The Child Of the Moon: The Sea of Monsters
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Chapter 11: We shake the seven seas
"You are all in so much trouble," Clarisse said.
After receiving some medical treatment and after thirty minutes of convincing Ember that I could walk, Clarisse finished a ship tour we all really didn't want, through dark rooms overcrowded with dead sailors. We'd seen the coal bunker, the boilers and engine, which huffed and groaned like it would explode any minute. We'd seen the pilothouse and the powder magazine and gunnery deck (which Clarisse made very clear that it was her favorite) with two Dahlgren smoothbore cannons on the port and starboard sides and a Brooke nine-inch rifled gun fore and aft—all specially refitted to fire celestial bronze cannon balls.
Everywhere we went, dead Confederate sailors stared at us, their ghostly bearded faces shimmering over their skulls. They approved of Annabeth because she told them she was from Virginia. They were interested in Percy, because his name was Jackson—like the Southern general—but then he ruined it by telling them he was from New York. They all had hissed and muttered curses about Yankees. While they really didn't care so much for my name, but when they saw Ember some of them were terrified. None of us had any clue as to why, but they seemed as if they were spooked by something.
Tyson was terrified of them. All through the tour, he insisted Annabeth hold his hand, which she didn't look too thrilled about. And when he was about to ask Ember he had already saw my hand in hers so he had decided that it would be best he didn't.
I had Ember the entire time walking looking at me as if I would fall apart like an old guitar. My arms were bandaged to stop any more bleeding. They sadly had no medical kit that had stitches, and my leg had a salve put on it to cool the third degree burn. I however was still fatigued because of the back to back transformations, but it wasn't bad to the extent I couldn't walk.
Finally, we were escorted to dinner. The CSS Birmingham captain's quarters were about the size of a walk-in closet, but still much bigger than any other room on board. The table was set with white linen and china. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, potato chips, and Diet Pepsi's were served by skeletal crewmen. I didn't really feel comfortable eating food made by ghosts, but never look a gift horse in the mouth, I suppose.
"Tantalus expelled you all for eternity," Clarisse told us smugly. "Mr. D said if any of you show your face at camp again, he'll turn you into squirrels and run you over with his SUV."
I was about to something really smug, but Percy said something before I even could mutter a word.
"Did they give you this ship?"
"Of Course not dolt. My father did." Clarisse said as her two lackeys Ernesto and Austin appeared through the door.
"Hey sis what are they doing here?" Ernesto asked giving us a glare in annoyance.
"Had to save their sorry asses." Clarisse said.
"Ha, not all that cracked up to be huh Love." Austin said giving a pig snort.
I glared at him. "Well actually if you all hadn't fucking blew your horns I would had defeated the monster, but no you all had to distract me."
Clarisse glared at me. "Be glad you are getting a ride now, Blake otherwise I might just drop you off in the ocean."
I just looked at her with annoyance. "You could but it would really be pointless as-"
Percy then interrupted me. "Wait Blake hold up, Clarisse, your dad Ares gave you the ship?"
Clarisse sneered. "You think your daddy is the only one with sea power? The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares. That's their curse for being defeated. I prayed to my father for a naval transport and here it is. These guys will do anything I tell them. Won't you, Captain?"
The captain stood behind her looking stiff and angry. His glowing green eyes fixed me with a hungry stare. "If it means an end to this infernal war, ma'am, peace at last, we'll do anything. Destroy anyone."
Clarisse smiled and looked my direction. "Destroy anyone. I like that."
Tyson gulped.
I glared. Ember could tell I was getting riled up so she gently and calmly put her head on my shoulder immediately calming my anger.
"Clarisse," Annabeth said, "Luke might be after the Fleece, too. We saw him. He's got the coordinates and he's heading south. He has a cruise ship full of monsters—"
"Good! I'll blow him out of the water."
"You don't understand," Annabeth said. We have to combine forces. Let us help you—"
"No!" Clarisse pounded the table. "This is my quest, smart girl! Finally I get to be the hero, and you two will not steal my chance. I don't need anyone else's help especially your guys help."
Her two goons smirked at us.
"Yeah Clarisse deserves this she is better than anyone around." Ernesto said putting a hand on his sister's shoulder in support.
"Clarisse listen just this once and get it through to you thick fucking skull," I said keeping my tone calm, "Tantalus is using you. He doesn't care about the camp. He'd love to see it destroyed. He's setting you up to fail."
"No! I don't care what the Oracle-" She then stopped herself.
Ember lifted her head from my shoulder "What? What did the Oracle tell you?"
"Nothing." Clarisse's ears turned pink. "All you need to know is that I'm finishing this quest and you all are not helping. On the other hand, I can't let you go…"
Immediately I tensed, if I had to I would fight.
Clarisse seeing me tense. "Calm down love you aren't prisoners, guests I suppose. For now anyway." Clarisse propped her feet up on the white linen tablecloth and opened a Dr Pepper. "Captain, take them below. Assign them hammocks on the berth deck. If they don't mind their manners, show them how we deal with enemy spies."
The captain then led us all down to the bunker where we would all get some rest. All the hammocks were up against the walls on each side there were four hammocks each separate in a line one across from the other on the opposite ends. And luckily Ember was on the hammock across from me. And as soon as my head hit the hammock I was out like a light because I was so exhausted.
In my dream I was back in the castle, the same one I had been in with the King and Queen dragons only this time it was different, the castle didn't have holes in the walls or in ruins, it actually looked quite peaceful, as a matter of fact it was all completely intact. I then looked around at my surroundings It was quite incredible. Walls of marble, with pillars made of marble going all the way down to two seats that were obviously thrones. There were also two corridors to the right and left that had three different doors leading to different rooms
The thrones however were not occupied. But from behind me I could hear two voices. I turned my head to look see two guys heading my direction. Both looked like knights, but were obviously more than regular knights they were royal.
The man on the left looked to be older than the one on the right. He had Black scaled obsidian armor that had lines that went from the collar down to the arms of the armor that seemed to be flowing with some sort of black fire; in the center of the armor it seemed to be the very center of that power as all the lines met up at that one point. The man also had gauntlets that seemed to be leathery, and yet made of the same material; on the outside of the gauntlets they had ovals with the same black flame like power inside with lines that connected to the arms of the armor. And the leg and boots of the armor matched the chest piece. The man also had Violet colored eyes with a scar that went from his forehead all the way down across his eye. He was Caucasian, and had black obsidian colored hair. And had his sword on his back.
The Man on the right literally had the opposite color of the elderly man; he had all white armor with instead of the black fire running through his armor he had white flames going through out his armor. What also set him apart from the man was his silver cape that reached all the way down to his ankles. The man's face and eyes looked similar to that of A's. The only difference was that instead of having A's white hair he had silver gravity defying hair that stood at an angle. The Man also had two twin sword katanas on his back; each sword glowed a different color the left one was glowing a frost blue and the other glowed a silver color.
"Uncle Ginarth, when did you say my parents would be returning?" Asked the younger man.
"Hmm, they said that they wouldn't be returning for at least two weeks." the now known man named Ginarth said.
"Why is that again uncle?" Ask the man.
"'Sigh' do you ever pay attention Koordovoth, they are out to talk to the gods of course." Ginarth said with an evil glint in his eyes.
"Ahh now I remember." Koordovoth said rubbing the back of his head.
Ginarth just shook his head looking at the man beside him.
"Well uncle I am off I want to go see some of my friends." Koordovoth said with a smirk as he was headed away to a corridor on the right of the room. But as he was about to get to the entrance of the corridor. Two guards appeared out of nowhere blocking him off from getting to his room.
"Move aside, guards I must get to my resting quarters." Koordovoth said regally.
The two guards made no show as to speak.
"They will not listen to you Koordovoth, they will only respond to me." Ginarth said now standing at the center of the room an evil smirk plastered onto his face.
Koordovoth eyes looked back at his uncle and narrowed slightly. "I knew you would do this eventually, but I had expected you would do this to my parents not I."
Ginarth gave an evil chuckle. "Do you really believe me to be so stupid? I am not going to outright attack the king and queen of all the dragons, no I shall first gain support and maybe in a few years I shall attack them, but for now no."
"So you are the dragon in the prophecy, the one who will turn." Koordovoth said.
"A black dragon shall turn against all others,
And kill his own kin and manipulate a human in order to achieve his desires,
Only to fail at the hands of a royal dragon,
Or succeed in conquest by killing the only one to stop him."
Ginarth said in annoyance. "I do believe you my boy are the one in the prophecy that will stop me. So I have decided I must kill you. I am sorry you had such potential, but all things must end at some point I suppose." Ginarth finished mockingly.
"And how Uncle," Koordovoth sneered the name uncle. "Do you plan to kill me are you forgetting I myself are a royal dragon?"
Koordovoth then in a swift motion knocked the two guard's unconscious. Just like Koordovoth, I could sense that the two were put under an illusion the whole time.
The man only smirked and appeared next to Koordovoth in a second. He then pulled out a device It was square in shape and had a orb in the center of the square, that literally radiated evil, he then pressed a button and they both disappeared. I myself also followed wanting to know what events would take place.
Once through the portal I stood looking at two magnificent dragons, one white with a crown of different colors adoring his head. His eyes had not changed and still looked to have the same squares in his eyes. He stood tall and proud, His wings large and magnificent, an amazing sight to behold, he also had three scaly tails. The other dragon opposite looked exactly like the one had seen in my dream with Arion and Jewel. The black dragon stood tall and proud, he stood slightly taller than Koordovoth.
The two dragons then roared at each other and charged. The white dragon disappeared in a sea green glow and appeared next to his uncle taking a swipe at his flank, but as soon as he hit the scales black flames erupted on his hands, which made him roar in pain.
He then teleported away again and this time spewed white flames all over his hand. His Uncle smirked at him.
"How do you like my new ability, I found a book that told me all about this black flame and helped me discover a way to completely manipulate it in any way I want." The dragon said.
He then blew some black flames and all of a sudden the black flames formed into lions. The lions then charged at the white dragon. However the white dragon just opened up a portal and made it surround his body making the lion's disappear into the portal. The white dragon then released the portals and looked to see his uncle right in front of him. His uncle took a swing at his head but electricity surrounded his body making the black dragon's body convulse, but as the electricity coursed through his body the black dragons violet colored eyes glowed even brighter and blew his black flames in his nephew's face.
"Die!" He roared.
But then his nephew disappeared, with black flames overtaking the white dragon's face, so he blew a white flame that covered his face completely healing it, but I could tell each time he stopped the black flames he would gain a look of exhaustion.
"Stop!" I tried to yell at the two of them as they went to clash again, but they just acted as if they couldn't hear me.
I then ran at them to try and get in between them, but I was too late. The two dragons fought and fought, blow for blow. Till finally black dragon roared in triumph, he had cuts and bruises throughout his body, but his hand was through his nephew's throat. I then watched has the light in the white dragon's eyes dimmed, and blood soaked from his muzzle. "Noooooo!" I screamed.
I then woke in a cold sweat, tears streaming from my eyes and to blaring alarm bells.
The captain's gravelly voice: "All hands on deck! Find Lady Clarisse! Where is that girl?"
Then the ghostly face of the captain himself appeared above me. "Get up Hunter. Your friends are already above. We are approaching the entrance."
"The entrance to what?" I asked wiping the tears that were in my eyes.
He just gave me a skeletal smile. "The Sea of Monsters, of course."
I then stuffed my few belongings that had survived the Hydra which consisted of a few shirts and a couple of pants, into a sailor's canvas knapsack and slung it over my shoulder. I had a sneaking suspicion that one way or another I would not be spending another night aboard the CSS Birmingham.
I was on my way upstairs when something made me freeze. A presence nearby—something familiar and unpleasant. For no particular reason, I anger rile up in me. I wanted to punch a dead Confederate. I had only felt this type of anger once in a restaurant last year…
Instead of going up, I decided to follow where I started to feel the anger strengthen, I crept to the edge of the ventilation grate and peered down into the boiler deck.
Clarisse was standing right below me, talking to a man who walked from out of the steam of the boilers-a muscular man in black leather biker clothes, with a military haircut, red-tinted sunglasses, and a knife strapped to his side.
I clenched my fists in rage. I was the bastard who had kept bad mouthing my mother and my friends, my least favorite Olympian: Ares, the god of war.
"I don't want excuses, little girl!" he growled angrily.
"Y-yes, father," Clarisse mumbled.
"You don't want to see me mad, do you?"
"No, father."
"No, father," Ares mimicked. "You're pathetic. You're lucky you have your two brothers with you, you are hopeless."
"I'll succeed!" Clarisse promised, her voice trembling. "I'll make you proud."
"You'd better," he warned. "You asked me for this quest, girl. If you let those two slime balls Love, and Jackson steal it from you-"
"But the Oracle said-"
"I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAID!" Ares bellowed and raised his hand to hit her, but I clicked my watch releasing my bow and notched an arrow, and fired. Before the arrow could hit Ares in the hand he grabbed the arrow and snapped it.
Both Clarisse and her father looked up at me. And as soon as their eyes met mine. I jumped from up top and landed on the boiler deck.
"Ares I knew you were a piece of shit, but to hit your own daughter, well that is just unacceptable." I then felt my eyes change taking on a slit form and glared at him.
"Blake…" Clarisse started
"Ahh, Hunter boy is here. You better mind your own business kid this is a…family matter. Mommy isn't here to protect you now is she." Ares said giving an evil smirk.
I glared at him. "Ares I don't need my mother's help to beat a deadbeat god like you."
His eyes started to burn his glasses. "Tsk, Kid you don't know who you obviously are dealing with."
"Ares, go back to Olympus where daddy is that is all your good for." I said snarling at him.
Ares snarled and looked at me and flipped me off. He then teleported away in his godly form making Clarisse and I look away.
We both then opened our eyes again and silence over took us.
"Blake you didn't need to-" Clarisse said but I interrupted her.
"How many times?" I asked.
"What?"she asked confused.
"How many times has he hit you?" I said not looking at her.
"I-I don't know." Clarisse said turning her head as I turned my own head to look at her. I then went to walk in front of her, and gently grasped her shoulders making her flinch.
"I'm sorry Clarisse, he is a piece of shit. Does this happen often?" I asked her gently.
"He-he only does this type of thing when he is really angry. W-when I fail." Clarisse said tears now pouring from her eyes.
"Listen to me Clarisse, you are not a failure from what I have seen you are strong, stronger than most war kids." I said not mentioning the god of Wars name. "And you know what?" I asked
"W-what?" She asked sobbing.
"I don't see a failure. I see a very courageous woman who strives for recognition." I said with a smile.
She then looked at me in shock. "Bu-But the way I treat you and-"
"And I now realize why you do it and you know what I forgive you. I may not completely understand your situation, but I know what it's like when a parent doesn't want you, I know that feeling more than anyone else." I told her comfortingly and then hugged her in a friendly embrace.
She cried and cried in my chest. Once she finally calmed down she looked up at me. "I-I'm sorry Blake I got your shirt all wet."
"Don't worry about it war girl. That's what family is for." I said in a chuckle.
I saw a slight tint of pink splash her face. "F-family?" She asked.
"Yeah technically you're my cousin you know, same with Perce, and Annie. And I can tell your two brothers care for you two, you just have to let people in." I said.
The alarm bells then rang again. I could hear the voices from above of officers yelling orders to ready the cannons.
"We should probably join the others, before I find out Ember searched the whole ship to find us."I said chuckling.
"Hunter boy, you better not tell anyone or else-" Clarisse said.
"I promise you I won't say a thing." I chuckled as Clarisse punched me in the arm with a smile, a true genuine smile, not a simple fake and meaningless smile, but one of gratitude.
When we finally joined the others Ember hugged me tightly and asked me. "What's wrong?"
I looked at her questioningly.
She just pointed at my wet shirt.
"I had a really, really bad dream last night Em." I told her softly as I put my head in her hair.
"What happened?" She asked as she put her hand on my arm and gently moved her hand up and down my arm in a comforting way.
"I would rather not talk about it." I whispered in her hair.
She just sighed, but I could feel her nod.
I then looked up to see Clarisse who came out from behind me with Ernesto and Austin following grabbed a pair of binoculars form a zombie officer and peered toward the horizon. "At last. Captain, full steam ahead!"
The sky was overcast. The air hazy and humid, like a steam from an iron. I saw a couple of dark fuzzy splotches in the distance.
The engine groaned as we increased speed.
Tyson muttered nervously, "Too much strain on the pistons. Not meant for deep water."
I wasn't sure what exactly he was talking about, but by the tone of his voice it made me nervous.
After a few more minutes, the dark splotches ahead of us came into focus. To the north, a huge mass of rock rose out of the sea—an island with cliffs at least a hundred feet tall. About half a mile south of that, the other patch of darkness was a storm brewing. The sky and sea boiled together in a roaring mass.
"Hurricane?" Annabeth asked.
"No," Clarisse said. "Charybdis."
I was shocked. Annabeth paled. "Are you crazy?"
"It's the only way into the Sea of Monsters. Straight between Charybdis and her sister Scylla."
Clarisse pointed to the top of the cliffs, and I knew something lived up there I could sense it.
"What do you mean the only way?" Percy asked. "The sea is wide open! Just sail around them."
Clarisse looked at me and sighed gently. "If I tried to sail around them, they would just appear in my path again. If you want to get into the Sea of Monsters, you have to sail through them."
"What about the Clashing Rocks?" Annabeth said. "That's another gateway. Jason used it."
"I can't blow apart rocks with my cannons," Clarisse said. "Monsters, on the other hand…"
"Blake can." Annabeth said.
"Oh no you don't Blake is not changing again. He has changed too much in two days. I don't want him as exhausted as he was yesterday." Ember said as she tightened her grip on me leaving no room for argument.
Annabeth looked disappointed. "Well then Clarisse you're crazy."
"Just watch and learn, Wise Girl." Clarisse turned to the captain. "Set course for Charybdis!"
"Aye, m'lady."
The engine groaned, the iron plating rattled, and the ship began to pick up speed.
"Clarisse," Percy said, "Charybdis sucks up the sea. Isn't that the story?"
"And spits it back out again, yeah."
"What about Scylla?" Percy asked.
"She lives in a cave, up on those cliffs. If we get too close, her snaky heads will come down and start plucking sailors off the ship."
"Choose Scylla then," Percy said. "Everybody goes below deck and we chug right past."
"No!" Clarisse insisted. "If Scylla doesn't get her easy meat, she might pick up the whole ship. Besides, she's too high to make a good target. My cannons can't shoot straight up. Charybdis just sits there at the center of her whirlwind. We're going to steam straight toward her, train our guns on her, and blow her to Tartarus!"
She said it with such relish I almost wanted to believe her.
The engine hummed. The boilers were heating up so much I could feel the deck getting warm beneath my feet. The smokestacks billowed. The red Ares flag whipped in the wind.
As we got closer to the monsters, the sound of Charybdis got louder and louder—a horrible wet roar like the galaxy's biggest toilet being flushed. Every time Charybdis inhaled, the ship shuddered and lurched forward. Every time she exhaled, we rose in the water and were buffeted by ten-foot waves.
I tried to time the whirlpool with my watch. As near as I could figure, it took Charybdis about three minutes to suck up and destroy everything within a half-mile radius. To avoid her, we would have to skirt right next to Scylla's cliffs. And as bad as Scylla might be, those cliffs were looking awfully good to me. I knew that if push came to shove and I had to change forms I would in a heartbeat even if it angered Ember.
Undead sailors calmly went about their business on the spar deck. I guess they'd fought a losing cause before, so this didn't bother them. Or maybe they didn't care about getting destroyed because they were already deceased. Neither thought made me feel any better.
Annabeth stood next to Percy and gripped the railing. "You still have the thermos full of wind?"
Percy nodded. "But it's too dangerous to use with a whirlpool like that. More wind might just make things worse."
"Well Percy maybe you could control the water then, try to redirect it or something. I mean you are the son of Poseidon." I said.
Percy closed his eyes as if in concentration.
"I-I can't, Charybdis is too loud and powerful." Percy said.
"We need a backup plan," Annabeth muttered. "This isn't going to work"
"Annabeth is right," Tyson said. "Engine's no good."
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Pressure. Pistons need fixing."
Before he had a chance to even explain, the whirlpool gave a mighty roaaar! The ship lurched forward and we were thrown to the deck.
Dead Confederates rushed back and forth. The propeller grinded into reverse, trying to slow the ship, but we kept sliding toward the center of the vortex.
A zombie sailor burst out of the hold and ran to Clarisse. His gray uniform was smoking. His beard was on fire. "Boiler room overheating, ma'am! She's going to blow!"
"Well, get down there and fix it!"
"Can't!" the sailor yelled. "We're vaporizing in the heat."
Clarisse pounded the side of the casemate. "All I need is a few more minutes! Just enough to get in range!"
"We're going in too fast," the captain said grimly. "Prepare yourself for death."
"No!" Tyson bellowed. "I can fix it."
Clarisse looked at him incredulously. "You?"
"He's a Cyclops," Annabeth said. "He's immune to fire. And he knows mechanics."
"Go!" yelled Clarisse.
"Tyson, no!" Percy grabbed his arm. "It's too dangerous!"
He patted Percy's hand. "Only way, brother." His expression was determined—confident, even.
I'd never seen Tyson so confident. "I will fix it. Be right back."
We then all watched him follow the smoldering sailor down the hatch, I had a really bad feeling, but I had to ignore it for now. I noticed Percy was about to take off after Tyson but the ship lurched again-and then we all saw Charybdis.
She appeared only a few hundred yards away, through a swirl of mist and smoke and water.
The first thing I noticed was the reef—a black crag of coral with a fig tree clinging to the top, an oddly peaceful thing in the middle of a maelstrom. All around it, water curved into a funnel, like light around a black hole. Then I saw the horrible thing anchored to the reef just below the waterline—an enormous mouth with slimy lips and mossy teeth the size of rowboats. And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them.
Charybdis was an orthodontist's nightmare. She was nothing but a huge black maw with bad teeth alignment and a serious overbite, and she'd done nothing for centuries but eat without brushing after meals. As I watched, the entire sea around her was sucked into the void—sharks, schools of fish, a giant squid. And I Knew that we would be next if we did something quick.
"Lady Clarisse," the captain shouted. "Starboard and forward guns are in range!"
"Fire!" Clarisse ordered.
Three rounds were blasted into the monster's maw. One blew off the edge of an incisor.
Another disappeared into her gullet. The third hit one of Charybdis's retaining bands and shot back at us, snapping the Ares flag off its pole.
"Again!" Clarisse ordered. The gunners reloaded, but I knew it was hopeless. We would have to pound the monster a hundred more times to do any real damage, and we didn't have that long. We were being sucked in too fast.
Then the vibration in the deck changed. The hum of the engine got stronger and steadier.
The ship shuddered and we started pulling away from the mouth.
"Tyson did it!" Annabeth said.
"Wait!" Clarisse said. "We need to stay close!"
"We'll die!" Percy said. "We have to move away."
I gripped one hand onto the rail and the other around Ember's waist as the ship fought against the suction. The broken Ares flag raced past us and lodged in Charybdis's braces. We weren't making much progress, but at least we were holding our own. Tyson had somehow given us just enough power to keep the ship from being sucked in.
Suddenly, the mouth snapped shut. The sea died to absolute calm. Water washed over Charybdis was shocked it all just stopped. I was expecting it to start attacking again but it never came. In fact I started to head a noise similar to that of a whimper. I looked to where the noise was coming from and looked to see that it was actually coming from the rocks where Scylla resides.
Something wasn't right I could feel it.
"What is going on why did it stop?" Ember asked.
No one said a word afraid that it would come back and attack. I then released my hold on Ember and trekked to the side of the ship. And when I looked down what I saw petrified me. A large sea green figure at the bottom of the ocean with a large green slitted eye staring up at me.
Then all of a sudden the creature started to swim up.
"Everyone hold on!" I shouted clinging onto the ships railing.
Then all of a sudden a large clawed hand shot from the water and landed on the spar deck piercing many of the sailors in the chest and rocking the ship slightly. Then the creature's body rose from the water revealing a giant water dragon. The dragon had to be about twice the size the ship we were on.
The dragon snarled at us its tail appeared out of the water and slammed onto the deck sweeping most of the deck clear of the sailors, the only ones left on the deck were my friends, the captain, and the two sons' of Ares.
"Ahhhh, halflings. I wondered when I would get a good meal again." The dragon said licking his chops.
I looked at the dragon in shock. I clicked my watch and aimed at the dragon.
"And what do we have here?" The dragon said looking at me not flinching at seeing my bow. "A child of the huntress. Hmm very sssurprisssing I did not expect her to have a child." The dragon then shifted its eyes to look at Ember. "Haha, you are here as well thiss iss promissing. If I take you I might just get a reward."
"What are you talking about? You are taking her nowhere." I said to him.
"Oh really are you going to ssstop me boy? Your sship is already on the verge of explossion." The dragon said menacingly.
Then as if on cue a smoldering sailor burst out of the hold. He stumbled into Clarisse, almost knocking them both overboard. "The engine is about to blow!"
"Where's Tyson?" Percy demanded.
"Still down there," the sailor said. "Holding it together somehow, though I don't know for how much longer."
The captain said, "We have to abandon ship."
"No! We can fight this thing!" Clarisse yelled and the others also agreed.
"Not if the ship is blowing up, you all know only I can fight him." I told them. "You guys take the lifeboats I will keep the dragon busy so you guys can take off."
"No Blake I won't leave you. I will help you." Ember said defiantly.
Clarisse and her brothers went to the lifeboats all following Annabeth's command. She and a few of her undead sailors who came from the poop deck uncovered one of the two emergency rowboats.
Percy then looked to Annabeth. "Go without me I'm going to get Tyson."
"Percy don't as much as I hate to say this if you go down there you will die. Go to the lifeboats, and take Ember with you. There is a chance Tyson will survive this he is a son of Poseidon and immune to fire." I said.
"No! I am staying." Ember said defiantly.
"Promise me Percy you will keep her safe!" I said seriously.
"I-I promise Blake." Percy said as he grabbed onto Ember's arm dragging her to the other life boat which Annabeth occupied.
All the while as I turned my back to them I heard Ember yelling my name shouting at Percy to let her go.
"Sssso you are going to fight me boy on an exploding ship. That's smart. Oh well I suppose I will kill you then go after that girl." The dragon hissed with a smirk.
I shook my head.
'Kid are you crazy, fighting a fully-grown dragon all by yourself. You are going to get yourself killed.' A said.
'If it means protecting my friends, I will gladly risk my life.' I said with confidence.
I could mentally see A smirk. 'Alright listen to me kid if that is the way you are going to be fine, but listen to me I am going to help you out understand.'
'How?' I asked.
'I know you are going to change into a dragon. So I am going to give you the power of a second dragon as well.' A said .
I was shocked. 'Which one? And how can you do that?'
'The nature dragon; since you already read about that one. And understand some of the basics of what the powers a nature dragon can do.' A told me.
'Wait you can give me the power of any dragon I want? Why didn't we do this before?' I asked.
'Kid not right now I will answer all your questions after we defeat this thing first.' A told me.
I nodded mentally. I had already decided which dragon to change into. The Ice Dragon. I thought about its Ice blue scales, its massive webbed feet and large iced claws. I then imagined the tail with Icicles on the end, the wings are made of ice crystals with a thin membrane in-between each ice crystal to allow the dragon to fly. The head of the dragon with two horns on its head pointed straight up at a 90 degree angle. I imagined the dragon with sharp teeth to bite into practically anything.
I could feel my skin tearing and rebuilding itself, I felt my bones crushing and changing, my body becoming freezing cold temperatures, my nails exploded from my hands and forming claws, and my teeth becoming sharp canines, I could feel myself growing new appendages in my shoulders and tailbone, and lastly my eyes changed to slits instead of my round pupil.
I then looked up at the water dragon and roared at him.
"Sssso you can change formsss, yesss finally a challenge it has been at leassst a thousand years since I have had ssuch a challenge." The water dragon hissed his lips curling into a snarl.
Then I felt another surge of power that came from within, I knew who it was from then I looked back to see four black orbs surrounding my tail.
The water dragons looked at me in surprise and hissed. "Y-you have that power how-how can thisss be, no. I must kill you now no more playing Massster Ginarth will want you dead."
'Ginarth that name again, why would he want me specifically dead?' I wondered.
Then the water dragon spewed boiling hot water at me, but all I did was flapped my wings pushing myself off the ship , I looked down to see where I had stood just moments ago to see the metal had melted; leaving a hole in the middle of the ship.
The Water dragon lifted off the ship and into the air. I now could see exactly how big the dragon was it was about the size of a three story building. The two of us then flew at each other, and we were about to clash, I dived right underneath the dragon. And as I was about to hit the water I swerved upward leaving a trail of ice on the top of the water, and went behind the dragon. I then blew a frosty breath at the dragon's back creating ice on its wings. It roared in anger and pain as the ice was so cold it was painful, and moved its tail to hit me, luckily I was able to move upward to keep the coral reefed tail from hitting my face, but sadly it nicked my neck leaving a long cut.
I then roared in pain at the cut on my now bleeding neck. This gave the other dragon enough time to shake off the ice that had formed on its wings and dived into the water.
'Kid listen to me the water will heal the water dragon you have to cut its supply off.' A said.
'We are kind of in the middle of the freakin ocean you know!' I said in annoyance.
'Then make it harder for him to get to it.' A told me in rebuttal.
All of a sudden a funnel cloud started to form in the middle of the water pulling up water into the the funnel. The water dragon was aiming on creating a hurricane; I could feel myself start to get pulled into the middle of the storm. I then blew a Ice into the storm freezing it before it could get too big. And stopping it before it could reach to my friends who wouldn't move wanting to watch the fight. However I did notice Annabeth had her hands on the thermos so if things got to intense they would get out of here in a few seconds.
All of a sudden the water dragon appeared from out of the water looking as if it wasn't even exhausted. It then lunged at me, which I dodged and then racked my claws against its back. It made a quick dive to the water, but I was quicker. I turned my body and blew ice at the water completely freezing it over; making the dragon hit its face into the ice leaving cracks, but not enough to make the dragon go through. It then stood on the ice dazed from hitting the ice. I then dived at the dragon aiming for its neck but It saw it coming and even though it was dazed moved so I would hit a different target, so I bit straight into its scaly arm. The first thing I tasted was fish, nasty raw fish and then a warm metallic substance entered my mouth from where I had bit the dragon in the arm.
It roared in pain and seemed to get over its daze and bit me on my back. I roared in pain as I felt razor sharp teeth puncture my back, but I didn't release my hold on the dragon's arm. I could hear Ember from not to far scream my name in fear for my life.
'A quick how do I control those damned orbs?' I thought to A as pain washed over me.
'You control it just as you would your wings think of them as body parts, only you can manipulate them to be anything you want.' A said rushed.
I then focused on the orbs surrounding my tail and ordered them to travel up to my back and create spikes. Immediately I heard the other dragon roar in pain and I felt it release my scaly hide. I then released my hold on the dragon and flapped my wings to get away from the dragon.
I looked to see it had puncture marks in its jaw and some in its neck.
The dragon looked at me in rage.
"You ssseem to care ssso much about thossse young hatchlingsss over there." the dragon said with a hiss and an evil smirk."Let'ss watch them die ssshall we?"
All of a sudden the dragon's eyes brightened a sea green color and a huge tsunami started making its way over to Percy, Annabeth, and my girlfriend. I saw Percy close his eyes in concentration, but the water continued to close in on them. I saw Annabeth just sit there in shock not releasing the winds. I roared and took to the skies with the water dragon in tow. I flapped my wings as hard as I could leaving the water beneath me to freeze as I flew past, I saw the water getting closer and closer to my friends. As soon as I was close enough I blew a cold frosty breath at the water freezing it solid before it could even touch them. I then felt a clawed hand puncture my back and forced me through the ice and into the water.
I screamed in agony as the water dragon then bit into my shoulder. I then twisted my body and breathed a freezing cold frost to freeze around me making the water dragon release me as such freezing cold temperatures started to hurt the water dragon.
I then burst myself free from the ocean, taking to the air and received a large gulp of air, if I had been down there any longer I would have drowned.
The water dragon also lifted itself from the the confines of the ice and into the air. The dragon smirked at me and charged, its body completely healed. I ducked underneath the dragon even though I was hurt I would not give up. I used my spiked tail and racked it on the dragon's underbelly leaving cuts all along its stomach.
I then created a huge Ice platform underneath me thick enough so the water dragon couldn't reach the water to heal.
I then roared a fierce roar at the water dragon.
"Bring it you, fucking gecko." I roared tauntingl.
The water dragon snarled and then dived at me, but I used the orbs A gave me and made a huge spiked shield to surround my body. And I knew the dragon wouldn't have enough time to stop himself or redirect himself as he was too big. Then I heard it puncture the dragon several times I could sense it had punctured though the hands of the dragon and and I then made the black spikes turn into tendrils and wrap around the hands so the dragon so he could not escape. I then made the orbs instead of surrounding me surrounded the water dragon encompassing it.
I heard from inside the dragon hiss, and pounded at the now large orb with its large head trying to get free from the orb, but I reinforced it with Ice so the dragon inside would not escape. The only thing not covered was its long lengthy tail which he tried to use to bat at the orb, but I went up to the tail and bit right through it making the end of the tail completely fall off, and all I could hear was the dragon squealing like a pig in pain.
"You bassstard, I will kill you and then kill your friendsss. Masster Ginarth will then-" The water dragon began hissing in pain.
"Tch you won't put a hand on my friends you vermin. But you will soon see your boss in hell. I hope you like your grave." I told the dragon my eyes started to glow a green blue and then I made the inside of the orb form thousands small spikes, on the inside and made them all go straight into the dragons body. Then what ever was left of the dragon's tail that was still attached went limp.
I then made the sphere recede; creating four black orbs again I was quite shocked that these four orbs were able to contain such a large dragon, but then again these orbs themselves were not just any orbs they were orbs made of nature, then the four orbs went to their original position of being around my tail. And the dragon's body dropped from the sky and onto the white snowy ice with a loud thud blanketing everything in snow.
Then I decided to inspect the damage, the dragon had multiple punctured holes throughout its body. They were all small, but there were thousands, the small spikes ripped through its flesh and every vital organ in the dragon's body. I gently nudged the body just to be sure and when there was no reaction and I couldn't hear breathing I knew the dragon would not be getting up. The body then disappeared and all that was left was a hooded jacket, it was thin, but I could tell I could keep anyone warm and had sea green scales all over it.
"'huff huff' finally 'huff' beat him 'huff huff'." I said in exhaustion the cuts, bruises, and overuse of power now taking a toll on my body, then I felt something hit my nose, I tilted my head up and looked up into the sky and noticed that it had started to snow; I then focused on my body and reverted back to my normal human state. And the last thing I remember before falling unconscious was hearing a large explosion from the ship and hearing footsteps crunch in the snow as someone ran towards me.
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