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Allan's POV
I was just chilling around during one of my breaks when an Iris Message pops in front of my face. The rainbow simmers for a bit before a picture of my mom's worried face greets me.
"No need to talk. I informed Artemis already so she knows. You need to get your ass to Camp Half-Blood. There is an outbreak of monsters within the camp!" Mother shouts at me, before ending the message. I panic, as I run around trying to find my staff. I find it in my tent, charging. I grab it, and transform it into wings and I soar through the air. When I left the camp, an important thought crosses my mind. Where is this camp anyways?
Pegasi burst through the air and flies near me. With a whinny, thy pull off and head towards New York. Those pegasi are probably leading me the Camp Half-Blood! I need to follow them!
Above the camp, I see a bunch of weapon-bearing and armor wearing teenagers fight for their lives against small giants. Oh fuck, why are there Laestrygonians? At least the campers are holding against them. They might not need my help. But just when it looks like the Laestrygonians are about to get overwhelmed, the next wave surges out of the maze: thirty, maybe forty dracaenae in full battle armor, wielding spears and nets. They disperse in all directions. Some hit the traps that the Hephaestus children probably had laid. I don't remember any other demigods that could do that. One giant gets stuck on the spikes and becomes an easy target for archers. Another triggers a tripwire, and pots of Greek fire exploded into green flames, engulfing several of the snake women. But much more keeps coming. Argus and Are's warriors rushed forward to meet them. Wait no, my bad. Those are Athena kids. Ares are not too bright. Nearby, a cyclops is riding a giant. Somehow he manages to climb onto the giant's back and is hitting him on the head with a bronze shield.
Surprised at the amount of enemies in camp, I begin to cast a huge magic circle above the camp, and I slowly feed energy to it. Chiron the centaur calmly aims arrow after arrow, taking down a monster with every shot. But more enemies just keeps climbing out of the maze. Finally, a hellhound leaps out of the tunnel and barrels straight toward the satyrs. I decide at that time to intervene.
"GO!" I hear Chiron yells at one kid. The kid draws a sword and charges. I, after seeing if the magic circle can absorb energy without me there, grab my staff and fall down to the earth. With a burst of lightning, I kill the hellhound. As I look around the battlefield, I see horrible things. An enemy half-blood is fighting with a son of Dionysus, but it wasn't much of a contest. The enemy stabs the poor kid in the arm then clubs him over the head with the butt of his sword, and Dionysus's son goes down. Another enemy warrior shoots flaming arrows into the trees, sending the archers and dryads into a panic.
A dozen dracaenae suddenly breaks away from the main fight and slithers down the path that led toward camp, like they knew where they were going. If they got out, they could burn down the entire place, completely unopposed.
"Damnit!" I shout. I can only do one thing at a time. I decide to attack the dracaenae, and with a bit of self, loathing, I turn away from the burning forest, and I spirit towards the snake-women.
"Earth Magic: Tome of the Forgotten!"
The Earth opens up underneath them, and the snake-women scream in terror as they fall in it and the Earth swallows them up, instantly killing them. Hoping I'm not too late, I run back to the burning forest.
The kid who I saw before near Chiron is near the burning forest. The fire in the forest grew to be almost encompassing the entire forest. Flames roar everywhere and a dryad and a satyr were going nuts trying to save one of the trees. The satyr plays a rain song on his pipes and the dyriad desperately tries to beat out the flames with her green shawl, but it was only making things worse.
I run toward them, jumping past duels, weaving between the legs of giants. The nearest water is the creek, half a mile away I believe. It's been a while since I did water magic, so it's best if there is a water source nearby. The kid also runs to the forest and concentrates. After a couple of seconds, a wall of water came rushing through the trees. It doused the fire, the dryad, the satyr, and pretty much everything else. I stop in my tracks as my jaw drops. That kid is a son of Poseidon? When did uncle ever travel to the mortal realm?
The satyr blows a spout of water. "Thanks, Percy!"
"No problem!" The kid responds and runs back toward the fight, and the satyr and dryad follows. The satyr had a cudgel in his hand and dryad holds a stick—like an old-fashioned whipping switch. She looks angry like she is going to tan somebody's backside. Lovely. Let's stay away from her. I take a look up at my magic circle. Fuck, I need one more minute to unleash it.
Just when it seemed like the battle balances out again—like the demigods might stand a chance—an unearthly shriek echoes out of the Labyrinth, a sound I had heard before in the days of my Guardianship over the old Hunt.
Kampê shoots into the sky, her bat wings fully extended. She lands on the top of Zeus's Fist and surveys the carnage. Her face is filled with evil glee. The mutant animal heads growl at her waist. Snakes hisses and swirls around her legs. In her right hand, she holds a glittering ball of thread—Ariadne's string—but she pops it into a lion's mouth at her waist and draws her curved swords. The blades glowed green with poison. Kampê screeches in triumph, and some campers scream. Others try to run and get trampled by hellhounds or giants.
"Di Immortales!" Chiron yells. He quickly aims an arrow, but Kampê seems to sense his presence. She takes flight with amazing speed, and Chiron's arrow whiz harmlessly past her head.
The cyclops untangles himself from the giant whom he'd pummeled into unconsciousness. He runs at the demigods' lines, shouting, "Stand! Do not run from her! Flight!"
But then a hellhound leaps on him, and the cyclops and the hound went rolling away.
Kampê lands on the demigod command tent, smashing it flat. Poseidon's kid runs after her and an Athena kid runs by his side, keeping pace, her sword in her hand.
Lucky for them, the magic circle can fire. Grabbing my staff, I float up towards the circle, catching both the demigods' and the monsters' attention.
"Fire blaze into the night
Glory rise in your smoke
Following the windy gales
Forced to leap skyward
Air blow in mighty gusts
Weaving paths within…
The trees of the forest
And the lowest valleys
Earth shift your weight
Move with great strength
From you, living things will sprout
And grow forth in the rain
Water spill out of the ocean
Lap gently on the shore
Crush life with tidal waves
Create life with rain
Elements, come to me
And raze the enemies that I seek!
Element Magic: Full Control!"
The magic circle glows golden, and then the elements rage: fire burning the Laestrygonians, water washing away the dracaenae into the river, earth swallowing the enemy demigods, and the winds slicing through Kampê. Unfortunately for me, enemies keep coming out of who knows where, and controlling the elements saps my energy. Soon, I cancel the magic circle and I fall down to the earth in exhaustion, creating a crater. Enemies keep coming out. Where the hell are these monsters coming from? It is like all of the monsters in America is here! A Laestrygonian stand over me and laughs. He raises his club, and I prepare to dodge. Luckily for me, I don't have to. A hellhound puppy crashes into the giant and bites its head off.
"Good girl!" A somewhat familiar voice says. What the Hades? That sounds like Daedalus! Shouldn't he be dead? I look around, and my doubts wash away. Daedalus is fighting his way out wherever he came from, probably with the monsters, slashing down enemies left and right as he makes his way toward me. Next to him is someone else—a familiar giant, much taller than the Laestrygonians, with a hundred rippling arms, each holding a huge chunk of rock.
"Briares!" The cyclops cries in wonder. Hmm. I guess they met before.
"Hail, little brother!" Briares bellows. "Stand firm!"
And as Mrs. O'Leary leaps out of the way, the Hundred-Handed One launches a volley of boulders at Kampê. The rocks seem to enlarge as they leave Briares's hands. There appears to be so many, it looked like half the earth has learned to fly.
BOOOOOM!
Where most of the new monsters had once stood a moment before is now a mountain of boulders. The only sign that the monsters have ever existed are a couple of swords points sticking through the cracks.
A cheer went up from the campers, but the rest enemies aren't done yet. One of the dracaenae yells, "Ssssslay them! Kill them all or Kronossss will flay you alive!"
Apparently, that threat is more terrifying than the demigods are. The giants surge forward in a last desperate attempt. One surprises Chiron with a glancing blow to the back legs, and he stumbles and falls. Six giants cry in glee and rushes forward.
"Guardian Magic: Dome!"
A dome of pure light surrounds the demigods, Chiron, and me. A couple of demigods look at me surprised.
"What the Hades are you looking at? I can't hold this barrier forever! Come up with a plan or something!" I yell. My staff cracks in my hand. Fuck. I used too much magic. The staff shatters along with the barriers, and the magic loss knocks me unconscious. Before I let the darkness take a hold of me, I hear the most horrible sound I've ever heard, the sound of Pan's pure fear bellow.
A/N Well, it's been awhile, hasn't it. Sorry guys for the late update. For those who didn't read my Fire Emblem story, which are probably most of you, things have been rough. Someone in my family just collapsed unconscious last week and he was taken to the hospital. We do not know what happened, and the doctors are baffled. They have no idea what happened to him. It's not a stroke , and that's a relief, but it also could be worse. He is currently still unconscious. I'm sorry to say this, but this story will now receive random updates, along with my other stories. I am not in the mood to write, and instead will write new chapters randomly. I understand that some of you will be angry at this, but I don't know what to tell you. All I can say is that I'm not abandoning this story, and I will update at least once per week. Leave a review about the story!
