Chapter 25
A/N: Sorry for taking a while for this update. I've been spending the last few months just contemplating suicide. I'm pretty sure I'm better now but I don't know. I'm extremely sorry about this extremely late chapter but I hope you enjoy it.
PREVIOUSLY
I shot a stream of Greek Fire at him just as he shouted "NOW!" and the ground erupted with his brother Giants: Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, Polybotes, and Gration. I panicked and launched myself upward with my wings as a black wall erupted behind me, blocking off my mom and the rest of camp.
Porphyrion struck me with a thunderbolt, knocking me out of the sky and clouding my eyes with pain. I heard somebody shout my name from behind me but I couldn't place the voice, the pain blocked out everything except the spear. The spear! It rocketed towards me, impaling me through the stomach. At that moment, I knew I was dead. Artemis.. I needed to tell her something.
NOW
Percy POV
I crawled to the wall and put the palms of my hands on it. Artemis was on the other side, pounding at the wall with her fists and shouting my name. I could barely hear it due to the pain clouding pretty much everything. I vaguely heard Ares hacking at the wall with his battle axe and Zeus ramming it with his master bolt. The other gods were using their various powers on the wall. My mom was enveloped in fire, shooting massive bursts out of her hands but to no avail.
I looked Artemis in her eyes and told her
"I love you. I always have and always will. Goodbye." And I knew what I had to do to protect the other gods. They couldn't handle all the Giants and Erebus, who I knew wasn't too far away. Using the wall, I pushed myself off the ground. The wound in my stomach flared and I almost fell into eternal sleep, but I couldn't let that happen. I slowly walked toward the Giants. Porphyrion looked somewhat astonished probably because I was still alive.
Also, what I was about to do and the gravity of what would happen made me glad that there was a wall protecting the two people I love the most. Chaos had to replace the veins around my heart to keep me alive when I was in the infirmary so long ago due to the hydra poison. He replaced them with a highly flammable substance from some other planet that can cause an explosion that makes a nuclear bomb look like a firecracker. He had to replace it with that because that substance regulated my heart's speed of how often it pumps blood. It was beating so fast that it would have exploded and killed me.
Due to the flammability, he also exponentially increased the hardness of my chest. Concentrating as hard as I could, which drowned out all the sound around me, I made my right fist glow blue, the strength of my fist of Havoc. Now that I had it ready, sound flooded back into my system, throwing me to one knee. Gration laughed.
"When we take over Earth, I'll have her as mine!" He said, pointing at Artemis through the wall. My anger flared and I jumped at him, forgetting all pain. I grabbed his head with my left hand and hit as hard as I could with my right, causing him to die instantly due to the strength of my fist of havoc. I had wasted it so I quickly placed my purple shield around the gods, forcing them inside. I then pulled the spear out of my stomach, barely feeling the pain through my red vision.
I held it, the butt pointed at the Giants and stabbed into my chest, jumping at the Giants at the same time. "Goodbye Artemis." I said to myself and closed my eyes.
Chaos POV
2 Days Later
That was a terrible event. But it was genius nonetheless. Percy singlehandedly killed 5 of the most powerful Giants on Earth and sent Erebus to the verge of fading. It was going to take him hundreds of centuries to be strong enough to rise again.
The camp ground was demolished. Grass was torn, trees were uprooted, the big house was in splinters all over the ground. The forest was ash black, all of the trees were either burned or torn out of the ground.
All of the gods and demigods (who hadn't fallen in battle) survived the explosion for reasons I don't even know. The gods were recovering but Artemis and Hestia were a wreck. I watched sadly from my realm as they sat together in Hestia's palace crying. I wanted to tell them Percy was a hero but they already knew that and wouldn't want anyone interfering with their private time.
The Seven were devastated. Jason and Piper were recovering in the infirmary, talking about their good times with Percy. Annabeth was… Are you serious? She was praying to her mom, asking her why Percy didn't forgive her and go back to dating her instead. I didn't even know what to say. Percy was dead and she was worrying about her selfish needs with him.
You know what, fuck her. Back to the point, Hazel and Frank were helping Leo and Calypso fix some of the beat up automatons that weren't completely broken.
The hunters knew nothing about what had happened. They didn't know Thalia was back or that Percy had died. They were camped out somewhere in Georgia. I don't know how to break the news to the hunters… And Artemis probably doesn't want to. I don't know what to do. But one thing is certain; Percy bought us a lot of time to prepare for the coming war.
Although Erebus will no longer be part of it, Tartarus has recruited Ourea; my son and the primordial of mountains. I have a primordial on my side, but I can't unveil her just yet.
Percy POV
The brightness in the room almost blinded me. It cut into my eyes like a scythe. When I closed my eyes, it wasn't much better. The light died down and black spots danced in my eyes. A man was walking towards me. He had blonde hair and was wearing shiny white armour. The light coming from behind him hid his facial features from my sight but I could tell he was scowling. He pulled a sword out and advanced towards me.
A feminine voice spoke out from behind the man.
"Perseus Jackson. It's nice of you to join us." And the world spun and I fell unconscious.
A/N: sorry for the short chapter but I really wanted to get this chapter done. The sad descriptions are really annoying to me and I wanted to get them done. Anyways, hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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