Sukaro and The Olympians: Fall of Olympus
Chapter 3 : The Battle of Ohio
That night I had some crazy dreams. I see this giant wildebeest thing. He was in the black depths of the sea. I felt cold , and obviously he did too because he was complaining about it.
Hmph, I always have to do the dirty work. When we over threw father I did the dirty work. When Zeus overthrew us , I did most of our dirty work. Geez. Aw, I can smell the thing from here. He whined.
He stopped and pulled out a bright green ball. He broke it into pieces. Instantly a 300 foot radius all around him glowed green. He looked down. Pieces of giant stones everywhere. Somehow I instantly knew it was what was left of the Kraken. He pulled out a weird device with a weird looking symbol on it. It looked sort of like a walkie- talkie.
The target node is set. I can't believe were actually going to blow a passage way from Tartarus ,to the Pacific. All though I'm not too thrilled to see the Kraken again. At least he'll be on our side this time He said and put it away. Why do I always feel like I'm being watched…
I woke up. It was early in the morning , but I was glad to get away from that funky dream. My hair was completely dry after last night's sea party. I got up and walked on the porch of the cabin. I looked over to a rock on the water where some Aphrodite girls were giggling and pointing at me. I looked down. I was in my boxers. A nice refreshing start to the day huh? I got dressed , ate breakfast and got my stuff together. I met Thalia , Percy , and Annabeth at the front of the camp.
" So who's driving?" I asked.
" I guess I'll—" Thalia started.
" You know what happened last time." Percy said walking into the bus.
" Come on that was Apollo's bus. It's not my fault the thing was as hot as the sun…" Thalia mumbled.
What? She drove Apollo's car? Apollo has a car? I don't think I'll ever get used to being a half blood. Soon we got on our way. We brought a bunch of snacks so we wouldn't have to stop for a long time. Percy said we couldn't waste anytime on quest.
" As if! You know you wasted so much time back in the day honey." Annabeth said.
" So you guys are married?" I asked.
" No dip, Sherlock." Thalia said rolling her eyes. " They were high school sweet hearts after all."
" Shut up , we all know you had a thing for Apollo awhile ago. I thought Hunters renounced men?" Percy asked.
Thalia looked like she just remembered something she had forgotten for a long time. She turned to me and had a sad expression. I opened my mouth to ask her what the heck. ( *ahem* Hades.) Then she turned and looked out the window. We drove for a long time. Next thing we knew we were out of food and hungry so we stopped at an Ohio shopping mall. Worst decision ever.
" This mall is freaking huge." Annabeth said looking around. When she said it huge she meant gigantic. It had a roller coaster in the very center, a movie theater , a food court , everything.
" Hmm, get your food and lets get out. This reminds me to much of the Lotus Hotel." Percy said looking around skeptically.
" The Lotus Hotel must have been off the chain!" I said , then handed Thalia some cotton candy.
She looked at me in disgust and walked away. That pissed me off. So I headed toward the Asian Chao restaurant. Standing in front of me inline was this beautiful girl. She was about 17. She had long golden blonde hair and excuse me for saying this a round butt. So since Thalia had pretty much dropped me I figured I'd put some of my "Sukaro charm" on.
" So , you come here a lot?" I asked.
" Of course, I live here. How about you." She asked.
" Oh , I uh , live in California , you know hanging out with celebrities in all." I said.
" So cool! You must be like a big shot then." She said excitedly.
" Oh course. You know I could use a pretty girl like yourself in one of my videos…" I started.
Then she grabbed me and got really close to my face, her eyes turned red.
" Then give me a huge kiss, big shot." She said in a snaky voice.
Thud!
An arrow went straight through her skull. The evaporated into dust. Soon everyone in the mall was looking at us. The Asian guy from behind the counter yelled ," Half-Bloods! Kill them! All hail Kronos!"
In unison all the people in the mall transformed into an assortment of monsters and shouted " ALL HAIL KRONOS!"
" Come on, big shot!" Percy shouted. He ran over to me and Thalia and Annabeth shot a volley of arrows all over the Chick-Fila. Some bat looking women with donkey legs ran toward me and Percy.
" Try not to look them in the eye. They'll draw you in!" Percy said pulling out his pen and turning it into Riptide.
" Hello 's been far too I'll get proper revenge for before. Snack time girls!" The snake / donkey thing in the middle said.
Percy side stepped the center one and stabbed the right one. He spun around and stabbed the left. Then he turned around and cut off the center ones head. They all turned into red and greed dust.
" So long Kelly. See you in another 30 years." Percy said turning around to stab goblin thing in the eye.
Then it occurred to me. I had a weapon too. I ripped off my frog pendant. I tapped it three times and it turned into my scythe. Another snake woman came at me. I closed my eyes and swung like a base ball bat. I chopped off her head and she exploded into glitter. I turned around to see Percy doing battle with a bunch of different monsters. I was on my own.
Boom. Boom.
I turned to two giants heading right for me. I got ready to fight but Thalia ran by , jumped on a table and slammed Aegis into ones face. It fell over. Then , still in mid air the stabbed a spear into the others eye. When he hit the ground he screamed ,
" COME ON! Randy gets the shield and I get the f***ing spear in my eye!"
" There's too many of them retreat!" Annabeth shouted. She had monster dust all over her.
" Their blocking the doors! There surrounding us! Get on the roller coaster!" Percy yelled over the screams of monsters he was slaying.
Monster were everywhere. We barley were able to cut our way to the roller coaster. At one point a puppy Hellhound scratched the Hades out of my arm.( I finally got it right!) We hopped the bars keeping people out and just for fun I used my scythe to cut the " You must be this tall to ride" sign in half. We jumped on the roller coaster , called "The Flash" it had images of Hermes and The Flash racing all over it.
" Kill them!" monsters were shouting all over.
" How do we start this damn thing?" Thalia shouted.
Luckily, Percy now carried water bottles on him just in case. He opened the bottle and controlled the water over toward the " On" button. He made it press it. We instantly jolted forward. Unfortunately for us there were flying monsters. They looked like women but had bird legs and wings. Harpies?
" I thought the Harpies served the Gods!" I yelled slashing at one.
" Looks like they changed sides." Percy said side stepping one that flew by. We were going pretty fast now.
I looked over to see two giants tearing down part of the track. We were so totally boned. Percy turned and cut a Harpy in half.
" That's right! Come and get some!" He yelled proudly.
" This is no time to celebrate. Look!" I said pointing at the gap in the track.
" I can fix this!" Annabeth shouted and threw a little black marble in front of us. When the wheel hit it, it turned into a metal bar which shot the whole roller coaster off the tracks. Good going Annabeth. We were sailing through the air.
" Zeus , Hermes , Poseidon , I don't give a damn who someone help us!" I yelled.
Then lightning struck outside. A bolt of lightning streamed in and struck too giants in the butts. The stumbled forward cursing in ancient Greek.
SMASH!
We landed right on them a golden dust cloud fill all around us. The mall fell silent. The monsters were as dumbstruck as us.
" What are we doing? Make a break for the door!" Percy yelled. Instantly we all ran as fast as we could to the doors. We busted out with arrows flying past our ears. We ran into the bus , girls first of course. Percy started the bus. A Hellhound rammed the door leaving a huge dent. Monsters ran in front of the bus. They pounded the wind shield.
" Outta my way fools!" Percy yelled. He hit the gas. By the time we slammed onto the street, the mall parking lot was filled with rainbow dust. We drove fast down the street swerving around over cars. I turned around to see motorcycles following us. Giants driving , and snake women in the side car shooting arrows.
" The Greek fire!" Thalia yelled. She handed me and Annabeth about 7 green poaches.
" What the hell am I supposed to do with this?" I said.
" Hades. Throw them at the monsters, duh!" Annabeth said and stuck her upper body out the window. She threw a poach and it slammed into a giants face. He burst into green flames and crashed into a nearby McDonalds. Arrows were all over our bus now.
" Ah , what's the worst that could happen?" I said. I stuck my body out the window and threw a poach. I hit a snake lady. The Giant freaked out and smashed into a telephone pole. The pole fell and smashed a shiny Mercedes parked beside it.
" MY NEW CAR!" a teenage girl screamed in horror.
" Damn it." I said.
We kept throwing fire , they kept crashing and shooting arrows , and Percy was still driving like a bat out of Hades. The streets looked like the gods had just sent a hurricane through to be funny. Windows smashed, motorcycles afire , people screaming. Joey had told me about how mortals couldn't see through the mist. I wonder what they were seeing. Soon , the monsters fell back in defeat.
" We will have revenge , in the name of Kronos!" A snake woman yelled. When we were finally safe we all looked at each other.
" One question , do monsters usually gather in one spot like that?" I asked sitting down exhausted.
" Only when their preparing for war…" Percy mumbled. " Get some sleep. And good job out there kid. Nice uh… scythe."
" No, call it…" Then instantly a name came to mind, I said it as if I was in a trance." Backbiter."
Yet again I got the "This child is freaking insane" look.
" Bad name? Let's call it Jerry." I said quickly.
" It's name is Backbiter." Percy said even quicker. "Bed now."
I didn't complain I was really tired. As soon as I laid down I went to sleep.
This time in my dream , I was standing next to a tough looking dude with golden eyes. I instantly knew he was Kronos. He turned to me and laughed.
" Feelings for him? No , my heart became iron after what Zeus did." Kronos said, his voice boomed stronger that Zeus's.
" As you say my lord. It's amazing how much power you were able to regenerate after the battle with the son of Poseidon. And your sure the freedom of the Kraken will also in turn set you free?" I asked.
" Indeed. When the Kraken breaks through it will send the world into chaos , it will break the stability I am confounded in. When I was defeated , the world was brought to peace. That very peace sealed me in eternity. But no longer." He said.
" When Olympus falls what of the boy?" I asked.
" He will join me eventually." Kronos said proudly. " Prepare The Sky Fortress for launch. 2 days is all it will take for the Kraken to be freed. Now go!" Kronos shouted.
" Of course." I said. I stood up straight and put my first into the air. " All hail Kronos!" I shouted. It echoed all through the black eternity I was in.
I woke up. The bus had stopped. I looked out the window to see Thalia , Percy and Annabeth starring into the sky. Hundreds of other people in the city were looking too. The sky was grey. Then I saw it. Out of the cloud came a giant air ship. Imagine A giant high-tech city floating with a mountain in the center. It was bigger that Mount Everest times two. I saw Thalia mouth " Othrys."
On the bottom was giant symbol. A symbol that was on my scythe. I didn't know what it was though. But I knew this was the enemy's Sky Fortress. And that we had to get to Tartarus before them or the entire planet was completely and totally boned.