A Call For Heroes (Pjo x Hunger Games

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Percy

Something had stirred in his unconscious when Percy saw that he had injured Nico. At the back of his mind, something was telling his brain to snap out of it. It was a faint feeling, but it was enough to distract Percy, which earned him a long cut from Thalia.

On top of that, Percy was confused when Thalia was trying to point out who was his friend. He had originally thought that the careers had done everything for him, and saved his life. But what Thalia said made him ponder.

Would true friends let you fight alone?

The careers certainly didn't help him when he was fighting Thalia and Nico. They just stood back and watched as he fought, outnumbered, one to two.

So, unable to come to a decision as to who was truly his friend, he came out with a small test. This test would tell who was genuinely his friend, and who was telling the truth all along.

The results was not what he expected. It wasn't the careers who ran in to intercept the assumed suicide. Instead, it was the very 'betrayers' who had come to his aid. Thalia's reaction wasn't fake at all. There had been real fear in her eyes. Fear that Percy would indeed kill himself.

And even with no memories, Percy's heart told him that only someone who really cared for him, would react in that manner.

It was clear, now, that the careers had been lying all along. It was clear that the careers were the ones who had wiped out his memory, and turned him against his real friends.

After the careers seemed to realize what had happened from the little act, they scrambled off as fast as they could, deeper into the forest.

Percy was about to start chasing after them, when he heard Nico shout.

"Hydra!" Nico had screamed. "Run!"

Like the careers had done, Percy, Thalia, Nico, Katniss and Peeta ran for their lives. They didn't run very far until Thalia shouted, "We have to stand and fight! The gamemakers probably sent this because they found out you changed sides, Percy."

She was right. Percy uncapped Riptide, which expanded into a bronze sword. Thalia stood beside him, and gripped her silver bow, which had appeared out of nowhere. Nico plunged his sword downwards into the ground, and yelled, "Serve me!"

Ten skeleton warriors rose from a crevice in the ground. All of them were holding heavy looking swords. The skeletons ran at the hydra, waving their swords in the air.

But the Hydra was huge, and its skin wasn't exactly easy to penetrate. All the skeletons did was to irritate it. In short, the skeletons wasn't helping.

Percy didn't really think. This mind was blank anyway. So there wasn't much to think of. He charged head first at the Hydra. At first, the Hydra must have mistook him for a moving rock or something, because it didn't seem to notice that Percy was there, until he was a mere metre from the Hydra's back.

Only then did the Hydra stick out one of its heads in attempt to gobble him up like a juicy fly.

As the head of the Hydra swooped down to look at its victim, Percy took the opportunity to jump at its head and take the ride to the back of the Hydra.

Now, sitting on the back of the Hydra, Percy could see all its nine heads. He took out Riptide, ready for the kill.

"Stop!" Thalia shrieked. "Don't cut off its head!"

That didn't make sense to Percy. It was obvious that the only way to kill the Hydra was to cut off its head. Then it couldn't bite anyone, right?

So he ignored Thalia, and sliced off the nine heads, one by one.