All rights belong to Rick Riordan.
My first story, so I'm open to suggestions.
Takes place right after the giants were defeated.
Percy POV:
The seven were heading back to Camp Half-Blood by means of pegasi.
" I can't believe we survived that"
Jason looked to him " I'm glad we did, but it'll be great if we at least get some peace for awhile"
Percy turned to Jason " You guys probably will, but I have a feeling that my still has more to it, and not all of it good" I said in a mysterious tone. To be honest I feel my power growing immensely, it had done the same thing a few months before Hera wiped my mind and sent me to the romans. Its almost like a warning that there is more danger coming for me. Apparently I had been lost in thought, seeing as i hadn't noticed everybody trying to get my attention.
Like the genius that I am I said " Huh?" Which caused them nearly fall off their mounts from laughing so hard.
" What guys?"
Annabeth was the one that recovered first "You've been staring off into the sky for like three hours, why"
" Hm, oh I was just thinking."
" Seriously?"
" Yes."
" Wow, who knew you could think for that long without getting a headache" Frank said, and so started another round of laughter at my expense. It continued with me and the others trading light insults back and forth for a few hours until the camp came into sight. It was in flames we all took a glance at each other before telling our pegasi to land.
Upon our arrival I noticed that the campers were all bound , along with Chiron who was looking as if he cared very little fear about being chained. The romans were debating what to do about their Grecian relatives. Octavian obviously wanted to kill them.
I motioned for the others to stay back. " Release them" They spun around in surprise noticing us for the first time.
Octavian spoke " Why should we, they are weak and didn't even fight back"
" They were under orders not to fight, just as you were ordered not to attack." said Percy.
" It matters not, they are our captives and we decide what is to become of them."
" Is that so? Well then seeing as you acting Preator, I challenge you to a fight to decide the fate of your supposed captives."
" You cannot challenge me scum."
" Actually, he can Octavian" Reyna said as she and Nico appeared from the shadow of a tree, both looking absolutely exhausted from transporting the Athena Parthenos halfway around the world.
" Fine then, I am honor bound to accept this challenge." Octavian choked out.
" Then I shall see you in the amphitheatre." Percy stated.
A few moments later everyone was surrounding the arena staring at Perseus and Octavian stand at opposite sides.
Reyna stepped to the center " As we Romans know, this is a fight to the death, so whoever is victorious decides the the fate of the prisoners. Ready your weapons!"
Octavian pulled out an imperial gold gladius and spear. Reyna looked to Percy who held no weapon and raised an eyebrow.
" I need no weapon to defeat this weasel." a round of laughter broke from both groups.
" Fight!" Reyna said as she left the arena.
Third person POV:
Unbeknownst to anyone the gods ( disguised as teenagers) were among the spectators of the fight as they were interested to see how Perseus would deal with Octavian.
The 'weasel' made the first move as he threw the spear at Percy's chest, who side stepped and snatched it out of the air and snapped over his knee.
" How pathetic, tell me you can do better than that or are your skills limited to politics and attacking the defenseless?"
Enraged Octavian unsheathed his gladius and charged, swinging it wildly. Percy just dodged and sent a kick into his chest causing him to fly backwards five or six feet. Octavian shakily stood coughing blood for the single blow. He looked around for a weapon that had range to it, his beady eyes landed on a bow three yards away. Percy however did not notice him scramble to it, he snapped to attention when he heard the twang of a bowstring and an arrow pierce his thigh. He let out a grunt as he fell to one knee.
" Ha, with out the sea you are a weakling, your pathetic father Poseidon cannot aide you here, while my skill with a bow is tenfold of your useless coward goddess of archery Artemis."
Said goddess was about to smite the arrogant Roman augur when the ground started rumbling violently , nearly knocking the audience off of their seats around the amphitheatre. The gods turned to Poseidon, who had a look of awe and fear while staring at his son.
" You dare insult the gods. I would have forgiven the remark about my father, seeing as the romans have a natural dislike towards him. You took it to far by insulting Lady Artemis, and for that I shall obliterate you." Percy said while rising to his feet where cracks were spreading from and he had a brilliant sea green aura radiating from him.
Trembling Octavian charged Percy once more. He got about halfway there when Percy raised his left hand and the augur froze mid stride.
" What trickery is this." Octavian demanded.
" No tricks here, I am simply using the water in your body to hold you there, as I said I am going to obliterate you." he said in a dangerously calm tone," Enjoy your punishment in the Underworld."
Perseus rose his right hand next to his left, and slowly started to spread them apart. Octavian started writhing in agony as all the water was slowly torn from his body. The spectators gods and demigods alike were horrified and scared that a seventeen year old held this much power. Someone needed to stop this.
Percy POV:
Once I heard him insult my mind snapped for some reason. My body went into auto-pilot, like I was watching a horror movie where the torturer was quickly dehydrating his victim. I tried to stop it, but it was like there was another entity making it impossible for me from ending this.
That is until I felt a gentle hand on my arm. I felt the other being get forced out. I felt myself losing conscienceness, I was able to make the water return to Octavian's body before collapsing and passing out.
A\N : Please forgive me for any grammatical errors, as I said before this is my first story.
Thanks for reading. Please review, it encourages me to write faster.