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Story: Guardians of Light and Justice
Chapter 17: The Seas Divided, Part 2
Percy's POV
We watched as our father went trident to harpoon with Oceanus. The battle between the two was blinding; their powers incredible. My brothers and I broke away from the scene of their battle as the sharkman army regrouped, and attacked us. Triton assembled the remaining mermen, and counterattacked. Tyson, and I with the few remaining Cyclops backed up our brother. The fight was tough; these sharkmen wouldn't give up.
Two sharkmen attacked with their swords; I parried their blows easily. They both charged me at the same time, I used my shield to block one of their attacks while I used Riptide to parry the attack of the other. This fight went on for a few minutes until I grew weary of the stalemate. These two sharkmen were tough. I waited for them to charge me again, but this time at the last moment I slid to the ground as I crashed my shield into one of their fins while slashing Riptide cutting one sharkman in half. The sharkman that was still alive charged me again, but I blocked his spear strike with my shield as I completed a spin move, and kicked him in the side. I felt his ribs break under the assault, I continued the spin move by slashing with Riptide cutting his head off with one slice.
I looked for another opponent, but there were none left. I looked to my right to see Triton fighting a sharkman; unfortunately he didn't see the second one sneaking up on him. On pure instinct I threw Riptide as hard as I could the blade flew straight and true, I willed the water to increase its speed until it reached the speed of a harpoon gun. The sword pierced through the spine of the sharkman, and he slumped to the ground dead. Triton turned quickly as he finished off his opponent, and looked behind his back to see the dead sharkman. He looked over towards me, I gave my older brother a grin and a slight nod. I swam over to join him and Tyson. The sharkmen army was destroyed, all that was left was Oceanus, but he was currently busy fighting our father. The remnants of the mermen army and the Cyclops army huddled around us as we watched the two powerful immortals fight.
We were about to join the battle against Oceanus when a large shadow appeared overhead. We all looked up to see the largest sea creature that I had ever seen in my life. It looked somewhat like a whale, but its body was sleek and fast like a dolphins. Its head was pointed similar to a barracuda, but its teeth were conical shaped, and massive in size. This creature had to be five hundred feet in length, and could most likely swallow a large whale whole, in other words it scared the Hades out of all us. The creature circled overhead like it was studying us, or something.
Suddenly it charged downward toward us, we all dispersed in multiple directions as the creature swallowed several dozen mermen. Triton fired his trident at the creature, which ignored the blast entirely. I never saw this creature before in my life, then I realized this had to be a creature from the East, one of the enemies of Shiva. I made a quiet prayer to Shiva; he needed to send us help, we couldn't hold out for long against a creature of this size.
I felt dizzy for a moment, and then I heard a voice. Perseus this creature is the Timingila, it is the most deadly sea monster in Hindu mythology.
"How do we stop it?" I asked.
You cannot, I will send you help, Shiva always helps his friends.
"Shiva wait" I said, but it was too late he was gone, but I hoped his help would arrive soon.
"Percy, what do we do, that thing is massive, it just ate half of my remaining force?" Triton asked desperately.
"We can't stop it, but we need to distract it until Shiva's help arrives. I have an idea, but Tyson and Triton we have to combine powers for this to succeed." I said. Tyson and Triton both looked into my eyes, and I could see the trust and understanding in their gazes. They both nodded, and motioned for me to lead on. We swam away from the remnants of my brother's army until we were alone, just the three of us, and of course the giant sea monster that swam over head. I stopped in the center of the great sea plain that stretched for miles outside of Atlantis. "We need to hold hands and form a circle." The three of us held hands, and formed a tight circle. "Now concentrate on the sea we need to use its power to fight this monster." We all stretched out with our minds to feel the sea around us we formed a large underwater tornado, we forced more water and power into the vortex until it was time. We unleashed its full force upon Timingila. The tornado struck the monster head on sending the creature careening into the sea floor. It struck the ocean floor with such force that the ground shook like a huge earthquake. The creature laid motionless on the ground for several minutes, but it suddenly moved forward, and then it turned straight for us at an incredible speed. We were all frozen to the sea floor, we couldn't move. It was like the creature held us in place with its gaze. I suddenly awoke from my daze. I grabbed my brothers, and swam out of the way as the monster just barely missed us.
The giant creature turned quickly, and was about to attack us when I felt a tremendous energy flow through the water striking the Timingila in the side causing it to tumble to the sea floor again. We all looked up to see the strangest sea creatures any of us had seen before. The first one was about sixty feet long, it had the body of a giant fish with the head of an elephant, and for whatever reason I knew it was called the Makara. The second creature was a giant sea turtle that was at least eighty feet long and sixty feet in diameter, and I knew its name was Ao. The third creature was a giant tiger shark that looked to be over one hundred feet long, and I knew its name was Isonade.
Makara attacked first, it dodged the massive jaws of Timinglia while smashing its large tail into the side of the sea monster. Timinglia swam away, but I could tell that the encounter had injured the massive creature's rib cage. Makara swam after the sea monster, and right before it could attack the massive sea creature turned its tail to strike, but Makara shifted at the last second. The tail of Timinglia missed the half elephant, half fish cleanly; this gave Makara the opening it needed. The strange sea creature aimed its trunk, and blew a massive blast of water and sound that hit Timinglia straight in the head causing the giant sea creature to become disoriented. The monster plunged toward the sea floor, and smashed into a large undersea mountain.
While Timinglia laid injured on the side of the undersea mountain, Ao slowly positioned itself to strike. The giant sea turtle began to glow brightly in the dark of the ocean depths. I noticed its large yellow-green eyes glowing in the darkness of the water. The shell of the turtle morphed into a rounded shell with large sharp spikes on the edges of the shell. The turtle shell began to spin like a circular saw. My brothers and I just stood there in silence watching this living saw aim for Timinglia, and then dive straight down at an unimaginable speed. Ao struck the massive tail of the giant sea creature cutting it completely in two. The scream from Timinglia was so loud that I thought the city of Atlantis might shake to the ground.
Lastly, the giant shark, Isonade circled the injured body of Timinglia. I knew that this massive shark had to be the leader of the three when Ao and Makara both began to follow it as it circled the injured sea monster. The creatures continued to circle Timingila at incredible speeds, faster and faster until the unconscious body of the evil monster floated at least fifty feet from the sea floor. The three good monsters attacked the massive sea creature, biting at its fins and back until the creature was horrendously mangled. Eventually the creature succumbed to its massive injuries, and faded into nothingness.
My brothers and I stood there in awe of these monsters, they swam above me, and I could feel their good wishes directed toward us. A massive explosion shook my brothers and I from our daze. We looked up to see our father standing over the injured body of Oceanus. Oceanus began to stand up, but then Isonade attacked, it grabbed the tail of Oceanus in its giant mouth, and bit it completely in half. Golden ichor flowed into the sea as Oceanus screamed in pain. I landed on the sea floor next to my father. I held out the shield of justice, it began to glow with the power of Astraea, I focused on the injured titan before me. A massive blast of pure white energy shot from my shield, and enveloped the surprised sea titan. He screamed in agony as his body dissolved into the light. The light receded back into my shield. The shield glowed with the blue energy of Oceanus. My father placed his hand on my shoulder; he looked incredibly tired. We all looked up at the three allies of Shiva. I gave each of the creatures a mental note of thanks. I could sense their good wishes as they disappeared into a bluish light.
"You did it Percy." Poseidon said. I looked at my father and two brothers.
"We did it dad, I need to go, are you all going to be alright?" I asked concerned. My father and brothers smiled, and nodded that they would be fine. "I must go, the surface battle has begun." I gave my father and brothers a hug, and then I willed the sea to push me toward the surface of the ocean. I exploded from the sea, and my wings extended behind my back as I flew toward the West. One battle was down, but I knew the biggest battle was to come. I just hoped that I would get there in time.
AN: Sorry for the delay on this chapter. Too much holiday celebration, happy new year everyone.