Percy knew he could have very well made Leo level up even faster by fighting a Legion zombie, but he wanted to take it slow. He wanted to spend some time bonding with the dog, maybe he would have Leo fight one later. But right now Percy wanted to be sure by the time they were done Leo and him grew much closer.
Eventually though Leo began to grow tired from all the fighting. Percy pulled them both out of the ID: Zombie, and realised it was already 6 in the morning. Percy put away Waverider and picked up the dog. He Carried him back to the Poseidon cabin where he found John awake and alert.
"Morning John," Percy said as he laid down Leo on his bed. The dog immediately curled up and the sheets and Percy could hear the dog snore.
"Morning Percy, is that a dog?" John asked looking at Leo.
Percy nodded, "yup. It was a gift from a friend but I left him with my mom for safe keeping. I brought him back with me when I went to visit her, figured we should spend some time together."
"Did you two stay up all night?"
Percy nodded,"yeah." John then said his goodbyes and left for the Mess Hall promising to see Percy for training. Percy then took a bath and quickly changed into a new set of clothes throwing his usual jacket over the get up.
Leo was still asleep at the time so Percy just let the dog be leaving the door slightly ajar just in case the dog wanted to run out and play.
Percy then went to the Arena, along the way he spammed his ID creating and escaping skills.
Percy then spent the day training everyone in the usual routine. After a quick lunch he gathered Nico, Bianca and Thalia and took them into the Forest.
"Why did you call us Percy?" Thalia asked as the walked towards the Fist of Zeus.
"Yeah, Percy, the other one, and I were planning on helping Travis prank Conner," Nico complained while his sister remained silent.
"I called you three here to train you all," Percy explained as they reached the popular rock formation. "Take a seat," Percy said sitting down next to the rocks.
The other children all did and Percy began, "okay I'll be honest. We four are in a fucked up situation, I assume you two know about the prophecy?" Percy turned to Bianca and Nico.
"Yes, Annabeth informed us," Bianca said.
Percy nodded, Nico looked down at the ground in worry, Percy realised the boy understood why the prophec wa so important.
"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point. From now on I'm giving you all extra training with me. I'll teach you anything I can, and I'll make sure you have at least a chance of beating Kronos."
"Okay I get why you called me," Thalia spoke up, "but why the undead kids?"
"Because I'm not taking any chances," Percy explained, "right now you are the child of the prophecy, and after that is me. Suppose something happens to us we need Bianca and Nico ready."
"Great," Nico said, "the fate of the world in our hands. No pressure."
Percy smiled, "relax kid, you are right now fourth in line for the prophecy. I am only doing this as a precaution."
Nico nodded and Percy turned to them all, "okay first things first, mana. Anyone know what that is?"
"The thing that videogames use?" Thalia guessed.
Percy nodded, "right. That's what I call magic, and that's I want you all to try and use today."
Bianca blinked, "magic? We have magic? But that's….never mind, I am demigod living 60 years in the future. I don't think I have the right to say impossible anymore."
Percy smiled and Thalia spoke up, "we don't have magic per say. We can just control the elements, right?"
Percy shook his head, "no, that's totally wrong. Our magic, as demigods, is naturally aligned to one thing or another. For a son of Hermes his mana is linked to stealth meaning he has certain advantages in that area. For a son of Ares his magic would involve fighting. But the best example would be us," Percy snapped his fingers and formed water trident.
"So you're saying that your mana is linked to water, hence you control water," Bianca observed.
Percy nodded, "right in one. Thalia's speciality is thunder, as we saw her use it on the Damned Knight. And you two, if I'm not mistaken, should be great at shadow manipulation."
Nico smiled, "so are you going to teach us how to control shadows?!"
Percy smiled and nodded, "yup."
"Wait, how can you do that?" Thalia asked, "wouldn't it be impossible to teach someone else something you don't' know?"
Percy's smile grew even bigger, "who said I don't know how to control shadows?" Percy then summoned the shadows formed below him and made them into tendrils.
"Amazing," Bianca said as she touched the shadows, "they fell so….familiar."
"How are you doing that?!" Thalia said freaking out, "you're a son of Poseidon, not a son of Hades! This shouldn't be possible!"
Percy let the tendril go, "yeah, it should. But kind of got the hang of it on accident,"
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"But either way this is what happens when you learn to control your mana and not just you demigod powers. Think of it like this, our power is naturally attuned to our core elements. If we can separate our mana from out elemental control, we should be able to use them in other ways, maybe even manipulating other elements."
Thalia, Bianca and Nico were now focused. It looked like nothing could distract them.
"What do we have to do?" Thalia asked.
"First, close your eyes," Percy instructed as everyone did just that, "and now try to pull your mana out of you. From experience I can tell you it won't be easy at first, I could barely control a sphere of water. But I eventually got the hang of it."
"How do we look for it?" Bianca asked.
"It should be from inside you," Percy explained, "for me, I feel like my mana is stored somewhere between my heart and my stomach. Bianca, Nico, I want you to imagine a ball of darkness inside your body. And I want you to pull it out. Use your emotions, use everything you have. Become angry, become demanding. The secret is knowing where it is. When you find that out, you can call out your mana."
The two children of Hades nodded and started to focus on finding and controlling their mana. Percy then turned to Thalia, "Thalia, you can use your mana to form lighting, but you can't separate the two. Remember how you feel every time you summon lightning, remember, and try to feel out your mana as it comes out of you."
Thalia nodded and all three began her meditation. Percy closed his eyes and used mana scene to try and see whether they were able to use their mana. Bianca was near her core, Percy could feel the whispers of her mana touchign her mind. Nico didn't make any progress, but his mana was there clear as day, it almost seemed like it was waiting for Nico to touch it.
Thalia however was the most improved as she had accesed her mana and was now slowly pulling it outwards. It obeyed her every command, but then suddenly it exploded outwards.
Percy snapped his eyes open and moved grabbing Bianca and Nico. He ran into the forest just as a massive lightning bolt exploded out of Thalia.
The children of Hades looked on in shock as Percy put them down and approached the crater Thalia formed.
As the smoke cleared Percy saw Thalia sitting on the ground with the land around her destroyed. She looked unharmed, except for a little mud on her clothes. Thalia was sweating profusely, a clear sign of mana exhaustion.
Percy whistled, "damn Thalia, that was quite a show. Although I didn't mean use all of the mana you have."
"I-It got away from me," Thalia said as sweat rolled off her face.
Percy nodded, "I'm guessing you tried to use anger to control it?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah. I used my anger to pull it out...but it got away from me at the last moment."
Percy nodded, "right. Well it's okay, simple mistake, Nico, Bianca come and sit down," the two children of Hades looked afraid, "oh come on, I'll make sure nothing happens to your two. Promise."
They nodded and reluctantly did. Percy then turen to Thalia, "anger is good when pulling mana out and using it wildly. But that's not what we want. We want to separate the mana from the lighting, and for that you need will power. Pure concentration."
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