Jayden's P.O.V.
For a brief moment he was wondering what the Hades had just happened. Here he was in the river holding a girl he just met, not to mention the fact that she was half-nude. But, he couldn't help it he felt compelled to be with her, like his father had once described to him, about the sirens he and Jayden's mother had faced. Jayden wanted to smack himself, this was totally out of character for him. Whether or not he liked he, he felt guilty playing with her emotions like that.
Mica had started humming softly, a soft and sweet tune that Jayden could listen to forever. The song slowly grew louder, and more lovely, the song seemed to echo through the calm river. He moved his ear toward Mika check, feeling compelled to move toward the voice. Though to his dismay she was not the source of the music, without even listening to his inner warnings he started to follow the sound on the voice.
Mica's P.O.V.
As soon as Jayden started to pull away, she started to wonder what she did wrong. She turned slightly to look at Jayden and saw something terribly wrong, he looked like he was a zombie. His eyes were glazed, and he looked like he was going to drool. He turned slowly, but frantically to her.
"Do you hear that? I need to find it, I must get to it," He murmured. Though I couldn't hear a thing, but there he was wadding down-stream, stumbling around, blindly searching for the song that he claims to hear. I of course swam after him, wanting to know what was going on. As he swam faster I struggled to keep up. Even in this slower state, he was extremely fast, like the water was helping him get there quicker. Though if whoever was there was causing Jayden to act like this, she wasn't sure she wanted to meet them. But of course it was to late to wish for that.
Jayden's P.O.V.
He had just reached the bottom of a mini water fall when he saw where the voice was coming from. And there perched on the rocks , was his mother. Her honey-golden hair was tied up into a ponytail, and her bouncing curls dangled just above her shoulders. Her gray eyes shone as she saw her son. For a moment it was just her, then his father appeared, his black hair tousled, and his sea green eyes were full of pride. It was all he ever really wanted. His family again. But as he wadded closer, his mother started to change, her face darkening, and her teeth sharpening. But this was what he wanted right? To be a family again, like so many of his fellow demigod camper. Why shouldn't he have that kind of life? After everything his parents had done. He stopped, those were not his thoughts, if he wanted anything he was going to earn it, not inherit everything like some others. He looked up to his father, but he was not there, in his place was a gruesome, salamander like creature. Sirens.
Mica's P.O.V.
Jayden was standing in about chest deep water, and staring at some rocks. On the rocks was tiny little salamander, but there was something odd about them, a strange aura, that gave them an appearance of being something much more sinister. Maybe it was a kind of puppet monster. Though from her limited knowledge, all she could discern was that this monster was really only powerful through it's ability to manipulate the visions of others, and at the moment it's prey was Jayden.
The next thing that happened, happened in a blink of an eye. Jayden spun around, eyes wide, and the shadowy aura of the creature tackled him. All of the sudden water exploded around them, dragging Mica, under the water. She coughed and sputtered as soon as she broke the surface again, only to see Jayden standing tall, and the water swirling around his waist. Shadowy arms reached up, as if to drag him down into the depths of hell. Then Jayden started to glow. Quite literally, emanated a golden light. If Mika hadn't been drowning at the moment, she might have made a sarcastic remark on how he resembled a glow stick, but our heroine was at the time unavailable. As the shadows drew closer to Jayden, the golden aura seemed to burn them away, destroying the shadows with light. It was almost as if he were a god.
Jayden's P.O.V.
What Jayden had thought was a siren, turned out to be a full 10x worse. He remembered Chiron's words of a new evil "Bits of Chaos are rising to the surface, causing the most harmless thing to result in creatures of nightmares. Pray to your father that I may be mistaken, that what I fear is not to be the case." From what appeared before him now, Chiron's worse fears have been realized. But the problem Jayden had was that he had no idea what these things are.
Τσουνάμι. He pulled with mind calling. The sword that his grandfather, Poseidon had given him when he had turned twelve, and become a full fledged member of the camp. Tsunami. He felt the leather handle materialize in his hand, and smiled, oh how he loved that feeling. He called to the knife his grandmother Athena had given him when he was born. Φρόνηση. Wisdom. A sword like his father, and a knife like his mother. And he had the skill and wit of both.
He focused his energy into finding the source of all of the monsters core. A new development in destroying the monsters that tormented the race of half-blood that was secret to the rest of the world. His mother had discovered it after the famous war with the ancient goddess Gaea. Monsters have a sort of aura, and at the center of that aura is a core. If you were to focus all of you power, and energy at that one point, and strike, you could take a monster down with a single strike, and leave nothing but a pile of golden dust in your wake. It was how his mother, who had none of the powers of the other legendary seven made herself even more indispensable. Though to be honest even without that crucial skill, she would never be dispensable, because of her wisdom, cunning nature. It was why his dad loved her more than anything in the world, or anywhere else for that matter.
He found it. A hard black point of energy focused in the center of the swirling arms of darkness that were trying to drag him down. It was stupid really. Trying to drown a child of the sea. Jayden focused his energy toward the core, and swung the blade dead center.
Mica's P.O.V.
Jayden couldn't see what Mica could see, she could see the core perfectly clear, and it was a newt. If Mika hadn't been struggling not to drown she would have found the notion of Jayden battling a little newt would have been hilarious, but much to her dismay, she was. Mica pulled back all of her memories of the stories of legend her mother and father had told her as a child, and all the annoying and tedious assignments she had been assigned in her mythology course.
The only thing that she could think of was overshadowing, similar to eidolons, which could posses the bodies of any unsuspecting host. Her father had told her about the story where a few, had taken over his body along with his friends. But this didn't seem to be the case here. It wasn't so much as possesing, or overshadowing, rather it was like a whole new force stealing, and implanting itself entirely. Rather than pulling strings like a puppet master, this seamed to take full possession, and to an extent, connect its own form to that of the newt, like adding a new embodiment to the newt.
Suddenly Mica was suffocating, not from the water, but a dark black smoke was covering her, surrounding her body. She couldn't move, it was like she was stuck in a block of stone, thought stone felt like you were secure, but this was like dangling in the air, and in terrified Mica. Why did it just suddenly envelope her? Wasn't Jayden it's target? Why her, but then she realized, it's core was not longer centered in the newt on the rocks, in fact the newt had turned into a small pile of golden dust. The core no longer had a body, so it needed hers.
Jayden's P.O.V.
Before Jayden could deliver the final blow, the core of the demon suddenly disappeared. What? Not a single strike, yet the core in front of him has shriveled into nothing more than a ring of ash. Where had it-. The thought stopped, dead in his mind as he turned to see the accumulating darkness that was enveloping Mica. She hung, suspended in the air, traditional Greek robes, covered her body in black silk. No. It couldn't. It wanted her as a host.
The next thing that happened surprised Jayden more than anything else could have. Mica. She shone brighter than Apollo, (and Jayden knew that for a fact, he had met the flirtatious god himself). The evil spirit around her melted away leaving her shining in glory. The once black robes now shown out in a brilliant scarlet, finalized with bands of gold encircling her upper arms and crowning her forehead. She looked like a goddess. Shinning pure, and golden.
Her golden aura faded, and she began to fall. Jayden reached out with hands of water to catch the motionless girl as she fell from her throne of golden dawn. As she submerged into the water, Jayden could feel every breath, every heart beat of Mica. He rushed over to her body, which he had surrounded in a barrier of water, to protect her from anything else that could harm her.
Jayden held her limp body in his arms. She still was covered in a tunic of red silk, and bands of gold encircled her arms and forehead. Her breath was shallow against his chest, he needed to get her back to camp quickly. Saria, would know more about helping her than he would. Though something still raised the hairs on the back of his neck. A normal demigod, even with a weapon, would have been consumed, but Mica had consumed it, she purified it. Now how would one explain that?