Chapter 42

Chapter 42:

Percy tightened his grip around his imperial gold spear. He had checked his inventory and sure enough there it was;

Imperial Gold Spear

A spear made of imperial gold. Like celestial bronze this spear can kill even the divine.

Attack- 30 x Dex

Percy didn't know why he didn't use this spear before. With his amazingly high Dex rating of 80 his total attack would have come up to 2,400 points, much more than Riptide. But then again Riptide was better suited for combat with the bonus he got from his sword mastery skills.

Thalia started to circle around the small battle area they made in the living room by pushing all the furniture and TV to the side. They both had taken off their jackets. Thalia had her hair tied up in ponytail while Percy stood with sweat gathered on his brow. Percy steadied himself, he took a deep breath and slowly let it out.

Thalia jumped on him swinging her spear down. Percy blocked with his spear and pushed her back before thrusting the tip at Thalia.

The demigoddess blocked it easily before swinging her spear in a low angle aiming for Percy's leg. Percy jumped up to avoid the weapon started repeatedly stabbing Thalia.

Thalia side stepped all of the attacks, moving backwards. Percy swung at her legs, and his spear was promptly stopped by Thalia's own. Percy then pushed forward pinning Thalia to the wall behind her using their spears as a choker on her neck.

"Give up," Percy hissed.

"Never, lover boy," Thalia smirked as she kicked his left knee losing Percy's stance. She then pushed back and unlocked their spears with a wide swing throwing Percy off balance. Thalia swung her spear down and Percy moved to block.

Percy was just managing to hold his own, but he had to bend backwards to block her spear in time, which resulted in throwing him off balance. Thalia took advantage of this by suddenly bringing her spear back knocking Percy of balance yet again before thrusting the spear tip into his chest.

"Not again," Percy mumbled as he saw his defence points decrease;

Defence- 305,668,730

It wasn't much of a lose, but it was still considered his lose. The reason why Percy so much more defence points was because he had been adding on defence points like crazy during their boat ride. Every chance he got he would activate his water body bonus and drain all his mana into his Marble skin skill.

"You're definitely skilled with that," Thalia said smirking as she transformed her spear back into a can of mace, "but you're not good enough."

Percy smirked, "yeah. Your right. You're pretty good with handling a spear. Long pointy spears."

Thalia was confused at first before she realised Percy's choice of words. A deep crimson took over he face, "perv."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, yeah. Oh, and before I forget, start pouring all of your mana into your marble skin spell, and then keep doing it again and again."

"Why?"

"It will build up your defence," Percy told her, "and I am not letting you face a Giant without being at your best."

Thalia nodded and started doing just that.

Percy nodded, "good, now...what do you want to do?"

Thalia calmned herself down, "I don't know. Want to watch TV?"

Percy shrugged as they quickly moved the couch and the TV back into place and sat down. Thalia had hold of the remote as she started to search through channels. Percy on the other hand had one arm around Thalia as he sat right next to her, holding her closely.

Thalia smiled at the action as she leaned back putting her head on Percy's shoulder as she finally settled on the News channel. It was an international news network that was currently covering the UNO meeting in New York.

"-And that concludes our coverage of the UN's decision to increasing funding for WHO. Up next we tackle the issue of the growing crime rates all across America. In the recent months the police have found that there has been a strange uptick of crime. Police have been unable to find the cause of this phenomenon but have found that this crime wave had started somewhere around 2 weeks ago. For more we go to Chang Williams for more."

The news then changed to an asian man talking to the police commissioner of Seattle, one of the cities most affected by the crime rates. While most other cities were prepared for this increased crime, Seattle was not.

"Do you think this has anything to do with Kronos coming back?" Percy asked Thalia.

Thalia sighed, "I'm not sure. He was revived 2 weeks ago, so maybe there is a connection, but I'm not sure. Maybe it has something to do with his title."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "his title?"

Thalia nodded, "he is know as the titan lord of time, harvest and evil."

Percy chuckled, "that's so funny."

"What is?"

"Well he has two amazing titles, like lord of time and lord of evil, but then the third one is harvest. Can you imagine that? And evil time manipulating farmer wearing overall threatening to kill kids because they were playing in his corn field?"

Thalia laughed, "yeah, Gods that sounds so silly. Hey, you know what? I don't like the name Kronos, sounds like a failed energy drink. So from now on we call him the crazy Farmer."

Percy smiled, "look at you, coining your own nicknames and making fun of powerful immortals. Guess I am rubbing off on you."

Thalia smiled, "maybe."

Percy kissed her forehead, as then her lips. Just then he noticed several purple markings along her neck and he stopped and smiled, "did I give you those?"

Thalia looked down and groaned, "yeah you did," she hit him on the stomach, "ass."

"Ophf," Percy chuckled as he faked his pain, "what was that for."

"For almost forcing me to explain to Jason what a hickey was," Thalia grumbled, "next time don't make them so obvious."

"Why not," Percy asked as he kissed her just below her ear slowly going down her neck, "I want people to know you are mine."

Thalia grumbled as she pushed him away, "nope."

Percy grumbled, "but Thaliaaaaa-"

"No buts," Thalia huffed, "if all we do when we are alone is make out the our relationship will be based on nothing but physical attractions. So tuck it in big boy, I want to watch TV."

Percy grumbled, "fine….but let's at least stop watching something so depressing," he said takeing the remote and changing the channel, "let's see what else is on TV."

They skipped a few channels, sports, cartoons, sports, Discovery channel, sports, how many god damn sport channels are there?!

"Wait," Thalia said, "go back."

Percy went back showing a food channel with a woman called Nigella Lawson hosting the show. The woman had black hair and black eyes with a great smile and huge breasts. She wore a very modest baggy blouse but even through that Percy could tell that she had huge tits.

Percy looked at Thalia, 'is this a test? I heard girlfriends do this to test whether their boyfriends are attracted to other women….yeah this is a test. Don't look at the hot older woman's boobs Percy, don't do it. No. Don't do it.'

Percy eventually had to use Gamer's mind to stop his head from imagining those bare giant tits while Thalia was just enjoying the show.

Percy eventually got himself under control and watched the program. Nigella was british, her accent gave her away, and apparently the theme of today's show was cheese.

"Why do you like this show?" Percy asked Thalia.

"I used to watch it with my mom and brother," Thalia said in a low tone, "some days, when my mom wasn't drunk or fucking crazy, would sit down and watch this show with us. It would just be the three of us and no one would talk for the entire time. Then after it was over, and mom was really feeling good, she would try and cook one of the recipies for us."

Percy could see the tears gather around Thalia's eyes, Percy didn't say anything, he simply held her closer. Thalia placed her head right below Percy's neck holding him close.

"She was a terrible cook," Thalia chuckled as a few teardrops ran along her cheeks, "but Jason loved her food. She would often joke about trying to restart her celebrity career as a tv chef. She said it would be the perfect thing for her to do.

"Then one day she found out a network was looking for a new TV chef. She contacted her old agent and begged him for a chance to audition. She got into the final two candidates. The day she came back after the audition was one of the few moment that my mom looked sane and happy. She cared so much for us, she even...she even tried to fix things between her and me. But a week later we came to find out that she didn't get the part and mom lost it. She...she wasn't the same after that. She got worse and worse. And….and that's it."

Percy held Thalia close as more tears fell from her eyes, "I'm sorry you had such a shitty life," Percy told her as he gently patted her back, "and I know I can't really do anything to make it better. But-I ah, I want to make sure your future isn't as bad."

Percy tried to sound mature and caring, but trying to console somebody wasn't something he was good at, "I get that what I'm saying might not mean much. I understand that. But I want you to know that as long as I can, I'll try and make your life not suck. I promise."

Thalia looked up at him, "you promise?"

Percy looked into those sad eyes. Thalia ever allowed herself to look weak, Percy knew that. Even when Percy contacted Parallax, the entity of fear, she put up a strong face. For her to lower her gaurd in front of anyone meant only one thing, she trusted him, she put her faith in him. And he wouldn't let her down.

Percy cupped her face with his hands and pulled her close. He bent down and kissed her. They broke apart and Percy pressed his forehead against her's, "yes. I promise."

Thalia smiled, "I'm going to keep you to that."

Percy smiled, "I know."

Thalia curled up into Percy as the two turned towards the TV. They didn't speak, they had nothing to say.

As the show went on and on Percy began to realise how easy this Nigella lady made things seem. Before Percy always saw cooking as something complex and difficult to do, but now it seemed like it was just a matter of doing the right thing at the right time.

Eventually the show ended and when it did Percy got a pretty big surprise;

Ping!

You have learnt a new skill through watching someone via your photographic reflexes!

Cooking, Lv- 25 (80%)

The skill to create food through mixing and combining different ingredients, using different methods.

80% chance of making the eater happy

70% chance of not destroying all nutritional value inside the food made

90% chance of making the food look great

10% chance of botching the recipe

Recipes;

Cheddar Cheese Risotto

Macaroni Cheese

Percy was amazed at what he saw. The program went on for about an hour and while Percy was focused all that time he found it amazing that that allowed him to gain a new skill! And something at such a high level!

Nigella Lawson was a very good cook, so it would make sense that the cooking skill he would gain from her via Photographic reflexes would be pretty advanced as well. But this was….this is just amazing. Turely the points he spent buying the Photographic reflexes was well spent.

And what's more this mean something else, Percy could now just sit on the couch, watch different episodes and he could practically learn anything he wanted! Why this opened up his world to unlimited possibilities!

All he needed to do is get access to the internet and Percy could theoretically learn every single skill in the world just by watching a couple of videos done by people who are great in the field!

"So, what did you think?" Thalia asked turning off the TV.

"Think of what?" Percy asked.

"The show," Thalia said getting off of Percy's chest and stretching.

"I thought it was brilliant," Percy admitted.

"Yea right," Thalia scoffed, "you were probably distracted by her enormous cans."

Percy blushed, "no I wasn't!"

"Yeah you were."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes," Thalia smiled, "don't think I didn't notice the way your eyes were glued to the TV."

"Hey I was just appreciating her cooking skills," Percy said crossing his arms, "and for your information I was glued to the TV because I was trying to learn the recipes."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "Percy you don't have to lie. I don't mind that you look at other women's boobs. Just don't do something to piss me off, like stare at them like Donny did."

"Okay first off, I really wasn't looking at her boobs. I admit I was at first but then I was actually trying to focus on the cooking. And second, wow. Really? You're okay with me looking at other women?"

Thalia shrugged, "it's not like you're going to do anything about it," she glared, "right?"

Percy nodded, "right."

"And besides," Thalia threw her leg over Percy straddling him and pushing him down, "why would you ever cheat on this?"

Percy put his hands on her hip as she bent down to kiss him. Percy broke the kiss, "I wouldn't."

Thalia smiled, "I know." She then bent down and began kissing him again.

Percy broke the kiss again, "but just for the record I really was trying to learn how to cook."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "sure you were."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you want to bet?"

Thalia smiled as she wrapped her hands around his neck sitting down on his lap, "what's the wager?"

Percy smiled, "I have been meaning to ask, do you have any plans for when summer vacation is over?"

Thalia looked surprised, "what does that have to do with anything?"

"Just tell me."

"Well, yeah. Annabeth invited me to go to her school."

Percy smile grew bigger, "then that's what I want. If I prove to you that I was actually paying attention to the cooking and not her boobs you will join my school instead."

Thalia looked surprised, "what?!"

Percy smiled, "yup."

"Percy...are you sure?"

The demigod nodded, "yeah. I don't want us to drift apart during the year, and well…..would being in the same school as me be something you're willing to stand?"

Thalia blinked with a vacant expression on her face, "oh my Gods you're serious."

Percy nodded, "yeah."

"A-are you sure? Won't you be irritated I'm spending so much time with you?"

Percy shrugged, "I don't know. But...I don't really think I can get mad at you for simply being there can I?"

Thalia smiled as she grabbed Percy in a tight hug, "yes you idiot!"

Percy chuckled, "relax, it's not like I'm asking you to marry me."

Thalia smiled, "yeah, I know. But I'm just so excited! You better win this beat mister or else I'm going to zap you so hard your hair will stand up on all ends like Einstein."

Percy smiled, "yes ma'am. Now come on, let's cook." Thalia got off Percy and the two went into the kitchen. Percy slowly tired to remember the recipes he had learnt, the Cheddar Cheese risotto and the Macaroni cheese.

Percy opened the fridge, it was filled with lots of different ingredients, it seemed Poseidon also like to cook food, or maybe the food just came with the boat and was somehow charmed to be fresh.

Percy took out all the ingredients for the Cheddar cheese risotto, surprisingly Percy found a bag of risotto rice inside the pantry.

"So what are you making?" Thalia asked him.

"Cheddar cheese risotto," Percy said as he put an apron on. It was blue, obviously, and had the words, 'King of Kitchen' written on it.

"Need help?"

"You offering?"

Thalia nodded, "sure, I know a thing or two."

Percy smiled, "great," Percy then took out a chopping board and a 2 leeks, "cut these into finely sliced pieces."

Thalia nodded as she put on a second apron, this one was pink and it had 'kiss the cook' written on the front. Thalia groaned at this, "switch with me."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "why?"

"Please."

"I think it makes you look cute."

"I will hurt you."

"Okay then," Percy didn't argue as they switched aprons. Percy looked down at his and smiled. Thalia had taken a knife out of the drawer when Percy tapped her on her shoulder, "read this," he said pointing at the words on his pink apron.

"Kiss the cook," Thalia said as Percy kissed her. The daughter of Zeus giggled as she broke the kiss, "you release the more you do things like that the longer it will take to get this done."

Percy shrugged, "I don't mind."

Thalia pushed him back, "get back to work Masterchef."

Percy smiled as he began to prepare the ingredients for the meal. He first took 1 tablespoon of butter and melted it along with some olive oil inside a medium-sized frying pan. As that was done Percy took out a bag of ready made vegetable stock and started to heat it up in the microwave.

After Thalia was done with the leaks Percy gave her 125 grams of cheddar cheese to shred while he added the leeks to the butter and oil. Percy needed them to boil together, so while he waited for that to happen he took out the stock, which was done and put in the risotto rice to heat up.

After the rice was ready Percy put it into the batter and leaks mixture and began stirring it nicely for a minute or so, until the rice became mixed in with butter, oil and leeks.

Percy then increased the heat as he added half a teaspoon of dijon mustard and some white wine to be absorbed into the mixture. Percy then started to ladle the mixture till all the ingredients started to mix in with each other. Percy smiled, the rice was coming out perfectly.

"I'm done with the cheese," Thalia said placing the shredded cheese next to Percy, "now what?"

"Now we stir and wait," Percy told her, "give it about 18 minutes and it should come out al dente."

"What does that mean?"

"I have no idea," Percy told her, "just something the cook used to described the finished product."

Thalia nodded as she leaned on the counter, "I'm surprised Percy. I didn't realise you knew how to cook."

Percy smiled, "I don't, well I didn't before."

Thalia raised an eyebrow, "what changed?"

Percy groaned, 'should I tell her? Yeah...she deserves to know. Maybe not the whole truth, but something.'

"I have a special ability," Percy confessed, "it's called photographic reflexes."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "at this point I'm not even surprised anymore at the things you can do. So what's this one? Can you like remember things you have seen once?"

Percy chuckled, "kind of. I don't actually remember something I see, but I can go a step beyond that and actually mimick the skill. In fact that's how I got so good at handling a spear, by watching you."

Thalia was surprised, "so you can pick up a new skill just by watching someone do it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah."

"Holy shit!" Thalia said out loud, "that is so cool! And totally cheating, but so cool!"

Percy smiled, "thanks, and I do have limits you know. I can't mimic more than one person. So if I see somebody play the piano I will copy that skill, but I am only as good at it as the person who I copied it from."

"So...if you copied your spear handling skills from me...why aren't we equally matched?"

Percy shrugged, "I'm not sure, but I think it's because I'm not used to the skill. It's like this, imagine I'm going for a driver's test, and the only thing I did to prepare for it was learn from books and other references and never once did I touch an actual car. Now imagine how I would be on the day of the test. I would know everything, what to do, how to park, how to stir, everything. But I would have no practical experience."

Thalia nodded, "so the reason we aren't equals is because your not yet used to handling a spear, right?"

Percy nodded, "yup."

"So wait, you said that your cooking skills had something to do with this photographic reflexes skill of yours."

Percy nodded, "yeah, it seems that I don't have to physically see that person do something to learn the skill from them, so I ended up copying Nigella's skill in the kitchen."

"Holy shit!" Thalia screamed out louder, "Percy, do you have any idea what this could mean?!"

Percy nodded, "yeah. I could learn any skill, any time just from sitting on the couch watching TV."

"Then why aren't you a multi talented genius already?"

Percy chuckled, "to be honest I didn't know I could do that until just now."

Thalia nodded, "okay, but this is still amazing news! Shit Percy if I had a power like that it would really help with my training."

Percy nodded as he continued to stir the rice, 'could she? Leo has powers similar to me, and the Fates did mention once that I could share this power with other people...hmm maybe later. Right now we are going into a dangerous situation and if I tell her about my Gaming powers it could break the trust we have. I'll tell her the truth when we get to camp, the whole truth.'

Percy felt excited and nervous, for the first time he wanted to tell someone about his gaming powers. He asked himself over and over whether he trusted Thalia, whether she could keep his secret. And now, instead of getting jealous or angry that Percy has this power and she doesn't she laughed it off.

'I truly am the luckiest guy in the world,' Percy told himself.

Soon the rice was ready and Thalia quickly added the cheese into the rice. Percy let the cheese melt into the rice as Thalia quickly brought two plates to eat in.

Percy took the pan off the heat and slowly stirred the rice putting down heaping servings on both plates.

"We need something to drink with this," Thalia said opening and looking into the fridge.

Percy turned around and got a great view of Thalia's tight ass as she bent down and into the fridge. 'I forgot how big and firm this thing is,' Percy told himself as he started to feel his dick growing harder form the sight.

'NO!' Percy yelled out slamming down Gamer's mind, 'we are having a nice moment right now! I will not ruin it by getting a boner!'

Percy sighed as he finally got his body under control again. Thalia, now with a bottle of orange juice in hand, closed the fordge door and looked surprised, "ah, are you okay Sweetheart?"

Percy nodded, "I'm fine," Percy then blinked, "wait...did you call me sweetheart?"

Thalia blushed as she turned away from him, "we need cups!"

Percy smiled, "Thalia," Percy approached her and turned her around. He pressed up close as Thalia bent backwards, "did you call me sweetheart?"

"It kind of slipped out," Thalia admitted.

"You know what?" Percy said closing the distance between the two of slowly, "I kind of liked it."

They were inches apart, Percy could feel Thalia's warm breath on his lips. Thier lips were almost touching when suddenly a voice sounded out.

"Ah hm."

Percy and Thalia jumped as they reached for their weapon drawing it out in one quick motion. They turned to see where the noise came from and looked surprised as they saw Poseidon standing there next to the couch.

"Dad?" Percy asked as he lowered Riptide, "what are you doing here?"

"I came to personally wish you good luck Percy," Poseidon frowned as he looked at Thalia and Percy, "though a better question is what you two were doing."

"Ah, that is," Thalia stammered before turning to Percy, "tell him Percy."

Percy glared at Thalia and hissed, "why do I have to?"

"He's your dad," she hissed back.

Percy sighed and turned to Poseidon, "well you see dad, when a guy and a girl like each other very much-"

Thalia hit him upside the head, "-I don't think that's what he meant!"

Percy rubbed his head, "well what else am I supposed to say?!"

"I don't know! Anything else but that!"

"Well if you think you can do better then why don't you give it a try?!"

"He's your dad!"

"You used that excuse last time!"

Poseidon chuckled loudly surprising both Thalia and Percy, "you two are just like me and Sally."

Percy blinked, "what?"

Poseidon smiled, "yes, it's true. Sally and I used to fight all the time, but we never meant anything by it, we just liked to rile the other one up, it was our way to keeping things interesting. And it seems you found someone with whom you can do just that."

Percy sighed, "dad I can explain-"

"-No need," Poseidon said walking up to the kitchen counter, "it's kind of a self-explanatory situation."

Percy rubbed his neck, "yeah, I suppose it is. Look dad I know it's stupid and dangerous to date a daughter of Zeus bu-"

"-It's not just that Percy," Poseidon interrupted his son, "she is a powerful demigod in her own right, and your strength could put you on par with Hercules himself. You both are powerful demigods, if people knew you two were together they would be all the more afraid of you and would constantly try to break you two up."

"That's ridiculous," Thalia said, "who would want to break us up?"

"Your father," Poseidon narrowed his eyes, "I came here directly from an emergency meeting in Olympus. I told them about how you two found Alcyoneus, alive and how you were both going to fight him."

"How did they take it?" Percy asked.

Poseidon pinched his nose, "how do you think? They lost their minds. A few Gods were alright, like Athena, Artemis and Hermes, they kept calm and accepted my word heck even Ares seemed to accept it. But the others claimed that you were lying and that you were drowning in you own power. Some believe you had tricked Thalia into this mission where you intend to….. kill her in order to become the prophecy child yourself."

Percy looked horrified, "I wouldn't never do that!"

Poseidon sighed, "I tried to tell them that, even a few of the Gods who you helped out chipped in. We finally managed to convince the other Gods not rush to judgment and wait and see."

Thalia narrowed her eyes, "tell me the truth Lord Poseidon, was it a few of the Gods, or just one God?"

Poseidon looked nervous, "w-what do you mean?"

"I'm asking you whether my dad told all those things."

Poseidon shook his head, "no."

Lie detected!

"You're lying," Thalia declared, Percy was surprised she knew Poseidon was lying.

"No I am not," Poseidon tried to defend himself.

"Yes, you are. You have same lying face as Percy," Thalia said.

Poseidon sighed in disappointment but smiled, "I am glad you and my son are close enough for you to know his different faces," he sighed again, "sadly, yes. Zeus was the one who became paranoid. But you have to understand, during the first Giant war Olympus almost fell, for Zeus that was a few of his darkest days as a leader. Thousands died on his watch, and he would rather not admit that they are returning."

"That's stupid," Thalia spat out,"if he really is feeling guilty about all the people who died because of these Giants then he shouldn't try and deny their existence, he should grab his lightning bolts and hunt these things down!"

Percy nodded, "she's right. I get why Zeus doesn't want to admit they are coming back, it's irrational, but I get it. But at the same time his actions are ridiculous, I would never hurt Thalia," Percy held her hand tightly, "I care too much about her."

Poseidon sighed, "this is too much to deal with right now. Look, I'm going back to Atlantis, I just came here to tell you to bring Alcyoneus back alive. Zeus needs to see him to believe it. We might just have to fight both the Giants and the Titans this time around, and we can't afford to have a civil war breaking out within our ranks."

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Bring Alcyoneus to Olympus, alive!

Reward,

100,000 Exp

Skill disk- Level 10

Failure,

Zeus will become paranoid and will kill you the first chance he gets.

Do you accept?

YES/NO?

Percy sighed at the new quest, "I originally planned to not even fight the guy. I just wanted to go in, use my super speed, find the Eagle and get out. Do you really think we have a chance to capture him?"

Poseidon nodded, "yes. I am very aware of just how powerful you are Percy. I know you can do this. But," the God turned to Thalia, "you will need all the help you can get."

Percy sighed and pressed yes accepting the quest, "right got it."

"Oh and Percy," Poseidon glared, "we are going to talk about this when you get back."

Percy gulped but nodded. Poseidon then flashed away leaving Percy and Thalia alone.

"That went well," Thalia said.

"Yeah. My dad found out I'm dating you, your dad wants to turn me into ash, and he doesn't even know we are dating. Oh and we are supposed to bring back a being that is strong enough to fight Hades."

Thalia smiled, "I know, it'll be fun!"

Percy smiled, "you're one crazy demigoddess."

Thalia kissed him, "yeah, but I'm your crazy demigoddess."

Percy smiled as the two then sat down in the dining area and ate their food. Percy found that though his food didn't actually taste as good as the food he had stored away in his inventory from the Lotus Casino, but there was something satisfactory about eating food that you had made with your own two hands.

Percy and Thalia talked for some time before they finally decided it was time to sleep. They went below deck and found several bedrooms on the lower deck. Percy and Thalia chose the biggest one and after a long and steamy make out session they both fell asleep.

The Next day;

You have slept in a bed; HP and MP have been restored 75% each. All ailments and negative status effects have been cured.

Percy opened his eyes and pushed the notification away. Percy looked down and saw Thalia lying down on his chest with one arm on top and the other spread to the side. They had a thick and soft blanket draped over them warming them up nicely.

Percy could feel his dick getting hard again, this was one of the bane's of puberty, morning wood. He was surprised the day it first happened, one morning he woke up and bamn, there it was. Now however it was just annoying.

Percy carefully slipped out of the bed and quickly slipped into the bathroom. Percy threw his clothes into the hamper, he saw a washing machine and a dryer in one of the rooms, maybe he could get these along with his other dirty clothes cleaned before they left the ship.

The shower was one of those closed cupboard type showers. Percy got in and slide the frosted glass back into place. Percy activated the showers and just let the hot water wash over him.

Ping!

You have entered a water body! Due to your parentage you have gained a boost!

+1000 HP

+1000 MP

All wounds are healed

All ailments cured

Water Breathing ability active

+1000 HP(+1000 HP due to necklace of Poseidon) = +2000 HP

+1000 MP (+1000 MP due to necklace of Poseidon) = +2000 MP

Percy sighed as he pushed the notification away. He had so many problems on his head, the Giant Alcyoneus, bringing peace between both camps, Kronos, Zeus finding out he was dating his daughter and even life itself.

The steam built up inside the bathroom fogging everything up, but Percy could still see, it must be because the water was a part of him. Percy sighed, he had so many crinkles in his back that were finally beginning to loosen up, Jason once told him about how great Roman bath's felt, and Percy remembered once in history class the teacher mentioned that the Roman bath process was one of the best in the world. Maybe after this trip Percy should give it a try.

Just then the bathroom door swung open and Percy felt Thalia walk in. 'Wait….she does know that I'm in here, right?'

"Morning Thalia," Percy called out as he manipulated the steam to fog up the already frosted glass, "what-ah, what are you doing?"

"Hmm, morning," Thalia grumbles out as she grabbed a spare brush from the rack and druze put some paste on it, "and what does it look like I'm doing? I'm brushing my teeth."

"Right….ah, do you have to do it now?"

"When else am I supposed to do it? Or would you rather I have bad breath for the rest of the day?" Thalia mumbled as she started to brush her teeth.

"Ah...could you like go out for a second?"

Thalia groaned as she spat out the paste in her mouth. She turned, "what's the big deal- ah...Percy….are you taking a shower right now?"

"Yes."

"Oh."

"So…...would you like steps out for a second?"

Thalia nodded, she put her brush down and turned around. She walked out and slammed the door behind her. Percy finally walked out of the bath and dried himself off. He quickly put on a spare set of clothes and went out.

Thalia didn't say a word to him. She entered the bathroom and closed the door. Percy could hear the shower turn on, 'guesse we are just going to pretend this never happened.'

Percy went upstairs to the kitchen and poured himself a bowl of cereal. He sat made one bowl of Thalia too and set them aside on the counter while he cleaned up the dishes from yesterday's cooking.

Ping!

You have obtained a new skill!

Dishwashing, Lv- 1 (90%)

You can now wash dishes, congratulations.

Dishes end up 40% clean.

Percy closed the box and quickly put the dishes and utensils away. Just then Thalia came back up and walked into the kitchen.

"Had a nice bath?" Percy asked her.

Thaila said nothing as she dumbly nodded.

Percy pointed to the bowls of cereals, "breakfast is served."

Thalia again nodded as she took one bowl while Percy took another. They started to eat standing up on the kitchen counter as Percy tried to figure out what was wrong with Thalia.

"You okay?" Percy asked, "you seem tense."

Thalia nodded.

'Okay what is going on?!' Percy needed to know. He activated his Empathic powers and reached out to Thalia. Suddenly Percy was overcome with an overwhelming sense of embarrassment and love. The love Percy figured was directed at him, but the embarrassment….. Of course, she was embarrassed about the 'incident'.

Percy chuckled as he smiled at Thalia. She looked confused but Percy said nothing as he continued to eat his cereal. Percy then chuckled again and this time Thalia featureless mask dropped a little and a look of embarrassment came on her face.

"So….did you like what you saw?" Percy asked with a cheeky grin.

Thalia mumbled something under her breath.

"I'm sorry?"

"I said, I couldn't see anything," Thalia finally admitted as just the hint of red came on her cheeks.

"Do you want to?" Percy asked bluntly surprising Thalia.

"Ah-well, I mean-" Thalia's face turned red as a tomato.

Percy couldn't hold it in anymore as he started laughing hard, "Oh Gods! HAHA! YOUR FACE!"

Thalia glared at him, "shut up Percy!"

Percy took one look at her and smirked, "you're trying to look angry, but all I see you trying to look cutter" Percy chuckled again as Thalia grew redder. Thalia smacked him up the head as a small smile came on her face.

After a breakfast filled with Percy's laughter, Percy and Thalia sat down on the couch and cuddled close. Percy turned on the TV and the two were right now seeing a documentary about the ancient farming techniques of Greece, kind of ironic but it seemed right.

Just then the show's host, some british tool, held up the picture of a red berry. It was called the 'Gift of life,' by the ancient Athens and to struck an uncanny resemblance to the berries Percy got from his enchanted bush.

It seems that the 'Gift of life' was a very rare and holly berry that the Athens used to sacrifice to Athena. Percy immediately opened his inventory and pulled out the only remaining berry he had left.

Thalia looked at the red berry and then at the TV where the host was holding up a scroll depicting the same berry, "where did you get it?"

"In one of my ID's," Percy informed her. 'Maybe I should eat this now….no, I have a better idea.' Percy then presented the berry to his girlfriend, "here Thalia, eat this."

Thalia took the berry and looked at it, "why?"

"It will increase your mana," Percy informed her.

Thalia nodded as she eat it whole. She waited for sometime before her eyes suddenly popped wide open as the taste and boost of mana hit her.

"This-this is amazing! The taste alone is incredible, add to that the surge of power I'm feeling….Percy how long does this last?"

"It's permanent," Percy told her with a smile.

Thalia blinked, "pe-permanent? Really? Dude we need to get more of these!"

Percy chuckled, "yeah that's not possible. It takes a whole year for one berry to mature."

Thalia sighed, "I see….fine, are you really okay with giving it to me?"

Percy nodded, "you need the extra mana," Percy then turned to the front of the ship and felt Waverider inform him that they nearly reached their destination. Percy got up, "we are almost there."

Thalia blinked, "that was fast."

Percy nodded, "I know. Have you been putting all of your mana into the marble skin spell like I asked?"

Thalia nodded, "yeah. I did it whenever I could. It should be able to atleast take a punch from you."

Percy nodded, "good. Now let's get ready."

Thalia and Percy quickly put on their equipment as they stood at the front of the ship where Waverider still stood tall and unwavering. Percy grabbed the shaft of the trident and pulled it out of its stationary position, tracking control of the boat himself.

Percy could tell that they were just a few more miles away the Glacier, he could already see Alaska in the near horizon. The coastline was a broken and jared. Percy could see the glaciers were half melted as little pieces of ice floated on the water. The Trident Mobile slowly entered a bay of sorts before moving inwards.

Soon they meet with a large collection of glaciers that covered the land, but luckily Percy managed to spot a way through the glaciers in the form of a small water canal. He carefully directed the boat into the water way, there was just enough space for the boat to scrape by.

Thalia and Percy looked around, two giant ice glaciers surrounded them on both sides. The temperature was several degrees sub-zero. Thalia and Percy took to wearing the coats she bought for them. It was warm and fuzzy, but bother demigods were keenly aware of just how cold it was.

"Blockage up ahead," Thalia said pointing forward. Percy looked and saw a giant layer of ice in front of their path. It was big, probably a piece of ice that broke off the side of one of these glaciers.

"Not a problem," Percy said as he quickly broke the ice using his ice control freeing up their path.

Soon the boat exited the small canal and in front of them was was a valley of sorts. The area was clear of any nearby glaciers so Percy and Thalia got a great view of Hubbard Glacier.

The mass of ice stood in the center of the watery valley with two tall mountain peaks by it's side. The Glacier itself looked like a tower or sorts, it was huge, bigger than any monster or building Percy had ever seen. It vastness was only outmatched by it's beauty.

"It's amazing," Thalia said looking at it all, "I can't even comprehend how something like this could be made."

Percy let out a warm breath and saw his breath had fogged up, "it's pretty cold up here. You okay?"

Thalia nodded, "yeah, the coats are actually working."

Percy nodded as he brought the Trident Mobile closer to the glacier. Percy anchored the boat away from the glacier, he didn't want any random falling pieces of ice hitting and destroying the boat.

"Why did you stop here?" Thalia asked, "the glacier is still a mile away."

Percy nodded, "yeah, I didn't want to damage the boat," he looked up, "I think Alcyoneus is probably on the top of that," he pointed to the Glacier.

Thalia blushed from the cold, "h-how are we going to get there?"

"I'll take us," Percy said, "I can probably go fast enough to run up the side of the glacier."

"Can you get enough traction on the icy cliff?"

"Shouldn't be a problem."

Thalia lowered her head, "...okay..."

Percy knew that tone, it was the tone Thalia used when she was putting on a brave face but inside she was scared. "Thalia," Percy turned to her, "what's wrong?"

The daughter of Zeus looked at him, "y-you promise not to laugh?"

Percy nodded, "yeah."

Thalia sighed, "I-I'm afraid of heights."

Percy blinked, 'oh yeah, she is.' Percy remembered reading about that in his bio, but he never mentioned it because then he would have to explain how he knew. Percy smiled, "okay. And?"

Thalia was surprised, "Percy, you don't' find it even a little bit ironic that the daughter of Zeus, the god of the sky, is afraid of heights?"

Percy chuckled, "you want to know what one of my greatest fears is Thalia?"

Thalia looked at him, "losing your friends."

Percy nodded, "right. But another one is something I never told anyone. I didn't because...well it seemed silly. One of my greatest fears, is drowning."

Thalia blinked, "but you're the son of Poseidon! Can't you breathe underwater?"

Percy nodded, "I can. But I was always afraid," Percy looked down, "actually this summer I almost did drown."

Thalia looked shocked, "how?!"

"There was monster I fought, a foul thing by the name Janai'ngo. It could nullify my powers, it took my ability to control water and breath underwater. I was forced to face my greatest fear alone down there," Percy looked at Thalia, "but Thalia you don't have to. I'll be with you. If you feel like you can't do this then we can turn around right now."

Thalia looked at Percy with a vacant look. Suddenly Thala chuckled, "you know I can't do that Percy. This is something I have to do."

Percy nodded, "okay…..if you're sure."

Thalia nodded, "yeah. And beside you need someone there to watch your back."

Percy smiled, "and I wouldn't have anyone else."

Thalia nodded as Percy opened up his inventory and put her inside. Percy then turned Waverider back into its pen form and took off. He began at around 50 miles an hour. He hardened the water below his feet so that he wouldn't sink in. But soon the faster he got the less and less he needed it. Soon he was running at around 300 miles an hour as he approached the glacier.

Percy reached the mountain of ice and put one foot on the ice and kicked up. At super speed everything seemed to go in slow motion. Percy found himself being pushed up a little before his foot slipped off the ice. Before he lost all his forward momentum Percy pressed his other foot on the ice and kicked up.

He did this again and again as he slowly climbed the glacier. Pieces of ice fell down and threatened to crush Percy, but with his Ice control powers Percy was easily able to move them aside clearing a straight path to the top.

Percy grabbed the ledge and pulled himself forward. He rolled on the ice and quickly got up, his hand went to Waverider as he surveyed the area.

The winds were harsh up here, luckily though since it was summer there was no snowfall blocking his view. The top of the glacier was flat, un naturally so. In the center of the surface was a roman encampment, nearly exactly like the one in camp Jupiter. Percy stayed near the ledge and activated his 8.0 Eyesight.

Percy saw a Principa near the very center of the camp with several barracks and other buildings near the ends. There were even watchtowers on each corner, but they were all empty. Hanging around the wall was the banner of Camp Jupiter, except instead of being royal purple, it was faded to icy blue.

Percy opened his inventory and carefully pulled out Thalia. He set her away from the edge, but the demigoddess still managed to look at the height at which they stood.

Thalia became pale. "Are you okay?" Percy asked her.

Thalia gulped and nodded, "I'm fine," she looked away from the edge, "I just need to focus on something else."

Percy nodded as he turned to the encampment, "I think we will find Alcyoneus in there."

Thalia was surprised, "that thing looks just like the military encampment in Camp Jupiter."

Percy nodded, "yeah. The old Fifth Cohort probably built it."

"I don't' see any signs of life," Thalia said looking around, "think they are all dead?"

Percy nodded, "most definitely. If I was to guess Alcyoneus probably killed them all."

Thalia nodded as she and Percy took out their weapons. Thalia activated her spear and Percy had Waverider on his right while Riptide was on his left. "Can you, I don't know? Sense the Golden Eagle? They Senators did say that it was imbued with my dad's powers, can you feel it out or something?"

Percy formed in thinking before nodding his head, "yeah, I can. But…. if Alcyoneus really is in there than he could possible scene me when I try to sense for the Eagle."

Thalia nodded, "right. So we just walk in?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. But first..." Percy trailed off as he closed his eyes and channeled his mana into the jewel that was embedded into his skull. Percy opened his eyes and saw his servants standing before him bowing.

"Master," they said at once. Thalia was freaking out that the sight of Craig, she almost attacked him but Percy told her to stand down, assuring her that he was one their side.

"Get up guys," Percy said as they all stood up straight.

"Great! Where in Hades are we now?!" Alecto cursed looking around before she spotted the Roman encampment, "is that a Roman-"

"-Encampment, yes, yes it is," Percy said, "listen, this might be one of the biggest and deadliest battles we will ever fight. I need you all on your A-game."

"Great," Timmy, the Goblin King rolled his eyes, "who did you piss off this time?"

"I didn't do anything, this is a mission from the Olympians more than anything else. Oh and before we continue, Timmy could do something about this wind?"

The Goblin King nodded as he flicked his wrist turning the harsh icy wind into a gentle breeze.

"How did he do that?" Thalia asked.

"Timmy can control the wind," Percy informed her.

"Cool," Thalia said looking amazed.

The Goblin King smiled, "and who might you be beautiful?"

"Back off Timmy," Percy narrowed his eyes, "she's mine."

"And who is she?" Marica asked as everyone servant there finally realised they had no idea who this mysterious girl was.

"Oh, right. Never introduced you guys," Percy scratched his neck, "well first, Thalia," he turned to her, "these are my...well servants? They were my enemies but are now basically bound to me."

Thalia nodded as she looked at them all, "Annabeth told me about them...damn, I didn't realise you had such powerful backup. I kind of feel useless now."

Percy held her hand, "no your not. They are great and all but nothing compared to you."

"You still haven't told us who exactly she is," Marcia reminded Percy with a glare in her eyes.

"Right," Percy nodded, "this is Thalia Grace. She's ah, she's my girlfriend."

"Oh," Marica said in a surprised tone, "you have finally chosen a mate. Good, it is about time."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you are taking this quite well given your obsession with me."

"What obsesion?" Thalia asked.

"Oh, right. Well Marica here has been trying to sleep with me ever since I killed her," Percy said in a casual tone.

"What?!" Thalia roared out, "but she's a wolf!"

"Well I don't always look like this. Maybe you and I should get acquainted." Marica said with a wink.

Thalia blushed as Percy blinked, "what?!"

The wolf shrugged, "I'm a demon from hell, did you really think I was only interested in men?"

"Wait!" Alecto shrieked out, "I remember now! You're Thalia Grace! The daughter of Zeus! You're supposed to be dead!"

Thalia shrugged, "shit happened."

"Okay that is enough introductions for now," Percy into their conversations, "we have a job to do."

The servants and Thalia all nodded in agreement. "What's the plan boss?" Zed asked.

"You guys have one mission," Percy stated, "protect Thalia and distract the giant."

"Giant?" Alecto asked, "what giant?"

"Alcyoneus," Thalia told her.

"WHAT?!"

"Keep it down!" Percy hissed, "do you want him to hear us?!"

Alecto bowed her head, "sorry master. It's just that….are you sure?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, I am. Why? What do you know about him?"

The former Fury of Hades shuddered, "he is considered as the bane of Hades. He is a reflection of the God, he had his powers, but at the same time he is his opposite. He can control rocks and minerals. Everything below the Earth is his to control, metal, stones anything and everything. He can also control shades, but he lacks the power to bring them up from the Underworld since Hades still rules over that. He is invincible in his homeland, to kill him you would have to take him across the country.

"He is incredibly good in battle, he once took on both Hades and Hercules. His main choice of weapon is a bow staff and his skin if made out of metal."

Percy blinked, "metal?"

Alecto nodded, "yes. In fact he is a very unique Giant, his body is made of precious metal, his heart is said to be made out of raw diamond and his bones of platinum. He also had rubies, emeralds and other precious stone embedded all….along…..his body….ah, master, why are you drooling?"

Thalia and the servants looked at him and sure enough the son of Poseidon's mouth was open and drooling.

"Oh, ah, sorry," Percy said closing his mouth wiping away the drool. 'Just think all that gold and precious metal...I could use that, plus the pirate treasure to build the Greek Haven. Hmm, this just keep getting better and better.'

"Right," Thalia said looking at Percy, "you sure you're alright?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. Let's do this!" Percy and the others stood in a line. "I'll first use my mana sence to find out where the Golden Eagle is. You guys then go in there and distract him while I use my super speed to search for the Eagle. Hold out for as long as you can, I'll come back the moment I found the Eagle."

Thalia and the others nodded. Percy closed his eyes and sent out a wave of mana. Suddenly Percy's senses were assaulted by something that was coming right at them.

Percy opened his eyes;

Warning! A wave of Shadows is coming your way!

"Get down!"

Percy tackled Thalia to the ground as all the other servants, save Timmy, got down quickly enough to avoid what looked like a blade of shadow. The Goblin King was cut in half by the blade of shadow and turned back into smoke returning to Percy's jewel.

Percy cursed as he looked up to see what had attacked them. His eyes went wide with surprise and astonishment as standing before them was what Percy assumed the giant Alcyoneus.

The thing was huge, at least 40 foot tall. He had golden skin and armour made out of platinum, just as Alecto said. His hair was was rusted copper, twined with precious stones and gems. On his right hand was an Iron staff as big as a totem pole.

The biggest surprise however wasn't his metal body, but his legs. They were reptilian in nature. With the red hind legs of what looked like a dragon Alcyoneus stood above them with a smirk on his lips, "and who might you be?"

Percy and the others got up slowly. Percy uncapped both his weapons turning them into swords, "well you see we just moved in into the glacier next door and we just wanted to come and say hi to our neighbor."

Thalia gulped as she readied her spear and stood behind Percy. The other servants got ready as well, Craig and Zed took out their weapons while Alecto and Marcia took to the sky circling Alcyoneus over head.

The giant scoffed, "you talk in the face of death? Truly you must be either mad, a fool, brave or all three."

"I usually find it's a little bit of all," Percy told him as the giant began spinning his giant metal pole.

"So have the Romans finally come to avenge their fallen comrades?" Alcyoneus asked.

"Well, kind of," Percy admitted, "we're not Roman."

"Oh?" a look of genuine surprise came over Alcyoneus's face.

"Greek," Percy answered the giant's unasked question.

"Well be whatever you are," the giant had both hand on his pole, "you die now."

"Not bloody like-"

BOOM!

A lighting bolt exploded out of Thalia's hands and into Alcyoneus sending him flying backwards. Percy turned to look at his girlfriend who just shrugged, "you talk too much."

"I know, it's what I do," Percy turned to the groaning form of Alcyoneus and he finally got a read on the Giant;

Alcyoneus, Bane of Pluto

Lv-?

HP:X/X (He can never die as long as he remains inside the state of Alaska)

MP:?

Race- Giant

Str-?

Vit-?

Dex-?

Int-?

Wis-?

Luc-?

Alcyoneus is the son of Gaea and Tartarus. He is the Giant equivalent of Hades and is born to destroy him. Alcyoneus died during the first Giant war back was brought back thanks to his mother who manipulated a daughter of Pluto, Hazel Levesque, into recreating the Giant piece by piece. He is undefeatable in his home state of Alaska and is currently waiting for the day that his mother calls for him, so that he and his brothers can join forces and destroy Olympus

Likes: Eggnog, his mother, killing children of Pluto

Dislikes: Everything he doesn't like, including his brothers.

He is curious as to why Percy is here

He is feeling angry

Percy turned to Thalia, "you got this?"

Thalia nodded, "I got this. Find the Eagle."

Percy nodded and turned to his servants, "your first mission is to protect her, the second is to beat the shit out of Alcyoneus."

The servants nodded and Percy took off in a blur towards the Roman encampment. He reached there in seconds and immediately started strip searching the area. What Percy found was amazing.

There was tons and tons of imperial gold here. Swords, shields, armour, there was even a solid gold chariot in the corner.

'I am so going to loot every single thing in this camp,' Percy told himself as he tore himself away from the imperial gold treasure. Percy sent out a wave of mana and suddenly he felt the presence of something similar to Thalia's mana.

Percy was drawn to the broken Principia, he walked passed the broken door and looked inside. The floor was littered with scroll and books. There were skeletons everywhere, the remains of the fallen members of the 5th cohort. It looked liked this was where they made a last stand against Alcyoneus. Each had died with a weapon in hand.

Percy turned to look deeper into the building and in the very back was the fallen body of a skeleton holding up a still standing imperial Gold Eagle. Even after all this time the roman skeleton hadn't allowed the Eagle to fall over, he held it up with his remains.

The 12th Legion's Eagle- Attributed towards Jupiter,

Imbued with the powers of Jupiter himself, this staff has the ability to channel enormous amounts of lighting. The power is activated by saying the phrase, 'Twelfth Legion Fulminata'. They Eagles attack will ignore all members belonging to the Roman army but will kill a monster in it's path. Only a roman soldier can wield this symbol of great power.

Attack- 1,000,000

Ping!

You have leveled up a skill!

Observe Lv-13 (0%)

By Observing a target one will get information about said object

-Max HP,MP, stats, info, their emotions, likes/dislikes and will give their opinion of you.

The Eagle had it's wings spread open with it's head looking down at Percy. It was almost if the Eagle was judging him. Judging him to be worthy, or not.

Below the Eagle were the words SPQR, the Roman code. Percy approached the Eagle and wrapped his hands around the golden rod. Percy tried to move it, but the skeleton underneath didn't seem to want to let it go.

"Don't' worry," Percy spoke out loud, "I promise to return it to Camp Jupiter. I won't let Alcyoneus get his hands on it. You can relax now, everything's going to find."

Percy pulled and almost as if the skeleton had agreed to his terms the golden Eagle slid right out. Percy held the Eagle up, it was heavy, but not much of a problem for Percy. It's mana was similar to Thalia's, except far more powerful.

"PERCY!"

Percy's eyes shot open, 'Thalia!' Percy turned around and zoomed away.

A few moments ago;

Percy had just left for the Roman camp. Thalia twirled her spear as Alcyoneus slowly got back up. He spat out gob of what looked like oil.

"So, a daughter of Zeus," Alcyoneus narrowed his eyes, "my brother will love it if I gave you to him. He would take great pleasure causing you pain."

"If," Thalia said with narrowed eyes.

The Giant chuckled, "I don't think that will be a problem."

Zed charged first as he engaged the giant in one-on-one combat. The giant blade struck the iron pole of Alcyoneus as the two exchanged blows. Each attack of Zed was filled with his unnatural strength, but Alcyoneus was a Giant, he held his own easily, sometimes even managing to push Zed back.

Alecto swooped down from the air and swiped her claws along Alcyoneus's bac. Marica followed that up by sending a wave of darkness at Alcyoneus's legs knocking him off balance and to the ground.

Seeing his chance Zed jumped on top of Alcyoneus, but the Giant grabbed the red armoured man and threw him aside. Thalia gathered her mana again as she sent a blast of electricity toward Alcyoneus.

The giant saw the thunder as he grabbed Marcia and pulled the demon in the path of the attack. Thalia watched in horror as her attacked burnt away at the demon's back. Thalia stopped the attack but by that time the damage was already done. Alcyoneus closed his hand into a fist, destroying Marcia's body turning it into smoke.

"You all really should work on your co-ordination," Alcyoneus grinned. Just then Craig and Zed hit Alcyoneus in the back of the leg knocking him back down.

Thalia saw her chance as she jumped on top of the giant and thrusted her spear into the giant's chest.

"ARGH!" the Giant cried out in pain, but Thalia wasn't done with him. She called forth lighting from the skies as the clear blue sky suddenly was filled with dark thunder clouds. A lightning bolt came down and smashed into the giant's body pushing him deeper into the ice beneath him.

"Fucking bitch!" Alcyoneus roared as he got back up from the attack and hit Thalia with his giant hands sending her skidding across the ice plain till she stopped right near the edge.

"Get him!" Zed roared as the few remaining servants all ganged up on the giant. Alcyoneus ragged as he fought off Zed and Craig at the same time. Alecto knew she was basically useless in a fight so she went to Thalia's side to make sure she's okay.

"Shit," Thalia cursed as she held her side, "I think I bruised a rib."

"It's going to be fine," Alecto assured her, "we need to get you the fuck out of here. Get on my back, I'll fly you to where Percy is."

Thalia played at the thought of flying, "n-no. No, I don't want to."

"But you can't stay here!" Alecto protested, "the Giant will kill you! We need to get away from him!"

"No!" Thalia snapped, "I don't want to fly!"

Alecto blinked in surprise just as Zed cried out in pain. Alecto and Thalia turned to see Alcyoneus ripe off Zed's left arm leaving the great sword user single handed. No blood came out of the maimed limb, just smoke.

Craig managed to get a good hit in, but the moment his sword hit the giant's skin it run out. It was like trying to hit a solid metal pole. Alcyoneus growled at the damned knight as he swung at the Knight's chest sending him flying to the side.

Zed then tried to charge Alcyoneus, but the giant had lost his temper.

"Enough of this!" Alcyoneus roared as a spike made out of solid shadows came out of the ground and pierced Zed turning him into smoke. Alcyoneus then turned to Craig and did the same destroying him with a flick of his wrist.

"I am getting you out of here whether you like it or not!" Alecto yelled out as she grabbed Thalia and began flapping her wings.

"No!" Thalia screamed out as she looked down suddenly realising that she wasn't just a few feet off the glacier but hundreds of feet above sea level. Thalia felt queasy, all he will to resist went away as she focused on just not puking her lunch out.

Alecto managed to get far away and high enough from Alcyoneus for the giant to not be able to reach out and physically attack them. But doing so only served to further irritate the giant.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Alcyoneus roared out as he sent a beam of shadows that ripped through Alecto's wings.

Thalia felt her stomach drop as she found herself free falling to the ground. Thalia saw the ground fast approaching. Suddenly shadowy spikes started to grow right below her, they would surely impale her the moment she got to the ground, if the fall didn't snap her neck.

Thalia opened her mouth and emptied her lungs calling out to the one person she knew she could rely on, "PERCY!"

The ground was 40 feet away, with the spikes being 3 feet long.

35 feet. The spikes grew a little bigger.

20 feet and the shadow spikes were bigger still.

15 feet and Thalia could feel the tips of the spike prick her belly.

And just as they pierced her skin a blur of speed came upon her. It jumped up and grabbed her, carrying her far away.

Percy at the gates of the Roman camp with Alcyoneus growling at them in anger. Percy looked down at Thalia, "are you okay?"

Thalia held her stomach in pain, "I think he got me."

Percy lifted her jacket and found 5 small cuts on Thalia's abdomen, "it's not that bad." Percy turned and glared at the giant, "I'm going to make him hurt for that."

Percy stood up tall and Thalia noticed that on his right hand was the golden Eagle they came here for. It looked so majestic and powerful, Thalia didn't know why, but she felt drawn to it.

"You found the Eagle," Thalia stated.

Percy nodded, "yeah. Speaking off, could you look after this for me? I need to talk to our host," Percy imbedded the Eagle in the snow and walked off.

Thalia wrapped her hands around the staff and immediately felt her father's power flow into her. It was like she had somehow gotten a boost just by touching this thing.

Percy took out his blades again as he began walking towards the giant. Alcyoneus narrowed his eyes as he too started to run. Percy slowly increased his speed as he activated Speed Demon. Alcyoneus was surprised at the speed at which the male demigod was coming at him, but it was nothing to be worried about.

"AHHHH!" Percy cried out as he jumped up and brought both his blades down on the giant. Alcyoneus raised his pole just in time to stop both attack, but the resulting clash had Percy's weapons cut halfway through the iron pole before stopping.

Percy used his core muscles and pulled himself up. He hovered his feet above the iron pole and activated his Body from;

Body Form Activated: Left and Right Legs

Percy kicked the pole hard bending it so hard it snapped in Alcyoneus's face and knocking him backwards.

Percy landed on his feet and deactivated his strengthening perk. Alcyoneus was slowly getting back up but Percy was on him already.

Percy readied his blade as he launched an attack he had rarely ever needed to use these days. His finishing move.

"Stardust wave!" Percy yelled out as he blades moved like two silvery blues.

Alcyoneus raised his hands up to block the attack, but Percy didn't' care. Riptide and Waverider started tearing into Alcyoneus's skin as more and more blood spilled to the ground.

Soon whole chunks of the arm was being cut off as Percy kept his attack going. If he stopped he would lose the combo streak. Percy thrusted Waverider into Alcyoneus's arm and felt his blade hit bone. Percy twisted his sword before pulling it out causing unimaginable pain to the giant.

"ENOUGH!" Alcyoneus roared as a blast of shadow sent Percy and his blades flying back.

Percy groaned as he picked himself up. He quickly tired to calculate how much damage his last attack caused;

Stardust Wave-

35 x 130 Vit = 4,550

4,550 + 80 = 4,630% Bonus

Attack - 100,000 + 250 = 100,250 Attack

Sword Mastery bonus of 80% = 180,450

180,450 with the 4,630% bonus = 8,354,835 Attack!

Percy smiled at the answer. It was just a few attack points shy of Zeus's own Lightning bolt. But Percy needed so much time to do even this much damage, he was powerful, but not powerful enough. The reason how he knew this is because Alcyoneus was still fucking standing.

The Giant groaned as he held his bleeding hands. Piece of his skin was falling off onto the ground. He looked weakened, maybe Percy could take him alive right now.

"Give up Alcyoneus," Percy called out, "come peacefully and I won't kill you."

Alcyoneus huffed, "you would think I would betray my mother so easily? Fool! I am her eldest and her favorite! She revived me before all my other brothers! The only way you can walk away from this is by killing me!"

Percy narrowed his eyes, "let's see about that."

Alcyoneus roared his battle cry as he charged Percy empty handed. Percy charged ahead, he knew he couldn't use Stardust Wave anytime soon, the cooling period for his attack was every 2 second for each strike he made, meaning he needed a minute to recharge. But in battle a minute could mean the difference between life and death.

Percy didn't have any other sword techniques to incapacitate Alcyoneus with, he threw Riptide and Waverider to the side. He then released his strength seals all that once;

Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 44 hours.

STR- 69,120 (+20)= 69,140

Percy activated his super speed and dashed forward. The giant and the demigod bother drew back their fists and launched them forward.

The fists meet in mid air resulting in an explosion of power. Percy winced, he had just hit something made out of metal, from the torn pieces of skin Percy could tell that even his muscles were metal, they were made out of silver buy the looks of things.

Percy and Alcyoneus were thrown back by the resulting backlash of energy. Percy rolled head over heels but managed to stabilize himself. Alcyoneus however got to his feet first. The giant threw his arms around in a wide arc causing several large shadow spikes to pop out in front of Percy.

Percy moved and managed to avoid getting pierced by the spikes thanks to his improved reflexes. He back flipped, but the moment his foot landed on the ground a ball of shadows spread around him collapsing into him.

The shadow was skin tight, they were restricting the demigod's movement. Percy knew he would suffocate if he let this go on. So Percy began to channel his Earthquake powers as the vibrations increased and increased before Percy let the explode out of his body.

The shadows were ripped away. Percy looked up to try and find Alcyoneus, but instead he saw a fist coming towards him.

The blow shock Percy to the core. Alcyoneus buried his fist deep into Percy's abdomen sending the demigod flying backwards. Percy flew like a bullet launched out of the barrel of a gun as he went across the frozen top of the Glacier and into the roman encampment.

Thalia watched her boyfriend destroy the walls of the roman camp as he tore through the buildings inside the camp. She turned to Alcyoneus, the Giant was weak and panting, the effects of Percy's attack was still clearly seen on his face.

'I need to buy Percy some time!' Thalia realised as she got up and grabbed the Roman Eagle. She felt the power of thunder roll into her. Her blue eyes sparked with yellow electricity as Thalia felt herself being empowered by the Eagle.

"Hey shit stain!" Thalia called out. Alcyoneus turned and watched wide eyes as Thalia aimed the Eagle at him, "eat this!"

Thalia channeled her lightning powers through the Eagle which then multiplied it a hundred times over before shooting it out at the Giant. Thalia didn't know how she did that, but it just felt right.

The lighting bolt collided with Alcyoneus sending a loud boom as the electricity coursed through Alcyoneus's entire body. Thalia kept the stream of lighting going, she couldn't afford to stop.

"NOOO!" Alcyoneus yelled as he fell down to his feet in pain. Thalia could feel the leftover electricity being channeled into the ice below, but that just gave her a slight boost in her powers.

The lighting stream continued, steam rolled off of Alcyoneus's skin, the lightning was heating up the giant's metal body.

"ENOUGH!" the Giant roared out as suddenly a huge layer of darkness covered Alcyoneus's skin. Thalia looked at this in wide eyes as the giant became covered in what looked like black paint.

Slowly the giant stood up as he pushed back at Thalia's lighting. It seemed that it no longer hurt him.

Thalia stopped the stream of lighting putting the Eagle down as she collapsed to her knees. She was panting, she had spent energy she didn't have on that last attack, and all it seemed to do was make him stronger somehow.

Alcyoneus approached her, the black ink like substance was covering his entire body. "I am not going to give you to Porphyrion. No, you don't deserve that kindness. I will keep you by my side for eternity. I will make you mine in every way, and you will beg for death."

Thalia shivered, he was using that bloodlust thing that she remembered Percy using. Somehow in this blackned form Alcyoneus seemed to be radiating power he didn't have before. It was like everything he was was amplified by 1,000%.

Thalia tried to stand up, she wouldn't just let him take her down without a fight. She slowly stood up with the help of the Eagle, but the moment she did Alcyoneus slapped her aside with his mighty hands throwing he to the side of the glacier.

Thalia got up and was greeted to the sight of the fatal drop that laid before her. Her fear of height kicked in again, she was paralyzed beyond belief.

"And now daughter of Zeus," Alcyoneus growled, "you will be mine." The giant turned Thalia around as he tore off her coat. He tried to reach for her jacket when Thalia sent a lighting bolt right at him.

The giant chuckled, completely unfazed by the attack, "you cannot harm me while in this form. Your magic is useless!"

"Yeah, but mine isn't!" Percy spreaded in a flash of speed as he sent a punch into Alcyoneus's face knocking a few of his platinum teeth out and sending him skidding across the glacier top.

Percy turned to Thalia, "you okay?" he took off his coat and gave it her.

"I'm tired," Thalia admitted as she wrapped the coat around herself, she really couldn't take the cold.

Percy nodded as he turned to the giant, "shit, not this again."

The black skinned giant slowly got up as he shook his head trying to gain back his senses. "You have seen this black thing before?" Thalia asked.

Percy nodded, "yeah. It's called Haki, or will power. Argo had it, and he used it to neutralize any magical attack I threw at him."

"How are you going to defeat this guy?" Thalia asked.

"Simple," Percy said as he zipped up his leather jacket, "I just won't use any magic."

Alcyoneus finally managed to clear his head, "how did you-"

Percy launched himself at Alcyoneus and punched the giant in the gut send him stumbling back. Percy then jumped on top of the giant and started to wail on him sending punch after punch right into the giant's face.

The icy ground beneath them cracked as each punch of Percy's pushed Alcyoneus deeper and deeper into the ice.

More and more of the ground around them broke apart. Every shock wave Percy sent through his punches broke the ice underneath as a crack grew bigger and bigger in the middle of the ice.

Suddenly the entire glacier rumbled. Percy stopped, 'if I keep this up I might destroy the entire glacier with Thalia on it!'

That moment hesitation was all Alcyoneus needed. The giant's haki coated hands punched into Percy throwing him off of the giat and onto the icy ground around them.

Percy's HP- 6,550/11,550 (+1000) = 7,550

That last attack cost Percy almost half his HP. Percy realised why this was happening, the haki probably bypassed the marble skin defence and instead hurt Percy directly. One more punch like that and it will be Percy's life.

Percy quickly got up, he could see pieces of the ice around the glacier were breaking off, his strength had caused all that.

Suddenly however Percy felt Alcyoneus grab Percy by the throat and pull him up. Percy looked at the giant and the giant looked at him, "who are you? No normal demigod has that much power or is so fast. Are you a child of Hercules?"

Percy grinned, "my name is Percy Jackson," he sent a kick to Alcyoneus jaw knocking him back. Percy freed himself of the monster's loose grip and dropped to the ground. "And I am the son of Poseidon," he then sent an Earthquake charged punched right into Alcyoneus's chest.

The giant open his mouth causing oil to spill out of it as the punch sent him flying back. Percy didn't know whether his Earthquake power did anything to help, but he hoped he did.

Percy turned around and zoomed back to Thalia, "you hurt?"

Thalia nodded, "broke rib, and I think I tore something."

Percy nodded as he pressed his hand up against Thalia's temple. Slowly began helping all of Thalia's wounds, mending the ribs and fixing the muscles tears. She was beaten up badly, he felt like he needed to say something, but Percy knew she wouldn't want his sympathy, pity or guilt. Thalia was not someone who liked that sort of thing.

Percy suddenly felt a sense of danger wash over him;

Warning! Alcyoneus behi-

Percy turned around just in time to see Alcyoneus try to take a swing at him. Percy instantly turned his body in smoke and waited for the fist to pass through, but for some reason Alcyoneus was able to touch to touch him as the giant smashed Percy throwing him over the cliff.

"PERCY!" Thalia cried out as without a second through she dived over the cliff after him.

Percy's body returned to normal. His head was spinning, that last blow had rocked his brain;

Percy's HP- 1,550/11,550 (+1000) = 2,550

Percy squinted, he saw the sky above him, the wind blowing past him. 'I'm falling,' Percy realised.

The son of Poseidon didn't know if he could even survive this fall. He was away from the US, away from his father's influence from the sea. Would his father's protection even work?

Percy knew he had to try something and just as he started to think of what to do he saw a black dot coming towards him. Percy activated his 8.0 Eyesight and recognized the blue streaked hair immediately.

"Thalia?" Percy asked in surprise, 'what is she doing?!'

Thalia fell down faster and faster, she begged the wind to reduce the speed of Percy fall while increasing her own. For a second Thalia felt like an idiot, the wind wouldn't answer her, it never had before. She had always been to afraid to even try and control it due to her fear of height. But now...now that the one who she cared about was in danger, now that the only person who promised to help her was in risk of dieing, all of that seemed unimportant.

Thalia still felt the fear, but her love for Percy tore through that emotion.

Suddenly as if to answer the call the winds moved. Thalia felt herself speeding up as she caught up to Percy and grabbed him.

"I've got you!" Thalia yelled.

"Who's got you?!" Percy asked.

Thalia closed her eyes and for the first time ever she felt a connection to the air around her. It was like she had been blind her whole life, living in a room of darkness and finally she got the courage to turn on the lights.

The height didn't scare her anymore, no, instead the feeling of happiness took over. The winds around Thalia picked her and Percy up and launched them both up.

Thalia was flying higher and higher, soaring through the sky. She danced like a leaf in the breeze, twisting and turning, letting herself be guided by her powers.

The reason she was so afraid before was because she was afraid she would lose control and die. But now...now she knew that her powers would never fail her, not as long as she had a person to save with them.

Percy was amazed, "T-Thalia, you're flying?!"

Thalia smiled, "yeah, I guess I am."

"Holy Shit!" Percy said looking down as Thalia zoomed past the Glacier. Percy could see Alcyoneus standing below looking just as surprised as Percy was.

Thalia stopped and hovered, she was constantly bombarded with waves of wind, but managed to stay in a stable position. Percy turned to her, "drop me down and then get as far away as you can. I'll lead Alcyoneus away, grab the Eagle and go back to the boat. And no matter what happens don't come back for me. Got it?"

"I'll let you fight him Percy," Thalia tightened her grip on him, "but you better come back alive. Or else I will go into the Underworld and bring you back."

Percy smiled, "good. Now," Percy then did something he never even tried before. He activated his Body Form perk which increased his strength over 10 times over;

Body Form Activated: Full Body

STR- 69,120 (+20)= 69,140 X 10 = 691,400

His muscles felt like they were being sucked out through a straw. The power was almost too painful to have. Percy could feel his muscles spasm, they were trying to grow bigger to compensate for the huge surge of energy that flowed through them.

"Percy are you okay?" Thalia asked.

"I'm fine," Percy gurnted, "this just needs a little getting used to."

"Don't you dare lie to me Jackson," Thalia yelled, "if you can't handle this then we are leaving right now and-"

"-Thalia!" Percy yelled out, "I'm fine. I promise."

Thalia looked into Percy's eyes and saw the determination in them. She sighed, "fine."

Percy nodded as Thalia lowered him down. The son of Poseidon fell through the air and landed on the glacier cracking the ice.

Alcyoneus growled, "so you came back for more."

Percy was already sweating, even if technically speaking he could keep this mode up for a long time his body was still reacting oddly to the combination of the two perks. Percy didn't have anytime to waste.

"You're coming with me to Olympus Alcyoneus," Percy said.

"Not bloody likely," the giant growled out. Percy could feel the bloodlust in the Giant's voice, but such meager levels of the stuff was nothing to Percy. Janai'ngo had more bloodlust in one tentacle than Alcyoneus had in his whole body.

Percy activated Speed Demon and vanished into a blur of speed. Alcyoneus's eyes widened, 'he's faster than before!' The Giant realised as suddenly a black blur moved towards Alcyoneus.

The giant raised both hands to try and block the attack, but the moment Percy's fist impacted Alcyoneus's own the Giant knew he made a mistake. He should have dodged.

The strongest recorded punch in the world by a human weighed in at a force of 5,000 Newtons. This was done by the best mortal boxer in the world with 20 points of strength.

Percy had 691,400 points of strength, his punch carried with it a force 34,570 times greater than that of the strongest human punch. Alcyoneus was hit with a total off 172,850,000 Newtons.

The punch hit Alcyoneus in the gut ripping apart his metal abdomen and tearing into his platinum ribcage. The shock wave that came out of the Giant's body was enough to cause several cracks in the ice destroying the surrounding area.

Alcyoneus felt everything in slow motion. He felt the pain. He felt his body being lifted off of the ground. He felt Percy's punch push his body across the sky so fast that it resulted in breaking the sound barrier.

Percy was nearly blown back by the sonic boom Alcyoneus's body caused as it was sent across the sky. Percy stayed his ground and saw the Giant flying off of the Hubbard Glacier and into one of the nearby mountains. Percy activated his Speed Demon perk and took off. He ran down the side of the glacier, he increased his speed slowly until he too broke the sound barrier for the first time.

The resulting sonic boom shack the icy glacier even more as more and more pieces of ice fell off and into the water below. It was a good thing Percy put the Trident Mobile so far away, else the resulting waves caused by the falling ice would have capsized the boat.

Percy ran over the water around the glacier and towards the mountain into which Alcyoneus had crashed. Percy climbed the mountain without a second thought and quickly found Alcyoneus embedded deeply into the side of the rocky surface.

The giant looked sick. His Haki armour around his stomach where Percy had hit him had been broken off.

Percy didn't stop to chat. He just launched himself at Alcyoneus again throwing a fist at the giant's face.

At the very last second the giant dodged the attack, and what's more he did it with his eyes closed. Percy snarled as he continued the attack in a flurry of speed, but not one managed to land a solid blow on the Giant.

Alcyoneus suddenly melted into his own shadow and disappeared. 'Shadow travel,' Percy realised as he turned around to find the Giant.

Warning! Shadow-

Percy didn't read the rest, he didn't need to. He took off right as a large amount of shadowy spikes spread where he just was. Percy quickly sent a wave of mana out and felt Alcyoneus at the top of the mountain.

Percy turned and ran up. He saw the giant standing at the mountain's peak. Alcyoneus raised his hands, they were filled with two balls of shadows. The Giant brought them together and sent it down at Percy.

The two balls of shadows combined into one before mixing in with the ground below. Suddenly the surface of the mountain started to rumble as a great big explosions of black mud broke through the ground and flowed down.

Percy knew he couldn't touch the the mud, if Alcyoneus's power were anything like Bianca's then it would mean he could control the black mud. So Percy stopped, put all his strength into his legs and sprang forward like a jacked up kangaroo.

Percy cleared the mountain top with a single bound as he quickly began falling towards Alcyoneus. The giant growled, he lifted both of his hands up and coated them with a gloves made of gold that came out of the ground.

Percy lowered his fist and fell down faster and faster. Alcyoneus readied himself as he adjusted his foot and drew back a fist.

"AHHHHH!"

"AHHHHHH!"

The both hit each other with everything they got as the resulting explotion from their fist's that leveled the top of the mountain.

Rocks and snow flew outwards like lava spewing out of a volcano. The top of the mountain was covered with dirt flying everywhere observing the area. Thalia was panicking, she flew over to the mountain, she need to see what was happening.

As the last of the stones fell down and the dust settled, Thalia saw that the entire top of the mountain was leveled down. It looked like someone had taken a blade and had crudely cut off the top half of the mountain.

Thalia commanded the winds to clear the dirt and the rocks revealing the flat surface of the mountain. Thalia gasped, Alcyoneus stood tall with Percy bound at his feet.

"You fought well," Alcyoneus managed to say. His jaw was broken along with his right hand. The Haki armour was completely gone now, just slivers of it existed along different parts of the Giant's body, but the rest were blown off. Oil spilled all over the place but the giant still stood tall.

Percy was also injured from the attack. His right arm was broke in half and his ankle was twisted and cuts were present all over his body.

Percy tried to get up, but he was chained down. The chains were black, just like Alcyoneus's skin was. Percy struggled to break them, but even with his strength they still put up a challenge, "what are these?!"

"Chains infused with my will," the Giant spat out, it sounded like he also had a collapsed lung. "You will find they are nearly impossible to break," Alcyoneus's blood lust was gone. He was weakened, but Percy could tell that the Giant was already starting to regenerate at an amazing pace.

"Haki," Percy muttered, "I didn't realise you could infuse it with objects."

The Giant nodded, "you can do a lot with the breath of man."

"Why do you call it that?"

The Giant sighed, "it matters not. You will be dead in a few seconds."

"No," Percy got on his two feet, "I won't."

Alcyoneus bleached at the sight before him. Percy was trying to break free, he flexed and strained his arms pushing the chains to their very limits.

"Stop," Alcyoneus said, "it won't work!" Percy said nothing as he focused on only breaking the chains of haki. "STOP!" Alcyoneus shouted again, "I said stop!"

Percy's arms began to move from his side, the chains of black were slowly starting to groan.

"No," Alcyoneus said as he stook a step back, "this can't be!"

Percy slowly stretched the chains more and more. They were barely hanging on. Slowly Percy felt something stir in him, it was that will power he felt before in the illusionary world. The world where he almost died. He felt the will to live burn in him again, flowing through his veins, empowering him to do the impossible.

"NO!" Alcyoneus roared as he summoned a sword made of diamonds and infused it with his Haki turning it black. He then slashed it down at Percy, cutting through the demigod's jacket, skin and the chains that held him.

"NO!" Thalia screamed.

Blood flew out of Percy coating the black jacket with blood. The slash began at his left shoulder and ended near his right lateral muscle. The son of Poseidon felt pain, for the first time ever he felt pain.

Warning! Blood lose status active! Lose 100 HP per second!

Percy blinked away as he tried to push past the pain and get up. Just then Alcyoneus appeared over him, "how are you still not dead?!"

The giant grabbed Percy by the head and lifted him up, "HOW?!"

Percy struggled against Alcyoneus's grip around his neck. He felt pain every time his blood exited his wound. It felt like tiny pieces of glass were twisting and turning inside of him, Percy groaned in pain as the giant squeezed him harder.

"I will make sure you will never see the light of day again," Alcyoneus said with narrowed eyes. He waved his hand over the ground and a hole was created that lead down to deep within the mountain.

The giant dropped Percy inside the hole and covered it up. Percy fell and fell. He could tell how far he was falling. '20 feet. 30 feet. 40 feet. 50 feet. 80 feet.'

Suddenly the ground came and hit Percy. The demigod wasn't hurt by the rocks beneath him due to Marble skin, but a wave pain came from the wound he got from Alcyoneus.

Percy groaned as he looked up. The hole he came in from was closed now. He was effectively buried 80 feet underneath a mountain. Percy got up, he had around 10 feet of movement. He looked to the cut on his chest, it wasn't to deep.

Percy gathered the moisture in the air, there was very little, mostly all the water came from soft soil Percy was standing on. Percy ran the gathered water over his wound. There was little of it, but he managed to seal the wound up enough to stop the bleeding status.

Percy looked around, 'how the hell am I going to get out of here?'

Outside;

"NO!" Thalia roared as she saw Alcyoneus close the hole. She flew over and sent a blast of lightning at the giant's back.

"ARGH!" the monster roared and turned back. He narrowed his eyes at the daughter of Zeus. Alcyoneus dug into the ground and pulled out a large boulder. He then threw it at Thalia who skillfully dodged it.

"Give him back!" Thalia roared as she sent another stream of lighting.

Alcyoneus brought up a boulder just in time to block the lightning bolt. The rock exploded in his hands but the Giant was unfazed.

Thalia watched in amazement as all the damage Alcyoneus received during Percy's battle healed itself in front of her eyes. 'Shit! I forgot that he's unbeatable in his home state! I need to get him out of Alaska.'

Lucky Thalia read the map several times before they got here and knew that the border to Canada was just a mere ten miles away. She needed to trick him into following her.

"Look at you!" Thalia yelled, "you nearly got killed by a demigod!"

The giant growled, "shut your mouth girl!" Alcyoneus reached into the ground and threw another boulder at Thalia.

This time instead of just dodging the attack Thalia used her new found connection with the wind to spin the boulder around like a slingshot and throw it right back at Alcyoneus.

The giant broke the boulder with his hands, "enough!" He roared, "you will soon meet the same fate as your boyfriend!"

"As if you can even catch me!" Thalia goaded him.

Alcyoneus roared as he jumped up from the ground and threw himself at Thalia. He was inches away when Thalia summoned a burst of lighting from the clouds that blasted Alcyoneus back. The giant crashed into the side of the mountain but quickly picked himself up.

"You will pay for that you bitch! I will make you my whore and-"

BOOM!

Rocks came tumbling down from the side of the building. Alcyoneus paled, 't-that came from inside the mountain. No-no! It's not possible!'

BOOM!

More rocks broke off as pieces of the mountain as cracks began to form on the side of it. Thalia watched from a distance and could see a huge chunk of the mountain being broken off.

BOOM!

Slowly the broken piece of the mountain was raised off the ground by six feet before it slowly started moving forward.

Alcyoneus and Thalia watched in horror and amazement as the huge chunk of mountain was brought further and further outside. Slowly the battered up figure of Percy stood at the edge of the mountain with 80 feet of stone over his head.

"Alcyoneus! You forgot this!" Percy roared as he strained every muscle in his body lifting the top of the mountain and sliding it down the side of the mountain.

The giant was frighted , the demigod had just broken free out of the heart of a mountain by punching through it! The giant saw the huge mountain top coming towards him and knew he had to move.

He jumped up trying to get away, but Thalia met him mid air. "No you don't!" Thalia roared as she commanded the winds to push him back down to the ground. The giant tired to move again but Thalia sent another blast of lightning at him pinning him to the ground.

Percy pushed the mountain down as Alcyoneus suddenly found himself being rolled underneath the massive stone structure.

Percy let go of the stone and watched as it slid down the mountain and crash into water below sinking into the freezing sea.

Alcyoneus's mangled body remained behind near the foot of the mountain, surprisingly still in one peace, but broken in several places. Percy took control of the snow around him as he lifted them up in the form of two giant hands mirroring his own movements. Percy then smashed both the fits into Alcyoneus stirring form.

Just then Thalia sent another blast of lightning at Alcyoneus zapping him unconscious. Percy zoomed forward and cleared all the snow off the giant's body. Finally Alcyoneus was knocked out.

Percy took out Waverider, he wasn't going to take any chances. He quickly cut off Alcyoneus's limbs and then threw him into his inventory. Percy then took the precious metal limbs and stored them away as well.

Thalia floated down to the ground and grabbed Percy in a tight hug, "are you okay?!"

Percy nodded, "I'm fine." He finally let go of Body form and resealed his strength. His muscles finally stopped throbbing, he felt he shit strength levels go back to normal.

"I thought I lost you," Thalia said with tears in her eyes as she hugged him tighter.

Percy felt a jolt of pain coming from the wound on his chest. Percy flinched and immediately Thalia backed away.

"Oh my gods! You're bleeding!" Thalia yelled out.

Percy groaned, "yeah. He used something that bypassed my marble skin defence. But I'm alright, it's not life threatening, the jacket took most of the attack. I already healed some of it, I won't be bleeding to death anytime soon."

"How can we heal the rest of you?" Thalia asked desperately.

"The water," Percy groaned. Thalia nodded as she helped him into the freezing cold water.

"Percy's it's freezing, are you sure-"

"It's okay," Percy said as he slowly immersed himself into the water, "I can barely feel it."

Thalia nodded as she watched Percy disappear into the cold water. The demigoddess sat down by the banks of the water pulling her jacket closer. She waited patiently for her beloved to come back up.

The wind blew across her face and Thalia waited, and waited.