Kronos lifted his foot up again and brought it over Percy's head. It came down when Percy spoke, "wait."
The foot stopped an inch from Percy's nose. Kronos put the foot to the side and looked down, "what?"
"Inside the bag," Percy whispered before closing his eyes.
Kronos looked at the red bag Percy brought with him. It was torn to pieces from the water that came out of it. Kronos approached the bag and picked it up. The inside were filled with broken water bottles and climbing gear, but underneath all that the Titan spotted something else. Something beeping.
Beep. Beep.
Kronos tore the bag apart and reached inside pulling out a large oval shaped device. He looked it over and his golden eyes widened as he recognized the symbol for radiation printed on the object's side. On the surface of the device was a heart beat monitor with a slowly reducing heart rate.
"What have you done!" Kronos roared turning to Percy.
Percy smiled without opening his eyes, "I have brought your death."
Percy had traded in his Lotus card for this weapon. A nuclear warhead that was tied to his heart beat. Slowly Percy felt his life slip away. He could hear the panicked voice of Kronos in the back of his mind. He smiled, 'fuck you asshole.'
Kronos tried to use his powers to freeze Percy and the bomb in time. But the moment he froze Percy the bomb stopped receiving the heartbeat signal and exploded in Kronos's arms. The blast took out the entirety of Mount Othrys, none of the Titans survived.
Darkness.
Darkness came for hims again.
Percy opened his eyes and found himself surrounded by darkness again. 'Am I dead?'
The darkness filled his very being, Percy didn't resiste.
'If I'm dead then why am I not at DOA records?'
Suddenly a flash of light exploded shining a spotlight on Percy.
"Hello?" the young man asked, "is anyone there?"
"Greetings young one," a voice called out from the darkness. Suddenly a bright green light exploded right in front of Percy.
Percy waited for his eyes to get used to the intensity and saw a giant green whale. It had four flippers instead of two and it's very essence glowed green. On it's belly was a symbol, it was a circle with a horizontal bar on the top and bottom. The whale floated in mid air as every inch of it's body glowed with green power.
Percy felt his power increase just by being near this creature. It was like this thing gave him the will to do anything, his confidence as through the roof!
"Who are you?" Percy asked in wonder.
"I am In, the entity of willpower," the giant whale spoke, "I was created when life could first move on it's own accord. I have lived millions of years across all of time and space, and I come to you now for your trail."
"My trail? What do you mean?"
"The world you lived through right now was your trail. You believed that you were simply going through a trail to forge a weapon, but that is not true, it is so much more."
Percy blinked in realization, "then you mean… I never really came out of that trance? Am I still in the trail? Was all that I lived through this past week an illusion?"
The green whale nodded, "yes. That was a test. The trail you invoked through your spell was an ancient and powerful one. It would put you up to be judged by all 9 entities of the universe. We give you an impossible situation, a world that you cannot possibly hope to live in, and we break you. And in that moment of despair and torture, at your lowest point in life, we see who you really are."
Percy sighed in relief, "so that mean's my mom isn't dead. The camp is still alive and…I never killed anyone."
The whale nodded, "yes mortal. That is true."
"So did I pass?"
"There is no pass or fail in this test," I explained, "all who go through this test will die. It is not a test to see whether you pass or fail, but to see what you are made off."
"And what am I made off?"
Suddenly a green crystal rose out of the darkness in front of Percy. It was diamond shaped and as big as Percy was.
"Look and see your trials complete," Ion spoke as suddenly an image came up in the crystal.
The image was of Percy dieing at the beach. The hellhound had it's jaws around Percy's neck and was closing down on him. The Will to live slowly died in Percy's eyes, before they suddenly exploded with will power. The will to live.
The image then changed, it became the scene Percy was just in. He saw himself attacking Kronos. He saw his determination in his eyes, the sheer will to fight despite knowing that he couldn't win.
"You have shown great will Perseus Jackson," Ion spoke as suddenly the green crystal started to collapse on itself in the form of a long oval, "your will power will forge the shape of your weapon."
"T-Thank you."
The whale nodded, "you are worthy. I give you also this Perseus Jackson," a flash of light and Percy saw before him a green scale, "it is one of my scales. Use it however you please, but be warned for it has power you cannot begin to understand."
Percy nodded and the scale vanished. The green whale then moved to the side as the green was suddenly replaced by red.
A huge red bull spread in front of Percy. It had four horns and a long pair of tusks. It's body was bigger than it's feet could support as it floated in mid air.
The bull narrowed its eyes at Percy, "I am The Butcher, the embodiment of rage. I was born after the first murder happened. And you Perseus Jackson have the capacity for great anger."
The green crystal then changed to red. Percy looked and the image of him fighting the dragon and Kronos appeared.
"Your anger is your greatest tool, it will empower you in battle and give you reason to fight."
The red crystal then green bright red veins that crawled through it.
"For long you have always sought to control your rage Jackson and have failed. For my gift to you is this," suddenly a flash of light blinded Percy but left him feeling more powerful, "I have removed the limitations on your curse. When in rage now you will be in control as long as you wish to. Rage is powerful, but it is nothing without something to target that rage with."
"Y-You cured me of Le Bete?"
The bull nodded, "yes I have."
"Thank you," Percy bowed and the bull then stepped aside along with Ion. Then an orange flash of light and a new being appeared. It was an orange snake with a circle on top of it's head.
The snake looked down at Percy, "I am Ophidian, the entity of greed. I wassss born when the first being ate something that it did not need."
The crystal in front of Percy turned orange now as the snake continued, "you do not have a greed for material wealth in your heart, but greed existssss in another form."
The crystal then displayed images not from Percy's trials but from all the times he leveled up. That smile he got when he saw the extra stat points, the laughter he got when defeating enemies.
"My greed…..is the greed for power?"
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