Percy Jackson: Improved

Chapter 11

Percy's POV

I felt the bed I was lying on. It was soft. Where am I? I opened my eyes; I was facing a golden ceiling. Wait! A golden ceiling? The golden ceiling of the house of Zeus? Why am I here? I slowly sat up and looked around. There were millions of statues of Zeus. I rolled my eyes, how typical of him. Maybe he should be the god of modelling. "Percy." I heard. I turned towards the direction of the sound and saw that it was Hera.

"Percy, I suppose you know why you are here?" She said again. I scrunched my eyebrows and cocked my head to the right. What is she talking about? Then I remembered. "Um... the next quest?" She smiled and nodded. She waved her hand and a plate of sandwiches appeared. "Have some; we will talk about it later." I gladly took the plate and stuffed myself with the mouth-watering sandwiches. "My favourite! Thanks Aunt Hera!"

"Okay Percy, I know this is one of Hercules' labours but my mission for you is to get the apples of immortality. I will teleport you there now." I took her hand and we teleported to the base of Mount Othrys. "Good luck my young hero, if you can't make it, it is okay, got that?" I nodded and smirked, "I'm too awesome to die!" laughter filled the air and with in a flash, she teleported away.

I walked up taking riptide out of my pocket and holding it in my hands. If I can defeat Lupa, a drakon should be no problem. I walked towards Ladon and prepared to fight. I know you must be thinking why don't I just creep around him? Why do I have to fight him? Well, you see, the tree is protected with boundaries that you can only pass it when Ladon is defeated. Ladon growled. Wait! Drakons can growl? Wow... I never knew that. I charged him without making a sound. As if it sensed me, it turned around and attempted to spit poison at me. I dodged out of the way and rolled on the grass for a couple of seconds before halting to a stop. I pulled out my stygian iron sword that I received from Uncle Hades and wield it together with riptide. I had been learning how to dual-wield for some time but have never really put it to use, especially when fighting monsters. Once again, I sprinted to the drakon and slash riptide towards one of its head and darkness at the body. Wait! If I slice off all of his heads, won't he be pretty much dead? I sliced off another head and smirked. I stepped into the shadows and hid in it, occasionally slicing a head of it. I felt myself losing energy from constantly using manipulation over shadows and I stepped out of the shadows, both swords in hand. I stabbed him with both swords in the tail. I jumped on to its back and jabbed my swords in, pushing it in with all my effort. The swords submerged till the blades were all in the flesh. I pulled out many swords in a flash to block the poison coming for my way. I jumped off it before the poison hit me. I growled. With my swords in an X formation, the head that came towards me was chopped into four pieces of different sizes. I stared at it and almost vomited. Eww... that is so disturbing. How many heads are there left? 1...2...3...48 that's impossible, I'm already half-dead how am I going to slice off so many more heads? I grimaced and went on slashing the heads coming my way. Just as I was about to slice off another head, I felt a burning sensation on my back. My skin felt like it was boiling, pain went through me, like an arrow. Poison... the thing that hurt me most... I could not stand straight anymore, my back slouch under the tremendous pain. I felt like collapsing right there and then. I dropped on to my knees and my sight went all fuzzy. I could suddenly feel the can of nectar in my pocket and sipped it. Like a miracle, I felt much better, the poison sucked out of my blood and body, and energized once again. I capped riptide and placed it in my pocket and willed darkness to disappear.

I summoned my bow and the paralysing poisoned arrows that Artemis had given me. Loading my bow with three arrows, I shot it at the body, the legs and one of the head so that it can be paralysed faster. I then summoned usual arrows, lilting them on fire with Greek fire. I shot each arrow with such precision and speed that only the twin archery gods could beat. I saw the effects of the poison working as the drakon collapsed on to the ground, with Greek fire surrounding it. The drakon caught on fire, green fire surrounding the body. I could see it in pain. It went burning for a while until the whole drakon was burnt off, golden dust flowing in the air, disappearing. I freaking managed to defeat Ladon! Yes! I ran to the tree in joy and plucked off one of the golden apples. I was tempted to eat it, wanting to know how it tastes like but dismissed the temptation, knowing this was the power of the apple. I raised the apple high up, bouncing in joy before sitting down and drinking nectar and eating the ambrosia in my bag. With a golden flash, Hera appeared. She looked at me with pride in her eyes.

"I told you I am too awesome to die! And there's no way I will die so young..." She laughed and stretched out her hands for the apple. I tossed her the apple and asked "What are you going to do with the apple Aunt Hera?"

"I'm going to keep it until the right time and the right hero to give to." And with that, she disappeared.

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