𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋

𝐋𝐄𝐎 𝐜𝐡𝟖|Percy annoys another Goddess

Disclaimers: These are not my characters or original ideas; they belong to Rick Riordan

Leo

Not her again. Seriously? How does she hate us this much. I mean, just my luck that I get an Immortal Goddess as, like, my arch nemesis or something.

It makes sense. I mean, her thing is ice and mine is fire. So they're like opposites, y'know? But fire always melts ice so HA! Looser, Khione!

I was not, however, in a winning mood right now. Largely because said Goddess had a dagger to my friend's throat.

"Ugh, what is your problem? Like, give us a break. Ah, I know! You're here because you love me! Sorry, you are too late, ya looser. I have a girlfriend and I bet she'd beat you in her sleep!"
"Leo! Not the time!" Piper whispered to me furiously.

Khione pressed her dagger further into Annabeth's neck. I saw her wince as blood dripped. My heart raced.

"Really, Valdez?" the goddess purred.
"Stop, stop! Leave Annabeth alone!"
"Okay, of course. I will. Once everyone drops there weapons. Drop. Now." The goddess replied.
Weapons immediately clattered to the floor.
"And you, Valdez?" The goddess whispered.
Zethes and Calais appeared behind me and pushed me to my knees. Icy cuffs bound my wrists and ankles. Her brothers held me down.
"I don't like fire, Leo, you know that."
I tried to burn through them, but I couldn't. I felt empty.
"Now, Jackson, drop your sword."
"You said you'd let her go." Percy said, his voice very even.
"After you drop your cursed sword."
Percy flinched when she said cursed, but he dropped riptide anyway.
"Kick it away."
Percy picked it up and chucked his sword over the edge of the Argo II.
Khione didn't loosen her hold.
"Let her go." Percy said.
He was starting to freak me out a little. Annabeth was trying to shake her head, but blood was freely flowing from her neck.

"You see, young heroes, that Gaia said she only needs one of you particular demigods. Because of the prophecy. She believes that one of you will help her bring the end of the world. So really? It would be beneficial if the rest of you were dead. Sure, she's letting you go about most of your little quest, but that's only because of the fates allowing it. But I have my opportunity now to kill you. So I'm going to take it." Khione said, her eyes cold.

She stabbed towards Annabeth's chest. But the icy dagger shattered and dispersed into loads of tiny ice shards.

Khione looked around confused and then realised that Percy had a bead of sweat down the side of his face, he was straining.

Khione still had Annabeth in her grip hard, but the Goddess was confused.

"I wasn't told you could do that," she said pointedly.
"Neither was I," Percy replied, raising an eyebrow. "Guess it's basically just frozen water, right?"

The ice shards rotated, so they were facing Khione.

They jutted forwards and backwards. I saw Percy begin to go red and Khione furrow her brows in concentration. It was like watching a tennis match. Khione's brothers were gaping on either side of me.

Finally, Khione was overwhelmed.

The shards shot towards her, fast. They were a millimeter or two away from her face before they stopped and she laughed.
"Seriously? I'm the Goddess of snow, of ice? You think you can beat me with it?"
"Duh," Percy replied.

An ice shard shot across her face, leaving a cut across her cheek, golden ichor flowed out freely. Khione gasped in shock before her face morphed into anger.

I was beginning to like Percy even more.

Then suddenly, he pulled his pen out of his pocket and took the cap off. His sword appeared and he quickly pressed it against Khione's throat.

"Would you like to reconsider letting my girlfriend go?" Percy asked.

While Khione stood there, glaring at Percy, Annabeth judo-flipped the goddess who ended up lying on the floor. Percy laughed and kissed Annabeth on the cheek, who grinned.

I don't think I'd ever seen an immortal so angry.

Khione picked herself off the floor quickly; the goddess sent out a wave of power, releasing wind spirits and frost.

Everyone else finally decided to step into action. Jason and Piper ran at Zethes and Calais, who had watched the whole thing, confused about how to help. I didn't think that intelligence was their forte. "About time!" I said, rolling my eyes. I'd been sick of sitting on the floor, useless.

Meanwhile, Frank and Hazel fought raging wind spirits, which Khione had summoned. While Percy and Annabeth fought Khione, Jason and Piper attempted to free me.

"Yay, go guys! Woo! Go team! Good one Jason! Ooooh, Piper that was a good kick, right in the face - nice!" I encouraged. I should be a cheerleader.

Finally, Piper frowned as if she'd just realised something.
"Come on Zethes, Calais? Why are you fighting us? What's the point? Why don't you just go back home?" she said, heavy charmspeak laced into her words. The two brothers nodded, transfixed on her words, and disappeared.

Jason and Piper ran towards me, smiling. They slashed at my cuffs with their weapons until they both broke loose. I felt full again as they fell to the floor. I felt the fire in my veins and sighed in relief.

I looked over. Khione had been backed into a wall by Percy and Annabeth, their weapons pointed at her face. Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel and I surrounded her behind them.

All I had to do was release a small flame on my finger.

"NO!" she screamed, before exploding info frost.

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"How many times is it we've beaten her, and really, really annoyed her at the same time now?" I joked.
"Probably about twenty," Jason smirked.
We sat around the table and finished our cheeseburgers. Kinda surprising considering we'd just had an all-out battle. But everyone was hungry, and the frost had simply disappeared after Khione left.

Annabeth had eaten some ambrosia for the cut on her neck, and Hazel a bit too, after getting injured fighting the wind spirits. But everyone else had come out completely unscathed.

"So you couldn't control the wind spirits?" Frank asked Jason.
"No," the son of Zeus replied, looking annoyed. He changed the subject. "I didn't know that you could do the thing with the ice, Percy," Jason said, interested.

Percy shrugged, yet looked kinda uncomfortable. "Yeah, I just did it in the moment - it felt right - just like water I guess."

I wondered what else he could do.