Chapter 3
I do not own PJO all rights to Rick Riordan
Percy POV
Percy jumped to his feet and pulled out riptide uncapping it "we've been expecting you" said a dracena who was clearly the leader if the golden armor is an thing to go by "normally we would make your deaths slow and painful but we have been paid much to make them quick especially the lieutenant of Artemis" at this Thalia stiffened "paid by who" I said stalling for time "that is none of your concern demigod" he replied "now die" he raised his bow and the others did like wise Percy was racking his brain for anything that could save them I could feel water under the floor probably pipes I tried to make the pipes burst but they wouldn't there wasn't enough water I could feel more coming but I doubted it would get here in time "my luck has finally run out" I thought just as they were about to shoot two explosions went off behind the dracena killing fifteen or so and disorienting the rest released their arrows but they all missed their mark except one which I deflected off my sword the hunters were getting over their surprise and so were the dracena so I did the obvious this I charged straight into to them hacking and slashing as fast as I could trying to keep the enemy distracted and buy the hunters time I decapitated one and plugged my sword into another disintegrating them both Thalia was at my left stabbing Dracena with her spear and pushing them back with Aegis, Artemis was on my right fighting like a whirlwind with her hunting knives and the hunters kept shooting volley after volley past us.
Even so we were greatly outnumbered and most of us were injured from the fall the only thing that was keeping us alive was that they were in complete and utter disarray, Percy saw five or six go through the door into the part of the warehouse Thalia charged after them Percy wanted to help but he was busy with the 30 dracena in front of him he sliced one in half and then the building shook as an ear splitting roar pierced the air followed by Thalia's scream the scream distracted Artemis long enough for a dracena to pin her to the ground and hold a dagger to her throat "time for you to die goddess" it said at this Percy had one thought 'I can't lose her' and he felt a wave of rage wash over him
Percy felt the water arrive, he burst the pipes killing some of the dracena in the immediate vicinity and distracted the one holding dagger to Artemis long enough for Percy to tackle it losing riptide in the process, as they both jumped to their feet Percy snarled making it flinch long enough for him to snap its neck with his bare hands he then used the water from the pipes to kill the remaining dracena by either drowning them or crushing against the wall as they were blasted by water. It was at that time that Percy remember Thalia 'how long has she been in there 7 minutes more?' he thought as he burst through the door with Artemis at his heels expecting to see Thalia's corps but instead found Thalia with her back against the wall and her waist bandged.
Thalia POV
Thalia saw a small group of dracena heading for the door to the other part of the ware house. Thalia ran after them determined not to let a single one get away as she ran through the door it closed behind her. Something big roared to her left and Thalia turned to see a drakon staring at her and she made the mistake of looking in its eye. For those of you that don't know looking into a drakon's eye makes you feel fear, it terrifies you in every way possible. So Thalia at that moment was frozen with fear unable to move the only thing that she could do was scream. While she was standing there a dracena shot her in the stomach forcing her to break eye contact with the drakon as she stumbled to the wall with her back to it she tried to get out her hunting knifes but found she couldn't move 'dang it the arrow must have been poisoned' she thought. As Thalia slumped to the ground she scanned the room it was huge like an airplane hangar there was 13 drakons in it each as wide as a bus and 2 or 3 times as long 'so this is how I'm going to die dang it I should have told him I loved him when I had the chance now he'll never know' she thought "I love you Nico" (Nico isn't gay in this story) she said to just for once say out loud it make her feel warm inside despite the fact she was going numb "some last words for your friend Nico" a dracena laughed walking forward its sword drawn "we'll be sure to tell him when we kill him he is after all on our li.." It was abruptly cut off by the sound of glass breaking a silver arrow through its neck disintegrating it on the spot, a man in a silver cloak that had apparently jumped through one of the second story windows fired several more arrows killing the remaining dracena. The bow clasped into what looked like a silver charm bracelet on his left hand but what really got Thalia was it was a hunters bow. He pulled out to silver hand and a half swords and charged the drakons 'do you have a death wish kid' she thought but immediately changed her mind as he killed the first drakon in 10 seconds by ripping off one of it's scales and stabbing it in the head with one of his swords up to the hilt. Another drakon snapped at him with its jaws but simply jumped backwards into the air pulled out a silver throwing knife and launched it at the drakon's eye with enough force that it actually came out the other side of its head and embedded itself in the floor killing the drakon instantly before lightly landing on his feet about ten feet away Thalia was impressed by the ease he killed them but one thing kept bothering her 'why did that seem so familiar' then it hit her 'that's one of lady Artemis's moves I must have seen her do that a hundred times' she thought. Now with only one sword the man charged another drakon but this time killed it with a classic Greek style move by rolling under it and stabbing up with his sword piercing its heart. He then retrieved his sword and killed the remaining drakons in a similar fashion with a mix of Greek style moves and moves taught and used only by the hunters of Artemis even some that only Artemis could do. With the only thing remaining of the drakons being 13 big piles of monster dust he ran over to me and said "stay still I'm going to pull out the arrow" I tried to say ok but instead it came out as a soft grunt " oh forgot the poison also inhibits speech sorry" he said as he yanked the arrow out I couldn't help but let out a small whimper he pulled out a needle and said "just a heads up this is going to hurt but it a small antidote and will stop the poison from spreading" and then without even waiting for an answer this time jabbed the needle in administering the antidote "OOOOWWWWWWWW! that freaking hurt" I yelled "good you can talk guess that means the antidote works" he said calmly "wait you didn't know the antidote would work, who are you, and how did you get a bow of the hunters of Artemis" Thalia said as fast as she could "to answer your first question no I didn't know if it would work I wasn't sure what poison they used so I only had a best guess from a daughter of Apollo, as for who I am that doesn't matter and the bow was a gift from my mother" he said cutting away Thalias shirt around the wound but being careful so as to preserve her modesty "what are you doing you've already given me the antidote" "that is true but only stops the poison from spreading for about an hour if I don't dress the wound it will eventually kill you" he pulled a tin with some kind of cream on it and put it on the hole in my gut and by the way in case your wondering it hurt like hades it was like acid after that he pulled a big square of gauze and taped it over the wound before wrapping my abdomen "listen first I'm going to leave this here" he said picking up the tin "you're going to need to apply this once a day for the next week you understand" I nodded "good and second you are not to tell anyone I was here if any one asks you killed the drakons and found this cream and the antidote in a supply closet" "what why" "the less people know about me the better..." he stop and looked at the door I had come through the fighting had stopped and I could hear people running "you'll be safe your friends are coming, good bye and sorry but I'm going to need to take this" he said grabbing my quiver of arrows before making and inhuman leap and jumping out the window he had come in through just as the door burst open to reveal a frantic Percy and Artemis quickly followed by the rest of the hunters. As soon as Percy saw me he ran over "are you...ok we…heard you...scream" he said trying to catch his breath "ya I'm fine just look a drakon in the eye then got shot by a poisoned arrow no biggy" I said in the most nonchalant voice I could
