A/N Well hello again! I'm back with the next part of the story. And I will say sorry to anyone who thought that the first chapter was rushed on the romance, because I thought it was too. I will try to clear that up a bit in this chapter. And I will also get to the ruining Percy's life…for now. Also, I changed a one thing in the first chapter. Instead of Apollo healing Artemis for a few seconds, it's been about twenty minutes. Also, Kire Withe, sorry about calling you a girl! Your name just confused me. Anyways without further ado, on to the story!
Also out of boredom, I'm going to tell you a slightly funny story. I walked into my living room yesterday barefoot, when I took a step I stepped on a toothpick, now word of notice. DO NOT get a toothpick stuck halfway through the heel of your foot. But yeah I got a splinter from the toothpick and have spent the last 10 minutes using a knife trying to get it out…let's just say my foot is covered in a bandage. But at least the toothpick is out!
And would someone be kind enough to tell me what OOC means? Because I have no clue.
~PERCY'S POV~
Just after I told myself to shut up, I jumped on Nibbles back and told him to take me back to the fight.
We didn't get very far when a fight found us. We had gotten about fifty feet when Porphyrion, the giant king, decided he would try to kill us. He shot a bolt of Lightning out of a spear he was carrying and it slammed into the side of Nibbles. Thank the gods for his impenetrable skin. All the bolt did was throw us sideways, I was thrown off Nibbles by the sheer force of the bolt and landed about ten feet from him. Nibbles was already back on his feet growling at the giant king who looked on seeming very amused.
"So Perseus Jackson, it seems that you have found a new friend. But I do not believe that he will save you in a fight against me, you shall both be equally challenging." He stated looking smug.
"We're both equally challenging, huh?" I taunted, "Because if that's a fact. Then you're screwed."
The moment I finished my sentence I knew I had just asked for a fight. Porphyrion started to growl at me, at first it was a small growl that seemed to originate in the back of his throat. Then it turned into a full-fledged roar. The giant leved his spear at me and a harsh white light appeared at the tip of it. I instantly knew what it was. Lightning bolt, oh shit I thought to myself. A moment later in a flash of light the bolt came flying straight at me; the only thing that kept me alive was my ADHD since it increased your battle reflexes. I knew that I didn't have time to dodge, so I just stuck my sword out at a forty five degree angle and let the bolt bounce right off the blade and over my head.
One problem was that I didn't close my eyes when the bolt came at me and it blinded me, out of pure impulse I changed the way I held Riptide to a more blocking motion. Good thing too because a second later I was slammed with something that carried the force of a freight train and sent me flying backwards. When I hit the ground again I started to flip end over end, effectively doing a rolling backflip.
When I finally rolled to a stop I felt like crawling in a hole and dying. My sword arm was numb and I had broken atleast three ribs. I was coughing up blood and still couldn't see! I groggily sat up and reached into my pocket that I always kept my ambrosia in. I took out a square and stuck it into my mouth and started to chew. I instantly began to feel a bit better, the numbness in my arms went away and my vision began to clear. I grabbed my flask of nectar and took a sip, it made my ribs feel better.
Now if I could just find some water, I thought. I would feel so much better.
Sadly there was no water around…there wasn't even anything around, no monsters, no Porphyrion. How far did he throw me? I thought. Looking back the direction that I came from, my mouth dropped open in shock.
How in the Hades am I still alive? I shouted at myself in my head.
There was a long line of freshly tilled dirt in the ground leading directly to me. I turned around and looked behind me.
…High, dirt pile! there was literally a huge pile of dirt there; it seemed like the earth helped keep me alive. Then a voice whispered in my mind.
'Yes Perseus Jackson, I did help keep you alive. You didn't expect me to let you suffer a quick death did you? After all of the setbacks you caused me? No. I will let my son kill youslowly.' The voice of Gaia whispered in my mind. 'I shall enjoy watching you suffer unimaginable pain.' Que, very evil creepy ancient laugh…now. I balled my hands into fists and thought one thing. Well this is the first thing she has ever done that I am thankful for…wait a second, no this is the second time, she helped me get my memories back and get Ella the Harpy, AND kept me alive… I still hate her though.
But instead of saying any of this I simply said. "We'll see Gaia, we'll see." And with that I took off at a jog towards the battle.
While on the way back I had a bit of time to think about Artemis.
'Why did I think she was beautiful?'
"Well, because she is beautiful? In my book she looks better than Aphrodite."
'WHAT?' I asked myself. 'Come on, don't think like that!' I begged
"Well, I'm thinking like that. But since I'm thinking like that it also means you're thinking like that."
'Oh shit' I thought 'But.. I still love Annabeth.'
"Don't worry dude. She's a goddess, you're bound to think she's beautiful."
'Fair enough…but why did I want to kiss her?'
"…don't know"
'Ah great, it must've been a spur of the moment thing.' I finished the conversation with myself as soon as I got back.
When I got back I noticed three things. The first was that almost all of the monsters were gone; the second was that one of the giants had been defeated. It was Hippolytus, the giant who was trying to destroy Hermes. The ones that were left Were Porphyrion, Gration, and Mimas. The gods we're teamed up in groups fighting them, the one nearest to me had to of course be Porphyrion. Oh well, I had a score to settle with him anyways. The third thing is that most of my friends were either knocked unconscious of injured.
Nibbles and Mrs. O' Leary were licking each other's wounds Thalia, Frank, and Annabeth were fighting the remaining monsters, While Piper was taking care of the injured and unconscious. Hazel, Nico, and Hedge had been knocked out for a while. While Jason's side was bleeding badly, And Leo had arrows sticking out of his shoulder and thigh. Leo looked over to where I was, which happened to be running straight towards Porphyrion. He gave me two thumbs up, winced, and passed out cold.
That just pissed me off most of my friends were out of the fight, it brought back memories of people we lost in the Titan war. And like I said, it pissed me off. And you don't want me being pissed off, besides the sarcasm; I've been told I fight like a demon when mad. I looked up at Porphyrion and yelled at him.
"Hey Porphyrion, come here I have a score to settle with you!"
He of course turned around and yelled "WHO GOES THERE?"
I smirked and yelled. "Look down here meat head." When he saw me his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"You're supposed to be dead!" He practically screamed.
"Oh am I? Sorry your mother," I said it like she was the worst thing ever…considering that right now she was. "Told me to tell you that she wanted you to kill me slowly and painfully." At this he started to grin. I smirked and thought, time to do what I do best…piss off immortals. "Oh wait…no I got that backwards. She told me to kill you slowly and painfully." When I finished that sentence he was red with rage, he was so mad that he missed the lightning bolt Zeus threw at his head.
It slammed into him with a loud crack! And Porphyrion bellowed in pain, he swung his spear at the God and knocked him out of his chariot and onto the ground he immediately spun around leaving his back facing me, unprotected. Before he could do anything though I drew Riptide and sprinted towards the giant, leaping as high as I could I took a quick slice at him with my sword. It cut a long gash down his right arm. I landed and rolled away before he could get out of his shock.
"YOU." He yelled pointing an accusing glare at me. "YOU SHALL PAY FOR THAT!"
I calmly looked even though I was scared out of my mind at him and said, "Well I would pay for it." Then I reached into my pocket I pulled out one golden Drachma. "But all I have is this. Is it enough?"
"YOU WILL DIE DEMIGOD SCUM!"
"THEN LET'S FIGHT DAMNIT!"
Then the battle began.
~3rd PERSON POV~ (just want to test out using it for the battle scenes.)
Percy was the first one to make a move. He sprinted towards Porphyrion and it looked like he was going to swipe at Porphyrion's legs. The giant seeing this took his spear and tried to stab Percy when he got close to his foot, what he didn't expect was for Percy to jump on the giants spear and run up it to get closer to the giants chest. Porphyrion, clearly freaking out pulled his spear backwards, just sending Percy forwards at the speed and momentum of a car going 60 m.p.h. Percy then slammed Riptide into the giants stomach, all the way up to the hilt. He then summersaulted off the giant, landing in front of him and pulling Riptide back out of his pocket and uncapping it. Before Porphyrion could even talk, Percy rushed forwards and started to attack in a whirlwind of blows.
No really, there was a whirlwind. Percy had called upon a storm without even thinking about it. Sleet and hail were raining upon the giant, just giving him more cuts and bruises.
Finally it seemed that Porphyrion had had enough.
"STOP IT!" He yelled with as much force as he could, it worked because it made Percy slide backwards ten yards.
Still on his feet Percy asked. "Had enough yet?" while patting himself down, cleaning the dirt off of his clothes as if he wasn't just in a battle.
Porphyrion growled, "Just you wait Jackson. I haven't even begun to use the full extent of my powers."
Percy's eyes widened at this, "What?" I asked, not quite sure that what I heard was right.
He started to chuckle, it sounded extremely creepy. Kind of like one of those things people use to disguise their voice. But they turn it down so their voice sounds impossible deep and really creepy? Yeah, like that but about ten time's worse. "Yes, would you like to see all of my power's Jackson?"
"Erm…no thank you?" He asked, no such luck.
"Well to bad, you have brought them out." With that, his spear began to glow blue and he pointed it at the sky, dark clouds formed overhead and lightning started to flash through the sky.
Suddenly a large bolt of lightning came down and struck the tip of the spear, the blue energy that was in the spear started to move down the giants arm and wash over his body. All the gods that had been fighting Porphyrion had stopped when Percy joined in. They just sat back and watched, glad for the small break. Now the gods couldn't help but stare, their mouths open agape alongside Percy's while staring at the giant. The cuts, bruises, and pretty much every single injury on the giants body had disappeared.
Porphyrion, smirked smugly. "Now you see what I can do with my powers. Can you puny Gods do that?"
No one answered, still staring in shock at the giant. Even the other giants, along with Olympians were staring at him. Percy who had already snapped out of it looked around and said the one thing on quite a few people's minds.
"Well…Fuck." At hearing this, most of the gods snapped out of it.
"Perseus, Language!" Hera snapped at him, Percy just smirked and said.
"Good, you guys are out of your trance. Sooo, ATTACK!" he yelled the last bit before charging Porphyrion again. This time some of the Olympians were helping. Demeter was growing vines around the giants feet causing him to trip. Zeus was using his master bolt, but that just seemed to help the giant so he changed the bolt into a celestial bronze longsword sparkling with electricity. And Mars was doing as Percy was, running in and attacking with a sword while on the ground.
But even with all of this, it wasn't enough. Lightning kept coming down from the sky and healing Porphyrion, it just kept going through his spear and into his body.
'…Wait a second, the spear!' Percy thought, we need to get the spear from him.
Two seconds later Ares came crashing down beside him. Groaning and getting back up again.
"Ares, listen to me." Percy told him.
"And why should I listen to a punk like you?" Ares sneered.
"Um..Because I know how to drain him of his power's?" That grabbed Ares attention.
"Fine, What do we have to do? Ares asked Percy, glaring at him as if he wanted to rip his head off and mount it on a wall.
Wait…Ares does want to do that, nevermind.
"We need to break his spear, or get it away from him." Percy told him. "Now here's ho-" Percy was cut off by Ares battlecry, Ares wanted bloodshed. Not some stupid plan.
Percy watched and ten seconds later Ares went flying past him, his whole front body black from lightning. Percy shook his head and looked around for something that he could potentially use.
After five seconds of searching Percy found a small stream. He needed the power to be able to attack and defend simultaneously. The shield Tyson had made for him had never been repaired. Could I make an ice shield? He thought. No, wait, how about an ice sword?
Percy looked at the water and concentrated, he molded some of the water into a liquid sword resembling riptide, then he froze it. Percy ran up and scooped up the blade, being a son of Poseidon meant that he could freeze anything to as hard as he wanted.
Well not really, the blade would be as hard as a normal sword, but with Percy holding onto it it would never melt.
Percy named it Icepick.
He needed a scabbard to hold the blade in aswell. So…what the Hades? Make it out of ice!
Soon Percy was equipped with dual swords and ready to attack Porphyrion, he summoned the water from the creek to follow him and ran straight towards the giant king. Porphyrion, saw him coming and knocked the other gods aside, ready to challenge Percy.
"So, you're back again Jackson? I will do as my mother pleases and kill you now!" With that Porphyrion rose his spear and ailed it at Percy and shot a bolt of lightning, Percy formed the water into a horseshoe shaped form, the lightning struck the water and since water conducts electricity it went all the way around and out the other end. Effectively flying back into the face of the giant.
This time though it didn't heal him, it hurt him because of the salt in the lightning. Percy then rushed the giant with Riptide in his right hand and Icepick in his left. Porphyrion raised his spear to block the attack.
His mistake, Percy was aiming at a part in the middle of the spear where wood was showing instead of metal. Once Porphyrion put the spear in front of him to block the attack it gave Percy a better angle to hit the wood. He jumped high in the air and threw Riptide like a throwing knife at the giants shoulder as he brought Icepick down upon the spear.
CRACK!
That was the sound the spear made as the Icepick went through the wood. Percy had managed to time it pretty well to, the moment that the spear fell to the ground Riptide collided with the giant kings shoulder, sinking hilt deep and rendering it pretty much useless. Now with Porphyrion disarmed, Percy began to give it all he had, slicing at any body part in range. After a minute or so Riptide re-appeared in Percy's pocket. He brought it out and started to hack away with both swords, rolling out of the giants way and occasionally doing flips to dodge his fists. The gods yet again had stopped to watch the battle. The other giants had been taken out by Frank Thalia and Annabeth with help of the other gods.
But here was Percy going one on one with the giant king…and winning by a landslide, not even getting remote help from anyone. Percy had just stabbed Icepick into the giants knee, causing that leg to give out. Porphyrion fell forwards face first, and slammed into the ground. Percy taking the advantage ran forwards and plunged both swords into the giants back, straight through his heart.
Silence ensued. Everyone was staring wide eyed at Percy.
"Well?" he asked. He was answered with a lot of 'what's?' he simply shook his head and said.
"Porphyrion is the king giant, key word. Giant, and they have to die how?" Of course nobody got it, including her mother (Get it? Annabeth is nobody. From the sea of monsters? Come on tell me you got that!)
Annabeth looked at her mother who had also gotten it. "Mom, would you kindly kill him?" she asked.
"Of course dear." Athena answered, calmy walking forward with a silver dagger. Percy pulled his two swords out of the giants back, changing Riptide back into pen form and sheathing Icepick. He walked to the side and bowed as Athena walked up to the giant and said.
"Mi. Lady, would you please do us the honour?
"Yes Perseus, I shall." She said, amusement in her eyes. When she was right beside Porphyrion she looked down at his unconscious form of the giant king and snarled "Rot in Tartarus you bastard." And with that she dug her knife into the giants back. Suddenly his body went rigid, and he slowly dissipated into dust.
After that, everyone was quiet. That is until Hermes yelled "YES! WE DID IT! WE WON THE WAR!" with that being said everyone burst into cheers, nobody noticed Percy standing away from the group glossy eyed, his body completely stiff. After a minute Annabeth came over to congratulate him, and give him a hug and a kiss. When she was ten feet away she called.
"Percy!" he didn't answer her when she got closer she whispered, "percy..?" and as if on cue Percy fell forwards, Landing in Annabeth's arms.
That, is when Annabeth screamed.
A/N Well guys, that is the chapter. The next one will go into what happened to Percy and anything else I decide to add. I left everyone who read the first chapter on a cliffhanger last night. So I'm going to fix that cliffhanger with the actual cliffhanger. Don't worry, I should post the next chapter in a couple of days' time. Also, I don't need any you guys to say that your sorry about me breaking my wrist. I mean I appreciate it, I really do. But it was my dumb actions that made it happen not yours. All you need to worry about is when I'll update next, Okay? Also the foot thing really happened as well, it hurt but I laughed at it. So no saying you're sorry okay? Nod if you understand me.
*Nobody nods* Damnit Annabeth not you!
Also I need hunters names, appearences, skills, parents (could be god, demigod, mortal, nymphs, anything.) and all of that other stuff that I forgot but you people will know! I have a few names already so if you send in personality's and skills and that kinda stuff but no names, it would be appreciated. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Peace out!
Until Next time: Conover7283