Hey guys, I don't understand, why are you all so upset. I mean all I did was mention that Kronos was alive, and you suddenly want to like MURDER me. Gods, people.
Okay, spoilers up ahead for ToA. (Trials of Apollo, for those who don't know.) So basically don't murder me if you read ahead and spoilers pop up. Today we are finding out what happened with Hazel and CJ, Checking in on Percy, and doing more of Arianna's backstory, but like, gah you'll see. And Uh... That is all. See yall later.
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Hazel's POV:
I wake up with CJ next to me, her eyes steady and alert. She turns in a three sixty and mutters to herself.
"CJ? Where are we?" I say. CJ doesn't register what I am saying. She just keeps turning in a circle and pointing, shaking her head, and muttering.
"CJ?" I say, a bit louder this time. When she doesn't reply I stand, reaching to shake her shoulders and my hands go right through her. What?
"This is a-uh- memory of sorts, You can't touch anyone. I've tried." I turn and see CJ, in a misty like state, floating next to me.
"Oh I used to do that too..." I mutter. Maybe it was a daughter of Pluto thing. CJ doesn't respond, she just floats forward staring at a man in a purple suit, with a big ugly nose. The man was staring at the 'regular' form of CJ.
"CJ, where is she!?" The Ugly man yells., he looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on it...
"I-I don't know." CJ says timidly, pulling her jacket down by the waist. She averts the man's eyes and he grabs her by the collar, "She angered the Beast. He will come out, I'm doing the best I can, but it's hard when you lie to me."
CJ looks the man in the eye, tears forming, "I don't know. Please, the beast doesn't have to come out, I really don't know."
The man shakes his head and drops CJ to the ground. She hits it with a thud and he turns, walking away, "You find her CJ. You find Arianna. She could ruin Everything."
The air around me begins to shimmer until I am somewhere else. I look around and see Arianna and CJ together. CJ is saying something that I can't register. It's like watching T.V. with the mute button on (Yep, I know what those things were).
"Look, Ari, He says you angered the beast, we know what the Beast can do. Please. Just-Just come back with me, we can work this out... He won't hurt you."
Arianna throws a knife at a target on the wall, her eyes flare with anger. The target is a picture of this 'Beast' man.
"Won't Hurt Me?" She says staring daggers at CJ. "All he does is hurt me. He killed my father, that cancer, that was his fault."
CJ goes to interject but Arianna continues with her rant, "He killed my aunt, they said it was a car crash... It was again his fault."
CJ looks down, tears welling in her eyes. Arianna lets a rouge tear travel down her face. "Everything I've been through, Everything wrong with my life, it's all his fault."
Arianna grabs a knife from out of no where and throws it at the portrait again, hitting right between the beast's eyes. "He can't just kill my family and live with it. He can't just Ruin my life and live with it."
I literally blink and then I am back behind the waterfall, CJ next to me. I raise my eyebrows and say, "That happened?"
She shakes her head, an angry look on her face, "No, and that's what bothers me. What did she mean, the Beast? And what about 'He killed my father' She told everyone it was just cancer."
She knows who the Beast is, she knows a lot more than she is telling me.
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Percy's POV:
No, no, a thousand more no's. The thoughts going through my mind at the moment.
Sorry, back to the present.
Kronos. This guy still haunts my dreams... along with Tartarus, but forget that.
"You-You're Uh I mean-You're alive?" My voice cracks mid sentence and I pinch myself, hoping it's a dream.
"Well Hello Percy Jackson. It's been a long time. Too long." Kronos says, atop his giant Nemean lion. He's in some teenagers body, with a freckly face, and a few pimples, but he's smiling in a creepy way that makes you want to scram.
My mouth is dry so I don't respond. He walks forward and reaches his hand toward me. I regain some of my senses and call for help, I tell all the Pegasi to get people and come here, I tell Blackjack to fly directly here, but who knows how long that'll take. I then reach for my ballpoint pen, uncapping it and holding it under Kronos' chin.
He laughs. He laughs.
I hear Blackjack land behind me and than say to Kronos, "You just want me, right? No one else has to get hurt."
Kronos laughs again and steadies his voice, "No. Everyone who did it must pay." He pulls out a scythe and knocks the blade out of my hand, pointing his blade under my chin.
"Who's in control now."
Blackjack, get out of here, go find Annabeth, or Reyna, heck find whoever, just get out of here.
But.. Boss
Go! You can get help. Come back here, or if they take me, just try and find me, okay?
Fine, But when we get back, Pancakes and Doughnuts?
Yeah, sure, just go.
Through some miracle Kronos didn't slice my head off. His glittery golden eyes meet mine and he snickers, "You know, I actually thought I wouldn't be able to reform-" he digs his blade deeper into my neck, so much that blood begins to trickle down.
"But, someone pissed off enough monsters in Tartarus to raise me back." He smiles evilly and tilts his head, pushing the blade farther making me choke.
"That was your fault, wasn't it?"
By now, riptide had appeared in my pocket and I could hear Blackjack flying away. I pull out Riptide and uncap it, swiveling my arm up and clashing with Kronos' Scythe. Metal clashes with metal, and our arms are blurs of color. I hear the clanging as if it were miles away, and when Kronos speaks I hear it in a whisper.
Finally, Kronos has me cornered, and he has successfully knocked my blade to my feet. I was covered in cuts, but Kronos wasn't in better shape. He was bleeding in several places, and he was huffing, trying to regain air.
I reach for my sword but Kronos says, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
I stop. Curse my curiosity. If Annabeth were here, she would point out a million times that I could've defeated Kronos in stead of listening to the other side of me.
"You know I have spies all over, right Percy Jackson?"
Sweat beads on my forehead as Kronos pulls out a drachma and a hose. (Where he got the hose from I have no idea, and I don't want to know.)
He made an Iris Message and when it appeared, I see a girl and a guy. I don't know who they are or where they are-oh no.
They are sitting inside of my apartment, right next to my girls. Fear bubbles inside of me and a strong surge of protectiveness rolls over me.
I look at Kronos, forgetting about my sword, "Look, I'm going to spell this out for you, Since you obviously weren't a good father you'll need someone to explain it to you."
Kronos steams, he goes to say something but I interject. (which is funny in his puny teenage, pimply body. but I don't laugh, this is serious people, come on.)
"You can hurt me, you can threaten me, you can break every bone in my body, I don't care about me." I look him in the eye, anger pouring into my words, "If you threaten my kids, You are dead meat. My children are my everything, if you hurt them, if you touch even the slightest hair on their head, I will rip you apart with my bare hands and I will kill anyone who get's in my way."
Kronos' face goes slack. He then realizes that he is an all powerful titan and laughs again. "I was a great father, you are supposed to eat your kids to teach them respect."
Kronos then turns to the IM and says, "Go ahead with the plan, He's not cooperating."
I watch as the two demigods reach forward to grab my kids. I go to say something but I hear an exploding sound as Liliana starts crying. The two demigods are pushed back by giant hands of water. I can't help but smile, That's my girl.
Kronos yells with defiance and the Nemean lion (Damn I forgot that was there) swipes me out of the way. I land on my back and groan. Black spots dance in my eyes and I call for any water I can find... That only made it worse. I guess I should listen to Annabeth more often.
I feel my eyes closing but I grit my teeth and stand, my girls need me.
Blood drips from the cuts that were just scraped forcibly on my back, but I limp forward and leap at Kronos. My nails raze across his back and he howls in pain and anger.
He grabs my neck and pins me to the ground, choking me. The taste of metal fills my mouth and soon blood spills from it. I look up to the Iris message to see Annabeth run in, finding two people in the ground groaning. Her eyes widen and they travel around the room, finding the Iris message. But she doesn't look surprised, not at all.
She looks through and meets my eyes. It's what I don't see that scares me. Usually Annabeth's eyes are storming, thinking of a million things at once, but when I look at them now, they are calm and still.
I watch as a man I didn't see before pushes Annabeth forward. He has a knife at her back and a smirk on his face. He reaches his hand forward and pulls her waist closer to his. (This is a T rated fic people, sorry.)
I suppress a growl. No one touches Annabeth, not like that.
I flip Kronos off of me and he flies back. He scrapes against the ground and I flinch, my back aches in sympathy.
My eyes meet Annabeth's again and I realize the knife is partially in her back, the tear streaks on her face, What did he do to her?!
"Annabeth... Wha... Are you okay?"
Stupid question from a Seaweed Brain.
"I-"
The man pushes the knife deeper in her back. She flinches and another surge of anger pulses through me.
"You Can't just hurt her, or touch her like that. You-" My voice falters, "You."
It was the ugly man, with the purple suit, and the big nose. He was the Beast. Apollo described him well enough. Plus the nude statue we seen of him kind of helped with the memory recalling process.
"You are the Beast. You don't touch my Wife. Or my kids. Leave!"
The Beast smirked and called, "Meg, why don't you bring Arianna in here."
My stomach plummets, She was a spy?
I was used to people I trusted betraying me. But Arianna?! I mean sure, I hadn't seen her in years, but when we were friends, she was the only one, besides Grover, who cared about me. We looked out for each other. This is what Annabeth felt like when Luke betrayed us... And Meg, she was back working with the Beast? I mean Apollo explained it well, but why would Meg still want to help the jerk?
I see Meg come in, dragging a chain with her.
The chain leads to Arianna, who is gagged and has cuffs around her.
Beast waves his hand and Meg carefully takes Arianna's gag off.
"You little Bitch!" Arianna flew into a whole stream of cursing, ancient Greek, Latin, what I believe was Italian, and French?
At first I thought she was talking to Meg, but at the end she growled, "No one touches my family, any part of it, and gets away with it, Beast."
She kicks The Beast in the groin, ouch. He clutches the area and looks at Arianna with Anger. Annabeth regains some of her senses and pulls the knife from her back, kicking a guard that ran at her, and tossing the knife to Arianna.
I smirk, thinking, 'Wow, there's the Annabeth I know.'
The IM cuts off as Kronos dives through it to grab me. We wrestle around on the ground, Punching, kicking, clawing. I hear wing flaps and turn to see Reyna on Blackjack. Big mistake.
Kronos grabs my head, smashing it onto the asphalt, and I blackout.
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