lost (Hawkeye)

Chapter 1

Percy: 

 "No!" I screamed when I saw Piper being pierced by a sword, that was not allowed to be, she was my best friend and the only one standing apart from David (male Annabeth) and me, tears sprang up in my eyes as I thought of my friends who had all lost their lives in this endless war.

Ducking, stabbing, parrying, jumping, stabbing, it was always the same, slowly I fell into a kind of routine, but this was interrupted by a scream, a scream so filled with pain that I would have liked to keep my ears closed. I swirled around and froze, and in front of me I saw David with Gaia's dagger pocking out of his stomach. I ran to him and caught him before he hit the ground. Softly I laid him down onto the hard surface. Tears took my sight and I sobbed uninhibited. A look into David's face, consumed with pain, filled my heart wth devastation. "It's not looking good, is it?"He managed to smile at me faintly. The flow of the tears streaming down my face increased. I could not form the words. The war was long since foorgotten, everything one could hear was the sound of defeated silence. David nodded slowly, his pocer face, trying to fool me into believing tat everything was finde, slowly vanishing from his face. "You were the love of my life", he whispered seriously, "Live. . . go on, darling, promise me to love again, please, be happy!", he said.

Tears kept flowing down my face as I nodded: "I love you my wise boy, I promise you."  One last smile graced his lipes before he sighed and died. The glow from his beautiful grey eyes disappeared forever, never again laughter together, never again conversations on the beach, never again the feeling of being loved. I could not realise it, how could he just die like that? We survived Tartarus, we survived the titan war and now he was just dead? Numbly I closed his eyes, with my thumb I cleanded his face from my tears and pressed my lips to his one last time. In a trance I turned to Gaia, she was the cause of my misery, it was her fault, it was her fault that so many died, the blood of my friends was on their hands.

I felt anger boiling in me, incredible anger mixed with endless grief, I raised my hand and a power, unknown to me filled me from head to tow. I felt the blood in her veins and ordered it to flow slower. I ran towards her and enjoyed the flickering insecurity in her eyes, she drew her sword and I did the same. I struck and hit her on the shoulder, which didn't heal either, as she had no physical contact with Earth, I struck again, she was too slow to avoid and I struck the sword out of her hand

"Grace, please forgive me, spare me and I will give you power over the earth, you will rule the world by my side. " Disgusted, I descended upon her and answered in an ice-cold voice: "Mercy?! You killed my friends! You're going to pay for this. " After these words, I pierced spring anaclysmos into her heart, slowly I saw the light fade from her eyes and she vanished into golden dust. I dropped my sword and ran back to David, I took his head in my hands and wept, I wept for my friends, my great love and my future