okay here's the longer chapter, I hope you guys enjoy this one!
Restoring the Rulers-Chapter 10: Outnumbered and overwhelmed
As I predicted, the monsters did punch their way through.
We heard loud bangs against the elevator doors. The doors finally gave and opened wide as they came pouring in.
Gryphons, harpies, minatours, rogue centaurs and cyclops and other sorts of creatures came charging at us, both battle ready and hungry.
"Did they rip the elevator our our something?" Leo asked.
I looked back at the gods and they still sat there, unshaken by the noise.
"C'mon demigods! You wanna save your parents? FIGHT!" Jason roared.
The demigods shouted in reply. The ballistae, crossbows and archers fired all they could at the charging monsters. Some fell and sank into the floor but the swarm still raged on.
The Ares campers were the tip of the spear, they charged back at them passing the line of the crossbows and ballistae. The other campers were trailing behind.
I uncapped Riptide and came rushing in myself, ignoring all the metal clashing and the grunts of the monsters who sounded like they missed lunch.
A few feet away was a minatour gripping its battle axe, covered in blood. I froze and remembered what I saw in Atlantis, all the killing and bloodshed. I shook my head and walked towards the minatour that was engaging.
It swung it's axe towards my right side and I only dodged it by and inch. It swung again at my left side, I tried parrying it.
Riptide flew away from my right hand as I stumbled backwards. My right arm felt like it just carried a boulder.
I sank down in pain. The minatour walked towards me again, raising its axe, ready to bring me to Elysium.
I was ready to roll to my left but the minatour was sprayed by six arrows to its left side. It didn't even grunt or roar, it just stumbled to its right.
The lifeless beast fell down, dropping the red axe.
I looked to my right and saw Frank and some other campers re-drawing their bows.
I gave them a small salute and got back on my feet to look for my sword. But the moment I did, Riptide found itself back into my pocket in pen form.
I smiled as I pulled out the most convenient pen/sword I ever had. I uncapped it again.
I was so distracted that a raging cyclops was chargin at me, raising its club to batter me to death.
I unsheathed little Leo and parried its club away from its hand. I knocked the poor guy to the head with the back of my sword.
With Little Leo on my left and Riptide on my right, I felt a little more confident.
The confidence instantly died as I was slowly being pushed back by a Roman in front of me, realizing that we were retreating back.
The huge shields that the Romans carried kept some of the creatures at bay, but sooner or later the gryphons behind were gonna break our line.
Jason was just behind me. He gripped my shoulder, "What are we gonna do Percy?"
I regretfully shrugged. Those traps weren't gonna get all of them, and the line wasn't gonna hold much longer.
"We have to hold the line, but the gods some more time. We have to." I replied.
"How much time? We can't go on like this forever." Jason said.
I nodded at him, and faced back at the our retreating line.
I looked at our surroundings. Left, right, front and back.
We were getting close to the crossbow line at the back. A little bit forward and To the left and right of the corssbows were the traps, waiting to be released.
I looked up to see anything useful. I saw a few lamps held up be ropes, and surely enough, conveniently above the monsters.
I looked at Frank who was back at the scafolding "Frank! The lamps! Shoot the lamps!" I shouted to him as I pointed upwards.
He nodded, ordered his archers to fire.
A rain of fire descended on the monsters. Burning most but only killing some.
The fire bought us some time, but not enough.
There was a chill down my spine. I was panicking. I gripped my sword and dagger, thinking hard. We were out of options.
We were now only a few feet away from the ballistae. I looked back at the gods, hoping that the meditation magic did its trick.
Thankfully, it did.