The Son of Night

Chapter 3

Percy POV

This new level of 'training' is hard I mean after the first level Hylla gave me a few more weapons: throwing knives in a belt and on my shoulders, a spear and even a scythe. But even after she gave me all those weapons I still struggled as each level just got harder and I was drenched in sweat after the first five levels!

Man I have bad stamina..

Percy take a break and change you look terrible" came Hylla's voice. Finally. I walked out of the training room and went to my room. I changed into some grey pants and a white shirt after having a shower. I then went back to training to start level 6 of 1000. The doors in the wall opened and 70 automatons came out. Here we go again.

CRASH! THUNK! SLASH! BANG! I spent a lot of time running, sidestepping, slashing, stabbing, throwing and hacking whilst training. My forehead glistened with sweat but I've been training for hours now and there was no way I was going to give up. The thing that boosted me the most though was when Hylla told me how long I had to stay. 6 months to complete my training then do my task, 6 months! I trained as hard as I could for hours so I could complete this training and finally see Wise Girl again. Come on Percy I know your tired but if you want to see Annabeth you have to finish this training and Athena's task. As I stabbed the last automaton in the back Hylla called again.

"Percy it's time for dinner and you've completed 13 levels so far." I grumbled but was glad as I was starving, I made my way to where everyone usually eats, I'll just call it the mess hall seeing as I don't know what The Amazons call it, and saw Thalia who was beaming.

"Hey Thals" I said

"Percy! Staying at The Amazons is so much fun I mean my room is HUGE and has a massive TV and everything and The Amazons took me to the cinemas, bowling, to a restaurant, this place where we played laser tag and even a parkour course! Anyway so what did you do?"

"Well nice to know you had fun whilst I was up against a bunch of automatons that are super fast and strong and have so many hidden blades and weapons and are hard to kill and each time I complete a 'level'- by the way this is the hardest level they have and they named it after me-the next level only has more automatons, and they either fight like a Roman or Greek but I came across a few which fought like both and there are 1000 levels and I'm gonna be staying here for a while to complete them because they are super hard, so I had a pretty good day" I said with sarcasm. She just smirked and said,

"Maybe I'll come watch you get your ass kicked Kelp-for-brains" she smirked and I groaned which made her laugh. We entered the mess hall and made our way to our seats. Nico was already there eating, I bet he shadow-traveled, and so was Hylla and Kinzie even joined us too. I sat down and began to eat some pizza and asked for blue-coke. Kinzie and Hylla looked at me weirdly but I shrugged it off.

"Well I've heard all about Percy's wonderful day but what did you do death breath?" Thalia asked

"I-" that's as far as he got before I cut him off,

"He sat on a chair watching me train whilst eating popcorn and laughing his ass off and doing nothing at all." I glared half-heartedly at him whilst he laughed.

"But it was funny! I mean I wish I had it on tape for you to see Thals I mean Percy got thrown around like a rag doll quite a few times!" He just kept laughing until I glared at him and he shut up.

"Shut up Zombie Dude"

"No way Seaweed Brain"

"Death breath"

"Kelp Head"

"King Skele"

"Squirtle"

"Isn't that Pokémon?"