Percy Jackson, Past Lives [O.H.]

Deaths and Losses

I had had enough. I had lost my best friends, my fellow campers, and my.... Wise Girl.... in the war with Gaea. The Gods and I were the only ones left. Even all the Romans had been killed. I just wanted to be alone, but the Gods had finally come off their high horses and couldn't pretend to stay aloof anymore. Zeus was the most surprising. He had apologized right after I destroyed Gaea.

~Flashback~

I was fighting with Annabeth at my back. Slowly all of the demigods fell. Some from drowning like Leo, crushed by Giants' feet like Piper, stabbed like Jason, burned like Frank, shot like Hazel, suffocated like Nico, and overloaded like Thalia. As our friends fell, Annabeth and I kept fighting harder and harder. A Cyclops came up from our right side, and I slit it's neck. A hellhound was turned to dust by a well placed throw from Annabeth, but as she went to retrieve it, we didn't see Kelli come up behind me. She took her knife and sliced my sword arm. A small trickle of blood fell off my arm and onto the ground. An enormous earthquake shook the ground we were standing on, and everyone except Poseidon and I lost their balance. I quickly looked around for the earth mother. There.... I gasped. She was standing a few feet away from Annabeth with a sick smile on her face as she watched me. "If only you hadn't turned down my offer, you would have made a splendid second in command. But now I have to crush you, and what better way than to start with the heart." Everyone just sat and stared at her as they waited to see how I would react. Before I could even take a breath, Annabeth screamed and Gaea snatched her neck and broke it over her knee. All of a sudden I couldn't see straight. I felt this overwhelming urge to kill her, and I happily complied. "Gaea," her head snapped in my direction at my cold and unemotional voice, a look of utter fear stretched on her face when she saw my expression. "You don't know what you just did." I fell to the ground as my only mortal point was killed in front of me. I started glowing with such an extreme light that even the gods had to look away. I slowly rose into the sky, my arms outstretched and my head back. The glow only intensified. It didn't stop, because as I got higher it got stronger, but farther away. After a few minutes the light and the pain died down. I stood before everyone, feeling totally different. I felt like a shard of what I was, like there was something missing, or someone. For some reason I knew it wasn't Annabeth, and I knew she would have wanted me to move on, so I made every second with her flash before my eyes as I calmed my emotions down. I realized that I had never truly loved her, but I saw her as a little sister, something to be loved and cherished, but not as a lover. I came to qualms in that moment, knowing that something better was going to happen for me and that I could never be with Annabeth again. I knew I would still mourn her, but it wouldn't be as bad because I knew that she would be happy that I chose to live my life instead of die for her. I slowly walked up to Gaea, who was staring at me as if I was a spider and she was the bug trapped in the web. She fell to her knees, "Please, please, please! Don't kill me, I promise to never do that again, I won't harm anyone or anything ever again, please! Have mercy!" She begged. I seethed inside, but on the outside my face was blank and my eyes were filled with churning sea green water. "You expect me to take mercy on you? The very one who took me away from my Wise Girl and made me a god? You have destroyed everything I stand for, but you are lucky that I was born from the gentle tides. I will give you a swift death." I uncapped riptide, which glowed a purplish blue-white light. When she went slash my shoulder I cut her arm off, but not before she chopped off my left hand. I quickly stabbed her in the heart and watched in pain as she slowly sank into the ground, but before she left completely, she whispered, "Then I shall leave you with a reminder." I grabbed my stub in my right arm once I capped riptide. After Gaea had sunk fully into the ground the rest of the monsters slowly disappeared. When the last empousi disintegrated everyone started checking the bodies to see if any were alive. I went to check the bodies of my friends. When I checked them all and was standing over Annabeth, Zeus had made his way over with my dad. "Perseus, I wish to apologize for my attitude towards you. Seeing as you are the last of the demigods, a god, and have saved Olympus twice, I would like to make amends. Will you forgive me, nephew?" I looked at my uncle strangely, "Of course. But if I am a god, what am I god of?" Zeus looked at my dad as if sending him a message. My father stepped forward, "Percy, son, we don't know. You were made a god because you no longer had your 'mortal point,' when you gave up the curse of Achilles you still had the same 'mortal point,' it's just that you wouldn't die if you were hit in your Achilles heel. It would be like a normal wound. Sense I believe that you used Annabeth as your tie to the mortal world, you became immortal without her, your anchor."