We all fought with great might. With a single swipe, I cut his horn with which I then started to fight along with Shade. Tina climbed on its back and stabbed him at every clear shot she got. Shaggy played his music with his new pipes, and that really seemed to weaken him. Jay threw his spear, causing a great deal of damage, and Harry typically ran around him stabbing him constantly. After a while, we started owning him. This was until I used Shade to stab his eye. A wound opened in there and he got really mad. He threw Tina off his back and she landed head first in the ground unconscious. Then, Jay threw his pear again, and the boar grabbed it with his teeth and threw it too far. Jay started running to get it then. Then, the boar charged to me, and I dodged. Twice this happened. On the third attempt, Harry used his sonic speed to grab me when the boar charged and carried me away. The Tartarian Boar looked our way, and in his good eye, I could see his anger. It charged toward us. Harry tried using his sonic speed again, but he ran into a wall, which knocked him. Then, Shaggy's song ended. He started a new song which made me dizzy to hear. Then I realised this was the song he played with the centaurs, and the earthborns. I covered my ears and everything went back to normal. It is hard to charge with your ears covered, but I managed. I took the kill. The Tartarian Boar, killed by Nathan Foramen.
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July 23. That was when we left the rock of The Tartarian Boar. At least we were all recovered fully. HAHAHA! Not really. We were still hurt and depressed, but we continued going. After what felt like a millennia walking, we decided to eat something. While we were at it, we were interrupted by a big ball of light that seemed brighter than the sun. How rude! Anyway, we were blinded for a second and when we recovered sight, we saw a big dude with light breaking into my skull. I was too stunned to even react, but I got a good look at him. He was a big muscular dude with a Greek armour.
"I AM HYPERION! LORD OF LIGHT!" His voice boomed through Tartarus.
-"Wait, wasn't Hyperion the God of sleep?" Jay asked
-"That's Hypnos" I corrected
-"What? Wasn't that Hygiega? Tina asked
-"Hygiega is the daughter of Asclepius, but I thought Hyperion was..." Shaggy started
-"YOU ARE WRONG! I AM HYPERION, THE TITAN! LORD OF LIGHT!" Hyperion said
-"Ohh, right!" We all said in unison
-"I WILL KILL YOU ALL!" He exclaimed
-"Yeah right" I said.
Then we charged. As soon as we were at striking distance, he concentrated the light in his body, blinding us completely. Then, he set a circle of fire around each of us. Each circle imploded into pure light, which should have melted my eyes.
"YOU CAN'T BEAT ME, YOU PUNY MORTALS!" Hyperion exclaimed
Suddenly, I came up with a plan.
"Of course we can beat you, if you were unbeatable you wouldn't be down here" I told him
-"THAT IS NOT A FAIR POINT! I AM ONLY HERE BECAUSE I WAS TURNED INTO A TREE BY THE SATYRS AND THEIR HORRID MUSIC!"
-"Oh really? Satyrs and pan pipes?" I asked
-"WITH HORRIBLE MUSIC!"
-"Yeah, pan pipes made of wood can be deadly, but I imagine that pan pipes made of materials found in Tartarus would be much more powerful" I said
I looked at Shaggy. He understood.
"ENOUGH! TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!"
-"Was that song something like this?" Shaggy asked. With that last word, he started playing a song in his pipes.
I had seen Shaggy make a pack of centaurs pass out. I had seen him make an Earthborn pass out. I had heard songs of his in camp. I had heard song of his in battle. Nothing was like that. His new pipes made the song boom through Tartarus so much I wouldn't be surprised if every monster everywhere had turned into a tree.
Hyperion lost balance. His feet started to root, but Shaggy's music wasn't enough. At least Hyperion was stunned. I signalled to charge.
Harry was the first to arrive, and with his dagger, he cut off Hyperion's feet.
The Titan roared and groaned in pain, but it was useless, soon he was no more that a half tree and some really, really bright powder.
"Well, looks like your dagger lives up to its name" Tina commented
-"Titan Slayer, the titan slayer" I continued
We laughed for a while. It was the first glimpse of happiness we've had while in Tartarus. It was fun while it lasted.
I grabbed the powder and stored it in Harry's golden bag of Hermes (AKA his new backpack).
I then remembered something that made my day.
"Guys, we're 2/3 into our trip! My spirit saw a cave, a big muscly dude and a then the Styx! Finally the Styx!" I said
-"Two Thirds? We've been on for days, we have to be back on Olympus on August 1 or Zeus will kill us!" Shaggy commented
-"Plus the secrecy, even when this is all over, no one must know what we were really doing in this quest. Not even the gods. Apollo would kill us if he knew that even though Zeus will blame him, it was our prophecy that broke the oracle. It is our fault!" Tina added
-"Shush! Zeus will fix it. He must!" As soon as I said it, I wished I didn't. A loud boom echoed through Tartarus. Thunder probably, although no lightning.
We left then....
Hours passed. We were hungry, and tired, but we all knew we couldn't afford to lose one more second. Shaggy kept us awake with his music, although not with like, spell music, more like with real songs that he had learned to play with his pipes, although he clearly preferred spell music because the only normal songs he had bothered to learn were "The Pina Colada Song" and "Kumbaya".
Finally, after hours, we decided to take a break. We slept and we ate. We were quite good, until we checked a calendar from the Overworld. July 25. Two days since we last checked. Then, we all groaned and complained.
"We're never gonna make it" Jay said
-"Can we just give up now?" Shaggy asked
-"Guys, it's too early to give up! We must think of a plan." Harry suggested.
-"If so, we must think fast" Tina said
-"You're right, we must hurry up, or should it be... Harry up" I said
-"Haha, think I never heard that before? Also, did you forget your broom at Hogwarts? Or, c'mon Harry, where's your Styles?" Harry said
We stared at him blankly.
"See, when your name is Harry, you have super speed and you live in the same roof as children of Hermes that joke is so constant is already annoying" Harry continued.
We fell silent for a moment. Then, everyone but Harry started giggling. Then laughing.
After a while, we all stopped laughing and started thinking about a plan.
-"I say we should give flying another chance" Harry suggested
We all looked at each other with disgusted faces.
-"How about, no? I say we keep walking" I said
-"That'll never get us there in time. Jay, you can partially control land right? Can you move the land over there?" Tina asked
-"I can partially control grass, not land, and I don't think I would be able to do that anyway, but maybe Nate can do that here in Tartarus, can you? Jay asked me
-"I don't know, I barely even know what my powers are, but I'll try" I answered.
I kneeled down and put my hand on the floor. Once again, my spirit left my body, and I could see us in the ground. That wouldn't work, I could see ahead, not transport us.
My spirit returned to my body. I looked at the ground, I concentrated on the floor. Soon, we were moving.
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Son of Tartarus
FanfictionThe god Tartarus, doesn't have kids with mortals. He hates demigods. But what if he didn't? This story is the story of a young demigod whose father turn out to be Tartarus himself! For such a powerful demigod, a powerful quest awaits, the almighty Z...