Jason and Reyna: The Praetor's of New Rome - Truth

Illusions

We didn't even have time to process that Sam is the Son of Neptune. We had a battle to win and we were just glad Sam wasn't holding back anymore.

The only comment made about the reveal was from John. "Sam! We need to have a talk after this is over."

The wave Sam created disoriented the crews on each of the ships. The four of us blitz's towards the enemy, running at full sprint. I could feel a large gust of wind propel us forward as Scipio launched into the air with Gwen at the saddle.

Jason used the winds to propel him and Sam high in the sky. Jason summoned a bolt of lightning and like Jupiter himself struck the first ship on the left, creating a hole on the left side of the ship, flooding water inside. Sam dived into the water in front of the first ship to the right. The water pushed the ships back. Tendrils of water pulling demigods and monsters overboard.

Reinforcements from the primary cruise ship attempted to touch ground from ropes thrown overboard. A combination of demigods in bronze armor and monster of all sorts rappelling down. Gwen rained arrows in their direction from Scipio's back. Killing monsters and incapacitating demigods.

I focused on the enemy ahead. Luke and Justice, the latter now armed with an imperial sword, charging towards us. I pulled my sword from my belt and dug into my pocket, grateful Jason let me use our coin. I flipped the coin ahead of me, and caught our sword in my left hand. When the four of us clashed, a shock wave disbursed around us.

My two swords were locked in a X formation, pushing against Justice's one sword. Luke and John struggled against each other to my left.

Justice's eyes were still red from tears. "Please stop." She begged. "I don't want to hurt anyone else."

I gritted my teeth. "You should of thought about that before you killed those people!"

We pushed against each other and sent each other sliding back.

"You don't understand!" Justice shouted. "This needed to happen!"

We clashed once more. Slashing, thrusting, parrying, punching and kicking one another.

I attempted to slash her with my sword on my right hand, but she leaped in the air above me, landed behind and attempted to stab me. I used the momentum of my swing to spin around and with my left sword I managed to direct her sword to the ground. I followed up by pushing her with my right shoulder.

"Needed to!? You had a choice, and you made the wrong one." I charged after her.

Unfortunately, she kept a tight grip on her sword. When I pushed her, I had hoped to leave her sword in the dirt, but she held on and clashed with me once more.

Justice ducked another slash from my sword and slammed herself into my chest. "You think I was going to just stand aside and let John run this place to the ground!"

I fell hard on my back, the grass pricking my skin. Justice attempted to stab me in the neck, but I crossed my swords and narrowly redirected her. Her sword stabbed the dirt, a few inches from my face.

Tears dropped on my face. "John took everything from me!" She tried sliding her sword to my neck, but I used my own to block her. My head was forced in a odd angle to avoid her blade.

Justice stood before me, her eyes blazing with rage. "My dad was apart of his first exhibition. Could you believe it was his final mission? He was about to retire!" She slammed her foot into my gut, knocking the wind out of me. She attempted to push her blade against my neck again, but I resisted.

"He foolishly led him to Alaska, the land beyond the gods. His first big mission to prove his worth as a Praetor because it took him fifteen years as a centurion before he could be promoted. He took all of our weapons and armor. The legions symbol of power. And lost it all. Everything! Including my Dad! He killed him for his own EGO!"