Chapter 18: Me and the gods beat my dad
(Third person POV)
Tartarus sent a blast as a black aura surrounded him. His ethereal green eyes glared angrily at Zeus. "I...will be...your DOOM!" He yelled as he charged at Zeus and punched him in the gut, the did an overhead smash as the god was sent to his knees.
The primordial panted as his power surge helped him recover. "You may have gotten the upper hand on me at first, but now that I finally have gotten used to this body, I no longer have that limitation." He said as he walked up to Zeus and was about to deliver another punch, but was soundly swatted away with a clean blow to the head from Ares's bat.
Tartarus stumbled backward as he was met by Ares, who was twirling his bat in his left hand and putting his sunglasses on with his right.
"Hey Apollo! Toss me a sun ball!" He yelled at the sun god. Apollo smirked as he conjured a miniature sun and pitched it at the war god, who swung his bat and sent it straight at Tartarus. The sun hit the man dead center in his chest and exploded on contact, causing him be burned slightly and be sent skidding backwards.
Tartarus growled as he clenched his fists. "Don't toy with me Olympian! Die!" He roared as he charged and delivered a clean punch to Ares's face, then followed it up with a strong kick to the stomach and lastly an overhead smash to the back of the war god's head.
Ares lost his breath as he was sent to his hands and knees, before being pulled up by the collar up to Tartarus's face and the primordial glared at him angrily. "Did you actually think that you, a lowly insect, could ever be able to defeat me alone?" He taunted as he punched the god in his grip.
Ares turned his head spat blood on the ground in defiance. "'Course not. That's why I have help." Ares said as he brought his head back and collided it with the other man's. Causing the primordial to drop him. "Hey Jager!" Ares called. "I know you're in there so listen up. I don't take kindly to guys who're lazy ya hear me? So get off your ass and force this old coot out of your body!"
Tartarus growled as he ran towards the man, silver arms extended. "You're wasting your time, he can't hear you!" That's when Athena stepped in and used the man's mass against him, flipping him over her head and onto the ground on his back.
"That's where you're wrong." Athena told him. "Hades, Demeter, Dionysus, restrain him, quickly!"
Demeter nodded as she made more roots like before and Hades-albeit nonchalantly-gripped Tartarus down with skeletal hands, and Dionysus with vines. As the man tried to break free, but was still well restrained, Athena placed a hand on his temple and spoke. "Receive my message and hear calls, Nigel Jager Son of Tartarus, and awaken join us in this fight against your father!"
(In the mindscape of Tartarus/Nigel, Nigel's POV)
I slowly started to open my eyes as I saw I was in the same abyss I saw in my first dream, and sure enough there was my dear old dad and a live feed of what was going on in the outside world.
I got up as I faced my dad as he faced me, I glared and clenched my fists. "Now you've done it asshole, I hope you're ready for pain!" I yelled as I leaped at him, fist drawn back.
(Third person POV, regular world)
Tartarus was still able to control his body, even as Nigel tried to fight him from the inside, he ripped through his bindings and swatted the four gods away with his extra arms, as he got up he managed to catch an arrow that was shot at him from the side without even looking. He turned his attention to whoever shot it and was even more enraged by what he saw.
Apollo, Artemis and Reyna were all holding bows, Artemis had apparently been the one to shoot the arrow. "Well if he didn't know where we were before, he does now!" Said Apollo.
"Just shut up and shoot!" Artemis growled as they kept firing arrow after arrow,which kept getting deflected as Tartarus made his way towards them. That was until he let out a loud yell as he clutched his head, signaling that the fight inside his mind was still raging and was starting to turn favor. This allowed both Artemis and Apollo to land two clean shots into his shoulders, and sense he was disoriented he wasn't able to counter them using his powers.
Tartarus roared as he fell on his knees, his arms losing movement, the primordial was then met with a blade to the chest as Reyna drove her sword into it, causing him to cough up blood.
"This is for Nigel!" She yelled as she drove the sword deeper, this caused Tartarus to grow weaker as Reyna took both sides of his head in her hands and reeled her head back. "Now…"
(Nigel's POV mindscape)
I saw Reyna was in a similar situation as I was about to head butt my dad, who was weakened due to the double assault. "Give me…."
I could hear Reyna as we finished the same exact sentence. "My/his body back!" We yelled as we both head butted my dad, on my end his mental image shattered as I slowly felt myself get sent back into my body.
I slowly opened my eyes as I saw a very welcome sight, Reyna was kneeling in front of me as she gripped me by the collar tightly, her head bleeding from the head butt she did just moments ago, she looked at me and smiled as tears started to fill her eyes. "Hey…" I managed to croak.
She laughed as she hugged me tightly, luckily for me the arrows had disappeared, but my shoulders were still bleeding and were also numb, so I just let her hug me. As she let go of me she slugged me in the arm, if it weren't for the fact that my arm was numb, it probably would have hurt.
"Don't you ever do something like that again, understand?" She snapped at me.
I sighed as I just nodded. "Yeah yeah I hear ya." She slowly helped me up as all the campers and the gods gathered around us. Zeus was the first to say something.
"Nigel Jager." He said.
"Yeah?" I croaked, throat still sore.
"We have stopped your father, however you still broke the seal, allowing him to possess your body in the first place. That was against our decree made several years ago. Therefore you will face judgment according to your transgression." The man said.
That set me off. "Excuse me? I don't know if you noticed, Zeus, but the only reason why my seal was broken was because my little brother, who I had no idea about, attacked me and made me break the seal against my will. You think I wanted this shit show to happen?" I then decided to add. "And who's bright idea was it to put Lazarus in Camp Jupiter anyway?"
My statement seemed to anger Zeus, but before he could do or say anything, Athena put her hand on his shoulder, he turned to her as she shook her head. "I'm afraid he's right Zeus." Athena told him. "This is just as much our fault as it is his, our negligence played a role in this."
Zeus was quiet for a time, probably trying to calm the storm that was his volatile temper, heh get it? He sighed as he looked at Athena, then Percy, Jason and the other, then me again. "Be that as it may, laws are still laws, a sentence must be dealt. Therefore…" he looked around to make sure everyone was listening. "Once your injuries have healed you will come to Mount Olympus to face your judgement, do I make myself clear?"
I looked at the man dead in the eye and glared at him. "Crystal."
The gods, all but Mr. D disappeared. Leaving us alone. I looked at Reyna who was still holding me up as we smiled at each other. "Well...at least that's over." We said at the same time.