Numbah Four!
Clarisse looked around her. Her brother, Mark Damon, was coughing up water. She had no idea what happened to Annabeth, or even the cyclops, Texas or whatever.
"Mark, get up. I got a feelin' we just landed in some pretty deep shit," she said.
And indeed they had, for heading towards the siblings of Ares was a group of pirates, led by a man with a black beard that had lit fuses in it. Clarisse drew her spear, and it crackled to life.
Annabeth Chase and Tyson immediately knew they were screwed, when they found a massive cave, and heard the voice of a nervous and scared Satyr.
"No! It has to be perfect, Lyph! The sheep go on the OTHER side of the cave, and the shield hides them, and then they come out, ONE BY ONE," the Satyr said. Polyphemus grumbled but directed the sheep to do as they were told.
"Hey, No-eye," Annabeth yelled.
"Huh? Who there!"
"Nobody," the Satyr said, recognizing the voice instantly.
Polyphemus roared, and rushed the demigoddess and her companion.
"NOBODY WILL DIE," he shouted as he ran.
In retrospect, Odysseus was a genius for naming himself Nobody.
I dodged a jet of extremely pressurized water, and felt the sea around me get heavier. I was bleeding, but so was Oceanus.
We fought, his Othyric Iron trident to my Ice trident. We were both healing as fast as we got hurt, and our energy wasn't decreasing. I was losing simply because I was starting to tire.
But how the fuck do I kill a gods damned TITAN in HIS OWN ELEMENT!?
By taking him out of it, duh.
But catching him was like fishing for minnows with your bare hands. It was slippery as hell.
I dodged another blast of water and threw my trident, before drawing Riptide, and slashing Oceanus' chest.
I missed, but then I discovered the surprise of the tide.
A jet of superheated SaCl+H2O fired into him, and his chest turned pink, and my attacks were all healed.
I'm never fighting this guy again. The water versus water is stupid.
"You know, this is getting old. Why don't we go topside, and kick it up a few knots," I said.
Oceanus must have liked that idea, because we shot to the surface, and it became as hard as a rock under our feet.
Waves assaulted me, and I waved my hand. Ice formed, and Oceanus was soon dancing with killer popsicles.
I never paid attention to him dancing closer.
My face broke against the water, and my jaw snapped. A foot slammed into my arm.
I was shocked from the pain, and felt my sword arm break. My mind went blank.
And then, the water exploded.
A massive tsunami wave roared over Charybdis, and she stopped eating the sea, allowing a battle to begin in earnest.
My dad stood on the top of the wave, riding the crest in full battle regalia. Beside him, was Amphitrite and Triton. Both were also in full battle regalia, with Amphitrite holding a sword, and Triton wielding a trident.
A shark leaped over me, and grabbed the Titan, shaking him violently as it landed in the water.
The wave my father was on bowled over me, and I felt myself back at my rightful place. Any sea but the Sea of Monsters, and fully healed.
And then, shit got real.
As I summoned spear after spear of ice, and launched them at Oceanus, the worst thing possible happened.
I got hit with a giant octopus arm. I was sent flying, and skidded right into Oceanus's territory.
"KRAKEN," I shouted, as I fell.
Triton turned to me, and grinned, before launching his trident into the water.
Black blood polluted the sea, and I formed the weirdest looking trident ever.
A black ice trident flew into the beast's eye, and I summoned it.
Then another tentacle flew out, and batted me towards Oceanus, before the Kraken died at Triton's hands.
I slammed into the Sea Titan, and coughed up blood.
I looked down, and saw a golden spear inside my chest, and at the other end, a blonde Titaness with a blonde fish tail.
"Goodbye, Sea-blight," she said, twisting the spear.
I groaned.
She forgot that I was still in my dad's domain.
"It's Sawblade, bitch." And a row of said tools carved of sea ice formed, before sawing into her sides. Her spear snapped, and I smashed the shaft into her nose, grinning upon hearing a satisfying crunch.
As I summoned another fifty ice spears, I felt the blood began escaping from my nose. All fifty shot forward, and shattered mid flight as my head pounded. I saw my dad had been forced back, and Oceanus was winning that fight.
"No way... In Tartaros," I said, as he fired a blast of water at Amphitrite.
I forced my body to stay up, and formed more ice at a single time than I ever had before.
A massive wall of ice, as high as the Parthenon and just as thick as a column inside, absorbed the blast. The ice exploded violently.
My ears rang, and I felt blood trickle down the side of my neck. My head felt like it was splitting open. My nerves burned.
I knew this was a bad idea, as I crushed the remains of the wall into a massive fist, and sent it skywards. Oceanus was about to fire another blast, and my ice fist smashed into him.
And then he glowed blue, and the fist exploded. I was loosing more blood now, as several shards embedded themselves into my gut.
Well, fuck...
I passed out, and then something... Changed, I guess.
Like, when you lean on a door, and if it's unlocked, you fall through.
Well, I just fell through.
Tyson was throwing rocks at Polyphemus, while Annabeth snuck around so she could get an easier kill. An hour ago, Clarisse and Mark had joined them, and were providing long range support from a stolen pirate ship.
And then, a giant wave decided to say hello to the mountain.
Upon it, Percy Jackson stood, with a spearhead in his chest, covered in blood and ichor, and was carrying a jagged black trident.
His sea-green eyes were glowing, despite them being closed, and he looked pale, but at peace.
Water stood on his body, trying to heal his wounds, but managed slowly.
A crack of thunder resounded, as a storm formed above them. Hail and sleet pelted the island, and it was not the best timing. The water that covered the mountain formed into ice simply because of the temperature.
Polyphemus slipped on a sheet of ice under him, and fell.
Right onto Annabeth.
"Pretty Lady," Tyson shouted. Percy's eyes snapped to the scene, and he was struck by horror.
The wave vanished, and the storm froze. Time seemed to have stood still.
And then resumed full force and worse. A hurricane ripped the mountain home of Polyphemus apart, and blew him off Annabeth. The tip of the mountain was blown off by lightning. A cannon ball fired, and flew three times faster, thanks to the monstrous winds, into the massive Cyclops. Polyphemus became dust, and the black trident in Percy's hand became water.
But the storm went on, as Percy got closer to her.
"Ch-Chase!"
Percy knelt beside her, and gripped her hand as she looked at him. She felt the rib that cut into her lung, and knew she wouldn't make it. Her legs were pancakes, her hips ground into dust from the sheer weight of the cyclops, and her lower ribs had been broken. One had pierced her lung.
"J-Ja-Jacks-on..." Clarisse and Mark ran up, and she gasped at the sight.
"P-Per-Percy... S-say my n-name..." Percy choked, and looked at the girl on the ground.
"Annabeth, you can't do this. You can't die on me now, Anna! Claire, do we have ambrosia!? Nectar!?" Clarisse shook her head sadly, as several flashes of light surrounded them.
"M-mom.." Annabeth's voice asked, as she turned her head. Athena, Hermes, Poseidon, and Hades had flashed in. Athena approached Annabeth, and knelt beside her, grabbing her free hand. Apollo began trying to undo as much damage as he could.
"Annie," she whispered. Annabeth smiled, and Percy felt himself begin to cry. Silent tears rolled down his cheeks.
"Mom.. T-this is P-Perc-y... I th-thi-nk I sh-shou-ld te-ll y-you a-b-out hi-m... I love him, m-mom... T-th-this isn't h-his f-fault... P-Perc... T-ta.. Take my.. H-hat.. And m-my n-ne-ckla-ce... D-do.. Don't... B-b-bl-blame y-you-rs-self... Y-yo.. Can't s-save ev-ryo-ne..." Annabeth smiled at her mother and Percy, before Percy leaned down, and placed a gentle kiss on Annabeth's lips.
"Please, be safe, Anna... I'll try to visit..." His voice cracked, and Poseidon's hand was on his son's shoulder.
"Think... R-rebirth... Th-thre-ee.. Isle.." And with that, the storm above began pouring rain and Annabeth Chase went limp. Hermes took hold of Annabeth's soul, and vanished with it. Hades snapped his fingers, and Percy found Annabeth's necklace on his neck. Her Yankees cap was in his hands.
Percy stood, with Annabeth's body in his arms, and began to walk towards the cliff.
He stepped off, and landed safely on the water.
He walked from Polyphemus' Island to the ship, and placed Annabeth lightly on one of the beds below deck.
"Father.. Guide them safely home," Percy said, as he began walking in the general direction of Miami. His mental sea-compass led him where he needed to go.
"And where are you going," Athena demanded.
"To find myself a Titan, and kick his ass for waking up."
And Percy let himself sink under the waters, and shot off.
The Yankees Cap of Invisibility was on my head, and Riptide in my hand.
It was HIS fault.
If Kronos hadn't woken up, I would have been considered a normal demigod! I would have been happy!
I had just lost the one person that meant the world to me, and now?
What does one live for when their world is gone.?
I felt HIM on an abandoned beach in Miami.
I was going to make damned sure he died.
Even if I myself had to die alongside him.
I would kill Kronos. He would pay.
"Perseus Jackson. I didn't expect you to still be alive. You fought Oceanus, and were supposed to die," a voice behind me said as I stepped from the sea.
My clothes were in tatters, and blood stained them. I had healed, thanks to the sea's natural effect on me, but I was still exhausted.
"I've defeated one Titan today. I feel like a second should be no problem." And then I slashed...
Only to see him hardly stumble as Riptide bounced off his skin.
"Luke bathed in the River Styx," Kronos said.
"One glaring weakness, then. It's a river. And I can control them." A brief glimpse of a smirk, and then a glare.
"Try it, Child of the Sea." I ripped my hands through the air, and water mimicked my movements. The air froze, and I fired sharp water and ice spikes at him. All of them either disintegrated or bounced off his skin.
Luke was human. Humans are like, three-fourths water.
I pulled on the watery blood of Luke. But I only caused a slight nuisance, as his heart pounded against his ribs. He frowned, but nothing else.
I began to tell the blood to heat up. Kronos grimaced, and vanished.
"You got lucky, Jackson."
That's when I walked away, and back into the sea, where I collapsed into a pile of half conscious tears.
I stood in front of an unlit pyre, and placed two drachmae on Annabeth's eyes. The torch was lit, and passed to me.
"Goodbye, Anna... I love you," I whispered. The fire burned the body of my friend, and the first girl to tame me, and I felt my heart break even more than it already had.
Zeus frowned at his nephew.
"You want to do WHAT?"
"I would like permission to leave for a year, Lord Zeus. It was incompetence on my behalf that costed me a very dear friend, and I would be a danger to Camp Half-blood as I am." Zeus thought about it, and looked directly at Percy.
"You may go, but take my daughter with you. You will need a companion, and she could use the experience." Percy tensed, but nodded, and bowed his head.
"Thank you, Lord Zeus."
Zeus nodded, and Percy left the throne room of Olympus.
Thalia and Clarisse were waiting at my cabin door when I got back. Both had duffel bags, and another bag was laying on the ground.
When Clarisse and Mark brought back the Fleece, it did it's job better than it was supposed to.
Thalia was ejected from the tree, and the camp borders became stronger than ever.
Not even Zeus himself could get inside without his Master Bolt.
"What," Thalia snapped at me when she decided I was staring for too long.
"Nothing. Why are you two here?"
"Hermes told us you were leaving. So we decided to keep you company," Clarisse said.
"Besides. We're the only two that can keep you in line," Thalia said. I smiled weakly, and Thalia flicked my ear, shocking it.
"Ow! Dammit, Cloudcake!"
"Quit bein' a pussy, Saltcicle! Clarisse here's got more balls than you!"
(Timeskip, six months)
"Popsicle, get up. We're moving," Thalia said, jolting me awake.
I hazily opened my eyes, and sat up.
"Why the fuck're you in my tent.?"
"I'm waking you up. War girl's got breakfast going, and then we're heading out," Thalia told me.
I sighed, and stood up entirely, revealing myself to the world.
I wanted to sleep outside, but it rained. So I couldn't see anything beyond cloud, and thus slept in a tent.
I saw a blush creep up on Thalia's cheeks, as Claire walked in to find out why she'd not stepped out yet.
I'd slept shirtless last night.
I was built like an average sword fighter. Nothing too special, besides having less body fat that the average swordsman. But I had scars from my battles.
Swords slashes, the spear in my chest, the ice in my gut.
I was a scarred canvas on feet.
Clarisse stepped into my tent, saw what Thalia saw, and smirked.
"Helloooo Jackson."
I groaned, and slipped on a shirt.
"Come on Princess and Sidekick," I said.
Magical tents are awesome. We took them down, and they became a simple hanky.
And all our stuff was inside, perfectly safe.
I had to laboriously keep my hair how I wanted it. Being in the wild for six months didn't help.
Thankfully, we had magic tents, magic razors, and magic bathrooms in our magic tents.
We seem to be having a magical trip...
I looked at our magical map, that told us our position in lat and long, as well as having a zoom function.
Courtesy of Hephaestus Broadcasting to Olympus.
Hey, that spells HBO!
No! Focus!
Gods damned ADHD...
Thalia couldn't get the image of Percy out of her head. Neither, for that matter, could Clarisse.
"So what do we do, Princess? You know damned well how Snowflake there acts when he's torn between choices," Clarisse whispered to her friend of six months.
Thalia smirked at her.
"Then we don't give him a choice. He'll get two or none," she said.
They smirked, and began to discuss details of there plan.
Ahead of them, Percy was oblivious to his fate. As he had been to the various pick up lines he'd been subjected to by the duo this past half-year.
Percy was laying outside, looking at the moon and stars. He was silent, but he was looking at one constellation in the sky.
The Owl.
Percy had moved forward, but had yet to fully move on. He missed her, and their moments together.
But the constellation glittered, and shimmered. And that alerted Percy that something was up.
But he cast it aside, as he heard nothing nearby.
And subsequently jumped when Clarisse and Thalia were in his face.
"You've got a choice to make, Sawblade," Clarisse said.
"Us, or the stars," Thalia finished.
Percy was confused. And then his mind went blank, as Thalia and Clarisse did the LAST thing he'd expected.
Thalia mounted his stomach, and kissed him. Clarisse held his arms down and did the same from above his head.
Percy, the poor lad. He did something any man would do when, and in his words later, 'two insanely pretty girls forcefully came onto you'.
Perseus Sawblade Jackson, Son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson, Bane of Monsters, fainted.
"I think we broke him," Thalia said. The moon and stars shimmered, as if the heavens were laughing, and both girls laughed.
I feel this is a good place to end the chapter. Next chapter, Titan's curse!
And boy, do I got a shock for you!
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