Chapter 19 - The Wrath Of The Seas

The Dragon God was adrift the currents, only a mile between himself and the immense head of the monster he faced. Leviathan's head alone had to be miles in circumference. He hadn't really thought about how he was actually going to fight the creature but he knew that he had to.

Either way, it was going to be a painful experience. Kareah was right, he likely wouldn't have survived for long fighting as a Dragon, no, this was a fight he had to undertake as a God of the sea.

"You are one ugly bastard." Percy muttered as he stared into those island sized eyes. There was a shimmer, a few degrees of the slightest glare began to register on the gargantuan beast's face as he said it.

"Oh? Looks like there IS some intelligence in you after all. That's quite surprising. I'm still going to release your soul though, whether you want me to or not, it requires ALL of the Ancient Dragons if I have a hope of my plan working." Percy rambled slowly.

He was intently watching the Leviathan from afar, knowing that the creature had stopped and held only him in it's sights since he'd made his massive impact of an entrance.

It had taken him a few minutes to realize it, but… There was no life around him. Usually the inhabitants of the seas flocked towards him, their prince, but at the moment, the sea was devoid of life, everything was avoiding either him or the Leviathan

"Thinking about it now, perhaps this would have been easier if I'd waited to take your soul later on. I suppose it can't be helped, we're here now." Percy mumbled, mostly to himself yet he knew that his voice projected well underwater, that of a pure authority, and the Leviathan was no doubt hearing his words.

"How am I even going to achieve this? Kareah was right…" He continued before his eyes widened, "Don't ever let her know though, she'll get a bigger head than you." Percy laughed slightly, a hint of hysteria peaking through as he realized just what he'd gotten himself into.

"Well, well. The spoiled child is talking to himself. You know that's the first sign of insanity, right?" An unmistakable voice tried to rip Percy's attention away from the Dragon staring him down a few miles away.

"Triton? What the Hades are you doing here?" Percy asked in genuine curiosity. Poseidon would never have sent someone else in his place to fight against something of this scale, not unless he truly believed that together they'd be able to fight it off.

"Don't you think that something like this is perhaps a little bit bigger than just yourself? A problem of the sea involves all of us little one." Triton grinned when he saw the irritation of Percy's face, he knew the older brother was going to be smug wherever possible.

"Yeah well that's also a Dragon problem and I truly don't have the time to catch you up on everything that's been going on, so if you'd like to return to whatever cesspool you crawled out of, that'd be great." Percy shot back, twirling his trident in his hands, not wanting to stupor to the level that required him to make it glaringly obvious that he'd ascended.

"Wind your insults back or better yet, get one's that actually merit acknowledgement." Triton replied smugly.

"Ooh, sick burn." Percy said in a total deadpan. "What do you want Triton, I've already told you this is a Dragon problem." Percy demanded, getting bored of his brother very quickly.

Calm yourself Dragon boy. All of Olympus knows about you and your journey. Word travels fast, especially from those Hunters of Artemis when Zeus of all people is handling them. Point is that whether you're a Dragon, a God, or still just a pain in the ass like always, this is a problem for both of us, so you're getting my help whether you like it or not." Triton told him firmly, summoning his own trident to his hands.

"How did you know I'm a God?" Percy asked with a narrowed gaze. He could believe and understand that Zeus and the Hunters could potentially be ground zero for acknowledgement that he was a Dragon, but he'd only just come to his own personal acceptance of his true nature, it shouldn't have been possible for anyone to know about it already.

"Uh, let's see, oh yeah, you're glowing at an almost impressive atomic level and you're about twelve feet tall, so, the obvious things, dipshit." Triton rolled his eyes.

Ascension into a Dragon God. Still a dumbass.

"Glad to see you've not changed in the years I've been gone." Percy laughed dryly after figuring that this wasn't a fight he had time to own.

Triton merely nodded once, not offering a verbal response. He was busy lamenting about his decision to come. He stared right into what could only be described as the jaws of oblivion. It was going to be horrifically ironic if he was to die here, eaten by a massive sea Dragon.

"OK, you hang back while I figuratively test the waters. I'm going to see if anything I do has an affect, if it does then come along and help, if it doesn't then we're going to have to think about how we do this." Percy told him before bolting forwards, creating a tunnel where the water was displacing so quickly around his body.

The Leviathan's reflexes were decent but an attack at that speed was unavoidable for something so sherely large. The Dragon God struck out hard with the trident in his hands, scratching along the plates of armour that adorned the Leviathan's equally thick neck.

The mythical weapon bounced off after being dragged across it's skin, apparently having done nothing more than scratched the surface.

"OK then… So you have some bastard thick skin." Percy grumbled, focusing the energy he was outputting to be redirected into the prongs of his trident.

"Let's see if you can avoid this." He grinned, flashing a few sharp canines as he jetted away from the Leviathan's maw as it changed direction in an attempt to bite at the Prince of the Sea. who as deftly avoiding the impossibly large jaws.

Triton was watching with folded arms and a slight smile on show. "The odds are stacked quite high against you brother." He laughed to himself, unsure of whether or not the younger Prince would have heard him.

"Brother! I'm betting a thousand drachmae that you get swallowed whole!" Triton laughed heartily at the visible display of anger that he'd received, as clear as day even a mile away from where Triton was calmly watching.

"You can take that drachma and shove it up your ar!" Percy had shot back before the Leviathan's jaws slammed shut around him, doing the exact thing that Triton had mentioned.

"Hah, called it, you owe me a thousand dra-!" Triton ahd bellowed before a blinding light had erupted from the seal where the Leviathan's lips met. A serious of extremely volatile explosions followed as the younger Prince rocketed his way out of the Leviathan's heavily damaged mouth, right over to where Triton was scowling.

"What was that?" Percy asked with a grin. He looked tired, it must have taken a lot of strength to do that much damage to the monster.

"Never mind." Triton grumbled, finally taking a hand on his trident. "You said if you managed to do anything then I should jump in but I refuse to be eaten alive just to cause a few flesh wounds to an oversized eel." Triton told him, twirling his trident in his hands much in the same way that Percy had done. Perhaps it was a family thing.

"Yeah I wouldn't recommend it, that sucked immensely. I did manage to break a few of its teeth though. Not sure whether it knows I did but hey, progress of some kind." Percy laughed through ragged breaths.

The Leviathan let out a screech of rage before the currents changed direction, informing the two brothers that the enraged Dragon was coming right towards them.

"I'd say it knows. Gods it moves fast for such a lumbering creature." Triton moaned. They both instinctively shot upwards towards the surface as the Dragon hunting them had gotten increasingly aggressive.

"Quickly, grow some legs, this next bit is going to be wildly confusing, but you have to trust me!" Percy demanded. He put a slight of his Law of the Dragon God into his tone, hopefully it was just enough for Triton to understand that he had a plan.

Once again the older brother silently nodded as he made a quick transformation into his human form, separating his tail into two decidedly muscular legs. He couldn't swim anywhere near as well with legs but it ceased to matter from the moment that Percy grabbed him by his arm and shot through the surface of the water.

It pained Triton to even admit it to himself but the power that Percy held was incredible, he'd never have been able to achieve such height and speed out of the water on his own let alone with another person in tow.

Triton had no idea what Percy was thinking but panic set in when he saw that the Dragon God was shooting them straight towards a sleek brown Dragon that was casually circling the skies above them.

"You've materialized a person. It's going that well, huh?" Kareah's strained vocal chords were still clear enough for Percy to know that she was mocking him. He reached her with ease, angling Triton to the point where he'd thrown the older Prince over Kareah's back.

"I'm very sorry for that." Percy told the scowling Dragon, "He's my older brother, I have a plan but it's a SUPER bad one. I'm going to bomb Leviathan." Percy explained. He was hanging off of Kareah's clawed hands with a hand of his own and a single foot for grip.

"That's a stupid idea." Triton announced as he sheepishly appeared at the top of Kareah's head. "Do it." He said with a massive grin.

"If I don't appear in a few minutes then it means that it hasn't worked, which in turn means that I need Triton to come and rescue me, as much as it LITERALLY pained me to say that." Percy announced with the smallest of laughs accompanying his words.

"Brother, with what you're planning if it doesn't work then you're going to be dead regardless, there's no point in me still being here if this is truly what you plan. I'll go back and gather my generals, we can come to aide the clean up if you succeed." Triton countered. He stood high and gave the slightest of nods before diving off of Kareah and back into the ocean, his godly trace was quickly gone.

He could really haul ass if he wanted to. Percy was curios to see whether or not Leviathan would give chase but it was clear that the Dragon wanted Percy and Percy alone.

The head broke the surface, this was it, now was the time for his plan to kick in. "That's my que, wish me luck!" Percy let go of Kareah's hand before the Dragon Hunter could argue.

The Dragon God fell towards the quickly rising Leviathan, his body began to glow with an incredible light so intense that Kareah had to shield her eyes as she flew skywards to escape the heat that was being thrown off of him.

It was only then that it clicked to her what he was actually planning. He was turning himself into a bomb.

Time moved at a standstill where she was powerless to do anything but watch as the Dragon God fell head first into the Leviathan's jaws.

There was a single moment where everything slowed to a complete halt before the world was lit up with nuclear hellfire.

A/N: So two things, firstly for those of you who read this as a guest, if you've got questions that you desperately need answers to, you gotta make an account otherwise I can't reply to your reviews, sorry dudes.

Secondly, as there have been a few people ask; do you all want some resolute closure about what Annabeth is doing during all this? Because I CAN write her in and find a proper place for her, or I can write in a conclusive reason as to why she's NOT currently in the story, or I can leave her out altogether and keep things as they currently are.

Three options there for what you want. Your choice, you gotta review or PM me to let me know. Review is easier though.