Hey guys, me again, so here is another instalment of "Clash" I hope that you enjoy it! keep in mind that I wrote this in Annabeth's Pov and I have some trouble writing her for some reason, but I did my best and gave you all quite the Ciff Hanger but still R&R as usuall, and have a good time! :)
Chapter 14: Annabeth:
Bad things are brewing around here, I can sense it. I don't know if it's the Lion goddess living in my head, or if it's just really obvious, but something's not quite right. The gods have been showing up and they have been arguing with each other for almost an hour. We weren't suppose to meet the Kane's, even though some how we did, when we met them we had been fighting a Drakon, we never did find out how it got there, they are very rare and I have only seen one before this one. So in my opinion that this Drakon is somehow connected to our 'chance' meeting, But I should get back to the story and I will start right as Carter asked Zeus about just this and I thought Zeus would strike him with lightning right there on the spot, he started fuming and I smelled the faint smell of ozone like before a storm.
"SILENCE KANE!" Zeus shouted staring him right in the eyes
Carter seemed to shrink into his own cotton clothing and I saw a bead of sweat run down the side of his face.
"Ugh-I uh." He stuttered trying to find the right words to say, but getting lost in thought along the way.
I thought that Zeus would explode before he got to killing him, I have honestly never seen his so angry, even at Percy.
Just then Horus took a step forward, "leave the boy alone" he commanded "it is not his fault, something very powerful is at work as we speak, we should be focused on finding out what is going on, not blaming children for someone else's doings,"
"We will look into it, but this is out of hand. We must make sure that this doesn't happen again." Poseidon interjected
"agreed," Isis said, now there is a strange woman, I read in the stories about Egyptian 'mythology' that she was suppose to be a little more 'power hungry' she seemed pretty normal for being an immortal magic goddess. Note to self, look it to that.
Ahh, so you have finally noticed said the voice of Sekhmet in my mind you notice that the infernal magic goddess is acting strangely! Good, go with it there is more to this then you think.
Like what I wanted to ask but I wasn't sure it was the right time, I should just take the advise and move on.
"So how are we to work this out?" I asked
They turned to look at me, and for the first time they seemed to notice a change in me.
Hades turned to the Egyptians "So you have implanted a little spy if your own eh? Very clever,"
"I have seen cases like this before," Poseidon began "but expelling demons and monsters is hard enough, much less a goddess,"
"Perhaps we should inform someone about this?" Percy said finally speaking up
The room was silent and 10 pairs of eyes turned to him with quizzical expressions that seemed to say like who?
Thankfully he understood what theirs looks meant and acted accordingly, he can be quite smart when he wants to be.
"like maybe…" he thought for a moment " maybe Hecate, our magic goddess" and looked frightened for a moment and I knew what he was going to say next, " we could also tell, Annabeth's mom, Athena might know something about this!" he insisted, I give Percy major credit for that, Athena was not a big percybeth fan or even a Percy fan for that matter, but he was willing to tell my mother that I was inhabited by an Egyptian goddess for my own sake, it was kid of sweet in its own way.
"I wouldn't bother," Sadie said "if our gods, goddesses and magicians cannot get rid of a god or goddess what makes you think that yours can?"
She had a point.
"Have things like this ever happened before?" Percy asked
They both looked at each other, and their looks seemed to say "yes"
"Yes," they both admitted in perfect sync with each other
"When?"
"Not that long ago…" Carter said
"Oh blah blah blah." Hades muttered in the corner "Sekhmet won't come out until she wants to; she is stubborn that way, if I remember correctly,"
That wasn't good
He is right you know, I am a bit… stubborn as Hades puts it. Sekhmet mused in my head.
"This isn't our biggest problem!" Zeus boomed "the sooner you relies that the sooner we can move on"
Osiris nodded "and the sooner we can punish you Greeks for breaking the ancient laws."
"U-us?" I stuttered "we didn't do anything! We were attacked by that Drakon and then they showed up," I screamed pointing at Carter and Sadie "a bit convenient if I do say so, what makes you think that we did it?"
"Well the Drakon is a Greek monster after all!" Sadie pointed out
"Well you could have summoned a Drakon instead of an Egyptian monster, so that you could have blamed us!" Percy insisted
"Exactly" I yelled he made a great point
"You dare accuse us for your doings?" Isis yelled in full on furry
"Well you accused us for what you actually did." Hades said abruptly
Just then Isis whom, In an article I once read about Egyptian myths in the Discovery magazine which described her as hot headed and vicious, pulled out a long curved ivory rod and summoned a staff she crossed them so that they formed and "X." A golden Hieroglyph formed in the air and shimmered; a strip of some kind of magic material formed and wrapped Hades up into a living mummy, most likely to shut him up.
But it didn't hold him for long, he burst out of it shredding the material and he looked furious, "YOU DARE TO ATTACK ME, AT A PEACEFUL MEETING, WE ARE UNDER THE FALG OF PARLE?"
He summoned his weapon of choice the helm of darkness, and placed it on his head and just before turning invisible, he spoke "let's see how you like it." He hissed
And he turned invisible and melted into the shadows, Isis dissolved into a black mist, which was probably her teleporting to fight him elsewhere.
"Control your brother, Zeus!" Osiris bellowed
"I do believe the first attack was from you side, ours was but retaliation," Her retorted as he summoned his master bolt
"If you attack me here with that now," Osiris warned, "then you know what that will mean don't you?"
"It won't have been my doing," Zeus responded preparing to fire his bolt
And he through his bolt, it hurdled through the air, and all I saw was a bright light that stung my eyes, then darkness.
When I awoke, I found myself still in the bedroom at the Brooklyn house, but it had been totally destroyed. The walls gapped open and warm summer air leaked inside, but the remaining walls that had not yet crumbled were horribly burned and the rest room had been reduced to nothing but dust and ash. Next to a smoldering object that looked like at some point it had been a desk stood a figure, in all black.
"Usually when I save peoples' lives, they say 'thank you'" He joked laughing at his own joke obviously amused by his own humor
"You saved my life?" I asked realizing he was right, there was no way I could have survived that exploration otherwise,
"Yes I did," he gloated," then again it was my turn I did owe you one, so let's just call it even,"
"Where is Percy?"I asked suddenly realizing I didn't see him anywhere,
"p-Percy?" the boy stuttered "he was here?" he asked as if hearing this for the first time
"No," I whispered to myself "no, he can't be…" I choked up, I couldn't imagine my life without Percy, he just couldn't have been vaporized in the explosion it just wasn't possible.
Poseidon appeared at my side, along with Zeus and Hades, across the room out of a spiral of sand exited carter, Sadie and the Egyptian gods.
"Where is Percy?" Poseidon asked having only heard the last bit of our conversation, or having just realized he that wasn't here.
I began to cry, and I felt hot tears stream down my dust covered face
I could feel Poseidon growing angrier as he understood what my crying was because of
"My son…" he muttered shakily I felt his anger grow and he fumed a rage that I had never felt
"This is your doing Isis," he hissed
"Why, don't blame me, "mused "Zeus through the master blot,"
"But you egged him on, by attacking another one of my brethren,"
"You attacked my family as well," Horus said aiming his eye sight at Hades
I tried to rise but my legs were too weak, I felt something under my leg, it was Percy's leather camp necklace, with all of his beads strung a crossed it, he never took it off. I began to weep again, it was too soon for this to happen I should have listened to the oracle, it was always right.
Poseidon reached for the necklace in my hand and grasped it while he stared down at it, he muttered something quietly, then he roared it at the top of his lungs, "For the revenge of my favorite son," stopped and choked up a bit himself "THIS MEANS WAR!"
So in the Review let me know if you have any guesses about who you think the mysterious boy in black is, its not really that hard but if you get it right, I will give you a shout out in my next chapter, so Review and tell me what your thinking!