Betrayal

-1 hour later-

[Storm clouds gathers and starts raining heavily]

Thunder and lightning flashed across the sky

Two men holding their swords faced each other in the rain.

"Ares give me the helmet" one points their sword at the other

"Defeat me to get it"

The two figures clashed

Sound of swords clashing echoes across the beach

Ares slashes down hard trying to knock the sword out of his hands.

Percy blocked and parried his sword before slashing out.

Ares bent his body backwards and quickly follows up with a stab

Percy jumped to the side, dodging before stabbing forewords

-Percy's POV-

We fought for over 3 minutes trying to hurt the other. Ares is better than me in strength and technique, quickly changing the tempo of the battle. He kept slashing and stabbing at me while I tried my best to block or parry.

He began pushing me back. I felt the water behind me and quickly willed it to push Ares back with a wave.

"You had the upper hand, but now you are in my territory now" I grinned

He seemed to have realized what had happened and tried to stab at me.

I parried his stab with the strength the water had given me and stabbed back injuring him.

"Sly bast*rd, you win this time" he said unwillingly

"PERCY DON'T LOOK HE'S SHOWING HIS TRUE FORM" Annabeth yelled at me

I quickly turned around as he became literally the sun.

Although it took a minute for the side effects to go away, I quickly took the helmet from the ground.

"Give me the helmet boy" I heard a voice from behind

It was a fury, Hades told us that he would send a someone to take the helmet once we defeated Ares.

"Here" I gave it the helmet "What about my mother?" I asked

"She has been returned to the mortal realm" it replied before leaving

-Alex's POV-

Percy was to return Hades helmet while I go to Olympus and return Zeus's Master Bolt.

After a few ups and downs we managed to return both items. 'Mission accomplished' I thought. We arrived at camp the next day. There was a huge celebration over the items being returned.

I walked over to Chiron "Glad that was over with" I told him

"Yes, all thanks to you Alex" he smiled

"Nah, all I did was help them secretly"

"And, you managed to stop another World War"

Me and Chiron went on to talk about the camp's development. 'Ah, we still need to replace the toilets' I thought before someone came over panicking.

"What is it?"

"P-Percy was stabbed"

"WHAT?"

I rushed over to where the kid said he was stabbed and checked his situation. Phew 'Hit none of the vitals' I breathed in relief.

"He's poisoned" I muttered before taking out a pill from my storage ring and fed it to him to prevent the poison from spreading

Annabeth asked me panicking "How is he?"

"Don't worry, my pill stopped the spread of the poison for now" I told her "Get your healers over"

Chiron took a bunch of Satyrs and took the crowd away from Percy's body before the healers came. After patching up and removing the poison they said that he would wake up in a day or two.

I walked back into the arena.

I thought to myself:

'You shall go west, and face the god who has turned, done, we defeated Ares'

'You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned, returned'

'You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend' I frowned 'I guess he was betrayed by someone he knows'

'And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.' I thought deeply about it 'what matters most to Percy? His friend? No. Annabeth? Nah, their relationship had just began. His M- ah I see, how tricky, he failed to save his mother since he did not manage to get the helmet before we met Hades'

'Tsk. stupid riddles' It costed me a lot of brain power just to solve that last one.

"Well I guess that's the end..... for now" I said to myself as I stared into the stars above