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Chapter 3: Prologue
Percy's pov
The scream brought me back to my senses. I recognised that scream and I frantically started looking round. I confirmed my suspicions as there was one person missing and that person was very important to me. It was Annabeth. I heard the scream again and turned around to see her in the clutches of the earth itself. It was Gaea. She held a knife threateningly to Annabeth's throat, the four remaining giants behind her. She was fully awake now, wearing a Greek dress the colour of mud, her brown hair flowed down her back and ended half way down. She looked beautiful but in a sinister and evil way. Nothing compared to Annabeth though. I had only just begun to realise that the gods had told us that when we closed the doors of death we had weakened Gaea considerably. I had come to the realisation that she must have purposely swallowed the other giants to gather enough energy to resurrect herself.
She started grinning like crazy "Yes Perseus Jackson, I guess by the look on your face you have figured out what I did." She started laughing. "Now there is nothing stopping me from destroying you and all the others."
Everyone started to realise what she had did.
"Let Annabeth go!" I ordered.
"Only if you join me" she replied with a snicker.
"And why would I do that?"
"OR she dies" she replied plainly. I was caught now, I couldn't imagine a life without my Wisegirl and I guess Annabeth could see the look on my face as she shouted
"DON'T SEAWEED BRAIN!" Gaea dug the knife in deeper, a trickle of blood started to flow down her neck. I got really mad at this. I took a threatening step forward but Gaea just dug it in a little deeper.
"Just let her go" I pleaded.
"Not unless you join my side. I do not wish to kill you, you would be a powerful ally." I looked at Annabeth pleadingly but she just shook her eyes signalling no. I was about to respond when Gaea suddenly let go of her hold on Annabeth. Annabeth started to run towards me as Gaea started to grab her thigh in pain. As she removed her hand I saw a knife sticking out of it. 'That's my Wisegirl!' I mentally shouted. Annabeth was only a few metres away when Gaea started to stand up properly. She recovered quickly and sent a blast of energy that propelled the blade Annabeth used towards the retreating form of my girlfriend.
"Annabeth look out!" I screamed. But it was too late, the energy collided with the retreating form of my girlfriend and sent her flying away from me. I stood there and just stared at the limp body of my Wisegirl sprawled on the floor a few yards away from me. Anger boiled within me.
Third person pov
A feeling from within him started to spread, he felt power and anger rise. Percy suddenly charged at Gaea. Before he could connect though, Encelaedus pulled her back and blocked his strike. The other remaining giants all rushed forward to help. Before they could get within 20 feet of him, towering blocks of ice appeared out of nowhere, separating the giants and splitting them into their own chambers. As quick as lightening he began to cut down the giants one by one. There was a powerful ethereal light coming off of him. Almost a godly, bright white light was emanating off of the boy. The gods stood there stunned at how Percy fought. Percy was fighting like a demon as he produced cuts around the ankles of the giants. None of the giants could keep a track of him as he did this. He was too fast for them to see and it seemed as if he was attacking from everywhere at once. After having given Encelaedus another blow to his ankle with Riptide he started to fall. He landed with a boom as the ground shook from his fall. Perseus took his chance and quickly ran to the wounded giant. He leapt onto his chest and started to slash everywhere. Golden ichor poured from the wounds on his chest like the river Tiber flows through the hills of the Roman Camp. Percy finally stopped slashing and when he did all that remained of Encelaedus's chest was ichor and torn flesh. Percy finished him off with a clean swipe of his blade across the throat of the giant. Encelaedus's body began to disintegrate as Percy had successfully killed the giant. The gods looked around at each other to see if any of them had blessed the young hero, blank looks were what they all received. He gods were shocked to find that somehow Percy had killed the giant without the blessing or help of a god or goddess.
Percy rose slowly with no sign of fatigue, heck he didn't even break a sweat. Suddenly something started banging against the ice that housed Polybotes and cracks started to appear and spread along the ice. With one last almighty bang the ice shattered and out stepped Polybotes with his trident and net in hand. Percy just stood there crouched low and legs tensed, ready to produce as much force as possible. Polybotes charged at Percy with surprising speed for a creature of that size. Percy stayed in his until the giant was only a few feet away. H finally released the pressure from his legs and he sprang up about 40 feet into the air. He landed on top of Polybotes shoulder and quickly climbed around and onto his back so he couldn't see him. Polybotes started to look around searching for any sign of the sea scum's son. He finally gave up and came to the conclusion that he must of accidentally stepped on him whilst he was charging. He started to grin and laugh.
"Told you, you were no match for me!" he bellowed. Whilst tearing up from laughter he didn't notice our young hero jumping from chinks in his armour to come back round to the front of him and hide just underneath his neck. "I shall now be known as Polybotes, Giant of the seas and the bane of..."
He was abruptly cut off by Percy as he slit the giant's throat. Polybotes's eyes grew wide with shock, as golden ichor flowed out of his neck, and exactly like Encelaedus he began to disintegrate. He let out a choke before he completely crumpled away like when a sand castle is destroyed by the waves of the sea on a beach. Again, Percy rose unscathed and barely tired. It was as if someone had given him an extra, extra, extra, extra strong can of coke. The gods looked on along with 'The Seven' at how Percy had fought against Polybotes. It was as if he was getting stronger by the second and the giants became easier to destroy. Athena was standing there, pain in her eyes at the sight of her daughter's limp body. She tore herself away and looked at Perseus. He had must of really liked her to fight two giants so far and still have two more plus Gaea left. Poseidon looked worried for his son, he was showing incredible strength and power against the giants, he didn't know how Zeus would take that. Its not like the gods didn't want to help but they were somehow frozen on the spot. The light surrounding Percy had intensified and now there was a glow behind his eyes. The glow radiated power and it intensified the colour of his eyes. They were now a kind of darkish, sea green and around the pupils they spiralled getting darker and darker. Percy turned his attention back to the two remaining chambers of ice and he turned the ice to water releasing the two giants. Porphyrion, the king of the giants and Alcyoneus the eldest giant stood there shocked at first, their ankles bleeding from Percy's earlier attack. They got over their surprise quickly and both grinned from ear to ear. Porphyrion began to talk,
"You are foolish, son of Poseidon, thinking that you can't take on two giants alone. This shall be your down fall!" he yelled the last part. Percy just stood there, eyes fixed on the two remaining giants. Porphyrion charged at Percy. Percy stood there and closed his eyes. He began to concentrate on the water particles around him in the air. The pulled them together to form a massive clump of water. He then began to shape the water with his mind. He froze the water and now waited for the right time. All the while Porphyrion was still charging and as he brought down his spear on top of Percy, his eyes shot open. The glow had intensified tenfold and a massive, solid ice sword blocked the blow. Porphyrion was stunned and staggered back. Percy jumped on to the ice warrior's chest as a thick door opened up for him. He jumped onto the edge and walked in. The door closed behind him and there was our hero. Stood in the chest of the ice warrior he had created to act like a bigger version of him. Alcyoneus walked up to his shocked brother. Porphyrion recovered and he and his brother both charged at Percy. Percy charged along with the two giants and the three enormous creatures clashed. The ground gave way and massive chunks of it were sticking out everywhere. A cloud of dust had formed, hiding the battle form the prying eyes of the gods and demigods. As the dust cleared what they saw shocked them to an extent unknown. They saw….