Chapter 26 - Titan's Curse

Malikai's POV

It had been a long time since the quest to and from the Sea of Monsters, a lot of stuff happened, one of them being the Zeus girl, Thalia I think it was, coming back to life. Frankly, I didn't give a shit. I spent my days practicing with my sword, because when I went out on an errand one time I ran into a bunch of monsters. Not hard to kill, but way more than I had bullets for, and it takes a lot of time to smelt celestial bronze/imperial gold onto bullets. So there were times I had to use my sword, but I like to think I handled myself. But it was a mess, I got out with a few cuts and bruises, so somewhat kinda pathetic.

When I wasn't training at the Arena, I was either hanging out in the lake, or getting used to my wings by jumping off of really high places and gliding down. I even hired a pilot to fly me up and jump from there. It was really fuckin' scary but worth it. I swear to the gods, Alex spent 9 out of 10 moments of her "life" in the Arena, constantly training, never leaving. But she's a good fight every now and then. She hates it when I use my wings, it's apparently "cheating".

She would always say, "Not everyone's born with wings, Malikai" Was I born with them? That sounds painful, who cares, maybe they were given to me.

Simon did who the fuck knows what. I don't know how you 'practice' magic, maybe he just reads spell books and does them on rocks or something. His turtle would always be sleeping by the dragon guarding the tree. Silver would hang around with me and we would play fetch, or practice taking down monsters with the dummies. I was thinking of getting him some Celestial Bronze crowns for his fangs, and maybe some for his claws. But most of the time Silver would roam the woods in camp, or leave camp for a week or two and come back.

Stephanie was almost always found at the Range but she would hang around with other Apollo kids. I think she had this thing, for a Demeter kid, Kenton. I think that's his name. They would always stare at each other during meal time, it was kinda creepy to me. The other day I saw Simon hitting on some nymphs, it went horribly wrong and I laughed so loud that they both saw me and he hexed me, I had nonstop laughing fits for 2 whole days. Most of which I spent underwater hiding myself from the surface world.

Things were really chill and laid back. But then Percy and Annabeth got called to go save these 2 demigods when Grover called for backup. I thought it was nothing but I wondered what kind of demigods were they if they needed the help of not just a satyr but two more (seasoned) campers. But I didn't really give a shit so I just got in my little Ice bubble and sunk into the lake.

One morning, I was enjoying the fresh air in my little ice bubble that blew through the ice pipe that circulated from the naiads tried to come again and tease me. But I just frosted the ice making it foggy white and flipped the page of the book I was reading.

I almost tore the page out from the book when I heard Simon's voice shout through the pipe, "Malikai come quick you're gonna wanna see this."

I sighed, putting the book in my lap and concentrated on moving my little sub to the surface.

Pretending that the pipe was a Periscope and imagined little sonar sounds in my head, I turned around and was immediately blinded.

"Holy shit, it's like the sun landed in camp." As it turned out, it did. I shoved my book into the front pocket of my hoodie and walked closer to the group of girls that I had come to fear.

Throughout my travels in northwest America there were multiple times that I had run ins with the Hunters. The first time I saw them I was curious and tried to walk into the camp. Worst idea of my life- I had every bow pointed at me within seconds and and nearly turned into a jackrabbit before leaving. I swore to Lady Artemis I wouldn't show my face again. She agreed to spare my life. I walked away a very frightened man. The second time I tried to hide, they had the hounds sniff me out. The third time I ran into them I ran as far as I could, they hunt me down like Game. I feared these women, that was a long time ago. I feel more confident in confrontation with them but I still got pale seeing the familiar silver parkas. Although I breathed out a sigh of relief to notice Artemis wasn't with them, but then I got confused wondering why she wasn't with them.

I saw Zoe step out of the golden bus and nearly shrunk back in fear, holding my stomach, in fear I would puke seeing her face again. I disliked her the most out of all the hunters. But eventually along the line, I came to respect her, as she was just doing what any other second in-hand hunter would do, doing whatever had to be done. Although that didn't always… who am I kidding, never, came out in my favor.

I stepped a bit closer hoping none of them would recognize me. Then, as if she sensed my presence she turned and scowled at me, but left it at that thank the gods. I saw a very distraught Thalia (remember the zeus chick) heaving her chest as she stepped out. Then a very distraught Percy come out with the two demigods I assumed they saved. But no Annabeth.

I creeped up to Percy trying not to give any reason to get riddled with arrows, he turned and saw me.

I grabbed his hand and we shoulder bumped and I asked him, "Hey, uh, where's Annabeth?" I questioned.

"They let it take her." He nodded towards the Hunters.

Before he could say anything else Apollo turned the Sun back into a sports car and said to Percy, "Watch out for those prophecies, Percy. I'll see you soon." He took off with a wink.

"What do you mean?" he said to the retreating sun.

"It means there's trouble coming, let's go." I said watching the female demigod walk away with the hunters as her probably younger brother pouted.

The end

Author's note

Ayy lmao i have nothing to write other than it is July 4th and these fireworks are illegal here but it's still a fuckin' warzone outside of my house.

Also Clash Royale update was fuckin' awesome

What to put, what to put… whatever k bye