From this point on, there may be breaks in dialogue so that we can have a "What he said/ What she heard" moment between Percy and various girls.
After arriving at Camp Half-blood, Artemis decided to introduce Selene to her first ever instructor, Chiron. Percy collapsed in laughter from the sight of Artemis trying to hold Selene back from her efforts to "ride the horsey". When he took a break to breathe, he heard someone grunting. He walked around to the back of the Sun Chariot to see who it was. A recruit for the Hunters was trying to pull her bag out of the back of the Sun Chariot. Unfortunately for her, it was at the bottom. As the bag began to budge, the rest of the luggage began to give way. Percy instinctively dove in and pushed the recruit out of the way. The sound of bags crashing caused the rest of the Hunters, and some curious campers, to check out the situation.
"You shouldn't have tried to pull your bag out while there was such big pile waiting to topple," Percy told the recruit, "are you OK?"
The recruit said nothing, she just laid down on the ground, staring at the boy who had saved her from being crushed. The recruit had blonde, shoulder length hair, withe bangs that covered the entire top half of her face, except for her eyes, which were emerald green and turned to a strong ruby red near her pupils. Unlike the other hunters, who wore white summer jackets and black leggings, the recruit wore a white, sleeveless, shoulderless battle dress with black stockings with armored boots. She also wore long, fingerless gloves that reached just past her elbows and armored gauntlets overtop of those. She had a bit of a dazed look on her face and a soft blush.
"Hey, did you here me? What's your name anyhow?" Is what Percy said, however, what she heard was,
"I could never live with myself if I had let such a beautiful lady get hurt. Please share your name with me so that I may know that you are unharmed."
"My name?" The recruit said in a dazed voice, "it's Nira. Nira Cole."
"Nira," Percy repeated, getting up and offering his hand to help her up, "you should be more careful, otherwise you'll give the Hunters a bad name."
Nira took Percy's hand and he pulled her up. Percy then stepped out of the way to let her see the mess she had made. Seeing the mess seemed to snap her out of her daze. Percy sighed as she ran off, apologizing before she was sure if anything was broken.
"So this is the romantic power of the strongest man in this realm," a voice rang, causing Percy to look around.
"Who?" Percy asked, finally looking down to notice the shadow of something with wings. Percy looked up and saw a literal blue haired angel, "who are you?"
"Huh?" The angel looked genuinely surprised, "you mean you aren't shocked by my appearance?"
"Why would I be?" Percy asked, "After all, the freakiest thing I've seen is a Dark Dragon in possessed armor. But you didn't answer my question. Who are you?"
"My name has many pronunciations in this realm. In Latin, it's Lux. In Japanese, Hikari. But since we are speaking English, I suppose I should use the English pronunciation, Light," she smirked at her own knowledge of human languages for a bit before getting a shocked, yet serious expression on her face, "did you say you saw a Dark Dragon?"
"He did," a familiar voice shouted, "and she already laid claim on him."
Percy turned around, expecting to see Artemis, or even Annabeth. But it was actually the last person he expected to see. Hovering higher than Light, wearing the armor made for her by Athena and wearing sunglasses was Khel, baring her fangs at the Angel below her.
"I was wondering when she would get here," Artemis arrived with Selene and Chiron, "you know, I didn't believe for a second that she would actually spend such a sensitive time for the harem hiding in a cave."
"The what?" Chiron asked.
"Not important right now," Artemis replied, "especially with things getting so interesting."
At this point, the entire camp had arrived to see the confrontation between the beings of light and darkness. Khel clenched her clawed hands into fists.
"If you lay one finger on my darling," Khel growled, "I swear I'll... I'll..."
As if to challenge her, Light dropped to the ground and placed her hands on Percy's shoulders. She then pulled him in and kissed him. Seeing this, Artemis called on her hunting knife and Annabeth had to be held back by her siblings. However, both of these actions were nothing compared to Khel, who let out a bloodthirsty roar so powerful, the whole camp shook in its ferocity. When she finished, Khel dropped to the ground so fast, she made a crater on impact. She then climbed out of the crater and wrenched Percy away from Light, slapping Light with her tail in the process.
Percy had never seen or experienced the strength of Khel's tail before and was shocked to say the least. Light was launched through the Sun Chariot, across the courtyard, past the training arena and into the climbing wall. Lava seeped through the cracks from her impact, but she seemed unfazed by it. With blinding speed, both Khel and Light took to the sky, striking at each other in bursts of black and white fire. But as quickly as they rose, they fell. The two crashed in the cabin area and Percy immediately ran to help them, followed by everyone else.
Both of them had been knocked out from the impact. Aside from the burns from the battle, nothing seemed to be wrong, save for one detail on each of them. Light's left wing was bleeding from the center and Khel had a silver arrow lodged in her right shoulder. Khel was bleeding more furiously than Light so Percy ran to her, Artemis in tow.
"Khel," Percy called, resting her head in his hand, "Khel, wake up!"
Artemis snapped the silver arrow in two and pulled it out as some of the Apollo cabin campers brought first aid kits.
"Silver arrows," Artemis explained as Percy took the first aid kit, shoving the camper away in his panic, "the most dangerous of all arrows. A single one can take down an entire flock of dragons. Father entrusted them to my Hunters in the hopes that they would never be used. Only one person could have possibly shot this."
Artemis stood up and ran to the forest, calling her bow as she ran. Percy started to wrap up Khel's wound. Apollo attempted to help, but Percy smacked his hand away.
"Get away!" Percy yelled, his expression full of worry, fear and fury. Tears welled in his eyes, "She never wanted your help, so just back off!"
Apollo stood and backed away, his expression just as worried as Percy's.
"Please Khel," Percy choked up, "I've lost so many friends to get to where I am now. I don't want you to be one of them. So please just wake up. Please."
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An arrow whooshed through the trees and pinned a cloaked figure to a large Boulder. Artemis walked up to the figure and ripped their hood off to reveal Sophie/Zoe. Artemis pulled out the head of the silver arrow.
"I don't care who are or who you were," Artemis snapped at her captive, "but when someone uses something like this against my friend, then they will have earned a punishment far worse than anything my uncle could possibly think up."
"Before you attack me, just know that my only target was the angel, I didn't mean for anything to someone who cares for Percy as much as Khel does. You are my only rival. The others have nothing to do with this."
"You still hit Khel. Do you have any idea how scared Percy is? At the idea that he might lose someone who loves him more than anything else? You want to give yourself to him don't you? Well this is a poor way to show it."
This went a little darker than I thought it would. That's the last time I eat pizza before writing a chapter.
