Okay guys, Here is your new chapter. This fight is massive, and may take up a few chapters. Just letting you know ahead of time. Also, on another note, I was going to put the contest winner into this chapter, but I didn't have much room. So I swear, next chapter I will be announcing the new character! Now, ON WITH THE STORY!:
Leo
Everyone was now in the armoury, grabbing their weapons. Leo had grabbed a hammer from his tool-belt, and it morphed into a two-handed warhammer. He put on a Celestial Bronze chestplate, put on his bracers, his greaves, and finally, his helmet. His helmet was specially designed, the face mask was a bull. He had a pair of bull horns on either side of his helmet, small ones mind you. Now, to focus on the beauty part of everything, was his hammer. He customly forged it, and managed to get enchantments put on it. The head of the hammer burst into flames when he hit an enemy, which was totally boss. He had intricately designed the pommel, putting twisting lines that lead to the head. On the side of the hammer, he put an H, or the Eta.
Leo and everybody were now dressed in their armor, ready for combat. Percy had his helmet on, which had two horse hair plumes on it, making him look beast. Percy was wearing a chestplate as well, gauntlets, and greaves. Annabeth stood next to him, holding his hand. She was wearing her helmet, which had an owl shaped face mask. Jason was wearing his armor, with his helmet that had a horse hair plume going left-to-right. Piper wore a light set of leather armor. Frank and Hazel wore their Imperial Gold Armor. Now that everybody was ready, Leo hurried upstairs to put the ship into descent.
The plan was to, that while descending, they'll be firing the ballistae and arrows, at the monsters. Once they landed, they will be moving towards the leaders of the Romans and Greeks. After that, try to convince the Romans to make a truce, since this war isn't helping anyone. Leo was steering the ship towards the fighting, descending as he did. Percy had mounted onto the ballistae, and was blasting monsters. He could hear a cheering coming from the battle: "ARGO! ARGO! ARGO!" The Greeks had began cheering at the sight of their trireme.
Leo could see the giant Leon fighting. Leon had the head of a lion, and large golden mane surrounding his head. His upperchest was covered in fur as well, but this was dark-chocolate brown. His arms were huge and ripped with muscles, and covered in golden fur and porcupine quills. His legs were Lion back legs, if they could stand upright, and they were covered in dark-chocolate fur too. He wore a chainmail, but each link was a metal human face in torture. He wore a chestplate, and had armor on his right arm. The armor on his right arm was like Gladiator armor. This giant wielded a blade that attached to the armor on his right arm, and a long sword, a Gladius.
Leon was slicing through the Romans, the Third Cohort. Leo saw him kill two romans with a swing of his right arm, and kill another three with his sword. The Centurion of the Third, charged at the giant, and lunged at him, getting a lot of air. The giant merely turned around, and grabbed him. Leon laughed, and then closed his fist, crushing the brave Centurion of the Third Cohort.
The Argo II was nearly at ground-level, when Percy and Annabeth lunged over the railing, and began fighting towards the embattled Greeks and Romans. Jason leaped off as well, while Frank turned into an eagle and flew off towards where Reyna was. Piper and Hazel put the ladder down over the edge, and climbed off. Leo followed after he made sure no monster would hijack the ship. When he got down there, he realized just how much chaos there was in theis fight.
The First Cohort was down by at least ten kids, if not more. The Second Cohort was all but annihilated, while the Third Cohort was trying to battle Leon with only twenty-two people. The Fourth Cohort was being overrun by Telekhines and Laistrygonian Giants, while the Fifth was surrounded by Draecanae and Cyclops', and taking heavy casualties. The Greeks weren't doing much better. Clarisse was at their head, stabbing and hacking her way through a pack of Hellhounds, while her cabin was trying to keep up. The Ares kids were missing six people. The Athena cabin were trying to flank a battalion of Telekhine, but Draecanae ambushed them. The Hermes and Hephaestus Cabins were fighting side-by-side while Travis and Connor cut there way towards them.
The fighting was literally everywhere. Leo saw Octavion attempting to rally the remnants of the First and Second, trying to get them into battle-lines. Leo didn't like Octavion, but he had to admit, the guy was being brave. Octavion had almost succeded in rallying them, when the giant Pelorus went up to him, and impaled him throught the back with a spear. He hoisted the Octavion-Shish-Kabob up in the air, and let out a roar. Pelorus then plucked Octavion of his spear, and threw him to a pack of Hellhounds. Leo didn't like Octavion, but he felt like crying when he saw that. Nobody deserves to die like he did.
Now that Octavion was dead, the First and Second Cohorts panicked, breaking ranks and getting mauled by the Hellhounds. Leo was trying to fight his way to them, swinging his warhammer, bashing monsters into powder. He finally reached them, but the entire Second Cohort was gone. The First Cohort had only fourteen people left, and the Hellhounds were still fighting. Leo cracked a Hellhound over the head, and smashed another ones ribs before delivering a blow to the neck. He turned and looked at the First, who were too shell-shocked right now to do anything.
"LISTEN!" Leo yelled at them. They turned their attention to him, and realized that he was a Greek. They quickly formed ranks, and Leo had mere seconds to act. "WAIT!" He yelled, and they stopped. "I am trying to help you, we need to work together to fight these enemies, so please, let me help." They seemed to understand. The one on the far left walked up to him.
"Alright, what do you have in mind?" the guy asked.
"Well, that's rather simple, we have to kill the giant Leon." Leo said, a grin starting to split his face.
Okay, so please drop a review, and so you guys know, I already told the the winner that they won. I swear that next chapter, the new character will be announced, okay? And As Always, Have A Nice Day!