Hey readers, sorry about the long wait but I'm proud to say chapter six is here and it has a guest appearance by youtuber, fellow Demigod and Daughter of Apollo Hayden Daviau ( channel/UC7j5khYKbDo4HRUt9Rlcq7Q) and I'd like to thank here for letting me use Her as a character in this story so please go and check out her channel.
Chapter 6: I become a Monster Hunter
It had been a day or so since I got Rebellion and officially learned I had the potential to get taken over by my Primordial dad Tartarus. Yeah, not the greatest way to start off my summer vacation, I know.
Though the good news was I finally got enough street credit after beating three demigods all at once, which made the Aries cabin finally stopped messing with me. So that's a plus I guess.
Not to mention lately I've been hanging out with Percy and his friends, who were actually not half bad, except this little punk Nico, I don't know why but that kid gives me the heeby jeebies.
But I think the best part of camp so far is this thing the Apollo cabin is doing, I think it's called "Demigod coffee time" or something like that. It's where everyone gives their own coffee (or just regular drink) recipes and the Apollo cabin helps make enough for the whole camp to try.
And so far? All of them seem great, except one made by Mr. D, that guy honestly couldn't make a good drink if the instructions on how to do were shoved up his ass.
If I had to pick a favorite though, I'd have to say that the Poseidon Shakarotto was probably a good contender, either that or one of the Aphrodite drinks, I dunno I'm not a coffee aficionado.
Anyway, so it's my turn to lend a recipe this week and I honestly had something in mind but I wasn't sure if I should use it, so I went to see Grover Underwood and Gabe, the two satyrs ate pretty much anything, so using them as test subjec-I mean taste testers would be a safe bet.
The recipe I had in mind was one that my foster mom showed me, and since she was a professional barista, she knew what she was doing. The name of the drink was called the Dark chocolate mint KitKat mocha. This was my favorite because it had my favorite candy (KitKat), and flavor (mint) in it.
The person helping me with the coffee was a daughter of Apollo, Hayden, real nice girl, she had short hair that she had dyed red combed over to one side, fair skin and either brown or hazel eyes, I can't really tell.
"Okay so what will we need for this drink?" Hayden asked. To my knowledge she was from Canada, so she said it with a small bit of an accent, or maybe it's just me from being raised in New York.
I took out a list of ingredients I had in my bag earlier from my back pocket. "Let's see...two oz. of espresso, some warmed whole or 2% milk (depending on preference), a point five oz. of dark chocolate syrup, half a teaspoon of mint extract, whipped cream and crumbled Mint KitKats." I listed.
Hayden nodded and started rummaging around. "Peppermint, green, or Spearmint?" She asked.
"Green." I answered, recalling what my foster mom told me. "Peppermint is for Christmas, spearmint is way too strong."
Hayden nodded as she pulled things out, not even breaking her concentration. Which was saying something since given that, like all of us, she had ADHD.
Once we got all the things we needed, I started walking Hayden through making it. "Okay first you wanna line the mug with the chocolate syrup." I instructed. She did so and added the syrup to the bottom of two mugs.
"Next we measure out the espresso." I added, which she did, making sure she tamped it down, and making two sets for both Satyrs. "And now we add the espresso to the mugs, then stir."
Hayden stirred the espresso in, making sure it was nice and mixed up. Then she pulled out the mint extract. Which I told her to add to it and stir. After this we took the milk that we had been heating and added it, creating some frothy leaf art on the surface of the drink, and finally we added the crumbled KitKat pieces.
The Apollo daughter handed the two satyrs their cups as they started drinking it. I waited as I saw Grover straight up chugged the sucker.
Gabe was a little more liberal about it, since he had had this before, he knew the best way to enjoy it was savoring it.
"So?" I asked.
Grover spoke first. "Dude that was unbehhhlievable!" He bleeted.
"Yeah, almost identical to Mrs. Peterman's." Gabe added.
I smirked. "Yeah, one of the perks of having a barista as a foster mom I guess." I chuckled.
Hayden made sure to copy the ingredients for the drink for the coffee tasting tonight, so I left to go see into the woods to kill time.
And to do that I decided to keep training, just my regular routine,three hundred pushups, two hundred sit ups, four hundred jumping jacks, five hundred chin ups, a hundred one handed handstand push ups (on each hand), fifty upside down crunches and two hundred squats.
Only difference now that I'm at camp, is that now some nymphs and dryads decided to sit on me while I do some of these exercises, now that may not seem like much, but that added weight causes my routine to be just as hard as if I doubled the amount I do.
But honestly? It really helped me get way more ripped than I was before, and I could feel myself just keep getting stronger. Not to mention it made it way easier to do the second part of my new routine, testing out my powers.
So far I can deflect, absorb, and smother the godly energy or powers of the miner demigods, and well as reflect any enhanced physical attacks and power charged long range attacks if I'm wielding Rebellion. But other than that I don't really have much else. Except maybe being able to absorb the life force of monsters, but that's only against the monsters so that's not too useful.
So I decided to keep trying to experiment, and I eventually learned something else I'm able to do, Darkness manipulation.
This allows me to basically use my own darkness and use it to do a lot, like use it as sort of armor, swallow anything I want, and when I have Rebellion with me I make duplicates of both it and myself.
Right now I was testing one of those skills out. "Alright, Blackout!" I said, using my darkness to swallow up a bolder in front of me, then I clenched my fist as the darkness closed around it and slowly start causing it to slowly get smaller until it disappeared, leaving a crater.
I smirked as I wiped my brow with a towel I brought and draped it over my shoulders and around my neck, I wasn't wearing a shirt right now so I was pretty sweaty. As I dried myself off I heard a snap from behind me.
Monsters were pretty common around here in the woods, at least the small ones. I turned in the direction of the noise and saw that it was Hellhound, and not one of the friendly ones.
"Ah For the love of-" I said as the dog pounced towards me, and I got Suppressor out and swatted it away like a fly with a clean blow to the head.
I knew that this thing isn't going down without a fight, and in the woods he had the advantage, so I high tailed it to the camp, and I burst through the woods and onto the capture the flag fields with the hound hot on my heels.
I ran and vaulted over a picnic table and narrowly getting my ass getting bitten off by the dog, and then pushed past everyone in my way.
"Out of my way, I got a hellhound on my ass!" I yelled as I got it towards the fighting pit. I turned and faced it, then I activated my new skill. "Blade double!" I yelled as I pulled out Rebellion and created seven copies of it.
The hellhound leaped into the air and he was right where I wanted him, so I sent the blades flying towards it and it was skewered seven different ways before it fell to the ground and turned to dust. Then it's life force went into my lungs.
"Heh." I chuckled.
Everyone then came towards me. "Dude! That was awesome!" Connor stole said.
"Yeah! You're like a monster hunter!" His brother added.
I heard that and smirked. "Yeah I guess I am."
After that fiasco we all sat down to s'mores and coffee later that night at the campfire, and my coffee concoction was a huge success, hell even the Aphrodite cabin (who are pretty picky) liked it. That made me really glad.
But my mind kept drifting back to what the Stoll brothers said as I ate my third s'more and sang along as we sung the camp song. Me, a monster hunter?...That actually sounded pretty cool. I liked the sound of that.