Chapter 64: Houston, we have a dam problem

' Percy '

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The dam groaned as the bullets struck its concrete, at some parts of the dam large patches were blown away, mini craters appeared everywhere on the wall.

"We need to stop them," Despina called out, "If we won't they'll flood entire cities."

I nodded, "You want to help?" I asked quickly.

She nodded, "I can always kill you later."

Good point.

She turned towards my friends who were still staring at the helicopters. She snapped her fingers to gain their attention, even though the sounds of the machine guns were way louder than her finger snap it still did the job.

She glared at every single one of us, "Take out the helicopters!" she said.

"That's the plan?" Nyx asked excitedly, "I love taking down helicopters."

The helicopter on the right side fired a missile at the dam, a loud whistling sound filled the air and it would've hit the dam if it wasn't for Despina. She threw her ice shield at the missile and it exploded mid-air. The blast took out the helicopter that fired the missile, the helicopter crashed down and landed on the river shore.

The shield flew back to Despina's arm.

"I gotta get a shield like that." Nyx muttered and Thalia nodded in agreement.

"See, it's that simple." Despina said with a smirk, "Well, are you guys going to do something?"

Nyx tapped Bianca and Zoë on the shoulder, and they both were engulfed into the shadows, we saw one of the helicopters stopped shooting, so I guessed she teleported those two inside.

Then she gave me warm smile, wait a warm smile?

Nyx never gave me warm smiles.

But she was no longer Nyx, she had changed aspects.

She had now black make up called Kohl around her eyes, and had her usual night black long hair was now in a braid that was swung over her right shoulder. Two small silvers snakes were intertwined in her hair, she once told me those were the Egyptian forms of Shade and Shadow and deadly, but they never said something.

Her lips were blood-red which contrasted with her pale skin making her look like a vampire.

A good-looking vampire.

She wore a beautiful bluish black Egyptian style dress and had a golden cord around her waist that looked suspiciously similar to her whip but only with a recolor.

The most surprising thing about her Egyptian form were two angel wings. She had two large beautiful wings that were almost like that of an angel except for the fact that they were not made of feathers but out of silver blades.

Kauket, that was the name of her Egyptian form.

Or as I liked to call her, Cat.

She insisted she didn't like the nickname but I knew she secretly she loved it.

Cat gave me a warm smile which was the ultimate proof she was no longer Nyx, all her aspects had different personalities.

Nótt, who I only spoke for a few hours, was more to herself and less rude but also more cold towards me and Cat was exactly the opposite. She was similar to her Greek version but also kinder.

Despina whistled, "You have some interesting friends." Despina smirked and I had the idea she could see through the mist.

Cat opened her wings and summoned two daggers and flew towards the helicopter in the middle.

Thalia took cover behind the balustrade and held her spear in her hand, she was intensely staring at it and it began to hummm and blue sparkles appeared on the tip.

She was charging it.

Despina's wing had appeared on her back, and she leaped of the edge and dropped down the dam and flew at a helicopter and threw her shield the windshield and flew right through the windshield.

Two helicopters were busy with Cat who flew around them and threw her daggers at the helicopter, which didn't do anything except distracting them from the dam.

One helicopter was engaged in a duel with another helicopter. I assumed Zoë and Bianca had hijacked it and forced the pilot to shoot the others down.

Despina had taken down two helicopters already and was now circling around the one in the middle. She couldn't get close because the helicopter kept shooting at her. She blocked the bullets with her shields but was forced backwards.

This meant three helicopters were still shooting at the dam.

Cracks appeared on the dam, and I felt that water was about to break through, I jumped forward over the edge of the dam and I felt a tugging sensation in my gut, I yelled and the river, 700 feet underneath me the river erupted in a massive geyser that spurted so high it reached me and swallowed me. Once inside I tried to sustain the geyser and wielded it to hit the helicopter 170 feet away from me.

A sphere of water shot out of the geyser and flew towards the helicopter, it lost water along the way but it was enough to do some serious damage to the helicopter.

When the water hit the windshield, it forced it to damage the engine, immediately the helicopter rotor blades stopped spinning and the machine gun stopped firing.

The helicopter fell out of the sky and dropped into the river.

I gained the attraction from the other two helicopters, they began shooting at me, I wielded the geyser water to protect me, the bullets struck the water in front of me but lost momentum as soon as they hit the water, nonetheless they kept shooting at me.

I could not shoot water and protect myself at the same time.

Suddenly a blast of lightning struck one of the helicopters, and it exploded in a fireball.

I turned around and saw Thalia standing on the dam, her spear in her hand and glaring at the helicopters.

She stood so confident it almost made me yelp, her spear crackled and I saw sparks running along the shaft.

A small, mini storm had formed around Thalia, making her look even scarier.

She aimed her spear at the last helicopter and lighting sprouted from her spear and zapped the helicopter out of the sky.

I dropped the water barrier and stared at her with awe, then I noticed I was still standing in the middle of a 700 feet long geyser which is something you should not do at home boys and girls.

I wielded the geyser to spit me out onto the dam.

I landed on both my legs and turned around.

There was only one helicopter remaining. Two others were crashing down as we watched, Suddenly Cat appeared next to me while holding Bianca's and Zoë's shoulder and I understood they were in the crashing helicopters.

Cat's appearance shifted, and she was back to her Greek form, she smiled cruelly at the burning helicopter wreckages on the rivers shore.

Despina dropped from the sky and landed next to us, her wings had all kinds of holes in them which made me guess that they were hit by multiple bullets.

As soon as she landed her wings disappeared.

She opened her hand and looked at the last helicopter.

The glass of the windshield shattered, and Despina's shield flew out of it towards her hands and attached herself to her back.

The helicopter began to spiral down into the river.

I turned towards Thalia, "Thalia! You summoned lightning!" I cried out, "That was so awesome."

Thalia scowled, "Seriously? You literally jumped of the dam and summoned a 700 feet high geyser and me summoning lightning surprises you?"

"I took down 2 helicopters!" Nyx cried out, "They were like! Oh, we have a power fall out. The lights go out."

Nyx chuckled.

'You made another pun mom. You embarrass me.' Hemera complained.

"Okay, what had we been doing before the helicopters interrupted us?" Despina asked with a small smile.

Then I noticed something. In her long white hair was a red stripe, blood.

Above Despina's right eyebrow was an abrasion, a small amount of blood had leaked down the wound around her eye.

Red blood, but that was impossible.

The blood of immortals is gold also called ichor yet she was bleeding red blood.

My friends had noticed it as well, and we were staring at Despina.

She frowned, "What? Do I have something on my face?" she asked sarcastically.

When we kept staring, she brought her hand up the wound and wiped the blood away. She stared at the blood smudge on her hand.

"That's blood." Zoë said with confusion.

Despina stared at her hand, "Wow." she muttered.

"But you are a goddess." I mumbled.

Apparently Despina did not like being called goddess, her ice sword formed in her hand and she lashed out at me but since she was around 5 feet away her sword swung through the air.

A blast of wind suddenly hit my friends and blew them to the far end of the dam.

Before I could ask what the Hades she was doing she charged forward at me, my instincts saved me, I stepped to the side before she could hit me. She must have been really disoriented from finding out she was bleeding because she stumbled forward.

I reached my hand into my pocket to grab Riptide, then I remembered I gave it to Zoë, I silently cursed myself and summoned Frostsilver in my right hand. I tried to do the same for my left hand, but nothing happened.

I readied myself as Despina turned to me, she had also one sword and her shield was still strapped to her back.

"Stop." I commanded with Soul speak.

Apparently this time she really wanted to fight me because she didn't back down, instead she lunged forward and lashed out at me, I parried her blow.

"Stop, why are you fighting?" I asked, "You're my sister."

She gritted her teeth, "Sorry Percy but this has to be done." she said.

Before I could respond she sends a fury of blows at me. I parried each one of them, playing defensive.

She was fast, really fast, but there was something wrong.

She was holding back, her attacks were slower than they had been and her entire defense was open and I could easily win this fight.

But I held back as well, I wanted her to stop attacking me, not dead.

She was my sister after all.

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' Nyx POV '

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"Fuck, I'm going to kill her." I muttered as I got up. I had not broken anything, and the landing was quite soft but I hated losing.

Bianca was still sitting on the ground, rubbing her sore back while Thalia leaning thrown against the metal angels and was cursing.

Zoë had her bow out and was firing arrows at Despina, I considered telling her that shooting from this far was dangerous, and she could hit Percy but Zoë's face was all focused and I was scared if I would interrupt her she might accidently hit Percy.

I saw Percy was in a battle with Despina but for some reason they were both holding back, which was frustrating to watch as I expected Percy to just kill her straight away but with his Moral codes he would probably try to talk.

I was ready to shadow travel towards Percy and kill Despina for him when I saw in the distance, the same direction, the helicopters came from, a black smudge in the air.

"Another helicopter?" I wondered until the smudge began to change shape and I realize it was not just one thing but a swarm.

A swarm of demonic birds.

"Zoë!" I yelled and pointed at the birds in the distance, the swarm was far away but even from here it looked like a lot of nasty birds.

"Stymphalian birds," Zoë cursed, "We need to get away from here. As fast as we can."

I looked around, there were not a lot of cars to hijack and Percy was still fighting Despina.

I turned towards the two giant bronze guys with tall bladed wings like letter openers.

Then a plan came up.

"Thalia," I said. "Pray to your dad."

"What? We need to help Percy." She protested.

I pointed at the birds. They are getting closer and will rip everything apart if we don't get the Hades out of here."

"He never listens." Thalia protested.

"I don't care, just do it." I growled and then looked at Percy who had not seen the birds yet.

'Percy, get ready to take of.' I told him.

'What?'

'You'll see.' I said with a smile and turned around.

The two bronze angels were now activated and looked confused around.

"It worked." Thalia and Zoë said in unison.

"Wow, it worked." Bianca noticed.

"Get us out of here!" Thalia yelled.

Both angels looked down at her. "Zeus's kid?"

"Yes! Now get us and my friend out of here." she commanded with a glint of danger in her eyes.

"Or, we could see how good you two can fly without wings." I said.

They both shivered.

One of them grabbed Zoë and me, the other grabbed Bianca and Thalia. We flew over the dam towards Percy. Thalia's angel grabbed Percy by the middle.

Percy yelped but before he could do anything we straight up over the river and angry winter goddess.