Chapter 9

Sorry, I didn't post yesterday. But I'll be posting every other day now cause its summer break!-Lucia

As soon as I was about to speak up, a roar made us spring up. I looked around and saw mortals running away from…. Oh, my gods. A lion. Not just any lion but a lion that was ten feet tall. Wondering what the heck the mortals saw, I charged.

Shane was on my right wielding a flaming hammer and Valentina was on my left chanting and a pink glow was forming around her hands. "I'll distract it, you guys attack!" yelled Valentina.

I ran at the left side of the lion while Shane ran for the left. Valentina had formed a glowing sphere out of whatever that pink thing was and was throwing it at the lion. It wasn't doing any damage but It definitely got the lion mad and made it stalk towards her. "Here I am you, idiot! Come and get me you ugly cat!" yelled Valentina.

I couldn't help but think that she had lots of bravery for a daughter of Aphrodite but I couldn't think of that now, I had a freaking 10-foot tall lion to kill.

Shane and I locked eyes from looking under the lion's stomach. He gestured for me to put down my sword. "Why!" I yelled.

"Because it's not a lion and we can't kill it in this form!"

"Wtf! What are you talking about?!" I yelled back.

"See the markings on its underside?" and he gestured under the lion.

While the lion was trying to swat at Valentina I looked under. There definitely was some writing there, but I couldn't tell what it said. "So what? What do you want me to do about it!?" I yelled just as the lion roared.

The reason the lion had roared was now the pink stuff from Valentina's hands was just straight shooting at the lion. I got a whiff of VERY strong perfume from it and immediately felt drowsy but shook my head, I couldn't pass out now. "Hurry up with whatever you're doing I can't keep it up much longer!" yelled Valentina.

I turned to Shane."What?" yelled Shane when the lion stopped roaring.

"What do the words say?! I can't read them!" I yelled back.

"It's the symbol of Kirke!"

"You mean like the titan?! Like the one that turned Percy into a guinea pig?" I asked.

"Exactly! You can't kill the lion you have to turn it back into a human! Use the potion orbs!"

I looked down at my belt and took out an orb. "You have to help me get up on it!"

Shane ran over to me and attached his hammer to his belt he then tapped his watch which expanded into a square piece of metal. "Run and launch yourself off of this onto the lion. Ok?"

"Yeah." I ran a couple of yards away and then ran back as fast as I could, launching myself up onto the piece of metal and jumping of off it onto the lion. The lion did not, in fact, like this at all. It actually hated it and decided to express its emotions by roaring again and rolling onto it's back to crush me. I heard Valentina scream, "you idiot! You couldn't think of something better while I was distracting it?!"

but, this was a perfect chance to get the orb in the lion's mouth. As it was roaring and rubbing itself on the ground, attempting to kill me. Not realizing I was actually on its stomach, I threw the orb in its mouth and yelled, "'η δύναμη του Kirke σας αναγκάζει να γίνετε α!"

The lion was surrounded by a cloud of mist and then a teenage looking boy sauntered out from the cloud of mist. He was dressed like some type of punk and looked to be in his late teen years.

His outfit though, he is making a freaking statement. I thought. He was wearing black jeans and black knee-high boots that were laced up. He had an RCDC shirt on and had a long black leather jacket that was almost as long as a trenchcoat. On the sleeves, there were spikes on the shoulders and down the sleeves, it was laced up to the elbow. His hair was spiky and pitch black. He radiated the same type of look as Nico but he didn't seem to be brooding he had a relieved look on his face. "Thank the freaking gods!" he yelled.

"Umm what do we do now?" asked Shane as he ran over to me

"I have no freaking idea….." I looked at Shane and Valentina, "fight?"

And we charged.

Sorry, this is short I'm trying to decide who this mystery boy should be, any suggestions?" -Lucia.