Sorry for taking too long, sorry for the gramar, sorry for everyting, enjoy :)
Chapter 9- Reyna
Ever since the water accident this new kid "Percy" caught my attention. It was just so weird. So I watch over him for the next days, he started to notice but I hope my sophistry despite him a little.
It all came clear that day afternoon, just after Hazel come over to ask me about some big dog thing and when she leave I continue playing my beautiful 3rd bridge guitar (I am sure it was a happy song but the notes just seem to come sad d minor, f minor, c minor!) when my fingers started playing alone, I couldn't stop so I started to listen. It was just a few moment but , I have no idea how I did it, but I understand the notes, not like identify them but to understand a phrase in the music like if each note was a different note. The thing is that I could tell I figure something like:
"Beware the Sea Child"
Now, prophesies are never wrong. ESPECIALLY my prophesies. And that simple sentence told me something was wrong, and I had to figure it out. But, what is that suppose to mean? Is that related to Neptune or something? Even I (daughter or Apollo, divinity of prophesies) can't tell. After long thinking, I decided there was only one person I could ask for an advice: Hazel.
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"Curse her! she's so smart (duh) but she can always help me, or she could, before the "accident". Fine. I'm fine with that but still…don't get me wrong, I love her, she IS my best friend even if she betrayed me, but this is not the moment Reyna, that's not what you want her for now." Those were my exact thoughts as i walked to the arena. The good news: Hazel was there. The bad news: I didn't had time to talk to her. The test started.
Percy's test! Gods I was so exited, and guilty in that moment. I had trained him for a week hard enough but forgot to explain the test to him. He must hate me now. But watching him alone in the middle of the arena just made feel worse, and remembered me of Jason. No, not again. Why does everytime I watch him I think on Jason. Gush they´re so alike, still so different. I guess that makes me a little lovesick sunshine.
I observe a big black dog some closer to him. It was Lealaps, wow I guess i'm not that bad on mythology. He didn't seem much of a thread but those were the dangerous monsters, and I learned long ago (another story). The boy's expression was of: what-the-hell-is-this-big-dog-doing-here, mixed with fear and confidence, so it was kind of a tricky expression. The thing is that the dog came out.
Lupa make the starting signal and the dog released itself to the boy, who barely notice it and received a clear strike. I could literally feel the force on that strike, and it was enough to kill someone but he seemed just dazzled. I could watch perfectly the cuts on his shirt but there was no blood coming out, he woke and take his pen out. I've seen the pen a lot of times but never asked why he always kept it; he uncapped it, and I saw why. The pen increased until transformed into a celestial bronze sword. Lealaps shivered at the sword, duh, most monster desintegrate at the touch of it, he surely knows that. The boy charged at the big dog, but you can't just attack a dog that never fails, Lealaps dodge and his speed was amazing. I could barely saw him moving, but as incredible as it sound, Percy was as fast but what really got my attention was Percy's fighting style. Most of us came here knowing nothing about fight and what saves us is our stategy, and our luck. But he knew what he was doing, even if he had practiced before there was no way he could move like that. Not only that, he fights different from others, from us. I've never seen that fighting style before, so graceful and exact, like if every movement was made in the exact moment. We don't do things like that here.
I didn't exactly understand what happened but he slashed his word at the time the dog tried to cut him. The sword touches it, and it disintegrated into golden dust. No way, it was to easy to be true tests aren't that simple. Then is when lupa talked:
"well done, you've prove your abilities to fight, amazing by the way, it was a hard monster to defeat but you took is as an easy one. Still, this isn't over", her voice changed into a more serious tone," We still have to prove your combat abilities and your parent must be determined so: welcome the Teumessian fox. I think your challenge is pretty obvious: you must catch her somehow" The Tumessian Fox, the impossible test, no way he could catch her. See, the tumessian fox was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. The fox was one of the children of Echidna, and that would explain a lot. In other words: he was doomed. And he seemed to understand that, his confidence smile disappeared as a big brownish fox came out to the arena. The difference between this and Lealaps was that he had to catch the unattainable fox; not to kill it but to catch her. He prepared and the fox started to run around him, he tried to slash her many times and after a while he just started to spin with his sword extended, and somehow his sword touched her, not only touched it, it cut her but she didn't disintegrate as most monsters do…why?
Finally the teumessian fox pushed Percy somehow and he fell at least 10 meters back. He layed down for a while and the fox stopped, her expression was of victory. She got closer to him, took him with hes mouth and started trowing him to the air like a ragged doll. Was he dead? No. tired? Sure. Concient? Not probable. He hadn't fall so bad why was he like that? It started to rain, weird I didn't notice when the clouds gathered. It also seemed like a joke 'cause it never rained on the camp at least we wanted to. The weird thing was it only rained for a few seconds before there was a fluid in the arena. Somehow all the water accumulated in the arena leaving the sits dry. Also the rain stopped. Oh and Percy was up like of nothing had happened. How? That's a mystery for me.
The teumessian fox tried to swim but the water seemed to pull her to the bottom. Percy on the other side, looked perfectly fine and dry too, something that scares me to the day,he make a movement with his hand to the teumessian fox and the water covered her completely, but not just that; it also lifted her to the air until making a small cage of water around her. After a while of fighting against it she relax and stay calm. Lupa talked:
"Well, you seemed to have battle abilities and strategy abilities, how do you feel?"he turned to lupa and answered:
"ashamed and a little tired"
"ashamed you said? Why?"
"Well, ashamed I have to say I didn't actually catch the fox, I just tired her enough to her to stay calmed, and also ashamed I had to do something I can't explain how I did"
"well for me it's pretty clear: you have approve the test, and claimed you as a son of Neptune. You may go now, as well as all of you!" she shouted to all of us.
Then everything came clear. If my prophecy was right, I can't trust Percy Jackson.
Sorry for the bad chapter...For the rest: no comments -nefele
