━━━━GREAT GODS!
❝ but do you feel like
a young god? ❞
( the blood of olympus )
( multiple characters x ocs! )
( "heroes of old" book three )
( heroes of...
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━chapter ten, ❝piper cuts off mimas's ear!❞ 『P I P E R』
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━━━Piper dreams of the Acropolis.
She has never been there, but she recognizes it from pictures ━an ancient stronghold perched on a hill almost as impressive as Gibraltar. Rising four hundred feet over the night-time sprawl of modern Athens, the sheer cliffs are topped with a crown of limestone walls. On the clifftop, a collection of ruined temples and modern cranes gleam silver in the moonlight.
In her dream, Piper flies above the Parthenon ━ the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding. The Acropolis seems devoid of mortals, perhaps because of the financial problems in Greece. Or perhaps Gaea's forces have arranged some pretext to keep the tourists and construction workers away.
Piper's view zooms to the center of the temple. So many giants have gathered there it looks like a cocktail party for redwood trees. A few Piper recognizes: those horrible twins from Rome, Otis and Ephialtes, dressed in matching construction worker outfits; Polybotes, looking just as Percy had described him, with poison dripping from his dreadlocks and a breastplate sculpted to resemble hungry mouths; worst of all, Enceladus, the giant who had kidnapped Piper's dad. His armor is etched with flame designs, and his hair is braided with bones. His flagpole-sized spear burns with purple fire.
Piper has heard that each giant was born to oppose a particular god, but there are way more than twelve giants gathered in the Parthenon. She counts at least twenty and, if that isn't intimidating enough, around the giants' feet milled a horde of smaller monsters ━ Cyclopes, ogres, six-armed Earthborn, and serpent-legged dracaena. In the center of the crowd stood an empty, makeshift throne of twisted scaffolding and stone blocks yanked at random from the ruins.
As Piper watches, a new giant lumbers up the steps at the far end of the Acropolis. He wears a massive velour tracksuit with gold chains around his neck and greased-back hair, so he looks like a thirty-foot-tall mobster ━ if mobsters had dragon feet and burnt-orange skin.
The mafia giant runs towards the Parthenon and stumbles inside, flattening several Earthborn under his feet. He stops, gasping for breath at the foot of the throne.
"Where is Porphyrion?" he demands. "I have news!"
Piper's old enemy Enceladus steps forward. "Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be..."
The ground between them splits. An even larger giant leaps from the earth like a breaching whale.
