The First Son of Artemis Book Three: The Last Olympian

Jason Nicholson, Son of Artemis, (16 years old)

"Selina!" I yelled right away tossing my bow to the side.

I knelt and right away went to harnessing all of my powers into my hands. I knew I could heal people with the rays of the moon, but I didn't know what Drakon poison did to a body. Speaking of the giant snake/dragon it was still reeling from our attacks and seemed to be trying to gain its baring's. Campers huddled around me, Annabeth, Alex and Nikki included who was down next to me.

Nikki being the medic of the group went to work right away. I could tell though that she was trying to keep her composure as the same as me.

"Jay, help me get the armor off, we need to find the source of the poison now!" She ordered me.

Annabeth pulled Selina's head into her lap while Alex seemed to be making sure the Drakon didn't get any funny ideas. Percy was watching the situation with a look of horror on his face. I managed to get Clarisse's armor off Selina when she finally stirred.

"P…Percy… Jay." She croaked out.

Percy rushed over next to her as Nikki was pulling bandages out of her pack. I finally saw her doctors face wither at the sight of the corrosive wound on Selina's shoulder. It wasn't good at all. It was a sick mix of black and green that could easily be seen rushing through her body. Nikki looked over at me with a look of horror on her face, and what she was trying to tell me was clear.

There was no amount of healing that would save her.

I shook my head. "No way, nobody else is going to die." I said holding my hands over her shoulder.

The silver rays emerged from my hand and I slowly felt the small but of energy I had from my body start to transfer from myself to Selina. Everyone watched with wide eyes and hope as the silver light made its way to Selina's wound. It didn't have the effect I desired.

Selina's body bucked, clearly in more pain. "NO! Jay… stop you… nothing… nothing's going to help." She said weakly grabbing my hand.

I fell back on my butt and felt myself start to well up. I turned over to my sister. "Alex! Is there something you can do!? There has to be some kind of magic we can use." I pleaded.

She could obviously see the magnitude of the situation. The look on her face was just as disappointed as mine. She gently shook her head.

"Jay my magic won't work to heal her it's… well different as you know." She explained, not wanting to drop the whole Egyptian magic bomb on everyone.

I turned back, completely determined to do something when someone beat me too it.

"NOOOO!" The voice yelled.

I turned around and a chariot flew down and landed. It was unmistakably Clarisse, with her boyfriend Chris. She had only her spear strapped to her back and was in jeans and a camp shirt. She ran up, and I smartly moved so she could kneel next to Selina.

"Why'd you do it… you crazy Aphrodite girl." Clarisse said softly.

Nikki looked back up at me from the ground and slowly shook her head. If Nikki said it, it was without a doubt official now. I felt some tears start to well up in my eyes. Selina was one of my first friends when I ever came to Camp. I remember the night I was claimed as a Son of Artemis, and I defended her cabin against insults from ironically enough Clarisse and Ares cabin. I watched on, as Clarisse tried to comfort Selina in what would be her last few moments. I felt Alex come up next to me.

She carefully put a hand on my shoulder. "Jay… are you okay?" She asked me, knowing full well that I wasn't, but I was thankful for her asking.

I sighed and shook my head. "No, I'm not okay. I can't worry about it now though…" I said determined.

I watched the scene and saw Selina reach into her pocket and pull something out. I felt my heart sink to the bottom of my stomach. It was the scythe charm, the symbol of Kronos. Everything finally made sense now. I remember saying and thinking multiple times I would put an arrow into the traitor the first time I saw them… but now all I wanted to do was get my hands around Kronos's neck.

Selina wasn't a traitor. In the end she was a hero, and after she took her final breath Clarisse made sure we knew as much.

"She's a hero! She died a hero! Do all of you understand!?" She demanded standing up strongly.

I clenched my fist and heard roars coming from the other side of the street. The Drakon started roaring, and swarming through the side streets waves of monsters came piling in. It was like a scene out of a video game. An army of monsters and beasts came swarming at the rag tag group of heroes bent on protecting the world.

I looked over at my friend's lifeless body and felt rage burn through me again. I wasn't going to cry or grieve now, I was going to run towards that army and take out every monster that I could. My friends seemed to have the same mindset. Alex pulled out her Khopesh and I saw lights of blue magic swirl in both of her hands. Nikki spun her sword a few times and stood next to the two of us ready to charge. Percy and Annabeth came up next to us, and we were all the front line. I saw Percy about to give orders when Clarisse stepped in-front her spear crackling lightning.

"That Drakon is mine." She said in a deadly voice.

I nodded to her. That was the Clarisse I knew and loved.

And with her battle cry, we all charged.

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"COME ON IS THAT ALL KRONOS HAS!? WHERE IS HE? BRING HIM OUT!" Clarisse screamed with the red essence of Ares emanating from around her.

Clarisse had completely disposed of the Drakon single handedly. She had run up to it, leaped and stabbed it through the eyes with her spear and within another minute the beast was laying dead on the street! All of the campers seemed to completely be revamped with the arrival of fresh troops from the Ares Cabin.

Alex and I decided to partake in some brother sister bonding time, by completely slaughtering entire waves of monsters together. Nothing brought two new siblings closer together.

I ducked a telekhine sword strike and wacked him in the back of the head with my bow! Alex lifted the helpless monster into the air with her magic, and I sent an arrow into its chest dissolving it. My nighttime sense felt something else behind me, and I turned, getting down on one knee and launching another arrow right into the eye of a cyclops who was about to smash me to bits!

I turned around and saw Alex slicing the stomach of a Dracaena. "Duck!" I yelled pulling my bow-string out, two arrows materializing.

Alex didn't hesitate and dropped to the ground, and I let my arrows fly. Two telkhines dropped to the ground in dust and I was about to go over and see if she was alright before she yelled out.

"On your right!" She yelled pulling out her boomerang.

I dashed to my left and Alex tossed her boomerang and it sailed right through a leaping hellhound. I gave her a quick and the two of us got back to back. I felt my movements go perfectly off of hers and everything that came towards us was sent back! I looked over and we seemed to have great control of the situation, I saw Percy, Annabeth and Nikki near the front, carving a canyon through the monster army.

I looked back to Alex, I knew it was time to finally make the final push. "Come on! Let's make our way to Percy!" I yelled to her.

"On it!" She yelled as she tossed another hellhound down the street with her magic.

I leaped up onto the head of a cyclopes, quickly shot an arrow into its head and leaped off! I landed on the top of a hellhound that had just leaped towards Percy. I landed and stabbed the end of my bow into it, gaining a thankful nod from my best-friend.

He thrusted his sword out. "COME ON FINAL PUSH!" He yelled darting forward with me at his heels.

After another ten minutes of slicing, firing arrows and lobbing cars down the street, which we had Alex to thank for, we finally managed to get them on the run! Every camper cheered, some fired arrows down the street as the monsters that remained all ran back towards Kronos's camp. It was another night down, and another battle won.

I took in a few deep breaths and almost felt my legs about to give out. I felt Percy put a hand on my shoulder and I steadied myself. I looked up and while he had his normal Percy grin. How the guy managed to stay positive at times like this I had no idea, but I was grateful for it. I nodded, and he removed his hand, recapping his sword.

Nikki, Annabeth and Alex ran off behind us to help wounded and left Percy and I looking down the street. I slipped out the cellphone I had for emergencies. I read the time on it and I sighed, I looked at Percy and knew in an instant he knew what time it was and the date as well.

12:01am, August 18th.

I steadied my breathing and Percy locked eyes with me. I gave a sarcastic laugh. "Ha, happy birthday man." I told him.

He nodded his head. "Thanks… so today is finally the day."

I nodded, he was right. The last few years had all lead up to the day that Percy turned sixteen. The day had finally come when according to the prophecy, he was either going to save or destroy the gods and Olympus.

Percy took a shaky breath. "Jay… I need you to promise me something. I wouldn't ask anyone else to do this… but you're my best-friend and I need you to give me your word." He said in a very serious tone.

I knew that when Percy sounded like that, he meant business, so I nodded. "Of course, man… what is it?" I asked.

He nodded and didn't meet my eye. "One way or another, tonight is going to be the end. We'll either be dead or alive by the time tomorrow all because of something I do…"

"Whatever the choice is Percy, you'll make the right one." I assured him.

He nodded. "I would like to think I will but… we have to be prepared incase Kronos gets his hands on me somehow."

"Percy he won't-."

"Let's just say he does." He said cutting me off.

"We don't know what he's capable of… he controlled and manipulated Luke and we all know how strong he was. We need to be ready incase he somehow does the same to me…"

"Percy you aren't Luke. You won't be manipulated like him!" I said, trying to piece together what he was asking.

He sighed again and shook his head. "I know I'm not. But I just want you to promise me Jay… if he does get me and has me under his control one way or another. I… I want you to promise that you'll-."

"NO! There's not a chance Percy. Not me, or anyone else is going to let that happen." I said to him in a stern tone.

Percy gave me a hard look. He looks slightly intimidating, it must be a big three child thing. "Jay, the fate of the world and everyone we love depends on it! If Kronos somehow gets me under his control… I need you to kill me. You need to hit my weak point!" He said, lowering his voice at the second part.

I looked at him incredulously. I couldn't believe that he was actually asking me to kill him. I of course had the idea that Percy might die in my head, but I never thought that he had any more of a chance of dying then anyone else. Especially after he became invincible.

I shook my head. "Percy… you can't ask me to do that!" I begged him.

Percy was my best-friend. Every adventure that I've been on he's been there with me. Every up, down, and challenge my best-friend had been there. Now he was sitting here and asking me to possibly have to kill him.

Percy shook his head. "I don't like asking you too Jay! Would you rather me ask Annabeth? Grover? I trust them with everything, but do you really think either of them could do it? Besides you can hit anything, anywhere with your bow." He said turning to me.

I thought about it in my head. He was right in the end, Grover or Annabeth would never be able to go through with it. Percy was right, the fate of the world was at stake, and I knew that Percy would want to save everyone else, all of his friends before himself.

I sighed and shakily nodded my head. "O…okay. But you need to promise me you'll do everything you can to avoid making me have too!" I said to him.

He nodded. "Of course. Now the only point where I'm vulnerable is… the small of back." He said, turning around and pointing towards the spot.

I sighed and nodded my head. The two of us both turned and looked down the street again. I digested what he had just said, and I was still trying to wrap my head around it. I shook my head and looked back at Percy.

"So… it really all comes to tonight huh?" I asked him.

He nodded his head. "Yeah… everything we come to, comes down to one last battle."

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Thalia ended up suggesting that we make our way to Olympus to set up final defenses. Percy and I both gave the green light, we were to spread out and weak after non-stop battling to be based out of central park. It was smart to set up in Olympus and put everything we had into guarding it. I walked through the streets of the home of the gods and wished that one day I would be able to come back and see it full of life again. I walked by a statue of my mother and felt a twinge of worry, the battle between the gods and typhoon was still raging and it was getting closer. Percy had told us that he had a plan to help the gods out, but he was still ironing out the details.

Which for Percy meant that plan would probably work considering that most of the plans the two of us came up with normally had no planning whatsoever.

The main group of commanders, consisting of me, Nikki, Annabeth, Grover and Percy all made our way to the Olympus main palace where the meeting chamber was held. I had managed to get a few hours of mostly dreamless sleep throughout the day, as did Percy which was odd because normally our sleep was plagued with dreams and nightmares.

Now the moon was out again which meant my mom must have survived another night. It also meant that the final battle was inching closer and closer.

When we finally did make it to the palace, we saw Rachel sitting with the Pandora's box Prometheus had given us. I saw Percy stare over at her, and I could tell he needed a moment alone with her. I was about to suggest we leave the two be when Annabeth of all people beat me to it.

I wasn't about to argue with her as she dragged Grover out of the throne room, and I followed with Nikki at my heels. I didn't go far, I walked out the giant doors and looked out over the city below. The entire city of New York was still asleep, and soon one way or another it would wake up again.

They say that when your about to die you see your whole life flash before your eyes. The same thing happened when you were about to head into a life or death battle. I saw it all in that moment looking over the city.

Walking up to Tranmere private school all those years ago, meeting Annabeth in my first class. The ensuing fight with the Cyclops and Dracaena.

Meeting Percy, being claimed as the first child of Artemis. Going on the quest across the country, medusa, the lotus hotel, finding Bianca and Nico, Ares, Hade domain, fighting Heracles.

My second summer. Playing a deadly game of dodgeball, leaping into a fight with the mechanical bronze bulls on my first day, Tantalus being made camp director, going on the quest for the Golden Fleece, Thalia coming back to life.

Saving Nikki from Westover Hall and the Manticore. Realizing my mother was missing, kissing Bianca for the first time, leading the quest to find my mother. Finding her, fighting Atlas… Zoe dying.

Being kidnapped on my last day of school and taken to the Labyrinth. Fighting my butt off until Nikki, Bianca, Percy and the gang all came to save me. After that swooping in at the Battle of the Labyrinth and fighting the army back.

Then finally this summer. Percy and I's mission on the andromeda… Beckendorf. Going through my trials with Hecate along with Nikki. Finding the Hunters, meeting my father again in my dream. The battles at Lincoln Tunnel, Williamsburg Bridge, all the battles up until now.

All my successes and failures ran through my head at that moment.

"Hard to believe it'll all be over one way or another after tonight." I heard Nikki say behind me.

I turned around and couldn't help but smile at her presence. She was wearing her camp shirt and jogger, her blonde hair cascading down her back. She told me she stopped wearing a ponytail as much because some new campers started getting her confused with Annabeth. I smiled and shook my head.

"No… it's no over after tonight. When we win, there's always going to be monsters to fight." I said trying to sound upbeat.

She let out a small laugh and came to lean over the edge next to me. For about a minute we just stood there, admiring the New York skyline. I glanced over at her, and I couldn't deny that she looked absolutely beautiful. After everything that that the two of us had been through together, I had seen her grow so much.

At first, I had seen her as more of a cousin or sister type… however it had changed over time. I didn't know if she always had a crush on me like she told me before we fought Koios, but I didn't know what to really make of it. Yeah, she was beautiful, I could talk to her about anything, she was strong, brave, caring and all that amazing stuff but… Bianca always came back to my mind.

She let out a deep breath. "Jay what are things going to be like if we win this?" She asked.

"You man WHEN we win right?" I corrected, determined to keep the positivity.

She let out a small laugh and nodded. "Yes, when we win. What are things going to be like?" She asked me.

"Well if Percy and I have our way the gods and camp will be a lot-."

"No, I mean with us Jay." She interrupted me.

I felt a shiver up my spine and felt myself start to sweat. "What… what do you mean?" I asked her.

She sighed and shook her head, "Jay you know what I mean. I know about how you feel for Bianca, but I-."

"Hey, I think I just heard Percy call me." I said trying to avoid the conversation.

I went to walk away but she grabbed my wrist and looked at me with pleading eyes. "Jay please! We need to have this conversation now… I need to have this conversation now." She begged.

I didn't want to have the conversation on the eve of a battle to decide the fate of all humanity. However, I looked at Nikki's gorgeous, pleading blue eyes and I couldn't deny her. I sighed and nodded my head.

"Look Nik, I… I care about you, a lot. I'd die or take a hit or anything for you. And yeah maybe I have thought about you like that once or twice, but… Bianca…" I started, before she put a hand to my lips.

She shook her head. "Jay, I know that… I just need to get things off my chest. I… I've felt this way since our first quest together, but Bianca is my friend and you never seemed interested like that so I… I never said anything!" She finally confessed out.

I felt twinges pull at my heart-strings. I had confessed to Bianca that I still loved her back at the Hunters camp, but from how she responded it was hard to tell if she truly felt the same way still. She may have really had to cut off all her romantic feelings to join the Hunters, and the thought did upset me.

"And Jay, look I don't care if you ever feel the same way towards me or wanna date me or whatever! I just want to know that after this is all over… after we WIN. That… that we can still be the team we are." She said softly.

I slowly nodded my head. That much was true. No matter if these feelings that were beginning to stir in me for Nikki turned into anything, she was always going to be my friend. We would always be a team, as great a fighting duo as our parents were. When she saw my nod, a small smile came to her face and she pulled me into a hug, putting her arms around my neck. I melted into it and hugged her back. No matter what she was always going to be incredibly important to me.

"You'll always be more important to me then you'll ever know Nik." I said into her hair.

She pulled up with a smile. I realized she was only about an inch or two smaller then me now.

She planted a kiss on my cheek then pulled away. "You're the best Jay. Now you go check on Percy, I need to go help Alex the rest of the wounded patched up before tonight." She informed me.

I smiled and stared at her running away for longer then I care to admit when she left. I sighed and turned back to the Olympian council chamber.

The love life could wait, for now, it was time for everything to come to an end.

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"Percy this is a REALLY bad idea." Grover said as we walked towards Poseidon's throne.

"He's right Percy this is a bad idea even for you." Annabeth added in.

I nodded my head in agreement. "Yeah man, you know I normally support your stupid plans, but this one is like extra stupid." I pleaded with my best-friend.

Percy's brilliant plan was climbing onto Poseidon's throne and asking him to help the gods fight Typhoon. My mother had told me once that the God's did NOT take someone sitting in their throne lightly. Most of the time said person would be blasted on the spot. And now Percy was going to simply sit in his father, who happened to be one of the three most powerful gods, throne.

He shook his head. "It's the only way! Now come on and help me up." He said coming to the base of Poseidon's throne.

Annabeth, Grover and I all looked at each other skeptically. In the end we helped Percy up to his father's throne. As soon as Percy's butt made contact with the seat a loud earthquake shook the ground! Annabeth, Grover and I all held onto each other, so we could stay standing, and we looked up at Percy who seemed to be day-dreaming.

"Gods it actually worked." Annabeth said sounding impressed.

I nodded my head impressed as well. "You're right, maybe we shouldn't doubt his stupid plans so much." I said.

The conversation between Percy and his father seemed to only last a few minutes. Before I knew it my best-friend was smiling, he leaped down off the throne and landed in-front of us with a smile on his face.

"So, what did he say!?" Grover asked nervously.

Percy nodded and smiled. "He said yes! Alright now we got to-."

He was cut off by the sound of the massive doors swinging open. I turned and running towards us were Thalia, Alex and Nikki. Alex was gripping her Khopesh apprehensively, and Nikki was in her golden armor. Thalia reached us first, her bow drawn.

"Guys it's time… he's here. Kronos has reached Olympus." She told us.

A:N) HELLOOOOOOOOO EVERYBODY! Now now before you all go raging at me, please let me explain my little hiatus. For the last month I've had a lot of stuff going on in my personal life that has kept me very busy, that's one, real life stuff always comes first.

Second. After posting the last chapter I felt really really burned out. I had been writing this story and just this story for so long! So I decided I wanted to take some time away from it and write other stuff. I was on a real kick for Pokemon and Hunger games so I've wrote a lot of stuff for that. I didn't want to force myself to put out an inferior chapter.

I didn't think it would be fair to you guys or myself, to force myself into updating this when at the time I knew it wasn't going to turn out well. Yeah I probably could have had this story finished within the last month, but it would have ended up being really really bad xD So I waited and now I feel I'm ready to jump back into it and FINISH THIS SERIES!

So two quick questions/announcements. 1.) This story will officially have 3 chapters left… YES ONLY 3 MORE! I have been with this story and series for so long…. The first chapter of The First Son of Artemis, was in 2015, three years ago, wow. It's hard to believe that it was so long ago. I'm going to get so emotional writing the last chapter.

2.) in reference to the first and second book of this series… I have been contemplating doing a re-write for those two books! I wrote them was I was a sophomore and junior in High School and if you read them you can tell how inferior my writing back then was compared to now.

I wouldn't take the original stories down! I'd just release new version re-writes of them. I just feel I want to improve them, fix my grammar, typos, and stuff like that. I would also want to add a few scenes, re-do a few scenes, and maybe bring a few plot points hints earlier, things like that!

For Example.) Maybe drop a few hints about Nikki's crush on Jay earlier, fix her backstory, give hints about Alex earlier, maybe actually get a scene with Jay's dad when he was alive, stuff like that! It would be the exact same story just better! Like an enhanced version!

The Heroes of Olympus and Kane Chronicles stories will still be my main focus, the re-write would be a side project maybe releasing 1 time every 2 weeks or so!

That's it for this long AN! Please leave a review for me, I still promise to release The Lost Hero arc the DAY I post the last chapter if we have 100 reviews! Thank you all so much for being awesome!

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