Percy: You lied! It didn't help at all!
Me: Dude… trust me or I'll make it so it never helps.
Percy: Okay.
A/N: Welcome back to part 2. Hopefully you listened to Clubbed to Death. Okay now you can start playing River Flows in You and continue playing it through out the chapter.
Healing the Love of Wisdom, Part 2
Chapter X
The Burning Sanctum
Percy's PoV
OH MY FUCKING GODS! IT'S FUCKING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001! ARGH! I hope we can prevent the Twin Towers' attacks.
Just as if she read my mind, Hecate said, "Sorry Percy. As I watched this I felt bad too. I even tried to prevent it. I just couldn't. All I could do was hold up the two buildings. After some time, my power drained and I couldn't hold it anymore."
I looked at her and could see the tears in her eyes. I don't know what happened but it was like my body moved on it's own. I hugged her.
I said, "It's alright. I don't think anyone could prevent it."
She nodded and hugged me tighter. Artemis started yelling and pointed toward the towers. Everyone looked and saw the first plane hit the building. People started panicking. Everyone started praying and calling 911. It was useless. No body could get any help right now. I looked closer at the building and saw Typhon walk out from behind the South Tower. He hit the tower. Of course. The Mist covered it up. I got angry and flew up to Typhon. Down by the city, people thought I was a jet. I was using the moisture in the air to propel me upwards. When I reached Typhon, I realized he was holding the South Tower. He was trying to push down on it. To distract him, I made a bow and a quiver of arrows materialize. I started to hit him square in the face with arrows. Then I propelled myself toward him and punched him in the face with strength from Ares' powers. Then I grew vines from the ground to hold the building in place. Next, with the speed of Hermes and strength of Ares, I started to beat the living hell out of Typhon. With Dionysus' powers, I made a bottle of vodka appear. And no I wasn't going to drink it. Then using Hephaestus' power over fire, I lit the bottle and threw it at Typhon. With Aphrodite's power, I don't know why but, I made him fall in love with his hands. Then using Hera's powers I made him forget about what he was doing so that I could drive him mad using Dionysus' powers again. After that, I took away his madness and started to buffet him with rain. This battle seemed to have gone on for almost 30 minutes. I was about to get hit by a fist so I shadow traveled him away. That was my big mistake. When he reappeared, his fist hit the side of the other building. That's when I realized that the Mist was only hiding Typhon. Airplanes really did hit the towers. 'Fuck!' Was all I could really think at the time. Combining the power of most of the Olympians, I threw an energy ball at Typhon. Luckily, it was enough to send Typhon somewhere. Hopefully Tartarus. But I already knew he would be sent to his prison. I flew back down and saw people running around screaming.
Then I saw someone run past me. He looked so familiar.
?'s PoV (Not Annabeth)
The buildings just got hit by an airplane that some big ugly thing threw at them. People were screaming. All I could think at that time was, 'Holy shit.' I was snapped back to reality when I heard a girl call my name. My girlfriend was yelling for me to run. Damn it! I need to get out of the building. Why the heck am I at the very fucking top? I grabbed my girlfriend and did the dumbest thing I ever could do. I ran at the broken window and jumped. Yes. I jumped out the window of a fucking building at the top floor. I didn't close my eyes though. I wasn't scared. After a few moments of falling and listening to my girlfriend screaming, I hit the ground. HARD! It wasn't sore at all. I rolled it off and thought I was dead.
I opened my eyes and stood up. I looked down and expected to see my body because I thought I was a spirit. I was wrong. I ran at a wall and jumped expecting to fly right through it. Again, I was wrong and just kicked off the wall. I was still alive. I started running and saw three people just standing there. I decided to just run past them. I was going into the building to save as many people as I could. I saved about 50 people in 15 minutes. When I ran out my girlfriend saw me and yelled at me for jumping out the building. Then she kissed me for saving her.
"(CENSORED) please don't go back. I don't want to lose you!" She said.
"It's alright. I'll come back alright. Just leave get to safety and go on with your life okay. If you ever find me again, wake me up when this ends alright. I love you." I said.
She nodded and said, "I love you too." I kissed her long and hard for what could have been the last kiss we'd ever share. She turned and started to run with the others to who knows where. I ran into the next building, the South Tower to save more but everything came crashing down. Literally. The South Tower collapsed. With me in it. I didn't know why but I ran to the middle and something flew out of my hands. It was like electricity. No. It was stronger. It was lightning. The lightning twirled around the building until it reached the top and came back down the building. Hitting everything hard. It was covering the building. Trying to suspend it's fall. I watched in terror as everything fell.
Percy's PoV
I watched as the kid started to run into the building saving people. I was glad that he was helping and made a mental note to make sure to become his friend. Well, at least I hope he will. He ran out the building and started talking to someone. I guess it was his girlfriend because he kissed her. She started running toward us and I got Artemis' attention. I pointed toward the girl and Artemis nodded in understanding. She ran toward her and took her hand. Artemis teleported her away. I told Hecate to help me save more humans. When we were done, surprisingly we saved 70 people in 3 seconds, we met up again. I turned toward the South Tower and we watch the kid run back into the building. Just then, the vines I grew for support gave in and tore. We watched in horror as the building collapsed. I felt so sad. I felt bad that I just lost the chance of making a possible friend. The building fell on top of him and I was sure he was dead. Then dust and debris started flying toward us but we were sucked back into a portal again.
When we appeared back in the Caverns of Time, I realized everyone had tears in their eyes. We were silent for a few moments until Hecate spoke up.
"Well," She began, "Percy the portal said that the one kid we just saw die will be an important person. Was supposed to be an important person actually." I nodded.
Another portal up again spitting out another crystal skull. Hecate picked it up and read one thing, "Perseus Jackson, King of the Gods." Then she handed it to me.
"Percy, if you ever need to see that memory again, just ask it and it will take you to it." I nodded again.
We walked into the new portal and it showed us one thing before throwing us out. We weren't in a physical dimension. It was just a vision. Like an Iris Message. What we saw made me angery, sad, and dead inside. The vision showed us Annabeth stabbing Athena. Apollo was trying to heal her but Annabeth kicked him in the balls and muttered something.
"I'm gonna kill her!" Artemis and I yelled at the same time. We got thrown out of the portal and out of the Caverns of Time. We were back in my palace. It was morning time already but there was something wrong. The sun wasn't there.
We were tired but I still had to call a council meeting. Hecate was invited also.
"Did you guys find out anything?" Zeus and Poseidon asked and the same time.
"Yes. But you wouldn't like it." I said.
"The first thing that happened was…" I began.
Me: Well, I hope you guys liked it. I think that Healing the Love of Wisdom was the most emotional chapters for the story. At least I hope it was. Tell me what you guys thought about it and please review.
A/N: The little scene with the unknown's PoV was a little secret and hint about the prequel. So I hope you guys paid attention to it.
Percy, Hecate, and Artemis: *Sob Sob* (CENSORED), why did you make the kid die?
Me (sadly says): Sorry, but I can't tell you… *Disappears is a flash of lightning.*
