NOVEL NEXT Chapter 186: Chapter 186
Percy walked over the the zombie plotting the course and frowned. "That's wrong," Percy said grabbing the map from the zombie's hand along with the Astrolabe, a lens attached to a big circular disk with several measurements on it.
"Excuse me" the zombie said, "but I do believe I am the Sailing master on this ship and I am completely-"
"-Incompetent, this isn't the tool you need by the way," Percy said throwing the Astrolabe to the side before picking up a sextant that was lying next to the captain zombie, "this is what you need."
The son of the sea god then began using the navigational tool and rewrote the entire map plotting the right course to the sea of monsters. All the knowledge of the sea flowed into him like second nature, and in a way it was. Percy understood everything, the current's the wind patterns, where to go and what to avoid.
'Damn,' he thought, 'I would have made a hell of a sailor.' "Here," Percy said tossing the map to Clarisse, "follow the instructions I wrote down."
"Percy," Annabeth said looking at the map, "these are amazing! How do you know all of this?"
Percy shrugged, "son of the sea god."
"This quest is going to hell to finish without you," Clarisse commented tucking away the map, "you sure you can't come with us?"
"Sadly I can't," Percy said walking to the side of the ship, "but if you guys need my help just Iris message me."
"You bet buddy, and when I do please come and get me off this zombie filled boat ride," Michael said eyeing the crew, "why are they all dressed up as soldiers?"
"It's because they all died during the civil war," Clarisse explained as she told the captain to set sail.
"Wait...these aren't just normal zombies but soldier zombies?"
"Yup."
"Were they at least part of the Union?"
"Nope."
Michael turned just in time to Percy jump off the side of the ship and land on the icy walkway below, "Percy don't leave me!" The son of Apollo tried to jump off as well but Clarisse dragged him inside by the collar, "they are all zombies! Confederate, probably racist zombies!"
Percy chuckled as he walked back to shore. He waved them goodbye as the iron ship sailed away in a puff of smoke. Michael's cries of help soon died out in a few minutes leaving Percy all alone on the beach.
Percy sighed and looked at the time, he really needed to get a watch. Time moved on as Percy waited and waited. He was thinking of Iris messaging Hermes to ask where his ride was when suddenly an Iris message literally popped up in front of him.
"Percy are you there?" Hermes's voice and face came through the rainbow message.
"Yeah I'm here," Percy replied back, "and I'm standing here all alone."
Hermes nodded as he scratched the back of his head, "yeah about that...see the thing is the one's who were meant to pick you up got into a kind of...situation."
"What kind of situation?"
"The kind that involves a giant 50 foot wide octopus."
"They were attacked by the Kraken?!" Percy shouted out.
"No no," Hermes replied quickly, "just a giant octopus. No big deal. But they are going to be late."
"Where are they now?"
"Ah just off the coast probably just 15 kicks to the South-East," Hermes said, "why do you want to know?"
"I'm going to go help them," Percy said canceling the message before Hermes could reply. He hardened the surface of the water until it was strong enough to take his weight and then began to run activating his Demon Speed perk.
He ran at around 80 Km/Hr, which was the fastest he had gone. He slowly pushed himself further and further until he could feel his shoes heat up from the friction, 'shit! Don't' think about that!' Percy scolded himself but ignored the heat in his shoes and continued forward.
In around 15 minutes he saw a pink object just below the horizon. As Percy came closer and closer he recognized that it was in fact a giant pink octopus and it had it's tentacle wrapped around an orange coloured shipt with red sails and a Jolly rodge flying above.
'That's the boat,' Percy realised as he quickly ran towards the ship and beast. As Percy came closer he drew Riptide from his pocket and the gauntlet of Kefka from his inventory. He put the gauntlet on and readied his blade. He was around 30 feet away when he used to water to send him flying through the air like a cannon ball.
"ARGH!" Percy roared out as he slashed into one of the Octopus's tentacles causing the giant sea creature to below in pain. Riptide cut the tentacle halfway through when it got stuck. There was too much meat to cut through and Percy didn't have a big enough sword, 'I so regret not bringing Zed with me.'
Percy used his legs to pull Riptide out of the tentacle and landed on the wooden deck of the ship, 'wood? Since when are ships these days made of wood?'
Percy pushed that question aside and turned to the giant octopus;
Dave the Octopus
Lv-23
HP: 15,450/18,000
MP:0
Str-52
Vit-44
Dex-21
Int-8
Wis-2
Luc-5
Dave is a giant octopus that was always made fun of by his friends for being so big. So he is considered a very lonely creature of the sea. He likes to play with whales and other large creatures but in the end he is alone. Right now he is attacking a ship because they woke him up.
Kill to gain- 20,000 Exp
"You no good stinking human! I'll eat you all!" The octopus roared out as it moves it's tentacles around while the crew of the ship attacked it with their weapons.
'Wait...did that thing just talk?' Percy blinked when suddenly it hit him, 'no it didn't talk, I can understand it!' He was the son of Poseidon after all
"Hey you there stop!" Percy yelled attracting the crew's and the Dave's attention, "stop fighting for one second!"
Dave the octopus looked at Percy before slowly moving it's tentacles. The ship's crew also stopped attacking the octopus and looked at Percy with a look of surprise and shock.
"You can understand me?"
Percy nodded as he tossed Riptide aside and held his hands up, "yeah I can."
"Are you a water spirit?"
"Something like that," Percy replied, "look I know you're kind of pissed and all, and I did just try to cut off one of your arms, but ah you could please stop attacking the crew?"
"Why should I!?" Dave roared out startling the crew.
"Wait!" Percy yelled stopping the crew from moving, "let me handle this." He turned to the giant octopus again, "I know you're pissed, and you have every right to be, but could you like settle this later? I really need these guys to kind of save the lives of my friends."
"Humph," The giant octopus humphed, "and why should I do anything you say?"
Percy sighed, he really didn't' want to threaten Dave, it seemed like a nice guy-ah, a nice octopus, but some people never change. So Percy poured his Bloodlust outwards and looked at the octopus right in the eyes, "if you don't leave right now I'll turn you into a popsicle" Percy then used his ice control to freeze the water near the octopus,
Dave's looked at Percy with eyes filled with fear, "you don't have the strength."
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