19 Chapter 19 God Of War (1/2)
”What did you call me? Kiss your life goodbye boy.” Ares said as the flames in his eyes were blazing out of control. It seems like I touched a sore spot for the God. I walk toward Percy and take his sword from his hand. ”Let me borrow this Percy.” Although confused as to why I needed his sword, he let's it go handing it to me. ”How about we make a little wager, 'God of War'?” I put emphasis on God of War, making Ares clench his fist tighter than it already was.
”Why would I wager with a little shit like you when I could just kill you here and now?” Said Ares swinging his baseball bat on his hand. ”Here is the wager, me and you will have a battle of combat. If you win, you have my life.” Lucian said ignoring Ares' pervious remark. Ares smirked coldly but looked interested. ”Ha! I could take your mortal life whenever I want, there is no need for me to have a battle with you. But...you do have my interest. Tell me, what happens if you win by some off chance miracle?” Lucian smiled. ”You give us Hades Helm.” Ares snorted. ”*hmph* You think your life is equivalent to the Helm? You must be joking.” Lucian raised an eyebrow mockingly. ”What? Dont tell me the God of War is to scared to battle with a small demigod. Pity, I see why your name as the God of War is in title only.”
Ares was once again pissed by the little shit in front of him. If Ares hated one thing, it would be bringing up his loss to Kratos and being stripped of his god title. All he wanted to do now was beat the little godling, even if his side of the bet was not to his advantage. ”Very well, how do you wish to fight? Modern or...?” Lucian looked at him like an idiot and pointed the sword at Ares. Ares hated the look in Lucians eyes, but obliged to his request, He was a god after all. Ares metal baseball bat transformed from a bat to a two handed long sword that had a skull at the end of the hilt.
”Come at me boy, it is below me to even move.” Ares said as he had his sword resting on his shoulder. ”Lucian stop! Are you seriously going to fight a god?!” Annabeth tried to stop Lucian from being idiotic. Grover also seemed pretty scared but was trying to act brave. Percy didn't say anything and just stared at the idiotic demigod. Lucian smiled and tapped Annabeths forehead with his knuckle. ”Your suppose to be the brave one, remember? Its going to be okay.” Annabeth bit her lip and looked down. She took off her necklace and put it over Lucians neck. ”For good luck...don't die.” Lucian smiled then faced toward Ares and charged at him. He couldn't honestly say he was completely fearless of the guy, since he is a god. But he had a feeling in him, like if he knew he could win against him. This acted as reassurance for him, as he tried not to instantly get slashed into two by that long sword.
The two swords met when Lucian swung his sword in between Ares fire pit eyes. Sparks flew when the sword connected, and the swords shakes from the amount of streangth being used to hold off one another. Ares raised an eyebrow at the display of strength from a demigod brat. ”Now you have me interested, you better help me stretch my muscles brat!” Ares exerted more streangth onto the sword, sending lucian back a few feet. Lucian landed on his feet as he charged once more. They clashed swords for about 5 minutes, but each of them ended with Lucian being thrown back.
”You are to weak brat, you should just give me your life, save us both some effort.” Ares mocked Lucian who was dripping in sweat. Lucian was already feeling exhausted, and they haven't even fought for 6 minutes! ”Fine, guess I'll have to end this.” Ares disappeared, then reappeared next to Lucian. He swung his sword trying to cleave him in half, but Lucian was able to dodge it, barely. Ares didn't give up and continued to strike, while Lucian dodged the heavy strikes. Lucian was slowly being pushed to the side of the pier, then all of a sudden a strike that he was not able to dodge appeared. Lucian quickly raised his sword in effort to block it, and as soon as the swords met he was thrown off the pier and 100 meters toward the beach.
Lucian crash landed onto the sand, and looked like how a pebble would if it was skipped on a lake. Lucian groaned and slowly stood on his hands and knees. He realized that he did not have the sword, he looked around and saw it a few feet away from him. He tried to stand but his body felt like if there was no energy left. He slowly crawled toward the sword, slowly crawled to his only defence, his only hope. Once the sword was in front of him, Lucian reached out to grab it. He used the sword as support to help him stand up, but as he was standing Ares kicked the sword from beneath Lucian, making him topple to the sand again. ”Is that all you had? Disappointing.”
Ares kneeled down and used his index finger to bring Lucians chin up to face him. ”What happened to all of your big talk earlier? Not so tough now, are you? Little godling.” Ares slapped Lucian, making the latter spit out blood. ”Tell me boy, who is your God parent? Your parents must feel so much shame when they see you.” Lucian didn't look up when Ares spoke, and only looked at the sand. ”I heared...you were...sweet with Aphrodite. Hehe.” Lucian spit out the blood forming in his mouth, he looked up at Ares and smiled with his arrogant smile. ”I would like to see if she will ever talk to you once she knows you killed her son.” Ares was shocked to hear this. He is Aphrodites son? No, impossible. She hasn't slept with a man other than me in a millennium!
”You speak lies boy! I will show you the punishment in disrespecting a God!” Ares shouted. ”Hah! You are no God. Perhaps you once were, long ago... But now?” Lucian looked at Ares up and down. ”Your nothing. Believing your all powerful because you have a title, didn't you pay the price once for underestimating a demigod?” Lucian taunted. Ares had enough and raised his sword, ready to execute Lucian. Lucian closed his eyes, accepting the fate of being to weak.
Ares slashed down the sword but stopped short when he felt a rock hit his head. Ares slowly turned around and saw Annabeth with a flushed sweaty face in a throwing position. When Annabeth had seen what was happening, she quickly ran down the pier as fast as she could. Percy and Grover followed Annabeth but they were not able to catch up. They saw as she picked up a nearby rock and chucked it at the gods head.
Ares glared at the group of kids, and suddenly got a twisted idea. He raised his hand toward them and fire started to circle around them. It slowly started to inch closer to them, threatening to burn them alive. Ares had a twisted smile on his face as he looked at Lucian. ”Now watch as your precious friends die before your eyes, boy. I will make you feel the most misery before I send you back to Hades!”
Lucian looked at his friends from the sand, he looked at their helpless and frantic faces. He wanted to help them, but all he could do was lay there and eat the sand. He started to feel anger swell up inside. Anger toward his weakness, anger toward himself, and most of all anger toward Ares. Lucians hands started to set ablaze just like when he killed the hydra, but there was something different, something frightening. The fire was not orange like before, but instead blue, and amongst the fire there was lightning that spewed out. Lucian looked up and glared at Ares, and what Ares saw frightened him, a god. He saw swirls of lightning in place of Lucians eyes, just like Ares eyes.
Percy who was watching all of this from within the circle of fire, felt the lightning bolt shake. It shook like it wanted to jump into the hands of the raging boy, and aid him in his battle against a god. Lucian quickly stood up and dashed at Ares with unimaginable speed. Ares who was still in shock received an Uppercut, sending him flying across the beach. Ares stood back up after crashing into the sand, and spat out blood as he rubbed his jaw. That shit hurt, it hurt a lot.