"It's mine. Oh right, I never told you guys," Percy smiled scratching Leo's ear "this is Leo. I have been taking care of him for the past few days. You haven't seen him much because he basically spends time sleeping or going out for training with me."
"Training?" Clarisse asked in surprise, "he goes into the ID's with you?"
Percy nodded, "yup. Why just yesterday he managed to take down a Gergosa all on his own."
"Woah," Thalia said in amazement, "that is one powerful dog." She then bent down scratching Leo behind the ear.
Percy smiled as Leo wagged his tail, "good woman. Pretty woman. I like. Is she your mate master?"
"W-what?!" Percy asked blushing, "no Leo!"
"But she smells like you. And you smell like her."
"No Leo she's not!" Percy asked as he face palmed himself.
The rest of the war council looked at Percy with a worried look. Annabeth spoke up, "ah, Percy...are you okay?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I'm fine. It's just….look let's move on. Chiron Thalia and I are leaving right away, that means I won't be able to train the campers today."
Chiron nodded, "don't worry I'll take over."
They quickly discussed the rest of the arrangements and the couple quickly got ready to leave. Percy left Leo in Annabeth's care. The dog whined and begged to come with Percy but the demigod refused, it was to dangerous, plus the Roman's might not care for a large demi hellhound walking around in their camp.
Thalia and Percy meet up under Thalia's tree, which at this point should really be renamed something else. Percy had changed into his skin tight super fabric legging along with his goggles and Fric shoes, they had both agreed to have Percy run the distance.
"You ready?" Percy asked put his goggles on.
Thalia dumbly nodded as she gave Percy her backpack to store away. While he was doing that her eyes were drawn to Percy's leggings. They were skin tight and gave a great view of Percy's muscular thighs. Thalia couldn't help staring, they were so bloody firm! They had to be considering at what speed Percy was know to travel at.
"Ah, Thalia? Are you okay?" Percy asked snapped Thalia's concentration from his legs to him, "were you just staring at my thighs?"
"What? No, I-ah, no. Not at all," Thalia shook her head vigorously.
Percy chuckled, "sure…..you do realise you can look right? That part of the boyfriend/girlfriend deal. You get to stare at me and I get to stare at you."
Thalia smiled, "as if you wouldn't before."
"No I wouldn't!"
"Really? What about that time you gave that motivational speech? Remember that? Your eyes were glued to my chest."
"No, they were glued to your hips," Percy shot back before he put both hands over his mouth realising what he just said.
Thalia smirked, "well I don't blame you," she said looking at her own behind, "they are very perky."
Percy sighed, "let's just get this over with."
Thalia laughed as Percy carried her like a bride and carefully put her inside his inventory. He then took off at speeds just below Mach 1 running across country towards San Francisco.
He passed through New York and took the I-78 into Jersey city. Percy' current max speed was 932 miles per hour, which is passed the speed of sound. But Percy never crossed that threshold, he didn't want to cause a sonic boom while running down a highway, that would damage so many cars and tear up the roads.
So instead Percy maintained a constant speed of 700 miles per hours, just below the speed of sound. So at this constant speed Percy crossed Pennsylvania in half an hour.
He travelled for around five straight hours. Three times he ran out of gas and was forced to stop at a Taco Bell or McDonalds to fill up his stamina. That was why it took so long to reach here in the first place.
Percy eventually stopped in Orinda, the area just before the Caldecott tunnel. He went into a nearby mall called the Orinda Theater Square. It was a pretty okay place, not really a mall per say, more like a place with a lot of streets and a movie theater which played only one movie. Percy went into one of the abandoned streets and quickly changed his clothes, switching his tights for a pair of jeans. He then quickly took Thalia out of the inventory and carefully put her down.
The daughter of Zeus looked around in amazement, "I still can't get used to this."
Percy nodded wiping away the sweat on his brow, "yeah, most can't."
"Are you okay?" Thalia asked looking him over, "you look exhausted."
Percy sighed as as he leaned on the street wall, "just ran for 5 hours across the country, of course I look tired."
"Holy shit," Thalia said in surprise, "I-I'm sorry Percy. I didn't know. Shit, what the hell was I thinking!"
Percy chuckled, "it's okay. Most people don't realise it. They think just because I can do I should do it. The pain isn't really a big deal, what really is a big deal is the boredom. Seriously five hours and all I had to do to keep myself busy was look at the countryside pass by."
Thalia bent down touching Percy's forehead, "you're warm Percy."
"Running for five hours under the hot sun will do that."
"We need get you something to cool yourself off right now."
Percy nodded, "right. Food. Good idea. Can I have ice cream?"
Thalia helped Percy up and took him into a small local deli. Percy and Thalia sat inside way in the back away from prying eyes. Percy lowered his goggles and sighed as he felt his legs throb. There wasn't any pain, just his legs spasming, it was like he was experiencing this form a third person's view.
A young teenager came to take their orders. Thalia ordered a cheeseburger while Percy asked for a steak and a three ice cream cups. The blonde waitress was surprised at the early desert oder but quickly went to get their order.
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