The Roman Avenger (Percy Jackson)

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

I looked behind us to see our sisters locking blades with the demigods. Reyna was fighting two at the same time, as Hazel and Bianca tried to fight one with much success. Thalia was giving a rather shocking performance for a familiar demigod. I recognized him from the legion, though his name I did not know! The skeleton warriors we summoned earlier were handling the other three without much success. Jason and Thanatos were avoiding wild strikes of Hercules who was throwing kill shots with every strike. Thanatos fired dark energy at him though that knocked him around. Jason was darting in and out with his gladius doing good damage to the minor god of might!

Nico and I exchanged looks and then took our stygian iron blades and pointed them forward, "Serve me!"

Another dozen skeleton warriors arose from the ground howling with delight as they charged the piercer. Nico and I then gripped forearms and dark energy rolled off our bodies. A trick our father and Thanatos taught us. Shadows then enveloped the room causing most of it to become dark. This gave us hundreds of shadows to use to our advantage. I said quietly, "We have to push him to the bank and then send him into the River Lethe."

Nico nodded and we looked out to the river. About twenty feet ahead of us, a dark river churned through a gorge of volcanic rock. I'd seen the Styx, and this didn't look like the same river. It was narrow and fast. The water was black as inc. Even the foam churned black. Nico shuddered and followed behind my lead as I darted forward kicking Iapetus in the chest. It caught him by surprise with my speed, plus he wasn't focusing on me that well since he was being hacked at by so many skeleton warriors. This put him back several steps and I darted forward to clash blades with him. He was so fast though, if not for Nico I had been a Fish kabob!

Iapetus threw an impaling strike towards Nico at such a speed he didn't even see it, luckily for me the skeleton warriors jumped in the way and it took two out at the same time. Nico paled as he clearly saw his life flash before his eyes. I jumped in front of the two and started hacking away at Iapetus. I had him on the ropes for about thirty seconds before he did a whirlwind type strike that sent me backwards at least ten feet. Nico jumped forward in a attempt to help, but Iapetus simply back handed him causing him to collapse, it was almost as if it, he had been hit with a paralysis attack. Iapetus grinned as he walked over to me, "If you can't beat me, what hope do you have against my student? Link is the most powerful being other than my brother Kronos. I Iapetus the piercer, the Titan of the south will now show you how I received my name!"

Iapetus darted forward and I held my blade up to stop the attack, and I closed my eyes preparing to look death in the face. My blade was raised in a hope to block the strike, but I knew it was futile. But nothing happened. Everything went silent. I opened my eyes and Iapetus was in mid motion. Everything was in mid motion except for me, I was able to move freely. I stood up quickly and held both swords preparing to defend myself. I heard a loud laugh, "Come on Perseus, is this seriously the best you can do? I have not had a good challenge in years, so I can't have our uncle killing you yet! I will give you one more chance to defeat him, if you fail, then I suppose I will never get a real chance of a good fight. Show me what you can do Perseus, if you fail me, I will kill her, but cousin that's not the only thing I will do to her. Good luck!"

I knew this was the voice of Link. The thought of what he said sent me back into a rage. I felt the power of Pluto and Neptune flow through me. Time resumed and I darted forward to meet Iapetus' strike. He was so surprised he nearly stumbled. It was a mistake that was going to cost him. I slashed with both weapons taking a full offensive push. Iapetus was now struggling to keep up. My little brother was watching me in amazement as I took on the Titan of the South. He was no match for me blade for blade. Several strikes made contact causing the Titan to be soaked in ichor. He screamed with every strike that touched. Suddenly Bianca, Reyna, and Nico, were by my side helping me push him back, but I cried out, "No one is to touch him! He is mine!"

My family was taken aback by my tone and Iapetus seemed to grin when he pushed me back for a second, "Think you can kill me boy, what hope do you really have?"

I grinned, "I can't kill you! Your immortal!"

Iapetus nodded in appreciation of the fact. I stepped forward and he took a step back. He was now within five feet of the river. I smiled widely as I stretched my senses towards the water. At first the river tried to fight against my control, but then yellow spots began to dance in my vision at the power I was having to use. A black tidal wave came behind and Iapetus whirled around as if to fight the shadow. I smirked, "But I can take all your memories!"

The wave came crashing down on him and I stepped forward stopping the water before it could touch any of my family. I then took part of the water and cried out, "Everyone move!"

My siblings dived out of the way as I moved the water towards Hercules, I dropped to one knee and barked, "Surrender son of Jupiter or your next!"