Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH73: The Destroyer

(Percy)

'Well I'm fucked.' I couldn't help but say sarcastically as I turned from the where the fate had been towards Artemis. Sure I currently wanted to kill all three of the old hags but I couldn't fault their sense of dramatic timing.

To add to my worries I was also completely unarmed because I had been in the middle of a demonstration on dodging attacks at the time I was summoned/kidnapped and I didn't want the additional weight on my person. Sure I could summon them but that would take time, something by the look of the figure in the centre of the room I didn't have.

'Percy run.' Artemis screamed causing me to smile in return as I turned from her to her father who was rising from his throne.

This was not the time for running, that much was clear besides where could I go that I would not eventually be found. Besides I refused to leave her.

'Well what are you waiting for? You heard what she said, I won't deny it's the truth. So how is it go to be Zeus?' I asked him calmly as I delivered the ultimatum slowly walking towards him.

'Perseus stop.' My father commanded as he began to rise from his chair but he was to slow to stop his younger brother as a golden bolt of energy appeared in his hand. I always knew it was gonna end up in this situation regardless from the minute our feelings for each other developed, who was we kidding to think he would react any differently?

However what happened next was something I hadn't planned on.

Artemis had flashed from her throne to between me and her father, just as he released the bolt and I got a flashback of the time before and how useless I had felt then. Why did history have to repeat itself again?

'Not Again.' A voice growled from inside my subconscious and I felt my body move on autopilot as I took a step towards the goddess only to be swathed in shadows mid stride and I reappeared in front of her my back to the incoming danger. For all my preparation for this day in working out the mystery of the sphere it was all for naught as I had no time to do anything beyond unfold my wings around the goddess in the hope of protecting her.

'Well this is gonna suck.' I whispered to her as she stared at me wide-eyed her mouth beginning to move.

Whatever she was gonna say I never got to hear as my world became one light and pain before darkness.

(Artemis)

No no no this was not happening. I kept thinking to myself as the dust began to clear around me letting in a few rays of light.

Why for once could he just not be so stupidly brave? And why did my father have to be stupidly irrational.

Even my last hope of stopping my father had failed and instead Percy had protected me at the cost of himself.

However what finalized it was the shower of slowly falling golden feathers all around me that caught the few rays of light. Slowly I reached out and caught one softly in both hands before holding it to my chest.

As I held that soft yet so very sharp reminder I couldn't hold it in any further as I collapsed into a state of shock oblivious to the events around me.

Percy was gone and we were alone again.

(Percy)

'Is that all you have got?' A voice asked inside my head like before sounding like my own but with a slight difference.

'...'

'You've become so soft. Where's the spirit you showed when you fought Ares, Kronos, Gaia?' It demanded aggressively.