Chapter 3

Time for some real erasers!

Max's POV

I woke up today wondering if Chiron was still alive. After Nudge's first questioning of him, we ate and the cycle repeated. I got up and I slid to the door. Everyone was outside waiting for me.

"Hey Max! Percy said he would take us on a tour!"

This ought to be interesting. I had to agree though because the smaller members of the flock wanted to.

"Okay. On with the tour," I said dully.

Fang's POV

The tour was almost over, and we had now arrived at the beach. My shirt was singed. We had just completed a full class of rock climbing. I don't know… Maybe I could've gotten a warning. Maybe. Maybe about the lava. The rest of the flock stayed there with Grover so now it was just Percy and I. Real thrilling…

So anyway were headed toward the beach. We walked up the hill, Percy rambling on about how the beach was one of his favorites, when he yelled, "Thalia!" Percy yelled. He started running. I ran after him. Then I stopped running. The boy named Sam that Max had once dated was standing over a punk looking girl. I stopped. "Percy wait," I said calmly. Percy didn't stop. He knelt over by the girl that I assumed was called Thalia.

"Thank you for finding what I needed," Sam said to Percy.

I stiffened. Percy looked up in pure horror at the morphing person.

"W-why did you hurt Thalia?" he asked.

"To get the information I needed," he growled.

"So where is my old date?" he asked me.

"No where. She's no where."

Sam started towards me.

Then he cowered. I saw Percy behind him. His sword was stuck in Sam's heel.

"Bocala samiroy" I shouted at the top of my lungs so Max could hear, or at least Iggy. I said it twice more.

I turned. Sam was on me again. I grabbed and tossed him. He hit the ground and just kept sliding. A minute later he stopped. Thalia groaned and squirmed a little. Her eyes opened and I was instantly at her side I helped her up and handed her off to Percy who silenced her before she could talk.

"Take her away and go get Max!" I demanded. He nodded and set off.

I inched over to the place Sam was standing.

Then I went all out. I started with an uppercut, and he started with a dodge and then slashed at my back, hitting pieces of my wings. I fell over landing flat on my face in the sand. I hopped up and punched him square in the back of the head.

He looked at me in anger and howled. Just then hundreds of Erasers seemed to grow out of the water, and sand. They all came forward, and they all came at me. Sam still visible was drowning in a sea of Erasers laughing an evil laugh that just barely described him.

I could no longer see him under the blanket of wolf men. Then he suddenly bursts out of the Erasers in mid jump when he was hit by something. It looked as if it were going 150 miles an hour. It hit him and they both tumbled into the sea. Then a light bulb went of in my head. Max.

I turned and saw Percy and the others run towards me. I glanced at them then turned and plowed through the sea of Erasers. I kicked and punched until I had made a small clearing. I ran over to where Percy was.

"You can breath under water right?" I asked panting. Then I noticed blood on the ground and realized it was my own, and the pain came rushing through me making my senses tingle. It was my back. I pushed through my own pain gaining a temporary headache and rushed to Percy I lifted him up and I ran back through the dazed Erasers.

"You're gonna help me to help Max."

I through him in the water and heard a splash then I dived in myself. I choked for a minute. The water here wasn't the cleanest. A stinging pain came back as the salt water assaulted my wound. I did an underwater wince. Then I plowed my way through the water. I saw Percy join me. Then a splash came from behind us. I fully expected Erasers to come following us but no. It was Angel. She waved. Then I noticed that Percy was freaking out. He was all like, how are you still alive! There is no air down here!

I pointed to my gills. He was bound to find out about the wings soon. So, he might as well know about the wings.

Angel swam up to me and smiled then she pointed downward. I looked and nearly shouted underwater. Sam was down there beating Max! It was unbelievable. I couldn't just float there.

Fang Look!

Angel get out of there! I know!

No Look closer!

I peered. Then I noticed that Sam was getting a little blue in the face. He didn't have gills. I pushed through the water, and punched him in the neck. He went forward, then Max kicked his head back and even in the water I could clearly hear the sickening crack from his neck. Then he just kind of floated there. We heard a small scream and our heads whipped towards Percy and Angel. They were defending themselves from some oncoming erasers.

Angel… I thought.

Angel?

Yes?

Go to the surface!

I don't wanna.

Go.

Now! The rest of the flock needs your help.

Fine.

She swam up and Max and I zoomed up to Percy fighting back Erasers all the way. These erasers were all transformed so Percy's eyes were wide as he fought the "monsters" and they didn't die with one slice of his sword. We formed a triangle, back to back.

We fought like 50 Erasers before finally hitting the last one. Percy was wiped out. And though we hadn't known it we had reached the bottom of the seafloor. Each of us grabbed Percy's arms and sped to the surface.