A/N This will be a TWO-SHOT. Oh, and warning, Character death.


Part 1

It's been years since Percy and Annabeth had saved the world. They were living quietly in Los Angeles in a small apartment, and they had two children (who they trained themselves). They still fought monsters, but only when they intruded on their quiet life.

When they'd asked the gods to hide their scent from monsters, the deal was that so long as they remained in LA, the gods' blessing would hide their scent (and that of any children they chose to have) from monsters. The two still trained, and they'd gotten better, but there hadn't really been any challenge for either of them in years.

So when Percy had a dream about the gods (and this generation of demigods) being in danger, you can understand why Annabeth wasn't happy. After arguing and throwing some things around, she agreed to go. They quickly grabbed the nectar and ambrosa that they still had (which was stale, as it was the food of the gods), and set off for Wolf House with their twins (who were named Luke and Silena), and dropped them off there, telling them that Lupa would keep an eye on them.

Now, neither twin knew why their parents had stepped out of the demigod life, but they did know that Lupa ensured that the weak wouldn't make it to Camp Jupiter, which meant that their parents were getting back into the demigod life. So they did what any normal demigod child would do. They went along with it.

While they were training with Lupa, Percy and Annabeth started their trip across the country to the Altantic Ocean, and the area a few miles north of Rome. Their trip took weeks, and they were constantly attacked by monsters, but they made it to Washington D.C. They made it to the ocean.

And, of course, Precy grabbed Annabeth's hand and jumped into the water. Without Annabeth quite realizing what was going on, Percy brought both of them to Camp Half-Blood, and left her behind with instructions to get the Seven and Nico (who they IMed occiasionally), who were currently at Camp. After a few moments, he said that if Thalia was there, get her too, and Will probably wouldn't leave Nico, so he'd have to come.

"And if Nico's not here?" Annabeth asked.

"Take Mrs. O'Leary." Percy said, diving back into the water and shooting off to help the gods. Annabeth looked at Percy wondering why she'd allowed them to get dragged back into this.

"Annabeth?" Nico asked. "I thought you and Perce couldn't leave LA. Where is he, anyways?"

"He went on ahead." Annabeth said. "Now, where's Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo and Thalia?"

"All at camp, why?" Nico asked, and Annabeth sighed a breathe of relief. "Annabeth, what's going on? Why are you here?"

"Because Percy dropped me off here telling me to get the Seven, you, and Thalia." Annabeth said, "And Will, since he wouldn't leave without you. he went on ahead, the gods need our help." Nico's eyes widened.

"I'll get them." he said, taking off towards Bunker Nine.


Now, if anyone asked Percy how he thought he'd get back into the demigod life, this definately wouldn't have been his answer. As of right now, he was shooting towards his family, who needed his help.

Now, he'd managed to stay out of the gods (and by extension, the other demigods) affairs, except when his father came to town on his birthday to visit (since he never visited on Christmas, Percy had started giving him gifts then). He couldn't stay out of it this time, and he was actually surprised (Annabeth was probably surprised too) that he'd managed to hold his fatal flaw as bay this long.

In his dream, he'd seen his dad die. HIS dad. In Percy's dream, he'd been protecting the other gods from Tartarus, who'd taken a physical form, and it'd been getting stronger. It'd been weak at first, as Tartarus had left his domain and entered the gods'.

Percy couldn't let anything happen to his father while he was alive, and knew after this he'd never be able to pull himself out of this life.


A few minutes later

Tartarus swung his sword at Poseidon, who blocked it, but still flew back into a cliff. Poseidon weakly climbed to his feet, weaponless. His trident was on the other side of Tartarus, and there was to way to get it.

"Any last words, Poseidon?" Tartarus taunted. "No one can save you now, sea god." Poseidon fliched, not bothering to pretend he didn't hear the hatred in the premordials voice.

"Get away from him!" A voice yelled, and Poseidon recognized Percy's voice. Water surrounding someone plowed into Tartarus, knocking him away from Poseidon. The water fell to the ground, and Percy pulled his sword out of the premordial, and moved back so he was standing protectively in front of his father.

"A demigod." Tartarus said. "A demigod, who came here knowing who I am and what I am capable of. I give you credit, you're brave, boy. But you can't hope to defeat me."

"I've heard that one before." Percy said. "Tartarus. Guess what? I defeated everyone who told me that before, and I'll do it again now."

"Really?" Tartarus said. "Are you challenging me? What hope do you have?"

"Yes." Percy said, ignoring his father behind him, telling him not to. "I'm challenging you. What hope do I have? Well, let's see. Twelve, I beat a god in a duel. Thirteen, I got the Golden Fleece. Fourteen, I held the sky. Fifteen, not only did I navigate the Labryinth, but I also defeated by grandfather, who just so happen to be a TITAN. At sixteen, not only did I escape YOUR domain, but I also retrieved the eagle of the twelveth legion fultima, released Death, close the doors of death, but I also helped defeat GAEA. So, yea. I think I have plenty of hope of beating you."

"Perseus Jackson." Tartarus growled, and Percy nodded. "You made a fool out of me. You shall die!" He lunged for Percy, who dodged to the side and stabbed the premordial with his sword.

The fight went on for a while, and, although Tartarus was a better swordsman than Percy, and stronger, he was never able to get the upper hand. Percy kept dodging to the side and getting hits in.

So, Tartarus got angry, and decided to bend the rules a bit. Sure, he was immortal, and Perseus wasn't, but Percy had gotten exceptionally quick over the years. So Tartarus turned and rushed at Poseidon, prepared to kill him and weaken the demigod.

Of course, he wasn't expecting Pery to block him with his gut. Tartarus stepped back, and grinned. Then he began an onslaught. Percy couldn't dodge everything, but he was still quick enough to keep anything vital from getting hit. Finally, as Percy's stamina ran out, he knew there was only one choice left.

"What now, demigod?" Tartarus asked, having just disarmed Percy. Tartarus walked over to Riptide, and capped it. Percy somehow knew that Tartarus wouldn't let it return to his pocket during the rest of this fight, and gritted his teeth. "Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Not even the gods can save you this time, boy."

"Carter." Percy said one word, waking up a sleeping magician on the other side of the world. The magician blinked a couple times, and realized that Percy needed his help. He leapt out of bed, grateful that he hadn't taken the time to change the night before when he'd gone to bed.

He rushed out of his room, and up to the roof, calling for Freak, not caring that he was waking up the initiates. Freak was on the roof, annoyed at Carter for waking him up. Carter told Freak where to go, already climbing into the boat hitched behind the griffin. Sadie opend the roof door, and yelled at Carter, asking him what was going on, and Carter replied with one world 'Percy' as Freak took off.

Meanwhile, Percy was stopping Tartarus from finishing him off with water. However, Percy was getting weaker and weaker, much to Tartarus delight.

"Khefa!" A voice yelled, and a fist materialized out of nowhere and knocked Tartarus away from Percy. Carter ran over to Percy, and his eyes widened at the state he was in.

"What the Apophis happened to you?" Carter asked, holding out a healing potion, which Percy eyes wearily. "It's a healing potion, Percy. You'd had it before." Percy grabbed it and drank half of it, and some of his more major wounds healed.

"Thanks Carter." Percy said. "I wasn't sure if you'd get here in time."

"Why didn't you call sooner?" Carter asked. "Then I wouldn't have had to show up when you're half-dead."

"Only half?" Percy joked, climbing back to his feet as Tartarus stood back up. "Glad your here, Carter. Hopefully we'll survive this." Carter nodded, and reached into the Du'at, pulling out his khopesh and wand.

"Percy." Poseidon said. "My trident." At that moment, both Percy and Tartarus lunged for the symbol of power, and Tartarus was about to grab it when Carter used another word of power to knock Tartarus away from it. Percy moved back until he was beside Carter, and he glanced down at his hands, which were smoking.

Then, Percy and Carter leaped at Tartarus, who still had Percy's sword. When Carter was knocked back, he concentrated and summoned his combat avatar and attacked Tartarus again.


Turns out that Percy was a better fighter with a trident than a sword. As Annabeth arrived with the Seven, Nico, Will, and Thalia (she blamed Will for taking so long, he wouldn't get up), she recognized Percy instantly, and wondered what he was doing with his fathers trident (other than fighting Tartarus, of course), and how he'd got it.

Beside him was another familiar face, one she hadn't seen in a while. Carter Kane, Sadie's brother. A smile graced her face to see them working together, although he didn't know what the Carter was doing inside the giant blue shimmering form.

"Who's that?" Piper asked, pointing at Carter.

"Carter Kane." Annabeth said. "He's an Egyptian Magician, a part of the House of Life. he and Percy have met a couple times, but after the first time they met Carter drew something on Percy's palm so that if Percy ever needed his help, he'd come.

Tartarus knocked Carter back, and the shimmering blue form disappeared, revealing an exhausted Carter. Percy not even a moment later was knocked against the cliff beside his dad (all because he wanted to be sure Carter was alright, geez). Tartarus lunged forward to kill Carter, but was stopped by an arrow that had been enhanced with lighting as Thalia lowered her bow, she smirked at the fury on Tartarus' face.

"About time." Percy said, climbing back to his feet. "I was beginning to wonder if Carter and I would have to beat him alone."

"Please." Carter said. "Egyptian magicians and Greek demigods make a pretty good team. Don't even bother denying it, Percy."

"Yea, but it's always good to have backup." Percy said. "I'd like to make it back home to - You know what, I'll tell you later." Carter nodded and the two attacked Tartarus again, this time with nine other demigods (of course, Thalia, Nico, and Will weren't used to working with the others (although Nico was better than the other two), and Carter was used to working with magicians).

Pretty quickly they figured out that they shouldn't all attack at once, especially since Percy was still getting used to fighting with a trident, and none of them knew how Carter fought (except Percy and Annabeth), so they attacked in groups of two (except Percy, Carter, and Annabeth, they attacked together (and Nico, Will, Jason, and Leo)).

They wore Tartarus down, and Tartarus ran his options through his head. He could keep up like this and be the laughingstock of Tartarus (his domain) because after he defeated the gods he was defeated by demigods, or he could do something radical to weaken Perseus, and therefore, the rest of the demigods

So, once again, he went to kill Poseidon. Once again, Percy stuck himself in the path of the blade, once again intending to block with his shoulder. At the last possible second, Tartarus changed the path of the blade and it sunk into Percy's chest. Percy stumbled backwards, instinctively using his control over liquids (which he'd expanded on without telling Annabeth) and faintly realized Tartarus had missed his heart.

Despite practicing his control over liquids, he was straining to keep the blood running it's normal course. He looked at the blade that was currently in his chest, and his eyes widened when he recognized the it. Anaklusmos, Riptide. He looked at Tartarus, everything slowing down. Everything was getting blurry.

He weakly reached up with one hand, and seized control of the ichor in Tartarus body, and kept him from moving. Tartarus looked at him, realizing what he was getting ready to do. He sharply turned his hand, and ripped the ichor out of Tartarus body, leaving exactly one drop.

Then he fell, everything going black.

**0O

Annabeth stood there in shock, as did the others. They all remembered Percys fatal flaw, extreme personal loyalty, and knew that it's gotten him killed. Nico ran over to Percy, and shook him, yelling at him not do die, he turned and yelled at Will to save Percy before it was too late, and Will unfroze, quickly running over and using his healing powers.

They saw the faint, weak rise and fall of Percy's chest, and Will glowing.

"I can't heal him, only keep him alive." WIll said, "In order to heal him, you need someone better at this than me."

"Who?" Jason asked. "You're the best healer at both camps, Will! There's no one else we can turn to to heal Percy!"

"Actually." Nico said, "There is." He looked at the fallen gods. "They're still alive. Get Apollo. Hurry up guys, we need Apollo!" Annabeth blinked, and ran over to the god, who looked up wearily.

"Athena?" He asked, confused. "What happened to Poseidon? Is he fading?" Annabeth's eyes widened, and then she sighed, rolling her eyes. She smacked the son god, who blinked. "Annabeth?" he asked, confused, climbing to his feet. His eyes widened at the sight of the fallen gods. "Are they..."

"Alive." Annabeth said, "At least, according to Nico. Now hurry, unless you want the Savior of Olympus to die." Apollo looked at her, confused. "Percy, you idiot! He's dying! Will's managing to keep him alive but he needs you to heal him!"

Apollo's eyes widened even more, and he took off towards the crowd of demigods (and one magician) who were surrounding Percy and Will. Apollo gasped at the sight of the wound, before putting his hands on Percy's chest, and glowing, trying to heal him.

"There was poison on the blade." Apollo said. "One I've never seen before. I'm not sure I CAN heal him. I'm trying though. What stabbed him?"

"Tartarus stole Riptide." Jason said. "Stabbed him with his own sword. When we showed up, Tartarus had it, and Percy was fighting him with Poseidon's trident."

"He could wield it?" Apollo asked, surprised. Then, suddenly, he and Will fell backwards, unconscious, green blood on their hands. Percy's chest rose and fell twice more, before nothing.

Percy, the Savior of Olympus was dead.


A/N Reviews would be appreciated, but are not required to read this story. Besides, I wanna know what you guys think.