A/N: Here is the secondchapter of Divine Mortal. I tried my hardest on the battle sequences in this chapter so please review and tell me if they were good or not. Enjoy! :-)

Denouncer: I DON'T OWN PJO OR HOO OR ANYTHING RELATED TO IT! RICK RIODIAN DOES!

Porphyrion's laughter again boomed around the area. "Can't you see?" He taunted. "You stand no chance. Just give up now and your deaths will be less painful."

Jupiter said nothing but instead his eyes drifted to his Roman son, Jason, at his side. Jason's eyes were filled with determination. Jupiter looked back at Porphyrion and said the words that all the Olympians were waiting for. "Olympians! Attack!"

Percy's POV

At Jupiter's words, the Olympians and their chosen demigod child rushed toward the Giants.

Jupiter and Jason against Porphyrion, Poseidon and I against Polybotes, Hades, Hazel, and Nico against Alcyoneus and Thoon, Mars and Frank against Pelorus, Hephaestusand Leo against Mimas and Eurytos, Aphrodite (surprisingly cloakedin shining pink Greek style battle armor) and Piper against Agrios, Athena and Annabeth against Enceladus, Artemis and Thalia against Gration and Leon (since Heracles couldn't last more than a few seconds in a fight), Demeter and Katie Gardener against Pallas, Apollo and his son, Will Solace, against Tityus, Hermes and his son, Chris Rodriguez, against Hippolytos, and Dionysus and his only son, Pollux, against Typhoeus.

Polybotes grinned fiendishly as we got closer, obviously itching for a chance to fight my father and I again. As we neared the line of giants, all the gods increased themselves to their godly height of 15 feet, and in my father's, Jupiter's, and Hades' case 20 feet. Another one of the perks of being one of the big three I guess.

Even at their godly height, even the smallest Giant, Hippolytos, still dwarfed most of the gods, standing at 18 feet tall.

In a momentous crash, the two lines met, signaling the final fight between gods and Gigantes.

Poseidon thrust this spear at Polybotes' chest only to be blocked by the Giant's own trident. While he was distracted with my father, ran in between his legs and swiped Riptide along the back of his right knee, causing a river of golden ichor to pour out of the wound. Polybotes fell to one knee let out a roar of pain and rage. He swung his trident toward me and hit me in the chest with the shaft of the weapon, breaking a few ribs and sending me flying back 20 feet.

Groaning, I pulled myself to my feet, clutching my now broken ribs. Poseidon and Polybotes were in a battle of wills, pushing their tridents against each other, each trying to overpower the other.

I shot a blast of steaming hot water at Polybotes' face, discombobulating him and giving my father a chance to overpower the giant and push him to the ground.

Poseidon thrust his trident into his bane's chest causing him to scream in pain. "Not so tough are ya now, eh old Poly?" my father mocked the dying giant.

Polybotes gave my father and I one last look of utter hatred before I shoved Riptide into the giant's left eye socket, causing him to crumble into fine golden dust which was blown away in the wind.

One down, fourteen more to go. I thought to myself as I looked around at the remaining battles.

Most of the gods were holding up fine, but Hephaestus and Leo along with Hades, Hazel, and Nico seemed to be struggling to hold off their foes.

"Go help your brother. I'm going to go help Hephaestus and Leo." I called to Poseidon, who gave me a grin and ran off towards Hades, determined to show his older brother up.

I smiled at my own father's sometimes 'childish' nature and ran off to where Hephaestus and Leo were trying to hold off two giants by themselves. Eurytos was engaged with the god of the forge, broadsword against flaming war hammer. While Hephaestus was occupiedbattling Eurytos, Leo was stuck holding his own against Mimas, the giant that was born to oppose his father. Thinking that Hephaestuswould be able to holdhimself much better than his pre-pubesent son, I steered myself toward Leo. As I neared the fight, Mimas hit Leo in head with the butt of his battle axand knocked the small Latino to the ground, unconscious. The giant lifted his ax above

I put on a burst of speed, determined to get to Leo before Mimas' ax cleaved his head in half. Mimas' muscles bulged as he used his Gigante strength to swing his ax toward Leo's unconscious form. I body kicked itself into overdrive, desperate to get to Leo. I was running faster than I felt possible, zooming past other gods in their battles in a blur of motion.

But I didn't make it.

I watched in horror Mimas ax came down full force onto Leo's head splitting his skull open and spewing his blood and brain tissue onto Mimas' ax with a clunkthat in, my head, reverberated around the entire battlefield. "NOOO" I vaguely heard Hephaestus yell as his favorite son's life was ended before their very eyes. I could barely hear him though the pounding in my ears. My vision went red as my brain zeroed in on the bastard that killed one of my friends.

I rammed myself into Mimas at speeds that were not possible for any mortal sending us both flying 40 feet until we both landed, with me on top. I pulled Riptide out of my and bashed the hilt against Mimas' head so hard, a dent appeared in his forehead. I proceeded to stab the giant all over his face and neck, knowing fell well that he wouldn't die until a god inflicted damage on him. I was here to make his giant suffer now, not kill it.

After about the 20thor 30thstab, I felt the giant start to disintegrate beneath me. Confused, looked back to see the tear filled eyes of Hephaestus looking back at me. He had stabbed Mimas in the chest with a short sword that he must have had hidden in his armor. The god of forge seemed to have finished his battle with Eurytos with the help of another demigod and came over here to finish the giant that killed his fire using son.

I looked back at the slowly crumbling face of Mimas, or what was left of his face. All that was left of the bane of the forge's head was a golden mess of disfigured skin and bone. I jumped back in surprise. In my rage I had mutilated the giant past the point of recognition. As the rest of Mimas' body blew away in the wind, only one thought crossed my mind.

It was my fault that Leo died.

If I had only ran a little faster, I could have intercepted the ax and saved Leo's life.

Pushing the pain and the grief of loosing one of the seven out of my head and focusing on the sound of battle all around, I looked around the battlefield again.

Mars was toying with a very battered and ichor covered Pelorus while Frank was again in dragon form, clawing at the giant's head from above. Aphrodite and Piper were done battling their giant and were helping Apollo finish Tityus, who looked no better than Pelorus did, completely golden in his own interstitial fluid. Hermes and Chris Rodriguez were done dispatching Hippolytos, and were now helping Demeter and Katie Gardener fend off Pallas. Poseidon was fighting with Hazel and Airon against Thoon while Hades was fighting his bane with Nico. Athena and Annabeth were still fighting Enceladus, neither side seeming to have much of advantage over the other. The only battle that seemed to be going poorly was that of Artemis and Thalia against both Gration and Leon.

I debated on whether I should help Annabeth and Athena against the giant created to oppose them or help Thalia and Artemis with their battle.

I decided the latter mainly because as I was internally musing on where to go, Artemis lost her footing while blocking one of Leon's club strikes and stumbled backward.

I nodded at Hephaestus, who turned and started to walk toward where I knew that Leo's dead corpse lay. Refusing to think about the dead Latino whose death I had caused I ran toward Artemis and Thalia. Thalia was expertly blocking Gration's hunting knives with her spear and gorgon shield, Agis, while Artemis was dogging Leon's club and trying to get under his guard without getting bit by the giant's lion like maw.

I ran up alongside Artemis, who seemed to be having the most difficulty out of the two, and stabbed Riptide into Leon's ankle, making Leon literally roar in pain.

"Perseus, I hate to say that I need help from a male, but in your case I may make an exception." Artemis panted. "Dogging lion-mouth's stupid club is not the problem, It's the fact that he uses his face as a weapon that's the annoying part."

Leon roared again and swung his club at me this time, only for me to swing Riptide the opposite direction, cutting his stick completely in two. He, not being able to say real words because hes a bloody lion faced idiot, roared in anger. He threw the remainder of his club to the side and lunged at me, fully intent on ripping my face off with his razor sharp teeth.

I ducked under the giant's lunge and held Riptide above my head, cutting a long gash that turned Leon's pelt golden with his own ichor. The giant again roared in pain and ran straight at Artemis this time at full speed.

With unrivaled speed and grace, Artemis jumped and twisted around, landing straight on Leon's back. She stabbed the giant in the back with both her hunting knives, causing them to puncture one of lungs and rupture his stomach.

Leon panicked and started to buck around, trying to throw goddess of the hunt off his back. Artemis lost her hold on one of her hunting knives and flew off the giant's back. With the hunting knives still embedded deep within his vital organs, Leon spun around and clamped down on the goddesses right leg, biting all the way down to the bone. Artemis screamed in pain and stabbed Riptide into the back of Leon's head in attempt to make him let go.

Since Artemis' hunting knives were still stuck in the lion headed Gigante's back, Leon slowly transformed into golden powder, leaving both of Artemis' hunting knives behind.

I looked down at Artemis' leg where Leon had bit her and paled at the sight. Her calf barely looked like a calf anymore. Instead, a golden mass of exposed muscle and mangled skin remained. The bone was easily visible through very distinguishable bite marks that the giant's teeth had left behind.

"Artemis, do you need me to call Apollo for your leg? It's really bad." I asked worriedly. "No!" she yelled through gritted teeth. "Go help Thalia with Gration. She will need the help. Push him back toward me and when he gets close enough, I'll stab him in the back with one of my hunting knives."

"Can't you just summon your bow and shoot him from here?" I questioned, thoroughly confused. "I can't summon my bow when I'm this injured." She gasped in pain. "Just get him over here!"

I looked over at Thalia. She was still holding herself against the onslaught of blows that Gration was dishing out, but she was getting tired.

I ran over to Thalia and drew Riptide just in time to block a strike that would have hit her shoulder. "Hey Kelp Head, nice of you to show up." Thalia panted. "Listen Thals, Leon bit Artemis on the leg and she can't move. We need to push Gration back toward where Artemis is laying so she can stab him in the back." I told her quiet enough that Gration wouldn't hear. She was worried about Artemis when I said that she was injured, but when Thalia made eye contact, Artemis nodded her head as if to say "I'm fine so follow Perseus' plan so I can fix my dumb leg." Thalia looked back at me and nodded her head in confirmation of the plan and rose her shield to block another one of Gration's strikes.

Instead of staying on the defensive like before, Thalia and I pressed our own attacks onto Gration, forcing him into the defense. We kept pressing the bane of Artemis until he was close enough to the goddess of the hunt for her to lunge forward and stab Gration in the lower back with one of her hunting knives.

Gration's eyes widened as he felt the knife sever his spinal column and he crumpled to the ground, unable to move, or feel his legs. Artemis fell back to the ground next to the giant and grimaced in pain, having to had put a small amount of weight on her injured leg to be able to stab Gration in the back.

Thalia twirled her spear in her hand before stabbing it through the giant's heart, causing him the crumple into golden particles and blow away in the wind.

The lieutenant of the hunt rushed over to her patron's side, examining her leg mangled in horror. "Milady, you need to get Apollo here to treat your leg now!" Thalia exclaimed.

Apollo flashed in next to us with a smile "Did someone say my na- oh Styx Artemis what happened?" He started.

"Oh I don't know, I was just walking around in the park and then MY LEG JUST FELL APART!" Artemis yelled "I got bit by the stupid half lion giant that I was battling, you idiot! And now that you are here, FIX IT!"

"Okay, okay, no need to get you panties in a bunch little sis!" Apollo retorted

Artemis gave him a death glare that made him flinch away.

He bend down and started to send pulses of bright, golden light into her leg and slowly, the bone healed, muscle reattached and skin mended.

As he was healing Artemis' leg, I took the time to look around the battlefield. All the giants seemed to have been dealt with. All except for one. Jupiter and Jason were still fighting Porphyrion directly at the base of the mountain.

As I watched, Jupiter shot a large beam of electricity from his master bolt directly at the King of Gigante's chest, but he just knocked it away like it was nothing.

Apollo had finished healing his sister's leg at this point and Artemis stood up and brushed herself off. She placed a hand on Thalia's shoulder and Apollo put a hand on mine and the twins of Leto flashed us over to the battle between two kings.

A/N: Okay, another chapter done! I'm sorry for it taking me so long to post this, but battle scenes take a lot of effort to write and it took me a LONG time to choose which Gigantes would fight which gods. I'm sorry if you don't like me killing Leo but it's all part of the plan so just bare with me. He won't be coming back to life, but it has to do with the line An Oath to Keep with a Final Breath. Anyways, the title meaning will be revealed next chapter, so stay tuned!

(Edit): Sorry everything was bold! I fixed it!