Fox of the East – Chapter 7: The Second Son of Water
Hello everybody. Before I start; I have to say, 'whatifnicowasSCREAMINGLYgay,' this is –what? Lyon. Don't interrupt me! Hey!-
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Whew, I think I made it in time. Fluff, learn to shut it. It's just a comment, and a half understandable one at that. In the meantime, I get to introduce the canon protagonist! And he's in mortal/ immortal danger! YAY!
[(On with the madness!)]
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Percy stood in the empty hallway with a dark look on his face as if he wasn't there at all. He had been sent to this high and mighty school in Maine to pick up a pair of demigods. He had originally arrived with his friends Thalia and Annabeth but quickly got separated when a teacher pulled away the pair they were searching for. Now Percy was being lead down this hallway with both DiAngelos tied to him and a crazy teacher/ monster pulling the rope.
The DiAngelos started to talk to themselves worriedly. "I wish he would show up." "Don't worry Nico, he will." The teacher fired a large black projectile at them from seemingly nowhere. "Stop talking," he commanded. Percy took that moment to reach for the pen in his pocket.
"What are you doing, boy?" The teacher asked in a suffocating French accent. Percy uncapped his pen and it grew into a three foot long blade of pure gleaming bronze. In one swift moment he cut through his ropes and went for the teacher. [Without any regard for himself or others because that is the Jackson way.]
The teacher flung more projectiles at Jackson. One embedded itself in the shield that appeared on Percy's wrist, another hit the wall inches from the younger DiAngelo's face, and the other five took out the wall behind them. The hole led to a several hundred foot drop into the shadowed waves of the fast approaching night.
The younger DiAngelo looked afraid and sunk into his sister, whispering something more. "What now, Jackson?" The teacher asked, mangling the J with his overly thick accent. [Why does an ancient Greek monster speak French?] (Shut up.) "Nobody is coming to your aid and our ride is now here."
As if on cue a military grade helicopter hovered down next to the wall that had been blasted out, men in dark suits waiting to take the DiAngelo twins.
"Who are you and what are you doing with my students!?" Yelled a new voice. The teacher (who I shall now call by name) turned around to face a duplicate of himself. The replication was perfect in every way and the three demigods behind Thorn stared in confusion at this new development. "Let them go this instant!" The fake yelled, trying to sound as loud as possible.
The true Thorn launched more dark projectiles and the fake seemed to fade away. Thorn could tell not a single projectile landed from the number of holes in the wall behind the fake. His attention was yanked away again as gargled screaming roared from behind him. Percy hadn't moved, but a torrent of water exploded from the cliff that the helicopter was hovering over. Emphasis on 'was.'
The pilot, co-pilot, and the craft itself were all being crushed by the torrent that quickly compacted in on itself. The wall of water was still there and not showing any signs of decent. Four bodies showed up from around the corner that the duplicate Thorn had appeared from and a fifth body was holding onto the geyser like it was a rock wall.
The thing is the fourth and fifth bodies were identical. Bodies one through three were Thalia, Annabeth, and Percy's friend Grover. Four and five were boys. They wore black swim trunks and grey and black under armor for a shirt. Both had hypothermic blue skin and small blue horns poking through their black curly hair. The only difference was the one on the geyser had red eyes and the one with backup had pure white eyes.
"Nico, can't you stay out of trouble for three days?" the new figure on the geyser asked the younger DiAngelo. Nico seemed to be relieved.
"Kai!"
"Hold onto that thought." A large piece of metal debris shot itself from the geyser and fell into the ocean below. "That's better. Mikku, you got that back up I see." The second blue figure seemed to melt and the resulting slime crept onto the wall by the DiAngelos and created a small door. The door opened by itself and the siblings slipped through.
Thorn growled in frustration. 'What is happening? This was supposed to be easy.' The monster thought. That was as far as his thought process went before a large shield slammed into his maw with bone shattering force. He was knocked back a good twenty feet and nearly fell out of the hole in the wall.
He gave one loud roar before shifting forms. His suit faded away and what was left was a large lion like beast with a large scorpion tail similar to a mace. Each of the spikes on his tail matched the projectiles from earlier perfectly.
He fired two warning shots at the group before several silver arrows sprouted from his back. The resulting cry of pain destabilized Kai's geyser and sent him into the water several hundred feet below. Luckily the DiAngelos were not there to witness it.
Thorn turned towards where the arrows had come from and got another sprouting from his chest. Several girls in silver hunting attire descended upon him with bows drawn. Their entrance shone even more impressively in the low light of the soon to be dusk. "What are you doing here? You have no right interfering!" Thorn cried.
The youngest looking one, maybe twelve years old, floated forward. "On the contrary, our duty is to hunt wild beasts, and you fit aptly." Another arrow was fired and launched itself in his shoulder. The spikes in his tail fired wildly in all directions, hitting several sections of the building and catching several of the campers and hunters off guard. (Keep in mind, I said most.)
Seeing the manticore trying to escape, Annabeth jumped onto its back and hung on by piercing its back with her bronze dagger. Thorn jumped off the cliff with one more cry of pain and Annabeth still on his back. Percy ran to the edge and screamed, "ANNABETH!" As if in response the ocean surged forward and upward, puking out the blue ogre that had fallen in earlier.
Kai landed on his feet with a 'tsk.' "I missed," he complained. He turned back to the hole in the wall and audibly meeped. One of the elder hunters flew at him and grabbed him and pinned him to a wall. "I should have known thee would be involved. What has thee done here?" Behind them, the door opened again letting the DiAngelos through and it quickly morphed to slime again. The slime rose in mass before taking the form of the huntress threatening Kai.
"Calm thyself Nightshade. Thee may regret thine next actions."
"Thank you Mikku," Kai called to his guardian.
The siblings looked on in awe as the scene unfolded before them. Percy sat frozen in failure and dread while Grover fauned [You used that word on purpose.] over the huntresses and Thalia glared at Zoey.
Mikku looked at the floating forms before her and melted again before taking a new shape. It looked like Kai only with longer hair, a female figure, and a one piece, high school issued swimsuit. Her eyes were still that same blank white.
"Are you going to float there all night or are you going to come in?" Her voice was emotionless and directing.
"Do not listen to that beast milady. Thee only has plans against you I'm sure." Zoey threw out cautiously.
"It is fine Zoey. We need to rest anyway. And you can let him go. He is 'gulp' outside our jurisdiction." Artemis said reluctantly.
"Thank you Artemis." Kai said while rubbing his throat. "You're going to the camp afterwards, right? I'll meet you there." 'Anything to get away from these crazy girls with blades and arrows,' he thought before jumping off the cliff with Mikku hot on his tail.
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[Yeah, the rest of the scene is nothing but canon. Hope you guys liked the chapter and see you guys next time. Also, mr. commentor-]
(Shut it. You don't need to make enemies. Anyway, his work ethic is fueled by reviews so pile them in. Until next chapter; bye.)
