Chapter Three– When Immortals do Battle

A/N - I do not own any of these characters nor do I own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This story takes place six months after TLO. TLH is ignored in this story.

Poseidon's POV

The fight between Oceanus and I began. He took out his legendary golden harpoon, and with his other hand pulled out a green sword that he did not have the last time we fought. He shot the harpoon at me, with such a speed that I could only dive out of the way, instead of defend. I righted myself and pointing my trident at him, shooting a massive blast of energy toward him. His sword as this point did something quite odd. He pointed it at my blast and the sword created a massive amount of seaweed that seemed to tighten into a shield and absorb the impact of the blast. I was at a loss for words. One of my greatest forms of attack would be rendered useless unless I could destroy that sword.

"It appears you have learned a couple of new tricks in these past few months, Oceanus." He smiled evilly back at me and retorted, "If you only knew what else this blade could do."

He tried to shoot seaweed toward me from the sword, but I was too quick for him. Just as the seaweed was strong as it was tightly wound into a shield, so was it weak when it was stretched out. I was able to easily blow it apart using a blast from my trident. It was my turn to go on the offensive end. I knew that I would have to rely on the quickness of my attacks, in order to get that sword out of his hands, so he could be defeated. I shot a volley of three energy blasts as quickly as possible in succession, one at his head, one at his stomach, and one at his knees. He blocked the one aimed at his head with his harpoon and the one at his stomach and knees were blocked with the seaweed shield his sword had made once again. This time however, it was not able to block all of it completely and a small amount of it managed to pass through it and hit him, making him angry. He shot his harpoon gun at me once again. I reacted as quickly as possible and just managed to block the shot, but while I was so concentrated on his harpoon gun, he had rushed me. He swung his green sword, while I swung my trident, creating a massive explosion.

We were blasted back from each other, as my trident had been ripped from my hand and was nowhere to be found. I noticed that he had also lost his harpoon gun, but still had his green sword. I felt something trickle down my right forearm, and saw that I was indeed bleeding from the previous explosion. I winced as saltwater mixed with golden ichor and my wounds sealed. With me somewhat injured and without my trident, the odds were definitely not in my favor currently.

"It appears you have been defeated Poseidon." He grinned while wincing in pain at the same time if that is even possible. I managed to talk in my head to some close by sea creatures telling them to try and find my trident. They nodded and sped off at once.

"I wouldn't count me out just yet." I responded to Oceanus, hoping that they would be able to find it in time. For the time being, I simply materialized a sword and shield into my hands so that I could continue the battle, curious to whether or not the sword I had would even been useful against his new sword.

He shot seaweed out of his green sword at me once again. Thankfully it wasn't as fast as his harpoon gun. I moved to the left slightly, turning back to face the seaweed and I cut the line of seaweed that was being shot from his sword with my sword and willed the currents to disperse and send it far away from our battle.

Oceanus looked at me and said, "It seems that at a further distance away, neither of us will be able to be victorious." And with that he charged me once more. Our swords clashed but this time I was able to hold on to my weapon. I blocked and countered his attacks for a few more minutes, until he got a lucky blow to my left shoulder in, causing me to back off. I waited for the familiar pain of the saltwater coming to heal my wounds but it never did. I looked at my left shoulder and saw there was a green gash in it, which looked bad but was not healing.

"Ah, I see you have found out another trick about this sword. If you get cut by this sword, the wound that it has inflicted cannot be healed by any measure of saltwater." He then paused for a moment, which was to my advantage as I got a chance to rest and hope that my wound would close.

"Like father, like son, I'd say." Oceanus smirked, looking off to his right, my left. I followed his gaze and saw my son, Triton, getting bullied and beaten up by the massive octopus. I wanted to help him but without my trident for a long range attack, I was unable to help with Oceanus fighting me. Rage built up inside of me, as this time I moved as quickly as possible toward Oceanus to continue and hopefully finish quickly our fight, so I could help the rest of the army.

Our swords clashed again, and the fight resumed. We fought back and forth for another twenty minutes or so, both managing to get in a few lucky blows, but neither were able to injure the other badly enough to win the battle. I then saw a gleam in Oceanus' eyes, and it sent a shiver down my spine. He charged me one more time. He raised his sword to attack, I raised mine in return, he lowered his and shot seaweed out of his sword. It wrapped around my arms, pinning them to my body. He slowly made a cocoon from my shoulders to my feet, and I was unable to move. Right before he did his final blow, I heard an all too familiar KABOOM! Oceanus, eyes opened in shock, he pulled forward his sword, slashed through my stomach and neck, and everything went black.