Here's the next chapter. Thank you to those that reviewed, to those that didn't do so now. In your reveiws please leave any constructive criticism it's appreciated I'm a bit new to this. Also leave pairing choices just no yaoi, also harem idea's as well as I haven't decided weather it's going to be a single pairing or harem so without anything else enjoy.
The next weeks passed relatively quickly with training and debriefs. Every night I'd have dreams of the fury coming at me with sharp talons and rows of sharp pointy yellow teeth and those glowing red eyes. I'd wake up in a cold sweat. The weather for the most part got worse and worse. More planes went down in the Atlantic and tornadoes would pop up from seemingly nowhere.
Well the good thing for now was I was going on an R and R trip to Montauk. Revan and Thom were going with me just in case something went wrong and in most cases it did. All three of us packed our bags and headed out to the beach leaving the mansion in the hands of Mr. Corbin.
I was sitting in the passenger seat of Thom's 2006 Dodge Durango. I was wearing a pair of tan combat boots, faded blue jeans, a green t-shirt and a brown leather jacket. Revan had on a pair of tennis shoes, black cargo shorts, and a grey t shirt. Thom hadn't changed much except the eye patch he wore over his left eye socket. He still had the salt and pepper colored hair, though there was more of a grayish color in it now. He was wearing a red and white polo, blue jeans and tennis shoes.
A beeping sound started to resonate in the car. It was the gas light of all things. "Well looks like we need to make a stop here in the near future." Said Revan from the back. "Well there's a gas station about a mile up." I said. Thom drove for the next mile and stopped at the gas station there. We all got out. Thom was fueling the car, Revan was inside the store getting something to drink, and I was leaning against the car on the opposite side of Thom.
I looked across the busy four lane interstate and saw what looked to be a fruit stand. There were boxes of blood red cherries, apples, oranges, peaches, walnuts, and a bathtub with claw feet filled with ice and cider. And sitting next to the stand were three old ladies knitting the biggest socks ever under the shade of a maple tree.
The socks looked like sweaters but were clearly socks. The lady on the right knitted one of them and the one on the left knitted the other. The lady in the middle had a basket of electric blue yarn. All three of the women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandanas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses.
But the weirdest thing by far was they were looking straight at me. I walked over to the stand across the interstate and leaned back on the tree and closed my eyes. "So to what do I owe the pleasure of a visit from the Moirai?" I asked nonchalantly. I creaked open my eyes to look at the three.
"You have a -great destiny ahead of you -Perseus Jackson. Be warned a choice- will be thrust upon you which could end the world- or protect it." They said each one picking up the other's sentences. 'Must be a sibling thing.' I thought to myself. "Tell us Perseus Jackson why do you not fear us?" One of the fates asked. "Oh don't get me wrong I'm afraid of you three alright." I said.
"I've just come to accept what's to come. Should I die then I die, should I be hunted like an animal then I will be. Doesn't mean I'll like, But hey like the saying goes 'Shit happens.'" I said while looking up at the trees canopy. "Now I've got a question." I said. The three fates looked at each other and nodded. "Then ask."
"If you're the fates then shouldn't you know what I'm going to say?" I asked. The three fates actually laughed at them. I looked at them questioningly. After a few seconds they calmed down enough to talk. "We like you hero- but to answer your question- that's for us to know- and for you to find out." They said doing that weird picking up each other's lines thing again.
"And yes it is a sibling thing." They said. Well that answers my question. "So then why did you even bother to come out here knowing what I would say?" I asked. "Well everyone needs to get out once in a while." They all said together. 'That's not creepy at all. Then again they are the fates, so does that mean they know what the other is going to say?' I mentally asked myself. I shrugged; I wasn't going to figure it out anytime soon. "Well, as much fun as it's been I need to go now." I said pushing myself off the trunk of the tree.
"I'll see you three around." I said walking back to the car. When I made it back to the gas station I turned to look at the three. I saw the middle one pull out a pair of large gold and silver scissors, long-bladed, like shears. The three looked at me still and then the middle one cut the string of yarn.
I heard the snip of the scissors all the way across the lanes of traffic. Then a large semi passed by and when it passed they were gone. 'So it begins.' I thought to myself. I got into the passenger side of the car and waited for the others to get in. When they all got in they looked at me. "You disappeared on us for a second there. Where were you at?" Thom asked. "I had a chat with the Moirai." I said like I was talking about the weather.
Revan did a spit take out the window and Thom was doing a very impressive impression of a fish out of water. "Wh-what?" Stuttered Thom. "Like I said I had a chat with the fates. They came to warn me of an approaching choice that could save the world or end it. So yeah nothing big." I said putting my chin on top of my knuckle looking out the window.
"So we still going to the beach?" Asked Revan out of nowhere. "Ye-yea-yeah the beach." Stuttered Thom almost like in a daze. I smiled and pulled out my iPod and plugged in my earphones. I started to listen to the songs as we drove down the highway. Thom seemed a bit scared and Revan was…well being Revan. So we all just drove down the highway to Montauk beach.
When the beach came into view I let a small smile appear on my face as did Revan. I remembered the good times with mom before she died. She always seemed to brighten up when we came here. Any worries she had would seem to disappear, she seemed to become younger. Her eyes would become a sea green color. I remember how we would sit around a fire and talk. I'd ask about my father, and she would tell me about him.
"He was kind, Percy," She said "Tall handsome, and powerful. But gentle too. You have his black hair, you know and his green eyes." Mom Continued. "I wish he could see you, Percy he would be so proud of you." I couldn't wrap my mind around the idea of my father being proud of me. "How old was I?" I asked. "I mean…when he left?" She watched the flames of the fire. "He was only with me for one summer, Percy. Right here at this beach. This cabin.
"But… he knew me as a baby." "No honey. He knew I was expecting a baby, but he never saw you. He had to leave before you were born. He wasn't allowed to visit you because of these old laws he had to go by. Then one day he went out and was lost at sea."She said.
I gripped the heart shaped locket around my neck as I remembered those nights when I came out here with mom. She didn't deserve the fate she was given. If my father even bothered to check up on the women he slept with this probably wouldn't have happened. But then again I wouldn't have met Thom or Revan and the other assassins.
Then I remembered Moms words. Lost at sea not dead just lost at sea. So there was a very good chance I'll be meeting daddy dearest in the future. "Hey Percy we're here." Revan said shaking me out of my stupor.
I looked out the window and indeed we were here. There was the old cabin same as always. Sand everywhere spiders crawling about and the water was damn near freezing. Pure awesome. I thought to myself. We all got out and relaxed for the day. Thom was laying down on the sand trying to relax. I was sitting on the dock with my feet in the water and sketching the woods. Revan was lying in the freezing waters on his back and just staring up at the sky.
I looked out to the sea and thought of all the things happening and what could happen. The brotherhood was the best thing that happened to me, I got a family out of it, and I got paid well, had the best gear got the best missions and had my own command at times. Then I thought of all the dead. Those I had let down, a lot of those people rested down in the bottom of the sea or had their ashes scattered into the wind. I snapped out of my thoughts, it wouldn't do well to get lost in the past.
That night after dark we all sat around the camp fire and roasted hotdogs. "So what are we going to now?" Revan asked. "We'll need to go to that camp wherever it is." I said staring into the flames watching them as they seemed to dance around one another. "Well I have an idea about how to find the camp." Thom spoke up. Revan and I both looked at him for an explanation of some sorts. "Do tell." Revan said. "I was contacted by Chiron about taking you to that camp Percy. They gave me an address and everything, they still don't know about Revan over here, it's your choice whether to take him or not." I looked over at Revan who was attempting to eat his hot dog off the stick. While it was on fire.
"I'll take him." I said. He may have been slightly crazy. But he could hold his own in a fight and I could always trust him to have my back. "Well then it's settled I'll drop you guys off at camp half blood. Just try not to scar them for life. Okay?" Thom asked pointedly at Revan. "No promises." Revan said not even looking up from trying to eat the flaming hotdog.
"You know it works better if you put out the fire right?" I said. "Yeah but the fire gives it a nice spicy flavor." He said. Revan then just ate half the hot dog in one bite. "You're nuts you know that?" I asked. Revan sighed and swallowed his food before looking at me. "I thought we already established that like the first week we met." He did have a point.
"Yeah…So what's the plan?" Revan asked. "We go in to this camp gather any and all Intel, see if we can't establish our presence there, find out what has partnered up with the templar's. Then we kill a bunch of monsters and go home." I said. Revan looked contemplative for a moment. "Sounds like a plan." He finally responded. "Hey Perce?" Revan asked. I looked over to see him staring up at the stars.
"Yeah?" I asked. "Do you think… do you think the others are watching over us?" He asked slowly. I looked up at the stars. "I don't know. Why you asking?" He looked thoughtful for a moment. "I just wondered what our friends would think of us if they saw us now." He said drawing in the dirt. "What's gotten into you?" I asked.
"I…I think about what we've done…and I…and I can't help but wonder are we doing the right thing." I looked in his eyes and saw uncertainty and grief. I understood now. The deaths and kills were getting to him again. "You have dreams again?" I asked. He nodded his head slowly. "Revan," I said. "don't let it get to you. You've done more than many others have or could hope to do." He nodded slowly. "But when I sleep," he started "I keep seeing the faces of my men and their voices accusing me of their deaths saying it's my fault, then the faces and voices of those I've killed come to me and try to kill me and spit and curse at my name."
By now silent tears were going down his face. "And I can't help but believe my men when they say it's my fault for their deaths." I looked over at him. "You're right." I said, he looked over at me betrayal in his eyes. "You did kill them, but sometimes we have to make decisions for the good of the many. That is what leaders do; we make the tough choices in life. I've done it as well, but don't you dare believe the people we've had to sacrifice are disappointed in you. They all knew the stakes and as for the dead people that you killed that spit and curses your name. They threatened your family and friends and the world. They deserved it and they've done worse than us." I spoke to him.
"As assassin's our sacrifices will never be brought to the light, the sacrifices of our men will never be known by the rest, be it godly or mortal worlds. We are the ones that will ever know the sacrifices made for them, so don't forget those that died. Keep them in your heart in mind. Let them be the force that drives you forward and never let them be forgotten pass on their memory down through your children and apprentices and through their children and their apprentices. We fight for the light from the dark. Never let their memory fall from the minds of yourself r the order. Pass down their legacy's and their feats let them inspire the younger generations just as our legends will be passed down I'm sure just like the grand masters of old."
Revan stared at me for a moment then chuckled. "Damn that was quite the speech." I chuckled as well. "Yeah I guess it was now come on off to bed." With my speech over we put out the fire and walked off to bed. Before I reached the cabin as I walked behind Revan I was stopped by Thom. "That was quite the speech. I'm proud of you kid." He said I gave Thom a small smile and nodded my head. "Now let's go to bed." He said putting an arm behind my back and ushering me forward.
That night I had weird a weird dream. I was standing on the beach and in front of me a ways down two beautiful animals were fighting one was a golden eagle and the other was a white horse. The eagle swooped down and slashed at the horses muzzle with its talons. The horse reared back and tried to kick the eagle's wings. Then from below the sands in the earth a monstrous voice egged both of them on. I knew I had to stop them for some reason.
I tried to run towards them trying to shout out Stop it, stop it, stop it. But whenever I tried nothing came out. Then the eagle dived at the horses exposed neck with outstretched talons. The horses' eyes widened and then the dream cut out. I woke up sweating and shot straight into a sitting position.
Lightning outside created false daylight and I could hear the waves crashing onto the beach. There was no horse or eagle on the surf trying to kill each other. With the next thunder clap Revan shot up and looked around while reaching for his cane.
"Hurricane." I said. "There aren't supposed to be any hurricanes around long Island this time of year. Is there?" Asked Revan. "I guess the sea forgot." I said. Thom woke up next. "What's going on?" He asked as he got up. "Hurricane. I guess the gods are having a temper tantrum." I said while putting on a pair of blue jeans and tennis shoes.
"I suggest we leave. Like now." Revan said while throwing on his clothes and a tan great coat. Thom nodded and started throwing his clothes on. I threw on a black t shirt and a black jacket. Thom threw on a grey t-shirt and a brown leather jacket. We got out of the cabin and ran to the SUV. Once we were in Thom started the car and sped down the trail.
"Percy catch." Revan said before throwing me a M1911 45 caliber pistol. I checked the clip for the type of rounds. Steel hollow points. I put the clip back in and pulled the top part back loading a shell in the chamber. "Uh guys I think we're being followed." Revan said while peering back out the back window. A strange bellowing noise came from behind us.
I looked back and when the lightning would flash I could make out the outline of something big following us. "Revan, Hand me my backpack." Revan reached back and threw me my back pack while holding on to his own. The bellowing noise came again though this time it was a lot closer.
I checked mine over and threw in the pistol once I was sure it was all together. "Come on, one more mile, one more mile…" Muttered Thom. Thom made a hard left and swerved onto a narrower road, racing past darkened farmhouses and wooded hills and PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES sign on a white picket fences.
Before anything else could happen there was a blinding flash of light and a jaw rattling boom! It reminded me of a flash bang going off right in front of my face. I really hated it when that type of shit happens.
Except this time there was a sense of weightlessness, like I was being crushed, fried and hosed down all at the same time.
Next thing I know I'm hanging upside down. I groaned as I tried to look around. I unbuckled my seat belt and fell down on the car roof which was now the floor. "Ow. Son of a fucking bitch." I said as I hit my head on the floor. There was a thud as Revan did the same and a stream of curses and unintelligible nonsense.
"You good?" I asked. Revan sat up looking at me with blood streaming down his forehead. "We just got struck by fucking lightning from old thunder butt. How the hell do you think I'm doing?" He asked. The thunder seemed to rumble more at this comment.
"I'm going to take that as a not so good." I said as I grabbed my back pack and looked around. True to his word there in the center of the SUV was a glowing red hot rupture. We were flipped over in the middle of the road.
"Uhhh…What the fuck?" Groaned Thom. He was still upside down strapped in his seat. Then I heard that strange bellowing sound again closing in on us. "No time. Move it!" I said taking out my switch blade and cutting the seatbelt off. He fell to the ground groaning.
"Shit!" Revan cursed. "Doors stuck." Revan leaned back and started to kick the door open. Finally after about three hits the door fell off. "Let's move it people!" He yelled over the sound of thunder. I crawled out after him Thom behind me. I slung my back pack on and stood up helping Thom up. "Revan come on and help me here." I said. Thom's side was torn open slightly, blood pouring down his jacket.
I put Thom's right arm over my shoulder and Revan his left. Together we started to walk up the steep waist high grassy hill. "Shit." Revan whispered. I looked at him for an explanation and saw him looking behind us. I looked at what he was looking at. 'Shit indeed.' I thought. A giant eight foot tall thing was near the SUV sniffing it.
The thing had his arms and legs looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger's times two. Bulging Biceps, triceps, it looked like someone stuffed baseballs under his skin. He wore no other clothes except for underwear –like bright white fruit of the loom kind-, course brown hair started at his belly button and got thicker as it went up to his shoulders. His neck was a mass of muscle and fur leading up to his enormous head, which had a snout as long as my arm, snotty nostrils with a gleaming brass ring piercing, cruel black eyes- and horns. Enormous black and white horns with sharpened to points.
"Pasiphae's son." I whispered. "Keep quiet and try not to make a sound." I whispered. We turned and continued up towards the top of the hill where a large pine tree rested. We had about another hundred yards to go when we heard a roar of rage. We looked back to see the Minotaur pick up the vehicle over his head and tossed it down the road.
The SUV skidded to a stop about a half mile away in shower of sparks and exploded. Then the monster turned towards us and started to walk towards us. 'Looks like he smelled us.' I thought. We turned and started up the hill again desperate to get out of the monsters site.
We seemed to never get farther away and he seemed to get closer to us. "We're never going to make it." Revan said. "When he closes in on us jump out of his reach." Thom said. "Leave me. I can't enter the camp, but you can." He said in between labored breathes. "No we all go together or not at all." I hissed. "Never leave a man behind. Isn't that what you taught us?" Revan said.
Thom let out a small chuckle. "You guys are way too stubborn for your own good." "Yeah we get that a lot. Now hang in there old man." Revan said. We continued to struggle up the hill and the bull-man leveled his horns at us and charged like a steam engine. His stench reached us and nearly made me gag, he smelled of rotten and decayed corpses, Thom suddenly pushed us away just in time to dodge the Minotaur's charge. I was separated but Revan still had his hold on Thom.
I hit my head on a rock that was hidden in the tall grass that made my vision blurry for a second. If I didn't have a head injury before I sure as Hades had one now. I shakily stood up to my feet and looked for the monster. I felt inside my pocket for my pen to find it gone. It would eventually return to me but for now I had nothing at hand at the immediate time.
I looked over to where Thom and Revan in time to see Revan sent flying from a hit from the monster. The Minotaur picked up Thom in his hands and started to squeeze. Thom struggled for a moment blood leaking out of his mouth, and then he looked at me. "Go." He whispered. The monster gave a bellow of rage and squeezed harder. Then he was gone in a golden light like a hologram.
Gone just gone. Everything seemed to stop for a moment. The man who had been like a father, no he was my father, was gone, no trace of him left. Then unimaginable rage consumed me. Those who hurt my family never lived to tell of it and never got the chance to do it again. I stood up and took my back pack off. I walked towards the pine and stood in front of it.
The monster was standing over Revan who was out of it completely. The monster bent low and seemed to debate whether or not to eat Revan. Not. A. Fucking. Chance. "Hey dumb ass, yes you Shit for brains." I yelled at the monster. I had this really crazy plan. The monster turned towards me and charged.
This time he prepared. He put out both of his arms and charged, preventing escape from either side. Then when he closed in I jumped up using his head as a springboard and spun in midair and landed on the creature's neck.
Then a millisecond later the monsters head impacted the tree making me nearly bite my tongue off. The monster staggered around trying to shake me off. I locked my arms around his horn as an anchor to keep myself from flying off. Lightning flashed through the night sky illuminating the area and thunder sounded over head reminding me of artillery fire. The rain poured into my eyes partially obscuring my vision.
The monsters stench seemed to multiply tenfold and burned my nostrils. The monster continued to buck and thrash around trying to throw me off like a rodeo bull, no pun intended. He could have backed up and smashed me into the tree and end the fight right then and there. Then I realized it had only one gear, forward.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Revan start to stand up. He held his side and had a brief look of pain across his face as he stood. He grabbed his cane and used it as a support to stand. When he fully stood he looked around. Out of nowhere he twisted the canes top and pulled. A small thin blade of celestial bronze came out of the cane. Revan stabbed downward and then I saw what he had stabbed.
He had pinned a hellhound the size of a car to the ground with his cane sword. The blade had went through its eye and went out from the under jaw. The monster turned to dust and disappeared into the stormy night. I saw two more hellhounds approach Revan. I would've shouted at him but I dare not open my mouth in fear of me biting my own tongue off.
Revan let out a yell of pain as one of the hell hounds clamped down on his left arm. The bull man turned towards him and prepared to charge. I thought about how he had squeezed the life out of Thom, made him disappear in a flash of light, and rage, hate and fury fueled my body. The rain seemed to come down even harsher than before and the ground seemed to shake.
I wrapped both hands around one horn and pulled with all my strength backwards. The monster tensed, gave a surprised grunt then snap! The bull man screamed and flung me through the air. I landed on the ground and rolled to a stop lying flat on my back in the grass. I felt about two of my ribs were broken.
I stood up and noticed that I could see a rib sticking out of my right side, I looked in my hands and saw a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife. I looked up at the monster and saw it look at me in pure hatred and fury.
He lowered his head and charged again. I rolled to one side without thinking and came up knelling. As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn into his side just under the ribcage, and then I twisted it. The Bull man roared in agony. He flailed, clawing at his chest then he began to disintegrate just like all the monsters do.
The monster was gone for now. The rain stopped, but the storm continued to rumble though a bit farther away. I smelled like livestock and dead bodies, my knees were shaking but I'm pretty sure it was from the blood loss than from fright. I stood up shakily and looked around for Revan. He was walking towards me. His coat was gone and he had a bite wound on his left arm that oozed blood down his left arm down to his finger tips.
He had my backpack in his left hand with his cane. Revan came over and slung my left arm over his shoulder to support me. I leaned on him as we both stumbled up the hill. The blades of grass were stained red with our blood as we walked up. Thom was gone. I couldn't seem to wrap my mind around it.
It seemed impossible to me. Thom seemed so unbeatable to me. He always stood back up after getting knocked down. When the order fell he was still standing and brought it back from the ashes.
Revan and I stood at the crest of the hill overlooking the bottom of the hill and saw a large farm house with lights still on. We staggered down the hill towards the house leaving a bloody trail of footprints in our wake. We made it to the porch before I collapsed down onto the unforgiving wooden floor, and looked up at the ceiling fan circling above me.
Moths' flying around a familiar yellow light, along with the stern faces of a familiar bearded man and a pretty girl, her hair was curled like a princess's. They both looked down at me and Revan, who I just realized collapsed right next to me. Both of us lying in a pool of blood. "He's the one, he must be." The girl said.
"Silence Annabeth." The man said. "Quickly get the medics from the Apollo cabin and Grover. We need to hurry if they are to survive. We will speak of this later." Then I passed out.