Twenty minutes into the battle, things seemed to be in Nico's odds. He summoned a whole bunch of skeletons and scared the flame out of most of his enemies. That gave him the advantage to tear them down and kill any dragons in his way. He would slash and tear and cause his enemies to burst into dull light.
Nico got a little worried about the others. Leo wasn't flying around anymore and Nico didn't see Hazel. Percy's waves had stopped and the river was now calm. Looking to the hill he found that the others were knocked unconscious and chained as that evil golden dragon paced back and forth.
Nico decided to stop fighting and go rescue his friends. He didn't fly, no, the sky was flooded with enemies and friends, always bumping into each other. Jason was still up there doing his wind thing, but enemy dragons kept him from helping the others. Instead, Nico flattened himself against the dark side of the mountain and climbed up, using the shadows as his cover. He did that for a while until he face palmed himself. He totally forgot, he could shadow travel. He entered a dark shadow and plunged into darkness, he came out at the other side of the mountain, but not on top. The top was too well lit, they must have been anticipating that.
"I love Linda", a familiar voice said behind him in a hypnotized way. Nico turned around, his tail smacking into Will the sandwing's face. The dragon didn't even blink. His blue eyes stayed open and empty, with no judgement at all. Nico had to agree, Will looked pretty good as a sandwing, he looked like he was made of gold and a lighter underbelly. Will also seemed to be glowing faintly, his well placed scales radiating light.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here sweetie". Nico watched as Linda stalked out of the shadows and wrapped her tail around Will's. Gross, Nico thought to himself as he stood his ground. "Hello Nico, I would like you to meet my new boyfriend, isn't that right will". That snake from Tartarus. "What did you do to him", Nico growled furiously. Linda gave him a mocking look of fear and leaned close into Will. Nico's heart ached seeing his best friend being controlled by this betraying rat-fink. "Oh Nico, I used a love spell from my master. I say it was a fair trade, nine demigods for my Will's happiness". Nico felt like he was going to burst into flames. "THIS IS HAPPINESS? HIS MIND IS BEING CONTROLLED. HOW IS THAT HAPPINESS? IF HE WANTED TO BE WITH YOU HE WOULD HAVE WENT ON A DATE WITH YOU". Linda didn't look surprised, she just smiled and looked up at Will. She brushed her claws under his chin and Nico could a little of Will trying to escape from the curse she put on his mind.
"Enough lollygagging, we have more demigods to catch so lets get this over with. Will, take him down". The dragon hesitated a little, Will was resenting this, but soon the hypnotized Will launched at Nico. Nico launched himself in the air and onto the ledge above him. The golden dragon yelped in surprise as Nico landed on top of her. "Oh hello, well aren't you handsome", she said. Nico wanted to throw up, but he only backed away from the dragon. "Gross Geldon, that is one of the demigods", Linda giggled and Will jumped up to continue fighting. Nico pulled out his stygian iron sword and the son of Apollo went crashing into it. Nico pushed hard and the dragon was thrown backward, tumbling on the ground.
Suddenly, without reason at all, Will clawed at his head, screaming in pain. He closed his eyes hard and when he opened them, they were no longer hypnotized. "Nico… The red one… Get the red one", Will writhed, trying to stay in control. Nico looked over at Geldon's charms, at the top was the one Leo saw in his dream. Nico attacked the dragon and tore off the charm. "NOOO", Linda screamed as Nico smashed it on the ground just in time before some dragons caught him in chains. Even though he was captured, he was still happy that Will would be safe. He watched as the golden dragon got to his feet and attacked one of Nico's capters. Will tore out the piece of metal and unchained Percy for help. When Nico was unchained he hugged Will in relief that he was ok.
"Look it is the seawings", yelled Leo who was now back on his feet and on fire. Sure enough there was Tsunami and the seawings. As they were fighting, Anemone jumped up and grabbed a stone that looked like amber. "Hey little dragonet, could you give that back please", Geldon said calmly as if whatever that was could be no big deal. "No, this is the stone that brought the demigods here isn't it"? Anemone asked and hopped up on Percy's shoulder. "Yes, but only an animus dragon can use it now give it back little dragon". "Guess what. I am an animus dragon". "WHAT"? Percy yelled over the noise, "How come yo… Nevermind". Anemone held the stone to the sky and yelled, "Come Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades". For a second Nico thought she was joking until the earth began to rumble, the sky turned grey and crackled with lightning, and the river began to boil with power. There was a huge crack and a huge crack appeared on the earth, ghost metal dragons began falling in. Hundreds of hell hounds crawled out and began attacking enemy dragons and the furies, now in skinny dragon form, flew out and circled above. Suddenly a giant nightwing with obsidian scales and a gold underbelly crawled its way out of the earth.
Lightning crackled and thunder roared up above, at least Nico thought that was thunder. A giant golden skywing with two pairs of wings descended from above. Zeus scanned the battlefield and blasted lightning instead of flames. He flew down attacked alongside Jason, knocking enemies out of the way while Hades was doing his own thing like stomping on dragons and blasting black fire everywhere.
Out of the river, a whole ton of seawings, each with one eye, raced out of the water and began pounding everyone as a giant seawing erupted from the water. The scales shifted colors of the sea like a rainwing, but his stripes glowed blue. "What the", Nico heard him say until he realized what was happening. Then Poseidon joined the fight.
The rest went very well. Nico watched thought swings as Percy battled Geldon. Percy slashed and lunged, but his sword clanged against Geldon's armor. She clawed and scratched, but she seemed to miss Percy every time. Finally Percy stabbed Riptide through her armor and Geldon screamed in agony. Clutching where she was stabbed, she flew off and no one went to get her. Everyone knew that she would die elsewhere.
Sorry for the short chapter, I am busy today. Anyway, partying next chapter and then the end. Don't be sad because I will be starting a new one very soon. I have posted an intro, but after this I will post a new chapter to it. If you want to read it, look for Legacies of Moro or my name if you like. Anyway, keep dreaming my friends. ;)