War Room: Chapter 23

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(Excuse any errors, I haven't read this through yet)

Right to it!

3rd Person


Percy stood there surrounded by the torn-up remains of multiple fallen ones. 

A field response team made up of multiple medical staff, some emergency crew, and a few domestic police members had just arrived and were helping the remnants of the Hawk's battalion-squad take casualty count and help the wounded. 

Artemis, Annabeth, and Damien all walked over to Percy, Damien taking great care to step over the body corpses, he was wearing white pants, he didn't need a black pair. (black blood) 

"How is everyone?" Percy asked, his voice altered by his helmet's voice modifier. 

"Well, as you could tell, things were not going great before you showed up, Annabeth, Damien, and I were about to get involved when you arrived," Artemis said. 

"Wait...those were fallen ones? I've never seen any up close" Annabeth was getting close to one of the few more intact corpses, and was about to touch it when,

"Don't touch the corpses! Their extremely acidic, if you look at my armor, you'll see" 

Sure enough, large areas of Percy's armor were hissing, black smoke erupting out from the area. But it seemed to have very little effect. 

"My own blood is also acidic, since I don't want my gear disintegrating whenever I get hurt, I've used special primordial runes to keep them intact. Very complex stuff."

"Okay...you're telling me all about these runes later, maybe I could get Hecate to help me...maybe Mom as well" Annabeth began to ramble. 

"Annabeth...not now" Artemis sighed. 

A member of the medical staff went up to Artemis. 

"Umm, Milady?" 

"Yes? Name, Ancestry then report" 

"um...Dr. Melina Jenkins, daughter of Apollo...We've begun the clean-up...we have thankfully zero civilian deaths, but a lot of injuries and property damage."

"Military casualties?" 

"Out of the twenty-seven Hawk's Battalion soldiers present...seven...seven are still alive ma'am" 

"Seven?!" 

"Yes...5 of which are very injured, we have broken ribs, severe trauma to their ribcage and internal organs, acidic burns...highest degree possible...like off the charts--"

"Get some fire, burn the acid, the only way to get rid of it...I know it seems stupid and counter-intuitive, but you have to burn that stuff off, otherwise, it will continue melting whatever it's on, give that tip to the cleanup crew as well"

Melina's eyes jumped out of her skull when she saw Percy...or Alkiviadis, but she quickly stuttered an affirmation before leaving. 

"You have to burn it!" Artemis cried out.

"Yeah...it sucks, thankfully I'm basically fine with any sort of pain now...well not thankfully 'cause it sucked getting to that point...torture isn't that fun...anyway it sucks when you get a nose bleed, while some get a box of tissues I light my hand on fire" 

Artemis winced at the thought, all this time she thought his black blood was cool...when it really wasn't. 

"Wait so does it hurt...like you basically have acid flowing through your veins..." 

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