Chapter 22: Hunters, Egyptian gods and Kanes oh my! Part 2
I sat next to Nico as he looked at me and sheathed her sword. "What?" He asked, not looking happy that I interrupted him.
"Wow, you're snappy aren't you?" I said. "I need you to come with me to Brooklyn to investigate a disturbance."
"Why do you need me?" He asked.
"Everyone else is either busy, or on break." I told him. "Besides, your shadow travel will make things way easy."
Nico was quiet for a moment before he got up and sheathed his sword. "Aw, what the hell I don't have anything better to do anyway."
I smiled as I got up. "Good, we'll leave as soon as you and Reyna get ready." I left him to get ready, so I went to the armory where I walked up to Leo who was also packing up to go with Jason and Piper. "Hey Valdez."
Leo looked at me. "Yeah?"
"You got the weapons I ordered?" I asked, the guy nodded as he walked to the back and came back with a box. I opened the box as I saw a set of several Celestial bronze throwing knives, an imperial gold spear-sword coin, a Stygian iron bladed whip, and lastly a set of two Tartarus Silver knuckles.
"The knuckle dusters were the hardest to make, what with Tartarus silver being so rare and hard to control." Leo told me.
"Awesome, Thanks." I said as I took the box back with me to the Poseidon cabin.
I then proceeded to change clothes. I pulled off my old camp shirt and put on a new one I had just gotten the day before which had the sleeves removed, then I put on a pair of gray synthetic cargo pants, my favorite sneakers and then I strapped the whip to my left side, the knives across my chest, the coin in my pocket, and the knuckles in a holder on the back of my belt.
I walked outside as I saw Reyna was waiting for me. "You ready?" She asked, then she noticed my new weapons. "Is that, a Stygian iron whip?"
I nodded. "Just got it special ordered from Leo." She seemed pretty impressed with it, because she kept looking at it as we went to the camp entrance where Nico was waiting.
"What took you so long?" Nico asked.
"Had to get my new gear." I said. "Alright Nico, think you can get us to Brooklyn?"
"Course I can." The guy said as he got in the shadow of the camp's wall, then we all joined hands and we were surrounded by darkness for a minute or two before we appeared in the middle of the city.
I looked around and I noticed a lot of familiar landmarks, in particular, the east river we were definitely in Brooklyn now. The wind was cold, it had been several months since I came to Camp Half Blood, now we were in the latter part of December and the weather was cold. But since the Camp was surrounded by protective barrier we never really had to wear anything really warm, big mistake on my part.
Reyna noticed how cold I was and gave me a jacket she had with her. "Thanks." I told her with a smile. She smiled as she also put one on, Nico already had on a jacket. We started to walk around while I tried to use my powers to sense around for any kind of godly or monster energy. For a few minutes I got nothing but then as we neared an old scrapyard, I felt a hit, two monsters and what felt to be a god.
"This way!" I called as we bolted to the source, as we approached the epicenter of the energy, sure enough there were two monsters, but not ones I had seen before, and what seemed to be a goddess. They were in front of two kids in what looked to be Egyptian linens."Whoa." I said as I stood there.
The monsters were like nothing I had seen before, they were the size of oversized leopards, with the same body and head as a leopard, but they had the necks of snakes. The goddess with the kids looked small and agile, like a gymnast, with black hair, lamp-like yellow eyes, and wears a skin-tight leopard-print leotard.
I pulled out my Tartarus silver knuckle dusters and slipped them on. "You guys go to the goddess and those kids." I told Nico and Reyna. "I'll handle the monsters." I said this as I charged forward, my arm drawn back.
(Sadie Kane's POV)
I watched as my cat had just turned into some sort of cat woman and made two knives come from her sleeves. I watched as she and the creatures stood off, but before they could do anything, a boy came out of nowhere, colliding his fist with the first Serpard's jaw, instantly shattering it.
The beast shrieked in pain as it's jaw hung open. The boy hopped in place as he shadow boxed, showing that he had on some odd silver knuckle dusters.
"Whoo! That's what I'm talking about boi! Don't you mess with a Son of Tartarus!" He cheered. He was jumping around as the second creature lunged at him and he dodged, flipping over its head and whipped out a black metal bladed whip, which he used to wrap around the creature's neck and sliced its head clean off.
The monster disappeared and the dust it left behind swirled into the boy's hand and formed a black pyramid the size of a marble with a red core. He put it in a bag that hung from his belt. The second monster tried to attack but the boy didn't even look as he threw a bronze colored knife into the creature's gaping mouth that stuck out of the other side of its head.
The same thing happened with the other monster. After the boy put away his weapons and turned to us. "Yo! You guys okay?" He asked in a clear accent.
Muffin, or Bast now I guess, got in front of us and stood between him and us. "Who are you?" She asked.
The boy backed off raising his hands in surrender. "Whoa there, easy. Lady, I'm on your side." He said, as he turned to his right as two more kids came running up. One was a girl and the other a boy.
The blonde headed boy sighed as he tried to relax. "Took you guys long enough." He snapped at the shorter boy who looked pail and in need of a bloody nap.
"Don't blame me." The kid said.
The other boy rolled his eyes as he turned to us. "I'm Nigel Jager, Son of Tartarus. This is Nico, the Son of Hades, and my girlfriend Reyna RamÃrez-Arellano, daughter of Bellona."
My brother Carter's eyes widened in surprise. "Wait, those are all Greek and Roman gods." I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Those are real too?!" I said in shock.
Nigel chuckled. "Trust me I was just as surprised as you were when I found out that the Egyptian gods were also real." He then turned to where the mansion. "What in the name of Hades is that?"
We all turned and saw that there was four copper men in kilts carrying a sarcophagus of some sort, and the mansion was on fire. Nigel twirled the silver bracelet he had on and it turned into a double headed spear with one end was a harpoon end and the second was like an Ax head.
He charged the men as they came towards us, then Reyna and Nico had us follow them. "Wait, don't you think we should help him?" I asked.
"Nigel is our resident monster hunter, he'll be fine. Come on!" She said as we ran and Bast directed us where to go.
(Nigel's POV)
I swung Suppressor around as I slashed the copper men apart as if they were play dough. But the thing was, they just kept rebuilding themselves. I let my power course through my staff and I swung it's ax end around.
"Critical Slash!" I yelled as I cleaved them in half. After that I put away Suppressor and brought out my new whip, which I call Whiplash. Then I waved it around and sliced the men into tiny chunks. They then dissolved into sand, I wasn't able to add them to my collection.
I knew that the others were probably gone by this point so I tried zeroing in on where Reyna's unique Demigod energy signature was, once I lock onto it I activated my Assault Mode and allowed my power to lead me to where they were.
(Carter Kane's POV)
I stood there frozen in fear as Bast, who had activated some sort of battle magic from, Sadie who was trying and failing to open a portal and the two Demigods Reyna and Nico were trying to fight off a scorpion woman who was attacking us.
I drew the sword I took as I tried to move to help them when Nico suddenly stabbed his sword into the ground and several skeletons came up from the ground, kicking and stomping away at the Scorpions. I slashed and slashed my sword as well but there were just too many.
Bast and Reyna didn't look so good either, the Scorpion woman who was controlling the bugs was walking towards them as Bast's battle form disappeared and the two jumped back. It seemed like we were goners when suddenly.
CRASH!
A huge shadowy clawed hand slammed down on the Scorpions and squashed most of them. Following the hand landed Nigel, who's right side was now a dark black-purple and an odd symbol was on his forehead. He smirked as he flexed his hand.
"Gods of Olympus I love Assault Mode." He said as he faced the woman in the brown robes. "So this is an Egyptian god huh? She doesn't look so tough."
The Scorpion woman looked like she was being cautious around him as his hand suddenly took the same giant clawed form again. He swung it at her as another huge portion of her big army was sent flying. The woman backed up and looked angry.
Nigel looked back at Nico, the eye that was on the side that was covered in darkness looking cloudy. "Nico, think you can shadow travel us to camp yet?"
"Not yet! I need a little more time!" Nico said. The other boy nodded and turned back to the Scorpion woman.
"Go find somewhere safe then, I'll handle this bitch." Nigel said as his hand returned to normal shape and he drew out a purple, very short, and vaguely S shaped sword with a fan shaped guard from a pocket of darkness in his chest. He brandished it and smirked.
Nico nodded as he grabbed me and I grabbed Sadie as Bast was grabbed by Reyna as we ran, Bast directed us to a museum and told us to go in. As we did I wondered if Nigel would be okay.
(Nigel's POV)
I looked at the woman with the Scorpion on her head as I brandished Rebellion, I could sense that she was radiating godly energy, which made me a little nervous, but not much. Ever since my dad had possessed me my power ceiling had gone way up, if I was using a weapon like Rebellion or Suppressor, or in my Assault Mode I was able to hold my own against a god or at least I hoped so, I hadn't tested that theory yet.
But I was too giddy be scared, I waited for the woman to attack, and she did by turning her hand into a giant pencer and swiping at me, I used full counter to send it right back at her which made her stumble back, I then tossed my sword in the air and made my arm a big claw again, smacking her into a tree.
The woman tried to get up but I slammed my enlarged palm into her and knocked down several trees as I grasped her and hurled her across the park. With her dealt with I caught Rebellion and deactivated Assault Mode. Which made my knees feel wobbly.
Another thing about my new skills. They longer I may have stronger abilities, but I can only use them for a certain amount of time for a certain amount of times before my body starts to give out. Right now I was reaching my limit after using Assault Mode three times in a row today.
I started running towards where the others had gone. I only hoped and prayed to every god in Olympus that they were still okay.