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4.I Fight My Old Enemy

Born to push you around, better just stay down.

You pull away, he hits the flesh, you hit the ground.

Mouth so full of lies, tend to black your eyes.

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The first thing I noticed was Kronos or Craig (I don't know what to call him, really.) was holding out his hand.

It was glowing a bright blue color, electricity jumping from the energy. Besides that, I still dashed at my old enemy. Or my new enemy. Or my new old enemy. Whatever, you know what I mean.

"Young Perceus Jackson thinks he can stand up to a Titan." He said, not so much as a question but a statement. "You can't beat me, Jackson. I'm too powerful, even in this puny mortal body."

"Yeah, what about last summer!?!" I yelled, running faster. I was almost out of gas, but I couldn't stop.

He gritted his teeth and the energy on his hand grew brighter. "You got lucky, Perceus. Your little friend Luke helped with that. Curse him." I ran faster. How dare he talk about Luke like that. Sure he betrayed us, but he was the hero in the end, not me. I jumped up and threw Riptide at him. He swatted it to the side and it pierced the dirt to my left. Great. It would take at least ten seconds before it appeared in my pocket again. I was still flailing towards him at least 50m/h. He thre his hand out and the light pierced through my chests. At that moment it felt as if time was going in slow-motion. It probably was, Kronos probably wanted me to feel this for as long as possible.

The breath escaped from my lungs and I coughed up blood into the air. I fell to the ground, smashing against the grass. I felt my arm dislodge. Oh, just great. I crawled up onto one knee and gripped my arm. (A/N: I got that blue energy attack from Naruto. I based it on Sasuke's technique, "Chidori". Sorry Masashi Kishimoto!) He swiveled onto the ground next to me. "You can't beat me, Perceus." He said with a dark chuckle. Another one of those energy attacks appeared in his hand. He used his foot to hoist my chin up, making us face to face. He laughed evily. I spit in his face, and his joy was replaced with anger. He didn't even bother to wipe the spit off, he just shoved the blue lightning forward...

Kronos/Craig flew to the side, hitting his back against a boulder. I looked to his attacker and saw Nico di Angelo standing there, his black sword clutched in his hand. "NICO!" I yelled. "YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE! PLEASE, GET OUTTA HERE!!!" He ignored me and went up to Kronos. He grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him into the air.

"Don't mess with my friend." He said with anger slithering in his throat. I'm proud to say at that moment that one of my best friends looked absolutely badass. Then things took a turn for the worst. Kronos grabbed his shirt and punched him in the gut. Nico bent over, clutching his stomach. Kronos grabbed his head and kneed him. Nico went sprawling, crashing into the Big House. There was a gaping hole in it. Ouch, that had to hurt.

"SILLY HALF-BLOOD, YOU CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD!" The Titan screamed. "BUT YOU WON'T GET THE BEST OF ME AGAIN, CHILD OF HADES!!!" Nico lay on the ground, blood dripping from his mouth. His arm twitched and his eyes were closed shut.

"NICO!" Annabeth yelled, running over to the 13 year old. Good, she would take care of him. Now I had the real problem to face with. The Lord of Time.

I stepped forward and said: "C'mon Kronos, stop wasting your time on people weaker then you are. Come for what you really want, me." I gestured my hand towards my chest. His mouth curled into a mischiveous grin.

"As you wish, demigod." he said. He disappeared and reappeared behind me. He punched me in the back and I spiraled forward. Now was the time I had to put my last plan into play. I grabbed the now in-my-pocket ballpoint pen, Riptide, and bit it open. The blade emerged from the pen and I slammed it into the oncoming ground. It held tight and I flipped around it, sending me flailing back to my enemy. Now was the best time for him to use his time-abilities. As I suspected he would do, he slowed down time. I went super slow-mo, my feat headed towards the Titan of Time. I grinned slowly.

At that moment a tsunami spiraled obove us and crashed to the ground. Before it hit I put all of my friends in air bubbles. This is one of those times I was really glad that I was the child of Posiedon. Though I slowed down, the water didn't. That was something that he didn't apparently think of. It crashed onto Kronos and he was enveloped in the water. I took it from a nearby ocean that surrounds Long Island.

His abilities ran out of effect and I flew with the water quickly. I made the waves die down and the bubbles around my friends burst. The whole camp was drenched in water because of me. I searched for Kronos, looking to finish him off. I couldn't find his body. I punched the ground and water splurted. I just noticed that blood was all over my shirt. Probably from when he hit me with that lightning. I gripped the wound. It felt so awkward, feeling pain again. Annabeth ran up to me: "Are you okay?" She obviously noticed the blood staining my shirt.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied. Chiron galloped up to us with Nico's unconsience body slung over his shoulder.

"Percy, are you okay?" He asked.

I chuckled. "Yeah, just peachy." I said with as much sarcasm as I could muster. "I couldn't find his body, he must have escaped."

His face went pale. "You did your best, Percy. And that was an amazing strategy that you came up with." He said, trying to cheer me up. Then I noticed that Nico was awake.

"So what do we do, Percy?" He asked, gripping Chirons shoulderbones.

I honestly didn't know, but I had an idea of what it was. This has been bothering me ever since Rachel spewed out the new prophecy. I thought of the verse: Twelve descendants will rule the sky. It scratched at my brain over and over again. Finally I pointed up to the stars.

"We have to take to the skys." I said, total confidence in my voice. I wasn't sure what I was getting us into, but it felt...right. I thought I was done with this hero stuff, but the world never turns out the way I want it to.

"Looks like we're back in action, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth said with a smile.

I couldn't help but smile back. "Looks like it."

So the plan was set in stone: We take to the skys and hope for the best.

Sorry: I know that this chapter wasn't that long, but I didn't have much time to type it up. You know, end of the year activities and all. I might update this Friday. If I don't, I definately will this weekend. Please R&R!