Hey there guys, so I decided to write another chapter today. I went grocery shopping with my mom today and thought about this on the car ride there, while I pushed the cart, and on the ride back home(the nearest grocery store is fifteen miles from my town). Anyway I hope you like it as much as I do...enjoy.
Don't own Percy Jackson.
Battle of the Dead
"I apologize for losing them father, I apologize for my failure. The son of Poseidon has more power then we originally anticipated." Seth said, kneeling before his father. The god of the sun regarded the boy with an expression of utmost fury. "He has powers over the shadows and over the water."
"You and your band of friends have disappointed me, Sethos. I wanted that boy dead before he made it here to Las Vegas, before he could stop our plans. But you, my only son have failed me." Ra said. "Not only did you let them escape but your little girlfriend angered Aphrodite. You may see her as worthless but here's a little thing for you to remember Aphrodite is the last child of Ouranos, the father of the Titans. She is the oldest Olympian and the power of love is mighty, when it wants to be."
"I do not understand." Seth said, standing up to his full height.
"Love has the power to bring gods and people to their knees, no one is immune to love. Do you remember what I told you about the Greek and Roman gods?" Ra asked standing up from his throne and walking down to where Seth stood. "Let us take a walk, son."
"You said that they're one in the same, the only different is that the Romans are more disciplined and warlike." Seth answered as they exited the throne room. "Why do you bring it up?"
"Aphrodite maybe useless in her Greek form but as her Roman form Venus she's a force to be reckoned with." Ra said. "At the moment she has switched between forms." Seth nodded. "Jayden Acheron Cross, is a son of Poseidon and a servant of Hades, is that what you said he said?"
"Yes, what does it mean?"
"I must talk to Anubis." Ra said disappearing in a flurry of sunlight.
With Jayden...
Jayden was standing on the wooden barge that ferried the dead, Charon was poling him across the River Acheron. "Am I going to come here every time I fall asleep?" Jayden asked the ferryman.
"Not always, Hades requests that you join Nico at the border of the Greek Underworld and Egyptian Netherworld." Charon said as he poled the barge into a different river. "Cover your ears this is the Cocytus, the River of Wailing." Jayden covered his ears but he could still hear the wailing of the dead. Luckily for him it was a short ride to the shore. "Welcome to the border of the Greek Underworld, try not to die."
"Thanks." Jayden said stepping off of the barge and onto the black sand.
He watched Charon disappear and when he could no longer see the ferryman he walked up a freshly laid path. He looked down at his feet and was surprised that this time he was wearing a pair of brand new Converse. He was wearing a pair of loose fitting black jeans and a dark gray long sleeve t-shirt, he didn't understand why Hades insisted that he come to the Underworld in different clothes then the ones he was wearing. He found Nico easily, he was wearing black armor and standing with an army of dead soldiers, hellhounds, and Cerberus.
"What's going on?" Jayden asked.
"Anubis has sent, the jackals and mummies to lead the first attack on my father's domain. Jayden, the Earth, the sky, and the underworld are being attacked in this war. For some reason the underworld is first." Nico said drawing his Stygian iron sword. "Draw your weapon, the first battle of the Egyptian-Greek war starts now."
Jayden drew Arago and went to stand next to Nico. He felt his eyes widen at the sight of thousands of mummies, jackals, and skeleton warriors. They were being led by a single demigod, he was wearing a helmet in the shape of a jackal's head. Jayden wished that his friends were here or that anyone in general because he felt like they were going to need a lot more forces then those that were behind him. The Egyptian dead charged.
"Children of Phobos, Demios, Nyx, Melinoe, Hecate, and Thantos are being ferried across the Cocytus." Nico said. Jayden nodded and watched as the fourteen year old raised his sword, the ground started to rumble. Cracks appeared in the ground and skeletal hands grasped the air as more of the dead clawed their way up to the surface. Nico commanded the army behind him to charge. "Jayden, the River Cocytus is yours, those who get past my forces will be left to yours. Don't let them get past the river."
"Understood." Jayden said.
"The rings on your fingers channel your power they're made of Stygian iron, they should help you control the dead." Nico said before stepping into the shadows.
Jayden ran down to the river bank. Standing on the shore clad in bronze armor were his fellow campers. He sent Josie Bruin and her cabin mates to help Nico as well as Hesper Lurns and her siblings. Melanie Black and the children of Melinoe went along with them too. He was left with Tristan's siblings, and the children of Demios and Thantos.
"What do we do Jayden?" Zoe Hutton asked.
"Don't let the enemy past the river." Jayden answered. They all nodded, the hellhounds started growling. Jayden looked at the dead. "Go forth and defend this domain!" The dead with their array of weapons charged, hellhounds lunged forward, and his fellow demigods stared at him. "Brace yourselves."
Jackals leaped over the dead soldiers and Jayden willed the water of the river to rise and with all the might of the ocean behind him he shot it at them. They were drowned by the wails of the dead. Jayden slashed at the mummies that were coming toward him, they became black sand. He saw that a dozen jackals surrounded Tristan's favorite little sister, he dipped Arago into the water of the river. The black water covered the sapphire blade, he felt the water in his hand, and used it as a whip, He hit the jackals square in the stomach and flung them toward a pack of hellhounds. The girl looked at him, her gratitude was written all over her face. With his whip of black water he gabbed a couple of mummies and threw them into another pack of hellhounds.
"There you go boys, freshly dead chew toys." he told the dogs who began tearing at the mummies.
He felt the ground shake again, Nico was summoning more dead. Jayden joined the Phobos kids in a sword fight against some mummies. One of the mummies knocked him backwards and kicked Arago out of Jayden's hand. If it weren't for Persephone's gift he wouldn't have a face after this battle. He kicked the mummy in the stomach and got to his feet quickly.
"Ike! Take charge, we have to end this and to do that we attack the general!" Jayden said to Tristan's second in command. Ike nodded and Jayden shadow traveled to where Nico was fighting the demigod general.
"What are you doing here? I told you to defend the river!" Nico said as he blocked the boy's attack.
"Take him to the river and we'll end this there." Jayden said, they were speaking Greek. Nico nodded and somehow managed to grab the boy and take him with him through the shadows. Jayden followed, Nico and the boy were on the shore their sword fight in full swing. "Nico onto the river!"
Nico nodded and slowly backed up onto the river, the boy followed. Nico encased them in a black cloud and Jayden in a very solid very big bubble of water, secluding them from the others. Jayden broke the surface tension beneath the boy's feet and dragged him down into the water. Nico fished him out using ropes of black shadow. Jayden drew his bow and arrows, he shot the bubble and it shattered into a million little pieces which he redirected toward the Egyptian army of the dead.
"Ike, heads up!" Nico shouted. Ike turned around and loaded an arrow of mortal steel into his bow. Nico threw the boy toward Ike, the steel arrow cut through the air and hit the boy right in the heart. Nico pointed to the mummies and jackals that were still coming toward them "What about those things?"
"Get everybody across the river and leave the rest to me." Jayden said.
Nico nodded and shouted for everyone to cross the river. Once Jayden saw that all of the demigods, hellhounds, Cerberus, and their soldiers were safely across the river he turned to face the rest of the Egyptian army. He willed all of the water out of it's bed and a huge black icy waved pushed them back to the border and just for fun he created a hurricane to make sure that Anubis knew not to mess with him or Hades.
"Way to save the day, Jay." Josie Bruin said.
Jayden smiled warily at her before collapsing.
On the train...
Jayden's eyes shot open, he was on the floor and all of his friends were hovering over him. "Why the hell can I never have peaceful sleep?" Hr took Tristan's hand and allowed him to pull him up. He fell back into his seat. "How long have I been out?"
"Two days." Beck said.
"I thought you were dead." Aery said.
"Two days." Jayden said before passing out again.
"I wonder what he was doing this time." Isabelle said taking her seat across from him.
"What do you mean?" Aery asked as she prodded Jayden with one of her flashlights. "He's fun to poke."
"Stop that. Anyway sometimes he's called to the Underworld while he sleeps." Isabelle said pulling Aery down into her seat.
"That must suck." Aery said reaching for her flashlights which Isabelle had taken away. "Give 'em back!"
Isabelle tossed them to Beck and when Aery rounded on him, he tossed them at Tristan. "Come and get them Monkey!" She jumped out of her seat and over Jayden's and began to chase Tristan up and down the train. "Ha this is the most fun I've had while you've been here." He said watching her shudder in fear. He walked away from her and left her to recover from the heavy dose of his powers. Before he reached his seat he found himself kissing the floor of the train.
Aery grabbed a huge chunk of his black hair and lifted his head up. "That was the funnest thing I've done on this whole train ride." she took her flashlights and with all of her strength pushed his head down.
"I'd sleep with one eye open if I were you Monkey Girl, you wouldn't want to die of fright in your sleep would you?" Tristan growled grabbing on of his shirts an pressing it to his bleeding nose. "And if you ever do that again you're going to be plagued by your fears until you die and even in your afterlife."
"Way! To! Go! You! Pissed! Him! Off!" Beck said making each word into a sentence and saying them angrily.
"You guys took my stuff." Aery retorted sinking down into her seat beside Isabelle.
She lay down, her head on Isabelle's lap and fell to sleep. Tristan laughed a laugh that chilled her bones and made the hair on Beck's neck stand. He looked at Aery, an evil glint in his midnight blue eyes. "Tristan don't." Isabelle said.
"I hate you sometimes you know that." Tristan said sitting down next to Beck. "You always talk me out of doing fun things, damn charmspeak." He stood up and took a golden drachma out of his pocket. "Come on Beckett let's go make a call, I want to know where Jay's been."
She watched them leave and in about twenty minutes they returned with grim expressions plastered on their faces. "What happened?"
"The Underworld was attacked. Jayden and Nico led an army made out of demigods, hellhounds, and dead warriors in the first battle of this war and the first in the Underworld, they won." Tristan said, he looked at Jayden's sleeping form and sighed. "He has to be tough, he's fighting above ground and under ground."
"He isn't fighting alone." Isabelle said looking at Jayden. "He has us."
"Yeah he does, but how long can he go before he passes out and never wakes up?" Tristan asked. "It's got to be tough being a son of one of the Big Three add being Hades's servant."
"Nothing is easy in life Tristan." Isabelle said. "And I'm sure Hades didn't keep him alive so he could die carrying out his orders. I believe that Hades in someway cares for Jayden and it has to do with his mother. Jayden told me that Hades called her beautiful and brave and that the look in his eyes was one of sadness and longing."
"You think that Hades liked Jay's mom." Beck said.
"You are a daughter of Aphrodite." Tristan said.
"I don't think it because my mother's the goddess of love but because when my father used to talk about my mother he had the same look in his eyes." Isabelle said.
"Hades is the only one who didn't break the pact." Tristan said taking some pretzels from Jayden's backpack. "He loves Persephone too much, ironically he's the god who people distrust the most but the most faithful of them all."
"Maybe Poseidon beat him to Jayden's mom and because Jayden looks like her he couldn't stand to see him die." Isabelle said looking at Jayden, his skin was paler and there was more black in his hair. "He doesn't look well."
"No, he doesn't." Tristan said noticing that Jayden had thinned quite a bit since he started using the powers Hades gave him. "Maybe you're right Aphrodite Girl but still...it can't be good to have two different kinds of powers in you."
"No it can't." Beck agreed.
To be continued...
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