Well, here's our second big fighting scene. Read and Review
Chad POV:
"But we have to help them!" I yelled back towards Here who just had her arms crossed and gave me a superior look. She replied, "Fool, if you go over there, then they'll capture you and any other demigod or immortal that's with you. If that happens, then we'll stand less of a chance against our foes."
I was currently standing in Manhattan near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel, where I could hear the cries of soldiers fighting for their lives against whatever it was out there. Also the whole entire island was covered in the most powerful shield ever, in order to protect Olympus, but I had my doubts.
"And if we don't go, thousands, maybe more, mortals will be killed, and they'll distrust us even more! As gods and demigods, its our job to protect them."
I could see Hera's eyebrow twitch in annoyance as she yelled. "How dare you speak to me like-"
"Enough Hera." Someone said behind her. That someone was Athena, goddess of wisdom AKA my grandmother. "Chad is right, not only would our noninvolvement cost lives, it would also make the mortals hate us more. Furthermore, the enemy is at our front doorstep and it will be just a matter of time before the break through." Then she turned to me, "Go Chad, take who you can."
I smiled and did a quick bow and ran towards the Holland Tunnel, ignoring the comment, "He's just like his parents." Made by Hera.
"Aim to the left!"
"Shit, Fire, Fire!"
"What do you mean there's no air support? The skies are fuckin clear!"
The soldiers kept yelling while they were firing at the monsters. I could already see Leo making giant guns and robots to attack the enemy. Clarisse took her kids, Selena and Charlie to fight in the close combat zone. Thalia was with some of her siblings and brought down lightning bolts. My sister, Darius and Russell and I were running through the more vacant area of the battlefield, to fend off any invaders.
Also let me tell you something about Russell. He's one of those rebellious like satyrs. He doesn't listen to his superiors all the time, he wears tough looking shirts, and he likes heavy metal. I mean, he's right now wearing a black shirt that says "Wild Pwns All!" two spike bracelets and was carrying a sub machine gun with a guitar strapped to his back.
A loud noise was soon heard and the four of us froze immediately. Then out of nowhere, these creatures attack us. They were about half our size, walked on four legs, four red eyes, tan and black skin, and tails that had really sharp stingers.
One came at me, but I cut him aside. Then two more came, one I blocked its stinger with Steel Shell and flung it at its friend, sending them both to the ground. I looked and saw Crystal already on the move, using ice daggers to pierce the their skin. Darius had already summoned an army of Crusaders and Vietnam soldiers to fight alongside him. Russell was jumping from edge to edge, firing his gun.
Suddenly we felt a bright light, combined with intense heat above us. I looked up and saw a massive fireball coming right at us.
"Shit, incoming!" I cried, as it got closer. The fireball missed Russell and Crystal by an inch, as it collided, not hitting anything except for the ground. When everything settled down, I went towards the crater it made and looked down. A man was shakily getting up and once the smoke cleared up a bit more I glared at the person.
"Nice aim Mark, but the bad guys are in the other direction." I snapped.
Mark, son of Hephaestus and the God of Fire, just looked at me and said, "Oh shut it punk, be grateful I came here at all."
I just glared at him some more. My reasons for this are simple: he's partly the reason why my dad disappeared and also he was my mom's immortal husband, making him my stepfather.
As he climbed out of the crater we heard another noise. Then out of nowhere this giant monster lands right next to us. It was about twice the size of a normal mortal, grey and silver skin, sharp claws; small wings on its back and looked very ill tempered.
It gave a hiss before batting Mark and Crystal aside. It then proceeded to bash Darius undead army and nearly cut him in half if he didn't deflect the claw with his sword. Russell got his gun reloaded and fired at it, while I threw some water bombs too.
But it merely jumped out of the way and grabbed onto a building and did so again every time we fired at it, also used its wings to glide from our attacks too. I was getting exhausted and it must have noticed it, because then it jumped right towards me.
But out of nowhere some object struck it, bringing it straight to the ground and creating a huge smoke. I shielded my eyes and tried to find my sister. That's when I noticed two beings moving, or wobbling a way from the smoke.
"Luke, Gabby!" I cried as I saw my two friends trying to make their way towards us. "Russell, give them a hand!"
From the smoke I could hear sounds like some sort of brawl was happening. Then it quieted down until a croaking noise was made. When the smoke cleared, there was a warrior standing on top of the beast. He had a sword actually driven into its chest killing it.
The moment the man pulled his sword out, more of those four-legged creatures came running at us. But the guy just waved his arm and a huge gust of wind blew them away, a few were cut into pieces.
The warrior just sheathed his sword and began walking toward us. I had one hand on Crystal while pulling her up, and the other gripping Tidal Wave. The man seemed to ignore the sword and merely walked closer, looking at us, it was hard to tell with his face with that hood on.
A groaning noise turned his attention somewhere else. Coming out of some debris was Mark (who I sort of forgot about), smoke still coming off of his body. The warrior must have seen it too because then he replied, "That explains why the Fire Salamander was here."
Confused I asked, "The what?"
Not moving he explained, "That creature I just took out, they're drawn to large amounts of fire. Probably sensed your friend there and was hoping to have a quick snack."
When he finished he began to walk towards a different direction, causing me to ask, "Wait where are you going?" Because I had no idea who this guy was and for some reason… there was something familiar about him.
He turned his head to me and said, "There's something else that's threatening the people here. I'm going to take care of it and then go and finish what I was originally sent here for." He paused for a moment before saying, "And you guys better come with me before more Zesks come."
I had a pretty good idea that he meant those smaller creatures that we faced earlier. Giving a quick nod I turned to help the others. But as I did I looked at the stranger and asked, "You wouldn't mind telling me your name?"
He merely just stared at me before saying, "My name is Blade."
Percy POV:
I walked at the front of this group, a smirk on my lips as the God of Fire, who turned out to be Mark, was moving in the back with a sour look on his face. The others I learned that they were kids of some of my friends. I still didn't know who the two siblings were, but for some reason they looked familiar.
Both he and his sister had had black hair, though his was actually really dark blonde, so I figured they were my half siblings. But when I saw that the girl's eyes were grey, meaning she was a daughter of Athena. But that made no sense; how could they be siblings if they had different godly parents. I decided to shake it off since I couldn't afford being distracted.
I noticed that the boy was asking Gabby and Luke something, probably what I was doing here. From the sound of it, they didn't hear much from my conversation with Hestia.
We kept walking until the ground began to shake violently. Everyone pulled out their weapons except for me since I wasn't that nervous. Quaver decided to go back inside the armor so he wouldn't be in the way.
Then all of a sudden something big burst out of the ground a few blocks away from us. I turned and cried, "Drill Worm!"
As I said, it was a worm, a very, very big worm. Its entire body was made out of metal and was wreaking what remained of the city.
When he grabbed his bearings Russell, Grover's kid apparently asked, "A What Worm?"
I merely looked at the beast while replying, "A giant metal worm with a mouth and teeth that moves and acts like a drill." I watched as the creature was heading towards the Holland Tunnel. "You guys go back and warn your friends, tell them to get far away and to high ground." Then I quickly added, "And don't let the Ares/Mars kids do anything stupid like jumping on its back."
Clearly annoyed, Mark snapped, "Why should we listen to you? We don't even know who-"
"Dude shut up and do as he says." Interrupted Chad, who began ushering to the others to get moving, with Mark following with his face red with envy. I just rolled my eyes and jumped off the edge of a small hill towards the worm.
Unfortunately it also got me smack dab in the middle of a group of Zesk whose stingers went up at the sight of me.
Unable to draw Storm Terror in time, I used my hands to knock them back and threw a couple into the air. I grabbed one by its tail and used it as a flail, hitting its allies. To end it quicker I managed to grab a van, bashed a couple of the bastards before throwing it on top of a pile of them, crushing them. When I heard the worm's roar I made a dash through a gap between the Zesks. As I jumped from rubble to rubble, I realized I would never be able to catch up to it. So I put my fingers into my mouth and blew a long whistle. Soon the sound of hooves could be heard from below, but not close enough to me, so I kept jumping off of buildings.
As I did I passed some mortal soldiers and a few demigods who must have received that kids warning, for they were firing at the worm. The next building I jumped to was actually had Thalia, Leo, their kid along with Clarisse and her two kids. Her son, Charlie, fired a grenade launcher at the worm, which looked kind of cool the way he did it. Thalia and Leo were throwing fireballs and lightning bolts, while Luke was throwing fireballs mixed with lightning. They only saw a quick glance at me as I passed by them and finally got on my Pegasus.
"Hey Boss, long time since we've been riding on Earth again hasn't it?" Blackjack asked. I smiled, even after 10,000 years he still calls me boss.
I moved Blackjack so we were flying directly above the worm. I took out Storm Terror and gave it a few burning slashes to see how it would react. Its reaction was a loud roar of annoyance and tried to flick me away with its tail. I steered Blackjack away from its tail and as it made a turn I got near its face. I gave it a few slashes; before I decided to give something I called an Earthquake punch.
Getting close to its mouth, I curled my left fist and punched the air that was a few inches from its face. Then a crack formed until a shockwave hit it, causing a part of its mouth to come off and blood appearing. It roared again and raised its head in the air before diving back into the ground.
"Boss, incoming!" Shouted Blackjack.
I moved my head and saw a building right in front of us. I maneuvered Blackjack to fly up, his hooves only an inch away from the building. Unfortunately I lost sight of the worm as we finally got cleared of the building. I decided to land on the ground, stroking Blackjack mane as I scanned the area.
Then the ground began the shake and emerging from it right before me was the Drill Worm, its teeth spinning like crazy. It must have spotted me because it started to dive right towards me. That gave me an idea, and I gave the signal to Blackjack to charge right at it. At the precise moment I jumped of Blackjack, allowing him to poof away. My jump brought me almost directly in front of the creature's mouth. But I angled myself to the right and brought Storm Terror against its body, cutting off another part of its mouth and leaving a huge cut on its metal skin. I put away my sword and fired a blast of ice at the wound. And as I thought, it did more then just wound it.
The ice also struck a large part of its inside and caused the worm to shriek in pain. After a few seconds of flailing, it finally collapsed on the ground, a mixture of blood and ice oozing out of its mouth.
As I stood up I heard a coughing noise somewhere nearby. I turned and saw that girl, the boy's sister, stumbling out of a building, coughing from the dust made by the worm's impact to the ground. I walked over and gave her hand.
When she got up I asked, "You okay?" She replied, "Yea I'm fine." Then she looked at the dead worm's body and her face showed a look of shock and awe. Then a voice, a woman by the sound of it, was shouting, "Crystal? Crystal can you hear me?"
I recognized it as Annabeth's. Figuring she was calling for this girl I looked down at her and asked, "I'm guessing she's calling for you?"
Her face turned away from me she replied, "Yeah that's my mom."
If her head weren't facing the other direction then she would have noticed my body get stiff. What she just said brought this other thought into my head, something that made me get out of there very fast.
As I super sprinted back to where I told Hestia to wait, I thought of everything that just happened. If the girl had Annabeth's grey eyes and the boy had her blond hair, then of course she would be their mother. But if she had black hair and he had green eyes, then the only logical person who could be their father would be….
…me.
When I stopped sprinting once I saw Hestia, I could feel Quaver now walking beside me. "Is everything alright Master Blade?" He asked.
I just ignored him and prepared to take the goddess of the Hearth to the Council.
Crystal POV:
As I walked beside my mom, I couldn't stop wondering where that man went. He was near me for only a minute, but the moment I turned around he was gone.
In a clearing away from the mortals were, I spotted my brother talking to Gabby and Luke, talking to them with great vigor. I noticed that their parents, as well as our friends and their parents, even some of the gods were there as well. They all had intense and shock looks on their faces.
When we got closer my brother said, "Are you sure?"
Luke, who felt kind of uncomfortable with eyes upon him replied, "Well I think that's what she said."
"What who said?" Asked my mom when we were next to them. They all looked at us with pity faces on. Chad had tears that were starting to come out.
Confused I asked, "What?"
Luke cleared his throat, "Um, Crystal you know that guy who was with us?"
Raising an eyebrow I said, "Yea so?"
Luke continued, "Well I think he was taking Hestia with him somewhere so he could figure out what was going on here. And, I'm not sure but I think she called him something else."
Irritated with this long dramatic show, I said, "And that was?"
He gulped and said, "I think she called him Percy."
My eyes widen when he said that and when realization of the man who was next to just a few minutes ago was. I looked at mom, her face shocked, and her hand over her mouth and tears threatening to come out.
Feeling tears about to come out of me I asked, "Are you saying that was…"
Chad, who now looked like he was about to cry said, "Yes Crystal, that man was our dad."
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Anyway review.
Also: Yeah no more school or regions for me, I get to be lazy! And of course, write stories.
Wacko12
P.S Also I'll be adding the Roman Demigods too. Their names and godly parents that I've given them are below.
P.S.S Also I've already have ideas for other Vanguards, but if you have some ideas as well, then you can send a message to me of them. Please make sure to put in a name, powers, weapon (With or without a power) and, optional, appearance and personality. Can't promise of putting them all in or having major roles.
Roman Demigods:
Gwendolyn: Daughter of Apollo
Hazel: Daughter of Pluto
Frank: Son of Ceres
Dakota: Son of Neptune
Bobby: Son of Mars
Reyna: Daughter of Minerva
