Percy Jackson and The Olympians:Half-Blood Struggle[PG-13] [Accepting via PM,Started]

[Jakeronijo]

Brian snapped out of his trance. "Oh Dante, where'd you come from?" he said keeping Alice in his peripheral vision and letting out puff of air. Alice felt like fainting. The ever condensing snow was thining as the air was driest in Winter. But Alice could sense movement. But her eyes told her the two other Nikkis were in the same place. But the water told her otherwise. She exhaled. Noone trusted her and all she wanted to do was help. "If I'm not needed I'll go. But if you need me. USe this." She handed Brian a small seashell. "If you blow it,I'll hear." Brian smiled and didn't wonder why a river demi-god would give him a SEAshell. But he took it hapily before arguing. "But maybe she would be useful. I mean she knows what she is doing. And maybe she can be useful." Brian looked at the three other demigods. "But I doubt I could do this without you guys." He looked at Alice. He wanted her there with him. But he didn't know why. "Okay then..."

[Corvidae]

Oizys called out, 'So what's he the god of?'

Xaiklez and Tiaden just stood there in amazement. 'Di immortales...' Xaiklez breathed.

 

Dante shrugged. 'Been here all day. But sure, I'll stay behind. Let somebody else take a turn in the Labyrinth. But I'm not stayiong behind next time we go get some Alkahest. I want one of those things for myself.'

'We're not going through the Labyrinth, Dante.' Nikki's voice was almost a whisper. 'We're going somewhere much, much, worse.'

Dante glanced sideways at her. 'How can you get worse than the Labyrinth?'

Nikki exhaled. 'I'll show you.' And with that, she started running towards the forest, Marissa and Desiree invisibly following. A seashell. Good to know. So it's a sea goddess. Amphitrite? Maybe.

 

Damian, Zelkiax, Mace, and Titin had suited up in armor and weapons, and were getting ready to storm Camp Half-Blood. Zelkiax and Titin each held a widesword, and Mace wielded a... mace. And a morning star (Flail with spikes). Damian had replaced his old firearm with a submachine gun, as well as a shield slung over his back, and a pair of swords sheathed, one on either side of him.

'Let's go.' He ginned evilly.

[Jakeronijo]

Alilce let out a sigh of relief and followed Nikki. She catches on quick. She thought feeling the presences of the two twins get stronger as the stepped out into open air. Alice followed them at a regular pace. Brian followed as well trying to keep his eyes off of Alice. He tried to distract his self with his phone as they headed into the forest. "So why don't you stay at camp?" He asked Alice. She lokoed at him. "Well minor gods don't get as much respect." She said. "So it's best to stay outside of camp."

[Corvidae]

Nikki stopped and stared at Alice. 'We minor demigods get more respect than you think. My mother is minor, and I have an Alkahest Item.' Nikki drew the Axe. 'I've lost more than you could ever imagine to get this. I've lost my memory, been killed twice, got shot-' Dante tried to interrupt Nikki, but she was on a roll. '-I've been turned into a beacen for monsters, interfused with two other minor demigods-' Marissa and Desiree turned visible, '-Drained almost all of my energy shadow travelling, fought some idiot's army of illusions, my brother is dead, killed by that Blade.' Nikki pointed at Brian's phone accusingly. 'My life is miserable, and I've had my atoms scrambled twice now. And for what? This Axe. Alkahest has ended lives, ruined more. Kronos isn't the problem here. If he doesn't kill the gods, these Items will. Alkahest is worse than Typhon, worse than Kronos. Alkahest is going to kill us all.' Nikki's voice cracked, and she ran into the forest, turning invisible, followed by the other two.

[ArtemisFowl]

Jecht watched Brian act stupid infront of Alice and he saw the glares Nikki gave her. This'll be fun. He thought following after the others into the forest. After Nikki's rant about the weapons to Alice. "She's right though." Jecht said to the others. "These weapons may not be well rocgonized with glory or imfamy but they're going to play a big part in this war." He said then looked around to see which way Nikki had ran but of course you can't see an invisible person. "Well, now we have to find out where Nikki went."

[Jakeronijo]

"What is Alkahest?" Alice asked? Brian opened his phone. "This is Alkahest." Brian said as his phone turned into the blade. "It has many powers." The phone beeped as the sword reverted. It was sort of a demo since Brian didn't have the finger prints needed. "It is very powerful and as nikki said, has ended lives." Brian put his hands in his pockets as the sun was at it's highest point, but hidden by clouds. There was a light snow fall, Brian guessed there must be a blizzard outside of camp since so much snow had fallen recently. "shhot, what did Nikki want to showl us?" Brian asked looking at Jetch.

[Corvidae]

'I'd know.' Dante added. 'I've seen people be killed by Alkahest. In fact, it nearly killed me! Nikki saved my life... Well, she told Brian how to, at least. Though Apollo fixing my neck didn't hurt... The point is, the Alkahest Sword hurt me real bad.'

 

Nikki was deep in the forest, along with Desiree and Marissa, walking slowly towards their destination.

Seashells... Eione, Nereid of the Beach? Desiree mused.

Does it matter? Nikki asked her counterpart sadly. It's snowing. There's water in snow. She can kill us any time she chooses.

Desiree replied, It matters because she's lying. First she said she's a daughter of Aphrodite, then some river goddess, and now a Nereid. If somebody's lying about one thing, they'll lie about another. Though I must say, she isn't much good at it.

Marissa was confused. But snow would fall under Khione, goddess of snow. She smiled. Alice may think she has the upper hand, but I don't think she has any control over snow. All three of them froze, still invisible, as they heard someone coming.

[Jakeronijo]

OoC: H2O not snow...snow is stupid. Melted snow. lol same same. It still falls under the same thing. If you can control water, you can control snow...unless u think im wrong.

 

Alice looked flabbergasted. ":How do you break your neck and survive?" She asked. Brian kept his eyes straight forward hoping to find Nikki, who might be inbvisible. They entered the forest that was easy to see through without leaves and snow covering the ground. "NIKKI!" Brian yelled. "NIKKI!!!!" He called. But there was no reply. "Hold on right here." He said and then he was off leaving a trail in the snow.

[Corvidae]

ooc: Poseidon may control both, but remember that they think Alice's mother is a nereid. Nereids control water. Khiene controls snow. Poseidon controls both. I don't think you're wrong, I think my characters are.

 

IC: Diana finally wakes up. Holly is leaning over her worriedly, feeding her squares of ambrosia.

'How are you feeling?' Holly asks, once she sees that Diana has woken.

'I'm fine.' Diana forces herself to say, trying to sit up.

'No, you're not.' Holly lies her back down. 'Rest.'

Diana passes out again.

 

Zephyr woke up slowly. What's happening to Xaiklez and Tiaden? I've finally reached them, but that was hours ago, and the Iris Message is gone now. I'll just have to wait for them. Zephyr turned his thoughts back to his dream. Who were those two girls?

 

Damian led the group around Camp Half-Blood, and they crossed the borders into the forest quietly. Damian had armed Titin, Mace, and himself with magic items, so the three of them glowed slightly. Zelkiax had none, in case he attempted to desert them. Shade followed them invisibly, carrying some swords, even though he was unable to use them.

 

Dante shrugged. 'It was only really broken for a few minutes. Brian got the Sword a minute or two later, then he fixed my neck. Though even Alkahest can't fix nerve endings. So I was paralyzed until they got Apollo to come fix it.' Dante, Jecht, and Alice were staying behind while Brian went in to find Nikki.

 

Marissa appeared suddenly, clamping a hand over Brian's mouth. 'Shut up.' She hissed, pulling him to the side. 'Do you want them to find us?'

[ArtemisFowl]

"Yeah, yeah we get it. You broke you neck and now your better." Jecht said as he started walking casually, following the footprints that Brian left behind. He swore he heard footsteps and walked that way, even though that strayed from the direction the footsteps went. His eyes flitted around at the trees. All of them looked alike and soon Jecht didn't know where he was. He turned around to follow his footsteps back but the falling snow had covered them. "Ah, great." He muttered and looked around, completely losing his sense of direction when doing so. Them he continued to walk not knowing where he was going.

[Jakeronijo]

Brian pulled off her hand. "You don't want WHO to find you?" He asked. The unwanted contact phased him. When he thought of Alice, every other girl seemed disgusting to him. "where's nikki, where did she want to take us."

 

Alice walked through the forest and wasn't shifted by Jetch's sudden panic. "Look Genius the camp is right there." She said pointing behind them. "And Brian's foot prints." She pointed ahead. "Are right there." the depressions in the snow were easy for her to see after living underwater for so long.

[Corvidae]

Nikki appeared behind Jecht, jumping silently down from a tree she had been crouched in. Without saying anything, she grabbed Jecht's hand and pulled him off the path he had been walking along, behind a large tree.

'You shouldn't have come here.' She whispered, tensed.

 

'Look, there are people in the forest. Bad people.' Marissa's voice was nearly imperceptible, her eyes flitting about, her dagger drawn.

 

Desiree glanced at the invaders. Damian's here. She thought to herself. He's coming for the Alkahest Items. Then she jerked involuntarily, and stood up, walking towards the group against her will. Shade/Desiree grinned, and took out the Alkahest Axe, handing it to Damian.

'It seems these people think that they can stop me.' Damian laughed, pocketing the Axe. 'Pathetic.'

Zelkiax realized that the girl in front of him was being enslaved just as he was. And now Damian's got the Axe...Things just got way harder.

Shade/Desiree looked around. 'This is an... interesting body. Though I think it was dangerous taking it over.'

Mace shrugged. 'We got the Axe. That's more than we came for. We should go, now.

Damian nodded, as Desiree began walking away.

'Let's go.'

[Jakeronijo]

Brian looked at her face. He understood. His phone beeped. he loked down. "The AXE! desiree!" He said grabbing MArissa's arm and Zoooming through the forest.

 

Alice looked around her confused as Dante was no longer walking with them. "What the hell is going on here?" Then she saw the trade off. "What is wrong with that girl?" She asked noone in particular before running towards Desiree. Brian and Marissa skidded to a hault infront of Desiree and Brian bumped into Alice. "sorry." He apologized as his face turned bright red.

[Corvidae]

Desiree groaned, as Shade left her body. 'Why?' Then her eyes widened. She turned and threw her knife, but Damian's group was too far gone. 'Gods, why did I do that?'

'No choice.' Marissa put a hand on Desiree's shoulder. 'I think Damian did something to you. You didn't have a choice.'

 

Damian turned the Axe over in his hands. 'The horrible Axe terrifies any foe.' He smiled maliciously. 'This is going to be fun.'

 

Marissa turned around, and walked several steps away. A rainbow appeared in front of her. 'Show me Damian Shaadler.' The image appeared. 'You'll pay for this.' She said, shaking with rage.

 

Damian turned and smiled. 'See, I would, but now I've got one of your only Weapons. And I know where the others are.' He laughed. 'And now I'd say we're even. You stole the Sword from Titin here, so I get the Axe from you. In fact, I didn't even steal it. You gave it to me.' With a smirk, Damian terminated the message.

 

Chiron shook his head. 'I'm sorry Nate, but we have enough to worry about without another quest.'

 

ooc: Go ahead, BlueEyes!

[BlueEyes22]

Nate ignored Chiron and, when he wasn't looking, went inside the house. He went up the stairs, through the hallway, up the ladder, and into the dark, cold, creepy room that is home to the Oracle of Delphi. "O' Great Oracle of Delphi, what does my dream mean?" The mouth of the old mummy started smoking. Nate was barely holding sanity, wishing he hadn't gone to see her against Chiron's will. Then the oracle said:

 

Work hard but work wrong, for your foes are strong,

If Xaiklez fails, your lives won't last long

The Javelin's gone, guarded by a great beast,

Nobody defeated him, then took his Fleece,

The Alkahest Scepter, it can't be found when,

Your foe has it hidden, away from heaven,

The Bow with it's arrow is easy to find;

But only with help from the goddess who's blind.

 

Nate left the attic in a hurry. Who's Xiaklez? Is she another camper? And whats Alkahest? All he knew was that he had to go tell Diana, for she had an idea of where Themis, Goddess of Justice, was. Nate began searching rooms until he found Diana. "Diana," he asked. "I just spoke to the Oracle, and I am going on a quest." Nate told her the Prophecy, and said "I want you and Dante to go with me. You have an idea of where Themis is, and Dante will be good to have if we get attacked. Besides I think at least one of you two know what Alkahest is. SO, what do you say?"

[Corvidae]

Diana paused. 'Why do you say I have an idea where Themis is? Who's Themis anyways?'

 

Dante had wandered down to the ampitheater, passing the time by continuing his own personal debate. Nightslayer gathers darkness, Omega gathers light. So which one would actually hide me better in white snow? At night, would blending in with the snow be better than being actually harder to see because of darkness? Tough choice. Nightslayer usually hides me in darkness, but sometimes it's better to blend in... I suppose Nightslayer normally blends me into darkness... but in light, Omega might help more. Though Nightslayer... Is it better to be hidden, or to blend in with your background? Dante had both swords in his hands, comparing them. I guess that being hidden would work better in somebody did a quick sweep, but blending in would be better is someone actively looked for me. Dante shrugged, then sheathed his two blades, and started walking towards the forges.

[Luna Lovegood]

OoC: What should he be god of?

 

IC:

 

Harry just stood there in amazement. He was a god. He was the son of one of the original beings. It all made sense now. Even the Iris Message. Darkness. Nyx. Even though it made sense, Harry was confused. He didn't know what would happen next, or how he would fight Kronos. He knew he would though. Kronos was the common enemy, an enemy of the peace. He had to be defeated, no matter what it took. Harry stood tall, knowing he would fight.

[Jakeronijo]

Alice shifted her weight between feet. "Wait so WHAT did you just do?" Brian looked between the three girls. He looked down. "I'd hate to say I told you so." HE said shuffling his feet. "so what do we do now?" HE said looking around. "And wheres Nikki?"

 

Nick sat down on his bed. It was a slow for him but he didn't mind. He felt strongest at times when the sun was high in the sky. He really had a passion for drawing and he finished of a rough sketch of the Apollo cabin.

[ArtemisFowl]

"What?" Jecht asked cpmfused but kept his voice down as she did. "What is it?" Why can't I just be a normal half-blood? A little achrery, learning about the gods. Nope. You have to go risk your life and try to save the whole friggen world. He lectured himself. This is normal for a half-blood though. He reminded himself. He thought about who Nikki could be talking about. There were too many possiblities but the main people were Daimian and Titin, and he hoped that it would be anything but them.

[Corvidae]

ooc: I vote... Harry, god of the Midnight Sun

Oh hey, Nick's back.

IC: 'Damian's brought a group of demigods into the woods.' Nikki explained. 'Zelkiax is there. I don't understand that bit though. Zelkiax hates Damian.' Nikki let out a small gasp, then slumped weakly. 'We're too late. Damian's got the Axe. It's over.'

 

'She's bringing Jecht here.' Desiree said solemnly. 'But that doesn't matter anymore. Without the Axe, we lose half our Alkahest power.'

Marissa's rainbow eyes flashed dangerously. 'Speak for yourself. I'm getting my Axe back. Some way or another.' It just might work... It's a stretch, and we'll need the Scepter, but it just might work... A malicious smile spread across her face. So where was the Scepter again? Marissa started running through the forest, vanishing quickly. She needed to have a little chat with the Oracle.

 

Xaiklez sighed. I heard Olympus is incredible. Not that I'm ever going to see it. I don't think even gods can heal an injury this old. I haven't seen anything for years. But... Xaiklez walked up to a random god next to her. 'Can you possibly direct me to Asclepius?'

Achelous nodded, then, seeing that Xaiklez was blind, led her off to Asclepius, god of healing.

[Jakeronijo]

OoC: Yea now delete the post lol...

 

IC: Brian looked at the phone. "We never use the blade though!" he said in his defence. So techniacally we do still have maximum power with just a few thumb prints." He said tilting his phone in his hand. Alice looked at the phone. "But what can that kind of power do to a regular mortal?" She asked. "Is it safe." Showing care for Brian she didn't know was there in the first place and her cheeks reddened a little. Brian dismissed it and looked at Desiree. "So you're like Nikki right? Do you have any idea what she wanted to show us." Brian said looking behind him. "THe prophecy is growing old.

 

OoC: IT would be awesome if we used the scepter to seperate one of us temporarily and then bring them back together! Oh and I just realized that line of the prophecy...When i said love forgotten i was thinking it applied to NIkki and Jetch. But then i realized it could apply to Brian and Alice. Shoot. Who will the oracle choose?

[Luna Lovegood]

"Harry shall be forever known as God of Shadows! His power will develop, and he will fight in this war! He will be immortalized alongside my other children, Death, Love and Doom." Her voice grew quiet again. She stepped over to Harry. 'Son," she said, "If you ever need me, I will always be there. I am more powerful then most of my siblings, my descendants will all listen to me. If you are in need, I will be there. You are a god, Thanatos cannot touch you. He can tough those you care about, however. I will arrange for you to have a place to stay here on Mount Olympus. You will not disappoint me." Everything went dark, and then Nyx vanished. Harry did not understand the limits of her power, or even if she had any. He walked over to Xaiklez and Tiaden.

 

"I guess this is good bye," he said. He was sad that his friends would be departing; he would miss them deeply. But he had to move on, and fight Kronos.

[Corvidae]

ooc: The oracle will choose my brother and his boot.

Also, Marissa left. I'll assume you were talking to Desiree.

Also, also, I was just thinking of that.

 

IC: 'I guess so.' Tiaden shook Harry's hand solemnly.

Moments later, Xaiklez returned, overjoyed. Her bright blue eyes gleamed in wonder. 'My gods, this place is incredible. And Asclepius is a genius!'

'What are you so happy about, Harry's leaving.' Tiaden grumbled.

Xaiklez beamed at him. 'I'm happy because... because I can see it happening. Asclepius fixed my eyes. I can see.'

 

Marissa had reached the end of the forest. She ran inside the Big House, but stopped when she heard somebody in one of the rooms. Marissa put on her ring, and walked into the room, where Nate was telling Diana about the prophecy he had heard. Away from heaven... That shouldn't be hard. Marissa turned to walk out of the room, but stumbled. Diana turned to look at where Marissa was.

'I know you're invisible. Show yourself.' She commanded.

Marissa grudgingly took off her ring, appearing instantly. 'So I'll assume that you're looking for two more campers?'

Diana raised an eyebrow. 'Why's that?'

Marissa grinned. 'Neither of you know much about Alkahest, do you? Five heroes shall find them, one with a scar. You only have three. And you need someone with inside information about Alkahest. Someone like me.'

 

Desiree shook her head. 'Alkahest can kill mortals just as easily as demigods. Of course it's not safe. And having two Alkahest Weapons is twice as strong as having one.' Then she turned and started walking. 'Follow me. I know where Nikki was talking about.' She started walking deeper into the forest. A few minutes later, they had arrived.

'Welcome,' Desiree sadly turned around, looking at their destination, 'to the Ant Hill.'

[ArtemisFowl]

"Okay then," Jecht said his prediction coming true. "Damian, demigods, axe." He said mulling over the odds and they weren't looking too good. "We've still got the sword if Brian can make it work." It being winter most demigods had gone home until next summer, but some of the best and most powerful half-bloods stayed. "We're dead." He decided. "Wait, why is he even here? There's nothing of importance here." Jecht said but knew that most of the time he never knew what Camp Half-Blood held.

[Corvidae]

Nikki sighed. 'Damian came to kill us. He knows we're looking for the Alkahest Items, and he wants them for himself. He came to kill some of us, but... he has a better prize now. The Axe. I don't know how, but he's got the Axe from Desiree. And if he gets a second Item, we're in real trouble. We'll be fighting an invulnerable foe, with two sacred abilities. The Axe alone can get somebody to flee in terror. If he gets the Lance...' She glanced meaningfully at him. 'Then maybe we're better off dead.'

 

Damian examined his prize. Finally, an Alkahest Item of my own. That imbecile Titin lost the Sword, but maybe the Axe is better than the Blade... Experimentally, Damian swung the Axe into a tree, cleaving through it easily. He smiled. Oh yeah, the Axe is better, all right.