We had caught the Titan forces by surprise, but we were soon forced back along with the rest of the rebellion. Another pod slammed into the dome, and out of it slithered a fire breathing dragon. Instead of going for us, it slithered toward the greenhouse dome.

"Grover!" I shouted, hoping he could hear me.

"What?" he called without seeing me.

"Take care of the dragon, I'll cover you!" I shouted, even though I still couldn't see him in the chaos of the battle.

The dragon entered the greenhouse, with Grover hot on his trail. I followed, keeping enemy troops off of him. By the time I followed Grover into the greenhouse, several trees were already ablaze.

Grover held up his shield just in time to save him self from becoming barbecue. I jumped onto the dragon's back and stabbed Riptide into its hide. It reeled back and shook me off. Grover saw me clearly for the first time, and lowered his shield.

"Annabeth?" he asked.

"Long story. DUCK!" I yelled.

He reacted just in time, narrowly avoiding more dragon flames. Riptide reappeared in my hands, so I resumed my attack. Aiming for chinks in the dragon's armor. While I went on offensive, Grover helped by keeping the dragon focused on him. Soon the dragon keeled over dead, and Grover lowered his smoking shield. Around us, trees were still burning.

"Any ideas on how to put the fires out?" I asked.

"When did you get here? Why are you here?" Grover asked.

"Not helping Grover," I reminded him.

"Oh, right. Well we could...uh..." but he didn't have any ideas.

That's when Ares crashed through the dome, and water poured in. The trees were doused, but now we were going to drown. Not exactly how I planned to die. We waded through the water, scrambling for the exit. I had to lug Ares. Together, we made it to the training dome, along with the rest of the rebellion. We were still being pushed back.

Before long, we were backed up against the entrance to the command dome. Rebels fell down everywhere, and monsters turned to dust. I wasn't sure how I was still alive. Our archers were scourging for arrows now. We didn't have any reinforcements coming, where as the Titans were receiving fresh troops with every boarding pod.

"Light 'em up!" someone shouted, and suddenly the Titan forces were retreating. I turned to see the depowered gods charging out. Zeus held a sword that crackled with electricity. Hades wielded a double-edged sword of Stygian iron. Hermes was wading through the enemy with two razor sharp knives. Hephaestus had a giant shield and flaming sword.

They were awe inspiring. They drove the enemy back, and the rest of our forces attacked with renewed life.

Zeus was spinning, slicing, zapping and frying every monster within range of his fury. Hades was gliding across the battlefield like a living shadow. Hermes was bouncing around like pinball, and I didn't even see him strike, but suddenly a bunch of monsters burst into dust, and I know Hermes had done all that. Hephaestus held back the few brave enemy troops while the rest of the rebellion retreated in to the command dome. As soon as I was sure I wouldn't be killed, I ran for the command dome. All we could do now was hold out while Percy fought Kronos.

I was standing in front of Kronos's throne room. Slowly, I lowered the helm of darkness onto my head and approached the throne room. Kronos sat on his throne, watching the battle at Typhon's Prison unfold. I snuck around behind him and spoke into his mind.

Kronos. He turned his head, but couldn't see me. Kronos. He sat up, looking around for me. It ends here. He slowly turned a full three-hundred and sixty degrees, scanning the room for me. I fired a bolt of lightning at his feet, making him jump.

"ZEUS!" he yelled. "Where are you?"

Not Zeus. I walked up behind him and whispered in his ear.

"It's Percy."

I kicked out so hard, the shock wave cracked the floor and Kronos flew straight into New York City. Removing the helm, I flew down to him, and the fight went into high gear. Our weapons clashed again and again at blinding speed. He tripped me with his scythe and followed up by slamming the butt end of it into my jaw. I heard a loud crack, and my jaw felt funny. I ran my sword through his torso, and then ripped my sword back out. I ignited my sword, and flames covered the blade.

Kronos morphed his sword into one of my worst nightmares; Backbiter, Luke's old weapon, before Kronos took over, and apparently before Luke came back to the good side. I involuntarily flinched. Kronos grinned.

I shook off my fear and attacked. Each clash of the two swords sent out a shock wave that shook the earth. And since our swords were moving at about the speed of sound, it was pretty much a constant earthquake. I parried and stabbed at his shoulder. He dodged and sliced at my stomach. I howled as the pain filled me. I kicked him away, hoping to buy myself enough time to heal.

I had the wound mostly closed by the time Kronos returned to attack. He aged buildings all around me until they crumbled and fell. I bashed away the rubble as best I could, and countered causing an earthquake that sent more buildings collapsing, but this time on him. While he clawing his way out, I leapt back and fired enough arrows to blot out the sun. They rained down, and Kronos cursed my name... again.

He changed his weapon back into a scythe and hurled it at me. I tried to block it, but it went around and sliced behind my knees. As the scythe returned to Kronos boomerang style, I collapsed to the ground. He ran toward me and swung, but I wasn't there. As a matter of fact, I wasn't anywhere. Thank you helm of darkness. Combining the maddening fear powers of the helm with Dionysus's own powers over insanity, I entered Kronos's mind.

He collapsed, screaming in pain without me even having to touch him. He fell to his knees, clutching his skull. I fired a turbo charged lightning bolt, and Kronos went flying. He skidded across the Atlantic ocean, and slowly stood back up on the water. I flew out again to meet him, this time on my turf.

The ocean itself attacked with me, slamming him with waves and forcing him further away from dry land. In a desperate attempt, he slowed time around me and caught his breath. I sent down a lightning bolt from the sky, which hit Kronos and caused him to let go. I grabbed him by the neck and threw him all the way to Europe, where our fight continued. Kronos grabbed the Eiffel tower and smacked me with it. I sailed across the sky and crashed somewhere in the Sahara desert.

I sprinted all the way back to France and slashed at Kronos's neck. He dodged and stabbed me with his scythe point. I rolled away, my back bleeding. Kronos had been very close to hitting my weak point. I slashed again, but Kronos parried and sliced a line of silver into my chest. A lightning bolt struck my hand, charging it with electricity.

Kronos toppled after a few punches from an electric fist, but again slowed time to give himself time to recover. He rolled away and sliced.

I collapsed. Clutching my neck. While I was down, Kronos kicked me in my still partially open stomach wound. I screamed in pain.

"Not bad Jackson. But not very good either," Kronos scoffed.

A huge mass of lightning bolts struck our location, leaving the earth and Kronos scorched. I slowly stood up and walked over to the motionless Kronos. I wasn't sure if I'd beaten him or not. When I was about three feet from Kronos, it happened.

Kronos leaped up and kicked me between the legs. While I was hunched over, he punched me in the face until silver blood was pouring from my nose. I slowly raised my sword, making sure Kronos wouldn't notice.

He grabbed me by the neck and held me up. Menacingly, he raised his scythe to my neck. I made my move then, and slashed with my sword. Kronos let go and leaped back, clutching his left eye socket and screaming.

He looked at me and screamed, "YOU WILL BURN JACKSON!"

"We'll see about that," I confidently replied.

We took to the skies, where our fight continued. Lightning was striking all around us, lighting up the otherwise dark sky of China. Every now and then one of the bolts would hit Kronos and he'd howl in pain, or the bolt would hit me and my attacks would be turbo charged. Kronos grabbed my sword blade with his bare hands and pulled.

My sword went flying to who knows where. I drew my father's trident and kept fighting. The trident was obviously different from a sword. But like Riptide, it felt perfect in my hands. I blocked Kronos's attacks and followed up with my own. The sea below us was raging violently. One point of the trident, and an impossibly enormous geyser of water hit Kronos.

I hurled the trident, which pierced Kronos in the chest, shoulder, and stomach thanks to the three points. The trident violently ripped itself out of Kronos and returned to me, the tips now covered in Kronos's golden blood.

I swung the trident hard like a bat, and knocked Kronos down to California. E threw his scythe, which hit my shoulder. I grabbed the scythe out of the air and threw it at him. He caught it like nothing.

I readied my bow, but had another idea. Instead of notching an arrow, I notched the master bolt itself. It sparked and crackled with an almost blinding amount of light. When I was sure I had a lock on Kronos, I fired.

The explosion was titanic. It must've leveled everything in its path. But as the dust settled, I realized it had leveled everything except Kronos. Curse him.

I dive bombed Kronos at very close to the speed of light. The shockwave from the collision might have put the earth's orbit off balance. Still, Kronos refused to stay down. He slashed and hacked until My shirt and pants were in tatters and stained beyond all reason with silver blood. I ripped off what was left off my shirt and threw it at Kronos's face. He blindly swung, but I expected that a blocked with the trident. I stabbed Kronos with my own weapon, leaving three more puncture wounds.

Kronos leaped so high for, for a second I thought he had ran away. But the I realized he'd again changed our battlefield. We'd come full circle, and were once again fighting on Mount Othrys. I followed him up, but he caught me by surprise and grabbed my neck. With a cry of rage, he shoved my body into the hearth. I kicked away and leapt out, still burning. I ignored it and fought. I caught Kronos's neck in the space between two trident points and pinned him to a wall. I stood back and waved my hand.

Mist suddenly appeared, and through it I saw the battle at Typhon's Prison going poorly for my friends. I quickly punched Kronos in the face and pulled the trident away.

"This isn't over," I told him.

I started to fly back to Typhon's Prison, but Kronos grabbed my ankle and grinned.

"You're darn right, it's not," he smirked.