Leo POV
After we left Olympus we rode back to camp half-blood in silence. I can tell you that is a new record for me.
When we stepped past the border a crowd of people were waiting and they started asking so many questions. Like what was Olympus like for those that have not been there before, and many more along those lines.
"Where is Natsu?" Annabeth asked and the whole camp went silent wondering the same thing.
"Ares challenged Natsu to a fight tomorrow in the grand arena and Zeus said if anyone would like to go see the fight they were welcome" Jason said with a heavy tone knowing it was probably going to not end well for Natsu; facing a god is not an easy thing to do. Ok, ok I know Percy has fought Ares and won but still it was hard and Ares was not in his right mind at the time so I guess he was not at full power. The campers looked at us as if we were insane.
"W-wha-what?" Annabeth stuttered looking at Percy as if he would deny it.
"Yeah it's true."
"He's insane. Why would he do that, does he know nothing? Actually, don't answer that, but why didn't you stop him?"
"I wasn't going to get in between Ares and a fight. Besides it wasn't my choice, or any of ours," Percy said. He remained calm and cool while talking to Annabeth. How he can just say something like as if it happens every day, I have no clue. I understand why he's such a great leader.
"We should go tell Chiron." Jason stated and Percy just nodded. The campers started going back to their activities as we made our way to the big house.
The meeting was pretty boring just talking about what happened in Olympus and what we should do. After the three of us had finished talking with Chiron he decided to have a meeting with all the councilors to pick who would be going to the fight tomorrow and who would stay to defend camp and continue training.
The Stoll's and Will were here first followed by Annabeth, Nico etc. Once we were all settled around the ping pong table we started up the meeting.
"So who will be going to the fight tomorrow?" Chiron asked getting right down to business. As usual.
"I think the head counselors should go to find out his strengths and weaknesses. We could figure out what to do with him." Percy said calmly as if he'd been planning this all day.
"Percy I really think Annabeth is starting to rub off on you." I said lightly punching him in the shoulder.
"And this a bad thing?" Annabeth said looking at me from across Percy.
"We should get back to the topic at hand… before you two start fighting. Again." Jason said the last part after a little thought.
"Right I believe that Percy's plan will work but we should also include Reyna."
"Very well it's decided then."
A little while later we ate dinner and had the camp fire.
That night I had another strange dream. It looked more like the past rather than the future.
Dream
I woke up in what seemed to be a battle field. I could hear fights and explosions coming from everywhere.
"Look out!" I heard someone yell from behind me. Suddenly there was an explosion right next to me. When I tried to duck, I realized I couldn't move. I could feel a presence next to me dark but not dangerous.
"Don't move nothing can hurt you just watch you are nothing but a ghost to them this is the past they won't see you." he said slightly solemn.
"Who are you?" I asked. Trying to turn to see who it was.
"Shh just watch." said the voice
I stayed silent and watched what was going on. People were screaming while running away from something. There were people fighting. I could swear that the things the people were fighting were dragons. fire and the presents of death hung in the air. That is when a huge red scaled dragon landed right in fount him.
"Come out dark wizard I know you are there."said the dragon
"Well if it isn't Igneel himself come to take what is mine." Asked a man dressed in black with black hair and a depressed look on his face, he was average height, thin and he had unsettling red eyes that seemed to look right thought him.
"You're so called little brother that you turned into a demon just because you can't handle his death, you through the world into chaos, you cursed yourself just to see your brother again!"the dragon said as the heat in the air started rising.
"Natsu will change the world he did not have to die."
"There are something in this world that you cannot change or conquer. He died you're supposed to deal with it. Life and death is a natural occurrence in this world you cannot prevent death. And now the only way one can die is if your brother who you have also managed to curse kills you. Now give him to me!"the dragon Igneel (is that the Igneel that is Natsu's Father) said raising his voice towards the end.
"No you can't take him from me again!"
"E.N.D is too dangerous to be left alone especially untrained-…."
And then. Nothing but black.
End dream
I was a little upset that it cut out before I could discover what happened next. I wish I could've heard what Igneel was going to say next or if the kid was going to give the dragon Natsu. Could that have really been the same Natsu that crashed in the forest? What just happened did that really happen? If so is Natsu really a demon? Ugh what do I do? Should I tell the others about my dream, or should I ask Natsu about it? My thoughts were interrupted with someone shaking me awake.
"Come on Leo it is time to awake up, don't you have a fight to go see today?" a girl named Nyssa. She was tall girl with dark brown hair tied up in a bandana
"Ok ok I'm up I'm up." I said as we walked to breakfast.
After breakfast, we meet up with Chiron to wait for the god to come and 'collect' us. Apollo showed up to the gathered up the group going to see the fight.
"What's up guys, I am guessing this is the group that is going to the fight" Apollo asked Chiron
"Indeed, they are Apollo I trust you to take care of them while in Olympus." Chiron said with no emotion in his voice.
"Yeah yeah they will be fine they are only going to see a short fight between Ares and the pink haired kid." Apollo said never dropping his smile "Ok kids lets go I want to get this over with because honestly I don't like changing my ride."
"This is so cool we get to ride in Apollo's sun thing." I said with a big smile and my usual enthusiastic tone. When the group came to a red hot Ferrari.
"How are we all going to fit into that little car?" Frank ask doubting Apollo method on getting them all to Olympus.
"No of course not that is why I need to change it. Percy you remember riding in my awesome ride right?"
"Sure whatever you say Apollo." Percy said in a sarcastic tone.
"I know you thought it was cool."
"Uh huh"
"Dude you got to ride in Apollo's chariot! Why didn't you tell me?" I whined.
"Well a) we were sort of busy, b) never really came up and c) you never asked."
"Can't argue with that"
"Let's go" we all piled into Apollo's chariot/van and took a blast off into the sky strait to Olympus.
Once we landed we were met with some of the gods and of course Natsu who did not seem worried at all that he is going to be fighting the god of war, no he just had that goofy grin of his.
"Yo guys what's going on?" Natsu said running to us waving his hand in the air.
"Well you don't seem worried to be fighting the god of war." Will Said with a sarcastic tone but smiling all the same.
"Yeah don't you think you should be a little worried?" asked Hazel
"No not really I think that this will be a fun and challenging fight." Natsu said still with that grin on his face.
"You have to be the dumbest person on the planet not to be afraid of fighting a god. They are the most powerful beings on the planet." Clarisse said with a smirk on her face, probably thinking of Natsu' doom. Poor guy. And thinking that there were going to be another fight between the two. But Natsu never lost his smile but now there was a slight change in it... Something darker.
"Well I guess you never fought a dragon or an army of demons." Natsu said
"You fought a dragon, like an actual dragon?" said a shocked Frank
"And what do you mean by demons?" ask the ever-quiet Nico
"Exactly what it sounds like dragon and demons I will tell you guys later but right now I have a fight to win." Exclaimed an existed Natsu.
"Yeah as if." Clarisse said as we followed behind Apollo as he led us to the arena where the fight is going to take place.
I'm actually really excited to see this. I'm practically bouncing up and down like a little kid on Christmas.
In the arena sat on one side the gods and the other the 21 demigods that came to the fight and mix in with some nymphs and other creatures that heard about the fight.
"Attention everyone! We are here today to see a probably short fight between Ares the god of war and Natsu Dragneel son of Igneel!" a voice said quieting the crowed, as the mysterious announcer said their names they walked in to the arena at opposite ends. Ares was wearing full battle armor and his regular weapon the sword and spear. Natsu on the other hand was not wearing any amour just a red t-shirt and black jeans he had no weapon in his hands and a grin on his face. The crowd were speaking to themselves as to why Natsu did not have any weapon or amour, did he have a death wish or something and more stuff like that.
"What is he doing he does not have anything to defend himself? Did he think that fighting a god was going to be easy?" asked Katie looking a little worried that Natsu was going to get himself killed.
"I think Natsu knows what he is doing." I said trying to keep the worry out of my voice of fear that I might lose my new friend.
"Quiet the fight is about to start." Said a random nymph sitting near us. I turned to look into the arena and saw Ares and Natsu in their battle stances ready to start.
"I'll finish this quickly, watch out pinky" Ares said as his power started rising. All he got was a toothy grin from Natsu.
"Ready, set… GO!"
Ares charged Natsu right off the bat spear ready to impale Natsu.
"move Natsu move" I screamed at the top of my lungs hoping he heard me but he still did not move and when Ares got into range Natsu did something I did not think possible he grabbed Ares's spear with amazing speed and broke the spear in half with a single blow of his hand, shrapnel and rocks when flying everywhere form the force. Ares eyes widened and he jumped back to avoid a punch to the stomach, shock written all over his face.
"How did you do that?" asked Ares
"What do you mean I just punched it and it broke, don't tell me this is all the god of war has?" Natsu said walking out of the dust cloud with a frown on his face. Easy to say that got Ares mad as he took out his sword and charged Natsu again.
He increased his speed and this time through Natsu a couple feet backward, but Natsu landed on his feet and said "ok you had your hits now it is my turn!" and before Ares could react Natsu disappeared and in a second he reappeared in front of Ares throwing flaming fist into Ares's stomach resulting in Ares fighting backward. The arena was silent in shock that a kid managed to land a hit on Ares plus braking one of his most powerful weapons. Ares got back to his feet laughing which further shocked the crowed.
"You are stronger than I thought this is going to be a fun fight!"
"Same this will be a fun fight when you stop underestimating me." Exclaimed Natsu. Ares started to release suffocating amounts of power Natsu smiled and started to do the same thing, flames erupted around Natsu's body and all you could see inside the flames were his dark silhouette and glowing red eyes the sent chills up my spine.
Giving a battle cry Ares charged Natsu for the third time. Sword ready for a strike that would kill. Natsu squatted down smiling. However, what was unnerving was the look in his eyes. It was almost the same as when Percy would fight enemies he knew there was a slim chance at beating. It had that sort of evil glint to it as well.
Just as they were about to make contact Natsu stepped in close twisting so the sword wouldn't hit him and kicked Ares. Ares swung back toward himself trying to slice Natsu in half only for it to be intercepted by his forearm.
Natsu managed to twist his arm causing Ares to drop the sword. Then continuing to kick it across the arena so Ares couldn't grab it.
"Now we're even" Natsu said causing Ares to growl out of frustration. Swinging his legs out Ares managed to knock Natsu off his feet but both were up again in the blink of an eye at a standoff.
Lighting his fist on fire this time Natsu was the one that charged…
