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Last Time, in Poseidon's POV:
I turned to my rival, with glowing red eyes. Oceanus shook in fear, as he beheld my terrifying eyes.
"Afraid? I will show you fear. You think you are strong? You are nothing. Look at you. You are a sniveling child. Go find your binky and stop whining. Have you forgotten my strength? Do I need to remind you? I am not an Olympian for nothing! Let me show you the power of an Olympian god!" I shouted, as I lifted my hands upwards.
Instantly lava rose all around us and maneuvered towards the sniveling Oceanus. The lava converged around Oceanus, as I ordered it to with my mind. When it was finally in place, I compelled the lava downwards and it obeyed, causing a terrible scream to echo from within the lava. With the last ounce of my strength, I released the lava, causing it to flow back into the sea, with no traces of its victim.
Darkness consumed me, so I clutched my head, before slamming into the obsidian outcrop.
Now:
Percy's POV
Food. Water. Those were the two words swirling in my head right now. I don't know how long it had been, but I had not been fed in a long time. Where was Orion? Where was Leo and Piper? Did they kill my evil step-brother?
I needed answers, but I had no way of getting those answers. Through my cell, I could see Annabeth and Nico, but Jason was hidden from me. Annabeth and Nico seemed to have water, but my room was completely deprived of the essential liquid.
It had felt like days, since Piper and Leo had left, but in reality, it was probably only a couple of hours. Not having the energy to move, I slumped against a wall in my cell and waited. And waited. And waited, until finally, the sound of a door opening made my ears perk.
Two sets of footsteps could be heard running down the wooden floor. Two. I felt elated. Leo and Piper had emerged victorious. Unless… No. Don't go there Perce. They are fine. Don't think about what could have happened.
Deciding to listen to the voice in my head, I waited impatiently for the duo to arrive. When the wooden door was finally pushed open, I could see two very familiar demigods. Leo and Piper. Each of them looked terrible.
They were both bleeding and had bruises. Their hair had sticks and leafs in it. Their clothes made it seem like they were rolling in mud. All in all, just two average demigods after a quest. When they saw us, relief was evident in their faces.
Piper immediately rushed to Jason's cell, but there was nothing to see.
"You need the keys." I told them.
"Where are they?" Leo inquired.
I pointed at the key hook on the wall, while saying, "Orion said that it would crush our hope. He said that if we could see the keys and not be able to use it, it would crush our hope."
Leo waltzed over to the key hook and took it off of its hook, only for the deafening sound of an alarm to echo throughout the room. Leo hurriedly put it back, in hopes that the alarm would stop, but he had no such luck.
"Grab one." I ordered him.
He instantly obeyed and snatched a key, before sprinting over to each of our cells, testing the key on each lock. He turned to Annabeth, Nico and I and stated, "No good."
"Then try the next one!" Annabeth commanded.
Leo hurriedly obeyed and snatched another key, but he only had the same results. Piper joined in and together, they rummaged through the keys, looking for the correct ones. After our fifth try, Piper unlocked Nico's cell.
The son of Hades sprinted towards the door, while shouting, "I will keep a look out!"
The alarm continued to sound, as my friends attempted to free us from our cells. Annabeth was the next one to be released and then me. My friends and I continued to look through the keys, until there was only one left. This had to be the key to Jason's cell. Or else we wouldn't know what to do.
Piper slowly walked toward the heavy duty door and twisted the lock, but it didn't release. Piper instantly started crying. How would they find the key in time? Orion must have hid it. Or worse, he could have had it on him when he died.
Cursing, I commanded, "Get some water! If there is any in his cell, I should be able to mist travel inside and then travel out, with Jason."
Leo instantly sprinted out of the room and returned a minute later, with a bucket of water.
"Will this work?" He asked me. I nodded my head and focused on the liquid. I could feel liquid in Jason's cell, so I linked the two liquids in my mind and concentrated my power on moving through the water. A sudden pull in my gut sent searing pain throughout my body.
I felt myself dissolving into the water, only to reform inside Jason's cell. When I reformed, I instantly fell to the ground and started panting. Dehydration was taking its toll. I plunged my face into a bucket of room temperature water and greedily drank the liquid. The relief was immediate.
I lifted my face from the room temperature water and was met with a dimly lit cell. Blood was splattered on the cold concrete floor, which made it seem like a room in a haunted house. A line of light streamed horizontally from the wall, making it seem like the sun was shining into the cell.
I stumbled around, until I touched something. I reached downwards and felt something wet and sticky. Blood. I lifted the body upwards, which revealed the bleeding body of Jason Grace, the son of Jupiter. Blood trickled down his body, as I lifted his mutilated form into the air.
He had been stabbed in each of his thighs and one of his fingers appeared to be broken. I compelled the water from the bucket to surround us and after it had, Jason and I dissolved into the valuable liquid. When I opened my eyes, I was on the wooden floor, with Jason lying next to me. Our friends were standing protectively over us, with worried expressions etched upon their features.
"Thank the gods! You're okay!" Annabeth cried, before surging forward and enveloping me in a bone crushing hug. Once Annabeth was done giving me the hug of death, I looked over at my fallen comrade. Piper was force feeding him ambrosia and pouring nectar over his wounds, but the only thing that seemed to improve was his color.
"What do you think we should-"I started, before I was interrupted by Nico Di Angelo sprinting into the room, out of breath.
"Monster have surrounded the mountain. They are climbing up and will be here soon. We need to move." Nico shouted, before turning to Leo.
"If I can shadow travel you to the lake, can you find the Argo Two?" Nico asked the son of Hephaestus.
Leo nodded his head, as Nico led him into the nearest shadow, where they promptly disappeared. I turned to my brethren and commanded, "Barricade the room and try to find another exit, so that we can escape once Leo and Nico come around with the Argo."
My friends nodded and hurriedly followed my commands. They went into different rooms and pushed furniture and other items they found around the cottage against the door, in hope that it would delay the intruders.
A minute after we had successfully barricaded the room, I could hear the roars of our pursuers, as they searched for us.
"Come on out, demigods! We want your blood! Deliver yourselves to us and you will die a slow and painful death… I mean… a quick and painless death!" The monster stuttered. I rolled my eyes at his stupidity.
"Fine… You will die! My brethren, ATTACK!" A massive roar was heard outside, as millions of voices roared in approval. The sound of armor moving and weapons banging on shields was deafening.
"BLOOD!" Was the main battle cry, as the monsters surged forward, with killing intent. The monsters crashed into the house, upturning furniture and destroying everything in their path.
"I hope Leo flies here soon." I murmured.
The sound of destruction was getting closer, so Annabeth and I, where pressed against the debris, which was blocking the door.
Piper was checking for another exit and Jason had joined her.
"I sssssssmell them. They are clossssssse." A feminine, reptilian voice hissed outside the door. The door handle turned, underneath all of the furniture and something was trying to push the door open.
"Foolsssssssssss! They are insssssssside thissssss room!" The snake ladies hissed.
The sound of monsters moving around outside the door made me start to sweat. Something strong heaved against the door, making us move slightly. The creature grunted, as it applied more force. Our legs started to slide, as the creature heaved with all of its might.
"Get ready for one hell of a fight!" I exclaimed, as I uncapped Riptide. Annabeth brandished her drakon boned sword, as she prepared for the fight of her life. I moved away from the debris and Annabeth did the same, as we moved to both sides of the door, so that we could surprise our intruders, when they entered the room.
I was on the left side and Annabeth was on the right. Once the first scaly head entered the room, I decapitated it. Before it could cry in pain, its head fell to the ground, as its body disintegrated into dust. I spun out of my cover and crouched into a defensive fighting position.
In front of me was a horde of monsters, each with a scowl upon their ugly, deformed faces.
"Well, what are you doing just standing there? Attack me! Or are you afraid? If you aren't, you should be! I am the slayer of Titans and Giants! I have destroyed countless of your brethren and I will reduce your whole army into ashes, unless you flee."
"So, what do you say? Will you leave or will you fight?" I questioned.
Some of the monsters looked uneasy, while others didn't seem fazed. A brave or rather stupid Cyclops charged forward, but I dodged its initial swing and jumped onto its back. I stabbed Riptide into its neck, causing yellow dust to spew from the wound.
I stabbed it in the eye, before I jumped off of the beast and stabbed Riptide into its chest. It fell to the ground, as it crumbled to dust.
"Fine, you will die." I stated, before bounding into the monsters, with Annabeth nowhere to be seen, but if the dust piles were anything to judge by, then she was invisible. I blocked an incoming spear and impaled the owner with Riptide.
I pulled my bronze blade out of its corpse, before continuing my dance of death. I spun around a stab to my chest and ducked underneath an arrow aimed towards my head. I sliced the legs off of an empousa and decapitated a telekhine.
I summoned water from underneath the wooden floor and forced it to swirl around me in a hurricane, which forced the monsters backwards. Monsters crashed into the walls, breaking through them and falling to their death, down the mountain.
The waves of monsters were endless. If I killed one monster, two more took their place. Annabeth would help me by stealthily killing the monsters with her invisibility, but by now, the monsters had taken noticed. They were wary and randomly swung their weapons, in hopes of killing Annabeth.
Deciding there was nothing I could do about Annabeth, I continued my assault on the seemingly endless amount of enemies. I crouched underneath an incoming club and vaulted onto the back of the Cyclops, who had tried to kill me.
I stabbed Riptide into its back, causing it to roar in pain, as I jumped off of deformed body. I summoned more water from underneath the wooden floor, which I formed into ice spears. I hurled the spears at all of the monsters around me, causing them to crumble into dust.
Screams of pain erupted from the monsters mouths, as they were impaled by my ice spears. The monsters crumbled into dust, as they were destroyed by my father's element. Immediately after I destroyed those monsters, they were quickly replaced by more creatures from Tartarus.
"You will die! You pathetic weakling! I shall destroy you and your invisible ally! Your friend hides in a cloak of shadow, while they honorably murder my comrades. I can't have that… Now, tell me where your other friends are, so we can destroy you together. Then, we will collect your blood samples and bring it to our mistress!"
"Gross… Why do you need our blood? Are you vampires? Besides, you will never find my friends! They have already escaped. Now, leave, before I slay you, monster!"
The deformed Laistrygonian Giant glared at me, before responding, "Slay me? That's comical! I will crush you!"
He unslung his club from his side and swung it in an overhead motion. With a mighty roar, he hurled the blunt weapon at me, hoping to end this fight fast. With a lightning quick motion, I ducked underneath the oncoming weapon, before standing to my feet and darting forward, with Riptide clutched in my right hand.
I used Riptide to slash off the Laistrygonian's toe, which caused him to yelp in pain, before jumping up and down on one foot. The stub of his toe rolled around on the ground, coving the wood in black… goo. He turned to me, with hate evident in his glistening orbs.
"You… you will die." He promised, before stalking towards me. I hefted Riptide and brandished it above my head. He charged towards me, without a weapon in his hands. As he barreled towards me, I attempted to dive to the left, but he had learned, just as the Minotaur had. He wrapped his massive hands around me and I was instantly assaulted by a wave of bad breath.
Grimacing, I attempted to wiggle out of the colossal being's grasp, but my struggle was for naught. He had an iron grip. The Laistrygonian Giant turned to me and snarled, "Just as you forced me to watch as you destroyed my brethren, I will force you to watch, as I slay your friends!"
His face morphed into a yellow smile, as he saw the look of distress etched upon my face.
"Although, to watch your friends die you don't need your limbs!" He cackled mercilessly.
"Joe Bob?" I asked. "I vaporized you and your friends years ago! Why do you think that you will be able to kill my friends? Haven't you heard? We forced FRIGGEN Gaea back to sleep! What makes you think you will be able to defeat us?"
"Only the fact that we have an army and you have only seven people. Even if you are as good as you say you are our vast forces would quickly overwhelm you. Do you remember the first time we met? The only reason you are alive, is because of that Annie girl."
And that's when all Hades broke loose. The shadows darkened and a figure emerged from the wall. It was Nico Di Angelo. The surprised Laistrygonian Giant let out a roar of pain, as an invisible Annabeth stabbed him in the back with her drakon bone sword. Nico lifted his arms and the wooden floor cracked, as skeletons crawled from the floor.
Nico brandished his Stygian Iron sword and held it in a defensive position. Suddenly, the building shook, as an explosion destroyed a section of the wall. Floating in the air, was the Argo Two.
"Well, well, well. You guys want some help?" Leo Valdez asked, with a crazed grin upon his devilish face.