Blood of Olympus

Chapter Six: Piper

A/N: Hi, it's me! Sorry Piper's POV keeps coming up. i like doing her POV. please review ;)

PIPER.

Piper sat, terrified. She watched in horror as a 13 year old, Percy Jackson struggle under the weight of the sky. There was a battle raging on around him. His arms and legs were shaking and he wasn't screaming in pain or anything, Piper could tell he was using all his energy. His body was covered in cuts and bruises and he was bleeding all over. She saw pure pain in his eyes. His breathing was loud and shaky and he looked as if he was about to be flattned. That's when the picture shifted.

Piper saw, right before her eyes, the Olympian throne room. There were twelve thrones sitting in a semi-circle. Piper saw a sixteen year old, Annabeth lying half-dead on the floor, there was a satyr next to her, feeding her nectar and ambrosia. Once Percy realised what vision was being shown he roared out at Geryon, who still didn't listen. Piper was crying, she hated seeing Percy like this. She continued watching and saw Percy, younger Percy, handing Annabeth's celestial bronze dagger, which was now lost forever, over to a man. He looked about in his twenties and had blonde hair and a horrible scar going up his face. Piper realised that the boy was Luke. Piper watched Luke raising the dagger and stabbing himself in the shoulder. That's when real-life Percy jumped up. He somehow freed himself from his bonds and leaped at Geryon. He tackled him to the ground and punched him in the face. The two Laistrygonians grabbed Percy by the arms and Piper saw his ballpoint pen, Riptide, skitter across the floor. The two giants threw him on to the floor and started hitting him with their clubs. Percy yelled in pain. Piper screamed out and tried to run towards him but the giant just flung her to the ground.

"Get his arms!" Geryon commanded. The giants did as they were told and got hold of either of Percy's arms. "I'm going to enjoy this."

Geryon raised his sword and sliced down through Percy's shirt, ripping it in half and giving him a horrible cut going from his stomach to his chest. Percy wailed in agony. Piper was screaming and shouting at Geryon. She had no weapon, the giants had taked Katoptris from her, and it didn't reappear in her pocket like Riptide. Riptide. That's when Piper got the idea. She grabbed Percy's ballpoint pen and held it as far away from herself as possible, while carefully removing the cap. The pen transformed into a celestial bronze sword that Piper could barely hold the weight of. She came up behind Geryon and stabbed him right through his middle chest. Geryon wailed and the two giants dropped Percy on the floor. Piper expected Geryon to explode into gold dust but that didn't happen. He immedietley recovered and turned to Piper. "Stupid demigod," he cackled, "you don't get it." He raised his sword and Piper scrambled out of the way and Geryon's sword struck the ground. "Piper!" Percy yelled at her. He slid her knife, Katoptris over to her. He must have somehow stolen it off one of the Laistrygonian. Piper picked up her knife and threw Riptide back to Percy. His shirt was soaked with blood and was completely ripped in half.  His face was pale but he looked ready to fight. Piper didn't know how he did it, if that had happened to her, she probably would've shriveled up on the ground and cried. Piper knew Percy was brave, but not this brave. She didn't realise he had gone through so much in his past.

Percy stabbed one of the Laistrygonians in the back and it turned into golden dust. He slashed the other one through the chest and it dissolved too.

Piper got too distracted and didn't see Geryon sneeking up behind her. He grabbed her by the neck and had one arm around her shoulders and the other arm was holding a knife against her throught.

"Drop the sword, Percy Jackson, and give in, and your friend will live." Geryon demanded. Fear flashed through Percy's eyes. Piper met his eyes and sent him a silent message that said, lets kick this  guy's but. Percy knodded. He gestured towards Piper's knife. It was still in her hand, gods, she felt stupid. She brought her knife up and stabbed Geryon's left chest. Geryon wailed in agony and let go of Piper, clenching his wound and dropping to his knees. Piper ran to Percy's side once she was free. She almost yelped when she saw Percy's wound up close. "Gods! Percy are you okay?" she asked.

"I-I'm fine," he said,"now lets kick some monster heini!" he said, enthusiastically. "Oh, and by the way, he has three hearts, so if you want to kill him, you have to cut through all his hearts at once." he explained.

"How did you kill him last time then?" she asked. Percy opened his mouth to say something, but he gasped and yelled, "DUCK!" She did as she was told and ducked down. Percy stabbed Geryon through his middle chest. Geryon once again dropped to his knees, but started recovering faster.

Piper stood up. "Thanks," she murmered. 

"No problem." Percy responed. Piper thought hard how they were going to kill this thing, then she got a plan.

"Ok, I got it, I'm going to distract Geryon, you come up behind him a cut through all his chests at once with Riptide." She explained.

"Piper, that's really dangerous," Percy whispered, " you could get hurt-" 

"I'll be fine," she reassured him, " as long as you keep doing all that heroic stuff I heard you're so good at." He smirked.

"Deal." he chuckled. "Be careful." Piper nodded.

"Ugh, what's taking so long Geryong?" Piper asked. " Get up already."

"Geryon!" Geryon corrected, "MY NAME IS GERYON!"

"Whatever, same thing." she said. Suddenley Geryon charged at her, she screamed as he knocked her to the ground. She brought up Katoptris and stabbed his left chest and he bellowed in rage, but he was still focused on stabbing through her only heart.

Just when Piper thought she was a goner, Percy came up behind Geryon and slashed right through his three chests. Geryon wailed as he disintigrated, his essence returning to Tarturaus.

When Geryon dissapeared, Percy dropped to his knees, clenching his chest. Piper ran to his side. His cut from earlier was still bleeding horribley. "Percy, " she stuttered, " you are most definetley not okay!"

His cut was bleeding and he was covered in horrible bruises. His eyes were full of hurt, from his recent flashbacks. Piper thought she would never look at Percy the same again.

"You-" Percy coughed, "You have to get back to the others."

"You're coming too, water boy." Piper stated.

"Piper, it's hopeless, you have to go," he groaned.

"Percy Jackson, do you realise what Annabeth would to to me if I came back without you? She needs you, so does the crew, now come on, we got a world to save!" she chanted.

Percy chuckled, " Wow Piper, you sound like you're in some sort of hero-movie." He struggled to his feet, clenching his gut with one arm, the other over Piper's shoulders supporting him.

"Lets get out of here," Percy said.