because I want to, not because I have to."
"No, you do it because I tell you and you are afraid of me."
"Dude I've been insulting you since the day we meet. What part of that makes you think I'm afraid of you?"
"You do whatever I say whenever I threatened you."
"Yeah, but only because you threaten to tell Thalia I was abusing you. She's the one I'm afraid off."
"So....she's the Alpha?"
Percy blinked, "huh, guess she is." Just then Percy noticed somebody hanging around in the corner of his eye. He leaned back on the side of a building smoking a cigar. He had pink hair, bright pink, it was shaped into a mohawk, if his hair didn't scream, 'delinquent' his clothes sure did. His jacket kind of looked like a fucked up version of Thalia's own, spiky all over with several badges crudely sewn on.
Derek Congo, D-C
Lv- 12
Percy smiled, he looked like the kind of guy who was willing to do anything for money, just what Percy needed.
Percy and Leo walked up to the man and he glared as they got closer. He dropped his smoke and put it out under his steel toed boot.
"What the fuck do you want?"
Percy opened his inventory and put it behind his body. He reached back and mentally took out a hundred dollar bill and waved it in front of Derek, "information, D-C" Percy added the last part to make it sound like like he knew who he was, after all, information was power.
"Who sent you?"
"Does it matter?"
D-C shrugged, "guess not," he reached for the money but Percy snatched it back.
"Where can I find the biker gang known as the Hounds?"
"Are you a cop?"
"No. Why?"
"Because you have to tell me if you are, it's a rule."
"Actually that's a lie, cops don't actually have to tell you that, they are allowed to lie."
D-C raised an eyebrow, "oh....so that means you can be a cop."
"Do I look like a cop?"
"Don't know, they can look very young," D-C eyed Leo who snarled at him, "and I'm not a big fan of your mut ether."
"Look just tell me what I want to know and I'll be out of your neon pink hair," Percy waved the cash in front of D-C again, "where are the Hounds?"
"Why? You looking to score some blow? Because if you are I know a guy who can get you better stuff then the shit the Hounds are tossing."
Percy raised an eyebrow, 'wasn't this guy just a moment ago wanting to know if i am a cop or not? Now he's openly admitting he has connections to a drug ring? Seriously kids, don't do drugs.'
"No, thanks," Percy repeated, "just the Hound's."
The man scoffed, "go three blocks down and take a right. They hang out a pub called 'The BOX', now cash," he extended his hands and Percy sighed as he slid the note into the amns' palms. "Thanks kid," he tucked the cash into his pocket and walked away leaving Percy and Leo alone.
Percy probably shouldn't have given the criminal money, he could have just used force to get the info. But he didn't really feel like it, after all if his guess was right D-C is probably just going to smoke it all up later, hopefully he'll die from lung cancer or something.
"Come on boy, we got ourselves a lead," Percy spoke as Leo barked in confirmation.
Percy quickly found what he was looking for. The BOX was a shit stain of a building. It smelt bad, even from the outside, it looked like the kind of place where even rats and cockroaches would avoid.
Percy turned to Leo, "stay here."
"You sure?"
Percy nodded, "I killed the Minotaur when I was 12 Leo. I doubt a couple of bikers can scare me, I got this."
Percy walked into the club and was immediately hit with the smell of alcohol. It was 12 in the morning but the place smelt like beer and cigars. Percy walked into the club and saw around 30 men and women dressed in leather with tattoos and piercing.
On all their jacket's was the logo of a hound with the words, 'Ride free or die tryin,' written around the picture framing it. Percy could tell that each one was armed with at least a handgun, one even carried a baseball bat with a spiked wire running around it's length.
The moment Percy stepped everything in there stopped as they turned to look at him. Percy raised an eyebrow at this reaction, 'so this is how a western saloon would react to a stranger walking into the bar.'
"No minors allowed kid," the bartender, a black fat guy with a stained white shouted, "get the fuck out!"
"What about her?" Percy asked pointing to a young girl suited up in biker gear sitting on the bench nursing what looked like a glass of beer. She had brown eyes, a nasty glare and bright pink hair, seriously what is it with people and pink hair? "I'm pretty sure she's what, 15? 16?"
"She's old enough," snapped a man standing next to her, "and you are not."
Percy turned to the man who shouted at him, the name James Howllet hung above his head. The man looked around Percy's height if not shorter, but his muscles stretched his shirt and jeans out. Percy figured the man must be a body builder or something. He looked at the man's name and then the girl, Jinna Howllet.
'Father and daughter?' Percy wondered in surprise, 'this is sure a hell of a bad place for them to bond. But my dad and I spend our bonding time killing monsters so who the hell am I to judge?'
"Look I just came for some information, okay? I'm looking for someone, well two someones actually. A guy named Mark Rebowl and a girl named Angelina Rebowl, their brother and sister. Anyone heard of them?"
"I know Mark," Jinna spat out in a drunk slur, "fucker dumped me a few days ago."
Percy blinked, "you and him were....together?"
"Yeah, why?" Jinna glared at Percy, "is it because I dyed my hair and my dad is in a gang? What, is it hard to imagine a farmer boy like Mark and I have anything in common? Or do you think I'm some kind of slut who just sleeps with any guys she sees?!"
Percy blinked, "ah, no, I didn't think that! Damn lady, I was just thinking since he lives far away it would be difficult for you two to get together is all!"
"Wait...so you don't think I'm a slut?"
"NO!"
Jinna smiled, "you're nice, I like you. Be my boyfriend."
Percy turned to the barkeeper, "how much did she have to drink?"
"A full bottle."
"Of beer?"
"Kid, that's whiskey," the barkeeper pointed at her glass.
Percy blinked, "huh....thought the foam was a little flat."
The barkeep nodded sadly, "she's been drinking ever since Mark dumped her. Poor girl, thought she finally found someone who would like her for her. Sigh, good kid too. He would visit her every time he was in town to see his sister."
"So his sister knew as well?" Percy asked.
"Yeah, and she didn't like it, but she knew if she stopped it Mark would just run away or something."
"Look kid we don't know where Mark or his sister is okay?" James snapped, tired of being ignored, "the cops are looking for them as well, so bug off!"
"Dad! Don't tell my new boyfriend to bug off!" Jinna screamed, "we're in love!"
Percy blinked in confusion, "I'm sorry what?"
"Honey he's not your boyfriend, you just meet this kid," James told her slowly.
"No! We are soul mates! He doesn't think I'm a slut dad! We're perfect!"
Percy blinked, 'this girl is pretty fucked up in the head, and this is coming from the guy whose best friend is Michael.'
"So-ah, a quick question, if you guys didn't do anything to Mark and Angelina, who did?"
"We don't' know," the barkeep said with a shrug, "last we heard from him the kid was at home."
Percy nodded, "I see....so he didn't try to buy drugs off of you guys?"
"Who Mark?" a biker from the crowd asked, "hell no, the kid was clean as a whistle."
"That's why I liked him," Jinna mumbled as she slowly looked at Percy, "I think I can like you too," she leaned towards Percy to try and kiss him, the stench of alcohol rolled off her lips.
"Ah...I, ah, have a girlfriend," Percy said stepping back.
"Don't care," Jinna huffed, "I'll kick her ass."
"Yeh that's not happening," Percy chuckled, "she crazy strong."
"I'm stronger," Jinna growled out, "I can take anyone."
Percy blinked, "right..." he turned to James, "look one more question and I'll leave, did you guys try to kill the Rebowls?"
James chuckled, "nah, not kill them, just scare them off."
"Wait so you did try and kill them?"
"Please, I didn't even aim at them, I aimed at a tree five feet to their left," James chuckled, "fuckers nearly shit themselves."
"Why did you do that?!"
"Their boy dumped my girl!" James snarled, "no one dumps my girl!"
"You could have killed them!"
"Well I didn't!"
"Daddy!" Jinna shouted as she got up on her wobbly feet, "don't shout at my new boyfriend!"
"He's not your boyfriend."
"I'm not your boyfriend," Percy told her while he turned to James, "did you guys ever come and visit Mark at his house?"
"No, never," James, "didn't want to mis the kid up in our lives. Jinna insisted."
"I see...." Percy began to think, 'this doesn't make any sense. Mark was suspected by buying drugs from these guys, but they didn't sell him any. They were also reported to drive by Angelina's place every once in awhile, but that's not true either. And I get why Jinna would want that, she sees Mark as something good in her life which she doesn't want to harm, so she would infact go through all the efforts to make sure those two parts of her life never interacted. So then...who's lying? Who reported Mark meeting up with the gang in the first place? Who said he was....the roommate. Of course, it's always the roommate.'
"You have Mark's home address?" Percy asked the barkeeper. The man nodded as he scribbled it down on a piece of paper and gave it to Percy. The son of Poseidon read it and memorised it before putting it in his pocket.
"Thanks...well..... see you all later," Percy waved as he turned to walk out.
"Wait!" Jinna called out, "kiss me!"
Percy blinked, "yeah, no. My girlfriend would kill me."
"I said kiss me!" Jinna shouted as she jumped at Percy trying to grab him by his jacket's collar.
"Woman get of me!" Percy shouted pushing her away. Jinna tripped and fell backwards knocking herself unconscious. Percy looked at her and then at the rest of the bar as a wave of Bloodlust flowed out of them and towards him, "that was totally not supposed to happen."
"I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!" James roared out.
"Ah, gotta blast! Thanks for this info!" Percy turned and ran. Leo blinked in wonder, but before he could do or say anything Percy wrapped his arms around the large dog and using his super strength he carried him away from the pub.
Just then several of the biker gang member run out of the pub with chains and bats. James stood at the lead as he snarled, "get him!"
"Oh fuck me!" Percy cried out as he turned into an alley way and went super speed blasting away with Leo in hand. By the time the bikers came to the alley all they saw was a strong gust of wind picking up all the trash in the alley.
Midtown;
Percy stopped at an alley in Midtown and put Leo down. The dog immediately started to puke out his lunch on the side of the alley panting, "never. Do. That. Again."
"Sorry boy, it was an emergency," Percy told him as he used his healing powers to bring Leo up to perfect health. Guess this just proved that Percy should definitely not carry anyone when going super speed.
After Leo recovered, and Percy feed him a large plate of bacon, they were off. Percy had ran them towards Angelina's apartment, he needed to talk to this lying roommate.
The apartment complex itself was old, probably was built in the 1940's or something. It was a dump, a big nasty dump. Guess that's how a teenager can afford a place in Midtown.
Angelina lived in the ground floor, Percy stood in front of the door and turned to Leo, "be weary, we need to find out if she knows anything about the missing kids. So if you smell something that shouldn't be here, or hear something strange, tell me."
Leo nodded, "got it."
Percy nodded back and turned to the door. He knocked on it gently and waited.
"Coming!" a voice came out from the inside. After a few seconds of shuffling feet the door swung open and there stood a young woman with a towel wrapped around her blonde hair and a large shirt drapped over her petite body. She had a very perk set of breasts, not that Percy was looking, no sir, he also didn't notice that she wasn't wearing anything underneath that shirt.
"Ah, hi....this is awkward," Percy said with a blush.
The girl giggled, "well yeah. Amm, do I know you or something?"
"Oh, right," Percy looked at her name;
Carol Borit, Crazy
Lv- 9
Percy blinked, 'crazy?! What type of title is crazy?! Plus she's way to hot to be crazy! Gods be damned why is it always the hot ones?!'
"Ah...hello? Anyone there?" Carol asked snapping Percy out of his inner rambling.
"What-oh, right. Well you see I just kind of wondering if you would be open to talk about your missing roommate."
A look of anger passed by her face so fast Percy almost missed it, almost. She smiled sadly, "okay but, like are you a cop or something?"
"PI actually,"
Lie Successful!
"The Rebowls hired me to do a parallel investigation," Percy threw her a disarming smile, "I was just hoping you could help me out."
She nodded, "sure, glad I can help," she then turned to Leo and smiled, "oh, and who's this little cutie?"
"That's Leo," Percy said with a smile, "he's my partner."
"Hello beautiful!" Leo barked as he jumped up and licked her face.
"He likes me!" Carol said happily as she scratched his neck.
"Yeah, he likes everybody," Percy said with a smile "mostly women though. Hates men, took him ages to even consider me not just his poop scooper."
"Well aren't you a little playboy doggy," Carol said as she ruffled his ears, "plus a totally cute!"
Percy smiled, 'damn she loves dogs, sigh, why does she have to be crazy?' "so Carol, care to invite me in?"
"How did you know my name?" Carol asked as she stopped playing with Leo. A serious look came on her face, a hard look.
"I told you, I'm a PI, it's my job to know about my case."
Lie Successful!
"Oh....right," Carol giggled, "sorry, I forgot. You know with everything that has been going on and all-"
"It's okay, I get it," Percy gave her a shit eating grin he remembered Michael always sprouting.
"So...yeah, come in, please," Carol stepped inside allowing Percy and Leo in as well.
The inside of the apartment was small, like really small. It was around the size of Percy's cabin, maybe smaller. He could see her bedroom to one side while another on the other side, probably Angelina's.
She set the down on the couch while she went to her room to put on some pants. Percy looked at her leaving figure, admiring her rear, it was almost as good as Thalia's, almost. Carol caught him looking and winked, Percy blushed but the crazy girl said nothing as she shut the door behind her.
Percy sighed and mumbled, "why are the crazy one's so hot?" he turned to Leo, "sniff this place from the bottom to the top, we are looking for blood or chloroform, you know, that thing the whole camp smelled like after we visited the water park?"
Leo nodded, "got it." He then began to sniff around the place while Percy waited patiently. He looked around, saw pictured of the roommates spread out all over the place. It was like every wall had at least 7 pictures on it, and each of them had Carol and Angelina in them.
'Talk about obsessive,' Percy commented when an idea struck him, 'wait....could that be it? Could she be obsessive crazy? Like have some kind of obsession disorder that's focused on one person alone? Like a crazy stalker?'
Percy looked around, he then realised something he hadn't before, the place was clean, like freshly cleaned clean. Did she just happen to want to do some summer cleaning? Or did she want to hide something? Sure the brother went missing three days ago, but the sister went missing yesterday....there was something missing here.
"So what can I help you with?" Carol asked as she walked in now wearing a pair of torn jeans.
"Well I was just wondering if you-"
"You want coffee? I want coffee," Carol walked into the kitchen and opened up her coffee maker, "I just put the pot on."
"Ah, yeah, no thanks. I'm good," Percy smiled nervously, he wasn't going to eat anything that woman givee him.
Carol shrugged, "suit yourself." She poured a cup of coffee and took a sip of it sighing at the taste. Carole walked to the couch and sat down next to Percy, "you know now that I look at you you're kind of young to be a PI."
"I graduated college early," Percy replied with a shrug.
Lie successful!
"I see, what college?" Carol asked curiously.
"NYU," Percy replied as he looked at Leo who was still sniffing around the apartment.
Lie successful!
"Really? You got into NYU? How?! You must have been what? 13 when you joined?"
Percy shook his head, "look that's not important-"
"-Dude you got into NYU. At 13. That is important!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "look I came here to ask when the last time you saw your roommate," Percy said narrowing his eyes, 'come on lie detection skills!'
"Well....I suppose it was a day ago," Carol sighed, "I think. Give or take a few hours."
Lie detected!
Percy smired to himself, 'got you!' Percy nodded, "I see, and Mark?"
"Haven't seen him in three days."
Lie detected!
Percy nodded, 'okay, that means that she saw them both after they were reported missing. That means that a) she's the kidnapper and b) they are both still alive.'
"So.....how old are you anyway?" Carol asked as she sipped her coffee.
"Wha-oh, right. Well how old do you I look?"
"I don't know.....17, 16?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I'm 17."
Lie successful!
"Oh, damn," Carol sighed in disappointment, "guess your way to young for me."
Percy chuckled, "yeah. Plus I have a girlfriend so that."
Carol shrugged, "never stopped me before."
"Really? When was the last time you ever date a guy with a girlfriend?"
"Well I wouldn't say date," Carol put the mug down, "I kind of had this thing for a guy who was dating this biker chick, total bitch. She was bad news but he couldn't see it, I kept telling the idiot to stop dating her, but he didn't listen."
Percy nodded calmly but he was freaking out in the inside, 'the biker chick is obviously Jinna, meaning this crazy chick was crushing on Mark....'
"So...what happened to the guy?" Percy asked hoping she would spill some info about Mark. She didn't know that he knew who she was talking about, Percy hoped that Carol had the same Achilles heel as every other crazy person he ever meet, arrogance.
"He's basically in hell right now," Carol smiled, "stupid fucker flew too close to the the sun and got burnt."
Percy chuckled, "little vindictive there I see."
Carol shrugged, "he deserved it. Told him a hundred times....."
"So did you ever see him again?"
"Yeah, I see him everyday," Carol smiled, "hope he enjoys that hole he dug himself into."
Percy chuckled, "you sound so Greek."
Carol smiled, "really? I do?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, your vindictive, know the story of Icarus, love drama, you're basically Greek."
Carol giggled as she stretched her hands, "yeah well I'm taking a college course in Greek culture, kind of had to read....well everything that involves the ancient Greek."
"Really? That's surprising, I'm kind of a Greek buff myself," Percy said with a smirk, "been one ever since I was 12."
"Really?!" Carol asked in amazement, "I haven't meet anyone who is that interested in Greek myth!"
Percy shrugged, "my dad's Greek, so it's kind of like a family thing."
"So you know all the stories? Like the Gods and the heroes?"
"Well I wouldn't say I know all of the, but yeah, I'm pretty well versed in Greek myth. Heck I could say the Olympians are practically family."
Carol nodded, "nice....mind if I test you?"
Percy shrugged, "shoot."
"Hephaestus is the son of...?"
Percy rolled his eyes, "please, don't insult my intelligence. He's the son of Hera."
"And Zeus," Carol said with a smile, "guess your not that smart after all!"
"No, only Hera," Percy repeated himself, "Hera got pissed Zeus was having so many children with other women, so she tried to make her own. The result of the need for vengeance was Hephaestus."
"Really? I could have sworn-"
"Don't sweat it, there are like a thousand different versions to every character," Percy shrugged, "we'll never know what's really and what's not."
Carol nodded, "guess your right."
"So who's your favorite God/Goddess?" Percy asked.
"Me? Oh, well I suppose I like Poseidon a lot. He's like totally awsome."
"Me too!" Percy said in an excited tone as he sat closer to Carol, "he's like the best of them all. Totally cool powers, and basically an awesome dad to all his kids!"
"Yeah I know right!" Carol sat closer, "when Odysseus blind Polyphemus Poseidon was all like, 'fuck you asshole! I'm going to screw up your life!'"
Percy chuckled, "yeah, totally." He looked up and saw he and Carol were just a few inches apart. She looked at him and licked her lips, he looked at her and did the same. Carol leaned in and Percy closed his eyes.
They were inches apart when Percy's fist flew up knocking her across the jaw;
SMACK!
Carol flew back and landed as a heap on the floor. Percy quickly walked up to ther and healed any damage he might have caused. He made sure to only use the minimal amount of force he would have required to punch her, but even that resulted in Carol losing a tooth.
Just then something in the aliment page popped up that caught Percy's eye;
Mental illness: Obsessive love
Percy frowned at that. The girl wasn't just crazy, she was sick in the head. Percy figured most crazy people were, but this....this just felt unfair. He should heal her, right now he should heal her, but when she wakes up she will realise what a monster she has been. Percy didn't know if that was the right thing to do, he honestly didn't. But he could save someone's life, he save the life of the siblings that went missing and Carol who has been inflicted with this terrible disease.
Percy sighed and turned to Leo, "did you find anything?"
Leo nodded, "I can hear something coming from below, it's like somebody's tapping on metal......and heart beats, two heart beats."
Percy nodded, "and it's coming from directly below us?"
Leo nodded, "yes."
Percy wondered if this place had a basement, if it did that's where Carol was keeping them. "Leo watch her," Percy instructed as he walked out of the apartment and looked around the lobby. He saw a set of stairs leading downstairs by the corner but when he went down them he was met with a closed door.
'Not a problem,' Percy smirked as he held up the Ring of Alcyoneus and controlled the metal in the lock, causing the metal gears inside to turn away unlocked the door.
Click!
'Jackpot!' Percy cheered as he opened the door slightly and entered. The moment he did he was hit with the smell of piss and shit. It hit him hard. He snapped his finger and summoned a ball of fire in the palm of his right hand and he used the light to walk into the room.
The floor was dirty, covered with newspapers littered all over. He looked ahead and saw a table pressed up against one side of the wall and on it were various tools. Saws, knives even a screwdriver. The tools looked polished, brand new even, but there were stain of something red on their metal, blood, and it was fresh.
"He-hello? Is anyone there?" Percy heard a soft feminine voice call out from the darkness further inside the room.
"Angelina?" Percy asked as he turned to walking towards the voice, "is that you?"
"D-dad? Daddy?" the voice sounded hopeful.
"Angelina are you safe-" Percy's voice got stuck in his throat as he looked in horror at the site before him.
It was a cage, metal bars and all. It was only a 4 feet tall, barely enough for a person to sit in. The figure inside wore nothing but a loose bedsheet over her frail body. Percy could see blood dripping down to her toes, there were scars, there were wounds. The woman's body may have been thin before, but now it was anorexic.
Angelina had a very pretty face, she reminded Percy of several daughters of Aphrodite. Her hair was black and her eyes were green and small, like two perfect marbles. And she would be considered beautiful, if it was not for the scars.
Her face was covered with them, they ran from her forehead to her jaw. Percy could see the marks of the knife he saw on the table before, Carol must have done this. Her left eye was swollen shut from bleeding and her ear had a huge hole in it's ear lobe, guess that's what the screwdriver was for.
"Please help us!" Angelina cried out with tears and blood streaming out of her eyes, "please before she comes back!"
"It's okay Angelina," Perc knelt down and he placed a hand on the cage, "Carol is being taken care off. I'll get you out of here."
"Thank! Thank you! Whoever you are!" she cried out in joy as a smile came to her face.
Percy used his bracelet to unlock the cage and threw the door open. Angelina pounced on him wrapping her bony arms around his neck, "thank you, thank you."
Percy wrapped his free hand around her body, "it's okay, everything will be okay." He and Angelina stayed like that for some time, Percy understood why, she wanted to feel safe, he got that.
"Where's Mark Angelina?" Percy asked as he slowly broke the hug, "where is he?"
"There," she pointed and Percy turned to find another cage next to her's. This one had a boy with with almost no scars on his body. But he was unconscious and naked. He looked healthy, well feed. And the way his dick stood up in the air hard as iron told Percy he was currently very aroused, which was kind of confusing.
"How is he-"
"She feed him nothing but viagra," Angelina spat, "she used him for hours on end, she didn't hurt him, not like me. No, he was her precious boyfriend, deluded bitch!"
"How long?" Percy asked horrified already about what the answer might be.
"I've been here for...two days? Mark......longer."
"She did all this to you....in two days?" Percy asked horrified, every thought he ever had of Carol turned sour instantly.
"She's very good with time," Angelina cried into Percy's jacket, "she spent every hour here, every single hour. She would leave to only bathe and freshen up and then she would return back to-to....to the pain."
Percy held her close, taking care not to hold too tight or else he accidently breaks something, "it's fine, everything is going to be fine. I promise."
"No it's not!" Angelina snapped, "look at me! Look at what she did to me!"
Percy did and he was again horrified. He knew however what he had to do, "I can take care of that."
Angelina blinked away her tears, "w-what?"
"I'll take care of it, but you have to promise me you won't tell anyone what I'm about to do, okay?"
"W-what do you take care of it?" Angelina broke the hug and began leaning back, "and-you're going to hurt me aren't you? Y-You're just like her! Get away from me!"
"Angelina stop!" Percy cried out as the girl jumped back into her cage pressing herself against the bars away from the cage door, "I'm not going to hurt you!"
"That's what she said! She said she wouldn't hurt me and then-"
"Enough!" Percy cut her mid sentence as his hands started to glow gold The light distracted Angelina as her eyes widened in amazement. Slowly an aura of calmness took over her as slowly her body began to heal.
Percy fixed her. He fixed the broken ribs, he fixed the fractured forearm. He sealed the drill hole in her earlobe and he even caused the swelling in her eye to go down. The wounds on her face also slowly went away, but the scars that were there before remained, marking Angelina's face forever with three cut from her jaw to her lips.
"H-how did you do that," she looked at her arms and slowly raised her fingers to her face feeling it whole again.
"Angelina," Percy called out causing the girl to turn her stunned face towards him, "I need you to promise me you will never tell anyone about this. Please, promise me."
Angelina nodded dumbly, "w-who are you?"
"My name is Percy Jackson," Percy smiled.
"Are you God?" Angelina asked in wonder.
Percy chuckled, "no, but that doesn't matter. I'm here to save you," Percy stood up and held out his hand, "take my hand."
Angelina looked at it and then at him. This needed to be a choice she made, it would be her moving out of her nightmare and into the light. Percy may have saved her, but she needed to save herself.
She slowly reached up and grabbed onto Percy's hand. She got to her feet which groaned as they finally were being used after two days of stasis. She stood up straight, she fell, but Percy caught her. He held her up until she could stand on her own, they looked into each other's eyes and Angelina spoke, "thank you."
Percy smiled but said nothing. He moved towards Mark's cage and opened it as well. He healed the boy, mostly just sexual exhaustion and an overdose of viagra in his bloodstream. Percy grabbed a blanket he found lying around and wrapped Mark in it. He then carried him upstairs while Angelina walked in front of him, this way if she feel he could catch her.
They walked into her apartment where Carol was still knocked unconscious on the floor with Leo standing guard over her.
The moment Angelina saw Carol she ran behind Percy holding his jacket like her life depended on it.
"It's okay," Percy told her, "she's knocked out, she can't hurt you anymore."
"What about the-the dog?" Angelina stuttered out as she pointed at Leo.
"That's Leo," Percy smiled, "he's the one who helped me find you." Angelina stared at the dog who slowly approached her. Leo rubbed his head up against her thighs and Angelina smiled bending down to pat the dog.
Leo barked startling the girl, but she slowly recovered from her start smiling at the dog. Percy watched the scene and couldn't' help but feel happy, 'stupid dog is better at picking up chicks then me, and I'm a human!'
Percy put Mark and Angelina in her old room, which Carol hadn't touched. He then took out his phone and looked through his messages, sure enough a text from his mom was there and attached to it was detective Beckett's phone number.
Ring Ring!
Ring Ring!
Ring Ring!
"Hello?" Kate's voice on the other end came through loud and clear.
"Hey detective it's me Percy!" Percy cried out in a joyful tone.
"Percy? How do you have this number?"
"I asked my mom for it, no big deal."
"So why did you call? Did Sally not pick up or something?"
"No no, I don't want to talk to my mom, I need to talk to you."
"...okay....about what?"
Percy gulped, this was going to be the hard part, "you remember that thing we talked about that I said I wouldn't do?"
"Thing? What thing?"
"You know.....me trying to solve the case on my own?"
"Percy....tell me you didn't go ahead and try to meddle in an active police investigation. Please, just tell me that."
"Ah....sorry, no."
"Percy....what happened? Are you in some sort of trouble? Did you get hurt? Did-"
"I found them," Percy caught her off, "I found them both." the line remained silent for some time before Percy spoke again, "Kate?"
"Percy......did you just say you found the siblings? Both of them?"
"Yeah, Angelina and Mark, and I also know who kidnapped them."
"Percy stay where you are, don't try to rescue them or do anything! Don't eve-"
"-Yeah, sorry, to late, already did that," Percy cut in with a lazy tone, "they're both safe and sound back in Angelina's place, though they might need an Ambulance like right now."
"Stay right where you are, I'll be there as soon as I can. And don't do anything else!" Kate cut the call and Percy smiled switching it off. Kate could get like that sometimes, Percy still remembered the time in that illusionary trial world where he lived with Kate and Castle, where he became a part of their family. She kind of felt like a cool but scary aunt at times while Castle was the loveable, childish uncle.
Percy put his phone away and turned to Carol who was still out for the count. There was still the matter of what to do about her mental illness. She needed to go to a mental hospital, that was for sure. If Percy healed her now the chances of her going there were slim, and as much as Percy hated this woman, she, like everyone else, deserved a fair shot in life.
It wasn't her fault for being inflicted with the mental illness, she just was. Percy didn't like the position he was in, he shouldn't have to make such a choice, it wasn't his job. He's just supposed to save people but now......now he can't just claim ignorance. He knows now that there is a way, it was his responsibility to see it through.
So he thought, and thought, and finally he made up his mind. He pressed his hand up against her head and watched as it glowed gold. Carol sighed as she moved but didn't wake up, she was still knocked out.
Percy sighed, he prayed to his father that he made the right choice, that he didn't just make the biggest mistake in his life.
Soon the apartment door was thrown open as a squad of police officer ran in with bulletproof vests on and guns held up. At the head of the small squad was Kate with Castle behind them all.
"Hey detective!" Percy waved, "could you please not aim that at me?"
"Ryan, Esposito, check the rooms," Kate motioned to the two cops with her before she turned to Percy, "what the hell were you thinking Percy?!"
"I was thinking I could solve this case in one afternoon, and I did," Percy shrugged, "oh and this is the kidnapper," Percy pointed at Carol, "she's a, kind of crazy."
"Beckett!" one of the cops called out, "the kid's are here!"
"Understood," Kate took out her walkie talkie, "get EMT's in here now."
"Roger that detective," came the confirmation.
"How did you find them?" Castle asked as Kate moved to cuff the still unconscious Carol.
"I went to see the biker gang you told me about," Percy said with a shrug, "it seemes Mark is dating one of their members, that's why he was talking with them. But Mark never did drugs, nor did they ever go near this place. It seemed the girl he was with wanted to keep their lives separate, meaning-"
"-Everything Carol told us was a lie," Kate completed the sentence, "smart kid, but how did you know it was her?"
"Simple," Percy smirked, "Leo told me."
Castle and Kate looked at Percy like he was an idiot. "Ah...Leo told you?" Castle repeated in confusion.
Percy nodded, "Leo told me there was somebody downstairs, he smelt them. I went down and found it was locked, I picked it, and found them inside. I helped them out and they told me it was Carol who did this to them."
Lie Successful!
"But how did you know what Leo smelt? He could have just been looking for food, or maybe he could have smelt some chemicals in the air," Kaet asked curiously.
"Easy detective," Percy grinned, "Leo and I have a bond, not a real one, he justs understands me is all. I told him to smell out people who smelt like the Rebowl's and he did. Vola!"
Lie Successful!
Castle looked to Leo who smiled at the man, "you my friend are a good dog."
Soon the CSI came and investigated the locked basement downstairs. What they found...well Percy didn't really like to think about it. He was glad that his fre ball offered him only a partial view of the room.
After they got enough evidence and a written statement from Angelina Kate took Percy downtown and made him wait at the lobby of the 12th precinct while she put Carol into the system. Angelina and Mark were sent to the hospital where they meet their parents, who was brought there by Sally.
Percy now sat watching the police department work with Leo by his side. He looked around at them all, all the people in this room with him were good people, the kind that risk their lives to save others. They were heroes, all of them, and compared to what they do everyday, Percy was nothing. Sure he fought monsters, but these guys have saved more lives than he ever will.
Ping!
Find Angelina and Mark!
Rewards,
The Rebowl family will be indebted to you!
Skill disk Lv 10
Percy smirked, 'guesse that means Carol is finally put away.' A skill disk appeared in thin air and Percy grabbed it before any of the mortal policemen or women saw it floating in mid air.
Just then Kate came up to him with a smile on her face, "you certain caused a stir in the department."
"Really? Why so?" Percy grinned as Kate sat down next to him.
"You saved their lives you know," she said, "medics say that if Angelina was there for even a day more she would have died from blood lose. And Mark would have gotten a heart attack big enough to kill him."
"I'm just glad they are going to be fine now," Percy told her as he scratched Leo's ear, "but Leo's the real hero of this story, he's the one who told me where to find them."
"I know, and I'll make sure to buy him a big bone for his help," Kate patted Leo who barked in happiness, "but you know you really do have a flare for detective work Percy. I can honestly say that I would have taken much longer to solve it, though that might just be because I'm a cop and I can't just go barging in anywhere I please."
Percy smiled, "yeah well when your me, doors are more like a locked hallway, you just need to know how to get in."
"So do you have much experience with picking locks?" Kate asked, "I saw the door to the basement and even the one for the.....cages. They don't even look like they have been tampered with. They look like they have been unlocked by an expert."
Percy shrugged, "I grew up in....a difficult environment. Mom made it better but I still had to learn to protect myself," 'especially if you're me.'
"The captain was very impressed," Kate supplied, "and believe me she isn't one to be easily impressed."
Percy smiled, "I tend to have that effect on people."
Kate rolled her eyes, "you know sometimes I think you might be actually related to Castle. He often goes off on his own to solve cases, endangers an ongoing investigation, wrecks crime scenes-"
"-Okay okay, I get it," Percy grumbled.
Kate nodded, "but you know, despite all that he still get's the job done. Like you did today. So tell me Percy, how did it feel?" Kate leaned back on her chair and looked at the room, "how did it feel to save their lives."
"I'm going to be honest with you detective," Percy grinned, "it was awesome."
Kate nodded, "I know the feeling.....you know, if you're interested, the precinct has started a new program recently to encourage young students to join the police department after they graduate. It's nothing big, just basic temp work, get the coffee, do the paperwork, fix this, do that. But it would give you a chance to experience the way it's really done. You could end up helping a lot of people Percy."
"A-are you offering me a job here?" Percy asked in wonder.
Kate nodded, "yeah. You'll have to work a minimum of three days a week, I heard you are going to a boarding school outside the city, you can probably work every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It will be tough, probably not going to get much appreciation, but you will get experience. I know you don't really know what you want be in in the future so maybe.....maybe this could help you."
Percy looked at the detective and smiled, "so....where do I sign up?"