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Chapter 9:

"By order of the gods, you are banished!" Zeus proclaimed. Zhi turned to him, looking at him like he was crazy.

"Have you lost it?" They turned to him. "Letting them go would only mean that they could go back to Twin Masters!" He knelt in front of the three. "Let me." He narrowed his eyes. "What do you know about Twin Masters?" They stubbornly shook their heads.

Rick growled, but Zhi simply raised an unimpressed eyebrow. "If you don't tell me, you'll walk out of here disfigured." Rick shook his head stubbornly. "Tell me." There was now an insistence in it that they couldn't refuse.

Rick looked into Zhi's eyes, and immediately broke down sobbing, shaking as a gleam of insanity appeared in his eyes. "I'll tell! I'll tell!"

"Good."

"There is going to be an attack soon. By the sea." Poseidon turned to the sea, a ship in sight. Closing his eyes, he focused on stopping the ship despite the ship's strong defences. Percy soon joined him, their faces scrunched in concentration as they worked.

But nothing would let them sink the ship, no matter how hard they hit or how hard they tried.

That was, until Shen joined them, holding the ship in place, while the two destroyed the ship. However, as wave after wave came to the beach, skeleton soldiers poured out. Shen took out his bow, firing several arrows. They lit on fire and destroyed the first few skeletons.

Chiron turned around. "Campers! Prepare!" The camper scurried around, hastening to draw their weapons and put on their armour. The gods quickly disappeared, unable to interfere. Hawk remained where he was, drawing out his ivory bow.

He turned to the six brothers, who nodded and charged with him.

The battle was endless. The skeletons poured out from every inch of the water, and Percy sensed that it wouldn't end soon. He turned to Hawk, wondering why he didn't just blast them already, until he saw the reason.

Many of the skeletons were also dropping from the sky, and he, Jiao and Ke were killing them as they fell from above, while the campers dealt with the ones on the beach. Suddenly, a large wave of fire disintegrated the skeletons, giving them a brief reprieve. Percy found himself beside Zhi, who looked at him urgently.

"Percy! They come out of the water. Pull the tide back, and they'll come in slower." Percy nodded, closing his eyes as he focused on trying to tug the water away from the beach. He could feel his father helping.

The water started thinning, thanks to Shen, but it was still too slow, until another wave of fire disintegrated the soldiers and evaporated the water. Percy forced the vapour to condense as soldiers came out of it.

The water dropped into the sea, and those above either died as they fell down or were struck by lightning. Percy nearly laughed. This was working.

As they continued driving the soldiers back, he grinned. They were winning.

The soldiers suddenly rushed back, all disappearing into a portal right able the water, though the water was unable to reach it. Jian turned around suddenly. "Lin!"

Said person had a dagger straight through his chest, near his heart, as he dropped to the ground. Hawk bent over him, before looking up. "Wong!"

Wong Tai Sin appeared, and quickly disappeared with Lin Chung, reappearing with him inside his temple. He laid him down, then used his magic to pull the dagger out.

He examined the wound, before starting to work on it.

Percy frowned, looking at Hawk. "He'll be fine, won't he?"

Hawk nodded, turning around as Eagle joined them. "Yes. For our sake, I hope so."

"You knew?!" Wong Tai Sin demanded. "And you didn't do anything about it?"

"If I did, they would panic."

"How long?"

"Several months. I thought it was nothing at first. But it didn't happen this fast."

"Twin Masters must've known and had the skeleton purposely stab a poisoned dagger into you to fasten the process." Lin Chung sighed, rubbing his temples. He looked better for the worse.

"It'll be fine. But for now, don't tell anyone."

"Lin Chung-"

"Please." Lin Chung looked at him. "Don't tell anyone." Wong Tai Sin sighed.

"Fine. But try and slow it, or Hawk's going to kill me."