Chapter 143

"What happened to the guy you were fighting?" Percy asked as they ran to the second platform catching sight of their train.

"That is that guy I was fighting!" Clarisse shouted back as they quickly boarded the train just as Elsa riding on the giant reindeer appeared.

"Shit," Percy cursed, "I'll hold them off, you two wait here," Percy said and without even listening to what the other girls had to say jumped off the train and brought his sword out.

The reindeer continued it's mad charge and Percy quickly moved away from the train and his friends drawing the reader to the center of the platform. "Come and get me," Percy replied as he summoned a ball of fire in his right hand.

"No Kristoff," Elsa replied on top of the reindeer, "don't' get too close. He has a power than can kill with a single touch. Ill deal with him." The Snow queen then dropped down walking towards Percy as the reindeer stepped back giving them more space to move.

"You? Fight me? Get real. You can barely move," Percy replied as he sent his fire ball right at the white haired female.

Elsa dodged the attack and sent several ice spears at Percy which the son of Poseidon managed to block with his blade.

He didn't want to show most of his powers off right now, incase he was being watched by an Abyss agent but he had a perfect opportunity to capture Elsa, without hurting her. He used his shadow control and commanded Elsa's own shadow to wrap around her and tie her up like a mummified body.

Percy smirked, "not so tough now huh?"

Elsa looked at him with rage filled eyes, "you don't' know what I am capable of, boy."

Percy gulped as he suddenly got a flash back to Artemis just as Elsa froze the shadow around her and broke the bonds that held her.

Elsa then got up and waved her arms forming a giant ice spear, "eat this!" Elsa screamed before launching the spear at Percy. Percy however didn't try to dodge it or move away, he simply drew back a fist and shattered the spear with an Earthquake punch.

Elsa however smirked and waved her hands causing event shattered shard of ice there to turn towards Percy and attack him. Percy activated Speed demon and tried to move away but he couldn't move his legs. He looked down and there sticking him to the ground were ice shackles holding him down.

Percy looked up, he couldn't give in, he wouldn't give in. He launched his mana outward to the ice shards around him and commanded the water in the ice to obey his will. Suddenly he could feel it, he could feel the ice around him, he could also feel Elsa's mana in the ice. He fought back but ultimately Elsa's control over the ice was to strong pushing past Percy's control.

'Marble skin!' Percy though and in a split second before he got pierced by the ice shards his skin began as tough as stone as Percy put over 300 points of mana into the skill.

Defence- 5,500,

- 7,000 HP!

Percy Jackson HP: 1,800/3,300

Ping!

You have gained a new skill!

Ice control, Lv-1 (0%)

Allows the user free control over the element of ice.

Cost- 10MP per foot of ice created

Max size- 20 foot

Percy grunted as he used his minor ice control to push the shards of ice away from his body and break the ice shackles holding him place.

Percy looked up at Elsa who looked shocked once again by what he could do, "y-you. You can control ice. I felt you try, a-are you like me?"

Percy was about to answer but just the a whistle broke out. The train was going to leave, and Percy needed to be on it. He used Speed demon and dashed away from Elsa just as the train started to move out of the station.

"NO!" Elsa cried out as she sent ice out to try and freeze the train track only for Percy to use his own control over ice to deflect the ice by just a bit missing the tracks completely. "Come back! I need answers!"

Ping!

A skill has leveled up!

Ice control, Lv-2 (30%)

Allows the user free control over the element of ice.

Cost- 10MP per foot of ice created

Max size- 25 foot

Percy didn't know what she meant, and frankly didn't really care. The train picked up more and more speed tacking the three quester out of Boston within the hour taking them back to New York and to Luke.

Percy looked to clarisse and Annabeth, "are you two alright?"

"Us? What about you?!" Annabeth asked as she checked Percy's bodied for any wounds, "we saw you getting skewered like a pin cushion!"

Percy shrugged, "the jacket protected me," he said pointing to his black leather jacket, "it's made out of a monster with similar fur to the Nemean lion, very strong."

"And what about your head and legs?" Clarisse asked with narrowed eyes.

"A spell I learned in the New York Natural history museum," at their strange looks Percy sighed, "long story."

"Well we have all the time in the world," Annabeth said leading them into a compartment and sitting down in the chair closest to the door, "so sit down and tell it."

Percy sighed, he was going to get a major boost to his lying skill when he was done with this.

An hour later;

Your skill has leveled up!

Lying, Lv-10 (0%)

This is your ability to lie to people, the higher the level the better the lie and less chance of discovery!

50% chance of success, less based on how extreme the lie is.

Bullshiting-Lv-5, a combanation of lying and the truth said in a very confident manner!

Percy sighed closing the notification box in front of him. He told them a few things, like the fact he fought Alecto there who somehow managed to animate marble statue to life and how he fought an army of the undead while going through the museum.

They believed the marble statue thing but was a bit sceptical about the whole horde of the undead thing, which was kind of silly when you think about it. Like, sure a giant walking marble statue? Totally believable, but a horde of undead? Nope, can't happen.

Percy eventually convinced them otherwise and told them that he learnt the Marble Skin spell from a scroll he found in Alecto's person before she vanished into dust. When Annabeth asked to see the scroll Percy just said that he didn't have it with him but would be glad to show it to her once they get back.

Annabeth accepted which meant Percy now had time till they get back to camp to forge a scroll written in ancient Greek detailing the use of the Marble skin spell, yeah no problem....