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Chapter 23- The Battle Begins
Third Person POV
Poseidon looked at Hecate in annoyance. She was sitting there, by the fire in her "homely" cave of darkness, completely ignoring him.
"Hecate! Please listen!" says Poseidon, saying please, even though it hurt his pride to say please as one of the eldest gods.
"Finally, how hard is it to get a please out of you gods!" says Hecate.
"Seriously? I've been trying to get your attention for 6 bloody hours and you were waiting for a please!?" says Poseidon in disbelief.
Hecate just laughs, which annoyed Poseidon even more.
"So, can you please tell me how to get rid of that bewitchment potion on Zeus?" asks Poseidon desperately.
"Fine, whatever" says Hecate, rolling her eyes. "A bewitchment potion can only be countered by force, or consent of the giver of the potion." Says Hecate.
"So, I must force Craig to take the bewitchment potion off Zeus?" says Poseidon, frowning.
"Nope" says Hecate. "You must force Zeus to snap out of it" says Hecate.
"Ok, that's much more challenging" says Poseidon.
Hecate just smiles.
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Percy POV
I look at the Romans and Greeks duelling, all having fun together, demigod style. I wish it could be like this for the rest of life, but alas, it is not to be.
"It would be nice for a few months' preparation, wouldn't it?" says Annabeth beside me.
"Yes, that would be helpful, but we only have a couple of days." I say grimly.
"DAD! YOU LAZY PIECE OF HOSK!" I suddenly hear. It was a woman's voice, coming from the sky. In fact, it sounded a lot like Nyx.
"Umm… calm down sweetie" I hear Zarcrix saying.
I glance up and see Nyx flying down towards Zarcrix at breakneck speeds, and she looked extremely angry. Suddenly tendrils of darkness fly down towards Zarcrix, who was in his 20-year-old form. All of them strike him in the chest, releasing black smoke until I couldn't see him at all.
When the smoke cleared, I see Zarcrix lying on the ground in the middle of a huge crater just outside Camp. His shirt was smoking for the first time I had ever seen, and he was pinned to the ground.
Zarcrix gets up, snapping the dark tendrils like they were made of tissue paper.
Nyx appears beside him, glaring at him.
If Nyx could kill by glaring than Zarcrix would be dead right now.
"YOU LEFT ME IN TARTARUS TO ROT IN A POWER SLEEP!" yells Nyx.
"The rules wouldn't let me break you free?" says Zarcrix uncertainly.
"THE RULES?! YOU MADE THE BLOODY RULES!" yells Nyx, her aura flaring.
"Actually, Zeus made the rules" says Zarcrix.
"SO?! YOU'RE THE FRICKEN LORD OF THE UNIVERSES AND YOU CAN'T BREAK A CRAZY CRACKPOT FOOL'S RULES!" yells Nyx angrily.
"You know, you would make a good poet" says Zarcrix, trying to change the subject.
"I hate you" Nyx says simply.
"No, you don't" says Zarcrix.
Nyx rolls her eyes and snaps her fingers, fixing all the damage she had caused.
"So, when are we leaving to kill Ouranos?" asks Nyx. "Uh… and the other rising primordials?" she says.
"Day after tomorrow" I say, looking at her in interest.
"Uhh… I can't wait that long" says Nyx.
Zarcrix looked like he was going to say something, but then decided not to.
Nyx suddenly snaps her fingers and all the gear brought along was stowed on the ship, as well as all the Roman's and Greeks.
"Make that in 5 minutes" I say.
Nyx shrugs and jumps onto the ship, Zarcrix following in tow. Annabeth goes onto the ship to find her gear, and I follow suit. 'Sea's Voyage' was off once more.
The ocean was rough today, probably because of Pontus.
"I can feel the primordials power getting stronger, and I can feel Order." Says Zarcrix, eyes narrowed.
I look down into the ocean at the Egyptian monster Marizdal, peacefully gliding along the ocean floor, not really minding the corals and seaweed constantly brushing against his skin.
I glance back at the open sea, and in the distance, I just see a rock spire. The rock spire was probably the entrance to the primordials haven.
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Third Person POV
"Lord, the demigod ship is heading towards Spire Front 27." Says an unknown commander from the dark throne room.
"Very good, Sergeant. Arm Spire Centre 5 with the Space Drakon, and the army of the endless pit." The voice of Order rings across the shadowy room, echoing off the dark, metallic surfaces.
"Yes, Almighty Lord" says the Sergeant.
"You are… dismissed"
"Lord Order, sub-Lieutenant Octavian, the spy with in the army, has given word of important news." The voice of Sub-Commander Orion says.
"What news do you bring?" Order says, looking at Orion, causing Orion to look away, unable to look at Order.
"Lord, sub-Lieutenant Octavian's report: I have been watching the army of demigods very closely, and I have just seen something I believe is extremely important to you, Lord Order. Just 20 minutes ago, a dark figure swooped from the sky and attacked a man from the army. I later found out that it was Nyx, and that the man she attacked was her father, who was apparently with them." Says Orion, finishing the report of Octavian.
"Shit" says Order, and fear comes to his eyes.
"What is it Milord?" asks sub-commander Orion.
"You are dismissed" says Order, completely ignoring Orion's question.
"Yes Milord" says Orion, backing into the shadows towards the black and silver doors.
"Mustul, summon the primordials" says Order, looking at his lieutenant.
"Yes Milord." Says Mastul.
Seconds later, the four primordials stood before Order.
"What have you called for Lord?" asks Tartarus.
"Mustul, go to the barracks and take the Necro Army to Spire Centre 5" says Order.
"Yes Milord" says Mustul.
"What have you called us for Milord?" asks Gaia.
"I have received word that it is possible that the Lord of the 200 is on the demigods ship, you will join the Necro and Endless Pit armies at Spire Centre 5 and fight." Says Order.
"Yes Milord" all the primordials say.
"I will be waiting at Spire Defence 2 alongside the Systex and Malcrax armies." says Order. "It is your job to lead the attackers to me while doing as much damage as possible." Order finishes.
With that, the primordials head towards Spire centre 5.
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Percy POV
I look at the spire getting closer and closer, and new war was coming. I look closer at the cliff face on the side of the rock spire, and see a huge number 27 written on the side of the cliff.
"Zarcrix? How is anyone meant to stand on that?" I ask, pointing to the tall spire.
"That is not an army spire, but a defence mechanism. The spires in which we will wage war on are a group of spires joined by artificial land created by Gaia, held in place by Order. Before you ask about how Gaia could just release the Earth, this is why she can't. Reason one: If she releases it, it would do nothing, because once the earth is attached to the rock spires, it cannot be released. This was made as a battle strategy by Order I presume."
"Wait, how do you know?" I ask in confusion.
"I can see it." He replies.
I strain my eyes but saw nothing, nothing but the lone rock spire.
"Reason two: If Gaia released the earth, it would not only drown our army, but their army as well." Zarcrix says.
"Oh, that makes sense I guess, but couldn't Pontus just control the water and lift the army back up?" I ask.
"Where would he lift them to?" asks Zarcrix.
My mouth opens in an o shape.
Suddenly Zarcrix turns around and blasts a bolt of green power straight at the rock spire. I watch it explode, chunks of rock flying out everywhere.
"Great, you just alerted them that we are here" I say.
"I'm sure they already knew, after all, there was 20 or so watchers on that spire" says Zarcrix.
I look at him in disbelief, how was his eyesight so good? Was running through my mind at 200 miles an hour.
Then I spot the group of spires Zarcrix was talking about earlier, and they were huge.
"There is a massive army and four primordials in that group of spires" Zarcrix says.
"Uh oh" I say.
Zarcrix just grins and fires a bolt of energy straight into the army, causing the monsters to howl in pain, that I could hear from on the ship.
The battle has begun.
AN: Thanks for reading chapter 23. I'm so evil, aren't I? Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed that chapter! Please review, and I'll see you next chapter! :)