Chapter 4: A Hopeless War
The monsters were marching out of the cave to another one. Jason could just see a faint light in the back of that tunnel. Even though he acted confident and brave he was scared to death. He kind of got that the quest was to stop the army from invading camp but he still felt he had no objective. The monsters were marching outside at the other end of that tunnel. They had to stop the monsters before they reached camp.
The three friends sprinted down the hill. They were in the center of the cave and stormed into the monsters. Jason knew it was hopeless, but he charged anyway. The whole front two rows where telkines. These are a horrid mixture of the face of a Doberman and the body of a seal. The trio cut through them turning them to dust. Their weapons being imperial gold did this to most monsters. Wave after wave of different monsters trudged to them. Jason sprinted into the center of the mob, were Echidna was. She was probably the general so Jason assumed that when he killed her the army would be in disarray. All he had to do was get to her. That was the problem. An army of monsters lay between him and her.
"I got your back bro, go for it" Jack yelled. He always had a great idea of what Jason was thinking.
"I'll be right behind you" Reyna agreed
Jason and Reyna ran into the crowd. They slashed and gashed but there was too many. Every few seconds a monster would turn to dust with an arrow sticking in it. Jack being son of Apollo the god of archery was shooting arrows at them. Jason swung onto the back of a huge hydra with eight heads and the body of a dinosaur. He impaled his gladius into its back avoiding cutting off the heads. Every time a head is chopped off to more grow back. He stabbed down but it only made it angrier. Right when three heads were about to devour him five or six arrows wedged itself in the body all around Jason. He hoped off and hacked away at the two empouse. He was getting closer to Echidna. He could make out the horrid features off her. She had two poisonous blades across her back and around her waist was almost a kind of belt that changed shape. It was a lion then a dragon then a snake, it kept changing to different animals. Jason charged and flipped over a dryad and landed back to back with Reyna. As he was fighting he could not help but notice how beautiful she looked. While he was distracted a hellhound leaped at him. An arrow lodged itself into its back and it disenagrated nose to nose with Jason. He looked up at the hill and saw Jack on top of the hill running for his life. A group of maybe the largest giants Jason had ever seen. He being the son of Zeus summoned all his strength and struck five or six lightning bolts and vaporized the giants. He looked behind him and saw a clear path to Enchidna. He sprinted ahead.