Manhattan
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Athena POV
After I got the news of the attack on the camps and on Manhattan. Flashed myself to camp Jupiter. I was shocked to see the size of the army. I it was four thousand strong and I got the feeling that the army in Manhattan is far larger than this one. There were thousand five hundred empousa, five hundred Cyclops, a thousand hell hounds, seven hundred earthborn and three hundred werewolves.
I summoned my Aegis and spear, and then I started to engage the army. I started off with the hell hounds as they were the most numerous and are relatively easy to kill, but not with this number. The campers were not faring well enough and the Olympian council was not present. Most likely they were cowering in fear. I sighed and charged at my first hell hound. I impaled the hell hound with my spear and it turned to dust.
I saw that the army was led by someone I dreaded with every fibre of my being. "Akhlys primordial goddess of misery" I bellowed.
She turned and looked me with a devious smile. "Ah Lady Athena" she said. "So glad you could join us my dear"
I will admit she was hideous and I am not usually a shallow, but she is horrifying and just looking at her made want to crawl into a hole and hide, at the same time cry myself to sleep in her presence. Felt all the joy I have ever felt being replaced by misery and my courage being poisoned, buy being turned to fear.
I spent the next minute wallowing in my torment before I remembered that I am a primordial in my own right and steeled my nerves and continued fighting as hard as it was to be engaged in combat with the goddess of misery. I later gathered that I need to fight her if I was to have a chance to give the Romans their back. The problem with Romans is that they use the military life style to avoid their problems, much like I do with books.
I saw that she was still smirking and was determined to wipe it off her hideous face. So I charged at her. She was frail and emaciated looking, but there was no denying that the goddess was skilled. She matched me blow for blow, I could see she was tiring out. Probably due to the fact she was so used to just being one of the most powerful beings in existence. Only Percy is immune to that way of thinking as she was a demigod and I admire that she did not change who she is. As I was mulling over my thoughts I nearly failed to notice a hell hound charging at me. I pretended that I do not see it and when it was about launch an attack I went down and it hit Akhlys square in the chest and It served as a distraction for a while and I used it impale her in the heart and she yelled in pain before she flashed herself out of the battle.
The monsters fell apart when their leader decided to runaway, but they still took a long to kill and after two hours, half of the army was destroyed. I saw a bright flashed and when it died down there was only Apollo, who was wearing a traditional greek amour. He took out his xiphos and charged at them and I was startled when minutes later there was only a plume of gold dust. After he was done he just nodded at me than flashed away, leaving me bewildered. "How powerful is he now?" I asked no one in particular.
I sighed then I flashed myself to Manhattan where I was gob smacked. I saw that thousands of mortals lay slain on the streets, I was furious when I saw that some of the people were children. I saw numerous lightening strikes blearing down on the monster, but the number of them was so high I did not think we could kill them all. And this time that were lead five titans that seem to have escaped their capture. I saw Nyx and Erebos fighting the countless hordes of hell hounds, which seemed to number I the hundred thousands.
Those two were graceful in their way of fighting. Their skill itself was something to behold. This was the power that comes from people who are not only experienced, but also those who did not rest on the fact that they were Primordials like Akhlys, who uses her power, but is not very skilled or graceful.
I could hear mortal men and women crying and running away even though I was rather point less.
"Athena" a voice said in my mind. "We are going to send lightening bolts at the enemy, so brace yourself"
I smiled at myself and started my charge at the hell hounds. I kept slashing at them until the voice shouted now and I saw that all of the Primordials that were there were doing the same as I was doing and I flashed all of the mortals that I could manage out of Manhattan and the moment we did so, the skies rumbled and crackled with power. The seas rose and started filling the city. And after the city was mildly flooded I saw the thousand upon thousands of lightening bolts hurling towards the monsters. When the bolts hit their marks all of the monsters hissed then dissolved into dust.
I was shocked at the power of the bolts that were thrown at the monsters. When I truly looked around the city all I could see was pure devastation, some of the buildings were collapsing. I continued to take in the sights of the collapsing building and the dead bodies that littered the streets and I could feel my hear constricting when I thought about the children and how they were mercilessly slain.
I sighed then I flashed myself back to the throne room and I saw that Artemis was already back in the throne room.