~•3rd POV•~
It has been 2 months since the last monster attack, and the campers and gods were restless. Everyone was expecting an attack to come every day. Percy was the worst, he was afraid that they would have to fight an army he couldn't defeat without major casualties. Hestia constantly was comforting him, reassuring him that he would be able to defeat any army who attacked them.
Hestia and Percy had managed to keep their relationship a secret from everyone, even the gods. They used their powers to block Aphrodite from seeing their love life. Aphrodite came to Percy one day complaining about how she couldn't see his love life. She even went as far as to say he has a "Heart of Ice". Percy just scoffed and walked off when she said that.
Over the months Percy had grown accustom to sleeping. He started sleeping because Hestia was always falling asleep in his cabin, so he would sleep with her. He had also devised a plan to be able to be in a relationship with Hestia, because of her oath.
Over the past three months, since Percy arrived, the campers had all increased their skills exponentially. They could all do complicated sword moves, and knew at least one style of hand to hand combat. The campers who learned faster began to learn more complicated fighting styles.
One day while Percy and Hestia were sitting, watching the campers fight they heard the conch horn blow thee times, signaling an attack. Percy melted all of his ice copies and ran, with the rest of the campers and gods, to Half-Blood Hill. When he got there Percy's worst fear became true.
There, in front of the campers and gods, stood an army of over 50,000 monsters. There was no way, even with Percy, that the campers could survive the attack. Percy hastily made the entire lake rise and turn into ice warriors. He was able to make 4,000 warriors, but they were still massively outnumbered.
Leading the enemy army was a woman dressed in a cloak that seemed to be woven out of darkness. She was about 5"7, had pitch black eyes, deathly pale skin, and hair as black as night. She had an extremely strong aura, and the darkness seemed to pull to her, like it wanted to be with her. All in all, she terrified everyone.
Percy recognized the figure and paled. She was Nyx, the primordial they were fighting against. Not only was she stronger than Gaea, but a lot more deadly. Without a single word Nyx lifted her and pushed it forward. Out of her hand shot a beam of darkness at a group of campers.
Before the beam could hit the campers, it collided with a beam of ice. The collision caused an explosion. Everyone looked at Percy, to see his hand up and facing where the beam of darkness was. Nyx quickly fired another beam, which Percy also blocked. Nyx was angry that a mortal could stop her beams, so she ordered her army to charge.
Percy quickly began to shout orders to his army. They got into a defensive stance and prepared to meet the enemies charge. When the two armies clashed all that could be heard was yelling, screaming, and the sound of metal clashing. Percy tore through monster after monster, heading towards Nyx, who was just watching with a smirk on her face.
Hack, slash, duck, roll, stab, hack, slash. That was all Percy was doing as he ripped through his enemies. He moved like lighting through the enemies, causing chaos wherever he went. Monsters didn't have time to block his attack when he came at them. He left a trail of golden dust where ever he went.
As he fought he helped out campers and took on the larger monster. He finally made it to Nyx and got into a fighting stance. "Hello Nyx." Percy sneered. She just smirked back and said, "Hello Perseus, its good to see you again." Percy just growled and raised his swords at her. She smirked and materialized two pitch black swords in her hands.
Without warning the two launched at each other. They exchanged blow after blow, neither able to land a hit on the other. The force from their battle was causing the ground beneath them to crack. The battle attracted the attention of both armies, causing them to stop and retreat to watch the legendary battle.
Nyx slashed at Percy with her right sword and did a round kick at his mid section. Percy deflected her slash and jumped back to avoid her kick. He then shot a beam of ice out of one of his swords and launched forward and put his swords above his head and slashed downward. Nyx blocked his beam of ice with her swords and held her swords up to block his downward strike, being unable to jump out of the way.
When Percy's swords met Nyx's the ground cracked and a miniature explosion formed. They both were sent flying backwards from the blast. When they recovered Nyx shadow traveled away. Percy frantically looked around him, waiting for her to pop out and stab him. He was stopped in his tracks when he heard a familiar scream.
He turned around, and what he saw made his blood boil. Standing there was Nyx holding Hestia by her hair, with a sword at her neck. Percy's vision went red as he tried to calm himself, to think of a way to get Hestia out of this.
"It looks like I Win Percy. Put your weapons down or I'll kill your little girlfriend here." Nyx said loudly. Percy narrowed his eyes at her, how did she know about them. Percy quickly ran simulations through his head, trying to find a way out of this situation. It eventually came down to one way to save Hestia, but Percy didn't like it, not at all. He had swore to himself that he would never use this power, unless the situation was dire.
Percy sighed and looked up. He made his swords disappear, causing everyone to gasp, and Nyx to gain a victorious smirk. Percy took a step forward and wiped the smirk off of Nyx's face by saying, "I am sorry Nyx, I swore to never do this, but you are forcing my hand." Nyx gained a fearful look, even she had to admit that Percy was powerful, and if he had a power that he swore not to use, it must be extremely powerful.
"What are you doing?" Nyx asked, fear evident in her voice. Percy didn't answer, instead raised his hand and pointed it at Nyx. "Lower your hand or I'll kill Hestia." Nyx screamed, pushing her blade into Hestia's throat harder. Percy just shook his head and said, "I truly am sorry." As soon as he said that Nyx started to scream in pain.
She dropped Hestia and crumbled to her knees. Hestia wasted no time in rushing to the other gods. Everyone watched as Percy slowly walked toward the screaming primordial. Percy had a sad look as he walked. He never wanted to cause anyone, even his enemies, this much pain.
When Percy got to Nyx he sat down with his legs crossed and bought Nyx's head onto his lap. She was spasming and had tears running down her face. She slowly looked up at Percy and said, "Please, make it end. Kill me if you must, just make it stop." Percy nodded and bent down and kissed her forehead and whispered, "I truly am sorry." After he said that he made a knife out of ice and slit her throat.
As the light left her eyes, Nyx dissolved into silver dust. Percy slowly stood up and addressed the monster army. "I recommend you go, and never come back. There is no need for more death on this day, or any other." Percy said, with a heavy amount of charm speak in his voice, while looking at the monster army. They all nodded in fear and began to leave.
Soon all of the monsters were gone and Percy stood looking at where the monster army was. As he was about to go back to the campers and gods, a black vortex appeared in front of Percy. A man stepped out of the vortex and Percy quickly uncapped Riptide and pointed it at the man. The man raised his hands in surrender and said, "Do not worry hero, I am not here to fight."
Percy lowered his sword and asked, "Who are you?" The man smiled and replied, "I am Erebus, primordial of darkness, and husband of Nyx." Percy raised his sword at the man again. He had just killed the man's wife, meaning he was probably mad at Percy.
The man just said, "Lower your weapon, as I said, I am not here to harm you, rather I am here to thank you." Percy looked questionably at Erebus. He just killed Erebus' wife, and he was now wanting to thank Percy? Erebus caught Percy's questioning look and clarified, "When Nyx decided to attack Olympus she asked me to help her. I declined saying it was a bad idea, and a pointless fight. Sadly she was determined and wouldn't stop the war on you. I pleaded with her not to fight, but she ignored me and fought anyway."
Percy raised an eyebrow and made a 'go on' motion with his hand. Erebus continued, "While I didn't want her to go to war, I still love her. I didn't want to see her hurt, but could do nothing to help her. After she captured Hestia you could have killed her slowly and painfully, but you showed her mercy. You showed that you truly didn't want to cause her that pain, and ended her life quickly. While she will take centuries to reform, I must thank you. You spared her from a painful death."
After Erebus was done explaining he walked over to Percy and pulled him into a hug. "Thank you, I owe you a lot." Erebus said into Percy's ear. Percy smiled and pulled back and said, "You owe me nothing, I was only doing the right thing."
Erebus smiled widely and said, "Your mercy and generosity is greater than legends say." With that Erebus disappeared in a vortex. Percy smiled and walked back to the gods. Hestia quickly crushed Percy in a hug, which he happily returned.
When they pulled back Percy faces the gods and campers and said, "Go, heal the wounded and gather the dead. We will make shrouds for those who didn't survive." The campers nodded, but before going Annabeth asked the question on everyone's mind, "What did you do to Nyx?"
Percy's face turned sad, even regretful. "I did what I promised myself that I would never do." He explained. "What did you promise to never do?" Athena asked. "I froze her ichor." Percy said. Everyone gasped, he was powerful enough to do that? "How?" Asked Athena. "Blood and Ichor have water in them, do they not?" Percy explained. "Yes, but much less in ichor." Athena said. Percy sighed, "Indeed, that makes it slower and more painful for gods."
"Ok, we had best help the wounded and collect the dead, I believe Percy is tired from fighting Nyx." Hestia said. Everyone nodded, and Percy sent her a thankful look. Hestia nodded at him before flashing them both to his cabin.
Percy laid down in his bed with Hestia in his arms. He slowly and lovingly kissed her. "Thank you for getting me out of there, I hate what I did, but your life was on the line, and you are more important than anything to me." Percy said after they broke apart.
Hestia smiled and kissed him again before saying, "Thank you for saving me, I would have died if you hadn't." Percy smiled and said, "I'd do anything for you, no matter what." It was the truth, he was willing to do anything for her, she was his world, and he couldn't imagine his life without her. They both smiled and fell asleep in each others arms. They slept without dreams, enjoying the feeling of the other on their body.