Leo and Hades glared at each other for a moment.

"I won't lose again." Hade's said. Then, quicker than Leo could blink, he slashed at Leo's knee's with his stygian iron sword.

"Ow." Leo winced, now on his knees until he could fully heal. Without warning, he burst into flames and began shooting fire balls at Hades close range.

"AHH!" Hades yelled as he was set on fire. He wasn't exactly immune to it as Leo was.

"Eat that!" Leo taunted, turning back to his normal, un-flaming self. Hades wasn't paying attention, he instead snapped his fingers, extinguishing himself. He was badly burned though.

"I can play with fire, boy." He said, the black orbs of power returning for the 3rd time to his hand.

"That's not fire." Leo said, distracted. Hades saw his chance, and it was Leo's turn to be burned.

"That is hot!" He cried, trying to pat himself off. He eventually succeeded, and shot a mean look at Hades. "You'll pay for that." He grabbed a hammer from his awesome tool belt and swung it at Hades.

Of course, Hades tried to block it. But Leo used so much strength, it shattered his blade. The hammer continued it's deadly arc and hit Hades on the very top of his head.

Hade's eyes crossed with pain, and he fell, unmoving.

"You killed him!" Nico shouted, running up to his dad.

"You can't kill a god." Annabeth said reassuringly.

"Well, it looks like you can." Percy commented, then realized he wasn't making Nico feel any better.

"You know what, I think I'm going to let him rest for a bit, though." Annabeth said, looking sympathetically at Hades form.

"What do we do while we wait?" Leo asked.

"We should probably heal all those demi-gods." Percy put in.

"And make them give our powers back." Aphrodite added. ]

"Okay." Leo, Percy, Annabeth and Jason all went around the room, healing the knocked out demi-gods. Once they were all awake, Annabeth put them in a line.

"Frank Zhang first." Athena said. "He was the first one to lose." Annabeth silently lined him up with Ares.

"You have to give up your god powers now." She said. Frank nodded, closed his eyes, and collapsed. Ares form momentarily flickered as he was returned to his original form.

"We should heal him again." Percy said. And that's what they did.

One by one all the demi-gods who lost gave up their powers, then were healed. Soon, the room was almost back to normal. Hephaestus and Athena were standing by angrily.

"This is so unfair." Athena finally said. "I don't get my powers back because another god failed to return them? This whole deal you and your demi-god friends worked out doesn't cut it."

"Well you didn't make the deal, did you." Percy snapped back. "This was our battle. And Annabeth won. Deal with it."

Athena sneered at him. "I hope you lose, son of Posiedon."

"I hope you go die in a hole." Percy said back, his anger flaring. "I could kill you right now, you know. Or turn you into something repulsive. You're lucky I'm nice."

"Just calm down, man. Don't get yourself all riled up because of some girl problem." Leo took Percy's arm and led him away.

"I have to agree with Athena, son." Hephaestus said, stopping Leo in his tracks. "It's time you demi-gods went right back to…"

"To where you could smash us into grease spots?" Leo interrupted, a small flame erupting in his hair. "You gods needed a major lesson on how you treat others below you, this is a perfect chance."

"Yeah, well maybe I don't want to be taught a lesson." Hephaestus grunted.

"Well…"

Leo trailed off. Annabeth had suddenly collapsed.

"Annabeth!" Percy yanked his arm from Leo's grip and ran to his girlfriend, kneeling by her side and trying to find out what had happened.

He looked up after a second. His face was grim. "I don't know what just happened, but there's no sign of breathing."

Both demi-gods and gods gathered around Annabeth's limp form.

"Do you think she'll be okay?" Jason asked, shattering the stunned silence that had settled into the throne room.

"Somebody's behind this." Percy rose, his form flickering. "And if I catch them, they're going to be sorry they ever even thought about doing this."

What do you think? I'm thinking about making it into an actual story instead of just the battles between the demi-gods and Hades, but I don't know, so please review and tell me what you think.