Narrator / November 29th
"Um guys, we can't get down" Leo said as the giant skeleton continued to try and grab their ladder
"Percy, do you think you could summon a wave?" Annabeth requested
He nodded his head. "On it"
A wave erupted from their left and the giant's right side. The water shifted and wrapped around Kuzmos's ankle and then tugged with enough force for him to fall on his back.
This caught the attention of the sorcerer who only just noticed the giant battle ship hovering over him.
"I think I'd rather not be up here with the wizard down there" Frank said. "I don't want to like, magically fall out"
Leo dropped the ladder and the seven quickly rushed down. As soon as all of their feet touched the ground, Kuzmos was on his feet again and punched the sand in front of them.
"Yuck" Leo spit sand out of his mouth
"Percy and Frank, you're with me" Annabeth said. "The rest of you, get that lamp"
The group nodded their heads and bolted into action. Kuzmos attempted to turn around and grab at the four who dashed at its master, but Percy summoned another wave that splashed its face and gave enough time for Jason to tackle the old man.
"Ok, how do we take this thing out?" Percy asked as he dodged a punch by rolling to the side
"Hit it until it breaks?" Frank suggested
"There has to be some kind of weak spot" Annabeth insisted as her knife skidded off Kuzmos's leg
"You guys do that, I'll keep it distracted" Frank said
Frank transformed into an eagle and flew around Kuzmos's head. The giant skeleton attempted to grab at him multiple times like a little child would with a moth, but Frank was too fast.
Percy and Annabeth continuously struck different places of Kuzmos where they could reach, but nothing seemed to be doing any damage.
"If it has a weak spot, it's not down here" Percy said
"Thanks, Sherlock" Annabeth replied with a teasing grin
"Hey, I was just say-"
Kuzmos turned to the side and kicked Percy into the ocean with most likely enough force to break all of the bones in his body.
"Percy!" Annabeth called out
Frank landed next to Annabeth and turned into a grizzly bear. He charged forward and tackled Kuzmos's leg so that he fell onto his back again.
Thankfully, Percy had landed in the water so most of the injuries he had sustained were being healed. An explosion went off on the seashore and an annoyed Percy emerged.
"I guess that's how were playing" He said
Chains made out of pure solidified water erupted from each of Percy's side and wrapped around Kuzmos's legs, dragging him into the ocean.
As the skeleton was on its back and struggling with the chains while being dragged, Annabeth saw an opening that might just work.
She rushed over and climbed up onto Kuzmos's skull and jumped inside the eye socket. As soon as he did, she was slammed into the wall by the force of Kuzmos titling its head.
"This has to be it then" Annabeth said as she recovered
Annabeth slashed her dagger against the wall she had been slammed into, leaving her half-buried under a pile of golden dust.
"Need some help?" Percy offered her a hand
She flashed a smile and accepted. Percy pulled her out of the icky pile of dust.
"Glad you're ok" Annabeth sighed
"Me too" Percy grinned
"Um, guys" Frank pointed to their side
They jumped in realization and turned to see their friends struggling against an army of ten skeletons about their height. Xander continued to casually reel in the lamp that getting closer and closer while Jason, Leo, Piper and Hazel slashed away at the indestructible skeletons.
"Their weakness is the eye sockets!" Percy revealed as the other three joined the fight
Within moments, all of the skeletons had been turned to dust once their weakness had been discovered. Xander jolted his head to the side and waved a hand at them.
Percy attempted to rush forward, but chains erupted from the ground that held them all in place by their wrists.
"Be patient, demigods. Just a few more moments..."
They all attempted to pull the chains out of the ground, but they weren't strong enough and were forced to watch as Xander knelt down and picked up a golden lamp that had washed up.
The small protective storm around it simply vanished with one wave of Xander's hand.
"No" Jason said quietly
"At last" Xander cackled. "Be free, my creation!"
Xander rubbed the cursive letter m on the lamp and the ground began to shake violently, additionally snapping the chains. The demigods tried once again to attack but the ground shook hard enough that they were just stumbling around like drunk idiots.
A red light erupted from the teapot-shaped lamp's opening and dark red goo began to spill out slowly until there was a three foot pile.
"Ew" Leo gagged as the ground stopped shaking
"Majin Kai is a pile of play doh?" I questioned
Xander laughed mockingly. "Like I said, be patient"
On cue, the goo began to contort and grew to a height of about fix feet and a half. Limbs began to slowly come to life and a facial features slowly began to form.
In moments, before them stood a humanoid-like demon. Its skin was a bubblegum red and it wore white baggy pants along with a belt that had the golden cursive m on it.
Its head had no hair. Instead, a bent antenna curved downwards, away from its head, and with the tip being ignited with a small flame. Instead of ears, it had hollow holes. Similarly, holes appeared like tiny freckles on its arms and chest.
"Majin Kai, you have awoken" Xander said
No sound was made.
"This is awkward" Leo frowned after about a minute
"Silence" Majin Kai snapped
Its voice sounded demonic and boomed across the vicinity, but sounded very young, almost with a childish tone.
"My creation, before you stand sons of Poseidon, Zeus, Hephaestus and a daughter of Athena. These are the ones who imprisoned you" Xander explained
"Wait! That's just a coincidence!" Leo denied
"He's right, you were imprisoned centuries ago" Annabeth backed up
"They look different" Majin Kai noted. "Whoever lies must die"
"I um" Xander nervously stammered. "I do not lie. I freed you! You must believe me! Destroy the demigods that stand before you"
"As you wish" Majin Kai stepped forward
The seven demigods readied their weapons except for Leo who had none and Frank who could just transform.
"This is going to be fun" Majin Kai chuckled as he slowly approached
"It's a seven on one" Jason warned
"I like those odds" The Majin licked his lips with his blue tongue and bared his vampire-like teeth
Percy struck first, slashing Riptide horizontally. Majin Kai quickly contorted back into a pile of goo that dodged the slice, and then reformed to gut Percy hard enough to send him a couple of feet back.
Leo shot a column of flames but Majin Kai simply walked straight through, unaffected, and picked the son of Hephaestus by the neck.
Annabeth stabbed her dagger into the Majin's back but it simply went straight through as if she had stabbed quick sand, its body being made of mushy material.
Majin Kai turned around and also picked up Annabeth the same way, and then slammed the two demigod's heads together before dropping them.
Jason and Piper attacked together but Majin Kai stood there as their weapons cut straight through the mushy body, unable to do damage.
"We can't hurt him if he's not solid" Annabeth groaned as she rubbed her head
Frank transformed into a constructor boa and slithered up Majin Kai's body, tightly wrapping around his neck. It exploded into bunches of small piles of goo and the body stumbled back with its arms attempting to feel its missing head.
"Got it" Frank said as he returned to normal
The seven gathered together again and stood side-by-side, awaiting the result. The goo crawled into one pile and then jumped back onto Majin Kai's head, reforming the head.
"A son of Mars that can shape-shift" Majin Kai hissed. "You demigods are interesting, it's a shame you must die"
The Majin held out its palm and a red energy ball formed unlike any they had ever seen.
Instantly recognizing the description of the technique, the demigods rolled out of the way except for Jason who slashed his sword at the ki blast that had been fired. It split into half and exploded behind him dangerously, covering about five feet in radius.
"You demigods seem to like your swords" Majin Kai frowned
One of Majin Kai's arms began to wiggle and contort until its hand became a sharp spear head. The demon cackled childishly and lunged forward, slashing at the son of Jupiter.
Jason barely blocked and the two engaged into a sword fight. Hazel joined in, attacking from the back but once again doing no damage. Majin Kai spun on its heel and slashed its blade-hand at Hazel, but she quickly ducked and avoided it. Jason stabbed his sword straight through the Majin's chest to no avail.
Majin Kai returned to its pile of goo form and sprung like a coil over to the over five demigods. Once it reformed it quickly slashed at Annabeth but she blocked it with her dagger.
Percy summoned another chain of water that grabbed Majin Kai's blade-arm and tugged on it until the arm popped off of the body like a lego.
The arm turned into a pile of goo and then wrapped around Percy's leg. A pair of teeth formed in it and It bit down onto his leg, causing him to grit his teeth in pain.
"Goodbye" Majin Kai said
The Majin held up its arm up and a large ki blast shot up high into the sky. Once it was about thirty feet in the air, it exploded into a meteor shower and explosions rained down onto the vicinity.
Once the smoke cleared from the explosion, the demigods still stood but had taken heavy damage. Percy knelt down and ripped the goo from his leg. It sprung like a coil and reattached back onto Majin Kai.
"You can't possibly hope to defeat him" Xander said from behind the demigods, watching with curiosity rooted from the fact they had survived that attack
"I was right, this is fun" Majin Kai grinned. "You demigods are durable, perhaps I can get some true enjoyment by torturing you all for a bit"
The seven demigods readied themselves as Majin Kai began to slowly walk forward again. Jason concentrated hard and a thunderbolt crashed down onto The Majin, but the electricity was simply absorbed into his elastic body and circulated him.
"You've already tried that before in the past, son of Zeus"
"My dad is Jupiter, we're not the same demigods!" Jason protested
"You will die all the same" Majin Kai replied
The Majin stopped a few feet in front of the group and eyed them carefully, as if choosing who would die first.
"I think I'll start with... you"
He transformed into his goo state and sprung at Annabeth, but Percy jumped in front of her and cut the goo in half mid-air.
It dropped and two half-sized Majin Kai formed that tackled Percy to the ground, biting him with their sharp fangs. The other six jumped into action and with some effort, they pried the two miniature demons off of him.
Jason and Hazel each threw each of them back, and they glued together and reformed into the original once again.
"Percy, are you alright?" Annabeth asked quietly as she checked him for injuries
"Been better" He grunted
Annabeth inhaled sharply once she noticed the multiple spots where Percy was bleeding, and it looked bad. He had jumped into save her and ended up like this. If he didn't get help soon, things wouldn't be so good for the son of Poseidon.
Jason looked around for anything that could help until an idea suddenly popped into his head like Minerva had magically placed it there. He shut his eyes closed and put the rest of his energy into one last resort move.
A thunderbolt crashed down and electrocuted Xander, catching him off guard and causing him to drop the lamp. The other demigods quickly noticed the opening and jumped into action.
Piper and Frank tackled Xander and pinned him to the ground while Hazel dashed over and picked up the lamp. Majin Kai's eyes widened and his arm extended out to over fifteen feet to try and grab Hazel, but Jason quickly severed the arm.
Hazel rubbed the cursive m just like Xander had, and Majin Kai began to contort back into a pile of goo. Once it did, the goo sprang back into lamp and it jittered around until it stopped moving.
"You fools!" Xander shouted and a shockwave of wind pushed them all back, even causing Hazel to drop the lamp. "Now it will wake a week to release him once more!"
Xander picked up the lamp and turned into black smoke, dissipating into the wind.
"W-We did it... for now" Leo exhaled
"Guys" Annabeth called for attention as she sat by Percy's side, trying to stop the bleeding from multiple spots
"Oh shoot, we have to get him to the water" Frank said
Hazel, Frank, and Annabeth all carried Percy over and gently dipped him in until he was fully submerged. Once they had done that, all of the demigods sat down and tended to their own injuries.
"That was crazy, we couldn't even hurt him!" Jason frustratingly dropped his sword
"Hey, it's ok" Piper lightly put her hand on his shoulder. "We have one week to find a way to beat him now, thanks to you"
"She's right" Annabeth agreed. "We can find a way, and I know just the person"