Chapter 23

POV Omnipotent (me)

Meanwhile, as the demigods settle into life at Camp Half-Blood, a certain someone stands watching. Time shifts strangely around them, a sort of constant pulse in the air. They know they must be patient, however they are tired of waiting it's been many years since they saw the potential, and they wanted it realized. They smile as a new plan forms, a little push of sorts to get things moving, of course it will take some, haggling, but oh the reward will be worth it.

POV Percy

You know that feeling when your whole body shudders and a chill goes down your spine? Commonly called someone walking over your grave? Yes well, imagine that times ten and add in a super creepy element and that's what I am dealing with currently. See Leo ate something funny that apparently some boys from the Hermes cabin gave him, some twins or something. Leo kept going on and on about how good it was and offered me and Nico some, luckily Bianca was out at the camps Big House talking to Chiron about getting a personal training ground for me and Leo. She's cool like that. Anyways, me and Nico wary as it is, decide we'll try it together and if we all die at least we die together. Gotta stay positive right?

Flash forward about six hours later when a huge pillar of FIRE blows up the training field, almost incinerating me.

Que Leo and his panicked screaming as he can't turn it off and I can't put it out. Of course everyone comes running but at that point i'm already coating myself in a inch of water and sprinting towards the fire. I'd shadow travel in but, with the fire there wasn't much for shadows. I whistle for Ms.O'Leary, by now all the campers know that means my one ton Hellhound will come bounding through the camp and moved aside appropriately. I finally make it to Leo he's still screaming, not because it hurts or anything,but I can see the fear in his eyes, as his are blaze. His eyes are a fiery orange, not the coffee brown i'm used to.

"LEO! BREATHE!" I scream over him, my water is evaporating quickly so close to him, Ms.O'Leary whose fur is immune to flames strides over to us her gigantic head tilted in a question like, "why is Leo burning?" I can hear distant campers screaming and the sound of water being thrown on fire. Finally Leo stops screaming, but he holds his head tightly nearly ripping out his hair as he sobs, he's terrified, absolutely terrified he'll hurt someone, kill someone. Like he thinks he killed his mom. I brace myself for pain because I know there's no way i'm coming out of this without a few burns, and I crouch behind him, pulling his flaming body into my arms, evaporating the rest of my water and searing my skin. I let out a pained whimper.

Leo jolts, gasping, his head whips around. Realizing i'm here he try's to pull away panicking because he's BURNING me. Finally he stops struggling and cries harder , his flames die down, but as the flames simmer, he changes, I watch as a pair of, dare I say it wings erupted from his back. The white and grey downy feathers covered in blood and as his eyes opened in shock and pain I notice the orange eye color stayed. Then he collapsed. Quick as lightning all fire ceased to exist, smoke curled from the scarred ground, and looking down, my mangled arms and chest. I cradle Leo to me protectively as campers and Chiron come running.

"By the Gods... What happened?" Chiron mumbled. "Are those, wings?" a camper whispers. I clutch l Leo tighter and wince in pain. Apollo. Help. Loud cursing and a lot of shoving and Nico comes barreling to the front shortly followed by Bianca. He stops short seeing Leo and then hurries to my side, quietly asking if I need anything. Water was all I could think of, nodding he shadow traveled away in Ms.O'Leary's shadow. Bianca knelt by me asking if she could try to stop Leo's bleeding as the wings had ripped a rather gruesome hole in his campers shifted closer, men men men men men, I shifted uncomfortably but Leo was my priority not my broken psyche.

I nodded and Nico returned, a little pale, from exerting his newfound powers but ok. I quickly downed some, my deeper wounds healing almost instantly, and asked Nico to pour some on my chest and arms. Confused he did it anyways and watched in amazement as almost all my wounds healed with minimal scarring. Then I took the water and chugged the rest, feeling better I called again, Apollo HELP. A flash and he was there throwing campers in his haste to get to us because of course he would flash to the wrong end of the field. After a lot of mutters and angry glowing and a few well placed poems that were somehow insults he arrived, took one look at Leo and paled.

"What did you eat?" He asked me. I'll admit I was expecting quite a few questions to Leo's newfound appendages, however what we ate did not in fact come to mind.

"Huh?" I ask.

"It would have been a few hours ago, something strange looking who gave it to Leo, oh gods, did you eat it too?!" He rounded on me,

"Uh well Leo got something from a camper and said it tasted super good and so me and Nico agreed to try it. Why?" He groaned and slammed his face into his hand.

"Wait am I gonna catch fire and sprout wings too?!" I shoot Nico a look and he stares at Leo in fear and shock. "I don't wanna catch fire." I hear him mumble. Bianca grabs his hand,

"Look how long after Leo did you guys eat it?" Apollo demands, "Uhh what maybe fifteen minutes?" I look for Nico for confirmation, "Yeah, about that time, because he had to find us right? He was like on the other side of camp picking up some stuff for us."

"Stuff?" Chiron asked,

"Yea, Leo realized none of us had seen like any movies like ever really and decided we needed a movie education, starting with, what was it Didney?" Nico looks to me his nose scrunched up and his freckles standing out on his pale face, his hair disheveled and his eyes a pretty purple... wait.

"Uhh Nico.. your eyes." He blinks in confusion as Apollo quickly grabs his face,

"hmm it's starting, Percy-..." he stops. "Oh." I cock my head why was everyone staring at me? Oh gods, eyes, so many eyes... I squeeze mine shut and think back to my last breakfast with my family. The laughter and banter, knives being thrown and bragging about monster kills. My heart rate slows. I open my eyes and suddenly, Apollo. I screech and fling myself backwards because, TOO CLOSE.

"You too Percy." He holds up a mirror, where he got it I doubt i'll ever know. Staring back at me were shockingly vivid green eyes, with a blue ring around the center, glowing an almost neon light. It was both terrifying and stunning.

"Oh... So, what happens next? Do we catch fire and sprout wings too?" I whisper.

"No, your powers go haywire, and then you, well, you gain a few more of your godly parent's aspects..."

"What?" "I'm taking Leo by the way." He flashed him out of my hands, now empty I felt cold. Nico slides closer,

"So, what do we do?" Shadows are starting to gather around him, making him look like he was the only one standing in the shade.

"Nothing, I can't do anything but heal you when it's over." He shrugged like it was a minor problem. Water started to gather in the air around me like a mist, and clouds started forming overhead.

"Uhh, Apollo?" I whimpered.

"Shh, it's gonna be alright you two, EVERYONE STEP BACK! AT LEAST A HUNDRED FEET!"

"Yea totally fine." Nico whispered to me as Chiron scrambled to get everyone back. "Just breathe you two, you'll be fine, probably."

"Probably!?" Nico screeched. Cracks formed in the ground and an eerie green glow emanated from within the earth,

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" A camper screamed. Nico was trembling, so was Chiron and Apollo, or wait no, the ground was shaking. Apollo was looking right at me, I guess that's my doing. Skeletons start pouring from the earth all clamoring around Nico and I. Wind and rain whip around me a mini maelstrom surrounds us, we're both panicking shaking and panting, our faces pale and eyes glowing. Nico holds out his hand, his eyes pleading, hesitating I slowly reach my hand into his. He squeezes it and I return it. Quick as the master bolt, he drags me into a hug and the vortex around us spins faster and harder the shadows licking at us, and then came the pain.

Nico screamed bloody murder and I could hear my own whimpered cry of pain, barely loud enough for Nico to hear. Our bodies shifted, we both seemed to get taller, from my hips down seemed to elongate and grow, I watched as bony protrusions erupted from Nico's skull, blood pouring as they grew rapidly curling to form rams horns, black as pitch. I chanced a glance at my own body and nearly screamed, my legs had grown scales and hooves, and I was growing a large fishy behind. Nico's own feet were hooved and in the back of my mind I wondered whether Leo had bird feet? Then my weird legs crumpled as they could no longer hold me up, Nico collapsed beside me, our hands still entwined and our muscles spasming. The wind and rain died down, the skeletons crumbled to dust and the shadows receded. Leaving us gasping for air, shivering uncontrollably as Bianca and Apollo rushed to our sides.

The last thing I remember thinking was,

"my hand is warm."

AN:

Whoop ya super fast update! And WHATS THIS 200 FOLLOWERS? HOLY SHIT.

Ok so, don't panic, they probably won't stay that way, but I needed to change some shit up for a little idea I had to move my story on. Because really how many times can I go over their schedule at camp before I bore you all to death?

Anyways, in case you were wondering they have gained their godly parents animal aspects. And Yes there is a cure. Of course getting it is a whole nother chapter. That's why Apollo isn't freaking out that much. I also decided not to have Bianca get he animal abnormalities for REASONS I can't tell you quite yet.

Also! Glimpse of the bad guy\girl behind all this! YAY!

Tell me what you guys think, should this be a quick fix or should they be stuck that way a while? Your feedback matters.

Little bit of Percico in this for ya and Perleo bromance. Your welcome.

Seriously guys, I wanna know how you feel about this chapter because if you hate the idea I can justdelete it and try something else, I just had a plot bunny idea and since i'm so low on the little fuckers I decided to pursue it.

Also, What the Fuck Percy? You are in excruciating pain and you are thinking about whether or not Leo has bird feet?

Love,

Wolf