Chapter 29 – The Devil Knocks

It was always said that when the Devil came knocking on your door, that Hell would soon follow. That statement was never going to be more accurate when it was Perseus 'knocking' on the doors to Olympus in the form of an overwhelmingly large mass of super concentrated wrath. However~

That statement was also in question because of who sat on the other side of those doors. Behind the doors to the throne room of Olympus was no longer the thrones that sat beneath the backsides of the Gods but rather held someone of far higher malevolence.

The doors blew clean off of their hinges, sparks of red light danced around inside the clouds of dust that had been kicked up. The two warriors that were lost in time had fought their way through the ranks of Titans that had been brave enough to actually try and stop the supercolliders of force.

When the smoke had cleared and their vision was once again able to convey the scene before them, they were both immediately on edge, this wasn't going to be anywhere near as simple as they had once thought. Titans? Not a problem, they had vast numbers but in comparison to Percy and Perseus they were just ants, but this? THIS was no longer a Titonamacy. This had been a full scale invasion the whole time but Kronos hadn't been the one behind it.

In the only two remaining thrones which were larger than those they'd replaced, sat a man in an impeccable suit who almost looked similar to Perseus because of the horns but in his deep pit like eyes sat two flaming orbs that never seemed to lose intensity. Sat beside the man who personified the Greek Hell was none other than the Earth mother.

"Gaea and Tartarus, ain't that just fuckin' peachy?" Perseus groaned quietly from where they were still confidently walking forwards. Tartarus looked as though he'd been bored this whole time and he'd finally seen some way to get a certain degree of entertainment and Gaea just looked surprised.

"Hi, name's Percy." The son of Poseidon told them casually. He stopped and looked around with his hands on his hips before letting out a heavy sigh. Upon the walls were six cages, each one holding an elder God within them.

His voice seemed to bring them all out of their focus-less state and just stare at him as though they were all looking at a ghost.

"Percy?" Poseidon ushered, a single tear brimming across his eye before rolling down his cheek. Was his son REALLY there? Had he returned after ten years of presuming his missing or worse?

"I'm here too guys." Perseus waved casually. He'd already realized that they probably hadn't even remembered him.

"I spend one day in Hell with Perseus and BOOM, Death tells me that the world has moved on without me, annoying at best, but then I return and you assholes have caused a Titan uprising and hurt my friends, my FAMILY and most of all, you've caged up a certain Goddess that I've come to care about quite a lot. Bad move on your part." Percy tutted before summoning his trident and trying out something that he was still waiting to see if he actually COULD pull it off. His body glowed a vibrant emerald green before he grew to the size of a God, his trident following his growth.

"Dat's badass." Perseus muttered in awe. He had no idea that Percy could do that! Although, he WAS a God, he should have realized that sooner or later he'd have picked up the same tricks that the other Gods could do.

"You should do it too." Percy told him without taking his eyes off of the Primordial attackers.

"I would if I could but I'm a Demon not a God. I can do something else though... No, it's way too dangerous." Perseus wrote off his thoughts. Percy was actually shocked, there was something he was capable of doing that was too dangerous even for him.

"You may not have noticed but our situation calls for anything that would help." Percy scowled at him briefly. This was no time to be finding a sense of safety.

"Yes, BUT, my version of what you've done will turn me into my predecessor." Perseus shrugged, the option was there, he was leaving it down to Percy to decided whether he done it or not. A quick nod from Percy was the go ahead. Perseus had the green light to turn himself into Satan. Was that what the horn was for? The reason that Perseus had to take something from Satan and add it to himself was so that he could achieve such a transformation?

"I will take the Hellspawn on myself, it seems only fitting." Tartarus bellowed with a grin, he more than likely would enjoy this greatly, even if he was defeated by Perseus. He seemed more than simply bored with his situation.

"Fair." Perseus shrugged before channeling every inch of power he held. It was incredible to witness and felt even greater to be beside. When the whole of Olympus had finished trembling it was like someone entirely different had appeared in Perseus' place but his face was the same, it was still more or less Perseus just with everything that Satan had, added onto himself.

He stood with an even leaner frame than before which was visible because of the fact that he was now lacking his specially made armour and instead was wearing a midnight black leather jacket with shiny chrome coloured studs spread throughout. He still had the same leather trousers and boots from before but the jacket was the only thing on his upper body and his bare chest and stomach were on show. His skin was a far brighter tint of crimson now and yet the single greatest change was the fact that his two horns not only now looked identical to the far larger ones of Satan, but there were two more sitting comfortably underneath the more prominent ones. It was like a crown made from his own horns. The perfect fusion of Satan and Perseus.

"This should be good." Tartarus announced before resizing to be the same as Perseus who hadn't changed in stature compared to Percy. The Demon just continued to casually regard Tartarus as nothing more than an interesting object, there was no danger coming from the Primordial, not to either of them.

As Tartarus continued to pick up speed and charge towards Perseus, the Demon lifted his foot before slamming it into the ground. All of the vines and winding branches that were expanding from Gaea had suddenly caught flame and burnt to nothing but ash. Tartarus who was almost upon Perseus was hit head on by a massively concentrated jet of water that had erupted from Percy's trident.

The God struggled to remain standing and the damage was evident as there was multiple patches of exposed skin that were now freely flaking away into the wind that was billowing around the two warriors.

Multitudes of Gods and immortal hunters flooded into the throne room to see the harrowing sight before them. Percy was the size of a God and Perseus was made from the reality of nightmares with his red skin and narrow horizontal slots for eyes that seemed so casual yet unimaginably dangerous.

"Friend of yours?" Thalia nodded towards Tartarus when she found herself suddenly standing next to the four horned Demon.

"That's actually Tartarus himself. Oh, I have an idea. Oh Asmody!" Perseus' voice caught everyone off guard when he basically began to sing. There was a faint rumble that only he seemed to understand but it was good enough for him apparently.

"I'm calling it in right now, I want Tartarus to have a play date with the Queen's Guardian." And just like that, his words had opened up a vacuumous portal right behind the man of the underworld before a single muscular arm erupted from within and ripped Tartarus from their reality.

"As in, that guy who's physically one hundred perfect immortal?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow. Poor Tartarus, he was in for the beating of his life.

"As in the strongest immortal, yes, that guy. Anyway, we've got some Gods to save and a Gaea to suffer." Perseus pointed out, his image blurred slightly as he was reverting back to his initial form. Opening a rift between the throne room of Olympus and the Queen's tower in Hell was simply overwhelming even to the visage of Satan.

"Well then, sorry to anyone that doesn't want to get wet." Was all Percy told them before slamming his trident into the ground. The entire throne room was almost instantly submerged with the oceans from his trident. Water was erupting from every place it could, washing out of the throne room and rolling in waves around the entire city of Olympus. Any God or Goddess that was still in a cage would be rejuvenated and the cage broken. All six of the elder Gods were released from their ceiling prisons. A few seconds later and everything had calmed down. Everyone was released and Gaea was left struggling to move on the floor by her throne.

"Do you feel like we cheated by lowering our perceptible power?" Perseus asked Percy quietly so that no one else would hear but what he forgot was that the Hunter's senses had only ever gotten sharper with the need for survival arising almost constantly.

"You did what?" Thalia asked with a glare, pretty sick of the things that these two overpowered morons kept pulling.

"We compressed our power so much that even if those two could sense it, they would think that they were strong enough to defeat us." Percy explained with a sheepish grin. They had bluffed two Primordials into thinking that they were still the strongest when in reality the power had always been in the boy's court.

"I don't even have enough strength to hound either of you for doing something that stupid. I'm still-I can't believe that you've finally come back." Thalia's emotional strength had run its course and now that it was finally all over, she was breaking down, no longer able to hold it all together.

"Yeah, well we are back, and we're not going away agai-" Before Perseus could finish his sentence there were over half a dozen long sharp branches protruding from his chest. Behind him, Gaea was on her knees with her arm extended.

"I know about you sins, I know the trick to KILLING sins. Seven hearts all pierced at once is the trick, am I right, Demon?" Gaea's ichor stained body was shaking, she'd used everything she had in one last ditch attempt to take at least one of them down.

"This isn't the last you've seen of us." Gaea told them before to exploded from the inside out from the combined force of a lightning bolt, a trident and a pitchfork. The three brothers had found their weapons once again and ended the final threat.

"Maybe I shouldn't have spoken so soon, I mean, SHIT-She actually got all seven hearts." Perseus announced in sheer surprise as his gaze was firmly fixed on the seven spiked branches stuck through his entire body.

"Yeah, you're not wrong, this hurts way more than it looks." Percy agreed when he fell to a knee, using his trident as support. The horn part of the trident that had appeared when Perseus had become the sin of Wrath was cracking more and more with each passing second.

"No... No, you can't do this to us!" Thalia demanded. A flash of silver caught their attention before Artemis was beside them all, taking in the scene. She was about to bound forwards and reach out to hold Percy but before she got close, there was another flash of bright flames before a wave of heat emerged in the throne room. This being was someone that Percy recognized, he'd watched the fight in Satan's throne room from above.

"Sammael, this isn't a great time for a social call." Perseus coughed blood when he laughed at his own terribly timed joke.

"Make no mistakes Wrath, I do NOT like you one bit but you are indeed worthy of the title and I cannot have you die on us after only a day and a half. I will give you one of my hearts, you will heal the rest on your own." Sammael announced before snapping his fingers. The branch stuck through Perseus' body dissolved and the wounds started to slowly heal themselves. Sammael himself went as soon as he could. He had no business with Pagan Gods, he just came to save a fellow Sin from falling before their appointed time.

"Hello darkness my old friend." Percy muttered softly. Perseus chuckled at his words before they both fell flat against the marble floor of the throne room, extreme exhaustion had overcome them both.

A/N: Review? Next Chapter is the LAST chapter and I promise you'll finally get some closure :)