Vesta's Child (Discontinued)

Chapter 11

The Son of Vesta Chapter 12, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic | FanFiction

"Now remember, don't touch anything!" Zoe warned and looked pointedly at Percy. He held his hands in surrender and walked through the junk pile, his neck hairs stood on end as he felt nervousness creep into his system. He looked at all his friends and saw them walking in a straight line with their hands by their side. He let out a huge sigh, maybe they would all make it. But he couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen, the ominous feel from the junkyard didn't reassure him at all. Suddenly there was a loud rumbling, a large automation of Talos appeared and the demigods froze in surprise. Percy saw a small statue of Hades in Bianca's hand and he paled,

"We've got to get out of here!" Percy yelled and he jumped between Talos and his friends, he unsheathed his knives turned to his friends,

"One shall be lost in a land without rain, that's gonna be me! Run!" He screamed and charged at the giant robot, his knives caught fire and he slashed at Talos. It left a small charred scratch on the automation's leg. It tried to kick him but he rolled to the side and stabbed his right foot, Zoe looked at him in shock and glared at Bianca who held the little statue of Hades. She wouldn't lose Percy, he was not only her best friend but she liked him a lot, possibly loved him. Zoe and Phoebe charged to help Percy while Bianca stared at them in sadness, she had doomed them...unless she could save them. This was all her fault and she was going to fix it, that's when it hit her, she was going to die here. She would face the consequences of her actions and sacrifice herself for them all. She had wanted Nico to have the statue because it was the only one he didn't have in his collection, she jeopardized the mission and she would pay for it. Thalia shot electricity at the large, metallic monster. He seemed unaffected by her sparks and he kicked Percy who flew and crashed into a junk pile. Zoe shot arrows at its bronze eyes but it held up a hand and the arrows bounced off. Percy reappeared and Talos raised a foot to crush Thalia, Bianca ran and shoved her out of the way. Percy saw this and started to panic, he shadow travelled in front of her but right as he materialized she pushed him on the ground by Thalia. She threw the Hades statue at Percy and yelled,

"I love you and Nico. Thank you big brother." She was then crushed by Talos and Percy's blood ran cold as he felt her life force quickly fade. He watched it crush his sister and tears ran down his face, his little sister saved him and Thalia.

"Bianca! No!" He screamed and dropped the statue. He felt rage build and his body was engulfed in flames. Shadows seemed to cover the junkyard and the earth trembled. Zoe grabbed Phoebe and pulled her away from the enemy as she saw the enraged Percy. Thalia scrambled backwards and Percy charged at the automation that killed his sister, water shot out of the earth and surrounded the demigod, he launched it all at Talos who fell from the force of the water. Percy made skeleton warriors appear and they began hacking away at Talos. The water solidified and turned into long spears of jagged ice, he rammed the ice spears in Talos's stomach multiple times before the skeletons disappeared. Talos shakily tried to stand up, it seemed at though it could break down in any minute. Percy put a hand on the automation's face and it melted off slowly as Percy decapitated the menace with his fire powers. It stopped struggling and laid still, Percy was no longer on fire and rushed to Bianca's dead body. He held her mangled form as tears continued to stream down his face, her onyx eyes were glazed open as they stared at nothing.

"Bianca." He whispered and prayed to every god Roman and Greek that she'd respond, he knew it was a long shot but he had to try. Her eyes continued to stare into nothingness and the tears fell harder as he started to sob, he held her limp body close and let out a strangled scream of anguish, grief, and anger. He lightly closed her eyes for her and thought of how big of a failure he was, he was supposed to protect her.