A/N: I don't own shit so, if I were RR this would be much longer and probably completely planned out already.
This has been the worst lead up week to a birthday EVER… it all started with a nice vacation being ruined by my call to duty in the Titan War. The directly lead to the death of one of the best demigods I had ever met, Charles Beckendorf. One thing led to another and I had to take a dip in the River Styx. My advice on not drowning in the River Styx is simple…. DON'T, it really is as simple as that. We have spent the last 3 days under siege attempting to defend Olympus from an army of monsters and demigods led by the titans. It hasn't been easy, and we have lost so many demigods, most of the camp in fact.
There are so few of us left and as the pseudo leader each and every death has been on my shoulders. I know it has weighed heavily on Thalia, daughter of Zeus and Lieutenant of Artemis' Hunt because she has lost most of her hunters as well. There were eight demigods left and it pained me so much. It was Annabeth, Clarisse, Thalia, Will, Connor, Travis, Phoebe, and I.
"The Titan army is approaching, this will be our final attempt at defending Olympias. We can bottleneck them with the elevator on top of Olympias." I addressed the other seven.
"Percy we won't have time to load everyone onto the elevator, I'll hold them off" Thalia said
"Are you sure Thalia?"
"I've never been more sure about anything." She responded with determination.
Thalia ran out of the Empire State Building, shield and spear at the ready. She assumed a defensive stance and we loaded into the elevator and Thalia looked back and I saw fear in her eyes, she turned around and shouted "FOR OLYMPIUS!" pointed her spear in the air to summon lightning, and blasted the entire left flank of the titan army with her lightning but she exerted too much power and was also toasted by her own lightning, as the elevator door closed so we could see no more, Thalia turned to ash and was blown away in the wind.
Thalia died…. She has been one of my best friends since she came out of her tree. She's the second friend to have used to much power, my thoughts going back to how Grover died
-Flashback-
"Hyperion," Annabeth said in awe. "The lord of light. Titan of the east."
"Bad?" I guessed.
"Next to Atlas, he's the greatest Titan warrior. In the old days, four Titans controlled the four corners of the world. Hyperion was the east—the most powerful. He was the father of Helios, the first sun god."
"I'll keep him busy," I promised.
"Percy you can't—"
"just keep our forces together."
We'd set up at the reservoir for good reason. I concentrated on the water and felt it's power surging through me.
I advanced toward Hyperion, running over the top of the water. Yeah, buddy. Two can play that game.
Twenty feet away, Hyperion raised his sword. His eyes were just like I'd seen in my dreams—as gold as Kronos's but brighter, like miniature suns.
"The sea god's brat," he mused. "You're the one who trapped Atlas beneath the sky again?"
"It wasn't hard," I said, "You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks."
Hyperion snarled. "You want bright?"
His body ignited into a column of light and heat. I looked away but was still blinded.
Instinctively I raised Riptide – Just in time. Hyperion's blade slammed against mine. The shock wave sent a ten-foot ring of water across the lake.
My eyes still burned. I had to shut off his light.
I concentrated on the tidal wave and forced it to reverse. Just before impact, I jumped upward on a jet of water.
"AHHHHH!" The waves smashed into Hyperion and he went under, his light extinguished.
I landed on the lakes surface just as Hyperion struggled to his feet. His golden armor was dripping wet. His eyes no longer blazed, but they still looked murderous.
"You will burn, Jackson!" he roared.
Our swords met again, and the air charged with ozone. The battle still raged around us. On the right flank, Annabeth was leading an assault with her siblings. On the left flank, Grover and his nature spirits were regrouping, entangling the enemies with bushes and weeds.
"Enough games," Hyperion told me. "We fight on land."
I was about to make some clever comment, like "no," when the Titan yelled. A wall of force slammed me through the air- just like the trick Kronos had pulled on the bridge. I sailed backward about three hundred yards and smashed into the ground. If it hadn't been for my new invulnerability, I would've broken every bone in my body.
I got to my feet, groaning "I really hate it when you Titans do that." -246
Hyperion closed on me with blinding speed.
I concentrated on the water, drawing strength from it.
Hyperion attacked. He was powerful and fast, but he couldn't seem to land a blow. The ground around his feet kept erupting in flames, but I kept dousing them quickly.
"Stop it!" the Titan roared. "Stop that wind!"
I wasn't sure what he meant. I was to busy fighting. Hyperion stumbled like he was being pushed away. Water sprayed his face, stinging his eyes. The wind picked up, and Hyperion staggered back.
"Percy!" Grover called, "how are you doing that?
'Doing what' I thought.
I looked down and realized I was standing in my own personal hurricane. Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius. Enemy warriors threw javelins at me, but the storm knocked them aside.
"sweet," I muttered. "but a little more!"
Lightning flickered around me. The clouds darkened, and the rain swirled faster. I closed in on Hyperion and blew him off his feet.
"Percy!" Grover called again. "Bring him over here!"
I slashed and jabbed, letting my reflexes take over. Hyperion could barely defend himself. His eyes kept trying to ignite, but the hurricane quenched his flames I couldn't keep up a storm like this forever, though. I could feel my powers weakening. With one last effort, I propelled Hyperion across the field, straight to where Grover was waiting.
"I will not be toyed with!" Hyperion bellowed.
He managed to get to his feet again, but Grover put his reed pipes to his lips and began to play. Linus joined him. Around the grove, every saytr took up the song an eerie melody, like a creek flowing over stones. The ground erupted at Hyperion's feet. Gnarled roots wrapped around his legs.
"What's this?" He protested. He tried to shake off the roots, but he was still weak. The roots thickened until he looked like he was wearing wooden boots.
"Stop this!" he shouted. "Your woodland magic is no match for a Titan!"
But the more he struggled, the faster the roots grew. They curled about his body, thickening and hardening into bark. His golden armor melted into the wood, becoming part of a large trunk.
The music continued. Hyperion's forces backed up in astonishment as their leader was absorbed. He stretched out his arms and they became branches, from which smaller branches shot out and grew leaves. The tree grew taller and thicker, until only the Titan's face was visible in the middle of the trunk.
"You cannot imprison me!" he bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am—"
The bark closed over his face.
I looked over at Grover expecting him to say something clever, he was always good with his one-liners. Grover was deathly pale, his eyes rolled up and he started to faint. I ran to him and caught him before he landed.
"G-man, you good? Grover! Stay with me buddy, Grover!" Grover's body started to glow slightly, and his body started to fade. "G-man wake up, we need you. Please man, you were my first friend wake up man."
He opened his eyes weakly and said, "carry on the wilds my friend." He closed his eyes and his body faded completely, leaving a juniper sapling in his body's place.
-End Flashback-
With the few of us left we decided to bottleneck Kronos and his army in the elevator because of how few they could bring up on a given trip. Will and Phoebe stayed back to use their bows while Annabeth, Nico, Connor, Travis, Clarisse and I would hold the line.
The first wave of enemies, primarily telekhines and cyclopes came quickly after us. I jumped around striking enemies left and right. We had no reprieve as the next wave was up by the time we finished off the first wave. The second wave was all cyclopes and we had a harder time. By the time we finished off the second wave the third and fourth were out of the elevator. Travis and Connor were the first to fall. Connor was tackled by an empousa she bit into his neck and Travis yelled in despair, while Travis was distracted he was knocked off the walkway by a cyclops' club.
Clarisse and Nico got separated from the rest of us in the now horde of enemies now on Olympus. They fought back to back until Nico had a spear ran through his side as Nico fell Clarisse was stabbed from behind leaving just four of us who were now pushed back to the doors of the throne room.
Kronos halted his army and walked to face us four. "You demigods have fought valiantly but now you will surrender, or you will die. This is your last chance"
"Sorry gramps but your offer sucks as much as your rule did so that's not happening"
Phoebe and Will ran out of arrows and pulled out their daggers to fight close quarters. Kronos came forward alone to face the four of us, monsters pushing into the throne room surrounding us so that it would be use four against Kronos.
Kronos used his power over time and rushed Will cutting left shoulder to right hip, Will shouted in agony as his soul was reaped by Kronos' cursed blade Phoebe was his next target, Annabeth and I tried to keep his attention but he ignored our strikes as they bounced off his cursed skin she managed to dodge one strike and blocked another before she fell victim to his blade as well, Kronos sliced his blade on the inside of Phoebe's thigh, slicing the artery, as she fell to the ground in pain he impaled her back with the tip of his scythe. He used all of his time powers on me, freezing me in place as he advanced on Annabeth.
He started swinging his scythe around to confuse Annabeth about his attack intentions.
"Luke please, I know you're in there. Listen to me you can still fix this Luke, please." Annabeth pleaded as Kronos advanced on her.
"Luke is dead, he gave himself to me!" Kronos growled. He finally swung at Annabeth she saw this coming and dodged to the side, but Kronos expected this and rammed the butt of his scythe into her face breaking her nose.
"Luke, we were supposed to be a family… you promised" Annabeth whimpered slowly standing.
Kronos stopped moving and it seemed like there was some conflict within him his eyes flickered between blue and gold. After about a minute he spoke again.
"That promise died with Luke." With those words Kronos slashed wildly, and I screamed out in surprise and despair as Annabeth's head rolled as her body fell.
I was the last one, none of my friends were alive anymore. He killed Annabeth, she had been by my side since I entered the world of Mythology. She had been my closest companion, she was my link to the mortal world... and she was gone. I wasn't strong enough, I couldn't protect them. It was my fault, Olympus would fall, and it was my fault. Thousands of years of Western Civilization would end because I wasn't strong enough to handle The Great Prophecy. Kronos would win, and I was to blame.
I charged Kronos realizing that I was finally not frozen by him. I swung Anaklusmos in an upward arc at Kronos to try and catch him off guard. My blade glanced off his back thanks to his curse. He turned and swung viciously at me, but I rolled out of the way. I got up quickly, but it wasn't enough Kronos was already swinging again. The blade of the scythe caught me behind the knee, Kronos pulled causing me to fall on my back. The pain I felt from being hit by Kronos' blade rivaled that of the river Styx.
"It s futile Jackson, I will destroy you and the gods, let me kill you and it will be over quickly."
"not gonna happen gramps, as long as I draw breath I will oppose you." I snarled trying to hide the fear I felt at my pending mortality.
Kronos growled and swung his scythe again, I spin to avoid his strike, but he expected this and I received the butt end of the scythe to the face, I was knocked down, face first. Kronos swung his scythe up and brought it down on my back, right on my Achilles Heel.
Pain. Unimaginable pain was all I felt. Nothing mattered except that pain. It felt like an eternity, but the pain faded. I expected to find myself in the DOA Recording Studio to speak with Charon however I found myself on an endless plain of nothing. Confusion was one word to describe what I felt upon finding myself there.
A strange man appeared in front of me, he had void black hair and his eyes looked like galaxies. "I understand you are confused about not being in the underworld, but I needed to speak with you, I am Chaos the Creator of the Universe and I have a proposition for you."
'this is a joke right, am I getting pranked right now?'
"I assure you Mr. Jackson that this is no joke" Chaos said with an amused smile on his lips.
"I'm not sure what I can offer you in terms of service, but I would be a fool to not listen to you, Lord Chaos"
"Well as we are speaking now time has been frozen as your soul departs from your body. I didn't want things to go this way however the gods didn't listen to the signs, they didn't care as they should have. I never set the ancient laws, Zeus did so that Hera would stop killing his kids in spite. You were supposed to defeat Kronos however, things went wrong, so I am offering you a chance to fix things, I can send you back to when your adventure first started. You will remember this timeline and you can change things just know, the more you change, the less accurate this timeline becomes."
"Not to sound ungrateful Lord Chaos but why are you offering this?" I ask in confusion, this definitely is too good to be true.
"I am afraid there will be drawbacks as well. There will be more demigod children who you will feel responsible for and which will affect you greatly thanks to your fatal flaw. There is also a new challenge that will await you following your adventures, which weren't supposed to end until you were off to college, but I have disclosed to much on that subject by bringing it up. Also, there will be a change to the prophecy, instead of age 16 the age you need to reach will be 18, naturally this will make things tougher but give you a longer period of time to prepare, use it well."
"This is very generous of you Lord Chaos, I won't let you down."
"One final piece of advice Jackson, just because the fates decree something doesn't mean it has to happen." He said with a devious smile.
Before I could respond he snapped his fingers and everything went black.
"Hey Percy, we're at the museum, wake your sorry but up."
"what… who?" I say wearily opening my eyes and seeing I was on a bus.
"Dude what is up with you, you're acting weird right now" I looked at the source of the voice and my eyes widen in shock.
"G-Grover?"
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this little preview, I have some plans but not enough, so review and leave some suggestions and I will hopefully try and incorporate them into my plans.