Alecto was forced to move away from the front line, the flying monsters, such as large bats and ugly looking parrots, began to overpower her. They spotted the archer near the back and came flying down to crash into them.
The tank couldn't help with so many targets, "Julia get to the guns! Jason with me!" Thalia jumped onto the tank with Jason right behind her. Julia got behind the machine guns and pointed towards the ending monsters, shooting bullets into them.
"Now!" Thalia cried out as she and Jason thrusted their spears forward sending out blasts of blue and yellow lighting respectively. The two streams of energy danced around each, intertwining as they blasted into monster after monster, destroying a large portion of the monsters above.
A cloud of smoke came over the skies of the battle field, the fourth and fifth cohort looked up in waiting. And suddenly a large shadow broke through the clouds.
"GRAA!" a giant two armed snake with wings came flying through the smoke. It crashed into the middle of the fifth cohort in the back sending demigods flying away while several more flashed away just in time to avoid being crushed by it. The serpent coiled into itself looking down at it's opponents.
"Fifth cohort attack!" a brave legionary called out, rallying the men around her. The snake which hissed as it opened it's mouth ready to attack.
"Look out!" Thalia yelled, she tried to zap that thing but had used all her mana in the previous attack.
The monster was about to strike when suddenly a volley of silver arrows came flying out from between the fourth and fifth cohorts piercing the snake's head, ripping it into shreds. The girl who rallied her troops watched in awe as the headless snake's corpse fell before her.
Everyone turned to see who had rescued them and standing there with a proud smile on their faces were women dressed in silver parkas with a bows and arrows on hand.
A girl with dark hair and dark skin stepped up, "hunters of Artemis will protect any noble maiden who fights for Olympus! For the glory of our lady Artemis!"
"AYE!" the hunters called out.
Thalia blinked in surprise, she had no idea who these girls were, she didn't see them before, but there again there were so many people to track she wasn't really surprised she missed a few. But so many?
She had of course heard of this group, Artemis spoke very highly of them, and the way they took down several flying monsters with their arrows told Thalia all she needed to know, they were good and on their side.
The second cohort was being pushed back, luckily the third cohort came to their aide keeping the monsters occupied while the fourth replaced the second.
All the injured members of the second were brought to the back where the healers were ready for them. But unfortunately the healers couldn't do much without their equipment, just stop the bleeding and keep them stable. It seemed Morpheus didn't bother sending them away unless there was no other choice. So the demigods were forced to experience the pain of their injuries.
The monster kept pushing down the right flank as the Demetre kids and Dionysus kids attacked with their giant vines. The larger monsters that charged forward was quickly taken down by the tank in the middle of the battle field while Thalia, Jason and Julia shoot down any monster that was flying too close for comfort.
With Percy:
Waverider flew past Kronos' gaurd and cut the titan deep.
"ARGH!" he grunted in pain as he held his shoulder. Ichor seeped down between his fingers, he looked at the wound and smirked, "you are getting slower."
Percy clicked his teeth in frustration, he didn't know how he figured it out, but it was true. Percy was getting slower. Demigods were being sent away, meaning there was less people for him to draw power from for the Wolf's pack perk.
"I'm still fast enough to hurt you," Percy spat back as they engaged in combat once more.
The blades danced against each other, Kronos' hands shook as he was forced to use a single hand while his other held his wound.
Percy heard him mutter something under his breath as a grey aura surrounded his shoulder. The demigod grew cautious, he tackled Kronos back and grabbed his sword sending a kick for his head.
But before the foot connected Kronos' other hand grabbed it, Percy looked to the wound, it was healed. Growling the demigod jumped up and spun, releasing his foot from the Titan's grip, Kronos grew enraged as he spartan kicked Percy in the chest sending him back a good three feet before the demigod regained his composure and began attacking again.
"You fight like your father," Kronos spat, "always throwing yourself at your opponents."
"The Golden Fleece must come in handy when you need healing huh?" Percy asked looking at the shroud tied around Kronos' back.
The tian smirked, "yes, it does."
Ping!
Lie detected!
Percy smirked, 'gotcha!' "Liar, it's not the fleece, it's something else. The thing is probably too busy holding you together to heal any other wounds you have."
The lord of time had one hell of a poker face. He didn't even flinch when he got called out by Percy. "Oh? And what is that?"
Percy brain quickly generated ideas upon ideas before he came to a conclusion. "You're the Titan of time, you simple rewound time around your wound."
This time the Titan did smile, "I'm assuming you get your smarts from your mother."
"Yeah, most people do," Percy pushed his sword forward breaking the stalemate, he sent a kick to the ribs which Kronos caught. But Percy expected that. He tapped his heel on the ground and jumped up.
He brought his foot up towards Kronos' neck, the titan smirking as he prepared to throw Percy around like a beach ball, when suddenly a celestial bronze knife popped out of the hidden compartment in Percy's shoe.
Kronos was surprised, he wasn't in a position to get away. By the time his feet moved backwards and his hand came to push Percy's leg away the knife was already inches away from Kronos' throat.
Percy smirked seeing it slowly break the skin, when suddenly Kronos disappeared. The sound around him skipped several beats, it felt like the world around him had just jumped as Percy's feet flew upwards with no resistance. He fell down on his behind but quickly got on his feet and found Kronos standing far away from him with one hand on his throat, already healing it.
Percy narrowed his eyes. This didn't make sense, one moment he was there and the next he wasn't. Percy felt his blade push into his neck with just a tiny amount of resistance, Kronos was even bleeding so there was proof that something did happen. But what?
It wasn't super speed, if he could move that fast then why didn't he before? Kronos didn't play with his food, and Percy didn't think he was such a weak opponent that the Titan of time could afford to hold back. So it was an ability he could only rarely use.
Percy observed Kronos, he was panting, exhausted, the power he used taxed him. And then there was the sound skipping a beat, Percy remembered hearing people yelling in the background serving as white noise, but when Kronos disappeared it stopped abruptly. It wasn't teleportation, no fancy bright flashes of light and it wouldn't be fast enough. Percy's mind came to only one conclusion, time manipulation. Again. This was so not fair.
Percy spun his sword clockwise before he brought down over Kronos' head. The Titan blocked the flat side of his blade before pushing Percy back as the two began fighting once more.
Percy pressed his hand down on the ground causing it to rumble. Kronos began to charge at Percy when suddenly large spike shot out of the floor nearly piercing his chest. In the last moment Kronos moved back but before he could gain his foot a snake made out of the floor came bursting out, latching it's fangs into Kronos' sword arm.
"ARGH!" the tiant yelled in pain, his hand glowed in pure grey energy as he pulled his hand free, breaking the snake structure. Percy created more and more snakes using his molecular manipulation and Kronos quickly found himself surrounded.
The Titan swung madly, cutting off snake heads as they laughed at him. This was a form of attack Percy had been working on, it allowed for him to use the environment around him to attack while he came up with a plan. And boy did he ever.
As Kronos struck down the last snake he turned to face Percy only to find him gone. He looked around in a panic and suddenly a shadow came over his shoulders. Kronos turned just in time to see Percy bring Waverider down over his head.
Kronos brought his right hand up catching Percy's blade in the armour, he then thrusted his sword forward, hitting Percy in the chest sending him flying back.
The demigod of the sea coughed up blood, he looked up at his defense points and groaned;
Defence remaining: 40,000,000
He had nearly a hundred million last time. This wasn't good. He got back on his feet and found Kronos charging at him. Growing the demigod moved to face the Titan once more, and their battle continued.
The Battle:
In the middle of the swarm of shadows and animals was the titan Hyperion and the giant Alcyoneus. They were an army of themselves. They moved towards the weekend right flank and began tearing monsters in half.
Their presence alone made sure the casualties of the battle were less than they were. They could have taken on the monsters alone, but with two of them it became near child's play.
"I wish for a challenge!" Hyperion cried out, "this is pathetic! These fools can never hope to gain Lord Kronos the victory he deserves."
"Will you do me a favour and shut the hell up?!" Alcyoneus roared, "I am trying to kill monsters here and your constant whining isn't helping!"
"Why don't you make my stone face?!"
"You know why fire butt!"
"GRA!" a giant shadow T-Rex roared as it charged at them, aiming to kill them both with one bite.
"SHUT UP!" they roared as one, turning to the monster and punching into it's gut's tearing it open from the inside out.
The drew back their fists and as the giant T-Rex fell a second wave of monsters came out of the portal, these ones scarier than the others. Each looked like a monster found in the minds of mad men and killers. Dead bodies with limbs cut out, monsters as a big as buildings and shadowy ghouls with no faces that just oozed fear.
Hyperion cheered, "now this is more like it!"
Alcyoneus grinned as he cracked his knuckles, "finally, a challenge!" They charged into the crowd, taking on the giant monsters first. Alcyoneus took on a giant gorilla while Hyperion fought what looked to be a giant leopard.
"Second wave!" a scout yelled out alerting the demigods to the new set of shadow monsters.
"Shit," Rob cursed, "everyone get ready! Something tells me this one is going to be even harder!"
Suddenly the battlefield was covered with a shroud of darkness. The demigods looked up and saw a swarm of giant bees flying through the air right for them.
Thalia groaned, "oh you have got to be kidding me!" she opened the hatch to the tank and found Charles inside, "tell me we have a flame thrower on this thing!"
"Better," the son of Hephaestus smiled as he flicked a switch, "we have missiles." He pressed another button and the ground to air missiles of the tank armed themselves. They locked onto the bees and a single missile fired.
It soared into the air, shredding into the swarm of bees before exploding setting the entire swarm ablaze.
Thalia smirked, "now! Hit them with everything while they're distracted!"
The demigods obeyed. They archers threw out arrows. The romans threw their spears up like javelins, Leo appeared underneath the shadow of a bee's wings and began jumping from giant bee to giant bee, tearing off their heads. Zed used a Cow hybrid soldier as a ball and pitched into into the swarm, killing off three bees in the impact.
More and more monsters came into the battle fields, and they all died. The shadow monsters disappeared when killed, the animal hybrids stayed. And slowly a wall of corpses was made before the front line.
The few animal solider that managed to pass through the volley of arrows and other airborne attacks landed near the back trying to attack the healers, but the fifth cohort cut them off, engaging them in battle.
It was chaos, pure and utter chaos, each soldier focused on killing the monster before them and nothing else. Thalia sent out blast after blast of lightning as she yelled out orders all over the battlefield. In the heat of the battle everyone turned to her for guidance and she didn't let them down.
Leo shadow traveled out of the head of a giant shadow monster in the short of an alligator. The hybrid clawed the alligator's eyes out and tried to slip away, but just then the monster snapped its jaws shut over Leo's tail.
"EP!" the dog yelled trying to free itself only for more blood to spill.
"Darkness wave!" Marcia came tumbling into the alligator's path breaking its jaw wide open. Leo's tail managed to free itself as it ran away to lick its wound. The demon looked down at the alligator and smirked, "this is going to be fun."
Hyperion and Aclyneous toppled the giants they faced, breaking them into pieces. "Is that the best you got?!" Acyl Neous roared at the top of his lungs.
Hypnos turned to see the shadow monsters being shut down, even the titan soldiers weren't strong enough. He needed to do something, quick.
He dodged another one of Morpheus' blades and grabbed the god by the wings throwing him into the air. The god of dreams flapped his wings and stabilized himself, but the few precious moments lost allowed Hypnos to retaliate.
He plunged his hands into the ground and pulled up, his muscles bulged, like he was carrying the weight of the very world on his shoulders.
Morpheus' hands started to bleed, "NO! DON'T!" he dove down and tackled Hypnos into the ground, but the damage was done.
A large tear in space came out from where Hypnos pulled, creating another giant portal into the realm of shadows. It grew on the ceiling, moving towards the giant army covering them over, creating a pit hole above the demigods.
"There's another wave approaching!" Jason called out as everyone looked up and suddenly monsters began falling from the sky.
This was perhaps the fourth wave or the third, people had honestly lost count. The demigods took care of the monsters on the land, and now faced off against the monsters raining down on them from the sky.
"Spread out!" Thalia yelled, "give yourself room to fight!"
The demigods did just that, some feel down from being shoved to hard, but quickly got back on their feet. They monsters were focused mostly near the back, Hypnos was smart about this as he aimed for the archers and the healers near the back.
