Dark Percy, the Fall of Olympus

Chapter 8

A/N hey guys, sorry about the long break in between, I am trying to pre write and edit before I publish to give you guys the best experience possible. anyways, enjoy, comment, vote I'm always open to some constructive criticism. 

It took me a couple of hours to reach the shrine and I needed to mentally prepare myself for the task at hand. I needed to think back to when I was twelve and first defeated the god of war. Back then I had the power of the ocean to assist me, it gave me strength, power. This time I will have no such advantage. I was fighting the god on his own turf. And as I looked at a map of the city, I became aware of another issue. My destination was heavily populated by mortals. So now I needed to devise a way to lead the god away from the city so that he couldn't turn them against me. Not that they could hurt me, but I couldn't necessarily hurt them with riptide either, and if I could I feel like there would be a lot more than ichor staining the streets.

So I mapped out the terrain, calculated any advantages, disadvantages and weaknesses that were present. And I racked my brain as hard as I could, despite popular belief, I'm not as stupid as people think, especially when it comes to something as serious as this. I climbed out of the truck and began to make my way to the shrine, I don't know how to explain it but it was like I had a radar, I just felt around for where anger and hostility seemed to be most present. And I finally reached it, I looked at the building and (not surprisingly) Ares' shrine was in a Harley Davidson motorcycle shop. I looked around at the expensive bikes and thought to myself. 'What's the best way to piss off the god of war?' and then it struck me 'destroy his stupid ass bikes'

And so that's exactly what I did, I uncapped Riptide and walked to the nearest bike. Using both of my hands I brought my blade above my head, and completely cleaved it in half. And then I just destroyed to my heart's content. Everything that I could get my hands on I decided to demolish and I was filled with some sort of glee and satisfaction and then I felt an intense heat throw me back, singeing my clothes and knocking me into a wall as Ares appeared in a column of flame.

"What in the name of Tartarus are you doing kid?!" his fiery eyes burning blue and his facial expression grim.

I got up, my clothes and skin smoking but unharmed.

"You wouldn't fulfill my wish Ares, and I'm going to get my revenge. Olympus will fall, but not to an army, to a single demigod...me."

Ares had the nerve to laugh, the arrogant, hard headed, war machine that he is was incapable of understanding the severity of the threat I had just placed upon him and his family.

"Do you really, truly think that someone like you? A weak, idiotic halfblood. Could bring an end to the gods? Kronos, an actual titan just tried that, and you know where that got him, after all, YOU were the one to defeat him."

"Don't lecture me, god of war. I had one wish, ONE WISH. it wasn't complicated, there was little risk, she hadn't even been dead for a day. You know very well that the council could have brought her back to me, but what did you do instead?"

Ares hesitated in his response, he cast his gaze to the floor, knowing very well that I was right.

"Look...kid..."

"You sat idly by as I made my one wish and DENIED ME!" tears were streaming out of my eyes, tears of grief, grief I was finally letting loose. But a deadly calm washed over me.

"And if the gods can't grant me my wish, then I will have to force them to." I lifted Riptide and strode towards the god, ready to face him and then find a way to make him fade into the void in the pits of Tartarus. He sighed, in what almost seemed like pity, the cocky son of a bitch I could tell he already thought he had won.