Chapter 16:
Coming down from the sky was another black pegasi. He had two persons con his back. Master, your father sent me to look for you. He told me to tell you he can't help you for Zeus has forbidden it. I also found this two in the woods and brought them along. They are weak. My name is Night. He started landing and landed right besides Mia. Mia seemed to be cheered a little but she still seemed sad. I assumed this was the famous boyfriend that had been wounded. On his back where a boy and a girl. They both where gingers and they were both very thin. The girl seemed my age and the boy looked like 20. They looked tired and they had dried blood all over them. They seemed asleep but when I started to get close to them the boy woke up with a jump. He quickly got off Night and looked at all of us warily. He had left all the pegasi behind him and started studying us.
Before any of us could talk his ring transformed into a sword. He immediately attacked Kit. I think that was his first choice because he was the biggest one there. Anyways they started fighting and fighting hard. Kit managed to wound his right arm, too bad he was left handed so that didn't affect him that much. Really fast I saw Lauren take her bow out. I don't know if she was going to try and shoot him from this short distance but the fight was moving everywhere. "Don't!" I screamed at her and took out my pen. I uncapped it and started fighting the guy. Kit was already on the floor and the boy was about to strike him. "Don't interfere." I told everyone around me. Grover stopped playing, Hazel put her bow away, Lauren was checking Kit's wounds and Bobby had his knife out and ready. The crazy thing is the last part happened really fast. It didn't take more than a minute till I took over the fight. He was really fast and his strikes were fluent. He didn't feel trained but he this was still a really close fight. I knew he was a demi-god that was out of question. He looked as if he was getting tired and so was I. I saw his blade go to the hilt of my blade. I knew what he was about to do and backed away. I did it on time because right after I got my hilt free he flipped his sword. I stepped closer to him and made a plan. I went to strike for his head knowing he would block it. As soon as our blades made an x over our heads I pushed and elbowed him in the face. He stumbled back, and I did the technique. The sword was on the ground and I pushed him to towards a tree. When he was back to back with it, I pointed the tip of my sword to his throat. I was falling asleep I had to do everything in my power to stay awake.
He looked surprised. Then turned to look at his sister. Then looked at me with pleading eyes, "Please don't hurt her" he said to me. I lowered my sword and said, "We don't want to kill you. Why would we be enemies? Let's start from the beginning. Who are you?" He looked at me with confusion while I yawned but said anyways "I am Stan and that is Sarah, my little sister." I looked around and saw that everyone was asleep except Bobby who was staring at him. I saw the wound was still bleeding and it was a deep cut. I turn to look at Bobby directly and say, "Do you think you can cure him? The healers here are asleep and I think you would do a better job than me." He nodded and yawned. Then he looked at him and said "Can you stop doing that? We are not attacking you anymore." Stan had a confused look on his face and then a hologram appeared on his head. It was Hypnos symbol. I understood why everyone was sleeping. He looked confused and then turned to his sister when we heard her yelp. She also had the symbol over her head; she had probably woken up when the horse underneath her fell asleep. "Bobby help them with their wounds until the others wake. I turn to Stan for he was older. "Do you know what this means? Do you know what you are?" He thought about it. "Well, umm I don't know what it means." He looked serious. How in the world did he survive for so long! "How old are you?" asked Bobby looking at Sarah. "I am sixteen years old and my brother is twenty-one years old."
"Well," I said. "You guys, like us, are demigods. Hypnos is your father. The God of sleep." When I said Hypnos, which is the Greek name, Bobby eyed me coldly but I ignored it and kept talking. "The Gods still exist and they are here in the United States. I will explain everything in detail later. Right now I want to ask you, how did you survive? And where did you get that sword?" Stan looked at me. Bobby started checking Sarah who was staring at Stan. After a small while she left with Bobby but I don't know where.
I turned again to look at Stan who had a confused look on his face. He talked with a bit of self-doubt. "I had a dream when I was about 9. I dreamt that some guy gave me this sword. He told me I had to take care of my sister. When I woke up I had the ring on. When I thought about the blade in my dream it appeared. Then when I imagined the ring it transformed back. I didn't know what the dream meant or what was going on. About a month later I was with Sarah at the park and some things attacked us. I took out my sword and started fighting them. I didn't know what to do though, I was just really confused. Somehow they seemed to be fighting lazily, one actually fell asleep. I stabbed them and they became dust. Me and my sister ran away after that. We got very scared and thought U.S.A. would make it better. When we got past the Detroit River, a giant snake attacked us. This one we ran away from because it could get out of water. After a year of being vagabonds we found a boy. He smelled us or something and started talking to us. He went to make a call or something and an our later he came to us with another girl. They told us we had to go with them. I didn't want to go but Sarah convinced me. We got in a car and they talked between them. After a lot time of driving we stopped for something to eat on a McDonalds. It was empty except for the cashier and an old woman.
Suddenly the old woman became a weird monster. It grew wings and the girl that drove us there called it a Fury or something. The girl took out a sword and started fighting it, and the boy took off his pants. He was just like that one sleeping over there. Half goat or donkey or something. They started fighting it and told us to stay back. The girl stabbed the thing in the thigh and it exploded into dust. In that moment another one came so fast and to their backs they didn't see it coming. Its claws went straight into their back and to their hearts. I took my sword immediately out and made it disappear but it wasn't fast enough. They were both dead. The cashier suddenly started saying we killed them and the police was on their way. We ran away. From that day on we have been in lots of places and fighting those monsters, my sister received double blades from a dream or something. A couple of days ago we found a pair of Cyclops. They followed us to the forest. They caught us and where going to eat us. They fell asleep and we escaped. We heard something following us and it was them again. They had woken. We fought and we almost died until that flying horse came. He let us ride him and he took us here."
So he learned to fight through the years. But how did he know the hilt technique? "Where were you last summer?" His expression darkened deeply. He told me they had been found by some people that took them aboard the ship. They taught him to fight and a blond boy taught him a disarming trick. He told me then that the ship exploded but luckily they had survived. They then ran away. This made sense to me now. I remembered even more. I exploded the ship. I was on the ship. I fought Luke. Everyone was awaking now. I turn around to see that and I see Bobby and Sarah coming towards us. Sarah looks right at me and talks. "I have seen you before. You where in that ship. You jumped and the whole ship exploded. Because of you we almost died!" She was looking at me with anger. I saw the confused look on Bobby's face and the understanding look in Stan's face. Sarah transformed her own rings to double blades and attacked me.
I started defending myself but I wasn't attacking. I didn't want her to get hurt. She didn't know what had happened she just knew I almost killed her. She was surprisingly a better fighter than her brother. Her brother was about to attack me or I assumed because went I sneaked a peek Bobby had him pinned to the floor and was sitting on him. He was saying some things to him that made him stop struggling. Bobby then fell asleep. Apparently Stan hadn't really listened to him. I turn around to see everyone is sleeping again. I am too tired. I fall to my knees. I can't close my eyes because I know she will kill me. But know Stan was about to attack me too. I fall on my back from exhaustion. They both look at me in victory. And that is when I fell asleep.
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I wake up tied to a tree. As soon as I wake up I have a sword pointed at my throat. "You killed the only ones that could help us. I should have killed you already but Stan stopped me. Who are you?" I look at her and I don't recognize her she was probably in the crowd. "I am Percy Jackson. I am a demigod just like you. I am sorry for blowing up the ship. We were at war against Kronos. I woke up one day not so long ago with amnesia, I am still remembering things. I understand why you thought I was the bad guy. The people you were with wanted to destroy the Gods. OUR parents so we had to prevent that. I am surprised you have survived so long. I know you probably won't believe me but why would I lie? If you would let me I will tell you everything I remember." They agreed to hear me out. I told them everything. Everyone was awake now listening to me tell them thing they didn't know. But they were all tied up together but away from me, and so where the pegasi. At the end they decided they could trust us but that didn't mean they liked us. We told them everything about the prophecy. I had a feeling they would be important.
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We only had a day and a half till the eclipse. We were already in Utah. We got hungry but not tired for everyone had slept the day before. We laded by a small Lake. They all wanted to fish something but I voted against it. It just didn't feel right to do that. In the fights we had lost almost all the food. Everyone but Stan, Sarah and I were hungry. They weren't hungry because we gave them the food we had left for they hadn't eaten. I just didn't feel like eating. Stan went with the rest because he had been in the forest a long time. He knew a lot of edible plants. Sarah didn't go; she said she didn't feel good. "What does it feel like?" she asks me suddenly. "What does what feel like?" I say back. She looked at the sky dreamily. "Everything," she said. "What does it feel like to have friends, to have known your mother, to have had someone to explain everything to you. How does it feel to be loved by friends?" I looked at her. She seemed sad now. "I don't really remember. I don't even know if I know my mother. I don't remember that part. I do remember being loved but I don't really remember the feeling itself. I just feel too stressed out to feel it again. And you are loved. If you had seen the way your brother asked e not to hurt you. You are the most important thing in his life. And I already consider you a friend. I wouldn't let anything happen to you." As if in cue she winced and clutched her stomach. "What's wrong?" I ask startled. She pulled her shirt up a little to show a bandage on her stomach. She had been wounded, but when? Probably fighting the Cyclops. I flinched. "Why didn't you tell Bobby when he was healing you." She looked guiltily at me. "Well I didn't let him check me. I was disturbed because I knew I had already seen you before." She winced again her bandage was getting redder by the second. She was bleeding heavily and there was no one close.
I curse under my breath and command her to lie down. She does it immediately. She looks in a lot of pain. I take the bandage off. The wound is deep and it looks dirty. I took off my shirt and ripped it in two. She gasped as if she had expected something else, but I ignored it. I soaked one half of my shirt in the lake and pressed it in the wound. I had to clean it and for my bad luck the Apollo girls had taken the nectar and ambrosia. She let a small scream in pain. I took the blood soaked cloth and cleaned it with the water. I commanded the water now to go delicately to the wound. It did go. She seemed to be crying now. The water cleaned the wound deeper. After that I took the other half of my shirt and used it as a bandage. I tied it around her stomach so that is would prevent the blood from coming out. I told her she shouldn't move. She looked a little better. She was well enough to thank me. "Thank you, a Cyclops was about to stab Stan and I got in its way." I placed her head in my legs; she looked really uncomfortable the other way.
"That was really brave. Tell me about you." I wanted to distract her from the pain left until the healers (Lauren and Hazel) came back with everyone else. She looked up as if trying to figure out who I was and then stared at my chest again. She looked as if she couldn't believe it. I didn't know if that was an Oh-My-God-He-Is-Hot look or a Wow-That-Is-Pathetic look. Then she met my eyes and smiled. She then turned to look at the lake and closed her eyes. We started talking for about a couple of hours. Suddenly I woke up. I had fallen asleep during the talk or something. But I didn't remember it. I looked at everyone staring at us. Sarah had her eyes wide open too. "What happened?" I asked. "We talked in the dreams. I felt more comfortable talking that way. Not that much pain. So when I met your eyes I made you go asleep and then fell asleep myself. I discovered I could do that not long ago. Did it bother you?" she looked ashamed that she didn't tell me. I gave her a don't-worry smile.
Everyone was still looking at us. "Lauren can you please give her some ambrosia and nectar?" I said. "What for?" she asked. Sarah took off the bandage and everyone gasped. She winced again. Lauren didn't ask any more questions and she opened her backpack. Stan took my place like his sisters head support. When that was done I just jumped into the lake.