Chapter 22: Chapter 22

Ch. C22: Sea to the Rescue

"Now let's begin." Demise laughed looking over the beaten Percy and demolished Jason. "Wow I really did expect better from the son of Jupiter!"

Demise was bluffing on some accounts, he was bleeding from two nasty wounds and had a broken rib or two. Luckily his Crimson get up concealed his more apparent loss of blood.

"Damn you..." Jason panted rising to his feet only to fall as a massive explosion rocked the frozen earth. "What the-"

"Silence!" Demise surged forward knocking Percy aside with the Blade of Mars and let loose a jarring kick to Jason's skull. Knocking him back a few feet. "Better now, Percy Jackson watch as the tower of Suns Death rises!"

"Oh now that's cheap!" Percy growled as the massive Stygian and bone tower rose.

"Perhaps a closer look is needed?" Demise chuckled as his body ignited.

"No! Really man... I think this is okay!" Percy said backing away from the flaming son of Hyperion.

"None sense ocean spawn!" Demise laughed snapping his fingers. Percy let out a yell as his body exploded into flames. The two exploded into existence on the top of the massive tower. "Behold!"

Percy spun around cursing in Greek as the sun began to be eclipsed.

"Let me guess power up?" Percy sighed readying himself for what was to come.

"Oh you have no idea!" Demise laughed tossing aside his Ancient Silver sword rising the Blade of Mars. The blade was consumed in flames and lightning. "Perhaps you should know what fuels my hatred for you Sea spawn..."

"Story time then?" Percy said his voice cautious.

"More or less..." Demise sighed. "Poseidon killed my mother! Before my very eyes! No three-year-old should see that! She felt no vain to the gods... Yet your father killed her! He took something dear from me... Now I will take his most cherished son from him! Aaaagggghhhh!"

Percy met Demise's blade both had eyes of vengeance. "This isn't the way to do it!"

The two expert fighters clashed moving as one as one reacted to the other. Neither had faced someone with such skill and power behind each strike.

"Shut up!" Demise roared tossing Percy aside with the Blade of Mars. "You know nothing! And never will!"

"In the name of my father I will-" Percy was cut off by a vicious assault of blade strikes.

"The time to repent has long since passed!" Demise snarled spinning around with a jarring kick to the demigod's wrist knocking his blade Riptide free. "The time for blood is now!"

Demise surged forward knocking Percy to Stygian roof of the massive tower. The demigod had no sense of fear to him enraging Demise who stomped down hard on his rib cage.

"AAAGGGHHH!" Percy yelled as his ribs broke.

"Still no fear!" Demise spat kicking Percy hard in the side. "Fine still YOU will DIE!"

Demise brought the blade of Mars down in a wicked arc. The son of Hyperion leaped backwards as a triton lashed out at the boy.

"D... Dad?" Percy sputtered at a man standing between him and Demise. He wore a simple Hawaiian T-shirt and Bermuda shorts the god had leathery skin and dark hair with smile marks that were masked by a roundish glare. The god raised his hand to silence his son.

"Enough..." the god said readying his triton. "It seems this boy has much to learn of godly power... And pride."

"Please I took on both Mars and Artemis!" Demise growled which was cut off by the god's massive laugh.

"That you did boy!" the god laughed enraging Demise. "One as yourself should know that Mars alone is Meat bag. Though with Artemis at his back the two might as well dig their own graves."

"STOP MOCKING ME!" Demise roared charging the god who sighed as he tossed the son of Hyperion aside with a jarring blow from his triton. "Dammit!"

"Surprised? Hmm... You shouldn't be." Poseidon sighed readying his triton.

"Why's that?" Demise spat.

"Because if it weren't I to beat you into submission it would be one of your own Titan spawn!" Poseidon roared his triton glowing green with wicked sparking energy. "Now taste defeat!"

"NOOOOO!" Demise cursed as a ripping torrent of water flooded from Poseidon's triton tearing the air from Demise's lungs and dragging him down the small opening of the one hundred story tower. Each step beat into the Demititans ribs, back or limbs. The son of Hyperion cursed as his lungs flooded he roared fighting hard against the endless rush of water the gods words burning into his mind.

'If it weren't I to beat you... It would be one of your own'

That message meant far too much to let pain erase it as Demise was beaten down the final flights of stairs. His body racked with pain from his one hundred-flight fall which the god's water had seemed to maximize. Only one thing hurt more than defeat... Demise knew it to be betrayal. A line from the prophecy rang in his mind.

'He shall stand upon his throne betrayed by all'