Destiny Calls (A Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

37: I seriously feel bad for Percy

Images continued to whir through my mind as I felt a small voice in my head automatically narrating everything that went through my mind.

'Percy discovers that Luke is on his own quest for revenge and plans to use the Labyrinth to enter the heart of camp to destroy it. He finds an entrance with Annabeth to the Labyrinth and descend into it so they can stop Luke and his army. Their goal is to find Daedalus, which is an extremely difficult task since the Labyrinth continuously changes and grows on its own. It causes madness, which frequently leads to death.

The friends fight monsters, free prisoners, solve riddles, and succeed in challenges on their way to finding Daedalus. At one point, Percy becomes separated from the others after he blows up Mt. Helens. He lands on Calypso's island and has to decide whether to become immortal and live in paradise with the beautiful woman or go back to finish his quest to save the world. He makes the difficult decision and leaves.

Even though it's Annabeth's quest, the answer to getting through the Labyrinth lies in Percy. He realizes that they have to enlist the help of a mortal named Rachel. She has the unique ability to see through the Mist. While others struggle to choose between paths in the Labyrinth, she can see the correct route clearly. They eventually reach Daedalus, but he is hesitant to help them.

Grover is on his own quest. He has to find Pan and prove his existence or he will lose his job. While in the Labyrinth, the friends find Pan who is about to cease his existence. He breathes part of himself into each of the members present in the room, except for Nico, who is the son of Hades.

Luke finds Adriane's string, which leads his army out of the Labyrinth into Camp Half-Blood. A fierce battle ensues. Grover bellows, and the sound scares the enemy away. This sound came from the part of Pan that now lived within him. When the battle is over, Daedalus lets himself die, therefore closing down the Labyrinth forever.'

That was literally everything that happened, of course in a 3rd person perspective, but hey, I've been tortured for actually about 4 years already, this my 5th year, while everyone thinks it's just been a minute in real time. Kronos's last remaining essence was way too powerful for even Nyx to handle since she had no control over time, only night. I felt every death way onto my shoulders. Lee Fletcher. Castor. Ethan Nakamura's betrayal. Calypso's abandonment. Also Annabeth and Percy's denial, but that wasn't really as heartbreaking as the other things.

There was also the boring bits which was when Percy was in school. Hearing his mind complain and complain was at least slightly torturous, but at least I knew that I no longer actually had to go to school because I had already completed my education from Freshman to Sophomore. Yay for me I guess. I saw the other deaths around me, the small scout parties that came back with only one kid alive to send the message: we are unbeatable. That continued throughout the entire summer, and mood was solemn, not even the Hermes Twins played pranks anymore.

Annabeth and Percy had grown both apart and nearer. RED was a constant subject for them, and I actually felt bad for my older brother as Annabeth shouted at him, and I don't think it really became better when Rachel kissed Percy. I was surprised that Paul wouldn't shout at Percy for getting horse prints on his car, but Paul was Paul. He was the best step-dad possible. My mind went on narrator mode again as I tried to summarize what was happening:

'Kronos, who has reincarnated in the body of Percy's old friend, Luke, has sworn an oath of vengeance to destroy Olympus, brick by brick. He has been massing an army of monsters, demigod children, demons, and a few other Titans for a year. If he is successful, the age of the gods will end and a new age of chaos will begin. To distract the gods from their seats of power in Olympus, Kronos simultaneously launches an attack against Poseidon's undersea fortress and unleashes the most fearsome of all monsters, Typhon. Typhon he sends on a mission of destruction from his prison under Mount St. Helens to New York. Typhon is to destroy the gods and Olympus if he is able, but he is just a distraction. 

Poseidon is embattled in his fortress and will not join the fight. Hades is sulking in the underworld, nurturing a grudge against Zeus for killing the mortal mother of his children. The remaining Olympian gods leave New York to do battle with Typhon, leaving Olympus virtually undefended. The gods believe Typhon to be the main threat, that Kronos would not dare march on Olympus himself. However, Percy has seen in a prophetic dream that Kronos will indeed invade New York, and that only he and his half-blood peers from Camp Half-Blood are left to defend against the invasion. If that isn't enough for the young demigod to worry about, he also has a prophesy telling of a single choice he must make on his sixteenth birthday, which is only a few days away, that will either destroy or save Olympus. On top of that, regardless of his choice, "The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap."

In order to stand against an overwhelming army and to fight Kronos, Percy accepts the offer of his friend Nico, son of Hades, and bathes in the river Styx. After emerging from the river, his body immortal except for one small point at the small of his back, Percy leads the charge in defense of Manhattan. After a series of brutal battles against overwhelming odds, after slaying several mythical monsters, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover catch up to Kronos in the throne room of the main palace at Olympus.

After fighting Kronos for a while, Annabeth is injured and Percy is disarmed. Kronos, noticing the way Percy is effected by her injury, maneuvers between the two demigods, and threatens to kill her should Percy continue. At this point, Percy gets Annabeth's knife and Luke regains a small bit of control over his body. He begs Percy give him the knife so that he can kill himself. He knows that if Percy tries to kill him, Kronos will be able to stop him. Percy realizes that this is the decision of the prophesy. Can he trust the humanity of his former friend? Percy gives the knife to Luke, who then unbuckles his armor, and stabs himself just below his arm, in the only remaining mortal part of his body. Luke dies, and Kronos, who was not yet strong enough to manifest in his true form, is once again defeated.

Just as Kronos is defeated, the gods march into the palace at Olympus ready to do battle, only to find that the kids have already taken care of it. They set about repairing the damage to their thrones, then the council of the gods meets to discuss aftermath of the war. As reward for their service in the war, Grover is made a Lord of the Wild Council. Annabeth, whose dream is to be an architect, is given the job of redesigning Olympus however she sees fit. Percy, who led the defenders of Olympus and ultimately saved the gods, is granted one wish. The gods offer him immortality and a place as one of them for eternity. He turns this down in order to stay mortal and live his life with Annabeth. Instead of becoming a god, Percy makes the gods swear on the Styx that they will do a better job of claiming their children and getting them to Camp Half-blood, as well as recognizing every god including the minor ones at Olympus.'

The weights of my friend's deaths began to rain on me once again. Charles Beckendorf. Silena Beauregard. Michael Yew. The annoying Lord of the Wild Silenus. Ethan Nakumara, the one that saved me from Tartarus. And of course, Luke Castellan. Percy's war had became my war as I did everything he did, I thought everything he thought, I felt everything he felt.

Only one question remained.

Would I survive?

Gave up trying to write the entire book series in Thea's perspectives so I'm just doing 3rd person summaries.