Hello, guess who has a chapter for you? ME! Anyway, I have to say something serious before I start. You all probably know about the terror attack in London last night, and I just want to say that we are all in this together and as long as we stick together and support each other they will never win. My heart goes out to all those who have been affected by this attack and all of the others around the world.
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Nico POV
This was just my luck. We'd made it all the way in without being spotted or setting off the alarm but as soon as we tried to leave, boom alarms. I didn't even know why it had gone off, what had we done? However, what I did know was that they were coming. Every monster in this hell hole was looking for us and we still had a long way to go. Luckily when I emerged from the shadows the others were already gathered and Mrs O'Leary had vanished. All we had to do was run, and we certainly did that.
Running, it is all I could think of. I'd fallen into a heavy rhythm, right foot left foot check for monsters repeat. So far we'd been lucky only a few monsters had found us and they had been dispatched quickly. I ran at the front, leading the way through the maze of shacks and buildings. Every step I took we were closer to getting out. Closer and closer and closer. Suddenly a monster jumped out in front of me, not breaking stride I swung my sword and cut through the monster. No one was going to stop me from getting us out. Not when I was so close to getting Percy back.
Ignoring the risk, I took a glance over my shoulder at the son of Poseidon. He looked terrified to say the least. He looked left then right then left again, his eyes always sifting -never still. Just from looking at him you would be able to tell that something had happened to him, the fear visible in his murky green eyes was that of a cornered beast. Primal. Fear shone out of him like a beacon. The only positive was that it kept him running, too afraid to be any closer to his tormentor. I could tell that Kronos had made sure Percy was able to fight, my cousin was barely breaking sweat. He was a machine.
All this I registered in a second before turning back to the path ahead. I began to notice buildings that I remembered being near the entrance. We were close now. Determined I pushed myself harder, each step taking me further than the last. Finally, I began to hope that we could make it. We were actually going to do it. Without another thought I turned the next corner and suddenly came to a stop. "Curse the fates."
A large open space stood before me and behind it the gates to our freedom. We were so close. That was the good news. The bad news – a small army was positioned in front of them. And oh boy did it get worse, the army was led by a titan fully dressed in armour. The rest of my team pulled in behind me and stopped just as suddenly as I had. "Lady Tethys." I heard someone whisper. Percy, I decided - only he would know her name or call her lady. This just got a whole lot more difficult.
The army was made of about 50 monsters, Dracaena, Telkhines, Empusa. All of them. My friends lined up beside me, ready to fight for our lives. Percy stayed behind us, protected from the hordes. I glanced back at him he looked about ready to just lie down and submit. I caught his eye and slowly raise my hand out to him, carefully he grabbed my hand. I squeezed it slowly and smiled at him a little. "We've got this don't worry. I'll protect you." I told him quietly. He nodded at me a little but he didn't look that sure. I gave his hand one last squeeze before releasing him and turning back to the titan.
While I hadn't been looking, Tethys had removed her helmet and was now smiling at us all devilishly. Despite my own growing terror, I drew my stygian iron sword and got into a fighting stance. I didn't turn to look but I could hear as the other immortal demigods drew their various weapons and took their own stances. We were as ready as we could ever get. Despite this the Titaness of the sea began to laugh, shaking her head and tossing her brown hair. "They think they can fight us still." She chuckled. "They think they can take my lords prized possession." The whole army began to laugh a long with her. I couldn't take it anymore. "He is not an object or prize to be owned!" I yelled back at her taking a step forward. "He, Percy, is a hero." I finished, glaring straight at her.
"Does he really look like a hero to you right now?" She asked me, still laughing. I turned to look back at my cousin, he was cowering even more than before and tears were brimming in his eyes. "Son of Hades tell me, why would anybody want to save something as pathetic as that." I turned back towards the titan and her army, I quickly realised that more monsters were arriving the longer we stayed. We had to move, now. Silently I signalled to my friends and they seemed to understand what I was saying. I looked at Jason and he nodded at me once.
"I want to save him because he's my friend, one of my best friends in fact. And honestly, he's my idol." I looked the Titaness straight in the eye, defiantly. "And I'm not leaving here without him." She seemed to realise that we weren't backing down and without wasting a second gave the command for her army to attack. Taking a deep breath, I readied myself and dove into the action.
It was chaos. Utter chaos. One second we were in a line as I stood with Jason on one side and Thalia on the other, the next second I could no longer see Jason and me and Thalia were stood back to back trying to keep the monsters away from Percy. The others had all spread away from us to spread the destruction throughout the army, hopefully they were safe though. I was stuck in the endless cycle of battle. Slash, duck, parry, strike. But no matter how many of the beasts I killed there was always another to fill its place. And it didn't help that more monsters were joining the fray every minute.
Soon I was deaf to the cacophony of battle; the alarm and cries of pain and death were just a back ground to my hectic thoughts. However, the monsters did seem to be finally thinning, I didn't know how long I had been fighting but it felt like hours. I had just dispatched a Telkhine to Tartarus when suddenly pain flared through my back. I cried out and fell to the floor. Quickly I rolled onto my back and slashed at the monster that had lept down onto me. Without wasting a second I rolled to my feet, in front of me stood an Empusa liking red blood off her claws. She must've been the one that cut me.
A moment passed as we looked at each other before she lept at me again with a growl. I managed to parry her talons but she still landed on me and we fell to the floor again. My back flared with pain again but that was the least of my worries, my sword had fallen from my hand when I fell and the Empusa was still on top of me. She sat with her legs on either side of my waist stopping me from reaching the daggers I had there. A vicious smile spread across the demons face as I continued to struggle uselessly. Leisurely she stretched out a taloned hand out to my face. I tried to keep away from her but I couldn't and she sank her claws into my chin making me cry out in pain.
Slowly she leaned down to my face and whispered. "You seem to have forgotten about something." She then used her claws to turn my head to the side. My eyes widened, "Percy." I breathed. In the heat of the battle I had accidentally got separated from the son of Poseidon and now I could only watch as he desperately scrambled away from the Titaness. I struggled harder against the monster, I couldn't bear to watch. I had to help him. As I watched Percy tripped and fell onto the ground but he kept moving, backing further away from her. The fear in his eyes was unbelievable, I didn't know it was possible to be that afraid.
Looking at my cousin so afraid and hopeless I suddenly remembered the shield I'd been given. It was disguised as a band on my wrist and if I could just reach the button, I could use it. I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself down slightly as I rolled to band around against my stomach, desperately searching for the button. Finally, I heard the click of the button. Even as the shield was still expanding I swung my arm towards the Empusa's face. The bronze shield reached its full size just in time for it to crash into the Empusa, she was sent tumbling off me and to the floor. I quickly took a dagger and plunged it into her chest. "You'll never reach him in time." She gasped out as she crumbled to dust.
'To hades if I don't' I thought as I jumped up and started pounding my way across the field towards the broken hero. My back screamed in pain and tears of crimson rolled down my face, but I didn't stop. I didn't slow. My cousin needed me now more than ever. I looked up at him over my shield as I ran and what I saw made me run even faster if that was possible. His back was now pressed against the grey stone wall of a building and he was still trying to push himself further through it. Tears streamed down the hero's face as Tethys travelled through the last few metres.
A monster tried to dive in my way but I swatted it with my shield without breaking stride. I was closing in but she was now starting to reach towards Percy who had curled into a ball so that he didn't have to look. "Our lord is waiting for you." She smirked at him. As I reached the final metre the Titaness's hand clamped onto his arm. Without even thinking I dove forward with my sword out stretched. A piercing scream rang through the air as I rolled to stand up. Instantly I turned to face the screaming Titan, she had stumbled backwards and was holding her right wrist. Golden ichor was flowing from the stump where her hand had just been. I looked back at Percy he was splattered with ichor and had his head against the wall shaking, but he wasn't hurt and that's mattered at that moment.
Before Tethys could regain her bearings I quickly placed myself between her and Percy and got in a defensive stance. She would not get past me, not if it was the last thing I did. When I looked back at her the Titaness had just finished a whole flask of Nectar and her arm was no longer bleeding. Or painful it seemed as she simply drew her sword in the other hand and prepared to fight. Together we lept forwards and our blades met in a flash of sparks as we furiously attacked before I had to roll backwards away from a downwards strike that would have cleaved me in two.
As soon as I stood up I had to raise my blade to block her swing. Quickly I pushed her blade away and used one hand to throw one of the stygian iron knives on my belt at her. It was a perfect shot and the blade sunk into her thigh up to the hilt. Tethys cried out with pain but continued to attack me. "You'll never get him away from here, we will stop you." She yelled at me as we clashed once more. "You hear that Perseus." She called over to him. "Lord Kronos will have you back, and you will kill your friends." I looked up at her through our crossed blades. But she didn't even notice the Titaness was looking straight over my head. At Percy.
Not wasting the opportunity, I once again opened my shield and swung it at the Titan. Tethys stumbled backwards and I lept onto the offensive driving her back. Beating against her relentlessly so that she couldn't regain her balance. All the Titaness of the sea could do was try and desperately parry my attacks, but she couldn't last. Within minutes I managed to get inside her guard and drive my sword straight into her shoulder – disabling her one remaining working arm.
She instantly dropped her sword and tried to back away but I kicked her legs out from under her. "I think you'll find that Percy is coming home. And there is nothing you can do to stop us." I growled at her before driving my sword into her chest. Tethys promptly dissolved into golden dust and floated away on the breeze. For a minute I stood there in a daze, breathing heavily from the fight. I only awoke when Thalia came up to me and shook my shoulder. "Death breath come on we need to go. Piper has IM-ed camp and they are sending some Pegasi to meet us outside the gates, but we need to hurry." Instantly I was fully aware again and sprinted back to Percy.
The saviour of Olympus was still pressed against the wall with his face buried in the stone. "Perce." I said slowly. "She's gone. I killed her, ok?" He pried his face and looked up at me and Thalia, who had just come up behind me. "She's gone. I promise." I tried again. "But we need to go now. There is Pegasi wait just beyond the gates." I told him while pointing towards the gates where the others were all waiting for us. Percy turned from me to Thals. "It's ok kelp head. You're safe now." She told him. Steadily our cousin rose to his feet and Thalia set off in a jog across the field. He looked at me once more before setting off after her – leaving me to follow them.
When we reached the gates, our friends were just finishing mounting up. Two Pegasi were left; one white and one a dark grey. Thalia climbed onto the white one, while I helped Percy settle on the grey one before climbing on behind him. When we were all ready the Pegasi took off into the clouds, taking us back home. Just as we reached cloud level I heard Percy say something that warmed my heart "Thanks for coming for me Neeks." He muttered sleepily, before he settled against the Pegasus's neck and fell into the best sleep he'd probably had in the last one hundred years.
Oh my gods he is finally safe! Percy Is heading back to camp and they all made it out! And they killed a titan for good measure, 1 down 10 more to go. (Bob and Rhea were already gone)
Ok so that is this week's chapter done. I am hoping to update next week but knowing me it might end up being the week after or something. Thank you for reading the chapter and I hope you all enjoyed it, if you did please leave me a review to tell me how I did and if you would like to follow the story please go ahead and follow and/or favourite. But that's it from me for now, see ya.