Chapter 3
Well, this is going to get interesting. A quest is announced! Good thing that I felt happy today or this story could take a very dark turn… Like I said before, Percy Jackson's universe belongs to Disney Hyperion and Rick Riordan. As always, please enjoy! And could you leave a review? I need feedback peoples! I need to know what sucks, or needs to be improved. Oh, btw, I do have a story planned out, but do you have any ideas on what should happen? You can leave that in a review and I'll give you full credit for the story, If I should write it. Is that how fanfiction works? I don't know, still a noob okay? Don't judge!
What is it with greek mythology and demon grandmothers? Old people are bad enough, but add wings and teeth, you can already tell its Greek. So as the demon grandmothers divebombed us,(that's a rare sentence) my only thought was, "Aren't there enough old ladies as it is?"
I pulled out my pen. You're probably thinking I charged out there with a pen threatening to give them an F on their homework, but that wasn't the case. My weapon looked like an ordinary, cheap ballpoint pen. But once I uncapped it, it became a wicked Celestial Bronze sword, leaf shaped and deadly to monsters. Near the hilt the word "riptide" was inscribed in greek. The sword was so balanced and natural in my hands, one would think it was made for me.
I whipped off the cap of my sword- er, pen, and it became a sword. I slashed at one of the ladies with my sword and decapitated her and she turned into a pile of dust. The second one soon had a sword through the chest. But the third caused some problems. Out of nowhere the third one picked me up by the shoulders and flew away, over the lake, trying to make it's getaway.
Annabeth, who finally put that "recover quick thing" to use, flung her knife in the direction of the lady, and what else? Hmm, oh yeah! Me. An impossible shot. But being the incredible, impossible girlfriend she was, she nailed the demon in the head. The knife sank deep into her forehead and she scattered to ash, leaving me falling from 20 feet in the air. Luckily, Annabeth got her when she was right over the lake, so I manipulated the water so it gently put me on the ground.
"You owe me one." Annabeth said with a playful grin.
"Dinner tonight?" I asked already knowing the answer.
"Hey losers! Talk when the monsters are actually dead!" I heard a camper call. I turned to a bunch of piles of ash starting to reform into vaguely human shapes.
"They're reforming?" Annabeth asked in astonishment. "It takes weeks at the very least for that to happen!"
And then I heard a voice that sounded like a lady who had been smoking since she was a baby and was going through a phase of voice cracking say: "Foolish child! We are not monsters you can defeat with the wave of your sword!"
The one next to her piped up as well. "We are the Erinyes! The immortal Goddesses of Revenge!"
The last had the most common statement of all the monsters I've defeated: "And we are a match too great for you. Prepare to die!"
Now that I was closer to the ladies- er, Erinyes, I could see clearly what they looked like. They had snakes wreathed in their hair, and their faces could have been beautiful once, but now they looked something like Medusa's, believe me, I know. (Long story, don't ask.) They had wings of bats, and claws of cats, and looked as intent to destroy me as any other monster I've seen.
I leveled my sword at the Erinyes, and they all lunged at once from all directions. Suddenly I had a bad thought about the outcome of this. I could only hit one of the Erinyes with my sword before they sank their claws into me. And without Annabeth's wonderful knife, which was still at the bottom of the lake, I had no help. I was dead.
As I decapitated the first one, an arrow flew through the air and sank into the second one. I whirled around to see Thalia, shield and bow in hand, another arrow notched into place. And in that split second it took for me to turn around, the last one struck my neck.
CLANG! The sound filled the air as the Erinyes claw shattered against my neck. I turned around and tried to stab it, but it flew off hissing in fury.
"What is this magic you possess, demigod!?" The first goddess shrieked as the two others began to reform.
"I was dipped in a little something called the River of Styx." I replied. "Now leave before I destroy you. Again." Not my best threat, but I hoped that it would do the trick. But of course, me being me, everything went wrong.
"It is true that you bear the curse of Achilles, but we will conquer you yet!" Screamed the second Erinyes. "Suffer the curse of madness, the curse of the Erinyes!" She pointed one long blood stained claw at me, and a bolt of black light flew out at me.
It felt as if a volcano erupted in my chest, and that feeling I had in my dream returned. All the pain and agony came back, and if it was possible, it doubled. I shakily stood up and gasped at the horrific sight around me.
Somehow, in some totally messed-up way, there were suddenly dozens of Erinyes, and they were forming a ring, surrounding Annabeth, Clovis, and Thalia, who were unarmed.
"NO!" I cried as I lept into combat with another Erinyes, who was strangely wielding a spear of bone and a shield of Stygian iron. I somehow caught the goddess by surprise, and she barely managed to block my blade. We fought, back and forth, we were near equal opponents. Keep in mind I said near.
I finally got rid of her shield, and swiped away her spear. I raised my sword above her head, preparing to stab her when-
BAM! Another one of the monsters tackled me, punching me in the jaw. Several others jumped on me as well, holding down my limbs.
Annabeth, Clovis, and Thalia were still standing there, cheering me on. Why weren't they helping me? I thought, when suddenly a huge Erinyes leaped out of the Big House and shot something directly at Annabeth.
I couldn't stand to see her hurt. It took all my effort to pull myself out of the monsters grasp, endure the pain that was going on in my head, and leap in between the path of the shot and Annabeth.
The shot ripped through my shoulder, and impaled Annabeth. I wanted to cry, scream, and attack the big Erinyes at the same time when suddenly, the pain in my head subsided. My vision cleared, and the things that once had been Annabeth, Clovis and Thalia were the Erinyes.
"Another day, hero." The Erinyes spat before she disappeared in a whirlwind.
I turned to see that the so called Erinyes were actually campers. The one with the spear that I beat up was Thalia (After losing her bow), the one that tackled me was Annabeth, and the big one was Chiron, who had shot an arrow at the goddesses.
"Um… Whoops…" I muttered as I shakily stood up.
"Whoops!? Is that all you have to say for yourself!?" Thalia spat a she too stood up. She pushed me back down.
"I could have died, and you could have killed all the other campers!" Thalia continued, pacing back and forth. I probably would have given a smart remark, or explained how they all turned into Erinyes, but a pain flared up in my shoulder, the arrow that ripped through it registering.
My eyesight turned blurry and I became dizzy. I fell down and blacked out. The last thing I heard was Chiron shouting: "If there are those among you who wish to save his sanity, a quest is in order! The Erinyes master is Hades, find him and he should tell you the location of the one who invoked the curse. There, Percy will need to perform the task in which the cursor instructs, then the Erinyes will stop following him." I immediately heard Annabeth and Thalia volunteer. But before I blacked out, I heard Chiron give one final ominous warning.
"Beware children, Percy is no longer the same. The curse has begun, and once it starts, it will not stop until the end. Perseus Jackson may be the end of you."
And on that happy note, I blacked out.
Huzzah! Longest chapter yet! Sorry for the time it took to post, and no, I AM NOT DEAD. I'd like to thank each and every one of you who have read this, it means a lot to me that my writing can be appreciated, somewhere some how. So as always, thank you for your reading, I hoped you and enjoyed, and please leave a review, it'll mean a lot to me. Thanks!
Ps: This was probably my worst chapter yet, due to the short time of Beta-ing. Mostly my fault, I really wanted to post this. If you want to know who beta-ed this story, look in the next chapter (I need to ask her if it's okay to tell), and you can praise her awesomeness. Once again, thanks for reading, and I wouldn't mind a review.