Ok, part 1 is finished glad we made it...part 2 coming soon.
Annabeth's POV
It was truly an amazing sight Clarisse was destroying everything in her path. She was so strong that even her father had to take notice.
"I've never seen it in person before." Thalia said from beside me.
"What?" Percy asked.
"The blessing of Ares" She replied.
We left this to Clarisse she had under control, she was so fearless and strong that all of our forces rallied behind her. I felt extreme pride knowing that she was my girlfriend.
"You're staring again." Percy said.
"I know" I replied, I decided to just own the fact that I love Clarisse and not be ashamed to be caught looking at her.
"I'm glad you can own up to it now, but please focus on the task at hand we have a war to finish.
We went back to the thrown room where Percy gave Hope to Lady Hestia and he had an interaction with Rachael that honesty sounded like her dumping him but I stayed out of it.
Percy went over to his father thrown which Grover and I advised him against doing and sat on it. We watched as he had some sort of interaction with his father. After a few minutes he stated to smoke, luckily the conversation didn't last much longer. Percy informed us that he was trying to get his father to help the other Olympians. I hope it worked because it wasn't a secret that we needed all the help we could get.
We headed back down to street level and things weren't looking great. The very first thing I noticed was that Clarisse was stuck in a giant cube of ice. I wanted to go over there but Percy grabbed my arm.
"Someone else will take care of it." He said.
"No, I'm gonna take care of it. Too many things have happened and I haven't been there for Clarisse. I'm gonna make time."
"Chiron needs us." He said pointing.
I looked over and he was right Chiron was facing Luke...I mean Kronos. Hang on Clarisse I'm coming. We run over to Chiron to try and help him. But he didn't really need it because a second later Hades, Demeter, and Persephone appeared from the ground with Nico.
We ran over to where Clarisse was frozen and we also noticed Percy's parents. I was too busy trying to figure out how to get Clarisse out of that giant block of ice. I jumped when Percy's mother put a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry about it, I'll thaw her out." Ms. Jackson said.
"I couldn't ask you to do that Ms. Jackson." I said.
"You can trust me Annabeth. I'll take good care of Clarisse she'll be thawed out before you know it. Also call me Sally." She said smiling. "Now go save the world."
I couldn't do anything but trust her, Sio Percy and I ran off after the Titan Lord.
Clarisse's POV
Suggestion never get too cocky while fighting an enemy that has ice beams, or you'll end up like me frozen in a block of ice. It's hard to explain how I felt being stuck in ice besides cold obviously. But I'll try to convey my feelings. It was like being suspended in another reality, my thought processes were stuck and I just kept imaging different scenarios with Annabeth. Annabeth and I getting married, the two of us buying our first house together, and finally us starting a family together. That last one bothered me, I mean I'm not against the two of us having a family it's just that I'd never even thought about kids. But I guess it's safe to say that with Annabeth there's nothing that I don't want with her.
I woke from this crazy dreamland freezing. I looked around and saw Jackson's parents with like 10 hair dryers trying to thaw me out.
"W-w-where's Annabeth" I asked.
"She's with Percy on Olympus trying to defeat Kronos." Ms. Jackson said.
"O-okay" I said, I really appreciate them trying to thaw me out but it was taking too long. I wanted to go help Annabeth.
"H-hey, Mr. Blowfish." Hand me that bag over there." I said.
"It's actually Blowfis no 'h'." He said reaching over and handing me a bag that belonged to a fallen child of Hephaestus, gods now I'm thinking about Beckendorf.
But the bag had exactly what I was looking for, a tiny flamethrower that Beckendorf designed for all of his siblings for this war. I found the the low setting and handed it to him.
"Try not to cook me ok?" I said.
He nodded and started melting the ice away.
"That's not good." Ms. Jackson said.
I looked over and saw a bunch of monsters heading into the Empire State Building. I vaguely wondered if they liked the hits of the 70s and 80s but shook that thought away. I started hammering away at the ice with the back of my sword Annabeth and Percy have enough to worry about without those weaklings trying to help their master. After one really solid hit the ice cracked and broke off of me. I looked around at the battle on the ground our forces have taken control thanks to the aid of Hades, Demeter, and... was that Persephone? So I took off toward the elevator inside the building.
I rode up the elevator listening to Thunder Island which by the way is a really weird song to listen to when you're about to go destroy some monsters. I was about to step off the elevator and immediately jumped back. Who broke the bridge, how am I supposed to get across now. Then I heard a familiar sound, the sound of a pegasus flying towards me. It stopped in front of me like it wanted me to hop on so I did. That's when I recognized it this was the pegasus that I taught Silena to ride her first day at camp, from that day on she made this flying horse love her as much as she loved it. I know it probably misses her as much as I do.
It gave me a ride over to the part of the bridge that was still intact and I rubbed his head and watched as he flew off. I started to run towards the thrown room but stopped when I saw Thalia trapped under a statue.
"You ok there?" I asked smirking.
"Do I look ok." She said glaring.
I shrugged "I would offer to help you but I obviously can't lift that giant statue." I said still smirking at her.
"Just go help Annabeth." It was her turn to smirk and mine to glare.
"Fine, if you'll still stuck later I'll come blow the statue up for you" I said running inside.
"I'm still under it stupid!" She yelled.
I ran inside and saw Luke (Kronos) facing off against Annabeth and Percy. The monsters that came in lunged at them from behind, So I did something I didn't even know I could do.
"Percy, Annabeth look out." That last part came out as a high powered scream that knocked everyone off their feet.
Kronos looked at me and then told his monsters to attack me so I ran off deeper into the palace in the hopes of getting them the monsters to chase me which luckily worked.
So now I was surrounded by those monsters and surprisingly that giant who froze me it was time for payback.
"Ok, let's play." I said as I charged the monsters.
I wasted no in taking out the small fries hellhounds and harpies. I didn't want any mistakes or distractions while I was battling that giant.
I decided to go for his legs to take his large base from him, but he saw me coming and knocked me back. I charged forward and jumped so I was close to his face the same thing I did last time and as he tried to freeze me again I remembered the training that Chiron gave me. 'If you find yourself stuck moving in one direction throw your body weight to change direction'. Man I love that horse man. I threw my body weight and slipped out of the way in time to slice the giant across his chest it wailed in pain.
Now sometimes even a daughter of Ares forgets important battle tactics, like always make sure you weren't followed. I felt great pride in myself I was about to take down the giant that froze me. That was until another hellhound jumped out of the shadows and used his claws to lacerate my right side. NOT GOOD.
It was about to go in for the kill and I resigned to my fate. This is how I was going to die, is what I thought when I heard a voice in my head.
"If you give up now these monsters will go back and stop Annabeth and Percy from defeating Kronos." My father's voice said in my head.
"Not to mention the fact that you won't get your happy ending with Annabeth." Aphrodite's voice said.
"Not to mention you promised to always protect my daughter and that's a promise I don't take lightly." Athena's voice cut in.
"How many gods are in my head." I yelled as the hell hound jumped right towards me I pointed my sword upward when I was sure it had no place to go and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
The Hyperborean was back on its feet and I struggled to my feet too, I was not going to lose this time.
It used it's ice beam again and I went in all or nothing I waited until it committed to the move and I rolled out of the way throwing my sword with all my strength in an all or nothing move. My sword landed in the center of it's chest and he collapsed still firing his ice beam all over the room. When it finally died down the entire room was frozen and it had vanished. My vision clouded over and that was it knowing that I protected my friends and I would die with only one regret.
That I would never see Annabeth ever again.
Annabeth's POV
It was over we had defeated Kronos saved the world and now it was time to go home. The gods thanked us for all that we did and offered us some great gifts but there was one thing wrong.
"Um, Lord Zeus...where's Clarisse?" I asked him.
"She's someone in this palace getting her injuries treated." He replied. She will be returned to your camp when the treatments are finished."
Before anyone could say another word Clarisse came running out shirtless with her torso bandaged.
"Get away from me." She yelled as she dodged the medics chasing her.
"Risse what are you doing." I asked looking at her incredulously.
She hid behind me. "They're trying to perform some weird surgery on me?"
I looked and they looked like normal medics to me.
"Don't worry about it, you guys we'll help her at camp. Clarisse hates medical attention." Part of me wondered if she was afraid of doctors. I'll have to ask her later.
"You did good kid." Ares said looking at Clarisse. "if it wasn't for you they probably would have failed."
We went back to camp and I tucked Clarisse into bed while Percy went to check on Rachael. When Clarisse dozed off I thought of something special that I could do for Percy so I got Tyson to help me make him a cupcake it looked awful but it's the thought that counts.
I went to meet up with him and shockingly Clarisse was there too.
"You're supposed to be in bed" I said glaring at her.
"I didn't feel like staying in bed." She said she stood and walked off. "Meet me at our spot when you're done here."
I gave Percy his cupcake and we talked and had fun just like always.
"You should go don't keep your girlfriend waiting." He said.
"Percy, I'm worried about her. If she keeps pushing herself like this who knows what might happen. Then there's that new prophecy."
"Don't worry about it Annabeth you know Clarisse is the going to be fine she's just has more muscles than brains when it comes to taking care of herself. Also that prophecy could be could be for demigods 50 years from now." He said smiling.
"Now get going he said pushing me off the bench. I glared at him then ran off to find my girlfriend.
I went into the woods and saw Clarisse sitting and staring at the water.
"You look exhausted." I said "Like even more than at first were you running?"
"I was, but you're gonna have to wait until sunset to see why." She said.
"Look Risse, I'm so glad that you you and I are together. There was a time I thought it would never happen." I told her.
She smiled at me. "Oh, it was going to happen, if I had to destroy the world to get you it was going to happen. There's absolutely no way I could've lived my life without you."
We talked like that until sunset. Then she took my hand and pointed over the sky line.
As I looked up the sky was illuminated with the words Clarisse and Annabeth Forever with hearts all around it.
"It was the last thing that Beckendorf worked on for me I figured I should get a good use out of it. Now it's dinner time" She said standing and walking me to the the camp border, when we got there she was wincing like it was hard for her to breathe.
But she continued to the camp van where Argus was sitting and let me in. To my surprise Chiron was sitting in the back as well.
"Ms. La Rue informed me that she would like to take you out tonight so I left Mr. D in charge of dinner so I could chaperone your date."
"From the car" Clarisse said.
"From the side of your table." Chiron replied.
"From a table on the other side of the restaurant.
"From two tables away."
"Done."
I watched their back and forth smiling and looked surprised as we pulled up to an extremely fancy restaurant.
"Um, Risse how are we gonna pay for this." I asked.
""With my dad's credit card." She replied smiling and shuffled me out of the car. This place was so fancy that I didn't t think they'd let us in with our camp clothes.
"Don't worry Chiron is manipulating the mist."
Clarisse and I had a night I never would have imagined, how could she think of all of this stuff. I love her so much.
When we made it back to camp it was well past lights out and Chiron sent us off to our cabins but Clarisse grabbed my arm when we were out of view and took me back into the woods. Someone had made this area into a comfy resting area, so I had a feeling she wanted to stay in the woods with me tonight.
"You think you can handle roughing it out here Anna?" She asked sitting on the blankets. I rolled my eyes and straddled her lap.
I leaned up and kissed her, best night of my life so far...
