Rise of House Neptune

Paying Back Bullies

Chapter 2

Percy was fighting like a mad man. His trident was spinning in his hand as he made it through his fourth fight of the day. The bracket was stacked against him, but he was devastating the first, second, and third cohort. Jason similarly was marching through the bracket, and Percy was thrilled to see his next match was against Octavian one of the optios of the first cohort.

Percy stood across from Octavion who was grinning madly like he had somehow deluded himself into the possibility of him winning this match. 'He won four matches already Percy, don't underestimate him.' He heard Jason's voice in his head, and closed his mind to focus on the lessons Triden had given him.

Flashback

"Faster Perseus." Triden said swinging his trident at Percy's head hard.

The young man ducked underneath the strike quickly, and rolled around trying to sweep the immortals' legs out. Triden however whirled his weapon around stabbing it into the ground catching Percy in mid roll knocking him over making his eyes spin in pain. The water lifted him up and Triden was standing ten feet away suddenly, "Again."

It had been a long day for Percy. He had been learning the hard way over the past two years that Neptune was not the beloved God that he should have been, and the bullying from some of the younger demigods, and legacies was becoming a little much for the boy. Triden seemed to sense his weakness by the aggression he was currently exhibiting it was clear he didn't like it.

The heir to Atlantis motioned for Percy to attack again, and Percy looked at his brother in disbelief, but shook it off, and charged. This time he took two fast strikes at his brother's waste, and followed it up with a quick thrust to the face. Triden however batted each strike away with ease, "COME PERSEUS FASTER."

This time Percy caught a foot in the chest, and he went flying backwards. He coughed hard on the ground wheezing and trying to catch his breath. Triden roared, "You want me to give you a moment to rest Perseus?"

This time Triden charged him swinging his trident quickly in rapid attack motions. Somehow Percy managed to deflect the first few as Triden roared out, "You think these Romans are going to give you a moment to catch your breath."

The weapon was struck out of his hand, and he summoned the nearby water to help deflect the strikes of the trident, "YOU THINK THEY WILL PITY YOU. YOU ARE A SON OF THE SEAS. THESE ROMANS HATE YOU. THINK YOU ARE A CURSE."

Percy tried to dive into the water to escape, but the water threw him back to the ground hard and suddenly three prongs were at his throat, and a calm voice spoke to him, "You can't let them see your fear brother, your weaknesses will get you killed by these sycophants."

Triden withdrew the weapon and offered his hand to Percy who took the help up nervously. Nothing was said between the two and Triden said, "We will go again."

"Yes brother." Percy said obediently.

Percy would never complain about his lessons being too hard. The only connection he had with his father was Triden coming to train him, and he refused to give up on them. They trained a lot on trident combat, and his hydrokinesis. Percy learned from Triden that his father was allowing the heir to Atlantis more privileges and leeway in the Kingdom for payment of their training, and apparently Triden was even allowed to court a young woman that Neptune had previously forbidden. Percy wished he could learn more about these undersea politics, but Triden had always been pretty tight lipped about those things.

The training went at an intense pace for the rest of the night and when it was over Triden was walking towards the sea, "We will meet again next week. Same time. Don't be late."