Chapter 29
Malikai's POV
I woke up the next morning and got up off of my bunk, feeling slight resistance I looked up and around me. The bed seemed to be covered in light snow, the kind that was too fluffy to make snow balls out of and turned to water when you touched it. Except I was sleeping in it and it didn't react to my touch. Oh right, the Khione thing. I sometimes do that when I'm stressed out. Silver seemed to hate it, he would sometimes sleep with me when we were in the wild but would end up just moving closer to the campfire.
I'm not entirely sure if the snow was sweat out of me… or if it just fell on me. I didn't really care either way as I just moved all the snow off my bed and into the fountain for the Poseidon cabin, not caring for my bunk being all slushy and wet.
It's funny how my Ice powers worked, I found out in my "meditation" under the lake that I could change the form of my wings, and the way I did them before was that they were kind of hovering over my shoulder blades and not fully attached. I did that because I knew I had to stick with the wings but this way they were much more portable and also it made me feel more normal. Not everyone has a pair of wings you know. But once I regularly lived in Camp Halfblood I think that I subconsciously became more comfortable with their presence and the practicing with them helped too. I found it surprisingly much more comfortable with the wings actually being attached to my back. They looked like regular wings except much more jagged and well, frozen. They worked much better being attached directly to my body. No wonder they worked so badly when detached, because I had to use power to keep the wings hovering over my shoulder blades and when I did that, I had to use power to make the wings actually move me when it's physically not attached to me. So this change was much more power efficient. But I couldn't sleep on my back and driving in cars was very awkward.
I walked forward and stopped suddenly almost tripping over a small furry lump in front of my bed, using my wings to kind of stabilize myself I looked back to see a groggy and startled Silver.
"Hey, look who's back.", I said scratching under his chin. I got up and head to the bathroom to get ready for the day passing a still snoozing Percy.
As soon as I stepped out of the cabin I heard drama, looking over I saw the Stolls being chased by the hunters into the Hermes cabin where they stopped and waited. Cautiously walking up I asked out loud, "Hey… what's up?".
Zoe turned to me fuming, thankfully not at me, "That, boy, played a trick on Phoebe and she's sick now. She was supposed to go with us to save Artemis."
"You guys already figured out who's going on the quest?", I asked her.
"Yeah, that's what Chiron wanted to talk to you about, I'll go with you.", I nodded heading to the Big house keeping a safe distance from the angry huntress.
"Malikai, let's talk.", Chiron said on the porch, as he lead me into the Big house.
"So who all is going on the quest? And why does this concern me?", I asked as soon as we stepped in.
"Well, there's going to be the hunters, Zoe, Bianca, and, would be Phoebe. But in light of recent events that has changed.", He said.
"The campers that were to go were Thalia and Grover.", Chiron continued.
"What? Why Thalia? She's been a tree for how long? Not to mention Percy has much more experience on quests and fighting monsters in general.", I said defending my bro.
"Grover had given up his place for Percy. And in Phoebe's place she recommended you." Chiron finished with a cocked eyebrow. Zoe's face was still stout.
"Whhaaaat.", was all I said.
"Your pet will help us track her as well and your skill and wings will provide a distinct advantage.", I felt as if this wasn't as thought out as she made it appear to be. I had a dreamless sleep last night, could she say the same?
"Well fine with me, but I need to get ready.", was all I said before leaving the Big house with a crooked smile on my face as I made plans.
LINE BREAK - Pokemon Go is so cool I caught a pikachu and pidgeot in the same day xd
I stood in the Hephaestus Cabin with the Stolls on my left and Beckendorf on my right.
"Did you get the package?", I asked Travis as he smiled mischievously, bumping Connor's shoulder as Connor jumped and nodded putting a large black case on the table.
I opened it up to reveal a beautiful AR-15 with a variety of attachments. "Fresh off the black market.", was all Beckendorf said before picking up one of several ammo containers off of the floor and placing it on the table. He opened it up and took a bullet out, on the tip of the bullet was a small dot, it was Celestial bronze smelted onto the tip of every single bullet. Sure it wasn't aerodynamic, but it didn't matter when most of my targets would be up close and big. All it took was one Celestial bronze sword to make several thousand bullets. And we quickly replaced the sword in the armory with a fake, it was an iron sword painted bronze, except the edge was made of Celestial bronze so it would work nevertheless. It was honestly kind of wasteful that they used such a rare material for the WHOLE sword when they could just make the edges of the blade.
I took the AR-15 and equipped a silencer, ACOG scope, PEQ-15 laser attachment, Forward grip, and Tactical Flashlight.
"It's beautiful.", Connor said almost drooling.
"And it's mine,", I reinforced with a glare at him as both Stolls nodded eyeing the bullets hoping to not have one of those inside of them one day.
LINE BREAK - im trying to play clash royal rn writing at 1230 is great. -erika
"Are we all ready?" Zoe said looking around, Percy had some chest armor, Bianca was in her hunter outfit, Thalia in her goth clothes and chest armor, and they all just looked at me as I was in black pants, black shoes, a white formal shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a tie, and a black kevlar vest. It was partially for the protection/mobility I had in this clothing. But I'll be honest i did it for the cosmetic, I was trying to look like an FBI agent or Secret Service look and I think I nailed it. Except for the giant ice blue wings protruding from my back.
"What?" I said as Silver came up panting and they all shook their heads. We walked down the hill to the van and everyone got in the car except Percy and I. Percy was just curious as to what I was doing when Argus popped the trunk and I placed my two black cases inside.
"What's that?", Percy asked, I popped them both open and Percy just smiled and nodded at me. I nodded back taking the P99 and placing it in my holster leaving its attachments in the case. Closing everything I got into the van shotgun, pushing the seat back as far as it could go without hurting Percy who was behind me, folding my wings as tight as I could I sat down. Getting ready for a long adventure.
A/N wing changes are different just use your imagination. I might draw a picture but probably not as my drawing sucks I'm very tired but here you go a 2 chapter burst in one day oh god it's 1 in the morning what am I doing.
