Ricochet (PJO/HOO)

"Oh Perseus, look at you all alone" Gaea taunted

"You will never succeed sea spawn, all your precious friends out there, they will die just like the others you have killed before." She spat

She was right, bile rose in my throat, it was all my fault.

"Face it Perseus, your a murderer" she sneered while absentmindedly picking at her nails, as if she didn't have a care in the world.

I did murder them, it was my fault, I left them to that fate.

I shook my head, they sacrificed themselves for a better world. And I'll be damned if I let that go to waste.

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Time stopped on the battle field, as Gaea was swallowed by the earth.

For a moment it was silent but was disrupted as a limp body fell to the ground, its thump reaching all ears.

With dull eyes of the sea and a metal staff coated in poison protruding from the chest laid Perseus Jackson with his dying breath.

Tears, cries and mourning followed at the funeral, but the ocean had other plans.