Percy Jackson and the wrath of Kronos chapter 4
Hi peeps it's me again. This is the fourth chapter of the Percy Jackson and the wrath of Kronos story. Please vote on my poll on the profile of awesomeness. I'm just kidding. My profile is the normalest profile there could be. Lol. Listening to green day on my laptop. My friend is being very annoying at the moment, he is obsessed with the Illuminati Ambigrams which is where you write a word that you can flip upside down and it reads the same thing and will not stop drawing them at school in my books. They are cool but he is obsessed with them so it does kind of get a bit annoying sometimes. Any way on with the disclaimer. Hmmmmmppphhh.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Percy Jackson related stuff. RICK RIORDAN DOES! And with that happy note it is time to get on with the story!
It was an easy walk back to the edge of the forest that they had spent the night in. They had deliberately camped in the middle of the forest to give them the most cover against attack. This was also helped by the way the tents also looked, from the outside, as if they were trees themselves and by the time the monsters had got to the small camp site the five spies had already left and had about a four hour head start on the group of monsters. Ethan Nakamura threw a fit of rage and kicked all the ash and charcoal that was in the fire pit all over the ground and in the process of doing so, he also stubbed his toe, painfully, so that he was then rolling around in the ash and charcoal and generally making himself and his clothes a lot, lot darker. He then did the logical thing and asked one of the hell hounds if they could smell the five demigods. And the hell hound replied that they had left about three to four hours ago. This information then sent Ethan into another rage and stubbed his toe again and turning his clothes a very near black. Then he get up and limped over to a hell hound and clambered onto his back and said that they were going to have to follow the demigods so that they could destroy them and take back all the packages of weapons and food.
The hell hounds raced off into the dimly lit morning light that covered the forest like a blanket. After about three hours of travelling the group of monsters had found nothing, they were still on their trail but they were getting further and further away.
The five spies however were exhausted. They had been running through the night and most of the morning and they had still not found the river they needed to cross to have a hope of making it back to Camp Half Blood safely. They had had to span gorges, scale sheer vertical walls with no ropes, and wade knee deep in horrid smelling marshes. All in all they were all looking forward to jumping in the river and washing this off and putting it behind them. After about another two hours Percy suddenly heard the faint sound of running water. He jumped up in joy and started to sprint as fast as he could towards the sound. Then all of a sudden he burst out into a clearing to find a massive gorge that the river that was flowing through it had carved out a long, long time ago.
"Oh no. How exactly do you propose that we get across here?" Connor said.
"I think I have an idea." Percy replied.
"Oh great, is this another one of those amazingly reckless plans that all ways seem stupid but actually work plans." Nico joked.
"No seriously guys just trust me on this one." Percy said.
Percy then closed his eyes and a look of deep concentration came upon his face. All of a sudden the river started to rise up and form a bridge of ice across the really, really high up gorge. Thalia took one look at the bridge made of ice and took about thirty steps back, right into a raspberry bush, the end result was her clothes being stained a very purple purple colour. She jumped up spluttering to find all the others laughing on the ground with tears of laughter streaming from their eyes. Then she remembered the gorge they were about to cross and backed up again into the raspberry bush now turning her clothes well and truly purple and also bringing a new round of laughter from the rest of the group.
Eventually after ten minutes of shocking and a lot of OW!'s they had worked up the courage to be able to cross the ice bridge without getting too scared. Then Percy warned them that they were only going to be able to have two people on the bridge at a time. This scared the rest of the spies even more and dropped the courage levels a bit until Percy stepped out onto the ice bridge and jumped up and down a couple of times before proceeding to cross the fragile looking ice bridge and declared that it the bridge was in a very fit state and extremely safe to cross, in one of those health and safety officer voices that sounded extremely funny.
Annabeth was the first to take a tentative step onto the makeshift bridge. When she found it to be strong and sturdy she plaintively walked across it with Connor close behind her. Then it was Thalia's turn to cross but of course, Thalia being Thalia, the scared of heights girl she was, didn't want to go across. So Nico being the kind, helpful person he is, picked up Thalia bridal style and ran across the ice made bridge and dumped a surprised Thalia in front of the equally surprised spies that had crossed the bridge earlier.
Then Percy, Annabeth and Connor all burst out laughing at the two's faces which were bright red. The first three spies were all thinking the same thing 'they are so oblivious.' Then Percy had a second thought 'Oh my gods! They look so cute together. Wait, pull yourself together Percy, you are starting to act like an Aphrodite child now!'
To try and cover up her blushing Thalia decided to speak up "Well now that that's done with I think that we should be getting on with our journey back to camp."
They all readily agreed, especially Nico as he was trying to cover up his blush as well. So with that they all set back on with their journey to Camp Half Blood.
They travelled quickly and efficiently through the rough terrain. All the time having to jump or scramble over sharp, pointy rocks and having to climb up sheer rock faces with really heavy packs of weapons and supplies. They were setting up camp less and less as they were constantly hearing the monsters and evil demigods behind them and it was hard to sleep with the monsters howling and running through the forest towards them. Eventually though, the monsters caught up with them.
It was about 9am when it happened. They had just finished packing up the tents and other equipment when a lone hellhound burst out of the tree line they had set up camp in front of. As soon as it saw them it howled really loudly into the sky. So loudly that the demigods that had sided with Kronos heard it. However before it could finish its howl, Percy jumped forward with Riptide uncapped and stabbed it through its stomach. The howl was cut off quickly and they all looked at each other with worried faces and came to a silent conclusion. Run.
They were all running as fast as they could, scaling obstacles, doing everything they could possibly think of to get away from the pounding footsteps of their enemy's. They ran and ran until they couldn't run any more. That was mostly because they had reached another river that was in a 50 foot high gorge.
Percy had no time to create a bridge as the monsters and Ethan burst out of the trees and stood still.
"Well guys, seems this is the end." Nico said.
"Na, we can still fight, can't we?" Thalia said.
"Last one still alive wins?" Connor suggested.
"Bring it." Percy answered.
With that they all charged into the battle with their weapons drawn and ready. They were all rolling and swooping as they went through one of the hardest fights of their lives. They were all tired out from the running they had done and they had to carry all the equipment they had brought with them. All of them were fighting at least 3 of them at once, sometimes more. Percy was fighting like a machine. Rolling, slashing and just general all out destroying the ranks of monsters, he was the main target for the monsters. Whenever a monster was destroyed for no reason and had a surprised look on its face they all knew that Annabeth was there. Nico and Thalia fought side by side to protect each other. Whilst Nico was sucking the life out of a monster, Thalia was there to stop any monsters that tried to kill Nico. Connor was confusing all the monsters by trying to talk to them and they would stop and leave a free space for Connor to jump in and slash them down.
They had wiped the monsters out after about 20 minutes. All there was left was Ethan Nakamura.
"Hello Ethan," Percy said coolly "What do you want now?"
"You dead, that's what I want." He replied bitterly
"Well that's not going to happen," Annabeth said with a steely tone to her voice "at least, not the way round that you want it."
"Yeah, you have no hope of taking us alive or dead," Thalia backed up Annabeth "we will fight to the bitter end, together we are strong and no one can beat us."
"We will see about that." He replied
And with that he ran straight at the five demigods with his sword drawn. They all drew their swords and met him head on. They circled him and trapped him so that he couldn't try to attack them without any of the others hurting him.
"You may have won this time but next time my master won't be so easy to fool." He said. Then he threw down a pearl and crushed it with his foot. A cloud of smoke burst up from where he crushed it with his foot and was gone in a blinding flash.
"Well, that escalated quickly." Nico said
"We should probably continue getting back to camp now" Percy commented
"Yeah, we probably should." Annabeth agreed
And with that they set off to complete their journey.
A/N: Hey guys, it's me again. I am really sorry about being away for so long. School was being a real bitch, along with my brother, and they were literally giving me like 3 pieces of homework a night and it was so annoying to try and finish them all and then I had my end of year exams and being in the top class for just about everything does not help in making them easy at all. I will be trying to update a bit more often but I cannot guarantee I will be posting regularly.
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