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Chapter 5: Percy fights Ares

As soon as Apollo had said those five words I knew that even if I wanted to that I wouldn't be able to get out of this fight due to the fact that althought the whole school were probably still confused about my willingness to fight a god they still cheered, clearly hoping that I wouldn't get hurt too badly. The gods began to make their way off the stage that had been placed in the gym however before they had even taken a few step there was a bright light and it engulfed the entire gym and when the light disappeared everyone apart from Me and Ares were sat on the stone steps of the arena of Dodona; the oldest oracle of ancient Greece, the oldest Helladic land (ancient Greece) which was originally dedicated to the most acient deity, the great mother goddess, the oracle was later dedicated to Zeus of Dodona. While Me and Ares appeared to be standing in the middle of the arena, after circling each other for a couple of minutes Ares asked "are you ready for this Percy?"

I laughed at him and replied with "I beat you once when I was only twelve with no training, what makes you think that your going to win this time when I've been through two wars and hundreds of fights to keep my life."

"I believe that I'm going to win because you've been staying at Camp Halfblood since you've defeated Gaea, and I'm guessing that this is only the second time since your figuht with Gaea that you've actually pick up that sword or any other weapon for that matter. So what makes you think that I'm not going to win" Ares stated, which I could tell shocked everyone, however i noticed the concerned looked on all the other gods and goddesses faces.

Inspired by the looks I was recieving from everyone I said "well I guess you'll just have to fight me and find out."

Ares took about ten seconds to contemplate what I had just said before we started circling each other again; have stop when I laughed at him, we were waiting to see who would make the first move even through we both knew that I had to make the first move because being a god Ares was held to certain laws that meant he couldn't start the fight, only after I have struck at him would ne be able to fight back as I'm not held by the same laws as him. So without giving it much throught I swung my sword at him but he blocked it and went to counter it but I blocked him too, this went on for a couple of minutes before Zeus said "for somebody who hasn't picked up a weapon in weeks Ares, Percy is going a good job at keeping up with you."
Ares didn't even give a verbal response to Zeus just grunted, while Ares was distracted by what Zeus had said I made my move and stabbed him in the ankle just like I did all those years ago on the beach, and when he crumbled to the ground I held my sword to his throat and said "I win."
At this everyone besides the gods started laughing and clapping, when suddenly just like before the bright light appeared out of nowhere and when it disappeared we were back in the gym in the exact same places as we were in before we left.

Once everyone had quitened down Poseidon walked up to me and asked "son are you ok, I mean what Ares said was that true?"

I could tell that everyone was listening in but I still answered him "yeah, its just that I did something in Taratrus that really scared both Me and Annabeth, and I just needed time to process what I had done before I started fighting monsters again."

"Percy what did you do that frightened you and Annabeth so much that you wouldn't pick up your sword or any other weapon" Athena inquired.

"Well, to get out of Taratrus we had to pay a visit to Nyx, so she couls hide us in her darkness but then she tried to kill us, Me and Annabeth were backed into a corner with Nyx in front of u, where she had cornered us there was poison on the ground and she started focusing it on us but the I put my hand up and started to focus on the poison and it began to retreating back to Nyx, but once the poison had gone I still had my hand up and Nyx was screaming in pain and I just carried on moving towards her it wasn't until Annabeth screamed for me to stop that I realised what I was doing and I stop" I replied.

"You controlled Nyx's blood didn't you?" Poseidon questioned.

I just nodded not wanting to verbalise the answer, then Paul asked "What do you mean that he controlled her blood?"

"Paul the human is made up of 75% water which I have total control over, when I controlled Nyx's blood i was boiling it, I lost control of my anger, thats why I didn't come straight home I was scared that I would loss control again and hurt someone, I just told Mom and you that it was because everyone need me at camp to help the younger ones because I'm the leader, and could you just not tell her what I did" I replied.

"Percy you couldn't have hurt anyone unless they were tyring to kill you" Paul said.

"Nyx was trying to kill me but it was the first time I had ever controlled someones blood before and it scared the shit out of me" I stated.

"Percy you've gotten better at controlling your powers than any og my children ever had... You've had so much control that the blood controlling didn't present itself until you were in grave danger however with my other children its one of the first powers they discover because they didn't have control" Poseidon countered.

"Perseus you are still you and even if you can control blood that doesn't change the fact that your the saviour of Olympus" Zeus said.

When Zeus said that I turned to look at him along with all the other Olympians and then I said "did you just complement me."

"I suppose I did, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep an eye on you and your power level" Zeus said.

"Ok, I think that its time that we get back to reading the book now" Athena said.

"Yeah we should, who wants to read now?" Poseidon asked.

"I will" Zeus said.

With that I went back to my seat have stood right next to my dad the whole time that we were talking and once I was back in my seat Paul passed the book to Zeus.

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