Perseus: God of War Chapter Four: Of Lost Memoirs and Legendary Blade- Part B

As you are aware it is Shinju, this here is my first fanfic aptly named Perseus: God of War!

Today's chapter is the second part.

The chapter contains an M/R sequence please skip if need be…

The franchises Percy Jackson and God of War are owned by Rick Riordan and David Jaffe.

Any Greek/Latin words and phrases used are through Google Translate (Greek/Latin)

I don't beat around the bush so let start with the story:

30 Minutes ago, from last chapter's end

Liana POV

Location: Near Percy's Apartment

I walking back from the play ground near the apartment complex. It had been a tiring day. Estelle was a fiery nut-cracker from the moment I came for my daily job in the morning.

I still can't believe that I am working for The Percy Jackson, The Hero, The Legend. He had not been seen since the end of the Second Giant War. Well one can't really blame him. If I had to deal with Gods and Monsters on a daily basis while being part of quests and deal with two wars back-to-back, lose my memory within the same time, go through Tartarus for your girlfriend only to find said girlfriend cheating on you for the better part of your relationship. I would have left said world too.

I had met him and Estelle in a grocery shop looking for baby cereals and he was hopeless. I helped him a bit and found about his side of the story regarding Estelle. It was sad, to find out that Sally Jackson and Paul Blofis had perished under the orders of Gaea.

But Percy had been able to move on with his life and tried his best to provide Estelle with the love and care she deserved filling in the roles of both parents while handling his studies and work side by side.

I had tried to work for free since I was already better off and didn't really need the money, but Percy insisted that he pays. Humble and fair to the end, I suppose.

As I was turning around the corner, I saw a figure walking towards me. He had broad shoulders, black hair and had what looked like a furry coat around his neck. He had a baseball bat in his hand.

Same Time

Hercules POV

I was walking towards a bar trying to pick up some women. Father had been calling me for some time for the usual boring monthly meeting. Now that the war was over Olympians would meet periodically, BAH who cared about mortals. That too happened because Percy Jackson made the "humble wish" to bring the Olympians and their mortal children closer.

I was the God of War now and Strength and Heroes before. Heroes came under my wing and I could treat them as I fit. Percy Jackson, was a name struck in legends, a legend greater than Hercules, Me! Ha! Foolish exaggerations of foolish demigods. I have heard he still wields my blade. Mine!

I exited the bar after being rejected by couple of mortal women! They didn't know what they were missing, a God! I turned at the intersection to the right and saw a beautiful woman, luscious black hair with a toddler in her arms, probably a nanny since they were not related from the looks of it.

Bingo! If I could get her, my day was made. I proceeded to walk towards her.

Liana POV

M/R -Rated Sequence Start

He walked towards me and introduced himself, "Hello, I am Stan…"

I looked quizzically at him. He gave of a strange vibe, not of a monster something stronger… God, while I hadn't met any gods except my mother during the Second Titan War, I was still up to date with events at Olympus, Furry coat…skin…Lion skin…. Bat…. weapon…Club…. Hercules

"Lord Hercules, what can I do for you?" I politely asked.

"… Marks…er are you a demigod?" He asked.

"Yes, My Lord." I answered.

"Well, this makes it easier…would you like to get a drink?"

"No, my lord as you can see, I already have a child on my hands."

"Come on…. Just one drink…please." He whined.

"Respectfully, I will have to decline again." I answered and continued on my path.

Stop…he caught my free hand.

"You will not deny me woman…I am a God. An Olympian." He looked angry.

I shook my fears away and tried to swipe my hand away from him but as the God of strength, it was nigh impossible.

"Please, let me go My Lord." I pleaded. He still didn't let me go, so gathering all my courage I kicked him where Lord Apollo did not shine. As expected, he let go of hand immediately.

I made a run for it with Estelle still in my arms who was crying loudly.

I took a left and headed down an alley, since Percy house was still a few minutes away, which would give enough time to Hercules to get us. I just hoped that he wouldn't see me.

Step…Step…Step!

I turned behind me...Slap!

"I've had enough of this shit…" He shouted. I fell with Estelle on the ground. Estelle slipped from my arms. My lip bleeding.

"Estelle…go towards the corner…Aunt Liana is going to be okay." I weakly muttered.

I tried calling on mother's power to bind Hercules, but wines didn't hold him …they just made him angrier.

He ripped my top to shreds….

"If you won't accept my advances then so be it."

BOOM!

Same Time

Percy POV

I was filling in the day's customer entry cards when I had an odd feeling…like someone was calling for help.

Actually, it was many voices but, this one stood out. Different.

Black Hair.

…. What was that …. Lion skin…. Nemean Lion….

Someone was getting attacked by The Nemean Lion this far. A demigod. Why? It did not matter. I would find out afterwards. I immediately took my jacket and left a note to my superior.

Taking a half day.

Important work.

Leaving my bag,

Meet you Tomm.

Handle the rest of the entries.

Percy.

I turned towards an alley.

Crouched towards the ground.

Boom!

I jumped…. How? Earthshaker Powers. Small concentrated Bursts. AN: Like the Hulk.

Boom!

Boom!

As I got closer…Wait a minute …near my apartment…this feeling…A god! Grr…why is it always gods?!It's like they never left me alone in the first place.

Boom!

BOOM!

I landed…. with a loud boom! A crater forming under my feet. Black hair…. Liana…with a shredded top and …. Estelle…on the ground beside her…crying!

"Growl…" Just who was this fucking idiot.

God or not he was going to pay…. with his fucking life.

I turned and saw who it was… Hercules.

M/R- Rated Sequence Over

Location: Mount Olympus, Camp Half blood and Camp Jupiter.

"That despicable male…." Artemis whispered.

"Which one?" Apollo asked.

Whack! "Hercules, you dolt…. look at the women and child…Hercules was going to..."

"So, that's where the tremors were coming from…" Hephaestus said.

"I don't think that's the important matter now, nephew." Hades answered.

"Liana…" Demeter whispered.

"What happened, Sister?" Asked the Queen of the Gods.

"That… is my daughter, I will have him hanged…I will send him to Tartarus for this" shouted Demeter with glowing eyes.

"Sister, let Percy handle it…" Poseidon spoke slowly.

"Father, can you intervene…" Jason asked.

"No, he cannot, My Champion. Ancient laws forbid him to." Answered Hera in her husband's stead who was gripping his thrones arms tightly.

"Perseus…don't do something you will regret." Spoke Chiron, knowing that it was wrong but against the God of War…

AN: Bold is Conversations on Olympus and the Camps / General is with Percy.

I looked towards Liana cradling Estelle in her arms. I swiped my arms above them both healing the cuts and the bleeding lip.

As I was removing my jacket a club came towards me, I back handed it, embedding it in the wall of the alley.

"I was busy…and I thought Gods couldn't fight unless challenged."

"The minute you stood against me, you challenged me mortal." Hercules sneered.

"You were once mortal too, Hercules."

"I am above them; I am a God."

I put my jacket around Liana's shoulders and put a hand on Estelle head.

I spoke "Big Brother will be back…" she looked up through tear-stained eyes.

"Big brother?" Hercules asked.

"Gods, you are stupid… you not only harmed an innocent woman, you tried to rape her and in course of such actions also harmed my baby sister." I spoke.

"You will pay!" I whispered.

I threw Riptide at the club, locking it in place between the hilt and the base of the blade.

"I don't need my weapon for this."

"You are fighting the God of War, Strength and Heroes bare handed?" Hercules laughed.

"Yes, what better way to kill you than with your own domain and furthermore I am not a Hero." I disappeared.

"I am a…Warrior." I spoke, lodging a punch in face and sending him flying away.

"What the fuck…" Hermes exclaimed.

"Did you see him?" Leo asked.

"Barely." He answered.

All were shocked. Artemis looked at Apollo who was looking pensive.

"I am not a Hero."

"I am a…Warrior" A blonde man said.

"…llo.

…. pollo.

…Apollo!" Artemis shouted.

"Yes!"

"You were staring off into space."

"I'm fine." He slowly replied.

Artemis just stared and then finally turned back to the screen.

As Percy appeared near Hercules,

"My turn." Hercules punched Percy, sending him in the air and he crashed into a balcony before falling on the ground.

"Ugh!" Percy groaned, he didn't have to time before he saw and jumped out the way when Hercules kneed the ground with his weight.

An intense fist fight started between them, sending out powerful gusts of winds all around.

Hercules smashed into Percy and jumped high in the air taking both of them on the roof of a building, before he tried to choke the air out Percy's lungs.

Percy kneed him in the stomach, before turning the tables and pushing Hercules off him. Then punching him in the face again a couple of times. He finally smashed so hard the ceiling broke and they landed on the floor below it. Hercules took the opportunity to German Suplex him and then kicking him into a tree.

"This is madness. They will destroy the city like this." Reyna stated.

"Father, can you do nothing…" Jason spoke only to be interrupted.

"You will not deny me this satisfaction, Jason Grace." Demeter said.

Jason knew he should not say anything after that.

Percy took the same tree and swung it like a bat, hitting Hercules and then picking him up and smashing him through a couple of cars.

Hercules finally gained a grip and slammed his fists on Percy's back making him fall on the ground.

"I feel none of these blows, demigod." He mocked.

"We shall see…" Percy got up and punched Hercules in the face again, before Hercules cornered him and punched Percy in the guts a couple of time and then into the interior of another car.

"You know, once you are dead, I will have that whore and I will probably kill the child."

Percy's eyes glowed in anger before he burst out and uprooted another tree and used it to push Hercules beside a truck. Hercules used his strength to propel him above the tree and smashing it back in Percy's chest.

Percy caught Hercules feet and swung in a nearby rock and taking his head in his hands and smashing them a couple of times before throwing him to the ground.

Before Hercules could recover, Percy punched the rock at one of its corners and pushed the gigantic rock on him uprooting the entire street.

"Damn…" muttered Clarisse.

"You can say that again." Leo said.

Clarisse looked at Percy, he had grown and the ripped shirt showed his defined but compact muscles…. "No!" She wasn't attracted to Prissy.

Artemis herself looked flustered, "You are a maiden goddess."

Leo and Apollo "What happened?"

Clarisse and Artemis "Nothing!"

Percy gasped for a minute and saw the destruction all around him, parking lot destroyed, a couple of apartments cleaved in half and one long street uprooted. And a ceiling too. People were coming out their homes and looking around for answers. Thankfully no body besides them were hurt.

He needed to get out of here with Hercules. Too much work afterwards. But his musings were cut short when the rock cracked, and out of it burst Hercules.

"You have disrespected me for the last time, Mortal!" glowing with a godly aura.

"He is going to go into his true form…" shouted Annabeth.

"Yes" Zeus answered.

"Isn't that not allowed?" Thalia asked

"It is not." This time the answer came from Chiron.

"Yaa!" Hercules hair turned electric blue, winds forming wisps around his body.

Percy …. did not turn away.

"How?"

"How?"

Asked both Hercules and Athena simultaneously,

"Just because peace reins and there are no more wars, it does not mean that I will let go of my training…I have learned to resist that aura, not through choice but through battles against Monsters, Kronos, Giants, Gaea and lastly Tartarus."

It shocked everybody present, Athena looked at Annabeth as she was also in astonishment. A demigod capable enough to resist incineration at full power.

"And here I thought Gods weren't supposed to use their True Forms."

"I don't give damn about Ancient Laws. I will show you my power and kill you" Hercules then jumped and tried to punch Percy, Percy blocked it with his own palm, then used his right to punch back, which Hercules blocked.

Hercules start applying pressure, which Percy counters with his own. The ground starts cracking under their feet, creating a fissure sending tremors around Canada and being felt in Olympus and the Camps as well.

"You can reiterate that statement, sweety. They will destroy Canada" said Aphrodite looking towards Reyna.

Reyna for her part was just looking scared and shocked.

"Those bones getting old, Old man." taunted Percy. Hercules roared in anger and shock his arm from Percy's grip before uppercutting him in the air. As he jumped towards him Percy summersaulted in air before punching him in the face thrice. Hercules kicked him between two buildings. Percy used his right hand to scrape through multiple windows before jumping in the air using his Earthshaker powers and slamming into Hercules again. Hercules picked up the railing Percy was standing on, Percy let his binds go and used the railing as a big cuff to bind Hercules hands to his sides.

"I had a nice fight, but it seems are our time together is coming to a close."

PUNCH!

PUNCH!

PUNCH!

PUNCH!

Percy kept on punching him in the face until it caved in and golden ichor pooled around them.

Blech! Vomited Baldemar, who had been seeing the Legends of the Greco-Roman Pantheon fight alongside many from both camps who too couldn't keep the contents of their stomachs.

The Gods and rest the Seven looked horrified. The hunt too some uneasy expressions.

This was the Percy they knew, one that was ruthless.

"Even if you… kill…me I will return…" moaned Hercules.

"Bahahaha Ha!" A chilling laugh escaped Percy throat.

Scaring the people even more.

"Kill You? Now why would I do that? Just so you can come back from Tartarus. Fortunately, you are not going there. Unfortunately, you are going to The Void." His voice becoming darker and somewhat demonic.

As those words left his mouth, people gasped. Demigods fainted. Hercules, looked at him unbelievingly.

"What do you mean?" Hercules asked.

"Gods, you are dumb and I am the one saying it, that means something…"

"Just answer the question…"

"Since this is the last time you speak, I will humor you…See Tartarus is different from other domains, no morals …no laws only strength….and through that strength I escaped from the clutches of the Mansion of The Night. I won't bore you with details, but it is not what goes inside that is dangerous, but what escapes."

Hercules started to struggle in his bonds as Percy called his blade Riptide to himself. He tried calling his club but it was being restrained.

"You can't do this to me, My Father won't have it…" he tried stalling.

"Will he? Hmm. On the off chance you do return do you really think Artemis…Hebe, your wife and especially Demeter will let you live. Mm?"

"Demeter, what does that bitch have anything to do with this?"

"Everything, after all the woman you tried to rape is her daughter."

Percy laughed cruelly.

"You are a Hero, won't you let me go…"

"I told you in the beginning I was a Hero…now I am a Warrior."

"How ironic…the blade that gave you your immortality will be taking it …under the watchful gaze of Zoe Nightshade, today I avenge her."

The night sky gleamed with stars but one constellation shined the brightest, The Huntress.

Anaklusmos, started glowing with a sea green aura,

"What are you…." The sword plunged in his heart,

"Stop…please...I beg you…it burns!"

"Tell Anake, Perseus say hi…"

Hercules screams echoed through the lonely alley, his body deforming like worms crawling under his skin until finally, it started flickering….

BOOM! It burst.

"The God of War, Strength and Heroes has faded…" As he said that a glow surrounded Riptide and it left his arms.

It changed, blurred and condensed and letting out mist…reforming in something humanoid.

Zoe Nightshade.

"Zoe."

Everyone was shocked, Zeus actually fell from his throne. Apollo looked terrified. Athena looked at Annabeth, who was shaking and fell to her knees. Annabeth nodded, indicating Athena what Perseus was actually capable of.

"Zoe!" Artemis shook out of her stupor and exclaimed. She tried getting up, but Apollo held her back… "Let me go!"

"We don't know what is going on…" He spoke. Reluctantly, she sat back down.

"What are you doing here?" Percy asked.

"I was released and have used the last of my soul's immortal power to meet you one last time…." She answered.

"Zoe…"

The ghostly pale figure caressed his cheek and said, "Thank You..."

"You have returned to me my honor and my dignity…"

"I did what was right…and I did it for revenge."

"I know…. Tartarus changes people…doesn't it?" asked Zoe.

"You are still a hero in my eyes…" She continued

"But not in my own…" Percy replied.

"It doesn't matter… what matters is, will you make the choice to rise or to fall…like before?"

"What does that mean?" asked Percy confused.

"You will know when the time comes…for now I have a gift…" Percy looked at her quizzically, she continued "The club….it will fuse with the sword…" Hercules club came flying from the wall, striking rubble in its path and hovered over the sword to fuse and condense into a Quin dent.

Percy looked shocked, the people looked shocked, Gods could feel the power rolling off the weapon in waves. Poseidon looked back at his trident and then looking back towards The Quin dent.

"It can still change back to a sword, Perseus." She leaned and kissed his cheek before disappearing in the cold wind.

Percy stared at the spot for a second, looked up at the sky. The Huntress in all its glory, smiling down at him.

A tear rolled of his cheek, he smiled back and turned to leave….

"Perseus…." Tried speaking Athena only to be interrupted.

"Oh, I almost forgot you guys were here…. See, as you saw, what happened to Hercules, People shuddered, was of course his fault, and I really must say the standards of promotion to Godhood have dropped, like really? Hercules for God of War, I mean, even Dionysus wouldn't choose him, Dionysus was seething, grape vines erupting beside him. And I think I told you to leave me and mine alone didn't I, but obviously you suck at it …. heh."

Zeus looked ready to blast him out the sky, even laid-back gods like Hermes looked angry.

"Perseus…" warned a barely controlled Athena.

"Look, we can argue regarding this topic all night long and we wouldn't even come close to finishing it…so I will just come out say it…. I want you to stay away from me and mine, and if I find you anywhere near me and mine, I will kill you…no I will make you fade. And as you have seen I am very much capable of it."

"Is that a threat, nephew?" thundered Zeus.

"No, it is a promise and you know, I know…everybody knows, I always keep my promises."

Zeus finally lost his patience and fired a bolt, to shut up Perseus. Poseidon tried to stop him, but to no avail. Before it could hit Percy… he caught it within his palm…out of thin air.

"Damn, I look cool…anyways, it will take a lot more than that…by the way that was a free shot." mused Perseus.

"What…." Annabeth and Athena exclaimed.

"Anyways, I still have to complete that assignment you gave me Ms. Bronte" looking towards Athena. Athena for her part, looked like owls denounced her as their mistress, surprised at the audacity and spontaneity with which Percy changes topics.

"Perseus…"

"Now what…" he turned, and saw the three Fates staring at him…

"On, it's you three, what do you want…because as far as I know I am not involved in a prophecy."

Talking to gods, was one thing… talking with the same audacity to The Fates was another matter entirely. Poseidon, dropped his trident now even Chiron fainted. Clarisse, whispered to Leo "What the hell is this idiot doing?" "I don't know…" he replied numbly.

"You, Perseus Jackson tempered with fate when you saved the woman's life…," said Clotho.

"And why should I give a damn about it…when has it ever bothered Fate with our measly mortal lives."

"She was supposed to die today." Lachesis stated.

"I will always intervene if it concerns those, I care about…not even you can do anything about it." spoke Percy.

"You are playing with forces beyond your control, mortal." Atropos said angrily.

"I have been your puppet for a long time, not anymore." Whispered Percy, yet his voice was heard clearly.

"Know this, I will treat you the same way as the Gods, I have never asked much from life…a simple life, an education, a job, ability to provide and care for my family, give my sister the childhood I could not get and to die as an ordinary man. But fate wouldn't have it…hmm."

"Heed my warning…" Percy crouched on the floor, and jumped…

BOOM! Disappearing in the clouds.