Chapter 33: Percy
I dashed back slightly, barely lifting my hand off my blade to wipe a thick layer of sweat free from my brow. I instantly steadied my blade once more and locked it into place with Hyperion. He seemed almost unable to keep up his fire and strength, I kept snuffing out the flames that erupted around his feet, and continually doused the fire that threatened to blind Nico and me that decorated his armour. So basically, my job was to keep Hyperion locked in combat, and focused on me. My secondary objective was to also throw him into a rage, due to him being unable to do anything with fire due me constantly dousing it. While I kept Hyperion's main focus, it was Nico's job to teleport around him unpredictably and slip Stygian Iron in between the chinks of Hyperion's armour.
Well, it was definitely working. We had been fighting for ages, well atleast it felt that way. Hyperion didn't seem to have tried anything fancy, but his sword strikes seemed to be waning in strength.
I risked a glance upwards, to see the full moon slightly past its zenith. I cursed myself as I got distracted from the fight for a moment. Hyperion capitalised, and closed the minute distance almost instantly. The titan of the East launched a gargantuan strike upwards. Just before it would've connected with my skull, I flicked my sword to the left, and dislodged it. Saving myself. Just then, Nico shadow-traveled directly underneath Hyperion.
"Just die," Nico echoed, his voice taking on a slightly darker tone, like he wanted to destroy Hyperion. A void of darkness began to pool around Nico, and looked like it cooled instantly, with miniature black wisps radiating from the surface.
I stifled a laugh, as I saw Hyperion faceplant instantly, tripping over the solid sheet of inky dark. I stopped thinking about humour, and leaped forward, beside Nico.
"You good Nico?" I breathlessly asked, as I raised my sword up, directly pointed at a chink in his calf.
"Yeah," was all he said, as he slashed uncontrollably at the Hyperion's greaves, determined to put him out of commission.
I raised my sword, and brought it downward with tremendous force. The sword slid perfectly between the gap in his armour, and Hyperion uttered an earthshattering scream. Somehow, the Lord of Fire got to his foot in an instant, and I was sent flying backwards by an armoured fist. I crashed backwards, and landed into a pile of mulch on the exterior of this circle.
"Urggg," I groaned, as I steadily rose upwards, rubbing the back of head from the impact force. My eyes widened instantly, Hyperion's flames were returning and if they returned back to full strength, we would have no chance. Hades, we wouldn't be able to see. I didn't bother moving, but summoned the power of the ocean within me. I closed my eyes for a split second, and felt a torrent of water gush out and pulse around me, awaiting my instructions.
I thrust my hand forward, and a wave of liquid flew forward in an uneven, but straight line. The ocean collided with Hyperion, and he stumbled forward, directly into Nico's blade, which cut a swathe through his front. I dashed forward, but with a slight limp, it was futile. Hyperion roared in agony, and swung his golden sword towards Nico. Stygian Iron connected with the golden metal, and specks of dark and light were thrown forcefully outward. As strong as Nico was, and that applied to me as well, neither of us could stand up to the might of a Titan. We could hold our own for maybe a few seconds against that kind of force, but no longer. I saw Nico's eyes darken, determined to follow through, but he faded away into wisps of darkness.
'FIGHT FAIR YOU COWARD!" Hyperion roared in anger, his harsh golden eyes looking positively murderous.
"You're not fighting fair either, you're trying to glow," I pointed out, gesturing to his barely shining armour, more like shimmering faintly in the moonlight.
"I WILL THROW YOUR CARCUSS TO TARTARUS PERSEUS JACKSON!" Hyperion boomed.
"Been there, done that, got a souvenir," I briefly said.
My best hope was to taunt Hyperion to make a tragic mistake. Summoning water from absolutely nothing took a lot of my energy away. I had done it without much of a problem so far, but during back to back massive battles with no water source? I could feel a draining effect on my body, sucking its energy away.
Hyperion charged at me foolishly, blinded by his anger and pain. I saw faint drops of golden ichor trail from his calf, where I had ruptured probably a few major things.
I waited till the last second, before rolling briefly to the right. I stopped moving almost instantly, and leapt up, to lock swords with the Titan. Hyperion put his whole weight behind the blade, and I could almost hear my shoulders and forearms screaming in agony.
It was almost like Hyperion was burning away the remaining muscles in my arms and slowly melting away my reserves of strength. That was, until Jason ran at us.
"PERCY, NICO, MOVE!" Jason shouted, as he barrelled out towards us with a screaming titan after him.
The first part went off with a hitch, and I leapt out towards the side, narrowly dodging a terrified looking Jason, and a screaming Titan wearing a stupid ram helmet. Nico had rolled to the other side, but was completely out of sight.
Jason looked like he was about to collide directly with Hyperion, but changed his course almost instantly, just before he was about to get smacked. The two titans collided against each other, and both sent each other flying a fair distance away.
The flames around Hyperion started to well up again, and it seemed like he was angrier than ever.
"You're an ABSOLUTE IDIOT!" Hyperion yelled as he staggered back up, mostly directed at Krios, but I assumed he was insult us too.
"Yeah, Yeah my fault," Krios said, somewhat apologetically.
The fire in Hyperion's eyes turned up to eleven, and I retaliated almost instantly with a surge of water, which came from absolutely nowhere. I could feel my strength waning, all this water was taking it out of me.
Krios began to run back towards Jason, leading him further away, so that he could fight Krios alone, and that Hyperion and I could fight.
Hyperion closed the distance on me with blinding speed and swung his sword down in a downward arc.
"Déjà vu," I briefly muttered, before swinging Riptide upwards instantly to combat the force. The swing that I made was nowhere near as strong as it was before, and my muscles almost collapsed instantly.
There was no way, I was going to hold on. It felt like all hope was lost…
I yanked Riptide to the right, rolling with the momentum of the blade to put distance between me and Hyperion. I pushed backwards as far as I could with my legs, my left hand now strained to the point of complete exhaustion. I barely stole a glance upwards, to see Nico fighting valiantly against a Hyperion, who seemed to be toying with him slightly.
I staggered upwards, my arm feeling almost comically useless at this point. I gritted my teeth together, firmly believing that I had managed to ground them into a paste throughout this fight.
My muscles seized up and felt like they were being controlled by some external body and abruptly, pushed down upon with a cataclysmic force, sending me twirling through right to the edge of the circle. My fall was slightly broken by some random tree, but that didn't stop my back from aching like Hades. I glanced backwards at the tree.
"Thanks," I vaguely muttered, hopefully thanking the dryad, and not just a tree. I wasn't going insane. Yet.
I stumbled up to my feet, and my eyes buggered out looking at the distance that I was flung, and how Hyperion did it. It was easily 100 feet backwards. My mind flashed back to the Battle of Manhattan, and how Hyperion sent me flying backwards, and remembered the sheer power of this titan.
I rotated my eyes around, first to Nico, who was dusting off his shoulders, then to Jason, who looked like he was about to collapse. Thankfully, Krios looked like he was completely exhausted too. I was thinking about running to help, before a large golden Titan barrelled his way towards me.
I sighed deeply, before rushing forward to meet him. Yet again, Hyperion sliced downwards onto me with deadly force, and I jabbed upwards to block the strike.
"Not again," I muttered under my breath, as I bent my head forward as my strength began to evaporate.
I was definitely, a goner, until, Nico Di Angelo showed up. Nico emerged from the shadows, the wisps of darkness flaking off of his being. Nico brandished his blade, before raising it above his head, and striking downwards directly into the back of Hyperion. The onyx sword seemed to almost phase straight through Hyperion's armour, and stabbed him directly in the small of his back.
The Son of Hades wrenched the blade out of the Titan, and it was at that point that I noticed the blade wreathed in black flames.
The darkness licked around the edge of the blade as it fell out the back of Hyperion and Nico dropped to the ground, with the blade firmly in its grasp.
Hyperion collapsed to the ground, kneeling down, with a healthy (in this case, definitely unhealthy) stream of ichor flowing from the wound. I flashed Nico a grateful smile, which he returned.
I felt the hair on my neck stand up almost instantly, and I had a chill emanate down my spine. I spun around instantly, and Nico followed suit.
The sight that greeted me was awe-inspiring. Krios was standing still, with his eyes closed staring up at the sky. Jason pressed his advantage, sending millions of minute shocks Krios' way. The Titan of the Stars seemed to seize up as each volt passed through this body.
Krios let out a horrible roar, presumably in pain and began to rise upwards. I stood paralyzed in awe, as jolts of electricity danced throughout the air, before impacting with Krios and causing a spasm.
Jason looked to be barely able to stand, with his legs wobbling dangerously as he sent shock after shock at the Titan.
After a continual series of shocks, Jason raised his right hand, pointing upwards towards the stars.
Almost instantly, a bolt of lightning was called down from Olympus itself, the electricity working its way through Krios' body, charring his insides to cinders.
After the bolt connected, Jason collapsed downwards into a heap, exhausted. I unfroze from my daze, and started towards Jason before there was a deep rumbling.
I slowly panned over to Krios, who was still spasming uncontrollably continue to stand upright. Krios' knees continued sag but they somehow still managed to support his weight.
I stared in disbelief, as my eyes buggered out in fear.
I spun around to face Hyperion, who seemed to have regained his strength at an alarming rate.
The fire surrounding Hyperion didn't seem to have regenerated quite yet, so I was great on that front.
I looked at Nico, who wrenched his eyes away from Krios and together, we shadow-travelled to Hyperion.
I was deposited slightly above Hyperion, and jack-hammered my sword down in between a point in his shoulder. I didn't hit a chink, but it was enough to cause some mild discomfort.
I saw Hyperion's armour begin to be imbued with fire, and I slid down his back. On the way down, I noticed the colossal sized wound in his back.
"Thanks Nico," I muttered, before jabbing Riptide into the wound, aggravating it further.
Hyperion roared in pure pain and smacked me backwards. I landed on my back, and probably left a nasty mark, but I did an instant 180.
Krios…
K-Krios was glowing.
Celestial Energy pooled around Krios, a blinding light surrounding him completely.
I watched Jason, completely immobile; frozen in fear.
"GET OUT OF THERE JASON!" I screamed, but I knew it was futile.
The blinding light coalesced into a medium-sized ball, which the Titan of the East threw.
I watched powerlessly as the light enveloped Jason. I could feel Hyperion's movements behind me, but I knew that he would wait to see the results of his brother's power.
I opened my mouth to shout for Jason, but no words came out. All that emerged was a futile croak.
I looked beside me to see Nico's reaction.
Where was Nico?
I turned all around, but there was no Nico to be seen.
This was when I began to panic.
Cold sweat began to pour down, even more so than usual.
I stood up and ran like hell.
The mountain of dust that exploded outwards was beginning to settle, and I ran fearlessly straight into the middle.
The blast had left a mini-crater, and I coughed violently as I waded through the dust in the air.
Once the dust had settled, I was finally able to see what had happened.
Strewn carelessly by the force of the explosion, right on the edge of the circle wasn't Jason.
It was Nico.
I collapsed onto the floor, sinking down to my knees. I crawled right to the edge, staring down at the broken, lifeless frame of Nico Di Angelo.
Nico's dark black hair was plastered to the back of his head, spread every which way, with his eyelids fluttering, struggling to stay open upon the forceful nature of death.
"Nico…" I breathed out deeply, my voice quivering with a definite mixture of terror and panic.
Nico seemed to respond to my voice slightly, his eyes becoming slightly wider and his stare becoming more defined.
"Percy…" Nico muttered, his voice parched, and exasperated.
I looked deep into Nico's eyes, noticing a fading light behind them, his brown, sunken eyes deteriorating in colour, turning darker.
I felt a faint presence on my shoulder. I whipped around instantly, to see Jason standing over me, his legs quivering, and his jaw unset.
"You - you alright Jason?" I mumbled out, a sense of grief overtaking my senses.
The Son of Jupiter didn't respond, simply nodding his head weakly in acknowledgement.
"Nico saved me…" he mumbled out, a drip of liquid trailing from his eyes.
My eyelids began to grow moist, as the weight of the event that had just unfolded hit me.
I was unable to stop myself, sobs overtook my body and I collapsed to the ground, clasping Nico's hand in mine.
The contrast was even more pronounced, Nico's skin was returning to a regular colour, but he was still dangerously pale.
"G-Get him some ambrosia and nectar, Jason!" I shouted.
Jason went down to dig some ambrosia from his pocket.
Nico held a frail hand upwards, with his palm faced outwards. Telling Jason to stop.
"Why?" I asked to Nico, confused.
"This is what was meant to happen," Nico said, his voice excruciatingly raspy.
"What?" I exclaimed, my voice going up an octave and my eyes widening. "Jason, what the hell is he on about?"
"It's not Jason. I saw this happening," Nico choked out.
"What do you mean?" I whispered, my voice dangerously lowering.
"B-Bane," Nico stuttered out. "This. T—this is my destiny. I—it's the con-contigency," Nico exposited, his voice cracking and losing it's intensity.
I gripped Nico's hand firmly, clasping it within my own.
"No, there has to be something else. Jason, pass the ambrosia." I choked out, emotion gripping my voice.
Jason instantly responded, passing down the last remnants of remaining ambrosia.
"Here, have this," I tenderly responded, not wanting to cause Nico more pain.
"No Percyy, you don't understand. Death is my home, I cause it. It's time I go back,"
"No." I muttered, my voice cracking and fracturing with emotion.
"This way, I help you defeat Tartarus," Nico scraped out, his voice dying.
Jason walked to my left, peering down at Nico, before crouching down to his level.
"Thank you, Nico. For—For everything," Jason gasped out, his voice cracking.
"Thank you, Jason," Nico muttered, his voice going even lower, to the point where I had to strain to even hear him.
"No—No, Nico. You've got to take this ambrosia," I begged, tears spilling uncontrollably from my eyes.
"Percy." Nico uttered, carefully, enunciating every word as if it were his last. "Tell Will. Tell him that I love him. Thank you for everything Percy. Gosh, I haven't even considered all you've done for me.
"You're so strong Nico," I cried out, trying to control myself. "I'd be dead without you."
"You've got to survive this. We still need you, Percy. Let me go."
I drew in a shuddering breath, a great chill overtaking me. I brought a hand to my eyes, stemming the flow of liquid.
"Thank you, Nico. For everything." Nico let out a big smile, his lungs expelling the last remnants of air, as his eyes grew dim.
I bent down, pulling the son of Hades upwards into a tight embrace, determined to be there with him.
Nico pulled his arms feebly around me, and that's where we remained.
I felt an almost foreign presence on my shoulder.
Jason looked terrified, and also extremely solemn.
"C'mon Perce. We've got to avenge him," Jason cried, his voice taking on a vengeful tone.
"Yes," I muttered, my pain from Nico's death passing. It was a part of life. Nico had lived, and apparently, his death would help defeat Tartarus? That's in the past. Right now, Nico's legacy had to be protected. And that started by murdering the idiot that caused this.
Jason:
Nico.
Nico Di Angelo was dead.
Nico Di Angelo, the Son of Hades. Survivor of Tartarus was dead.
I tried to hide my emotions, and conceal my pain. I felt a primordial rage build up between me, a sense of anger, stronger than I had felt ever before. Which was weird.
I rose upwards, spinning around, to see Hyperion and Krios talking to each other, with gleeful grins on their faces.
Their happiness acted as a fuel for the fire, my anger burning more intensely than I thought possible.
Hyperion's armour was glowing with the heat of the fire, we had to put it out.
"Percy, douse Hyperion," I ordered, my tone rigid.
A spire of water erupted into existence, beside Hyperion, with the Titan being completely engulfed byt the surrounding water. His armour immediately lost its lustre.
Hyperion turned around with a terrifying roar. However, it didn't cause fear. I felt calmer than ever, as if someone had turned off my emotions, and all I felt was anger. Not only at Nico's death, but Hyperion's reaction, a grin on his face.
I had to stop his armour from reheating, Percy was going to run out of steam.
My mind flashed back. Storms.
I hadn't tried something like that on such a scale. But I had to try.
I summoned the power of Jupiter. I felt all the energy flowing around me, aware of my surroundings as my eyes shut. I felt the potential flow of all objects, the electricity and wind ever-present.
The pool of energy had always been there. I just hadn't been driven low enough to ever realise it. The energy among every living and non-living thing could be harnessed and put to good use.
I commanded the energy around me, shaping it to my will. I forced the power upwards, to the sky. The pool of energy vanished, as if my connection was severed for a moment.
I saw Krios charging towards me. I simply shaped the winds to my accord, forcing myself backwards and sending the Titan charging aimlessly sideways.
"PERCY! You've got to buy me some time. I've got a plan."
"Yeah, fighting off two titans at the same time. Seems doable," Percy shrugged, with a trace of doubt.
Hazel:
"Who still needs help?" I shouted, scouring the area around for anyone in need. We had done a really good job of fixing everybody up recently.
Reyna waved to me from the other side, a perplexed yet worried expression on her face.
"You alright Reyna?" I asked in confusion, noticing that she was kneeling on the ground, with nobody around her.
"Yeah, just… thinking."
"About what?"
"Just, Uh…" Reyna gasped, exasperated. "I've failed."
"Stop talking nonsense Reyna!" I exclaimed, leaping down to her left to be at her level. "How have you failed?"
"There have been many casualties Hazel. Many."
"Reyna, you are dealing with a war, you can't expect any conflict to end without any form of loss."
"But if I was just a better leader. Maybe none of those good people would be dead."
"They have been wrapped in shrouds, Praetor. They will make it to Elysium. They were part of the legion, and part of Camp Half-Blood. They were willing to fight this battle and they shall be honoured for their sacrifice."
"Yeah," Reyna admitted, standing up again. "I'm gonna find Jason and Percy. They were probably hit hard by this too."
Without any other thought, Reyna vanished into the swarming crowd, now teeming with people who didn't look on the brink of death.
Not five seconds had gone by, before I felt a heavy tap on my shoulder. I spun around, to see Reyna and Piper looking worried.
"Have you seen Jason?" Piper asked, panting.
"No? Why?" I responded coolly.
"I've been looking for him for the past twenty minutes and he just, isn't there."
"Don't worry Piper, I'm sure he's hiding around here somewhere,"I muttered, scouring the crowd of bandaged and bruised demigods.
I did a quick scan… nothing. Where was he?
I plunged forward, creating a divide between the crowd, looking around for Jason. Piper followed me, her face contorted with worry. I looked to my side, and saw nothing before…
"Oof,"I muttered as I collapsed to the ground from the impact.
"Sorry Hazel," Annabeth quickly muttered before trying to scurry off, instead almost colliding with Piper.
"What are you in such a rush for?" I asked Annabeth quietly.
"Percy, do you know where he is?" she pleaded.
"No, Annabeth," I calmly responded, We're looking for Jason right now.
"Jason and Percy are gone?" Annabeth asked Piper, her eyes widening in fear.
Piper nodded, biting her lip with worry.
"Where's Reyna gone now," I muttered, exasperated. "Where's Nico, he's the last sensible one here," I mumbled under my breath.
We spent a good five minutes wandering about this make-shift infirmary. It wasn't a big place, it surely wasn't this easy to hide for this long. On top of that, I couldn't find Nico.
Hmm…
Nico, Percy and Jason were gone. Three children of the Big Three.
That couldn't be a coincidence.
I turned around, seeing Piper and Annabeth holding each other, each trying their hardest to reassure the other that absolutely nothing was, wrong, something that I had been trying to tell them, and now, I was regretting my words.
I caught a glimpse of purple.
"Reyna!" I shouted, marching straight towards the Praetor. "Have you found them?"
"No," Reyna said, her voice straining as the looked upwards with a perplexed expression.
I looked upwards and my eyebrows creased with the irregularity.
"What are all those storm clouds doing?"
An angry flock of dangerously grey clouds moved at an accelerated rate across the sky. The night was beginning to turn to early morning, and the clouds didn't stand out, blending perfectly in with the surrounding colours. What had caused these clouds to move, not only that quickly, but cause them all to group up around a singular area. The Dark Forest.
"Jason…" Reyna muttered under her breath.
Reyna immediately sprung into action, her back straightening and her cloak whipping around her. She strode straight past me, and crouched down, silently beckoning Piper, Annabeth and myself to follow. Reyna commanded so much authority, it was almost akin to Piper's charmspeak, having that feeling of needing to obey her, it was quite intimidating.
"There's some big fight going on over there," Reyna said, vaguely indicating the forest. Jason and probably Percy and Nico are over there, fighting someone, or something. You three are going to go over there, and save them. Afterwards, kick them for scaring us, yeah? Frank and I will stay here, and bring the legion in for backup if you don't return in a while."
With that commanding speech, Reyna marched off, her Aegis glittering in the fading moonlight.
"Well, that speech was something," Piper muttered, before strolling off to go and put on her armour.
I walked away too, going to the last known spot where my armour was.
I slapped my armour on carelessly, hastily fastening all the straps. Arion was around here somewhere, probably grazing in a nearby field.
I put my fingers to my mouth and whistled briefly. A crisp, high-pitched noise was formed, something that Arion knew far too well. In an instant, the horse materialised from a nearby field, coming to an instant stop in front of me.
Arion was quite a big horse, and it took a fair bit of effort to mount him, but Arion decided to be kind this once and bent down, making it ten times easier.
"Arion, get Annabeth and Piper," I ordered. My steed obeyed dutifully, warping towards Piper and Annabeth, who both mounted Arion, whose back barely held all three of us.
I turned around, "Is everybody ready?" I asked, my voice bleeding with worry about Nico.
"Yeah," Piper responded, trying her best to keep a straight face.
Annabeth didn't respond whatsoever, her face stormy and distant, her pale grey eyes swirling with anger.
"I'll take that as a yes," I muttered under my breath. "Arion, take it easy, we don't want anyone falling off."
The chestnut horse whinnied in both appreciation, and slight annoyance at not being able to stretch his legs.
We rode at still a decent pace forward into the forest, Arion whizzing past the trees, rocketing us forward into open spaces. Running in an enclosed area like this probably wouldn't be easy, even for this horse.
"Arion, slow down," I ordered, with the horse immediately slowing to a simple trot.
Where were they?
Leo:
My body tingled with energy, the pent up stress and heat that I had been holding in, had just well… exploded in battle. Annabeth saw it. I vaporised those empousae. Wow! That feeling was incredible.
Just to think, for the last few weeks, my body had been tingling, spasming and purely aching, and why?
Well, I still didn't know. What I did know, was that releasing all that pent-up energy had caused me to explode with fire. EXPLODE!
It was pretty cool. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to control it, and that my whole body would keep burning, but I could control it pretty well.
Right now, I was helping some guy from the Apollo Cabin, I think his name was Austin?
"Leo," Austin said, exasperated. I asked for a stethoscope. You've brought me binoculars.
"Yeah, joking," I muttered, brandishing the stethoscope from behind my back.
"You've caused enough harm here, I'm trying to save this guy."
"So am I," I indignantly responded.
Austin muttered under his breath. I got the general consensus.
I can save him more easily.
I strolled away, walking about aimlessly, boucing around this infirmary.
I stumbled into Reyna, who looked stormy and serious. That girl always intimidated me. She never laughed at my jokes, always regarded me with the same indifferent expression and on top of all of that, it was likely that she still hated me after what I did to Rome.
It wasn't even me, stupid eidodinos or whatever, now I'm on the wrong side of a scary girl.
"Hey Leo," Reyna said, begrudgingly.
"Hi… Reyna," I said, quivering.
"No need to be so scared, I'm not mad at you anymore."
"Yeah," I said, doubtful. "Whatever you say."
Reyna cracked a genuine smile at what I said, before her façade descending over again.
"I'm gonna get Frank, you get everyone else, round them up. There's a something else to fight. I can feel it."
"Yeah, sure." I muttered, walking away.
"Leo," Reyna said, turning back to me.
"What?"
"Stop being so uptight, I'm not mad at you," she stressed, before walking away.
"Yeah, not mad at me. Cool," I muttered, kicking a stone.
It was so painfully obvious that she didn't like me. I had gone from Leo, the guy who can explode with fire, and set himself on fire to… Leo, that idiot that got possessed by an eidodino and blew up New Rome.
Why couldn't Reyna just forgive me? God.
"Anyone got water for an Iris Message?"
"Yeah, Leo come over here!" Will exclaimed.
"Who were you just Iris-Messaging, Solace?"
"No one," Will hummed, "Just my mum, she's probably scared out of her mind."
"Yeah, can I use it, and a bit of privacy please?"
"Sure. Calling Calypso, I assume?" Will joked, smirking.
"Yup," I replied, hopping slightly in excitement.
I muttered a slight incantation and threw a drachma into the spray.
Within seconds, the image of Calypso materialised, with her doing her hair in the Big House.
"AHAHA!" Calypso screamed, dropping her brush, while it was midway through her hair.
I roared with laughter, as I saw the demi-titan turn a bright scarlet.
"LEO VALDEZ!" Calypso screamed, our time apart not doing anything to quell this type of relationship.
"Hey gorgeous," I said, teasing Calypso.
The Daughter of Atlas groaned, before slapping herself in her face, trying to cope with my amazing behaviour.
"What do you want Leo?"
"Nothing, just wanted to call and say that we've basically won."
"Basically?"
"Well, Reyna thinks that there is one more big fight."
"If Reyna thinks that, don't you dare say that this fight is over. If you come back alive then maybe," she said, trailing off towards the end.
"Maybe what?"
"Maybe I will kiss you."
"WHAT?" I almost screamed in mock ecstasy, "That's never happened before!"
"Oh shut up, you," Calypso sighed, but I could tell there was an undertone of delight.
"Bye Bye beautiful," I said, putting on the first genuine smile that I had in a while.
"Jerk," Calypso muttered, with no real anger or malicious intent in her voice.
I swiped through the connection, severing my contact with Calypso.
I walked around, and couldn't get that dumb grin off of my face.
I swore under my breath.
Reyna had told me to get everyone ready, and I hadn't even started.
God, that woman was going to kill me.
Yes. It's been another two months. Okay, I admit. I have been struggling with writer's block + having to concentrate a lot more in school for my End of Year Exams. Alright? They're over now, and the hols are in a week, so expect a bit more writing to come out of this. There's about, 3-4 more chapters I think that I have planned. Sorry that this chapter was a lot shorter than anything else of late.
Thanks,
~RedGods