The Broken and the Hunted (Percy Jackson Fanfic)

chapter 9

Third person P.O.V.

The alarm on her phone beeped on the top of an apartment building in Manhattan. The girl beside it picked up her phone and she saw that she had no messages or missed calls. 'so no one cares about me after all.' she thought to herself.

She climbed up onto the ledge of the roof and looked down to the busy street below. A tear slowly rolled down her face. After going so long, putting up with everything, she was finally broken. She closed her eyes and mentally readied herself to fall. She heard a thump beside her and quickly opened her eyes and looked beside her hope filling her heart for a moment. Standing a few feet away from her was a young man dressed in black had placed a big gym bag on the ledge. "Are you going to jump?" He asked her.

The question made her pause for a moment "yes and there is nothing you can do to stop me I don't have anything left in this world anymore so it doesn't need me." She declared sadly .

He was quiet for a moment "why would you say that?"

"No one cares about me. My mom never wanted me, my dad ignores me, my step mom abuses me, and my one friend didn't care enough to stop me from jumping so in going to..."

He cut her off "hahaha that just means your free from them then, don't kill yourself. With nothing to hold you down you should go out and have an adventure visit new places, because you always have something to live for... Yourself you don't need anyone else to make you happy, if something doesn't make you happy then exclude it from your life." He said as he opened his back and brought out a large case.

" What's that?" she asked him.

"This..." He said as he opened it up and started putting something together " is a Barrett M90 Anti Material rifle" as he held up the massive gun.

She panicked a little and stumbled backwards. He just chuckled and leaned it against the ledge. And pulled two pairs of binoculars from his bag and placed one by her. He motioned her to get them and then to a building. "Look at that building, the tall one with the armed guards around it. Top floor third window from the left. Just turned the lights on. See that man? He is Marcos 'Rafael' Rosea. Better known as 'el que trae la muerte', the death bringer."

"He is the head of 'los comedores de dios' a very powerful cartel that has roots in every major country in the world and everything from drugs to human trafficking. He has ordered the murders of thousands, personally killed hundreds himself. He also has a bounty of several million on his head. That's the reason in here. Now just keep an eye on him for me while I set up if you can, thank you Hun."

She just stood there shocked while he set up his rifle on its bipod and turned the nobs on the scope. She looked back through the binoculars to watch the ordinary man sit behind his desk flipping through a stack of papers. "Ghost 2, ghost 3, this is ghost 1 how copy? " She turned and saw him holding a small headset to his ear.

"I have a visual on the target. Positive condensation on the target this is our guy, anyone have a clear shot?"

"Copy, of we can get him to stand up I have a clear shot over."

He turned and glanced at me "he is a son of Hercules blessed by Ares himself before he went off the radar. Recently he started focusing on kidnapping daughters of Aphrodite and making them become prostitute's. But when Aphrodite found out she became furious the only reason he is still alive right now is because she can't kill him herself. So she did the next best thing, putting a hefty price on his head." He looked back through his scope And sighed "bah this is a bad spot I need to move over a bit, any way word spread and my team cought wind of it and tracked him down and I must say he knows how to cover his tracks he was hard to find."

"Wait Wait what are you talking about the Greek gods?" She asked him confused.

He just looked over at her and then stood up "yes. The Greek gods are real and they have kids sometimes and bla bla bla quests and shit yada yada monsters and magic all that good stuff." He walked over closer to her before setting up his rifle again.

"No that can't be real I don't belive you." She said in disbelieve backing away more.

He just grinned and flicked his hand up. To her amazement water from his bag floated up in the air holding something. He waved his hand and the water came over to him and placed the object in his hand. He reached up and screwed it onto the end of the barrel. "We are in the city, got to keep it quiet." He said winking at her.

"How did you do that what was that?" She asked bewildered.

"Im a son of Poseidon. So I have controle over water, among other things."

She slumped down at sat down trying to make since of everything she just heard. While she sat there he looked back through his scope in time to see his target stand up and walk around his desk. "You know if you don't want to live this life anymore I could take it." He pulled the trigger feeling the powerful recoil against his shoulder.

He watched the bullet fly through the air and hit the window then the man standing by it, then the wall behind him. "Confirmed hit can anyone verify the kill?" He asked into his headset. He then turned to the girl on the roof with him seeing a scared look in her eye. "Hahaha you were about to jump to your death and now your scared I said I could take your life. Haha no I didn't mean like that. I said take this life and give you a new one. Come with me, let's have an adventure."

She sat there and thought about it. She looked at her phone one last time and let it slide through her fingers to the ground far below. With a smile on her lips she nodded. He gave a big smile of his own "That's the way to do it haha. What's your name hun? Im Talon."

"Lisa"

"Well Lisa you should smile more when you do you look like an Angel."

The girl opened her eyes with a soft smile on her lips. Happy about her dream of the first time she met him. "Hey Angel come on and get something to eat we have a meeting at 5" a voice said from the hall outside her room.

"Alright I will be right there." Angel said.

Then she felt the surge of power. She knew that Talon was angered and that Akuma was in control right now. She was ready when Thanatos summoned them to contain him.

After the sealing was complete and he was knocked out she spun around seeing all the gods and yelled at them. After Talon woke back up and left she glared at all the gods again "you fools after all he has done for you, after you used him so much. You just come back demanding more from him. Just leave him alone he has suffered enough because of you."

"Peace Angel. Go back we will talk about this later, alright?" Thanatos said placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Fine, but you think about what you have done to the best man that has ever walked in this world. You broke him, remember that you did this." With that Angel and all the others were flashed away by the god of death. With a sigh he turned to the other gods for another round of questions.