madness and ecstasy // leo valdez

tempted to make pipabeth canon cause im mad at the duffer brothers

HOW AMAZING WAS PJO S2 !?!?! somehow got better with every episode i'm still screaming about thalia as if i didn't know it was going to happen

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Porphyrion gripped the arms of his throne, leaving indentations and stood, rising to his full height. Piper watched in horror. Her head tipped back and her hair fell away as she stared up at him. He looked down on the temple columns, a mountain of aggression and green scaled legs and beady eyes.

Hair braided with swords and axes taken from dead kids. She clung to hers tightly.

"They arrived just as you foresaw, Enceladus! Well done!" The giant king awarded. He loomed over his captives, watching them show their teeth and bravely, not cry. Piper probably would have. She felt she might. Percy was looking crushed, physically, wiggling his shoulders to make room in the tight fist

"It was simple, my king." Piper's old enemy bowed his head, bones engraved into his armour and hair and weapons.

His skin was raised with scars and torn edges. Jason's doing. Teqi and Leo's doing. She remembered her friends fighting so she could free her dad, and how she'd been afraid for his life, her own life, but at least she had them there.

"I knew these two would lead the assault," Enceladus continued, brandishing his flaming spear. "I understand how they think. Athena and Poseidon... they were just like these children! They both came here thinking to claim this city. Their arrogance has undone them!"

Over the roar of the crowd, who were ready to cheer for anything, Piper could barely hear herself think. She was paralysed with fear. 'These two would lead the assault'. Her heart pounded.

The giants had expected Percy and Annabeth. They didn't expect her. And again, it would play to her advantage.

Annabeth tried to say something, but the giantess Periboia shook her by the neck, sending her flailing through the air. She was so far up falling wasn't an option to consider. Instead she dangled, small and surrounded.

"Shut up! None of your silver-tongued trickery!" The princess drew a simply built hunting knife that wouldn't have posed much threat if it wasn't as long as Piper's sword. "Let me do the honours!"

"Wait, Daughter." The king stepped back. If there was one thing a demigod could count on, it was that bad guys killing with ceremony would always take their sweet sweet time. "The sacrifice must be done properly. Thoon, destroyer of the Fates, come forward!"

A wizened grey monster shuffled into sight. He was a giant by species but he was smaller than the others, someone a demigod had a chance of taking on, proportionally.

He holding an oversized meat cleaver. He fixed his milky eyes on Annabeth.

Percy shouted. At the other end of the Acropolis, a geyser of water shot into the sky. King Porphyrion laughed as it became a faraway glittery mist. "You'll have to do better than that, son of Poseidon. The earth is too powerful here. But never fear. The only liquid we require from you is your blood!"

Piper looked to the sky, past the giant king, desperately. Where was the Argo II? Where were her friends?

She was scared.

She was so scared.

Thoon knelt and touched the blade of his cleaver reverently against the earth.