When most people hear the words "The Sword in the Stone" they immediately think of King Arthur and his knights of the round table; but for the demigods of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter their minds jump to the Hero and Heroine of Olympus, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.
After the war with the titans and the war with the giants a third group arose. They called themselves the Ancient Ones, beings so old even the gods have forgotten their existence. They have slept for millions and billions of years, until the greed and hubris of those that came after woke them up. There was no prophecy this time, the first to fall were the Fates of the greeks, the Norns of the norse, and others that weave mankind's future.
The great heroes led the charge while the gods cower in their thrones, eventually after a great battle, they won the war; but the damage was done.
The Demigods saw the selfishness or their parents, the magicians realized why they separated themselves from the gods in the first place, the Einherjar watched as their masters fled. Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase took on the king of the Ancient Ones, the mighty Cthulhu himself. Against all odds, they crushed the lord of destruction at the cost of Annabeth's life.
Their comrades and the gods watched in awe as the Son of Poseidon destroy Cthulhu so severely that he might never regain a consciousness ever again. Right there at the spot the powerful being breathed his last Percy took his bronze sword 'Anaklusmos' and Annabeth's drakon bone sword 'Pallas', and drove their blades into the ground crossing over to form an 'X' shape. No one has been able to pull out the weapons and they remain there until today.
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Amethyst Silena Grace swung her golden gladius left and right slicing through monster after monster, to her right her Satyr friend Chuck Hedge bashed a hellhound with his oversized club while her father Gleeson Hedge is performing a Bruce Lee maneuver keeping the new demigods they came to collect away from a hoard of Dracanae.
"I told you we shouldn't have gone hear today." her mother Piper scolded her dad.
"Come one Pipes, you know today was Annabeth's death anniversary." Jason answered in a strained voice as he cut through eight cyclopes. "How should I know there would be a literal army of monsters here."
"More fighting, less talking; Aunt Piper, Uncle Jason!" yelled Bianca Emily Zhang before she turned into an elephant and rammed through the monsters.
No more words were exchanged as the trained demigods and satyrs went to work. Chuck fell back with his father and guarded the newbies, Bianca and Amethyst took the right wing, Piper the left, and Jason the center.
It was times like this when Amethyst truly understands just how powerful her mom and dad, and basically all the veterans of the wars, are. Jason literally walks through the horde in all his bad-ass son of zeus glory, Piper, unlike most of the Aphrodite and Venus campers, uses her jagged broadsword and hacks at any monster that comes close, frost creeping up the bodies of the survivors.
They managed to thin the massive horde, unfortunately three beings blocked their path and shook things up.
Krios was in front of the young demigoddesses, Emily morphed into a young dragon but the ram horned titan swung his double-headed axe and smacked emily with the flat side, the hit sent her flying backwards and morphed back into her human form. Amethyst tried to rush him while he was distracted but he simply kicked her away splitting her lip.
Khione faced Piper, the snow goddess heating up with mad fury against the mortal that dared to defeat her. This battle was more even, as Khione sent frozen zombies at her and Piper kept wading through them as though they were mild inconveniences. Khione created twin swords from ice and rushed the daughter of Aphrodite.
Meanwhile Jason is facing a different enemy all together, Cthylla, the daughter of Cthulhu. The last time he fought her, it took the might of the entire Fifth Cohort standing beside him to overcome her, and three quarters of them still fell to her overwhelming strength.
Knowing that he will never win by going on the defensive, Jason took the initiative and attacked. He didn't get far, her tentacles caught him like he was nothing more than a fly.
"Your friend took my father from me." Cthylla said her voice grating on Jason's brain "I will take you as the first payment!"
Just as she squeezed and Jason's bones cracked a swishing sound rang around the clearing, before he knew it Jason was on the ground the tentacles that were holding him flopping like fish out of water.
He looked up and saw a figure wearing a rugged and thorn brown cloak wrapped around him, his arms covered in bandages that has turned brown from age, and a hood hiding his hair from behind. Jason's eyes however were drawn to the two very familiar blade in his roughed calloused hands. Anaklusmos and Pallas.
"I got this squid Jason, help the girls with Krios." the voice sounded old and cracked, like it hasn't been used in a long time, but the accent and the inflection is distinctively "New Yorker". Despite not hearing it for more than a decade his body still tensed like it was acknowledging the alpha male in the vicinity. Jason nodded but before running to Krios he made a request.
"We'll talk after." said the Son of Zeus.
"After." confirmed the figure.
"YOU!" the venom in Cthylla's voice was palpable, the ground around her shook, and the air around her shimmered with power.
"You will meet your end here." the figure's voice sounded as though double timbered "Just like your father."
With a mighty roar Cthylla rushed the man who met her halfway, when they met a shockwave of power blasted out. All the lesser monsters disintegrated on the spot, the younger demigods were almost blown away if not for the force field the father and son Satyr called up.
Even Amethyst and Emily were wide-eyed. They have never seen a battle to this magnitude before, even when Jason took on Krios just moments before. The power saturating the air was drowning them, even Khione had to force her full power to bear just to keep on her feet.
Suddenly, it was over as quickly as it began. Anaklusmos driven through Cthylla's heart as she slowly dissolve.
The figure then turned to the assembled demigods and smiled.
For the first time in twelve years, Percy Jackson smiled at his friends again.
