Hello, I thought I'd update soon, a LOT of you guys read the story this time in not so much time, so I thought I should update again, I probably won't update for some time. I will be working continually though. But I won't have enough time to finish them in one go like I do usually. Most probably you guys won't be seeing Chapter 22 for some time.

Previously: And just then Raven collapsed, Perseus wobbled, shot one more bolt of sea green and black energy when he stopped and it seemed as if he was gathering his strength. Then I saw something that I never would have expected from a child of Poseidon, even if he was a legacy of Zeus and Hades. . .

Percy's POV

The worst is yet to come, and this is going to hurt like hell. . .I thought. I barely have enough energy to stand up, but I'm gonna have to do this if I want to get out of here alive.

I fell to my knees and screamed to the heavens, letting out all my rage and sorrow. And I could feel myself burning up, I placed my hands against the crumbling pavement so I wouldn't keel over, with sweat dripping down my face. Panting. Oh save me now, where's my Father?

Bright light played across my vision, as I literally tore a rip into the fabric of the universe. I'd have to close the portal before any monsters came in with us. Right now I had luck on my side, as all the monsters and traitor demigods were currently in shock.

I pushed the three hunters into the portal and dragged Raven in as I fell into the dark doorway. I closed the portal and mentally visioned where I wanted to land. Empire State Building, 600th floor.

I must´ve passed out because the next thing I know, I have a decent amount of energy and someone's shaking me awake. I groggily open my eyes, and I squint in the light.

¨Come on Percy, you've got to wake up!¨

¨R-Raven?¨

¨Oh gods, I thought you were dead.¨

He let out a long breath.

¨You can't get rid of me that easily.¨

Raven laughed. He offered me his hand and pulled me up.

¨Oh that hurts.¨

¨Already an old lady Percy?¨

I jumped, I thought it was just Raven and I, but I must´ve forgotten about the three hunters who came to aid us. All three of them had eventually fallen. Raven and I had pushed them between us. Once Raven fell, then I had to take some drastic measures.

"So you're Thalia?"

I scanned the hunter, she was lithe, wearing hunter uniform with a silver circlet on top of her head.

She nodded,"What's it to you?"

"Just curious, we alone up here?"

She nodded again. The other three hunters kept looking at me weird.

"What're you looking at?" I asked warily.

I'm tired and I'm worn out. We're obviously not done, so that hunter better not call me-

"Listen here boy, we hunters don't trust men like you, or men at all. So you can take your arrogance and shove it up your ass." She sneered.

I don't know her name. I narrowed my eyes at her.

"I don't even know you. You have no right to judge me. So why don't you take your stereotypes and-"

"Oh shut up Perce, they're a group of man-hating judgemental preteens. Don't take them too seriously."

Raven sneered at them.

One girl with long dark hair exclaimed loudly,"Raven?!"

I looked at Raven,"You know them?"

He nodded.

"How long?"

"Since I was born."

Raven's eyes widened. Like he'd tripped.

"Since you were born?"

Raven wasn't born. He was an artifact, he was a cluster of energy. . .

"Uh, um, ok. Percy, we don't have time for this, all I can tell you right now before," he looked over his shoulder,"We run out of time, is that I am not

an artifact, I have Artemis' blessing. One day, I left the hunters when everything went to Tartarus, I found the others. I told them I was an artifact of Artemis, and it made sense because of my powers. There is more, but we don't have time, we need to go."

In the distance you could see a black line on the horizon, the army of Kronos was arriving.

"We need to go to the throne room. Come on!"

The hunters led the way as we ran through the twisted narrow dirt paths and wide cobbled streets that slowly led to the peak of the mountain. The villas of the gods were whipping by, and it was completely silent, only interrupted by the sound of our heavy breathing.

The throne room loomed into our view, when a statue of Hera collapsed on Thalia.

"Thalia!"

Raven seemed distressed.

"Go Raven! My leg's broken, I'll get myself out! Go!"

He seemed to understand, but me being Percy, I stomped the ground once, and there was a small tremor, then twice, and the ground shook harder. Then I did a roundhouse kick and cracked the statue straight across. The other hunters dragged Thalia out and held her between them as we pushed the doors open and ran inside.

Raven and I must have had the same thought as both of us got up and pushed the door close, and set a heavy stick we found lying on the floor through the door handles.

The hearth was turning to sparks, and only embers were left, there were no flames. Most of the thrones were rubble, but surprisingly there were two new thrones, one black swirling with several shades of grey and sea green, the other so black it could have been liquid shadows. With the occasional soul silently screaming from the sides.

"Can you call the other artifacts here?"

He shook his head, "No. Unfortunately I can't. Do you remember the prophecy?"

"Yeah, it's 'A half-blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds. And see the world in endless sleep, A hero's soul, cursed blade shall

reap. A single choice shall end his days, Olympus to preserve or raze.'"

"So, so far the first three have already happened right? You sixteen?"

"Yeah, I turned sixteen today."

"Percy, I don't think the last three are about you."

"What do you mean?"

"I was told by one of Apollo's oracle a long time ago, that the one prophecy that the gods would be most afraid of would have double meanings, literally. Where she told me that half the prophecy would change the world, and the other half would proclaim someone's innocence, and that both meanings would be of different and opposite demigods."

"Um, interesting? How did you even get that much information."

He winked at me,"Now that's a secret."

And he smiled.

I rolled my eyes, and we probably would have kept bantering, while the hunters were tending to Thalia, until the door starting bending. Loud sounds of the door being battered were coming through.

"Come on hunters, get to high ground, take Thalia with you."

They seemed to shut up and listen for once, "Raven and I, well we know what to do."

We made eye contact, and took out our weapons. Anaklusmos for me, and twin hunting knives for Raven. The thing about Anaklusmos, is that I found it on the floor, of this run down school. I happened to be looking for a pen, because I desperately needed to write something down. So when I finally found a pen and I uncapped it, it was to my greatest displeasure that it was a sword and NOT a pen. When I realized it was perfectly balanced, I decided to keep it, and upon studying I found the greek inscription.

The door never burst open, oh no, that was just a distraction, a voice came, from behind us.

"Well well, two heroes ready to defend the thrones of the very gods who want them dead." A voice drawled out.

We turned around,"Kronos" I hissed at him.

He looked mirthful,"You know," he smiled,"I didn't think that my dear children would be able to muster up any demigods much less roughly 150 for

the protection of Olympus. Too bad that most of the m are dead and the rest are prisoners."

He looked smug, and there is nothing more that I want than to rip that smirk off his face.

Kronos's form flickered. Behind it I could see Luke. That kid who snapped at me during camp's wimpy Capture the Flag game.

"Luke?"

I looked at Kronos, "You're using Luke as a host. A child of Hermes? Really, you'd go that low?"

"You'd be surprised Percy, at how much he wanted to destroy the gods."

"Oh Kronos, even I want to destroy the gods, but you titans, you'll have an even crappier rule. I think who I choosed is pretty clear."

While I was talking, Raven had started to inch away from me, and Kronos didn't notice him. I knew exactly what he was doing, and used my powers

over shadows to hide him and the hunters, who by now knew to stay silent. Raven popped up behind Kronos and swiped his feet out from underneath him, I ran to Kronos but he threw out a blast of energy.

Kronos stood up with a bubble of golden energy covering him, as he went to the throne of Dionysus, and stroked the side.

"Ah, what a useless trick, and what a spoiled god."

He blasted the throne with shot of gold, and purple seeping tendrils floated out from the remains and soon dissipated. He turned to both me and Raven.

"You see, you can't defeat me. The gods are locked away in their various prisons, and only two demigods left in their defense, I can toy with you for as long as I want."

He froze time and walked up to me, as Raven was off to the side. He put his finger on my forehead as pain, unparalleled by anything else began to run through my veins, and my face scrunched up in agony. He pushed me too my knees and I couldn't even scream. I arched my back as my hands were twisted with the feeling of electricity sending pulses up and down my spine. Kronos's face was twisted into that of pleasure. When he let his hold go, I slumped to the floor, tears running down my face, and I pushed myself to my knees, but when I tried to stand I fell again.

"You are more than you seem Perseus, join me."

"Never." I croaked out.

Raven was looking at me helpless, as he was still frozen.

Kronos's form flickered again, and I groaned.

"Luke, I know that you can hear me," I coughed, and out came the golden ichor of the gods. "Luke, I need you to take control."

Kronos's form flickered again, and changed to a teenage kid with sandy hair and blue eyes.

"Percy, I'm sorry. I can't hold for long. Something you need to know. Kronos made me take Achilles' curse. Vulnerable spot," He flickered but held,"is right shoulder. You have to give me Annie's weapon. Her dagger."

My eyes widened. Annabeth, the one who isn't an artifact had given me her weapon to say sorry about two days before I left to Nemesis' fairy wonderland.

I had kept the dagger with me since. Raven must've been let out of his hold,

"Percy don't do it!"

I slid over the dagger, which I took out from under the scarce armor that I was wearing. Which wasn't much, Just a chest plate, and vambraces. Luke cleared a small spot on his shoulder and pricked himself with the dagger.

"Cursed blade." He murmured.

As light shot out of his body, and there was a ball of energy hovering above his chest.

"Forgive me Percy."

"I forgive you."

He sighed, and his eyes closed, and there was a blackened outline of ash around his body.

But the ball of energy above his chest didn't go away, instead it started to stretch into a humanoid shape as it slowly formed into Kronos. We didn't get rid of him…

"Percy?"

"Yeah?" I groaned out, still weak from the earlier attack of pain.

"We need help."

"I know."

In my mind though, I was running through the different items that I could sacrifice that would bring the gods of the Big Three to me. Slowly I got an idea. We had about a minute until Kronos fully formed. And currently he was completely invincible.

"Raven, take off my armor."

He looked at me and decided not to question me.

I scooted to Hestia's hearth, and Raven took off my chest plate and vambraces, and set them to the side.

I pushed myself into a sitting position and threw the armor in, I remembered an old ritual, that if you ever need the help of the gods, that you should sacrifice something that would affect your survival. And the gods you asked for would be summoned. It was an old trick Nyx taught me.

"To Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus. Please come to my aid."

After that I collapsed, but before my eyelids dropped, I saw three flashes of light, as the Big Three rushed to me, and turned to look at their fully formed father.

THE END! Just kidding, the end of this chapter. Let me know if you want a sequel. If not then, I'll just finish this story and move on to my next story, and I kinda want to do a dark!Harry Potter fanfic. So yeah. Umm, lemme know. Story's almost over. Hope you had fun. BAISSSSSSS.

~Cinaedion