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Havoc POV:

I smacked aside one of the skinny guy's flails and then dodged a strike from the bulky one's tail. I was starting to get annoyed because I knew these guys were just trying to stall me. But I knew that if I kept fighting them the Claws would free Sorvak, and all hell would be set loose.

'Have to make this quick.' I thought to myself as I grabbed one of the flails. Once I had a firm grip on it I yanked it towards me, pulling it wielder along with it. I charged my fist with magma and electricity and when he was close enough, I slammed it right into his chest, making him cough up blood. Then I pushed him back and pulled out Xalnohk.

He saw me coming straight towards him so he tried to swing one of his flails at me. But I managed to jump over it as it came at me and raised my sword. Before he could recover I swung the black blade and sliced his head off.

The bulky showed no sign of shock at his dead comrade, he merely said. "Well that gets rid of one weakling among our ranks."

I gave him a disgusted look. But I expected from people who call themselves the Destroyers, showing no sign of concern for their comrades but only for themselves. Thinking of this made me feel even more determined to stop them here and now. My thoughts were shaken off when I heard something, something that so awful that I had to cover my ears and fortunately my enemy had to do the same thing too.

What we heard was screaming.

I barely had time to recover when that bulky Destroyer tried to make another hit on me, but I managed to dodge it and swung my sword at him. But he did a jump and landed behind me. Fortunately I predicted this so I kicked him back and sent him smashing into a building. With him temporarily stunned I extended my wings and took to the air, straight towards the Empire State Building.

Claws POV:

I couldn't help but laugh as Megnek, the sword of Sorvak, was consuming the Nameless essence. I could just imagine the looks on their faces as they were slowly eradicated, realizing they had been tricked all those centuries ago. The sword was now floating on its own and the red markings on it were glowing brightly and showed no sign of diminishing anytime soon. For some reason, looking at the blade made me feel angry, violent, like there was a rage inside me I couldn't even contain and I was going to explode at any moment. Slowly my hands made their way towards the sword, a great want for it growing. And when I grabbed the hilt, I could feel the energy going through me. It was incredible, I never felt such power in my whole life.

"Oblivion, Feral" I said to them. The two beings turned their attention towards me. "Leave" I said.

"My Lord?" Oblivion asked, probably unsure of what I meant. But right now I was to focus to answer so I growled, "Leave now!" I ordered very loudly.

Not wanting to anger me anymore, the two Destroyers complied and left the palace. I fiddled with the sword for a while before I knew what I had to do. Carefully I took the sword and pointed the tip of the blade towards my chest. And in one fell swoop I plunged the blade into my body…

…and I felt complete.

Chad POV:

Every feel like you got the feeling of dread creeping over your shoulder? Well I did, and so did everyone else as we looked up at the sky. From here we could see a massive beam of energy going up into the clouds, probably into space.

"What is that?" I asked.

"Whatever it is its nothing good." Charger said, and then continued running. "We need to move faster, before they complete their plan."

That's when something struck a nearby building, blowing tons of debris towards us and nearly crushed us if Lory hadn't raised a shield to protect us. The debris crashed against cars and the street. We looked up and saw this giant worm guy that had a cannon for a right arm falling straight towards us. "Move!" Ram shouted as jumped off to the side.

Crystal and I just made it to the front of the block when that giant landed on the ground, creating a crater in the street. The others were cut off from us and the giant aimed his cannon at us. But before he could fire Charger rammed into him and slammed him into a building. Then Ram jumped off Charger's back and did a powerful kick into the giant's face.

"You guys get going! We can handle big and ugly here." Ram said as he pulled out his club guns and opened fire on the giant's head. The giant roared and tried to pry Charger off of him.

Seeing how we had no choice, we got up, and by we, I mean Crystal, Lory, Russell and myself continued running towards the Empire State Building. During our way towards the building we saw something that shocked us. Just a few blocks down were our grandparents, the Olympians being held up as prisoners of war. There were several Skralls and Zesks guarding them and a giant bug man. Near the doorway was a giant being with spikes covering his shoulders, head, arms, back and knees. Needless to say, it didn't look so good for us.

It got worse when we heard a voice from behind us. "Well what do we have here?"

We turned around and saw a robot man with a scythe in his hand. We scrambled out of the way as the blade came slamming down on the ground. I pulled out Tidal Wave and swung my sword at him, nipping a part of his arm off. He glared at me before swing his scythe again at me. I managed to stop it with Tidal Wave, giving Crystal the chance to attack him from behind. Then all of a sudden his head did a total 90 degree turn and kicked my sister back.

I heard growling behind me and realized that we were spotted as the Skralls and Zesk began making their way towards us, weapons out. But before they could even come close, a fireball struck a Skrall dead in the face. We all looked up and saw a portal opening from above, and coming out were hundreds of colored armored warriors. Apparently Lory recognized them because she shouted in joy, "The Veil's forces are here!"

And that's not all. The ground began to shake and I looked up to see thousands of robots made from junk making their way towards the building, throwing debris and cars everywhere. On top of the biggest one I could the small image of Forge.

Warriors were pouring from the sky, attacking the Fade's forces in every part of the city. A large group of them made their way towards the Skrall and Vorox and soon a battle began. Lory kicked Kronos away from me. "You three go on, I'll help the Glatorians fight off these guys."

I wanted to protest but she was right, we have to save Hestia. Picking up Russell, the three of us ran inside the building. Just as I got in I saw a glimpse of black winged being flying up to Olympus.

Havoc POV:

Have you ever felt like sometimes you were in a nightmare? Well right now I was, with all this dark energy coming off of Olympus. But I finally made it to the top and flew towards the palace, where the source of darkness was coming from. I pulled out Xalnohk and my battle-axe, Warp Breaker, ready for anything.

I landed in throne room when I spotted Hestia's body and the source of the beam of energy. I ran towards Hestia's side and make sure she was okay. Fortunately she was only unconscious was very weak, like her energy was drain for a long time.

Then I heard laughter, the kind that sends chills down your back. I looked up and as the energy beam died down a figure appeared from it. He had black dragon like wings that were spread out wide, almost blocking out the sun. He wore black and white armor with spikes on his shoulder pads and gauntlets. His skin was a grayish black and he had yellow eyes, and going down his right eye was a scar, glowing yellow too. He had long claws and in his right hand was a black sword with red markings on it.

Finally he moved towards my direction, letting out a low growl while glaring at me. I simply raised my sword at him, "Claws" I growled taking a stance.

The man just smirked as he pulled out a wicked looking battle mace into his left hand. "The name…is Apocalypse!" He hissed and then charged me. I met his sword attack with my own and continued by swinging my axe at his chest. But Apocalypse did a slide to the left and brought his mace against my right rib. My rib didn't break but the impact sent me crashing into one of the thrones.

Apocalypse laughed madly at the sight. "Incredible! So this is the power of the Ancients! I never felt anything like it!"

While he was talking I fired an air blast from my sword, striking him in the chest and sending him flying. But he managed to recover by extending his wings and gliding back to the ground. Then he raised his sword and it began to glow red. "Behold the power of Megnek!" And he fired a wave of red lightning at me. I managed to raise Xalnhok and deflected the attack, but I think I caused damage to the throne room by doing that. Still I gave him a smirk, "I'm not impress"

He let out a roar and flew right at me, our weapons clashing again. I was able to slash his chest and dodge a stab from his sword. Then I added some power into my blade as I brought it down, which he did as well. The result was that our attacks created a large crack in the throne room that went from one end to the other. Then I bashed my axe against his face, causing him to stagger and followed it up with a kick to the chest. In response he slammed his mace down on the ground, sending cracks in the floor to head straight towards me. Fortunately I used my wings to fly into the air and dodged the attack. But he jumped right at me, grabbing a hold of my waist and plummeting us through the clouds. I managed to push him off of me when I extended my own wings and soon we were clashing through the sky.

Chad POV:

We finally arrived to the throne room just in time to see Dad falling through the clouds with some other guy. But I wasn't really worried about Dad; I knew he could take care of himself; right now I was focused on Hestia, who was lying on the floor unconscious.

"What did they do to her?" Crystal asked as she checked the goddess's body for any wounds. They weren't serious but it looked like they had her chained up and wires plugged into her. But she was breathing normally so I assume it wasn't that worse.

"Whoa" Russell said as he looked at the throne room. "What happened here?"

His words made me get a good look at the place and I realized that it had just been a battle zone. There were holes everywhere and a giant crack in the floor. Some of the thrones were damaged too, like Hera's and Ares.

Russell had just picked up Hestia when several needles landed beside his hooves. All three of us looked up and saw a bee like man flying in the sky, a machine gun or something attached to his right arm. "Move!" I shouted to them as we began running. We were no matched for a long-range distance fighter in these conditions. Are best option was to get to the elevator and get Lady Hestia somewhere safe.

I noticed that the floor began to crack underneath, so I figured that Dad's fight must have really weakened the structure of this place. It was just fortunate that it wasn't that serious or else the whole palace could collapse any second.

And would you believe my luck, but the more that bee guy's shooting started to make the floor fall apart. I had to jump over an edge just so that I wouldn't fall off. But Crystal wasn't lucky, for she had slipped when the floor she was standing on began to fall down. And now she was hanging on to the edge of the floor.

I turned towards Russell, "You get Lady Hestia out of here!" I shouted.

"But-"He said but I gave him a glare saying it was not up for discussion so I ran back to get my sister while he headed towards the elevator. The floor was already in ruin, like going down large set of stairs that could come apart any second.

I managed to spot Crystal, still hanging on to the edge. I didn't know how long she could stay like that so I quicken my paste to reach her, while being careful not to slip myself. I was halfway towards her when I heard a buzzing sound from above. I looked up and saw that the bee guy was back again. I knew he wouldn't wait for me to get my sister to safety. With that thought in mind I picked up to pace to get to my sister. Suddenly the bug dude fired a rocket shaped like a hornet's stinger at me, but instead hit the stone that I was standing on, which was the same one that Crystal was hanging on to. I lost my balance and began to slide to the edge while I was desperately trying to grasp onto something. Unfortunately I failed and soon I fell over the edge, followed by my sister. As we fell through the clouds the last thing I saw were two pods with a giant V on them heading straight towards us.

Then everything went black.

Havoc POV:

Apocalypse and I crashed into a building and out again, landing on the ground with a thud. As I got back up I had vision come into my mind. I saw Chaos or Annotar, with his usual black and white cloak and hood over his body. In his hands were two spheres with something inside of them. I realized that they were Chad and Crystal, which meant Annotar had some purpose for them. As he pulled them away I gave a quick pray for their safety. Then I came back to reality, already seeing my opponent get up. Quickly I pulled out my E-blaster and fired a shot at him. The blast struck him right in the shoulder, pushing him back a little. But he recovered quickly and then a red and black cannon formed on his right arm. "Behold my Crystal Cannon!"

Then he fired a burning crystal rock at me. It was so fast that I barely had any time to dodge. I was struck in the chest and sent flying into a building. I groaned just as Apocalypse came and swung his mace down on me. Fortunately I brought my axe up and blocked it, allowing me to push him back. Then I slammed my hands together and created a sonic boom that sent him flying. I jumped into the air so I was a few inches higher than him. Moving quickly I landed a punch into his chest, causing him to crash into the concrete.

He automatically got back up and launched purple and black fire from his mouth. I swung my sword and cut the flames in two. But that gave Apocalypse time to fly behind me and wrap his arms around my waist. Then he threw me down onto the ground hard and proceeded to land on my back. He jumped back up again and I rolled over pointing my E-blaster at him again. This time I fired a fire bullet at him, exploding upon impact. I took out my sword and axe and charged.

Russell POV:

I finally was out of the elevator only to enter in a scene of chaos. Demigods, Olympians, soldiers, the Vanguards and these Veil guys were fighting the Fade like crazy. I could see perhaps hundreds of bodies lying on the streets, motionless, slowly increasing by the minute. But my first concern was getting Hestia to safety. I think she was starting to regain conscious but I noticed her appearance began to change a little. Her hair had turned pearl white, and she looked like someone in her earlier twenties.

My attention was focused back on finding a familiar face. And to my luck I found my Dad and Mom, along with several Apollo kids and Satyrs. "Dad!" I shouted as I dodged oncoming arrows. He turned towards me and gave a smile that I've never seen him give before.

"Russell! Thank Pan you're okay." He cried as and Mom ran towards me. Grover gave me a quick hug before taking Hestia, allowing Mom to hug me. Annabeth ran up to us, instructing two Apollo kids to take Hestia. Then she turned towards me, a worried look on her face. "Where are Chad and Crystal?" She asked.

I was painting heavily before I talked. "I don't know, Chad went to help Crystal and told me to go on ahead."

She was going to say something when there was a loud crash behind her. That bulky guy who Percy had been fighting suddenly appeared. He gave one look at Hestia and stomped towards us, knocking aside the Apollo kids and threw a block of cement at us. He raised his tail towards Hestia, when he suddenly disappeared. Gone, like he was never there.

It was then we realized that Hestia was awake. Hades she was more then awake she was getting up on her own. "Lady Hestia?" Annabeth asked. Hestia said nothing, just walked right pass us. She stared at the fighting going on, scanning it like a robot would do. Then she raised both hands towards the sky.

"I am…Annala." She whispered.

Ty POV:

I shot the damn bastard in the leg, making him fall over on the ground. Wolf was busy checking up on Ember, the poor girl gotten knocked out by one the bastard's attack. Fist crushed the guy's other leg while I walked up to his head. I casually pointed Betsy at his face, a smirk on mine.

"Headshot bitch" I said and pulled the trigger. The bullet made his head explode into a million pieces.

Just as we were about to soak in our victory, a white light came down from the sky and soon engulfed everything, including us. The last thing I saw was Teridax flying away fast from the light.

Ram POV:

I fired two more rounds at the giant, giving Charger the chance to ram his axe into the guy's chest. Charger wasted no time, pulled out his axe and slammed it on the monster's neck. As the opponent tried to push him off, Charge pulled the axe deeper into his body until he cut the Destroyer in half.

I spun my clubs before putting them back inside their cases. I was about to congratulate Charger on his kill when a great bright light came out from behind me and engulfed us.

Havoc POV:

I watched in awe at the bright light growing bigger and bigger every second. I had this strange feeling where it was coming from but I couldn't place where.

I turned my attention back to Apocalypse, who was just glaring at the light before turning his attention on me. He sheathed his weapons and spread his wings. Then he mouthed something to me, he said. "The war shall continue." And flew off.

I watched as he flew into the sky, into space and beyond, waiting calmly for the light to reach me, because I had a feeling what it might do.

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