This day is a day jam-packed full of weirdness and whole lot of mixed emotions.
First of all, I just witnessed an ancient-lady take over my girlfriend's body and realized that I too, have been subtlety taken by the Prince of Troy (though I'm not sure why he hasn't taken full control of my body, like what happened with Piper's.)
Second, when my girlfriend came back she said the most wounding words I've ever heard from her... "GO AWAY!" she said. Yeah right, as if I would leave her. I wonder what happened to her.
Then it dawned on me: Those images I've seen from her dagger while she was still sleeping. Could it be tha–?
Fear and anger rushed through my veins. What Piper has gone through... how could someone do such sickly thing? Darkness clouded my mind as I wanted to punch and kill that someone, but who?
And third is Leo. After episodes of explosion, I've been worried sick for the dude. Lacy and Mitchell said they last seen him leave the mess hall, looking blatantly out of nowhere. Nyssa said the same thing too. After chasing Piper frantically to the entrance of Bunker 9, I'm glad he's safe and all but then he does THAT. My first thought? What the HELL man?!
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Piper screamed so loud that it almost hurt our ears.
For all his flirting and joking around, I've never known Leo to make the classic move: Best friend and the Girlfriend. I knew something's off with him, but I can't help suddenly feeling very furious with the guy, almost to the point of killing him.
I turned around, and saw the others witnessed the whole thing. The guy must be psychic because Frank dove straight to me, grabbing my sword and throwing it on the ground then restrained me.
"Let go Frank! I am so going to punch the life out of him!" I yelled, still watching Piper and Leo's intimate moment.
"Jason think! With all the weird things that's been happening, that is not Leo! I can see it through his eyes!"
Right enough, his dark brown eyes is now the color of pure-evil red. I knew that this should subside my fury but it won't go away, in fact, I felt even more enraged. Piper is now struggling to get away from him and I can see his hands almost choking her. She then kicked him in the gut so hard that he knelt to the ground. As soon as Frank saw Piper staggering towards me, he released me. But instead of running into my arms, she went for my sword. She unsheathed it swiftly and goes back to attack Leo, but was stopped when she was caught by Percy. Piper screamed.
"That man killed my father and my brother! That man raped me and killed my beloved! LET ME GO! HE MUST BE KILLED!"
It then occurred to me that it was no longer Piper who was speaking, but Helen. I watched as I see her flailing and screaming from Percy's tight grip. He grabbed the sword and forcefully took it away from her strong grasp. Leo is now staggering to get up from where he was hit.
"Piper! Stop! He may be someone else, but he is still Leo. You can't kill him!" Percy managed to speak amidst her thrashing.
"Ahhh, yes. This body may not be mine, but I feel strong... and powerful than before." Leo said, as he slowly walked towards us. His hands lit up with burning flames, and marveled at what his new body can do. "Come back to me, dear wife. This is now the second time that I will ask this of you. You are after all, my woman."
Menelaus.
I said silently as I realized why the feeling of pure hatred is rushing all over my body. I saw Frank's bow and arrow straddled in his torso. Before he could stop me, I rolled towards him and grabbed it, aiming the arrow at Menelaus.
"Paris!", Menelaus exclaimed in a menacing tone, "We meet again! Brought to life, only to be killed again by me? With this young one's special powers, I can do it again, only this time in an even more gruesome way possible. After all, what's mine is mine, you foolish thief!" He said as he smiled, grinning at me.
"Where's Leo? What did you do to him?" I glowered at his annoying face.
"Oh, your friend is now in a deep sleep and won't be bothering my and my mistress' plans," Menalaus sneered, "Go ahead and shoot me, a pity though, this child has Lord Hephaestus' strong powers."
I wanted to let go of the arrow, I know the possibility of it hitting straight through his heart, but I can't... because that would be Leo's. I struggled and my body shook as I can feel Paris' anger towards Menelaus.
You won't kill him, that's still my friend! There must be another way!
Slowly, I can feel the vibration fading inside my body, as Chiron spoke, "You and your Mistresses' plans? Of whom do you speak of, Menelaus of Sparta?" Hearing Chiron's powerful voice, I noticed that the group is now enlightened on who is controlling Leo.
"She is the daughter of darkness, lady of dissension. She agreed to empower my forces, annihilate Troy, get my woman and bring me back to life once more, if I sold my soul to her."
"Even so you said it yourself, that body might be powerful but he is just a mere child. And you are surrounded by powerful Greek and Roman demigods that can outnumber this child's fire abilities." He glanced at Percy, who is still holding Piper, and I knew they're coming up with a plan. Annabeth, Hazel and Frank are now on standby at Chiron's 'go' signal.
"Did you just say Greek? Ha! Much better!" Menelaus laughed, "Oh, no need cause a ruckus old centaur. My men swore an oath that they and their blood, would offer their services to me should the need arises. And I am in absolute need for them indeed." He smiled, like a hungry wolf, baring his teeth.
The ground trembled and a sudden change of power can now be felt all throughout. Piper let out a choking sound and I see Percy strangling the life out her.
"Percy! What are you doing?! You're killing her!" I shouted at him.
"I... don't... know... I can't... control... myself..." Beads of sweat are now trickling on his face as I see him struggle for control. I heard Hazel scream as Annabeth pointed her sword at her throat, and some Hephaestus kids are now holding Frank down.
"What the– guys let me go!" Frank shouted.
"I'm sorry Frank, I don't know what's happening!" said Jake Mason clearly bewildered.
"Annabeth! Are you crazy?" Hazel screamed.
"Hazel... I'm doing... the best... I can... to stand... down." Annabeth is also struggling just as hard as Percy is.
Not far from where we are, I can hear footsteps from the other campers, gathering towards us.
"You see? These demigods are now under my control, and they will serve me to bitter end. Clearly Centaur, it is the four of you who are now outnumbered." Menelaus grinned.
"Chiron! We need to get out of here, now!" I said as I realized the whole of Camp Half Blood is now against us and will try to kill us.
I need to think of something to create a distraction so that we can escape. My main concern is grabbing Piper and getting out of here. I now aimed my arrow at Percy and he looked at me, as if to say 'go ahead', and we've come to a silent agreement. I released my weapon and it went straight his foot. He yelped out of pain and let go of Piper. Menelaus ran towards to get her, but then I summoned a huge bolt of lightning between him and Piper. Hazel and Frank managed to get up on their feet and fought the others, careful not to deliver a fatal blow, but enough to inflict pain. Frank punched the Hephaestus kids and now braces himself as the Ares cabin is now running towards us. Hazel, slashed Annabeth's arm with her sword and summoned Arion, who instantly appeared out of nowhere.
"We should split up!" Chiron yelled.
While Piper's still dazed from Percy's grip, I flew towards her, grabbed her by the waist and lifted both of us upwards. I can see from the distance Arion's trail blazed through the hill, with Chiron throttling after them. I also saw Menelaus' upset face beaming at us, and then I saw her: a woman appearing beside him in a black toga with eyes like that of a serial killer's.
Who is that?
"Jason... what happened?" Piper croaked.
"The whole camp's just attacked us, even Percy and Annabeth, and Leo... he's not Leo anymore."
I realized Piper's back again, because instead of hatred for the guy, she buried her face on my chest and cried. In between her hurtful sobs she managed to talk, "Jason, what Menelaus has done is something horrible. I can't remember what that is exactly but, I just can't stop myself from crying..."
"I know what he did, Helen screamed it awhile ago. It's okay, it's nobody's fault... especially Leo's." I can still feel the fresh sting of hurt at what happened with Piper and Leo.
"Leo... how can we bring him back?"
"I honestly… don't know." I didn't dare look at her eyes as I painfully admitted this, "We first need to meet up with Frank, Hazel and Chiron and come up with a plan before going to the West." I've decided.
"The West? Why there?"
"Camp Jupiter's there Pipes. Just like Aeneas did when he fled from Troy and went to Rome, we're going there to seek refuge and warn Reyna about what happened in Camp Half Blood and brace ourselves for another war."
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More chapters are being written as of now, although I'd like to apologize for the delay of this chapter's release. Rest assured though that I will finish this story, because somebody messaged me they're loving the story so much that when it's complete, they'll send me a hard-bind-copy of this story! (I don't know if that's a 100% sure, but hard-copy or not, I'll still finish this.) ;)
Until then! :)