Bab 38: Chapter 35: We explode and die painfully, really
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I finished the Demigod files and I thought they were kinda disappointing, the only cool story was Sword of Hades which I'm sure going to feature in my story. Also today is my first, fight scene with multiple characters so I hope you people like it.
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(Percy POV)
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Nero pressed the button and we all died a painful dead, really. Trust me. [Stop kicking! I am free to tell my story like I want.] Okay, fine. We did not die. Nero was about to press the button as I had a mental conversation with Nyx.
'Can you shadow travel us to the ship?' I asked.
'No, not all of fast enough, I say we leave Grover and Clarisse behind, I kinda like Katie so I guess we can take her as well.' Nyx said casually.
'We are not leaving anyone behind.'
'Fine, so are you going to give him the fleece? You know he will kill us afterwards.'
Luckily the Fates were with us.
The earth started shaking suddenly, making everyone tremble. I felt a feeling in my stomach that was similar to when I blew up Mount Saint Helens, only this time it wasn't me.
"Stop whatever you are doing!" Nero shouted but I had no idea what was going on too.
Suddenly the ground next to Nero burst open and a beam of lava flew up in the air, burning two nearby mercenaries, which I didn't mind.
The beam sprayed around like a fountain in central park. A deadly one though.
The Chimera jumped away and hide in a corner, wait? Shouldn't it be immune to fire since it breathes it?
The beam caught Nero by surprise and scorched a few hairs on Nero's beard and he stumbled back in shock and dropped the detonator. He took another few steps back, away from the sudden beam of lava.
Strangely the lava only flew up but did not move in any direction then up. Instead it went up and disappeared.
The beam was about six and a half feet wide and at least 40 feet tall. The beam caused a lot of dust to stir up.
For a second I was worried the hay would catch fire but it didn't .
'I did that and I'm also the reason none of you are being burned alive or molten to death by the heat.' Chaos exclaimed proud.
'It would've been useful if you warned us instead of helping afterwards.' I grunted.
The beam faded away and left a gaping hole in the ground, Nero recomposed himself and stepped forward and was about to grab a detonator when two figures jumped out of the hole and landed in front of him, sort off.
A orange blur jumped jumped out of the hole and landing graciously in front of the mercenaries
My eyes widened as I recognized who it was.
Thera.
The mercenaries stepped back afraid and aimed their guns at the Titaness.
Unlike last time Thera was angry, and it was scary.
Her entire body was now on fire, like Leo used to do.
Both her hands we're glowing red and I noticed magma was dripping from them onto the floor where it sissed like water dropped on a hot metal plate.
The second figure landed on top of Nero but quickly got to his feet and stepped away from Nero.
"Tyson!" Katie shouted and the figure turned around and it was indeed my long lost brother.
He turned around and grinned widely!
"Brother!" he yelled.
I was about to question how Thera and Tyson got here when I noticed Nero glancing at the detonator at Tyson's feet.
"Tyson, detonator!" I yelled and his eye widened.
I pointed at the silver detonator at his feet. Tyson jumped up in shock, realising what I meant and he accidently stepped on it.
For a few agonizing seconds the entire room went silent. I saw Clarisse had her eyes closed, waiting for the explosion.
Five horrible seconds ticked by.
But the explosion never came.
"Well that didn't worked out." Thera smiled evilly at the mercenaries, "Now who thought it was a good idea to threat my children."
"Children?" Clarisse wondered before hell broke loose.
As if we were one team we each choose a target and went separate ways.
I dashed forward next to Tyson and kicked Nero, who was about to get up, in the stomach.
"Bad man!" Tyson yelled when he kicked Nero between his balls.
I was about to uncap Riptide to reveal its true form when the Chimera jumped over Nero and landed on top of Tyson.
Nero must have been feeding Chimera super food since it reformed out of Tartarus because it was a lot bigger than last time, it had now the size of a tank and had now also another appearance.
It had the front and head of a male lion, the back of a dragon, and rattlesnake for a tail, and goat head sticking out of its back that spit fire onto Tyson.
Luckily he was immune to fire, so was I.
I lunged forward and summoned Frost silver and made a wild slash at his snake tail which I assumed would be the easiest one to hit and I would've sliced it off since it was focused at Tyson but Tyson had threw the Chimera and he crashed into the opposite wall.
'Why is the Chimera different then the first time I met him?' I asked Chaos quickly, thinking of a way to beat it quickly, true I had beaten it before but I was prepared back then. And still it was hard and now I could not even use my powers to their full extend.
'The Chimera can change appearance, so it always catches you by surprise.' Chaos said with a bored tone.
Tyson and I charged forward at the Chimera who was recovering and back on his feat.
The snake tail opened his mouth and spit acid at me but I dodged it and jumped on the Chimera's back while Tyson stood in front of it, arms wide spread to attract as much attention as possible.
"Bad kitty!" He yelled and he stomped the dragon head who was flabbergasted about his insult.
With a salto I landed on top of the Chimera and was about to bring my blade down on him when I felt something around my neck tighten.
The snake tail.
(Nyx POV)
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Don't blame me, I've never heard of C-4 before so when I heard Nero saying he had the entire cave stuffed with Greek fire and C-4 I thought he meant some kind of drink instead of explosive.
Not that it matters, I had no idea where Thera or Tyson came from but I guess their help could be useful, somehow. I saw Katie had handed Clarisse her dagger to protect herself while she picked up some hay and began talking to it.
Even though I kinda liked her she was crazy, I mean who talks to plants?
The mercenaries opened fire on us and scattered and I was forced to duck down, sure the bullets wouldn't hurt my primordial form but demigod form? I wasn't so sure about that. I threw one of my daggers at a nearby mercenary who was close to me but he deflected it with his own knife.
Since when do mortals know how to fight?
He aimed his gun at me and I shadow traveled behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.
He turned around confused.
"βάλλ' εἰς κόρακας" I said smiling and I stabbed him with my dagger in the face. His soul was being sucked into the void and the body disappeared.
I looked around and what I saw was troubling me. The mercenaries were clearly trained as they were scattered around and shooting at Thera and the other demigods. They couldn't kill Thera with the bullets but they sure would hurt, a lot. Thera was the biggest target of course so at least half of them were shooting at her from everywhere. Thera raised her hand and another beam of lava erupted from under a couple of mercenaries who were shooting at her.
They instantly died and more beams of lava erupted but what troubled me was the fact that the beams were not disappearing like the first one, instead they kept spraying around and for a second I was glad Polyphemus was smart enough to choose a big cave, you never know when someone is going to kill you and use your house as a battlefield.
I threw my dagger at a mercenary who had cornered Clarisse and hit him in the back and he disappeared too. Clarisse send me a glare before running towards another mercenaries who had all his attention focused on Thera.
I was about to kill a few others enemies when I noticed the helicopter who was hovering above the gaping hole in the ceiling, not my fault, began to tilt forward at and it was like it was looking at Thera.
Then it began to shoot but unlike the mercenaries who shot weak bullets, for a Titaness, this shot a thing I could only describe as a ball of light with a trail of sparkles.
I watched with amazement as it hit Thera and it exploded with a ball of flames engulfing Thera before fading away.
Thera wasn't hurt a bit.
'That's weird, Mi Mil-24 don't have missiles, instead they use a swivel-mounted Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 twin-barreled 23mm autocannon. Triumvirate holdings must have upgraded it.' Chaos said a thoughtfully.
'How'd you know that?' I asked annoyed, 'And better how do I kill it?'
'I created it duh, and you can't kill a helicopter' Chaos said.
'Quit talking, just shadow travel to the cockpit and take out the pilot.' Percy yelled and I saw he was being strangled by the snake tail of the Chimera.
Show-Off.
Like the helicopter agreed with Chaos it began shooting different kind of ammunition, not a missile but bullets this time.
From the helicopter came a constant stream of bullets that were a lot more damaging then the bullets the mercenaries used.
And the sound it made was horribly loud.
Thera was forced to the ground as the bullet rained down on her from above and I decided it was enough, I looked at the cockpit and shadow traveled inside.
When I appeared in what seemed to be the main cockpit I noticed it was a little bit crowded inside. In fact, I could not even sit down because the only chair inside was already taken and I was forced to lean against the glass so I would not fall.
Asshole.
I stabbed him in the chest with my dagger.
Mistake.
Somehow I could have foreseen that killing the pilot would not be a good idea but I was seriously pissed off.
When the body of the pilot disappeared I noticed the helicopter leaned forward,
Why is it leaning forward?
Then I understood that nobody was controlling the helicopter anymore. I looked at all the buttons and levers but I had no idea what they would do.
I tried to look for the self-destruct button so this thing would not crash down but I found none.
I did the best thing I could as this thing began spinning around, I shadow traveled back in to the cave.
Now from a different point of view I saw that the helicopter was spinning like it was drunk and it seemed to be crashing down, albeit slowly. It was spiraling down, nearly hitting the walls and
I looked around to find a solution, I saw Katie and Clarisse were fighting of a few mercenaries , Katie had formed a shield out of hay but it didn't looked safe, nor did it looked fashionable.
Grover was kicking a poor mercenarie in the nuts and I saw Percy had managed to kill the snake head and the dragon head and Tyson was punching the lion head repeatedly in the face and he looked wide eyed at the helicopter.
"If that things lands on the ground we all die!" Percy shouted.
"Why?"
"BOOM!" Percy said distracted as he dodged the Chimera who escaped Tysons grip and lunged forward at Percy.
"Boom?" I asked confused by his vague answered.
'It explodes, the rotor blades will first cut everyone in half within his range and when the helicopter crashes it will explode and send metal parts everywhere.' Chaos said.
"Thera!" I shouted and I gained the attention of Thera who was crushing Nero with her fist.
She turned around and I pointed at the Helicopter.
"If that thing hits the ground BOOM!" I yelled, it was kind of awkward saying that because a slowly falling helicopter did not look threatening.
Thera nodded and lifted her free hand like she pulled something heavy.
The ground began shaking and the ground under the helicopters burst open and a beam of lava, larger than the other ones before, shot upwards and engulfed the entire helicopter. The beam was large enough to cover the entire width of the helicopter.
The good news was that the entire helicopter was immediately burned to a crisp and we would no longer die by a slow falling drunk helicopter.
The bad news, the beam of lava was spraying all around the cave and it looked like Thera could not control it any longer. She had a worried look on her face and I looked around to see multiple beams of lava that were erupting at random places.
"This place is about to explode." Thera said.
"Don't worry we destroyed the detonator." I said but I had the feeling she wasn't talking about the C-4.
"I turned this place into a literal volcano and it's about to erupt." she said and she pointed at the lava that was boiling everywhere.
Percy had finished of the Chimera and was walking straight through the magma towards us followed by Tyson. Katie and Clarisse were cornered by the lava and Grover had fainted.
"Cool, I love what you did to this place." Percy joked.
"Percy, you all need to get out of here. Fast, shadow travel away to your ship and sail away." Thera said worried.
"What about you?" Percy asked, "How did you even get here?"
"Daddy send us to help you!" Tyson exclaimed.
The earth started trembling, heavier then before.
"This place is about to explode." I told Percy and he nodded.
"Can you shadow travel us out of here?" I asked and I shook my head, "Nero and Thera can't come with us."
"Why?" Percy asked and I rolled my eyes.
"Thera is preventing this place from erupting, if she leaves this entire place will Boom and we will all be dead, and Nero is a god. Sort Off."
"Where's Nero?" Tyson asked and we all looked around to see he was gone.
"Damit!" Percy shouted in frustration.
The earth began shaking and parts of the roof began collapsing.
"Get everyone out of here now!" Thera shouted.
"But what about you?" Percy asked worried.
"I'll be fine, Poseidon promised me to help with Zeus."
"What's with Zeus?" I asked.
"This eruption will sure gain the attention of Zeus and will notify him I no longer trapped under my volcano." Thera said saddened, "But now go, and try to sail away as far as possible, I will survive."
I nodded and began shadow traveling all around the spot, getting everyone on the ship.
(Percy POV)
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Nyx shadow traveled me last and the moment I got onto the ship it began sailing away, faster then before and I now knew it used my control over water to speed itself up. I faced a confused Clarisse was bombarding Katie with questions while Katie just looked torn apart, her clothes had scorch marks al on it and she was sweating, a lot more than the others.
I turned around and looked at the island that was getting further away from us. I could not see how it would be a volcano but after being inside the cave I had the idea that there was a lot more going on underground then on the surface.
Then the horizon was filled with a huge orange bacon of light that reached to the sky and was so bright I was forced to look away, when I looked again the island was gone.
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