"Leo are you alright"? Piper asked, rushing to his side. "Huh? Where am I", Leo asked, confused at all the colors and fresh air. "Do you remember anything", Jason asked. Regaining his vision, Leo turned to the group standing at his side with worried expressions on their faces, "Yes, I do remember. First we got attacked by a huge band of those nasty ghost metal dragon things and we were beating them up. Then I got attacked by that dragon and I passed out". Leo's back stung really badly and it hurt to move in any direction or way, sometimes he was not even moving at all.
"Why did you scream", Piper asked. Then Leo remembered the dream with the gold dragon and Linda, that betraying son of a bitch, and also poor Annabeth and Will. He told everyone around him about what he had seen and they all look scared and amazed. The demigods looked pissed off, but not as much as Nico. He stomped outside, stood on his hind legs and blasted a column of black flames into the sky along with an angry, deadly roar that shook the birds out of the trees. "THAT BETRAYING, MOTHERFUCKING, MIND CONTROLLING BITCH. IF I EVER SEE HER AGAIN, I WILL RIP HER WINGS OFF AND SHOVE THEM DOWN HER THROAT. THEN I WILL TEAR THE REST OF HER LIMBS OFF AND FEED THEM TO THE JAGUARS", Nico roared furiously. Punching a tree with the last of his rage.
All of the forest was so surprised that every dragon was staring at Nico in shock. Leo's talons were digging into his bed and Percy was covering Auklet and Anemone's ears. "Ohhh. The black dragon said a bad word", Auklet taunted and Percy quickly hid the dragonet so she could not get Nico madder than he already was.
"Anyway, So Leo, the dragon that is causing this is a sandwing", asked a very pretty rainwing with a sloth on her back. "No, she was a mudwing with scales like pure gold with tons of charms". The rainwing looked over to a dragon who looked like the same breed as Nico and the dragon began to speak. "I don't believe I have ever read about a gold mudwing, but I have read about an animus necklace that can turn a dragon's scales whatever color they wanted, but I don't believe it is true because it was in the Creation of the Rainwings legend". "Maybe she is related to Kronos", Percy put in which really didn't help anyone. "I don't think so. Man I really wish Annabeth was here so she can help us with this", Thalia sighed. "This is not Annabeth's range of expertise. This is an entirely new world that doesn't make any sense to her. Flying horses, yes, Greek monsters, yes, architecture, yes, but Pyrrhia, no".
"We will have time to look over this when we get back alright. Now everyone knows where they are going". Everyone said yes except for Nico who was leaning against a tree. "Where are we going? Can I come"? Leo asked and tried to sit up, but immediately regretted his decision. "No, all of the demigods are staying here in the safety of the village. Especially you". Internally, Leo was fine with that, but he knew he had to do something. "But we are heroes, we protect and save. We are not some precious jewel that you keep in a box forever. We are also never safe. Look at Percy, he lives in New York city which has lots of people, but he gets attacked by monsters all of the time". "You have a good point there Leo, but they are just going to gather up an army. Not anything exciting like going to defeat the gold dragon themselves". "Oh alright. I will stay, but we are going to be in the final fight". "Alright. Dragonets, go on".
"UUUGH! This is so boring. They have been gone forever", groaned Jason who was laying flat on the platform in front of the nurses' building with his wings outstretched. "They only have been gone twenty minutes Jason", Nico said, still leaning against the giant jungle tree. "Come on Jason. Look at the bright side, at least you have, food, friends, and of course the activities that the rainwings do other than sleeping", Piper said cheerfully. The other demigods were on the same platform, Frank was napping with Hazel, Leo was watching them from his bed, and Percy was gnawing on a tough piece of fruit. "I know, I know", Jason sighed and then sat up, "but we are safe and I really want to fight someone". "Why not have a sword fight with me", Percy perked up, accidentally dropping his fruit.
Jason raised his eyebrow and the next thing they knew was Jason lunging at Percy, quick as lightning. Percy knew what Jason was doing and pulled out Riptide to deflect the blow. "Alright, I will take that as a yes", and with that he twisted Riptide, causing Jason's blade to slide off. Without warning, Percy lunged at Jason and dodged Jason's attack. When Percy struck downward, Jason dodged the blow and lunged under Percy's arm.
For a while, the two were just a fast, clanging, hurricane of swords. Each blurred around on the platform with surprising speed and other dragons gathered to watch. Leo spotted several rainwings and nightwing eyes watching him from branches, trees and nearby platforms. Some of them hovered over the battle, watching their every move.
Jason narrowed his eyes and pushed Percy with more force and it caught him off guard for a second. Percy was launched backwards after Jason's strike, but caught himself just in time. He got the memo and began putting on more force onto Jason.
After a while, the boys got tired and eventually Jason let Percy have the win. Turns out they were both really tired because they both collapsed and fell asleep. "Hmm. So that is how you tire them out. I should tell Annabeth about that trick", said Piper. Leo thought that was funny, but he felt like collapsing too, but he had already done that so closed his eyes and went to sleep.
I apologize for the short, boring chapter. The other one will just be preparation for the battle and even a little of the battle maybe. Don't worry, some good fighting and excitement is coming soon. Keep dreaming my friends.