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Poseidon's POV
Things were going well for us, until our enemies started using their powers. Triton, Amphitrite and I had charged at the titans with booming battle cries and insults. We had slammed into the enemy, with a force unrivaled. I instantly ducked underneath a blow from Oceanus and quickly retaliated with a stab to his stomach. He had a trident, just like me, but it had barbs along the blade, so that he could rip his opponents to shreds.
He dodged my stab and brought his trident down in a vertical strike, so that he could slice me into two halves. I caught his trident on mine and we pushed against each other's blades, both of us trying to push the other onto the sea floor.
After a couple of seconds, Oceanus kicked my legs out from under me and stabbed downwards, hoping to end the fight quick. I rolled to the side and jumped to my feet. I saw similar battles happening with my family, as they repelled their enemies. Amphitrite swirled around Keto, like a hurricane, while gracefully avoiding her pitiful attacks and monster pets.
Triton was sliding, dodged and jumping around to avoid Phorcys, as he examined his fighting style and tired him out. I was brought out of my thoughts, when Oceanus charged at me, while screaming a booming battle cry. I ducked underneath his first swing and grabbed his arm. Then I gave him an uppercut to his face, which made him fly through the water, like a torpedo.
I used my power over the currents to push him down, so that he would be injured more from the fall. He slammed into the earth and groaned, before flipping onto his stomach and climbing to his knees. I rushed forward and used my trident like a baseball bat. I smashed it into his face and he went airborne. (seaborne?) I'll give it a double; I thought and pounced on my still recovering enemy.
I stabbed Oceanus in the chest and he let out a wail of pain, before he summoned a ball of godly energy, which he threw into my chest, making me be thrown off of him. I groaned and looked at my steaming armor, before using the currents to push me onto my feet.
"So you want to play with powers huh? Well then I will be happy to oblige." I created ice shards all around him, but he just melted them and retaliated with a bolt of godly energy, which can be extremely dangerous for the caster and their target.
See, godly energy is literally the god's energy. It's their life force. So if they use too much in one battle, then they can end up killing themselves. It's a dangerous gamble, but if it is charged, then it can annihilate its target.
I dodged the bolt of pure energy and shot more ice shards at him, while also attacking with boiling water. He melted the ice, but was caught in my circle of boiling water and started to scream, as he was being cooked alive, by the extremely hot liquid.
After a couple of seconds, the screaming stopped and I wondered if he was dead. I released the liquid and found that he was missing. To late did I realize that it was a trap. I started to turn around, but was stabbed in the back by three sharp tines of metal.
I gasped and fell to my knees, before quickly pulling the trident out of me, which tore my insides, thanks to the jagged barbs. I fell to the ground, as golden ichor streamed from the three wounds in my back. I pushed myself upwards, only to be stepped on by a gloating Oceanus.
"Now I can take my rightful place, as ruler of the oceans and my daughter will finally listen to me, after your lies have been silenced." Then he vapor-traveled us on top of a hill next to The Abyss, where he declared to both armies below, "I have conquered Poseidon! I claim his throne as my own! Now, bow before me, you useless peasants, before I cut off your heads."
The merman looked up at Oceanus and flipped him the bird. Oceanus spluttered in rage, while I just laughed, before tackling him off of the edge. I used the water to propel both of us towards the bottom of the ocean, before I would use the currents to save me. It didn't work out that way.
When we were almost to the ground, I tried my plan, but found that I couldn't, because another force was pushing against me. Oceanus grimaced and said, "If I am going to die, then you're going to die with me." And with that, we crashed into the bottom of the ocean at a very high speed.
Leo's POV
In my dream, I was in Camp Jupiter or what I recognized of it, from the time I accidentally blew it up. The houses resembled burning piles of ash and there were many people running through the streets, screaming in terror from figures running towards them, with an assortment of weapons, allowed inside the Pomerian Line. A collection of kitchen knives, hammers, saws and axes.
It was chaos. What sickened me the most, was the figures, which wore honor badges, they achieved from the War Games. The demigods are attacking each other, I realized. The centurions have turned on their comrades. But why? I found my answer, when I was propelled across the city, by whoever or whatever controls demigod dreams, and saw a dark specter observing the chaos below, while smiling sadistically at the madness, like he caused it.
A bang came from behind him and a door burst open, to reveal Frank Zhang. I still couldn't get over his shift in height or muscles, which he had been bestowed with by Mars. He didn't look to good though. He was bleeding profusely and his side was littered with bruises. He had a black eye and was clutching his side, while he barreled onto the roof. Then the figure gave a long speech saying that Frank should join him, and by joining him, Frank would be able to save the people of Camp Jupiter and he also lied about us dying on our quest. He spoke of an army of monsters on the way to Camp Jupter and the Mist being unveiled. This is serious, I thought.
After the figure finished his little spiel, Frank balled his fist, but extended his hand, like he was actually accepting this crazy guys offer, until tackled him over the edge. The pair exchanged blows, but right before they slammed into the ground, my vision went black. The last thing I thought, before I was brought back to consciousness, was that I hope Frank is safe and he killed that little lying weasel.
THIS LINEBREAK IS A SAD LITTLE PUPPY, WHICH IS GIVING YOU ITS SEAL LIKE EYES.
I woke up to freezing liquid, being splashed on my face. I spluttered around and fell out of my bed, before realizing that there was a person near my bed. "Wake up! Or I'll give you to my mistress' monsters." Orion said. I climbed to my feet and scowled at him, before attempting to knock his lights out.
He caught my sloppy punch and stated, while waving his index finger in front of my face, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. I know the girl, whom you seek. I could kill her, in the blink of an eye, so if I were you, I wouldn't risk it, Mr. Seventh Wheel."
I scowled at him, before asking, "What is so important, that you had to wake me up or are you just a jerk?" Orion smiled sadistically, before saying, "Its time, for me to hunt."
JUST ANOTHER UNNECASARY LINEBREAK, BECAUSE I THINK ITS COOL TO END THAT PARAGRAPHS WITH THOSE WORDS.
An hour later, I found myself with Piper in the middle of a pitch black forest. Ok, Ok let me back up. So after Orion did his little "scary" statement, he grabbed Piper and I and walked us out of the door of his cottage.
Except his house was actually on top of a mountain, which only had one way to go down or up, an old, rusty gondola, which looked like an accident waiting to happen. "Wow. Cool gondola." I said with fake enthusiasm. Orion narrowed his eyes. "Yes it is, and you two are going down on it!" He said in a forced enthusiastic tone. Schist! I thought.
"Now, you two will have ten minutes to run, after you reach the bottom, before I come after you." With that being said, he pushed Piper and I towards the death trap and I tried to back away, but he just shoved us in and it automatically shut its gates and started its descent. So much for my plan… I was going to find out where we were and then escape using some ingenious plan of mine. And now, I couldn't do that, except I might be able to do that… If I can find it.
After a couple of minutes, we reached the bottom of the mountain. "Well… we had better get moving or else he might hurt our friends." I stated and Piper and I sprinted into the pitch black forest, running as fast as we could away from our pursuer.
TIME SKIP TEN MINUTES
Piper and I darted through the underbrush, away from the mountain. "It must have been ten minutes by now. What do you think we should do?" Piper asked me. "We need a plan." "Really? We do?" Piper said, her voice laced with sarcasm.
"Yes, we do. Now, how do we turn the hunter, into the hunted?" I stopped to think, but Piper grabbed my arm and dragged me along saying, "We can't stop or else he will catch us!" "Ok, Ok. Pipes let go! That's my ear! Is this really necessary?" I asked, as Piper dragged me along by grabbing my ear.
I yanked my ear from her relentless hold and glared at her laughing face. "Shut up. We don't have time for this." I muttered. Her expression became serious; when she remembered the danger we were in. "Leo… I think we should find a safe place, who knows how many things could be out there, in the dark?"
"Look, anything in the forest is the least of our worries." Right when I finished my sentence, a rustling was heard, somewhere in the forest. "Come on! Let's go!" I hissed and we slowly crept deeper into the forest, to evade whatever it was pursuing us.
After a couple of minutes of walking, I stated, "I think we los-" My sentence was cut short, when I was flattened to the ground, by a massive creature. All I could see was its black hide and ruby red eyes. And its teeth, it's very, very sharp teeth.
Piper screamed in terror, while jumping backwards in fright, before she rushed forward and tackled the monstrous… monster. Piper and the monster fell down a hill, which I couldn't see, until I was right next to it, and already Piper's screams and the monsters roars were fading into the distance.
"Piper!" I screamed. "I am coming!" I sprinted down the hill, trying to avoid as many logs as I could, but I still tripped over many, but I always climbed to my feet again, soon, I was starting my long, painful decent down the rocky hill. Faster, Faster, Faster! I chanted, as I pushed my body to sprint faster down the hill, towards Piper. Suddenly, a sharp pain flared from my ankle, so I fell to the ground. I landed painfully on my side and then slammed into a log, which knocked the air out of me.
I was debating, whether to lie on my back and rest or not, when I remembered that Piper was in danger. So I quickly climbed to my feet and darted down the hill, sprinting, sliding and rolling. After a couple of minutes, I could hear the roars and Piper's crying getting closer, when my foot got caught in a bear trap.
Pain flared in my foot, as the evil metal dug into my skin, trying to rip it to shreds. I bit my lip in an attempt to stop from screaming, so hard, that it started to bleed. I looked down at my foot and was actually happy that it was dark, or else I would have passed out.
I found the two clamps of the trap and forced them to the side, inch by inch. I could feel the rusty metal slowing being pulled out of my foot. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. I realized I had released my foot, so I lifted it, in an attempt to get away from the trap, but just fell over from the massive pain flaring through my body.
I released the trap, in an attempt to stable myself, so it just clamped back into place and I fell to the ground with a muffled grunt. I could feel my body going into shock, either from the pain and the cold. Have… To get to… Piper. I struggled to my feet and started limping my way towards the noise of crying and demented growling. I reached an area, which looked like something large had been using as a play pen, since all of the trees were uprooted and demolished.
I saw Piper underneath one of the trees, with the hellhound creature, circling the tree, where she was trapped. Suddenly, it stopped and sniffed the air, before turning its glowing red eyes on to me. Uh Oh. Before I knew what was happening, it was bounding towards me.
I ducked underneath its pounce and immediately fell to the ground, stupid ankle! I crawled behind a tree and used it as temporary cover, as I searched for a sharpish stick to kill the hellhound with. I instantly stopped, when I heard the sound of paws hitting the ground, right behind my tree. I could hear its labored breathing, as it moved closer to me. At least I wasn't the only one injured. It bounded over the tree's roots and fixed its terrifying eyes onto mine.
I searched with one hand, while I kept my gaze on the monstrous beast before me. Nothing moved, except the sound of my hand, searching for a suitable weapon, until it let forth a defeaning roar, before pouncing at me, right when my hand brushed against a stick. I brandished my feeble weapon before me and ducked underneath the hellhound's pounce and quickly brought my weapon around, before driving the stick into its bum.
It hissed in pain, before slamming its tail into me, making me fly through the air, like a missile. I smacked into a tree and slid to the ground, before climbing to my feet. I clutched my side and waited for the hellhound's next move. The colossal hellhound charged me and I ducked under it first lethal swipe, before I jumped on to the top of its disgusting nose and quickly scampered down its hide, in an attempt to reach my stick.
I grasped the stick and pulled it out of the monster's bum, making it roar in pain, before bucking around, trying to knock me off. I wrapped my hands deep into its fur and held on for dear life. It slammed into a tree, making my teeth rattle from the collision, before it saw a river.
No, no, no! I chanted over and over in my head, as the hellhound bounded over to the river and dove in, right before I jumped off. The cold hit me, like a sack of bricks. I released my grip on the hellhound and swam towards the side of the river, while the current was pushing me down stream.
Suddenly, I slammed into a boulder, which was barely concealed on the surface of the river. The impact sent me tumbling about, losing my sense of direction. I didn't know which way was up and which way was down.
I swam upwards, only to slam into the ground below. I kicked off, which hurt my already damaged ankle, before I shot out of the water, trying to breathe through the massive rapids, which sent me tumbling. I hit another rock and grabbed onto it with my hands, but my numb hands quickly released their hold on the rock, because they were just too cold. Hypothermia was a real threat.
I did this for what seemed like hours. It was the only way to survive. When I was almost completely out of energy, the rapids slowed down and allowed me to rest. Once the rapids were over, I lied on my back in the middle of the river, resting for the swim back to shore, which would be very agonizing, because of my massive amount of injuries, when I heard a thunderous crashing downriver.
I noticed the water falling off of the edge of a cliff, as it fell for at least a hundred feet. The waterfall was about three hundred feet in front of me and I would reach it soon. The rapids were only the calm before the storm. This, was my real problem. Sure, I could drown in the rapids, but if I can't swim away in time, the pool below the water fall would most likely be too shallow and I would probably die from hitting the ground.
Schist! As if my luck hasn't been bad enough. I swam as fast as I could to the other side, but the current started to pick up, taking me along, for the deadly ride down one of nature's most beautiful and deadly attractions. I swam horizontally with all I had, I put every single ounce of energy into my strokes and kicking, but it didn't make a difference, as the water sped up, eager to meet its brethren on the other side. I was just too tired to keep this up.
The waterfall was fifty feet in front of me, but at the pace I was going, I would be there in seconds. My only hope was a tree branch, a couple of feet above the water, maybe if I launch myself off of the bottom of the river, I can get enough height so that I can grab the branch and use it to pull me to shore. I don't have any better ideas… I have to time this just right.
One… Two… Three! I launched off of the bottom of the river and reached skywards, for my only hope of salvation. I felt my hand brush against the leaves of the branch and I instantly tightened my grip on my only hope of survival.
I started to pull myself to the shore, pull by pull, until I was almost out of the range of the waterfall. I pulled hard, so that I could make it across the last stretch, but I miscalculated the size of the branch and unfortunately, it could not take my weight, so it snapped off and all I was left holding was a few leaves.
The current sucked me into its evil embrace and soon, I found myself free falling, down a massive cliff.
Yay! Will Leo survive or will he die? Find out next chapter in Percy Jackson The Cursed. Thank You again to everyone who reviewed and if you find anything you don't like, that doesn't involve the plot or my writing style, I will attempt to fix it. I promise in next chapter, you will see the god's reactions, to Zeus trying to kill Nico. See you guys soon!
Yours in demigodishness, MakaidosTheFirst
