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Percy

Percy was in shock.

He had been captured by the king of giants, who had revealed his psychotic plan for world domination.

His blood had been used to wake a goddess who had been evil since the beginning of time.

He had nearly seen his girlfriend get killed, just so his spirit would be broken.

And now this. Watching Gaia rise. Yep, he had pretty much reached his terror limit. And planning limit. And fighting limit. In fact, he had pretty much reached his limit, full stop.

Pretty much all he could do was watch in horror as the earth goddess rose.

Each of her legs was as thick as 50 trees. In a moment of realization Percy understood why. They were giant tree trunks. Percy had never seen any so big. Her legs were literally upside down trees, her feet were the branches and leaves, and her legs were the trunks. Earth started to swarm around her and she grew at an incredible speed. From the height of a normal house, she grew hundreds of feet, at least doubling her size in a second. This continued until she must have been ten times her previous size. Humongous luminous crystals stuck out of her chest at random angles, spurting from the mass or writhing rock. Where her heart would be was a bright, shining ruby, shining through the rocky skin, which was stretched over it. Mini volcanoes dotted over her arms, and the lava, which oozed out of it, dropped in huge globules, burning the ground dangerously close to Percy and Annabeth. Gaia's horns were practically mountains, tipped with ice. Sand swirled around her whole body, like a shield. Grass coated her hands, each blade almost the size of Percy himself.

Annabeth squeezed his hand, eyes brimming with fear. Behind her lay an unconscious Porphyrion, a pool of blood behind his head. Gaia let out another mighty bellow, and Percy covered his ears as it continued for an impossible amount of time.

"IT'S A CALL FOR HER ARMY!" Annabeth yelled straight into his ear. She shouted something else but it was snatched away by the power of Gaia's stamp. It was as if the ground had met her foot with extreme force, probably because she could control the earth. The earth shook vigorously, almost throwing Percy off balance.

Percy could hear the army respond to her call. Monsters, multiplying from the earth itself, would flock to them. Minions of darkness.

Gaia turned to the demigods and leaned towards them, a leer on her face. "Ah, my little demigods. You've been so useful to me. Thank you!" Her voice boomed out across the mountain, a deadly, yet strangely creepy smile plastered over her face. Percy felt sick to the core. He felt bile crawl up his throat. He had helped this, this thing, rise. Gaia continued, "But I'm afraid, it's over. Resistance is futile. You've lost. I've already won." Percy could feel Annabeth shaking with anger at these words. "Your friends will soon be dead, killed by minions. They will fail. You, dear Annabeth, shall be slaughtered. But you, Percy, I have a special fate for you. You may have evaded it for so long, but you cannot avoid it any longer. You shall serve me."

Percy was fed up of this hag telling him he would serve her. "I will never serve you," he whispered quietly, fury going down to his bones. Despite the fact he spoke so quietly, she still heard him.

"Oh, but you shall! And your first act of servitude?" Gaia grinned. "Kill the daughter of Athena."

Percy almost started laughing. "You think I'd actually do that?" Without waiting for an answer, he leapt forward. He slashed his sword at her leg, jumping on a branch, catapulting upwards. He leapt up the mountainous body, slashing his sword. Every time he made a stroke, brown liquid oozed out. He nearly managed to make it to Gaia's knee, before a branch grew outwards, thick as a football. It punched him square in the face, and he was sent flying backwards. His back thumped against the ground, all the wind knocked out of him. He could hear Annabeth's screams and Gaia's laughter, but Percy was dazed. There was a ringing sound in his ears.

Suddenly something happened. Something that had never happened to Percy before. He got up, and raised riptide.

But he hadn't done that of his own volition.

There was a weight in his brain, agonizing. He could barely think.

Kill Annabeth.

The thought dropped in his brain like a heavy stone, but it hadn't come from him. He lurched at it, but still he marched towards Annabeth, sword ready.

He was being controlled. By Gaia. And she was going to make him kill Annabeth.

Annabeth looked at him. "Percy, what are you doing?" She took a nervous step backwards as he continued towards her. "Percy…"

Percy would have cried if he could have. Gaia laughed. "He is under my control. He belongs to me now."

Annabeth let out a cry of fury, full of horror and rage. Percy winced. She vaulted towards Gaia, drakon-bone sword high. As always, she knew exactly where to hit. She jumped up, and struck Gaia at the back of her leg, in a small indent. It was a direct hit. Brown liquid burst out. Gaia cried in pain. Percy was amazed that he had actually managed to hurt her. Annabeth was thrown off, but the earth cushioned her, and she landed thirty metres away from Percy, who was standing still, the weight still pressing his head.

The ground lashed up and around Annabeth. Annabeth struggled, but the lashes just tightened. "I control the earth," Gaia hissed. "Physically, I can control any being, simply by using the earth to do my bidding." To demonstrate, she thrust the earth behind Annabeth upwards, the lashes disappearing. Annabeth was jolted upwards. The earth behind her rippled in jagged spikes, manoeuvring towards Annabeth. Forced to, she ran, otherwise she would be impaled. She ran another twenty metres, until she was roughly fifty metres away from Percy, when the earth collapsed, once again lashing around Annabeth, spinning her around so she faced Percy in the eye.

A cold fist clamped against Percy's heart. Her face was bruised and battered, her hair streaked with dirt, yet still there was a defiant look on her face, still fighting Gaia. He wanted to run to her, protect her, but he couldn't. As much as he struggled, he had no control over himself.

"You see? I have control, but not over their minds. My control is limited to the earth, purely physical dominance. But the son of the sea god..." Gaia laughed "He has earth in his blood. Him, I control completely."

As if to demonstrate, Percy was sent marching forward. Percy stumbled, confused. How did he have earth in his blood?

Kill Annabeth.

With a sickening feeling, Percy realised his girlfriend might die today. And it would be because of him.

"Percy! Percy, resist!" Annabeth cried out. Percy tried, but still, with all his strength he could do nothing. He was forty metres away now. The hopelessness of the situation engulfed him. "Don't let her control you!" Her hair whipped in the wind.

Percy's heart was shattering. He looked Annabeth in his eye, the one part of him he could still control. Annabeth looked deep into his eyes, beseeching. She could see the desperation in his. But still, Percy moved forward, Riptide closer and closer to Annabeth, thirty metres away…

"Percy, clear your mind," Annabeth commanded, her voice breaking. Trying to think of a plan. Percy almost couldn't bear to look at the pain in her face. "Remember the first time we met?"

Percy did remember. Annabeth looking over him, her curly hair hanging over his face, feeding him medicine while he was injured from the battle of the Minotaur.

And just like that, good memories rushed through him. Times of talking to Grover at camp, spending time at Montauk with him mum, learning sword fighting. Getting his first camp bead, helping Grover find Pan, chariot racing with Tyson. Driving cars on the cliffs with Rachel, training with Thalia, learning from Chiron. Paul and Sally's wedding. All his pleasant moments came back to him. Even more recent ones: seeing New Rom, and imagining a future with Annabeth; bonding with Frank and Hazel; feeling the sunlight on his face after getting out of Tartarus.

And most of all, Annabeth.

The times they had talked, the times they had fought, their first kiss, the cake on his birthday, the kiss underwater, the training, dancing with her on the beach. He remembered defeating Kronos, with his friends still safe. He remembered come back from his first quest victorious, Annabeth and Grover and him given laurel wreaths. He remembered his first capture-the-flag game, when he was on Annabeth's team, getting claimed from his father. Hope surged through him. He had many great experiences, and he was determined to have more, with Annabeth.

But he was only ten metres away now. His sword was raised. He had run out of options. She controlled him, through the supposed earth in his blood.

A jolt ran through Percy. Earth in his blood… He remembered what Chiron had said when he was first claimed. Poseidon, Earthshaker, Stormbringer, father of Horses. Hail Perseus Jackson, son of the sea god. Earthshaker. His father could create earthquakes. He had some power over the earth. And that was why there was earth in his blood…

Could Percy do the same? Was that one of his powers? He had never tried. As his sword was about to plunge down on Annabeth, Percy closed his eyes. He sent a silent prayer to his dad, before he tried to summon the power within him. He could hear Gaia's cackling, knew about the tear sliding down Annabeth's face as she prepared for the blow…

The power burst out of Percy with a BOOM! For a second all Percy knew was that the earth shook, throwing him off his feet, and that the weight in his head finally evaporated. He could move. He dived for Annabeth, who was free from the lashes, and hurled his body on top of hers, protecting her from the seismic shifts. Percy could hear Gaia's shriek; Percy had caught her of guard, and managed to make her stumble backwards. But it had completely drained Percy. He was out of breath, his sides screaming as if he'd just run a marathon. Sweat trickled down his face. Gaia screamed once more, this time in anger. Percy knew now they were dead. Percy could do no more, and two demigods couldn't stand up against Gaia. Plus, Gaia's army were nearly here, only a minute away.

Suddenly, the air pressure dropped. As Percy looked above, he saw a giant mass of swirling navy. A roar just as loud as Gaia's, and much lower, radiated from it. Weakly, Percy's mind was filled with hope. They've done it. Ouranos is here.

In his hand was the Spear, but hundreds of times bigger, and splinters of sparks were ejected out of it, shards falling everywhere, tongues of flames flickering out of the spear. Out of Ouranos himself, detonations of forks of lightning and electricity darted towards the ground. With an unbelievable burst of speed, he slashed at Gaia, who parried with her huge club. They fought to and fro with their weapons, but Percy got the feeling they were only warming up, after all, if he had been asleep for thousands of years, he too would need some practice.

"No!" Gaia howled. "I shall destroy you, husband, so you shall never rise again!"

Ouranos scowled. "Treacherous wife! Finally I shall get my revenge for urging my own son to kill me!"

Percy could feel the hate radiating from these two beings as they fought. Gaia's club was made of four spikes, three perpendicular to the club, and the final one pointing directly out of it. On closer inspection, Percy realised one of the spikes was a volcano, spurting out lava, and erupting constantly, annihilating anything around it. Another spike was literally a mountain, and the icy peak froze the air, and so snow fell from around it eternally. The final spike from the ring of three was a tree, as if to match her legs. All sorts of funny plants were expelled from the centre of the trunk. The final, vertical spike was as dark as night, and reminded him of Erebus. The only patch of colour was a dull brown, faint outline of the earth element symbol towards the hilt. The speed and intensity of the fight was incredible as it began to really come alive.

Percy watched as the fight moved away from the actual sparring, but the air and earth battle. Huge thunderclouds moved constantly, and tornados and hurricanes thundered, hundreds of metres above them. As Percy watched, he noticed vast amounts of fog appearing around Gaia, in order to block her vision. She retaliated, earth soaring up high and smashing into the sky lord. As she swiped back at him, her volcano spike erupted, spewing lava all over Ouranos. The lava stopped midair and turned back on her, but caused her no damage. Suddenly Gaia stepped backwards, pressed backward by the air. Gaia thrust forward a solid rope of earth, her hand like a hosepipe of earth. It all deflected off Ouranos, in an earth block. A spectacular kaleidoscope of colours radiated off the invisible airfield, where the earth met he air, an even more brilliant version of the aurora lights.

Ouranos, moving as quick as Percy's eye could follow, hurled himself onto Gaia, and they fought barehanded. Gaia was constantly struck by bolts of lightning, which would've burnt the whole of New York down, but only served to weaken her. Trees grappled at Ouranos' arms and legs, earth coating the monster, but suddenly he lifted Gaia up and flew high into the air, and a column of earth followed. The fight became a speck in the sky, as they reached the upper areas of the atmosphere. Gaia hurled back down towards Olympus, but a column of earth greeted her. Ouranos, having returned to Mount Olympus, retrieved his Spear, and with a roar of fury, attacked. They both came crashing to the ground. Ouranos stayed hovering in the air though, wisps of his body returning to the sky, so he was a massive smoky figure.

As the fight raged on, he noticed all the other demigods watching the battle in awe. But Gaia's army had returned. A huge black flag, with the same dull earth element symbol as was on her club, was flying, high in the sky. One was ripped down by a vicious wind. Many of the monsters were sucked up by the hurricanes raging above. But Percy knew with the monsters, Gaia would win. The monsters would overrun Ouranos. Even now they swarmed him. Most of them got sucked into the hurricane, but eventually he would tire out. Percy needed to get rid of the monsters if there was any hope of Gaia losing.

He dodged the first hellhound, and cut an easy deathblow to a hippalektryon, which was not focused on Percy. Percy did however focus on the rain, which was being poured out of Ouranos' thunderclouds. Percy harnessed it and used it to create a sphere of water to use as a giant bowling ball, which he would drive from the inside. As the water healed him, his power grew and he used water ropes to trap the monsters, and then finishing them off with riptide. And he could see everyone else, causing chaos amongst the monsters. This was the army from Athens, and all her other nearby supporters.

Jason whizzed around like a pinball, electrifying everyone nearby, and using Ouranos' winds and storms to his own advantage, creating his own air bubble, similarly trapping the monsters. Hazel was galloping on Arion, straight into the heart of the army. She was raising spirits from the dead, and using them to divert the monsters attention. Frank had transformed into a hellhound and had gone wild, letting loose on all the other monsters. Percy didn't want to get in the way of him. He saw Annabeth, using the shifting earth and air to her advantage; she tricked the monsters into a trap, resulting in masses of them disintegrating by the effect of the battle of Ouranos and Gaia.

Percy ran across water, which slowly elevated so he could run straight towards her. Just over the crest of the hill an empousai appeared, snarling. Percy vaporized her with a swipe.

Once he was beside Annabeth, he closed his eyes. This point in the battlefield was closes to the battling primordials. Percy, with his earthquake power, was the only one who could help in the battle. The water had healed him, so he had enough energy…

Percy stomped his foot, aiming a seismic ripple at Gaia. It threw her balance, but she continued to fight. Despite his depleted energy, Percy carried on stomping his feet, sending a ripple through the earth, and it was starting to have an effect. Gaia was slowly losing the battle. Even her monster army was shrinking rapidly, thanks to the seven.

In the distance, Percy saw Hazel fall from her horse. There were no monsters near her; all had been vaporized. Leo, too, had fought the monsters around him, and almost collapsed when he was finished.

Suddenly Annabeth collapsed next to him. Percy yelled in surprise. There were only a few monsters left near them now; Annabeth had destroyed most of them.

"ANNABETH?" Percy yelled, shaking her violently, "ANNABETH!" He hollered with all his might. The world seemed to spin around them, revolving about the two of them.

Even Percy was feeling drowsy. Suddenly it struck him. The air-pressure! Ouranos and Gaia's battle was affecting them. Mortals weren't capable of withstanding such power.

Soon there were no monsters left. Gaia was losing the battle. The Earth itself was trembling. Ouranos broke her spear in half, and there was a huge explosion. Piper was knocked off her feet.

Ouranos was standing over Gaia, who had collapsed on the floor. He brought it down on her, and roared. Energy rippled from the fight scene. Frank, in dragon form, crashed to the ground.

There was a blinding light. Percy realised Ouranos was using all his energy to disintegrate Gaia. The Earth shook. The air popped and hissed.

The mountain rattled, the ground lurching.

Percy fell forward, his vision turning black, the whole world crashing down around him.

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