(Insert Pray For Me by Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd)
He listened to the music as he overlooked the battlefield, it was covered with bodies and blood. He had killed the Giants, stopped the doors of death and he defended the ones he loved, but they needed someone to kill Gaia someone to do what needs to be done.
The music was his meaning in life, if he had to die for them than it's what it's gotta be but who would pray for him, who would care for him and who would take his pain... if he was the defender who defended him? He did not know and guessed that he never would but took comfort in the fact that he was loved and that his fight would end now. As he faced Gaia yet again he did not listen o her taunts as he fought her, it was easy not that he knew how to do it. As he stuck his sword into her body he felt pain but his mind did not care the pain was less than Tartarus so it affected him very little. As he turned to the people he loved and defended he thought he saw his mother who had died earlier in the war, as he came to him he collapsed in her arms tears running down his face at the realization that other than Thalia, Nico and his dad he was just a means to an end and nobody would pray for him or defend him.
He was to die but he was happy in his mother's arms, as they faded away he heard Thalia, Nico, and his dad call him begging him not to go but he must. Nobody could cheat death that was a fact of the universe and it was his time to go, he was saddened bt took solace in the fact that he'd be with those that cared until the others could join him. That evening Perseus Jackson died defending the people he cared for from a supposedly all-powerful woman trying to wipe them from existence, he may not have been there for the years after but he was in spirit and those that cared took comfort in that.