The Demigod Files - Possible Stab

Iapetus slashed with his spear and Thalia leaped out of the way. She dropped her bow so she could draw her knives, but she wouldn’t last long in close combat.

Nico left Ethan to the skeletons and charged Iapetus. I was already ahead of him. It felt like my shoulder was going to explode, but I launched myself at the Titan and stabbed downward with Riptide, impaling the blade in the Titan’s calf.

“AHHHH!” Golden ichor gushed from the wound. Iapetus whirled and the shaft of his spear slammed into me, sending me flying. I crashed into the rocks, right next to the River Lethe.

“YOU DIE FIRST!” Iapetus roared as he hobbled toward me. Thalia tried to get his attention by zapping him with an arc of electricity from her knives, but she might as well have been a mosquito. Nico stabbed with his sword, but Iapetus knocked him aside without even looking. “I will kill you all! Then I will cast your souls into the eternal darkness of Tartarus!”

My eyes were full of spots. I could barely move. Another inch and I would fall into the river headfirst.

The river.

I swallowed, hoping my voice still worked. “You’re— you’re even uglier than your son,” I taunted the Titan. “I can see where Atlas gets his stupidity from.”

Iapetus snarled. He limped forward, raising his spear.


- The Demigod Files: The Sword of Hades