Chapter 74: A terrible election

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(Reviews)

Hazel Magnus:

Hi again! This story is so AWESOME! A little bit sad that Percy, Bianca, and Despina died. Are you going to make a sequel? And what happened with Connor and Katie? And how did Demeter cursed him? But your plot was cleverly built, and I'm suspecting that you will be the next J.K. Rowling ang Rick Riordan! Your futures bright! Good luck! Hazel Magnus.

A: Thanks, I hope I become a great author one day!

Guest:

WHAT THE HECK! HE DIED?

A: Yes!

Guest:

My hands were actually trembling after finishing this chapter... I still cannot believe that Percy is dead ... Please tell me he will be back right? I mean one way or the other? Making some deal with Styx? And Chaos? Won't she help him? The Romans' arc is also left? Hades, he can't die right now ... he has to meet his destiny, right? Please tell me he is NOT REALLY DEAD... Also, I wonder where Connor and Katie went?

A: Your hands were trembling? Well, than I did something right!

And for Katie and Connor, they are fine...

Guest:

Nonono...there was suppose to a happy ending and what about the other prophecy? And he can't leave his journey in between...not all have gotten a happy ending some are left

A: Greeks love tragedy!

Guest:

You're saying it's the final chapter but it seems way out of left field and you haven't marked it complete. If this really is the end, it's pretty disappointing.

A: Thanks!

GeneralKenobi:

Well percy will definitly come back (as there was that halloween special) I think that he will go to Elysium, ask for rebirth, but with his chaos powers, he may just flash back to normal, (with all his memories

A: You spend a lot time thinking about it!

Guest:

Were the storm spirits inside de Colossus? Like with the Trojan horse? Also, you killed Percy. The one thing I think nobody expected. Nice one.

A: Thanks and the storm spirits hide in the camp since last summer when the barriers were dropping.

Primordial of the Whoniverse:

I don't know if this is a typo but you said Percy is death not dead so does that mean he is the personification of death or am I just overthinking it

A: no, that was a typo. LOL

Cooldude98:

Okay, Percy died. Does the story continue on without him? I know Percy is the main character, but there is still more buisness to take care of. So, where does Percy go? Honestly, i am not mad if you truly end the story. If this is the end, then thank you for being my favorite author, and see you in the other stories. Also, couldn't Percy just turn off the Soulfire ability? But of course, this is a big IF. You, the author, never swore on Chaos or The River Styx that this was the end. No one ever said Percy was the main main character. Anything can truly happen.

A: The soulfire ability can not be turned of once activated and thanks for calling me your favourite author!

LegoSharkNinja: Unexpected but overall very good and sad chapter

A: Thanks!

Gpellepasta:

OGM! This was the best story I have ever read! Please make another one!

A: Massive thanks! And I'll try to make my others good the one.

Raze Olympus:

So that's it. Good story not gonna lie but I do want more!

A: Jryy, V qryvire!

CTRI:

uhm if Percy is dead can he go haunt some people and posses kronos for a change?

A: That would be funny!

CTRI:

Lol why no romans?

A: A civil war is the thing Percy can not use right now.

Checkingdude:

Wait a minute...how was Commodus a prisoner? I get he was trapped but he wasn't a prisoner. Also, you are so full of shit. Dramatic, yes, but there's not an author around here that would allow this to end like this, not when you've put this much effort into the story.

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EvilPotatoLord:

no, no amount of prophecy could have for told his death cause he was released from fate by the Fates he could change the fates of others not just die in a different way but be able to deny the prophecy it's desired outcome he should have been able to save Bianca and Zoe without Zoe dieing or Bianca being shot on top of the statue of liberty this current end simply doesn't make any sense to me due to how you set up the story.

A: Don't worry...Percy decided he wanted to die, the phrophecy just told him it had to happen but he had the free choice to do something else.

Alex Focker:

If this is truly the end, you would probably be thanking more of your frequent reviewers more for being there and you explaining how much fun and enjoyable you write this story, cause that's how you are. Unless the person writing this got switched without telling us or you don't give a shit about us either answer could only answer the lack of enthusiasm for the final chapter, and so I predict you'll continue writing. Oh also, Didn't I mention I love the story?

A: You love the story! I love your reviews!

Dragonoid9810:

HEY WAIT HE DIDNT GIVE EVRYONE A HAPPY ENDING! HE FAILED HIS ORIGINAL MISSION HALF WAY THROUGH!

A: Greeks love tradegy...you know that right?

dragonoid981:

I turned to Nyx who met my gaze, we had a silent conversation. "Can you alter their memories, I don't want Romans to be revealed yet". Even when he knew he was walking to his death, he still kept the Romans secret for a little while longer. Even though he died at like 14, he died a true man

A: A man till the end!

Draconic king :

No no no no! This cant be the end. Percy was the hero he. he was meant to have a happy ending with Nyx not die like this D,:

A: You like the NyxXPercy pairing?

surya25addanki :

That's it huh for all the strength he is still human OK

A: True, he's only human.

Batman1998:

Well that escalated quickly, wonder how the labyrinth will go with Percy dead, could he come back as an rvaurewne.

A: Gur ynolevagu funyy ohea

Sithdoom:

Sooo, wait, hold the fucking phone. Story over? Like conpletely done with this?

A: You read this one a phone? That's funny!

lolXDDDDDDDD:

WHAT! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO! This story is over...RIP Percy...This story was super good though, props to you.

A: Thanks! Really, this means a lot to me!

Protegni:

"I finish what I started". What about the first prophecy, the Doomsday one?

A: He died.

Xxxhunterofshadowsxxx:

I feel like you are just being dramatic I think Nyx and Percy planned something for this happening

A: Intresting theory.

Yu Tae Kim:

sequel please

A: bxnl

PrototypeSaber15:

Is this really the end or you just being dramatic.

A: This is really the end, Percy died.

Chimera629:

Glad he didnt just hand himself over but has it not even crossed his mind what would happen to his friends and the world because of his death? Man so dissapointed about the stupid stuff he does in the name if loyalty especially when most of the beings hes loyal to have done nothing to deserve it. Hell surprised he doesnt hate or at least strongly dislike disloyal beings. Wtf why would chaos invest so much of herself into Percy that she'll die if he does,and will it be a permanent death or will she recover after sometime?

A: Percy's fatal flaw is loyalty, and it had been fatal and if percy dies Chaos won't recover.

Turtle:

So r u going to continue because I really like ur stories

A: Thanks!

MarethyuQ:

nice chap. great ending. interesting message, couple of missed letters, i think? but i get the gist of it. Nyx, is going to change their memories about commodus i believe? but she still needs to explain how bianca, and percy dies. unless they both died to the colossus? and maybe the memory change doesn't work on nico because he's to emotional?

A: You'll see what happens with Nico this chapter!

OgFrosty:

Oml ur making me cry

A: I did? Really?

Mcoombes:

You are tied for the "Cruellest Author" position now. Cliffhangers and plot twists and oh by the way Percy's dead. Great chappie though

A: I'm tied? I thought I won it by killing Bianca?

"He's dead!" Nico cried out, Nyx tried to pull him closer, but he ignored it, "I can feel it!"

Nyx hushed a few calming words in his ears but Nico kept sobbing, "They killed him and Bianca!"

Tears streamed down his face, the young son of Hades sat on the Big house porch on Nyx's lap.

A few campers gave him a sad look, but Nico didn't care. Those Triumvirates bastard killed his sister and best friend, "I'm going to kill them." Nico said with tears in his eyes.

Nico knew it wasn't Lycaon who killed Percy, Nyx had explained everything to him, hoping it would calm him down but Nico didn't want to calm down.

He pulled himself away from Nyx, her shining eyes looked at him with hurt, "I'm not going to sit here and do nothing."

Nyx pouted, "Nico think about it, they are immortals. You can't kill them."

"Than give me one of your blades," Nico cried out, "I want them dead!"

Nyx shook her head, "You can't handle the power of the void."

Nico swallowed back a sob, "Than I'll do it myself!"

While hiding his tears he stormed of into the woods.

Nyx got up to chase him but Hemera stopped her, 'Don't mother. You should let him find his own path.'

'He's 10.' Nyx protested. 'That forest is dangerous.'

Hemera sighed, 'But if you stop him he will hate you. Just let him grief on his own.'

Nyx sighed, 'Fine but if he dies…'

Shivering the man stared down, he was standing on top of the One World trade Center, breathing heavily. "Please!" he begged, "Don't let me do this."

The man behind him laughed, "You are afraid of height aren't you Tommy?"

The man nodded, tears streamed down his face; he starred in the man's eyes. His eyes were only visible through the cut out holes; black paint surrounding the holes making it look deep, the red smile drawn across the mouth felt like an insult to every living being, "Please!" he begged.

He laughed, his baseball bat swinging to all sides, "Oh, Tommy! If you didn't volunteered for the elections we could've been friends!"

"Why me!?" Tommy asked, "All I want-"

"Is to become Mayor." he finished, "Well, I want to burn down this city, learn it the true meaning of fear. I can't have a reliable mayor in charge, now turn around."

Tommy turned around and faced the ledge, behind him the man yelled, "You just have to face your fear!"

Than he swung his baseball bat into his head and threw him of the building.

Tommy screamed as he fell down.

The Ophiotaurus, he was important. Somehow. But why was interested in it? He forgotten it.

"If I become the new Mayor of New York," Caroline Crystal began, "I'll make sure to put an end to those terrorist attacks."

A reporter stepped forward, "I have one question madam."

Caroline nodded, "Ask away."

"What about the fact that you're the only candidate who is still alive? Don't you think people will start asking questions when you are the only one who's not targeted by the Fear man?"

Caroline gritted her teeth, she wanted to kill this mortal but she knew better, she put up her sweetest voice and said, "Oh, that's just a horrible coincidence, there's nothing suspicious going on. You should not question anything."

The reported nodded as in a trance, "Of course, sorry for asking. It's obvious it's just a coincidence."

Caroline smirked, this city would be soon hers.

I stared in the mirror, studying myself. I hoped I looked better.

I tried a warm smile, the flesh on the right side of my face tore itself apart, revealing a row of bare teeth.

I sighed, this had to do, just try to show my better side.

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Sherman was sitting on the edge of the shore, still thinking about that massive statue that attacked camp when suddenly two figures fell down from the sky.

They landed in front of him.

"Katie!" he called out, "Connor!"

The two demigods were unconscious, he had to get them to the sick bay.

Than Katie opened her eyes and gasped, she looked wildly around, "Where's Percy?"

SHerman scowled, "I don't know, what happened to you?"

Katie blinked, "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Sherman asked skeptically.

Katie nitted her eyebrows, "I remember I was falling…"

"And than?"

"Pain." Katie whispered, "So much pain."

"Mom, they don't like me." Loren whispered while starring the lion in the eye. The lion was slamming himself against the wall, trying to get as far away from her as possible.

Her mom was looking pale, "Don't worry sweetie. There are still other animals we can look on."

She studied the map in her hands.

It was the map of the Franklin park Zoo; Boston , she had taken her daughter to the zoo, hoping it would brighten her mood but the animals seemed to fear her as much as her classmates did.

The ten year old girl clung to her mother's leg, "Can we go? Please?"

Her mom sighed, "Sorry darling, I hoped this would be a nice weekend out."

Loren hugged her mom, "It's not your fault mommy."

Suddenly there was an explosion, a loud bang erupted from the park entrance.

Screams and gunshots filled the air, "MOM?!" Loren asked nervously, trying to hide her fear and panic, "What's going on."

Her mom gritted her teeth, she had a general idea what was going on, a terrorist attack meant to make the people scared.

She pulled Loren closer and looked for a hiding spot, the screams and gunshots were a lot louder now and they were coming closer.

She pulled Loren in a hug, "Don't be scared." she whispered trying to close Loren's eyes.

Than at least a dozen men equipped with riffles entered the plaza, shooting at everything that moved.

She dragged loren to behind a park bench, "Don't panic." she whispered.

Bang

The wooden planks of the bench behind her shattered, bullets penetrated the wood and splinters flew all around her.

They laughed as they took their time to aim at the mom and girl.

Than a loud scream filled the air.

'Who's screaming?' Loren wondered, than she realised she was screaming.

"Stop it." her mom ordered.

She took a deep breath and managed to calm herself down.

Slowly she and her mother rose from their hiding spot.

"Oh my gods," her mom whispered, "We need to get out of her right now."

The place was no longer filled with life, their attackers had been frozen in place.

Their faces were stuck in a permanent shock, fear and terror.

Their expression immortalized in concrete.

They were surrounded by stone statues.

Nico ran through the forest, away from camp when he was suddenly stopped. Out of a tree dropped a girl.

"Meg!" Nico cried out in surprise.

Meg laughed, "Your face!"

NIco shook his head, "What are you doing here?" he hissed.

Meg scowled, "What am I doing here? You ran away and I followed you."

Nico huffed, not satisfied by the fact Meg had easily followed him.

"Well, where are you going?" Meg asked curiously.

"That's my business." Nico snapped.

Meg was not impressed at all.

Nico sighed, "Fine, I'm going to kill Triumvirate."

Meg smiled, "How are you going to do that?"

Nico shrugged, "I'm going to find a way, I am the child of Hades."

Meg laughed, "You don't know anything about them. They are powerful."

"They killed Bianca and Percy." Nico muttered bitterly.

"They killed my father." Meg muttered under her breath, "You're not the only one who lost people to Triumvirate."

This surprised Nico, "You never told me that." He said.

Meg shrugged, "I don't like talking about it."

Nico kept silent for a few minutes, finally he asked, "Can you let me pass?"

Meg studied Nico, "For a price."

"What price?" Nico asked confused.

"I'm coming with you." Meg said with a stern expression, "I want revenge too."

Nico scowled, "You're ten."

"How old are you?" Meg fired back.

Nico laughed, "Touché."

Meg grinned, "So partners?"

"Partners." Nico agreed.

"No, trust me it's was really like that." Carter cried out.

Sadie frowned, "I'm sure you messed something up, there's no way what you described is possible."

Carter sighed, "Have I ever lied to you?"

"Yes."

"I mean about something serious." Carter explained, Sadie thought about it for a second.

"No." she finally said.

Carter sighed in relief, "So you believe me?"

Sadie nodded hesitant, "Yes, but are you sure there were no hieroglyphs?"

Carter shook his head, "No, I dropped the cup and it shattered on the floor. Than it repaired itself and floated back to the table, without magic."

Sadie was more experienced with magic, "Hi-Nehm and Heh-Sieh."

Carter shook his head, "But there were no hieroglyphs, there was no magic in the air. Just nothing."

"Maybe it has something to do with the Greeks?" Saide theorized.

"I tried to touch the mark but nothing happens." he showed the brand on his arm, the one Percy drew.

"Maybe he's not home?" Sadie suggested.

"No something is going on." He said with a dark tone, "Something really bad."

Quintus sat in his workshop when suddenly he felt a presence behind him, he turned around and saw a man standing in the portal of his workshop.

He frowned, "Who are you? How'd you get in here?"

He was young, slender and lithe. He was handsome in a thin angular way, though his ears stuck out a bit too much and were too prominent. His smile was twisted and too thin.

"My name doesn't matter," he said, "But I require your service."

Quintus scowled, "I already told Kronos I'm not working with him, now how'd you get in here?"

The man laughed, "This is not for Kronos. He has nothing to do with this. And for how I got here…"

Suddenly something slammed against Quintus head, he fell from his chair onto the marble floor.

Towering over him stood a woman, a woman he never wished to see in his life ever again.

"You!" he snapped.

She laughed, "Haven't seen you in a while, hiding in my maze I see?"

"This is not your maze anymore!" Quintus spat, "I made it!"

She glared at him, her entire appearance radiated hate, "This Labyrinth is mine, I gave it life."

"You abused it for your own sick games," Quintus said while trying to get up but magic kept him restrained.

The woman shook her head, her expression sad but with a sadistic smile.

"Oh, abusing it? I just use it for its original purpose." she whispered while leaning closer to Quintus face, "And I think it's time I reclaim my throne. My labyrinth."

She turned around to face the emperor, "Take him away for your needs."

She smirked when Quintus was dragged away by a couple Dracaenae, "I think it's time for the queen to return."

Atlas groaned under the weight of his burden, he tried to reposition himself.

When he knelt down he noticed a small sheet of paper that was lying on the floor, next to his feet.

Atlas frowned, he was sure he hadn't seen it before, he knelt and noticed it was not just a sheet of paper but a business card.

You are invited for; Brunch!

When: If the Sky burns!

Where: We'll get back to you

Why: Because ending the world is so much better with friends!

You are expected!

Greetings, (ERROR)

The Olympians sat in their thrones, slumped back. Their biggest hero had died and it had affected almost all of them, they had a respect full silence before the meeting began.

Zeus coughed, "I'm here to announce bad news."

The gods were not surprised, everyone already knew it.

"Perseus Jackson died." he announced reluctantly.

"We all know what this means." Athena said, deciding someone had to take action, "We have a new prophecy child."

Ares groaned, "The Hades child."

"Nico di Angelo." Artemis corrected, "he's ten right now."

"We must bring him to Olympus for interrogation," Athena suggested, "See if he's able to take his burden."

Demeter coughed, "That's impossible."

"And why is that?" Zeus asked, glad he could return to business.

"He ran away from camp half blood with my daughter." Demeter said bitterly, her eyes were red from crying; she regretted cursing Percy the moment she did it, and now it was too late to apologize.

Hestia got up from the hearth, gaining all the attention in the room, "I think I might have something important to say."

"What is it?" Aphrodite asked.

In Hestia's hand a letter appeared, "Percy left me a letter, in case he would die."

"What does it say?" Athena asked curiously.

Hestia shrugged, "I don't know it, he asked for me to wait till he was dead."

"Well, open it!" Zeus demanded.

Come play with me Poseidon' Son,

You can't tempt Fate and come undone,

Two new threats you must be faced,

One can't be Beaten, One can't be Slayed

The First unleashed by Hero's breath,

Second unleashed by Chaos' wrath,

With one Kiss destroy it all,

Burn the world with a price so tall,

Play with me your Story ends,

The Son of Poseidon betrays his friends.