A/N (I recommend reading this): I'm going to MAKE THIS CLEAR. Just like I mention on my bio page about every other fanfiction I done: I DON'T OWN THE PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIAN SERIES OR IT'S CHARACTERS as the rights goes to Rick Rioran. Also I suggest you guys start paying attention to the Author notes and my warnings that I left on EVERY chapter of EVERY story.
Sorry if this chapter is too much like the book.
If you haven't done so yet this month, vote on my poll on m profle page for what story you want me to work on this month.
Due to the limited number of characters posted, I'm forced to post only the names of the characters telling their tales in this story. When I get to the House of Hades and Blood of Olympus, I'll list off the first four characters listed in the order they tell their tales. I'll post the pairings if the two of the four characters listed are a pair. Other than that, the Pairings stay the same for this story.
Jason x Piper
Percy x Annabeth
Frank x Hazel
Leo X Calypso
If you haven't figured it out, each of the members of the Prophecy of Seven practically has a position. Keep in mind in the original series Juno started this when she told Percy he was the glue that holds the group together, so I thought to give the rest a title. But no matter what title they have they still depend on each other. Titles will be added for some as the series continue
Jason: Leader of the Group and co-Pontifex (Priest)
Piper: Peacekeeper
Leo: Mechanic, Admiral, and Seventh Wheel (by Nemesis)
Percy: Glue that holds everyone together and co-Pontifex (Priest)
Hazel: Mist Manipulator
Frank: Muscles and Praetor
Annabeth: Battle Strategist and Consultant
Lastly I want to make clear that once 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus' is done I won't start immediately on 'The tales of...' version of the Trials of Apollo until that part of the Percy Jackson series is done. Just as I waited for the end of the Blood of Olympus to start 'The Tales of...' series. By waiting until that series ends, it might help me come up with something to add to it.
Warning: Certain ancient Greek names matches words use of foul language but no foul language was intentionally used. Also I dropped the '& the Olympians' in 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon & the Olympians' as well as replaced the '&' with ':' in the short stories of that part of the series. So if you haven't read them yet read before reading this story as stuff that happened in them will be mentioned:
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Early Adventures
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Lightning Thief
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Sea of Monsters
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Titan's Curse
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Magical Labyrinth
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Stolen Chariot
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Sword of Hades
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Bronze Dragon
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Last Olympian
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Staff of Hermes
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Quest for Buford
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades
Lastly, any one who wants to do a Demigods and Olympian reads story using 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon' is allowed as long as you inform me about it.
Full Summary of this chapter: With Reyna Calypso Nico and Hedge taking the Athena's Parthenos back to camp half-blood and the Argo II racing to Athens for the battle against the giants, its a race against time to save the world and both camps. The only problem is that Gaea is trying everything in her power to stop the one thing that could stop her plans and get the blood of a male and female demigod she needs to wake up. Told in the tales of Nico, Reyna, Piper, Leo, and Jason
Jason's POV Part XII
Even with Leo's crazy plan, if it wasn't for two certain groups of girls and women, the campers would have been dead before they could dig their way out.
As soon as Gaea achieved liftoff, the ground solidified. Demigods stopped sinking, though many were still buried up to their waist. Sadly, those who weren't riding a hellhound (namely Percy and Annabeth) were only able to dig their way out just as the monsters seemed to do the same. Only problem was that Percy and Annabeth, even on Mrs. O'Leary couldn't handle all the monsters themselves.
Just then a hunter's horn blow loudly in the distance as a valley of arrows zoomed through the air and struck down every monster that tried to get close.
Everyone looked up at Half-Blood Hill to see a familiar group of young girls within the age of twelve to sixteen in black and silver hunters clothing armed with bows and a quiver full of arrows as well as dozens of wolves by their sides, along with a group of girls and women varying in different ages wearing black jumpsuits. But what was most shocking was surrounding them was an army of undead girls and women either in the same clothes as the hunters or the ones in the jumpsuits. And leading them was a girl my age with messy black hair and circlet on her hair and a young woman in her twenties that looked like an older version of Reyna but with a black jumpsuit and chain link belt, and a girl with olive skin and dark hair similar to Nico's.
"Thalia! Bianca!" Annabeth cried.
"Hylla too," Percy said.
"Greeks! Romans! With the rift between your camps repaired, we came to your aid!" Hylla yelled.
Thalia and Bianca nodded. "Charge!"
The new form armies charged down at the monsters. As their owners attack, the Hunters' wolves dug out the campers who joined them.
I decided now was never before Leo is out of our range. I put my arms around Piper's waist.
"Percy! Help Thalia!" I yelled.
Percy nodded and Mrs. O'Leary charged toward the Hunters and turned to Hazel and Frank who were now free thanks to Small Bob who had also dug his way out and look at Annabeth as all three nodded. "Let's go help our allies!"
Hazel and Frank nodded as they charged into battle.
As they did, Piper and I spiraled upward on the wind.
"I've got the cure," Piper murmured like a chant. "It'll be fine. I've got the cure."
She had obviously lost her sword in battle but her cornucopia was strapped securely to her side, but I know either one won't be enough at this point. For this to be over Leo and I need her charmspeak as well as either Leo's fire or my storm.
As we ascended, I gathered the wind and clouds around me. The sky responded with frightening speed. Soon we were in the eye of a maelstrom. Lightning burned my eyes. Thunder made my teeth vibrate.
Directly above us, Festus grappled with the earth goddess. Gaea escape by disintegrating and returning to the ground, but the winds kept her aloft. Festus sprayed her with flames, which seemed to force her into solid form. Meanwhile, from Festus' back, Leo blasted the goddess with his own flames while yelling, "THIS IS FOR MY MOTHER, ESPERANA VALDEZ!"
His whole body was wreathed in fire. Rain hung in the stormy air, but it only sizzled and steam around him.
I zoomed toward them.
Gaea turned into loose white sand, but I summoned a squadron of venti who churned around her, constraining her in a cocoon of wind.
Gaea fought back. When she wasn't disintegrating, she lashed out with shrapnel blast of stone and soil that I was barely able to deflect. Stoking the storm, containing Gaea, and keeping Piper and myself aloft… I had never done anything so difficult. I felt like I was covered in lead weights, trying to swim with only my legs while holding a car over my head. But I had to keep Gaea off the ground. It was the only way to finish her off.
Together they rose. Festus creaked and groan with effort, but he continued to gain altitude. I still didn't understand how Leo had manage to remake the dragon. Then I recalled all the hours Leo had spent working inside the hull over the last few weeks. Leo must have been planning this all along, and building a new body for Festus within the framework of the ship.
He must have known in his gut that the Argo II would eventually fall apart. And I was elated to see our old friend in action once more.
"YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!" Gaea crumbled to sand, only to get blasted by more wind and flames. Her body melted into a lump of glass shattered, then re-formed again as human. "I AM ETERNAL!"
"Eternally annoying!" Leo yelled as he urged Festus to fly higher with Piper and I following.
"Get me closer," Piper urged. "I need to be next to her."
"Piper, the flames and the shrapnel—"
"I know."
I moved in until we were right next to Gaea. The winds encased the goddess, working with the flames to keep her solid, which is good because keeping the winds together hard enough to contain her blast were hard enough as it is. Her eyes were solid green, like all nature had been condensed into a few spoonfuls of matter.
"You are so weary," Piper told the goddess in her best kind and sympathetic Charmspeak voice. "Eons of pain and disappointment weigh on you."
"SILENCE FOOLISH CHILD!" Gaea released a force so great, I almost lost control of the wind. Fortunately, Festus caught Piper and me in another claw before we plummeted.
All at the same time, Piper kept her focus. "Millennia of sorrow," she told Gaea. "Your husband Ouranos was abusive. Your grandchildren the gods overthrew you beloved children the Titans. Your other children, the Cyclopes were thrown into Tartarus. Your other-other children the Hundred Handed Ones betrayed you for Olympus.'
"LIES!" Gaea crumbled into a tornado of solid and grass, but her essence seemed to churn more sluggishly..
If we gained any more altitude, the air would be too thin to breathe. I would be too weak to control it. Piper's talk of exhaustion had affected me, too, sapping my strength, making my body feel heavy.
"What you want," Piper continued, "more than victory, more than revenge… you want rest. You are so weary, so incomprehensible tired of the ungrateful mortals and immortals. You want one thing. One word. You want permission to close your eyes and forget your troubles. You—want—SLEEP."
Gaea solidified into human form. Her head lolled, her eyes closed, and she went limp in Festus claw.
Unfortunately I started to black out too as the winds and the storm strted to dissipate. Dark spots danced in my eyes.
"Leo!" Piper gasped for air. "We only have a few seconds. My charmspeak won't—"
"I know!" Leo looked like he was made of fire. Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Festus steamed and glow, his claws burning through my shirt. "I can't contain the fire much longer. I'll vaporize her. Don't worry. But you guys need to leave."
"No!" I said. "We have to stay with you. Piper got the cure. Leo, you can't—"
"Hey!" Leo grinned, which was unnerving in the flames, his teeth molten silver ingots. "I told you I had a plan. When are you going to trust me? And by the way—I love you guys."
Festus claw opened, and Piper and I fell.
I had no strength to stop it. I held on to Piper as she cried Leo's name and we plummeted earthward.
Festus became an indistinct ball of fire in the sky—a second sun—growing smaller and hotter. Then, in the corner of my eye, a blazing comet streaked upward from the ground with a high pitched, almost human scream. Just before I blacked out, the comet intercepted Gaea and the fire ball above us with Leo closer too close to the blast to survive it.
The explosion turned the entire sky gold.
A/N: Well readers, this is the 52nd chapter of the story. Which means there are only four left. I want to thank all my readers for being so patient with me finishing this story. Just a reminder, there WON'T be any 'The Tales of' version of the Trials of Apollo until the ORIGINAL Trials of Apollo series is completed. But there WILL be a 'The Tales of' version of the Crossover of Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles.
