PERCY
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Percy uncapped Riptide and rolled to the left. Arrows whistled past him, and Grover played a sharp tweet-tweet cadence on his reed pipes. Percy turned and saw Zoe and Bianca climbing the Apollo capsule. They were firing arrows, one after another, all shattering harmlessly against the lion's metallic fur. The lion swiped the capsule and tipped it on its side, spilling the Hunters off the back. Grover played a frantic, horrible tune, and the lion turned toward him, but Thalia stepped into its path, holding up Aegis, and the lion recoiled.
"ROAAAAAR!"
"Hi-yah!" Thalia said. "Back!"
"NO, YOU IDIOT!" Sen screamed. "He's immune to your blows!"
The lion growled and clawed the air, but it retreated as if the shield were a blazing fire.
For a second, Perct thought Thalia had it under control. Then he saw the lion crouching, its leg muscles tensing. He'd seen enough cat fights in the alleys around his apartment in New York. He knew the lion was going to pounce.
"Hey!" Percy yelled. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he charged the beast. He just wanted to get it away from his friends. Percy slashed with Riptide, a good strike to the flank that should've cut the monster into Meow Mix, but the blade just clanged against its fur in a burst of sparks.
"NO, YOU IDIOT!" Sen screamed again. She was zipping all around, weaving all around the Nemean lion. It was definitely distracting, but Percy noticed how she didn't even make an effort to cut it. She did as Zoe had said; she was causing a distraction until someone could conjure a way to kill it.
The lion raked Percy with its claws, ripping off a chunk of his coat. Percy backed against the railing. It sprang at him, one thousand pounds of monster, and Percy had no choice but to turn and jump.
"Percy!" Sen cried.
Percy landed on the wing of an old-fashioned silver airplane, which pitched and almost spilled him to the floor, three stories below. An arrow whizzed past his head. The lion jumped onto the aircraft, and the cords holding the plane began to groan.
The lion swiped at Percy, and he dropped onto the next exhibit, a weird-looking spacecraft with blades like a helicopter. The demigod looked up and saw the lion roar- inside its maw, a pink tongue and throat.
Its mouth, Percy thought. Its fur was completely invulnerable, but if he could strike it in the mouth... The only problem was, the monster moved too quickly. Between its claws and fangs, Percy couldn't get close without getting sliced to pieces.
"Zoe!" Percy shouted. "Target the mouth!"
The monster lunged. An arrow zipped past it, missing completely, and Percy dropped from the spaceship onto the top of a floor exhibit, a huge model of the earth. He slid down Russia and dropped off the equator.
Sen yelped up above. Percy couldn't see her, but she definitely sounded angry. "TARGET THE FUCKING LION, YOU IDIOTS!"
The Nemean Lion growled and steadied itself on the spacecraft, but its weight was too much. One of the cords snapped. As the display swung down like a pendulum, the lion leaped off onto the model earth's North Pole.
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Freak || Percy Jackson x OC
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