𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋

𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎 𝐜𝐡𝟏𝟕|Clarisse gets angrier than usual

Nico

"Clarisse?" said the voice of Silena Beauregard.

Clarisse stopped dead in her tracks. I almost ran into her. Again.

"It's a Cyclops! Ignore it! Come on! We have to keep going, we're getting close!" Rachel encouraged her. But Clarisse just stared into space with empty eyes.

I drew my sword and turned around, facing the rest of the corridor in the dim darkness.

"Your fault. Your fault I'm dead. Your stubbornness got me killed. Why did you care so much about that stupid chariot, Clarisse? Maybe I wouldn't have had to pretend to be you, if you had had the decency to fight. Aren't you a daughter of war? Some daughter of Ares you are. Did you know it hurt? The pain of my death is something I still feel. I wanted to see Charlie. Did you know that Beckendorf went for rebirth, Clarisse? I'm all alone."

I whipped around to see Clarisse drop her spear and fall to her knees.

"No! Clarisse! That's not true! I know that Silena and Beckendorf are together! I know it as a fact!" I yelled. And it was true, I had sensed their souls come together in the battle of Manhattan.

"What does it matter, Nico? It's still my fault she's dead," Clarisse replied with glassy eyes.

"It's a Cyclops Clarisse!"

"I'm not just a Cyclops, Clarisse! I'm a real person - at least, I was a real person. I was a traitor, I regret that now."

"No you weren't, Silena! You did what mattered most in the end!" Clarisse replied, her voice cracking.

The floor began to shake violently and spikes began to sprout viciously from the walls. I had to grab Rachel and pull her out of the way before she became a kebab.

"Clarisse!! Listen to me - it's a Cyclops! we have to go!!" Will shook her desperately.

A tear slipped out of Clarisse's eye and she brushed it away angrily and picked up her spear.

"Just a Cyclops..." she muttered furiously. She got to her feet and I saw her spear begin to a crackle with energy.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Clarisse screeched at the empty corridor, her spear becoming more and more charged.

Several cyclops came around the corner and stared at us, snarling at the daughter of Ares. I was frozen to the spot.

Clarisse stepped forwards.

"Wh.. what did I do?" the voice was Chris, "You're the one that came back to the place that drove me insane!"

Clarisse gripped her spear so hard that I thought it would snap.

"Maimer? More like Lamer!" a voice that sounded suspiciously like Drew cackled.

"You didn't even complete the quest to the sea of monsters! Percy, Tyson and I did!" Annabeth's voice taunted.

"Yeah, we just felt sorry for you." Percy's voice smirked. It sounded strange in his voice, something alien that I had never heard him act like before.

"Take the stupid chariot, Clarisse! We don't care enough. You're the only one that is so petty you won't go to war over it!" Michael Yew's voice shouted, "Now I'm dead! How many deaths did you cause!"

More Cyclops came. There were about twenty now.

"Did you hear that the new Jackson kid soaked Clarisse in toilet water!" Katie Gardener's voice laughed hysterically.

"Too weak to lead your own cabin that you had to step down, Clarisse?" Sherman Yang snorted.

"Can I even call you my daughter, Clarisse? You are a disgrace," said Ares, the God of War.

Clarisse began to glow with a fiery power and her spear lit up with electricity.

She charged.

I jogged after her while Will and Rachel stared in shock, but I didn't need to do much.

Clarisse threw her spear, which impaled three Cyclops at once, going through each of their chests. She ducked and stabbed a Cyclops when it swiped at her, and then willed her spear to soar back to her hand. On the way, it impaled a further Cyclops which was just staring in shock. She fought with ferociousness and deadly accuracy on every strike. She was even faster than me as she destroyed the creatures mercilessly. She was at speeds that could rival Annabeth.

As I swiped through another monster, I saw Rachel feeding Will more ambrosia. He was getting worse...

Suddenly, a Cyclops broke free of our fight.

"COWARD!" Clarisse screamed as she defeated another monster. Her eyes widened as she realised the monster was charging at Rachel and Will.

"RACHEL!" I shouted and she turned around to see the monster almost at her. She paled and fumbled in her bag for her dagger.

The monsters were coming at me and wouldn't stop. The second I would try to go towards them, a monster would step in my way.

The cyclops reached Rachel and Will. It picked Rachel up in its hand and slammed her into the wall. She let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"NO! NEVER AGAIN!" Clarisse screamed.

The monster raised its fist to crush Rachel.