Anger: Percy Jackson Style
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson.
CHAPTER 2
PERCY
Percy should really have known better. It was war. Well, not exactly war. Just the aftermath of the war.
It all started out like this: after the war with Gaia (which was technically only barely two minute long. Hm) there were still some of the monsters of her crazy undead stupid monster army that were alive and roaming around. The campers of Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter were both working overtime. And so, when a not so pleasant, not so small sea serpent popped up along with a small army, the seven of the prophecy were asked to look into it.
It had started off well. They were doing fantastic, considering they were against two hundred or so creepy mutant monsters and the sea serpent which was rather furious and vicious. But then, suddenly things started looking bad for them. Percy still didn't know at what point that had happened. All that he knew was that they were going to have to step up the ante.
His body was moving on autopilot. Hack, slash, roll, kick, stab, parry, dodge, repeat. Annabeth was there too, a few feet away. They were moving in perfectly synced teamwork. But he was tiring out. Slowly, but surely. It was just a slip. One tiny slip on his part. And everything seemingly went to Tartarus. How?
Upon being slashed in back, he had faltered. It might have been a small cut, but the creature-whatever it was- clearly had talons that were poisonous. He got just a little sluggish, resisting the poison as best as he could. But no. As fate would've had it, he was surrounded. And shi-
JASON
[Because I rather like it when Jason freaks out over Percy's anger or power XD]
Okay, so long story short, things were looking pretty bleak when Percy started getting subdued after, like, hours of sending monsters on a one way trip to Uncle Pluto.
That was until one of the sea creatures with a serpentine upper half and human lower half (just ew. Considering a hybrid between a snake and a human, he shuddered to think about it) slipped up bad.
Oh no, the monster snake didn't get cut up or hurt himself. He hurt someone who had moved to Percy's side to aid him.
He hurt Annabeth.
He hurt Annabeth.
Yeah, things started looking in their favour again but holy mother of Jupiter.
See, the claw marks on Annabeth's side because of one of the enemies' numbers clawing at her weren't too deep. Okay, they were deep, but not life threatening. Annabeth was a strong, fierce, scary woman.
She would live.
She would get back up.
She would grit through the pain and continue to assis-
Never mind him. Jason might just have jinxed their luck. Because Annabeth collapsed. Poison. Damn it. Percy seemed to freeze for a minuscule second. It was a very brief moment, but in that moment, both allies and foes seemed to realize that something was off.
The enemies would probably not antago-
"Sssso it sseemsss the prince of the ocean hasss a weaknesss. The girl. Our commander might want to have… fun with her. Capture her!" commanded the sea serpent. Jason stood corrected. (why was he even talking?) Jason himself had to suppress his anger at hearing such demeaning and threatening words towards someone he saw as a scary older sister, in some ways.
Looking at the blood seeping through her shirt, her pallid complexion, and unmoving body, with the crazy serpent's words certainly not helping, Percy turned to the heavens and roared in fury.
Subconsciously, Jason backed away, seeing most of the others do the same.
Water from all surrounding water bodies, including the sea they were fighting on the shore of, shot up like geysers with a tremendous pressure. A gentle flow of water lifted Annabeth, and a wall of water surrounded her on all sides forming a protective dome. Jason was certain that this wall of water was as impenetrable as it could be.
Percy glared through under his long-ish messy hair which was falling in his eyes. His sea green eyes were practically glowing an emerald green. "Touch her and I will make you beg for death."
The enemy line looked equal parts terrified and lost. They didn't seem to want to capture Annabeth after Percy had spoken in his quiet, commanding voice, which wasn't heard very often.
The dumbass of a sea serpent solved their dilemma. "Well, what are you fools waiting for?! Attack!"
Hesitantly, the enemies seemed to obey.
Percy growled. "Stay back."
Jason was in no mood to argue with the guy when he was this angry. We backed away, and when we had reached a safe distance away, the geysers erupted once again, this time with boiling hot water, which Jason identified by the change in the atmospheric temperature. Percy unsheathed riptide with a yell.
Jason wasn't going to go into specifics, but in short, Percy became a hurricane. Literally. There was this hurricane with strong winds and lightning surrounding Percy who basically killed the sea serpent painfully (a stab in eyes and then the gills definitely did not seem pleasant), in less than 5 minutes.
When Percy stood with his back to Jason, with half his face visible, firmly holding onto riptide, Jason was reminded of the old scriptures, which had described Neptune's powerful aura with a warning to not anger the gentle sea, for it could annihilate you.
That was also when Jason kicked back into action. The enemy line was confused and disorganized. Jason decided not to think about the 'terrified' part.
Flying through the air with lightning tingling down his arm, Jason attacked the army, vaguely hearing the others join him.
"Go to Annabeth, Percy. We got this!" Jason yelled to the guy. Leo and Piper shouting their assert while wielding fireballs and Katoptris respectively.
Percy, having relatively calmed down, rushed to where Annabeth was still safely enclosed in the dome. Jason vaguely saw the dome part like curtains and Annabeth lowered to Percy's waiting arms.
PERCY
Half an hour later, we were done. All that was left was a lot of monster dust.
"How's the poison, Perse?" Hazel asked worriedly. Percy smiled at her. "It's okay. The water drained it and healed her enough for her to not be in too much pain."
Piper sighed in relief. "That's good news, I'd say."
Leo nodded frantically. "Uh huh. Otherwise Aquadude here would've taken out the army of those hermaphrodites by himself and possibly still be pissed."
Percy snorted dryly but made no indication of negating Leo's statement. It was true after all.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think Annabeth should be taken to the infirmary," Jason said finally. "I'd feel better after the Apollo cabin kids have taken a look at her."
Percy agreed wholeheartedly. "You read my mind, dude." Shifting the still barely conscious Annabeth whom he was carrying bridal style (he loved holding her! No shame) a little closer to himself, so her head rested comfortably in the crook of his neck, gently whispering barely audible reassurances and coos when she whimpered in pain, Percy asked brightly, "Who's up for Finding Nemo and Finding Dory in my cabin after we get Annabeth checked out?"
And the little rag-tag group let out startled laughs and huffs, knowing Percy was fine now. He would be fine as long as his precious people were, and Annabeth came high on top of that list.
Annabeth would be fine. And if she weren't, then, Percy swore upon the Styx, living tartarus would rain upon every single one who caused it, in the form of one pissed off Perseus Jackson, son of the God of the Sea, the Earthshaker.
"Hey, Jason?", Leo would say later.
"Yeah?"
"Remember how we were gonna prank good ol' Annabeth with those mechanical spiders?"
"The one I told you not to do, even though you insisted? Because Annabeth scares the living daylights out of me and her dagger is not something I trust?"
"The very same one."
"What about it?"
"We are so not doing it. If you insist, I'm gonna set your hair on fair. If I insist, knock me out. I refuse to piss off Percy by upsetting Annabeth."
"You took the words out of my mouth, man."
HOLY SHIT. I'M FINALLY FUCKING DONE WITH THIS.
Dude, I'm sorry to those whom I kept waiting for like, 9 months? 4 months? Anyway, since I'm in the middle of my term examinations and being an almost 17 y/o I'm supposed to be studying my ass off, naturallyyy, I'm writing fanfiction and binge watching BTS videos.
Anyone relate here? XD
Oh and for some goddamned reason, I'm unable to delete that damned author's note that the last chapter is. Wifi problems or website problems? Who knows?
OKAY, so important question. Are y'all fanfiction-thirsty people satisfied? Or do you want another chapter?
Basically, two-shot or more?
Lemme know guys! Please review! *anime puppy dog eyes*
~Artemis991