WOW, I am pleasantly surprised by the amount of feedback only a few days after I published this. Even my other story on PJ/HoO didn't get this many this quickly, and it's a chapter story. I have decided on one thing. I will turn this into a THREE SHOT, all from Thalia's side of the story. Notice I didn't say PoV. I will have a special announcement at the end.
I hope you enjoy!
(four months after Percy disappeared again)
"Fall back, FALL BACK!"
Thalia's voice rang out through the war-torn opposite end of Long island, opposite from Camp Half-Blood that is. The hunters were being overrun by an onslaught of Empousai and Laistrygonian archers, the latter devouring the fallen as the Laistrygonians rained volleys of massive arrows on the small group of hunters. With a roar of anger, Thalia threw her shield at an approaching Laistrygonian, nailing it between the eyes. With a loud boom, its head exploded as a lightning strike came down on its head, followed by several on its friends. Even with Thalia's lightning the monsters simply roared a challenge back at her, and continued to wade through the arrows the hunters were firing, and firing back.
No one knew who commanded the monsters, they had been scouted at the border of Michigan and Ohio three weeks prior, and had not stopped, even to rest, as they advanced in the direction of Camp Half-Blood. The attack had been detected so late that the greeks had barely any time to inform the Romans, who only had a few squads at the camp for training in greek combat. They were on their way, but they would arrive too late unless the greeks could hold off the onslaught.
Thalia repeated her order and this time started to back up herself, and the hunters quickly followed suit, continuing to fire as they retreated.
"Head back to Camp Half-Blood, tell them we did what we could, but they overran us, we will hold them for as long as we can while we make our retreat!" Thalia said to one of the hunters and the girl nodded, sprinting into the forest that was the border between this side of the island and the camp. Thalia growled and fi9red three arrows at once, catching three empousai in the forehead, and smirking as they wailed.
"Thalia, we need to retreat through the forest, their beginning to flank!" One of her other hunters yelled, and Thalia glanced to the left and right, her eyes narrowing as she spotted more Laistrygonians doing just as the girl had said.
"Go, take the other girls and regroup at camp, I'll be right behind you." Thalia ordered and the girl hesitated, glancing at the continuously approaching army. "But what will you do? they will kill you!" the girl yelled in exasperation and yelped as Thalia grasped the front of her shirt.
"YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID, NOW GO!" she yelled and threw the girl backward, nocking three arrows in her bow, and firing again. She continued to fire, taking out dozens of monsters in mere minutes, and started to nock four and then five, taking more and more monsters out. She looked back and nodded at the absence of the hunters, before putting her bow back, and raising both of her hands.
"Time for the fireworks." she muttered before the sky started rumble violently, a vortex spinning above the army of monsters, causing them to stop and stare.
Thalia screamed in pain as a massive lightning strike approximately a football field in length struck the monster army, vaporizing most of the monsters in the radius of the strike instantaneously. As the strike stopped, taking a good chunk of the monster army in the process, her arms fell to the side, violently burned. Along with that her clothes and skin steamed, and her breath was ragged.
"I won't be able to do that again." Thalia muttered to herself, unable to feel her arms as a memory surfaced from two years ago.
* "The Strike of the King is a one-time use attack, you will be unable to use it again for at least a week and your arms will have suffered the consequences of calling on my godly magic." Thalia's father, Zeus, spoke to her in the throne room of Olympus, after giving her the gift of one of his own godly abilities. She nodded in confirmation as he spoke, hoping she could use it at the right time when she did.*
"I suppose better late than never." she said as she shook the memory away, slowly watching as the army of monsters regrouped, and continued to march, causing Thalia to scowl and turn toward the direction of Camp Half-Blood, slowly jogging toward it.
She could hear them roaring behind her as they reached the forest, some of the more intelligent ones laughing as they realized how close they were to the camp.
As she stumbled out of the edge of the forest, a collective gasp ran through the small group of Greek and Romans at the border to Camp Half-Blood. The hunters swarmed her and helped her get past her old pine tree, the now matured dragon Peleus letting out a roar at the forest, rising on his hind legs and letting out an angry roar of fire.
Three of The seven were there: Leo, Piper, and Jason, who had accompanied the Romans who had come to learn Greek fighting techniques. They immediately came over and assisted in laying Thalia down, Leo silently as he assessed the damage to her arms, and pulling a syringe and vial out of his tool belt. As Leo did that, Jason frantically hovered over her, asking her if she was all right and all that jazz. Piper just sat to the side and let the boys fret over Thalia as she scanned the forest line, the vague movements of the army coming into view.
"There!" Leo yelled and stabbed the syringe into her arm, injecting a purple liquid into it.
"Gorgon's blood, from the good side of the body thankfully. you will be good to go soon." Leo stated, and stood up, frowning in the direction of the approaching army. Thalia looked too, her arms feeling better already, and shrugged her brother off as he tried to push her back down.
"Thalia, even if you will heal quickly with the blood, you can't push yourself!" Jason stated and scowled as Thalia pushed him away again, and got up anyway.
"You aren't our mother Jason, don't tell me to stay down while we can be dealing with the bigger problem." Thalia said crossly and pointed to the edge of the forest where the first few monsters had emerged, roaring in delight at the sight of the line of campers. Jason scowled as the monsters started spilling by the dozens from the forest, the arrows of the remaining hunters barely enough to hold back the onslaught, even accompanied by the sons of Apollo and Chiron.
The Romans got in their defensive formations, spears facing the growing force of monsters, their faces a mixture of fear and confidence. They stood at attention as Jason stood in front of them, his authority still well known among the Romans, and he turned to the forest, standing beside his Roman brothers as the monsters continued to grow in number, giving them an even bigger surge of confidence.
Leo growled as his hammers appeared in his hands, his arms and back lighting up in a blaze of fire, an easy way to spot the rage he felt at seeing the army of monsters. He roared a challenge, not unlike Peleus', and slammed his hammers together in a blast of fire. Another dragon's roar sounded from behind them and Festus appeared, his wings beating as he scanned the monsters for himself, roaring again, and sent a massive ball of fire at the monsters forming at the forest edge. With the explosion, all hell broke loose.
The campers and Romans charged with a resounding cheer for battle and the monsters met that cheer with a roar, matching their charge.
They collided at the bottom of the hill, and immediately the fighting commenced. The Ares cabin leaped over the Romans shield charge with an uproarious laugh, their lust for battle showing. the Romans assisted them by catapulting them into the air with their shields, the violent children of Ares causing havoc in the monster's ranks. The Romans then changed to spears and charged the monster's line themselves, gutting several monsters as they carved a path through the monsters line, switching to the Gladius as they got into close combat.
The Demeter cabin yelled in defiance and raised their hands high, their bodies glowing. the trees along the edge of the forest suddenly seemed to come to life, grabbing monsters and throwing them, or simply beating them to a pulp with their branches. The tree nymphs of the trees appeared as well, a storm of earthen material instead of their regular form, allowing them to tear through the ranks of the monsters like they were made of paper.
The Hephaestus cabin slowly ripped through enemy ranks with newly enhanced armor, that covered their bodies almost completely, and amplified their strength nearly tenfold.
the three of The Seven that were there were doing their own work as well, Jason assisted the Romans by sending constant lightning shocks through their blades as they struck monsters, which arced out into the monsters surrounding the victim.
Leo was calmly walking through the enemy ranks, burning rows of monsters into ash as his anger made his entire body light into a raging fire. Festus followed his master's example, peppering the ranks of the monsters with massive molten balls of metal, which exploded into white-hot metal, disintegrating most monsters on contact.
Piper followed behind Jason, wearing the last possession if her old friend, Annabeth's invisibility cap, and yelled words that forced the monsters to give up or attack their allies.
Even with all of this, the monster's forces continued to grow and seemed endless as the campers continued to do battle. soon an Apollo child was killed by an arrow, and the casualties only grew from there. The Ares kids were slowly being overrun, at least five being finally taken out, taking dozens of monsters with them as they bit into a small capsule that held a magically stored greek fire bomb that had the power of ten greek fire bombs.
The campers slowly retreated as the monsters ruthlessly killed their comrades, though they continued to fight back viciously, Peleus himself sending waves of fire at the monsters as they approached.
Thalia's face fell as a few hunters fell to the arrows of the laistrygonian archers again, and she made a decision. The monsters were getting closer to the edge of the camp, and Artemis had ordered them to not let them enter the greek demigod's home at all cost.
with a shuddering gasp, she raised her hands like she had before, and grunted as another storm formed.
"I'm sorry Jason, I don't think I'm making it this time." Thalia said quietly, a tear falling. she sniffed and raised her hands higher, as her brother turned and his eyes widened as he realized what she was going to do.
of course, she didn't expect for the sound of battle to completely stop as he did, however. This surprised her so much that the magic failed, and the sky cleared again, though it still seemed dark where she was, that was when she realized that the campers and monsters weren't looking at her, they were looking past her. She slowly turned her head to look at what they were staring at, and her heart nearly stopped.
A massive human-like titan made completely of water was standing in Long Island sound, its shadow casting an eerie darkness over all the participants of the battle. The silence suddenly stopped as it let out a strange, but terrifying, warped roar, and threw its hand forward, its fingers extending until they gouged straight into the monsters ranks. Watery tendrils reached out as the monsters yelped and squealed in terror, and grabbed the beasts and demons by various body parts, and pulling them into the cold depths of the hand, their protests becoming silent as they drowned in the titan's grasp.
With another roar the threw its hand forward again, icy spikes emitting from its hand this time, large enough and long enough to pierce through several monsters before finally being impaled in the ground. The monsters started to run around in panic, and the campers took advantage of this, the apollo cabin and Chiron firing on the frantic beasts.
As the monsters started to escape into the forest, their numbers finally cut down to a couple hundred, The water titan roared one more time and seemed to jump out of the water, collapsing in a massive wave in front of the campers, racing after the monsters with increased vigor. The cries of the monsters and then silence signaled to the campers that the wave had found its prey.
With that, they started to collect up the wounded, watching the forest warily for any sign of the wave, and then collected up the dead, hoping to preserve them magically until Nico could return from a similar duty at New Rome. What they didn't expect to walk back out of the forest was a very bruised and bloody Percy Jackson, who slowly stumbled to the bottom of Half-Blood Hill, much to the camper's surprise.
He looked up at them with one eye and waved.
"Sup." he said and promptly collapsed.
WOOO WHAT A FUN PART TO WRITE! I legit had the most fun writing this chapter.
Now onto the important news. After I have finished this three part small story, I've decided I'm going to write another story based on this storyline, On Percy's side of things. This will not however, be until i have finished my current story on PJ/HoO: The Guardian of the Hunt.
I hope your excited because I am!