Percy Jackson and Camp No Blood
Chapter 12- The shape shifter returns
When Rapturn saw the message in plain ink before him he nearly fainted. After all he hadn't expected it to happen so quickly. Ten vampires had just been killed and Chris was threatening to kill more if they didn't turn me in. What if Lex was next? I would feel very guilty if any more people died because I was the "warrior".
Now you see, being a chosen one isn't all that it's cracked up to be. There's usually great pain and suffering involved and occasionally the loss of a loved one. And yet some people want to be the chosen one. They think that it will be grand and exciting but really, it's just a title given to a confused and lonely child that has found himself in a heap of trouble.
I was told to go to my cabin immediately and go to sleep. I guessed that Rapturn didn't want me to think about everyone that could die because of me. So, I headed off to my cabin and laid myself down on my bed thinking to myself. What was going to happen to me over the next few days and finally, what would happen next Wednesday when I was supposed to meet Chris at the clock tower?
All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw something scurry behind the lamp. It was a rat. I reached down and grabbed it swiftly with my hand. It was a little easy to catch it. A little too easy. I looked down at it confused and suddenly it started to grow bigger.
It was the shape shifter that had turned herself into Annabeth and now she had found a way into Camp No Blood and into my cabin.
The old woman turned around and locked the cabin door behind her silently. I was completely trapped seeing as there were no windows to fly through.
"Percy nice to meet you. My name is Julia. Now, I am not like other vampires. I do not drink blood. You see, I have developed a taste for something else and can you think of what that is?" She asked smiling at me with rotten teeth.
"I don't know." I replied very confused and surprised.
"Well over the years I have found that vampire flesh satisfies my taste buds more than blood does. And if you haven't noticed, it's a full moon tonight. And I am very hungry on full moons." She looked at me still giving me that yellow smile and then it faded into a snarl.
She charged at me but I was too quick for her. I jumped into the air easily and then she realized that I wouldn't be killed that easily. She quickly transformed herself into a lion and slashed her claws at me but even that wasn't enough to stop my warrior sense. I cut off one of her arms and watched her fall while smiling.
But my smile faded when I watched her turn into a lizard. She almost immediately regrew her limb that was lost and then transformed into a large boa constrictor. Julia jumped toward me quicker than I was and wrapped herself around my neck very tightly. Every time I tried slashing her away though she would only squeeze harder thus choking me. I was beat. There was absolutely no way of me killing her before she killed me. Then I had an idea. I knew that she had overlooked one thing. Two can play at the shape shifting game. I thought about myself as a vampire bat flying through the night and then I was one just like that. I flew out of Julia's clutches flew to the roof of my cabin so she couldn't reach me.
With frustration she tried turning herself into an eagle but realized that her wingspan was too large to fit in the cabin so she turned into what I hoped she would turn into. A sparrow. She flew up towards me and I had my chance. I propelled myself at her neck and bit down hard and then twisted my jaws upward. Julia fell to the ground. Her head was lying on the floor beside her. I had beaten her and with great satisfaction I tossed it outside with a note strapped to Julia's face. It read.
Better luck next time Chris.
