Warriors of The Eternal One: Resistance
Chapter Fourteen: Uranus Rising
AN: This is it...The FINAL Chapter...Who will win? Who will lose? Will we see more death? And uncover the truth about what occured 3000 years before?
Annabeth and Thalia raced towards the imposing mountain looming towards them, seeming to come ever closer towards the approaching demigods. They knew that this is where it would have to end. This was Mount Olympus and they knew the final showdown with Percy and possibly Uranus had to happen here.
'We ready?' Thalia called to the assortment of Wizards and Demigods ready to attack the mountain.
'Ready.' Harry and Annabeth called back to her.
They could see a massive army of humans, monsters and death eaters setting up camp a few hundred feet away from them, the ridge they were behind covered them from view for now but it wouldn't be long until they were discovered. They saw what looked like a procession winding up the mountain towards the ancient home of the gods and they knew Percy and Voldemort would be leading it.
'Let's get them.' Harry snarled.
'Wait Potter.' Snape said to Harry 'If you attack like that we'll all be killed, I suggest we each grab a non-magical counterpart and apparate to the bottom of the ridge, bypassing the troops and being able to chase the vanguard.'
Thalia smiled at Snape's reckoning and told all the demigods to hold onto the arm of a wizard or witch. Annabeth grabbed Harry as Thalia grabbed Snape's and they all disapparated. They appeared on the other side of the camp and saw the long winding road next to them.
'Ok.' Said Pollux to them, 'As this is basically your fight up there how about Harry, Annabeth, Thalia, Jason, Ron, Hermione, Piper and Luke go up there and we'll all handle it down here?'
'Sounds good.' They all said after a short disagreement.
'Well good luck.' Annabeth said pointedly to Pollux, knowing most of the people there would probably be dead by the day's end.
'You too.' Pollux said, 'We'll give you ten minutes first to climb so you have more time to get away from the ground forces.'
Annabeth and the others started climbing the long path after Percy and his vanguard, after a while they heard yells from beneath them and heard the clashes of metal against metal and raised voices and gunfire, seeing streaks of red and green illuminate the sky around them.
They continued climbing up the long path for about another hour until they heard voices up ahead. They slowly snuck upto it to see Voldemort and about five death eaters surrounding him. There was Bellatrix, Lucius, Draco, Dolohov and Yaxley with him as well as two Dracanea, the minotaur and Percy himself.
'Where is the entrance?' Voldemort asked, his soft voice hissing and seemingly more impatient with every syllable.
'We're close.' Percy said 'We need to figure out the exact way or the entrance won't reveal itself.'
They watched as Percy seemed to shudder and he began talking in an unknown language, with a much deeper voice. They looked at Percy's face and they saw that his eyes were no longer the sea green they were the last time they had faced him, they were now startingly grey but not the grey of Annabeth's but darker grey seemingly the colour of an angry sky.
'How sssssoon will it be lord Uranusssss?' One of the Dracanea said to Percy.
'Soon Queen Sess you will have your revenge.' Percy/Uranus said to her softly as he continued his chants towards a solid rock wall. Suddenly the wall started to glow and a large archway revealed itself. Percy's eyes turned sea green again and he shuddered, grinning broadly at the archway in front of him.
'What did I tell you?' He asked Voldemort as the death eaters started forward behind Percy.
The demigods and wizards watched as Percy and his vanguard passed through before entering the camp they had been in minutes before.
'So Percy and Uranus are one now?' Harry asked Annabeth, terror evident upon his face.
'If so it will be even more unlikely he will be killed.' Snape drawled as he stood up and raised his wand. 'But the others shouldn't be too much of a problem to dispose of. I shall personally see to Bellatrix. Potter, I trust you want the Dark Lord yourself?'
'It has to be me.' Harry said grimly, standing and pulling out his wand as well.
Annabeth stood and unsheathed her bronze dagger as Thalia and Luke stood as well.
'Percy must be left to the demigods.' Annabeth said, 'But we need you wizards to keep them death eaters and Tom Riddle occupied.'
'That's what we excel at.' Hermione said, smiling weakly.
The demigods snuck further along until they saw an ante-chamber. Voldemort and the others were there and they watched as Percy and two new arrivlas, hidden in cloaks went through towards the throne room.
'Ready?' Thalia whispered to the others.
'Ready.' Everyone else whispered back to her.
They all charged out and took the death eaters unaware. Before Voldemort could even begin to move his mouth Snape, Harry, Ron and Hermione had started jinxing and cursing and Dolhov fell under a stunning spell from Hermione, Ron hit Draco with a full-body bind and Snape had cast the killing curse upon Bellatrix Lestrange who dodged it and began fiercly duelling with Snape to one side. Lucius and Yaxley attaepmted to attack the demigods in all this but Ron and Hermione intercepted them and began to duel as Harry rushed forward and in two blazes of green and red light Harry and Voldemort began to fight.
the demigods slipped past the fighting wizards and into the throne room as Percy's two assistants spread out behind Percy and he turned to face the demigods.
'I've known for a long time now you were following us up the mountain.' Percy said 'I just wanted to see how far you would get. Well done and now me and my friends will rid ourselves of you.'
'Who are they?' Jasin asked, pointing at the two cloaked figures.
The person on the left pulled off their hood to reveal a girl with long dakr hair and a pale complexion. 'Bianca Di Angelo at your service, and I'll avenge myself upon you Jason Grace for the defeat I suffered an hour ago to your insufferable friend Reyna.'
Jason smirked as she said this as the other figure pulled off his hood and revealed Nico Di Angelo to the others.
'Hello you guys.' Nico said to the shocked demigods 'I was brought back generously by Percy, who convinced me that it is pointless to fight for the side which is doomed to fail. I saw this and decided to fight, so why not join us before I have to kill you all?'
'Never.' Annabeth cried, blinking back tears.
'Ah sweet Annabeth.' Nico crooned 'We can continue the relationship we were building before I was killed all those months ago if you join us. I don't wish for your deaths, only the deaths of those insufferable Kane children who defeated me in Cairo an hour ago.'
'Well, we'll never join you Nico and we'll defeat you AGAIN!' Thalia yelled at him as the demigods all drew their weapons.
Percy sighed and looked at the demigods 'So diplomatic means won't come to anything then? Well we'll have to even the odds.' He smirked as Bellatrix and Voldemort came hurtling into the room behind the demigods and a silver bow and arrow appeared in Percy's hands.
'I see your prophecy stated the one who would kill me would use this to do so? Well as this weapon of Artemis' can only appear every thousand years I see no reason in not living another thousand years at least.' Percy said as he threw the weapon to the floor. He withdrew Riptide and charged towards the demigods, with Bianca and Nico both charging and Bellatrix and Voldemort casting killing curses towards them.
The demigods ducked under the curses as they smashed into the decaying thrones of Ares and Aphrodite, causing them to rain down to the floor in rubble and barely missing Luke by feet. Annabeth and Thalia charged at Percy and Nico whilst Luke enaged Bianca and Jason and Piper attacked Bellatrix and Voldemort.
Piper ducked under Bellatrix's first killing curse as a scuffle was heard and Harry, Ron and Hermione ran into the room, seemingly having overcome their opponents. Piper was thrown aside as Hermione and Ron engaged Bellatrix and Jason joined her as Harry once again duelled Voldemort. It appeared as though Harry had been blasted aside by Voldemort who had ran with Bellatrix, who had killed Snape, into the throne room as Hermione and Ron finished against Yaxley and Lucius. Now they seemed to have overcome their opposition and could rejoin the main fight.
Jason and Piper attacked Nico and Bianca leaving Thalia, Annabeth and Luke free to fight Percy. Percy hissed and snarled as they ducked and wove around him unable to penetrate his defence of sword skills and ring of pure chaos energy and water that surrounded him. Jason ducked under Bianca's jab as he tried to slice her with his sword. Nico was sending blast after blast of pure black energy at Piper who was slicing them with her dagger and dispelling them easily, Nico screamed and slcied at Piper, knocking her dagger from her hand as she attempted to block.
Nico pushed her to the ground and was about to stab downards when Jason threw his sword at Nico, which impaled him and smashed him against the far wall with the force of the throw. Nico pulled it from him and threw it back to Jason saying 'Try harder son of Jupiter next time.' As Bianca attacked Jason once again.
Piper grabbed her dagger and stabbed Nico's foot who laughed and kicked her hard in the head, blood filled her mouth as Nico advanced towards her again.
'I cannot die, daughter of Aphrodite, your situation is hopeless.'
'No,' Piper spat at him 'But she can.' She smirked as Nico looked as Jason sliced at Bianca who mis-timed her slice and ended up dropping her sword as his went into her chest.
Bianca shuddered then fell to the floor as Jason stood over her. Annabeth kicked Percy and he fell as Annabeth ran over towards Jason and Bianca as Nico approached. Nico dropped his sword and shoved Jason away from Bianca as he knelt down beside her, lips moving in an ancient greek message, trying to assure her safe passage to the next life as she was too injured to live.
Annabeth knelt next to Nico who looked at his sister's corpse amd said to him gently 'You know who you truly are Nico, and you know that this is Percy's fault.' Nico stood up and glared at Annabeth before walking to Percy's side, Luke and Thalia had ran over to Annabeth when they saw she had left Percy alone.
Nico stood by Percy as the wizards duels raged on.
'You see now?' Percy hissed 'Nico is mine. now kill them Nico.'
'No.' Nico said softly.
'I order you to kill them.' Percy insisted, venom in his voice.
Nico looked at Percy and raised his sword again.
'For Olympus!" He yelled as he sliced at Percy who raised his hand and blasted Nico with chaos energy.
'I have removed your immortality Nico and you are now dying from your wounds, goodbye son of Hades.' Percy said as he turned his back on the dying Nico and faced the demigods.
'Round two.' Percy said before charging again.
Harry watched as Ron and Hermione ducked around Bellatrix as she shot curse after curse at them, unable to finish them. He raised his wand and heard the high voice shout once again
'Avada Kedavra!' as he responded with 'Expelliarmus!'
he saw red light hit green jet as their spells collided once again and disappated ibnto nothing, seeming impossible for one to kill the other.
'Avada Kedavra!' Harry heard again as he had a brainwave. He jumped out of the way of the green jet and as it soared past him he shouted 'Expelliarmus!' at Voldemort, watching as his wand soared out of his hand, into Harry's waiting left hand.
Harry stared down as Voldemort was on the floor beneath him, disarmed and looking pitiful as Bellatrix stopped to see what had happened and Hermione's stunner hit her squarely in the heart, killing her instantly. Bellatrix toppled just as Nico and Bianca before had leaving a wandless Tom Riddle and maniac Percy to fight on alone.
Harry stood staring at Voldemort as his head told him to finish off his arch-enemy but his heart told him that he couldn't just kill a person, no matter how evil he was. Harry could feel the pressure of everyone who Voldemort had killed upon him, urging him to do it. Harry pointed his wand at Voldemort who kept his head bowed.
'Stupefy.' Harry said, pointing Voldemort's wand at Voldemort's heart, killing him painlessly and quickly.
Harry dropped Voldemort's wand and walked towards Ron and Hermione glad that the threat of Voldemort was gone at last. Percy snarled seeing his last help vanish as the demigods all surrounded him. Percy's eyes glowed and he was taken over by Uranus again.
'Well foolish demigods, you have sealed your doom now. I was going to allow you to surrender and live, but I feel like settling for several dead demigods now.'
Uranus yelled and the demigods were blasted backwards, writhing in agony as they smashed into the walls. Harry and the wizards moved towards him as a quake shook the room and two people appeared. One of them was Gaia and another was a Luke look-a-like except his eyes glowed golden.
'Kronos!' Uranus yelled ' And Gaia...how charming.'
'Goodbye son and husband.' Gaia said to Uranus as she waved her hand and he started to sink into the ground.
'Not so fast.' Uranus said as he waved his hand and the Essence appeared and smashed into Gaia, sucking her into it. Kronos ran to the wizards and waved his hand.
'Goodbye Wizards your job is done here, good luck.' Kronos said as he turned back to help the demigods against Uranus.
'Why do you help them son?' Uranus asked Kronos.
'As I would rather they live than you father.' Kronos replied stiffly as Uranus waved his hand again and the Essence sucked in Kronos as well before it vanished.
Uranus smiled as Annabeth approached again, finally getting to her feet.
'I never cheated on Percy, you made him think I did so you could use him didn't you?' Annabeth demanded of Uranus.
'Yes foolish girl of course I did.'
'You did?' Uranus said, but it wasn't Uranus' voice, it was Percy's.
'Percy?' Annabeth asked, seeming as if she had just been hit with a heavy weight.
'yes wise girl.' Percy said. 'Explain. Now.' Percy demanded as his eyes clouded again and Uranus took over.
'I planted a false image in your mind of your girlfriend cheating on you, so you would hate her and cheat on her, allowing them all to hate you. Then you would flee and I would mould you into the ultimate machine to destroy Olympus as I have done!'
'Not today.' Percy said, regaining control and snatching up the weapon of Artemis.
'What are you doing?' Annabeth asked as Percy aimed the weapon at her.
'Killing the right person' Percy said as he aimed it again 'Lord Apollo allow me to hit my true target.'
Percy fired and as the arrow was about to hit Annabeth it veered left towards Luke and then flew upwards and around the back of Percy and out of everyone's line of sight. After a minute the arrow hadn't moved and Percy fell forwards. The arrow was sticking out of a point just above his ankle.
'Achille's heel.' Annabeth whispered as Percy spat blood out and layed there weakly, shivering and slowly losing all strength.
'Yes Annabeth, the Prophecy referred to me all along, please forgive me for what I did' Percy said imploringly, looking at Annabeth and the other demigods.
'We will.' Luke said seriously, looking at the others. Percy nodded and went limp. It was over, the demigods were still standing and Uranus was defeated, and Percy Jackson was dead, killed by the silver moons crest.
The End