The Quest for the Magic Sword
Part 2: Dragon Cove
Last story was way too short now I know how long it should be…: P
We all stared in awe as a huge island loomed above us.
"Let's go explore maybe the shard is here..." Annabeth said as we started toward the cave.
At first we heard a low growl... Then a huge one that shook the ground. Grover and I got knocked to our feet, and then a HUGE dragon (uh oh) stepped out of the cove. The impact of its steps threw all of us off our feet.
"ROAR!!!!" The dragon roared. It was very different from the other dragon we faced before at the summit of the mountain of despair. This dragon had only 1 head, and it was much bigger than the other one. It was red, and its eyes were very old… very, very old. It stared at me intensely and then I noticed something on its forehead- a shard!
"Hey Annabeth is that a shard of the magic sword?" I asked and she nodded.
Thalia took out her spear and then sent a bolt of lighting out of it. The dragon dodged it easily, and then a breath of fire came out. I took out my shield that my half- brother Tyson made for me and jumped in the way.
"Thanks so much Percy," Thalia smiled at me. I smiled back. Then I glanced over at Annabeth and I thought I saw a bit of… jealousy in her eyes. I didn't have the time to think about it because just then Grover tried to soothe the dragon with an awful song but it only made it madder than before. It stomped its foot and Riptide fell out of my pocket. I picked the pen up and uncapped it. I jumped up and slashed down. Ouch, I cut its toenail.
"ROOOOOARR!!!!!!!"
I kept on slashing and finally… its toenail fell off.
"There's no way we can fight this thing!" I said as the dragon shot another breath of fire at me, almost burning the back side of my pants off. Thalia shot it with lighting, Annabeth stabbed its foot with her knife (hell it was big), and Grover tried to play another song. I kicked him in the gut and he stopped.
"S-sorry…" Grover said, clutching his guts, "I feel nausea coming…"
The dragon swiped its paw down and slammed me into a tree. Thalia tried to climb onto its leg and got shook off. Then a flash of inspiration came to me.
"Thalia, use your lighting to hit the dragon's forehead! Maybe that will get it off!"
"Right, Percy!" Thalia said as she readied herself for a blast of lighting. Her long spear charged itself, and then BOOM the huge bolt of lighting hit the dragon's forehead and knocked the magical shard fell clean off and dropped onto the ground. The bad thing was it dropped right between the dragon's two legs. I rushed in as fast as I could, and then rolled through its legs, picking up the shard on the way.
"Hurry, let's get the hell out of here!" I shouted as we all rushed toward the boat. The dragon pursued us all the way and when we got there it blasted fire out of its mouth, directed at our ship.
"No!!" I made the water rise up and make an enormous shield, and the fire smashed into it and disintegrated. We got into the boat and sailed off.
One thing we forgot: dragons can fly!
"Aw man that thing just won't give up will it?!" Grover said. It quickly caught up with us and sent a blast of fire at us. I sent another water shield to block it. Then the dragon flew low and slashed at our ship. I looked down over the edge of our ship and saw a huge gash, and water was rushing in!
"Oh no! We're sinking! We're all gonna die!!!"
"Grover shut up!"
"Ok sorry Percy."
Then for some odd reason the dragon flew back to its island.
"It must not be able to fly too far away from its territory, thank the gods" Annabeth said. But the ship in fact was sinking!
"How are we gonna fix this ship?!" Grover cried.
"Let's put seaweed on it!" I offered.
"Ummm this better work, Percy," Thalia said. I took some seaweed from the water and placed it onto the long scratch marks on our ship. Then Thalia used lighting to stick it onto place. I willed the water in our boat to rise and fall back into the ocean. We were safe!
Then we looked at the horizon and saw the sunset. It was… so romantic. I looked at Annabeth and she looked at me. I think I blushed. For a long time, we stared at each other, smiling. It felt so warm to be alone with Annabeth.
"Ok c'mon Seaweed Brain, let's get some sleep," and with that, Annabeth fell asleep. I stared at the water for a long time, and then drifted off too.
The next morning, I sent an Iris- Message to Chiron.
I told him about Dragon Cove and the dragon and how we got the shard. Then he told me where to go next.
"So, where next, Percy?" Grover asked me as soon as he woke up.
"We're going to Egypt," I replied, watching as our hippocampi got ready to take us all the way there.
Hopefully this story is better than last time!