The Junkyard of Destiny - Pt 6
Percy obviously wasn't going to stand still.
He saw the foot approaching, dragging through the earth, and jumped, driving his sword into its heel.
Talos stopped and raised his sword to swat him off.
But Thalia, and now Zoë, who had appeared to help, began launching her lightning-charged spear and arrows directly at Talos's face, blinding him for a moment.
Meanwhile, Grover switched flutes and began playing a new song that caused one of the nearby light poles to fly toward Talos's chest and slam into him.
Even though the pole shattered into pieces on impact, it provided enough of a distraction for Talos to forget about Percy.
Who, using both his black sword and Riptide, began climbing up Talos's thigh at incredible speed.
Even the giant's violent shaking seemed incapable of throwing Percy off, his expression completely serious.
Although the others didn't know what Percy was trying to do, they seemed to silently agree to distract Talos for as long as possible.
Zoë, who normally wouldn't even help in a situation like this because it wasn't her business in any way, owed them one for helping heal her injuries.
So she didn't say much and simply used her arrows to aim at the colossus's nose.
The giant shook his head for a moment while his sword came crashing toward the ground, trying to randomly hit some of them.
But it failed.
Then the giant seemed to notice Percy, who had already climbed almost to his waist.
The moment it realized this, it moved its hand quickly.
"Hey, not over here, you stupid giant!" Grover shouted, hurling another light pole toward Talos, which struck him in the stomach.
But Talos seemed to ignore it completely and didn't stop.
Seeing the hand approaching, Percy looked in both directions, searching for some way to avoid it.
But when you're forcefully climbing a colossus over twenty stories tall, it's hard to find somewhere to escape to.
To avoid the giant's hand, which would crush him like a fly, Percy had no choice but to firmly plant his feet against the surface he was climbing, using his embedded swords for leverage, and launch himself backward, passing directly between the giant's fingers.
"Damn it," Percy couldn't help saying as he felt gravity pulling him back down after having climbed so far.
Though at the last second, Percy drove his sword into the giant's leg, softening the fall and leaving a huge gash in the metal.
But now Talos knew what he was planning.
Immediately, he lifted his leg, intending to shake Percy off.
But before he could do so, the colossus suddenly froze.
Making everyone stare at him for a second.
Talos, as if something had suddenly gotten inside his head, abruptly raised his hand, clenched it into a fist, and punched himself directly in the face.
Forcing himself several steps backward.
"Bianca?" Percy thought as he noticed the giant beginning to behave strangely.
Because suddenly it dropped its sword and punched itself again in its now slightly cracked bronze face.
The giant, as if it had lost its mind, began attacking itself.
Face.
Chest.
As if it were fighting against itself.
The violent shaking eventually forced Percy to let go, sending him back to the ground.
And he watched with a serious expression as the giant was beaten by its own hands.
Meanwhile, the cuts Percy had left in its right leg seemed to begin widening more and more.
Until that leg simply could no longer support its own weight, causing the giant to collapse to one side.
"Wait," Percy said when he saw the direction it was falling.
A direction filled with electrical cables.
Percy immediately took a breath, preparing to unleash a Fus Ro Dah or some other Shout to stop the metal colossus from crashing into them.
But he remembered that right at the beginning of the battle he had already used a full Fus Ro Dah.
Even so, despite the recovery time required between each Shout, Percy still shouted:
"FUS RO DAH!"
Even if it damaged his vocal cords.
The shout of power burst from his mouth, though far weaker than it should have been.
It struck the colossus in the chest, preventing it from colliding with the electrical cables.
But before Percy could feel satisfied about that, as if the metal giant suddenly regained control of itself—or rather, as if someone took control of it in the middle of the fall—it moved its head and looked toward the nearby cables.
And without hesitation, it raised one of its hands and grabbed them, ripping them out of the ground.
Then it crashed directly into the mountains of scrap behind it.
The cables, upon touching the metal scattered everywhere, suddenly released an enormous amount of electricity that instantly illuminated the entire area.
Making electricity surge through the whole scrapyard.
And above all, the electricity itself seemed to focus directly on the colossus Talos.
Percy's eyes widened because he hadn't expected that.
And he opened his mouth to try and warn them.
But because he had used the Shout of Power repeatedly in such a short span of time, all he could do was spit blood from the damage to his vocal cords.
His hand reaching toward the giant Talos.
The same Talos that still had Bianca inside it.