Son Of Darkness

Chapter-7

POV: Percy

Percy was awoken from his exhausted sleep from the jolting of the elevator as it landed and then stopped.

Getting wearily to his feet, he patted his hellhound on its massive head and tried to shake himself out of his fatigued stupor.

Judging from the sounds outside the door, the monster army was still out there, and they would not be happy to see him.

The adrenaline from his battle to get to the doors in Tartarus had worn off, but he felt as if something inside of him had broken when he used those powers. Something that couldn't be fixed.

A loud ding resounded, and moments later, the doors opened, blinding him with the sudden sunlight.

His hellhound bounded out, obviously happy to be out of Tartarus. Percy followed, still blinking rapidly at the brightness of the surface.

When he could see again, he became aware of what was happening all at once.

The entire monster army was staring at him in shock, and his friends looked to be stuck in a cage trying to cover for Leo who was burning a hole in the side of it.

"What are you waiting for fools? Attack!"

A war cry came from the army and they all surged forward.

He uncapped Riptide and got into an attack stance. Whistling to his hellhound, he called it over to him and jumped on top, telling it to attack.

The army crashed into him like a wave and he ripped his way through it, his sword swinging at the speed of lightening. But one thing bugged his mind.

When he had looked over at his friends, he hadn't seen Annabeth among them, or Nico for that matter.

Adrenaline coursed through him just as it had when he had fought his way to the doors in Tartarus, and in a moment's glance he made eye contact with Jason.

Jason nodded his head towards a group of big cyclops. And that's when Percy noticed something that he had looked over before.

Annabeth was at the foot of a big cyclops' chair, and he was stroking her like she was some sort of animal.

Anger flared in the pit of his stomach as he saw the cyclops pull on her hair as she tried to run away.

"Don't touch her!"

A wave of pure energy rolled off of him, immediately vaporising any monsters nearby, and creating an invisible barrier between the remaining army and their general. Isolating the group of cyclops that had Annabeth from their protection.

A sneer once again took over the cyclops' face and he held up Annabeth in the air by her hair.

She cried out in pain and tried to get away but to know avail.

"Who? Her? What are you going to do about it half-blood?".

The thing spit out the word as if it tasted bad.

His sneer was wiped off of his face as the ground beneath him began to shake.

Percy held out his hand and grasped control of the cyclops' blood. It's eyes widened as it realized what he was doing.