Monsters Attack and Christina Discovers Something New

Logan:

"Oh look. We're in Millville, Kentucky," Christina pointed out. It had been a day and a half since we had found Acacia, Kyra and Alec and since the death of Liam. Christina was still grieving, causing her to be twice as sarcastic and reckless sometimes. As we passed through the town, Christina began to tense. We fell into pace with her.

"What's wrong?" I questioned.

"I don't know. I feel like we're being watched," she responded looking around. I looked back at Lillian and the other three demigods. I figured that our scent was probably going to attract a lot of nasty monsters. That same image that I had gotten when Christina told me that our scent attracts monsters flashed in my head. I was so distracted that I slammed into a street lamp.

Christina said sarcastically, "Watch out. There's a street lamp."

"Yeah," I groaned. "Got that message."

We walked until we were in a plain that had lots of bushes everywhere. As we walked, I saw Christina take out Trident. Lillian took her sword out. I could tell that they felt a fight was coming. I knew that I should prepare my weapon because when two really good monster fighting demigods prepare theirs, then they know probably what's going to happen next.

Christina froze.

The bush in front of her was quivering. Then out of nowhere a huge hellhound jumped out. It stalked towards us, its tail twitching. That's when things went sour. The bushes near us quivered and monsters came out. Soon there was six hellhounds, three dracaenae, two monsters that looked like a mix between a dog and a sea lion, one Hyperborean Giant and a monster that had a human face, lion's body with mane and a scorpion bottom.

"What are those?" I asked Christina.

"The monster that looks like a sea lion and a dog is a telekhine and the one with the human face, lion's body and scorpion butt is a manticore. A manticore has spikes at its tail that is poisonous."

"Then we're doomed."

"Not really," Christina answered. One hellhound jumped and Christina brought Trident up in a deadly arch; disintegrating it. As soon as it disintegrated, the others attacked. Christina brought out her shield and dodged a hellhound. She slammed down a dracaenae with her shield. I fought two hellhounds. One lunged and I dodged just as it jumped over my head and stabbed it in the stomach. It howled and was gone. The other one lost interest in me. A dracaenae had attacked Alec who had constantly stabbing it. But the dagger wasn't celestial bronze. Christina got over to Alec and gave him her sword. She brought out her dagger and kept fighting. Lillian was fighting the other dracaenae. The manticore attacked me by launching spikes. I dove out of the way. That's when Kyra screamed. I looked over just in time to see a hellhound on top of her. I couldn't get over there without taking my attention off the manticore. Thank the gods Lillian had just killed the dracaenae she was fighting. She threw her sword like a javelin with deadly accuracy striking the hellhound in the flank. I got up and the manticore released another round of spikes.

"Logan!" Christina screamed. She tackled the manticore and I rolled away right near the…Hyperborean Giant. But it didn't pay any attention to me. It was probably waiting until the rest of the others had died.

I jumped up and fought my over to where Acacia was fighting. She was doing great fighting one telekhine. Christina had given her one of the silver daggers. So I left her.

That's when Christina got injured. I looked over and saw that three hellhounds were attacking her. She was fighting two and the third lunged. She tried battling it away but the tips of its razor sharp claws slashed her face. She screamed in pain. She turned back around, infuriated but I didn't see if she her injury. She changed into a huge black panther bigger than a normal black panther and attacked the hellhound. She jumped and grabbed it around its neck, raking her claws down. It disintegrated which was weird considering as far as I know, animals didn't have celestial bronze claws. She finished off the others.

I attacked the manticore by jumping on its back and driving my sword into its mane. It howled and threw me off. It released spikes but I battered them away with my sword. How did I do that? I thought. No time think, because it paw came out of nowhere and hit me across the feet. I landed with THUMP on my shoulder.

"Ow!" I yelled. I had probably dislocated my shoulder. The manticore was about to kill me when it froze. It disintegrated and there was Lillian standing there. We finished off the other telekhine and the last dracaenae. The last two hellhounds were finished off by Christina. The first one was killed by a silver dagger. The second one was killed by using her animal skills. When the hellhound lunged, she twisted and her claws raked from the hellhound's chest to the stomach.

That only left the Hyperborean Giant. We all went to work. Alec distracted it in front while I took up the rear. Christina, Lillian, Kyra and Acacia took the sides. Acacia jumped up and grabbed hold of its arm while Kyra struck everywhere she could hit. Lillian and Christina (who was back in human form) would slash his arms and his face. It knocked Acacia down and was about to smash her but I lunged as far forward as I could and stabbed in in the thigh. It didn't disintegrate. Instead, it knocked me away and Christina had to roll away.

Then something weird happened. She was so angry that in her hand, a huge blue ball appeared. I thought at first it was the Morph Sphere but I realized it was growing bigger and was dripping. It was a ball of water. She spun around and launched at the giant and it knocked him down. I stabbed it again only this time in the ribcage. It howled and just like the first Hyperborean I fought, cracks of ice appeared and spread all over his body and then turned to ice shreds.

"Holy moly. That was crazy," Alec gasped. He looked at Christina and his eyes grew wide.

I looked at Christina and saw how bad her face had been scratched. She a scratch running from her the corner of her left eye to the left corner of her mouth. The second one came from the middle above the eye, across the eye and the nose and down to the mouth ending at midpoint below the lower lip. Her third scratch came from the middle of her face across the middle of her nose and to the right corner of her lip. The final one started in the middle above her right eye, went over the eye and down a bit below the corner.

"Are you okay Christina?" I asked worriedly.

"Yeah. I'm fine," she said. "Let's just walk a bit farther and then settle down to fix everyone up. We don't want to attract anymore monsters here since we just battled some."

We followed her for about 10 minutes. Finally, she stopped. We all sat down and Christina began fixing Alec and Acacia up. Lillian worked on Kyra while I handed supplies out. Finally, Christina sat down and sighed. She looked tired and I understood why. Making that huge ball of water and concentrating on not losing it was a lot of work. I came over and sat down next to her. I took out the canteen of nectar and in a Ziploc bag, little ambrosia squares.

"Can you see?" I asked her. I figured that when you get scraped in the eye, you could possibly be blind and since she had been badly cut I thought she was.

"Yeah. The claws actually missed my eyes. When the hellhound cut me, it missed my eyes completely but however made it close enough so that it looked like it went over my eyes," she answered.

"Dang. You got lucky."

"Yeah I sure did."

"Here." I gave her an ambrosia square. "Hold still." I took out a bottle of water and some paste and started dressing the wound using my good arm. After a while, I grabbed a washcloth I had gotten from the Rodeway Inn, poured water on it, and put it on the every scratch one at a time. Each one began to heal and finally, they were nothing but white scars.

"Thanks Logan." She looked me over to make sure I was fine. Come to find out, I did dislocate my shoulder. But first she dressed some big wounds and did the exact same thing. Then she took out her bronze dagger and gave me the hilt so the blade was facing the dirt. She pulled my dislocated arm out straight and I winced. The three new demigods watch, interested.

"Try not to scream when I relocate your shoulder," she advised me.

"Okay…wait what?" I said surprised. "You're going to relocate my shoulder?"

"Why? Do you want to only be able to use one hand when fighting? Anymore stupid questions brother?"

"No. Do you know how to?"

"No…I'm going to relocate your shoulder but I don't know how," she said sarcastically. "Well what do you think?" I didn't answer. She called Lillian over. Lillian put her hand on my shoulder. Christina pushed my arm in once, pulled out and then pushed in hard and Lillian guided my shoulder back into its socket. I yelled. Lillian and Christina let go of me. I cursed a couple of times in Ancient Greek

"Dang Logan, can you yell any louder?" Christina said shaking her head and rolling her eyes.

"Well sorry. That hurt like crazy. I don't think you know how much pain that was."

"Oh trust me, I've had my left shoulder dislocated thrice." No one said anything for a long time. When we were well rested, we all started traveling again.

"Where did that ball of water come from?" I demanded after walking for a while in silence. I had been really impressed and surprised with the ball of water.

"I don't really know what that was," she said quietly. We walked another few miles in silence.

"Do you think Poseidon did that?" Lillian questioned. Christina was silent again for a long time before she answered, "Maybe. Just maybe."

Night began to settle as we walked on and trees began to enclose us. We sat down near a huge tree and set up camp. Christina got Alec, Acacia and Kyra settled down safely and insisted on taking first watch. I told her that she needed to rest but she insisted. I gave in and told her she had to wake me in a few hours so she could some sleep. She agreed. I was so tired that as soon as my head hit my pack, I fell asleep. However the worst part was the fact that it only brought dreams.

In my dream, I was in some kind of black throne room with an empty throne made of human bones fused together. There were ghosts that were swirling around me. Beware! Beware! He will rise and will come to power so he can be king of the gods! He will overthrow his brothers and have his revenge. Someone is responsible and controlling him! You must stop him! You must! I walked up to the throne of fused bones and a voice spoke.

"Someone likes to walk in on important business they need nothing to know about," cackled a voice. I looked around expecting to see someone but I didn't.

"You can't stop me little hero. I will soon overthrow the other gods and be the lord. I have suffered three millennia ever since I began lord of the stupidest job. I will get my revenge! And you will be the first to feel my wrath when I rise!" My dream was filled with a blast of blackness and the floor opened up and swallowed me.

I woke up, sure I was falling for sure. I thought about my dream and just as I was about to get up, Christina walked in and said I could take watch if I wanted to. I agreed and she took my spot. I listened to her breathing as it steadied out. Lillian was asleep near the three demigods. If anything happened and we had to raise the alarm, Lillian would be there to protect them. I looked up at the sky, wondering if my dad was listening. I thought about how the gods were only allowed to act indirectly and I tried piecing clues together of what I knew so far. But I just couldn't. I decided to think about my dream and what it meant. Who could possible control a god? Why did he want to be king of the gods? And most of all, were we losing time to save Alethia, Lynch and stop whoever was controlling the god and his rage? As dawn approached, Lillian was the first to wake and found me sitting there in deep thought.

"Morning," she said. She took one look at my face. "Are you okay?"

"Um, yeah. I'm fine. Actually, no I'm not," I answered.

"What did you dream about?" she asked. I guess the expression on my face was good enough because she added, "You look uneasy." I told her about my dream. When I finished she said, "Are you sure that there was a blast of blackness?"

"Yeah. It was weird," I replied.

"Are you sure the throne was made of human bones fused together?"

"Yep." As soon as that answer came out of my mouth, Lillian's face paled.

"No, it cannot be. That's impossible. He…why would he turn on them?" she murmured.

"You have an idea of what it is, don't you?" I said. She looked me in the eyes. Her startlingly gray eyes were so intense, they looked like she was thinking at a million miles per hour.

"Maybe. But I highly doubt it's true. I'll have to ask Christina," she told me.

"Ask me what?" said a voice behind us. We turned around to see Christina packed and Acacia, Alec and Kyra ready to go also. How they manage to get up so quietly and quickly was a mystery to me. I can't do that.

"Something about Logan's dream." She told Christina and her eyes got wide and she paled also.

"But if he turns on them, the Olympians…they'll have to do something. Got to inform Zeus when we go to Olympus if so," she told Lillian.

"Christina you know, don't you? You were there on your last quest."

"I know but I find it hard to believe it would be him."

"Then it's him isn't it?" Lillian insisted. Christina shaking her head replied, "Not saying because for one fact we don't know anything else."

"Christina-," she started but Christina shook her head and answered darkly, "I'm not going to speak of it anymore." She started walking and the Alec, Acacia and Kyra followed her. I shrugged and me and Lillian followed her.

A/N: Ok, I may be awhile on updating and posting new chapters for both books but I'm right now on vacation; away from Japan finally. So I don't have a lot of time during the day or even surprisingly at night when I'm relaxing. Sorry guys but I can only promise this: I will try to update a.s.a.p when I can and when I get back to Japan, if I'm not on restriction for my laptop anymore, I will freely update as much as I was the first time. Thanks! ^_^