All the pain in my world has been replaced with exhaustion, but alongside it, is satisfaction. My injuries are all gone, but I feel tired. Even so, I stand straight with a smug face that I know it's there even without looking at the mirror.
Taking out that Hydra took a lot more energy than I thought. I feel that the strength within me is depleting really quick, but there's no way I'm going to show it to them.
The crowds have gone silent ever since I threw that trident to the commentator. There's nothing else but the subtle sound of the wind in the air.
For a minute there, I thought the spell that has been casted upon them is gone, but then I see their eyes and it is still empty with no purpose. They're still under a spell, which still makes them zombies.
From the white box up above, I can see something is going down, glimmering and engulfed in bright lights. It's like the bright light is on an invisible escalator, going down towards me. Slowly, it finally stops on the ground and right in front of me.
I glance back, and I see Calypso is still in the air. I guess that means this isn't over yet.
The white light dissipates slowly and reveals a young kid, probably around fourteen years old. He has short spiky dark hair, with a pair of blue eyes. I recognize that face, his face glimmers with the kindness that angels probably emit. He was the boy in my dream, the one that I saw with Willy.
There's no doubt about it, he's my brother.
'Wow, Percy. You almost killed me there.' The boy said gleefully with a smiling face, but I can detect a hint of anger in it.
'I missed on purpose.' I said it to him with a straight tone.
The boy chuckles with a bright face. I swear if he didn't try to kill me just now, would have thought that he's just an innocent boy.
'You know. I really like you.' The boy shrugs, 'You impressed me in a lot of ways.'
I raise an eyebrow, 'I thought I wasn't good enough to be a son of Poseidon?'
The boy laughs brightly, but the more he laughs, the more I find myself to be even more cautious. I know that I said I wanted to save all the other sons of Poseidon, but there's just something about him that creeps me out, regardless of that innocent face.
'Let Calypso go.' I said to him.
The boy chuckles, 'I would, really, but I was thinking to bring her to William.' The boy smiles wickedly, 'I hear she has a personal attachment to him.'
I swing my sword once in the air, making a sharp cutting noise, 'I won't ask again.'
The boy looks at me with a straight face, and then he grins, 'I don't want to fight you, but if you still want to fight…' The boy points to an entrance behind him, where football teams usually enters. We can see that a guy is walking towards us.
'He'll fight you.' The boy grins.
The guy gets closer and closer to us, and then he stops right behind the boy.
I examine him. He's an Asian guy but with a hint of westerners, around 5'11" tall, with long black hair. He also has a pair of blue-green eyes, the color of the ocean. He's wearing a black jacket and a black sleeveless shirt underneath it with dark blue jeans. He's also wearing a pair of sapphire rings on each of his ring finger. There's something weird about his expressions though, there's nothing that I can read from him. He basically has no expression on his face, just like a robot.
The boy grins, he looks like he's enjoying this, 'Meet Yukimura Snow. Half-Japanese, master of a dozen different martial arts, and also…' The boy pauses, 'A son of Poseidon, our brother.' The boy said gleefully.
Yukimura glares at the boy, 'He can't even be stand up for much longer, John' He said with a perfect English accent. Yukimura turns around; his expression indicates like he has just been insulted, 'I'm not going to fight someone who's half-dead.'
Yukimura takes a few steps away from us, but the boy says in a cold tone, 'You will do as I say.' The boy turns to Yukimura, 'If you ever want to see that locket again of course.' The boy smiles grimly.
Yukimura pauses. He turns around again and then he walks past the boy. He doesn't look too thrilled, in fact he shot an angry glare at the boy.
Yukimura looks at me with pity, 'I'm sorry... But know that I hold no honor in this fight.' He takes off his jacket, revealing a buff body. It's not like the kind of buff that you get from going to the gym everyday. His buff is kind of like he's still a bit slim, but his muscles look stone cold hard.
'… We don't have to fight.' I said to him, but somehow, looking at his eyes, I know that there's nothing I can say that would change his mind.
Yukimura presses his rings, and then his rings wrap his hands with some sort of blue metal. His rings turn into a pair of gauntlets, but it was nothing like I. The gauntlets' color is the color of water, but somehow I can the color waving around, like seeing an actual surface of the sea. It's like the sea has taken form into gauntlets. The gauntlets glimmer with blue lights that I can feel the warmth of the sea. I can smell, hear, and sense the sea from those gauntlets.
Yukimura puts his fists up, ready to engage me in a duel.
I find myself in doubts. Matthew died by my blade, and that fear has taken grip of my hands. What if I killed this one as well?
I wasn't given the time to think. Yukimura charged forward; he closes in and swings his right fist towards my face. I duck quickly, but Yukimura anticipated this and use a quick spinning elbow, it hits me straight on the cheek. I recover quickly, and then I swing my sword vertically. Yukimura moves one step to the side, dodging my attack, and then takes a step closer and hits me in the ribs. It's like there's a sharp electric current running through my body. I feel numb, my body wouldn't listen to me, and the next thing that I see is Yukimura's left fist.
I fall down to the ground, but I get up real quick. I feel blood filling my mouth. Fatigue is catching up, my breath is getting short. Yukimura dashes to me, in reaction, I swing my sword horizontally. Yukimura disappeared by the time my sword reaches him, in a split second; I have no idea where he is. A shadowy figure then approaches me from above, I see him then immediately. Yukimura jumped, but it was more like flying since he jumped over one and a half meter high. Yukimura, still in the air, swings his right feet and kicks me in the head. For a moment, everything goes silent, and everything is shaky. I stumble, and with my blurry and shaky vision; I see Yukimura lands on the ground, he rolls to me, and with one swift movement, he grabs the back of my head with one hand, and connects his left knee to my face. It hits me hard, and I fall to the ground once more.
'Percy!' Calypso screamed.
I feel blood pouring out of my nose. I feel weak and tired, and then I can see the boy, smiling wickedly. I can tell that he's enjoying this very much. Yukimura gives me a painful look, like he doesn't really want to do this.
'Well? What are you waiting for?' The boy asks Yukimura.
'It's over. He doesn't have any strength left to stand.' Yukimura said with a straight face.
The boy looks annoyed, 'It's over when he's dead. Now finish him.'
Yukimura stays silent, while I try to gather some strength that I have left. The boy looks angry.
'Do you want your locket back?' The boy asks.
Yukimura shoots a murderous glare at the boy.
The boy grins, 'Well?'
Yukimura clenches his teeth. He puts his fists back up.
'Get up.' Yukimura said to me.
I look at Yukimura, 'Why are you doing this?'
Yukimura looks a bit confused with my question.
'What can you possibly have against Poseidon?' I look him straight in the eyes.
Yukimura stays silent, and then he puts his fists down. 'No… Not him.' Yukimura said. 'The whole Olympus… All of them must pay.' I can see the pain and the resolve on his face.
Yukimura puts his fists back up. He's not going to say anything more, that much I can tell.
I grabbed my knees, and then I slowly try to stand straight. I have to beat this guy if I want to save him. I know now that it's the only way for them to listen.
Yukimura looks surprised, and then he smiles. 'You found your resolves.' He puts back his serious face, 'Come!'
I charge straight to him. I swing my sword relentlessly, but he keeps dodging them. The way Yukimura dodges, it's like he's dancing. Then it's Yukimura's turn, his punches are like bullets, it's fast and sharp. I keep dodging his punches, although it feels I'm being barraged by a hail of bullets. Yukimura dashes in even closer, he gets into a lower stance, and then his right fist turns into a full power uppercut. I dodge just in time, but his fist still grazes me. Even though it's only a graze, it still manages to put a straight cut on my cheek.
I react quickly, before he gets back to his stance, I swing my sword downward, but Yukimura blocks them with his gauntlets. I keep hammering him down with Riptide, and then I see he looks troubled. Finally I hammer him down one last time, and then with one quick movement, I spin to the side and graze him on his chest; it shocked him, and I know that his hands are still numb from blocking my sword. I take two quick step forward, and about to slam the hilt of my sword to his jaws. If I can get this one clean shot, I might knock him unconscious right away.
It seems that it's going to be over quickly, and then it happens. I feel a sharp pain from my back, and everything else seems to freeze at that moment. My entire body freeze, in reaction from that pain. I can see Yukimura's face, he looks horrified and shocked. I slowly look back, and there he is. The boy plunged a knife in my back.
'Percy!' Calypso cried out, but even her voice begins to fade.
The boy takes out his knife from my back. The knife is just like Yukimura's gauntlets. It's like sea in a form of a knife, but now it's drenched in my blood.
I see the boy, with his twisted expression and with his twisted smile. And then… Everything fades.