Percy's PoV

Bending to my will, the water forms a wave advancing towards Polybotes taking me to its top before I touch the ground.

"Are you in a hurry to die, son of Poseidon ? I'm going to be happy to give you what you're coming for ! No god is going to help you here !" Polybotes says to me with sufficient air.

He started to run towards me, and caught a handful of snake which he threw without slowing down in its course.
They were swept away by my personal wave.

Arriving at his height, I jump with the help of the force of the water over the Giant, which caught my wave with full force.

"HA HA ! WATER BECOMES POISONOUS TO MY CONTACT, WOULD YOU FORGET ?"

No I haven't forgotten. But it keeps him busy while the others run away.

I take a quick look at the others. Big mistake. The giant's hand swept over me and sent me flying for several dozen meters.

Polybotes grabbed his trident and was going to impale me but I send him water in the eyes, blinding the Giant with water, then I go and plant him turbulence in the thigh, causing the Ichor to spurt out, the golden blood of immortals.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAA ! " the giant roared in pain.

I started to run.

His wound already closing, the Giant picked up his trident that had fallen to the ground and walked towards me again.

"Your childish technique will not work twice !" he told me.

"Are you sure ? However, this is the second time that it has worked, if I remember correctly you were already fooled in New Rome, right ? You are so stupid that you don't learn !"

I was trying to get him mad, to make sure the gladers had time to get away.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw them walk through the door and disappear into the labyrinth. Now I had to get rid of the Giant to join them.

Polybotes always followed me, and it was gaining ground.

"DIE !" yells him, and it would have happened if I hadn't been hyperactive.

Without thinking, I threw myself to the side, narrowly avoiding his trident which he had thrown to ... well to simply kill me.
If I manage to enter the Maze there is a chance to throw him away !

Continuing to run I walked through the doors, the Giant still on my heels.

I am too slow.

"TOO SLOW, SON OF POSEIDON !"

Reached my height he sweeps me with his trident, and a sharp pain seizes my ankle.

I try to get up, but my ankle is loose, unable to support my weight.

Polybotes hovered over me, savoring his moment of superiority.

"Pity, impossible for you to join your little comrades. A few meters from the exit. And no one to save you !" he taunts me.

I do not respond. I have to find a solution, and quickly.

"Don't worry, once you're dead I'll go play with your  friends !" he added.

I still do not answer anything. A plan so fucked up that it would shame Athena was starting to come to me.

"Where has your insolence gone, Persee Jackson? Do you realize your weakness ?"

I can feel the water starting to settle. I have never tried to do anything similar with water, and I don't even know if I can, but I have no choice but to try, my ankle preventing me to move.

"DIE !"

It all happened in fractions of a second.

Polybotes lowered his trident to my chest, but suddenly, with turbulence, his trident deviated and crashed into the ground.

Then, without giving him time to think, I concentrated intensely, more than I've ever done in my life - except maybe to understand Annabeth's words sometimes, but that's another thing, right ? - and I feel the water wrapping around my wrist.

The water then began to drag me on the ground, playing the role of a string but no one pulled at the end.

Polybotes, who saw me disappear in an unusual way, drops a little "Gheu" before realizing that I was escaping him and he then started to follow me.

The water was dragging me at breakneck speed, and all of my energy was going into my concentration, because controlling water in such a precise way is extremely complicated.

Every bump hurts me, my back drags so quickly it burns me, but I don't lose my focus and finally arrive to the doors.

Polybotes is still behind though, and my strength is rapidly declining.

"STOP MOVING ! COME KINDLY DIE !"

Count on it.

The traction of the water is less and less powerful, and I understand that I have only a few seconds left before I lose control.

Not being able to run, I need a way to move quickly without needing my ankle.

"YOU CAN'T HOLD FOR A LONG TIME ! GIVE UP AND MAKE YOURSELF EASIER !"

The Giant is almost on me, and I'm still slowing down.

Lost for lost.

Concentrating my last strength, I order the water to lift me up and get closer to the wall.

When I got to six meters from the ground, my power with the water broke, but I knew what to do.

I play Spiderman to myself, hang on to the ivies and start swinging with ease.

"DESCEND, IT'S NOT JUST !" Polybotes rail.

Even with his high speed I got ahead, and moreover, he must have started to tire too, because his stride quickly became irregular, before stopping.

Before turning down the hall, I glance at him and see him breathing loudly and with difficulty.

Endurance was not to be his strong point.

"You don't pay anything to wait ! I would have your skin !" he shouts.

"Bye Bye !"
And I continue on my way, still swinging like Spider-man.

Luckily, I managed to find the Gladers, who stopped where there is the mark of Daedalus.

"PERCY ! YOU SURVIVED !" roared Kilianos, who was the first to see me.

I let myself slide in front of them.

"Yes, It seems that yes !" I anwer.

I look at Thomas and Minho, stunned.
"You managed to find the place. How is that possible, it is daytime and it is only present at night!"

"I do not know. The Maze is incomprehensible. We are just happy to have managed to find this mark." Say Minho.

"You're right." I say.
I watch the Gladers and something bothers me.
"Where is Gally ? "

"At the Glade. With his "supporters". " answer Alby.

I look at him without understanding.

"Gally didn't believe your story about an exit, and he decided to stay at the Glade. Some have rallied to his opinion. All the Gladers have chosen their camps. Here we are all ready to follow you. Now you are the boss."

Alby reminded me a bit of Beckendorf.

There were about 20 of us, which means half of the Gladers believed me.
Among them, Alby, Newt, Minho, Thomas, Stanislas, and Kilianos. Teresa too and a few others that I have already seen.

"Okay. It's time to get out of this Maze. Now we are going to enter in my world." I say.

With these words, I press the Daedalus mark, which flashed blue before discovering an opening.

And we rushed into the labyrinth.

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