(RECAP; JUST THE PROPHECY: 
"The earth shall break and part way for hell, 
you will realize the lie in which you dwell. 
The lost hero shall reunite friends and foes,
But suffer worse than death to his woes. 
Indubitable, the sides may sound,
Misleading judgement shall lead to losses propound.
While Rome cringes in fright of the devil, 
The sea's anger shall rid the world of all evil. 
For destruction, for bloodlust the devil who pray,
Beware their life lightning shall slay.")

NARRATOR"S POV:

"Ahh..!" Percy winced as Apollo applied some medicine on his claw wound. The Demigods had assembled in the throne room, Percy's closest friends forming a circle around him. Frank held on to a crying Hazel, Piper had her tears barely contained while Calypso stared sadly. Even Thalia had moist eyes, but she maintained an indifferent façade so as to not betray the impression of an uncaring strong lieutenant of Artemis that she had built over the years. Chiron was looking sadly while Percy winced in pain whenever Apollo applied medicine over it.

Annabeth sat beside Percy, holding onto his hand as if he would disappear if she didn't hold on. She had tears covering her face, but she managed not to cry hysterically. Apollo had already warned them "The wound is not poisoned, but he has lost a lot of blood. I'll apply some medicine then we'll have t let him rest and observe."

"Wh...what do you mean 'observe'??" Annabeth had stuttered wide eyed.

"He'll live Annabeth ,don't worry. But what I'm afraid is that the blood loss might push the body into an indefinite coma to heal itself.

"Tyson stood there, the anger drained from him and now all he people were worried about Percy. Not just his friends, others as well. The war was gonna be big and one of their strongest demigod and best swordsman being absent was a serious blow. Nico still hadn't arrived with Grover. And even if he did, they didn't know how much time it would take for Grover to gather and rally all of the wild. Tyson had arrived with the cyclops just moments before Percy had been injured, but they had lost the element of surprise now.

"So we're still outnumbered, not to mention the fact that we have lost a few and some of the dead monsters are just gonna come back tomorrow from being dead because Tartarus will help them. Percy is injured and his participation is uncertain, Nico hasn't arrived yet. Chiron says the party ponies won't help this time. Lord Jupiter...I mean Zeus...whichever....what should we do now?" Frank asked while still holding Hazel who was not crying now but still looked distraught.

Zeus sighed "Oceanus' attack has balanced the time when Perseus blasted camp Jupiter and Palas. I don't think he will show himself until that war is over. And since our main threat is Tartarus and Oceanus has challenged my brother in his domain, we can't assist him. Seems like you are on your own tomorrow. You have the day, it's just dawn. Plan and set traps, Apollo and Hestia can watch over Perseus. Meanwhile Hades find your son and help him reach here faster."

The demigods nodded and Zeus summoned a bed in the middle of the throne room and Hestia in her 12 year old form tucked the unconscious son of the sea God in it. Apollo summoned two chairs and sat himself in one while Hestia sat on the other. She nodded warmly to the demigods. They looked expectantly at Zeus who nodded and teleported all of them on the ground to make preparations. All but one.

"Lord Zeus, why am I here?" She asked confused.

Zeus didn't reply, just looked at Hestia and said "Let Annabeth spend some time with Perseus alone. She needs it." With that he flashed out and Hestia and Apollo followed suit, smiling at Annabeth before they left.

Annabeth stood there for a moment not sure what she should do. Then she slowly walked towards one of the chairs, pulled it closer to Percy and sat down.

She looked at his sleeping form and clutched his hands in her. Gently bending down she kissed him on his cheek.

"Seaweed brain...I'm so sorry." She spoke teary eyed.

"This is all my fault." She whispered.

"I shouldn't have left your side...I shouldn't have been upset. I was so confused emotionally, it was so wrong of me to think you broke my trust. In reality all you ever did was try to keep me safe. Forgive me seaweed brain, I'm so sorry." She was now sobbing. Not because Percy was in danger, she knew he'd live. But she was feeling guilty now.

She sobbed for some more time before continuing "I was not sure if I could ever trust you again after all you did. I felt like you broke my trust, and trust is like crumpled paper. Once it breaks, it can never be the same again. But I was so wrong. While I was upset I failed to understand your reasons or where you were coming from. You literally went to Tartarus once again for me Percy. Again. And I failed you. I failed you as a friend, a companion, a girlfriend."

Unbeknown to her, Percy was awake and listening to every single word she said. He could hear the guilt in her voice, feel the pain in her words. And he couldn't take it any longer.

"Annabeth..." He whispered still in a bit of a pain.

The daughter of Athena stared wide eyed at Percy, whose eyes were now open and moist. They held pain and sadness and regret and a lot many emotions in them.

"Percy..." Annabeth breathed, taking in the fact that Percy hadn't slipped into coma. A huge smile spread across her face, her heart spluttering like a bubble of happiness. It vanished as soon as it came, shock and nervousness replacing her features.

"Ha..how much did you hear?" She asked while looking down at the ground.

"Enough to be very angry at you." He deadpanned.

Wide eyed, Annabeth spoke "Percy...I'm so sorry, I swear I-"

"-You're doing it again. Making me angry." Percy cut her off.

When Annabeth raised a confused eyebrow, Percy said

"Stop apologising for mistakes you haven't committed, wise girl. I'll always love you. I realize my actions weren't clear and I left you hanging in between. I'm sorry for all of that. I hoped you would understand which you did. I don't care when. I'm sorry for putting you through everything I did. Right from the execution stuff to my visit at camp."

"You did it for us. Your fatal flaw is loyalty for a reason Percy. Besides, you're not seaweed brain for nothing." She said and kissed him on the lips.

Once they broke apart, both had grins stretched across their faces.

"It's so easy with you wise girl. Thanks for being you." Percy said as he tried getting up, only to be pushed down by Annabeth.

"Where do you think you're going? You need rest. I'll go and help in laying traps and everything. You just rest and heal, we'll call you if we need something."

"But-"

"You don't have a choice in this matter seaweed brain."

"Okay." Percy pouted, earning a chuckle and a peck on the lips from Annabeth. He laid down an closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep immediately. Annabeth got up, happier than she had been in the past few days and went down to help with the traps and arrangements.

Day 1 had been bad, but not as bad as they would have thought with being so outnumbered so much.

Losses had been light. Of course every life counts, so nobody was exactly in a cheery mod. But the job was not done and anxiety and nervousness were all the looks most of the campers sported.

A few hours passed, it was almost getting close to sunset. The armies were arranged in a similar formation to last time, traps were set in various spots. Soon enough, the sun finally dimmed into the horizon and the demigods squinted their eyes to see an army march down.

"Gods have mercy, what is this!" Reyna exclaimed, surprised to see the army. No, the army wasn't bigger than the previous day and no, there weren't huge monsters except a few hydras and cyclops.

"Shields and bows and arrows...this is bad, this is very bad." Annabeth muttered.

She nodded to Reyna and Frank and shouted "DEMIGODS, LOCK SHIELDS AND ASSUME DEFENSIVE POSITIONS! THEY ARE AIMING TO DO TO US TODAY WHAT WE DID TO THEM YESTERDAY!"

Reyna yelled "NOBODY CAN USE OUR OWN ATTACK AGAINST US! LET'S SHOW THEM WHY WE CALL THEM STUPID!"

The demigods locked shields, formed formations. Every demigod was in the formation, the leaders forming the first line.

Soon the wait ended as hundreds of monsters stopped about a 100 feet in front of the half bloods.

They were all wearing Greek style armour and had celestial bronze weapons. The cyclops - the good ones had their mouths open.

"They stole our weapons from the forges while we were arranging traps!" Tyson stared with an agape mouth.

The monsters had all kinds of weapons. While the demigods were planning and planting traps, Tartarus had gone one step ahead and sent some of his minions to raid the weapon forges empty.

On some unknown signal once again, the monsters notched their arrows in bows and readied themselves to fire.

The demigods quickly snapped out of their shocks and locked shields, preparing for the impact. Soon it came, and with it disappointment. Not all arrows weren't normal ones. Some were coated with Greek fire and blasted into the formations, scattering the Romans and leaving the Greeks in a disarray.

The plan made by the Greeks to attack line by line failed miserably as they couldn't get themselves ready to face the monsters in time. They met the charge and were pushed back due to the sheer shock and sudden loss of numbers.

The arrow blasts had cost a huge loss of life and the mourners were also being taken out with ease as they struggled to snap out of the shock. The remaining ones soon got over their shocks and charged back in anger. Any other day and their determination and force might have pushed the monsters back, but today wasn't that day.

"AHH!" came a familiar scream, and Annabeth turned sideways in time to see her brother Malcolm being impaled by a spear through the chest. Anger coursed through her veins. She began mercilessly pounding monster after monster to reach him.

Once there, she realized she was too late. Malcolm's eyes were glazed open, staring at nothingness in the skies. She lit a tear slip from her eyes, but realized that demigods were falling like a pack of cards.

"How did these buffoons become so smart! This is impossible!" Clarisse yelled in frustration over the noise of the raging battle.

She was fighting like a demon, but still wasn't able to create a dent in the army. If they were hopelessly outnumbered before, they were laughably outnumbered now. The arrows and the shock that followed had taken its toll on the army.

They were attacking in organized groups, seemingly aware of the formations, how to break those formations, they knew the location of the forges...something didn't seem right to Annabeth. She didn't have much time to ponder over it as she turned a cyclops to dust and cursed as a hydra replaced it.

She was fighting a hydra with victory in sight, Jason fighting two cyclops and was winning, Piper and Hazel were together trying to kill a pack of hellhounds. Leo was on fire - literally and figuratively as he took down loads of monsters with his fire abilities. Percy was being missed. The demigods had been given the message that he hadn't slipped into a coma and they were elated. But they knew he needed his rest and couldn't call him today. Thalia and the hunters along with Hylla and the amazons were impressive, the monsters were trying to steer clear of the girls.

Calypso was fighting with a dagger. The Titaness didn't have any special powers, but she was surprisingly good with knives and spears. She started fighting alongside Leo, but neither of them realized when they drifted apart during the war. Right now she was facing a hydra.

The Hydra hissed and spewed poison but she displayed impressive agility and jumped out of the way.

That proved to be a huge mistake - she jumped directly in the middle of a pack of hellhounds. The hydra was not going anywhere, and with so many hellhounds surrounding her, she began panicking. She assumed a defensive position and raised her shield in case the hydra wanted to bathe her in poison once again. Suddenly, a hellhound lunged at her. She was already facing this one and saw it coming, so she ducked under it and rolled below its belly to try and get out of the circle through the opening. The hydra maybe sensed this, or just didn't like the open space. So it sent some poisonous spit there. Calypso was not anticipating this at all and as a result was hit in her right leg with it. The leg started burning due to the acid and she screamed in agony.

Leo - basically surrounded in flames whipped his head in the direction of the familiar voice and started hacking monsters left and right with new found strength to get to the source of the scream.

Calypso was writhing in pain, unable to do anything except weakly raise her arms to try and defend herself. Just then a hellhound behind her charged at her. She saw it coming and raised her dagger, but was too weak to hold off the ferocious creature. She managed to stab it in the legs and turn it to golden dust, but not before it left a huge gash on her left thigh. With both her legs severely injured, she fell to the ground with another scream of pain. Just as the hydra was about to finish her off, a figure wreathed in flames blocked its path.

Leo was aghast at the state of his girlfriend. Red clouded his eyes and he began attacking the hellhounds and the hydra all at once, something that perhaps even Jason or Percy would have difficulty doing. In a few moments, he had cleared a large part of the area surrounding Calypso. The other demigods looked in awe at the son of Hephaestus who was wreaking havoc on the enemy. By this time, all off Leo's friends had heard Calypso's scream and had gathered by her side. Apollo campers were called to assist. They removed her armour to examine and heal the wound but shook their heads signaling a 'no'. Hazel was in a huge shock. Piper had a hand clamped over her mouth in shock. Annabeth was already upset after Malcolm's death, and this opened the floodgates as she started sobbing.

"LEO, GET HERE FAST!" Jason shouted, extremely sad for his best friend. Leo, who was still attacking the monsters in anger turned at the voice of Jason and rushed to Calypso. Her left leg was bleeding profusely while the right leg made Leo shudder. It was completely black around the part where the poison had touched and was steaming. The rest of the leg seemed to be green in colour. He immediately rushed to her side and placed her head gently in his laps.

Tears were streaming down both their faces.

"Sunshine...Please don't leave me. I could come to Ogygia, I can't come where you're going now, please don't leave me..." He whispered.

"It's...ok...okay Leo. I.. I'll w...wait...for you...for...forever..."

"Please, no sunshine, no..!" Leo was sobbing now, partly blaming himself for Calypso's state.

"So sorry, I'm so sorry sunshine, I brought you here, I made you lose immortality..."

"I...I would die a..mil...million times...if it meant sta...stayi...staying with you." Calypso managed to breathe through the pain.

"I love you sunshine, so much."

"Me...too...Leo...forever...and ever..." And the demigods openly shed tears, tears for Calpso's demise as she lay in Leo's arms with glazed unblinking eyes as the distraught son of Hephaestus hugged her.

Meanwhile the battle for the day ended as the monsters retreated after dealing enough damage and not wishing to keep fighting as the sun rose and dawn broke. Each day, it seemed as if the demigods were losing more and more - first Percy's injury, then enemy arrows had taken up half of their army., they were pushed back to the defensive, and now just before the end of the day they lost Calypso. And Tartarus could've easily pushed them forward and one, but he seemed to be in no hurry to end this war.

Reyna, who had joined the group a while ago and was looking very sad suddenly widened her eyes.

"Holy Juno..." She whispered.

When the demigods except Leo looked at her questioningly while Leo was too busy mourning, she spoke

"Annabeth, when you were thanking Leo earlier for showing you that we were and would always be friends, what was that about?"
"This is not the time Reyna." Annabeth said irritated.

"Trust me, it is. Just tell me, please." The Praetor begged.

"When we explained Percy's situation to Leo, he was the one who gave us a speech and convinced us that you weren't enemies, that we should talk and we should trust Percy. He had guessed Percy was playing Tartarus. Why?"

"So Leo made you trust us...so Leo reunited us...we were enemies first...foes..." Reyna said.

Realization hit Annabeth like a ton of bricks.

"The prophecy..." She whispered.

"The prophecy." Reyna grimly nodded confirmation.

Realization dawned on everyone's features remembering the prophecy, including Leo.

He whispered the dreaded lines

"The lost hero shall reunite friends and foes,
But suffer worse than death to his woes. I was the lost hero...I cost Calypso her life..."

(A/N: SO YEAH, I KILLED CALYPSO. YEAH SHE REALLY IS DEAD IN CASE Y'ALL WERE WONDERING. LET ME KNOW HOW YOU'RE LIKING THE STORY SO FAR. COMMENT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, IT MOTIVATES ME TO UPDATE FAST AND THINK OF BETTER THINGS.)