CHAPTER 28:

(PERCY)

"I can't stand it." I complained to a group of people who had me pinned down on the dirt.

"Perce, you have to... Doctors orders." Beckendorf gently dug his knee into my wings, pinning them to the ground. He had a black eye and a lump on his head, and he was taking it out on me.

"I need to be free. That place is inhuman and dangerous. I've been locked up and unconscious for so long. I want to do other things than sit around and watch people." I said and kicked Conner in the face.

"Clarrise if he doesn't hold still. Knock him out." Conner said rubbing his bruised cheek. I was about to protest, but I heard something at the borders. I stopped and lifted an ear to get a better signal.

"What is it?" Will got off me and gestured for everyone else to do the same. I recongized the sound, but this was on mass scale. The inventors were coming for me.

I was angry that they would attack my home. They were prosestent little assholes, and they were hurting my friends to get to me. I felt my wings extend in anger and imediatly burst into flames. Everyone backed up.

"Perce, what's wrong?" Travis whimpered. Before I could say anything something fell at my back. I had just enough time to move out of its path.

"So our dog has got wings. I did not expected that one." A metalic rasp rang out in all directions.

"I thought you guys were done with me." I snarled.

"No we had to move. And you got lost along the way. We have waited and now you will get your rabi shot." We were surronded and everyone of them had their body's covered in different injections and posions and potions.

They pounced on me and I barely could fight them off. Everyone else started grappiling with their own mad scientist. I was dragged out of the pile of metal snakes. I couldn't see who did it, because the snakes were on us. I quickly turned into a dog and clawed at the monsters. I felt the person right beside me. I thought it was a camper, but then I got a glimps of her ears. Her cat ears.

"I was looking for you. I'm kind of surprised your not dead." She said after slashing her claws through a dozen or so snakes.

"Yeah well, I'm glad I'm not dead too." I changed back and changed my wings, torching the front row of baddies.

"You have some other things too?" She sounded surprised.

"Yeah, not to meantion what I had before them." Smiling, I crashed gallons of water on the cyborg snake's heads. We were surronded by mounds of golden dust. The people around us (already done with their kills) just stared.

I was about to turn toward the girl, when a fallen, but not died inventor stood up. He came at me fast. The cat girl took out a sword and slashed his head off, but he had done his job. When he fell down, and just before exploding into dust. He injected one more potion into me. I howled (litterally) in pain. My vision was going fuzzy, not because it was lacking imagary. It went fuzzy, because every little detail popped out. Every inch and crumb came in to veiw and intensified ten fold. I stumbled back, and the girl caught me. She gasped when she saw my face. I could see all the three strands of hair, that was tickling her nose. I leaned on her, putting as little wieght as I could, but it didn't make a difference. Will came over and his voice boomed in my ears. And yet I could tell he was whispering.

"Just set him down. And don't breathe a word to anyone. And get a girl named Katie." She did as he asked and Will's face came into view and I had to blink a few times to stop seeing spots.

"Stop screaming." I barely said.

"That's what I thought. Look I can't do anything about your ears, but put these on." He handed me a pair of sunglasses, that had bottons and wires on the side frames. Everything wasn't as defined, but I still had better eyesight than everyone. Katie knelt at my side, with the girl behind her. She had dark brown hair, with gold streaks and stunning blue-ish yellow eyes. She smiled at me.

"So what's your name?" She laughed. I winced, because her voice vibrated my ears.

"Percy. Yours?" I tried to speak loudly, but it hurt my ears to much.

"Eclipes." She laughed and held out a hand. I took it, even though Chiron and Will protested.

"Gods." I stumbled back, my nose started to bleed. Will tisked and handed me a napkin.

"You'll get used to it. Just give it a few days." She winked. Then she saw my wings.

"No one else had ever gotten wings, or fire powers, or water powers. And we cerntianly never were able to get out of that prison. I only got out, because they left my boundarys down for to long."

"You were captured by them too?" I cursed.

"Yeah, but it is only us two. Everyone else I saw died. And I thought you were going to die. I mean you were never conscious. You would have recongized me if you were." Her face got red.

"You...you saw me?" I asked.

"Well, of coarse, they shoved you in my cell. Saddly I never saw past your eyelids." She smirked.

"How did you manage?"

"Manage what?" I was a little confussed by the sudden change in subject.

"Well, they never tortured me. All they did was make me drink the potions. Then you come in all bloody and broken. Sometimes I hear straggled screams and menacing sounds. So how did you manage?" She asked again.

"Well, I...uh... I'm a...well... Chiron?" I turned to my teacher and his eyes crackled in delight. I looked back and gasped. Above her head was a glowing dove fregruant perfume clouded my noise and numbed my mind.

"You are a demi-god as I am." I smiled and she looked up at the fading dove and almost gaged on the perfume sent.