Hellhounds had leaped out nowhere. A bunch of telekhines too. Annabeth had her knife out and was slashing at some monsters. She looked at me and her eyes got wide.
"Percy! Watch out!"
I whipped around uncapping Riptide. But, it was too late. Something hard and heavy hit the side of my head...again. I fell to the ground Riptide slipping out of my hand. An emousai was standing over me, with a large rock. An emousai is a vampire like girl, who sucks boy's blood. It laughed evilly.
"Hey Percy! It's me Kelli!" Dots filled my vision, my head hurt like crazy. I reached for Riptide but she stomped on my arm...hard. I sat up despite my head and lunged for Riptide. I grasped it's handle and held it up. Oh me and Kelli have some history. She has tried to kill me before.
I pushed myself to full height and pointed Riptide at Kelli. Really I saw three Kelli's but pointed at the middle one until my vision cleared. She scowled at me. Then leaped off a nearby rock, I slashed at her but missed. My head still hurt. She fell on top of me and we tumbled onto the ground. She grinned showing all her teeth.
"I was getting hungry for some blood!" She reached down to suck my blood but at the last second tensed and whipped around. Annabeth was holding her knife at Kelli. She got ready to slash at her but the emousai disappeared into thin air.
Annabeth helped me up and I rubbed the back of my head. Another bump. Then more monsters leaped out of the forest. All hellhounds. Man I hated hellhounds unless it was Mrs. O'Leary. One almost killed me a few years back.
I held Riptide in my hand and slashed at the first one that came at me. It leaped out of the way growling. I was careful to stay away from it's teeth. It came at me again, leaping away from my sword. I jumped towards it. It growled but I drove Riptide through his shoulder and it disintegrated.
I turned to another hellhound and jumped at it slashing it's leg. But before it was gone it slashed at my arm. I jumped back, With all my luck I guess I jumped right into another hellhound. This one was even bigger! It growled and snapped at me. I lunged forward rolling into the dirt. The hellhound barked angrily and charged at me. I scrambled to the side.
It growled again and whipped around. I pulled Riptide up and pointed it at it's head. But, another hellhound leaped at me from the side. I slashed at it hitting it's side it howled and turned to dust. The other hellhound took his chance and leaped at me. He pinned me down forcing Riptide to fly out off my hand over beside a tree.
I was trapped, from what I could hear we were all hopelessly outnumbered by the hellhounds. Use your powers, Percy. My dad said inside my head. I focused on one thought. The ocean. A blinding pain arose from my gut and salt water sprayed out everywhere. It whipped the hellhound right off me. I struggled to my feet and leaned against a tree. The water didn't hit me. Or Annabeth, or Grover, or Tyson. Just the hellhounds.
"Stop!" I shouted and the water gradually died down until we were standing in a muddy clearing, all the hellhounds were either washed away or lay panting on the ground. I let out a exhausted sigh and watched Annabeth go around killing any hellhounds who hadn't been washed away. Other than the pain in my gut which was fading, my head didn't hurt as much.
"Nice job, brother!" Tyson said and came and gave me a big pat on my back.
"Thanks pal." I said. He lumbered off begging to set up a makeshift camp. I thought about where Orson was and how Zeus would react to him coming back. The way we followed Orson was like tracking any animal but with special tweaks. Finding the animal's business was one way. But he also left a kind of smell. It smelled like meat, prey, food. All that stuff, so it wasn't to difficult following him. The only problem was. We had to find his tracks first.
I couldn't fall asleep. Thoughts were buzzing around in my head like a group of angry bees. I managed to doze a bit but was awoken by a smell. It smelled like...meat. Also the scent was horrifyingly close.