After swimming with Agius, Sunniva headed back to her cabin to change. She took a quick shower and put on a Camp-Half-Blood sweater and black jeans and brushed her hair before putting it into a half ponytail. Sunniva walked out of her Cabin and as she walked around the camp, her mind wandered over to the prophecy.
'I wonder what's really going to happen,' she thought. 'And why is it important for a child of Apollo to be apart of this quest as well?' Sunniva was too caught up in her thoughts that she almost ran into someone. "Oh, hey Rey," she said when she realized who it was.
Rey looked at her confused before waving slightly and tucking his hand back into his jacket before he started walking away with his head down.
"So Rey… how exactly do you feel about your cousin being sent to certain death?" She asked, being blunt about it.
Rey's electric blue eyes seemingly flashed as he snapped up in her direction "What?" he asked confused and slightly concerned. She took a deep breath and told him about training and a quest that she and Agius are supposed to go on but didn't tell him about the prophecy itself. She felt he didn't need to know; not yet at least.
Rey stood there deep in thought, he wasn't about to lose his only family he could talk to, mortal or otherwise he was sure as Hades about that. "I'll go, just let me get some modifications on my staff and we'll be in business." He said with thunder booming overhead and the sky darkening. She nodded, understanding.
"Alright, I'll keep you informed." With a gruff nod, he walked away from her his hood up.
Agius stood in a creek that ran through camp's forests slashing away with his blade Sea-Shade at multiple other camper that surrounded him. This was his way of training, he was getting faster instead of slowing down and they'd been doing this for close to an hour, yet as they drew closer to the hour and Agius locked blades with the last remaining camper that had volunteered to help him prepare for his quest, he realized that he was starting to feel tired, and he fully knew that if he weren't in the water he'd be out cold by now.
"Thanks, David." He said as he disarmed the boy and placed his sword to his neck,
"Heh, ..you're welcome Agius..put the blade down please."
Agius blinked "Oh yeah right, sorry Dave." He said chuckling sheepishly,
"Yeah yeah Age, just don't go stabbing more campers and you'll be fine."David joked grinning at Agius before he walked off.
Rey awoke with his clothes tattered, luckily a clothing style similar to that was up and coming so it looked like he was into the "Fashion'. He didn't walk home sad, he was satisfied he lasted so long in Agius' domain. Then again it wasn't a smart idea to attack a child of Poseidon with a whole lake behind him. So as he walked to his cabin, he stared at his palms. Lightning flickered, more easily than before.
In a way, Rey would need to continue fighting with Agius to sharpen his skills. As he walked into his cabin, he took off his shirt and aimed his finger at a dartboard he had placed the night before.
Accuracy alone could make his powers more deadly. So he practiced every time he walked in, and every time he left. By now he could hit closer to the center, it showed tremendous progress as to the first time where he accidentally hit the other wall.
Agius walked towards the lake for a swim, walking by the Zeus cabin carefully, he didn't feel like getting smote after all. He walked past the cabin only for a voice to stop him."Rival!" Rey yelled, his voice seemed more confident this time as if he knew something Agius didn't.
"Who?" Agius questioned blinking hard, 'Who the hell is this nutjobs rival?'
Rey spoke up in the most upbeat manner possible, "Rey, Son Of Zeus" He continued. "You see, we're polar opposites, so it works out perfectly fine. Some days we'll fight by the lake. Other times we'll fight at the arena. my turf.
Agius looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "Wouldn't your turf be a few hundred feet in the air?" he questioned slightly confused.
"Anything above water and away from it is my territory," He replied quickly.
"Uh-huh…okay then, when do we start?" As this question was asked the unthinkable happened.
The forcefield preventing any monsters from entering was pierced. However, this wasn't known until Rey had been in his cabin hours later. He heard campers screaming "Monsters," The once light blue sky had turned darker a stormy grey nearly black.
Agius dashed off, towards the lake knowing he'd need the added boost it'd give him, with this many monsters. He had one thought in his mind as he ran towards the lake, 'What the hell Hades?'
Everyone was terrified except Agius, at least that's what Rey hoped. As he stepped towards a cyclops who was holding a Hermes camper by his neck, very close to eating him. Empousa and hell hounds were supposed around from what he heard from the screams, but Rey hadn't seen any.
He looked around, his mind was jumbled, he needed to clear his head. Rey closed his eyes and attempted to process what was happening. When he opened his eyes things suddenly got worse. He assumed Agius was by the lake at this point so that comforted him. In terms of numbers, the whole campfire area was damn near flooded with Cyclops. Though it could've just been their size that made it seem that way they were all massive, the size of Cabins.
Now Rey wasn't short by any means but compared to these monstrosities he was an ant. The monsters were harming this campers, his family, his asshole family, but his family nonetheless. With each scream he heard a part of him cracked. Till he found himself lifting his hands, and the cyclopes rising as he manipulated the winds. Once they realized Rey was the cause of this they attempted to swat at him effectively trying to fight the air in their attempts to hit him.
Rey then glared before stating, "You all are lucky I'm the one dealing with you and not Agius...your death will be slow. But not as slow as Agius would've made it." They raised their single bushy eyebrow when they heard Agius' name.
Rey continued to lift them until they were at least higher than most roller coasters. Once this was done he flexed his wrists and took control of his Father's domain. Lightning dropped down, it didn't look like normal lightning from storms. This lightning seemed to have a life of its own.
As the lightning came in contact with their bodies it didn't fade. In fact with each second Rey allowed it to remain the lightning became more powerful, more volatile, more vicious. When Rey knew they were little more than dissolving ash he lowered his hands in a swift manner making their slowly dissolving bodies cause craters on the ground upon landing. Rey then turned his body with a groan towards the direction Agius was in hoping he wouldn't have to help. The lightning had taken so much energy he could barely stand.
Agius stood on the banks of the lake, surrounded by hell hounds and empousa, one of the empousa hissed at him "I can smell it, the sea in your blood, I will feast upon your flesh sea spawn!" it spat out the word sea like a poison, and Agius simply glared at them, sea-green eyes like daggers,
"You die here monster!, Go back to Tartarus where you gods damn belong." He growled out, the waves beginning to churn and crash against the shore. He pulled on his necklace his black bronze-lined xiphos springing to life. He rushed forward before they could react slicing the throat of one of the hellhounds before spinning and ramming the entire length of the blade down to the hilt into the skull of another.
He continued hacking and slashing away at the Empousa and hellhounds, after the fifth or so monster a glint of brown accompanied by the whistle of fast movement cut through the air, acting on instinct Agius raised Sea-Shade in a flash of bronze and black. At his feet now laid a celestial bronze arrow cleanly cut in half; the owner of said arrow was a hissing Empousa who was notching another.
Agius growled out his next few words, as he stared at the dozens of monsters surrounding him, pushing him back to the lake. "My turn."
His eyes glowed slightly, a sea green light illuminating the dark morning as he called forth his father's domain, his birthright, the power of the sea. The churning waves grew more restless as they began crashing at the shore more and more, actually overcoming the confines of the lake's shore and lapping at Agius' ankles.
Slamming his sword into the sand he raised his hands ignoring the stabbing pain in his stomach as he did this and roared. He all but ripped all of the water from the lake and held it above his head for all of one second, before the burning pain made him slam his hands back down.
All gathered water slammed down into the earth like a rocket, covering everything; the entire shore line, the rocks, and some of the closer Cabins, the water receded shortly after showing no sign of Agius or the monsters.
Agius was underwater, his eyes focused and his arms outstretched in front of him. Dozens of monster struggled under neath him, as he stared at them coldly, their movements restricted by the water that would soon be their grave. His eyes glowed a bit more brightly as he mentally sent a prayer to his father, hoping it would reach him. 'I need carnivorous sea creatures, dozens if you have them Father, please.'
Within minutes a swishing sound was heard by him, and four grey skinned sharks rushed by, quickly followed by six Orcas. The earth shook violently, and the water darkened multiple shades before six large pitch black tentacles rose from the bottom of the lake and wrapped around the neck of a good portion of the hellhounds that had not yet drowned and dragged them down into the murky depths of the water. With the lake's color returning swiftly back to the crystal blue color it held.
The sharks and "killer whales" had begun eating away at the remaining empousa and hellhounds tearing out chunks of flesh before simply ripping their throats out. Within minutes the sea life had done their job and vanished, leaving Agius alone in the now dust filled water, he panted and simply flicked his wrist, making the water push the dust further down and away from him.
He closed his eyes and passed out soon after, the amount of energy he used finally catching up to him, little did he know how proud this stunt made a certain god of the Seas.