A/N: If any one wants to know, SPOILER ALERT: Danny is not the one of the prophecy; but he does have his own prophecy. Thanks for the reviews. I hope you people enjoy this, it took me a day to finish.
Chapter 7: Attack of the Demon Ghosts and Pigeons
Percy's POV:
After I capped Riptide, I heard everyone gasp for about the third time. What now; what could be so surprising after everything that happened tonight? I turned over to Danny to see that his hair was sticking up, sparks dancing from one hair to the next. I looked above his head, and saw something that topped everything else that happened tonight; Tyson was my new brother, a ghost had attacked camp, or how Danny could somehow become a ghost (but that wasn't that surprising after the first time we saw him). Above Danny's head floated a golden brilliantly bright hologram –like figure that looked like the back of a quarter; it was an Eagle with its wings out stretched, and it had a cluster of lightning bolts in each talon. Danny had been claimed by the King of the Heavens, of all Gods, Zeus.
I felt a mixture of emotions as I saw the figure: surprise, relief, and I felt bad for Danny. Surprise, because Zeus had broken the oath, again. Relief, because I didn't have the weight of the prophecy, air-go the world, over my shoulders. Lastly, I felt bad for Danny because now it was his responsibility. From what I heard about the prophecy, he would either save or destroy Olympus.
After dinner, Danny started to go back to the Hermes cabin, when I stopped him.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Back to my cabin, I'm tired." He started to go past me when I put a hand out in front of him.
"You're not in the Hermes cabin, your Zeus's child; you belong in his cabin." At first he looked confused, but then he figured it out.
"Thanks. Do you think you could show me where it is?" He asked.
"Sure, it's right over there, cabin one. It's the bulkiest, and made of polished bronze." I said.
"Thanks." He started to go over to the cabin, and I followed, because my cabin was right next to his. He looked behind him at me and stopped.
"What, are you in Zeus's cabin?" He asked.
"No, I'm Poseidon's child; I'm in cabin three." I pointed to my low, but long, grey stoned cabin. As we headed over to our cabins, I couldn't help but ask,
"How do you do that?" I asked. He gave me a confused looked.
"Do what?"
"Become uh, you know; change into the, uh, ghost I think it is?"
"It's a long story. I became like that in a lab accident. I'll tell you in the mourning."
"Ok. Good night." I said, and I walked into my cabin, to find Tyson sitting on one of the beds. For a while, I forgot that he was my new half brother.
Danny's POV:
Well at least I didn't have to worry about being claimed; or staying in the Hermes cabin for the rest of my days at Camp Half- Blood.
As I approached the two doors, it seemed like lightning was streaking across them. When I opened the doors, I saw six empty bunk beds, each bed having a nightstand. I looked around the room, and there were two desks, each one was empty on the surface. I walked over to the one of the middle bunks, and sat down.
I heard a pop and I turned to the nightstand, and lying there was a small box, with a note attached to it. I opened the note, and it read,
These will help in battle, and training. If you loose them they shall come back to you. Prepare yourself son.
I was guessing it was from my father, Zeus; unless it was shipped to the wrong cabin.
I opened the box, and found two other notes.
Αρπακτικό πτηνό, World War II.
And
Αξιόπιστος, World War I.I'd have to ask someone if they know what these mean.
After the notes, I found a clicky top pen, and a bronze, thick coin. The odd thing about the pen was that it also had a twisty bottom, and engraved on it was Αρπακτικό πτηνό. The coin had Αξιόπιστος circling the edges of the coin; on one side it was an eagle, and on the other side it was a head, I think it was Zeus's head.
I clicked the pen and,
"WOW!" It started to grow and get heavier in my hand, until it became a silverfish sword, with a black handle and silver handle. Going up the blade was a black triangle that went up to about the middle of the sword on both sides. Engraved on the blade of the sword was Αρπακτικό πτηνό. I was trying to figure out how to make it go back to the pen, and I found directions on a tag of the box. Twist the handle counter clockwise three times, then clockwise ½ the way around the handle. When I did that, a small silver cylinder popped out of the bottom. I clicked it, and went back to being a pen.
Next I twisted it, and jumped back in surprise as the bottom of the pen popped open in four different rectangles. In it was a bronze cylinder that had two pointed edges. When I picked it up, it started to glow blue. It was surprising when the cylinder started to spark, and began to look like a lightning bolt. I put in back in the pen, and it stopped.
I looked at the directions for the coin, and I clicked the ο on the coin, and the edges started to extend, soon it became a huge shield, with a snake haired lady on the front, and lighting bolts engraved around the edges. On the inside, it said Αξιόπιστος.
"wow…" I kept reading the directions, until I realized how tired I was. I lied down on my bed and fell asleep.
When I woke up, I remembered everything that happened the previous day, grabbed my crutches, the pen, and the coin and went out the door. I saw Annabeth talking to Sam, and headed over.
"Hey guys,"
"Hey Danny." Sam said.
"Hi." I got out my pen and coin, and showed them to Annabeth.
"Wow… This sword and shield were used in World War I and II. The translation of Αρπακτικό πτηνό is Arpaktiko ptino, Raptor, translated word by word though it says Predator Bird; and the translation of Αξιόπιστος is Axiopistos, Reliable. Raptor is a mixture of metals from a meteor, celestial bronze, steel, iron, and it was dipped in the River Styx. Reliable is from the same mixture." She gave the pen and coin back to me. She also gave me some nectar, saying that it would help my bones heal. She was right. I could already tell that my arm was healed, and my leg was half way there.
"Sam told me how you became half ghost; it's pretty interesting. I didn't think that mortals could create a portal into the ghost world." Annabeth said.
"That makes me wonder; isn't there an underworld? If there is why is there a ghost zone?" Sam asked Annabeth.
"Well, the spirits who either aren't accepted into the Underworld or they just have something left to do, then they have their own world to live in; a ghost world." Annabeth answered.
When we went to the pavilion, all eyes were on me; like they were expecting me to do something like juggle ectoplasm, or shoot lightning from my fingertips. I was going to sit down with Sam and Tucker at the Hermes Table, when someone pointed out that it's against the rules to sit at other cabin's tables. Sam headed over to the Demeter table, and I headed over to the empty Zeus table.
After breakfast, Annabeth said she was going to go talk to Percy about chariot designs, and Sam reminded Tucker and I that we still had to call our parents. We headed out of the boundary's, said hi to the people guarding the camp, and I became Phantom. We flew to the nearest gas station, and pulled out our cell phones. I dialed my mom's number and waited.
"Hello, Danny?" my mom answered her phone.
"Hey mom, yeah it's Danny."
"Danny! Where are you? We've been worried sick."
"Well mom, I'm at a place called Camp Half Blood. I think I'm going to be staying here for a while; do you think you could send me my stuff?" There was silence. Then my mom said,
"How did you get there?"
"We got in a cab to get while escaping a ghost."
"A GHOST!" A ghost was chasing you!" She sounded worried.
"Yeah mom, a ghost. I'll tell you about it later. My battery is running extremely low. I need to tell you something else. Apparently those Greek myths, Monsters and the 12 Olympian Gods…"
"Yes, Danny I know they're real."
"What? Wait, you knew about this stuff all this time; and you never told us!"
"Well Danny, if I told you about this world, who you are, then it would have been easier for the monsters to track you down. Danny, you're a demigod. I son of…"
"Yeah, Zeus. I know. I was claimed last night."
"Oh. Well I guess I'll have to explain everything too. Listen, Danny, I…." She stopped speaking.
"Mom, hello?" I looked at the phone to see that it was dead. I sighed then said,
"Crap." I decided that I would charge my phone back at camp, and call them again later. Little did I know that I wouldn't be able to call here for the next few weeks.
We flew back to camp, and I transformed back behind a wall. As I started to walk, well hop, back to where I left my crutches, someone grabbed my shoulder, and I jumped (hopped) in surprise.
"So, how do you become a ghost?" It was Percy, amused that he surprised me.
Percy's POV
"Uhhhhhh, yeah. I'll tell you on the way to the pine tree, that's where I left my crutches." As we walked, he explained about the lab accident and how he decided that he was the only one who could protect Amity Park. I still didn't understand one thing.
"Cool; but there isn't a ghost world; there's an underworld though."
"Yeah, my friend Sam was confused about that too, but Annabeth explained that the spirits that aren't accepted into the underworld or the ones that have things left to do are ghosts, and they have their own part of the Underworld. That's the ghost zone." He told me. When we got to his crutches, he started to go back down the hill, towards his cabin.
Danny's POV
The next mourning, I got up and started to unwrap my leg. When it was unwrapped my leg, and it was completely healed. Sure it was sore, but it wasn't bad.
I heard a pop and I looked behind me to see that a duffle bag and a backpack was sitting on the bunk next to me. Apparently mom also knows how to use mythological transportation. I opened the duffle bag to find all my cloths and my telescope. I opened the backpack, and there was ghost hunting equipment. It included an extra Fenton thermos, a few ecto-lasers, and to top it all off, there was a small pentagon in the bottom. Attached to the pentagon, there was a note. It said,
Place it against a wall, and click the bottom on the top, and blast the ghost- portal gun into it. I pressed the button, and it expanded into a seven foot tall, six foot wide pentagon with a siren on the top, and an ecto-filtrater on it. NO WAY. I blasted the inside of the pentagon with the portable ghost portal gun, and the portal began to expand until it covered the whole inside of the pentagon. I took out the thermos and plugged it into the side of the portal, and I saw Skulker get sucked into the portal, then I put my thumb on a control panel on the other side of the portal and two doors shut in the portal. Wow, my parents built another portal for me.
Over the next few days, I prepared for the chariot race. One of the campers, Silena Beauregard, was nice enough to show me how to ride a Pegasus. I had a shaky lift off, but eventually I got the hang of it. I was used to flying. Next I had to figure out how to build a chariot. Beckendorf from the Hephaestus cabin helped me there. He showed me how to build one, and let me watch his cabin build his.
After that, I started to design the chariot. Millions of sketches of what it should look like, sketches for aerodynamics, designing tricks I could put into the chariot, even scale models that had robot horses. Then the only thing left was building it.
Everyone had a partner in the chariot race; except for me. Percy was working with Annabeth, Tucker was working with the rest of the Hermes cabin, and Sam wasn't participating. But I found a solution to that, for ever since the Dan Phantom incident, I had trained a lot more. I was finally able to split into two forms, so I did have a partner. Myself.
I was in my cabin when I tried it for the first time for weeks. I became Phantom, and started splitting. When I was completely split, the two of us headed to the forgeries to start building the chariot. When I walked in, someone was walking around with molten hot metal, and hit both of me in the chest. Steam rose, and the person that hit us kept saying,
"Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry!"
"Annabeth?" I recognized her voice and she obviously recognized mine.
"Danny? Sorry about that!"
"It's not a problem; really there isn't even a burn mark." When the steam cleared, she took a look at both our chests and said,
"Wow, it must be some kind of ghostly protection. How ghosts are cold, maybe they're immune to heat." It looked like she was thinking of theorys, when my clone said,
"Maybe, but I actually have more powers than ghosts; so it could just be another power." Annabeth looked up at the other me, then looked back at me, and said,
"Wait, who are… how do you… who are you?" She asked the other me. I answered her,
"It's another one of my powers. I can split myself in two, and I decided since there was no one else to help me with my chariot, why not myself?" Annabeth decided to shrug it off and went back to what she was doing with one of her cabin mates.
"Where's Percy?" I asked.
"We aren't working together anymore; we had a fight and he's working with Tyson." Then I thought of something that people called me and Sam in school.
"Oh, do you two love birds need couples counseling?" Her cabin mate started laughing, then she gave him a stare, and punched both of me's arms.
"WE AREN'T LOVE BIRDS!" She yelled at me.
"Funny how that's how love birds" The other me said with a huge grin. I finished his sentence with "react when called love birds." That gave me a second thought, because Sam and I react that way when called love birds…Nah.
Annabeth started blushing and just started working again. I began working on my chariot, first I went over to a huge vat that had molten hot metal in it, and I got an idea thanks to what happened earlier.
"I" I said, and the other me finished it. "wounder…" Both of us put our hands in the molten hot metal, and steam began rising up. Annabeth saw what we were doing.
"What are you doing!"
"Testing" my other self said, and I said "a theory." When we took our hands out of the metal, our hands were unharmed, and in the vat, there were two hand prints of solid metal.
"Cool." He both said in unison. Annabeth rolled her eyes and went back to work. Me and other Danny started to bend, cool, and shape metals. After two or three days of working in the forge, I was able to make my own armor, and finish my chariot. It was made completely from steel; its background was black, with silver lightning bolts streaking the sides. It the front was my logo, a P inside of a D, in silver, and in the center of the P was a golden eagle. The wheels were reinforced studded steel; I had a feeling that was going to be a target for other charioteers.
In the remaining time I had from now and the day of the race, I decided to go down to the coliseum to practice my fighting. I got my armor, which was black and silver with a DP on the front, and started to practice with an Athena camper. He showed me the basics, and I took it from there. After about two hours of sword play I had bettered the Athena camper, two Apollo campers, and three Hermes campers. The next day after about seven hours strait of sword play, I was about ready to retire. I clicked the bottom of the sword, and it became a pen. Then I heard someone challenge me,
"Do you think you can take me?" I turned around to see Percy standing there with a pen in his hand.
"I bet I could." I grinned. Maybe he would be a challenge. He uncapped the pen and it became a long bronze sword. I clicked my pen and it became my sword. When out swords clashed sparks flew, and we engaged in a battle between strength, speed, and skill. Percy looked surprised. He slashed right, I blocked right, I slashed down, and he barely was able to block it. This was fun.
Percy's POV
Danny was good. Surprisingly good. I couldn't disarm him, he even almost disarmed me. We were engaged in battle for what seemed like hours. He bet he could, and he probably could take me. As we fought, I said
"You're good."
"You're good too."
"Give up yet?"
"Never." We both started to sweat, the air seemed like it was heating up; We were both breathing heavily. This could take a while.
Danny's POV
It seemed like hours, but by the position of the sun, it has only been about one hour. Percy and I were soaked in sweat, and both exhausted. Slash after slash, block after block, traveling back and forth around the coliseum, we were getting no where. I needed an edge. Wait, duh! I have ghost powers. Two rings started to form around my waist. Percy at first looked distracted by them, but he kept fighting hard. When I was fully transformed, I felt less exhausted, and the heat wasn't affecting me. I felt a burst of strength, and rapidly slashed at Percy, causing him to back up. When Raptor caught the handle of Percy's sword, I flipped it up into the air and held my sword to Percy's throat.
"Surrender?"
"Never!" He rolled out of my path, grabbed his sword, and disarmed me with a swish of his sword, and held it at my throat.
"Do you surrender?"
"Well… no." I waved at him and sank through the ground.
Percy's POV
Danny waved and went through the ground. I looked around, then stopped when I felt the tip of a blade touch the back of my neck.
"I think you now what I'm going to ask." He said
"I think you'll know my answer" I took my sword, twisted around, and countered his blow. After the next few minutes he began to wear me down. Then I had a plan. I backed up farther and farther until I got to the drinking area. As soon as we got there I fought with Riptide in one hand, and poured a bucket of water over my head, and I felt a burst of strength come over me, and we were now evenly matched. We fought for maybe the next hour, and we became so exhausted, Danny became human again, and my burst of strength was over. We then decided to call it a day, and a tie.
When we looked around the coliseum, and there was a small group of people watching us, they included Annabeth and Tyson, and Danny's friends Sam and Tucker were in the coliseum too. We decided just to walk away, too tired to talk to anyone.
After dinner, we both just went to our cabins, and collapsed; muscles aching.
Danny's POV
After the long day of sword play, polishing up, oiling, and other preparations for my chariot, I was exhausted. I headed back to my cabin, and then fell asleep.
That night, I had another weird dream. I saw the goat boy talking to a blank wall, and I couldn't hear him, actually, I couldn't hear anything. I saw the goat boy all off a sudden flinch, and look back to a bolder. Then I tried to read his lips. What I saw turned out to be something like this: um, I'm really sory about this empafy link… wel, I had no choice. Our emotions r connected now. If I di… Oh, wel, perhaps not. U mite live 4 years in a vegetative state. But, uh, it wood b a lot better if u got me out of here. I was stunned. So somehow I was in an empafy, or empathy, link with this goat boy, and somebody else. I gulped; if he died, I could die too. I had to find out who this was, and how I could save him.
I woke up in cold sweet. I looked at the clock: 7:00 am. It was time to get up anyways, and it was the day of the chariot race. When I walked outside, I saw everyone working on their chariot before breakfast. I decided to go and get mine prepared too. This was going to be fun.
Percy's POV
I couldn't believe Annabeth didn't believe me. When I finished talking to her, Danny came up to me.
"I heard what you and Annabeth were talking about over there, and I think we've been having the same dream." Danny told me.
"What are you talking about?"
"That goat boy, being in the cave. And if he dies you could also die too. I had that same dream last night." Ok, I know that Annabeth didn't believe me about this, but Danny MUST be trying to distract me from the chariot race. Both of us having the same dream? Yeah right. Why would Grover have an empathy link with Danny? The two don't even know each other. He was probably just hiding, and heard the whole thing I told Annabeth.
"The "goat boy's" name is Grover. And why should I believe you? He doesn't even know you. Why would he make an empathy link with you? You're trying to distract me from the race." Danny raised an eyebrow. "Yeah I know, me and Annabeth were just fighting about that; but both of us having the same dream, involving a person you don't know… Yeah right." Danny sighed.
"I said it to Annabeth, and I'll say it to you: you two love birds need couples counseling." I felt blood rush up to my.
"WE AREN"T LOVE BIRDS?" I yelled at him. Danny had a look of amusement on his face an started walking away.
"Whatever. See you at the track." Danny said. Then I asked him,
"Wait, your racing? Who are you racing with?"
"Myself."
"What?"
"You'll see." He walked back to his cabin to get his armor and I started walking to mine.
Danny's POV
When I got my armor and put the reins on the Pegasus, brought them to the coliseum, and hooked them up to the chariot. I made last minute checks for everything, made sure all the buttons were functional, made sure the wheels were well oiled, and everything else was in place. I got into the chariot, went ghost, split forms, and gave Reliable to my other self. Before the race began, I took a look at the other charioteers. All the cabin's leaders were in their chariots, Percy for Poseidon's cabin, Beckendorf for Hephaestus's cabin, Annabeth for Athena's cabin, I wasn't sure who led the Apollo cabin, Clarisse for the Ares cabin, and the Stoll brothers for the Hermes cabin. Percy was doing the same thing, and it looked like he couldn't believe his eyes when he looked at who I was racing with.
Before the race started, he ran over to my chariot, and asked me,
"How are there two of you?" He seemed really confused.
"It's one of my powers…"
"Charioteers, attend to your mark!" Tantalus shouted.
"I'll tell you more about it after the race." I told him as he ran to his chariot. Tantalus waved his arm and the race started. I extended my sword and shield. I heard two crashes to see that two of the chariots have all ready crashed. Two chariots were down in less than a minute. This is the best sport I've ever played.
I was pulling up in front of the Ares, when I heard Beckendorf say,
"Sorry Danny!" I looked behind me and saw Beckendorf press a button, and three sets of balls and chains shot out towards my wheels.
"Uh, uh, uh!" The other me yelled as I went intangible along with my chariot, and the chains passed right through my wheels. Beckendorf had a look of surprise.
"Yeah, and" I said as the other e finished "sorry about this." I pressed one of the green buttons, and a small ecto-goo gun shot backwards at Beckendorf's chariot. The goop landed on the horses, the driver, and the wheel. The horses started to rear in fright of being blind, the driver had no idea what was happening, and the goop was slowing the wheels down. Then one of the chariot's wheels came to a stop, and broke. The chariot flipped over, and I split again. The other other me flew over and saved the Hephaestus campers from being crushed. I decided to keep the third me out there to save anyone who needed saving.
When I looked forward I saw a flock of pigeons going towards the track; at first I thought they were just ordinary pigeons but then I started to hear screaming. I looked over to the crowd to see the pigeons dive bombing everyone. They dive bombed me, but I just went intangible and they ended up on the ground. The third me went over to Annabeth, and asked,
"What are those?"
"Stymphalian birds!" They'll strip everyone to the bone if we don't drive them away!" The third me went back to me and I absorbed both duplicates back, and I stopped my chariot. I flew up to attack them, when I heard a music of violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The birds started to go crazy, and the Apollo campers began shooting them out of the sky. That's it! The hate the sound! That's their weakness. I thought of the best attack I could do that would affect the pigeons the most. The ghostly wail. I sucked in a deep breath and let out my ghostly wail. All the pigeons started screaming and falling to the ground. After I was done, I followed what they were doing. I started to float slowly to the ground, and transformed back, nearly collapsing from the energy I was using. Sam and Tucker rushed over to my side.
"We have out winner!" He gave a golden laurel to a stunned Clarisse.
"And now to punish those responsible. He said with a smile towards Percy, Annabeth, and I.
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this. I worked all day on it.