Chapter 33

"You have kids?" Percy looked surprised before letting out a depressed sigh, "why aren't I surprised? So basically everyone of the 'Eldest Gods' broke your oaths and had children, sigh, Greeks."

"No, for your information I didn't break my oath," Hades said in a better than you tone, "I was the only one who kept true to my word."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? Because unless your kids are 60 years old or something there's no way you didn't break your oath."

Hades shook his head, "no, they are still children, but they were born before the oath was even made."

Percy sighed again, "I feel like you want me to ask you how that's possible, but if I do that you are probably not going to shut up, so I don't want to do that."

Hades narrowed his eyes, "you are as rude as your father."

"Thanks, it runs in the family uncle."

Hades glared at Percy, "my children were born before world war 2, I knew they were in danger, Zeus had already killed their mother to try and get to me. I had to protect them. I sent them to the Lotus Hotel and Casino, which is a place that dilutes time making people feel time has nearly stopped when it reality days if not years has passed. I did this to protect them from everything, the war, Zeus and even Poseidon."

"I doubt my dad is capable of killing children Hades."

"You have no idea what my brother is capable of nephew," Hades said with narrowed eyes, "your father may seem like the perfect god to you, but to others he is a monster. I have seen him destroy lives Jackson, I know what he truly is like."

Percy narrowed his eyes, "that may be but that is the past. People change, I know my dad isn't the same man."

"People change, God's don't."

"Look let's just get to the point, you want me to save your kids, why? The have been safe for so long, you could have released them any time you want. But right now Kronos is back and we a in the brink of war, why risk your kids lives?"

Hades remained silent before answering, "because before Zeus would have killed them without a second thought, but now he is more…..tame. He doesn't try and kill you every day, though you give him plenty of reason to," Percy flipped off the God, "and right now I believe Olympus needs all the powerful demigods it can get. Or am I wrong?"

Percy nodded, "you're right. We need help. And you also sound like a caring father, if I didn't think you were full of it," Hades remained quite as Percy continued, "I think you are throwing your hat in to try and snatch the prophecy. Plus you have two kids, twice the chance of you winning. You don't look at them like your children, you only see them as w-"

"Don't you dare complete that line Jackson!" Hades roared.

Percy narrowed his eyes as he threw the words out, "as weapons."

"How dare you! I care for my children more than anything else! I was heartbroken when their mother died and I did everything I could to exact my revenge! I protected them! I wanted to be with them always but kept my distance because I knew that if I tried to stay with them I would put them in danger, again! And you say that I treat them like tools?!"

Percy remained silent, he processed all that information and suddenly something came up. It was a memory of a long time ago, the first time he saw the mummified oracle.

Percy's eyebrows shot open, "you cursed the oracle of Delphi because Zeus killed your lover," Percy remembered what his Observation powers had told him about the mummy, and when you're next to a rotting corpse that talked information like that tended to stick out.

Hades nodded, "yes, I did. I don't know how you know that, but yes I cursed her. She will never again find another host unless my children are released from the Great Prophecy, and the only way to do that is to fulfill it."

"Is it possible for you to lift the curse? It's kind of creepy to keep talking to a mummy."

Hades shook his head, "no, my curse is set and it's been active for too long. It would take too much energy to destroy it."

Percy sighed, "fine, I'll help them. But you owe me one Hades."

Ping!

Quest alert!

Find and bring back Nico and Bianca di Angelo

Reward,

5,000 Exp

50 D

+1 level in Shadow control

Failure,

Kronos gets the children

YES/NO?

Percy pressed yes, it wasn't much in the case of a reward but the failure option made it so that Percy had to do it.

Hades and the black mirror disappeared leaving Percy once again alone. The son of Poseidon turned and walked to the Big House as fast as he could, he still needed to check up on Annabeth.

Percy entered the Med Bay and saw Annabeth sitting next to a still unconscious Thalia.

"She still hasn't woken up?" Percy asked surprising Annabeth.

"Oh, it's you Percy. No, she hasn't woken up yet. What are you doing here?"

"I came to make sure nothing happened to her, or you," Percy said looking at Annabeth. The demigoddess looked bad, her eyes were red with bags under them. Percy felt guilty just knowing he was the cause of that.

"Look Percy I am sorry that I didn't tell you, I just-"

"I get it," Percy interrupted her, "I know Annabeth, and I was mad, but I realised you just did what you thought was right. I get it," Percy smiled, "friends?"

Annabeth smiled sadly, "I don't get how you can just forgive me like that."

"'Like that?' Didn't you see the big temper tantrum I threw? It was worse then how Michael gets when we make fun of him with Clarisse," Percy joked causing Annabeth to laugh.

"Yeah, those two should totally get a room," she said, "again, I'm sorry."

Percy patted her on the head, "forget about it Annabeth, besides I said 'friends' and did the whole forgiving thing. Move on already."

Annabeth chuckled, "you are such a seaweed brain."

"You know it," Percy turned to Thalia, "think she might wake up soon?"

"I guess," Annabeth said yawning, "but I'm not sure when."

"Why don't you get some rest," Percy said pointing to the empty bed next to them, "I'll stay and watch her. I promise to wake you up if anything happens."

"No Percy's it's okay I, YAWN."

"I think your body just spoke for you," Percy said pushing Annabeth off the chair and to the bed, "now sleep."

"Can you even stay awake all night? You did it last night I don't want to be stressing you out or anything."

"Relax, I slept in the afternoon, besides I don't need much sleep anyway," Percy smiled as he threw a blanket on Annabeth, "now sleep."

Annabeth smiled and soon she was off to her dream land. Percy sat back in the chair over Thalia's bed and began his watch. He didn't really mind, after all he didn't really need sleep. Plus now he could look at two cute girls sleep.

….

'Okay where did that come from?!' Percy yelled at himself, 'I sound like a fucking stalker!'

Percy looked at Thalia again and he couldn't help but note how long and slender her legs were. Those things could go on for miles! And her hips, god they were so thick and plump, just made him want to-

'HOLD THE FUCK UP!' Percy yelled out as he shut his eyes slamming down his Gamer's mind to drive stray thought out of his head, 'what the hell is happening to me?!'

Percy opened his eyes a bit and immediately they went to Thalia's large firm breasts before Percy shut them close again.

'Okay think Percy think! What happened to you? Why are you acting this way?! You have never even checked out a girl before?! Well there was that time with Marchasis, and Persephone, but those times they were practically naked, it would have been rude not to look! And Artemis was kind of literally on me...wait! That's it!'

Percy quickly his status and looked at his new one;

Puberty- This status will last for the next three years and will cause;

Hair growth in- face, armpits, limbs and genital area

Voice cracking up

Increase in the size of your genitals

Your emotions will get out of hand

You will have a sexual awaking

Prone to be dressed or hyperactive

You will grow taller

You will care more about your appearance

'SEXUAL AWAKENING?!' Percy's eyes threatened to pop out of their sockets when the demigod read that.

'Is that why I'm checking Thalia out?! Then why haven't I checked out anyone else?!' Percy turned to look at Annabeth, now that she was asleep she looked so calm. One could imagine what was under that sheet. Percy could just see the hint of her chest underneath and her toned stomach was clearly visible. Why hadn't he realised how hot she was?

'No!' Percy yelled out slapping himself, 'bad Percy! You are not allowed to check out your hot friends!'

He pushed down Gamer's mind and slowly he could feel the awkward sexual feelings slowly slip away. Percy needed a distraction, something, anything to get his attention away from the two hot girls in front of him.

Percy opened up his inventory and looked through the books he got from Argo. He immediately took out around 15 books or so and began reading them at normal speed in order for them to last longer.

By the time the sun came up Percy had read three books about Roman history earning his that skill;

Roman history- Lv-8 - A basic understanding towards Roman history. Slightly above common knowledge

Percy figured the only reason he got such a high level starting off was because Roman myths were basically a rip off of Greek Myth, which he was a level 15 at.

He also got one more level in physics by reading another book about the forces of nature;

Physics- Lv- 3- Basic concepts of physical science.

Of course he didn't understand anything he read, but it somehow still counted. Percy also read three books describing advanced quantum mechanics but those didn't level his skill up or give him the option to fast learn due to his low level in physics.

There were around 7 books on geography which Argo seemed to have used to try and find temples in Greece. This gave Percy a new skill all together;

Maps, Lv- X

The skill tell you how well you know certain areas;

America - 0.9%

Greece- 50%

The maps were very detailed and Argo even had notes in the side about things that weren't even mentioned in the books.

The last book however wasn't actually a text of any kind. It was a novel by George Orwell called 1984. It was a very interesting book to read for Percy, it was one of the few books he ever read for fun.

It's story was about a future where the government monitors everything, even emotions. It kind of reminded Percy about that Christian Bale movie, Equilibrium. Guess the movie was based on the book.

The book featured a man, Winston Smith, who was a thought criminal, meaning he had his own independent thoughts, something the big brother government he lived under hated. He spent his entire life hiding who he was, what he was. He repressed his sexual urges and desires to rebel until eventually he fell in love with a woman named Julia.

Together they both defied the government and had sex for the sake of sex, which again was not something the government allowed as sex was only supposed to be done to reproduce. Yeah, the government was a dick.

Eventually though Winston and Julia got caught, they were tortured, Julia was lobotomized and Winston was to be put to death. In the end the story ended in a sober note, something Percy felt connected with. It must have been the Greek in him, after all the Greeks did love them some tragedy.

While reading the book Percy related Winston's problems with his own, except they were complete opposites. Winston wanted to show off his sexuality, he wanted to be with the woman he loved, but couldn't. Here Percy wanted to not be inappropriate and control his urges, he wanted to make sure that he was always in control.

But if he didn't react to these urges Percy might end up like Winston, and believe me you do not want to be like that man, ever.

So an answer came to Percy, balance. Percy needed to both control and explore this new emotion he was feeling. He shouldn't hide it like Winston did, nor should he become a total pervert like a certain rich son of Hermes he knew who lived in Boston.

Ping!

+1 to Wis!

Percy blinked, he didn't expect that. Guess reading interpreting and applying books increases wisdom. Percy closed the book and put it away just as Annabeth was stirring.

"Percy?" Annabeth grumbled out as she rubbed her eyes.

"Hey Annabeth," Percy smiled as his eyes went to the girl's breasts before Percy regained control and looked at her sleep filled eyes, "nice nap?"

"Yeah, did you stay up all night?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, Thalia hasn't said a word."

"I see," Annabeth said getting up, "you know you should probably go back to your cabin and get some shut eye as well. I'll take over now."

Percy nodded, "right, well about that. I've been meaning to talk to you about something."

Annabeth looked cautious, "what's this about?"

"Last night, before I came back, I meet up with Hades," Percy said as he began to explain everything that happened between them to Annabeth.

"Wow," Annabeth said as her eyes sparkled with the new information Percy just dumped on her, "so there's a place that will basically make you live in a form of stasis?! It's like your storage dimension only bigger!"

Percy nodded, "yeah, but I think you're missing the point. There are two more kids who both have an equal chance of fulfilling the prophecy now. Things are getting heated up fast, first Thalia came back, now two more potential chosen ones. If I didn't know better I would say someone was planning this all out."

"Well we do have three old women who weave our fates in a tapestry," Annabeth commented, "maybe this is just the Fates way of speeding things up."

Percy nodded, "maybe. But anyway I need to leave as soon as I can."

"Don't you think you should get some sleep first?"

Percy shook his head, "I'm good. Trust me."

Annabeth sighed, "fine, are you going to the oracle for a prophecy?"

"I rather not begin my day by looking at the rotten corpse of a woman who should have died in the 60's, thank you very much."

"So how are you going to get there? Bus? Train? Plane?"

Percy smiled, "I thought about it. It would take around 40 hours to get from here to Las Vegas, that is if I don't make any stops, and that's to long. And I am definitely not flying there. Me and two kids of Hades? Zeus wouldn't hesitate to kill us all so that his daughter would become the only candidate of the prophecy."

"What about teleportation? Don't you have some kind of key that lets you instantly travel to Hades's palace?"

Percy gulped, "yeah but I really don't want to go there right now," especially with the puberty status. 'Hell if I saw Persephone I may not want to leave!'

"So what's the plan water brian?"

"I'm going to run it."

Annabeth blinked. She dug her ears and cleared it of wax before turning back to Percy, "I'm sorry I couldn't hear that properly. Could you repeat that?"

"I said I'm going to run it."

"Percy that's about 3,000 miles from here!"

"Yeah I know, so?"

"So? So?! You can't run that long!"

Percy shrugged, "actually I wouldn't really know. I haven't really tested my limits in that regard. I know my max speed and all, but I don't know for how long I can run. Two birds one stone."

"Sigh, okay then what about shoes? You are going to run for so long that I bet your shoes will wear off before you even leave the state Percy."

Percy shrugged, "I got an idea about that," 'HNI shopping for the win!'

Annabeth sighed, "has anyone ever told you you were stubborn as a mule?"

Percy smiled, "yeah, lots of people. I tend to ignore them though."

Annabeth walked forward and caught Percy in a hug, "just be safe okay?"

Percy was blushing, he could feel her breasts up against his shirt. He quickly slammed down Gamer's mind before responding, "y-yeah. I promise."

Annabeth broke the hug and the two went their separate ways. Annabeth stayed back with Thalia while Percy went downstairs and to the porch.

The camp was still asleep, the sun had just risen. Percy took a seat on the porch and quickly pulled out the HNI;

HNI,

A device used by the children of Hermes and few other campers. It allows access to the H-Net which will give you access to the world without worry of monsters finding out.

Percy put the took on a piece of paper and turned it on. The home screen popped up and Percy quickly went into the shopping corner. He then began a search for friction resistance shoes and after some time spent digging he found the perfect pair;

Fric Shoes,

A set of shoes that will guaranty style, comfort and application. It's soles are made out of an amalgamation of rubber and celestial bronze ensuring flexibility and anti-wearing.

Note: This shoe has blades hidden inside it

Enchanted to be resistant to high levels of heat and extreme weather conditions while allowing the wearer to have full range of movements.

Durability- 100/100

Cost- 500D

The price was steep and it would set back Percy by a lot, but it was worth it, especially those hidden blades.

Percy pressed buy now and pulled out the required amount and placed it on the device. The exchanged happened in a flash of light as the money was replaced with a box containing Percy's new shoes.

They were black with an omega symbol near the mouth. The inside had an orange foam lining with the tip being metal plated. The rubber underneath was thick with metal plates woven into it, and Percy could see a hole at the tip from which the blades came out off. It didn't have any laces but when Percy pressed the omega symbol the mouth opened up allowing Percy to easily slip his foot into the shoes before it automatically closed itself.

Percy quickly switched shoes and tried his new ones out. They were pretty cool, very flexible and very comfortable with a type of cooling chamber inside to keep the feet from heating up and smelling.

Percy took out the instruction book he received in the box and quickly read through it. It seemed that in order to activate his blades Percy had to kick his heels. He did so and immediately two very sharp blades popped out of them. The blades were around 7 inches long and an inch thick. They were dangerous to use, but definitely useful in a fight.

Percy clicked his heels again re-sheathing the blades before he threw aside the box and instruction manual, don't need those anymore.

Percy then began the ultimate test for the shoes. He slowly went out of the porch and stood facing the camp's entrance. Percy began to run slowly at first. He reached and passed Thalia's tree, wait if Thalia isn't in there any more should it even be called her tree?

He reached the hill and activated his Speed demon perk causing and slowly increased his speed. He found himself zooming past Mountain country side as the wind hit him faster and faster. Percy smiled, he lived for moments like this.

But just then a bug flew into his nose causing Percy to stumbled forward in surprise and skid across the road rolling over himself.

Percy groaned as he shook the ringing in his. 'Note to self, when going at super speed always remember to close your mouth to prevent swallowing bugs.'

Percy sighed and slowly got up and walked to the side of the road. He leaned on a road marker and noticed there was a box open in front of him;

Defence - 122,980

Percy closed the box and took out the HNI again, he needed something to cover his mouth and nose so that he didn't accidentally swallow a bug or anything.

After a few minutes of searching he found the perfect object;

Lightweight retractable helmet;

It's base form is a single uniglass yellow tinted goggles. To activate the helmet simply press the Cadin industry logo on the side.

Warning! This helmet is for cosmetic use only, it is not strong enough to support injuries caused in accidents!

Durability- 5/5

It wasn't much, but it was something. Percy payed a 10 D and quickly got the goggles in a flash of light.

Percy then put away the HNI and looked at his new item. The goggles were made out of a single glass, wide at the edges and narrower in the center. The glass rested on a thick pad which looked comfortable and the strap looked metallic with strange runes around it. Percy could understand a few, due to his limited knowledge on rune, and he understood that the rune created a construct of sorts that would help form the lightweight helmet.

Percy put the goggles on and left around the side of the glass. Eventually on the left was a raised button which Percy pressed causing his the rune to glow forming a yellow helmet around Percy's head.

'This is so cool!' Percy said as he felt around. The construct was hard enough to prevent Percy's finger from slipping in, but if he tried hard enough he managed to bypass their defence and poke his head. It was like a layer of jelly around his head, it may not be useful in a fight, but right now it was just what he needed.

Percy turned to the road again and without a second thought took off at max speed. The goggles/helmet made things way easier for Percy. He could see more clearly now, without the wind constantly attacking his eyes forcing them to squint. And the best part is that all the bug outside were splattered on his helmet, which Percy promptly wiped away.

Slowly he reached the edge of New York And passed around Queen's entering Manhattan. He blew past the city causing a gust of wind wherever he passed by, lucky the city was not to full to notice him zoom past.

He then decided to take the I-80 Express and quickly got out of Manhattan. The highway was basically empty except for a few cars that looked like they weren't even moving for Percy.

Along the way a message popped up;

+2 for Vit!

'Guess I still can level stats up,' Percy thought to himself, 'but I am running from state to state so I would be surprised if they didn't level up.'

Percy had zoomed half way across the state of Pennsylvania when he noticed that his clothes had started to heat up. 'Oh great, what now?'

Percy got off the road and stopped inside a dense forest, the moment he stopped his clothes lit up in flames from the friction.

Percy quickly took of his jacket, shirt and pants and threw them to the side. He had completely forgotten about the fact that his clothes weren't friction proof. His jacket was fine, and so was his shirt for the most part. But his pants were burnt with a huge hole made near his thighs.

Luckily Percy didn't get hurt, he barely even lost a health point, thanks Physical Endurance skill. But this was a problem.

Percy opened up his HNI again and quickly searched the shop for an items that were friction resistant and after some searching while he stood in the middle of a forest in his boxers , he found one.

Skin tight Super Fabric leggings,

Ceramic dynami, reinforced ceramics created by Hephaestus,are in the form of tiny hexagonal plates placed underneath a layer of nylon to ensure added protection and reduce heat caused by the wearer. Originally created for God's to wear when training on their running.

Enchanted with friction resistance and fire proof.

Durability- 75/75

Cost -200

Percy sighed and pressed yes buying the pants. The pants appeared in a flash and Percy quickly put them on. They were a little big for him but he rolled up the legs a little and it fit him perfectly. The pants were skin tight, like the description said it was, and mostly black with white dots in the shape of hexagons everywhere.

Percy put on his shirt and jacket and took of, leaving the ruined pants behind. He soon was back on the road as he quickly passed Pennsylvania and entered Ohio.

It had been half an hour since Percy left camp, he had traveled at his max speed that was around 717 miles or 1,000 Km. The total journey was around 3,000 miles, at this rate Percy calculated he would have to keep this rate up for around a total of 4 hours, or in this case 3 and a half.

Soon however Percy's stomach startled to growl as his body began to tier. The demigod quickly pulled off the highway and stopped at a Mcdonald's near the highway. It made sense, Percy might have had pretty high stamina thanks to his Vit but that to had limits. When it reached it's limit it notified him with hunger and tiredness, which was similar to how his mana exhaustion worked.

Percy pressed the side of his goggles causing his helmet to deform and retract back into the band. Percy then lowered his goggles to around his neck and entered the fast food place. He found it to be nearly empty except for a teenager manning the counter;

Derek Morgan, sales boy

Lv- 5

Derek didn't even bother looking up to see who had come in, he was too busy typing on his phone. It was only when Percy was right at the counter did the lazy teenage even notice him.

"Welcome to Mcdonalds can I take your order?" He asked lazily as he put his phone away and leaned across the counter..

"Yeah I would like….." Percy looked at the menu carefully before deciding to throw caution to the wind, after all he wasn't looking out for his figure or anything, "I'll have 32 big macs, 1 large coke and 21 large french fries."

The teenager's eyes popped open at Percy's order but typed them in, "and a-ah is this to go or...what?"

Percy shook his head, "no it's to eat."

"Is someone else coming?"

"No, just me."

"Little dude do you really think you can eat all this?!" Derek asked pointing at the huge bill he had just printed out.

Percy shrugged, "if I can't I'll just bring it all home."

Derek blinked, "I don't think you can do that."

"Look man I'm in kind of a rash so if you could just let me decide what I can or cannot do," Percy said rolling his hands in a 'get on with it' motion.

Derek raised an eyebrow but rang Percy up, "your total is 193.19."

Percy pulled out 200$ from his inventory and gave it to the employee who looked surprised at the amount given and annoyed because he was now going to have to make such a large order.

Percy got back his change and took a seat at a table in the corner. While he waited for his food Percy looked at the TV and saw that it was the news covering latest events. There was a freak storm somewhere in Texas and a flood in florida. A celebrity had been caught cheating on his wife and an old rich man had said something racist and was now apologizing for it. Same old, same old.

But then something interesting came up, a news report on a 'freak' sinkhole had formed in the island of Nassau a few days ago.

"Police in Nassau are still not sure what caused the sinkhole. Whether it was nature or caused by man is unknown. There have been reports of people hearing bombs go off around that area but so far nothing has been found supporting the theory of the sinkhole being man made. Luckily no one got hurt as all the damage was done to an empty golf course during the middle of the day.

"And also from the island of Nassau, around 100 people have been reported missing, including Mr. Rich Cromwell, who is known world wide as the head of the Techno industry in Denmark. Police have been investigating these disappearances for the last few months but with no results. But with this case along with the sinkhole a public light had been shed towards Nassau causing the law enforcement to be put under a lot of stress."

Percy stopped listening then, so far they didn't suspect foul play or couldn't prove it, meaning they were safe. It was also good news that the public was being informed of the people Argo kidnapped from the island. But before Percy could think about this any more Derek came up with a plate filled with burgers and fries with one lone large soda.

"I don't think that's all of them," Percy said counting them all quickly, "there are about half ere."

"We ran out," Derek said, "the chef's making them as we speak."

"Right," Percy said opening up his first big mac, "oh and you guys do give free refills yes?"

Derek rolled his eyes, "yes, we do give free refills."

Percy nodded and quickly took a bite out of his burger.

12 minutes later;

Derek couldn't believe his eyes, the little kid that had come in a few minutes ago was still eating. He had finished all the burgers and was getting through the fries as well. He had to record this, people wouldn't believe him otherwise!

Derek slowly took out phone to record but Percy noticed it immediately and quickly manipulated the Mist around the device fo that it wouldn't record anything.

Percy quickly went back to eating his fries, he used a little super speed to finish them all quickly before drinking his coke in one gulp. Percy turned to Derek, "where are the rest bro?"

Derek blinked, "ah, I'll get them for you right away dude," he then stopped recording and went to back to get the rest of Percy's order.

Soon Percy had finished eating to his heart's content, all 32 Big Macs and 21 fries. Percy let out a burp and rubbed his tummy, he could feel how full he was. Surprisingly though he didn't even get a little bump on his stomach from all the food, Gamer's body must have been working over time for that.

"Dude you should totally be in a food eating competition," Derek told him with his mouth wide open.

"Thanks dude," Percy burped again, "we'll….see ya."

Percy then got up and quickly walked out of the restaurant. Derek quickly took out his phone and looked at the video. But the moment he pressed play a message popped up saying that the video file in question had been corrupted making it unuseable.

'What the hell is going on?'

Percy took a deep breath of fresh air and stretched himself out, he may not need to make another pit stop after eating so much food. Percy put on his goggles and activated his helmet before he took off in a blur of speed racing towards the highway. He quickly got on it and zooming through Ohio.

Soon Percy percy passed out of Ohio and into Illinois. He kept on running eventually going through the outskirts of Chicago before eventually running into IOWA.

+2 for Vit!

Percy had now reached the two hour mark and he knew his journey was only halfway complete. The running was okay, his pants weren't on fire any more and his tank was still feeling full. The only problem is that IT WAS SO FUCKING BORING!

Percy didn't know why he hadn't realised this before, while he was running his body may have been working but his mind was free! He tried to read a book, but he was going so fast he couldn't hold on to it, plus he did need his eyes to see the oncoming traffic so that he could avoid it.

Percy was in a rut, he realised he should have planned this out better. Maybe he should just take a train when coming back, this boredom would probably kill him if he ever tried this again.

Percy eventually came into Nebraska and then Colorado finishing up the three hour mark. Percy could feel his pants start to heat up again, but it was warm, not flaming hot. The shoes however were holding up nicely and didn't even heat up, in fact his feet were extremely cool thanks to the enchantments inside.

Percy eventually entered Utah when he started to feel hungry again, it seemed his maximum stamina got him around 876 miles at his top speed, not bad for demigod. He got off the highway again and went to the closest town with a Macdonalds. He stopped near the parking, deactivated his helmet and went in. He expected the place to be empty, but this time though it was around 9 am and the place was packed with people. Percy couldn't risk eating as he did before, to many people.

Percy quickly placed an order for 10 big macs, 2 large cokes and 4 fries, to go. The man behind the counter looked strangely at Percy, but gave him his food anyway thinking it was for a group of people and not just Percy alone.

Percy then quickly left the restaurant and went to the local park to eat. Just as he had opened his first burger to eat something happened. A feeling washed over him, the scent of pine and lilacs filled the air as a voice rumbled out;

"Go to the forest Perseus, you are needed."

Percy blinked, the voice sounded old, older than any normal mortal, it sounded so full of life and powerful. It had stopped but it was replaced by pull Percy felt directing him towards the woods outside of town.

Percy put away his food and ran towards where the feeling had directed him.

You have entered a forest!

+5 to all stats!

"Let go of me!" A voice cried out from deeper inside the woods.

'Somebody needs my help,' Percy thought as slowly the feeling that guided him so far slipped away leaving him confused as to where to go. But just then;

"Get off!"

'There!' Percy ran in the general direction of the shout and went deeper into the woods. Soon he came upon a pair of boys were ganging up on another kid and beating the shit out of him. They didn't look like they were more than 12 and the kid they were picking on was 10.

Percy sighed and quickly grabbed the two boys by the collar and threw them aside, "enough."

The bigger boy, Justin, quickly got up, "who the hell are you?!"

Percy narrowed his eyes, "someone you don't want to mess with kid."

"You don't look that tough!" Justin growled out, "get him!" He cried out as his friend and him charged Percy with their fists flying.

Percy sighed and let them hit him. They punched him across the face and hit him in the gut, but nothing they did even phased Percy.

Defence- 123, 979

Percy raised an eyebrow, they had managed to collectively cause him 1 single point of damage.

Soon Justin and his friend fell to the ground panting, their knuckles were bloody and they were exhausted.

"What the hell are you!?" Justin asked as he and his friend slowly backed away holding their fists in pain.

Percy smiled a cruel smile, "I'm a demon."

With just that tiny use of blood lust Percy managed to scare off both kids making them run away screaming. Percy sighed and turned around to the little 10 year old, the kid had a bruised face and cut lip, but he looked up to Percy with amazement in his eyes.

"You okay kid?" Percy asked helping the kid up..

"I-I'm fine," the kid saying as he patted himself down, "t-thanks. My cousins don't exactly know how to hold back."

Percy raised his eyebrows in surprise, "your cousins did this to you?"

The boy nodded, "yeah, they don't really like me."

Percy then noticed the boy's name and title;

Percy Decker, Son of Pan

Lv- 2

Percy's eyes shot open in surprise, 'Pan?! As in the missing God Pan?! This kid is Pan's son?! And his name is Percy too?!' Percy scrutinized the kid and looked at him closely, his jawline was very narrowed, kind of like Grover's. His hair was brown like dirt and over all he seemed very normal looking. But the moment Percy looked at the kid's sky blue eyes, he knew he was a demigod.

"Kid….where's your dad?" Percy asked wondering whether the kid would have any clue as to where Pan was.

"I-I don't know," he looked down in shame, "He wasn't really around when..."

"Okay," Percy said, the kid looked depressed just talking about his dad, Percy didn't want him to feel worse by interrogating him. "Tell me where's your mom?"

"She died," he again looked sad beyond belief, "I live with my aunt and uncle now."

"I see..." Percy said before going into deep thought, 'okay what do I do now? He's a demigod, I have to bring him to camp or else he might end up monster food. And what's more he's Pan's kid, the Satyrs will treat him like a king, plus if I bring him in Grover just might forgive me for leaving him.'

PErcy turned to...eh, Percy, "hey kid, what's your name?" He asked, he knew the name already but he didn't want to freak the kid out by telling him he knew his name before he even introduced himself.

"P-Percy, my name if Percy Decker."

The son of Poseidon smiled widely, "no way! My name is Percy too!"

"Really?!" The kid asked in amazement, "that's so cool!"

"Percys for the win!" Percy said giving the little kid a high five.

"Thanks for saving my life big Percy!"

"No problem little Percy," the son of Poseidon smiled, 'the kid's alright.' Just then little Percy's stomach started to grumble in hunger, "didn't eat?"

The boy shook his head, "no, I kind of skipped out on breakfast."

Percy smiled as he pulled out his bag of burgers and fries, "want some?"

The child of Pan's eyes went wide in amazement, "woah! Where did you pull that out from?!"

Percy winked, "trade secret kid," he took out a burger and handed it to the 10 year old, "now eat."

Little Percy smelt the burger and a look of disgust went over his face. But he took the burger and gave out a weary thanks in response.

Percy raised an eyebrow, "wait you don't like meat?"

The kid looked nervous, "yeah, I don't really eat meat."

"Then why did you take the burger?"

"Well you offered it, and you did kind of save my life there. So I thought it would be rude if I said no."

Percy blinked in surprise, 'oh yeah, son of Satyr, figures he's a vegetarian.' Percy then laughed out loud, "wait, you thought it would be rude? Kid you're hilarious!"

"Hey! I was just being nice!"

"Dude if you don't want meat just say so," Percy said as he took back the burger and gave the little kid a large french fry, "here, it's may not be the healthiest eating choice but it isn't meat."

Little Percy's eyes widened comically as he snacthed the fries and began gulping them down in the hand fulls. Percy chuckled and the two sat down in the forest enjoying their meals. Percy Decker had eaten around two large fries before he was full and Percy Jackson had eaten everything else.

"Wow Percy, you sure can eat," Pan's son said, "I have never seen someone eat that much."

The son of Poseidon smiled, "why thank you Percy, it's a blessing from the gods, well actually the Fates but that's not important."

The kid looked confused but shrugged as the two fell into a comfortable silence.

"So tell me something about yourself kid," Percy asked finally. He needed to know about the kids life here, if the kid was happy then he could talk to his aunt and simply tell her to send little Percy to camp for safe keeping, if not, well Percy could always just kidnap him.

"Ah, well I suppose it started when my mom died," little Percy said with a low tone, "I don't actually remember her, I was like 5 when it happened. She was nice though, from what I remember. Ever since then I lived with my aunt and uncle, they're alright, I guess, but my cousins are the worst."

Percy nodded, "I see…..hey Percy," the little kid turned to look at him, "how would you like to run away from this place."

For a moment a spark of happiness went through the kid's eyes. A strong and warm gust of wind blew through the forest almost like it was reacting to the kids happiness. But just as quickly as it started it ended.

The son of Pan looked down, "no, I can't. Even if I did I wouldn't have anywhere to go."

"Well you could come with me," Percy said, "there's a place for people like us, a camp. If you want I can take you there."

"Wait, what? People like us? What do you mean?"

Percy blinked before realisation dawned on him, "oh yeah! I haven't told you yet have I?"

"Told me what?" Little Percy started to look weary now.

'Is he nervous?' Percy wondered, 'of course he's nervous, why wouldn't he be? A strange guy just showed up one day asked him about his life history and then offered to kidnap him….wow I sound like a weirdo.'

"Well you see little Percy I am technically your….ah...let's see here Pan is Hermes's kid, Hermes is Zeus's kid, which would make Hermes my cousin...ah… oh forget this! I'm your cousin, there, let's keep this simple."

"Wait, you're my cousin?!"

Percy nodded, "yup, on your dad's side."

"You know my dad?!" Little Percy jumped up and was on his feet, "who is he?! Where is he?!"

Percy shrugged, "I don't know where he is, no one does. But I do know who he is. His name is Pan, the greek God of the Wild."

Little Percy blinked, "my dad….is a god?"

Percy nodded, "yup. And that makes you a demigod kid."

The child of Pan looked at Percy in amazement, "bu-but that's impossible! I can't be a-be a God!"

"I said demigod kid," Percy repeated, "there's a big difference between a god and a demigod. And yeah, you are. Tell me mini me, have you ever felt...I don't know, different? Like does words confuse you? Have you ever felt unhappy sitting in one place, away feeling like you needed to jump around and do thing?"

Little Percy's eyes went wide as he nodded, "yeah but I was told that was because I was, dys-dys, ah dys-"

"Dyslexic, yeah we all are," Percy said sighing, "it's both a curse and a blessing, believe me, one time I mistook dog for god and believe me I pissed off a lot of people because of that."

"B-but I can't be-wait, my dad is goat?!"

"Half goat," Percy explained, "he's basically a Satyr, half man, half goat. A little more on the goat than man, and I should know, I had one for a roommate for a year but did that guy smell like wet goat a lot."

"But how do you know I'm a demigod?"

Percy shrugged, "it's a gift i got from my dad,"

Lie successful!

"Basically I can sense out people like us and tell who their godly parents are."

"But how I be a demigod?" Little Percy asked still skeptical, "I can barely beat off my cousins!"

Percy sighed, "there's a lot more to beginning a demigod than just being able to kick ass, sure it's a huge part of it, but still just a part. And as for proof…..well let's see, son of Pan so….. Ah ha! Okay how about this, have you ever felt connected to the forest? Like does being in one make you stronger?"

Little Percy thought about it for a few second before nodding, "yeah, I do. Plus I some times when I hide in here Justin and Greg can't find me, sometime I'm right in front of them and they can't see me!"

Percy nodded, "that's your divine side protecting you mini me. Your dad was the lord of the Wild, so places like this would in fact help you because it is part of your domain."

"Cool," the other Percy said with stars in his eyes, "wait, are you a demigod Percy?"

Percy smiled and nodded, "yup," he got to his feet and slowly pulled all the water from the air towards himself forming a trident, "I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."

Little Percy was practically drooling at the sight of the water trident, "that is so cool!"

Percy smiled and released the water weapon, "so mini me, tell me, do you want to come with me and see the rest of the family?"

"There are more of us?!" He asked excitedly bouncing on his feet, "how many?!"

"Around 100 or so," Percy said trying to remember, "but probably more."

"And you guys would let me join? Just like that?! And I don't have to pay anything"

Percy nodded, "yup, you are family after all."

The moment Percy called the child family it looked like he would die from happiness. He looked up at Percy and nodded, "I want to come with you! But...my aunt and uncle probably won't let me."

Percy smiled, "they can try, but I doubt they could stop me."

"I don't know, my uncle is a pretty good lawyer," Percy said before sighing, "he wouldn't let me go and do anything fun. And my aunt would freak out if she even thought I was leaving town."

Percy scratched his chin, "hey Percy, do you actually like them? Your aunt and uncle I mean?"

Little Percy shook his head, "no, my uncle doesn't like me and my aunt's mean. My mom was got all my grandpa's cash, and after she died it went to my aunt on the condition she could only use it if she was taking care of me. So she kinda puts up with me, but no I don't like her at all."

Percy nodded and for the first time noticed the kids clothes, it was very fancy looking and looked like it was made out of very expensive material.

"Okay then kid, want to run away with me?" Percy asked with a smile.

"But my aunt-"

"Relax mini me, I doubt your aunt and uncle can do anything when it comes to us. We demigods have the Gods backing us up, and you are extra special, you have the entire wildlife backing you up."

Little Percy's eyes sparkled again with hope, "you're serious? This isn't a joke right? You'll take me away from them?"

Percy smiled, "yup."

Immediately the little boy tackled Percy and enveloped him in a hug. "Thank you," he whispered.

Percy smiled and patted the boy on the back, "no problem kid. Now," he broke the hug, "do you have anything you want to take with you? Anything at all?"

Little Percy looked thoughtful before his eyes light up, "yeah, I have a few things I want to take."

Percy nodded, "okay then, let's go to your house. You go in and start packing up, I'll be waiting outside. Grab what you need and get out of there without anyone looking."

The kid nodded, "right, but ah, how are we getting to this camp?"

Percy smiled, "leave that to me, oh and before we start," Percy said as he placed a hand over the kid's bruised eye. He then activated his healing skills and used 500 Mp to heal up all the wounds the kid received.

"Wow!" Percy said blinking his eyes repeatedly, "you can heal people?! What else can you do?"

Percy smiled, "kid I could make you a list."

The two Percy's then walked out of the forest heading towards town. They quickly walked towards the residential area filled with rows of houses that looked identical to one another. Personally Percy hated it, and the way little Percy grumbled at the sight of them told him that he hated it as well.

They walked to the 14th house on the right, it looked the same as all the others, Percy didn't really know how little Percy knew that this one was the right now.

"My room is up there," the son of Pan pointed to the window on the roof to the right, "and I think my aunt's home so if I go in there and she sees me, she might start lecturing me again. I kind of ran away in the middle of breakfast."

PErcy nodded, "sneaking in isn't a problem," Percy then picked up the little kid with one arm and jumped high enough to clear the ground floor and reach the roof.

"This is so cool!" Little Percy shouted.

"Quite mini me!" Percy hissed as he slid down the roof and reached the window. He then pushed just enough of his earthquake vibrations into the window frame to loosen the latch on it causing it to swing open.

Percy entered the room and dropped the son of Pan off. "Just give me a second and I'll get everything," Little Percy said as he grabbed his bag and began flying through the room picking up things left and right.

While he was doing that Percy looked around the room. The kid didn't have anything unique in his room, it just looked so bland and boring. There weren't any pictures up, no photos, no books. There was nothing, except one small table and a bed.

"I'm ready," little Percy said.

Percy looked over his shoulder in surprise, "that was fast. What did you bring?"

"A few clothes, some cash and this," he opened his arms revealing a small potted plant inside, "my aunt and uncle were very strict about how my room could look and be, I didn't really have much to be attached to, but I have this. They wanted me to get rid of it, but I hide it away from them."

Percy smiled, "well you are a son of Pan, it would be insulting if you didn't have a plant with you. Anyway, you sure you don't want anything else?"

The boy nodded, "I have everything I need."

"Do you want to write a note or something? I know you hate them but they deserve to know where you are."

Pan's son shook his head, "they wouldn't care. All they would want is the money, if I just leave out of the blue they might get into trouble with the police or something. Maybe then they might get what's coming to them."

Percy smiled, "okay then," the then opened his inventory and enlarged it, "you may want to close your eyes for this part."

The son of Pan nodded and quickly closed his eyes. Percy picked him up and put him into his inventory for safe keeping, now he didn't have to drag the kid along when he went to Las Vegas.

Percy jumped out of the window and ran away from the house. Once he was sure no one saw him Percy slid up his goggle, activated his helmet and immediately took off again. With his stomach half full Percy knew he had just enough energy to travel to LV as he quickly left the edge of Utah running into the center of the state.

It took another hour but by 10 in the morning Percy had reached Las Vegas.

The city was….. Disappointing to say the least. Everything just looked tired and worn out. Maybe it was because it was 10 in the morning, but no one really seemed all that festive. The attractions were interesting, but Percy was offended by the fake Lady Liberty, as a New Yorker he knew the real on and this one was just a cheap knock off.

Percy spent an hour walking around and munching on any road side food he could get his hands on. He asked for directions for the Lotus hotel and casino and mostly got wrong directions, the middle finger or in one case got asked out by a prostitute….yeah, that last one was not an experience he wanted to share.

Eventually though Percy found the Lotus Hotel and casino, it looked just like an ordinary hotel, but there was something about it that pissed Percy off. Using his newly acquired mana scene PErcy tried to feel out what type of magic was going on in there;

Mind manipulation charm,

A charm placed on all those who enter to never want to leave. It is activated by $% #$ #$% and traps the user inside forever.

Percy raised an eyebrow at this. Guess he needed to increase his Mana sense level to find out more about the charm. But either way Percy wasn't really all that bothered, since their magic was meantal based it wouldn't effect him thanks to the Gamer's mind skill.

Percy quickly entered the casino and immediately he was assaulted by a barrage of lights and colours. The inside of the casino looked like a never ending party with lights and music assaulting Percy's scenes. It was the exact opposite to the quiet city just outside it's door.

Just then a man in a well dressed suit walked up to Percy and smiled, "as our honored guest! We have your room ready sir, just come this way and-"

"Yeah shut up, your mental manipulations won't work on me asshole," Percy cut the man off, "I'm here looking for someone, well two someones, two kids that has been here since the 1940's, have you seen them?"

The man shook his head, "I'm afraid I do not know what you mean sir. But you are welcome to check around if you wish, in fact here," he gave Percy a green casino card, "this will grant you unlimited access to the ballroom and gaming area. Why don't you look around? I'm sure you'll find your friends around here somewhere."

Percy nodded accepting the card, "thanks man, you're alright. Sorry about calling you an asshole before."

"It's quite alright sir, please enjoy your stay," the man then bowed and walked away leaving Percy alone. PErcy looked at his card and used Observe;

Lotus Cash Card,

This card may be used as a debit card anywhere.

Money contained within- Infinite.

Percy's eyes nearly threatened to pop out of his eyes. He use this Mist control to try and check whether the Mist was playing games with him, but no, it was true. The card had infinite money, and now it was Percy's.

'I am so going to spoil mom with this thing,' Percy told himself as he put the card in his jacket and walked around the place searching for Nico and Bianca.

The Hotel itself was huge, it was around 20 stories tall, and more seemed to be on the way. There was an indoor water slide that Percy so wanted to try along with a bungee rope bridge in the lobby. The real attraction though was the huge buffet located near Gaming room.

Percy's eyes widened in wonder, they was so much of them, so many different types of food! Percy went super speed and began stuffing his face full of every type of food he could get, the Mcdonald's was wearing off already.

Percy had eaten 12 pizza pies, 13 apple pies, 23 vanilla milkshakes, 40 boxes of chicken nuggets and one plate of salad. What? He wanted to be healthy.

The food also didn't seem to be running out, it just kept coming and coming and Percy ate until he was full. The other guests didn't even look at him funny, they seemed like they weren't bothered, which suited Percy just fine.

'Damn I spent a lot of time eating already,' Percy thought out as he looked to his watch, which was suddenly now working, again. 'That's it I need a new watch. Maybe I can get the Hephaestus kids to make me one.'

After Percy ate his fill he opened up his inventory and spent the next hour stuffing it full of food. 'This is heaven!' Percy thought to himself as he pulled more and more food into his inventory, he decided that if he ever ran low on food ever again he should totally come here, it was so worth the four hour run.

Soon Percy's inventory was filled with enough food to last any normal human 2 years. Percy then finally drew himself away from the buffet and went to the Gaming room where it seemed a lot of the people were gathered.

Percy activated his 8.0 Eyesight and began searching the room for Nico and Bianca. He focused on short people, after all they were supposed to be 12 and 10. Percy's eyes flew through the room but there were just too many people, he needed to do something else.

"NICO? BIANCA?!" Percy began shouting at the top of his voice as he walked along the gaming room. He shouted for hours but he never got a response. Eventually though PErcy decided to take a break and leaned on the wall looking across the room for any sign of the children of Hades.

Just then Percy's eyes were suddenly drawn towards an empty coming counsel sitting right in front of him. Percy approached the machine cautiously and looked at the title, 'My Like if a Video Game.'

Percy wanted to chuckle at the name for the game, 'sorry man my life already is a video game.' Percy walked away from the counsel and began his search again, it had been at least an three hours since he came in here and he had nothing to show for it.

PErcy eventually felt like giving up when suddenly he had an idea. If they were the children of Hades that meant they probably could control the shadows. So all Percy had to do is use his man scent and feel for people with that ability!

Percy immediately closed his eyes and activated Gamer's mind drowning out the sound form the roo. He reached out with his mana sense skill and spread it outwards. It went out like a sonar wave and a huge barrage of information came back to Percy.

Ping!

A new skill has been created!

Mana wavesense , Lv-1 - A wave of mana is sent outwards allowing you to feel the area around you like a sonar. Cost - 200 MP

It seemed the air itself was infected with the mind manipulation charm and that the gaming console everyone was playing was the thing that finally trapped a person here. Percy could also feel a variety of different demigods inside the casino, some where children of Apollo, others were children of Athena, but one….one felt unique, almost like Percy knew that scent of mana.

Percy eyes opened wide as he quickly turned to that familiar scent of mana and found a man standing in front of him over a billiards table playing with other people. Percy looked at the man's name and title;

Jonathan Filius, Son of Poseidon

Lv- 28

Percy's eyes shot open, 'another son of Poseidon?! How the hell is this guy alive?!' Percy looked at the man and noticed he looked old, around his late 20's to say the least. The man also was dressed like an american soldier during world war 2, meaning this man had been trapped in here the same time as Nico and Bianca!

Percy then looked around, there were so many demigod inside this place. A daughter of Hermes that looked like he came right out of the 60's, a son of Ares dressed up like a punk with a purple mohawk, a daughter of Demetre that resembled someone from the late 1920's, a son of Hecate that looked like he was part of a biker gang.

They all were trapped in here, most were around Percy's age, a few older like his….his brother.

'I need to get them out of here,' Percy realised, 'I need to get them all out of here. But….but if I do then will they survive? The world outside has changed so much….would they be able to adapt?...should I even try? No! No! I cannot be the judge on this, I will not! They will decided, I'll take them back to camp, if they don't want to stay and wish to come back to the casino then fine, but I will give them that choice.'

So Percy moved, he activated his super speed and grabbed every single one of the demigod he could find. He first grabbed his half brother Jonathan and threw him into the inventory. He quickly ran through the game room floor and grab each and every demigod he could and then dropped them into his inventory.

Percy had collected a total of 21 new demigod, not including little Percy, but he still wasn't done.

"Stop right there!" A security gaurd called out as several started to chase after Percy.

"Oh bite me," Percy mummered as he poured mana into his crystal and summoned Zed, Timmy and Craig. The monsters looked at Percy for orders, "distract them, I need to get something."

The three nodded and they launched into battle with the security guards, who were actually monsters in disguise. The moment the battle started the monsters shed of their skins and revealed a huge plant like body underneath. Roots and vines made up their muscles while tree barks made up their bones.

"This is going to be fun!" Timmy said as he formed blades out of the wind.

"Finally I get someone who like to talk!" Zed cried out, "this one," he pointed at Craig, "doesn't like to banter."

"I simply have less to say," Craig grumbled out as the three jumped into battle with the plant monsters.

Percy zoomed across the floor sending wave after wave of mana to sense Nico and Bianca. Finally he got a hit, he felt something cold and dark, two somethings in fact. Percy turned to one corner of the room and saw two children at the corner playing chess.

'Chess?...Well I suppose that fits, after all they wouldn't' know what a videogame is,' Percy ran and stopped right in front of them drawing both their attentions away from the board and to him.

"Can we help you?" The girl asked. She looked around 12 and had olive skin like PErcy. She and her brother both had black hair and black eyes, and both wore very old clothes. Nico had a pair of slack with suspender on over a coat while his sister wore a red dress with a scarf around her neck.

"Yeah, I'm here to get you both out of this place," Percy said as the two siblings slowly got of their seats.

"Really? You don't seem like the lawyer we talked to before," Bianca said suspicious.

"Oh who cares," Nico groaned, "it's been forever since we left!"

"Don't exaggerate Nico, it's only been a month"

"A month? Sigh, we'll deal with that later. Look I'm a friend of your dad's" PErcy explained, "well not friend, I'm just doing a favour for him."

"You know our dad?" Nico asked with his eyes sparkling, "who is he?"

"It's a long story kid, look I just need you two to come with me," Percy said looking around to see Zed cut one of the flower guards into pieces, "now."

"No hold on just a minute, we will not be going anywhere with you unless-"

"-I don't have time for this!" Percy yelled out as he grabbed Bianca and carried her like a bride. He opened his inventory and threw her inside before turning to Nico.

"What did you do to my sister?!" Nico shouted as he charged Percy with fists clenched trying to hurt him.

"Relax kid she's safe," Percy said catching both of Nico's fists and lighting him up, "and now your turn."

"Get off! I demand you get off me!" Nico yelled out but Percy ignored him throwing him into the inventory and closing it.

Percy then turned to his servants, "it's time to go!"

"Right!" They responded as they dissolved into smoke and entered Percy's gem.

Percy then turned around and took off in a breakneck pace past the Gaming room and through the Casino entrance.

Percy stopped the moment he reached outside, it was night time. Percy looked at his watch and saw that it was working again. It was around 9 in the night, Percy had been trapped in there for more than 11 hours!

'Maybe it's some kind of time manipulation charm,' Percy wondered as he looked back to see whether he was followed, he wasn't, he got out scott free.

Percy sighed in relief and then began to walk out into the Vegas night. The city was so much different from just 11 hours ago, there were lights on everywhere and people were out and about dressed up in their best.

Percy was amazed at all he saw, it almost made him want to enter a real casino and try out his luck, but he had a mission to complete. Maybe he would come here for his birthday or something.

Percy smiled and put on his goggles activating his helmet, he had to admit, this thing was kid of growing on him. He then activated his super speed and zoomed out of the city leaving the lights behind.

It took three hours of constant running for him to get hungry again. This time he chose a Taco Bell to get something to eat and after the quick pit stop he continued his run. He reached camp at 1 in the night, and immediately went to the Big House to find someone, anyone to help him out with the extra demigods he had brought with him.

Percy stopped running in front of the porch and quickly entered the big building. He looked round and found the War room's door was slightly ajar. 'They must be having a meeting,' Percy realised as he quickly walked into the room pushing open the door.

The room immediately stopped all talking and all turned to face Percy. Percy saw all the head counselors there, including Chiron, Dionysus and an awake Thalia.

"Percy, your back!" Annabeth cheered as she ran up and hugged Percy.

"Wow, I wasn't' gone that long was I?" Percy asked as he tried to avoiding thinking about the way Annabeth's boobs were pressed up against him.

"I was worried, we tried to Iris message you but couldn't get through," Annabeth explained breaking the hug.

"Hey man," Travis and Connor Stool stood up and hugged Percy next, "we thought you were in trouble or something."

"No, nothing bad happened, I just ran into some unexpected trouble," Percy said hugging both the brothers before turning to Chiron, "heya teacher, fancy seeing you here."

Chiron smiled, "get over here Percy."

Percy smiled and quickly went and tightly hugged his old teacher, "it's good to have yo back Chiron, you wouldn't believe how much of a nut case your replacement was."

"Oh I have an idea," Chiron said grining, "something about him crazy, right Lord Dionysus?"

The Olympian huffed, "whatever. Now, I heard you had some kind of self imposed quest Peter Johnson, care to share?"

Percy raised an eyebrow, "didn't Annabeth tell you Lord Dionysius?"

"I didn't know whether you wanted me to tell them or not," Annabeth explained, "considering the nature of the problem."

"Right, well it all started yesterday night when I received a message from Hades, he needed a favour from me."

"You did that God a favour?!" A sharp voice through. Percy turned and saw Thalia walk upto to him with a smell of ozone flowing off her.

"What's with the hostility sparky? You know people usually wait until I say something to them before, they get pissed of."

"Hades is the reason I got turned into a fucking tree," Thalia narrowed her eyes, "and don't call me sparky."

"Right, forgot about the whole tree thing. Well I did do him a favour, but it wasn't for him, it was for his kids," Percy said as the two stared each other down, Percy was much shorter than Thalia, but his presence was stronger than hers. Now that he looked closely Percy realised the girl was even prettier awake. He hair was spiked and all over the place and the blue highlights really matched her electric blue eyes. Her thighs looked like they were going to tear her jeans, and the way her legs kept going on and on…., 'okay, I have a problem.'

"Wait, kids?" Lee Fletcher asked, "Hades had kids? As in plural?"

Percy turned away from Thalia and nodded, "he had two kids, a girl and a boy."

"Great, just what we need, more annoying brats," Dionysus said finishing his drink in swing, "it's time like this when I wish I could still drink."

"Where are they Percy? Did you mage to get them?" Annabeth asked.

Percy nodded, "yeah, I got them. Well…..more like kidnapped them. I didn't really have time to explain to them what was going on, so I just tossed them into my storage space and moved on."

"Storage space?" Selina asked confused, "what do you mean?"

Percy sighed, "right, you guy's don't know. Well it doesn't matter now, Kronos and his army knows, there's no point keeping my powers a secret from you guys any more. Annabeth could you explain, I'm exhausted."

"Percy has a unique power," Annabeth explained letting Percy sit down and relax, "it allows him to create unique pocket dimensions."

"Pocket dimensions?" Thalia asked surprised, "what the hell are those?"

"It's when a large amount of space is folded into itself so that it only occupies a small amount of space in our world," Chris Benkendorf spoke up.

Annabeth nodded, "right, and Percy has access to different kinds. He has one in which he puts and carries everything he owns, sometimes he can even carry people in it."

"He saved my life using that trick," Clarisse spoke up as she slammed her hand on Percy's back, "I still owe you for that water brain."

Percy smiled and Annabeth continued, "he calls this pocket dimension of his 'The Inventory,' like the kind people use in video games. He can also create whole new worlds filled with monsters that he, and sometimes us, use to train ourselves."

"He can make a new world?!" Thalia asked shocked.

"Wicked!" Travis and Conner yelled out together.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Castor, the son of Dionysus asked.

"I didn't trust you all before," Percy shrugged, "in my defence I had just learnt that I was a unique individual in a world where flying horses are considered normal. I was scared to trust you all."

"You saved our lives Percy," Lee Fletcher said, "you really think we would have betrayed you?"

Percy narrowed his eyes at Dionysus and the God shook his head. Percy wanted permission to tell the other about the fact that there might be a spy among them, but the god denied him.

Percy sighed, "look that's all in the past now. What matters is the future. War is coming to our door steps, we need to be ready."

"Any suggestions oh fearless leader?" Thalia asked sarcastically.

"Many my dimwitted subordinate," Percy replied back.

"Subordinate?! Who the hell you calling a subordinate?!" Thalia shouted out as the ozone around her grew thicker.

"I love the fact that you had a problem with subordinate and not with the fact I called you stupid."

"Oh good lord," Thalia groaned, "is he always this annoying?"

"Yes," everyone spoke up instantly.

Percy huffed, "liars."

"Etherway we are getting off topic," Chiron said drawing everyone back to topic, "Percy those children you brought back, are they alright?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, physically at least. I'm not to sure about their mental health. I had to drag them out of the Lotus Hotel and Casino."

"What's that?" Selina asked.

"Do you remember the legend of Odysseus and the Lotus people?" Annabeth asked. Everyone nodded, "well this place is basically the modern version of them."

"How do you know that?" Percy asked surprised.

"I researched it while you were gone," Annabeth replied.

"Right, anyway I found them trapped inside, they thought that they had only been in there for around a month or so, but in reality they had been in that place for more than 60 years."

"Woah," Lee whistled out, "so they are from the 1940's?"

Percy nodded, "right, and so when I bring them out of my pocket dimension they are going to be confused, we need to help them readjust to life."

"Right then," Chiron said, "bring them out Percy, let's get this over with."

Percy nodded and opened his inventory, "oh and there's one more thing I forgot to mention."

"What?"

"They weren't the only demigods trapped in there," Percy said getting odd looks from everyone, "there were lot's of people trapped in the hotel and a few of them were demigods. Some of them were adults while the others were around our age. I didn't know what to do with them, so I brought them all anyway."

"Percy," Dionysus asked with a shaky voice, "h-how many new demigods did you find?"

Percy started to count all of them in his inventory before answering, "24, I brought back 24 demigods."

The demigods looked shocked and impressed at the number while Chiron just smiled in approval of Percy's act of heroism. Dionysus however stopped moving, slowly his eyes rolled to the back of the head as the god lost his grip on his can of coke fell. He then fell off the chair and fainted on the spot.