(A/N) Hey guys! Sorry I took so long. Many of you were asking for the next chapter so here it is. Enjoy guys.
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Conflicted.
That was what Zeus was feeling as he looked at the ranks in front of him.
The demigods were arranged earlier by his daughter, Athena, in a position that is orderly yet can flexibly change according to what the enemy would do. The hunters of Artemis were distributed as equally as possible in the ranks, together with the archers of the demigods.
A wry smile formed on Zeus face.
'As expected of my girl.' He bristled to himself, turning his gaze to the gods who stood in front of the ranks.
Truly, they have changed. If the war happened a few millennia ago, they would be seated on their thrones, letting their children face and overcome impossible odds. Probably arguing about who should be the king of the pantheon and ignoring the prayers for help their children would be sending them with annoyance.
Zeus sighed. It was a shame they needed the primordial prince of the Universe to knock them off their high horses and make them realize how much power has corrupted them. But now, he will be better.
It was a magnificent sight, really. For the two demigod factions to unite. Though he wished that it was in better circumstances that they did.
"Love?" A voice snapped Zeus out of his musings. He looked at where the voice came from and saw his wife, Hera, garbed in armor and was still as breathtaking as when they fought against the Titans. He was blessed with a wife that was loved him and remained loyal to him even when he kept sleeping with mortal women whenever he felt like it.
"Hera." Zeus grunted, his gaze lowering as he thought more of his unfaithfulness.
Hera's brows scrunched up in worry, cupping her husbands face, "What is on your mind, my king?"
"Many things." Zeus chuckled but it was devoid of mirth, "I am blessed. I have failed so many yet I am still blessed. Our children are united under one banner, our family is now a lot stronger in bond, father has returned from his insanity, and things are finally looking up. But…" He paused, looking at the far horizon of where the monsters were said to come, "I have not done anything. Things improved because of other beings, not I, the king, who was supposed to be the one to do so."
"Oh, Zeus." Hera rubbed his arm affectionately, "I'm glad that you finally snapped out of whatever you were in. It terrified me, to be honest. You were starting to become like father." Then she looked at where Kronos was, and laughed, "Well, father when he was insane, at least. Kronos was a loving father to us before the prophecy about his usurpation was made known to him. After he heard the prophecy, he became insane."
"It's good that his sanity returned then, eh?" Zeus can see how glad Hera really was that their father was back to normal again. "Look, Hera, if we survive the coming battle against the primordial, will you do me the honor of taking you out on a date?"
Hera removed her hand on his arm and she tilted her head, looking at him so curiously that Zeus felt his face warm. The staring continued for a few more seconds before a small smile appeared on her face, "That's the first time you asked me out on a date again after we married."
Zeus sagged at hearing the truth, "I've been the most terrible husband to you. I promised you I'll be the best man I am for you when we made our vows. And I broke that. But give me this chance, Hera, and I swear I will never sire a child from a different woman ever again."
"Oh, Zeus." Hera cried, wiping the tears from her eyes, "I was angry at you, furious even, but I never stopped loving you."
"Don't die on me." Zeus mumbled as he pressed his forehead against his wife's.
"With a date to look forward to, I doubt even grandma can kill me." Hera grinned.
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It didn't take long after when the ground started shaking. The united pantheons shuffled nervously as they watched the field from afar split apart. A great roar permeated the air, a sinister feeling appearing like a wave, washing over the forces. The sky slowly turned blood red and the clouds black.
The gods looked terrified but for once, they were not terrified for themselves but for their children who they have to have with them lest they get swarmed by monsters.
Ra looked at the demigods with pity and hoped that Mt. Olympus, which is now the united pantheon's main heaven, will not be receiving an assault the Norse pantheon won't be able to defend against. He was confident Odin and the rest of the warrior gods and goddesses of the Norse are mighty in combat, as well as the Valkyries, but if they were to receive an attack consisting of monsters from all three pantheons…
"Father, everything will be fine." Percy, sensing his father's worry, said in reassurance.
Thor, who was beside the duo, agreed with Percy. "Do not worry, master. My father and my people will defend our home. They will destroy the assault there."
"I do hope so, boys." Ra shook his head.
The three watched as the crack in the earth only became bigger. The demigods used each other as anchors so they won't fall. And then the guttural roar became silent, with only the black lightning streaking the red skies moving.
Everyone watched in terror as the monsters started crawling out of the crack like some broken dam. The forgotten monsters of the Egyptian pantheon scared the hell out of the demigods. Some of the less brave of heart demigods cried as fear clawed their chests. The gods and Kronos stiffened, who were in front of the army, braced themselves.
"Like hell I'm letting any of my children fall today. Damn me if I do." Apollo gritted his teeth, nocking an arrow then letting it fly. The arrow whistled to the other side, glowing golden. When the arrow struck an emerging chimera in the forehead, the arrow exploded into golden light, incinerating a large part of the monsters.
The army roared as their spirits were bolstered by the first attack of the god. But then it soon was crushed as the empty void of what used to be monsters were quickly filled back up and was only becoming larger.
Soon enough, the immortal beings of the other side began to show themselves as well. First came the titans. At seeing their former king standing at the front of the united pantheons' army, they gave him a chilling smile.
"Look, the traitor king." Koios sneered as his allies laughed alongside him.
Kronos responded with a lopsided grin, "Haven't you gone against me before? If I remember correctly, you teamed up with Oceanus and tried to catch me off guard? You should have seen the look in your faces, begging me to spare you."
Koios bristled, "But that was before we received these." He held his sword up.
The gods looked grimly.
"So that is the metal capable of slaying us." Ra commented. Percy merely nodded.
"Doesn't matter, Koios." The titan of time leaned against his feared scythe, "I'll steal all your time for trying to kill my family and going against me. And not even the ugly puppy dog look you gave me will spare you my wrath this time."
At this, the titans felt the fear they always felt for their former king once again rise in their stomachs. Meanwhile, the gods and the demigods looked at Kronos with awe in their eyes.
"Not bad, gramps." Apollo gave his grandfather a thumbs up.
Kronos loss his cool demeanor and quickly started tearing up at being called gramps by his grandchild.
Pushing his fear down, Koios charged. But before he could take one step a hand firmly rooted him down.
"Not yet." A voice said.
Then came the gigantes, jumping up from the crack, wearing armor and wielding weapons of the same metal as Koios's was. Their landing shook the ground again, the monsters singing the haunted choir of roars, hisses, and snarls.
Zeus narrowed his eyes at his bane. Porphyrion grinned at his rival, "I've been wanting to see you for a long time now, Zeusy."
"I wish I could say the same for you." Zeus replied, his grip on his lightning bolt tightening. Besides the primordial, the one that worried him greatly was Porphyrion. Though the titans are stronger than them in strength, the gigantes were harder to kill since it required the combined effort of a demigod and a god to kill. Not only that, but the gigantes were sired to oppose them directly.
Porphyrion then directed his gaze at Hera, his eyes roaming her body hungrily, "I'll be sure to give your wife a good time after I skewer you with my spear."
In an instant, a gigantic bolt of lightning descended from the heavens and struck the giant king directly in the chest. The thunder following shortly, louder than even the roar coming from the crack in the earth. The monsters around the giant king were turned to ashes while the titans and gigantes near their brother were blown back from the power.
Ra whistled appreciatively as the others were staring in silence at the god king's show of power. "Now that's the usurper of Kronos."
Thor looked at the Greek god king in a new light, "It seems I have to practice more if I plan on surpassing King Zeus in wielding lightning."
Zeus was crackling with white lightning, his expression made Ares's angry face look like a kitten's. Suddenly becoming aware of the attention, Zeus blushed. The lightning running throughout his body dissipated.
Hera leaned towards her husband's ear and whispered something, making Zeus's already red face becoming even more red. Some of the demigods were able to infer that she whispered something dirty, judging from their queen's smiled and their king's drooling face. But the gods, the titan couple, and Percy, who all had enhanced hearing, blushed also.
"Way the go, son." Kronos cheered, "I must impress Rhea too. Who knows, Zeus may just lose his title of the youngest of Kronos." At this, Rhea snorted and shook her head at her husband's antics.
"Damn you." Porphyrion stood up slowly, grunting in pain as his skin sizzled. He pushed Hyperion, who tried to help him get up, away. "I'll break both you and your wife for sure."
Before anything else could happen, a large serpent slithered out of the crack. Its bright yellow eyes glowed like toxic, hissing. Even the monsters were afraid of the great Midgard serpent, who was said to be the killer of Thor. It crawled towards the front of the monsters, crushing any monster slow enough to not get out of its way in time with its body. Jormungandr coiled its body, its eyes looking at the army until it fell on the prince of Asgard.
Thor met the gaze challengingly, "It's bigger than I expected it to be."
Apollo, Hermes, and Percy were familiar enough with Thor to recognize the unsureness in the prince's voice. And frankly, after seeing the serpent, they couldn't blame him.
"That thing is crazy. How could Loki create such a monster?" Ra asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.
"My brother…when he learned that he was not a real child of Odin, he was furious. Unfortunately, in his rage, he delved into magics ancient to even my father. You know how Loki is. He is a brilliant god. It is sad that that brilliance created things so sinister and powerful, capable of matching gods in power."
"I see." Ra grimaced.
"My brother regrets what he has brought upon the world. But his 'children', these creatures, they have grown so strong. Unlike Loki, whose anger eventually disappeared, these children of his still hold the contempt he had when he created them." Thor sighed.
"Thor…kill…Thor…" The serpent hissed.
"Now that every player in the board is here, the battle is about to start." Ra said, "Percy…"
"Yes, father. I'll wait for the two generals here." Percy nodded in understanding. "But I'll mingle with the demigods. I won't reveal myself for now."
"Good."
"Gods." A female voice suddenly spoke out, silencing the loud monster army. "Your age of ruling this earth has come to an end. It is time for my children to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. I will give you this chance to surrender and serve under their rule."
"Mother, father was right." Kronos spoke bitterly, "If only I realized sooner, then I wouldn't have killed my father. You manipulated me for you own schemes. I always thought about how a titan like me have been able to defeat a mighty primordial. It was because father loved us and even when we were chopping him up, he refused to smite us."
"But you…I thought you were the parent that loves us. How wrong I was. You are a cruel primordial, manipulative and cowardly. You couldn't equal father in power so you used his own children against him."
"Ouranos was a fool. He really believed I love him. Enough of this. I can see you are descended of him, utterly moronic and good. Very well. My army, hear my command, destroy them!"
And with that declaration, the battle started.
The immortals all charged each other. Apollo and Artemis took off and flew their chariots, raining down their divine arrows. Hades summoned the dead to help the demigods before narrowly avoiding the slash from Alcyoneus, who quickly engaged his godly counterpart.
At seeing the titans rushing for the demigod army, Ares charged towards Krios and Koios with his sword and shield. A grin split his face as the titans stopped their assault and focused on him. But then, he immediately regretted his decision as the two titans slowly started overpowering him.
Thor nodded his head at Percy and Ra in goodbye before flying towards a nearby area. He had to take the large serpent away from the demigods. If he was to fight the large serpent in the hectic battle, many demigods will fall from the size of the monster. Jormungandr quickly shot towards him, following him and crushing the monsters in its path.
"Be careful, dad." Percy bid his Ra farewell before rushing towards the demigods were clashing against the monsters.
Ra stared at the back of his son for a while, noting how his son did not appear any godlier than a regular demigod, before he spotted a peculiar sight. The giants were fighting amongst themselves. Damasen, which Ra remembered as the bane of Ares, was struggling against Mimas, the bane of Hephaestus. Meanwhile, the titan of Pain, Iapetus, remained rooted in his spot while Hyperion was shouting at him to move.
Deciding to see what happens before he makes a move, Ra casted an invisibility spell on himself and went towards the enemy to know more.
"You traitor. I thought only Kronos was the weak-willed child of our mother. You disgust me, Damasen." Mimas spitted.
Damasen merely remained silent, lunging at his brother with his spear. Unfortunately, he did not see the javelin coming his way. It stabbed straight through his left shoulder, making him drop his shield with a groan.
From the side, Hyperion grinned cruelly, sending Mimas a thumbs up.
"I do not want to destroy this world. I refuse to destroy it. The mortals, they are wonderful. Some are like you, disgusting and evil. But most are kind. I have mortal friends. You think just because mother told us to, I will battle for their destruction?" Damasen asked, keeping the charging Mimas away with his spear. He may be peaceful, but he was still the bane of Ares.
Even with a useless arm, Damasen successfully kept the increasingly frustrated Mimas.
"Shut up." Mimas answered. "I am no longer interested in what you think. You are no brother of mine."
"So be it." Damasen croaked sadly, but his eyes remained determined.
"Hyperion, Iapetus, come quickly. Let's kill this filth of a giant. He is not worthy of being a child of Gaea." Mimas called the two titans nearby.
"Should we really?" Iapetus asked Hyperion unsurely. "There is no honor in a three against one fight."
"What are you rambling about, you idiot?" Hyperion asked angrily, "Just do it. Let's slay Damasen."
Damasen grimaced as the two titans walked nearby, angling his injured side away from the three lurking opponents. It seems like this was it for him. He sighed, "Oh how I wish I just remained in that farm I was living in. I miss Turkey."
He did his best against his three siblings but with an injured side and a numerical disadvantage, it wasn't long before he was subdued. He spun his spear to deflect Hyperion's solar blasts before kicking Iapetus away from him. Wounded and tired, Damasen used his spear as a cane and looked at his brothers passively.
"Come on, then." He said, "But know that you are fools, blind to the selfishness of our mother. Mindless puppets. You could not think for yourselves."
"Gladly." Mimas menaced, stepping forward to slice Damasen's head off when a sword parried his own.
"Iapetus?! What are you doing?" Hyperion growled.
Iapetus gritted his teeth, "I do not approve of this."
"He is not our brother. He is a traitor to the cause." Mimas answered, an ugly light filled his eyes at being denied his kill. "Move aside."
"No." Iapetus shook his head. "I may not know what Damasen means by mortals being wonderful, but I refuse to stand by while a brother of mine is unfairly beaten and killed."
"Iapetus…" Damasen wondered in disbelief.
"Fine then. If you want to die with Damasen, then die!" Hyperion raged, making a ball of burning energy in his hand and shooting it towards Iapetus.
But before the ball can reach the titan, a magic barrier appeared and absorbed the ball completely.
"Let's even the odds, shall we?" Ra suddenly appeared besides Iapetus and the injured Damasen, smiling at Mimas and Hyperion.
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Luke wiped the sweat on his forehead quickly before rolling out of the way and slicing at the legs of a cyclops. He quickly jumped on the stumbling monsters back and pierced the back of its head with his sword, making the monster dissipate into dust.
He looked around, the formation all but destroyed. It became a free for all. The dem
Everything was going as planned at first. They did the practiced and organized attack Lady Athena taught them and it worked wonders. But then, some of the them in charge of the shields in front made mistakes and now the formation was better abandoned than maintained since the monsters made it through them. If they remained rigid, more lives will be lost.
The Greek demigods were easier to distinguish in the confusion of the combat. They tend to wore lesser armor and moved more freely. Meanwhile, the Roman demigods wore matching armor and used their shields to block the enemies attack. Luke personally dreaded the heavy equipment as he preferred to move quickly and not got hit at all, in the first place.
But to each their own, I guess. He shrugged mentally, before slicing a charging empousa in half with a spin.
Though he could tell, the demigods of both camps fared equally well in the free for all. He thought since the Romans were so used to battle formations that when the formation was destroyed, they'd have a hard time adjusting. They preferred a more systematic fighting style, but they fared just as well as the messy fighting Luke and his fellow Greeks were used to.
Destroying three more monsters near him, Luke spotted a roman demigod, a son of Minerva, a little older than him. The guy was lying on the ground, his right arm completely gone and blood pooling around him. Luke ran towards the demigod, "No." He said, his voice trembling.
Luke couldn't believe he almost joined up with the forces willing to do such horrible things because of his anger. And not only that, he had charmed many other demigods that were willing to follow him to the enemy faction.
'If it wasn't for Percy…' Luke shivered at the things he might have done.
"Hold on, man." Luke said to the guy.
The guy looked at Luke and smiled, his teeth bloodied. "It's too late for me. We were up against monsters we really don't know anything about, eh?" He chuckled bitterly, "A huge monster that looked like the cross between a scorpion and a wolf pierced through my armor. I felt the poison spreading through my veins like fire, and my body refused to move. A hellhound bit my arm right off."
Luke just listened, his emotions in a turmoil and wishing he could do something for the guy. Before he could speak, the guy shook his head.
"You must go now, help our fellow demigods. Son of Mercury, quickly. It's too late for me but it is not too late for the others. Don't let what happened to me happen to anyone else." The guy coughed out blood, his eyes turning the color of violet from the poison.
"You're the most Mercury looking demigod I have ever seen." In an amused voice, the guy said as he patted Luke's shoulder, leaving a bloodied hand on Luke's armor. Then the hand fell to the ground, limp, as the unknown demigod seemingly died.
Tears blurred Luke's vision. He grabbed the fallen demigod's shield, praying for the soul of the fallen. Before he looked around his surroundings, saddened and determined. From the corner of his eyes, he saw the monster that most likely killed the roman demigod. A single roman demigod was combating the monster, managing well against the creature's poisonous attacks but not doing not much damage.
Righteous anger filled Luke's chest, his eyes becoming cold as he eyed the monster.
"I am going to kill you." Luke said as he rushed for the monster, intent on helping the lone demigod brave enough to face the scary monster. He didn't see Percy smile at him before carrying the barely alive demigod to the infirmary tents.
"No, stay away." The roman demigod warned with a weak voice at seeing Luke running towards them. But Luke went on, sliding across the ground and slicing one of the monster's leg completely off. Luke rolled towards the roman demigod.
"You shouldn't have come here. This monster is dangerous." The demigod said with, what Luke picked off in her voice, as annoyance and worry.
Luke looked at who he was with and realized that this demigod, no, demigoddess was-
"Reyna." Luke exclaimed in surprise. "Right?"
The girl, despite the dirty face, still looked beautiful to Luke. Her helmet was gone and her dark brown, almost glossy black, hair tied up in a messy ponytail. She narrowed her eyes at him, "How do you know of my name?"
"Well, I overheard it a while ago. You know, how you told us not to address Perce. Nice to meet you, I'm Luke." Luke introduced himself.
Reyna looked a bit embarrassed at this but huffed, "Why do you call Lord Percy so casually? Don't you have any respect?"
Luke snorted, "I do respect him, but Percy hates being called a title. We're close, so you can trust this information is accurate."
"That's nice and all but I think we should focus on killing this monster first, Luke." Reyna replied, turning back to the downed monster.
Luke thought she was being cold but at seeing her expression, grasped that she meant no rudeness in that. He offered a grin, "Don't worry, now that a Greek hero is here, the monster is going down."
Reyna furrowed her brows, offering a smirk. "Don't be a deadweight."
Then the two of them, side by side, readied themselves as the monster recovered and stood up, looking ready to increase its kill count by two.
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The first immortal being to perish in the battle was Hyperion.
With Ra and Iapetus fighting against Mimas and Hyperion, they did not notice Damasen positioning for an attack. Picking up the bloodied javelin that Hyperion threw at him earlier, Damasen struck true. The javelin hit Hyperion perfectly though the heart.
Hyperion looked at everyone in disbelief. Before he can say anything, he faded into dust. The javelin clanked down the ground, in the middle of the dust of which was once Hyperion.
"How'd your own medicine taste, huh?" Damasen coughed out painfully, but with a tired smile.
Mimas soon followed his brother to death. With the scales tipped, Iapetus and Ra made short work of the giant. Ra casted a freezing spell to both his legs and unable to dodge Iapetus's slash, the head of the giant came right off. The gory sight only lasted for a second before the head, the blood, and the body of Mimas turned to dust.
"That metal is useful." Ra commented as he looked at the glinting sword of Iaepetus.
Iapetus looked at his sword and nodded his head, "Indeed. With this metal, every immortal being below primordial can be slain easily." Before he added bitterly as he stared at the dusts which were once his brothers, "Just never thought I'd use it against my brothers."
"You've done right, Iapetus. You've seen how they will just bend any of our mother's commands. They'd slaughter their own if she told them too." Damasen comforted his titan brother, touched that a brother of his took his side.
"I know." Iapetus sighed, "It's still sad. I don't understand how they can do that."
Ra simply listened to the two as he observed the ongoing battle around them.
The loss of two immortal beings brought the advantage to the united pantheons' army.
Zeus and Porphyrion, both looking tired and wounded, had different reaction to this as they felt the deaths of the immortals.
"Looks like you have attacked in vain." Zeus grinned.
Porphyrion growled, "Don't look so smug, Zeusy." He pointed at the battlefield, "Looks like an Olympian is about to fall."
Zeus turned to look at where the giant's finger was pointing.
An exhausted looking Ares was getting slashed in turns by Koios and Krios. The two titans played with the beaten god, kicking and stabbing him with their swords. Ares refused to give the titans the reaction they were asking for, opting for glaring at the titans. He did his best to shield and parry against the attacks but it was clear for all to see that the titans have defeated him.
"Son!" Zeus shouted but before he could summon any lightning to help the god of war, Porphyrion used the distraction to thrust his sword through the god king's knee cap.
Zeus screamed in pain, falling down the ground. Porphyrion grinned at the small victory.
"Got you now, Zeusy." Porphyrion mocked.
Zeus sent lightning towards Porphyrion but the giant just knocked them away with his shield. He phased away from Porphyrion, frowning. If his energy reserves weren't depleted, his injury would be healing a lot faster. But he was exhausted from fighting against the king of Giants and the injury was made by the slayer metal.
"Where's all that might from before?" Porphyrion simply kept walking towards the injured Zeus, waving away the now weak lightning sent his way. "You're tired, Zeus. This lightning won't even do much even if I don't knock them away. Admit it, I have bested you."
Zeus just clicked his tongue, phasing further away from Porphyrion.
"Don't worry too much, Zeus. I'll take care of Hera. I love her too, after all. When I'm done with her, her mind will be too broken to do anything, not even to remember you."
"You bastard!" Zeus roared furiously.
Then two other immortals' death was felt throughout the battleground.
Every being turned to look at a furious looking Kronos, scythe on shoulder, and holding the heads of Oceanus and Epimetheus with their hair. He raised the two heads, waiting until the heads turned into dust before he looked at his remaining brothers. He sent a grin at them, sending overwhelming terror as he showed everyone why he was the king of the titans.
Porphyrion shook furiously at the sight, "Why…why is that accursed brother of ours so strong?"
"Because he is fighting for his loved ones." Zeus answered.
"What kind of bullshit corny ass answer is that?" Porphyrion guffawed.
To his surprise, he was sent flying away by a lightning bolt. He coughed out blood, getting out of the crater he created from the impact, and saw Zeus with his body covered once again with lightning.
"What? But you're tired." Porphyrion said in disbelief. "You're almost out of energy. How is this possible?"
Zeus looked at his hand, then his knee which was completely healed.
'You better defend me from that giant king, Zeus. I don't want to be in bed with any other except you.' Hera's voice suddenly spoke in his mind.
Zeus looked behind and saw Hera from afar, slightly tired. She smiled at him and nodded. Hera has restored his energy back to him. He stood up and cracked his joints, "Ready for round two?"
Porphyrion charged furiously at Zeus.
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"Apollo!" Artemis shouted.
Apollo looked to where his twin was pointing from their chariots and saw his brother, Ares, getting played with by Krios and Koios. Ares remained the strong-willed god he is but anyone can see the drooping of his eyelids and the golden ichor all throughout his broken armor. Athena and Hermes were trying to get to Ares but were being stopped by Enceladus and Periboia.
He angrily cursed at the titans, sending two arrows straight towards the them. The titans heard the whistle and jumped back to dodge the arrows, allowing Hephaestus to jump in front of Ares. Seeing that his siblings have come to his aide, Ares let exhaustion take over his body as he passed out and Aphrodite dragged him away from the battle, blasting the nearby monsters with her divine energy.
Hephaestus kept the two titans at bay with his machines and his war hammer, unable to secure their kill. They can only watch in frustration as Ares was rescued, unable to get past the god of forge.
The demigods were triumphant in withstanding the wave of monsters, the fields covered with monster dust. Seeing that they were done with the monsters, the demigods immediately moved to assist the gods.
With the help of the demigods, the giants and the titans were felled quickly until only Porphyrion remained.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it all!" Porphyrion, bleeding all over, screamed as he charged at Zeus again but was sent flying away by another bolt of lightning. The demigods were shooting continuously with their arrows, allowing Zeus to finally do some damage. The giant king was sot backwards by the power of the bolt. Then another giant bolt of lightning, this time from the sky, struck the downed giant and created a massive crater around him.
The gods only watched as Zeus refused to let them interfere with his fight.
Apollo then turned to a different area of the now ending battle, which was the battle of Thor against the Midgard Serpent. The area was all but destroyed, craters and toxic puddles were dispersed all over the land. Thor used the serpent's size against it, dodging and flying as it was harder for the serpent to catch him. Thor tied the serpent into a knot by making it chase him, though not without damage.
Mjolnir was destroyed and his armor is almost destroyed. Thor was fighting with lightning and brute strength, careful not to get with the serpent's mouth. Sharing a look with Hermes, the messenger god ran to Thor, appearing in a blur.
Apollo wanted to help, but he knew saving the fatally injured demigods was a more important job. He flew his chariot down the erected camps of where some of his children were tending the injured.
"Stop, don't bow to your father." Apollo stopped his children who were about to bow down to him when they saw him. "I will talk to you all later, but for now, help dear ol' dad tend to the injured."
"Right." His children agreed. Immediately, they've gone back to the patients they were treating, using their gifts of medicine and making him proud.
He looked at the battlefield. Monster and immortal dust covered the entire field. The god slaying weapons were scattered across, their owners gone from existence. He gazed at the camp across him, where Ares was sleeping.
Ares received the worst damage out of all the gods. The god of war was in a comatose and not even he knew when the god will wake up, if he will ever do so. They have yet to know what happens if a god is wounded by a weapon that can slay them. Aphrodite and Hephaestus were inside the tent, looking after the god.
Apollo then walked towards another tent. He peered through the open flap to see the sleeping giant, Damasen, together with Ra and Iapetus who seemed to be having a good enough conversation, judging from the smiles on their faces. It surprised them when Ra told them how the two turned against their brothers but thankfully, no god was dumb enough to doubt the two. It was unlikely for that to happen since they were vouched for by Ra, but Apollo feared the worst.
"Maybe it's a blessing in disguise Ares was comatose." Apollo chuckled weakly. Knowing the war god, he was sure Ares would have protested the authenticity of the two.
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Zeus grabbed the giant king by his hair and held him up for the spectators to see. The giant king tried to fight but lacked the energy to do so. Zeus sent electricity coursing from his hand to the giant king, Porphyrion's screams of pain echoing throughout the silent battleground.
"M-Mercy." Porphyrion grunted weakly.
Zeus snickered, "You threaten to destroy this world, to kill our children, and to defile my wife while saying that you love her? And now you beg for mercy."
Again, Porphyrion screamed as large bolts of lightning coursed through his body. The demigods and the divine spectators remained silent as a crazy expression appeared on Zeus's face, not stopping the lightning. Poseidon grimaced at the violent show while Hades silently approved. Kronos looked away while Rhea just looked sadly.
"Zeus."
Zeus stopped and turned to his wife angrily. But at seeing the tears in her eyes, the burning rage he felt for the giant king disappeared. The giant king twitched as Zeus dropped him down the ground.
"Were you scared?" Zeus asked Hera.
Hera shook her head, "No, but I don't want you to do something so cruel, no matter how much he deserved it. Not even when he would have continued doing it to you had the situation been reversed."
Zeus sighed, walking towards his wife who melted against his chest, wrapping her arms around his waist as everyone stared at the once mighty king of the giants.
"End me." Porphyrion croaked.
Seeing as no one was moving, Kronos walked forward to end Porphyrion. With a slash of his scythe, the giant burst into immortal dust.
"It is done." Kronos said to everyone. "Victory is ours."
"I think you're celebrating too early, my nephew."
Kronos turned around in surprise to see a tall black-haired old man. What froze Kronos and Rhea was that he resembled their late father, Ouranos, very much but his hair and eyes were black instead of white. He was wearing an armor that radiated evilness. It was a strange sight for he children of Ouranos, who have never seen an expression of such malice on their father's face, even when he was getting chopped to pieces.
As if realizing who the man in front of him was, Kronos turned to look his confused children and grandchildren.
"Run!" He screamed in terror. But the scream died quickly as a black sword pierced through his chest, making Rhea and the others to yell.
Seeing her children rushing to save their father, Rhea felt her heart break to pieces at the disapproving look of Kronos.
"Stop." Rhea descended into hysterics at having to tell her children not to save their father, "No, don't."
The children of Kronos were shocked.
"But mother!" Hera protested, crying at the sight.
Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus were shocked at how easily their father was subdued, especially after the tyrannical show of power Kronos did in the battle, slaying his fellow titans easily.
The demigods and younger gods just watched with horror at what is happening.
"No, please, don't come near here." Kronos spoke. Then he couldn't help the cry of pain as he was lifted in the air with the sword stabbed to his chest. Not long after Kronos's breath ragged. He struggled to look at his family, "Take care of yourselves, okay?"
"Dad!" Hera cried, hiding her face. Zeus just looked at the scene with helplessness and disbelief. Hades and Poseidon cried at the brutal sigh, hugging the unresponsive Rhea.
"And just like that, my strongest child is dead." A lovely voice sang from behind the tall man. A beautiful woman walked out from behind. Her pupils were a vibrant green and her skin of olive color. Her hair was long and silky, the color of green with a bit of brown. She giggled happily, like a child.
"Not yet, mother." Kronos suddenly slashed his scythe at the woman but to the further shock of everyone, the woman caught the scythe that steals time between her fingers.
"I wonder what your Uncle Chronos would feel if he knew that one day, you will use his gift to strike your own mother, his sister?" Gaea asked with tears in her eyes.
"He'd be glad I woke up from being blinded by you!" Kronos answered spitefully.
Gaea hummed in wonder, before shrugging. She applied pressure to the scythe.
And just like that the scythe of time broke.
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Thor and Hermes walked back to the tents.
"What's happening there?" Thor asked, seeing the bolts of lightning raining down from the sky.
"Dad's fighting against his bane. But don't worry about that, you conquered your bane without dying! How'd you feel?" Hermes asked.
Thor breathed out in relief, "I'm just glad I survived. If you hadn't come when you'd come, Jormungandr would have killed me for real. And Loki would drown in guilt, that's for sure. Thank you for preventing such an ending to myself."
"No problem, Thor. You know we got your back." Hermes chimed as they entered the tent.
"I would have come to help also but as you can see, there is no rest for me." Apollo said, having overheard the conversation of his friends.
"Indeed, you have done a wonderful job." Ra, who was standing with the titan Hermes recognized as Iapetus, complimented. "All of you. I'm sure your father will come here soon as well as the others. Then we can party at my ship."
At this, the three young gods perked up.
"The famed ship of Ra!? Party there? Hell yeah!" Apollo exclaimed.
"I am curious about this ship of yours. Many Egyptian monsters talk bout it all the time, in Tartarus. The last Egyptian god and his ship, keeping a great evil at bay." Iapetus spoke.
"Well, let's just wait for Zeus to finish up, fix everything that needs fixing, and the reward ceremony. Then you can see my ship for yourself, friend." Ra clapped the titan on the back.
"Thank you." Iapetus smiled.
Then they felt the death of Porphyrion pass through them. Iapetus bowed his head at the death of his sibling meanwhile the gods, though overjoyed, remained silent as respect for the titan amongst them.
"It is party time, baby!" Apollo whooped.
But an oppressing presence suddenly descended upon them. A suffocating aura.
"What is that?" Ra asked.
"Let's see what's happening!" Hermes said, the three other men nodded. They quickly ran out the tent and unto where Zeus and Porphyrion were having their final duel.
"Hephaestus, Aphrodite, guard the injured." Ra said at seeing the two divine beings come out of Ares's tent when they felt the presence. The two nodded in agreement.
Seeing the gathered crowd, the four beings went pass the demigods.
"What is happening?" Hermes asked. When they finally reached the front, they were shocked at the ugly sight and the broken scythe of Kronos.
"Gramps!?" Apollo screamed.
Ra observed the desperate state of the family of Kronos and how Kronos was incapacitated by the two beings in front of him. Even he could not defeat Kronos. This was bad. He could sense the presence these two emitted, and though cruder and weaker, they were like Percy's. And the good looks…no doubt these were primordial.
But he can also sense another presence. Residing within Kronos. Ra grinned.
"This would be a good show." Ra laughed.
Everyone, from the family of Kronos to the demigods to even Iapetus, looked at him like he was crazy. But he couldn't help himself from the excitement.
Ra remembered loving the mortal fictions where the villains get their asses kicked.
And for it to happen in front of his eyes, he just couldn't wait.
"You have made a mistake, primordial."
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"What is this madman saying?" Gaea asked.
Judging from the confused, even affronted, expression on the faces, the others have no idea why this god that feels like a weak sun is laughing.
It wasn't the first time someone loss their mind looking at the beauty of a primordial, Gaea shrugged. "Never mind the maniac, kill Kronos."
"No!" Many cried but Tartarus tossed Kronos in the air and caught him by skewering the titan with his sword. The horrified expressions on the lower beings' face brought happiness in Gaea's heart.
"Really, now. If you're going to kill me, you've got to really mean it." The limp Kronos suddenly spoke, smiling like he wasn't impaled by a sword. "Really, uncle, I thought you were supposed to be like the evil and dark one in your family. My father warned us a lot about you. Seems his warnings were unfounded. Oh well." Kronos shrugged, holding Tartarus in the hand and pushing himself of the sword.
Everyone besides the laughing Ra was silent.
"Oh, I just got to call the Norse gods here." Ra said, sending a magic message. Not long after the Norse gods appeared.
"We came as soon as we can, you say we'll get to see a great ass and the kicking of it?" Odin asked with a bit of drool before getting smacked by Frigga. Loki just rolled his eyes at his father and mother's antics, standing beside him was Atlanta, holding his hand. Freya, who was beside Atlanta, scanned the crowd with a frown which disappeared at the sight of Thor. Her eyes were filled with relief, a small smile on her beautiful face.
"What?" Gaea asked, dumbfounded at what's happening. "You think of this as a game!? I am a primordial, no matter how many you are, I can wipe you all with a flick of my hand. As is Tartarus. You should be scared! Horrified!" Her face turned into an ugly sadistic expression.
"Okay." Odin said, a red handprint on his right cheek from a fuming Frigga. He looked at Ra seriously, "This one is a psycho ass, but damn." Odin and Ra shared a smile, their nose bleeding.
The cries of Odin filled the air as Frigga stomped on the King of Norse's back repeatedly.
"What's happening?" Rhea asked confused, recovering from the shock. She sniffed as an unsure joy filled her. Kronos is for whatever reason, alive and well. And is being silly as always.
Kronos looked at his wife lovingly, "Oh, I am very touched for the tears shed for me, really. But I am afraid I won't be dying today." He grinned, "I've been asked by a friend of grandsons' if I was a good actor. I mean, come on, is that even a question, Rhea?"
"You silly husband of mine." Rhea smiled, relieved "You're a wonderful actor, but do an act like that again and I'm going to kill you myself."
Kronos chuckled and shivered at the same time, "Noted."
"Stop ignoring us!" Gaea shouted angrily while Tartarus just stood, unspeaking.
"Damn." Odin weakly raised a thumbs up, earning himself another bucket of punches and stomp. The Norse gods and Valkyries just sighed at the sight, used to their king getting beaten up by his wife.
"Father, really, please ask with class." Loki begged. "We're in front of the other factions. This is the first time the demigods are seeing you and some are already looking at you with contempt."
Kronos walked back to his family, pulling Hades and Poseidon with an arm for each, bringing them down to his chest, "Aw, were my boys crying for me?"
"No."
"Screw you, please die."
Kronos cried and ran to Rhea as she patted her husband's back at the cruel rejection of their children. "There, there." She lulled.
"What is the meaning of this?" Gaea asked again. "How did you not die?"
Kronos looked at his mother with a knowing smirk, "A being gave me temporary powers, enough to withstand a strike from you. It's gone now. I reckon, if you strike me again, I'll die for real."
Not needing another word, Gaea was in front of Kronos in a flash. She thrust her hand towards her son, expecting it to pass right through his chest. Instead, a white barrier appeared before her hand can reach Kronos and was blasted back. With a reflective look on her face, Gaea stood up from the ground.
"Gaea, we're doomed." Finally, Tartarus spoke.
"What are you saying now?" Gaea asked nervously. For the confident and proud Tartarus to go silent and speak such words is thing that she never thought would ever happen.
"I've been scanning the energy in this area for a while after Kronos survived my power. He should've crumbled the moment his body was pierced. I caught nothing for a while. But then, when the sun god started laughing I sense a quick fluctuation. It was very brief but I still caught it." Tartarus explained calmly.
"A being like us gave Kronos energy. That would explain why my sword did not destroy his essence. I cannot kill my fellow primordial with a single stab of my sword." Tartarus ended his observation. "Then I started thinking about why the act? To make us look like fools?"
"So I tried to leave you."
"You what!?" Gaea demanded angrily.
"I tried to leave you. You said you had a complete control of the situation. As it turns out, you don't. You know how I hate not knowing things. Then I found out that I can't get out. Something trapped us here." Tartarus sighed, brushing his hair back.
"And one other thing, remember the arena in my domain that I told you I cannot control and seemed to even suppress me? It disappeared suddenly and I haven't thought about it ever since. That same power is the one trapping us here." Tartarus clicked his tongue.
"Primordial? What's he talking about?" From the spectators, Reyna asked Luke as the demigods wondered which primordial was on their side.
"Ouranos is the only one I could think of and I'm pretty sure he cannot be revived." Luke gave Reyna his thoughts.
"Alright, alright, before anything else could be speculated here I am." A familiar voice said from everywhere.
To the shock of the demigods, their beloved camp director, Lord Percy, son of Ra, emerged from out of nowhere in front of the two primordial. Wearing the same armor, the demigods did, Percy waved his hand at the demigods.
"Hello there, my cute little demigods." Percy cooed. "You did very well in the battle, now let me do the rest."
"Who are you?" Gaea sniffed, "Though you certainly possess looks that exceed any of these beings, your aura feels like a powerful demigod at best."
"I do?" Percy asked kindly, "My bad, forgot to take back my powers. Here, let me greet you properly."
Immediately, the red skies and black lightning that came from Tartarus disappeared and returned to normal. A heavy pressure, heavier than what Gaea and Tartarus exerted from before, came down everyone. Every single demigod was down on the ground, struggling. The gods of all pantheon and the titan couple were compelled to kneel.
The two primordial beings' eyes widened as for the first time ever, they felt the pressure an aura can exert. Only a greater being can exert their aura on another. That meant that the young man standing in front of them was slightly stronger than them.
"Wait, that's just a tenth of my power." Percy apologized.
"A tenth!?" Gaea couldn't help but grit her teeth as they slowly felt the pressure build up, forcing their standing postures to slowly go down.
"I had to disperse my aura so you wouldn't sense my presence. I'm just gathering it as of now. Wait, just another minute."
Gaea gritted her teeth as she used her powers to try and withstand but they were eventually forced down the ground. Though the gods, demigods, and titans were not forced to kneel any further than one knee, Gaea and Kronos were forced to bow down, their forehead against the ground.
"Right just another half." Percy yawned nonchalantly.
Gaea's eyes bulged as they started pushing against the ground, their bodies getting buried.
"It wouldn't do for you to sink down the ground so much so I'll just leave you like that, okay?" The young man asked them like he was asking for what they wanted for dinner and it infuriated her but there was nothing she could do.
"There, back to full power." The man cheered, crossing his arms and removing the pressure on the primordial beings.
Percy turned to the united pantheons and scratched his head, "Please believe me when I say that I did not force any pressure on you. That simply was your instinct at sensing my presence. I'm sorry!"
"Believe me, I wouldn't want my lovely Reyna to dirty herself by kneeling for me but I don't know how to turn it off!" Percy complained, much to the amusement of everyone.
"But as for you, I exerted half my aura on you two." Percy said coldly at the primordial. "I knew that after you'll come over yourself if your army is defeated. And I also knew that you'd go for the strongest being in the army opposing you, which is Lord Kronos, so I lent him my powers."
"I never knew it was so much fun being bait." Kronos giggled childishly, "I was always the one using bait."
The gods just laughed darkly, remembering how Kronos loved mind games and using baits to trap people.
Tartarus looked cowed, simply accepting the situation as is. They were on top of the power pyramid for so long, but he never doubted the possibility that there might someday be a being more powerful than they were.
But Gaia, she was livid. Her angelic face was twisted into a disgusting livid face.
"How dare you press my face against the earth?" Gaea asked coldly.
"Tell me, Gaia, why do you do this? Why do you want to wipe the mortals of your planet?" Percy asked.
"I just want to! Millennia ago, I chose to be good because I was curious of what the world my children and the mortals would create. Now, I'm curious of what they would do as I destroy them." Gaea rambled insanely, "Why couldn't I? Why am I not allowed? I am the primordial of earth! This is my planet. I can do as I wish, you are all my playthings. You exist to amuse me."
"I see." Percy sighed, "Power has corrupted you like it does to many beings."
Percy removed the hair tie that held his long black-white hair, "Tell me, what weapon will you prefer to die against?"
"Huh?" Gaea looked at Percy crazily, "You would kill me? I know, why don't I treat you to a night you won't forget. Two primordial before you have slept with me, and look how easily I can manipulate them. Doesn't that make you curious? How good am I in bed for them to be willing my beck and call?"
"Ugly." Percy muttered with disgust.
"You dare!?"
"You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, physically." Percy admitted, 'not counting those two ladies I saw in my dream.' He added silently in his head. "But your inside, it's ugly. It's the ugliest I have ever seen. I've been in Tartarus and the monsters there are beautiful compared to you." Percy stared coldly at the shocked Gaea, "You make me sick."
"Time's up."
Percy's black hair tie glowed briefly. When the light died, the hair tie was no more. Instead, an elegant black handgun was on his hand.
"Wai-" Before Gaea can even say anything, Percy pointed his gun and pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the primordial goddess's head. Gaea stiffened, an expression of shock in her face as the vibrant green glow of her eyes dimmed until they never glowed and her eyes rolled back to her head. The goddess fell backwards, landing on the ground before her body faded into dust.
Shocked, the spectators stayed silent, their beings shook in the very core as the death of a primordial spread through the area.
"Is this for real?" Zeus croaked in disbelief. Gaea, earth herself, was disposed off so easily. She didn't even get the chance to defend herself and fight back.
"Tartarus?" Percy called.
"Yes, my lord?" Tartarus kneeled down to one knee and bowed his head.
"I want you to return to your domain. Since you haven't really done anything but to open the gate for monsters and I anticipated what you would do to Kronos, I will forgive you this once. I will visit you shortly. For now, close that gate and go."
Tartarus stood up and bowed, "At once." He said before jumping down the crack. The earth started shaking like before the battle started.
The crack slowly closed itself, looking as if there was never a crack in the first place.
"Percy?" Ra asked.
Percy turned his Eterna back from a gun into his hair tie and tied his long hair back into a ponytail. He looked to Ra asked with a slight smile.
"Yes, dad?"
"That was well done."
"Thanks, dad." Percy winked at the spectators, "How was that?"
Everyone stayed silent.
"Percy…" Apollo begun.
Percy smirked, "that was awesome?" He guessed.
"You showoff!" Hermes and Apollo accused at the same time.
"Eh!?" Percy asked, not expecting admonishment. Knowing the two, he expected them to jump at him for a congratulations.
"Your just jealous it wasn't you guys." Loki snorted, "Well done, Perce. That was awesome."
The gods were shocked once again.
"Did Loki just say the word, awesome?" Freya asked Thor, who had his arm wrapped around her.
"Yeah." Thor answered happily.
At the silence permeating the air, Percy rolled his eyes. "Come on, guys! We won! Let's go back and celebrate."
Still, no reaction.
"Was it really that shocking?" Percy asked.
"Perce…" Hermes began, slinging an arm around Percy's neck.
"Dear Percy…" Apollo slung his arm around Percy's neck also.
"You-"
"just killed-"
"the primordial of the Earth-"
"with a headshot-"
"from a the hair tie you use-"
"to hold that fabulous hair of yours."
Hermes and Apollo finished each other's sentence.
"Oh." Percy groaned. "Should I have gone with a more normal weapon, like a sword?"
"I think you shouldn't have used a weapon at all. Now everyone will be afraid of your hair tie, Perce. Your hair tie." Thor shook his head as he tried to hold back his laughter.
Loki, Hermes, Thor, and Apollo laughed at the grumbling Percy while the others just remained rooted at their spot, still in too much shock to do anything.
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(A/N) Next chapter will be the end for Arc 1, for real this time. The chapter would deal with the aftermath of the war and what's next for New Olympus.
I'll try my best to update soon.
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