Stuck with me
Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordain
Okay, asses the situation. Annabeth is about to be killed. Right. Now, I can panic. Shit! My best friend is currently a few inches away from certain death and the Chimera's tail! Which incedently looks like a dragon's tail, with some rather shiny scales. You're probably wondering if I'm carefully assessing the beast, hoping to find a weakness. You'd be wrong. I just notice odd things in times of crisis. Kinda like slow mow. Wow. My best friend is about to be killed and all I'm dong is carefully explaining how I notice things when I panic in overly long sentences. But at least it's in slow mow. Back to my life!
"Percy, I think you should save her!" said Josh. Wow. I was almost blinded by the obvious. Now, the reason why we half bloods hate Chimera's is that the half, the head of a lion, the tail of a dragon and of course the body of a goat. So technically you could make love to it like a goat, but I'll leave that to Aberoth.
All right. Despite popular opinion, the government and several Iq tests, I wasn't stupid. Just had a wacked out attention span. The first thing I did was throw Riptide straight at the Chimera, A bit last century but it fazed him enough to drop Annabeth. I readied Timmy. This was going to be intense.
When you fight a monster you've never fought before, you're pretty much screwed. Especially if you've just seen him make mince meat of an excellent sword fighter like Annabeth. I sent a light tremor underneath the Chimera. He responded by jumping on me. The Chimera was unfortunately smart. He used the short sword method. I need him far enough away for me to slash him, al he had to do was jump on me and impale me with his tail. I held Timmy diagonally, damn complicated word, across my chest, and pushed. The Chimera was thrown backwards, and I rolled backwards too. Me and the Chimera surveyed each other. Man, I hate worthy adversaries. We had fought before, but this time. This time we were pretty much equal. Not looks wise, dear me no, but in state of combat we were pretty much even. We both crouched, ready to jump. Then he fired a column of flame of me. You know, fire gets kind of repetitive. I jumped sideways to get away.
"Hey Percy!" yelled Josh. "Catch!" He threw Riptide at me. Which is very dangerous. Don't try it at home, don't try it in the missionary position, just don't do it. I picked Riptide up in my left hand. You may think I'll need a shield to keep myself medium rare. Well, you're right. But logic sure as hell isn't going to stop me from doing this.
I thought about how the thing tried to kill me and Annabeth. Damn. I'm not angry enough. I jumped up from the bush that I landed in and yelled. "Josh, I need you to get me very angry!" I charged the Chimera and stopped right in front of him and brought both blades down in an x. He caught the sword on his tail. I pulled my swords up and slashed from right and left at the same time. The Chimera then the logical thing. Or second most logical thing. The first would be to flame blast me to hell. The second and the one he chose involved him leaping forward, knocking me down and the swords out of my hands. He then playfully stood above me. Man, If he wasn't pinning me down, I would've gotten him a breath mint.
"Percy!" yelled Thalia. She looked really worried. She had a good reason to be. If I die, who's she going to have vigorous rock arguments over, like is Slipknot the best band ever, did Green Day sell out and the best possible ways to destroy all Duran Duran Cd's on earth. On second though, kill me now.
"Back off godling." said the Chimera coldly. He can talk! Maybe we could keep him... nah too homicidal.
Thalia readied her shield and sword. That shield was probably fire proof so she had a far better chance than me. Then she did something weird. She dropped her sword. With a great yell of "Ahhhh!" she swung her hand at the Chimera. A bolt of lightning came out. It hit the Chimera on the side. Wow. Me and the Chimera were shocked. He was shocked in both senses of the word.
"You'll pay for that godling." growled the Chimera, getting to his feet.
"Ha ha you're hair is all fuzzy." said Josh.
"You're not a child of the gods..." began the Chimera slowly. "You're..."
"Mortal. Yeah." said Josh. "But I took look divine." Man, the Chimera didn't look satisfied with that answer.
"I think you should give it up." said Thalia. She had her sword in hand. "You can't take both of us on at once."
"Oh can't I?" said the Chimera, with a smirk that only a goat with a lion's head could manage.
"You can. But the thing is, your life expectancy will be severely shortened if you do." I said, picking up both my swords.
The Chimera back off slightly. "It makes no difference. You are nothing but children. You cannot hope to win." Man, he has issues, and I'm gonna pay.
"Say hello to your mom when we send you back to Tartuarus." I said, perfecting my balance. I jumped straight at the Chimera, bringing both swords down in unison. He deflected with his tail, and Thalia did a faint attack at his left leg. He stamped down with his right claw, temporally pinning her sword. I swung my sword at his leg, forcing him to lift and turn, Thalia blocked his claw with her shield and made a horizontal sweep with her sword. He turned, and I caused a minor earthquake underneath him. He was temporarily unbalanced. Me and Thalia took advantage of that to temporally stick three swords in him. The dissolving thing you know. It was a Kodak moment.
"Thanks." I said. "For the whole saving me thing." She did deserve thanks for that brilliant rescuing of my life. Indeed.
"I can think of a way for you to make it up to me." said Thalia.
"I can make it up to her for you." said Josh, looking desperate. No Watson! I'm the star of this show! That means I'm entitled to at least 70 of the action.
"No Josh." I said. "I have to do this, myself."
"Percy I want you to help me send death threats to every single employee of MTV." That may not be nessacery. Hades was on a mission. The only reason he hasn't wasted them all yet is cause he still wants to see Audioslave's new video.
"Really?" I asked. "Well, okay then. It's doesn't make much sense, but it's got a beat, and I can dance do it."
"What?" asked Thalia. Oh good god. In brackets: An obvious reference to Hermes. End of brackets.
"Nothing, nothing." I said nonchantly. Well, you sure couldn't chant to it. " Say shouldn't we check on Annabeth, make sure she's still alive and all that?" It took me that long to reach this place.
"She's okay. Just knocked out." said Thalia. "I checked before I came and helped you."
"You know, I was about to be killed. If you were a second later..." I began, and held for dramatic effect. Okay, moving along now.
Thalia didn't have to answer. "I have the gate hinge." she said, ignoring my former dramatic statement. Man, I feel shunned. Kicked to the curb, or at least kicked under the chimera.
"Thank you." said a dark haired figure. "For retrieving it for us." Man that was ominous. And dramatic. The bastard. I'll out dramatize him soon enough. He also used shadows for increasingly awesome effects. Ohhh, now it's on.
"Who the fuck are you?" asked Thalia. "You're not from the government are you? Cause if you are, we can explain, we were uh, walking through the suburbs when."
"Be quiet mortal." said the dark haired stranger's dark voice. "I have no time for you. Now, the hinge. Give it to me, or die. Slowly." Okay, he's raising the dramatic bar a bit.
"Okay, I shall now repeat my former question." said Thalia. "Who the fuck are you, and why do you have a death wish?"
"Uh, Thalia, I recognize him." I said.
"Who is he? Or she." asked Thalia.
"Kronos.' I said simply. Now that's dramatic. He looks and sounds slightly more whole than he did when I saw him in my dreams.
"Correct." said Kronos as he strode forwards. He looked like you'd except Alex's evil half brother who returned, from seeming oblivion to look. Damn. Now this probably reads sounds like a O.C rip off. Well it's not. He had the same pitch black hair as Hades but his was worn in spikes. He was around six foot three. His arms were covered in dark scar lines, that look quite a lot like tattoos. In fact, his entire body was a mess of black lines. Well, what we could see anyway. He wore jeans and pure cotton white vest. You could see the quality. In fact, he looked a lot more like a rock band's drummer than anything else.
"You see kids this real life. This life at it's harshest and most unforgiving. This fairy tale myth you've been living in, is nothing new. All kinds of tales spawned after my, departure, from the throne. After the end of my golden age.You see the world as it is not. You claim this so called Western Civilization has created goodness and happiness. " said Kronos and he looked at us. His eyes were a beautiful blue. No Percy! Do...not...get...lost...in...them...please?
" You looked at your world and all your advancements." said Kronos, and he said the word as if it was some kind of thing he does not like very much. " You call it good. Better than my age. Why did you seek this, so called evolution? Ignorance is bliss. You said it yourselves. Why is civilization necessary. I look at this world, and I see. I'm not blind like you." Man, I sure don't stand much of a chance in the drama contest anymore. In case you're wondering, Kronos' voice had the kind of quality that gets you to listen, even if it makes no sense at all. It was also kind of disjointed, as you probably realized. Spending all that time alone must have messed up the old social skills.
"I suspect Prometheus has already told you about the reality of god's Perseus." said Kronos suddenly. "That we change. That is the real difference. Because, titans, titans change only according to their own whims. Gods, gods can be altered. Gods and humans exist hand in hand. Gods and humans are selfish." Okay, weird control freak calling others selfish. Could this monologue make any less sense? "Ares is the god of war. He isn't just an impersifiction of war, he is war. All the anger and rage and hated and stupidity mixed with brute force that causes war. Hades, on the other hand is the god of death. He is death, all the cruelty and pity and hate and love that comes associated with death. And me, I'm the titan of the earth. I am the earth." Oh shit. All those people who say global warming doesn't do any harm are about to die. Now that's my kind of humor.
"Excuse me, but is this going anywhere?" asked Thalia. Ha! His brand of drama only stuns people for short periods of time.
"Not really." said Kronos. "I was just stalling, casually holding the threat of your immanent deaths over the head of my moronic half brother." Oh. He was just using us! As bait! Now I know who those worms feel after the changed to 3d. Which sucked, just by the way. "On his arrival, I will destroy him, ensuring me and Zeus' invasion of the world goes, smoothly." Wow loose cannon! He probably need to get those things off his chest but hell, next time warn me. Wait, did he say he was going to kill Alex?
"As cocky and arrogant as ever I see." Said Alex, landing right between us and Kronos.
"Yet also as awesome as ever." said Kronos. "Hi, brother."
"Half brother. Peace to your mother." said Alex. Oh damn. He was listening to Vanilla Ice again.
"As you say. It's time I ended you're miserable existence." said Kronos, smiling sinisterly.
"Like you have a chance." answered Alex.
:Oh but he does." said Zeus, standing calmly behind Alex, master bolt in hand.
Author Notes: No musical interpretation necessary.
Sorry about the delay in posting. Hope you enjoy this chapter and thanks to all my rewievers. I'd also like to say I'm now entering a darker type of humor. Anyway, R and R please.
Rewiev Responses! Yay!
The Oracular Fox: My pairings move really slowly.
A great and terrible Beauty: You'll find out how unusual in a way that'll make Percy jealous.
Rugby King: Yeah. Personally I can't wait until Australia plays England again.
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