CHAPTER 1:
Prologue
Percy lay kneeling on the ground.
His face covered in dirt. His black long hair sticking to his temple . His eyes staring at the ground. In defeat. The once lively green of his eyes now a sickening dead shade. His hands laying by his side, motionless. "what could have been worse than this? "he thought as his heart beat slowed down .
"YOU HAVE LIVED IGNORANTLY LONG ENOUGH PERSEUS" raged the man staring down at him
, His red eyes glowing with hate and his blond hair ruffled by the wind.
"where is my sword? " thought Percy as he felt a sudden searing pain in the chest as if his mind just realised something was wrong. The point of his sword sticking out of his back. And the handle there infront of him, piercing his chest.
"AH there it is !" he whispered sarcastically as blood gushed out of his mouth and his wound. He could still hear them. The cries of his friends still battling the huge army of monsters at his back. "i guess this is it for you huh?" said the man infront of him. "you have lived a splendid life without any regrets uptill now right? So is there anything you regret now?"said the man with a hint of sarcasm and cruelty .
Percy knew why this man was so happy . after all this man got his revenge, killed the one he loved the most in front of Percy's eyes and now had him kneeling down wounded and near dead by this mans feet. "what could have been worse than this? "he whispered again.
A faint smile crawled up Percy's face as he thought of all the good times he had spent with Annabeth since the end of the giant war. The ring in his pocket haunting him and becoming a colder presence as if it too ,had sensed his death.
"any last words, HERO?". He didn't say anything as there was nothing to be said anymore. It was over . all over. It ended so fast that Percy didn't even have the time to think or react to what had happened and the next moment he lay there infront of this man . circled by a seemingly endless horde of monsters.
"i have a better idea then to kill you. Since you will die in a few moments any ways. Why not just sit there and watch your friends die too? Watch your family get killed as i watched mine die by the hands of you and your gods. I HOPE that the after life is good to you. Friend"said the man as he wiped a tear falling from his red eyes. His expression that of complete grief for a moment. But his stoic cruel smile was back as fast as it had collapsed.
It was the end for Percy. He had lost. In every way. No match for this man in skill. Even after training for a thousand years. He had lost. Her. The one who carried his heart. dead. There was nothing else left to loose. It truely was the end."FROM THE LIGHT COMES THE DARK"he remembered the titans words.. they seemed more true than ever now, as Percy was at the boundary of life and remembered how this all began. He remembered his sacrifices and his mistakes up till now. He remembered his friends battling at his back still. Gripping to that naive hope that they could still win. All of them had lost something or the other with Percy through this journey. All Percy wanted was to apologize to them.
For all the bad choice he made for which his friends payed the cost. They could have just blamed it all on percy. But they didn't and that made the guilt much worse to bear.
"Father i am sorry. Mom i am sorry. Jason ,nico, leo , piper , calypso , hazel, frank, grover , bob. I am sorry" he whispered out the words as slowly the darkness started to come over the light of his eyes.
But most of all he wanted to apologize to Annabeth. She had to die because of his stupid mistakes. She could have lived happily with someone else. Maybe could have had a longer life."Annabeth" he whispered . finally as darkness completely surrounded his light.
As the sky turned a horrifying red from a hopeless black. The day. That day . was etched in the history of the world. It was scarred in the memories of all demigods and Gods alike . As the day when from the light , came the dark.