"What?!" Hypnos turned to see the son of Apollo and the Hunters of Artemis standing side by side with their bows pointed at him. They already had another arrow knocked in, and before Hypnos had even the chance to say, 'crap', they fired.
Ichor came spilling out of his wound as a hundred arrows stuck out of the minor god. He stumbled around, trying to clear his head. Morpheus snapped his fingers summoning shadow chains out of the ground wrapping Hypnos up before stringing him up like one of the sleeping white coffins hanging from the ceiling.
"Why didn't you kill him?" asked the leader of the Hunters as she narrowed her eyes at the traitoris god.
"I can't just kill him Zoe," Morpheus replied, "he's an essential part of human life. Without sleep people will go mad. Until A suitable replacement is found Hypnos will live."
The woman clicked her teeth but didn't argue. She didn't even ask how Morpheus knew her name.
"So what now?" Michael asked as he stepped out from the Apollo children's ranks.
"Now? I believe you still have things to kill," Morpheus turned to the now slowly growling rates of monster attacking the First and Second cohorts. Before there was only the animal hybrids, but since there wasn't any portal over the demigods, the shadow monsters were forced to attack that way as well.
"Well then," Michael nocked an arrow and took aim at a flying monkey with knives for hands, "let's bring them down." The greeks charged to help the romans as the archers and hunters stayed behind providing air support.
And as all this was happening, Percy Jackson was breaking Kronos' nose in.
Ichor came flying out as Kronos stepped back holding his face in pain, "lucky shot."
"It's skill, not luck," Percy growled out behind his impressive black armour.
"Maybe," Kronos waved his hand over his face healing himself once more, PErcy was really getting pissed off. Every time he hurt Kronos the titan just reversed time and suddenly he was all better.
Percy's movements were getting slower, there were fewer and fewer people around to give him power, and Kronos took this advantage and pushed it to the limits.
Percy was being pushed back, his blows didn't do as much damage as he had hoped. Kronos was a monster, even with Percy's boosted status the Titan of time still pressed the advantage. Percy was thankful for the improved status, without which he couldn't even hope to stand up against the titan. But now the power was slowly being reduced, Percy could feel himself becoming weaker.
Percy blocked Krono's sweep and pushed back, swinging at his head. Percy grinned seeing the blade nearing the Titan's neck, when suddenly, everything seemed to slow down. Percy's eyes widened as he saw and felt himself becoming slower, as if he was walking through jelly.
And then Kronos moved, he knocked Waverider out of Percy's hands and threw a punch into his solar plexus, sending Percy flying up into the air, blood pouring out of his mouth as he crashed into the ground.
'Shit!' Percy told himself as he pressed his hand against his face causing it to glow in a golden light;
Ping!
All ailments cured!
It was a stalemate, any injury Kronos caused Percy could heal and any injury he caused Kronos could just reverse. They were two giants on the battlefield, to monsters that couldn't be defeated by anyone else, expect each other.
Percy's powers had been slowly reducing, the less people he had on his side the weaker he got. Kronos was also becoming tired, the Titan had never fought so long before since coming back to life. It was the perfect stalemate, and Kronos knew he needed to break it.
The Titan raised his sword into the air and began to chant under his breath. Percy's eyes went wide in shock as he got back on his feet and charged at the Titan, afraid of what he was planning.
He activated his super speed and charged towards the Titan with his sword swinging down overhead. But nanoseconds before Percy's blade could touch his skin time seemed to slow down around Kronos.
Percy froze, his mind couldn't comprehend what was happening, his body refused to move. Kronos however had so such issue. He smirked as he stepped back out of Percy's balde's reach and swung his sword forward;
BOOM!
The impact sent Percy flying backwards, the son of the sea quickly realigned himself as he floated in the air;
Defence Remaining: 20,500,000
The attack has done nearly 20 million points in damage. Percy knew he couldn't afford to get hit one more time.
Kronos charged at him once again and Percy flew backwards, sending blast after blast of condensed mana at the Titan;
200 MP!
200 MP!
200 MP!
Kronos took the hits like a tank, he didn't falter or even slow down. He stretched his hand out and grabbed Percy in his fist.
"Shit!" Percy cursed as he struggled to pull himself free.
"And now demigod, I will crush you like the insect you are!" Kronos roared as he began to squeeze Percy's in his palm.
"ARGH!" Percy cried out in pain as he felt his bones start to crack, his own armour crushing him.
Defence Remaining: 19,500,000
Defence Remaining: 18,500,000
Defence Remaining: 17,500,000
Kronos brought his fist down smashing Percy into the ground. The demigod coughed out blood dropping his weapons from the shock;
Defence Remaining: 12,040,000
And again;
Defence Remaining: 7,024,000
Kronos raised Percy up into the air, his golden eyes narrowing, "why don't you die?!"
Percy's helmet opened up revealing his beaten and bruised face that spewed out blood. He smiled as he meet Kronos' eyes, "because I have to stop you."
"Then I suppose you will fail," Kronos roared as he squeezed his fist bringing Percy up into the air, ready to pound him into a bag of blood and bones when suddenly a cry distracted him.
"Hey ugly!" Thalia came running at the Titan, she took off the charm Hera made for her and threw it at the Titans, "catch!"
Kronos didn't bother acknowledging the charm as a threat, he swatted it away with his free left hand, but the moment his skin touched the metal charm, something clicked, and an explosion of blue and green smoke came bursting out.
BOOM!
Kronos' grip on Percy loosened and the demigod took his chance to escape. He jumped out and landed on the ground, flying back into the waiting arms of Thalia as he fell to the ground exhausted.
"I got you Percy," Thalia whispered before turning back, "Hyperion! Achelous! Kill Kronos!"
The Titan of the sun growled, "I don't take orders from you girl!"
"Do it!" Percy roared, coughing out blood. Seeing no choice the two gigantic warriors charged Kronos, who held a bloody hand, slowly healing it with his powers. But before it could be healed properly he had to dodge Hyperion's fists, forcing him to take on two opponent at the same time.
"Can you heal yourself?" Thalia asked Percy.
"Yeah, but it's not going to help," Percy growled as his hands glowed gold as he felt his wounds heal up.
Ping!
All ailments cured!
"We need a way to get past that time powers of his," Percy grumbled as Thalia helped him on his feet.
"I think I can help with that," Annabeth spoke as as she and the rest of main greek demigods surrounded Percy.
"What do you mean?" Thalia asked cautiously.
"I mean this," Annabeth presented the book before them, it was now covered with alchemic symbols and greek letters, most of which Percy couldn't understand, but a few he did.
"Do you know what it does?" Percy asked.
Annabeth nodded, "yes. Apparently it was a gift to my mother from the Primordial of time, Chronos."
"I'm sorry, but what?" Michael asked with a raised eyebrow, "isn't Kronos a titan? And isn't he right there? And doesn't he like hate the gods?"
"Not Kronos, Chronos, with a 'C'," Percy explained, "same name, different dudes. Apparently the primordial Chronos is a lot nicer than grandaddy."
Annabeth nodded, "exactly, and he gave Athena a way to temporarily stop this Kronos' powers. It won't be a permanent fix but, it should give you a fighting chance Percy."
"How long can you make it last?" Percy asked.
"I think...I think ten seconds," Annabeth said with a lowered head.
"We can't do shit with ten seconds," Thalia cursed.
"No, we can," Percy spoke up gaining everyone's attention, "I can get in and hurt Kronos...but I can't defeat him in just ten seconds."
"Can't you just reapply the charm after ten seconds are up?" Clarisse asked.
"No, it had a minute cool down period," Annabeth shook her head, "no sooner or else the spell itself will fail and can never be used against him again."
"Damn it," Michael cursed, "if only we had a way to level the playing field!"
Percy's head perked up, he smiled, he opened his inventory and pulled out a small metal ball, "actually, I think we do."
Thalia and the others looked at the sphere curiously, "what is that?" she asked.
"A way to level the playing field," Percy gulped, "I just hope it works. Annabeth, how long will you need to prepare the spell?"
"Give me a minute," she quickly poured over the book, her eyes going a mile a minutes as she memorized and practiced the words.
"Alright then, until she's ready let's provide backup to Hyperion and Aqueous form here," Percy spoke up as he reached out with his telepathic powers and summoned the staff of Neptune to his arms, and toke out Waverider, which had already appeared in his armor slot.
"Long distance only," Percy told them just as their tank came up besides the group. He smiled as he jumped on top with Thalia and the other's by his side. "You have a shoot there Charles?" he asked looking down the open hatch to see Charles giving him the thumbs up, "then when I give the signal fire everything!"
They turned to Kronos who had Hyperion in a choke hold, "you dare betray me Hyperion?! Me?!"
"F-forgive me brother!" he choked out, "I-I had no choice!"
"No one betrays me!" Kronos was about to rip his head from his body when Aceous tackled Kronos from the back, grabbing his neck and catching him in a Nellson lock. Exposing his chest to Percy and the others.
"NOW!" Percy yelled as he summoned a ton of water, freezing it into the shape of an arrow head and using his impressive strength to throw it at Kronos like a javelin.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Shells came flying out along with every ground to air missile the tank had. Thalia sent out blasts of lighting while the Apollo kids sent out volleys of arrows.
Kronos' eyes widened as shells ripped across his body, Percy's ice arrow head was sticking out of his knee and Thalia's lighting hit him in the face. The arrows didn't do much, but it still bugged the bastard.
"ARGH!" Kronos yelled as he broke out of Aceous' lock and threw him at Hyperion. He slowly healed himself giving the two servants of Percy enough time to gather themselves and launch another attack at Kronos, fist to fist with the demigods assisting whenever they got a free shot, and Hyperion and Aceous made sure they got plenty of free shots.
With Decker:
Decker had always been a child of nonviolence. He never liked hurting people, animals especially. But that day in the amusement park changed him, he understood then the reason for violence may not always be under question, that sometimes violence was needed.
He stood back to back with his best friends Nico and his sister Bianca as they fought back the animal army of the titans along with the roman cohorts.
Nico was suing his shadows to break the monster up into pieces while Bianca took them out with his sword, relying heavily on her unbreakable shield that Percy gave her.
Decker looked over the heads of his forces and saw the epic battle happening just beyond them. The titan Kronos being attacked on two fronts, by the giant servants of Percy and the greek demigods themselves.
Decker couldn't help but look in wonder at the presence of Percy Jackson, the man he saw as an older brother. He lead the charge himself, he fought for them, and he was in no mode to let that man down.
Decker closed his mind and called out to the plant life before him. He gained control of the vines and thorny branches laing to the sides and commanded them to rise.
The others paused as they saw the giant branches being lifted up into the air before the struck faster that lighting at the invading demi-animals, throwing them back with each low sweep.
Decker focused on the attack, striking again and again, wrapping branches around animals before crushing them to dust. He didn't like it, but he knew he had no choice.
"Incoming!" a roman legionnaire cried out pointing to a demi-rhino that was as big as a garbage truck currently on a collision course towards their right flank, which was significantly weaker. If they
Broke through that defence Decker knew they would all be dead as the titan army would be able to flank them from both sides.
"Nico!" Bianca cried out as she and her brother tried to raise walls of shadows to block the charging rhino, only for it to tear through the walls like it was paper.
"We need to stop it!" Nico cried out as he got ready to go out there and fight, only for Decker to place a calming hand on his shoulder.
"I'll handle this," Decker said quietly as he walked in front of Nico and made eye contact with the charging rhino. He looked into his eyes, and suddenly his mana gave a pull from his gut.
Decker felt what the rhino felt, he saw what the rhino saw, he was inside it, and he had control. Forcing it to obey his will Decker guided the rhino away, making it charge into the ranks of it's own army.
"It's going away!" the second cohort cheered as they saw the rhino attack its allies, Deck groaned, feeling the pain the rhino felt it's allies cut into its hide with their weapons. It was getting hurt and using this pain it was pushing back Decker from it's mind.
Decker grunted as he fell to his knees, Nico grew worried as he kneeled besides him, "are you okay Percy?"
"It's resisting me," Percy Decker grunted, "it's trying to break free!"
"How is that possible?" Bianca asked, "you're the son of Pan! The god of the wild!"
"I, don't know!" Decker screamed in pain as he felt the rhino's mind force him out, Decker clung on with all his strength, pushing deeper and deeper into his mind. And suddenly he hit something, it was like a mental projection in the rhino's mind, telling it what to do and giving him the power to resist Decker. And now Decker was deep enough to see it now as well.
He gasped as he saw a satyr in a green pod, wires attached into it's body, drugs being pushed into it's system. The satyr looked up, it's eyes opened revealing not the normal bark brown or leafy green of normal satyrs, but a sky blue hue that Decker himself shared.
