Chapter Four: Titans too strong?
Olympus base camp Perseus Pov:
As I appeared in the camp everyone just stared at me at first but then once I met their stares with my own steely glare they all looked away. I walked right through the camp to the larger 3 story palace like building.
The camp was made up of a wall around it with around 1 million tents then 100 command tents in a circle nearer the middle. Finally there are 4 large palaces. One is lightning designs, biggest, sea designs, second biggest, and skulls/bones which is the smallest.
In the center of all of that is a huge three story marble palace as all the others were 2 story. This was three buildings attatched to a fourth in the middle. It said in bright gold letters on the top "WAR BUILDING" so I just took a good guess and assumed that it's the war building.
As I walked up to the gates as to gain access to the premesis a large man in bronze armor stopped me. "Halt. What buisness do you have here." I assumed he was a guard. "Yes, I am here to meet with your leaders as I wish to help them and I want a high position of power so I will do anything I have to to achieve this so that I may help lead your army to victory." I left out the slightly important but not really details of how I know Orthrys in and out, all of the titan's power, all of their weapons, battle tactics, and allies. Oh yeah, and I am one of the most powerful beings on this planet at the moment, trained under the tutelage of Uranus the most powerful primordial after Chaos.
The man seemed to eye me carefully then his eyes seemed to twinkle with amusement. Then all of a sudden he snorted, this was almost immediately followed by hysterical laughter.
When he finally calmed down he spoke to me in his deep yet annoying voice.
"You!? A pathetic mortal want to be in a position of POWER? Ahhhh, that's great. Anyway if you can beat me in a battle I'll let you inside, you will have to beat whoever is at the position you want so if you want a chance at a position of power you gotta be able to beat me at least.
"By the way I'm a lieutenant anda son of Zeus." He said cockily with a smirk on his face, I think he believes that I'll be impressed. Ha! "Cool." I inwardly smirked as I saw his face grow red in anger and he did just as I hoped. He got pissed and bullrushed me.
As he charged full steam right at me it was as if I had all the time in the world because of my training with Ouranos. Just as he got 100 feet away I tapped my activated my willed my vambrances to encase my knuckes and they did. Once that was finished I got ready and right as I say his right shoulder flext I knew he was going for a vicous vertical swipe to my left side.
I ducked and used that as the platform of my punch. My thighs and quads tensed up as I rocketed up and just before I made contact I thrus my diamond and celestial bronze covered knuckles right into his chin effectively knocking him unconcious.
After that I simply willed my vambrances to go back to normal and walked right through the gates and walked along the terrace flanked by beautiful vegetation on either side.
As I was within a few feet of the doors I noticed how egoistical these gods are. There are pictures of themselves all over the place as if they are more beautiful than anything else. Ugh, why am I helping these upstarts again?
I had said that to my self but to no one in particular when a voice I know all too well now spoke in my head. "They are better than the alternative Perseus." Said the deep, and commanding voice of my step-father.
After a few minutes of remiding myself that these people are going to be my friends I walked into the war room.
Linebreak
Perseus Pov; Main command tent, 1 day later
Well the meeting hardly went well, I spoke with the gods and got this position as Head Gerneral
FLASHBACK Perseus Pov
Um, hey guys... my name is Perseus and I sort of knocked out your guard cause he said that I had to get past him. And I would like a position of great power in your army.
They all just looked at me like I was insane but Hades seemed to look at me with pity. Zeus stood there bolt raised ready to strike me down for harming his son, Poseidon looked amused but battle-ready, Demeter seemed bored, Hestia seemed curious, and Hera was blushing and trying to look away. Zeus noticed this and seemed even more angry at Perseus.
After he explained the situation to them but never mentioned who he is just that he's got control over weather and that he's got it because he's got Ouranos very very far back in his family tree.
The gods bought it and brought the head general there to face off against perseus.
The Olympians led Perseus and a son of Zeus named Themitocles to the arena. The arena was a 200x500 foot rectangle I summoned my spear by tapping my right vambrance (the spear and bow are all that's left connected to those, Anaklusmos is always in a sheath or in knucklebuster form, ricoche is now attatched to the armor or can be a left knucklebuster. The knives silver shadow and golden mystery are at my waist at the moment. But they can dissapear into shadows and daylight respectively silver=shadow and golden=daylight) my spear appeared in my right hand and I pulled my shield off my back.
I got into my stance ready to charge. Then when Zeus yelled BEGIN!
I instantly sprinted straight for him juking left and right until I'm right in front of him, he had been staying in a defensive position the entire time expecting me to leap into the air. I faked a leap but rolled low and stabbed up under his sheild as he had raised it when I faked a leap. I got 6 inches into his rib cage and punctured a lung (it's a battle to death). We had to prove that we are ruthless to be in a high position as you must be able to see your warriors cut down. He screamed out in agony and me being an at least semi-nice guy decided to end his misery so I stabbed him in the head effectively killing him.
end flashback
Perseus pov:
I had been awoken by my colnel reminding me that today we march on Thessaly. I got out of bed albeit begrudgingly and put on my armro and weapons. Then I left the tent and went to rally up the men.
As I walked through the camp to the podium where all the men would be I thought on how to defeat my father without revealing myself to the gods. I knew they couldn't defeat the titans at Orthrys without me, and I also know that only with my powers I can stand up to all four of the titans with rule over the corners of the earth.
Even at full strength with all my powers and abilities and all of these things that I have gained over the years, I will still be in for one Hades of a fight.
I decided I'd have to do some speach to the troops before we are underway to march on Thessaly. "MEN! SOLDIERS, you are many things. We have dimigods, nymphs, satyrs, mortals, Minor gods, major gods, Olympian gods, and even TITANS! We will not fall to these egotistical bastards that currently rule the Earth. Zeus and his siblings escaped their father Kronos with ease. His own wife betrayed their pathetic king!" This was hard for me to say as he was once my father but I knew that it was true. He is but a shell of his once great and kind self, overtaken by greed, hate and
suspicion. "He will fall to us, he will beg for mercy and WE WILLNOT EVER FALL!" The soldiers cheered and banged their weapons against their shields.
"We, You, All of us, are the greatest army of all armies. I am lucky to be the leader and to serve under the gods." I paused for a moment and glanced at Zeus. "ALL OF YOU! NOT ONLY THE DEMIGODS AND THE IMMORTALS BUT THE MORTALS TOO! You are all GREAT!"
I pus so much power and voice into the last word that it waws probably heard for miles. The entire army was cheering so loudly it was probably heard by Kronos himself.
line break: 30 minutes later Thessaly:
As we approached the opposing army I visibly gulped. I was expecting an army of like 10,000, which was a tenth of what the army was when I was learning under the titans. But what we got was an army of 150,000, all 300,000 eyes trained upon us. Then in the front was the leader, Atlas. The General. I had trained under him, my grandfather and although my strength surpasses him now under my training from the lord of the skies himself he was still a very worthy opponent.
Atlas looked at us as myself and the three sons of Kronos came up in front of me. Zeus in the lead flanked with Poseidon on his right and Hades to his left. I was behind them al though my 6 foot 6 inch stature put my head just above Zeus.
Once we were within yelling distance Atlas walked up to us and spoke.
"All of you bow before myself and Lord Kronos and you will be spared to fight with us against these upstarts you follow now." Atlas boomed. We waited with bated breath. The tension in the air lay heavy, like a rock teeterin on the edge of a plateau. No one said a word, no one bowed this portion of our army was loyal as they glared at the demtitan, mortal, and monster ranks that made up our enemy.
Just now I noticed the man that was next to Atlas. He looked to be about sixteen. He had a lithe hunter like build and was about 6 foot 2 inches. He had wavy blonde hair that was cut short military style, he had bushy blonde eyebrows over short blonde eyelashes that hovered over deep fully golden eyes. nothing was black or white, just gold in his eyes. "Just great a son of Kronos" I thought.
Atlas noticed my wandering eyes and spoke again in his deep resonating voice taht commanded attention. Boy! Who are you and why are you with the Olympians." For a moment I thought he recognized my but I put the notion aside as I was taller and looked completely different now, my eyes were stormy green with slight gold rims and sky blue for the iris but the pupil was stormy green, that was the thing that stood out the most but still. Atlas seemed to dismiss me as a normal soldier somehow.
"I am the general of this army, I am here with my superiors for the same reason that that cheap imposter next to you is." He narrowed his eyes and the son of Kronos glared at me and gripped his scythe. I began to laugh at this. "Ha, you think that he'll be able to be able to lead anything? He is arrogant and believes himself above everyone else. That is not any way to lead." As I said this I realized just how hypocritical this was. I think myself above my entire army including these pathetic excuses for gods the Olympians. The only ones that were worthy were Poseidon and Hades, Hades was to mean though, too brutal he would be too ruthless, but Poseidon is a perfect balance just like the seas. But Zeus is just a weaker Kronos.
Atlas merely glared at us and then we walked back to our army. Zeus roared CHARGE!
The battle began. I drew Anaklusmos from my back and willed it to turn into my favorite, twin scimtars. I told the gods about all of my weapons just not how I got them and how I can turn it into my The blades had green lines along them. A gift from Akhlys. The poison began to drip on the ground after I activated it. The ground melted as they dripped. I brandished them and charged.
As I met the enemy my army was behind me. I cut through the first five mortals with no problem. I was two lines in behind lines. One dracaena raised her shield and thrust her spear while a mortal slashed down with a falcata. I bent backwards at a 90 degree angle as the spear went over me. I grabbed the spear firm and caught the slash on the monster's spear. I then pushed the spear back and lopped the head off of the mortal that tried to slash at me, then I pivoted on my lead foot (left foot) and delivered a hard roundhouse to the dracaena's ribs effectively turning the moster to golden dust. I was not expected to survive that so no one was paying me any attentnion anymore. I took this as an advantage and turned Anaklusmos back into my bracelet wrapped around my right gauntlet. I decided to pull out my hunting knives. I grabbed them from a pocket at waist level on my armor and activated them to their fulll 1 1/2 foot long beautiful selves. I put them in icepick grip and charged again. The enemies realized I was still alive late as I had already slaughtered 15 of them in the seconds it took them to realize I was still standing. I slit the thoat of a mortal with my right blade as I swept the legs out of a demititan behind me. I then spun around to catch a sword on my right blade while crushing the demi-titan's skull with my right heel.
I ran forward and leapt over a drakon while brining my blades up above my head facing toward the ground. I was 35 feet in the air when I began falling to the ground. I landed knives first sunk right into Perses's back. I had noticed him with his huge sword destroying our armies as he charged us much like I did them. He spun around albeit slower because of his quite deep wounds. As he spun he raised his sword and had a look of pure fury in his deep red eyes. I noticed his sword a moment before he expected and jumped up. I landed right on the blade as he thrus it forward using it as a slide down onto him. Considering his nine foot stature I was above all the others as I sunk my blades into the opposite sides of his skull effectively dropping him dead on the ground golden ichor leaking from his back and head.
I ran at a group of archers raining arrows down on our right flank. I threw my knives at the far right and far left archers catching them right between the eyes. I tapped my bracelet once bringing Anaklusmos once again out in all it's glory in it's true form of a 3 1/2 foot long xipthos that reads "Anaklusmos" along the side. I felt the familiar power from the blade go back into myself as I brough it up from my side cutting the torso right off of the first archer's body. The other archers just noticed me and fired arrows at me which I dodged and sliced and blocked. After a few second I had enough and slowed time for them and the arrows a little bit. I quickly tapped my left bracelet turning it into my beloved shield ricoche. With shield and sword I unfroze time and leapt at the remaining seven archers of this flank.
I landed in front of the lead archer bashing in his skull with my shiled and stabbing the one on his right in the throat with Anaklusmos. I leapt up and ended the rest of the archers in the next few seconds.
I then fell back to lead my men. I sent 250 troops to go back and around the enemy attacking them from the back of the left flank. I ordered 1000 men to go and flank to the right a little after the first group engages. Finally I ordered the rest of the 12,000 reinfrocements to go up to the front and get into wedge foremation with 18,000 of the rest of out troops that haven't been on the front line yet. I put Poseidon with that force to lead it. I sent the other 45,000 that we had just got since we had only brought one 10th of our army here not expecting Atlas to bring this many troops. I had them be in the roll up the line formation and to go with the motions that go with that formation.(the army is in a line but builds up more and more and more on one end. then the all attack forward. Since the right has far more troops they break through the enemy lines and push forward up the line or "roll up the line") after giving these directions I decided to go in and find all the drakons and kill them as they are causing the most damage.
I spotted a little over 500 drakons... damn. I ran up to the gods that were grouped together facing off with palas 9 drakons and a bunch of demititans. I tapped my spear on my gauntlet and it appeared in my right hand. I slapped my left bracelet over my gauntlet and ricoche unspiralled on my left arm. I sprinted right for the front and landed with a thud right next to Zeus as he stabbed a drakon with his bolt and kicked a demi-titan square in the chest effectively breaking 4 ribs. I thrust my spear into a demi-titan's head and pulled out spun the spear in a 360 knocking three arrows away from Pallas. Then he pulled out his huge sword and charged me. I yelled over to Zeus. "Hey Zeus, help me out I'm trying to kill all the drakons, we'll get wrecked if we can't get rid of them. Once we finish this skirmish follow me most are defending their left flank from the roll up the line technique.
"Sure! But lets kill this titan first I think he's high ranked beight the titan of war. Gotcha, I'm almost done. I caught his first thrust on the edge of my shield, I spun my shield down and smacked his head with the pole of my spear and used the momentum to hit his ribs with my shin. It was a clean kick and broke several ribs. As he tried to get up I shrunk my spear back down to a bracelet on my gauntlet and (Woah woah woah, I just realized that I have confused myself on the weapons and stuff so lets just clear this all up okay, damn okay so Anaklusmos is either in a sheathe or it can be vaporised and unvaporised so basically turned to water vapor, yeah I just introduced that but it's so much easier than going back and editing everythign -_- I have MMA in 20 minutes so don't question it. His spear is a symbol on his right gauntlet or vambrance whatever you wanna call it, he just tapps it and it appears, the shield ricoche is a bracelet on his left arm over his left vambrance or it can be weightless on his back, his twin hunting knives gold and silver are either in his pocket in tiny forms or a symbol on his right vambrance, and his scythe/gladius is a gold coin in his pocket on his armor... don't question it I just switched stuff around I know shhhh it's okay) threw my shield like a frisby at his neck activating the sharp edges and sliced his head off like a knife to hot butter (OUCH! damn...) I ran over and grabbed my shield dodging javelins from a demititan on my right. Zeus had killed all of the drakons over near him and had slaughtered the rest of the troops following Pallas. "Okay Perseus, lets go kill those drakons, lets get the ones trying to flank the rolling up the line (damn I gotta get an abreviation for that)formation." I followed the youngest child of Zeus to the drakons. He leapt up and caught an air current flying up 300 feet before firing his bolt at all the drakons he could. I never knew he was that good... ouch. I rushed in as well leaping 30 feet up and un vaporising Anaklusmos just on the peak of my jump turning it into twin falcata's and activating the super strength I get from Atlas in my swords (he can use super strength himself but if he uses it in his swords too then it's much more powerful sort of how he can light them up with lightning) and rushed the first drakon. As he fell to the ground mere inches from the thing's head he slashed down with both swords effectively turning the beast to golden dush.
PERSEUS POV:
After I killed the first maeonian drakon I ran forward with my right blade held straight up and my left blade out to the side. I slashed and hacked my way through 12 soldiers and monster 'till I saw the next drakon. I leapt up to it's head and sank my swords through it's skull turning it into dust.
Zeus, me and eventually Hades as well finished off all the drakons in about 25 minutes. The rolling formation had just broken through the left flank and was currently doing it's job and rolling up the line making 10 yards per minute. The wedge formation broke through the double line made by the monsters and was currently just fighting one on one monster to Olympian soldier as we made progress there. The two flanking teams just met up with the monsters and are plowing their way to the wedge force and creating havoc in the back of enemy lines. Atlas just got in the fight a few minutes ago with as cowel on his face as he realized his force was losing. That little son of Kronos was constantly using his time powers and wreaking havoc on our newly formed left flank.
I decided that I should fight Atlas later on in the war and sprinted as fast as I could straight for my half brother. (son of Kronos) I was sprinting so quick I was just a blur for even Atlas. The son of Kronos who identified himself as diomenocles attempted to slow me down with time manipulation but I merely shrugged it off like it was nothing. His jaw dropped before fixing his posture clenching his jaw and gripping his scythe tightly.
I met him 20 feet away. I pulled out unvaporized Anaklusmos again. I kept it as it's pure form of just a 4 foot long xipthos with the words "Anaklusmos" on the side. I also slapped my dark starry bracelet on my left vambrance my shield spiralled out instantly and I got into a defensive position with my blade at my side with my muscles tensed and my shield covering all of me but my head.
I saw his eyes flash a deeper gold for a moment and knew he was using time manipulation. I blocked it out and thrus my shield out to the left knocking his arm to the side as he thrust at my foot. I followed up my slashing at his neck from the side but he side stepped so i used the momentum and spun picking up my lead foot and flipping left over right spin-kicking him in the jaw with my heel effectively shattering his jaw. He screamed like a bitch and clutched his jaw, I used this as a distraction and thrust my sword right into his stomach. Unfortunately he apparently had some skill as he swivvled to the side and jumped back so I only got about one inch past his skin.
I knew that wound would slow him down so I went full speed slash, CLANG, stab, CLANG, downwards slash, CLANG, swipe, dodge, block, CLANG, stab, CLANG, thrust, slash, CLANG. It went on like this for five minutes me spinning blocking stabbing slashing jabbing everything. I finally found a hole in his defense. Whenever he blocks high for a high left swipe after I go for a low jab and twirl to dodge one of his swings with his scythe I can get a jab in with my left fist. My middle knuckle made contact just above his jaw and to the right of his nose while my first knuckle made contact with his nose effectively breaking it. He winced hard and I used that to kick the back of his lead leg making him fall forward and to his right before he could catch himself I slashed in a deadly downward arc and lopped his head right off his body. I saw Atlas notice this and he screamed in rage and leapt from the minor godling he just finished killing and landed right in front of me.
"You will pay boy, that's Kronos's boy and he'll be pissed that I let him die. You will pay the price you useless mortal." His voice was deep and held uncontrollable anger. I merely smirked as I got ready to face my old teacher. He started off with the usual thrusting with his javelin and quickly grabbing another and swinting it at my head. He always carries two javelins so he can throw one and stab with the other. Both he can summon back to himself so he uses them a lot, I could see the damage they had caused so far in the battle already. I followed each poll with eagerness. I waited for the thrust to get close and I jumped up landing on the poll. I ducked to dodge the swing and grabbed said swung javelin. I pulled up on the javelin and did a flip. In mid air I changed riptide into twin scimtars. Before my feet hit the ground I swung my left scimtar in a sweeping motion only to be met by a javelin. When my feet hit the floor I quickly sprung back and did a backflip and a half to land on one hand. I went down on one hand and pushed up as hard as I could once he threw one javelin at me. I flew up over it and did a three sixty in the air evaporation both swords tapping my knife symbols and threw both straight for my mentor's face. I devaporized my swords and came down from 18 feet up with my twin scimtars up and ready to come down right onto his chest. Atlas dodged one knife but the second caught him on the shoulder. before I landed I changed projectory since he was raising a javelin, he was ready for me.
I flipped end over end three times and once I landed I spun and hit him with a spinning back kick, heel right to the temple. He fell down and I sliced down with both swords. I thought I was about to end him but it was stopped by a huge spear that said "daitripon" (piercer) on the side. Oh shit. Not him, not Iapetus. that was all I could think as my uncle hit me with a firm side kick right to the chest. He was obviously shocked when I only went back a few inches and raised both scimtars ready to fight. He expected that to kill me? I almost killed his son the second best fighter in their army and he thinks that will kill me, really? Oh, well.
I jumped right into action I leapt up and when he thrust his spear up towards my gut I leaned forward and grabbed the shaft. I did a flip so that I landed on his shoulder and kneed him right in the temple. Sending him into unconciousness. Right before I could finish I fest a warm sensation in my shoulder before I felt Atlas kick me right in the shoulder cause much more pain than it should have. I noticed that I was bleeding then I realized Atlas got up and had shoved his javelin deep into my right left shoulder. I snarled at Atlas and jumped up as high as i could. I used the air currents to put me even higher up to 500 feet high. I decided I'd explain my powers to the gods later but for now I was pissed, and I mean really pissed. I called down some lightning and a storm so that I'm under some weather to replenish my powers. I decided that I would have to show this eventually so why not now?
I called down a huge thunderbolt much larger than anything Zeus could even think of and focused all of it to my wound. The wound healed completely but I wouldn't be able to use natural lightning for a while. I noticed as I was falling that our right flank was crumbling so I focused some black lightning and shot it straight into their ranks killing about 900 of them and saving flank.
That took a bit of energy out of me but I didn't care right now I was out for blood, that HURT! So as I landed Atlas looked at me with pure fury in his eyes. I attacked. I was a blur to everyone. My blades crackled with black lightning or shadow lightning as I called it. As I attacked with pure fury and slashed with all my might over and over and over I electricuted Atlas agan and again to the poit where his javelins were smoking and I was just acting on pure instincts I was now fighting both father and son. I blocked three stabs simultaniously and spun a 360 and swept both swords one decapitating Iapetus and the other knocking Atlas's right javelin from smacking me on the back.
Right as I killed Iapetus Atlas screamed. "YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED HIM, YOU KILLED MY FATHER. YOU WILL PAY! My old master bellowed and everyone who wasn't staring at us earlier from my little show sure was now but before he could chage he got teleported away in a bright golden flash and I knew that Kronos had flashed him away not wanting to lose his two best generals in one day.
After that was over the enemy went into panic having no high ranking officers left in this part of their army as this was an entiire 55% of their army.
I knew I had some explaining to do to the gods but I decided that will have to wait as I ascended up a few thousand feet and raised both hands to the sky. I got into a crossed leg position. I had both hands raised up to the sky with all fingers folded except for the pointer and middle along with the pinkie, ring finger and thumb pointing to the ground. The sky darkened immediately, I summoned all of my electrical power, shadow lightning, blue lightning, pure lightning, heat lightning, all of it. I summoned it all. I knew that I would pass out but it was time for this to go.
I had a huge ball of swirling red electricity floating above my risen hands. I opened my eyes and they were fully electric blue and i fully extended my thumbs. The ball got smaller and smaller as I fired it out of my thumbs into the enemy. In 15 minutes it was all gone and the entire enemy defeated. I fell from the sky unconcious... but Zeus slowed my down so I didn't end in a splat.
I awoke to a bright light shining through my window and 6 pairs of eyes staring at me. Then the one with sky blue eyes spoke up, it was Zeus. "Okay Perseus you have a lot of explaining to do, who the Chaos are you." Wow how do I respond to that... "Ummm... well I'm
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