Ares kick

| stepped inside with a thrust, but Ares was waiting for that. He knocked my blade out of my hands and kicked me
in the chest. | went airborne - fifteen, maybe twenty metres. | would’ve broken my back if | hadn’t crashed into the soft sand of a dune.
‘Percy!’ Annabeth yelled. ‘Cops!’
| was seeing double. My chest felt like it had just been hit with a battering ram, but | managed to get to my feet.
| couldn’t look away from Ares for fear he’d slice me in half, but out of the corner of my eye | saw red lights flashing on the shoreline boulevard.

TLT ch.20