Percy Jackson: The Light Bringer

Apocalypse Briefing

<Edited on: 1 August 2021>

   'Oh...My...Dad!' Lucifer shrieked, and I mean literally shrieked.

   "That's...surprising," I said with a slight tilt of my head. But by now, I just felt...indifferent. I raised the sword up, preparing for it to be claimed or something. "So, are you going to take it or not?"

   'No,' He replied in a blunt tone.

   "What do you mean?" I asked, my eyebrows scrunched. "If this is some kind of test, I'm going to be pissed."

   'You can keep it,' Lucifer said, 'Clearly, it belongs to you.'

   "What are you talking about?"

   'The weapon is only as good as its wielder,' He spoke in a tone with a hint of sadness. 'And you've managed to wield it almost as good as I did.'

   "Wow!" I said, my eyes wide. "That's...really nice of you."

   The sword started to hum in my hand, turning into a shiny golden in colour.

   'I hath chosen him as the light bringer.' It said, its metal moving with the flow of the words. 'He is truly worthy of being the Lightbringer.'

   Lucifer became silent for a moment. Then, he spoke.

  'So be it,' he said with a tone of finality. 'I, Lucifer Lux, give you the power of the Lightbringer.'

  'May father watch over you...' He then added in the end, 'Wherever he is...'

   I suddenly hunched over in pain. From the corner of my eyes, I saw something bright, and within a second, it was gone.

   And just like that, the pain subsided.

   When I got up, I felt the same but...stronger. I also noticed burn marks on the ground on a one-foot radius around me.

   In a sudden burst of energy, I felt all my senses heighten by an enormous amount. If I paid attention, I could feel disturbances around me. [[{ Like the 'force' from Star Wars }]]

   I wanted to see the limit of my abilities. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I slowly let my senses spread out. I almost stumbled from the information input.

   I first felt the magic from the garden of Hesperides. Which I guess made sense considering I had just been there. I felt the magic from the Empire State Building, aka Olympus. But I even sensed faint ripples of magic from other places...

   Boston, Brooklyn, and so many other places across the globe. Each type of magic was different from the other.

   I reached out even more, and then suddenly, I felt something latch on to me. It started...pulling me. The sword hummed in my hand, but I didn't feel it as anything more than a slight nudge.

  'Perseus!' I felt my senses go deeper into the ground.

   'Perseus! Snap out of it!' My senses hit some kind of barrier, but the force seemed to pull me through. Down there...there was someone.

   Someone intensely powerful was there, power in the league of Lucifer and Uriel...maybe more. The being moved in a sea of chaos until it looked at me. I wasn't able to make out its features, but its eyes...they were horrifying. They were a swirling mass of colours. One look at them, and you could see the destruction they portrayed.