Hey, Nickolas Martini here, and I am currently running silently through a forest and letting a bunch of half-bloods track me. Thanks to my dragonic senses I was easily able to avoid all of them, and I think I knew what Ariella had in mind. She wanted to see how good my senses were in comparison to theirs. I was damn well going to give a good showing. I leap up into a tree as three Apollo sons walk by, that was too close. Those damn Apollo kids were good at tracking. I leap to the next tree and smirk, sure the Ceres kids would probably sense me in the trees, but I wouldn't be in them long. I'd be back on the ground soon enough.
I knew a lot of tricks for covering my trail, and I also knew that I had to make this last for a while, a very long while. I leap to the next branch just as an arrow thunks into the tree I had been standing in. I kick up the speed and then drop silently to the forest floor and disturb the ground in several directions before I take off to the west. This was turning out to be a lot of fun. I veer away from a group of Mars campers, as they were still pissed at me for the war game the previous day, seeing as how I made them all look like rank amateurs. They haven't had dragon slayers after them, so they haven't learned how to move fast and without leaving a trace.
I normally hated dragon slayers, but right now I was actually kinda grateful to them for having given so much practice at evading the enemy, and right now the entire camp was my enemy, as I really wanted that training with Ariella. It would be an opportunity to spend time with her, and the girl was smoking hot. The fact that she could create Cat 5 hurricanes with her temper just made her even more alluring to me. Her twin had given me the go ahead, and the little sister even liked me, which was good in my book, of course, there were her parents to consider. Though according to Ariella she hadn't seen her mother since she was five.
I keep eluding my pursuers until Percy finds me, " Sorry, Perce, but I can't let you catch me. "
Percy smiles, " Oh, I know, I'm not going to capture you, I'm just happy knowing that Chiron's tracking lessons paid off. I'll mess things up here, get going. "
I smile at this, " Perce, you're one of a kind. "
He nods and my last sight of him was him screwing with everyone's capability to track me down by using water to wash everything out. Man, he was someone I would want at my back in a fight. He was truly one of a kind, as I skitter around some Bacchus offspring. To my misfortune I run into some Mars kids and I curse, summoning my glaive. I finish them off quickly, leaving the unconscious idiots on the forest floor and leap into the trees. I quickly put some distance between me and them. Then I head northeast for a while, I had to keep them hopping until it was the right time to double back and claim my prize of training with Ariella.
I stiffen suddenly and curse when several dragon slayers burst out at me. With glaive in hand I set to work on fighting them off and not attracting attention from my fellow campers. When I hear some of them approaching I disengage and sprint off, still moving silently through the dense copse of trees I had found. Now I knew why my life had been so screwy, half-bloods apparently attracted a lot of danger to them, especially the child of a big three god. As I curse this fact my mind is scrambling to find a way to deal with the slayers and not get caught by my fellow campers.
I dodge a knife thrown at me by a slayer and quickly do an about face and knock him out with a round house kick. Then I switch directions and keep moving, I knew the only way I was going to get out of this was to keep moving. Thankfully I had a lot of endurance and could keep moving. Using my senses I avoided my fellow campers and then I heard Percy again. I veer towards him, ten slayers on my tail. I was only just keeping out of weapons range. Percy looks startled when he sees me, " What's going on? "
" I've got dragon slayers after me and I need some help getting them off of my tail. "
They burst into sight then and Percy draws Riptide and steps into the center of them. He suddenly bursts into a flurry of motion with him at the center of a hurricane. I promised myself thank I would thank him later and move out. Hopefully, now I'd only have to deal with campers and not more slayers. How the hell had they found me so damn fast, unless one of the veterans in the city was a slayer and had called them in to deal with me.
" Damn! " I curse as an arrow slams through my shoulder. I see an Apollo kid looking at me with hatred in his eyes.
" Why in the name of Pluto would I get sent to a place that has a dragon slayer in it? " I snap out and yank the arrow out, which had also pinned me to a tree. I somersault out of the way of the next volley of arrows and come up on my feet, bringing my glaive to bear.
" Die dragon. "
I look at him in disgust, " No chance in hell I'm losing to you, pal. Now, get this straight I will not stand for this in a place where I'm supposed to be safe from jerks like you. "
" No powers, dragon. "
I glare at him and lash out with my glaive, he backs up fast, narrowly avoiding getting his bow snapped in two. Too bad, I had been hoping for that. I had to take him out of the equation before the group that I could hear coming my way got to me. Just then a burst of water slams into him, " Go, I've got this, get back to camp and tell Ariella. She needs to know so we can make plans on how to keep you safe. " Percy snaps out.
I nod and sprint full out back to camp, grimacing as my heart starts beating way too fast. " Damnation, this is just what I needed. " I hiss out, stumbling.
" Hey, you, you the Pluto kid? "
I look over to my left and see a kid that could be my younger brother, " I am, why? "
" I'm Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, though everyone here knows me as an ambassador from Pluto. I can get you back to camp fast by shadow traveling. "
I nod and he puts my arm around his shoulders and gets me back to camp. Ariella curses when she sees me, " What in the name of Hades happened? "
" Dragon slayers, one of the Apollo kids is one and invited a whole bunch in. Percy's dealing with the Apollo camper right now and he also took out another ten that had been chasing me. " I reply.
Nico looks at me and hands me a canteen, " Take one gulp, it should help with the healing process. "
I do so and blink as I can feel the poison receding, then he hands me a small square of what looks like a brownie, " Eat it, it'll help. "
I shrug and eat it. I was surprised by the taste, it tasted like my mother's red velvet cake and then I feel a lot better, " What was that stuff? "
" Nectar and ambrosia, the food and drink of the gods. We half-bloods can take it in small doses, and it can help heal us up. " Nico replies.
Just then Percy kicks the Apollo camper into view, " Do you give up yet? "
Little Haley walks up and has lightning crackling in her hands, " Let me make this easy for you, either surrender or get zapped, and with you soaked it'll really hurt. "
The Apollo camper moves swiftly and heads straight for me. Nico plunges his sword straight into the ground and an army of skeleton warriors pop up and surround the kid, defending me, " No one messes with my brother, got it. " Nico says and grabs a Lar as he tries to help the Apollo camper, one cold look form Nico and the Lar was telling all the other Lares that this particular Apollo kid was not to be helped in any way.
" Can I do that? " I wonder out loud.
" Don't know, though you seem to have an affinity for shadow traveling. " Nico says.
I grin as I think about what sort of abilities I could have gotten from my father. I'd have to experiment with that, and soon. Nico looks at me, " I can help you out, not many Hades/Pluto kids out there. "
" Cool, thanks. "
" Oh, Percy, Annabeth is driving everyone at camp nuts. " Nico says.
Percy sighs, " Can you tell her I'm all right and that the next great prophecy is in motion? "
" Not a problem. Now, bro, let's see what sort of Pluto powers you got. "
I shrug and follow him off, the skeletons remaining in place, guarding our prisoner.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson.
