Disclaimer (I haven't done this in a while, sorry): I am in no way the owner of Percy Jackson and the Olympians or The Heroes of Olympus. It's all Rick Roirdan's handy work there.
Annabeth Chase couldn't believe her eyes. They were actually getting along. War really did unite the two camps into an alliance, and it didn't hurt that Jason and Chris –the two leaders who swapped camps- got along fairly well. Annabeth pulled off her Yankees cap and saw a Roman camper jump away as she became visible and started hacking away the last few monsters with her dagger.
Golden dust was littered across the ground as the descendants of the gods finished off the remaining few monsters. The battle was almost over, it wasn't too hard of a fight after the Hunters of Artemis showed up and sent a significant amount of monsters to tartarus. The daughter of Athena spun around at the sudden shake of the ground, she expected to see the Giant Polybotes stomping around and flicking campers like they were ants, but that was not what she saw. A boy with very familiar black hair was standing on swaying knees. He seemed to be the one causing the earth quake as well as the sink hole that encased the Giants leg. It was her sea-weed brain. After nearly a year he was back and it seems like his powers have gotten better.
The Giant yelled ancients curses at the son of Poseidon and shoved his massive hands back and forth, but Percy seemed to dodge all of the attacks with ease after solidifying the sinkhole with the Giant leg encased in it. With the Giant stuck in place, it looked like Percy was having fun while dashing in between the large ankles and slashing at the reptilian patterned skin. The Giant yelled in agony and swipped at the demigod to no avail. Percy ran out of harms way, he couldn't keep the giant like this forever, he needed a god to assist him. As Percy was thinking of ways to defeat the giant he was stopped in his tracks by a nagging voice. The voice was deep and kept ordering Percy to stop making a mess of the Roman camp. The son of Poseidon spun around but the sound of the speaker wasn't coming from that direction, nor was it coming from behind him. No, this particular voice was coming from the ground.
Percy stepped back startled and poked his foot around the ground in front of him in search of whatever was making the annoying demands to put down Riptide and pick him (the speaker) up.
"Hello?" Percy asked utterly confused in the situation. He couldn't see any water figures through his endless sight of blackness besides the slight speckles of blood and dew on the grass.
"Over here boy," The voice sounded annoyed and after seeing that the son of Poseidon couldn't see he added "on the ground in front of you."
Percy kept searching the ground and eventually had to crawl on his hands and knees in search of the speaker. He traced his hands across the rubble and stones all around him and was amazed when he felt a fully sculptured face on a rock moving. Of course the face was cracked and damaged but the fact that it could speak kind of freaked Percy out.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't do that." The statue grumbled as best he could with Percy's hands studying the moving mouth of the god.
"Oh sorry." Percy picked up the stone with the face on it and tossed it up and down trying to get used to the weight, this made the god yell in pure fury.
"Put me down you sea-scum, I swear I have never seen such arrogance in my days here. No one should treat a god that way." What the god said made Percy stop and nearly laugh.
"You're a what? A god? Why are you a rock? Who are you?" Percy could feel the giant behind him start to wiggle his large reptilian leg loose from the ground by the vibrations traveling through the earth which he could sense.
"I am Terminus god of boundaries and the protector of this camp. And thanks to you, I now have a Giant stuck inside the cities limits, he also knocked me over hence the broken remains of my stand. What am I supposed to do now? Do you even think before putting your actions into play? And what about that weapon? I saw you waving it around the borders, what have you-" Percy cut the god off by picking the crumbling head up and running towards the Giant.
Polybotes was sitting down and rubbing his sore foot after freeing it from the ground with help from his sleeping mother Gaea loosening the solid earth. He was oblivious to the son of Zeus, Jason, charging with his golden sword leading the way. The giant was pushed onto his back from the attack with the sword sticking out of his chest but quickly swatted the blond boy away. Luckily that was a good enough distraction for Percy to execute his own plan. While the giant started pushing himself back up, Percy focused all of his attention on looking for the giant water source that was the Giant's head as he climbed the giant body. After venturing up the moving arm and nearly falling off a few times, Percy smashed Terminus into what he could tell was Polybotes' nose. The god of boundaries hit his target and after a few grunts of pain, the giant fell back while dissolving into the ground dead.
"Over hear boy." Percy searched the ground for Terminus and lifted him up.
"Did we get him? Is he dead?" Percy asked questioning if he imagined seeing the water from inside the giant sink into the earth.
"Yes we killed him, nice job kid. Although I would have liked it if you told me the plan first before smashing me into the enemy." Terminus' face then vanished off of the rock to order other kids to clean up the mess and left Percy staring at the now blank and empty stone.
"Percy! Man, that was great." Nico patted his cousin on the back and Thalia soon joined in by hugging Percy. She wished she could call him kelp-for-brains after seeing his idiotic fight with the giant and the stone god but instead Thalia sufficed with a smack to Percy's head.
"Ow, what was that for? I just saved your butts and then you go hitting your all mighty savior on the head. Shame on you pinecone face." Thalia laughed noiselessly and felt for the first time in a while really happy. It was good to have her two cousins back.
"Percy?" The good mood that Percy was in was cut short by that voice. Annabeth was here? Percy thought that he would never hear her voice again, but here she was.
"Hey wise girl." Percy replied awkwardly while rubbing the back of his neck. He thought there reunion would be a lot happier if they ever had one. He had had dreams of her running across a beach into his arms or jumping into the lake at camp half-blood together to partake into a romantic underwater kiss, but never would Percy have guessed that they would come together bloodied up and her only saying a single word to him. Annabeth peered into the pale eyes and hated herself. How could she leave him? The silence was broken by a loud sob, the Cyclopes was crying out of joy
"Percy!" The air was knocked out of Percy's lungs as he was tackled to the ground by his half brother Tyson. Percy almost forgot how much Tyson's hugs hurt. Percy patted his brothers back as they sat back up. "I missed you so much brother."
"I missed you too buddy. It seems like you've grown."
"Yes I have, I have gotten stronger while working in Atlantis with dad-" Percy couldn't hear the rest of what Tyson had said due to the giant black shadow pouncing onto Percy. Mrs. O'Leary licked the son of Poseidon's face ferociously after missing her owner.
"Good girl. You've grown a ton too. What have they been feeding you at camp?" Percy shoved the hellhound off and scratched behind her ear lovingly. Percy found a shield on the ground and threw it to the side making Mrs. O'Leary jump after it to bring it back.
"I've missed her, where is Blackjack?" Percy asked in search of his Pegasus.
"He is back at camp. Now are you the famous Percy Jackson we have heard all about? It's good to meet you man, I am Jason." Jason was flanked by Piper and Leo who were looking at Percy in awe. They have heard so much about him and how good of a fighter he was, but they could never have expected that he would be so reckless in his fight with a giant. They also couldn't believe he did all of that blind.
Percy stood up and brushed his pants off. He looked at the shape in front of him and plastered a goofy lopsided grin onto his face. He outstretched his hand welcomingly. "Sorry I don't think I've ever heard of you. Were you the one who charged the giant earlier? That was awesome."
"Yeah that was me, you were pretty amazing out there though." Jason didn't know what else to say. Percy Jackson was looking very intimidating from this position. He stared deeply into Jason's eyes –Jason didn't know how he could do this blind- and the way Percy towered over Jason made the son of Zeus feel like a child. "I think we should all go speak to the other Romans." Jason added after finding his voice.
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