Rise of House Neptune

Toppling The Black Throne

Chapter 43

The orders were given, and Percy knew what he had to do. In a moment of clarity he offered a prayer to his father, and exchanged a final look with the girl he loved before taking his trident like a baseball and slamming it into the ground causing a fissure to shoot through the center of the mountain. The monster army scattered and Percy cried out, "Twelfth Legion."

Bianca and Jason followed his words with, "Fulminata" which was echoed by the legion as Percy hurled himself forward with speeds enhanced by the River Styx. Krios looked eager to engage in combat with the demigods, but Percy hit the Titan like a freight train knocking the large humanoid off balance from a rumble, and slamming his trident into the humanoid. With no Titans in his way Percy decimated his way through the monster enemy line. Most were terrified to cross him, and as waves of undead warriors joined the legion in battle the rest were distracted as Bianca fought shoulder to shoulder with her best friend.

The enemy quickly swallowed them as it became 360 degree combat. Bianca had his back guarded as he plowed through the enemy line. A roar of rage, and a flash of lightning indicated to Percy and the daughter of Pluto that Jason had engaged the Titan on the battlefield, which only made the son of Neptune twirl his trident in vicious circles as he cut down more monsters desperate to get back to his cousin and provide any assistant he could.

The path to the door was a blur, and when Percy made it Bianca took the lead for a moment as she placed both hands on the ground, and screamed in exertion as the metal doors split, and collapsed on each side of them. The forces on the mountain top clearly wanted to interfere, but the legion was bloodthirsty in their effort to hold the attention of the monster army.

It could hardly be said the two walked in unscathed, but as they hit the stairwell devoid of enemies they broke out into a run in hopes of reaching the Black Throne as quickly as possible. The stairwell was disturbingly empty, and Percy in his haste to make it to the top hardly thought of what could await them. With the Titan outside fighting Jason they didn't consider what might have been left behind to defend the Throne. With no monsters in sight it all seemed too easy though, something Bianca noticed with increasing trepidation.

There was no hesitation from the son of the sea as he approached the throne room doors and threw them open. The moment his eyes went through the hall though Percy knew they were in trouble. A familiar monster of a man sat on the Black Throne, and the grip on Percy's trident tightened. Bianca gasped, and whispered, "No it can't be."

The Titan of the West rose to his feet. His bronze armor, which had to be impossibly heavy, seemed weightless on the eight foot man as he pulled the javelin off his back, "Percy Jackson. A rematch I have long awaited."

A lead ball of nerves sat in Percy's stomach, and the pale look on Bianca's face told him all that he needed to know. They were in trouble. Even together fighting this particular Titan would not be an easy victory.

Getting to observe the Black Throne behind the Titan Percy knew what their true target was. The massive black and gold throne that was clearly sized for the Titan Lord had a golden scythe carved into it, and Percy could feel the power radiating across the room. Calling out with a voice that Percy hoped sounded confident he said, "Atlas, I see you are freed of your burden. Which poor soul holds it now?"

Snorting, the man strode forward closing the distance between the three, "Poor soul? My dear Percy Jackson, I think you underestimate the power of my uncle. Our Lord Saturn decimated the burden, and reunited the Sky and the Earth. Our mother will stir before long, and the end of Olympus will follow."

The two stared in shock at what the Titan proclaimed, hardly believing it. Bianca stood tall however as she stepped beside her boyfriend, "Percy nearly beat you with the help of your daughter. I promise you that you will get no mercy from us. You will hardly be the first powerful entity we have defeated."