Thanks to JamiBunni577 and Greeks Drool - Romans Rule for reviewing!
Oh and I forgot to put this disclaimer: If I said that I owned Percy Jackson and the Olympians, I would probably be murdered brutally. Hence, I do not. (I only wish I do…)
Percy's POV
Today is just not my day.
Just this morning, I wake up to find that the Stolls boarded up my door, so I couldn't get outside. I had to suffer almost two hours, hungry I might add, waiting for them to remove the boards and open my door. I was so angry afterwards, I sent the Stolls a little wave in their cabin; not much, just your average 10-gallon wave.
Then, just when Annabeth and I finally had some alone time together, they attacked. We were busily making out in my cabin, which was locked to keep out any…erm… distractions.
After a few minutes of liplocking, we broke for air.
"I love you Annabeth." I said dreamily.
She smiled. "Anything new, seaweed brain?"
"Nothing that isn't perfect already." I said while staring at her beautiful face. We were just about ready to get to a second round, we heard someone scream.
We rushed outside, and saw Chiron, along with a few other campers, nearby.
"Stand ready! Don't let them get near you!" Chiron yelled. At first I was curious; what in Hades was them? Then I looked around, and finally noticed what he was talking about.
Thousands of things were invading camp. They looked like a man, a shark, and three-finger from Wrong Turn thathad been blended together and burned to a crisp. With shark's teeth, big hands that ended in three fingers, eyes like a snakes', and charcoal-like skin, just looking at them made me feel like hiding in a corner. They rampaged all around us, even passing to and fro from the camp borders. The Golden Fleece was still there, but right next to it hung the corpse if its guardian, Peleus.
The entire camp was in chaos and disarray. Cabin six's roof was burning. Cabin eleven looked as if it exploded. Only the half the walls remained. The other Cabins only suffered minor damages, but the worst was the Big House. Hundreds of these creatures swarmed the inside, destroying things, breaking holes in the wall and floor, and basically destroying the building inside out. But the strangest thing was it seemed as if they were searching for something.
Amidst all the destruction, deaths, and yelling, Chiron noticed us. "Well don't just stand there, go and kill something!" he said coolly.
I uncapped Riptide, and Annabeth unsheathed her knife. The moment the celestial bronze blades appeared, those creatures immediately turned in our direction and charged.
"Split up." I said. Annabeth ran to the left, while I ran to the right. Five of them chased her into the Amphitheater, while six were on me in no time. Just as I reached the beach, three of them blocked me from the front, and two of them from the back. They were all wielding swords, which had intricate carving on each one, and a creepy greenish glow surrounding it.
These guys are good, I couldn't help but think. One of them charged me head on. I raised Riptide, ready to fight. As soon as he thrust his blade, aiming for my stomach, I jumped back into the water. I felt the cool seawater refilling my energy and give me more power. The creature stumbled, and started to fall to the ground face first. I sliced his head clean off, and as soon as the celestial bronze touched his nape, he disintegrated.
The others circled me, now a little wary. They growled, which sounded like a tiger, and attacked me simultaneously. One tried to slash at my feet, and I jumped, but the blade nicked me left leg. I didn't mind it since I was invincible because of the River Styx, but to my surprise, blood started to come out of the wound. As soon as I fell back into the water, the water swirled around my leg, and the cut started to heal. I spared a second to look at the wound, and saw green slime flowing out of it. Before I had time to even think about that, I saw a blade coming at me from the corner of my eye. I managed to block it with the tip of my blade and sideswiped, and Riptide hit its hip, turning it into smoke. Two down, four more to go.
The remaining monsters instantly leaped backwards, landing a good fifteen feet away from me. Two of them released dropped their weapons and the swords instantly vanished. They raised their left hands, and bows appeared in their hands. Not good.
I ran towards them as fast as I could. The cut on my leg was fully healed, so I stepped out of the water. Bad choice.
The monsters shot arrow after arrow at me, but I blocked most of them with my sword. One managed to slice me at the shoulder though, and the cut burned like Hades.
They stopped shooting, and stood there, weapons still drawn. I looked at the wound, and saw that it was starting to turn green. Immediately me legs felt like Jell-O. I fell in the sand, screaming in pain.
The two monsters that drew their bows before now had two large battle axes. The remaining two still had swords, and all of their weapons glowed green. That's when it dawned to me. The pain I felt. The green slime. That sickly green glow.
Their damn weapons were coated with poison.
Then, I heard a familiar voice in my head. The water, Perseus. Go to the water.
Annabeth's POV
I quickly ran to the Amphitheater, where I saw Clarisse, Chris, Malcolm, Will, Nico, and a few other campers fighting ten or more enemies at once. But no matter how many of them they kill, more took their place.
Then I realized it. We had no chance of winning this battle. Our only chance to live is to escape from Camp Half-Blood. I ran to them, and we formed a tight circle. The monsters surrounded us, and attacked at the same time.
"Guys! We need to get out of here!" I shouted, stabbing one of the monsters in the heart. It dissolved into black smoke.
"Are you out of your mind? We can't just abandon camp!" Clarisse shouted back, throwing her spear. It hit one of the monsters between the eyes, and it dissolved. She drew her sword, yelled, "For Ares!" And went straight to the enemy.
"As much as I hate to say it, she's right, Annabeth." Malcolm said while fighting two monsters at the same time. He slashed at one monster's chest, and then drove his sword directly in the eye of another.
"If we don't, we die." I simply said.
Nico gulped. "Die? If I die here, dad will probably resurrect me, and then kill me again for disappointing him."
I can't help but laugh a little for that one.
"Aahhh!" someone shouted. I turned around, and saw Chris screaming in pain, a sword in his stomach.
"Chris!" Clarisse shouted hysterically. She ran to his side, killing any monsters that got in her way.
It was too late. By the time she kneeled at his side, his entire body already lost all its color, his eyes, still opened, stopped moving, and his grip on his sword slackened.
"No! No, please, please,please." Clarisse cried over and over again. As she held his pale body in her hands, the battle forgotten, we circled them, trying to protect her while she wept. The monsters kept advancing, but stopped dead in their tracks about ten feet away from us as if letting us realize our impending doom. I analyzed the situation. We were completely surrounded, outnumbered ten to one, plus we were already tired, and those things looked as if they could keep this up forever.
"As much as I hate to say it, we're toast." Nico said.
"I second that." Malcolm agreed.
I felt tears starting to form in my eyes. Would it really end like this? "Well guys, if I'll go down, at least go down fighting."
Nico smiled. "Classic."
I blinked the tears away. Goodbye, Percy. I'll see you in Elysium. I thought.
Then the monsters attacked. I prepared to meet them, but just like that, they disappeared. I mean, all of them turned into smoke, and they were gone, all in the blink of an eye.
"What the fuck just happened?" Nico asked irritably. I could tell he was a little disappointed.
"I don't know." I said. Those words left a bad taste in my mouth. I hated not knowing.
"Whatever happened, they must be gone now." Malcolm said. "let's get back to the Big-" he never got to finish.
The earth shook. The sky turned dark. Debris, flaming logs, glass, swords, and other things fell from the sky. I turned around, and saw an explosion. Right behind us. Exactly where the cabins would be placed. A mushroom cloud can still be seen in the sky.
We looked at each other in awe and terror, and ran to see the damage.
Percy's POV
I dragged my body towards the water. I was so stupid! My strength was fading fast. I began to see black spots in my eyes, my vision became blurry, and my arms were starting to go numb. I heard a loud explosion in the distance, and felt the tremors from the beach, but at the moment I didn't care. I knew it: I was dying. Just as I was ready to give up hope, a pair of hands scooped my up and threw me in the water.
I felt the waves carry me farther and deeper into the sea. As soon as my body was fully submerged in the water, I suddenly felt my strength returning to me. My feet felt like they could run a hundred miles, my eyes returned to their normal vision, and my arms felt stronger than ever. I looked at my shoulder, and saw the wound closing, but like that last time, a green slime was coming out of it.
I emerged from the water, and saw Annabeth in the beach, with tears in her eyes. The monsters were gone. She must've defeated them. When she saw me, she leaped into the water, and ran to me. I willed the water to carry me to shore, and tackled her into a bear hug. After what seemed like eternity, we released, but I still held her at arm's length.
"Seaweed Brain, Don't scare me like that again! I thought for sure you were dead!" she scolded me. I only laughed, tears still in my eyes.
"Never, ever again, Wise Girl. C'mon, let's go back to the Big House." I pulled her hand, but she didn't leave from where she was standing. Instead, she cried even more.
"An explosion hit camp. I don't know how, but everything was destroyed. Percy, the Big House, The cabins, Thalia's Tree; everything's destroyed. I'm sorry Percy, but the camp's…no more."
I knew that my head was still probably a little racked from all that fighting, but did she just say that the camp was destroyed?
"No." I whispered.
She pulled my hand. "Come on. You have to see this for yourself." She said grimly.
She dragged me to the cabin area, or what used to be the cabin area. Now, it was a pile of smoke and ash. All the cabins were burned black. Only their foundations remained. Hundreds of campers were lying on the ground, burned to a crisp. The Big House…well it wasn't big anymore. But what really made me cry was the body that was hugging a little girl. He obviously protected the little girl from the explosion. I ran to the body, and saw that it was an old man, and instead of legs, a horses' trunk was smoothly grafted to him. Suddenly, the little girl started moving. She opened her eyes, and looked around her before crying. She had blonde hair and story grey eyes; a daughter of Athena. Chiron was hugging her, and used his body as a meat shield to protect her from the explosion.
I pried her from Chiron's arms. As soon as I tugged her free, his arms just…broke. I nearly vomited at the sight.
We spent the next few hours assessing the damage. The entire camp, except for the Oracle's cave, was destroyed. Hundreds of demigods died, reducing our number from over four hundred to seventy three in a few hours. We laid the dead in rows, fifty horizontally and five vertically. Since we can't make any shrouds anymore, we just set them on fire after giving them the ancient rites.
"What now?" I asked Annabeth? It was dark, and all of us were on the beach, the only place on camp that wasn't affected. We sat on the sand, and cleaned ourselves of the blood, ash, sweat that covered our bodies in the water. We had no food, water, nor any medical supplies. All we had was the Golden Fleece, which miraculously survived the explosion. All of our clothes, except the ones on our backs, were burned in the explosion, and we had no place to sleep. So all in all, our chances of lasting even a day were ominous.
"I don't know." She said.
I sighed. We'll be lucky to last a day like this. I felt a chilling sensation behind me. Annabeth must've felt it to, because she turned around the same time as me.
Rachel was floating behind us. I mean, literally floating. She was surrounded in a green glow, and when she opened her eyes they were green. A green mist crept towards us, but we didn't dare move. A snakelike form rose from the mist, and I instantly knew that this is the real oracle. Campers were immediately moving out of the mist's way, anxious of the prophecy that was sure to come.
I am the Oracle of Delphi, Speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python. Approach, seeker, and ask.
I was about to speak when Annabeth cut me off. "What is our next move?"
"Five shall come forth and leave for the west.
The lion, the traitor, and the Titan will stop the quest.
Heroes and goddess unite and succeed,
The traitor's destiny, undo his last deed.
In the end, everything will be too late,
The god's last decision will seal his fate."
After the last line the mist flew back to Rachel and she fell back down. Luckily, some camper caught her just in time.
"What did I say?" she asked as soon as she regained consciousness.
"Um… Five shall come forth and leave for the west. The lion, the traitor, and the Titan will stop the ques. Heroes and goddess unites and succeeds, the traitor's destiny, undo his last deed. In the end, everything will be too late; the god's last decision will seal his fate." I said.
"What does it mean?" someone said.
"Aahh!" I screamed. I turned around, and saw that it was only Nico. I didn't even notice him standing behind me. "Jeez, man. Don't scare me like that!"
He was about to answer back when a bright light shone. We closed our eyes, and after a few seconds, it disappeared. I took a few more seconds to adjust to the darkness once more. I looked at the gods or goddess who appeared before us, and my heart nearly skipped a beat.
It was Athena.
"Heroes, come with me." She said, well ordered. All of us packed up, which was pretty fast, seeing as we didn't have anything except our weapons and the fleece to carry, and she teleported us to Olympus.
Olympus wasn't what I expected. The once beautiful city/fortress was nearly in ruins. I looked at Annabeth. She looked hugely disappointed that all her work was all for nothing.
I focused my eyes straight ahead, and my eyes widened. Straight ahead was-
Dun, dun, dun! A cliffhanger! What did he see? I'll give you a hint, it's not something you see everyday. Find out next chapter!
