The House of Hades

Chapter 25- Disgrace

Percy

Everyone went into battle mood.

Annabeth and Ethan stabbed, slashed and hacked with their blades.

Bianca and Zoe shot volleys of arrows into the swarm.

Silena had a dagger but was moving sluggishly, after hearing what Luke said about Beckondorf.

Percy rolled under monsters and peired upwards.

Slash, hack, duck, roll, defend, kill.

Deception

Disgrace

Evil as plain as the scar on his face Deception (An outrage!)

Disgrace (For shame!)

He asked for trouble the moment he came

Deception (An outrage!)

(He can't change his stripes)

Disgrace (For shame!)

(You know these Outsider types)

He asked for trouble the moment he came

(See you later, agitator!)

Deception

(An outrage!)

(Just leave us alone!)

Disgrace (For shame!)

(Traitor, go back with your own!)

He asked for trouble the moment he came

(See you later, agitator!)

Born in grief

Raised in hate

Helpless to defy his fate

Let him run

Let him live

But do not forget what we cannot forgive

And he is not one of us

He has never been one of us

He is not part of us

Not our kind

Someone once lied to us

Now we're not so blind

For we knew he would do what he's done

And we know that he'll never be one of us

He is not one of us

Deception

Disgrace

Deception

Disgrace

Deception

Luke had lied to Percy before, and yet he'd fallen prey again.

Slash, hack.

Behind him, Ethan cried out.

Percy turned, and stopped short.

Lyrics, to songs he had heard the Apollo kids sing, at Camp, came to mind.

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend.

If I die young, bury me in satin.

I would have stayed with you all night, had I known, how to save a life.

I'm comin' home, I'm comin' home.

It's too, late, to fight, it ends, tonight.

If today was your last day.

These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real.

Ethan Nakamura lay on the ground, curled in around the spear, lodged in his abdomen. Annabeth was still fighting, warding the monsters away from the injured son of Nemesis. Bianca glanced at Ethan and screamed, clearly. Distracted, she got a knife in the arm, and went back to fighting.

Percy dropped Riptide and pushed through the monsters. Calling Ethan's name, he kicked some Telkhines away and got to him.

The spear was lodged so far in, the tip poked out from the back of Ethan's shirt. Percy willpower crumbled.

Ethan's eyes were open, but shattered. They flickered to Percy weakly, and he gripped the hem of Percy CHB shirt.

"Win." He said simply.

Ethan's hand dropped. His eyes glowed bright for one second.

"Ethan?"

"Win. The war."

"I-I.....I will. We will. I promise."

An oath to keep with a final breath.....

Ethan smiled, then stiffened. His eyes were unseeing. Ethan Nakamura was dead, again.

Percy was angry. The most angry he'd ever been before.

He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out his pen.

Percy un-capped Riptide.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He charged the legion of monsters.

A prophecy rang through his ears as he killed.

Half-Bloods, here and there,

Shall be defeated by the golden mare.

2 shall betray the others,

And the forge will awaken the mother.

The Sea shall despair,

For Owl's dare.

Percy slashed another monster, the Minotaur, and breathed deeply. He looked around.

No more monsters.

Ethan's body had dissapeered, but everyone had seen it. Bianca had a foot long gash down her arm, and Silena was limping.

"We have a new prophecy." Percy announced, eyeing Annabeth.

The Sea shall despair, for Owl's dare.