Child of the Moon and Hunt

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO.

Author's Note: And Chapter 10 is coming up. I will be a bit busy next week so I try to update more this week. I also started a new stories. I just had to write it out, so I will be writing those two at the same time and trying to update as fast as possible.

Additional author's note: This an improved version, I just checked the grammar and I think most mistakes are gone. I also added and changed a few thinks

Previously

''Percy!'' His Mom yelled at him, when she saw him. ''Hey, Mom.'' he said. ''Thank the gods you are alright. You really had me worried when you just walked into Medusa's lair.'' She said.
Percy smiled sheepisly at this. He quickly told her what had happened on the bus, but before she could say anything about it he heard someone. ''Mom I got to go, but I will IM as soon as I can. Love you, bye.'' He than swiped trough the message. He made his way back to his friends and decided to get some sleep, before the next stop.

Chapter 10 We Go Sightseeing

They had a stop in st Louis. Annabeth dragged Katie and Percy sightseeing. She really wanted to see the Gateway Arch. This was probably her only chance to ride to the top. We first toured trough the underground museum. Annabeth kept sprouting out random facts about the structure, architecture and.. Well you get the idea. Percy was keeping himself busy by fiddling with his necklace.

Ever since the labyrinth he felt uneasy being underground. It was far away from the sky and that scared him. Annabeth seeing him being so anxious wanted to know why. ''Percy, why are you being so nervous?'' she asked. He looked up shocked. He didn't know that it was that clear to see. ''I just don't like being underground.'' He said. Katie and Annabeth raised there eyebrows at this, because they just knew that it wasn't the whole story, but he would tell them when he was ready.

''Come on, let's go to the top.'' Annabeth said, already excited again. They stepped into the elevator. There was also an big fat lady with a dog, which was a Chihuahua, he guessed. ''No parents?'' The fat lady asked. ''They are below.'' Annabeth answered ''afraid of heights.'' Right then the Chihuahua decided to growl at them. ''Now, now Sonny. Behave.'' The dog looked at them with eyes that were way to intelligent for a dog. ''Sonny? Is that his name?'' Percy asked to break the tension. ''No'' The lady said smiling, like it explained everything.

That was when they reached the top deck and they got out. Immediately Annabeth started explaining about support thingys and what she would have changed about it like, bigger windows and a see trough floor. They stayed there for a while until they heard that the deck was closing. They all made there way towards the elevator. The only ones still up there were a couple with a small child, the old fat lady with her dog and a security guard. Percy was about to step into the elevator when he noticed that it had already 2 other people in it. ''You guys go ahead I will take the next one down.'' He said to Katie and Annabeth who wanted to step out again. They nodded and the elevator left.

Percy turned around and stood face to face with the fat lady again. He smiled at her a bit uneasily. She smiled back and her forked tongue flickered between her teeth. Wait... Forked tongue? Percy looked back again and now he noticed that the dog was drooling black saliva. That couldn't be normal. He than started yapping at Percy. ''Now, now Sonny does this look like the right time?'' The lady said. The dog just ignored her. ''Well, son, if you insist.''

Percy's eyes widened a bit. Did she just call this dog her son? His mind started raising for possible explanations. ''Echidna...'' he muttered softly to himself. He didn't thought the lady could hear him, but she smiled and said, ''I really didn't think you would figure it out.'' She than rolled up her sleeves revealing the green scaly skin of her arms. She smiled again and Percy could see that her teeth were fangs. And her eyes were sideway slits like that of a reptile's. The dog barked louder and it grew in size. He grew to the size of a lion and his bark had turned into a roar.

The little boy screamed and he was pulled away with his parents. Leaving Percy alone with Echidna and the Chimera. Which he had recognized as soon as it started growing. The Chimera grew even more and his back brushed against the roof. It had the head of a lion with a blood-caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a three-metre-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind. It still had it's collar on at it's tag could now easily be read:
CHIMERA – RABID, FIRE-BREATHING, POISONOUS – IF FOUND, PLEASE CALL TARTARUS – EXT. 954.

Percy was looking shocked. His Mother had told him about the Chimera and even she had a hard time trying to kill it. ''You should be honored that I am the one who is going to kill you.'' She said. ''Wow, jeez, what an honor. Being killed by a goat hybrid and a lady who's name sounds like a type of anteater.'' Percy said sarcastically. This seemed to anger them and Percy started shooting at them. Aiming for there heads and eyes.

The Chimera lunged forward and knocked Moonlight out of Percy's hands. He pulled out his hunting knives and started slashing at the Chimera twirling around it to avoid it's attacks. But he had forgotten one really important thing. The Chimera had a serpent tail and it was poisonous. Percy screamed in pain when he was bitten and thrown against the wall breaking it. He looked down and saw mortals surrounding the Gateway Arch, next to them he saw the Mississippi river. He felt the poison making his way trough his body. He looked at the Chimera again and saw that it was about to breath fire. Without thinking it trough, Percy got up and jumped of the Gateway Arch. He was speeding towards the river.

He willed the water to catch him and pull him in the river. Once he was in the water the burning of the poison stopped and he felt re-energized again. He swam towards the shore and got out.
''Look, mom, that boy just walked out of the water!'' Yelled a small boy. ''That's nice, dear.'' Said his mother who wasn't watching were her son was pointing. ''But he is dry, mom'' He tried again, but there was no other response as, ''that's nice, dear.''

Percy looked around and found Annabeth and Katie looking for him. He pulled them aside and dragged towards the train. ''Percy! What happened!'' The yelled trying to catch up to him. ''On the train. Now we have to leave.'' He snapped back, afraid that they would miss the train or ran into Echidna again.

The finally seated themselves in the train again. They were just in time, because when they sat down the train started moving. ''Percy, what happened when we left?'' Katie asked concerned. ''You remember that fat lady with the chihuahua?'' He asked. Both slowly nodded there heads, remembering the strange woman. ''Well, she turned out to be Echidna and the Chihuahua was actually the Chimera.'' He said shuddering at the thought of them. Annabeth and Katie visibly paled at that thought.

''Then how did you survive? I mean even a god has some difficulty's killing those two.'' Annabeth said.
''I wouldn't have survived.'' Percy said. ''Then how did you? And why did you from the direction of the river and not the Gateway Arch?'' Annabeth curiously asked. ''What most don't know is that, even though I am adopted by Artemis, I still have the powers of my birth Father. Which is Poseidon. I jumped down from the Arch and landed in the water which healed me.'' He said in one breath. ''I would really appreciate if you didn't tell that to anyone. I don't want to be reminded of the fact that he is my birth Father.'' They both nodded, thinking about today.

Let gets some rest. It will be a while before we reach Denver. From there we need to figure out how to go from there. ''Percy?'' He looked at Katie. ''Why did you seem to feel so uneasy in the underground museum. You said you don't like to be underground, but why is that?'' She asked carefully.

Percy sighted and started thinking if he should tell them. Seeing no reason why not he started to explain. ''What almost nobody knows is that I am supposed to be 15-years-old and not 12. That is because when I was twelve, which is actually 3 years back, I fell into the Labyrinth. To me it was 3 weeks at the most. To everyone outside the Labyrinth it was 3 years. I was attacked every moment I was down there, getting barely any rest. Until I found me way out, which was when you were playing capture the flag.'' He finished. ''So you came out of the Labyrinth? We never thought that, we thought there was just some cave that had collapsed as soon as you left it.'' Annabeth said looking thoughtful.

''That's why I felt uneasy being underground. I have been there way to long and I got attacked every moment.'' Percy said with finality in his voice, making clear to them he didn't want to speak more of it.
He turned around and closed his eyes, trying to get some sleep, which wasn't hard after today's events.

Author's Note: And this was Chapter 10 I hope you like it. Also check out my new story, A Seconds Change, A New Life.