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Chapter 21: Loose Ends and a Rescue
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
Triton's POV
Everything was dark and I could hear and feel explosions all around me. I was still in a daze from my collision with the sea floor. I suddenly heard a voice in my head and I realized that it was Percy.
Thank the gods you're alive. Good job protecting Atlantis, we need help, Atlas is on Gough Island. Bring help brother!
I felt the connection cease before I could respond. I knew I did not have the power to teleport to the island, but I knew two gods that could. I shook off the slight concussion that I was feeling and swam back to the battle. Once I reached the battle area all I could see were pieces of submarines sinking to the sea floor, then I saw them like two lights in the middle of the blackest sea, Thalassa and Pontus. I swam to them and they smiled when they saw that I was all right.
"Percy called to me we need to go to him." I said. I saw the worried looks on their faces.
"Atlantis was hit by a few torpedoes we need to help out there then we can go." Pontus said. I looked toward the city in the distance and I noticed flashing lights and clouds of debris floating over the city in the water.
"We need to hurry I think Percy and the others are in trouble." I said worriedly. Pontus, Thalassa and I swam to the city to help Tyson with the damage sustained by my beloved Atlantis. I hope Percy can hold out until we get there.
Somewhere not far from New York Harbor
Theseus's POV
I swam back to the New York harbor as I finally approached the location where I left my father I started to see the debris in the water. My time in the water helped me heal fully, but I was still tired. I dove underwater to find my father. I heard a few explosions and so I swam toward them as fast as I could go. I saw one lonely submarine trying to flee from the destruction in front of it suddenly it was hit by a beam of blue energy and disintegrated in front of me. I recognized that beam of energy as my father's trident. I swam toward the source of the blast, I found my father holding his trident in both hands waiting for his next target. He looked determined, angry and a little tired, but other than that he looked like the supreme ruler of the seas. I smiled as I saw him he returned my smile with a look of relief on his face.
"Not bad dad, I couldn't have done better myself." I said jokingly. My father smiled as he laughed in return.
"Good, I'm glad I can still keep up with you youngsters." He said. His smile faded and he looked at me questioningly. "The missile sub?"
"Destroyed, it looks like we won this battle at least." I said. I was about to say something else when I heard a voice in my head. I looked at my father's face and I could tell he was hearing it as well, it was Percy.
Theseus, dad, Atlantis is safe. I called Triton to come to my location. We are on Gough Island, we need assistance we will most likely need a quick escape. Atlas is here and we found the hostages. Contact Scott and let him know where we are.
The message abruptly cut off my dad and I looked at each other, my father smiled and then he created a mist and Iris messaged for help. The recipient of the message surprised me greatly.
Almost onboard the TS Empire State VI – Somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean
Scott's POV
I awoke suddenly when I hit something hard and metal. My vision cleared and I saw the outline of the ships red keel. I slowly swam back toward the moon pool, I emerged into the pool and two sets of hands grabbed me and pulled me onto the floor of the deck. Gareth and Ben were both staring at me with concerned looks on their faces. I looked down at my black uniform it was tattered and torn in several places I looked like I had been drug under a ship, which in this case was pretty accurate.
"Boss you o.k.?" Ben and Gareth asked at the same time.
"Yes, I feel tired, but the bomb is gone, the ship is safe and so are the students." I said wearily.
"Thanks to you boss." Gareth said. I stood up slowly, I almost fell once, but Ben caught me.
"Still a little shaky, let's take it easy as we go to the bridge." I said calmly. They both smiled at me and nodded. The three of us slowly made our way to the bridge of the ship, the rest of my team stood up when I arrived on the bridge. I walked over and sat in the captain's chair. "Report." I said.
"The students are in their quarters and we are ready to depart." Alex said.
"What about the Navy?" I asked.
"They radioed and said that it would take a day before they could send us help." Alex responded. That's helpful, I thought.
"Radio back that we are out of trouble and their assistance is no longer needed. Tell them we are headed back to port in New York and that we will make a full report there." I ordered.
"Aye, sir." Alex confirmed.
"Set course for New York, full speed ahead, we may need to change course depending on the results of the other missions." I said.
"Aye, sir." Allen said as he ran his hands over the controls and set course back to New York. I felt the ship turn and then accelerate toward our destination. I was still nervous, my son was out there in the clutches of Atlas. My men could see my worried expression and left me alone for the time being. Suddenly a blue light appeared on the bridge we all grabbed our weapons, but when the light dissolved I almost fell out of my seat. I hadn't seen this visitor in a long time.
Gough Island
Percy's POV
"Here's the plan, we wait by the entrance to the cave and when the jeep leaves we jump the pirates and steal their remote control." Annabeth said matter-of-factly. A pretty easy and straight forward idea, except it could take a while for the pirates to leave the cave again I thought.
"I have one addition to the plan wise girl." I said. I saw the curious look on her face as well as those of the others.
"What addition?" Annabeth asked warily.
"I swim in through the underwater cave, sneak in and open the cave from the inside, just in case the pirates take their sweet time leaving." I added. I saw the others nod in agreement, but I saw suspicion in Annabeth's eyes. I pulled her to the side. "What's wrong?"
"You're doing it again." Annabeth said. What is she talking about? "You're running off by yourself and getting in trouble just to save the rest of us."
"No I'm not, I'm the only one who can breathe underwater, so its up to me, thats it." I said. Annabeth still looked a little wary of the idea, but I saw her visibly give up.
"All right, but don't try to do anything heroic." Annabeth said, I could see the look of warning in her eyes.
"No problem, why would I do something heroic?" I said, I could tell she didn't believe me, for Zeus sake I didn't believe myself either. I watched as Annabeth and the others made their way to the other side of the volcano to wait by the entrance of the submarine base. I walked to the beach and dove below the surface of the ocean. I swam to the cave and entered as I did before. I swam carefully to the platform near the submarine that was still docked there. I climbed up a ladder that extended into the water. My eyes glowed with my night vision and I could see in the dark cave as if the sun was overhead. I saw the tunnel that Annabeth described and I walked up the tunnel to the cavern that contained the large building. As I exited the tunnel I spotted the three story structure and a jeep parked next to it. The door to the building opened and I dove back into the darkness of the tunnel. I turned off my night vision so my glowing eyes wouldn't give me away. I used my enhanced hearing to listen to any conversations. Even in the dim light of the cavern I could see the two pirates, but they weren't alone three people exited the building behind them. I could tell that these three people had their hands tied together in front of them. Then I noticed that the guards had pistols in their hands, they were pointed at the three prisioners. I realized that these three prisoners had to be Chris, Terra and Stephen.
"Our lord wants these three to be sacrificed to the cyclops, take them to the gate." The tall pirate said to the shorter one.
"Where are you going sir." The short pirate asked.
"Our lord wants me to go and help the helicopter pilot get ready for take off. We are leaving as soon as Prometheus arrives. You are to wait with the cyclops until Lord Prometheus escapes the underworld and then escort him to the helicopter." The tall pirate said. The shorter pirate nodded and directed his prisoners to the back wall of the cavern. He touched his hand on a rock protruding from the wall and a opening about eighteen feet tall and twenty feet in width opened in the wall. The pirate ordered his prisoners forward and they walked into the tunnel. The tall pirate boarded the jeep and drove off toward the exit of the base. I knew Annabeth and the others would take care of him and then enter the base, but I knew I was the only hope that Chris and the others had. I ran to the back wall of the cavern, the entrance had already closed so I touched the rock and the opening appeared again. I grabbed the Stygian iron dagger that Nico gave me and I stabbed the dagger into the rock and locked the entrance of the tunnel open. I knew that Annabeth would see this and proceed after me, Atlas could wait until we freed our friends. I concentrated on Triton and I sent a message to him. I then concentrated on my father and Theseus, I sent them a message as well. I knew we would need them before this battle was over. I just hoped that they would arrive in time.
I walked down the tunnel trying to avoid being heard and seen by the pirate. He still had a gun. I extended my armor around my body and my helmet extended over my head. I took out Riptide and readied myself for a fight. I heard Terra scream and then I heard someone else yell before the scream was abruptly cutoff. I ran down the tunnel, the guard was standing in front of the tunnel and blocking his prisoners so they couldn't escape. Before he could react to my presence I hit him in the head so hard that I heard his skull crack and then I threw him straight at the cyclops. He hit the cyclops directly in the back. The cyclops turned around and I was horrified by what I saw. The cyclops was at least fifteen feet tall and in his hand was the lifeless body of a young man, when I say lifelss I mean dead. The young man's head had been bitten off by the cyclops. I saw Terra kneeling over Chris who was lying on the floor unconscious. I knew that Stephen was the young man who had been killed. I screamed and ran for the cyclops.
The creature tried to hit me, but I dodged his blow. I yelled for Terra to pull Chris away from the fight. I took my eyes off the cyclops for just a second and I was hit in the back by the full force of the cyclop's club. I flew across the room and hit hard against the rock wall of the tunnel. I heard several screams from the tunnel and I saw Annabeth, Thalia, Nico and the others charge the cyclops. I saw Annabeth's dagger fly through the air and plunge into the eye of the cyclops. The cyclops screamed so loud that the ceiling of the tunnel started to cave in. A rock hit Malcolm and he fell to the ground unconscious. Annabeth ran to her brother and pulled him over toward the tunnel with Chris and Terra. Clarisse and Thalia were using their spears to distract the cyclops. The cyclops was swinging a large club in his hands wildly. Nico was trying to get behind the beast, but was grazed enough by the club to be thrown toward me, I caught him, but I was knocked roughly into the wall again. Nico sat down beside me with the wind knocked out of him. Even blinded and in agony the cyclops was incredibly powerful. Thalia and Clarisse were forced back toward the tunnel. If the cyclops rushed forward he would trample my friends. I stood up to charge the beast when the cyclops stopped abruptly. The creature stood up straight for a moment and then fell forward barely missing Clarisse and Thalia. The ground shook when the cyclops landed and more rocks fell around the tunnel barely missing my friends. I noticed the celestial bronze sword embedded into the back of the neck of the cyclops. Then the creature faded into golden ashes leaving the sword lying on the ground. We all looked toward the direction the sword had been thrown and we all gasped when we saw who had thrown it.
AN: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I received a few statements on the mystery hero, but no one got it right. One hint, he helped defeat a certain titan lord.