~Chapter 3~

I let all of the anger and power that was built up inside of me go. When I did this I felt a breeze sweep over me. When I looked at myself I wasn't the little demigod baby girl that my parents had disguised me as when they had brought me to Ann, my adoptive mother who has raised me since I was 2 days old. I looked as I had when I was a demi-goddess in my dreams. Instead of having blonde hair, I now had jet black hair that had ocean blue highlights in half of it. My hair also went to my waist instead of my shoulders and it was all curly instead of half curly. I also had a very pretty Greek style dress that was white at the top with a silver plate around my stomach. The bottom of the dress starting from the silver plate down was a beautiful ocean blue color that also had areas of green and other shades of blues like water. I had a circlet like Thalia's, but this circlet had a sea-green gem in the middle of it. My shoes were silver sandals that laced up my calves like point shoes do. I knew it was only temporary because of the sudden release of my built up power and I also knew that it will become permanent when I am claimed, but as of right now I was Kataigida, daughter of Artemis and Poseidon, demi-goddess of ice, stars, weather, and peace.

In my opinion, I don't think that I have ever felt this powerful ever. Sure I have played with my powers before when no one would be looking, but this power that I was feeling now was nothing compared to what I had felt then. I was puzzled by this, but I quickly narrowed the answer down to adrenaline. I was so mad that the Minotaur had come and crashed my party, hurt Lily and had come very close to instantly killing Scott with one swipe of his leg. I also realized that I had never experienced this kind of power because I never allowed myself to. I have always had to hold back from doing things that mortals can't do and have had to limit myself to things that mortals can do.

At the current moment, the Minotaur looked absolutely furious that I had made him immobile for a short time by freezing his feet. He was starting to make his way towards me, but by the time he had taken his first step I felt my demigod instincts kick in and I went into battle/vengeance mode. I probably would have yelled a battle cry or something but at the moment I didn't really trust myself to speak in fear that I would break down and start crying. I willed a thunder storm to manifest above the Minotaur's head and I put even more power into it to be able to turn the thunder storm into a hurricane/tornado storm thing that surrounded the Minotaur. At the same time, I willed 2 ice spikes to form in each of my hand, one spike in my right hand and the other spike in my left hand. I hurtled both ice spikes at the Minotaur and they embedded themselves in his stomach. The moment the ice spikes made contact with the Minotaur, they started to send off a wave of thick frost that soon covered the Minotaur from head to toe and rendered him completely immobile. After the frost had spread and immobilized the Minotaur, I stopped my mini chaos storm and took my bow and arrow off of my necklace and readied myself to take the final shot.

"You don't scare me Minotaur. My brother has defeated you numerous times and now it is my turn. If you haven't learned your lesson by now I suggest that you get it through your head that you won't get the best of a child of Poseidon. Especially when they are protecting their friends and the ones that they love." With that said I shot 2 arrows at the same time and they stuck themselves in the Minotaur's heart and not even a few seconds later the Minotaur exploded into a pile of monster dust. In the monster dust was my spoil of war; the Minotaur's other horn that had not already been broken off by Percy.

I quickly grabbed the horn and dashed over to Scott's side. He looked even paler than before and the cuts were still bleeding pretty badly. Lily had his head cradled in her lap and she was whispering encouraging words to him through her tears and every once in a while she would shake his head so he would not fall asleep. Lily noticed me rushing over and traded places with me so I was now cradling his head in my lap.

"Lily, can you please go inside and tell everyone that the monster is gone, but that they still need to stay inside until Scott is healed." I asked her through tears of my own. She slowly stood up and made her way inside as she was not very stable on her feet yet and her crying did not help at all.

After she had begun to make her way inside, I turned my attention back to Scott. "Hey, Scott, I kept my promise and didn't die on you. Now it is your turn to keep your promise." I said as I made my way to his side so I could heal him. I willed some of the water vapor out of the air to become liquid and I then took that water and wrapped it around Scott's torso with a move of my hand. I then touched the water that was surrounding his wound and the water began to move faster and faster and it glowed brighter and brighter. Soon I willed the water to become vapor again and the sight that I saw pleased me greatly. The scratches that had taken up Scott's chest and torso were gone but unfortunately they had left 3 long scars where the claw marks had been. I silently hoped that later some ambrosia could make the scars disappear. I guess that while I was healing him, Scott had passed out but as I looked at him now he had regained most of his color and his eyes were fluttering open. It took him a little bit but soon his beautiful sunset colored eyes found my sea-green colored eyes and our gazes locked.

"The Minotaur is gone, isn't it? And you kept your promise or are we both dead and in heaven right now?" Said Scott.

"Ya, the Minotaur is gone and your right. I did keep my promise and you kept yours, too." I said as I had an enormous grin of relief spread across my face that was soon followed by tears of pure relief and joy that Scott wasn't dead. "And if you are wondering, Lily went inside to tell everyone what was going on."

"Hey, you should not be crying right now. No one died. We are all safe and sound thanks to you." Scott said as he reached up from his laying position on the grass to wipe away the stray tears of joy that were still on my face and as he did that he tucked a strand of blue hair behind my ear.

"I know no one died, but I am just so relieved that you are okay that I started to cry. Now I don't want to rush you into anything, but do you think you can try to stand?" I asked.

"Of course I can stand I feel loads better now that you healed me. Can I get a hand though?" he asked as he sat up pretty easily.

"Of course you can get a hand Scott" I said as I stood up and extended my arm out to him. He took my hand with a smile and I tried to help pull him up but to be honest I felt drained and about ready to pass out.

"Storm, were you hit by the Minotaur at all during the fight?" Scott asked me as he continued to hold my hand.

"I don't think I was hit by the Minotaur, but..." I trailed off as I remembered the arrow sticking out of my stomach. I forgot to heal it because Lily had been knocked out just as I was about to heal myself so I never got the chance. I looked down at the area of the wound and realized that my dress was soaked with blood near the area of the wound. My head started to swim and Scott's worried voice asking me if I was okay seemed to be very far off although he was only a foot away from me. I vaguely realized that the parents and my friends had come outside and were making their way towards Scott and I. My world started to dim and become black as I began to lose consciousness. I felt my knees give out and my body start to fall towards the ground but I never felt the impact of the hard ground. Instead I felt strong arms catch me as I lost all consciousness and fell into a peaceful sleep that, surprisingly, had no dreams.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Heroes of Olympus or Percy Jackson and the Gods of Olympus characters. Rick Riordan does. I do own the plot and the OC's such as Storm and Scott.