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'First, the weird dreams. Now, I collapse without an explanation? What's going on?' Jaden thought, too lost in his thoughts to see Grover and Annabeth looking at him, concern written on their features.
"Sarge! You're awake!" Hassleberry exclaimed. A little late.
Jaden snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Hassleberry. He smiled softly. "Yeah. I'm awake, Hassleberry."
"That's great, partner," Jesse commented, smiling. A soft blush bloomed on Jaden's features before he looked away. Annabeth and Grover walked, or limped in Grover's case, over and gave Jaden a small hug each before moving back.
Before anyone could say anything else, Percy's phone rang, filling the room with the sound of There For Tomorrow's song, I Can't Decide. "Hello? ..Chiron? ..Slow down. I can't understand.. Damn it," He hissed, "Don't worry, we'll find them. Promise, Chiron."
Percy paused for a moment to listen to Chiron on the other line, aware of Annabeth and Grover's gazes on him as well as the confused ones from the other occupants of the room.
"Chiron.. What?! Now?! ..You have got to be kidding me!" Percy shouted, surprising everyone with the volume of his voice. Percy glanced at Annabeth and Grover, his eyes telling them that something bad was coming.
Coming for them.
"We'll be alright, Chiron. I'll ring you later." Percy hung up. He sighed, frustrated.
Jaden, sensing there was something really bothering his brother, placed a hand on his shoulder. Percy's head snapped over to look at Jaden and he relaxed slightly but still looked tense.
Hassleberry didn't notice.
But Jesse did.
Out of the blue, water exploded from the taps in the bathroom, flying through the air. Percy had caused this. But he couldn't control the water now because he felt so frustrated and lost.
Annabeth and Grover each grabbed one of his arms and hauled him out of the room. Once Percy was out of the room, the water stopped flowing. Jaden stared at the entrance to the bathroom, completely bewildered by recent events.
"Percy, you need to control your powers," Annabeth hissed lowly at him, smacking him on the arm when they were out of the room.
Percy visibly shook with frustration and slight fear. "Guys, Chiron said that he got word from the Gods that some of the monsters have gone rogue and are coming here to attack us and the Half-Bloods here. Kronos is also sending his own friends to try and snag my brother," Percy explained his conversation with Chiron, tears gathering in the corner of his eyes as he thought about his brother being attacked by Kronos' minions.
Annabeth pulled him into a hug. "He'll be fine, Percy. From what he told you about his adventures here in the last two years, he'll be fine. I have complete faith in him and you."
Grover nodded his head in agreement.
Percy smiled. An image flash across his vision. A demonic female with wings and one orange eye and one green eye. She also had one hugs eye in the center of her forehead. Her hair was purple on one half and white on the other half and it was untamed. She had a sadistic smile on her teal coloured lips.
Percy stumbled back a step. He was bewildered by what he had seen.
"Percy, you okay?"
The three Half-Bloods turned to the door to see Jaden standing there, watching his brother with concern. Jaden may not have been the smartest person alive but he knew that Percy had caused the water to spray in the bathroom.
Jaden's brother smiled. "I'm okay, Jaden. What are you doing up?"
"I was worried about you. And I wanted to ask something. How did you do that water trick in there?" Jaden pointed into the infirmary.
Percy was shocked. How could he explain that to Jaden?
"So, my son thinks that my sending his children to Duel Academy, they'll be safe. Ha! The fool! No-one is safe from me!" A demonic voice roared in his dark home. He appeared to be a part of the darkness itself. His followers had gathered information on where the children of Posiden, Zeus and Hades were. Zeus had one child at Duel Academy while Posiden had three and Hades had one.
"All three brothers betrayed their oath to have no more children. What liars!" The darkness cackled, amused.
"I'll show my sons that their children are not protected from me. Luke! Gather some minions and send them to Duel Academy. Their targets; the children of the three gods!" The darkness cackled again, his voice booming with volume.
Jaden suddenly shivered. Like he knew something was about to go horribly wrong.
Percy had explained about the water thing as being a coincidence but Jaden didn't believe it. Ms. Fontaine had given Jaden the all clear to go back to his dorm but not to do anything to stressful for a little while.
Laying down, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep but sleep would not come to him.
Jaden sighed. He knew that when his mind was wandering, he wouldn't get sleep. Getting up out of bed, Jaden made his way to the door, being careful not to wake Hassleberry or Jesse, who now had the middle bunk as Syrus had been upgraded to Obelisk Blue for the new year.
Sighing in relief when he didn't wake either of them, Jaden headed outside, intending on a walk around the island to clear his mind.
After a while, he found himself wandering down to the beach where he could see some figures in the night. Curious, Jaden stood in the trees, watching the figures.
He knew one of them was Grover. He'd seen the crutches in the sand. But Grover was standing like a normal person. And walking too. No limp what-so-ever.
But what shocked Jaden was the brown, furry goat legs that were inplace of a normal humans legs on Grover.
Inching closer, Jaden could make out their conversation.
"Percy, concentrate on using your powers. You need to practice with them after what happened today with the bathroom," Jaden heard Annabeth say in a low tone.
"Okay, Annabeth," Percy replied. Percy closed his eyes and concentrated.
A moment later, a column of water rose out of the ocean and spun in a spiral, going up taller than the trees. Jaden was utterly shocked. Percy lied to him!
Jaden could feel himself lose control of his senses. He felt like something inside of him was bound and wanted to be free. He struggled to keep a hold of it but his efforts were futile.
A second column of water exploded out of the ocean. It hovered above the water for a moment before shooting its way towards the tree tops above Jaden's head. Like Percy's water, this one spirals around, directly above Jaden.
'Shoot!' He cursed in his head. He realized that Percy had dropped his water back into the ocean and Annabeth, Percy and Grover turned towards the trees in shock. Luckily, they couldn't see Jaden.
Deciding not to be bombarded with questions that he didn't have the answer to, Jaden ran, feeling his power come back to a controllable level. But the water crashed down into the trees sending a wave at Jaden as the water fell down hill to return to its home. Thinking quickly, Jaden ducked behind a tree, narrowly missing the water.
Once the water had gone to only a trickle, Jaden high-tailed it back to his dorm room.
"Percy, why did you move the water that way?" Grover asked.
Percy shook his head. "That wasn't me. I think it had to be Jaden. He's the only other Son of Posiden around that could do that," Percy replied, a little distracted. His mind was whirling with thoughts. How had Jaden tapped into his power? Why now?
Some may have called it cowardly to run scared back to your room after seeing something you never thought was possible. But Jaden couldn't have cared whether he was being a coward or not. He was frightened and he knew nothing about what was happening to him.
Jaden jumped as Hassleberry snored above him, shifting around into a more comfortable position.
He sighed, knowing for sure that sleep wouldn't come to him. Especially not now. But he couldn't go back outside.
A roar echoed in the distance, waking Jesse and startling Jaden.
"Eh? What was that?" Jesse said groggily.
Jaden was already out of his bed, looking through the window in the door of his room. Coming out from the trees was a monster, covered in fur and had two large horns on the top of its head. Its black eyes seemed to be searching for something. Its clawed hands scratched at the trees, leaving indentations.
The monster let out another roar, locating the thing it was searching for.
Staring into Jaden's eyes, the monster smirked wickedly, bounding forward. Jaden let out a choked scream, stumbling back and tripping over Hassleberry's duel disk. He fell to the ground, his eyes locked on the door in horror.
Jesse jumped out of bed at Jaden's scream. "Jaden! What was that?"
Jaden couldn't find the right words to speak. Through his heavy breathing and shaking, he said to Jesse, "A Minotaur, Jess. A M-Minotaur from the G-Greek Mythology."
Jesse gasped. He then hooked his arms under Jaden and lifted him to his feet. "If the Minotaur is coming this way, it means it has to be after one of us. I'll wake Hassleberry. Go out the window! Now!" Jesse screamed.
Nodding, Jaden rushed to the window, flinging it open and jumping out onto the tree. Jesse followed and soon after that, Hassleberry was on the tree as well. The three duelists climbed down the tree and peered around the side of the building.
"Hey there, boy. Remember me?" taunted a voice.
"Percy," Jaden gasped, making Hassleberry and Jesse look at him in confusion.
The Minotaur snarled with recognition, licking its lips at the thought of its revenge. It charged forward. Percy ducked out of the way, his eyes closed in concentration.
Water shot out of the ocean from behind us, flying around the Slifer dorm and it struck the monster in the chest. The Minotaur went tumbling back but didn't stay down long. Its clawed hand struck out at Percy, knocking him onto his side.
"Percy!" A voice yelled.
"Could use some help here, Jim!" Percy screamed back, dodging attacks from the Minotaur. Jim ran down to help, Shirley on his back.
Suddenly, the clouds came over their heads and thunder cackled in the distance.
The Minotaur looked around, sensing something. It didn't have time to react when a lightening bolt struck down onto it from the sky, frying it to a crisp. Percy sat down to catch his breathe.
"Thanks Jim."
Jim tipped his hat. "No problem, mate."
From behind the dorm, Jaden looked on in mild shock. He knew about Percy's power but not Jim's. Jesse and Hassleberry whispered frantically back and forth between each other, in fear and confusion.
Feeling angry, Jaden stepped out from behind the dorm. "What the hell was that?!"
Jim and Percy spun around and were shocked to see Jaden there, anger in his brown eyes. Jesse and Hassleberry had moved out beside him.
"Percy, what the hell was that?! You better start explaining how you can move water and how Jim can control lightening! Now!" Jaden snarled, unaware of his own powers, so close to breaching their barrier.
Percy hadn't wanted Jaden to find out about everything this way. He never wanted him to know at all. But Fate seemed to have different plans.
"Jaden, mate. Look, just calm down and we'll start explaining everything," Jim said calmly, his hands up in the same fashion one would use to approach a dangerous and frightened animal.
But Jaden was far to angry for reasoning. The ocean behind him moved dangerously, the waves crashing against each other. Water began to fly from the ocean in different places, showing how uncontrollable the water was. Hassleberry back away from Jaden, fearing for his own safety but knowing that Jaden had no control over anything scared him because he worried for his Sargent.
Jesse, however, stayed. He placed his hand on Jaden's shoulder in hopes of calming him down.
Surprisingly, it worked. The ocean calmed down and Jaden's power level decreased. Jaden sighed, relieved. He closed his eyes for a moment before opening them to look at Percy.
"Alright. I'll listen."