Hi guys! I have decided I am going to start up a new story! I've had this idea floating in my mind for a while right now, so I decided to write it. The idea for this story came to me when I was listening to some epic music. And it was distracting me from my other stories, so I just had to write it, it was begging for release! :D Anyway, I hope this won't put too much of a buffer on my other stories, I shouldn't think so, this is more of a side project, except of course if there is an overwhelming demand for this story, pairing is undecided, a poll is up on my profile page, so everyone go and vote! By the way, if you are wondering which song inspired this story, look on my profile page! HAPPY READING PEOPLE!
DISCLAIMER - I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS OR HEROES OF OLYMPUS! THIS COUNTS FOR THIS ENTIRE STORY!
The story is set in and after HoO, just so you guys know! I'll be making my own ending to the HoO series, as to fit with my story!
Percy POV
It was a battleground, no, a bloodbath at the foot of the original Mount Olympus. We, the seven demigods of the prophecy, and both camps were fighting together with the gods against the Giants and their never ending monster army. And when I say neverending, I really mean neverending. For each Hellhound, Cyclops, Empousa or Telkhine I hacked to dust with Riptide, two more took it's place. I was fighting alongside my father, Poseidon. Swords and trident, we waded through the monsters, slowly making our way to the rest of the army from which we had been seperated. I could see Thalia and Jason fightng together with Zeus against Porphyrion, King of the Giants, and they weren't doing well. They were bruised and scratched, bleeding from several cuts, as I watched, Zeus and Porphyrion locked weapons in a stalemate and were staring each other down. Me and my dad had just killed off Polybotes, but there were so many Giants and monsters, it seemed hopeless. Even in the Second Titan War, there was always hope, but this was the largest army I had ever seen or heard of. I felt like giving up, but I knew I couldn't stop now, not without making a last stand. Somewhere far to my left, on the slope of the mountain, Hephaestus and his kids brought down Mimas. In the distance I could see Athena and Hades fighting some Giants, while the Fifth Cohort and the rest of Camp Half-Blood were doing their best to stop the monsters from breaking through, so far they had success, but how long could they stop the wave of monsters constantly threatening to overwhelm us all. We had to face the facts, we were overpowered. There was a slim chance of any of us surviving. We managed to join up with the main force and quickly I quickly joined the shield and sword wall that was holding the monster tide at bay. My dad looked in the distance where flashes were illuminating the sky.
"Percy, I have to go help the gods there, Once the Giants are brought down, we can assist in the defense, in the meantime, you mustn't let the wall break!" He said with dead seriousness. I looked at him and nodded, I was feeling positively determined not to let a single monster through.
"Good luck, Dad." I said, he smiled at me and flashed towards the other Olympians who were having a hard time battling the Giants. I could see a few demigods helping their godly parents, but we couldn't spare more than a few demigods or else we would be overrun here. I ran towards the shield wall and leapt over it, seeing the bravest and strongest demigods battling the monsters even before they reached the wall. My eyes must've been murderous or something, because all the monsters I met visisbly flinched before I cut them down where they stood. Riptide was once again an arc of pure destruction, I was on auto pilot, slashing and hacking at inhuman speed, cutting down monsters by the dozen. I could see demigods behind the shield wall also jump over, looking at me in awe as I mercilessly slaughtered everything that stood in my way, I had seen way to many demigods die today, far too many pained faces of friends, falling to the ground bloodied and broken, weezing their last breath out forcefully. As I thought of all the familiar eyes being snuffed out, devoid of life, I all but speeded up. Water vapour around me began to thicken into the largest storm I have ever witnessed. Ice and various other small objects were flying around me at breakneck speed, impaling anything and everything, for every demigod that died today, I will slaughter hundreds of them! After a while, I looked around me and realized I was actually waddling through a thick layer of monster dust that covered the ground like golden snow. My private hurricane was as big as ever, picking up entire hellhounds and throwing them around like plastic toys. I lost all awareness of what happened on the battlefield, for once in my ADHD life, I was able to concentrate on one thing and one thing alone, slaughtering all the monsters. After what only seemed like a few minutes of me slashing and hacking, barging into enormous groups of enemies, leaving golden dust on the ground as I went, I noticed that the monsters seemed to be retreating, I could see why. Hundreds and hundreds of them had been killed by the demigods and me. I stood between the demigod shield wall and the monster army, still conjuring up a huge storm.
"Is this not what you want?! Fight me! I'll show you regret!" I screamed at the monsters, they were all looking at me with wide, fearful eyes. I laughed maniacally, I was starting to scare myself right now.
"I will kill every single one of you. You have my word." I said quietly, but somehow my words carried out over the sounds of battle and my storm, and the monster ranks shuffled nervously, I grinned at them.
"Because my dear friends, there is more where that came from." I said, laughing again, I whipped around to look at the demigods, they were also eyeing me warily, but right then, I just didn't care.
"Demigods, today, we will emerge victorious! We will not only write history, but CREATE IT! CHARGE! FOR OLYMPUS!" I yelled at our ranks. All the demigods, Greek and Roman, surged forward, the monsters looked at the giant wall of death barreling towards them, with a certain smirking Son of Poseidon leading the charge. Then, the two armies clashed, and all other sounds were drowned out as the battle began.
Everyone POV (A/N I will be switching POV here alot.)
Once again, Percy found himself surrounded by monsters. Not only that, but he saw he was also fighting his way to the Giants and the Gods, still engaged in a deathmatch. Percy ran full speed at the Giants, who seemed to notice the winds picking up. Alcyoneus was the first to look around, and what he saw made his eyes widen, their army was all but halved, and the demigods were hacking their way towards the Olympians, if they got here, the Giants wouldn't stand a chance. But what scared him even more was the Son of Poseidon barreling towards them at full speed inside his own storm. Percy had a maniacal glint in his eyes that said that he wouldn't accept defeat even if he had to fight all the Giants by himself. Poseidon saw his son running towards their aid, and he looked absolutely terrifying. Even Thalia, Jason and the other seven, including Annabeth, flinched when they saw Percy, he just emitted this aura of pure power and hate. It was nothing like I have ever seen. I also noticed that there was a faint red glow around him, I looked at Ares and saw him smirking. Ares blessed Percy, now that's a surprise! As for Percy himself, he had no thoughts as he charged Alcyoneus, seeing as he was the Giant who was the closest to him. Alcyoneus stabbed at him with his giant spear, and Percy sprang to the side, he then quickly jumped up and landed on top of Alcyoneus' spear, who drew his spear up in the air quickly in a panic, giving Percy the thrust he needed. He launched himself from the spear and in mid-air, condensed the water vapour in the air into one massive ice shard, firing it at Alcyoneus' face, who couldn't do anything to block it, it impaled his face and his cry of agony could be heard all over the battlefield. Hades quickly stepped in and stabbed Alcyoneus in the chest, and the poor Giant was dissolving before he knew what was going on. Next up was Enceladus who was battling Athena and Annabeth. He ran towards Enceladus, but Enceladus had seen what happened to Alcyoneus and was smart enough to not try and impale Percy, instead, he slashed wide arcs with his spear tip. Not giving Percy a chance to get close. Fortunately for Percy, there was still Athena and also Annabeth, so while he distracted the Giant, Athena was charging up for a huge power release, after a few seconds, a gray ball of pure energy appeared in her hands, which the thrust outwards, shooting a beam of energy at Enceladus, who whipped around, only to be blasted in the chest and knocked far away. But as far away as he was knocked, Annabeth and Percy were on him in an instant, both impaling his heart, and so Enceladus started dissolving. Percy briefly flashed Annabeth a smile before he turned around and paled. He had left the demigods alone and they were being pushed back heavily by the monsters. As quickly as Percy had joined the godly fray, he jumped out of it and rushed to strengthen the demigod lines, he was rallying them towards him in an instant. Once again, he summoned a storm, but he was beginning to feel his power being drained, but that didn't stop him from throwing himself into the monster ranks, slashing and stabbing, making it seem like it was snowing gold. Monsters were thrown off their feet or paws and launched into their reinforcements, making the organized lines of the monster army fall apart into monsters fighting a free for all deathmatch, there was no code, only the instinct to kill demigods bound the monsters now, but that was also when they were most deadliest, no restraints, no formations, just pure instinct. They began fighting the demigods to a standstill, the two sides were pushing each other back and forth. Neither side was retreating and it seemed like a stalemate. Percy meanwhile was in the heat of the battle, yelling defiantly, he managed to keep up his storm for a little longer, but his power was seriously drained now, and since he lost the Curse of Achilles long ago, he was slowly but surely acquiring more and more cuts and scrapes, eventually, he saw the line of demigods and merged with them, he ordered the retreat at the same time as the monsters, both sides fleeing backwards. Far off to the left, the Gods and Giants were still engaged in battle, none of them would be any help. It was all up to Percy. Said Son of Poseidon was wondering why the monsters had retreated, but his question was soon answered when he saw the earth forming the figure of a female, his eyes widened when he saw that Gaea's eyes were wide open, she was awake, and she looked calm and collected. She strode purposefully towards the middle of the battleground. There, she stopped.
"Ah, demigods, how nice to see that you have held out this long! It makes me happy that you have resisted this long, but, alas, your fate is sealed." She spoke loud and clearly, with a sick smile etched on her face, the Olympians and the other Seven of the Prophecy didn't notice Gaea was here, awoken and ready to kill. I couldn't run towards them, and shouting wouldn't work, they were to busy fighting to hear anything. Gaea was still smiling sweetly at us. I knew I had no chance of stopping her, not only was she a Primordial Goddess, the Earth itself, but I was also bone tired and severely drained from my powers. I had trouble standing, I was also bleeding out of several cuts. Gaea knew we couldn't stop her, she was just enjoying the moment.
"Now, without further ado, let's get this over with, shall we?" She said happily, she raised her hands and caused the earth around us to shoot up, throwing everyone off balance and tumbling, she broke our formation with one movement, this was bad, really bad. The monsters quickly advanced, taking advantage of our disorientation, with Gaea up front. She blasted our front line with energy and boulders, killing all of them instantly and clearing a path for herself, right to Mount Olympus, I had to atleast try and stop her, I would die a hero's death, and I was happy with it, oh how wrong I was. I ran towards Gaea and barred her way, but I was tired, and she knew it, but I wasn't going to go without a fight. She looked at me with pure hate in her eyes.
"You, Perseus Jackson, have slain so many of my sons, but, here, the so-called unkillable demigod will fall. When I am done with you, Perseus Jackson, you will not even remember who you are." She said menacingly. I smiled at her.
"I know, and you know I'll go down fighting, so let's do this." I said, and charged at her. She summoned a wicked sword curved sword that was made entirely from diamond. She began with trying to blast me with energy, which I easily sidestepped. I jumped at her and slashed her thigh, she hissed in pain, but the wound was starting to close right in front of my eyes.
"I cannot be killed by a mere demigod that easily, you will need to inflict much more damage than that to make it last." She said, smirking at me. I glared at her.
"Alright, I'll give it my best shot." I said and charged her again, swinging my sword towards her ribcage, she swiftly blocked my strike and jumped on the offensive. Her sword was just as large as Riptide, because she wasn't in her full form yet, she was the same size as me, meaning she wasn't at full power yet, but she didn't need full power to be unstoppable right now. I could only glance blows off Riptide because of the power she put behind her strikes. I weaved under a slashing arc of her sword and was about to stab her through the torso when her fist collided with my chest armor, throwing me back quite a bit, I was weezing right now. Every breath hurt. She was smirking triumphantly and walked towards me at a leisurely pace. I slowly stood up and got ready in a defensive stance. She took this as her cue to charge, we exchanged a few blows when I managed cut a deep gash in her arm, she hissed again and in that little moment of distraction I stabbed her through the chest, she looked pained but then she smirked. The wounds were closing again.
"Still not enough, little demigod." She smiled at me. Fuck. She summoned two energy balls, one in each hand, and threw them at me. I dodged the first one, but the second one hit me square in the chest, the pain was unbearable, and I was sent flying into something hard behind me. I could feel my life force slipping away.
"Well, that was a rather interesting show, Son of Poseidon, you have not seen the last of me, your afterlife will certainly not be peaceful, but first, I have to tear down the palace." She said, looking up at the mountain and started walking up the slope, I felt myself getting weaker and weaker by the second. I managed to turn my head and see the demigods being overrun by the monsters, the only thing that was good, the Giants were killed, well, most of them, and the Gods were only now noticing what was going on, and their faces turned to panicked and horrified as they watched their children getting slaughtered, they flashed over and were quickly disintegrating monsters all around, maybe there was hope for the demigods, but Gaea would soon reach the summit of Mount Olympus, and begin tearing it down. It was already too late, the black edges around my vision field were already closing in, I didn't have much time, I could feel the shadows condensing next to me and out popped Nico, I think, I couldn't see clearly.
Nico POV
As my dad and I had just finished off another Giant, we decided to help in the defense, or what was left of it as we saw when we finally focused on the main battle. I could feel so many souls slipping away, a Son of Apollo, Hermes, Nike, Hecate, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares and even Poseidon. Wait, WHAT! As I felt the life force of a certain Son of Poseidon slip away further I looked around frantically to find Percy. When I finally saw him, I knew it was too late, he was sitting against a tree and was covered in blood. I quickly shadow traveled over to him to get a good look at the wounds, I knew no amount of Nectar and Ambrosia would heal him now. I started feeling numb, Percy was the big brother I never had, my best friend, and now his life was slipping away. I looked him in the eye, and he faintly smiled.
"Hey... Death B-Breath... Nice. To... S-See. You..." He spoke slowly and winced at every word, behind me I could faintly hear monsters being incinerated by the hundreds, but I didn't care.
"Percy, who did this?!" I asked, who had broken the demigod lines and killed my brother?!
"G-Ga-Gaea" He croaked. My heart sank, if I would've turned around or even paid attention to my fellow demigods, I would've seen the Earth Goddess herself tearing through them and I could've warned the other Gods. But I was so caught up in surviving, I didn't notice a thing. And then I also realized that Gaea now had free pass to Olympus, and would be destroying the home of the Gods pretty soon. But even that was second priority. First priority was my dying brother here. I whipped my head around to see if Apollo could maybe help.
"APOLLO!" I screamed as loud as I could, even the monsters flinched. In an instant, Apollo was next to me, a blinding flash and his trademark smile.
"What's the matter Nico?" He asked, not seeing the dying Percy in front of him.
"Here! Percy!" I yelled in his face, luckily he was too distressed to notice my outburst.
"Oh god, not you too Perce, not you too." He muttered and his hands started glowing, he started healing Percy, but Percy pushed his hands away.
"No, Apollo, I d-don't want this. I want p-peace. At last." He said slowly again, I couldn't believe it, he was really going. I suddenly felt another presence to my right, and saw Thalia standing next to me, she looked at Percy with wide eyes.
"Kelp Head?" She asked softly.
"H-Hey, Thals." He said with a half grin, he had trouble keeping his eyelids open now.
"S-So guys, it, was, fun.. Fighting with you... Guys... Thanks, tell my parents, I love, them." He said, finally closing his eyes with a smile on his face. I felt numb and empty, like I felt when Bianca died, but this time maybe even worse, Thalia didn't look any better. She was pale and I could see tears cascading across her cheeks. I could feel my eyes burning too. Even Apollo shed a few tears, when we looked around, we saw that most of the monster army had been killed, but the damage had been done. Gaea had awoken, and taken my brother's life.
Percy POV
Peace, at last, I was sure Gaea wouldn't find me, I would already be past Judgement by the time she would remember finding me. I was floating around somewhere, I was half transparent. Wait, only half? That's weird, I've never seen a ghost who is half see through. The weirder thing was, I didn't see any Charon, Styx, Fields of Asphodel or any other thing in The Underworld. Was I not going to Hades then, is there another place to go? I looked around and I saw that I was in a circular room, there were no torches or anything, but that wasn't neccesary, on the ceiling and on the ground there was a moving map of what seemed the galaxy and some space around it, the maps provided enough light for it to be twilight like in the room. I couldn't really make out everything in detail, but I could see the outlines of stuff. A voice from the far side of the room derailed my train of thought.
"So, you are the mighty Perseus Jackson?" It asked, it sounded feminine, it laughed seeing me whip my head around quickly, trying to find the source of the voice. When my eyes finally settled on the throne on the opposite side of the room, I could make out a slender figure of a woman sitting on a throne, I think that if I could see her in some good lighting, she would be seriously beautiful.
"Well, demigod, let's get down to business here, you're dead, and I am your only ticket back up to the normal world." She said matter of factly. My jaw dropped, I could go back up and live?
"Yes you could, with great power too." She said. I began to grow suspicious, there was always a catch with these people, offering you things that seemed awesome on first glance, but turned out to be bullshit deals.
"Who are you?" I asked timidly, if she was able to send me back up, I had to be nice, plus, she seemed nice enough. She laughed a beautiful tinkling laugh.
"Ah, that is always asked, who am I? Well, there is only one way to put this, I am Chaos, The Creator, nice to meet you!" She said, smiling. Uh-oh.
"Uhm, hello. So... About me going back up, is there, uhm, some kind of uhhhh, catch?" I asked, laughing nervously, I didn't want to offend The Creator, but I also didn't want to regret this decision for the rest of my life. She once again smiled at me, I hope that was a good smile and not a mad smile. Then I would be seriously screwed.
"Hm, and they call you Seaweed Brain, well, that may be true sometimes, but you can be smart, I think." She laughed again, and I was mesmerized by the sound.
"Anyway, the catch, you will be reanimated with great power, but the great power will slowly eat away at you, making you more and more instable until you either find the cure, or become mad." She said, looking serious now. I wasn't sure, what was this cure?
"What is the cure then?" I asked.
"The cure is finding the one you belong with, you could say soul mate, but that sounds idiotic, so please don't say that in my presence." She said, scrunching up her eyebrows as if the word disgusted her.
"Uh... Okay." I said. I had to find the one I belonged with? I was thinking hard now, but after a few moments, I realized that even if I became mad, I would have to seperate myself from everyone, but I couldn't let my friends face Gaea alone, this was my only chance to help them. I looked at Chaos determined.
"I accept your offer, Lady Chaos." I said. I was going to help my friends no matter what.
"I knew you were going to say that all along, so loyal!" She said, smiling again, The Creator turned out to be a beautiful woman who was kind and atleast had a sense of humor. How about that. She then shot a midnight black beam at me, and I had my doubts about her kindness. I felt my soul changing, morphing, and I felt much more powerful. When I looked down I could see my normal soul, but with black specks.
"That blackness will continue to expand further into your soul. Until you get mad, or you purify it. Oh yeah, and don't try killing yourself, you are immortal now, and you also have the power to make others immortal, but not gods, just immortal." She said and laughed one more time before she waved her hand and I was pulled upwards rapidly, it reminded me of shadow travel, only much faster.
Nico POV
More people had found Percy's body and were crying aswell, none took it so hard as me, Thals and Poseidon though. We knew him all the way, and now he was gone. The only weird thing was, I couldn't sense Percy entering Hades, which was very odd. I started thinking he went directly to Tartarus or something, which didn't help my mood. Then I felt something stir a long way away, but I could still feel it. Like alot of power was released, I looked around, but the Gods and demigods were already charging up the mountain once they learned that Gaea had attacked behind our backs. What was left of The Seven charged with their parents. I say what was left because Percy, Jason, Piper and even Annabeth had died in the battle, I never knew Jason and Piper that well, but I was still shocked that they died. The Seven were now down to Three, Frank, Hazel and Leo. The bravest of the demigods charged together with us up the slope, I could see Gaea at the top of the mountain wearing a grim expression, I know why, this will be a hard fight for both sides, Gaea had nthing to rely on now, no army, no Giants, and the entire Olympian Council was going to attack her. I didn't know what the outcome would be, but it would decide the fate of the world. Suddenly I could feel a soul returning, what the fuck? All the others, even Gaea could sense it, and we all whipped our heads around, this soul felt POWERFUL. And what I saw next, I would never forget. I could feel the soul go into Percy's body, and then his eyelids fluttered open and he started coughing. I was so happy I didn't even wonder how this had happened, I could hear Thalia and the Gods and several other people gasping. Percy stood up and looked at us, even through my pure joy, I could feel something different in Percy, something dangerous. But right then, I didn't give a fuck. He started limping towards us, then it turned into walking and then running and finally sprinting. He was between the Gods and the remaining demigods of The Prophecy. He looked at Gaea with pure hate, and she visibly flinched. He looked at every one of us and said.
"So, will we send Gaea back to sleep?" And laughed the good old Percy laugh. We were all determined and set our gaze towards the Earth Goddess who looked mildly unnerved. We started sprinting full speed at her, and she summoned her sword and shield made of diamonds and started throwing energy balls down the slope, we managed to sidestep them and drew our weapons. Percy was up front and uncapped Riptide, which had more of a black glow around it now, but I had no time to wonder about this, because we had an Earth Goddess to send back to sleep. The Gods all fired beams of Godly energy towards Gaea, which she either blocked or dodged. She stamped her foot on the ground, and boulders were flying everywhere, We all managed to dodge them, and then we found ourselves at the top of the mountain, facing Gaea herself. She wasm quickly engaged in an all out battle against The Olympians while the demigods were scooting around and slicing at her feet or other limbs that we could reach. Soon she would be at full power and I don't know if we would be able to stop her then. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades were all locking in battle with her, the first time the Big Three were actually working together, and even Gaea had difficulty stopping their onslaught, they were shooting beams of godly power at her, slamming their weapons against her shield and even making cracks in her weapons. Hades got a good kick in her shin from which she flinched, and Poseidon and Zeus took the chance and impaled her in the chest. Her scream of pain was very loud indeed. Then she released a wave of earth power and all of us, including the Gods, were knocked back.
"You, will, all, DIE!" She screamed. She was bleeding profusely and the Gods had done much damage to her already. She started charging up her power again, I don't know what she was going to release, but it couldn't be good. Then suddenly, Percy came running towards her, a midnight black aura around him that eminated fear and power. He screamed defiantly at her and kept running towards her full speed. She looked at him shocked at the power he was displaying, to be honest, we were all shocked. As he was running though, his shadow started transforming, no, not his shadow, PERCY was transforming. He was growing wings that looked like dragon wings. And his shadow became a dragon with blood red eyes. Percy beat his wings once, and we all gaped at him as he flew into the air. Just at that moment Gaea released her energy beam at him, and he screamed defiantly, summoning his own black power beam, and the took clashed, shaking the very foundation of the mountain.
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