The Roman Avenger (Percy Jackson)

Chapter Twenty

Chapter 20

Fits of rage. Never had I shadow traveled so fast. Never have my feet carried me so fast. I was on the front lines in minutes. Though I was to late, the monster army was already in retreat. The Titans truly seemed to have a never ending number of monsters, first they come out of the Labyrinth in huge numbers, and now the size of this army looks just as big. I darted through the crowd of demigods, still in my nice clothes. Reyna was behind me trying to keep up, but the power of Hermes flowed through me. I was at Nico's side within seconds, he was holding a sobbing Hazel. Jason was screaming orders to follow the army and paid little to no attention to me, as he launched the war crazed Romans into the heart of the battle.

I collapsed next to my brother and sister. I asked quietly, "What happened?"

Piper came up behind me putting a light hand on my shoulder. A girl was standing next to her, I knew it was a daughter of Hecate from the first cohort, she was one of the best element fighters in the legion. Piper said sadly, "Kelly is going to project the images in your mind. Your family is in no state to talk."

I gave a solemn nod of despair as Kelly put her hand to my forehead. A short pain shot through my head as I saw the monster army blitz from the shadows. They seemingly came from nowhere, they were lead by a woman, a Titan, Phoebe. She was clearly looking for someone as she ducked, dodged and weaved through the lines of Romans. None were killed in her path, most weren't even touched. Most tried to avoid her, accept my sister. Nico was no where in site that I could see. Phoebe stopped and stared at my little sister, and I hear a chilling voice, "She will have to do."

Suddenly a blur of images shot through of her taking Bianca. Within seconds the vision was over, the target was clear, my family. I gasped for breath as the visions halted. Nico sobbed, "They were here for me Percy. I think they know that you are going to bathe in the river Styx, but that you needed my help. They knew Percy. They knew you couldn't do it without me, but they couldn't find me since I was with Annabeth when they first came in. They took what they could get...And...And...They took her..."

Hazel hushed her brother into silence as tears slipped through his eyes. It broke my heart to see my two siblings this way. I growled, "Where is Jason?"