Chapter 9: Head West
JBV: You, Ally, are made of pure evil
Ally: :D
Leo S: HOW IS THAT A COMPLIMENT YOU MONSTER
Anthony: ^^^ everyone rn
Ally: Oh and this might be long, like really long, it's around 4700 words so
The youngest child of Poseidon,
The Broken Warrior,
The Surviving Warrior of Hades.
They will go west to the burdened sun,
To undo what has been done.
One shall take the burden,
One will lose their sanity,
One would offer their soul,
One will bring despair to another,
And one will die by a sibling's hand.
Unknown POV
It was a few hours before I heard a groan and someone getting up. My heart filling with relief, I turned around, and I saw Ally, my baby girl, awake and alive, despite the tanks of dark water nearby. She was massaging her head as she sat on the dusty, blackened floor and leaned her head against the metal wall. I wanted to help her up and get her out of that dirty cell. No matter how old was she, she needed a bath. That cell was dusty. Her vibrant blue eyes showed that she was coming to her consciousness, and fast. To put her in a false sense of alarm, I unhooked my blaster from it's holster, but as soon as I held the hold of the blaster, her head whipped up and her eyes looked directly at me, and she stood up. Before I knew it, she thrust her hand out through the bars, and I felt myself being pulled towards her until she grabbed my shirt tightly in her fist, anger and confusion in her eyes. As her left hand held my shirt, her right hand was pulled back, ready to throw a punch.
"Who are you and what am I doing here?" She asked, calmly, but dangerously, as if she was giving you a last chance to back down before she unleashed her full strength. Under my helmet, I smiled slightly. She's just like me, and she looked just like her mother, her hair, her posture, everything. But she had some of me and Poseidon in her: my snarl, my ferocity, Poseidon's power. She was no longer my baby girl. She was my fierce warrior. To avoid suspicion, I let go of my blaster, and I put my hands up, where she could see them. I asked her gently,
"Look, Allyson, I don't wanna hurt you. Just hear me out, okay?" She snarled,
"I've heard that too many times in my life, give me an answer!!" My heart broke when she shouted at me, although I knew she didn't know who I was. Yet.
"Hey, calm down and let me tell you. I got your daggers." That made her calm down, and she let go of me.
"Give me my daggers and we'll talk." I walked back, and took out her daggers from a safe unlocked with my fingerprint. I tossed them into her cell, and she caught them.
"Okay, can you listen to me?" She nodded, and I sighed in relief.
"When Slugterra fell, Eli Shane survived but the Blakks captured him, and made it look like he was dead so Camp Half Blood won't come looking for him. During his capture, he killed every Blakk, except for Emily. She ghouled him, and convinced him to hate his brother for neglecting him for his girlfriend. Emily had a plan to take over the universe, and she needed Eli's help. They captured the god Apollo and made him carry the sky, and now with you here, they're gonna make you carry the sky and send an Iris message to camp to lead them here. That's all I know, but I can help you." The whole time, her expression was skeptical, and questioning at the same time.
"Why should I believe you?" She finally asked me, her eyes narrowing onto me. I took in a deep breath, and asked her,
"Do you know Anthony Héroe?" She nodded, and gestured for me to continue.
"He's your brother, you know that, right?" She nodded again, and she told me,
"He told me that Poseidon possessed my father while having my siblings and I." I questioned,
"Did he show you any pictures of your father?" She shook her head side to side, and I undid the buckles that kept my helmet secure, and lifted if off from my head. I didn't want her to find out this way. I didn't want to imitate Darth Vader. But I kinda had to.
"You knew my father?" She asked me, and I told her,
"I didn't just know him." I took off my helmet.
"I am your father, Ally. And no, I am not trying to make a reference to Darth Vader." Her expression told me everything: she didn't believe me. My heart shattered into a million pieces as I put my helmet back on.
"Ok then, Father. But a prophecy foretold that one person would carry the weight of the sky, which appears to be the burden. I have to carry it." I tried to hold back my sobs as I processed her words. She sounded so grown up, so mature and responsible, like she understood the burden she was putting upon her shoulders. She was truly like her mother. She was six months pregnant with my oldest child, Luna when she did what Ally was about to do. She did it to save millions of people and hundreds of demigods. And it was cruel fate that I would be seeing my youngest daughter, my last child, do the same when she resembled her mother the most out of all 3 children. I didn't want her to suffer. I carried the sky for just a short while, half an hour or so, but pain was all I felt.
"Ally, no, you don't, you're only 17! I can help you-" I heard footsteps, and she tossed her daggers back to me.
"I love you, dad." She whispered, and smiled.
"I have a plan." With tears filling up my eyes, I put one of her daggers back into the safe, hid the other in my shirt and put my helmet on my head. I shut the safe just as Emily came in.
"Aston, when did she wake?" She asked me, and I responded,
"Just a few minutes ago. I was going to get you." She nodded, and approached Ally. I saw Ally tense up and growl at Emily.
"Allyson. I would say it's not pleasant to see you, but that would be underestimating how horrid you are." Ally gagged, and she protested,
"If you're gonna talk to me, at least take a breath mint! Your breath reeks!" I couldn't help but smile. She may be like her mother, but she had my confidence. Emily snarled and spat,
"You won't be saying that after I'm done with you. In fact, you'll be silent. Forever." She turned to me and told me,
"Open the bars." I opened them, and I was about to take my blaster out and shoot Emily, but Ally looked into my eyes, and they told me everything. No, do what's right. Don't choose what you want over what's right. I have a plan. She grabbed my daughter's wrist, and I couldn't let her do it.
"Leave my daughter alone, you slut!" I yelled and shoved her away from Ally. She struggled underneath me as I threw multiple punches at her face. One for capturing my daughter. One for destroying Slugterra. One for having the guts to lay her filthy hands on my daughter.
"Dad, no!" I heard someone yell, and hands dragging me away from Emily. As she got up, Ally looked into my eyes and whispered,
"I have to do this, dad. Warn camp that this is a trap, that they shouldn't come, and tell Hades he owes me a favor." She gave me a quick hug, and before I could hug back, Emily cackled.
"Allyson, the vile beast and a sorry excuse for a demigod. Your daughter, Aston. I should have known. But baby Ally wants to show you how strong she is. Or when she can break." She grabbed her from me, and she growled,
"Shut your stinky mouth and just lead me there, whore." I frowned. I guess hearing her swear didn't approve to me, even if she was 17. Nevertheless, I followed them outside. The god Apollo was bent under a funnel of clouds, nearly getting crushed. And Eli Shane was standing next to him, grinning wickedly.
"Ally, we meet again." She spat at his feet and snarled,
"You betrayed your own brother for this bitch?! Leo was shattered for years about your death! He loved you!" He laughed darkly, and he asked her,
"Then why did he neglect me for his girlfriend?" Apollo stammered,
"A-ally, don't carry t-this. It's h-heavy." He coughed, and she said,
"May the gods cast you in Tartarus, Eli." She bent down to Apollo's level, and kicked Apollo out of the way the hardest she could. He skidded out of the way, and Ally caught the sky before it crushed us all. At first, she staggered under the weight, but she managed after. She was in a kneeling postion, her small hands carrying what weighed more than a thousand tons.
My youngest daughter, Allyson Venne Héroe, at age 17, was carrying the sky.
Percy: It's really heavy, isn't it?
Ally: OF COURSE IT IS
A few days later....
Percy's POV
I arrived at the Big House to see Martin and Chiron in deep discussion, Martin's eyes puffy and red, like he had been crying earlier.
"Chiron, we have to go look for Ally! She could be dead, she could be tortured!" Martin protested, at the verge of tears. My heart ached for him, because I knew how it was like to be seperated from the one you loved. Just that it wasn't 5 years.
"And she would want you to complete this quest, with or without her, dead or alive. She would want you to choose what's right, not what you want." Martin slammed his hand on the table, shaking with fury.
"WE CAN'T GO ON THE QUEST WITHOUT HER! SHE'S THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF POSEIDON! WE HAVE TO FIND HER!" I was about to say something when my beautiful fiance, Annabeth, came in. Her blonde, princess curls messy and down her back, and her stormy grey eyes calculating and strikingly beautiful, like the rest of her. I couldn't help but smile as I noticed the silver ring on her left ring finger.
"Chiron, Artemis can't find Allyson and Apollo." Chiron frowned and asked,
"Not at all?" She shook her perfect head side to side sadly, and Chiron sighed. He turned back to Martin, who was seated, and trying desperately not to cry. I pulled Annabeth aside into a room, where no one could see us, and I wrapped my arms around her waist and greeted,
"Hey Wise Girl." She smiled as she wrapped her arms around my neck and greeted back,
"Hey Seaweed Brain." I grinned widely as she sighed,
"I can't wait for next month. We're finally gonna get married, I can't believe it." Her smile grew even wider, and I smiled even more. No words could describe her smile, it was cute, but beautiful and full of words of praise and love, and I loved it. I loved her smile, I loved everything about her. But one of the things I loved the most about her was her smile.
"And our family would finally be complete." I said as I gently placed my hand on her stomach. I loved her. I loved her more than anyone could possibly say. And the fact that we're actually getting married, that my true love has our healthy child, or if we're lucky, healthy children in her stomach was amazing. We finally got the life we deserved after two wars, and ten years.
JBV: YASYASYASYASYASYAS PERCABABIESSSSS YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS *shakes John* ANNABETH HAS PERCY'S CHILD YAS
Our foreheads touched and she whispered,
"I love you so much, Seaweed Brain." I whispered back,
"I love you more, Wise Girl."
Ally: THE WORD COUNT WAS 2016 AFTER I FINISHED TYPING THAT SENTENCE
Leo S: COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT
We leaned in, closer and closer until-
"Percy, Annabeth, we need both of you!" Chiron yelled. We pulled apart, and I told her,
"To be continued." She kissed my cheek, and we went out of our little room. Chiron was waiting for us, and Martin was looking down at his feet, trying to hide his tears. I honestly felt sad for him. He loved Ally a lot, anyone who knew him could tell.
"Percy, Annabeth, sorry to ruin whatever moment you were having there, but do you have any idea where Ally could be? While Martin and Leo go on the quest, we're sending a team to find her. Any ideas?" Before Annabeth and I could reply, an Iris Message appeared in front of all of us. Emily's face came to view, but there was something different. Instead of just red in her eyes, there were flecks of dark purple. Some of the veins on her neck were blackened and you could see them on her neck, and she was slightly paler. But what made me confused was the once red streaks in her hair. They were purple. Like the obsidian in Minecraft. Obsidian. They used obsidian to build Kronos's castle.
"Can you stop coming back to life?!" Martin asked, looking up and into the message, and his eyes widened and filled with fury as he growled,
"Seriously, you're so annoying!!" Just then, I realized. The purple streaks. The flecks in her eyes. Kronos gave her power.
"Yes, Perseus Jackson. Kronos gave me what little remained of his power. And Martin, you should think twice about insulting me, because I have your little girlfriend." I saw Annabeth stiffen and Martin snarl. I grabbed Annabeth's hand from underneath the table and Emily taunted,
"She isn't gonna last long, she's been holding the sky for a few days now. Bring Leo, Martin, Percy, Annabeth, and Anthony, no one else. You better be fast. She doesn't have much time left." Emily slashed through the IM with his hand. Annabeth and I looked at each other. She was holding the sky. Martin growled and stabbed the wooden table with his dagger, and the dagger went halfway into the table. Dang. We just got this table. It was 15cm thick.
"Percy, Annabeth, get Leo and Anthony." I nodded, but before I could get up, Anthony burst in, sweating all over, his sport shirt soaked with his disgusting sweat.
"I got....the IM....while I was running... around.....camp....." He collapsed on a chair, and wiped his brow with his arm, just as Leo came in. He looked horrible. Bags under his wary, panikied eyes, his complexion pale and his tired posture.
"I saw the IM. We have to go now, Ally would die if she was there any longer than she is." Leo stated, and despite Leo's state, I agreed. Martin agreed, and Anthony agreed and told us all,
"Get your weapons, I can teleport you guys there, and do NOT take your time." Anthony teleported away, and came back with an Imperial Golden sword and a chestplate. Everyone else got their weapons, and we all held hands as Anthony teleported us to the dreaded mountain.
Leo's Shane's POV
We arrived at the mountain, and I stumbled a few steps before I regained my footing and shook my head. Teleportation was always....disorienting for me. I blinked a few times, and I saw where we were. The five of us were at the foot of a mountain, and I growled as i saw a base on top.
"Why didn't you teleport closer to the base?" Martin asked, and Anthony replied,
"Some ancient magic is preventing me from it, we have to walk up." I heard a hissing and a female voice hissing,
"Yessssss....walk....Leo Sssssshane." I tensed up and grabbed my sword, and I jumped foward as I decapitated a monster. Only it wasn't a monster.
It was Alana.
I screamed with horror as I looked at her head, and dread and guilt came over me and I felt tears in my eyes and me starting to hyperventaliate when Anthony picked me up and slapped me in the face.
"Dude, you ok? You didn't kill Alana, you killed a dracanae." I blinked, and I looked at the body I decapitated and watched as it dissolved into obsidan black dust. It had a leg of a donkey and a metal leg. It wasn't Alana, thank the gods. It was just a dracanae. It was just a dracanae. But I couldn't shake the image out of my head. And more images appeared in my mind as I tried to shake them out from my mind, but they always came back, worsening. I was almost thankful when we appeared at the top of the mountain, and I growled as I saw Emily waiting for us. But my heart broke when I saw Ally, carrying a pillar that spiralled down until it ended at a rounded place where Ally was carrying it. Almost all of her hair turned from light chocolate brown to silvery grey, I only saw grey with streaks of brown. Her complexion was pale and beaded with sweat. Anthony growled at Emily and wanted to run to Ally, but Ally looked at him and mouthed something, and he stood where he was, looking at her, tears in his blue eyes.
"Percy, Annabeth, Anthony, Martin, Leo." She spat out my name like it was venom with so much hatred I mentally asked myself how did she fall in love with me in the first place. Anthony yelled,
"WHY ARE YOU SUCH A CRUEL BITCH?!" It took the rest of us to hold him back. I wanted him to beat the shit out of her though.
"Don't worry. Because soon, she'd going to die and you're taking her place. She really sucks at carrying the sky." Anthony looked like he was ready to drag her to Tartarus and give her Ally's punishment, and I did him a favour and retorted,
"Actually, she doesn't suck, unlike you on the weekends."
Ally: OOOOOOOO
JBV: OH SNAP
Anthony: FIRE THE DAM SHOTS
Cyan: NO AMOUNT OF ICE CAN COOL THAT BURN
Alana: That was just effing savage *claps*
Leo S: Why thank you :D
Percy grinned widely, trying his best not to laugh, and Annabeth gave me a smile of approval. Martin's mouth was in the shape of an "O" and Anthony just looked proud of me. Emily frowned and guards grabbed us by our arms, and I grinned as Percy elbowed one in the face.
But that was when all hell broke loose.
Monsters sprung out of nowhere, and soon, everyone was engaged in a huge fight. I kicked a soldier and I was about to shoot him with ny blaster just when Emily attempted to punch me. I dodged.
Except it wasn't Emily.
No.
NO.
It couldn't be. He was dead.
But here he was, ghouled, and very much alive.
"Eli?"
Martin's POV
I slashed, punched and kicked my way through monsters and soldiersas an attempt to get to Ally. I karate-kicked a skeleton warrior and it disengrated, and I saw Ally, bent under a cone pillar of clouds, her arms shaking as she lifted the sky. Celestial Bronze chains were around her wrists and her ankles, and when she saw me, she looked away snd mouthed one word. Go. I told her,
"No." Using my sword, I slashed her chains, and she forced out,
"I'm fine. Protect Leo." Her voice was raspy and weak, and my heart shattered. I bent down to her, and with one quick movement, I kissed her, and she didn't noticed as I shifted the sky as it rested on both of us, more to me. I parted from her, and I said through my pain,
"We're carrying this together." Pain flared through my body as the sky drilled through my back, and my limbs felt like jelly as Ally and I carried the sky.
Guys, hurry.
Igor: Why didn't you just take it from her....
Ally: I wouldn't want that
Martin: It was more to me anyways
Leo Shane's POV
"Eli?" I asked, my voice close to cracking and ny eyes filling with tears as I tried to deny that this was the truth. Eli cackled as he walked closer to me, his expression filled with evil delight. He ghouled himself. He ghouled himself.
"Yeah, Leo. I bet you thought it was Emily who was planning this. But she wasn't alone. Because Ashley may have cursed Alana, but..." he grinned as he whispered in my ear,
"I put the words in her mouth."
Anthony: WHAT?!
JBV: OH HELLLLL NO
No. No. He wouldn't! NO! It wasn't true. He didn't. He's trying to get to me. I mustered up my voice to yell,
"HOW COULD YOU?!" He punched me, and I dodged as I unsheathed my Celestial Bronze sword. Eli chuckled darkly and unsheathed his own. It was Dark Ice, dark red and black fused into a blade made of pure evil itself. I mentally shuddered as I remembered my own stomach wound that I got from that blade. He tried to slash me, but I blocked the shot as Eli shouted,
"YOU NEVER LOVED ME!" He went for a stab, but I dodged and he continued,
"YOU NEGLECTED ME FOR THAT BITCH, LIKE I NEVER MATTERED!" At that moment, when he said those ten words, I pounced onto him and yelled,
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY I NEVER CARED FOR YOU!!" He kept on trying to attack me, but I blocked them all and told him,
"I always looked up to you, I always loved you, I always did!" I told him, and anger overcame me.
"UNTIL TODAY!" I yelled and kicked him in the face. He dodged and grabbed my foot, and flung me down to the ground. My sword flew out of my hand and into his. And then I realized what the prophecy meant by the last line. I thought Chiron would kill Emily all this time. But it wasn't.
I had to kill Eli, or he had to kill me.
JBV: WHOA WHOA WHOA, HOLD THE FUCK UP, ALLY, YOU TOLD ME THAT ANTY GONNA KILL YOU
Slugcat: WAIT, WHAT, SHE TOLD ME IGOR WAS GONNA KILL MARTIN
Cyan: SHE TOLD ME AQUITO GONNA KILL ASHLEY WHAT IS HAPPENING
Tiffy: AND SHE TOLD ME ARTEMIS GONNA KILL APOLLO WAT
Ally: Oh about that
Ally: I'll say why I told u all that in 3.........2.........1....
Ally: I LIED TO ALL FOUR OF YOU GUYS HAHAH
JBV: WHAT
Cyan: ALLY WHY
Slugcat: WMDEKSKIENRIEJDJENDU
Tiffy: WTF
Eli was beyond control. The red flecks in his eyes told me everything. I couldn't choose what I wanted over what was right. I wanted to bring him back to camp, and help him. But I've been ghouled like this before. Red flecks in my eyes. Pale skin. Anthony and I were on a mission to Slugterra, and Pyrono ghouled me until I had the exact same flecks in my eyes, the exact same ferocity, that I was invincible until I came to my sense when I stabbed Chiron in the leg. If Eli kills me, he'll be normal again, and if I kill him, he won't be a threat to anyone anymore. I shoved him off me, but he got up quickly and equipped his blaster. His original was corroded by Dark Water, so now he had 2 wrist blaster, and he was equipped with ghouls. Burpy growled when he saw the ghouls, and I loaded Burpy into ny blaster.
"Make me proud." I told him, and he nodded as I aimed the blaster at Eli and pulled the trigger. Burpy went into velocimorph, and rammed Eli in the chest. He surronded him with a fire wall after he was down, trapping him in a circle. Burpy flew back and landed in protoform on my shoulder. I dashed to the fire circle as it tamed down and I saw Eli, his expression filled with nothing but fury, but when he lay his eyes on Burpy, I saw one red dot disappear from his eyes. Suddenly, I got an idea. Thank you Mother, for those Speech and Drama classes you forced me to attend for 7 years.
"Eli, how could you?!" I shouted, acting as if I was angry. Well, I really was, so it wasn't hard. Tears filled up my eyes as i thought about my mom, my family before Mom died. I raised my voice and hollered,
"HOW COULD YOU GO AGAINST EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR?! WHY DID YOU BETRAY MOM AND DAD!" My voice broke at the mention if my parents, and then I wasn't acting anymore.
"WHY DID YOU BETRAY TRIXIE WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH WILLA, WHY DID YOU BETRAY GLYNSS, WHY DID YOU BETRAY CRYSTINE?!" At Crystine's name, his eyes became almost completely blue, and a red streak in his hair disappeared, and i knew why. When we were younger, he loved Crystine, and even though he loved Trixie, those feelings he had to Crystine never left completely.
"If you hate me, fine. But how could you hate everyone else? Mom would have been heartbroken if she knew what you did. Dad would be devastated. Crystine's alive and in camp, but after this...she'll never love you." I had to kill him. I decided. If he was still alive, he could have been convinced by Emily to give her whatever information she wanted.
"I'm sorry, Eli." I whispered, and I charged at him and slashed and stabbed at him with all my skill. I flung his sword out of his hand, and I pinned him down. I didn't want to do it. I didn't.
"I'm sorry, Eli...." I whispered with tears in my eyes as I plunged the sword into his chest. As the blood flowed from his wound, the red streaks in his hair faded into raven black, and the red flecks in hid eyes were gone.
"Leo-" Eli croaked, and coughed out scarlet red drops of blood. I hastily said,
"Eli, you're gonna be ok, just hang on!" I propped him up against a tree and dug through my backpack, tears falling from my eyes as I searched for ambrosia, or some nectar. He told me, softlt but firmly,
"Leo, look at me." I obeyed, and looked directly into his completely blue eyes. He smiled as he wiped the tears streaming down my face, and he coughed out more blood before he told me,
"I'm sorry that I said those things, Leo, I'm a bad brother, I-" I interrupted him, and I protested,
"But I did neglect you!" Eli smiled and reminded me,
"You need to help Anthony and the rest. Don't worry about me, I'll be meeting Trixie and little Willa soon. I'll say hi to Driana for you, too. And please, don't do anything like this again." He lifted my shirt, and there was the wound I made with that dagger on the day Alana died. With tears in my eyes, I nodded and did something I always wanted to do ever since Eli died. I hugged him. He wraoped his hands around my chest, and we just stayed in that position, my head on the right side of his chest, his head on mine, as he patted my back slowly, but comforting. We stayed like that until Eli whispered,
"Stay strong, Leo." I felt his chest rise, and sink, and when it sunk, tears stung my eyes as his chest rose no more.
Anthony: OMG I KINDA HATE ELI BUT THIS IS SAD MAN SHIT
Martin: THOSE WERE ALANA'S LAST WORDS.....WHY....
Cyan: WHYYYYYY
Slugcat: WHY DID YOU LIE TO US
JBV: YEAH, WHY
Ally: To see your reactions :D
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