Well let's see how Percy and his friends are doing in Antarctica, shall we?

Percy POV:

"Okay are you sure this place is suppose to be a land of snow?" Fist asked as he picked up the black stuff off the ground. "More like the land of ash."

From what I could see, coming from the sky was both a mixture of snow and ash, lots of ash. There were a lot of factories across the land, separated by hundreds of miles, but you could see them by looking at the smoke coming out of them. I didn't even want to know what they were producing.

"Looks like they decided to take advantage of the planet's resources. I just hope we don't run into whatever they're building here." I said. Ember was scanning the area, a frown on her face. "This smoke is going to make it impossible to find our icy fortress."

Wolf pointed forward, "Actually it seems their making it quite clear where to go." We followed his finger and saw that the smoke made a circle in a certain area, showing the blue sky. And underneath that area, was what looked like a castle made out of ice.

"Count on a Makuta to act like big ol'e show offs." Ty said as he did a spit into the ground. "Well we should polite and tear it down don't ya think?" He said as he began walking.

I rolled my eyes, "You tear anything down, no matter where you go Ty." Ty just shrugged, "Wouldn't be me if I didn't."

The amount of snow combined with ash made it difficult for us to see, but fortunately the place was only 72 miles away, and I was using my powers to construct a giant sled to move over the ice. We were moving at a good place when Wolf cried, "Stop."

Trusting that Wolf had picked up on something, I slowed down until we halted. I turned towards him, indicating to explain what he sensed. Wolf just held his hand out as he sniffed the air. Then he stopped and said. "Hills over there move and stay low."

We did as he said and waited for a while for something to come. Fist was getting annoyed and whispered to Wolf, "Are you sure you smelled something? With all this ash I'm surprise you can smell yourself."

Wolf just looked forward and replied, "With a smell like theirs you can't miss it."

I followed his gaze and my eyes widen. I could make out three figures, one in reddish gold armor, another in sand blue and yellow and the last in sand yellow and bright yellow armor walking in a line. They were tall but their backs were hunched and had spike sticking out. They all carried staffs, blades on each end. One of them I could see its face. It's helmet opened revealing its face, which looked like some kind of worm that made screeching noise.

"Rahkshi" I muttered. They were creatures created by the Makuta, from the essence of Chotuka, to be their elite soldiers. The body was just armor, the one in it was just a worm called a Kraata. From what I was told about them, each one had a different power depending on the color of their skin.

"Whatever this Makuta is doing, he must really want some privacy if he has Rakashi patrolling areas so far away from the fortress." Wolf stated.

"Agreed, lets keep moving, just keep an eye out for anymore of them. We wouldn't want to start a fight with them in this area." I said. Everyone nodded and we got up while moving away from the Rahkshi. Only Ty remained where he was, a puzzled look on his face. "Ty, we need to keep moving, why are you just standing there?"

Ty looked at me and asked, "My eyes may be playin' tricks on me, but weren't there three of them critters there?"

Confused, I peeked over and looked towards where we saw them. And true enough; there were only two of them. So where was the third one? That's when I heard footsteps behind me, and they were way to big to be any of the others.

Then I heard hissing.

"Move!" I cried as I sensed a movement in the air. I was right because as we moved to the side a staff appeared as it stabbed the ground. Soon its wielder appeared, the yellow armor Rahkshi. I groaned as I figured it out, this one was the Chameleon one; he could blend in with the environment. And unfortunately, my yell attracted the other two.

I finally recognized the other two's powers: Red was Fear, Blue and White chain lightning. Ty reacted first, pulling out his shotgun and firing at the Chameleon Rahkshi. It dodged them and gave a loud hissed and charged. But Fist rammed him and slammed him into the ground. The CL (Chain Lightning) came out Wolf, his hands emitting lightning from its hands. It made a grab for Wolf, but he jumped away from it and pulled out his knives, growling at it.

Ty went after the first attacker and to back up Fist. I found myself locked in combat with the third one, avoiding his staff at the same time. Wolf was still trying to get a grab on his opponent, with Ember trying to hit it with fireballs.

I fired a barrage of rocks at the red Rahkshi, but it had good reflexes as it dodged them. Then it charged me but a ring of fire suddenly trapped it. Ember than appeared out of nowhere and fire more fireballs at it. It dodged them and made a dash for her when she entered the ring. But the ring soon became two whips Ember called it to her hands and swung them at the Rahkshi. But once more it skillfully dodged her efforts to kill it.

When it got close to her, it swung its staff. She dodged the first strike but the second one she grabbed the staff to stop the blow. When I saw this I shouted, "No Ember, don't touch it!"

But it was too late. Ember suddenly froze where she was, her hands still on the staff as if she couldn't let go. The Rahkshi's fear was being sent through her. If I didn't get her away from it, she would be killed.

I made a fast dash towards her and used Storm Terror to injury the Rahkshi. As it dropped its guard, I grabbed Ember and pulled her away from the staff. Once I was at a good distance I took a quick look at her. Her skin was pale and her eyes were closed, her body shuddering, but she showed no signs of serious injuries.

Then I heard a hissing sound. The Rahkshi was charging right towards me, but screeched in pain when three arrows grazed the part of the armor where the Kraata was. Wolf soon appeared, using his bow and arrows to distance himself and drawing its attention on him.

I guess he hadn't killed the lightning one because that one was charging right at me, static radiating dangerously off of his hands. That gave me an idea though as I stared at Wolf who was still fighting the fear Rahkshi.

Putting Ember down, I began to charge electricity into my own hands and charged. I kept my hands hidden so it wouldn't see what I was doing. When we were close enough, it threw a punch at me. I managed to dodge it and when his head was close enough, I grabbed it. My electricity managed to repel it's, just as I thought it would.

"Say hello to your friend for me." I said as I threw it towards the Red Rahkshi, whose back was turn as it was still focused on Wolf. The two collided with each other, both of them being hurt by the other's active power. Wolf and I left them to their painful death as we went to check on the others.

Eric and Ty had just finished up the Chameleon Rahkshi, with Ty doing the killing blow with a blast from his shotgun. Fist began covering up the bodies while Wolf checked on Ember.

"She'll live." He said to me, guessing I would ask. "But she'll feel a little dizzy for awhile." He stood up and slipped his knives back into their holders and continued to move forward. I gestured to Ty to carry Ember, who nodded and had Ember climb onto his back and the rest of us kept walking.

Wolf POV:

After a few hours of moving across the ice (thanks to Blade's powers) we finally made it to the outskirts of the ice castle, and I have to say it looked different up close.

First off it was surrounded by a large pit that went who knows how far and the only way over was a bridge that could hold several vehicles. The castle was more like a fortress. The ice wasn't actually ice, but steel made to look like it. There were some parts that stood out, like a few of the towers at the top, which glowed with a creepy light. Also a lot of landing pads were placed nearly everywhere, as if they expected a lot of air traffic or something

The strange part was that there were no sentries, guards, guns or any other kind of defenses. They might as well have put down signs saying "Come Invade Us."

"Something not right." I finally said, "Why haven't we run into any defenses yet. If there is a Makuta here, this place should be heavily guarded."

Fist just shrugged, "Maybe he assumed that no one would come. I mean, we're in the middle of a freaking snow land, covered with who knows what. I'm pretty sure no one would dare to come here."

Blade stared at the fortress, as if he was scanning it. "Don't underestimate a Makuta." He said, "They can be more sneaker then ten children of Hermes combined."

"Huh?" We all asked, confused of what he said. Remembering that we had no idea of the Gods of this world (Nor did we care), he sighed and said, "The God of thieves."

"Oh."

Blade just sighed and kept walking when out of nowhere a blast struck us. Though it didn't really do any major damage, it still shocked us due to its unexpectedness.

We looked up and saw a large being coming down, with massive red and black wings spread wide open. It was also the same color as the mask he was wearing, which gave off an intimidating appearance, which could probably make Ares wet his pants.

His armor (or body) was colored red, green and black. In one hand he was carrying what appeared to be a giant gun, probably where the blast came from. In his other was huge claw that could probably tear through anything. When he landed I noticed he had two blades sticking out of his back that moved on their own. But the weirdest part was that on his chest he had some sort of orb sticking out that glowed a sickly orange.

He landed right in front of Blade, leaning down to him as if he was sniffing him. The Makuta soon smiled, "Ah, Blade, its an honor to finally meet you."

Blade raised an eyebrow, as if trying to figure out which one this one was. "And you are…?" He asked.

The Makuta growled and raised his head high. "I am Makuta Spiriah, ruler of this domain as well as the keeper of the staff of Miserix, which I have no doubt that is what you have come for. You should be careful little Vanguard, doing deals with him is like signing a death sentence, a slow, painful death sentence." He stated as he showed his weapons.

Blade smirked as he pulled out his sword. "I'll take my chances, but speaking of deaths, I'll make sure to make yours quick and painless."

This resulted in a mighty roar from Spiriah as he unleashed a shadow hand from his chest right at Blade. But the leader of the Vanguard managed to evade it and fired a beam of ice at him, which struck him right on the shoulder. Spiriah moved back a little from the attack but recovered by firing a blast from his blaster, knocking Blade back a couple of feet and left a crater where he was originally standing.

The rest of us had already scattered by then. Fist was moving everywhere, trying to find time to let out a sonic punch. Ty had already begun firing his shotgun and Ember had let loose small fire bullets. She managed to get the high ground by standing on top of a rock, but it suddenly crumbled beneath her feet, causing her to fall. I noticed that Spiriah was looking at it when it collapsed.

"Fool!" He laughed as he watched her fall. "I wear the Mask of Corruption. Any inanimate object that I focus on breaks down and crumbles. Pity it doesn't work on the living." Ember merely blew some hair out of her face and rejoined the fight.

And what was I doing you may ask? Well Blade figured that we would be attacked before we got in. And since we didn't want to make this last to long, if a fight did happen then I would sneak into the fortress and retrieve the staff.

After getting over the pit I started climbing the walls of the fortress with silver claws so I wouldn't fall (A/N: Ironic, a wolf man with silver claws, get it?). I kept glancing behind me to make sure Spiriah hadn't noticed me yet. Fortunately the others were keeping him occupied.

I finally managed to get inside through a window. I soon caught the staff's scent and followed it. I kept my eyes open for enemies, but surprisingly there were none. This was getting weird, an important object in the middle of a fortress controlled by a Makuta and no sentries, not even a single guard, something was up.

After what felt like forever I came into a room different from the others, and in the middle was what I soon identified as Miserix's staff. It had spikes on the side that seemed to glow with power. At the top was one giant blade that was encircled by fire. Though it wasn't being used, it still radiated a tremendous amount of power that I could feel from even here.

I moved towards it slowly, being sure not to activate any traps. When I was close enough I did a quick look and grabbed it.

Nothing happened.

I was about to head back to the others when I heard a clicking noise. I looked up and, unfortunately, found the source of the noise.

"Ah Hell Void."

Percy POV:

Storm Terror clashed with his claws again as he tried to take aim at Eric was moving at incredible speed straight towards him. But Spiriah merely disengaged with me and flew into the air to dodge the attack.

"This has gone on long enough." He cried. But before he could continue, there was a noise coming from the fortress.

Then out came Wolf from a 20-story window, who jumped down the safety with the staff in his hand while being chased by…

"Frost Beetles!" Ember cried, as thousands of giant beetles began pouring out. Frost Beetles are giant creatures that look like beetles. They have a unique hunger for harvesting knowledge from anywhere and were bad in a crowd. Wolf was still getting ready to jump over the pit but he made a gesture to start running.

"Move." I shouted as I turned around. Unfortunately Spiriah spotted this and gave chase in the air, firing poison acid from the blades on his back. I kept taking glances to see what was Wolf's status.

He was already catching up but so were those beetles, and Spiriah was still hot on are tail. But I could tell Wolf had a plan. Slowing down his running and suddenly took a massive leap into the air and was directly on top of Spiriah.

But the guy noticed and did a spin and was facing Wolf. Suddenly the orb in his chest glowed and he fired it. I couldn't see from this angle, but it looked like something came out of it and was headed straight towards Wolf.

But Wolf used his momentum to move to the right a little, only get scratched in the arm but still on course with Spiriah. Soon he collided his feet with the Makuta and sent him into the ground.

Wolf managed to recover and was soon running right beside me. With all of us here I used the snow as a wave and sent us far away from the Frost Beetles and Spiriah.

"Look, at least let me just take a quick look at it." Ember insisted to Wolf, who merely just sighed.

Once we were all far away enough from those beetles, we took a breather. Ember insisted to see Wolf's wound to be sure it was just a flesh wound. Finally Wolf complied and let her look at his left arm.

She was silent for a moment before saying, "These don't look like scratches or burns. More like…bite marks."

I walked up to them and saw that she was right. The skin appeared to have been bitten by a round shaped creature. "Did you see what it was?" I asked. Wolf shook his head. I sighed and said, "Well lets get back to Miserix and return his staff. We can get a better look at that mark there."

Sorry for the long wait, I've been busy because I have to study for this Algebra regents I have to retake. Also I'm not going to have computer access for all next week either, so please don't get made, I love your reviews.

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