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"There is no throne to Nemesis," Ethan ht!" Kronos tried to get up, but stumbled Above his left ear, a patch of blond hair still smoldered "Strike them down! They deserve to suffer"

"You said your ods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance Kronos doesn't build He only destroys"

Ethan looked at the sizzling throne of Hephaestus Grover'swere filling hiia--a wish to see a beautiful day, to be anywhere but here His good eye blinked

Then he chargedbut not at me

While Kronos was still on his knees, Ethan brought down his sword on the Titan lord's neck It should have killed hirasping his stomach A shard of his own blade had ricocheted and pierced his ar over his servant "Treason," he snarled

Grover's rew around Ethan's body Ethan stared at ht with pain

"Deserve better," he gasped "If they justhad thrones--"

Kronos stomped his foot, and the floor ruptured around Ethan Nakah a fissure that went straight through the heart of the ht into open air

"So much for him" Kronos picked up his sword "And now for the rest of you"

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth

Grover was at her side now He'd stopped playing and was feeding her ambrosia

Everywhere Kronos stepped, the roots wrapped around his feet, but Grover had stopped his h to do h the hearth, kicking up coals and sparks Kronos slashed an armrest off the throne of Ares, which was okay by me, but then he backed me up to my dad's throne

"Oh, yes," Kronos said "This one willfor my new hearth!"

Our blades clashed in a shower of sparks He was stronger than me, but for the moment I felt the power of the ocean inRiptide across his breastplate so hard I cut a gash in the Celestial bronze

He staain and ti at the speed of a glacier Kronos backed up leisurely, catching his breath He exaled forward, silently cursing him He could take all the time-outs he wanted He could freeze me in place at will My only hope was that the effort was draining him If I could wear him down

"It's too late, Percy Jackson," he said "Behold"

He pointed to the hearth, and the coals glowed A sheet of white se I saw Nico anda hopeless battle, ringed in eneht fro wave after wave of zoround, but the forces of the Titan's ar destroyed Mortals, now fully awake, were running in terror Cars swerved and crashed

The scene shifted, and I saw so

A colu rapidly over the Jersey shore Chariots circled it, locked in coods attacked Lightning flashed Arrows of gold and silver streaked into the cloud like rocket tracers and exploded Slowly, the cloud ripped apart, and I saw Typhon clearly for the first tiht not be that long) I would never be able to get the ie out of my mind Typhon's head shifted constantly Every moment he was a differentat his face would've driven me insane, so I focused on his body, which wasn't much better He was humanoid, but his skin reminded me of a meat loaf sandwich that had been in soreen, with blisters the size of buildings, and blackened patches fro stuck under a volcano His hands were hus were scaly and reptilian

"The Olyhed "How pathetic"

Zeus threw a thunderbolt from his chariot The blast lit up the world I could feel the shock even here on Oly He staggered a bit, with a s crater on top of his

My lian to loosen up Kronos didn't seeht and his final victory If I could hold out a few more seconds, and if my dad kept his word

Typhon stepped into the Hudson River and barely sank to e in the smoke Please, it has to happen now

Like a miracle, a conch horn sounded from the smoky picture The call of the ocean The call of Poseidon

All around Typhon, the Hudson River erupted, churning with forty-foot waves Out of the water burst a new chariot--this one pulled by massive hippoca with a blue aura of power, rode a defiant circle around the giant's legs Poseidon was no longer an oldwith a black beard As he swung his trident, the river responded,a funnel cloud around the monster

"No!" Kronos bellowed after a moment of stunned silence "NO!"

"NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it froe or from all the way across town "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!"

Warriors burst out of the river, riding the waves on huge sharks and dragons and sea horses It was a legion of Cyclopes, and leading them into battle was

"Tyson!" I yelled