Chapter 4: I fight the hydra with soggy safety flares
The hydra attacked. I rolled to the side and dodged. I ran towards the hydra and slashed at it with Riptide. I stopped moments before hitting it when I heard a cold voice.
"Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you. You don't have any fire!" Luke said. He ran at me and slashed at me. Then out of the hole came skeletal warriors. They attacked the hydra while I fought Luke. Luke wore me down, I was getting slow. Then, he got me. Right in the chest. But it bounced off.
"Curse of Achilles." I smiled.
"I told you I beat Kronos!" I said to him. Luke growled.
"You mean you WERE Kronos!" Luke said. I needed to swap. Nico somehow read my mind and the skeletal warriors overwhelmed Luke. I mouthed thank you to Nico and turned my attention to the hydra. Now where was I going to find fire? I thanked the gods multiple times after this event, because my dad himself appeared!
"I know where you're from. You are not my son but you are a son of a certain sea god in a different world. Someone dumped these into my realm in desperation and anger, a certain castaway on a remote island." Poseidon said and a crate appeared.
"Use it well!" He said and disappeared. I opened up the crate with Riptide and there were 10 soggy flares sitting there. I concentrated and the wetness off the flares flew off, down into the pit. Now I had flares. I picked up a rock and prayed that random rock on the ground and Celestial bronze pen sword create sparks. I lit the first flare and cut off a hydra head. I burned the stump and it started slamming around and trying to hit me. 2 heads gone, two stumps slamming around. More stumps, less heads. Finally the hydra fell into the pit with 8 burnt necks. I leaped over the pit but it was way to big. I was about to fall in when Mrs. O'Leary shadow traveled underneath me and we made the jump. Luke saw Mrs. O'Leary and shouted to the campers.
"A Hell hound! He is still loyal to the titans!" Annabeth gasped. Then she fell to the ground and started crying.
"Why Percy?" she cried.
"WHY?"
I wondered, did Mrs. O'Leary shadow travel from my dimension? Probably, in this dimension, Mrs. O'Leary would belong to Luke, and Luke saw this Hell hound as a "Monster." We ran all the way out of Manhattan and on the ride to refuge, I fell asleep.