You get to see what trick Bryn has up her sleeve this time!  Have fun y'all! :)

Chapter Quote:

"Losing him was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me all at once."

~Unknown

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Chapter 25: Mother of Dragons 

Luke 

Bradley made a surprisingly good fighting partner.  Luke knew the son of Zeus was a good soldier, he had no doubt of that, but he hadn't expected to make a good team with him.  The two of them complimented each other's fighting style, but Luke realized that was because Bradley fought exactly like his sister.

Bradley sent a massive lightning bolt through the monsters' ranks.  Luke created two water fists, grabbed a handful of monsters, and tossed them into the river.  The two boys cut through the ranks with their fellow soldiers behind them.  Luke saw one of his own take a spear to the heart.  Anger exploded through him.  He charged at the monster but it was blown away before he even reached it.

Bradley whistled. "Damn Jackson.  How are you doing that?"

Luke looked down to see what he meant.  Clouds swirled around him like a hurricane.  It was a hurricane, he realized, albeit a miniature one.  Luke grinned and said, "I have no idea how I'm doing this."

"Keep doing it!  Let's keep-" Bradley halted in his speech.  He'd been smiling before but now he was beaming. "Looks like Plan Phoenix is in the works.  Hold them here for a while.  I and my siblings will be back ASAP!  Daenerys is calling."

Bradley hopped onto his Pegasus and flew off.  Luke grumbled something about the Winchesters being way too cryptic for their own good and wondering who the hell Daenerys was.  He went back to fighting against the enemy.  Every time Luke killed one monster, two seemed to take its place.  He felt him and his army slowly being pushed back across the bridge, slowly losing any progress they had made previously.

That changed however when a deafening screech filled the air.  Everyone covered their ears in an attempt to block their ear drums from bursting, but the screech permeated through that effort.  Luke looked up to see what was causing the horrendous noise when he saw flames erupting on the other side of the bridge.  Screams erupted from the enemies as this jet of fire flew above them.  The fire stopped a few feet away from Luke and he had to blink a few times to make sure he was seeing things correctly.  Once it registered in Luke's brain what it actually was that he was staring at, he understood Bradley's Daenerys comment.  A massive black dragon, with hints of red in its coloring, flew above the battle.  Its rider was a familiar daughter of Zeus.

Luke laughed at little as he saw the monsters screaming in terror at the winged shadow above them.  Bryn was turning the dragon around so she could send another wave of fire.  The monsters that had missed the first wave were stringing their bows with arrows.  Luke wasn't going to let them hurt Bryn or the dragon.

Luke raised his sword above his head and shouted, "Romans, charge!"

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Bryn 

The world below her was chaos.  Monsters were panicking because they were either getting killed by fire or getting slaughtered by the Roman legion and Luke.  The latter was a blur.  He was moving so fast she could barely keep an eye on him, a serious problem when she was trying to make sure he didn't get himself killed.

Hannah's army, while a good ten times larger than the demigod one, could not hold against the might of three dragons and the wrath of the demigods.  But Bryn knew Hannah had tricks up her sleeves, deadly tricks.  Tricks that could easily kill thirty demigods in one go.  That trick came about three hours into battle when Bryn saw Luke hop onto Ace and fly over the Hudson River.  Curious to know what he was up to, she followed him.  He kept his eyes trained on the water, searching for something.  But this was the Hudson, nothing was visible.  That is until a drakon flung itself upward at Luke and Ace, trying to clamp its jaws shut around them.  The two barely managed to swerve out of the way.

"Come on pea brain!  Is that the best you can do?!" Luke shouted.  He jumped onto the ground.  Ace flew up to a rooftop, narrowly avoiding being eaten by the drakon which had emerged from the waters, stomping onto the ground.  Naturally, Luke ran away from it.  Whatever he was doing, it wasn't going to work for long.  The drakon's weight might be slowing it down but Bryn knew how fast those things could move when they wanted to.  She urged her dragon to move as fast as possible before flying over Luke.  Bryn proceeded to have her dragon pick Luke up, toss him in the air, and catch him on the saddle.  He wildly grabbed onto Bryn.

"What was that?!" He demanded.

"You were going to get yourself killed with what you were doing," she snapped. "Drogon.  Dracarys!"

Fire shot out of the dragon's mouth onto the drakon.  The latter screamed but when Drogon stopped, the monster was still there, angrier than ever.

"Drogon, really?" Luke mused, sounding slightly amused. "Please tell me the twins' dragons are named Viserion and Rhaegal."

"I had to do something when I couldn't sleep and Game of Thrones seemed the way to go and yes, that's their names.  Now shut up and let me focus." Bryn ordered Drogon to fire again and again until the dragon could barely do it anymore.  She swore under her breath. "Drogon, call for your brothers.  Fly high.  And Luke, stay.  Put.  Here.  You know what I mean."

"What are you going to do?" He asked her.

She stood up and faced him. "That drakon is immune to fire, but it's not immune to electricity."

With that, Bryn jumped off her dragon, sword in hand.  When she landed on the dragon, she drove her sword deep into its neck so she wouldn't fall off.  If she did fall, it was because she couldn't hold on.  The drakon thrashed around, trying to get her off, but Bryn had landed strategically so that the monster wouldn't be able to get her.

Power.  She needed lots of power.  To get that, she needed a lot of emotion.  Typically fear and anger fed power, but for Bryn, it was different.  Her strength came from protecting the ones she loved.  Luke, Silena, Derek, Bradley, Brady, Hallie... Bryn thought of all of them.  She thought of when she first met Luke, Silena, and Derek; when she first met her brothers; when she had her first deep conversation with Hallie that made Bryn realize she'd found another lifelong friend; when she found Luke, beaten and bloody, but alive, and how that's all she cared about; when Luke had saved her life from the Colchis Bull; when she nearly lost Luke to the Colchis Bull; when she found out her mother and Michael were alive.  All those instances fueled her power and within seconds, she felt the first lightning bolt strike her sword.  More and more followed until she had to close her eyes to prevent herself from being blinded.

The drakon was thrashing about, wailing from the pain resulting from the lightning bolts.  Bryn held on somehow but she felt her energy draining fast.  If she didn't destroy this drakon soon, it would destroy her.

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Bradley 

When Bradley heard Drogon roar, dread filled his bones.  Something was wrong.  Then he saw the lightning bolts, at least forty, all striking one thing.  Brady saw it too.  The twins jerked Viserion and Rhaegal in the direction.  The boys had to shield their eyes from the brightness but once they got to the scene, the lightning stopped.  All they saw was their sister helplessly sprawled out on the ground with Ryan London standing above her, spear in hand.  Bradley heard himself and Brady shout their sister's name in outright panic.  Viserion and Rhaegal dove towards the ground.  The twins jumped off their dragons and ran towards their sister.

Ryan was saying something to Bryn.  Whatever it was, Bradley didn't care.  He'd been wanting to kill the guy ever since he met him.  The things he'd said and done to Bryn made Bradley's blood boil with rage.

Just as he and Brady reached Bryn, and just as Ryan was about to impale their sister with his spear, a sword sprouted from Ryan's chest.  His spear clattered to the ground as he looked down at the blood-stained sword running through him.  The sword was yanked from his body and Ryan collapsed to the ground.  In his place stood a wide-eyed Luke.

"Jackson?  You okay?" Brady asked quietly as Bradley knelt down next to Bryn.  He placed two fingers on the pulse point on her neck.  Although her pulse was faint, it was there, meaning she was alive.

Luke blinked, obviously in shock at what he'd just done. "He was going to kill her.  I-I couldn't... I couldn't let him do that."

"Thank you for saving our sister's life.  We need to get her back to the Empire State Building.  Luke, take Viserion and Rhaegal back to battle.  Have Hallie and Derek ride them.  I'd say let Silena ride one but she rode Rhaegal and got a little wigged out."

"What?  No!  I'm going with you!" Luke argued.

"She's going to be fine.  All she did was knock herself out with how much energy she used doing that bloody lightning trick.  Besides, she'd want you to keep fighting.  You need to keep fighting."

Luke sighed. "I know she would... tell me if anything, I mean anything, goes wrong and you need my help.  I'll be there in a heartbeat."

The twins nodded.  Luke carefully lifted Bryn into his arms.  Bradley whistled for his and his brother's Pegasus' to fly down.  They were freaked out by the dragons but allowed for their riders to get on. Luke passed Bryn to Bradley once Bradley was settled on his ride.  The Jackson boy watched as the Winchesters took off.  Bradley turned around briefly to make sure Luke wasn't following them.  He wasn't.  He was just standing there.  Drogon came up behind him and rested his head on top of Luke's.  It was almost as if the dragon could sense his new rider's distress.  Bradley wondered if they'd made the right choice making the Jackson boy stay behind.  Luke wouldn't be able to focus much on the battle because his thoughts would be with Bryn, and if he wasn't focused on the battle, it could get him killed.

"He'll be okay.  If anything, her getting hurt will only fuel him to kick the monster's butts so he can get to her quicker," Brady remarked.

At times, Bradley forgot his twin could read him like a book.  This was one of those times. "I know.  But I still worry.  After all she's done to make sure he stays alive..."

"We have to trust him."

"That's the problem.  I don't trust people easily."

Brady harrumphed. "Runs in the family.  Come on, we need to get her back to headquarters immediately."

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Is Bryn going to be okay?  Only time will tell.  Reviews would be absolutely wonderful :)