Warning! This is a very brutal chapter! and sorry for the late update. I already wrote this chapter. but I pressed something and the tab closed forcing me to start from scratch.
"Aunt," the boy said calmly. the hearth goddess smiled sweetly and nodded. The son of Hades looked around the room, his eyes scanning with barely tamed curiosity. he eyes briefly landed on Athena and he only had respect in his eyes as they did.
the goddess of wisdom's eyes widened at this. a son of her uncle, showing respect to an Olympian. Surprising, "Who is your father young man?" Zeus asked uncertainly. Perseus stood up, glowing with raw, untamed and unchecked power. He jerked his hands apart and was surprised when they clinked from the shackles on him.
he slowly started pulling his apart despite the shackles. the shackles creaked and bent dangerously before with a loud Snap! The chain holding them came apart, but the shackles themselves remained attached to his wrists.
his hands briefly glowed an ethereal white. When the light dimmed the shackles fell through his ghostly muscular arms before hitting the floor with a loud bang. every olympian gasped in surprise at a demigod breaking celestial bronze chains. Not even most gods could do that. he pulled down his hood once again and looked at Zeus, his glasses still in the snow at Westover Hall, Broken.
Perseus was silent but his glare unsettled Zeus, not that he would admit it of course. He was supposed to be a fearsome leader. not a fearful king afraid of a demigod. Poseidon, clearly sensing the tension cleared his throat loudly drawing the attention of everyone in the room except Perseus who was still harshly glaring at the king of the gods.
"Well, I don't about you guys but I think we should get back to the meeting." Poseidon awkwardly said. "WHAT ABOUT MARIA' DI ANGELO?" the boy yelled. Zeus looked away ashamedly
Everyone but Perseus cleared their throat awkwardly. Athena looked around analyzing as she always does.
"Father, I think he would be a valuable asset to Olympus. The boy is clearly powerful, and he could work with us against the Titans." Athena said wisely. Zeus nodded his head deep in thought. "Alright," he said. "We will have a vote to see if he shall live or not."
"Raise your hand if you vote for him to live, do not if you vote for him to die" Demeter's hand went up, Athena's hand went up, Poseidon's went up, "Aphrodite's hand went up, Hermes' hand went up, Apollo's hand went up, And Hephestus hand went up. Hephaestus, because he and my father have an arrangement. Hephestaus make any weapon hades asks for once in a while.
and Hephestaus gets access to all metals under the earth. Pretty good deal. Zeus did not vote, neither did Artemis. so that meant that: Ares, Hera, and Dionysus voted against him, something they would pay dearly for. Perseus briefly pondered how he was going to get out of this one. Then he got an idea, the Styx owed him a favor, and he was not going to waste it.
"so it is decided" Zeus sighed. "The child of Hades will live, but at the cost of swearing fealty to Olympus," I nodded my head in agreement and thunder boomed up above. "I have decided that he will be going to the demigod camp" there were some murmurs of disagreement at that.
"SILENCE!" Zeus boomed. Persues did not want to go to camp but the situation with Bianca forced his hand. he nodded once again before shadow traveling to the location. every god gasped, he was not supposed to be able to leave through magical means. it kept the demigods in awe of their power.
Perseus landed in a camp, full of people shooting arrows, climbing lava walls, and all sorts of other things. Perseus was unimpressed, however. he walked towards a big house in the distance magical bag full of his stuff in hand.
a centaur with brown head hair and brown eyes appeared at the door. Perseus was surprised, centaurs are usually partiers and vicious monsters in the greek world. even though he would not admit it, the demigod had a lot of respect for the trainer of heroes. many demigods would already be dead if not for him. he gave them a fighting chance.
he promised himself if he could. he would be relatively nice and un-cold towards the friendly centaur. "Perseus, the gods have told me many things. Come" he gestured with his hand into the big house.
Perseus briefly wondered how much the gods told the other son of Kronos. but decided he would not ask. he walked up the staircase and dropped his bag next to the door, he would enjoy seeing the children of the thief god try to steal his things. he had an enchantment on the bag, 'thief-proof' his father had said.
he opened the door and stepped inside the surprisingly large house. he looked around while still walking and almost ran into a leopard on the wall that tried biting him. the centaur led him into a small room with a poker table in it. he sat down in one of the foldable chairs pulled out for him. The chair creaked loudly and startled the man across the table sleeping, waking him up in the process.
"Wha-what?" the man asked confusedly. his eyes landed on me, "Ah perry, the gods told us you would be coming!" he said cheerfully. The boy subconsciously scooted away from him. his step-father had given him permanent knowledge of when an adult was hitting the happy juice.
The wine god, however, did not notice this. "Perseus, the gods told me to prepare a room in the big house for you," Chiron said saving me from an awkward silence. "No thanks Chiron, I'll set up camp in the woods." Chiron looked like he wanted to argue but I left before he could.
I was walking towards the showers when I noticed people stopping to stare and point at me. they started whispering so I shadow traveled outside the cabin next to it. I saw a large woman, who I assumed was a daughter of Ares based on her appearance. they did not have any jackets on and It was obvious they were cold from their shivering.
The girl had a number of other kids with her, who I assumed were also Ares brutes. I snuck behind her and got close to her ear. I learned in and, "What are you doing?" I said while whispering. she shrieked and jumped back while drawing her weapon and turning around.
I was already behind her when she did, she waved her weapon around and I silently laughed. Her stance was all wrong. I spartan kicked her and she shrieked again. She saw me and stepped back a bit in fear but held her composure.
"Well well well, Aren't you the new kid. Prissy isn't it?. Well, you never got the initiation prissy," she said before lunging at me. I sidestepped and grabbed her wrist. I put so much strength behind it that after a loud crunch, she screamed loudly in pain. her brother rushed me and I moved while still holding onto the girl's arm.
I head-butted him and he fell back unconscious. The others looked like they wanted to help, but not end up like their sister. I viciously jerked her arm against the joint while still looking at the fallen form of the Ares brat below me. Again she screamed but louder than last time. I kicked her knee out from under her so she was in a kneeling position.
I brought my elbow down hard on her exposed shoulder area. I shadow traveled behind her and sideways kicked her into the dirt. I came up the side of her and kicked her in the ribs. She flew across space and landed harshly through the brick wall. She broke half of her ribcage from the kick alone. And one of her ribs had punctured her lung. I silently made sure she did not die with the powers gifted to me by the god of death.
I walked up to her while stepping over debris. I picked her up by the back of her neck and dragged her to the urinal. I put her head in, the water soon became a blood red. I savagely kicked her head through the urinal glass. her teeth had been forcefully knocked down her throat from the impact.
I got her to her feet and held her by her throat. She begged me to let her go but without her teeth, it sounded weird. She spluttered and spit blood all over me. I threw her forward into the mirror and she sat on the sink numbly. I spartan kicked her in the chest through the wall through the wall behind the mirror. she couldn't breathe by now but I kept her alive, so even though her lungs burned and squealed, she could not die.
she had broken glass stuck in the back of her neck. I once again through her back to where we started. Her sibling had to step back to avoid being hit. a few were puking from what I was doing. She started having a seizure on the ground in pain.
She stood up on one knee and started screaming in pain again. she screamed so loud that I got sick of it. I put my hand down her throat and gripped her tongue. she tried to bite me but without teeth it like she was trying to numb my hand. I forcefully tore out her tongue and uvula.
I heard the Ares kids crying from behind me but I ignored it. I gripped her arm so tight that it completely crushed her arm. it was like a squishy tube of toothpaste. I then kicked her knee so hard it went backward. She struggles to stand so I grabbed her throat stepped to the side of her and kicked her knee sideways.
I could see the bone so I grabbed her exposed femur and ripped it out of her body. looking at her tear-covered face I knew she would scream if she could. I grip her throat tightly and step behind her I hook my leg around her backward one and used the leverage to pull her to the ground forcefully. I flipped her over with my foot and jumped onto her back.
A large crack was heard and he stomped crushing her sternum in two. he Pushed his fist into her back piercing the skin and ripping her spinal cord forcefully out of her back. she was now completely paralyzed. I gripped her hair that is tied into a ponytail and pulled until her entire scalp came off.
I heard a lot more puking and some bodies falling. which when I turned around was people fainting. The more I hurt her the more difficult it was to keep her alive with my powers, but I honestly did not care. I gripped her skull and held her in the air.
I pressed my thumbs into her eyes and crushed them, she would never see again. I threw her into the ground and walked away. her brothers got her out of the ditch she was in and carried her to the infirmary. Lightning flashed up ahead and I knew I would pay for that one.
The next day the hunter came to camp. they said that their mistress was hunting an ancient monster alone and did not need the hunt scaring it off. I had set up shop in a tree in the woods. it was in a valley of a lot of other trees that put shadows over it.
I made the shadows conceal it always. It was so high that the only way in was to shadow travel. and since only I know where it is. that is frankly impossible. It was small enough that it did not take any power to conceal. and big enough to sleep in it.
The camp had left me alone since the Clarisse incident. My brother Nico was not handling his sister's kidnapping very well. he almost never left the Hermes cabin anymore. The only reason he ate was that I shadow traveled the meals to him.
I knew that the lieutenant of the hunt had a vision about Artemis being kidnapped because at night I shadow traveled into their cabin and cloaked myself in darkness. The first time had been a risk because I had not known that the goddess was missing, and gods and goddess could sense beings in their cabin.
and I also knew that she was determined to beat me in capture the flag after what happened at the school where Bianca was kidnapped.
I made her look weak. and a leader is never supposed to look weak or show fear in front of the people that they command. it makes them start to disobey. Because if they are so weak, then why listen to them? now she was out of blood, My blood.
I was know cloaked in darkness standing at the starting point of the creed waiting for the game to start. the conch horn sounded after Chiron explained all the rules to us. I pulled the shadows to me and shadow traveled to a tree overlooking the hunter's flag.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the lieutenant and her friends throwing a kid to the ground. they cut him up and bullied him. They ripped the flag out of his hands and started Running towards the creek with our flag in hand. I growled in anger and shadow traveled her into my hand. I held her by her throat and she looked down fearfully as I held her out over the branch overlooking the large camp.
"You thought I would let you disrespect the house of Hades without consequence?" I asked raspily. I rarely talked and when I did it was usually to my father. she shook her head warily while still eyeing the floor below. I growled in anger.
"LIAR!" I yelled angrily. then...
I dropped her.