Chapter 35 The End is coming Part 1

Yep this story is wrapping itself up, but there is always a sequel that I could do.

Now you guys have to do a little convince

Hica "I hate you"

What? You are interrupting

Hica "I just read the your notes

And?

The battle, how about I just say that and you'll get it

Which battle

The final

Oh sorry now go away

Continuing after that little foreshadow, is that if you all can review and get up to 700 reviews, making up for last chapters lack luster (I am still trying to figure out what I did wrong in that chapter as all those who review loved it, some did get scared really bad),

If you make it to 700, one I will put up a poll so that you all can decide what time period after this, that the sequel may take place.

Example being

When the babies are still well babies

When the babies, are preteens

When they are official teenagers

And I will start working on it admittedly

Artemis POV

The Copter blades sliced through the air, going so fast that they were simple blurs to all those able to even glance over watching. The battle was raging, the shades were pushing closer and closer to the center of the Pentagon but for once, it wasn't an easy win for the Shades. Over the intercom, the security called out orders to units of soldiers that began flooding the Pentagon.

It was clear the battle wasn't going to be won by the Shades. This prompted me to be suspicious, why would Kilalon do something so stupid. As the glass doors in front of us blasted open, it seemed we were on the homestretch.

June screamed "Shit, Goddammit, motherfucker!" A stray bullet had hit her just as we entered the courtyard, making humans near us very nervous. The courtyard was muddy from raining earlier, causing June to slid, I clung to her arms in hopes she wouldn't fall with me in her arms.

The slide caused a new set of curse to sling out "Stupid mud, Spirits be damning damned, dumbass mud" well at least I know for future reference, not to let June near my kids with that mouth of hers. I have heard sailors curse, and June definitely is a bit worse then a sailor. Luckily she didn't have to curse about a fall, as her feet stay planted on the ground.

Another string of curse came from another mouth, as I turned my head to see Hica trying to not limp but not succeeding. A bullet clearly had lodged its way into her right ankle, forcing her to use her staff like a crutch. When I gave her a look of worry, she hissed, "I'll be fine"

Having the chance, I looked to see two copters, One was clearly the President as I recognized it from many pictures I have seen, white and blue paint, and the president's logo. The other copter seemed more military, meant to fight anything; it even had a jaguar painted on the side of its cameo haul. A ring of Soldiers surrounded the two copters, firing at any Shade that managed to make it into the Courtyard.

It was clear that all the soldiers were overwhelmed by all of this, their faces ranged from completely consuming terror to completely consuming terror, and did I say consuming terror. One as we got close, could be heard mumbling, "I am in a dream, that's it, just a dream." Yeah no, Soldier, you are far from being in a dream.

Jane suddenly set me down on my feet once she was past the wall of Soldiers, While the Lead secret service explained, "The copters can't take off, if Shades are clinging to them. So everyone going to get to a door and start the emergency shut off. All those inside the pentagon can hold their ground, trust me"

With that, everyone all ran for one of the Entrances to the courtyard, a group soldiers followed, as they couldn't keep their formation without hurting someone.

Knowing I couldn't help, as with being pregnant, I could no longer flash. Summoning MY OWN BOW was a struggle, even when I did, it took a minute to take the correct firing position because of my abdomen, and last but not least, I get tired too easily. But after I took the first step towards the Copter, a strange pain wrapped around the small of my back to just to radiate outwards. It felt as if there was a sudden spark of pressure down there, pressure that I couldn't relieve. The pain forced me to hunch slight and hold my abdomen in a desperate attempt to silence the pain.

My powers and instincts went haywire as I finally dredged into territory that I understand about Pregnancy, the end, meaning Childbirth. I was in Labor, the babies were coming, and I have no clue if I should scream in joy, or scream in terror. I knew something I could yell, "PERCY, the babies are coming!"

Percy looked over, his mouth agape, and sweat already pouring down his face as the words registered to his brain. He screeched after nailing a Shade "REALLY, CAN YOU MAKE IT WAIT!" Before he could continue, his door slammed shut, cutting off the Shades. Still he went to Hica's door while still screeching, "THIS IS NOT THE BEST TIME TO BE HAVING A BABY, ISN'T YOUR WATER SUPPOSE TO BREAK AT THE BEGINNING?"

Without thinking, I yelled back "I can't tell them too wait, oh wait yes I can but what I can't do, is keep it up forever" Using all the little power I had, as the baby sucked up most of it, I stalled my labor. When I figure out which Goddess of Childbirth did this to me, I hope she can take a punch, no actually, I hope she can't.

The lead Secret Service decided to throw in some info. "On the water break part, only 10% of woman's water breaks natural. Most people don't believe that, what happens with most, it gradually leaks out or the doctor has to break it. I know this because my wife just gave birth a week ago." From all over the courtyard came "Congratulations," making the Lead smile to himself as he finally got his door closed.

From the President copter, The President poked out to yell, "We better get out of here, A report just went out, about more Shades coming," I wonder where all the Shades were based, because we are far from the region of Tum Tum Mountain. Almost to back up the theory, a bang came from all the closed doors. Shades must be piling up on the other side.

The lead Secret Service yelled, "Pregnant Lady, sorry I don't know your name, but get in the military copter." With that, I walked as fast as I could, while trying to keep concentration on stalling my labor. The door of the copter opened as I got close, there were two pilots, but something seemed off about them. The two were wearing pilot gear and all that, yet it seemed really loose on them. They also had a feel to them that made bells go off in my head.

I stop walking, something felt really wrong with these pilots, I just can pin it. Behind me, June came up with saying, "Come on, princess, we don't have all day," She pushed me forward as behind us, one of the doors strained to stay shut. This just made June add, "Yeah, we really don't have all day," With that June and the pilots helped me into the copter.

Everyone else begin running so to not spend any more time in the courtyard. June looked towards the group, most likely to make sure her brother was in the group, before moving to get into the Helicopter. Just as she was almost in, one of the pilots hit her over the head with the handle of a shotgun, making her fall right out. The Helicopter's blades went double time, thrusting the copter into the air, with me still inside.

I looked to see, that the pilots weren't human, as one pilot pulled off its helmet making the human face disappear, just to be replaced with a Shade's. The other was a demigod, as when he pulled off his helmet, his face didn't change. The Shade grabbed me, making sure I wouldn't try and jump out of the copter, while the other piloted. Even though the Shades seemed like just shadows, they were stronger then most monsters.

I could barely move my head to look out. But when I managed, I saw Percy; tears were streaming down his face, as there was nothing any of them could do. If they fired at the copter, I will go down with it, and we're still uncertain if the babies were immortal after the effects of the blade. We were also too far up for one of them to try and jump on.

The President came out of his copter to yell into a megaphone, "Land and release her, or this is war!" Well, we got the humans support against the Shades. Seeing the President, it was clear that he was pissed beyond belief.

The Demigod yelled into a radio that lead to speakers on the copter, "Then let it be war!" With that, he hung up the radio and simple motion for the door of the Helicopter to go shut and it did. I got a glimpse of his eyes to see them pitch black, just like when Annabeth's pissed.

He seemed to have noticed that I had seen his eyes and boasted "Oh yes, Kilalon changed me after the failure with Annabeth. I turned out so much better. All of my soul is gone," I remembered the two women's' words after I had been captures the first time about Annabeth. I have a feeling; there will be no way to get this boy's humanity back.

Once again, I struggled against the bonds of the Shade, but nothing budged, more it became tighter than ever. Dammit, I got captures again, and because I am pregnant and holding off labor, there was nothing I could do to stop it. The reminder of labor made me almost lose control on stalling it. Stalling it became even harder as my nightmare came back full force, it was true, I am going to loose my babies to Kilalon.

I fought back tears; there was no way I was going to cry. The monster demigod started to fumble with something on the dash of the Helicopter. It definitely didn't belong, as it was this glass sphere with gold disks spinning idly inside. As the demigod fumbled with it, the disks spun faster and faster, till they were simple gold blurs inside glass. He told the shade, "Get ready to jump, Fred," That Shade seemed to bark in response. He named a shade, Fred, how old is this demigod?

It seemed 'the Jump' thing that the demigod was talking about happened without even turbulence. As we went from sunny Washington D.C, to somewhere raining cats and dogs. The change was so surprising that I jumped ever so slight; it was so slightly as the shade still held tight.

The Copter started to go for a landing on what looked like an army base. With all the brick buildings with green steel tops, and the whole base surrounded by wired fences. Before the Helicopter even could come to a complete landing, the door of the copter swung open, and I was forcefully pulled right out. With all the surprises, my concentration on holding back labor faltered and a contraction ripped through me. Forcing to my knees, gasping for air, on the wet cold pavement. The rain drenched me, as its intensity increased, I managed to look up to whoever pulled me out of the copter, and a smiling Kilalon met my eyes.

He sneered, "Looks like I won't have to wait long for you to give birth," he ended his statement with a loud roar of a laugh, that shattered any chance to play off calm facade, tears to begin their cascade down my cheeks. My nightmare is coming true, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. The rain began pelting harder; it seemed impossible for anyone to tell I was crying.

Kilalon finally stopped laughing to command a couple demigods, "You all, take her to the infirmary. She's about to give birth," The demigods saluted to him, smiles etched on their faces. They looked to me with now with evil grins, they walked up ready to drag me away. The demigods, each took an arm, and hoisted me up, and forced them behind my back, so that I would walk without a chance of backlash.

It seemed that Kilalon has outfitted all the demigods with modern guns, and whipped them into soldiers. They all wore either black or camouflage outfits, all with the insignia of a burning dragon that I had no clue what it was suppose to mean.

The walk was slow, as I had to trudge through mud, which wanted to suck in my feet; the demigods were no help as they only laughed at me. I kept my head down, looking at the dark mud for the entire trip, I only looked up when I hit pavement again. The building had a Greek sign that meant infirmary, if the room I was put in was all white like the nightmare, I will scream. I looked around the outside of the infirmary to see it was a white painted brick building that, by the lack of stains, was fairly new. The top of the building was flat with a few emergency helicopters. I wondered how Kilalon got all this, did he steal? No, as how does that explain the building? Is a fraction of the humans on his side? Maybe. During that thought, I must have frozen as the demigods forced me into the building.

The infirmary was everything but busy, ex- son and daughters of Apollo walked around in a calm manner. Some were just lounging at the nurse's station talking their days away. When they noticed us, admittedly one piped up, "Take her to room 108, it has godly restraints in place already," Without another word the two demigods hit me in the back to get me walking.

108 was the fourth room to the right in the all white halls, which the only spark of color was the colored lines on the floor, and the occasionally painting. When they opened the room, I wanted to scream. It was exactly like the one in my nightmare. The only add on was the gold handcuffs that would attach me to the bed. I felt cool metal press against my swollen abdomen, looking down; I saw the barrel of a gun.

The demigod holding said weapon, hissed, "Make one wrong move and your baby's life ends before it begins. Now go to the bed," I obliged, as I didn't know if my baby was immortal in there or not. Getting on the bed, I was handcuffed admittedly, the click ending any chance of escape. Once I was cuffed in, The Demigods gave another sneer before leaving, leaving me alone in the white room. A tear slide down my face as another contraction ripped through me. I barely had the mental strength to stop labor anymore. My babies were going to be in the hands of that filth, Kilalon, and in my weakened state, there was nothing I could do nothing to stop him.

Minutes passed as I silently wept for the lives of my children. When I started all this, I simply wanted a baby, and the biggest enemy I had was just good old cranky Hera. Now one of my babies, the girl most likely, has the power of Chaos's first creation, as the nightmare hints at, and the worlds most sadistic being I have ever seen, wants her for some horrid reason.

Suddenly the voice of the woman from the ruins in my dreams filled my head. It sounded distant and weak, "Artemis, you must hurry escape... get to Mount Hood before birth ... or death...I'm Getting help... Help has come, now,"

My tears ended, as the door was swung open, two more soldier demigods came in, and quickly closed the door, both were dressed in black uniform. They seemed to hiding from something, as they were both tense. I couldn't see their faces, as black full-headed helmets covered them. Not knowing who one was, was broken as I heard Annabeth's distinct voice, "You stupid moron, I knew I should have left you to die after that fall. Gods, you just had to shot the boy in the balls!"

The other responded in strict calm tone that hinted to inner anger, "Art thou stupid? That boy was about to unbound our cover, something told thee," The old English, that voice, it can't be!

Annabeth growled like a shade "You paranoid freak, he didn't know a thing. Wait; let me put this in your stupid terms. Thou has revealed our cover, hath lost thy mind to paranoia, and now ye are stuck in the middle of the base!" The two seemed too involved in their argument to notice my presence. So I took the chance to make sure that the other person was, who I think they are.

The other close to yelled, "I am not stupid, I can speak and understand modern English just fine, ye is the stupid one, with ye plan to infiltrate Kilalon's base with no other plan, I wish that damned portal didn't suck me out of the stars" she pulled off her helmet and threw it to the ground. To reveal the Person was just whom I thought it was, Zoe Nightshade.

I shifted on the bed ever so slight, cause one of the springs to screech, making the two jump, and grab their weapons. I quickly had a gun barrel and a knife pointed at me but when the two noticed whom I was, both their jaws dropped. Zoe stuttered, "Lady Artemis, what art thou doing here?"

Annabeth came to her sense. "That Helicopter that just came in. They captured you again. Geez, you suck at keep yourself safe," That's when Zoe elbowed Annabeth in the chest, while commanding, "Show some respect!" It was clear Annabeth would not; as with her change came an aura of disobedience.

Finally I said, "No time to explain, I have to get to Mount Hood as I am in labor, still Zoe how are you alive, I put you into the stars," The words of woman from ruins rung in my head, "The lines between death and life will become gray," Who else will spring back to life next?

Zoe explained as both her and Annabeth tried to figure out a way to remove the handcuffs. "For Annabeth, I attempt to put this in modern English, Well, when the darkness was covering the sky. It was creating this friction amongst the stars, the air no longer felt right. Then a girl with a staff came and created a huge amount of light, when the light hit the darkness, something else occurred than just the light banishing the darkness, some type of black hole thing formed and sucked me right away" Annabeth managed to break the bar that the handcuffs attached to, thus setting me free. Zoe continue to explain, "in essence, I was sucked out of the stars, and sent somewhere else that I cannot begin to explain"

As I was hoisted off the bed, a contraction spiked, forcing me to grab onto the nightstand as I struggle not to collapse. It felt like someone was tearing and ripping up my abdomen, the pain was so bad that I began to not be able to breath correctly; everything was coming out as short gasps.

Annabeth asked "Shouldn't you breath like hehe ho, or something, just to say I have no experience with birth. Wait Zoe, you should know something." I managed to look up to see she had a deer in headlights, her eyes were impossible wide and she kept trying to say something but no noise came out.

Well I thought the contraction had peaked when the pain began to lessen, but I was very wrong. A sudden peak in the pain that felt like someone was trying to stretch very sore muscle, which made me scream as the muscles in my lower abdomen quivered at the inability to stretch properly. The scream snapped Zoe to her senses as she yelled, "I have never helped a woman in labor before, I know nothing,"

The pain made me hiss at them, "Here something you can do. Get Me To Mount Hood!" I glared at both of them as they tried to process everything.

Annabeth finally came up with a plan. "Zoe, you stay here and try to keep Artemis calm. It's not good for a woman to stress out in labor. Ok, now I am going to go get one of the jumpers out of a helicopter and attach it to a car, as I know how to drive a car," Zoe just motioned for Annabeth to leave, which she was glad to do.

Zoe went to the door, locked it while saying, "Lets get thou back on the bed and we can count how far apart the contractions are." With that she helped me back onto the bed, where I began counting, as we didn't have a watch or anything. 10 minutes passed before I swamped by a new one, 10 minutes is good, I still have time, not a lot, but there's time.

One more contraction passed before Annabeth came bursting in through the door, breaking it down as she went, "We got to get her out of here now, Kilalon coming this way." Without another word, Annabeth rushed over to pick me up, as there was no way I could run.

Annabeth quickly explained to Zoe as she hoisted me up in her arms "I got one of the cars on the east side. I put it in the forest so no one would suspect anything, the jumper isn't working as of right now, but I will get it working." Both of them ran out into the hall just to find Kilalon coming into the infirmary. Without even a plan, Annabeth bolted into the room next to the one I was being held in. This one had a window, with a glance up I saw that Annabeth had a plan, and it was clear.

Launch through the window.

This is when I am glad that the infirmary wasn't a hospital, a hospital gave the chance of having multiple floors so a crash threw the window might ended in a lot more than just some scrapes from the glass. As we got closer, I braced for impact, but darkness shot out of Annabeth destroying the glass. She smirked, "New trick I learned. You like it?" Before I could respond, we were out of the infirmary into the rainy muddy base.

Fun fun

Annabeth "Artemis, you suck at keeping yourself safe"

Artemis "You try when you are pregnant with twins that are basically power suckers, leaving you with nothing"

Annabeth "I'm good"

Artemis -_-

Ok, please don't kill each other

Artemis "can't promise anything"

Well ok then. Remember every one, we are pushing for 700 reviews, we can do it

Zoe "Unless you want to join the demigod solider with a arrow, where it will hurt and the Apollo kids can't remove it"