Percy Pov :
Suddenly, a burst of light enveloped me, and before I could even react, I was floating—weightless and detached from everything I knew. The void stretched infinitely around me, stars swirling, distant and unreachable. I squinted, disoriented, and heard a voice. Not just any voice. The voice.
"Hello, Perseus," the voice echoed, calm but carrying an unsettling power.
Who—? I tried to speak, but my mouth was dry, my thoughts a blur. "Who are you?"
The figure stepped out of the shadows, wearing a purple shirt that almost shimmered, black tattered jeans, and purple sneakers that made no sense in this void. He was built like something out of an Olympian's dream, and his windblown hair seemed to defy gravity. His eyes... no, they were galaxies—shifting, moving, alive in a way that made me feel both intimidated and in awe.
"I am the creator of this multiverse, Perseus," he spoke again, his voice both calm and commanding.
I blinked, unable to process what I was hearing. "What do you want from me now?"
A flash of recognition sparked in my mind, and my body stiffened. He's not just any god... This is him—the one who predates the Titans, the one who creates. But why am I here?
His voice continued, calm as ever, "It's been a long time since we met."
My head tilted to the side in confusion. "Huh? What did you mean?"
He smiled—almost fondly—and before I could respond, an unimaginable pain surged through my body, as if my cells themselves were being torn apart and reassembled.
It started slow, but with every moment it increased. I saw the time that Kronos was coming at me again with his scythe raised. "Still don't want to work for me Perseus?" I again spat on his face never He wiped the spit and backhanded me sending me towards the wall and then grabbing my face with his hand "Then I will torture you until you break and maybe make my men have the fun, they have been waiting for one and a half years and will rape your friend in front of me bring them in."
and he places me on the chair for electrical torture and binds me with the wires. The door to the dungeon opened and I saw Zoe and Bianca with tattered clothes their bodies limp and showing malnutrition behind them two cyclopes and Titan Krios handing the chain they were bonded with. Their eyes move towards me "Perseus thou here?" "Percy, why are you here?"
My rage increased tenfold " Release them Kronos." I tried lunging from the chair they bound me but he backhanded me sending me again a series of pain shot inside me and I crashed into the wall then put down and placed the electrical wire onto my hand and I felt an electrical charge that I had never thought was like my body and soul were crying and burning from the likes of Greek fire. He stepped back raised his scythe and gave my face a tiny cut it again sent me inside into an unbelievable agony that bound not comprehension.
The torture continued for months with his scythe rendering me useless with every hit as well as Krios, Iapetus, and Hyperion came stabbed me, and cut me with a sword, spears, and axes sending my insides and body into deep agony with no end. but the worst was Kronos was slicing me with his scythe while giving me shocks it was worse than taking a bath in the River Styx, I was losing my identity.
"Well, Perseus wants to change the sides." I again spit on his face "Nah I don't want to " " Now let's see what happens when the son of Poseidon drowns, I mean he disowns you right." he summoned some tub filled with water from a murky river and placed a few of the wires in it and dips my head I feel electric current move across my body I could hardly breathe underwater and was starting to fall unconscious my body was moving in a frenzy and he removed my head from it. For the first time, I feel fear in the water. my life was seeping away.
' Is this the end of your Perseus? Do you forget who you are? I mutter in my mind. Then I saw a scene of a boy standing in the presence of the same man that I thought I had seen earlier. The man starts to speak "Rise Perseus son of Poseidon God of Sea, Earthquakes, and Horses, and Styx goddess of the hate and Oath one of the rivers of Underworld, Chaos the forefather of Primordials, grandfather of titans and gods remove your..."
At last, Kronos raised his scythe and swung at my eye, creating a pain so violent and painful that it crossed the previous pain I endured and a silent scream arose from my mouth. sending my body convulsing like a thousand volts injected into my bloodstream. My eyesight was rendered destroyed beyond comprehension. I could not see anything.
'...restrains.'
Then, I felt a jolt of energy filling my body. I could feel the damage done to my body starting to heal at an extraordinary rate.
" See Brethren This is your terror now mutilated in this chair in the cell of Tartarus." a loud cry sounded voicing their appraising.
I could feel something plunged deep inside my abdomen but I could hardly feel any sensation due to that. On the right side of my face, something punched and felt like a hot burning fire that burned my skin.
"He is barely conscious let's leave him here. You fetch the water and You four Cyclops guard him and make sure he does not run away"
As soon as those reverberating words were spoken from the mouth of chaos I could feel a smile appearing on my bloodied face, everything was fine this was what I envisioned before the war, and soon everything would return back to their respective place.
I could feel the expansion of my domain covering every corner of the dungeon. I could feel the presence of each and every monster in the dungeon, their expression, their movement, and their next step everything processing in real-time in my brain.
My brain capable of processing a thousand things in a second does not falter does not stutter and does not lag. It captures everything with high definition.
"You wanted a weapon," Perseus snarled, his aura lashing out and crushing and shattering the nearest stone column. "Now you'll face your destruction."
The Titans hesitated. The predator now stood before them—a being forged from godly wrath, chaotic blessings, and the essence of a predator. Perseus Tossed Riptide toward Zoe Nightshade and Bianca DiAngelo and teleported to their position slicing the guards with an enricately forged Golden Trident.
He then slashed at the chain while chanting in the Atlantic language and forming another shield around them and within an instant, Both Zoe and Bianca dived into an inky blackness formed likely by a wormhole from Tartarus and vanished from the scene.
"No we don't have any unwanted Spectators" Perseus mutters as his body shows a metallic sheen As he fires a hyper beam with the blinding light and the roar of the hyper beam fades, the dungeon is obliterated and stands in ruins. Perseus stepped forward, his glowing eyes locked onto Kronos. Every step resonated with power.
The Titan of Time narrowed his golden eyes, gripping his scythe tighter.
"You've changed, Perseus," Kronos growled, his voice laced with both irritation and unease. "But even with your tricks, you are still just a mortal."
Perseus let out a low, feral chuckle. "Mortal? Not anymore, Kronos. You made me this way." His fingers flexed, the sharp edges of his shark-like teeth glinting with ethereal light. "And now, you're going to regret it."
Kronos swung his scythe in an arc, warping the flow of time around Perseus. The air grew heavy, and time slowed to a crawl. Yet, Perseus grinned.
Placing one step in front and with a deafening speed, Percy vanishes and teleported behind Kronos in a blur of motion, picking up the Trident and stabbing the unprotected back of Kronos. The Titan turned to back and barely managed to block with his scythe, sparks flying as divine bronze met and a gash formed on his translucent body from where ichor started flowing.
Summoning the water from the River Styx across the dungeon as his king, Perseus created a tentacle of water resembling an octopus's tentacle and willed it to attack Kronos like a whip burning every inch of Titan that came in contact with. The water obeyed his will, relentlessly forming whips and tendrils that lashed at the Titan. Kronos countered by freezing time momentarily, shattering and slashing the water whipping him with a single swing of his scythe after sustaining severe burns on his already translucent skin.
But Perseus was relentless. Using his Trident, he punched it into empty space carving through the temporal distortions, releasing a second hyperbeam that engulfed Kronos in a wave of destructive energy. The blast tore through the dungeon, shaking the very foundations of Tartarus.
Realizing that Kronos was struggling, Krios, Iapetus, and Hyperion charged at Perseus, their weapons drawn. Perseus turned to face them, his predatory grin widening.
Hyperion, wielding a sword blazing with solar energy, lunged at Perseus. The son of Poseidon sidestepped with fluid grace, his backhand striking Hyperion on the chest and sending him crashing into a wall. "You're bright," Perseus taunted, "but not bright enough." willing more water of Styx he dumped on Hyperion. Soon the titan lay on the ground with several places disintegrating from his reformed body.
Iapetus slammed his fist into the ground, causing jagged spikes of rock to erupt around Perseus. With a flick of his wrist, Perseus summoned a massive wave, washing away the spikes while vanishing into the shadows of Tartarus, and slammed Iapetus into the ground while gripping his face again shaking the entire Dungeon to its core. Iapetus remains still as his face is embedded in the ground.
Krios attempted to bind Perseus with celestial chains that shimmered like stars from his behind. For a moment, it seemed the chains held, but Perseus let out a guttural roar, his psychic energy surging. The chains shattered, and Perseus lunged at Krios, slamming him into the ground with enough force to leave a crater.
Kronos, battered but not defeated, rose to his feet, his golden eyes burning with fury. "Enough of this!" he bellowed, raising his scythe. Time itself began to fracture, the dungeon filling with cracks of light and distorted echoes.
Perseus stood firm, his aura intensifying. "You're right I have Enough of this." His voice was layered, a mix of his own and moving metal underneath.
With a burst of energy from his feet, Perseus jumped forward, his body radiating raw power. His trident was in a piercing stance to stab, and the metallic sheen formed on his glowed brighter. The air around him shimmered, charged with divine energy.
To avoid the fatal strike of Perseus. Kronos swung his scythe, unleashing a wave of temporal energy to counter, but it was too late. Perseus stabbed the Translucent Body of Kronos with his Trident pricing through, a devastating force of energy that tore through Kronos's defenses, striking him head-on.
The Titans screamed as the energy consumed him, covering a 20-mile radius of Tartarus. Kronos's form flickered and disintegrated into golden dust along with his Titan Brother. The dungeon fell silent, the water around Perseus calming as the aura of chaos subsided.
The remains of the Titans defeated on the ground turned into smoke and slowly the essence vanished into the atmosphere of Tartarus.
The force, the pressure—I could feel it building with every inch I got closer to the point where Tartarus and Gaia collided. It wasn't just gravitational pull anymore. It felt like the entire fabric of the universe was pressing down on me, trying to crush my existence into nothingness. Every passing second, the pressure increased exponentially, and I could feel my body screaming, my muscles straining against an invisible force that was pushing me to the limits of what I could handle.
Percy Pov:
"Fuck—fuck—fuck!" I muttered under my breath, trying to keep my focus intact. This wasn't just a physical challenge anymore. This was something far more primal, something that could break me apart if I wasn't careful.
My output had to increase, or else I wouldn't even survive the next few moments. I'm not going to be a casualty, I thought, gritting my teeth, my aura swirling violently around me as I tapped into my power. My mind, my will—everything focused as I pushed my energy to new levels.
First, it was 40%—the pressure pushed back against me.
Then, with a breath, I cranked it to 100%—but that wasn't enough.
With every second, the pressure grew.
I had no time to waste. My aura burst outward, crackling with power as I pushed myself to 200% output. I could feel the energy flooding through me, igniting every cell of my body in a blaze that almost felt too much to contain. But I didn't stop. I couldn't stop.
The air felt dense, like the entire universe was collapsing in on me. Every time I moved, I felt like I was being pushed back. But I had to keep going. There was no other option. Not with everything at stake. Not with the fate of everything hanging in the balance.
Finally, I reached the critical point—only 1 meter between me and the boundary, where Tartarus and Gaia met, where the very fabric of reality twisted.
And then—
BOOM.
A burst of energy shot out of me, and I was flung forward like a bullet, faster than I could process. The world around me twisted into a blur, and I felt my entire being launched at an unimaginable velocity.
1000 meters per second.
I could feel the atmosphere crumbling around me as I was sent shooting into the sky. Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere—I tore through them in seconds, not even pausing to think. Each layer was just another barrier being destroyed by the sheer speed I was traveling. I was leaving Earth behind, and there was no slowing down.
In a moment that seemed both infinite and instantaneous, I reached the exosphere, the very edge of space, where Earth's atmosphere no longer clung to me.
I was suspended in space.
I felt weightless. Untethered.
My body hung there, just existing in the void, with nothing but the infinite expanse of space around me. But even as I floated in that empty silence, I shook my head. I needed to focus.
I looked down, trying to see anything familiar, but there was nothing but blackness, the stars shimmering like pinpricks of light in the distance. I wasn't even sure where Earth was anymore.
The pressure was gone now, replaced by a tingling sensation in my body. The shockwaves of leaving Gaia and Tartarus had sent me into this state of limbo. My mind was still processing everything, the extreme speed, the sense of immensity—this was an entirely new level of power.
I needed to center myself, to stabilize before I did something stupid like drift into another dimension or just lose myself entirely in the void.
Focus, Perseus. Focus.
I reached inward, pulling my energy together, and centering myself. My brain was already processing things faster than ever before, trying to adapt to this new level of existence. The atmosphere of space wasn't alien to me, not in the way it would be for a mortal. But this was beyond my godly experience. This was an entirely new domain, one that pushed me in ways I hadn't imagined.
I let out a slow breath—if only my body could feel the pressure of my thoughts.
New York 2009 19, August
The cool, almost unnerving stillness of space was disorienting. Even with the vastness around me, I was sharply aware of every tingle running down my spine. The moment I entered this foreign, untethered existence, it was like the entire universe had gone still for a breath.
I needed to center myself.
I felt weightless, but my mind was in overdrive, processing information and feelings that seemed to contradict each other. Here I was, a son of Poseidon, floating in the vastness of space. I had always been aware of the sheer scale of the world, but this? This was something new. There was something primal about it, something that almost made me want to recoil.
The universe was alive, and in it, I wasn't just a part of a system anymore. I felt like the system. The sensation made my brain work faster, like a supercharger for my thoughts. And yet, even with all that, the pressure I had just escaped had left something in me that felt more like a ticking time bomb than a calm and collected god. Every single thought had a weight to it—tangible and heavy—and I had to consciously suppress the urge to snap at the slightest provocation.
And then, as I floated in the vastness, I felt it.
That pull, that sense of doom. My instincts screamed, my body throbbing with a feeling I couldn't shake. The Fates were at work again—messing with me, as they always did. Something was going to happen, and it wasn't going to be pleasant. I could feel it like a tension in the air, even in the vacuum of space. I felt it run through my veins.
"Fuck." The curse was low, but the anger was already rising in me. I had dealt with the Fates before, and it was never pretty. Every time they decided to weave their threads, it was painful, dangerous, and always unpredictable.
Something was coming, something big.
It was as though my senses, enhanced to an inhuman degree, were already tingling with foreboding. There was a shift in the cosmos, one that didn't belong. Something had been triggered, and I couldn't put my finger on it—but I knew it was tied to the Fates.
They were about to fuck up my life once again.
I could feel it in the marrow of my bones—the familiar feeling of a ticking clock, something deep within me thrumming in sync with the thread of my destiny. A clash was coming.
The gods were celebrating—sure, they were throwing their little party, like always—but I knew better. I could feel it in the back of my mind. I wasn't going to be allowed to rest. Not after all that had just happened.
I hovered above Olympus, staring down into the bright light of the celebration that stretched below me. It looked beautiful from up here—almost like a dream—but I couldn't ignore the gnawing sensation in my gut. It was almost like a distorted calm before the storm.
That same feeling, the one I had grown all too familiar with, was gnawing at me, but I refused to let it take control. I'd already fought Kronos and dealt with more than enough hellish battles. But this was something different. The Fates? They were unpredictable, but they were never subtle.
And right now, I could practically taste chaos hanging in the air.
"I'm not going down like this," I muttered to myself. My voice was quieter than I would have liked,