If there is one thing that Dionysus thought of about Percy is that he is absolutely terrifying.
A mere demigod not afraid of a god like him? And not only that. He even threatened him. He could still feel the residue of Percy's divine aura.
How was he able to injure him to such extent? And how is it possible for his divine aura to be stronger than his? It doesn't make any sense.
And not only that. Why does his divine aura feel like his uncle's, Lord Poseidon's aura? It doesn't just feel dilluted like how a demigod's aura's feel. His own divine aura felt completely and wholly like Lord Poseidon himself!
Did his uncle broke the law and had a demigod spawn?
Just who is he, really?
Not being able to come up with a conclusion to his answer, he silently made his way towards Olympus's throne room, where Zeus recently called all twelve Olympians to gather around for a mandatory meeting.
Just as what he had expected, his fellow gods are arguing again. Zeus and Poseidon are still arguing on who stole Zeus' bolt with Poseidon denying the accusation. Seeing as it does not look like they will stop, he announced his presence to them.
"Father, I have come to your request," said he with his voice still shaken up from fear and pain. Athena, the [goddess of wisdom], noticed his presence and was immediately alarmed by his current state. "Dionysus, what happened to you? Why are you like that?"
Her tone immediately caught the attention of every single one in the throne room. Dionysus' current state alarmed them all.
"What happened?"
"Who did this to you?"
"Which god was it?"
"Who's daring enough to challenge us gods?!"
Coughing up ichor, he answered with a hint of fear in his voice, "I-It was a demigod brat. A new one at that."
Ares scoffed in disbelief, "How can some demigod injure you to such extent?"
Dionysus only glared at him, "If you actually faced him, you'll get to see and know why he's able to do so."
Athena reasoned out, "But it's hard to believe, Dionysus. A mere demigod being able to hurt you just like that?"
Getting a bit impatient, he told them, "If you will just listen to me, then I will be telling you on how it happened."
Without giving others the chance to argue, he continued, "He was completely different from all the demigods we have. When I told him about how our world exists and that he cannot deny it, he insulted me, him quoting "you are nothing more than a filthy, useless garbage. You call yourself a god when you present yourself as less of a god and more of a worthless trash." When he said those words, he did not even tremble in fear, nor he did even look at me in the eyes. He was clearly looking down at me."
No one said anything, out of shock from such impudence of a mere demigod. After taking a short breath, he continued, "After he said those words, something completely out of this world happened. When I used my own divine aura to crush him down, he did not back down. Instead, he used his own divine aura to surpress me. I cannot exactly remember everything that had happened but I know that my domain related to 『insanity』was crumbling down.
"And do you know the worse part about it? His divine aura feels EXACTLY like Lord Uncle Poseidon. Lord Uncle, did you break the oath on not to have any more demigod children? And not only that. That brat of yours is absolutely terrifying!"
With this question, Zeus' divine aura went haywire. Thunderstorms came crashing down all over Camp Half-Blood.
"Poseidon! Not only did you steal my thunderbolt, you even have a demigod spawn?!"
And so with that, the Olympians ended up squabling like children. Dionysus, with all the chaos, have slowly recovered, albeit slower than the usual.
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[Somewhere around the North American continent, at an unknown day and unknown time...]
A small downy creature with two small horns wearing a blue hanbok was floating midair.
It was too peculiar to be called a fairy, too malicious to be called an angel, and too innocent looking to be called a devil.
This strange creature lift its head up to the sky and asked, "Are you sure that I should open the channel now in here? You know it's not yet the time for this worldline to undergo the s■■■s."
One of the stars in the sky suddenly shown brighter.
The unknown creature sighed in defeat and raised its hands in the air. Suddenly, a large blue holographic screen appeared.
「Channel #BP-1205 is now open.」
「A few constellations are now making an entrance.」
「Some of the constellations revealed their modifiers.」
「The Constellation "The One Who Twists The Plotline" thanks the Dokkaebi Cheon Ma for opening the Star Stream.」
The unknown creature, now known as a dokkaebi named Cheon Ma, looked worried and frightened. "Dear Constellations, but I am just a low-grade dokkaebi. If the Bureau found out that I opened the Star Stream Channel on a planetary system out of schedule, I will be severely punished!"
「The Constellation "Sadistic A■■ & R■■" assures Dokkaebi Cheon Ma that he does not need to worry.」
「The Constellation "Sadistic A■■ & R■■" adds that she will be in control of the Star Stream Channel starting right now.」
Cheon Ma, who still looked unsure, again sighed in defeat. After hearing the constellation's words, he disappeared in a burst of light.
「The Constellation "Father of the Rich Night" asks his fellow constellations if ■ are actually here and ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ i■f■.」
「The Constellation "Sadistic A■■ & R■■" nods in confirmation.」
「The Constellation "The One Who Twists The Plotline" declares that it's time to change the plot.」
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Luke Castellan, for once in his life, does not know how to make the new demigods as his allies.
Based on his own observation, both Percy and Adamas despise the gods. Well, Adamas herself was not that obvious with her displeasure of the gods. With their hatred, it would have been easy to sway them to his side and join Kronos.
Right?
That's where his illusions disappear. When he befriended them, with the disguise of making them change their minds, Percy openly sneered at him with disgust while Adamas does not even trust him.
During dinner time, when all cabin members gathered around the pavilion hall, only Adamas and Percy were not present. When they were asked by the campers and Chiron the next day, Percy just ignored them and continued reading and proofreading his mother's new work. Adamas, while also helping out Percy and without looking, answered them and said, "Poseidonas refused to come yesterday so I accompanied him. Knowing him and his unpredictable temper, if he's forced, things would get incredibly... messy."
Luke could see Chiron and Grover visibly shudder at her words. Did something happen that made them react like that?
During training, Luke is now more convinced that it will be harder to make them join him.
Ancient Greek and about the gods and goddesses? They both showed their superior knowledge and skills that many often mistook them as children of Athena, with how much they both knew and how much they read. Adamas casually denied it while holding Percy's hand and subtly used a small and untraceable (to everyone except Percy) amount of divine aura to Percy to calm him down, less he cause another Pseudo Apocalypse.
Archery? Both are surprisingly good. Percy, without even bothering to take his eyes off of Adamas who was happily chattering with him about the weapons in camp, casually yet elegantly threw an arrow like a dart, discarding the bow which he broke by accident. The arrow not only hit a bullseye, the target split into half as well.
Adamas also threw the arrow like how Percy did it with the same thing happened to the target. Ignoring the rest of the campers, especially the children of Apollo, she chattered with Percy about weapons, how the weapons can't even handle their strength, how did the children survived with such weak weapons which some of the children of Hephaestus who were also present in there to restock and repair the damaged weapons, got angry and said that their weapons aren't weak but that they (Adamas and Percy) were just too strong. She also made a comment that she misses her own weapon, nostalgia evident in her expression. Percy told her that he still kept her weapon hidden and safe within his room in his palace, especially since he did not want to get rid of it as it was the only thing that he had left of her before. He looked away with a slight blush on his ears when he told her about it. Adamas just smiled at him and commented how cute he was when blushing.
Foot racing? Safe to say that they both left everyone to dust. Both always on tie with no one knowing who won between the two.
Wrestling? Both defeated every single one of them. There was a 2v2 match between them both and two children of Ares. Clarisse, a daughter of Ares the [god of war], haughtily told them that she'll pummel them both to the ground. Her declaration was followed by a chorus of agreement from other children of Ares, who all do not like both Adamas and Percy as they defeated them all in other trainings. The result? Percy just swat her like a fly and sent her flying 100 meters away from him to the forest. Her body skied to the ground and broke a lot of trees when her body made contact with it. Adamas casually gave a son of Ares a jab on the diaphram, breaking four ribs located near the diaphram in the process. The poor boy wheezed out in pain and passed out afterwards. Both children of Ares were out of commission for one and a half day.
Sword training? Adamas had to convinced Percy into controlling his own strength, less he actually kills Luke by accident. Luke called out to everyone who gathered around. "Okay, everybody huddle up!" Luke ordered. "If Perseus doesn't mind, I want to give you a little demo."
Some of the Hermes children who hadn't seen the training between Percy and Adamas gathered around. They were suppressing smiles, clearly, they'd been in Percy's shoes before and couldn't wait to see how Luke used him as a punching bag.
He told everybody he was going to demonstrate a disarming technique: how to twist the enemy's blade with the flat of your sword so that he had no choice but to drop his weapon.
"This is difficult," he stressed. "I've had it used against me. No laughing at Perseus, now. Most swordsmen have to work years to master this technique."
He was about to demonstrate the move in slow motion. Percy, not wanting to waste any more time, direct the long blade and hit the base of Luke's sword before he elegantly twist his sword downward.
CLANG!
Luke's sword broke into half. The tip of Percy's blade was an inch from his neck.
The other campers were silent.
"By the gods...show me that again."
Percy scoffed and threw the sword down. The blade planting itself on the ground hard. He then ignored Luke and went away from him towards Adamas.
He sensed Luke's slight killing intent and ignored it, focusing his attention on Adamas, who pat his shoulder and congratulated him for controlling his strength.
Luke, who went away from them after being salty from the obvious humiliation he suffered, did not noticed Adamas slightly glancing at him.
So what are you gonna do now, pawn of Kronos, now that you know that we are not like what you thought?
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It was time for capture the flag.
When the plates were cleared away, the conch horn sounded, and they all stood at their tables. Campers yelled and cheered as Annabeth and two of her siblings ran into the pavilion carrying a silk banner. It was about ten feet long, glistening grey, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree.
From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of identical size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar's head.
Luke was about to grabbed Adamas by the arm to guide her toward their destination when she slapped his hand away. Percy glared down at him for daring to touch her. Luke just raised his hands in defeat and ushered them to follow him. "We've made a temporary alliance with Athena. Tonight, we get the flag from Ares. And you both are going to help."
Adamas just nods in agreement while telepathically asking Percy to sanitize her hand. Percy hovered one hand on hers and created a small mist to lightly spray her hand, the one that Luke touched and the same one she used to slap his hand away. She muttered a thanks which he nodded in acknowledgement.
The teams were announced. Athena had allied with Apollo and Hermes, the two biggest cabins. Apparently, privileges had been traded for shower times, chore schedules, and the best slots for activities to win support.
Ares had allied themselves with everybody else: Dionysus, Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus. Which wasn't much, Aphrodite children would rather look at themselves in the mirror than put a hand on a weapon. Dionysus has only two kids, Demeter kids have the green thumb but are not that aggressive, and as for Hephaestus, there's only four of them, so the rest of the work goes to Ares.
Chiron hammered his hoof on the marble.
"Heroes!" he announced. "You know the rules. The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The banner must be prominently displayed and have no more than three guards. Prisoners may be disarmed but may not be bound or gagged. No killing or maiming is allowed. I will serve as referee and battlefield medic. Arm yourselves!"
He spread his hands, and the tables were suddenly covered with equipment: helmets, bronze swords, spears, ox-hide shields coated in metal.
Percy, with the insistance of Adamas (who told him to not reveal his own weapon yet as her domain told her it's not the time yet) decided to go with a spear, but because of how light it is in his hand, he has to control his strength, less he break the spear like what he did with the bow previously. Adamas used a sword that oddly looks like a sickle (where did she even find it? No one knows). Luke had to convinced them to put on the armours.
Percy glared at him with contempt. Feeling that he might actually kill him if he continued to pester him, he decided to ask Adamas instead. Adamas squeezed Percy's hand tight to stop him from interfering.
"Absolutely not," glared Adamas.
Luke sighed. "Adamas..."
"No means no."
"Put the armour on!"
"No!"
"Adamas, don't make me force you to wear it!"
Adamas glared harder. "Dare you to do that, Luke, and I will break your limbs!"
"Oooh!" The kids around them laughed.
Luka finally gave up. "At least take the shield!"
Adamas sighed in defeat. "Alright, alright."
Annabeth yelled, "Blue team, forward!"
They cheered and shook their swords and followed her down the path to the south woods. The red team yelled taunts at them as they headed off toward the north.
Adamas yawned in boredom. "I hope they give us good entertainment," said she to Percy who nod in response while observing the entire battlefield.
"And you," Annabeth said as she stopped in front of Adamas and Percy. "Both of you watch Clarisse's spear. You don't want that thing touching you. Other than that don't worry about anything, we'll take the banner from Ares. Has Luke given you both your job?"
"Border patrol," answered Adamas.
"It's easy. Stand by the creek, keep the reds away. Leave the rest to me. Athena always has a plan."
"So we're the baits for this game, huh, Poseidonas?" Adamas chuckled in amusement as she saw Annabeth getting further away from them.
Percy decided to just read a book he brought to pass the time.
It was a warm, sticky night. The woods were dark, with fireflies popping in and out of view.
Annabeth stationed them both next to a little creek that gurgled over some rocks, and then she and the rest of the team scattered into the trees.
Adamas leaned on Percy who was busy reading a book with a bored expression on her face. Far away, the conch horn blew. They heard whoops and yells in the woods, the clanking of metal, kids fighting. A blue-plumed ally from Apollo raced past them both like a deer, leaped through the creek, and disappeared into enemy territory.
Both Adamas and Percy narrowed their eyes when they felt the presence of a monster nearby followed by a low canine growl, hidden behind one of the trees.
A hellhound stayed hidden, stalking them both for a while before it retreated.
On the other side of the creek, the underbrush exploded. Five Ares warriors came yelling and screaming out of the dark.
"Cream the punk!" Clarisse screamed.
Adamas smiled bloodthirstily. "Well, hello my first prey~"
They charged across the stream. Percy took one look at Adamas and nod at her. Knowing just how much she's been wanting a fight thanks to her 『conquest domain』, he allowed her to deal with three of them including Clarisse as he deal with the remaining two. Once the middle one was close enough, Percy, who was the closest, thrust forward with the end of his spear right into his armored right lung at such a speed that the others couldn't process.
The son of Ares' armor broke instantly from the sheer force and fell to the floor, unable to breathe or move. The rest of the campers were all surprised.
Sensing someone behind him, he lightly blocked the sword that came at him and swung his spear at the guy's head, effectively knocking him out.
Adamas looked like she was having a bit of fun. One of the female Ares children lunged her spear forward, aiming to impale her kidney only to be met with air as Adamas lightly lept from the ground. She lifted her sword and did two slash motions.
SHING!
SHING!
Safely landing at her feet, a cross-like mark can be seen on the female warrior's armor. It was not only cut cleanly, some blood squirted out of the wounds she received from the sword slashes as well.
Another male Ares child raise his shield up to protect himself from Adamas' upcoming attack only for her to seemingly teleport behind him, kicked his left hind leg with a downward kick, and knock him out on his back using the handle of her sword. His armor shattered and the ground cracked.
Adamas stepped to the side when she felt Clarisse charging at her from behind, she raised her foot upward and kicked the daughter of Ares hard on her stomach. Said warrior was sent flying towards the creek, her head facing the sky. Clarisse was completely unconscioused and looked like she was barely breathing.
Then they heard yelling and elated screams, and they saw Luke racing toward the boundary line with the red team's banner lifted high.
He was flanked by a couple of Hermes guys covering his retreat, and a few Apollos behind them, fighting off the Hephaestus kids. The Ares folks were unfortunate as all of them are unconscious.
Everyone, especially the red team, were shock to see their strongest members completely out of commission.
The Blue team exploded into cheers. The red banner shimmered and turned to silver. The boar and spear were replaced with a huge caduceus, the symbol of cabin eleven.
Everybody on the blue team picked up Luke and started carrying him around on their shoulders. Chiron cantered out from the woods and blew the conch horn.
The game was over. The blue team won.
The Apollo kids then carried out the five Ares children to the infirmary.
Annabeth's voice, right next to Percy in the creek, said, "Not bad, heroes."
Percy decided to ignore her and continued reading his book. Adamas, who was going near them, did not even look in her direction. "Had fun watching?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Where the heck did you two learn to fight like that?" she asked. The air shimmered, and she materialized, holding a Yankees baseball cap as if she'd just taken it off her head.
"If you wanted us to be baits, you could have just said so," Adamas said calmly as she took out a clean towel, wet it in the water, and clean the sword.
Annabeth just shrugged. "I told you. Athena always always has a plan."
"You know, if you continue this kind of attitude, you'll only get your own allies killed." Adamas did not even look at her when she said it. Annabeth became red-faced from anger.
"It doesn't even look like you both needed help anyway!"
Percy, having enough of Annabeth's whinning, said in an authoritative voice, "Keeping vital information from your allies will inevitably cause the downfall of not only your comrades but also yourself. As a child of Athena, you knew best about the children of Ares and what they can do. If both of us knew not how to fight, we could have ended up fatally injured or worse, dead."
Using the spear that he used a while ago, Percy thrust it forward the moment it jumped at him and aimed at its heart. It then turned to dust.
"Di immortales!" Annabeth said. "That's a hellhound from the Fields of Punishment. They don't — they're not supposed to..."
"Someone summoned it," Chiron said. "Someone inside the camp."
Luke came over, the banner in his hand forgotten, his moment of glory gone.
Percy suddenly felt a foreign yet familiar divine aura invading his body.
There was utter silence in the clearing, the eyes of the campers were drawn above Percy's head.
A green glowing trident was displayed proudly for all the world to see, spinning slowly in the air.
"Oh, Styx," Annabeth cursed. "This is not good. I didn't want to... I assumed your father would be Apollo or even Ares. This is bad."
Percy's eyes darkened. Adamas, sensing his anger, held his hand to calm him down.
''It is determined.'' Chiron announced solemnly.
And one by one, all the campers kneeled before him.
''All hail Perseus Poseidonas Jackson, son of Poseidon, [god of the seas, lord of the earthquakes, storms, and father of horses]!'' Chiron declared.
The ground suddenly shook. The waters in the creek flowed upward, forming like a wall behind Percy. His divine aura leaking out like a turrent of waves.
He stood there in front of the lowered campers, their faces not daring to look at him. Sweat drops falling from their faces as they all felt his killing intent.
He exclaimed in a low and authoritative voice, "My so-called father, is my own failure of a counterpart?"
Adamas hurriedly sent out her own divine aura and wrapped it around Percy. "Calm down, Poseidonas. You might kill everyone at this rate if you continue to leak out your own killing intent."
A blue screen hovered right above camp. Three stars burning brightly at the scene.
「The Constellation "The One Who Twists The Plotline" smiles mysteriously and says that things are bound to get interesting.」