Percy's Point of view

After the other Olympians showed up to help with Tartarus and the remnants of his army it was still a tough battle, dad's storm helped me keep going,  but for others including the primordial we were trying to defeat, it made things more difficult. With the power behind Piper and Aphrodite's words it was hard to not fall asleep ourselves.

More than once I realized my eyelids were starting to droop, but then I would shake my head and get myself to snap out of it. Unfortunately some demigods had succumbed to Piper and Aphrodite's powers, they were either being defended by other demigods or gods who hadn't fallen under the spell.  Due to the fact that he was outside his domain, Tartarus was weakening albeit slowly. 

He had already been hit by two or three arrows from Artemis and Apollo, he was already trying to fight off Dad, me, and Bob, yes I said Bob. While being pelted with rain and wind from dad's storm, his eyelids were drooping slightly from Aphrodite and piper's words, oh yeah and Hermes had blasted him a couple times with his caduceus's laser mode.  The battle continued like that for a while, the remaining demigods fought what was left of the monster army, and we meaning the Olympians fought Tartarus.

When Tartarus had seen me holding the staff of Cronus, he seemed shocked, but then again Cronus was technically his brother. Using my powers over time I slowed one of Tartarus' blows that was aimed for my father down to the point that he could deflect it with his trident. We basically wore Tartarus down until his blows became clumsy, this was partially due to the fact that he was weaker outside of his own domain, and partially because he was unused to fighting in a humanlike form.

So eventually I dodged one of his strikes and swiped at him myself which he failed to block, my dad also landed a hit on him,  it was then that I felt something that I hadn't felt in a while. Shockingly (Sorry bad pun) Zeus blasted Tartarus with his master bolt. So drama queen decided to help after all. At about the same time Hermes once again blasted Tartarus with his caduceus, after that Tartarus dissolved into shadows returning to his domain.  Great Zeus would have something new to argue about for the next few millennia.

We fought off the last of the monsters.  A while back before we had reached Tartarus I heard a prayer from one of the camp Jupiter campers looking for help with defeating giants, like they had during the second titan war the romans stormed Tartarus's base. But unfortunately they encountered Mimas and Pereboia. So I had sent my roman aspect to help them out.

Comment if you want me to write that scene where he helps the romans defeat those two giants, even if you don't comment I will probably write it and put it in my other book that contains a bunch of short scenes that weren't in this book or the first one.

Anyway, we defeated the last of the monsters, and Apollo and his kids tended to the wounded. I walked over and crouched down beside the lifeless body of Nathan Jones. I knew that Christina's death had hit him hard, that was probably why he had run toward Tartarus with so little fear, he already suspected he would die, and he just hoped that he would be with her again.

I saw three other people walking toward me one of them was Luke, and the others were my dad and Grover.  They joined me looking solemn. Luke said "First Christina, and now him." I sighed and said "Unfortunately when there's war there's casualties."  Luke said "He saved me."  I said "He did, if he hadn't stepped in I honestly don't know what I would have done, Athena may have been right all those years ago, I might have risked everything to save you." 

My dad said "Don't say that Percy, you would have thought of something."  I answered "We have no guarantee of that dad."  Grover said "Perce Lets not think about what ifs and deal with what's going on now."  I nodded, glancing at Nathan one last time before waving a hand and a purple shroud appeared over the son of Hecate. Before I walked away I said "Hopefully they are together again." They all nodded in agreement. We headed back to the empire state building where Apollo and his kids had set up a makeshift hospital to care for the wounded demigods.

After the wounded were taken care of and the shrouds containing the dead demigods were sent back to camp to be burned later, several demigods were told to come to Olympus Later in the day when we would be giving out the rewards to those who had had the largest roles in winning the war.  This group included some of my closest friends as well as Annabeth, and Luke. I was honestly surprised that Annabeth was summoned but I didn't bother arguing against it. I didn't figure she would get the best reward since her mother still wasn't happy with her after she had betrayed us.  Regardless I sat down in my throne and waited for the ceremony to start, when Luke walked in with the other demigods I couldn't help but fill immensely proud of him, he had done so much, and he was still only twelve.  I'm sure that the smile I had at that moment must have rivaled Apollo's, and that's saying something. 

Luke's point of view

We stood in front of the Olympian council, it was an intimidating sight. True I had seen all the Olympians except Hestia before, but then they weren't twelve feet tall. Zeus was droning on saying something about the bravery of the gods, but then several of the other Olympians sent glares his way. After that he said "And we could not have succeeded without the help of our demigod heroes."   From the way he said it, it sounded like it physically hurt him to say that but no one commented.  Zeus said "Heroes, you will each get one wish that we will fulfill as long as it is within our power."  So after that the rewards ceremony began. After shifting to his roman aspect, Mars, the war god said "Frank Zhang my son."

The Roman demigod bowed to Zeus and walked and then knelt at his father's feet. The war god said "Rise my son you have done much for us you have sacrificed much. What do you wish for from us?"  The son of mars didn't hesitate he said "Will you remove my curse so my life is no longer tied to a burnt stick?" Mars answered "As you wish, bring it out." Hazel rooted through her jacket pocket and pulled out the piece of firewood. Mars sent out two beams of light, one hit Frank while the second hit the piece of wood. Mars continued, he said "Your curse has been removed, but keep in mind that you are not immortal, you can still die just as any normal demigod can.

  Next up was Hazel Zhang, Frank's wife, I had heard that her maiden name was Levesque.   From her father she received amnesty from the underworld, and would be able to live out the rest of her life in peace. Leo Valdez was next, he wished for Calypso's immortality to be returned to her, however that wish could not be completed until their child was born. "Jason Grace my son." The king of the gods said after he switched to his roman aspect, Jupiter. Jason said something that apparently only his father could hear, more shocking than anything a smile crossed the sky god's face.

He handed something to Jason, but I don't think anyone else could tell what it was. Suddenly Jason turned away from his father, most of us were still baffled about what the two had done. As Jason started walking toward the goddesses he said "There is really only one goddess who can truly fulfill my wish. When we met, I had no memories at all, while the memories she had of me were false planted in her head by the mist. Over time we became friends and watched each other's backs. Eventually though our relationship became more," at this point I think a few of the demigods had figured out what he was doing. Jason was standing in front of Lady Piper's throne, Lady Piper had stood, and shrunk down to the size of a normal woman. I think everyone figured out what Jason was doing when he got down on one knee in front of Piper and held out a small box. He asked "Piper McLean will you marry me?" without hesitation she said "Yes" and then kissed him. They stayed like that for a while before Zeus cleared his throat, and the couple separated embarrassed. Jason went and sat at his father's feet while Piper returned to her twelve foot tall form and sat in her throne.