Percy POV
I was completely alone. I really didn't think it'd end this way, not after everything I've been through. No friends, no family, just the monsters surrounding me to bear witness to my final moments. I coughed up blood, spitting it out onto the ground.
"If this is how it's going to end... Then so be it! But I'm not going down without a fight!"
My grip on Riptide tightened and I looked around again, I was absolutely surrounded. Hordes of monsters, littering the forest I was in; from Cyclopes to Hellhounds to Hydras and Empousai, there they were. The next few minutes— or hours, I wasn't sure—
were a blur of movement. My blade sliced through everything in its path, I dodged several jaws, claws, and clubs, and some I didn't. My personal hurricane kept most of the arrows at bay, but after a while, even that began to die down.
There was only about a quarter of the monsters left when I felt the arrows pierce my right thigh and left shoulder. I sank to one knee, cursing my luck. The monsters were circled around me, aggressively closing in. I was bleeding heavily and could barely move but I swung my swords in a wide arc as best I could, sending a few of them back to the hell they came from.
"You have done well, Perseus!" a voice boomed, "I would've never guessed you'd survive so long!" My head shot up in search of the source and I found it in the form of a giant. Polybotes.
My father's bane sneered at me, swinging his trident nonchalantly as he walked closer. I could barely pick up my sword anymore and I my breathing was laboured, but that wasn't going to stop me from insulting the fool. "Polybotes... Didn't I beat you over the head with a statue? I'm pretty sure that happened." The giant war was only one year ago, and Percy was sure Polybotes couldn't have risen that quickly.
His face turned into a scowl and his knuckles tightened around his trident. "You're a pest and a thorn in my side. I'm glad HE decided to get rid of your first." He shook his head wildly and basilisks fell from his hair.
"Unfortunately, torturing you would take too long. This'll have to be quick. Goodbye, son of the sea." The poisonous snakes slithered towards me and wrapped around my body, their touch poisoning me. I screamed in pain and even after they slithered away,
my skin was still blackening and spreading throughout my body. I couldn't move, stuck in a perpetual loop of pain and agony. The giant said one more thing to me, but I couldn't even hear anymore.
In one swift movement, his trident pierced my chest.
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