"Fucking bitch!" Alcyoneus roared as he got back up from the attack and hit Thalia with his giant hands sending her skidding across the ice plain till she stopped right near the edge.
"Get him!" Zed roared as the few remaining servants all ganged up on the giant. Alcyoneus ragged as he fought off Zed and Craig at the same time. Alecto knew she was basically useless in a fight so she went to Thalia's side to make sure she's okay.
"Shit," Thalia cursed as she held her side, "I think I bruised a rib."
"It's going to be fine," Alecto assured her, "we need to get you the fuck out of here. Get on my back, I'll fly you to where Percy is."
Thalia played at the thought of flying, "n-no. No, I don't want to."
"But you can't stay here!" Alecto protested, "the Giant will kill you! We need to get away from him!"
"No!" Thalia snapped, "I don't want to fly!"
Alecto blinked in surprise just as Zed cried out in pain. Alecto and Thalia turned to see Alcyoneus ripe off Zed's left arm leaving the great sword user single handed. No blood came out of the maimed limb, just smoke.
Craig managed to get a good hit in, but the moment his sword hit the giant's skin it run out. It was like trying to hit a solid metal pole. Alcyoneus growled at the damned knight as he swung at the Knight's chest sending him flying to the side.
Zed then tried to charge Alcyoneus, but the giant had lost his temper.
"Enough of this!" Alcyoneus roared as a spike made out of solid shadows came out of the ground and pierced Zed turning him into smoke. Alcyoneus then turned to Craig and did the same destroying him with a flick of his wrist.
"I am getting you out of here whether you like it or not!" Alecto yelled out as she grabbed Thalia and began flapping her wings.
"No!" Thalia screamed out as she looked down suddenly realising that she wasn't just a few feet off the glacier but hundreds of feet above sea level. Thalia felt queasy, all he will to resist went away as she focused on just not puking her lunch out.
Alecto managed to get far away and high enough from Alcyoneus for the giant to not be able to reach out and physically attack them. But doing so only served to further irritate the giant.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Alcyoneus roared out as he sent a beam of shadows that ripped through Alecto's wings.
Thalia felt her stomach drop as she found herself free falling to the ground. Thalia saw the ground fast approaching. Suddenly shadowy spikes started to grow right below her, they would surely impale her the moment she got to the ground, if the fall didn't snap her neck.
Thalia opened her mouth and emptied her lungs calling out to the one person she knew she could rely on, "PERCY!"
The ground was 40 feet away, with the spikes being 3 feet long.
35 feet. The spikes grew a little bigger.
20 feet and the shadow spikes were bigger still.
15 feet and Thalia could feel the tips of the spike prick her belly.
And just as they pierced her skin a blur of speed came upon her. It jumped up and grabbed her, carrying her far away.
Percy at the gates of the Roman camp with Alcyoneus growling at them in anger. Percy looked down at Thalia, "are you okay?"
Thalia held her stomach in pain, "I think he got me."
Percy lifted her jacket and found 5 small cuts on Thalia's abdomen, "it's not that bad." Percy turned and glared at the giant, "I'm going to make him hurt for that."
Percy stood up tall and Thalia noticed that on his right hand was the golden Eagle they came here for. It looked so majestic and powerful, Thalia didn't know why, but she felt drawn to it.
"You found the Eagle," Thalia stated.
Percy nodded, "yeah. Speaking off, could you look after this for me? I need to talk to our host," Percy imbedded the Eagle in the snow and walked off.
Thalia wrapped her hands around the staff and immediately felt her father's power flow into her. It was like she had somehow gotten a boost just by touching this thing.
Percy took out his blades again as he began walking towards the giant. Alcyoneus narrowed his eyes as he too started to run. Percy slowly increased his speed as he activated Speed Demon. Alcyoneus was surprised at the speed at which the male demigod was coming at him, but it was nothing to be worried about.
"AHHHH!" Percy cried out as he jumped up and brought both his blades down on the giant. Alcyoneus raised his pole just in time to stop both attack, but the resulting clash had Percy's weapons cut halfway through the iron pole before stopping.
Percy used his core muscles and pulled himself up. He hovered his feet above the iron pole and activated his Body from;
Body Form Activated: Left and Right Legs
Percy kicked the pole hard bending it so hard it snapped in Alcyoneus's face and knocking him backwards.
Percy landed on his feet and deactivated his strengthening perk. Alcyoneus was slowly getting back up but Percy was on him already.
Percy readied his blade as he launched an attack he had rarely ever needed to use these days. His finishing move.
"Stardust wave!" Percy yelled out as he blades moved like two silvery blues.
Alcyoneus raised his hands up to block the attack, but Percy didn't' care. Riptide and Waverider started tearing into Alcyoneus's skin as more and more blood spilled to the ground.
Soon whole chunks of the arm was being cut off as Percy kept his attack going. If he stopped he would lose the combo streak. Percy thrusted Waverider into Alcyoneus's arm and felt his blade hit bone. Percy twisted his sword before pulling it out causing unimaginable pain to the giant.
"ENOUGH!" Alcyoneus roared as a blast of shadow sent Percy and his blades flying back.
Percy groaned as he picked himself up. He quickly tired to calculate how much damage his last attack caused;
Stardust Wave—
35 x 130 Vit = 4,550
4,550 + 80 = 4,630% Bonus
Attack — 100,000 + 250 = 100,250 Attack
Sword Mastery bonus of 80% = 180,450
180,450 with the 4,630% bonus = 8,354,835 Attack!
Percy smiled at the answer. It was just a few attack points shy of Zeus's own Lightning bolt. But Percy needed so much time to do even this much damage, he was powerful, but not powerful enough. The reason how he knew this is because Alcyoneus was still fucking standing.
The Giant groaned as he held his bleeding hands. Piece of his skin was falling off onto the ground. He looked weakened, maybe Percy could take him alive right now.
"Give up Alcyoneus," Percy called out, "come peacefully and I won't kill you."
Alcyoneus huffed, "you would think I would betray my mother so easily? Fool! I am her eldest and her favorite! She revived me before all my other brothers! The only way you can walk away from this is by killing me!"
Percy narrowed his eyes, "let's see about that."
Alcyoneus roared his battle cry as he charged Percy empty handed. Percy charged ahead, he knew he couldn't use Stardust Wave anytime soon, the cooling period for his attack was every 2 second for each strike he made, meaning he needed a minute to recharge. But in battle a minute could mean the difference between life and death.
Percy didn't have any other sword techniques to incapacitate Alcyoneus with, he threw Riptide and Waverider to the side. He then released his strength seals all that once;
Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 44 hours.
STR— 69,120 (+20)= 69,140
Percy activated his super speed and dashed forward. The giant and the demigod bother drew back their fists and launched them forward.
The fists meet in mid air resulting in an explosion of power. Percy winced, he had just hit something made out of metal, from the torn pieces of skin Percy could tell that even his muscles were metal, they were made out of silver buy the looks of things.
Percy and Alcyoneus were thrown back by the resulting backlash of energy. Percy rolled head over heels but managed to stabilize himself. Alcyoneus however got to his feet first. The giant threw his arms around in a wide arc causing several large shadow spikes to pop out in front of Percy.
Percy moved and managed to avoid getting pierced by the spikes thanks to his improved reflexes. He back flipped, but the moment his foot landed on the ground a ball of shadows spread around him collapsing into him.
The shadow was skin tight, they were restricting the demigod's movement. Percy knew he would suffocate if he let this go on. So Percy began to channel his Earthquake powers as the vibrations increased and increased before Percy let the explode out of his body.
The shadows were ripped away. Percy looked up to try and find Alcyoneus, but instead he saw a fist coming towards him.
The blow shock Percy to the core. Alcyoneus buried his fist deep into Percy's abdomen sending the demigod flying backwards. Percy flew like a bullet launched out of the barrel of a gun as he went across the frozen top of the Glacier and into the roman encampment.
Thalia watched her boyfriend destroy the walls of the roman camp as he tore through the buildings inside the camp. She turned to Alcyoneus, the Giant was weak and panting, the effects of Percy's attack was still clearly seen on his face.
'I need to buy Percy some time!' Thalia realised as she got up and grabbed the Roman Eagle. She felt the power of thunder roll into her. Her blue eyes sparked with yellow electricity as Thalia felt herself being empowered by the Eagle.
"Hey shit stain!" Thalia called out. Alcyoneus turned and watched wide eyes as Thalia aimed the Eagle at him, "eat this!"
Thalia channeled her lightning powers through the Eagle which then multiplied it a hundred times over before shooting it out at the Giant. Thalia didn't know how she did that, but it just felt right.
The lighting bolt collided with Alcyoneus sending a loud boom as the electricity coursed through Alcyoneus's entire body. Thalia kept the stream of lighting going, she couldn't afford to stop.
"NOOO!" Alcyoneus yelled as he fell down to his feet in pain. Thalia could feel the leftover electricity being channeled into the ice below, but that just gave her a slight boost in her powers.
The lighting stream continued, steam rolled off of Alcyoneus's skin, the lightning was heating up the giant's metal body.
"ENOUGH!" the Giant roared out as suddenly a huge layer of darkness covered Alcyoneus's skin. Thalia looked at this in wide eyes as the giant became covered in what looked like black paint.
Slowly the giant stood up as he pushed back at Thalia's lighting. It seemed that it no longer hurt him.
Thalia stopped the stream of lighting putting the Eagle down as she collapsed to her knees. She was panting, she had spent energy she didn't have on that last attack, and all it seemed to do was make him stronger somehow.
Alcyoneus approached her, the black ink like substance was covering his entire body. "I am not going to give you to Porphyrion. No, you don't deserve that kindness. I will keep you by my side for eternity. I will make you mine in every way, and you will beg for death."
Thalia shivered, he was using that bloodlust thing that she remembered Percy using. Somehow in this blackned form Alcyoneus seemed to be radiating power he didn't have before. It was like everything he was was amplified by 1,000%.
Thalia tried to stand up, she wouldn't just let him take her down without a fight. She slowly stood up with the help of the Eagle, but the moment she did Alcyoneus slapped her aside with his mighty hands throwing he to the side of the glacier.
Thalia got up and was greeted to the sight of the fatal drop that laid before her. Her fear of height kicked in again, she was paralyzed beyond belief.
"And now daughter of Zeus," Alcyoneus growled, "you will be mine." The giant turned Thalia around as he tore off her coat. He tried to reach for her jacket when Thalia sent a lighting bolt right at him.
The giant chuckled, completely unfazed by the attack, "you cannot harm me while in this form. Your magic is useless!"
"Yeah, but mine isn't!" Percy spreaded in a flash of speed as he sent a punch into Alcyoneus's face knocking a few of his platinum teeth out and sending him skidding across the glacier top.
Percy turned to Thalia, "you okay?" he took off his coat and gave it her.
"I'm tired," Thalia admitted as she wrapped the coat around herself, she really couldn't take the cold.
Percy nodded as he turned to the giant, "shit, not this again."
The black skinned giant slowly got up as he shook his head trying to gain back his senses. "You have seen this black thing before?" Thalia asked.
Percy nodded, "yeah. It's called Haki, or will power. Argo had it, and he used it to neutralize any magical attack I threw at him."
"How are you going to defeat this guy?" Thalia asked.
"Simple," Percy said as he zipped up his leather jacket, "I just won't use any magic."
Alcyoneus finally managed to clear his head, "how did you-"
Percy launched himself at Alcyoneus and punched the giant in the gut send him stumbling back. Percy then jumped on top of the giant and started to wail on him sending punch after punch right into the giant's face.
The icy ground beneath them cracked as each punch of Percy's pushed Alcyoneus deeper and deeper into the ice.
More and more of the ground around them broke apart. Every shock wave Percy sent through his punches broke the ice underneath as a crack grew bigger and bigger in the middle of the ice.
Suddenly the entire glacier rumbled. Percy stopped, 'if I keep this up I might destroy the entire glacier with Thalia on it!'
That moment hesitation was all Alcyoneus needed. The giant's haki coated hands punched into Percy throwing him off of the giat and onto the icy ground around them.
Percy's HP— 6,550/11,550 (+1000) = 7,550
That last attack cost Percy almost half his HP. Percy realised why this was happening, the haki probably bypassed the marble skin defence and instead hurt Percy directly. One more punch like that and it will be Percy's life.
Percy quickly got up, he could see pieces of the ice around the glacier were breaking off, his strength had caused all that.
Suddenly however Percy felt Alcyoneus grab Percy by the throat and pull him up. Percy looked at the giant and the giant looked at him, "who are you? No normal demigod has that much power or is so fast. Are you a child of Hercules?"
Percy grinned, "my name is Percy Jackson," he sent a kick to Alcyoneus jaw knocking him back. Percy freed himself of the monster's loose grip and dropped to the ground. "And I am the son of Poseidon," he then sent an Earthquake charged punched right into Alcyoneus's chest.
The giant open his mouth causing oil to spill out of it as the punch sent him flying back. Percy didn't know whether his Earthquake power did anything to help, but he hoped he did.
