Gabriel: The confrontation with Ouranos and Prometheus along with aftermath
At long last, I had arrived at one of the biggest moments of my entire career. Today, I would choose between taking my revenge and forgetting about the Sky Sword or attacking Ouranos and stealing it from him. I unsheathed both of my swords and thought about the difficult choice before I went into the Throne room where my father once ruled supreme. All right Gabe, today is not the day for revenge; you must get the Sky Sword at all costs and if you kill Prometheus along the way, that's fine I told myself.
Then I stepped into the Throne room for the first time since I met my father for the first time. "Welcome to your destruction Gabriel Johnson, so sad that you came alone though," Prometheus said. "I only need myself for this mission, you know that to be true Titan!" I hissed. "Oh so I suppose there was no need to bring in Thalia Grace, Perseus Jackson, and Nico di Angelo along?" he asked.
"That's none of your concern Prometheus, now are we going to get this show on the road or are we just going to stand and talk?" I asked. "I was about to ask that same thing of the two of you myself," Ouranos answered. Sure enough, the Sky Sword was in his right hand and his shield was on his left so he was ready for battle. I prepared myself with the two swords I had in my hands and had one pointed at each of them since I did not know who was going to attack first.
To my surprise, both of them moved to attack at the same time but I had knew that this was not something to panic about. I simply surged enough power in to the sword on my left hand to create a bomb powerful enough to destroy any shield simply by touching it. Yes I would be sacrificing one of my swords but it was better than fighting both of them while Ouranos had that shield plus it would temporarily catch him off guard. When my sword was ready for its final blow, I threw it with all my might (I'm right-handed when I throw) and I was slightly surprised to see I didn't miss.
While the explosion was going and the light of it was distracting Ouranos, I put up a defense against Prometheus and briefly twirled blades against him. We had a moment where our blades crossed but that was when the explosion ended and Ouranos was regaining awareness of his surroundings. I pushed Prometheus off me and deflected a blow from Ouranos' blade and was locked for several seconds in a hold neither of us wanted to let go of. But when I saw Prometheus coming at me again, I knew I had only two options at that precise time.
The first option was to get out of the hold, kick Ouranos down and fight with Prometheus for a bit (again). But the second option sounded even better to me and would go along with the plan better. The second option was that I would quickly muster up enough power to push Prometheus through the wall behind him and out Orthys. I went with the second option and it worked brilliantly and almost instantaneously.
Since Prometheus was caught off guard by it, he was sent flying through the wall and down to the base of the mountain. Now, even if he temporarily transformed into a bird, he would never reach us in time to save Ouranos if I was quick. I broke the lock and resumed slashing, twirling, spinning, and hacking with my remaining sword at Ouranos who deflected them repetitively with the Sky Sword. But as annoying as it was, I was caught and yet another lock of our blades but thankfully this was not one with a weird angle like some of the previous ones had been.
During this one, I looked into the intense eyes of the elder sky god who had preceded both my brother Zeus and my father Kronos as ruler of the Heavens. I had heard that a weakness of most primordial gods (like the Titans) was that if you made them angry, they would perform sloppily. With that in mind, I decided to mock Ouranos with some comments that I know would have pissed off Zeus with ease. "Now I see how you could have the cold heart to cast your own children into Tartarus," I said.
"Oh yes, and how was that?" he asked. "Well let me put it this way, you were born an incompetent idiot that was unfit to rule the universe. Oh and your son cut off your balls so now, you don't even have a sex-life," I answered. Ouranos took the bait and pushed me off him before gathering enough power borrowed from Light to use it against me.
"For that insolent remark, you will pay dearly! Feel the power of a star's core!" he shouted. I shielded my eyes just before he turned on the incredibly bright light that was reminiscent of the sun. "Now, burn mortal as so many others before you have burned under the might of this star's power," he ordered. My armor protected me from the star's power but I knew that if I didn't reach Ouranos soon, the protection would not last and my armor would fail me.
That's when it occurred to me that he had thrown the Sky Sword into the air as if priding himself on destroying me with this attack. It was almost working but I had an idea that would work if I didn't miss the sky god and boy was this risky. I threw my remaining sword in front of me, where I remembered Ouranos last being before he unleashed the attack because I knew that usually a powerful attack requires you to stand where you are no matter what until the attack is over. Carefully and strategically, I painted a mental picture of Ouranos in my mind and pictured where his heart was then aimed precisely where I thought it would be.
Being careful to keep my eyes shielded from the light, I hurled my sword with the strength remaining in my right arm. To be the most precise, I even threw it as though I had had a javelin in my possession and waited for the light to go out from the impact of the blow. I knew the blow succeeded when the light vanished just barely more than a few seconds later and I heard a loud cry from Ouranos. When I lifted my arm down, the sword had gone almost all the way through my enemy with only the hilt sticking out and a portion of the tip sticking out of the back.
Then, knowing that now Zeus would inherit all the powers of the sky, so I just sat back and watch as a single blue beam pierced the sky. It drained Ouranos of both his power and his life in a single, rapid shoot to the night sky where it belonged. In the process, my last sword was destroyed but it was great to know that Ouranos was dead when his body burst into flame as a signal of his death. At that same time, I saw the Sky Sword drop and pierce the cement deep enough to stand firmly upright.
Seeing that Prometheus had not yet arrived and probably would not, I savored the sensation of obtaining the Sky Sword. Yes, I had sensed the destruction of Orthys' core but even with that there was no need to rush just yet. Slowly, I extended my arm and was a far enough distance to where only my hand could reach the hilt. Finally, I grab it and pull it from the marble floor below my feet and feeling the power surge into my veins.
I proudly held it with the sharp tip facing the domain from whence the weapon came. The thunder growled as though Zeus had noticed that I had obtained the Sky Sword and I knew I would have the power to destroy Prometheus once and for all. "Thank you brother for entrusting me with the only power to even closely rival your lightning bolt," I said, knowing better than to take full credit for the victory even when I had every right to. Smiling, I decided to test its power against the forces protecting Mount Orthys and that was just assuming they would oppose my escape.
I walked out of the Black Throne room but not before I took one last look around at the place that my father had once ruled. Then I said aloud to no one else: "I can't focus on you forever father, I have already surpassed you." After that I turned my back on the Black Throne completely and even went as far as to use the Sky Sword to seal the entrance. This thing doesn't kid around when in use I thought to myself with a smile.
Having already mastered the abilities required for a two-handed sword, I let the Persian hordes pour on me before annihilating them all. It was so easy destroying the legions of Persian soldiers that it was barely even fun to see them be cast back into the Underworld just because I tested the Sky Sword's power on them. I fought and slashed my way through the hall leading back to where I separated from Thalia with ease and was surprised to find her close behind me. After finishing off the remainder of our current enemy, I asked her if she found any survivors in the dungeons.
"There was one who was alive long enough to tell me about a place called Saturn's Land. He said his name was Conan and handed me this sword just before he died," she said as she lifted a sword I recognized almost too well. "That's the Sword of Saturn, it's said that as long as a child of Saturn holds it Saturn's Land will never die," I said aloud. "So it exists then?" Thalia asked and I answered by nodding before asking her to give the sword to me.
She must have learned that Saturn was the Roman form for Kronos because she was quick to hand it to me. "So are all of the people of Saturn's Land your siblings?" she asked. "Not by blood no but I am still related through an oath of kinship. Did Conan tell you how Saturn's Land started before he died?" I replied.
"Yes but something about it doesn't make sense. We serve the Greek gods and are children of them yet here is this Roman god with children of his own. Could that mean there are more Roman gods out there and if so, how is that possible?" she asked. "Put Annabeth on the investigation with her brother Malcolm, they have a better chance of figuring it out than you do but I can tell you that the gods of all cultures exist from China to Egypt," I answered and that was true.
But that would have to cast aside for another time when we aren't on the run from a collapsing palace. "Thalia, let's find Percy and get the hell out of here before this place collapses. If the stairs are destroyed, I'll use my telekinetic abilities to steady your wind powers while we make the descent. Once we've met up with Percy, we have to get as far away as we can from the mountain before Orthys collapses completely," I told her.
She agreed and we ran for the portal just before it faded away completely. On the other side, we didn't even see any trace of the portal but rather we saw a blank wall like the rest of the room we had started at. "Now let's find Percy and get out of this place quickly," I said. But Percy found us and we all had to descend down the stairs as they started to crack and crumble beneath our very feet as we ran.
"The stairs are leveled, we're going to have to make quite the feat to get out of here," he said. "Thalia, manipulate the winds as best you can and I'll do what I can to steady the three of us," I said. We gathered around Thalia and wrapped our arms around each other so that we didn't lose our grip once we were descending down the mountain. "Take us to the lake by the mountain, I can carry us quite a distance away from this place if you do," Percy said.
I nodded agreement and told him to guide Thalia towards the lake so that it could be done. He gave directions after Thalia began bending the winds to her will and I stabilized her power with my telekinesis. "Turn left and head diagonally downwards then I'll tell you when to stop," he said. I held onto both of them as we made the plunge, my fingers barely even reaching each other as we flew down to the lake together.
I kept us on a straight path (just barely) and Thalia brought us to the lake so fast that Percy barely even had any time to tell her to stop. When she did stop, we were just above the surface of the lake and Percy brought up the levels of it enough for us to safely stand up on it. "Percy, I'm gonna try and buy you some time if necessary so just concentrate on raising the waters enough to launch us out of here," I told him. Percy nodded and closed his eyes to concentrate on commanding the water to carry us away from the base of Orthys.
Oddly enough, the Persians kept on fighting the Greek and I only had to kill those few who wandered to close to the lake for comfort. The sad thing was that I was sacrificing all of these great soldiers to destroy Mount Orthys and obtain the Sky Sword. But then I took solace in the fact that they were already dead and would have willingly given up their lives a second time to destroy the enemy once again. "Percy you ready with your little water-launcher idea?" I asked and he nodded.
After that I told him to do it and we were blasted off faster than any gun could ever have launched us. We shot clear over the walls of Orthys, far past our camp, and landed near the border between San Francisco and Nevada. Thankfully, we were not wet but now we had another problem on our hands: contacting Chiron and telling him the mission was a success. "Hey Percy, you got anymore of that water on you because we need to get an Iris-message to Chiron?" Thalia asked.
"No but there's a shop right across the street where we can possibly get water guns at," Percy answered. Sure enough, he was right about that and I decided to go in and see if I could buy a water gun for us. "Thalia , hold camp here and Percy, see if you can find some water to fill the gun up with water if it's necessary and bring the water back in this," I told them, handing Percy my cape. I handed the Sky Sword to Thalia and held onto the Sword of Saturn while I headed for the store to see where their best price on water guns were.
I returned with a really good one shortly thereafter and made sure to have a drachma for Thalia to use in giving the message while I fired the gun. Percy returned with the water and we were fortunate enough to tell Chiron himself that we had a successful mission. "Chiron, this is Thalia calling on the Iris service and I would like to report a successful mission. I repeat, we have successfully destroyed Ouranos and stolen the Sky Sword from him and we have also obtained this weapon called the Sword of Saturn according to Gabriel," she said.
"Congratulations you three, we have obtained Nico and have sent a chariot to pick you up. State your location and it will arrive quickly," Chiron said. We did and a chariot came to pick us up in a matter of minutes; I could hardly wait to get back to Camp.