Beginning of the End
3rd person POV:
It was finally over.
The land of the gods lay under them soaked to the roots in the blood of enemy and ally trees which stood tall and proud before now lay broken and dead lay across the battle field of the giant of demigods lay dead or near death across the barren waste land which was a beautiful and lush forest at the foot of mount Olympus.
Apollo and his children tend to as many as they can but there are simply too many to care for in time.
As each minute passed, more give in to their pain and accept death as an escape from the cruelty of the fates for placing them in war that no child should ever witness.
All of this happened right in front of the 17-year-old son of Poseidon.
He stood atop a fallen tree watching helplessly as his allies, his friends, his family, bleed to death or lay lifeless on the cold hard ground waiting to be taken and burned like common trash rather than being treated like heroes of a war.
After all these years he now understood what Luke had meant.
They were all tools for the gods to use in war, then cast aside like garbage afterword.
No human being, especially children, should ever go through that.
But there hundreds of children lay moaning in pain begging to be saved by the gods. The Gods that they cast aside their lives for, to protect and serve.
It was sickening to him how the gods treat their kids and still expect them to worship and love them. When, until last year, they didn't even claim most of their children.
Leaving them to suffer in agony and misery wanting to be loved by their so-called parents.
All of this crossed his mind in a second as he heard someone calling his name from below the tree.
"Percy, come down here there's something I have to tell you."
It was his girlfriend Annabeth Chase. The smartest and most beautiful daughter of Athena of this age.
"Coming," He yelled as he jumped down to stand beside her.
"Follow me," she said, as she began to walk away into the remaining forest, with her back turned.
He shrugged and followed her, a little bit curious as to what she was going to tell him.
They walked for about 10 minutes before she stopped and turned around to look him straight in the eye.
He saw nothing in her eyes.
No love, no caring, no pain, nothing at all.
And that scared him more than any titan or giant.
"Percy there's something I need to tell you"
"What is it?"
"I no longer love you."
Percy POV:
It felt as if my soul had been ripped out and burned.
"Why"
I managed to croak out while trying not to cry. I will not show her my pain.
"Because I don't, there's no reason behind it"
"Stop lying." I snapped
"Tell me who it is"
At this point I'm barely controlling the rage inside me. She has the nerve to lie to me about this.
"Jake." she replies calmly but I can tell there's a bit of worry in her tone.
I froze.
That worthless son of Ares that keeps bragging about how strong he is and yet every time a monster came near him he ran away.
He's the one she loves.
I couldn't believe it.
She began to walk away by now, back to the base, back to him.
As soon as she was out of sight I broke down and cried.
I cried and cried and cried until I couldn't cry any more.
My eyes had no more water to let go.
When I was done crying I slowly walked back to base with one thing on my mind.
Death...I want to die and I know exactly how to get it.