PERCY POV

We flew till it was almost nightfall, and the only reason we even stopped was because of the young ones also nudge wouldn't stop talking. " Max, lets stop and rest here for the night, and if we sense any sign of danger we take off immediately" " yeah, I agree with 3, I don't think my eardrums can take any more of nudge's nagging any more".

As we landed in a clearing, I started towards the forest " and where do you think you are going?" " to get wood to make I fire, you don't expect us to freeze to death out here do you?" "And how will we light the wood?" she asked crossing her arms, I smirked at her smugly and brought out my wings and set them on fire "ohh" " yeaaaah" I drawled out, before she could say another word, I set out.

Few minutes into my hunt for dry wood, I had a feeling of dread at the back of my mind, I just brushed it off, since we have left the school nothing bad can happen right? it was at that moment that I remembered that I was a demigod, no sooner had realization hit me, I heard a growl I was all too familiar with behind me, how it managed to sneak up on me I will never know, "Hellhound" I breathed. I immediately hit the dirt and not a moment too soon too, I came face to face with my possible killer, it was HUGE, I am talking hummer sized huge. I couldn't admire it for long because it charged at me, and in a moment of fight or flight, I chose flight, well not actual flight because the braches were too congested for me to fly so I did the next best thing I ran.

I ran until my legs and chest started to burn. A mad grin adorned my face followed by matching laughter erupted from me, I was laughing because I was I was about to be killed by a giant hellhound, and the funny thing is that I missed the feeling of running for my life even if I just did it few hours ago. It was exhilarating, I was going crazy and I was loving every feeling of it. I reached the end of a cliff, I was in the middle of a flesh eating monster and an escape route, the escape route being flying off the cliff. it was an easy decision really I turned and faced the Hellhound, it wasn't a matter of running away like a coward, it was because I fucking wanted to.

After a few minutes of fighting, although I was enjoying it, all I was doing was dodging and rolling out of the way because I had no weapons to kill it, so I ran back to the clearing. I was running for two reasons, 1: if I was going to die, I wasn't going to die lonely and alone, 2: I was wishing that with more people, we would have a better chance of stopping it.

This fucking hellhound pursued me without rest. The clearing was finally in sight, as I dashed in everyone stood up and took up a fighting stance, even Jo was awake and ready, the hellhound even thought it was outnumbered, it was still owning us.

I did not escape from The School just to be killed by a monster I had killed times without number so with that anger and frustration, I screamed and was surprised that I was breathing fire then I remembered that I was part phoenix so I looked into the phoenix's memories for its powers and found out that breathing fire was not my only power. I could also had claws, a super regeneration factor, immortality, advanced adaptation, intangibility, extremely advanced senses,strength and speed and finally, healing tears but that wouldn't be useful because I would never cry, I was too crazy to cry I was brought out of my musing by angels cry. All I saw was red. She was clawed by the hellhound in the stomach, and that made me angry no one hurt the people I cared about and lived, be it man, monster or god. With that I charged claws out hands aflame, I punched and clawed savagely and as I was fighting I had a blood red aura surrounding me; the blessing of Ares. with the new power boost I pummelled the Hellhound mercilessly. I beat it, the blessing of Ares had subsided and I was waiting for it to turn to golden dust and from nowhere, well actually from the ground , the hellhound sprang and tore an long gnash stretching from my right shoulder to my left hip, with an angry yell, I tore out its throat and this time, It turned to dust.

Disregarding my injury, I went straight to angels side "angel stay in there, you cant die on me. I am not going to lose you" I suddenly remembered what Hestia told me fire can be used to either harm or heal; so I set my hands on fire and channelled my healing energy through it "what are you doing, do you want to kill her" Max screamed at me, I didn't even acknowledge her and in no time, angels wounds closed up. it took a lot out of me but it was worth it, and with that thought, I passed out.

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I woke up with my head in Jo's laps, "I could get used to waking up like this" a huge smile adored her face, followed by I small giggle "now lets make a deal, I wont make waking up like this a regular thing and you keep that smile on that beautiful face, deal?" a cute blush came across her face "deal" "so where are the others?" "they are sleeping in the trees" " that's convenient, so how long was I out?" "a few hours" "oh ok" "so any ideas where we would go when we leave here, you weren't born in the school, don't you have a family?" " I did" "oh I am so sorry I asked" I was thinking about why she was sorry until I remembered what I said "oh you think they are dead, hahaha, but although I honestly wish they were" " why would you say something like that" "I don't want to talk about it" "ok so 3, what was that monster chasing you" "Its Percy" "huh" " my name is Percy", why I told her I don't know but I did. "and to answer your question, that was a monster called an hellhound although its not as big as Mrs O'lear- wait a minute Mrs O'leary and blackjack he can come get us, why didn't think of that earlier" where is the nearest water source, oh sorry I already know, come on lets go", sine we were in an open area, we could fly so without any warning, I carried her bridal style and took off.

Finally we could get out of here, but the question on my mind now wasn't how, it was what, what do we do when we get out of here, well as they say, only time will tell.