Chapter 28

A/N: Hello everyone, so this chapter is the long awaited battle against the Nogitsune. And in the next chapter will be Theo's arrival into Beacon Hills.

Also the poll is still open on my profile. Update is: After the Nogitsune is defeated, should Stiles retain some of it's powers?

Yes: 3 votes

No: 1 vote

Warning: many character deaths in this chapter!

Nogitsune POV

So over the past 2 days, everyone has been avoiding me and whispering when they do see me around school. It's starting to get on my nerves. And two of the Alphas here, Percy and Nico seem to have a plan on how to get rid of me. But little do they know that I will not go down without taking a few of them with me.

Derek POV

So we do have a plan to get Stiles back to his normal self. We have decided that one of Alphas will bite him, except for Scott as we aren't sure of his motives yet. You can call us paranoid, but he's gone against us before.

The plan is that, tomorrow we go over to his house along with a new ally, a Kitsune who has control over the ONI. We knock him out and take him to the vault and then free Stiles of the Nogitsune's grip. Hopefully should go through without complications.

Tomorrow after school

We got everyone that was a part of our alliance to take down this Nogitsune. Except we couldn't find Malia, she wasn't at home.

So we all rushed over to Stiles's house to see a note on the front door for us.

If you're wondering where Malia is, don't worry we're waiting for you in the place you were already going to – Stiles

Percy gasped "the vault. He's already there, we need to get there now. Everyone hold onto Nico or I, and we'll shadow travel over there." We all did, and after a couple of seconds we appeared in front of the vault door. We pushed through it and saw a frightening sight.

Malia was bound to a metal chair and had electricity being shot into her body. Stiles was standing off to the side turning a gear on a generator that was connected to her body. He was holding two silver knives threateningly across her neck.

Percy strode forward without fear. "It's over, you've lost, so put down your weapon, spirit." Nico made a motion with his hand and the Oni appeared behind us. There were about 7 of them, they quickly cleared us before turning to the Nogitsune.

"We aren't scared of your fireflies there. We've already taken out the rest. Quite easy." The Nogitsune replied. "Plus, if they come near us, I will slit this pretty girl's throat. It's a shame as she really liked Stiles, and he will be the one who wasn't strong enough to resist a weak dark spirit. Stiles liked her too, but apparently not enough to want to save her from my grip."

That's not true, that can't be true. I thought as he said that.

A flash of silver knocked away Stiles's knives. During his monologue, Percy and Allison had knocked arrows and fired them to hit Stiles's knives at angles so they wouldn't harm Malia. Percy then raced up to him drawing one of his swords, shouting "Face me then! If you think you can!"

The Nogitsune laughed before picking up his knives and faced his teacher. They started to fight, at insane speeds that would have gotten me killed already. Their clashes holding so much power I could feel their auras rolling off of them in waves. I already knew that Percy was insanely powerful, but I underestimated Stiles. But their fight sidetracked all of us from saving Malia. But when Lydia screamed "MALIA! We turned around, but it was too late.

We heard a whoosh, followed by a spelch! When we all turned around, Stiles was wearing a wide smirk and then Percy yelled out in anguish as he faced Nico's direction.

Malia had one of Stiles's silver knives embedded in her heart up to the hilt. The end of the blade appearing behind her. She pitched forward into Nico's arms just as he had freed her, and was attempting to heal her.

Percy roared out and swiped Stiles across his chest, with his sword and followed that up with an uppercut to his jaw. Thus breaking it, and sending him to the floor. Percy had already shifted to his Alpha form and pulled the Nogitsune up, and bit him on his right bicep.

The Nogitsune howled out in agony, as the power was destroying his essence. "You, think you can defeat me, Savior of Olympus? I'm a thousand years old!"

"Is it just me or are you that stupid? I'm changing the body of the host, it will cancel out your hold over the boy!" Percy replied. The Nogitsune realized that and started to thrash around as if he could escape. He stood up and raced towards the exit, but he ran into the Kitsune, Kira. She held him back but didn't see the second knife he was hiding. With that, he transferred over the Oni's ownership over to him.

He shakily stood and said "kill them all." The remaining 7 Oni figures rushed up to us while Stiles tried to open the door. One of those figures faced all of us werewolves, with Allison shooting silver arrows at them.

She had already taken down two of them, Percy had taken down two as well. Nico and Jackson had just finished one, Danny and Isaac had taken down one. The Alpha twins had taken down the last one. It was a short fight, and Stilinski was still tuck inside the vault with us. But, the Nogitsune spirit was dying.

Stiles collapsed on the floor, and passed out.

We won…but at a high price.

I looked up and saw the other's faces and we had all come to the same conclusion. I spoke first, "okay well, it's been an eventful day. Now it's time to get our friends to their families. We'll recover for a few days before holding a funeral." Everyone nodded sadly except for Percy. He looked beyond angry, he had black flames rolling off of him. "No."

We all looked at him in confusion and worry, "what do you mean by no?"

"I mean I will take care of this. It's my fault I couldn't save them, I will take care of the details." He and Nico picked up the bodies of Malia and Kira and flame traveled out.

Percy POV

We appeared outside of Kira's home, her family had already known about us. So they weren't surprised when we appeared in their dining room. They were however, shocked to see Kira not with us. Nico answered the question they were about to ask with a shake of his head.

We stayed with them for a couple of hours while they cried and yelled out. We told them that in 3 days we would hold a ceremony by Derek's old house, where we will burn her body and send her to the afterlife.

We then flame traveled over to the police station. We walked into Sheriff Stilinski's office, he looked up instantly and saw our faces. "Please, tell me my boy is alright." I looked at Nico and he nodded to the Sheriff, who sank into his chair with relief.

"Sheriff, we have some bad news though." That seemed to pick his head up.

"The Nogitsune killed Malia and Kira in an attempt to get away. The spirit was still inside him when those two died. Stiles will blame himself, because he wasn't strong enough to hold off a powerful dark spirit. Just to warn you, when he recovers he won't be the young man you saw before all of this happened." With that we shook hands and left the building and went home. Sheriff was heartbroken at the losses, in order to save his son.

The ceremony went as expected, quiet and sorrowful. Stiles was still in a coma up on Olympus with Apollo and Hebe watching over him. Jackson and Lydia are staying with Nico and me in our pack. Derek still has Isaac and Danny in his pack. Scott met up with us at the ceremony and asked to ally with us. He swore that he will never go against us again. Which is a relief, it appears that he has finally gotten over his pride and jealousy.

Scott had turned one boy already, a new freshman named Liam, with anger issues that surprised me. He could be an Ares child, but he's not. He has no demigod scent, which is good.

Finally some sort of a break.

Kira's family is leaving after the loss of their daughter, and I don't blame them. I have a hard enough time when my friends die, I don't think I could handle losing a child and staying in the same city that she died.

Nico and I were on our way to Apollo's temple for our daily check up on Stiles. We were outside the temple when Athena appeared with her daughter. They were standing in front of the entrance to Apollo's temple, with their arms crossed, glaring hatefully at us.

Are you fucking kidding me?!

Nico and I looked at each other, exchanging looks before facing them again with our eyes flaming, hands near our weapons in case one of them makes a move. "What is it that you need Lady Athena?" I asked as respectfully as I could.

She was caught off guard that I responded as I did, but her daughter answered instead. "We are here to give a warning."

Nico spoke next, "What is it?"

"You two have already caused enough trouble for us Olympians, so the next time I see either one of you, prepare for a fight." Annabeth responded.

I laughed loudly, as I held my stomach. I finally caught my breath and pointed at her. "You can try. But if you couldn't last against me while I was unarmed, then you won't even last against Nico unarmed. C'mon on, spawn of Athena, if you're going to make a threat, at least make sure it makes sense."

I strode forward until I was right in front of her face, and smiled as I spoke. "Do you remember what I said the last time you faced me? I said that the next time you challenge me, I will kill you with no mercy. So are you sure you want to go through with this?"

Silence answered me as I looked back to see Nico behind me with his own smirk looking at Athena.

We both walked forward through the two women standing in front of the door. Nico went inside first and I faced them before doing the same. "I don't wish to have any quarrel with either of you. But if you think that I won't follow through with my threat. Then continue on your path, and both of you will find out how merciless I can be. Let go of your hubris if you want to live." And with that I walked inside to Stiles's room.

Scott POV

I was falling apart without my best buddy near me. I had been falling since I had decided to side with the Alpha pack. I was letting my fear and jealousy cloud my judgement. And it cost me big. Malia and Kira are gone, and Stiles has been in a coma for about 2 weeks. I know that I messed up huge, and I made sure to let Nico and Percy know that. I apologized profusely, and said that I would do anything to earn their trust back.

I have my first beta, Liam that is giving me trouble with his anger issues. I need help with teaching him how to control it without shifting. Derek isn't even acknowledging me, which I understand. But I need some sort of help soon.

Nico POV

Gods Athena and Annabeth are infuriating. I mean enough has happened, just leave us alo-

My thoughts were interrupted by Percy joining me inside our room alongside my father and step-mother. I was happy to see them but I was also confused as to why they were here. I looked to my step-mother with a raised eyebrow and she pulled me into a hug. She whispered, "Your father and I had twins a while back that are demigods. Your half siblings are in the same Westover Academy that you and your sister were in. They are in danger as we've detected several powerful monsters including the Manticore there. We need Perseus to rescue them, because Zeus has sent the Hunt to bring them to Olympus. He is on better terms with the hunters than you, which is why you need to stay here."

"What?! You want me to stay here?! My siblings are in danger, and you expect me to not do anything about it?!" I shouted in a rage.

I was quickly pulled off by Percy who glared at me harshly. "Yes, I expect exactly that. You don't think clearly when family is concerned. I will protect your siblings with my life Nico. Or do you not trust me enough to do so? Do you not trust your father, or your step-mother for that matter?!" He held my gaze the entire time he ranted.

My silence was cut by him continuing, "as soon as family is involved, you don't think clearly. They suggested this so you don't become so distracted with your siblings safety that you get yourself killed. It's also why I'm adamant about when we spar or fight. Make sure there are no distractions that could get either of us killed."

My thoughts were whirling. It made sense why they had asked for Percy to do so, I would get distracted easily. I spoke finally, "okay, I'll stay here. You were right, I wasn't thinking clearly about this at first. But you're also wrong Percy, I do trust you. And don't you ever think otherwise." And I left after that.

3rd POV

The first monster to notice him, an empousai, frightened Percy at the terrified scream it let out when it saw his armor. The twins looked around in shock like the rest of the monsters at the creature before almost jumping out of their skin at the sight of Percy in his armor.

Percy let out a small laugh as the figure holding his boyfriend's two siblings tried to order the lesser monsters to attack. "You cannot stop me, Dr. Thorn. I will be leaving here with the boy and girl and there is nothing you can do to stop me!" He shouted over to the cowering monster as he slowly headed towards the monsters. Finally one of the three giants there developed enough courage to let out a week war cry as it raced forwards to try to attack Percy, who summoned his first weapon to his side.

There was a slight shaking like the beginning of an earthquake until a gap opened up in the very earth itself. The monster froze and watched on in horror as a ghostly hand thrust up one of his swords, Alpha into Percy's waiting hand, the shadows that danced around the blade echoing the screams of agony of those Percy had drew with the weapon.

Without waiting for the Giant to resume his charge, Percy simply hurled the weapon at the dumbstruck giant, sending the tip of the sword straight through the creature's chest cavity. It didn't even get to cry out in agony before disintegrating into a golden, snow like dust that tainted the perfectly white landscape. But the weapon then continued its path as if it hadn't even struck a thing as it slammed into the second and third giants, repeating the same effect until it finally came to a rest, some forty meters from where Percy had just thrown it. Everyone and everything looked at the beast before them. The majority of the empousai surrounding the three demigods suddenly broke formation and headed straight for Percy, desperate to try and bring him down before he could do any more damage.

Percy smiled as he held out his hand again until Omega appeared in his hand. And his silver bow across his back, Riptide still in his pocket.

When the first empousai tried to strike Percy by simply thrusting its blade forwards, Percy ducked under the blade at the last second with an unbelievable amount of speed and grace. As he came up inside the creature's guard, Percy delivered a vicious uppercut that cracked the foul animals jaw like a twig over a knee. He then capitalized on the beast's agony by wrapping its neck into the crook of his left arm as he quickly danced the blade to his right hand.

Another empousai behind the first tried to race forwards to help its sister, but was instead met with death as Percy pirouetted on his left leg, bringing his blade down in a vicious arc with impossible speed and accuracy as he sliced the monsters head open, simply disintegrating it into dust whilst viciously jerking his left arm, causing a sickening crack to emanate from the first empousai as it's neck snapped like a stick in Percy's vice-like grip.

A third and fourth enemy raced towards Percy, who ducked under their swiping strikes, only to deliver one of his own with surgical precision, cutting the two creatures in half as they quickly turned into two piles of sickly golden dust.

Percy's fifth enemy paled greatly when Percy looked at it, almost to the point Percy felt he could probably just say "boo!" and it would faint. But in keeping with his speed and grace, Percy grabbed the monster's sword arm before crushing it in a vice like grip. The monster howled in agony before Percy twisted it's sword on itself and drove it home to ruthless effect.

As Percy looked to his last few opponents, he caught a small glimpse out of the corner of his left eye of a small streak of silver. Percy bit back a curse, instead saving it for his mind. "Fucking hell! Why now? I better get over there and deal with this Doc guy, I'm sure the hunters can take care of the rest" Percy smiled slightly as his entire body melted away into shadows as back as night before quickly manifesting behind a terrified Doctor Thorn.

Dr. Thorn growled as his body slowly began to change into its monster form. Slowly, a furry mane appeared around the man's neck as his arms slowly began to bend more at the elbows. His legs also bent like dogs as fur began to cover his entire body whilst a slimy, scorpion tail slowly weaseled its way out of his rear. After several more seconds the transformation was complete. Thorn no longer existed...but instead, one of Percy's first quests stood before him.

"Ahhhh Manticore, how long has it been? You look good. Less... dead." Percy taunted to the monster whose eyes caught ablaze as he finally realized who his assailant was. "Impossible!" But Percy cut him off with a curt wave of his hand before speaking again. "Listen Manticore. You'd better let my siblings go or I swear I will shove your tail down your throat and make you eat poison spikes for an eternity." Percy growled as he shifted his grip on his sword, ready to react to any situation.

The monster let out a deep growl from its throat before simply dropping a terrified Thea and a petrified Axel and dropping its head before charging at Percy. The warrior smiled as he simply let his body melt into shadows, reappearing right behind the foul monster, driving his sword into the Manticore's leg, causing it to howl out in utter agony as the spears time smashed straight through bone and cut through flesh like a knife through hot butter before slamming into the ground, holding the creature in place. "I'm glad to see all of this time hasn't changed your style one little bit my friend." Percy snarled as his sword reappeared in his grasp.

Just as Percy readied himself to drive the blade downwards, the monster shot several poisonous spikes from its tail, forcing Percy to dive to the right and out of the projectiles path. "Oh you are so going to pay for that, little lion man!" Percy snarled as he picked himself up and made his way over to the creature.

But just as he was about to, a hunter raced over to Thorn's head, her upper body clad in a silver Parker whilst her face remained hidden under a hood. Her bow was raised and a gleaming silver arrow notched, ready to fire.

"Permission to kill mi..." But the poor girl was cut off as Thorn let out a blood curdling roar, swiping the slightly framed girl in one of his massive hands before sprinting towards the cliff edge before simply tumbling off.

Before he even knew what his body was doing, Percy was racing towards the cliff edge, his mind racing as he drew to within only several meters of the drop, "Let's just hope I'm not too late and that my patron doesn't kill me for doing this." He whispered in the back of his mind as he reached the edge of the cliff...

And threw himself off.

Now, Percy had done plenty of stupid things in his life for certain... but jumping off of a cliff to save a girl he barely knew who also happened to be part of a man-hating troupe led by a man hating goddess...

Well that was just plain stupid.

At first he kept his body spread out wide slightly as he attempted to give himself some clearance from the rocky face of the cliff that was as white as fallen snow and about as even as an unattended to country lane. The air felt drier the farther from the cliff he travelled, almost as if the damned salt from the sea was drying every last drop of moisture from the air and sucking it back into the oceans themselves.

After several seconds, Percy quickly angled his body forwards like a bird of prey setting out after it's target, straightening out his back like a wooden board whilst holding out his hands in front of himself like some sort of break so he could slide through the cold, dry air even faster than any normal human thought possible.

For a few moments, it felt like Percy was simply going to hang in the air like some sort of ghost, his body neither going up or down, not affected by either gravity or mystical forces attempting to pull him back to the safety of land. He simply floated there for several seconds, peering down after his prey like a vulture... before gravity took its hold and he plunged after the girl.

Wind whipped around his armor like a hurricane as he rapidly picked up speed and accelerated after the Manticore and the girl. It took him only a few seconds to catch back up to the huntress and the Manticore who were tumbling completely out of control like they were fighting over control of a parachute. Percy smirked slightly as he quickly reached the pair, the Manticore's mane whipping in the wind like hair in a blow-dryer whilst the huntresses silver uniform somehow managed to keep its shape like it was made of steel opposed to gods knew what animals and synthetic materials.

Upon reaching the Manticore, Percy immediately reached for an arrow. With his weapon firmly in his grasps, Percy drove the silver arrow not just through the Manitcore's tail, but he drove the blade so far through the monster that he not only severed it's tail, but he also managed to cut through one of its flailing legs like it was nothing more than thin air, the graceful blade making short work of the animals pathetic body in milliseconds.

Thorn howled in pain as his body slowly began to crumble to dust, each molecule leaking as it reverted back into his sickly gray monster essence as his being began its journey back to the damned hell hole of Tartarus. Percy let himself taunt his foe a little more as he finished him for the second time in a row. "Nice try little lion man but I thought you would've learnt that I always win!" Percy growled as he shifted through the remains of his foe like it was a gray winter's night snowfall towards his target in the still falling and screaming huntress.

Percy smiled as he pulled up alongside the huntress as he managed to grab her bridal style before pulling the shadows of the very mighty cliff face he had jumped off of to the pair as they tumbled to within meters of the violent, cold, dark and unforgiving sea.

Artemis POV

The moment Atalanta was dragged over the edge by that damned monster, she almost felt her heart-break at the prospect of Atalanta dying. She had been with Artemis since almost the very beginning of the hunters of Artemis and had served for countless years. She was like a sister to Artemis... and her best friend. Someone who had stood by her through thick and thin, seen hundreds of girls come and go, fight and die. And for it to end like this was too much for Artemis.

But she pushed that thought out of her mind. She knew that the fighter was Perseus Jackson, her champion and friend. He would save her without a doubt. But since he hadn't been seen in almost two years, Artemis was worried how the hunters might treat him.

At first it seemed like the shadows themselves were bending towards a spot only fifteen or twenty meters from Lady Artemis and her hunters, shifting and twisting like they were alive as the air in the small clearing grew colder and colder with every passing second, sending it well past sub-zero. It was terrifying for her girls as each one backed away in shock and horror, raising their bows, aiming at the shadows as they began to take the shape of not one person...but two.

"Lower your weapons, but stay on guard." Artemis hissed in a voice as cold as death itself as she and the rest of her hunters moved up until they were only several meters away from the anomaly as it finally settled into a physical shape with one figure carrying the other.

After several tense seconds, the shadows began to dissipate, and the two people the Artemis expected: Atalanta and Perseus.

Almost immediately, he set down her hunter on her feet with a certain air of respect and kindness and turned to Artemis before bowing to a perfect forty-five degree angle to the goddess even though she was in her thirteen year old form.

"Ο προστάτης μου, έχει την τιμή να σας ξαναδεί." Percy spoke in flawless ancient Greek and spoke in a voice that seemed almost robotic it was so cold and lifeless. (Greek: My patron, it's an honor to see you again.)

Artemis assumed her typical cold demeanor before finally replying to her champion. It is good to see you as well, Perseus." Artemis said as several of her Hunters lowered their bows.

"Why are you here?" She asked calmly.

"I am under orders to take Shadow's little brother and sister back to his father's realm..." He paused as he looked over Artemis's shoulder before continuing, "...which seems to have occurred rather painlessly." He replied in his ice-cold voice as Artemis turned around to just catch sight of the two children of Hades, being swiftly dragged into a shadow by Alecto, the leader of the three furies.

She whirled around to face him, only to hear a shout of warning as a blur was thrown towards her direction. She felt herself be pushed aside as she heard a shink and a grunt. She looked up to see Percy standing where she just stood with a silver aroow and a celestial bronze dagger sticking out of his chest up to the hilt. He had a look of pure hatred on his face.

I followed his line of sight to see Thalia and Annabeth facing him about 15 feet away. A look of satisfaction on their faces. I was astonished, as were the rest of the hunt.

I then heard a snapping sound as well as felt the temperature spike up majorly. As I faced Percy, I no longer had hope for my lieutenant to survive this night.

Percy's eyes were pure red, his enchanted armor snaking its way up his frame. His claws out and ready to go, black flames rolling off of his torso and arms. He roared out, it sounded louder than one of father's lightning strikes when he gets angry. It was so terrifying that I flashed my hunters back to camp as I feared for their mental health. Percy looked like he was going to lose his mind and kill these two girls mercilessly, no matter the consequences.

He had pulled the two objects out of his body as some ichor had spilled out of his chest. He looked at me and said "I'm sorry for this."

Before I could even respond he had dashed forward and impaled Thalia on his claws, lifting her up off the ground, before throwing her into a tree. Then he faced Annabeth and swiped her deep across the face, then kicking her in the chest towards the same tree Thalia was thrown into.

"I warned you Annabeth. I warned you so many times that if you challenged me I would show you no mercy. And I will follow through on my promise. I warned you two to stay away. Your friends warned you to stay away from me, but now you two will pay the ultimate price." Percy's voice sent shivers down my spine. It was colder than my voice ever got when dealing with disrespecting males.

He picked Thalia up first, letting his black flames snake up his arm, as his hand was enclosed around her throat. He stared her in the eyes as he watched his flames burn her alive with no mercy. He smiled at her screams of pain and terror and anguish.

Once her body had been burned into nothingness, he looked over to his ex-girlfriend and laughed at her expression of pain and terror. He then proceeded to pick her up by her throat. I could hear their conversation.

Percy: "I gave you so many warnings. And you chose to ignore them. So now, your hubris will be your ultimate downfall."

Annabeth: "Please…no. I will d-do an-anything."

Percy just shook his head and said "You had your chances, and you ignored them. Good-bye Annabeth."

Then he ignited his hand holding her up by her throat and let the black flames envelop her body and burn away the girl that broke his heart.

Once she was gone, the flames surrounding Percy sputtered out instantly. More ichor streamed out of his chest cavity. I raced over to him as he fell to his knees and barely held out consciousness. I flashed us to our medical tent at our camp and called over Apollo and Hestia.

They worked together fast once they saw the state their favorite demigod was in. They assured me that he would be alright.

A/N: Remember that when Nico and Percy were given all of those blessings, they became partially immortal, meaning they could still fall in battle. from now on Annabeth and Thalia aren't around to cause more trouble. Plus how will Athena and Zeus react to their children being killed?

Updated: 02/27/2018