"It was a week before the pain stopped when Argo finally released me. He smiled and spent the month training me, teaching me to use my powers. And for that month I grew attached, he promised never to cause that kind of pain to me and I loved him for it. He trained me to be a weapon, to be ruthless, cold and emotionless. He used me as a weapon to kill people, to kill innocent people. I once froze an entire family of a man who crossed Argo and I smiled as he broke the ice into pieces killing them all. I was his prized possession, but one day, one day he messed up.
"He was taking me through the dungeons, where he kept all his slaves and I saw her, I saw Anna. I didn't know she was alive, and I think Argo forgot about her as well. The moment I saw her there sitting in her own feces like an animal I broke.
"I attacked Argo with all I had, every single thing he taught me I used to fight him. I managed to get Anna out of there and we ran, ran as far and as fast as we could. I carried her on my back until I ran out of breath. I thought we were going to die when a couple found us, they took us in and they nurtured us back to health. They were Kristoff's parents and they were the first couple that accepted us both. Over the years I learnt to control my powers, not through anger but through sheer will power. I was in control of my powers, not the other way around."
"Why are you telling me this?" Percy finally asked.
"Because I saw you back there, and you reminded me of myself when I was young. You reminded me of how lost I was when serving Argo. Back then the ice was using me, not the other way around."
"Just because I'm a little extreme in the way I do things doesn't make me a monster Elsa."
"No, but it makes you less human," Elsa said.
"Well, then it's a good thing I'm only half human then huh?" Percy said ending the conversation.
The duo placed a bomb along the side of the tunnel they were going through before walking forward. Percy looked at his watch, it was 11:20, they had forty minutes to get out, but both Percy and Elsa wanted to find Argo before anything else.
As Percy kept walking along the tunnel a warning rung out in his head;
Warning! There's a pressure pad in front of you!
Percy jumped to the side pushing Elsa to the wall. "What are you-" Elsa began when Percy pointed at a lifted tile on the ground.
"Trap," Percy said letting Elsa go, "see, told you I have a sixth sense when it come to danger."
Percy smiled and took a few steps forward and suddenly the floor gave out below him causing the demigod to fall down. Gamer's mind kicked in fast destroying all signs of panic. Percy looked down and saw spikes at the bottom of the pit, he poured 2000 mana into his marble skin skill. He didn't know how much he would need, but better safe than sorry;
Defence- 158,000
Percy braced for impact but instead of feeling several points of impact Percy's body hit something solid. Percy got up and opened his ice and found himself standing on top of a platform of ice. The demigod could see the spikes underneath the ice and turned up to see Elsa with her hands at the side of the pit with a trail of ice leading to the platform.
"Argo doesn't just use pressure plates, he also uses motion sensors," Elsa explained as she formed ice platforms along the side of the pit to help Percy back up.
"Thanks, I guess you were right, it was better to have help. But just for the record I had it handled."
Elsa raised an eyebrow, "really? And how did you have it handled?"
Percy knocked on his skin causing it to ring out, "I can strengthen my skin to be as hard as stone. The spikes would have hurt, but wouldn't have killed me. Heck I doubt they could have even pierced my skin."
Elsa looked impressed but said nothing as she created a bridge of ice over the pit for them to cross.
Along the way Percy's area sense detected more and more traps and Elsa helped them get around them all. Eventually the skill leveled up;
Area Sense, Lv-4 (50%)
Allows the user to get a sense of the area around him/her. The higher the level the more information is provided.
Effective until 35 feet.
Soon the tunnel became filled with painting and fancy looking torches along the wall, if Percy had to guess he would say they were in Argo's living quarters. Soon the duo came upon a set of doors, each opposite to one another. They carefully checked the first one to find a storage room. Inside were tanks filled with body parts of different monsters, there was a cyclops eyeball and the wings of a pegasus near the edge of the room with the center filled with a huge tank containing the body of a Hellhound.
"Argo is a sick mother fucker," Percy commented as he looked at the green liquid containing the monster. The Hellhound's eyes were already liquefied, and if Percy had to guess so were the rest of it's organs.
"How can he even possess their bodies?" Elsa asked horrified, "don't they disappear after you kill them?"
Percy narrowed his eyes at the liquid and focused;
Preservation liquid,
This liquid when used on a monster causes preservation of the body allowing it to die a natural death, i.e. fade.
Warning! This product does not work on devious beings or monsters with significant power.
Percy's eyes shot open, "this thing can kill monsters Elsa!"
"What?!'
"This thing can cause monsters to fade!" Percy exclaimed.
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