The camp was is in chaos that night. However Percy and the other head counselors quickly managed to get everyone to calm down and established some sort of order to the chaos. A patrol system was set up fast. The barrier couldn't be relied on, they needed a way to make sure monsters didn't attack them. Percy had summoned Zed, Craig and Alecto and ordered the three to help secure the camp's boundaries and make sure no monster even thinks of entering the place.

As soon as that was done Percy and the rest of the head councillors gathered in their war room where Chiron and Mr. D were waiting for them. They sat down in their respective seats to plan what to do next.

"It's obvious isn't it," Mr. D said, "we get the campers out of this place, move them somewhere safer, like Hawaii."

"You just want to go to Hawaii," Percy said crossing his arms. The Olympian shrugged and snapped his finger causing a can of diet coke to appear.

"We need to make the tree healthy again," Annabeth said drawing everyone's attention to her.

"The Apollo campers are already on it," Lee Fletcher, a young man of 15 with spiky black hair, deep blue eyes and present head counselor of Apollo cabin, stated.

"What can you tell us about what caused the tree to weaken?" Chiron asked.

"Well, basically it's been poisoned. In the center of the trunk you can see something green and acidic pour out of the tree. The way the tree bark is dying around it also supports the poisoned theory."

"Have you identified which poison?" Chiron asked.

"Sadly no."

"Can't you do something to heal it though?" asked Silena Beauregard, a young teen of 14 with blue eyes and black hair and also the head counselor of Aphrodite cabin.

"Nothing specific without knowing what we are trying to cure. That's like blindfolding a doctor and asking him out to pick random pills to cure a problem he doesn't know his patient has."

Percy nodded, "okay that makes sense, but what about the potions I get for you guys? The ones' Michael brings back?"

Lee shook his head, "yeah those don't work either. They slow the poison down for a few second but then it's back."

Percy cursed under his breath. Maybe a better grade of potion would do the trick?

"Well…not really. If there was something we would know about it," Lee said before standing up, "look if you guys will excuse me I need to get back to the others, the longer time I waste the less chance we have at saving the tree."

Chiron nodded, "understood Lee, go on," after the son of Apollo left Chiron began again, "etherway if this goes on we need contingency plans, several of them."

"And what do you suggest Chiron," Mr. D asked sipping his drink, "take all the kids to Olympus perhaps?" The Olympian spoke in a very mocking tone laughing at his own jab.

Percy raised an eyebrow, "yeah...why not? I'm sure our parents won't mind. At least for some time until we can restore the barrier again."

Mr. D blinked, "I was joking Peter Johnson-"

"-It's Percy Jackson," the son of Poseidon cut in with a glare, "and I wasn't joking. I am dead serious here, all we ask is a few days on Olympus."

"The Gods will never allow it Jackson."

"And why not? We're their kids! At least 3 of them have more than 10 kids living in camp right now and the only ones who don't have children are Hera, Artemis and Zeus, all of whom would probably not object to us being there. Hell don't you want your kid to live?!" Percy was now standing up with a anger in his eyes as he started down the wine god opposite to him.

Castor, son of the wine god himself looked to his father for an answer. Mr. D narrowed his eyes as he put away his drink, "listen to me very closely boy, we are immortal beings, symbols of the very domains we control, and the only way we can maintain our power is by following the ancient rules, if we break them it won't just be your lives on the line, it will be everyone's."

"No," Mr. D said, taking a swing from his chalice, "if there was we would do it."

"So we can't expect help from the gods then?"

"Yes."

Percy got up and walked to the door. "Where are you going Percy?" Chiron asked, his face filled with concern as was some of the other demigods.

"I'm going to see whether I can help the Apollo cabin members out. I learnt a healing rune over the year, it could be useful for them," and with that Percy left slamming the door behind him. Outside the Big House the cold night air hit him hard. Percy took it all in before walking towards Thalia's tree.

The tree was surrounded by several Apollo campers that were conducting experiment on it. Most collected samples and left to figure out what was causing all of this while some tried a variety of spells to heal it. Percy walked up to Michael who stood next to the tree with Percy's staff of healing.

"Any good news Micheal?" Percy asked Michael who smiled.

"Good to see you man," Michael said giving Percy a hug, "and no, nothing works on this thing, nothing."

Percy nodded to the staff, "not even that?"

Percy nodded as he bent down to get a good look at the infected area in the tree. It was just like Lee described it, green in the center with the wood rotting around it. Percy used Observe;

Elder snake poison;

Poison obtained from an Elder snake found deep inside Taurus itself. It is known to be one of the most deadly poisons in the world with virtually no weakness from it's poison.

Cause -100 HP per minute.

Percy sighed. "You got something?" Michael asked.

"Elder Snake poison," Percy said as he got up, "at least that's what I think it is."

Michael raised an eyebrow, "because of your sensory powers?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. It feels scales, like a snake and very very dark. The kind of darkness that I find stains monsters that have been to Tartarus. Also it's so strong enough it's melting a protection made by the god's themselves, so we have snake+Tartarus + Powerful, answer is..."

"Elder snake poison," Michael concluded looking amazed, "that's amazing."

"Wait..no, that's not amazing! Elder snake poisons has virtually no cure! There is nothing we can do!"

"Isn't there something in Greek legends that could help us?"

Michael shook his head, "no. The only one that could even possibly help us right now is my dad, and he can't really interfere because-"

"Because of the ancient laws, yeah I got it," Percy sighed. If only he had something in hand that could save the tree. Something powerful, something….wait…..did he?

But before Percy could think further on that subject a voice called out, "monster!" Percy and Michael turned and looked into the forest and sure enough charging towards them were two very big monsters.

Percy blinked, "is that….a robot bull?"

Charging right passed several demigods heading straight into camp was a pair of bronze bulls. They stood at over 20 feet tall with red eyes and smoke coming out of their nostrils. Percy could see gears underneath their surface as a molten hot core roared inside all that metal.

Colchis Bull

Lv-20

MP:0/0

Str-42

Vit-32

Dex-21

Int-2

Wis-1

Luc-0

The Colchis Bull was made by Hephaestus and given to King Aeetes as a gift. Jason faced three beats in battle and domesticated them using them to plough a field, needless to say the bulls were very humiliated.

Kill to gain-15,000 Exp

"Earthquake From!" Percy drew back his left hand and channeled his Earthquake powers and Body form into that arm.

Body Form Activated: Left Arm

Percy then jumped and slammed his fist right between the bull's head destroying the metal plates on top along with the machinery underneath;

Damage- 800 Attack X 4 from Body Form = 3,200 Attack!

Critical strike - 2,500% of 3,200 Attack = 80,000 Attack!

The bull exploded outwards, it's part were being broken from the inside out as a shock wave flew out from Percy's fist breaking the ground underneath his fist. The ground began to sink downwards as Percy jumped away deactivating his powers. He looked up to find the second bull run right past the barrier and Michael, throwing the demigod to the side with its horns.

"Michael!" Percy dashed over to his friend and checked on his health giving the bull enough time to go right into camp. Percy however didn't care about that instead choosing to look at his friend's injuries.

Michael was bleeding profusely from the gut, Percy didn't have time to go get Ambrosia from the Big House, he put his hand on the wound applying pressure on it. He then controlled the blood in his own body to cut itself out forming the healing runes across Michael's body.

'Please work,' Percy told himself as he began charging up the runes. He had only ever used the runes to heal himself as a test subject, even though it is meant to heal others and not oneself. Percy focused and slowly the runes began to shine bright blue as slowly but surely Michael's wounds began to close themselves up.

Percy sighed, he looked at Michael's health bar and saw he had stabilised. Percy's health went down by 500 points but that didn't really matter;

Percy HP: 4,500/5,0000

Percy used the staff of healing to fix Micheal up to a stable condition before he used his Speed Demon perk to dash into camp. He followed the noise and quickly found the bull near the campfire pit. Most of the campers were running away from the thing, but one stood their ground.

Percy watched Clarisse as she fought the Colchis bull with nothing but a spear and shield. The daughter of Ares had gotten better at handling the spear and used this new skill of her's to shove the weapon through the bull's neck before electrocuting it with the spear's special properties.

"ARR!" The bull roared as it shook its head throwing Clarisse to one side.

Percy dashed to the side catching the demigoddess before she hit the ground before putting her to the side, "you've gotten better at using that."

"Yeah I have," Clarisse said eyeing her spear still embedded inside the bull who was now looking at Percy and Clarisse getting ready to rush them.

"Need help?"

"Nope," Clarisse said walking towards the bull who puffed smoke at her.

"You sure?"

"Yup," Clarisse then dashed towards the bull who charged forward. It opened it's mouth and released a blast of fire, Clarisse jumped to the side trying to avoid all the flames but knew there was some that was about to hit her. She closed her eyes waiting for the pain, only it didn't come.

She opened her eyes and saw a wall of shadows appear in front of her, protecting her from the fire. She looked at Percy and nodded. He dropped the wall of shadows and Clarisse ran. The bull looked surprised to see the demigoddess still alive but before it could do anything Clarisse slid under its neck, grabbed her spear handle and pushed it deeper inside cutting off its neck.

The bull's head exploded as it slowly fell to the side allowing Clarisse to stand up and remove the spear from it's neck. The demigoddess panted as Percy walked up to her, "anyone hurt?"

"No, but these things always hunt in pairs. Where's the other one?"

"I got it, Michael's hurt but I managed to stabilize his health before I came for this one."

Clarisse nodded, "good," she looked around and sighed, "gods this is a f.u.c.k.i.n.g mess."

The rest of the night was spent taking the heavy metal bull away from the camp fire ground. Percy helped out with that, he was technically the strongest demigod there so he was stuck with the heavy lifting.

Michael managed to make a full recovery by morning and meet up with Percy later to give him what the first Colchis Bull left behind as loot. It was 300$ a celestial bronze ingot, which was new, and a map, this time showing directions to one of Hephaestus's secret forges located in Montana, this one had the symbol of an Ox next to it, which means that it probably has a giant robot bull hidden somewhere.

It was a few days later when Percy found himself near the campfire again with a fully healed Michael sitting next to him.

"All I'm saying is you need a cooler name for your attacks you know?" Michael said pointing a finger at Percy, "like 'Destruction punch' or 'Breaker fist', not Earthquake Form, that's just so lame!"

Percy sighed as he looked through his item list, "why exactly do you want me to have a nickname for all of my attacks?"

"Because it would sound cooler!"

"'Earthquake Punch' is cool!"

"To you maybe, but as an attack it just sounds so….lame."

Percy ignored Micheal as he continued to look through his item list. From the moment that he had seen the description about what the venom was something had been bugging him. He didn't know what, but whenever he got feelings like this it usually meant something was up, something big.

Just then he noticed it, the very thing he got from hunting that Lamia with Artemis on his Birthday nearly a year ago;

Lamia's fang

Consuming this will cure a person of any snake venom.

If this thing could really do that then Percy already had the solution for the tree problem! Percy grinned as he got up startling Michael.

"Where are you going?" the son of Apollo asked.

"Bathroom," Percy replied as he walked towards the Big House leaving Michael behind.

"I know you're lying Percy!" Michael shouted back

"Fine I lied! I'm actually going to bed, night!"

"That's also a lie!" Michael shot back but Percy ignored him as he made his way towards the Big House.

As he approached the building he noticed Chiron standing outside with Mr. D and a man who looked like a walking mummy. Percy quickly moved to the shadows as he quietly moved closer. There wasn't much shade near the Big House so he had to get created. Percy closed his eyes and activated his Shadow Spy skill;

Shadow Spying, Lv- 1 (90%)

You can use send your mana to infected another person shadow. For a certain time you will be able to hear whatever the person say and hears.

Mana- 10 MP every minute it is in use

Limit- 12 hours.

Percy rarely ever used the skill, usually for eavesdropping on teachers and such, but now he used it to spy on Chiron's conversation with the others.

"I am telling you Lord Dionysus I did not poison the tree!" Chiron protested loudly.

"And I believe you Chiron, but father doesn't. He think you are a spy working for Kronos."

"But I am not-"

"I know old friend," Dionysis interrupted, "but father's orders are final. He has ordered you gone and has ordered Tantalus here to replace you."

Percy's eyes shot up in surprise. He wanted to jump out right now and call bull shit on the whole situation but luckily he used Gamer's mind to maintain his cool and waited the conversation out.

"Dionysis the children-"

"-Will be fine, I swear it on the Synx," thunder rumbled signalling the legitimacy of the God's oath, "now leave before Zeus forces me to make you leave. And be safe, do you have anywhere to go?"

"My cousins," Chiron said after a few seconds, "they should be able to help me until this is all over."

"Then go."

"Good bye Lord Dionysus, remember your promise."

"Always." Percy heard the cl.i.c.k.i.n.g of Chiron's feet as he walked away. The demigod wanted to jump out and see his teacher one last time but he knew he had to wait. "Tantalus go inside and make yourself comfortable, I just need a quick drink and then I will join you."

"Of course my Lord," the thin man had a frail voice to match, like he hadn't had anything to drink in a long time.

Percy heard the door slam shut and decided to move, slowly sneaking away when suddenly, "where do you think you are going Peter Johnson?" 'Well shit,' Percy cursed, 'I knew I should have leveled up my sneaking ability!'

Percy sighed as he walked out of the shadows facing Dionysus with a hard look, "why?"

"Chiron is the son of Kronos," this surprised Percy but luckily Gamer's mind helped him process this, after all everyone was related to everyone in the Greek Pantheon, "Zeus believes this attack on camp, the poisoning of the tree, was done by Chiron."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "is Zeus a fool?" The sky rumbled but Percy didn't really care as he carried on, "Chiron loves this camp, he cares for us all, even more than some of our parents do. Why would Zeus ever think that?"

Mr. D shrugged, "I don't know Peter. But what I do know is that we have a spy amongst our midsts."

"How?"

"Campers do patrol the borders at night, the only way anyone could have attacked the tree is if they knew when the patrol timing where, something only a few handful of people here know."

"Like?"

"Me, Chiron and the Head counselors."

Percy frowned, he didn't like the sound of that. They might not be as close as Percy is to Michael or Nina but the head councillors and the son of Poseidon had nothing but respect and liking for each other. If one of them was a spy…..this is something he would have to look into.

"Now I think it is time you went to bed Peter, and do not mention a word about the spy to anyone, understood?"

"Understood. Oh and I found a cure by the way," Percy said pulling out the Lamia fang tossing it to the god who caught it, "Lamia fang, can cure any snake poison."

The god nodded, "ture. But these are only effective on a man, not a tree."

Percy blinked, "wait….." Percy Observed the fang again;

Lamia's fang

Consuming this will cure a person of any snake venom.

"SHIT!" Percy cursed throwing his hands up, "I can't believe this! F.u.c.k.e.d over by a technicality! It's just one word, 'person'! Just one word and everything get's f.u.c.k.e.d up!"

Dionysus smiled as he threw the fang back to Percy who quickly put it away, "it still matters. It's magic is tuned for humans not tress."

"Wait...isn't Thalia, the one inside the tree human?"

Dionysus nodded, "yes, but she is dead and the tree is the living one. Don't think too hard on this, go to bed Perseus, we have a long summer ahead of us."

Percy clammed down sighing, "right, night Mr. D," Percy turned away from the god walking to his cabin. He suddenly stopped halfway as his eyes shot up, "wait….he called me Perseus!"

The next week went by quickly for Percy and the rest of camp. Tantalus was a very cruel and nasty camp worker, he was also the dumbass who tried to steal an apple of immortality from the Gods and got sent to Hades for his trouble.

He was a son of Zeus, hence why he acted like he had a stick up his a.s.s all the time. Percy didn't like the guy, and he didn't like Percy ether. They would constantly get into fights with the end result being Percy insulting the man causing him to get lunch cleaning duty. Percy didn't complain while being punished, no that would make Tantalus happy. Instead he shut up and did his chores and soon time went on.

It seemed the Colchis bulls managed to get passed Zed and the others the first time because they weren't paying attention, luckily that didn't happen again. A bonus from having his servant protect the camp was the fact that he still got Exp and loot from them. After a week of nonstop fighting Percy gained enough to level up along with a lot of loot;

Percy Jackson

Health-4,350/4,350 (+1000) = 5,350

Mana-2,150/2,150(+1000) = 3,150

The Gamer

Title- Son of Poseidon

(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)

Level-24 Exp- 10,110/79,000

Race-Demigod

STR-50(+20)=70

VIT-52(+6+20)=78

DEX-35(+6+20)=61

INT-43

WIS-32

LUC-50

POINTS-65

MONEY- 142,577$/1,088D

Money gained as loot- 10,000 $/200 D

Health potions- 30 (Low grade) 12 (Medium grade)

Weapon- 20 sword, 32 spears, 21 shields

Percy gave most of the potions to the Apollo cabin and all of the weapons were stored in the weapon's shack.

Percy also finally drank the essence of forest he got from the Gergosa incident a year ago. After learning from Annabeth that what he had in hand was an elixir of sorts he downed the bottle in one go;

You have consumed the bottle of forest essence! Every time you enter a forest you will gain +5 to all stats as a domain effect!

The effect was basically like his water body bonus accept it was a lot less powerful;

You have entered a forest!

+5 to all stats!

It was after one of the capture the flag games, which Percy was forbidden from playing thanks to Tantalus, that Mr. D finally decided to do something about the tree. They were right now around the campfire with the whole camp amid celebrations.

"Listen all," Mr. D spoke calling everyone's attention to him, "the gods have decided on a quest to save Thalia's tree," murmurs spread through the campers but Percy didn't speak, "they have decided for a quest to be given to find and retrieve The Golden fleece of legend to heal the tree and improve the strength of the barrier," again people started to talk, most looked at Percy thinking he was the one going to be selected but Dionysis spoke again, "and we have selected Clarisse La Rue to go on this journey."

The camp burst into cheers or boos, Clarisse still had a reputation of a bully. The daughter of Ares looked surprised as she stood up and spoke, "why me?"

Tantalus stood up and smiled, "the way you took care of the Colchis bull impressed the gods Clarisse. They have, in their infinite wisdom, decided to give you this quest, you and no one else," he narrowed his eyes at Percy.

"Wait does that mean I have to do this alone?!"

"That's crazy!" Peter,one of Clarisse's brothers, yelled out along with the rest of Ares cabin. They believed in their sister, but they weren't delusional.

"Silence!" Tantalus said shutting everyone up, "the gods have decided! And you as their children will obey! Clarisse La Rue has proven herself in battle and hence has been given this honour. She will get the fleece and she will save the camp, isn't that right Ms. LaRue?"

Clarisse blinked, "yeah sure….but ah...where exactly is the Golden Fleece anyway?"

"Somewhere in the Sea of Monsters," Mr. D said taking a sip from his bottle of coke.

Clarisse face remained cool, but those who knew her well they could tell she was panicking on the inside. Percy was the same. He knew Clarisse was probably the most skilled demigod they had, second only to a few people. But he also knew her limits, and traveling a to the Sea of Monsters was basically suicidal!

"Now everyone go back to your cabins," Tantalus coughed gaining everyone's attention, "Clarisse come with us, it is time for you to receive your quest from the Oracle."

The daughter of Ares nodded as she walked away. The rest of camp went to their cabins, but a few remained. Percy, Nina, Annabeth and Michael snuck off to Percy's cabin where Percy pulled them into an empty ID before they snuck into the Big House from the empty dimension.

They went to the attic and Percy pulled them out into the real world again startling Clarisse who stood right next to the mummified remains of the Oracle.

"Shit!" Clarisse said startled, "what the f.u.c.k are you guys doing here?!"

"We snuck in," Annabeth said making sure the attic door is locked tight so that Mr. D and Tantalus who were both right below them couldn't come up.

"You know for emotional support," Michael said giving a big smile.

"How did you sneak pass Mr. D?!" Clarisse hissed out.

"We used the empty dimensions that Percy can make in order to sneak in. We managed to get here through that place and then he pulled us into the real world," Annabeth explained.

"That's amazing," Clarisse admitted before frowning, "wait….is that how you always seem to be able to sneak past every enemy in capture the flag?"

"Ah...that's not important right now," Percy said rubbing his neck, "did you get your quest?"

"Oh no you don't Mr. Cheater, from now on you are banned from playing any capture the flag games!" Clarisse hissed out.

"Well...except for the one's with the Hunters," Nina said. The other looked at her before evil smiles spread across their faces.

Percy blinked clueless, "ah guys….what's going on?"

"We'll explain later," Annabeth said before turning to Clarisse, "you got a quest?"

The daughter of Ares sighed, "yeah. 'You shall sail the iron sh.i.p.s with warrior's of bone. You shall find what you seek and make it your own. But despair for your life entombed within stone. And fail without friends, to fly home alone.'"

"Okay good news you're definitely going to find the fleece," Percy said.

"Bad news is that I am totally going to die if I do this alone," Clarisse remarked, "why do do the gods want me to do this alone?! It makes no sense!"

Michael shrugged, "who knows. The gods are always such cunts." The other blinked at him, "what?! It's true!"

Percy sighed, "and you always tell the truth," Michael laughed while Percy continued, "okay so it says that you will sail in an iron ship with warriors of bone."

"Maybe it's something the camp has," Annabeth said, "like a gift from the gods, and you will be served by….ah…."

"Skeletons?" Nina offered.

"Right! So that's done, what's next?"

"And but despair for your life entombed within stone," Michael said. Clarisse glared at him, "ah maybe avoid that one."

The daughter of Ares sighed, "what really has me bothered is the part that says I'll fail without friends, meaning I need people with me."

Percy nodded, "okay...then we'll come with you."

"But Percy Tan-"

"Not right away," Percy interrupted, "you go ahead first and then we will sneak out of camp and catch up with you."

"And how are we going to get to her?" Nina asked.

Percy shrugged, "we'll figure it out somehow. But for now that's the plan, any objections?" They shook their heads, "good. Now we need to get going," and with that they all left via Percy's pocket dimension and no one was any wiser, well no one except Mr. D who had a big smile on his face.

Percy dropped each one back in their own cabins before he went back to his own. He opened the cabin door and walked in. He sighed taking off his leather jacket putting it on his bed, "you know you really must be more alert of your surroundings."

Percy moved before the voice finished speaking. He jumped across the bed and threw punch to where he heard the voice.

Body Form Activated: Right Arm.

The punch hit the figure's open palm, Percy rolled to the side and sent a kick at said person's head which they also blocked. Percy opened his palm and sent a blast of ice right into where the person's face would be.

Suddenly Percy felt himself being thrown out of his window crashing through rolling outside. The demigod quickly got to his feet and opened his inventory putting on the gauntlet of kefka. Percy took out Riptide and turned to his cabin door which slowly opened revealing the person who he attacked.

"Artemis?" Percy blinked at the silver eyed goddess, "w-what are you doing here?"

The goddess of the hunt smiled, "meet me at the Fist of Zeus, we have much to discuss." Before Percy could answer she disappeared in a blur of speed, she didn't teleport she just ran that fast. Percy could keep up a little, but not by much.

Percy sighed, he got his jacket and quickly formed an ice wall in his now damaged window sill, it was going to be a pain in the a.s.s to replace that.

Percy snuck into the forest like he had done many times before and walked to the Fist of Zeus. Artemis sat on top the rock figure crossed legged as she sharpened several of her arrows. She looked oddly at peace sitting on the rough surface as she glowed from the moon light falling on her.

She looked up and smiled at Percy, "you took longer than I thought."

"Well I just wanted time to wonder if this was a prank or something."

Artemis chuckled as she put away her arrows with a snap of her finger, "I assure you I am not trying to prank you."

"I on the other hand just might," said a new voice. Percy turned and out of the tree line walked a man with salt and pepper hair and blue eyes. He wore running short with a t-shirt saying 'New York Marathon' and on his face was a familiar grin.

"You're late," Artemis told the newcomer with narrowed eyes. She then turned to Percy, "Percy this is-"

"Hermes, Luke's dad," Percy said looking at man.

"How did you-oh right you have the ability to sense people out," Hermes said grinning, "you probably recognized my power from the Hermes cabin right?"

"No," Percy said surprising the god of thieves, "it's that stupid grin you have on. Ever single Hermes kid I ever met has the same bloody grin." 'That and your name and title is floating right above your head.'

Hermes, Messenger of the Gods

Lv-?

HP:?

MP:?

Race- Olympian

Str-?

Vit-?

Dex-?

Int-?

Wis-?

Luc-?

Son of Zeus and Maia, this god is know for many different achievement in life even before he became a god. He has a variety of different domains under his belt and is known to be a jack of all trades. He loves all his children dearly and is always looking out for them however he can.

Likes: His children, his family, his job and the human race

Dislikes: Titans, Hubris, not being able to be there for his kids and broccoli

Thinks Percy is an okay guy, hopes Percy will be able to bring Luke back

He feels hopeful

Percy was surprised reading Hermes's profile. He loved his children and he hated not being there for them. And this was the guy Luke had a problem with?!

"Haha I see," Hermes said rubbing his neck still grining, "well my kids do get their good looks from me."

"So what exactly do you guys want from me?" Percy asked, "I'm guessing this isn't just a social visit."

"Not exactly, but it is nice seeing you again Percy, how long has it been? A year?" Artemis asked getting off the rock structure standing straight.

"Yeah, almost a year," Percy smiled.

"Wow," Hermes said blinking, "I didn't think I would ever see the day where the man hater Artemis would be making small talk with a man."

Artemis shot the god of thieves a glare which immediately shut him up. She sighed and turned to Percy, her face turned stone cold and Percy got serious as well, "it's about the quest Clarisse La Rue is going on."

Percy nodded, "yeah, what about it?"

"We," Hermes started, "the gods that is, want your friends to join her."

Percy looked taken back. He was surprised and his brain suddenly started thinking of different reason as to why this was asked before Gamer's mind activated allowing Percy to form a path of questioning, "okay first off all I thought you guys were the ones who wanted her to go alone."

"A trick to make the spy think she would be alone," Artemis said, "Zeus is concerned about the spy in your midst, he wants your friends to sneak onboard Clarisse's ship just after she leaves and help her on this quest. That way the spy will have no idea about the extra people Clarisse has helping her."

Percy nodded , "okay….that sounds great and all but something has been bothering me. You said, 'my friends,' and not me. Don't you guys want me go with them?"

Hermes cleared his throat drawing attention to him, "well no, you have another job."

"What kind of job?"

Artemis narrowed her eyes, "Gergosa."

"What about them?"

"We got intel that the Titan army has a Gergosa creation site just off the coast of the Bahamas. It's an island called Nassau, it borders on the sea of monsters but is mostly unaffected, somewhere on that island a madman named Argo Kishin is creating Gergosa's we need you to stop him."

"Is this a solo assignment?"

"Yes it is," the goddess of the hunt paused before speaking, "do you accept?"

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Summer Quest!

Find and destroy Argo's base of operation in Nassau.

Survive the encounter.

Don't let a single Gergosa get off that island

Reward,

?

?

?

200,000 Exp

Failure,

Your death

Camp is destroyed

YES/NO?

Percy read the failure options and sighed, 'always the same thing. For once can't something nice happens if I fail? Like I get a slice of pizza or something?' He pressed the yes button and looked to Artemis and Hermes, "I accept."

The goddess and the god nodded. Hermes looked at his watch, "damn look at the time! I need to leave right now!" he snapped his finger and three yellow bags and one blue bag appeared in front of Percy, "use this during your journey. The yellow ones are for the others while the black one is for you."

And with that he flashed away. Percy closed and opened his eyes finding himself alone with Artemis once more, "so how have you been?"

"Good, the hunters and I have been busy, there has been a lot of monster activities lately, most go to join the Titans while the rest simply wish to kill and eat all demigods, like usual."

"I see….so anything exciting happen to you?"

"Exciting? Like what?"

"I don't know? Ah...meet any cool people? Did you travel? What do gods do anyway?"

Artemis shrugged as she sat down on the Fist of Zeus, "nothing much. It depends on the god, if you mean Hermes than he spends most of his time doing his duties as the messenger of the gods. But on the other hand there are gods like my brother who don't give two shits about their jobs and are more focused on getting laid or partying."

Percy nodded as he sat next to Artemis looking at the stars, "a god partying, wonder what's that like."

"Not that fun really, it's loud annoying and very boring."

"I thought that the Olympians had the best parties?"

"Well yes, but I'm not much of a party going god, I like my peace and quiet."

"I see, well I kind of get what you mean, the last party I went to was a mess," Percy said remembering that time in Boston right after he defeated Marchosias. He used the Mist to look like a 21 year old to sneak into a club with Grover Edward and….Luke.

"Wait...you went to a party?"

"Ah…," Percy looked like a deer caught in a set of highbeams, "yeah?"

"Aren't you a little young for that sort of thing?"

"Ah...yeah."

"So how did…..you used the mist didn't you."

"Ah...yeah."

Artemis shook her head, "irresponsible boy," she muttered causing Percy to look away in embarrassment. "So did you like it?"

Percy remembered the night, first he was confused by all the people there, and then came Attalia Ander. She taught him how to dance, gave him the confidence to even touch her before kissing him silly. Oh and there was also that minor kidnapping incident but that didn't ruin the night for him.

Percy smiled remembering the feeling of the woman's lips on his. Her soft auburn hair matched her red dress and her eyes shined like….wait, she had black hair. Percy blinked as slowly the mental image he had of Attalia changed to one of Artemis.

Percy shook his head clear and turned to the goddess who was still looking at him. "S-So how exactly am I supposed to get to Nassau?"

Artemis looked confused at the change of questioning but shrugged, "we got that covered," she said getting of the Fist of Zeus, "Tomorrow night, right after Clarisse leaves and your friends sneak aboard a ship will come to get you. It will be bright orange with sails of red and on it's flag with be a jolly roger with a cyclops's skull instead of a human's. The captain of the ship is…..an old friend of Hermes and will help you in your journey."

Percy lifted an eyebrow, the way she said friend meant there was a lot she was not telling him, "so who is this guy?"

Artemis smirked, "I'll let that be a surprise for you."

"Wait I know him?"

"If you know your greek mythology you will instantly know who I mean."

"Wait this guy is part of greek myth?!" Percy blinked, "you're not sending me along with some kind of nut case are you?!"

"Why do you think he will be a nutcase?"

"Is he from ancient greece?"

"Yes."

"The he is a nutcase."

"Percy I am from ancient Greece."

"Your a god, doesn't count."

"Chiron is from ancient Greece."

"He also doesn't count."

"Then who does count?"

"Monsters who like to eat demigods and people like Tantalus."

Artemis nodded, "yes Tantalus is very…..unique."

"You mean he's batshit crazy."

Artemis chuckled, "hehe, yes, he is crazy."

Percy smiled, "so...you want to get dinner or something?"

"Percy it is the middle of the night and you had dinner just an hour ago."

"I can always use a snack now and then," Percy said shrugging, "well?"

Artemis smiled but shook her head, "no Percy I must get going, the hunt needs me. We are tracking something important, something very powerful, if we don't get to it first it could mean the end of us all."

"Damn why is it always world ending consequences with you all?" Percy commented remembering what Mr. D said about why the gods couldn't help out the camp, "alright fine some other time than."

Artemis nodded, "some other time," she then flashed away leaving Percy alone in the forest.

Percy's heart dropped a little the moment the moon goddess was gone. Everything became dull and maybe it had something to do with her being the goddess of the moon or something, but the forest became darker now that she had gone.

The demigod sighed as he took the bag Hermes gave him and put them in his inventory. 'Well if I am already out here might aswell get some training done.' He sat down on the Fist of Zeus and opened his skill list looking for skills to train in. His ID create skill caught his eye, and to be more exact it was the dungeon he never used, Goblin camp;

ID Create, Lv-14 (75%)

Used to create Instant Dungeons. Higher the level, stronger the dungeon.

Current list-

Empty Dungeon- no monsters.

Monster Dungeon- Zombies

Monster Dungeon- Goblin Camp

Percy shrugged his shoulder and put a hand up in the air palm open, 'ID Creator: Goblin Camp.'

The entire world flashed red and suddenly the landscape shifted. Percy was startled but the change was over before it even began with him now suddenly no longer sitting down but standing in the middle of a large plain of grass with a tree line in front of him.

'Well this is certainly a first,' Percy said as he took out his gauntlet and Riptide. His dimensional power had literally changed the world, something that had never been done before. 'One of two things has happened, one the world changed, which seems unlikely, or two I was pulled somewhere else, like a pocket dimension of sorts.'

Percy took the second option as the more likely option and soon realised something was different in this world. He looked up to the sky, it was not red, not like before, it was blue and hanging in the blue sky was three moons. Percy blinked, 'well shit.'

Percy put a hand up, 'ID Escape.' He felt a blast of energy go out but nothing happened. Percy blinked before trying again, 'ID Escape!' Still nothing, 'ID ESCAPE! ID ESCAPE! ID ESCAPE!'

The world didn't change back and instead a box opened up in front of him;

Ping!

You cannot leave until you have defeated at the least 20 opponents!

Percy blinked, 'the rules are changing,' maybe this was how it was supposed to be, after all Percy never did immediately back out of an ID before now so he wouldn't really know the limits. Percy gripped his blade tightly and activated his marble skin technique, just in case something happens;

Marble Skin- 1,500 MP X 78 = 117,000 Defence

Percy's mana regeneration rate was at 25% per 1 minute meaning he would get all his mana back quickly. He closed the boxes in front of him and set out into the forest.

You have entered a forest!

+5 to all stats!

The trees were enormous as their branches looked as thick as Percy's waist. The demigod slowly moved deeper and deeper inside when suddenly;

Warning! Attack from behind!

Percy moved before even reading the message, he dived to the right as a rock flew passed where his head was a few moments ago. Percy rolled to the side and summoned a fireball in his hand launching it at where he saw the rock fly from.

"ARGH!" A figure fell from a tree with it's face on fire. It landed on it's neck with an audible crack as suddenly it stopped screaming.

Percy carefully walked over to the fallen being, it was green and had very little armour on. He then Observed it;

Goblin soldier

Lv- 15

HP: 800/800

MP0/0

Str-4

Vit-12

Dex-16

Int-3

Wis-2

Luc-1

A grunt of the goblin army, used as scouts and even canon fodder. There is nothing special about this goblin.

Kill to gain- 80 Exp

The goblin wasn't really worth much, barely on par with the fish soldiers he faced off with his dad. As the goblin vanished from sight it left behind what looked like a made at home slingshot and 20 bucks. Percy sighed putting the money away before continuing into the forest.

Just then another two goblins rushed him from behind. Percy didn't even look back as he sent mana into their shadows turning it into a huge spike that then impaled them. They slowly disappeared into nothing leaving behind cash and a very crude looking blade that Percy didn't even bother picking up.

'I need some movement,' Percy told himself jumping onto a tree branch. Luckily his Dex stats level was enough for him to not immediately fall down though he still wobbled a little, 'note to self improve on Dex.'

Percy jumped from branch to branch and soon came upon a group of goblins hidden out in one of the trees unaware Percy had even found them. Percy smirked and quickly used his shadows control and impaled a tendril of shadow right through their heads causing them to burst into sand instantly.

'This is too easy,' Percy thought to himself as he ran across the forest killing of squads of goblins left right and center. Soon he had killed 20 of them and could escape the ID but he decided not to, after all this new dungeon didn't really seem like to much of a threat.

Percy found himself going deeper and deeper into the forest as goblins attacked him more frequently. Soon the forest cleared up revealing a giant clearing in which stood an army of goblins. There were hundreds of the little green things spread out all over the place. Percy gulped, 'this might be more difficult than I thought.'

Percy pound mana into his gauntlet and summoned his servants. However instead of all of them being summoned only Marchosias appeared. Percy blinked before realising why this was so. He had left Cerberus in the Underworld and the rest were guarding camp right now, meaning he would have to fight this one alone, well him and a demon from hell that is.

"Hello master," Marchosias grumbled out in her wolf form as she looked at the goblin camp in front of them, "what trouble you gotten into this time?"

"No trouble, I'm just practicing in my new Instant Dungeon," Percy said as he moved deeper inside the forest so he wouldn't be spotted by any goblins in the camp.

"I see," the wolf looked up at the sky before turning to Percy, "you know you never did explain to me what exactly your ability consists of."

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

Marchosias narrowed her eyes, "I am not a fool master, so do not treat me like one. Your powers are strange, it's not set in one particular category like my demon powers of Greek magic, somehow you have been able to learn both. It is also as if you have the power to adapt to the any power offered. And then there is also this realm," Marchosias said pointing to the sky, "this place is alive. Your power has created a whole world, so tell me, what are you?"

Percy was nervous but Gamer's mind helped him keep his cool. "I'll tell you one day Marchosias, maybe. I'm sorry if you don't like it, tough luck there for you."

The wolf chuckled, or did something that sounded like a chuckle, "you certainly are a strange one. Fine keep your secrets for now, but remember I was known as the Demon of Knowledge for a reason, I will find out what you are hiding," it narrowed its eyes at him, "and when that day comes you will tell me everything."

Percy nodded turning to the camp, "so there is basically a camp of tiny goblins ahead of us. Probably a few hundred in number, but they are very weak."

"Where are the others?"

"Cerberus is in the Underworld and the others are outside the ID right now and can't enter to help us."

"Huh, so we're on our own?"

"Yup."

"Good," the wolf bared her fangs, "it's been so long since I last went hunting. Get on my back," Marchosias said lowering herself down next to Percy.

"You sure?" Percy asked blinking.

"Yes, let's make an entrance," she replied causing Percy to smirk.

The goblins inside the camp were busy preparing for their upcoming battle with their humans enemies. They moved quickly getting all their jobs done on time so as to remain on schedule because not being on schedule would mean they were delayed and if they were delayed their boss would be pissed, and no one wanted that.

"AROOOOO!" A wolf's howl rang out into the night. A few goblins bothered to look for the source while the rest ignored it, not realising by ignoring that sound they were causing their own deaths.

Out of the forest a big black blur speed out with white wings pushing it into the air higher and higher until it flew above the entire camp.

Marchosias dropped Percy mid air as she flew to the edge of the camp and landed on a crate. She looked at all the goblins around her and smirked. "Toxic wave!" The wolf changed into green gas infecting all the goblins around before reforming elsewhere leaving behind a trail of poisoned and dying victims.

Percy found himself falling down faster and faster. He drew both of his fist's back and channeled his mana and Body Form perk;

Body Form Activated: Left and Right Arms

"Double Giga Impact!" Percy roared out as he channeled Earthquake and Body from into his arms. He hit the ground with a huge 'Boom' forming a creater blowing away chunks of rocks all over the place. Goblins were thrown all over the place with some being instantly crushed by the flying rocks.

Percy got up and looked around. The crater he made was a good 24 feet wide and a 8 feet deep. Percy pulled his arms out of the ground grunting as he got up, that landing was a killer on the knees. The name Michael's influence, his constant nagging finally convinced Percy to name his attacks. And if Percy was being honest with himself it did sound super cool when saying it outloud before punching something.

Suddenly a few goblins looked down from the edge of the crater. Percy made eye contact with them and before they could even move away he was already on top of them. He punched one's head clean off with his Earthquake first before taking out Riptide and impaling its pen tip into the skull of another goblin.

Percy pulled Riptide out and uncapped it turning to the large amount of goblins surrounding him. "Well?" Percy asked with a savage smile, "who wants some?" The goblins charged and Percy leapt into battle. Riptide flew cutting goblins down quicker than they could even blink. Percy let himself go as the rush of war filled his very being.

There was a part of him that loved this, the helplessness the goblins had in their eyes, that feeling of total victory over one's opponent, Percy loved it. Maybe it was because of Gamer's mind or because of the fact that these goblins aren't actually real, but something in Percy considered them less than human.

Gamer's mind told him they were nothing more than people to kill and by killing become stronger. Maybe at one point Percy would have had a moral problem with they way he acts to the monsters, but that time had long since passed.

Water from the air flew out acting as a whip grabbing goblins and holding them still for PErcy to attack. Shadows moved out of ground as they killed their owners and fireballs flew as they burnt pieces of their victims.

Percy smile grew more and more feral as he slowly felt bliss settle in. He was fully focused as the only task ahead and that was killing as many goblins as he could. Soon the numbers became too much for him as he quickly jumped back into the crater allowing goblins to follow in after him.

Percy froze the top layer of the crater causing it to become slippery. The goblin slid down and Percy picked them off one by one. Thier bodies went away one by one as more and more golden dust gathered underneath his feet until he found himself ankle deep in golden dust.

Warning! Powerful individual approaching!

"So you are the one invading my camp," said a rough grumbling voice. Percy turned to look at who said that and standing at the very edge of the crater was a being that stood at 14 feet tall with horns protruding out of his head. He had black skin with red highlight and long white hair. He wore a c.h.e.s.t piece with a dragon's face on it along with a red cape flowing behind him. His arms were b.a.r.e showing off his muscles and many scars and on his back was a giant spear that had orange highlights going through the center.

The figure glared at Percy who glared back. "Who the f.u.c.k are you?" Percy asked.

"I'm the f.u.c.k.i.n.g goblin king," the man roared out jumping down and passed the icy slope of the crater landing right next to Percy. His eyes drilled holes into the demigod who wasn't faced.

Blood L.u.s.t detected! Origin: Right in front of you!

"You're not the goblin king, David Bowie is. You look like a reject from a japanese role playing game."

"I don't know who the f.u.c.k you are brad and I don't care," the beast snarled as it reached back and drew it's spear, "I'm just going to enjoy seeing you die."

"Dude so many people have said that to me I'm starting to think that might be my actual name."

"Well I promise to deliver," the goblin said with narrowed eyes. Percy chuckled and opened his mouth to reply when suddenly a fist crashed into him sending him flying out of the crater.

Percy skidded across the ground and crashed into a box of fruits before stopping. Percy looked up and grunted through the pain. That punch had a monstrous amount of energy behind it, luckily for Percy he still had marble skin active;

Defence left- 73,000 Defence

'That attack caused 44,000 damage!' Percy realized as he looked at the monster from before slowly approach him with a smile on it's face. Percy quickly used Observe;

Goblin King

Lv- ?

HP:?

MP:?

Str-?

Vit-?

Dex-?

Int-?

Wis-?

Luc-?

The king of all goblins is known for many things, weakness is not one of them. He is far more powerful than his weak subordinates and uses his strength to rule with an iron fist. His can kill a man with a single punch and he is known to possess several different skills for battle.

Kill to gain- 90,000 Exp

Percy gulped as sweat slowly started to form on his forehead. He closed the observation box and looked to the Goblin King.

"Why are you smiling?" the Goblin King asked with a frown, "I have never known someone to be happy when facing death."

Percy was taken back. He didn't even realise he was doing it, but the monster was right, he was smiling and smiling like crazy. "I don't know why," Percy said before immediately shaking his head, "no, that's wrong, I do know why. It's simple really, I haven't had a good fight in a long time."

The Colchis bulls were easy for Percy, laughably so. He didn't even have to use half the skills he had in his arsenal. It had been a long time since he last got a challenge, Titan's like Hyperion didn't count since Percy could never actually beat him, just hold him off. But the monster standing in front of him? Oh it would be difficult but he loved a challenge.

Percy grinned, "this is going to be fun."

The Goblin King glared at Percy before he started to grin as well. He leveled his spear down, "you better give me a workout kid," he then twisted the handle on the spear causing the blade on top to explode outwards transforming into a giant spear head made out of fire, "or I'm going to burn you."

The Goblin King and Percy moved at the same time, charging forward with their own battle cries. Thier weapons swung towards their opponent, and as the two weapons clashed a shockwave of fire and steam spread across the campsite.

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