Hello demigods and fangirls to my very first fanfiction! *enter me grinning like a madmad* I know many of you hate author's notes and I'm not asking you to read every one of them, but if I will have something important to say, i will write it in a way you can see it, so feel free to skip my author's notes! Ah, screw it, I'll just go on with the story!
-Ice-
Disclaimer: I'm probably not gonna write this every chapter, cuz I forget these things a lot, so I'll do it now; I'm not Rick Riordan and sadly I don't own the Percy Jackson world. *crying inside*
(3rd person's POV)
He didn't expect that. He didn't expect it at all.
The battle with Gaea has finally ended, but there were a lot of hurt demigods all around him. Frank was taken care of next to Jason, who was mourninh the death of his girlfriend Piper. Leo was nowhere to be seen and Hazel was sobbing quietly not far away from Frank. The 12 Olympians were there, too, helping the demigods.
But the kneeling blackhaired demigod didn't really care about anyone. He had his teary sea green eyes only for that cold bloddy coprse besides him. He still could't belive that she would do that… She saved his life. His damned life for the price of her own.
-flashback-
Percy was hacking, slashing, stabbing and just killing any monsters that came close to him. And that means he didn't get to rest. Perseus was in the middle of an army of monsters, trying to get to Gaea, but as he was surrounded by monsters, that was kind of a hard thing to do.
His body was on autopilot, his mind, however, was set on Jason and Hazel on his far left, far over the field, filled with monsters . Together the two half-bloods were fighting two giants on a lone hill, away from the other demigods and smaller monsters, while trying to save Leo and Piper from Gaea's grasps, which seemed like an impossible task at the moment. They had to hurry, all the other Giants were on their was to the roots of Olympus, but no Gods. The two captured demigods, Piper and Leo, who previously fought bravely, just to be knocked out by Gaea's earth fist. Right now they were tied up on the floor trashing around. Their previous guards, a dozen dracena had left to join the fight with the remaining five demigods, but they were still in danger.
Gaea, or better said her spirit's form, was standing 20 feet behind them, but she was slowly aproaching them. The Earth goddess' moves were very slow and her form flickered, as she still had to fully awake. It was like watching in slow motion, but that didn't matter, as Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Frank and Hazel couldn't stop her. Mother Earth would actually look beautiful to Percy, if she wasn't trying to murder his friends. She had dark brown hair and was wearing a plain white greek dress, which was mud stained, but still stunning . It seemed like her skin was made of mud, but it was a bright peachy color. Her face was almost perfect. Almost - her evil grin destroyed her calm expression with closed eyes, but, however, she still seemed aware of her surroundings.
While coming closer to the two tied up demigods on the floor, she slowly moved her head down, as she was looking at her hands, at a celestial bronze dagger, actually. She was on the edge of avakening, she only needed two small drops of demigod blood-the blood of Olympians.
Percy the felt a pain across his chest and winced. Couldn't they give him just a little break? He gritted his teeth, as he turned around to face the monster he was fighting right now. And of all monsters he could meet, it was Kelli, the Empousa, who he met a few times. The said monster, belive me, hated his guts. »Hello, Kelli. Long time no seen!« the demigod said sarcasticly. Percy got into fighting mode once again and slashed at her, but she lazily moved to the side. The monster smirked. »Little bit tired, darling?« Percy really was tired and Kelli knew that. The son of Poseidon got back in a fighting stance, waiting for her to charge at the demigod, but she merly smiled at him.
»Oh, Percy, you wouldn't kill me… You are one of us. You will not attack me!« Her big smile widened, as she saw Percy's eyes getting blurry, while he considered her offer and lowered his weapon. Kelli's charmspeak was working, or so she thought. The Empousa slowly stalked to Percy, planning to kill him, but as she came close to demigod, he suddenly jumped back to life and swung his sword at the monster.
He grinned weakly when he saw the wind blow away the golden monster dust, but winced and turned around after he heard a loud scream. It was Piper, who was lying on the ground, covered in her blood and a dagger being pulled out of her heart. Leo could only stare in shock with his mouth gagged, but he began trashing wildly at Gaea. He knew she would try to kill him, but nobody touches his friends.
»Nooooo!« Jason screamed, stopped fighting Porphyrion, the bane of Zeus/Jupiter, and ran to Gaea, who pulled a now bloddy dagger out oh Piper's chest in her right hand and a grin on her face. She slowly lifted her left hand to touch the blood and when she did, she glowed and she glowed with great power. Gaea was waking up. The remaining demigods on the batlefield could hear the screams of Jason and see Gaea's show of power, but there were too many monsters attacking them, so no one could come to help the daughter of Aphrodite, even if they tried the best.
Gaea didn't say anything, but an evil laugh could be heard from the ground. Now she needed only the blood of a male demigod, so she turned to the now unconscious Leo. Poor Leo was too close to Gaea, as she radiated with power, which knocked him out. Hazel kept struggling with Enceladus, the Gigantes bort to oppose Athena/Minerva, while Jason ran to Piper's side, just to be knocked aside by a huge bear, who jumped in front of him. The son of Jupiter, obviously confused, turned around just in time to see Gaea pull her dagger out of the bear's stomach, but he could't understand why Gaea's already big smile widened. She needed the blood of a male demigod, why was the bear's blood so important? But, boy, he was wrong. In the next moment the huge brown bear, now too covered in his own red blood, shivered and transformed in a extremly pale Frank.
-end of flashback-
The demigod suddendly felt an arm on his shoulder and heard a warm voice. »Come on, Percy… Let me help you with that wound…« No response. »Percy, do you hear me? You need to leave her, she wouldn't want you to be in pain.« But Percy didn't feel any pain, other than emotional. He didn't feel sad, he was furious, angry at the whole world. And the most, he hated himself. Percy turned around to see the worried face of Apollo, the owner of the voice, and started yelling at him in tears. »No! I can't! She died, she gave her life for me! I can't leave her!« He murmured the last part in a cold voice and growled at Apollo, who took a step back, to give the kneeling demigod some space. Everyone was giving Percy sad looks, as they passed him, but no one else came to him. They knew that Percy needed to be alone right now, or so they thought. The son of the sea god could feel hot tears tracing down his cheek, but he didn't really care. His side was bleeding really hard from a stab wound from a fight with the biggest Hellhound he has ever seen, but he couldn't care less. All he cared about was his best friend, his girlfriend, his Annabeth. The Annabeth that was lying dead on the cold floor, with an arrow in her heart. An arrow that was meant for Percy.
-flashback-
As he finished his fight with Kelli and before he could recover from the shock from Piper's death, he was pushed back into fighting mode once more. Percy rolled under the feet of an angry looking Cyclops and stabbed it in it's leg. The demigod didn't like fighting Cyclops, because they reminded him so much of his brother, Tyson, but he really didn't have much choice, when they attacked him first. The monster was now just golden dust, but even now Percy didn't have time to rest. Slash, stab, retreat, stab, roll, slash, move, spin, stab. His vision started to blur from exaustion, but he still fought monster after monster.
After he killed two Hellhounds, he wanted to find his friends, but an all known monster stopped him. Dr. Thorn, the Manticore was back and he immediately slashed at him. »So we meet again, Jackson.« Thorn laughed and charged. Percy would have easily killed the Manticore, if the horde of monsters behind him wouldn't try to kill him, so he had to dodge warious attack and kill the Manticore. And at the same time he searched for Annabeth. He thought he saw the blonde haired daughter of Athena, but as quick she appeared, she was gone, so he once again focused on the beast he was fighting right now. After a few minutes he saw an opening and stabbed the so called »doctor« in the chest and the monster turned to dust.
Now he stopped just for a lone second to catch his breath and look around for Annabeth. Big mistake. The moment he did that, he saw an arrow flying torwards him, but before he could even react, he saw a glimpse of curly blonde hair in front of him taking the arrow instead. The next thing he remembered were his cries for help, yelling and killing every monster that came near the dead body of Annabeth and then he saw a bright flash and after that only darkness.
-end of flashback-
(Athena's POV)
»Percy? Percy! Percy, stop!« I was trying to calm Percy down, after he attacked Apollo, who only tried to take care of the demigod's stab wound. But I just couldn't, no matter how hard I tried, Percy kept screaming, crying and attacking. He brought Apollo to the floor and kept hitting him in the face over and over again, while Apollo did nothing. He knew Percy was out of control, blinded from rage and saddnes and after all, Apollo was a god, it didn't hurt so much. But still, Ares had to hold Percy to let Apollo finish his work, or at least try to. At the same time a few demigods took their dead friends from the battlefield, including my dearest daughter, Annabeth. Percy noticed this and began trashing around even more wildly, while screaming Annabeth's name furiusly and couldn't stop crying. That's when Ares knocked him out. »Thanks, brother. He really could have died from blood loss, if he would keep acting like that.« Apollo exclaimed. I felt really bad for the young hero. He saved the world twice, but he lost the love of his life.
I sighed at the memory of my daughter, holding back a tear. Annabeth died, along with Piper and many other demigods. Mostly, they survived, but hundreds of them have been badly wounded. Frank almost died of blood loss, when he jumped in front of Jason to save him. Leo was badly cut and still unconscious. Sarrah, a daughter of Demeter will be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, but it was a small price for saving eight young demigods from a giant. Many will never be the same. Damn it, why couldn't we come any quicker?
Half an hour after the battle in Greece begun, Reyna, Nico and a satyr arrived to Camp Half-Blood and they brought my statue, the statue of Athena Parthenos. Greeks and Romans then made a war truce and fought side by side after the gods were able to get them to Greece. The finaly realized they aren't enemies and now everything was at peace between the demigods, but they still had a war to fight.
We, the gods, were usless before, because our Greek and Roman form kept fighting each other. Now, with the peace between Greeks and Romans, we combined the two forms and came in the last moment to stop Gaea from reaching Frank's blood. When the gods flashed in with the demigods we were frozen for a second. Even I was shocked with the scene at the battlefield. The remaining 5 heroes of the prophecy were fighting a whole army of monsters on their own, but the other two, Piper and Annabeth were dead. Hazel was fighting tho giants at once in a new found strenght, after she saw Frank get hurt. She fought like a demon, but she clearly couldn't beat tho powerful giants, who even gods had trouble to defeat, so Reyna, Hermes and Ares went to help her. Percy was killing monster after monster around Annabeth, who was on the floor, dead, with an arrow in her heart. Jason was trying to fight Gaea away from Frank, who was really badly hurt, but was still fighting a hellhound. And Leo, as the only alive demigod left set monsters on fire all the time, while smashing them with his hammer. The other demigods and gods began fighting at the moment they flashed in, and in the same time the remaining Giats came ito viev. Every god choose a demigod of his own and went for the kill.
At the last moment, before Gaea could reach Frank's blood, then the big three came into action. Zeus with his master bolt, Poseidon with his Trident and Hades with his sword attacked her and succseded. Gaea is now asleep for at least a few millennium. Every god surrounded her with their power to keep her from rising again and Hephaestus and I will be designing her own personal prision in the deepst of Tartarus. The monters were killed by demigods, the major and even most of the minor gods, who decided to stick with Olympus. But we still lost many of our kids.
I looked around again, I missed the original Olympus and the arhitecture. Then I sighed again and went Zeus. »It's time to go back home… Father.« I added and smiled. He gave me a slight smile in return, but his eyes showed that he was still searching for his only daughter, Thalia. He was in deep worry, but his smile returned when he saw her helping a hunter. She looked up to meet his gaze and smiled lovingly and he smiled back. Now he turned his attention back to. »You're right, let's go.« He seemed calm, he wasn't all arrogant and the all-powerful Zeus I was used to, but I had to remind miself, that demigods died and we barely won. Zeus then spoke again. »Gods, we're going back! Each take a group of demigods and flash back to Olympus. And remember - we're going home as winners of this war!« And with that words we all teleported back to the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
Well, that's about it for the first chapter. Review, follow, love or hate it (uhmm, I would better like it if you didn't hate it, but it's your choice). Tell what to correct or how to write better!
-Ice