Percy's POV

"She has to be I muttered to myself" A titan yes they were after me and my mom. But why? Are we the last humans, no, impossible. Something was wrong and I was going to get to the bottom of it.

I wish I could say I was feeling strong and brave, but I was not. Emphasis on the not. I was super scared, considering that a national level force composed of titans, emphasis on titans, decided to put me in their black book should be enough to drive anyone crazy. Then I suddenly get my hands on a magical ring/sword and take out two elite monsters and I actually managed to take them out. Well, let's say my luck would still drop to explosively low levels I just didn't know it yet.

It started with me getting lost, and the fact that the machinery room reeked gas wasn't helping me concentrate. My objective was the kitchen but I ended up just about everywhere but. After a bit of pointless wandering, fate tipped its hand and gave me a glimpse of what was in store for me. My heart never beat faster, because standing in front of me was the timeless face I was beginning to hate. The female titaness who had, dark black hair, dark eyes, slender body, and serious dark intentions. There is no better way to say this: I ran into her. Seriously, like I t-boned her at full speed.

I started with me hearing something knock over from an aisle behind me somewhere, so I ran. Don't mock me because you would have done the same thing. She probably thought it was me and I thought it could be her. She must have been pretty confident in her guessing skills, because someone who comes around a corner at that speed probably didn't even take other possibilities into consideration. I didn't even have time to brace myself and consequently I lost the grip to my sword. When we hit my mind came up with a million thoughts starting with: "Titan alert!" to stuff like "Sorry. Are you okay?"

We both tumbled past each other; she fell onto the floor while I hit my head on the side of a large metal machine. The bang echoed through the whole building and giving me double vision. The titaness looked confused at first but then her eyes turned murderous, the norm. It was absolutely creepy. Her eyes started glowing white, the room temperature dropped 5 degrees, my heart was beating at maximum speed, my throat dried. The blood in my mouth turned extra salty and then it hit me that my short, pitiful life was going to end. Probably with my mom's, but I was at least going down fighting. I formed a plan in my head and waited for her to make the first move.

"Turn yourself in kid. Who knows Kronos could be in a good mood." she reasoned

"And if he's not" I countered, "torture. Right?" she gave me a evil smile, that confirmed my assumption.

"You know what?" I taunted, "You already made this personal by coming to may home, I'm not going anywhere with you guy you big idiot! So screw you and Kronos!"

That was enough to set her off, she charged two silver words dangling at either side of her. It was a live or die situation right now. My mom's life was resting on me and my plan wasn't guaranteed to work. For starters she was planning to engage in close combat but I wasn't, make any sense?. I ran up to my sword and scooped it up, while at the same moment she jumped up of the side off a rolling table swords above her head and that when I did it.

I prayed to the ring/sword "spear!" The sword reacted: it grew into a spear, a heavy glowing bronze spear. I held my breath and then trusted it out in front of me just as she impaled herself into it. She screamed in agony and fell to her knees. The spear ran strait through her stomach, golden blood flushing from the wound, and beads of sweat running down her face. My stomach did a flip and I felt like throwing up, but strangely my mind was clear as day. I had to move forward, to my mom.

The titaness cocked her head towards me just as I hit her full force with a punch so strong, I am certain something cracked. She fell back spear still in her stomach. She let out another scream as I tore the spear from her body. The spear shrunk into a small piece of metal that ran across my palm and snaked around my ring finger. More grime accumulated around my face, not to mention all the golden blood on my jeans. My shirt now stuck to my back and beads of sweat dropped from my chin, but the titaness was worse. She lay on her side in a pool of her own golden blood looking up at me exhausted, gapping for air. I towered over looking down on her slowly regaining my breath. For a moment it was only the two of us staring at each other with the sound of our breath ringing out into the silence. Me the powerful and her the powerless, but that was about to change.

I saw a light turn on in the distance. "Mom" I thought and took off after the light. I rounder a corner of machinery mixed with piles of canned food and there it was the light in form of a doorway. The light was so blinding I had to hold my hand in front of my face. I started to walk after it. My walk sped up then it turned into a jog then a full out sprint. I came out into an open space in that ran across the wall of the in front of the kitchen.

"Mom!" I bellowed, "MOM! Are you in there? My hand was inch from the doorway when I got smashed from the side. All the bones running up from my right led to my right shoulder must have been smashed, broken, whatever you want to call it, because at that moment I was hit by a charging bull. I flew across the room spewing blood from my mouth. I crashed into a stack of cans that must have broken even more of my bones. The pain was just too much; my vision was fading to black. I turned my head and saw the bull; it was brown and larger than normal. The reason didn't hear it was because it was floating and at that moment it was also shape shifting.

A cold laugh shook the room as the bulls hair fell off and it turned into a man.

"So predictable, chuckle, must give it to you that this battle was very well played on your part, but I guess it ends here young demi-god." He flicked his had and a monster carrying a bow and arrow came out of the shadows. He aimed his weapon at me this time the arrow was gold. I could do nothing. My body wouldn't move, my head was throbbing, a tear slid down my cheek. I had failed my mom and was going to die. Just then things got crazy.

"End for you, demon!" Someone bellowed. The monster raised his bow towards the door and there in the light was my mom. Holding, matches?

"Well look at this" the male titan started, "looks like-" he never got to finish because my mom started ranting.

"Percy this world is messed up! Things never really went our way but even in darkness you saw light. That's why I know its going to be you who can do it." I was totally confused, nothing she said made sense and the fact that she was crying made me feel sort of guilty. "Percy!" she continued, "Always know I loved you! Don't give up, ever! And don't die, please" she collapsed and all I could do was gape at my mom.

"Kill her" the titan said and the monster raised his arrow. I wanted to yell but I couldn't, I wanted to hurt the monster, but I couldn't. It was going to happen. That's when my mom raised her head form hands. There were no longer tears in her eyes only, determination. It all clicked for me a few moments to late, one word could make it all too clear "gas". I looked at my mom and saw her mouth the word "goodbye" then she lit a match.

The explosion was huge, a monstrosity of an explosion. The machines in the building must have had some explosive chemicals in them. The last thing I remember was rising with the flames, a smoking body (no pun intended), with tears in my eyes falling towards the ocean. The pain was now emotional. The run down cements canning factory gone home was no more. Just like life as I knew it, just like my mom, just like hope,