Chapter 4: The Untold Truth

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I hate the last two chapters.

First Battle scene

Warning: character death

"So, how did you kids get here?" asked Charlie. I looked over at my friends and shrugged. Annabeth spoke up," You want the truth?" Charlie looked over at her and said, " Of course." Annabeth continued," Uhhh, we are demigods, I am a daughter of Athena, Percy is a son of Poseidon, Nico, son of Hades, Clarisse is a daughter of Ares, Travis, son of Hermes, Thalia, a daughter of Zeus, and my half-brother Malcolm is a son of Athena.

Charlie looked at us like we were crazy, I resisted the urge to laugh at his expression.

"You mean like the Greek gods?" Dave questioned. " Yes, exactly like." I say.

"Prove it." Charlie told us.

"Ok." I say. I made a bubble of water appear above my palm and said, " Believe us now?"

"I believe you but what about them?" he said pointing at my friends. Thalia walked over to him and put her hand out for him to shake. He made the wrong decision to do so and got shocked in return. "Okay, I believe you. Please don't shock me again."

"And how we got here?" Annabeth continued, " Percy made an air bubble and took us around Cape Horn."

"Now that that's all cleared up, how can we help?" I ask.

"You can help by setting up camp." Dave told us.

We helped wherever we could and by night fall we were all sleeping cozy in our makeshift beds. Yeah right, it was uncomfortable, smelly, wet and worst of all we were in for a surprise. During the night we were attacked.

These creatures attacked the camp. The mortals were up and firing their weapons with near perfect precision, killing every time they squeezed the trigger. Thalia was sprouting lightning from her hands burning every creature she fired at to a crisp. Creatures were going down from an invisible force, Annabeth going to work.

Clarisse yelled at me." Hey Kelp Face , get over here and help now!" After stabbing a creature with her spear. It shriveled up and…. regenerated. Suddenly, all the other creatures who "dead" from their wounds got up and continued to attack.

I snapped out of my not-so-peaceful reverie and pulled out Riptide just as one of them reached me, I slashed and chopped it in half. It recovered, its arms reaching out for it's lower body about a foot away from it. I slashed both of it's arms off and kicked it in the head.

Turning away from the creature, I surveyed the battlefield, Annabeth using her Yankees cap to invisibly attack the continuously regenerating beasts. Travis and Clarisse back to back holding off hordes of creatures, both bleeding profusely. The mortals minus the twins firing away just to keep the numbers down, if only for a minute. Thalia doing her daughter-of-Zeus thing was the only thing actually killing the beasts. Nico was nowhere to be seen, fearing the worst I jumped of the short ledge into the battle we were all sure to die from.

Just as my feet hit the ground the earth opened up and swallowed up all the creatures into it's menacing jaws. I looked around and saw Nico staggering out of the shadows.

Charlie walked over to him and said," Thanks kid, if you didn't do what you just did we would all be goners."

"What are those things?" I ask.

" They came from the radiation of the bombs," Charlie informs me.

Nico was just closing the gap of the cracked earth when…..

……Travis was suddenly grabbed by the ankle and pulled down to the depths of the earth.

"Travis!" we all simultaneously yelled.

"He was so stupid, standing so close to the edge like that" Clarisse said," I told him not to stand too close to the edge."

I was so aggravated at her comment I hit her over the head with the flat of Riptide, knocking her to the ground. I screamed at her in anger," He just died and you have to be such a snobbish bitch." "He was so stupid, standing so close to the edge…I just told him not to stand so close to the edge." I yell, mocking her. "Do you want those w-words to be your last on his memory?"

She didn't reply, tears in her eyes. Charlie walked between us and told me to back off and calm down. Francine helped her up, glaring at me. Annabeth gave me a disapproving look but looked down at Clarisse with disgust showing clearly in her eyes before walking to her tent. Nico, Thalia and Malcolm didn't say anything and walked off with Dave heading towards Cristina who was comforting the twins.

That left me alone with only Charlie, the leaders of our own respective groups. He gave me a sad look and said," You shouldn't have said what you said, sure I would be angry, but I would never hit one of my friends like you just did."

I retort angrily, " You're not me, we're completely different."

He shrugs and walks off, leaving me all alone. I sulk off towards the beach to clear my mind.

If I only knew beforehand, what would become of me I never would have gone.

What will happen to Percy? Review to find out.

Review and tell me how it is please, I'm getting mixed feelings. Be as harsh as you want, I don't care its all CC to me.

First thousand word chapter. YAY

I need ideas for a name for the creatures. Or should I keep calling them creatures?

~xVCKx a.k.a BlackLight