Taking The World By Storm

Chapter 21

Jason

We were exhausted. It felt like walking across the Sahara but there was no sun and occasional flesh-eating monsters with grudges.

"I think we are close" said Percy. We all nodded, we had heard this at least 18 times in the last 8 hours.

I counted the monsters we passed but lost count somewhere near 300. They were definitely getting closer and more frequent. We were able to dodge the majority of them and frankly, I'm surprised we've made it this far.

"Do you think they made it to Greece in time?" asked Chris. "They have too" I said.

Percy turned around motioned for us to stop. We all crouched to the ground. Percy began to crawl and peered over the hill but almost immediately lunged back over.

"What?" I urged in a hushed tone. Percy's eyes were wide as he reached for his sword. "You're going to have go look yourself" he said softly. I looked at Chris and he was already reaching for his swords.

I peered my head over the hill. The army was massive. Millions of monsters stood at the foot of the hill. The cavern got much larger, at least 50 miles in either direction, every square foot filled with monsters of all shapes and sizes, some even I had never even seen. To the far end of the field of monsters, was 2 double doors, big enough they were visible even from here. I just stared, unable to even breathe. Chris had to physically pull me down but when he saw what we were up against, he too couldn't help but stare.

Percy grabbed both of us and shoved us to the ground. "Do you want to get caught?" he yelled/whispered. I gulped, imagining millions of monsters attacking at once.

Chris and I both shook our heads and Percy nodded. "Good, now. Any ideas on how to get across?" Percy asked. I thought for a moment.

"We could fly?" Said Chris. Percy and I both shook our heads. "We'll be seen. Plus, many of them can also fly" I said.

"Well, we need rest before we can do anything. Let's find a place to sleep for a bit while we think of a way" Percy said. No one could argue with that so we all continued our walk to a small trench, no wider than a foot but hundreds of feet deep. Chris and I flew ourselves down until we found a ledge and a small cave so we could sleep. I helped (he wouldn't let me say "carry") Percy down and we all went straight to a much needed nap.

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Piper

I don't remember much of the next 2 days. I just remember sleeping and getting occasional updates from Annabeth, Nico or Chiron, each got worse.

Unfortunately for me, Nico had to take Annabeth back to the ship but Nico did come back.

Chiron said that Chris was growing, he started off at 2 pounds even, which is not good at all but now he is a full 2.2 pounds. His organs on the other hand, were not doing to well. According to Chiron, having Chris from the future does not change anything about Chis in the present. Baby Chris could still die and everything Big Chris has done so far will stay but Big Chris will simply disappear. This was good news for the world as a whole but for Jason and I, this sucked.

Baby Chris still needs to be have the ventilator breathe for him and he gets all his food from a tube. Nico came in a few hours ago and said his surgery on his heart was a success but now he wasn't absorbing nutrients properly so they will have to go back in and fix that. The problem was, he needs to get stronger before they perform another surgery but he needs the surgery to get stronger.

"You awake?" Said a voice. I looked up and saw Leo standing halfway behind the door. "Leo?" I asked, confused. Leo smiled and opened the door completely. I saw that on his left soldier, he was in a sling.