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Chapter 571

Percy and the others followed without question and in one hours time

the two leaders of the Greek camp found themselves once again in

front of the Senate with Julia addressing them all.

"Senators," Julia began, "once again the Greeks come to our doors

and once again they bring us gift. This time it is not something we lost,

but something we need, something we all need."

Julia paused, the Senators leaned in closer, they were very much

interested in what she had to say. "They claim that they have found a

way to mask the scent of a demigod," Julia spoke clearly. Many people

gasped in exclamation, "a way to make demigods rejoin the human

world."

"Is this true?" Edgar asked with amazed eyes.

"Yes, it is," Percy stepped up to the plate with arms crossed, "we have

tested it out on ourselves. The whole camp is currently on it, we went

to a water park on my birthday and stayed there the whole day. No

monsters found us. We were basically like ordinary teenagers."

"Can you swear by that?" a squeaky voice in the front called out. Percy

looked to see that it was Octavian, the Augur and fucking son of Apollo,

once again proof that Apollo is a dick.

"Octavian, always a pleasure seeing your face," Percy grumbled, "and

what do you mean swear by that?"

"I mean can you swear that these pills work?" Octavian asked.

Percy nodded, "yes, would you like me to do so?"

"Yes."

Thalia gave Percy a look but the son of Poseidon just smiled assuring

her it will be alright. Percy turned to the Senate and cleared his throat,

"I swear on the Styx that every demigod in the Greek camp currently

does not have a scent."

BOOM!

Lighting rang out outside as the Senator started to talk amongst

themselves in hushed tones. Thalia sighed and shook her head. She

didn't like him swearing on the Styx, but this time it was unavoidable.

"So now that I haven't proven myself," Percy began, "will you all

consider trying them out for yourself?"

"Praetor Percy," Edgar spoke up, "can you tell us how this scent

destroyer came to be?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. Well honestly this story kind of starts with a child

of Hermes named Edward Neak."

"You mean Neak from Half-Blood Inc.?" a Senator asked.

Percy nodded, "yeah, fan of his work?"

"I read the Economy," the senator admitted, "though now that I think

about his company's name it should have been obvious that he was a

demigod, or at the very least a legacy."

Thalia chuckled, "yeah, Ed isn't the most subtle person. Heck his lobby

is basically a Greek museum and his office is filled with paintings and

statues of Hermes. It's almost like he wanted everyone to know he was

a demigod."

Percy smiled, "yeah….anyway. I meet up with Ed on my very first

quest, he helped me out and since then we have been in contact with

each other. Now before I continue, do you all know of an organization

known as Abyss?"

The Senators shook their heads and Percy sighed. He then began to

explain to them everything. What Abyss was, what they did. How he

and Thalia helped Ed get the formula for the pills and how Ed created

the pills for them.

"So it works?" Edgar asked, "it actually works?"

Percy nodded, "yeah...it does."

"Then the people of Rome deserve to know," Julia spoke up, "for far

too long our people have been forced to live separately from the

mortals. We have a right to a fair life, a good life. I propose that we

accept Percy and Thalia's offer."

"No," Octavian spoke out, "this must not happen."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you would deny people a chance to live

without being hunted by monsters?"

The Senate turned and glared at Octavian who gulped in fear, "l-look,

as amazing as this pill is, if we give them to people it would encourage

them to leave New Rome. Think of our economy, it would crash into the

ground if people just stopped coming here! Pluto, this has been our

way of life for more than a century! We can't change now!"

Percy understood the boy's worries, and he wanted to address them

all. But Rob spoke first.

"Octavian I understand your concern," Rob spoke in a gentle tone, "but

understand this, demigods are alone in this world. We are alone.

Though we may look like mortals we are not them, and though we are

the children of Gods we don't belong with them. This is our home,

people won't just leave it Octavian."

"Look out our camp itself Octavian," Percy continued, "they all got the

pill four days ago, and not one person left camp yet. And unlike New

Rome camp Half-blood doesn't have homes or shop or school or

anything. It is just a camp, this….this is a community, one which I have

come to love. The pill is a tool, a crutch if will. It doesn't do anything

other than make sure a demigod doesn't get eaten by a monster or

something. That is all."

Octavian and his supports fell into whispers. Percy and Thalia waited in

anticipation, Julia and Rob looked confident, but inside they were also

scared. Soon all talks stopped and Octavian stood up.

"If we do this, there is no going back….is everyone in the Senate in

agreal?"

Everyone nodded. Ovarian sighed and sat down without another word.

Julia then walked up and cleared her throat, "then it is decided. We

start giving these pills out to the people. Percy," she turned to him,

"how much do you have on you right now?"

Percy grinned as he took out the two silver briefcases Edward had

given him the day before, "lots."

Julia and Rob were the first ones to try them. When the spiciness of

the food hit them they began to choke. The Romans thought they had

been poisoned and started to point figures at Percy and Thalia. But the

son of Poseidon quickly diffused the situation by helping Rob and Julia

recover.

Maybe he should have lead with the fact that the pill tasted like raw

chills.

Soon every single member of the Senate had taken a pill, even

Octavian, though under protest. The Romans kept the rest of the pills

in storage, for now the idea of making everyone immune was put on

hold. The Senators would test out the pills themselves and only after

they are sure there are no side effects would they even consider giving

it to other people.

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Percy also gave them Ed's number, for when they ran out. The two

cases may have been packed with pills, but even those wouldn't' be

enough for the amount of people currently living in New Rome.

"I'll make sure people know who to thank for this," Julia told Percy and

Thalia as they walked out of the Senate and along the roads of New

Rome, "they might not say it, but you Greeks have given us a ray of

hope. And the people will know who to thank for it."

"It was nothing," Thalia replied with a shrug, "in fact it was Ed who did

all the hard work."

Percy nodded, "yeah, we just...well kind of hung around."

"Either way it was a Greek who gave us a chance at life," Rob smiled,

"maybe you lot aren't so bad after all."

Percy smiled, "thanks war boy, that means so much coming from you."

Pery then began to look around the streets of New Rome. The

buildings were nice, very sturdy. Percy would have to remember to

build a strong foundation, maybe 10, 11 feet deep? He needed to

increase his molecular manipulation ability, with that he could basically

make the buildings into any form or shape he desired.

"Is he okay?" Julia asked Thalia looking at Percy stare and analyze

every building they pass by.

"Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. He's just looking for inspiration," Thalia

replied with a smile, "he wants to see what buildings he can rip off and

put on his island."

Rob raised an eyebrow, "island?"

Thalia nodded, "yeah...didn't we tell you guys? Percy owns an island."

"Which one?" Julia asked.

"Gardiner's island," at their confused looks Thalia explained, "it's just

off the coast of Long Island."

Rob whistled, "damn, how did he get a place like that?"

"A guy owed me a favour," Percy said, "don't ask."

"So what are you going to do on this island of yours?" Julia asked.

"I'm going to build a city for Greek demigods," Percy explained with a

smile, "I actually got the idea off of you guys."

Julia smiled, "I see...well that is very noble of you Percy."

Rob grinned, "yeah, if it was me I would us the entire island as a

bachelor pad."

Julia rolled her eyes, "yes, you would."

Rob started stammering as he tried to apologize to Julia but the girl

wasn't listening to him. Percy chuckled, the guy had it bad.

Just then a thought passed by Percy's head, "hey Julia, I was

wondering, how does New Rome collage work with the outside world?"

Julia looked away from Rob, "what do you mean?"

"I mean this place is hidden away from the outside world right? So that

means people don't' know about it. So if a demigod obtains a degree

here and leaves how can they prove the college they got to, that no

one has heard off, is legit and not made up?"

Julia groaned, "honestly Percy I don't know. Hm...you know what now

that you asked I'm curious to find out as well. I know the principle of the

college, and since today is a Sunday he would be free. Want to go ask

him?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. I want to build a school on the island as well.

Obviously I have no idea about the legal issues or things like that. It

would be really useful if I talked to the guy."

Julia nodded, "okay then. Let's go."

"Why don't you guys go ahead," Thalia spoke up, "I want to meet up

with Jason, haven't seen my little brother in days."

"I'll take you," Rob said, "he should be in the field of Mars training with

everyone else right now."

Thalia nodded, "great. Percy, I'll call you when I'm done."

"Right," Percy then turned to Rob, "any funny business Rob and I'll

know about it. I pushed the last person who hit on Thalia so hard he

flew off of mount Olympus."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "relax Percy. Sometimes you're way too

overprotective you know."

"Oh I'm sorry is this coming from the girl who basically fuses her

tongue to the roof of my mouth every time another girl even looks at

me?"

"...fair point."

Julia chuckled, "alright enough. I'm sure Rob will behave like a perfect

gentlemen," Rob nodded, "and besides, I think Thalia can handle

herself."

Thalia nodded, "damn right I can."

"I know that, but that's not the point. I'm her boyfriend, it's my job to

beat up people looking at her funny. It's one of the perks."

Julia rolled her eyes, "come on Percy." And with that the group of four

split up and went their separate ways. Rob couldn't help but look at

Thalia behind as she walked ahead, and for his troubles he got a zap

of lightning aimed at his face.

"OW!"

Percy chuckled, "that's my girl."

Julia sighed, "stupid horn dog. Can't keep it in his pants even if his life

depended on it."

"Is that why you two didn't work out?" Percy asked as they walked

towards New Rome college in the distance.

"Yes," Julia admitted, "he cheated on me after the third date. And the

worse part is it was with another daughter of Venus."

Percy cringed, "damn, I'm sorry. You want me to teach him a lesson?"

Julia gave a sad smile, "now, it's okay. I'm used to it. It was honestly

my fault. I thought he liked my for my intellect, but once again it was

because of these damn things," she looked down at her huge breasts.

Percy blushed, "y-yea well they are pretty hard to ignore."

Julia chuckled, "should I tell Thalia that you were staring at my

breasts?"

Percy gulped, "please don't." Julia gave him a sideway glance but said

nothing. Percy sighed, 'maybe that was an okay.'

"So Percy tell me, how does a child of Zeus fall in love with a child of

Poseidon?"

"Very easily," Percy shrugged, "I don't really understand how it

happened. We just hug out a lot, then one day at a party Thalia was

drunk and she just kissed me. Then I started to panic, I basically told

myself it was nothing. Later only after Thalia almost died did I finally

admit my feelings to her."

"When did the Gods find out?"

"My dad kind of popped in when we were making out during the Alaska

quest," Percy blushed, "and believe me it was weird. Luckily he didn't

try to blast her into smithereens or anything."

"And Jupit-, I mean, Zeus?"

"He actually did try to blast me into smithereens. Your mom kind of let

the cat out of the bag on that one," Percy grumbled, "still can't believe

you're actually her daughter."

Julia chuckled, "and why is that? Aren't I pretty enough?"

Percy shrugged, "yeah but that doesn't mean you are a child of

Aphrodite. Heck, Thalia is hot as hell and she's a child of Zeus. And I

don't mean to brag but have you looked at me lately?"

Julia looked and chuckled, "you truly are such a humble man Percy

Jackson. So very very humble."

Percy smiled, "yeah. I know. But seriously, when Thalia and I first saw

you we figured you were a child of Ath-Minerva, a child of Minerva. You

were basically a prettier version of Annabeth, plus the way you act

didn't remind us of any of the children of Venus we knew."

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Julia nodded, "yes, I know. My father was an astrophysicist. Handsome

guy and very smart. I when I meet my mom for the first time she told

me that she found him sexy because of that big brain of his. And

something about Minerva being right. Anyway the first day I joined

Camp Jupiter everyone expected me to be like every other child of

Venus, vain and self conscious. Let me tell you the look on their face

when I beat the living shit out of a Legionnaire who was bullying me

was priceless. I swear, one of them must have swallowed a fly or

something!"

Percy chuckled, "so they all thought you were a pretty bimbo, until you

opened a can of whoop ass on them."

Julia nodded, "yup. So after that I managed to get fair treatment. I

made sure my voice was heard, and soon I found myself wearing this

purple cloth," Julia tugged on it and smiled, "figured now that I was

something other than a child of Venus people would start respecting

me. Sigh, guess I was wrong."

Percy groaned, "Julia, I'm going to give you my honest opion, fuck

those guys. Have I ever told you how my powers work?"

Julie shook her head, "not really. You mentioned something vaguely

along the lines of sensing people's aura or something?"

"Yeah."

Lie detected!

Percy pushed the box away and continued, "when I meet a demigod I

can tell who their divine parent is right away. That's how I could sort out

all the unclaimed demigods in my camp. When I meet Rob I instantly

knew he was a child of Mars. When I meet Jason, bamn, child of

Jupiter. Basically no demigod can hide their true nature from me. So,

with that being said, can you tell me why I was surprised when you

said you were a child of Venus?"

Julia shook her head, "no, I don't know."

"It's because you didn't feel like a child of Venus Julia. You felt like a

leader, like this camp. Okay, for simplicity's sake let's say these

observations I make can be classified as a person's title. So Rob's title

is 'son of Mars'. My title is 'son of Poseidon'. But Thalia's title is

different, it's 'Protector of camp Half-blood'. It's because she doesn't

see herself as a child of Zeus, she sees herself as the protector of her

camp. And this type of title change is very difficult Julia. I have saved

the camp several times, but I still see myself as a child of Poseidon

first. But you, you and Thalia are different. Your title, if I was to guess,

would be 'Praetor of Camp Jupiter'."

Julia stopped and looked at Percy, "so your saying I see myself as

more of a Praetor of Rome then I do a child of Venus?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. And that's who you are Julia. Look we don't get

to pick who or what we are born as. But we do get to chose who we

are during our life in this world. You may have been born a daughter of

Venus but you are a Praetor of Rome. Never let anyone tell you

differently."

Julia blinked as she started at Percy. Percy grew nervous under her

gaze and shifted on his feet when she spoke up, "you know, if you

weren't dating Thalia you and I would be right now in my bedroom."

Percy blushed, "I-I, well ah, that's a nice gesture but-"

"-Oh relax Percy I'm not that type of person," Julia chuckled, "part of

my demigod abilities is to gauge the amount of love felt by people. And

you and Thalia...well I certainly don't want to get between you two.

After all I've been cheated on before, I certainly don't want to be the

other woman in this case."

Percy just stared as Julia continued walking forward. Percy sighed,

'fuck you Aphrodite, or Venus, or which ever divine being that is

screwing with my love life.'

Soon the pair reached the front of New Rome collge. One word came

to Percy's mind, 'impressive.'

It looked like a Cathedral you would find in Rome...huh, maybe that's

where they got the idea from.

It had two towers on either side and a large building in the center. The

windows were made of painted glass, each depicting the Roman Gods.

The Olympians were there, but not just them as even the minor Gods

were featured.

"In Roman education wasn't really a big thing," Julia explained as she

walked up the stairs of the cathedral, "people were kept away from

knowledge to give power to the ones with it. It was sort of a sick

version of class warfare. But, as you know, Christianity was on the rise

at the end of the Roman empire, and one of the major reasons was

because they were offering education to the common folk through their

church."

"People changed religions," Percy realised, "so you all study in a

cathedral because that's where most of the ancient romans studied as

well."

Julia nodded. They walked in and pushed the heavy wooden doors

open. The inside was air conditioned and not at all what Percy

expected. The place was in fact very modern, there were lockers, office

rooms, class rooms. Heck there was even a TV up showing a loop of

the day's bulletin along with some motivational message or something.

"This is not what I was expecting," Percy said with a chuckle, "kind of

figured the teachers were dressed like monks and the students had to

write in quills or something."

Julia chuckled, "no, no. Just the outside looks like a church, the inside

is very much like a normal everyday American college. Heck we even

have three lecture halls inside this place. It's also about four stories big,

plenty of room for everyone."

"So this is just the college section?"

"Yes. The school is elsewhere, much closer to the residential houses.

You know, for the parents to pick up their kids easily,"

Percy nodded, "so how big is this place?"

"Four floors in total, the top is currently being used for club activities."

"Clubs?"

"Drama, chess, writing, things like that. Anything physical is done

outside in the Coliseum."

Percy nodded, "I see, so the dorms come with?"

Julia nodded, "yeah. Remember those two towers you saw on the side

of the building? The men's are on the right while the women's are on

the left. Most students however have a place in the city, maybe a small

apartment or something."

Julia then lead Percy into a room marked 'Office'. The inside looked

like the reception area with a desk in the center that was covered with

various coloured papers and pamphlets.

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One woman sat behind the desk with a phone to her ear. She was old,

60, maybe pushing on 70. She had a purple woollen jumper vest on

which featured a very white puffy sheep in the center. The older woman

looked at Julia and waved, motioning her to sit down.

"Yeah, yeah...sure, yeah….I'll make sure to that," the woman said.

Percy looked at her name;

Wendy Swift, Daughter of Pales

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Percy raised an eyebrow, 'who the hell is Pales?'

"So what's her title?" Julia whispered.

Percy shrugged, "I can't figure it out. Maybe because she's a roman

demigods or something, but her aura isn't familiar."

Julia nodded, "yes well I didn't expect you to know. She is the daughter

of Pales, Goddess of Shepherds and their flock."

Percy looked surprised, "wow…..so she's a sheep herder?"

Julia nodded, "yup."

"...there's a joke in there somewhere about college students and their

sheep like mentality but I am far too mature to mention it."

"You, mature?"

Percy shrugged, "people grow up don't they?"

"Sorry about that," Wendy spoke up slamming the phone down, "that

was my mother. Wanted to make sure I was alright"

"A Goddess was to check up on you?" Percy asked in surprise.

Wendy chuckled, "well she is the goddess of shepherds, being

overbearing is her divine duty."

"Nice to see you again Wendy," Julia stepped up giving the woman a

warm smile, "how are things?"

"Good, good, and who is this young man?" she smiled, "your new

boyfriend?"

Percy chuckled, "no, I'm already taken. Percy Jackson ma'am, son of

Poseidon."

"Ah, yes. The Praetor of the Greek camp. I've heard what you did,

returning the Eagle was a great thing young man, it lifted many

people's spirits up. I feared that I might never live to see the Eagle

again, so glad I was wrong."

"You were there for the Alaskan expedition?" Percy asked in

amazement.

The woman chuckled, "yes, I was. Sigh, thoes brave foolish men. Well,

can't change the past. What happened to them anyway? Do you

know?"

"They were killed," Percy said in a sorrow tone, "a giant by the name

Alcyoneus killed them all."

"Is he dead?"

Percy nodded, "Zeus zapped him into a zillion pieces."

Wendy nodded, "good. What happened to the bodies?"

"I gave them a proper funeral," Percy told her, "I didn't have time nor

the resource to make individual cloaks, place there wasn't enough to

give each their own piece of cloth. So I took down a banner and

wrapped them all in it."

Wendy sighed, "good...good. Maybe now that awful incident can finally

be put behind us. And I suppose we have you to thank."

"Well me and Thalia."

"Thalia?"

"Thalia Grace, my girlfriend and co-leader of the Greek camp."

"I see, well then tell her I thank her as well. If you two need anything

from me just ask."

"Actually we came here to talk to the principal Ms, Wendy," Julia

stepped in, "is he in?"

The woman scoffed, "for now. He's currently free, I suggest you try now

before he is drowned inside a new project or something."

Julie nodded, "got it. Thanks ma'am."

"Anytime dear, and take care Percy, I hope to hear from you soon!"

"I will," Percy waved back as Julia took him to a door on the side of the

room. It was labeled 'Principal' and below it was a note with crude

handwriting written in what looked like red sharpie, 'don't' enter unless

it's important! That mean's you WENDY!'

"He's kind of out there huh," Percy remarked as Julia opened the door.

"Yeah he's…..unique," Julia responded as she walked in Percy behind

her.

"Where the fuck is my rat?!" came a voice from inside the room.

Percy sighed, "why does every single person I meet have to be crazy

or fucking insane."

The inside of the office was a mess. There were papers littered all over

the floor with random sticky notes hanged up all over the place. There

was a fancy table in the center which was covered with even more

paper. The only thing that didn't seem coverd with any type of written

work was the glass case behind the desk which featured a golden cup

of sorts along with other medals.

"Ah...principle?" Julia asked, "are you in here?"

"Julia?"

Bang!

Something hit the underside of the table hard as a man crawled out

from under the desk holding his head, "fuck, that hurt like Pluto."

The man was about as old as Castle, maybe older. He was thin and

had asian features. His chin was covered with grey stubble and his hair

was bright white. He wore a lab coat and glasses that hide back

amazing deep blue eyes.

Saito Hiraga, Legacy of Minerva

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"What's his title?" Julia asked, "you must know at least this one by

now."

Percy turned to Julia, "Legacy of Minerva."

Julia smirked, "guess those powers of yours does work."

"God's be damned that hurt like hell," Saito said as he sat down on the

chair behind the desk, "stupid desk."

"Why were you under a desk?" Julia asked as she and Percy stood in

front of him. Percy figured since there wasn't any chairs here he was

expected to stand.

"I was looking for my pen," Saito groaned, "stupid thing rolled under the

desk."

"So what are you working on this time?" Julia looked over the

diagrams, "a time machine?"

Saito grumbled, "no, that would be stupid. It's an interdimensional

portal."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you're joking?"

"Why do people keep asking me that?" Saito grumbled, "no, by the

way, I'm not."

"Why do you want to build an interdimensional portal?" Percy asked.

"Why not?" Saito shrugged, "why did people want to go to the moon?

Because it was there. I'm doing this because I can."

"And because David thought you can't," Julia giggled.

Saito rolled his eyes, "yeah yeah, now what do you want Julia? I'm very

busy with my work."

"Right, I won't be long. This is Percy Jackson," Julia pointed to Percy,

"you heard of him?"

Saito shook his head, "I know him, but I have never seen him before."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? Because I remember someone

telling me the principal and the dean of New Rome college had come

to see me at the senate after we returned the Eagle."

"That was David," Saito grumbled, "my dad. I took over this job just two

days after that incident. He basically took off after your little speech,

said something about 'finding himself' or some crap. Anyway yeah, I

know about you, so what do you want?"

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So Percy told him. He began with what he wanted to build and how he

was going to do it. He also told the man why he wanted to build the

Haven in the first place. And in the end Saito was in tears.

"You," sniff, "You're such a great guy!" Sniff, "you are so cool! Building

a place for your fellow demigods," and that was when he really let

loose as the water works just came pouring out.

Percy turned to Julia, "ah...what's going on?"

"He just get's really emotional," Julia replied with a shrug, "one time I

showed him a picture of a puppy and he cried because the puppy was

covered in mud."

"It was just so cute!" Saito cried out while Percy chuckled.

"So anyway, can you help me or not?" Percy asked.

"Hell yeah I can help you!" Saito said with a grin as he got up, "follow

me!" Saito bolted out of her chair and walked out of his office. "Wendy

I'm taking an early lunch!"

"Okay!" Wendy called out as Saito walked out of the office and through

the college. At the end of the corridor was a set of stairs leading down.

Saito walked in and the others followed. The basement was another

corridor, but thie ended halfway through leading up to a dead end.

Saito pressed his palm flat on the wall in front of him causing it to glow

gold as the wall disappeared in a flash of golden light revealing a large

room.

"Wow," Percy exclaimed as they walked in. As they did the wall

suddenly appeared behind them. Percy pressed on the wall,it was

solid, so definitely not an illusion.

"This is my lab" Saito called out. Percy turned and walked into a room

which basically looked like the exact opposite of Saito's office.

Everything was brand new, or at least polished enough to look like it.

Each equipment in this place was labeled with a tag or some other

form of identification.

It seemed chrome was a common theme here as everything was

covered in were a couple of machines whose purpose Percy couldn't'

even begin to imagine. Hell one looked like a pogo stick with a wire

attached to it and a drill for a tip.

"What is this place used for anyway?" Percy asked as Saito lead to

tone corner of the lab with a table and a whiteboard next to it.

"I come here to do my research," Saito explained. He then pressed his

hand on the whiteboard which suddenly blinked on as it started to

display images of graphs and quadratic equations. "This is my personal

3-D board, I made it from scratch and is basically my library for

anything and everything. Any scrap of information I find I put into this

machine."

"So it's basically a big kindle library?"

"That, and much more," Saito smirked as he pulled up a couple of

pictures and a one big document, "I also use it to help me come up

with theories for my research, investigate various occurrences in the

world and even simulate various hypothesis."

"So…...like a swiss army knife?" Percy asked.

Saito sighed, "yes….like a swiss army knife."

Julia chuckled, "Saito built this himself Percy, so he's a

little…..attached."

Saito grumbled, "you would too if you actually knew how much hard

work I poured into this thing. Anyway, here's the information you

needed," Saito stepped aside showing various pages and documents

displayed on the board. Several parts were highlighted with yellow

marker, Percy focused on those and realised that this was exactly the

information he wanted to know.

"So you brought us down here to show all the data compiled in one

spot instead of opening up and looking through various documents,"

Percy realised, "nice."

Saito smirked, "glad someone can appreciate my intelligence."

"That and you also just wanted a chance to show off your lab," Julia

smirked, "I know your tricks Saito, every time you want to impress

someone you bring them here."

"I would never do that!" Saito gasped in disbelief, "this lab is my most

prized possession! I would never reduce it to being nothing more that a

cheap tool to show off!"

"Really?" Julai raised an eyebrow, "then what's the rumor I heard about

you bringing Louise down here two nights ago?"

Saito gulped, "t-that was just research. She wanted to see my macro

particle observe."

"You're making that up."

"No I'm not!"

Julia raised an eyebrow, "Saito our eyes are marco particle observes."

Saito blushed, "w-well she did have lovely eyes."

"Damn Saito I didn't know you were such a player," Percy chuckled,

"but I guess smart is the new sexy and all."

Saito grumbled, "shut up. Anyway did you find what you were looking

for?"

Percy nodded turning away from the board, "yeah. It seemed the

college was first established in 1902, and since security was pretty lax

then people couldn't really check it out properly. There was no digital

trail and all that. But ever since computers started to take over they

had to try and keep up. Mostly the Mist helped with that, but they still

had to register with the State Department of Education. So whenever

inspectors or someone similar came up to inspect the college they

would knock them out and use the Mist to alter their memories. It's

crude, but I think I might have to do the same."

Saito nodded, "yeah, sounds about right. I remember dad freaking out

everytime the state department wanted to visit or something. He was

worried they would endanger the location of New Rome."

Percy nodded, "anyway thanks Saito, this had been really helpful. And

this board of yours is amazing, heck maybe I should get some for the

school in my place."

Saito grinned, "yeah, it's awesome. And if you want I can make some

more for you. If you're going to build a school might as well use the

latest tech to help teach better. After all a city of demigods will feature

children with a genius level intellect, you definitely don't want to waste

that. But it's kind of expensive, each board would be about…..10

thousand? Give or take."

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Percy chuckled, "yeah, that's not going to be a problem. How soon can

you make them?"

"How soon do you want them?"

"I have plenty of time. I first need to put down the foundation and things

like that. So take your time. I might have the place ready in like a year

or something. So no rush, obviously."

"Cool."

"You know Saito has some other pretty cool stuff in here," Julia

commented looking around, "maybe you can use some of them in the

future Percy."

"Hmm," the son of Poseidon thought, "well it would be nice is we had

some cutting edge tech in the Haven. Ed is good, but his forte is

software, not hardware. Plus he's already stretched out thin as it is. So

what do you say Saito? Got any toys for me?"

Saito rubbed his neck, "I don't know...some of this stuff isn't a joke

Percy. They can cause harm."

"Good," Percy said seriously, "that means the dumb mother fuckers

who ever think about attacking us will regret it before they even step

foot inside our city."

"Plus Percy could help you further your research by funding it," Julia

spoke up, "didn't you say you were having trouble with cash Saito?"

"W-well yeah but-"

"-I'm game," Percy interrupted the man, "you make some good stuff

man, and if I can help you make things that can help mankind then I

think that's well worth my money."

"B-but can you even afford it? Some of these things are expensive you

know."

"Dude, I know own an island. Okay? A freaking island. Plus I can

summon gold out from the Earth. You partner up with me and I'll give

you essentially a blank check."

Saito blinked, "shit, you sure you aren't the son of Pluto or something?

Because as far as I know only children of Pluto can summon gold."

"Yeah it's a whole thing. It involves a giant in Alaska, let's just move on

to the important thing. I can give you funding, you can give me the

tools to help protect and better the lives of our fellow demigods. So,"

Percy extended his hand, "what do you say?"

Saito looked at the offered and and smiled. He reached out and shock

it, "deal."

Percy smiled, "great. Now impress me."

Saito chuckled and nodded.

He took them to a table which featured blueprints for what looked like

another data pad of some kind. Saito picked it up and placed it on the

surface of his white board causing it to scan the blueprint and

displaying it on the board.

"I call it Mercury's sight," Saito explained, "it's basically a monitoring

program. By using these," Saito pointed to a picture of mini flying

drones, "it allows you to monitor any area of land."

"So it's like a drone surveillance system?" Julia asked not sounding

impressed.

"No, it's way more than that. It hacks into a nearby satellite and using

the information the drones provide and the image of the satellite it can

basically allow you to track anyone and everyone on the area you wish

to spy on."

"So it's like Big Brother?" Percy asked nervously.

"You have read 1984?" Saito asked surprised.

"Yeah, and why do you sound so surprised?"

"Because….never mind. Anyway yeah, it's basically like big brother."

Percy frowned, "I see…..well obviously I won't be using this on my own

city, I respect people's privacy. Plus after reading 1984 drone and other

cameras have kind of been creeping me out."

Saito nodded, "understandable, but I never made this to be a civilian

motering system. It's to help in war. If you can display both armies like

pawns on a chessboard, then even a mediocre general can achieve

victory."

Percy nodded, "this is definitely interesting Saito. What else do you

have for me?"

Saito walked over to another workbench and presented a metal box

with a big fan right in the center. "This is basically my answer to air

pollution. The fan can basically ventilate and filtre air at the same time.

It reduces air pollution down by 40%. I know it's not big and fancy like

any of the other items I have show you, but it's very useful and

something this world desperately needs."

"What happens to the pollution it cleans?" Julia asked.

"It's basically used a fuel," Saito grinned, "you see the pollutants in the

air are a byproduct of energy useage, at least most of it is anyway. So

those particles still have something that can burn. This device does

exactly that, hence all the pollutants transforms into energy. And the

ones which are not are simply collected and stored like in a vacuum

cleaner."

"So you would have to have people manually clean it up," Percy

gathered.

"Well yeah, but it's really useful Percy," Saito scratched his head, "plus

it's something the world needs night now."

"I'm not arguing that Saito," Percy spoke, "it's just if I put these up, and

I will, then I'm going to have to have people clean it out on a regular

basis. Hm...maybe I can put it under a common work thing or

something. Anyway this will basically give another job for people to

do…..hm, I can make this work."

"Plus it's eco friendly," Julia supplied, "hell maybe you can build a

factory and build and export these things. It could be one of your

island's main exports."

Percy shrugged, "hey I'm open to any ideas. Right now I have only a

few jobs for the island, the economy obviously won't be able to improve

with just the a few minimum wage paying jobs. This could end up

helping us a lot."

Saito smiled, "well then I'll get right on fixing this up for you all. Give me

maybe a month?"

"You mean it isn't ready yet?"

"No, this is just a prototype. I'm having trouble with the internal

combustion. But don't' worry I can fix it up in time."

Percy nodded and slowly let his eyes wander around the lab. Suddenly

in the small corner of the chrome covered lab was a table with a sheet

of cloth covering something big.

"What's that?" Percy asked.

"What?" Saito turned to where Percy was looking, "oh, well that really

isn't something you can use for the city. Plus it isn't even complete."

"But what is it?"

"My pet project," Saito blushed, "b-but that's nothing useful."

"Don't believe him Percy," Julian smirked "every time he blushes like

that it means he wants you to ask him what it is, he's just shy and

doesn't want to do it himself."

"I don't do that!" Saito shouted at the Praetor.

Percy chuckled, "look man it doesn't matter. Just tell me what it is, I'm

gett more and more curious by the second."

Saito sighed, "fine. You saw my drawing of the dimensional portal

right? Well this is kind of it."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? This?"

Saito nodded as he lifted the sheet up revealing a box sized object

underneath. It was roughly the size of Percy's face and currently

connected to several wires. On the top was a bunch of keys and the

front was blank like a computer monitor.

"So….what does this do?" Percy asked.

"What do you know of quantum mechanics?" Saito asked.

Percy shrugged, "well I'm just a high schooler but Annabeth once

mentioned it. It's basically the study of subatomic particles right?"

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Saito nodded, "right. Well no, that's a gross over simplification of it, but

close enough. Now the theory of parallel universe simply state that in

the space we live in there exists a multitude of other universes. Now

right now certain events have occurred which has lead to the creation

of our world. But let's say something changed, let's say the Nazis won

the war, then in that world we would all be Nazis. Get it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, I get it."

"Great. So quantum mechanics is by part the theory of probability.

Meaning anything that can happen, will happen or at the very least has

happened."

"Even if it is a one in a million chance of it happening?" Julia asked,

Saito nodded, "even then."

"So there is probably one world out there where Rob didn't cheat on

me huh," Julia frowned, "must be a horrible place."

Percy shuddered, "you just turned this really dark really fast Julia."

"Yeah thanks, it's my superpower," Julia replied with a casual shrug.

"Right….." Saito said, "anyway, as I was saying, probability. So

quantum physics deals with that, hence the probability of the whole

being ruled by nazis? Let's say ½,meaning that there is a 50% chance

of a world existing where Nazis live."

"So…..what're the chances of a fictitious world existing?" Percy asked,

"like let's say a world with dragons and magic?"

Saito rubbed his chin and nodded, "well...yeah. Hell there might even

be a world where demigods and humans live side by side. Anything is

possible, and I do mean anything."

"Sweet," Percy grinned, "maybe I can visit the Game of Thrones

universe or something. Damn, if I ever get my hands on those

Lannisters I'll make sure to kill them all!"

Julia looked confused, "ah, Percy, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud? Look never mind that," Percy turned

to Saito, "so how close are you to making this work?"

Saito sighed, "let's just say this, Edison tried a thousand time before he

got one simple stupid light bulb to work. I'm trying to do the same thing,

only I don't even fully understand the implications of what I am trying to

do. Edison at least knew what he was looking for, a durable element

that glowed when heated up, I don't' even know how to manipulate the

probability matrix of our world, let alone travel through to other worlds."

"Wait probability matrix?" Percy asked.

"Just a name I came up with for branch of physics I'm dealing with,"

Saito explained, "think of it like a phone number for each universe.

Each number represents a particular set of events that formed this

world, the ability to identify those numbers will give us a way to identify

our universe and other universes."

"So if you figure out which number correlates with which event it should

theoretically allow you to pick and choose the world you visit," Julia

realised.

"But that means you can basically pick and choose the world you go

to," Percy nodded in understanding, "but the numbers must be huge.

You would need a super super computer just to process it all."

Saito sighed, "yeah. And not only that you would also need to have a

way to create a gateway between worlds. Something not even the

Gods can do, that we know off."

Percy nodded, "yeah….but damn Saito, you really are amazing. The

last man I meet as brilliant as you tried to kill me, so you're definitely a

way better improvement."

Saito chuckled, "yeah, thanks."

"Wait," Julia spoke up, "Percy, this kind of sounds like your ability

doesn't it?"

Percy looked surprised, "what do you mean?"

"Your IDs," Julia explained, "you can basically create empty worlds

can't you? And world's filled with monsters. Isn't that something like a

parallel universe?"

"What is she talking about?" Saito asked in excitement.

"Well, I ah, well I kind of have this power. It allows me to create pocket

dimensions," Percy admitted.

"What?!" Saito exploded, "you can create pocket dimensions and you

didn't think to tell me?!"

"W-well I kind of thought you already knew," Percy admitted.

"No! Julia! Why didn't you tell me this the moment you knew he could

do something like that?!"

"I didn't think it was important," Julia shrugged, "hell this is the first time

you even mentioned something like this to me. If you had before I

would have brought Percy to you the moment I knew he could do

something like that."

Saito cursed himself, "fuck me in the ass! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! The

answer was right in front of me the whole time and I didn't notice until it

was right under my fuckign nose!"

Percy chuckled, "take it easy man, you're being way to hard on

yourself."

"Percy," Saito snapped, "where did you get tese powers?"

"I-ah, I don't know. They just kind of showed up the same time my other

demigods powers awoke."

Lie successful!

"Hm….maybe this could be a gift from the Gods," Saito murmured to

himself, "tell me Percy what exactly can you do?"

"Well I can create this pocket dimensions, I think. Basically I have three

types, one is empty, meaning other than me there is no one else in the

world. The other one is filled with monsters and the last one is kind of

like the first, except time is kind of diluted, it flows diffrently making

every second I sped there longer than the real world."

Saito's hands were shaking now in anticipation, "P-percy, tell me. This

world you can create, is it empty? Or is there something in it?"

"Well no, in fact it's like a copy of this world. It has everything this world

has, buildings and landscapes. It doesn't have people, electricity, wind

or even sound."

"How big is it? Did you ever explore it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. In my time dilation ID. I went from Montauk, in

Long Island, to Boston."

Saito suddenly jumped up, "YES! YES! YES! YES! Thanks you

GODS!"

"What happened Saito?" Julia asked, "why're you acting like fat kid in a

candy store."

"Julia I might as well be a fat kid in a candy store!" Saito shouted as he

grabbed Percy in a tight hug, "you are amazing Percy, never leave

me."

"Ah, I have a girlfriend?" Percy asked as Saito broke the hug, "but

seriously man why are you this excited?"

"Because don't' you see what this is?!" Saito asked his excitement still

running high, "you have the ability to create an empty world, a world

with nothing in it. This would allow me to get a probability matrix for a

world that is closest to normal. Meaning you Percy can create a

universe which basically has a probability matrix of 0."

"Meaning you can work from it and discover the other numbers," Julia

said as realisation dawned on her.

Saito nodded, "yeah, plus we have something to compare it to. Since

your, what did you call it? Your time dilation ID?" Percy nodded, "right,

time dilation ID. Since you have that we can compare the probability

matrix for the two worlds and find the number which affects time!

Meaning if we combine that and manipulate our world's own probability

matrix number we can essentially-"

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"Create time travel," Percy realised, "b-but that won't be our world. It

would be a world which is exactly like ours."

"So?" Saito asked, "we still would have the ability to shape a world!

Think about it, a world where Saturn never rose, a world where

demigods didn't have to hide! Percy….you could be the key to

unlocking interdimensional travel and time travel."

Percy looked at Saito and then the rectangular device on the table. "Do

you really think we can do this?"

Saito nodded, "yes Percy I do. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow,

but if we don't try we will never know if we could have ever succeeded."

Percy nodded. He began to think, 'could I be part of something like

this? Fighting a war is one thing, being part of one of the biggest

scientific breakthroughs in modern times is another. This could change

the way we see the universe. Compared to all of that…..I'm nothing.

I'm…..no, no. I have always been something. A son, a demigod, a

fighter. Maybe now I can add scientific pioneer to that list.'

Percy looked into Saito's deep blue eyes and nodded, "let's do this

Saito."

The legacy of Athena grinned, "fuck yeah," he put his hand up high and

Percy high fived it.

"So what first?"

"Give me a second," Saito grinned picking up the cube and placing it in

Percy's hands, wires and all, "I'll have this set up and running in no

time."

Percy nodded and let the man do his thing. The scientist moved all

around his lab dragging his white board towards the small work station

he had set up next to Percy and the cube. He turned on a PC and

connected it to the board using that as a monitor.

"So how exactly does this power work Percy?" Saito asked as he typed

away at the keyboard.

"Well I basically just concentrate hard enough and presto, instant

pocket dimension. I also bring whatever I'm holding on to," Percy

gestured to the box, "so that means this box and the wires attached to

it."

"I see….him, hold on," Saito then walked up to a modem on the wall

and broke off the wifi signal distributor. He then took the box from

Percy and removed the wires on it replacing it with the plastic antenna.

"This should help," Saito said going back to his computer and

calibrating the antenna to send and receive signals from the box,

"theoretically speaking it should work."

"What are you going to do anyway?" Julia asked looking at the board

as it continued to shift from one graph to the next not stopping long

enough for one image to register on the Praetor's mind.

"I've converted the antenna attached to the box into a SOS signal that

my machine should be able to detect from the fabric of space and time.

Should."

"So it's like a big lighthouse?" Percy asked.

"Well more like a lure," Saito explained as the box started to turn itself

on, whirling alive, "it basically gives out a signal that we can pick up on

and if we can, we can use this data to pinpoint where you are."

Percy nodded, "okay….but is this really a good idea?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"I mean you said it yourself right? It's a lure. If we catch a fish it'll be

fine, but if a shark manages to get a hold of it….well, you have seen

JAWS right?"

"Relax Percy that should be impossible," Saito waved away the

demigod's plight, far too focused on the achievement he was about to

accomplish.

"Okay….if you say so. When do you want me to start?"

"Whenever you're ready Percy."

"Be careful Percy," Julia spoke up, "if anything happened to you Thalia

would kill me."

Percy grinned, "relax Julia, I'm always careful."

Julia groaned, "I know that look. It's the same one you used when you

were about to unload a truck full of imperial gold weapons on us."

"Hey, I didn't hear you complain," Percy shot back, "now shush. We are

creating human history right here Julia. So sit back and be amazed."

Saito nodded, "whenever you are ready Percy."

Percy nodded and looked at the box in his hands. He held it tight and

focused, 'ID create: Empty!'

The world shifted as suddenly Percy found himself in complete

darkness.

'Shit! Did something go wrong?' Percy snapped his fingers forming a

ball of fire lighting up the room he was in.

It was the lab, except everything was powered down. 'Right, this place

has no electricity, hence no light.'

Percy then looked down at the box he was carrying. It had a loading

screen runing. Percy waited patiently for loading bar to fill up when

suddenly text popped up on the screen with a sound;

PING!

SAI: PJ? CAN YOU READ?

"Saito! Yeah I can-" Percy stopped, 'what are you doing you idiot? They

can't hear you!'

Percy looked to the keyboard on top of the box and smiled.

PJ: CAN READ.

PING!

SAI: RETURN TO HOME?

Percy didn't bother to respond as he closed his eyes and thought, 'ID

Escape!'

The world then exploded with light as Percy found himself in an active

and bright lab. Julia and Saito were looking at him with a big smile on

their face.

"So….did it work?"

"You bet your ass it did!" Saito yelled out in happiness, "I got 590

terabytes of data from that trip alone! I maybe have 40, or 45% of the

total probability matrix. The computer couldn't understand the rest,

maybe it has something to do with your powers being mystical in

nature, but this is the furthest anyone has ever come before!"

Percy grinned, "sweet. Want to test out the time dilation ID now?"

"Percy are you sure that's a good idea?" Julia asked, "maybe we

shouldn't push our luck."

"Julia come on, you can't stand there and tell me you aren't the least bit

curious about how this is going to turn out. I may not be a genius, but

even I'm excited about all of this."

Julia sighed, "well you got me there….fine. But I swear to the Gods if

something happens to you it's not my fault."

"Deal," Percy grinned, "now let's try and crack time travel shall we?"

"You my good man are my spirit animal," Saito grinned, "all right, I've

saved the data from the previous trip. Let's get this show on the road!"

Percy nodded and closed his eyes, 'ID Create: Time Dilation!'

The world turned dark again, this time Percy didn't bother using his fire

as he simply turned to the monitor to wait for Saito's message.

PING!

SAI: DO YOU READ?

PJ: YES

PING!

SAI: WAIT 5 MIN, LOT OF DATA

PJ: K

So Percy waited, he waited and waited. After 5 minutes he typed;

PJ: COME BACK?

PING!

SAI: OLY 1:30 MIN

'What? But I know...time dilutions, shit!'

PJ: TIME IS DIFFERENT HERE. I'LL WAIT

PING!

SAI: THANKS

Percy sighed and sat down with the box held tightly in hand. He had to

wait what….20 minutes?

Percy groaned, maybe he should train or something. Or maybe read a

book. He did never finish Storm of Swords, there was just a little left,

but after the Red Wedding….

Just then;

PING!

ALL FORCES ATTACK!

Percy raised an eyebrow, "what the fuck?"

PING!

ALL HAIL DARKSEID!

"Who the fuck is Darkside?"

PING!

DESTROY THE EARTH! LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND!

Now Percy was really concerned. Maybe it was nothing, a glitch, but

that wa a lie and Percy knew it. The message were far too coherent to

not be from intelligent life. There were only two options, one someone

had attacked New Rome and taken Saito and Julia hostage. Option

two someone other than Julia and Saito were contacting him.

Chapter 579

Both options were scary to say the least.

'I need to get back home, now,' Percy decided as he stood up, 'ID

Escape!'

The world exploded into light as Percy found himself back in the lab.

Everything was alright, Julia and Saito just looked at him with confused

looks.

"Percy? What are you back so soon?" Saito asked.

"I started getting these weird messages on this thing," Percy told him

pointing at the box, "something about destroying the Earth and

someone called Darkside."

"Darkside?" Julia asked in surprise, "what kind of second rate super

villain name is that?"

"Wait we didn't send those message," Saito spoke up as he looked at

his readings, "but we did pick up on something….well an anomaly

really. It was brief but…..maybe you were right. Maybe something tried

to-"

"WARNING! WARNING! SYSTEM BEING OVERRIDDEN!

WARNING!" the computers started to exploded out distracting

everyone. Saito flew to the keyboard typing away to try and find out

what the problem was.

"What's happening?!" Julia asked.

"I-I don't know! Something is hacking into my systems! Something

powerful! It's break down my walls faster than I can build them!"

"Saito the cubes getting hotter," Percy told him, "like really hot." The

box was practically glowing now.

"What?!" Saito turned and started at the cube, "no! This shouldn't be

possible!"

"Saito why is this thing glowing?!"

"Peyc let go of that now-"

BOOOOOM!

Before Saito could say anything Percy suddenly found a giant white

tube opening up behind him as it sucked him inside. Percy let go the

box he was holding as he felt himself being pulled out of this world.

Bright loud light covered his vision, he couldn't see a centimeter in front

of him.

"Percy!" Julia jumped to try and grab him but the mysterious tunnel of

light disappeared as soon as it appeared leaving nothing but the

glowing white hot computer box behind.

"Percy," Saito looked up in astonishment at what had just happened.

"Saito what happened?!" Julia snapped turning around to the scientist.

"H-he was right."

"What do you mean he was right?!"

"W-we sent out a lure, a signal to everyone. And someone responded.

A shark responded. W-we're going to need a bigger boat."

PING!

"What was that?" Julia asked as Saito looked down and started typing

away at his desktop.

"Data, new data from...somewhere," Saito said as his computers

started to defer all the data that was coming through the box.

"What type of data?"

"A probability matrix, I think...I think this is the matrix of the place that

took Percy."

"Saito….what are we going to do?"

"I-I don't know…..I don't know….."

Displayed on the board in front of the two romans were the only two

number deciphered by the machine so far: 52.

With Percy

The tunnel of light suddenly stopped as Percy was thrown out onto

cold hard cement. Percy rolled on the ground and got back on his feet.

He reached into his pocket only to find Riptide and Waverider missing.

'Shit! I gave it to Terminus!' Percy cursed himself as he began to look

around for any possible enemies only to find himself on the top of a sky

scraper of some kind.

Ping!

You have unlocked a new skill through forced interdimensional

travel!

Dimensions portal creation, Lv- 1 (0%)

You can create portals to other worlds.

Known matrix codes;

PJ universe (Home)

NEW 52 universe (Current)

Cost per portal - 20,000,000 MP

Percy looked at the new skill and his eyes widened in horror. This was

the proof he needed, he was on longer in his own universe. And he had

no idea how he was going to get back.

He looked around, this wasn't a sky line he recognized, so not New

York, Boston or San Francisco. Percy looked up and saw a huge

golden globe attached to the roof spinning around with the words, 'The

Daily Planet' circling it like one of the rings of Saturn.

'Where the hell am I?' Percy turned and focused on what he was

seeing. Now that the initial shock was taken care of by Gamer's mind

Percy realised this city wasn't normal. There were fires raging on

everywhere. He could hear people crying out for help below on the

streets while the smell of blood and concrete filled Percy's nose.

Just then a swarm of what looked like giant golden armour reptile

monsters with wings flew by the building carrying with them human

hostages that were screaming for help.

Percy looked at all of this and only one word came to his head, "fuck."

Chapter 580:

Percy didn't know what to do. He was without his weapons and stuck in

this place which he didn't recognize one bit. His brain was telling him to

sit tight and wait for Saito and Julia to get him, but he knew he couldn't

afford to wait, people were being killed right before his eyes, their

screams were loud and clear to his ears.

"HELP!"

"SOMEONE HELP US!"

"MY SON! PLEASE GOD NO!"

"SUPERMAN! HELP!"

Percy closed his eyes as Gamer's mind did it's best to keep Percy

calm, but Percy wasn't calm, he was angry. He wasn't just going to sit

here and do nothing. It may mean he would never see his friends

again, but that was a risk he was willing to make, no….he had to make.

He would never forgive himself if he just stood by in the sidelines as

people died, even if they weren't people from his world.

'I need a weapon,' Percy realised. He looked at his empty palms, he

never should have given up Riptide and Waverider to Termilus, that

was just stupid. But it was okay, Percy still had one more weapon up

his sleeve, his body. Plus a suit of armour with two extra weapons

inside it. Thank you Poseidon!

So Percy opened up his inventory and pulled out his armour gauntlet.

He put on the black gauntlet and smiled at the familiar feeling of the

material shift and bind itself around his arm.

"Tsunami!" Percy cried out causing the gauntlet to exploded into action.

Metal and cloth spun itself around Percy's body slowly forming his

armour. The silk slid itself over him like a second skin while the metal

pieces stitched themselves on his back. His cape materialized behind

him flowing behind him, giving him the look of a bird about to take to

the skies.

His white belt materialised around his hip breaking the constant black

suit as a a silk face mask covered his whole face except the front

portion. The helmet then shut down over Percy's face and closed down

activating the helmet's hud display system. Percy flexed his arms

causing the cloth to squeak, he was ready.

Ping!

Armour activated!

+20% MP

+10% HP

+70% Elvish magic

+5 Dex

+2 Str

+3 Vit

+2 levels for water, ice, shadow and earthquake control

Percy channeled mana into the silk suit activating it's armoured

features. The silk sharpened and hardened as it took on an almost

hard fish scale like appearance. Metal knuckle bracers apparead,

Percy reached for the compartment in his left gauntlet and slid it to the

side revealing the two spare pens he kept in there along with the small

tin box of Ambrosia and Nectar.

Percy took out the pens and popped off their caps turning them into

celestial bronze greek style swords. They weren't Riptide or Waverider,

but they would do for now.

Percy turned to the sky, the things flying in the air looked alien, maybe

a monster, but mostly likely it was an attacking force of some kind.

They were way to co-ordinated not to be.

'First mission, save as many people as I can,' Percy told himself as he

waited for the quest alert notification form the Game. He waited and

waited but nothing came. Percy didn't understand why, but right now

was not the time for this, people were in danger, he could deal with this

power crysis later.

Percy looked up at the flying….whatever those things were. He needed

a way to get up there…...got it.

Percy put on of the swords away, he would need the use of at least one

hand for this. He took a few steps back and then charged full speed

ahead. He reached the edge of the roof and kicked up as hard as he

could launching himself into the air.

He threw his left arm out and shout out a shadow grapple out of his

hand launching it towards the flying monster.

"ARGH!" The thing screamed as Percy's shadow grapple dug itself into

the monster's tigh.

"Help me!" a woman who was being dragged up by the monster cried

out.

Percy pulled himself forward as drew back the shadow grapple coming

closer and closer towards the monster.

"Get your hands off of her!" Percy swung up and landed on the

monster's back. He had one had tightly wrapped around the monsetr's

back and extended his free arm towards the others.

'Only got one shot at this,' Percy told himself as he began to gather

mana into the plam of his hand forming a blue and green speher of

energy.

Ping!

You have created a new skill!

Energy blast, Lv- 1 (0%)

Sends out a blast of energy.

Cost- 100 MP

Damage- 100 MP

Percy launched the ball of energy forward piercing one of the nearby

monsters with it.

"AHH!" the man the monster was holding started to fall down, but Percy

didn't intend to let him die. Immediately Percy formed a hand made out

of the moisture in the air and used it to grab the man.

Percy then turned to the other demons and started firing more and

more of his energy blasts. He caught every single human that fell down

in his water hand, that was slowly growing bigger and bigger.

Percy then turned down to the monster he was currently riding and

drew back a hand, punching a hole through it's chest.

"GRAA!" the monster roared as it fell out of the sky. Percy used his

telepathy and pulled the woman close, preventing her from falling. With

her and the other's now safe Percy launched a shadow grapple and

swung down landing on the roof of a nearby building.

Percy put the people down first and then the woman. "Are you all

alright?"

"Yes, thank you!" the woman cried out. Percy looked at her name;

Lois Lane, Reporter

Lv- 8

Percy nodded, "right. Can you tell me what's going on? What are those

things?"

"I-I don't know. I was in my office and the next thing I know they

showed up out of these white portals or something. They just came in

the thousands and-and they just started to grab people."

"I see," Percy looked up at the sky and Observed one of them;

Parademons, Minions of Darkseid

Lv- 39

HP: 20,000/20,000

MP: 0/0

Race- Mutated Servants

Str- Information not available

Vit- Information not available

Dex- Information not available

Int- Information not available

Wis- Information not available

Luc- Information not available

Information not available

Likes: Information not available

Dislikes: Information not available

Information not available

Information not available

Percy cursed, his powers weren't working. Other than their names and

title he knew nothing about them. Maybe it was because the Fates

couldn't reach him in this world, the gaming powers do come from

them, it makes sense if they stopped working when Percy is away from

them.

"Who are you?" Lois Lane asked.

Percy closed the box and turned to Lois, "I'm just trying to help.

Although I have no idea where to even start."

KRAM!

Percy and the human he saved turned and looked. The sound came

from the city port in the distance. Percy was amazed as he saw

somebody dressed in blue use a truck as a baseball bat and smash

several Parademons with it.