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Percy Makes A Deal - Chapter 22

The crowd cheered as the dracaenae slowly advanced on Percy. When she was close enough, the serpent thrust her trident and Percy stepped to the side. He smiled and as she tried to throw a net over his sword hand ducked and cut her trident in half. With nothing left to defend herself with the dracaenae quickly became a pile of golden dust on the arena floor. The cheered died instantly.

"No! I want entertainment!" Antaeus cried, "Only I give the order to kill!"

"You've gotten better with that sword, Jackson. I'll give you that," Luke nodded.

"I've been trained by a certain son of Hades," Percy replied, "Speaking of Seth, where is he?"

Luke looked at Percy innocently. "What do you mean?"

"There isn't any point in pretending you don't know, Castellan. Nico told us what happened."

Luke gritted his teeth. "You don't know anything, son of Poseidon. If you know Seth half as much as you think you do, you'd happily leave him here with us."

Percy was silent and the monsters were waiting with bated breath for someone to speak. "So he is here?" Percy finally asked.

Luke scowled, "You really wish to see him?" Percy nodded. "Then I will oblige." The son of Hermes looked behind him into the shadows cast from the wall of the arena. The demigods watched as someone stumbled out of the shadows, two dracaenae closely following his footsteps.

Seth stood beside Luke and the half-bloods could immediately see how much pain he was in. The hood of his cloak was down and his face was clearly visible, the scar over the right side of his face stretched and was red like it was recently opened. Where the torchlight caught it, it shone slightly golden and shadows were cast across his face. That combined with the look of anger, fear, and for some reason, pride made him look truly evil. His clothes were torn and ripped, some black and purple bruises were forming on his face and he was covered in monster dust. His trusty swords sat on his back, polished and shining despite Seth's appearance. His cloak was tattered and worn; some of the black colouring had faded and was a lighter shade, creating a mottled pattern. His katana Enhance gave off a slight golden glow from the string inlaid along the centre of the blade and hilt.

"Round Two!" Antaeus shouted, "Slower this time. I want a show! Wait for my call before killing."

The gates opened again and a young warrior came out. He wore Greek armour that was designed for defence and a Greek shield on his left arm. An eye patch covered his left eye, he looked about sixteen. The warrior adjusted his shield straps and pulled on his helmet before unsheathing his sword, it was a hand-and-a-half length hilt and Greek design.

"Who are you?" Percy asked, lifting up his sword.

"Ethan Nakamura," He pointed his sword at Percy, "And I have to kill you." What that he charged. The two blades met in mid-air and two half-bloods started the fight. Percy tried to take advantage of the fact that Ethan had defensive armour on and was a slower moving target than him. Percy kept to his blind side as much as possible but quickly realised he had been fighting with no left eye for a long time.

They had been fighting for five minutes now and there was still no blood. Then Ethan made a mistake, he tried to jab Percy's stomach and the son of Poseidon locked their sword hilts together and twisted. His sword fell out of his hand and Percy knocked him in the head, Ethan fell down onto his back.

"Get it over with," Ethan muttered.

Percy looked up at Antaeus who held up his hand in a 'thumbs down' position.

"Forget it," Percy scowled as he sheathed his sword.

"Don't be an idiot!" Ethan groaned, "They'll just kill us both."

Percy ignored him and held out his hand for him to take. Reluctantly Ethan took it and Percy helped him up.

"No one dishonours the games!" Antaeus bellowed, "You heads shall both be tributes forever more in my temple!"

"When you see your chance, run," Percy said to Ethan, and then turned back to Antaeus, "Why don't you fight me yourself? If you've got Dad's favour, come down here and prove that you aren't a coward!"

"I am the greatest warrior in the world, boy. I have been wrestling since the first Pankration!"

"What?"

"Fighting to the death, used to be an Olympic sport. No rules, no holds barred," Ethan said helpfully.

"Thanks." Percy didn't take his eyes off Antaeus.

"Don't mention it."

"Winner takes all!" Percy yelled, "I win, my friends and I go free, including Seth. You win, we all die. Swear it upon the River Styx."

"I swear to your terms." Antaeus laughed as he jumped off the railing.

"Good luck. You'll need it." Ethan quickly backed up.

"I think Seth should join Perseus, Antaeus," Luke called, "After all, he still has more fights to do. Don't you, Seth?" Luke grinned. Seth nodded slightly, a small smile pulling at his lips.

Antaeus hesitated. "That would be unfair, Luke. Seth alone could take me even in his current weakened state."

"Well," Luke looked around the arena. "Who would like to join Antaeus in his fight?" The monsters avoided looking at him. "Come on, Kronos will reward you greatly." He smirked. Dozens of monsters jumped into the arena and Luke nodded to the guards standing behind Seth. They stepped back as the adopted son of Hades disappeared into a shadow and reformed beside Percy, he stumbled before stopping himself from face planting into the ground.

"Good for you to join me," Seth smirked, "I was getting quite bored here by myself."

Antaeus looked happier now that the odds were evened and called up to Luke, "Luke, you will referee this one."

"With pleasure," Castellan smiled down at the two half-bloods, sharing a look with Seth.

The monsters charged as one at them and Seth grinned darkly at Percy before racing to meet them head-on, taking his swords off his back as he ran. Percy joined him after a moment of gaping at the mad son of Hades.

Seth's relationship poll:

Styx - 2

Thalia - 1

Zoe - 1

Rachel - 1

Artemis - 1

Hayley - 1

Aveline Poole - 1

XxHowToSaveALife: I still have no clue who the last two are... i will take them off the poll if i don't know by chapter...24