Hey guys sorry for the super late update but things at my job have been getting pretty hectic as of late so I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to work on my stories but now I got this out for ya so enjoy!

So now it was finally time for the quest to begin, I had been up all night grinding some skill's with the books in my cabin and even did a little bit of magic training with Nitora just to be on the safe side.

After all of that I now sat on the hill near Thalia's tree, leaning against the guard dragon Peleus as the Golden Fleece hung above us on the branches. I was kind of cautious about the giant lizard at first, but after getting over that I found the guy made a pretty sweet place to rest and as long as I didn't make a grab for the Fleece he apparantly didn't mind either.

'How much longer until they get here Allen? I'm getting pretty bored just sitting around here inside your head ya know.' asked Nitora as I just shrugged.

The books only ever said they left early in the morning and didn't give specific's so I just left the cabin an hour or so before dawn and have been here ever since. Though I wasn't going to be riding in the van with them, instead I was gonna follow by air with my wings. I don't know why but I had a severe dislike now of being in confined spaces and so sitting in a metal box on wheels for who knows how long really didn't appeal to me. Also, seeing the envy on the other's faces when they see me flying was really gonna brighten my day.

'Oh stop it Nitora, why don't you just take a nap or something?' came my mental reply to which she dignified with a huff before going silent, much to my relief. I wonder if this was how Naruto felt whenever he talked with Kurama?

Shaking that thought away I focused more on what my game plan was gonna be from here until we reach Artemis and how I could possibly help without royally screwing up the timeline. While most things were an easy fix and didn't require much intervention on my part, there were just some things I couldn't plan for. One of those thing's was the meeting with a certain goddess of love and her boy toy, hopefully I would just be ignored in favor of her focusing on Percabeth shipping.

Before my mind could go any further down the road of possibilities of how that particular meeting would turn out the rest of the quester's arrived with Zoe leading them and Percy bringing up the rear. By the look on the son of Poseidon's face however I could tell his choice of placement wasn't voluntary, guess it can't be helped as he hasn't really proven to Zoe yet that he is a far better man than Herakles.

"Nice of you to show up, I thought you would be here earlier though Zoe with you being a huntress and whatnot." I teased the former Hesperide as she just gave a small snort of amusement as her response before passing me on the way towards the parked camp van.

"Wow, you teased the biggest man hater in the Hunt and she didn't put a dozen arrows in you? What kind of black magic you using and where can I learn it?" joked Thalia making me roll my eyes, but I couldn't stop a smirk from spreading across my face.

As I watched them all pile into the van I got ready to take flight before noticing them all just staring at me as if waiting for something, "...what?"

"Well are you gonna get in or what?" asked Annabeth as if it was obvious as I gave her a deadpanned stare.

"Annabeth... I have wings. Big. Fucking. WINGS. You think I'm actually gonna cram myself into a van with all of you rather than actually use them? I expected that kind of question from Percy or Thalia," "Hey!" cried the two for mentioned, "but from a child of the goddess of wisdom? For shame bethy, for shame." I tutted as her cheek's turned flaming red in what I assumed was embarrassment and maybe a bit of anger as well.

"Enough banter, I assume thou will be following us from above then Allen?" questioned Zoe.

After giving her a nod that she returned she made to start the van just before another 'ping!' went off and another window appeared in front of me.

Party creation enabled

Would you like to create a party?

YES/NO?

Thinking on what this meant I saw out of the corner of my eye that the others had absolutely no reaction to the window popping up and so confirmed a minor curiosity I had on whether my gamer abilities were visible to others or not, it never really concerned me before as I was more focused on grinding than paying attention to other's but the question had always been in the back of my mind so it was good to finally have an answer. As for the new window I saw a smaller box listed as 'details', and opened it. What came up was a guide on the function of the 'Party' system and how it worked.

Party Guide

When embarking on a quest with other's a 'Party' can be formed. The 'Party' can be comprised of up to several individual's, including the player, and grant's a few perks for a more proficient team dynamic.

Well at least the summary was simple and to the point. After reading that I saw a small arrow on the end and mentally clicked on it, which had the effect of lowering the screen to reveal the rest of the page.

Party Perks

Party Tracking: All Party members are able to keep track of each-other's status and whereabouts

Party Chat: Opens a mental chat room with which Party members can communicate through.

Exp. share: All Party members gain equal experience upon completing a quest and/or defeating enemies.

While there may only be three perks to forming a party they were nonetheless amazing and what one would expect from such a feature. The party feature basically gave a team a much better survival chance than just going solo and for a mission like this we would need every edge we could get, I just hope that making a party with the other's wouldn't reveal my Gamer abilities as I really didn't want to have to explain how I got them and my real backstory, cause I already had a badass image and dammit all I wasn't about to lose it! Still, the pros far outweighed the con's and I ended up pressing yes on creating the party.

There was a brief moment of what felt like electricity shooting up my spine and into my brain but other than that nothing changed save for the fact I now had some new addition's to my sight.

In the top right of my vision I could see the other party members names as well as a small 'status' bar that currently read 'healthy' next to a full health(green) and mana(blue) bar. In the lower left there was a small mic emblem labeled 'Party chat' (off), and when I looked towards the others, who I now noticed were looking a little freaked out and swatting at the air, I saw each of them as a silhouette with an emblem relating to their godly parentage, save for Grover whose symbol was a pair of reed pipes and Zoe who had Artemis' symbol.

I watched the group swat at the air a bit more before deciding to try one of the party features by turning the Party chat on.

'Hello?' I asked mentally and was instantly assaulted by numerous replies from the other party members.

'What in Hades name are doing in my head Allen!?' came the heated reply from Thalia.

'This is very weird!' that was Percy

'H-how can you do this!? No son of Nike should have mind powers!' ranted Annabeth.

'Oh boy this is not gonna turn out well.' threw in Grover

The mental replies kept coming so fast and loud it was starting to give me a serious headache. For God's sake's it was like listening to a bunch of ten year old squeakers raging after you just stomped them in an FPS. Thankfully my salvation came in the form of Zoe.

'SILENCE!' she ordered/shouted and instantly all chatter stopped and I saw the huntress turn from her driver seat to stare me in the eyes before speaking once more, only this time she spoke with her mouth rather than her mind.

"Now Allen, can thou please tell us why and how can thy speak through our minds? And what are these other things I am seeing?" she asked calmly but I could see she was a bit on edge and a women like Zoe on edge is very easy to anger, which is something I definitely did not want so I quickly answered.

"Just a little gift of mine Zoe, I just figured with it we can work together better as well as communicate." I explained

"So that's why I'm seeing this 'status' thing huh? Okay, neat but how are you doing this, and how do I turn off the mind chatter?" asked Thalia with a slight grumble on the last part.

It made me wonder if they couldn't see the party chat on/off button, which was no doubt the case since the button I could see was impossible to miss and therefore meant only I could turn the party chat on or off.

"I'll just turn it off for now, but I will turn it back on during fight's just so we don't have to shout our plans out for everyone to hear agreed?" I explained and after a few moment's of silent deliberation they all agreed.

"Wait, you still didn't tell us how you managed to do this!" demanded Annabeth as her inner nerd surged forth.

"Cause I'm just that awesome bethy." I say with a smirk before leaping into the air and unleashing my wings to soar up higher into the sky as I could hear Annabeth spewing a slew of greek curses that would make a sailor blush and then turn green with envy.

'You know she's gonna tear you a new asshole when you land don't you?' asked Nitora as I reached my preferred cruising altitude and watched the quester's begin to drive off.

'Oh I know, but it was so worth it to see the look on her face.' I respond back with a laugh before I started to follow the others from above towards the museum where Atlas would be, meet his undead hitmen and have a little tussle with the Nemean Lion. A great start to an epic quest if I must say.

The trip to the museum was honestly a very boring flight, even more boring than my flight to the school where all of this shit started. Flying was freeing and all but I had to severely reduce my speed in order to make sure that the team was still heading towards the museum. Now that I think about it though I never quite understood why they went to the museum to begin with as there was nothing there for them to begin with. Eh, whatcha gonna do?

Eventually the museum came in sight and I zoomed forward as I still had to deal with the undead hitmen before they became a real problem for us later on down the road. With my wings and sneak skill I was easily able to slip in through the skylight and wouldn't you have it, it was in the room I was looking for.

No sooner had I arrived that Atlas and some of his human mercenaries came in and I had to hide myself. From there things played out exactly like they had in the book with the one guy fucking up and using the wrong teeth to summon some sabertooth kittens, and Atlas having to step in to summon the zombie assassin's. Just as Atlas was about to hand them the silver piece of cloth of a huntress I decided to make my move and fell from my little hiding spot near the ceiling while using my wing's to land softly on the ground. While the Titan general's hired help look startled at my sudden appearance the General himself merely looked on in intrigue. I quickly used the time to Observe him.

Atlas, lvl- ?

Title: The General, The Sky Bearer

Race: Titan

STR: ?

DEX: ?

INT: ?

WIS: ?

LUC: ?

One of the Titan's from the great war and considered second to only Kronos himself, Atlas was punished by the Olympian's to bear the weight of the sky for all time and is also the father of the Hesperide's who watch over the Garden of their namesake which formerly included Zoe Nightshade.

He is currently intrigued at Alex' sudden appearance and recognizes him from Luke Castellan's spy reports.

"Ah a demigod, and the newest one in camp to boot. Didn't think they would let a fresh recruit out into the world, guess those camper's aren't as soft as I thought." chuckled the Titan and making me scowl.

"I am far from green when it comes to fighting Atlas, you may find yourself quite surprised." I bullshitted back as despite my accomplishments to date I knew I still wasn't a master warrior like I played off.

"Oh of course, but while I would love to test you myself I have things to do and a certain Goddess to torment so I'll leave you in the hands of my hired help." waved Atlas and turned to walk away while tossing the silver fabric over to his undead hitmen as the three mercenaries in the room moved forward to attack me.

Human Mercenary, lvl -12

HP: 500/500 MP: 0/0

Simple guns for hire with a greed that surpasses even some gods and with little to no morals.

I laughed a bit inside when seeing those pathetic stat's, but it was expected when they were just mortal men with no godly blood enhancements, hell I saw a six year old back at camp with better stats than these clowns. Still, an enemy was an enemy no matter how pathetic, but before that I decided to take care of the undead elephants in the room and quickly equipped my secret weapon against the undead.

The black gauntlet that was the Hand of Submission was quickly donned and as soon as I had it I pointed it at the eight undead warriors and channeled some mana which made the gauntlet release a black mist that quickly zoomed in on it's select targets and wrapping them in the mist. I instantly felt the strain on my mind as it seemed that a mental tug of war occured between myself and the targets. It was touch and go for a few moments as the sheer mental strain of pulling eight minds over to my side at once was starting to give me a major headache, seems Gamer's Mind wouldn't help me in this situation. In the end I managed to just pull it off and nearly collapsed from the strain while hearing Nitora tearing me a new one in the back of my mind for what I had just done.

Looking back up I saw the black mist collapse around the undead soldiers and disperse just as quickly. When they were revealed they looked pretty much the same save for the fact that their eyes were now completely black. The mercenaries had just sat back in shock, like the idiot's they no doubt were, as everything had went down. So deciding to test my new control over them I pointed at the mercenaries and simply ordered, "Attack."

And attack they did, without a moments hesitation the eight warriors had leaped at the three mercenaries and torn them to pieces as the living guns for hire were no match for the undead assassin's and I gotta be honest, the sight made me nearly sick to my stomach but Gamer's Mind quickly shut it down much to my relief. It also seemed that I had to be the one to deal the killing blow in order to get any type of loot, which was pretty shitty but understandable since only I had the gamer ability, as far as I know at least.

'Say what you will they certainly are efficient.' commented Nitora and I couldn't help but agree with her on that one.

I then heard a roar that seemed to shake the whole building and instantly knew that the Nemean Lion had made its debut. Looking off to the side I could see the symbol's for my friends moving around frantically farther in the museum. It was strange though as it seemed Grover, Zoe and Annabeth were in one area but Percy and Thalia were in another and seemed to be fighting different target's. Getting a sinking feeling in my gut I recalled my new servants to my side and quickly rushed towards where the others were. What I saw when I arrived gave me serious pause.

As expected the Nemean Lion was indeed there and Grover was trying to entangle it with vines as Zoe fired arrows and Annabeth was using hit and run tactic's to try and find an opening to exploit with little success. That wasn't the strange part, what was is the fact that another beast was there as well and was currently fighting with Percy and Thalia.

Said beast was just as large as the Nemean Lion but that was where the similarities ended as this thing looked like an oversized centipede with black stinger's as long as my legs and as sharp as swords. Its carapace was as red as blood with it's many legs being bone white and making a lot of noise as it was skittering franticaly as it alternately dodged and attacked both Percy and Thalia.

I heard Nitora gasp in my mind, out of what I assumed was surprise, while I quickly used Observe just to get an idea on just what the hell I was dealing with here.

Omukade, lvl-38

HP:4000/4500, MP:1400/1700

STR: 47

DEX: 54

INT: 13

WIS: 9

LUC: 12

An ancient human eating beast that lives in mountains and is usually found in the Japanese wilderness.

'What is an Omukade doing here!' practically screamed Nitora in my head as I took a moment to question my partner on why she was freaking out.

'Now hold up Ni, what's the big deal? I mean sure its weird seeing another Japanese legend so far from home but hey your here right?' I questioned. Was I surprised to find a creature from Japanese folklore in the U.S. like Nitora? Well yeah, but that didn't mean it was unreasonable since if the Greek/Roman gods and their monsters traveled why couldn't other myths and legends that apparently existed in this world?

Nitora growled at my response before answering angrily, 'the only reason I came to this land was to reclaim my jewel Allen, not by choice. But for another creature of the Shinto pantheon to appear in this land and at this time when another war of the God's and Titan's is brewing can only mean that the Titan's must have gained some allies in the Shinto pantheon and are supplying them with more forces. This private war may have just gone international Allen.'

When the Kitsune in my head finished her explanation I was frozen stiff. While I had made every effort possible to keep the timeline relatively the same as the books, it seems my mere presence has caused a drastic change in the fact that multiple pantheons were getting involved in the affairs of the Olympians.

I mean, I know that Carter and Sadie Kane along with the Egyptian pantheon shared the same universe with the Percy Jackson one, but with every pantheon possibly getting involved in this single war? Forget world war three, this shit is hitting war of the worlds level type of destruction. Still, if this was the bed that was made for me than I had no choice but to lie in it and try to make the best of it as possible.

"This is what I get for wanting to experience a life of adventure and action. They always did say be careful what you wish for."

Sorry for the kind of short chapter but I just wanted you all to know that I was still alive and kicking and that I haven't given up on this story just yet! Review and/or PM me!