(A/N) Lord Jace: Thanks for the feedback. Ask and ye shall receive. Generally
Percy
Fighting raged everywhere around me.
The Hunters, the Romans, and the Greeks all working together to prevent the rise of Gaea.
And of course, the gods had finally joined us.
After months of hard work, which had gotten me dragged into Tartarus, they were finally spurred into action.
It was quite beautiful in a danced across the skies striking against the giants directly. The strongest of us, the seven, aided them.
The rest of our brethren repelled the massive armies that were being throw against us, intent on preserving the original Olympus.
One by one the giants fell before us, until only Porphyrion was left.
I was currently being occupied by around one hundred Earthborn, who had formed after I had slain the last giant.
As I destroyed them by the dozens through a combination of swordplay and my power, I could see out of the corners of my eyes how the fight against Porphyrion was going.
In a brief summary? Not good.
I saw Hazel being knocked off Arion and Frank being swatted out of the air. Porphyrion currently had his attention on Piper, no doubt to cause Jason grief, and kept trying to blast her with lightning.
Thanks to the past few months she was quick enough to avoid it, but I could tell she was tiring.
Jason was using his power over the wind to dart around the giant's body, but it was as if he was a gnat. For that was the amount of attention that Porphyrion brought to bear on him.
Annabeth was nowhere to be seen, though I was not really concerned about it. I had fought along side her many times before, and turning invisible was the norm for her.
The only other person that I did not see was Leo. Again I was less than worried, as he would most likely be wrecking havoc in the Argo II.
Sure enough, Annabeth appeared on the giants foot, stabbing it with her dagger, and the Argo II floating into my view range, with Leo clearly at the helm. Coach Hedge was on a bastille, shooting at everything in sight. Gods knews how he hadn't hit any of our allies yet.
Then everything went from bad to worse, Porphyrion finally spun around due to Jason getting too close, and smacked, literally smacked, into the ground.
Due to how fast he had turned, Annabeth was thrown into Piper and both girls tumbled an additional ten feet from where Piper was standing before they came to a stop.
Coach kept trying to blast the giant,but Porphyrion seemed to take it all in stride. He pointed his spear and aimed at the Argo II.
He would have probably destroyed it if Coach hadn't managed to land a smoke bomb right on his face. His aim was thrown off, so the Argo II wan't destroyed, just extremely damaged.
It began quickly making a tactical retreat, with Coach taking the wheel, and Leo trying to run in all directions on the deck. Clearly he was tried to keep the ship from falling apart, but I couldn't see what happened next.
I had finally killed all of these Earthborn, and I was itching to get back in the fight.
As I ran towards Porphyrion, the gods continued to throw all they had at him, but it was clear they were tiring. Not to mention they didn't seem to be doing any serious damage anyway.
Porphyrion stomped over to where Jason had fallen, and with a bellowing laugh, aimed his spear at him. The spear started to glow and the gods became desperate.
I saw several swooping lower and lower, always pulling up at the last minute due to earthen hands that sprouted from the ground trying to grab them.
Eventually Artemis,bold goddess that she is, decided to go for it. She moved as fast as light, ready to pull her half-brother out of danger.
I was not surprised in the least when those accursed hands latched on to her body, and she let out at snarl of rage and began to fight them.
The hand held fast though, and there was no amount of struggling that could free her from them as they began to draw her into the ground, Gaea intending to absorb her power.
I was still to far to do anything with my blade, but I still could use my powers.
I knew my father would have done this better than I ever could, but he could not get close to the ground without being caught himself.
I knew I had only seconds to act, as Artemis was almost half way in the ground shouting at Apollo to not get close. The sun god kept trying to get close to grab onto her, and had almost been caught twice himself.
Jason was not in a much better situation as I could tell that Porphyrion was almost ready to blast him, he had just been building the suspense.
"Thank the gods he loves theatrics as much as Zeus," I thought as I stabbed Riptide into the ground.
Everything began shaking, the armies of Gaea and my allies were both stumbling trying not to fall. The quakes they felt were nothing compared to the shock wave I sent towards Porphyrion and Artemis.
"So considerate of them to be so close together," I remarked to myself.
The power I released being enough to break the earthen grasp on Artemis, who immediately took to the air again, and to throw Porphyrion off balance. His blast of dark lightning going wide and destroying a legion of dark centaurs much to my amusement.
Porphyrion managed to regain his footing and glared at me. "I would take much pleasure in fighting you myself child of the seas. Unfortunately, one greater than me wishes that honor."
I froze at that, my confidence evaporating. "Greater than you?" I asked warily, understandable because the Giants had a huge ego. They thought none where above them, except for one, and I began to pale.
"Yes little demigod," Porphyrion said, seeing the blood leave my face, "My mother wishes to express her feelings towards you. In person."
With that he turned to face the gods while I heard said gods shouting at me to run, loudest being my father, and surprisingly Artemis.
I didn't have time to think on it though, but I knew running would be pointless.
I was on Gaea's domain, and there wasn't any easy way off of that at the moment.
And then 'she' rose up from the earth to face me, and I swear I heard thunder, which was entirely possible, and an impending sense of doom.