Yea I know the real Sword of Hades is out but I never got to finish my story. I must say I am really proud about how much I got right. I promised that they is going to be a good chapter and I had to write three times because my computer kept crahsing and deleting it, yea good times! This is the first real fight scence I have ever written so I need lots of feedback. SO PLEASE REVIEW!
"Thalia, where are we going?" I asked her as she led the way down a dark street of New York City.
"First, I am going to find somewhere to change," she answered.
"Umm why?" I asked.
"Because I don't want to go all the way to Philly dressed as a hunter. I got attacked about hundred times by monsters that wanted revenge on the hunters for hunting them down in a different life."
"Good idea, then what?" I agreed.
"We find the highway and follow it to Philadelphia."
"We're walking?" I asked.
"Unless you have a better plan or something comes up," Thalia replied.
"With Percy's luck that won't take long," chuckled Nico.
"Hey, that's almost not always true," I smiled back.
"Yea, with all of our combined good luck we might actually make it through this alive," Thalia added.
Thalia found a twenty-four hour bar to change in and came back in her old punk black clothes.
"I love that we are all dressed in black," said Nico.
I look down at myself. In my mad rush to get dress I had grabbed a black t-shirt with my only pair of black jeans.
"Since when do you wear black Percy?" Thalia teased.
"Hey, I got dressed in the dark," I defended myself which didn't really help.
"Clearly," Thalia replied. I walked myself into that one.
"What about you?" Nico teased.
"I'm older than you and have been wearing black before you were born," replied Thalia.
"Doubt it," Nico replied.
"And you not going to be older than us much longer," I added. Thalia is hunter and that means she stopped aging.
The smile disappeared from Thalia's face, "Oh, yea." But she recovered fast, "Well, I will always be mentally superior to you."
"With Percy that's not that hard," Nico laughed.
"What is this? Pick on Percy day?"
"Oh, don't be so sensitive, Percy," Thalia laughed.
Suddenly Nico's smile vanished.
"Nico, what is it?" I asked him.
"Something dark approaches," he answered in a low voice, "We need to get going." Nico started walking down the street.
I turned to Thalia, "I agree with the Prince of Darkness," and together we followed him.
We found the highway easy enough and followed it out of town. The sun started the rise about an hour later. I kept hoping that my dad, or one of the other gods that didn't hate me, would send Blackjack and some of his friends to give a lift to save us the walk. But I didn't think it was a good idea to tell the Gods that we were on a mission to save Hades' secret power weapon, and there is Thalia's fear of heights to put in play. She annoyed me sometimes but I didn't want to put in her a place where she had to make a hard choice. Besides Thalia seemed different since the last time I saw her Mount Olympus, a bit depress.
"So Thalia, how's life with Artemis?" I asked her as we walked along the road.
"Fine," she answered but I could tell there was something wrong with her.
"Just fine?" I asked.
"Great, couldn't be better," she replied but it didn't sound like it.
I lowered my voice so Nico wouldn't hear, not that it mattered. Nico was still up a head and wasn't listening to us. He seemed to be on guard for something.
"You know Thalia you can tell me anything, I won't tell anyone."
"I know that Percy," she said.
I didn't believe her but I didn't get the chance to confront her because Nico had stopped walking. We were between cities and all around us were half dead trees and grass that suffered from the overly busy highway fumes.
"Nico, what's going on?" Thalia asked.
"Something is following us," he replied in a dark tone.
"A good something or a bad something?" I asked.
"Defiantly bad, I can sense it," he replied.
"Then we should keep moving," said Thalia.
Nico shook his head, "It won't give up. We will have to face it."
All three of us took out our weapons; Nico his black sword, Thalia her long spear and I took out my sword, Riptide.
"Where is it? What is it?" Thalia asked.
"I can't pen point it" Nico replied.
We stood back to back.
"This is fun," I said sarcastically.
Then Nico ordered, "Show yourself!"
Suddenly a black cloud started to form around our feet in a circle. We all jumped out of it but the circle followed.
"Split up, but don't let it touch you," Nico informed us.
Nico jumped forward and tried slicing through it, but you can't kill a cloud. The smoke seemed to be repelled by his black sword and made a usual move around his blade to keep from touching it.
Thalia went left and I went right.
"What do we do?" she asked us.
The cloud grew in height and became denser, almost like it was forming a body.
It was a circle of black smoke but it looked solid.
Thalia made the mistake of trying to pierce it with her spear. It grabbed hold of the spear like evil black silly putty.
"Thalia let go!" Nico shouted.
Thalia dropped her spear but the black glue thing stuck to her feet. It tossed her spear backwards where it stuck into a tree like an arrow, almost killing Nico in the progress.
"Thalia!" I shouted and I tried to get over to her but the blackness had erupted all round her.
"Don't let it touch you Percy," Nico warned me. He jumped up in to the tree to avoid being closed in.
I tripped over a large rock in the ground while trying to dodge it and Riptide slipped right of my hands. Before I could pick it up it became enclosed within the darkness. Perfect.
The black glob was releasing thick black smoke making it impossible to see anything. I kept backing up to avoid stepping onto the black stuff but I began to worry that I was going to step backward onto the highway. I could the sound of rushing cars behind me and I didn't want to learn how it feels to be hit by a truck going sixty miles per hour. The mortals in their cars couldn't see anything because the mist was too strong, in this case both kinds.
I got luck because the solid black stuff began to rise off the ground giving me a clear place to stand. It rose far off the ground and started to form a giant dome around the area. The black mist started to clear but I still couldn't see Nico or Thalia and it didn't help that we were all wearing black today.
Finally I spotted something lying down on the ground in the middle of the dome. It was Thalia. Her eyes were close and lay like she was asleep. I ran over to her.
"Thalia?" I shook her shoulder trying to wake her up, she didn't move.
"Nico, Where are you?" I shouted but I got no reply. It was only when I was listen for his answer did I realize that I could no longer hear the highway, which was weird because I know we were only a few feet away from it.
Now I have a lot of creepy crazy things in my life but what happen next definitely made my top one spot.
Thalia grabbed a hold of my arm in one sudden movement which me jump ten feet into the air. "Thalia, thank the gods your al- …Thalia?" She slowly started to sit up and when she did she opened her eyes. Instead of the glowing blue I was use to seeing that gave me evil glares, there was nothing but black. Both eyes were covered in darkness so there was no white or blue part.
"Um Thalia?" I mumbled.
She made a growling and hissing noise and stood up.
"I have a feeling you're not Thalia." I said wisely, "Umm Nico, where are you?"
Blue lightning sparked off her hands, like it does when Thalia is really angry, and then she charged at me.
My mom has always told me never to hit a girl but she never told me what to if a girl was trying to kill me, so when she jumped me I kick her away. I got a small electric shock when touch me, but I had felt worst.
She didn't stay down long. She stood up and stepped on something. I look down at her feet and couldn't believe my eyes. I could do nothing but stare as the Thalia look alike picked up Riptide from off the ground. The blade glowed a bright gold that shined in the darkness of the dome which made me feel stupid for not seeing sooner.
She raised the blade at me, lightning sparked out it.
Great, not only was going to be killed by one of friends but also by my own weapon.
I look around for anything I could use to defend myself. At the edge of the dome a tree stood; the very tree with Thalia's spear stuck in it. I made a run for it but Thalia was faster me. She grabbed my foot and shocked me with such a force I could feel my hair stand up. I was able trip her feet and made sprit to the tree. I grabbed the spear and tried to pull it out but it wouldn't budge.
Crash! Riptide sliced into the tree where moments before my hand rested. The shock of the blow made me fall back, bringing the spear with me. I laid on back and blocked another blow of Riptide with the spear. Lucky Thalia's spear was made out of metal or it would have been toothpicks by now. She prevented me from standing up but I was able to block all the swings.
"Percy!" A voice shouted from above me.
Nico jumped down from the tree and knock Thalia to the ground. Thank the gods his eyes weren't black.
Nico raised his black sword and counter an attack from Thalia who jumped to her feet. Before I could do anything to help him Thalia made a circle movement with her left wrist and a strong wind blew dirt into both our eyes. I felt Nico get slammed into me and we both fell to the ground.
"Nico what's wrong with her?" I shout quickly.
"Some kind of daemon," He spat out before he leap out of the way of another blow, "It's controlling Thalia."
"So what do we do? Try to wear it out?" I push him out of the way of a lightning strike and far way from her.
"No!" Nico shouted, "Percy that's Thalia. It's using Thalia's powers, her energy. It won't wear it out; we'll kill Thalia before that happens."
Another lighting bolt came down between us.
"Percy, we need to get it to stop using Thalia's powers."
I understood what he was saying. I remember a time I use my powers so much that it almost killed me. Even now I could see Thalia breathing hard.
"How is it controlling her?" I asked him.
"It showing her darkness moments, so she won't want to fight back," he said gravely, "We need to get through to the real Thalia so she can fight it from in the inside."
I didn't have a clue how we were going to that but we didn't have choice.
"Distract her," I told Nico and I tried to sneak around her.
"Hey Thalia!" Nico shout. His sword met Riptide in a sparkling show that looked like fireworks, "Thalia it isn't real, you have fight it!"
The daimon hissed at him and sent a whirlwind at Nico but he some how was able to keep his feet on the ground, probably because he was the son of the underworld.
I never realize how powerful Thalia was until now, how powerful all of us were.
I grabbed her from behind while she was distracted by Nico. I held her arms down with the spear and Nico kicked Riptide out of her hands and away from her reach.
"Thalia! It's us Percy and Nico. Your cousins," I shouted into her ears. I held onto her even when she let loose a giant shock wave. There was a strange burning smell that think was me but it didn't matter at the moment.
"Come one Thalia! I know your stronger than this, fight it!"
The last shock must of drained her because could barely stand up.
"Thalia we need, don't give up. Grover needs you and Annabeth needs." I don't why my friends popped into my head but they did.
"Annabeth?" she whispered and collapsed onto the dry grass. I saved her from hurting herself on the way down and sat down next to her. The dome dissolved back into smoke that was absorbed by Nico's sword. The sun shown brightly above us telling us it was around noon. The rushing sound of cars driving past was shocking after the silence.
Nico came and sat on the other side her. She looked too tired to lift her head but then I realize that she trying to hide the fact she was crying. Her blue eyes glistened with tears in the sun shine.
"It's ok Thalia," Nico smiled at her.
