Hey guys, here is the fourth chapter of "The other son of Hades", and don't worry, I have a big idea planned in my head and when the story is done or is almost done I will definitely give it a new name and probably a new summary. Anyways, have fun reading!
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson because I'm not a character murderer like Riordan
Chapter 4
Kody's POV
I was walking in the woods, talking to myself. "Stupid Gods, stupid rescue mission, stupid demigod. What's so special about him anyway? He's probably a big wimp and would runaway if he saw a monster. I should get the quest, I'm bigger, stronger, braver, taller. Ugh this is so stupid!" I then kicked a small stick out of anger.
I turned around and looked to see how far away from the cave I am and what I saw made it look like there wasn't anything on this earth other than trees. 'This is so stupid' l thought to myself, but what I didn't expect was for someone to respond.
I heard a deep, low voice speak in my head.
Yes it is.
I was taken aback, I was so shocked I even tripped on a branch and fell onto my back with a big thump. I sat up and said. "Who's there?"
No one responded.
"Who's there?" I asked again, this time, it answered.
I'm here.
I stood up. "Where are you?"
I'm everywhere.
"That's impossible, no one can be everywhere at once."
I can.
"How?" I asked scanning my surroundings for any movement.
You'll find out soon enough.
"Are you a monster?"
I prefer the term unique creature.
"Okay, so you're a crazy monster. Now, show yourself so I can rip you apart!"
You? Don't kid yourself. You don't even have the courage to tell the girl how you feel.
My eyes widened in shock, how did he know that? "How did you know that?!"
Ah, my dear boy, when you're like me you tend to know these things.
"What are you?"
I told you already.
I took a second to think about it, but I know he still hasn't said what he is yet.
"No you haven't"
I have, but you just don't realize it yet.
I huffed and kicked a tree.
Listen. Kody, was it?
I looked around, still not knowing how this is happening.
"Yes"
Well Kody, I have a deal for you, and not just any type of deal, a deal that would grant you your greatest wish, AND your second greatest wish.
"You're lying."
That is where you're wrong Kody, I know what you want most, and the second thing you want most. And this is a once in a life time deal Kody, another monster could come offer you a deal and give you what you want most, and you might except it. But this one's better.
I considered this for a few seconds. I looked around and asked. "What do I have to do?"
I heard the voice laugh a deep, creepy, intimidating laugh.
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Alison's POV
'Ugh' was all I could think. I just wanted to take a short walk but nooo, I just had to get lost, didn't I? I can't see the cave anywhere. I'm just walking, hoping I'm going the right way, probably not.
Currently I'm walking towards the sunrise so I'm walking east, hopefully I left the cave walking west. In that case, I would eventually be able to see the cave again.
"If only I had my bow, and some exploding arrows, then I could just shoot a flare into the sky and wait for help." Ugh, waiting. It sucks. And I'm ADHD so it's worse for me to just sit and do nothing, at least walking I'm not completely bored out of my mind.
"Hopefully I'll find the cave soon." I said to myself, and that's the fourth time I've said it in ten minutes.
30 minutes later
"Ugh! This is hopeless!" I shouted at nothing. I've been walking for half an hour and I still haven't found anything. I wish something interesting would happen right now.
Squeak squeak.
Looks like my wish came true.
I looked around, hearing that squeaking noise probably isn't going to be good news but it's better then just walking around looking for a cave that I can't even remember where it is.
Squeak squeak.
There it is again, I look behind me to see a big bunny run towards me.
"Aw, a bunny, how cute!" I exclaimed bending down and holding my arms out to pick the bunny up, I didn't. The bunny was so fast I barely noticed it run under me and through my legs.
I turned around and saw the bunny just sitting on the ground, waiting for something.
"What are you doing?" I asked him, not really expecting an answer. But, he sort of did.
He leaned to the right to look past me. I turned around just in time to see someone crash into me causing us both to fall.
Line break, 15 minutes earlier, Allan's POV
"Allison? Kody? where are you?" I shouted for the thousandth time.
"Can anyone here me?" I yelled and looked around for any movement, after waiting for a minute or two, I sighed and sat down.
"Where did those two go?" I asked myself, I turned around and said. "Zane, where do you th-" I stopped when I saw Zane wasn't there.
"Zane?" I said, waiting for a response.
"Zane!" I yelled. "Zane, can you hear me?!" Oh crud, not only did I lose two demigods, but I lost the one we were supposed to bring back to camp, this could possibly be the worst find and rescue mission ever.
"Zane! If you can hear me, follow the music!" I took the pipes that were tied around my neck and started to play a tune. It was made for attracting wild animals that might've been injured. If they heard this, they would walk towards it and if we found any wounded animals, we'd help them.
After a few minutes of sitting there and playing, I had a pretty big crowd. There were two deer, three moles, a few birds in the trees, a porcupine, and a family of bunnies.
"Hey guys, I need your help."
"How can we help?" The male deer asked.
"I need your help finding three demigods. One has short black hair and looks like the hulk,"
"Who's the hulk?" This was from one of the birds in the trees, who said it? I have no idea
"Never mind, he's really strong, okay?" They all nodded in agreement.
"Good, now the other is a beautiful girl, she has long, blonde hair, amazing blue eyes, a great respect for nature, dreamy, tall, she smells like flowers." I stopped when I realized I was drooling and all the animals were staring.
I wiped the droll from my mouth and said. "Yeah, that's her. And there's one other, a guy named Zane. He has long black hair, he's kinda tan mostly pail if that makes sense, and he'll most likely have a sword with him or some leather gloves, and he might freak out if you all just start to follow him so try and get his attention and make him follow you." They all nodded again.
"Good, now, let's go find us some heroes!" I shouted the last part while jumping up to my feet, it must've scared them because they all took a step back, except for the birds who just flapped their wings a couple of times.
"Hehe, sorry." I said. "Let's just go find them." A few seconds past and they were all gone searching for them.
I took one last look around about to start another trek, but I saw something move near some bushes.
"Hello," I said. "Is anyone there?" After a few seconds of just standing there, the creature hopped out of the bushes. It was a bunny, what surprised me was how big it was. It wasn't a little baby bunny, and it wasn't a mother or father, no, it was still just a little bit bigger then a full grown adult bunny.
"Hello," it spoke. "Are you Zane's friend?" I nodded slightly.
"Really? Yay! Can you help me find him?" He asked me so enthusiastically.
"Yeah, but, what's your name?" When I asked that, I saw something shiny come out of each one of his finger/toes. They were really sharp claws, wait, did bunnies have claws?
"I'm Razor, come on! Let's go find your friends and Zane!" He then dashed off into the forest and I followed.
10 minutes later
Razor finally stopped running and I was still about fifty feet away from him. Finally after a few more seconds of running I fell to my knees panting.
Razor saw me and walked over. "Why are you so tired? I gave you a lot of breaks." After a few seconds more of panting I took in a deep breathe and said. "Because... I'm... Not... A... Bunny... Gods I'm tired!" I took off the backpack and fell to my stomach.
"What's wrong satyr? Do you need a bag to breath in?" I rolled over and tiredly raised my hand in the air. "Not... That... Fast..." After a few seconds of heavy breathing my heart rate finally started to lower and I sat up. "Razor, don't go so fast. You were going at least twenty five miles per hour." Razor started to make a squeaking/laughing sound.
"To slow for me, huh? Maybe I should jog next time. Then maybe you could keep up." He then started to run in circles around me. "Come on come on come on! Get up! Let's go find your friends and Zane!" I grabbed the backpack and pulled it closer. I unzipped the bag and took a very small sip of nectar, it tasted like the most delicious apple I've ever had, I was tempted to drink more but my body already felt a little warm. Feeling rejuvenated, I stood up. "Alright Razor, let's go find them." Razor squeaked in delight and hopped up and down.
A few moments after Razor's celebration he suddenly stopped with his ears raised.
"Razor?" I said. "What's wrong?"
He looked around, taking very slow steps backwards. "I hear something, it sounds like, dogs. They're coming from over there." He nodded in one direction. "Come on satyr! Let's go!" He turned around and hightailed it out of there with me right behind him.
5 minutes later
I was running when Razor suddenly sped up ran through a thick part of the forest and was out of site, I tried to run faster but wasn't succeeding. After a couple more seconds I was running between all the trees with my hands up trying to keep the branches from hitting my face.
After a few more seconds I was out of the thick brush and when I looked ahead I saw someone but couldn't stop fast enough and ran into them knocking us both to the ground.
Allison's POV
"Ow," I said. "Get off of me."
The person who ran into me started to get off of me and stand up, it was Allan.
"Allan? What are you doing?"
"Allison! I'm so sorry! Please, let me help you!" He then held out his hand for me to grab, and I did.
I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up to my feet. "Allison, I'm so sorry I ran into you, I was just trying to follow him."
I brushed some dirt off of my shirt and pulled a piece of grass out of my mouth. "Allan," I said. "Who were you following?"
He took a step to my left and pointed behind me. I turned around and saw the big bunny, still just sitting there. I turned back around to face Allan and said. "Him? Why are you following him?"
He took a long, deep breath, probably from having to chase a bunny. I mean, I heard bunnies were fast but I didn't know they were that hard to follow.
He breathed out all of the air and took a smaller breath, then he stood up straight and said. "Because, he's saving my life."
I looked back at the bunny for a second, it doesn't seem like he can save someone's life, but, I'm a demigod so I know better then to judge a creature by its appearance.
I looked back at Allan and said. "How is he saving your life?
He pointed back where he was running from and said. "I'm being chased, by hellhounds."
"Oh no, we have to get back to the cave and get Kody and Zane." I turned around, about to start running but Allan grabbed my arm, I looked back at him to see him looking at the ground and shaking his head.
"No Allison, they're both gone. After Kody left, Zane and me went to go find you and Kody, but Zane and I got separated. I can't even remember when, it just sorta, happened."
"Well," I said, looking at the bunny. "Let's follow him and see where he leads us." The bunny then shook his head in agreement and dashed away, Allan and I then followed, hearing the distant sound of howling.
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Zane's POV
"Hello? Can anyone hear me?" I shouted while walking through the thick forest.
"Allison? Allan? Even Kody?" I shouted toward the sky, no answer.
"Anyone?!" I shouted one last time, still, no one said anything back.
"Ugh." I pushed past some bushes and walked into a tree. "UGH!" I took out my shadow sword handle/grip but instead of turning into a cutlass, it was a double edged axe. I hacked at the tree for what felt like hours, but was only two minutes. But still, by the time I was done, it was leaning to the side and looked like it had the life sucked out of it.
I turned the axe back into the small handle/grip and put it in my back pocket, then quickly walked past the tree before it had time to fall down on me.
After a few minutes of walking and shouting, I took a break. I slid off my backpack and sat down with my back against a tree, nothing to listen to but the sounds of birds and I began to hum a tune, it was moonlight sonata of course. Man, that song's always in my head.
When I was done with the song, I looked around. Everything was quiet, a little too quiet.
"Oh god, now I'm one of those guys." I said to myself.
I stood up and pulled out the handle/grip from my back pocket and it transformed into a cutlass.
"If anyone's there," I said to the never ending rows of trees all around me. "speak now, if not, I won't be responsible for any lost limbs." I waited a few seconds for a response but none came.
"Good," I whispered. "No monsters. I'm just paranoid and probably going crazy." The cutlass changed back to its original form and I was beginning to put it back in my pocket when I heard the distant sound of some rustling bushes and took it out again with amazing speed, turning it into a cutlass once again.
"Who's there?" I yelled pointing the cutlass in the direction of the sound.
"If you didn't hear me before, I will tell you again. Come out slowly and tell me who and what you are or I'll cut off your arms." After a few more seconds of silence, something in the bushes moved. Then, twenty feet away, a man with a brown furry shirt, furry pants, and fur coat walked out.
"Such brave words for such a young man." When he said that, every word was filled with distaste. "Are you really willing to follow through with that threat?" When he said that, the sound of movement could be heard everywhere around me. "And if you are, are you willing to do it to all of us." Finally, a pack of wolves jumped out from every direction and made a giant ring around me, I was completely surrounded. I began to take small steps in circles and glance past my shoulder every few seconds to avoid getting attacked and started to shift the target of my sword from one wolf to the next, scaring anything that the sword was pointed at.
"Who are you?" I asked the man as I stopped circling to face him. He looked at me from head to toe and made a 'tsk' sound. "Disappointing, very disappointing. I brought my entire pack for this?" He gestured to me, disgust evident in his voice. "You can't even stand up straight." I looked down and saw that my feet were constantly moving and that I was swaying my entire body for no reason.
I looked up at him. "I didn't ask you your opinion on how I stand, I asked you who you are." I raised my cutlass and pointed it at his face. "Now tell me who you are before you lose your arm."
He raised his hand up as if someone just insulted him. "Excuse me? have some manners, boy." He spat. "I, Lycaon, the original lycanthrope, is here to kill you."
"Listen dude," I lowered the cutlass to my side but stayed alert in case a wolf attacked. "I don't know who you're supposed to be, or what a Lycanthrope is, but all I know is you're being all 'I'm too good for this' and that is just really annoying so excuse me if I don't act with a bunch of manners when I cut off both of your arms." All the wolves started to growl and slowly inch closer and closer to me.
"How dare you!" He shouted. "I shall rip you to shreds!" He then got on all fours and his coat started to cover his whole body and he started to look more and more like a real wolf. When he stopped his transformation he looked up and roared, he was a wolf. Then all the other wolves took a few steps back, heck, even I got scared. When he was done shouting his wolf-battle cry he made a few quick steps and jumped into the air, soaring right at me. I brought my sword up to try and block, and I saw a wave of emotion go through Lycaon's eyes, fear, maybe? When I focused on reality again I saw Lycaon's paw come down on me and I used my sword to block it and spun to the side.
He fell and landed on the ground using all his legs to make sure he didn't fall down, then he arched his back and made a howl/roar and all the other wolves got low to the ground like they were stalking their prey, which I guess they kinda were.
"You've made a grave mistake." Growled Lycaon, I pointed my cutlass towards him. "Call off your mutts, bone breath. Maybe I'll give you a treat for it." I said smirking.
"Insolent boy!" He yelled with rage. "You'll regret ever opening your mouth! Attack him!" All the wolves arched their backs and began to howl. Then, one after the other, they began to attack.
One lunged at me and I side stepped and slashed his side, it made a small wincing sound. When the wolf landed on the ground it ran towards the other wolves and I lost track when he started to walk with the surrounding pack. A wolf howled behind me and I turned around and saw another one running at me. I thought of a spear and the cutlass quickly turned into a long black spear, I then thrusted the spear toward the wolf causing him to growl and take a step back. While I was trying to fend off the wolf two more came from both sides and were growling at me, I thrusted the spear one more time and took a step back to avoid getting bitten by the two wolves. The two of them started to walked in front of me and now there were three coming at me to bite my head off.
"Nice doggies. Hey, what if I throw you a stick?" I lifted my spear in the air and shook it left and right. The three continued to walk towards me and I couldn't do anything but walk backwards, that didn't help either, the wolves behind me were growling and barking at me so I couldn't go anywhere else. Finally, I lifted my spear and charged at the wolves, the three scattered away and walked along with the pack.
"These are some pretty cool wolves Lycaon, but they don't seem that brave." I said while thrusting the spear into the ring of wolves trying to make them move so I could get away. I looked over my shoulder to see Lycaon jumping into the ring with me.
"You sure you don't want your pack to run around jump?" I turned to face him. "That was really effective last time." I said with complete sarcasm in my voice. The wolves behind me started to growl and I swung my spear back at them to keep them away. Lycaon started walking towards me and I pointed my spear at him to keep him at a distance. The growls from the wolves behind me grew louder and I swung my spear back to move them away but Lycaon barked and ran at me, I swung my spear at him and the flat part of the spear head hit him in the face and knocked him to his side but he quickly recovered and jumped at me. I ducked under him thinking of a knife and used the new shiny black knife in my hand to cut his back left leg, he howled in pain and fell to the ground.
I stood up straight and looked right at Lycaon. He got up and was growling at me, a vicious growl filled with hatred. I took a few steps closer to him turning the knife back into a cutlass and pointed it at him.
"Call off your pack Lyacon, let me leave and neither of us have to die." All the wolves growled at me but Lycaon barked and that made them stop. Lycaon breathed a low growl.
"Fine, since you still just found out you're a demigod, I'll give you a break and let you leave to try and save your friends."
"What? What did you do to them?" I asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, it's nothing too horrible. They're just being chased down by some of my other pack members so that they can be brought back to me so we can all eat them alive."
My eyes widened in horror. "What?!"
"Well," continued Lycaon. "it's not horrible to me. Actually, it's quite delicious." He smiled and howled which caused all the other wolves to join in. I was about to start looking for everyone when all the wolves stopped howling and ran into the shadows of trees and literally disappearing into darkness.
'What the heck?' I thought. After a brief moment of confusion I remember that Allan, Allison and Kody were all in danger. I ran and grabbed my backpack, slung it over my shoulder began running in one direction shouting all their names.
Line break. Allison's POV
The howls of the hellhounds were getting closer and closer and Razor, as Allan told me, was slowly leaving sight.
"Allan," I said. "can you tell Razor he needs to slow down?"
"Why don't you do it?" Said Allan, trying not to fall behind. I slowed down a little bit and was running along side Allan.
"Because you can talk to animals." He made a scoffing sound and said. "You know you can talk to animals too? You just can't understand them." I rolled my eyes and yelled. "Razor! Slow down!" But he didn't listen.
"See?" I said gesturing towards Razor. "He won't listen to me."
Allan laughed. "He probably can't hear you, and if he can't hear you he can't hear me." I made the best puppy dog eyes I could while running and said. "Please." Allan grumbled and said. "Fine. Razor! Wait up for us!"
Razor obviously heard him because he slowly came to a stop and we caught up to him in an open field. "See? Told you you can talk to animals."
"I already knew that Allison. I just didn't think he would listen." He said, mumbling the last part.
"Alright, now can you ask him where we're going?" Razor started to make a few squeaking sounds and Allan spoke. "He said we're going to find Kody and Zane."
"How does he know Kody and Zane?"
"Because I told him."
"You told him their names? Why would you do that?! He could be a double agent!" I yelled throwing my arms in the air.
"Allison, I don't think he's a double agent. After all, he's still just a kid."
I gave Allan a very questioning look and pointed at Razor. "You're saying Razor is still a kid? The biggest bunny in the world is still just a kid? Do you hear how ridiculous this sounds?" Allan held up his hands like I was going to punch him and said. "I know it sounds weird, but," He grabbed my arm and pulled me away from Razor and whispered. "I think Razor could be a monster."
"Ya don't think?" I said in a loud but whispery voice while flicking him in the ear.
"Ow!" Allan said while rubbing his ear. "Why did you do that?"
"For being captain obvious. Now come on captain obvious." I grabbed his arm and walked towards Razor. "Let's go find Kody and Zane. Lead the way Razor!" I yelled letting go of Allan's arm and getting prepared to run. Razor perked up and started to run again and I sprinted after him with Allan yelling at us to slow down but all I did was giggle a few times and continue running.
Line break. Kody's POV. Ten minutes later.
After the talk with the voice in my head I started looking for the others.
"He said they should be somewhere over here." I was walking past tree after tree looking for everyone. The voice said I'll find Allison and Allan over here along with someone he'll need for his plan. He won't tell me everything but he said he needs something that Allison and Allan currently have, just recently obtained, it's probably a weapon of mass destruction or something like that.
Snap
"Who's there?!" I shouted, whirling around to see what made that sound.
"Don't make me come over there and beat you into the ground." I said raising my fists for a fight.
There was some movement behind the trees and something big and dark walked out.
"A hellhound" I muttered. I clenched my fists tighter and got ready for him to charge. After a few seconds, someone spoke.
"Hey Kody, relax, it's us." A head popped out from the side of the huge hellhound, it was Allan.
"Allan?" I said confused. "What are you doing?" This time a female voice spoke up.
"Finding you," Allison's head popped out from the other side of the hellhound. "now hop on, let's go find Zane."
"What? I'm not climbing on that thing." I said turning away from them. I heard a loud whining sound and turned back to see the hellhound looking sad.
"Hey, Mrs. O'Leary is a she, and she has feelings too ya know." Said Allan sounding a little annoyed, like this sort of thing happens a lot.
"Come on Kody," Allison said in a whiney voice. "Nico's here so if you don't climb on he'll grab you and do it anyway."
"What? Nico's here?" I asked looking around for him.
"I'm right behind you." Said a voice behind me.
"Ah!" I yelped in surprise and turned around to see Nico standing right there. I held my hand to my heart to see if it was still beating, yep, still alive. After recovering from that near heart attack I looked at Nico and said. "Don't do that! You're going to give someone a heart Attack, literally!"
"Whatever," Nico said shrugging it off.
"Climb on Mrs. O'Leary or shadow travel with me, either way we're going to need to find Zane, soon." Nico said sounding concerned which is something that doesn't happen. Ever.
I turned back to look at Allan and Allison then back at Nico a little worried. "Why do we need to find him so quickly?"
"Because my father said so." Nico said in a not-too-happy voice.
"Why does Hades want need him?" I asked raising my eyebrows.
"Because," Nico started. "we just need too, okay? He won't tell me why, he just told me Zane is going to be very important in the near future. Probably about some prophecy or something." He finished sounding like he didn't care that much.
"Oh," was all I could say.
"Well, I guess we should get going then." I turned back and walked towards Mrs. O'Leary, I hopped on and I was sitting behind Allison and she was holding onto Allan. My face was probably showing how disgusted I am but I didn't care. Instead of wrapping my arms around Allison's waist I just grabbed Mrs. O'Leary's fur and prayed to the God's I wouldn't fall off.
"Alright, I'm on, but how are we going to find Zane?" I asked hoping no one would answer.
"Because, I've discovered about a month ago whenever someone walks in the shadows not too far away I get a faint feeling in my head. It's like a GPS for anything that walks in the shadows, but it'll only work for a few hundred feet. And I'm getting a feeling right now so let's get going," he whistled at Mrs. O'Leary and she looked right at him. "Come on girl, follow my lead." He then walked in the shadow of a tree and disappeared. I jerked backwards and almost fell off when Mrs. O'Leary ran at the tree. "Whoa!" I shouted while everything turned dark.
I'm sooooooo sorry again about the wait. I know, way over due, but I've had lots of ideas for the story and I know it's going to be big with lots of action involved with some comedy and I already know who Zane's love interest is gonna be and you might want to stick around to find out ;) I can guarantee you're going to be surprised. Anyways, don't forget to leave a review of what you think, what you like and don't like and I promise the next chapter would be out sooner!