34[A/N: Sup my faithful readers. This chapter will take place shortly before Kirito was challenged by Heathcliff. The same day actually, Perseus is flying solo for a while. There will two parts to this chapter one will be mostly the prequest junk, and the next will be the actual quest itself. Well I better just let you read it and just stop rambling.
Take it away Fan-Chan! Btw there will be an introduction for Fan-chan at the end of the chapter, if you've read my Arifureta: Jaune Arc Style story, just skip it... or don't... the choice is yours.]
Disclaimer: M-me no own, me just fan... fwooosh...
Perseus sighed as he walked down the streets of Athens.
It had been a few months since he and Kirito had helped revive the adorable dragon that was Phina, and in that time Kirito and he had gotten way stronger than before, they were now one of the top 10 players in Aincrad.
The official rankings were only for those in a guild, but unofficially Kirito was the second strongest player in the death game.
The first strongest was a man named Heathcliff, he was the guildmaster and founder of the Knight of the Blood Oath guild, which is the number one guild in the game. He was also Asuna and Annabeth's leader. According to a reliable source, aka Argo, Heathcliff has a Extra Skill (EX Skill) that allowed him to block any attack with a shield, in fact he's never even been seen in the yellow of his health, ever.
But Perseus was no slouch, he was the third strongest in the game, actually he was equal to Kirito in terms of well ... everything, but Kirito had gotten into more duels than him, which was how people judged the ranking along with field ability.
But anyways back to Perseus.
Perseus was walking around the city, towards a very specific location, his personal blacksmith's shop.
This blacksmith was the one who forged 《Dragonblood Render》.
He was capable of forging leveling weapons, which are weapons that level up the more you use them, without a limit basically growing with the player, 《Dragonblood Render》 was also a leveling weapon.
The reason that Perseus was going to the smith was because, said smith had messaged him and said he needed to tell him about something.
When Perseus asked what it was, the smith sent a winking emoji and that it was a surprise.
And so here he was walking to the the 《Flaming Hammerhead》which was the name of the shop.
Perseus stopped at the back entrance of the shop and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" a voice shouted.
Perseus did as asked and opened the door, only to cough as a large cloud of black smoke wafted out of the entrance.
"Sorry about that! Was just finishing up on a new project, and when you knocked the Runes in the forge went Haywire." The voice from before said.
"Sorry..."Perseus said sheepishly.
"Not a problem, anyways come on it, but uh ... leave the door open ok?." the voice said.
"no prob." Perseus said then went into the building.
When he did, the voice was revealed to be a boy the same age a Perseus, he was Hispanic, and had slightly elf like features (and not the handsome kind).
This was Leonidas, but everyone called him Leo which oddly made the boy laugh when it first started.
"So Leo what's up?" Perseus asked referring to the message.
Leo practically vibrated in his seat next to his forge, clearly excited by what he was going to tell Perseus.
"Somewhere in the city, there's a quest giver npc that leads to an event!" Leo said excitedly.
"Ok? And?" Perseus said slightly confused.
This floor was know as the event floor for a reason, this kind of thing happens pretty much every day.
"And!? And the event is brand new and has never been beaten, plus according to my source-"
"Argo..."
"Potăto, Potāto, anyways according to Argo the reward is TWO Epic rank ore per person in the party!" Leo explains.
"Ok?" Perseus asked not really getting why he was so excited.
"And if you help me on this quest I'll make you another leveling weapon out of one of the ores, and because of the ore quality it will be an epic weapon, and combined with the leveling feature... you would have something to replace that old Xiphos of yours, seriously I'm tired of breaking it down and forging it into a new one, over and over. So what do ya say!" Leo shouted with a fist raised into the air at the end.
"You had me at making me another leveling weapon!" Perseus shouted, with a fist raised high in the air.
"Alright let's go find the NPC!" Leo said.
"Wait you haven't found it yet? Also what's the event name?" Perseus asked.
"No and the name is Fall of Atlantis." Leo said.
"Found where the NPC is..." Perseus said.
"What!? Really!? Where?" Leo asked.
"The beach." Perseus said.
"The beach?" Leo deadpanned.
"The beach." Perseus nodded.
"What makes you think that?" Leo asked/deadpanned.
"That's where the port is, which is the only way to get to Atlantis." Perseus explained.
"Oh well that actually makes sense." Leo said.
"Well there's that and one other reason..." Perseus said.
"Really what?" Leo asked.
"The giant ass god of the Sea currently rising from the Waves that I can see through your window..." Perseus said.
"Oh... wait what!?" Leo said as he spun around to get a look of the sea god.
"Holy Shit!" Leo shouted.
"Umm... maybe we should go to him? He might be the quest giver." Perseus asked.
"Oh! Yeah let's go!" Leo said as he bolted out the door.
It took them about five minutes to run, at full speed, to the Virtual god of the sea.
When they go there they saw that dispite there being a giant godlike being standing in the waves there was no other player there, which was odd.
"Hey where is everybody else?" Leo asked.
"I... don't... know..." Perseus said, slowly while looking around the beach.
Idly he spotted his own house, about fifty or so yards away, or a single half step for the sea god.
"Shiva should be inside, maybe I should bring her along?" Perseus thought to himself.
Perseus shook his head, now was not the time to think about that.
He turned to the sea god who was pretty much sitting crosslegged on his front lawn.
Perseus walked up to the god, while Leo just stared at the god.
"Oi! Sea god, you better have a good reason why you're squatting in my yard!" Perseus said, putting on his classic mock the deity persona on.
Leo's jaw dropped when he heard Perseus mock the god of the sea.
He couldn't believe that anyone would talk to a god this way, even if it was just virtual, but he was the apprentice of Hephaestus the smith god, so what did he know.
But then again this was Perseus, one of the top players in the game, nicknamed the Hurricane Swordsman, or the Frozen Wolf King, he was called that because of his skill with Ice type sword skills, his Waheela, and the fact that he turned down nearly every sexy AF girl who hit on him (although that last one might just because he was underage and all the girls were teenagers).
The sea god looked at Perseus, before he bellowed with laughter.
"It has been a long time since a mortal has talked to me like that! It is good to see that there are still some mortals who bear the traits of a hero! I am Poseidon, god of the sea, and you my mortal friend are?" Poseidon said/asked.
"Perseus..." said boy introduced.
"Umm... I am Leonidas, but everyone calls me Leo... hehe" Leo introduce with a small chuckle at the end.
"Well then Perseus, Leonidas... would you two be willing to listen to this sea god's request?" Poseidon asked.
The two knew that they had found the NPC they were looking for and immediately accepted.
Irl: Olympus
The gods of Olympus were having their normal meeting, aka they were arguing not shutting up.
At least until Hermes got a message on his Caduceus.
"Everybody shut up Now!" Hermes shouted, which caused everybody to glare at him.
"Hermes, you better have a good reason for telling us to shut up!" Ares growled.
"Well I don't know, is getting a message about Aincrad important enough for you?" Hermes mocked.
The gods all paused in their glaring and gestured him to continue.
"Alrighty then, so according to my Caduceus Poseidon's kid is on another event on the same floor as last time." Hermes explained.
"And why do I care?" Athena asked.
"Because he's really chummy with your daughter? I don't know! But anyways it seems the price for this one is an Epic rank metal Ore." Hermes said.
Hephaestus rose an eyebrow at that, he's played video games before, hell several of his kids, and himself, love making weapons and machinery from them.
Hephaestus himself had even built that mechanical dragon from Final Fantasy XIII, what was it's name... oh yes Bahamut, it was one of his favorite creations.
So he knew that it would require a blacksmith of incredible skill to make something out of an epic rank ore.
"maybe it's... no he doesn't know about me or his talents he got from me... well except for the fire of course... there's no way." Hephaestus thought to himself.
Hephaestus shook his head and continued to listen to Hermes.
"So I thought it would be a better idea to check up on him, and the other's, besides the floor boss for the actually needed floor has just been killed, and it's better than just arguing." Hermes said, although he mumbled the ending.
Zeus just sighed and nodded, he still wasn't over Thalia becoming a tree, but the Fates said it was needed.
"Very well, Hermes show us what Poseidon's brat is up to..." Zeus said.
"I'll do one better I'll show you the events that led up to now." Hermes said.
"Whatever just get on with it." Ares said.
Hermes summoned the AVS, Aincrad Viewing Screen, and it showed Perseus as he walked down the street to the flaming hammer.
Hephaestus widened his eyes when he saw the name of the store.
"Come in!" a voice shouted.
"No it couldn't be..." he muttered, only Hera heard him.
They saw Perseus open the door and smoke immediately covering him.
Athena immediately busted a gut laughing, much to shock of the rest of the gods. Athena could laugh... who knew?.
"Sorry about that! Was just finishing up on a new project, and when you knocked the Runes in the forge went Haywire." The voice from before said.
Hephaestus shook in his seat as listened to a familiar voice came through the smoke.
"Leo..."
It was not Hephaestus who said that, it was Hera...
Hephaestus narrowed his eyes when he remembered that Hera had babysat Leo a few times, but he ignore her and focused on the screen.
"Sorry..."Perseus said sheepishly.
"Not a problem, anyways come on it, but uh ... leave the door open ok?." the voice said.
"no prob." Perseus said then went into the building.
The smoke cleared to reveal Leo... with a grin on his face.
"Welp, Heph... found yer kid for ya... yer welcome." Ares mocked.
"Shut...up." Hephaestus growled with anger, which surprised Ares, as usually the smith god was a pacifist.
"Huh... I didn't even know you could get angry... spiteful yes, angry ... not so much." Aphrodite said with a raised brow.
Hephaestus ignored her and focused on the AVS.
"So Leo what's up?" Perseus asked referring to the message.
Leo practically vibrated in his seat next to his forge, clearly excited by what he was going to tell Perseus.
"Somewhere in the city, there's a quest giver npc that leads to an event!" Leo said excitedly.
"Ok? And?" Perseus said slightly confused.
This floor was know as the event floor for a reason, this kind of thing happens pretty much every day.
"And!? And the event is brand new and has never been beaten, plus according to my source-"
"Argo..."
"Potăto, Potāto, anyways according to Argo the reward is TWO Epic rank ore per person in the party!" Leo explains.
"Ok?" Perseus asked not really getting why he was so excited.
"And if you help me on this quest I'll make you another leveling weapon out of one of the ores, and because of the ore quality it will be an epic weapon, and combined with the leveling feature... you would have something to replace that old Xiphos of yours, seriously I'm tired of breaking it down and forging it into a new one, over and over. So what do ya say!" Leo shouted with a fist raised into the air at the end.
"You had me at making me another leveling weapon!" Perseus shouted, with a fist raised high in the air
Apollo started chuckling when he heard Leo's speech about an epic rank leveling weapon, but he died laughing when he heard Perseus's response.
"Shh!" Artemis shushed her twin.
"Aww..." Apollo said.
"Alright let's go find the NPC!" Leo said.
Hephaestus chuckled at that
"Wait you haven't found it yet? Also what's the event name?" Perseus asked.
"No and the name is Fall of Atlantis." Leo said.
"Oh?" Poseidon said.
"Interesting." Athena said.
Athena and Poseidon looked at each other and then quickly looked away.
"Found where the NPC is..." Perseus said.
"Already?" Athena asked.
"Of course. The answer is pretty obvious." Poseidon said.
"Oh really? then where is it?" Athena said, slightly mocking the sea god.
Poseidon smirked and began
"What!? Really!? Where?" Leo asked.
"Why little Athena it is at..."
"The beach." Perseus said.
"The beach?" Hermes asked.
"The beach?" Leo deadpanned.
"The beach? Ares asked.
"The beach." Perseus nodded.
"The beach" Athena said, while facepalming
"Yes... the beach." Poseidon said with a smirk.
"What makes you think that?" Leo asked/deadpanned.
"That's where the port is, which is the only way to get to Atlantis." Perseus explained.
"Of course, I should have known! Some god of travelers I am, am I right?" Hermes quipped.
"Yep!" Was the serious reply from every god in the room... including Zeus.
"Jerks..." Hermes pouted.
"Oh well that actually makes sense." Leo said.
"... it is rather surprising that a sea spawn could actually use his head." Athena mocked
"He's in a life or death situation, constantly... he'd have to learn sometime." Ares said.
Every god paused and looked to him in shock.
"What?" Ares asked.
"Ares... I can't believe it... you actually said something smart!" Athena said, in shock.
All of the other god nodded.
"Oh fuck all of you!" Ares shouted.
"Maybe later." Aphrodite said, but she was ignored.
"Well there's that and one other reason..." Perseus said.
"Huh?" Athena said.
"Really what?" Leo asked.
"Yes what?" Hermes asked.
"The giant ass god of the Sea currently rising from the Waves that I can see through your window..." Perseus said.
"Wait what?" Hephaestus asked.
"Oh... wait what!?" Leo said as he spun around to get a look of the sea god.
"Haha like father like son eh Heph." Ares mocked, only to dodge a hammer of lava.
"Fuck you..." Hephaestus muttered.
"Holy Shit!" Leo shouted.
"So... now what... why is the Virtual squidhead there?" Athena asked.
"Umm... maybe we should go to him? He might be the quest giver." Perseus asked.
"Oh! Yeah let's go!" Leo said as he bolted out the door
The gods watched as Perseus and Leo bolted down the streets of the virtual Athens, toward the beach.
When the gods saw them arrive at the beach, they noticed that there were no other players.
"Where are the other players?" Hephaestus asked himself.
"Probably watching Kirito, that guy Perseus is always with, fight the leader of the best guild in the game." Hermes said.
"Huh why?" Ares asked.
"Because he soloed the most recent boss fight using dual longswords." Hermes explained.
"So?" Ares asked.
"So it's not possible to dual wield longswords in this game, only shortswords, daggers and hachets!" Hermes said.
"Oh..." Ares said.
"Hey where is everybody else?" Leo asked.
"Hey Heph... like father like son?" Ares said again, and this time he couldn't dodge the lava hammer aimed at his nuts.
"I... don't... know..." Perseus said, slowly while looking around the beach.
Idly he spotted his own house, about fifty or so yards away, or a single half step for the sea god.
"Shiva should be inside, maybe I should bring her along?" Perseus thought to himself.
"Wait, are we reading his thoughts?" Artemis asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I had Heph add that in after the last time, they'll show up at subtitles though." Hermes said.
"Who's Shiva?" Athena asked.
"Why worried that little Perseus is cheating on your daughter?" Aphrodite mocked.
"Of course not!" Athena growled/lied.
Perseus shook his head, now was not the time to think about that.
He turned to the sea god who was pretty much sitting crosslegged on his front lawn.
Perseus walked up to the god, while Leo just stared at the god.
"Oi! Sea god, you better have a good reason why you're Squatting in my yard!" Perseus said, putting on his classic mock the deity persona on.
Leo's jaw dropped when he heard Perseus mock the god of the sea.
Apollo and the rest of the god roared in laughter, even Athena cracked a smile at the joke.
Poseidon also was laughing, sure Perseus was technically mocking him, but hey kids mock their parents all the time, Chaos knows how much he himself does it, it was rather endearing in Poseidon's opinion.
He couldn't believe that anyone would talk to a god this way, even if it was just virtual, but he was the apprentice of Hephaestus the smith god, so what did he know.
"Oh the Irony, haha!" Apollo laughed.
Hephaestus blinked, his son was is apprenticed to a virtual version of himself, it was rather ironic... but it presented an ... opportunity.
He would have to ask Zeus if it was possible.
But then again this was Perseus, one of the top players in the game, nicknamed the Hurricane Swordsman, or the Frozen Wolf King, he was called that because of his skill with Ice type sword skills, his Waheela, and the fact that he turned down nearly every sexy AF girl who hit on him (although that last one might just because he was underage and all the girls were teenagers).
"Wow... he's getting older women to hit on him... I LOVE THIS KID!" Apollo shouted, only for him to get a face full of sea water.
"You forgot the fact he turned them down..." Poseidon said.
"Eh, details!" Apollo waved off the comment.
"Maybe he's already got someone in mind?" Hermes asked with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
"I don't know, looks to me the brat is just acting like hunter girl... just with women and not dudes." Ares mocked.
Apollo and Artemis glared at him.
Artemis because he compared a male to her and insulted her hunter status, but she did raise her brow at the second title the son of Poseidon had, what did he do to be called a wolf king of all things.
Apollo because Ares insulted his cute little sister.
The sea god looked at Perseus, before he bellowed with laughter.
"It has been a long time since a mortal has talked to me like that! It is good to see that there are still some mortals who bear the traits of a hero! I am Poseidon, god of the sea, and you my mortal friend are?" Poseidon said/asked.
"Indeed it is my Virtual self indeed it is." Poseidon agreed with VP.
This drew several eyerolls from the other gods, and a scoff from Athena.
"Perseus..." said boy introduced.
"Umm... I am Leonidas, but everyone calls me Leo... hehe" Leo introduce with a small chuckle at the end.
"Hehe... that is amusing." Hephaestus chuckled.
"What is?" Apollo asked.
"In a video game people call him by his real name... without knowing it." Hephaestus chuckled.
Hera also softly giggled, but it went unnoticed.
"Well then Perseus, Leonidas... would you two be willing to listen to this sea god's request?" Poseidon asked.
The two knew that they had found the NPC they were looking for and immediately accepted.
"A wise decision... for a sea spawn at least." Athena muttered.
"*cough* Tsundere! *cough*" Aphrodite coughed.
Athena blushed bright red and slammed her fist on her throne.
"I am not a Tsundere!" Athena yelled.
"Oh poor, sweet, delusional, Athena... you totally are, in fact, a Tsundere!" Aphrodite giggled.
"I WILL CUT YOU BITCH!" Athena yelled.
"oh dear me it seems she's acting like Ares!" Aphrodite giggled.
"Yeah... wait what?" Ares asked.
"Oh nothing." Aphrodite said.
IG: With Perseus.
"Excellent! Is there a place we can discuss this matter in private?" Poseidon asked.
"Oh! Yes we can go to my shop!" Leo said.
"No need... my house is nearby we can go there." Perseus said.
"Huh? You have a house? And you didn't tell me?!" Leo asked.
"Yep, now let's go." Perseus said and walked to his house.
Leo and Poseidon watched him leave, and looked at each other.
"Rather indifferent isn't he?" Poseidon asked.
"Eh you get used to it, can't blame him though, he watched nearly all of his friends get killed in front of him, all for a piece of legendary rank ore, which I personally used to create him a weapon." Leo shrugged.
Poseidon (both real and virtual) winced at that.
"yeah and about 6 months ago he went to get a possible item that revives the dead, from your brother Hades btw." Leo told him
"Oh he met Hades and lived?" Poseidon asked.
"Yeah, although I heard this from the other member of his party, he flat out kicked the guy's door open and mocked the shit out of Hades. Like how he did with you ... but worse." Leo shrugged.
"hehe, I like him even more already... Perhaps I'll make him my champion after this." Poseidon muttered, before he walked to where Perseus was.
Leo on the other hand just stood there, his jaw on the floor, it was extremely hard to get champion status from a god on this floor.
In fact Leo himself was one, and that was because of his apprenticeship to Hephaestus.
Champion Status gave certain perks that work on any floor, such as fire resistance, which Leo had.
In fact it is known that becoming a champion comes with an EX skill, which Perseus already had, and if he became Poseidon's champion who know what kind of skill he'd get.
"That guy is too lucky..." Leo sighed then he walked to Perseus' house.
"Alright this is it, come on in... although Poseidon I don't think you'll fit." Perseus said to the god.
"Oh that's not a problem." Poseidon said.
He then shrunk to the size of a normal human.
"oh well that's convenient..." Perseus said.
"You're tellin' me..." Leo said.
"Alright then come in." Perseus said as he walked inside.
Leo and Poseidon entered the home and immediately noted that it was much bigger than the outside, Leo knew exactly the cause of it.
"You actually learned runes?" Leo asked.
"Yeah I took your advice, I thought it was useless at first, that's why I didn't bother to learn it, but it's surprisingly useful." Perseus said.
"See? Told ya." Leo grinned.
"Yeah yeah." Perseus waved him off as they make their way the living room.
The sound of howling drew their attention, Perseus grinned and silently prepared himself, and a white blur tackled Perseus.
"Gah! Oh no a fierce and adorable beast has me pinned oh what ever shall I do?!" Perseus moaned in fake pain.
A giant white wolf had Perseus pinned under her front paws on each arm while she sat on his legs.
Poseidon moved to grab his trident but Leo stopped him.
Shiva growled at Perseus... then she began licking his face.
"Gah! Shiva stop! Ok ok you win! Just no licking." Perseus said.
Shiva stopped at looked at Perseus.
"Aroo?" Shiva sounded with a tilt of her head.
"Yes yes! I'll bring you on the quest with me, but stay in your smaller form when in town ok?" Perseus said.
Shiva sniffed and shook her head, which meant "fine"
"Good now get off I have to speak with Poseidon about the quest." Perseus said.
Shiva sniffed and got off Perseus.
"Alright then, shall we talk about the quest then?" Perseus said.
"Umm... ok?" Poseidon asked/said.
"Great living room is this way." Perseus said and turned to walk to the room, only for Shiva to bit on his shirt and take him to the room herself.
Poseidon and Leo blinked at the protesting Perseus and the Waheela, but they followed the pair.
"So... shall we begin." Perseus said seriously.
His serious attempt was ruined by the sight of him being wrapped up by a sleeping Shiva, with only his head being visible.
Irl: Olympus.
The gods continued to watch Perseus and Leo interact with the virtual version of the sea god.
"Excellent! Is there a place we can discuss this matter in private?" Poseidon asked.
"Are we finally gonna learn what this quest is about?" Ares asked annoyed.
"Oh! Yes we can go to my shop!" Leo said.
"Oh back to the shop, I wonder if thats gonna be home base?" Hermes asked.
"No need... my house is nearby we can go there." Perseus said.
"Oh yeah, forgot his house was neaby!" Hermes said.
"And perhaps we'll learn who this Shiva is." Poseidon said.
"Indeed" Athena said with her eyes narrowed.
"Huh? You have a house? And you didn't tell me?!" Leo asked.
"Yep, now let's go." Perseus said and walked to his house.
"Ha!" Apollo laughed.
Leo and Poseidon watched him leave, and looked at each other.
"Rather indifferent isn't he?" Poseidon asked.
"Eh you get used to it, can't blame him though, he watched nearly all of his friends get killed in front of him, all for a piece of legendary rank ore, which I personally used to create him a weapon." Leo shrugged.
Poseidon (both real and virtual) winced at that.
"Ouch, so that's why he was so cold before!?" Apollo asked.
"yeah and about 6 months ago he went to get a possible item that revives the dead, from your brother Hades btw." Leo told him
Hermes snapped his fingers "that explains it!"
"Oh he met Hades and lived?" Poseidon asked.
"Now what's that supposed to mean!" Hades said as he flashed into the throne room.
"The hell you doing here corpse breath!?" Ares said.
"Hermes texted me. And told me the situation." Hades said not looking at the idiot of the gods.
"Yeah, although I heard this from the other member of his party, he flat out kicked the guy's door open and mocked the shit out of Hades. Like how he did with you ... but worse." Leo shrugged.
Apollo chuckled at the memory.
"hehe, I like him even more already... Perhaps I'll make him my champion after this." Poseidon muttered, before he walked to where Perseus was.
"of course you'd say that..." Hades said refering to the first part.
"Guilty as charged." Poseidon cheekily said to his brother.
Leo on the other hand just stood there, his jaw on the floor, it was extremely hard to get champion status from a god on this floor.
"Really? But I have a lot of them?" Apollo said.
"That's because you're you Apollo." Artemis said.
"But the Hunters are all your champions..." Apollo retorted.
Artemis tried to form a response but was unable to think of one because for once he was right.
In fact Leo himself was one, and that was because of his apprenticeship to Hephaestus.
"Makes sense." Hephaestus said.
Champion Status gave certain perks that work on any floor, such as fire resistance, which Leo had.
In fact it is known that becoming a champion comes with an EX skill, which Perseus already had, and if he became Poseidon's champion who know what kind of skill he'd get.
"Girl Damn, he's gonna have two EX skills now!" Hermes and Apollo shouted.
"That guy is too lucky..." Leo sighed then he walked to Perseus' house.
"Alright this is it, come on in... although Poseidon I don't think you'll fit." Perseus said to the god.
"Eh never stopped me before." Poseidon said.
"Bow Chika Bow Wow..." Hades said.
The rest of the gods paused and looked wide eyed at Hades.
"What? Red vs Blue is a good show, sue me." Hades said.
Apollo grinned and walked up to Hades and said.
"It's official.. you're my favorite uncle!"
"Oi!" Poseidon said, jokingly.
"Oh that's not a problem." Poseidon said.
He then shrunk to the size of a normal human.
"oh well that's convenient..." Perseus said.
"indeed Percy indeed..." Poseidon agreed.
"You're tellin' me..." Leo said.
"Alright then come in." Perseus said as he walked inside.
Leo and Poseidon entered the home and immediately noted that it was much bigger than the outside, Leo knew exactly the cause of it.
"You actually learned runes?" Leo asked.
"Runes? Poseidon asked.
"The art of using Magic via Letters that symbolise an element or deity. When used in combination with other letters will cause certain effect depending on the power associated with each letter. Originated in Egyption and Nordic regions and celtic later on." Athena said
"And how do you know about that?" Zeus asked.
"Annabeth's father is of norse descent. And her cousin is a norse demigod." Athena shrugged.
Zeus blinked at her owlishly.
"Yeah I took your advice, I thought it was useless at first, that's why I didn't bother to learn it, but it's surprisingly useful." Perseus said.
"Smart... for a sea spawn that is." Athena said, with huff at the end.
Aphrodite giggled at Athena's Tsundere moment.
"See? Told ya." Leo grinned.
"Yeah yeah." Perseus waved him off as they make their way the living room.
The sound of howling drew their attention, Perseus grinned and silently prepared himself, and a white blur tackled Perseus.
"What a monster in his house!?" Poseidon shouted worried for his son.
"Hmph its the perfect place for a sneak attack, it's where he thinks he is safest." Artemis said.
"I agree." Athena said, now planning her own sneak attack for "when" the sea spawn cheats on her daughter.
"Shut up and watch!" Ares shouted, causing the two to glare at him but comply.
"Gah! Oh no a fierce and adorable beast has me pinned oh what ever shall I do?!" Perseus moaned in fake pain.
"Huh?" Poseidon's question.
A giant white wolf had Perseus pinned under her front paws on each arm while she sat on his legs.
Artemis was going gaga over the wolf.
"Oh! She's so beautiful! I want one!" Artemis shouted with stars in her eyes, she was in her childlike form, which caused Apollo to faint from how moe she was being.
Poseidon moved to grab his trident but Leo stopped him.
"Yes! don't kill the wolf!" Artemis shouted while shaking the real Poseidon, who was to busy chuckling at his normally stoic niece to care.
Shiva growled at Perseus... then she began licking his face.
"Awww!" Artemis cooed, her hands on her cheeks.
"Gah! Shiva stop! Ok ok you win! Just no licking." Perseus said.
"Heh! Admitting defeat to a mutt, some warrior you are!" Ares mocked, only to choke a bit when Artemis released some Killer intent, and a image of a black wolf with silver eyes appeared behind her.
"Ares... shut up. Or I'll Fade you." Artemis said with a sickly sweet smile on her face.
Ares, taking a page from Athena's book, decided to be wise and shut his mouth.
Meanwhile Apollo, who had been woken by the KI, was dying of laughter.
"Wait that's Shiva!?" Athena shouted.
"Who cares she's adorable!" Artemis shouted.
Shiva stopped at looked at Perseus.
"Aroo?" Shiva sounded with a tilt of her head.
"Aww!" Artemis cooed again.
"Yes yes! I'll bring you on the quest with me, but stay in your smaller form when in town ok?" Perseus said.
"He understood her?" Artemis asked with a tilt of her head.
Shiva sniffed and shook her head, which meant "fine"
"Good now get off I have to speak with Poseidon about the quest." Perseus said.
Shiva sniffed and got off Perseus.
"Alright then, shall we talk about the quest then?" Perseus said.
"Umm... ok?" Poseidon asked/said.
"Great living room is this way." Perseus said and turned to walk to the room, only for Shiva to bit on his shirt and take him to the room herself.
The entire Olympian council burst into laughter as they watch Perseus get taken by the wolf.
Well except Artemis who was to busy planning her own hunt for a Waheela.
Eventually when they calmed down they returned to the screen.
Poseidon and Leo blinked at the protesting Perseus and the Waheela, but they followed the pair.
"So... shall we begin." Perseus said seriously.
His serious attempt was ruined by the sight of him being wrapped up by a sleeping Shiva, with only his head being visible.
This prompted all of the gods to lose their shit again.
IG: With Perseus and Leo
Perseus and Leo listen to the prescripted dialogue of Poseidon's request.
Basically it was a raid type event where the Player(s) had to defeat an entire army, and then the leader of the army, then a monster or two of a legend, usually random, although not necessarily in that order. But this one has a special twist, you have to destroy every enemy you come across plus complete a "two choices" type action to complete the event.
The story for the event goes that Poseidon's City Atlantis was over run by an army of monsters who serve the previous sea ruler, Oceanus, who intends to sieze back control of his domain and intends to use Atlantis as his personal stronghold, and went himself to take the city, along with the Kraken and one other monster, and succeeded, Poseidon went for help, while his son Triton aided his escape but was captured along with the rest of the atlantian people.
Perseus stared at the sea god, before he sighed.
"Leo?" Perseus asked
"Yeah?" Leo responded.
"This sword better be the best damn sword you ever make..." Perseus said.
[A/N: Alright part one is finished for this chapter. I hope you enjoyed the interactions of the gods. Personally I like the Artemis parts the most. So yeah I'll start working on the next part once I have it mapped out. I was kinda winging this chapter off the top of my head, lol.
Also before I forget this is Fan-chan!
*Moves aside to show a chibi girl with lime green pigtails and bright blue eyes, also holding a paper pinwheel fan*
Fan-Chan: *blushes shyly* H-hello!
She's in charge of saying my disclaimers, I would've introduced her when I first had her say them but... *whispers* she's shy! And didn't want me to say anything. Oh she's also in charge of keeping the... ya know what never mind... *shudders*
Anyways... oh btw if anybody wants to do a reading fic with any of my stories have at it, just uh tell me when the first chapter comes out, I want to read it for you know... comedy's sake. Oh and include Fan-chan in the reader cast as a representative for me, but remember she's the shy and easily embarrassed type so no lewding her...
alright that's about it, let's go Fan-Chan!
Fan-Chan: H-hai!]
Later!