Son of Death and Home

Chapter 14 : Hydra and Frenemies

Chapter 14 is here.

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// Somewhere in the Chesapeake bay//

Percy's POV
A freaking Hydra. I was thinking about it's main qualities.
1. Spitting Acid
2. Flamethrower                                                                                                                                                                  3. 1 Immortal Head

Yeah, not the best odds but we have the number. Well technically 3, as I full well believe that Brendan might just prove a liability than an asset. Number is important in this battle right?

My train of thought was broken by Annabeth laying down our attack plan, "Okay, here's the plan. We split up in 3 different directions. I will take the left direction and use my invisibility cap. Percy you take the front and Brendan you take the right and Tyson........"

She was interrupted by a loud rumbling, which could only mean two things. One, that was Tyson's stomach rumbling or two that the Hydra was moving. I wanted to go with the former but the latter seemed more plausible.

I took a peak over the bushes and it was not a pretty sight. The Hydra was moving towards us and all of its 5 heads were spitting acid here and there. I ducked under and instructed, " No time for instructions, take your positions. Tyson go with Brendan or Annabeth. I'll cause a distraction and then you can sneak up on it and cut its head off. Now scram!"

All three of them went in different directions, while I brought out my twin swords, Riptide and Deathnote. "Hey ugly, over here." I called out to the Hydra, waving my swords. Shocked? Well I wasn't going to call it beautiful. That would be horrible. It started using his heads to attack me and I was about to cut its head off when i heard someone scream "No!" Well, it was to late to stop my swing and then then after my sword cut the head off I realized that it was a warning. 

Once you cut the head off, you would expect a stump but in the Hydra's case 2 more grew to start snapping at you and spitting acid and fire. The fire didn't damage me but because of the acid I had to keep dodging. Brendan, Tyson and Annabeth were fight 4 heads in all while I was stuck alone with 3 heads. I was racking my brain while dodging on how to destroy the stump when I remembered the Lernean Hydra's former killer. The jerk Heracles. He used fire, but I could not use Razorsong in close ranged battle. 

Then I tried to do something that I had not done ever. Lighting my swords on fire. I didn't know if they could burn so i sent a quick prayer to Mom asking about the sword. While I sent the prayer, I was parrying each head but not slicing it off should 2 more grow back. I was tiring and I needed to do something fast. I could even see Annabeth struggling, while Brendan was bleeding in several places. I took pity on that guy, maybe I could try to teach him swordplay.

Yes Percy, you can. They are immune to the flames. I heard Mom's voice in my head and that's when I decided to go ballistic. Both my swords bust into flame and my helm appeared on my head. I was radiating a fiery aura and maybe I saw fear in The Hydra's eyes for a milisecond but then it was more determined to chew me up.

I started moving, first I went towards Annabeth and sliced off one head and burned the stump with the flat end of the other sword. Soon after she was left to fight with no heads. 2 down, 5 to go. With that determination I called out to Tyson and Brendan to cut off the two heads while I burned them with my swords.

That left the 3 heads I was initially fighting. When the immortal head saw - the middle one had to be immortal - that it had lost 4 heads it swung its tail knocking out Tyson and Brendan.