Into the battle

Percy POV

I hated it, I hated every bit of it, but I saw the strong determination and sadness in Annabeth's stormy eyes. But, this is not a time for goodbye. We had to finish the quest and defeat Gaia. "Come on Percy, we have a battle to win," Piper smiled towards me trying to reassure me. I smiled back with a pain in my heart thinking about what to do in this situation.

At long island, storms of war broke out between both camps. Monsters were seen surrounding both sides of the war. No time could be wasted. I had to be there to end this war and possibly bring peace. Swarming in the sky were many stymphalian birds and gryphons.

"Jason, take down those birds and Piper, do what you can in the air, after that, help the Greeks," I ordered. "Frank, carry us towards the Romans."

Jason harnessed the winds, and he and Piper shot into the sky while Frank flew Leo, Hazel and I near to the ground. The ground wasn't much less chaotic.

As we plummeted towards the ground, I saw a vast and grand army of monsters spread across the hills-hellhounds, wild centaurs, ogres and other different wild monsters. They surrounded two tiny islands of demigods. At the crest of Half-Blood Hill, gathered at the feet of the Athena Parthenos, lied the main force of Camp Half-Blood. The five Roman cohorts were in a defensive formation several hundred yards away and seemed to be taking the brunt of the attack.

Giant eagles encircled Jason, screeching urgently, as if waiting for orders. "Attack the stymphalian birds and gryphons.

Frank the grey dragon flew carrying Hazel, Leo and I.

"Frank," I shouted, "Land me near the Romans. We need to merge the three isolated cohorts to the rest of the demigods."

"On it!" Frank replied. "Let's do this!" Frank in dragon form veered to the left and my stomach flipped. I made the mistake of looking down. I think we were way too high up.

In Frank's claw, I started screaming, "I REALLY HATE FLYING! DROP ME DOWN! GET TO THE COHORTS QUICKLY!" and with Leo in one claw joking, "Haha, Percy afraid of heights!" "I'M GONNA KILL YOU LEO WHEN THIS IS OVER, AAH." Despite being so close to the war, flying was sadly still a priority.

While Frank veered to the left, Piper and Jason veered towards the right heading towards the summit of Half-Blood Hill.

My heart lifted when I saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of hellhounds while trying to control it. He was twirling his sword doing damage yet not doing fatal injuries to them. He summoned an army of skeletons, old Half-Blood campers. "To me," he shouted. "Protect the campers." "Knock the hellhounds out."

Nearby, Tyson was hammering down the centaurs screaming "Bad ponies, go away!" While Ella was flying around his head giving him advice, "Hit his head and he gets knocked out." Wapow! "Yes, you hit his head."

A few feet away, Reyna sat astride a new white pegasus, her sword drawn. She shouted orders with ferocity at the legion, and the Romans obeyed without question, as if she'd never been away all this time.

"Legion, cuneum formate!" She cried. Her voice was clear and loud.

Almost instantly, the army formed into neat rows.

Frank the gray dragon flew towards the ground, dropping me and Leo next to the fiery Reyna. Frank then flew in the sky with Hazel making mirages. Looking towards Reyna, I had no idea of what to say.

"What took you so long," Reyna joked while slicing a hellhound.

"The usual," I replied. "Killing giants with the gods, nothing special. Just another average day in my life." I dodged the blade of an ogre before stabbing it in the chest.

"Haha, but seriously, what are we going to do. You know that we will end up being swarmed by the monsters right?"

"Then let's join the Greeks. We'll make it easier to win with both forces combined."

"So let's go."

"ROMANS," I shouted with all my might. "Follow me and join up with the Greeks. Together we will be unstoppable. No amount of monsters can prevent us from winning. Fighting together is the only way to win. So I say again, follow me and join with the Greeks. Who is with me?"

The Twelfth Legion Fulminata cheered and we marched towards Camp Half-Blood hill fighting monsters along the way. I took the lead with Reyna and Leo beside me. Frank and Hazel took the rear destroying any enemy that attacked from behind.

I saw Jason and Piper walking at the base of Camp Half-Blood with a group of campers, slashing at nearby monsters. Jason looked towards me and noticed what was happening.

"Greeks!" Jason yelled. "Um... Fight stuff and join with the Romans!"

The Greeks yelled their battle cry… and charged without any formations at all. "Come on, we can win this war, we will succeed," Piper charmspoke the campers. "Just go towards the Romans."

The monsters were sandwiched between the Greeks and Romans. Both armies charged towards each other with the aim of colliding and forming a greater and more secure mass. It was a hard and crazy battle, shouts and human screams, mixed along with screeches and inhuman sounds.

I fought with so much speed trying to group up with the Greeks. I dodged every blow destroying monsters in my path. Scattered and trampled on were the golden dust of the remains of the wild creatures. I saw Nico and Tyson fighting together both trying ways to help each other.

Looking at them got me distracted and I found myself surrounded by a ring of cyclops. I quickly did a wild slash in front of me destroying at least three cyclops and ran straight ahead. Somehow, I managed to find Jason and Piper in the midst of war. They protected each other well finding weaknesses in the opponent's armor. A charging centaur split them apart Jason was dazed. An approaching cyclops came to attack him from behind so I ran towards him and threw Riptide towards the approaching cyclops. Once I pulled my sword out, he humbly said "Thanks Percy, I owe you one."

Together we fought like demons rampaging through the monsters, nothing could defeat us. We were the strongest pair of demigods in our generation, probably the century. We protected each other's back with ease using our powers to summon water and electricity. Our fathers would have been proud of us, but this was all stopped when the ground started shaking.

This wasn't any sort of earthquake. This was where the ground literally got sucked into a hole and a huge figure erupted from inside the hole. A large feminine figure stepped out of the hole, her body began collapsing forming into a slightly smaller version with a more ghastly appearance. "I will destroy you all!"