A/N: Alright guys, this is the last chapter! Sorry for the last chapter, it was more of a filler than anything else, but I promise the ending for this story will make up for last chapter and this chapter's kind of slow start. I decided to make this finale chapter in Percy's POV, so enjoy, and please try not to hunt me down and murder me for the cliffhanger!
Chapter 13- Percy
Percy rejoined the land of the living very slowly, due to the splitting headache he had. and it didn't help that the rest of his body didn't feel too hot either. The first thing he noticed was that he had a thick bandage around his head, his sword arm was in a sling, and his leg was in an elaborate splint.
Though his head was still throbbing in pain perfectly in tune with his pulse, Percy opened his sea-green eyes and saw that his father, Poseidon, and his girlfriend, Annabeth, was standing right above him, staring at him with concerned eyes.
"What happened?" Percy croaked, due to a very dry and swollen throat.
With one glance at each other, Poseidon and Annabeth each took a deep breath and took turns explaining what happened after he had passed out.
"Son, using so much of your powers severely drained your critical energy and life-aura, diminishing them to almost nothing, so you and your cousins, who did the same thing, were you on death's door. Because of this, Hades had to perform a quick ritual over the three of you that made you fall into a comatose state, allowing your body to heal and your energy to replenish itself. Also, while we defeated Alcyoneus, Porphyrion, and Polybotes together, Gaea and Tartarus managed to escape before we could capture them," stated the god of the sea.
"Percy, after Hades did the ritual, we all traveled back to Olympus, where you, Thalia, and Nico were placed where you are now. Once you three were situated, there was a meeting of the Olympian Council where we learned that the Romans have just attacked Camp Half-Blood, starting the war between the two camps. So once you, Thalia, and Nico are well enough to travel, everyone, demigods and gods included, are going to Camp Half-Blood to try to persuade Camp Jupiter to call off the war," explained Annabeth.
"The Romans are attacking the Camp? We need to go right now, and save everyone!" exclaimed Percy.
"I don't know Percy, we should give you and your cousins at least a week or so to recover your strength. Don't forget you almost died, though that isn't new for you, but I'm not losing you again," argued Poseidon.
When Annabeth started nodding in agreement with the Sea God, Percy's temper spiked and he started giving them his death glare, which they backed away from due to its sudden intensity.
"Dad, Annabeth, Camp Half-Blood is our home, and I will defend it to the death. I don't care if I'm too weak or not; no way in Hades am I just going to sit back and watch my friends and family get slaughtered by the Romans. Also, if I know Camp Jupiter, their resentment is due to their wounded pride and Octavian fueling their anger," shouted Percy.
That was how Percy managed to convince everyone that they needed to go to Camp Half-Blood right away, and not wait to recover, which Thalia and Nico whole-heartily agreed with. So by noon that very same day, all the demigods and gods had gathered together in the throne room and together, they all transported themselves to Camp Half-Blood, right in the middle of the battle.
The sudden appearance by the Olympians and their children was enough to cause a quick cease-fire, partly because no one wanted to risk hitting a god and angering them. While all the Romans were all stunned senseless, every last Greek issued a cry of joy when they saw Percy and Annabeth were with the group, for the last the camp had heard, the two heroes had fallen into Tartarus. Unfortunately, the stunned silence of the Romans didn't last long though, because the most annoying Roman in the world, Octavian, suddenly found his voice.
"Romans, we have been presented with the man we have been seeking the most! Fellow legionnaires, I order you to kill Perseus Jackson, the son of Neptune!"
With one quick wave of their hands, both Poseidon and Percy sent a wave at the augur, drenching the Roman into silence.
"First off Octavian, I am the son of Poseidon, not Neptune, but that doesn't matter right now. What matters is that Gaea and Tartarus have both risen and they plan on destroying the world, only to rebuild it with their perfect and twisted ideas. But they want to start by destroying the camps by having them attack and kill each other, and then move onto abolishing Olympus itself!" exclaimed Percy.
"And why should we believe you, you filthy Graecus? All Greeks lie and deceive, why should we think you'd be any different?" demanded Octavian, the annoying demigod he was.
"Octavian, I did not fall into that evil abyss, unleash my full power on Typhon, die, come back to life, be kidnapped yet again, tortured by Tartarus, go on a quest to save my father and uncles from Tartarus and Gaea when they were kidnapped with a lot of other people who were very brave to go, and fight and defeat three giants with the help of my cousins, father, and uncles, just to be questioned by an annoying boy who fakes having the gift of Prophecy! So shut up!" shouted Percy, who rarely loses his temper like that, he was just so fed up with Octavian.
After Percy's outburst at him and his claim that he was faking having the gift of Prophecy, which he was, Octavian was for the first time in his life, silent.
"Alright, listen up godlings! I know I closed Olympus, and now I know how wrong I was to do that, but the point is, we need the two camps to cooperate and work together to defeat Gaea and Tartarus," practically begged Zeus, something that was completely new to him.
Seeing as their choices were to either work together or anger the gods and be murdered by Gaea and Tartarus, the two camps reluctantly stepped forward and every camper shook hands with each other, signaling a truce agreement to put aside their differences.
Just then though, there was a great boom! in the background, right by Thalia's tree and where the borders of Camp Half-Blood were. Immediately all the demigods of both camps and the Olympians spun around to face whatever that made such a loud startling noise, and what they saw made several people, Roman and Greek alike, cower in fear.
It seemed as if when Gaea and Tartarus fled the abyss when Alcyoneus, Porphyrion, and Polybotes were defeated, they immediately rounded up their entire army to attack the camps as a whole. In their army, was ALL the monsters of the world, even ones that had long ago been defeated and ones that had just been killed and shouldn't have resurrected already, like Medusa and the Minotaur, and all the Titans and Giants were there too. There were other creatures in the army that Percy didn't even know the name of, they were that old. But every creature had one thing in common, they were children or at the very least related, to Gaea and Tartarus in one way or another.
This sight shocked Percy and the rest of the campers and Olympians to the core, no way in the world would they have expected something like this, but unfortunately, Gaea and Tartarus saw the astonishment and they took advantage of the situation. The two ordered their army to charge Camp Half-Blood, Camp Jupiter, and the Olympian gods and goddesses, and to attack with everything they had to take the camps and heroes down, which was exactly what the monsters, Titans, and Giants did.
Disclaimer and Author's Note:
Me: "I have come to terms with the fact that Rick Riordan owns all, and I own nothing."
Percy: "That's good, you shouldn't say otherwise, no matter how much you want to own PJO and HoO. Wait, was that the last chapter?"
Me: "Yes! But now I get to read the actual House of Hades book, I mean it's been over a month, and I still haven't read it, which is so sad!"
Percy: "Once you've read the book, are you going to write more FanFiction?"
Me: "Of course!"
Percy: "Are you going to torture me again?"
Me: "I honestly don't know, it depends if I feel if you have experienced enough torment in Tartarus or not. If I feel as if you have been tortured severely, then I'll go easy on you, but if I feel you can experience more, than I'll be cruel."
Percy: "I don't know what to hope for right now, whether I am tormented in Tartarus or not, just so I'm not tortured again in FanFiction."
Me: "Tough luck, but everyone should know that I will put up a notice on this story when I have finished the House of Hades and have uploaded the first chapter in whatever the next book is. Also, I am going to working on a Percy Jackson story just for fun, which I will have more information on later."
Percy: "Ok then, happy reading!"