Thalia: The end of the second assault and Gabriel's triumphant return to Camp
I knew it was crazy, no make that foolhardy, to fight Prometheus on my own. But at the same time, I knew I had no choice if I wanted to save the Camp but risk my life fighting him. So when I managed to draw him away from the Cyclopes, who continued their massacre of his soldiers, I knew I had him where I wanted him. So I began pelting him with lightning bolts that he would deflect away from himself with a barrier of telekinetic energy.
Then there was a point where I began to fear for my life and that was when he began throwing the lightning bolts back at me. I had to create lightning bolts that were specifically for defense just to keep up the attack then I knew I was really in trouble when I started losing space to Prometheus. In my first attempt to stop him from taking any more space, I created a Greek shield out of lightning but he easily smashed his way through that. I was pushed back a little ways but knew nothing else to do besides create another shield and that's what I did.
He blasted through that as he had done the last one and I knew I was running out of ideas. I made a third shield and hoped that it would work this time since it was stronger than the other two but he still blasted through it with his hands wrapped in telekinetic energy. Before I could conjure a fourth shield, he rammed his head into my stomach and sent us both crashing to the ground beside the Aphrodite cabin. It was here that I decided to try and zap him with lightning via a punch to the face but he grabbed my fist before I could hurt him and reflected the lightning back into my body, electrocuting me.
The death-match seemed to last eternity but luckily, it was only for a few minutes that I was indecisive as to what to do with the lightning being reflected back into my body. Then I absorbed all of the reflected lightning, letting it in through one system, and letting it leave my mouth to shoot Prometheus in the face. Thankfully, I had released enough lightning onto him at one time for him to be completely thrown off me and sent sprawling across the air for at least three dozen feet. Then he landed on his backside and slid across the ground deep enough to create a small fissure in it.
He quickly rose from it to try and fight me again but he was stopped by something. I felt it too and I wondered what it was but that was before I heard a familiar sound. "Hey Prometheus, Thalia Grace seems to be too much trouble. Care for a son of Cronus instead?" the voice asked.
"Ah Gabriel, returned from finding out the truth about himself in Hyperion's fortress. So now you think you know everything?" Prometheus answered. "Depends on what you mean by everything. If you mean everything about this war then I do from the fact that your army is being wiped out rapidly to the fact that soon, you'll be surrounded by nearly eight thousand demigod warriors," Gabriel replied sharply.
Sure enough, the army came and encircled Prometheus, trapping him with a phalanx at every angle. "Now stay there until I get back and am ready to deal with you as I deem fit. Percy Jackson will be ordering all Cyclopes to go on the offensive against what remains of your army and Nico will be returning from outside the Camp's walls to see what he can do for us," Gabriel ordered. "Oh don't worry Johnson, I will be eagerly awaiting your return for it is foreseen that we shall face each other one last time," Prometheus calmly assured him.
While Gabriel went to check on the Cyclopes as well as check on the damage to the camp, Prometheus and I had a nice little discussion. "It seems, Ms. Grace, that your faith in Gabriel was not misplaced after all," Prometheus told me. "When a daughter or son of Zeus knows their right to question what someone says, you better watch out," I told him. "So I have been told by many with a similar spirit to you. So I have been told by your brother," the Titan replied.
My brother? He has seen my long lost kid brother Jason? I had to know where for future reference. "Don't listen to him Thalia, he's just messing with your head like he always takes pleasure in doing," the familiar voice of Chiron said to me. "Oh am I Chiron?" Prometheus asked.
"Yes you are now stay away from her, you understand?" Chiron demanded. "So was I messing with your head when I told you that you had a half-brother by Cronus? Was I messing with your head when I told you that that half-brother had managed to kill Tethys with his bare hands or defeat Hyperion in single combat?" Prometheus inquired. "I… I have… nothing to say there and that was in the past, when you could actually have been trusted," Chiron said, hesitant.
But Prometheus didn't cool off there, instead going further into Gabriel's exploits. "Also, was I messing with your head when I reported that Gabriel was destined to become a knight of Olympus? Was I messing with your head when I told you he would choose to serve Helios, Selene, and Eos (the last of whom, he fell in love with if I recall correctly)?" Prometheus continued. "Silence, you are our prisoner and will stop this talk this very instant!" Chiron commanded.
"Their prisoner yes but not yours for you have in no way earned the right to call me your prisoner," Prometheus said. Chiron then turned and shot an arrow at him but I had a feeling that the smile on Prometheus' face meant that this was what he had been aiming for. Prometheus caught the arrow with telekinesis just before it reached the area between his eyes and burst it into flame before turning it around and sending back to Chiron.
"You think I've been meaning to destroy this camp? I only wanted to lure Gabriel into a final confrontation with me," Prometheus said. "Well too bad that you'll never get that chance unless he says so now," I replied. "He will want to destroy me once and for all, I know him well enough to know that to be true," Prometheus said to me.
Just then, Gabriel flew in with Nico and Percy in each arm as well as Annabeth riding on a horse below them. When Gabriel was just barely floating above the ground, he let go of Percy and Nico then guided himself to a soft landing on his feet. Annabeth dismounted the horse and I thought that that was the worst mistake that she could ever make. When she got close to the enclosure of demigods, Prometheus attacked again and created a massive wave of telekinetic energy that swept all of his captors away except her.
"You know Mr. Jackson, I have always wondered how best to catch you at your worst. Now I know just from the smell of her that Annabeth Chase is closest to your heart besides your mother. Therefore, I think (whether you mind or not I truly don't care) I'll take her for a little ride into the Heart of Tartarus; follow if you dare!" Prometheus said. Percy lunged for him and managed to stop him long enough for me to generate a lightning bolt that could stop the Titan. But he dodged it and threw Percy off before knocking me into the Hypnos cabin and opening a wide and deep fissure for his devious little scheme.
