Battle of Manhattan, Part Two

Drakon Attack

@Percy Jackson soon sleeps again, and dreams of the @Atlantis Royal Palace, with @Tyson fighting, and the monsters staying at @Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium; @Medusa's old place. @Kronos is suspicious of Percy's Achilles spot and tells @Ethan Nakamura to remember what spot @Annabeth Chase protected from him, though Ethan does not seem to remember, as he wasn't aiming at any particular spot. Following this is another vision of how May Castellan came to be delirious, by trying to take the old Oracle's power. The Oracle had been cursed earlier by @Hades, cursing Ms. Castellan as well. When Percy wakes, a full-scale battle is going on.

Percy rushes outside and takes on @Hyperion, one of the Titans and the former god of the light in a fight meters away from Central Park's reservoir. After an intense sword duel against the @Titan, eventually Percy wins by overwhelming his opponent with a powerful hurricane, at which point the satyrs turning Hyperion into a nice maple tree. Just as Percy finishes, the Clazmonian Sow soars through New York sent by Kronos. Percy wakes up some automatons like the Hermes statue and two Lions that were in front of the @New York Public Library using Daedalus Twenty-three, telling them to attack it.

The automatons defeat the pig and Percy returns to the battle. There is another attack, but the campers win when the Party Ponies come to fight alongside them using paintball guns with celestial bronze powder mixed in. After the invading army retreats, Percy learns that the gods are losing against @Typhon, and that @Hephaestus and @Dionysus are injured. A helicopter appears with @Rachel Elizabeth Dare in it, but the pilot has fallen asleep, putting her in danger, Annabeth, Percy, and Guido (a pegasi and one of Blackjack's pegasi friends) go to save her and Annabeth stops and lands the helicopter while amazing Percy that she could fly a helicopter so easily.

Rachel tells Percy she had a vision, and that Percy is not the true hero mentioned in the Great Prophecy. Percy later dreams of the Underworld, where @Nico di Angelo tries to persuade Hades to help with the war. @Hades refuses, and Percy starts to dream about the United Nations complex. Kronos and his army are occupying it, and Kronos reveals that he will not hold Luke's form forever. Kronos interrogates Ethan about Percy's weak spot, but Ethan denies his knowledge. Percy wakes up and finds that a gigantic @Drakon is attacking them, and Rachel tells them that a child of @Ares will kill it. Percy, Annabeth, and @Mrs. O'Leary (Percy's hellhound pet from Daedalus after @Daedalus died) try their best to battle the drakon. Suddenly, a girl in @Clarisse La Rue's armor appears, leading the Ares kids into battle, but the drakon fatally attacks her with poisonous spray. It is quickly revealed (after being poisoned) that this girl is not actually Clarisse, but is @Silena Beauregard disguised as Clarisse to inspire the Ares children to fight.

Silena, who is dying from her attack on the drakon, reveals that she was the spy by showing them her scythe charm. Because Luke had been kind to her years before, he set her up as the spy, offering not to harm @Charles Beckendorf. He had broken this promise however and Silena had lost faith in him and felt guilt for betraying the camp, but continued to feed information to him because he was blackmailing her. Silena soon dies, thinking of Beckendorf. Clarisse's bitterness becomes unstoppable rage (just like Achilles going into unstoppable rage in the Trojan War after he heard his companion, @Patroclus, was killed by Hector) and she charges at Kronos' army without any armor to protect herself and goes on a killing spree against Kronos' army. Ares gives her his blessing and she becomes just as invincible as Percy, if not more so and she takes out the Lydian Drakon by plunging her spear into its body and snaps it, unleashing a surge of energy. She then drags the empty shell behind her and challenges anyone to face her, even calling Kronos a coward in the process. Percy arrives at Olympus and runs into @Hestia.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare speaks with Hestia about her fate, and tells Percy that his and her destinies are not entwined, cryptically mentioning her calling. When Hestia asks about @Pandora's Box, Percy considers surrender but then decides against it. He then decides to leave the pithos with Hestia, proclaiming that Hope survives best at the hearth. Hestia supports this decision. Percy then goes to the @Chambers of the Gods and sits on Poseidon's Throne to attract his attention, eventually convincing him to leave his underwater palace and help the other gods defeat Typhon who is getting closer to Olympus. (Poseidon protests that his game room would be destroyed). Poseidon reluctantly agrees but says that it will result in his palace being destroyed by the Titan of the sea, @Oceanus. As Typhon enters the Hudson River, Tyson leading an army of Cyclopes emerge from the water and wrap Typhon up in chains and Poseidon uses his power to send him to Tartarus. Percy feels that this could turn the tide of battle when suddenly Thalia bursts in and tells Percy to come back down immediately. At the base of the @Empire State Building outside the empty lobby, they find the campers, @Hunters of Artemis, and Party Ponies all being attacked in a surprise move by Kronos.

Final Fight

Kronos blasts @Chiron into the side of a building and the wall collapses on him. Annabeth, Percy, and @Thalia Grace run to help him, and Annabeth, in her fury, attacks Kronos with her knife, which bounces off his skin and dislocates her injured shoulder. Nico, Hades, and Mrs. O'Leary appear from the Underworld to assist in the battle against Kronos. @Paul Blofis and @Sally Jackson appear as well, with Paul killing a Dracaena and Sally firing a pump shotgun at a @Laistrygonian Giant, which Nico later finishes off. As they fight, it becomes more and more clear that Kronos is struggling for control over Luke. When Hades, @Demeter, and @Persephone challenge Kronos, he tries to cut off Olympus from New York City, which would isolate it from the rest of the world by destroying the land bridge connecting Olympus to the Empire State Building. However, Kronos doesn't know that Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, and Thalia Grace are trailing him and Ethan Nakamura.

As Percy runs to the main palace (the @Chambers of the Gods), Thalia is pinned down by a statue of Hera that almost falls on Annabeth and is unable to continue moving because her legs are pinned under it. Percy confronts Kronos there and convinces Ethan that siding with Kronos is not good for him. Ethan thus attacks Kronos and dies in the process. A climactic sword fight breaks out between the two, where they seem evenly matched because of Kronos's chronokinetic powers, Luke's expert swordsmanship and Percy bearing the Curse of Achilles. When Kronos attacks Hephaestus's chair, it launches an explosion that briefly incapacitates Kronos so he orders for Ethan to attack for him, but Percy persuades Ethan to turn on Kronos based on the fact that Ethan's mother, @Nemesis, is the Goddess of Balance and Kronos ultimately knows no balance, only destruction. Ethan tries to attack Kronos, but the Curse of Achilles protects Kronos, who drops Ethan through @Olympus, dropping him back down to @New York and killing him. Kronos returns to the fight and Percy continually attacks Kronos as Typhon's rampage draws ever closer to New York City, being held back by the gods. Poseidon arrives as Typhon enters the Hudson River and together the gods defeat Typhon by pulling him down to @Tartarus - Tyson and @Briares led the charge alongside Poseidon, commanding a horde of Cyclopes.

Enraged at Typhon's defeat, Kronos furiously attacks Percy and violently disarms him with the first move that Luke taught Percy, then preparing to finally kill him. However, Annabeth interferes, reminding Luke that he promised not to let her get hurt years ago. Slowly, Luke overpowers Kronos, but Kronos starts to change into his former body. As Percy held Annabeth's knife in his hand ready to strike, Luke said that he had to do it himself because if Percy attacked, Kronos would try to defend himself. Percy remembers what Rachel Elizabeth Dare told him about not being the hero, so he gives the knife to Luke, who kills himself in order to destroy Kronos (that was how Percy played into the prophecy, his important decision was whether or not to give Luke Annabeth's knife). Kronos is scattered, hopefully unable to ever form a consciousness again, let alone a body. As Luke lies dying, he asks Annabeth if she loved him, and she replies that she only loved him like a brother. He breathes his last wish that there will be no more unclaimed demigods, and Percy promises to make sure it won't happen again.

Luke dies just as all of the gods arrive in the @Chambers of the Gods prepared to fight Kronos together in battle form but are stunned to see Luke already dead (Kronos essence dispersed), and Annabeth and Percy there battle weary. Soon after, Zeus calls for a council of the gods to decide what to do with the near destruction of Olympus and how to reward Percy, Annabeth, @Grover Underwood, and Tyson.

The End

The @Sisters of Fate come personally to retrieve Luke's body. The gods arrive and reward and honor each of the main heroes, ensuring that the deceased @Hunters of Artemis and demigods achieve @Elysium; promoting Tyson to a general of the Cyclopes army under his father, Poseidon; making Grover Underwood a member of the Council of Cloven Elders and a Lord protector of the Wild; having Annabeth Chase become the official architect for Olympus and eventually offering Percy Jackson the chance to become a god and achieve immortality. However, he declines so he can have a "normal" life with Annabeth and his friends as a regular mortal - on the stipulation that the gods recognize every child they have, that all minor gods' children and Hades' children have a place at Camp Half-Blood, that no child is abandoned or made to feel abandoned, and that the peaceful Titans like @Calypso are freed.

The gods (somewhat reluctantly) agree and Percy makes the gods swear on the River Styx for he believes that the gods can't hold on to their oath. @Grover Underwood becomes a member of the Council of Cloven Elders, campers begin to be claimed more often, Hades and other gods receive their own cabins, and the number of campers increases exponentially. Rachel also becomes the new Oracle.