3. I Fight One of My Dad's Pets
I was totally shocked. "Sorry?" I screamed, "He's just sorry that Bianca died!? He's the Lord of the Dead! He could've prevented her from dying, but no he expects me to just come to the Underworld and just be OK with him? He fucked a woman TWICE to make me and my sister, and then left us alone in the world and he expects me to run to him with arms wide open?! I don't think so." I was so mad I swung the sword in an arch, and the air itself rent in two, leaving a ragged, black hole in the air. I made a mini black hole in the middle of New York! "Shit!" I yelled out. I said, "Close." And the hole actually closed. I turned to say sorry to Hermes, but I was alone again. He was apparently afraid of the big, bad, son of Hades. I sighed and started to wander aimlessly throughout Central Park...
After about an hour of walking, I decided to rest at a park bench. A fat lady and her Chihuahua was already sitting there. The lady didn't say anything, but her damn dog wouldn't stop yapping. I was about to take out Umbra and stab the little bastard when she said, "Now, Sonny, leave the nice boy alone." I smiled and asked, "That's a nice Chihuahua you have." She looked at me and said, "Not Chihuahua, Chimera. It's a common mistake." I jumped up off the bench and turned to run, but the Chihuahua/ Chimera jumped in front of me, mouth foaming. The lady laughed and said, "You don't know who I am, do you? I am the Mother of all Monsters. I am Echidna!" I blinked and said, "Isn't that an anteater or something?" She screamed and said, "Everyone says that! You're just like Perseus Jackson, Nico di Angelos, but you will pay for that. Attack him, my son!" The Chihuahua/Chimera barked and began to change. Its tail turned into a diamondback rattlesnake, its head changed into the head of a lion, and it had the body of a goat. It was the most terrifying thing I ever seen. I was paralyzed with fear. A voice in my head saved me by screaming out, "Nico!" I raised my shield in time to block a pillar of fire that erupted from the monster's maw. I rolled to the side and drew Umbra. The thing glared at me and charged at me. I dodged and slashed, but I only managed to graze it as it freight trained past. Well, that pissed the thing off so as it run past, the rattlesnake tail struck out at me. I cut it off just in time because it would have bit my throat. I turned to the Chimera, pissed. Echidna said I was just like Percy. The black rage I felt earlier was starting to bubble up again. I raised my sword and stabbed the ground with a scream. The ground opened up and the Chimera fell, roaring all the way down. Then silence. Echidna wailed and said, "No hero has bested my son in a millennia and you, a mere child, has done it!" I looked her in her red eyes and said, "I'm not like Perseus Jackson." Then, with bloodlust turning my vision red, I struck her down and absorbing her essence and feeling energy coursing through my body. Then I slashed through the air and disappeared in the shadows.