Perseus: Patron of the Betrayed

Chapter Five: Face off with a Titan

Location: Perseus' Cave, The Tartarean Mountain Range

Perseus's Point Of View.

The man now known as Perseus had reacted quickly to the sound of someone calling upon him. He put the robe on over his underclothes and layered his armour on straight after. He debated taking the lion pelt/leather jacket but had decided it was for the best and put it on over the armour he was wearing. He grabbed the spear and attached it to his left side and grabbed a pair of scimitars from the weapon rack. He grabbed one of the vials filled with a green liquid and dripped it across the blade. Now that he had his main weapons he grabbed a body sheath and a dozen throwing knifes and wrapped it across his chest. With a final glance at his cave he walked out to out the entrance to the outcrop overlooking the field. He stared at the black, decaying field covered in a light smog. In the midst of the field stood a small battalion of around 50 telekhines and earth born.

They were being lead by a 10 foot tall man garnered in black armour with white dots representing stars and constellations, in his right hand was a midnight black speak tipped with an orthyrian silver blade. At his left side, gagged, tied up, and beaten was an old friend of Perseus', it was a young women of around the age of 17, the age Perseus was, and she had jet black and her and golden tan skin making her look like a Persian princess, she was Zoe Nightshade, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and the youngest of the Hesperides. Zoe's black volcanic eyes had looked up and stared into Perseus', her once proud and regal demeanour were completely shattered like her spirits.

Perseus had turned his eyes to face the titan Krios and glared with hatred and confusion. He eventually spoke with a husky, hoarse and dead voice, "Well well well, if it isn't Krios, I haven't seen one of you shithead titans for over five hundred years, I thought you's had finally decided to fuck off, unfortunately I'm wrong."

Krios glared before speaking in a gravelly voice. "We have come here with an offering.." Krios looks at Zoe. "So you may join my mistress and her armies against the Olympians and immortal demigods."

Perseus pretended to think about the deal but in reality started thinking of ways to fight the titan, monsters and rescue Zoe. He kept thinking before deciding to sarcastically answer. "Well let's think about it intelligently for a second. Option one I join a group of shitheads who tortured me for 500 years and kill a bunch of fuckers I hate. Option 2 I join a bunch of fuckers I hate and kill a bunch of shitheads who tortured me for 500 years. I think I'm gonna go Switzerland on this and go neutral, stay at the sidelines and watch all you bastards die." Percy finished up with a demonic grin settling on his face.

The monsters who heard what he said had grown restless and were clearly itching for a fight by the way the were toying with their weapons. Everyone present had felt a strange felling of unease as if they were being watched and those who tuned their senses further could feel the presence of a very ancient deity watching them. Percy continued thinking of plans and went from 5% chance of no injury up to 50%, that is if his plan works. Krios was shocked and thought to himself the consequences he may face if he had failed his mistress. He knew he would end up at the void or be tortured by Kronos and those were not very high up on Krios' list of things to do. He eventually continued his speaking slowly going away from a monotonous voice to one filled with hatred and anger.

"I do not think, you quite understand how dire this situation is Perseus. You will join us and you are going to help us or Zoe here, gets a knife to her throat. And I'm sure you do not want to fail her a second time now do you?" Krios finished with a rhetorical question and his face was marred with a sly smile.

Due to Krios' slow speaking Perseus had finally came up with an idea that had a 95% chance of success if it went correct. Perseus had stayed silent and Krios took that as a yes. He moved forward which left a sly grin to grow larger on Perseus' face. He jumped of the cliff and ran down the side of the mountain scaring the monsters into action. Since Krios was unattached from Zoe he was forced to lead his battalion of monsters against the legendary warrior.

Perseus continued to run forward and within seconds the army was upon him. In the centre of the field of destruction Perseus had attacked anything within two feet of him, his scimitars becoming part of his appendages removing any threat that dared to attack. The first ten earth born had attempted to attack by using brute force but were quickly dissipated by the poison on the blades edges. The telekhines that juggled bronze cannon balls that were glowing a brilliant boiling red started to attack by throwing them from a distance. Perseus rolled of to his right barely dodging the first cannon ball, he quickly turned and raised the scimitars, slashing towards his sides removing four of the telekhines and three earthborn. Krios watched with amazement and fury as his army was decimated. Krios attempted to make his way back towards Zoe but before making any distance an earthquake forced him to the ground and created an abyss to separate him from Zoe and his army.

With several quick manoeuvres he dispatched a large group of them by forcing them into the gaping black pit. Perseus was left with ten enemies and the titan. He moved quickly and with several precise stabs and slashes reduced his enemies to two earthborn and a telekhine. He ran forward, jumping off one of the earth born and doing a backflip over the telekhine. He quickly stabbed the back of his sword into the seal dog and watched it dissipate into golden dust that littered the ground around him. The earthborn to his left had moved quickly and attacked him with a sword made of stone and rock, the blade had bounced effortlessly off of Perseus' leather jacket and armour. He then noticed his attacked and quickly stabbed with both of the scimitars causing the long blades to pierce right through the muddy flesh leaving a pile of dirt in the monsters place.

The second earthborn who watched the brutal murder before his own eyes had attempted to run away and had made a reasonable distance of 25 feet away from Perseus, he attempted to continue running but several black throwing knifes found themselves in the small of the back, neck and head, causing the beast to fall down and change to pile of dirt and dust.

Perseus moved over to the throwing knives and sheathed them back in their original holdings. He turned round to see the midnight purple eyes of Krios staring into his stormy green ones before he was thrown thirty feet away in the opposite direction.