Sorry for the short chapter. I have a lot of assessment work right now. I promise the chapters will get longer.

"Wow" Alex exclaimed, his eyes widening at all the weapons we had.

"Sooo, what would you like?" I asked him. "We have nearly every weapon".

"Can I have a tomahawk?" he asked excitedly.

"Sure", I said grinning. I walked over to a section of the weapon room and grabbed a tomahawk. "Here," yelled and I chucked the weapon to him.

He caught it and examined it. "This is amazing" he exclaimed. "How did you make so many weapons?"

"We found a metal which we named Tartarus Iron, or Tartarus Metal. If we expose the metal to the waters of the Phlegethon it transforms into a goldish metal we named Fire Gold. At the touch it burns and its wounds take a long time to heal. We also found a THIRD metal which we named Dark Magnesium. It is by far the most volatile metal we have and explodes when exposed to liquid. We found it deep in the canyons. That weapon there is Fire Gold." I said informatively.

"Cool" Alex said. "Can I also have a dagger and maybe a short sword?"

"Sure" I answered. I took a large knife off the wall and handed it to him. I also grabbed a satchel made of hardened Drakon leather which contained 6 knives. "These are throwing knives," I explained to him. "They are Dark Magnesium, so if you hit a target who has blood it will explode."

"That IS cool" he exclaimed. "So what are the monsters here actually doing?"

"Well, we sort of formed a community here, where you can be safe from the dangers of Tartarus" I explained. "Come with me, you're probably hungry."

"Yeah," he agreed. "I'm so hungry I could eat a Drakon!"

"Good, cause that's what we're having" I laughed as he turned green. "Don't worry, it's better tasting than it sounds."

1 week later

The blade sliced open my cheek. I dodged another knife and rolled towards my assailant. I jumped up and received a cut across my chest. I swung my sword upwards and felt it hit my target. I heard I cry of pain and the blade swished past my face. I raised my blade to block another strike and kicked out at my attacker. My kick hit its mark and I jumped up and pressed my blade to the opponents neck.

"You win" Alex grumbles and I withdraw riptide from his neck.

"Well you're getting better" I say. "Last time you couldn't hit me at all."

"Hey Percy, you better get to the meeting room" Damasen yells at me as he walks into the arena. "It's Perses, his army is here now, and it's 12,000 strong."

"Are you serious?" I asked in shock.

"No, I'm lying" Damasen rolls his eyes. "Come, on, would I really lie to you about that?"

"Fine" I grumble. "Come on, let's get to the meeting room" I tell Alex. We sprint to the room and all the commanders bow. "No need for that" I say for the six hundredth time. "Ok, what's happening?"

"Perses army is 11 kilometres away and will be here in 30 minutes," said a dracaena grimly. "The army includes nearly 600 giants and the Chimaera. And there appears to be several demigods being pursued in front of the army."

Alex gasped. "More demigods must have been banished down here. We've gotta rescue them!"

"Shall we assemble the elite riders?" asked an empousa.

"Yes, we need those demigods alive" I said with conviction. "Alex you'll accompany them". "Meanwhile I'll help arrange our defences." Alex and 2 of the rider commanders left. "Arm all of our long range weapons. Prepare three of the four dracaena battalions for immediate deployment. Use the other battalion as reserves. All Giants and other forces will be split to accompany those battalions. I'll battle Perses myself."

"Yes sir" all of the commanders affirmed. They then began to file out.

I walked out after them and grabbed two dark magnesium spears. I grabbed my fire gold knife, Ischyròs, and shadow traveled (I had somehow picked up the ability to shadow travel) in front of Perses army. "I challenge you to combat" I yelled at a stunned Titan.

"Your downfall" snarled Perses, recovering from the surprise.

I threw both of my javelins at him and both hit his stomach. Golden ichor exploded from him as a chunk of his chest was disintegrated by the dark magnesium. Perses screamed and charged, despite the fact I could see his stomach half disintegrated inside him. He raised his spear and stabbed at me. I dodged, but where the spear hit exploded, blowing me to the side and winding me. Oh yea. Titan of destruction. I tried to get up and collapsed. I looked at my legs and saw them bent at odd angles.

"Die for challenging me scum!" Perses screamed and stabbed down his spear. I slowed time and saw the spare inch towards me. My vision began to fade when suddenly a large shape slammed into him and a spear was thrust into his throat.

"Sorry nephew" the blur said as Perses died.

"Bob?" I questioned weakly before I everything faded black.

Is Bob finally reformed? Find out next time. And thanks again to VGod22 for the character of Alex. I will use more character next chapter.