Chapter 711
With Percy:
Waverider flew past Kronos' gaurd and cut the titan deep.
"ARGH!" he grunted in pain as he held his shoulder. Ichor seeped
down between his fingers, he looked at the wound and smirked, "you
are getting slower."
Percy clicked his teeth in frustration, he didn't know how he figured it
out, but it was true. Percy was getting slower. Demigods were being
sent away, meaning there was less people for him to draw power from
for the Wolf's pack perk.
"I'm still fast enough to hurt you," Percy spat back as they engaged in
combat once more.
The blades danced against each other, Kronos' hands shook as he
was forced to use a single hand while his other held his wound.
Percy heard him mutter something under his breath as a grey aura
surrounded his shoulder. The demigod grew cautious, he tackled
Kronos back and grabbed his sword sending a kick for his head.
But before the foot connected Kronos' other hand grabbed it, Percy
looked to the wound, it was healed. Growling the demigod jumped up
and spun, releasing his foot from the Titan's grip, Kronos grew enraged
as he spartan kicked Percy in the chest sending him back a good three
feet before the demigod regained his composure and began attacking
again.
"You fight like your father," Kronos spat, "always throwing yourself
at your opponents."
"The Golden Fleece must come in handy when you need healing huh?"
Percy asked looking at the shroud tied around Kronos' back.
The tian smirked, "yes, it does."
Ping!
Lie detected!
Percy smirked, 'gotcha!' "Liar, it's not the fleece, it's something else.
The thing is probably too busy holding you together to heal any other
wounds you have."
The lord of time had one hell of a poker face. He didn't even flinch
when he got called out by Percy. "Oh? And what is that?"
Percy brain quickly generated ideas upon ideas before he came to a
conclusion. "You're the Titan of time, you simple rewound time around
your wound."
This time the Titan did smile, "I'm assuming you get your smarts
from your mother."
"Yeah, most people do," Percy pushed his sword forward breaking the
stalemate, he sent a kick to the ribs which Kronos caught. But Percy
expected that. He tapped his heel on the ground and jumped up.
He brought his foot up towards Kronos' neck, the titan smirking as he
prepared to throw Percy around like a beach ball, when suddenly a
celestial bronze knife popped out of the hidden compartment in Percy's
shoe.
Kronos was surprised, he wasn't in a position to get away. By the time
his feet moved backwards and his hand came to push Percy's leg
away the knife was already inches away from Kronos' throat.
Percy smirked seeing it slowly break the skin, when suddenly Kronos
disappeared. The sound around him skipped several beats, it felt like
the world around him had just jumped as Percy's feet flew upwards
with no resistance. He fell down on his behind but quickly got on his
feet and found Kronos standing far away from him with one hand on
his throat, already healing it.
Percy narrowed his eyes. This didn't make sense, one moment he was
there and the next he wasn't. Percy felt his blade push into his neck
with just a tiny amount of resistance, Kronos was even bleeding so
there was proof that something did happen. But what?
It wasn't super speed, if he could move that fast then why didn't he
before? Kronos didn't play with his food, and Percy didn't think he was
such a weak opponent that the Titan of time could afford to hold back.
So it was an ability he could only rarely use.
Percy observed Kronos, he was panting, exhausted, the power he
used taxed him. And then there was the sound skipping a beat, Percy
remembered hearing people yelling in the background serving as white
noise, but when Kronos disappeared it stopped abruptly. It wasn't
teleportation, no fancy bright flashes of light and it wouldn't be fast
enough. Percy's mind came to only one conclusion, time manipulation.
Again. This was so not fair.
Percy spun his sword clockwise before he brought down over Kronos'
head. The Titan blocked the flat side of his blade before pushing Percy
back as the two began fighting once more.
Percy pressed his hand down on the ground causing it to rumble.
Kronos began to charge at Percy when suddenly large spike shot out
of the floor nearly piercing his chest. In the last moment Kronos moved
back but before he could gain his foot a snake made out of the floor
came bursting out, latching it's fangs into Kronos' sword arm.
"ARGH!" the tiant yelled in pain, his hand glowed in pure grey energy
as he pulled his hand free, breaking the snake structure. Percy created
more and more snakes using his molecular manipulation and Kronos
quickly found himself surrounded.
The Titan swung madly, cutting off snake heads as they laughed at
him. This was a form of attack Percy had been working on, it allowed
for him to use the environment around him to attack while he came up
with a plan. And boy did he ever.
As Kronos struck down the last snake he turned to face Percy only to
find him gone. He looked around in a panic and suddenly a shadow
came over his shoulders. Kronos turned just in time to see Percy bring
Waverider down over his head.
Kronos brought his right hand up catching Percy's blade in the armour,
he then thrusted his sword forward, hitting Percy in the chest sending
him flying back.
The demigod of the sea coughed up blood, he looked up at his defense
points and groaned;
Defence remaining: 40,000,000
He had nearly a hundred million last time. This wasn't good. He got
back on his feet and found Kronos charging at him. Growing the
demigod moved to face the Titan once more, and their battle
continued.
The Battle:
In the middle of the swarm of shadows and animals was the titan
Hyperion and the giant Alcyoneus. They were an army of themselves.
They moved towards the weekend right flank and began tearing
monsters in half.
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Their presence alone made sure the casualties of the battle were less
than they were. They could have taken on the monsters alone, but with
two of them it became near child's play.
"I wish for a challenge!" Hyperion cried out, "this is pathetic! These
fools can never hope to gain Lord Kronos the victory he deserves."
"Will you do me a favour and shut the hell up?!" Alcyoneus roared, "I
am trying to kill monsters here and your constant whining isn't helping!"
"Why don't you make my stone face?!"
"You know why fire butt!"
"GRA!" a giant shadow T-Rex roared as it charged at them, aiming to
kill them both with one bite.
"SHUT UP!" they roared as one, turning to the monster and punching
into it's gut's tearing it open from the inside out.
The drew back their fists and as the giant T-Rex fell a second wave of
monsters came out of the portal, these ones scarier than the others.
Each looked like a monster found in the minds of mad men and killers.
Dead bodies with limbs cut out, monsters as a big as buildings and
shadowy ghouls with no faces that just oozed fear.
Hyperion cheered, "now this is more like it!"
Alcyoneus grinned as he cracked his knuckles, "finally, a challenge!"
They charged into the crowd, taking on the giant monsters first.
Alcyoneus took on a giant gorilla while Hyperion fought what looked to
be a giant leopard.
"Second wave!" a scout yelled out alerting the demigods to the new set
of shadow monsters.
"Shit," Rob cursed, "everyone get ready! Something tells me this one is
going to be even harder!"
Suddenly the battlefield was covered with a shroud of darkness. The
demigods looked up and saw a swarm of giant bees flying through the
air right for them.
Thalia groaned, "oh you have got to be kidding me!" she opened the
hatch to the tank and found Charles inside, "tell me we have a flame
thrower on this thing!"
"Better," the son of Hephaestus smiled as he flicked a switch, "we have
missiles." He pressed another button and the ground to air missiles of
the tank armed themselves. They locked onto the bees and a single
missile fired.
It soared into the air, shredding into the swarm of bees before
exploding setting the entire swarm ablaze.
Thalia smirked, "now! Hit them with everything while they're distracted!"
The demigods obeyed. They archers threw out arrows. The romans
threw their spears up like javelins, Leo appeared underneath the
shadow of a bee's wings and began jumping from giant bee to giant
bee, tearing off their heads. Zed used a Cow hybrid soldier as a ball
and pitched into into the swarm, killing off three bees in the impact.
More and more monsters came into the battle fields, and they all died.
The shadow monsters disappeared when killed, the animal hybrids
stayed. And slowly a wall of corpses was made before the front line.
The few animal solider that managed to pass through the volley of
arrows and other airborne attacks landed near the back trying to attack
the healers, but the fifth cohort cut them off, engaging them in battle.
It was chaos, pure and utter chaos, each soldier focused on killing the
monster before them and nothing else. Thalia sent out blast after blast
of lightning as she yelled out orders all over the battlefield. In the heat
of the battle everyone turned to her for guidance and she didn't let
them down.
Leo shadow traveled out of the head of a giant shadow monster in the
short of an alligator. The hybrid clawed the alligator's eyes out and tried
to slip away, but just then the monster snapped its jaws shut over Leo's
tail.
"EP!" the dog yelled trying to free itself only for more blood to spill.
"Darkness wave!" Marcia came tumbling into the alligator's path
breaking its jaw wide open. Leo's tail managed to free itself as it ran
away to lick its wound. The demon looked down at the alligator and
smirked, "this is going to be fun."
Hyperion and Aclyneous toppled the giants they faced, breaking them
into pieces. "Is that the best you got?!" Acyl Neous roared at the top of
his lungs.
Hypnos turned to see the shadow monsters being shut down, even the
titan soldiers weren't strong enough. He needed to do something,
quick.
He dodged another one of Morpheus' blades and grabbed the god by
the wings throwing him into the air. The god of dreams flapped his
wings and stabilized himself, but the few precious moments lost
allowed Hypnos to retaliate.
He plunged his hands into the ground and pulled up, his muscles
bulged, like he was carrying the weight of the very world on his
shoulders.
Morpheus' hands started to bleed, "NO! DON'T!" he dove down and
tackled Hypnos into the ground, but the damage was done.
A large tear in space came out from where Hypnos pulled, creating
another giant portal into the realm of shadows. It grew on the ceiling,
moving towards the giant army covering them over, creating a pit hole
above the demigods.
"There's another wave approaching!" Jason called out as everyone
looked up and suddenly monsters began falling from the sky.
This was perhaps the fourth wave or the third, people had honestly lost
count. The demigods took care of the monsters on the land, and now
faced off against the monsters raining down on them from the sky.
"Spread out!" Thalia yelled, "give yourself room to fight!"
The demigods did just that, some feel down from being shoved to hard,
but quickly got back on their feet. They monsters were focused mostly
near the back, Hypnos was smart about this as he aimed for the
archers and the healers near the back.
The fifth cohort already had their hands full with the flying monsters,
these new ones would surely overwhelm them. The fourth and third
moved towards the back to assist as slowly more and more shadow
monsters came down.
There one some that looked like giant staples, some that looked like
underwater monsters that could only be imagined in the minds of the
terrified. They were the size of two men and they all came crashing
down.
The demigods made as much space as they could for the monsters to
land, but some didn't have enough causing the monsters to land on top
of them, crushing several demigods under their feet causing them to
vanish in a bright light.
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"Nico!" Bianca called out as she charged towards the fifth cohort with
her spear and the shield of Ares.
"Right behind you sis!" Nico called out as he followed with his blade.
The two children of Hades looked up at the shadowy breach and held
their hands up, slowly gaining control over shadows. They couldn't
make the monster move, but they could hurt them.
Suddenly the darkness inside the very portals the monsters came out
of started to attack them. Spikes of darkness pierced monsters before
they could even land. Tentacles wrapped around their form crushing
the very life out of them. They didn't get all of the monsters however, as
more still kept coming.
"Fourth cohort! Form a circle around them!" Julia roared out pointing at
the siblings of Pluto, "Third cohort to the fifth's aide!"
"Aye!" the romans obeyed.
"Ares attack squad help out the fifth!" Thalia commanded, "protect the
healers and the archers from the monsters!"
"AH!" came the cry of the united demigods as they all began to move.
The attacks squads form an insulation between the fifth cohort and the
healers and archers. The fifth slowly moved away from the
concentrated location where most of the monsters fell, they managed
to regroup with the third that stood behind him.
The fifth had lost half their members, but they still stood tall and strong.
They circled around the pool of shadow monsters and attacked from all
sides, trusting their spears, killing whatever landed before it could get
on it's feet.
Nico and Bianca were focused on using the shadows to strike back
against the monsters while the fourth cohort protected them. The
monsters were pierced by Nico and Bianca's shadow weapons,
destroyed before they could even move. But the few that did survive
went right after them.
That was why the Fifth and Third were there, defending them. But a
legion of demonic goats shadows were particularly determined,
jumping over the and charging at the Fourth Cohort around the children
of Pluto.
The Fourth rallied together facing the leaping goats together. A few of
the monster jumped up into the air, intent of crossing over them, but
the moment they were airborne several arrows from the hunters of
Artemis shoot them down dead.
The goats on the ground tackled the Fourth cohorts wall shield,
pushing them back. But the demigods held true. The goats pushed and
pushed, and a small crack gave through.
"BAH!" they cried out and out of the encirclement of the Fifth and Third
cohorts jumped out a large three headed goat that breathed fire. It
charged at the small crack in the Fourth wall, intent on knocking them
down.
"Not so fast!" came a feminine yell as a baseball bat came crashing
over the goat's center head, cracking open it's skull.
A red haired haired woman in a red track stood before the goat and
started hitting it away and again. The metal thumps of the bat hitting
the skull was loud enough for all to hear as she swung from one head
to another like a pinball machine. She reduced the goat to
mush,standing over it's headless corpse before it disappeared.
"GRA!" another monster yelled out as it came flying down from the sky.
It was a half human half crab hybrid covered with coral shells and a
giant lobster claw. It landed besides Artemis and thrusted it's claw
forward around her head.
Artemis backed away and brought her bat up for protection. The crab
monster shut it claws, snapping the bat in half. Artemis looked in horror
at her bat before she fell on her back trying to get away.
The monster swung it's claw again, aiming to clip off her head as easily
it clipped off her bat when suddenly in a flash of bronze a celestial
bronze sword found itself lunged in the monster's back.
It screeched in pain, slowly disintegrating revealing a man holding the
sword behind it. He had messy black hair and sea green eyes. He
looked so familiar Nico and Bianca almost confused him for Percy,
before they realized they had the wrong son of Poseidon.
"I told you not to run off on your own," John growled as he helped
Artemis up, "this isn't like any battle you've faced before."
"Yeah, I'll say," Artemis held up her bat and growled, "I liked this thing."
"Well you're going to like this even more," John turned to a legionnaire,
"have an extra blade?"
"Yeah," the legionnaire nodded a she took out the crystalline sword
Percy had created for them which people kept around as spares. John
thanked her and gave the blade to Artemis.
The red haired daughter of Apollo swung the blade around before
smiling, "it's balanced."
"Yeah," John looked over and smiled seeing Nico and Bianca, "you two
doing alright?"
"Just fine John!" Nico called out grinning like a madman.
"Focus Nico!" Bianca hissed.
"Sorry!"
John grinned, "you're sisters right, you two deal with that, we'll protect
you," John promised. He and those two were at one time prisoners of
the Lotus casino. They suffered the same way, only they managed to
adapt while Jon struggled. He always saw them as children, not
knowing what they were meant to do. But seeing them now made the
old soldier realise they knew exactly who they were, they were
demigods. And he swore to protect them.
Suddenly the dark portal started to bulge. Bianca winced, "there's
something big coming!" she warned.
Every look up just as a giant hand slowly came out of the shadow. It's
fingers had claws, it's skin moved around like hot tar with cracks
glowing hot red. The hand was big enough to crush three cohorts
under it's fists, and it was slowly opening up its plans to do just that.
"We need to stop it!" Thalia called out.
"I can't!" Bianca roared, "it's too big!"
"We can't stop it!" cries of despair came roaring out of the demigods as
they looked up to their destruction.
Jason looked around, he saw the horror in Julia's eyes, the
helplessness in Thalia's. And he hated those looked. He wasn't going
to let this happen. He wasn't going to let them get him.
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Thalia ordered Charles to fire everything the tank had into the hand.
Missiles, bullets, tanks shells, all of the flew through the air, breaking
just the skin of the giant hand.
Jason looked over the battlefield and like destiny his eyes landed on
the golden eagle. It was almost like ti was calling out for him. Like it
knew Jason could stop it, like it knew together they could save
everyone. And so Jason did just that.
"Praetor Rob!" Jason called out holding his hand out. The Praetor
locked eyes with the son of Jupiter and understood immediately. He
threw the staff of Jupiter like a javelin, it flew over the heads of many
legionnaires, drawing all their eyes to it as it finally landed into the
waiting hands of Jason Grace.
Thalia snapped towards her brother, "Jason! What are you doing?!"
"Stopping it," he replied as he threw away his sword, he jumped off the
tank and ran towards the center of the plan. The fifth and and Third
cohort saw him heading their way and decided to clear a path for him.
They charged into the middle of the monsters, cutting them down,
creating a wall for Jason.
The son of Jupiter stood in the center, the Fifth and Third cohort stood
around him, protecting him from the monsters. He looked up and
looked into the shadowy portal from which the hand came from. He
could see the rest of the limb yet to come out, his eyes followed the
forearm to the biceps to the shoulder, until finally he found the head.
It was shrouded in shadows, but it's eyes, its orange eyes full of hate
and despair looked down upon them. Jason locked eyes with it, he
didn't know if the thing even realized he was looking right at it, but he
didn't care.
"TWELFTH LEGION!" Jason cried out, raising the golden eagle up into
the air. The Eagle began gathering power into itself, drawing from the
legionnaires around it, gathering it from their fierce sense of duty and
loyalty.
"FULLMETAL!" Jason brought it down hard. The ground below him
cracked wide open as he held it down. The Eagle began to vibrate,
harder and harder, Jason's hands shook with pain as for the first time
in his life he felt electricity start to hurt him back.
The Eagle's aura of power grew and grew, it's lighting exploded
outwards, destroying all the monsters on the field in a wide arc. The
lighting however wasn't focused, too widely dispersed. Jason looked
up, he commanded the lighting to gather and strike the monsters
above.
The arcs of electricity were like the petals of a flower that was
blooming. Jason forced the petals to close together, creating a bud of
lighting that arced out directly upwards, breaking the very ground
around it.
"Move back!" a fifth cohort legionary yelled as he felt the lighting zap
his back, "it's out of control!" The fifth and Third did just that as rouge
arcs of lighting poured out of the Eagle.
BOOM!
The lighting hit the monster's palm causing it to flinch itself close from
the pain. Jason's body was being pushed down, the random sparks of
electricity so intense he couldn't absorb it fast enough to render it
harmless.
Jason grunted in pain, he felt the lighting being thrown out, heating the
staff to unbearable heats. His eyes started to water, his grip weakened,
he looked up, the hand was being ripped apart, slowly being pushed
back. But not fast enough.
Fear struck Jason's heart, he didn't want to fail them. His sense of duty
as a Roman wouldn't allow it, he would rather die than disappoint the
people he loved. And he accepted the fact that at this rate that just
might happen.
As his grip weakened and his eyes grew heavy Jason knew it would be
his last moments alive. He didn't think even Morpheus would be able to
save him, there was too much raw power coming it out of this thing, if
Jason disappeared then there would be no one to hold onto the staff.
The power would explode outwards and hurt the demigods. He couldn't
do it. He wouldn't do it.
But just as he blinked what he believed to be the last sight he would
ever see in his life, a second set of hands grabbed onto the staff.
Jason's eyes shot open in surprise as he saw Thalia stand besides
him, grunting in pain. She looked down at him and smiled, "you didn't
actually think I would let you do this alone did you?"
Jason smiled, he didn't have the strength to reply, but she knew what
he wanted to say.
With the pressure lessened Jason was able to stand up again, his hold
on the staff manageable as more and more power came bursting out.
Jason felt his power mix with the lighting being sent up, and then
suddenly he felt something else mix in with the power.
Blue lightning started to fuse with the beam of yellow, Jason turned to
saw the lighting rolling of Thalia by the bucket loads, she was pouring
everything she had into the attack. And slowly the hand began clench
into a fist.
"Full power Jason!" Thalia roared, the ground below them cracks, the
sound of thunder blasting through their ears. The siblings focused all
their might into the attack and a final bulging blast of pure energy burst
through the staff and collided with the hand.
The hand was sent flying back, it's skin scorched and burnt as it went
behind the shadow portal. The demigods looked up in wonder, they
had been saved. Thalia and Jason san to their knees holding the staff
straight as they looked into the portal above. It looked to be over, when
it started to move towards them again.
"It's coming back!" cries of horror roared out. Thalia tried to get to her
feet to launch another attack but she found herself unable to even get
back up.
"Nico! Close the portal!" Bianca called out as the children of Hades
manipulated the shadowy portal. They felt a primordial connection to
the darkness before them as they forced it close. The hand came
inches from crossing over again when the large tear in the sky sealed
itself shut, closing off for good.
The demigods was tunned in disbelief. Bianca and Nico collapsed from
exhaustion, panting hard as they smiled at their good work. Thalia
finally managed to get back on her feet, supporting Jason as he did so
as well.
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The looked to the Eagle and slowly let go. The warm glowing golden
staff was now iron cold, almost lifeless. And suddenly a small crack in
the staff's spine spread as it broke in half. The Eagle came toppling
down, the romans watched in horror as their symbol fell. Hope began
to die, but it never touched the ground.
Thalia grabbed it with one hand, refusing to let it go. She brought it up
and turned around to the faces before her. They looked so lost, they
had fought for so long. Thalia of all people wanted a break, but she
knew they couldn't afford one.
She cleared her throat, "we have a warn to win. And I intend to win it,"
and with those simple words she moved towards the tank where Julia
watched her with pride in her eyes.
"Alright listen up!" Julia yelled out, "we have closed the portal over here
but the monsters are still coming from the front!" she pointed to the
First and Second cohort currently engaging in the animal hybrid
soldiers of the Titan army, "Third cohort and Fourth cohort assist them!
Fifth cohort you stay back to defend the healers! Greeks! Let's see if
Morpheus needs help!"
It was a testament to how much respect the daughter of Venus
commanded when the greek demigods obeyed her without a second
thought. The demigods were on the move once more, the cohorts
combined their forces easily pushing the titan soldiers back while the
greek moved towards the side where Hypnos and Morpheus were
locked in a death battle.
Hypnos locked horns with Morpheus, sending him on the defensive,
always moving back to protect himself. But Hypnos was do distracted
he failed to realise the swarm of demigods gathering around him.
Morpheus smoked, which just pissed Hypnos off. "Why are you
smirking?!"
"Look behind you," Morpheus pointed with his blades.
Hypnos did, and suddenly was flooded off his feet by the greek
demigods tackling him into the ground. They brought their weapons
down on him, piercing his back with swords and spears.
"ARGH!" Hypnos yelled out as he threw them all off of him. The
demigods went flying back as Hypnos stood enraged and in pain. He
charged Morpheus again, intent on killing him, when a volley of arrows
pierced his left side.
"What?!" Hypnos turned to see the son of Apollo and the Hunters of
Artemis standing side by side with their bows pointed at him. They
already had another arrow knocked in, and before Hypnos had even
the chance to say, 'crap', they fired.
Ichor came spilling out of his wound as a hundred arrows stuck out of
the minor god. He stumbled around, trying to clear his head. Morpheus
snapped his fingers summoning shadow chains out of the ground
wrapping Hypnos up before stringing him up like one of the sleeping
white coffins hanging from the ceiling.
"Why didn't you kill him?" asked the leader of the Hunters as she
narrowed her eyes at the traitoris god.
"I can't just kill him Zoe," Morpheus replied, "he's an essential part of
human life. Without sleep people will go mad. Until A suitable
replacement is found Hypnos will live."
The woman clicked her teeth but didn't argue. She didn't even ask how
Morpheus knew her name.
"So what now?" Michael asked as he stepped out from the Apollo
children's ranks.
"Now? I believe you still have things to kill," Morpheus turned to the
now slowly growling rates of monster attacking the First and Second
cohorts. Before there was only the animal hybrids, but since there
wasn't any portal over the demigods, the shadow monsters were forced
to attack that way as well.
"Well then," Michael nocked an arrow and took aim at a flying monkey
with knives for hands, "let's bring them down." The greeks charged to
help the romans as the archers and hunters stayed behind providing
air support.
And as all this was happening, Percy Jackson was breaking Kronos'
nose in.
Ichor came flying out as Kronos stepped back holding his face in pain,
"lucky shot."
"It's skill, not luck," Percy growled out behind his impressive black
armour.
"Maybe," Kronos waved his hand over his face healing himself once
more, PErcy was really getting pissed off. Every time he hurt Kronos
the titan just reversed time and suddenly he was all better.
Percy's movements were getting slower, there were fewer and fewer
people around to give him power, and Kronos took this advantage and
pushed it to the limits.
Percy was being pushed back, his blows didn't do as much damage as
he had hoped. Kronos was a monster, even with Percy's boosted
status the Titan of time still pressed the advantage. Percy was thankful
for the improved status, without which he couldn't even hope to stand
up against the titan. But now the power was slowly being reduced,
Percy could feel himself becoming weaker.
Percy blocked Krono's sweep and pushed back, swinging at his head.
Percy grinned seeing the blade nearing the Titan's neck, when
suddenly, everything seemed to slow down. Percy's eyes widened as
he saw and felt himself becoming slower, as if he was walking through
jelly.
And then Kronos moved, he knocked Waverider out of Percy's hands
and threw a punch into his solar plexus, sending Percy flying up into
the air, blood pouring out of his mouth as he crashed into the ground.
'Shit!' Percy told himself as he pressed his hand against his face
causing it to glow in a golden light;
Ping!
All ailments cured!
It was a stalemate, any injury Kronos caused Percy could heal and any
injury he caused Kronos could just reverse. They were two giants on
the battlefield, to monsters that couldn't be defeated by anyone else,
expect each other.
Percy's powers had been slowly reducing, the less people he had on
his side the weaker he got. Kronos was also becoming tired, the Titan
had never fought so long before since coming back to life. It was the
perfect stalemate, and Kronos knew he needed to break it.
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The Titan raised his sword into the air and began to chant under his
breath. Percy's eyes went wide in shock as he got back on his feet and
charged at the Titan, afraid of what he was planning.
He activated his super speed and charged towards the Titan with his
sword swinging down overhead. But nanoseconds before Percy's
blade could touch his skin time seemed to slow down around Kronos.
Percy froze, his mind couldn't comprehend what was happening, his
body refused to move. Kronos however had so such issue. He smirked
as he stepped back out of Percy's balde's reach and swung his sword
forward;
BOOM!
The impact sent Percy flying backwards, the son of the sea quickly
realigned himself as he floated in the air;
Defence Remaining: 20,500,000
The attack has done nearly 20 million points in damage. Percy knew
he couldn't afford to get hit one more time.
Kronos charged at him once again and Percy flew backwards, sending
blast after blast of condensed mana at the Titan;
200 MP!
200 MP!
200 MP!
Kronos took the hits like a tank, he didn't falter or even slow down. He
stretched his hand out and grabbed Percy in his fist.
"Shit!" Percy cursed as he struggled to pull himself free.
"And now demigod, I will crush you like the insect you are!"
Kronos roared as he began to squeeze Percy's in his palm.
"ARGH!" Percy cried out in pain as he felt his bones start to crack, his
own armour crushing him.
Defence Remaining: 19,500,000
Defence Remaining: 18,500,000
Defence Remaining: 17,500,000
Kronos brought his fist down smashing Percy into the ground. The
demigod coughed out blood dropping his weapons from the shock;
Defence Remaining: 12,040,000
And again;
Defence Remaining: 7,024,000
Kronos raised Percy up into the air, his golden eyes narrowing, "why
don't you die?!"
Percy's helmet opened up revealing his beaten and bruised face that
spewed out blood. He smiled as he meet Kronos' eyes, "because I
have to stop you."
"Then I suppose you will fail," Kronos roared as he squeezed his fist
bringing Percy up into the air, ready to pound him into a bag of blood
and bones when suddenly a cry distracted him.
"Hey ugly!" Thalia came running at the Titan, she took off the charm
Hera made for her and threw it at the Titans, "catch!"
Kronos didn't bother acknowledging the charm as a threat, he swatted
it away with his free left hand, but the moment his skin touched the
metal charm, something clicked, and an explosion of blue and green
smoke came bursting out.
BOOM!
Kronos' grip on Percy loosened and the demigod took his chance to
escape. He jumped out and landed on the ground, flying back into the
waiting arms of Thalia as he fell to the ground exhausted.
"I got you Percy," Thalia whispered before turning back, "Hyperion!
Achelous! Kill Kronos!"
The Titan of the sun growled, "I don't take orders from you girl!"
"Do it!" Percy roared, coughing out blood. Seeing no choice the two
gigantic warriors charged Kronos, who held a bloody hand, slowly
healing it with his powers. But before it could be healed properly he
had to dodge Hyperion's fists, forcing him to take on two opponent at
the same time.
"Can you heal yourself?" Thalia asked Percy.
"Yeah, but it's not going to help," Percy growled as his hands glowed
gold as he felt his wounds heal up.
Ping!
All ailments cured!
"We need a way to get past that time powers of his," Percy grumbled
as Thalia helped him on his feet.
"I think I can help with that," Annabeth spoke as as she and the rest of
main greek demigods surrounded Percy.
"What do you mean?" Thalia asked cautiously.
"I mean this," Annabeth presented the book before them, it was now
covered with alchemic symbols and greek letters, most of which Percy
couldn't understand, but a few he did.
"Do you know what it does?" Percy asked.
Annabeth nodded, "yes. Apparently it was a gift to my mother from the
Primordial of time, Chronos."
"I'm sorry, but what?" Michael asked with a raised eyebrow, "isn't
Kronos a titan? And isn't he right there? And doesn't he like hate the
gods?"
"Not Kronos, Chronos, with a 'C'," Percy explained, "same name,
different dudes. Apparently the primordial Chronos is a lot nicer than
grandaddy."
Annabeth nodded, "exactly, and he gave Athena a way to temporarily
stop this Kronos' powers. It won't be a permanent fix but, it should give
you a fighting chance Percy."
"How long can you make it last?" Percy asked.
"I think...I think ten seconds," Annabeth said with a lowered head.
"We can't do shit with ten seconds," Thalia cursed.
"No, we can," Percy spoke up gaining everyone's attention, "I can get
in and hurt Kronos...but I can't defeat him in just ten seconds."
"Can't you just reapply the charm after ten seconds are up?" Clarisse
asked.
"No, it had a minute cool down period," Annabeth shook her head, "no
sooner or else the spell itself will fail and can never be used against
him again."
"Damn it," Michael cursed, "if only we had a way to level the playing
field!"
Percy's head perked up, he smiled, he opened his inventory and pulled
out a small metal ball, "actually, I think we do."
Thalia and the others looked at the sphere curiously, "what is that?"
she asked.
"A way to level the playing field," Percy gulped, "I just hope it works.
Annabeth, how long will you need to prepare the spell?"
"Give me a minute," she quickly poured over the book, her eyes going
a mile a minutes as she memorized and practiced the words.
"Alright then, until she's ready let's provide backup to Hyperion and
Aqueous form here," Percy spoke up as he reached out with his
telepathic powers and summoned the staff of Neptune to his arms, and
toke out Waverider, which had already appeared in his armor slot.
Chapter 717
"Long distance only," Percy told them just as their tank came up
besides the group. He smiled as he jumped on top with Thalia and the
other's by his side. "You have a shoot there Charles?" he asked looking
down the open hatch to see Charles giving him the thumbs up, "then
when I give the signal fire everything!"
They turned to Kronos who had Hyperion in a choke hold, "you dare
betray me Hyperion?! Me?!"
"F-forgive me brother!" he choked out, "I-I had no choice!"
"No one betrays me!" Kronos was about to rip his head from his body
when Aceous tackled Kronos from the back, grabbing his neck and
catching him in a Nellson lock. Exposing his chest to Percy and the
others.
"NOW!" Percy yelled as he summoned a ton of water, freezing it into
the shape of an arrow head and using his impressive strength to throw
it at Kronos like a javelin.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Shells came flying out along with every ground to air missile the tank
had. Thalia sent out blasts of lighting while the Apollo kids sent out
volleys of arrows.
Kronos' eyes widened as shells ripped across his body, Percy's ice
arrow head was sticking out of his knee and Thalia's lighting hit him in
the face. The arrows didn't do much, but it still bugged the bastard.
"ARGH!" Kronos yelled as he broke out of Aceous' lock and threw him
at Hyperion. He slowly healed himself giving the two servants of Percy
enough time to gather themselves and launch another attack at
Kronos, fist to fist with the demigods assisting whenever they got a free
shot, and Hyperion and Aceous made sure they got plenty of free
shots.
With Decker:
Decker had always been a child of nonviolence. He never liked hurting
people, animals especially. But that day in the amusement park
changed him, he understood then the reason for violence may not
always be under question, that sometimes violence was needed.
He stood back to back with his best friends Nico and his sister Bianca
as they fought back the animal army of the titans along with the roman
cohorts.
Nico was suing his shadows to break the monster up into pieces while
Bianca took them out with his sword, relying heavily on her
unbreakable shield that Percy gave her.
Decker looked over the heads of his forces and saw the epic battle
happening just beyond them. The titan Kronos being attacked on two
fronts, by the giant servants of Percy and the greek demigods
themselves.
Decker couldn't help but look in wonder at the presence of Percy
Jackson, the man he saw as an older brother. He lead the charge
himself, he fought for them, and he was in no mode to let that man
down.
Decker closed his mind and called out to the plant life before him. He
gained control of the vines and thorny branches laing to the sides and
commanded them to rise.
The others paused as they saw the giant branches being lifted up into
the air before the struck faster that lighting at the invading demi-
animals, throwing them back with each low sweep.
Decker focused on the attack, striking again and again, wrapping
branches around animals before crushing them to dust. He didn't like it,
but he knew he had no choice.
"Incoming!" a roman legionnaire cried out pointing to a demi-rhino that
was as big as a garbage truck currently on a collision course towards
their right flank, which was significantly weaker. If they
Broke through that defence Decker knew they would all be dead as the
titan army would be able to flank them from both sides.
"Nico!" Bianca cried out as she and her brother tried to raise walls of
shadows to block the charging rhino, only for it to tear through the walls
like it was paper.
"We need to stop it!" Nico cried out as he got ready to go out there and
fight, only for Decker to place a calming hand on his shoulder.
"I'll handle this," Decker said quietly as he walked in front of Nico and
made eye contact with the charging rhino. He looked into his eyes, and
suddenly his mana gave a pull from his gut.
Decker felt what the rhino felt, he saw what the rhino saw, he was
inside it, and he had control. Forcing it to obey his will Decker guided
the rhino away, making it charge into the ranks of it's own army.
"It's going away!" the second cohort cheered as they saw the rhino
attack its allies, Deck groaned, feeling the pain the rhino felt it's allies
cut into its hide with their weapons. It was getting hurt and using this
pain it was pushing back Decker from it's mind.
Decker grunted as he fell to his knees, Nico grew worried as he
kneeled besides him, "are you okay Percy?"
"It's resisting me," Percy Decker grunted, "it's trying to break free!"
"How is that possible?" Bianca asked, "you're the son of Pan! The god
of the wild!"
"I, don't know!" Decker screamed in pain as he felt the rhino's mind
force him out, Decker clung on with all his strength, pushing deeper
and deeper into his mind. And suddenly he hit something, it was like a
mental projection in the rhino's mind, telling it what to do and giving him
the power to resist Decker. And now Decker was deep enough to see it
now as well.
He gasped as he saw a satyr in a green pod, wires attached into it's
body, drugs being pushed into it's system. The satyr looked up, it's
eyes opened revealing not the normal bark brown or leafy green of
normal satyrs, but a sky blue hue that Decker himself shared.
"Dad?" Decker asked in surprise. And Pan just smiled.
"My son," Pan voice went into Decker's head, the love, the affection, it
was enough to make Decker cry, "find me."
And with that final word the connection broke. Decker opened his eyes,
he felt tears roll down his face. He looked up to the see the rhino dead
before the cohort, it served as a barricade for the second cohort to fight
behind.
Chapter 718
Slowly the army of the titans began to die off, there were no more
reinforcements coming to aide them. The Romans charged together
once last time, the battle was third.
"Decker? What happened?" Bianca asked as she and Nico helped the
son of Pan up to his feet.
"Are you okay? Should we get you to the healers?" Nico asked
concerned.
"No, no I'm fine," Decker panted out, "I… think I saw my father." The
children of Hades shared a look, this was definitely something they
needed to talk about.
With Percy:
"I'm ready Percy!" annabeth called out.
"Right!" Percy nodded as he lowered his helmet visor and readied his
sword and staff, "Michael! Fire the arrow! Clear a path for me!"
Michael nodded as he drew the flaming arrow his father had gifted him
and aimed at Kronos, the servants battling him however kept getting in
the way. "I can't get a clear shot!"
"Guys!" Percy cried out, "make some room!"
The servants heard him and jumped to the side. Kronos locked eyes
with Percy and growled before he realised something else was coming
his way. Michael released the arrow and it soared towards Kornos.
The titan of time grinned as he snapped his fingers causing the arrow
to freeze, time had stopped around it, keeping it stationary. Kronos was
about open his mouth to gloat when the arrow suddenly exploded
knocking Kronos back on his ass.
"Now Annabeth!" Percy cried out.
Annabeth spoke the spell perfectly, not a word misspoken or a syllable
mumbled. The more she spoke the brighter the book she held glowed.
It grew in power before a ball of energy came shooting out, flying
across the battlefield, hitting Kronos right in the chest.
The Titan of time got back on his feet and looked down at his chest to
see what had hit him, "what the -"
BOOM!
Percy's super sonic punch hit him right in the solar plexus. Kronos
stumbled back a good twenty feet allowing Access to ram a sword
made of his platinum bones through his right shoulder.
"ARGH!" Kronos cried out, he clicked his fingers, trying to slow down
time again, when he realised his powers weren't working.
'7 seconds remaining,' Percy thought to himself as he and Hyperion
punched Kronos in the face sending him flying ass over head into the
tunnel wall. He tried to get up but Eracleous pinned him to the ground
with another blade.
'4 seconds remaining,' Percy shoved the power mimicker sphere into
Kronos' chest and;
Ping!
Please select the power you wish to mimic:
Time control
Immortali-
Percy didn't bother reading the others, he didn't have time. Making a
split second decision he pressed time control and activated the power
of the mimicker sphere. The ball disappeared into dust that then fused
with Percy's body.
Ping!
You have gained a new skill!
Time control (1/50)
Allows you to control time to various different lengths.
Cost- 500 MP per use
1% efficiency
'3 seconds remaining,' Percy raised an eyebrow at the new format of
his skill, but he realised this was probably because of the update that
CHAOS had given him. He dismissed the box and took out the second
reward he got from his quest of finding out the real history of the divine,
a level 10 skill disk. No prize for finding out what he did with it;
Ping!
You have used a skill disk on a skill to level it up 10 times!
Time control (10/50)
Allows you to control time to various different lengths.
Cost- 400 MP per use
15% efficiency
'Time's up,' Percy stepped back, just as Kronos sent out a pulse of time
energy. Percy felt it wash over him, it was almost like water from the
sea, a wave, a physical thing that he could hold. It was a sensation
Percy had never felt before, but he couldn't waste time on it.
He didn't know what he was doing, so he let his instincts take over. He
reached out with his mana and felt the jelly like time sphere he was
frozen under. He looked down and saw Kronos getting to his feet,
removing the blades sticking out of his body before turning to Percy
with hate filled eyes.
'Please work, please work!' Percy begged as he pulled the jello away
from around him. Kronos lifted his blade and brought it down over
Percy, and seconds before it made contact and metallic clang rang out;
-400 MP!
Ting!
Waverider pushed back Kronos' blade, as the titan lost his balance
falling on his behind. He looked up in shock to see a moving Percy
Jackson smile down at him with his blade leveled at his throat.
"W-who are you?" Kronos asked in horror, he had never seen
anything like this before in his life, never had an opponent thrown off
his powers.
"You know who I am," Percy waved his arm behind allowing his own
time manipulation powers to spread out, canceling out Kronos' field of
control. Hyperion and Aceous could move again. Percy narrowed his
eyes at Kronos, "destroy him."
The Titan of time never stood a chance. He was a skilled fighter, but
Percy matched him swing for swing. Hyperion and Eracleous turned
the tide, striking at Kronos' back whenever they got the chance. And
when the titan turned around to deal with them Percy would do his best
to remove the golden fleece tied around his neck.
Kronos could barely keep himself together let alone launch a counter
attack. Percy's fist met his face, breaking off a tooth from his perfect
smile. Hyperion's scorching kick burnt a footprint into his gut and
Aqueous tore off the golden armour around his right hand, leaving him
defenseless.
The demigods gathered around the battlefield, none dared to step into
the battle. They watched as Percy beat the living shit out of the titan,
breaking him down piece by piece. The Romans quickly joined them,
the entire titan army laid behind them, dead, destroyed. The children of
the gods watched their champion fight, they they felt remued hope fill
their hearts.
Chapter 719
High up near the ceiling though one being wasn't pleased. Hypnos
watched the battle with horror, his side was losing, and he was sure if
he didn't do something right now the war would be lost.
So seeing no other option he did something he swore on the Styx he
would never do. Hypnos gave himself up to the nightmares below,
allowing himself to absorb the shadows of every being that died on the
battlefield, making him grow bigger and bigger.
Morpheus felt a chill go up his spine, he tore himself away from the
sight of Percy triumphing over Kronos and spotted Hypnos cover
himself up in a cocoon of darkness. Immediately he realised what the
fallen god was planning to do. And fear filled him.
"NO!" Morpheus yelled out as he took off into the sky, flying towards
the pulsating cocoon of darkness and misery, 'I have to stop him!'
He readied his blade, prepared to kill his once lifelong friend, but he
never got the chance.
A crack appeared in the cocoon, and Morpheus knew it was over.
RUMBLE!
Percy halted for a second, everyone felt the tunnel shake. They felt the
world itself rumble as suddenly everything started to shift.
"Everybody run!" came Morpheus panicked cry as he flew towards the
assembled demigods, "throw Kronos away and run!"
The tunnel walls began to crack open displaying the world of
emptiness behind it. Percy knew what was behind those walls, and he
was in no mode to see CHAOS once again. He instead grabbed
Kronos' beaten and bloody form and ripped his half of the golden
fleece from his neck.
He lifted him over head and threw him towards one of the cracks in the
wall. Kronos went flying towards the darkness, but moments before he
passed through a giant black hand came forward from the ceiling and
grabbed him.
The demigods turned towards the origin of the hands. And slowly
descending upon the tunnel grounds from the ceiling was a figure one
can only described as every nightmare given life.
It was a blob of flesh bigger than a two story building, sticking out of it
was parts of various creatures, an arm of a clown with the left wing of a
bat. A octopus tentacle with burnt flesh surrounding the appendage. It
had several hundred eyes around it's figure but none of it was human.
It was a monster, and Percy knew it's name;
Hypnos, The Nightmare
Lv- ?
"That's Hypnos," Percy spoke out making everyone break out of their
stunned silence. They grew nervous seeing the monster, but to Percy it
was just another opponent to fight through.
"Demigods!" Percy cried out, "don't break lines!" the demigods turned
to him as he flew over them standing in the front lines with his servants
flanking his sides, "this will not be the day we die! We will survive! And
we will live!"
"YEAH!" the demigods cried out as once again they formed ranks,
facing off against the monster before them.
The Nightmare roared from it's several months, it cried out as it
belched out several shadow monsters that charged at the demigods.
Percy readied his blade for a counter attack, but before the monsters
even came a dome of pure light surrounded the demigods serving as a
barrier to protect them from the shadows that didn't seem to be able to
break through.
"What the Hades is going on?" Julia asked.
"Morpheus?" Percy asked as he looked up to see the god of dreams
holding the barrier up against the shadow monsters.
"You cannot defeat this Percy," Morpheus' voice was calm, almost
defeated, "this is where your role ends, and mine begins."
"Morpheus what are you doing?" Percy asked when suddenly the world
itself shared to shake. Morpheus raised his hands causing the entire
sphere of light to raise up into the air with all the demigods inside.
The shadows slowly fell down to the ground revealing the Dreamworld
before them. It was being terraformed before their very eyes. The
ground was wrapping, splitting down the center around Hypnos and
Kronos.
The blob that was the god of sleep reached out with one of its several
hands and created a tear in space and time. He threw Cronus into the
portal, closing it behind him.
"No!" Percy roared as he slammed his fists into the light barrier, "we
were so close!"
"It's alright Percy, you'll face him again," Morpheus assured him, "and
then, you will finish this war. This won't be the last battle you will face,
so don't give up your focus. You will need it."
GROWN!
The floor of the world started to crack open. Hypnos fell down into the
shadowy depths underneath. Thousands upon thousands of shadowy
arms came up and wrapped themselves around him. The deeper
Hypnos feel, the bigger he grew. Until a moon sized sphere floated
below their feet, it's surface covered with shadow monsters, cheering in
victory.
Percy's eyes widened in horror, "what happening?"
"Hypnos has done something we both swore never to do. He has
chosen a side," Morpheus rose the sphere of light upwards and away
from the dark moon below them. "He has chosen to become the avatar
of nightmares, become everything that humans hate. It has granted
him untold power, but forced him into becoming...that."
"Can we stop him?" Thalia asked, "can we even try?"
"No," Morpheus shook his head, "he has become a force of nature
itself...I can only halt his progress, before it gets out of hand."
"What are you saying Morpheus?" Percy asked as all turned to the
winged god who slowly began to glow with a bright light.
"I'm saying to fight the Nightmare, someone has to become the
dream," Morpheu raised his hand up into the sky and the ceiling started
to wrap.
The world started to mash together, spinning like a ball, winding in on
itself, creating a large sphere of light, mirroring the dark moon below.
And then the white pods moved. They contained the sleeping forms
over every man, woman and child on Earth and they floated around the
sphere in which the demigods were in, forming several rings around
them like the rings of Saturn.
Chapter 720
As the pod continued to spin several threads started to crawl out of
them like the roots of a tree. Some were gold, some were black, they
intertied with each other, slowly going towards one of the realms, the
dark moon of nightmares or the golden sun of dreams.
"You're changing the world," Annabeth quickly caught on, "the entire
topography of the Dreamworld is changed."
"Indeed it is," Morpheus nodded as he lowered the sphere of light. The
demigods now stood on the only solid surface in the entire realm, the
platform was around 200 feet long with the white pods surrounding
them. Beyond them and the two heavenly spheres was nothing,
absolutely nothing.
Morpheus began to break apart, pieces of him disappeared into golden
dust that traveled up towards the golden sun.
"Morpheus...you're breaking apart," Percy lowered his weapons
removing his helmet.
"Yes...I am," Morpheus turned to Percy and looked into his eyes, "I
have decided Percy Jackson...I have decided to place my hope on the
dream of the demigod. Like you told me too. But...I realise that this
dream cannot come true, unless there is someone to hold up the torch,
unless there is someone for the demigods to rally behind."
Morpheus lifted a finger and pressed it up against Percy's temple. To
the god's surprise he found a jewel stuck in Percy's forehead, the blue
jewel glittering in the light. Morpheus smiled, "this is perfect."
Light flew from Morpheus' finger into Percy's forehead. Suddenly the
demigod felt something way heavy on his brow. A golden laurel grew
around Percy's head, the end of its two branches circling around
Percy's gem.
Morpheus' arm disappeared leaving only his body behind. He floated
up above the demigods allowing them all to see him.
"Percy Jackson, you fought for the dream," Morpheus voice became
ethereal, it came from all around them, "would anyone here not follow
this man?"
The demigods looked at each other and then at Morpheus, none spoke
up.
Morpheus floating head and torso spoke, "I ask the same now to all the
demigods who woke before the end of the battle," a shining mirror
appeared before them all, displaying the faces of all the demigods that
had been sent away to avoid death. All of who followed Percy's
command throughout the battle. Who fought as his army, those that
were willing to die for the cause he championed.
And the demigods in the mirror said nothing, not even Octavian could
object after seeing the power and respect Percy commanded.
"Then let it be so," Morpheus was now nothing but a head, "Percy
Jackson, I declare you the carrier of the dream of demigods, that one
day they can live in peace. I declare you the holder of that peace. And I
declare you, the King of all demigods."
The laurel crown on Percy's head shined brightly signifying the title
bestowed upon him;
Ping!
You have obtained, 'The Crown of Demigods'
The Crown of demigods,
A crown signifying your dominion over all demigods and a
promise to lead them to a life free of harm.
Bonus-
Makes your status known at all times to any demigod.
Gives the perk 'Command all'
You have obtained a new perk!
Command all- allows you to be heard by every demigod in your
presence. 10% chance of them agreeing with you. Deactive
(This perk must be manually activated to be effective)
"And now it's time for you all to leave," Morpheus spoke sending every
demigod one by one away in a flash of light.
The romans went first followed by the greeks. Thalia was second to
last leaving Percy and Morpheus alone.
As the last traces of his body started to disappear the god of dreams
whispered, "keep them safe."
And with that Percy knew no more.
In the Real World:
Percy blinked and found himself in the middle of camp armour and all.
The greek demigods were all there with him surrounding the camp fire
that was raging.
"Percy!" Thalia called ou as she came rushing through the crowd the
moment she spotted her boyfriend.
"Thalia!" Percy smiled as he deactivated his armour and shoved the
staff of Neptune into the ground holding it up as he caught Thalia in his
arms, kissing her passionately.
"Did that really all just happen?" Nico asked as he and the rest of the
Hermes squad found themselves in camp as well. They along with the
Athena research team had all been transported back to camp instead
of where they were when they feel asleep.
"We just fought the titans, and won," Michael blinked, "holy shit, I hope
that just happened."
"Children!" Chiron came charging out from the Big House with Mera at
his side along with the other spirits that served at camp. Chiron
approached Percy who broke his kiss and looked up at the centaur,
Chiron smiled, "you did it Percy. You brought them back."
Ping!
Quest completed!
Enter Morpheus's realm and save all the demigods!
Rewards,
300,000 Exp
One random gift from the minor Gods (to be received at a later
date)
The Crown of demigods
Ping!
You have leveled up!
Percy Jackson
Health- 19,300/19,300 (+2000) =21,300
Mana- 10,275/10,275 (+2000) = 12,275 (+20% more mana, +2,455) =
14,730
The Gamer
Title- Leader
Level-55 Exp- 169,550/260,000
Race-Demigod
STR- [Original- 150] 0.146 (+11+20+75) = 106.146 (Layers of seals
applied - 10)
VIT-150 (+12+20)=182
DEX-100(+12+20)=132
INT-150
WIS-100
LUC-100
POINTS- 95
MONEY- 25,221,683$/ 20,856 D
Percy pushed away the notification and sighed, "I'm just glad it's over."
"What now?" Annabeth asked.
"Now?" Percy sighed, "I suppose now we get ready for the real war.
Something tells me Kronos isn't going to take this defeat lying down."
"Right..." Michael nodded, "by the way Percy...you kind of look weird
with that thing on your head. Are you going to keep it or…?"
Percy raised an eyebrow, "what? What are you talking-" he touched his
forehead feeling the golden laurel Morpheus had bestowed upon him.
His eyes widened as he turned to Thalia who then realised it was still
there.
A hush fell over the crowd as they realised what Morpheus' last words
truly meant. They all turned to see the golden crown on Percy's head,
even Chiron gasped as he quickly connected to dots on the
implications.
The golden crown sent waves of power out, everyone who looked at it
knew exactly what it represented, be them a mermaid, a spirit or a
centaur.
It was Mera who spoke first, "all hail Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon,
retrieval of the Lightning bolt and the helmet of darkness, destroyer of
Janai'ngo, Alcyoneus. King of all demigods."
She was the first one on her knees, followed by Chiron and the rest of
the staff. The demigods fell next, each of them willingly without
question. Annabeth had a smile on her face, she knew this would make
Percy nervous beyond belief.
Michael did an almost comedic bow, while Clarisse saluted Percy as if
he was a general.
And Thalia stepped aside, lowering her head with respect.
Percy looked at them kneeling before him, trusting him to guide them,
and he felt a familiar weight return onto his shoulders. He remembered
CHAOS' words to him, 'The one who is most qualified to be given
power is the one who rejects it. Only they can use it properly with the
respect it deserves.'
'Did it know this was going to happen to me?' Percy wondered, 'of
course it did. It knows everything.'
Percy understood now the meaning of those words. The weight he
carried on his shoulders had a purpose, and for once he understood
why it had to be him and no on else.
The sun rose off in the distance, it's rays promising a new day, a better
day. And Percy knew one day he would have to bring a better day for
all of demigod kind, and he knew it had to be him.
With Kronos:
The Titan of time came bleeding out of the portal as it dropped him in
the heart of his castle.
"Luke!" he cried out in pain, "Luke!"
"Master?" Luke Castellan asked as he came running to the Titan,
helping him on his feet, "master what happened? Where's Hyperion?
Where's Hypnos?"
"Dead," Kronos spat as he felt his right arm tear apart at the seams,
without the golden fleece his body was disintegrating rapidly, "where is
he?"
"Lord Pan is inside his pod, he's asleep now, he's broken Lord Kronos,
I don't think-"
"-I don't care! We need more soldiers! Take me to him! Now!"
"At once my lord," Luke bowed as he walked before Kronos clearing
the way to the dungeons below. Luke noticed Kronos' beaten form,
"how will you recover my lord?"
"The Styx, the curse of Achilles will bind me. We shall depart for
the underworld immediately after this is done. Has our guest told
you where to find my weapon?"
Luke nodded, "yes my lord, it took some time but he spilled his
secrets."
Kronos chuckled, "so much for family bonding. And? Where is it?"
"The goddess Artemis," Luke spoke hesitantly, "she has it."
"Then she will be our first target. Prepare the troops Luke, the
moment I make my recovery we attack the Romans. Olympus has
won this battle, but we will win the war."
"Understood lord Kronos," Luke bowed while his thoughts were running
a mile a minute, 'I need to tell Percy, now!'