The top five reviewers were.
Stephen
And that's all who reviewed, that's kind of sad.
And also congratulations to Nobody! Because Nobody got the right answer, for who were the Giant Banes of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades! (See what I did there? Nobody ha ha.)
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Percy's POV
As I drew Riptide, I forced myself to look into its sad eyes. I instantly knew I couldn't kill it, even if it was a monster; it was still an intelligent being. Except that I had no other choice, but to kill it. I slowly lifted my sword and said," I am sorry." Then I closed my eyes and was just started to swing down, when I heard a raspy voice say, "I am sorry" I quickly moved my blade to the side and looked around.
It was just me and the dragon. I looked at it and said," Did you just say, I am sorry?" It nodded. Then it spoke," Wait you can hear me?" I nodded. It quickly started saying the reason of why it attacked me," I was controlled by my mistress; I could do nothing as she made me attack you." "Who is your mistress" I asked. He responded," It is…" Then it cocked its head to the side and suddenly it was lunging at me. I yelped and amazingly jumped out of the way.
Then I summoned a shield of water around the dragon and solidified it into a dome of ice. The dragon started to blow fire, but then I melted some of the ice and shoved the water down inside its body. It kept trying to blow fire, but I had extinguished the fire in its belly, so it could no longer breathe fire, until I willed the water to leave. It started coughing as it tried and tried to blow fire.
I suddenly had an idea. I started to force my will onto the dragon, as long as it was trapped in my ice ball, I could control it. I then worked to see who was controlling the dragon; all I found were shadows that seemed to have a link attached to its mind. I severed the link and created my own. Now I could speak telepathically to it and know exactly where it was, at all times.
I then watched in awe as a sea green wave appeared on its rust red scales. I willed the ice to melt and then I slowly walked to the dragon. The first thing it said was," Thank You! I am finally free!" It thanked me over and over, until I threatened to kill it if it said that word one more time. It instantly shut up. I expelled the water out of its stomach, seeing as it was friendly and would not burn me to a crisp. I then asked, "What's your name?" It responded," My name is Clefspere, my lord." It then bowed to me. I angrily said," Don't bow! I hate it when people bow to me or call me Boss, Master or Lord, so just call me Percy ok? Say it with me P-E-R-C-Y.
He just laughed. Then he said," Yes milord." "Thank you, wait what did you say?" I asked. He responded by running away, with me chasing after him. I jumped and grabbed onto his tail and then I asked him to walk through the forest, and search for my friends. "So, what do they smell like?" He said in my mind. "Like books." I joked. I let Clefspere smell a piece of Annabeth's hair, hey don't judge! And he followed her scent through the soaking wet forest.
Annabeth's POV
I woke up to the scent of wet fur. I looked up and saw Coach Hedge's face looking down on me. I quickly rose up, but then fell over as a wave of dizziness hit me. "You got a pretty nasty head wound from hitting that tree, back there." Coach Hedge stated. I grimaced, head wounds were evil, they took a lot of time to heal and they were an all-around pain in the bum.
I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs, hypothetically of course. I was thinking back on what had happened, when I suddenly remembered. "Is Mark OK?" I asked Coach Hedge. He sadly shook his head and said," It will take a miracle for him to live; he simply lost too much of his blood."
I was depressed; I had lost so much in my life, Luke, Selina, Beckendorf, Connor, Grover, Abigail, Jessica and Zack. I wouldn't lose another friend of mine, I couldn't. I tried to stand up, but Coach Hedge pushed me back down. "You need to rest, I will check on Mark." I wanted to protest, but I could already feel my eyelids drooping. "Maybe for a little…" and then I was asleep.
In my dream I saw a dark, massive cave with many monsters inside. They were all arguing about what to do with "It." I watched as the monsters kicked the thing on the ground, until it was bloody and bruised. It lifted its head. I gasped. I saw Nico Di Angelo, the person who had left right after the Giant War and disappeared off the face of the planet. He looked straight at me, then back at the monsters. "So who is your mistress?" he asked, just to give me information.
One of the Cyclopes was about to reply, when another one hissed," You idiot! The mistress will have our hides, if we give him that information!" The monster came into view. It was a female Cyclopes with a furious expression on her face. "Who cares Ma Gasket? I am only doing this to kill demigod scum." Shouted the other.
The shadows strengthened and two men stepped out of them. They were both around six feet tall and had a lot of muscle. One had dirty blond hair and a fake white eye and the other had pitch black hair and black eyes. They looked at the Cyclopes and it shrunk back in fear. The blond haired one said, "Do you forget who we are? And if you don't, then why do you disrespect our mistress so? I am Robert and I shall be your death." He teleported through the shadows and stabbed the Cyclopes in the back. It writhed in pain, before melting into black goo. "Your name has been erased from the universe, you will never reform again. You are gone." Robert said. Then he said," George pick up this filth." A green humanoid creature started sweeping up the black goo.
The other man walked to Ma Gasket and said," I Theseus, son of Nyx, herby bless you on account of your loyalty to the mistress." Nico looked at me and said," Go to Kansas, where it the darkest." Robert then grabbed Nico and demanded in a commanding voice," Who are you talking to? Tell me!" After a couple of seconds, he turned to me and said in a raspy voice," Oh… I see." Then he randomly said to me," I am your fathers, brothers, nephews, cousins, former roommate!" (Whoever knows where that is from gets a shot out!) He then took out his sleek, black sword, which had black fire burning along the blade, and lunged at me.
Percy's POV
I was riding Clefspere's back, when suddenly; I heard the growl of a hellhound. Really? I thought. Do I ever get a break? It was the size of a rhinoceros, but that was miniscule to the size of Clefspere. "The mistress requires your presence, so come with me." It growled. Clefspere simply said," I will not be a slave of that evil thing you call a mistress!" The hellhound growled and said," You had better come with me or else." "Or else what?" Clefspere asked. "Or else I will bite off your wings and legs and then drag you back to our Mistress in-" Clefspere interrupted his threat by blowing fire an enormous barrage of flames at the hellhound.
The hellhound was caught by surprise and was quickly engulfed by the flames. After I finally started to believe that it was dead, a dark light came from the middle of the fire. The fire was absorbed into the darkness, and from the darkness sprang forth the hellhound, angrier than ever. It pounced at Clefspere, who attempted to swat the hound away, but was to slow. The hellhound tackled Clefspere and I flew off of his back and into the air. I quickly formed a cushion of water, which would hopefully soften my fall. It hurt, but the water helped. I rose to my feet and headed in the direction of fighting.
I saw them fighting soon enough, as they flattened trees in the battle for dominance. I dashed to the hellhound and uncapped Riptide. It sprang to life in all of its three feet, leaf shaped glory. I was about to stab it into the hellhounds ugly head, when the shadows spit out ten more hellhounds the size of cars. They soon surrounded me, so I made a shield out of water and then from that shield, I made ice spikes. I hurled them in all directions, hoping to end this fight quick. The air was filled with the sound of disintegrating monsters. I found myself with only having to face two hellhounds.
The first one charged me, so naturally I charged. Right before collision I transformed into a wolf. We slammed into each other, with so much force that we each fell backwards. I rapidly stood up and pounced on the downed hellhound. Soon it was melting into shadows, no doubt heading back to its mistress. I looked at my last opponent. It was pitch black, with red eyes that looked at me with hate. I rapidly changed forms, and then I uncapped Riptide and threw it like a knife. The hellhound saw this and dodged, but I had also made an ice spear, which was so cold, it was freezing the air around it.
I threw my ice spear with pinpoint accuracy. It slammed right in between the hellhound's eyes; it then let out a cry of pain, before disintegrating into shadows. I then looked around for Clefspere. I saw him and the hellhound pouncing on each other and biting each other. I was running to help, when Clefspere let out a cry of pain. The hellhound had its teeth clamped around his neck. I threw my sword like a javelin and it pierced the hellhound's stomach and it let go of Clefspere. Then Clefspere placed one of his legs on its back and then tore its neck out, with his claws.
Clefspere had four large gashes on his chest that were bleeding profusely. "We better get you some medical attention." I said. He responded by saying, "No I will heal myself." Then he blew fire on his wounds and they slowly started to close. I was flabbergasted. "How?" "Fire has the ability to harm and to heal." He said. I then just nodded my head, because I did not want him to waste time explaining and let him smell Annabeth's hair again.
We slowly walked to where Annabeth was and saw a shelter next to a huge tree. It looked one with the trees, so unless someone was looking for it, they would overlook it. I walked inside and saw Coach Hedge tending to Mark, who was deathly pale. I was about to say hello, when Coach Hedge suddenly spoke," Well don't just stand there, help me." So I walked over and asked," What happened and where's Annabeth?" He told me about how he saved Annabeth right before she died and how she had the blessing of Athena, which increased her speed and strength in battle and how she was resting in another room, he then preceded to tell me how Mark fell and lost a lot of his blood and how he was slowly dying and how it would take a miracle to save him.
I started thinking on ways to save Mark, but couldn't think of any. I went outside to ask Clefspere, about what we should do. I told him the situation then asked," What should we do?" "Bring him out here, I think I can help." So I told Coach Hedge that I had a friend, who might be able to help. He reluctantly put Mark on a stretcher and we lifted him outside. We set Mark on the ground, who was growing paler by the minute. Then Clefspere came out of hiding. Coach Hedge immediately started screaming, "Die!" And started to run at Clefspere with his bare hands. I grabbed Coach Hedge and shoved him back saying, "This is my friend, his name is Clefspere, so don't attack him."
Coach Hedge went inside and grabbed his baseball bat and said," If any monsters show up, I can brain them." But I think he just wanted to make sure Clefspere didn't try anything. "Before I do this, where is my mate?" Coach Hedge just said, "She tried to kill us, so we killed her." Clefspere started to move towards Coach Hedge, while growling menacingly. "You killed her?" He hissed. Coach Hedge, being the satyr that he was, said," Yes I killed her." Right before the two started to kill each other, I cut in" Clefspere, she was trying to kill Coach, just like you were trying to kill me and Coach don't provoke him, he just lost someone really important to him, what would you do if someone killed Mellie?"
Coach Hedge looked away with regret in his eyes. He then slowly started to trudge back to his shelter. Clefspere was looking at the ground, no doubt lost in his memories. "Clefspere please save Mark. You owe me for not killing you and if you do this, then your debt will be paid." I stated. He looked at me, and then nodded. "This might take a while, better get comfortable." Clelfspere said. I sat on the ground, as I watched Clefspere lower his neck to Mark's body and start to breathe bright orange flames, which engulfed Mark.
I covered my eyes and quickly walked away from the blinding light. After what seemed like hours, the light finally stopped and once I blinked the dark spots out of my eyes, I could see. I looked around until I found Mark; he was lying on the ground and was completely healed. Everything.
I looked for Clefspere and saw him lying a couple of feet away, breathing heavily. I heard him muttering," Never… Blown fire… For that long… At one time…" I looked back at Mark and could see his complexion coming back. I then lifted Mark's body and carried him into the leafy shelter. I set him down on an empty bed and searched for Annabeth, only to find her breathing heavily from another nightmare.
Annabeth's POV
I opened my eyes and instantly shot upwards, still in shock of my nightmare. Nico was captured by the enemy. Who knows what they could be doing to him right now? I could imagine him in a bright white room, struggling against his captors.
That thought almost made me laugh, Nico hates the color white. Then I noticed that someone was by my bed and was looking at me. It was Percy. "Another nightmare? Want to talk about it?" He asked. I nodded my head and then told him everything. He frowned and said," Robert and Theseus huh. Well we better start traveling to Kansas."
After he helped me up, we started walking through some rooms, until we walked to Mark. He looked a lot better, all of his wounds were healed and he was sleeping peacefully. I then turned to Percy and asked," How did you defeat your dragon?" He then proceeded to tell me how he fought the dragon and saved the forest from burning down, and how he was about to kill it when he heard it speak, then he befriended it and how it healed Mark. I was shocked to say the least. Coach Hedge then gave me my invisibility cap saying," You left this on the Argo Two."
We were walking outside, when we head the sound of horse neighs and the pounding of hooves. The pegasi had returned and were looking around with fear. I could tell Percy was talking to them and attempting to calm them. It partially worked.
Guido, the stupid pagasi that left me to die, was not listening, as he flew into the sky and was soon a black spec in the sky. I turned around to ask Percy what they were afraid of, when a dragon emerged from the trees. It was one thousand pounds and it was a rust red color and had a sea green wave design on its side.
I looked at Percy and he just nodded. I looked back to the dragon and asked," You can talk?" It nodded. Then Percy said," He can only talk to me, because I guess I am kind of half monster now… Anyway his name is Clefspere and you, kind of killed his mate…"
I did a typical seaweed brain response, that went something like," Oh. Sorry." Then Clefspere, after one last look at Percy, flapped his powerful wings and launched himself into the sky, heading north. "Where is he going?" I questioned. Percy replied," To rally the good dragons to our cause, looks like we just got some reinforcements."
"What are you guys talking about?" A voice behind us asked. I turned around and saw Mark and Coach Hedge. I ran forward and engulfed Mark in a hug that rivaled a Cyclopes'. He started trying to break free and saying," Can't… Breathe…" I quickly released him and then commanded," Never scare me like that ever again!" He nodded and then I started filling him in on everything he had missed. After I was done explaining, we walked inside to grab all of our supplies. I had some drachmas, mortal money, ambrosia, nectar and first aid supplies. Coach Hedge gave us some food and water, which we ate and drank greedily, since we had not eaten since camp.
We then walked outside and all of us climbed onto Blackjack. "Can he hold all of us?" Mark asked. Blackjack stomped his foot and neighed. Percy said," He said, Of course I can, I can fly as long as you want." Then Blackjack leapt into the sky and started beating his black wings, we were soon flying west towards Kansas.
We spent the ride making small talk and stopping to eat. Sometimes Percy would buy some doughnuts for Blackjack and he looked like he would faint from happiness. After a couple hours of flying, we were in Missouri, just one State away from Kansas.
There was a storm ahead that looked a couple of miles wide and it was getting dark, so we started descended to the ground, when suddenly I felt pain shoot through my body and I slipped out of consciousness…
There we go chapter five of Percy Jackson The Cursed. Most of my chapters will be at least three thousand words. So we are going to try this again and ask who were the Giant Banes of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades? MakaidosTheFirst signing off.
