My Boyfriend is a Dead Roman Hero | Jason Grace

I Fall Out of the Sky Pt 3

When Leo, Jason, and Juliette join the battle, they completely turn the tide.

The Argo II blasts apart the ceiling of the ruins, clearing the way for Julie and Jason to sweep down and unleash their fury on the army of re-formed giants below. Jason drops down onto the shoulders of the Giant King, cloaked in electricity and eyes glowing like lightning. He stabs downwards into Porphyrion's neck, and Percy is dropped by the giant to freedom.

Juliette goes for a more widespread sort of destruction. She makes it rain. Makes it rain acid, that is.

Between the torrent of venom spouting from Juliette's mouth and the barrage of arrows Frank lets loose from the high ground, all of the enemies within 100 feet of Percy and Annabeth are crumbled to dust nearly instantly.

But, none of their allies are gods. They can't destroy the giants for good. It isn't long before the enemies are re-forming, so Frank leaps down from his blown cover onto Julie's back, and she soars them both out of reach.

Percy and Annabeth are on their feet. Piper and Jason are back to back, slashing at the constantly rebooting army of monsters. Leo's blasting apart boulders that get lobbed at the Argo II as Hazel tries to keep the crumbling ruins from squashing any of them, redirecting it all to smash through Gaea's forces instead.

They eventually end up congregating in the center of the Acropolis, fighting back to back, Frank firing arrows from Juliette's saddle as she soars in circles over them and slices off giant arms with her talons before their blows can land. The damage they're unleashing is unreal.

They're doing amazing. They're holding their own. It's looking like today might actually be a win.

It's crazy how quickly everything can change.

A nosebleed to end the world. All of that work they did - two whole months - wasted.

The moment the drop of blood leaves Percy's chin feels like it stretches on for lifetimes. Julie doesn't actually see it hit the dirt. She's too busy looking for Jason, stomach rolling in petrifying terror as his gaze seeks her out as well. She watches that plan of his - that dream he just discovered only days ago - flash in the blue of his eyes.

Do you ever have a moment where you look at someone, and it makes you dizzy to realize just how much of yourself doesn't even belong to you anymore?

Julie doesn't know where the Roman Emperors came up with the idea of those golden shackles, but Jason Grace has never needed anything magical to hold Juliette's will in his hands. Everything she is and ever will be belongs to him. She belongs to him, mind and soul. And just the fact that he could never even fathom how much of her he holds in his hands is all it takes to make that hook buried deep inside her heart utterly irremovable.

When the earth awakens, she has landed beside the circle and curled herself around her person. Nothing in the universe matters except keeping him alive.

She's expecting to be swallowed by the ground. Instead, the clouds above the Acropolis part.

Julie looks up just in time to watch an army of gods descend onto the battlefield.

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Watching Jason fight back to back with Zeus is simultaneously terrifying and the most impressive thing she's ever seen.

He's completely matching his father's skill. Every time a giant swings at one of them, the other will blast it apart with lightning without even a glance, running off of pure instinct and adrenaline. They're encircled by swirling clouds and raging winds, both sets of blue eyes glowing brightly as lightning wraps around their bodies. Together, they're taking on the King of the Giants, Porphyrion. And, they have him on the ropes.