"This is such a let down." Luke said as he slashed through another barrage of flaming arrows. Apollo would be, for all intents and purposes, a punching bag if Luke and Clarisse fought together so they decided only one of them was necessary. Deciding who would fight an Olympian could only be fairly decided in one manner: Rock, Paper, Scissors. Luke would never admit that he slowed Clarisse down so he could see what she was about to throw out. Not wanting to ruin her students' plan, Clarisse used a nearby stump as a seat while she played audience. None of this made Luke feel any better. Apollo was just so…..slow.
" Bastard demigod, I will wipe that smirk off your face if it's the last thing I do." Apollo yelled.
"You haven't landed a hit yet." Luke said in a matter of fact tone.
Growling, Apollo charged Luke once more, swinging his sword that seemed to burn off light. Sighing, Luke simply sidestepped the slash and backflipped away ensuring that one of his feet caught Apollo in the chin. Luke heard the voice of Percy loud and clear in his memories as he continued slashing through arrows.
"Apollo can't die yet, he is the only thing leaving this battle alive. He will serve as a testimony." Sighing, Luke kept up the evasion tactics staying away but close enough to prevent the sun god from assisting elsewhere. Huffing indignantly, a cruel smile played upon the lips of Apollo.
" Running away, just like you did from your mother." At the mention of his mother Luke's eyes slowly began to glow an angry shade of gold.
" After Hades cursed my oracle I scoured far and wide looking for a mortal with a spirit strong enough to bear that curse. Stumbling into Connecticut I found your mother who was already pregnant with you. I told her about the position in dreams and visions and shortly after you were born, she had no choice but to attempt to become the new oracle." Golden flames began to dance in Luke's hair. Apollo smirked, launching volley after volley but before they could make contact, they turned to ash before the warrior.
"The best part is, Hermes didn't mind if I took her for a little spin. A woman of such spirit should never go to waste" Apollo said with an evil grin. As the god notched another arrow, he focused his sights on his target but right before his eyes Luke vanished. When he reappeared, he was right in front of Apollo. His hand jetted forward and grabbed the god by the throat slamming him into the nearest rock formation. The rock that Apollo had been slammed into slowly began to erode, the nearby trees began to grow and then die, the grass all around the feet of Luke began to grow taller and taller until it withered away.
"You filthy excuse for a sun god." Apollo tried slapping his opponent in the face with his bow but the bow began to age until it turned to dust on Luke's head.
"Your life is forfeit Apollo. The lives of all the Olympians are forfeit. All of you are the same; you stick yourselves into the lives of mortals who don't know any better, you ruin it for your own joy and satisfaction and then you leave. The mortals become nothing more than husks, empty shells because of what you and your family did to them." Apollo could only stare into the golden fire that was the eyes of Luke, while clawing at the arm and hand that held his neck.
"You think you are so different from all of them, that your domains make you special or maybe that your ability to look forward in time makes you special. You think the fact that you are a god of many things makes you special among the Olympians. Let me clear it up for you, when we planned to attack Olympus, they were minor gods that were more of an issue than you were. You are nothing. Everything you are you stole. You stole the sun from Helios. You stole music from Hermes. And you even managed to steal the gift of prophecy. Among the Olympians, you are the smallest." Fear gripped the heart of Apollo. The last time he was this afraid, he was facing his father. But that was different; he knew that his father would never destroy him. But this being in front of him was not his father; his life meant nothing to the creature that held his neck. Clarisse sat still watching the exchange all go down, careful not to interrupt Luke when he was talking but coiled and prepared to stop him if he would go too far. Suddenly, the wind picked up and died down almost immediately. Clarisse knew exactly what had just happened and from Luke's evil grin she knew that he knew as well.
" Well, I guess there is one major difference between you and your sister." Apollo looked at his enemy with bewilderment, Luke stared at the god before pointing up towards the moon or more accurately where the moon should have been. Realization dawned upon the god as his eyes met Luke's once more.
" That's right Apollo the major difference between you and Artemis is that you're still alive" Apollo erupted in an explosion of fire sending Luke skidding back, his feet digging trenches into the dirt. Rising into the air, tears streaming down his face Apollo yelled at the top of his voice.
"I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU TRAITOROUS UPSTARTS. I WILL REND THE EARTH, ERASING ANY SIGN OF YOUR PRESENCE AND SALT THE EARTH WIT-" before Apollo could finish Luke was behind him, grabbing his head and forcing him 20 feet into the earth.
"No, you won't." Luke said as he stood over the god. " You will however be taking this." Luke opened his palm, as a ball of golden energy began to gather, slamming it into the back of the god. Luke watched as the god begin to fluctuate between the images of an old man, a baby, a child, an adolescent and a young man. Apollo began to rise, looking at his hands in horror.
" What?! What did you do to me?!" Apollo whispered.
" I disrupted your personal time, from this day forward you will fluctuate between all the ages of a regular mortal." Luke grabbed the god by the front of his armor, lifting him out of the hole they were in.
"And now I'm sending you back to your daddy." Luke said as he covered the god in golden light and threw him in the general direction of Olympus. Dusting his hands, Luke spun on his heel and came face-to-face with Clarisse.
" Are you okay?" She asked. Luke sighed as the energy around him dissipated, his eyes and hair returning back to normal. Putting both hands behind his head, Luke smiled at his comrade.
" All he did was make me hate Olympus more." Clarisse smiled back as both fell into line walking towards their leader, eager to see what he was up to.
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Percy was ecstatic to see that his kids were all right and from the looks of it, packing more power than ever.
"We aren't done with him yet." the three demigods said in unison. Percy squinted as he looked over all three of his kids, snapping as rings of black fire appeared around Mars holding him down. Percy opened his palm once again as another knife materialized into it. Setting the knife against the palm of Mars, Percy stepped into it, effectively pinning the god down there. Mars yelled profanities as he struggled to flash away, the black fire holding him in place.
"As much as I can appreciate the three of you insisting upon beating the shit out of a good for nothing war god, my answer has to be no."
" Wait, what, why?" Abi asked confused.
" Because you literally just died. Like 10 seconds ago you weren't just knocked out. You were dead."
"I get that, seriously, I do but she's all better now. Look at us on fire and everything." Sarah said Percy forgot that he was still talking to fourteen year olds; they just happened to look 16.
"Boss you taught us to always finish the mission but our comrades come first. Our comrade is fine, I worked the charmspeak, time to finish the mission." Wale said.
"I also taught you that all of that goes out of the window if I have to come through and chokeslam a deity because he impaled one of you. Besides, I still think you can take him.
"I'd love to see those prissy little demibit-. ARRRRRRGHHHHHH" Before Mars could finish, Percy fired eternity into the gods kneecap.
"Like I was saying I can literally see your energy falling, you'd tire eventually…...All of you did amazing. You pissed him off worse than I did and beat the shit out of him. Let me cleanup, okay?" None of the demigods were eager to argue with Percy, he had made an excellent point.
" I guess." Wale said as he kicked the dirt, his pink fire slowly subsiding. The same was true for Abi and Sarah. As the fire subsided, each demigod struggled to stay on their feet. Looking at their dejected faces, Percy couldn't help but roll his eyes and groan internally.
"Fine. You can watch. Just wait a sec." Percy said as his eyes glowed with all of the stars of the universe. Suddenly, pieces of scrap from the 2000 Spartans began to levitate over to where the demigods were, quickly creating a set of bleachers. Snapping his fingers, the bleachers were filled with his 27 Demigods who looked very confused. Continuing, Percy motioned for the children to sit in the bleachers with their comrades as he snapped his fingers once more. Each demigod received a pouch of nectar and a popcorn bag full of primal ambrosia. Finally, Percy raised both arms as a giant barrier was erected between himself and the demigods. The barrier encompassed himself, Mars, as well as a portion of land, about the size of a football field, before turning invisible. Dusting his hands, Percy looked over his work approvingly before kicking Mars to the far side of the field.
"Pay very close attention kids." Percy said as he cracked his knuckles and neck. " This is how you kill a god."
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