Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Unlimited Blade Works

Chapter 1: Return of an Archer

"I am the bone of my sword."

Percy felt like he was dipped into powerful acid as he jumped into the River Styx.

"Steel is my body and fire is my blood."

Percy saw images that he has never seen before flash through his mind. Dreams that didn't go through and two loves thought lost.

"I have created over a thousand blades."

"Saber," Percy whispered unconsciously. "Rin."

Neon green circuits then began spreading throughout his body.

"Unknown to Death, nor known to Life."

Percy's sea green eyes gained streaks of steel grey and his hair gained white tips. He also felt himself begin to stop flowing with the river's current as if he was anchored to land.

"Have withstood pain to create many weapons."

In Percy's mind, he could see a world made of infinite swords and other bladed weapons. With a man on a hill in the middle of it all.

"Yet those hands will never hold anything."

When Percy reached the man, the man held out his hand and Percy held out his own. An unknown message between them was sent and a bright light emanated from them as three figures were seen by them.

"So as I pray-"

"Get up Master/Seaweed Brain/Baka," the three figures ordered before they merged into one. "Come on. We don't have all day, Seaweed Brain. You need to fight Kronos."

"Unlimited Blade Works."

Percy jumped out of the River Styx his eyes like a whirlpool of steel grey and sea green and his hair swaying to an invisible wind. His skin was red and looked as if he had a serious sunburn, but it was slowly returning back to it's normal beach tan.

"Percy? Nico di Angelo hesitantly asked. "Is that... Is that you?"

Percy didn't answer right away as he looked down at his hands. Clenching and unclenching them repeated as if he was testing something.

"Yeah," Percy replied with a smirk. "It's me."

"You feel... different," Nico stated. "And look different. What happened to you in the River?"

"Memories," Percy replied after a moment. Percy then looked towards the Fields of Asphodel. "We've got company."

"What do you mean?" Nico asked, turning his head in the same direction that Percy was looking. "No one is there."

"Trace... on!" Percy muttered as a bow appeared in his hand. "Yes there is, Neeks. You just don't see them. Your father is coming and with an entire army of skeletal soldiers."

Percy then held his hand up at an obtuse angle, his palm facing upwards, and a spiralled bladed sword appeared in his hand in a burst of red light and surrounded by brief blue wisps.

"What in the name of my father..." Nico trailed off as he backed up away from Percy in shock.

Percy then placed the arrow on this bow and as he pulled back, it turned into an arrow made of bone. Percy then began pulsing red energy, which then covered the arrow, before the blue wisps returned and began spiralling around him.

"Sorry for doing this to your father and his army, Neeks," Percy apologized, "but this had to be done."