I just got Blood of Olympus yesterday, took me only four hours to read, but I may say, I am disappointed in how Riordan used Kekrops but I am going use it anyway! So I changed Cecrops to Kekrops, but it's still my character, so HA!

Spiesareawesome: I will never stop being awesome. Just ask my mates. You can send in a forbidden parent for future demigods but I got the demigods covered.


Bella

I was in deep sleep, dreaming about going to beach with my dad, running around at lightning speeds when the scream woke me.

Using my Damysus's Gift, I speed out of my tent to the source of the scream in a blink of eye. Ally, the daughter of sea titan Oceanus, was waving her Atlantean Coral sword, a gift from her father which could also shoot water, made from the a special coral that grew in the ruins of Atlantis, wildly in the air, trying to hit something that wasn't there. I flicked my wrist, my bow forming in my hand.

I rushed up to Ally and put my hands one her shoulders. She freaked, nearly killing me with one swing. Ally was only twelve, our youngest fighter. She had short blonde hair and sea green eyes. We found her on the coast of Florida, defending herself from some telkhine jerks. The way she fought reminded me of a dam breaking loose and destroying everything in her path, constantly moving and striking hard and fast.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's me!" I tried to calm her. "It's me, Bella! What's wrong? Who are you attacking?"

Just then a black gryphon landed next to us, so fast I jumped into the air. I nearly shot it, but then it spoke in Thomas's voice. "What happened?"

Ally looked terrified. "I don't know. I came out to use the bathroom and then a heard my little brother in the dark, which is really weird because Alex is at home with my Mom. So I called out to him but he wasn't there. Then this… thing calm out of nowhere! And it all these teeth and claws and it laughed like a hyena. I was so scared and I just swung my sword and I think I got it. It just dissolved. And it sound like there was more of them in the woods. And…"

I gripped Ally's shoulder even harder, getting her to look at me. "Hey, look at me. Your safe now, we're here."

Ally nodded and hugged me, which was not what I was expecting. Just then the Spartoi came running up with high powered shotguns, assault rifles and for some reason, Peleros had a chainsaw. Behind them, Kekrops, Olympus, and the older kids followed, carrying their weapons. I sent Ally over to Kekrops to check her for any injuries.

"What happened?" Olympus asked, brandishing his spear.

Thomas flexed his gryphon claws. "Could be a Cyclops. Ally said that she heard her little brother and Cyclops could mimic voices, but I never heard any them laughing like a hyena."

Echion shook his head, shouldering his shotgun. "If he is out there, then we will …."

A new voice echoed from the edge of the darkness. I couldn't understand it, it sound like Latin or Arabic. The Spartoi looked at each other, nervously. They gripped their weapons, were ready to shoot at anything. Ollie and Kekrops also looked worried, straining to see something in the dark.

"What is it?" I asked, pulling back my bowstring. A silver arrow materialized on the string.

"Cadmus?" Chthonios asked nervously. The Spartoi slowly approached the source of the voice in a V formation.

"Who is Cadmus?" I asked Kekrops.

"He created the first Spartoi after defeating the Theban Dragon and sowed his teeth in the ground. These five Spartoi are all that's left of the original batch. The Spartoi sort of looked at him like a god to them." He explained. He twirled his Imperial Gold sword. "Come on. Let's go."

Thomas spread his wings and shot out into the air like an arrow. I stayed back, aiming down the shaft of my arrow, searching for anything in the dark. Olympus swept through the night with his spear. Nick, who saw best at night, also had drawn back his bow with Stygian Iron arrows. Eric and Herman, yes Herman, the son of the death god Thanatos, spread out to the left of the Spartoi. Aaron and Morgan, the twin sons of Hestia, lit up their hands with their pyro-kinetic power and went off to the right.

I kept sweeping the dark, hoping to find a glimpse of something. The voice of Cadmus had stopped as soon as the Spartoi got close to the woods. All was quiet, which really freaked me out.

"Bella?" a voice whispered behind me.

I whipped around, my eyes widened. The voice came from the tents. It wasn't just any voice, it was my father's. That couldn't be right. Dad was still in LA. He couldn't be here. He knew that I was helping to start a school for forbidden demigods, but I never told him where. He couldn't be here.

"Bella? Where are you?" the voice of my dad said again. I focused on the tent where the younger kids were sleeping. Whatever it was, it was near the kids. Anger filled my chest and slowly approached the tent area.

"Andrea?" I called out.

"In here." She said called out inside the tent. She came out, little Ellie clinging to her leg. Andrea had her bow in her hand, an arrow with a Celestial Bronze tip nocked in the bow. The rest of the children huddled in the doorway.

"Stay here." I said, and continued searching. Andrea scooted the rest of the kids back into the tent.

"I'm here, Bella." My dad's voice said again. "I'm right here."

I turned to the source of the voice. Whatever it was; was between two of the tents in the dark shaded area. I turned my bow and aimed hard. "Where are you?"

"Here." it said in my dad's voice, only in the voice he used in he was angry. Then it jumped into my view. I had only enough time to look at it and miss my shot, barely grazing its underbelly. It was the size of a leopard with the frame of one. It was a dark blood red, with purple cloven hooves. Its jaw was really the scary part of it. It was wide and long, like a snake's or an alligator's, and filled razor sharp shark teeth.

I didn't have time to react or even pull back my bowstring for another shot. Its jaws unhinged to the size of my skull. I braced myself, shielding my face with my arms, waiting for ti take my head off. My entire life went before my eyes. From my first memories of my dad trying to teach me how to ride a back to when Prometheus kidnapped and sent me on this wild journey.

Then nothing happened. I slowly looked up and saw that the monster was frozen in place above. Two arrows buried themselves in its neck and the monster vaporized to golden dust.

I recovered my composure and locked in another arrow. Over by the tent, Andrea was loading another arrow. Beside her, Ellie looked tired, ready to pass out. Ellie must have stopped time and Andrea killed the monster.

"Hey, are you alright?" Andrea asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said. "Thank you."

"Don't mention it." Then, over by the woods, hyena-like laughter and gunfire erupted. I rushed over to the others at the speed of light. There were more than a few dozen of them, all laughing with high pitched hyena voices and throwing out taunts in different voices. Ollie had grown to ten foot tall and trying to squash the monsters under his spurs like bugs, while holding the others off with his spear. Kekrops had one monster in his long snake body, squeezing the life out of it like an anaconda. Thomas was dive-bombing the monsters, lifting them into the air and dropping them. Aaron, Morgan, and Eric were standing back to back, Eric smashing them with his hammers, Aaron and Morgan blasting fire into the pack. Herman was shadow traveling between the monsters, his very touch draining the life out of them. I couldn't see Nick, but from the direction of the arrows, he had blanketed himself in darkness and shadow traveling between shooting positions. Ally had regained her composure and was moving between monsters like a flood, shooting water and slicing them apart with her sword. The Spartoi were having the time of their lives battling the monsters. Peleros was laughing hysterically as he cut through enemies with his chainsaw. The other four Spartoi had got rid of their firearms and switched to knives and axes. Apparently they were counting as they cut through their enemies, like it was a competition. Hypernor was winning, but Oudaois was close behind.

The monsters were starting to have a hard time, but they never stopped laughing. It reminded me more of a psychotic clown's laugh.

I knelt down and began to pick off stragglers at the fringes of the pack and those who got to close killing off my friends. I must have shot a dozen arrows, but these things kept coming. A few even tried to charge me, but I managed to shoot them down before they got close. Thomas helped a few times, slicing them with his poisoned claws.

In the midst of the battle, Herman cried out in pain. One of the monsters had gotten a bite into his leg. Herman went down. Herman grabbed the monster by the throat, and the monster vaporized into shadows. Herman tried to get up, but his leg was bleeding and fell again. The other monsters sensed his weakness and begin to circle him like vultures around a fresh kill.

I fired off several arrows, hitting half of the monsters around Herman. Kekrops rushed to his aid and sliced through the others with his sword. He helped Herman up and helped him out the fight, with Echion and Peleros covering them. Kekrops got Herman to Andrea, who started to bandage his wound.

The battle seemed last forever, and I was beginning to tire out, but the herd of hyena monsters was thinning out. The first rays of dawn were starting to shine in the sky. The other kids were also tiring out. Only the Spartoi were still having fun, chasing down the other monsters as they tried to flee. Ollie squashed his last monster with his boot; his spear had been broken over a tree. Soon the last of the monsters, probably only five of them, slipped back into the woods.

As they fled, the rest of us regrouped over by the tents to check on our injuries, while Ollie and the Spartoi remained unhurt, the rest of us had some wounds that needed to be looked at. Aaron and Morgan were so drained of energy they fell asleep the moment they sat down. Eric had several slashes down his arms and chest. Nick had taken a bite in his gut, which was getting quick attention by Kekrops. I was only super tired and had a nick on one of my ankles.

"What were those things?" I asked Kekrops. He and Thomas were helping to bandage Nick.

"Those were Leukrokottas." Thomas answered instead. "Like Cyclops, they can mimic voices to lure their prey."

Just then the Spartoi returned from scouting the perimeter. "There were gone. That pack was larger than most I had ever seen." Echion reported.

"Pack?" Thomas said. He looked like he had seen a ghost.

Ollie had picked up on Thomas's reaction. His mustache twitched. "Thomas, if you know something, now would be a really good time to explain it."

Thomas shook his head. "It was… well, I had this dream last night before the attack, and there was something about a pack and…" Thomas stopped dead cold. "There's a giant nearby."

No sooner than when Thomas said those words, something large moved in front of the rising dawn. The sunlight was snuffed out, replaced with a bright cold white light radiating from the giant. As he got closer, you could make out his features. He was thirty feet tall, with dragon-like legs. His skin was the color of crystal diamonds and glowed with a cold artificial light, like that from a flood lamp. His eyes glowed bright pure white; his gleaming smile was cold and cruel. His long silver hair flowed down around his shoulders. He wore light yellow sport tank top and yellow cargo pants. In his hand was long neon white and silver colored whip.

"Now, what you made say that?" he said, his grating voice reminding me of a TV serial killer. "It's not like I was hiding or anything. But I did enjoy watching you wear yourselves out with the Leukrokottas. Shame they didn't get to kill you too. But oh well, more for me, I say!"

"Who are you?" Thomas asked. I learned from him when we first met that whenever you face an enemy, get it boasting. More likely than not, they will give away a weakness or give you time to come up with a plan to defeat them.

And true to his word, the giant faked a shocked look. "What, my own brother doesn't even recognize me? I'm shocked, I truly am. I was never that famous but that's all about to change. I am Picolous, born to oppose Helios, the sun itself! And now you well have to the exclusive honor of dying at my hand." Then he struck.

Picolous lashed out with his whip. The whip knocked all five Spartoi through the air, but not before they synchronized throwing grenades at Picolous. The grenades exploded all around Picolous, temporarily off balancing him. His skin glowed light red whitish color, like he was angry.

"You will pay that!" he growled. He rose back to his feet and curled up his whip around arm. Before he even could lash out, a long red snakelike drakon crashed into him. The drakon's front arms were attached to his folded wings, raking down Picolous's face. Thomas must have rolled his dice to drakon.

Thomas and Picolous rolled around in a ball of diamond skin and red claws and teeth. Thomas occasionally spewed fire, making Picolous only angrier. Thomas struck out with his long tail and tripped Picolous crashing him into the ground. Thomas reared back his head and a stream of hot fire blanketed Picolous in flames. Picolous roared with anger and charged Thomas, completely ignoring the flames.

He tackled Thomas to ground. Thomas writhed and wiggled, trying to break free from Picolous's grip but Picolous had him too tight. Picolous grinned menacingly. I tried to take aim with my bow but I was too tired and Picolous was using Thomas giant drakon form as a shield.

"You should know, brother." Picolous sneered. "You need a god to defeat me, and from what I heard, there no gods here."

"How 'bout a Titan?" Someone said from behind Picolous. Ollie appeared behind Picolous, the same size of the giant, and knocked him off his feet again, with a new spear. Picolous crashed into the ground. Ollie reached down and yanked the whip out of his hand. Thomas grabbed Picolous with his back legs, spread his wings and rose into the air, with a screaming Picolous in his claws.

"Put me down!" Picolous seethed.

About fifty feet above the ground, Thomas stopped midair. "Good bye brother." He said in a deep growling voice and let the giant go. Picolous screamed as he plummeted to the earth. Ollie planted his spear into the ground, point up like a spike. Picolous fell straight on it, impaling him through the chest. Picolous looked shocked for a moment; then dissolved into a massive amount of golden dust. As soon as he dissolved, the normal sunlight returned.

Thomas landed beside Ollie, and both reverted back to human form. "Is everyone alright?" Ollie asked.

Just then the Spartoi raced back from being knocked back by Picolous's whip. They seemed disappointed to find that Picolous had been defeated already. But the rest of us were fine. Thomas stared off into the distance at a hill where the dawn sun was peeking out. On the hill, a small figure, a centaur, reared on his back legs took off. Thomas narrowed his eyes but shook it off.

Kekrops slithered over to Thomas and Ollie. "That was close. Picolous was never an easy opponent, even Circe couldn't defeat him by herself. Thomas, what else did you see in your dream?"

Thomas explained about the masked queen, the centaur and Aegis. Kekrops expression darkened. "Nessus. The world's greatest contract killer. He managed to kill Hercules by tricking his wife into poisoning his shirt. And Aegis was the mother of the Gorgons. Zeus used her skin to create his shield. Whoever is this Queen is, for some reason thinks that we somehow know about her plans. I'll talk to a few of friends about. The rest of you, go to sleep, you've had a long night."

The rest of us nodded and headed back to our tents. As soon as I got close to my tent, something in the bushes next to Ollie's house said "Ow." I gestured for Thomas and Eric to come over and pointed at the rustling bush. I flicked out my bow and took aim. Thomas drew a Stygian Iron dagger while Eric flanked on the other side.

At once, Thomas and Eric tackled whatever was in the bush. "Come here!" Eric yelled. There was a brief struggle, then Thomas and Eric dragged out a boy, around fifteen, with black hair and hazel eyes. He wore classic Roman armor, from the helmet down to the greaves, over a purple shirt and jeans. On his back was a quiver full of arrows and bow. On his arms was a lyre with three lines tattooed into his flesh like burn marks, along with the letters SPQR.

"A Roman." Thomas seethed. He threw the Roman to the ground and pressed his knife against the kid's throat. "From Camp Jupiter. Tell me, what are you doing here?! Who sent you?!"

The kid threw his hands into the air. He looked scared to death. "Some god! I don't know who he was! He had scars and a ponytail! He said to go here! I-I met him two days ago!"

Thomas shook his head. "Prometheus. Why would he send a Roman here?"

The kid looked even more scared, like he was revealing a deadly secret. "Because- because he said I wasn't safe at Camp Jupiter, he said I had to come here. If I stayed at Jupiter any longer, they would find out! He said to tell you that I am the son of the goddess Diana!"

Diana. My mother's Roman form. This was my brother.