I do not POJ, it`s characters, ect. you know the drill.
Percy's POV
The storm expanded like a shock wave. A wall of wind and rain hit the charging giant almost instantaneously, and I swear on the river Styx that the earth shook when he landed on his butt… I think somebody needs to cut down on their wind resistant crunch in the morning.
Monsters farther down the mountain side were knocked down too. They didn't even have time to look stunned.
I had given Hazel a push in the middle of the storm as I yelled 'now'. I saw the hesitation in her eyes and I needed to know that she was moving towards safety; so I pushed her before she missed the split second opportunity.
But now I was drained… I still had some time before the giant's shock wore off…. so I drew riptide and placed the cap in my pocket. For some reason I had a feeling I wasn`t going to need to cap my sword again.
The giant was still on his butt with a blank look on his face. I stole a quick look behind me to see Hazel running down the mountain side. She hadn`t reached the stunned monsters yet. I hoped she passed them before they came to their senses.
When I turned back to face the giant, mister "I am your future ruler" was starting to stand up. And he looked mad.
I drew on what was left of my power and created a much, much smaller hurricane around myself.
The giant looked at me. "Still you try to blow me away and it did not work. So why do you try again? Surely you know it is hopeless."
I gritted my teeth. I didn`t have the energy to keep the hurricane. I was seeing spots and my arms shook.
I dropped the arms I didn`t realise I was holding up and the wind died.
The giant laughed. "I don`t know why you try demigod. Even you know that you lack the strength. You might as well save your energy so you can scream when I kill you."
Yeah, like that was going to happen. "As appealing as that sounds," I said, "thanks, but no thanks."
He charged.
Our weapons clashed and I ducked as he took a swipe at my head. As he lunged forwards I stabbed at his leg and he bellowed in rage. "I am going to kill you demigod!"
I dodged his next swing. "Gotta hit me first," I yelled.
"Is that an invitation! Because I will take it."
I rolled. "No, just a fact. I thought your brain could process that." I side stepped his next swing and ended up behind him. Shrugging I added "I guess I was wrong."
I continued to counter attacks, but I was getting clumsier. Lifting my sword seemed to by an Olympian effort and as I dodged and rolled… I was still able fight, but I was about as effective as a track runner who hadn`t slept in days. Sure I was still good enough to fight… just not that great.
The giant swung again, but I was only able to deflect it, so the edge of his blade cut into my abdomen. I stabbed at him again but only scraped his leg. When I caught a second, I looked down. I was bleeding, and it looked bad.
The giant looked very happy to see me finally injured. I guess he wanted to keep it up because his next blow was intent on and taking out my head again. Thank the gods that didn`t happen.
Instead I met his swing and deflected it, but as his arm swung past me and I dodged, I stumbled again and the butt of the sword slammed into me. The impact felt like being hit by a freight train. I went flying through the air. When landed with a huge crash several feet away, my skull hit ground and everything went black.
When I came to a few seconds later, the hole was just off to my left. Laughing the giant stood a few feet away.
"You see demigod, even the mighty Perseus Jackson cannot defeat me. It shall be known that today was the day that I made the god`s favoured hero scream for mercy." He paused. "So, any last words?"
Slowly I struggled to my feet. It felt like every single bone in my body was broken. The wound in my abdomen didn`t help either; blood was pouring from it and it hurt like hades. "I`m not really in the mood for last words." I muttered.
"Oh really? Well that's too bad than. Oh well, time to die."
He took his time walking towards me to draw out, what he believed was going to be, a theatrical event.
Looking passed him, I could see the rest of the battle raging on below. And it made me angry. All those deaths. All those injuries. All because of him; because of Gae. All because of a stupid prophesy. I knew that I was not going to survive this prophesy. I mean surviving one was already an accomplishment. And I had run out of luck a long time ago. Heroes don`t stay lucky forever after all; and today was not looking to great. The wound in my side was enough to tell me that.
But he was going down with me.
I looked at him and I called on all the anger that I felt, starting a tugging sensation in my gut. Despite being drained, I called to a power I had never used and didn`t even know if I had. The sensation grew painful… I met the giant's eyes.
"I`m not the only one dying today."
With the last of my strength I raised riptide high above my head and let lose all my anger in one horrible scream as I slammed riptide into the ground; feeling my power, or what was left of it, go out of control and channel through riptide.
I dropped to my knees, holding my embedded sword.
Ten seconds passed.
The giant laughed. "What was that supposed to do demigod? Scare me?" He raised his sword and took a step closer. "Now, say goodb-"
A groan sounded beneath us. The giant looked around.
Another groan.
He looked at me. Then at riptide.
That's when saw the cracks radiating outwards from my sword.
The ground shuddered and everything started to shake. "What did you do demigod!" He tried to run, but he didn't even take two steps before it happened. The ground beneath us cracked and gave way.
The rest of the mountain shook.
I thought I saw a blur of silver, as we started to fall, but I didn`t have enough time to look. The giant cried out and I fell into the darkness.
Rocks fell around me and I fell faster and faster; but I can`t tell you for how long or how far. It was just down, down, down, into the earth, into the mountain. Into the dark.
