Chapter Nine: Rescuing Omega

Shadow's POV

Life is really easy when you can teleport wherever you want. Like right outside the prison cell Omega being held in. Or, I hope he's there. Let me just tell you, teleporting has rules. One, you can't teleport more than twice per hour. You won't explode or anything, you'll just be prevented from doing it. Two, there is a certain mist found all over the universe. Spray it on something, like a room or a prison, people can't teleport within five feet of it. Guess what was all over the tower?

Anyway, here's a basic idea of the prison cell. It was a tower, from the looks of it made of normal stone. It looks really dark and gloomy, no decorations or any sorts of color on it. It was surrounded by a fence, and we could see monsters looming within. Mostly Hellhounds and Dracanae, a few Laistrygonian giants and the Minotaur. Some Cyclops's.

"So how do we get in," Alpha asked.

"Me and Angel will create a distraction in front of the main gate, and Shocker, Alpha, and Shadow will break in from the back," Hunter suggested.

"I don't know Zoë, I think we should stick together."

"Don't worry," she said giving him a quick kiss. "I'll be fine." Shocker opened his mouth but Angel spoke first.

"I'll be ok too." They were still weary though.

"Where's my kiss," Shocker made a fake pout face. Angel leaned over and kissed him.

"Ok, let's do this." I sprinted toward the back gate with Alpha and Shocker. I waited for the distraction to happen. A few seconds later half the monsters stopped and ran towards the front gate.

"No time to lose," I said sneaking up. I placed a piece of dynamite from my backpack on the wall. "What can we light this with?" I whispered. Alpha reached into his bag and pulled out a flare. "It will have to do," Alpha sighed. "Wait, Shocker can you strike it with lightning?" I hoped.

"They will notice, but so will the flare." I put back the dynamite.

"Lets climb." We grabbed on to the chain fence and began to climb. I climbed faster than I ever had before. Omega, you have to save Omega. That was my only thought. My Percy. It was seconds before I reached the top and hopped the fence. There was a little barbed wire on the top but all it did was scratch at my coat.

I jumped down and drew my swords. They turned around and charged and me. I heard Alpha and Shocker land next to me. Well, Alpha did a combat roll. Always making an entrance.

Shocker started by sending out some lightning bolts. I jumped on a Cyclopes as he tried to knock me off, but in two quick stabs he disappeared into golden dust. The building was casting a shadow over some of the monsters. I closed my eyes and concentrated. I used all my power to bend the shadows at my will.

I've done this a million times, so I know pretty well what happened. The shadow reached out with a small arm and pulled them down. I assume they struggled, but the shadow pulled them in and squished them anyway.

Sure enough, I turned around and saw a small group of monsters charging, a huge pile of golden dust blowing in the wind. I tossed one sword. It curved through the air, slashing down three Empousa before clanking to the ground. I drew my shield in my right hand, one sword still in my left.

Normally I would be tired after crushing so many creatures, but now I felt fine. Alpha and Shocker had pretty much tore threw the remaining monsters. I jumped a Cyclopes and smashed his nose with my shield. He stumbled back, and I spun backward, backstabbing him in the chest.

I walked over to my other sword. Stealthing my shield on my back, I picked it up and stealthed it aswell. I took out the dynamite and ran toward the tower. "No point trying to sneak around now," I said dropping it and running. "Shocker now!" I yelled.

He was about to blow it with lightning, but a ear piercing scream ripped through the air. He froze. "Come on," I nudged him. "We don't have all day."

He opened his mouth to scream, but all that came out was a whisper of fear. "Bianca." He trembled.

"I'm sure she's fine. These monsters don't have powerful weapons or anything like that anyway." He was reluctant, but a lighting bolt ripped down from the sky and blew the dinomite up, creating a huge hole in the side of the tower.

I charged in, sword held high. My eyes drifted to the corner where I saw a, what! I jumped with fear. A Death Reaper stood in the corner smirking. His scyke was impaled in the ground. I turned to him and raised my swords.

"What are you doing!?" Alpha yelled, but it felt so distant. Like I was fading from reality. I charged at him, but suddenly froze in time.

"Don't worry girl, your time to fight me will come. I'm not just any Reaper after all." I looked down and noticed his gold bits of armor. He smirked. "You will face me, you will fail. Your world, you're everything will fall. Remember that, If you survive long enough."

Then weird as it sounds, he turned into a blinding light causing me to stumble back.

Omega's POV

The tower shook again. "L-Logan," I croaked. He walked over and leaned over me.

"You ok?" he asked. I just have to say, think how scary this must be for an inexperienced five year old. He hated hearing me scream or seeing my blood drip to the floor. The 'purple creamy stuff.' But I couldn't hold it back. It was too painful, my own sword cutting me up…

"I-I think s-something's coming for us." He frowned.

"Good guys or." he didn't have to finish.

"I don't know, l-let's hope," but I was cut off when I blacked out.

Angel's POV

A small amount of blood dripped from my back. "Move it," said the demigod behind me. The Minotaur growled and pounded his fists together. The only thought running through my mind was how?

They had our weapons. It's not like they scrounged Omega's stuff either. The had weapons from our legit metals and essences. I tripped, again. I was too absorbed in my own thoughts. Zoë let out a groan as they pushed the sword into her back.

I scrambled to my feet as we climbed higher in the tower. It seemed to go on forever, endless walls of stone. I trudged up the stairs. If I could just trip one more time without Zoë getting hurt, I could pull a dagger from my shoe.

We stopped after a few minutes and the demigods and monsters looked nervous. A few times when we were walking monsters had rushed by. It appears our friends were making quite a push.

We had stopped at an armoury where they dropped our weapons in a pile. It was like a little room sticking out of the tower. Now's my chance! I dropped to my knee, my hand drifting over my boot. "Watch where you point that thing man, it hurts," I said. He smirked, but I drew my knife from my boot and tossed it at him. He fell to the ground in agony of a chaos metal dagger right to the chest.

I felt kind of bad killing demigods, but they chose the wrong side. I jumped in front of his body, now on the floor and picked up my dagger. The Minotaur and Empousa growled. The other demigod turned in surprise. The Empousa charged uselessly at me and slashed down its talons. Wait, why is one of it's legs bronze? Oh well. I rolled to the side and slashed at its left side.

Guess it wasn't smart or strong, because it just disappeared into golden dust, the essence of Tartarus. The Minotaur charged at me, and I tossed my dagger. It whirled toward the air, and the grunted. He has no idea.

I let him get close, and he smashed down at me with his fist, but again I rolled to the side. Unfortunately he just smacked his fist to the right smacking me into a wall. I groaned and slid down the wall. It didn't really hurt that much, but I knew what would happen.

He grinned in satisfaction, but just then a dagger stabbed him in the back. Zoë. So let me explain something about our fighting ways. Say I have two weapons, and someone else has none. I would toss them a weapon. If someone was about to be attacked from behind, instead of yelling look out! Which only focuses them, I'd toss something at that monster.

When I threw the dagger, Zoë caught it, beat the demigod, and threw it back at the Minotaur, who also dissolved into dust. I picked up the dagger as an alarm started to sound. Some Cyclopes rushed from the armory, and charged, but just then I saw a lightning bolt fly over my head and blow up some of the forges.

"Come on!" Shocker yelled. Zoë picked up our stuff, tossing weapons to me. I quickly grabbed and stealthier everything but my bow and shot at the four charging Cyclopes. Zoë hurried past, and I turned and ran up the stairs also.

Convenient they keep the armory right below the prisoners. Shadow saw Percy through the bars and screamed. I felt bad, almost letting go of a tear myself. He looked horrible. Just horrible.

Omegas POV

Where am I? I tried to get up but pain burned everywhere. I turned my head to the left to see a girl holding my head in her arms. She's cute. Oh wait, thats Shadow. Then I remembered the shaking of the building, my friends came.

Shadow was trying, emphases on try, to hold back a million tears that spilled. When I came back to reality, she hugged my injured body, but I noticed the room was, tilted? That's pretty cool.

"We only have a minute before this whole place comes down!" Someone yelled. Oh. Three people, looks like Shocker, Alpha, and Hunter rushed in and touched Shadow. She began to darken, advanced shadow travel it looks like.

But too soon the entire roof came in, and a rock tumbled down, knocking me and, Angel that is away from the other just as they left. The building was tilting way off to the side, and was now pretty much falling from the sky.

I saw Logan falling dos the sky. "Over here!" I yelled also sliding down the tilted pillar. He managed to push off the wall and slid toward us. I reached out my hand. Pound!

My feet exploded with pain shooting up my legs. I crumbled to my knees, but rolled over anyway. Logan was also on his knees, and Angel was leaning over me. "Don't do it, you won't be able to resist tap hat much pain in your condition!" Angel yelled.

"I have to!" I yelled back wrapping my wings around Angel and Logan. A gold protection symbol appeared around us as we smashed into the ground.