The people were silent, all eyes on him.
"The world we live in right now...it's in danger. The Titans threaten to destroy it, to destroy our world. Our homes...our family. The Olympians, if they were here would tell us to fight for them, to fight so that the Gods may triumph over the Titans once more. And a few hours ago, I would have agreed with them. But not anymore."
There were whispers breaking out as they all spoke in hushed tones to each other. "The world is bigger than just us," Percy continued, "we are but a blip in history. The Gods have been here forever, and will probably outlive us all. So when you ask who we fight for, I respond with this. We don't fight for them, not for the immortals that may or may not understand what it means to be human, nor do we fight for the humans who label us misfits and shun us from their world. We fight...for ourselves. I fight for you, for the only people I ever felt comfortable around. For my family.
"I know it might seem farfetched, after all most of you don't even know me. But just wait, because you shall. My name is Percy Jackson, and I am the son of Poseidon. Ever since I was born I felt alone, it was only when I met you all did I feel complete. It was only when I saw what burdens demigods held on their shoulders did I know a sense of duty and it was only when I watched my friend's fall before me did I know the necessity of action.
"I'm not here fighting for the humans or the gods," Percy turned to Morpheus, "I was wrong Morpheus, humans and demigods are not the same. We are different. But, that does not mean I will abandon them, nor will I fight for them. Kronos is coming after us, he's coming for our heads and I'll be damned if I let him put us down without giving him a fight first!"
"Aye!" the army cheered, their cries loud enough to startle Morpheus himself. They cheered louder and louder forcing Percy to scream louder.
"I won't let those I care about die! I won't stand by as Kronos takes what is mine! I will not die a coward! I am a demigod! I will fight on my feet and die on them! We are demigods! We are a force of nature itself! Olympus will be defended tonight! Humanity will be defended tonight! When Kronos comes he will not face children! He will face warriors! Enough to overpower any army he brings forth! Each of us is worth a hundred of them! And they will learn to fear us! For this day will be the day we fight the monsters that have haunted us all our lives, and spit in the face of the devil himself!"
The crowd cheered so loud near the end Percy couldn't hear himself talk.
Ping!
Your speech has successfully motivated your army!
20% boost in morale!
Ping! Ping! Ping!
Your skill has leveled up three times!
Motivational speaking, Lv— 4/10 (89%)
Motivates other people around you.
45% chance of working provided the person isn't depressed or suffering from any other negative status effects.
Percy opened his perk list and looked through them searching for the one he was looking for;
Wolf pack— + 5% increase in all stats, attacks and skills for every person that fight's by your side.
It was Percy's most powerful perk which he had obtained during his trials for the emotional spectrum. He had rarely had times when he needed to use it, never really had problems fighting off bigger and badder enemies. If anything his problem had always been the exact opposite.
But now, now it was time.
Percy clicked on the perk activating it, he closed his eyes and slowly an aura of blue energy flowed through his body. It feed on the very air around him, feeding of the raw emotions that the demigod's in front of him gave off. His eyes glowed pure cobalt blue as the perk activated;
Ping!
You have currently 590 people fighting by your side!
Bonus of 2,950% boost in all stats, skills and attacks!
Percy's eyes widened at the boost in power, and suddenly the emotions he absorbed flew into him, feeding into his core. He flinched repeatedly as the power flew into his body.
Rob looked worried, but stayed his ground as slowly Percy recovered. He turned away from the army and raised his gauntlet high into the air yelling, out, "tsunami!"
The gauntlet burst into motion surrounding him with his now iconic black armour with his cape fluttering out behind him.
Ping!
+20% MP
+10% HP
+70% Elvish magic
+5 Dex
+2 Str
+3 Vit
+2 levels for water, ice, shadow and earthquake control
Percy reached into his pocket and drew out waverider transforming it into its sword form while he held the pegasus staff with his left hand.
BOOM!
The tunnel shock. Percy turned to Morpheus who nodded, "they are coming. 10,000 strong. And Hypnos and Morpheus."
"Alright then," Percy raised his blade, "get ready!"
"Legion! At arms!" Rob cried out causing every legion to lock their shields and lower their center of gravity.
"Camp half-blood get ready!" Thalia cried out, the squads obeyed, looking ready to move at any second.
The army turned as one to face the end of the tunnel. The shakes kept coming and coming, increasing in frequency. Percy could see cracks in the walls of the tunnel around a 100 feet away. He narrowed his eyes, so that's where they were coming from.
"The army will appear there!" Percy yelled pointing at the cracks, "archers will send the first volley of arrows! Michael, remember the plan! Do not engage until they come within 40 feet of you! Romans you have your orders! Greeks! Don't die!"
"Sir yes sir!" they yelled back.
BOOM! BOOM!
The walls broke off piece by piece. Percy turned to Morpheus, the god was holding his shoulder, ichor was dripping down his sides, after all this realm was a part of his body.
"Ready!" Percy called out.
CRACK!
The wall broke open revealing a dark train tunnel like passage. Percy used his 8.0 vision and focused his vision. He saw something shimmering in the darkness, silhouettes of figures wearing metal armour charging towards them.
"Draw!" Percy called out, the archers knocked their arrows.
"GRAA!" the first few animals came charging out of the tunnel in droves, a disorganized mess as they charged in a swarm rather than in lines.
"Aim!"
They were slowly gaining ground, a few of the faster ones, like cheetahs, were really coming up fast.
"Fire at will!" Percy cried out as he charged forward meeting the lead of the titan army, the charging cheetah. The cheetah had a dagger held between it's teeth and a sword on each paw. It tried to cut at Percy's face, but the demigod moved faster, faster than he had ever gone before. His movements felt effortless as he swung his blade cleaving the cheetah's head right off.
The twinge of a hundred bowstrings was heard as the archers let their arrows loose. The titan army were covered with the shadows of arrows coming down on top of them. They didn't even have time to hide when the arrows pierced their bodies turning them into corpses.
More and more monsters came running through the gate, but were just as quickly pulled down by arrows.
Percy stood at the 50 feet mark and raised the pegasus staff, "you shall not pass!" he slammed it down summoning forth a tsunami of water that he directed with his powers to pour directly into the tunnel the came out off.
Percy held the staff tightly creating more and more water to manipulate. Percy kept the blast of water going, blocking the entrance, not allowing a single enemy to come forward.
But just as it looked like that would be a problem, there was another crack opening, and this one opened up in the middle of the air growing larger and larger.
"Their coming!" Morpheus yelled out as he held his bleeding arm in pain.
"Who?!" Percy asked.
"The monsters," the god growled in pain.
"GRAAA!" it sounded horrifying. Like nails on a chalkboard as out of the shadowy portal a long serpent like figure flew out, wings popped out of it's back, shadows covered its body. Nothing of it could be seen, except it's cold yellow eyes.
And riding on it's back was Hypnos. He looked down at Percy, "prepare to die Jackson!"
Percy scoffed, "why do they always say that? Charles! Fire!"
"Hah! It's no use! No arrow can-"
BOOM!
A shell came flying out of their tank hitting the shadow dragon right in the head causing it to burst into flesh and bones. Hypnos hanged on to dear life as the dragon came flying down, crashing into the ground as it rolled over trapping Hypnos under it.
The God tried to move the dragon away, but it's body proved to be to heavy. Percy stepped over its corpse and looked down at Hypnos with a smile, "yeah, that's right. We have a tank."
"That won't save you Jackson!" Hypnos yelled.
"Yeah, sure it won't," Percy readied his blade to cut off the god's head when suddenly the world shock once more. And this time, the entire world shook. It was strong enough to get everyone off balance for a second as Percy missed his strike.
"If I was you, I would worry more about him than me," Hypnos growled looking down the hall.
The two holes created before were gone. Sealed up. But a new one was taking it's place, and it was bigger than before. The cracks spread to both corners of the tunnel and a pval rift opened itself up.
"Behold Jackson, the monsters you so feared," Hypnos spat out as slowly more and more of those shadow beasts came out.
Some were in the form of monstrous animals. Some in the form of people, doctors with knives, clowns with big teeth and one shadow in the form of an old woman.
Percy groaned, "god dammit, not this again. Fucking nightmare monsters."
"Centurions! Ready!" Rob called out, the romans locked their shields as the oncoming swarm of monsters got closer. A few of the shadows attacked the titan soldiers instead, eating them up for dinner, but a majority of them focused on the larger meal before them instead.
"Don't let them touch you!" Percy yelled out as he walked to stand besides Rob, "they can bypass your armours! Cut them down before they get the chance to touch you!"
"Yes sir!"
Percy turned to Rob, "I'm drench them, you fry them."
"Got it," Rob nodded.
Percy slammed the Pegasus staff down hard summoning another tsunami wave of water pushing the front line of monsters away. The ones behind them fell down, while the others simply walked over them, crushing them to death in the stamped. The entire battleground was wet, their charging splashing the water everywhere.
Percy turned to Rob, "now."
"Twelfth legion fulminata!" Rob cried out, the eagle glowed golden yellow as sparks started exploding out lashing before full blown lighting bolts came flying out and into the enemy's ranks. Several monsters got destroyed instantly, the shadow's particularly looked weak against lightning. And those who survived or dodged the lightning was instantly shocked thanks to a little something called conductivity.
The shadows cried in horror as they were electrocuted. The animals died instantly, their bodies being used as stepping stones as the rest of them charged forward regardless.
"All right here they come!" Percy cried back to the army, who are no doubt ready for the monsters.
They roared as they charged, a giant Gorilla at their head. Percy ran forward first, the gorilla jumped up to attack from above while Percy simply used his mind to grab hold of his form and use him to beat a rather bored looking sloth to death.
The demigod continued his charge into the middle of the approaching army, grinning. This was the heat of battle, and this was where he felt most alive.
He dived right into the middle of the battle, monster fell to each swing of his blade. He even used the staff as a baton using it to beat the living shit out of them, one time even knocking the monster across the tunnel and back into the black crack in space.
The demigod army engaged with the army, crushing them with their co-ordinated attack. The monsters were united, barely better than a swarm of people on black friday. They were slain down the moment they got too close.
The archers kept firing their arrows, each finding their mark putting a monster down.
Rob drew his flaming blade and struck fast and hard. He was surrounded with his own protection detail, each backing him up at every turn.
Hyperion and Alcyoneus however had no co-ordination, they didn't plan anything out, they just attacked. They tore through the monsters quickly, though the swarm was many the combined strength of a titan and a giant was no match for them at all.
Percy grinned, it looked like they were going to win this with next to no effort at all. But just as he thought that the battle field changed.
Out of the crack in space came a being everyone in that realm feared to some extent. His full body was now on display having successfully crossed over into this realm.
He stood at ten feet tall with skin like bronze. His body was tightly packed with muscles powerful enough to damage steel. The only insult to his beautiful physique was his right arm and left leg that were horrible grey limbs reminiscent of Polyphemus, the cyclops.
Kronos wore a toga around his hips, died blood red and his half of the golden fleece around his neck as a cape ending at his shoulders. His right arm was covered with armor with plaits wrapped around his shin as well.
Strapped to his chest was a great sword, big as him and as wide as his torso. Kronos reached around and grabbed onto the handle, drawing it out of its sheath, the metal sliding through the leather of the sheath rang through the battlefield, making everyone stop and turn. Watching Kronos release his mighty sword.
The sword itself was unique, half metal and half celestial bronze, an unholy mix of the two metals. He raised the blade and spoke, "and now, it ends."
His brought it down like a club.
KABOOM!
The ground shattered, the entire tunnel floor came flying up, everyone was thrown up in the air, the tank was itself jumped a feet off the ground. And the dream world itself shook in fear, the Titan of evil had arrived on the battlefield.
Alright, there it is, another chapter. Enjoy. Next time will feature the actual battle, all fighting so don't worry, this is a set up for that. In fact it's a set up for a lot of things to come. People will die, because honestly there are too many characters for me to remember.
Anyway I was thinking about changing the cover picture for the story, I was wondering if any of you are interested in making something for the story. If you are please PM me, I'm really curious.
Also quick note, I will not abandon this story, if you see my starting another story it's purely because I wanted to for inspiration, in fact it was because of a story I just did recelty that I got the motivation to pick up this again. So please don't worry, I won't abandon this story.
