"The Broken One, destined to Love

Shall Fall to the Major Domain of the Dove

When the Daughter of Zeus Prays to the Sky

Is When the Arrow Shall Fly

The Broken One's Oath to Break

Due to the Moon, the Prince shall Awake

When the Lord of Godhood Rises in Power

The First One Shall Fall Off the Tower

And Gain the Rightful Place Shall he

Though Fall Shall the one he calls Arty."

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO, Uncle Rick does. (Rick Riordan)

Chapter 24

The Fall of Artemis

*Previously, on When the Arrow Flies*

"At the same time, Artemis and I launched at Chaos."

*Currently*

*Percy's POV*

Before the battle with Chaos had even started, I already knew it was going to be difficult. There was no way around it. Chaos was the king of the universe, he had unlimited powers as far as I was aware. I wasn't sure how we were going to beat him, but that didn't matter much at we flew right at him.

Artemis and I launched a furry of attacks. Her knives were all over the place, trying to slice and cut him while my sword also tried to end him. However, he just dodged everything we threw at him, and then blasted us back with a gust of wind. Calling upon my elemental powers, I swung my sword and sent a wave of fire at him.

He jumped over the wave easily, and sent more energy attacks towards us. Artemis and I did our best dodging, but the attacks were too fast, and occasionally they would hit us. Finally, one hit me dead in the stomach and sent me backwards, with all of the attacks suddenly targeting me as I was off my feet.

Artemis jumped in the way as they were about to send me flying off the tower. When the smoke cleared, she was struggling to her feet. I helped her up, and together we turned back towards Chaos, glaring at him. He just laughed, waving his arms up like it was going to make the world a better place.

"Oh, you pathetic earthlings. To believe that you can take on the creator. It's hilarious to watch your hopes slowly crumble. Even your armies are failing against simple monsters." He said. Looking over the edge, we saw the demigod forces being pushed back. I looked to Artemis.

The look in here eyes told me she was thinking exactly what I was thinking: we needed to bring Chaos down while we still had the chance. We each teleported on the different sides of them and hacked away, trying to land at least one hit. He just kept dodging or blocking them with his hands.

Finally, I got annoyed enough that I put some extra power into one of my blows and slashed his side. Growling, he picked me up by the throat and slammed me into the ground. However, he got a knife lodged in his shoulder, and another one in his side. He roared this time, sending Artemis backwards, and threw me into one of the tower pillar things.

I hit the ground with an 'oof.' I looked up at Chaos, my vision blurred as he slowly walked towards me. I was very close to the edge of the tower, and I really didn't want to hit the ground below me. Artemis blasted him from behind, which made him angry enough that he turned around and blasted her.

Summoning a sword, I forced myself up and stabbed it right through both of his knees. This time he got really mad, ripping the sword out, grabbing me by the hair, and then stabbing the sword through my thigh. I screamed in pain, the sword blazing hot, so hot it's blade was red right before it entered my thigh.

My clothing and body started to set on fire around the wound, but Artemis grabbed Chaos from behind and yanked him back, allowing me to rip out the sword and douse my leg and clothes with fire. I was sweating and cursing as I held my thigh, trying to slowly heal it while Artemis fought Chaos.

Artemis had a new pair of hunting knives, and she was desperately trying to hold Chaos off, but it obviously wasn't going so well. She was flung back, and he started to run at her when I appeared next to him and kicked his knee, hard. Somehow, it didn't break, probably a part of being the creator and all.

Whipping around, Chaos kicked me in the stomach and sent me sliding back towards the edge. I launched forward and then appeared in front of Chaos with a ball of energy in my hand, made up of my different powers. I slammed it right into his face, hoping to get some results out of it. What happened? Well..

Suddenly, the smoke cleared from around his face, his mouth open with a ball of energy forming inside of it. I yelped and hit the ground, right as he blasted it over my head. It went flying off, and actually cleared a pretty big hole in the clouds. For a split second, the daylight shone through. Then it closed back up.

I summoned Riptide, sweating as Artemis stood next to me. All of a sudden grabbing me, she threw me at Chaos. I spun in mid air and brought the sword down on his neck. He grabbed it, yanking the sword and sending me almost flying off the tower. I would've fallen off if Artemis didn't teleport in mid air, kick me back down to the tower, and teleport back.

Chaos growled throwing Riptide behind him off the tower. "You gods are absolute pests." He yelled, and began to run towards us, charging up his powers. Using my own powers, I fed Riptide a ton of my energy and power, and then summoned it back to me, but not instantaneously. Like Thor's hammer.

As Chaos was about to blow us up, Riptide appeared right through his chest, and his body glowed as it began to infuse with explosive power. I grabbed Artemis and threw her out of the way as a large explosion went off. I was thrown off, but at the last second managed to grab ahold of the edge, so I didn't fall, yet.

I pulled myself back up. The smoke was slowly clearing. I laid there for a second, trying to get some energy back before I fought again. Artemis was running around, filling Chaos with arrows. It was quite obvious he was starting to get really mad. All of a sudden, he changed and went on the offensive.

Appearing in front of Artemis, he uppercutted her, sending her back a bit. He appeared behind her and slammed his fist into her back, causing her to yell in pain. That fired me up immediately, giving me the strength and anger to immediately get up and launch over to him, trying to punch him in the face.

He caught my punch and crushed my hand, causing me to yell. Artemis came back and slammed an explosive arrow right into his face, but it did no good, simply sending herself back a little bit. However, it did force him to release my hand, so I back up, slowly healing it again. I was doing a lot of that in this fight.

Once it was healed, I summoned Riptide and went into a full out duel with Chaos. He summoned his own sword, and we clashed. Artemis could be seen in the background, trying to get back her own energy. We were both exhausted already, and she had less breaks than I did in the fight.

Chaos certainly practiced between the last time we fought. Somehow, this time, we were pretty even. I was trying to force him back, but I was too tired. It wouldn't be long before my body finally gave out on me, and forced me back down. Finally, he disarmed me and slashed me back, cutting my chest.

I got back up one final time, and he must've had enough, because he summoned a ball of power and threw it right at me. The explosion was first like a galaxy, but then the fire came. I was torched and my clothes were ripped. I went flying back, almost sliding off the pillar. I blacked out for a second.

Artemis was desperately getting up, running up and trying to fight Chaos. However, he was merciless, and kept forcing her back. They were getting dangerous close to the edge of the tower. It was looking like she might've succeeded in pushing him back towards the middle, but he was too quick.

He stabbed his sword right through her stomach.

I screamed her name as she was picked up by the throat, stabbed through again, and blasted her, right off the tower down towards the monster army below. I watched in horror as she fell out of sight.

"ARTEMIS!"

1392 Words.

AN: Well, I felt up to a double chapter today. I'm actually planning on making that triple chapters. What do you think? I think I might actually finish off the story today, something I should've done a long time ago. Anyways, crap is about to go down in the next chapter so don't miss it. See you in the next one!