We held our mouths wide open in terror; we had lost. Hope itself was gone and Horatia had gained ultimate power. Then she fired lightning at us. We barely dodged. Jason didn't need to dodge, since he could easily redirect it. The electrically bounced off her harmlessly before fading away. Then she raised her arms and a huge tidal wave approached us. Percy tried to hold it back, but he had great difficultly doing so. He crashed on the ground before getting back up.

"You can't stop me! Just give it up!" Horatia exclaimed.

"We're not giving up! As long as we stand, as long as we can fight, we'll never give up!" Leo proclaimed.

Calypso glared at Horatia. "You've picked the wrong pack of heroes to mess with!"

"Do you think we'll just give up so easily?!" Piper asked her.

"No! We'll never stop! We'll fight you to the end even if it kills us!" Jason exclaimed.

She shrugged. "Have it your way."

The all-powerful maiden then grew vines out of nowhere which tried to entangle us, so we had to cut them, but they kept growing right back. Piper got really hurt by the vines but she ate an ambrosia square and shrugged it off. Eventually we managed to get rid of the plants and then she threw large balls of fire at us. Leo tried redirect them at her, but they bounced off her harmlessly.

"Damn, is this woman immune to anything and everything?!" Leo asked in exasperation.

Percy dragged her down with water chains and trapped her in a spear of water. She didn't suffocate. She laughed evilly.

"It seems to be so."

She broke free from the water sphere and landed on the ground. Horatia smirked. "What part of 'all of the power in the world' do you not understand? I have limitless power! Why don't you give up?!"

I felt sad. I wanted to cry. I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. Was this how the Norse Gods felt about having to face their ultimate fates during Ragnarok?

"We can't give up, Annabeth!" Percy exclaimed.

Frank charged towards her. She put her hand to his head, holding him back as she used magic to create various traps we had to dodge.

"You know Herc, you could help a girl out."

She pushed the shape-shifter to the ground. "I didn't want to get in your way."

The evil maiden looked towards him, almost adoringly. "Oh, you're not in my way. I would tell you if you were."

Hercules ran forth and threw Leo into the wall. He was knocked out instantly. Calypso and Hazel towards him simultaneously only for Hazel to be knocked out and Calypso had both of her arms broken. She howled in pain that startled all of us. She soon fell unconscious. Three fighters were already down and not even a minute had passed. This was bad. Really bad. I was internally panicking.

"We can't let up!" Piper said.

I got out my swords and charged towards the evil maiden. She threw several beams of sunlight and moonlight at me and I had to move very quickly to dodge them all. Then she threw darkness at Percy's eyes.

"What?! I can't see!"

Frank charged towards Hercules in the form of a bull, and because he was turned the other way, didn't see Frank coming and was knocked into a pillar, knocking him out. The pillar crumbled and almost landed on Horatia, but she snapped her fingers. It stopped falling in midair. She walked away from the pillar, used air currents to drag Piper to the shadow of the pillar and made it collapse on her, crushing her.

I had never seen Jason more horrified. "Piper! NO!"

He then growled and charged towards her, and she summoned bones to trip him up and he fell to the ground and hit his head. Hazel tried throwing gems at her, but Horatia threw them back at her, cutting her arms and knocking her down. The evil maiden looked towards Percy, who was still blinded by her attack of darkness.

"Come forth, Percy."

He did so. She was using charmspeak on him! I tried to stop him but he broke free from my grasp and walked up towards the evil maiden. I threw my arms around him, but he threw me aside like a rag doll. My head hurt. Surprisingly, he didn't falter, hesitate or trip as he walked towards her. She got out backbiter and stabbed Percy in the chest. I gasped in terror as he fell to the ground.

"I have defeated all of your friends using my ultimate power, and they're the ones who have powers! You Annabeth Chase, have none. If your friends couldn't stop me, what makes you think you can?"

I didn't answer and tried to focus on my objective, but everything seemed so bleak. It seemed all of the colors of the world faded. I blinked and charged towards her, only for her for throw ice shards at me. I barely dodged them, and soon my head spun. I threw my dragon bone sword at her, only for it to completely miss. As I dodged her boulders, I retrieved the sword and then noticed a red shock wave spreading throughout the heavens. I had just witnessed the destruction of the city of Olympus.

I glared at her. "You monster! How could you do this?!"

She chuckled sisterly to herself. "Look at your friends." Everyone I knew... Everyone I loved... Were they all dead? "They're all gone! You can't save them, you can't save yourself, your daughter, and you couldn't save Luke!"

My... daughter? Was I... And Luke? I had no time to think.

"You can not stop the tide of death and destruction!"

She threw a beam of multicolored energy at me, knocking me to the ground. I was so tempted to faint, but I had to remind myself not to. I began to hallucinate, seeing a future that was never to come true. Percy was there, Posideon and Athena were getting along, and I was setting down a picnic basket with a young girl. She had long black hair in a ponytail and grey eyes. I turned my mind back to reality. I still had both of my weapons in hand. I thought I saw a bright yellow light. Or was it gold?

Is there any hope left? I clinched my right fist. I knew the answer.