Hey Guys, here is the Pertimis Chapter, honestly screw it, this is going from Chapter 25 (in the Percabeth Story)
I cant stress how important it is that you can read the other story first, and if you don't like Pertimis, don't read this then! If you do, read the other story under the name: Betrayed Son of the Sea, up to chapter 25, then come here and read this.
On with the story!
Cecil POV (3rd Person)
Cecil swallowed nervously, shifting the weight of his armor from one sore shoulder to the other with his shrugs. Beside him, Alice checked her sword, before shtrapping her shield onto her arm. With a shout, they begun to move forwards; following Malcolm Pace, Son of Athena. There was a brief clash of weapons in front of them, as the forward lines swung their Xiphos, as Cecil redied his shield, the demigod in front of him sailed backwards, knocked by a Laistrygonian giant. The son of Hermes looked upwards, uttering several curse words, before charging into battle.
He swung his sword in an upperhand stroke at a Laistrygonian, before ducking under the short jab thrown, the movement of the demigod to his right swinging their sword into the stomach of a nearby Dracaene distracted the Laistrygonian long enough for Cecil rush forward, closing the small gap between them, stab his side dagger into the knee of the man-eater, swinging his shield upwards to meet the face as the monstrous giant doubled over in pain. The impact of the shield snapped its head back, which Cecil used as a chance to pull his dagger out of the knee and stab it and his sword into the stomach of the giant. It staggered backwards, billowing a foul yellow sand. Enraged, it pressed back towards the demigod, swinging its arms in a blind rage, Cecil managed to get his shield up and slanted just before the first fist hit, but even the lessened impact drove him to his knees. As the assault on his shield continued to drive him back further, he gritted his teeth and pushed forward harder. Just as the Laistrygonian was about to swing a final fist to crack the shield, the son of Hermes stepped back, and jumped between the legs of the giant, the fist swung through empty air and as the giants momentum carried it forwards, Cecil climbed up its back, hanging onto the greasy, plaited hair, as he got closer to the neck, he loosened his shield.
(Warning, Graphic Content)
Atop the giant's back, Cecil swung his shield into the neck of the giant, stabbing deep and drawing sand out, he then continued to beat the shield further through until it cut off the head, a rotten yellow coloured stream of silt shit into the air, sprinkling the hair of the troops below. As the monster turned to dust belowing him, Cecil lept forward, towards his lines, snatched his sword out of the ground when he landed and rained blows upon the closest monsters until the front line caught up to him. As he was enveloped and pushed back, Pollux ran up to him, "Cecil, are you alright?", Cecil coughed before collapsing, throwing up what appeared to be a substantial amount of sand, then he sank into a state of unconscious.
POV Change, Alice/Malcolm (3rd Person)
Pollux carried Cecil to the Apollo tent, as Malcolm called the flank to him, falling back slowly. Alice Miyazawa kept to the back of her line, occasionally pushing her shield through to cover a fellow camper. As they slowly moved back, Malcolm Pace ran past her with a dozen demigods, shouting for her and several others to follow them. Alice turned and tagged along, as the now 20 strong group made its way furward. Calling upon demigods as he went, Malcolm saw where he had to go, a spot close to the back of their lines that was occupied by Blemmaye, instead of fighting, these unsuaully strong humanoids were playing cards and picking up loose items on the ground, such as shields and spoils of war from their fellow monsters. As the group made their way over, a dozen Karpoi detached from the group to disrupt their advance. Malcolm directed a dozen greeks to occupy the monsters, as the other 26 continued onwards. When they reached there, Malcolm signalled for a shield huddle, but amongst the fighting they were overlooked.
POV Change, Reyna (3rd Person)
Reyna pulled the Greek-Roman forces back on the left, keeping engaged with the particularly vicious herd of centaurs. As the centurion in front of her stumbled on a root, the centaur in front took advantage and lept over the Roman, twirling a long, thin dagger with one hand and pulling a heaving club off it's shoulder with the other. Reyna drew her spear and crouched lower, jabbing upwards as the centaur was forced to retreat past the Centurion. Reyna kept her eyes on the centaur, but dropped the spear and offered a hand to the fallen Roman. Larry from the Second Cohort thanked Reyna with a quick nod and handed her spear back, before stumbling to the medics tent. Reyna kept her forces moving backwards as she saw the middle line of monsters buckle and cave-in, a group of centurions moving further and further into the centre of the monster army. An impact on her shield brought her back to reality and tripped her back, causing her to impact against the ground heavily. She kept her shield up as the wild centaur attempted stamp on her several times, each one jarring her grip but hitting the shield. As Reyna scuttled back, the centaur managed to get a hoof under the tip of shield, it kicked the shield, hard, into Reyna's chin, causing her vision to spin. As it focussed again, she saw a hoof above her face, moving downwards. Reyna rolled left, right and left again as the centaur attempted to take advantage of his enemies unfortunate position. As the hoof came down a 4th time, Reyna's left hand flashed by the centaur's hoof, and the Pugio in it cut clean through the bone, inducing a screech of pain from the centaur and dirty yellow sand to rain upon her face.
Reyna pulled herself up and picked up her spear again, stabbing at the centaur whilst dodging the club swings. Eventually the centaur collapsed, dripping sand from multiple wounds, Reyna stepped up and used the dropped club to finish it, underneath her the body slowly dissolved back to Tartarus. She opened her mouth to shout an order but suddenly there was a muffled explosion.
And her ears popped.
And all she saw was green.
Quickly, the effect wore off, leaving behind nothing but muffled noise and tinted vision so to Reyna's ears it sounded as if everything was under water, hundreds of meters away.
POV Change Harley (3rd Person)
Harley ducked and weaved as he counted down the seconds to the explosion of the Greek fire, the centurion to his right running with him was knocked back by a Laistrygonian but only travelled several meters before hitting a pile of sand, he rolled across and continued to run.
3… Harley wondered if the Greek fire would catch them
2… how would it burn, slowly but intensely? Or cooly and quickly?
1… He dived forward, between the legs of a Hellhound, and continued to run.
Then it all went green.
POV Change Malcolm (3rd Person)
The tightly packed army exploded in green fire, which quickly expanded to envelop a good part of their front lines. Malcolm told the campers to follow his lead, and they ran towards the army. The first Blemmaye exploded in a cloud of yellow dust, and the others died before the cards even hit the ground. The group of demigods continued to clean up the back line of monsters until a flying car nearly stopped their advance. Malcolm rolled out of the way, as did most others in the group, several, however, were thrown backwards by the flattened vehicle. Malcolm ran towards the Hypberborean and threw his shield like a frisbee, leading it to hit the ice giant on the temple, the 30 foot monster shook its head and roared, breathing a heavy frost towards Malcolm that froze him where he stood. He couldn't do anything except watch as the Hyperborean lumbered towards him, and then stopped. And it fell. Then Annabeth appeared out of thin air, waving her cap at Malcolm. "Try and keep up, bro" she called, teasingly, before disappearing again.
Malcolm continued to fight his way through the monsters until he was exhausted. As he hobbled along back to the Big House, he came across a body, lying face down in the dirt. When he flipped the demigod over, he recognised the black curly hair and brown eyes of Harley.
"Medic!" he called, his hoarse voice echoing over the empty battlefield.
"Will! Austin! Kayla!" he called again, "Help".
Suddenly a firm hand was on his shoulder. Malcolm turned towards it, "Hey Shrewd, you want some help with that?" Clarisse asked. "Yes please Clarisse" Malcolm answered, "And me" Chris chipped in. "Right, give him here" Clarisse said, and Malcolm did. Chris and Clarisse set off towards the medic tent, leaving Malcolm behind to stare in despair at the mess that the battle had made of the strawberry fields.
"Hey bro" Annabeth called
"Hey Annie" Malcolm replied, smiling
"Don't call me that" Annabeth snapped, punching Malcolm lightly on the arm, "what're you thinking about?" she asked.
"Why would Butch and Michael do this?" he asked.
"I don't know" she sighed, "But you can ask them yourselves if you wish. Reyna found the two of them unconscious after the battle was over". Malcolm nodded, and the son and daughter of wisdom turned away from the first battlesite of what would become a war.
POV Change
They chuckled at that, how could they think they even had a chance? That was barely an escort, much less than an army. And without their precious heroes, the gods would soon fall, and with them, the Olympian rule.
They had waited too long in the shadows, and then they were sent back again just on the cusp of power, but this time they would do it right. This time, the gods would not just bend the knee, they would bend their rules to suit, because when they were in charge, injustice would be gone, and they would be all.
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